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(Identify the item and cite the series), Records, Texas Mental Health/Mental Retardation Facility Review Task Force, Texas Office of the Governor. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation (TXMHMR) Facility Review Task Force was created as part of House Bill 7, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, in 1991. The Task Force was created to "study Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation facilities for the purpose of making recommendations to the governor regarding whether there should be closure or consolidation of any state facilities." The Task Force was to assess the status of each facility against a set of legislatively mandated criteria in order to determine which facilities to recommend for closure or consolidation. Recommendations were to be based on the Task Force's assessment of the need for the facility, the ability of a particular facility to be modified for an alternative use, and the economic impact on the community. The Task Force was composed of five members from the general public, appointed by the governor. The Task Force was to issue a report to the governor regarding state schools and community facilities and programs no later than March 31, 1992, and state hospitals and state centers no later than December 1, 1992.
On March 31, 1992, the Task Force recommended to the governor that the Travis State School in Austin and the Fort Worth State School be closed. No state hospitals, centers, or other facilities were recommended for closure but the Task Force did prepare detailed recommendations for improvements.
Types of records include correspondence, meeting transcripts, copies of legislative bills, reports, computer floppy discs, contracts, audio cassette tapes, videotapes, and newspaper clippings. Records include executive administration files, files on state mental facilities, research files and reports of the Task Force, and media clippings of the Texas Governor's Office's Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Task Force from 1966, and 1984 to 1993.
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The three types of state mental facilities examined by the Task Force were state schools, state hospitals, and state centers. Records on facilities are divided by these three types and include meeting files, correspondence, and research files. The meeting files consist of briefing books, transcripts, and audio cassette tapes. Correspondence is generally from citizens and organizations in support of keeping a facility open within their community. Citizens of Mexia and San Angelo made especially strong lobbying efforts to the Task Force to keep their schools open. Research files include reports, subject files and media clippings.
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Paul Beck, April 1995
Accession numbers: 1993/117, 1995/053
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Question: Who were the Macassans?
Answer: If you haven't seen the the stunning new exhibition at Melbourne Museum, Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan–Aboriginal Trade, you might be wondering who the Macassans are.
This exhibition explores the history of trade between China and Australia that stretches back over two centuries or more. This is a story that many Australians will not know, but large fleets of boats came to Australia's northern shores from the islands of southern Sulawesi (now Indonesia) to collect trepang or bêche-de-mer, a sea cucumber, in the shallow tropical waters of Australia's northern coast.
These people are known as Macassans and they were given licence by local Aboriginal clans to dive for this delicacy and set up large camps on the foreshore where they boiled the trepan in huge cooking pots and then built smoke houses for curing it. They engaged local Aboriginal men to dive with them to collect the trepang and also to work on their boats, known as perahus.
At the end of the season, the Macassan perahus sailed back with the trepang via the South China Sea where it was exchanged with Chinese traders, and then made its way to the markets of Shanghai and the other major centres of China. Trepang is still highly valued today in China.
The exhibition showcases collaborative works produced during the 20-year friendship of Indigenous artist, the late John Bulunbulun, and Chinese artist, Zhou Xiaoping. Their paintings feature a fusing of cultures, with the Arnhem Land painting traditions mixed with Chinese designs to create beautiful and unique works.
The exhibition also features contemporary and historical artefacts, paintings, maps and photographs that reflect the extent of these exchanges, such as the distinctive long pipes, called lunginy or pamatuka by people in Arnhem Land, used to smoke tobacco that was introduced by Macassans.
Trade with the Macassans was stopped by the Commonwealth Government in 1906. However their presence can still be seen today in the language and culture of Arnhem Land people. It is also evident in the landscape, most obviously in the groves of large tamarind trees that were planted by Macassans, or the stones that mark where the large pots stood for boiling the trepang. The exhibition provides a unique and fascinating insight into this important economic and cross-cultural exchange between Aboriginal people and outsiders.
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Inferno survivors speak of relief
Survivors from the first class carriage which burst into flames in the Paddington rail crash have spoken of their relief at being alive.
After the collision the carriage - immediately behind the Great Western locomotive - was engulfed with fire.
Mr Goodall, who boarded the express train at Didcot, Oxfordshire, disclosed that the driver of the express train had been semi-conscious but "looking in a very bad way" after the horrific smash, although the locomotive was damaged "beyond recognition".
Passenger Steve Jones, 38, who was also travelling in the first class carriage, had been preparing to get off the train when the crash happened.
He said: "There was a bang like an explosion and a cloud of black smoke almost immediately, and flames.
"We were desperately trying to break windows.
"Another man in the carriage used a table to break a hole in the double-glazed windows and he clambered out.
"It was pretty horrific. I feel incredibly lucky."
He said cost should not be a factor in rail safety systems.
He said: "The technology is there. I should be able to get on a train in Cheltenham and get off in London safely. It is an established mode of transport.
"I feel very worked up now. I feel extremely lucky but the people that died need not have died."
Another crash survivor spoke from his hospital bed about the moment his regular journey to work was touched by tragedy.
