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Twenty years ago, Wendy Kopp started Teach for America in her Princeton dorm room. Today she finds herself and her pet project (now a $200 million enterprise) on the front lines of the battle over how to save America's failing schools. Do she and her young army have what it takes to win?
It had to take guts. Last August, at the start of a back-to-school season marked by gushing reviews of Davis Guggenheim's education-reform documentary, Waiting for Superman, Wendy Kopp got up on a Las Vegas stage and ventured the opinion that Superman maybe wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
Her position was not necessarily a crowd pleaser. After all, Waiting for Superman, which follows five children and their families as they try to navigate the beleaguered world of public education, makes a passionate case for charter schools. And Kopp was speaking—along with three other leading reformers—at an event convened by the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), the well-regarded network of charter schools run by her husband, Richard Barth. Billed as the "godmother" of education reform by the program's emcee, she was famous—and, in this crowd, revered—for having shaken up the education establishment with Teach for America (TFA), a highly selective program that places recent college graduates in troubled public schools.
Waiting for Superman delivers a controversial message: that bad teaching is to blame for the sorry state of American education. The film casts as the enemies of progress recalcitrant teachers and their unions—the very sort of people who have long disdained Teach for America because it places neophyte instructors in the toughest of schools after just five weeks of training and requires them to make only a two-year commitment to the classroom. Yet Kopp—a shy woman whose body language onstage looked like a plea for invisibility—wasn't ready to jump on the film's blame-the-teacher bandwagon. "We are lurching and have for the last 20 years, after that one silver bullet," she said. In this movie, she continued, her voice steadily gaining confidence, "it's the unions. You know what? It's actually not. There are many, many issues in this . . . I don't think we should blame anyone who's stuck in this system for the fact that as a country we never decided that we want our education system to be transformational. We need to come together as a system. Let's come together with a different idea about education."
She went on to speak bluntly about charter schools, some of which, she said, are led by people who "should very possibly be put in jail"—this in front of an audience full of charter-school professionals. It was classic Kopp. Eschewing ideology, refusing to play to the crowd, and remaining true to her own positive message are what Kopp is best known for. She is successful, those closest to her say, because of her unshakable vision: a focus on what can be done rather than on the obstacles lying in the way. The achievement gap in this country is, Kopp says, "a solvable problem," and her organization is built on the impressively optimistic idea that "this generation can make a huge difference as teachers in their first years out of college."
"Wendy is the type of person who becomes obsessed with a thing and will work it until the wheels fall off," says former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, a heroine of Waiting for Superman and a TFA alumna. "Then she'll pick it up, rebuild it, refine and improve it over and over and over again until it does what she wants it to do perfectly. Wendy is obsessed with closing the achievement gap and is convinced that TFA is the best way to do that. She has birthed, grown, groomed, rethought, refined, repurposed and expanded the organization to do just that."
Today TFA is a post-college destination of choice for super-high-achieving, would-be do-gooders, 45,000 of whom vied for 4,600 slots this past year. Put another way, Kopp has made teaching cool again: The odds of getting an exhausting TFA job working with often poorly prepared kids are about on a par with the chances of getting into a top-flight law school. Kopp has grown TFA into a juggernaut that now operates on a $200 million-a-year budget; this summer alone, TFA received a whopping $50 million in federal grant money to fund the expansion of its programs.
Unlike many other charitable organizations, TFA has been able to grow through the recession—a sign, Kopp says, that donors recognize its effectiveness. The recession has also benefited the organization, by making its already impressive pool of applicants that much more glittering. "Anyone who has been supporting education realizes that the most precious resource is talent and leadership," Kopp says. "The silver lining in this economic environment is that that resource is more available than ever." Now Kopp is working to double the size of her teaching corps over the next five years so that by 2015 the organization will have about 15,000 first- and second-year teachers in 60 urban and rural regions and an army of approximately 55,000 alumni. She says, "I feel like every few months I encounter the possibility of serious, system-level change that I wouldn't have thought possible even a few months earlier."
Kopp in many ways could not be more unsuited to life as a cultural lightning rod. For all the audacity of her dream, she is a self-effacing powerhouse— retiring, introverted, extremely private. "My parents grew up in the Midwest, in small towns in Iowa and Minnesota," she says. They married, relocated to Texas and ran a small business together, providing guidebooks to people attending conventions in cities in Texas. The family moved to Dallas so Kopp and her brother could attend the area's excellent public schools. "They were entrepreneurs, and I guess I got that from them," Kopp says.
The Kopps also gifted their daughter with a never-say-die work ethic: In eighth grade, she had a job at an arts-and-crafts store where, chafing at the business's disorganization, she rearranged the merchandise to make it more accessible. In high school, she edited the newspaper, helped at her parents' business and graduated at the top of her class. In her spare time, she founded her school's first debate team and funded it by picking up half-price doughnuts twice a week and selling them to classmates. ("I think she was not wired to understand that was not the normal thing to do," says her husband.) At Princeton, Kopp worked for a campus magazine, organized an education conference and, as the head of the Foundation for Student Communication, managed a staff of 60 and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. "She was one of the hardest-working people I know," says Ellen Siminoff, a close friend from college who now runs Shmoop, an online resource for students and teachers. "This was a person who was going to do great things."
By senior year, however, Kopp felt that her drive needed new direction. She was following the expected path for top students with highly developed organizational skills and a practical, real-world orientation: signing up for interviews with the likes of Morgan Stanley and McKinsey, considering a future on Wall Street. But her heart wasn't in it. "I was so ridiculously over-involved in my high school and in my college," she says now, "and it was truly just feeling like all of a sudden I have to figure out what I can do to make a huge difference in the world—because I didn't want to work as hard as I knew I'd work without doing something that would make a real difference."
Tellingly, when Kopp is asked what motivated her, she doesn't relate a self-dramatizing moment of epiphany but rather describes how lost she felt at the time. "I was just truly searching for something," she says. "I was in an absolute funk. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do." The inspiration came as she organized an on-campus conference on the problems of American public education and began to daydream about solutions. What if people like her—hundreds, no, thousands of top-achieving college graduates—could be channeled into taking their drive and ambition to our nation's public schools? In 1989, Kopp sent a letter to President George H. W. Bush urging him to start a teaching corps; she received a form letter job rejection in response. "It seemed like [a teacher corps] had to happen," she says, "and it wasn't clear to me that it would happen if I didn't just do it." She was totally inexperienced, which she now sees as an asset. "I told myself, What do I really have to lose?" she says. "Because if it doesn't work out, by the time my friends come back from Europe, I'll just go find a job. It's not like I had money. I had to find the funding to live on. But I had a sense, because of my education and whatnot, that I could take that kind of risk."
It is now also clear that Kopp was able to get her organization off the ground not just because of the simplicity of her idea—funnel high-achieving graduates who don't really want to work on Wall Street into the public schools—but also because she tapped into a deep vein of energy that no one else had seen. Kopp felt that the so-called experts had misjudged America's youth: Prevailing wisdom held that, post-graduation, kids of privilege would apply themselves to making money with the same fervor with which they had set out to earn good grades. But as a college senior, Kopp preferred to save the world—and she suspected that other young people probably did, too. "One of the primary motivators was thinking that this label of the Me Generation that we had was so crazy," she says. "I just didn't get it. I felt I was one of thousands of people who were searching for something and not getting it. I didn't know anyone who fit that Me Generation label. Even the people who were just going into the two-year corporate training programs were doing it because they weren't sure what else to do. I thought the issue wasn't our generation; it was the recruiters."
