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Dean Joseph Helble has appointed Professor Ian Baker as senior associate dean and Associate Professor Brian Pogue, who recently gained tenure, as director of the M.S. and Ph.D. programs.
George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering, has been appointed as a representative of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society to the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. The CRA includes more than 200 U.S. and Canadian academic departments in computer science, computer engineering and related fields, as well as member organizations from industry and government. Cybenko serves on the Board of Governors of the 90,000-member IEEE Computer Society and is currently editor-in-chief of the IEEE publication Security & Privacy.
Professor Lee Lynd was awarded the Charles D. Scott Award at the 27th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals on May 1 in Denver, Colo. The award recognizes those who have distinguished themselves through their sustained contributions to biotechnology for fuels and chemicals.
Professor Bill Lotko was named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics.
Adjunct Professor Mary Albert was recognized at Dartmouth's annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Poster Symposium for 10 years of mentoring young women.
B.E. students Tia Hansen, Liz Hunneman, Jaime Mazilu, Sally Smith, and Diana Szczepanski, all from the Dartmouth class of 2005, received Clare Boothe Luce scholarships for 2005-06. Luce scholarships are awarded to engineering-bound women whose academic achievements and other accomplishments are of the highest quality.
Johnathan Loudis '05 won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue his M.S. at Thayer School. Working with Professor Ian Baker, he is studying the magnetic properties of the iron-cobalt-manganese-aluminum metal alloy system.
Lauren Padilla '05, Xiongjun Shao Th'03, and Thomas Zangle '05 won first place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' 2005 Northeastern Student Conference Team Competition for their paper, "Micro Air Vehicle Stability Investigation." Professor Simon Shepherd advised the team.
Adjunct Professor Robert Dean and Joe Brown '00 won the grand prize in the 2005 Start-Up New Hampshire Business Plan Competition. Their company, Nanocomp Technologies Inc., co-founded with former adjunct professor David Lashmore, develops long carbon nanotubes for structural composites and electro-energy products. Sound Innovations, a company founded by Professor Laura Ray, Adjunct Professor Robert Collier, and Christopher Pearson Tu'02, was one of 15 finalists out of more than 200 entrants.
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By Liz Reed, Orinda, CA, MedShare Supporter
Hi All,
When I sat down to blog about the Nairobi Women's Hospital, I couldn't help thinking instead about our time spent with a beautiful Kenyan woman! The soft early morning air and the play of light and mist held her story aloft.
Joyce Kiereini is nothing short of a walking miracle, — a Masai woman with a mission! Co-founder of R.E.T.O., she steers this organization of Masai women leaders in working for the betterment of Masai women and girls in the areas of health, female genital mutilation and economic opportunities.
Joyce grew up in a tribal culture in which a female lives out her entire life first under the dominion of her father's will and then under that of her husband. Here are some of the examples Joyce gave of Masai life: The Masai daughter is of little value, so at the age of 11, 12 or 13 is "given away." The Masai woman is subject to the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. She is subject to her husband's permission in order to obtain a doctor's care in childbirth, even in life-threatening circumstances. She is subject to her husband's adulterous behavior, putting her at risk for HIV/Aids. The wife has no say in matters of money; money earned is her husband's. She may not even vote in an election for a candidate which her husband does not sanction! Oftentimes she is left with the burdens of household chores, children, and animals alone while her husband either sits idle or leaves for long periods of time, even months.
So how is it that we even get to sit here to listen to Joyce's story?
Joyce's life took a big detour from the typical path. Her mother died when she was so young that Joyce has no memory of her. Her older sister cared for her until she was "given away." She took Joyce to live with her and her husband. Her sister made sure she went to school, although it is unusual for a girl to get a formal education. Until the age of 18, Joyce did not know who her father was. Joyce believes it is because of the loving care of her sister and the broken chain of paternal influence that she escaped her fate.
Her mission involves teaching women about how to handle money, practice safe sex and enact family planning, and how to care for their own health. Some teaching includes the partners of these women. The old beliefs and behaviors may be hard to reckon with, but Joyce persists. She gave us an example of how the organization wanted to give money to some of the women (can't remember what for, maybe micro business), and insisted the money would not be given to their spouses, as is the custom. Many could not make this promise, so the money would not be given to them. I'm sure she had much more to share, but we needed to leave for Nairobi Women's Hospital.
As I listened to Joyce tell her story I felt the great passion she has for the lifework she has chosen. She is at once gentle and strong, compassionate and courageous. She has made the leap out of "the stable" and is calling to those who can hear. Hers is a life dedicated to shepherding her Masai sisters as they journey into the most blessed tradition: a life lived through the inspiration of Freedom!
This post is part of a series we're doing over the coming days while MedShare staff, Board of Trustee and Council members travel through Kenya from February 17 – 27. We invite you to share the experience with them by reading their stories; to access them, click on the "Africa Trip" icon in the right sidebar. Safe travels, team!


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Sports Survey: Does Alex Smith Deserve Benching?
When a successful quarterback goes down with an injury, he has every reason to expect his job back when he returns. Alex Smith, though, is riding the bench.
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback suffered a concussion in a November 11 game against the St. Louis Rams. He has been medically cleared to play, but won't see the field on Sunday unless his former backup, Colin Kaepernick, goes down with an injury.
49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh said that he is going with Kaepernick again this week against the Rams. Kaepernick had two good games against Chicago and St. Louis, but does that mean Smith deserves a demotion?


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HARTSVILLE, SC – Priscilla Fenty had a double-double for the Cobras in Thursday (Jan. 3) night's 61-49 victory over Conference Carolina foe Erskine College. The win improves the Cobras to an overall record of 8-3, with a conference record of 4-1.
Coker jumped out to a quick 12-6 lead in the first half, but the Flying Fleet battled back and tied up the game with 12-minutes remaining. The Cobras slowly regained the lead and were able to take a 32-24 advantage into the break.
The second half was a different story for the Cobras, as the offense surged by going on a 10-6 run within the first seven minutes. The Fleet however, were able to battle back to only a nine point deficit with seven minutes remaining. The Cobras countered by going on a 10-3 run of their own, as the clock dwindled down to just three minutes.
In the end, the Cobra's proved to be too much for the Flying Fleet. Along with Fenty, Amber Lau reached double-digit scoring and led the team with 15-points. Joining Fenty and Lau was Angie Lawrence who contributed 13-points.
As a team, the Cobras shot 34-percent from the floor and collected 50 total rebounds. Eight Cobras scored, including 14 bench points.
Leading Erskine was Andrienne Bannerman, who scored a game high 18-points and collected six rebounds.
Coker will play their next competition at home on Saturday (Jan. 5) as they get set to host North Greenville in a Conference Carolinas match. The game is scheduled for a 2 p.m. tip-off.


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Interdisciplinary program provides research opportunities
April 15, 2013
By Michael Hemmesch '97
Eight students at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University recently concluded their participation in the Mayo Innovation Scholars Program (MISP), an experiential learning program offered through Mayo Clinic.
The interdisciplinary program provides research opportunities to teams of undergraduates from Minnesota private colleges, under the guidance of select graduate students.
