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The Mtn. Laurel Spa — Stonewall Resort's full service relaxation and pampering center — will host a community holiday open house event from 1 – 6 p.m. on Dec. 16, resort officials announced recentl....
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West Virginia State Police are warning Barbour County residents to be wary of telephone scammers who are reportedly targeting the elderly, officers said Friday.
Police have received reports from at least three people in the Barbour County area who have answered calls from individuals who say the residents have won money, usually in a lottery or some type of giveaway.
Typically, scammers then ask for credit card or bank account information to supposedly deposit the money. Instead of giving the victim the money that's been promised, the scammer steals money from the victim's account or makes purchases with the victim's credit card.
State police say there are several warning signs to be on guard for when dealing with scammers.
"These calls usually come from strange numbers, most of the time from foreign countries," said 1st Sgt. G. E. Raikes with the Philippi detachment of the WVSP. "If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is."
It's not just the phone lines the scammers are using; sometimes a victim's mail can be targeted. People have called in with reports of suspicious money orders or giveaways that have similar characteristics to the phone scams.
Usually, there is a phone number on the order that is fake, is actually a fax number or is out of order, which is one indication of a scam, police say.
Similar scams occurred around the same time last year, with callers claiming to be FBI employees offering to install a new security system in their household.
"These things seem to pick up in the summer," said Chief Deputy Brett Carpenter with the Barbour County Sheriff's Office, "and the elderly seem to be one of the primary targets."
This telephone scam comes on the heels of a door-to-door scam reported in Randolph County, where two youths were selling tickets for a chicken dinner to benefit the Randolph County Humane Society. The tickets ended up being fake and the youths were in no way affiliated with the RCHS.
Police offered several tips members of the public can use to protect themselves from such scams.
- First, never give out your personal information, particularly bank account or credit card numbers, to unsubstantiated sources.
- Also, if you are suspicious of a particular call, visit or piece of mail, ask for contact information that will enable you to contact the person at a later date.
- Finally, report all suspicious activity to the police so that they can investigate the source.
The Philippi detachment of the WVSP may be reached at 304-457-1101, or contact the Barbour County Sheriff's Office at 304-457-2352.

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Hot Links: New safety probe of Southwest Airlines
Let's add this up and see how safe we feel about a certain Dallas-based airline — and the government employees who are supposed to oversee it.
The latest: Federal regulators suspect Southwest Airlines, for several years, flew dozens of jets whose fuselage repairs didn't follow approved procedures.
1) A football-sized hole (right) opened up the fuselage of a Southwest plane last summer, forcing an emergency landing.
2) Also last year, the Federal Aviation Administration found that a Southwest maintenance contractor used unapproved parts.
3) Southwest was fined in 2008 for flying six jets with fuselage cracks.
4) A cozy relationship between regulators and the airline repeatedly let Southwest avoid punishment for safety violations, a 2008 federal watchdog investigation found.
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Widely recognized as a sector of agriculture that's seen tough years recently, reports indicate that the dairy industry is set for much improved times in 2014.
Next year, dairymen are expected to see what some experts call a "rare" combination of events — more milk production and yet higher milk prices, so says a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report.
Add to that much more affordable livestock feed prices, and milk producers should be in better shape than in past years, economists say.
"It's looking to be a better year all around," said Katelyn McCullock, dairy economist for the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Denver.
USDA numbers and market analysis showed last month that corn prices plunged 39 percent during 2013 — its biggest annual drop in price since at least 1960 — as grain production this past year climbed to records worldwide.
That's good news for dairymen.
After buying $8-per-bushel corn to feed their livestock during recent drought-sticken years, corn prices fell below $5 per bushel toward the end of 2013.
More affordable feed is expected to push some dairymen to increase the size of their herds. In a USDA report, chairman of the World Agricultural Outlook Board Gerald Bange said milk production in 2014 is expected to increase to 205.3 billion pounds — up by almost 2 percent from 2013 — and he attributed much of that gain to lower feed costs and dairymen adding cows.
And while more milk production often leads to lower milk prices, Bange and others say that's not expected to be the case in 2014, as dairy products continue seeing high demand. Exports of butter fat are expected to stay strong in 2014, as is the domestic demand for non-fat dry milk.
The average all milk price for 2014 is expected to be at $20.10 per hundredweight, up from $19.95 in 2013.
While a 2 percent increase in milk production and a15-cent increase in price may not sound like much, it means a lot to milk producers, many of whom have seen difficult times in recent years.
Typically, livestock feed accounts for about 40 to 50 percent of a dairy's operating expenses, and, from 2007 to about 2012, the price of corn — a major component of livestock feed rations — doubled because of increased demand and drought. The price of hay also doubled in recent years.
