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from the Illinois Board of Higher Education
May 5, 1998
Contact: Ross Hodel, 217/782-2551
Arnoldi Re-elected Student Board Member
Troy Arnoldi, a graduate student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has been re-elected to a third consecutive term as the student representative to the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
Arnoldi was chosen by the Board's Student Advisory Committee, which is comprised of student representatives of public and private colleges and universities and community colleges throughout Illinois. His election marks only the second time in the Board's history that a student representative has been chosen for three consecutive terms.
"i'm honored and excited to have the opportunity to continue the work we've started," said Arnoldi, who is studying for his master's degree in public administration at SIU-E. He holds a bachelor's degree in speech communication from SIU at Carbondale. A native of South Roxana, Arnoldi now lives in Edwardsville.
Keith Sanders, Executive Director of the Board of Higher Education, said, "Troy has been a very involved contributor to the Board during his first two terms, and we look forward to his continued positive participation in the upcoming year."
Arnoldi serves on the Board's subcommittee that is conducting a study of education needs in Lake County, a precursor to a statewide examination of higher education in Illinois.
Arnoldi's new term begins July 1 and will expire June 30, 1999.


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This week I had the pleasure to serve on a panel of distinguished Clean Water Act experts at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) to discuss "The CWA's Next 40 Years: Achieving the Statute's Goals -- and Results for All Americans." The discussion was moderated by Ron Poltak, Co-Chair, ACWA Funding Task Force & Executive Director, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission. My co-panelists were LaJuana Wilcher, Partner, English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, G. Tracy Mehan, Principal, Drinking Water & Water Quality Group, Cadmus Group, Inc., and Ken Kirk, Executive Director, National Association of Clean Water Agencies.
Ron Poltak kicked off the discussion by noting that, while the Clean Water Act has contributed to great progress since 1972, the present-day law, which was last updated in 1987, is stale, slowing additional progress, and can only accomplish what it was designed to do –'change will occur as slow as we allow it to'. LaJuana Wilcher articulated the need to reexamine the goals and expectations of the Act (zero discharge would be putting distilled water in our rivers), and the need to realize that our method of calculating compliance with water quality standards (WQS) is flawed resulting in inaccurate 305b reports and 303d lists; she emphasized that we keep spinning our wheels and hammering point sources even though no progress is being made on non-point source pollution. The holistic, symphonic watershed approach was advocated as well as the need to make sound, science-based decisions using accurate data and wise investments of limited resources; there also needs to be a public health/water quality cost-benefit analysis performed for all mandates to determine priority. If a particular measure/mandate achieves little to no benefit, it should be reevaluated periodically and delayed indefinitely until there is a satisfactory environmental return on investment.
Other notable observations from panelists included the challenges associated with the sustainability of the CWA and the lack of funding sources to address CWA requirements. Time, flexibility and prioritization must be considered in light of available resources.
There was productive disagreement about the need to move forward with CWA reform and congressional action in the near-term. Tracy expressed concern about attempting to put anything in front of Congress because of the potential for unintended consequences of reopening the Act. There was general consensus that while any real discussion about a path forward will need to wait until after the election, Congress cannot continue to delay the inevitable need to modernize the CWA. To accomplish this lofty task will require engagement of all key stakeholders including NGOs and agriculture with the goal of reaching some consensus on a path forward to present to Congress. Then the timing must be right to approach Congress – as LaJuana noted "it is a marathon, not a sprint."
In the meantime, we must continue to find the greatest amount of flexibility in the Act and utilize the full suite of tools to better achieve water quality improvement at the lowest cost and to address nonpoint source pollution. EPAs' recently released Integrated Planning Framework is considered a great first step and should be used as a model for finding further flexibility in the existing CWA.
To read WEF's 2010 Position Statement on Clean Water Act Modernization, go to: http://www.wef.org/GovernmentAffairs/PolicyPositionStatement/CWAModernization/
Clean Water Act issues will be a hot topic at WEFTEC 2012 in New Orleans. Make plans now to attend the WEF Government Affairs Committee meeting on Sunday, September 30, and the Clean Water Policy Session on Tuesday, October 2. Details are available at: www.weftec.org
This week I had the pleasure to serve on a panel of distinguished Clean Water Act experts at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) to discuss "The CWA's Next 40 Years: Achieving the Statute's Goals -- and Results for All Americans."
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This cover is gray/black (GY/BK) and constructed using Taylor Made's Eclipse brand fabric. This fabric is a strong, durable 6.25 oz. acrylic-coated polyester with good breathability. It has great strength and water- and mildew-resistance. It has very good UV-resistance and is recommended for hot or humid climates. The quality of this fabric is on par with Taylor Made's Hot Shot brand semi-custom covers.
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Dunkin Donuts robbery attempt brings probation
BARRE A Montpelier man has been sentenced to time served and three years on probation for his role in an attempted assault and robbery at Dunkin Donuts in Berlin in 2012.
Curt E. Duford, 28, pleaded guilty to felony attempted assault and robbery and misdemeanor petit larceny Thursday in Washington County criminal court in Barre. He was sentenced to 60 to 61 days in jail, with credit for 61 days, for the larceny conviction and given a three-year deferred sentence for the attempted assault and robbery.
With a deferred sentence, Duford will be on probation for three years, which if he completes successfully, the conviction for attempted assault and robbery will come off his record. If he violates his probation, Duford can be brought to court to face the maximum sentence for the conviction, which is 10 years.
According to the police affidavit, Duford and Emma L. Valenzi, 24, also of Montpelier, pulled up to the drive-through window at about 2 p.m. on Feb. 23 and demanded cash while brandishing what looked like a handgun. The employee there backed away from the window, and the pair drove away without getting any cash.
Dunkin Donuts employees gave police a description of the vehicle the two were driving along with its license plate number. During the investigation, police learned the plate had been stolen from another vehicle about half an hour earlier in Barre.
Later that day Vermont State Police found and stopped the vehicle used in the robbery attempt, according to the affidavit. Valenzi gave police permission to search the vehicle, and they found a plastic toy gun that had been recently painted black and the stolen Vermont license plate.
In court Thursday, States Attorney Tom Kelly was seeking a six-month prison term for Duford, but Dufords attorney, David Kidney, argued for time served. Judge Thomas Zonay sided with Kidney, saying there did need to be a punishment for the crime but that Duford had already served that punishment.
Duford described himself as a terror at the time of the robbery attempt and attributed his actions to a heroin addiction. He told the court he has since become clean and is focusing on staying sober.
Valenzi pleaded guilty to felony accessory after the fact and no contest to misdemeanor petit larceny in September. She was sentenced Oct. 4 to four to five days, with credit for five days served, on the petit larceny conviction and given a three-year deferred sentence for the accessory conviction.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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Caramel Chex Mix
- 6 cups Wheat Chex cereal
- 9 cups Corn Chex cereal
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Optional candy corn and pumpkins for Thanksgiving
- Heat oven to 250 degrees.
- Measure the cereal into a large container.
- In a 3 or 4 quart saucepan stir together brown sugar, butter and corn syrup. (WARNING: Resist the urge to use a smaller pan - the baking soda makes it bubble up!)
- Cook and stir 8-9 minutes over medium heat until mixture heats to boiling. Boil 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in baking soda.
- Pour over cereal mixture, stirring until evenly coated.
- Pour onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a nonstick mat.
- Bake 40-50 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes, until coating is set. Cool 5 minutes; stir in candies (optional). Spread on parchment paper or nonstick mat to cool, about 10 minutes. Break into pieces. Store in an airtight container.


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The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
STEM Teaching Scholarship
The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) Teaching Scholarship is available to Secondary Teaching Majors in the Colleges of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science. Awards will be given up to $5,000 per academic year.
To be considered for this scholarship, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- USU Student at a junior or senior level
- Cumulative GPA of 3.50
- Submit letters of support from two faculty members
- Submit a statement of motivation and vision for teaching in a STEM discipline (part of the application form)
Applications for the STEM Teaching Scholarship must be submitted by Friday, June 29, 2012. Awarded recipients of the scholarship will be notified no later than Wednesday, August 1, 2012. The scholarship may be renewed for students who maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.50.
To apply for the STEM Teaching Scholarship, please complete the scholarship application available at the link below.


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"Realistic Costs of Carbon Capture"
Discussion Paper
July 2009
Authors: Mohammed Al-Juaied, Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 20082009, Adam Whitmore
Belfer Center Discussion Papers
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Environment and Natural Resources; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
There is a growing interest in carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a means of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However there are substantial uncertainties about the costs of CCS. Costs for pre-combustion capture with compression (i.e. excluding costs of transport and storage and any revenue from EOR associated with storage) are examined in this discussion paper for First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) plant and for more mature technologies, or Nth-of-a-Kind plant (NOAK).
