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Al Gore has devoted years and substantial effort to highlight the environmental issues that we face; however, Paul Krugman writes about "what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House." That "somehow" is the Electoral College process for electing the president, not the popular vote count, as many seem to have forgotten or choose to ignore. Read more…


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The Yoga Alliance recently announced the launch of a companion organization: YA+. The benefits of the new program were touted in an email announcement sent out to current Yoga Alliance members. The intention of the program appears to be a response to community feedback and as an effort to make the Yoga Alliance more relevant in the ongoing debate about regulating yoga teacher training.
The Yoga Alliance was set up in 1999 as an education and support organization. A main goal of the organization is to set minimum education standards for yoga teachers and studios offering teacher training programs. Many other professions have a professional organization that sets and enforces standards that are intended to ensure quality and professionalism and to enhance peer communication and learning. Yet, many in the yoga community have expressed frustration with the YA's lack of ability to achieve these goals. Some even think that the Yoga Alliance has hurt the development of the profession as lack of enforcement has enabled low standards to be perpetuated.
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Could this new program help raise the bar for the Yoga Alliance? A few of the YA+ benefits listed in the email were: increased lobbying power, more community building capabilities, and additional opportunities for leadership by members. Future, benefits may include discounts on products and insurance as well as "voluntary yoga teacher certifications and a recognition program for yoga studios that meet certain professional standards".
Aside from the last two proposed future benefits sounding alarmingly similar to promoted current benefits, these do sound like hallmarks of a stronger, more organized, professional organization. Browsing through the YA+ Community website, there are features such as forums, member blog pages, and the ability to set up personal profiles or groups. They have also begun to organize members into state caucuses and are asking members interested in becoming leaders to step forward.
The proposed direction of this organization, if realized, could become a beneficial resource; yet, the proposed ideals of the Yoga Alliance could be a beneficial resource for the community as well if diligently and professionally executed. Only time will tell if this is the spark the Yoga Alliance needs to ignite a more functional organization, or if this is the last flare before the fire goes out.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 18, 2012) – For the second time this season, ETSU men's soccer head coach Scott Calabrese has sat down with the media relations staff to answer some questions and update the fans and media on the status of the team.
Below are Coach Calabrese's responses to this week's edition, along with an injury update from the training room.
Coach, the team is in the midst of four consecutive road games against some pretty tough opponents. How does that affect the team's mentality, if at all, going on long road swings?
"It is clearly more difficult to win on the road, but to achieve our goals as a team we must learn to secure results away from home as well. Limiting mistakes and playing with a high level of concentration is critical to this."
Looking back at them, what are your thoughts on both the Radford and Davidson games?
"The Radford game was a difficult test for our players. Radford was well organized and sat deep making them very difficult to break down. We forgot our structure and took up some very poor positions in the midfield. Unfortunately, this led to a counter attack, we conceded a goal and then had to fight our way back into the match. In the second half, we had the right attitude and showed we wanted the result. This was great to see but the lesson is simple for the team; if we maintain our discipline and our team structure, we will be less vulnerable.
"Davidson was a different game. We scored early and were in control, but, unfortunately, we didn't finish the job. We must learn to push on after scoring and deliver the knockout blow; we must look for another goal and kill the game. We lost concentration and made several mistakes. In the end, there is an important lesson for the players. A game can change in an instant. One momentary lapse in concentration and the game is done and you are on the wrong end of the result. Until the final whistle blows, you can take nothing for granted."
How much would it mean to bounce back from Davidson with good resutls against both Kentucky and Winthrop?
"It's important that our players are unhappy with our last result and respond with the right mentality and performance against Kentucky. True champions are never satisfied with a poor result and always want to make amends in the next match."
Talk about Kentucky and Winthrop a little. What are some challenges each team brings to the table?
"These are two very good teams, but the focus for us is always on us. We must play according to our structure and with the right mentality. We must play as a team and continue to look to improve."
From the Training Room
- Matt Reed (ankle): Not expected to play against Kentucky. Status is day-to-day.
- Blaike Woodruff (knee): Expected to play against Kentucky.
For more information on ETSU men's soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's soccer links.


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This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event.
In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.
- Gordon Lightfoot: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald": This site provides historical background on the shipwreck, links to the lyrics and music, as well as links to additional Edmund Fitzgerald websites and news articles.
- Prewriting Chart: Students will use the chart to brainstorm and organize their ideas before drafting their poems.
- Historical Poem Checklist: Students will use the checklist as a guide while they draft, revise, and edit their poems.
Increasing student interest and motivation is a constant concern for teachers. Incorporating history and music into an English Language Arts lesson can serve to motivate students, increase student achievement, [and] promote positive attitudes toward subject matter (Cruickshank). NCTE echoes this idea in its Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies, noting, It is the interplay of meaning-making systems (alphabetic, oral, visual, etc.) that teachers should strive to study and produce. Multiple ways of knowing also include music.
In its Adolescent Literary: A Policy Research Brief, NCTE also notes that allowing student choice in writing tasks can increase motivation. Further, NCTE asserts that self-selection and variety engage students by enabling ownership in literacy activities.
Further Reading
Cruickshank, Douglas. "Kaleidoscopic Learning: An Overview of Integrated Studies." Edutopia. The George Lucas Foundation, 7 Oct. 2008. Web. 30 Aug. 2012. http://www.edutopia.org/integrated-studies-interdisciplinary-learning-overview.
NCTE Executive Committee. 2005. Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies. Web. November 2009. http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/multimodalliteracies.
