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Distinguished Professor Ronald Hambleton, Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, received the Robert L. Linn Award for his outstanding contributions to measurement and educational policy including his work in the areas of test adaptation methodology, international assessment, item response theory, score reporting, and setting performance standards at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA.) As the recipient of the award, he has been invited to address the AERA's 2012 annual meeting in Vancouver.
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Carey Dimmitt, associate professor, Department of Student Development, has been named a recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award for exemplary teaching at the highest institutional level by the UMass Amherst Provost's Office and the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development. For more than 30 years UMass Amherst has conferred this teaching award that recognizes and honors individual excellence. It is the campus' most prestigious prize for classroom instruction.
Stephen Sireci, College of Education professor, Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, was awarded the 2010 Thomas F. Donlon Memorial Award for Distinguished Mentoring from the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA.) The award is given in recognition of Donlon's long and valued contributions to NERA, particularly as a mentor, and is awarded to an individual identified for distinguished mentoring.
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College of Education Professors Emerita Sonia Nieto (Ed.D. 1979) and Masha K. Rudman (Ed.D. 1970) have honored UMass Amherst and the College of Education with a combined 70 years of dedicated and exemplary leadership as they blazed paths to national prominence in their respective fields of multicultural education and children's literature.
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Previous Loan DetailsBeatrice is a 54-year-old widow with nine children. She was happily married to her husband and in 1989 her husband died in an accident. She looked for all possible ways to survive because she was staying in a semi-finished house and had no stable income. She then contacted the leader of her chur... More from Kyabagyerwa Church Group's previous loan »
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While the American economy has been hurt in recent months by the subprime crisis and the resulting ripple effect into other parts of the global economy, some sectors have still profited. Notably, oil and other commodities have made handsome gains. Surprisingly, spring 2008 witnessed a better-than-expected earnings season for some high-tech stocks, too.
Unbeknownst to many investors, Israel has played a significant role in recent tech gains. Intel's new micro processing chip is being made in Israel, not California. Silicon Valley-based multi-national giants like Google, Oracle, and Applied Materials now maintain facilities in Israel that are integral to their operations. Fueled by venture capital investment in industries like communications, information technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, alternative energy, and cleantech, Israel's high-tech industry is not just booming, it is a worldwide leader.
The global financial community is beginning to see the benefits of investing in Israeli industry. In 2006, foreign investment in Israel totaled $26 billion. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth has averaged a staggering 5 percent over the last three years. According to Morgan Stanley, "high technology goods and services have developed beyond the wildest projections and now account for about one-third of GDP and 75 percent of industrial exports," making Israel "one of the most competitive economies in the world."
Global competitiveness indices support this statement. The World Economic Forum ranks Israel second in the world for the amount of funds raised by technology start-ups, following only the U.S. Israel ranks first in Research and Development (R&D) expenditure as a percentage of GDP, third in skilled labor availability, and fourth in quality of scientific research institutions. This is remarkable for a country that is only 60 years old with 7 million residents, hostile neighbors, and limited natural resources.
Israel is starting to receive the recognition it deserves in world economic forums. Last year, the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) invited Israel to commence the process for accession to the organization. Through its decision to include Israel, the OECD acknowledges that Israel's economic and fiscal policies comply with the highest international standards.
Israel's success, to a certain extent, stems from its history, geography, and visionary government leaders. Waves of immigration, first from Eastern Europe and later from the former Soviet Union, led to the development of an exceptionally educated and skilled workforce. According to Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, "What's really different about Israel compared with other places we do business is the number of partners we have in the technology area. Israel has always had a wealth of intellectual talent." Presently, Israel has more scientists and engineers, proportional to its population, than any other country —145 for every 10,000 people.
Faced with multiple military threats, Israel's scientists and engineers have developed sophisticated military technologies. Fortunately for Israel, many of these technologies have important commercial applications. The lack of natural resources has also led Israeli scientists to find innovative solutions for irrigation and solar power.
A seemingly limitless supply of high-tech talent at below U.S. market salaries has made Israel an attractive site for multinational R&D labs. "The cost of an Israeli engineer is still about 80 percent of his counterpart in Silicon Valley," notes Moshe Zviran, an Israeli expert who tracks high-tech manpower.
