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WordPress 3.1 Beta 1
It's that time in the release cycle again, when all the features are basically done, and we're just squashing bugs. To the brave of heart and giving of soul: Won't you help us test the new version of WordPress? As always, this is software still in development and we don't recommend that you run it on your normal live site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), report it, and if you're a developer, try to help us fix it. (Especially you U.S. types who are taking a long weekend for Thanksgiving! )
If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.1 to the world at large by the end of the year, though that is (as always) subject to change/dependent on how the beta period goes. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version.
There are also some known issues: things that aren't *quite* finished, but that weren't worth holding up the beta release. They will be fixed before 3.1 is released for general use. Note that as things get fixed, the beta release will update nightly. What you should know:
Remember, if you find something you think is a bug, report it! You can bring it up in the alpha/beta forum, you can email it to the wp-testers list, or if you've confirmed that other people are experiencing the same bug, you can report it on the WordPress Core Trac. (I recommend starting in the forum or on the mailing list.)
Theme and plugin authors, if you haven't been following the 3.1, please start now so that you can update your themes and plugins to be compatible with the newest version of WordPress.
Note to developers: WordPress is built by the contributions of hundreds of developers. If you'd like to see this release come out on time, I encourage you to pitch in. Even if you don't have time to do testing on the beta version, you could help us by contributing a fix for one of the many bugs we already know about.
To those of you in the U.S., have a lovely long holiday weekend, and if you're looking for something to occupy your post-turkey hours, we hope you'll take the beta for a spin!
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Last week, I noticed a story about the possibility that Texas would apply for federal funds to pursue high-speed rail service for the state. I applaud this move.
Aside from the generosity of the federal program, which would contribute 80 percent of funds to the state's 20 percent, there is the idea that a mix of transportation solutions is a better public policy posture than single-dimension solutions to multi-dimensioned problems. For example, proceeds from motor fuel taxes can only be used on roads, according to the state constitution. Apparently half a billion dollars or so of this revenue makes it into other programs each year anyway, but those are just political shenanigans and not proper policy.
Anyway, I think it would be sensible to keep our eye on arrays of solutions to transportation problems.
When I was studying business in grad school, a common story my classmates and I heard concerned the railway companies. Throughout the 19th century in America, the railroads were stunning success stories. They were profitable, they were privileged, and they were powerful. The question posed to us routinely was why railroad companies in America didn't get into aviation when the airplane rapidly gained position as a mover of both goods and people.
The answer was surprising for its simplicity. America's railroads defined themselves as being in "the railroad business" and not in "the transportation business." So insignificant an alteration in their diction could have given us the Union Pacific Airlines, and American Airlines would have died at conception.
We should be a bit smarter about this by now.
Let's face it, Americans are spoiled by space. When we first began wresting this land from the Native Americans we found here, America was vast. Moving freely on the land was an accepted freedom well before we enshrined our freedoms in print. Moving west was more than a metaphor for getting ahead, it was a shot at redemption, a promise of a new start in life, even a tonic promising danger and excitement for the bored and beleaguered.
Between 1830, when the Tom Thumb pulled the first passenger car 13 miles from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mill in Maryland and introduced America to the idea of the commute, and the 1960s we saw first the train, then the automobile and finally the airplane tackle the problem of moving people across the continent for business and pleasure. Each mode of transportation we adopted was supposed to kill one or more of the others, but as we can see today they all vie for different niches in the transportation market and personal taste and family economics both play a role in our decisions about which to use for what and when.
I first became aware of high-speed train initiatives, mainly in Japan but also in Europe, back in the 1960s and 1970s. I took my first ride on one of the so-called "bullet trains" between Tokyo and Nikko in 1973. I remember a feeling of delight at the speed of the thing, but I was put off by the Spartan accommodations and food available to us. It was somewhat akin to what we've seen in the airlines as they went from food bribes to pack their planes in the 1950s down to lean austerity today. They have the market acceptance, now cost control is the name of their game.
But Texas, in one of those twists to this state I find so curious (like the way we treat alcohol after the role alcohol played in our history and our myths), has been a reluctant customer of trains. Maybe it's partly our Constitution, which serves more as a body of law in its own right and requires amending every time we want to do anything. Maybe it's our lingering resentment over the way railroad men did their business. But whatever the reason, we now have before us an opportunity to alter our course. Or at least our mode.
Amarillo has had its problems keeping one of the largest and best runways in the country economically employed. The two-mile long main runway can handle anything that flies to a soft landing, but we've seen carrier after carrier move jet service out of here. We all know that to fly out of Amarillo you almost have to go first to Dallas, or maybe Albuquerque or Phoenix, to get anywhere else. Airplanes, cars, trucks and buses are the only alternatives to walking and horseback available to us for now, but I do wonder how things might change in this era of energy volatility, economic uncertainty, and aviation retrenchment.
Could an advanced, well-designed, high-speed rail network do for Texas what roads, waterways and flight paths can't?
I'd like to see.
Greg Sagan is an Amarillo business consultant and freelance writer. He can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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International Governance and Fisheries Management Determining and Explaining the Effectiveness of International Regimes
The topic of this project, which formed the base for the doctoral thesis of FNI Senior Research Fellow Olav Schram Stokke, was international fisheries management in the Barents Sea. Various aspects of management problems associated with Northeast Arctic cod are highlighted: Establishing jurisdiction over all significant vessels engaged in harvesting; generating knowledge about the impacts of various levels and patterns of harvesting; and modifying the actual behaviour of fishers at sea. The project identified a set of regime-based strategies that are relevant to resource management and examined the conditions for such strategies to affect problem solving.
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Main publications:
Stokke, Olav Schram,
Disaggregating International Regimes: A New Approach to Evaluation and Comparison
. Cambridge (USA), MIT Press, 2012, 348 p.
Stokke, Olav Schram,
A Disaggregate Approach to International Regime Effectiveness: The Case of Barents Sea Fisheries
. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. Oslo, Unipub, 2010, 276 p.
Stokke, Olav Schram,
'Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Shaming, and International Regime Effectiveness'
Journal of Business Research
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The Research Council of Norway
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Well, just when I thought only potty parties and Marie Antoinette-themed first birthday parties were some of the worst party ideas I'd ever heard of, I read about Dominic Deville, The Evil Birthday Clown.
Holy crap! This is a clown that you pay to stalk and terrify your child. As if clowns weren't scary enough for most people!
This guy will send threatening letters and text messages to your kid warning him that he's being watched and the scary clown is coming for him! When your child least expects it, the scary looking clown will jump out of some dark alley and pie your kid in the face.
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Can you imagine the therapy bills for this kid? My kid can't go see the circus without having nightmares of getting seltzer water in the face by a friendly, happy clown. How about being systematically stalked and tormented by a creepy clown?!
