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In a data communications system a remote data source outputs data as a series of application data units (ADUs). Each ADU is individually encrypted with a different key. The keys are transmitted (for example using Internet multicasting) via a communications network to one or more customer terminals. At the terminals a sequence of keys is generated for use in decrypting the ADUs. A record is kept of the keys generated, and this record may subsequently be used to generate a receipt for the data received by the customer. The keys may be generated, and the record stored within a secure module such as a smartcard.
1. A method of operating a data communications system comprising:
a) at a remote data source, outputting a plurality of application data units (ADUs);
b) encrypting the ADUs;
c) communicating the ADUs to a customer terminal;
d) in the locality of the customer terminal, decrypting the ADUs;
e) storing a record of the ADUs decrypted in step (d); and
f) subsequently generating a receipt for ADUs received at the customer terminal by reading record data stored in step (e).
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12. A data communications system comprising
a) a remote data source arranged to output a plurality of ADUs;
b) encryption means for encrypting the plurality of ADUs;
c) a communications network connected to the encryption means;
d) a customer terminal connected to the communications network and arranged to receive encrypted ADUs via the communications network;
e) decryption means located in the locality of the customer terminal and arranged to decrypt the ADUs received at the customer terminal from the communications network;
f) a store at the customer terminal for storing a record of ADUs decrypted by the decryption means;
g) means for reading record data from the store and generating thereby a receipt for ADUs received and decrypted by the customer terminal.
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a) a data interface for receiving data from a data communications medium;
b) decryption means connected to the data interface and arranged to decrypt ADUs received via the data interface;
c) means for generating a record of ADUs decrypted by the decryption means; and
d) means for reading record data and generating thereby a receipt for ADUs received and decrypted by the decryption means.
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21. A method of operating a data communications system comprising:
a) at a remote data source, outputting a plurality of ADUs
b) encrypting different ones of the plurality of ADUs using different respective keys;
c) communicating ADUs to a customer terminal;
d) in the locality of the customer terminal, generating a plurality of different keys for decrypting different respective ADUs received at the customer terminal;
e) storing a readable record of the keys generated in step (d).
22. A data communications system comprising
a) a remote data source arranged to output a plurality of ADUs;
b) encryption means for encrypting the plurality of ADUs with different respective keys;
c) a communications network connected to the encryption means;
d) a customer terminal connected to the communications network and arranged to receive encrypted ADUs via the communications network;
e) a key generator programmed to generate a sequence of keys for use in decrypting ADUs:
f) decryption means connected to the key generator and arranged to decrypt the ADUs received at the customer terminal from the communications network; and
g) a store for storing a readable record of keys generated by the key generator means.
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a) a data interface for receiving data from a data communications medium;
b) a key generator programmed to generate a sequence of keys for use in decrypting ADUs:
c) decryption means connected to the data interface and to the key generator and arranged to decrypt ADUs received via the data interface;
d) a store containing a record of keys generated by the key generator; and
e) means for reading record data from the store and generating thereby a receipt for ADUs received and decrypted by the decryption means.
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a) at a remote data source, outputting a plurality of application data units (ADUs);
b) encrypting the ADUs;
c) communicating the ADUs to a plurality of customer terminals;
d) in the locality of each customer terminal, decrypting the ADUs; and
e) inducing a different characteristic variation in the value of the ADU's at different respective terminals.
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f) reading decrypted ADU data; and
g) determining from the characteristic variations in the ADU data the identity of a terminal at which the said data was originally received.
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34. A method of operating a data communications system comprising:
a) at a plurality of remote data sources, outputting a plurality of application data units (ADUs);
b) encrypting the ADUs from different remote data sources with different respective keys derived from a common seed value;
c) communicating the ADUs to a plurality of customer terminals;
d) in the locality of each customer terminal, decrypting the ADU's.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a data communications system, and in particular to a system using an extensive public network such as the Internet.
2. Related Art
Hitherto, users have typically been charged for Internet usage following a subscription model in which they pay a flat-rate fee to an Internet Services Provider (ISP) for access to the Internet and use of network resources is subsequently free of charge. The different networks and routers making up the Internet have then endeavoured to meet the need of any particular application on a "best effort" basis. It has been recognised that this method of operation is not appropriate for applications such as multimedia conferencing which use a lot of network resources, and which ideally require a guaranteed quality of service (QoS). A customer for such services may therefore pay a premium to an Internet service provider in order to receive a guaranteed QoS for a given session, or over an extended period of time. More generally, there may be a need to charge customers according to the amount of data transmitted. This might be used, for example, to provide a charging mechanism for access to on-line data sources, such as a video library.
Where the customer is paying for a certain specified quality of service, or for a certain amount of data received, there arises the problem of resolving any disputes between the customer and the service provider as to the level of service the customer has received in a given period. A customer might, for example, pay for an enhanced QoS level for a session of video conferencing. If however the network or service provider then fails to provide the required QoS, for example because a high proportion of data packets has been lost or because the video source became over-loaded, then the customer might claim a refund. However, while conventional networks, such as the PSTN, incorporate extensive and reliable billing systems which carefully record details of all calls and generate reliable records, no such billing/auditing structure exists within or across the Internet. Moreover, it would be undesirable to incorporate a conventional billing structure in the Internet or any other similar public data network, since this would add considerably to the operational costs of the network. There remains a need therefore for alternative mechanisms for resolving any disputes between parties as to the quality of service which has been delivered.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a data communications system comprising:
The present invention provides a new approach to the generation of an auditable record of the data received by a customer connected to a data communications network. The data source transmits the data as a series of ADUs. These ADUs are typically application-level entities, and need not correspond to the frame structure, if any, of the transmission layer of the network. The ADUs might correspond, for example, to successive minutes of video delivered from a video server or to individual strokes on a white board in a conferencing application. Each successive ADU is then encrypted. The ADU need not be encrypted in a single operation. It may be broken down into packets before encryption. However, the same key is used to encrypt each packet in any one ADU. In order for the customer to be able to use the data, each ADU has to be decrypted. A record is kept of the decryption of the ADUs. This record may comprise a count of the number of ADUs decrypted. This record may itself be encrypted. This then provides a verifiable record which can be used, for example, to resolve disputes as to the number of ADUs received in a given time period.
The invention includes, but is not limited to, data communications systems in which the ADU's are communicated over, e.g., a federated public data network such as the Internet. It also encompasses systems in which the step of communicating ADU's is carried out, e.g., by physically distributing a data carrier such as a CD-ROM containing the ADU's. It also encompasses both multi-cast and uni-cast data communication systems, and systems in which there is more than one data source communicating data to a particular terminal.