The CSB and SJU students worked on two projects on campus throughout the 2012-13 academic year, and presented their findings in March at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and in a written report. On average, each student put in roughly 150 hours of work during the program.
CSB senior accounting major Yixi Chen (Luzhou, China), SJU senior biology major Adam Sperl (St. Cloud, Minn.), SJU senior humanities and classical languages double major Josh St. George (Falcon Heights, Minn.) and SJU senior applied physics and computer science double major Runbo Xu (Zhengzhou, China) presented research on a project dealing with surgical training and competency assessments. The students worked on the project with the Mayo Multidisciplinary Simulation Center.
SJU junior integrative health sciences major Alex Hanson (Sartell, Minn.), CSB senior bio-chemistry major Katherine Nystrom (Milaca, Minn.), CSB junior economics and management double major Arianna Stotz (Plymouth, Minn.) and SJU senior accounting major Yifei Huang (Chengdu, China) presented research on a project dealing with Neuromyelitis Optica, an autoimmune disease affecting the optic nerve. The students worked on the project with Mayo Clinic Ventures.
They were supported by Daniel Kolar and Samantha Majkowski, current MBA students at the University of St. Thomas. Lisa Lindgren, associate professor of global business leadership at CSB and SJU; Jennifer Schaefer, assistant professor of biology at CSB and SJU; and J. Andrew Holey, professor of computer science at CSB and SJU, served as project advisers. Laura Hammond, assistant director of experiential learning and community engagement at CSB and SJU, provided administrative support.
"I was impressed with the way our students engaged with a challenging project and with each other," Schaefer said. "They were given a task that would be difficult for many professionals and were able to work together to determine goals and troubleshoot problems in order to produce a high-quality report for Mayo Clinic."
"A key part of the project is learning how to deal with ambiguity," Kolar said. "The students were given concepts/ideas and given access to experts in the field, but there is no outline and very few right or wrong answers to the questions that arose. The students were forced to really engage in the granular details of the project and developed an evidence-based recommendation. These students engaged it, wrestled with it and became experts."
MISP aims to assist Mayo Clinic in the assessment of new product submissions by Mayo researchers, provide research opportunities for undergraduate science and business students and provide leadership development and research opportunities for MBA students.
"The students who participate in this program are offered the incredible opportunity to work on a real-world problem of assessing the scientific and market potential of an actual invention or product idea," Lindgren said. "In addition, they learn how to work together as an interdisciplinary team, a skill that is necessary in any field in the 21st century."
The program was designed in 2006 by John Meslow, a retired Medtronic executive. Together with Mayo Clinic Ventures and the Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC), Meslow created a unique program to place students from a variety of disciplines at the interface of innovations in science and medicine and the fields of intellectual property, marketing and business development.
Staff members from Mayo Clinic were impressed by the quality of the students' work, saying the students did a tremendous job researching cutting-edge material.
After the presentation, the students described their experience and its benefits.
"The Mayo Innovation Scholars Program offered an opportunity to collaborate with a world-renowned health-care organization on a project that uniquely incorporated health care, science and business knowledge to analyze real-world innovations," Sperl said. "My involvement in this program refined my research and presentation skills, improved my ability to work in an interdisciplinary team and further developed my ability to critically evaluate innovative concepts and products."
The students also spoke highly of the program's interdisciplinary approach.
"Another valuable experience I had in the MISP was having the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary team," Nystrom said. "The field of health care and public health is constantly changing, and the ability to recognize and understand other aspects of the field, such as business and economics, will be imperative for the growth and betterment of health care. This program is the epitome of experiential learning. Not only did my experience in the MISP give me a real world opportunity to essentially get my feet wet in the business of health care innovation, but it also has influenced my career plans."
"As an aspiring academic, MISP opened my eyes more clearly to the benefits and need in today's world to be able to think not only academically about a problem, but also commercially," St. George said. "MISP also made it even more clear in my mind that multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving are in many ways the most beneficial to the success of the proposed solutions. People trained to do different things think about the world in different ways. By collaborating with others, those different world views are addressed and assessed, and the solution is the better for it."
In total, there were 12 presentations over two days by 10 MPCC member institutions.
Now in its seventh year, MISP continues to be an innovative model for student experiential learning. Financial support for MISP is provided by the Medtronic Foundation. Additional funding and support comes from Mayo Clinic and MPCC.


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I love teaching. I love learning. I love working with students. My goal is to make learning as fun for my students as it is for me.
I believe that students learn the most when they are challenged and I prefer to lead students to the answer rather than provide it directly. In today's world of internet searches, it is easy to find an answer but more important for students to be able to develop critical thinking skills and use the answers they find to raise new questions. My approach in the classroom and laboratory stresses the inseparable ideas of form and function.
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The more I learn, the more I want to know.
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I've been teaching at Bethany since January of 2000. My wife and I have four children under the age of 14 which keep us plenty busy at home. We love camping with the family and exploring Minnesota State Parks and National Parks across the country.
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I like this book because it is a funny way to learn why kids shouldn't cook without some supervision. The author's style is detailed because this book is based on a true story. One of the characters that I liked was the daddy because of how much he laughed at the end. I liked how funny he thought the end events were because I thought they were very funny too.
I would recommend this book for kids from early grades to my grade because it is an easy book to read and it's fun to read too. I also think that anyone who has kids or who likes to "cook" would find this book enjoyable as well. It's great for kids to read on their own or to share with an adult they love!


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31 July 2014 by Jo
Nine year old Toby Sherwen received a great surprise today when he turned up with his parents and brothers to the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
His Mum and Dad were in on the secret, but Toby had no idea that he was one of the winners of our Lego prize draw.
Back in May Toby and his family had taken part in our 'Building on the past' activity, where visitors helped to recreate one of the colourful posters in the current Sail Away exhibition, using thousands of small Lego bricks. You can see the Lego poster building up in our photo gallery with progress shots from each day of the workshops.
Everyone who took part in the May workshops was entered into the prize draw to win one of two Lego ships, kindly donated by Lego.
Toby didn't know he had won a Lego 'Lord of the Rings' ship until he arrived at the Museum. He was thrilled with his win and couldn't wait to show it off to his friends. His Mum said "See, wasn't that worth getting out of your pyjamas for!" Toby had to agree.
The last of our winners has already been chosen and will be announced next week.
In May visitors helped to make about half of the huge poster, but there's still more to do! If you would like to have a go yourself, our 'Building on the past' activity is back again on Monday 4 August, Tuesday 5 August, and Wednesday 6 August at Merseyside Maritime Museum. There are no more prizes this time, but there's lots more of our Lego poster left to make.
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The goal of the AAA Small Grants Program is to foster the development and use of curricular materials for the teaching and communication of ethics and ethical practice across the discipline of anthropology. Administered by the AAA Committee on Ethics, this small grant program encourages the awareness of and innovation in ethics curricular materials used in introductory, undergraduate, and graduate classes. Proposals for the development of curricular materials in a variety of forms are welcome, including texts, films, blogs, websites, exhibits, and other innovative media forms. The grant recipient(s) will have ten months to complete these new curricular materials, the results of which will be featured in the "Ethical Currents" column of the December issue of AN as well as on the AAA ethics blog, and highlighted at the Annual Meeting.
