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This course is designed for graduates and managers in the construction industry who wish to work in the UK and international arena, along with endorsement from the most prestigious professional bodies in the UK.
Fees and funding:
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Please note that the fee amounts stated increase each year in line with inflation.
Designed in consultation with RICS, CIOB and employers, the course develops skills and attitudes with regard to construction, culture and business environment. It encourages social and cultural awareness and builds on responsiveness and coping strategies necessary in the global construction market.
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Each year the MSc Construction Management students have the opportunity to take part in an international field trip.
The trip gives an international perspective to the course and introduces students to some of the real-world challenges in the construction industry
The Postgraduate Dissertation module places an emphasis on autonomous and independent learning. It is instrumental in enabling students to embed and integrate knowledge, understanding and skills in a professional context, and to develop, improve and demonstrate their abilities to undertake high quality research and critical analysis and reflection.
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This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Our virtual learning environment - NTU Online Workspace (NOW) - enables students to access their university resources from anywhere in the world. It delivers learning materials, information and news relevant to your course and includes communication features such as email and discussion boards.
Our lecturers have an excellent reputation for being approachable with an open-door policy. They are also specialists working at the cutting edge of research, ensuring that the course content benefits from their experience, enthusiasm and extensive knowledge.
During the 2010 spring term the newly refurbished Newton and Arkwright buildings reopened after an extensive regeneration project.
These impressive Grade II* listed buildings, designed by Hopkins, have undergone a multi-million pound transformation and now provide beautiful, light studio space, dedicated CAD rooms, a brand new Student Services Centre, state-of-the-art lecture theatres and seminar rooms, and a range of social spaces.
Students may change between the pathways to suit their changing circumstances if required.
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NTU has one of the best graduate employment records in the UK because our courses give you the skills today's employers need.
Students from this course will graduate with improved professional and technical skills in the managerial, economic, legal, and business skills needed in the construction sector.
Many graduates have gone on to successful careers in both the private and public sectors and others have continued studying to PhD level.
Although this course does not offer formal placements, it is vocationally focused and benefits from strong links with industry.
You will need a good construction-related UK honours degree, minimum 2.2 (or equivalent), or corporate membership of an approved professional institution.
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International and EU students also need to meet the English language requirements. Also see the full list of alternative qualifications for EU and international students.
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"I did my undergraduate degree in Building surveying at NTU, but during my work placement at a surveying firm I undertook a substantial amount of construction management and realised this was the career I wanted to pursue.
"The tutors were very helpful always on hand to help with any issues and to give career and interview advice. The content of the course was a mixture of Construction Theory and Management practices.
"The China trip was the highlight of the course. It was combination of site visits, university lectures and tourist opportunities. We got to see some amazing sites, including a visit to a site where 120 skyscrapers were being built! It was an interesting trip where we got to see the contrast between the old and the new modern influences coming to China from the West.
"The trip definitely reinforced what I'd learnt from both of my degrees and my time in industry. The trip also influenced my dissertation topic which was based on sustainable high rise buildings. I believe it improved our cultural understanding of China and also brought us together as a learning group.
"Other highlights of the course include new friends and only two exams! Having just two exams and lots of coursework was just right for me.
"Just before I graduated I gained a place on the National Grid postgraduate training programme. This is a new, two-year programme for people with a postgraduate degree and at least one year's work experience. The job will involve a combination of construction and electrical work, along a project management route."
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College Hockey:Few Games, Little Change: Minnesota Leads USCHO.com/CSTV Poll Once More
MINNEAPOLIS — A light week of games left the USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men's poll largely unchanged from a week ago, with Minnesota again the unanimous choice for No. 1 in Monday's rankings.
The Golden Gophers, who were off last week, topped the voting for the fifth straight week, followed again by No. 2 New Hampshire, which was similarly idle.
Notre Dame and Miami each moved up a spot, to third and fourth, respectively, after Maine tied Mercyhurst Saturday and fell from No. 3 to No. 5 in Monday's results.
Like most of the squads in Division I, none of those teams will play again until after Christmas.
St. Cloud State, Boston College, Colorado College and Boston University occupied spots six through nine this week — the same as last Monday — with none having played since the last poll.
Moving up to No. 10 was Denver, which won twice at Alaska-Anchorage last weekend. The Pioneers displaced Michigan in the top 10, as the No. 11 Wolverines and No. 12 Cornell each slipped downward one place this time around.
Vermont was again No. 13 after shutting out St. Lawrence Saturday. The Catamounts were followed by Michigan State, Clarkson, and Massachusetts, all of which held their positions after having the week off.
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The AICPA is committed to helping members maintain and enhance audit quality. The newly launched Enhancing Audit Quality initiative seeks to improve the consistency of quality across the profession by focusing firms and peer reviewers on new industries, industries with new or rising risks, audit areas of increased risk or areas that have shown to have increased inspection matters in the past. An AICPA-wide approach of communication, enhanced materials, targeted training and robust peer reviews is planned to enhance audit quality.
Further details regarding this initiative are included in the Enhancing Audit Quality initiative overview page. While the formal program will not be finalized until the responses to the discussion paper can be evaluated, the AICPA Peer Review Board has approved a partial implementation of the Emerging Industries and Risk Areas Initiative.
The emerging industries and risk areas follow.
Practitioners must be independent and comply with the requirements of ET sec. 1.295 when providing nonattest services to their attest clients1. ET sec. 1.295 Nonattest Services provides specific guidance to CPAs on the types of nonattest services that impair independence as well as specific safeguards that may be implemented to reduce threats to an acceptable level. Notable changes for engagements beginning on or after December 15, 2014 are that preparing financial statements, among other commonly performed functions, will constitute nonattest services and that multiple nonattest services provided to a client can increase the significance of threats.
One of the key safeguards to reduce the threat of management participation is that the client must designate an individual with suitable skill, knowledge, and/or experience ("SKE") to assume the management responsibilities, oversee the nonattest service, evaluate the adequacy/results of the services performed, and accept responsibility for the results of the services. CPAs are expected to use their professional judgment and experience to determine whether the individual designated by the client can fulfill these responsibilities.
Find associated EAQ products and resources at the AICPA Store.
Peer reviews as well as regulator inspections continue to note matters and issues in the area of sufficiency of audit evidence. These are most commonly noted among risk assessment and internal controls, where the documentation requirements are very specific, yet, involve professional judgment. Ultimately, however, the documentation should enable an experienced auditor, having no previous connection with the audit, to understand the nature, timing, extent, and results of procedures, including significant findings or issues.
In addition, sufficiency of audit evidence relates to the quality and quantity of audit evidence where an auditor uses sampling or other audit approaches that do not include testing of all transactions in an account balance or class. The documentation thereof should enable an experienced auditor, having no previous connection with the audit, to understand the nature, timing, extent, and results of procedures, including significant findings or issues.
Find associated EAQ products and resources at the AICPA Store.
To learn more about the Peer Review Focus Areas, listen to the archived webcast, Surviving the Deep Dive - A Closer Look at the Peer Review Focus Areas. This webcast covers specifics on independence as it relates to nonattest services provided to attest clients and sufficiency of audit evidence, particularly: risk assessment, internal controls and sampling.
In addition, you can access the archived webcast, Sufficiency of Audit Evidence - a Peer Review Focus.
