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Water balloon fight to aid Haiti's impoverished
The forecast calls for nothing but sun, but things will be anything but dry on Saturday in Point State Park during The Great American Water Balloon Fight.
The event benefits the charity, Team Tassy, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in Haiti by reaching out through everyday people.
The idea for water balloons came from Team Tassy board Chairman Ian Rosenberger's belief that giving and helping should be fun.
"We have this philosophy that giving should be a joy,"said Rosenberger, 30. "A lot of times, giving is about avoiding guilt, not joy. We decided that anything we did from here on out would be about joy."
Rather than a free-for-all, participants have four teams to choose from, with each hosted by a Pittsburgh FM radio personality.
"It's more fun to compete with people, against people," said Vivien Luk, 29, executive director for Team Tassy.
The teams are hosted Abby Krizner of 105.9, The X; Cathy Schodde of KISS 96.1; Mike Dougherty and Bob Mason of the KISS morning show; and Randy Baumann of WDVE 102.5.
"They're competing on the air, and participants are starting to get competitive on Twitter," Rosenberger said.
Team Tassy began with Rosenberger, who placed third on "Survivor: Paulu" in 2005, aiding in the Haiti relief effort in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. There he met Tassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who had a cancerous tumor on his face that was slowly killing him. He asked Rosenberger for help.
"Not having any idea what else to say, I said yes," Rosenberger said. "What else do you say when someone asks you for help?"
Rosenberger and the people of Pittsburgh raised nearly $100,000 to get Tassy to Pittsburgh for surgery.
Team Tassy works with individual families until they are completely out of poverty. They help with education and job placement.
The Great American Water Balloon Fight will help fund those efforts.
Next year the event will make its debut in Los Angeles, where the team is planning to open a second office. From there, he said, they hope to double the number of cities each summer.
"We want this to be our March of Dimes," Rosenberger said. "We want to do this every year. This is the city we love and the work that we love, and we're helping people."
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I'm a huge fan of William Gibson's writing, but I am always a little puzzled by the fact that most of his other fans don't seem to realize that his central metaphor, cyberspace - a virtual matrix through which disembodied cyberjockeys fly performing feats of geekiness - was, as prediction, a total failure.
There is no "cyberspace." We don't leave our bodies when we go online. Instead, the opposite is happening: computers and communications are suffusing the physical world, melting into the fabric of daily life, especially daily urban life.
Here are three primary impacts I'm seeing:
First, there's ubiquity. Simply put, computers and Net connections are getting smaller, more portable and closer and closer to always available. Very, very soon, any employed city-dweller on the planet will have some form of access to the Internet constantly available to them. This means that the Internet ceases entirely to be something you go to, and starts to be something that you carry with you, that surrounds you.
The second is what we might call layering - a term from GIS mapping. With layering we start to see the invisible accretion of data clumping over physical objects and places. Want to find a good cafe, get a map for how to walk there, and then let your friends know you're there and ready to hang out? Piece of cake. Combine the rise of social software and reputation capital systems, the increasingly cheap nature of basic data, and the ability to easily tag information to specific physical locations and layering emerges.
The third is the revival of public space. While we've all seen people cruising down the sidewalk barking into their mobile headsets and oblivious to the world around them, we tend not to notice the countervailing (and I think) stronger force of "loose encounters" - easily facilitated brief meetings - and untethered work (as people are freer to leave offices and conduct business on the fly). Both are already resulting in more people in public spaces, which is a pretty fair metric of urban health, and the trend is far from played out.
Well, apart from the notion that WG never, AFAIK, set out to predict something, he nevertheless did, and quite a lot. In fact, if you take his works in sequence, his "cyberspace", as a metaphor, does exactly what you describe here - it starts to get "everywhere". And honestly, only 10-15 years ago, those rare people feverishly typing the night away on clunky keyboards to have characters travel through untol miles over a 1200/NONE connection and back before appearing on the screen, were not that different from WG console jockeys, sans the temple electrodes and the stuff...
Alex -
You're right if you imagine "cyberspace" as a simulacrum of "realspace" - virtual reality and all that. But I think you're overlooking the necessity of visualizing large amounts of data.
There's a ton of information out there that can't be easily layered over physical objects. Take WorldChanging.com, for example. Is it tied to a physical space? Perhaps if I met you on the street, I could see that your tied to this particular blog, but I would hope that I wouldn't have to always be in your presence to access it. This could apply to any social software really - how do you represent your network of friends (and their associated informaiton) into a physical space if they're not all in your presence?
And frankly, the current system of windows and "Back" and "Forward" buttons is inadequate (the desktop metaphor should have ended after Windows 95) for navigating any sort of large data store such as this. We need a way to visualize the interconnecting nodes of blogs and posts and people (and to interact with them, modify and shift the links). To be honest, I'm a big fan of zoomable user interfaces and informational physics, but I'm still working out the kinks.


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A couple of years ago, I scored a fabulous bolt end of laser-cut microsuede of some kind at the red tag table at JoAnn. I have about 4 yards. It has no information on it at all.
I'd like to use some of it to make "guards" (striped trim) for a period skirt, like this. The skirt will be black linen, which I will be rigorously pre-washing/drying like I prep all my linen.
Before I have at the suede-stuff, I'm wondering if anyone has ever worked with this kind of fabric before. How did you pre-treat it? I know a lot of microsuede doesn't fray, but this does. I've used a fair amount of regular (ie, not full of holes!) microsuede, but to be honest I can't remember whether I've ever washed it before! (I've used it on non-washables like bags or for the trim on a corset, etc.) I will in all likelihood eventually need to wash the finished skirt.
A second question is determining the nap. It has one; it's lovely--just like natural suede. But I'm rubbish at figuring out the direction of nap. It's soft every way; should I just pick one direction and stick with it? Or because it's supposed to be suede-like, does it not matter?
For making the trim, I could either do bias tape or cut straight yardage. Can anyone think of an advantage either way?
