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French Greetings and introductions Teacher Resources
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Apprenons le Francais (Let's Learn French)
Bonjour! Teach your class this basic greetings and much more with a unit of materials. Included here are lessons, vocabulary practice materials and activities, conversation practice handouts, word puzzles, and more to support your class...
K - 8th Languages
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Language Basics
Students in seventh and eighth grade Introduction to Foreign Language class are introduced the basic greetings, farewells, courtesy words, and basic phrases in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In pairs, they create a very short...
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Grade 11 ELA Module 4 - Full Module
The intricate craft of narrative writing can make a happy story feel exuberant, or it can make a sad story feel devastating. With 42 extensive lessons that include poignant discussion questions, standards-aligned self-reflections,...
11th English Language Arts CCSS: Designed
Grade 12 ELA Module 4: Literary Analysis
New ReviewDoes identify come from within, or is it shaped by external forces? Explore the complex concept of identify with a two-unit module designed for 12th grade language arts. The first unit uses A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams...
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Grades 9-10 Writing Module, Unit 2: Informative Writing
What were the effects of the Great Depression on the people who lived through it? As the culmination of an informative writing unit that introduces writers to the "skills, practices, and routines" of informative essays, individuals...
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African Myths and Stories
Young historians discover African stories associated with a royal altar tusk from the Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria, read myths illustrated on the tusk, and write a story about the life of an oba using figures depicted on the tusk.
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An Exploratory Approach to the Teaching of French in the Middle School
Students review the most recent vocabulary list of French words. Using literature by Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant, they discover the history and culture of France. Using a map and the text, they locate the cities and regions of...
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24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice
Practice makes proficient. Get your scholars practicing their reading comprehension skills using this packet of 24 nonfiction paired reading passages, each followed by a set of questions to test their unerstanding.
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A Bash in Baalbeck: Creating a Lebanese Festival
Learn about the diversity of the culture of Lebanon through this series of cross-curricular lessons. Compare and contrast various cultures through activities and readings. An introduction to the culture of Lebanon is included along with...
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Anishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation
Students investigate the American Indian tribe of the Chippewa. They identify the different names of the Anishinabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa nation, conduct a research project, explore various websites, and present their group research projects.
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The History Blueprint: The Cold War (World)
How and why was the Cold War fought? A carefully crafted, inquiry-based unit covers seven major topics: the roots of the Cold war, decolonization and nationalism, the three-world order, American foreign policy, American domestic policy,...
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To Honor All Children from Prejudice to Discrimination to Hatred....to Holocaust, Part 1
Students analyze different perspectives of the history of the Holocaust. They experience primary and secondary sources along with pieces from literature, documentaries, songs and letters. A commitment of honor and dedication is expressed...
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Socket, Core, Strand - Where are my Zones?
By Stefan Hinker-Oracle on Apr 26, 2016
Consolidation using Solaris Zones is widely adopted. In many cases, people run all the zones on all available CPUs, which is great for overall utilization. In such a case, Solaris does all the scheduling, taking care that the best CPU is chosen for each process and that all resources are distributed fairly amongst all applications. However, there are cases where you would want to dedicate a certain set of CPUs to one or more zones. For example to deal with license restrictions or to create a more strict separation between different workloads. This separation is achieved either by using the "dedicated-cpu" setting in the zone's configuration, or by binding the zone to an existing resource pool, which in turn contains a processor set. The technology in both cases is the same, since in the case of "dedicated-cpu", Solaris automatically creates a temporary resource pool when the zone is started. The effect of using a processor set is that the CPUs assigned to it are available exclusively to the zones associated with this set. This means that these zones can use exactly those CPUs - not more, not less. Anything else running on the system (the global zone and any other zones) can no longer be executed on these CPUs.
In this article, I'll discuss (and hopefully answer) the question, which CPUs to include in such a processor set, and how to figure out which zones currently run on which CPUs.
To avoid unnecessary confusion, let me define a few terms first, since there are multiple names in use for the various concepts:
- A CPU is a processor, consisting of one or more cores, cache and optionally some IO controllers and/or memory controllers.
- A Core is one computation or execution unit on a CPU. (Not to be confused with the pipelines that it contains.)
- A Strand is an entry point into a core, which makes the core's services available to the operating system.
For example, a SPARC M7 CPU consists of 32 cores. Each core provides 8 strands, so a M7 CPU provides 32*8=256 strands to the OS. The OS treats each of these strands as a fully-fledged execution unit and therefore shows 256 "CPUs".
All modern multi-core CPUs include multiple levels of caches. The L3 cache is usually shared by all cores. L2 and L1 caches are closer to the cores. They are smaller but faster and often dedicated to one or a small number of cores. (The M7 CPU applies different strategies, but each core owns it's own, exclusive L1 cache.) Now, if multiple strands of the same core are used by the same process (or application), this can lead to relatively high hit rates in these caches. If, on the other hand, different processes use the same core, there will be competition for the little cache space, overwriting each other's entries. We call this behavior "cache thrashing". Solaris does a good job trying to prevent this. However, when using many zones, it is common to assign different zones to different sets of cores. Use whole cores (complete sets of 8 strands) to avoid sharing of cores between zones or applications. This also makes the most sense with regards to license capping, since you usually license your application by the number of cores.
So how can you make sure that your zones are bound correctly to whole, exclusive cores?
Solaris knows about the relation between strands, cores and cpus (as well as the memory hierarchy, which I'll not cover here). You can query this relation using kstat. For historical reasons (from the times where there were no multi-core or multi-strand cpus), Solaris uses the term "CPU" for what we now call a strand:
root@mars:~# kstat -m cpu_info -s core_id -i 150 module: cpu_info instance: 150 name: cpu_info150 class: misc core_id 18 root@mars:~# kstat -m cpu_info -s chip_id -i 150 module: cpu_info instance: 150 name: cpu_info150 class: misc chip_id 1
In the above example, the "cpu" with id 150 is a strand of core 18, which belongs to CPU 1. You can discover all available strands and CPUs like this.
