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The main objective of this event is to bring together the suppliers of the whole range of airline products and services and the potential customers of these products and services at one venue annually for purposes of networking, knowledge exchange and business negotiations.
Participation at the Aviation Stakeholders Convention is targeted for top executives and managers from airlines, Civil Aviation Authorities, Air Navigation Service providers, Airports on one hand and aviation solution and service providers, manufacturers and suppliers on the other hand as illustrated below:
AFRAA Stages its 4th Aviation Stakeholders Convention
The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) successfully staged its 4th Aviation Stakeholders Convention from 28-30 April 2015 at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg – South Africa. The event had over 350 registered delegates from 40 countries consisting of airlines, suppliers, solution providers, airports, Civil Aviation Authorities and ATNSs. The Convention, which was held under the theme, "Building and Sustaining Strong Partnerships" deliberated on issues covering the aviation industry in Africa with a focus on intra-Africa connectivity, partnerships, cost control, demand expectations, technology and use of mobile applications in aviation.
The Convention was held under the patronage of the Department of Transport of the Republic of South Africa and was co-hosted by South African Airways. The conference provided a platform for users and suppliers of aviation products, solutions and services to showcase new developments and innovations, discuss industry trends, network and forge beneficial partnerships. From the excellent opportunities for networking, high quality presentations and debates from different experts on a wide variety of subjects relevant to the growing needs of the aviation industry on the continent, delegates had a valuable experience at this year's Convention.
As part of the Convention, there were master classes where cutting edge ideas, industry best practices, new opportunities and practical solutions were presented and discussed. The following master classes were conducted:
1. Fare Management for airlines by ATPCO
2. Head Up Guidance Technologies enabling more efficient airline operations by Rockwell Collins
One-to-one meetings
The 2015 programme incorporated a session for one-to-one meetings where exclusive appointments took place with airlines, selected airports and CAAs, AFRAA and IATA. Very positive feedback was received from delegates who indicated that the session proved to be a very valuable experience.
2015 Suppliers Convention Awards
The Aviation Stakeholders awards took place on 29 April during a colourful gala dinner. There were two award categories at the 2015 event: the Distinguished Service Award and the Service Provider of the Year Award. The Distinguished Service Award was presented to Mr. Terence Naicker - GM: Contracts, Purchasing & Maintenance at TAAG Angola Airlines and Mr. Mustwafa Murad - Manager Strategic Purchases at Astral Aviation for their remarkable contribution, dedication and technical support to AFRAA joint projects. ATNS was received the Service Provider of the Year Award for their excellency in the provision of safe, efficient & innovative Air Traffic Management solutions and services to the African continent.
The awards recognize the excellence in service delivery, innovation and competitiveness in best services providers to the African aviation industry. were presented as follows:
Sponsorship and Exhibition
In addition to the presentations, panel discussions and masterclasses, the event provided excellent opportunity for brand visibility through sponsorship and an outstanding products exhibition and business opportunity for industry partners and suppliers of equipment, components, solutions and services. The 13 proud event sponsors included: Atlantic FuelEx, ATNS, Barclays Africa, Cronos Air, Engen, GE Aviation, Hahnair, Interair, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, Kintetsu World Express South Africa (Pty) Ltd, SITA, South Africa Civil Aviation Authority and UAS International Trip Support
29 suppliers and/or service providers benefited from the outstanding visibility, networking and direct sales opportunities by displaying their products and interacting with delegates at the conference. The exhibitors included: African Aerospace, APG Network, ATNS, AVIANET, Barclays Africa Group Limited, Cronos Airlines, Ethiopian MRO & Aviation Academy, FLYHT, GE Aviation, HADID International Services FZE, Interair, Kenya Airways MRO & Pride Center, East African School of Aviation, Lufthansa Systems, MTU Maintenance, Rockwell Collins, Sabre Airline Solutions, SITA, South African Civil Aviation Authority, South African Airways, SA Express Airways, Skywise Airline, Swahili Aviation Aerospace (USA) LLC, TCR, Travelport International Ltd, Tunisair Technics, UAS International Trip Support, Wirecard and World Meteorological Organisation.
Venue and date for the 2016 Aviation Convention: The Secretariat takes this opportunity to express its appreciation to all delegates who participated at the event and looks forward to host you at next year's Convention. The 5th Convention is scheduled to take place from 08-10 May 2016 in Kigali – Rwanda and will be co-hosted by RwandAir.


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Barnard rolled out a new set of initiatives on Thursday to increase college access and provide more long-term support for low-income students on campus.
The initiatives—announced the same day Barnard President Debora Spar joined more than 80 other college and university presidents at a White House education summit to discuss increasing college access—expand on Barnard's current programs for low-income students.
The college's existing programs include the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program, which provides academic support to low-income Barnard students from New York, and Barnard Bound, which allows prospective students who identify as persons of color or low-income students to visit Barnard.
The changes announced Thursday include increasing outreach to high schools with low-income populations, increasing campus visits for students in HEOP, and admitting more students to Barnard Bound and the Barnard Opportunity Program, which offers HEOP resources to students outside of New York.
"For many low-income students, college can feel like an unattainable dream," Nanette DiLauro, Barnard's director of financial aid, said in an email. "But if students can visit campus through a program like Barnard Bound, they are able to better understand the application process and the way financial aid works."
"Our newly expanded commitments will allow us to reach more of these students, which is a crucial part of college accessibility," DiLauro said.
Barnard's announcement of its new initiatives for low-income students coincided with Spar's attendance at the White House's summit on expanding college opportunity.
"I found Thursday's White House summit both interesting and compelling," Spar said in an email. "For me, the central insight of the day was how aligned all parties are around a common purpose—expanding access to higher education for lower income and under-represented students."
"Of course, the challenge will be figuring out how precisely to achieve this goal," Spar said. "The momentum of this event will make an important difference in the way that college leaders approach the challenges of accessibility, and I look forward to continuing Barnard's role in this process."
At Thursday's summit, more than 80 college and university presidents and nonprofit organizations unveiled new initiatives designed to provide low-income students more academic opportunities, including more college prep for high school students and on-campus mentor programs.
Paramita Roy, BC '15, was admitted to Barnard as a HEOP scholar and said that the program—which includes mentoring and helps cover academic costs from tutoring to textbooks—helped her immensely.
"Typically, tutoring costs $15 an hour if you don't get financial aid or $7.50 an hour if you do get financial aid—with HEOP you don't have to pay anything," Roy said. "I'm really grateful for that."
Roy added that the tutoring provided through HEOP made an actual difference in her grades, helping her to improve her test scores in a neuroscience class two semesters ago.
Additional resources that HEOP and the Barnard Opportunity Program provide include career development support, textbook reserves, mentoring, laptops, and a six-week summer program before students' first year to help them adjust to college.
Elizabeth Dalchand, BC '15 and a HEOP scholar, said that the emotional support provided through the program helped her through her first year.
"The group of people that you meet will be your companions throughout your entire four years here," Dalchand said. "I think that's the best thing. You need connections, you need people to get you through your classes as emotional support."
Dalchand said she was glad that more students will have access to the support that HEOP and the other programs provide.
"I think it will make Barnard a very diverse place," Dalchand said.
Samantha Cooney contributed reporting.
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GLIMPSE for FUTURE
The almighty has given us the occasion to take birth in Human "Yoni" and all Human Beings are to do the work and they should be good for the Humanity in whole.
It is said:
"Jaisa Anna Waisa Mann"
and also
"As you Sow so you Reap"
Besides as every Human Being does some work but if the same is for betterment of Human Beings in general and for the society, along with self help there is no match to said work and it is said that this is real worship, of MOTHER NATURE.
It is in this background a programme is given here in below which not only will serve society in general but also the Persons who initiate it.
It is also important to keep in mind while going through it, that we should not only concentrate on financial aspect only, but on NEED of conserving resources of Mother Nature for Generations of Humanity to come by in Future, also.
So if we as Human Being take onto ourselves the duty of striking a Balance in Nature with Nature then definitely the Future Generations will ever remain Thankful to us for initiating the process. And moreover Mother Nature will ever remain pleased on us, and bless us forever for our efforts.
"Shree Ganeshaya Namah"
Need meaning need for making life more Purposeful and in such a manner so as to make it (life) to be one with the Universe around us.
Purposeful meaning we as human being should try to see that we do not disturb the chain of nature i.e., we should not exploit any particular object of Nature for our benefit, but try to preserve it by exploiting the whole of it simultaneously, so that we don't disturb the Balance of Nature by which we do not take risk of eliminating many a useful thing from the list of Nature's Creation.
