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BIG TEN CLUB ROSE BOWL PACKAGE = Rose Bowl Tickets + Queen's Luncheon
Big Ten Club of Southern California
Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The team representing the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl will be known on Saturday, December 1st after the Big Ten Championship game. The Granddaddy Of Them All Rose Bowl game will be played on New Year's Day, Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Our annual Queen's Luncheon will be held at the historic Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena on Tuesday, December 18th. You will have an opportunity to meet Tournament officials and the Rose Bowl Queen and her Court along with enjoy a first class lunch and program.
Thanks to our long-standing relationship that we enjoy with the Tournament of Roses we are delighted to once again be able to offer our members the opportunity to apply to purchase great Rose Bowl tickets. This year we are doing online ordering.
As always, the Football Ticket Committee will distribute tickets via the priority order set forth in the Club's procedure manual (i.e., officers, directors and associate directors, past presidents, participating members, life members, general dues paying members, etc.) This distribution meeting will take place on Dec 8th. The Big Ten Club has been able to accommodate ALL member requests for at least 2 tickets for the past 10 years and often granted members more than 2 tickets. In the event you are not awarded tickets, we will credit your account within 7 days.
Note the use of these tickets is a privilege extended to us by the Tournament of Roses and are for our members and absolutely not to be scalped. A violation of this policy will result in the membership being revoked along with seriously jeopardizing the Club being able to access tickets in the future.
The Tournament has mandated that tickets be sent with tracking numbers so they will be sent via FedEx. Please note that Post Office box addresses are not acceptable. Unless requested without, signature verification for delivery is required. To be safe, we suggest that, if possible, you have the tickets sent to a work address. Please mark on the application whether it's a business or residential address and if you will waive the signature requirement.
We look forward to seeing you at the exclusive Queen's Luncheon on Tuesday, December 18 at the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena. Note the dress code for lunch is formal – jacket required – no cell phones.
Best wishes for the holidays and Go Big Ten!
Sincerely,Marc Goldsmith
President, 2012-2013
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Rose Bowl Stadium + Valley Hunt Club
520 S Orange Grove Blvd
Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM (PST)
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Big Ten Club of Southern California
Founded in 1933, the Big Ten Club of Southern California was created to celebrate getting out of the cold and enjoying the camaraderie of others at various local events and functions. Plus with our long standing association with the Tournament of Roses, Big Ten Club members enjoy access to Tournament related events.
Major events include the Rose Bowl game, Person of the Year, Queen's Luncheon, and Caucus at Wrigley Mansion.


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The head of Nvidia Corp. said that even though Intel Corp. agreed to pay its arch-rival $1.25 billion in order to settle all legal disputes, the customers still need to be protected from Intel since the company's business practices were far from fair. In response, Intel said that chief exec of Nvidia was also unfair in his allegations towards the chip giant.
"We'll keep growing as a company, but further action needs to be taken to protect consumers, said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, reports Cnet News web-site.
Mr. Huang believes that discounts Intel provides to its customers who acquire Intel Atom processors and chipsets in bundles are unfair and undermine Nvidia's ability to popularize its GeForce 9400M (Ion) core-logic on the growing market of netbooks and nettops. The highly-ranking executive believes that the tactics is both aggressive and anti-competitive.
"Intel's tactics with Ion have been the most aggressive we've seen from a competitor. They have offered the Atom [a total of three chips] for $25, but when the one-chip Atom is used with Ion, it sells for $45. A customer can't even choose to resell the chipset and use Ion instead. What's the point of Nvidia getting an Intel bus license if it's impossible to overcome Intel's pricing bundles?" said Mr. Huang.
Bundling schemes are not something new for Intel: the company became massive successful with its Centrino brand (which required notebook vendors to use a Pentium processor, an Intel chipset and an Intel wireless network controller to put Centrino mark on their laptops) earlier this decade. Still, Nvidia is also known for forcing customers to use its own components exclusively: the firm did not support SLI multi-GPU operation modes on platforms that were based on non-Nvidia chipsets. In addition, from time to time the company, according to some reports, used to sell its high-end graphics chips only on condition that its partners would acquire lower-end models as well.
Intel says that selling products in a bundle or negotiate regarding exact pricing is not something unfair and that Mr. Huang's claims are baseless.
"He's playing a trick of numbers. He's giving you a $45 list price – that nobody pays – for a part and then a negotiated price (which is more realistic). He's mixing apples and oranges. We have scrubbed and continue to scrub our pricing practices as it relates to chipsets and processors. It's all above cost. And that meets the legal standard worldwide," said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy.
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Atlantis Cedar Swing/Play Set
About this item
The Atlantis Cedar Play Set will provide your children with endless fun, exercise and role play.
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Give your kids the opportunity for outdoor adventures with the Atlantis Cedar Play Set. Constructed from sustainable cedar wood, this eco-friendly swing set includes enough activities to keep your kids busy and entertained for hours on end.
View product manual here. (PDF)
Quality features at an affordable price
The Atlantis provides many of the features of more expensive playsets at an affordable price. With it's relatively compact footprint, it's the perfect complement to smaller backyards. Children will love the upper level club house featuring a bay window and access to the 8ft Super Safe Speedy Slide™. Lower level includes a 4 foot rockwall and imagination station for snacks or puppet shows.
Upper level fort with bay windows and sundeck
Two Person Glider
Lower Level Imagination Station
Rock Wall
8' Super Safe Speedy Slide
Flat Wooden Steps on Rear Entry Ladder
All lumber is pre-stained, cut and stamped. Some pilot hole drilling may be required
All Cedar Construction
- Cedar fort with room for multiple kids
- Lower level imagination station/snack shelf
- 8' Super Safe Speedy Slide
- 2 belt swings with kid-friendly chains
- Deluxe ship's wheel glider with multiple feet positions for growing children
- Rock climbing wall
- Flat step ladder for little feet
- Sandbox (sand not included)
- Ship lap wood roof
- Safe-T-Fuse Fastener System (patent pending)
- 3/8" cordless drill or electric drill
- 1/8", 5/16" and 3/8" drill bits
- Drill attachments: Phillips head screw, 3/8" socket driver, torque head screw
- 1/2" and 7/16" open end wrenches
- Tape measure
- 1/2" and 9/16" nut drivers
- 3/8" drive ratchet
- 1/2" and 9/16" std sockets
- 1/2" and 9/16" deep sockets
- Claw hammer
- Phillips and straight blade screwdrivers
- Level
- 24" rubber mallet
- Step ladder (optional)
Delivery MUST be made between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
More than one person recommended for the assembly of this swing set. Depending on your experience, assembly of this play set should take approximately 10-14 hours after inventory of parts. Therefore, we recommend you set aside a full day for assembly. Instructions are included. Lumber is pre-drilled, pre-cut, and pre-stained. Lumber is stamped for ease of assembly.
For additional information, cares or concerns regarding this product, please contact Leisure Time Products at 1.800.765.4138.
