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Federal aid recipients who withdraw or are dropped from all classes by the instructor are subject to new regulations regarding the Return of Title IV funds. Students who withdraw or are dropped from all classes prior to completing more than 60% of the enrollment period are subject to these rules. Based on the date of the complete withdrawal or drop, the Financial Aid Office will determine the amount, if any, of "unearned" federal financial aid received by the student. The calculation will begin by determining the percentage of the enrollment period completed by the student as follows:
Number of days completedTotal number of days in the semester
The result will equal the percentage of the enrollment period completed. The amount of federal financial aid that was paid or could have been paid to the student will be based on this percentage. If the student received more financial aid than the amount earned, the student will be billed for the overpayment. Financial aid recipients should be cautioned to (1) avoid total withdrawal from all classes, (2) successfully complete at least one class during the semester, and (3) repay any "unearned" financial aid as soon as possible to regain eligibility for financial aid.
Any aid recipient who needs to withdraw from all classes should contact the Admissions and Records Office and the Financial Aid Office. Recipients are encouraged to discuss alternatives to withdrawing from a class(es) with their instructor(s) or a counselor before making a final decision.
Title IV funds are awarded to a student under the assumption that the student will attend school for the entire period for which the assistance is awarded.
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Arriving on the heels of 2006's Coming Up To Breathe, MercyMe's sixth studio LP continues the group's progression toward a mainstream rock sound. Opener "Goodbye Ordinary" would fit in on a retro-'70s rock station, while the string arrangements on the anthem "God With Us" and the spirit-filled "My Heart Will Fly" are remarkable. Here, it seems MercyMe have decided on a solid formula: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

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Whether you just want to say thanks or you're going for a whole "world's greatest dad" theme this year, these Father's Day gifts will get the message across. We narrowed down the options to 13 gift ideas that will make any dad smile.SEE MORE
The Dad Who Loves to EntertainGot a distinguished pop who enjoys his daily gin and tonic or Scotch on the rocks? Get him a bar cart in man-friendly deep leather to display his tumblers and bottles. Bonus: The trays are removable so he can easily serve drinks to his buddies and coworkers.
Bordeaux bar cart, $129.95, zgallerie.com
The Athletic DadCreated by professional athletes, Mission is a line of products made for all types of activity. This limited-edition Father's Day kit features a cooling towel (great for golf dads!) and an instant-cooling cap. The towels come with phrases like "The Dude" to let dad know he's appreciated. Snap the fabric to activate the cooling technology and help him make it through the 18th hole on a hot summer day.
Limited-edition Father's Day kit, $30, missionathletecare.com
For the Green-Thumb DadIs his backyard his true pride and joy (no offense to you, of course)? Let him bask in its glory with a hammock—every dad's favorite weekend-afternoon spot.
Algoma double reversible fabric hammock, $229.99, kohls.com
For the Tech-Loving DadDigital photo frames were a cool gift once upon a time. LyveHome is a more advanced option that stores and syncs photos and videos from all your devices. Sync it to your iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC, and/or Smart TV to create a complete collection of your personal media viewable across all devices.
LyveHome device, $299, mylyve.com
The Foodie DadA delivery service like Blue Apron makes it easy for any father who likes to cook; it sends a box with a recipe and all the ingredients straight to Dad's door. Subscriptions start at $9.99 a person per meal.
Blue Apron subscription, $9.99 and up, blueapron.com
The Sports-Fan DadIf your dad likes nothing more than to root for his home team, trade in his cheesy jersey for something cooler—like a vintage-y T-shirt.
T-shirt, $38, 47brand.com
For the Tequila-Connoisseur DadIf your father's philosophy on liquor is "only the best," hook him up with a bottle of Tequila Avión, which took home the "World's Best Tasting Tequila" award at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The smooth, rich taste is a hit with both tequila and single-malt Scotch drinkers, and each Reserva 44 bottle is hand-poured into a crystal decanter and individually signed by founder Ken Austin.
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For the Dapper DadStubbs and Wootton make slippers with an old-money vibe, so if your dad loves wearing khakis and a cardigan wrapped around his shoulders, and he isn't afraid of a powder-pink polo, he'll love these swanky slippers. Try the Banderas style in navy, a classic best-seller you can't go wrong with.
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Damien Sandow push
As of right now, it looks as if Damien Sandow will split from The Miz at Wrestlemania during the Andre the Giant memorial battle royal. A feud between the two is expected to ensue. While Sandow will be receiving some sort of a push because management was aware of the reaction that he was receiving from the audience, very few expect WWE to push him very far up the ladder. The belief is that Sandow will not get too close to the main event.
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The Ascension debuts in WWE
Rumors are floating around that WWE officials are not pleased with the debut of The Ascension on Monday Night Raw this week. The belief is that the entire segment fell a bit flat, despite management pairing them up with the popular duo of The Miz and Damien Sandow. Viktor and Konnor showed a lot of enthusiasm and energy, but the audience simply did not connect with their gimmick. Their push could be greatly affected by the first impression they gave.
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WWE not pushing New Day
When the New Day made their debut, WWE reportedly was going to give them a pretty big push, as the tag team division is badly in need of new blood. There were even talks that Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and Big E Langston were going to be carrying championship gold not too long after they showed up together on the scene. Those plans were put on hold because of the rising popularity of Damien Sandow and Miz, whom they now want to keep the belts on.