It is felt many a time in the past that when a particular thing in Nature is exploited to a large extent without ensuring recycling of same to that level of exploitation and thinking of the consequences we risk losing so many thing in bargain and even the thing which we exploit. For example when we started cutting forest for cultivation we never thought at that time that if we continue to cut the forest cover over a period of time a time will come when we will not have a forest except for namesake and after that there will be no forest to be cut for use in cultivation and so no cultivation.
So the main purpose of this venture is to ensure that we exploit everything in Nature in Balance, so that in the process we earn a better living for ourselves and for Humanity in General and above that we also Protect Nature of its Balance, ensuring a better life for generations to come, who will walk over the foot prints we have left behind and maintain the Balance for Next Generation to follow. So we should start a process by which we will be considered as pioneer in conserving & maintaining the Nature's Balance and making that our source of livelihood. So the main purpose of starting the venture will be to exploit the Natures Bountifulness in its whole form rather than in part and risk losing it or its importance over a period of time. So for that purpose the NEED for such a venture got pregnant with the idea of starting a process which will try to exploit Nature for the benefit of Humanity in such a balanced way that there will be no time in future where we will feel that it (venture) has lost its prevalence at any given period of time in future. While ensuring that, we will always find a scope for expansion within our venture only. Which in other words is better explained "we will always find that Horizon is always there where it was when we had started as, when we try to reach a particular point in process we will be pushing it again ourselves to a new limit. Thereby ensuring that the cycle to go on like this for ever and ever". In my opinion a Business Venture initiated on these principles will definitely reach skies, and thereby ensuring, even sky also is not the limit, and will also ensure that our feet's are as firm as on ground as they were ever before.
There is a old proverb which goes like this: - "the sure way to men's heart is through his stomach." One of our basic principle of this venture will be to ensure that we reach to a men's stomach in such a Pure, Natural, Hygienic, and Pleasing Manner that we will automatically capture not only his heart but also his mind both conscious and sub conscious, thereby ensuring a customer not only for his lifetime but also lifetime of the generations of his to come in future.
Now let me say what I mean by Pure, Natural, Hygienic, and Pleasing.
Pure Meaning: - "Pure in its total form. As a particular item is supposed to be in its form, fixed by Nature.
Natural Meaning: - Natural Process is indeed being followed in producing a particular item, as it is fixed by Nature.
Hygienic Meaning: - "Hygienic Standards are being maintained all through to ensure that any item doesn't get contaminated in any way or in any form at no point of time.
Pleasing meaning: -"If we ensure that 3 steps mentioned above are really taken care of in true spirit and conveyed to our customers effectively, then definitely it is going to be a pleasing experience for our customers to relish the use of our products & services and feel that whatever I am using is definitely Pure as it should be indeed, and Natural process is definitely followed for producing these items under strictly adhered to Hygienic Principles thereby ensuring good Health & Mind not only for myself but also for my near and dear ones and above all for good of Mother Nature, who will ensure that it will remain this much grateful, as it is today to us, for my generations to come. So it will definitely going to give a feeling of satisfaction to our customer that by using our products & services he is doing something for Mother Nature and asserting that this feeling of his Pleasantness will be there for his generations to come by in future. And in process we have not only one customer but also customer for generations to come and thereby ensuring for ourselves Business for Generations for our Venture Organisation.
NEED for this kind of Venture.
As I am in Business of grinding Wheat for Atta, Gramdal for Besan, Turmeric, Chilies, Coriander, Zeera, Black pepper. I am always made to think by my conscious as to whether I can really assure my customers about Purity, Hygienic conditions were being adhered to before it comes to our place for grinding, Natural Process was indeed followed before it came to us for grinding and lastly I can only assure Pleasant Condition from when it has come for Grinding and not before that I always find my hands tied about giving full assurances to my customers that indeed Purity, Hygienic conditions & Natural process was prime concern of our supplier as it is supposed to be, thereby ensuring total Pleasantness of having such products.
So from this Need of giving total assurance to our customers, as we are in this trade we know how people can be cheated of all the three conditions and thereby robbing the customers of the Pleasantness of using a particular Product, which he has a right to get. This idea came to me as to why not start a venture by which we can ensure all the 3 conditions right from the sowing of seed to the final products we sell thereby ensuring many things in return we have a Pleasant Customer and thereby ensuring that Mother Nature is also pleased and our conscious sleeps well in night peacefully being satisfied that we have served our customers to the fullest extent.
In phase One.
We should look for land most likely say 500 acres if so required in future we can acquire more adjacent to it.
Type of Land
1. Not much far from town area nor much near to town area say within 50 to 70 Kms from town area .
2. Not necessarily a good fertile land but with availability of water and electricity is a must and also we should plan for rain harvesting.
3. Should be region with a good rainfall.
4. Should be near to National Highway or state Highway for effective transportation cost.
When we acquire our first phase of land then we should first map it in such a way that it should look like a single entity. Such as we should plant trees, whose wood are not a problem in selling and whose fruits we can sell also, along the boundary in first ring.
Then we should leave that much of space for second ring. Again that much of space for third ring & in fourth ring we should plant Trees of Value such as Teak. Again in the fifth ring we should plant Medicinal Plants or say Cash Plants which can be encashed in regular monthly or bi - monthly depending upon which plant is in more demand in market and can be grown fastly and encashed in regular shifts or short interval. Each of four rings for Plantation are to follow a shadow Ring in various types, details of which can be taken care of in appropriate time.
The purpose of planting mango trees in first ring is, First these trees are considered as auspicious and its wood is used in many a religious work and has much commercial use. By say in 10 years when it is full grown we can cut them and sell its wood and encash it, but on fifth year we should start Planting on the second ring so that when the time of cutting of first ring comes the tree on the second ring are half ready. So after cutting the first ring we should again start planting it, so that by the time of cutting of second ring the tree in the first ring are half ready. So like this process goes on and on.
Like wise for third & fourth ring. But here if we keep a time of say 15 years for third ring then the trees on the fourth will not be cut in the same time. When the trees of the third ring will be cut after say 15 years, soon after the cutting the ring should be replanted with the same teak plants. So in another say 15 years the trees on the fourth ring will be say of 30 years and trees on the third ring will be of 15 years old by then. So here one can imagine the value of woods, which the company will have in just, thirty years time.
In the meanwhile on the fifth ring by that time we would already have many cycles completed and would have encashed the same.
On one corner of the plot after the fifth ring we should have dense forest cover of say 20 to 30 acres which will be used by our scientist as laboratory for research work. We can have a lab right in middles of that area for their research work. This will be discussed later on ad there is so much to be discussed on this subject.
Now from here on we will have our day to day working space. Such as these: -
1. We will breakup the space in blocks of say 5 acres on which roads in between the blocks for easy access.
2. These blocks for harvesting of say 5 acres will be covered by glass from all the sides and top with gate on each side. Inside we will cultivate everything, which we want. Here above said covered because we can control the atmosphere according to our requirement of crops we plan to cultivate in particular block. So in the process we will not have to wait for the seasons of a particular item to be produced or in other words we can have as many harvesting as we can like in any seasons without bothering about the season outside the covered area.
3. Then we should have a place for storing the crops after cutting and cleaning. Thereafter from here the products will go to the processing unit where it will be processed, stored and sold as and when required.
(a) Here one thing should be kept in mind that for storing of pulses of all kind, wheat and rice we should have underground storage facility which is considered good as it (the underground storage facility) will be more of a controlled atmosphere condition, so the process of decaying will be minimal.
(b) For storing of Atta, Besan and such other likely products the storing facility should be above the ground.
If we achieve these above mentioned and are able to market it effectively then I am sure that if a person who eats anything prepared from these items will never ever switch over to any other Brands than ours. Here one thing should be kept in mind that if though there are several Brands in market of finished raw materials such as Atta, Besan, other powdered food items but there is no Branding on whole raw materials such as Wheat, Pulses of different varieties, Turmeric, Chilies except famous of such and such states where it is grown in abundance (such as Chilies of Guntur, Gujrat, Rajasthan etc. Zeera of Unjha, Wheat of UP, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Gujrat etc. without any Branding hence in such situation we can exploit to our benefit). Also we can exploit this present situation on a later stage when we decide to expand our farming facility, through out the country and have dedicated farming in each state, e.g., if we decide to set up a unit in Punjab there we can grow only wheat on every blocks with other things remaining the same.
