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Ken Foote: Pioneering Open Education in Geography
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I met Ken Foote many years ago at an NCGE conference and instantly found a kindred spirit in the use of the web for geography education. Ken is a pioneer in open education in geography dating back to his Geographer's Craft project. The most engaging and rewarding professional development experience of my career was participating in his summer Virtual Geography Department Project workshops. The Virtual Geography Department Project (1996-2006) was a groundbreaking project aimed at helping "geographers create innovative learning and teaching resources in the web. It also served as a clearinghouse for instructional materials geographers wished to share with colleagues." The workshops ran for three consecutive summers, I attended two of the three as a participant, facilitator, and became the coordinator of the virtual fieldtrips working group. Its impact on the discipline has been significant as those who participated benefited greatly and spread its philosophy across the web. Karen Lemke's "Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms", Mark Francek's "Earth Science Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction", and Susan Woodward's "Introduction to Biomes" are just a few examples. Ken has been active in mentoring early stage faculty through workshops and publications. He is the past president of the Association of American Geographers, National Council of Geographic Education, and the recipient of numerous awards.
Given the advances in web technologies and the maturing of social media, I asked Ken to reflect on the Virtual Geography Department Project and whether its time to revisit it. Ken graciously took time from his extremely busy schedule to answer a few questions for the Digital Professor.
DP: What inspired you to undertake the Virtual Geography Department Project (VGDP)?
KF: Almost as soon as the web became available, I saw that it was a great way to share teaching ideas and course materials. People spend a lot of time developing materials for their classes when their colleagues may have already created similar resources. Why reinvent the wheel? But I was also hoping to get people to realize that the web could be used to create new types of course materials that could aid student learning.
DP: What impact do you think VGDP had on the discipline of geography?
KF: I think the biggest impact was helping geographers get started in the web. The workshops supported perhaps 100-120 of the early adopters and many of these geographers remain leaders in online education today. Participants in the VGDP also created some remarkable examples of web-based learning materials that, I think, helped encourage others to join in the effort.
DP: The Virtual Geography Department project was one of the first, organized forays into online geography education. What's your impression of the state of online geography education today?
KF: I was a bit concerned in the early 2000s when the web became primarily a way to manage courses. Faculty seemed less interested in developing innovative learning materials and more interested in using course management tools that allowed them to post lecture notes and grades. More recently, I think the tide has turned again and people are again coming up with some fantastic ideas for using the web and social media for promoting effective learning and teaching. I think some of the exciting ideas are blended. They use a variety of online and in-person media and experiences to cultivate student learning.
DP: Do you think there is still a need for projects like the Virtual Geography Department?
KF: Yes, maybe the time has come to focus again on developing a clearinghouse or method for sharing materials. I still come back to the question: Why re-invent the wheel when so many people have developed excellent ideas for their classes? I look at sites like the khanacademy.org and see tremendous possibilities for geographers to share their teaching ideas in the web. Open educational resources (OER) are finally taking off. The fact that Esri is releasing its learning materials as OER may be a big boost to these efforts.
DP: With the advent of social media, how could the Virtual Geography department project be re-imagined?
KF: I think the clearinghouse concept is still valid, but social media opens other possibilities that weren't available ten or fifteen years ago. With Web 2.0 I think it is possible to think of developing an online teaching and learning community. This means more than just posting materials in the web. It means developing opportunities for faculty and students to learn and teach together.


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Alexander Hamilton, (born January 11, 1755/57, Nevis, British West Indies—died July 12, 1804, New York, New York, U.S.), New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), major author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the treasury of the United States (1789–95), who was the foremost champion of a strong central government for the new United States. He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
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Early life
Hamilton's father was James Hamilton, a drifting trader and son of Alexander Hamilton, the laird of Cambuskeith, Ayrshire, Scotland; his mother was Rachel Fawcett Lavine, the daughter of a French Huguenot physician and the wife of John Michael Lavine, a German or Danish merchant who had settled on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. Rachel probably began living with James Hamilton in 1752, but Lavine did not divorce her until 1758.
In 1765 James Hamilton abandoned his family. Destitute, Rachel set up a small shop, and at the age of 11 Alexander went to work, becoming a clerk in the countinghouse of two New York merchants who had recently established themselves at St. Croix. When Rachel died in 1768, Alexander became a ward of his mother's relatives, and in 1772 his ability, industry, and engaging manners won him advancement from bookkeeper to manager. Later, friends sent him to a preparatory school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and in the autumn of 1773 he entered King's College (later Columbia) in New York. Intensely ambitious, he became a serious and successful student, but his studies were interrupted by the brewing revolt against Great Britain. He publicly defended the Boston Tea Party, in which Boston colonists destroyed several tea cargoes in defiance of the tea tax. In 1774–75 he wrote three influential pamphlets, which upheld the agreements of the Continental Congress on the nonimportation, nonconsumption, and nonexportation of British products and attacked British policy in Quebec. Those anonymous publications—one of them attributed to John Jay and John Adams, two of the ablest of American propagandists—gave the first solid evidence of Hamilton's precocity.
American Revolution
In March 1776, through the influence of friends in the New York legislature, Hamilton was commissioned a captain in the provincial artillery. He organized his own company and at the Battle of Trenton, when he and his men prevented the British under Lord Cornwallis from crossing the Raritan River and attacking George Washington's main army, showed conspicuous bravery. In February 1777 Washington invited him to become an aide-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In his four years on Washington's staff he grew close to the general and was entrusted with his correspondence. He was sent on important military missions and, thanks to his fluent command of French, became liaison officer between Washington and the French generals and admirals.
Eager to connect himself with wealth and influence, Hamilton married Elizabeth, the daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler, the head of one of New York's most distinguished families. Meantime, having tired of the routine duties at headquarters and yearning for glory, he pressed Washington for an active command in the field. Washington refused, and in early 1781 Hamilton seized upon a trivial quarrel to break with the general and leave his staff. Fortunately, he had not forfeited the general's friendship, for in July Washington gave him command of a battalion. At the siege of Cornwallis's army at Yorktown in October, Hamilton led an assault on a British stronghold.
Early political activities
In letters to a member of Congress and to Robert Morris, the superintendent of finance, Hamilton analyzed the financial and political weaknesses of the government. In November 1781, with the war virtually over, he moved to Albany, where he studied law and was admitted to practice in July 1782. A few months later the New York legislature elected him to the Continental Congress. He continued to argue in essays for a strong central government, and in Congress from November 1782 to July 1783 he worked for the same end, being convinced that the Articles of Confederation were the source of the country's weakness and disunion.