What kind of parent pays this guy and thinks it's a good idea? I guess, maybe for a teenager or a grown adult child, but definitely not for a kid.
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Passion is enlivening, and authors who have it draw us in. We want it because without it we would be angels, and no one, really, wants that. James McManus is passionate about poker, not a game for angels but one once associated with sin and played in murky rooms by rough men. Now television and computers have redeemed it and a lot of people, including women, have the passion in spades. So to speak. There is even a World Series of Poker.
Cowboys Full is 516 pages of all things poker: history, trivia, strategy, analysis. It's a compendium, an omnium-gatherum, an anecdotal encyclopedia of poker. McManus is not bluffing; he even believes it's the true national pastime. There may be as many as 200 million people playing it worldwide each year at a money total of $100 billion. With the take for hosting games as much as $3 per pot and 10 percent of the buy-in for tournaments, he writes, "there's a lot of money to be made in hosting poker." (Texans should consider selling Avon for extra money, however, as the national pastime is illegal here.)
Ironically, the most intriguing character, hands down, among the many appearing in McManus' saga lives in Dallas. Andrew Beal, the founder of Dallas' Beal Bank, is a math genius and economic seer with a passion for playing world-record-betting heads-up Texas hold 'em poker. He played dozens of tournaments against "the most talented tag-team of poker studs ever assembled," namely World Series of Poker winners Todd Brunson, Chip Reese, Jennifer Harman, Chan Giang, David Grey, Barry Greenstein and Howard Lederer who, along with Brunson, was the only consistent winner against him.
Cowboys Full includes myriad other famous players, historical and contemporary. Among presidents, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon are said to be the best players, but Barack Obama is good, as were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. FDR chose Truman as running mate for his final term because he wanted to be succeeded by a good poker player.
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Tom Dodge has seen the sun come up many times over stacks of chips at the mayor's house in Cleburne, which he wrote about in Tom Dodge Talks About Texas (Republic of Texas, $17.95.)
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CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - August 30, 2012
EDITORIAL: Pulling the pin on the Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle
The CSSA distributed a national media release today (see below) to let Canadians know that our members are prepared to take the law into our own hands. Literally.
We need to do our very best to make sure that the new firearms laws enacted by Bill C-19 on April 5 are respected. So, we created Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle.
We are asking firearms owners to buy, sell and swap guns to make the registry data even less accurate -- if that's possible! We all know the data is wonky, outdated and useless, but anti-gun advocates continue to protect the data for future use. They are intentionally snubbing the law. It's time to fix that by making the data so transparently unusable that it isn't worth protecting.
That's where you come in. You can show your support and intentions to shuffle through blogs, letters to the editor, radio call-in shows, and all social media to confirm that you support this initiative. It's just as important to let others know that you're shuffling your firearms as doing it. And of course, your claims cannot be substantiated because there is no registry to record the changes. We all win.
Many firearms owners are disappointed with both the courts allowing the injunctions to prevent the data deletion, as well as the federal government's lack of resolve to delete the data immediately as decreed by their own bill. Now we will show them all. Our shuffle is not civil disobedience – it is civil obedience. Gun owners are illustrating how useless the data is by making it even less relevant. In so doing, we are supporting the spirit and intent of Bill C-19, which is the will of the people.
Let's help each other – support the Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle. Ask others to do the same, and we can render the data moot all by ourselves. While the courts process silly injunctions to preserve the data, let's take care of this on our own. And make the message crystal clear – we will never acquiesce to another registry.
We invite you to the CSSA web site and listen to the new song (yes, it's a rock 'n' roll shuffle) written just for the occasion. Hear it at http://soundcloud.com/cssas-reloaded/the-registry-shuffle
The CSSA media release appears below.
Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle proves firearms data is useless
Firearms owners exchange guns in national protest and vow never to register again
(TORONTO – August 30, 2012) The members of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) are mad as hell and they're not going to take this any more.
The CSSA is advocating that all owners of registered non-restricted firearms take part in the Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle. The CSSA says anti-gun advocates are spitting in the face of Canada's legal system by deliberately ignoring the will of Parliament in an attempt to preserve registry data for future use.
In order to support federal Bill C-19 that specifies the data must be deleted, responsible gun owners are swapping their firearms to illustrate that the data was -- and will always be -- useless. The Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle removes any wrong-headed notion that the data could help build subsequent registries.
Bill C-19 received Royal Assent on April 5 and clearly dictates that the data must be destroyed. In contempt for the new law, the Government of Quebec, the City of Toronto, the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, and the Region of Waterloo have asked the courts to preserve the data and ignore Parliament. The CSSA is mobilizing trustworthy Canadian gun owners to immediately buy, sell, trade or lend previously registered firearms to protest the data preservation injunctions.
"The governments and advocacy groups have forced our hand by suggesting the registry data is somehow useful," says Tony Bernardo, CSSA spokesman and executive director of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA). "If they refuse to acknowledge the will of the people, we'll do it for them. Canada's previously registered firearms are now changing location, so the registry is even more useless, if that's possible. The registry was never a public safety tool, and we're removing once and for all the myth that the data was valuable. The Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle negates the silly straw man attempt to protect the data. Shuffling previously registered firearms is totally legal, responsible and appropriate.
"The Schlifer Clinic is funded by four Ontario government ministries, so it appears the provincial Liberals are hiding behind this anti-gun ploy," he adds. "More than half of the firearms in Canada have never been registered and even anti-gun advocates admit that criminals won't register their guns. As long as these nuisance court injunctions keep the registry data intact, they are maintaining a shopping list for computer hacking criminals to locate our firearms. That places gun owners in danger, so we are compelled to demonstrate that the registry is inaccurate by making it even less accurate. Pro-registry advocates need to see that there's no useable data to protect. We are simply showing them the folly of their own political posturing. The registry is dead."
CSSA/CILA has provided a great deal of statistical evidence over the years to prove that a gun registry does nothing to keep Canadians safe and does not curtail violence against women.
"Sticking a registry paper on a gun doesn't make it safe," says Bernardo. "The registry was created as a political pacifier strictly to win votes and some politically motivated groups are still willing to play that game today. Sport shooters are fed up and we're putting an end to it. The law permits us to exchange our firearms with other qualified gun owners. By this time tomorrow, no one will know which owners have which firearms. And that's perfect, because it's nobody's business.
"This shuffle forces the obstinate anti-gun crowd to admit that the registry is not worth fighting for," he adds. "It truly never was. The data is corrupt and outdated, and it never saved a single life. It was never designed to make us safe. We have challenged anti-gun advocates to reveal how the registry can help anyone, and they have never delivered – not once. How could they? The registry doesn't do anything. The Great Canadian Gun Registry Shuffle makes the data transparently irrelevant. Perhaps now we can all get on with focusing on bona fide ways to increase public safety and protect Canadians against violence. We will do all we can to help."