4. Like wise is the process with green vegetables if we can guaranty that all the things which go in cultivation those are Pure, Natural, Hygienic process is followed then people will definitely buy our products, because nobody wants to eat day in and day out things produced by using hybrid technology. As now a days it is trend in farming community of rampant use of chemicals & pesticides to have more yield per acres but in the process not only, they make their land infertile after a given period of time but also, firstly, slow poisoned Products are pushed to Public, resulting in discovering a new type of disease almost on daily basis and which are not easy to treat and secondly, they cut forest cover for cultivation and then again making those land uncultivable after a period of time. In the process we as Humanity lose forest cover slowly and its effect is well known to everybody as what all it heads to for example rising temperature, rising ocean level, depletion of glaciers, forest cover and what not.
5. So if we start a venture of this kind then I am sure we will definitely succeed as we will be trying to slow the process of exhausting the mother earth of her resources and will be exploiting it on a mare natural and more balanced manner.
So here is the time for answering the question which might have come to your mind before that why I said while selecting a land not so fertile while our aim is farming. The answer is "as we will be having a covered area for farming under controlled conditions we will also see to it that soil which we use is also conditioned and after each harvest we will check the condition of soil whether it is perfect and then only we will proceed for another harvesting otherwise first we will change the soil and then proceed. But here two questions will come to our mind first from where we will have a new soil and secondly what we will do to old soil. Let me answer second one first we can start a new department for business from here i.e., we will start manufacturing Earthenware for use in cooking, eating and which will be of the nature of single use & throw and in attractive design and colours and which is also trend now a days and it will be accepted in the markets easily. Now the answer for first question we can easily make arrangement for replacing the old soil with new one as we will construct those blocks in such a manner that it won't take much time and Labour to change it. I am not sure but there should be some way of treating the soil for over a period of time and again it becomes fertile and for this we will need an expert who can advice us on recycling of soil.
As for the use of Earthenware we can promote these ware and urge people to use as they are more natural and food prepared in theses utensil and consumed in these Earthenware are more hygienic and good for health. And also we can start a new trend in marketing Earthenware with a Brand Name which is known Nationally and as such it will be new field where there is literally no competition at National level for this. For this also we can have a processing unit in house. We can also have it in all the sizes and shapes even the big sturdier ones for use in functions and community lunches. For this we can either market it on our own with offices all over the country and appoint dealers and take orders to supply as per requirement.
We can also start a chain of departmental store across India to market Products, which will be guaranteed by us and as our products under our Brand Name. We can also have chain of vegetables and fruit stall across many cities for example we can appoint dealers who will exclusively sell our ground vegetables, fruit & milk in every suburb whichever comes near our project site or where ever we feel we can get a good price for our produces and which we can sell under our Brand Name. Here one thing is to be noticed that is we will be selling every thing common people use right from the start of his day, under our BRAND NAME, and a time will come when our Brand Name will be synonymous with a man's life.
Now here comes the idea of having a Health Spa cum Hotel right inside our project which we should make in such a way that only the super rich section of the society can avail its services as it will be one of our cash route. If possible we should have a small airstrip attached to our Health Spa cum hotel for those Super Rich who can come in and relax and roam around and pay accordingly we can also attach our office block with it or near by. Ideally this health Spa cum Hotel cum office building should be near somewhere the Centre of our land.
Residential blocks for Labour either be near the blocks for they can access to their working blocks or on a side along with security staff but ideally it should be near the working blocks which will cut time for their transportation every morning and back every evening and we can use those time of their as working hours. With every cultivating block or a group of cultivating Blocks there should be a workshop for repairing and maintenance of cultivation equipment and store house for such equipment.
If thought it will be good, then we should also have a school for children's of our workers. So that they can concentrate on their job rather than worrying about their children. If thought to be good then we can also have canteens for refreshments of out workers Zone wise.
We should also have a Temple preferably on center of our land with a place for daily Yagna.
Cowshed and milk processing and storage unit should be near somewhere the temple. Adjacent to this unit a unit should be unit for processing vegetables, fruits and other than unit for storage and then unit for Earthenware, manufacturing and storing facility not necessarily in the order but we have to work out in such a way that transporting at different levels doesn't take much time and energy and doesn't have to travel a long way.
Why we should have a cow shed facility in our venture is to deal in milk & milk products is that apart from business point of view that we will make profit out of it but the most important factor is we can use cow-dung in our Harvesting Blocks for fertilisation of soil the more cows we keep the more cow-dung we have at our disposal for use in Harvesting Blocks.
Here one thing, very important, to be kept in mind is that, we can have a GLOBAL PATENT of this type of Farming Business Venture, which in future can be sold as an idea, ideal for future farming through out the world, as I feel this will be the only way left to us, for sustaining Humanity, i.e, by Prolonging the Nature of its resources. And if we are able to get a Patent, in the above-mentioned way, then its Commercial Value can be better imagined.
So like this if we start a Venture on the Principles of Recyclic Nature, then I don't think there will be an "End of Scope" for diversification, in the Business in any given point of time in Future. As is evident from the examples shown above, which is just a Glimpse of what is there which cannot be achieved, if willed according to the Laws of Nature Mother.
Here one thing should be kept in mind that examples mentioned above are not the only one's and nothing more can be achieved, as they are mentioned only for indication purpose. Indicating that we can Create our world as Business, and Carve out of it livelihood, not only for Ourselves, but also for the Generations to comeby, and which will ensure that NEEDS of Mother Nature is also being taken cared of. Which will also give us opportunity to meet our NEED for Spiritual duty, which is, to ensure that while we do any thing for our Livelihood, we should keep before us not only Present Time but also Time which is going to follow the Present Time i.e., Future Time, and lastly most important thing which we should keep in mind is Time which has gone by i.e., Past Time, as our Guiding Principle, to not to commit the mistakes committed in Past.
These being just a Single Glimpse for Future, I can't imagine any further the Day when this Single Glimpse will become Glimpses for Future, and further when these Glimpses for Future will in Reality take Shape for the Benefit of the Human Race for all Time to come. Which in return will be a Blessing in Disguise for us, as it will not only Conserve The Mother Nature of Her Resources, for the use of the Generation to come in Future, but also, for them (Future Generations) to follow the same Principles for the benefit of theirs Future Generations.
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I'm re-listening to the podcast grab of the TV show that Matt and I did yesterday. There is a point that I started to make about the framing of science, but I don't think I carried it all the way through to its conclusion.
What I did say, at the time, was that contrary to Matt Nisbet's bloviations, science does NOT have the "framing" problem of being associated with atheism. Instead, science has the problem of being perceived as boring. The stereotypical image of a science teacher is a dull, droning guy reeling off disconnected facts. Not unlike Ben Stein's own infamous Ferris Bueller character, if you will. ("Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics.") And so, I concluded, science could actually benefit from more public controversy.
I have more to add to this. Science doesn't have a problem with not being respected. In fact, despite its stodgy image, science is almost universally accepted in our culture as important and worthy of respect. There is no clearer example of this to be found than in the behavior of creationists. When they lost some early battles in the 60's they retitled their subject to creation science. When that failed to work, they reacted by redoubling their efforts to make "intelligent design" (a.k.a. "Creationism, the Revenge") sound less like religion and more like science.
And finally, when people in the ID movement want to boost their own image in the public eye, what rhetorical approach do they take? Why, ID is real science, and evolution is unscientific! Look at all these people who have signed on to this statement titled as "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism". It says right here that "Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged." See? That's not religious at all!
What I'm saying is, in the general battle for science vs. religion, science has already won. In order to make their points more palatable, creationists have to pretend that they're doing science. And beyond the world of creationism, there is a whole industry of pseudoscientists who peddle their wares by filling the descriptions with science jargon-imitating gobbledygook.
Acceptance of science is not the problem. Convincing people to understand science is the problem — studying is hard, scientists are boring, I'm never going to use this in real life, blah blah blah.
When atheists point out that scientific literacy tends to undermine religion, you might say that they're doing the same thing as creationists: using the already well-established respected status that science has, and associating themselves with science to receive some of that credibility by proxy. On the other hand, associating atheism with education and science literacy also has the advantage of being true.
Should we obscure that fact, as Matt Nisbet seems to constantly suggest? Hell no. Nisbet would have you believe that the "culture war" is over whether you can get these foolish savages to accept our modern ways and incorporate this new-fangled "science" into their culture. On the contrary, however, they've already done that. They all have their own TVs and internet connections and microwave ovens and cars. The job that we, as people who care about education, have before us is to leverage that acceptance of science, tell the truth about how to think critically and evaluate claims, and ridicule the hell out of intelligent design for the phony snake oil sideshow that it is.
