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Ash mulls run at Badgers coach
Defensive coordinator may apply for open UW post
Madison - As Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez continued to look for a replacement for Bret Bielema, multiple sources confirmed Friday potential moves that could alter the look of the UW football staff and affect Alvarez's coaching search.
First, two college football sources said former UW defensive coordinator Chris Ash is considering applying for the Badgers' vacant head-coaching position.
Ash agreed last week to follow Bielema to Arkansas as the Razorbacks' defensive coordinator.
Ash, who is staying with UW through the Rose Bowl, is being paid $265,000 this year. His annual salary at Arkansas reportedly would be $550,000.
Ash could not be reached Friday.
Second, two sources with close ties to the UW program confirmed Bielema wants to hire UW defensive line coach Charlie Partridge.
Partridge, who is also UW's associate head coach and co-defensive coordinator, has declined to comment on his future.
According to sources close to the program Partridge is happy at UW.
Asked recently how he was able to navigate the obstacles UW faced during a tumultuous regular season, Partridge said:
"Family. . . belief in these young men. Belief in Wisconsin. This is a very special place."
However, Partridge and the other assistants are trying to weigh their desire to remain at UW with their need to have a job after the season.
Alvarez has said repeatedly he cannot guarantee any of the assistants will be retained by the new head coach in 2013.
Third, two sources confirmed UW wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni is taking a similar position at Tennessee under Butch Jones.
Azzanni was the assistant head coach/wide receivers coach under Jones at Central Michigan from 2007-'09.
However, he was not Jones' first choice to coach the Volunteers' wide receivers. Jones offered that job to former Tennessee quarterback Tee Martin. Martin turned down the offer and remained on the USC staff.
Fourth, a source close to the UW program confirmed linebackers coach Andy Buh has interviewed with California for the vacant position of defensive coordinator.
According to CoachingSearch.com, the job has been offered to Utah State defensive coordinator Dave Aranda.
Buh was one of six assistants hired in the offseason by Bielema.
Bielema brought Ash to UW as the team's secondary coach in 2010 and promoted him to defensive coordinator in 2011.
In Ash's first season as defensive coordinator, the Badgers ranked 13th in the country in scoring defense (19.0 points per game) and 15th in the nation in total defense.
That marked the first time since 2006 that Wisconsin had allowed fewer than 20.0 points per game. Ten of UW's 14 opponents failed to score more than 17 points.
UW enters the 2013 Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 against Stanford 19th nationally in scoring defense (19.1 points per game) and 13th in total defense (320.9 yards).


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Celebrate The International Day For Biological Diversity With Micro Conservation
There's nothing like the potential loss of Earth's rich biodiversity and planetary life support systems to make one feel, well, a little overwhelmed. Our individual actions can seem like small roles on a very big stage.
But it's important to remember that our current crisis of biodiversity loss didn't result from one catastrophic event. It has mostly been created slowly, from thousands of small individual actions. And the solution to halting and reversing the loss of nature needs to occur from thousands of small individual actions.
Big actions for nature conservation
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is really good at big conservation actions. From working with ranchers to protect 30,535 acres (12,357 hectares) at the Waldron in Alberta's southern foothills, to the 136,000-acre (55,03-hectare) Darkwoods property in BC's Selkirk Mountains, to the 10,250-acre (4,148-hectare) Kenauk property in eastern Quebec, NCC's conservation projects help protect large, intact ecosystems and habitat for animals that need lots of wild space.
These big actions are critical for nature conservation. They are essential to protecting some of Canada's most important species and habitats. They are a legacy that will be cherished by our children and grandchildren. But these big actions are not sufficient.
How can you play a role?
Many of us steward a small piece of Canada. It could be a farm, recreational property or a few square metres in an urban backyard. While a farm, recreational property or urban backyard is not a wilderness or a wildlife preserve, these places, your places, are all still a part of nature. And your places have a role in conservation.
May 22 marks the 23rd International Day for Biological Diversity. The theme for this year is "mainstreaming biodiversity": recognizing that biodiversity is not something far away, but something that is close and personal, and has an impact on all our lives. By reversing the loss of biodiversity we are not only protecting nature, but also our own well-being.
And we all have a role in nature conservation.
Five small acts of conservation
Here's a checklist of five small individual acts of conservation we can all take. These are not actions that deal with sustainable business, or good governance or even reducing the amount of stuff you buy and throw away. Those are important, and you should keep recycling your paper, inflating your tires and buying sustainable bananas.
But let's focus on direct actions; actions that will benefit the biodiversity around you right now. Small acts of conservation that will help nature, and will also benefit you and your community.
1. Be for the birds
Scarlet tanager (Photo by Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren, Wikimedia Commons)
Songbirds link ecosystems across the Americas. The Baltimore oriole or scarlet tanager on your property today may have been in Venezuela when you were shoveling snow or skiing. Every year, billions of songbirds make the journey to Canada for one simple reason: the explosion of life that happens in our northern spring makes it a great place to raise a family (okay, it's the bugs).
Sadly, migratory songbirds have been rapidly declining. While many species remain common, they are at risk because of steep population declines. For example, the wood thrush and barn swallow are both considered at risk because their populations in Canada have declined by more than 75 percent in the last 40 years.
Fortunately, there's a lot more we can do to make migratory songbirds feel more welcome. A study by Environment Canada found that house cats and building strikes are major sources of bird mortality. Research is showing that migratory birds aren't too picky about where they stop to refuel and will use cities and other developed landscapes.
You can help by creating migratory bird pit-stops on your property. Planting clusters of native shrubs or trees can provide important habitat. If every Canadian with a single-detached house provides just one small patch of vegetation for songbirds in their yard, we'd add more than 7 million new sites for nesting and resting.
2. Soak it all in
Chignecto Isthmus, New Brunswick (Photo by Mike Dembeck)
We have a funny relationship with water. Too little, and we cherish it as our most precious natural resource. Too much, and we treat it like a waste product to be flushed from the land as quickly as possible. On many yards and properties, water no longer sits and soaks into the ground, but runs off roofs, driveways, fields and lawns into drains and eventually into our streams and lakes.
But your water solution can be someone else's water pollution. One of the biggest issues for Canada's freshwater is too much runoff. The problem with runoff is that it's not just water. It carries sediments, nutrients and other pollutants into our streams and lakes. This can clog streams with silt and cause algal blooms in even very big lakes such as Lake Erie and Lake Winnipeg.
Nature's solution is to hold water on the land in wetlands, forests and prairies. This not only releases water more slowly, but helps remove sediments and recharges our aquifers.
Where you can, slow the flow. Think about how water can be held on your property in rain barrels, rain gardens, wetlands or other natural habitats. Make sure the water that leaves your property is a clean as it can be. Remember, the more water that infiltrates into the ground on your property, the more you are helping to conserve Canada's freshwater habitats.