TO ALL LONG GUN OWNERS: Please let us know how many long guns you have shuffled. Do not tell us the type, location etc., just the number. Every Thursday morning we will post the totals on the CSSA web site. Enjoy the Shuffle.
For more information contact: Tony Bernardo at 905-571-2150 or email email@example.com
YOUR MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE NOT ENOUGH: If you want to defend your right to own and use a firearm -- if the freedom to hunt and shoot is important to you -- then you need to support CILA, the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action. CILA defends your firearms rights on Parliament Hill, the United Nations, in provincial legislatures and in courtrooms across Canada. Be part of the solution. Please support CSSA-CILA today by donating here: http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/membership.html
NASTY GUN STORE TOO CLOSE TO DAYCARE? PULL-EEEZE: Parents of children who attend a daycare east of Ottawa are up in arms as a hunting store that features guns is set to move in two doors down. Pro Nature is in the midst of opening in a Clarence-Rockland mall that also includes the Tiny Hoppers daycare. The mall is about 35 kilometres east of Ottawa.
Worried mother Katie Riopel said she has safety concerns due to the proximity of guns and young children. "My personal fear would be that someone would come in after purchasing a firearm and open fire on the kids," she said. "[It could be] someone that's not completely there." Parents have petitioned to have city council stop the hunting store's opening.
Councillors' hands tied. Father Chris Piersol, who only found out about the nursery's new neighbour two weeks ago, is one of 319 who have signed the petition so far. It was a big disappointment, he said when he found out Monday the city can't stop Pro Nature from moving in. There are no zoning bylaws to stop it.
"[It is] pretty much shock ... it's kind of common sense, you would think, that you wouldn't have a gun and ammunition store going up next to a daycare," he said. The councillors expressed their helplessness, too, because there is nothing they can do, they say. "It makes me feel very sad for the people," said Bernard Payer, a councillor in Clarence-Rockland.
But some parents pledge they might take their children out of the daycare. The Tiny Hoppers daycare sits in a quiet mall in a small town east of Ottawa. Soon, it will be two doors from a hunting outlet. "Whether right or wrong, people are going to react to having a guns and ammo store next door, or two doors down," said mother Melissa Clarke. "I don't think that's been taken into account." Pro Nature did not immediately reply to an interview request. (CBC – August 29, 2012)
COME AND SHOOT IN QUEBEC: PPC District Committee Members of the Quebec Shooting Federation invite you to the Outdoor Provincial Championship being held at the Shooting Maska Center (Centre de tir Maska). The competition will take place on Saturday September 15, 2012.
This competition is opened to all. You will have the opportunity to shoot a 1500 Open which is the main discipline in PPC; relays of 1500 Duty Pistol will also be available to shooters. You can get accustomed to all PPC routes by going on the Shooting Quebec Federation website (Fédération Québécoise de tir), www.fqtir.qc.ca as well as the PPC Quebec League website (Ligue PPC Québec), www.ligueppcquebec.org (distances are in yards).
Acrylics will be delivered to the first of each class for the 1500 PPC as well as the Duty Pistol. Medals will be awarded to the second and third in each class for the 1500 Open and the Duty Pistol. Shooting begins at 9h am, relays will be every hour. The last relay is scheduled for 3h pm. The registration fee for the first 1500 is $ 25 and $ 15 for the second. The awards will be given in late afternoon. Later, the PPC Quebec League will welcome you for dinner which will be followed by trophy presentation for the season, drawings and prizes.
Save your seat in advance. You can do this by phone at 819-693-5861 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Several organizers deploy a lot of energy to promote the PPC as well as training new shooters for different clubs in the province. This activity is the opportunity to meet and share the passion of our sport. Committee members will be there to welcome you. Welcome to all! Schedule: 1500: 9h am, 10h am, 1h pm, 3h pm.
NON-CULPABLE SHOOTING HOMICIDE -- A RARE FIND: No charges will be laid in the fatal shooting of a Calgary man after his death was deemed the result of self defence. About 9 a.m. on Jan. 14 of this year, cops were called to a possible break-in in the 100 block of Erin Circle S.E. Several people were in the home at the time, and as officers were removing them, they found the body of 35-year-old Joseph Lesley Talbot, who had been shot to death. One person was arrested and questioned, but later released, said homicide Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus.
On Thursday, police said no one will be charged in Talbot's death after the Crown prosecutor's office deemed the incident a non-culpable homicide, meaning there was no legal wrongdoing, such as in the case of self defence. "The determination is made in conjunction with the Crown prosecutor's office, which speaks to whether the amount of force is reasonable given the situation," said Andrus.
Police say on the day of Talbot's death, he went into the home with a knife and was shot with a long rifle after cornering a friend. "In this case we had a male who forcibly entered a residence through the front door, he confronted an occupant inside residence in his bedroom brandishing a knife," said Andrus. "The occupant of the home had no means ofescape. "As a result, this makes the use of a firearm more reasonable." Talbot and the person who shot him were "lifelong friends," said Andrus. "We believe that they were involved in a long-term dispute."
Non-culpable homicides are unusual occurrences, said Andrus, adding the last cases were in 2010. (Calgary Sun – August 23, 2012)
HEY, GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES: WHAT ABOUT YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT? The recent mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and then in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, have led to renewed demands for "gun control" aimed ultimately at depriving the individual citizen of his constitutional right to keep and bear arms. It is believed that if the individual were deprived of this right, such shootings would not take place, because of the sheer lack of available weaponry.
Let me say immediately that I too believe in gun control. However, I do so in the light of the knowledge that by far the largest number and the most powerful guns and other weapons are in the possession of the government. First and foremost, of course, the federal government, which has atomic and hydrogen bombs, as well as ballistic missiles with which to deliver them, fleets of warships, and thousands upon thousands of tanks, planes, artillery pieces, machine guns, and lesser weapons. State and local governments also possess considerable weaponry, though less than the federal government. But just the revolvers, rifles, shot guns, clubs, tear gas, and tasers in their possession are capable of causing serious injury and death, and frequently do so.
Moreover, the threat of deadly force is implicitly present in every law, regulation, ruling, or decree that emanates from any government office, at any level. The threat of such force is what compels obedience on the part of the citizens. Even such an innocuous offense as a parking violation is capable of resulting in death if a person persists in not paying the fine imposed and, when ultimately confronted with arrest, resists by physically defending himself.
Literally everything the government does is ultimately a threat to point a gun at someone and use it if necessary. If this were not the case, the law, regulation, ruling, or whatever, would be without force or effect. People would be free to ignore it if they wished. Because of the government's implicit threat to use deadly force to uphold its decisions, any meaningful program of gun control must above all focus on strictly controlling and regulating the activities of the government...