If more people are persuaded to become atheists after being so educated, that's just a fortunate byproduct.


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""Flying is like good music. It elevates the spirit and it's an exhilarating freedom. I love the machines, I love the aviation community. I used to own airplanes and have pilots flying them for me, but I finally realized they were having more fun than I was." —actor and pilot Harrison Ford, in the Daily Mail (UK) "
Editor's Desk: August-September 2008
In the same week in June, several airlines announced they would be grounding airplanes, reducing capacity and eliminating jobs, mainly because of soaring fuel prices. Meanwhile, the Stanford Transportation Group, a San Francisco-based consulting firm, reported the results of its biennial analysis of premium passenger activity in the U.S. airline and business aviation markets. I was surprised by the numbers. So was the National Business Aviation Association.
According to STG, business jets and turboprops flew approximately 17 million passengers on one-way trips in 2007 ( see Table A). This compares with 42 million "premium" airline passengers, which STG defines as first class, business class and full-fare coach.
The problem for the airlines is that the number of their full-fare premium passengers has decreased from about 75 million in 1998 (about 20 percent of airline travelers that year) to about 40 million in each of the last three years (about 9 percent of passengers in 2007).
"It's tough for most of the carriers to make a decent profit when only nine percent of their passengers are flying on premium fares, 85 percent are on discount fares and six percent are using frequent-flier miles," Gerald Bernstein, STG's managing director, told me. Bernstein based his airline figures on the DOT's Databank 1A 10-percent sample of airline tickets.
Meanwhile, business aviation travelers have increased from about 11 million in 1998 to about 17 million 2007, according to the STG analysis.
NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen did not take issue with STG's airline numbers. But he is concerned about the consulting firm's methodology in determining business aviation passenger numbers. "If you look at the FAA's numbers for hours flown by business and corporate aviation, instead of using fleet size as STG did, you'll see that flying hours have been essentially flat since 1995," Bolen told me ( see Table B).
"Also, Bernstein used old NBAA estimates for the number of passengers per business aviation flight and averaged them to get the figure he used [3.5]," Bolen continued. "When I became president of NBAA, we looked at our previous figures and decided we could not support them statistically, so we stopped using them and tried to come up with a valid number, but couldn't. So we stopped referring to a 'passengers per business aviation flight' number."
But more importantly, Bolen is concerned about an unstated implication in STG's press release about the analysis of a causal relationship between premium airline passengers and business aviation travel.
Mike Tretheway, a transportation economist in Washington, D.C., who advises NBAA, said, "STG's numbers don't make sense. You can't make the correlation between a decrease in airline premium passengers and an increase in business aviation, because it isn't there."
Jens Hennig, vice president of operations at the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, said he knows Bernstein well. "Gerry does great research and is very knowledgeable about the aviation industry. The problem of airline passengers moving from the front to the back has less to do with corporate aviation than with the airlines' actions and decisions made by company travel departments."
Bernstein stands by his numbers. "The methodology could be refined, but I'm convinced it is close," he told me. Along with the fleet numbers, we used the number of landings reported by the FAA to determine the number of one-way flights. The number of landings is the best measure of the number of flights. Hours are the least reliable measure. The fleet and departure numbers are not flat. Regarding the passengers-per-flight statistic, I was not aware that NBAA does not consider it valid. I'm willing to adjust it." He said STG has been watching the passenger numbers since 1998 and doing the internally funded analysis since before 9/11. It announced its findings publicly for the first time two years ago.
Notwithstanding their disagreement about the number of passengers using business aviation in the U.S., Bernstein and Bolen agreed that the airlines' problems have been created by the airlines themselves. "The airlines were growing at a rate of more than two percent a year, adding more passengers in two years than the total number of passengers business aviation flies in one year," Bernstein said. "The airlines did not lose 35 million [premium-fare] passengers to business aviation. They lost them to discounted fares."
Bolen said, "Airlines are losing revenue because they've eliminated first-class cabins on many routes and because of the increasing influence of loyalty programs, Internet booking and corporate discounts. It's not that their premium passengers aren't still flying in first and business class when they can, but that fewer of them are paying the full fares."
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Google's Nexus 5 is officially sold out in Australia
Google has exhausted initial stocks of its new Nexus 5 Android smartphone, just two days after the device officially went on sale in Australia.
Google has exhausted initial stocks of its new Nexus 5 Android smartphone, just two days after the device officially went on sale in Australia.
Google has already exhausted its first stock allocations of the black Nexus 5 Android smartphone, just hours after the device went on sale in Australia.
Popular Twitter account @evleaks has published a leaked press image that shows a white version of Google's upcoming Nexus 5 smartphone.
German supermarket chain Aldi will sell a re-run of a budget Android smartphone it advertised back in July, cutting $20 off the original price of the handset.
Telstra has today announced it will exclusively sell the HTC Desire 300 Android phone as a pre-paid device in Australia.
It's been rumoured for quite some time, but Samsung has become the first manufacturer to officially launch a smartphone with a curved display.
Sony Mobile has today announced the availability of its new entry level Xperia M smartphone, but the device lacks 4G connectivity.
LG has today announced that its new Optimus L2 II dual-SIM smartphone will be exclusively sold through Optus and its retail partners from this month, but the primary SIM card slot on the device will be locked to the Optus network.
Australian online retailer, Kogan, has launched a budget Android smartphone with dual-SIM capabilities, significantly undercutting a device German supermarket giant, Aldi, sold in Australia last week.
Optus has announced pricing and plan details, and opened online pre-orders for Samsung's new Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, but it will not bundle the Galaxy Gear smartwatch with any of its plans.
German supermarket chain Aldi will sell a new Android smartphone in Australia from Wednesday, 11 September, but the device doesn't appear to represent good value for money.
Telstra has announced pricing details and opened online pre-orders for Samsung's new Galaxy S4 Mini smartphone.
It's not totally out-of-character for Google to build hype around a forthcoming product with carefully planned marketing shennanigans. This time, the sneak peek of what might be a Nexus 5 in a video promoting the Android 4.4 Kit Kat announcement may ...
HTC has announced the impending Australian launch of its One Mini smartphone, a smaller version of the company's flagship One handset.
Google has slashed the price of its Nexus 4 Android smartphone by $100 in Australia, fuelling suggestions the device is due for an upgrade in the near future.
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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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Rupert Murdoch, Fox: Buy Madison Square Garden and N.Y. Yankees
Lately, it's been dividend stocks. Now, we're told that run is over. I don't buy it. It's rarely, if ever, a bad time to make regular purchases of dividend payers, particularly in growth stocks. In fact, most investors should probably use the strategy as a major portfolio foundation.
That said, speaking directly to sectors, there's probably not a space with better visibility and relative certainty than media.
There are incredible existing and potential synergies between big media and empire building, particularly in sports programming and franchises.
I have hammered it pretty hard: Buy big media stocks because/if they :
Control key 'appointment viewing'-type content, such as live sports programming; Have a clear path to grow revenue by expanding that empire.
Search my article history . You'll find loads of support for buying names such as Canada's Rogers Communications (RCI) and BCE (BCE) to less-monopoly prone, but equally as attractive, American giants like Time Warner (TWX) and Disney (DIS) .
One of my more recent pieces -- Something All Investors Must Do During Earnings Season -- uses media company earnings conference calls to articulate why these stocks should continue to be such strong buys.
As the above-linked article indicates, through all of this excitement, News Corp (NWSA) , set to spin off its struggling publishing division next year, emerges as the cream of the crop.
Rupert Murdoch, love him or disagree vehemently with 80% of his Tweets, continues to build out a powerful cable and sports empire: Fox, which includes Fox News and the Fox Sports Regional Networks . A competitor in the works to take on Disney's ESPN. The list goes on and on. News Corp is not only nationwide; it's global, claiming turf obviously in the U.K., and in places such as India.
We received word last night, via The New York Times , that News Corp will purchase a 40% stake in YES, that's Yankees Entertainment and Sports, co-owned by the Steinbrenner family, Goldman Sachs (GS) and others.
At the same time, News Corp is looking to snag rights to Los Angeles Dodgers baseball.
It's easy to connect the dots.
However, I expect Murdoch -- if nothing else, he's a true maverick -- to push the envelope harder. He might go so far as to test regulatory waters.