3. Cover it up
Backus Woods, Ontario (Photo by Simon Wilson)
The canopy cover of a forest and the shade of a tree have an incredible impact on nature and people. A TD Economics study found that an urban trees provide significant energy savings in our cities. A study on the benefits of conserved forests by TD Economics and NCC found that an acre of conserved forest can provide thousands of dollars of important services, such as reducing floods, removing air pollution and sequestering carbon.
Not only are trees the original (and still the best) carbon capture and storage method ever developed (just not by us), they literally create habitat in what was once thin air. When we fill that space above our heads with limb and leaf, we create new habitats.
Prairie Grassland, Manitoba (Photo by NCC)
Now, we can't go out and plant trees everywhere. Canada has prairies, grasslands and other open country habitats that cannot support trees or that may need to maintain their open conditions to support rare wildlife and vegetation communities. But even these open country ecosystems have forested elements, often along river valley lands, where tree cover supports species and maintains water quality.
However, there are millions of places in our cities, around our homes and farms that could support more trees. If you can, find a place to plant a native tree on your property, or support a forest restoration project at NCC. You'll be helping create important habitats, and making the world a cooler place.
4. Know your place
Birding at Tabusintac Estuary, New Brunswick (Photo by NCC)
There is a special magic that comes from knowing wild places and wild things. Unfortunately, particularly for the eight in 10 Canadians that live in cities, we are losing our nature knowledge. An ancient literacy of knowing species and their relationships is slipping away, and with it, an understanding of our connectedness to other living things and our natural world. When we lose our sense of wonder and appreciation for nature, the importance and urgency of conservation is lost.
The good news is that learning about nature is getting easier. While a walk through the woods or grasslands with an elder or experienced naturalist may still be the best way to learn, a few clicks on the internet can reveal not only the species in and around your home, but also how to identify them.
Go and learn to identify the plants and animals that share your ecosystem. Even learning about five new species a year can change the way you see the world. As you get to know wild things, they will start reveal themselves. What appears as a blanket of forest or prairie becomes a richer tapestry.
Knowing and teaching nature literacy, the wonder that lies around all of us, can lead to important conservation actions.
5. Leave some wild
Monarch butterfly (Photo by Dave Nelson)
Nature is pretty generous. In most ecosystems, humans can use a quarter, or even a half, of natural habitats and most species can be maintained. Our challenge in Canada is that while we have the rare opportunity to protect some of world's last true wilderness in our northlands, we have lost significant amount of our natural habitats in the south. We may have over-extended that generosity, and this impacts both nature and the well-being of people.
We have nature in our cities, farms and homes. It may not the same nature that was there several years ago, but it can provide important habitat. There are hundreds of species that will share our space, if we provide room for them. Even in cities, there are many rare and declining species, from monarch butterflies to chimney swifts that will benefit from patches of wild.
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Canada is at the forefront of continental scale conservation issues. That's because Canada possesses a rare treasure, a global biome that is one of the last, large still intact regions left on earth—the boreal forest. (Credit: D. Langhorst)
Canada's boreal forest region spans an impressive 1.2 billion intact acres (485 million hectares). It contains about 25 percent of the world's primary forests. (Credit: Ron Thiessen)
More than 300 species of birds (including the Bay-breasted Warbler, pictured here), that together total between 1 billion and 3 billion individuals, make the boreal forest their home for nesting and raising their young. (Credit: Jeff Nadler)
Large mammals like caribou (pictured here), moose, musk ox, wolves and grizzly bears have found a last North American haven within the boreal forest. (Credit: Valerie Courtois)
The trees, peat, soil, and permafrost of the boreal forest holds some of the largest terrestrial stores of carbon on the planet—more than 208 billion tonnes from one (potentially low) estimate. (Credit: Jeff Wells)
Many of the most impressive conservation gains in Canada's boreal forest region have occurred because of the leadership of Indigenous communities and governments. Here, Madeline Catholique, an elder in the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation, scrapes a moose hide at a traditional tanning camp on the shores of Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories.
The top 10 largest permanently protected areas in Canada's boreal forest region are all as large, or larger, than Yellowstone National Park (including Quebec's 26,107-km² Tursujuq National Park, pictured here). (Credit: Josée Brunelle, KRG)
The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have pledged to ensure that at least half of their northern lands are placed in protected areas off-limits to industrial land-use. The protected areas networks expected to be created from these pledges will cover more than 800,000 km²—an area larger than France. (Credit: Larry Innes)
Within the forestry sector, the landmark Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement was signed three years ago between members of the Forest Products Association of Canada and the leading conservation non-profits working in Canada. The agreement brought a truce to the so-called "Wars in the Woods" and established solid working relationships to advance a series of conservation proposals across Canada. (Credit: Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement)
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In a week of curious title celebrations which have included shaving a celebration into chest hair, moonwalking and dropping the winners' trophy off the bus, Barcelona have managed to come up with an even stranger celebration after their Liga triumph.
The Catalan giants sealed a third successive league crown last week and were presented the trophy after Sunday night's home clash with Deportivo La Coruna.
Rather than merely lifting the trophy and bouncing around excitedly, the players pulled out fresh red peppers and started throwing them at their fans.
And they weren't alone - 16,000 peppers were distributed amongst the fans as the celebrations got into full swing.
But why peppers?
According to the Twitter user and Barcelona sage @barcastuff, the peppers symbolise, ahem, fortitude:
"'Amb dos pebrots' (with two peppers)," he explains, "is the Catalan, civilized version of the Spanish 'con dos cojones' (with two balls)."
Whatever the inspiration for this celebration, it was clearly a good day to get T-Shirts made up, as you can see when the team threw manager Pep Guardiola up in the air in triumph.


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An Aquatarian is most like a vegetarian that eats seafood
by jasncab January 14, 2007
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
A person who says they're a vegetarian, then orders fish or seafood in a restaurant.
He had the ribs and his aquatarian girlfriend had the catfish and salad..
by Saffireblues1979 October 04, 2008
1. living in the water; aquatic.
2. an aquatic animal.
2. an aquatic animal.
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Jets vs. Giants XLV Part VII
After Thanksgiving weekend, everything seems set in stride for Super Bowl XLV: Jets vs. Giants Part VII. The Giants (7-4) beat the Jaguars 24-20 on a game-winning drive with 3:15 left in the game. The Giants running game was somewhat effective with Brandon Jacobs getting 87 yards on 14 carries. The Jets (9-2) dominated the Bengals on Thanksgiving 26-10. Jets WR Brad Smith ran hard and became the first player to get a kick-off return TD and a over-50 yard rushing TD in the same game. Smith lifted the Jets large in the second half. The Jets are a shoe-in for the Super Bowl, and the Giants have an easy schedule so can make ground. Let's make place for these greats by suppporting them and getting prepared for the Super Bowl of the century… Feb. 6, 2011.. Anaheim, Texas.. NY Jets vs. NY Giants!