During that time, though, the price dairymen received for their milk didn't see such increases. The average price dairymen received for their milk in Colorado in 2007 was $19.30 per hundredweight, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service's Colorado office. In 2012, the average price Colorado dairymen received for milk was actually lower, at $18.60 per hundredweight.
Close in dairymen's minds is 2009, which was dubbed by many as the "Great Dairy Recession" — when milk prices collapsed with demand in a weakened economy and a healthy export market turned sour while the cost of feed increased.
Any kind of turnaround in 2014 would be welcomed by milk producers, they say.
"You have to be optimistic to be in this business in the first place," said a laughing Chris Kraft, who has dairy operations in northeast Colorado, and also sits on boards for Dairy Farmers of America and Western Dairy Association. "But I'm definitely more optimistic heading into this year than I have been in the past. I should say I'm 'cautiously optimistic,' because it doesn't take much — drought, etc. — to change everything." ❖


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October 24, 2012
For many, the sight of falling leaves portends a lot of work. For 4-year-old Joseph Markley of Newell, W.Va., it means play time. Joseph was captured playing in the leaves at Beaver Creek State Park....
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LISBON - Possible resolution of the East Liverpool/Buckeye Water District lawsuit has been delayed further, this time because one of the attorneys in the case is ill.
A hearing was scheduled for Monday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court that may have been the last one needed to resolve the lawsuit, but BWD attorney Fred Emmerling filed a motion seeking a continuance. Emmerling said a BWD attorney was unavailable due to "unanticipated medical issues."
Judge C. Ashley Pike granted the motion and will decide next week when to schedule a new hearing date.
The hearing was on a motion by BWD that asks Pike to enforce a settlement agreement that would pay East Liverpool $5.9 million. East Liverpool changed its mind after the BWD came up with the money and is now wanting another $700,000-and-counting in interest.
The interest is on the $4.8 million judgment awarded East Liverpool two years ago for winning its breach-of-contract lawsuit against the BWD after the BWD quit buying water from the city in the mid 2000s. The interest accrued while BWD exhausted all of its appeals, which came to an end in June.
Court records show that East Liverpool tentatively agreed in April to settle the lawsuit for $5.9 million, and the BWD accepted. But in June, East Liverpool added a new condition demanding that, as a precaution, the U.S. Department of Agriculture waive any claims to the funds used to settle lawsuit since the USDA has loaned money for BWD projects.
This demand proved to be a deal-breaker, with the USDA saying it cannot grant such a waiver because it is not a party to the lawsuit. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rokakis sent the BWD an email on June 28 stating they have no intention of taking legal action to prevent BWD funds from being used to resolve the lawsuit and urged East Liverpool to accept what he described as a "generous" settlement offer.
In addition, the appeals court, in upholding the judgment against BWD, ruled the money owed East Liverpool is superior to any other claims that may be filed.
As this dragged on, East Liverpool filed a motion with the court on Sept. 12 indicating it wanted another $668,000, representing additional interest that is accruing on the original judgment at $699 per day.


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Elections: Voting memories
Although voting for the 2012 election is still ongoing - and we won't know the results until tomorrow - we're wondering about your voting memories.
I remember going with my mother to vote at our local elementary school in the Bronx (New York) when I was a very young child. Many of my classmates also went with their parents.
What are your election day memories? Did you accompany your parents? Or was your first voting experience as an adult?
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Believing all the Jesus stuff so much that your life will never be the same. Lots of people think that they have kicked themselves off of the J train (guilt) but as soon as they start thinkin' bout Jesus again, they realize that they are back on board.
He's not druggin or thuggin anymore cause he's on the J train. And if he starts druggin or thuggin again it probably won't be for long cause he seems like he's always on the J train.
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Hacking is a methodology for learning
How to teach hacking in school and open up education
Whatever you may have heard about hackers, the truth is they do something really, really well: discover. Hackers are motivated, resourceful, and creative. They get deeply into how things work, to the point that they know how to take control of them and change them into something else. This lets them re-think even big ideas because they can really dig to the bottom of how things function.
Furthermore, they aren't afraid to make the same mistake twice just out of a kind of scientific curiosity, to see if that mistake always has the same results. That's why hackers don't see failure as a mistake or a waste of time because every failure means something and something new to be learned. And these are all traits any society needs in order to make progress. Which is why we need to get it into schools.
Now, there is the expected resistance from school administrations and parents. Mostly because people don't know what hacking really is. Many people who have been called hackers, especially by the media, or who have gotten in trouble for "hacking" were not, in fact, hackers. Most all of them were just thieves and fraudsters. When you read in the news, Teen girl hacks Facebook to harass a classmate, what you're seeing is a sensationalized headline. What a hacker reads in that headline is: Mean girl watched classmate type in her Facebook password and then logged in as her. That mean people and criminals do bad things with communications medium is not a reason to fear the medium. Schools are there to educate and can embrace this distinction for real change.
