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Mitch Daniels asked why his state couldn't improve its finances and shake up the bureaucracy.
Eight minutes and 36 seconds. That's now the average wait time for customers at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles. It's a number Mitch Daniels knows by heart. When he took office, the bureau had a well-deserved reputation for poor service. "People showed up," the governor says, "with their lunch box, a copy of "War and Peace" and a bad attitude." Now? The bureau just won a national award for customer service. Says Daniels: "We have to add, 'No kidding.'"
The same could be said about Indiana's government, which is running smoothly despite the economic woes hitting much of the Midwest. When Daniels, a Republican, ran for governor in 2004, Indiana was using budgetary gimmicks to paper over its deficit. "Indiana had been steadily sliding in the wrong direction," says Steve Goldsmith, a former mayor of Indianapolis and now a professor of government at Harvard University. "Many of the state agencies were underperforming." Today, the story is dramatically different, thanks in large part to the governor's leadership.
Daniels wasn't the most likely person for Indiana to look to for solutions. He had plenty of experience — in the Reagan White House, as an executive with Eli Lilly and, most recently, as the head of President Bush's Office of Management and Budget, where he came to be known as "the Blade." But Daniels had never held elected office before.
The new governor quickly ensnared himself in two controversies. He wanted Indiana to join virtually every other state in adopting Daylight Savings Time. Plus, he wanted to lease the money-losing Indiana Toll Road to a private company to fund infrastructure improvements. Daniels' approval rating plummeted, but he kept pushing. The legislature agreed to the time change in 2005 and the toll-road plan in 2006. Today, while other states struggle to pay for road projects, Indiana has the money it needs. The state also can boast of a budget surplus and a new AAA bond rating.
Daniels' politics are conservative; his governing style is anything but. Last year, he won approval of a bold health care plan that uses health savings accounts to provide care to low-income Hoosiers. This year, he passed massive property tax cuts. He's also put in place all-day kindergarten, established merit pay for state employees and privatized the state welfare system. The jury is still out on some of these efforts, of course, but no one could accuse the governor of timidity.
Meanwhile, Daniels has shown himself to be ideologically flexible. He proposed a temporary income-tax increase in his first year, and he funded his health care plan with a tax increase on cigarettes. "We are believers in limited government," Daniels says, "but that imposes a responsibility to make certain, within its proper limits, government is as effective as it can possibly be."
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Assassin's Creed Revelations Ultimate Bundle detailed
Assassin's Creed Revelations is getting a $100 "Ultimate Bundle," which includes an Ezio figure and a replica flying machine.
Sometimes, spending $60 on a game just isn't enough. Thankfully, video game publishers have realized that gamers have a penchant for buying into premium limited edition versions of AAA games. Assassin's Creed Revelations is no different, with its very own "Ultimate Bundle." Spotted at GameStop, the $100 bundle includes the "Signature Edition" of the game, as well as two added bonuses.
The $40 premium will net you a 7 inch Ezio collectable. The figure has over 30 points of articulation and comes with interchangeable hands and a sword accessory, so you'll be able to pose your figure to your heart's content. Bonus: the figure features retractable blades, so you'll be able to scare small children.
In addition, you'll get a 7" replica flying machine from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. The wingspan extends over 2 feet, but note that some assembly is required. Also, don't try to throw it. We have a feeling it won't actually fly.
Assassin's Creed Revelations will be available on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on November 15th.
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There are only a few reputable Linux distributions out there, that are built and maintained by an experienced team that has a well formed understanding of who their target market is and what that target's needs are.
I've always been a fan of SuSE Linux… Its target is not the typical kid crowd that Linux seems to attract (Ubuntu?).
When Novell [SuSE Linux] initially made a deal with Microsoft, everyone was worried (or at least rightfully suspisious) that this was a poison pill designed to kill another company.
This did not happen.
Instead, the deal *worked*. Microsoft realized that 1) Linux was here to stay and 2) they might as well take advantage of that fact and stop fighting the tape.
So who do you partner up with? IBM? RedHat? I don't think so! You don't make deals with your enemies just like the US does not negotiate with terrorists.
Novel was a logical choice.
Now we have a Linux distribution that is certified and interoperates with Microsoft products. A distribution that is useful vs. being a play-thing to help spend your time idly.
And here is a great idea that Novel has put out: SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS.
JeOS (pronounced "Juice") is a minimal version of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform. It stands for "Just Enough Operating System". It allows you to get a base Linux distribution, add your applications to it, and have your clients, customers, etc, deploy the app+os bundle in a virtual machine.
Of course this is nothing new, but the difference here is that you have a well backed business designing, providing and maintaining a product that is targeted to a specific need. Unlike some of these other "lets just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" business models & their products.
This move by Novell is another key factor for the continuing success of the "software appliances" market.
Software appliances empower ISVs to deliver a fully configured, optimized software stack that incorporates the operating system, lower-level infrastructure products and applications in a unified, easily managed package. This emerging form factor ensures seamless interaction between the operating system and the application, and directly leverages the virtual infrastructure that customers are putting in place today.
The SUSE Appliance Program will enable ISVs to bundle their applications with customized versions of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform and to deliver the bundle as a software appliance, which can be run natively on x86-based hardware, or as a virtual appliance, which includes a paravirtualized kernel designed to deliver optimal performance in a virtualized environment.
Virtual appliances built in the SUSE Appliance Program will run on customers' choice of hypervisor, including Xen, VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V, as both a paravirtualized and fully virtualized guest.
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The Seeker Notes and Meaning Lights of Chinese Characters:
To teach, teaching, a school of thought,
religion or a method/philosophy. It consist of two characters, one a man holding a stick –symbolise authority
and two-the action of a Master descending (pouring or transmitting) upon a
disciple/child/murid. So we had heard
the familiar name for Islamic teaching as Qing Zhen Chiao in
– Brightness, illumination or light. Consist of three characters , a cluster of Sun, Moon and Stars. Tai yang , Yueh and Xing. This deep meaning was captured nicely in several surah and ayats of Quran.
(Allah is the light of the Heaven and Earth)
Kaukabun durriyyun la syarqiyya wa la gharbiyya
( a glittering star neither East or west) Nurun alan-nur !
(Light upon Light and Allah whom He wills to His Light)
Fasting. One line of top cut off from food and a heart character below, a Shi-warning or proclaimation . Cut, reduce, diminish, hence fasting. It also means abstinence, to rule oneself,so that one fit to receive the inspirations of Heaven and the heart become pure-shining.
– True words spoken , by extension the effect produced upon other men. Truthfulness, confidence and trust. Character of a man standing firm by his words.
Wa Allahu yaqulu haqqa
Wa yahdi sabil
( And Allah spoke the truth
and guide to the correct Path).
Ya ayyuhal lazina manu
taquLlaha wa qulu sodidan
(Oh you who have iman, fear Allah and speak truthfully… and He will give you knowledge, discrimination, blot out your wrong actions and forgive you..)
supernatural beings of men, jinn or angels. Two combined characters of a
man standing beside a mountain. A man whose rose high above mortals. Exalted
spiritual station. People like to meditate on remote mountains to get
enlightenment, purify their spirits. Refer to first Prophetic Revelation that
occur in the Mountain Cave of Hira, more than a kilometer high at the outskirt
( Read-recite in the Name of your Lord who created you. Who created man from a clot of blood/water. Read in the Name of a Generous Master.
He teach men what they have no knowledge before ).
Ar-Rahman, allamal-Quran
Khalaqal insan, allamahul bayan.
( The Mesrciful who taught you
the Revelation of Quran , who created man and taught you speech/language !)
24. Quranic Verse Hundred
of Surah Ten:
( Ma ma kana li-nafsin an tu'minu illa bi-idzni'Llah)
Bow, prostrate and worship
Your Lord and do good actions
That you may achieve success
(from Allah in the Akhirah)
Once upon a
time in the
Ihsan Poem by Abdal Qadir as-Sufi
Making Bread –
Civilization and After
Hajj Issa Bryce in the desert
Ramadhan Discourse by Shaykh Muhammad ibn alHabib
Fuqara praying
Abdal Samad Clarke
Hajji Abdal Aziz Redpath
Hajj Abdal Haqq Bewley
As-Siddique- by Harun Sugich
Ihsan –malay translation by Shamsudin Idris
And a greater fool who returned it !
or covering up of kufr
Ride the horse of Fana
And let it charge to Boraq
Keep moving toward its Friend
No hands or feet are required.