Brendon Bentley, a 24-year-old chartered accountant from Wellington, New Zealand, said he felt "lucky to be alive".
He was travelling to work at BT Cellnet in Slough, Berkshire, on the Thames train when the accident happened.
"I tried to get up. There were plenty of people about telling everyone to calm down," he said.
"There were a couple of people at my legs, they couldn't move, and another girl taking some jackets and trying to put out the fire."
He said: "I was pretty sore, but I could see the flames and there were some people trapped underneath the seats.
"We had to try to get over to them and try to give them a hand, but we couldn't, so then the first priority was just to get off the carriage."
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When new painting and sculpture students start each year, Sanne Mestrom quickly gets them to engage with the art of getting dirty. Desktop-oriented, the students are anchored to a digital, screen-based way of making art that is fixedly two-dimensional, in contrast with a more traditional approach involving three dimensions and a gritty physicality.
It is a collision of cultures that is increasingly familiar for teachers such as Mestrom, an artist and lecturer at Monash University's art, design and architecture faculty; so she tries to wrench students away from their devices. ''I set projects very conscientiously that force them to work large-scale,'' she says. ''They just want to do these pretty little things that sit comfortably on their desks. There is no material curiosity.''
But once they get their hands messy, their curiosity and inspiration are ignited. ''Working with clay and plaster is great because they are cheap and quick. [Students] love it. Often, they just haven't had the opportunity to work that way - after childhood everything is prim and proper, neat and static.''
Her observations are part of a much bigger story in the art world in which the contrasts between online, digital environments and the ''real'' world - as in almost every industry - are being explored. How is art best experienced? Do you need to see it ''in the flesh''? Are art galleries becoming obsolete?
When the organisers of a new event called Nite Art got together to think of a topical debate for art professionals to get their teeth into, ''Is the art gallery dead?'' must have seemed the most obvious question to ask of an industry that, like all fields, is in flux. There is little doubt, though, the topic is a Dorothy Dixer: of course galleries aren't dead, especially in Melbourne, despite the gravitational forces of the web and large-scale art fairs where many sales are made.
As Mestrom and the other art-industry folk participating in the debate will quickly observe, even a short walk around the many inner-suburban artist-run spaces, commercial art dealerships and state-funded museums reveals an enormous amount of activity.
Even so, a growing number of collectors never see the art they are buying until it is on their walls at home. According to another of the Nite Art debaters, Vasili Kaliman, co-director of Kalimanrawlins gallery in South Yarra, it can be the ultimate in online shopping - after some astute searching on the web and clever negotiating via a dealer, the sale of expensive art can be quickly clinched with just a few mouse-clicks.
Kaliman, however, imposes an emphatic caveat on this trend: in almost all cases of online art-buying, the collector is very familiar with the chosen artist's work - if not the exact one being sold, at least with very similar pieces by the same person.
''In Sydney at the height of the boom five to six years ago, I used to regularly sell up to $400,000 of work a month online - but the people were familiar with the work of the artist in question, with the surface of the paintings, because they had seen it physically in the past,'' he says.
While Kaliman says there are about 15,000 unique views of his gallery's website a month but far fewer physical visitors, he does not think the online art boom has been negative. ''In fact, it has amplified engagement,'' he says. ''The internet has been fantastic for exposing people to a greater array of work, because it is a tool that enables self-education. And people from all over the world can [now] see a show.''
Nothing, though, beats a visit to a gallery to see work in the flesh, as it were. ''Is the gallery space dead? No,'' Kaliman says. ''We do most of our business online, but it is only to people who know the artist - it is really difficult to convince somebody of an artist if they haven't physically seen the work in a museum exhibition or another gallery.''
Between these two extremes - online showings and in-person gallery visits - there is another field. David Hagger is co-director of Blackartprojects, a new model for presenting contemporary art where there is no gallery but where artists are exhibited at an international scale in pop-up venues in various countries. Hagger says the Blackartprojects platform is multidisciplinary, encouraging dialogue between artists, curators, writers and collectors, with the artwork manifesting not only as gallery shows but in performances, publications and music.
''For me, the gallery is still essential - it is the opportunity for artists to build bodies of work and have it seen in that context rather than online or as individual pieces,'' Hagger says. ''It is about physical space, how the artworks relate to architecture and to each other, and the context of building narratives or stories.''
Hagger became involved with the Blackartprojects idea after managing commercial galleries for eight years. ''We wanted to do a project with artists who wanted to do things outside the norm of the commercial gallery and have the flexibility to show more experimental work, or not be governed by expectations of dealers about what they might produce.
''We can put on projects that otherwise we wouldn't be able to do if we had a bricks-and-mortar space in Melbourne, because one of our primary drives would be to try and cover rent. We have the freedom to put on non-commercial shows without having to make rent through sales.''
Mestrom agrees it is liberating to find a space between the hardline commercial realities of some galleries and spaces where art can be shown on its own terms - with the online world simply acting as a sort of introduction to a real-world art experience.
''I do have a website but it is something I like to keep a low profile on,'' Mestrom says. ''I won't put images up online while the show is opening, only during or after. Otherwise, why bother going to see the work? It quells the incentive; it robs the viewer of the desire to go and see it in person.''