This competitive advantage is diminishing, however, as the shekel gains against the U.S. dollar. Wages have increased annually for the last three years, and Israel now faces mounting competition from India and China, where wages are almost 80 percent lower than in Israel.
One notable aspect of the Israeli success story is how the government worked to create an economic infrastructure that enabled Israel to reach its current levels of economic success.
In the early 1990s, the Israel government created an incubator program to leverage the strengths of approximately 750,000 scientists, engineers, and physicians who had just arrived from Russia. Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS), a division of the Ministry of Industry Trade & Labor, started six "incubators" designed to integrate newcomers with local talent and to foster early stage technology development through entrepreneurship. Today there are 24 such incubators located throughout Israel, and 65 percent of the projects are science-related research and development.
The OCS's investment has paid off. Today, 30 to 40 percent of the OCS budget is derived from royalty payments from companies that initially received government support through its grant program. In 2007, incubator companies raised $435 million in private funds, up 74 percent from 2006. Currently, the OCS allocates approximately $1 billion per year to incubators and other programs that encourage technology development.
Incubators are not the only government-sponsored programs fueling growth in Israel's high-tech industry. In 1993, the government created the Yozma program to stimulate venture capital and attract foreign investment. At its inception, Yozma consisted of 10 new venture capital funds, managing $20 million each, capitalized with a combination of government funds (40 percent) and foreign investment (60 percent). Yozma made 15 direct investments and nine enjoyed successful exits, either through public offerings or acquisitions.
Yozma attracted major international venture investors like Advent from the U.S., Daimler-Benz from Europe, and Kyocera from the Far East. The average size of the leading Israeli venture capital fund jumped from $20 million to more than $250 million today. Israel's venture capital industry is now second only to the U.S. Currently, Israel has 80 active funds and total capital under management in excess of $10 billion.
Israel's government has also enacted laws to encourage foreign investment. For example, corporate income taxes have been reduced from 36 percent in 2003 to 27 percent in 2008. Additionally, the government approved a tax exemption on capital gains from foreign investment until the end of 2008.
Moreover, unlike other emerging market economies, Israeli investment laws have helped shape a stock exchange that brings the public into its companies. Founded in 1953, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is a key player in the nation's economic growth. As private venture capital investment began to fuel technology development in the mid-1990s, the TASE developed state-of-the-art practices and protocols to meet the standards of international modern exchanges. The TASE reported an unprecedented number of initial public offerings in the first quarter of 2007. Israeli companies continue to list on the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange. In fact, Israel has more companies trading on the NASDAQ than any country other than the United States.
Israel's best-known recent success is Iscar Metalworking, a leader in precision metalworking tools. The company attracted international attention when Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. made an 80 percent acquisition of $4 billion, its first investment deal outside of the U.S., and the largest corporate deal in Israel's history. According to Buffet, Iscar is an "amazing company run by amazing people. I don't get many opportunities to invest in companies like that."
Teva, an Israeli global pharmaceutical company, has also become a household name. With operations in over 50 countries and approximately 26,000 employees worldwide, Teva is among the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and among the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world. According to Israeli government data, Teva's net income for 2007 reached $1.952 billion, 5 percent more than 2006.
Another well-known Israeli company is Check Point Software Technologies, a global leader in internet security. Check Point's worldwide distribution includes 2,200 channel partners in 88 countries. Each and every Fortune 100 company uses Check Point security solutions. Revenues for 2007 were $730.9 million, an increase of 27 percent compared to $575.1 million for 2006.
Many global corporations have come to Israel, either to benefit from its intellectual capital or its acquisition opportunities. General Electric was among the first international companies to establish a presence in Israel. In 1970, NBC Universal, a GE subsidiary, opened its Tel Aviv office, and by 1984, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) was buying GE engines for its F-16 aircraft. GE solidified its presence in Israel in 2002 through GE Healthcare Israel Ltd., which revolutionized healthcare in producing the world's first miniature, portable cardiac ultrasound system; the first combined nuclear and CT imaging scanner; and a new generation CT reconstruction engine.