Is the title of my poem printed in the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association (MACMA) magazine in 2001 or you are merely another reader
then your journey is on paper
until you meet the Tiger
Pao Chi from the Era
of Emperor Chiu lung
Lao Tzu wander to the West when
Nobody practiced the Tao
Left a book called Tao Te Ching
Just 6,000 characters so people after his age will be thirsty again.
Mulay Darqawi dispense it generously and al-Alawi gave it free
Until it reached me.
are brothers.
A Sage is the teacher of
A hundred Generation.
The Most Glorious Sage
Rasul is the Teacher of a Hundred Generations (until the end of time)
Blessing and peace be upon him as long the wind blows and the sun rise.
Khien :
a.The dragon appearing in the field.
(it really happened when the Venerable Master arrived in
i. To remove the shackles of intellect who claim to know too much and make complaints.
j. Admitting
the virtues of women-faqirat. Three of them flew to
Alawiyya of Umar Bey, Sayyidah Fauziah of Habib Dahigen and Sayyidah Salamah of
Qasim. And we lost two ecstatic fuqara in
Fa ma nabata mimma la yudfan
La yatimmu natajahu
(Bury your existence in the earth
of moister obscurity
what coming out without
planted properly will not give fruits)
34. Book 12:1:1 of Analects
is perfect virtue (for superior man).
Subdue(annihilate his nafs) himself and return to the wisdom of the Rite.All under Heaven will ascribe virtue(praise) to him.
The disciple Yenyuan said: I beg to ask the steps to become a superior man. Master Kung replied:
Look not what contrary to Li
Listen not what contrary to Li
Speak not what contrary to Li
Make no movements
what contrary to Li
35. The sayings of Prophet s.a.w
as related by sayyidina Ali about the Sunna to be followed by the umma ecorded
in As-Shifa of Qadi Iyad:
Marifa is my Capital
Intellect is foundation of the Deen
Love is my Treasure
Yearning is my riding beast
Remembrance of Allah
Is my companion in intimacy
Firmness is my hidden wealth
Sadness is my dear friend
Knowledge is my weapon
Patient is my contenment
Zuhud is my clothing
Yaqin is my strength
Sincerity is my blessing
Obedience is my measure
Jihad is my character and
The coolness of my eye
Is in the prayer.
The Words of Hikmah
Is the Lost Camel of the Mumin
(al-Kalimatul Hikmatu dhallatul mu'minin)
so wherever he finds it,
he has a better right to claim it.
Recorded by Imam Tarmidhi.
He who go forth in search of knowledge
Is traveling in the Way of Allah
Until he returns to his home.
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Cook the Book: Almond Gnocchi with Lamb Ragu
I've saved Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond's gnocchi with lamb ragu for Friday, because I think it'll make a great weekend project. Properly-made gnocchi are a joy both to roll and to eat, and this version, which calls for the potatoes to be riced instead of mashed, ensures a light and tender result, with a touch of texture from the almond flour.
The ragu uses just a couple of lamb shoulder chops, braised to pull-apart tenderness, but you could leave out the meat entirely and make a simple tomato, sage, and oregano sauce.
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- For gnocchi:
- 3 small russet potatoes (about 1 pound), unpeeled and scrubbed
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (1 ounce), plus more for serving
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 egg yolk
- For lamb ragu:
- 1/2 pound lamb shoulder round chops
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup small-diced onion
- 2 large cloves garlic, sliced very thin
- 1/2 cup red wine
- 1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, seeded and crushed
- 3 fresh sage leaves
- 1 sprig oregano
To prepare the potatoes for the gnocchi, put the unpeeled potatoes in a large pot and fill it with cold water. Bring the water to a boil, then simmer the potatoes for 30 minutes, or until fork tender all the way through. Turn off the heat, remove the potatoes from the water with a slotted spoon, and run cold water over them. Set them aside to cool slightly. Reserve the hot water in the pot.
To make the ragu, season the lamb with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a large saute pan over high heat. Add the lamb to the pan and sear the pieces for about 5 minutes on each side, until nicely browned. Remove the lamb from the pan and set aside. Add the onion and garlic and saute for 2 minutes. Pour in the wine, scraping the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Add the tomatoes, sage, and oregano. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover the pan, and braise the lamb in the sauce for 1 1/2 hours.
To make the gnocchi, while the lamb cooks, whisk together the flours, cheese, and 1 tablespoon salt in a large bowl. Peel the potatoes, discarding the skins, and squeeze them through a ricer into the flour mixture. Add the egg yolk and gently stir all the ingredients together, forming a soft dough. If the dough is too sticky, add flour a few teaspoons at a time, taking care not to add too much. Knead the dough about 10 times and then cut it into 8 smaller pieces. Roll into a 1/2-inch-thick rope, and cut into 1/2-inch pieces. Transfer the pieces to a rimmed baking sheet dusted with flour. Return the pot of water to a boil and season with salt.
To finish the dish, when the meat is very tender, take the chops out of the sauce. Shred the meat with two forks and return it to the pan, discarding the bones. Remove the sage leaves and the oregano sprig, season with salt and pepper to taste, and keep the ragu warm.
Gently drop batches of the gnocchi into the boiling water and cook for about 3 minutes, until the gnocchi float to the top of the pot. Transfer the cooked gnocchi with a slotted spoon into the warm ragu. Continue until all of the gnocchi are cooked.
Gently toss the gnocchi with the ragu over low heat. Divide the gnocchi and lamb ragu into serving bowls, sprinkle with cheese, and serve.
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This section provides an overview of many benefits available to faculty and staff. In the event of conflict between the overview provided in this handbook and the plan document or insurance plan, the plan document or insurance plan will govern. Complete descriptions are not possible in the handbook; employees should contact Human Resources for specific plan details. The Labor Agreement governs in the case of Union employees in all aspects of this section. Regular non-union employees who have a schedule involving a (.46) FTE or above, and Union employees who have a (.50) FTE or above are eligible to participate in the College's benefit programs.
Carleton College will comply with all applicable laws such as ACA, FMLA, federal, state, and any applicable regulations.
Travel or Non-Travel Accident Insurance
College-Provided Travel Accident Insurance: Employees of the College who are full-time or part-time (working .46 FTE or greater) are covered under an Associated Colleges of the Midwest Travel, Accidental Death, and Dismemberment policy when in a business travel status for the College. The benefit amount under this program is equal to two (2) times base annual salary, subject to a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $300,000. The benefits are paid to the group life insurance beneficiary in the event of death. Benefit will reduce by the percentage indicated below according to your age.
Age 70-74 65%
Age 75-79 45%
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Age 85 and over 15%
Travel Assistance Program: The Hartford offers benefit-eligible employees a travel assistance benefit with several unique services including visa, passport, and inoculation and immunization requirements; travel advisories; foreign exchange rates; embassy and consulate referrals; medical referrals (referrals to medical providers worldwide); medical evacuation; and many more. Service is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
Voluntary Travel/Non-Travel Group Accident Insurance: The College offers a voluntary plan of group accidental death and dismemberment insurance, which covers both occupational and non-occupational accidents. This insurance is available to regular benefit-eligible employees and dependents. This is 24-hour protection designed to cover not only travel accidents but other kinds of accidents as well (with certain standard exclusions) whether or not the employee is on College business. The cost of this protection is based on the benefit amount selected for either the employee-only plan or the family plan. This insurance is available in amounts ranging to $500,000. The premium is payable on a per paycheck basis through payroll deduction.
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Christmas Day 2014! The day the kids...and I.....have waited for ALL year long was finally here! They crashed before 8:30 so I assumed they would be up at 4am running and squealing through the house. But, I was wrong...they slept till 7am and came quietly into our room to tell us Santa came! They were so excited to see what Santa had brought them!!!
