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In looking back at 2013, we polled the ColoradoRapids.com staff and asked them to pick their top five Colorado soccer moments of the year. #5 - Awards and Recognition; #4 - Victory in Montreal; #3 - Rout of the Sounders; #2 - Winning the Rocky Mountain Cup.
For as many positive moments that we can take away from the Colorado Rapids' 2013 season, it was a match played by two other teams at Dick's Sporting Goods Park that will forever be remembered - be it here in Colorado or anywhere in the country. Coming in as the Top Moment of 2013 is the infamous SnowClasico on March 22, in which the U.S. Men's National Team defeated Costa Rica amidst blizzard conditions.
Let's rewind a bit, to set the scene.
On January 15 U.S. Soccer Federation announced that Dick's Sporting Goods Park would host the first of five home matches for the final round of qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The decision raised some eyebrows around the country, with some media and fans outside of Colorado questioning the decision to bring such a high-importance match to the home of the Rapids. That chatter didn't last long after the match sold out in less than an hour after tickets went on sale to the public.
However the Hexagonal round started on the wrong foot for the USMNT. The team lost its first match in Honduras in February. By the time the team was set to travel to Colorado, the injury bug had spread all over the squad.
- Commentary: SnowClasico is one for the ages
- Match Recap / Highlights: USMNT 1, Costa Rica 0
- USMNT player tweet reaction to amazing Denver crowd
- Record crowd for international match
- US endures whitewash for crucial WCQ win
From U.S. Soccer's announcement: eight players were unavailable: Edgar Castillo (facial fractures), Timmy Chandler (hamstring), Steve Cherundolo (knee), Tim Howard (back), Fabian Johnson (hip), Jonathan Spector (ankle), Jose Torres (hamstring) and Danny Williams (illness).
Add that star attacker Landon Donovan was on his self-imposed hiatus, and Carlos Bocanegra was not playing, and the must-win match in Denver would have to be won by a mix of reserves, newcomers, and some experienced veterans.
Then, as the team began gathering in Denver, a controversial Sporting News article raised questions of in-house issues within the US side.
And then came the game.
The snow started coming down about an hour before kickoff, but it didn't keep anyone away. The stands were full by kickoff, and the atmosphere was electric when Clint Dempsey gave the U.S. the lead after 15 minutes.
The snow was relentless - to the point that the officials temporarily stopped the match in the second half to determine if the game should continue.
With the crowd cheering 'Let them play,' and dozens of staffers working tirelessly to clear the snow, and US coach Jurgen Klinsmann pleading his case, the match went on.
The U.S. held on to a 1-0 win - the first of the final round of qualifying on the way to winning the group and advancing to their seventh consecutive World Cup.
Costa Rica attempted to file a protest with FIFA to replay the match - only to see the protest disallowed.
An international match record crowd of 19,374 attended the game. But millions more around the country saw the tremondous support the fans in Colorado gave the U.S. team.


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Meet Heath HIll, AgVenture Farmer
I am 46 years old and the third-generation farmer on a century farm in Iowa that's been in our family since 1909. I have a wife, Lesli, and a 16-year-old son. I farm with my father Craig on about 750 acres, and everything is precision farmed. We plant about 75% corn and 25% soybeans, though this year we will be almost two-thirds corn and one-third soybeans. Our dirt's a little too black for a 50/50 rotation with corn and soybeans, so we usually do a two-year or three-year corn to every year soybeans.

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NEW ORLEANS — ``This is different,`` John Paxson was saying. ``I`ve been playing next to the guy for six years now, but this is a whole different level. The time I really stop and think about what is going on is when he steps to the foul line and all those hundreds of lights start flashing.``
We were sitting in the Chicago Bulls` locker room on the ground level of the Louisiana Superdome. Paxson, who plays beside Michael Jordan as the other starting guard for the Bulls, was trying to explain what he and the other players are beginning to accept as fact: that what is happening with their team is something that goes well beyond basketball.


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1996 Blue Ribbons
The 1996 Bulletin Blue Ribbons List spans a broad range of genres and age groups, from picture-book biography to young-adult poetry, from middle-grade fantasy to primary-grade readers. This is nothing if not an eclectic bunch of books--which basically reflects the eclectic bunch of reviewers we have here at the Bulletin. Oddly enough, without planning or forethought, we have nearly the same number of titles in each of our three categories: fourteen fiction titles, thirteen nonfiction titles, and twelve picture books. (If you count Avi's books as one two-volume title, the numbers are even closer.) The criteria for inclusion is stringent but clear--whatever is still on the table at the end of weeks of vehement discussion, debate and dissection gets a Blue Ribbon. If you buy everything on it for your collection you've pretty much covered the outstanding titles for 1996. Such hubris.
Janice Del Negro, Editor
This page was last updated on July 1, 1997.