This, perhaps, is why the main part of Nite Art will be an entire evening of ''artwalks'' and gallery openings across more than 20 galleries and artist-run spaces in the inner city: just to show the gallery is not dead.
■ Nite Art is on July 24, 6pm-11pm. The panel discussion is at West Space, Level 1/225 Bourke Street, at 6pm. niteart.com.au


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Brennan called time on his 173-game career in typically laconic style with the Suns issuing a short statement to reveal the news.
Following the delisting of five players last week, Brennan's retirement means the club have freed up the six spots they wanted to ahead of this year's draft.
Suns football manager Marcus Ashcroft says it's unlikely the club will be making any significant player movements before then.
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Brennan's lost passion for the game was behind his decision, Ashcroft said.
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November 7, 2008 by Matthew Kilby
Stephen Miarer brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to T.C. Williams, and is an asset to Alexandria City Public Schools in many important ways. Miarer attended high school in Ohio, and was a tri-athlete in basketball, golf, and track. He moved on to Grace College in Indiana, where he played on the basketball team and earned a double degree in Psychology and Sociology. While growing up, Miarer aspired to enter the field of politics. After graduating from college, he decided to move to D.C. to start working for the government. In addition to his government job, Miarer became involved in volunteer work with disadvantaged kids in D.C. who did not have positive opportunities or role models around them. This volunteer work and his enthusiasm for working with young people led Miarer away from the government, and he eventually landed at T.C. Williams as a government teacher and assistant varsity boy's basketball coach. Currently, Miarer teaches both AP Psychology and Sociology here at T.C. He is in his seventh year of teaching at T.C. and his ninth year including his basketball coaching career. When asked about why he chose to take the road of teaching, Miarer replied, "I loved working with people and helping people."
Besides being a full-time teacher, Miarer is also a full-time father of three children. He and his family live in Woodbridge, Virginia; after the bell at the end of the day he is one of the first people out of the school so he can rush home to see them. His commitment to his family is demonstrated when he brings his family in to school to meet every one of his classes. When asked why he is so open about his life outside of T.C., Miarer replied, "Kids get the opportunity to know who I really am." The idea behind this philosophy is that hopefully his students will be able to relate to him more positively if they see him from a view besides that of a teacher. In his spare time, Miarer's hobbies include playing basketball, spending time with his wife and kids, and working around the house.
Every year Miarer has the same goal as a teacher, "I want to teach the students, meet their needs, and develop a relationship." From an educational standpoint, AP Psychology has the reputation as the "easy" or "fun" AP class. When asked about this reputation, Miarer explained that he believes the nature of Psychology is what makes the class fun, and that everyone can relate to the topic, he does not make the class fun or easy. In response to this, some people might ask, are kids actually learning? When asked about Miarer's teaching style, Senior Ian McColm said, "Mr. Miarer is a dynamic teacher because he incorporates aspects of his life into his teaching style." Miarer believes that class should not be work, work, work all the time, but that it can be fun, easy to understand, and it can allow students to learn a lot at the same time. On the first day of school, some teachers might give students their email address for questions or extra help, but in AP Psychology or Sociology, Miarer also gives his students his home phone number and his cell phone number. This is just one of the many ways Miarer connects with his students; he believes that by becoming approachable and available to his students, he can do a better job of teaching them and motivating them to succeed. As you first walk into Mr. Miarer's classroom, one thing that stands out is the Dallas Cowboys pennant hanging on the board next to his desk. As you might imagine for devoted Redskins fans, this causes some heated football debates in the hallway and also in the classroom. Miarer actually looks at this as a positive thing because by poking fun at his students and letting them respond, a bond grows between them, which allows for a better educational and learning environment, along with a mutual respect for each other's ideas and beliefs. Although some teachers prefer to keep a very established distance between their students, Miarer's relationships are often lasting ones.
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José Trudel instructs students with a focus on emerging technologies, standards, and skills; providing a strong foundation needed for today's web professional.Skip to comment form
Back in the early days of the Web, most Web developers were self-taught. Opportunities for formal training were limited and Web developers continually searched for new sources of information pertaining to Web design and development. Along the way we picked up some bad habits. We began to use tables for layout. We wrapped our text with font elements. We stopped using h elements. At the same time, formal training programs began to appear. Unfortunately, many of these programs began to teach the same bad practices.
The first objective of the WaSP Education Task Force is to "Encourage instruction of Web standards and accessibility best practices in all Web design, interactive media, informational and computer science programs in order to prepare students for Web-related careers." During the past year, the Education Task Force has discovered that a number of programs have been moving in the direction of teaching Web standards and best practices.
Steph Troeth had the opportunity to interview José Trudel, a teacher in design in the "professional" branch at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme in the Laurentides, Quebec, Canada. The Cégep system has two branches of study; the "professional" branch and the "pre-university" branch. Find out how José prepares the next generation of web professionals for the job market.
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More than 5,700 students were awarded NJ STARS scholarships for the 2008-09 school year — awards that provided students free college tuition and fees at a cost of $18 million to the state.