Read more at: http://mises.org/daily/6172/Gun-Control-on-the-Governments-Guns (By George Reisman – Ludwig von Mises Institute – August 30, 2012)
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Education: Women benefit more than men! At least this is claimed by a condensed report of the German Institute for Labour Market and Employment research which contains information about educational returns in Western Europe. The educational return is an indicator of the monetary net income achieved in the working life due to higher education. In nine out of twelve western European countries – includingIreland,Portugal andSpain on the first three places – women have a higher return on education than men. Therefore, according to the study, a high level of education is more profitable for women than for men.
How is this possible? Although highly trained women earn less then highly trained men this gender pay gap is smaller than the wage differences on a low trained level. One reason is that in jobs where a lower skill level is needed factors such as the physical performance or working schedules (night and shift work, which is difficult to reconcile with family responsibilities) play a major role. The result is that low-skilled women often are working in very low-paid jobs. This is one reason why by comparison education for women pays off more than for men.
And moreover – it is to be feared that men are even becoming the undereducated gender. An online article of the BloombergBusinessweek shows figures of the American National Center for Education Statistics which project by 2019 there will be almost three women in a college classroom for every two men. Are we facing a future with too little educated men? And if so, do we have to think about affirmative action plans for the education of men – right now?


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Art and Lisa Lader, the long-time teachers of German at Aiken High, recently held an awards ceremony for their top students
We have so many kids who do such a good job, Art said. Im excited about all were doing.
German students Jason Hightower, a senior, and junior Lydia Gerstenberger have served this year as the president and vice president of Delta Epsilon Phi. Its a national honor society for high school students of German and is administered through the American Association of Teachers of German.
I love German, Gerstenberger said and then added with a smile. Being inducted into Delta Epsilon Phi was a no-brainer. I looked around the other German students, and none of them intimidate me. So I was okay with being in a leadership role, and thought Jason would a good person to work with.
Hightower has a sense of humor as well: By coincidence, I also love German.
For years the Laders have taken groups of students to Germany on an exchange venture. The German students then visit Aiken the following year. Gerstenberger participated in the last trip overseas, where they visited Munich and Nuremberg
Id suggest anyone with the opportunity should go, she said. You wouldnt get a chance to be with a Germany family and see how they live and to see country. It helps you become independent on your own and learn to do things for yourself.
Hightower took a different route, literally. With the help of teachers and sponsors, he traveled on his own to Heidelberg to stay with a host family for three weeks and maneuver through the city.
I was able to go alone and on my first flight, Hightower said. When I got off the plane, I asked myself Why did I come here? But Im really glad I went. I met a lot of people who are friends with me on Facebook.
Several parents attended the ceremony among them Liz and Daniel Morris, the parents of freshman Daniel.
He wanted to try German, and (Art) has impacted him in a positive way He has excelled tremendously, and I attribute that to Mr. and Mrs. Lader.
Parent Sandra Willis has has two children go through the German program, and now its the turn of her daughter, Maggie West, a freshman.
Its been a great experience for them, and the Laders have had a big impact on all of them, Willis said.
The classes have been difficult, Maggie said, but the classroom is more fun. There are more activities than reading in a book, along with more interaction and more German conversations.
Another student, Sophie Nance, has enjoyed the opportunity to learn a different language and have a special skill that others might not.
With all the grammar, I didnt know what I was getting into, she said. But it really has helped my grammar in English. You really have to have a grasp of learning it. I plan to take German in college.
Aiken High German Students Awards
Exceptional achievement (A students) Sophia Gerstenberger, Isabella Hill, Mohsin Rizyi, Carolin Abele, Cameron Clamp, Andrew Cota, Lydia Gerstenberger, Sophie Nance, Shannon Mulhall, Elizabeth Grushkowski, Courtney Layden, Savanah Dale, Ali Maclay, Andrew Shumpert, Jacob Sargent, Jesse Carver, Raegan Ferguson, Robert Gwinn, Jacob Kneece, Walker Rounsefell, Ashton Dorman, Daniel Morris, Connor Lanigan, Shaneeka Sheard, Justin Garrison
Most Enthusiastic Sophia Gerstenberger, Timothy Siler, Bishop Hare, Holly Turner, Baylee Cullum, Savanah Dale, Ali Maclay, Isabella Hill, Robert Gwinn, Walker Rounsefell, Lucas Turner, ANya Walker, Jesse Carver, Sheniyah Thomas, Connor Lanigan, Jacob Sargent, Maggie West, Gretchen Caddell
Most Improved Bishop Hare
National German Exam Gold Awards Carolin Abele, Mohsin Rizyi, Jacob Sargent, Ali Maclay, Sophia Gerstenberger, Savanah Dale
National German Exam Silver Awards Cameron Clamp, Connor Lanigan, Ashton Dorman
National German Exam Bronze Awards Daniel Carlisle, Bishop Hare, Justin Garrison,
National German Exam Achievement Awards Andrew Shumpert, Daniel Morris, Isabella Hill, Timothy Nelson, Lyda Gerstenberger, Danielle Boerstler, Andrew Cota, Sophie Nance
Delta Epsilon Phi National Honor Society for high school German students Carolin Abele, Danielle Boerstler, Matthew Coverson-Springs, Ashton Dorman, Jason Kekacs, Jacob Kneece, Connor Lanigan, Caroline Miller, Daniel Morris, Jacob Sargent, Andrew Shumpert, Maggie West
Special Recognition Carolin Abele
Former students describe the present
Three former students of the Laders sent them information about their lives since high school. The current students had the opportunity to read the adults experiences.
A 1994 Aiken High graduate, Erin Reindl, studied German and international trade at Clemson University. She later learned Italian and lived there for a year. Reindl has lived in Europe for 16 years and most recently, serves as the global head of information and resources for JWT Communications.
In her travels, both professional and private, she wrote, her capability to communicate in the local language has been magical. The person with whom Im speaking instantly sees me differently. An American knows their language! Reindl went on to proudly point out to the person that she learned that language in the U.S.
She is often saddened when Americans visit her city, dressed as if they are headed to a gym. They appear to have no interest in the culture there. Many Americans seemed almost proud they can only speak English, which they describe as the worlds language.
America is a large country, Reindl wrote, and its citizens never have to leave to experience all kinds of climate zones. Americans dont realize how other countries view them, and that theyre putting themselves at a disadvantage of not speaking one or more other languages.
I am doing my part and raising twin girls fluent in French, German and English, Reindl wrote. They are open-minded and curious. ... Thank you, Art and Lisa Lader. You were both my inspiration.
Tim Anderson, a Volkswagen AG engineer, also graduated from Aiken High 20 years ago. The German classes there gave him the basis for continuing his studies in college and traveling through Europe. Even when he got his first job with a Taiwanese company, Most of our equipment came from Germany or Swiss firms, so I dealt regularly with German engineers and equipment.