Usually, when you configure a processor set for a resource pool, you just tell it the minimum and maximum number of strands it should contain (where min=max is quite common). Optionally, you can also specify specific CPU-IDs (strands) or, since Solaris 11.2, core IDs. The commands to do this are "pooladm" and "poolcfg". (There is also the command "psrset", but it only creates a processor set, not a resource pool, and is not permanent, so needs to be run after every reboot.) I already described the use of these commands a while ago. Now, to figure out which strands, cores or CPUs are assigned to a specific zone, you'd need to use kstat to find the association between strand IDs in your processor set and the corresponding cores and CPUs. Done manually, that's a little painful, which is why I wrote a little script to do this for you:
root@mars:~# ./zonecores -h usage: zonecores [-Sscl] -S report whole Socket use -s report shared use -c report whole core use -l list cpu overview
With the "-l" commandline option, it will give you an overview of the available CPUs and which zones are running on them. Here's an example from a SPARC system with 2 16-core CPUs:
root@mars:~# ./zonecores -l # # Socket, Core, Strand and Zone Overview # Socket Core Strands Zones 0 0 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 db2, 0 1 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 db2, 0 2 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 none 0 3 24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31 db2, 0 4 32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39 db2, 0 5 40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47 db2, 0 6 48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55 db2, 0 7 56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63 coreshare,db1, 0 8 64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71 db2, 0 9 72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79 none 0 10 80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87 none 0 11 88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95 none 0 12 96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103 none 0 13 104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111 none 0 14 112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119 none 0 15 120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127 none 1 16 128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135 none 1 17 136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143 none 1 18 144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151 none 1 19 152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159 none 1 20 160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167 none 1 21 168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175 none 1 22 176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183 none 1 23 184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191 none 1 24 192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199 none 1 25 200,201,202,203,204,205,206,207 none 1 26 208,209,210,211,212,213,214,215 none 1 27 216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223 none 1 28 224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231 none 1 29 232,233,234,235,236,237,238,239 none 1 30 240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247 db2, 1 31 248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255 none
Using the options -S and -c, you can check whether your zones use whole sockets (-S) or whole cores (-c). With -s you can check whether or not several zones share one or more cores, which can be intentional or not, depending on the use case. Here's an example with various pools and zones on the same system as above:
root@mars:~# ./zonecores -Ssc # # Checking Socket Affinity (16 cores per socket) # INFO - Zone db2 using 2 sockets for 8 cores. OK - Zone db1 using 1 sockets for 1 cores. OK - Zone capped7 using default pool. OK - Zone coreshare using 1 sockets for 1 cores. # # Checking Core Resource Sharing # OK - Core 0 used by only one zone. OK - Core 1 used by only one zone. OK - Core 3 used by only one zone. OK - Core 30 used by only one zone. OK - Core 4 used by only one zone. OK - Core 5 used by only one zone. OK - Core 6 used by only one zone. INFO - Core 7 used by 2 zones! -> coreshare -> db1 OK - Core 8 used by only one zone. # # Checking Whole Core Assignments # OK - Zone db2 using all 8 strands of core 0. OK - Zone db2 using all 8 strands of core 1. OK - Zone db2 using all 8 strands of core 3. OK - Zone db2 using all 8 strands of core 30. OK - Zone db2 using all 8 strands of core 4. OK - Zone db2 using all 8 strands of core 5. FAIL - only 7 strands of core 6 in use for zone db2. FAIL - only 1 strands of core 8 in use for zone db2. OK - Zone db1 using all 8 strands of core 7. OK - Zone coreshare using all 8 strands of core 7. Info: 1 instances of core sharing found. Info: 1 instances of socket spanning found. Warning: 2 issues found with whole core assignments.
While this mostly speaks for itself, here are some comments:
- Zone db01 uses a resource pool with 8 strands from one core.
- Zone coreshare also uses that same pool.
- Zone db2 uses a resource pool with 64 strands coming from cores from two different CPUs. It only uses 7 of the 8 strands from core 6, while the 8th strand comes from core 8. This is probably not intentional. It would make more sense to use all 8 strands from the same core to avoid cache sharing and reduce the number of cores to license by one. It might also be benefitial to use all 8 cores from the same CPU. In this case, Solaris would attempt to allocate memory local to that CPU to avoid remote memory access.
- Zone capped7 is configured with the option "capped-cpu: ncpus=7". This is implemented using the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS) which uses all available CPUs in the default pool.
The script is available for download here: zonecores
I also wrote a more detailed discussion of all of this, with examples how to reconfigure your pool configuration in MOS DocID 2116794.1
Some links to further reading:
- Solaris 11.3 System Administration Commands: poolcfg and pooladm
- Solaris 11.3 Zones Configuration Resources
- Whitepaper: Hard Partitioning with Oracle Solaris Zones

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Anti-LGBT activist Randy Thomasson has a message for governors across America: deploy the National Guard to stop same-sex marriages. Thomasson, who leads the right-wing group Save California, detailed his proposal last week in a memo [PDF] to "pro-family leaders concerned about marriage": Each governor pledges themselves to "support and defend" the plain words of their state constitution, including, in morally conservative states, the definition of marriage as only for a man and a woman. Governors raise their right hand and publicly promise to "faithfully... MORE >
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RWW's Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week's most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right. If President Obama is starting a race war, he will probably use his army of child migrants, gay public school students and "Muslim brothers" to join the fight. None of that will matter, of course, if Ebola sweeps across America first. 5. Child Migrants Bringing In Ebola, Probably With Republican members of Congress including Michele Bachmann, Phil Gingrey and Todd Rokita warning that the unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border could unleash the Ebola... MORE >
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On VCY America's "Crosstalk" radio program yesterday, Randy Thomasson of Save California talked to host Jim Schneider about the alleged persecution of Christians at the hands of "radical" LGBT-affirming public school officials. Thomasson said that students and families have become the victims of a "perverse, unnatural, unbiblical, unhealthy, tyrannical sexual agenda" advanced by the state government and LGBT rights advocates who seek to eliminate free speech and religious liberties. After claiming that sex-ed curricula ignore health risks because... MORE >
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Rep. John Fleming appeared on Friday's edition of "The Janet Mefferd Show," where he warned that immigrants are refusing to integrate into American culture and becoming "dependents on our entitlement system." The Louisiana Republican spoke with guest host Randy Thomasson, the head of Save California, echoed recent remarks by his Republican colleague Mo Brooks about how Obama and Democrats are fomenting racial animosity: "Our president promised that there wouldn't be such things as black Americans and white Americans, just Americans, but his policies... MORE >
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Filling in for right-wing talk show host Janet Mefferd on Friday, Randy Thomasson of Save California warned that marriage equality laws amount to slavery and totalitarianism. "It's tyranny, it's intolerance, it's attack, it's a form of slavery even, that you cannot even have freedom, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and this is leading away from mere opposition to oppression with coming persecution," Thomasson said. Thomasson also interviewed Americans For Truth About Homosexuality's Peter LaBarbera and introduced him by comparing... MORE >
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It was "Mock Obama Day" on Glenn Beck's radio program. It was "uproarious." "Karl Rove is a scaredy-cat." John Hagee has apparently dropped his opposition to San Antonio's proposed anti-discrimination ordinance. Randy Thomasson declares that "Jerry Brown and the Democrats have targeted every kid in public school with gender-bending brainwashing. Fortunately, parents can protect their children from the insanity of biological boys in girls' restrooms and girls' showers and biological girls in boys' restrooms and... MORE >
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Save California's Randy Thomason on Friday appeared on Istook Live, the Heritage Foundation radio program hosted by former Republican congressman Ernest Istook, to discuss the Supreme Court case on Proposition 8. He accused the California state officials who refused to defend Prop 8 of "dissing God" and went on to warn that "usurpers of the United States Constitution" have methodically and stealthily "infiltrated" the government and the courts in order to launch another civil war. This not the characteristic of a Republic when there are sworn... MORE >
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Most Vermonters want wind power
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Recent calls for a moratorium on wind power production are highly misguided and sorely misrepresent the ideals of nearly 70 percent of Vermonters.
The effort to suspend new wind power production, led by Sens. Robert Hartwell and Joe Benning, represents only a small but vocal minority of Vermonters.
By taking up the effort to stop wind power production, Sen. Hartwell and Sen. Benning are acting against Vermont citizens interest, going directly against what they promise theyd do when officially sworn into office.
The reasons why Vermonters support wind power are clear.
Beyond being the responsible thing to do, wind power invests in long-term jobs in Vermont, has boosted our state economy, and is helping to move farther away from dirty and dangerous sources of energy.
A moratorium on one of the most benign sources of renewable energy available right here in Vermont is a crippling move that undermines decades of progress.
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Generally considered a God among men. However, this is not the case. Kyu is the God among Gods, the greatest of all. His charm, mastery of humanity, and exceptional skills with the ladies are masked, appropriately, by his true modesty. The sign of the greatest.
"Yo dude, that man just pulled a Kyu"
::smack:: "Are you kidding me? No mortal has that skill."
::smack:: "Are you kidding me? No mortal has that skill."
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Used in martial arts to separate the kids from the grown-ups. A kid has a mon degree, a grown up (14 or above) has a kyu grade. A mon degree is white with a stripe of the colour while the kyu is fully coloured.