But six years and $43.5 million into the popular program, there is no statewide documentation that shows how many recipients have actually earned college degrees from the state's two-year community colleges and gone on to a four-year college, which is the goal of the program.
A 2006 state report on NJ STARS recommended that a study be done during the 2009-10 academic year to identify trends in the program's enrollment, student performance, and graduation and retention rates. But because the program was modified in 2009, no such study is being done.
The Press of Atlantic City contacted several state agencies and county colleges for graduation data. Some information was obtained, but because there is no standardized reporting method, the results cannot be conclusive. Officials cited lack of research staff and funding.
"It's one of those things we said we should try to keep better track of," said Elaine Schardien, NJ STARS coordinator at Ocean County College, which has had the largest enrollment of NJ STARS students, 586, this year.
The New Jersey Student Tuition Assistance Rewards Scholarship law began in 2004 and guaranteed free tuition and fees at community colleges to all high school students who graduate in the top 20 percent of their classes. In 2006, the program expanded to add STARSII scholarships to the community college graduates who continued on to a four-year state college.
The Press asked Atlantic Cape Community College, Cumberland County College and Ocean County College for graduation data on NJSTARS students. Data provided by Ocean County College compared total NJSTARS enrollment with the number of graduates, which made it difficult to determine how many students had graduated compared with how many new NJSTARS students had entered. The information from the three county colleges shows that between 35 and 60 percent of NJSTARS students graduated within the allowable three years, and others continued to attend even after their STARS eligibility ran out.
Researchers say it's impossible to draw any conclusions about whether the program is a success.
"The graduation rate (for NJSTARS students) is higher than the average for community colleges," said Tom Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University in New York. "But these are the better students."
The program has been so popular that the state Legislature, in an effort to control costs, reduced eligibility starting in 2009 to the top 15 percent of high school graduates and limited the scholarship at the four-year colleges to $7,000 a year, split between the state and the colleges.
"(NJSTARS) has had a positive effect in providing a way for many students to go to college despite these dire times," said Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, D-Camden, a sponsor of the 2008 bill and chairwoman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. "It is creating oppportunity."
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed eliminating a new freshman class of STARS in September, althought community college presidents are trying to save the program.
"If you can see something is working, it provides a reason to keep funding going," said Alisa Cunningham, vice president of research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
The New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, or HESAA, which coordinates the funding, tracks only the number of awards given each year and not the graduation rates. It was HESAA that recommended in 2006 that another study be done this year. New Jersey Commission on Higher Education executive director Marguerite Beardsley said any research would have to be done as a specially funded project.
Maud Fried-Goodnight, executive director of enrollment, academic and student support services at Cumberland County College, said in an e-mail that the school has tracked students. She said their three-year graduation rate has averaged 60 percent since the program began in 2004. Lucy Acevedo, a counselor at Cumberland County College, said she understands why some students don't graduate on time, but she would like to see the three-year graduation rate even higher — reaching 80 percent — since NJSTARS students are the top students from their high schools and they do get a free education.
The most detailed information was provided by Atlantic Cape Community College, which showed three-year graduation rates of 54 percent, 52 percent and 35 percent for the NJSTARS students who started in the fall of 2004, 2005 and 2006. Students can receive STARS awards for as many as five semesters, or 2.5 years, and would then graduate with the May class in their third year.
ACCC's data also showed that over the three years, 37 percent of students continued to attend even after they lost their STARS eligibility. Nineteen percent of the students left the college without graduating. Some of those may have transferred to other colleges or may have dropped out.
Why some don't make it
Carmen Royal, dean of students at ACCC, said students can lose their eligibility for several reasons. STARS students must attend full-time and maintain a 3.0 grade-point average. Many students also work, and some fall behind on their credits or grades.
"They do have to work harder than regular students to maintain their eligibility," Royal said.
Graduating on time is especially challenging for those who require remedial courses. Changes in the law last year require students to take and pay for their own remedial courses before they use the STARS scholarship. Data from both ACCC and Cumberland indicate on average about 25 percent of STARS eligible students need at least one remedial course, usually in math.
ACCC's Royal said students who are also eligible for other financial aid can more easily drop to part-time or below the STARS GPA because it won't affect their funding. But for middle-class students ineligible for other aid, there is a lot more pressure to meet the STARS criteria.
HESAA data show that this year, 2,780 of the 4,320 STARS students at community colleges got all of their funding through the STARS program. Another 524 students got partial funding through STARS, and 1,106 were totally funded by other financial aid such as Pell or state Tuition Aid grants.
Three NJSTARS students who will graduate in May after just two years at ACCC said it was a major challenge. All plan to transfer to four-year colleges to complete their bachelor's degrees and did not want to spend three years at the community college. They all worked part-time to cover other costs such as books and gas, but said STARS was a huge factor in their ability to go to college.
"I took five courses each semester, and took some over the summer, too," said Nicole Giapoutzis of Hammonton, a 2008 graduate of St. Joseph High School who will transfer to Rowan University as an education and English major. She also worked to maintain the 3.5 grade-point average required to earn the maximum $7,000 annual STARS II scholarship at Rowan.