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Men's, women's teams to debut in 2011 season
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HAMBURG, N.Y. -- Hilbert College will add men's and women's lacrosse to its intercollegiate athletics program starting in the 2010-11 academic year, announced Hilbert President Cynthia Zane, Ed.D., and Director of Athletics Richard Walsh. It's the first sport added at Hilbert since the college began men's volleyball in 2002.
"Establishing collegiate-level lacrosse at Hilbert will add breadth to our athletics program," said Zane. "It's one of the fastest growing team sports in the U.S. and has rapidly increased in popularity in Western New York and across the country. We're excited about creating more opportunities for student-athletes and anticipate that lacrosse will have a positive impact on our recruitment efforts."
The college's lacrosse teams will begin their first season in Spring 2011 in NCAA Division III, bringing the total number of sports offered at Hilbert to 13. Since 2003, Hilbert lacrosse has competed at the club level and experienced a steady growth. Advancing the sport to the varsity-level was a "natural fit," said Walsh.
"Lacrosse is a growth sport, particularly over the past 10 years among local youth," he said. "Adding the sport at Hilbert fits in with this strong interest among student-athletes and with the college's overall enrollment strategy. We'll be building a program with great potential that will expand our student-athlete recruitment options for high school and junior college players."
According to U.S. Lacrosse, the sport's governing body, lacrosse is the fastest growing high school sport for girls over the past 10 years and the second fastest growing sport among boys. At the collegiate level, men's lacrosse is the fast growing sport while women's is the second fastest. Erie County and the surrounding area have more than 50 high schools that sponsor lacrosse.
Peter Burns, Hilbert dean of students and vice president for enrollment management, noted that "drawing outstanding student-athletes from the many successful high lacrosse teams that have developed will help make Hilbert's lacrosse program highly competitive. The first team members will have the chance to be 'pioneers' in the program and to make their mark quickly on the field. Without question, bringing lacrosse to Hilbert will augment the vibrancy of the campus and enhance the college's overall student life atmosphere, especially for resident-students."
A search is underway for head men's and women's lacrosse coaches. Information on the coaching positions is available on Hilbert's Web site. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume and three professional references to Maura Flynn, Hilbert director of human resources, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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One of the most effective ways to promote your business online is by harnessing the power of social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook and the large audiences they command. Being successful on the social media platform usually requires building an online audience for your business.
You can use the social media to advertise your services, update your blog post, engage with your clients and even advertise directly to the potential clients. You should post regularly and ensure the content of your website is timely and relevant. Through the social media you can get information that will enable you to advertise specifically to a person's particular interest, to an age group or even to a local area, the possibilities are quite staggering. Another great advantage of social media advertising is that it will deliver measurable results for your online promotion.
- Write And Maintain A Blog
Blogging on your site is a great way to increase the presence of your webpages and naturally increase your page ranking through search engine optimization. However, remember that you must always keep your stream updated as frequently as you can. An abandoned, dormant blog is worth nothing. Additionally, you can search for influential bloggers in your industry and request them to review your services or products in return for a free and useful resource and product for them to use.
- Put Up Multimedia On YouTube And Flickr
YouTube offers a free way to advertise your services and products through creating creative online promotion videos, but in order to succeed you must put up content that is relevant to your business and that people want to view. You can also use YouTube to build your reputation as an expert in your industry. This might include uploading short video tips or video tutorials, as well as linking to the other experts' videos which relate to your area of interest.
Having a Flickr profile can also help to promote your business since it gives you one place to compile all the pictures that are related to your business, and enables you to link them back to your site. Posting these YouTube links on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook gives the potential customers a dynamic way of seeing what your business has to offer.
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Common online auction alternatives:
- English Auction.
Being one of the most popular online-auction business round the globe, English online-auction involve reserve-price being fixed for the products. Participants place their bids and the highest bidder gets to buy the product.
- Sealed bid first-price alternative.
Just like the English auction, the participants place their bids and the highest amount bidder gets to buy the good. The good thing about this auction is that participants don't get to know the amount their fellow participants' bid.
- All-pay auction.
In all-pay online-auction, as a bidder, whether you win or not you've to pay the bidding amount. It is therefore a very risky alternative.
- Dutch auction.
This is where the auctioneer sets a high-price for his or her products but the price is usually lowered if the customers are not ready to purchase the product at that price.
- Sealed-bid second price online-auction.
Mostly used by prominent sites like Amazon and eBay, this type of online-auction is very unique. It involves the highest bidder paying the second highest amount rather than the highest bid..
- Large number of sellers and bidders.
There are a large number of sellers in this business model because of the large number of bidders, the ease of access, the potential for a relatively high price and the reduced selling costs. On the other hand, the large number of bidders is as a result of the social benefits the business has and the broad scope of goods and services available.
- No time constraints.
The fact that bids can be placed at any time of the day or at any day of the week makes this business very convenient. This convenience is what increases the number of bidders.
- No geographical constraints.
Another important advantage about this business is that bidders and sellers can participate from anywhere as long they have internet access. More so, the products don't need to be shipped to a central location thereby reducing costs.
- No start-up costs.
Since this is an online business, traditional startup costs like insurance plans, lease space and employees are not required for both initial and on-going success.
- No dispute difficulties as long as the business is genuine.
This is because the businesses usually have a complaint procedure to deal with any kind of disputes. Quite often a compromise is usually reached so that both parties are satisfied. More so, with a business seller you're covered by the consumer rights.
- Prominent privacy policy.
This ensures that the business provide the customer a secure link whenever he or she enters credit card details and do not sell customer's information.
- Favorable shipping costs.