Hacking is a type of methodology. It's a way to do research. Have you ever tried something again and again in different ways to get it to do what you wanted? Have you ever opened up a machine or a device to see how it works, read up on what the components are, and then make adjustments to see what now worked differently? That's hacking. You are hacking whenever you deeply examine how something really works in order to manipulate it, often creatively, into doing what you want.
A hacker is a type of hands-on, experimenting scientist, although perhaps sometimes the term "mad scientist" fits better, because unlike professional scientists they dive right in, following a feeling rather than a formal hypothesis. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Many interesting things have been designed or invented by people who didn't follow standard conventions of what was known or believed to be true at the time.
For example...
The mathematician, Georg Cantor, proposed new ideas about infinity and set theory that caused outrage amongst many fellow mathematicians to the point that one called his ideas a "grave disease" infecting mathematics.
Nikola Tesla is another person considered a "mad scientist" in his day, but he knew more about how electricity behaved than anyone else. He designed possibly the first brushless motor that ran on AC electricity but is mostly known for the Tesla effect and the Tesla coil.
Then there was Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis who figured out that doctors need to wash their hands between treating patients to keep diseases from spreading. He wondered if the diseases following him around between patients were his fault, so he decided to try washing hands between his patient visits and sure enough the transmissions disappeared. His ideas went against both the scientific conventions of what was known at the time about germs (nothing) as well as the convenience of the doctors who felt it was too much hassle to keep washing their hands.
It just so happens that the way the Internet is designed and the huge number of different applications, systems, devices, and processes it has makes it the most common place to find hackers. You could say it's a place where information can run free because it was built open and free by hackers so it's the best playground for hackers. But it's not the only place. You can find great hackers in almost every field and industry and they all have one thing in common: they spend time learning how things work so they can make them work in a new way. These hackers didn't look at something as the original designers did, but instead saw bigger or better potential for it and hacked it to be something new.
What you may think you know about hackers is that they can break into other computers and take over other people's accounts. They can read your email without you knowing. They can look through your web cam without your permission and can see you and hear you in the supposed privacy of your own home. That's not untrue.
Some hackers see network security as just another challenge, so they tinker with ways to trick or fool the system, but really what they're trying to do is out-think the network installers or designers. They discover as much about the network as they can, where it gets its instructions, the rules it uses, and how it interacts with operating systems, the other systems around it, the users who have access to it and the administrators who manage it. Then they use that to try different ways of getting what they want. This kind of hacking can be greatly beneficial to the world for understanding how to be safer and for building even better technology.
Unfortunately though, sometimes the hacking is done by criminals and what they want is illegal, invasive, and destructive. And those are usually the only hackers you read about in the news. A hacker is not someone who posts to someone's account when they leave a social media page open or shoulder-surfs passwords and then logs into their account later. That's not hacking. A hacker also is not someone who downloads a script kiddie tool to break into someone's email. Those aren't hackers; those are just thieves and vandals.
Hacking itself is not illegal. At least not any more than throwing a rock is illegal. It all comes down to intent. If you throw a rock and your intent is to injure someone, that's a crime. If your intent is not to hurt someone, but someone does get hurt, that may not be a crime, but you are responsible for your actions and will have to pay restitution. An Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) project called the Hacker Profiling Project found that the most damage from hacking comes from young, inexperienced hackers damaging other people's property by accident. Which is something parents and teachers already teach kids when it comes to rock-throwing, but it doesn't translate well when it comes to how to behave in cyberspace. If we are teaching hacking, then we can also teach responsibility, accountability, and make it clear how to behave when hacking around other people's property. This will encourage students to stick to hacking the things they bought and own.
The caveat to that is that there are cases where it may be illegal to hack something you bought and own. There are hackers who have been punished for hacking their own devices and computers. These things were closed to prevent them from being copied or changed despite that they paid for it and own it. These are hackers who hacked programs, music, and movies they bought so it looked, behaved, and sounded the way they wanted to or played on other devices they bought and owned and were prosecuted for it. Especially when they openly shared their ideas with others. Hackers will find that any closed source software they buy may be illegal to hack, even if it's just to check for themselves that it's secure enough to run on their own computer. This is because many of the things that you purchase may come with Copyright and a contract as an End User License Agreement (EULA) that says you can't. And you agree to it when you open or install the product, even if you can't read it or find out about it after you've opened or installed the product. Yes, that's sneaky and unfair.
But that's all the more reason to teach young people to hack. You see, education is open. It can be legally hacked to teach kids to think openly, be inspired, be curious, and thus, to be a hacker. What hacking is really about is taking control of something if you don't like how it works. Why would you do this? To have the freedom to make something you own do what you want. And to keep others from changing something you own back to the original form or copying all your ideas, drawings, writings, and pictures to a cloud somewhere to be controlled by someone else who claims it's for your "best interest."