Since Creed was awake we finally got to get a few pictures of our little family!
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Mercedes GL-Class SUV received a brand new trim level this year with the introduction of the GL350 BlueTEC. As expected from Mercedes, this year's GL brings lots of improvements to the table both inside out and aims to deliver a more powerful yet efficient powertrain. Spaciousness is also one key element on which the German manufacturer focused to improve so it all seems quite promising so far.


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What is justice? In the Core Curriculum, Columbia's undergraduates read Plato's Republic and other works to explore their own timely answers to that timeless question. Across our campuses, we think and act together to define and live up to our highest ideals as a society.
While recent decades have seen progress, injustice persists in stark forms. The prosperity, access, and comfort of some highlight the need, isolation, and uprootedness of others, and, in spite of the interconnections of our age, the gap between haves and have-nots is more pronounced than ever.
How are people's chances diminished because of their race, gender, religion, or economic background? Whose voices are heard? How are resources shared? What steps can be taken to expand the public good? These are issues that concern us all, around the world, as people bound to one another.
Our commitment to Just Societies renews and emboldens efforts to build an equitable, inclusive world through research, teaching, and civic engagement, and the nature of our campus community itself.
We have only begun to understand the dynamics of contemporary privilege and inequality. Poverty is one glaring example. In the US, the top 0.1 percent of the population earns on average roughly 184 times more than the bottom 90 percent. Globally, the gap is starker: cumulatively, some 85 of the wealthiest people are worth more than the poorest 3.5 billion people. How do we make sure all people have enough food to eat and water to drink? How can each person thrive on her own terms and regardless of circumstance?
At Columbia, we must bring our most advanced thinking and most sophisticated methods to bear on achieving greater justice. As we do, we learn from and with the world, avoiding the arrogance of the outside expert by working with partners who understand injustice—and what can remedy it—firsthand.
Justice begins right on campus—with the diverse community we create, the values we embody, and the ideas we explore.
We commit to strong financial aid for students at every school to make sure that our classrooms—and eventually the nation's courtrooms, newsrooms, and boardrooms—benefit from the very best talent from all backgrounds, chosen for their ability, not their ability to pay tuition. And together, we tackle complex issues from disability rights to the dynamics of sexual violence, gender, and race, including through our office of University Life, established in 2015.
Recent transformative initiatives include a ten-year Atlantic Philanthropies partnership supporting activists and scholars aimed at ending anti-black racism. Social justice appears as a focus for faculty and students across our schools and campuses, from veterans in our School of General Studies to environmental justice through the Earth Institute. It spans programs throughout our law school and specific institutes, from the Center for Justice, which sponsors programs related to incarceration, to the new Knight First Amendment Institute to the anticipated Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights.
In 2017, to amplify such efforts, we have convened a University-wide faculty group addressing social justice. As never before, we are working together to harness resources that shape thinking, models, and practical solutions for a fairer world.
When you look at what distinguishes Columbia from its peers, one clear dimension is the critical mass of faculty and students working in this area of just societies. It is truly remarkable.
Columbia students, faculty, and alumni are building a more equitable and inclusive world.
Columbia's Freedom & Citizenship Program helps NYC high schoolers find new possibilities
Butler banner project honors women writers and visionaries
Students Inspire MTV's Spotlight on Maternal Mortality
Can students inform NYC's urban agriculture policies?
Can centering the Black model in modernism change how we see art?
How can music help shape the lives of prisoners and former prisoners?
How is a catering company giving refugees a fresh start?
Can a student once in prison support formerly incarcerated scholars like her?
How can an online course expand knowledge of women's history?
Can understanding Columbia's ties to slavery spur justice today?
How can we bring together change-makers in the US and South Africa to end racism?
People a day are forced to leave their homes due to persecution and conflict
Of the world's prisoners are in the US
Percent of the US population earns over 184 times more than the bottom 90 percent
How can image-based blogging defeat Internet censorship?
Can brain science lead to more constructive drug policies?
Will understanding inequality's price lead to alternatives?
Will a fellowship for students from Historically Black Colleges help diversify business?
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When I finished my BS in Dublin, I was working on a project with kids on probation. I became interested in why some kids became violent as adolescents, which led me to look at families and communities.. Read More
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From the beginning of my career as a scholar, I've had an interest in the history and culture of disability. When my second child was born, and I learned that he had Down syndrome, I had to think about how to bring together my academic commitments with my new role as a parent and an advocate.. Read More
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WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department says it could begin decreasing the size of some of its debt auctions in coming months based on an improving deficit situation that will allow it to pay back some of the national debt this quarter.
Treasury said Wednesday that any decrease in the size of the Treasury securities it sells to raise money to finance government operations will be gradual and investors will be alerted to the changes. Treasury said for the current April-June quarter it plans to pay down $35 billion of the national debt, the first time it has reduced the debt in six years.
That pay down will be only temporary and reflects in part higher tax revenues in April. Treasury projected that borrowing will increase by $223 billion in the July-September quarter.
The $35 billion temporary pay down in the national debt marks an improvement in an estimate Treasury had made three months ago that it would be increasing borrowing by $103 billion during the April-June quarter.
Since the recession and financial crisis hit, the federal government has run up $1 trillion-plus deficits for four straight years.
Congress in January postponed a fight over raising the debt ceiling, temporarily suspending it until May 19 when it will revert to whatever debt level exists at that time.
Treasury officials said Wednesday that if Congress has not raised the debt ceiling to a higher level at that time, they would begin employing the measures they normally use such as tapping government employee pension funds to clear room to avoid what would be a first-ever default by the U.S. Treasury on its debt obligations.
Matthew Rutherford, Treasury's assistant secretary for financial markets, said these "extraordinary measures" would allow the government to keep operating for a period of time after May 19, but he said at the present time Treasury could not be more specific on when it would run out of manoeuvring room.
However, the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think-tank , issued a report last week that said the date of a potential default would occur later than the July or August that many experts had previously thought. The centre's report said the government might be able to keep borrowing into September or possibly October.
Rutherford said that Treasury would "provide greater clarity at a later date regarding how long extraordinary measures will allow Treasury to continue to borrow."


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Cuomo's transit-crisis manager: The first 100 days of M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota
M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota, a lifelong conservative Republican, thinks the way the government funds the mass transit system that sustains New York's economy is fundamentally inadequate.
He has taken to saying as much in public, most recently at an infrastructure forum at Baruch College.
"It is only sustainable if our economy keeps growing or grows anywhere between 5 and 10 percent a year," said Lhota, a burly, bearded Giuliani-era deputy mayor who has been running the authority since Nov. 14. "We can't always rely on that."
It might seem obvious to suggest, as Lhota has shown a tendency to do during his first three months in office, that the financing structure of the M.T.A. is awful.
The authority, which operates buses, subways, trains and bridges, relies heavily on revenue streams that are sensitive to economic decline and vulnerable to the regular, short-sighted predations of Albany. Its finances were left so precarious by the recent recession that in 2009, the M.T.A. drafted its 1980s savior, Dick Ravitch, back into service to come up with a stabilization plan. His commission's report called for tolls on the East River and Harlem River bridges, but those proposals died in Albany, something Lhota attributed on Thursday to it having been thrust upon the legislature without sufficient public discussion beforehand.
Ravitch also called for the creation of a "payroll mobility tax," which did make it through Albany, but has since been under attack by suburban Republicans for whom a loud fight with faceless urban transportation bureacrats is all upside.
The M.T.A., a state authority, remains a big-government villain of choice for State Senate Republicans from Port Jefferson to Poughkeepsie. The Republicans who run the House of Representatives don't like the M.T.A. much, either. Right now, the House is trying to redirect substantial amounts of gas-tax revenues away from mass transit and toward highways.