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ONS has released today interim life tables for 2009-2011 for England, Wales and England and Wales. The tables provide period life expectancy for males and females by single year of age (0 to 100), for three-year rolling periods from 1980–1982 onwards. The tables for 2000-2002 to 2008-2010 have been revised to take account of the mid-year population estimates for 2002 to 2010 that have been revised in the light of the 2011 Census results. Therefore the figures in the life tables for 2000-2002 to 2008-2010 published in this release may differ from those in previous releases.
ONS produces national interim life tables, which are for the UK and constituent countries and give statistics on period life expectancy by age and sex. National interim life tables are produced annually and are based on three consecutive years worth of data to reduce the annual fluctuations in the number of deaths caused by seasonal events such as flu. The tables are known as interim life tables since fully graduated (smoothed) life tables are also prepared every ten years (decennial life tables), based on the three years of data around a census year.
Interim life tables are 'period' life tables and therefore all figures referred to in this bulletin are 'period' life expectancies. Period life expectancy is the average number of additional years a person would live if he or she experienced the age-specific mortality rates of the given time period for the rest of their life. Therefore it is not the number of years someone in that time period is actually likely to live, because death rates are likely to change over time.
This statistical bulletin will focus on England and Wales as a whole and England and Wales as separate countries. The release does not include figures for the UK or Great Britain (GB), because the population estimates for 2002-2010/11 based on the 2011 Census are not yet available for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The figures in this statistical bulletin are from the 2009-2011 Interim life tables release that uses the revised population estimates for England and Wales in their calculation. This means that the figures in the life tables for 2000-2002 to 2008-2010 in previous editions may differ to those published in this release.
The timetabling for the annual release of Interim life tables is different for this release due to the revision of the mid-year population estimates following the 2011 Census.
The life table is a purely hypothetical calculation. The basic assumption is that there is a given number of births; this is an arbitrary number called the radix (ONS uses 100,000). The births are subject to the mortality rates prevailing for each age, and so remaining survivors pass through each year of age.
The national interim life tables are produced annually for the UK and its constituent countries. Each table is based on the population estimates and birth and death registration data for a period of three consecutive years. Period life tables are calculated using age-specific mortality rates for a given period, with no allowance for any actual or projected future changes in mortality. The notation used to calculate life tables is available in the guide to calculating interim life tables.
Life expectancy is the average number of years a person has before death. This is conventionally calculated from birth, but can also be calculated from any specified age. This gives the remaining further number of years a person on average can expect to live given the age they have attained. This means that period life expectancy at birth for a given time period and area is an estimate of the average number of years a newborn baby would survive if he/she experienced the particular area's age-specific mortality rates for that time period throughout his/her life.
Life expectancies that allow for actual or projected changes in mortality during a person's lifetime are known as 'cohort' life expectancies. ONS also produces historic and projected period and cohort life expectancy tables around each publication of the National Population Projections.
This release relates to the interim life tables for England and Wales only, rather than the UK and constituent countries. This is because of the availability of population data following the 2011 Census. In September 2012 ONS released the 2011 mid-year population estimates for England and Wales based on the 2011 Census and in December 2012 the revised back series of population estimates for the years 2002 to 2010. The corresponding population estimates for Scotland and Northern Ireland are not available at this time. Today ONS has released an interim life table for 2009-2011 and also revised interim life tables for the years 2000-2002 to 2008-2010, using the latest population estimates available for England and Wales.
The differences in the life expectancies by age between the old set of life tables 2000-2002 to 2008-2010 and the revised set presented in this bulletin are very small. The differences do get larger over time and increase with age, therefore the largest differences in life expectancy are observed in 2008-2010 at ages 85 and over. The largest differences are for males at around 0.3 of a year or four months. For example, in England and Wales, 2008-2010, life expectancy for a man age 89 was 4.6 years using the 2008-2010 mid-year population estimates rolled forward from the 2001 Census and 4.3 years using the 2011 Census revised estimates for 2008-2010. There were even smaller differences for females, less than 0.1 of a year or about five weeks.
The majority of the differences are negative, that is life expectancy is lower as a result of the revisions to mid-year estimates for 2002 to 2010. The 2011 Census results showed that the estimates of the total population of England and Wales over the decade from 2001 were under estimated. However, at older ages (from around age 65) the 2011 Census actually identified an over estimate of the population at these ages. This means that a reduction in the estimate of the population (the denominator in calculating mortality rates) following the 2011 Census will result in an increase in mortality rates at older ages and hence a lower life expectancy. Changes in mortality rates at older ages in recent years have had a greater effect on life expectancy than changes occurring at younger ages.
The differences between the old and revised mortality rates vary by age. In the revised tables, there have been increases in mortality rates (the probability of dying between exact age x and x + 1 has increased) for men in their twenties and at the oldest ages. These differences increase over time and there are peaks for men at age 22 of 6% and at age 91 of 9% in 2008-2010. For females, there are very small increases in mortality rates from age 68, smaller than for men at around 1% and at around 2% at the oldest ages.
For most other ages, for males and females and for England and Wales, mortality rates have decreased following the 2011 Census. That is, the probability of dying from one age to the next has reduced and as with the changes to life expectancy the differences increase over time, so the largest differences are in 2008-2010. However, the differences are small, particularly for women, at around 2% or less.
Life expectancy at birth in England and Wales has reached its highest level on record for both males and females. A newborn baby boy could expect to live 78.7 years and a newborn baby girl 82.6 years if mortality rates remain the same as they were in 2009-2011.
Figure 1 shows how life expectancy at birth in England and Wales has changed over time. It has consistently increased from 71.0 years for males and 77.0 years for females in 1980-1982 to 78.7 years for males and 82.6 years for females in 2009-2011.
Women continue to live longer than men, but the gap has been closing. Although both sexes have shown annual improvements in life expectancy at birth, over the past three decades the gap has narrowed from 6.0 years to 4.0 years.
Based on mortality rates in 1980-1982 for England and Wales, 74% of newborn boys would survive to age 65. This has increased to 86% based on 2009-2011 rates. The equivalent figures for newborn girls surviving to age 65 were 84% in 1980-1982 and 91% in 2009-2011.
Life expectancy in England has risen to 78.7 years for males and 82.7 years for females in 2009-2011. In Wales life expectancy has also risen; but has remained at a slightly lower level, at 77.8 years for males and 82.0 years for females. In both countries the increase in life expectancy at birth has been just over seven years for males and just under six years for females since 1980-1982.
Figure 2 shows that life expectancy at birth in England has been consistently higher than life expectancy at birth in Wales for both males and females throughout the time period 1980-1982 to 2009-2011. In 1988-90 the life expectancy at birth for both males and females living in the two countries almost converged at about 73 and 78 years respectively. By 2009-2011 the gap had diverged again to a similar size as that in 1980-1982.
Life expectancy at birth has seen continued increases since the 1980s for both males and females in England and in Wales. These increases over the last three decades are mostly because of improvements in mortality at older ages.
In 2009-2011, life expectancy at age 65 for a man in England and Wales reached 18.2 years and for a women 20.8 years.
Figure 3 shows how life expectancy at age 65 in England and Wales has improved over time. For men it has risen by 5.1 years since 1980-1982 when it was 13.0 years. Women have seen a smaller increase of 3.8 years since 1980-1982 when it was 17.0 years.
The difference between male and female life expectancy at age 65 has decreased over the last three decades, from 4.0 years in 1980-1982 to 2.6 years in 2009-2011. Male life expectancy at age 65 has improved at a faster rate than for females, but males have not yet reached the life expectancy that has been achieved by females aged 65. Male life expectancy at age 65 is now the same as female life expectancy at age 65 was in 1992-1994.
Based on mortality rates in 1980-1982 for England and Wales, 81% of men aged 65 would die before age 85, but this has reduced to 56% in 2009-2011. The equivalent figures for a woman aged 65 in England and Wales were 62% in 1980-1982 and 43% in 2009-2011.
In 2009-2011 life expectancy at age 65 in England reached 18.2 years for males and 20.8 years for females and in Wales it was slightly lower at 17.7 years for males and 20.4 years for females.
A man in England and Wales aged 85 has a life expectancy of 5.8 years in 2009-2011. For females in England and Wales life expectancy at age 85 has reached 6.9 years in 2009-2011.
Life expectancy at age 85 has improved for men and women in England and Wales. From 1980-1982 to 2009-2011 it has increased by 1.5 years for both sexes. The gap between life expectancy at age 85 for males and females has remained fairly consistent over the last three decades at around one year. In 1980-1982 the difference was one year, this increased to 1.2 years in 1992-1994 and has fallen to one year again in 2009-2011.
Based on mortality rates in 1980-1982 for England and Wales, 99% of men aged 85 would die before reaching age 100, while by 2009-2011 this had reduced to 97%. The chance of dying before reaching age 100 has reduced more for women than for men. Mortality rates in 1980-1982 showed that 98% of women aged 85 in England and Wales would die before reaching age 100; this has reduced to 95% in 2009-2011.
Table 1 gives the percentage change in life expectancy at birth, at age 65 and at age 85, between 1980-1982 and 2009-2011 in England and Wales. It shows that (for both males and females) the percentage change in life expectancy between 1980-1982 and 2009-2011 was greater at ages 65 and 85 than for life expectancy at birth. The percentage change in life expectancy at age 85 (27%) is greater than at birth (7%) and age 65 (22%) for women, but for men the greatest percentage change in life expectancy is at age 65 (39%). Although life expectancy is lower for males than females, males are experiencing the greater improvements at all ages. The greater increases at older ages adds to evidence that increasing life expectancy over the last few decades is mostly due to the improving mortality rates at older ages.
|Improvement in Life expectancy at birth
|Improvement in Life expectancy at age 65
|Improvement in Life expectancy at age 85
Baby girls born in 2009-2011 had a 91% chance of surviving to age 65 and a 52% chance of surviving to age 85. The corresponding percentages for baby boys were 86% and 38% respectively. These chances of survival are based on the mortality rates at every age in 2009-2011 and make no allowance for any future changes in mortality rates.
Figures 5a and 5b show the survival curves for males and females from the 1980-1982 and the 2009-2011 life tables. Survival to age 65 and to age 85 have increased for both males and females. The increase in female survival rates from birth to age 85 over the three decades has been substantial, from 32% in 1980-1982 to 52% in 2009-2011. Male survival to age 85 remains lower than for females, however the increase in male survival has been greater and has more than doubled, from 14% to 38% over the same period. There have also been increases in survival from age 65 to age 85. The proportions surviving are shown in the boxes in Figures 5a and 5b. The chance of a woman surviving to age 85 having reached age 65 has increased from 38% in 1980-1982 to 57% in 2009-2011. For men, again, the chance of surviving from age 65 to age 85 has more than doubled, from 19% in 1980-1982 to a 44% chance in 2009-2011.
Mortality rates at older ages are thought to be improving because of a combination of factors. One major factor is the improvements in mortality from circulatory diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, partly driven by changing smoking habits1 and medical and technological advances. People who are younger than 60 in 2009-2011 have also benefitted from a lifetime of NHS health care services.
People born between 1926 and 1935 are often referred to as the 'Golden Cohort'. In particular those born around 1930 have experienced improvements in mortality in recent years that no cohort has experienced previously or since. The effect of their greater rates of improvement in mortality contributes to the overall improvements in mortality at older ages in England and Wales.
Patterns of life expectancy at age 85 in England and in Wales are very similar to those for England and Wales as a whole.
As the percentage chance of surviving to older ages has improved over time, this has led to increases in the population aged 90 and over. See ONS estimates of the very old (including centenarians) also published today.
|Life expectancy at birth
|Life expectancy at age 65
|Life expectancy at age 85
|Iceland (2011)
|Japan (2011)
|Italy (2010)
|Netherlands (2011)
|Spain (2011)
|New Zealand
|Norway (2011)
|England & Wales
|Poland (2011)
Out of the 13 selected countries in the table Switzerland has the highest male life expectancy at birth of 80.3 years in 2009-2011. Poland has the lowest male life expectancy at birth in 2011 at 72.4 years. Men in England and Wales rank 10th out of the 13 selected countries. Life expectancy at birth is 78.7 years which is higher than Germany at 77.7 years in 2011 but lower than Norway which is 79.0 years in 2011.
Australia has the highest life expectancy at age 65 in 2009-2011 at 19.1 years. Again Poland is the lowest at 15.3 years. Men in England and Wales are ranked ninth with 18.2 years of life at age 65. This is above Norway in 2011 at 18.0 years and below Iceland (2011), Netherlands and Italy who all report 18.3 years.
At age 85, men in England and Wales rank more highly within the 13 selected countries. Australia remains the highest with a life expectancy at age 85 of 6.2 years. Men in England and Wales are ranked fifth at 5.8 years, below Japan at 6.0 years and above the Netherlands at 5.7 years. Life expectancy at age 85 is more similar between the selected countries compared with life expectancy at birth and at age 65.
Life expectancy for males in Denmark is consistently in the bottom two of the 13 selected countries.
|Life expectancy at birth
|Life expectancy at age 65
|Life expectancy at age 85
|Japan (2011)
|Spain (2011)
|Italy (2010)
|Iceland (2011)
|Norway (2011)
|Netherlands (2011)
|New Zealand
|England & Wales
|Poland (2011)
Table 3 shows that out of the 13 selected countries Japanese females have the highest life expectancy at birth of 85.9 years in 2011. Women in Poland have the lowest life expectancy at 80.9 years. Women in England and Wales rank 11th with a life expectancy at birth of 82.6 years. This is above Denmark at 81.6 years but below Germany where females have a life expectancy at birth of 82.7 years.
Japanese females have the highest life expectancy at age 65, at 23.7 years in 2011. Of the 13 selected countries, women in Poland have the lowest life expectancy at age 65 at 19.7 years. England and Wales females rank 10th with a life expectancy of 20.8 years, appearing above Germany (20.7 years), Denmark (19.8 years) and Poland (19.7 years).
Life expectancy at age 85 is the highest for women in Japan at 8.1 years. Australia has the second highest life expectancy at age 85 for females at 7.2 years, nearly one whole year lower than Japan. Females in England and Wales rank joint fifth with Italy, New Zealand, and the Netherlands each at 6.9 years. The lowest life expectancy at age 85 for females is in Germany at 6.3 years in 2009-2011.
In countries where life expectancy exceeds England and Wales, lifestyle is thought to account for some of the difference, for example the Mediterranaen diet which has been linked to improvements in heart disease1. Diet has also been a factor associated with the high levels of life expectancy observed in Japan, alongside economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s and a universal health system. However, recently life expectancy at birth for males in Japan has fallen behind that of Australia and Switzerland. This may be because of higher levels of tobacco consumption and a rise in obesity2.
The interim life tables provide the user with life tables in the period between censuses, therefore enabling up-to-date analysis of life expectancy which is important to track progress against health targets and pension analysis. Life expectancy figures provide users with an indicator of the health of the nation which can be used to inform policy, planning and research in both public and private sectors in areas such as health, population, pensions and insurance.
to study the course of mortality throughout the life cycle,
as an indicator of the health of the nation,
to inform policy regarding state pension age, or
to assess risk for life assurance and pension liability.
Within ONS, interim life tables are used in the methodologies used to calculate disability free life expectancy and healthy life expectancy and in the new methodology for calculating 'duration of working life'. They are also used to inform the assumptions of future mortality for the National Population Projections.
Government Actuary's Department,
Department of Work and Pensions,
Department of Health and Health Authorities,
National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Welsh Assembly Government, and
HM Treasury.
universities – academics and students,
news media,
financial advisors/consultants,
insurance companies and actuarial professions, and
the general public.
Figures in the tables and commentary are rounded to one decimal place.
The population estimates for mid-2002 to mid-2010 have been revised following the rebasing of the mid-2011 population estimates to the 2011 Census. The census is the most complete source of information about the population and produces a high-quality population estimate to which the annual mid-year estimates are rebased each decade.
As the population is moved forward from the census base, uncertainty accumulates because of the estimation in each of the components particularly those relating to migration. The 2011 Census identified a 464,000 shortfall in the estimates of the population of England and Wales over the decade. (See 'Explaining the Difference Between the 2011 Census Estimates and the Rolled-Forward Population Estimates').
The revised mid-2002 to mid-2010 population estimates for England and Wales are based on the rolled-forward series of estimates updated to account for the 464,000 difference between the mid-2011 rolled-forward and mid-2011 Census-based estimates. The revised estimates reflect the estimated distribution of this difference across the decade and between components of population change and complete the consistent time-series of annual estimates for England and Wales to mid-2011. The estimates form the official series of population estimates and are certified as National Statistics by the UK Statistics Authority.
National interim life tables for the United Kingdom and Great Britain will be produced in winter 2013 or spring 2014, once all the population data based on the 2011 Censuses for each of the constituent countries are available.
Details of the policy governing the release of new data are available by visiting www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/code-of-practice/index.html or from the Media Relations Office email: firstname.lastname@example.com
These National Statistics are produced to high professional standards and released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
|Julie Mills
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|Demographic Analysis Unit
|Emily Clay
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|Demographic Analysis Unit