Last question--working around the holes. The point of using the perforated fabric is to see the black skirt behind it through the holes (like this), and I'm worried about the seam allowances showing through instead. Any suggestions here? Really tiny seams?
I would appreciate any advice or suggestions or ideas anyone has.
------~Gem in the prairie
I've used suede but not microsuede. The only suggestion I have for the seam allowances is maybe turning however much you need to for the holes to line up, KWIM? Good luck with your project.
------Stash: 196 yds. @ 10.18.15
That's a brilliant suggestion! Alas, I did a test fold, and they don't line up as well as you'd hope, so I think my best bet is to try to fold as much as possible along a solid edge.
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Originally posted by jay lai: Hi all: On my jsp, i got a collection and loops through it, something like this
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[B]<td><c:out value="${ml.mydate}"> // this Date is
// return from the controller with the type java.util.Calendar ,
// I need to display this field in SECOND. How do I do this? [/B]
Thank you so much for your kindness help. Regards.
Anoop Krishnan wrote:I have a Calendar object and I just want to display the full year , month and the date in the front end.
I extract the date from the calendar and you are telling me to use those deprecated methods of the Date in my JSP to get the full year , month and the date
Bear Bibeault wrote:Why are you passing a Calendar object to the JSP in the first place? It's a computational class, not a display class. Convert the Calendar to a Date before you send it to the JSP.
Remember, whenever you find something that's hard to do in the JSTL or EL, it's a red flag that you're probably doing something wrong.


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$80 shipped for drive and 1 adapter? How long was the psu used for?
OK. Now i have some stuff for sale.
Simpletech 40GB harddrive: $75 Sold Shipped 12/31/04
Hitachi 10GB hard drive: $30 Sold Shipped 01/10/05
Epia M10K: $135 Sold Shipped 12/28/04 Recieved 12/29/04
Opus 150W PSU for shuttle PC: $190 Sold Shipped 12/29/04
Lilliput 7" touchscreen: $250
Panasonic Slot load DVD/CD-RW drive with IDE adapter: Sold Shipped 12/28/04 Recieved 12/29/04
Two Laptop drive to IDE converters: $10 each ($20)
Hard drives preformatted, with no bad sectors. Motherboard in box, almost new, the utility cd is a burnt cd, perfect condition. Lilliput: In box, perfect working condition, never opened, never had problem with it.
All of them together: $800 Shipped. All prices include 2-3 day USPS priority shipping.
PM me or reply here. Pics upon request. Thank you for your interest
$80 shipped for drive and 1 adapter? How long was the psu used for?
So do you.Originally Posted by BoyNextDoor
Hey im interested in the opus and the liliput if it is the solid black model with the new style connection. Either way ill deffinetely take the opus.
interested in opus, lilli. and cd converter. Everything should work perfectly- Touchscreen, pixels, powerup etc. Thanks, PM to let me know if this is still available. I can send payment ASAP.
also send pics
Thank you
Here ar the pics...
Hard drives:
IDE adapters:
The lilliput:
Panasonic drive:
And the simpletech drive, that i forgot to add to the harddrives:
OK. Since i got a lot of interes on the things...
The one to get me the payment first, get's it...
My paypal id is: [email protected]
Prices include shipping, and Please add the 4% that paypal charges me for transaction to the final price. The one to get the money to me, gets the stuff, just let me know what you got...
PS: thank you for your interest.
Well, wife is going to get mad; but payment sent for the Panasonic DVD/CDRW.


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I bought a fine jersey knit rayon/poly from Gorgeous Fabrics awhile back, cut out the pattern pieces, then set the project aside. Now I can't tell which side is which. The 2 sides of the fabric are subtly different. Is there a way to tell which is the right side????
If you haven't fused anything or sewn anything, then it's your choice. However, if any of the pieces you cut are single, you may be able to tell from those what side you cut as the right side.
The cut edge of a jersey will curl toward the right side. Some curl up and away from the back more than others. A jersey is a single knit- so the face side should resemble tiny knit stitches like those that form a stockinette stitch on a sweater. The reverse side should resemble the purl stitch on a stockinette sweater. If the fabric is very fine, you might need a magnifying glass to see a subtle difference. Sometimes if you hold the pieces up in good lighting, you can see the difference in overall color tone. All that said, it's your choice, but should be consistent. HTH.
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The right side is whichever you prefer. But as the other posters have said, knits will curl towards the right side when you gently stretch along the cross grain.
The fuzzier side is the "wrong" side; the side you can see the "v" shapes is the "right" side.
Just make sure whatever side you choose, to choose the same for all pieces.
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Thanks everyone. This fabric is such a fine knit that it was hard to tell, but I think I figured it out. I actually went outside where the light was better! And it did curl to the front.
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The Steelers and Ravens strapped it on for the second time this season, as is custom for NFL divisional rivals. Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, already suffering from an injured foot, had his nose broken in the first quarter, but still managed to throw for 253 yards, a TD, a pick, and nearly scored a beejer from Cris Collinsworth after shot-putting a ball out bounds. And even though the Steelers trailed for most of the game, a Joe Flacco fumble set up Pittsbugh's only touchdown en route to a 13-10 win and sole possession of first place in the AFC North.
"That's a Steelers-Ravens game, right? Hard-fought all the way to the end," Roethlisberger said. "Everybody contributes."
He laughingly suggested that his battered nose helped take his mind off his ailing foot.
"It hurt a lot," he said of the foot, "but the broken nose took some of the pain away." –Y! Sports.
A broken nose reducing pain? That has to be a first for modern medicine. It was also interesting that Roethlisberger also got preferential treatment from the league by being allowed to wear two different shoes, which is illegal for players that aren't kickers or punters. Chad Ochocinco must have been screaming at his TV all night.
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Verizon confirms Palm Pre, BB Storm sequel
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Verizon's wireless chief Lowell McAdam today undermined Sprint and stepped up smartphone competition by confirming that the carrier would get both the Palm Pre and a frequently rumored BlackBerry Storm sequel. The executive said during an online broadcast that he expects both within the "next six months;" he also suggested Android would come but didn't mention phones by name.