While it has plenty of attackers, the authority has few public defenders.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, who, though widely admired for his ability to bring Albany to heel, has expended no political capital to defend expenditures on mass transit. In fact, Cuomo's apparent disinterest in transportation issues prompted Lhota's well-respected transportation-specialist predecessor, Jay Walder, to bolt shortly after he came to office. And the governor has since earned the displeasure of mass-transit advocates for excluding public transportation from the Tappan Zee Bridge-replacement project, and for horse-trading a payroll mobility tax cut for Republican support of a nominal tax hike on the very wealthy.
So to sum up, Lhota was installed by a governor who doesn't much care about transit to straighten out the finances and public image of an authority that is a political pinata, all while keeping the trains running on time.
Perhaps surprisingly, under these circumstances, Joe Lhota's first 100 days have been fairly calm. And perhaps more surprisingly, transit people seem to like the job he's doing.
For one thing, Lhota implemented Fastrack, a program that shuts down entire subway lines for a series of evenings to increase repair efficiency, and which has so far been well-received.
Advocates also say they like the way Lhota has been willing to argue the case for public investment in transportation.
When, during Lhota's Senate confirmation hearings, Suffolk County Republican Lee Zeldin said it would be better for the M.T.A. to receive no taxpayer money, Lhota responded, "There is no way that the M.T.A. can operate without taxpayer money. It was never envisioned to be run without taxpayer dollars. There is not a transportation or commuter rail or transit system in the country that doesn't work without some other infusion of cash."
Lhota has also loudly resisted the House of Representative's efforts to cut the gas tax (though that's not a particularly controversial stance to take in New York City, since the House is Republican, the city is Democratic, and the bill is unlikely to get the Senate's or president's approval anyway).
"So far, I think in terms of his public presentation of himself, I think he has come through with a lot of credibility," said Noah Budnick, deputy director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group.
Lhota says he's also been trying to make headway in Albany, to which he's traveled seven times to discuss transit issues with the executive and legislative branch, and where he lobbied alongside Transport Workers Union head John Samuelsen on Feb. 13.
"That never happened with Walder," said Jim Gannon, a spokesman for the T.W.U. who praises Lhota, even though the union is locked in contentious contract negotiations with the M.T.A. that may well influence the authority's ability to carry out its capital plan. Gannon points out that before implementing Fastrack, Lhota even consulted with the union beforehand about workers' concerns.
"I think he's definitely more politic, if you know what I mean," said Gannon. "Whereas Walder was very confrontational. You know, he just didn't show the union much respect."
If Walder were taking part in the negotiations, Gannon said, "There would be demonstrations and threats and saber-rattling all over the place."
Mass-transit advocates are also hopeful that Lhota will turn out to be more of an asset than they originally expected.
Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, is hopeful that Lhota will be more accessible than his predecessor Walder, and said that so far he's impressed with Lhota's outreach.
"With the exception of the Senator Bill Perkins flap, I watched him testify two or three times, and he's very responsive to legislators," Russianoff said. "He's very direct. There's really no B.S."
There is nothing accidental about Lhota's charm offensive. The chairman says very plainly that he believes establishing good relationships with stakeholders is the first step toward acquiring more support, financial and otherwise, for the beleaguered authority.
"It's important to have open lines of communication, so we can begin to change the image of the M.T.A.," Lhota said in a recent interview.
He'd like in particular to get state legislators, many of whom, he says, "believe we are grossly inefficient," to understand that half of the surplus on the M.T.A.- controlled bridges goes to the Long Island Railroad and Metro North.
"I need to get that across," said Lhota. "People do not know that. I can't tell you the number of legislators who don't know that. They think any surplus goes to the subways. And that's not true."
More broadly, his message has been simply that the authority is in an extremely precarious position right now, and that its financial needs must be taken seriously.
"I keep saying over and over again how precarious our financial situation is, said Lhota. "We're going to have to find different sources of revenue in order to find the capital necessary to sustain a state of good repair."
That sounds obvious, and yet there's been no one with any significant political power who's been willing to push for those secure sources of revenue, as illustrated by the outcome of the recent rescue plan devised by Ravitch, which was promptly discarded by Albany.
"If you look at the last fiscal crisis that the M.T.A. went through in 2009 and 2010, then-lieutenant governor Ravitch ... came up with one of the recommendations that was implemented by the legislature, was Payroll Mobility tax," said Lhota, during the Thursday forum. "Eighteen months later, you see the Payroll Mobility Tax being reduced. So there are mixed signals going on here."
One idea Lhota floated at the public forum on Thursday was the notion of tax-increment financing for the M.T.A., a mechanism by which the authority would get a piece of whatever real estate tax revenue is sparked by major infrastructure investments. New York City is using a similar sort of funding mechanism to pay for the 7-train extension to the far west side.
"We're building the Second Avenue Subway today with state dollars, with federal dollars, but there's no way that any of the economic demand that can come from the Second Avenue Subway will go back to pay off the M.T.A. for its investment," said Lhota. "Tax-increment financing has been talked about in the state for 30 years," said Lhota, in a follow-up interview. "It's a financing and funding arsenal that would be helpful in New York State."
But allowing the M.T.A. to use that mechanism will probably require Albany approval.
Which gets to Lhota's central challenge.
His ability to succeed in bringing the transit system through its current crisis intact—maintaining current levels of service, continuing with longer-term capital projects necessary to accommodate ridership in the future, and leaving it on a sustainable financial footing—depends on many difficult things. Some of those things are within his power to do something about: enlightened prioritization of the authority's maintenance and capital projects, for example, and negotiations with the transit union on pensions and benefits.
But other, simply, are much bigger than the M.T.A. chair.
"If ridership doesn't continue as it is, if federal financing doesn't continue at the same level," said Andrew Albert, chairman of the New York City Transit Riders Council and an M.T.A. boardmember. "Lots of different things have to come together for everything to be fine, which is very worrisome for riders."
New York's transit system, and in large part, its economy, will rise and fall depending not only on whether the system is run efficiently, but whether it is given enough resources in the first place to maintain itself and grow, and not perpetually be in a perpetual state of emergency.
"It's very tenuous and very perilous," said Charles Moerdler, an M.T.A. board member. "That's not an exaggeration, I mean seriously. The budget is balanced very delicately, because it is dependent very, very heavily on state and city grants in money."
And that it turn means Lhota will need what his predecessor didn't get, which is backing from the powerful and popular governor.
At the very least, Lhota has access, as illustrated by the time he spent on the second floor of the Capitol during each of his seven trips to Albany as M.T.A. chair.
When I asked Lhota what his tenure would be judged on, he said, "I think it will rest on bolstering and enhancing the image of the M.T.A., both with the riders, our customers, as well as elected officials, union leadership, board members and the media. I think that is instrumental to putting the M.T.A. back on good financial footing. We've got to enhance the image of the M.T.A."
In that regard, at least, he seems to be off to a decent start.


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In the 11/11 issue of eurotuner Magazine we provided a photo of the new VW Beetle and once again challenged you to create something that would rock our world (http://www.eurotuner.com/news).
We also know the guys at VW of America pay close attention to what you do, so we wanted them to see how you might approach the restyled Bug.
With its sharper edges but distinctive lines, the Beetle is a motoring icon that lends itself to everything from a cuddly Herbie to a 911 Turbo replica – and we're happy to say, that's exactly what we got!
Although we had fewer entries than usual, we're confident these are some of the best renderings we've seen; clearly, the Beetle inspired you.
As before, we'd like to thank Mr Mitsch from Quartz Hill High School and Ms Knight from Knight High School for again encouraging their computer graphics students to enter the challenge. We included some of our favorite entries in print, but every single entry can be found here at www.eurotuner.com as usual.
In our top 20 printed selection, we included the work of Jose Lara from KHS in our shortlist, as well as four illustrations from QHHS. Despite it being their first semester, Jacob Buller, Kyle Lewandowski, Isaac Hernandez and Nicole Panossian caught our attention. We look forward to seeing what all these children can do once they've got a bit more experience. All the remaining images can be found here.
Although the Photochop Challenge is just for fun, we like to recognize talent with a pair of Pro Spec 1.0 competition driving shoes courtesy of Ken Block at DC Shoes (dcshoes.com).