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Qualifying students can apply for one of our Google Summer of Code 2012 project ideas between March 26th and April 6th, 2012.
Student Application Mini-FAQ
- When do I apply?
March 26th - April 6th
- How much time is left to apply?
Countdown: Student Application Deadline
- Where do I apply?
Start from the Google Summer of Code 2012 site
- What ideas can I apply for?
You can suggest your own idea(s) or check out our List of Google Summer of Code Ideas
- What info do you need in the application?
See the Application Template below for reference
- What if I still have questions?
Send a message to the Haiku Mailing List or contact Haiku's Google Summer of Code administrator (Matt Madia).
- Are there any other requirements?
Applying students are required to submit a code contribution to our bugtracker. This could either be a task marked easy, TODO commented in code, Code style cleanup, or any other unlisted task. Submitting code that relates to your project will indicate a higher level of understanding and ability. The number and difficulty of resolved issues will be taken into consideration when evaluating your application. It is suggested to include the keyword "gsoc2012" on tickets that contain submissions, as this facilitates finding them in the future.
- Why do you want a code contribution before I'm accepted?
This serves several purposes. It displays that you have the most basic skills that are required: building Haiku from source, running Haiku either natively or inside a VM, and using tools for online collaboration (bug tracker, mailing lists, IRC, etc.). More importantly, it provides our mentors with some insight into each individual student's motivation and abilities. It is an opportunity for you, the student to showcase yourself and to convince us that you are indeed the right person for the job.
- Should I use Haiku R1/A3 or a newer nightly image?
As R1/A3 was released some time ago, it is preferable to use a newer nightly image.
Making a Positive Impression
- Submit a patch:
- that relates to your project
- is quality code that conforms to our Coding Guidelines
- feel free to submit more than one patch!
- Have a positive impact on mailing lists, bug tracker, and other public spaces
- Do your homework ; Show that you have:
- researched your project
- an understanding of what needs to be done
- a proper plan for accomplishing it, which includes quantifiable goals and timelines
- Submit an alternate proposal, as this provides our mentors with flexibility for choosing the best students, rather than the best project ideas
Words of Advice
Reading and following this advice will do wonders for ensuring that your Google Summer of Code experience will be something to be proud of.
- Dedicate at least 30 hours per week
As Google Summer of Code is essentially a work-from-home internship, you are expected to put in the necessary time. To note, the majority of Haiku's students who spent less than 30 hours per week, failed.
- Communicate every other day
The haiku-gsoc mailing list is to be used at all times by you. Provide regular reports. Nothing formal, just one or two lines. It is important for your mentors to have a clear picture of what you are doing, have done, and plan to do. While being self-sufficient is a worthwhile trait, it is not an ideal trait for a Google Summer of Code participant -- Haiku expects you to utilize our mentors, that is why they are there.
- Provide code frequently
There is a saying in open source -- commit often, commit frequently. Take that advice to heart. Smaller patches and code snippets are easier for the mentors to review. It also gives them more chances to suggest better approaches and keep you on target. In turn, this will make you more productive and more likely to succeed!
When you do not have code, it is even more critical to converse frequently.
If you aren't coding, what are you doing? How are you moving closer to your goal? What problems are you analyzing? What questions and ideas do you have?
Pass or Fail Criteria
As you know, Google Summer of Code has two evaluation points -- mid-term (July 13) and final (August 24). If you happen to receive a failing mark at either point, you are not paid that portion and your internship comes to an abrupt end. Haiku also introduces a 1/4-term and 3/4-term milestones, to further help you the student with time management. While the 1/4-term and 3/4-term are not recognized by Google, your mentor will use those milestones in determining you mid-term and final evaluation. There are two areas that are considered during the evaluation: the code output and communication/interactions.
A word of caution -- do not expect to make miracles during the week of mid-term or final evaluations. Instead, expect your mentor to evaluate your progress on the first day of the window.
- Code.
This includes everything from 'commit worthy' patches to all the code (and non-code, such as design documents or pseudo code) leading up to that polished patch. In other words, if for some reason you and your mentor pursue an approach that turns out to be a dead end you will not be punished.
- Communication.
This includes discussions on the haiku-gsoc list, talking with haiku mentors on IRC, posting the Milestone Blog/Email Reports.
In other words, you will be writing code and talking with one or more mentors on a daily basis. Anything less will hurt your mid-term and final evaluation! Do not expect to be able to cram days, weeks, or months of work into a shorter period and receive a passing evaluation.
Application Template
This application template has two sections.
- A fill-in-the-blank section with basic information
- An open-ended section with suggestions for content to include. Feel free to add more.
(Fill in)
- Full name:
- Timezone:
- Email address:
- IRC username (freenode.net):
- Trac username (dev.haiku-os.org):
- Trac ticket(s) containing patches for Haiku:
- GitHub repository:
- Will you treat Google Summer of Code as full time employment?
- How many hours per week will you work?
- List all obligations (and their dates) that may take time away from GSoC (a second job, vacations, classes, ...):
- Are you using Google Summer of Code to fullfill a university requirement -- internship, class credit, ..? (If yes, you need to provide confirmation that your school approves. Remember, Google Summer of Code is a remote software development internship.)
- Introduce yourself. (Who you are. Why you chose Haiku. What programming experience you have.)
- Project Proposal. (Title. Description. Goals.)
- Timeline. Include what you plan to have accomplished by the end of:
- Community bonding period (May 20)
- Quarter-term (June 11)
- Mid-term (July 9)
- Three-quarter-term (July 30)
- Pencils down date (August 20)
- After Google Summer of Code
- Expectations from Mentors. (What do you expect Haiku's mentors to help you with?)
If you have questions about your application for a Haiku idea, please contact Haiku's Google Summer of Code administrator (Matt Madia), or send an email to the Haiku mailing list.
Resources available to students
In addition to the mentor(s) assigned to each student, the following resources will be available where inquiries can be made in order to get assistance during your Google Summer of Code project.
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Wherever he bats, Boesch has support
Wherever he bats, Boesch has support
Now that Boesch is batting fifth again, this time behind Cabrera and Prince Fielder, he isn't making a big deal about it, either. Boesch's numbers this time seem to back that up.
"I really don't place a lot of emphasis on it," Boesch said. "Prince is obviously one of the most feared hitters in the game, so hitting behind him, it's a challenge, because obviously pitchers are going to be pretty careful pitching to Prince. You're going to probably come up in a lot of key situations. But in this lineup, I'd be happy to hit anywhere, really."
Boesch is 6-for-16 in the fifth spot since manager Jim Leyland flipped him and Delmon Young in the batting order against most right-handed starters.
"Wherever you're hitting, it's just what your role is at that time," Boesch said. "Being moved around, I don't place a lot of emphasis on it."
Boesch began the season batting second, in front of Cabrera and Fielder, before his struggles there prompted Leyland to move him down. He has batted everywhere from fifth to eighth since.