The news potentially hurts Sprint, which has been counting on its exclusivity for the Pre to halt the exodus of customers to other carriers, but is likely to be a significant advantage for Palm. The smartphone producer is under pressure to regain phone share as quickly as possible due to very low funds and would significantly improve its performance by adding the largest American carrier. Palm is also known to be working on the Eos, a Centro replacement that should reach most if not all US carriers later this year.
The Storm sequel is known to be a significant upgrade of the original with the controversial click-down screen removed and Wi-Fi added.


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Update — Friday, 7/6: Sadly, the RRP announced this week that D12, the first Decorah eaglet to hatch in 2012, was electrocuted by a power line near the family nest. The other two eaglets remain in good health.
Update — Tuesday, 6/19: All three eaglets have now successfully fledged.
Update — Friday, 3/30: The RRP confirms that the third egg has started to hatch.
Update — Thursday, 3/29: The first two chicks are now fully hatched.
Update — Wednesday, 3/28: A second chick began hatching Wednesday morning, the RRP has confirmed. The first chick will be named D12, and the second D13.
Update — Monday, 3/26: The first chick has finally begun to hatch, with evidence of a "pip" showing up by midafternoon Monday. It can take 48 hours to fully hatch.
[skipwords]The Decorah eagles are no strangers to fame — thousands of people around the world are constantly watching them, day and night, and discussing their every move in online forums. But the Iowa-based parents are under especially intense surveillance this weekend, even by their own standards.
The first of the couple's three eggs is expected to hatch sometime between Friday, March 23, and Sunday, March 25, prompting their fans to declare "Hatch Watch 2012" officially underway. The mother laid this year's first egg on Feb. 17, and since it takes about 35 days for bald eagle eggs to hatch, the first eaglet's due date is Friday.
Don't worry if you can't watch the webcam all day, though — each eaglet will spend roughly 12 to 48 hours emerging from its eggshell, and there will still be two more after this one. Those eggs were laid on Feb. 20 and Feb. 24, so both will likely hatch within the next two weeks. Once they do, they'll stay in the nest for about three months, potentially offering an encore of last summer's hit "reality show," which became the most-watched live video in UStream history with 200 million views.
The eagle parents have been together since the winter of 2007-'08, when the mother was estimated to be about 4 years old. They've successfully hatched and fledged 11 eaglets since then, including three each of the last three years. Their nest is located near a state-owned fish hatchery in Decorah, Iowa, about 80 feet high in a tree on private land. According to the Raptor Resource Project, which runs the webcam, the nest is 6 feet wide, 5 feet deep and weighs 1.3 tons. Since the couple returned to their nest in December, more than 11 million people have already tuned in to watch.[/skipwords]
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Watch this video to learn more from USA Gastroenterologist Dr. Brooks Cash about what you can do to prevent colon cancer from occurring, as well as steps you can take to dramatically improve treatment if you are diagnosed with colon cancer.
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New uniforms for Northwestern University's football team are raising eyebrows after some say it looks like they are covered with blood splatters.
Under Armour put together the uniforms in honor of the Wounded Warrior Project.
The uniforms feature a pattern that represents a flag that has flown proudly and weathered over time.
It's the weathering effect that has some thinking it looks like the flag is covered with blood.
Under Armour has responded to concerns saying the tattered pattern does not depict blood.
The company plans to auction off the uniforms and donate the proceeds to injured veterans after Northwestern's game against Michigan on November 16.
Northwestern says the only change that will be made to the uniforms is the addition of Big Ten patches.


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RockSport on Silverado Boulevard is open for climbing today.
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The kids are out of school today so the grownups can vote. Take advantage of today's election to educate your children about voting and how important it is to our country. Your kids can watch you vote, but they can't actually mark the boxes or touch the screen because they're not old enough to vote.
A day off school is no reason to sit at home and watch TV. Here are three places to go to keep your kids moving today:
Don't bounce off the walls waiting for election results. Get jumping: Both Pump it Up in Sparks and EZ Air in south Reno have special jump times today.
Pump It Up, the Inflatable Party Zone, is offering several jump times. The Pre-K Bounce for 2- to 6-year-olds is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Jump-N-Glow is for 2- to 12-year-olds from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and again from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Open Bounce for 2 to 12 years is noon to 1:30 p.m. Cost is $6 per child. Space is limited, so preregister online. Children must be at least 34 inches tall to play on inflatables. Socks required. Pump it Up is at 610 E. Glendale, Sparks. Details: www.pumpitupparty.com
EZ Air, the trampoline park in south Reno, offers special jump time from noon to 8 p.m. Cost is $10 per hour. Book your time online before you go and avoid the line. The trampoline park is at 895 E. Patriot. Details: www.ezairsports.com or 775-853-1200.
RockSport in Sparks is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today for kids 6 years and older. RockSport is at 1901 Silverada Blvd., No. 10. Wear loose-fitting clothing. An all-day pass costs $15 for adults, $12 for children under 14. Details: 775-352-7673 or www.rocksportreno.com.
The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kids can make their way up the Cloud Climber, pretend play in Nevada Stories or create art in DaVinci's Corner. Admission is free for members, $8 nonmembers. The museum is at 490 S. Center St. in downtown Reno. Details: www.nvdm.org or 775-786-1000.


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Overheard: Larry Brown says 'class' allowed SMU to move on to NIT semis
Here are some postgame press conference quotes from SMU's win over LSU transcribed by SMU athletics:
Larry Brown:
On the play that led to Nic Moore's game-winning three-pointer…
"He had just missed a three earlier and I wasn't real happy with his shot selection. We've run that play in practice every day. I thought they would play man, they had played zone the whole time, and fortunately they played man and Markus (Kennedy) set a good screen and we got a wide-open look. I wasn't thinking about a three to be honest, I was hoping to be able to post the ball. We had a great shooter make a big shot and not be afraid of it."