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Read your message of support for Jason
Read the good luck messages you sent Jason ahead of Saturday's Strictly semi-finals
Gary Barlow took a break from his X Factor duties last night to perform at the Royal Albert Hall for his first big solo gig in over a decade.
Gary was joined on stage by his good friend, Heart's Jason Donovan as well as Olly Murs and Lulu for this very special occasion.
Gary kicked off the show with the hit 'Greatest Day' and finished with a version of 'Could It Be Magic', 'Everything Changes', 'A Million Love Songs' and 'Back For Good'. He also performed tracks from his solo album as well as covers of 'Under My Skin' and 'Fly Me To The Moon'.
Barlow dueted with Lulu on 'Relight My Fire' and even got down on bended knee to thank her. He was then joined by Olly Murs for a special rendition of Take That's 'Shine'.
The highlight of the night was when Gary introduced his good friend Jason Donovan and the they sang Jason's classic hit 'Too Many Broken Hearts' which sent the audience crazy.
The Take That star even performed the entire dance routine to 'Pray' on his own and made fun of himself, joking with the audience throughout the show.
The concert was all in aid of The Prince's Trust.
Read the good luck messages you sent Jason ahead of Saturday's Strictly semi-finals
We caught up with Jason as after his performance of the American Smooth on Saturday night.
Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald are officially hitting the open road in 2017 and touring the UK...and their support act is EXACTLY what we needed right now!
In their latest video Gary, Mark and Howard go all out in 'Saturday Night Fever' style as they take on the streets of New York. Check it out!
Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen kicked off their first ever tour as a trio in Glasgow last night! We take a look at the boyband's most memorable songs picked by you!
A bride gets the surprise of her life when the singer shows up on her big day as she says 'I do'.
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No one wants to say nasty things about single parents and gay couples, so let's not say anything at all. Let's talk about how family structures have changed, but not really look at what is driving those changes. Let's have happily married men suggesting we shore up marriage, when so many unhappily married women are the ones who are initiating divorce. Above all, let's say that all that matters in the end is the children. No one will argue with that. Wanting "the best for the children" is like believing in world peace. Everyone is on the same side, aren't they?
Well, no. I often think that those who continually evoke the phrase "for the sake of the children" are often not interested in children's needs at all. Couples who stay together in a kind of half-life on the grounds that they have reproduced often subject their offspring to years of torturous resentment. The demand that we turn away from child-centred education towards more old-fashioned methods is also done for "the sake of the children", no matter how miserable it may make them. Now we have a government that wants "to protect the interests of children by strengthening marriage". This means nothing at all to me, unless it means that being a parent is synonymous with being a partner.
I am intrigued, though, to see what government, any government, can do to make marriage more attractive. Marriage as an idea is already hopelessly attractive - a triumph of faith over reason - witness all those who come out of failed marriages and go on to marry again. For those, however, living in the doomed reality of a disastrous marriage, divorce is also a hopelessly attractive idea, and free luncheon vouchers and a bit of pre-marital advice from a registrar are not going to provide that vital spark. To deprive equally miserable co-habiting folk of these perks seems rather mean-spirited.
But, of course, I would say that wouldn't I? I am a child of divorce who went on to become a single parent and live happily ever after. I am a statistic that proves what ever it is that you want it to prove. I am, though, statistically normal in that I feel this is no one's business but my own.
I don't think that family life has changed. I know it has. I know exactly who my family are not because of some biological accident a couple of generations ago, but because we have chosen each other. Blood is thicker than water? That must be why it is full of clots and never flows easily. Clearly, families are havens for some, hell-holes for others. They liberate and oppress in equal measure. This is why I never really know what the phrase "family values" means. Which families? Which values? The attempt by New Labour to put a liberal and contemporary gloss on a set of ideals that are often reactionary, and in denial about the enormous changes that have taken place in women's lives over the last 50 years, is bound to irritate.
The knee-jerk distaste for government intruding into the private and intimate life of the electorate is completely legitimate. While a debate rages over just how much we should know about the private lives of politicians, it is apparent that all politicians have to tread very carefully indeed when it comes to the private lives of ordinary people. This is exactly how it should be, because we all know that the higher up the social scale you go, the less likely you are to have your privacy invaded. Those at the bottom of society routinely have their privacy invaded. To be on benefit, to apply for a grant, to be old and frail, to be mentally ill, to be homeless, means that all sorts of people feel they have the right to know all sorts of details about your life.
For when precious families do break down, and the state truly has to intervene in the form of social services, then invasion of privacy becomes the least of our concerns. In spite of all the waffle about divorce being the end of civilisation as we know it, we do in fact understand what damages children: boring old material deprivation, poverty if we want to be old- fashioned about it, and conflict. You can grow up amid conflict as the child of two lesbians or two cardboard cut-out heterosexuals. Your parents may be an exhausted single mother and her dopey boyfriend, or divorcing middle-class professionals involved in marriage guidance counselling, and there can still be conflict. No legislation, no pep talks issued by the arranged marriage of Jack Straw and Margaret Hodge, are going to do a damn thing about it.
Actually, something is being done this week which I think will be of far more benefit to children in need than all this illogical and sanctimonious twaddle. Frank Dobson is making a start at putting into practice many of the recommendations of Sir William Utting's report on child abuse in children's homes, which came out a year ago. Certainly, when children are removed from families and looked after by the state, the record has been appalling. At the time of Utting's report there were 18 separate police investigations going on into child abuse in homes. Though our self- image may be one of a nation that is deeply concerned about children's welfare, this fact alone shows that for more than 20 years we have consistently failed the children taken into care.
Either we accept that these children are already so damaged that nothing can be done, or we accept that the system needs a vast overhaul. Having worked with children in care, I do not feel particularly sentimental about them. Many of these children will never be fostered, and if they are they will do their utmost to wreck the household they enter. They will steal and lie. They are not adorable poppets, but hulking great teenagers, often with a long police record.
These are kids who have been let down over and over again. By everyone. It is no wonder that 40 per cent of the prison population will have been in care, that three-quarters of children in care will leave school with no qualifications, that one in seven of these female school-leavers will already be pregnant.
Such children - the product of real family breakdown, not just separating parents - have for years been targeted by paedophiles and are among the most deprived members of our society. Their health, both physical and mental, is shockingly poor; their chances are grim. If the state is to lecture us about how to bring up children, then it must get its own house in order and show us that the children for whom it does assume ultimate responsibility get better treatment than has so far been evident. Any signs that it is willing to do so are to be welcomed. We cannot stomach a nanny state when the nanny has proved to be not just negligent, but actively abusive.