Ignoring the thesis adviser who, she says, told her she was "quite evidently deranged," Kopp set up with a skeleton staff in donated office space, recruited talent at Yale and other prestigious colleges, flew her first 500 teachers to San Diego on a shoestring, hired former and current teachers to train them in a five-week "boot camp" and delivered them to desperate school systems. And then she struggled. In its early years, the organization wrestled with growing pains, managerial issues (decisions reached by consensus; Chinese-food-fueled staff meetings that lasted until 2 or 3 am) and funding problems so serious that it looked, four years in, as if TFA wouldn't see its fifth anniversary.
"At every turn we underestimated what it would take to do this well," Kopp says. "The first decade, we were recruiting with posters and letters. We had to compete with companies that were sending 20 people to Harvard's campus with a million-dollar budget and wining and dining people." She underestimated how much money the organization required to function. "We learned the hard way that we needed as much money to go into the generation of revenue as into the programs if we were really going to have the resources necessary to fulfill our potential," she says. "That's not how the rest of the world thinks nonprofits should be. But we realized that if we didn't have a fund-raising infrastructure, we weren't going to have any programs. That has been the most central learning curve."
Kopp's drive in those early years is legendary. In an attempt to better maximize her time, she resolved to sleep only every other night, recalls Daniel Oscar, TFA's second employee, who is now president and CEO of the Princeton Center for Leadership Training. Her devotion to her members is office folklore, too. For years she paid herself the same entry-level salary—$25,000—earned by the rest of the staff. (She now makes a reported $300,000 a year.) Iris Chen, an alumna and now president and CEO of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation, which helps low-income kids reach college, remembers trying to reassure Kopp as she rushed off (in heels) to a meeting between New York City corps members and a major donor. "I said, 'Don't worry; I told the funder we'd all be trickling in,' " Chen says. "She said, 'I'm not worried about the funder! I'm worried about the corps members! We can't keep them waiting.' "
Given how much time Kopp devoted to the organization, it perhaps makes sense that she met her husband on the job, too. "It all goes back to Richard's mom," Kopp says. "She sent him a clipping about TFA and said, 'You should go work with this woman' . . . So he wandered into the office one day. I said no, we didn't need another white guy from Harvard. But then we got desperate for people a few weeks later, and he came on board." They married in 1998. Today they have three boys, ages 11, eight and six, and a two-year-old daughter. "When we go home at the end of the day, we're going home to the four kids, and it's a little bit consuming," says Kopp. "We have shared values. We have such intense work lives that maybe we talk less than people would ever imagine about our work. But we see things in the same way."
One thing they agree on is sending their kids to public school, an option many well-to-do parents in New York City avoid. "I don't feel pressured by my work to put my kids in public school," says Kopp. "And I do feel it's a choice. I personally would rather have my kids in public school. I would be terrified to have them in private school, though maybe that's a huge generalization about private school. I want my kids to grow up in a truly diverse and real world, and I do personally believe we should all be invested in the public system." When asked how she makes it all work—she and her husband both travel about 90 days a year—Kopp sounds like any other multitasking mother. "I don't know!" she says. "I love my kids. They seem to love each other and their parents, but who knows? My husband is very supportive. I think that's the key to the whole thing. He believes in my work, and that is a huge enabler." Then she adds, laughing, "He believes the kids will be best off if I'm not home with them . . . No! If I'm fulfilled!"
So is Kopp the Superwoman that public education has been waiting for? Not according to her critics, who have long viewed this mild-mannered idealist more as villain than hero. Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor of education at Stanford University and TFA's most prominent longtime critic, has called the corps a résumé-enhancing "pit stop," a "frankly missionary program" for "advantaged college graduates for whom TFA serves as something useful to do on their way to their 'real jobs' in law, medicine or business." (She declined to comment for this story.) Margaret Smith Crocco, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, has gone so far as to argue that TFA poses nothing less than "a long-term threat to public education" and that its message "that only a 'chosen few' really teach for America gets it backward: It is the traditionally prepared teachers who give their careers and lives to institutions of public education who truly serve American students."
Another criticism of TFA, whichborrows heavily from the corporate-management playbook in its approach, is that a classroom can't, and shouldn't, be run like a widget company. "There's a kind of cultural consensus that I think is really dangerous, that the private sector always does things better than the public sector, that we can operate schools in the same way we operate businesses," says Crocco. "They're not the same." Fairly or not, some of this criticism has rubbed off on Kopp herself, a prime example of the new type of "social entrepreneur"—the Ivy League–educated, often business-school-trained, private-sector-schooled person—now popping up in the nonprofit world. The new social entrepreneurs use words like efficiency and accountability, refer to donors as high-net-worth individuals and genuinely believe that the problems of public education can—in fact, should—be solved according to the same principles and priorities that a McKinsey consultant might use to save an ailing corporation. (Indeed, TFA president Matt Kramer once said of the group's recruitment practices, "We look for the same things McKinsey does.")
Such complaints, coming from people in the teaching establishment, could be interpreted, not unfairly, as push-back from interested parties: TFA, after all, is learn-as-you-go, with recruits receiving feedback and training on the job and working to meet state licensing requirements over the course of their two-year commitment. It's a model that directly threatens traditional teacher-training institutes like Darling-Hammond's at Stanford or Crocco's at Columbia, both of which train people before setting them loose in the schools. Yet humming under the critiques is a much broader concern about TFA that resonates widely among teachers and some school administrators as well: a charge of base-level elitism, of a kind of know-it-all egghead paternalism that profoundly irritates those who have worked their way up through the traditional ranks in education. TFA is built on the faith that a 22-year-old with a gold-plated educational résumé will be able to teach disadvantaged young people and propel them onto a path of mainstream success. This, many experts say, not only smacks of arrogance but also betrays profound ignorance of the lives of the kids whom TFA purports to serve.
And so the debate rages. Confronted with charges against TFA corps members, Kopp comes to life in a way she doesn't when talking about herself. "There are just much easier ways to build a résumé," she says. "TFA is well known to be an extremely challenging endeavor. You have to be passionate about wanting to do this and wanting to make a difference to go through all the work and ask for the intensity of the experience. I think you cannot meet the TFA corps members and alumni and have that concern."
Kopp also points out that 61 percent of members continue teaching beyond the two-year commitment, according to a 2008 study from Harvard, and that 65 percent overall remain in education, 32 percent as teachers, according to TFA's surveys of its alumni. However, these numbers are disputed. For instance, a June 2010 examination of a number of peer-reviewed studies about TFA coauthored by Julian Vasquez Heilig, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, found that more than 50 percent of TFA teachers leave the profession after two years; by four years, 80 percent are no longer teaching. (TFA says the Heilig report is flawed; among other problems, it relied on studies that did not account for corps members who switched schools but continued teaching.)
Beyond commitment, there is the question of whether TFA teachers are effective. Here, too, the critics have attacked, and here, too, it is nearly im-possible to arrive at a definitive answer. Darling-Hammond, in a 2005 study of more than 132,000 students and 4,400 teachers in Houston public schools, found that uncertified TFA teachers actually had a negative impact on student achievement on five of six tests, although the teachers' performance greatly improved once they achieved certification.
TFA, in response, takes issue with Darling-Hammond's methodology and analysis, saying, among other things, that the TFA teachers were not compared with teachers in their own schools. TFA, for its part, cites a 2004 independent report from the Mathematica Policy Research group that showed that TFA teachers performed as well as other teachers in six regions across the country in teaching reading and just slightly better in math.
TFA also stresses the effort the organization puts into improving teacher performance. All corps members receive ongoing training and mentorship, and all are instructed to constantly evaluate their students and then adjust their own performance accordingly. TFA's national leaders study members' results in order to derive data about what works and what doesn't—the better, they say, to perfect the work of the corps. "We're accountable for our teachers' performance, and we have an advantage that schools of ed don't have," Kopp says, "which is that we see how they're doing at month one, month six, so we can understand from our people what the folks who are very successful are doing differently and feed those lessons into our training and support programs."