On what it means to still be playing…
"There's only 20 teams left playing now, and after this weekend I think there will only be eight left, and we're one of them. That is so great for our program and for our kids. And again, Matt Doherty left me with some class kids. I think the class of those kids allowed us to move on."
Nick Russell:
On what it means to go to Madison Square Garden for the NIT semifinals…
"It's big time. I'm looking forward to it. We have some days to prepare and we've got to come out and have some good practices. We are going to celebrate this one for sure because that was a great game."
On advancing this far in the NIT after missing out on the NCAA Tournament…
"It's big, not only for the fact that we get to go to the Garden, but that we made it this far. I guess it was a week ago or so we were all bummed that we didn't make the Tournament. So the fact that we were able to make it this far, that's big time for us. It's just a cherry on top to be able to play at Madison Square Garden. But the fact that we made it this far, that is the best part about it. When we didn't make the NCAA Tournament, we said that we had to win this tournament to prove them wrong."
Nic Moore:
On the play that was setup for his game-winning three-pointer…
"We called a timeout and Coach Brown had a play for us. I handed it off to Nick Russell, seeing that they switched off from a zone to man, Markus came down and set a good screen for me, I came off of it, Nick Russell found me and that time I just had to shoot and it went in."
On whether he was surprised that Coach Brown called his name…
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Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D.
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Entomological news and queries.
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My dear old Fox
How very unfortunate it was that our letters crossed on the road, more especially as
mine contained such very severe remarks. I should indeed be most ungrateful, if after
reading your letter, I did not repent of them. To give the devil his due, I must say you
are, (excepting always punctuality) a perfect pattern for a correspondent. You answer so
distinctly & satisfactorily all one's question's. You see I am already beginning
to harp on Entomology.— But before that I must thank you for your most kind
invitation to Osmaston for the Music Meeting. I shall be
extremely happy to come, my only difficulty at present is how to get there as on the
I suppose the Music Meeting will be very glorious as this will be my first, but I must say I expect much greater pleasure in seeing you, & all your beasts, & last, but not least all the insects.— I suppose I had better bring my gun as I hope we shall have one or two shots together.—
Looking over some insects the other day I found one of my quondam-Nebris, & eheu eheu I believe it turns out to be a (Nosodendrum of Lam:) as what I thought were the Palpi, I now believe to be very short thick Antennæ. Your description however agrees pretty well.— I have taken both varieties of the Pine destroyer.— Since I wrote, have taken a dirty-purple coloured Cicindela, with squarish white markings, is it Sylvatica? Also, a most splendid Elater not Buprestis, by Marsham I make it out clearly to be the Cyaneus, but he gives no references, from which I infer it v<ery r>are. Elytra & thorax metallic purple blu<e,> abdomen greenish blue, legs yellow, taken at a great altitude.—
I hope, if you can, that you will answer this letter directly, as on the
I am going to mention a few insects, which are very doubtful.— 2 most beautiful insects, Cryptocephalus sericeus, & Lebia Cyanocephalus, a Cara- bidæ.— allso, a Bembidion, (Littorale). 3 sorts of dung beettles like the Vaccæ.— a beautiful, square built Donacia, &c &c &c &c. I mean to take all my insects to Cambridge, & then you will see all these wonders.—
Give me some instructions about keeping Crysalises, as I possess some of ditto.— I have got so much to say & so much to see at Osmaston that it will be God's Mercy if I go away alive. nevertheless I much hope for the experiment to be tried A part of your letter has given me a Panic, you say you do not know when you shall return to Cambridge I most sincerely hope it only means at what time in October I should be quite lost without my good old Entomological Tutor.—
I have been abusing you for unpunctuality when I forget you might apply the argumentum
ad hominem. The reason I delayed answering is that I have been on an expedition for a
few days. For you must know that I am become a ``Brother of the Angle'' under the
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Do write soon, & believe me, dear Fox | Yours most sincerely | Chas Darwin
I need not tell you to mention to your Father how very much obliged I am for his kind invitation, & how happy I shall be to accept it.—
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I first noticed this some 2 years ago. I've got a HP Jornada 568 PocketPC with a 256MB CF card which i use as MP3/OGG/MPC player, i know this is hardly the best way to listen to music, but it's better to use the hardware i have than shell out for something new.
The problem is, i hear noticeable artifacts when playing OGG's with certain types of music, most notably continous low tones. A good example where this happens is the start of Radiohead - Lucky. It sounds like there is some weird higher harmonic in it, i can't really describe it, but it's very audible to me.
Mac explained to me this is what you can hear when you reduce bit depth without dithering. Since PocketPC's as far as i'm aware don't have any floating point units and therefore can't use the normal Vorbis decoder, it would appear this is a bug in Tremor. I've tried two different programs to play OGG's on the PocketPC, PocketDiVX (later renamed to PocketMVP) and BetaPlayer, it makes no difference.
Because the issue might also be something other than Tremor and i can't decode to a wav file on my PocketPC, i have no way of verifying this and putting some samples online for everone to listen to. Is there a Tremor compile for windows i can use to confirm this?
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Zoller calls for Twitter to "urgently provide developers with a clear roadmap of where its own in-house development efforts are heading in order to re-establish harmony."
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Asking Questions in a Large Class (and getting answers)
By Roger Stradley
Last year, in my peer evaluation, the comment was made that I didn't give students a chance to answer my questions. After thinking about it, I had to agree. I mentioned this to another team member and we both agreed that the problem with asking non-directed (i.e., to the class) questions in a large class is that it "often elicits either no response or a garbled chorus of remarks"1. On the other hand a directed question (i.e., to a specific student) in a large class puts the student on the spot and may be embarrassing for the student. Consequently, I began reading about strategies used by others to overcome the problems of teaching a large class including how to ask questions without either getting an ineffectual response or embarrassing students.
