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Data Use Certification
(An Appendix to the Data Access Request)
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Introduction and Statement of Policy
The Medical Sequencing Program (MSP) was implemented by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) with the goal of identifying genetic variants that contribute to diseases of major public health importance by sequencing samples from existing studies that include large numbers of affected and unaffected individuals. Implicit in the MSP is the view that scientific progress in this area will be greatly enhanced if the data that are produced by the program are readily available to all investigators in the research community.
MSP Project Datasets (See: Medical Sequencing Project and Current Initiatives) to be distributed under this certification process will be coded. However, due to the nature of the sequence data, and in some cases, the phenotype data, it may be possible, in principle, to use the data to identify an individual research participant. Thus, these data will only be provided to investigators who, along with their institutions, have certified their agreement with the requirements and terms of access detailed below. It is the intent of the NHGRI that Approved Users of MSP Project Datasets should recognize the restrictions on data use imposed by the original informed consent agreements of Contributing Studies.
To promote the responsible use of the MSP Project Datasets all investigators and their institutions seeking access shall acknowledge their agreement with the MSP Policies and Procedures described on the NHGRI Web site, which are articulated within this Data Use Certification. For collaborative projects, any independent collaborating investigator shall complete a separate Data Access Request (DAR) if that collaborating investigator is from a separate institution. If investigators are from the same institutions, multiple Data Use Certifications may be submitted under a single DAR.
Definitions of terminology used in these documents are found in the MSP Glossary.
Terms of Access
1. Requesting Investigator ("Requester")
The Requester has reviewed and understands the guiding principles for responsible research use and data handling of the data included within MSP Project Datasets as described in the on-line material provided through the NHGRI Web site.
2. Research Use
The Requester agrees that he/she shall use the MSP Project Dataset solely in connection with the research project described in the Data Access Request submitted through the MSP website, which includes the project title, the Requester's name and institution, the names of any Major Collaborators and their institutions, and a brief description of the research objectives. New uses of these data outside those described above will require submission of a new DAR; substantive modifications to the research project will require submission of an amendment to this application. The Requester further agrees that he/she shall use the MSP Project Dataset(s) only in accordance with the parameters described on the MSP website for appropriate research uses, and any limitations on such use, of this dataset. The Requester and his/her institution further acknowledge that they are responsible for ensuring that all uses of the data are consistent with federal, state, and local laws and regulations and any relevant institutional policies.
It is anticipated that, at least in some cases, the MSP Project Datasets will be updated with additional information. Unless otherwise indicated, all statements herein are presumed to be true and applicable to the access and use of all versions of the MSP Project Datasets.
3. Non-Identification
The Requester agrees not to use MSP Project Datasets, or any other information, to identify or contact individual participants from whom phenotype data and DNA samples were collected.
4. Non-Transferability
The Requester agrees to retain control over the data, and further agrees not to distribute the individual data in any form to any entity or individual other than his/her research staff, who also agree to the terms within this Data Use Certification, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
The Requester agrees that if he/she changes institutions then a new Data Access Request and appended Data Use Certification will be submitted and approved before data use resumes. Any versions of data stored at the prior institution will be destroyed.
5. Computer Security
The Requester agrees to store MSP data only on computers with adequate security controls, to adhere to practices that ensure that only authorized individuals can gain access, and to maintain appropriate control over any copies of the data.
In the event of a breach of confidentiality, Approved Users are required to report the breach on the same day it is discovered. Reports should be made by contacting the NHGRI Data Access Committee by e-mail (email@example.com). The report must include all known information regarding the breach as well as a description of plans for further investigation and immediate remediation.
The NHGRI or other entity designated by the NHGRI may also investigate such breaches. Approved Users and their associates will be required to support such investigations and provide information, within the limits of applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations.
6. Intellectual Property
By requesting access to MSP Project Dataset(s), the Requester and his/her home organization (Requesting Institution) acknowledge the intent of the NHGRI to see that Approved Users follow the NHGRI/MSP intellectual property policy as summarized below:
- Achieving maximum public benefit is the ultimate goal of NHGRI/MSP. NHGRI believes that MSP data should be considered as pre-competitive, and urges users to avoid making IP claims on the data. However, NHGRI also recognizes the importance of the later development of IP on downstream discoveries, especially in therapeutics, which will be necessary to support full investment in products that the public needs.
- It is expected that MSP data and conclusions derived therefrom will remain freely available, without requirement for licensing. While NHGRI recognizes the value of patents in developing downstream products that benefit the public, the intent of the NHGRI is to discourage the use of patents in a manner that would prevent use of or block access to any fundamental data that are developed with NHGRI support. The NHGRI encourages broad use of MSP Datasets in a manner consistent with a responsible approach to management of intellectual property derived from downstream discoveries as outlined in NIH's Best Practices for the Licensing of Genomic Inventions [ott.nih.gov] and in the NIH Research Tools Policy [grants.nih.gov].
7. Publication
While NHGRI/MSP seeks to accelerate the rapid advancement of scientific knowledge through publication, it recognizes the effort that the Contributing Investigators and their institutions have made in obtaining the Submitted Samples and the associated Submitted Data that were the basis for the MSP Project Datasets. NHGRI considers that the MSP data are unpublished data until the Contributing Investigator publishes a paper describing the results of a particular MSP project, specifically in this case, results describing the association of a variation with a phenotype. Approved Users are asked to apply the normal standards of scientific etiquette when deciding to publish results (association of a variation with phenotype) based substantially on unpublished data. Contributing Investigators are asked to keep in mind that they have a reciprocal responsibility to publish significant results rapidly.
8. Research Use Reporting
In order to ensure that NHGRI/MSP policies and procedures for participant protection and data use are adhered to, Approved Users agree to provide annual feedback on how the MSP data have been used and any results such as publications and patents that have been generated as a result of access to the data. This information will be used by the NHGRI Data Use Review Board (DURB) (See Page 17 in PDF, section titled Data Use Review Board) provide ongoing, independent oversight of all MSP Project Dataset use and by NHGRI staff as required for program oversight and management activities.