"It was a real incentive to maintain the GPA because I get no other financial aid," she said. "All I get is STARS, and it was up to me to keep it."
Kathryn Ciaramella, 19, of Egg Harbor Township, paid to take extra courses at ACCC so she could get done in two years and earn some extra credits toward her four-year degree at Rowan University, where she plans to major in education with specialties in math, English and special education.
"Economically, it just made sense to go to ACCC," she said.
About 70 percent of the STARS students who graduated from ACCC have transfered to a four-year college, some with more ease than others.
Cortney Ziegler, of Galloway Township, a 2008 graduate of Absegami High School, said she decided to accept the NJSTARS scholarship because it would allow her to get out of college almost debt-free.
She said students have to carefully track what they are taking and whether it will affect their STARS status and transfer credits at the four-year college.
"I know a student who lost their STARS eligibility because of just one credit," she said.
Transferring not always easy
Ziegler was accepted at both Rowan and The College of New Jersey for next year, but she said it is proving more difficult than she thought to transfer all her credits, especially at TCNJ. She said at TCNJ she may have to retake so many courses that she will have to spend a third year at the college, a year she will have to pay for. The STARS II scholarship is good for only two years.
Amanda Bilgeshouse, 22, of Barnegat Township, will pay for two courses at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey this summer because of transfer issues. The 2005 Southern Regional High School graduated graduated as a STARS student from Ocean County College in 2008, then transferred to Stockton as a criminal justice major. She said she had to take a special criminal justice statistics course at Stockton, even though she took statistics at OCC.
"I had two courses that did not transfer, and I am two credits short in one area because the OCCC courses were three credits, and at Stockton courses are four credits," she said. She had thought she could graduate from Stockton in May, but will now graduate in December.
A state law established the NJTransfer program, and was designed to assure students could apply their community college credits to an equivalent four-year degree. Lampitt, a sponsor of the law, said that if students are having problems, they and their community colleges should contact her office or their own state legislators.
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Let me restate my belief that England can and will win this World Cup. I know the body of evidence before us suggests otherwise and we only scraped through against Ecuador, but things are going for England and Portugal will be weakened on Saturday. It will not be straightforward, though, because while being without Deco and Costinha is a big problem for Luiz Felipe Scolari, I know that yesterday the first thing he will have said to the players who may appear instead of them is: what an opportunity.
This is the chance of a lifetime for the likes of Tiago, Armando Petit and Simao Sabrosa. Not that Scolari will address that trio as if they are new to his thoughts though. Those three players are experienced, they have 113 caps between them, and each has played over three hours of football at this tournament. So the idea that they are "replacements" should be dismissed.
I was in Gelsenkirchen last Wednesday to see a supposedly weakened Portugal beat Mexico 2-1. Portugal had qualified but needed to win to top the group. Scolari gave squad players such as Luis Boa Morte, Paulo Ferreira, Nuno Gomes and Hugo Viana some World Cup experience and only three members of the squad have not appeared in Germany. Two of them are goalkeepers.
It is a squad game - though Theo Walcott might be wondering about that - and one of Portugal's strengths is that the squad members seem to know their role and understand their place in the overall team pattern. Simao, in particular, impressed me, as he had done for Benfica in the Champions League last season when he scored a great goal at Anfield.
Against Mexico Simao set up Maniche to score. He can play on both the left and the right and, rare for a winger, plays with his head up. He also has great vision.
Petit and Tiago have the knowledge to step in to fill the gap left by Costinha so the picture for Portugal is not as bleak as it looked in Nuremberg on Sunday night. I am not contradicting my belief in England - I am merely emphasising Portugal's strengths and the fact that missing two players will not terminate their chances on Saturday.
Yet any team would miss Deco. He is fundamental to Portugal's passing and gives them the extra dimension of the killer pass. His absence is greatly in England's favour because without Deco I consider Portugal tough - they are not soft physically - but functional.
They are definitely beatable. England simply cannot be as bad as they have been and the Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo was uncertain at times against Holland so I think England will score. And I don't know if Portugal, for all their ability to manoeuvre the ball around the pitch, can do that.
If England go one up and Portugal start to worry then Scolari's options up front are limited. Pauleta is perhaps a better holding centre forward than he is given credit for but against Mexico they started with Helder Postiga up front and I'm not sure he has enough at this level.
Not that Scolari will be saying anything like that. If England continue to play as drably then Scolari knows that Portugal, if they keep their heads and shape, can beat them. He will make them feel as tight as a clenched fist and England will have to show more cuteness than they have to progress.


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Joyce Palomar
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B.S., University of Nebraska, 1975, with honors
M.A., University of Nebraska, 1977
J.D., University of Nebraska, 1986, with distinction
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Professor Joyce Palomar is Kenneth E. McAfee Chair in Law and a Presidential Professor. She has taught as John F. Lehmann Distinguished Visiting Professor at Washington University School of Law and as a Fulbright Professor at Beihang University Law School in Beijing and at East China University of Political Science & Law in Shanghai. In 2006, Palomar received the University of Oklahoma Merrick Foundation Teaching Award. In 2011, Prof. Palomar brought the Chinese Law Summer Program to the OU College of Law.