SAP, the German-based business software developer, which has more than 33,200 customers in over 120 countries and employs more than 36,600 people in 50 countries worldwide, made its initial investment in the Israeli company OFEK-Tech, which in 2000 became a SAP subsidiary called SAP Labs Israel. SAP Labs Israel is the company's fourth largest development center worldwide. Today, the R&D facility in Carmiel employs around 800 people.
Can Israel compete with high-tech centers in the U.S. like Silicon Valley for venture capital investment? In absolute terms, Israel's venture capital market is significantly smaller than the U.S. market. Still, Israel is growing and attracting new investment, particularly in the area of seed stage development.
Israel's venture capital industry equals roughly 7 percent of the U.S. venture capital market. In 2007, 462 Israeli high-tech companies raised $1.7 billion from local and foreign investors compared to 1,169 California companies that raised $10.8 billion. But, venture capital investment in Israel continues to grow year over year, and seed stage investment in Israel is roughly equal to the U.S.—$88 million in Israel compared to $110 million in the U.S. at the end of 2005. In 2006, Israel's Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) activity hit an all-time high with 84 transactions aggregating more than $10 billion. In 2007, mergers and acquisitions of high-tech companies totaled $3.2 billion. There were 60 Israeli company acquisitions totaling $2.5 billion, while 27 companies raised $701 million in IPOs.
In relative terms, Israel's performance statistics in venture capital investment are nothing short of impressive. Israel's ability to raise funds was outmatched in the U.S. only by Silicon Valley and Boston. Israel has raised more venture capital investment than any European country by a margin of 20 percent. Israel reported 20 venture-backed public offerings in 2006 and 26 in 2007 compared to 57 and 86 for the same years in the U.S.
With 1,800 active start-ups—the highest seed stage investment levels since the dot com boom of the 1990s —and a diversified high-tech pipeline spread out evenly over the communications, life sciences, semi-conductors, and internet technologies fields, Israel is poised for greater growth as a venture-backed economy. In early 2008, IBM and Microsoft made acquisitions in Israel aggregating in excess of $300 million.
Even as the global economy continues to take investors on a wild ride, many economists predict that Israel's economy will continue to grow steadily in 2008, despite a crippled U.S. dollar. Much of this is due to the success of Israel's high-tech investments and development in recent decades.
Israel's success is also based on attitude—a unique combination of curiosity and chutzpah. During Larry Ellison's recent trip to Israel, he attributed Israel's success to the constant questioning of conventional wisdom.
"Businessmen are successful when they question the norms that conventional wisdom espouses," Ellison said. "That is where innovation comes from—finding errors in conventional wisdom. That is what my company is built upon and that is why I think Israel will continue to be innovative."
Israel's level of investment may not match Silicon Valley dollar for dollar, but Israel has outperformed the rest of the world in a global marketplace. Indeed, despite the fact that the Jewish state has been forced to expend much of its energy battling for its own security over the 60 years since it declared independence, Israel continues to demonstrate its strength as a formidable candidate in the battle for investment capital in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Debbie Buchwald is the Executive Director for the Central Atlantic Region of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
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For some reason old news is new news when Richard Dawkins continues to insist that he knows how to raise your child better than you.
Ian Dunt reports the latest in "Dawkins: Faith schools are child abuse," Politics.CO.UK, 22, Sep 2009.
I could not help but note two objections to the article by commentators,
Why is Richard Dawkins described as an 'infamous' atheist?...
What do you mean by describing Professor Dawkins as "the infamous athiest [sic] and scientist," Mr Dent [sic]? Why, "Infamous" exactly? Betraying some prejudice of your own, perchance?
How is that even a question?
Well, let us get to the rather short article and see if we may discern a reason or two:
Some faith schools constitute an act of child abuse because of the way they rid children of freedom, Professor Richard Dawkins has said.
Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth, the famous atheist and scientist told delegates that it was unacceptable to indoctrinate children into any religion or belief system.
"I'm in favour of religious education," he said, responding to a question from the audience.
"I'm in favour of children learning about religion and its role in history.
"What I'm passionately against is indoctrination. That is wicked, that is evil, that is child abuse," he continued.