The invention it is also applicable in a wide range of contexts, wherever it is necessary control access, and particularly to establish proof of receipt (or of failure to receive) data items. Possible applications include multicast audio/video streams for Video-on-Demand, network radio or surveillance; controlling access to the contents of CD ROMS or other storage media carrying software or multimedia data; controlling access to a set of vouchers giving access to other services; a multicast stream of messages such as stock prices, communications network prices, electricity prices, network management messages, news items, portfolio information, team briefings, standards documents, academic papers, magazines, product reviews, black lists, criminal intelligence, legal precedents, property profiles, pharmaceutical test results etc; a sequence of multicast messages within a network game, virtual world or simulation scenario (e.g. an aptitude exam), possibly just those messages that control access, but also possibly any data messages for which proof of reception is crucial to the fairness of the result of the simulation.
The invention may also be applied in a community of interest network (COIN) or a virtual private network (VPN), as further described below.
As exemplified in the detailed embodiment below, different keys may be used for encryption and decryption of different ADUs. The keys are generated in such a way that it is not practically possible for the customer to predict a key value from previous keys. The record of the decryption of the ADUs may then be derived by storing a count of the number of keys generated at the customer terminal. Other data may also be stored, such as the time of the session and/or the time at which each key is generated.
The customer terminal may be a personal computer or any other appropriate device, such as, for example, a Java-enabled mobile cellular telephone.
Preferably the steps of generating a record (and optionally of generating a plurality of different keys) are carried out by a secure module located at the customer terminal. The secure module provides a region in the customer terminal which is effectively under the control of the data provider, and which is not readily accessible to the customer. The use of such a secure module further enhances the reliability of the stored record. The secure module may be a software module which executes a cryptographic algorithm. This might be implemented, for example, as a Java program distributed by the operator of the remote data source as part of the process of setting up a session. To provide still higher levels of security, it is preferred that the secure module should include a dedicated processor and store located within a tamper-proof unit. Examples of such secure modules include smartcard structures, and cryptographic PC cards.
When the secure module has only a relatively low processing power, as may be the case, for example, when it is a smartcard, then preferably that module is required simply to output the different respective keys. Other processes running in the main part of the customer terminal are then responsible for decrypting the ADUs. Alternatively, when the secure module has more processing power, as when, for example, a cryptographic co-processor card is used, then preferably the encrypted ADUs are passed to the secure module and the module generates a key, decrypts the ADUs, and passes the decrypted ADUs out, for example, to an application programme running on the customer terminal. In this case it is not necessary to generate a new key for each ADU since the key is kept within the secure module.
Preferably the remote data source generates and transmits to the customer terminal a seed value, and the plurality of different keys are generated from the said seed value. A fresh seed value may be used for each session.
The ADUs from the remote data source may be multicast to a plurality of different customer terminals. In this case preferably seed values for the generation of the plurality of different keys are distributed to the plurality of terminals.
Preferably a digital watermark, that is a characteristic variation in the data, is added to the ADUs. This variation may be generated directly in or subsequently to the said step of decrypting the ADUs or a watermarked key may be supplied to decrypt the ADU. In this latter case, the characteristic variation in the key automatically results in a traceable variation in the data decrypted using the key. Digital watermarking is a well-known technique whereby, for example, insignificant bits of a digital data stream may be varied in a characteristic fashion traceable separately to each party receiving the data. If the data is then copied and passed on, the secondary source can be identified by inspecting the insignificant bits. The use of digital watermarking is particularly valuable in the context of the present invention, since it facilitates detection of attempts to undermine the security of the system by collusion between two or more customers, for example by one customer decrypting and retransmitting ADUs.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data communication system comprising:
Preferably the record in the store is authenticated, for example, using a cryptographic signature.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a data communications system comprising:
According to a further aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating a data communications system comprising:
The use of digital watermarks in decrypted ADU can advantageously be used also in otherwise conventional systems, including systems in which no receipt is generated.
The invention also encompasses customer terminals and data servers adapated for implementing the invention in any of its aspects.
Methods and apparatus embodying the present invention will now be described in further detail, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which;
A data communications system includes a data server 1 connected via a data communications network 2 to a number of customer terminal 3. Although for ease of illustration only two customer terminals are shown, in practice the data server 1 may communicate simultaneously with many terminals. In the present example, the data communications network 2 is the public Internet and is formed from a number of sub-networks 2 a–2 d. The sub-networks and the associated routers support IP (Internet Protocol) multicasting.
In the present example, the data server 1 is a video server. The data server reads a video data stream from a mass storage device and compresses the data using an appropriate compression algorithm such as MPEG 2. An encryption module in the data server 1 then divides the compressed video data stream into ADUs. For example each ADU may comprise data corresponding to one minute of the video signal. An encryption algorithm then encrypts the ADUs. Suitable encryption algorithms include DES (Data Encryption Standard) (US Federal Standard FIPS PUB46). This is a conventional private key algorithm. A common encryption algorithm is used for all of the ADUs in one session. In this embodiment, a sequence of keys is used, with a different key for each successive ADU. (The ADU referred to in this embodiment is an application-level entity created for the purposes of encryption and is to be distinguished from conventional video "frames").
At each customer terminal, incoming ADUs are processed with the aid of a secure module 4. As described in further detail below, the secure module 4 generates a sequence of keys corresponding to those used originally to encrypt the ADUs. The keys may be passed out to the main processor of the customer terminal to allow the data to be decrypted. Alternatively, the secure module itself may carry out the step of decryption. In either case, the secure module stores a record of the decryption of the ADUs. This record may comprise, for example, a count of the total number of keys issued in the course of a session and hence of the number of ADUs decrypted, together with a session ID and a record of the time of the session. Any ADUs arriving too late or corrupted may be discarded without decryption or without requesting a key to decrypt them.
Prior to commencing a session, a customer terminal 3 may have contracted with the operator of the data network 2 for a quality of service (QoS) which requires a specified minimum number of ADUs to be delivered per unit time. If subsequently, congestion in the network 2 causes the rate of ADU delivery to fall below that specified in the contract, then the customer terminal 3 requests from the data server 1 a refund of charges for the session. To validate this request, the data server 1 requests from the secure module 4 a "receipt". This receipt includes the data recorded in the data store and so provides a tamper-proof indication of the number of ADUs decrypted and made available to the customer in the course of a specified session. In general, this receipt will only be trusted by the party encrypting the data, not a party such as the network operator simply transmitting data encrypted without its knowledge. However, the encryption software used by the data source may be certified by a third party trusted by both the network provider and the data source. If the decryption software is also certified by this trusted third party as described below, it may then sign the receipt on behalf of the trusted third party so that the network operator can trust it.
When the secure module is, for example, a smartcard, then that smartcard is issued by the manufacturer with a unique public/private key pair. This key pair may be certified by a trusted third party. In phase P1, the server carries out steps to confirm that the smartcard does indeed come from a trusted supplier. The steps of phase P1 are shown in
As shown in
The server subsequently sends a series of ADUs to the client. Each ADU has an ADU number. Each ADU might also have a session key transmitted with it. The sequence of steps for the nth ADU is illustrated in
In the step of recording the request (s63) referred to above, the record of the request may simply be stored as a single incrementing counter. However, some stringent scenarios may require audit trails where each detailed record of receipt is stored. If the list of records becomes too large to be stored on the smartcard, it can be hashed and the hash and the time can then be signed using the smartcard's private key, the record, hash and signature then being passed to the client for storage. Subsequently, if further records again become too large, the hash of the previous records can be retrieved from the client by the smartcard, and, having checked the signature of the previous hash is valid, the hash can be prepended to the new records, a new hash generated from the combined new records and old hash, then the new records and new hash can be appended to the old records on the client followed by the digital signature of the new hash. The length of each chunk of hashed records would have to be known by the data source in order to check the signature on the receipt. This may be by a convention, or by including it in a header to the receipt.