National Council of of Teachers of English. 2007. NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform: A Policy Research Brief. Urbana, IL: NCTE.


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Consider two partially ordered sets $A = \{a< b,a< c\}$, $B=\{x< z,y< z\}$.
Their linear extensions (here we allow equality in linear extensions) for $A, B$ are $$A_L=\{A_1=\{a< b< c\}, A_2=\{a< b= c\}, A_3=\{a< c< b\}\}$$ and $$B_L = \{ B_1 = \{x< y< z\}, B_2=\{y< x< z\}, B_3 =\{x= y< z\}\}$$
We may define two order isomorphisms
$f_1: A_1\to B_1$ by $f_1(a)=x, f_1(b)=y, f_1(c)=z$ and
$f_2:A_3\to B_2$ by $f_2(a)=y, f_2(b)=x, f_2(c)=z$,
but there is no order isomorphism $f_3$ from $A_2$ to $B_3$ s.t. $t< s\Longleftrightarrow f_3(t)< f_3(s)$ and $t=s \Longleftrightarrow f_3(t)=f_3(s)$. (And it's easy to see that no other pairing of the $A_i$ with the $B_j$ will allow such maps to be chosen.)
There are no order isomorphisms from $A$ to $B$, either.
Is the following conjecture true?
For any partially ordered sets $A,B$, if there exist isomorphisms from $A$'s linear extensions to $B$'s, then there exists an isomorphism from $A$ to $B$.
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Our assignment was to create TWO original recipes using at least four of the ingredients. But unlike challenges of the past, this one has an added task: we would have to create one recipe for an appetizer and the second for a main course.
The first step was to decide what type of meal to make. The choices were not as obvious as one might suppose since three of the six ingredients (i.e. Adzuki beans, Mochi rice and dried star fruit) are used to make traditional Chinese and Japanese desserts.
With Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) only a few days away, we decided to try some dishes with a Cajun flair beginning with a red bean gumbo as the starter and culminating with a variation on jambalaya using millet and Maitake mushrooms. We were worried that these mild Asian ingredients would not hold up to the bold flavors and spices typical of Cajun cuisine, but we were pleasantly surprised with the results. We think you will be too!
Adzuki Bean Gumbo with Mochi Rice
Generally speaking, gumbos are soups that begin with a base of roux (which is browned flour in an oil base) and Cajun mirepoix*. In gumbo, roux can be used alone or in conjunction with either of the other thickeners such as okra or file powder (made from the dried and ground leaves of the sassafras tree).
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- ¼ cup peanut oil
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 small bell pepper, chopped
- 2-3 stalks celery, chopped
- 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- 2 cups water or broth
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ pound smoked sausage, cut into 1/4 inch slices
- ½ cup dry white wine
- 1 cup dried Adzuki beans, cooked and drained
- 1 cup cut okra (frozen is fine)
- 1 cup Mochi rice, cooked
- 1½ cups cold water
- Salt to taste
- Fresh parsley or green onions, chopped for garnish
- Louisiana hot sauce or ground cayenne pepper to taste
Soak the Adzuki beans overnight and cook until tender. Drain and set aside.
Heat the oil in large heavy pot over medium heat, then stir in the flour to make a dark roux. Stir the roux constantly to prevent burning; until the color has changed from white, to beige, and finally to dark brown. When it is ready, it should smell great, like roasted nuts. If it smells burnt, you went too far. A truly dark roux can take up to 30 minutes, so patience is the key.
Once the roux is browned to your liking, add the onions, bell pepper, and celery and cook until the onions are clear. Slowly add 1 cup of the stock stirring well to form a thick paste then add the remainder of the stock. Stir in the Worcestershire and garlic then the sausage and wine. Next stir in prepared Adzuki beans and okra, and then add salt and hot sauce to taste. Cover and reduce the heat to low and allow to simmer at least 45 minutes ( up to 2 hours) stirring frequently and adding water or broth if the gumbo gets too thick.
When ready, serve gumbo in small bowls or cups and (using a small ice cream scoop,) add rice to the bowl and garnish with parsley and/or green onions, and of course, your favorite hot sauce. Be sure to remind everyone that this is just the beginning; the main entree is yet to come...
Cajun Chicken Millet Skillet
This one-pan meal is simple to prepare and packed with flavor and nutrition. Traditional jambalaya is made in three steps: the meat is browned, vegetables are cooked until soft, and the dish is completed by adding stock and rice. It is a close cousin to the saffron-infused paella found in Spanish culture.
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- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil,
- 4 (about 1 1/2 pounds) skinless boneless chicken breasts
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 5-6 dried Maitake mushrooms, reconstituted and chopped
- 1 cup uncooked Organic Millet Seed
- 1 teaspoon Cajun spice mix
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth (or reserved mushroom broth)
Rehydrate dried Maitake mushrooms by placing them in a cup of boiling water and allowing them to sit until the water is cool. Strain the mushrooms and reserve the water to use as broth.
Heat a tablespoon of the oil in a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat. Season chicken with a smattering of Cajun spices, then arrange the chicken breasts in the skillet. Cook, flipping once, until deep golden brown all over, about 10 minutes total. Transfer chicken to a large plate and set aside.