These babies cost around $200 in stores or online, and the FIA-approved Pro Spec comes in Royal blue. It was developed for use by professional drivers such as Ken; co-founder of the premier skate shoe company, Ford WRC driver and star of his own legendary Gymkhana videos.
Deciding the recipient was again very difficult. It came down to Neill holding his breath and some arm-wrestling with Sam. Eventually, we gave the nod to Todor Kolev from Bulgaria. He finished second in our Previous Ford Focus Photochop, but reached the top step this time around.
His classic 911-style makeover was superbly executed in its candy red paint. It has some good shading and we liked its deep front spoiler, side skirts, mirrors as well as that rear wing. We also loved the deep-dish BBS, and there's great interior detail with its Recaro seats and rear cage.
Todor will now be the best dressed man in Bulgaria with his Pro Spec 1.0 shoes! More of his work can be found at tktuning.deviantart.com
We're also going to send T-shirts to the guys in second and third places because they definitely deserve special recognition. We loved Francis Phillips' cool-blue Bug with its R32 swap, BBS LMs and new front bumper. Francis also shaved the hood, bumpers and doors to give it a super-clean finish that begs to be driven.
Jordy Williams also deserves commendation for his Bug Speedster with its chopped roof, shortened windshield, larger front bumper, spaced wheels, custom paint and leather interior.
Jordy entered a second Beetle that made this printed shortlist: it's the slightly stretched pink/green illustration on Ronal Turbos…
Other mentions go to Barry Borchardt's aggressive racecar, Cameron Scott's surf Bug and Daniel Nita's widebody.
Once again, Mike Shofner put pencil to paper with good effect, proving you don't have to master Photoshop to enter a Photochop Challenge.
We'd like to congratulate our top 20 and encourage you to check out all the other entries here at www.eurotuner.com
Look out for Photochop Challenge 13 in the June 2012 issue of eurotuner Magazine and here at www.eurotuner.com
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Clear and well-organised archiving. This is possible with the Gispen Meta cabinet range. Gispen Meta is versatile due to its various possible layouts; archiving on shelves, in drawers and pull-out frames. Binders, hanging files, data files and letter boxes can all have their own place. The ingenious measurements provide optimum storage capacity. For instance, the 70 cm high side/top cabinets have a well-thought-out inside dimension holding two roll out file frames. The 120 cm high tambour door cabinets will fit three rows of binders. The cabinets have floor levelers which can be adjusted from the inside.
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PEAR, the large repository of useful PHP libraries, is steadily growing even more in popularity. The PEAR server packages introduced have made it even easier for people to share their own libraries with the world. Unfortunately, all of this useful code doesn't come without a few issues, and in this new blog post, Lukas Smith mentions the top five packages with the most number of bug reports.
The 5 packages with the most bug reports are all pretty popular although the quality of the code varies. They are all also fairly complex and/or large. I have gone through the bugs of most of them now and then to see if I spot an obvious bogus report.
As of the time of this post, the top five are:
- Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
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Try researching recovering the master database online and you will see countless references to having to have SQL at the same version and builld level as the backup of the master database. Since most folks probably don't have a routine in place to record the version number each time SQL server is patched we need a way to be able to determine the version and build level of our instance.
If you take regular backups of the master database and have to restore to the same instance, you should be ok to not have to worry about the version. However, if you are having to recover the system database from one instance to another server, then the build version becomes very important.
Imagine the scenario that you get a call from the NOC at 3:00 AM stating an important production server has crashed. You crawl out of bed, remote in and realize that all your SAN LUNS are missing. You report back to the NOC, they call the SAN administrator and you learn that the LUNS are unrecoverable. As luck would have it, you have a spare server you can migrate over to but you don't script out all your user objects so you have to recover the system databases as well. What version are you on? 10.0.4023 or 10.0.4062 You don't know. All you know is SQL 2008 Sp2.
As luck would have it, the boys and girls at Microsoft thought ahead. This data is stored in the header and we have the ability to retrieve that information.
This will return the SoftwareVersionMajor, SoftwareVersionMinor, and the SoftwareVersionBuild. For example 10.0.4064. Pretty neat huh?
Once you have SQL on the new instance installed and patched to the same level, you can start SQL in single user mode, connect to SQL using SQLCMD, and then restore the master database. There are tons of blogs with step by steps on how to recover the master database.
I hope you never have to use this in production, but you should have plenty of experience practicing this.


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Recently my teacher said that if the plant's bark somehow gets ruined, the plant will eventually die. She said that the floem gets damaged and therefore the glucose cannot be transported to the roots. My problem is that I do not really understand why the floem gets affected when the bark gets ruined (by for example a badger). So, I will be happy if one of you all can explain why it is like this. 🙂
Thanks in advance!
The phloem cells are loving cells, whilst the xylem are formed of dead cells. The xylem are on the inside of the vascular bundles, and eventually are used to create the dead heartwood at the centre of the trees.
This means the phloem are always on the outside the trunk, just beneath the periderm (bark). If you take off the bark, you are likely to damage the phloem as well. The phloem transport glucose from where it is produced (the leaves) to the roots so they can continue to grow.
@Babybel56: *living cells
yeah, the phloem is basically part of the bark, so whenever you damage the bark down to the wood, you're destroing also the phloem.
However, phloem doesn't transport nutrients (and it definitely doesn't transport glucose) from leaves only to the roots. In reality, very young leaves function as sink instead of source: http://www.scri.ac.uk/scri/file/annualr … SINKSO.PDF
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Just 100 metres from the beach, Mantra Legends Hotel is in the heart of Surfers Paradise, with cafes, restaurants, nightlife and shopping at its doorstep. You will be able to make the most of this thriving town from Mantra Legends Hotel.
Accommodation options range from Hotel Rooms to Spa Suites, all with ocean or hinterland views. If you are in town for business, a Hotel or Studio Room is the perfect option, for a slightly longer stay or perhaps a romantic weekend away a Two Bedroom or a Spa Suite would be simply ideal. All rooms feature air-conditioning, tea and coffee facilities, and WiFi (charges may apply) to make your stay as comfortable as possible.
Their facilities will make you feel at home whether you are travelling for business or leisure. Relax in the lagoon style pool or fit in a workout at the fully equipped gymnasium. Dining is easy with Fables Restaurant in the hotel, and Tales Lobby Bar is the perfect spot for pre-dinner drinks.
During your stay, the Surfers Paradise culture will keep you well entertained. Whether it's shopping, wining and dining, or swimming and relaxing you desire, anything is easy from Mantra Legends Hotel.
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Weymouth High volleyball coach Christy Hay is hoping that her team will open the season with momentum.
The Wildcats will return most of their top 10 players from a team that played very well in the second half of last season.
The returners give Hay an opportunity to get her team off and running right away.
"It is nice to see a veteran squad coming back," Hay said. "The players have a various amount of experience under their belt and I hope that we will have that leadership on the court.
"It makes it easier for us to jump into the season. The Bay State Conference is not an easy league. Once you get into the season it is tough because every game is a demanding one."
Weymouth, which went into the final week with an opportunity to reach the tournament, is looking to take the next step forward.
"Having so much experience can only help our development because we can start at a quicker pace," said Hay.
The Wildcats hope that the way they played in the final weeks of the season will carry them towards their goal.
"We did play well together," Hay said. "We consistently developed our game last year. We played some close games and had some tough losses at the end where we were competing in every match.
"I think this year I have to figure out my positions. I have to figure out my starters, my passers and my hitters. I have to figure out our best lineup and we have to jell and build our team chemistry."
The Wildcats' veteran crew is led by second-year captain Caroline Barrett. She has been a contributor as an outside-hitter and setter since her freshman season.
"Caroline is now in her fourth year on the varsity, she is my leader and my setter," Hay said. "I will be looking to her for senior leadership on the court.
"The setter is like a quarterback of the football team. They decide the plays and they have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders."
The team also has senior middle-hitters Brooke Valicenti and Imaya Leonard, who Hay feels are two of her strongest hitters, back in the front row.