When everyone these days talks of stress and trauma because the car wouldn't start, or because they have had a hard day at work, it is easy to forget what real stress and real trauma are. We have become over-anxious about children who may not have been brought up in perfect families, but who will otherwise have had stable childhoods.
We cannot protect all children from all pain. Instead we should concentrate on children who really are victims of families that cannot hold it together, and children whose parents cannot afford to look after them adequately. The phrase "in care" often amounts to little more than institutionalised neglect. And that - rather than the fact that so many of us muddle along, marrying, divorcing, separating, co-habiting, but still manage along the way to be "good enough" parents - is the real national disgrace.
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Parmjit Singh, head of the food and drink group at Eversheds, has commented on Coca-Cola's investment in Monster Beverage Corp.
Singh said: 'This deal will not come as a surprise. On the back of its acquisition of Innocent Drinks and more recently its partnership with Green Mountain Coffee, Coca-Cola has recognised the need to diversify its business and offer a broad portfolio of drinks to meet changing consumer drinking habits.
'The investment in Monster Beverage Corp ticks a lot of boxes and the market's reaction to it has been overwhelmingly positive.'


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The NSW Blues have been named for the first game of the 2017 #Origin series.
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As noted by the report, the momentum by public agencies to provide information and services on the Internet "opens up a way for Americans to contact government that was not available a decade ago." Ther report recognizes a varity of associated benefits, including expanded information sharing between citizens and their government. Moreover, a number of citizens claim that the Internet helps them to transact business with the government.
Furthermore, citizens with Internet access are more likely than non-Internet users to contact government. Indeed, the simplicity of email makes it possible for citizens "to fire off a missive to express a view about policy or highlight a problem with neighborhood garbage pickup." At the end of the day, the report reveals that Internet users generally state that Internet usage "improves their relationship with government." As noted by the report, "there is no independent effect of Internet use on the chances of success with government."
The report does not contain only good news when it comes to e-government. The report explains that "the limits of e-gov have to do with people's technological assets, preferences, and the wide range of problems people bring to government." For example, not everyone in the United States has Internet access. For the approximate one-third of the population that is not online, phone calls, in-person visits or letter-writing are the options available for contacting government.
In addition, many people "simply do not choose to use the Web or email to get in touch with government," according to the report. Interestingly, most people, including those with Internet access, still prefer to use the telephone to contact the government. And, people tend to prefer "real time" interaction with government personnel, via telephone calls or in-person visits, when dealing with urgent or complex problems.
Thus, while the report states that "e-gov is a helpful tool among several options for reaching out to government, it is by no means the 'killer app' among them." Respondents reported using the following methods in contacting the government: telephone — 42%; government web site — 29%; in-person visit — 20%; email — 18%; letter writing — 17%; and multiple means — 22%. (Multiple responses were allowed for each respondent.)
As the report points out, "people's problem-solving capacities matter to successful outcomes with government, not a specific technology." The ultimate suggestion provided by the report is that while "policymakers expand the offerings of e-government, they would be wise also to maintain and upgrade the other channels that citizens use to contact government, with a focus on how these traditional channels may compliment e-gov applications."
Hopefully, the attitude "good enough for government work" will not apply in handling communications and requests from citizens, whether through the Internet or otherwise.
Eric Sinrod is a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris (www.duanemorris.com), where he focuses on litigation matters of various types, including information technology disputes. His column appears Wednesdays at USATODAY.com. His Web site is www.sinrodlaw.com, and he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. To receive a weekly e-mail link to Mr. Sinrod's columns, please send an e-mail with the word Subscribe in the Subject line to email@example.com.


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I've been using the latest Beta versions of 64-bit SeoTools and have been mostly satisfied with the product's development. However, the new asynchronous functions work great for small sets of ad hoc queries, but they don't behave well within VBA scripts.
I've developed many projects using SeoTools and VBA to automate data collection and reports. Most of my scripts have to loop over hundreds (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of URLs to 1) apply formulas, 2) recalculate the active sheet, then 3) flatten the formulas.
Unfortunately, the async functions don't seem to report their calculation status to Excel as previous versions of SeoTools always have. When the scripts recalculate the active sheet, they proceed to copy and paste as values the current set of formulas, but those formulas haven't completed or are still in the #GETTING_DATA status. I've tried various combinations of recalculates, doevents and sleep delays (even for 15+ minutes!), but nothing has worked as of yet.
I just tried the latest v6.0.3 general release, but still no improvement, so I'm forced to continue using v5.1.4 since it's the latest reliable version.
Is there any way to disable asynchronous mode and reinstate the previous behavior, perhaps within HttpSettings() or even within SeoTools.config.xml?
I also have issues with 6.0 but I don't have v5.1.4 anymore
Could you send it to me at email@example.com please?
Thanks a lot!!!
I have sent you the 5.1.4 version.
Thanks a lot
I will look into this and see if there's a way to disable the async.
Can you send me an simple VBA example?
Here's a simple VBA sub that gets HttpStatus() for URLs in column A, then pastes the results as values:
Sub StatusCheck() Dim row As Integer Dim col As Integer row = 2 col = 2 While ActiveSheet.Cells(row, 1) <> "" ActiveSheet.Cells(row, col) = "=HttpStatus( A" & row & " )" ActiveSheet.Cells(row, col).Copy ActiveSheet.Cells(row, col).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks _ :=False, Transpose:=False row = row + 1 WendEnd Sub
It works fine in older versions of SeoTools without the async functions, but only copies the #GETTING_DATA message in v6.0.x.
Thanks. We're working on a solution for this.
Hey, Niels. Just checking in on this issue. Any ETA?
Try the this: http://community.seotoolsforexcel.com/t/help-beta-test-seotools-6-1-lots-of-new-connectors/617
To activate open SeoTools.config.xml and set this:
To "true".
VBA example for CsQueryOnUrl:
Sub Foo
Dim row As Integer
Dim col As Integer
row = 2
col = 2
Dim range As Variant
Dim addr1, addr2 As String
While Sheets("Errors").Cells(row, 1) <> ""
Dim xArray() As Variant
xArray = Evaluate("=TRANSPOSE(CsQueryOnUrl(A" & row & ", ""a"", ""href""))")
addr1 = Sheets("Errors").Cells(row, col).Address
addr2 = Sheets("Errors").Cells(row, col).Offset(0, UBound(xArray) - 1).Address
Sheets("Errors").range(addr1 & ":" & addr2).Value = xArray
row = row + 1
End Sub
That's a perfect solution - my VBA scripts now run as expected.