"You would never describe a child as a Keynesian child, but we all ascribe to this anomaly where religion can be hung round the neck of a child."
Professor Dawkins was promoting his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, at an event organised by the British Humanist Association (BHA).
To the interested reader: I commented on The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution here.
I have dissected, discredited and corrected various such notions as those expressed by Richard Dawkins in the article various times and in various ways; please see the section, Atheist Child Rearing
But did I miss something?
The article does not refer to Richard Dawkins as "infamous" but as "famous."
Do not get me wrong, having some form of (self-diagnosed) dyslexia I can understand one person reading "infamous" for "famous." I can even understand two people doing it.
But what I cannot understand—and I quoted the entirety of both comments—is that if one refers to Richard Dawkins as "infamous" then my oh my, it is the makings of outrage, it is prejudice!
Yet, Richard Dawkins referring to religious schools as wicked, evil and child abuse is simply erudite elucidations.
As I have demonstrated time and time again that:
1) Richard Dawkins does not seem to consider that referring to children by their parent's religion is a cultural phenomena and not a theological one.
2) That therefore, religions have specific ceremonies for the child turn adolescent or adult makes their own decision to actually become part of the religion.
3) That Richard Dawkins asks whether there is "something to be said for society stepping in"1 to stop you from raising your children according to your faith.
4) Lastly, that his ultimate goal is not merely the liberation of children from those wicked, evil and child abusing schools and parent but that his interference "might lead children to choose no religion at all."2
So go on and be the human shield in front of Richard Dawkins, even when nothing was fired at him except your own misreading, and express all of the outrage that you wish. But in the meanwhile more and more sensible atheists are shunning the New Belligerent Atheists.
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Celebrating the computer credited with stopping Hitler
Veterans have gathered at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes to celebrate the 70th anniversary of a computer credited with stopping Hitler.Read the full story ›
Bletchley Park veterans gather to celebrate 70th anniversary of remarkable computer
A group of veterans will gather at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes today to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the world's first electronic computer.
The Colossus was developed for British code-breakers during the Second World War to help them read and intercept high-level German army messages.
Students unravel Enigma
Children from Kettering in Northamptonshire have been getting hands on experience of one of the most significant wartime inventions.
The German Enigma machine generated codes which proved almost impossible to break but were deciphered at Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes.
Students at Latimer Arts College were given the chance to try out an original machine and learn about the formula used to decode messages.
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ITV recently returned to film the second series of its hit drama, The Bletchley Circle. Anna Maxwell Martin stars in the thriller.Read the full story ›
Auditions for living history Codebreakers project
Auditions are being held today for a living history project at the Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking centre in Buckinghamshire.
Local actors will play characters that were at the centre in 1941, when Britain was in great peril. They will be performing during half term next month.
Bletchley's code-breaking past to feature on ITV prime time drama
Bletchley Park is to take centre stage in a new television drama on ITV.
The estate, near Milton Keynes, is world famous for its role in breaking the German Enigma and Lorenz codes during the Second World War - often attributed to shortening the conflict by between two to four years.
As a hub for pioneering computer science, Bletchley Park is also often deemed to be the birth place of the modern-day computer.
The drama, The Bletchley Circle, will transport the site back to the 1940s and 50s for a two-part story to be shown on ITV next week.
Turing's 'distress' letter sent to friends before conviction
A letter sent from Alan Turing to his mathematician friend Norman Routledge shows the codebreaker's worries and "distress" ahead of pleading guilty to gross indecency in 1952.
An excerpt from the communication is printed on the website Letters of Note, citing a Turing biography by Andrew Hodges.
I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against.
I shall shortly be pleading guilty to a charge of sexual offences with a young man.
The story of how it all came to be found out is a long and fascinating one, which I shall have to make into a short story one day, but haven't the time to tell you now.
No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.
Glad you enjoyed broadcast. Jefferson certainly was rather disappointing though.
I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.
Turing believes machines thinkTuring lies with menTherefore machines do not think
Yours in distress,
'Old police trick' revealed Turing's gay relationship
Alan Turing revealed he was gay to the authorities by falling for an "old police trick," New Statesman legal writer David Allen Green reports.