Regulatory and legislative developments have made it clear that there is a significant public interest in, and a higher risk associated with, audits of employee benefit plans. In addition, recent standards promulgated by GASB related to financial accounting and reporting of pensions both at the governmental plan and participating employer levels are extremely complex and will present challenges for auditors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought numerous charges related to municipal securities issuers misleading investors and defrauding investors in the bond market. Many of the charges are based on materially misleading statements or improper accounting and/or disclosure for transactions in the financial statements that are included in offering documents. Accordingly, peer reviewers will be focusing on the financial statement audits of municipal issuers (such as states, local governments, and certain not-for-profit and for-profit conduit borrowers) to determine if the financial statements properly reflect GAAP and that the auditors followed professional standards.
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In addition to the ongoing challenges in Yellow Book and OMB A-133 Single Audits, significant changes will be required by the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards at 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards). Auditors need to be aware of how the new Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards will affect current and future single audit engagements. This includes planning considerations for December 31, 2015 year-end single audits when the new audit requirements become effective, as well as other considerations for single audits of other fiscal periods ending in 2015. Most significantly, the new guidance includes changes to the major program determination, applicable compliance requirements, cost principles, and auditee administrative requirements.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a proposed rule surrounding crowdfunding that requires the Internet-based fundraising entities to register as an "intermediary" and limits transactions to $1,000,000 annually, as well as imposing limitations at the individual investment level. The proposed rule imposes a number of other requirements, including those covering financial statements (preparation, review, or audit at different funding levels) that would be provided to the SEC. As proposed, these engagements would be subject to the more restrictive SEC independence requirements, which preclude auditors of such financial statements from preparing the financial statements. The risks associated with this business segment as well as the potential increased regulatory scrutiny warrant additional focus.
1 This material focuses on the independence requirements of CPAs when providing nonattest services to clients under AICPA professional standards. Some regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, PCAOB and GAO, have established independence requirements that may be more restrictive with regard to the provision of nonattest services for an audit client.


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Having been at the game last night, I didn't get time to put notes together for a proper game recap until I went back to watch the game this afternoon.
A couple things I thought at the game were confirmed. One is that the Red Wings' goals both came on lucky bounces. Detroit was completely unable to score without the puck going in off of a Chicago player.
Another is that the Blackhawks were able to get to the Detroit net without punishment, either from the Red Wings' defenders or the officials.
At one point shortly after Tomas Holmstrom was called for goaltender interference, Patrick Kane cut through Dominik Hasek's crease, bumping the Detroit goalie, with no call from the refs.
Later, the 'Hawks would get on the board when several players were allowed to remain at the side of the crease as Hasek sprawled out, with Patrick Sharp eventually lifting the puck over him.
One thing I hadn't realized was how awful the third-period slashing call on Andreas Lilja was. That was the call that gave the Blackhawks the power play on which they scored the game-winning goal. That's a lot riding on a broken stick.
It's early in the season, right now it's important to think that it doesn't matter. In April we might be able to look back at things like that (as well as the quick whistle in Chicago last week that cost Detroit a goal) and still say it doesn't matter. If they do matter by then, I imagine a lot more games like this will have happened.
Detroit's lines for the morning skate today, courtesy of Bruce MacLeod:
Hasek (starts)
With a win, the Wings will head into their first road trip of the season having claimed nine out of a possible ten points to start the season.
I'll be at the game so there won't be much in-game commentary from me but I will be trying to take some photos.
Photos are good, especially since I can see them now.
It's a little late since you are definately gone by now, but have fun!
Make that the 5th game. I can't count.
Holmstrom got robbed (again). Another fight for Drake. Good times.
First Chicago goal... Wings could have benefitted from the quick whistle Chicago got last weekend. Second one... What was Dom watching? Not good.
My photos from the game have been added to the site.
I'm particularly happy with this one...
I may add video if anything looks good after I finally get around to watching the game tape. Not having seen that is why I haven't done a game-recap yet.
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Celtic have always been associated with colorful football in the more than 120 years since the club was founded to feed the poor children of the East End of Glasgow. Those romantic origins have been honored by the many great Celtic teams who have list up the game not only inside Scotland but in some of the most menorable matches the world has ever seen.
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Maradona's public kiss rouses anger in Algeria
Footballing legend Diego Maradona stirred controversy in Algeria after he kissed his girlfriend in public during a ceremony organized by the government.
Maradona, who was attending a promotional ceremony on the occasion of public company Mobilis' launch of 3G, kissed his girlfriend during the ceremony in the presence of ministers, a photo published on social networking websites revealed.
Algeria's minister of youth and sports Mohammad Tahmi appeared to have been embarrassed by the former footballer's act as the photo showed he looked away.
Sitting on Maradona's left was minister of telecommunications Zahra Darduri, but the photo being circulated on social media did not capture her facial expressions in reaction to the kiss.
The photo attracted sharp criticism against the government as many Algerians considered Maradona's act as an insult of the state, according to local media.
The organizing committee did not comment on the incident but activists spoke out against Maradona via social media and inquired whether Maradona would have acted as such in another Arab country.
Earlier this year however, Maradona was in the spotlight after images of him with numerous women in a number of locations, including swimming pools and parties, in various states of undress alerted Dubai authorities while he was working in the emirate.
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Investors watch for interest rate hike in China
The Hang Seng Index could rise on a technical rebound today, but softer commodity prices will also weigh on the sector as investors took profit due to the strenghtening dollar and after some assets such as silver hit record highs this week. Any upside could be further capped by continuing concerns over an interest rate increase in China, says Dow Jones Newswires Market Talk. Beijing said Wednesday it would release November economic data on Saturday, ahead of schedule, raising speculation that some sort of economic tightening move could follow.
Greatview Aseptic Packaging makes its trading debut in Hong Kong today, with its gray market price up 2.3% from a listing price of HK$4.30 yesterday, says Dow Jones Newswires Market Talk. The retail response was lukewarm with the tranche only 3.4 times oversubscribed.


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I have a bad feeling our offense doesn't score crap tonight.
Did you hear Jon Barry say Melo got introduced last in his debut like he took STAT spot, I watched the whole thing they called Melo's name 1st..........they're just talking to stir up some **** but I think tonight is the night we find our groove
I have a bad feeling our offense doesn't score crap tonight.
I hate the floor in Boston...It's annoying ..
Shump you punk shut the eff up did he really go after chandler there?
we gotta stop switching, hedge the pick and get back the other 3 guys rotate and play 2 guys until we get back
i like were going to stat more
Celtics have the best home refs in the league. They always get questionable calls going their way. ALWAYS..
wait... dantoni took a smart time out? yup he's getting fired if he doesn't win this game im a believer
It looks like we're running some more set plays for STAT and Melo to get off better shots, why are we post feeding Chandler though thats not his game
I love Jeff Van Gundy he's saying everything I believe in
of course Celtics get the call...I told you...HOME REFS
Do you guys notice that we look much more like a team right now, I got a better feeling about us, STAT and Melo are playing beautifully off of each other, we just gotta rebound, not switch so much and attack the basket again
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There are two areas of organic electronics that are of interest through modeling and simulation. The first area involves organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and a critical problem is that that a large fraction of light -more than 80%- is trapped and lost inside the high refractive index layers within the OLED. We will consider various ways to design textured internal and textured external surfaces of the OLEDS that can extract this trapped light. We will use rigorous electromagnetic and photonic simulations for the modeling.