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This Limited Warranty by Backyard Discovery applies to products manufactured under the Backyard Discovery brand or its other brands including but not limited to Backyard Botanical, Adventure Playsets, and Leisure Time Products. Backyard Discovery warrants that this product is free from defect in materials and workmanship for a period of one (1) year from the original date of purchase. This one (1) year warranty covers all parts including wood, hardware, and accessories. All wood carries a five (5) year pro-rated warranty against rot and decay. Refer to the schedule below for charges associated with replacement of parts under this Limited Warranty. In addition, Backyard Discovery will replace any parts within the first 30 days from date of purchase found to be missing from or damaged in the original packaging. This warranty applies to the original owner and registrant and is non-transferable. Regular maintenance is required to assure maximum life and performance of this product and failure by the owner to maintain the product according to the maintenance requirements may void this warranty. Maintenance guidelines are provided in the Owner's Manual.


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Amazingly, it's been 20 years since Street Fighter 2 hit arcades and changed gaming forever. Here Morgan Webb gets memories from pro gamers David Graham, Ari Weintraub, Mike Ross, Ryan Gutierrez,...
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: At least it wasn't raining..............In full: A decent enough event but little things let it down.The Good: Marshalls extremely friendly and fellow runners were supportiveThe Bad: I'm a 'recreational' runner, and there weren't many of us in this event as it is full of club runners. No problem as everyone was nice enough, but having only 1 water station after 5 miles is just not enough for people of my ability. I also managed to lose my number after 4.5 miles due to the wind blowing it off, despite it being pinned to my shirt. When I crossed the line at the end I was told by the gumpy git recording the numbers that I was liable to being disqualified. Whilst I appreciate there are rules, being told off like a naughty school child for something that was a freak accident hardly improves one's mood after a hard 10 mile slog. Finally, would rather have had a mars bar than that cheap little medal at the finish. Again, more water would have been niceDate of review: November 28, 2012
In short: Beautiful surroundings for a tricky little raceIn full: The Good- beautiful scenery, friendly atmosphere and very good valueThe Bad- marshalling could have been a little better. We were some of the slower runners, and at times we were uncertain of which route to take as there was no one else to follow! Some of the fields can be a bit tricky, with holes in the ground where I nearly turned my ankle several times. A medal at the end would also have been nice, although not a deal breaker as the event is otherwise good value for moneyDate of review: October 29, 2012
In short: A challenging little course and a good atmosphereIn full: Challenging little course, particularly kms 7-9. Nice and scenic running down the country lanes, and the marshalling is very good. Not traffic free though, although this isn't an issue, as traffic is quite light. Support is very good around the start and finish, and the medal at the end puts many bigger events to shame. Very good value for money. Enjoyed this one alotDate of review: October 29, 2012
In short: Nice scenary but poor value for moneyIn full: This was my first ever half marathon, and I probably should have picked an easier course as this one most certainly is 'undulating'!The Good- Beautiful place to run, and the weather was perfect. Marshalls offered excellent encouragement. Good crowd support although only on the start and home stretches.The Bad- £28 to enter and i've no idea where the money goes. I appreciate it is for charity but there are no road closures required on the course, the organisers did not close off roads to make access to the site easier (Took me 1 hr from Reading) meaning I didn't get lined up until 10 minutes from the start. Car park was a bit of a joke as well- a muddy field, with cars spinning their wheels left right and centre to try and get out. No goody bag either, just 2 mars bars and a bottle of water. Medal was also pretty tacky.Date of review: October 29, 2012
In short: Top day out but expensiveIn full: First 10 miler for me, and enjoyed this one immensely. Excellent crowds and bands along the route as well as enthusiastic locals. Plenty of water/ powerade stations. Perfect course for novices being so flat, and the scenery is interesting, taking in the dockyards, the old town and the seafront. I must be in the minority as well as I found the traffic pretty good- 30 minutes each way to get from the M3 to Southsea common is good going, as Portsmouth can be bad enough on a normal weekend!The bad: the price is well over the top, and the medal is pretty dreadfulDate of review: October 29, 2012
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8 Ways To Design An Attic
What do you get when you cross a fortress and a wind sock?
This may sound like a riddle, but marrying such seemingly incompatible qualities was exactly what architect Niels Schoenfelder set out to do three years ago when he began designing a weekend house for his family—his wife, Malavika Shivakumar, and their two children, ages 15 and 3. The site, just north of Puducherry (colloquially known as Pondicherry) on India's southeast coast, lies in a region where the average annual temperature tops 81 degrees and the relentless sun is outfoxed only by the equally ferocious (though shorter-lived) monsoons. The house needed to offer protection from the dramatic climate while still welcoming the cooling winds that blow in off the Bay of Bengal.
Foxtail palms surround the concrete-clad house.
The solution was deceptively simple: a thick-walled cube that can be completely opened on opposite ends so that the sea breezes blow through it, like a tunnel. "It is as if you are sitting in the jet stream," says Schoenfelder. The house's daytime spaces—the living rooms, studies, and library—are all upstairs, on the double-height second floor, while the bedrooms and kitchen are tucked away below.
Schoenfelder and Shivakumar at their house.
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Trails Through Time - Page 2
You measure your weight and the weight of your shoes and gear. You count situps and pullups and squats and lunges. You know to the tenth of a mile how long every road and trail is within a 12-mile radius of your home and how long it'll take to run there at a slow, medium or fast pace. You might measure heartbeats and body fat and VO2max. You measure how many miles you've run per day, week, month and year and check the average pace for each one.
And then you break the old course record, but someone else beats you by five seconds and happiness slips away. You convince yourself you might really find happiness if you can run six seconds faster, or a sub-five-minute mile. And when you do that, you'll say you won't be happy till you can average sub-five's in a 5K.
It's never enough. Happiness is fleeting or always just one measurement away.
If you're really lucky, though, one day you might see that some of your greatest runs have little to do with measuring anything at all. You might see that you have been running away from, rather than to, a place of happiness within.
Some of my best days are when I practically forget I'm running and just enjoy the sights, sounds, smells and the beauty of the world I'm in, like I did when I first started.
According to the University of California researcher Sonja Lyumbomirsky, PhD, about 40 percent of our happiness is influenced by what we do deliberately to make ourselves happy. Several studies have indicated that simply running is a potent mood elevator. One study even found that 30 minutes of exercise was more effective than drugs in relieving depression.
Simply put, running can make you happy. Some people call it "flow." Flow can be defined as a form of happiness that emerges when we become so immersed in an activity we love that time seems to stop.
Beyond all the assessment that might lie between a 4:59 and a 5:01, there's a place where measurements are forgotten and you run to experience the sheer joy of running. All you need do is leave the watch at home.
On a recent trip to the Utah desert, I found the flow I'd seemingly lost obsessing over measurements of time. I'd planned on going to this secret location for years, having once seen a photograph of it in 1993. It took me 14 years to find its location, and two more years to get there and explore. (But who's measuring?)
In the stratified layers of petrified dunes, I saw geologic ages unraveling before me, from dinosaur tracks to petroglyphs to footprints in the sand. A span of a million years passed underfoot in a matter of minutes.