In setting up the session, the customer has previously negotiated an agreement with the service provider as to the QoS level for the session. For an application such as video on demand this level may be stringent: for example the customer may require that no application-level ADU is lost in transmission. If a ADU arrives too late at the client, it can can be discarded and is effectively considered to have been lost. If then this QoS level is not met, then the customer requests a refund from the service provider. The request for refund might specify, for example, that there was ADU loss at a specified time into the video transmission. In processing such a request, the server requires a receipt from the customer. As shown in
As noted in the introduction above, the ADU's may be decrypted in such a way that at each one of a number of customer terminals a different characteristic variation is present in the data. This variation may be generated directly in the said step of decrypting the ADUs or a watermarked key may be supplied to decrypt the ADU. In this latter case, the characteristic variation in the key automatically results in a traceable variation in the data decrypted using the key. The use of watermarked keys is described, for example, in Ross Anderson, "Chameleon—A New Kind of Stream Cipher Encryption" in Haifa in Jan. 1997.
Where digital watermarks are used, the operator of the data server, or some other interested party, may subsequently use the watermark, for example, to identify the secondary source of data copied and forwarded by one customer terminal to another. Given a sample of the data, the data server then inspects the data and compares the characterstic variations with data stored on the server that correlates the variations with respective customer terminals. Similarly the watermark may be used to detect collusion where one customer forwards keys for ADU decryption to another.
While in the examples so-far described, the ADU's are communicated over a network, in an alternative embodiment distribution is effected using a data carrier such as CD-ROM or some other portable storage medium. In this case the set up of the secure module on a smart card at the customer location is carried out as before—over the Internet. The data on the distribution medium is separated into ADUs, each with a sequence number and each encrypted with different keys as before. During reading of the data from the CD etc. the smart card generate keys, which could all be achieved off-line. However, the request for a receipt and the response are carried out on-line via the Internet or other appropriate communications network as before.
The examples described above may be used in the context of a community of interest network (COIN) or a virtual private network (VPN). In this case each source of information would split its data into ADUs and transmit each ADU encrypted with different keys across the COIN. The same ADU would always be transmitted with under the same key no matter how many times it was transmitted to different parties within the COIN. Sources of information might be direct, such as the parties involved in the COIN or indirect such as Web servers or caches commonly accessible to all parties within the COIN. In the indirect case, the information would be sent to the Web server or cache with its sequence number in the clear but data encrypted. It would be stored in the same encrypted form as it had been first transmitted. Only when the final recipient accessed the Web server or cache would their smart card generate the key for decryption and record receipt of the information. The watermarking techniques described previously could be used if tracing of who was passing on decrypted data was required.
Whenever an ADU arrives, the sender id is examined to look-up the correct sequence, then the sequence id allows the correct key to be generated. This allows each receiver to only pass through the set up once for all senders in a multi-sender session.
The session initiator generates the primary seed and passes it to each sender using regular cryptograpic privacy (e.g. under the public key of each sender). Each sender offsets the primary seed with their own id to produce their secondary seed, which they would use to start the key sequence for ADUs they sent.
Any sender may take any receiver through the setup phase by passing it the primary seed, assuming there is some way for any sender to establish who was an authorised receiver (e.g. a list supplied and signed by the session initiator, or a token the initiator gave to each receiver in return for payment, which each receiver had to reveal to any sender).
The sequence used for generating the keys in the above examples may be distributed to customers terminals using HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) as Java code. A suitable chaotic function is:
As an alternative or additional security measure, a different function may be used for each session. This serves to further reduce the possibility of the customer predicting sequence values.
Table 1 below list Java code for implementing a chaotic function. It returns the next number in a sequence, or the nth number in a sequence.
The key values need not necessarily be generated by a sequence. Instead other functions of the form k=f(seed, ADU i.d.), where k is a key value, may be used. For example, the binary values of the ADU identity might be used to select which of a pair of functions is used to operate on the seed value. Preferably a pair of computationally symmetric functions are used. For example, right or left-shifted XOR (exclusive OR) operations might be selected depending on whether a binary value is 1 or 0. If we label these functions A and B respectively, then, e.g., ADU number six, i.e. 110, has a key generated by successive operations AAB on the seed value.
Related inventions are described in the applicant's co-pending international application filed this day, entitled "data communications", (U.S. Ser. No. 09/555,929 filed Jun. 6, 2000).
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Office of the President
Bulldog Straight Talk
Bottom Up Review
July 10, 2006
Bulldogs and bull pups, another chance to sit down and catch up on what's been going on in the last month or month and a half and get you rebased along with the rest of the community that we work with here on the campus routinely. And see if I can give you some idea where we are going and a little bit about where we are in our bottoms up review.
I think it would be a good time to update you because we are rapidly reaching a conclusion that I am pretty happy about. Before we do that I want to talk to you about team work and the motto we have: 'One State--One Team.'
Let me tell you my perspective on that; so bear with me here. I am big into tribes. I think tribes are powerful statements about organizations.
I was a member of a fighter pilot tribe in the United States Air Force. We had bomber pilot tribes, maintenance tribes; we had support tribes all over the institutions and they were very proud of what they did. They exhibited a lot of camaraderie, they protected themselves, and they took care of each other. Their strength was their character, in a sense. However, at the end of the day all the tribes came into the tent and the tribal chiefs, if you will, would--for the better part the nation itself--would come together and we would go out with one mission in mind I guess is the best way to describe it.
So, while I am very happy to be part of that tribe and will be forever, I was even more happy at the end of the day that the master organization that we all worked for was so successful; it was very well respected and very well thought of globally. So I am into tribes and let me give you an up-close and personal view here at Mississippi State of the tribsemanship that I am talking about.
I am little sore this morning because I just finished running wind sprints with the football team. And here is what I discovered about the football team, the football team has tribes as well. There is a line tribe, there is a back tribe, a linebacker tribe, but at the end of the day we all got in the middle of the field, at the end of wind sprints and put our hands together and said the Lord's Prayer--kind of a nice thing, by the way--and put our hands on each other. So we all came together as a team and those different tribes that were all intermingled together and we were all thinking about one thing-the successful football season we are going to have this year. And we were all thinking about helping each other. So, I am into tribes.