All members of the American Anthropological Association are eligible to apply. Please visit www.aaanet.org for details on joining the Association, dues, and details on the benefits of membership. Proposals may request from $200 to $1,000 and must address a clearly defined curricular material development project. Note, the total budget allocation for this grant program for is $1000, thus proposals that include matching funds are encouraged.
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It's down to the wire at Wimbledon, the men's finals are on Sunday, the women's on Saturday. And some of the biggest names will not be participating, because there have been a lot of upsets—Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova all lost in the early rounds. These upsets had linguist Ben Zimmer thinking about the use of the word "upset."
And that got him thinking about a horse race in 1919.
"There's a popular story that involves a race that happened in 1919," Zimmer said. "The thoroughbred Man o' War, who was a great racehorse of the day, lost the only race of his career to a horse named Upset, believe it or not."
In popular mythology, this race gave rise to this usage in different sports of the word "upset" for the unexpected defeat of a favorite.
However, Zimmer says, there are some holes in this story.
Zimmer found the term "upset" used in horse racing in 1857, decades before the famous 1919 race.
In the nineteenth century, the term "upset" was often used to mean "overturn," like the phrase "upset a boat" as in "capsize a boat."
"So it wasn't a big stretch for that to carry over into horse racing," Zimmer said.
Zimmer thinks that the horse race of 1919 helped to popularize the term "upset" in the popular imagination.
But perhaps it got too popular.
Zimmer found a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune writing in 1928 that the term was overused, because it was convenient for newspaper columns.
"I think sport writers might still be guilty overusing that term," said Zimmer, "although in a case like Wimbledon this year it's certainly justified."
- Ben Zimmer, language columnist for The Wall Street Journal
This is HERE AND NOW. And after two weeks of some wild tennis, it is down to the wire at Wimbledon. The men's finals are on Sunday. The Women's finals are tomorrow. But some of the biggest names in tennis will not be participating because there have been a lot of upsets this year. That got Ben Zimmer thinking about the word upset and how we are using it. He's a linguist and writes a column on language for The Wall Street Journal. Ben, welcome.
BEN ZIMMER: Thanks for having me.
HOBSON: Well, so we often think of upset when we're talking about some person in sports who wins despite being the underdog. But it goes pretty far back, that word upset.
ZIMMER: It does go far back. There's a popular story that involves a race that happened in 1919. The thoroughbred Man o'War, who was a great race horse of the day, lost the only race of his career to a horse named Upset, believe it or not. So the way it's told in racing lore is that because of this race, which was one by the horse Upset, that gave rise to this usage across different sports for an unexpected defeat of a favorite.
But there are some holes in that explanation, the biggest hole being horse racing was using this term upset as both a noun and a verb for many decades before that famous 1919 race.
HOBSON: Yeah. You found an example dating all the way back to 1857.
ZIMMER: Yeah. I found that one in a sporting journal based in New York called The Spirit of the Times, and it was - the favorite Ellimere was upset by the Dipthong Cult. Now, in the 19th century, that word upset had a lot of different meanings. It could mean actually overturning something, like if you capsize a boat, the boat would be upset.
And it had some metaphorical meanings already, too. So it wasn't a big stretch for that to carry over into horse racing to talk about what happens when the favored horse is beaten by another one.
HOBSON: Well, so based on your research on this, are we using the term correctly now?
ZIMMER: It's probably overused by sportswriters. It's interesting. I think after that famous horserace of 1919, even though the horse Upset wasn't responsible for the term, that race helped to popularize it in the popular imagination. And so sportswriters were using it a lot. And already in 1928, there was a sportswriter in the Chicago Tribune who said, we're overusing this.
And the only reason we're using it is because it's a short word, and it fits nicely into headlines.
ZIMMER: So I think that sportswriters might still be guilty of overusing that term although in the case like Wimbledon this year, it's certainly justified.
HOBSON: Well - and political writers too. I mean, it's used in politics all the time.
ZIMMER: That's true. There are many different types of upsets in politics as well, and that's the usage that goes back a ways, too. In fact, one possibility for the reason that that horse was named Upset was because it had these political connotations. In fact, his mother was a mare named Pankhurst, which is named after the British family that led the fight for women suffrage. And Pankhurst's father, the sire, was named Voter. And so, there was this whole line of political names. So perhaps that was why Upset was called Upset in the first place.
HOBSON: It must be difficult to look back and find all these uses of upset from way back in the 1850s when upset is also a word that you would use in a different way to say, I'm upset about something.
ZIMMER: That's true. I mean, it did have these many different meanings. But if you know where to look in the newspaper databases, you can restrict your search to just articles about horse racing, for instance. And that way, you can really zero in on how this usage developed before the famous horse race of 1919.
HOBSON: Ben Zimmer is a linguist. He writes a column on language for The Wall Street Journal. Ben, thank you so much.
ZIMMER: Thanks. Always a pleasure. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The need for notification
Chris Soghoian, a privacy researcher and fellow at the Open Society Foundation, argues all device manufacturers should follow the good example set by laptop cameras. A user-visible LED should be hard-wired to every camera, microphone, or GPS sensor on every mobile device. Soghoian argues LEDs have become cheap enough in bulk that the cost of adding two or three LEDs to every mobile device would be trivial.
But LEDs cannot help against another, related privacy threat: the use of cellular tower records to track a device's location. This location-tracking is inherent to the way cellular networks work; your cell phone provider needs to know which cell phone tower you're close to in order to deliver information to you. On the other hand, cell-site location data is much less precise than the location data collected by GPS sensors. The privacy risk is somewhat reduced.
As with so many aspects of privacy law, the rules for law enforcement access to cell-site location records have not been clearly established. Some courts have ruled the government can obtain this data without a warrant; others have disagreed. January's GPS tracking decision at the Supreme Court suggests that several justices are concerned about protecting location privacy, but the high court has not ruled clearly on whether cell-site location records are protected by the Fourth Amendment.
We use our smartphones to send and receive e-mail, take photographs, store lists of contacts, access social networks, and much more. As our mobile devices become increasingly packed with personal information, the potential harms from losing our phones grow accordingly.
As we mentioned in a previous story, there's a well-known solution to this problem: disk encryption. If the data on a mobile device were properly encrypted, then a lost or stolen device wouldn't create privacy problems. The new owner simply wouldn't be able to access the previous owner's data.
Finding more efficient ways to enter secure passwords using a touchscreen is an "open research problem."
Unfortunately, full-disk encryption on mobile platforms is still a work in progress. One obstacle to effective disk encryption is the difficulty of entering a password with sufficient entropy using a touch-screen interface. On the desktop we commonly use passwords consisting of eight ASCII characters. But the "bandwidth" of our fingers is reduced on a touchscreen, so smartphone password systems tend to be simpler, employing a 4-digit PIN number or a sequence of simple "swipes." Yet these systems have few enough possible combinations—10,000 for a 4-digit PIN, for example—that an attacker can write software to simply try all possible combinations until he finds the right one.
Theoretically, mobile users could enter longer passwords. For example, a 14-digit number has about as much entropy as an 8-character alphanumeric password. But the average user is unlikely to have the patience to enter a 14-digit password every time she pulls out her cell phone. Soghoian tells Ars that finding more efficient ways to enter secure passwords using a touchscreen is an "open research problem."