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By Kendria Brown, NDG Intern
Comedian Katt Williams is much known for his funny antics, amusing behavior, and pimpin' personality. But lately his behavior has been causing a stir and been bizarre at best. Too much for fans, they are displeased with his most recent stage meltdown. His mediocre performance on stage left many fans disappointed and demanding refunds as he went off-stage to only anger a baffled audience.
His show on Friday night included a Williams onstage attempting to not be funny, as his performance can be described by "rambling monologues devoid of jokes". He took off his shirt and sweated profusely at some point. At another point, Williams' security had to drag him offstage after he attempted to fight with a heckler.
Williams had been on stage for a few minutes and then left, and so did most of the audience. When he finally returned later, he had "no more jokes" and talked about "his time in Oakland" and "God."
Following the show, fans went online to Facebook and twitter to say the show was hardly 10 minutes and anticipated refunds for their tickets priced between $33-$94.
This is not the first time Williams has unappeased his audience.
Williams has a string of run-ins with authorities dating back to 2006. Williams was arrested at least twice for burglary and weapons charges, and he served time for those crimes. Then in June 2011, Williams was arrested for false imprisonment charges.
On Nov. 1, Williams did more than perform at his Denver show when he jumped in the crowd shortly after taking the stage to confront hecklers. Then Williams was slapped with a $5 million lawsuit filed against him for allegedly hitting his personal assistant back in Oct. and causing her permanent eye damage.
No break for Micah S. Katt Williams because recently he was arrested after allegedly hitting a fan in the head with a bottle; although he has not been booked or officially charged with this crime, the man is suing Williams for damages.
View Katt Williams' confronting heckler at his Friday night show here.
How hard do you think it is for this pimp to stay out of trouble? Comment on Facebook.com/NorthDallasGazette.com.


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Welcome to the Great River Road Visitor and Learning Center at Freedom Park in Prescott, Wisconsin. Located at the northern gateway to Wisconsin's Great River Road, a National Scenic Byway, the Center overlooks the scenic upper Mississippi River Valley where the St. Croix River enters the mighty Mississippi. Stroll our trails, see the blue waters of the St. Croix mix with the brown Mississippi waters, enjoy our educational native plant gardens, and look for raptors, migrating birds and other wildlife at this Audubon Birding site and Watchable Wildlife site.
Mission — Great River Road Visitor & Learning Center
To provide high quality educational programs which create an appreciation of this community's unique place at the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers.
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Friends of Freedom Park is a non-profit organization supporting the mission of the Great River Road Visitor and Learning Center and providing members, school children, area residents and visitors from around the world with experiences that deepen their connections to this important community and regional resource. Members of Friends of Freedom Park are dedicated to ongoing support of the Learning Center, its mission and its activities. Many members are also volunteers. Please call the Center if you wish to discuss volunteer opportunities. (715-262-0104)
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Shades of Meaning: Noticing Subtle Differences
When renowned education writers Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey are not presenting at prominent ed conferences across the country, they are putting their innovative ideas to work back in their San Diego high school and college classrooms. In this excerpt from their fantastic book on teaching academic vocabulary across the disciplines, Word Wise and Content Rich, Fisher and Frey encourage teachers to use paint chips to get students to recognize that words — just like similar shades of paint — can be arranged in a continuum.
The subtle differences between related words can be very confusing for students. While they might have a general sense of the difference between overjoyed and ecstatic, most students would be hard-pressed to define and use these terms in specific ways. In other words, most likely they would see these two words as synonyms and not comprehend the differences authors intend when they use one or the other.
Goodman (2004)* developed the shades-of-meaning strategy as a way to address this need and help students develop their understanding that many words can be organized in gradients of meaning. The strategy encourages students to talk about words and arrange them along a continuum. As an interesting side note, the ability to distinguish subtle meaning is one of the skills assessed on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
The easiest way to develop students' understanding of the differences between related words is to use paint chips. Most hardware stores will provide you with paint chips for free. Using a paint chip, students identify a continuum of words and then write the words in the colored sections of the paint chip.
The figure to the right contains a sample of a paint chip continuum related to friendship that a group of middle school students created after reading the book Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Hatkoff, Hatkoff, and Kahumbu 2006).
As you can imagine, the conversations this group of students had about friendship and the words related to friendship was powerful. During their discussion, students used specialized words to convey their understandings. They also clarified their understanding of the words and provided one another with examples from their own experiences. For instance, Mubarik said, "Ally means friend, right? Someone who can help you, like provide assistance, like a friend."
Tynesia agreed but added, "I see a friend as an ally, but I think that an ally doesn't have the depth of a friendship. Friends are there regardless, in any circumstance. Being friends extends beyond being an ally."
* Goodman, Laurie. 2004. "Shades of Meaning: Relating and Expanding Word Knowledge." In Teaching Vocabulary: 50 Creative Strategies, Grades K-12, ed. G.E. Tompkins and C. Blanchfield, 85-87. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
Reproduced with permission from Word Wise and Content Rich, Grades 7-12: Five Essential Steps to Teaching Academic Vocabulary by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. Copyright © 2008 by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. Published by Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH. All rights reserved.