As a hacker, you know what your own best interest is. Sometimes you buy something and the company you bought it from will attempt to forcefully or slyly make sure you can't customize it or change it beyond their rules. You can't play it somewhere else or use it any other way than as intended, supposedly to protect you. And that might be okay to agree to as long as you accept the fact that if you break it then you can't expect them to fix it or replace it. That would mean that hacking something you own does more than make it yours, it makes it irrevocably and undeniably yours. As scary as that may sound to some, it certainly has its advantages. Especially if you want to keep others, like the company that made it and the marketing company they're re-selling your information and habits to, out of your stuff.
And finally, of course knowing how to hack makes you more secure. For many, many people, security is about putting a product in place, whether that's a lock or an alarm or a firewall or anything that theoretically keeps them secure. But sometimes those products don't work as well they should, or they come with their own problems that just increase your "Attack Surface," when a security product should be shrinking it. (The Attack Surface is all the ways, all the interactions, that allow for something or someone to be attacked.)
And yeah, good luck getting that product improved in a mass-marketing, pay-as-you-go, copyrighted, closed-source, "you bought it as-is and that's what you have to live with" kind of world. That's why it's so important to know how to hack your security. A hacker wouldn't buy the same padlock you would because a hacker sees locks in terms of how many seconds they would need to open it. Hackers learn to analyze a product and figure out where it fails and how to change it so it works better. Then they might have to hack it some more to keep that company they bought it from, from changing it back to the default!
So hacking in terms of breaking security is just one area that hacking is useful, because without being able to do that, you may have to give up some freedom or some privacy that you don't want to give up. (And some of you may not care right now about certain things you do or say or post, but the Internet has a long memory and it's getting better and better at helping others recall those memories of you. What goes on the net stays on the net. And kids today are pretty much born on the net.) Not to mention technology is getting more and more out of our ability to control it. That mobile phone of yours or that new flatscreen with built-in camera for Skype are likely doing things that you don't know and don't control with what they see and hear. It takes some hacking to wrestle that control back.
Schools and educators who read this and want to teach their students to hack, and what hacking can be, need to be aware upfront that it won't be easy. There will be resistance from closed minds. School administrations may also need to contend with the fact that hacking some things may be illegal in their state, and they will need to get open source hardware and software to try to stay on the legal side of things. When teaching students how to hack and what hacking is, it can be hard to do with words. Try experiences and putting it into practice to really get your point across.
Free, open projects like Hacker Highschool can help kids develop the skills, feeling, and intuition through practice with support so they don't break the wrong things. The possibility of breaking something is simply part of the process, and should not be a factor keeping teachers and schools from teaching hacking. They should provide that support with an open source and open minded effort.
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Sports is important but while maybe 1 in a 100,000 kids will have a future career in sports, all kids who learn early the traits of hackers will know if they can't find work they'll make work.
This is idiotic.
Physical education in this country is horrible which is why a third of our kids are fat little butterballs. We have to make sure we increase their participation in sports (not just competitive but recreational for kids who arent in shape or talented but want to have fun). To equate high school sports and physical activities with professionalism is misleading. Just because you dont plan to be a pro doesnt mean you shouldnt do sports.
What we do have to do is allocate our fund for technology better.
ive seen over the decades how schools waste money unconscionably to have the latest and greatest which is why you see so many schools buying Macs (Hey, they are cool and they are magical so just havng them will make you smarter) or my favorite computer labs where 28 kids sit in a room with 28 towers heating up the room.
A company my cousin works for specializes in thin clients for schools and the costs of running a Linux server for 7 users is cheap and easy to do. But thats not cool and IT dept nerds love to buy new stuff so we could deploy more for less but we dont. The reasons for that are many.
My cousin was in Brazil for their big Linux thin client deployment project where they are building 30,000 (i could be off by a few thousands) computer labs to serve the 50 million students in Brazil (grade school to university) and the costs are waaaaaaay lower than what you see in your average school board.
Cutting the basketball or soccer teams are NOT the answer simply because its a false premise.
As for the article, the only thing that annoys me more than the bastardization of open source used in a million different ways (basically this whole site) is doing the same to hacking.
Buzzword 101, I know, Ive worked in marketing.
I know why its done but its still annoying.
I checked the site and its 150$ a year license that you need to access the cloud-based test network and while I think it tackles interesting things, it is also very dry and well,... boring for teens.
Will you have the young geeks who are already doing some stuff on their own interested? Probably but you are NOT getting anyone outside that small segment to join. Its like preaching to the converted.
I know all the stuff that was in there and got bored reading through.