Most genuine online-auction businesses usually cut down on the distribution cost of items. They also store the items for their customers until they are ready for shipping, protect the goods from damage and reduce the packaging price.
- Scams.
Both buyers and sellers can be subjected to scamming. Some traders make use of unfair or illegal actions just to push up the bids to scam the online buyer. However, there are still many genuine online-auction businesses out there.
- Some products are not as advertised.
Some products displayed on online-auction sites are fake as they sometimes don't match the description posted on the site. This is common in illegal auction businesses.
- No buyers protection in some sites.
An online auction business will have no obligations in relation to the products advertised for sale on its site. This means that it's not responsible for the content of the advertisements placed.
- Seller reputation.
It is difficult to ascertain the credibility of the seller based on online evidence. Some customer reviews are bought to mislead the buyer to think the seller is reputable which in real sense may be far from the truth.
Is Amazon the answer to this? To some extent Amazon has provided an answer to most online auction flaws. For instance, it has made it easier to ascertain seller reputation because reviews are only posted by past buyers. Amazon has also helped reduce scams especially by enhancing buyer protection.
Online auction is not dead. It has only changed with time due to growing needs and challenges. To-date, this type of business continues to make it easier to do business online by providing a favorable environment for buyers and sellers alike.
How to setup an ecommerce website and add SSL certificate?
If you want to set up an eCommerce website for the first time or if you are new to the world of online retails, there are plenty of things that you need to learn. Taking time to learn will help you do things the right way the first time. Fortunately, it is not so hard to set up your first online shop. Here is a guide on how to set up an ecommerce website using a free open source script and then set up SSL later on;
- Choose your domain name and hosting service
The first thing that you will have to do when you want to set up an eCommerce website is choose a domain name. You have to think about the market you are targeting when choosing your domain name. Choose a memorable domain name. Remember, your domain name will become an important part of your brand. Failure to choose the right domain name will definitely lead to regrets later on. Your domain name should capture your brand in the best way possible.
Choose a hosting service with a long standing track record of security, reliability and uptime. This is one of the most important things that you must do when you want to ensure that your eCommerce website will be up and running at all times.
- Choose your shopping cart software
A shopping cart software is important when you want to set up an ecommerce website because it helps to organize your products. It will also help you categorize all the products you are selling as well as upload images so that your customers can see pictures of what they intend to buy. The visitors to your site will be able to add any products that they want to buy into their shopping carts for checkout and payment. Good examples of shopping cart that you can use in your eCommerce website include scripts like Os Commerce, Zen Cart, Cubecart etc.
- Set up SSL
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. This is the certificate that your eCommerce website needs to protect your customers' financial and personal data. Without ecommerce SSL, important customers' information can easily fall into the wrong hands. In addition, no on will want to make a purchase from you if he/she feels that the information given to you will not be safe. That is why setting up SSL is very important. Your ecommerce SSL certificate also helps to protect your company's sensitive information. This means that both you and your customers will benefit from an SSL certificate. It is very wrong to put your customers' information at risk by not having an SSL certificate.
There are many companies that sell SSL certificates. Typically, you can purchase an SSL certificate from the company that is providing you with hosting services. The amount of money that you are going to part with every year for this certificate will definitely be worth it. You have to register your domain name before you can start thinking about setting up an eCommerce SSL certificate.
- Set up your payment gateway
To be able to accept payments, you need a software which allow your shopping cart to communicate effectively to your payment processing system. Having a payment gateway will allow you to take payments made through credit cards and other payment methods. One of the best options for ecommerce websites is PayPal. PayPal allows users to pay using their credit cards or fund that they have in their PayPal accounts. There are many other payment gateway options that you can use.
- Set up a merchant account
Your merchant account is where you are going to receive your payment. In most cases, it is your bank that will help y to set up a merchant account. Your merchant account will have a unique identifying number that allows you to accept payments from credit cards.
- Site maintenance
Once your site is up and running, it has to be properly maintained to ensure that it functions efficiently. Monitor the site keenly to ensure that all its elements are functioning as they should. Remember, setting up an online store is a commitment that you have to take up very seriously when you want to succeed. That is why adequate preparations are very important before taking up the first step.


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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Obama's Challenge by Robert Kuttner; it was posted on AlterNet.
When Barack Obama takes office as America's forty-fourth president, he will face an acute, three-pronged economic challenge. The financial system will be in crisis to a greater degree than at any time since 1933. America's international imbalances will be on a worsening downward slide. And the economy will be in a deepening recession supercharged by falling consumer purchasing power, declining housing values, and cascading business losses.
In addition, he faces four chronic problems that recession will only intensify. The recession will exacerbate a thirty-year trend of increasing inequality and insecurity. The crisis in energy and climate change will be deepening; the unreliability and cost of health care will be relentlessly worsening. The decay of America's public spaces and facilities will persist. All of this will require a more activist use of government than we've seen in at least four decades.
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Pavilion Gabriel Birch + Sophie Yetton
with films by artists Mary Hurrell, Helene Kazan, Thomas Lock, Mirza & Butler, Linda Persson, and Richard Whitby. Preview: 10 August 6 to 8pm
Pavilion is a collaboration between Gabriel Birch and Sophie Yetton, which intends to reframe the space of exhibition through interventions that call into question the relationships between viewer, art work and gallery architecture.
Auditorium is a proposal for an alternative display mechanism for artist film. Following in the vein of Pavilion's previous work, Auditorium investigates the possible duality of exhibition furniture and sculptural object.
