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I got up very early this Saturday morning to fly to Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, to spend a week getting acquainted with and working with our church planting mission there. Lazaro is a beautiful place on the southwest coast of Mexico and across the bay from Ixtappa. It is an important seaport full of working class people while Ixtappa is the tourist resort.
It was a short night after an exhausting week filled with anguish and loving concern. God's redemptive love showed up in the words and actions of brothers and sisters who helped carry another family through a time of unspeakable grief … again — it has been a hard journey for our faith family the last four months.
The first flight went perfectly without a hitch, plus my friend and church shepherd, Steve Ridgell, was on board. After arriving early to DFW, we prayed before going in different directions to answer God's shared but different calls on our lives.
I found a quiet spot and worked on heartlight.org piece for tomorrow and watched the Korean jetliner land coming in from Seoul, South Korea. I had been on that flight three weeks earlier returning from an incredible follow up visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand. I wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean, but I do know that I hope this trip is equally blessed and effective.
After working on the article for a couple of hours, I rushed to the gate to board the plane and found a plane full of folks with no airplane! Ugh, this is going to get interesting and everyone knew it. Those with little children had that deer in the headlights look and we hadn't even started the "fun" stuff yet. My AA flight alert went off very 30 minutes promising we would take off in 30 more minutes — which, of course, none of us believed because the plane wasn't even at the gate yet. We boarded 2 hours after we were supposed to be in the air and all the small kids were now at the end of their patience and their parents had that knowing look of the "wonderful" moments to come. They weren't disappointed … unfortunately.
Now an two hours into the flight, Bose headphones on, all the kids settled down and asleep, and the flight smooth as silk, I am reminded of something precious. One of my favorite Jesus events in the gospels is the healing of the man with leprosy in Mark 1. Jesus touches the may with leprosy before he heals him. So much is said with that one touch.
Jesus shares in the unclean-ness of this isolated and alone man when he blesses him with a moment of connection and heaven's grace with the touch of a hand. We are alerted to look for Jesus' touch in so many events that follow in his ministry — taking mud and spit to touch the blind man's eyes, holding little children in his arms as he blesses them, taking the little dead girl's hand and raising her from the dead, taking the simple loaves and fishes from the little boy and making a meal for a multitude, touching the dirt with his finger as he writes in the sand while facing down the mob who caught the woman in adultery, and offering Thomas his nail-scarred hands as proof of the resurrection, and as he stretches out his arms in love to offer those hands that shaped creation to be pierced by the very men who he formed in the wombs of their mothers.
The power of skin-on-skin touch is so much a part of our humanity whether it is the soft touch of a lover and lifetime spouse or the simple powdering of a baby's freshly cleaned bottom or the tickle of a daddy on the ribs of his beloved child or the wrinkled hand of reassurance gripping tightly the hand of a friend who is slowly slipping away to walk with Jesus down better roads. No wonder heaven's pre-existent and divine Word had to become flesh and walk among us.
I was reminded of this power afresh as a young mom wrestled with her 3 or 4 month old child trying to get her to take her bottle. The mom's efforts were futile and the little girl was on a mighty crescendo until the mom discreetly lifted part of her blouse and laid her little girl against her skin and let her quietly nurse herself to sleep. As one baby grew quiet, the other little ones settled down, peace descended, and the atmosphere among our long-delayed band of travelers changed — one mother offering herself in such a sweet and simple way changed everything.
I am not sure how long this peace will continue, but long enough to let me finish my ramblings here. The point is very simple. There is great power in the human touch, especially from someone who loves us and genuinely cares about us. So in a week when grief and separation have hung in the air of every breath many of us have breathed, I would urge that you take this as a reminder to touch — hug, hold the hand, stroke the hair, rub the shoulders, or kiss the cheek of someone dear and remind them in both word and touch that they are precious to you.
So till we are reunited, my precious ones, your touch is in my mind and my love for you fills my heart as your faces fill my dreams.
Love you. God bless you. And may Jesus be real to your heart and your touch.
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In what has come as a sweetener in the festive season, the prices of sugar have fallen by more than Rs 200 per quintal in Punjab. However, the benefits have not entirely trickled down to the end consumers.