I ran through the layers like I was climbing a ladder through time. I saw things so beautiful I just had to smile. For a moment, I found happiness.
But moments, like grains of sand on a dune, eventually get buried or blow by on the wind. When you reset the hourglass, a new measurement begins. Time to set a new goal. In the pursuit of happiness, trail running can get you there. The trick lies in knowing to pursue it all over again tomorrow.
Bernie measures time and finds flow near Silt, Colorado.


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Topic: Factory Girl: overriding a foreign key / association
If I have a factory that assembles the associations of a record, I can't figure out how to call the factory to override the foreign key - it gets set to the association from the factory file no matter what I pass to Factory.create(). I want to do this so I can spec out the behavior of the record validations when the foreign key is nil, or when it points to a non-existent record.
Suppose I have these two classes and their factories:
class Degree < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :institution, :foreign_key => "institution_code"
# ... other associations ...
def validate
if institution_code.nil? or institution.nil?
errors.add(:institution_code, "Must be a valid institution")
class Institution < ActiveRecord::Base
Factory.define :degree do |d|
d.association :institution, :factory =>:institution
# other attributes and associations here
Factory.define :institution do |i|
i.institution_code "00001"
i.name "International Institute of Rails"
The problem with this approach is that even if I call:
Factory(:degree, :institution_code => nil) or
Factory(:degree, :institution_code => '00002')
I get back a Degree object that has institution_code set to "00001".
I could of course create a specifically defined :degree factory that didn't set up associations, so I could just set the foreign keys as attributes. But I actually have 5 associations to test, and each needs to fail if it's set to nil or to point to a non-existent record. So that would mean for each nil association I wanted to test, I'd have to manually set the other 4 to valid values; that gets tedious in a hurry and defeats the purpose of using factories.
Thoughtbot docs don't explain how to do this, and Google has been unhelpful on this issue. Any advice appreciated, thanks.
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Logan Reclining Leather Loveseat
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The Logan Loveseat provides consistent support and comfort that always welcomes you home.
The reclining loveseat creates a place of relaxation in your space.
The Logan Motion Loveseat offers sophistication of style and an appreciation for relaxation. The plush two-section back, pocket coil seat cushions, and pillow soft arms welcomes you home.
Both seats recline inches from for the wall for greater room flexibility. It is covered in a durable top grain leather. The all steel mechanism and wood frame will ensure your enjoyment and relaxation for many years.
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SAN JOSE (KCBS) — Plug-In 2014, the premiere electric vehicle conference in the nation, began on Monday at the San Jose Convention Center with those in attendance discussing and debating the future of plug-in cars.
Currently, there are more than 225,000 plug-ins vehicles being driven on U.S. roads and that number, say proponents, expanding.
"The market is growing steadily, especially in places like California," Mark Duvall, of the Electric Power Research Institute said. "In Santa Clara County, for example, over ten percent of new vehicles sales are plug-in vehicles. So it's not just that you know someone who knows someone that owns a vehicle; it's now every day."
Duvall said the increase is not just in California as interest has spread to the Midwest and the Southeast.
"One of the hottest markets for the Nissan LEAF in the country right now is Atlanta, Georgia. So it's spreading beyond California," he said.
More auto makers are also getting in the act, including BMW, which has developed a new charging technology that can produce an 80 percent charge in just 30 minutes.
"We see it as a growing market. It's not a niche market anymore," Cliff Fietzek, manager of connected e-mobility at BMW said.
Affordability and better infrastructure, most agree, are the two main factors that are critical to the long-term success of electric vehicles.
"We really try to get this overall approach together to make it as easy as possible to the customer," Fietzek said.
Plug-In 2014 Conference organized by EPRI will run through Wednesday, July 31.


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Hannover Medical School, MHH
Hannover, Germany
Diagnosis of perianal thrombosis (program ID: 244987)
Jürgen Klempnauer
Department of General, Abdominal and Transplant Surgery
Specialized in: general surgery, abdominal surgery
Clinic for general, abdominal and transplant surgery at the Medical University of Hanover offers comprehensive care for surgical treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the entire abdominal cavity. The main areas are surgery of the pancreas, stomach surgery, surgery of the liver, biliary tract/gall bladder, surgery of the small intestine and colon, laparoscopic surgery, endocrine surgery, hernia surgery, internal peritonectomy resection and transplantation of organs, namely liver, kidneys and pancreas.
Transplant Center at the Medical University in Hannover is the largest center of its type in Germany. Currently, it performs 140 liver, 200 kidney and 20 pancreas transplants a year. Since the first kidney transplant in 1968 and the first liver transplant in 1973, its founder has conducted here more than 4,000 kidney transplants and 2,000 liver transplants. For some metastatic tumor peritoneal carcinogenic diseases, such as ovarian carcinoma or carcinoma of the appendix, a positive result can be achieved by treatment via radical polyabdominal resection, removal of peritoneum or additional intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy for treatment of diseases which cannot be treated differently. Such therapy, in most cases does not lead to recovery, but may, in certain circumstances, substantially improve the life quality and prolong it significantly. Here, first of all, you need to think about the peritoneal carcinosis upon carcinoma of the appendix (peritoneal pseudomyxoma) and ovarian carcinoma. The clinic has been using this form of therapy for several years. Until 2003, this method has been used for treatment of 67 patients. Despite the high possibility of complications, there was improvement in the quality of life and its substantial prolongation.
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- complete blood count
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- abdominal ultrasound
- CT/MRI abdomen
- nursing services
- consultation of related specialists
- treatment by chief physician and all leading experts
- explanation of individual treatment plan
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Hello I need some advice.
I'm getting a custom lattice (Smallman style) flamenco guitar built and I'm looking for a pick-up solution with the following characteristics. I realize some of them are contradictory! I'm actually less sensitive to tone because in any serious stage situation I'll use a microphone. I need the pickup more for jamming. I would like however to be able to record the pickup sound along with a mike in order to apply processing to the pickup sound and mix it back into the live sound. The characteristics I need are.
1) Low feedback
2) Picks up guitar body tapping. I play percussion on the guitar beyond the usual Flamenco tapping
3) Good separation between the strings. Perhaps even with 6 different channels that can be output together.
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8 years & up. Specially designed tools to fit a child's grip, this set of carpentry tools includes all the tools necessary to build simple creations to more complex projects. Tools are sharp and require adult supervision. Use this opportunity to share tool safety and carpentry knowledge while building team work and learning together. Includes: tool box, handsaw, 2 pairs of goggles, 6" ruler, 10' tape measure, phillip and flat head screwdrivers, tool belt, 6 1/2" hammer and 2 clamps.


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Vifah Renaissance Outdoor Hand-Scraped Hardwood Bench - Acacia
Keep your outdoor patio or garden looking great when you relax with the Vifah Renaissance Outdoor Hand-Scraped Hardwood Bench (V1302). This beautiful bench is made of acacia hardwood, which is resistant to several types of outdoor forces, including normal wear & tear, water, weather, termites, rot, and much more. This hand-scraped bench features a style like no other, and the cross-pattern back section gives the bench a unique style you won't find anywhere else.