Still, Soghoian says smartphone vendors should at least offer their users the option to encrypt the storage on their mobile devices. Encryption with low-entropy passwords is better than no encryption at all, and users who particularly care about the privacy of their data do have the option of entering 14-digit passwords.
Making privacy a priority
This isn't the first time firms pioneering a new computing paradigm have failed to pay adequate attention to security and privacy. For example, it took several embarrassing malware incidents before Microsoft began taking desktop security more seriously. It may take a series of similar privacy disasters on mobile platforms before leading mobile vendors make security a top priority.
The stakes are higher today than they were in the 1990s. Users carry their phones with them everywhere, and use them for more purposes than they used their desktop computers for a decade ago. It would be a mistake to wait for disaster to strike before acting. Taking proactive steps now—like supporting full-disk encryption and adding LEDs to input devices—could avoid major embarrassment later.
Policymakers also have work to do. The Supreme Court should heed Justice Sotomayor's call to reconsider the third party doctrine. And whether or not the court extends the Fourth Amendment to cloud services, Congress should overhaul electronic privacy law to ensure people enjoy the same robust privacy rights on 21st-century communications platforms as they do for 20th century ones.


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The water level in the lower segment of Tippecanoe River is usually adequate for canoeing throughout the summer due to water releases from the Oakdale Dam. The dam is operated by Northern Indiana Public Service Company and creates Lake Freeman. Fishing for northern pike, channel catfish, sunfish and largemouth, smallmouth and rock bass is considered generally good in the lower part of Tippecanoe River. Cabin development along the river is quite dense downstream of the dam, but the segment described below is much less developed and offers an enjoyable canoeing experience. Access to the river is available at a private camp, for a fee, just downstream of the dam on the right bank of the river if a longer trip than the one described is desired.
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This segment includes nearly 9 miles of canoeing on Tippecanoe River and 6 miles on Wabash River. The total float of about 15 miles should require 5 to 8 hours, depending on water levels. It is possible to take out a canoe, for a fee, at a private camp at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers (on the left bank of the Wabash across from the mouth of the Tippecanoe); however, arrangements should be made in advance.
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HAWAII – Twenty-two feet below the surface, the robot glider towed me slowly through clear Hawaiian seas. The day before, a similar glider named Benjamin had arrived in these same waters. Benjamin and three companion gliders had traveled all the way from San Francisco – more than 3,000 miles – powered by only the motion of ocean waves.
Before they left California, Liquid Robotics VP of Operations Graham Hine blessed the gliders by smashing a bottle of champagne on one of their frames, asking nature for assistance: "Neptune, god of the seas, and Aeolus, god of the winds, we ask for your blessings upon these vessels that are going to transit from here to parts formerly unexplored by this kind of robot."
The gliders had endured an epic journey from California to Hawaii, but they were on a mere layover – they're in the middle of an attempt to cross the entire Pacific. There's a world record for "greatest distance by an autonomous wave-powered vehicle" at stake, and on Monday four of the gliders left Hawaii to resume their quest to cross the world's largest body of water on mostly wave power. The next leg of their trip will take them some 5,000 more nautical miles to the coasts of Australia and Japan.
The Wave Gliders' journey is more than just a title grab for a machine that was first created as a modest tool to track whale songs. And the journey is more than just an endurance test for the machines, which are capable swimmers.
For Liquid Robotics, the gliders' long-term mission is to get as much data from the ocean as possible.
Over the course of their journey, Benjamin and its three Wave Glider companions – Piccard Maru, Fountaine Maru and Papa Mau, all named after famous ocean explorers and mariners – will capture about 2.25 million data points on the ocean's physical characteristics. Liquid Robotics is making this data free to the public. In fact, the company is holding a contest to seek out novel proposals on how to use the data – the one with the most scientific potential wins. And the winner of the contest, called PacX, will receive six months of Wave Glider use as a prize. That, plus BP – yes, that BP – is throwing in a $50,000 research grant for the winner.
The first leg of the trip took Benjamin – named after Benjamin Franklin, who had studied the gulf stream – more than three months to complete. This is roughly 15 times longer than it would take a very fast sailboat.
I could see why.
To bystanders, a Liquid Robotics Wave Glider looks like a buoy, hardly moving at all. But I found that while swimming with a glider, if I looked down to adjust my dive mask for only a few seconds, it was already hastily swimming away.
The subtle, slow-but-steady, wave-powered drive of the Wave Glider is at the heart of what makes this technology so special. Machines that are passive enough to benefit from ocean power generally drift. But pilots can steer Wave Gliders using solar-powered electronics and satellite communication equipment, while all of the locomotion (the most energy-expensive element of any robotic vehicle) comes from the ocean itself. There's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine, but these machines can nearly rove the oceans until they break.
Eric Brager, Test and Evaluation Manager at the Liquid Robotics R&D lab, says, "Even when it appears flat at sea, there's enough ocean energy that the Wave Glider can still always be moving forward."
The Wave Glider's design is simple: A surfboard-sized float bobs on waves, big or small. That motion is transferred through a streamlined, 7-meter, rubber-and-steel cable to a submarine that cruises in the deeper, calmer waters. "In the rough open ocean, seven meters down, there's virtually no up and down wave motion," Brager says.
Indeed, oceanography teaches us that wave turbulence greatly diminishes below the surface of the water. For example, if you have a wave with a 20-foot length trough to trough, the waters underneath will be only 5 percent as turbulent 10 feet below the surface. The Wave Glider exploits this simple fact of physics to transform wave energy into forward motion.
Here's how it works: When the floating, surface-skimming portion of the Wave Glider attempts to force the submarine portion to flow with a wave, the sub is forced to carve upward through its relatively still waters. As this happens, an array of pivoting wings on the submarine lock into diagonal angles, transforming the bobbing wave motion into zig-zagging forward thrust at around 1 to 2 knots.
Because the solar array on top of the Wave Glider only has to power the rudder, satellite communications and whatever sensors are plugged into the modular payload, the glider, powered by the ocean's endless undulations, can theoretically last much longer, and travel much farther, than any other ocean-going unmanned vehicle. That means a Wave Glider can go where a boat can – albeit slowly – but with the longevity of a buoy. This makes a Wave Glider an ideal platform for oceanic data collection.
During their pit stop in Hawaii, the gliders have been circling near Liquid Robotic's R&D lab a few miles north of Kona on the Big Island. The lab, which sits on a dock, has on its wall the original prototype of the wave glider – it includes a wing-like whale tail and a surfboard. Another room is filled with crates containing Wave Gliders soon to be delivered into seas all over the world, and experimental next-generation gliders.
The building also houses a two-story-tall scaffolding set-up that simulates the strain of thousands of hours at sea on the Wave Glider's mechanical drive components. This is where the engineers learned how to build an umbilical cord that can withstand hundreds of thousands of waves, big and small.
The lab is also where engineers apply wisdom gained from the California-to-Hawaii leg of the foursome's journey. During their four-month voyage, the gliders encountered a storm with 26-foot waves and winds that maxed out the on-board sensors at 60 knots. A sailboat belonging to a Canadian family, only a few hundred miles away from the path of the gliders, needed to be rescued when their mast broke in the foul weather. But the Wave Gliders and their tethers held – just as they did in past storms.