In 1783 Hamilton began to practice law in New York City. He defended unpopular loyalists who had remained faithful to the British during the Revolution in suits brought against them under a state law called the Trespass Act. Partly as a result of his efforts, state acts disbarring loyalist lawyers and disfranchising loyalist voters were repealed. In that year he also won election to the lower house of the New York legislature, taking his seat in January 1787. Meanwhile, the legislature had appointed him a delegate to the convention in Annapolis, Maryland, that met in September 1786 to consider the commercial plight of the Union. Hamilton suggested that the convention exceed its delegated powers and call for another meeting of representatives from all the states to discuss various problems confronting the nation. He drew up the draft of the address to the states from which emerged the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in May 1787. After persuading New York to send a delegation, Hamilton obtained a place for himself on the delegation.
Hamilton went to Philadelphia as an uncompromising nationalist who wished to replace the Articles of Confederation with a strong centralized government, but he did not take much part in the debates. He served on two important committees, one on rules in the beginning of the convention and the other on style at the end of the convention. In a long speech on June 18, he presented his own idea of what the national government should be. Under his plan, the national government would have had unlimited power over the states. Hamilton's plan had little impact on the convention; the delegates went ahead to frame a constitution that, while it gave strong power to a federal government, stood some chance of being accepted by the people. Since the other two delegates from New York, who were strong opponents of a Federalist constitution, had withdrawn from the convention, New York was not officially represented, and Hamilton had no power to sign for his state. Nonetheless, even though he knew that his state wished to go no further than a revision of the Articles of Confederation, he signed the new constitution as an individual.
Opponents in New York quickly attacked the Constitution, and Hamilton answered them in the newspapers under the signature Caesar. Since the Caesar letters seemed not influential, Hamilton turned to another classical pseudonym, Publius, and to two collaborators, James Madison, the delegate from Virginia, and John Jay, the secretary of foreign affairs, to write The Federalist, a series of 85 essays in defense of the Constitution and republican government that appeared in newspapers between October 1787 and May 1788. Hamilton wrote at least two-thirds of the essays, including some of the most important ones that interpreted the Constitution, explained the powers of the executive, the senate, and the judiciary, and expounded the theory of judicial review (i.e., the power of the Supreme Court to declare legislative acts unconstitutional and, thus, void). Although written and published in haste, The Federalist was widely read, had a great influence on contemporaries, became one of the classics of political literature, and helped shape American political institutions. In 1788 Hamilton was reappointed a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York. At the ratifying convention in June, he became the chief champion of the Constitution and, against strong opposition, won approval for it.
Hamilton's financial program
When President Washington in 1789 appointed Hamilton the first secretary of the treasury, Congress asked him to draw up a plan for the "adequate support of the public credit." Envisaging himself as something of a prime minister in Washington's official family, Hamilton developed a bold and masterly program designed to build a strong union, one that would weave his political philosophy into the government. His immediate objectives were to establish credit at home and abroad and to strengthen the national government at the expense of the states. He outlined his program in four notable reports to Congress (1790–91).
In the first two, Reports on the Public Credit, which he submitted on January 14, 1790, and December 13, 1790, he urged the funding of the national debt at full value, the assumption in full by the federal government of debts incurred by the states during the Revolution, and a system of taxation to pay for the assumed debts. His motive was as much political as economic. Through payment by the central government of the states' debts, he hoped to bind the men of wealth and influence, who had acquired most of the domestically held bonds, to the national government. But such powerful opposition arose to the funding and assumption scheme that Hamilton was able to push it through Congress only after he had made a bargain with Thomas Jefferson, who was then secretary of state, whereby he gained Southern votes in Congress for it in exchange for his own support in locating the future national capital on the banks of the Potomac.
Hamilton's third report, the Report on a National Bank, which he submitted on December 14, 1790, advocated a national bank called the Bank of the United States and modeled after the Bank of England. With the bank, he wished to solidify the partnership between the government and the business classes who would benefit most from it and further advance his program to strengthen the national government. After Congress passed the bank charter, Hamilton persuaded Washington to sign it into law. He advanced the argument that the Constitution was the source of implied as well as enumerated powers and that through implication the government had the right to charter a national bank as a proper means of regulating the currency. This doctrine of implied powers became the basis for interpreting and expanding the Constitution in later years. In the Report on Manufactures, the fourth, the longest, the most complex, and the most farsighted of his reports, submitted on December 5, 1791, he proposed to aid the growth of infant industries through various protective laws. Basic to it was his idea that the general welfare required the encouragement of manufacturers and that the federal government was obligated to direct the economy to that end. In writing his report, Hamilton had leaned heavily on The Wealth of Nations, written in 1776 by the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, but he revolted against Smith's laissez-faire idea that the state must keep hands off the economic processes, which meant that it could provide no bounties, tariffs, or other aid. The report had greater appeal to posterity than to Hamilton's contemporaries, for Congress did nothing with it.
Establishment of political parties
A result of the struggle over Hamilton's program and over issues of foreign policy was the emergence of national political parties. Like Washington, Hamilton had deplored parties, equating them with disorder and instability. He had hoped to establish a government of superior persons who would be above party. Yet he became the leader of the Federalist Party, a political organization in large part dedicated to the support of his policies. Hamilton placed himself at the head of that party because he needed organized political support and strong leadership in the executive branch to get his program through Congress. The political organization that challenged the Hamiltonians was the Republican Party (later Democratic-Republican Party) created by James Madison, a member of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. In foreign affairs the Federalists favoured close ties with England, whereas the Republicans preferred to strengthen the old attachment to France. In attempting to carry out his program, Hamilton interfered in Jefferson's domain of foreign affairs. Detesting the French Revolution and the egalitarian doctrines it spawned, he tried to thwart Jefferson's policies that might aid France or injure England and to induce Washington to follow his own ideas in foreign policy. Hamilton went so far as to warn British officials of Jefferson's attachment to France and to suggest that they bypass the secretary of state and instead work through himself and the president in matters of foreign policy. This and other parts of Hamilton's program led to a feud with Jefferson in which the two men attempted to drive each other from the cabinet.
When war broke out between France and England in February 1793, Hamilton wished to use the war as an excuse for jettisoning the French alliance of 1778 and steering the United States closer to England, whereas Jefferson insisted that the alliance was still binding. Washington essentially accepted Hamilton's advice and in April issued a proclamation of neutrality that was generally interpreted as pro-British.
At the same time, British seizure of U.S. ships trading with the French West Indies and other grievances led to popular demands for war against Great Britain, which Hamilton opposed. He believed that such a war would be national suicide, for his program was anchored on trade with Britain and on the import duties that supported his funding system. Usurping the power of the State Department, Hamilton persuaded the president to send John Jay to London to negotiate a treaty. Hamilton wrote Jay's instructions, manipulated the negotiations, and defended the unpopular treaty Jay brought back in 1795, notably in a series of newspaper essays he wrote under the signature Camillus; the treaty kept the peace and saved his system.