"We also have Kayleigh O'Hara, who is a versatile player," Hay said. "She is very well rounded hitting wise. Defensively, (O'Hara) and Anjelika Macaibay are two of our anchors on our defensive end. Having those players return is huge.
"We have Andrea Scibillio who has progressed and she will have a roll on the team, it might be a variety of rolls. She and Lauren Sullivan will be our outside-hitters."


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April 10, 2012: Dr. Michael Rupen (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM) has informed us that he and his colleagues of the EVLA (Expanded Very Large Array) Nova Team are carrying out a multiwavelength campaign on the Fe II-type nova Nova Oph 2012 [V2676 Oph]. They have triggered observations with Swift, JVLA (Jansky Very Large Array), SMA (Submillimeter Array), and high-resolution optical spectroscopy. He is requesting AAVSO observations in support.
March 28, 2012: A possible nova in Ophiuchus [V2676 Oph] was announced on the IAU CBAT Transient Objects Confirmation Page (TOCP) page with the name PNV J17260708-2551454. It was discovered by H. Nishimura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) at unfiltered magnitude 12.1 on 2012 March 25.789 UT on three frames using Canon 200-mm f/3.2 lens + Canon EOS 5D Digital Camera. Spectra suggest that the object is an Fe II-type classical nova.


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This is the third and final post in our series on the Adobe Software Security Engineering Team's (ASSET) Software Security Certification Program, which formed the basis for the newly released SAFEcode Software Security Training. In the Overview post, I talked about the overall program, in the second post, I talked about the logistics of creating your own training program and using metrics to track your progress. In this post, I'll provide some tips for creating your own software security certification program or supplementing the SAFEcode Software Security Training with your own training.
While we were in the process of creating the ASSET certification program, there was a lot of trial-and-error learning that took place. Here are some of our lessons learned so if you're building your own training, you can skip the growing pains we experienced:
- Know your audience and tailor content to their needs. People will become frustrated if they cannot connect what they are learning to what they need for their job. It's like the age old question, "Why do I have to learn algebra if I'm never going to use it?" I'm not going to explain that one, but I do not want to address my deadline crunched Java developer with the specific reasons of how a course called "How to Write More Secure C/C++" is going to alleviate a worse situation down the road.
- We began with a more liberal arts approach to security and have since shifted to a more proscriptive approach over time.
- Also, we now have different tracks for different roles at Adobe. There's a manager's track, a Dev track and a QA track.
- Get executive buy-in. You can market a training program within a company until you die and get no traction unless somebody with power and influence throws their weight behind it. People want to know that the investment they make with their time will be recognized and valued by someone. What does it matter if I have a fancy badge if nobody cares what it means? Get executives to talk about, email about and even mandate trainings.
- Use crises to push your agenda. In order to get executives to pony up, you need to demonstrate the value of your offering. The most effective way to do this is to leverage a crisis. Use vulnerabilities that are painful or embarrassing to remind execs that proactive security work pays off; use the training to show them you have a solution. A developer who knows secure coding will be more efficient at hardening code.
- Use metrics to encourage participation, stimulate competition and show progress. We use our training metrics tracking tool (TESSA) to allow everyone to see who is and isn't trained. Training metrics consistently show that teams with higher training density perform better on quantified metrics like incident response time. Making metrics public, within the company, sparks competition among teams and individuals. Employees have tied achievement of certification belts to goals for their annual reviews.
- Refresh content on a regular basis. As we all know, the threat landscape continues to change. The Web hacking techniques from 2013 are different than the ones the Web hacking techniques for 2012. Developers continue to use new languages, open source components and new tools in their jobs. For this reason, it's important to revisit your security training content on at least an annual basis and update anything that's out of date.
Real Results
We believe the evidence proves our security training program is working. The first two levels of the certification program are now required of every developer and tester on every product team, as part of the Secure Product Lifecycle (SPLC) at Adobe. In 2008, security wasn't a regular topic on executive roadmaps, today the highest levels of management at Adobe review the "Security Health" dashboard for each major product and service on a regular basis.
The Intangibles
Although there is an initial investment associated with creating your own training, it's a great way to brand your security team(s) throughout the company and get the word out.
The training program has allowed the ASSET team to transition from "giving a man a fish" by repeatedly teaching primary security concepts, to raising security awareness among the development teams and "teaching a man to fish" by scaling and creating embedded security leaders (brown and black belts) to lead the security charge within development teams.
The impact of the ASSET certification program can't be overstated. Creating a training and certification program at Adobe catalyzed a cultural shift and ultimately built a foundation for the company to innovate and improve the security of all its products.
We began with approximately 25 original course offerings, and have since doubled that number. We continue to revise and add courses to our curriculum and build on the security culture at Adobe. If you're interested in talking about security training and our certification program, let's catch up at the next conference.
Josh Kebbel-Wyen
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Engineered Plants Soak Up Arsenic
By Cat Lazaroff
WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2002 (ENS) - A team of researchers has developed the first transgenic system for removing arsenic from the soil by using genetically modified plants. The new system could help remove the toxic metal from naturally and artificially polluted soil and water, reducing their threat to the environment and to human and animal health around the world.
The scientists inserted two genes from the common bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) that allow the test plant, a member of the mustard family called thale cress, to tolerate arsenic, which is normally lethal to plants. The plant removes arsenic from the soil, storing it in its leaves in a form that is less available to the environment, and easier to remove and eliminate.
Phytoremediation - the cleaning of polluted soils through the use of plants - has the potential to be of use on millions of acres of arsenic polluted lands. After plants absorb toxic materials, they store them above ground, away from soils and groundwater, and where they can be harvested and destroyed in a safe manner.
Still, the research team faced some daunting problems. Arsenic is toxic to most plants, so the idea of using a plant to withdraw arsenic from the soil seemed counterintuitive. But the team knew from other experiments that certain genes can make plants tolerate substances that would normally sicken or kill them.
Barry Rosen of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, a coauthor of a report that appears today in the journal "Nature Biotechnology," was the first to characterize the genes for arsenic resistance in bacterial and fungal systems, making phytoremediation of arsenic possible. That knowledge was combined with the special expertise of the team's other members, including postdoctoral associates Om Parkash Dhankher and Yujing Li of the University of Georgia (UGA); former UGA students Julie Senecoff and Nupur Sashti; Jin Shi of Wayne State University; and David Salt of Purdue University.
"Our working hypothesis was that controlling the electrochemical state of arsenic in the aboveground tissues and increasing organic sulfur 'sinks' throughout the plant would result in both resistance and increased accumulation of arsenic," said UGA's Meagher.
The team was able to insert two unrelated genes from E. coli called arsC and ECS into the model plant, thale cress or Arabidopsis thaliana. The team engineered the arsC gene to be activated by exposure to light, a technique that has been around for at least two decades.
The arsC gene reduces arsenate to a more toxic compound called arsenite, but only in the plant's leaves. The second gene, ECS, creates compounds in the plant that bind tightly to arsenate, making it less available to poison either the plant or to leach back into soil or water.
In essence, the altered plants remove arsenic from the soil, concentrate it, and then send it to their leaves. Instead of dying from exposure, the new plants thrive on the arsenic exposure, and when the plants are harvested, much of the arsenic pollution, once in the soil, can be removed from the site.
"One of the most important aspects of the research is that this new system should be applicable to a wide variety of plant species," said Meagher. "My colleague Scott Merkle, in UGA's Warnell School of Forest Resources, is already working on putting the genes into cottonwood trees, which have a large root system and could be useful in the phytoremediation of arsenic."
Other researchers have already found that a fern native to the southern U. S. can accumulate arsenic at very high levels, but the genetic basis for this activity is unknown, and the narrow growing conditions for most fern species make these plants less likely candidates for phytoremediation.
Plants genetically engineered to remove arsenic could be used now, the study's authors say, but they expect dramatic improvements in the amount of arsenic they can extract as this current strategy is expanded in future experiments.
Using plants to remove arsenic from contaminated soil could be useful to almost every nation. Inorganic arsenic compounds are classified as Group A human carcinogens, and last year, a U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel found that the risks of cancer from high levels of arsenic in drinking water was even greater than previously thought.