Thanks for the quick turnaround!!


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Woodall, Kamran, Park Police kick ass at the Velvet Lounge--Just Like I Said They Would!!
No disappointment last night at the Velvet Lounge, as hour-long sets from Brice Woodall, Paul Kamran and Park Police made Tuesday night all right for getting your Velvet Lounge on. DCeiver arrived early and chilled with the Wife of DCeiver and acclaimed iPod enthusiast P. Vo, freshly returned from a wild software goose chase in Princeton, before the show.
Previewing tomorrow's City Paper for you today--they are apparently penning an article on the culture of rock club hand stamps. A reporter for the CP interviewed wife of DCeiver at some length, as she regaled them on tales of hand-stampery past and present. We were sure to mention that the 930 clubs stamp is so inky that in a wash-off test between the 930 hand stamp and Mary Prankster's signature signed on the Wife of DCeiver's right titty, the hand stamp easily outlasted Mary's autograph, a fact that I think is kind of depressing.
I've now seen Brice Woodall twice playing solo acoustic with his good friend the drum machine, and once again, he was typically entrancing. He's just a stunning vocalist, and the Velvet Lounge's sound last night was at it's usual awesomeness. Brice just sounded magical in that space at times so gorgeously sad and yearning, his tunes are shot through with such a wonderful, fluttering tremor of vulnerability. Plus he's a really nice and gregarious guy to talk to, it's just impossible not to like him.
We noticed early on that the guy who ran sound last night--who dressed exceedingly dapper for his position, such respect he has for his work!--looked insanely like Jude Law. Hey, he's in every movie and he finds the time to twiddle the knobs at Velvet Lounge? Ubiquitcakes. And, just about EVERYONE agreed. And just about everyone stared back at him when I brought it up, which I think he noticed and it started to aggravate him. Sorry, Sky Captain. You kicked ass.
Paul Kamran was second. Now, I've known Paul a long time, so it's cool if you think I'm biased, but in his first appearance with his full band--you'll just have to believe me--it exceeded both my expectations AND my hopes to a significant degree. The new songs really sound fantastic with the band, even with the laptop broadcasting WTOP on some back channel frequency between songs. (What an innovation, it's like having a CNN news ticker at a rock show!) I gotta tell you, when they played their song "Bleeding Hearts", which I had never heard before, I practically lactated. Fucking awesome song. Right now, as far as pop songs by DC artists go, there's WSC's "Dead Kid Town", Paul's "Bleeding Hearts", and then everything else I seem to remember. You can press out that tune today.
Now, the band that backs Paul has no name of its own. But after last night, I think they definitely deserve one. And not the Paul Kamran Experience. Because I have absolutely no authority to do so, I say we name them here. Here are some choices:
Paul Kamran and the Flying Taunters of Disaster
Paul Kamran is Upward, Forward and Always Twirling...Twirling!
Paul Kamran and the Spare USB/MIDI Adapters
Paul Kamran and His Backwards K's
Paul Kamran and the Peace Corps Thrill Killers
Paul Kamran and the Mighty Cyrillic Bitches
Paul Kamran and the Mateen Cleaves
Paul Kamran and the Three People Who Will Get You Laid Tonight If Only You'd Have the Good Sense to Heed Their Advice
...or your idea.
Leave a comment.
The last band of the evening was Park Police, of whom I'd never heard but will make damn sure to hear again. Classic three-piece, all members trading off lead and backing vocals, the tunes showing fantastic range and stuffed to the gills with hooks and insane energy. It was so hard for me to pin down what they reminded me of--Built To Spill and Gang of Four and Spoon and even the Foo Fighters competed to be among the many folks they reminded me of. But even as a moving target, I have no trouble recommending Park Police to a friend. Paul had promised that they would be awesome and he was no liar. They have an album in the works that I'll be happy to keep people posted on. And for that matter, anyone who wants a six song sampler of last night's music, should let me know, there may be some left.
On top of all that, I had the good fortune to meet Wendy Harman and Mike Holden last night at the gig and had a great time talking with both. It'll be really nice looking forward to seeing both of you out and about in the future! In fact, as one final public service announcement, we at The DCeiver want to remind you that you need to leash your dogs! Even if you do own the Amsterdam Falafelshop! And you should not bring your cats into school cafeterias! Even if you are David Catania! There, I've said it! Let it be so!


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A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja was hearing the petition filed by the Balochistan Bar Association, the report said.
The bench directed Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Asif Yasin Malik, Inspector General Police of Balochistan Tariq Omar Khitab, Balochistan Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad and Inspector General of Frontier Corps (FC) Obaidullah Khattak to submit a report by 12.30 pm on Thursday following which, the court would issue further orders.
Chief Justice Iftikhar told the chief secretary that was a shortage of efficient officers in Balochistan and sought an explanation on why incompetent officers had not been removed. He said that despite the court's hearing over the past four days, there was no progress on the issue and that nobody was ready to take responsibility in the province.
The Chief Justice cited the example of the teenager son of a businessman, who was abducted for ransom from Pishin district of the province 16 days ago but could not be traced despite the presence of state forces.
Justice Hussain said that Balochistan was the soul of Pakistan and needed to be stabilised at the earliest. IG Khattak said that his personnel were working round the clock to ensure peace in the province.
The counsel for FC, Raja Irshad, said that some foreign forces were active in Balochistan and the chief justice asked if any foreign agents were found. He said action should be taken against such agents.
Women from the Hazara community who were present at the hearing told the court that 750 people had been butchered in the province since 1999.
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A woman endures years of abuse by her husband. It doesn't take much before things go from bad to worse and someones life hangs in the balance.
I should have listened to my mother and left him. His smile a drug that I couldn't resist. Through all the wrongs, it made the world seem grand. His pearly whites were my cocaine. The rugged embrace of his arms a blanket from this unruly and unjust society. When at my lowest,after the attack, he cradled and covered me in sweet emotions.
Those years are long gone, we are different people now. I'm still weak for his smile but deep inside I feel different. He has a new obsession; my pain is what he covets most of all. Women are naturally weak right? I need to suck it up and give him everything he desires, but deep down anguished screams express my inherent displeasure with the situation. His fists of anger hit deep and silent unnoticeable to the outside world. I'm sure some suspect what is happening but they are blind and deaf to my blank cries.
Tonight he will step through the door, remove his hat and unleash the smile that blinds my soul from his flaws. His footsteps echo through the hallway and I rush to finish preparing his food. The door knob turns and he opens the door, entering taking off his hat as he steps in. I set his plate down next to his cup of tea and rush to his side.
His smile flaring stark white fangs eager for flesh."Hello there darling."