With all of the breasts browned and resting, add remaining tablespoon of olive oil, onions, chopped reconstituted Maitake mushrooms and millet to the same skillet, and cook, stirring often, for about 5 minutes. Add garlic and Cajun spices and cook for about one minute more. Stir in white wine and broth and mix together until well combined. Place the chicken breasts back into skillet, nestling them in the millet mixture. Bring the whole dish back to a boil. Then cover, reducing heat to medium-low, and cook until the chicken is cooked thoroughly and millet is tender (not crunchy), about 25-30 minutes.
Spoon chicken and millet onto plates and serve with your favorite hot sauce, preferably with good Cajun music playing in the background!
Cajun Playlist:
File – 2 Left Feet (as seen at the Maple Leaf!!)
Beausoleil – Cajun Conja
Buckwheat Zydeco – Where There's Smoke There's Fire
Wayne Toups – ZyDeCajun
John Delafose - Heartaches and Hot Steps
BooZoo Chavis – American Explorer Series
And, try our homemade King Cake for dessert! Remember if you find the baby, you must bring the next King cake!!
*Mirepoix (also known as "Holy Trinity") is the classic French combination of onions, celery and carrots, and in a ratio of 2 parts onions, 1 part celery and 1 part carrots, and is used in making stocks, soups, sauces, and stews. Cajun Mirepoix or Cajun Trinity (onions, celery and bell pepper in equal amounts) is the Cajun equivalent and is used in classic Cajun "receipts" such as gumbo, jambalaya, and étouffée.


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Integrating the Teaching of Quantitative Skills Across the Geology Curriculum in a Department
R.H. Macdonald, C.M. Bailey
Journal of Geoscience Education v. 48, n. 4, p. 482-486
Abstract: One approach to teaching quantitative skills to all students in a department is to construct a matrix of the desired quantitative skills versus courses in the departmental curriculum. Faculty members complete the matrix by listing the assignments in each course that build each particular skill and then design activities or assignments that either fill a gap or more fully develop a skill or application. Faculty members discuss the matrix on a regular basis to report progress and challenges, share ideas with each other, and plan future directions. This iterative process enhances the quantitative skills of students by incorporating quantitative activities and problems throughout the geoscience curriculum. When some quantitative work is included in every departmental course, students recognize that quantitative tools are important in the geosciences. Communication, cooperation, and planning at the department level and regular reviews of the matrix are key aspects for developing quantitative skills across the departmental curriculum.
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Lucchino predicts sellout streak could end
Red Sox president Larry Lucchino says he thinks the team's sellout streak at Fenway Park will end in April, a month shy of 10 years of a packed ballpark.
Lucchino said Thursday at Red Sox spring training the 793-game streak which began May 15, 2003, could be snapped possibly as early as the second game of the season - April 10 against the Orioles.
Lucchino also defended Boston's method of counting attendance - tickets distributed.
"We didn't gerrymander a new definition (of sellout)," he said. "We took the definition that was in place and had been in place 10, 20 years before us and was commonplace among many clubs in baseball."
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FIVB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Mazury | 1 - 7 July 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland, July 31, 2013 - The Continental Cup was introduced in 2012 with the idea of spreading beach volleyball to non-traditional territories and to allow their teams to compete at the highest level of competition.
The tournament was the brainchild of current FIVB President Dr. Ary S. Graça F° during his time as President of the Beach Volleyball Council and the evidence from the recently-concluded FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is that it is already starting to bear fruit.
Two of the biggest beneficiaries have been Venezuela's Igor Hernandez and Jesus Villafane and Vanuatu's Elwin Miller and Henriette Iatika.
Hernandez and Villafane won the 2012 South American tournament to reach the London 2012 Olympic Games and they were back competing at beach volleyball's top table at FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013. There they made it through the pool stage to finish in a creditable 17th place. They then followed up that performance by reaching the quarterfinals at the Anapa Open in Russia.
At the World Championships, they became celebrities back home after they defeated 2008 Olympic champion and 2007 world champion, Todd Rogers and his new partner Ryan Doherty in pool play.
"Since we beat the USA in our first game, everyone is very excited about it," Hernandez said. "The national TV called our hotel room for an interview, they asked about our game and we also did an interview online."
More importantly their success has earned them greater funding from their national sports ministry, which will help them develop further as a team.
"Since the Olympic Games more and more young people in Venezuela are interested in beach volley," Hernandez said.
"We got support from the government after the Olympics. Thanks to that we were able to start different projects and encourage young people to play beach volleyball. We organise events for the junior and youth groups now in Venezuela."
For Elwin and Iatika, the journey from their homes in the south Pacific may have been long, but was well worth it to become the first pair from Vanuatu to compete at a World Championships.
They had narrowly missed out on a place at London 2012 when they finished second in the Asian Continental Cup, but made up for that by impressing at the World Championships in Poland.
They finished second in their pool behind eventual bronze medallists Liliane Maestrini and Barbara Seixas, then gave the first seeds and soon-to-be world champions Chen Xue and Zhang Xi a fright in the first set of their second knockout round match.
"I have sacrificed my life at home to become the best I can be," Iatika said. "I have two kids who stay on the island while I am away training and competing because I want to take part. I want to make my family and country proud of me and I want to show all the young people in Vanuatu what is possible if you try hard."
In total there were four men's team and three women's teams who competed at the World Championships, having gone through the Continental Cup.
Mexico's Juan Virgen and Lombardo Ontiveros made it to the knockout stages, while Chilean cousins Esteban and Marco Grimalt and Venezuela's Leon Colina Chourio and Jackson Henriquez picked up valuable experience of top-level competition that they can take with them when they compete on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and Continental tournaments.