"Did you hear that Dean got 1kyu the other day?"
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1. I didnt know that girl was a muffin smuggler until it was deliciously too late.
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a girl who has an enormous bulge in her crotch region.
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Exsqueeze me?! We don't have playoff experience? Have you been living under a rock? We've been in the playoffs 7 of the last 8 years. Yeah, that's not experience
Btw...no one in smashville is takin this series lightly. We know what's at stake. We know it's gonna be a death match. We are sensing some major disrespect from a lot of wings fan.
Why? Have you read this thread? I don't think there's much confidence floating around most Wings fans right now.


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Former Bills DB Kelso to address concussions today at Edinboro
Former Bills defensive back Mark Kelso is scheduled to visit Edinboro University today to discuss sports-related concussions. Kelso's presentation, titled "Confronting the Concussion Crisis," will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Compton Hall, Room 107A.
Admission is $10, $5 for Edinboro students and university President's Pass holders. Seats may be reserved at www.edinboro.edu/events/Mark_Kelso. Proceeds benefit Edinboro's Friends of Communication Fund, which supports scholarships, special events and university student organizations.
Kelso played in four Super Bowls with the Bills and has worked as an advocate for improved helmet safety in youth football. He is known for wearing the "Pro Cap," a padded, protective helmet attachment, after suffering his fourth concussion in two seasons in 1989.


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Guest Voice of state Rep. Ryan Bizzarro: Why I voted against transportation bill
I, along with many of my colleagues from both sides of the aisle, opposed Pennsylvania's transportation-funding bill -- now Act 89 of 2013 -- because the almost $2.4 billion in additional taxes, fines and fees falls disproportionately on the backs of those who can afford it the least -- Pennsylvania's working- and middle-class families.
Public safety will always be a prime concern, and I fully support raising additional transportation funding for our roads and bridges and transit systems. However, the safety of the public's pocketbooks also must enter into the equation.
What happened to all of the so-called fiscal conservatives, who relentlessly talk about protecting taxpayers? Act 89 puts Pennsylvania on track to have the highest gas tax in the nation by 2018.
That's 75.2 cents of taxes on each gallon of gas. The national average, according to the American Petroleum Institute, is about 49 cents. Pennsylvania taxes on gasoline would be more than twice that of many states.
Any suggestions that this whopping tax increase won't be passed on to consumers are enough to make one laugh, or cry. Many companies have already suggested that they will have no choice but to pass the tax on to consumers because of thin profit margins.
And, it doesn't stop there. Some of the more than 150 tax and fee increases to be phased in by Gov. Tom Corbett's transportation plan include:
- An increase of 28.5 cents per gallon on gasoline;
- An increase of 38.5 cents per gallon on diesel;
- A $2 increase for passenger car registrations;
- An optional $5 county vehicle registration fee;
- A $61 increase for personal registration plates;
- Annual registration increases for large trucks for the next four years, followed by inflation increases every year.
- A $2 increase for driver's license renewal;
- A $15 increase for photo ID cards;
- A $15 increase for replacement driver's licenses;
- A $32.50 increase for certificates of title.
In fact, there is hardly a tax, fine or fee contained in the vehicle code that wasn't increased.
Obliterating the middle class with these increases is not a core function of government, at least not in my book.
I will fight nonstop for investment in Erie County, including in its ports and transportation hubs. However, other funding options, including but not limited to issuing bonds, were available but ignored. Raising fuel prices so dramatically was not the only option.
Pennsylvania's debt levels are low and declining. Interest rates also are low, reducing the long-term costs of borrowing and allowing Pennsylvania to boost its investment in transportation with less of an increase in the gas tax or other user fees.
By taking more money out of our pockets, the impending transportation-funding train wreck will spawn funding cuts to hospitals, schools, early childhood programs, nursing homes, and other services that rival transportation in importance.
A 28.5-cent-a-gallon punch at the pump is bad enough. It's not the only red flag, though. Act 89 includes $40 million that will be doled out by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, which is composed of political appointees.
Another provision gives the secretary of transportation $20 million in "discretionary" funds in fiscal 2014-15, and $40 million the next fiscal year.
Don't families deserve some discretion?
Despite his pledge to not raise taxes, the governor and his political associates spending your money claim that the legislation will create 50,000 jobs and save 12,000 others.
What's that? Oh, yes, it's the irony. I'm not the first to note that the governor always claimed that government doesn't create jobs -- only the private sector does.
Despite the promises that the commonwealth would be the No. 1 job incubator, job creation in Pennsylvania has slipped from 7th to 46th since 2011.
Much of our economy relies on trucks, and increasing diesel prices by nearly 40 cents a gallon is going to have serious effects on prices and jobs, especially the independent owner/operators. The fuel increases also will harm small businesses.
With highest-in-the-nation fuel taxes, many local motorists and commercial truckers are going to fill up in New York and Ohio -- anywhere but the Keystone State.
During the lengthy deliberations on the gas-tax proposals, it seemed that everyone had a friend in tax policy except the middle class and working families. I thought it was time they did. However, they needed more friends and fewer votes on unacceptable legislation.
The right thing to do was what I, and the rest of my Democratic colleagues from the Erie delegation, did four times -- oppose tax-and-fee increases that carry long-term consequences that we, quite frankly, cannot afford.
Unfortunately, this is not the course the governor and the legislature chose to take.
Public safety doesn't stop on the roads and bridges. Pennsylvania has many deteriorated bridges but even more corroded wallets and bank accounts and evaporating dreams of economic opportunity and prosperity.
Simply put, and in the spirit of the holiday season, Act 89 is the gift that keeps on giving.
And all sales are final.
RYAN BIZZARRO, of Millcreek Township, is the Democrative state representative for the 3rd District (email@example.com).


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Despite its explosive growth over the last decade, the Web remains essentially a tool to allow humans to access information. Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL and other W3C standards aim to extend the Web's capability through increased availability of machine-processable information. Davies, Grobelnik and Mladenic have grouped contributions from renowned researchers into four parts: technology; integration aspects of knowledge management; knowledge discovery and human language technologies; and case studies. Together, they offer a concise vision of semantic knowledge management, ranging from knowledge acquisition to ontology management to knowledge integration, and their applications in domains such as telecommunications, social networks and legal information processing. This book is an excellent combination of fundamental research, tools and applications in Semantic Web technologies. It serves the fundamental interests of researchers and developers in this field in both academia and industry who need to track Web technology developments and to understand their business implications.
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- 1) Introduction (Davies, Grobelnik, Mladenic).
- 2) Ontology Management (Bloehdorn, Haase, Huang, Sure, Völker, van Harmelen, Studer).
- 3) Knowledge Discovery for Semantic Web (Mladenic, Grobelnik, Fortuna, Grcar).
- 4) Human Language Technologies (Bontcheva, Davis, Funk, Li, Wang).
- 5) OntoSTUDIO as an Ontology Engineering Environment (Weiten).
- 6) Shared Ontology for Knowledge Management (Kiryakov, Popov, Kitchukov, Angelov).
- 7) Semantically Enhanced Search and Browse (Duke, Heizmann).
- 8) Semantic Web for Knowledge Sharing (Kings, Davies).
- 9) Natural Language Generation from Ontologies (Bontcheva, Davis).
- 10) Ontology Generation from Social Networks (Grobelnik, Mladenic, Fortuna).
- 11) Capturing Documents Semantics for Ontology Generation and Document Summarization (Baxter, Klimt, Grobelnik, Schneider, Witbrock, Mladenic).
- 12) Visualization of Temporal Semantic Spaces (Fortuna, Mladenic, Grobelnik).