The second area involves organic semiconductors employed in solar materials. We plan to study the electronic properties in these materials through rigorous electronic structure simulations, to understand experimental data. These projects will be closely tied to the Photonics FWP and Prof. J. Shinar's group. The student should have a rudimentary knowledge, or be able to learn, the basics of Unix and scientific programming.
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Panjiva reports strong global trade numbers for May
Signs of economic growth were prevalent in global trade data issued this week by Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers.
U.S.-bound waterborne shipments—at 1,142,399—were up 8 percent annually in May and up 5 percent compared to April. On a year-to-date basis, Panjiva said shipments are up 4 percent at 5,239,084.
And the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S in May—at 172,656—was up 16 percent compared to May 2012 and up 5 percent compared to April.
"I think these numbers are pretty good over all," said Panjiva CEO Josh Green in an interview. "We have seen some significant fluctuation in these numbers from month to month, but the year-to-date shipment number is encouraging. Trade feels relatively healthy, and the next interesting moment will be in the next month or two as corporate buyers start placing their bets for the holiday season."
For this same period last year, Green said there was a bit of a dip from April to May, with growth occurring the year before.
In the short-term, Green said it is reasonable to expect growth between now through August. But if that does not materialize, he said it would be cause for concern.
"What we would hope to see in terms of growth is single-digit growth in June and as we get to July and August, we would like to see high single-digit growth," said Green.
Looking at the global economy, Green noted that the U.S. is holding up well, which is refreshing, and said it is totally unclear as to when Europe is going to come out of its tenuous economic situation.
On some level, this mixed bag can be viewed as an upside for global trade, but Green said the real question mark is China and how it manages the transition of its economy, as much of what occurs in global trade now and in the coming years will be contingent on how China manages its economic growth.
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I know this sounds ungrateful, but being the blunt person that I am, I am going to say it anyway. To the Ohio Legislature and the governor's office: what took you so long?
The recent announcement that Ohio State Parks will receive some $88.6 million for capital improvements is long overdue. And it might be a drop in the bucket when you consider there are 74 state parks over which to spread the money. That's only about $1.2 million per park.
Ohio State Parks, once voted the best state park system in the United States, has been the poor stepchild of the legislature for far too long. Instead of treasuring the parks as the jewel they once were, the legislature has not only neglected them, but has severely cut budgets and staff on a regular basis through the years. And all the while the infrastructure has aged and deteriorated.
It had gotten so bad that to replace worn out park-owned vehicles Ohio was buying trucks and cars from other states that had been driven by their park employees until they were deemed too old with very high mileage. And you might notice some areas of your favorite parks no longer have trash barrels – that's because there is not enough money to hire someone to empty them.
Those are just a couple of examples showing how bad the situation is … not even mentioning crumbled buildings and roads, etc.
Some of the projects outlined by state officials to be completed at the parks are solid projects that will help the parks and attract visitors. It's a good start, but it will take much more than $88.6 million to really help the parks recover from the many years of legislative neglect.
Lawmakers shouldn't feel their work is done when it comes to state parks. They should be putting together the next package to benefit parks and another after that. I am sure every lawmaker realizes it is the people's money to be spent on the people.
Your opinion sought: Ohio residents have been asked to participate in the planning of projects to improve individual state parks. If you have an idea how some of that $88.6 million could be spent, take a quick survey at parks.ohiodnr.gov/improvements.
New boss: Gary Obermiller, chief of the ODNR Division of Watercraft, will become deputy director over Ohio State Parks and Watercraft. He will also serve as chief of Ohio State Parks. Glen Cobb, ODNR deputy director and chief of Ohio State Parks and formerly the park manager at Grand Lake St. Marys, is retiring at the end of June.


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College Hockey:Women's D-I wrap: March 5
A more equal parity
Our sport has long been hungry for parity. Every time a team has knocked off an opponent ranked a few spots above them in a mid-January game, someone has been quick to herald its arrival.
This past weekend, however, was different. These were games that mattered greatly to both teams. In my memory, only the NCAA quarterfinals in 2007 rivaled this weekend for lack of success by the higher-seeded teams in the postseason.
Four conference tournaments were down to four teams, and the top seed didn't win even one. While that alone might suggest parity, analysis suggests that none of these upsets were entirely shocking, and that serves to reinforce to a greater extent that the base of power is expanding.
CHA tournament
There are three certainties in this world. Death. Taxes. Mercyhurst claiming every CHA title being contested. I guess we're now down to just death and taxes.
The semifinals unfolded true to form, with the top-seeded Lakers defeating Syracuse, 4-3, while Robert Morris edged Niagara, 3-2.
Mercyhurst has the country's most effective power play, converting 28.3 percent of the time. To have any chance in the championship, the Colonials figured to have to stay out of the box. In that regard, they failed miserably. RMU paraded to the box 15 times for 30 minutes, giving that potent power play a dozen opportunities. In fact, the Colonials committed as many penalties as they produced shots on goal, as they could only muster 15 of those as well. Somehow, that proved to be enough.
Katelyn Scott, Thea Imbrogno, and Brianna Delaney scored goals in the trenches, and by the time Bailey Bram converted the Lakers' second power-play goal of the game with seven seconds remaining, it was only changing the final score, not the fact that the Colonials would win, 3-2, and claim the first championship in program history. Junior Kristen DiCiocco turned away 45 shots and was named tournament MVP.
ECAC Hockey championship
St. Lawrence has accomplished a lot of things over the years, but until Saturday, winning the ECAC tournament had not been one of them. Entering the day, the Saints were 17-0-1 since Thanksgiving against everyone other than Cornell, and 0-2 versus the Big Red. Apparently, SLU has now figured out Cornell as well.
Regular season champion Cornell posted a 5-1 win over Quinnipiac in the semifinal, scoring twice in the last 100 seconds of the middle period to break a 1-1 tie. League Player of the Year Rebecca Johnston scored her team's first two goals and assisted on the next three.
Meanwhile, fifth-seeded St. Lawrence needed to go to overtime for the second weekend in a row to get by No. 2 seed Harvard, 2-1. Kelly Sabatine was the hero once more, scoring her second of the game at 3:14 of OT. Carmen MacDonald made 29 saves to record the 20th win of her rookie campaign.
In the final, the Saints tweaked the script only slightly. Sabatine scored her third game winner in four games, but struck with 1:50 remaining in regulation this time. Alley Bero scored into an empty net 29 seconds later for the final verdict, 3-1. MacDonald turned away another 33 shots and took the tournament's Most Outstanding Player designation.
WCHA Final Face-Off
One of the few times fans of the nation's No. 1 team, Wisconsin, had reason to cheer was when the scoreboard displayed a photo of reigning Patty Kazmaier Award winner Meghan Duggan. The Badgers spent much of their semifinal versus host Minnesota-Duluth looking like a team that suddenly missed its former captain. Newly-crowned conference Player of the Year Brianna Decker did her part, scoring a goal on an electric rush that drew oohs, but that proved insufficient, as the Bulldogs countered with three highlights-reel goals of their own. Jennifer Harss stopped 32 shots in bouncing UW from the bracket.
In North Dakota's first foray into the league semifinals a year ago, they were shut out, 3-0, by Wisconsin. Its second appearance didn't go any better. Minnesota's Sarah Davis celebrated a hat trick, linemate Emily West scored twice, and Noora Räty recorded a 6-0 shutout.
UMD needed one more win to claim the league's automatic bid and keep alive the dream of reaching the Frozen Four in Duluth. The dream faded as West scored on a power play, Räty completed a perfect weekend by earning tournament MVP recognition, and with a 2-0 win, Minnesota notched its first tournament title since the days when Natalie Darwitz and Krissy Wendell were college players, not high school coaches.