Approved Users thus agree to provide a brief report on the research specified within this DAR. Requesters that were previously Approved Users (that is, those seeking renewal) will be asked to provide specific information in the renewal DAR. Those not seeking renewal will be asked to complete only a specific reporting section of the DAR. The report will be in an automated format, and will ask questions regarding publications that resulted from the use of MSP data, potentially adverse events for research participants, breaches in security of data (for example, accidental distribution of data beyond Approved Users), information on any intellectual property generated as a result of the data, and any return of research results to research participants (in cases where the Approved User is also a Contributing Investigator). Approved Users may be asked to provide general comments regarding the effectiveness of MSP, such as ease of access and use, appropriateness of data format, challenges in complying with MSP policies, and suggestions for improving MSP data access or the program in general.
9. Dissemination of Research Results and Acknowledgments
It is the intent of NHGRI to promote the dissemination of analyses of MSP Project Dataset(s) as widely as possible. Requesters are strongly encouraged to publish their results in peer-reviewed journals.
The Requester agrees to acknowledge NHGRI, the Contributing Investigator(s) who contributed the phenotype data and DNA samples from his/her original study, the Sequencing Center, and the primary funding organization that supported the contributing study in all oral and written presentations, disclosures, and publications resulting from any analyses of the data. The Requester further agrees that the acknowledgment shall include a reference to the specific version of the MSP Data analyzed.
The Requester also acknowledges that the Contributing Investigator(s) have made a significant contribution to the research project, and that scientific etiquette calls for that contribution to be respected. Thus, not only should that contribution be acknowledged in any manuscript submitted for publication by the requester, the requester should also consider whether the Contributing Investigator should be afforded the opportunity to publish her/his work first, if that is done within a reasonable period of time.
10. Non-Endorsement, Indemnification
The Requester and his/her institution acknowledge that although all reasonable efforts have been taken to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the MSP data, NIH, NHGRI, Sequencing Centers, and Contributing Investigators do not and cannot warrant the results that may be obtained by using any data included therein. NIH, NHGRI and all contributors to the MSP dataset disclaim all warranties as to performance or fitness of the data for any particular purpose.
No indemnification for any loss, claim, damage or liability is intended or provided by any party under this agreement. Each party shall be liable for any loss, claim, damage, or liability that said party incurs as a result of its activities under this agreement, except that the NIH, as an agency of the United States, assumes liability only to the extent provided under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. 2671 et seq.
11. Termination and Violations
This Data Use Certification will be in effect for a period of one year from the date the data were made accessible to the Approved User. At the end of this time period, the Approved User agrees to destroy all copies of MSP Project Datasets.
Consideration will be given to a renewal of this agreement upon submission of a new DAR.
NHGRI may terminate this agreement and immediately revoke access to all MSP Project Datasets at any time if the Requester is found to be no longer in agreement with the policies, principles and procedures of MSP.
12. Exceptions
Contributing Investigators who provided the Submitted Data and Submitted Samples used to generate a particular MSP Project Dataset are exempt from certain provisions of this Data Use Certification, as follows:
- Contributing Investigators are exempt from Terms of Access, provision 2 (Research Use) for the original phenotype data (the Submitted Data), but this provision will apply to any portion of the dataset that contains sequence data or sequence-phenotype association data.
- Contributing Investigators are exempt from Terms of Access, provision 3 (Non-Identification), if they have appropriate institutional approval to retain the participant identities and to re-contact participants, and only for those subjects from whom that investigator originally supplied samples.
- Contributing Investigators are exempt from Terms of Access, provision 6 (Publication).
The statements below summarize the terms and conditions of data use for the reader's convenience and under no circumstance substitute for the specific certifications described.
The Principal Investigator and this Institution make the following assurances:
- The MSP dataset will be used solely in connection with the research project as described in the statement of intent for this request.
- The Institution has considered any participant protection issues and agrees that the research can go forward.
- No efforts will be made to attempt to re-identify the participants in this Research.
- There will be no transfer of restricted MSP data to any other investigators/institutions (except between collaborating investigators in the applicant institution as listed in Appendix 2 and research assistants, students, post-doctoral fellows, etc. who answer directly to the PI).
- To prevent accidental transfer of restricted MSP data, adequate security controls are in place (e.g. secure lap tops and mass storage devices; no download to unsecured network drives or servers).
- To respect the precompetitive nature of MSP datasets in considering claims of intellectual property derived from use of these data and to adhere to the tenets of NIH's Best Practices for the Licensing of Genomic Inventions.
- To provide to NHGRI a report on uses of the data, e.g., publications, on an annual basis.
- To acknowledge the MSP dataset, the NHGRI, the large-scale Sequencing Centers, and the Contributing Investigator in any publication or presentation resulting from the use of the dataset.
- That all collaborating investigators in the applicant institution, as listed in the Data Request form, agree to the conditions specified in the Data Use Certification (DUC).
By submission of a Data Access Request form, the Requester and Authorized Institutional Official represent and warrant the Requester's qualifications for access to and use of MSP Project Dataset(s) and certify their agreement to the NHGRI principles, policies and procedures for the use of MSP Project Datasets as articulated in this document. Requesters further acknowledge that they have shared this document and the MSP policies and procedures with any research staff who will participate in their use. Authorized Institutional Officials also acknowledge that they have considered the relevant MSP policies and procedures and have assured compliance with local institutional policies related to technology transfer and human subjects research.
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Award: George Pólya
Year of Award: 1989
Publication Information: The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, (1988), pp. 63-72
Summary: An explanation of how small pivots can affect results of computer solutions in Gaussian elimination.
About the Author: (from The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, (1988)) Edward Rozema received his undergraduate training at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from Purdue University under the direction of Richard B. Holmes. He taught one year at Purdue University Calumet Campus before moving south to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where his is a Professor of Mathematics.


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(Original post by AwkwardPenguin)
I usually take a theme for example in political philosophy so liberty.
Then I break it down into the different theories/sections.
For each theory/section I make brief notes on the basic ideas and the basic arguments from different philosophers.
I make a poster of it on the wall. Then I sit and learn everything on the poster by just reading it over and over again then looking away and seeing if I can recite it without looking.