Out of the cabinet
Lashed by criticism, tired and anxious to repair his private fortune, Hamilton left the cabinet on January 31, 1795. His influence, as an unofficial adviser, however, continued as strong as ever. Washington and his cabinet consulted him on almost all matters of policy. When Washington decided to retire, he turned to Hamilton, asking his opinion as to the best time to publish his farewell. With his eye on the coming presidential election, Hamilton advised withholding the announcement until a few months before the meeting of the presidential electors. Following that advice, Washington gave his Farewell Address in September 1796. Hamilton drafted most of the address, and some of his ideas were prominent in it. In the election, Federalist leaders passed over Hamilton's claims and nominated John Adams for the presidency and Thomas Pinckney for the vice presidency. Because Adams did not appear devoted to Hamiltonian principles, Hamilton tried to manipulate the electoral college so as to make Pinckney president. Adams won the election, and Hamilton's intrigue succeeded only in sowing distrust within his own party. Hamilton's influence in the government continued, however, for Adams retained Washington's cabinet, and its members consulted Hamilton on all matters of policy, gave him confidential information, and in effect urged his policies on the president.
When France broke relations with the United States, Hamilton stood for firmness, though not immediate war; however, after the failure of a peace mission that President Adams had sent to Paris in 1798, followed by the publication of dispatches insulting to U.S. sovereignty, Hamilton wanted to place the country under arms. He even believed that the French, with whom the United States now became engaged in an undeclared naval war, might attempt to invade the country. Hamilton sought command of the new army, though Washington would be its titular head. Adams resisted Hamilton's desires, but in September 1798 Washington forced him to make Hamilton second in command of the army, the inspector general, with the rank of major general. Adams never forgave Hamilton for this humiliation. Hamilton wanted to lead his army into Spain's Louisiana and the Floridas and other points south but never did. Through independent diplomacy, Adams kept the quarrel from spreading and at the order of Congress disbanded the provisional army. Hamilton resigned his commission in June 1800. Meantime Adams had purged his cabinet of those he regarded as "Hamilton's spies."
In retaliation, Hamilton tried to prevent Adams's reelection. In October 1800 he privately circulated a personal attack on Adams, The Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States. Aaron Burr of New York, the Republican candidate for vice president and Hamilton's political enemy, obtained a copy and had it published. Hamilton was then compelled to acknowledge his authorship and to bring his quarrel with Adams into the open, a feud that revealed an irreparable schism in the Federalist Party. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr won the election, but, because both had received the same number of electoral votes, the choice between them for president was cast into the House of Representatives. Hating Jefferson, the Federalists wanted to throw the election to Burr. Hamilton helped to persuade them to select Jefferson instead. By supporting his old Republican enemy, who won the presidency, Hamilton lost prestige within his own party and virtually ended his public career.
The Burr quarrel
In 1801 Hamilton built a country house called the Grange on Manhattan island and helped found a Federalist newspaper, the New York Evening Post, the policies of which reflected his ideas. Through the Post he hailed the purchase of Louisiana in 1803, even though New England Federalists had opposed it. Some of them talked of secession and in 1804 began to negotiate with Burr for his support. Almost all the Federalists but Hamilton favoured Burr's candidacy for the governorship of New York state. Hamilton urged the election of Burr's Republican opponent, who won by a close margin, but it is doubtful that Hamilton's influence decided the outcome. In any event, Hamilton and Burr had long been enemies, and Hamilton had several times thwarted Burr's ambitions. In June 1804, after the election, Burr demanded satisfaction for remarks Hamilton had allegedly made at a dinner party in April in which he said he held a "despicable opinion" of Burr. Hamilton held an aversion to dueling, but as a man of honour he felt compelled to accept Burr's challenge. The two antagonists met early in the morning of July 11 on the heights of Weehawken, New Jersey, where Hamilton's eldest son, Philip, had died in a duel three years before. Burr's bullet found its mark, and Hamilton fell. Hamilton left his wife and seven children heavily in debt, which friends helped to pay off.
Hamilton was a man both of action and of ideas, but all his ideas involved action and were directed toward some specific goal in statecraft. Unlike Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, he did not have a broad inquisitive mind, nor was he speculative in his thinking in the philosophical sense of seeking intangible truths. He was ambitious, purposeful, a hard worker, and one of America's administrative geniuses. In foreign policy he was a realist, believing that self-interest should be the nation's polestar; questions of gratitude, benevolence, and moral principle, he held, were irrelevant.
What renders him fascinating to biographers are the streaks of ambition, jealousy, and impulsiveness that led him into disastrous personal clashes—the rupture with Washington in 1781, which luckily did him no harm; an adulterous affair in 1791, which laid him open to blackmail; the assault on Adams that doomed Federalist prospects in 1800; and perhaps even the duel in which he died. The union of a mind brilliantly tuned to the economic future with the temperament of a Hotspur is rare.
Most of all, Hamilton was one of America's first great nationalists. He believed in an indivisible nation where the people would give their loyalty not to any state but to the nation. Although a conservative, he did not fear change or experimentation. The conservatism that led him to denounce democracy as hostile to liberty stemmed from his fear that democracy tended to invade the rights of property, which he held sacred. His concern for property was a means to an end. He wished to make private property sacred because upon it he planned to build a strong central government, one capable of suppressing internal disorders and assuring tranquillity. His economic, political, military, and diplomatic schemes were all directed toward making the Union strong. Hamilton's most enduring monument was the Union, for much of it rested on his ideas.
In 2015 Alexander Hamilton became newly central to national discussion in the United States as a result of the explosive popularity of a critically acclaimed new musical based on his life. Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also starred in the title role, Hamilton married hip-hop and Broadway in previously unimaginable ways and lifted Hamilton higher in the pantheon of Founding Fathers while humanizing him in touching and inspiring ways. Hailed as the most significant new American musical in a generation, it swept the 2016 Tony Awards.Alexander DeConde The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation for Small Cell Lung Cancer
Can you give me information and statistics on prophylactic cranial irradiation for prevention of small cell lung cancer? My husband is in remission and this procedure has been recommended. Thank you.
Barbara Campling, MD, Medical Oncologist, and Stephen M. Hahn, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine, respond:
It's good to hear that your husband is in remission from his small cell lung cancer. As you probably know, small cell lung cancer has a tendency to spread outside the chest, and one of the most unpleasant sites of metastasis is the brain. In patients who have gone into remission with treatment, the chances of eventual recurrence in the brain are quite high, approximately 60% at two years. This is probably because the chemotherapy drugs that are used to treat small cell lung cancer do not penetrate brain tissue very well. The chance of recurrence in the brain can be reduced to 30-45% at two years by giving radiation to the brain, or approximately a 50% reduction in the development of brain metastasis compared with patients who do not receive prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI). Prophylactic means preventive or protective, and cranial irradiation refers to treatment of the whole brain with the use of high-energy x-rays in order to destroy any potential microscopic cancer in this area.