Kopp is a fierce but unruffled advocate for her program (her husband says she has developed a thick skin: "Twenty years into this, it's not like she wakes up in the morning and her confidence is easily shaken"). "People don't understand what we're doing in terms of training," Kopp says. "There's a misconception that we think you don't need training in order to be an effective teacher. The reality is we think it's exceedingly tough to teach successfully." When asked later for her biggest self-criticism, Kopp returns to this issue of teaching quality and says, "The bottom line is: Over time we have learned from some of our teachers what is possible, and yet we're still not where we want to be in ensuring our teachers are where they ought to be. How do we ensure that our teachers are truly transformational? It's obviously extremely challenging."
However, it's when you consider the issue of effectiveness together with the question of attrition that you begin to really understand critics' concerns about the program. "The studies I've seen say that TFA teachers are just as effective as other new teachers after they get their credentials," says Diane Ravitch, a professor of education at New York University and author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System. "The research also says that the least effective teachers are those in their first two years. Most teachers begin to be most effective after their third year, and most TFA teachers are gone by then . . . Schools that serve poor kids need stable, experienced staff, not constant turnover."
Standing in opposition to such assaults is Kopp's unalterable belief in her mission. "You have a 1-in-10 chance to graduate from college if you're from a poor urban or rural area, compared with a 75 percent chance if you happen to be born in a high-income community," she says. "The only way we can solve this problem is to literally take our future leaders and put them in the midst of it and say, 'Now go solve it.' The biggest problem in this picture is not the dilettantism of TFA. It's that we've allowed this problem to go on for decades. Where you are born determines your educational outcomes in this country. That's the problem we should be solving."
Whatever the arguments over attrition and effectiveness, there is one area in which TFA is an unquestioned success: It has greatly influenced our country's education-reform debate. In fact, TFA has an impact far disproportionate to the organization's actual presence in the public schools, where TFA recruits still represent just 0.2 percent of all teachers. This is partly due to the ever-widening reach of TFA's 20,000-plus alumni: 550 now serve as school principals or superintendents and 45 have been elected to public office. And there's Rhee, perhaps the program's most famous alumna, who made history as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., school system by firing hundreds of teachers, removing dozens of principals and bureaucrats and demanding that the city's teacher-tenure system be replaced with one that would reward teachers for producing demonstrable results. (She resigned in October.) "As every year goes by," says Kopp, "I feel like we see more and more the effects of having a critical mass of alumni, who then collectively change what's happening in communities."
TFA's impressive reach also has to do with having fans who are both prominent and outspoken—people like Andrés Alonso, superintendent of the long-beleaguered Baltimore school system, who boasts of his 389 teachers, 13 principals, head of new initiatives and three special assistants who all hail from Kopp's corps. "I think of TFA in Baltimore as integral for creating the conditions for reform," he says. "In order for reform to happen, there have to be foot soldiers in a school who will be open to innovation and change, or else there will be tremendous resistance to what has to be done."
The organization also has the active support of New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, under whose watch TFA's presence in the city increased from 225 recruits in 2002 to 500 in 2010. And then there's Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who praised TFA in his Senate confirmation hearings and whose Race to the Top fund—a $4.3 billion initiative designed to push states to improve teaching—looks in many ways like Kopp's playbook writ large. "It's a really exciting time, a convergence, a tipping point," says Iris Chen, who taught fourth and fifth grade in a New York City public school for TFA and then went on to multiple leadership roles within the organization. "If you ask people now, 'What are the most important things in education reform?' there is a distinct cadre who will agree it's high expectations, teacher accountability, flexibility around talent. TFA's alumni are a force behind this."
On the most basic level, Teach for America would seem to be all about Kopp: taking her style of success, her habit of overachievement, and generalizing it into a prescription for optimizing the performance of all children and all teachers. But is this model, which depends for its success on finding teachers of Kopp-like devotion, talent and single-mindedness, generalizable to a profession that employs not a select few but millions? And a follow-up question: If the option existed to fill America's schools with Harvard MBA types and by extension transform all of America's children into high-performance Princeton undergraduates, should we take it?
Such questions are, perhaps, just the kind of do-nothing hand wringing, just the sort of ineffectual, unaccountable and perhaps irresponsible obstructionism that some would say has left education reform in the doldrums for so many decades. Kopp, for one, has no time for the navel gazing. She's focused on what comes next. Her second book, A Chance to Make History, comes out in January 2011; she is expanding Teach for All, the program she started to bring TFA's ideas to other countries. "I continue to be more and more obsessed with this," she says. "I really believe that we've only begun to see the impact of TFA."
Since that last year at Princeton, Kopp has been siphoning off some of each generation's leaders, steering them away from Wall Street and into service. Kopp has seeded the schools. "The most successful teachers—teachers who are putting kids on a different academic and life trajectory—are operating like successful leaders anywhere," she says. "They're goal oriented and purposeful. They're maximizing every minute, constantly reflecting and improving. This is teaching as leadership, and it's the foundation of everything we do." Now we all wait to learn where her army of alumni will lead our children.
Judith Warner is the author of We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication.
Originally published in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of More.


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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team will compete in the inaugural Ivy Plus Invitational hosted by Yale this weekend in New Haven, Conn. Action will begin on Friday and continue through Sunday in the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.
After last week's performance at the Princeton/Farnsworth Invitational, the Quakers look to make a strong showing this weekend at Yale. Penn sent 13 athletes to compete in Princeton, three of which finished above .500 and one competed in a final of his draw.
Along with host Yale, Penn will see fellow Ivy rivals Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard. Other schools represented in the tournament are Army, Binghamton, Marist, Old Dominion, St. John's, and UNC Wilmington.

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Spotlight for Career Services ProfessionalsSpotlight for Recruiting ProfessionalsApril 2, 2014
New rules requiring federal contractors to implement benchmarks for hiring minimum numbers of protected veterans and disabled workers went into effect on March 24, 2014.
The new rules update the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The VEVRAA rule provides contractors with a quantifiable metric to measure their success in recruiting and employing veterans by requiring contractors to annually adopt a benchmark either based on the national percentage of veterans in the work force (currently 8 percent), or their own benchmark based on the best available data. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the rule strengthens accountability and record-keeping requirements, enabling contractors to assess the effectiveness of their recruitment efforts, and clarifies job-listing and subcontract requirements to facilitate compliance.
The Section 503 rule introduces a hiring goal for federal contractors and subcontractors that 7 percent of each job group in their work force be qualified individuals with disabilities. The rule also details specific actions contractors must take in the areas of recruitment, training, record keeping, and policy dissemination—similar to those that have long been required to promote workplace equality for women and minorities.
NACE will be holding three webinars that address the changes to Section 503:
More information about the updated regulations is available at www.dol.gov/ofccp/VEVRAARule/ and www.dol.gov/ofccp/503Rule/.
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Flanigan Defeats Ranked Foe on Mizzou Invite's First Day
Katherine Flanigan toppled ranked opponent Cierra Gaytan-Leach of Missouri Friday afternoon as the Princeton women's tennis team opened its season at tournaments in Kansas City and Philadelphia.
The Kansas City contingent, which included Flanigan, Emily Hahn, Alanna Wolff and Dorothy Tang, battled players from Nebraska and Oklahoma State in doubles before Flanigan, Hahn and rookie Alanna Wolff picked up wins against a trio of Missouri players in singles at Missouri's Aces for the Cure event.
Flanigan's win came over 72nd-ranked Gaytan-Leach in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, while Hahn beat Missouri's No. 2 singles player, Elisha Gabb, 6-4, 2-6 (10-6), and Wolff topped Rachel Stuhlmann 6-1, 6-1.
Nebraska's two doubles pairs got the better of both of their Princeton opponents, with Maggy Lehmicke and Mary Hanna defeating Hahn and Flanigan 8-7 and Lisa Andersson and Brittany Brewster defeating Wolff and fellow rookie Dorothy Tang 8-4.