He has spent the last seven years in the automotive industry, and his German language skills have been instrumental in getting him jobs and being successful in them.
It is definitely an advantage over my monolingual co-workers, Anderson wrote. The world is only getting smaller with technology, so foreign languages will grow more important.
Susan Wilke, a 1995 Aiken High graduate and four-year German student there is employed as a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State.
After high school, she majored in German at Indiana University with plans to teach German. Wilke did so for three years in Texas before returning to school graduating from George Washington University with a masters degree in international affairs. She was then hired by the State Department went on to spend several years as a foreign service officer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Since then, Wilke has been posted in Africa and Washington, D.C. She currently resides in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, where she is a diplomat at the American embassy.
STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVIT Aiken High School German student Maggie West and her mother, Sandra Willis, chat with German teacher Art Lader during an awards program for the German students.×


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Happy New Year! Did you party all night long? Did someone hook on a fake gray beard and stagger through the room carrying a "2012" sign? Did someone else commandeer their 2-year-old niece, dress her in a mini toga, pop a sequined "2013" tiara on her cherubic little head, then tote her out for a five minute cameo appearance as The Baby New Year? Me, neither. And in celebration of that fact-–and the whole new life, new year, new whatever thing--I'm recommending romances with babies in them this month! Let the birthing begin!
First up...
Sugar Springs by Kim Law.
Maybe it's the whole trash-the-old-and-bring-on-the-new meme, but in the beginning of Sugar Springs, when Cody Dalton loses the love of his life, Lee Ann London, due to stupid teenage male hormones--and then, in response, wrecks the town square--I fell in love. Because what's passion if it's not excessive? Now Cody's back in town to meet the twins Lee Ann's been raising since her half-sister (the object of Cody's aforementioned teenage stupidity) died. Lee Ann, who has nursed a whole lot of anger in the ensuing years, is having a hard time reconciling righteous hatred and animal magnetism. Don't fight it, Lee Ann!
Never A Mistress, No Longer a Maid by Maureen Driscoll
Ned Kellington, an English peer, and Jane Wetherby, a spirited surgeon in search of trauma experience, meet on the battlefield and afterwards share a night of passion. Years pass and Edward finally rediscovers the love of his life (it's an auxiliary theme often attached to secret babies) and is determined that nothing will stand in the way of their happily-ever-after: not his family, his fiancée (!), Jane's daughter (!!), or even Jane herself (whew!). A sigh-inducing romance with a valiant, intelligent hero and a noble (and focused) heroine. This is the start to a new series I'm eager to follow.
Shower of Stars by Nancy Herkness
Jack Lanett is the super-star meteorite hunter that adventure writer "Charlie" Berglund is doing a story on. When her rootless life threatens her adoption of a Chinese orphan, she winds up in a marriage of convenience with sexy Jack. I know. Contemporary marriage of convenience? But it works! Jack's fighting for recognition (okay, and money) and Charlie's fighting for a child she wants more than anything in the world. They're both fighting demons from their past and finally, a potent, I mean POTENT, attraction. I adored these two wounded warriors!
The Unwanted Wife by Natasha Anders
Now let's just ratchet up the angst level to Def-con One.
Seemingly irredeemable jerk, Alessandro De Lucci agrees to marry Theresa Noble and beget a son in return for the title to his grandfather's beloved vineyard... being assured that afterward he can divorce her. The bad news for Theresa? She was in love with him when they married. More bad news for Theresa? Sandro is under the impression that she instigated the plan. After eighteen months of flat-out Horrible Behavior on the part of Sandro, Theresa wants out just as Sandro realizes he's fallen in love. There's nothing to salvage in this field of heartache, except author Natasha Anders makes Sandro grovel so long and so deliciously, I actually forgave him! (Cue befuddled music.) Thankfully, there's an epilogue, because after this highly melodramatic, torment-filled story I needed to "see" proof of a caring, loving and Super-Humbly-Aware-That-I-Don't-Deserve-This-Woman future Sando.
Connie Brockway is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author. Her latest novel is The Other Guy's Bride. She is published by Montlake Romance.
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I loved Nancy herkness' "Shower of Stars" too! All her books are great!
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You know, I've been to 14 Super Bowls, which means I've endured 14 Media Days at the Super Bowl. So when I suggest that the annual Tuesday doings, during which idiotic questions are asked of neckless herds, have become a massive caricature . . . well, come on. Does anybody actually think Gilbert Gottfried is funny any more?
Listen, the Super Bowl, itself, is a fabulous sporting event -- the biggest and most dazzling on earth each and every year. And, of late, the competition in it has been riveting. But Media Day has become embarrassing.
What was once a quirky few hours of light questions and offbeat dialogue has degenerated into schlock, so much of it tasteless. The B-list celebrity interviewers assigned to Media Day have only a nodding acquaintance with humor; meanwhile, their unrelenting double-entendre "jokes" diminish the looming game. And from my view, everybody loses.
And yet, the NFL -- which apparently believes that any publicity is good publicity (or have you forgotten the Janet Jackson flap?) -- presents the same low-end scenario each and every Super Bowl Week.
Stupid. That's what it is. Worse, Media Day is not remotely funny. I'm not the least bit fazed that I missed Tuesday's foolishness out there in Detroit. Because, honestly, I don't really care what the "ET" folks think of Troy Polamalu's hair.
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Goal (Terminal Objective): Students will learn how to recognize organic shapes in nature. They will learn how to turn simple, recognizable, organic shapes into an abstract design based on repetition with this lesson from Sargent Art.
Objective: Students will create a unified composition celebrating fall by using leaves or flowers as a recurring shape.
Target Grade: 2
National Standards:
Visual Arts Grades K-4 Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media techniques and processes
Visual Arts Grades K-4 Content Standard 5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
Visual Arts Grades K-4 Content Standard 6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines (Science Cross Curriculum Connection)
Purpose: Students will observe and find organic shapes in nature. Students will create a fall art project using repeated shapes. Students will be introduced to repetition in art and will look at works by George Bellows, Escher, and Wayne Thiebaud.
New Vocabulary: organic shapes, repetition, abstract, recurring, blend, George Bellows, Escher, Wayne Thiebaud
- Big Ones Crayons
- 10-Well Pallette Brush
- Water Colors
- 8x11, 9x12, or 11x14 white drawing paper
Time: 2 class periods
Introduction and Motivation (Set):
1. Take the class on a nature walk. Point out and discuss all of the different organic shapes found in nature. Collect different sizes and shapes of leaves or flowers. Look at all of the collected leaves. How do they differ? Are any two exactly the same?
2. Discuss the principle of art known as repetition. View and discuss the repetition in works of art by George Bellows (New York), Escher (Heaven and Hell), and Wayne Thiebaud (Eight Lipsticks and Three Machines).