What constitutes a large class? Cleveland2 defines 400-500 students as a mega-class, while at Penn State, they define a large class as over 1003. My own experience has been that, as class size increases above 20-30 students, it becomes progressively more difficult to actively involve the students. While many of the personal qualities that make a teacher effective in a small class would be the same qualities that are effective in a large class, the sheer numbers in a large class magnify what would otherwise be minor problems in a small class. All classes work best when the students take an active interest in the subject, and when teachers personalize the lectures3, however many students become anonymous and passive in a large class4. So, what can we do to actively involve each of the 130 plus veterinary students?
We tend to deliver a conventional lecture for the full 50 min, ending with the obligatory invitation: "any questions?"8. If we want students to ask and answer questions in a large class, then we must allow them to become comfortable with us. That is, they need to know we won?t embarrass them in an open discussion. This begins the first day of class. "You do not get a second chance to make a first impression"2. Share some information about yourself; students appreciate knowing more about you than just a name and office number7. This information might include:
- other courses that you teach
- your research
- why you love your subject
- personal background
- hobbies
- family
- etc.
One way to "break the ice" on the first day might be to do some sort of "brainstorming" with the class. For example, ask the students to call out the different organs in the gastrointestinal tract and then the overall functions of each. Praise and encourage any questions even though at times this may be a stretch.
Don?t stand behind the podium for the entire lecture. Remember that teaching is always a performance7. If you move out among the students when you speak, it will capture their attention and make them feel less anonymous8. I remember watching Dr. Venzke teaching gastrointestinal anatomy where, usually once during each lecture, he would walk out among the students and sit down next to a student. He would then proceed to speak one-on-one with the student about gut anatomy. The fact that it was clear he cared about the student with whom he was speaking is probably what made it work. It provided a brief respite from the lecture format and, except for the student he was talking with, the students enjoyed it.
Several sources advise varying the mode of presentation4,8,4,5; Fredrick recommended an "energy shift" about every 20 min5. There are many ways to create an energy shift during a lecture. In veterinary school, one of the easiest ways is to bring in a real-life clinical case1 or even something in the news that relates to the current topic3. Another possibility is to briefly go live to an interesting website that is relevant to your subject. Personally, my choice would be to break the lecture with a question or a series of questions.
Rhetorical questions are asked all the time during class, but probably do little to break the anonymity. Another way to ask questions is to use thought-provoking multiple-choice questions (some might consider this an oxymoron) over material you just covered and have the students vote on the correct answer. If you do not get a response, persist and have a second vote5. A third possibility is a question directed at a student or a group of students. This would seem like a good method to actively involve the students, but how do we do this without embarrassing them in such a large class?
Several authors offer suggestions on how to question a student without undo embarrassment. Most suggest that allowing the student to pass is more humane. Several of these authors suggested directing a question at a small group of students and give them a couple of minutes to come up with their answer. Nagle7 referred to a colleague of his who begins each class by putting up six or seven names. Then, when he asks a question, he will call on one of those specific students whose name is on the blackboard. Frederick5 suggests posing a question to the class and then asking three students sitting next to each other to discuss it and come up with an answer. He allows them (and hopefully the class) 5 minutes to explore the question. This seems like an excessively long down time for the class, but perhaps a combination of these strategies with less time to come up with an answer might be effective with our veterinary students.
After evaluating these different methods for using directed questions, I intend to try the following. At the beginning of each class, I will post 10 names from which I will "randomly draw" (predetermined ahead of time) names during the class. Then, once or twice during the class, I will project a question and ask one of the students to give me the correct answer. This student will then have 30 seconds and may consult with the students on either side of him or her (sort of like "call a friend" on the Millionaire TV show).
The overriding goal of teaching any size class is to have the students take active responsibility for their part in the learning process. A large class simply puts more obstacles in the way of achieving this goal. Personalizing a lecture for 135 veterinary students is a difficult charge, but any attempt we make will be appreciated by the students1. Using non-directed and directed questions should be a useful strategy to get student participation in a large class. In a survey at the University of California Santa Barbara, over 80% of the students surveyed by the Office of Instructional Consultation in 1992 felt that the instructor affected the quality of classes more than did class size11. Although many faculty tend to teach the way they were taught, the times they are a changing. New technology and new teaching strategies are available to us if we just have the courage to try them.
- Jaeger LA and D Kochevar: "Teaching large classes in veterinary medicine" in Stanley CA and ME Porter (eds): Engaging Large Classes. Bolton: Anker Publidhing Company, Inc. Example 5:178.2002.
- Cleveland L.G.: "That?s not a large class; It?s a small town: How do I manage?" in Stanley CA and ME Porter (eds): Engaging Large Classes. Bolton: Anker Publidhing Company, Inc. Example 5:16.2002.
- Teaching large class sections. Center for Excellance in Learning and Teaching. The Pennsylvania State University, 1997. http://www.psu.edu/celt/PSU/large.html
- Porter ME and CA Stanley: "Summary of key concepts for teaching large classes" in Stanley CA and ME Porter (eds): Engaging Large Classes. Bolton: Anker Publidhing Company, Inc. Example 5:324.2002.
- Frederick, PJ: "Student involvement: Active learning in large classes" in Weiner, MG (ed): Teaching Large Classes Well. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 32:45.1987.
- Brooks, RP: "Dealing with details in a large class" in Weiner, MG (ed): Teaching Large Classes Well. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 32:39.1987.
- Nagle R: "Transforming the horde" in Stanley CA and ME Porter (eds): Engaging Large Classes. Bolton: Anker Publidhing Company, Inc. Example 17:315.2002.
- Iverson BL: "What my students have taught me" in Stanley CA and ME Porter (eds): Engaging Large Classes. Bolton: Anker Publidhing Company, Inc. Example 13:269.2002.
- Hoyle JR: "Making large classes small through creative teaching" in Stanley CA and ME Porter (eds): Engaging Large Classes. Bolton: Anker Publidhing Company, Inc. Example 6:186.2002.