Wolff and Tang had Princeton's lone doubles win in four tries in Missouri Friday, with the freshman pair defeating Oklahoma State's Karyn Guttormsen and Maria Alvarez 8-4. Kanyapat Narattana and Carla Tur Mari of Oklahoma State defeated Hahn and Flanigan 8-7.
Three Tigers at the Cissie Leary tournament in Philadelphia combined to win two out of three singles and two of two doubles matches on the event's first day, with Sivan Krems and Caroline Joyce victorious in Round of 32 singles. Joyce and Joan Cannon teamed for a Round of 32 doubles win, while the odd number of Tigers put Krems with Penn State's Katherine Whiteaway to get doubles win in the same round.
Complete draws for the Leary tournament are available here.
Both tournaments will continue through Sunday.
Missouri results:
Princeton vs. Nebraska (doubles)
Mary Hanna/Maggy Lehmicke (N) def. Katherine Flanigan/Emily Hahn (P), 8-7
Lisa Andersson/Brittany Brewster (N) def. Dorothy Tang/Alanna Wolff (P), 8-4
Princeton vs. Oklahoma State (doubles)
Kanyapat Narattana/Carla Tur Mari (OSU) def. Flanigan/Hahn (P), 8-5
Tang/Wolff (P) def. Maria Alvarez/Karyn Guttormsen (OSU), 8-4
Princeton vs. Missouri (singles)
Flanigan (P) def. (72) Cierra Gaytan-Leach (M), 6-3, 6-4
Hahn (P) def. Elisha Gabb (M), 6-4, 2-6, (10-6)
Wolff (P) def. Rachel Stuhlmann (M), 6-1, 6-1
Kelli Hine (M) def. Tang (P), 6-4, 2-6, (10-8)
Cissie Leary results:
"A" singles
Round of 32: Sivan Krems (P) def. Ksenia Berestetska (Akron), 6-2, 6-0
Round of 32: Alex D'Ascenzo (Cornell) def. Joan Cannon (P), 6-1, 6-4
"B" singles
Round of 32: Caroline Joyce (P) def. Lea Winkler (Drexel), 6-3, 6-3
Round of 32: Krems (P)/Katherine Whiteaway (Penn State) def. Fiorella Coria/Zeynep Mafa (Drexel), 8-1
Round of 32: Cannon/Joyce (P) def. Madison Cohen/Caroline Harpaintner (Akron), 8-1


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Walking Tours
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Taking in the sights on foot is a great way to see some of the marvelous things Puerto Vallarta has to offer, from historical buildings to new night clubs, cigars to sculptures. See luxury yachts, sun-drenched beaches and celebrity hide-aways; here are three walking tours that can easily be done without a guide.
El Centro Tour
A good starting point is the more than half-a-century-old Hotel Rosita, Vallarta's very first hotel. It is located on the north end of the Malecón, the boardwalk that borders the shoreline in the downtown area, on the main street of Paseo Díaz Ordaz. Follow this wide walkway past the first of several famous sculptures, La Nostalgia.
For decades the Malecón has been a favorite place for parents to bring their families, especially on Sunday afternoons when they can be seen taking in the excitement of the many activities that happen there. Right across the street form the Malecón you will find tons of shops and restaurants with plenty of window seats to watch the passersby and enjoy the views.
As you progress down the Malecón you will come to the collection of Alejandro Colunga's sculptures, one of the popular stops where, on weekend evenings, minstrels congregate to play their instruments and entertain the crowds, hoping for pesos to be dropped into their baskets.
Directly across the street at Corona is Las Palomas Restaurant; inside is a mural of local personalities that is worth a look. Walking up Corona one block to Morelos you will find an area full of shops, art galleries and historic architecture. Follow Corona three blocks and you will catch back up to the Malecón. Notice the lighthouse on the corner where every evening mariachi bands delight visitors with their colorful music.
Back on the Malecón you will find yourself at The Seahorse, another of Puerto Vallarta's famous sculptures. Follow the Malecón to Los Arcos, the outdoor theater located at the south end, where performances are given during the evening hours.
Right across the main street from Los Arcos is the Plaza de Armas. This is the city's main square, bordered on one side by the City Hall and the other by banks and shops. This large plaza is Puerto Vallarta's hub and is always humming with activity. It has a large central gazebo with benches to sit and listen to the Navy band that frequents the square. Plaza de Armas is where all the local holiday celebrations are held and is embellished with elaborate decorations for these festive occasions.
The Lady of Guadalupe Church can be seen from the opposite side of the square. Walk one block to Hildalgo to find the entrance of this red-brick construction with its trade-mark crown of angels. After leaving the church, turn left off of Hildago and head for the hills onto Zaragoza. Take the stairs to 446 Zaragoza, where you will find Casa Kimberley. This is the home that Richard Burton bought in 1963 for Elizabeth Taylor while he was filming The Night of the Iguana at Mismaloya Beach. After the pair married they purchased the house directly across the street and joined the two homes by a pink bridge. The casa is now a bed & breakfast and open for tours. The pretty bridge is favorite place for couples to wed.
You are now in the neighborhood called Gringo Gulch. This area is famous for its white stucco houses with bright red-tile roofs that cling to the mountainside, and for the bougainvillea that spills from every window and balcony, adding even more charm to this very colorful community. Gringo Gulch is the area where the first foreigners settled.
Keep following Zaragoza past the round rock house on the left on to the lookout over the Cuale river valley. From there turn around and walk the two blocks back to Miramar. Follow Miramar one block to Libertad. The Mercado Municipal is across the street. The City Market is also known as the "flea market". This huge building is a maze of shops that offer everything for the tourist. T-shirts, silver, handicrafts and other souvenirs of every description can be bargained for there.
Retrace your steps on Miramar to Guerrero. Turn left, follow past the popular Trio Restaurant and more shops, hang a left back onto Hildago. Pass the church again and proceed on to The Flautist, the street becoming Guadalupe Sanchez, where several famous Vallarta landmarks are located: Casa de la Torre, a private residence, and the castle by the hill, Café des Artistes Restaurant, at Leona Vicario. Continue on Guadalupe Sánchez two more blocks and turn left at Allende. Follow Allende two blocks and you are back where you started along the Malecón.
South Side Tour
One of the most popular areas of Puerto Vallarta, Olas Altas is always exciting. Here you will see burros used to haul goods as was done a century ago and street venders offering anything and everything. You can even rent a horse here and see how if feels to be a real Mexican charro.
We begin this tour at Le Bistro Restaurant, located off Insurgentes on the Isla del Río Cuale. This island is where several tourist shops and fine dining establishments can be found nestled among the trees. A terrific place to explore, it is home to the Cuale Museum of Anthropology, a music school, an art center, and the John Huston Plaza where a statue of the famous director stands. There are also small hanging footbridges located on the island that act as shortcuts to the other side of town.
After wandering this quaint island, head south on the new pedestrian bridge at the mouth of the Rio Cuale to Vallarta's popular and happening Los Muertos Beach. Past the Molino de Agua hotel and a couple of condos is Lázaro Cárdenas Park (across the street is where you can hire the horses) to the beach. Follow the boardwalk past several of Vallarta's older hotels, beachside restaurants, and shops. Any manner of beach and water sport activities can be found here as well as the pier at the foot of Francisca Rodríguez where water taxis and other types of charter boats are available to take customers fishing or out to the secluded south-shore beaches. When the boardwalk ends, take a short walk in the sand past La Palapa Restaurant and return to the street at Púlpito. Be sure to take a minute to admire yet another impressive Vallarta sculpture, this one of a shark.