The wood for this bench is grown in 100% well-managed forests, meaning that you won't have to worry about the natural resources used to make this outdoor piece. Each forest is managed to regrow trees after using them, so it won't contribute to any deforestation, and this forest initiative allows this bench to achieve the mark of certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). A slatted seat gives your body the support it needs during your sit, keeping you comfortable and supported. Ideal for any outdoor application, this bench will keep your friends and family comfortably seated whenever they need it.
Acacia Hardwood:Made of acacia hardwood, this bench is sturdy and will stand up to most outdoor forces to stay sturdy for years to come
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- Model: V1302Vifah Renaissance Outdoor Hand-Scraped Hardwood Bench
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Topic: How do I find & view all those RDoc files scattered on my hard drive?
Every time I download and install a MacPort, Ruby gem, or similar software, the installer makes RI and RDoc files. Many of the RI files simply disappear. The RDoc files are apt to be called "index.html". I've never been able to find a way to access them. Searching for "index.html" on my hard drive produces a list of hundreds of files, most of which are useless. Moreover, many installs go to a part of the hard drive where only root has read permissions. So I'm seeing only a fraction of the RDocs on my system.
Any suggestions on how to access -- and organize -- these files?
I get an error when trying to run gem_server:
[~] jimgagne% gem_server
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sources (LoadError)
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-0.9.2/lib/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:6
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-0.9.2/lib/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:12
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:112:in `manage_gems'
from /usr/local/bin/gem_server:334
When I try to run rake doc:rails in my Rails project, what it says is:
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'vendor/rails/railties/CHANGELOG'
---Jim Gagne---
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Fort Dodge police investigate shooting
The victim of a shooting Friday was released later in the afternoon as police searched for more clues in a case they're calling an attempted murder.
Cameron D. Carodine, 23, of Fort Dodge, received non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting.
Fort Dodge Police Chief Tim Carmody said officers were in the area of 300 N. Ninth St. around 12:14 p.m. Friday after receiving a call about gunshots being fired in the neighborhood.
"Almost simultaneously, another call came in from the 800 block of Fourth Avenue North, less than a block away," Carmody said.
That call reported that a man, who police identified as Carodine, had been shot.
Officers arrived at 811 Fourth Ave. N., to find Carodine suffering from a single gunshot wound to his left hip area. At the scene, Carodine appeared to be conscious and alert as he was loaded into an ambulance and taken to Trinity Regional Medical Center.
He was released from the hospital a short time later.
Investigators believe Carodine had gotten into a fight with an unidentified black man when the shooting happened. Carmody said more specific information on the suspect was not immediately available.
As the investigation continues, Carmody said officers are interviewing witnesses and looking for other evidence that will lead them to the suspect.
"We believe that there are additional witnesses who have valuable information that would help us bring closure to the victim and his family," he said, adding the Webster County Sheriff's Department and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are helping in the case.
Anybody with information on the shooting is asked to call the Fort Dodge Police Department at 573-1426 or Webster County Crime Stoppers at 573-1444. Tips can also be submitted online at wccrimestoppers.com or by texting "LEC" and the tip to 274637.


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ACM225 - Effects, Graphics and Compositing
Unit details
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Note:Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.
This unit develops skills in creating and manipulating moving and still images and sound, through special effects and compositing techniques. Motion graphics and compositing are standard techniques within the film, animation and games content industries. Topics covered include lighting and directing for chroma-key (green screen) footage, typography for film titling, and compositing using industry standard software. Students work in studio and laboratory workspaces, and have opportunities for producing live action and stop motion work for assignment tasks. The unit requires no prior knowledge of software or compositing techniques.
Research reviews 20%, Exercises 20%, and Major production 60%
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Mia Wasikowska is Everywhere
Just one year ago, only the savviest talent spotters would have recognized the name "Mia Wasikowska" among a list of up-and-coming actresses. But having previously appeared in several shorts, television programs and indie features, Wasikowska suddenly is everywhere. She stars as Alice in Tim Burton's worldwide hit, Alice in Wonderland; was nominated as one of MTV's 2010 "Best Female Breakout Stars"; plays a lead role in Gus Van Sant's upcoming Restless; made the cover of Vanity Fair; headlines as another titular heroine in Cary Fukunaga's upcoming Jane Eyre; and plays the pivotal role of Joni — so named by her lesbian parents after Joni Mitchell — in Lisa Cholodenko's Focus Features release, The Kids are All Right. And all that before she turns 21. Indeed, Wasikowska's rapid fame has even caught her by surprise — "It feels really weird seeing me on a movie poster," she told The Guardian.
From Dance to Film
Most people who seem like overnight successes actually aren't, and Wasikowska is no exception. She has been performing since a very early age in her hometown of Canberra, Australia. The daughter of a Polish photographer mother, Marzina Wasikowska, and Australian painter father, John Reid, Wasikowska studied ballet as a child and then, at 14, shifted her focus to acting. She explains to the Times of London, "I was doing 35 hours a week, and it became so much about physical perfection that it kind of beats you down and grates on your self-esteem. I loved performing, and I was watching all these amazing films, like Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue. What I liked most about them was that, unlike ballet, they were about imperfection and all the things we, as human beings, do wrong. I became really attracted to that, because it seemed to be much more about real life than ballet."
Before she made her name in Hollywood, Wasikowska was a rising star in the Australian filmmaking community. After that decision to leave dance for film, she signed with an agent and then went up for auditions, landing a role in an Australian hospital show, All Saints. Other parts quickly followed, ranging from a killer gator horror flick, Rogue, to September, a drama set in 1968 dealing with Aboriginal issues. In the latter, Wasikowska plays the girl who comes between two teens — one a white Australian and the other an Aborigine. There was also another titular role in one of the best shorts in recent years, Spencer Susser's I Love Sarah Jane, in which a 13-year-old boy pursues his girl crush (Wasikowska) in a post-zombie apocalypse world. In another edgy film, 2006's Suburban Mayhem, she turned in a supporting part that landed her the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor's Award. Now, between movie shoots in Europe and in the U.S., Wasikowska returns to her family home in Canberra, where she still has her own room. "I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person," she told Australia's Courier Mail. "When I'm in LA, I'm there for work and then I leave and join the rest of the world. I like keeping that balance. I haven't decided where to base myself, but coming back to Canberra grounds me. It connects me back to the real world, reminding me there's a sphere outside filmmaking and it's not all that people do and think about."
In Treatment
Wasikowska's Australian parts were in dark, gritty dramas — worlds away from the teen comedies that many young American actresses do in their early careers. So, when it came time to work in the States, it was natural that Wasikowska would play a character like Sophie, a troubled teenager in HBO's emotionally intense In Treatment series. She left school in Canberra, enrolled in correspondence courses, and traveled to Los Angeles for three months with her mother to do the show. In Treatment, created by the filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia and based on the hit Israeli series Be' Tipul, was an actor's dream — one-hour episodes in which a character confronted their fears and frailties in a weekly session with therapist Paul Weston, played by Gabriel Byrne. Sophie was "Wednesday's child," a suicidal teen athlete. In a series studded with established actresses like Embeth Davidtz and Dianne Wiest, Wasikowska was tagged as the show's break-out discovery. Wrote James Poniewozik at Time Magazine's "Tuned In" TV blog, "Wasikowska is flat-out stunning as the Olympic hopeful who, seeking therapy after a car accident that may have been intentional, gradually reveals a heartbreaking story while fighting Paul—slyly, charmingly, sometimes cruelly—every step of the way."