Brager says the team wasn't worried: "As fragile as they might look to some, I felt fairly confident that the things would stay together since we've been through storms like that before. We've done quite a bit of rough-water testing."
Conventional wisdom tells us that larger boats survive much better in the open ocean, so there's something to be said for an ocean craft that lets the water rush about it to do what it will. When explorer Thor Heyerthal took the Kon Tiki, a balsa raft of traditional Peruvian design, to sea in 1947, he observed that waves would come onto the deck, then harmlessly pass through the floor of the boat. This design stands in stark contrast to a modern hull, which would have taken on water and sunk without a bilge pump to swiftly remove the flood. And this speaks to the brilliance of the Wave Gliders: They don't resist the flow of water, but rather exploit this very motion in the high seas.
Despite their seaworthy design, sometime during the first leg of their journey from San Francisco to Hawaii, half of the gliders suffered malfunctions that affected their ability to steer. Piccard, in fact, stopped turning without explanation. When the Liquid Robotics engineers recovered the glider, they found it had been scratched up all over. And then they found a tooth stuck in the umbilical cable.
The cause of failure? The glider was "seriously savaged by a major shark," reads a statement on the PacX Liquid Robotics blog.
Sharks have chewed on the Wave Gliders before. And, normally, sharks present far less of a threat to a Wave Glider than even a storm. Some researchers believe that sharks, using their electromagnetic sensing Ampullae of Lorenzini, sometimes become curious about metallic objects and may bite them. But the sharks normally bite the glider's wings, doing no more harm than scratching off the anti-fouling paint that keeps the hull clean of microorganism growth so it may slipstream through the water. (When Benjamin was removed from the water, barnacle growth only occurred on the sections where this special paint had come off, or on areas left unpainted. This fouling is a major concern for the longevity of a glider at sea, as a dirty sub can lose up to half of its already meager speed.)
But in the case of Piccard, the glider suffered significant shark damage when the shark bit down on a particularly vulnerable section of the umbilical tether. The engineers took care to reinforce the vulnerable part of the cable before deploying it for the second leg of the Pacific crossing. They have yet to identify the kind of shark by the tooth fragment it left behind.
The gliders, moving slowly through the ocean for long stretches of time, also attract wildlife that mistake the vessels for flotsam. In the pelagic regions of the sea, often referred to as deserts, tiny fish will sometimes take refuge under the gliders, much as as they would under a floating palm leaf or tangle of kelp. Those fish attract predators, and some Liquid Robotics clients have been known to toss fishing lines near the gliders when they visit them for service.
As the Wave Gliders leave Hawaiian waters, they'll be controlled from the company's operations room in a non-descript Sunnyvale California conference room, where John Appelgren serves as the "admiral of the Wave Glider armada." The control room is modest, looking less like a NASA mission control center and more like a conference room in the office of a generic business park. The table is covered with a few desktop computers.
Each screen displays software that looks like a slightly modified version of Google Earth. Each Wave Glider command takes an excruciating amount of time to execute compared to how one might pilot an aerial drone – which is fine, given the speed of these aquatic machines.
When I keyed up and hit send on a command to a Wave Glider as it sat in the Monterey Bay, it felt more like playing a board game than a video game. The pilots send the gliders commands, which sit in a queue until the glider polls the network connection via satellite. This happens every two to 15 minutes, depending on how much boat traffic is expected in the area. The more traffic an area has, the more often the pilots need to relay steering commands.
Although Liquid Robotics envisions more autonomous travel in the future – an inactive, grayed-out button reads "autopilot" on the software interface – the Wave Gliders are still piloted by humans. The majority of a pilot's job is to steer the craft around larger vessels that are predicted to collide with the gliders in major shipping lanes, like the Gulf of Mexico.
Sometimes a potential collision is discovered in the middle of the night, and the pilot on call needs to scramble out of bed and reroute the glider out of harm's way. None of the glider pilots I talked with had spent any time at sea as professional mariners. Nonetheless, they very quickly learn about navigating through the ocean while trying to pilot a vehicle with a two-knot maximum speed around much larger vessels that may easily surpass that.
"If there's a hellish current coming," Appelbaum says, "we could be cutting through the water rapidly, but be going backwards."
The pilots in the Wave Glider armada also need to manage the 655 watts of solar-charged batteries available to power the crafts' electronics, sometimes cycling down certain gear when the juice runs low. (During Arctic winters, the gliders are capable of hibernating, and then rebooting days or weeks after gathering enough solar power.)
The sensors on the Wave Gliders can be customized to serve the needs of government, academic and industry clients that buy gliders for their own purposes. The gliders crossing the Pacific are loaded with a standardized payload that includes sensors for wind, wave height and direction, temperature, depth, and dissolved oxygen. There's also a fluorometer for detecting crude oil and chlorophyll-A levels, which indicate the abundance of algal growth or petroleum in the water.
Regardless of whether the gliders succeed in their world record attempt, they're still viable tools for ocean scientists, who are trying to get more data over a greater period of time and area. Biologists, for example, might use the oxygen and turbidity sensors to detect algae-rich areas that are becoming even richer with life. But the unique ability for the Wave Gliders to simultaneously sample air and water conditions makes them potentially invaluable tools for scientists studying the Earth's oceans and weather patterns.
Brian Powell is an assistant professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii. He uses a supercomputing cluster to simulate the ocean, just a few miles from beaches of Waikiki. His job is to take computer models of the ocean, and then rectify these models against real-world data. With these observations in hand, scientists can then revise and improve their modeling algorithms – which remain imperfect. "We have mathematical expressions for how fluids work as they apply to the oceans. But we can't analytically solve these equations," Powell says.
Especially interesting to Powell's work is the ability of the Wave Gliders to measure water conditions such as salinity at the very same time they measure air conditions. This provides scientists with a much better understanding of the exchange between the ocean and our atmosphere. These ocean-air interactions affect coastal ocean and weather patterns, as well as our estimates of long-term climate shifts.
"The wave glider is capable of monitoring that boundary between sunlight and the ocean, and how much rain is going into the ocean, which can help us build a more proper model," Powell says. Indeed, an armada of Wave Gliders would give Powell more data to constrain his models, leading to modeling improvements all around.
Wave Gliders also have the potential to indirectly benefit scientists, acting as communications relays between undersea sensors and satellites.
Dr. Jonathan Berger, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, has a million-dollar National Science Foundation grant to explore the potential in using Wave Gliders to transmit real-time, deep-sea seismic sensor data to satellites, to shore. The current method for retrieving seismic data from these sensors is painfully archaic–they commission a boat to retrieve the sensors manually, and then place the sensors back under water. It can take days, if not weeks to plan such expeditions and, Doctor Berger adds, "is quite costly."
Real-time undersea seismic sensors, operating from the floor of the ocean, could also work in concert with existing land-based sensors of the Global Seismographic Network in Project IDA (International Deployment of Accelerometers). The data could help build a real-time tsunami warning network, and provide a more complete global map of seismic activity. Graham Hines says this is one of many underwater projects that could benefit from the Wave Gliders' long-term positions on the surface of the ocean. "Whenever you put something on the seafloor, it's always a problem getting data to shore," he says.