This isn't reality,his fangs an illusion created by my conscience, a warning of the monster festering within his soul. What if he is a vile demon? How can someone weak as myself stop such a savage beast?
Reaching in close I greet him with a kiss trying to choke back the urge to vomit.
"Welcome home baby." I take his tweed jacket and hang it in the closet while he continues to the kitchen inspecting the cleanliness of the house along the way.
"How was your day?" Hoping to sidetrack his inspection I move to his side.
"Dinner is ready. We are having your favorite tonight."
On instinct he grabs the remote from the mahogany coffee table and turns it to the game finding the Saints losing to the Panthers seven to fourteen in the fourth quarter. The Saints running back fumbles the ball giving the Panthers possession.
Irate, he throws the remote across the room. " Shit!, can't those dumb fuck's do anything right! "


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John has spent his entire working life at the cutting edge of marketing and sales, during the early and mid 90's as a sales and marketing director of a nationwide direct mail organisation, he was winning industry national marketing awards for innovation and success. During 1996 recognising the impact that the web would have and embracing online selling, many years before others had even shopped online, John introduced his first eCommerce website for a nationwide direct mail organisation. Shortly followed by product specific micro sites taking advantage of what was the phenomenon of search engine provided traffic. Since then John has gone on to build from scratch two multi-million pound UK companies, consult at board level for organisation such as Sony and Facebook and has worked at director level for several international businesses. Never afraid to get his hands dirty as such John is very much involved in every project J Promotions takes on to ensure all customers get the best level of service possible.
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Petition Started to Remove Metallica from Glastonbury Festival
Why you ask?
Metallica frontman James Hetfield's interest in hunting has sparked a grassroots campaign attempting to get the band kicked off the bill for England's annual Glastonbury Festival later this month.
Hetfield recently landed a gig narrating the History Channel's The Hunt. The eight-part series, which documents an excursion to Kodiak, Alaska in search of brown bears, debuts on June 8th.
In response, one Glastonbury fan launched a page titled "Remove Metallica from Glastonbury Festival for their support of Bear Hunting" on Facebook. As of late Tuesday night, it had more than 12,000 likes. Launched on May 25th, the page's description notes, "Metallica's lead singer James Hetfield is a big game hunter and promoter. This is incompatible with Glastonbury Festivals ideals."
We reached out to Metallica's reps for a response to the controversy, but they replied that the band is not doing press.
As for now, Metallica is still scheduled to play the festival, which runs from June 25th through the 29th.


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text: http://www.draftinsider.net/blog/?p=1527 27 Iupati Analysis: The average age for the Cowboys' starting offensive line next season is over 32 years. Owner/General Manager Jerry Jones loves big, physical, and nasty offensive linemen. Enter Mike Iupati who fits the bill to a tee. The former Vandal needs refinement in technique, but his natural ability is off the charts for a guard prospect. 59 Burnett 91 Linval Joseph I know 40 times don't mean much for nose tackles, but a 5.09 at 328 pounds is damn impressive. Also, 39 reps shows that Joseph is in good shape. Linval Joseph has declared for the 2010 NFL Draft. Joseph had 60 tackles, 13 TFL and three sacks as a junior.


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Lars is Learning
How to build a social learning culture
Lars is Learning
I was asked by Trainingzone to provide some tips for bringing the learning benefits to bear of social tools within an organisational context. All comments/feedback welcome. Resisting the rush to social media feels a bit like trying to push water back up a waterfall doesn't it? A fairly futile exercise. Why is it so popular? Well, homo sapiens are a particularly social
Get Real: Mission Critical E-learning
Lars is Learning
Here's an article published in Learning Technologies magazine this week. I wrote it some time back (old world printing deadlines) failing to fully forward plan for some events, like Obama moving from Elect to Active president status last week. But I'd welcome your comments on what you think mission critical e-learning means to your organisation or the organisations you work with. The bits in.
Applied Hope - Reasons to be cheerful in 2009
Lars is Learning
It's been a turbulent ride in 2008, hasn't it? But I suspect that we've seen nothing yet as our world economies struggle to transition into an era that can no longer ignore big changes in climate, fossil fuel availability and global populations demanding more active economic involvement. As learning and development professionals, we all know how procrastination and inertia puts the brakes on.
Move aside CPD, UPS is here.
Lars is Learning
This article originally appeared in Training Journal in June 2009 (PDF). In it I coin the term Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) as a better description of how workplace place learning will develop in the future. Comments welcome. Lars Hyland investigates how Continuous Professional Development is being transformed by digital connectivity and.
Digital Learning for Digital Britain
Lars is Learning
The Digital Britain interim report published in January 2009 attempts to lay out an agenda for driving forward the UK's Digital. Below is an opinion piece I wrote for Training Journal back last month which is published today. Would welcome your own comments on the Digital Britain report and what it means for us in the learning field. Should the UK be aiming higher?The
A mobile future for communications and learning
Lars is Learning
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the Handheld Learning conference is a far more vibrant community of Twitter users than the recent WOLCE attendees. You can get a great sense of the presentations, even get to review them and discover new things in ways which seem almost better than actually attending yourself. One great find was this recent video put together to support the MOCOM 2020.
Onboarding staff in the 21st century
Lars is Learning
The British Computer Society (BCS) and IT Training Magazine have published my article on how onboarding new staff can be transformed in terms of overall time to full productivity and dramatically reduced training costs. As the economy picks up the quality and efficiency of induction will matter more than ever. What do you think? How we work and who we work for is.
UK Higher Education needs more radical change than a debate about who funds it
Lars is Learning
With the current media and political debate about the future funding of education (and the rest of the entire public sector for that matter), I was struck with the thought that perhaps the wrong question is being asked.Is funding or cutting the same model of higher education the real issue. Or would a more radical shake up of higher education be more affordable and indeed more effective at.
Learning - augmented
Lars is Learning
I've previously posted on how we are beginning to move from training as a separate activity from doing, to a model of primarily supporting practice and performance on the job. Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) I rather snappily called it. One dramatic example of how this is developing is in the nascent area of Augmented Reality. This clip amply illustrates where this is heading. While
Mobile learning – keep taking the tablets
Lars is Learning
There is growing excitement with a new class of mobile device hitting the streets over the next few months – the electronic tablet. Most of the buzz is about Apple coming out with what's dubbed the "iTablet" that essentially would be a larger screened iPhone or iPod Touch. Some enterprising people have mocked up images of what it could look like: But several other vendors are beating Apple
Re-inventing the E-learning Experience
Lars is Learning
I ran a webinar for the Learning and Skills Group earlier this month on re-inventing the e-learning experience. I mentioned this in a previous post, so let me know what you think of the ideas and examples presented.Lars Hyland Webinar 090709 Re-inventing the E-learning ExperienceView more presentations from Lars Hyland.How can you show that e-learning is clearly adding value to your business?