In the women's competition Paraguay's Michelle Valiente Amarilla was the youngest competitor at the World Championships aged 15 years and two months, when she played alongside Patricia Caballero Pena. Thailand's Varapatsorn Radaron and Tanarattha Udomchavee meanwhile became the first team from their country to feature at a World Championships.With two more years until the next World Championships in the Netherlands and three until the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, there is plenty of time for even more new teams to emerge and make their mark on the top echelons of beach volleyball.
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Dutch duo make history to claim world gold
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Volleyball stars united with Special Olympics Athletes
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Ricardo and Alvaro upset defending champions to reach the final
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Dreams come true for China
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Borger and Buthe first Europeans to reach women's World Championships final
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End of the dream for Vanuatu
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Here, have a scribbly opera house.
Buildings are really dull to draw, it turns out. Glad I'm not an architect.
Here, have a scribbly opera house.
You're like the Christmas votive calendar that I forget to open. It's twice as good to get two chocolates the following day.
I'm guessing something in the style of Rubens or Caravaggio.
Shurely Noddy Holder? After all, it's Chriiiiistmas!
Oh, I would love something in the style of Rubens, or maybe Botaro. Can't wait!
Wow, I blew it up and the detail is awesome in your opera house. Now you just need to draw the singer inside wearing viking horns :)
Architecture may be a tedious thing to draw but it's not dull. Sometimes buildings have more interesting stories to tell about people than people do.
This is brilliant by the way.
Pity they're no fun to draw because it came out great!
And yet you manage to make it look alive, somehow - as if it has a personality of its own and could get up and move about if it wanted.
This is awesome! I love old buildings, and this one looks great!
See, I saw the drawing before I read the text and my immediate reaction was 'basilica'! I'm presuming it has orange terracotta roofs and honey-coloured walls? Surely the appropriate location for RA to return to the role of Javert?
It may have been dull to draw but it's quite lovely to look at.
It's necessary that you be informed of something of which you are clearly wildly ignorant:
People can't just up and draw in a wide range of styles. Our brains don't work that way. Most of us wedge the same tropes into everything we do, which is why it's easy to recognize a person's artwork, or poem, or plate of homemade biscuits for heaven's sake.
I felt you needed to know this because you're refusing to limit your drawings to one recognizable style, instead you display a wide range of eye-widening skills and this is upsetting.
Please rectify soon, sir. Thank you.
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Fair point though, that may explain why I am looking at your website at 2.50pm on a Monday when I should be finishing a design for a house extension.
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Constance "Connie" Marie Paris was — like many girls — hypnotized by the Beatles, so when John, Paul, George and Ringo played at Red Rocks on Aug. 23, 1964, she was in the amphitheater gasping for air and jumping up and down with five other Englewood High School freshman girls.
Paris loved to be around people and she was friendly to a fault. She had been in Campfire Girls and was very active at her church.
The vivacious girl liked to water ski. She studied hard enough to carry a 3.4 grade point average, but not so much that she missed out on school and church events. She joined the pep club and loved going to football games with a large group of friends.
Connie was a beautiful girl with a matching personality, said her friend Diane Riechert, who met Connie in the seventh grade and was a close friend through high school. When a group of girls got together and started making prank calls, Connie said they should be careful not to hurt anybody.
She loved to curl her "honey, wheat-colored" hair every night, her mother, Mary Lou Paris, 85, said. On one camping trip to Jackson Lake her daughter had to improvise. She used small metal orange juice cans as the curlers. She got so upset when mosquitoes swarmed around her all night.
On a Friday night, she recalled many times that Connie and her friends would come home from a football game and change their clothes in her house on Lincoln Street because of its proximity to the high school so they could go to a dance together.
In March of 1968, Connie was only two months from graduating from high school and had spoken about her plans to go to a community college and some day work in a medical research laboratory.
Connie had two younger brothers, Chris, then 15, and Jeff, then 10. Jeff loved his older sister, who would often come to his defense during squabbles with his older brother, Mary Lou Riechert recalled. Connie had a running competition with her dad, a post office carrier, over crossword puzzles.
Mary Lou Paris said she and her husband would never argue with each other in front of their three kids.
Connie had just been hired as a waitress at a restaurant with a Robin Hood theme at the Cinderella City shopping center. She had to wear a funky hat with a feather and moccasins.


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Shawn Langdon (Top Fuel) and Jeg Coughlin (Pro Stock) also were winners in their respective categories at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event. All three winners were presented special-edition silver Wally trophies in honor of the event's 25th anniversary.
Gray took his first win at Heartland Park Topeka and the sixth of his career by outrunning Robert Hight in the final round. Gray drove his Pitch Energy Dodge Charger to a final round performance of 4.067 seconds at 314.90 mph, while Hight's Auto Club Ford Mustang lost traction and slowed early in the run in his first final round appearance in more than a year.
"Rob [Wendland, crew chief] gave me a great race car that ran real hard all day," said Gray, who beat Alexis DeJoria, Del Worsham and defending event winner Jack Beckman in earlier rounds. "Sometimes you can win races on an intimidation factor and Rob had her tuned up to where she was a little intimidating today. Robert had a great race car too, but they just missed it a little bit. They have a great team over there. Our car went right on down through there. My guys are giving me a car I can't screw up in right now."
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"It's a long way before we start running for the championship, but if the car keeps running like it's running, then we've got as good a shot as anybody out there," Gray said. "The better the car is, the better it makes the driver look."