Lesson 1:
1. Observe nature.
2. Using a pencil, trace leaves or draw or trace flowers several times, filling up as much of the paper as possible.
Lesson 2:
1. Trace over the pencil lines with big crayons. Make very thick, heavy lines. Use fall colors. You can even use more than one color on each shape.
2. Use an eraser to smear/blend the colors inward. Press hard to make wax smear more.
3. Using watercolors, paint over shapes and paper to fill in entire paper. Notice how the paint reacts differently when applied to the crayon verses the uncolored paper.
(1) Guided Practice:
1. Students observe nature and discuss the differences in organic shapes.
2. Students view and discuss artists' works representing repetition.
3. Students draw or trace leaves first with pencil and then trace pencil lines with crayons.
4. Students are given smearing and painting directions to create nature repetition art.
(2) Independent Practice and Check for Understanding:
1. Teacher circulates, answering questions, and providing help as needed.
(3) Closure:
1. Students show their work to the class.
2. Students discuss the process used.
Level One -- The finished design successfully shows a clear understanding of a repetitive design using organic shapes. Students created original designs using new and different art techniques. Students handle materials with confidence. Craftsmanship is outstanding.
Level Two -- Students understand repetitive designs and how to create an interesting composition. Craftsmanship is good.
Level Three -- The finished design shows repetition of the use of organic shapes. The student has shown little technical skill. Design is not organized or interesting. Craftsmanship is minimal.
Level Four -- The art does not display repetition. There is no technical skill. Student needs much support in handling materials. Work is messy. Design is not organized or is incomplete.
Tips: The thicker and darker the crayon lines are, the more they will blend and bleed, which is a really nice effect.
Notes: The flowers can also be used for a "Celebrating Spring" lesson. Any object can be repeated for this project (candy canes for Christmas, eggs for Christmas, etc). Just use your imagination.
Extension: Younger grades can complete an easier picture by omitting the painting. Designs look very nice without adding the watercolor. Designs could also be made more complicated by filling in all spaces with nature shapes. Projects can be mounted or matted for a more finished look.
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Billionaire Kosyuk Plans MHP Buyback After Poultry Maker Slumps
The founder of Mironovskiy Hleboproduct SA, Ukraine's biggest poultry producer, is considering buying back shares after the stock slumped 44 percent over the last four years.
"Should the stock price continue to decline, I will buy back shares," Yuriy Kosyuk, the billionaire chief executive officer who founded the company known as MHP in 1998, said in an interview in his Kiev office on May 24. "There are resources to buy back shares."
Kosyuk, 44, sold a 19.4 percent stake at $15 a share in an initial public offering in 2008, raising $322.5 million. The stock closed at $11.15 in London trading on May 25, sliding from a record closing high of $19.8 in June 2008.
Ukraine's benchmark stock index has plunged 27 percent this year on concern Europe's sovereign-debt crisis will cut demand for the country's commodities such as steel and chemical products. The economy is set to slow to 1.6 percent this year from 5.2 percent in 2011, Fitch Rating said on May 11.
MHP's first-quarter profit more than doubled to $48 million from a year earlier on higher chicken prices and growing exports, the company said on May 17. Full-year net income jumped 20 percent to $259 million in 2011 as revenue climbed 30 percent to $1.23 billion. Volumes rose 12 percent to 370,900 tons as the company boosted sales to Libya, Lebanon, Uzbekistan and Angola.
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This year's operations will be "very successful," Kosyuk said, adding that cost reduction "will be a nice surprise to investors." MHP will probably get approvals to export its chicken meat to the European Union from June, Kosyuk said.
Revenue will increase to $1.4 billion in 2012 and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization will be from $450 million to $460 million, according to MHP forecasts.
"In poultry production, if you watch costs, you don't have risks," Kosyuk said. MHP, which sells 87 percent of its chicken meat domestically, expects prices in Ukraine to continue rising after a 10 percent increase last year, he said.
Correlation with higher global poultry prices and falling costs should protect MHP from currency risks, Kosyuk said.
"A possible hryvnia devaluation is the smallest problem for us," he said.
The company, which produces 380,000 tons of chicken meat a year, plans to increase annual output by 220,000 tons from the middle of 2014, Kosyuk said. By this time about 20 to 25 percent of output will be sold abroad as MHP is looking for new markets in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
MHP plans to invest $360 million to $370 million this year and $150 million in 2013, mainly in the expansion of its new plant in Vinnytsya, central Ukraine. The company is also looking for acquisitions in countries with growing chicken meat consumption in Asia and Europe.


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A large hawk, almost reaching buzzard size. When seen close to it has a fierce expression with bright red eyes and a distinctive white eyebrow. Its broad wings enable it to hunt at high speed, weaving in and out of trees, and its long legs and talons can catch its prey in flight. The female is substantially larger than the male. In late winter and spring it has a 'sky-dance' display. Goshawks are still persecuted and their nests are frequently robbed.
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Hawks and eagles (Accipitridae)
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These local indie-pop sensations have a talent for catching the ear of great national artists. The Annuals' Mike Robinson, who signed them to his label, Terpsikhore Records,says "the caliber of pure musical love, knowledge and independence" you'll find on their new album, "Bloom Cheek," will "only come around a few times in anybody's life."
That may be why Devendra Banhart loves them. He has called them "amazing musicians" with "zero boundaries" whose music is "full of so many surprises, not just from song to song, but within a single song." Having spent three weeks in May on a national tour with the Annuals, they release "Bloom Cheek" in June 2010.
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CHERRY HILL The convicted hit man hired by Rabbi Fred Neulander to murder the rabbi's wife in one of New Jersey's most infamous crimes will leave prison on Valentine's Day.
Len Jenoff, who admitted bludgeoning Carol Neulander to death in 1994 in the Cherry Hill home she shared with her husband, will have served about 14 years of a 10- to 23-year sentence.
"Len Jenoff may be released from prison, but he should never be released from his guilt for what he did," Camden County Prosecutor Warren Faulk said in a statement released Saturday.
It was not known where Jenoff would go or what he would do when he leaves Mid-State Correctional Facility in Wrightstown, Burlington County. His former attorney, Francis J. Hartman, could not be reached for comment Saturday night.


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Shootout: Compact 4G LTE Smartphones under S$300 (Q4 2014)
4G smartphones are now not only easily available, they have also become quite affordable. In the third quarter of 2014 alone, we saw the entry of six 4G smartphones that are priced below S$300. We round up these six phones from the likes of ASUS, HTC, Oppo, Motorola, Samsung and ZTE, and put them to the test. Find out which phone emerges as our top recommendation!