Mary Hurrell
Mary Hurrell works across performance, film and sculpture to explore choreography and composition of body, space and object. Her work investigates forms of non-verbal language, and relationships between physical and psychological experience.
Hurrell has made a new work for Auditorium, Tilt your head toward me (Remixed performance works) 2012 which incorporates recent performance footage, creating an altered interpretation of the original works. This piece looks at the translation of performance to film and uses this dislocation to form a new composition.
Helene Kazan
Helene Kazan is a London based multidisciplinary artist, who uses research and archival material to generate moving image and mixed media installations. Currently she is an MA student at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University, London.
Living on the Edge (2012) is a stop frame animation entirely generated from a single archive photograph of a flooded house in London in 1989. It recreates the event and its affects on the architecture of the home, as a way of punctuating a turning point in cultural and political attitudes towards the environment, replacing it within a contemporary context and a continued mobilised state of fear.
Thomas Lock
Thomas Lock is a London based artist working with video and sound. His earlier work explores derelict buildings through a disembodied camera creating uncanny immersive video and sound environments. Lock's more recent works are low-fi video collages that break down the materiality of video and sound.
Body Dysfunctional (2009) explores the architectural space of an abandoned children's hospital in East London. The camera slowly moves throughout the building recreating the experience of a disembodied viewer.
Mirza & Butler
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler have been making films for over 15 years including works that interrogate the illusionistic space of cinema, the recording and representation of space and the politics of the viewing space of film itself.
In The Space Between the film image is constantly fluctuating between object representation and surface abstraction. Repetition does not bring clarity nor is it meant to. No attempt is made to deny either the subjectivity of film or its representational mode; rather the viewer works through and against the film with the filmmakers; so to speak.
Linda Persson
Linda Persson's practice stems from a metaphysical ground for artistic unfolding, exploring transformative spatiality through individual and collaborative engagements that influence aesthetics and discourse equally. Through the structure and syntax of filmic representation, the work aims to unsettle perception by activating physical bodies.
Encounter (2007): Once an industrial landscape now a lake, a lone figure performs undefined movements on a buoyant platform. His embodiment challenges the set perimeters navigated by historical events.
Richard Whitby
Richard Whitby sees video as a container in which different materials and tropes can be brought into proximity. These materials can come from historical research, documentary-style shoots and/or improvised performances with handmade props.
Palatul (2011) includes footage of inner-city stray dogs, and a narrated fable of an architect building a palace for a communist dictator.
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Teva Neuroscience cordially invites you to attend a special presentation. On Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Albert J. Marano, MD, Director of Neurology at Fatima Hospital, will present Treatment Updates in Parkinson's Disease. The program will take place from 6:30 to 8:30pm at Peppercornz on Main in South Weymouth, MA.
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Hibiscus schizopetalus
|Hibiscus schizopetalus subsp. var.
|Coral Hibiscus, Skeleton Hibiscus, Japanese Lantern, Fringed Hibiscus
A weeping tree hibiscus. Grows rapidly and blooms freely. Hanging pink or red/coral colored flowers have 2.5 inch petals that curve up, with many deep lacy lobes, giving a beautiful effect. This fast growing shrub reaches 6-8 feet with a spread of 5-6 feet. Flowers sporadically year-round in greenhouse or in tropics, or during warm season elsewhere.
Can be grown as hanging basket plants and treated as an annual.
|Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Hibiscus schizopetalus, Hook. f. Tall glabrous shrub with slender drooping branches: lvs. ovate-elliptic, toothed: bracteoles minute: fls. pendulous, on long jointed peduncles, red or orange-red, the recurved petals beautifully and deeply cut; calyx tubular; stamens long-exserted: fr. long, bearing smooth seeds. E. Trop. Afr.—A beautiful species, for the warmhouse; grown in the American tropics.
Grow in part shade and intermediate to warm temperatures. 2 parts peat moss to 2 parts loam to 1 part sand or perlite has been a successful potting medium. Do not allow to dry out, keep plant moist at all times. Give a monthly balanced fertilizer at ½ the strength recommended on the label.
Prune often to keep a desired form. Pruning often to give and keep shape, as well as encourage blooms which form on new wood.
Take cuttings of half-ripe wood or use layering. Cutting slow to root, they should be treated with rooting hormone.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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Cable Elementary is located west of downtown and just north of Lackland Air Force Base.
In the 1950s and 1960s, elementary schools in Northside typically were named for the subdivisions or the general area in which they were located. Cable opened in 1958, and its name was derived from its general location (i.e., the Cable Ranch area). The architectural plaque lists the school as Cable Elementary, as do early school directories and other documents.
The Cable Ranch area was named for local landowner and railroad tycoon Ransom Reed Cable. Born in Illinois in 1834, Cable spent most of his career as a businessman. He donated waterworks land in Rock Island, Illinois, and made many other generous contributions to his community throughout the years.
Cable acquired territory in San Antonio while serving as President of the Pacific Railway Railroad Company. Expansion of the railway brought him from Illinois to South Texas. It is not known whether he once owned the land where Cable Elementary now sits.
Ransom Reed Cable passed away on Nov. 12, 1909. The old Cable "Victorian" Ranch in San Antonio that was left to his family was purchased by Tom Slick and became the first site of Southwest Research Institute.