Down the Rabbit Hole
After her stunning arc on In Treatment, Wasikowska was sought after by producers and directors. She appeared opposite Daniel Craig in Edward Zwick's World War 2 movie, Defiance, and played a young aviator in Mira Nair's Amelia, but it would be her next part that would make her a worldwide star. With a budget estimated at almost $200 million, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was a risky update of a classic children's tale. For his movie, which was ported over to 3D during post-production, Burton updated the characters, returning a now-older Alice to the world of the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen she visited as a child. Burton auditioned dozens of young actresses for Alice until he settled on Wasikowska. Explained Burton about Wasikowska's appeal, "I always like it when I sense people have that 'old soul' quality to them." Indeed, from the beginning the actress had a mature take on Lewis Carroll's work. While she remembers the books from when she was a child, a more memorable impression was made by another version of the tale. As she told the Times of London, "My other encounter with Alice was the Czech director Jan Svankmajer's version, a stop-motion animated film, which is incredible. When we were kids, my mum would pop it in the VCR player. We would be disturbed, and wouldn't really understand it, but we couldn't look away because it was too intriguing. So I had kept that feeling about Alice, a kind of haunting feeling." The film was a worldwide smash — less than two months after opening it grossed over $300 million worldwide. And while Burton's 3D theatrics may have split the critics, they all were bewitched by Wasikowska. Wrote Rick Groen in Toronto's Globe and Mail, "The true three-dimensionality here is the old-fashioned kind – Wasikowska's fully rounded performance. Throughout the technical razzle-dazzle, we keep returning to the pallor of that face, the gravity in those eyes. She's the ballast in all this free-floating imagination, giving the picture weight and ambiguity too – the near-woman in retreat from the impending world of Hamishes back to childhood's fragile fancies." Todd McCarthy, Variety's veteran critic at the time, concurred, calling Wasikowska "an actress of willowy, Gwyneth Paltrowesque beauty but, more important here, of a pale but powerful resolve that confers upon the picture any gravity it may possess."
The Future of Mia
As Alice in Wonderland continues to score with audiences around the world, Wasikowska's next pictures are waiting to be released, and she's already on set in her next leading role. First up, from Focus Features, is Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids are All Right, in which Wasikowska plays the teenage daughter of lesbian parents played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore. When she and her brother, played by Josh Hutcherson, decide to find their sperm-donor father, a casually charming Mark Ruffalo enters the mix to make all question their family values. In post-production is Restless, from Gus Van Sant, in which she plays a teen focused on mortality. Written by first-timer Jason Lew and produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Bryce Dallas Howard, the project was described by the producers as "a contemporary and distinctive take on young love." She told The Guardian, "Van Sant is fantastic. I felt so liberated on set because I was encouraged to act like a young person He wanted me to have fun and be myself; it felt like I was in college." And then there's Jane Eyre, Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga's take on Charlotte Bronte's 1847 tale. Wasikowska plays the orphaned governess, and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger) her imposing employer, Rochester. When asked by the Australian blog Movie Mazzupial what attracted her to the part, she says, simply, that she was excited by the change of pace. "I love doing things that are different from anything I've done before. It keeps it interesting, doing different things in different ways. I look forward to finding lots of different characters that challenge me and to also give something back to the audience." As her career so far has more than proven, audiences will have many new characters to look forward to from Wasikowska in the years to come.


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Meaty Choices - Page 3
The problem: Animals are druggies
Today, most livestock that ends up under shrink-wrap spent their lives in extremely cramped and filthy conditions, breading grounds for disease. To stay alive and productive, they are given antibiotics—a staggering 29-million pounds yearly, according to the FDA. And that doesn't include what's tossed into salmon farms—the feedlots of the seas. Overuse of antibiotics on farm animals leads to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could diminish the usefulness of antibiotics that treat us.
Plus, much of the beef produced in the United States is pumped with natural and synthetic growth-inducing sex hormones in the name of faster profit. Residues of these hormones then taint the meat, which has raised the concern for heightened risk of reproductive cancers. Yet, meat is still not monitored for hormone residues and studies looking at their impact on human health are surely lacking.
Your move: Go for the big O
The USDA Organic label is your guarantee that the animals were not given any antibiotics or hormones. A recent study in Environmental Health Perspectives determined that organic poultry operations, which are not allowed to give antibiotics to their birds, had significantly lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria than their conventionally raised counterparts. If you're concerned with antibiotics in salmon, choose wild swimmers.
The problem: The oceans are under siege
A raft of studies suggests that reeling in more fish for dinner can help slash the risk for many diseases, particularly if you nosh on sardines, sablefish, salmon and others that are chockablock with omega-3 fatty acids. These same omegas have demonstrated to have exercise performance benefits as well. Sadly, overfishing and destructive fishing methods are rapidly transforming our oceans into a humongous ghost town as species such as bluefin tuna are on the brink of collapse. Plus, harmful mercury and other pollutants are turning some fish species into swimming bullets.
Your move: Cast your line for sustainable options
Concentrate on eating seafood deemed "Eco-Best" by the Environmental Defense Fund's Seafood Selector at www.edf.org. The guide features fish and shellfish that get high-water marks for health (low toxin risk) and sustainability (not overfished) such as sablefish, wild Alaskan salmon and Pacific sardines. Among others, you'll want to cut bait on red snapper, imported shrimp, bluefin tuna, farmed salmon and Chilean sea bass.


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Lisa Cochrane, senior vice president of marketing, Allstate Insurance Co., discussed how Allstate's "Mayhem" campaign has made the brand a leader in the insurance category again.
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Modern Pentathlon has been confirmed as one of the 25 core sports
Modern Pentathlon has been confirmed as one of the 25 core sports that will be proposed to the 125th IOC Session for approval to appear at the 2020 Olympic Games.
USA Pentathlon is excited to announce that the sport of Modern Pentathlon is included in the list of 25 proposed core sports in the recent IOC executive board decision regarding the 2020 Olympic program.
Our ancient sport, created by the founder of the Olympic Games, reinvented to be relevant to the current global youth culture and designated as the test of the complete athlete with the mandate by our international federation to make not just great athletes, but great people.
Pentathlon athletes look forward to the opportunity to fence, run, swim, ride horses and shoot laser pistols, all in a single day, in an as yet undecided Olympic city in 2020.