Motorola Moto X (2014): From mid-range to premium flagship in less than a year
The original Moto X finally made its way to Singapore earlier this year, but we won't have to wait as long for its successor. The Moto X (2014) has an updated design, a larger 5.2-inch Full HD display, a flagship-level Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and better voice and gesture commands, all while retaining its near stock Android OS.
Which should you buy: Apple iPhone 6 Plus or Samsung Galaxy Note 4?
If you can't beat them, join them. And now that Apple has done just that, the world's two biggest smartphone manufacturers each has a premium flagship phablet vying for your attention: Apple's iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung's Galaxy Note 4. But which is the right one for you?
Camera Showdown: The Apple iPhone 6 vs. the Sony Xperia Z3
The iPhone is the camera of choice for many casual shooters, while the newer Sony Xperia Z series of phones sport impressive 20.7-megapixel cameras. With the new iPhone 6 and Sony Xperia Z3, it's now time to take a look at these two favorites in a camera performance showdown. Find out how they fared!
Sony Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact: Good performance in two different packages
Following the retail of Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 and Apple's iPhone 6 devices, Sony's six-month refresh cycle sees the availability of the Xperia Z3 and its smaller counterpart, the Z3 Compact. Competition in the market is fiercer than ever, but how do the new Sony smartphones fare? We have the details for you!
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We are currently soliciting additional participants for a proposed roundtable on the 1960s at the PCA/ACA National Conference scheduled in Washington DC for March 27-30, 2013. The panel abstract is as follows:
Historiographically, the long 1960s are characterized by a globally-articulated set of critiques against Cold War liberalism and consensus democracy, corporate media, and traditional sites of authority and governance nebulously defined as the "Establishment." During this period, there was a significant and globally interconnected push for change, focused on political apparatuses and social institutions that frequently denied or curtailed basic civil liberties. Accompanying these efforts were numerous cultural changes that fundamentally reshaped social norms regarding race, class, gender and sexual orientation. In response, much of the mainstream media throughout the 1960s offered various tropes as well as "ideal types" to explain away these widespread transformations. From the stoner to the rebel, the cop and the hippie, the student and the parent, and many more, these caricatures have come to shape mainstream investigations of the period. While mainstream media and political elites failed to curtail significant political change during the 60s, these cultural gatekeepers of the past have, arguably, won the war for the memory of the age, normalizing these sensationalized tropes in popular discourse as well as the historiography. As a consequence, in many contemporary films, literature, television programs, print media and histories that focus on the 60s, the personal is no longer political, it is cultural, recasting the 60s as a decade when cultural change rather than political advocacy characterized, if not dominated, the hearts and minds of activists. Covering an array of media forms, nation-state perspectives, and global discourse from the 60s, this roundtable explores the continuities and conflicts associated with the afterlives of 60s media. Additionally, panelists will discuss the processes in which the tropes and "ideal types" of 60s media are repackaged in contemporary discourse. Finally, participants will consider the consequences of these retellings of the 1960s on global politics and societies today.
Interested participants may send a 150 word abstract addressing a specific topic they would address within the context of the abstract to email@example.com no later than November 24th, 2012. Decisions will be made shortly thereafter and participants contacted via email.


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Man drinks roach poison; juveniles choke dog; 3-year-old beaten
March 6
1029 Meat stolen from freezer on carport, North 9th.
1042 Break-in, Halsey.
1153 Accident, in front of Winn Dixie.
1430 Ungovernable juvenile, Eunice Jr. High.
1730 Three-vehicle accident, 3rd & Laurel.
1950 Fight, East Dean.
2118 Disturbance, Beulah Gardens.
2127 Disturbance, Bengal Village.
2303 Ungovernable juvenile, Beulah Gardens.
March 7
0310 Disturbance, West Oak.
0650 Brick thrown through car window, Benoit.
0906 Child on scooter, North 8th.
1120 Juveniles choked woman's dog, East Dean.
1152 Accident, 8th & Laurel.
1302 Simple assault, Goose.
1418 Disturbance, Cotton.
1548 Three-car accident, MLK & East Laurel.
1806 Two bicycles stolen, Emmitt Dr.
2114 Disturbance, Cotton.
2340 Fight, Joyce's.
2345 Two vehicles broken into, Ronnie's Bar.
March 8
0109 Fight, Acadia.
0909 Disturbance, Good Hope Apartments.
1426 Three-year-old boy beaten by subject's boyfriend.
1452 Man left wallet on counter at McDonald's and someone stole it; incident on surveillance video.
1813 Disturbance, Childs.
1917 Car window broken, walking park.
1945 Disturbance, College Road.
1957 Disturbance, West Magnolia.
2004 Disturbance, West Peach.
2047 Subject hit by vehicle, doesn't want to file complaint, Nimitz & Maple.
2152 Disturbance, Nimitz.
2321 Subject drank unknown liquid, possibly roach poison, now regurgitating profusely, 8th & Reed.


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I have discovered a problem using a fontList specifying 75dpi
on CYGWIN running under WindowsXP, with
Hummingbird XDK X/Motif libraries.
In a multi-line XmText widget, the program will crash if I
click on some point of the text and extend the selection by
dragging the mouse past the newline (either to the right, or down).
I tried this on a dozen applications, with the same result.
If I change the font to 100dpi, it does not crash.
For 75dpi fonts, it does not matter what font family I choose.
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by Rachel Nelson
Today, many colleges offer service learning courses in many subjects. Service learning is a teaching-and-learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
"Service Learning made me more independent because I was the one thinking of what to do," said Barah Kamal, who took a service-learning English 102 class at MCC.
Service learning courses can offer many different outcomes for students, most of them being positive. Many students experience enhanced problem solving skills, ability to work in teams and planning abilities, according to servicelearning.org. Many students also experience enhanced civic engagement attitudes, skills and behaviors.
"It helped me understand how to incorporate my ideas in real life and within the community. It helped me understand how easy it is to make a difference and how small actions really do go a long way," said Hanan Alabdalla, who also took a service-learning English 102 class at MCC.
According to a Service Learning Assessment from the fall 2011 semester, students who engaged in service-learning courses gained a better understanding of community needs and problems than students who did not participate in service learning.
"Service learning forces the student to be engaged in the material so they have more of an opportunity to learn. Research in service learning over the last four years has shown that students have much higher retention rates and are more likely to stay in college and tend to do better in classes," said Longview English instructor Casey Reid, .who regularly teaches service-learning courses.


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- Backyard Flocks and Eggs (from poultry.ces.ncsu.edu)
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The Hotspot tool is one of the two Web-centric tools in Fireworks. It used to create one or several Hyperlinks within a single unsliced graphic, and it's most commonly used for image maps for Web site navigation. Hotspots have other uses, though. From a prototyping perspective, they can be used to trigger disjointed or remote Rollovers. This is a situation where the user clicks or mouses over one area, and another area on the page changes. This interactivity is typically done in conjunction with JavaScript. But there are CSS methods for doing this as well. They don't really involve Fireworks, so we won't be covering them here.