Hockey East Championship
Coming into its semifinal with Providence, top-seed Northeastern was likely haunted by the memory of a game two weeks earlier when the Huskies were unable to solve the Friars' Genevieve Lacasse in a scoreless tie. Northeastern had the same problem on Saturday, and when PC's Haley Frade scored 12 seconds into a power play at the end of the second period, the Huskies were in trouble. Not even nine minutes of penalties on the Friars in the third period, including a full two minutes with a five-on-three Northeastern advantage, were enough to best Lacasse and extend the career of Florence Schelling. Ashley Cottrell added an empty-net goal, and Lacasse negated all 41 shots in a 2-0 PC victory.
In semifinal two, Boston College fell victim to a pattern that has plagued it periodically throughout the season: outshoot the opponent, limit shots allowed, but lose handily. Marie-Philip Poulin had two goals and an assist as Boston University scored five times on 26 shots, Kerrin Sperry turned aside 33 of 35 shots on the other end, and the Eagles were sent to the sidelines with a 5-2 defeat.
The final proved that hockey can be a game of inches, a game of seconds, and even both. Midway through the first period, Laura Veharanta exploited a BU fumble into a 1-0 Providence lead that looked increasingly likely to hold up as the game progressed. Lacasse stopped the first 32 Terriers' shots and was poised to be the fourth goalie on the weekend to be named a tournament's premier player, but with each team having a player in the penalty box and Sperry pulled for an extra attacker, Poulin got the puck to the front of the net and Jenn Wakefield maneuvered it through Lacasse at 19:52 of the third period. In the second overtime session, Providence hit a crossbar, and as play transitioned to the other end, Wakefield's shot hit a Providence player's skate and went into the net at 2:15. Wakefield was awarded MVP, and BU wore the crown.
The NCAA Bracket
So what were the national implications of the weekend tournament action? Providence and Minnesota-Duluth, two teams that needed to win auto-bids to have any hope, fell just short. BU and St. Lawrence, tasked with the same mission, achieved it. Harvard and Northeastern, teams that were inside the field going into the weekend, couldn't survive the combination of semifinal losses and the wrong teams earning automatic bids. Boston College came out smelling like the proverbial rose when all the teams around it floundered. North Dakota fell short of the opportunity to host that it desired, but apparently would have been denied by NCAA sanctions in any case; UND was at least invited to its first dance. Mercyhurst went from potential host to the Madison blues, whether by merit or voodoo economics is difficult to surmise.
The combination of the PairWise rankings and selection-committee discretion produced a bracket of:
Mercyhurst at No. 1 Wisconsin
St. Lawrence at No. 4 Boston College
North Dakota at No. 2 Minnesota
Boston University at No. 3 Cornell
How much any team profited or was wronged is always open to debate. For comparison, here is how the bracket would have looked seeded strictly by auto-bids and KRACH:
Boston University at No. 1 Wisconsin
Minnesota-Duluth at No. 4 North Dakota
St. Lawrence at No. 2 Minnesota
Boston College at No. 3 Cornell
Those pairing may serve to put in perspective any indignation fans that Lakers' fans may be feeling. I have no such comforting thoughts to offer to the UMD faithful.
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Rochester Institute of Technology is proud once again to be a sponsor of the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. The 2016 festival will be held Sept. 15-24.
RIT is renowned for intertwining the arts with technology and innovation. More than 2,100 graduate and undergraduate students study the arts at RIT, taught by 135 faculty members. And the campus is home to three world-class galleries.
Registration runs:
Wed., March 16th at 12noon: SHOW SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Wed., May 4th at 5pm: SHOW SUBMISSIONS CLOSE
You will see RIT arts come to life at the Fringe. In the inaugural festival last year, RIT students, faculty and staff participated in more than 20 performances and exhibits in front of thousands of spectators.
The Rochester Fringe Festival is a spectacular celebration of the performing and visual arts in the heart of Rochester's East End, featuring world-renowned performers as well as up-and-comers. To learn more, go to: http://rochesterfringe.com/
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Kenneth Rogoff is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard, having previously taught at Princeton. He was Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the IMF (2001 to 2003). Early in his career, he was at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has published extensively on policy issues in international finance, including exchange rates, international debt issues, and international monetary policy. Together with Maurice Obstfeld, he is one of the founders of the 'New Open Economy Macroeconomics' with the 1996 book "Foundations of International Macroeconomics." His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart "This Time is Different" develops an extensive new database to study eight centuries of financial crises. In 1978, he was awarded the life title of international grandmaster of chess by the World Chess Federation. He earned his PhD in Economics at MIT in 1980.


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The United States is falling behind in the race for clean, renewable energy and risks losing its prominence in high-tech manufacturing, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Monday.
"America has the opportunity to lead the world in a new industrial revolution," Chu told business leaders, political leaders and engineers at a Clemson University symposium.
But, he said, "The world is passing us by. We are falling behind in the clean energy race. ... China is spending $9 billion a month on clean energy ... China has now passed the United States and Europe in high-tech manufacturing. There is no reason the United States should cede high-tech manufacturing to anyone."


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I have not said anything remotely personal other than "fire Borges". I guess we'll see on Saturday which opinion of Al is more accurate-those who believe he's responsible for 27 carries for 27 yards (like me) or those who feel he's absolved of responsibility for the results on the field and is due to produce excellence (like you).
Oddly enough I truly hope YOU are right. I have contributed too much financial and emotional investment over the years to desire otherwise.
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LightSwitch Article Index
The number of LightSwitch articles on my blog is starting to grow. This landing "page" should provide you an easy reference to all the articles I have published about LightSwitch.
Articles are listed in order of most recent first.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch
- Uploading Images – Capture, modify, then upload images in the LightSwitch HTML Client.
- Delayed HTML Client Splash Screen – Adding a delay to the LightSwitch HTML Client splash screen.
- LightSwitchFX – A great new LightSwitch resource from Matt Ireland.
- Printer List – Get a list of printers configured on the Server side of your LightSwitch application.
- Database Image to File – Save an image from a LightSwitch database to a file on a user's computer.
- Send Emails from the Server – Send out emails from the Server project using a SendGrid account.
- Branching in TFS – Do branching when using Team Foundation Server with LightSwitch.
- Stimulsoft Reporting – Introducing Stimulsoft components for embedded reporting.
- HTML5 Clients – A preview of the HTML5 client features on the way.
- OData Services Only – Using LightSwitch to scaffold an oData services only solution.
- Beautiful Applications – Metro styling an application
Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 (Beta) LightSwitch
- Citizen Devloper Video Series – A video introduction to LightSwitch for the Citizen developer.
- What's New in VS2011 Beta – A presentation slide deck and presentation notes.
- 8 Ways to Reporting and Printing Success – Mitigate any of this niggly reporting and printing issues.
- Consuming OData – Integrating Open Data protocol data into your LightSwitch solution.
- A First Class Citizen – Visual Studio 2011 now includes LightSwitch!
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
- Granular Reference Data – Reference data using Reference data.
- Data First – Taking a data-centric approach to LightSwitch development.
- A Little Productivity – A free downloadable starter kit to bootstrap your LightSwitch development.
- The Citizen Developer – Championing the cause of the latent programmer.
- Primary Child Entity – A technique for defining a primary child entity.