For FOAK plant using solid fuels the levelised cost of electricity on a 2008 basis is approximately 10¢/kWh higher with capture than for conventional plants (with a range of 8-12 ¢/kWh). Costs of abatement are found typically to be approximately $150/tCO2 avoided (with a range of $120-180/tCO2 avoided). For NOAK plants the additional cost of electricity with capture is approximately 2-5¢/kWh, with costs of the range of $35-70/tCO2 avoided. Costs of abatement with carbon capture for other fuels and technologies are also estimated for NOAK plants. The costs of abatement are calculated with reference to conventional SCPC plant for both emissions and costs of electricity.
Estimates for both FOAK and NOAK are mainly based on cost data from 2008, which was at the end of a period of sustained escalation in the costs of power generation plant and other large capital projects. There are now indications of costs falling from these levels. This may reduce the costs of abatement and costs presented here may be "peak of the market" estimates.
If general cost levels return, for example, to those prevailing in 2005 to 2006 (by which time significant cost escalation had already occurred from previous levels), then costs of capture and compression for FOAK plants are expected to be $110/tCO2 avoided (with a range of $90-135/tCO2 avoided). For NOAK plants costs are expected to be $25-50/tCO2.
Based on these considerations a likely representative range of costs of abatement from CCS excluding transport and storage costs appears to be $100-150/tCO2 for first-of-a-kind plants and perhaps $30-50/tCO2 for nth-of-a-kind plants.
The estimates for FOAK and NOAK costs appear to be broadly consistent in the light of estimates of the potential for cost reductions with increased experience. Cost reductions are expected from increasing scale, learning on individual components, and technological innovation including improved plant integration. Innovation and integration can both lower costs and increase net output with a given cost base. These factors are expected to reduce abatement costs by approximately 65% by 2030.
The range of estimated costs for NOAK plants is within the range of plausible future carbon prices, implying that mature technology would be competitive with conventional fossil fuel plants at prevailing carbon prices.
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The Littles, who are from Hope, British Columbia, were at a Texas RV park when they heard about the annual event Friday night.
They became instant fans.
"It was a No. 1," Little said Saturday after seeing the first re-enacted skirmish between Santa Anna's Mexican soldiers and Col. James Fannin's Texians. "It was awesome. We're going back tomorrow."
The event drew thousands of visitors from South Texas and beyond. The various state license plates on the cars and the number of buses transporting guests attested to the popularity of the two-day program.
"I like the night event in the chapel," said Anita Eisenhower, a Corpus Christi resident and member of the Daughters of the Republic who was making her fifth trip to the event. "To come in there when it's dark by candlelight is really special. It gives you an eerie feeling of what history was like at that time."
Newton Warzecha, Presidio La Bahia director, said Saturday's crowd may have been a record.
"I think we were looking at about 4,000 total admissions for Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday," Warzecha said. "That's pretty much what we've been doing in the past. We had probably fewer people on Sunday. We had a huge crowd on Saturday."
Warzecha said the two days went without any problems he knew about.
"As far as I know, we did not have one hitch at all," Warzecha said. "The thing we are always concerned about is someone getting hurt. People fall down and hurt themselves."
The program was greeted with summerlike weather Saturday as temperatures reached the mid-80's.
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BWSD Board President Jim Crumrine praised the work done by the Payton crew that was rehabilitating filtering media at the George P. Morrill, I Water Treatment Plant at Swinney Switch.
Crumrine told fellow board members that Payton's employees dropped what they were doing and tackled a pump problem at the district's raw water intake structure at the Nueces River near the treatment plant.
"Payton moved heaven and earth to fix the problem when the city was almost out of water," Crumrine said.
The company had sent the district two invoices and had asked for a total payment of $22,189.
"These people went above and beyond on a Christmas holiday and didn't charge us anything," Crumrine said.
However, the board president was not as kind to the company that provided the pumps Payton employees installed.
The four pumps provided by Layne Christensen started causing problems not long after they were installed.
At a water board meeting three months ago, Jim Urban of Urban Engineering told the board that the replacement pumps provided by Layne started failing just weeks after they were on line.
Urban told board members that the three pumps that had been there before the Layne pumps were installed had performed without problems for decades before they were replaced.
Crumrine said when the city contacted Layne, the company's representatives denied that their pumps had been responsible for the problems. He said it was not until the city contacted someone higher up the chain of command at Layne that the company finally admitted that the problem had been in its pumps.
Layne was asking for the city to pay a bill for $24,238. But Urban had recommended at an earlier meeting that the city withhold that payment.
Crumrine told board members he did not want to see that bill paid unless the construction company was forced to pay it.
Then, he said, the city could work out something with Payton. However, he agreed with the engineers that the district should not pay the bill.
Crumrine also said he anticipated that Layne might take some kind of legal action to recover the amount they say the district owes.
Board member Bill Stockton expressed concern over Crumrine's recommendation, saying he had reservations about refusing to pay a bill.
However, board member Kay Hickey agreed with Crumrine and made a motion that the district not pay that bill. Board member Donald "Buddy" Hardy seconded the motion, and it passed with new board member Kenneth Elsbury abstaining.
Just before that motion was made, Stockton had made a motion to pay the Payton bill, and Hardy seconded that motion as well. It passed without opposition.
In other business Monday, the board voted to:
— Accept the resignation from the board of George P. "Trace" Morrill, III and appoint Elsbury to replace him.
Morrill had to resign because he was elected to the City Council on May 11.
— Pay Mercer Controls of Edna $47,475 for work performed by that company and to enter into an extended maintenance contract for $417 a month after the variable frequency drive equipment his company installed is a year old.
Mercer said the equipment has reduced the city's electric bill by about 50 percent when compared to what it was paying before the equipment was installed.
— Accept a report from Stephen Grunewald of Urban Engineering regarding projects funded by a recent bond sale by the district.
Grunewald said about half the projects funded by the bond sale had been completed and the district still has about half of its bond proceeds in the bank.
He said that the replacement of the filtering media at the Morrill plant had benefited the plant operation at the level the engineers had predicted and the quality of water being pumped to Beeville was considerably improved.
Grunewald also said that installing new pumps at the raw water intake structure had improved the city's water pumping capability to the point that it could send 7.2 million gallons of water a day to Beeville at periods of peak demand.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at email@example.com.


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Not every town can say that it has a 100 percent graduation rate, and the Guild is proud of Bayside graduating students; Lauren Cramer, Alicen Grimes, Emily Merritt and David Nix.
We want to say thank you to all individuals and businesses who support our efforts to help students get post graduate vocational or academic educational training toward their career goals.
It is because of your generous contributions, that the Appreciation Dinner and the Guild Education Award is possible.


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In response to the CNN article by Bruce Schneier: The Internet is a surveillance state
Bruce Schneier is wrong. Privacy is not over — the public is just now learning how invasive Internet technology, tech corporations, and government really are, and that they ACT to protect and maintain the US surveillance economy. When enough citizens tell Congress and the President to stop, this privacy disaster will stop.
The public is just beginning to WAKE UP. Today is the start of privacy in the Digital Age in the US, not the end.
It's a lie that people happily give up privacy for "targeted ads" — tech giants like Google, Facebook, etc. have PREVENTED us from having apps and tools that enable privacy (ie, our right TO control personal information online). We have NO choices because government and the data mining industry have prevented us from having meaningful choices.
Signs of intelligent life in the Universe:
- Attend or watch the 3rd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy (its free). The EU Data Protection Supervisor will keynote and so will the US Chief Technology Officer—-the stark differences between US and EU data protections will be discussed—register at: http://www.healthprivacysummit.org/d/vcq3vz/4W
- SnapChat—millions of free downloads of an app that shows people want technology that gives THEM control over their data: single use of info (a picture in this case) and the ability to delete info. See: http://patientprivacyrights.org/2013/02/snapchat-and-the-erasable-future-of-social-media/
- A recent Pew Research Center study found smartphone users are taking action to protect their privacy:
- Mobile Privacy & Data Management
- 50% "decided not to install applications on their mobile phones because they demanded too much personal information"
- Nearly a third uninstalled an application after learning that it was collecting personal information "they didn't wish to share."
- And one in five turned off location tracking "because they were concerned that other individuals or companies could access that information."