Professor Palomar is author of the two-volume treatise, Title Insurance Law (1994 Thomson*West) and the four-volume treatise, Patton & Palomar on Land Titles, 3rd ed. (2003 Thomson*West). She is co-author of the casebook, Property, Cases and Statutes, 2nd ed. (2009 Carolina Academic Press). She also has published numerous articles on the subject of land tenure security, land title assurance, and real property law, most recently in Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law and William and Mary Law Review.
Academic conferences at which Palomar has spoken include the Mercatus Center Conference on Building Market Institutions: Property Rights, Business Formalization and Economic Development at George Mason University Law School; the Conference on Property Rights and Economic Development sponsored by College of William and Mary; the Working Group on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism; the Thomas F. Gallivan Conference on Real Property Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law; the Sino-American Forum on Chinese Property Law at Tsinghua University; and the Chinese Property Law Conference at Beijing University.
Professor Palomar also presented her research on land tenure security in emerging economies at a seminar at the World Bank. She testified at a Federal Trade Commission public hearing on barriers to electronic commerce of real estate. She frequently has lectured at conferences sponsored by the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, American Law Institute, American Bar Association, and several state bar associations. Palomar is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and American College of Mortgage Attorneys.


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Nicol, the daughter of Laura and Mike Nicol of Wapakoneta, OH, is a 2010 graduate of USC with a master's degree in higher education and student affairs. While at USC, Nicol was a co-instructor for University 101 and a graduate assistant in the Career Center, graduate intern in Off-Campus Student Services and practicum assistant with International Student Services and Study Abroad. Nicol received an undergraduate degree in philosophy and interpersonal communication with honors from Bowling Green State University. As a Fulbright Scholar, Nicol will teach English and lead cross-cultural activities at a university in Macau. Nicol wants to stay in higher education, either continuing in the area of international education or pursuing a doctorate with the goal of becoming a full professor.
Williams, daughter of Dorothy Williams of Jacksonville, FL, and Lawrence Williams of Richmond, VA, is a doctoral student in public health at the Arnold School of Public Health at USC. While at USC, she received a research award from the Institute for African American Research and a graduate incentive fellowship. In 2009, she was a scholar with the National Institutes of Health Minority Health International Research Training Program in Ghana. She will use her Fulbright award to examine the impact of a culturally appropriate cervical cancer education program for women in Kumasi, Ghana. Williams received her undergraduate degree in biology and a master's in public health from Florida A&M University.
Gahm, son of Mary Gahm of Panama City, FL, and Bruce Gahm of Lexington, SC, is a 2001 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in finance and international business. He was a member of the South Carolina Honors College and a Palmetto Fellow. He is a recipient of a 2009 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. As a Fulbright Scholar, Gahm will study at the Instituto de Empresa Foundation Business School in Madrid, Spain. After his Fulbright year, Gahm has an interest in venture capital and infrastructure finance in the developing world.
Stoudenmire, son of Kim and Lynn Stoudenmire of Greer, SC, is a 2008 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a bachelor's degree in history. While at USC, he was a columnist with The Daily Gamecock, president pro-tempore of the Student Senate, 2007 Homecoming king and president of the national leadership society, Omicron Delta Kappa. Stoudenmire recently earned a master's of education degree in higher education from the University of Arkansas and is currently pursuing a master's of art in history at Arkansas. As a Fulbright Scholar, he will teach English in Georgia and conduct research on the impact of study in the United States on the civic behaviors of students in an emerging democracy. After his Fulbright year, he will teach English at a university in Eastern Europe with the United States Peace Corps.


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|Aly Michalka
|Ashley Tisdale
|Date Selected
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|May 18, 2011
|March 25, 1989
|July 2, 1985
|Torrance, California
|Deal, New Jersey
|Known for
|"Easy A", "Hellcats"
|"High School Musical", "Hellcats"
|Six Degrees of Joss
|Appeared on "Hellcats" with D.B. Woodside (Principal Wood from "Buffy")
|Appeared on "Hellcats" with D.B. Woodside (Principal Wood from "Buffy")
Analysis: Yes, I put these two up against each other simply because of the "Hellcats" connection, so all you "Hellcats" fans out there (yep, that's right, all seven of you) have to decide once and for all who is better: Marti or Savannah. Or, you know, you could pick which one you prefer based on some non-Hellcats reason. They both have Disney connections too, and they both sing.
Prediction: I think Michalka advances in a close one, though whoever wins this is probably Vergara roadkill in the next round.


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Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.
Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend?
Mr. White's essays have appeared in Harper's magazine, and some of his other books are: One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner, Letters of E. B. White, Essays of E. B. White, and Poems and Sketches of E. B. White. He won countless awards, including the 1971 National Medal for Literature and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, which commended him for making a "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."