Walk up Púlpito and at the top of the street take the 112 steps up to a lookout point in the Amapas area overlooking the entire Bay of Banderas or turn left on Olas Altas. This is one of several very colorful streets in the zone that are full of nightclubs, martini bars, jazz joints, eateries, and shops. This is also where many locals congregate for their morning coffee at one of the coffee house-bookstores or can be seen lunching at one of the many sidewalk cafes.
Turn right on Basilio Badillo and walk the two blocks to the area known as Restaurant Row. Along this street are several cozy, romantic eateries and bars as well as some very unique boutiques. The street is especially pretty at night with the twinkling lights in the trees.
Head left when you get to Insurgentes. At the corner stop at a glass workshop and watch blown glass being created. Now you are in an area of Vallarta that is truly Mexican; street venders abound and there is a bustle of activity everywhere. Department stores, several music stores and a movie theater are also found on this street. Once you walk the five blocks to Rio Cuale you are back where you began this tour.
Marina Vallarta Tour
At the north end of town is Marina Vallarta. This planned community's focal point is the 355-slip marina. Here fishing boats, sailboats and cabin cruisers share the docks with world-class yachts. Early in the morning boat captains can be seen preparing their boats for the days' activities while on the boardwalk joggers, race walkers and dog walkers exercise as the sun comes up.
To reach the Marina Malecón walk past the large whale sculpture that welcomes its visitors and turn left, at the end of the street is the boardwalk. Over two dozen restaurants line the Marina Malecón. Take a left to enjoy all the sights, sounds and delicious smells of the Marina.
In the center of the marina is the landmark El Faro, a 110-foot high lighthouse. At the top is El Faro Bar, a circular lounge that features live music and a spectacular view of the marina, the bay, and the hills of the surrounding area. It is definitely one of the best spots in Puerto Vallarta to watch the sunset.
Notice as you walk along the base of the numerous condominium projects-where many of PV's year-round residents live amongst the tourists-the many shops and galleries where you'll find fine art, the beautiful handiwork of the Huichol Indians and Mexican clothes. Stop for a drink at a bar built over the water. Stroll a few feet more and you will come to a large patio just outside a popular local eatery known for its tacos.
Walking further down the Malecón you will encounter several more galleries, clothing boutiques, restaurants and "local" bars, beauty salons, and a therapeutic massage clinic.
Marina Vallarta Golf Club is located across the street from the marina and is the most popular 18-hole golf course in Puerto Vallarta. It sports a clubhouse with dining facilities, lounge, golf carts, lessons, putting green, driving range and a pro shop.
During the high season, once a month from November to April, both Marina Vallarta and El Centro galleries offer art walks hosting evening cocktail inaugurations. Maps are given to attendees to find the galleries-all within an easy walk from each other. These art openings are the highlight of the season.


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Vigo County, Ind., GIS GPS sign integration
Topcon Positioning Systems wrote software that would integrate locational data captured by its hand-held GRS-1 GPS unit with values captured by Professional Pavement Products RoadVista 922 retroreflectometer.
VS Engineering
In addition to the GRS-1 receiver/controller (shown here), the software also integrates the retroreflectometer with Topcons Tesla field controller.
Roadway signs have a finite life span. Exposed to the ravages of time and weather, they gradually but steadily lose their retroreflectiveness and, thus, their effectiveness.
To minimize the risk of traffic accidents, the West Central Indiana Economic Development District used $175,000 in FHWA Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funding to build a GIS database of Vigo County's 31,000 signs. Although the 410-square-mile county includes Terre Haute and other mid-size cities, some of its 1,250 miles of roadway are rural.
The project was also necessary to ensure compliance with a federal mandate. A 2009 revision to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) requires public agencies to implement an assessment or management method for maintaining retroreflectivity at or above established minimum levels.
The development district had a RoadVista 922 retroreflectometer, manufactured by Professional Pavement Products Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla. The unit is held directly against the face of a sign, enabling crews to work during the day rather than at night. But the department lacked two other critical components: the physical position of each sign and the ability to merge that data with its retroreflectivity values.
"It was a challenge, but we thought we could do it in about three months," says Matt Healy, survey manager for VS Engineering Inc., which was retained to solve the challenge. Founded in 1980, the Indianapolis consulting firm uses cutting-edge technology to develop common sense solutions for all phases of municipal civil, transportation, environmental, structural, surveying, and traffic projects.
The timeline was seriously impacted, however, by the retroreflectometer. VS Engineering had done similar projects, but none involved quantifying reflectivity. While great at its job—measuring reflectivity—using the device in the field took longer than anticipated. And it didn't provide all of the required data.
Agency: West Central Indiana Economic Development District Inc.
Project: create a countywide GIS database of 31,000 roadway signs
Technology consultant: VS Engineering Inc., Indianapolis
Cost: $175,000
Funding: FHWA Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
The firm initially hoped to simply keep track of each sign number, enter it into the GIS as an attribute, and then merge it with the location data. But with the accuracy of the sequencing thrown into question, the database had to also note whether or not a sign met required minimal retroreflectivity values.
VS Engineering uses the GRS-1, a hand-held GPS unit with built-in Bluetooth and wireless LAN capability manufactured by Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. of Livermore, Calif., for mapping. During training sessions, the Professional Pavement Products representative had mentioned several customers were using hand-held Bluetooth-enabled GPS units in conjunction with the RoadVista retroreflectometer.
Unsure how long it might take to blend the two technologies into a single compatible system, Healy reached out to Topcon GIS Sales Manager Jason Hooten. In less than three weeks, the manufacturer wrote software integrating the retroreflectometer with the GRS-1, as well as with the Topcon Tesla field controller Healy bought for the project.
"That gave us everything we needed to create our database," he says.
In its final form, retroreflectometer barcode and background and legend readings are now automatically entered into the appropriate data fields in the eGIS (Topcon's proprietary software) database. The integration allows the resulting field data to be stored into the shapefile without additional manipulation. For the end-user, this means data can be used in GIS queries immediately upon receipt in the office.
Once completed, the database will be hosted by the development district but owned and shared by all of the towns and municipalities within the county.
With the two technologies now working in tandem, Healy's team attacked the project in earnest.
The GRS-1 captures latitude and longitude to less than 1 meter, so the first thing they noticed was the degree of positional accuracy over using just the retroreflectometer.
"I was confident that 80% of the time, accuracy fell within the footprint of the user recording the position," Healy says. "We're still using two separate pieces of equipment, but the integration ensures that no data from either one is lost when merged."
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The Delaware National Guard will team up with the Blood Bank of Delmarva to host a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Blood Bank of Delmarva, 100 Hygeia Drive, Newark.
This weekend is the unit training assembly, or "drill," for Delaware's hometown force, which means more than 1,000 Air Guardsmen will be on the base for the weekend.
While not open to the public, the blood drive organizers hope the number of uniformed personnel on base will make an impact in saving lives.
"The 166th Airlift Wing is full of bone fide heroes," says Senior Master Sgt. Robbin Moore, organizer of the blood drive. "Having a way for any of our members to do just a little bit more for their community is what we are all about."