Okay, I've got a multi page mockup onscreen here, which is eventually going to end up as some kind of interactive application. But for the time being, the entire application has been mocked up inside of Fireworks. So I'll just quickly go through these pages, and show you what's going on here. We have a Master Page. It has our common elements. And each of the other pages represents essentially different content that's going to be available with inside the interactive application. Now we are at the point here where we were basically testing this out, getting client approvals and so on.
So one of the things I want to be able to do is provide them with an interactive mockup. And I can do this using Hotspots to trigger links to other pages in the design. So I'm on my main page, and what I am going to do here is go down to my Web Section in my Tools panel. I am going to choose the Rectangle Hotspot tool. Now you'll see there are three different tools that are here. I like using the Rectangle Hotspot tool, because it's a little more multipurpose. From the standpoint of prototyping, Rectangle Hotspots can be used to create an interactive PDF.
From the standpoint of generating HTML pages, the amount of markup needed to create a Rectangular Hotspots inside of a Web page is a lot less complicated. So we are going to work with the Rectangular Hotspot here. And I am just going to draw a box over my first navigation button here, something along that line. And you'll notice as soon as I let go off the mouse, we get this kind of bright blue rectangle masking out our interactive area. Now look down in the Properties panel, and you'll see we have options here to name the Hotspot.
And naming the Hotspots really is just more a convenience than anything else. It's not utilized in any markup whatsoever. We also can change the Shape of a Hotspot if we want, we can even change the Color. And then we can add a Link, and this is the important thing here for us is the URL. So I am going to click on the Link box here and choose from the dropdown menu. I want this Hotspot to go to growing.htm. So I'll just select it, and you'll see that it shows up inside the list. I could also add Alternate Text if I wanted to. But again, this is just a prototype, so I am not too worried about adding in things along those lines.
Now once I have created one Hotspot, if I want to make sure all my other Hotspots are the same, in terms of dimensions, I can just copy the existing Hotspot. So rather than dragging another shape again, I can just grab my Pointer tool, hold down my Alt key or my Option key on the Mac, and just grab another Rectangle, just like so, and do the same thing over and over again, and I will re-tweak the position of these in a minute. Here we go. So that one there is a little off, so I'll just select it and use the arrow keys to reposition it a little bit.
Do the same with the one above it and below it. Just try to basically cover up the entire area. Now copying the Hotspots also copies the URL, so we want to go into each one of these Hotspots and change that Link. So I am going to choose picking for my second one, and I am going to change the third one to extracting, and the fourth one to bottling, and the fifth one to tasting. Now a couple of things I want to point out here. Where are these Links coming from? We don't have any Web pages for this design.
Well, one of the really cool things about building a multipage design in Fireworks is the fact that every time you create a new page, Fireworks makes a note of it basically, and gives you the ability to link to that page as an HTML document. So it's a very, very handy feature from the standpoint of interactivity in prototyping, especially when you're building either HTML Prototypes, or as we were doing here, just a simple click through that will end up as a PDF file for a client to work their way through. Now if we take a look inside of our Pages panel, you actually see the little blue rectangle sitting inside of our page.
I'm going to go ahead and move by Pages panel away from my Layers and States. I just want to see what's happening with my Layers and States. Now we've got a logo that's being shared across multiple pages and navigation, which is being shared across multiple pages. And this is something we are going to cover in an upcoming lesson, how to share your layers across multiple pages. But for the time being, I just want to show you how to create those Hotspots and apply URLs to them. Now a couple of other things about the Hotspots themselves.
If you do draw them, and they're the wrong size, not to worry. You can scale them really easily. You can grab your Pointer tool and just grab any of the control points, and then just drag them and resize them. Now I find this a little more useful in a lot of ways, because if I was to scale them, and you can scale them, I am going to go ahead and choose Scaling, when you scale the Hotspots, Fireworks automatically changes it from a Rectangle to a Polygon, even though it still looks like a Rectangle.
And this is an important distinction, because, especially if you are planning to turn this into an interactive PDF for a client review, see, PDFs don't handle Polygon Hotspots. They only understand the Rectangle Hotspots. So if you do resize with the Scaling tools, make sure that when you're done - I'll just do one more here, make sure that once you've done the Scaling, you go down on to the Properties panel and change it to a Rectangle. It's a little tip. It's a little frustrating if you do all that work, and then you export your PDF and you find out that the Links don't work.
And that's exactly the reason behind it. Rectangle Hotspots are the only form of Hotspots that PDF support. So adding Hotspots is a pretty simple process. And for testing purposes, you can, as I said, export this out as an Interactive PDF, or you can export it out as HTML images for a client to view online.
- Customizing the workspace
- Working with pages, layers, and states
- Importing content
- Comparing bitmaps and vectors
- Creating and editing vector shapes
- Converting artwork into graphic, button, and animation symbols
- Animating in Fireworks
- Maintaining crisp text in web images
- Sharing content between pages
- Optimizing images for export
- Integrating with Device Central, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Flash Catalyst


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A northwest Missouri husband and wife are going to prison for an embezzlement scheme and tax fraud that financed a lavish lifestyle.
The U.S. Attorney's office said Laura Dejong, 55, and Craig Dejong, 56, of Liberty, were sentenced Thursday in federal court in Kansas City. Laura Dejong received 10 years without parole, and her husband two years and six months.
A judge also ordered them to repay nearly $2.7 million to Laura Dejong's former employer, Kansas City Screw Products, from which she embezzled funds. They must also repay $482,000 to the Internal Revenue Service, and $139,000 to two financial institutions.
Prosecutors said the couple gambled heavily, mostly on slot machines. They also spent money for vehicles, a house, sporting events and travel.


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Why Curtis Granderson Is A Free Agent Bargain
Source: Adam Wells, CNN Bleacher Report
Most of the attention during the hot stove season will be focused on Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo, yet Curtis Granderson is another extremely talented outfielder who won't command nearly as much in a contract but who can provide excellent value.
The 32-year-old's contract with the New York Yankees ended after the 2013 season, but the team made a qualifying offer (one year, $14.1 million) that he has until November 11 to accept.
Granderson told MLB Network Radio that he's considering the Yankees' offer, but finding the right situation is the most important thing (via New York Daily News):
Well, it's definitely something you've got to think about and I appreciate the Yankees extending that offer to me. You definitely got to continue to weigh all your options to see what's the best fit for you. ... You know, there are 29 other ball clubs out there and we're now at a point where every team has the chance to be a contender here in the near future.
Granderson's upside for a team in need of an offensive upgrade in left field would be wise to bet on a strong bounce-back season or two from a player who's proven himself to be one of the premiere power hitters in the game when healthy.


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