As per the information, the Centre had recently issued instructions to the sugar mills telling them to utilise their quota of sugar within a stipulated time frame or the remaining stock will be treated as waste. Fearing loss, the sugar mills pushed their stored stock into the open market creating a problem of plenty while bringing down both the wholesale and retail prices of the essential commodity.
Good quality sugar is now available at Rs 37 a kg against Rs 39-40 a kg earlier while the medium quality sugar is going for Rs 35 a kg in the wholesale market. The fall in prices came over a period of several days.
Jagjit Singh, president, Wholesale Sugar Association of Punjab, said, This fall in the prices came about in the last 20 days. Sugar is available in plenty now and retailers should also pass this benefit to the customers.
The new sugarcane crop has also reached the market and the crushing has already begun further bringing down the prices of the end product.
It may be mentioned that in retail market, this benefit has not yet been passed on to the customers. In fact, the sweetmeat shop and bakery owners, who had till days back bought sugar at Rs 40 a kg, have hiked the prices of their products by as much as 25 per cent compared to last year. However, the shop owners blame inflation and increased prices of the raw materials for the hike in rates of sweets and baked items. Sugar is not the only ingredient. The prices of every ingredient has gone up. Even the transportation has become costlier owing to hike in diesel prices. We are forced to add this cost, Narinder Singh, president of Halwai Association, said.


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The annual American Association of University Publishers meeting is going on this week. This morning, a plenary was held on "Three Big Ideas in Publishing." I wasn't in attendance, but the conference has a thriving Twitter backchannel on #aaup13. I have very strong feelings about university presses, partly because I've been so fortunate at their hands, and partly because there's… read more


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Music Scholarship Concert Series concert to feature guitarist Michael Hull
January 4, 2012
Peoria, IL (December 22, 2012) The next concert in Bradley University's Music Scholarship Concert Series will take place on Sunday, January 22, at 3 p.m. In Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Admission is $5 and free for students.
The concert will feature guitarist Michael Hull. He will present a stylistic variety of music from England, the United States, Latin America and Spain. Featured on the program are two of the guitar literature's most loved pieces--Leyenda and Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Spanish composers Isaac Albeniz and Francisco Tarrega. Other works include the music of Cuba (Leo Brouwer, Julian Orbon), Venezuela (Antonio Lauro) and much more. In addition, Mr. Hull will premiere a new work, which he composed.
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Just a few weeks ago I had the honor of presenting a keynote at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Congress 2012 in Orlando, Florida. My talk focused on the cloud security themes and topics that have been top of mind for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other security professionals that I have been talking to about cloud security.
Several trends have been influencing the ways security professionals have been thinking about the roles that Information Technology (IT) plays in their organizations and how associated risks are managed. The consumerization of IT, Big Data, the evolution of consumer privacy, targeted attacks, governments' roles in cybersecurity, are all influencing conversations about IT and cloud computing.
Frank Simorjay and I on stage at CSA Congress 2012
I was joined on stage by Frank Simorjay, a Senior Product Marketing Manager from Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft. Frank demonstrated a new free tool that Microsoft recently released called the Cloud Security Readiness Tool. I plan to write an article on this tool in the near future, but in a nutshell, it allows you to take a short survey that assesses your current IT environment with regard to systems, processes, and productivity. The survey information creates a custom non-commercial report that provides recommendations on your IT state and helps you evaluate the benefits of cloud computing.
The Cloud Security Readiness Tool available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/security/jj554736
While at the CSA Congress 2012, I also participated on a panel discussing the topic of Big Data. I had the good fortune of being on this panel with several experts in this field including Arnab Roy (Researcher, Fujitsu Laboratories of America), Russell Dietz (CVP and CTO SafeNet Inc.), Todd Thiemann (Senior Director, Vormetric Inc.), and Steve Warner (Technical Fellow, R&D Manager and Chief Scientist, Northrop Grumman Information Systems). During this panel discussion the topic of Differential Privacy (DP) came up. Essentially this approach adds noise to the results of database queries in an effort to help prevent results of queries from being linked to other data that could later be used to identify individuals. This is a very interesting topic in the context of Big Data. If you are interested in learning more about Differential Privacy, Microsoft recently published a new whitepaper on this topic.