As the Olympic Games have evolved, so has the sport of Modern Pentathlon reinventing itself to ensure relevance with the youth of the world. Shooting laser pistols after running 800 meters is an example of the Pentathlon evolution. The Pentathlon One-Stadium concept proposed for Rio will see all 5 disciplines taking place in a single stadium. These and other exciting advancements will test the world's most complete athletes in the coming years as they train every day.


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LINGUIST List 18.2165
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Calls: Computational Ling/Syntax/Semantics: Natural Language... (Jrnl)
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Full Title: Natural Language Engineering
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2007
Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE)
Special Issue on Textual Entailment
Call For Papers
The goal of identifying textual entailment - whether one piece of text can
be plausibly inferred from another - has emerged in recent years as a
generic core problem in Natural Language Understanding. For instance, in
order to answer the question 'Who killed Kennedy?', a QA system may need
to recognize that 'Oswald killed Kennedy' can be inferred from 'the
assassination of Kennedy by Oswald'.
Work in this area has been largely driven by the PASCAL Recognizing Textual
Entailment (RTE) challenges, a series of annual competitive meetings
). This work exhibits strong
ties to some earlier lines of research, particularly automatic acquisition
of paraphrases and lexical semantic relationships, and unsupervised
inference in applications such as question answering, information
extraction and summarization. It has also opened the way to newer lines of
research on more involved inference methods, on knowledge representations
needed to support this natural language understanding challenge and on the
use of learning methods in this context. RTE has fostered an active and
growing community of researchers focused on the problem of applied
entailment. The special issue of JNLE will provide an opportunity to
showcase some of the most important work in this emerging area.
Articles for this special issue are invited on all aspects of textual
entailment, aiming at a broader scope than exhibited within the RTE
challenges. Topics include, but are not limited to:
*Representation levels, such as
-Lexical, n-gram, and substring overlap
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I was pretty much familiar with the story
about how the Pentagon Papers
were leaked to the press in 1971. I knew that
Daniel Ellsberg, a
high-level analyst at the Pentagon and the
RAND Corp., had Xeroxed the
Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War
and leaked it to the
press, notably the New York Times.
What I
never realized was what a high-ranking
employee really Ellsberg was and
how secret the Pentagon Papers really were.
"The Most Dangerous Man in
America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon
Papers," a documentary by
Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, explains
all this. Locked in safes,
the papers' existence was a secret even from
President Lyndon B.
Johnson, who, it was believed, would have been
infuriated by such a
history. Ellsberg didn't merely leak the
papers, he played a key role
in contributing to them.
short, could not be dismissed as merely a
sneak and a snitch, but a
man who had direct knowledge of how the
American public had been
misled. He saw himself not as a peacenik war
protester, but as a
government servant exercising a higher moral
duty. "The Most Dangerous
Man in America" traces Ellsberg's doubts about
authority back to a
childhood tragedy and forward to the influence
of young men who went to
prison for their convictions.
is a
skillful, well-made film, although, since
Ellsberg is the narrator, it
doesn't probe him very deeply. We see his
version of himself. A great
deal of relevant footage has been assembled
and is intercut with stage
re-creations, animations and the White House
tapes of Richard Nixon,
who fully advocated the nuclear bombing of
Hanoi. Kissinger was
apparently a voice of restraint.
. . .The Most Dangerous Man in
America lives up to its subject's
importance. It's not only a fine
introduction for viewers who don't
remember the Vietnam era, but also
offers some revelations to those who
thought they knew it reasonably
Hornaday, The Washington Post
As "The
Most Dangerous Man in America" opens,
Ellsberg describes how, in the
fall of 1969, he photocopied 7,000
pages of a classified history of
U.S. involvement in Vietnam and
ultimately made it public in the New
York Times, The Washington Post and
other outlets.
Narrated by
Ellsberg and told through a carefully
layered collage of archival
footage, reenactments, animation and
present-day interviews with
eyewitnesses, "The Most Dangerous Man
in America" grabs viewers with
intrigue and high-stakes derring-do
and never lets go. After a
combination breakdown-breakthrough,
when he decides to risk his career
and blow the whistle, Ellsberg is
hounded by Richard Nixon's
administration and the FBI, indicted
on charges that could mean life in
jail and finally targeted in a plot
that would come to light during the
Watergate investigation.
amazingly, "The Most Dangerous Man in
America" succeeds not just as a
documentary, but also as an example of
genres that most fiction films
struggle to get right . . .
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Gieseke pushes shared governance, independence
ST. PETER Area agribusiness man and author Tim Gieseke focused his campaign plans on pushing the idea of shared governance and independence from party politics Saturday after receiving the Independence Party endorsement for the Minnesota House district 19A special election. He was the only candidate to announce a run for the endorsement.
The special election is being held to fill the vacancy left by Rep. Terry Morrow's (DFL St. Peter) resignation earlier this month. The special election will be held Tuesday, Feb. 12, with the primaries held Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Gieseke heavily focused on the idea of shared governance, which seeks partnership of government and private business to solve problems. The proposal has private business largely taking over the responsibilities for important programs or policies, such as water quality, on the local level by acting as an extension of the government. Gieseke said the government is removed in these situations, since it remains important and active as an auditor of the partnered privates businesses. He argued this approach assumed both sides had something to contribute and could tackle complex issues through economic forces, such as attaching a monetary value to environmental quality as an incentive to farmers.
Gieseke also discussed several hot topics being debated in the Legislature. He said he was generally supportive of raising taxes as part of mixed approach to balance the state budget and was specifically supportive of the proposal to extend sales tax to online purchases. He did object to extending taxes to previously untaxed items like clothing, which he said would only produce a minimal income but seemed likely to be complex enough to have unintended consequences. He said he was initially supportive of raising the minimum wage, but wanted to talk with the business community about their objectives before finalizing his opinion.
Gieseke said he was uninterested in pushing discussion about same-sex marriage, but would vote for a bill legalizing it if elected. He said his primary reason was his concern about people's rights being limited due to legal issues wrapped around marriage status, such as being able to see a partner in the hospital or access to certain benefits. He said he supports the right for people to spend their lives with those they chose.
Beyond that, Gieseke said focusing on finding a method to sustainably fund the state's highway system is essential to being able to address the problems of Highway 14. On education, he said he was interested in investing in early education, but skeptical about further funding for higher education when too much money is being spent on administration instead of education.
Campaign ahead
Gieseke's campaign said it is realistic that the Independence Party will lack the party network of the DFL and Republican parties in the 19A campaign and that the DFL will continue to set the legislative agenda regardless of who wins the special election. The campaign said it would seek to appeal to voters by offering a fiscally conservative and socially progressive alternative to the dead-locking partisanship exhibited by both major political parties.
Gieseke bluntly said he chose to run as an Independence candidate over the benefits of one of the established parties because he did not think either party would allow him to fully push his ideas if any special interest objected. He said by running with a third party, he could be free to be a bold voice in the Legislature.
The campaign said its battle plan would focus on seeking as many debates as possible for Gieseke to participate in. The goal in this approach is to make up for the lack of infrastructure by fully impressing Gieseke's sincerity on the audience and showing off the strength of his sophisticated message over party line messaging. Gieseke also said he is partially working on the possibility that the district is more centrist than it initially appears because it has only run DFL candidates with limited Republican alternatives. He said that with the three options in this special election, the voters would be able to voice show their more independent side.