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Yesterday, the Democrats struck back. Knowing that they couldn't stop the Republican majority on the U.S. House of Representatives science committee from passing legislation to alter the activities of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in ways they oppose, members of the minority party instead offered more than a dozen amendments designed to highlight what they see as the bill's serious flaws.
The amendments would have altered language in the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act that the scientific community has sharply criticized since it was first circulated in draft form last spring. Although parts of the bill have been modified since then, several provisions remain sticking points for scientists. They include setting specific spending targets for each NSF research directorate, altering the agency's vaunted peer-review process, cutting funding for the social and behavioral sciences, imposing new rules to combat scientific misconduct, raising the bar for investigators who have previously received NSF grants, and holding down overall spending at the $7 billion agency.
At the committee markup of the bill yesterday, the panel's Democrats didn't hold back in ridiculing those provisions. "Unwise and irresponsible," "a recipe for disaster," and "a threat to continued U.S. leadership in science and technology" were some of the phrases they used. In rebuttal, Republicans accused their colleagues across the aisle of having "a lack of connection to the real world," of being willing to "burden our children and grandchildren with enormous debt," and of "prefer[ring] NSF's funding to come without having to answer questions from Congress or the taxpayers."
There were brief moments of comity. In compromises reached before the legislators met, Republicans agreed to remove a cap on how much NSF could spend on rotators—academics who work at the agency for a few years—and to alter the administrative structure of a committee to oversee science education across the federal government that would be based at NSF. And the panel unanimously accepted a bipartisan amendment offered by representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R–WI) and Zoe Lofgren (D–CA) to bring the bill's language on providing public access to the results of federally funded research in line with policies already adopted by the Obama administration. Yesterday's legislative assault on the bill was at least temporarily effective: The committee put off action on 15 amendments, including two by Republicans, after Democrats insisted on recorded votes. This morning, a notice on the committee's website said the votes have been "postponed until further notice." That delays a vote at least until next Wednesday, according to a committee aide.
Lobbyists hope that the issues raised during the 6-hour session, which was interrupted twice so members could go to the Capitol for votes on other matters, will delay the expected passage of the bill by the entire House of Representatives. In the meantime, the Democrats used their attacks to expose what they say is the bill's tone of pervasive mistrust of, and hostility toward, the scientific community.
The panel's top Democrat, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D–TX), said yesterday that the committee's unwillingness to listen to the objections of academic and high-tech business leaders makes the FIRST Act "an opportunity lost" for Congress to lay out a strong vision for federal research. She entered into the record letters from about 20 academic, research, and high-tech business groups that have expressed concerns or outright opposition to the bill.
The committee's chairman, Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX), insisted throughout the markup that the bill does provide such a vision. He said Democrats simply disagree with the Republican approach to improving how NSF operates by making sure that "only high quality research receives taxpayer dollars."
Despite calling for only a modest boost in NSF's 2015 budget (the actual budget for every agency is set by a different congressional committee), the bill would also shift money into areas of scientific research "that drive future economic growth," he says, especially the physical sciences, engineering, and computer science. It would do so by cutting spending on the social and behavioral sciences and holding steady investments in the geosciences.


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This chapter describes how to work with Oracle E-Business Suite Knowledge Modules in Oracle Data Integrator.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 2.5, "Creating an Oracle Model and Reverse-Engineering E-Business Suite Tables"
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a suite of integrated software applications that provides a complete solution to the business needs of Oracle customers.
The EBS Knowledge Modules provide support for the following capabilities:
Reverse-engineering EBS objects: RKM E-Business Suite can be used to reverse-engineer E-Business Suite data structures
Data extraction from EBS: Standard Oracle or SQL LKMs can be used to extract data from E-Business suite using objects such as Tables, Views, and KeyFlexfields.
Data integration to EBS: IKM E-Business Suite can be used to integrate data to E-Business Suite using Open Interface tables. The "Open Interface" API encapsulates a number of Oracle-specific interfaces and ensures data integrity. An Open Interface is made up of:
Several Interface tables to be loaded. These tables are the incoming data entry points for E-Business Suite.
Several programs that validate and process the insertion of the data from the interface tables into E-Business Suite.
Oracle Data Integrator Knowledge Modules for Oracle E-Business Suite interact with the database tier to extract metadata and load data. While loading data, it also interacts with the Concurrent Processing Server of the application tier.
Oracle Data Integrator provides the Knowledge Modules listed in Table 2-1 for handling E-Business Suite data. These specific EBS KMs provide comprehensive, bidirectional connectivity between Oracle Data Integrator and E-Business Suite, which enables you to extract and load data. The Knowledge Modules support all modules of E-Business Suite and provide bidirectional connectivity through EBS objects tables/views and interface tables.
Table 2-1 EBS Knowledge Modules
|Knowledge Module
IKM E-Business Suite (Open Interface)
The IKM E-Business Suite is used to load data to EBS interface tables and submit Concurrent request (which loads from interface tables to base tables).
This Integration Knowledge Module:
In addition to loading the interface tables, it provides the following optional actions:
Note that the IKM E-Business Suite (Open Interface) KM must only be used to load interface tables. Writing directly in the E-Business Suite physical tables is not supported.
RKM E-Business Suite
This KM reverse-engineers E-Business Suite data structures. It reverses EBS objects such as tables, views, flexfields and interface-tables structures in E-Business Suite (columns, primary keys and foreign keys).
Make sure you have read the information in this section before you start working with the E-Business Suite data:
Before performing any installation you should read the system requirements and certification documentation to ensure that your environment meets the minimum installation requirements for the products you are installing.