Once I can do that easily then I take each point and philosopher and read through the textbook on that part so that I take in more detail. I'll read it through a few times, memorising it as I go along, and then as with the poster I'll then look away and make sure I can remember by either repeating out loud, or writing on paper, everything that I possibly can about it.
Repeat with each section.
I find that easier because then you tend to know the basic outlines of the main themes which philosophers are linked to it really well, so then if you're panicking in an exam that will easily come to mind. For me once I have that it triggers my memory of all the other information as well.
I don't make notes on a computer but I'll take a photo of a poster once I have one finished and upload it if you'd like to see what I mean because I know that explanation wasn't great?
But yes basically I start with the real basic points and then learn details.
For the text study I just read the book, all books about the book and then make sure I know the main ideas/concepts discussed in the book.
Hope that helps, even just a little bit!
(I do AQA Philosophy.)
Thank you, for the detailed answer! If you dont mind I would love to see a picture of the poster you explained.
How mnay hours do you revise for A Levels every day?
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Thank you, for the detailed answer! If you dont mind I would love to see a picture of the poster you explained.
4 hours a day (on a weekend/study leave day) usually cuts it.
Tbh I'm just really refreshing my knowledge/doing questions at this stage.
Also --> 2 hours of great revision is far superior to 8 hours of staring at a book
well me ...im doing AS ....i dont count how much i read....as long as what ever i am reading enters my head...thats what it matters....but i can approximate 3 hours daily(which excludes the work at school...(not continously)...exams starting tommorow.
About 3-4 hours minimum, about 8-9 hours maximum (on a day off from school, obviously ). I'm so worried though, because I feel like I'm not revising properly...
14 hours a day lolol just kidding
I don't count. I just do what I need to do, when I need to do it. That could take anywhere between 5 hours or 30 minutes.
Currently sussed S2 and M2 which are my first exams, so I'm not working too hard atm.
Well usually I'd do maybe an hour or two a day 3-4 days out of the weekdays and then 3 hours-ish on each weekend-day. Somewhere in between during holidays. Though I usually don't start until about a month before exams (my first of two A-level exams is on the 18th June); I probably won't start revising for this set until June, though (and won't do as many hours as I'll be putting my effort into STEP)
If we count step then for the last month I've been doing a paper every 2 days or so which is an hour and a half a day, will be moving to 2 papers every 3 days or so now (1 paper with 6+ questions may usually take 3-4 hours, 5 if I'm struggling a lot).
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Of course I should have one done either later today or tomorrow! I'll message you the link to the photo then!
On a weekday it varies from 4 - 7
On a weekend around 7 hours
I'm revising for A2 but I also have AS resits - all in all 7 exams
I need BBB for my place at the University of Edinburgh
On days when I don't have college, I do about 6-7 hours, and on the days when I do, something like 3-4 hours (I do half in my free periods at college). I measure it more on how many past papers I do rather than the time, to be honest.
weekday- 6-9 hours
I'm revising for a A2s (excluding general) and 1 AS
I have 2 resits- 7 exams in total (inc. general)
I'm doing a third year due to health issues over the past 2 years
Hoping to get BBb/ABa
You lot are ****ing insane. I revise when I've got frees and only when I've got frees (although that is still a moderate amount with 18 hours of lessons fit into a 27-hour timetable). Although to be fair, I work that amount all year around so I'm already fairly comfortable with the material by the time I get to normal 'revision' periods.
On a weekday I get around 2-3 hours done.
On a weekend it is within the interval of 4-6 hours.
Although I have a rough idea of how much time I do revise, my revision is heavily focused on completing tasks rather than timing myself. I find this the best way to get revision done, but everyone has their own preferences.
Having said all of this I haven't been greatly motivated for these final exams (A2 year), so my revision times are scraping the lower ends of the intervals stated.
I need AA to get into Warwick. Would be ecstatic if I got A*Aa, but will be overjoyed all the same if I get the grades just to get in.
I did about 6 hours a day for my A-levels. Only ended up getting average results though. Even at Uni I still haven't found out which studying techniques suit me best I also know a mate who claimed he hardly did any revision at home & always mucked about in class get straight A*s
When I get home I start but often get distracted so its around 3-4hrs school night..
I need AAB for uni but need BCDU in my next exams to get that.. Revising harddd for that B grade!
Weekday - 1 or 2 hours
Weekend - 6 or 7 hours every Sunday to do my homework and revision. I have Saturday off.
I need AAB, including Maths. I already have the first A from English language and I need that second A!
One to three hours during the weekdays
And about four to six hours on the weekends. Under alot of pressure so need to study study study.
About 2 hours weekday and 4 to 7 hours per day on the weekend. Aiming for AABc
Averaging about 3 hours extra on weekdays, and 6-7 on weekends.
0 hours weekdays,
-1 hours weekend (I muck about so much I actually forget **** from school).
If you drew a graph of revision through time, you would see that the gradient...
does not exist.
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Anything less than victory for OPQS in Roubaix would have been catastrophic for a team whose success is measured in their annual performances in the spring classics. Having served their fans burnt crusts and unctuous margarine for a year, Terpstra ensured that a creamy and delicious bread and butter pudding was back on the menu.
Cancellara still classy in defeat
Isolated after the latest implosion of his Trek Factory Racing team, Spartacus may have lacked the strength this time to shrug off the multiple numerical advantages of his rivals in the finale. But sprinting for the lower podium positions in group containing both John Degenkolb and Peter Sagan, Cancellara nevertheless did enough to take third place and keep his extraordinary sequence going.
Wiggins could yet win Paris-Roubaix one day
Bulking up accompanied by a reborn passion for cycling - and in particular the spring classics - means Wiggins is an entirely different proposition than the tormented figure of 2013. He may have grown a beard and put on some extra pounds, but he's hardly Henry VIII on two wheels, and there's no reason to believe that the dawn of Wiggo's career cannot see the Londoner add more arrows to his bow and results to his palmares.
Having vowed to return to the cobbles with more confidence and determination, Wiggins should be a real threat next year. And with Sky now forming a classics team of real clout around the figures of Ian Stannard, Geraint Thomas, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Wiggins, the next few years could well see Dave Brailsford's men have as strong effect on the Classics as they have had on the Tour.