During his lifetime, many young readers asked Mr. White if his stories were true. In a letter written to be sent to his fans, he answered, "No, they are imaginary tales . . . But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination."Garth Williams began his work on the pictures for the Little House books by meeting Laura Ingalls Wilder at her home in Missouri, and then he traveled to the sites of all the little houses. His charming art caused Laura to remark that she and her family "live again in these illustrations."
Rosemary Wells is the creator of many unforgettable children's book characters, including Max and Ruby, McDuff, and Yoko, each of whom stars in their own book series. She is also the author of perennial favorites about universal childhood experiences, such as Noisy Nora and Read To Your Bunny. Rosemary Wells lives in upstate New York.


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Exclusive: Paul Feig Talks Ghostbusters
'Pulling it out of New York would be the biggest sin'
Paul Feig has a new film coming - it's a newly-trailered espionage caper called Spy that has a cast straight out of our zaniest cheese dream – but he's also beavering away on a certain Ghostbusters movie and he shared the latest on that with Empire on that threequel too. Firstly, he and co-writer Kate Dippold are not, repeat not, moving the setting away from its traditional home. "No, to me it's such a New York movie and the biggest sin would be to pull it out of there," stresses Feig. "I just love New York and, selfishly, I just want to shoot in New York."
The plan is for an all-female team of Ghostbusters that will, promises the writer/director, boast "fun nods to the old movie" without ever lapsing into self-parody. Don't expect a 'Venkwoman' or too many Easter eggs marshmallows, in other words. "We're not recreating the old movie but we want to do just enough fun nods that the fans will go, 'Oh, okay, they're acknowledging that the other movie existed,'" he elaborates. "I like to watch parodies, but I don't want to do them because they're too referential. Comedy that's too referential has such a short shelf life, whereas comedy that's based around characters will be relatable 2000 years from now because people won't change that much."
While he wasn't able to elaborate further on those Melissa McCarthy casting rumours ("It came out publically that we're in talks with Melissa but there's a lot to work out," he cautions), he is keeping tabs on internet reactions. "There's a lot of haters and I get it," he laughs of feedback from north of the firewall. "The problem with the internet is that if 500 really angry men start bombarding me, I think, 'Oh god, everybody hates this movie,' but then you realise that it's only 500 people. I don't block anyone out or not read that stuff because I want to know what the most hardcore hater fan's problem is."
For Feig, there's plenty of gas left in the Ecto-1 tanks. "A lot of people ask why I didn't create my own thing but Ghostbusters never ran out of steam, it's such a great idea," he stresses. "It's such a fun franchise so why not bring it to a new generation? The old movie is never going to not exist. It's not my plan to erase every copy! Hopefully they can all live together."
Like most of Sony's planned output, the Ghostbusters 3 scripting process has been complicated by the hacking fallout. After an early email to Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman outlining ideas for the film appeared and then disappeared from the internet, no risks are being taken with screenplay drafts. "We've been working on laptops and passing flash drives back and forth," explains Feig of his and co-writer Dippold's collaboration. "It's very old school. We're using paper, god forbid."
Before Ghostbusters 3 kicks up a gear, there's Spy to look forward to. That one opens in the UK on June 5 and Feig has talked us through its trailer right here.


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Spica, the 16th brightest star in the sky, is in Virgo the Virgin, which is leaving our evening skies for a while.
The star will be dimmed by its low position in the sky and the twilight, but it will be part of some stellar lineups over the next few days.
To find Spica, first locate Venus in the western sky between 7 and 7:30 p.m. The ever brilliant planet will be about 12 degrees above the horizon. Spica will be slightly below and to the left (south) of Venus (only 1.6 degrees).
Venus and Spica will be delightful in binoculars. Above them and to their left (south) is Saturn.
Try to watch Venus, Spica and Saturn for the next few days. On Saturday evening, between 7:05 and 7:30 if the sky is clear and you have a good western horizon, you will see the very thin 2ƒ-day-old crescent moon, Spica, Venus and Saturn lining up, in that order, from right to left.
There will be a wonderful lineup on Sunday night. The 3ƒ-day-old crescent moon will be less than 3 degrees to the left (south) of Venus. This should be quite a sight in binoculars.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 - ExBPA
Introduction to Exchange 2010 Server - ExPBA (Best Practice Analyzer)
It's wonderful, it's free, you simply must try the ExBPA. The name says it all: Exchange Server Best Practice Analyzer and you get it free from Microsoft. Not only is the ExBPA a serious tool, which scans Exchange for weaknesses, but it's also a fun tool, which prompts you to learn as you improve your servers performance.
Topics for Exchange 2010 - ExBPA (Best Practice Analyzer)
Getting Started with ExBPA
In Exchange Server 2010, the Best Practices Analyzer is installed during Exchange Setup (as it was in Exchange 2007. Once installed you can run the ExBPA from the Exchange Management Console Toolbox.
However, it's better to run ExBPA from a workstation such as Windows 7. For this purpose you can download a free copy of ExBPA from Microsoft's site and install it on a workstation.
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Yet perhaps the killer reason why people use LEM is for its compliance capability, with a little help from you, it will ensure that your organization complies with industry standards such as CISP or FERPA. LEM is a really smart application that can make correlations between data in different logs, then use its built-in logic to take corrective action, to restart services, or thwart potential security breaches - give LEM a whirl.