The list of supported platforms and versions is available on Oracle Technical Network (OTN):
There are no technology-specific requirements for using E-Business Suite data in Oracle Data Integrator.
There are no connectivity requirements for using E-Business Suite data in Oracle Data Integrator.
This step consists in declaring in Oracle Data Integrator the data server, as well as the physical and logical schemas for the Oracle database that stores the E-Business Suite data.
Create a data server for the Oracle technology as described in "Creating an Oracle Data Server" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Connectivity and Knowledge Modules Guide for Oracle Data Integrator. This data server must point to the Oracle database instance that stores the E-Business Suite data.
Create an Oracle physical schema using the standard procedure, as described in "Creating a Physical Schema" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator. This schema must point to the Oracle schema that contains the synonyms pointing to the E-Business Suite tables.
The physical schema must represent the Oracle schema containing the synonyms pointing to the E-Business Suite tables. This schema is usually called APPS. It must not point directly to the Oracle schemas containing the Application physical tables. These are usually named after the related applications.
Note also that for reverse-engineering, the Oracle user specified in the data server to which the Physical Schema is attached, must have the privileges to select from APPLSYS tables and the Oracle Data dictionary.
Create for this physical schema a logical schema using the standard procedure, as described in "Creating a Logical Schema" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator and associate it in a given context.
The Oracle schema containing the E-Business Suite tables and the Oracle schema containing the synonyms that point to these tables should never be defined as a Work Schema in a physical schema definition. Moreover, these Oracle schemas must not be used as staging area for an interface.
Setting up a project using E-Business Suite features follows the standard procedure. See "Creating an Integration Project" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator.
Import the following KMs into your Oracle Data Integrator project:
IKM E-Business Suite (Open Interface)
RKM E-Business Suite
In addition to these specific EBS KMs, import the standard Oracle LKMs and CKMs to perform data extraction and data quality checks with an Oracle database. See "Oracle Database" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Connectivity and Knowledge Modules Guide for Oracle Data Integratorfor a list of available KMs.
This section contains the following topics:
Create an Oracle Model based on the Oracle technology and on the logical schema created when configuring the E-Business Suite Connection using the standard procedure, as described in "Creating a Model" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator.
There is no E-Business Suite technology defined in Oracle Data Integrator. The data model is created on top of the logical schema corresponding to the Oracle database hosting the EBS data.
The RKM E-Business Suite is able to reverse-engineer the installed E-Business Suite tables, enriching them with information retrieved from the E-Business Suite Integration repository.
The reverse-engineering process returns the following information:
The installed E-Business Suite (Modules) as sub-models
For each module sub-model, sub-models for Tables, Views, Flexfields, and Interface Tables
The tables and columns, as well as the primary and foreign keys in the datastores
Comments on the tables
To perform a Customized Reverse-Engineering of EBS tables with the RKM E-Business Suite, use the usual procedure, as described in "Reverse-engineering a Model" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator. This section details only the fields specific to EBS tables:
In the Reverse tab of the Oracle Model, select the RKM E-Business Suite.
Set the RKM options as follows:
Applications List: Enter the list of the applications' short name, for example
Only Installed Applications: Set this option to
YES to reverse-engineer only installed and shared applications. If this option is set to
NO, all applications are reverse-engineered.
Min Rows: Leave the default value
0, if you want to reverse-engineer all the tables. If you want to reverse-engineer only tables with a minimum number of rows, specify in this option the minimum number of rows.
Description Mask: Specify the description mask for filtering the reverse-engineered objects based on their description in E-Business Suite.
Flexfields: If this option is set to
YES, applications' flexfields are reverse-engineered.
Interface Tables: If this option is set to
YES, applications' interface tables are reverse-engineered.
Specify the reverse mask in the Mask field in order to select the tables to reverse. The Mask field, in the Reverse tab, filters reverse-engineered objects based on their name.
The Mask field and the Description Mask option are implemented using SQL Like. The patterns that you can choose from are:
The reverse-engineering process returns the applications and tables as sub-models and datastores. You can use Oracle Applications as a source or a target of your integration interfaces.
Features of the E-Business Suite Reverse-Engineering
Reverse-engineering E-Business Suite Tables involves the following features:
The E-Business Suite Modules are reversed as sub-models. The sub-model names correspond to the application names.
Each application sub-model is divided into sub-models for Tables, Views, Flexfields and Interface Tables.
The tables/views and columns, as well as the primary and foreign keys are reversed in the datastores.
A sub-model called Flexfield on <AppName> is created for each application. Datastores in the Flexfield sub-model correspond to Concatenated_Segment_Views of registered Key flexfields for the application. These objects are a subset of Views. The datastores in the Flexfields sub-folder are named after the flexfields.
Datastores in Interface-Table sub-model correspond to tables whose names contain the pattern INTERFACE. These objects are a subset of tables.
Some of the Open Interfaces (as specified in EBS Integration Repository) may have interface tables whose names may not contain the pattern INTERFACE in their names.
Limitations of the E-Business Suite Reverse-Engineering Process
This section covers restrictions on reverse-engineering E-Business Suite Tables:
Selective reverse-engineering cannot be used with this Knowledge Module.
The Min Rows option requires Oracle statistics to be computed on all tables.
If the Oracle user defined in the Oracle Data Integrator data server is not the owner of the tables to reverse-engineer, you must define synonyms for this user on these tables.