While soil in some areas is contaminated by natural arsenic deposits, many other sites are contaminated by spills and drainage from chemical and manufacturing plants.
Today's research paper notes that hundreds of polluted sites in the United States are listed on the National Priority List, or Superfund list, because they contain high levels of arsenic. Although these sites are recommended for cleaning, most have not been cleaned yet because digging up the soils and removing them to storage sites is both expensive and environmentally destructive.
But the most serious human health problems from arsenic involve drinking water. In the Indian state of West Bengal and in Bangladesh, where naturally occurring arsenic contaminates water at concentrations far above the recommended safe levels set by the World Health Organization (WHO), researchers estimate that more than 112 million people are afflicted with various levels of arsenic poisoning.
WHO estimates that 200,000-300,000 people in India have arsenic induced skin lesions and cancer, and an estimated 200,000 to 270,000 cancer deaths in Bangladesh will be due to high levels of arsenic in drinking water.
Study author Om Dhankher, a native of India, said health officials in that country consider arsenic pollution, particularly in West Bengal, to be a catastrophe.
The problems of arsenic contamination have received relatively little international publicity. While WHO and the European Union have adopted a drinking water standard of just 10 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic, standards in other nations are mixed.
The United States is scheduled to replace its 60 year old standard of 50 ppb with a new, 10 ppb standard, effective January 23, 2006.


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Combined with new technology, this expansion will accelerate Cambria's continued development of the world's best and largest design palette. Leading the industry in design innovation, Cambria captures the depth and beauty of marble and granite while offering the superior strength and performance of quartz.
"This is Cambria's second plant expansion in six years." said Marty Davis, Cambria's President and CEO "We are fortunate to have a product that consumers desire and this expansion demonstrates our long-term commitment to creating unique designs and establishing a strong quality supply channel for our valued partners."
According to The Freedonia Group, an independent company researching the home improvement category, quartz products will continue to grow at more than twice the rate of all other stone surfaces. Cambria's expansion will allow the company to continue its aggressive growth strategy, meet increasing consumer demands and continue to broaden its worldwide offering.
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TransCanada's Alex Pourbaix says the opposition to the project is 'not a surprise.'Two days after climate activists rallied on the National Mall, supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline were back on the offensive Tuesday.
They downplayed the opposition and reinforced the message that the pipeline is the best course for the both the U.S. and Canada.
"We always are concerned when there's opposition to our projects, but it's not a surprise," said Alex Pourbaix, president of oil pipelines and energy at TransCanada, during a reporter roundtable Tuesday at the National Association of Manufacturers' headquarters in Washington. "My experience is the events over the weekend are not getting nearly the coverage in the media they would have a year, year and a half ago. So I'm of the view that the temperature is going down on this issue."
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune scoffed at that statement.
"That TransCanada would say 'the temperature is going down' on dirty and dangerous tar sands that would only cause global temperatures to rise shows just how out of touch they are with reality," Brune said. "Whether they're denying that Keystone XL is an export pipeline or ignoring the significant international news created by the nearly 50,000 Americans who stood up for climate solutions, it's clear that no fact or truth is sacred to TransCanada."
Organizers originally estimated that 35,000 people participated in Sunday's rally against Keystone but now say that "more than 40,000" attended the event. Either way, they billed it as the largest climate rally in U.S. history. (The United States Park Police does not give crowd estimates.)
The event drew political and Hollywood stars, including former White House green jobs czar Van Jones, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and actresses Rosario Dawson and Evangeline Lilly. It also attracted national and international coverage in outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Spanish-language news organizations in Miami and Puerto Rico, The Globe and Mail in Canada and The Guardian in the United Kingdom.
But National Association of Manufacturers President Jay Timmons had a different yardstick in mind Tuesday: the 20,000 manufacturing and construction jobs and 118,000 related jobs that supporters say the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create.
"We have to ask ourselves, 'What else is the administration waiting for?'" Timmons said. "The questions about the path have been resolved. It's time for the administration to approve this project and put 140,000 Americans to work."
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HOW PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES USE STUDENT DATA FOR IMPROVING ACHIEVEMENT by David Reynolds ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2008 Copyright 2008 David Reynolds
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|No Child Left Behind has brought an increased expectation of accountability for all students. Professional Learning Communities is a strategy in which teachers can analyze data, reflect on instructional practices, and plan interventions for the purpose of increasing student achievement. This model embraces collective decision making, reflective thinking under the umbrella of a culture of collaboration for the sole purpose of monitoring student progress, ensuring that all students will learn.; The purpose of this research was to examine a school site in Southern California, Robinson Middle, which has successfully implemented professional learning communities, made evident by increasing API scores. Robinson Middle showed evidence of having a strong culture of collaboration that had developed over the past four years. The following overarching question was the basis of the literature review and interviews in the case study: How do Professional Learning Communities use student assessment data to increase student achievement? The study also included three supporting research questions: (1) What are the characteristics of effective professional learning communities that collaborate for the purpose of student achievement? (2) What do teachers perceive to be the benefits of working in professional learning communities compared to working in isolation? (3) How do teachers in professional learning communities use data to change classroom practices?; Based on my findings, Robinson Middle is supported by a strong leader that embraces the idea of building a strong culture of collaboration that shares a common vision for increased student achievement. The school principal, Mr. Thomas, has supported his staff by creating a time for teams to collaborate in order to share data, reflect on instructional practices, and plan interventions for struggling students. The staff embraces collaboration and discourages working in isolation. Creating staff development workshops for new staff members has helped new teachers to become active, contributing members of a PLC. Team norms also help team membersunderstand expectations for collective decision making. Robinson teams also spend a great deal of time setting academic goals for students, selecting essential standards for each content area, analyzing and sharing effective instructional practices, and planning interventions for students not mastering the tested standards.; Other findings also appeared from the research that was not frequently discussed in existing PLC research. There was evidence from the case study that frequent reflection of current practices needed to be analyzed for its effectiveness and solutions needed to be found for issues not always discovered in the research (i.e., implementing tutorial programs in a current bell schedule, or altering a schedule to support collaboration time). It was also noted that PLC implementation had an impact on students who saw that similar practices were used throughout content areas, allowing for transferability. Finally, it was discovered that often, due to the fast pacing of a curriculum and testing schedule, that there is not enough time for a new teacher to assimilate into an already existing PLC team, therefore, requiring additional support for these teachers to be successful, such as beginning of the year PLC workshops.; Based on my research from one school site, it seemed as though further case studies might include examining the implementation of PLCs at typically low performing schools, including the examination of the effect of PLCs on typically low performing subgroups, such as the Hispanic / Latino population within a school site. Further research could also be conducted on the effects of current tutorial programs and the data outcome of some PLC teams at a school site compared to another for their effectiveness in looking at data.
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YANKEES: Detroit Tigers defeat New York Yankees; Miguel Cabrera picks up four hits
DETROIT >> Miguel Cabrera had more hits Saturday than he did over the first four games of the season combined.
His teammates were pretty good, too.
Cabrera drove in one of four runs in the fifth inning on a 4-for-4 day and the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 8-4 Saturday.
Prince Fielder, one of six Tigers to drive in a run, had two RBIs one day after a two-homer, five-RBI performance in an 8-3 win over New York.
"It's a long season, we just have to keep this going," Cabrera said. "We have to stay focused and do our jobs so we can win as many games as we can."
The reigning Triple Crown winner had at least one RBI in his first four games this season and just three hits.
"One thing we're pretty sure of, he's going to hit," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said
Max Scherzer (1-0) gave up four runs in five-plus innings to pick up the win in a shaky start, his first of the season.
Phil Hughes (0-1) allowed four runs -- three earned -- on eight hits in four-plus innings on a day he was originally scheduled to make a rehabilitation start in the minors.
"I felt good early on," he said. "The fifth inning was a big inning and I didn't make pitches when I needed to."
Detroit led 5-1 after five innings. New York pulled within a run in the sixth, then let Detroit go ahead 7-4 in the home half.