He's no dummy. He sees what Rogers and Bell do in Canada -- the companies have a virtual monopoly on sports and entertainment throughout the nation -- and, while he knows that level of consolidation would never fly in a tight U.S. regulatory environment, News Corp can do more. It can build an empire to not only challenge, but knock off ESPN.


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Oboe-wanderlust trio Threeds celebrates its debut release Unraveled 10/27 with a FREE show @ 8pm @ Rockwood Music Hall!Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement, tags: Amber Rubarth, Astor Piazzolla, Bjork, Charles Mingus, Kathy Halvorson, Katie Scheele, Mark Snyder, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Scott Anderson, Stevie Wonder, The Doors, Threeds, Threeds Oboe Trio, Unraveled
Incredibly versatile and delightfully surprising oboe super trio Threeds celebrates the release of its Kickstarter-funded debut album, Unraveled, at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8pm. Unraveled highlights the diversity of influences that run deep with startlingly refreshing covers of Bjork, Stevie Wonder, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, Michael Jackson, The Doors and more alongside beautiful, original works.
Lauded for their "technical virtuosity" and "willingness to take risks producing engaging, contemporary classical music," Threeds has expanded oboe repertoire in remarkably innovative ways delivering "effortless dexterity" and a "tightly woven genre-smashing journey of an album." Threeds Oboe Trio is comprised of Kathy Halvorson and Mark Snyder, oboe and Katie Scheele, English horn. All three will be on hand to sign copies and greet audience members after the performance.
Unraveled is available through CD Baby, iTunes and through their website www.threedsoboetrio.com.
Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen Street between East Houston & Stanton Streets, New York
Admission: FREE
Doors open: 7:15pm
Subway: F to Lower East Side – Second Avenue
About Threeds:
THREEDS is a New York City based oboe trio that includes oboists Kathy Halvorson, Katie Scheele and Mark Snyder. Formed in 2008, the trio enjoys creating new paths for the oboe and English horn, playing their own arrangements of pop, rock, jazz, folk and world music while using improvisational techniques. The members of Threeds have also arranged music to accompany several local singer-songwriters, including Paul Brill, Amber Rubarth, Andrew Vladeck, Jamie Leonhart and Adam Levy. Threeds have recorded music at the legendary Avatar Studios in New York City and Daptone Records in Brooklyn, NY.
The trio aims to make the oboe an instrument that is more accessible to all, bringing their music "out of the concert hall" to bars, rock venues, galleries and public places. Having played over 40 shows in the past two years, the trio has earned a respectful following in the NYC area and often plays at venues including Joe's Pub, the Living Room, Rockwood Music Hall, Caffe Vivaldi, the Cathedral at St. John the Divine, Trinity Church Wall Street and public outdoor spaces as part of Make Music NY. This summer, the trio was invited (by audition) to participate in the MTA's Music Under New York program and will be making their "underground" debut this fall.
Over the past year, Threeds has also performed in Los Angeles (Wood & Vine), Providence (First Baptist Church of America), Philadelphia (Summer Solstice Celebration at the Kimmel Center), Hobe Sound, FL (private event), Cape May (Chalfonte Hotel Concerts by Candelight), the New York Summer Music Festival in Oneoneta, NY and at the 2011 International Double Reed Society conference in Tempe, Arizona.
Threeds is excited to be share their first full-length CD, Unraveled, which just came out this June and is available on CD Baby, iTunes and through their website www.threedsoboetrio.com. The album was recorded at Avatar Studios by engineer Robert L. Smith (U2, Lady Gaga, Glee) and produced by Scott Anderson (John Gold, Zach Brock) at O Lab studio in Brooklyn.
Individually, each of the oboists in THREEDS are accomplished freelance musicians and have played in many prestigious orchestras including the Binghamton Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Richmond Symphony, Cork Opera, the Key West Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Reading (PA) Symphony, the Westchester Philharmonic, the Long Island Philharmonic and the Trillium E Orchestra with Anthony Braxton. The members of Threeds have also performed on Broadway shows, played on several popular music albums and on Emmy-nominated independent film soundtracks. They are music educators at several local schools and colleges including Western Connecticut State University, C.W. Post, the Rudolph Steiner School, the Brearley School, the Bloomingdale School of Music and the New York Summer Music Festival.
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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Randolph County, Alabama, will hold a continuous signup period for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2014 Fiscal Year.
Any eligible land user who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, forestland/wildlife land, hayland or private non-industrial forest land and other farm or ranch lands may apply for assistance through this program.
Interested individuals may file an application at:
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Applicants will be rated on the prioritized resource concerns. The highest ranked application in each of the priority concerns will be funded first. This process will be repeated until all the applications are funded or until the county allocations have been obligated. One application per applicant with only one resource concern will be accepted for the county wide signup. All applications received will be ranked according to the National 2014 EQIP ranking tool. The first batching period for ranking and prioritizing applications will end on October 18, 2013. Any applications received after a batching, will be considered in the next batching pool if funds are available.
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Error in 10th inning costs Sleepy Eye in pitcher's duel
LAMBERTON – The Sleepy Eye amateur baseball team took a tough 1-0 loss in 10 innings to Lamberton in the first game of the Region 2C playoffs on Saturday afternoon.
Andrew Woitas took the loss for the Indians, allowing six hits and one unearned run in his 9 2/3 innings of the pitcher's duel. Johnny Pistuka got the win in the duel, allowing four hits while striking out 13 batters and walking two on the mound for Lamberton.
A throwing error by Sleepy Eye shortstop Sean Mathiowetz in an effort to get Donald Strand out for the third out of the inning sailed past the first baseman, allowing Seth Guetter to come in from third base for the sole run of the game. Mathiowetz's error was the only one between both teams in the game.
Scott Salfer was the first player to reach base for the Indians, getting on after knocking a single up the middle in the top of the third. However, the Indians' scoring chance was stifled after Salfer was thrown out on a 4-6 fielder's choice for the second out of the inning, which was immediately followed by a flyout to center field by Joey Walter.
Jake Bohnen notched a two-out double to left-center field in the fourth, but was immediately followed by a 5-3 putout of Alan Woitas. Bohnen led the Indians in hitting with a 2-for-4 stand at the plate.
The Longsox got two on base in the second and also notched a lead-off double in the fifth, but both efforts went for naught with outs immediately following them.
Sleepy Eye continues its stand in the Region 2C playoffs Sunday at home against the New Ulm Brewers. First pitch is slated for 7:30 p.m.
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Salesforce.com: Great Growth, Now 'Show Me the Money'
For years, this has been a popular bear argument against Salesforce.com -- except the company has not cared to listen. Instead, each quarter, Salesforce.com has taken the "us against the world" approach by seeking to prove doubters wrong with its eye-opening growth performances.
Remarkably, while one might expect standing ovations for these accomplishments, instead bears contend "I bet you can't do it again." In fairness, the company does deserve credit for its ability to grow revenue -- particularly in such tough enterprise spending environments as we've seen. On the other hand, it's hard to argue with analysts who wish to see more growth where it matters most -- on the bottom line.
Solid Q3, But Bears Are Still Hanging Around
Salesforce.com had an impressive quarter, one the company considered "record-breaking." This is despite the fact that 35% revenue growth (only) met expectations.
The company earned 33 cents per share on revenue of $788 million -- helped by better than expected showing in the company's services support and subscription business which grew 35% year-over-year.
Equally impressive was Salesforce.com's 20% year-over-year growth in operating income, which surged 20% as the company continues to grow various business segments such as professional services at an annual rate of more than 30%. So, what's the problem?
While that level of growth speaks to excellent execution, it means nothing if it doesn't translate to profits. In other words, what's the point? This has been an area where the company continues to struggle. During the quarter, gross margin shed more than one point. Likewise, operating margins dropped by 500 basis points.
Although the company saw an 18% jump in operating income, analysts were not pleased that margins declined year-over-year by 1.5 points and dropped by almost 3 points sequentially. This was an area where the company attributed the poor showing to its acquisition of Buddy Media earlier this year.
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As understandable as this may be, the company has to do much better in terms of profitability if it truly wants to keep the bears in hibernation. Regardless, the company seemed pleased with its performance and nothing was going to ruin a good growth party. CEO Marc Benioff offered the following:
"Salesforce.com.com is the first enterprise cloud computing company to exceed $3 billion annual revenue run rate, with outstanding third quarter revenue growth at 35% in dollars and 37% in constant currency. Given the strong customer response to our next generation social and mobile cloud technologies, I'm delighted to announce that we expect to surpass a $4 billion annual revenue run rate during our fiscal year 2014."