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PRECAUTIONS: Before receiving tacrolimus, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or to other macrolide medications (such as sirolimus, erythromycin); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients (such as polyoxyl 60 hydrogenated castor oil), which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: kidney disease, liver disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, mineral imbalances (such as high potassium), any recent/current infections, cancer.Tacrolimus may cause a condition that affects the heart rhythm (QT prolongation). QT prolongation can infrequently result in serious (rarely fatal) fast/irregular heartbeat and other symptoms (such as severe dizziness, fainting) that need medical attention right away.The risk of QT prolongation may be increased if you have certain medical conditions or are taking other drugs that may cause QT prolongation. Before using tacrolimus, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all the drugs you take and if you have any of the following conditions: certain heart problems (heart failure, slow heartbeat, QT prolongation in the EKG), family history of certain heart problems (QT prolongation in the EKG, sudden cardiac death).Low levels of potassium or magnesium in the blood may also increase your risk of QT prolongation. This risk may increase if you use certain drugs (such as diuretics/"water pills") or if you have conditions such as severe sweating, diarrhea, or vomiting. Talk to your doctor about using tacrolimus safely.This medication may increase your risk of developing skin cancer. Avoid prolonged sun exposure, tanning booths, and sunlamps. Use a sunscreen with a high sun protection factor (SPF) and wear protective clothing when outdoors.Tacrolimus can make you more likely to get infections or may worsen any current infections. Therefore, wash your hands well to prevent the spread of infection. Avoid contact with people who have infections that may spread to others (such as chickenpox, measles, flu). Consult your doctor if you have been exposed to an infection or for more details.Do not have immunizations/vaccinations without the consent of your doctor. Avoid contact with people who have recently received live vaccines (such as flu vaccine inhaled through the nose).This drug may increase your potassium levels. Before using potassium supplements or salt substitutes containing potassium, consult your doctor or pharmacist.Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist about all the products you use (including prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and herbal products).Older adults may be more sensitive to the side effects of this drug, especially QT prolongation (see above).During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.This drug passes into breast milk and the effect on a nursing infant is unknown. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor before breast-feeding.
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We are seeking a researcher who will investigate and analyze U.S.-based conservative religious interests that are actively campaigning against LGBTQ people and women's reproductive autonomy abroad. This research will support a range of advocacy allies seeking to hold such groups accountable for their actions. The ideal candidate will bring strong opposition research experience coupled with an understanding of how to put research into action. The LGBTQ Rights Researcher reports to the research director and works closely with research and communications staff and interns.
The LGBTQ Rights Researcher's key responsibilities include:
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text: Check out the video for Big Boi's dedication to all the wack DJs out there, you know the ones, just hittin' that instant replay. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty is available now and it's most definitely one of the best hip-hop albums this year. The digital version of the album included several videos ("Follow Us," "Shutterbug," "General Patton"), but this one featuring Yelawolf is brand new.


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Do you need a reboot?
Over Memorial Day weekend I cleaned out the garage. I clean it about every three months, and no matter how much I try to keep it clean and organized, it always gets dirty and cluttered again within three months! [a dirty glove from winter sledding, a broken skate, empty salt bags from the water softener, a flat bike tire, an old quilt that the cats slept on, some dirty gardening tools that nobody put back in the storage shed, a few empty water bottles, a cardboard box, a misplaced container of pool chemicals, the Christmas tree stand that didn't get put up into the attic, some old boots that don't fit anyone anymore; plus lots of dirt and leaves, dirt, and more dirt and leaves]
As I was cleaning I thought about how our bodies require continual cleaning and maintenance to keep them healthy and in good working order. It takes ongoing effort, planning and preparedness. If we get careless and allow *stuff* (toxins, fat cells) to accumulate, it requires a major overhaul to get clean and function properly again.
The popular pop-culture word now is "reboot."
I like that word.
Every once in a while we may possibly need to reboot our garages . . . . and our bodies.
Otherwise our garages will look like the ones from the Hoarders show and our cars will no longer fit into them; and eventually our bodies will look like the ones from the beginning episodes of The Biggest Loser and our clothes will no longer fit. (Not to mention the detrimental damage that'll be done to our arteries, blood vessels, pancreas, heart, etc.) In fact, if the waistband becomes a bit snug, that's a clear indication to reboot. A tight waistband means unhealthy plaque is building up in the arteries and blood vessels. Quick ~ nip disease in the bud!
If we've been careless with food choices, and have allowed toxins and fat to accumulate, it's time to reboot. It's time to go back to the six week eating plan in Eat to Live and follow it carefully, with little to no deviation. It's time to clean the clutter, (aka detox), and change the tastebuds.
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Free Undergrad-Level Photo Courses Offered Online and in App by UK Professor
A photography professor at Coventry University in England is publishing his undergraduate-level photography classes online and in an app, making instruction and education available for free to photographers all over the world.
Picbod (Picturing the Body) and Phonar (Photography and Narrative) are, respectively, second- and third year undergraduate classes taught by photographer Jonathan Worth. Students who are not enrolled in Coventry University can follow the courses online, and can also choose to participate by asking questions, making comments and submitting photographic work they do based on class assignments. Those who choose to follow the classes can also listen to lessons and guest lectures from photographers like Elinor Carucci and Grant Scott. Comments, and links to articles and information of interest, are also shared amongst the students via the #picbod and #phonar Twitter hashtags, and via course Facebook pages, further fostering the community feel of the courses. All of the material also lives on the Web sites and in the app, so outside students can take the courses at their own pace. The material will be updated as each new class at Coventry University is taught. (more…)


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- 4 medium green peppers
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup uncooked orzo pasta
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 2 cups spaghetti sauce
- 1 cup frozen broccoli-cauliflower blend, thawed and chopped
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
- Cut tops off peppers and remove seeds; replace tops. Place in an ungreased shallow round 3-qt. microwave-safe dish; add water. Cover and microwave on high for 8-10 minutes or until crisp-tender.
- Meanwhile, cook orzo according to package directions. In a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Drain orzo; stir into meat mixture. Add the spaghetti sauce, vegetables and 1/4 cup cheese.
- Spoon into peppers. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 1-2 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 4 servings.
Reviews for Stuffed Peppers for Four
"I don't care for stuffed peppers but I made this for my husband and he loved it. I'm giving it 5 stars because he liked it so much that he asked me how to make it. He now makes it for himself, since we work opposite shifts."
"I used ground turkey and red bell peppers because they were on sale. It was wonderful."
"I made this for dinner last night. It was great! I added the salt and pepper as suggested and added some leftover veggies I had instead of the ones suggested...much easier than chopping the others. I blanched the peppers before stuffing them and then baked them in the oven vs the microwave. I also used colby jack cheese since I didn't have the parma. cheese. Nice change from the rice stuffed peppers I used before. I used 4 very large peppers, so I had just enough filling. The only change I'd make would to be to add a bit more seasoning. Not sure what, but it is open for experimenting."
"very delicious!"
"The filling in this recipe was too runny and it filled 6 peppers, not 4. I will make it again except I will use 6 peppers, 1 cup of orzo, 1-1/2 cups of the vegetables, 1 cup of parmesan cheese divided, 1 cup of spaghetti sauce in the filling and pour the other cup over the top before sprinkling the parmesan over the tops. I also think it needs about 1/2 tsp. salt and 1/4 tsp. pepper or more in the filling. I think I will bake them in the oven for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees instead of microwaving the final cooking. I think it will be more firm and easier to eat. The flavor was good but the texture needed improvement."


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Automation click every 4 second on a macro slot bar to world of warcraft for prospecting item
enable auto loot and create macro, put mouse over slot on the bar
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When aliens invade Earth, be first to warn your neighbours by placing your computer screen at a window and executing this potentially Earth-saving command.
Ctrl C when aliens are defeated.
No need to install additional packages
say hello
For multiword
say how+are+you
Checks your gmail account every 30 seconds and display the number of new messages in the top right corner of the terminal.
A kind of CLI "Gmail notifier" if you will. :-)
This is a mashup of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7916/put-a-console-clock-in-top-right-corner and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3386/check-your-unread-gmail-from-the-command-line
Use the command to create a script and bind it to a key using keyboard shortcut.
Script locks the screen in a loop until the command is executed again.At first it
Works on Laptops, Desktop having communication b/w UPS & CPU
You should really use keys. Really. I'm serious.
But if you have to add your key, change password etc. for a long list of servers, this might help.
Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.
Works best in a shell script run at startup. acpi is called for temperature and fed to notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.
works best in a shell script run at startup. It will ping localhost once and output to null, after it does that, acpi is called for temperature in fahrenheit and piped through to another loop that feeds notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.