Five unlikely for Boonen as a new era dawns
Tom Boonen attacked ahead of the Orchies cobbled sector around 65km from the finish - from almost the same place where he launched his 2012 victory. But when the Belgian powerhouse found himself in the leading group alongside the likes of Thor Hushovd and Geraint Thomas, he spent most of the time whinging about the break's lowly work ethic.
The Boonen of old would not have even deigned to acknowledge the mere presence of his fellow escapees - let alone solicit their help in making the break stick. But battling into a fierce headwind, and riding on the back of a spring season hampered by personal issues and patchy form, Boonen needed help if he was going to become the first man in history to have five cobblestones adorning his mantlepiece.
Perhaps we are witnessing a changing of the guard over the cobbles of northern France, with a rider not called Boonen or Cancellara winning for only the second time since 2007. John Degenkolb, just 25, was mighty impressive en route to his second place, while the likes of Peter Sagan, Sep Vanmarcke and Geraint Thomas - all relative spring chickens - all impressed.
In fact, given the performances of both Niki Terpstra and Zdenek Stybar, Boonen may no longer even be Omega Pharma's protected leader when battle recommences in 2015.
Leave the bunny hopping to Peter Sagan
Shortly after he extricated himself from the main pack in pursuit of the leading Boonen group inside the final 35km, Peter Sagan overshot a bend and was forced to bunny hop from the gutter back onto the cobbles. We're used to seeing such adept bike skills from the Slovakian tyro, who recently jumped over some road furniture in order to enter a roundabout at a more favourable angle in Oman, a move which set up a stage victory moments later.
If Sagan can be praised for such ingenuity then the same cannot be said for Trek's Hayden Roulston, who, 82km from the finish - and just moments after the gruelling Arenberg Forest section of cobbles - was caught in two minds when riding in the gutter of a road.
Trying to bunny hop onto the kerb, the New Zealander changed his mind at the last moment and landed in a pile of grit on the side of the road, before losing his grip, coming off his bike and taking out half his team-mates in the process. Team leader Fabian Cancellara did not hit the deck, but he was held up by the crash and later needed to change his bike.
It was hardly the best preparation for the business end of the race - and no doubt Roulston felt rather sheepish in the team hotel that night.
Sagan won't win a Monument if he stays at Cannondale
There once was a time when Cannondale - then Liquigas - were the most exciting team in the peloton, with the likes of Vincenzo Nibali, Roman Kreuziger and Sagan all coming through simultaneously alongside Daniel Oss and Eros Capecchi. All of those riders, bar Sagan, have moved on now - and you sense that until Sagan rides in a team entirely built around him, then his attempts to win a Monument single-handedly will always come up short.
It's no surprise that Sagan is hotly tipped to join the new cycling team set up by Fernando Alonso. With the right roster around him, who knows what lofty heights Sagan could reach? After all, Cancellara was only 25 when he won his first Paris-Roubaix…
Still no bonheur or dolce vita for France and Italy
Arnaud Demare defied numerous punctures to secure France's best place finish on Sunday, the FDJ youngster winning the sprint for 12th place in the velodrome.
The public were not treated to live images of John Degenkolb outsprinting Fabian Cancellara for second place, but instead the host nation's strongest rider scrapping for pride. The last Frenchman to win a Monument was Laurent Jalabert in Lombardy in 1997 - the same year that Frederic Guesdon did win a meaningful bunch sprint in the Roubaix velodrome to secure a memorable home win.
Still, we mustn't forget Sebastien Turgot's second place in 2012 or Damien Gaudin's fifth place last year - even if the most notable episode from a Frenchman in Sunday's race (discounting the old man who almost took out Tom Boonen while waving a Tricolor flag) was Demare's FDJ team-mate David Boucher, who was caught cursing to the race commissaires after being caught up at a rail crossing while trying to return to the leading group after an untimely puncture.
Still, things could be worse: the French could be Italian. While the likes of Alessandro Ballan and Damiano Cunego have both won Monuments as near as six years ago, Italy's best-placed rider on Sunday was Filippo Pozzato in 50th place, almost seven minutes behind the winning time of Niki Terpstra. Mama mia!
It looked hellish but one Spaniard still wished he was there
But one day after the hard men of the peloton took on around 50km of cobbled roads, Alberto Contador headed to Compeigne - the start town of the Queen of the Classics - to ride over some of those same narrow farm tracks that played host to one of the most exciting Paris-Roubaix races in recent years.
Contador was, of course, on a training mission to recon some of the roads set to be used in stage five of the Tour de France this July. In a rich vein of form so far this season, Contador will hope to fare better on the cobbles than when the Tour came to town in 2010: the Spaniard finished in a group one minute behind the leaders after picking up a puncture.
Blazin' Saddles doffs his cap to any professional rider who can watch the chaos of Paris-Roubaix on TV before deciding to run the gauntlet themselves less than 24 hours later. Bravo, Alberto.
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My son posted this on facebook,it looks like a newspaper article of an archaelogical find of a skull with a stone embedded in the skull.I`m sorry I dont know how to show it here .
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My son posted this on facebook,it looks like a newspaper article of an archaelogical find of a skull with a stone embedded in the skull.I`m sorry I dont know how to show it here .
It`s a photo by Ben Yahmin Yisra`el with the caption " Top Bible Scholars Confirm It`s Authentic "
C`mon guys somebody put it up here ,I`d love to see your comments
Just seeing what magazine it is in tells me it's bullshit. But here it is......
Here's the link
" Top Bible Scholars Confirm It`s Authentic "
Is that like the "celebrated Watchtower chronological scholars"?
Weekly World News is great ... once you know its all for fun, you can read it for fun!
LOL....well thats it for me...off to church.
@still thinking: Don't fear God, fear the killer kitten...
They still make tabloids? I haven't seen one of those in years!
Actually, kittens really are junior killers.
This is the charm of cats.
I had a junior killer cat. His name was Henry and he was an expert mouse hunter.
I shall pray for the kitten...and if it comes near...I shall offer it my first born child....hopefully that will appease the gods...I mean god.......oops, will have to work on that.