Eben Upton talks about the goal of the Pi being getting kids interested in coding and reaching beyond those 'nerds' that would be interested in it with or without the Pi.
He also admits that the biggest challenge is how to reach children and not to make it too academic but rather fun, interesting and stimulating. Just because you think something is cool and fun, doenst mean the kid with the tablet and PS3 and internet and cable thinks it is too. kids already have tons of homework in high school, the last thing you want to do it is make it seem like there is more homework.
My neighbour teaches in high school and runs the robotics after lunch-school program where I help out when i can but it is much more than just building robots, its about doing all the things you talked about. Its about peer to peer learning where the youngest work with teh older kids, its about experimenting and trying new things and having someone who might know more than you and willing to show you. Actually, its no different than what your program is. BUT you have to make it fun.
The first challenge is to get kids in the door. THAT is very, very hard to do.
The A students and the geeks who like to do techie stuff (whether its editing videos or building web pages) is a small %. The 2nd challenge is for the kids that come in to see what its about. You have to get them hooked and interested enough for them to want to come back. Yes, fun is a BIG part of this. Especially when there are so many other things to do.
ive talked to numerous science teachers who run science or robotics club and retention of those who come in to 'check it out' is a big problem. Dont stimulate them enough and they get bored, give them too much work thats above them and you lose them too.
The technical aspect while important comes behind the educational and social aspects of learning.
Saying, "Here, read these 30-40 pages" is not the way to do it.
Lady Adafruit has a few lessons for the Pi that my friend has used and the Kano.me project plans to take the Pi and push the lesson plans aspect for kids.
I think another way of getting kids interested in what science clubs and robotic clubs have been doing is a good thing but its all about presentation and keeping interest which is where my problem lies with the program.
I do plan to show it to my teacher friends and even bring it to the attention of the high school seniors to see what they think of it since so much of the learning comes from peer to peer interaction (which I think is of much greater value that doing it on your own) and who better than students to tell you whether something will fly or not.
The Khan academy's interactive approach (i know, theyve got Gates and Slim money so its unfair to compare) seems to be close to it.
And while I know what a hacker is, I do think that the stigma of the word is going to be a bigger blocking point that you might think. The Hollywood machine is pretty big and the word hacker has a negative connotation. Got knows people tried it with hackers/crackers and that failed.
A for the idea.
B- for the implementation.
Good luck.
EXCELLENT article that goes well beyond anything else I read about what hacking is. I wish those values would be part of the base curriculum of any high school. I certainly want to teach this to my son, so he does not base his judgement only on what the medias are saying. I have been hacking on my own devices for years now, understand the risks of doing so, mainly voiding warranties. But I have more freedom than those who stay with close systems and depend on what some people in a glass tower decide they can do or not do with their device. I sometime compare cars to computers. How would you react if your car was locked, and you could not change your tire, or needed to go to a specific dealer to repair your car, instead of the local repair shop ? Would you accept this ?
Thanks for this great article !!
A great article, thanks Pete! I work for a major University in Brisbane, Australia, and have forwarded this article onto our ICT School.
Great article Sir Pete, you explain very well what hackers really mean. Media today define hackers as thieves and malicious people but technically speaking hackers are just curious people. They just want to explore and experiment things for the sake of learning and challenges. I always teach kids about ethical hacking and how to use the what they learn to do things right. Not the other way around.
Long live Kali Linux =)
I suspect if we used the term "tinkering" instead of "hacking" we might have more success in getting your agenda moved forward.
"Hacker" has become too deeply associated with crime in the popular press to ever regain it's original association, so let's abandon it.
I think we need to invite this kind learning. To bad our first introduction to a hacker is usually when they break in to something, break something, or step over a line...
Here's some tips from ethical hacker training where you can find interesting cyber security facts and informations.
Back in my student days, MIT's IT dept. (money, grades, and such) kept their mainframes locked far away from any connectivity with the outside world. Meanwhile, in an introductory course - programming in Fortran, on punchcards no less - John Donovan gave the instructions: "you can try to hack the grading program - if you succeed, you get whatever grade you give yourself - if we catch you, you get an F." (Same class where a classmate got an A for answering "what happens when the bit bucket overflows" with "the bits spill out on the floor.") Funny what sticks with you.
Not sure I believe "I barely got into college as it was" - and, hey, look at you now. :-)
MIT was (is?) a fun place - but in the "old days" the entire computer field was tiny, spread all over the place, and we were all hackers. Today, it seems like every school in the world is graduating "computer scientists" who's basic claim to competence is the ability to write a little java. Sigh....