At the conference I had the opportunity to meet and talk with many people from different organizations who are either already using the cloud or in the process of evaluating cloud services. Cloud security topics such as security controls, security standards, compliance, auditing, were the themes of most of these conversations. It's clear that transparency continues to be a critical ingredient in successful partnerships between cloud providers and their customers.
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Babymouse is such a charmer! I love the way her story is relatable, yet she goes on the craziest adventures in her mind. "Babymouse couldn't imagine not having Wilson as her BF. It would be like a cupcake without icing. A book without a good ending. A dress without a heart."
A very cute series that reminds me a lot of Ramona Quimby, if she were a mouse starring in her own graphic novels. I think this is a great way to get girls to read, and a great way to get girls to read graphic novels. The books are pretty quick reads with entertaining stories, and Babymouse is a great role model - she's a dreamer, but when it comes to getting stuff done and standing up for herself, she does so without making any apologies.
When a kind-hearted young mouse with exquisite fashion sense and a big imagination tries to win an invitation to a slumber party hosted by the most popular girls in school, she learns that having real friends who value you for who you is what really makes life "royally" great. Drawn in thick black ink, this graphic novel reveals Babymouse's bold but sweet personality through pink-hued fantasies starring Babymouse as Cinderella, a private eye, an astronaut, and more in between her real-life struggles navigating the ups and downs of school and friendship. These are definitely themes that readers of transitional books will relate to, and the graphic novel format provides a different kind of reading experience that is engaging without being too challenging, with creative, out-of-the-box use of panels but still grounded in simpler vocabulary and a greater picture-to-text ratio. It's also extremely funny in Babymouse's observations about her classmates, as well as little quips between Babymouse and the narrator and "reviews" of the novel from other characters in the book. It will most likely appeal to girls more than boys because of the appearance of the book (with its abundance of the color pink), but while the protagonist is a girl-mouse who likes dresses with little hearts, there is no romance or girly-ness of that kind, making this graphic novel series just a simply humorous portrayal of a sassy character who learns to like herself for who she is.
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Babymouse wants to be popular and be (at least) assistant queen. She'd also like more time to read her fun books and less homework. However when she finally gets her chance to hang with "the queen", Felicia, she realizes the life she has is already pretty awesome.
Babymouse has a great imagination and often gets lost in her thoughts between classes. Those transitions were a little confusing the first time, but I caught on quick enough.
Finally, a elementary reading level graphic novel geared towards girls! My resource room students love books that have lots of pictures and often need it to help with context, but are too old for baby books. This small, thick book makes them feel like they are reading a novel, but the expressive comic panels helps with their comprehension. The book is done all in black and white and pink, so it is a deterrent to my boys. I don't care much for the main character, who is stereotypically girlie, but if it interests my students, then I will supply it in my classroom!
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Babymouse comic created exclusively for Amazon.com Meet Babymouse, a sassy young mouse who dreams of glamour, excitement, adventure, straight whiskers, being queen of the world, and of course, being invited to Felicia Furrypaws's oh-so-exclusive party. Readers will love Babymouse's vivid imagination--an empty locker becomes a black hole that sucks her into space, boring party becomes a Wild West adventure--and the clever illustrations and hilarious storyline of brother-sister team Matthew and Jennifer Holm.
Don't miss the second installment, Babymouse: Our Hero.
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Sage advice for securing the supply chain
December 30, 2011
There's an ancient Chinese legal concept known as "Lian Zuo" or the "Five Degrees of Culpability."
Jack Daniels, president of EastBridge Engineering – a company providing manufacturing engineering, vendor development and supply chain management services in the Asia Pacific region – has this to share with our readers:
In the year 221, the rule of China was unified under the Qin Dynasty. The emperor implemented a draconian set of laws to help with keeping the empire whole. One of these laws was Lian Zuo, or extended culpability, whereby not only the criminal, but also those around him are punished for committing a crime. This effectively formalized a system of guilt by association for the five people linked to the criminal.