LOL, this story is almost twenty years old !
Aw gee guys I was just about ready to go back to the borg confess my sin of "critical thinking ability "and going back to watchtower slavery.
th68 is that right ? it`s been around that long?
Thx COC ,I just love the pic of the stone from a slingshot can penetrate skin and bone
Looks like I've got some making up to do then....church everday until I feel forgiven. And two children for the kitty.
FAKE just like the religions that will be lapping it all up.
must have consulted the WBTS...
They've found a Nephilim too.
Picture manipulation is a popular hobby
I love that paper...always great for a laugh. I used to follow their "Bat Boy" stories. Fun stuff!
Is it related to the Piltdown Man?


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The American Chemistry Council (ACC), a lobbying group representing plastic bag manufacturers, successfully convinced the California Department of Education to rewrite its environmental textbooks and teachers' guides to include positive statements about plastic grocery bags. ACC wrote a letter to education department officials that said in part, "To counteract what is perceived as an exclusively negative positioning of plastic bag issues, we recommend adding a section here entitled 'Benefits of Plastic Shopping Bags.'" The state's final document was, in fact, edited to contain a new section titled "Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags."


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The Miguel Cotto-Austin Trout junior middleweight bout earned record viewership for boxing on Showtime, peaking at nearly 1.4 million viewers, the premium network announced on Tuesday.
The three-fight telecast, which was headlined by Trout's unanimous decision over Cotto at the Puerto Rican star's "home" arena of Madison Square Garden, drew an average audience of 1.047 million viewers, the highest since 2004 when Nielsen began to separately measure premium television multiplex channels.
The peak viewership to the Showtime Championship Boxing broadcast is the highest on record since 2009 when data on viewership for individual bouts first became available.
The first replay of Saturday's record-setting, three-fight telecast will air tonight, Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime Extreme. It is also available at Showtime On Demand.
Epilogue, the second of two episodes of All Access: Cotto vs. Trout premieres Saturday, Dec. 15, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime, immediately prior to the Championship Boxing telecast featuring Amir Khan and Carlos Molina.
Epilogue takes viewers behind the scenes of the Cotto-Trout fight week build-up and offers a rare glimpse into the drama during Saturday's bout – the first time Cotto has lost at Madison Square Garden – and its emotional aftermath.


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Seib & Co.: What We're Reading Thursday
Key Lawmaker to Call For Sweeping Disability Fraud Review
A top lawmaker on Thursday morning is expected to demand a top-to-bottom review of the Social Security Administration's management structure, following a series of disability scandals that have rocked the agency and led to widespread government scrutiny.
Rep. Sam Johnson (R., Texas), who chairs the House subcommittee that oversees Social Security, is expected to direct the Social Security Administration's inspector general to launch the review.
The demand comes one week after the Manhattan District Attorney's office brought a case alleging more than 100 people – including former firemen and police officers – were cheating the Social Security Disability Insurance program by improperly collecting benefits when they shouldn't have qualified.
In August, the U.S. Attorney in Puerto Rico brought another large case alleging widescale disability fraud — one of the largest sweeps since the program was created in the 1950s and the first major case since the program's rapid expansion during the financial crisis.
And the Justice Department is also looking into whether there was an improper relationship between a former Social Security judge and a disability lawyer in West Virginia and Kentucky. READ MORE
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From Washington in today's Wall Street Journal: The Senate releases an analytical report on the Benghazi attacks of 2012, companies discover a loophole in the health-care law, and the White House scurries into action in preparation for the president's upcoming State of the Union address. Also in the news, the House passes a bill funding the government through September, and the National Labor Relations Board accuses Wal-Mart of threatening workers with union aspirations.
The Senate intelligence committee released a long-awaited bipartisan report on the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday that found the attack, which killed four Americans, was "likely preventable" with better security and intelligence operations. The report listed several flaws in the operation, including lack of security personnel and human intelligence sources, and steered clear of the more controversial questions, like the perpetrators' connections to al Qaeda and changing intelligence reports in the aftermath of the attacks. But the Senate report will not have the last word on the subject. The attacks are under investigation by five House committees, and tensions will flare more forcefully if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—who has said she takes responsibility for the handling of the attack—runs for president in 2016. Siobhan Gorman reports.
The Affordable Care Act offers one very distinct loophole—and businesses are taking note. Due to a quirk in the law, as long as companies offer their employees at least one plan that complies with the law's requirements, they are free to keep offering ones that don't. That means that one of the health care law's goals—to eliminate insurance plans that offer skimpy coverage at cut rates—is being largely bypassed, as companies plan to offer their employees two options in 2015: one that meets the law's requirements for scope and affordability and another that falls short. The latter plan "violates the spirit of the law," says one expert, and was never intended to be legal past 2014. Theo Francis explains the loophole further.
The White House is facing the common problem of wanting to add to its to-do list before crossing other items off. So as President Obama prepares to showcase his priorities for 2014 in his State of the Union speech in less than two weeks, the administration has sprung into action to show that progress is being made on issues highlighted in last year's State of the Union address. Two initiatives put on show this week are a manufacturing institute in North Carolina aimed at creating jobs and the creation of five "Promise Zones" that will receive access to grants and technical assistance to boost the economy in high-poverty areas. Mr. Obama mentioned both ideas in last year's address, but made little headway on them until this month. Colleen McCain Nelson explains what to expect from Mr. Obama in 2014.
The good news is that Mr. Obama will have actually have a functioning government to run this year. The House passed a $1.012 trillion bill to fund the government for the next 8½ months, marking the first time in years that Congress has been able to set spending priorities from top to bottom. The bill increases discretionary spending to take the edge off of the sequester imposed in the 2011 budget law, but keeps spending lower than when President Obama first took office. It also includes $92 billion in emergency funding for foreign refugee assistance, the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations. Janet Hook reports.
The National Labor Relations Board filed a formal complaint against Wal-Mart Stores, accusing the chain of unlawfully retaliating against or threatening workers who took part in strikes and protests in more than a dozen states in the last two years. The complaint involves more than 60 employees and names more than 60 company supervisors and a Wal-Mart corporate officer. Wal-Mart has disputed the claims and said it looks forward to "sharing the facts" in court. Melanie Trottman and Shelly Banjo report.