- Application Defaults – Loading default data on deployment.
- Book Review – Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development
- Multi-select Checklist – a call for help to enable a multi-select checklist control.
- Code Project Contest – my submission to the CodeProject LightSwitch Star contest
- What's New – a small update on some of my recent projects.
- Beautiful Themes – a review of beautifully crafted themes from LightSwitchExtras.com.
- Business Analyst Perspective – an objective view of the LightSwitch value proposition.
- EDMUG Presentation – slide deck and takeaway notes from my Sept. 12, 2011 Edmonton .Net User Group presentation.
- RadRichTextBox – binding the RadRichTextBox control to a database.
- Interop to the Calculator – open the system Calculator using Interop.
- Custom Business Type – create a custom business type using the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit.
- Theme Resources – a growing list of resources for downloadable themes.
- How to Install a Theme – a step by step tutorial on how to install a theme.
- RTM Release – The official release of the RTM… yeah!
Beta 2 Release
- Top 10 Fundamentals – A list of top 10 fundamentals that newbie LightSwitch will benefit from understanding.
- Passing Parameters to Reports – Using the DevExpress XtraReports LightSwitch Extension with Parameters.
- Users as Lookup Lists – A WCF way of getting listings of users.
- Would You Like Fries With That? – What do you want in the release?
- Email from the Client Project– Sending emails from the client application.
- Telerik Reports – Using the Telerik Report Viewer via WCF in LightSwitch.
- Stakeholder Management – A simple stakeholder management architecture implemented with LightSwitch.
- Reference Tables with Relationships – Shows how to use tables for reference, or "lookup", type information.
- Many-To-Many Relationships – An example implementation of a many-to-many table relationship.
- What is New in Beta 2 – A quick review and summary of what is new in Beta 2
Beta 1 Release
- How to Make Money with LightSwitch – A common sense view of what value LightSwitch will offer.
- oData and a Telerik RadMap – This was a fun showing oData source items as PinPoints on a Telerik RadMap.
- Consuming oData – A quickie on creating a simple WCF service used to proxy an oData data source.
- Send an Email from LightSwitch – Leverage the System.Net.Mail namespace to send an email from your LightSwitch application.
- Creating and Using a Query – Create better contextual data visualization using LightSwitch queries.
- Creating Table Relationships – A primer on relational database management systems and how to implement relationships in LightSwitch.
- Entity Field Custom Validation – This article shows you how to perform custom validation on an entity field.
- Computed Field Property – Create an entity field that displays a value that is computed.
- Customizing Field Properties – Use the LightSwitch designer to customize the presentation of your field and its data.
- Adding Telerik Controls – An example of how to use Telerik Silverlight controls in your LightSwitch application.
- Adding Custom Silverlight Controls – This article is actually a reference to a Michael Washington article at aDefWebServer.com.
- Customizing a Data Entity – Use the designer to customize a LightSwitch data entity.
- Solution Explorer Logical View and File View – Know when to switch between both views when developing a LightSwitch application.
- Quick Start – An example scenario where I create a quick, and dirty, LightSwitch application.
- First Use – An article illustrating what happened when I selected to create a LightSwitch application using Visual Studio 2010.
- My First #fail at the Beta 1 Installation – Just like the title says. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes:)
- Beta 1 Available for MSDN Subscribers – Where to download LightSwitch Beta 1
Before Beta 1 Release
- A Value Proposition for the Enterprise – A former Business Analyst's take on what LightSwitch can bring to the table.
- CodeCast (Episode 88) Takeaway Notes – Some notes I took when listening to Jay Schmelzer on a CodeCast episode.
- A Data Driven Approach – Some notes and thoughts about how a data driven approach is used for developing LightSwitch applications.
- Beyond the Basics (Channel 9 Video) Takeaway Notes – More notes from an Channel9 video where Beth Massi interviews Joe Binder from the LightSwitch team.
- Behind the Pretty Face – A reiteration of an LightSwitch team blog article on the architecture behind LightSwitch.
- Visual Studio IDE – This is an article that examines the Visual Studio IDE used for designing LightSwitch applications.
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Feb 12, 1953
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Nabil Shaban is a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He founded The Graeae - a theatre group which promotes performers with disabilities. He has a son named Zenyel. Shaban was a student at the University of Surrey in the late seventies and contributed to the Students' Union newspaper "Bare Facts". One of his most memorable television roles was that of the hideous reptilian alien Sil in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Shaban played Sil in two serials: Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp. Shaban is particularly well known among Doctor Who fans for Sil's laugh, which he created. He has appeared in several films, including Born of Fire, City of Joy, Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein, Gaias børn, and Children of Men, and has also worked as part of the Crass Collective. In 2011, he played the Roman emperor Constantius II at the National Theatre in Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean. In 2003 he made a TV documentary titled The Strangest Viking, in which Shaban explored the possibility that Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless may have had osteogenesis imperfecta, the same condition he himself has.
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I have setup a CentOS 6.3 box to collect logs from a few devices, I have log rotation setup for each host. Basically It rotates the log file by Year, Month, Day and the Host.
Everything works great except it seems the Rsyslog daemon creates the files/folders with root:root owner & group. I then can't navigate into the day folder e.g 06, 07, 08 without changing the permissions first.
I can navigate with root of course but this isn't ideal.
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Stanford forward Chiney Ogwumike was among 30 women's basketball players named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced Tuesday.
Ogwumike is one of four Pac-12 players on the list, being joined by California's Brittany Boyd and Gennifer Brandon as well as Washington's Jazmine Davis. The list was compiled through a poll of national college women's basketball media members.
Ogwumike is one of two 2013 John R. Wooden Award All-Americans on this year's list, with Baylor's Odyssey Sims being the other. Back on Oct. 8 Ogwumike was named to the WBCA's Preseason Wade Watch List for the Wade Trophy Player of the Year award.
Stanford's returning All-American enters 2013-14 following a record-setting 2012-13 campaign, becoming the first player in Pac-12 history to capture the conference's Triple Crown by leading the loop in scoring (22.4 ppg), rebounding (12.9 rpg) and field-goal percentage (58.3). Her performance helped Stanford to a 33-3 record, its 13th straight Pac-12 regular season title, seventh straight Pac-12 Tournament title and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.
Ogwumike's performance earned her a bounty of honors. She was named to the WBCA Coaches' All-America Team for the second year in a row and was voted to the Associated Press All-America First Team a year after making the AP's second team. Ogwumike was named Pac-12 Player of the Year for the first time in her career and also nabbed her second straight Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year award, becoming the first player to earn both honors, and in a single season to boot. She also received a pair of votes, the second-most of any player, in the Associated Press' National Player of the Year election last March.
Her 466 rebounds last season broke the single-season Pac-12 record held by older sister Nnemkadi Ogwumike (376 – 2009-10) and she enters this season with 1,121 career rebounds, just 147 away from breaking the Pac-12 record of 1,266 held by former Stanford teammate Kayla Pedersen (2007-11). Additionally, Ogwumike set the Stanford single-game rebounding record with 24 last Feb. 24 against Oregon. On the scoring front, her 805 points in 2012-13 fell just four short of the Stanford single-season record held by Nnemkadi Ogwumike (809 – 2011-12).
After a Nov. 3 exhibition against Vanguard University, Stanford opens the 2013-14 campaign with a trip to the East Coast in early November. The Cardinal visits Boston College Saturday, Nov. 9 before taking on defending national champion Connecticut in a nationally-televised contest Monday, Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. PT on ESPN2. The contest against the Huskies in Storrs raises the curtain on ESPN's 2013 Tip-Off Marathon.