Many individual studies have shown that this prophylactic treatment reduces the chance of cancer recurrence in the brain and the development of symptoms from brain metastasis. . PCI has also been shown to improve overall survival in patients who get PCI compared to those who do not. The downside of this treatment is that it can delay recovery from the treatment that has already been given, and it may also have a risk of causing cognitive impairment. This toxicity is not well understood because there have not been large, long-term studies on the side effects of PCI. Overall, however, PCI is recommended for patients with a good performance status and no preexisting neurocognitive impairments who have a complete response to treatment for limited-stage small cell lung cancer, as well as stable disease, partial response, or complete response to treatment for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer. You and your husband should discuss this in detail with his Radiation Oncologist.


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2018-2019 Connecting Kids Registration Form
2018-2019 Connecting Kids Combined Calendar D39 and EC
Pay your Tuition on-line here
Connecting Kids Supply List 2018-19
Connecting Kids Program
Children 3-5 years of age
2 hours & 20 minutes a day
4 or 5 days a week (based on age)
1-2 Paraprofessionals per class
Student-teacher ratio of 3-1
Our team of professionals is comprised of Certified Early Childhood Teachers who lead each class, along with a Speech-Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist who develop and facilitate weekly groups in their area of specialty. We practice an integrated team approach which involves collaborative assessment and planning for every child on a regular basis.
Connecting Kids is aligned with District 39's philosophy of inclusion, whereby children with special needs are integrated, or included, in a classroom with typically developing children. Under this model, our program makes it possible for children with special needs to participate in all classroom activities, with modifications as needed. This enables typically developing children to be more accepting of people with disabilities and act as role models for the children with special needs. Additionally, all children benefit from being under the guidance of a team of Early Childhood Specialists.
The curriculum is based on The Creative Curriculum. It focuses on the development of social competence, learning through play, fostering independence, self-confidence and self-esteem. The Creative Curriculum is aligned with the Illinois Early Learning Standards. Our study based program exposes children to a variety of pre-acadmic skills and concepts.
Since Connecting Kids is part of Wilmette School District 39, and housed at Romona School, our children benefit from access to the school library, gym, and outdoor playground facilities. We have opportunities to participate in all school assemblies and related activities. Enrollment in District 39's Connecting Kids also allows for a seamless transition to Kindergarten for all children.
We believe that a viable program must reflect involvement, education and collaborative efforts from all team members, including families. Connecting Kids offers:
In order to achieve effective preschool integrated settings, our team is sensitive to the environment, materials and, most importantly, the child. As Early Childhood Specialists, we have a shared respect for each child. Our keen observational skills allow the team to monitor developmental progress and individual achievement. At Connecting Kids, the focus is on choice and autonomy in a child-oriented setting, full of interesting and functional materials.
Our program's philosophy places emphasis on approaching each student, first and foremost, as a child. Additionally, we afford multiple opportunities to the children to make choices and initiate their own activities. Finally, our program is designed and equipped to meet individual needs across a diverse group of children while fostering cooperative interactions.
For children who have significant delays in multiple domains a full day program is available in District 39. A special education classroom teacher provides instruction in the classroom, with assistance of classroom paraprofessionals. Related services, including speech and occupational therapy, also are provided.
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AVONDALE, La., April 25 (UPI) -- Ricky Barnes, who has played in 137 PGA Tour events without a victory, seized the lead Thursday after one round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Barnes shot an 8-under 64 over the TPC-Louisiana course for his low round of what has been a forgettable year on the circuit. This is his 11th event of 2013 and he has missed the cut in seven of the previous 10.
Barnes has one runner-up finish in his tour career, that coming at the 2009 U.S. Open. He led that tournament going into the final round, only to shoot a 76 and wind up tied for second with Phil Mickelson and David Duval, two strokes behind tournament winner Lucas Glover.
Glover finished Thursday's round in a tie for second at 65 with Boo Weekley while D.A. Points and Morgan Hoffman shared fourth at 66.
The large group at 67 included Rickie Fowler, Ernie Els and Charlie Beljan, who won the final regular event on the tour in 2012 despite an anxiety attack that sent him to the hospital after the third round.
Guan Tianliang, the 14-year-old amateur who made the cut at the Masters two weeks ago, shot a 72 Thursday and was tied for 85th place. Defending champion Jason Dufner posted a 70.


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University agriculture - our part of the agri-skills crisis
30 July 2012
The Dean of Agriculture at the University of Sydney, Professor Mark Adams has called for a number of initiatives to arrest the decline in agricultural graduates and skills across all areas of the agricultural sector including tertiary education, to increase interest in vital issues such as food supply and to remind the general population that agriculture is in the national interest."Many Australians are yet to comprehend the looming crisis in agriculture and food production, at least to the extent that many of their overseas counterparts do. Our standard of living is simply too high for most people to have a serious appreciation of the global problem," he said at a recent address to the NSW Farmwriters Association of NSW. "Technology and economics have driven massive changes in the way the world grows its food and feeds it people. A farmer at the turn of the 20th century fed four people, compared to the 90 people each farmer feeds today."
Prof. Adams nominated significant measures that could be taken to build on existing research strengths including constituting an ARC panel focused on research in rural and regional matters and establishing an ARC Centre of Excellence for soil carbon.
Contact: Ms Robyn Turner
Phone: 02 8627 1003


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and your picture was super cute in the face. good for you.
I was, and thank YOU!
Sister please! With those wings in your spine.
I miss you.
why did you leave us?
That would be impressive. You and I in general are pretty impressive :cool:
:) Totally. We're gonna take the world by storm.
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It is good, when you border hop we will feast on pop tarts and Banana milk.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stock prices retreated from five-year highs on Monday, while the euro rose against the dollar on bets the European Central Bank might refrain from signaling more interest rate cuts on Thursday.
The weakness in the equities market, partly due to caution ahead of companies beginning to report on their fourth-quarter earnings, spurred selling of oil, gold and other risky investments. This stoked some safety bids for U.S. and German government debt.
Investors turned their focus to corporate profits in the last three months of 2012, when growth in American holiday spending and corporate investments was tepid as shoppers and companies dialed back on worries about the United States going over the 'fiscal cliff' - a series of automatic tax hikes and government spending cuts which could have kicked in if a budget deal in Washington were not reached last week.
"There is little doubt that concerns about the fiscal cliff created spending hesitancy in both consumers and businesses in the fourth quarter, and it is likely that will adversely impact earnings season," said Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas.