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Turkey's democracy will be the loser in the battle for power between Turkey's ruling party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former ally, the religious movement led by Fethullah Gulenas, until truly democratic forces emerge, writes Dani Rodrick. The good news: the battle has exposed massive corruption and judicial manipulation on which the Erdogan regime is based, he writes. [Project-Syndicate]
Opposition to the Common Core education policy initiative is surging, writes George Will, because "Washington, hoping to mollify opponents, is saying, in effect: 'If you like your local control of education, you can keep it. Period.'" [Washington Post]
Recent retirements by House Democrats mean the party has "virtually no room for error" in November's midterms if it wants to regain a majority in the House, write Alex Isenstadt and John Bresnahan. [Politico]
Poor and working-class Americans already live in the surveillance future, reports Virginia Eubanks. Among the lessons to be learned from these communities, where she says surveillance technology is often tested because there are low expectations of political accountability and transparency: "We need to move away from our fixation on privacy and towards a future based on digital human rights." [The American Prospect]
David Rhode writes that President Barack Obama "is the victim of an increasingly craven Washington," where members of his own party may derail a nuclear agreement with Iran –the centerpiece of his second-term foreign policy–for political expedience. Less opportunism won't magically stabilize the Middle East, "but there is no need for Democratic senators to add to the chaos for political gain." [The Atlantic]
The kerfuffle in France over the discovery of President François Hollande's alleged affair with an actress is perhaps a sign the French tradition of discretion has changed, writes Alexander Stille, while Americans seem more forgiving about sex and politics. "The French and Americans began at opposite poles, and have moved somewhat closer in the past thirty years." [New Yorker]
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> (System Programming Guide), which details the APIC.
> I have noticed that we often have to add the noapic and nolapic
> arguments to the kernel command line to make devices like the wireless
> card work. The explanation for these options simply stated that this
> is to overcome "buggy bios implementations".
> Can someone here explain what could possibly be the bug in the bios
> that necessitates the use of these arguments? Further, what does the
> kernel do differently when it sees these arguments?
noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
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By Darin_Pendergraft_Oracle on Sep 19, 2013
We talk a lot about the platform approach to Identity Management: and in CON8811, Sanjay Rallapalli explains how the Platform Approach applies to Identity Governance.
He will show how a platform approach enables organizations to pursue end-to-end user lifecycle management and closed-loop remediation for both standard and privileged user access, driving down costs by automating error prone manual processes.
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Modern Warfare 3 interview with Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling
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Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer preview
Shacknews jumped into a rotating hopper to bring you our impressions of Modern Warfare 3's 'Kill Confirmed' mode as well as test out some of the major changes made to the game's multiplayer mode.READ MORE >
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Limited Xbox 360 'Modern Warfare 3 bundle' announced
Microsoft continues to show its love for the best-selling Call of Duty franchise, revealing a new 'Limited Edition' console bundle for the latest game in the series.READ MORE >
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Call of Duty Elite priced at $50 annually; MW3 'Hardened' edition includes one year
Though a slew of content is available for free for all users that sign up for Call of Duty Elite, a premium service will be offered for an annual price of $49.99. Additionally, Activision has announced one year of the service will come bundled with the gaREAD MORE >
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Modern Warfare 3's 'Kill Confirmed' multiplayer mode revealed
Developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games revealed a new mode coming to Modern Warfare 3, dubbed 'Kill Confirmed,' along with new sharable, customization options for 'Private Matches.'READ MORE >
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ditches kill streaks, adds 'Strike Packages'
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has ditched Kill Streaks in favor of rewarding players based on points. Additionally, the game now separates streak bonuses based on three play types: Assault, Support, and Specialist.READ MORE >
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Definition of intinction in English:
The action of dipping the bread in the wine at a Eucharist so that a communicant receives both together.
Mid 16th century: from late Latin intinctio(n-), from Latin intingere, from in- 'into' + tingere 'dip'. The word originally denoted the general action of dipping, especially into something colored; compare with tinge. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.
Words that rhyme with intinctiondistinction, extinction
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Society in Reconstruction
Blacks had labored for generations without pay in the 250 years of bondage that existed on North American soil. Yet the only reparations debate which occurred in Congress during and after the Civil War was not over whether the freedmen and women should be granted restitution; it was over whether slaveowners ought to receive compensation for their emancipated "property." Lincoln once thought that it would be more cost effective to buy the slaves from their owners than wage a war; his plan would have paid owners $400 per slave, which represented some $1.6 billion, or less than half the total estimated value of slave capital.
As 1864 drew to a close, Union forces under the command of William Tecumseh Sherman completed their "March to the Sea" and captured Savannah, Georgia. This coastal region—together with nearby South Carolina—had formed some of the most fertile plantation land for the wealthiest slaveowners of the South. The wealthiest planters owned the largest numbers of slaves; fifty or more per plantation. Thus Sherman encountered a large black population in this region along the Atlantic sea coast, and their leaders—church pastors and educated blacks who had been born free, among others—met with the General to appeal for land redistribution as a substantive means of realizing their newfound freedom. Four days after the meeting, Sherman issued his Special Field Order 15, which allocated forty-acre plots of the region's confiscated land to black families. He also provided them with old mules that had exhausted their usefulness to the Army. The oral culture of the black community and the rapid transfer of information via the rumor mill soon echoed the phrase "40 acres and a mule" across the South, and for generations to come. By that summer, some 40,000 freed men and women had settled on the land, and thousands more found reason to hope that in their emancipation they could attain economic independence through land ownership.