The Evidence on Online Education
Lars is Learning
Clive Shepherd tweeted a link to this research report: The Evidence on Online EducationThe study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to.
Minister regrets lack of training - induction matters!
Lars is Learning
Jacqui Smith. former Home Secretary in the UK Government wished she had been better trained for the role. According to the BBC, in an interview with Total Politics magazine:"I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of those skills," she adds.There has been criticism of the way in which ministers are parachuted into departments, often without any.
IT training should focus on performance support
Lars is Learning
Charles Jennings great article on "How not to train" has been featured on trainingzone but I recommend you go back to his blog for a fuller version. His point is clear. Systems training delivers little value (negative value according to Jay Cross' comment) when following the traditional model of delivery. Train weeks before go live, provide little intervening support then let them loose once the.
The Future of Learning Institutions
Lars is Learning
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about how organisations adapt to a world which is now profoundly affected by communications technology. The early hype of the internet is starting to make a fundamental impact to our lives both at work and at play. We shop differently, we work differently, we take part in world events like never before. It's a "real time" experience in the virtual.
Getting the balance right
Lars is Learning
Just realised that I have been neglecting this blog over recent weeks and could well have missed offering a post in the month of May. Well that just wouldn't do, would it? It's been interesting balancing the competing (and sometimes mutually supporting) demands of writing articles, tweets, linkedin messages, as well as the day job of consulting with customers and delivering on their requirements.
Debating the future of e-learning (video)
Lars is Learning
I recently took part in a video debate for the British Computer Society (BCS) which discusses the future of e-learning. Good opportunity to discuss some key issues with Clive Shepherd, Chair of the e-Learning Network; Samantha Kinstrey, MD of 2e2 Training; Laura Overton, MD of Towards Maturity; and Jooli Atkins of Matrix FortyTwo and Chair of the BCS Information and Technology Training Specialist.
Up, up and away: E-learning in the travel sector
Lars is Learning
Here's a thought piece covering the use and value of e-learning in the travel sector – this one made the cover story of e.learning age magazine. Again, would welcome your comments. == Harnessing technology to build trust and improve customer care remains a priority for the travel sector. There is no doubt that the travel industry is in a state a flux. As the.
Lars is Learning
Here's an article I've written for publication covering the benefits learning technology offers in bringing new employees up to speed. Your comments are welcome, especially on the ideas around making use of the pre-joining period. = E-induction: Save time, reduce costs and improve quality with e-learning While the headlines are dominated by job losses and uncertainty, it's easy to forget.
Stress and memory
Lars is Learning
Stress can be both negative and positive in affecting our performance. Interestingly, many training experiences lack any element of stress and as such can be unstimulating and unrepresentative of the real environment.This study however focuses on the negative impact stress has on forming context dependent memories.We exposed healthy adults to stress or a control procedure before they learned an.
Does e-learning have a future?
Lars is Learning
Donald Taylor's opinion piece on trainingzone prompted me to reflect that we are really just at the end of the beginning for e-learning - in its broadest sense - to transform the way we educate and train in the future. Here is my comment in full:E-learning is mission criticalIt has always been the case that new technology goes through similar cycles of early low adoption before crossing a chasm
A British musical learning experience
Lars is Learning
Just this past weekend I took my family up to London and the O2 Centre (the rebranded Millenium Dome) to see an interactive installation called the British Music Experience. It was great to see a modern attempt to create an environment designed to engage an audience of all ages. It had some real lessons in how to provide an effective learning experience in the 21st Century. First of all, Tags: British Music Experience education
Doodling, multitasking and memory
Lars is Learning
A nice little Doodle by Lee. This behaviour is undoubtedly not limited to toddlers - just watch an episode of The Apprentice or spend some time in any large organisation. Interestingly, the act of doodling (like the example above, but of course they come in all shapes and sizes and colours), often perceived as a sign of boredom and disengagement, is actually a highly effective means of enhancing.
Research merry-go-round up
Lars is Learning
I've been sitting on a number of research/news snippets which are all interesting but demonstrate how fluid the respective fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology and educational study are. Sometimes it's hard to draw immediately practical inferences. Things are moving so fast that you can move from positions of contradiction, congruence and back to contradiction in a matter of days.
iTunes U better than attending class?
Lars is Learning
ReadWriteWeb and New Scientist picked up on a preliminary piece of research that suggests better retention and learning is achieved through using an audio podcast of a lecture than actually attending it.To find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone - mimicking a missed class - McKinney's team presented 64 students with a single lecture on visual perception, from an.
Sir Ken in his element
Lars is Learning
I have a lot of time for Sir Ken Robinson. Here he is essentially promoting his new book The Element which champions the notion that education should first and foremost be about self discovery and self development, actively supporting us as individuals to discover our talents and passionate interests. He does so with wit and with a quiet persuasion that really needs a wider audience if the.
Memory pills on the way
Lars is Learning
Back in March last year I posted on how we'd soon be able to pop a pill to get smarter. Well it seems that the current semi-illicit practice will go mainstream if AstraZeneca and Epix Pharmaceuticals get there way. As reported in the Telegraph, medicine designed originally to help treat Alzheimer's disease could be adapted and licensed for sale in a weaker form within the next few years: Steven.
2009 Top Posts and Topics: Kapp Notes
Kapp Notes
The ASTD Big question this month is an annual question: What did you learn about learning in 2009? So one of the tasks I will do to answer this question is to see what posts were the Best of 2009 from several different sources. How Long Does It Take to Develop One Hour of E-Learning-Updated for 2009. Here are my top posts via Google Analytics for 2009.(I'll So there are my most popular posts for 2009.
Top 100 Learning Game Resources
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Building Better Learning Games- Learning Visions, April 9, 2009. Marc Prensky – Twitch Speed, June 17, 2009. Using computer games in education- ThirdForce Blog, January 30, 2009. Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009. By Kurt Squire, June 17, 2009.
Best of eLearning Learning - First Half of December 2009
eLearning Learning Posts
December 1, 2009 to December 15, 2009. eLearning Templates – 20 Resources - eLearning Technology , December 7, 2009. It's Culture, Leadership and E2.0 … or fail - trainingwreck , December 13, 2009. Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009 - eLearning Learning Posts , December 2, 2009. Collaborative learning using Captivate and Twitter - Adobe Captivate Blog , December 11, 2009. Dont Waste Your Time , December 10, 2009. ZaidLearn , December 9, 2009.
eLearning: Top Posts of 2009 - Upside Learning Blog
Upside Learning
As we knock on 2010's doors, it's a good time to look at what we did on this blog in 2009. We started this blog in March 2009 and in its 10 month existence has more than a 100 posts. Our Top 10 Learning Tools 2009.