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Visit Alaska From The Comfort Of Your Classroom
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Earlier this week I came across a facebook post by Denali National Park of a youtube video promoting their online distance learning programs. Their free programs are designed to meet national teaching standards and are appropriate for students in grades K – 12. As part of each program the students schedule a free 60-minute interactive conference with a park ranger via skype. What makes these programs successful is that they are interactive- students actually get to meet virtually with someone at the park- and it utilizes a variety of media appropriate to the topic. There are pre-visit and post-visit activities and a wealth of online resources for the teacher to use in class in addition to the visit if they choose. These additional resources alone would be fodder for hours of engaging classroom activities. For a park like Denali, this is a logical use of technology. Most classes can't make the trip to Alaska. In fact, Alaskan parks are among the least visited in the National Park system. At a time when many museum professionals are afraid that putting too much online will deter visitors from coming, Denali rangers are trying to create an online experience that can substitute an in-person visit. They would agree with Nancy Cutler when she said "Museums have a limited impact when their audience is confined to the people who visit within their walls. Extending beyond the museum walls into the community to demonstrate why your museums matters can benefit both the museum and the community in innumerable ways." They know an online visit never really could replace the real thing, but Denali staff have brought as much of the park as possible to students.
Two programs were being offered when I visited their site on September 13. One of their programs Denali: The High One (Geology of the Mountain) is designed for 4th-6th grade. This program "focuses on the dynamic geologic processes – subduction, uplift and erosion – that created North America's tallest mountain. Students investigate why Denali is so big, how it influences the weather, and whether glaciers are succeeding at making the mountain smaller". There is a pre-visit activity which takes an hour, and the conference itself is also an hour. Besides those two components the rest is optional. Optional resources inclue a post-visit acitvity, panoramic views of the park, and a 4 minute video "Climbing Denali". The Science of Sled Dogs is a biology program for 3rd-5th grade about Denali's famous dog-sled team. Like the other program it includes a 1 hour pre-visit activity and a 1 hour skype conference with a park ranger. What I want to know is, do you get to skype with the dogs too? Fans of Denali National Park may already be familiar with their live "puppycam" and a video series called "puppy paws" all about the sled dog puppies who are born and raised at Denali National Park. There are few students, or adults who wouldn't find these videos engaging.
Since my first visit to their site last week, they have added yet another distance learning program to their offerings, Ask An Alaskan- Living and Working in Alaska.The program is appropriate for K-12 grade and can be on any topic. The idea behind this program is to skype with an Alaska resident and have the class ask them anything and everything about Alaska. This program seems underdeveloped, but that is most likely because it was only added to the site a few days ago. I would like to see more information about which standards it meets. I would also expect additional teacher resources and a more detailed description of the program. The description is very vague and it seems as if the program was not fully developed before being put online.
The only suggestion for improvement I would make is to keep registration information updated. When I visited their site 4 days ago, it included information on how to register for a program for the Fall 2012 semester. Today the registration information has already been updated to reflect the 2013-2014 school year. The information should have been updated sooner for teachers looking to plan further in advance. Beside that small complaint, I am impressed by the scope of Denali's online offerings. Their program design is innovative and something I hope to see more of. This type of program isn't right for everyone, but is perfect for places like Denali. This is a creative solution for National Parks that everyone has heard of, but few can get to (ie. The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Ellis Island, etc.)
Cutler, Nancy. "Reaching Out Into the Community," in The Museum Educators' Manual. (New York: Altamira Press, 2009) 87-94


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4 - 6 December, 2017, Wiston House
On the theme of good governance, we ran an event on Global Consular Forum 2015, which convened senior consular officials alongside selected experts to discuss ways to enhance international consular policy and practice. We also held events addressing human rights aspects of citizenship, migration and minority rights: The challenge of integration: what does it mean to be a citizen? brought together a select group of UK based experts to engage with senior Canadian officials on the themes of citizenship, multiculturalism and identity, The migration challenge: tackling root causes provided a neutral space for balanced and informed discussion on the key factors fuelling the migration crisis in Europe and practical ways in which to respond and Protecting the rights of ethnic and religious minorities: addressing contemporary global challenges was the 11th iteration of UN human rights meetings, sponsored by the Swiss and Norwegian Governments, with a particular focus on the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East and North Africa. The future of borders: geopolitical trends and challenges to 2030, the ninth annual Futures meeting, convened a broad spectrum of futurists drawn from policy planning, academia, private sector and other industry and subject experts to share insights into trends, challenges and opportunities to inform policy planning and decision making looking ahead to 2050.
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King Freeman, a former leader of the Pala Band of Mission Indians in North County, said Friday that eight family members were expelled from the tribe three months ago based on wrong information and as part of a personal grudge between him and the current chairman, Robert Smith.
Pala's executive committee issued a letter on June 1 to the eight individuals, including three of Freeman's children and other relatives, saying they were disenrolled from the tribe because they did not meet the tribe's 1/16 Pala blood requirement, according to documents provided by the family's attorney.
The decision to disenroll the family members from the tribe is based on a 1985 document that says their ancestor, Margarita Brittain, who died in 1925, was only 1/2 Pala Indian blood and not full Pala blood, as the family and federal documents dating back about 100 years say.
But the real reason why his family members were ousted is personal, Freeman, 76, said in an interview Friday at the Pala Store on the reservation. Freeman was not among those disenrolled.
"There is a grudge between the chairman and me," Freeman said.
One of the eight people who were disenrolled and spoke on the condition of anonymity said Friday the family members were "collateral damage" in the chairman's vendetta against Freeman.
Freeman served nearly two decades as chairman of the Pala tribe starting in the late 1960s and is the owner of the Pala Store, which was established on the reservation by his grandfather in 1928.
Freeman declined to elaborate on the grudge between himself and Smith.
The feud goes back years, he said, but most recently Freeman was part of an effort to recall Pala Vice Chairman Leroy Miranda. Freeman said the recall effort began after he learned earlier this year that Miranda had been arrested on Nov. 6, 2009, for allegedly soliciting a prostitute in Moreno Valley.
As a result of the incident, Miranda pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lewd conduct in February 2010.
Pala officials declined to comment for this article.
"This is an internal tribal matter," said Doug Elmets, a spokesman for the tribe.
The ouster of the eight Pala members is the latest in a series of disenrollment efforts involving local tribes, including the disenrollment of more than 200 members from the Pechanga Band of Mission Indians in Temecula and about 60 individuals at the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians.
The disenrollments by Pechanga and San Pasqual were over questions of heritage, tribal leaders said. However, members of the ousted families allege they were kicked out for other reasons, including greed and politics.
Many tribes have "blood quantum laws" to determine membership. Tribes use U.S. Census and other documents from the late 1800s and early 1900s to establish membership rolls. Only direct descendants of those original members are eligible to be enrolled as members of Indian tribes. Blood quantum is used to determine whether individuals have close enough kinship.
Errors and conflicting information in the documents over the years have led to decades-old disputes among many tribes. Ousted members say those errors, omissions and missing information have been used to remove individuals for political and financial reasons.
In Pala, the heritage dispute centers on whether Brittain, Freeman's great-grandmother, who was born in 1852, was a full-blooded Indian or only half.
Freeman family members say in documents that the question is settled because Brittain was listed as full-blooded Indian in several federal documents, including the 1913 allotment roll, which is the base roll of the tribe.
Moreover, Freeman said that if Brittain was not full-blooded Indian, then there are more than 80 other Pala tribal members who would not meet the 1/16 blood requirement.
The tribe's spokesman said earlier this week that the eight people who were disenrolled did not meet the tribe's blood quantum and that they failed to appeal the tribe's June 1 decision within the 30 days given to them.
Dennis Chappabitty, an attorney for the family, said the appeals for all eight family members were filed with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Sacramento within the 30-day deadline and provided a copy of one of the appeals, which is dated June 28, 2001, to the North County Times.
Calls to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Sacramento were not returned Friday.