I am a professor in a digital arts and engineering college in Silicon Valley and I recognize some of my own methods and teaching strategies in this article. This is very helpful to me, for it gives me a recognizable framework for promoting the same kind of analysis/resynthesis strategies that are at the core of subjects that I teach. I find that students are far more resistant to this method than are other professors or administration and I suspect that that is so because this approach diverges so widely from the packaged, right/wrong answer approach to learning that was their K-12 experience. I find that students oftentimes will not try hard enough to reap any rewards from this type of discovery. I intend to use your article as a kind of manifesto with the hope that it will contextualize the practice of open discovery for my students and encourage them to keep going when the initial rewards appear meager. Thanks for a helpful contribution to the practice of formalized teaching/learning.
Really enjoyed this article and your outlook on what a hacker is! First step towards a new view!
But I was wondering, from what you define to be a hacker, what is the difference between a hacker and an innovator?
Came across an interesting story in CACM:
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/2/171682-establishing-a-nationwide-cs... (may require login to read full article).
In particular, there's a pointer to http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/csfieldguide/
"an online interactive resource for high school students learning about computer science." Still a bit sketchy in places - but includes things like algorithms, complexity, formal languages ... - not just your introductory java coding course, as is common in the US.
Looks like, at least in NZ, the folks focusing on high school computer science understand the breadth of the concepts involved.
Very interesting article. Now I understand better what a hacker really is. I really think this should be teached in schools, but carefully as you said.
Oh, and I was wondering one thing. From your point of view, what's the difference between a hacker and a engineer?
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Oh, how things have changed in the last 125 years! Although no one now living was alive in 1885, we have good evidence that dairy cattle reproduction in 2010 is very different - not the biological processes - but how we manage the cow. We have learned many things about The Foster Mothers of the Human Race, and more will be discovered in years to come.
In the late 1800s, the average U.S. dairy cow was producing less than 4,000 pounds of milk annually. Since then, careful research has improved the selection methods, breeding, feeding, and management to the point where the modern U.S. dairy cow averaged more than 20,500 pounds of milk during 2009. It is not uncommon to find herds whose rolling herd averages have or are approaching 30,000 pounds of milk. Only five of the seven dairy breeds were found in U.S. dairy herds in 1885. The Milking Shorthorn would not be officially recognized as a major dairy breed until 1972 and the Red and Whites sometime after that. Artificial insemination was not yet in vogue and would not be introduced on most U.S. dairy farms until the 1940s and 50s. Your only source of new genes may have resulted from the neighbor's bull "venturing uninvited into your lower 40."
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A few key discoveries have facilitated much of what we do today in reproductive care.
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- Invention of liquid nitrogen refrigerators to store frozen semen.
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So what will the next 125 years bring to the dairy farm?
We can be certain that technology will be important in how we manage cows. Clearly, the younger generations seem to be more gadget and technology oriented than some of us with more or less snow on top. We must not forget, however, our roots. W. D. Hoard said that "if the farmers of the United States were as wise on the question of maintaining fertility as they are in the adoption of machinery (gadgets), what a country this would be."
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Thursday night worked out quite well for Niagara as it took a big step toward the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season championship with an overtime win over Iona.
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Canisius (14-8, 7-4), which remained in the hunt with a 91-79 victory over the Greyhounds Thursday, are prepared for a potential shootout against the Gaels (14-8, 8-3) at 7 in the Koessler Center (Radio 1400 AM). Meanwhile, St. Bonaventure (9-10, 2-4 Atlantic 10) has taken two of its last three heading into its 4 p.m. matchup against Duquesne (7-13, 0-6) at the Reilly Center (TWC 25, Radio 1450 AM), while the University at Buffalo (8-13, 3-4 Mid-American Conference), winners of three of four, play at West Division-leading Western Michigan (13-7, 5-2) at 7 (Radio 1230 AM).
Niagara was thought to be a year away but has won seven straight and has a two-game lead over second-place Iona, last year's MAAC regular season champion, a three game lead over Canisius and Loyola and 3½ over Rider (11-11, 6-4), which played at Fairfield on Friday.
"The championship goes through Iona and Loyola," Niagara coach Joe Mihalich said. "They went to the NCAA Tournament last year so until someone else goes, those teams, in my mind, are the co-champions. I have a ton of respect for Iona and of course Loyola too and let's see what happens from here on in."
With seven league games remaining, it looks like Niagara's time, especially after its last two wins over Canisius and Iona, which were won in the final seconds and in overtime, respectively. Antoine Mason scored a career-high 30 points and Juan'ya Green added 26, including the winner in overtime, to beat the Gaels, 93-90.
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A friend of mine recommended that we check out Levain Bakery. It wasn't too far away from our trek to the museum, so I dragged my parents through the Upper West Side, trying desperately to find it. Tucked away in a stairwell, a veritable hole-in-the-wall, we walked down the steps and entered the bakery equivalent of the TARDIS. (It was much bigger on the inside.) The whole place smelled of coffee and chocolate and hopes and dreams. Levain Bakery only sells four kinds of cookies. It's a deceptively simple business model. Granted, those cookies will run you four bucks a pop. When my dad started to grumble about the price, I told him to give the cookies a chance. So he did, and we followed suit, and all of our apprehensions melted away at the same rate as the warm cookies melted into our mouths. "This must be what heaven tastes like," I thought to myself.