- See: http://patientprivacyrights.org/2012/09/consumers-say-no-to-mobile-apps-that-grab-too-much-data/
- The default for Microsoft's Windows 8 browser is 'Do Not Track'
- Microsoft's Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch said a recent company study of computer users in the United States and Europe concluded that 75 percent wanted Microsoft to turn on the Do Not Track mechanism. "Consumers want and expect strong privacy protection to be built into Microsoft products and services."
- See more in the New York Times article: Do Not Track? Advertisers Say 'Don't Tread on Us'
DONATE to help Latanya Sweeney and Patient Privacy Rights build a health data map—-we MUST prove that thousands of hidden data users are stealing, using , and selling our personal health data: http://patientprivacyrights.org/donate/
SEE Latanya describe thedataMap at: http://patientprivacyrights.org/thedatamap/
This is the beginning of privacy, the war has just begun.


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Portugal Along The Coast (15D/14N)from €695
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The Pestana Palace is 5 star luxury hotel in Lisbon near the Estoril coast (Sintra and Cascais) and its beaches. This palace was built in the beginning of the XIX century by José Constantino Dias, Marquis of Valle Flor. It is located in a residential area, with an wonderful view over the river Tagus.Situated near the main monuments of the city, like the Belém Cultural Centre, Jerónimos Monastery and from one of the most important business centres, the Lisbon Congress Centre.The Pestana Palace is a member of "The Leading Hotels of the World" and its gardens are classified as "National Monument". It is one of the best luxury Lisbon hotels, having received throughout the years several nominations and awards.


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For those that prefer more active holidays, the Dordogne region won't disappoint!
Apart from the golf, tennis, fishing and billiards that you can do at Chateau des Vigiers, there is a large selection of sporting activities to choose from. Contact reception if you would like us to help you organise your stay. Below is a small selection of the sporting activities you can enjoy within close proximity of the Chateau.


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LittleBigKitsune - Comic 9
Awesome Sauce
Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:10 AM
All right, so I haven't done a comic in a while. I want to apologize profusely. I've been going through a very bad time with a lot of illness. Larry and I wrote this comic back in like October or whenever those new pins came out, and I just got a chance (read: felt well enough) to put this together.
I'm still not out of the woods yet with what's wrong with me, but I'll update as best I can when I start feeling better. I hope you guys like this.
Posted 04 February 2012 - 09:46 AM
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:11 AM
if anyone actually ingests that sauce...i'd hate to imagine the after-effects... everyone grab a gas mask and run for them hills!
while thick soy sauce + avocado do make a tasty combination (really, i myself was surprised that it turned out pretty okay)... peaches + soy sauce + sardines...? no...
just NO~
and get well soon!
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Awesome work on the comic!
Posted 04 February 2012 - 02:52 PM
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 04:12 PM
The comic is great, I have always wondered where the term Awesomesauce came from lol. So funny!
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Anyway, thanks again. I never thought I'd meet such a kind group of people. You don't even know me, not in person, at least, but you all still take the time to reply to these comics, read them, etc. /end sappy stuff.
I'll do these comics as often as I can... but I'm still knee deep in this thing/still recovering and Wish Fulfillment comes first. But, as always, I shall do my best!
Posted 05 February 2012 - 11:33 PM
So take your time, we will still wait for you to get better
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But keep up the great work Sara, and feel better soon!
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Eau Claire police arrested a 38-year-old armed robbery suspect Friday.
Police responded to an armed robbery at Mega Holiday Store, 2806 Golf Road in Eau Claire, at about 1 a.m. on Friday. Bryan Hjerleid was arrested at his Eau Claire home at 3:30 p.m. after police identified him with the help of surveillance video.
Eau Claire police investigators say they are working with the Lake Hallie Police Department to see if there is a connection with an armed robbery that happened in Lake Hallie the same morning.
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Talk about hot and bothered. A Kansas couple is accused of stealing lubricant from a local Walmart and fondling each other in front of fellow shoppers.
Julian R. Call, 22, and his girlfriend, Tina F. Gianakon, 35, were arrested Sunday at the Walmart in Hutchinson and charged with theft and lewd and lascivious behavior, Wichita TV station KAKE reported.
According to a police report, the couple stole a tube of K-Y Jelly and several "personal care" products and began groping each other under their clothing.
Officials told KAKE the couple was cooperative and did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.
Congressional Attitudes Toward Congressional Organization (ICPSR 7001)
Principal Investigator(s): O'Leary, Michael; Kovenock, David; Davidson, Roger
This data collection contains information on the opinions of United States congressmen and women on their roles in Congress, the roles and functions of Congress, congressional organizations and procedures, and the problems and effectiveness of Congress. Three general types of respondents were interviewed: general, leader, and top leader respondents. Respondents were asked about their position on various proposals for congressional reorganization, such as the use of electronic voting devices, four-year terms of office, and year-long congressional sessions, and their opinions on the likelihood of these proposals being adopted. Other items probed their views on issues such as the protection of minority interests, party bloc vote, moral-based decisions, rule of the majority, equality of Congress and the Executive branch, party compromise, degree of influence of lobbyists, and pressing congressional problems. Demographic items specify age, occupation, education, previous political experience, political party affiliation, length of service in Congress, congressional leadership position, ranks, and committee membership and functions, as well as voting records, constituency characteristics by region and district, percentage of total party unity votes, conservative coalition support, and bipartisan support.
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Study Description
O'Leary, Michael, David Kovenock, and Roger Davidson. CONGRESSIONAL ATTITUDES TOWARD CONGRESSIONAL ORGANIZATION. ICPSR07001-v1. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College [producer], 1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07001.v1
Persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07001.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: attitudes, congressional committees, congressional voting, government elites, leadership, legislative bodies, legislative process, legislators, political representation, United States Congress, voting attitudes and behavior
Geographic Coverage: United States
Universe: United States congressmen and women.
Data Types: survey data
Data Collection Notes:
The Congressional Attitudes Toward Congressional Organization (ICPSR 7001) data are written in IBM column-binary format. The data are multiply-punched and are stored in EBCDIC. The file should be designated a binary file when used on a non-EBCDIC system. Please note that there is no deck two in the collection.
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A Middleton bank was robbed Monday afternoon by a man who said he was armed, according to a release.
Middleton police said they responded at 1:59 p.m. to the Associated Bank at 2420 Allen Blvd.
Officials said the suspect said he was armed but no firearm was seen.
The suspect left on foot from the front door and no one was injured, according to the release.
The suspect is described as a white male, late 20s to early 30s, 6 feet tall, thin build, with closely cropped hair, according to the release. The suspect was wearing a black collared shirt and blue jeans.


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Walk where Patsy Cline walked, see where she lived, slept and spent her "prime years" while pursuing her music career.
Enjoy a detailed tour of the Patsy Cline Historic House. As she said in one of her songs, "come on in, sit right down, and make yourself at home"Located in a working-class neighborhood in the City of Winchester, Virginia, this modest house was the residence of country music legend Patsy Cline (1932-63), who lived here from the ages of 16 to 21, when she married Gerald Cline. Patsy resided here from 1948-53, longer than at any other house associated with her in the Winchester and Nashville areas, and she returned to it intermittently until her singing career began in 1957.
Cline was the first solo female singer to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1960, and the first woman to be inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973. "Crazy," one of Patsy's best-known songs written by Willie Nelson, continues to be the number one jukebox hit of all time.
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Reis R&R
Short range.
You can use elements that are mildly related to tai/ken if you want. :3
My bio: http://narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=204793
Yoh in sig.
Excellent >:3 Kirito bio
Originally Posted by Lysander
Yoh in sig.
Reply to our other fight instead. ~_~
Originally Posted by Tybone
Excellent >:3 Kirito bio
No. ****ing byakugan. -__-
Originally Posted by Kerrah
Kiyoshi fight! D
Rules have changed so that we're allowed to use Kiyoshi stuff. >:333
*I see you at short range from my position and, I launch myself off of the ground and begin to run towards you. As I get closer to you, I prepare for the low sweeping kick by using my gathered to speed to suddenly almost slide across the ground, on my left side (I've been playing football lately, so imagine this to be a violent slide tackle which aims for the clones feet, rather than a non-existent ball), as I'm sliding, I swing my right foot forwards, since I'm on my left side, the forward swing with my right foot should connect with your left foot and go on to knock it, causing it to hit your right foot due to it's force and power, making you lose your balance and fall to the ground.*
Stand forth and show me your strength, fellow Kiyoshi!