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Galaxy S4 release will send Samsung profit soaring
Even without Christmas or the benefit of a new hit device, Samsung Electronics Co. posted near-record earnings in the first quarter. Profit is set to surge when the Galaxy S4 smartphone goes on sale this month.
The mobile-phone business again was the company's biggest earnings driver, with sales of cheaper handsets in emerging markets supplementing growth by high-end Galaxy models. Operating profit rose to about 8.7 trillion won ($7.7 billion) in the three months ended March 31 from 5.69 trillion won a year earlier, Asia's biggest technology company said Friday.
"Second-quarter profit looks even better than the first, as the Galaxy S4 will have a great impact," said Chung Chang Won, a Seoul-based analyst at Nomura Holdings Inc. "Samsung's shipments of its flagship smartphone will outpace that of the iPhone sometime in the second or third quarter."
Operating profit for the quarter ended March 31 almost matched the record 8.84 billion won for the preceding quarter that included the year-end holiday season. Analysts estimate the current quarter could reach 9.3 trillion won as Samsung releases the S4 in the U.S. on April 26 and tries to reclaim the top spot in sales from Apple Inc.
Samsung, which is scheduled to release audited earnings results later this month, fell 0.7 percent to 1,505,000 won in Seoul trading Friday, compared with a 1.6 percent decline for South Korea's benchmark Kospi index. The shares have declined 1.1 percent this year, compared with a 20 percent drop for Apple.
The first-quarter profit exceeded the 8.38 trillion-won average of 39 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg before the announcement. Sales rose to about 52 trillion won from 45.27 trillion won a year earlier, Samsung said.
Samsung's mobile division, which accounted for 67 percent of total operating profit last year, probably had a first- quarter operating profit of 6.25 trillion won as sales increased 40 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of five analysts before Friday's announcement. The company didn't provide net income figures or results for individual businesses.
"In addition to the Galaxy S3, mini models sold well in emerging markets, including China, Brazil and India," Lee Sei Cheol, a Seoul-based analyst at Meritz Securities, said by phone before the earnings release. "Samsung's continued ascent in the smartphone industry seems to be unparalleled."
Samsung plans to release three high-end smartphones this year, including the S4, a new Galaxy Note and a device using the Intel Corp.-backed Tizen operating system. The handset market grew almost 12 percent last year to $358 billion in sales, according to IDC.
The South Korean company unveiled the S4, featuring a bigger screen and improved software functions, on March 14 in New York as it chases Apple in U.S. sales. The new phone, featuring a 5-inch screen, 13-megapixel camera and motion- detecting technology so users can control features with face movements, will be available globally by early May, Samsung said last month.
Cupertino, California-based Apple extended its lead over Samsung in U.S. smartphone subscriptions in the three months ended in February, research company Comscore said in a statement Thursday.
Apple's average share of smartphone subscribers in the country rose to 38.9 percent, from 35 percent in the three months ended Nov. 30, the research company said. Samsung's share rose to 21.3 percent from 20.3 percent.
Samsung's first-quarter smartphone shipments probably increased 11 percent from the preceding quarter, said Song Myung Sup, a Seoul-based analyst at HI Investment & Securities. With the S4 and the new Note scheduled for release this year, the company's mobile division won't reach its peak until the third quarter at the earliest, when Apple is expected to introduce a new iPhone, Song said.
"Samsung's mobile division seems unstoppable, even during the typically slower first quarter," Song said. "I expect Samsung's second-quarter profit to be about 10.3 trillion won."
The company's shipments of flagship models, including the S4, may total 37.8 million units in the second quarter, Lee Seung Woo, an analyst at IBK Securities, said in a March 26 report. The average selling price may rise 17 percent, bringing operating profit at the mobile business to about 7.9 trillion won, according to Lee.
Samsung's total smartphone shipments may grow to 82 million units in the second quarter from 68.5 million in the first quarter, he said in the report.
Apple sold 47.8 million units in the quarter ended Dec. 31, it said in January.
In addition to its mobile division, Samsung probably boosted first-quarter operating profit in all segments including displays, chips and consumer electronics, according to the analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Earnings at Samsung's display unit, which dominates the market for panels using organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, probably surged to 910 billion won from 230 billion won a year earlier, according to the analyst survey. The displays are used in Galaxy models.
Profit probably rose to 1 trillion won at the chip business from 700 billion won a year earlier, and to 500 billion won at the consumer electronics business, including TVs and home appliances, from 460 billion won a year earlier, according to the survey.
Samsung is counting on OLED displays, which offer brighter and sharper images than current liquid-crystal-display models, to extend its market lead in TVs. Samsung said Feb. 19 it will start selling OLED TVs in the first half of this year.
The company's share of global flat-panel TV revenues rose 6 percent in 2012 from a year earlier, NPD DisplaySearch said in a March 21 report. Samsung had 27.7 percent market share by revenue, ahead of LG Electronics Inc.'s 15 percent, according to the Santa Clara, California-based research company.
Samsung invested 10.4 billion yen ($108 million) in struggling Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. last month to secure LCDs for smartphones and TVs.
Samsung's executive vice president for its mobile business, Lee Young Hee, said in an interview last month the company is developing a wristwatch that may perform similar tasks as a smartphone. She had no comment on when the watch would go on sale.
Following is a table showing median operating-profit estimates for the four main business divisions of Samsung. The estimates are in billions of won.