The campaign does not plan buy any radio or TV ads itself, but the state Independence Party is planning to buy radio ads supportive of Gieseke and the party as an alternative in this election.
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Scan and Submit…it's simple and secure!
Companies can easily convert both personal and business checks they receive from their customers into digital images and deposit them directly with Bank of North Carolina through a secure web connection.
A small scanning station takes an image of the front and back of the check, including the endorsement, reads the check amount, and transmits balanced deposit information. All data transmissions between your business and Bank of North Carolina are performed using the latest secure encryption technology.
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USA Taekwondo has been notified that the World Taekwondo Federation will be hosting the 1st WTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships on June 10, 2009, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Those U.S. citizens born after January 1, 1992, that are holders of a Kukkiwon certification, are eligible to compete pursuant to the disability criteria outlined in the competition announcement.
While USA Taekwondo is unable to provide funding for this event we wanted to encourage eligible athletes to compete in this WTF-sanctioned event. If you meet the below classifications and have an interest in competing in this event please send your taekwondo resume and the attached application form to Meredith Miller by Wednesday, April 15.
Again, airfare associated with participating in this event will be the responsibility of the athlete. The organizing committee will provide room and board from check-in on June 7 to check out on June 15. The competitors would not be required to stay past June 11th or 12th. Depending on the level of interest, USA Taekwondo may provide a National Team Coach for this event. All applicants will be contacted after Wednesday, April 15.


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Norma, I'm going to have to cut back looking myself Don
They all look great - I REALLY like the first one!CL
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< what Craig said. Norma, I don't see you having problems with peppers in dough, I don't. Don
i know you have thought of this already, but just make sure to decrease your water to account for the water in the peppers. i neglected to do that and my dough turned into more of a batter, and while it made great bread, I wasn't able to make a pie out of it. looking forward to your results though!!!
Has anyone tried putting freshly ground black pepper in the dough? I am curious as to the effects of it overall. I have a plan that I will execute probably next weekend but if fresh ground pepper will screw with the dough then I would rather save myself the effort.
nice! that looks great! do you have any pictures of the finished crust showing the peppers in it?


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Changes ahead in 2013 for District 88
Change will be the operative word for the school district in 2013.
The first change is a turnover of school board membership. The 2013 calendar year finds 40 percent of the school board positions filled by new individuals. The new year also finds a new slate of school board officers. The blending of new and returning school board members will result in a changed school board personality. As the year progresses, that new personality will emerge.
One new task for the school board will be the recruitment and selection of a new superintendent. The school board has taken the first step in that process by approving a working relationship with the South Central Service Cooperative to facilitate the recruitment and selection process. With approximately 40 superintendent vacancies expected in Minnesota schools this year and a small pool of potential candidates, the process will benefit from outside facilitation. Ed Waltman, retired superintendent from Mankato, will direct the recruitment process. Mr. Waltman proposes a process that emphasizes extensive involvement of staff and community members in the identification of skills and characteristics desired for the person filling the position. Timing of the process should result in selection of a person by mid-April.
The new school board will also have decisions to be made that carry over from the past. In addition to selecting a new superintendent in the next six months, the new school board will address the following: (1) Revision of the current year budget, (2) Approval of a budget for 2013-14, (3) Future allocation of facility spaces, (4) Allocation of referendum revenue resources, (5) Approval of principal and teacher evaluation procedures to meet the new state requirements.


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Power outage affects Messenger internet
Lauds Honor Flight
To the editor:
The sixth Honor Flight from Fort Dodge to Washington, D.C., will always be remembered by all of us. The organization, care, hugs and handshakes were awesome. For me it was a reunion. Janet Secor, our flight M.D., and Jon Larson, my guardian, were my students 50 years ago. Lots of memories of North Junior High.
Thanks to all who made this possible.
Gary Carr
Fort Dodge


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About the Author: Gregory L. Garland serves as Media and Outreach Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs.
You could list Donald Payne, Russell Feingold, Christopher Smith, Teresa Whalen, Bobbie Pittman, and Jendayi Frazer. Then, your list could include Franklin Graham, Billy's son; Pastor Rick Warren, scheduled to give the invocation for the presidential inauguration; Stephen Morrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Stephen Hayes of the Corporate Council on Africa; Mel Foote of the Constituency for Africa; Zain Verjee of CNN; or David J. O'Reilly of Chevron-Texaco. What about Angelina Jolie, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Will Smith, and Mia Farrow? Hollywood celebrities and their publicists have taken a liking to Africa in recent years. Speaking of Hollywood, there's a good case for the ghosts of Alex Hailey (Roots), Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan of the Apes), and Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca and The African Queen).
The U.S. Constitution isn't clear on the matter, either. It's easy enough to say that the president makes foreign policy; we at State naturally tend to take this position, since we work directly for the president. Yet, the Constitution itself doesn't say exactly that. Congress has a role; most important, it has the power of the purse. No program, including the very salaries of ambassadors, can continue without funding controlled by the Congress.
And who does Congress listen to? The voters, naturally. And thus any group or individual who might influence the voters. Until recently, scholars tended to categorize the role of citizens in foreign policy as "special interests" or "lobbies". There was the "China" lobby in the 1950s and 60s, which supported Taiwan. Now we have the "Cuba" and "Israel" lobbies. And we are witnessing the rise of an "Africa" lobby.
Take a good look at who in the U.S. is paying attention to Africa. Christian churches have supported missions there for more than a century; it should come as no surprise that Pastor Warren and Rev. Graham, among many others, have spoken out about HIV/AIDS in Africa. American business has a growing stake in Africa. Thus, it should come as no surprise that the Corporate Council on Africa has emerged as a player. Recognizing this trend, states and cities have rushed to set up international trade agencies with Africa-focused programs. Hollywood celebrities have sought to associate themselves with great social and humanitarian issues since Charlie Chaplin took on European fascism. It should come as no surprise that some stars might mix sincerity with public relations to draw attention to Africa.
Where does that leave the State Department? It's still the center of formal state-to-state communications, aka the old diplomacy. Yet it's not even the lone U.S. federal entity dealing with Africa. The U.S. Agency for International Development operates bigger missions than State in a number of African countries. The Department of Health and Human Services maintains a large presence in many countries as part of the fight against AIDS and malaria. Peace Corps has been a symbol of a benign America since 1961. And the military has brought attention upon itself with the launch of the Africa Command.
As American citizen engagement with Africa expands, it will become ever more necessary for our own Washington-based foreign affairs professionals to look beyond the world of demarches, foreign ministries, and embassies to understand what is really going on inside our own country. It means, also, getting out from behind our security guards, thick walls, and addiction to computers to actually listen to Americans live and in person, not just via the internet. The modern foreign policy of a democratic government demands no less of those of us who have the privilege of serving the taxpayers.