Earnings are expected to be only slightly better than the third-quarter's lackluster results and analysts' current estimates are down sharply from what they were in October.
"I think it's going to be a disappointing one this time around," Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York, said of the upcoming earnings season that unofficially launches with aluminum maker Alcoa (AA.N) reporting its results after Tuesday's market close.
Uneasiness about corporate profits emerged even after data on Friday showed U.S. employers kept up a modest pace of hiring in December and the vast services sector expanded.
Hopes for global economic recovery got a boost after the Basel Committee of banking supervisors agreed to give banks four more years and greater flexibility than previously envisaged to build protective cash buffers. That means they can use more of their reserves to lend and help economies grow.
In the United States, news of a longer timetable for banks to manage their capital was overshadowed by 10 banks agreeing to pay $8.5 billion to settle a federal review of their questionable foreclosure practices.
In midafternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 74.46 points, or 0.55 percent, at 13,360.75. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 8.30 points, or 0.57 percent, at 1,458.17. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 11.91 points, or 0.38 percent, at 3,089.75.
Among the day's biggest movers were Nationstar Mortgage Holdings NSM.N, whose shares rose 12 percent to $37.31 each after Bank of America (BAC.N) entered a deal to sell the servicing rights on over $300 billion of home loans to Nationstar and Walter Investment Management WAC.A.
Walter stock rose 7.2 percent at $47.20.
After touching a 22-month peak last week, the FTSE Eurofirst index of top European shares ended 0.49 percent lower at 1,161.57, although the region's bank sector as measured by the STOXX euro zone bank index bucked the market trend, gaining 1.5 percent on the Basel news on bank capital.
MSCI's broad world equity index was down 0.35 percent at 346.48, but was still not far from an 18-month peak scaled when investors returned to the market after the immediate U.S. fiscal crisis was averted last week.
In the currency market, the euro was up 0.31 percent at $1.3109, erasing early losses. It held above a three-week low of $1.2998 hit on Friday.
Analysts predicted the single currency would stay around those levels until after the ECB meeting. Some expect the ECB to point to the prospect of easier rates early this year, contrasting with signals from Federal Reserve policymakers that the U.S. central bank may pursue less-accommodative policies in the future.
The Bank of Japan is also expected to take major steps to stimulate that country's economy later this month as the new government aims to end deflation and recession.
The greenback weakened against the yen, last down 0.57 percent at 87.64 yen. Last week, the dollar climbed to a 2-1/2- year high, which some traders reckoned was overdone.
Expectations of less-easy monetary policy from the Fed later this year mitigated the renewed safe-haven bids for U.S. government debt. The yield on benchmark Treasury 10-year notes was 1.90 percent, little changed from Friday when it ticked up to an eight-month high.
German Bund futures were up 27 basis points at 143.13, rebounding after hitting one-month lows last week.
The weakness in stocks dragged oil prices lower, but signs of improvement in the global economy rekindled bets on higher energy demand in 2013, paring their early losses.
Gold and copper prices were stuck near their session lows.
Brent crude futures were off 11 cents or 0.10 percent at $111.20 per barrel after rising 0.6 percent last week, while U.S. oil futures were up 7 cents or 0.08 percent higher at $93.16.
Spot gold was down 0.58 percent at $1,646.76 an ounce, though above Friday's $1,625.79, its lowest price since August.
Three-month copper futures in London closed 0.2 percent lower at $8,071 a tonne after losing nearly 1 percent the prior session.
Additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos in New York; Richard Hubbard, Blaise Robinson, Anooja Debnath and David Brough in London; Editing by Dan Grebler and Chizu Nomiyama


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Poll focus suggests Edward Markey has more than passing interest in Senate special election
US Representative Edward J. Markey said Monday he would consider running for the US Senate were John F. Kerry nominated for secretary of state, but a poll he's conducting shows it's not just some idle thought.
A Massachusetts resident relayed to a Globe reporter the contents of a 20-minute survey an out-of-state firm conducted via telephone that assessed Markey's strengths and weaknesses in a potential match-up against Senator Scott Brown.
Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, was defeated for reelection last month by Markey's fellow Democrat Elizabeth Warren, but the incumbent senator has indicated he would turn around and run again after leaving office on Jan. 3 if Kerry resigns his own Senate seat to join the Obama administration.
Markey, a former state representative from Malden and now 18-term congressman, is among the Democrats who would be considered potential candidates against Brown in any special election to replace Kerry.
"When that announcement is made, I will seriously consider looking at it,'' Markey told the Globe Monday during an event in Malden with Attorney General Martha Coakley.
The poll, however, suggested that serious consideration is already well underway.
It assessed Markey's favorability against several other potential rivals from his own party, including fellow US Representatives Stephen Lynch of Boston and Michael Capuano of Somerville; former congressman and now-UMass Lowell Chancellor Martin Meehan; and Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
After Edward Kennedy died in August 2009 of brain cancer, Brown defeated Coakley in the special election to replace him. Were Kerry to also leave the Senate, Governor Deval Patrick would have to appoint a temporary officeholder while another special election is held within 145 days to 160 days to select a permanent replacement.
Political circles are abuzz with the names of potential appointees, including Vicki Kennedy and former Governor Michael S. Dukakis. He discounted the chatter during a Globe interview on Monday.
There have also been questions about whether Patrick would appoint a temporary senator who would be a candidate in the special election. Such an appointment could give the appointee the opportunity to gain statewide name recognition while also bearing the title, "senator.''
In 2010, the governor decided against that, instead appointing Kennedy confidante Paul G. Kirk Jr. as a caretaker while others competed in the special election.
Patrick said last week he is inclined to do the same again, and that could play into the decision-making of the incumbent congressmen.
Were Patrick to try to give either Lynch, Capuano, or Markey a head start by appointing them senator while they ran for the seat permanently, they would have to resign their House seat because they could not simultaneously serve simultaneously in both chambers of Congress.
If the governor again appoints a caretaker, the congressmen can run in the Senate special election without risking their seat. The special election would likely be completed by July; the House members don't have to seek reelection to their current seats until November 2014.
The poll probed Markey's prospects in a head-to-head special election match-up against Brown, hinting at perceived lines of attack against the senator – and the congressman's own potential vulnerabilities.
For example, the pollster asked whether the respondent had either "very serious doubts,'' "fairly serious doubts,'' "only some doubts,'' or "no real doubts'' about a series of positive Brown attributes.
They included his personal likability and capacity to work in a bipartisan fashion.
The pollster also asked whether the respondent was aware Brown had accepted donations from Wall Street financial firms, voted with Republican leadership, and opposed the nomination of Elena Kagan – the former dean of Harvard Law School – to the Supreme Court.
And, echoing a theme of Warren's successful campaign against Brown, the pollster asked if the respondent would be affected by other perceived anti-woman votes on abortion rights or pay equality.