In the 1950's and 60's it was primarily a military community and home to several thousand servicemen and women. Since then it has grown and currently enrollment is over 725 students. Cable Elementary services Pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade levels along with many other enrichment programs


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- Industry keynote: Keith Klarke, VP Embedded Processor, ARM
- Industry keynote: Rudi de Winter, CEO X-FAB
Extracted from their web site: X-FAB manufactures wafers for automotive, industrial, consumer, medical, and other applications on modular CMOS and BiCMOS processes in geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.18 µm, and special BCD, SOI and MEMS long-lifetime processes. X-FAB market positioning is not to compete head on with TSMC or GlobalFoundries on 28 nm technologies, but to serve growing market segments like automotive and industrial, requiring mature technology nodes supporting high voltage or/and high current.
Keith Klarke, from ARM, will deliver the second keynote talk after Lip-Bu Tan. This is a good indication about the IP strategy that Cadence is building: Tensilica IP will not be used to compete with CPU or GPU IP cores from ARM, but rather could be integrated within ARM based architecture. We can imagine, for example, an integrated AP/BB chip implementing ARM Cortex big.LITTLE CPU architecture and LTE modem based on Dataplane customizable processor from Cadence/Tensilica imtegrated together. As Tensilica Dataplane also supports many other application like audio, voice and speech or image/video processing, to name a very few, there will be room for cooperation and also for competition. By having ARM VP giving a Industry Keynote talk right after Cadence CEO is certainly a sign that Cadence prefers cooperation with ARM, which is by far the most realistic approach: the MIPS recent history has shown that the market dont really need another RISC CPU core family, but rather a complementary offer. L
ike I write in Semiwiki a couple of years ago, ARM ubiquity has been built on the long term, is now based on a 1000 partners Ecosystem and an essential customer installed base. Will such a status change in the near, or even far, future? Competing head on with ARM would require such an amount of energy, time and resource, that I dont see Cadence (or Synopsys) to initiate such a battle. Staying partners is certainly the wiser solution!
CDN-Live is a three day event, with an equivalent two days agenda, and covers from mixed-signal full custom, to digital, IP and Verification based design, up to PCB, signal integrity or power aware design. On May 8, Hardware/Software, as well as chip/package co-design and system-level design will be covered. That day will also include presentations made by users from Freescale, Renesas, ST-Microelectronics, ZMD, Infineon or Amkor. During the event there will be tutorials made by cadence and Academic presentations from various Universities in Europe. This should be a dense event!
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On my side I will focus on the Design and Verification IP tracks, with a special attention about Interface IP: PCIe and M-PHY, USB 3.0 PHY IP, Memory Models for Verification and DDR SDRAM Memory Controller and PHY IP. It will also be a good opportunity to learn about Tensilica Dataplane CPU and I am sure not to miss that track, as I will make the presentation just before, named Interface IP protocols: the winners, the losers in 2012. It will be strongly updated from the presentation made during IP-SoC last December in Grenoble, as many changes have occurred during Q1 2013! Because
we can now take into account the 2012 actual IP sales results for the various protocols (DDRn, USB, PCIe, SATA, MIPI, Ethernet, Thunderbolt, HDMI, DP), it will be fresh information, in advance from the launch of the Interface IP Survey
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Two Northland high school robotics teams are off to a great start at the 2013 World Robotics Championships.
The Duluth East High School Daredevils and the Two Harbors Rock Solid Robotics teams are both competing at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.
The Duluth Daredevils won all but one of their matches today. The Two Harbors Rock Solid robotics team also had victories Thursday and both Northland teams are hoping to make it to Saturday's finals.
You can follow the action live via web stream by clicking here. Good luck to both our Northland teams.


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W.Va. set to debate coal mine methane rules again
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety is again discussing a new rule that could toughen the standards for methane gas in the state's coal mines.
But it's unclear whether the board will act when it meets Tuesday at the Charleston Civic Center.
Officials have been wrangling over definitions and a timetable for implementation.
Federal rules require mining equipment to shut down at methane concentrations of 2 percent or more. Proposed state regulations would cut that to 1.25 percent if the levels are sustained.
But the definition of "sustained" is still being debated. So are the timetables to retrofit equipment and implement the rule.
The standard was approved by legislation about a year ago, but state regulators can't implement it until the board finishes writing the rules.
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Lincoln-Erdman Elementary School Gets Special Visitor
Author and illustrator Calef Brown recently gave a presentation to the second, third, fourth and fifth grade students at Lincoln-Erdman Elementary School. Brown's visit was part of the Sheboygan Shindig book festival.
Kristin Goral, art teacher at Lincoln-Erdman, had second grade students create Calef Brown cats, as featured in his book, Hallowilloween. The project supported learning of language, vocabulary and concepts related to art and design. Students also used elements of line and shape to decorate their cats in the style of Calef Brown. Students were encouraged to be creative with their paintings and designs similar to how Calef Brown created his poems, short stories, and illustrations.
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Considering both Jewish and Buddhist tradition, The Jew in the Lotus presents a fascinating comparison/contrast. On a superficial level, as Rodger says, "Monks like silence, Jews like to yak." But a deeper, more tragic level connects them. The Dalai Lama turned to the Jews to learn "the secret of spiritual survival in exile." Unfortunately, the documentary offers only cursory information about the Dalai Lama's exile in 1959 and China's continuing persecution of Buddhists, the destruction of thousands of ancient monasteries, and "slow-motion genocide." Brief archival footage teases us to want more substantive background and fewer of Rodger's candid moments proving repeatedly that "nervous is my religion." Similarly, shots on the streets capture too briefly the painful poverty or children pushing for photographs. The self-conscious camerawork (canted or rotating shots) proves distracting rather than instructive.