- Badgett S, R Johnson and S Nicholson: "Assessing the lower division experience: Surveys of student and faculty opinion." Office of Instructional Consultation. University of California, Santa Barbara. February, 1992.


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Apple's defective MacBook Pro batteries which had swelling problems (and were part of an Apple-sponsored exchange program) were not a safety risk, according to InformationWeek. The batteries--included with some MacBook Pro that shipped bew February and May--exhibited a "high-pitched buzzing sound", and although the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission found that the batteries were not a safety risk, it said that the batteries didn't meet the "high standards for battery performance." The U.S. CPSC did not reveal the manufacturer of the batteries, but when questioned if they were Sony and related to the Dell recall, the CPSC spokesperson replied: "We are looking at Sony batteries outside the scope of the Dell recall." The CPSC, however, reiterated, that unlike the Dell recall which has resulted in fires and claimed explosions, the recalled Apple batteries were not a safety hazard. Following the recent spate of battery-related issues, both Apple and Dell have joined a new battery standards conference, which will take place in San Jose, California later this year.


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Delta and Virgin Atlantic tout alliance as good for competition
Delta and Virgin Atlantic say that their alliance could bring more competition in the transatlantic market.
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US$4,978,054. That's how much the SixDegrees.org socially responsible social network had raised at the time of writing this article. The charity is a partnership between actor Kevin Bacon and Network for Good, which works with nonprofits and corporate partners to raise funds for good causes.
The name of the site, created in 2007, makes reference to the popular game 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,' and enables individuals to do good by supporting their favorite charities or creating a social network. People can also pay it forward with Good Cards that can be redeemed as a donation to more than one million charities.
Recently, SixDegress.org held the 6 Days of Good for Hunger between September 25 and 29. The project was launched by Bacon and the organization's celebrity ambassador Jeff Bridges, with support from partner nonprofit Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign.
Challenge participants were invited to create an online fundraiser on SixDegrees.org for their favorite charity fighting to end hunger, including Share Our Strength, and recruit their friends and family to donate via social outreach. Over the course of six days, the fundraiser who raised the largest number of unique donations won a $6,000 challenge grant from Kevin Bacon for his or her charity.
The second-place fundraiser won a $3,000 grant and the third-place fundraiser won a $1,000 grant. Challenge details are available on the site and to be kept informed of the results, visitors need to sign up to an alert system.
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Dark Chocolate Carrot Cake Recipe
- 1 package dark chocolate cake mix (regular size)
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 package (3.9 ounces) instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup 2% milk
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 cups shredded carrots
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, toasted, divided
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) cream cheese frosting
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, cream cheese, pudding mix, milk, eggs and cinnamon; beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Stir in carrots and 1/2 cup walnuts. Pour into three greased and floured 8-in. round baking pans.
- Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- Spread frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake. Sprinkle top with remaining walnuts. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 16 servings.
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"I tried making this cake; something is missing from the ingredients. The batter was not like cake batter, and it did not bake properly. I've made many cakes in my day, and this one, by far, turned out the worst. I am throwing this one out."
"I made this for my bridge club and everyone just loved it! I used a dark chocolate pudding and I made homemade cream cheese frosting. I also baked it in a 9x13 pan. Several people asked for the recipe. Definitely a keeper!"
"I made this in a 9x13 pan and put homemade cheese cream icing on top and it was AMAZING! Now the funny part is that my husband loved it when it was warm out of the oven, but not when it was cold after being in the fridge overnight. I didn't care for it warm, but I LOVED it cold!"
"This cake was so good!!! Everyone that tried it love it!! Will defiantly make again..."
"Made this cake for a potluck; it was a hit. I would make one modification: if you live in a humid climate like I do (Miami FL), either try to find a "plain" cake mix (no pudding in the mix) or omit the instant pudding mix. The cake was way too moist, wouldn't hold its shape and just crumbled. No one cared--there was practically none left and I was asked for the recipt--but it bugged me. I cannot find "plain"cake mix here, so next time, I will omit the pudding mix. Also, it takes almost a pound of medium-sized carrots to make the 3 cups called for. And I made mine in a 13 x 9 inch pan--better for a potluck--baked for the same time as the recipe called for, then started testing it. Took about 35 minutes, but again, in this humid climate, I always find I need to take my cakes for the longer time in the suggested range. With the 13 x 9-inch pan, only needed one can of frosting. Delicious flavor!"


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The Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, a US Navy base, is located near St. Marys, Georgia. This base contains the US Navy fleet of ballistic missile nuclear submarines armed with Trident missiles. It contains the Submarine Squadrons 16 and 20, as well as the Trident Training Facility and the Naval Submarine Support Center. This large base covers 16,000 acres – including 4,000 acres of protected wetlands. The base contains archeological sites and a wide variety of wildlife.
Saint Marys is a quaint riverside town with Victorian architecture and wide streets. The river is popular with boaters, and sailboats are often seen on the open waterway. This small, southern town is home to some wonderful seafood restaurants and plenty of shopping. For those who enjoy outdoor adventures, Saint Marys is also home to Crooked River State Park, a historic park with over 50 miles of hiking trails. This park is part of the birding trail and contains all types of birds, including bald eagles.
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UAE Authorities get strict with investment funds
The new Investment Funds Regulation implemented by the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) this week applies to all matters relating to domestic investment funds and to the promotion and offering of foreign funds in the UAE, with particular implications for DIFC funds or funds marketed by DIFC firms.
The Regulation transfers regulatory responsibility for the licensing and marketing of investment funds and for a number of related activities from the UAE Central Bank to the SCA. Clifford Chance says it prohibits an entity from establishing a domestic investment fund without first obtaining approval from the SCA. The Regulation further details requirements with respect to domestic funds' offering documents and investment policies, and contains provisions regarding the subscription, trading and redemption of fund units. The roles and obligations of a fund's services providers, specifically the fund's investment manager, management services company and custodian, are also prescribed.