As for Markey, the pollster asked about perceived strengths, including his work on clean energy legislation, his vote against Bush-era tax cuts, and his life story growing up the son of a milkman.
As for perceived negatives, the pollster asked about Markey votes on tax increases, whether the congressman spends too much time in Washington, and if, after 36 years, he doesn't come back to his district enough.
The pollster noted that Markey, who long claimed residency in his childhood bedroom at his parent's Malden house, spends the bulk of his time living with his wife in a house in Chevy Chase, Md., a Washington suburb. An aide said Markey also bought his parent's house after his father died in 2000.
Massachusetts election law does not require members of Congress to live in their districts, only that they be an "inhabitant'' of the state when elected. The Constitution says a member of the House must be a resident of the state in which an election occurs.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) is pulling an online ad for Mountain Dew that was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and making light of violence toward women.
In the 60-second spot developed by rapper Tyler, The Creator, a battered white woman on crutches is urged by an officer to identify a suspect out of a lineup of black men played by members of a music group. A goat is included in the lineup.
The goat makes threatening remarks to the woman such as "Ya better not snitch on a player" and "Keep ya mouth shut." She eventually screams and runs away.
PepsiCo apologized in a statement and said it understood how the ad could be offensive. The company says the video has been removed from all Mountain Dew channels.


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Alissa Petinge, Samantha Walker, Kelsey Shea, and Katie Peters all had hat tricks for the Mustangs in a victory over Milford.
When the Medway and Milford girls lacrosse teams took the field for their game Saturday morning, it was two teams on complete opposite ends of the spectrum.
The Mustangs won just two games all of last season, and are hoping to continue growing as a program.
Milford, on the other hand, has redemption on its mind. The Scarlet Hawks were stunned as a No. 6 seed in the first round of the tournament last year, upset by 12th-seeded Nipmuc.
Surprisingly, it was Medway that looked like the more veteran-savvy playoff team, though, as it dominated Milford from start to finish in an 18-5 rout.
The Mustangs improve to 1-1 while Milford begins its season at 0-1.
Alissa Petinge, Samantha Walker, Kelsey Shea, and Katie Peters all had hat tricks for the Mustangs in the offensive explosion. Kelsey Bitting (2 goals), Julia DiPillo (1 goal), Kasey Hayes (1 goal), Devin Murphy (1 goal) and Emma Irwin (1 goal) all got their names on the score sheet as well.
For Milford, Gabby Vasile had four of the Scarlet Hawks' goals while Megan DePaolo added the other one.
Freshman goalie Kailyn Lapham picked up her first career victory for Medway, shining in the matchup as she shut down the Scarlet Hawks with 11 saves.
"This was just a beautiful day for us," said a very happy Medway head coach Mary Burke. "We got racked in Westwood the other day to open the year so this was a nice way to bounce back. We had an extremely young team last year. They're a year older now, a year more mature and I think that really helps us in a game like this because now we can walk on to an opponent's field and feel confident in our ability to work together as a team.
"We had all of our offense working really well today. It was just a very good win for this team early in the season."
On the opposite end, Milford, now a young team itself, never stood a chance against an older and motivated Medway team looking to redefine the image other programs have of them.
"They looked absolutely incredible today," Milford coach Jason Gelmini said. "They are much more improved and showed it today. We're a young team now and we're going to have some work to do this season clearly. We played them last year and seeing how much they improved in just a year's time is sort of encouraging for us because it shows us how quickly we can turn things around on our end."
Just 10 minutes into the game Milford found itself in a 6-1 hole after scoring the first goal of the game. By the time there was under 10 minutes remaining in the first half, the Mustangs were stepping on the throats of Milford, going up 10-1 on a goal from Bitting. The first half ended with one of Petinge's goals making it 13-2 at the break.
"This was just awesome," Petinge said with a huge smile. "Last year was such a tough year for us but now that we're a year older we sort of know how to handle certain situations when they come our way. A game like this obviously isn't what you expect but it was good for us because we had to stay focused for the full 50 minutes. It's definitely nice to get an early win."
The second half was much of the same as Medway continued to keep up the attack. Walker scored with 12:54 left to make it 16-3. After Shea made it 18-3 with 9:47 to play, Vasile netted her fourth with 6:23 left and DePaolo added her goal with 5:21 remaining, but the day belonged to Medway.
"We're just a very young team, but I thought we played OK," Vasile said. "For such a new team like we are I thought we played well in spurts. Ground balls were a big problem today. We have a lot to work on but it will come."
For Medway, the road to respectability can only be paved with wins, and in 2013, they are already well on their way.
"We just have to stay focused and keep playing together," Petinge said. "We're a really close-knit team and if we keep that chemistry we could be really good."


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The 2013-14 Rotarian of the Year award will be displayed fittingly at the home of Amy Rouskey, chosen by the Cape Coral Rotary Club and presented at a recent meeting.
"My two kids are grown up now so I had to find something to do with my time," said Rouskey. "I've volunteered practically all my life. I've been a baseball mom, volleyball coach, softball and baseball coach."
The Rotarian of the Year award is given to those who consistently demonstrate service above self. She found plenty of worthy service projects to work on with the Rotary Club.
In the last 11 years she has served on the board of directors, chaired the Dictionary Project, golf tournament planning committee, international projects on Andros Island, Bahamas, and playground construction for the Red Bay School.
"My favorite project is the Dictionary Project," Rouskey said. "We are giving a dictionary to every third grader in the district. It's my favorite project because it's hands-on with the kids and getting to see their faces light up when they get the dictionary is very rewarding. I've done this for 11 years now, even before I joined Rotary."
Rouskey attends virtually every Rotary signature event, including Cape Coral Festival of the Arts and Cardboard Boat Regatta. She has planned the club's fellowship events, and co-chair of the Run for the Rose Garden 5K Race.
"Being in the direct mail advertising business I'm always involved in Rotary events, printing up flyers for the golf tournament and other events," Rouskey said. "My hands are on most everything we do."
She considered it an honor to accompany Rotary Club charter member Paul Sanborn and a group of World War II veterans on the Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
"It was very emotional and I will remember that day for the rest of my life," she said. "I am very proud to be a Rotarian and will continue to serve my club and community for many years to come.
"I've been asked to join other clubs, but they don't compare to what Rotary does," she added. "This is the first club I joined and probably the only club I will ever belong to."
Originally from Spokane, Wash., Rouskey has been married for almost 24 years. She manages The Letterbox Inc. store and likely one day will assume company ownership.
"I was a military wife," she said. "We lived in D.C., Korea and San Antonio. We came here after San Antonio almost 20 years ago because my husband's family is from here."