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....Only restrictions are that all liquor sales have to be paid via cc, at the liquor counter terminal (we have a full liquor store).
No, it just needs to be rung in with a CC at the terminal before delivery....
....I'm ready to deliver booze next, what state are you in?
Are you ride it from JH? Here in Co. one needs a contractor to deliver booze. By design the consumer needs this. I have a liq next to my new pizza joint, getting the pizza right first should be your priority. I'm ready to deliver booze next, what state are you in?
Yup, Wy. We already have a full service liquor store/bar/restaurant license, so it was pretty easy. No one else in town can currently do this. There are no current options for any other businesses to modify their liquor licenses right now, either. Colorado?Are you kidding?Deliver WEED!


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Despite the rising popularity of media tablets and solid state drives (SSDs), the hard disk drive (HDD) industry has tremendous revenue expansion opportunities over the next five years, according to analysts from International Data Corp.
The HDD industry revenue will grow from $33.4 billion in 2010 to $48.2 billion in 2015, according to IDC. But the HDD industry will need to transform itself and reorder its priorities to realize this revenue growth. The personal storage market continues to be one of the strongest growth segments for the HDD industry.
HDD demand will continue to be founded in traditional IT segments, however, unit shipment growth will be driven mainly by the expansion of public and private cloud storage infrastructure and, more importantly, by demand from consumers and small businesses for private or personal cloud storage devices and solutions. HDD industry revenue growth will be accelerated based on broadening adoption of storage devices that help to speed up overall PC performance.
"The HDD industry needs to shift its R&D priorities, giving more attention to developing faster HDD performance for PC markets while simultaneously delivering HDD capacity advancements to support enterprise storage growth demands. At the same time, HDD vendors have an opportunity to transform into storage solution providers with a broad range of products that address the needs of both consumers and small businesses," said John Rydning, research director for disk storage mechanisms at IDC.
According to the market research company, with or without industry consolidation, HDD average selling price (ASP) declines will slow near term as HDD technology advancements are slowing, making it more difficult for HDD vendors to reduce HDD bill of material costs. In the long term, the HDD industry has an opportunity to increase HDD ASPs with hybrid NAND and rotating disk storage devices aimed at the PC market.
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text: Update on Flight KQ117 July 8, 2013...Kenya Airways wishes to advise its customers and the general public that efforts are underway to launch a rescue flight to Athens following the diversion of KQ117. The flight was re-scheduled for departure last night at 2130 hours, but was cancelled at the last minute. This follows the denial of clearance by the Greece Civil Aviation in spite of approval by Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and the manufacturers, Boeing, for reasons yet to be officially communicated. We have an aircraft in Nairobi ready, and crew are on hand awaiting regulatory clearance to commence the mission.We will confirm departure time ex-Athens in the next two hours once all clearances have been obtained. Mbuvi Ngunze Chief Operating Officer Kenya Airways


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While not Civil War related, I saw this the other night on The O'Reilly Factor and had to share it with you. Of all the things little Kensley could have asked Santa for, one of the two things she wanted was her dad. As an Army brat, this video brought a tear to my eye. I am happy that she will be able to spend a few days with her father.
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Besides scoring applications, ETS's Natural Language Processing (NLP) expertise has also resulted in other advanced capabilities to support student learning and assessment.
TextEvaluator® Capability
ETS's TextEvaluator® (formerly known as SourceRater℠) tool represents a new approach for modeling text complexity, designed to help test developers evaluate source material for use in developing new reading comprehension passages and items. The TextEvaluator tool combines a large, cognitively based feature set with advanced psychometric techniques in order to provide text complexity classifications that are highly correlated with classifications provided by experienced educators. This feature set extends beyond the limited dimensions of text complexity assessed by other methods (such as sentence length and vocabulary) to encompass text-level cohesion and account for differences between different text genres.
LanguageMuse℠ Application
LanguageMuse℠ is a web-based, instructional authoring application intended to support K–12 teachers in the development of curricular materials for English-language learners (ELLs). The application offers linguistic feedback that highlights vocabulary, sentence structures and discourse relations found in classroom texts that may be unfamiliar to ELLs. The linguistic feedback supports teachers in creating linguistically-informed lesson plans, texts, activities and assessments with appropriate scaffolding. The LanguageMuse application has been used in formal teacher professional development settings to help teachers cultivate linguistic awareness so that they are better able to create a curriculum that addresses students' English language learning needs. The application contains self-guided professional development, so teachers can complete that portion on their own and continue to use the application in the classrooms to more easily design scaffolded materials appropriate to every K–12 grade level.
Automated Test Item Generation
Another area in which ETS has applied its natural language processing technology is in the automated generation of test items. This includes research both on completely automated generation of items from item models (in order to reduce the cost of item development and control item difficulty) and semi-automated item creation tools to help assessment developers identify appropriate source material for items or create draft items that can be augmented and edited by experienced item writers.
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Below are some recent or significant publications that our researchers have authored on the subject of educational applications of natural language processing technology.
Aligning TextEvaluator® Scores With the Accelerated Text Complexity Guidelines Specified in the Common Core State Standards
K. M. Sheehan
ETS Research Report No. RR-15-21
The paper describes how the TextEvaluator automated text complexity evaluation tool can be aligned with the text complexity guidelines in the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about this publication >
Towards Automated Assessment of Public Speaking Skills Using Multimodal Cues.
L. Chen, G. Feng, J. Joe, C. W. Leong, C. Kitchen, & C. M. Lee
Paper in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '14), pp. 200–203
Traditional assessments of public speaking skills rely on human scoring. This paper examines an initial study on the development of an automated scoring model for public speaking performances using multimodal technologies. Learn more about this publication >
Using Multimodal Cues to Analyze MLA'14 Oral Presentation Quality Corpus: Presentation Delivery and Slides Quality
L. Chen, C. W. Leong, G. Feng, & C. M. Lee
Paper in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM workshop on Multimodal Learning Analytics Workshop and Grand Challenge (MLA '14) pp. 45–52
Making presentation slides and delivering them effectively to convey information to the audience is important. The authors envision multimodal sensing and machine learning techniques that can help evaluate and potentially improve the quality of the content and delivery of public presentations. Learn more about this publication >
An Initial Analysis of Structured Video Interviews by Using Multimodal Emotion Detection
L. Chen, S. Yoon, C. W. Leong, M. Martin, & M. Ma
Paper in Proceedings of the 2014 workshop on Emotion Representation and Modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction-Systems (ERM4HCI '14), pp.1–6
The authors review a study of employing advanced multimodal emotion detection approaches to measure performance on an interview task that elicits emotion. They performed evaluations using a speech-based emotion recognition (SER) system and an off-the-shelf facial expression analysis toolkit. Learn more about this publication >
The TextEvaluator Tool: Helping Teachers and Test Developers Select Texts for Use in Instruction and Assessment
K. M. Sheehan, I. Kostin, D. Napolitano, & M. Flor
The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 184–209
This article describes TextEvaluator, a comprehensive text-analysis system designed to help teachers, textbook publishers, test developers and literacy researchers select reading materials that are consistent with the text complexity goals outlined in the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about this publication >
A Two-Stage Approach for Generating Unbiased Estimates of Text Complexity
K. M. Sheehan, M. Flor, & D. Napolitano
Proceedings of the Second Workshop of Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA), pp. 49–58, Atlanta, Ga. Association for Computational Linguistics.