The title is a pun on the sacred Tibetan national mantra, which translates as "the jewel in the lotus" -- it's a joke the Dalai Lama enjoys. Ultimately, his serenity leads Rodger to achieve "the deeper and deepening human contact" he -- and we -- seek, but I recommend Kamenetz's book of the same title for a more satisfying experience.
Included on the program is the short, 35-minute "Bubbeh Lee and Me," produced, edited and directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson. Shot on video in the huge retirement community of Century Village, this homage to 87-year-old Lee Abrahams reveals her feistiness, her love for gay grandson Andy, and the sorrows of her life. Her parents came to the U.S. when she was 10 months old, but her family caused her great pain. A womanizing father and a mother who showed her no affection made Lee, in turn, incapable of expressing love to her own children. Her deep regret over this and her sadness as a widow of 25 years lead Wilson to conclude his tribute by endorsing "the importance of claiming fuller who we are and expressing our love."
Heartfelt and touching as it is, "Bubbeh Lee" meanders through grocery shopping, talking on the telephone, driving to buy a vacuum cleaner and several meals -- details that reveal character, to be sure, but minutiae nonetheless. More a home movie than a dramatic work, "Bubbeh Lee and Me" does allow us to enjoy vicariously this spirited woman and model the kind of slice-of-life episodes we'd all like to have and cherish with our own dear relatives.
Plays at 7 p.m. March 5-7 at Webster University.
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Directed by Joel Schumacher
Private eye Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) is called to the home of an ancient millionaire (Myra Carter) -- just as in The Big Sleep -- and asked to investigate the making of an apparent snuff film discovered in her late husband's effects. The relatively innocent Welles ends up on an odyssey through the sleaziest corners of Hollywood -- just as in Paul Schrader's Hardcore-- with the help of a wisecracking guide (Joaquin Phoenix) -- a combination of two characters from Hardcore. Virtually every element in the script by Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven) and every nuance of Joel Schumacher's direction is lifted from older, better movies, of which Hardcore is the most obvious. Hardcore itself owed a tremendous debt to The Searchers, but at least Schrader gave a new spin to the story by changing the setting. To compare Hardcore to 8MM is to see all the worst results of Hollywood slickness: the former may have been technically cruder and not as fast-moving, but the latter is all faux depth, faux moral concerns, faux characters. And even in terms of purely utilitarian, deliver-the-thrills filmmaking, 8MM is only so-so: Doesn't Schumacher realize that having the action whip back and forth between the East and West coasts dissipates the narrative drive? (It's not an accident that Hitchcock didn't make North by Northwest Then Southeast Then Northwest Then Southeast Again.) And how many scenes do we have to sit through in which Cage and the bad guys struggle over what must be the slipperiest gun ever manufactured? By the end, the overwrought dialogue provokes unintended laughs, and even Cage -- aided by memorable work from Phoenix, Peter Stormare and James Gandolfini -- can't save it.
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Under the opening titles of 200 Cigarettes, we hear Bow Wow Wow's near-peerless bubble-gum anthem "I Want Candy." The movie that follows seems designed to satisfy that craving -- it's sweet, tart, brightly colored, insubstantial and utterly lacking in nutritional value. It's also fun to consume, and harmless enough as long as it isn't your whole diet.
200 Cigarettes is set in New York's East Village, during the last hours of 1981. As wall-to-wall late-'70s/early-'80s fluff crowds the soundtrack, we follow about 20 young people through bars and cabs and coffee shops as they flirt, squabble, bellyache about their rotten love lives, and smoke.
The linking device is that all of them are invited to a party at the apartment of single Monica (Martha Plimpton), but they're all taking their time showing up, lingering in the bars, drinking and trying to find love. In the case of two high-school-age Long Island Lolitas (Gaby Hoffman and Christina Ricci), they're trying simply to find the place; they've come to town on the sly, and they end up in a punk bar, courted by two leather-clad roadies (Guillermo Diaz and Casey Affleck) who may also be drug couriers.
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I always find it amusing when people want to compare the US education system to other countries in the world and demand we do better. Are you implying the U.S. needs to do what they do in other countries? Or do you want us to do it the way YOU want AND compete with other countries?
If you want to model what they do, and have a structure for education like they have, we can talk about that. But I really don't think you do......there's a lot of evil worlds in describing other countries education systems that most conservatives hate to hear.
When it comes to cyber education and whether or not something is innovative the devil is in the details. When people say "but I don't think you can argue that they are not innovative" it simply implies to most "hey, it's a cyber school so it's innovative" That's quite a generalization on all schools. If there's an awesome PUBLIC brick and mortar school that is innovative do we hear "public schools are innovative" ?
There are plenty of cyber schools that are not innovative and there are plenty that can be defined that way BUT it does depend on what the definition of innovative is now doesn't it? I never actually used the words "none at all are innovative" That's your take. It also depends on what "cyber school" actually means. What's the definition? How would K12 Inc define it? How would the ISD?
You're making a lot of assumptions about what's going on in my head......that I wont like something if it's impressive and a cyber school? Why?
I don't decide anything, thanks.......where did I imply I decide where people live?
As for the status quo, well, when I look at what my kids are doing in school, how they're learning, the way they are teaching them, and I compare it to what things were like 10, 20, or 30 years ago, I'm not really seeing anything resembling the status quo.
Sorry Dave, cyber education is not innovative. It's a computer screen in a living room. Not needing to leave the house is not innovative.