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From: Pam Reid <>
Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] KS USGW Archives
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:23:18 -0400
I really don't see where our points of view are so differing that we can't
come together with a compromise. It really isn't a matter of selecting an
option. It is a matter of records being submitted to USGW. Where do these
records belong? IMO, anywhere and everywhere that a researcher might be
able to benefit. So, why is having a copy of each record available in the
USGW Archives a point of argument? I am very impressed with the partnership
KansasGenWeb has forged with the State Library. This is a feather in the cap
of the Kansas Project and a wonderful example of the kind of parterships
that can be built to further the purpose of historical and genealogical
research on the internet. Still, the USGW Archives has a valuable purpose
that should not be overlooked nor downplayed.
The best of both worlds is to make the records available in both places.
Easy answer!
M. Reed wrote:
> Pam - this is one of the reasons I thought this discussion should take
> place on the Board list. We are indeed talking about official USGW
> Policy.
> The question is - when we as USGW are presented with 2 options, should
> we not choose the options that offers the most advantages? Just imagine
> the benefit that would inure to USGW if each & every state had an
> arrangement with their official State Library? If each XXGenWeb Project
> was considered a partner with their state government? Can you imagine
> the prestige & stature that would give USGW?
> I am not saying we should "dump" Rootsweb or anything of the sort. I
> personally don't have a problem maintaining text copies of files on the
> ftp server at Rootsweb so it can be part of the future national search
> engine. But the access that the official USGW Archives page provides
> should go to the very best presentation that state has to offer. It's
> better for USGW, it's better for that state, & most of all, it's better
> for the resesarcher! I invite you all to go look at Skyways at
> http://skyways.lib.ks.us/index.html Go see what they have to offer USGW
> and how this partnership really is the wonderful benefit that the KS
> CC's already know it is!
> Maureen Reed
> Pam Reid wrote:
> >
> > Nancy,
> >
> > I don't disagree with what you say about KS and Blue Skyways.
> > However,
> > I still say that the "official" repository for records donated or
> > submitted to USGW should be the USGW Archives. This does NOT mean
> > that
> > the records should not be in both places---there are good reasons for
> > them to be on both. Also, I never said that records should ONLY be in
> > the "official" USGW Archives. I only said that a copy SHOULD be
> > there.
> > This is the official USGW Archives and many, many people use the
> > archives who never visit county sites. I am sure that just as many
> > visit county sites and never use the archives. Therefore, there are
> > good reasons for the records to reside in BOTH locations and most
> > submitters want as much exposure for their submittals as is possible.
> > --
> > Pam Reid in Virginia
> >
> > mailto:
> > Branches and Roots
> > http://www.geocities.com/~pamreid
> > Tombstone Transcription Project
> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery
> > Gloucester County VAGenWeb
> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaglouce/glouces.html
> --
> ===============================================================
> Michael T. & Maureen K. Reed Olathe, KS
> mailto: http://www.sky.net/~mreed/welcome.html
> "Do as I say, not as I do" is a hypocrite.
> "Do as I say, not as I did" is a teacher. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
> ===============================================================
Pam Reid in Virginia
Branches and Roots
Tombstone Transcription Project
Gloucester County VAGenWeb
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Strangely enough there really is an organization of legal-eagle lawyers specializing in assisting clients who may have secret knowledge of fraud against the government. And yes, federal law does protect "whistleblowers" against any retaliation harm against their person; it also has a rather nice financial "parachute" waiting at the end of the rainbow.
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First your team of lawyers will conduct a complete investigation and analysis of all the facts the "whistleblower" has presented in order to insure all of their claims and facts are true and can be substantiated to indicate you have a viable case. Only then will the lawyer you hire file a lawsuit in federal court on how the company or organization is defrauding the U. S. Government.
What About Financial Rewards To The Whistleblower"?
There will be good news waiting for the "whistleblower in terms of financial consideration. Since companies, especially healthcare agencies, hate negative radio, newspaper and online coverage of their nefarious activities, most of these type of lawsuits are settled long before any court proceedings get underway.
The fact is that "whistleblowers", in most cases, will be entitled to rather large financial settlements if the lawsuit is successful in recovering most or all of the amount of money was deemed defrauded. Out of that settlement, the "whistleblower" can expect to receive a financial "parachute" that can range from 15 percent to 30 percent of the total amount recovered. That said, it behooves the "whistleblower" to do diligent research prior to hiring any lawyer. There will be a ton of paperwork so keep in mind that experience does count; so hire the best.
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Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel
Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel
Hotel Guest Rating: 9.0/10
700 Tchoupitoulas Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Welcome to the Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel
A great location, a rooftop pool and one of New Orleans' finest restaurants make the non-smoking Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel a popular choice among Priceline guests.
Hotel Features
The five-story Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel occupies a former warehouse built in about 1920, and it has 217 rooms with large windows and plush mattresses. Glass sculptures by celebrated local artists grace the rooms, which also have spacious work desks and marble bathrooms. Dive right in to fun at the heated rooftop pool or sink into the soothing hot tub after a workout in the fitness center. Parking is available for a fee.
Hotel Location
The hotel is on Tchoupitoulas Street in the Warehouse District, a trendy section of town known for its gentrified warehouse loft apartments and art galleries. The National World War II Museum is four blocks from the hotel, and the largest collection of Southern art in the world is an eight-minute walk away at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is seven minutes on foot, and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is 13 miles away.
Guest Favorites
Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel is highly rated by Priceline guests for its downtown location and the top-notch seafood restaurant.
Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District Hotel Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible facilities
- Air conditioning
- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
- Alarm clock
- AM/FM radio
- ATM/Cash machine
- Boarding pass print-out available
- Business center
- Business services
- Cable television
- Check cashing policy
- Child programs
- CNN available
- Cocktail lounge
- Cocktail lounge with entertainment
- Cocktail lounge with light fare
- Color television
- Complimentary coffee in lobby
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Complimentary newspaper delivered to room
- Complimentary newspaper in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Connecting rooms
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning
- Efolio available to company
- Elevators
- ESPN available
- Executive floor
- Exercise gym
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness center on-site
- Food and beverage outlets
- Free toll free calls
- Front desk
- Full business center
- Full service housekeeping
- Gift/News stand
- Gym
- Hairdryer
- HBO available
- Health club
- High speed internet access
- High speed wireless
- Housekeeping - daily
- Ice machine
- Individual Efolio available
- Interior corridors
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Laundry/Valet service
- Local calls
- Lounges/bars
- Meeting rooms
- Motorcycle parking
- Non-smoking rooms (generic)
- On-site business center
- On-site business center is staffed
- Outdoor pool
- Pay per view movies on TV
- Pool
- Premium movie channels
- Public area air conditioned
- Remote control television
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Room service - full menu
- Safe deposit box
- Security
- Telephone
- Translation services
- Turndown service
- Valet cleaning
- Valet parking
- Valet same day dry cleaning
- Vending machines
- Video checkout
- Video review billing
- Voice mail
- Wakeup service
- Wedding services
- Whirlpool
- Wireless internet connection in public areas
Hotel Information
You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all special requests cannot be guaranteed and are subject to availability upon check-in. Additional charges may apply. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Renaissance New Orleans Arts Warehouse District HotelOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
Sort by: All Travelers | Business Traveler(25) | Solo Traveler(14) | Traveling as Couple(82) | Family with Young Children(17) | Family with Teens(8) | Senior Traveler(1) | Group Traveler(27)
Verified Hotel Guest from Huntsville, AL
October 30, 2017
October 30, 2017
Nice modern room quiet
Verified Hotel Guest from Washington, DC
October 30, 2017
Group Traveler
October 30, 2017
Group Traveler
staff and elite recognition
room facing construction and out-dated exterior
Claude from Youngsville, LA
October 30, 2017
Business Traveler
October 30, 2017
Business Traveler
This guest did not leave comments about this hotel.
Mary from Baton Rouge, LA
October 30, 2017
Group Traveler
October 30, 2017
Group Traveler
Wonderful hotel! Very nice, and in the perfect location for the place we needed to be at.
Verified Hotel Guest from Thibodaux, LA
October 30, 2017
Solo Traveler
October 30, 2017
Solo Traveler
This guest did not leave comments about this hotel.
Verified Hotel Guest from Marrero, LA
October 29, 2017
Group Traveler
October 29, 2017
Group Traveler
Shower head spray was not adjustable. Nothing overall screamed 4 star. I've stayed in places (like Springhill Suites) that were way better.
Verified Hotel Guest from Tijeras, NM
October 25, 2017
October 25, 2017
The beds, bedding and towels are very nice. I love the Chihuly glass.
Delisa from Houston, TX
October 24, 2017
October 24, 2017
The great art on the walls & the decor in the hotel.
Not at all.
Brittany from Houston, TX
October 24, 2017
October 24, 2017
The location was the best!!!
The room was actually a little smaller than expected.
Verified Hotel Guest from Brooklyn, NY
October 18, 2017
October 18, 2017
Decor and room. Water in the lobby. Location.
Staff was extremely rude and unhelpful. Service was only available in the mornings. All deliveries had to be received at the front desk.
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Our most recent gun-control column (there are a lot of them; we tend to run one every time a mass-murder happens in the country) brought out the most response this week, but, happily, only a few were of the usual beefing in which we are instructed that 1. Guns don't kill people, which is true if they're left alone, 2. Mass murders are invariably committed in "gun-free zones," with the attendant logic being that mass murders will be eradicated with the absence of "gun-free zones," and 3. "Stop blaming guns; it's getting tiresome." We'll say it is.
This time out, though, we got some favorable response in the form of: We might be rich. We mentioned that our arsenal of Second Amendment gadgetry includes a Winchester Model 1886 given to us by our late friend Gale, who was an L.A. County Fire captain, and suddenly everyone's all excited. We just thought it was a nice cowboy rifle, but it turns out it's really cool, which we should have expected coming from Gale.
Reader Jan Libourel, who was on the staff of Guns & Ammo and later became editor of Gun World, wrote in to inform us that the rifle "is worth anywhere from $1,500 in absolutely ratty condition up to the cost of a fairly decent new car if it's one of the rarer variants. Realistically, if it's in halfway decent shape, it's probably worth about $5,000 to $6,000."
Sold! Meanwhile, we're taking it over to the Cop Across the Street's house so he can sleep with it under his pillow.
Reader Ron Oldham writes, "Both the rifles you mentioned are serious collector's pieces" (note to self, bring other rifle over to Cop's house, too). "Should you decide to divest yourself of the 1886 Winchester, I'd like to be first in line to purchase it from you."
This changes everything. We're thinking of becoming a gun nut and traveling around to gun shows with O-Bummer stickers on the rear window of our F-350 pickup and marryin' us a filly with six or eight of her real teeth.
Finally, some pedigree for our beloved rifle comes from Gloria Berg, the former wife of our pal Gale. She writes, "The rifle you mentioned could have belonged to my dad, Oran Norton, and sounds like one that would have been found at the old homestead in Doddridge, Arkansas.
"Dad was a master cabinet maker and made new stocks for many of his rifles. The stocks were always made from the finest wood. If this rifle has a hand-carved stock, you have a real gem with a long history. It is conceivable that my dad may have given it to Gale, since he knew Gale loved guns."
We're guessing that no matter how nice of a job Oran Norton did on the stock, it may have reduced the value of the gun with an original stock. We await further advice from reader/gun expert Libourel before we start negotiating with reader/gun-buyer Oldham.
In music news, William Howard of Torrance noted the omission of a Friday Playlist last week.
"I need me some Friday Play- list! You are my Friday after-work jukebox set list. Cold beer and Grobaty's list."
OK, but gotta do it fast: "Shotgun," by Jr. Walker & the All-Stars; "Lawyers, Guns & Money," by Warren Zevon; "Take Your Guns to Town," by Whiskeytown; "Don't Take Your Guns to Town," by Johnny Cash and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," by, you know, the Beatles.