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4 comments:
- Dan said...
Four bucks? Whoa. That's pretty steep for a cookie, even by New York standards. But, you also seem to get a pretty substantial baked good...those things look downright scone-ish.
- November 9, 2011 at 6:07 AM
- Jennie said...
Wait, is NY where the bar is that has the TARDIS bathroom? Did I make that up? Or am I trying to wish it into existence? I have no idea.
- November 9, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Dan said...
Yes. The Way Station in Brooklyn.
- November 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Gretchen Alice said...
Yeah, they weight like, half a pound each. No joke.
- November 9, 2011 at 11:07 PM
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Pay attention to the visual effects the next time you're watching television or a movie.
It could be Spiderman swinging from building to building, or Harry Potter and his wand against other wizards.
These are the kinds of visual effects Buffalo expects to deliver for Hollywood with Thursday's announcement that the state will spend $4.5 million of the region's Buffalo Billion to create a new visual effects studio and train workers in the field of post production.
Empire Visual Effects, which will partner with Daemen College, projects 150 new high-tech jobs in the next five years while carving a new niche industry in Buffalo.
Why Buffalo?
"Why not?" said Marcelo Gandola, one of four industry partners collaborating on Empire Visual Effects.
"I felt it was the place to do it," Gandola said. "All of the elements that it took to make this happen were here."
Aside from the $4.5 million from the state, New York's aggressive tax-credit program will also provide the film industry as much as a 45 percent tax credit on labor costs.
In addition, Empire Visual Effects might qualify for the new START-UP NY program, which provides tax-free zones for start-up companies located on or near college campuses.
Empire Visual Effects will locate in the Tri-Main Center on Main Street in space occupied by Daemen.
"I always felt that there had to be a way to leverage all that Buffalo had to offer – in terms of the affordability, cost of living and all the great talent here – to produce visual effects and animation in a big way for feature films and television," said Benjamin Porcari, founder of IBC Digital, a production company in Buffalo.
Porcari and Gandola, along with industry partners Jonathan Hoffman and Pete Conlin, are collaborating on Empire Visual Effects.
The four have nearly 90 years of combined experience in the film industry, with a number of Hollywood blockbusters to their credit.
The growing use of visual effects, combined with generous state support to the film industry, has created a flood of post-production work in downstate studios, Porcari said.
Given real estate prices in New York City, however, it is too costly for the studios to expand operations, Porcari said. The studios could outsource the visual effects work to China and India, but not without concerns about quality and productivity, he added.
"We're working with the effects studios that want this to happen. We're not going to be competing with them," Porcari said. "There is so much of a backlog of production work in New York they are looking for options, and from our initial contact with our clientele, they are very excited about this project. They are just waiting for us to be ready to accept work.
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The educational component was at the heart of the reason to locate in Buffalo, Gandola said.
"Daemen College has been so in front of it and on top of it and focused on it, so we'll be able to build a job force that's job ready and prepared to handle this type of work," he said.
Gandola visited Daemen's International Center for Excellence in Animation about two years ago while looking for opportunities to create a studio in upstate New York.
The partnership with the college followed after some courting by then-President Edwin Clausen.
More recently, the college recently hired California native Susan Weeks – whose film credits include such blockbusters as "The Amazing Spiderman," "Star Wars" Episodes I and II and three "Harry Potter" films – to oversee and teach a four-month certificate program in visual effects.
"We're trying to train a whole new generation of workers who can do this kind of work," Daemen President Gary Olson said.
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"What is really exciting to me is creating a situation where talented and creative young people don't have to leave Western New York to be trained to work in an exciting industry," said Laura Sommer, chair of the Daemen College Visual and Performing Arts Program.
The state money will provide the company with start-up capital, while giving Daemen funds needed to operate its certificate program in visual effects.
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy announced the initiative at the Tri-Main Center, where lawmakers from the region's state delegation joined him.
The potential for this industry in Buffalo is huge, Duffy said. "I think it's a great use of monies right now," he said.
"The state has been bleeding jobs for decades," Duffy said. "This governor is trying to get those jobs back, and he's paid very close attention to upstate. This is one more success story."
Those in attendance also got a tour of Daemen's Tri-Main facility.
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of those who plan to seek careers in the science-oriented field of medicine
and dentistry will want to choose such a major field of study, any major
is acceptable as long as the science prerequisites are fulfilled.