Yet as the freed men and women worked the land they thought was theirs by order of the Union General, President Andrew Johnson was granting prominent white southerners pardons by the thousands. He ordered all confiscated land, including that covered under Field Order 15, returned to planters. Oliver O. Howard, the head of the Freedmen's Bureau, was designated the difficult charge of announcing this decision to the black inhabitants of the so-called "Sherman land." The freedmen were told to relinquish the property they had been tending as their own. They had to return to their former places of work, relinquish the dream of economic independence and land ownership (since emancipated slaves had no capital with which to purchase the land), and accept subordination to white rule. Some, such as the freedmen of Edisto Island, South Carolina, attempted to resist by petitioning the president, writing that "We look to you...for protection and equal rights with the privilege of purchasing a homestead." But such appeals were of no avail. With no vocational training and little if any education, let alone financial resources, the only alternatives that remained for the vast majority of freed people were to work as sharecroppers, unskilled laborers, or—especially for the women—as domestics, launderers, and cooks. Very few could save enough money to rise from these impoverished ranks, as the jobs barely paid enough to get buy, let alone thrive. As a result, generations of black families would be consigned to poverty and debt peonage.
Private property was an inviolable concept throughout American history, and Reconstruction was no exception. Yet contradictions abounded within this supposedly straightforward issue. Despite the fact that the freedmen and women themselves had just been deemed "property" prior to emancipation, land was considered another matter altogether, even by most of the so-called "Radical" Republicans in Congress (Pennsylvania representative Thaddeus Stevens was a notable exception; he wanted to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and redistribute it to former slaves).
This was also despite the fact that Congress saw no contradiction in delving out 160-acre homesteads to western settlers under the Homestead Act of 1862. The difference? Those western lands were deemed "public," or government-owned, even though they had been wrested from their original inhabitants, the American Indians. Private property only applied, it appears, to western conceptions of land use and settlement. Additionally, although it was deemed acceptable to turn public resources over to railroad corporations and businesses, the nationalization of militarily seized land for the use of freed slaves was not considered along the same lines. Federal troops could not and should not, so the argument went, be deployed indefinitely in the South, yet politicians and the public applauded their dispatch westward to battle Indians and clear western lands for settlement.
The Black Codes
These laws, passed by southern state legislatures during the Presidential Reconstruction period, granted blacks some rights; these varied from state to state but they often included the right to legalized marriage, limited access to the courts, and property ownership. Yet they imposed restrictions on black citizens, particularly as an attempt to control their labor. Freedmen were prohibited from work except as field hands; interracial marriage was forbidden; unemployed black men could be deemed "vagrants," seized, and auctioned off as laborers to pay the steep fines. Children could be placed under forced apprenticeships and masters could discipline them with corporal punishment. In some places, blacks could not carry firearms without a license, and they were prohibited from owning farm lands in Mississippi. In South Carolina, they had to pay an annual tax of between $10 and $100 if they held any occupation other than farmer or servant; this was a serious setback for the substantial community of blacks in Charleston who had been free before the war, and for blacks who had been trained as artisans under slavery. Black children could be taken from their families and forced to work in the fields. The ultimate effect of these measures has been described as "slavery without the chain."
The intentions of the white lawmakers who enacted them during Presidential Reconstruction were so blatantly obvious that they outraged northerners, who turned against Johnson and his lenient plan. Instead they voted for the Republicans in overwhelming numbers during the congressional elections of 1866, thus ushering in a two-thirds majority and the commencement of the Congressional, or "Radical" Reconstruction period. In their determination to discipline the white South and force them to recognize that the Union had won the Civil War, these northerners inadvertently brought about major changes in the role, philosophy, and responsibilities of federal government; in other words, they had just begun a process that would transform the entire country. This was demonstrated in part by the passage of the Civil Rights Bill in 1866, which would not have been possible without the two-thirds majority to override Johnson's veto. That Bill mandated equality of all citizens before the law, thereby outlawing the Black Codes or any future legislation that resembled them, as it discriminated against a specific race of citizens.
It should be noted that the southern states were not the only part of the country to devise an elaborate system of laws that sought to control the mobility, behavior, and liberty of black people, though the laws differed depending on the context. In 1804, Ohio passed its own "Black Laws" that required all blacks and mulattoes residing in the state to register and carry with them a court certificate attesting to their freedom and forbidding anyone from harboring runaway slaves. The state passed more stringent laws three years later, and blacks entering Ohio had to post a $500 bond guaranteeing good behavior; for any American at the time, that sum was equivalent to a king's ransom. Nearly every northern state considered passing legislation to prevent or restrict the immigration of blacks, and a few—Illinois, Indiana, and Oregon—included such provisions in their state constitutions. They all did so within twenty years of the outbreak of Civil War.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
These two archetypal figures, "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags", assumed a vastly exaggerated and caricatured role in Reconstruction lore as it was shaped by southern whites in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The "carpetbagger" was a northerner who came down to the South after the war; the term referred to the notion that he had packed up his possessions in a suitcase and headed to Dixie to capitalize on the human suffering and misery that the war had produced. This phenomenon was perhaps most famously and notoriously portrayed in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, the famous novel that was then turned into an Academy Award-winning film in 1939 (although the carpetbagger depicted in the film was in the South before the war, thus making him something of a carpetbagger/scalawag combination).
In reality, most so-called carpetbaggers were investors in railroads or Union soldiers who remained in the region after the war was over. Some were attempting to reap financial gains, but they were doing so in a region that badly needed the infrastructure, especially since its principal labor system had just been radically transformed. Freedmen's Bureau agents operated in extremely difficult and hostile conditions to assist the freed slaves and bring stability to the region. Not all carpetbaggers were men, either; hundreds of very brave and idealistic northern women went South to teach in the new public schools.
"Scalawags" were white southern Republicans, and they composed the majority of white Republicans in the South. They quickly emerged as the most despised group amidst the traditionally Democratic white majority, who branded them traitors to their region and to the white race for their willingness to participate in the Reconstruction governments. A few of the scalawags were prominent landowners, such as Charles Hays, one of the largest planters in Alabama (who had supported secession and fought in the Confederate Army, but joined the Republicans in 1867), and James L. Alcorn of Mississippi, who became the state's first Republican governor. Some of them, such as Alcorn, saw in the Republican party an opportunity to revolutionize southern society by building factories and workshops; many of them fully expected whites to control the process and did not express any concern for black rights.
Most scalawags were non-slaveholding white farmers from the upland region, as well as urban and small town artisans, who were wartime Unionists and who sought to prevent the rebels from reclaiming power. In the early Reconstruction period, the scalawags composed a substantial minority of the population in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Throughout the region, they composed an important if small group, because they were in many respects the swing vote between the almost equally divided blacks—who voted overwhelmingly Republican—and the rest of the southern whites, who were Democratic.