Unless kids are learning something, processing information, problem solving and being creative and expressive in unique ways not normally done in schools, I would hardly consider something "an incubator of innovation"
Wasn't it Dan Quisenberry himself who was quoted as admitting most charters really aren't that innovative a while ago in an article? For every West Michigan Aviation Academy there's likely at least a couple charters doing pretty much the same thing as any normal public school.
Working so much to pay so much in taxes is your excuse for not paying attention to your kids? Seriously??!?
And if every one of those overpaid rich teachers living the good life with their fancy mini vans dropped their income by 50% and had all their benefits cut you think there'd be some giant tax breaks coming your way? Seriously?
I have a hard time believing that you are a school board member......most board members I know show a little more respect for the teachers they employ. I guess I am wrong though
You're missing the point......when you say "to pass" are you talking about the politicians definition determined by MEAP scores or the actual school and teachers? The two things are VERY different.
What is your definition of a "good teacher"? How do you decide and determine it? What does a good teacher look like in GRPS? Does it look the same as it does in Rockford?
They already can vote with their feet, people are free to live anywhere they want, and if really is not about poverty like anti-union people say, then you're right, vote with your feet, live wherever you want.
Nope, sorry, that has nothing to do with actual teaching and learning. President Obama said "incubators of innovation"............need something specific........?
If someone can share with me some innovations that happen in the great charters, especially the major chain ones that are all over the state, and country, I'd love to hear about them.....
Details please? Something beyond the political rhetoric Obama says.........?
Before you try, please give some thought to what the actual definition of "innovative" is as well.
"If one makes it to the next grade without being at grade level, fire the teacher that passed them."
Whether or not a kid is "Passed" to the next grade is hardly ever something a teacher has any say in. They issue the grade, the principal and parents decide what happens next. And guess what usually happens?
Whether or not people decide if students are "at grade level" or if they "succeed" according to Dave really completely means that we place complete validity on the way that this success and grade level determination is measured in the first place.
Just because it's what we use in Michigan doesn't mean we should consider it a valuable measure and judgment of the quality of an education a child is receiving.
I don't really understand this question Dave.........."If we are going to decided that leaving 15 percent of students behind is acceptable, how are we going to determine who is in that group?"
Doesn't the state already do that based on the wonderfully reliable (sarcasm) MEAP test and the cut scores?
And if we could ease off the "leave them behind" jargon it'd be nice. It's a political term but I never have the courage to look special ed teachers in the eye who work hard every single day and say "why are you leaving these kids behind"
The definition of being "left behind" was created by politicians, not educators.
Comparing learning tonhow fast someone can run is just as stupid as comparing learning to running a factory.
I would argue they were BOTH very flawed and unrealistic from the start, NCLB and the Michigan Merit guidelines.
Diane Ravitch sums up NCLB nicely by saying (paraphrasing) that NCLB assumed that higher test scores on a standardized tests on basic skills is equal to a good education.
And that there, your last comment is the irony. Often the same people who complain about the "product" that Michigan, or the US is producing from our schools are the same people who laud any type of federally (or even state) controlled education, nationalized standards,etc. You can't have it both ways.
I've heard Dave say that Obama's policies tend to go against local control and bring on big govt regulations.......well, gee, I guess that would make him a DEMOCRAT the way I was educated about politics.
So when the GOP do it are THEY acting like "Republicans"??
I understand your point but I really don't think that your point is near as much about local control as good ole fashioned common sense. Say you work in admissions and you see four different kids applications? 2 are from Rockford and 2 are from Grand Rapids Public. All four have 3.75 GPA. Somehow, I doubt even if the standards and curriculum were exactly the same in every single class between the two districts, that the admissions people would consider them equal. Do you?
In a perfect world they'd all be considered equal with a nationalized common core curriculum perhaps, but do we live in that world?
Standards and curriculum are two very different things. The Heritage Foundation clearly does not understand this or they do and simply ignore that and drive home an agenda. They used the word "curriculum" when they described it, the PTA CORRECTLY used the word standards. Anyone educated that works in education knows the difference.
And besides, it's very ironic the Heritage Foundation is marching in to Lansing, of all places, and trying to shout and scream about "local control" considering their so-called conservatives running the show in Lansing have been the exact people slowly destroying it lately.
Finally, someone acknowledges what's really going on here. If people think the legislators in Lansing care at all about what is actually good (or not) for kids, think again.
This is a money grab. It means LESS kids to have to count when cutting the check. First they toyed around with the full day kindergarten = full day funding rules......sure, it's not a "mandate" but most districts took it that way and are all moving to almost entirely all day kindergarten.
So they don't get the money grab they expected with the full day.................
Soooooooo, we move the cut off date.
"The Senate Fiscal Agency said the bill could save the state about $50 million the first year"
That's it, right there. If that wasn't the case, they don't bother even addressing it.
This is a short term money grab by Lansing..........especially with all the districts moving to full day Kindergarten next year. These two things are not cooincedence.
I wish people realized that the Protect Our Job petition drive is about a lot more than just the MEA. Good grief.
Read the language, educate yourselves.......


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Campus Planning Director Dennis Swinford acknowledged the opening of the new Commonwealth Honors College and Life Science Laboratories building this fall as well as several new projects that are currently in the design phase.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2007 An organization in Phoenix is offering individuals, including some veterans, a lifeline when it comes to meeting some of their needs, such as housing, employment or just a simple word of encouragement.