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Clifford Chance notes that the DIFC markets itself as 'an ideal platform for raising, deploying and managing capital across the region'. Many foreign firms have chosen the DIFC as their base for accessing the Middle East market. Clifford Chance suggests they may find that the DIFC no longer provides the gateway to the UAE market the way it once did.
A statement from Clifford Chance said, "The DIFC has also dedicated time and resources to creating a legislative and regulatory regime designed to support and establish a secure environment for the growth of the funds industry. The classification of funds established in the DIFC as 'foreign funds' for the purposes of the Regulation may detrimentally affect the growth of the DIFC as a funds centre and inadvertently give competitive advantage to similar free zones, such as the Qatar Financial Centre situated in Doha."
Tim Plews, Clifford Chance Partner, believes that "The implementation of the Investment Funds Regulation is likely to come with renewed calls for some form of passporting arrangement or other special treatment for DIFC funds or funds marketed by DIFC firms. In the meantime, firms established in the DIFC may be weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of opening up an additional establishment onshore in the UAE. Indeed, some sector specific firms may relocate permanently from the DIFC."
All foreign funds made available to investors in the UAE need to be approved by the SCA and offered through a locally licensed placement agent or, in limited circumstances, a locally established representative office. In order to promote a fund to the public in the UAE, the foreign fund must be regulated and permitted to make a public offer in its home state.
Unregulated, non-retail foreign funds may be offered in the UAE by way of 'private placement'. Approval of the SCA is still required and minimum subscription amounts of AED 500,000 (in respect of foreign funds) and AED 1 million (in respect of foreign funds incorporated in free zones outside of the UAE) apply.
Irrespective of whether the units of foreign funds are offered publicly or by way of private placement, all offerings must be made through a locally licensed placement agent. Where foreign funds are offered by way of private placement, the offer can be made through a locally established representative office of the fund company, provided (i) the offer is limited to institutional investors; and (ii) a minimum subscription amount of AED 10 million per subscriber is applied. This is likely to be of limited use in practice.
The absence of a full exemption (including an exemption from the SCA approval requirements) for foreign non-retail funds marketed on a cross-border basis, may cause many foreign firms offering funds in the UAE to change their business model and practices. Currently foreign firms engage in a limited amount of cross-border business with non-retail investors in the UAE consistent with practice to date tolerated by the UAE Central Bank.
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Is it really necessary to have one? I have a mineral block that has some salt in for him so he gets some then, but my mom thinks that because he loves to lick my hands, my face, and just me in general that he is wanting the salt. Now I've known lots of horses do lick people, but don't need salt...but I thought I'd just ask.
If it matters, he's an easy keeper, get's really only hay, and an occasional scoop of grain if he does good that day when I ride him. He has a 50 lb mineral block in his run-in-shed that he has access to all the time.
He's a cuddle-bug so I've always just associated his licking with that, but I thought I might as well check haha


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"KELSTON, (or Kilveston), a parish in the hundred of Bath Forum, county Somerset, 4 miles N.W. of Bath, and 8 E. of Bristol, its post town. It is situated on the river Avon, and formerly belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey. At the Dissolution it was given to the natural daughter of Henry VIII., from whom it passed to the Harringtons of Kelston House. A fountain was erected here in 1858, at the expense of Colonel Inigo Jones. The soil is clayey and the surface diversified with hills. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £240. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Bath and Wells, value £296. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a stone structure with tower containing four bells. The church was rebuilt in 1860. In the interior are the tombs of Sir John Harrington, the poet, author of "Oceans," and godson to Queen Elizabeth, Henry Harrington, M.D., the famed musician, and Sir William Cockburn, Bart., Dean of York. The register dates from 1538. There is a parochial school, with the endowment of £5 per annum, for both sexes, also a Sunday-school. The principal residence is Kelston Park, situated on the banks of the river Avon." From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
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If you work at a large company like I do, then you probably participate in at least a handful of email distribution lists. An email distribution list is a single email address (e.g. email@example.com) which allows you to send a mail to one address which is then delivered to 1 or more people (potentially even thousands of people).
A common practice is to use inbox filtering rules (such as those offered by Microsoft Outlook) to route mail sent to these distribution lists into a subfolder in your inbox. This way when I'm interested in catching up on the latest discussions on a particular topic I can browse that subfolder instead of being constantly barraged with such messages in my main inbox.
So far so good, right? The problem that happens is when somebody decides to take a discussion "offline" by BCC'ing the distribution list. The intention is good, and goes something like this:
Original mail From: Joe To: Widgets Discussion Hey everybody! I need help selling a Widget to my customer in North Dakota. Who can help? – Joe
Reply: From: Steve To: Joe Bcc: Widgets Discussion Hi Joe, I can help, let's take it offline. Bcc'ing Widgets Discussion. – Steve
Now when Joe replies he will only be replying to Steve, since there's no need to involve the rest of the Widgets Discussion distribution list. This reduces "noise" for the rest of the Widgets Discussion recipients who don't need to be involved with Joe and Steve's ongoing sale discussion. Good, right? Yes, but the problem is that when Steve bcc'd the Widgets Discussion alias it broke inbox filtering rules. Inbox filtering rules such as these rely on knowing that the message was sent to the Widgets Discussion alias in order to route it to the appropriate inbox subfolder – but with a bcc you don't get that information (that's the whole purpose of a blind carbon copy). Now every one of the hundreds (thousands?) of people on the Widgets Discussion alias just got a message in their inboxes that they have to manage (e.g. delete) instead of just having that message land in the appropriate subfolder.
A much better alternative which allows for the inbox filtering rules to continue to operate and for Steve to take the discussion offline is for Steve to simply send two mails. So the conversation would go like this:
Reply to all: From: Steve To: Joe; Widgets Discussion Hi Joe, I can help, let's take it offline. I will email you separately. – Steve
Private reply: From: Steve To: Joe Hi Joe, I'd love to help. I've sold lots of Widgets in North Dakota. Do you have time on Thursday to meet? – Steve
Notice that the first reply was sent to everybody, and the second reply was sent only to Joe. This extra step takes a few extra seconds on behalf of Steve, but can save the hundreds or thousands of people on the Widgets Discussion from getting the "inbox spam" which occurs when the act of BCC'ing breaks your inbox filtering rules.