About four years ago her mother-in-law bought her a tandem skydiving experience as a present. That was the first one. She went back to learn the sport and now has made 170 jumps with a club at the Shell Creek Airport in Punta Gorda.
"I skydive every weekend," Rouskey said. "I do it all on my own. I've tried to get some of the Rotarians to come jump, but only a few have."
She also enjoys gardening in her spare time.
For more information on Rotary visit www.capecoralrotary.com.


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The Pirate Bay Press Release On SOPA: We Are The New Hollywood
from the history-repeating-itself dept
Given its general contempt for the repeated attempts to close it down, you wouldn't expect The Pirate Bay to be particularly worried by SOPA. But in its very own press release on the subject, it goes much further: it flings the ultimate insult at Hollywood by claiming that not only are the two of them spiritual kin, but that The Pirate Bay is the New Hollywood.
Here's why The Pirate Bay thinks Hollywood is exactly like itself:
Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent.
And here's why Pirate Bay thinks it's the New Hollywood:
There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them – like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.
So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works, without paying for it.
The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient.
At the end of its release, The Pirate Bay admits rather drolly:
Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.
In fact its potted history of Hollywood is not so far off the mark. Here's a rather more rigorously-researched description of the battle between Thomas Edison, along with his Motion Picture Patents Company (MPCC) – basically a group of suppliers that tried to enforce a monopoly over cinema equipment – and Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures that refused to knuckle under:
what ultimately did the Edison monopoly in was the assumption that its legal/technological dominance over the trade, and its moral stance, would trump the public's demand for ever more creative motion pictures. Unlike the independents, the MPCC system did not invest in its network. Consumers would simply have to watch Edison Trust fare, the monopoly's principals figured.
The parallels with today's battle between the MPAA (complete with its "moral stance") and Net-based "independents" like The Pirate Bay (with its DRM-free content), are clear. Once again, this is not just about who gets the money, it's a conflict between the "older generation" of movie companies with their "legal dominance", and the "new generation" of digital immigrants like The Pirate Bay that give the public what they want.
They didn't. Instead, they flocked to Laemmle and his fellow independents' "illegal" movies, which were longer and of better quality. Even the Trust's inner circle knew this. "We… pass on pictures we know will get us nothing but unfavorable comments and cancellations," one confided. "We haven't the power to throw out the distinctly bad pictures, nor the courage, because as poor as they are, they represent a certain sum of money invested in negative production."
Edison and his cohorts never understood that they were involved "in much more than an economic battle to determine who would control the profits of the nascent film industry," Neal Gabler writes. This was a conflict between an older generation of Anglo-Saxon Protestant inventors and a new generation of immigrants.
Call it Hollywood 2: The Sequel.
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- 2006
- BKN New Media
- Your Family Entertainment
- Zorro: Generation Z Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Diego De La Vega/El Zorro, Bernardo, Mayor Horace Martínez, María Martínez/The Scarlet Whip, Alejandro De La Vega, Mrs. McAllister, Sergeant García, Gustavo De La Vega/El Zorro, Alejandro's Grandmother, Alfredo Catalano, Augusto Catalano, Gloria Sheffield, Jack Sheffield, Don Ichy, Don Skull.
- Vocal Talent: Ben Small (Diego Dela Vega/El Zorro), Jules de Jongh (Maria Martinez/Scarlet Whip), Janet Brown (Mrs. McAlistair), Morgan Deare (Mayor Martinez, Gustavo de la Vega/El Zorro), Luis Soto (Sergeant García), Alan Marriott (Don Ichy, Don Skull), Sarah Douglas (Gloria Sheffield), John Schwab.
- Directed By Chris Evans.
- Produced By Rick Ungar (Executive Producer).
- Written By Lee Cohen, Steven Darancette, Sean Catherine Derek , Len Uhley.
- Music By Mark Blackledge.
- Creator: Rick Ungar.
- Concept Created By: Hans Christian Vang.
- Designers (Original Concept): John Besmehn, John Schulte.
- Production Design: Ana Bermejo Santos.
- Production Manager: Claire Watson.
- Sound Editors: Sandra Portman, John Sutherland.
- Sound Effects Editor: Anna Sulley.
- Dubbing Mixer: Nick Harris.
- Creative Development Team: John Schulte.
- Creative Consultant: John Besmehn.
- Voice Director: Susan Blu.
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Executive Summary for Testing the Waters, a report which explores the attitudes of Californias local officials toward public participation in local governance.
This report explores the attitudes of Californias local officials toward public participation in local governance. These officials believe that the current models for including the public in local decision making fail to meet the needs of both residents and local officials. Most local officials seek broad-based participation from the public and want to hear more about approaches that have worked elsewhere. Many are already experimenting with more inclusive and deliberative forms of engagement. Overall, this study suggests Californias local officials may be ready for newer and more effective ways to engage the public and for stronger collaborations with community-based organizations.
The report also includes concrete recommendations for local officials and their institutions, civic leaders and their organizations, and foundations and other funders. The recommendations can help improve public engagement in local governance throughout California and, we hope, beyond.
Public Agenda conducted this research in partnership with the Institute of Local Government and The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University. The work was commissioned by The James Irvine Foundation.
Data for this research was collected through a statewide, representative survey of 900 local officials, conducted between July 10 and August 23, 2012, and through additional focus groups and individual interviews with local officials across the state. The study included both elected and nonelected officials.
Local officials see themselves as doing a reasonable job providing ample opportunity for the public to participate in local decision making. Yet they feel that large sectors of the public are disengaged. Most local officials view the public as largely uninformed and increasingly distrustful.
At the same time, most local officials acknowledge that public hearings and comments are often not conducive to broad-based and thoughtful participation and that these meetingsfrequently dominated by narrow interests and negative commentsmay not serve the needs and skills of large sections of the public.
Most local officials want to learn about new and different ways to engage the public more effectively, and they seek information from various sources to do so. Many local officials also stress that, through experiences and challenges, they have come to appreciate the value of public engagement more, although some seem to have become disheartened with the public over time.
Almost all local officials have participated in public engagement activities that are designed to foster dialogue and deliberation on public issues among a diverse group of residents, and that seek to increase the publics understanding of and impact on public decisions. Nearly all local officials can think of issues that would lend themselves particularly well to these techniques. But they are hesitant to overuse this approach, preferring to limit it to a smaller number of appropriate public decisions.
A large number (42 percent) of local officials are already enthusiastic supporters of deliberative public engagement. They believe it has the potential to increase officials understanding of community concerns, bring about fresh ideas, build public support and trust and lead to more sound public decisions. Only 11 percent reject these benefits. Another large group (47 percent) evaluates the potential promise of deliberative approaches tentatively. Nonetheless, for all three groups, broad-based public participation remains the major concern.