Applicants are strongly urged to confer with their preprofessional advisor
concerning (1) selection of a college major and specific courses, and
(2) the early preparation for alternate careers in the event that one
either decides not to apply to professional schools or is not admitted.
All premedical and predental students are advised to plan their undergraduate
programs with sufficient flexibility to allow career options if desired
and/or necessary.
Although a few students are admitted to medical school after three years
of pre-professional training, over 95 percent of the students admitted
have a bachelor's degree. Pre-professional training for dentistry is basically
a three-year program, although 60 to 70 percent of the students being
admitted to dental schools have a bachelor's degree. It is advisable,
therefore, to complete the requirements for admission to professional
schools in conjunction with fulfilling requirements for a bachelor's degree.
Students must know the specific requirements for admission to each of
the professional schools to which they plan to apply. These requirements
are listed in publications available from the following sources:
Admission Requirements of the U.S. and Canadian Dental Schools, published
by the American Association of Dental Schools, 1625 Massachusetts Avenue,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-2212.
Medical School Admission Requirements, published by the Association of
American Medical Colleges, Dept. 66, Washington, D.C. 20055.
Students ordinarily take the national admissions examinations, the DAT
(Dental Admission Test), or the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test)
at the end of the junior year or the beginning of the senior year. During
the senior year, professional school admission committees review the student
applications. Decisions are usually announced during the spring semester
of the senior year.
Both the Dental and Medical Associations provide a centralized application
service, AADSAS or AMCAS, where one application can be submitted to several
schools. The Westminster PreMedical Society and the Career Resource Center
provide additional support and information for pre-health students.
Because of the strong sequential nature of some programs, appropriate
course selections should be made in the first year of study at the college
if a sound program is to be achieved. Consultation and advisement in premedicine
and predentistry studies is offered through Westminster's Biology Program.
Early consultation (first semester of freshman year) is strongly recommended.
Freshman students should begin course work with BIOL 105-106, MATH 141,
and CHEM 111-112.
The term "PreLaw" does not designate a specific major or preferred
undergraduate program at Westminster College as law schools do not favor
one major over another. While it is possible to prepare for law school
while fulfilling the requirements for any academic major, it is important
to take courses that are intellectually demanding and substantive.
Students planning to enter the legal profession should obtain a broad
liberal arts foundation. Law schools today are adopting entrance requirements
which emphasize the ability to think and write clearly and to read and
speak the English language proficiently. Students also need to develop
the capacity to think analytically and creatively as well as to understand
human values and institutions.
Most students are best advised to pursue a rigorous program that will
be challenging and demanding as well as interesting. A double major or
a major and minor are recommended. The career plans of some students can
affect their choice of major and minor. Preparation for tax law, for example,
would be facilitated by an accounting background. Students planning to
practice in criminal or family law should concentrate on class work in
the social sciences. International law students should master one or more
foreign languages. Those interested in corporate law could major in business
or management.
During the first semester after admission to Westminster, prelaw students
are responsible for requesting from the law school(s) of their choice
a list of courses required for admission so they may plan their programs
accordingly with the prelaw director in the Social Science Program.
Students who intend to apply for admission to law school should consider
the courses listed below to develop skills in areas important for law
school success.
Education for Comprehension and Expression
in Words
Credit Hours
Recommended Courses
The purpose here is to gain both perception and skill in the English
language. Language is the lawyer's working tool. In the drafting
of legal instruments, students must be able to convey meaning clearly
and effectively.In oral and written advocacy, students must also
be capable of communicating ideas convincingly and concisely. In
reception no less than in expression, language is fundamental as
the lawyer's medium of communication.
Introduction to Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Fiction
Advanced Expository Writing
Professional Writing
Interpersonal Communication Skills
Public Presentations, LE
Business and Professional Communication
*Especially recommended for PreLaw majors.
Education for Critical Understanding of Human
Institutions and Values
The purpose here is to develop insight into, rather than merely
provide information about, the institutions and values with which
man is concerned. Students pursuing a legal career encounter all
sorts of these institutions under circumstances in which their conduct
necessarily affects the conduct of others in their value choices.
Business and Employment Law
Introduction to Ethics, LE
American National Government, LE
Environmental Politics and Policy
Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties
Introduction to Psychology, LE
Social Psychology
Introduction to Sociology, LE
Introduction to Social Theory
Social Problems
Race and Ethnicity
Education for Clear and Creative Thinking
The purpose here is to develop a power to think clearly, carefully,
and independently. A large part of the work law-trained people are
called upon to do calls for problem solving and sound judgment.
This is true regardless of whether they devote their lives to the
practice of law, to governmental administration, or to some other
Accounting Principles
Managerial Accounting
Quantitative Reasoning, LE
Elementary Statistics, LE
Critical Thinking, LE
Formal Logic
Research Methods


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