Wave Gliders are unique in some ways, but fit into a larger ecosystem of tools – including undersea drones, boats and buoys – that scientists may use to gather more data for less cost. That said, the Wave Glider is unique for its wave-powered drive and ability to stay at sea for very long time periods, under direct command and at low cost.
A boat may cost anywhere between "$10,000 to $100,000 a day to operate," and depending on its depth, a buoy can cost "several hundred to a million dollars a year" says Hine. What's more, boats can't stay out in the ocean beyond the limitations of their fuel loads and crews, and buoys can't move.
Wave Gliders cost around $200,000 each, but Liquid Robotics believes most customers will rent the vessels at a cost between $1,000 and $3,000 per day, sharing the gliders and their data, or even licensing historic data sets without buying any actual operating time. This could drive costs down even further.
The idea to move from a model of selling hardware to sharing and selling data was inspired by Silicon Valley's modern culture of building data-centric products that scale through many users. To this extent, Liquid Robotics' plan to share common resources is similar to renting server time from Amazon, rather buying and running one's own web server.
Liquid Robotic's current glider fleet is already doing specific missions for clients while simultaneously collecting data for a greater oceanic library. The company also has designs on a much larger data services fleet. Over the next 18 months, it plans to deploy hundreds of gliders positioned in Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Maine, and other high-interest areas that should address the needs of companies and scientists.
I asked Hine if Liquid Robotics would create a larger Wave Glider for the sake of fitting more general-purpose sensors and solar power panels, but he wouldn't directly comment on the future of Wave Gliders, only saying that "there's some efficiency in making them larger." He also added that Liquid Robotics is definitely interested in improving the capabilities of tomorrow's Wave Gliders in terms of "Knots, watts and carrying capacity."
That's not a bad plan, if they're going to try to capture an entire ocean's worth of data.


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We all know that feeling when we missed our mom's phone call and she automatically assumes we are dead.
Apparently, celebrity-parent relationships are no different. Earlier this week, Seth Rogen's mom took to Twitter to try to get into contact with her son and his 7.03 million followers had a field day.
Sandy Rogen on Twitter
@Sethrogen where are you ?
The "missing Seth" event started when his mom Sandy Rogen tweeted "@Sethrogen where are you?" After she sent this out, Seth's fans started reacting. Here are some faves:
Thomas Mulligan on Twitter
@RogenSandy @Sethrogen @Sethrogen in the kids section of target lookin' at nerf guns and Pokemon cards.
Erica Geoy on Twitter
@RogenSandy @Sethrogen In a meeting https://t.co/NBZRUGKfvx
Finally, two and a half hours later, Seth finally responded to his mom's tweet. He sub tweeted his mom and wrote, "When you don't answer you mom's phone calls for the day".
Seth Rogen on Twitter
When you don't answer your mom's phone calls for a day: https://t.co/qmN9wPD1hZ
We have all been there, Seth.
Jillian Ryan on Twitter
seth rogen's mom's twitter is the purest thing i've ever seen plz protect her at all costs
cierra ???? on Twitter
I just spent 30 minutes going through Seth Rogen's Mom's twitter account
Fans everywhere are still cherishing the bond that he has with his mom. I do have to admit, it's pretty hilarious.
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Yankton Coach Fights New Opponent: Cancer
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - Residents in Yankton are rallying around a Mount Mary College softball coach as he battles cancer.
Albert Fernandez is used to finding ways to defeat his opponents, but the Stage 4 lung cancer doctors discovered during a brain surgery is proving to be the greatest foe of his life.
The 39-year-old says he plans to confront his cancer with the same ferocity he shows coaching from the sidelines.
He tells the Yankton Press & Dakotan that he's focusing on tackling the disease with "attitude and effort."
Fernandez is receiving radiation treatment in Austin, Texas, and plans to return home for chemotherapy.
Fundraisers so far have helped raise more than $1,500 for his family and medical bills.
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Multi-certified control panel for resolver motor used for process vessel:
From our STAHL office in Houston, Electromach received a very unusual but interesting request from a major American supplier of processing equipment for refineries. Electromach had to design a control panel for a resolver motor, suitable for use in a hazardous area (a brushless transmitter resolver which looks like a small electrical motor). The control panel had to be mounted on a huge process vessel on site.
The design had to meet some very strict demands:
- total weight <100kg
- a solid construction to guarantee a smooth axel transmission
- easy connection of the control panel in the field
- multi-certification for worldwide applications
As the hazardous area is a zone 1 environment and the resolver motor itself is an industrial motor, it is necessary to build the resolver motor into an 'Exd' flameproof solution. Therefore Electromach chose a CUBEx enclosure (series 8264) made of copper-free aluminium.
By using 'off-the-shelf' components it was possible to keep the costs and the development time within limits.
'Exde' solution:
The 'Exde' solution consists of a flameproof copper-free aluminium enclosure, out of the CUBEx series, type 8264. This is combined with an 'Exe' increased safety stainless steel junction box, type 8125, for the field connections. Therefore it is not necessary to use barrier glands. This keeps the requested weight under the 100kg. The control panel is available in two, externally identical versions, available for the various types of resolver motors used.
The control panel is suitable for use in a zone 1 and a Division 2 environment, Gas Group IIB and temperature class T5. The customer is a well known worldwide supplier, which makes it important that the control panel complies with as many regulations as possible. Because there is no worldwide acceptance for this particular control panel, it is necessary to multi-certify the unit.
The control panel has been certified for the following:
- NEC (North-America, Middle East)
- UL do Brazil (South America)
- ATEX (Europe, part of the world)
- IECEx (Australia, New Zealand, part of the world)
- Gost (previous Soviet Republics)
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Chemo Brain
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I have had problems paying attention and remembering things. I have heard the term "chemobrain", but I dont know what to do about it. Some people say it is real. Some people say it is not. Anyway, I have sure felt it. Any recommendations on things that can help?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator, responds:
Chemobrain is absolutely real! Studies have found conflicting results, but ask any survivor and they will tell you it is real. I have a few good references for you:
An article called Living with ChemoBrain and a book dealing with the topic called Your Brain After Chemo.
There is not a whole lot of research into chemobrain yet, but I expect to see much more in the coming years. Researchers are looking at cognitive rehab programs, which were traditionally used for stroke patients, brain �exercise�, medications and more.
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Time for climate-change progress
Of all the president's oft-stated second-term priorities, addressing climate change seems the most profoundly challenging, even overwhelming. Yet a series of recent developments, especially a sharp decline in U.S. emissions, increasing domestic impacts related to climate change, and growing emissions from developing countries, provide him crucial opportunities to make progress. By focusing on these areas, President Barack Obama can both re-establish policy momentum and create a more inclusive and bipartisan political dynamic in favor of climate action going forward.