Tool Set 2009
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But hopefully 2009 will be the year when that begins to change. If you care about being relevant and valuable in 2015, you had better be making moves in 2009. Recommendations The intent of this series is to capture my thinking at the start of 2009 about the tools and methods for work and learning. I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning.
Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?
E-Learning Provocateur
Instructivism is dead. Gone are the days of an authoritarian teacher transmitting pre-defined information to passive students. In the 1990s, constructivism heralded a new dawn in instructional design, turbo-charged by the rise of Web 2.0. Students morphed into participants , empowered to seek new knowledge and understanding for themselves, in the context of their own unique, individual experiences.
Effective virtual facilitation
E-Learning Provocateur
As virtual classes rapidly become de rigueur , the need for an effective virtual facilitation framework accelerates. I propose the 5-stage model of e-moderation developed by world-renowned networked learning guru, Gilly Salmon.
Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources
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The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009. 2009 Horizon Report. I've spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the workplace. I've been doing some research around it and I've documented some of the better links I've come across.
Webinars: Past, Present and Future
Kapp Notes
The webinar begins on December 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. Here are links to webinars past, present and future.not quite a Christmas Carol but.
Irish Learning Alliance Visit
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Born in San Antonio, Zambales in 24 October 1880, Rafael Corpus pursued his studies at the Ateneo de Manila where he obtained his degree of Bachelor of Arts at the age of sixteen. He took up law at the Escuela de Derecho (now the Manila Law College) where he graduated in 1903. ("Cornejos Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines"; p. 1654) He left for the United States and took a special course in the George Washington University, Washington D.C. in 1906.
His work for the government involved posts as Examiner of Titles and Register of Deeds in the Province of Cebu from 1903 to 1905; Assistant Attorney in the Bureau of Justice; Legal Adviser in the House of Representatives; Member of the lower house of the Philippine Legislature from 1912 to 1914; Solicitor General from 1914 to 1916; Director of Lands from 1915 to 1916; Under-Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources from 1917 to 1919; and Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1923. He was elected a Director of the Philippine National Bank in 1920 and was president of the institution in 1923. (Lim, Rodrigo; "Who's Who in the Philippines"; p. 56-58, 1921.)
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I abhorrently used femininity as an excuse to be lazy on the farm so I wouldn't have to pitch as much hay or manure as my brothers. But when they'd accuse me of not pulling my weight I'd dive into a task and hope that if they told my dad I'd be found up to my elbows in pig shit.
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100 Words On Departures
In Darkness, sparrows and robins have begun loudly making their daily plans as the mourning doves' lament coos three part harmony in the moist air. A thread of light is birthed in the east and the grey shroud begins to evaporate exposing wells of colour beneath. Breath of dawn expands in the lungs of birds, trees, sky. Old Man Moon, still bright, hides his visage behind the trees as he makes a hasty escape. Clouds play an orchestra of purples, pinks, gold across a firmament young and ancient. Immeasurable verve begins the dance of the day. Unnoticed, night departs.
Ode to the Potty
O life of peace and diapers depart from me!
Thou hast lulled me into a stupor of simplicity and ease
Where I could come and go at my whim,
Hours tediously carefree.
But No more!
My life, now ever more compelling, abounds in
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I relent.
Wearily satisfied by untruths
And receive the hearty reward:
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H.R.4104 - Intelligence Transformation Act of 2004108th Congress (2003-2004)
|Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36] (Introduced 04/01/2004)
|House - Intelligence (Permanent)
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Intelligence Transformation Act of 2004 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Director), to be composed of: (1) the Director and Deputy Director of National Intelligence; (2) the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Operations; (3) the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Resources; (4) the National Intelligence Council (Council); (5) the General Counsel to the Director; (6) the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community; (7) the Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence for Homeland Security; and (8) such other offices and officials as may be established or designated. Establishes within the Council the National Intelligence Council Alternative Analysis Unit for challenging the accuracy of Council intelligence estimates. Includes among the Director's responsibilities: (1) providing national intelligence to the President, the heads of Federal departments and agencies, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military commanders, and, where appropriate, Congress; (2) developing an annual budget for intelligence and intelligence-related activities; (3) establishing requirements and priorities to govern the collection of national intelligence by elements of the intelligence community (IC); and (4) protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure.
Recodifies provisions establishing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), designating as its lead official the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA Director) (currently, the Director of Central Intelligence), and removing provisions which established specified CIA deputy and assistant director positions. Prohibits an individual from serving simultaneously as Director of National Intelligence and CIA Director.
Establishes: (1) a Joint Tasking Organization to assist in the tasking of collection, analysis, and dissemination of all elements of the IC under the National Foreign Intelligence Program; (2) the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation Threat Integration Center to provide integrated tasking of collection and analysis of national intelligence relating to weapons of mass destruction that threaten U.S. national security; and (3) a Joint Intelligence Comptroller to prepare and execute that part of the defense budget relating to IC elements and their intelligence programs.
Requires the: (1) President to establish and implement policies and procedures governing access to, and use of, specified database information by IC officers and employees and Federal law enforcement personnel; (2) Director to establish all-source analysis training programs for all IC analysts; and (3) Director and Secretary of Defense to develop an integrated communications network that provides communications capabilities to all IC elements.
Establishes a Joint Acquisition Office for the oversight of acquisition programs of specified IC agencies.
Outlines Director authority with respect to IC personnel, including the management of IC specialists.
Provides a ten-year term for the CIA Director.


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Many folks have noticed that Mike Swanson's weeks of hard work have paid off, and the full video, PPT and demo recordings of PDC 05 sessions are now online (and that the DVD sets for attendees will be on the way soon as well.) Seems like the videos are quite popular.
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Extinction Point: Genesis is complete and will be published later in 2015
90,ooo words of alien awesomeness is now on its way to my editor over at 47North.
This one took a while, but I personally think it's the most exciting story of the entire series, so far, and really changes the dynamics of Emily, Rhiannon, and Thor's adventures. You won't be disappointed. Publication date for Extinction Point: Genesis is expected some time later in 2015. When I have a definite date (and pre-order links) I will announce them here and on Facebook.
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After introducing the ludological and narratological sides of modern video game theory, we explain Ian Bogost's concept of procedural rhetoric. We go on to argue that procedural rhetoric in practice is a form of what Stephen Dinehart and others have called narrative design. Furthermore, we argue that narrative design principles fall into the Aristotelian, enthymematic form of knowledge creation. We then cite examples of effective narrative design in video games and show how they fit the enthymematic model. We conclude with a discussion of how the epistemic principles of narrative design are applicable to a transmedia design context and how they empower the user/player to become creator and author of their own transmedia texts.
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