The Tigers will play for a series sweep Sunday in a matchup of aces, Detroit's Justin Verlander and New York's CC Sabathia.
Jayson Nix, filling in for Derek Jeter's injured backup, Eduardo Nunez, failed to field a routine grounder that allowed leadoff batter Austin Jackson to reach first. Jackson advanced to third on Cabrera's single and scored on Fielder's sacrifice fly.
"That's the reason you have to get the leadoff guy out," Hughes said. "It's a tough lineup, but if you make your pitches, it's not that difficult."
Vernon Wells sent a 2-0 pitch into the left field seats in the second to make it 1-all. Torii Hunter kept it tied by throwing out Brennan Boesch -- easily -- on Francisco Cervelli's fly to right after the outfielder got to, but couldn't catch Boesch's drive.
Leyland said Hunter's throw was a "huge" part of the game.
"That's a bit of a momentum take-away," Leyland said. "And a play like that can get lost in the shuffle."
Jackson hit his first of three singles in the four-run fifth in which Hunter, Cabrera, Victor Martinez and Jhonny Peralta each had an RBI.
"We swung the bats pretty good throughout the lineup and that's a good thing to see," Leyland said. "We talk about it all the time, when you extend your lineup like that, it's important."
Hughes, who was to pitch a Triple-A game Saturday as he recovered from a back injury, had his outing ended when he gave up a double to Hunter in the pivotal inning. Boone Logan entered and gave up two hits and an unearned run, and getting only one out.
"The fifth inning was a killer," Hughes said.
Hughes was one of five Yankees All-Stars on the disabled list with Jeter, third baseman Alex Rodriguez, first baseman Mark Teixeira and outfielder Curtis Granderson, leading to their 1-4 start.
"There's still a lot of time to turn things around," Hughes said.
New York got back into the game, briefly, by scoring three in the sixth and chasing Scherzer with two walks and Travis Hafner's RBI single.
Al Alburquerque relieved Scherzer with a three-run lead, two on and no walks. He gave Wells a free pass on four pitches and had the good fortune of having a call overturned. Boesch lined out to Fielder and the first baseman stepped on the bag before Wells got there, but the first-base umpire signaled he was safe before conferring with the home-plate umpire to fix his mistake.
"They got the play right, that's the most important part," Leyland said.
After Alburquerque gave up another walk, Lyle Overbay hit a two-run single to pull the Yankees within a run.
Detroit restored a comfortable cushion with Fielder's RBI groundout and Andy Dirks' single in the sixth along with strong pitching from Downs and Benoit.
New York reliever Joba Chamberlain let Detroit take a four-run lead into the ninth, loading the bases by giving up a single to Cabrera and walking Fielder and Martinez to set up Dirks for a sacrifice fly.
Darin Downs and Joaquin Benoit combined to pitch three scoreless innings to finish up for the Tigers.
NOTES: Jeter, still recovering from left ankle surgery last October, did limited field work for the second consecutive day in Tampa, Fla. The shortstop fielded 41 grounders hit directly at him near the left-field fence, hit off a tee in a batting cage and played catch. ... The Tigers received their ALCS championship rings, which they earned by sweeping New York, in a pregame ceremony. ... Granderson could resume throwing next week as part of his rehabilitation program for a broken right forearm. The outfielder said Saturday he will have follow-up X-rays Tuesday and also hopes to be cleared to start swinging a fungo bat. ... Nunez, who was hit on the right biceps by a pitch Friday, said he's still sore with a lot of pain and swelling and probably won't play Sunday.


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Manager Manuel Pellegrini maintained it had been a "good week" for his Manchester City side despite missing the chance to go top of the Barclays Premier League after being held to a 1-1 draw at Arsenal.
Following Chelsea's shock 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace earlier on Saturday afternoon, City - who thumped Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford in midweek - would have gone ahead on goal difference with victory over the out-of-form Gunners.
However, despite taking an early lead through David Silva, it was Arsenal who showed the more desire as they recovered to turn in a strong second-half display and levelled through Mathieu Flamini.
Nevertheless City still hold matches in hand on their title rivals, and are just two points off the pace, although they could be back further behind Liverpool should they beat Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday.
It is all shaping up to be a tense run-in, with the Reds also building momentum and would themselves be back in the driving seat if they can secure maximum points from key home games against City and Chelsea still to come.
Pellegrini said: "Four points from Manchester United and Arsenal when both games were away is a good week for us.
"Of course we could be more happy if we won today - and we had, especially in the first half, the chances to do it.
"Arsenal had a better second half, but no chances to score apart from the goal."
The Chilean coach added: "It is not easy to come to Arsenal's home and beat Arsenal.
"All of us want to win all the points, but, I repeat, we had a good performance against a very difficult team at their own stadium."
Pellegrini is expecting more drama before the final whistle of the campaign in May.
"The four teams have chances in the future to win the title, and four teams will drop points between now and the end of the season," he said.
"It is always difficult at the end of the season because there are a lot of teams in relegation positions who fight for every point.
"Ask Chelsea today what can happen away. We must just continue thinking about the next game.
"It is very difficult for me to know what will happen in the future. What I know is that if we win our matches it will just depend on what we can do."
Arsenal - thrashed 6-0 at Chelsea to ruin manager Arsene Wenger's 1,000th match last weekend - needed a response to make sure they were not overrun once again in a showdown with a top-four rival.
Indeed, but for a fine reaction save from England keeper Joe Hart to deflect a fierce angled drive from Lukas Podolski behind in the 60th minute, the Gunners could have gone on to win the match.
Wenger was pleased that his side finally showed the required character.
"We were a bit nervy at the start, insecure in our attitude by our last two results, but even when we were 1-0 down you could see the team was ready for a fight," said the Arsenal manager, whose side had conceded a last-minute own goal to draw 2-2 at home against Swansea on Tuesday night.
"We controlled the second half, we controlled the first 20 minutes and overall in the first half maybe they had another chance, in the second half we had a second chance.
"We could have won it in the second half, but overall it was a game of quality between two good teams and the game was played with a great spirit on both sides."
Arsenal remain in fourth place, five points behind Chelsea.
Wenger said: "Chelsea lost today at Crystal Palace, so that means all of us have to be careful and consistent.
"It just shows that we have absolutely to fight until the end of the season because everybody can beat everybody.
"Mathematically we are still in there, but it is not in our hands.
"We have to look above us and behind us as well, because behind us they are coming as well."


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Md. court: Police must turn over racial profiling files
Decision is result of "Driving While Black" court battle from 1990s
Maryland's highest court ruled Thursday that the State Police must release files related to how authorities investigate racial profiling complaints.
The decision is the result of a court battle between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Maryland State Police known as the "Driving While Black" case, which dates to the 1990s.
The NAACP has sought 10,000 pages of documents that detail investigations into about 100 allegations of racial profiling from 2003 to 2007. Police have said all the complaints turned out to be unsubstantiated. Police have contended for years that the documents are personnel records that are exempt from disclosure under Maryland's public information law.
Gerald Stansbury, president of the Maryland State Conference of NAACP Branches, described the ruling as a victory for all Maryland residents.
"It sets a strong precedent and gives us the ability to determine if and when reports and complaints of racial profiling are thoroughly investigated and handled properly," Stansbury said in a statement.
Elena Russo, a spokeswoman for the State Police, said the decision is under review.
Debbie Jeon, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, said now that the court has ruled the documents should be made public, documents on alleged cases of racial profiling will also be sought on cases after 2007. Jeon said the fact that police said none of the 100 allegations turned out to be substantiated raised questions about how seriously the allegations were investigated.
"We want to know what the institution does to address complaints once they're filed and whether they are taken seriously," Jeon said.
A 2003 consent decree in federal court required State Police to work to stop racial profiling and promoted thorough investigations. But the NAACP and ACLU have argued that racial disparities in police searches have continued since then. In 2008, the state resolved a 10-year-old racial profiling lawsuit by approving a settlement for six plaintiffs, who received $20,000 each.


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