First, the administration must help to carefully advance a process that has already begun, namely, helping Americans understand climate change as a domestic issue with increasing costs. It is critical that the administration not overstate the role of climate change in any single severe weather event or exaggerate impacts or costs. But at the same time it must make clear that the extreme events of 2012 — all-time record heat in the U.S., near-record drought for two-thirds of the country, massive Western wildfires and the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy — are increasingly seen by scientists as the front edge of climate-change impacts. As leading climate expert Kevin Trenberth, former head of the Climate Analysis Section of the federal government's National Center for Atmospheric Research, has noted, "No events are 'caused by climate change' or global warming, but all events have a contribution … all weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer."
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Many business interests and state and local officials are reaching the same conclusion. Peter Hoppe, chief risk researcher for Munich Re, the large reinsurance company, recently reported that climate change increased disaster costs in the U.S. in 2012, even before Sandy. "Previously, there had not been such a strong chain of evidence," Hoppe said. Throughout the country, governors, mayors and other local officials are growing more concerned and vocal about climate-change impacts, not least because they are responsible for emergency services, infrastructure replacement and other responses. And costs to taxpayers are rising. For example, the growing size and intensity of Western wildfires as a result of drought and forest health decline tied to climate change means that the U.S. Forest Service now spends more than half of its annual budget simply fighting fires, up from just 15 percent two decades ago.


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Firebug 1.10.0
After 12 alpha and 4 beta versions, Firebug team is proud to announce final Firebug 1.10!
This release fixes 210 issues (79 issues enhancements). We have implemented 50 more automated tests during the release cycle to ensure stability and avoid regression issues. We have also managed to move the entire source to github.com and got more contribution from the community than ever before (see more about hacking on Firebug).
Firebug 1.10 is compatible with Firefox 13-16
Firebug is true community achievement and there are many developers that contributed to this release.
Also take a look at brief list that summarizes new features introduced in this release or read detailed feature description (including screenshots). There are also categorized releases notes with links to proper issue reports available on Firebug Wiki.
There are also significant improvements related to memory consumption, but you need to run Firebug 1.10 with Firefox 15+
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Firebug 1.10.0 is based on Firebug 1.10.b4 that fixes 14 issues.
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Not great, but not bad, either.
There weren't any absolute truths to be gleaned from the Raiders 19-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys Friday night in their preseason opener, but there were signs the team could be an improvement over last season's 4-12 disaster.
No reason to schedule a parade, perhaps, but considering many preseason prognosticators consider the Raiders to be one of the least-talented teams in the NFL, it was at least baby steps in the right direction.
Sebastian Janikowski and Eddy Carmona each kicked a pair of field goals and Brice Butler caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from Matt McGloin to account for the Raiders' scoring.
Dallas, 1-1 in the preseason, had a 38-yard field goal by Dan Bailey, a 15-yard pass from Kyle Orton to Cole Beasley and a 1-yard run by Joseph Dunbar.
Starting quarterback Matt Flynn and backup Terrelle Pryor each had a turnover and led the team to a field goal in the first half, with Sebastian Janikowski converting from 51 and 40 yards. Both also showed their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Carmona had field goals of 32 and 23 yards, the latter following a fumbled Marquette King punt by D.W. Webb was recovered by Eric Harper at the 13-yard line to put the Raiders up 19-17.
Defensively, the Raiders put 10 new starters on the field with the first team and kept Dallas out of the end zone following their first turnover _ a sack-fumble lost by Flynn.
Only coach Dennis Allen knows who did and who did not enhance their chances of being a major player in 2013, but one thing is for sure _Butler gave himself a chance to be the outside playmaker the offense desperately needs.
Butler caught a 40-yard pass from third-string quarterback Matt McGloin, then later made a diving catch in the end zone for a 30-yard touchdown while being tightly guarded by Sterling Moore.
Flynn for the most part did what Allen and offensive coordinator want him to do _ manage the team, keep drives alive, use some clock and make the safe play. He finished 4 of 5 for 37 yards.
He couldn't be faulted for the lone turnover _ a blindside sack by Sean Lee that Jason Hatcher recovered at the Oakland 16-yard line.
Flynn's second series resulted on a 12-play, 49-yard drive that included a 17-yard strike to Denarius Moore on third-and-6 and a 4-yard scramble up the middle on second-and-6 that set up a 4-yard first-down pass to Rod Streater.
The Raiders got as far as the Dallas 33 before Flynn threw incomplete and short of the stake on third-and-3, with Janikowski coming in to covert a 51-yard field goal off the infield dirt.
"Practice is one thing, but it's a whole different ballgame when you come out here to play a game,'' Flynn said.
Pryor demonstrated in his second-quarter performance the kind of running-passing threat currently in vogue in the NFL, rushing three times for 31 yards and hitting 6 of 10 passes for 88 yards.
The Raiders also got strong running from Rashad Jennings, who ran well in short-yardage, also had a 16-yard run and finished with nine carries for 39 yards.
The third-year quarterback also made the kind of error that makes him a risk. After an athletic and creative drive that opened at the Oakland 10 and faced with third-and-4 from the Dallas 6, Pryor's inexperience showed.
Rolling to his right, Pryor threw late and over the middle, with J.J. Wilcox intercepting the pass and ending the drive.
Pryor later drove the Raiders for their own 24 to the Dallas 22 before Janikowski connected from 40 yards to put the Raiders within 10-6.
The Raiders first-team defense, playing without tackles Vance Walker and Pat Sims, allowed only a Cowboys field goal after Flynn's lost fumble.
One problem was pass rush _ the Raiders had almost none, and on one play Romo had a full seven seconds to throw before winging it out of the back of the end zone.
With little pressure, Romo had sliced through the Oakland secondary with no problem on the drive, completing 4 of 5 passes for 65 yards, including a 26-yard pass to Dez Bryant.
"I think after the fumble, for us to keep them out of the end zone was good,'' Allen said. "They moved the ball a little but on us on the second drive but we were able to bow our backs and keep them out of the end zone. We did some good things but need to be more consistent.''
Still, the Cowboys never crossed the goal line, and early in the second quarter came up empty after advancing to the Oakland 8 when Tyvon Branch blocked a Dan Bailey field goal attempt.
"On their first field goal, Tracy Porter got really close to blocking it so I think the wing tried to overextend to get him and I just shot the gap,'' Branch said.
The Raiders got within 10-9 on a 32-yard field goal by Carmona in the third quarter when Usama Young intercepted an overthrown pass from third-string quarterback Nate Stephens and returned it deep into Dallas territory.


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Highline One of Seven School Districts to Win $40 Million 'Race to the Top' Grant
Highline Public Schools is one of seven King County districts to win a share of $40 million in federal "Race to the Top" funds, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday (Dec. 11).
Highline, along with Auburn, Federal Way, Kent, Renton, Seattle and Tukwila school districts competed together this fall as "The Road Map District Consortium," a reference to their participation in the Road Map Project. This project is a collaborative effort to dramatically improve education in South Seattle and South King County.
"I am thrilled to announce that our proposal has been granted full funding of $40 million," said Dr. Susan Enfield, Highline Superintendent. "We are one of just two applications across the country to receive the full $40 million."
"I want to thank Alan Spicciati and other members of the Highline team who contributed to developing our application," Enfield added. "This was a regional team effort, and I am so proud to be part of the coalition that put together this successful application. Most importantly, this grant will give us the opportunity to make a significant difference for the children of Highline and the South King County Region."