This paper presents a two-stage estimation technique that successfully addresses the tendency of automated approaches to text complexity to overestimate the complexity of informational texts, while simultaneously underestimating the complexity of literary texts. Learn more about this publication
A User Study: Technology to Increase Teachers' Linguistic Awareness to Improve Instructional Language Support for English Language Learners
J. Burstein, J. Sabatini, J. Shore, B. Moulder, & J. Lentini. In Proceedings of the Workshop for Improving Textual Accessibility in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics, Atlanta, Ga., June 14, 2013
This paper discusses user study outcomes with teachers who used LanguageMuse, a web-based teacher professional development (TPD) application designed to enhance teachers' linguistic awareness, and support teachers in the development of language-based instructional scaffolding (support) for their English-language learners (ELL). Learn more about this publication >
Difficulty Modeling and Automatic Generation of Quantitative Items: Recent Advances and Possible Next Steps
E. A. Graf & J. H. Fife. In M. Gierl & T. Haladyna (Eds.), Automatic Item Generation: Theory and Practice, pp. 157–180
Publisher: Routledge
This ETS-authored chapter is part of a book volume that aims to summarize current knowledge about the field of automatic item generation. The chapter appears in Part III of the volume, which covers psychological and substantive characteristics of generated items. Learn more about this publication
Item Generation: Implications for a Validity Argument
I. Bejar. In M. Gierl & T. Haladyna (Eds.), Automatic Item Generation: Theory and Practice, pp. 40–56
Publisher: Routledge
This ETS-authored chapter is part of a book volume that aims to summarize current knowledge about the field of automatic item generation. The chapter appears in Part I of the volume, which covers initial considerations for automatic item generation. Learn more about this publication
Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners
C. Leacock, M. Chodorow, M. Gamon, & J. Tetreault
Monograph in Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
Morgan & Claypool
This volume describes the types of constructions English-language learners find most difficult — constructions containing prepositions, articles and collocations — and it provides an overview of the automated approaches to identifying and correcting such learner errors. Learn more about this publication
Opportunities for Natural Language Processing in Education
J. Burstein
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing 10th International Conference, CICLing 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1–7, 2009. Proceedings
This paper discusses emerging opportunities for natural language-processing researchers in the development of educational applications for writing, reading and content knowledge acquisition. Learn more about this publication
When Do Standard Approaches for Measuring Vocabulary Difficulty, Syntactic Complexity and Referential Cohesion Yield Biased Estimates of Text Difficulty?
K. M. Sheehan, I. Kostin, & Y. Futagi
Paper in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
This paper demonstrates that many widely used approaches for assessing text difficulty tend to both overpredict the difficulty of informational texts and underpredict the difficulty of literary texts. Learn more about this publication
The Automated Text Adaptation Tool
J. Burstein, J. Shore, J. Sabatini, Y. Lee, & M. Ventura
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), pp. 3–4
Association for Computational Linguistics
This paper introduces the Automated Text Adaptation Tool v.1.0 (ATA v.1.0), an innovative, educational tool that automatically generates text adaptations similar to those teachers might create. Learn more about this publication
Item Distiller: Text Retrieval for Computer-Assisted Test Item Creation
D. Higgins
ETS Research Memorandum RM-07-05
This paper describes Item Distiller, a tool developed at ETS to aid in the creation of sentence-based items. Item Distiller enables users to search for sentences that contain specific words, phrases or grammatical constructions, so that these sentences can be edited to produce finished items. This approach to test authoring is both more efficient than writing items from scratch and more principled, due to its links to item modeling. Learn more about this publication
SourceFinder: A Construct-Driven Approach for Locating Appropriately Targeted Reading Comprehension Source Texts
K. M. Sheehan, I. W. Kostin, & Y. Futagi
Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop of the International Speech Communication Association, Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education, pp. 80–83
This paper describes a fully-automated approach for locating source material for use in developing reading comprehension/verbal reasoning passages. Learn more about this publication
Model Analysis and Model Creation: Capturing the Task-Model Structure of Quantitative Item Domains
P. Deane, E. A. Graf, D. Higgins, Y. Futagi, & R. Lawless
ETS Research Report RR-06-11
This study focuses on the relationship between item modeling and evidence-centered design (ECD); it considers how an appropriately generalized item modeling software tool can support systematic identification and exploitation of task-model variables, and then examines the feasibility of this goal, using linear-equation items as a test case. The first half of the study examines task-model structures for linear equations and their relevance to item difficulty within ECD. The second half of the study presents prototype software, a Model Creator system for pure math items, designed to partially automate the creation of variant item models reflecting different combinations of task-model variables. The prototype is applied to linear equations but is designed to generalize over a range of pure mathematical content types. Learn more about this publication
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Further adventures with Doctor Bob
Over the course of many years working in the woods and on the waters, I've come across plenty of unique characters. Some became good friends, a few were sketchy and a couple were even marginally scary.
Fortunately, I've traveled with plenty of good company, and rarely with poor company. But, I must say, the majority of my most memorable trips usually involved Doctor Bob.
When we first met, Doctor Bob managed a franchise of children's dental clinics in northern New Jersey, Westchester County and Manhattan. As could be expected with the position, Doc was a very busy man.
He worked hard and played even harder, and his greatest pleasure was to spend his very sparse, spare time pursuing brook trout in the remote regions of the Adirondacks.
He was fanatical about brook trout, and of course I was not far behind. However, there were a few major obstacles we had to deal with. The first of which was the fact that Doctor Bob was totally scared of the water. He didn't know how to swim a single stroke.
Secondly, he was so large and top heavy that he was completely unmanageable in a canoe. As a result, I used a guideboat, a motorboat or a raft for our numerous expeditions.
Doc was often so nervous the entire boat would vibrate from his shivering. As the boat lurched forward with each pull on the oars, Doc would hold his breath. I'd stop rowing often to allow him to exhale.
I would try to row as steady as possible until he would breathe easily. But with the next pull on the oars, he'd clam up all over again.
Waves and heavy winds always provided yet more terror that he slowly learned to adjust to. Prior to this adjustment, we were often reduced to fishing from the shore on choppy days, after I had pried his hands from the gunnels of the guideboat.
However, Doc's considerable girth and waterborne fears were not his sole defining factors. It was his appearance and his character.
Doctor Bob was absolutely the darkest, black man I've ever met, ever. He is also by far the most jovial man I've ever known. When he would close his eyes by the campfire, he would literally disappear into the night. He seemed to take great delight in this fact, until a bear paid a visit to camp one evening. It occurred while we were camped on Grassy Pond, at the far end of Low's Lake, back off the Bog River Flow.
The good doctor had been practicing some coyote calls when a slight huffing noise came from the nearby woods. At first, the sound appeared to be coming from a pack of dogs, but it was a low "ruff, ruff," rather than the usual yip, yap and yowl that are typical of coyotes.
I advised him to pay it no mind since the camp was clean and the fire was roaring. However, with a hand gun strapped to his hip, Doc grabbed the flashlight and slipped down the trail to investigate.
His investigation didn't last long, especially after he spotlighted the pair of bears that had been doing all the huffing. Needless to say, both parties parted ways immediately, and in opposite directions. But just in case, Doc decided to spend the night with a rifle on one side and a hand gun on the other.
"I'm really not scared," he explained to me as he tucked a sheath knife into his sleeping bag. "But it doesn't hurt anything to be just a little bit cautious, does it?"
The following morning, Doc appeared shaken as he rolled out of the tent. I asked, "Are you all right? You appear to be a bit off this morning. Didn't you sleep well?"
"What in the hell happened out here last night?" he asked. "Those noises, that hideous laughter, what was it?"
I laughed, "Do you mean the loons, the laughter and the whooo? Why that was just loons calling for a mate. It is kinda eerie, I guess."
"Birds?" he replied. "That wasn't no birds, that was some sort of space aliens or something, don't nothing on earth sound like that! Birds, ha!"
And so went our travels, always with a fresh mixture of laughter, friendship and good company. There was rarely a moment in over two decades of adventuring, when Doc ceased to amaze me with either a quip or a query that wasn't out of far left field.
One of our most memorable fishing expeditions was the fly-in trip we took into Tirrel Pond, which is located on the backside of Blue Mountain. We had planned the spring trip to coincide with ice-out, with hopes the brook trout would be hungry.
I arranged logistics with Herb Helms, a legendary floatplane pilot based out of Long Lake, and we transported most of my gear and a few guideboats into the pond a few days prior to Doc's arrival.
I spent a few days getting camp set up and stocking the woodpile. Spring was late, winter didn't mind and I was on camp time.
Doc arrived with two vehicles and Herb graciously accommodated his many bags, coolers, wine bottles and a host of other ungodly pleasures which included steaks, lobsters, clams, cookies, cakes, pies and more.
Although we had planned on just two flights to get Doc, his wife and the two kids into the pond, it wasn't fully accomplished until the fifth flight landed. The last flight delivered mostly just wine and desserts. Doc had an appetite with an attitude, and I finally understood where he got his girth.
By the time Herb took off, all of their tents were set, and I had a warm fire roaring to ward off the evening chill. Fortunately, Doc's snoring was consistent and loud enough to ward off any wandering bears or passing hikers.
We were on the water early the following morning, and the fishing was fast and furious.
Unfortunately, so was the weather. By noon, temperatures had dropped into the 30s, and the threat of snow was obvious as a crisp wind began blowing in from the north.