Yet the scalawags experienced the same factionalism and corruption that plagued many political parties of the period, thus preventing them from creating an attractive alternative to the racist appeals of southern whites. Their failure, along with the federal government withdrawal and the decline of northern interest or sympathy, brought about not only the end of Reconstruction but the beginning of a solidly Democratic southern government that employed racial politics to maintain its firm grip on the electorate.


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Looking Inside: Assessing the Chemical Composition of a Metal-Organic Framework with Nanoscale Resolution
March 11, 2014
Andrea Centrone
Most MOFs consist of just two types of building blocks, one metal ion and one organic linker. Recently, chemists have included mixtures of linkers in order to obtain and fine tune new chemical properties in the resulting structures, which are called MixMOFs. Until now, however, the limited resolution of conventional techniques has impeded progress in understanding MixMOFs sufficiently to optimize them for desired applications.
To overcome these limitations, the researchers used photothermal induced resonance (PTIR), a novel technique which combines the lateral resolution of atomic force microscopy with the chemical specificity of infrared spectroscopy, to map the chemical composition of individual In-MIL-68 MixMOF micro-crystals with nanoscale resolution. These MixMOFs are typically synthesized directly from solution or by linker exchange, creating crystals whose chemical homogeneity was previously not known. Results show that for MixMOFs prepared using these methods, the micro-crystals are homogeneous down to length scales of approximately 100 nm. According to Andrea Centrone, a Project Leader in the CNST's Energy Research Group, "understanding whether MOF crystals are homogeneous or not is important for applications because homogeneity in the distribution of active sites within a crystal is a prerequisite for designing advanced catalytic materials while heterogeneity could be advantageous for chemical separation."
The researchers also reported a new in situ synthesis process for MOF crystals with linker concentration gradients that are sub-micron in size. Beginning with MOF seed crystals made with one type of organic linker, the researchers add a solution containing a second linker, causing the growth of MixMOFs at the ends of the rod-shaped seed crystals. The confinement of the synthesis between two transparent surfaces enables anisotropic crystal growth and allows for in situ monitoring. The crystals are then analyzed using PTIR to determine the linker distribution. According to Centrone, "for the first time we can take a look into MixMOF single crystals and map the distribution of the linkers."
The researchers believe that the use of the PTIR technique will stimulate MixMOF research, and help scientists improve these materials for use in a range of applications.
*Assessing chemical heterogeneity at the nanoscale in mixed-ligand metal–organic frameworks with the PTIR technique, A. M. Katzenmeyer, J. Canivet, G. Holland, D. Farrusseng, and A. Centrone, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53, 2852–2856 (2014).


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I'm in the final stages of completing my Ucas application via route A online it being a late application the problem is that every time I try to finish filling in my qualifications, it asks for a BTEC Registration Number. I completed a BTEc National dip in graphic design a year or so a go I have the certificate I don't know if the registration number is on the certificate or if I have to contact my college to obtain it!
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A BTEC Reg. Number (for me) is a letter, and then 6 numbers.
If you can't find it on there, then i would contact your old college etc..
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Hi, The number should be in the middle of the certificate above the blue shape. It should start with a letter mine was V and have 6 numbers follow it. Hope this helps
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A man responding to a Craigslist ad was robbed by two suspects and injured in a stabbing Wednesday, Greensboro police said.
The 26-year-old male victim was found stabbed around 12:30 p.m. at Moses Cone Hospital. He had non life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle, police said.
The victim told police he responded to a Craigslist ad in the area of Union Street and Dick Street when two men robbed him of an undisclosed amount of money. One of the suspects also stabbed the victim, police said.
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Hello All,
Came across these three struttin' Toms – and some on-the-fence Hens – on a morning drive yesterday. Always fascinating to watch the courtship displays and the determined interactions leading up to the mating game.
Spring is definitely in the air…
Enjoy the Outdoors,
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Mathbench for Australian Universities
Development and implementation of MathBench for Australian Universities to improve quantitative skills of science and mathematics students.
Office for Learning & Teaching (OLT) Innovation and Development (ID) Priority Project Grant - Innovative use of technology in learning and teaching
Project team
- A/Prof Cenk Suphioglu (Project Leader), DU
- Dr Shaun Belward, JCU
- Dr Jo-Anne Chuck, UWS
- Dr Prasad Chunduri, UQ
- Dr Giovanna Di Trapani, GU
- Ms Julie Markham, UWS
- Dr Katerina Thompson, UMD
- A/Prof Carmel Coady, UWS
- A/Prof Yvonne Hodgson, MU
- A/Prof Lesley Lluka, UQ
- A/Prof Leon Poladian, USyd
- A/Prof Dianne Watters, GU
Reference group members
- A/Prof Dann Mallet, QUT
- Dr Glennys O'Brien, UW
- Prof Beverly Oliver, DU
- A/Prof Stuart Palmer, DU
- Prof Philip Poronnik, USyd
- Prof John Rice, ACDS, USyd
- A/Prof Pauline Ross, UWS
- A/Prof Leanne Rylands, UWS
External evaluator
- Dr Kelly Matthews, QS in Science, UQ
Project Manager
- Mrs Vilma Simbag, DU and UQ
- Mathbench newsletter - March 2014 (PDF, 511.6 KB)
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There is international agreement that quantitative skills (QS), the ability to apply mathematical and statistical thinking and reasoning within a given external context, are an essential graduate competence in science. However, recent studies in Australia of science students' perceptions of their graduate learning outcomes reveal that while they acknowledge QS as important, they hold low levels of confidence in their QS, perceive QS will be of little future use to them, and report that QS are not emphasised in the science curricula. MathBench, a suite of online modules, has proved to be effective in improving QS among university students in USA. This project brings together an impressive team, from the cross-disciplinary areas of mathematics and science, to modify and implement MathBench as an innovative online resource to improve QS of science students at seven Australian universities, and evaluate and disseminate the findings by appropriate means, which form the overall aims of this project.
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