On our campus we have a number of tribes that are very powerful, in fact. We have the faculty tribe that is very powerful, in fact they may be the most important tribe that we have. We depend on them to do incredible things to help develop our students. Then we have the research tribe that is kind of intermingled with some of the faculty for a matter of fact. They do incredible work. We're probably going to have more research done at this land grant school than we've ever done before this year - so I'm really proud of that tribe as well. We have a staff tribe which tries to pull together--all the administrative things, the physical plant, and those kinds of things. And that tribe does great work for us, but at the end of the day we've all gotta come together here on the campus and make sure that we are all headed in the same direction. So that's where the motto "One State–One Team" comes from. I want us to all kind of be in the same script.
Now you pay me to make sure that happens. I'm the connecting tissue, if you will, between the tribes, so that's what you can expect me to do.
We have other tribes that are incredibly important to us. Our alumni, a great tribe, over 100,000 people, and I'm going to circle back on this statement in a little while, that tribe is very important. We have a local community that represents a very strong part of our tribe that we also count on very much. We have supporters that are part of our relationship around the state and nation--mostly parents, by the way, that have become kind of a subtle tribe that we count on. So, at the end of the day it's my job to try to get all of those tribal chiefs into the tent, so to speak, so that we are all thinking about the same thing.
So here's the message that I want to tell you; it may look like and even feel like to you, you who are members of the tribes out there, that you're not getting exactly what you want in your tribe in order for the institution to be successful. Look at it like this, there are times when we're going to ask the running back to stay back in the back field and protect the quarterback. He probably doesn't want to do that, because that's not a good thing. He's back there doing what he doesn't normally get paid to do which is pick up a lot of yardage and score touchdowns. But, we're going to ask him to sacrifice in a sense and be back there to defend the quarterback so that the quarterback can throw a pass, so there are times that the running back tribe will be less satisfied than they would like to be, but it would be better for the team. So that's part of the "One State--One Team" philosophy that I would like to ask you to help with.
There will be times when I will ask you to bring forward what is best for your tribe. I mean, you will know better than anybody, if you are a tribe member, what's best to make sure that you are all that you can be for your organization's all it can be. But at the end of the day, I'll ask for you to think a little broader about that and work with me on this to make sure that what we really end up doing is what's best for the University. I'll thank you in advance for the help on that, and I know it will take a little broader thinking than sometimes we are accustomed to, but stick with me on that one, that's how we're going to become the most respected land grant school in the southeast; by bringing together all the different capabilities that we have and going forward.
One of the other things that I want to talk to you about today--and I mentioned it last time--is the recruiting retention program. I want to enlist all of you once again in helping with that. We are probably going to be, I'm guessing it's a little premature, flat is the best way to describe our enrollment this year. We're not sure that we're going to go up or down. More to follow on that as the fall unfolds for us. But that's not a good thing. We should be showing measured growth, in my opinion. I mentioned before to many of you that I don't want to change our standards. I think we have great standards here. I want this degree to count for something. I want the people who leave this school to have credible diplomas so that when they walk into the work force they will be able to get jobs and become leaders in those jobs. So I don't want to change our academic standards but I do think we are in a very competitive environment out there and one of the ways that I've found for us to achieve a little more financial stability is to increase our enrollment in a measured way.
I couldn't stand, as I mentioned before, catastrophic success right now. If we had 1,000 more students, right now, it would be difficult because the biggest problem I have is I don't have enough faculty to that.
What I'm going to ask you to do is join with us and each of you become a recruiter, if you will. If you see some young man or young woman out there who is trying to decide where to go and you think they are the right kind of caliber and have the right character to come to the great Bulldog Nation here, let us know. We are going to mechanize our processes a little more user friendly for you. We are going to provide you information.
And for all of you alums who have a chance to hear this, make sure our alumni office knows how we can get a hold of you. We can give them a call and say this is my email or this is my address so that it makes it easier for us to get back to you the information that will be useful to you and interesting to you, I hope.
I hope what we can tell you will not only make you increasingly proud of your institution here but will facilitate your discussion with young men and women that you will run into in various communities. I'm committed to come around and help you. I'm committed to my senior staff to come around and help you and we're putting together a team so that if you want to put together a small group or larger group of young men or women who are potential candidates to come here; we can talk to them about what's important. Things like continuing their education, things like going to a university that has lots of opportunities, then we're cocked and ready to go, we'll be out there if you ask us to come. I think with all of us working together we can kind of turn around this decreasing or flat enrollment that we have had for the last several years and get ourselves on a glide slope that makes sense while we maintain our standards at the same time.
We just brought in a new crop, if you will, of tenured faculty members, you'd be incredibly proud. I reviewed all of the records and, boy, do we have some great faculty members here and so I was delighted to sign all of the letters offering tenure to all of them. I hope to be able to do something later on this fall and recognize them because they are the next class of, if you will, the next generation of our faculty that will be leading us forward in academic excellence. So, congratulations to all of them if any of you are listening out there. I'm really proud of what I saw in that group; we were very fortunate to have brought them on board.
Our bottoms-up review is nearing completion. We have actually had over 150 recommendations. Some of them are a little more difficult to do than others simply because it takes resources to do that. But all of them are good ideas and we're going to start nudging our way through them and what we're in the process of doing now is prioritizing those recommendations in a way that gets us the maximum bang for our buck, if you will. It looks like the logical way forward.
What I had hoped to do was have a covered document that will describe our strategy for the next decade.
I will tell you if you make decisions based on a strategy that only goes out for two years they will be different from the decisions that you will make if you think in the long term for the institution. So, my goal in this is not think a year ahead or two years ahead of time, we should be trying to figure out where we want to be in 2015 and then put the waypoints along through there and measure ourselves to see how we are doing to get there. In some cases there were new ideas that I hadn't thought of and other cases we've already started pulling the trigger, actually, on some of these ideas that you and I have thought about earlier.
We are very much interested in student development, as you might imagine; it is one of our chief goals. Now, that covers a wide spectrum of opportunities, all the way from academic excellence to doing things like ensuring that we offer leadership opportunities and character development opportunities as well for student population. That means we have to continue trying to recruit and maintain good faculty. Like the faculty members I just told you about. We have to provide them with opportunities to expand professionally. We have to keep nagging away, if you will, at trying to increase our opportunities to develop our student population. Probably the most fundamental thing that we do, if you think about it, is to develop our student population so that they become the next generation of leaders in the state and across the nation.
Another goal that I'm sure is going to flow out of our bottoms up review is our desire to be a little more financially stable. I mentioned last time that we will get our fair share of money from the state, I'm confident of that. I'm very pleased with the enthusiasm and the energy that I hear from the governor and our legislature about continuing to work with us across the state in higher education. I think that is a very positive step for us right now. But there are other ways that we can look at helping ourselves to be a little more financially stable. Not the least of which is this recruiting and retention campaign that we are about to start on because that offers you a degree of financial stability since just a little less than 20% of our revenue comes from tuition. So it you have a decreasing enrollment, you have a decrease in revenue base, is what you have.
And so the things that we want to do, the things that we want to enhance student development will require resources, will depend to a degree on whether we will be able to sustain and grow our revenue sources.