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Getting Started with ExBPA on Windows 7
Installing could not be easier, just double click the ExBPA.msi file.
Once the install completes, and ExBPA launches, connect to the Active Directory responsible for your Exchange Organization. Naturally, ExBPA uses the credentials of the account under which you logged on.
The next step is to start a new Best Practices scan, but before setting the scan to run, you need to choose:
1. A name for the scan.
The ExBPA displays six categories of information. The most interesting are the Best Practice and the Errors. I also like to skim the output for any warnings and non-default settings.
Recommended Scans
The ExBPA carries out a very good and comprehensive Health Check. If possible run a baseline check early in your Exchange 2010 career, it will pay back handsomely later when you run future scans.
Talking of planning ahead, it's always worth running the Exchange Server Readiness Check (see screensot).
Vital readiness ExBPA checks:
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ExBPA Scan Settings
One of the hallmarks of a great utility like ExBPA, is that you don't need to consult an instruction manual before you start. All you need to do is launch ExBPA, click on 'Connect to Active Directory', and you are ready to scan. BPA progresses through its tests, and makes a comprehensive comparison between your system and Microsoft's best practices.
A wild guess says that it will take 15 minutes to scan your Exchange organization. Another guess says ExBPA will generate 2 MB worth of data. When you are only troubleshooting one particular Exchange server, you may wish to speed up the scan, by limiting the test to just that problem server.
Health Check
Connectivity Check
ExBPA Reports
One persistent grumble with Microsoft utilities in general is that there is no reporting feature; I hear the most complaints about ADUC*. Well, let us hope that BPA's reporting features are a sign of the future. Fingers crossed that all interfaces will soon have a selection of options, such as Summary, Details and my favourite - the Issues List. Incidentally, there is BPA for SQL so the concept is spreading.
Another must have report is the Items of Interest, what you get here is a central list of all those statistics that can take an age to find, for example Exchange 2010 database locations and disk size.
Although I mention them last, baseline reports should be one of the first scans to run on a production server. Once you have a baseline its easy to detect trends and play 'what if' games.
* Active Directory Users and Computers interface.
How ExBPA works
ExBPA feeds on XML configuration files. In these XML files are WMI instructions for the very tests to be run on your Exchange server. The key to the Best Practice Analysis is the list of rules which establish whether results pass Microsoft's tests. Amazingly, ExBPA is intelligent enough to check automatically if there any XML updates on the Microsoft web site. The ExBPA engine has a most descriptive name - the dispatcher. What the dispatcher does is send WMI collectors to gather the information. The ExBPA engine then analyzes the data against the configuration files, and generates the results on screen.
One advantage of the 2010 version of ExBPA is a scheduler; this means that you can plan your scans and they run automatically at a time to suit you. In this instance, you would want the output report sent to a file, since nobody is likely to be looking at the screen when the tests are run in the middle of the night.
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Summary - ExBPA (Exchange Server Best Practice Analyzer)
Best by name, best by nature, the Best Practice Analyzer is a must have Microsoft utility. ExBPA will detect configuration and routing weaknesses in your Exchange 2010 server and recommend solutions. ExBPA is free from Microsoft and it's a joy to combine business with pleasure as you scan your server for weaknesses. BPA is a real 'techie' tool, which not only makes your server more reliable and secure, but also gives you fun learning about how Exchange works.


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LVN Nursing Skills
Being an LVN means needing skills to get the job done. Many individuals depend on you, and being on the front line means you'll be spending more time with your patients than many other members of the healthcare team, like doctors and registered nurses. This is where you can shine, helping the lives of those less fortunate when they are sick and ill. Besides a compassionate nature, you'll also need to be skilled at bedside care and able to follow detailed instructions to the letter. There are a wide range of jobs, depending on your environs, and so your skills will vary according to that most of all. In some states, LVNs are tasked with more responsibility than others. Having said that, the standard remains the same across all employment.
Vital signs, like pulse or heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, and in some cases blood oxygen are the core of any patient's condition. As an LVN, you'll be expected to be able to measure these values and keep accurate records of their fluctuations. While modern medicine has made a lot of this easier (for example, manual gauge blood pressure cuffs have been replaced by digital meters in many hospitals), you need to have a strong background in these methods for those times when technology fails.
Administration of medication and prescription drugs is also an important skill for LVNs. Besides, obviously, a clean record and no drug history, nurses have to be able to distinguish between medications and apply them correctly, whether it be a simple as making sure a patient swallows her pill to expertly pulling off an intramuscular injection. Starting IVs are also something that you will learn and be expected to handle with regularity. Get used to needles, because you'll be seeing a lot of them if you're in a hospital setting. Taking care of wounds, like bandaging, cleaning, and dressing is another key element of an LVN's responsibility.
In an outpatient setting, a nurse may have less of a duty to start intravenous drips, or dress wounds, but be expected to perform more clerical duties, such as filing, typing, and maintaining proper patient records. Really, the responsibilities of an LVN vary so widely that you can find a job that fits just about anyone.