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Only slightly different than previous commands. The benefit is that your "watch" should die when the dd command has completed. (Of course this would depend on /proc being available)
Take a screenshot every 2 seconds and save it as a png file
This command are using by me for checking connection with Internet.
Gives not only date but also some interesting status about the System
this command will beep like an alarm for one minute from 18:57. you can change "1857" to your desired time.
you should have alsa-oss package installed, and you should also be root or part of "audio" group.
I'd prefer this one, you have to install espeak to get this running
Watch the temperatures of your CPU cores in real time at the command line. Press CONTROL+C to end.
GORY DETAILS: Your computer needs to support sensors (many laptops, for example, do not). You'll need to install the lm-sensors package if it isn't already installed. And it helps to run the `sensors-detect` command to set up your sensor kernel modules first. At the very end of the sensors-detect interactive shell prompt, answer YES to add the new lines to the list of kernel modules loaded at boot.


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Rep. Nancy Pelosi Defends Doctoring of Press Release Photo
The hand-out photo that the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gave to the press yesterday featured all 61 female representatives of the newly sworn in 113th Congress. The problem was: Four of the representatives shown in the photo came late to the photo-op, and were Photoshopped into the photo after the fact. According to Poynter, the doctored photo was uploaded to Flickr and also emailed to news outlets with a note from a spokesperson in Pelosi's office that said, "Please note this version has the four Members who were late photo-shopped [sic] in." The four late arrivals were dropped into the back row of the group photo.
The AP released an undoctored photo of the scene, without the four missing representatives. It was shot by Cliff Owen.
At a press conference yesterday, Minority Leader Pelosi defended the release of a Photoshopped photo. ABC News reports that she said the representatives who posed for the photo were too cold to wait for the latecomers.
"It was an accurate historical record of who the Democratic women of Congress are," Pelosi said. "It also is an accurate record that it was freezing cold and our members had been waiting a long time for everyone to arrive and … had to get back into the building to greet constituents, family members, to get ready to go to the floor. It wasn't like they had the rest of the day to stand there."
Questions linger about this photo doctoring incident, however. Questions like: Why does any news outlet still run hand-out photos, especially when there's a wire service photographer on the scene? And: Should we trust members of Congress who don't have the sense to wear coats when they go outside in Washington in January?
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Rated 5 out of 5 by BeckyC Bought two My hubby installed two of these over our dining table. It took a bit of work to adjust the cords to drop the same on both fixtures, I did it myself, but once it was done and they were installed I loved them. I used shades purchased elsewhere as WM did not have any to match my decor in this room. We also had to add a wood medallion because of the ceiling design we had just installed. April 29, 2015
Rated 3 out of 5 by soleil12 Trouble finding shades that fit I loved the look of this fixture in store, but didn't want the burlap shades. I went ahead and bought the fixture and chose different shades instead. Unfortunately the end fixtures (where the bulb goes in) seem to be larger than a standard shade frame opening, so the shades didn't fit. So now I'm trying to decide whether to go with the burlap shades that World Market offers with the fixture (not crazy about the texture and color), or just return the entire fixture. For now it's hanging in my dining room with bare bulbs on it - a very industrial look, I guess. Also, I think I would have preferred the fixture in silver, not black. September 23, 2012
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To eliminate erosion and safety hazards in one of the system's canal, a stormwater system with ditch bottom inlets was installed. Photo: Orange County Public Works Department
During several projects, a bypass system was built to protect construction sites from the quick-rising waters that are typical of central Florida's wet season.
A Florida public works department used rip-rap to stabilize rivers in a canal system that suffered severe erosion in the aftermath of a destructive hurricane season.
The triple threat of hurricanes Charlie, Frances, and Jeanne pounded Florida in 2004, causing several locations of Orange County's canal network to fail. That left the county's Public Works, Roads & Drainage Division with few options to address costly $3 million repairs to the various canal and pond systems, whose banks eroded severely and threatened the foundations of both public and private properties as well as the county's water quality.
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It is a theorem in elementary number theory that if $p$ is a prime and congruent to 1 mod 4, then it is the sum of two squares. Apparently there is a trick involving arithmetic in the gaussian integers that lets you prove this quickly. Can anyone explain it?
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Let $p$ be a prime congruent to 1 mod 4. Then to write $p = x^2 + y^2$ for $x,y$ integers is the same as writing $p = (x+iy)(x-iy) = N(x+iy)$ for $N$ the norm.
It is well-known that the ring of Gaussian integers $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is a principal ideal domain, even a euclidean domain. Now I claim that $p$ is not prime in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$. To determine how a prime $p$ of $\mathbb{Z}$ splits in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ is equivalent to determining how the polynomial $X^2+1$ splits modulo $p$.
First off, $-1$ is a quadratic residue modulo $p$ because $p \equiv 1 \mod 4$. Consequently, there is $t \in \mathbb{Z}$ with $t^2 \equiv -1 \mod p$, so $X^2+1$ splits modulo $p$, and $p$ does not remain prime in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$. (Another way of seeing this is to note that if $p$ remained prime, then we'd have $p \mid (t+i)(t-i)$, which means that $p \mid t+i$ or $t \mid t-i$.)
Anyway, as a result there is a non-unit $x+iy$ of $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ that properly divides $p$. This means that the norms properly divide as well. In particular, $N(x+iy) = x^2+y^2$ properly divides $p^2$, so is $p$ or $1$. It cannot be the latter since otherwise $x+iy$ would be a unit. So $x^2+y^2 = p$.
Perhaps my favorite argument (other than any arguably "correct" arguments, such as the one Akhil has given, or arguments starting from the fact that $x^2 + y^2$ is the unique binary quadratic form of discriminant $-4$ up to equivalence) uses continued fractions. Suppose that $u^2 \equiv -1 \pmod{p}$, and consider the continued fraction expansion of the rational number $u/p$. Let $r/s$ be the last convergent to $u/p$ with the property that $s < \sqrt{p}$. Then, setting $x=s$ and $y = rp-us$, one has $x^2 + y^2 = p$.
Here's the argument: let $r'/s'$ be the convergent following $r/s$. Then the basic theory of continued fractions gives the estimate $|r/s - u/p| < 1/ss'$, and the right-hand side is less than $1/s\sqrt{p}$ by hypothesis. Clearing denominators gives $y < \sqrt{p}$, so that $0 < x^2 + y^2 < 2p$. On the other hand $x^2 + y^2$ is checked to be divisible by $p$ (by choice of $u$), so must be equal to $p$.
Here is another proof without complex numbers.
We start with proving that there exists $z \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $z^2 + 1 \equiv 0 \pmod p$. We do this in the same way as Akhil Mathew.
Let we have $a^2 + b^2 = pm$. Take $x$ and $y$ such that
Consider $u = ax + by$ and $v = ay - bx$. Then $u^2 + v^2 = (a^2 + b^2)(x^2 + y^2)$.
Moreover, $u$ and $v$ are multiples of $m$.
Hence $(u/m)^2 + (v/m)^2 = p (x^2 + y^2)/m$. $(x^2 + y^2)/m$ is an integer because of the definition of $x$ and $y$ and that $a^2 + b^2 = pm$.
Now we change $a$ by $u$ and $b$ by $v$ and continue this process until we get $m=1$.
Notice that this is quite efficient way to find representation of $p$ as a sum of two squares - it takes $O(\log p)$ steps to find it provided we have found $z$ such that $z^2 + 1$ is multiple of $p$.
Taken From I.N. Herstein There are 2 results which i am going to use.
Now the main result. If $p$ is a prime of the form $4n+1$ then $p$ is the sum of 2 squares.