We want to continue down the path of being the state's research university. Our reputation is growing every day. We have some great researchers here. We need to continue looking for opportunities to expand our research and take advantage of the capabilities that we have on the campus and look for new ideas. We shouldn't be stagnant about this. If you want to remain relevant in the research business, then you really want to look beyond what you are doing and try to visualize what's the next round of research that will be important for this state and the nation; so that is something that we will take on as a task, as well.
I want to continue to diversifying our student population. That is going to come out of the bottoms up review as well. We need to continue working our international student program and continue working our diversity in many ways, not only in our student population but with our faculty. So I think that part of our recruiting campaign--in essence target minorities and target our international program-is to see if we can robust that as well.
Successful athletic program: I think that will be part of our goals that will come out of our bottoms up review. It only makes sense that we want to win. I have said this before, and I can tell you after running wind sprints with the football team that they want to win. Their enthusiasm is incredible and I know that the enthusiasm of the great Bulldog nation for us to win is incredible, also. But I want to do that with character and I want to make sure that we win with character and I don't see those things as inconsistent.
As I have said before, I think we can be winners and I think that we can be winners with character. So I think that will be one of our goals as well to try to ensure that we are nationally competitive. That does a number of things for us, it gives a lot of great publicity, for instance, and it is a great recruiting tool as well.
I think there are a number of goals that we will see that will flow out of our bottoms up review. And I spent some time last week working through my mind with what looks like a logical approach for how to unfold this. My goal remains as I mentioned before, to try to have our bottoms up review done and on the streets so everybody will know where we are going by the time the fall semester starts. So more to follow on that the next time we talk. I'll have a little more information for you. We will keep you updated on this. It is important that you know what we are doing because we are enlisting you now as one of those tribe mates that I talked about earlier. And so the more you know the better off we will be here as we are trying to pull the trigger on the number of initiatives that will involve you and your assistance.
One of things we are doing to help ourselves out a little bit will be a challenge. As I mentioned a number of times before, our utility bill has doubled effectively. From last year to next year our utility bill is going to effectively double. We have already done some work to try to get our rate changed and have been successful at that, I'm delighted to tell you and that will help us some. We are about to undertake an energy conservation plan that sets some finite goals that I hope will allow us to save a significant amount of money. The reason that's important, of course, is because if the departments are able to save money on the utility bills they are better able to go out and help us with that shortage of faculty members that I talked about earlier and other equipment and supplies that give our faculty a little better opportunity for the professional development that we hope to provide for them. So, I think part of our energy conservation plan will be enlisting everybody who is involved in consuming energy, and the last time I looked that was about all of us, just to be aware--in the back of your mind--that there are things that we can probably do to help ourselves out.
We're going to go on a campaign where on the weekends and on the holidays and times like that we can either tune down or tune up the temperature in many of our buildings and I think that will help us a little bit. Then we will probably have to invest some more in computer opportunities to centrally control all we do with our electrical resources and utilities. More to follow on that, but I'm reasonably optimistic that we can help ourselves a good bit there and so I'm pleased with all of that.
I don't have a lot of rumors to kill for you today; I always like to finish up with rumor control. I was in Jackson last week and I had three people walk up to me and say, "We're hearing you're not going to stay around a long time, Foglesong." So I wanted to spell all of those rumors right now and tell you that I'm a registered voter here; I have my driver's license here; I'm paying state taxes here. I have no ambitions to go anywhere but be Dog One. So I don't know where those rumors are getting started but I'm here to help to dispel them today and tell you that I'm here as long as I can productively lead the great Bulldog Nation. I have been here for three months now and I'll share this with you: I told my wife this the other day, "I haven't had a bad day yet. I have enjoyed getting up and going to work everyday."
I actually just went into a music appreciation class. Now, that ought to scare some of you, by the way, that I went into a music appreciation class because I don't know much about music, but it was a very nice experience for me to go in and find out what's going on in music appreciation and talk with some of the students. So everyday I discover new things and I'm running into new things and I'll tell you, if I'm here for 10 years I'll still be discovering new things about this university.
So, let me finish up by saying thanks for all of your help. I have had an incredible number of positive emails. I have had some great suggestions from many people out there and in fact I'm actually pulling the trigger on some of those suggestions. I know there is a lot of interest in moving forward and becoming the most respected land grant school in the southeast and so I appreciate your effort in all of this.
Once again, happy to be with you and happy to be part of the great Bulldog Nation and I will see you again next month.


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The Atlanta school board voted unanimously today to hire Meria Carstarphen from Austin, Texas, to lead the city's struggling public school system.
Carstarphen, 44, will be paid a base salary of $375,000, along with a $1,200 per month auto allowance and $800 per month expense allowance. Her contract doesn't include any performance bonuses.
Her first day on the job will be July 7, and she received a three-year contract.


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Rick Perry shakeup: Allbaugh, Fabrizio take the lead
As Herman Cain "reassesses" his effort, Rick Perry has been approving a string of changes in the structure of his team, sources told POLITICO.Continue Reading
The moves make Joe Allbaugh campaign manager, Tony Fabrizio the main strategist and move Dave Carney to focusing on New Hampshire, the sources said.
Perry is bonded to Carney, and it is hard to imagine the strategist himself didn't agree to some form of this.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner denied Carney was gone from the campaign. But he didn't immediately respond to questions about new roles.
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Zublasing One Step Closer to NCAA Honor
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University graduate Petra Zublasing has been selected as a conference honoree for the 2013 NCAA Woman of the Year award.
The Appiano, Italy, native is one of five Division I student-athletes selected as an Independent honoree. More than 140 NCAA female student-athletes, representing multiple sports across NCAA Divisions I, II and III, were selected by their athletics conferences and by independent schools from a pool of 430 individual nominations for the national award.
In August, the Woman of the Year selection committee will select the top 10 honorees in each division from this collection to be recognized. In September, the selection committee will announce the top nine finalists (three from each division), and the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will vote from amongst those finalists to determine the 2013 Woman of the Year.
A three-time NCAA Champion, Zublasing is one of the most decorated WVU student-athletes. She led the Mountaineer rifle team to its nation-best 15th NCAA Championship in March and also won the 2013 NCAA smallbore and air rifle individual titles; she first won the air rifle title as a junior. Zublasing was the first student-athlete since 2001 to sweep the individual titles, and the second WVU student-athlete to win three career NCAA individual titles in any sport. For her efforts, she was named the College Rifle Coaches Association 2013 NCAA Shooter of the Match.
Zublasing, a two-time honoree on the CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America Women's At-Large Second Team, graduated in May from the WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (civil engineering). She was one of 34 seniors to earn the WVU Foundation Outstanding Senior Award, and one of eight students honored with the University's most prestigious student honor – the Order of Augusta.
She ended her WVU career with five National Rifle Association First Team All-America awards. Zublasing also led the Mountaineers to their fourth straight Great American Rifle Conference (GARC) Championship, won the GARC smallbore and combined score titles and was named the conference's shooter and senior of the year.