Reporting a theft to police in 1952, Turing was forced to fabricate details of the account to conceal his relationship with a man.
Asked to repeat the account a week later by police, Turing was unable to accurately remember some of those fabricated details, Allen Green writes.
On realising his lies had been exposed, the brilliant mathematician produced a five-page letter admitting untruths as well as describing graphic details of his homosexual relationship.
The statement was enough for police to convict Turing and arrest his partner.
Bletchley codebreaker's royal pardon for 61-year conviction
Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing, has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity - still an offence in the UK in the 1950s.
The Cambridge mathematician has been hailed a national hero for his work to help break the German Enigma Code at Bletchley, near Milton Keynes during the war.
Turing Royal Pardon 'just reward' for code-breaker
News of the royal pardon granted posthumously to Alan Turing has been applauded as a "just reward" for the code-breaker.
Iain Stewart, Conservative MP for Milton Keynes South, who was involved in the campaign to secure a royal pardon, said: "Alan Turing was an incredibly important figure in our history. He was the father of computer science and the originator of the dominant technology of the late 20th century."
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said that the granting of the royal pardon was "long overdue" and called for the same treatment to be given to others convicted in similar circumstances.
He said: "Singling out Turing just because he is famous is wrong. Unlike Alan, many thousands of ordinary gay and bisexual men who were convicted under the same law have never been offered a pardon and will never get one.
"An apology and pardon is due to another 50,000-plus men who were also convicted of consenting, victimless homosexual relationships during the 20th century."


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Family history has long been a focus of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nowadays there are several sites providing several similar services to those offered by familysearch.org (i.e. ancestry.com…). This is due in large part to the collaborative nature of the internet. Because family history is inherently social, the internet allows greater collaboration, enabling users to share and connect their research with others much more easy. Building our family history is no longer relegated to just experts and those with lots of time on their hands, anyone can do it!
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The Bazaar or Cathedral?
WordPress, a popular open source project, is a hybrid of both the cathedral and bazaar methodologies. It is firmly in the world of the Bazaar as an open source project. However, it also has elements of the Cathedral world, because Matt Mullenweg, its creator, founded a company and one of its goals is to push forward the development of WordPress. This model allows Automattic to develop as if they have many more employees than they actually do. This results in better software for us and for their paid service at WordPress.com, resulting in a win-win situation for all parties involved. Open source is not only for the hobbyist, is a great place for businesses and businessmen as well, as proven by the hundreds of companies basing their business on open source software (i.e. Linux Hosting, Red Hat, WordPress.com, DrupalGardens.com).
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Today we routinely upload our personal information to sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. However, sometimes these sites "improperly" use the information that we give them. Although we complain, we really should not blame anyone other than ourselves because we gave them the information in the first place; if we do not want this information to be public, we should not post it on a public site.
The internet is changing the way we do nearly everything, including the way we communicate and socialize with others. People who refuse to join various social network sites for privacy concerns, risk becoming social pariahs. Therefore, keeping information completely off of these sites is not a practical solution. In today's world, the best defense against the abuse of personal information is remaining well-informed and selective about who you give information to and what kind of information you give them. Just as it was for Cliff Stoll the best defense against information abuse is to be well-informed about what is happening in the world around us.
- The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll
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In a day and age of Government funded bail-outs and stimulus packages, it is refreshing to read about someone who isn't crying to the government to fix their problem; especially when that problem is competition from Web Search Engine Google. The CEO of a new search engine Blekko recently said this about the ongoing Google hearings:
We don't need federal intervention to level the playing field with Google. Innovation and competition are far more powerful instruments to battle companies that have grown powerful and influential. Which has been more detrimental to Microsoft's business? The lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice in the 90s, or the innovative products Apple has brought to the marketplace?
This provides a valuable example to people everywhere, if some "nobody" search engine can take on the web search reigning king, head-on no less, the rest of the country can start worrying about themselves and not waiting for the government to swoop in and fix everything.
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Everyday there is a new article about a new patent lawsuit being; whether, it is the latest salvo in the current smart phone war, or a "Patent Troll" looking for its next victim. The constitution defines patents and copyrights as:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
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