- 13) Semantic MediaWiki (Vrandecic, Krötzsch).
- 14) Deploying and Evaluating Semantic Technologies in a Digital Library (Thurlow, Warren).
- 15) Semantic Technology for Professional Judicial Knowledge (Casanovas, Casellas, Vallbé, Poblet, Contreras, Blázquez, Benjamins).
- 16) Semantic Web for Knowledge Reuse in Business Processes (Traphoener, Franz).
- 17) User Quality and Business Benefit of Semantic Knowledge Management Applications (Bösser, Casellas, Melchior, Thurlow, Vallbé).
- 18) Conclusion (Davies, Grobelnik, Mladenic).
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With a $1.25 million federal grant, College of the Canyons and Golden Valley High School are teaming up to create hundreds of first-generation college graduates, officials said Tuesday.
"We are excited about the Upward Bound program, which will serve 60 Golden Valley High School students each year over the next five years," said Gail Pinsker, spokeswoman for the William S. Hart Union High School District.
The grant funds workshops, tutoring and mentoring opportunities for 60 students each year for the next five years.
"If we can get these kids, moms and dads to envision (college) and then we provide opportunities for them to explore, we know they'll become engaged," said Carrie Lynne Draper, Upward Bound project director for College of the Canyons.
Filling out financial-aid applications and reading transcripts will be among the skills explained to parents and students, Draper said.
The first "class" of students was selected from the high school's five-year-old GOALS program, which stands for Golden Opportunities for Academic Learning and Success.
The program was created to address students who arrived at Golden Valley High School struggling academically, according to Golden Valley Principal Sal Frias.
About 20 percent of the school's population was coming in without having successfully completed its junior high education, Frias said, and 20 percent of those students were leaving high school without a diploma.
"Kids want to come to high school thinking they're going to get a fresh start," Frias said. "But if that fresh start doesn't address problems with study skills or any other problems that they already have, then that fresh start doesn't happen."
The GOALS program was created to help these students in high school, and Upward Bound will offer guidance for the college process.
While students who complete the program successfully will likely be able to attend COC, students will be encouraged to explore all of their options, said Omar Torres, COC dean of mathematics, sciences and engineering, who spearheaded the Upward Bound effort.
"We just want to make sure we're able to track them and that they are pursuing post-secondary education," Torres said.


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Melvilasam, a play by Surya Krishnamurthy
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The well known play "Court Martial" by Swadesh Deepak was adapted in Malayalam and staged under the stewardship of Nataraja Krishnamurthy, aka Soorya Krishnamurthy.
In its original version it is the Court martial of a Jawan which also uncovers the dynamics of power equations within the armed forces. A telling commentary on the tyranny that prevails in our system and how justice is only relevant to the position of the the people involved in the issue. Often it weighs in favour of the person who belongs to the better social strata, economic superiority and all other parameters which are always in favour of the senior officer, the higher caste etc.
The all male original play has been given a new humane touch in its Malayalam version with the introduction of the young "Ammu" as the daughter of Ramachandran, the jawan who is facing court martial. A fine human being who repeatedly asserts that he has 'Shot' the two officers. It is only when the cross examination progresses we realise that the accused was an athelete who also was a competitor to the Capt B D Kapur who earlier held the Record for the item! The gentleman-officer is also one who perpetrates violence at home. On the other hand Ramachanran is unmarried, but is the father of Ammu. Ammu's fervent appeals to save her father become more touching when Ramachandran tells the Court that this was the child he rescued from a terrorist infested area under attack. A little child survived, the only one to escape death! He says, "I could not leave her behind Sir."
The officer, Lt Col Surat singh is known for verdicts which have never spared a life. He is shaken by Ammu's appeal. But, in all fairness, his commitment to fairness and justice he concludes by telling Ramachandran, "I must Salute you. Please accept it." He offers salute and the verdict is that Ramachandran must hang because he caused to take a life.
A play with strong resonance and mirroring the built in imbalances in our society. The play scored high on the total recreation of the tension in a court martial.
Soorya's Drama - Melvilasam
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John Calipari is perennially college basketball's king of recruiting, and he's also the sport's biggest force on Twitter.
No coach has sent more tweets (7,600) and is followed by more people (1.2 million) than the leader of Big Blue Nation. In fact, his audience is 10 times larger than his closest competitor in the space, Indiana's Tom Crean.
COACHES' TWITTER RANKING BY CONFERENCE: AAC | ACC | Big East | Big Ten | Big 12 | Pac-12
But the SEC is not just all about him. There are at least five other Twitter stars in the league. With that in mind, we subjectively rank each coach's Twitter strength and single out one of their best tweets of recent vintage.
1. John Calipari, Kentucky. He does a little bit of everything. Mingle with fans. Shill his products. Tout his players. All of it works.
Tweets: 7,600
Following: 210
Followers: 1,200,000
Best Tweet: 1,399 retweets, 476 favorites, 678,000 impressions
Congrats to Louisville. They had a wonderful year from start to finish which is really difficult to do. For us, next season begins today.— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) April 9, 2013
2. Frank Martin, South Carolina. He knows the power of Twitter when he retweets a "Forbes" article entitled "Why future CEOs must quietly embrace social media." He truly gets it.
Tweets: 3,200
Following: 280
Followers: 34,000
Best Tweet: 416 retweets, 105 favorites, 104,000 impressions
The season is about the TEAM. The off season is about the PLAYER. Use this time to tighten your game and harden your desire. Work everyday— Frank Martin (@FrankMartin_SC) April 19, 2013
-- MORE: Top 10 college hoops coaches on Twitter
3. Rick Ray, Mississippi State. If the Bulldogs were relevant on a national stage, Ray would have scores more followers than the 12,000 he has now.
Tweets: 2,100
Following: 320
Followers: 12,500
Best Tweet: 384 retweets, 139 favorites, 119,000 impressions
Food for thought. It's kind of hard to be the worst team EVER in SEC history when you don't even finish last this season. Just saying.— Rick Ray (@RickRay1) March 10, 2013
4. Cuonzo Martin, Tennessee. His tweets are most often in reply to others. Love the engagement.
Tweets: 960
Following: 30
Followers: 36,000
Best Tweet: 636 retweets, 305 favorites, 179,000 impressions. Martin couldn't help himself in talking about the Vols' 4 OT win over Texas A&M in College Station.
I've never been part of a 4OT game before today. What a great day to be a Tennessee Vol! That one was all heart!— Cuonzo Martin (@CuonzoMartin) February 24, 2013
* MORE: Sporting News' Top 25 for 2013-14 | Top 25 recruits for 2014
5. Billy Donovan, Florida. His voice is heard by nearly 100,000 fans, but he just doesn't tweet enough to be part of this league's top four.
Tweets: 410
Following: 70
Followers: 95,000
Best Tweet: 400 retweets, 145 favorites, 277,000 impressions. Donovan was pleased about his Gators moving to the Sweet 16 this past March.
Great effort by our guys tonight when things got tough. Beat a really good team in the Gophers, heck of a coach in Tubby Smith. #Gators— Billy Donovan (@UFCoachBillyD) March 25, 2013
6. Mark Fox, Georgia. Another coach who really gets it. He just doesn't interact or share as many pictures as the others above him.