Think this could work for you or somebody you know? Please pass it along! Here's an easy-to-remember URL: http://tinyurl.com/FightInboxSpam
Wouldn't it be easier just to move the "Widgets Discussion" address to the CC: field when Steve replies?
That way the discussion list knows there's a response and when Joe hits Reply, it only goes to Steve...
Saves on emails and is more in line with email ettiquite (SP?)
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Hi Craig,
In theory, yes. However in practice what I usually see happen is that:
- Joe will reply all, continuing the "noise" for the broader distribution list, even if Steve said something like "reply directly to me and I'll help you"
...or, more likely...
- When Steve replied he actually wants to add Bob, Sharon, and Team North Dakota (another distribution list) to the ongoing discussion. In this case you want Joe to reply all to continue the discussion with the new set of people but you don't want to include Widgets Discussion.
So in my example Steve would send one mail to Widgets Discussion saying he's taking it offline, then another mail with the intended recipients.
So true, but you know that people don't typically take that extra 2 seconds to think about the inbox group email abuses of the mass reply.
Thanks for this tip, I will pass it along!


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Ultrasmall light-emitting fibers deposited on electrodes can serve as nanometer-scale light sources.
By depositing narrow light-emitting fibers on a silicon substrate patterned with gold electrodes, researchers at Cornell University have created extremely small light sources with dimensions of only a few hundred nanometers. The fibers are made of a polymer that is embedded with light-emitting molecules, which light up when exposed to an electric field. When the researchers apply voltage to the electrodes, the fiber glows orange at different points, much like Christmas lights, says Hector Abruna, a chemistry and chemical-biology professor at Cornell who is one of the project's leaders.
The researchers use a straightforward technique called electrospinning to lay down the fibers directly on the substrate. Because the method is relatively simple, the light sources should be easy to integrate into lab-on-a-chip devices, where light can be used to detect chemical and biological molecules, such as drugs and proteins, which could be tagged with fluorescent dyes or might absorb a portion of the light. And because the fibers are made of polymers, they could find use in flexible displays. "You can imagine these [fibers] integrated into clothing," says George Malliaras, a Cornell materials-science and engineering professor who is collaborating on the work with Abruna and Harold Craighead at Cornell's Center for Nanobiotechnology.
The extremely small size of the light sources could also lead to novel approaches to doing microscopy, Malliaras says. The fibers range from 150 nanometers to 5 micrometers in diameter. But the light-emitting spots on the fibers measure 240 and 325 nanometers or less. This makes the light sources smaller than the 600-nanometer wavelength of the light that they emit, a property that could be harnessed to develop new microscopy methods.
To electrospin the fibers, the researchers place a tiny droplet of polymer solution on a metal needle tip. Then they apply a voltage difference between the tip and the silicon substrate, which is etched with gold electrodes and is placed a few millimeters away. The voltage causes the droplet to elongate and form a jet that flows down to the substrate. As it moves down, the solvent evaporates, and hardened polymer fibers get deposited on the electrode-covered substrate.
The polymer in this case contains ruthenium-based molecules, which emit light when subjected to an electrical current. When the researchers apply a voltage to the gold electrodes, tiny spots on the stretches of fiber spanning adjacent electrodes glow orange. At high voltages of 100 volts, the light is bright enough that the researchers can see it in the dark in spite of the emitters' small size. "I would say [this] is a breakthrough in the way nanosize light sources are made," says Stefan Bernhard, a chemistry professor at Princeton University.


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As we begin a new Rotary year, I would like to tell you that I'm honored to be your Rotary International president and to stand with you as Rotary members.
Being a Rotarian is about a way of approaching the world and its challenges. There are many people in this world who need help and many changes that need to be made. It can be overwhelming.
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Four months ago in the balmy bliss of July, Delaware's process for tabulating and verifying election results was seriously called into question. In fact, the First State's process was labeled one of the poorest in the nation in a report that came out of a joint venture between Common Cause, Rutgers Law School and the nonprofit Verified Voting Foundation.
So what exactly are we doing so wrong? We lack individual paper ballots as a backup for the computerized voting machines. Other, but not all states, use paper ballots that are run through a scanner as a precaution. Nor do we punch cards, check boxes or color in squares to make our preferences clearly known.
Our machines do print each ballot as it is cast; that's an adequate backstop for voters to review on the spot, according to Commissioner of Elections Elaine Manlove. "The votes are stored on a paper tape in the machine, on the cartridge and in the machine itself. We can print out a ballot image, if necessary, of every ballot cast [in random order]."
With three exceptions, there are at least two machines in use at every polling place. The likelihood of both being inoperable is exceedingly rare. Most problems involve paper jams and backup battery failures. Yet Congress keeps proposing ways to back up voting machines.
For example, one proposal would make the paper record the official ballot if a recount was necessary. Isn't that a duplicate layer of oversight, with states bearing the burden of the additional costs? Delaware considered that option and chose a vendor, which created a device that would provide such a record using thermal printers. But Congress mandated specific types of printers and paper, likely at the behest of some special industry lobbyist. Unfortunately, the vendor's solution turned out to be costly and too complicated to retrofit to the state's existing equipment.
Voting is always a local enterprise of a community's citizenry. As such, it seems from Delaware's record of secure election results, the federal involvement and interest of voters' rights groups is most useful when it backstops a state's absence of processes to secure its residents' votes.


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As a big fan (and, yes, as a blogger wanting referrals) I want to make sure you're all geared up for the Double Swagbucks day tomorrow.
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Don't forget that it only takes 450 SBs to get a $5 Amazon gift card. (Most of the rest are still only 500 SB.) Today could get you well on your way toward that first milestone!
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