A 2012 Olympian, Zublasing actively shoots with the Italian National Team and is competing at the 2013 European Shooting Championship in Osijek, Croatia, this week. Most recently, she won the women's 50m rifle 3 positions Gold medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation Granada World Cup, in Granada, Spain, on July 9.
On Oct. 20 in Indianapolis, the NCAA will announce the 2013 Woman of the Year and will honor the top 30 nominees.
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I was always skeptical and resisted spending this kind of money on wheels, but after riding a friends i9's, I was hooked. They are super stiff so corning is insane and the engagement when you push the pedal is confidence inspiring even in the sketchiest section of trail.
I have used the DH, AM and XC versions of these wheels and cannot find one flaw in their design, they are the perfect wheelset. I am a fan of how loud they are on the trail and love the beefy look of the spokes and hubs.
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text: Guard Ron Baker will miss around six weeks of play with a stress fracture in his foot. He is the third Shocker starter sidelined and the fourth hit by an injury this season. Baker, a redshirt freshman from Scott City, averages 7.3 points and 2.6 rebounds. He is 16 of 50 from three-point range (32 percent), the most makes and attempts by a Shocker.


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Three Fort Carson soldiers were among four killed in a Tuesday attack in Afghanistan, the pentagon Announced Thursday.
They died in an rocket attack, at Bagram Airfield, north of the Afghan capital of Kabul. Killed were: Spc. Ember M. Alt, 21, of Beech Island, S.C.; Spc. Robert W. Ellis, 21, of Kennewick, Wash.; and Spc. William R. Moody, 30, of Burleson, Texas, all from Fort Carson's 68th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion of the 43rd Sustainment Brigade. Also killed was Sgt. Justin R. Johnson, 25, of Hobe Sound, Fla, assigned to Fort Eustis, Va.


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Q. With the price of asphalt rising despite lower crude oil prices, a contractor told us he may enter theroofing business by providing cellular concrete. What is cellular concrete?
Can it be made in a concrete plant?
A. ACI defi nes low-density cellular concrete as a material made with hydraulic cement, water, and preformed-foam. When it hardens, the concrete has an oven-dry density of 50 lb/cubic feet or less. Recipes may also include aggregates, fly ash, and admixtures.
ACI committee 523 has prepared a Guide for Cast-in-Place Low-Density Cellular Concrete that provides data and techniques pertaining to its batching and use. The material is placed to provide a roof's base, thermal insulation, and drainage slope for flat-roofed industrial and commercial buildings.
In geotechnical applications, the material is applied in thick sections of cellular concrete with low compressive strengths for replacing poor soils, fills for abandoned structures, and fi lls designed, mixed, and placed to meet specifi c job conditions and functional requirements.
For the most part, typical concrete mixing equipment can't produce lowdensity cellular concrete mixtures. Drum mixers do not have the proper mixing action or mixing speed to combine the ingredients. But a high-speed paddle mixer can properly combine the ingredients while blending the preformed foam rapidly and efficiently to produce a uniformly consistent, low-density cellular concrete mixture.
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Great Coffee in the Schmatas District
Just stumbled across a real coffee find: Culture Cafe @ 72 W. 38th St. near 6th Ave.
They're serving Intelligentsia coffee and pastries from some of the better bakers in NYC (Sullivan St Bakery, Ce Ci Ce La, etc.) They have a La Marzocco espresso machine and they're not afraid to use it.
Apparently, they are still in "soft opening" mode. Guess I'm letting the Black Cat out of the bag.
Talk is closed, but that doesn't mean the conversations have to stop!
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Bangkok Restaurants & Dining
Where and What to Eat in Bangkok
Bangkok restaurants cater to all price ranges and are open all hours, proving that this city is certainly heaven for food lovers; a sensational culinary journey and taste experience await in Bangkok, guaranteed to delight your taste buds. Apart from renowned Thai cuisine with its blend of spicy, sour, sweet and salty, the array of options includes every other famous type of cuisine found in the world. Eating options are limitless, night or day. Great value-for-money food courts, riverside eateries, Thai-style dining in antique teak houses, dinner cruises, trendy restaurants and food markets are only some of the options available.
Restaurants in Bangkok open at a lightning quick rate, so even vetrans of the dining scene in the Thai capital always have a new place to check out, and of course there are small family owned restaurants that you can stumble on and be blown away by the level of quality put into such seemingly simple food. It's certainly one of the highlights of a trip to Bangkok.
Whale's Belly - whose head chef recently won the title of Iron Chef Thailand on television - is a restaurant that exceeds expectations. The kitchen is under the supervision of a young, visionary chef who trained at some of the most prestigious restaurants in Bangkok. With an interest in molecular gastronomy, some of the techniques used are inspired by those used at the famed Spanish culinary school elBulli. Ingredients are imported to ensure that Whale's Belly serves the finest quality produce available.
Opening Hours: Every day from 17.30-23.00
Address: 39 Boulevard tower, 2nd floor, Sukhumvit Soi 39 - Tel: +66 (0)2 1600 333 - (0) 87 441 9545
Hemingway's Bar and Restaurant in Bangkok is an altogether charming place in downtown Sukhumvit to enjoy a casual dinner or meet for drinks with friends. Occupying a lovingly renovated teak mansion and surrounded by tall trees, a varied mix of customers fill different sections of the house and grounds. The lively bar and garden downstairs has a very European bar vibe while upstairs on the veranda or inside the dining room, a more relaxed ambiance allows guests to enjoy the excellent menu of tapas bites, new world dishes and more hearty mains.
Opening Hours: 11:30 - 01:00 - BTS: Asok
Address: 1 Sukhumvit Soi 14 (next to Asok BTS Station) - Tel: +66 (0)2 653 3900
Dine in the Dark is back in Bangkok, and promises one of the most unique restaurant experiences you'll ever have. DID now occupies a spot on the ground floor of Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel and takes full advantage of the skilled chefs working throughout the hotel's many dining venues, meaning the quality of your food is guaranteed – even if you can't actually see it. Although the concept at Dine in the Dark Bangkok is quite self explanatory, nothing can prepare you for the moment you actually step inside the pitch black room, try to find your seat, and realise you're about to have a full four course meal without seeing a thing. Read more...
Hours: From 18.30 onwards (last order at 21.30). Closed Sundays & Mondays
Location: Dine in the Dark Bangkok, G/F, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, Sukhumvit Road, BTS: Asok - Tel: +66(0)2 649 8358
Osha Bangkok recently opened its towering doors at a prominent corner spot on Wireless Road opposite Lumpini Park, and is run by the same family behind five hugely successful Thai restaurants in San Francisco. Along with some outrageously spectacular décor, the Osha team have recruited Thailand's celebrity Iron Chef, Thaninthorn Chantrawan, who's now the man responsible for the restaurant's menu of 'authentic Thai cuisine with a molecular twist' – and a twist there certainly is. Find Osha Bangkok on the corner of Wireless Road and Ruam Rudee Road, very close to the northeastern corner of Lumpini Park. Ploen Chit BTS and Lumpini MRT Station are both around five minutes' walk away.Read more...