Tweets: 1,100
Following: 120
Followers: 13,200
Best Tweet: 119 retweets, 56 favorites, 92,000 impressions
I've spent a lot of time w/ @MarkRicht over the years. Last night in the car, I sensed a great excitement from him. 1 snap at a time Dawgs!— Mark Fox (@coachmarkfox) July 31, 2013
7. Tony Barbee, Auburn. Touts his team, but is also aware of the bigger picture in life.
Tweets: 560
Following: 400
Followers: 8,800
Best Tweet: 142 retweets, 17 favorites, 172,000 impressions
Former AU basketball player Korvotney Barber is missing & believed to have drowned last night. My thoughts & prayers go out to his family.— Tony Barbee (@CoachTonyBarbee) July 21, 2013
8. Mike Anderson, Arkansas. If only he were Bret Bielema.
Tweets: 130
Following: 40
Followers: 20,200
Best Tweet: 387 retweets, 184 favorites, 90,000 impressions. When the Razorbacks took down then-No. 2 Florida, Anderson praised Arkansas fans.
HogNation thank you for a fun atmosphere. Our fans and students were off the charts w/great passion. The Bud was rocking like old time.WPS— Coach Mike Anderson (@MikeAndersonUA) February 6, 2013
9. Billy Kennedy, Texas A&M. Love his sense of humor from Aug. 11.
Tweets: 410
Following: 140
Followers: 8,000
Best Tweet: 53 retweets, 17 favorites, 21,000 impressions
Rockets gotta good one!! Excited Isaiah Caanan gonna be close to Aggieland!!— Billy Kennedy (@Coach_Kennedy) June 28, 2013
10. Frank Haith, Missouri. The one thing we'll fault him for is that he tweets in bursts, not on a daily basis.
Tweets: 150
Following: 75
Followers: 14,400
Best Tweet: 151 retweets, 60 favorites, 101,000 impressions
Thanks to Big Blue Nation and @UKCoachCalipari for all the hospitality today in Lexington. Great fans and great people here.— Frank Haith (@FrankHaithMU) March 20, 2013
11. Johnny Jones, LSU. Tweets are sparse from him.
Tweets: 6
Following: 17
Followers: 610
Best Tweet: 19 retweets, 8 favorites, 23,000 impressions. Jones praised the work of Johnny O'Bryant III, the team's leading scorer, last month.
Excited for JOBIII. He was voted student athlete of the month and getting great reviews from the LeBron James skills academy. #GeauxTigers!— Johnny Jones (@LSUCoachJones) July 9, 2013
Tie 12-14. Anthony Grant, Alabama; Andy Kennedy, Mississippi; and Kevin Stallings, Vanderbilt. Anybody home?


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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)1 is a recurrent form of depression associatedwith the length of daylight or photoperiod. It can be effectively treated by exposure to bright light.2 This novel therapy developed from circadian models of seasonal behavior in mammals and, by analogy, has thus been hypothesized to be a circadian intervention. One study suggests that, indeed, the response to light is mediated by the eye,3 but none of the proposed mechanisms has received unequivocal empirical support, whether it is that the therapeutic effect is mediated by a phase shift induced by a light pulse, by an augmentation of circadian amplitude, or an increase in number of photons absorbed.We suggest that SAD could be tied to a deficiency in retinal photoreceptor renewal mechanisms. Since retinal response to light is the first step in circadian rhythm regulation, understanding it is therefore crucial in considerations of
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FARMING has always been in Kris Verett's blood. He was raised on the Crosby County, Texas, farm and says he owes a lot to his father Steve and Uncle Eddie for putting him "in the position I'm in."
"Water availability will be the million dollar question," he says. "We will continue to see more restrictions. The answer to water limitations will not be to tie five or six small wells together."
He wants to concentrate water on the best land—half circles, perhaps—rotate with winter wheat then summer fallow and possibly plant more dryland cotton. "We will see more dryland cotton in the area, but I hope to see cotton remain an important part of the crop mix."
They will plant some milo this year but he prefers winter wheat. "It's just a better rotation crop for us."
At 28, Kris Verett is looking forward to a career he had not planned on until he got away from it for awhile. He can name a few other young farmers in the area who are near his age, "but not many." He also realizes that farming comes with few guarantees other than had work, long hours and frequent disappointment.
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—In discussing the data from their prospective study of "do not resuscitate" (DNR) order at three teaching hospitals, I believe that Lo and his colleagues1 imply that the physicians were ethically wrong in writing DNR orders in the face of family disagreement. To support that conclusion, they pointed to two patients wherein "the physician's assessments of futility were incorrect, perhaps influenced by their judgment of the patient's quality of life; patients in these cases survived to discharge." I believe that the authors' implication is erroneous and that their error stems from their implied suggestion that futility of treatment is a prerequisite to writing a DNR order and from a misunderstanding of the limited nature of the DNR order.In all acute care hospitals, the policy is that without a DNR order, cardiopulmonary resuscitative efforts ("code blue," and so on) will be made in all cases of
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Map of Roads Leading to Rome
Explore the Peutinger Map is a website companion to Prof. Richard J. A. Talbert's Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (Google Books, Amazon). It presents The Peutinger Map in different ways, including with overlays and lists of geographical features. But what's The Peutinger Map? Also known as Tabula Peutingeriana, it is a Medieval copy of highly stylized 4th Century map of the Roman road network, extending to India. Jacob Ford explains why it is often compared to modern public transit maps [pdf] and then redraws one section as a New York Metro map. Euratlas has scans of the Medieval manuscript stored at the Austrian National Library and Wikimedia Commons has a high quality scan of Konrad Miller's authoritative 1888 facsimile edition.
Silent but Readly
"Midway through the Confessions, St. Augustine recalls how he used to marvel at the way Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, read his manuscripts: 'His eyes traveled across the pages and his heart searched out the meaning, but his voice and tongue stayed still.' Scholars have sparred for decades over whether Augustine's offhand observation reveals something momentous: namely, that silent reading—that seemingly mundane act you're engaged in right now—was, in the Dark Ages, a genuine novelty...Could the earliest readers literally not shut up?"
A Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
A Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire is an OpenLayers map that uses a new geographical dataset constructed from the award-winning Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (previously), along with several other sources. You can search for sites by place name or zoom in and click sites to get more information about them. It includes tagged data from virtually every known location in the ancient world, and was implemented in 2012 by Johan Åhlfeldt. The geographical dataset can also be used as a background layer with other maps - for example, here is a basic Google Maps version. Åhlfeldt has made the data freely available under the CC-BY license.
Switched-on Classics
Digital Classicists: Scholars who study the ancient Greek and Roman empires are creating a growing array of 21st-century interactive, multidimensional presentations about people, places and events from the world of antiquity. If you dig around you'll uncover some deep and meticulous work by geographers, historians, archaeologists, and art historians working in digital space. [more inside]
"It has been your lot to achieve that the obedience to manifold rules should not hamper poetry."
During the reign of Constantine the Great, the Roman senator and poet Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius was sent into exile for crimes unknown. He succeeded in regaining favor and his good name by composing a series of poems in praise of the emperor which looked like nothing else. His poetry was an evolution of the Greek tradition of pattern poetry, but he took it a much more complex level, as Arrigo Lora Totino explains. In an illustrated article, John Stephan Edwards goes through the poetry of Porphyrius, showing the evolution of his craft.
The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Spanning one-ninth of the earth's circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation and communication technologies that relied on energy generated by human and animal bodies, winds, and currents. Conventional maps that represent this world as it appears from space signally fail to capture the severe environmental constraints that governed the flows of people, goods and information. Cost, rather than distance, is the principal determinant of connectivity. For the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.
"Somewhere in there there are the lost texts from all sorts of authors."