Aside from the task of ensuring broad-based participation, local officials are quite confident in their ability to effectively implement a comprehensive deliberative public engagement process. Few officials see other major challenges to ensuring a quality process. However, there are some indications that this confidence is not always grounded in practical experience.
Local officials are also experimenting with online media and digital technologies to reach out and engage the publicbut not always wholeheartedly. While some feel these technologies have improved their relationships with the public, most find it difficult to assess their effectiveness.
Even though many local officials say they use community-based organizations and their networks to facilitate communication with the public, they typically work with them only a little, and comparatively few list organizations that engage with traditionally disenfranchised groups as regular collaborators in this effort, suggesting that there is potential for more and more diverse collaborations.
There are considerable differences across the state in the capacity and interest of local officials to explore new methods of engaging the public. In particular, officials serving rural communities report having fewer resources and less experience with deliberative forms of public engagement than their urban and suburban counterparts.
County officials report somewhat more personal experience with deliberative processes and more frequent collaborations with community-based organizations compared with city officials. They are also more likely than their municipal counterparts to believe deliberative engagement processes could lead to better public decisions.
Based on this research, as well as its companion study with California civic leaders and decades of experience supporting sound public engagement, Public Agenda proposes a number of recommendations for local officials and civic and community-based organizations who seek to improve the public decision-making process by including broad cross-sections of the public in meaningful deliberations, as well as for foundations and other supporters interested in funding these efforts. These are the main ideas in brief:
This document summarizes the research findings and recommendations from "Testing the Waters: California's Local Officials Experiment with New Ways to Engage the Public."


text: Record Number of 11th Graders Test Their College Readiness 8/18/2009 Page Image Image Caption Page Content Results of CSU Early Assessment Program help students identify areas to focus on during senior year Record Number of 11th Graders Test Their College Readiness (August 19, 2009) - A record number of public high school juniors tested their proficiency in English and mathematics through the California State University Early Assessment Program (EAP) in 2009. By volunteering to take the EAP test, students can find out if they are on track for college entry in 2010 without the need to attend remedial classes. For the fourth consecutive year, results reflect an increase in the overall number of students tested. Of the 466,303 11th graders who took the California Standards Test (CST) in spring 2009, a record 369,441 (79 percent) also took one or both of CSU's Early Assessment tests. Since the spring 2006 administration, the number of EAP test-takers grew by more than 50,000, an increase twice the growth in 11th graders. One of the most significant results of this year\'s EAP was the increase in the students eligible to take the math assessment, from 42 percent of 11th graders in 2006 to 47 percent in 2009. In order to take the math portion of the EAP, students need to have progressed to Algebra II by their junior year. In 2009, nearly 22,000 more students qualified and took the EAP in math than did so last year. "It is encouraging that greater numbers of students are taking advantage of the EAP to continue along the path towards a college education," said Jack O'Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. "Students in our schools today must prepare to compete in an increasingly competitive global economy. Getting a college education is an important part of preparing for that future. I am pleased that more students are taking the EAP in order to identify their college readiness. I urge our schools to provide and guide all students towards the rigorous academic courses that will help prepare them for success in both college and the workforce." Students taking the EAP are asked to write an essay for the English exam and answer 15 additional questions in both the English and math sections. "The EAP is the push that many students need to make the best use of their senior year," said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed. "If students can challenge themselves in high school and come to college prepared, they are much more likely to succeed at the university campus and earn a degree." Students admitted to the CSU as first-time freshmen must demonstrate they are ready for college English and mathematics. They can meet this requirement in several ways, including showing proficiency in the EAP test, passing the CSU's placement test, or by obtaining a qualifying score on the SAT or ACT test. About 60 percent of the first-time freshmen enrolling at the CSU each year do not show proficiency in these assessments, even though they have earned at least a B in the required college preparatory curriculum. As a result, many students must attend remedial classes, which do not count for college credit and add cost and time to earning a degree. EAP Results for English The 2009 EAP results show that of 366,952 students taking the EAP English test (82 percent of all 11th graders eligible to take the CST in English) 59,367 (16 percent) attained college-level proficiency early, at the end of 11th grade. This is a slight percentage increase over the results in 2006 and a slight decrease from 2008. EAP Results for Math Math proficiency, which had held steady as a percentage for the last three years, increased in 2009. Of 169,473 students who took the EAP math test this year (77 percent of those eligible to take it), 22,246 (13 percent) attained college-level proficiency at the end of the 11th grade. An additional 74,464 (44 percent) were judged conditionally proficient, which means that they must take mathematics in 12th grade in order to be exempt from taking a remedial mathematics class at the CSU. The CSU, however, encourages all high school seniors to complete a fourth year of math to keep their skills current. Statewide EAP Results -- Last Four Years 2006 2007 2008 2009 English Tested 312,167 342,348 352,943 366,952 Proficient 48,072 (15%) 55,206 (16%) 60,392 (17%) 59,367 (16%) Math Tested 137,067 141,648 147,885 169,473 Proficient 74,942 (55%) 77,870 (55%) 82,102 (55%) 96,710 (57%) ### About the California State University The California State University is the largest system of senior higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, approximately 450,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff. Since the system was created in 1961, it has awarded nearly 2.5 million degrees, about 90,000 annually. Its mission is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever-changing needs of the people of California. With its commitment to excellence, diversity and innovation, the CSU is the university system that is working for California. Want to Learn More? Please contact: Public Affairs Department (562) 951-4800 Yes


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June 15, 2009
Equinix Announces the Exercise of the Overallotment Option for Its Convertible Subordinated Notes Due 2016
FOSTER CITY, Calif. - June 15, 2009 - Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that the underwriters have exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional $48.75 million aggregate principal amount of Equinix's 4.75% convertible subordinated notes due 2016 in connection with the previously announced offering of the initial notes which closed June 12, 2009. The exercise of the over-allotment option will bring the total aggregate principal amount of the notes issued to $373.75 million. The aggregate net proceeds to Equinix from the sale of the initial notes and the additional notes will be $363.8 million after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses. The additional notes will have the same terms as the initial notes.
The net proceeds to Equinix from the sale of the additional notes will be approximately $47.5 million after deducting underwriting discounts. Equinix intends to use approximately $6.5 million of the net proceeds from the sale of the additional notes to pay the cost of additional capped call transactions. The balance of the net proceeds will be used to fund the development of expansion opportunities and for general corporate purposes.
Citi, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering.
About Equinix, Inc.
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 42 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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This press release contains statements relating to the offering of notes and the capped call transactions that are forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, prevailing market conditions and the anticipated use of the proceeds of the offering, which could change as a result of market conditions or for other reasons.
Investors in Equinix are cautioned not to place undue reliance on its forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. Equinix does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or new information after this press release, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.


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