The King County districts' application was among 16 winners selected out of 372 applications. Awards ranged from $5 million to $40 million, depending on the number of students served by the plan. The Road Map District Consortium was one of only two applicants to win the maximum award of $40 million.
"This is a major victory for students and families in South King County," said Senator Patty Murray. "When we level the playing field by providing increased access and opportunity for our students, everyone wins. I congratulate the Road Map District Consortium for their outstanding leadership and collaboration in this endeavor. This victory will have a long-lasting impact on our community, and our state, as we all work together to build a brighter future for our students."
The Puget Sound Educational Service District will serve as the lead agency responsible for overall project management and function as the fiscal agent.
"This amazing accomplishment proves that great things can happen when we work together. Thank you to all our partner organizations, districts, unions, community agencies, cities and housing authorities. The effort and commitment behind this plan is unprecedented – it's a level of collaboration that should be celebrated and replicated," said John Welch, Superintendent of the Puget Sound Educational Service District."The region's plan is designed to have big impact where it's needed most. We are excited to roll out strategies that will help all students experience success."
The winning plan covers 261 schools and 150,000 students, including 36,000 high-need children. The districts will use the four-year Race to the Top grant to implement the following plans to help students "Start Strong," be "STEM Strong" and "Stay Strong":
Start Strong – We know that early learning is critical
- Provide funds to help districts work with preschools and early learning programs to help kids be ready to be successful in kindergarten
- Improve math, science and English Language Learner (ELL) teaching and leadership approaches so all students receive high-quality instruction
STEM Strong – We live in a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-intensive region
- Provide a computer-based math instructional program for all high-need K-8th grade students that they can use in school and at home
- Help students explore STEM careers via online tools, speakers, mentors and internships
- Be a leader in implementing Next Generation Science Standards
Stay Strong – These strategies will help more students be successful in post-secondary education
- Offer all students the opportunity to take the SAT and PSAT in school for free
- Offer training for middle and high school guidance counselors and provide counselor assistants to better serve more students
- Offer districts the opportunity to the Advanced Placement (AP) course selections for students and help more teachers to get AP course training. Also, provide the opportunity to include more STEM, International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, world language and career certificate options
The grant also meets minimum federal requirements:
- Strong focus on personalizing education
- Stronger teacher, principal and superintendent evaluations by 2014
- Implementation of Common Core State Standards complete by the 2014-15 school year
- Transparent reporting of data and school-level expenditures
Additionally, the consortium's commitments go beyond the minimum federal requirements:
- Provide all high-need elementary students with a summer reading plan
- Double the number of students taking algebra or higher by the end of eighth grade
- Help all eighth-grade students complete a personalized plan to be college- and career-ready
This is the first time the federal Race to the Top competition has been open to districts and district consortiums. Previously, the grants had only been offered to states.
To read the region's Race to the Top application, click here.
To view a full list of Race to the Top finalists, please click here.


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150 Teams of two. Six Days. 113 miles. Colorado mountains, 12,000 foot passes, valleys, more mountains. $20,000 in prize money. The Gore-Tex TransRockies Run.
Rogue Valley Runners' store owner, Hal Koerner and RVR employee, Darcy Kleiman entered this year's race. Hal is teamed with Bend's Andy Martin. They are known as Team Nike/Rogue Valley Runners. Darcy is teamed with Ashland's Amy Nagle. They are known as Team Hot Chicks. Follow the action each day here.
Via phone Hal described the events of the last two days:
"Andy and I are feeling good after two days of hard running. We still have 83 miles to cover in four days, lots can happen. I'm really noticing the altitude...once we cross over the 9,000 foot level the lack of oxygen is very noticeable. The weather has been cooperating thus far, it could be really cold here now. They have a pretty cool tent city set up at the end of each stage. There are like ten massage therapists ready to help the runners recuperate. Team Run Flagstaff has been running fast! When they hit the flat terrain on Day 1, they just turned it on! Today (Day 2) we had a tight pack running over Hope Pass. One guy fell and broke his tooth, he's at the dentist now! It was one hell of a run this morning!"
As of Day 2, Team Nike/RVR sits in second place overall, roughly four minutes behind Team Run Flagstaff. Team Hot Chicks sits in 11th in the Open Women's Division.
The Where's Waldo 100K Ultra
Some photos (courtesy of Richard Bolt) from the Where's Waldo 100 Kilometer Ultramarathon of Rogue Valley's finest:
Your 2009 USATF Trail 100K Masters Champion, Neil Olsen, 10:02:39. He'll have his ice cream and eat it too.


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NXT 'Coltar' Blends Art, Science
In years past, the science and art fields were generally considered to be diametrically opposed; if something was scientific it usually didn't have artistic value, and if it was a work of art it probably didn't do much for the scientific community. Recently, though, the line between art and science has been blurred and blended in some very unique and interesting ways.
A prime example of this is a color-sensing "Coltar" made by Youtube user PhilippLens. By mixing imagination with ingenuity, PhilippLens created the hybrid guitar using a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick with a color sensor and two touch sensors (one on the Coltar itself, the other on the 'pick'). Using the touch sensors to control chords and the color sensor to control which notes are being 'strummed' allows the Coltar to emit a surprisingly large range of notes.
For more information on this cool project, check out Philipp's Reddit post. You can also download the code here.


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Recently, I was sitting and chatting with some of my friends discussing all the ways were going to celebrate the holidays this year. Eventually, the topic of gifts came up, and with it, so did old Kris Kringle and his magical bag of toys. We ended up agreeing that it was much easier to believe in Santa Claus when we were young than it is now. We've grown up and none of us expect any reindeers' hoof beats to wake us up on Christmas Eve anymore.
As I was driving home from our little get together, I realized that it would be ridiculously fan-double-tastic if some scientist decided the whole Saint Nick-Rudolf routine was entirely plausible and within the ever-expanding realm of the possible. So, I did some internet browsing and came across an article published by a professor at a university in North Carolina that stated exactly that!!!
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I'll go over a few of his key points. Santa's reindeer can most certainly fly; they have been genetically engineered with that ability. They also have extraordinary balance and super night vision. Also, they don't have to tote around toys enough for all the children of the world, Santa uses nanotechnology to make all the toys on site, right under the Christmas tree! And, finally, my favorite, the explanation for Santa's ability to get to every house all in one night-relativity clouds. He has the knowledge and the skills and he has found a way to create controllable rips in time, allowing him months to deliver packages in what seems, to us, like a blink of an eye.
You have to accept that Santa is slightly more advanced in the the technological field then we are. All of these possibilities have been discussed before in science fiction, and some of them such as nanotechnology are in current use.
Now, take your new-found scientific Santa ammo and use it on someone who stopped believing in Santa Claus a long time ago, but, be nice – because Santa is listening on his sophisticated, technologically advanced antennae.
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Back again to take the court or the streets by storm, the eighth model of the Air Jordan has retro basketball appeal and classic details for comfort and support.
An original from the 1992-93 season, the Air Jordan VIII was worn by Jordan as the Bulls won their third NBA title and Jordan got his seventh straight scoring title. The legendary MJ scored his 20,000th point during the season while wearing these coveted hoops shoes.
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