Hours: Lunch: 11:00 – 14:30; Dinner: 18:00 – 24:00 - Location: Wireless Road, Lumpini Pathumwan, Bangkok Tel: +66 (0)2 256 6555


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On July 11, 2013, European Cosmetics Regulation EC No. 1223/2009 will be fully enforced across the Member States of the European Union (EU). This regulation is directly applicable and does not require national implementation, unlike the Cosmetics Directive 76/768/EEC that it replaces. As explained in the March 2013 edition of this column, the main purpose of the regulation is unchanged: to provide high level protection to human health and a single-functioning internal European market for goods and services.
Although originally presented as a consolidation and simplification of the Cosmetics Directive and its complex amendments, the recasting of the directive into a regulation for cosmetic products was used as an opportunity to extend the scope in several areas. One of these concerned the use of nanomaterial in cosmetic products, now defined in Article 2(k) of the regulation. It states, "'Nanomaterial' means an insoluble or biopersistent and intentionally manufactured material with one or more external dimensions, or an internal structure, on the scale from 1 to 100 nm."
Although this definition sounds useful in the context of cosmetic ingredients, in practice, almost all of the elements need further clarification and agreement, including: insoluble, biopersistent, intentional, manufactured and internal structure. There are also difficulties for ingredient suppliers, product manufacturers and enforcement authorities in measuring materials in a consistent fashion when some of the particles have one or more dimensions, whether internal or external, on the 1 to 100 nm scale. Nevertheless, manufacturers or, more accurately, Responsible Persons (RP), are required to comply with specific requirements as laid out in Article 16 for nanomaterials and for cosmetic products containing nanomaterials. There are three nano-related requirements for industry: notification to the European Commission (EC) six months prior to placing the product on the market; safety assessment of the cosmetic product with particular attention to nanomaterials; and the labeling of ingredients that are nanomaterials.
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Jay Jennings, San Francisco Chronicle : July 19, 2012 : Updated: July 20, 2012 11:26am
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The enormous success of Chris Cleave's "Little Bee," a searing story of two women united in tragedy before a backdrop of geopolitical danger, gave him license to do just about whatever he wanted with his next novel, so he chose ... a cycling story of two women in competition for the 2012 British Olympic team.
Give him credit for unpredictability — and timing; shortly before his book was published in the United States, two American female sprinters — like the main characters in "Gold," friends coached by the same man — were in a dead heat for the final spot in the 100 meters, necessitating a tiebreaker.
In "Little Bee," Cleave demonstrated nimble plotting, inventive use of language with a comic touch, and an ability to milk the drama from a scene, even if he sometimes went over the top in building suspense and risked alienating the reader by being too baldly manipulative. The challenge for him in this novel, which is smaller in almost every way than his previous work, was to have the characters' psyches and personal dramas carry the action, without the armature of world events (or only world "sporting" events) for support and significance.
As in "Little Bee," two strong female characters — this time, literally strong athletes — anchor the story. Since their teens, Zoe Castle and Kate Meadows have been the top performers on the elite British cycling circuit (and eventually in the world), and this is not the weeks-long scenic road races that even casual sports fans are familiar with, but the banked wooden tracks of enclosed velodromes, where the races are short and explosive head-to-head battles.
As Zoe has proved with gold medals in Athens and Beijing (why and how Kate has missed her chances are part of the gradually revealed backstory), you can parlay that quadrennial triumph into a lucrative life, if also one that invites tabloid scrutiny. With the London Games approaching, both women are facing their last shot at Olympic glory.
The velodrome is a cauldron for playing out personal and professional competition.
Into this stew, Cleave has stirred an aging Australian coach, Tom, who instructs the women in both cycling and life and provides some needed comic relief; his emotional complexity grounds the book most successfully in reality. More problematically, Cleave has given Kate an 8-year-old daughter with leukemia; like the 4-year-old Charlie in "Little Bee," who dealt with his problems by obsessively playing the role of Batman, Sophie in "Gold" immerses herself in the world of "Star Wars."


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Late in the second quarter of its football game at North Texas on Saturday, the Ball State football squad believed that its first business trip of the season was going very smoothly.
The Cardinals had built up a 27-9 lead when senior quarterback Keith Wenning fired a scoring pass to junior wide receiver Willie Snead and it appeared that they would cruise to their third victory in as many games. That's where it all took a turn south.
Ball State committed five turnovers en route to being outscored 25-0 over the final two-plus quarters and lost 34-27.
The defeat snapped Ball State's (2-1) string of eight consecutive regular season wins, despite Wenning throwing for for more than 300 yards for the third straight game.
North Texas (2-1) found the end zone before the end of the first half on a 25-yard pass from Derek Thompson to Brelan Chancellor, then went on to score 25 unanswered points the rest of the way.
The Mean Green took its first lead on a 26-yard touchdown run from Thompson at the 9:47 mark in the final stanza, and that turned out to be the game-winning touchdown.
Ball State racked up 366 yards of offense in the first half, including a 77-yard touchdown run from Horactio Banks, but the Cardinals were held to 130 yards after the break. The Cardinals managed to hold the halftime lead despite three lost fumbles and an interception in the opening half.
Reggie Peagram of North Texas ran for a 32-yard score on the opening drive of the second half, and the Mean Green climbed within 27-24 with a two-point conversion. North Texas then tied the game on a Zach Paul field goal in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter.
Defensively, the Cardinals were led by Jeffrey Garrett, who totaled eight tackles. He caused a fumble at the end of the first quarter that led to the Cardinals' third score of the game, as Brian Jones scooped it up and ran three yards into the end zone for his first career score.
Offensively, Wenning threw for 333 yards and two scores. He tossed a pair of interceptions, the first of which ended a streak of 150 passes without a pick dating back to last season.
Jamill Smith led the Cardinals in receiving with 115 yards, while Banks ran for a career-high 141 yards.
Ball State had the ball twice after North Texas took the lead, but the Cardinals punted after picking up one first down on the first of those drives, and North Texas sealed the game with an interception on the second.
Ball State will travel to Eastern Michigan on Saturday for its first Mid-American Conference contest of the season.
First Quarter
Ball State 6, North Texas 0
11:48- Keith Wenning 2-yard touchdown pass to Willie Snead. Scott Secor pass no good.
9 plays, 75 yards, 3:26
Ball State 6, North Texas 3
8:12 – Zach Paul 48-yard field goal.
9 plays, 34 yards, 3:36
Ball State 13, North Texas 3
5:28 – Horactio Banks 77-yard touchdown run. Scott Secor kick good.
4 plays, 91 yards, :52
Ball State 20, North Texas 3
:20 – Brian Jones 3-yard touchdown fumble recovery run. Scott Secor kick good.
Second Quarter
Ball State 20, North Texas 6
11:04 – Zach Paul 22-yard field goal.