*Has already made a move against Kerrah*
erzoplzlovemeiwillfightforyourheartKERRAHFIGHTMEIN STEAD
poor erzo, you can NEVER have a fight lol
it always gets spammed
Originally Posted by Erzo
I didn't make this post ^ ****ing Kerrah.
Originally Posted by Zoro..
erzoplzlovemeiwillfightforyourheartKERRAHFIGHTMEIN STEAD
Originally Posted by -Broly-
poor erzo, you can NEVER have a fight lol
it always gets spammed
Now you can understand why I'm enjoying my ninja world fight against Loki.
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"Postnatal depression blood test breakthrough" or Churnalism?
"Postnatal depression blood test breakthrough" proclaimed the headline. The UK Guardian article then declared:
British doctors reveal 'extremely important' research that could help tens of thousands of women at risk.
Here it comes. Readers were going to be fed a press release generated by the study's authors and forwarded undigested by the media but disguised as writings of a journalist. If only the journo had asked someone in the know about the likelihood of a single study yielding such breakthrough blood test for risk of depression in new mothers.
The story echoed earlier churnalism from Sky News, British satellite television news service:
There is evidence that if you can identify women at risk early you could treat early or introduce measures to prevent or stop the process of the disease.
A study of 200 pregnant women, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, found two molecular "signatures" in the genes that increased the risk of postnatal depression by up to five times. One in seven new mothers suffer from depression.


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Glazed Lemon cake Recipe- easy cake baking recipes
I did not actually want to write a recipe for a cake in this post after already posting one in my previous post. But this one was so good and delicious that I could not resist myself from posting this one soon.Yes, believe me,this one was one of the best cakes I have baked till date. And the best part is
it is so easy and does not involve any complicated steps that even your kid can handle it. I swear, I allowed my 4 year old to help me. He has his school holidays now. Few days back, I saw champa's post on vanilla cake. She said that this was the easiest cake ever and how her friend's children helped her bake the cake. That sounded so cute and I decided to involve my son in making this one. He was so excited about it.I kept adding the ingredients in a big bowl which I placed on his small table in the kitchen while he kept stirring it with a whisk and thoroughly enjoyed the process. He actually remembered all the ingredients added to the cake when I asked him after the whole process was over. Later in the evening, he told his dad that he baked the cake today while his mummy helped him a little.
Okay, now for the cake. I took the basic recipe from Champa's easiest vanillla cake which I converted to lemon cake by adding the rind and juice of the lemon followed by a lemon glaze. As a result the cake was sweet and tangy. It was thoroughly enjoyed my everyone. The flavour and taste was just amazing. Infact, my hubby asked me to bake this one again.
- ( you can also add vanilla essence if you want)
- Beat the eggs well in a bowl.
- Mix in the sugar.
- Add the buttermilk and oil and thoroughly mix the liquid ingredients.
- Combine the flour, salt,baking soda and baking powder in a bowl and then add this in the wet mixture gradually stirring to form a uniform mixture.
- Fold in the lemon rind and juice.
- Pour the batter in a well greased and floured bundt cake pan. Bake this at 180c for 35 minutes till a skewer inserted in it comes out clean. Cool the cake well in the pan. Turn it on a plate.
- Mix the sugar and lemon juice till it becomes a smooth and spreadable. Poke small holes over the cake. Pour the glaze over it. Leave the cake for about an hour. Slice and serve.


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There's a good chance that the next Linux game you play, especially if it's a commercially sold title, was made using Simple DirectMedia Layer.
SDL, for short, is a multimedia library API which provides low-level access to a system's video framebuffer, sound output, and input devices including keyboard, mouse, and joystick. It's used in emulators and MPEG viewers to handle the graphics and sounds of these programs, but SDL has mostly become known as an essential toolkit for Linux game development. The Linux port of Civilization: Call to Power used SDL.
In its most basic capabilities, SDL is similar to Microsoft's DirectX API. The big difference is that, besides being open source, SDL supports multiple operating systems. Other than Linux, SDL is available as BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, IRIX, and, yes, even Windows 32-bit versions. Additionally, the API has bindings to other languages, a few of which are Perl, PHP, and Python.
Written in C (and also working natively with C++), the latest version, SDL 1.2, is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 or later.
This alternative to Microsoft's well-known and oft-used DirectX comes courtesy of Sam Lantinga, 27, who presently works as a software engineer for Blizzard Entertainment (the makers of Diablo) in Irvine, California. He first made a name for himself in the games industry as one of the prominent players in the Linux gaming development community. His last job was as a lead programmer for Loki Software, renowned for its quality Linux translations of Windows and Macintosh games. (The last projects that he worked on while at Loki were Tribes 2 and Kohan.) Lantinga got his start in Linux game programming while in college when he ported a Macintosh game called Maelstrom to Linux.
Do you have any projects underway or completed that use SDL? Also, any general thoughts?
The genesis for the SDL library came about while he worked on the Windows port of a Macintosh emulator called Executor. He figured that the code he created for the emulator's graphics, sound, and game controller interfaces could be extracted and used separately across other platforms. "I thought it would be handy to write a library to encapsulate this functionality so that other people could use it," he says.
Lantinga started work on what would become SDL in the summer of 1997 and made the first public release of it, Version 0.3, in October of that year.
Comparing SDL to DirectX is a moot point, as far as Lantinga is concerned. Evoking the proverbial "apples to oranges," he jests that the only similarity between the two is that "they're both fruity."
Seriously though, SDL is a much easier-to-use API that is also available on a much wider range of platforms. "You can't do everything that DirectX can do with SDL," admits Lantinga, "but the API is complete enough that over a dozen commercial titles are using it, and innumerable open-source and non game-related projects use it."
The proof is in the number of notable games which use SDL: Creatures 3 and Docking Station, both from CreatureLabs; BlackHoleSun Software's recent debut, Krilo; and Mountain King Studios' revamped version of the classic game Raptor. Other companies, such as Phantom EFX, use SDL for embedded entertainment and casino games. And all the games recently released by Loki use SDL.
|Krilo, Reel Deal Casino, Tribes 2, and Civilization: Call to Power all use SDL.
It may come as a surprise to know that, according to Lantinga, programming games on the Linux platform is now comparable in ease to developing under Windows. "I believe that most of the technical hurdles are, for the most part, taken care of," he says. "Loki has proven that commercial quality titles are definitely possible. The remaining issues mostly have to do with system configuration -- making sure people have the right software configuration to run the games."
SDL has figured significantly in helping to make commercial-quality games under Linux easier. As its kernel interfaces and drivers have improved, SDL has provided an easy way for developers to take advantage of a system's multimedia capabilities under Linux or the other operating systems that it supports. It's possible to access multimedia functions under Linux without the help of SDL, but SDL makes the work and the juggling of these functions much easier than it would otherwise be with its simple and powerful API.
"For example, SDL allows you to take advantage of hardware acceleration available on the framebuffer console or with the DGA X server," says Lantinga. "Kohan actually uses a modified version of the DGA library that can provide hardware acceleration even if you are not running as root, but have the framebuffer console configured."
As another example, SDL supports hardware-accelerated YUV surface scaling and display. Where hardware support isn't available, optimized C and Assembly routines take over to gracefully handle the decoding. Also, SDL has the ability to run full screen without requiring root access on the XFree86 servers. It's very tricky to do this on all window managers, Lantinga points out, but the latest version of SDL does this very well.
3D graphics add-on cards figure prominently in present-day PC game development, and SDL addresses the latest forms of these technologies by incorporating OpenGL for its 3D API. Another aspect that's important in game development is online play. Although a feature that it doesn't directly deal with, the sockets API of SDL is a portable network layer, so custom gaming protocols can be built on top of that. There's no network code in SDL proper, but there is a "helper" library, called SDL_net, that does cross-platform networking, though it's technically not associated with the core SDL library.
For a programmer and game designer such as Lantinga, interesting things were learned throughout developing SDL "about API design, 2D graphics, multi-threaded programming, and more than I ever thought I would know about lots of different operating systems," he says.
He started out in this project thinking that SDL would be the be-all, end-all API for game development but realized quickly, though, that "SDL is a great tool, but there are some things that it isn't designed to do, or aren't possible to do portably, such as multi-window support, audio recording, video input, etc. We plan to address most of [these] shortcomings in the SDL version 1.3 API redesign."
The most pressing matter that Lantinga has had to deal with for SDL is video. "Technically, it's just not possible to access the screen pixels directly and use hardware acceleration at the same time," he says. "The video hardware is designed so that it's optimized for hardware-accelerated primitives via the graphics engine, but you have to wait for the graphics pipeline to clear before you touch the video memory. If you don't, in the best case, your drawing is interleaved with the accelerated operations. In the worst case, you lock up your system."