Ancient Lives is a project by the University of Oxford which asks your help in transcribing fragments from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Collection using the Zooniverse model. Leader of the project, Chris Lintott, explains the project here in a short interview. Can you help him find his one-eyed astrologer? [Oxyrhynchus previously]
The Ancient Theatre Archive
The Ancient Theatre Archive: A Virtual Reality Tour of Greek and Roman Theatre Architecture offers photos, panoramas, detailed descriptions, and, in several instances, virtual tours of classical theatre sites across Europe. (Tours require Quicktime to view.) The Met offers a basic overview of the differences between Greek and Roman theatrical architecture. For more theatres and related theatrical imagery, visit John Porter's one-stop catalog of online visual resources, Skenotheke.
The Desert is alive
The Qanat; a water management system from C7th BC still in use today;is one of the wonders of the world, and keeps the desert alive. This fascinating 17 min video from UNESCO is a good introduction to the subject.
Cooling provided by Qanat's is still in use in Yazd, Iran.
Modern warfare scores a gigantic fail in the battle for hearts and minds. (wiki)
Cooling provided by Qanat's is still in use in Yazd, Iran.
Modern warfare scores a gigantic fail in the battle for hearts and minds. (wiki)
Ancient, Medieval and Classic Works
In Parentheses is a collection of many ancient, medieval and classic texts from all over the world, many of whom are hard to find anywhere, let alone on the internet. There are translations from Greek, Old Norse, Medieval Irish, Japanese, Incan, Old French, Medieval Latin and many more! As well as all that they have papers in medieval studies and vaguely decadent and orientalism series. Adding to that there's a linguistics section with wordlists and language flash cards in languages such as Icelandic, Quechua, Basque, Classical Armenian and a whole bunch more. [flashcard links go to pdf files]
Inflicting a historical atlas on the world
Physicist Howard Wiseman has a hobby, history. On his website he has three history subsites, filled with lots of information: 1) Ruin and Conquest of Britain 2) 18 Centuries of Roman Empire 3) Twenty Centuries of "British" "Empires". Especially informative are his many maps. As he says himself: "Drawing historical maps of all sorts has been a hobby of mine since my mid teens. Now I can do it digitally, and inflict it upon the world!"
Come, visit Rome as it once was.
In my quest to fulfill a jones for antiquity, I came across some Roman Numismatics. There are many great photos of Roman artifacts to be found here. Monetary, military, scroll down, click and scroll some more. It's almost as if ancient Rome has come back to life. (Some art is NSFW)
12 Byzantine Rulers, a podcast history of The Byzantine Empire
12 Byzantine Rulers is a podcast lecture series about The Byzantine Empire by Lars Brownworth, a history teacher at The Stony Brook School on Long Island, New York. 1123 years of awesomeness ready to go onto your iPod! [iTunes link]
The acoustics of the theatre of Epidaurus
An ancient theatre filters out low-frequency background noise. The ancient Greek theatre of the Asklepieion of Epidaurus, built mostly during the 4th century B.C. and now a World Heritage Site, is renowned for its extraordinary acoustics. Researchers have figured out that the arrangement of the stepped rows of seats are perfectly shaped to act as an acoustic filter, suppressing low-frequency background noise while passing on the high frequencies of performers' voices. [Via MoFi.]
The scholarship on whether Pythagoras wrote "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" remains inconclusive.
Everything you know about Pythagoras is wrong (except the bit about the beans). Less the golden-thighed Einstein of the Ancient World and more the L. Ron Hubbard of Magna Graecia. [Last link has some rude words]
Ruined Cities
Jesus wasn't alone
Crucifixion in Antiquity. The Persians may have led the way, while 6,000 Spartacus followers lined the Appian Way. It was cruel, but common.
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Rudolf Otto, author of the classic The Idea of the Holy (org. 1917; Eng. trans., 1923), is best known today for his analysis of numinous experience — he coined the word "numinous" — as a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. He was also one of the most important and sophisticated European thinkers of the last century to broach topics of religious diversity. This conference will examine Otto's theoretical and practical legacy with regard to religious pluralism, with special emphasis on Abrahamic religions, a topic relatively neglected in Otto studies. Our goals are both to understand Otto in his context and to examine his potential significance today for interreligious relations as well as the academic understanding of religions.The conference will consist of an evening keynote address, five panels (three or four papers in each session plus extensive discussion), and a concluding discussion. It is collaboratively organized by Prof. Gregory Alles, McDaniel College, and Rev. Dr. Ulrich Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin–Madison. The plenary addresswill be given by Prof. Robert Orsi, Northwestern University: "The Problem of the Holy in a World of Religious Pluralism."
The presenters are confirmed and complete (please see lubar.wisc.edu/otto, so this announcement is to invite you to attend the conference on the beautiful University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Please contact Dr. Ulrich Rosenhagen (firstname.lastname@example.com) for info; this UW-Madison conference is free to attend but travel/lodging/food not covered.
Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday, November 6, 2014The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.University of Wisconsin–Madison


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I'm always going to feel confident about the Rangers winning no matter what, but after seeing the Capitals more concerned about a phantom slew foot than getting ready for a Game 7, I'm feeling better than ever.
Washington's Mike Green took an embarrassingly undisciplined penalty in the third period when he cross checked Derek Dorsett in the mouth after he thought the Rangers agitator kicked out his skates from behind. Unfortunately for Green and the Capitals, the referee saw what everyone else did—Dorsett lost his balance and both his legs kicked up as the players crashed into the boards…
Apparently, the Capitals players didn't see the above video, especially at the 1:22 mark showing there was absolutely no attempt at a slew foot before making these statements…
Braden Holtby (via Washington Post)…
"The one that we all had a problem with, obviously, was the one on Greenie. That's a play that should be reviewed. It's only because Greenie's world-class, one of the best skaters in the world, that he didn't fall on his back there. It's a dirty slew foot and we're short-handed from it. That's the only one I think any of us have a problem with."
Capitals Head Coach Adam Oates…
"That play to me is the one that does concern me because it looked like a slew foot to me and obviously that's why Mike reacted," Oates said. "Mike's not that type of player, and you're watching it, to me it looks like a slew foot. Very dangerous play. Greenie's one of those guys that they want to target, but to me, that's a very dangerous play."
…hey Adam, maybe you should worry more about your high flying offense not scoring than blaming others for why you didn't win.
…and the Rangers didn't even score on the ensuing power play, so who cares. At the very least it would have evened things up anyway and it's not like the Capitals were dominant five-on-five last night.
Eric Fehr also accused Dorsett of diving on the Green cross check to the face.
…the guy takes a two-handed cross check to the teeth and is accused of diving? Talk about grasping for anything. If anyone should be complaining it's Dorsett. The guy is bleeding from the mouth and Green only gets two minutes? Not that the Rangers would have scored on a double minor or five minute major.
…i'm pretty sure Caps fans would rather see Fehr focusing on improving on his ZERO points in the series than making excuses for his teammate.
Here's Dorsett's response…
"When I get moving my feet and playing hard, sometimes it can get under the skin of other guys. Anytime I can do that, I want to try and help get the team on the power play."
…loving Dorsett's grinding, in-your-face style. Which is something the Rangers were sorely lacking this season and with Clowe injured is going to be that much more important for the Rangers if they want to make any noise in the playoffs. I expect him to be a huge factor in Game 7.
…if the Capitals are more concerned about this irrelevant play than a crucial Game 7 then the Rangers have already won.
Video of Dorsett post game…
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The Singapore Police Force reiterated on Tuesday its commitment to ensure a thorough probe into the death of an American researcher in Singapore.
The police said it is working closely with the FBI in the United States to investigate the death of Dr Shane Todd, 32, and that it will take into account any information the FBI may independently gather. The SPF will also share with FBI evidence it has obtained so far, in accordance with the laws of both countries.
Dr Todd was found hanged in his Singapore apartment in an apparent suicide last June. His parents, however, believe he was murdered over work he had done while employed at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME), which is part of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research.