11 plays, 70 yards, 4:16
Ball State 20, North Texas 9
6:23- Zach Paul 47-yard field goal.
7 plays, 27 yards, 3:08
Ball State 27, North Texas 9
3:26- Keith Wenning 27-yard touchdown pass to Willie Snead. Scott Secor kick good.
10 plays, 75 yards, 2:57
Ball State 27, North Texas 16
1:50 – Derek Thompson 25-yard touchdown pass to Brelan Chancellor. Zach Paul kick good.
4 plays, 71 yards, 1:36
Third Quarter
Ball State 27, North Texas 24
12:37 – Reggie Pegram 32-yard touchdown run. Derek Thompson 3-yard two- point conversion to Drew Miller complete.
7 plays, 74 yards, 2:22
Fourth Quarter
Ball State 27, North Texas 27
14:51- Zach Paul 19-yard field goal.
15 plays, 66 yards, 5:32
North Texas 34, Ball State 27
9:47 – Derek Thompson 26-yard touchdown run. Zach Paul kick good.
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New design coming for Arizona driver's license
PHOENIX -- The Arizona driver's license is getting a makeover along with a tweak to the issuing process, it was announced Thursday.
The motor vehicle division of the Arizona Department of Transportation said the revisions were a security measure and take effect in June.
"The redesigned credential contains enhanced security features to safeguard personal information and help prevent identity theft," said Stacey Stanton, director of the state's Motor Vehicle Division.
Drivers seeking new licenses or identification cards will be given a temporary and the permanent version will be mailed. It should arrive in about two weeks. Current licenses won't have to be replaced until they expire unless the holder has changed addresses or names.
Previously, driver's licenses were issued on-site the day the application was filed.
Cosmetic changes to the card include a lighter background, a secondary portrait of the driver, and the addition of the state mammal, the ringtail in the illustration.


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You are brightening up my day, sir! :D
I am so pleased Magenta, I also notice that I am elevated from :) to a :D awesome!
I do have a small issue however; the young man who started this thread seemed to cause some 'offence' in another thread. I am sure that is not his intention, he sems a genuine young man (why do I need to mention his age? Is that even relevant?)
My point is; he mentions in the thread title 'elder', he implies that it is age that causes these 'communication breakdowns' (yes, I am a Zep man) and I must disagree for all the reasons that you and I have agreed upon and that others have stated - what he needs to acknowledge is experience, not age.
I spent 3 very happy years on DW before 'retiring ' myself after a number of forum issues with another, happened to be younger male, member. He was opinionated and impassioned, and quite rightly so, during a discussion about what gigs one would take for money and he was in a position where he lived with his parents etc I took exception as I had done various things in my life to just support my family, not in a musical way, and felt his opinion was less relevant.
Anyway, I now feel a little more vindicated over those exchanges as, I remember very clearly, that young man describing WFD as 'a circus which no self respecting drummer would involve themselves in' (a direct quote); I now read on here that the same young man has been a recent winner at WFD....experience of life and music and relationships, not age.
I was a little ostracised from DW as a result of these 'exchanges' and never came back...I hoped things had improved, and I think they have...but we must all be respectful, polite and empathatic..peace, sorry for ranting..J
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The Module Librarian is the repository for modules and maps. There are a number of pre-defined categories simplifying the task of finding a particular module or map. It is possible to change or remove the existing categories as well as add your own. To examine the contents of a category, click on the "+" button with the left mouse button. Click on the "-" button to compress it.
The shelf is a special category that appears as an area where you can place frequently used maps and modules, giving instant access to them when required. You can place a module on the shelf by dragging it from the main window of the Module Librarian and dropping it in the shelf area.
Figure 3.2: The Module Librarian Interface
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The Map Editor is the main window in the IRIS Explorer interface. It is the area for creating and editing IRIS Explorer maps. Modules are selected from the Module Librarian, and manipulated in the Map Editor to create the required application. The File menu on the Map Editor contains the Exit option which is used to exit IRIS Explorer.
Figure 3.3: The Map Editor Interface
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Renault has invited representatives of their embattled teams – Red Bull, Caterham and Toro Rosso – to attend the 'promotional event' which the brand new Lotus E22 will undergo at Jerez today and Saturday.
As we reported earlier this week, Renault are footing the bill for the two 100 km tests, which for them is a vital early step towards getting their all new V6 turbo powertrain and components operating effectively, in the aftermath of their woeful four days at the first test, late last month.
As a gesture of goodwill the French manufacturer offered the teams, afflicted by the shortcomings during the test, the opportunity to be special guests at the Lotus 'promotional event' as observers.
Lotus initially were unhappy with the arrangement, but once Renault offered to foot the bill, the cash strapped Enstone outfit relented.
As per regulations two promotional events are allowed per team during the course of the season using existing cars, which is described in the regulations as "an event in which a competitor participates purely for marketing or promotional purposes. No such test may exceed 100 km in length and only tyres manufactured specifically for this purpose by the appointed supplier may be used."
Thus Lotus will use up their two day quota over the next two days, where it is expected that both Romain Grosjean and newcomer Pastor Maldonado will get seat time in the Lotus E22.
The team's technical director Nick Chestersaid, "We're very happy with the direction we have taken and it will be very interesting to see how the cars perform once we get a proper chance to compare them on track."
"Where there are so many variations in design, there is always bound to be a little talk, but we remain relaxed and focused on our design and progression."
Despite being the only team to miss out on Jerez, Lotus believe the E22 development programme is well on track, while the team is confident of a strong showing when they go up against their rivals in Bahrain later this month.
"The car is coming together pretty well now. The build is well advanced and we think we'll be in good shape for Bahrain come the next test," added Chester.
Nevertheless the real focus will be in establishing if Renault engineers have taken significant steps to resolve the engine problems that plagued their teams at Jerez last time out.
At the first test the four Mercedes powered teams collectively notched up 875 laps, with Ferrari's three teams managing 444 laps while the trio of Renault powered teams could only manage 151 laps, and at speeds well off the pace. (GP247)
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The Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP) is a regional, autonomous, multi-disciplinary and financially self-sustained Center established within the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). RRC.AP's mandate is to provide high quality technical support for capacity building and informed decision-making required by governments, inter-governmental organizations and non-state actors in the region for the realization of national and sub-regional objectives and targets. At present, RRC.AP's portfolio includes secretarial and technical support to inter-governmental cooperation on monitoring and mitigation of air pollution in South and Southeast Asia, and support to building up inter-governmental cooperation on health and environment. RRC.AP also provides support to a regional climate change adaptation program, to cooperation on waste management, and to other projects. The center operates in partnership with international and regional organizations in Asia and the Pacific, including IGES, SEI and other organizations. Of particular importance is the long-term partnership between UNEP and RRC.AP, which is governed by a Memorandum of Understanding, the most recent one from 2011. The partnership with UNEP and RRC.AP is overseen by an Advisory Committee, made up of representatives from UNEP, AIT and selected other stakeholders. RRC.AP is also guided by a Regional Advisory Group.
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