In the modern era, Lian Zuo is making a comeback in China in an effort to improve the very sketchy food industry there. You get caught making instant noodles that contain recycled antifreeze – the fellow that sold you the plastic packaging and the trucker that hauled the goods to the supermarket are all going to jail.
How is this relevant to us in the West? We find time and again that at least half the product quality problems we encounter in Asia result from low quality, discrepant or out of spec coatings, components, materials and sub assemblies that filter into the supply chain from a cohort of subcontractors and vendors. The out of spec product that you discover may have been built by a forthright and honest vendor, but her supply chain is out of control.
To combat this problem, there are concrete steps that should be taken. These involve executing audits of not only your direct vendor, but also his or her downstream suppliers. We recommend the following:
Require your suppliers to have a strong system of incoming quality control (IQC) that includes mandatory annual audits of their suppliers.
Include language in your supply agreements that force the burden of proof onto your first degree supplier to verify the capability and trustworthiness of the second, third and further separated vendors.
Make them pull representative samples and send them to you in advance of production.
Maintain the right to enter and tour these downstream suppliers yourself for surprise audits.
Incorporate financial penalties into your agreements as compensation should you find inferior workmanship, substituted components or lousy materials.
In the end, knowing your supplier is absolutely necessary – arm's length relationships fostered by the Internet don't make for happy and long lasting supply relationships. This extends to your vendors' supply chain. It's to your advantage to get as close as possible.
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Hello, I will try to help you. Please remember I just report or interpret the law, so the outcome may not be what you hoped for. I am not clear on your post in several respects. You say the defendant was sued for copyright infringement and damages. The defendant won on summary judgment on the basis that there were no damages. However, under the copyright law there are statutory damages which do not require proof of actual damages. WAs the basis of the defendant's victory that the infringement occurred but the owner elected to prove damages rather than statutory damages and could not prove the damages so he lost? Is that what happened? What do you mean by the case was "loss in part"? Are you saying the plaintiff moved for summary judgment and could not prove damages so lost the summary judgment even though the infringement occurred so the case is proceeding to a trial on the damages?
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The defendants used it with permission in 1997 but not in 2009. The copyright was created in 1995 as a derivative of an original copyright at the same time. The copyright office mixed up both the transfered image and the original submitted image but said they were not responsible for 10 years ago. So by going by the transfered date. Statutory could not go from 1995 but 2009 which was after publication. Four copyrights exist in the format in various derivatives.
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Images: Army encourages stigma reduction
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Spc. Patrick Tercius (center), a help desk specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, shares his perceptions of an image displayed during a Stigma Reduction Communications Campaign workshop Tuesday at Fort Campbell, Ky. The SRCC's goal is to produce an over-arching message to address Soldiers with serious personal issues that perceived stigmas are not a barrier to seek help.
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Viewing the immense first floor filled with merchandise while riding the escalator once used by J.C. Penney, Albert Boscov said he is glad to open the new 170,000 square foot store at the Ohio Valley Mall.
"We offer great value without gimmicks," said Boscov, chairman and chief executive officer of the Boscov's department store chain. "We have the space to provide great selection."
Even though the official grand opening is not until Sunday, those wanting to get a sneak peak at the mall's new anchor store can do so from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today if they have a ticket.
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Albert Boscov, chairman and chief executive officer of Boscov's, showcases a chair that transforms into a bed in the furniture section of the new Ohio Valley Mall store.
Boscov and Meryl Tecosky, one of his sportswear buyers, look at a sweater on the first floor of the new Ohio Valley Mall store.
Those who do not have tickets can purchase them at the door for $5 each as part of the Gala Preview for a Great Cause event, which will provide funding for non-profit groups.
"Whenever we open a new store, we work to become part of the community. We will help anyway we can," Boscov's said.
Those entering the store on its first floor will find a myriad of clothing, outerwear, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, handbags and accessories. There are famous brands such as Levi's, Calvin Klein, Dockers and Champion; several exclusive brands; and a wide range of price points.