A statement by the Police on Tuesday, noted that the Todd family may pose relevant questions at the Coroner's Inquiry about the investigation findings, forensic and medical reports. At this inquiry, the State Coroner will review the evidence and independently determine the cause of, and circumstances connected with Dr Todd's death.


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How do i get my dog to stop walking and pooping at the same time? She poops where i want her to poop but then she walks out and craps every where while poopin. Also, i moved her food in the place where she craps and urins in after cleaning it because that's what i read, and she still uses that specific area as her potty place even having her food there. How do i make her stop? I've been using a training pad and she uses it sometimes but other times she goes else where. Is there something i need to do? What can i do to make this behavior stop?
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replied 9 years ago.
How old is your dog?
How long have you owned her?
You say she walks out of her potty place, where is her potty place?
Is she going all over the place or one other specific area?
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My dog is 6 months old. I've had her for two months right now. Her potty place is in the living room on a training pad. She uses it but walks out of it while still pooping. I've moved the training pad to the different areas she has pooped and she uses it and still walks out of it and poops else where. Other times she does not use it. She goes all over the place. My mother does not want her in the room because our rooms have carpet and she poops and pees there. I want to fully train her to use the pads so that i can get her a doggy litter box. But i'm having such a hard time with her. She knows that i want her to use the training pad and she uses it, but she sometimes refuses to use it. So is there any suggestions?
Jane Lefler
replied 9 years ago.
Unfortunately, some dogs are walkers, so I know just what you mean. Sometimes, they walk a bit to help move the stool through. If that is part of the problem, adding a spoonful of canned pumpkin to her food will help keep the stool firm but soft enough to be easily passed.
Smaller dogs can be very hard to house train, so you are not alone in your problem. Your first step will be to have your dog checked for parasites as this can cause the dog to be unable to control their bowels like they should. At six months of age, parasites are probably present.
I'm going to also give you three methods of pad/paper training. You can pick the one that best works for you. Your dog should be able to hold her bowels most of the time at this age if parasites are not present so at least her age is working for you now.
You'll have to be consistent with the girl until house training is complete with her.
Here are some tried and true pad training methods.
For training to pads or paper, this is the best way to go about it with the least amount of stress on your dog. It will take some effort on your part.
In the area that you want her to use the pad, set up an enclosure. You can use child gates, free standing pet enclosures, or anything that will serve to enclose the area you want her to use. These are the times when you will be taking your dog to the enclosure. When you feed or give your dog water, first thing in the morning, last thing at night and after extended play times.
You will want to start this when you are not working or when you can spend a couple of hours in the morning and evening exclusively doing this. Enclose or barricade the area and put pads over the entire area. Scent one of the pads and place it where you will leave it when there is only one pad. When you and your dog get up in the morning, instead of taking her outside, take her to the enclosed area and put her inside it. You can leave her a few toys but basically put her in the enclosed area. It is best if you can stay there and keep an eye on her. Do not engage her with talk or play or reassurances. Just be there so you can see her when he actually goes. She may be reluctant, but do not cave in to whines or cries. You must remain calm and in control and ignore her. Sit in a chair and read or do some other activity to keep you occupied while she is in there so you are not focused on her but can still see her. It may take some time, especially the first time, but she will eventually go on the pads as she has no where else to go. When you see her start to go, you can say in a low calm voice "good potty". It needs to be in a low quiet voice so she isn't startled into stopping. Give her lots of praise for succeeding and perhaps a little treat and you can then remove her from the enclosure and open it up so she has access if she want to use it. The first time may take an hour or more, but if you do it first thing in the morning, it is likely to take less time.
Repeat this according to the circumstances I mentioned earlier concerning when she should be going and a few extra times during the day to try and avoid accidents. After a few times going in the enclosed space and being praised for it and getting treats she should not be as reluctant to go in the enclosed area. Continue to praise and say the key wood "Potty". When she reaches the point where she is going to the bathroom almost immediately in the enclosure on the pads, you will want to start taking up some of the pads so only a portion of the enclosed area has pads. Repeat as if the whole area was covered. Your dog should go on the pads and not the floor. If she does, continue the praise and treats. Slowly reduce the number of pads in the area until you are down to one or two only. If she should happen to miss the pad or go off the pad, add some more for the next time as you probably were taking them away too fast. At this point she knows the pads are where she should be going.
Once she is going on the pads and you are down to one or two pads, don't close up the enclosure when you put her in it. He should still use the pad as she is now used to it. When she does, again praise, praise and more praise, let her come out the opening. Continue this process if it is necessary, but with the enclosure being open, you may now find that he is going there on his own. Once you notice she is using it without you putting her in there, you should be able to take away the enclosure or barrier. She should now be trained to use the pad.
Depending on how quick a learner she is, you may find she starts going in and using the pad early. If so the barrier can go earlier, but you should still only slowly reduce the number of pads she has to go on, so she doesn't miss, use the floor and think it is ok.
Second method is similar but you would leave her in the enclosed area all the time unless you are taking her for a walk, and just slowly removing paper and decreasing the area inside the enclosure that is papered. As long as she continues to use the paper, you are not moving too fast. Once you are down to a small area, she should be trained. I suggest this because while the dog is contained in an area with paper, the dog may not be as stressed as when there is a cage all around him.
Third method
Set up a contained small area with the paper. Then you will have the dog on a leash attached to you. I attach the leash to a belt loop on my pants. This way she is always where you can observe her easily and stop her before she starts urinating and place her in the potty area. When you see her start to squat, give a quick short tug on the leash and in a low toned, firm voice say "NO". Do not be upset. Pick her up and put her in the potty area. With this method it is best to just stand outside the area looking around ignoring the dog until she goes. Remember praise is everything.
A few key things to remember with dogs. You can not yell at a dog. It does not teach them anything even if you are yelling when they are doing the bad behavior. To a dog a high tone, loud noise is associated with play such as yips and barks from another dog. With a dog all commands and corrections should be in a low toned, firm voice. A mother dog corrects their puppies with growls and nips. Other dogs command them with growls. Also, no correction or punishment for accidents unless you can catch her in the act and then the correction should be as outlined above. If you use one of the non-leash methods, you will want to let her trail a leash so you can grab the leash and make a proper correction if it is needed when she isn't contained.
I also recommend a long walk each day with this dog to establish that you are the alpha dog and if you can possibly do it, an obedience class.
I hope one of these methods works for you.
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Hello flavor and welcome to the McCormick Ranch neighborhood CHA DA Thai! Since moving to Scottsdale I've been searching for Thai food that hits all of the marks; bold flavors, authentic curries, rice noodles that aren't soggy and my list goes on. I think I finally hit the jackpot with CHA DA Thai and the bonus is that it opened up within walking distance from home.
CHA DA is on Via Linda – blink and you can miss it. It's at the end of a strip mall with ample parking. They don't have a website up and running yet, but I took a chance and called to order take-out, knowing what dishes my husband and I usually order.
Since I ordered take-out I can't comment on the table service, but upon arriving to pick up my meal I was greeted cordially by the staff and the restaurant is decorated nicely, with bright light and table space for large parties if necessary. At time of print they did not have their liquor license, but it is in the works.
The portions are large, enough for two people to share and my food was steaming hot when I got home. I ordered Larb for an appetizer which can be made with chicken, beef or pork. It is a cold dish that includes lime juice, red onions, red chilies and a touch of mint. The dish is served over a bed of lettuce and it makes for a nice start to a meal as a salad. The Larb was wonderful, perfectly balanced citrus with the crunch of the onions and lettuce. Nothing was soggy and the chicken was seasoned perfectly. The dinner was off to a great start.