Ogwumike is one of four starters returning for the Cardinal, being joined by junior point guard Amber Orrange, redshirt senior center Mikaela Ruef and senior guard Sara James. The Cardinal also returns contributors in junior forwards Bonnie Samuelson and Taylor Greenfield, and features a five-woman freshman class of guards Lili Thompson, Briana Roberson and Karlie Samuelson along with forwards Erica McCall and Kailee Johnson.


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The Boston Children's Museum unveiled the website it has created for The Japanese House, or Kyo no Machiya, a treasured exhibit since 1979. The website will function as an informational and educational resource to elementary, middle, and high school students and for individuals interested in learning more about the House as well as the history of Japan.
Originally built in the late 1800s, The Japanese House at The Boston Children's Museum belonged to a silk merchant family in Kyoto's Nishijin neighborhood, known for its silk weaving. The city of Kyoto gifted the House to the city of Boston in 1979 in honor of the 20th anniversary of their Sister Cities Relationship. For visitors to The Japanese House exhibit, the website offers a way to expand their knowledge about Japanese culture, history, art and architecture ahead of or as a follow-up to a visit to the Museum.
Among the many multimedia and interactive resources on The Japanese House website include a searchable online catalog of photographs of artifacts, videos about life in Kyoto and information about the silk weaving industry at Nishijin. "In my position as a program director at Primary Source, I work closely with teachers to improve teaching and learning about Japan. The Japanese House website provides unique resources and innovative approaches to curriculum," said Peter Gilmartin, Program Director at Primary Source, an organization that promotes global education. "This site provides a new opportunity for educators and students throughout the United States, and for that matter the world, to access the unique resources and expertise that Boston Children's Museum brings to educating about Japan."


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The PSP Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts In November
After performing admirably on just about every system imaginable, Atari is finally ready to bring Ghostbusters: The Video Game to the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo next month.
After performing admirably on just about every system imaginable, Atari is finally ready to bring Ghostbusters: The Video Game to the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo next month.
High Voltage, the developers behind the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit, have signed up for a lifetime license to the Ghostbusters-powering Infernal Engine, gearing up for some Xbox 360 and PC development.
Some people are already calling the Ghostbusters game a bust, in light of its failure to crack the NPD's Top 10 for June and pricey development budget. Those people may be slightly off the mark.
It's not often that the public gets word of what it costs to make a specific game. But a multi-million-dollar range was given for the latest Ghostbusters game in a Texas newspaper.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game comes to us bearing a twin-blockbuster burden: Both as a game, and also as the first true representative of a beloved franchise to come along in 20 years.
Online head-to-head comparisons of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Atari's Ghostbusters: The Video Game indicate that one of those high-def consoles is offering a less "feel good" experience.
European and sundry other PAL region Ghostbusters fans sent into a Walter Peck-style rage over the game's PlayStation exclusivity will be pleased to learn that the North American version of the Xbox 360 game is not region locked.
Giant Bomb's biggest Ghostbusters fans have played the new Ghostbusters game, only to be reminded that video game humor has its limits.
There's a great deal of stream crossing going on in this multiplayer trailer for Atari's upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Following this morning's announcement of Sony's exclusive PAL Ghostbusters publishing deal, Atari clarifies their publishing plans for North America, including the release of the PSP version worldwide.
Buried in plain sight in Sony Europe's announcement on the PAL timed exclusivity of Ghostbusters on the PlayStations 3 and 2, the PSP looks to be getting its own version of the game after all.
Atari's Ghostbusters: The Video Game is coming to every platform it possibly can. Obviously those various ports are going to be very different. The Nintendo DS experience isn't going to match the PlayStation 3 experience.
Normally, the ESRB is a great resource for leaked information, such as the unannounced PSP version of Atari's Ghostbusters: The Videogame it rated the other day. Sometimes it's not such a great resource.
Ghostbusters: The Videogame will be arriving on the Playstation Portable, Playstation 2 and Wii, according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board update for the game.
Terminal Reality plans to start licensing the technology behind their upcoming title Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Atari hopped up from their New York Comic Con attendance, just dropped this fresh look at their upcoming Ghostbusters game. Ghostbusters : The Video Game will be hitting six platforms come June 16.
Terminal Reality put out the call for playtesters to go hands on with Ghostbusters: The Video Game a few weeks ago, giving local folks a chance to play the game months before its release.
This is a corrected version of the story that ran earlier today by AJ. In it we incorrectly stated that Bill Murray's voice would not be in the console game. We reconfirmed with Atari that Murray's voice will be in the console games. We apologize for any confusion.
Usually when a game goes for simultaneous multi-platform releases, I immediately write off the Wii version.
Nobody looks at Tom Hanks and says "He sucks, I hate him and every movie he's ever been in." Similarly, nobody hears "Ghostbusters" and thinks "They suck, I hate them."


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Clara's Quick Jam Cookies | A Fast and Sweet Homemade Treat
These jam cookies take less than 15 minutes to put together and another 20 minutes to bake, making them a perfect solution for those moments when you need something sweet and homemade in a hurry. They're tender and buttery with great contrast from the tart jam. The cookies first appeared in Yankee about ten years ago, a submission from a reader named Johanna Hurwitz.
Johanna shared the story behind these cookies, and it's a charmer:
"My aunt Clara Morris, nicknamed Cluck because of her wonderful crowing laugh, was by general agreement the best cook in our family," she wrote. "She lived in a small Connecticut town named Uncasville. I loved visiting, partly because it tickled me that the town's population—2,000—was the number of students in my New York City junior high school.
Clara was secretary for the local probate judge, and when he retired, she decided to run for his position. Despite the fact that her formal education had ended with her high school diploma, she was voted into office. (Because of her years behind the scenes, she knew the job inside and out; she was a good judge).
One of the responsibilities that came with her job was officiating at marriages. Since Clara was such a warmhearted person, it was not enough for her to merely perform these weddings. Afterward, she always offered the couple a cup of coffee and something sweet, like these cookies, which she could whip up in a hurry."
Split-Second Jam Cookies Recipe
Total time: 45 minutes; hands-on time: 15 minutes
Makes: About 4 dozen cookies
Ingredients for jam cookies:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract)
- 1/2 cup good quality jelly or jam, any flavor
Method for jam cookies:
Preheat oven to 350°. Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the butter, egg, and vanilla and beat well until dough begins to come together. It may take two minutes or so.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 4 parts. Shape each into a roll about 13 inches long and transfer to an ungreased cookie sheet with about 4 inches between them. Press the logs down to a 3/4-inch thickness. Use a knife handle to make a depression about 1/2 inch deep down the center of each log. Fill each depression with the jam. Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cut each loaf into about a dozen bars while warm.


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Intel buys Israeli sports imaging startup
Plunging deeper into VR
Intel has written a $175 million cheque to buy the sraeli sports imaging startup Replay Technologies.
Cherry Trail-based Beelink BT3 mini PC reviewed
Review: 14nm silicon makes a big difference
A year ago we had a chance to test a couple of Beelink micro PCs, including a stick PC, and we were pleasantly surprised; not only by the performance offered by Intel's venerable 22nm Bay Trail processors, but by the build quality of these diminutive PCs.
Intel talks about getting back to Moore's Law
Back to advancing every two years
Chipzilla has been explaining how it hopes to claw back the missing six months which it lost in chip development and return to Moore's Law increases of every two years.