"We believe in honest pricing - our prices will beat anyone's when you compare the quality of the merchandise," Boscov said. "And we don't mess around with coupons. We give you the lowest price we can."
On the second floor, one will find a vast collection of furniture, housewares, small appliances, curtains, bedding and gifts. Boscov's also features a section devoted to chocolates and sweets on the second floor - at which Boscov was sure to stop for a chocolate pretzel during a Wednesday tour.
With about 250 employees at the store, Boscov said the company focuses on providing strong customer service along with low prices.
"The work ethic of the people in this area is unbelievable. Our co-workers are our secret weapons," he said in commending his staff members.
Boscov previously sold the family business, but the buyer entered into bankruptcy after a few years. He said when he decided to buy back his company, the Cafaro family, which owns the mall, loaned the Boscovs $20 million to help with the purchase.
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Adam Lambert fans got a huge treat today! The singer co-hosted MuchMusic's New Music Live show today in Toronto, Canada. We can barely keep up with Adam, as he's in full throttle promotional mode for his incredible new album Trespassing.
He was spotted earlier today arriving in Toronto trying to go as incognito as Adam Lambert can.
Lambert has made history this week with his second album Trespassing becoming his first US number one record, and marking the first time an openly gay artist has hit the top spot in American album chart history. "I'm so excited, you have no idea. I'm kind of in shock," he told TheFIX in a phone interview.
"One of the great things about the album going number one this week is that it proves a point that music doesn't have an orientation, music is universal. And even though at times it does matter in the industry — marketing and all that — I would love to get to a point where it doesn't matter. I think this milestone kind of says that."
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Kelsey Grammer set to get divorced next monthKelsey Grammer is set to be granted a divorce on February 7.
The former 'Frasier' star and his third wife Camille Grammer - who split last July after 14 years of marriage - are currently finalizing the details of their divorce and although the former Playboy model wants to delay the proceedings, Judge Maren E. Nelson has stated she is inclined to grant Kelsey's request.
During a hearing at a Los Angeles courtroom today (25.01.11), Camille had requested for a delay and while it was given, the judge is still expected to grant the divorce during the next hearing on February 7, leaving Kelsey free to marry fiancee Kayte Walsh next month.
As well as asking for the proceedings to be delayed, Camille's lawyer, Neal Hersh, had also requested for a $10 million bond to protect her in case of a dispute.
He said: "There is no question that Kelsey plans to remarry immediately. She shouldn't have to go into her pocketbook to fight for the estate when you know there is going to be a remarriage...with Ms. Grammer number next."
It is not known if the bond was granted.
Kelsey's attorney, Lance Spiegel, claimed Camille's petition was "just delay for delay's sake" and "protection for protection's sake", before adding Kelsey had every intention to move forward with the wedding.
Last month, Camille - mother of two of his children, Mason, nine, and six-year-old Jude - reportedly rejected a $30 million divorce settlement as it didn't include alimony or child support for their two kids.
Following his split from Camille, Kelsey, 55, started dating 29-year-old Kayte but in October, tragedy struck as she miscarried their first child together.
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Oklahoma athletics: How Joe Castiglione built a powerhouse by sticking to his core values
NORMAN — The framed piece of paper sits in Joe Castiglione's office surrounded by pictures from the past 15 years of Oklahoma athletics.
It goes largely unnoticed amid the eye-catching images of football championships and softball titles and basketball triumphs and so much more that has happened during Castiglione's time in Norman. But no matter how many great moments have happened or will happen, that framed paper always has a place in the athletic director's office.
On it are the department's core values.
Accountability for self and others.
Passion for comprehensive excellence.
Commitment to continuous improvement.
Celebration of diversity.
Integrity in all our affairs.
It is his rule book.
"That is the backbone of every decision that is made," Castiglione said. "It's about the best interests of the university.
"That's the constant."
That wasn't necessarily the case when Castiglione arrived during the summer of 1998 — and it had created a fractured campus, an ugly divide between academics and athletics.