The other challenge he's faced with is creating an API which balances between supporting video access that only happens remotely -- with no control over video refresh (X11) -- and access that is "down to the wire" (DGA and framebuffer console). "I think it can be done," he says, "but providing a simple API for doing it is tricky."
The number of people contributing to the development of SDL varies. On average, Lantinga receives patches from three to a dozen people over the course of a month. There are regular participants -- like Mattias Engdegard and Darrell Walisser, who Lantinga singles out for mention -- and some who contribute every few months, as well as random contributions from people keeping up with the SDL development community.
As for the kind of talents and contributors that the SDL development team can put to use, Lantinga invites "anybody who is interested in writing and testing a multi-platform build system. That's the biggest stumbling block in starting the SDL 1.3 development. Nobody has both the time and experience to set it up and test a new build system."
Where Lantinga wants to take SDL from this point on is extensive. The SDL 1.3 API redesign has a long wish list. A few of the high priorities are including multi-head support, better hardware acceleration, custom blit support, and a redesigned sound API which would incorporate features already available separately in the
SDL_mixer library.
Something that's particularly tantalizing: Now that Linux has been ported over to the Sony PlayStation 2, it's possible for SDL to have a hand in affecting game development for the next-generation game consoles -- especially if Linux also gets ported over to Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube. Having SDL available on such platforms will likely enable the making of games outside the proprietary licensing agreements that Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft impose upon officially licensed game developers.
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Lantinga recognizes the above possibility but doesn't think the game-console hardware companies have anything to worry about should SDL cross over to their platforms. "At least in the case of the PlayStation 2, commercial [game development] companies are going to continue to write directly to the hardware to wring every ounce of performance from the console," he says. "I don't know much about the Xbox and GameCube, but to get decent performance out of the PS2, you need to use its vector processing units for fast 3D calculations, and the graphics hardware [of the console] isn't well suited to the OpenGL API."
Still, although many of these "homebrew" games will probably be very simple in design, we could be in for the start of a programming scene that makes new games for current game console technology (as opposed to making games for antiquated consoles) -- spurred on by SDL because of its ease-of-use and platform ubiquity.
Howard Wen is a freelance writer who has contributed frequently to O'Reilly Network and written for Salon.com, Playboy.com, and Wired, among others.
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Re the Titus Firebirds running without spoilers, I believe that they turned up with aftermarket (ie non factory) spoilers, the front had some funnel shaped ducts, this was questioned by the SCCA, and they had to remove them before the race start. Bruce.


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Is there a test to find out if my paraplegic fiance is still fertile?
My fiancéis a quadriplegic. He has a C7 spinal cord injury. We both want children, but we aren't sure if he can have children. I wanted to know if there is any way to find out if he can impregnate me?


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Bluefield State College
Board of Governors
July 18, 2002
Members Present: Mr. Norris Kantor, Mr. John Barnes, Mrs. Ann Crowe, Ms. Ruth Payne Brown, Mr. Burt Clark, Ms. Carol Baldwin (via phone), Steve Bourne (via phone), Mr. Jack Caffrey, Dr. Lyn Guy
Members Absent: Mr. John Barnes, Reverend Garry Moore, Mr. Frank Wilkinson
Guests: Dr. Thomas Blevins, Mr. Jim Nelson, Ms. Vivian Sidote
Mr. Norris Kantor brought the meeting to order.
A motion was made and seconded (JCaffrey/LGuy) to approve the minutes of June 20 with the following corrections: On page two, first paragraph, third line it should read, "been evaluated by the Policy Commission as not being met"; in the second paragraph, sixth line, it should read, "Dr. Dr. Moore recommended to the President's Staff"; in the last paragraph, fifth line it should read, "The Governing Board's task over the next five years is to build". Motion carried.
Strategies For Higher Education Budget and Program Reviews
Dr. Blevins gave out a list of budget reduction strategies presented by the Chancellor to the President's Council. These strategies are ways the Policy Commission is suggesting that the campuses go about reducing cost. The reason for cost reduction is that there could be as little as one hundred million and as much as two hundred million dollars shortfall in the fourth quarter. Bluefield State College might be affected by $450,000 or $500,000 in the fourth quarter of next year. The Governor is in the process of reviewing all state government agencies as to what is essential and what is not essential and will make recommendations for making cuts. Each agency is to come up with real dollars to return, and what they have decided to do is that in the fourth quarter of next year, they will not give us the entire appropriation but will give us the balance.
Mr. Burt Clark indicated that he did not like strategy number 6 - Accelerate the implementation of the Tuition and Fee Policy rather than phase in over six years. This change in tuition should be accompanied by an increase in funding for financial aid. He doesn't think that this should be a high priority and to raise all at one time is too much. Dr. Blevins indicated that the list of strategies are in no order and that the colleges will vote to increase or not increase their tuitions. Dr. Blevins also said that there is a move by the Policy Commission and the legislature to have a separate and reduced community college tuition somewhere between $800 and $1000. He said BSC would have a smaller budget since 70% of the students are in the community college.
Change in Scope of Study for BSC LOCEA Study
Dr. Blevins gave out two drafts of the Work Plan for Higher Education for Bluefield State College. The first draft is the original that the Chancellor first wrote. He is in charge of this study. The second draft is where the Chancellor made changes. Dr. Blevins had asked the Chancellor to eliminate words like affiliation and consolidation and whether the community college would operate as a component of Bluefield State College, of another institution, or as a free standing entity. This is to be presented by September 15 and is being sent to the Legislature for them to study prior to the beginning of the session.
Dr. Guy said that she believes that the Work Plan should be left as it is because if that isn't part of the consideration, then you defeat the purpose of the study. She said that they want to know if it is feasible for the college to stand alone and if the question is not answered, that question is still going to be on the table.
This was discussed at length and it was decided that Bluefield State will have to go on the offensive and address their concerns.
Mr. Kantor said that it is his suggestion and his recommendation to the Board that we instruct staff immediately to begin a self-study where we, as part of the self-study, debunk the suggestion that GCCC could operate financially better than they are operating today and that the services would be better than they are now; to show that we are really for our whole service area, to show the programs we are providing, how successful they are, the enrollments in each program, etc. Mr. Kantor said if they take these away they will 1) kill Bluefield State and 2) they will then be doing something that would violate federal policy, that is the termination of the existence of a historically black college. Mr. Kantor said that in the self-study, we have to hit hard the strengths we have, the progress we have made, and take the position that we are doing a better job than the other state colleges and that we meet the requirements that the State has set forth.
A motion was made and seconded (Caffrey/Clark) to have a draft of the self-study on or before August 15. Mr. Kantor said that we need a draft by our next Board Meeting (August 15) and we have to give a response from the Board of Governors by September 15.
Mr. Caffrey indicated that when the new President comes on board, we need to meet with the legislators in this area. Mr. Kantor said that the legal counsel is already drafting the contract and the name and dollar amount are blank. He was asked when the new president would be available? Mr. Kantor responded September 1.
Mr. Kantor suggested that the two finalists should have a copy of the draft of the self-study. Mr. Kantor said they indicated that they would help and could add their comments. The Board would have to review and make a final draft. The Board approved of Mr. Kantor's suggestion.
Peer Institution Reselection
Dr. Blevins announced that there was a meeting that was chaired by Dr. Dennis Jones of NCHEMS, who was one of two consultants brought in several years ago that selected the original peers. They are in the process of selecting new peers based upon new variables. Dr. Blevins said he would ask his wife, Dr. Betty Rader, who was the last academic vice president to represent Bluefield State to serve on that committee. He said his hope is that the variables selected will match Bluefield State College. One of the things that will need to be discussed is what those variables are, how we will select them, and how they will be different from the last set of variables selected. Dr. Blevins said that they are talking about selecting peers for the community college and peers for the baccalaureate college that match our institutional profile.
Independent Accreditation for Beckley Community College
Dr. Blevins gave out the following for information purposes:
1) Draft of a Delivery Plan for Beckley Higher Education Center Community and Technical College Education given out by Mr. Jim Skidmore
2) Community and Technical College Essential Conditions
Dr. Blevins said that by law, we are supposed to have an independently accredited community college in Beckley by 2005 with a president, administration, budget, faculty and have not been given any money. Dr. Blevins said Bluefield State spent approximately $1.3 million in GCCC this year and $500,000 in Beckley.