On to the three main course dishes to share. Panang Curry with chicken was up next. Panang is red curry with peanut, peppers and Thai basil along with kaffir lime leaves. It is another citrus focused dish but that peanut flavor kicks your tastebuds silly and it is a rich sauce that coats your rice so delicately that you just keep going back for more. Sometimes I skip the rice and just grab a big spoon. This was one of the best Panang Curries I have tasted. I had to stop myself from eating it all because I knew that I had to try two more dishes.
Another favorite in our house is Pad See Iew. I usually order this for any friends/family tasting Thai food for the first time to get their feet wet and it has always hit a home run. Pad See Iew is a wide flat rice noodle stir fried with egg, broccoli and a sweet Thai soy sauce so it is dark brown in color. I ordered this dish with beef and you can add chicken, pork, veggies, tofu or shrimp if you choose. The Pad See Iew fell right into place with the rest of the meal. Cooked perfectly – beef tender, noodles not soggy, sauced generously….my husband and I smiled and agreed that we had found a gold mine!
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by Guest Contributor on April 18, 2012
(Cary Betagole writes in to tell us more about early lessons learned building a startup with partner Jonathan Kriner)
I would compare our decision to build a product before thoroughly defining its scope to an attempt at walking through your own living room with the lights off.
The shag carpet between your toes means you're in the right room. You won't run into the sofa or the armchair—they're always in the same place. But the ottoman usually hovers near the middle of the room. It just floats there for anyone on the sofa to move and prop their feet. Today it's abnormally close to the edge of the carpet, and you just stubbed your toe on the way by. Or worse yet, your teammate moved in two more ottomans overnight and you just tripped and knocked over the lava lamp. That's going to be a hell of a cleanup.
To nail all proverbial ottomans to the ground, we're mapping out process flow charts, informed by a pattern library and business rules. If multiple members of your team are calling the same feature by a different name—nail down that ottoman. If you're using a freemium business model, and multiple mock-ups display conflicting user limitations—nail down a decision. Set your scope in stone. Consistency is key, especially if – like us – you're contracting out a demo.
A few months back, my business partner Jonathan and I decided it was a good idea to prove our concept by outsourcing a demo—we're working on a social project-planning tool to help bands connect with their skilled fans. So we scribbled down the general gist of our requirements, shared a few mock-ups, and explained our site to the offshore team through a series of conference calls. We were essentially dumping a pile of chairs, lamps, and throw pillows into the corner of our living room, and leaving feng shui up to them.
The strategy resulted in frustrating miscommunications with the development team, and a realization that Jonathan and I were miles apart on many features the site needed to operate seamlessly. A testimony from onstartups.com accurately foretells our narrowly avoided fate, "A year ago I outsourced a website to be built. Went into it blindly, failed miserably, lost tons of money."
So we've changed our mentality. We aren't contracting out the minimum viable product; we're conducting the construction of our minimum viable product, by taking charge of defining modules and deliverables. As we move closer to kicking off development, we'll focus on attributing time variables to carefully assembled modules. But at the moment, we're focused on managing our site's high-level design by rigorously documenting its data flow.
First we built a pattern library to account for every little function we wanted to include in the initial version, while simultaneously consolidating features to create functional conventions across the website. By developing patterns in functionality—e.g. all Project Archives are stored on the Band's Profile—we hope to make the product more intuitive for our users.
During the idea stage, a product is particularly susceptible to sprawl. In line with our brand, we've planned to implement a cross-promotional B-side strategy, where a user who downloads a song receives an additional song from another band for free. Nice and simple enough. But soon we got carried away, and began brainstorming more crafty cross-promotional strategies, including one that allowed smaller bands to advertise on the pages of bigger bands. This was all well and good, but we had lost sight of our supreme mission—to provide bands and fans a vessel for collaboration.
We've positioned ourselves as an organizational tool, so we're prioritizing a messaging feature, recommendations feed and market research metrics for the first version, while pushing more peripheral content hosting features to the second version. By uncovering trends, and prioritizing features, our site has organically broken itself into more manageable modules.
After sketching a layout of the living room, it was time to begin developing our business rules, which basically meant performing walk-throughs in pursuit of uncovering every single impediment.
We attacked our business rules by creating a series of If-Then statements. You'll have no concept how many Ifs your site leaves unanswered until you've ruthlessly vetted the product. For example, "If I want to check how much money a band has made, then where do I go?" Or, "If I want to change the amount of songs a band can upload, then what do I do?" As a result of asking the aforementioned questions, we realized we'd made major gaffes that could be fixed by building out a reporting panel and an administrative panel. In other words, we caught the lava lamp just before it shattered on the floor.
On the other hand, answering the mundane questions can be just as important to long-term success. For example, "If a user registers a false email address, then…what?" "If a user enters four digits for his zip code, then…what?" The answer: the system should reject set user. If we hadn't answered these basic questions, we would not be able to accrue data on where our users are from and how they're finding the site.
Our six-person team all met up in Arlington, Va. a few weekends back to eat chili and convert our business rules into process flow charts over a hardy 12-hour day. Putting our site in ink only encouraged healthy debate amongst teammates and growth in the product. It was the first time our graphic designer Kelsey had met our technical advisor Nick in person. So we poured over each business rule one at a time, as Kelsey examined UI details in depth, and Nick designed the logic and process flowcharts, while making recommendations to ensure a data-driven site.
We also want to design the logic in a flexible way that won't inhibit future growth. Creating data-driven features means you don't hard-wire features into your site that will make it more difficult to iterate later. Create X-Variables. So instead of us putting in stone that we're going to allow a band only five spaces for log-ins on their account, we can govern that number from the Admin Panel and iterate according to user feedback.
We want to turn the lights on now, so later we don't trip.
Catch us out at Indy Hall, a Philly Tech Meet-up, in Little Berlin, or out at a show in Fishtown. We're down for a good conversation.Filed under: Startup | Building
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> What kind of launcher is this?
January 9, 2006, 02:31 AM
This is said to be of Korean war era, maybe WWII. Any ideas?
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January 9, 2006, 02:38 AM
It looks to me like the detachable-tube 3.5" rocket launcher (successor to the WW2 Bazooka, which was two-point-something inches). The lower tube appears to have an interrupted thread on one end, to fit into the rear of the upper tube. IIRC, this was done so as to make the tube more compact for marching, transport, etc.
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January 9, 2006, 02:39 AM
thats a disasembled 3.5" "superbazooka antitank rocket launcher.it was made possible by the fact our 2.5"1st generation bazooka was not effective against the t34 soviet tank in the korean war.
the 2 tubes fit together to make the super bazooka.
January 9, 2006, 02:40 AM
Annnnnnnnnd here is a photo of it... :)
Super Bazooka (http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/bazsup.htm)
January 9, 2006, 03:23 AM
cool, thanks for finding that out.
January 9, 2006, 03:27 AM
Pretty funny, if you click on the Disassembled link you will also find that very same photo. I just clicked on it. LOL...
January 9, 2006, 03:30 AM
Yeah, I just realized that also. I found the picture posted somewhere else. It looks this is one of the very few about the Super Bazooka. Man I love that name! :D
January 9, 2006, 03:32 AM
It was pretty good Gum toooooooo... LOL...
I liked the comics with it. :)
January 9, 2006, 03:35 AM
Any other ideas?
It...could be a bong.
January 9, 2006, 03:54 AM
It...could be a bong.
ROFL.. oh man that was a good one
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Taylor was given the check by Shepherdstown Rotary Club President Monica Lockett and the club's Vocational Service Committee Chair Peter Smith.
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