As Castiglione celebrates 15 years at OU, it comes on the heels of an academic year when the university experienced unprecedented athletic success. Even as football slid from its lofty heights, the overall health of Sooner athletics has never been better. There were more Big 12 titles in more sports than ever before. Men's basketball returned to the NCAA Tournament. Men's and women's gymnastics finished second in the NCAAs. Then, of course, came the crowning achievement, a softball national title team so dominant that it had historians digging in the record books to see if another team had ever been as good as Keilani Ricketts, Lauren Chamberlain and their crimson-clad teammates.
And for it to play out in Oklahoma City?
It was a party for the Sooner Nation.
That softball championship was the latest reminder of the strength and the depth of the athletic department that Castiglione has built. He didn't just clean up problems. He didn't just fix football.
He built a powerhouse, an amazing front porch for the university.
"Joe has not allowed for the athletics department to be an empire separate and apart from the rest of the university," OU President David Boren said. "He has helped us become one community."
Athletics are often called the front porch. An entry point for outsiders. A place for alums and supports to gather. But when Castiglione took over at OU, athletics' place was skewed.
"If they were the front porch," Castiglione said, "it wasn't connected to the house."
He doesn't want to venture a guess as to why. He wasn't there. It isn't his place to say.
Still, he knows what he experienced when he arrived on campus.
"I sensed a huge separation," Castiglione said as he sat in a crimson chair in a corner of his office recently. "It was mostly that the athletic department was seen on an island. Right or wrong, fair or unfair, it just was seen that way."
Those who were on campus then say that the problems had grown out of several problems.
First came the ugly end to the Barry Switzer era. Football ran amok, machine guns and gang rape in the jock dorm. The lasting image for many was quarterback Charles Thompson on the cover of Sports Illustrated in an orange prison jumpsuit.
The headline: HOW BARRY SWITZER'S SOONERS TERRORIZED THEIR CAMPUS.
Over the next decade, football struggled with the aftermath of those days. It hit an on-field low in 1997 with a second consecutive losing season.
It was the first time that the Sooners had back-to-back losing seasons since 1924.
Then came news that the athletic department was millions of dollars in debt. It owed between $12-14 million, and the money to cover those debts had to be borrowed from the university.
Worse, athletics had no plan about how to balance its budget and stop hemorrhaging cash.
There was an uproar on campus.
Finally, in the spring of 1998, then-athletic director Steve Owens resigned only a week after dismissing nine athletic department employees, including two assistant athletic directors.
Boren tried to tell Castiglione about the problems that he'd be inheriting when he came to OU, but he didn't fully understand until he was on campus. One of the first things he did was call the head of the faculty senate to ask if he could meet with the group.
His request was met with stunned silence.
"Are you sure?" the man on the other end of the phone finally said. "I don't think you really want to do that."
"No, I really do," Castiglione assured him.
"It's a nice idea, but I don't think you want to do that."
"No, I really, really do."
The man finally agreed.
"But you'll hear a few things in that meeting."
Castiglione raised an eyebrow.
"He was right," he said.
The first meeting wasn't fun, but Castiglione didn't argue with the perceptions that were out there. People had every right to have the opinions that they had.
Castiglione figured it was his job to change them.
Some steps had already been taken in the right direction when he arrived, such as the golf teams getting a new practice facility and the Switzer Center being near completion. Several programs were also having success, including men's basketball and softball.
But football was a big problem that was only getting bigger.
Castiglione's first fall on campus would be another losing season, the third in a row, a first for Sooner football.
"The struggles with football here had candidly affected everything else," Castiglione said.
There was a cloud over the campus. It was lifted not by the firing of John Blake but by the hiring of Bob Stoops.
"There's something about hope," Castiglione said. "When Coach Stoops came to this campus ... even in that first year, you could sense that things were different. The energy level was different."
Football hasn't had a losing season since.
That success helped spur a boom in fundraising with ticket sales, corporate partnerships and individual donations. Less than four years after Castiglione arrived, the athletic department had not only paid back its debt and balanced its budget but it was also running at a surplus.
In the spring of 2002, athletics committed to help establish a $1 million endowment for the libraries.
Now, in addition to having an all-sport cumulative grade-point average above 3.0, athletics gives $8 million annually to academics.