Greenbrier Community College Center
Mr. Kantor mentioned that one of the candidates made a suggestion that we send some regular full time faculty to the Center two full days at a time to teach and provide student counseling. Housing would be provided for those faculty members. We have to let the new president know that they will have to spend one full day on the Greenbrier campus each month. Mr. Kantor said this has to be policy.
Dr. Blevins mentioned that Dr. Moore had appointed another full time faculty member to the Greenbrier campus. The official date will be this fall. Due to the way the schedule has already been designed, that faculty member will be teaching largely at Beckley in the Fall, and in the Spring that faculty member will be teaching largely at Greenbrier. Mr. Kantor said that someone needs to let them know that come Spring they will have one additional faculty teaching there. In the past, Dr. Perkins has said that he wants adjunct faculty and has been given a separate budget. Mr. Kantor said that one of their big complaints is that Adjunct faculty do not counsel. He said that we need to address their problems and force them to say that they do or donot want full time faculty help and to put that in writing.
Mr. Jim Nelson indicated that one of the projects that has occurred during the last four years is a newspaper insert promoting their fall semester schedules that goes into newspapers that are distributed at the State Fair. He said that other areas that we could erase are the we/they line by having one SGA and a branch at GCCC, and having shared college newspaper articles between the two campuses so that at least, in everyone's mind there is no longer a we/they line but rather a collective us.
Memo from Dr. Donald Smith
Dr. Blevins disbributed a memo from Dr. Smith listing seven programs which the Policy Commission has asked that we consider as to the status and viability of these programs categorized as being low in productivity; few or no graduates. What the Policy Commission would like us to do is eliminate those programs or tell them what we want to do with them. Dr. Smith recommends the following Five programs - Technical Office Procedures and Skills; Commercial Aquaculture; Applied Science; Occupational Development; Mining Engineering Technology to continue. He recommends The Lodging Operations program be deleted because it is being replaced by a two-year, Associate of Applied Science - Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Lewisburg. He also recommends the elimination of Secondary Education. Dr. Blevins said that several years ago there was a moritorium placed on Secondary Education which stated that if it is not reinstated by a given date, which has come and gone, the program would be effectively eliminated. Dr. Blevins said that given the fact that a new president is coming on board within a month, and given the fact that once it is given up, you have to go before the Board to recreate it, and then be approved by Policy Commission, he recommends that we keep all programs except the Lodging program.
A motion was made and second (Caffrey/Brown) to keep all programs except the Lodging program. Motion carried.
Ms. Doris Payne spoke about the elimination of Dr. Griffin from the top candidates list. She wanted to know what the reasoning behind this was. Mr. Kantor said that because this was discussed in executive session, he could not disclose any information. He said each person of the search committee made their own decision regarding the top two candidates.
Mr. Kantor mentioned that the Board would meet on August 1 beginning at 1:45 p.m. with interviews and he said that hopefully, by the end of the day, an announcement would be made regarding the new president.
The regular meeting is scheduled August 15.
With no further business to transact, the meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Norris Kantor


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It wasn't that many years ago that people rarely locked the doors to their homes. There wasn't a need. If you lived in rural parts and weren't home, often the milkman would walk right into your home and put it in the fridge.
Now, however, every door, window, or access point to your house is locked tight. And in some areas, people put bars on the windows to make it more difficult for would-be criminals to gain access to their home. And where milk is still being delivered ... well, it's most likely left on your doorstep instead of staying cold in the fridge.
The same is true with the Internet. Not long ago, if your computer had access to the Internet, you roamed around freely without peeking around each corner first. At the time, dedicated Internet access was expensive, and only the major educational and government institutions could afford it. Still fewer people even knew what the Internet was, never mind the need for a secure system.
Today's world of inexpensive high-speed access via cable modems or various incarnations of DSL technology has changed the landscape. Almost everyone knows about or uses the Internet on a daily basis. In today's world, malicious crackers attempt to break into systems to destroy data, steal information, or plant various computer viruses. While not every computer hacker is a cyber criminal, the threat is very real, and everything you do to discourage access to your computer or make it difficult to gain access to your computer goes a long way toward keeping your data safe.
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Inexpensive high-speed Internet access has allowed the average home computer user to set up a small dedicated Internet server to share files with friends, send e-mail, and more. However, computer security is an afterthought. Many people think they don't need to worry about their system being compromised. "I have nothing of value," they rationalize. That is the worst thing anyone can possibly say.
Admittedly, I myself took a passive role in securing my system, shrugging off the idea that anyone would want to gain access to my system. However, after several discussions about Internet security and firewalls on our Linux Users Group mail list, I decided to research things further and set up my own firewall in the process for the experience.
Securing your home computer or home network requires that you understand a little about your setup. Important considerations include the kind of network connection you have (cable, DSL, or dedicated T1-T3), the approximate amount of network traffic that goes through your system, any extra hardware that can be used as a dedicated firewall, and operating system choice. Knowing this information greatly helps you make informed decisions later on. For the sake of argument and a point of reference, consider the following hardware setup:
The most common method of securing a home network is to use a firewall. A firewall is a computer, hub, or router configured specifically to stop unwanted outside traffic from accessing your internal network. For example, you don't want people to gain access to your computer, but you do want people to view pages on a web server. Think of a firewall as the first line of defense against outside attacks. And that's exactly what it is, no more, no less. You give yourself a false sense of security by stopping at the firewall level. In fact there is much more to be done, but a properly configured firewall goes a long way toward stopping cyber criminals. For the purposes of this article, we concentrate on the firewall. Future articles will cover other security issues.
Figure 1: A typical firewall setup.
A firewall computer includes at least two Ethernet cards. One card is connected to the cable modem; the other is connected to the hub for your internal network. (See Figure 1). The firewall then acts as a single point of access. However, to make things harder for a would-be attacker, the internal network is generally configured to use non-routable IP addresses. One range of non-routable IP addresses exists for each IP class:
Class A 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
Class B 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255
Class C 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255
Which address range you choose is completely arbitrary. Larger networks will use the Class A address range, and smaller networks often use Class C. These address ranges are only available on the local network. For example, my Linux systems can talk to each other and transfer files across my LAN. But I cannot access the same IP range on someone else's network. Similarly, someone trying to access my network is prevented from doing so. (Actually, that is a bit of a misnomer. If the attacker gets through your firewall, she/he can then access your internal network because your firewall "knows" about the computers on your LAN. The point is that crackers cannot just try to access your internal IP address range directly from their system).
So how does a computer with a non-routable IP address access the Internet? Remember that the firewall has one interface with access to the Internet and uses an IP address obtained from the ISP. The firewall uses IP masquerading to make the outside world think that traffic from your internal network is coming from the firewall's IP address. A series of IP masquerading kernel modules are loaded on the firewall to take care of this process and any special protocols (such as RealAudio) for you.
localhost# lsmod
Module Pages Used by
ip_masq_user 2408 0 (unused)
ip_masq_raudio 2800 0 (unused)
ip_masq_portfw 2320 11
ip_masq_mfw 3008 0 (unused)
ip_masq_FTP 2384 0
ip_masq_autofw 2304 0 (unused)
There's a ton of information on firewalls available on the Internet and in your local bookstore. (See resources sidebar for more information.) Read as much information as you can, keeping in mind your requirements. Robert Ziegler's excellent book Linux Firewalls goes into great detail about the different kinds of firewalls as well as where they can best be used.
Web Resources
Linux Firewall Security Site
Know Your Enemy (four part series)
Maximum Linux Security (SAMS) ISBN: 0-672-31670-6
Linux Firewalls (New Riders) ISBN: 0-7357-0900-9
Practical Unix and Internet Security (O'Reilly) ISBN: 1565921488
Linux System Security (Prentice Hall) ISBN: 0130158070
Additionally, Mr. Ziegler maintains the Linux Firewall and Security Site, which contains many links to other sources of security information, including the Firewall HowTo document, information on types of network attacks, other books and resources on firewalls and network security, and much more. I have corresponded with Mr. Ziegler over e-mail and found him to be responsive, helpful, and funny.
After looking at many web pages, reading many books, and discussing issues with my fellow Linux User Group members, I finally picked a firewall solution for my setup.
Edge FirePlug is a very well-designed firewall solution from FirePlug Computers, Inc. in Vancouver, BC. One of the reasons I chose Edge FirePlug (just called Edge) is that it's designed specifically for use on cable modem and DSL connections. Another reason I chose Edge is that it is very easy to set up and customize to the needs of my network.