Only KeyFlexfields are supported. Descriptive FlexFields are not supported.
You can use E-Business Suite as a source and a target of an integration interface.
The KM choice for an interface determines the abilities and performance of this interface. The recommendations in this section help in the selection of the KM for different situations concerning loading and integrating EBS data.
When using E-Business Suite as a source, you extract data from the Applications to integrate them into another system (Data warehouse, other database...).
Extracting data from E-Business Suite is performed with regular integration interfaces sourcing from an Oracle Database. The knowledge modules working with the Oracle database technology can be used for this purpose. See "Loading Data from Oracle" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Connectivity and Knowledge Modules Guide for Oracle Data Integrator for more information.
Oracle Data Integrator provides the IKM E-Business Suite (Open Interface) to integrate data in E-Business Suite. The integration process into E-Business Suite is as follows:
A set of Open Interface tables is loaded in a batch in a given transaction. This transaction is identified by a Group ID. Note the following concerning the Group ID:
For the first table in the batch, create a Group ID if it does not exist.
For the subsequent tables in the batch, use this Group ID when loading other tables in the batch.
When loading the last table in the batch, delete this Group ID.
If at any point in a batch it is required to call an E-Business Interface program, then you must validate and process data for the interface tables by executing an Open Interface Program. The batch is finalized by the Open Interface Program call that loads the base tables from the Open Interface tables.
These operations are supported by the IKM E-Business Suite (Open Interface). This IKM is used like the IKM Oracle Incremental Update and supports similar options to load the Open Interface tables. This section describes the options specific to Open Interfaces. See "Oracle Database" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Connectivity and Knowledge Modules Guide for Oracle Data Integrator for more information about the IKM Oracle Incremental Update.
The configuration of integration interfaces for actions specific to E-Business Suite, such as Group ID handling and the execution of Open Interface programs, is detailed in the Section 184.108.40.206, "Managing Group IDs" and Section 18.104.22.168, "Executing an Open Interface Program".
A transaction that integrates data into E-Business Suite is a batch identified by its Group ID. For example, if you load several interface tables to create a product in E-Business Suite, all of these loading operations as well as the calls to the validation and processing programs will use this batch's Group ID.
This section contains the following topics:
Creating a Group ID
You must force the creation of a Group ID in the first integration interface that loads a group of interface tables in one single batch.
To create a Group ID in an integration interface:
Set the following in the KM options:
Set OA_CREATE_NEW_GROUP_ID to
Provide a Group ID Name in the OA_GROUP_ID_NAME option.
The Group ID Name must be unique at a given instant. You must use the OA_REMOVE_GROUP_ID option to remove a Group ID at the end of the batch processing.
Give a valid SQL expression for the Group ID value in the OA_GROUP_ID_EXPRESSION option. Use an Oracle Database sequence value, for example
In the integration interface mapping, select the flag UD1 for all the columns of the interface table you wish to load with the Group ID value and set the mapping value to
In the following integration interfaces belonging to a batch, you must use an existing Group ID.
Using an existing Group ID
To use an existing Group ID in an integration interface:
Set OA_USE_EXISTING_GROUP_ID IKM option to
Provide the Group ID Name in the OA_GROUP_ID_NAME IKM option.
In the integration interface mapping, select the flag UD1 for all the columns you wish to load with the Group ID value and set the mapping value to
In the last integration interface that loads a batch of interface tables, you may delete a Group ID that is no longer necessary.
Deleting an existing Group ID
To delete an existing Group ID:
Select the OA_REMOVE_GROUP_ID option.
Provide the Group ID Name in the OA_GROUP_ID_NAME option.
In the integration interface mapping, select the flag UD1 for all the columns of the interface table you wish to load with the Group ID value and set the mapping value to 0.
The Group IDs are stored in an SNP_OA_GROUP table that is created in the work schema specified in the physical schema that points to the Oracle Applications Interface tables. The Group ID is referenced in Oracle Data Integrator by a unique Group ID Name.
In Oracle Data Integrator integration interfaces, when a set of interface tables is loaded, it is necessary to call an Open Interface program in order to validate and process the data in the E-Business Suite interface tables. You can use an existing Group ID in this call (see Using an existing Group ID), or create it (see Creating a Group ID) in the same integration interface, if the Open Interface only contains a single table. The execution of the Open Interface program is started in the last integration interface of a package. This integration interface populates a set of Open Interface tables and usually deletes the Group ID, if no longer needed.
To execute an Open Interface Program:
Set the SUBMIT_PROGRAM option to
Provide the name of the program to call in the OA_PROGRAM option.
For a list of available Open Interface programs and their parameters, please refer to the E-Business Suite module API and Open Interface documentation or the E-Business Suite Integration repository.
Specify the program parameters in the OA_ARGUMENTS option. The parameters are specified in the following format:
argument_name => 'argument value', argument_name => 'argument value' ...
If one argument must take the value of the Group ID, you must then specify
argument Name => v_group_id.
You must also specify the context parameters for the session that will execute the program by setting the values of the following options:
OA_USER_NAME: E-Business Suite User Name
OA_REPONSIBILITY: E-Business Suite Responsibility Name
OA_LANGUAGE: Language used for the responsibility
OA_APPLICATION: Application to which the responsibility belongs


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I prayed for the City Council last night.
I don't know who's on the selection committee, or how the selection is made, but several months ago I was asked if I would be willing to say the opening prayer at the City Council meeting at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 13.