Proof. By 2 there exists and $x$ such that $x^{2} \equiv -1 \text{mod} \ p$. So $x$ can be chose such that $0 \leq x \leq (p-1)$. We can restrict the size of $p$ even further, namely to satisfy $|x| \leq \frac{p}{2}$. For if $x > p/2$ then, $y=p-x$ satisfies $y^{2} \equiv -1 \text{mod} \ p$ but $|y| \leq p/2$. Thus we may assume that we have an integer $x$ such that $|x| \leq p/2$ and $x^{2}+1$ is a multiple of $p$ say $cp$. Now $cp=x^{2}+1 \leq p^{2}/4 +1 < p^{2}$, hence $c < p$ and hence $(c,p)=1$. Invoking (1) we have $p=a^{2}+b^{2}$.
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Start order for Cross Nats Determined by Revamped Rider Ranking
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Start order for Cross Nats Determined by Revamped Rider Ranking
Call-ups for non-UCI catetories at Cyclo-cross Nationals will be determined by rider ranking in USA Cycling's re-vamped Results and Ranking System, increasing the importance of results submission for local race directors. Start order for all non-UCI categories at the 2012 USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships will be determined by rider ranking using the organization's new, improved rankings system to debut Sept.1.
Cyclo-cross will be the first USA Cycling National Championship to use the remodeled rankings system to resolve call-up order for all race divisions other than Collegiate, Junior 17-18 and Elite. Following member feedback, this method of seeding aims to offer the most equitable and concise call-up procedure possible and does signify a departure from the previous approach of utilizing time trials, random drawings or based on when a rider registered online for Cyclo-cross National Championships.
USA Cycling's new rankings system is set for public launch September 1, 2011. The rankings system will use an innovative algorithm to rank riders based on their results compared to other competitors rather than using an arbitrary event value. The new system will allow riders to achieve a ranking, based more on how well they race rather than how often. Rider rankings will be derived from an individual's average of his/her top three results within a rolling 12 month period. More details on the revamped rankings program will be released in the coming weeks prior to the debut of the new system.
To ensure as fair and accurate a process as possible, USA Cycling is requesting all cyclo-cross race directors to submit results to USA Cycling in an accurate and timely fashion.
Basic instructions for submitting race results are available on the Race Directors page of usacycling.org.
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Does this eliminate an ACA rider from being competitive at cyclocross nationals? Where does this leave ACA riders?
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It is a good idea and a fair
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
It is a good idea and a fair idea. So when is the ACA going to finally go back to USAC? Looks like not soon enough for cross guys/gals who race nats.
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Not from Missouri
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But I wish someone could show me why it is, that whatever the conditions were that led to the split between USAC and ACA (BRAC at the time), the split can't be resolved. I just don't see why ACA can't be the official 'local association' for CO and just go back to sanctioning things under USAC.
Can anyone from ACA who follows this forum please enlighten us?
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The reason the split has been unresolved has to do with money. USAC wants ACA to become the Local Association for Colorado but the amount of money ACA would get to run the Co LOC would not even come close to what ACA is able to generate and put back into local racing with our current system.
After the split occured and ACA were ignored by USAC, ACA became very self reliant and successful on it's own. Now there is less incentive than ever to rejoin unless USAC offers a more equitable revenue split for ACA. USAC, instead of trying to compete with ACA by offering better racing opportunities, they are getting heavy handed and using WalMart tactics to shut ACA down. Personally I am becoming more and more disenchanted with USAC as this thing gets uglier and uglier.
USAC should bargain in good faith to bring ACA back to USAC not the strongarm way they are going about it.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Can USAC "bargain" when all the other local associations have the exact same contract??? Seems pretty unfair to do and I doubt USAC would compromise their integrity with the rest of the country just to suck up to CO or OR. I hope ACA wouldn't do something similar to get some large club on board with their organization.
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Ok, so...
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I understand that local associations get a certain amount of money back from licenses sold within the state, but what other monies are we talking about here? Are you suggesting that the things ACA does to raise money (e.g. Cherry Creek TT) wouldn't still be run, and since we all know that these events will continue, are you suggesting that the proceeds of events such as that would be siphoned off to USAC?
When I said "show me", I wasn't looking for generalizations, I'm looking for specifics. Aside from the $$$ that come back to the association from licensing revenues, or the per day per rider fees that promoters pay to the sanctioning body (whether ACA or USAC), how specifically would anything change?
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USAC did not ignore the ACA.
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USAC did not ignore the ACA. In fact their people, including top people have met with ACA reps over the years to try to get it worked out. I am not saying they are right or wrong, but they have been talking to the ACA for years. Anyone who was around when Beth was still here knows there was no way it was going to happen as long as she was part of the ACA.
This maybe hard for people like you to understand, but USAC offers a standard revenue split to all Local Associations Across the US. So they are in no position to offer a better deal, or bargin with CO. Colorado is not a huge state to USAC. If they gave us some deal, they are going to have to go back to other large states like CA, and cut them a deal too. That is not going to happen.
I know most people on here were not around when we were part of USAC and BRAC was our local association, but for the sake of reality do you know how it worked? You had to get a USAC license to race, and then if you wanted to be part of BRAC you had to join them too and pay a fee. So you could race with just the USAC license, but if you wanted the news letter, info on races, access to the race kit, and to be part of BAR/BAT you had to join BRAC.
So here is a wild idea for all ACA lovers, lets go back to USAC so those of us who really race (and thus have USAC license too) only need 1 license. Then have the ACA be the local association and do it the way BRAC did it, if you want all that BRAC offers then charge you say $20 to be a member. Really easy solution, then all the riders only need one license, we can race else where on that license, people from out of state can race here, pros can race here, our cross races count for nationals, we get much better insurance, we might get an NRC race here again (all you new guys probably do not know Bannock and Niwot were NRC races before we left USAC, heck I think Horner won Niwot that year) and the ACA would get a split of the USAC license fee and the $20 to join them.
What is wrong with this idea?
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That's using your noodle
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
What an elegant solution. I helped set up a USAC Local Association in VA. Wasn't that big of a deal and seems to be working out nicely.
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$60 for a senior/master USAC
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
$60 for a senior/master USAC license, of which not more than $10 comes back to the local association. $20 to be a local association member, so $20 + $10 = $30. Current senior/master ACA license is $45. So how would ACA continue to be financially solvent on $15 less per rider, even if all USAC license holders became local association members? Not to mention all the permit fees that would go to USAC? NONE of those come back to the local association. ACA would have to make it ridiculously expensive NOT to be a local association member.
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"...what ACA is able to
Submitted by A bike racer (not verified) on
"...what ACA is able to generate and put back into local racing...."
So I race 60+ times a year, here in CO (USAC and ACA) and in 23 other states, mostly at the NRC level but some regional level events and I have to ask you, what does the ACA do for us? What is it doing that other associations aren't already able to do other than line the pockets of friends of the ACA? And please don't tell me that the USAC doesn't offer better racing opportunities now in CO. How about the N. Boulder crit, how about the Aspen Crit, how about FCCF? Please if someone could please shows me the ACA is doing more to A.)get young people, the future of our sport involved B.) puts on better races or C.) Attract and makes racing for the highest caliber or racer available to the local scene then I will tell you lets keep the ACA and make her stronger. However from what I can see the ACA gets and F- on getting young riders involved, C+ for better races but that comes more from opportunity rather than quality and F- on Attracting riders because purchasing a second lic. is a high barrier to entry for out of state riders and now can't even allow Pros to race.
DOWN WITH THE ACA, I am sorry you are no longer and advantage but a hindrance please leave!
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F- on juniors???
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Stating the ACA gets an F- for junior development this clearly indicates how out of touch you are with the organization you are bashing. ACA has 2-3 Junior Camps per year, A Juniors ride for free program, a 1st Bike program, A juniors only Stage race, and a part-time junior development coordinator to help local teams with junior development. While I think it may be time for a change, I really can't agree with your statements.
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