"We're here if anyone desires a more positive road," said Jacque Harris, business developer for the group, "My Brothers Keeper." "We try to help people get on the right track as much as we possibly can, (to) be a support system, a lifeline for them."
Some of the training and development center's clients are trying to reintegrate into their communities after incarceration. Some, however, are veterans of past wars looking for a better lease on life.
"We service a lot of the vets when they come through needing assistance with jobs, skill development, (and) housing referrals," she said. "I think every week we have a vet or two in our different workshops.
"We've found (vets) to be looking for about the same thing (as other clients)," Harris added, referring to the 28 veterans the program has helped since March.
The center also offers substance abuse and anger management counseling, as well as parenting skill development. All of the programs are free to anyone over the age of 18.
My Brothers Keeper, which will celebrate its first anniversary on Oct. 16, currently serves only Maricopa County and is doing a lot of what Harris called "soft skill" job training. That includes customer service, inventory management, sales and telemarketing.
The staff also has just implemented a business plan class, which offers those thinking of starting their own business a few reality checks, including an assessment of personal finances, she said.
"We teach them actually how to write their business plan and about projections and how do you project what's really your direct cost?" Harris said. "We also have referrals for funding small business loans, which we're really excited about."
Part of that syllabus includes a financial literacy workshop taught by a local bank executive. Students learn proper use of credit, how to look at interest rates, how to read a credit report, and how to spot fraudulent activity on that document.
All of this is done in the interest of placing veterans and other clients in jobs. Most have been unemployed for awhile and might be placed in several jobs before finding one that's mutually beneficial for employer and employee.
"We always encourage people, 'Don't quit. Allow us the opportunity to find you something else if this is not a good fit,'" Harris said. "We have built relationships with employers where we can really … help them find (gainful) employment."
But My Brothers Keeper doesn't walk away after a vet is placed in that perfect job. The new employees are followed for 90 days to ensure their success, she said.
"There's accountability along the way," Harris said. "We're referring people to employers that we have relationships with, and we want to place other people there so it's important that we're there and involved."
Harris' goal for the next year is for My Brothers Keeper to open three more locations in Arizona.
"Then we want to go to California, (and) I don't know from there," she said. "Definitely the West Coast over the next two years is the plan."
If some have their way, My Brothers Keeper will eventually become a national organization. Harris already has received inquiries from people in Florida, Georgia, Nevada, and Texas who heard about the program and hoped it was operating in their state. "That's encouraging," she said.
Each week between 15 and 20 people begin the weeklong orientation process, and while interested parties can walk into the Phoenix-based office, Harris suggests calling (602) 344-7504 to make sure there's space available that week.
Editor's Note: To find out about more individuals, groups and organizations that are helping support the troops, visit www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil. The Defense Department's America Supports You program directly connects military members to the support of the America people and offers a tool to the general public in their quest to find meaningful ways to support the military community.


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Poland failed to pull off an historic win over England on Wednesday, a day after their FIFA World Cup™ qualifier had to be rescheduled due to a waterlogged pitch, but for home fans the 1-1 draw had a taste of victory.
Wayne Rooney sent the Poles' morale sinking 15 minutes from half-time, heading in a corner from Steven Gerrard for his 30th goal in an England shirt. Poland's answer came in the 70th minute, thanks to Torino defender Kamil Glik, courtesy of another header from a corner.
Conscious of their underdog image, they stand 54th in the FIFA rankings to England's fifth, Poland took the game to their rivals from kick off.
The game had been billed as a personal battle between Poland's Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski and England's Manchester City keeper Joe Hart, who recently did battle in the UEFA Champions League.
But with Lewandowski failing to shine in the half, it was midfielder Kamil Grosicki who first sent home fans' pulses racing in the 58,000-capacity Kazimierz Gorski Stadium in the eighth minute, though poor control stymied his effort.
England had their chance after 15 minutes but James Milner's lateral pass failed to find a team-mate before Polish goalkeeper Przemyslaw Tyton smothered the ball.
Working hand-in-hand with fellow midfielder, French-born Ludovic Obraniak, Sivasspor's Grosicki continued to seek weak links in the England defence, to no avail.
Manchester City's Milner fed Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermain Defoe up front in the 26th minute, only for the latter to lose the battle with Poland captain Marcin Wasilewski, standing in for the injured Kuba Blaszczykowski.
Two minutes later, Poland powered back, with Grosicki finding Lewandowski in the box, only for newcomer Pawel Wszolek to fail to latch onto the pass.
A minute after Rooney's goal put England up, Grosicki again came up empty.
For the remainder of the half, both teams failed to capitalise on corners and free kicks, while strikes from Glen Johnson and Grosicki went wide minutes from the whistle.
After the interval, Poland upped the pace in a drive to close the deficit, with corner-taking stalwart Obraniak firing over the bar in the 49th minute, followed by Lewandowski ten minutes later.
A lone run by substitute Danny Welbeck then found Tyton floundering, but Rooney failed to make it two.
Poland's traditionally unforgiving fans began to harangue their team, but were suddenly silenced when a 70th-minute Obraniak corner found Glik, who earned his second Poland goal, as Hart came for the ball and was left stranded.
Ten minutes later, they were inches away from pulling ahead, as yet another Obraniak corner found Glik.
Three minutes from time, Milner found himself free, only for Tyton to beat him, before Obraniak pounded at Hart twice, the second time forcing the England keeper into a lunging save.
The Poles had been aware that history was against them having beaten England just once, in the race to qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, when they deprived the English of a berth at the finals, and drawn six times in a total of 17 previous meetings.


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