Edge is a thinlinux client, which means it contains the absolute bare minimum required to run Linux in a concise package. Edge comes in three flavors: floppy version, hard-drive version, dial-on-demand. The floppy version allows you to have a complete firewall boot-up off a floppy drive, but with limited extra functionality (no editors for example) due to space restrictions, whereas the hard-drive version is the same thing but includes the extra goodies. The dial-on-demand is the same as the floppy install but is set up for ISDN or other dial-up connections.
The floppy version offers some additional functionality that is very important to consider.
Due to the minimalist approach taken by Edge (and some other firewall solutions), you do not need a computer with a lot of horsepower to run a full Linux distribution. That old 486/66 you have lying around does nicely. If you don't have an old 486 yourself, shop around at the secondhand stores, ask your friends, or pester your local hardware geek. The important thing is that the firewall computer should be dedicated to operating as a firewall. Do not run any other services on this computer at all. Edge comes pre-setup to forward the common services to a dedicated server inside your network. Which computer gets which service is completely customizable.
My firewall is a 486 DX4 100 with 32 MB RAM and two 3Com 3C509 ISA Ethernet cards, using the floppy version of Edge. Despite the low horsepower of the firewall, network slowdown is virtually nonexistent. Web surfing, FTP downloads, and even network games such as Quake 3 all work at the same speed.
The Edge web site contains detailed instructions for installing their software. I'll summarize here. You download Edge as a series of ZIP files (or one ZIP if you use the hard-drive version). The archives contain disk images for initial boot, network drivers, and other tools. One archive (called cable.zip) contains the actual disk contents for the final boot disk. You create disks for the supplied disk image files. You unzip cable.zip and change the configuration files in the config directory to match what you want to do on your network.
For example, Edge comes pre-setup to route all main Internet services to a single server with an IP of 192.168.1.1. You can change the configuration so that some services go to one server (HTTP for example) and other services (such as FTP) go to a completely different server. Once your configuration has been set up to your liking, you create a new 1.72MB floppy for the new boot disk. You must use Windows 95 or 98 for this task as Windows NT does not recognize this floppy size. As I only have Windows NT, I used a Windows 98 boot disk and then copied the files over in DOS, after which I had to rename a couple files within the firewall as the file names got mangled in the DOS mode.
Once your configuration is complete, boot the firewall with the first boot disk and configure your Ethernet drivers. Edge provides a few scripts to automate this process and save the setup back to the new firewall boot disk. It's a good idea to make a backup copy of this disk if you use the floppy version in case you encounter bad media. Boot up your firewall and test it out. That's all there is to it.
If you have a monitor attached to your system, you can use CTRL-ALT-F5 through F10 to view the logs of your system. If, like me, you do not have a monitor attached, the log files are kept in /var/log, as shown in Figure 2. The logs are archived nightly to keep the memory use to a minimum. You should archive these log files to a floppy disk for later analysis.
Figure 2: Log files are kept in /var/log. (click on image for full-size view)
Once the firewall was set up and running, I left it alone for a week and then checked the logs. The sheer number of portscans and other attack attempts on my system left my jaw on the floor. Most of the attacks came from other cable modem users on the same system and seemed targeted at Windows users (scanning for open file shares) or trying to exploit specific ports (HTTP and DNS ports were the most common). I also received attacks from as far away as Germany and Australia.
What can you do? Well, the attacking computer's IP address is contained in the logs as well as what port they were trying to access and at what time. (See Figure 3.) Gather this information up and send it to their ISP, demanding that action be taken. Alternatively you can ignore it, refreshed by the fact they didn't get anything. However, that is a dangerous stance as someone might just cause damage to your system in the future.
Figure 3: Short log of attacks (click on image for full-size view).
As mentioned previously, security is not passive, it's active. You need to stay on top of new security exploits all the time. Join the firewall listserver, and watch for new versions of the software, which often contain bug fixes and security fixes. Watch your logs and see if anyone has managed to gain access to your system. Report attackers to their ISP and the firewall developers so the hole can be closed as soon as possible.
Again, a firewall is a first-line-of-defense system. Don't lull yourself to complacency just because your firewall is "working" as expected. Now that your defense lines are set up, you can go about taking other measures to ensure that your network remains secure.
Carl Constantine works for Open Source Solutions, Inc. (www.os-s.com) as a Linux Trainer and Programmer.
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Deep Dark Robot
Schubas – Chicago, IL
All photos by Yvette Casillas
Linda Perry is an amazing musician. In my eyes, she ranks up there as an icon for her prolific songwriting and her unmistakable voice. She may be most recognized for her work fronting the 90's band, 4 Non Blondes, but in the early 2000's she started writing hits for others. The artists she's written for include Adam Lambert and Christina Aguilera. Linda also co-wrote most of Pink's Let's Get This Party Started. However, it didn't take long for Linda to grow tired of writing and pushing out pop songs like "Beautiful" for the labels and their artists. It's about time, in my opinion; she hit the road again by forming Deep Dark Robot.
Deep Dark Robot recently released their debut album 8 Songs About a Girl off Linda's label, Custard. The album is about the girl Linda couldn't have and it's openly explored in the album. Linda said of 8 Songs About a Girl, "They were written in the past five months and were inspired by a girl who put my heart on a roller coaster and didn't let me off."
Linda started the night off looking a tad annoyed at the loud crowd. She mentioned she lost track of time on the bus because she was meditating. We also found out during the show that she is a vegan and, I must note, she was the only vegan in the house at Schubas. Apparently Linda Perry fans' in Chicago aren't big on the vegan thing.
She opened with "I'm Coming for You" and it didn't take long for her warm up and get acquainted with the stage and crowd. The set was about an hour long and it felt like something straight off of VH1's Storytellers. She talked and interacted with the crowd more than any artist I've seen live. There was a British chef who yelled out to Perry that she is amazing. Linda then asked where his accent came from. This sparked several minutes of discussion of British words and accents and the introduction of Simon from her band that is from Birmingham. I am telling you, it was one of the most entertaining performances. Linda also reached out to her Twit Pit fans that were in the front row who made a sign, yet didn't hold it up. They taped it to the stage, which made for some good laughs.
The set included two covers, "Angie" and the Cure's "Love Song." "Love Song" was dark and Linda and the Deep Dark Robot took the tempo down a few notches. Our British friend said, "It's amazing!" He was absolutely correct. Linda took to the ivory keys for "Speck" and then transitioned into "Angie" since she was 'in the mood.' She did discuss the elephant in the room, which was her mood. She was honest in saying she is a very moody person. I didn't think the fans minded too much since she made us laugh and repeatedly thanked everyone for being at Schubas.
The best songs from the show were the ones where you could feel her passion and anger, such as "Fuck You Stupid Bitch" and "Feeling Strange."
I'm Coming for You
No One Wake Me Up Like You
What I Want
Can't Getcha Out of My Mind
You Mean Nothing to Me
Feeling Strange
It Fucking Hurts
Won't You Be My Girl
The First Time
Fuck you Stupid Bitch
Love Song
Search and Destroy
Somebody Love Me Now
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Women with heavy menstrual bleeding know it can go way beyond a monthly nuisance. It can disrupt family life, work, and physical wellbeing. It also accounts for nearly 19-percent of all trips to the gynecologist in the U.S.
Most turn to traditional treatments like prescription medications or surgery.
Now, a new study suggests an alternative...an intrauterine device, an IUD, which releases the hormone levonorgestrel.
The research, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, looks at 5-hundred-71 women with heavy bleeding who were randomly assigned traditional medications or the IUD.
All were asked to report on their quality of life over a two-year period. By the end of the follow-up, 64-percent of those with an IUD were still using it, and pleased with the results; while just 38-percent of those taking the medications were still following their regimen.
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Change in poets featured at Fall Arts Celebration
Posted on October 24, 2013
Due to illness, Christian Wiman has canceled his appearance at Fall Arts Celebration. The event will continue as "An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Li-Young Lee and Pattiann Rogers." The event, Friday, October 25, at 7 p.m. in the L.V. Eberhard Center, Pew Grand Rapids Campus, is open to the public with free admission. A book signing and reception will follow the presentation.
Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry, his most recent being Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008) and a memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received an American Book Award.
Lee's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as several grants. He is also featured in Katja Esson's documentary, "Poetry of Resilience."
Born in 1957 of Chinese parents in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lee learned early about loss and exile. His great grandfather was China's first Republican president; and his father, a deeply religious Christian, was physician to Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Lee's parents escaped, and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964.
Lee's poetry reveals a dialogue between the eternal and the temporal, and accentuates the joys and sorrows of family, home, loss, exile, and love. He lives in Chicago with his wife Donna and their two sons.