Intel building Realsense into AR device
Consumer gear anyone?
Chipzilla is adapting its RealSense depth camera into an augmented reality headset design which it might be licensing to other manufacturers.
Kaby Lake will square off with Zen
Pick your sides
Intel's Kaby Lake-series processors will square off against AMD's great white hope Zen at the end of the fourth quarter.
Lenovo Yoga bends to budget position
Starts at $500
The Lenovo Yoga is one of those devices that we want since we played with one on a press doo and notw it appears that Lenovo has given us a reason.
5G will allow drones to fly
Intel boss drones about the future
5G networking will eventually enable drones to fly all over the earth, according to Intel Boss Brian Krzanich.
Intel shows Android smartphone running a Linux desktop
"Big Screen Experience"
One of the things we spotted at the Mobile World Congress 2016 was a demo run by Intel of an Android phone running a Linux desktop when plugged into an external display.
Intel processors will support Clang
Cannonlake reacts to Zen
Intel has announced that its Cannonlake processors will support Clang (C language family frontend for LLVM compiler infrastructure project).
IoT industry leaders announce open source standard group
Aims to accelerate Internet of Things to a single open standard
On Friday, a group of industry leaders making headway in the Internet of Things (IoT) market announced a cross-industry collaboration effort aimed at unlocking the massive opportunities for consumers and business with IoT devices, and ultimately a way to quickly get everyone to adopting a single open standard.


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Technote (troubleshooting)
This technote explains how to resolve a java runtime exception error, "Widget disposed too early", that might occur when using IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® in a Linux® environment.
After installing ClearQuest, the ClearQuest Eclipse Client (RCP) will not start. In the ClearQuest installation.log file you might find the following error:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 4 0 2007-03-27 14:39:07.61
!MESSAGE Widget disposed too early!
java.lang.RuntimeException: Widget disposed too early!
Similarly, ClearQuest may start but then the splash screen errors out referring to a log file that has the widget error above and the following SWTError:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2008-04-25 14:29:19.298
!MESSAGE Application error
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed]
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error
The root cause is that the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) runtime can not find or initialize the installed browser.
Note: This can also occur if there are problems with the version of xulrunner installed. For example, if you have mozilla-xulrunner on SUSE Linux, running an rpm -e command against the package might resolve the problem. For more information on this, see techote 1394977.
Resolving the problem
The SWT FAQ offers a solution to resolve this issue. Notice the section specifically about a bug with IBM 1.4 VMs that may keep the necessary libraries of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. The following section is copied from the SWT FAQ:
|Q: How can I get the SWT Browser to work with the IBM 1.4 VM?
A: The IBM 1.4 VM accidentally removes certain entries of the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This occurs in particular for entries starting with /usr/lib. It will leave untouched entries such as /usr/../usr/lib.
Instructions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users:
Note: These instructions are for RHEL 4 and 5 as well.
This was logged as a documentation defect under APAR PK65929. The ClearQuest Information Center includes these necessary instructions starting in version 7.1.


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Community Educational Outreach Service (CEOS)
The Harrison County Community Educational Outreach Service is composed of 21 clubs who meet on a regular basis to receive up-to-date educational information, participate in community outreach projects, and leadership development opportunities. Club sizes vary from small to very large. Some clubs meet in homes, others in churches, town halls or community rooms. Each club decides the amount of dues for operating expenses. County and state dues are a total of $10.
The Cooperative Extension Service serves as an educational arm of West Virginia University and is an active partner to the CEOS, providing expertise and educational collaboration that benefits the CEOS organization. Programs and activities offered by the West Virginia University Extension Service are available to all persons without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age or national origin.
Call the WVU/Harrison County Extension office at 304-624-8650 for more information or to become a club member, a member-at-large, or even start your own club. Information and materials are available at your request.Download the 2014 CEOS Club List
Read the 2015 July/Aug. CEOS Newsletter
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Archived Events
View the 2014 CEOS Proclamation
2015 Workshops, Trainings & Events
Basket Workshop
Learn more about these opportunities
Cultural Arts Fair Event
Calendar of County CEOS 2015 Events – Everyone welcome to participate.
Preregistration for events required. All events begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Harrison County Recreation Complex/4-H Center unless otherwise noted.
19 Lesson Leader Training
24 Plarn Tote Class
30 Executive Board
6 Marvelous Monday
8 Achievement Day
8 County Council
13 Basket Class
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The ESA program diverts public school dollars for the benefit of educating students that qualify for an ESA in a private or hybrid educational setting. The Arizona Department of Education in conjunction with the Arizona State Treasurer's Office is entrusted with ensuring that public tax dollars are spent in accordance with the law. ESA debit card restrictions are put in place to ensure monies that flow from the ESA program are spent to expand educational choice to parents and children but also to provide assurance to Arizona tax payers that all ESA funds are appropriated correctly.
Why are funds restricted?
Can you provide an estimate of how much my child can qualify for?
Yes, although the school finance formula is complex, a ballpark estimate of award amounts can be seen by viewing the Approximate Funding Levels document.
My ESA Debit Card Isn't Working, What Do I Do?
The ESA pre-paid debit cards have been restricted from certain transactions in an effort to reduce misspending. In an effort to resolve the debit card issue staff has created a list of approved spending categories identified by credit card codes (MCC codes).
Some of the MCC codes have been allowed due to vendors of approved expenditures sharing offices with other businesses or running multiple businesses from one location. Click here for a list of what ESA funds can be used on.
If you are having difficulty accessing your card for what you believe is an approved expenditure please review our MCC Listof currently approved MCC codes.
If you have an approved expense that is being declined, please obtain the merchants MCC code (Merchant Category Classification Code) from the merchant and if it is not included on the list of currently approved MCC codes please fill out this form and submit it to The Arizona State Treasurer's Office at [email protected] .
Note: any MCC code that you wish to add to the approved list must be authorized by the Arizona Department of Education.
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Please contact the Bank of America to report your ESA debit card as lost or stolen and they will be reissued.
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A new movie about Aaliyah is coming to Lifetime and this sounds like one movie you will not want to miss. Zendaya has already been chosen to play the part of Aaliyah in this biopic. On Monday, MSN shared something big that fans have been wondering if would be discussed in this film or not.
Aaliyah had an alleged secret marriage to R. Kelly back when she was just 15-years-old. This is a big part of her life and now fans will get to hear this story. The marriage will be a big part of the upcoming Lifetime made for television movie. Everyone has been really interested in hearing more about this part of her life and now is the time that it will come out. This movie will be called "Aaliyah: Princess of R&B."
This movie is going to talk about the alleged wedding. Nobody really knows if this happened or not, but rumors have been flying that it did. She was only 15-years-old and he was 27-years-old at the time that everyone heard that they were married. There is a marriage certificate out there and it shows her with a fake age of 18 on it.
Executive producer Debra Martin Chase spoke out about it and said, "Aaliyah's personal and professional relationship with R. Kelly will be explored with care in the film as we set out to depict her life with the utmost respect. Above all else, it's our hope to inspire an entirely new generation with her music and larger-than-life talent."
Hot New Hip Hop shared the news that Zendaya was cast in this part. She is a Disney star but has also been on "Dancing With the Stars." Her fan base will be watching this movie as well as fans of Aaliyah. BET's Keisha Chante was talked about for the role as well but ultimately didn't get it.