Shortly after noon, we were blown off the pond by the whitecaps. Doc wanted to know, "Is there any way we can get out of here today?"
I explained it was too far to hike out, with darkness setting in within a few hours. And even if I did get out, and hitched a ride to Long Lake, there was still no guarantee Helms would even be at his seaplane base.
I told Doc, "If I go out, I may not make it back in."
"Our only hope," I explained, "is to wave a yellow poncho on the beach if you hear a plane passing over."
The "waving poncho" was a signal I had with Helms, and if Herb saw it, he was supposed to put down immediately. It was the way things were done before the age of cell phones.
High winds continued to whip the tents as we pondered the situation, and snow became more apparent on the surrounding mountains.
As I fumbled through the packs to locate my ponchos, the drone of an approaching plane was amplified by the roaring winds. I grabbed the ponchos from the tent, and ran to the beach, where Doc and I fanned them in the wind.
The plane was high overhead and nearly out of sight, as it began to bank slightly over the nearest ridge. Our spirits, which had soared with the sound of the plane, plummeted instantly. The plane was now out of sight, and the roaring winds carried away any hint of a motor. Together, we started back to the tents, dragging ponchos dejectedly behind us.
But just then, just like "Five O'Clock Charlie' on MASH, Helm's little plane roared back from over the near horizon and banked into a slow turn before settling on the pond.
With eyes wide as saucers, and a big smile across his face, Doc turned and exclaimed, "Why Joe, it appears I've got better luck with planes, than I've got with taxis in Manhattan. Hell, I brought him in with the very first wave."
I helped Herb to load some of the gear, and sent him off quickly with the Belfons before the brunt of the storm arrived. They stayed at the Adirondack Hotel in town, while I enjoyed a quiet evening alone in camp, feasting on steak, lobster and a few bottles of fine wine.
Doc flew in with Helms the following morning, and watched as we loaded up the gear.
"Next year," he claimed. "We'll do it all over again next year with a little less excitement."
But it would never happen that way, because life was always exciting when Doc was around.


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"I love the U.S. Postal Service," says Annabelle Armstrong, and explains why:
"I brought a package of gifts for my latest relative, 2-year-old Grayson Owen in North Carolina, to the Audubon Post Office on Government Street.
"The gifts had been wrapped prettily by Learning Express."
She says one of the gifts was a little steering wheel, complete with horn, turn signals and other features that beeped when touched — and while she was in line at the post office, the package started beeping:
"The clerk took scissors, carefully slit the postal tape, pulled out the pretty gift, then carefully cut its tape and pulled out the beeping toy. She inspected it, and finally found a little black on-off button underneath the toy.
"By this time, customers were arriving, and laughing at my gift.
"I did not want to wait, and the clerk did not want others to wait, so I paid and left the box there.
"The next day in the mail I got my receipt, with a note: 'Package to grandson.'
"When I called the owner of Learning Express, we both laughed, and she said, 'That's a good thing to know.'"
Tunica park planned
David Norwood, of St. Francisville, says the problem of Tunica Hills hunters encountering hikers, and vice versa, may soon be resolved:
"There are 6,000 acres dedicated to Wildlife & Fisheries for hunting, but there is a 400-acre tract that encompasses a Tunica Indian burial ground that's under the Office of State Parks.
"We've been working for 20 years, through three governors, to have a state park on that 400 acres. It's not open to the public yet, but should be soon. It's a beautiful, hilly, scenic area, with a view of the Mississippi River."
David says the area will probably be opened first to hikers, but plans call for a park area for families to enjoy without encroaching on hunting land.
Like Mary's lamb
Loretta Toussant says our story of the wandering dog returned to its owner after 16 months "reminds me of our childhood pet Duke.
"Growing up in the small town of Maringouin, we often walked to church.
"Duke would usually trot along with us, then lounge around outside until church was over.
"Well, this particular evening someone left the church door ajar, and in walks Duke, straight down the center aisle, at the revival meeting!"
Worthy causes
The "Krewe of Oeaux de St. Jude" holds its first Mardi Gras ball at 7 p.m. Saturday at Stage One to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
There will be a silent auction preview at 6:30 p.m. Music for the black-tie optional event is by the Side Effects Band.
Tickets ($60) are available at the UPS Store on Highland Road, Meghan's Closet on Coursey, On the Bright Side & Cajun Tigers at Towne Center and Stage One.
Good Samaritans
Edith K. Kirkpatrick says she recently learned the identity of the mysterious jogger who has been hanging her Advocates and New York Times "on a reachable knob on my lamp post shortly after daylight."
She says she "caught Eddie Reed in the act.
"Over a year ago he had heard me groaning as my 93-year-old body bent to pick up my papers.
"Smiley, since you are the promoter of 'good deed' people, please add Eddie Reed to the list."
Special People Dept.
- On Tuesday, Alexson "Sonny" Templet, of Lake, noted for his homemade cornmeal and wine, celebrates his 92nd birthday.
- Doris Templet celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday with a party at The Haven.
- Janie and Peter Constantino celebrated their 62nd anniversary Monday.
- Harold and Marian Ballard, of Central, celebrate 60 years of marriage Tuesday.
- Roland and Gayle Clement, of LaPlace, married 60 years Jan. 10, celebrated their anniversary with family and friends Jan. 13.
Thought for the Day
From Harry Clark, of Lafayette: "I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one."
Udderly ridiculous!
John Torbert says Joe Guilbeau's "There will never be another ewe" story in the Monday column inspired him to write about "the cow who drank ink and mooed indigo."
Dangerous service
Linda Dalferes says, "The other night my husband starting laughing at something he thought of out of the blue.
"Two years ago when we buried his dad, a World War II veteran, the 21-gun salute was about to happen when I whispered to my then-4-year-old grandson, 'They are going to shoot those guns now.'
"He whipped his head around with those big eyes and said with alarm, 'AT US?'"
Write Smiley at firstname.lastname@example.com. He can also be reached by fax at (225) 388-0351 or mail at P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821.


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Chris Vognar's Top Ten Hitchcock Movies
Hitchcock (opening Friday) dives into the making of Psycho. The HBO film The Girl tackles The Birds, Marnie and the plight of Tippi Hedren. Vertigo was proclaimed the best movie in the history of movies. As I wrote last Sunday, Hitchcock is in the air. And I've had a lot of people ask me: which is your favorite?
Hitchcock is one of the few filmmakers who can command a Top Ten list that leaves bona fide masterpieces out in the cold. That'll happen when you're on top of your game for almost 40 years. Sorry, Suspicion. Condolences to The 39 Steps. Here's my very subjective countdown of Hitch's finest.
10. Blackmail – At the dawn of the sound era, Hitchcock already had wildly imaginative command of the new technology (see below).
9. The Birds – Still widely misunderstood. Consider the audacity of unleashing an aviary plague on an unmarried couple's minor transgressions. (It ain't about birds).
8. The Lady Vanishes – Minor? Maybe. But the chemistry between Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood is delicious. Hitchcock really knew his way around a train.
7. North by Northwest – Of course the perfect cocktail of suspense and glamor has Cary Grant at its core.
6. Notorious – Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and a jagged tale of spycraft's dark underbelly.
5. Shadow of a Doubt - Evil comes to small-town America in the form of Joseph Cotten's merry widow murderer. Hitchcock has cited it as his personal favorite.
4. Psycho – Beneath the shock value lies a staggeringly disciplined method. The game-changer of horror movies.
3. Strangers on a Train – Masterful cross-cutting, sinister humor, and Robert Walker as the mother of all Hitchcock mama's boys. (Nothing personal, Norman). It even got it's own feature-length spoof:
2. Rear Window – In Hitchcock's hands, homicide and high drama can unfold right across the courtyard. Only he could sustain it for almost two hours.
1. Vertigo – Greatest film ever? I don't know about that. But it's a mesmerizing and wholly unique work of popular art that has haunted me since my first viewing.


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2) Years of paintball experience 4
3) Are you familiar with IP Board No, But I can figure it out very quickly
4) What other message boards have you moderated, started, or assisted with My Schools website
5) What sections would you like to help the TechPB community out with? Chat modding,BST
6) Have you ever worked at a paintball store, field, or within the industry? Learning to be a gun tech at my local field and a part time referee
7) Have you played in any major events? Scenario Games, National Tournaments, etc? nope but our team is looking forward to going to world cup
8) Any other forums you currently moderate at? No
9) Fill out an employment application, send us a copy of your valid drivers license and consent to background check. Will do
This is my second account first one got hacked.
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