Rogers, born in Joplin, Missouri, was an undergraduate at the University of Missouri and received a master's degree from the University of Houston. She was a visiting writer at University of Texas and University of Montana and elsewhere, and was a faculty member at the University of Arkansas and Vermont College. Rogers' many awards include two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2005 Literary Award in Poetry from the Lannan Foundation.
The author of 12 volumes of poetry, most recently Holy Heathen Rhapsody, Rogers' work also addresses issues of the spirit. A Booklist review said the poet "writes transporting poems of discovery, contemplation and gratitude." Poet Terry Tempest Williams has said, "Her poems are translations of our dreaming life — what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic."
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The first of the series was held June 3.
The Dog and Bee was not yet open (it has been closed for weeks for "reorganization"), so the owner, Mrs. Dan Hughes, treated it like a private party; she opened up part of the pub specifically for the event, offering complementary appetizers at a buffet with drinks purchased at the bar.
It continues every Monday evening through July 1.
Scheduled speakers and themes are:
•June 10 — Sister Angela Murdough, spiritual director and nun of the Order of St. Francis: "God in our lives — faith in our everyday life";
•June 17 — Bishop David Reed, bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, "God in El Monte — following Jesus in the brush country";
•June 24 — Dr. Roger Olsen, Foy Valentine professor of Christian theology and ethics, George Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University — "God in our suffering: God's sovereignty and the world's agony";
•July 1 — Dr. William Abraham, Albert Cook Outler professor of Wesley studies and Christian theology, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University — "God and county: the paradoxical place of religion in American politics."
"Our idea is to bring the Word of God out of the churches and pews and into the world," explains the Rev. Clayton Elder, rector at St. Philip's.
That the series attracted 130 people — from a wide range of denominations last Monday — is "a sign that people are hungry for this," Elder says.
Holding the series in a venue where alcoholic beverages are served has biblical precedence, Elder says.
"Jesus preached in the synagogues, but he spent most of this time out in the world, bringing God to the world," Elder says.
"We're supposed to go out to reach the people, and that's what we're doing."
Elder predicts the popularity of the series to grow, "as people understand what it is about" — an ecumenical push for all to come together to learn about God.
"That's our whole goal — to take God to the world, to where we spend much of our daily lives, in restaurants and pubs."
Each two-hour segment begins at 7 p.m. with a short discourse by the guest speaker, followed by a short break and ends with discussion.
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P.s. These tees and tanks from American Apparel are my new favorite things right now.
Wearing an AA robins egg blue tee, chip and pepper shorts, and vintage Mickey Mouse vest from Isabel.
you look cute!! The Harajuku girls would love you!!
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I love that vest. Reminds me of my childhood in the 80s. So nostalgic. Looks great on you. And I love your smile!
Aww, I love it :)
You look fantastic, as usual!
How cute!
What a cute vest!
you are such a cute cute girl!
That vest is so painfully 90s that it has crossed over the threshold of awful, passed through it, and come full-circle into AWESOME. Seriously, it's pretty rad if I say so myself.
That vest is the cutest thing ever!!! <3
It's so funny and cute!
Lucy =)
You are too cute!
Looks quite 90s to me... I ADORE it, it's is sooooo cool!! These are the clothes that remind me why I love fashion. xxR
brilliant idea to place mickey on a vest. love the summery pictures. i miss the sun :(
ahh i love your vest!!! lovely :)
these photos are great and that vest is amazing!
hey mickey, hey hey!
How fun. It's such a fun print. Is that a sexuali-tee shirt you're wearing? Goes great with the outfit.
Micky Mous rulezzzz! heheheheh
You have such a gorgeous smile! x
that is such an awesome vest. i love mickey and his gang they use to have him on, on saturday mornings...good times :D
that song always make me laugh. cute vest, you look great. it reminds me that i'm going to disneyland this summer!
That is sooo adorable!:):)
such a cute vest!
that song always reminds me of bring it on, i.e. maybe the greatest movie of all time.
your vest is epic :)
you know what? i ADORE mickey! he's my favorite animation character ! :) LOL. and i love the vest! UGH! it's soooo catchy! LOL.
love it love it love it!
you look amazing as always....umm i havent been blogging for awhile because of work but um you didnt bleep out your face?! how long has this been going on! im so out of the loop....anyways you look gorgeous!
Aw that's such a cute vest! I love the tapered tails on the front and everything :)
aaww what a lovely vest ! it's total cute
i have an extensive and borderline embarrassing collection of disney apparel haha so i can most definitely appreciate that vest, it's killer.
so cuteeeee...
cute cute cute!!
the vest looks like it would put instantly a smile on any person that wears it...wonderful and funny :-)...oh the good old times
Its absoloutley adorable - you look very very happy in it! And with good reason :)
It would be mine
fun vest!!
Cute, very funny vest, you have guts to wear it!
super cute song (and outfit) :) love the glasses below too, dear!
You look so adorable in these pics and OMG the vest i want one too its gorgeous!!
Meho xx
that vest is so fun!
you wear it well i wuddnt be able to pull it off
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great song! i especially love the last picture of you. i always love the places where you take your pictures. i wish there was a close up on your necklace because it looks really cool.
love it love it love it!
Ahhhh. I die
you re so funny always. just great you love style. loved it.
tooooo cute !
you look so cute:)love the vest!
YAY!! It looks so good on you! Seriously, you are da bomb.
i love how ure off the sholder shirt falls under the vest.really quirky
haha, cute!
Sooooo adorable!! and so fun too!
hey, sorry, havent stopped by in about a month, but we can see your eyes now, ooooh. how intriguing!
i like the simple-ness of the shirt and the mickey vest. brings back my childhood ><"
You're so cute on that vest.=) An the tee is perfect for the vest.Looking forward on your next post.=)
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that's too cute. I love it. I could never pull it off, but you make that vest look great. good job!
you are so amazingly cutee i love the sunny background over there!
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you have such a wonderful smile!
mickey vest is divine
love it
I love the vest! I have a lecturer at uni who wears such quirky waitcoats I think he would love this one too! haha I need one!
awh wow. I love it
The vest is really cute. I love the AA Sexuali-tees too..really stupid name but they're soooo comfy and they look great. I have two already and I need to buy a couple more.
great photos, i love the outfit
Funnest vest ever!
aww, these pics are so cute! gotta love good summer basics (: and, of course, childhood-esque additions to the wardrobe. it makes me so happy! (:
fun vest. loove the last photo
It made a smile up my face too. It's great to be back here.
juliet xxx
SO perfect!!! Wow, you do summer so effortlessly!
your gilet is really awesome!
you lust have a lookbook ..
i let you mine
that mickey mouse waistcoat is just brilliant..love it!
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At the beginning of last year's Rockies preview post you were forewarned that there wouldn't be a surplus of Rockies' posts on this blog during the season. We told you to enjoy it. We said this for a few reasons. The Rockies have some nice players, but they don't contain a generational talent on the roster. That's one way to get us writing about you. We also cover the 'hot' teams in baseball more often, the teams that intrigue us are the teams that are going to promote to to click around and read about them. The Rockies in their current state, fail to do that. Unless the Rockies surprisingly springboard into contention in 2014 – it's going to be another year thin on Rockies posts. But that's okay, because it's only March and we're a third of the way to our total Rockies posts for 2013 with this one.
The Rockies made a couple of trades and quiet signings of some veterans this off-season.
Major Off-season Moves:
- Signed RHP LaTroy Hawkins to a one-year, $2.5 million dollar contract.
- Traded Dexter Fowler to Houston for RHP Jordan Lyles and outfielder Brandon Barnes.
- Traded for LHP Drew Pomeranz to Oakland for LHP Brett Anderson.
- Signed First Baseman Justin Morneau to a two-year, $12.5-million dollar contract.
Their manager is Walt Weiss, who went 74-88 in his debut season. This was good enough for last place in the NL West. Last year was somewhat of a milestone year for the Rockies, but only because it was their 20th year in baseball. It's gone by fast. It also marked their 18th season at that gem Coors Field – which we somehow consider to be a shiny new park.
The Rockies struggled in interleague play going just 5-15 last season. They boasted a winning record against divisional foes San Diego (12-7) and division winner Los Angeles (10-9). Last season featured the debuts of Nolan Arenado and Corey Dickerson. It's hard to say if either of these guys will be iconic Rockies at this point, but 2014 should hold a slightly better fate for Colorado. One thing is for sure: when your team visits Coors Field at any point in the spring or summer, you know there's a chance that some crooked numbers are going to get hung on the scoreboard on both sides. That always makes the Rockies a compelling watch and reason enough to leave the game on if you're cycling through what's available on MLB.tv.