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SPOKANE — Gov. Chris Gregoire has ordered that flags at state buildings be lowered to half-staff Monday in honor of a Spokane soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.
Jarrod A. Lallier was killed June 18 when people dressed as Afghan national police opened fire and also wounded eight other servicemen.
The 20-year-old graduated two years ago from Mead High School. He was serving with the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.


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Coroner: Man drowns in pond while fishing
Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:41:07 GMT —
Lester Gause, 68, of Loris drowned in a farm pond off Highway 66 around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick.
Gause and a friend were fishing in a boat when they caught a fish and both fell in the water while trying to reel it in, Hendrick explained.
The friend was able to make it to land, Hendrick said.
The Department of Natural Resources responded to the scene and Horry County police are investigating.


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Over the summer, 26 of the best-known gardens in Britain were shot by a posse of talented photographers to mark the 25th anniversary of the Garden of the Year award, run by the Historic Houses Association (HHA), supported by Christie's and voted for by Friends of the HHA. The winner of the one-off photo competition will be announced on Monday 16 November.
Go to our picture gallery of previous winners of Garden of the Year, and let us know what you think in the Comments section below.
Umbrellas at Kiftsgate
The shot of Kiftsgate Court by James Morris (shown above and number nine in the picture gallery) is beautifully atmospheric. Morris says:
"Kiftsgate is a hugely popular garden much geared to the visitor so I had wanted to photograph it with peopIe. I also prefer to photograph in overcast light, rather than direct sun. On this occasion I arrived during an unexpectedly heavy storm and was fascinated to see that visitors and especially a Japanese coach party were completely undeterred by the weather.
"The sodden and windswept garden had an unexpected, wild beauty, almost jungle-like in its summer abundance. The visitors and their umbrellas framed within the saturated colours of the garden reminded me of the parasol-carrying ladies in both Impressionist paintings (Renoir, Monet, Seurat etc.), and traditional Japanese wood blocks where umbrella'd geishas stroll through stylised gardens in kimonos.
"Their obsessive photographing of every plant (there are four women photographing in the picture), brings this image up to date and appropriately reflects what I, another photographer, am doing. So I see it as a sort of contemporary play on traditional themes in an unexpected setting."
- The photographic tribute to all 26 previous winners of Garden of the Year will be shown at Christie's, King Street, London SW1, 16-18 November. The exhibition reopens at Christie's from January 4-21, then can be seen at Blenheim Palace, Garden of the Year 2008, from February 13-March 28, 2010. For more information, see www.hha.org.uk


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"Entered for safe-keeping. Adapted from CIA Culinary Intelligence (Culinary Institute of America). Their Black Jack Barbecue Sauce has been scaled down to 2 cups to fit this recipe. Modified their 1/8 cup chili powder to equivalent of Dee514's No-Salt Chili Powder #38558. Preparation time includes 2 hours marination time, so I did not add additional cooking time for the barbecue sauce to be made in the interim. Apple cider, coffee, Worcestershire sauce, and jalapeno -- isn't that a different combo! I'd say this dish nods to Cajun roots."
Black Jack Chicken Breasts on the Grill - CIA
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READY IN:2hrs 22mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 cups apple cider
- 1⁄2 cup cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon shallot, minced
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon salt (Recipe #334780 #334780) or 1 teaspoon no-salt no-potassium salt substitute (Don's Flavor Enhancer With Very Low Sodium #334780)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1⁄2 yellow onion, diced small
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1⁄8 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 tablespoon jalapeno, minced (or to taste)
- 1⁄2 cup tomato paste
- 1⁄2 cup brewed strong coffee
- 1⁄2 cup Worcestershire sauce (preferably Lea & Perrins, use low-sodium version to reduce sodium somewhat)
- 1⁄4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
- 1⁄4 cup apple cider or 1⁄4 cup unsweetened apple juice
- 8 chicken breasts, bone in and skin on
- 1 teaspoon salt (Recipe #334780 #334780) or 1 teaspoon no-salt no-potassium salt substitute (Don's Flavor Enhancer With Very Low Sodium #334780)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- Combine ingredients in a zip-close bag. Add chicken pieces and seal the bag, pressing out the air. Let marinate in the refrigerator for at least 2 and up to 12 hours.
- Heat the vegetable oil in a heavy 2-quart saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the onion and garlic and saute until translucent, about 3 minutes.
- Add the chili powder ingredients (paprika, oregano, cumin, turmeric, garlic powder, and cayenne), and the minced jalapeno, and saute for 1 minute.
- Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.
- Add the rest of the BBQ sauce ingredients and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 10-15 minutes.
- Use immediately, or let cool to room temperature before storing in a clean, covered container in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
- Preheat a gas grill to medium-high; leave one burner off. If you are using a charcoal grill, build a fire and let it burn down until the coals are glowing red with a moderate coating of white ash.
- Remove the chicken from the marinade, letting any excess drain off.
- Season chicken with remaining salt and pepper.
- Grill chicken over direct heat until marked on all sides, about 3 minutes per side.
- Finish cooking the chicken over indirect heat, covered, turning every few minutes and brushing with the barbecue sauce, until the chicken is cooked through (165F/74C) and the juices run clear, 10-15 minutes more.
- Serve on a heated platter or plates.
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I remember seeing fruit bats in the Philippines, they are huge and quite awesome.
Okay, messed up the link! AFTER "/animals-pets-kids/" insert "mammals-kids" which will be followed by the "/bat-flying-fox-kids/Sorry!!! Carole
Dondi, I found a National Geographic video about the Australian Flying Fox (a fruit bat) with a 6-foot wing span. This pic is apparently a baby and the video explains that they cannot fly when they're this small...might explain the wings not being visible. In the video you can see the huge 5-toed back feet. I also found several "baby pix" photos of these guys that I will post today for you where you can see the wings.http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/bat-flying-fox-kids/Carole
In my experience, fruit bats are huge - a common name is "flying foxes". The foreclaws look bat-like, but they're usually attached to the wings; the way this is held makes me wonder what happened to the wings? And the rear feet are *huge*, and it seems unusual to have all five fingers like that, more or less the same length.
All of the pix of Stellaluna show a very light-colored, pale bat...almost white. The pix I can find of pure black bats like this one (with black eyes) are labeled "fruit bats." My knowledge of these animals is limited...sorry I can't do better. The photos that came to me in an email didn't have any info. Carole
Is that Stellaluna?
that, pray is a bat
What, pray tell, is that?!


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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by trekkiebaggio, Jan 27, 2013.
It was done as a single miniseries I gather.
There were references in the final ep to it running over the course of the year that ensued between the penultimate and ultimate eps. I assume it was condensed to a single 26 ep season.
Separate names with a comma.