Nelima in Minnesota writes:
Gregory you sound optimistic, but all I can think of is 'Never Again' after Rwanda and 'Genocide Again' in Darfur. People can talk all they want, but at the end of the day it's economic gain and not human plight that moves governments to action.
DipNote Blogger Gregory Garland writes:
@ Nelima in Minnesota -- Thanks for your comment Nelima. Business interests obviously are a factor in foreign affairs, one which historically tends to trump in the absence of other forces. But I would argue that the reason why Darfur has become a cause on campuses and in churches and synagogues around the country is the spectre of genocide -- the fear of repeating Rwanda. Save Darfur is a remarkable coalition of Christians, Jews, African American organizations, students, and NGOs that has put Darfur on the policy screen in the White House, in Congress, and at the UN. This a grassroots movement the likes of which Africa has not seen from America since the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands are alive today because of American food, medicine, and supplies. If we're talking about preventing genocide, saving lives has to be goal #1, and saved lives have been been the direct result of America humanitarian assistance -- despite the failure to end the conflict.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
The day a former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Bono stepped off a plane in Africa with matching sunglasses, looking for all the world like the Blues Brothers "on a mission from God" (having been given the blessings of the Pope on their previous stop), I realized I was looking at the face of what is now commonly referred to as "Transformational Diplomacy".
Attitude is everything.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
3. Increased missionary work, mostly from the US.
4. Increased Diplomatic work from many civilized countries...also: Remember, America has been there in the forfront in a proactive manner feeding, building and making more attempts at peace than any other Nation on earth.
We can give and give, but until we help develop a positive identity for Africa and use the resources in a democratic manner nothing will change for decades to come.
Money is a tool and the best VOICE any nation can have is the development of its resources in a proactive manner for the citizens.
That is the voice Africa needs...development leading to unity.
Takashi in Japan writes:
I am planning to visit a seminar given by a South African diplomat, about its history, culture, nature, and environments.
I hope I can actually get the ticket and take a seat on that day. And above all, be on the place on that day.
James in Connecticut writes:
Africans need all the help and support from Americans we need to reach out more and help.
Guillermo in California writes:
I'm so glad to hear that United States is working to help Africa with their situation there. One of the greatest problems facing the planet at this time is the epidemic of world hunger. Haiti, only a few hundred miles from the Gulf Coast of this country, is one of the worst suffering areas in the world. Citizens there have taken to literally eating dirt -- they pack dirt, salt, and shortening into a cookie shape and eat them, and feed them to their children as well. Just recently, there was a vote on a resolution of the United Nations, over whether or not food was a basic human right. The measure passed 180 votes to 1 against. The solitary nation to vote it down was the United States. The richest nation in the world, home to some of the greatest agricultural resources in the world, doesn't think that every human being should have access to food. The reason claimed by the government was that the resolution wasn't well worded, which seems a little paltry. So, this season, if you have the option to go to Albertson's or Safeway, or during a cash crunch you can get a payday loan, be thankful, because you are one of the lucky few.
Susan in Florida writes:
@ Guillermo in California -- I am stunned by your entry. What has happened to the country I have loved all my life? The country that has a Statue that invites the poor, the downtrodden, the desperate, to come here for opportunities and for liberty? When did we become a country "for the money, of the money, by the money" only? I wish I could say that I am optimistic about 2009 but after reading about our vote in the UN, I am only saddened.
Peter in California writes:
The present Regional Topics of Africa are as follows:
* African Education Initiative
* African Growth and Opportunity Act
* Malaria Initiative
* HIV/AIDS Initiative
* Policy Overviews
* Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative
* Confidence and Security Building Measures
Absent from this list are the following:
* African Ecology & Climate Change Initiative
* African Energy & Power Initiative
* Child Welfare Initiative
* African Peace Initiative (incl. pluralism, arms control, SALW provisions)
The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), when tied to the United Nations Millennial Development Goals (MDG) provides a good vehicle for incentives to friendly governments with a track record of moving towards compliance with international standards. However, it may make "rich nations richer" if managed incorrectly. We must take care to ensure that some portion of this grant system is there as an incentive for governments teetering and in need of the support. Not just those who are already well-on-their way towards achieving these goals regardless. This program should provide a public grade for the world on the effectiveness of the grants, given objective ways to measure the impact of the grant to the recipient nation. Part of the grant making process should ensure that the recipient find a way for accounting for the funds and to measure the effectiveness of the program.
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) needs to likewise provide a public grade of its effectiveness, in terms of GDP and GDP per capita impacts, numbers of jobs created or improved because of the program, and so on. While uncertainty exists in global markets, targets may be hard to achieve, and programs need time to gain the traction that planners envisioned. Yet over time, progress should be measurable and objectively monitorable by the US-tax-paying public.
The Agriculture and Food Security (AFS) program should provide status reports as to the amount of acreage under plow, or crop yields increased. The program should also be able to ensure that food crops remain on the lands, as opposed to replanting with non-food cash crops (tobacco, cotton) over time.
PEPFAR needs to remove the ban on condom distribution. The abstinence/fidelity-only program has slipped over the Bush administration in containing HIV/AIDS. Condom distribution should again be supported, taking the onus off other NGOs, and removing the stigma from NGOs and health departments who do provide condoms to stem the tide of the disease.
The President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) has been successful and can be sustained until the crisis is sufficiently contained to permit African nation's own health care budgets to cover treatment and prevention.
Africa Education Initiative (AEI) is woefully underfunded to cover the need of education in Africa. It also needs to provide a longer-term strategy to make sure that teachers are not driven away from their assignments, threatened or killed, or forced to discriminate in their teaching (by the expulsion of minorities or women).
Peacekeeping and Terrorism combined should be planned in conjunction with U.S. Africa Command to ensure that there is a combined regional strategy dealing with the different areas of the continent. In most cases and in the more stable nations, the State Department should lead relations with African nations. In others, or in cases of failed states or pseudo-states which are in states of conflict and crises, the Defense or Intelligence departments may be asked to take a more active role, or even at times take lead on determining strategy and policy.


text: I have had the same coil problem twice, once when it got oiled from the breather and once when it expanded. Same symptoms too. On Sep 6, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Randy Grein wrote: > Lately my procedure when stymied on anything is to set it aside until > later - conditions change, I have time to think about the problem, > better advice comes in, whatever. This time it was a combination - > decent light helped, and I had time to think about recommendations. > > For those just joining us (and those with short-term memory loss) my > streetbike suddenly dropped the front cylinder. No water involved, no > recent work, and it wasn't a part-time failure, although it would > sometimes fire above 3-4000 rpm, farting and belching. It HAD to be > electrical in nature but changing the coil, plug or even the black box > didn't help. I just couldn't find it first time around and that's > where the light came in. The positive coil lead felt funny, but seemed > to hang on well enough. But looking at the connector showed it was > expanded quite a bit, and it seemed the plastic exterior was actually > holding the end to the terminal. Crimping it down provided an instant, > consistent spark, and after a bit of work to get past a bit of > flooding it runs fine again! > > Thanks to everyone for suggestions and moral support. > Randy Grein, WMRRA #141 >