Often I say no to those kinds of invitations. I had an embarrassing experience with the invocation at a football game once that has made me reluctant to say yes ever since. But this was the Richmond City Council, and First Baptist Church is on this year-long, every-member mission trip to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia, and so I swallowed hard and agreed to come.
I got there well before 6:00, since I wasn't sure about the parking arrangements. There was something in the invitation about parking in the underground lot at City Hall but when I showed up at 5:25 the parking attendant didn't seem to know any more about it than I did. He asked my name and called upstairs but nobody seemed to be expecting a Jim Somerville. I began to wonder if I had come on the right night. Finally he suggested that I just park in the loading dock, especially since I wasn't going to be there long.
I made my way into the building and since it was still only 5:30 I took the elevator all the way to the observation deck on the 18th floor. It was breezy up there, and cool, but the views were incredible. It was a clear day, and I could see for miles in every direction. And since I had come to pray I began to pray for everything I could see: the city of Richmond there at my feet but then, looking up and away, the counties of Chesterfield, Henrico, and Hanover. I could see even farther than that, and so I prayed for all of Central Virginia, asking God to pour out his blessing upon it. It looked as if he already had, with the distant landscape and the downtown buildings all bathed in the golden light of the late afternoon sun.
At 5:45 I headed down to the second floor and the council chamber where I found my seat and waited to be introduced. There wasn't a big crowd in the room. People were still gathering. I saw a Boy Scout troop file in; policemen chatting with each other near the back wall. I looked over the prayer I had written and made a few edits. It was short. It wasn't supposed to be more than sixty seconds long. Mine was going to come in well under that. At 6:00 the president called the meeting to order, banged his gavel on the rostrum, and introduced Dr. Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond's First Baptist Church, for the invocation. I stood and said, "Let us pray," and then I said this:
"Lord, you know that the members and friends of First Baptist Church are on a mission to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia. I don't need to tell you that. But I pray that the City Council might join us on that mission, and that as they deliberate and decide they would consider how their actions might be good news for the poor, how they might set the captives free, how they might open the eyes of the blind and set at liberty those who are oppressed (Luke 4:18), in other words, Lord, how through their deliberations and decisions your kingdom might come, and your will be done, in Richmond, as it is in heaven. Amen."
And that was it.
I joined the council in the pledge of allegiance to the flag, and then turned and left the podium, walked up the side aisle, and out of the room. I don't know what happened next. But I have this hope that some of those words fell on good soil, and that some of those council members considered how they might join us on this mission, and that, yes—even in their deliberations over zoning restrictions—they thought about how they might bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and how they might set at liberty those who are oppressed, because really,
What good is power if you don't use it on behalf of the powerless?


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Mr. Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. came to Sun Microsystems today to talk
to the Women@Sun group about the triumphant women's suffrage movement
in the United States that took more than 60 years to gain success.
Sixty years! Just for women to get the right to vote! [1] Mr. Cooney
became interested in this movement in the 1970s when attending school
to become a graphic artist, when he realized the large prejudice that
women needed to overcome and that they were able to do this in a
nonviolent way.
This was such a difficult task, as the women
had to convince men that not only were women prepared to vote, but that
women were educated and informed. Only men could decide whether or not
to grant women the right to vote, and many of these men were ignorant,
uneducated and even illiterate. A difficult task at hand, indeed!
Suffragists started with parades in different states to raise awareness
of their concerns, along with organizing peaceful rallies. Getting
women to join in these events was difficult, as many were afraid that
their participation would be seen as too forward by the men and scare
the men off of giving them the vote even more, but the suffragists knew
they could not be silent. They need to be seen to be heard.
US Supreme Court had ruled that it was an issue that should be decided
by the states, so the women had to levy campaigns in each and every
state, a very arduous process indeed! These campaigns were most
successful in the progressive west. East of the Mississippi, the only
suffrage many women could get was the ability to vote only for school
boards and other small, local positions.
Susan B. Anthony
strongly believed it was really a federal issue, and began the push for
a federal amendment to the US Constitution. Unfortunately, she died
before seeing this come to pass, after 45 years of tireless effort on
her part. Fortunately, there were other women ready to take up the
task at hand and push the movement forward, even in times of war.
women found they were ignored by both major political parties, so their
took their parades to the democratic and republican conventions. At one
of them, the women actually had a silent, still "parade" - where they
all wore white with golden jewelry and parasols and lined the street
and stood silently while the delegates were participating in their own
march down that same street. The eerie silence had great impact on
those delegates, bringing the rights of women to the forefront of their
When the suffragists were not getting momentum
they wanted at the national level, they began to leverage their vote in
the western states to oust seated national politicians, targeting, in
particular, the democratic party. I find this an interesting historic
note, as the democrat party is now associated with women's rights, but
apparently the turn of the 19th century told a different story.
Mr. Cooney has documented this in his book, Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement,
is filled with outstanding images of the buttons and posters the
suffragists made, as well as pictures of the rallies and events and
documentation of the cruel treatment several women received for
protesting peacefully outside of the White House during World War I.
Cooney is an eloquent speaker and I really look forward to reading his
book in the up coming weeks, but all of this reminds me that all over
the world today, women still do not have the right to vote and have
themselves represented. It's so disturbing to me, because it seems like
such an inalienable right. How can we be citizens and pay taxes and not
vote? But, if it took more than 60 years to make such thing a
documented right in a progressive country like our own, it may be many
more lifetimes before women the world over have these same freedoms and
the same voice. Let's hope it comes sooner than later, for all of our


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