This movie will start when she was just 10-years-old and go on to Aaliyah's death at the young age of 22. They are still working on the film so there is not an exact date of when it will air yet. It will be on Lifetime and you can easily assume it will be their Saturday night movie of the week.


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By Lynn Davis
Special to The Pilot
Spirits were high, as was the temperature on Saturday, for Brookings-Harbor's fourth annual Community Picnic.
Organizers estimated the event brought more than 600 people to Azalea Park to enjoy fun, food and each other's company.
The menu consisted of a bounty of old-fashioned hot dogs, cake, ice cream and soda-pop courtesy of Brookings Rotary Club, Delaney's Bakery, Ray's Food Place, Slugs 'n Stones 'n Ice Cream Cones and Pepsi. Ice was provided by both Price 'n Pride and Harbor Ice.
Entertainment was provided through way of games, contests, races and raffles.
Photo opportunities were everywhere, from little ones with ice cream dripping from their noses, to fireman carrying fallen half-pints over the finish line of a race in which they had to run outfitted in full fire uniforms that were bigger than they were.
The picnic, which gets bigger every year, is co-sponsored by Kiwanis and the city of Brookings.
"The event is designed to bring all of the public together for something that is fun and safe for everyone," said lead organizer Lorraine Kuhn. The city councilor and Kiwanis member said she is thrilled with this year's turnout and sees no reason not to do it again.
"We'll have it every year in September," she said.
Mary Trailor, president of the Rotary Club didn't have an exact count as to how many people attended the picnic, but based on the number of hot dogs eaten, estimates exceed the 600 mark.
"So far we have handed out over 600 hot dogs," Trailor said. "We thought 400 would be enough, but we ran out earlier and had to go get some more."
Kuhn attributes this year's increase in attendance, at least for the most part, to Mother Nature.
"The event is much larger because the weather is better," she said. Many factors contributed to make the day a success but, most important she believes, was the support of the community and the dedication of volunteers.
One special helper, Mayor Bob Hagbom, volunteered his time to serve picnickers hot dogs and ice cream. "He has been here all day," Kuhn said. She extended a big "Thank You" to emcee Kevin Bane from KURY Radio, as well and said, "We couldn't do it without him."
Bane, too, believed Mother Nature played a big part in the picnic's successful outcome.
"Good turnout, great weather!" he said. "It was obvious that people stayed for the whole time. The weather was very conducive to picnicking."
Bane spent a good portion of the afternoon reading off raffle numbers for close to 100 prizes. The system, he said, had been changed this year to no longer require signatures on the winning tickets, which made things much easier.
Included in the list of prizes were river tours provided by Rogue River Mailboats, gift certificates from Redwood Theater, Lucky 7 Casino, Wild River Pizza, All About You hair salon, S&K Dollar Store, stuffed animals provided by Geraghty Coin, and Umpqua Bank donated five $50 savings bonds.
Donations were not a problem this time around, which made planning the picnic much easier for organizers, Kuhn said. "Raffle prizes were not solicited this year, they came to us and asked what we needed." Food and beverage sponsors were as eager to help out as well.
A big hit with the crowd was a racing game and large screen TV, provided by the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 757 for the afternoon's entertainment. Kuhn said of the Veterans participation, "They are really involved with children in the community, it's great to see them doing it again."
Many other games and activities were available to participate in ranging from the Harbor Fire Department's uniform race, to basketball shoots, face painting, Frisbee and balloon tosses, paper airplanes and hula hoops courtesy of Kiwanis, Darrin Farmer of State Farm Insurance, Azalea Middle School's Leadership Class and Builder's Club, and Brookings-Harbor High School's Key Club.
Cool the Clown, whose visit was also made possible by Kiwanis, played with the children, performing tricks and juggling her way through the audience.
Brookings Police Department also participated in the day's festivities by providing "goody" bags to the children complete with crayons, stickers and coloring books, as well as handing out bike safety pamphlets and other useful information.
Donny Dotson of the Brookings Police Department, together with his police dog and partner, Robby, interacted with members of the community.
Robby, a German shepherd, has been a member of the force for nine months and specializes in drug enforcement. Dotson said his furry partner "definitely helps the relationship with the kids." He added, "It helps to break the ice and also opens the door for conversation with the kids about more serious topics, like drugs."
Children, can be intimidated with police because of previous associations that tie them to violent situations. The drama of their job that is illustrated on TV shows, for example, can sometimes lead to detrimental thinking in young people, learning that police are to be feared and avoided, instead of respected and admired, Dotson said.
Often parents, too, unwittingly add to the fear in their little ones of the police by saying things like, "Hurry up, put your seat belt on. There's a cop!" or That darn police officer gave me a ticket just because I was going 65 in a 25!" Opportunities that allow conversation and good encounters with police, such as the Community Picnic, Dotson reported, can be invaluable in the challenge to change perceptions.
Newcomers to Brookings, and owners of Acoustic Blends Coffeehouse, Brian and Trista Box, brought their family to the picnic for a day of funnin' and sunnin' and, even though they came late, they still had a great time.
"It's a lot of fun," Brian said, "especially for the kids." He added, "It was neat to interact with police and law enforcement."
For some, the picnic provided the opportunity to do a little sun-worshiping. Others enjoyed the afternoon at the park by reading a book or visiting with friends they hadn't seen in a while.
Tina Nattell said, while lounging with her daughter on the grass under their big umbrella, "I think it's really great. Kids really enjoy it. It's the only place you can go where the mayor will make you an ice cream cone."


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Organizations can deploy the Virtual Probe software on all their VMware hosts, but pay only for the number of monitored virtual servers. For example, if an organization has a VMware cluster of 20 blade servers supporting 200 virtual servers, but they need to monitor only five virtual databases out of those 200, they pay for only the five databases, not for the 20 blades. This "pay-as-you-go" model allows the organization to pay for what they are actually using, but still be able to monitor key systems no matter where they happen to be hosted in the VMware data center.
VSM: What does PacketSentry Virtual Probe currently support, and what other support should we expect to see in the future?
JG: Today the PacketSentry Virtual Probe supports VMware vSphere version 4.0 and greater, ESX version 3.5 and greater. Stay tuned, support for other hypervisors will be available in a future release. Our strategy has always been to leverage x86 CPUs and to never require custom hardware, so our solution can be supported on just about any hypervisor platform without modification.
VSM: Can you talk about a customer scenario or actual customer, and what their needs and requirements are?
JG: In general the customer requirements in the virtual environment are very similar to the physical environment. For example, PacketSentry supports the same key use cases in VMware that it does in traditional data centers: Database monitoring, file share monitoring, high risk user controls, network segmentation, and security investigations. However, organizations need general visibility more than ever, because the virtual environment is so opaque, and you can't secure what you don't know about. Most of the initial interest we are seeing is in protecting and auditing databases and segmenting critical virtual systems for other virtual servers in the data center.
VSM: It's been great chatting with you today. Anything else you'd like to share about the state of virtualized data protection or the new PacketMotion solution?
JG: The driving force to virtualize PacketSentry has been our customers, due to all of the data being virtualized today. An additional benefit we haven't discussed is that the Virtual Probe supports separation of duties by giving security and network teams – which are responsible for meeting compliance regulations and protecting intellectual property – a solution for audit and control in the virtual data center, an area typically owned by server teams. Now, security teams can monitor virtual server administration activity and policy enforcement within the virtual servers, and can enforce or change policies on their own.
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