It is among a group of less than 10 Division-I athletic departments that are self sustaining. No state funds. It generates its own revenue.
"Every penny," Castiglione said.
Castiglione hasn't just cleaned up the financial books. He has also reacted swiftly to bad situations. Larry Cochell. Rhett Bomar. Josh Jarboe. The episodes involving each left bruises, but because each was quickly handled, there were no deep and lasting scars to the university's reputation.
His guiding principle in those situations and every other major one he's faced has been those core values.
He believes those values are so important to everything athletics does, so vital in staying in step with the university's mission that he wants every athletic department employee to have a copy on their desk or in their office.
"They don't have to have them memorized," he said, laughing.
He might've been joking, but from the look in his eye, you can bet that he has them memorized.
They are internalized.
"I know he acts like he talks," said Kelly Damphousse, acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and faculty athletic rep. "I sit in meetings behind closed doors (with him). I know where his heart is on this."
It's in the right place, and as a result, so is OU athletics.
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Flush with venture capital, payment site WePay in late July launched its new WePay Stores. In doing so, it is setting its sites on competing with giants PayPal, Yahoo Merchant Solutions and eBay for a piece of the online payments and e-commerce pie.
For small merchants or "casual vendors" (a term coined by Fast Company) wanting to launch an online store, but who are scared off by the complexities and need for having both a merchant storefront and a payment platform, WePay is touting easy-button-like functionality: Set up an online store and process payments in minutes. Pricing is simplified at 3.5% per transaction, with no monthly fees or contracts.
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They formed WePay in 2008 to provide electronic billing and collection services through echecks, credit cards, and paper checks. The company's initial site allowed clubs, organizations, associations – even roommates – to send bills and collect money, give out reimbursements, and spend money. Their vision earned them a spot on Business Weeks "Best Young The Entrepreneurs" this year.
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The Rams are cutting ties with another offensive lineman. After learning that Rodger Saffold will not return, St. Louis has released veteran right guard Harvey Dahl. The move will save the Rams about four-million-dollars in salary cap space.
The Rams can officially start signing free agents today at 3:00 when the market opens up for business. NFL teams were allowed to start negotiating with free agents on Saturday morning. St. Louis enters the signing period about 15-million-dollars under the salary cap.


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Bachelor Season 16 Spoilers! Reality Steve Reveals Two of Ben Flajnik's Bachelorettes
*Spoilers* If you don't want to read any of Reality Steve's Bachelor 16 spoilers, now is the time to skedaddle.
Two down, 23 (or so) to go! The Bachelor Season 16 just started filming, so right now — as we speak — Ben Flajnik is dating someone. Feel the magic! Sense the tears! And perhaps prepare for some fist pumps. Wait, fist pumps? But...why? Here's why! It seems one of the two bachelorettes Spoiler King Reality Steve just announced for the season has a thing for...DJ Pauly D of Jersey Shore. Crossover!!
Bachelor 16 hits airwaves on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, but we'll be getting spoilers every now and then in advance of the season.
As Steve posted in his Sept. 20 blog:
"Over the course of the next two months, I will be giving you as much info as I can regarding the bachelorettes who are on the show, plus any sort of production notes and spoilers that I can. Since the show has begun to embrace social media, and Chris Harrison now tweets during filming without giving too much away, lets just say that the locations of where they are shouldn't be too hard to figure out if I haven't found out beforehand. Right now, I have the names of 9 women currently on the show. Only have pictures of 5 of them so far, so, I'm patiently waiting for more stuff to come in. I'll be releasing them however I feel like doing it."
Here are the first two bachelorettes on the list:
1. Elyse Myers: 24, a personal trainer/fitness instructor living in Tampa, FL. She's originally from Illinois and graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in exercise physiology. According to the little bio blurb on her Twitter account, @ElysedMyers, she's a "Chicago girl new to tampa. I love going to the beach, exercising, and being with my family and friends."
She's not much of a tweeter, but it sounds like she might be a Jersey Shore fan, tweeting on Feb. 10: "I want to marry @DJPaulyD." Sorry, he's not The Bachelor! (Neither is The Situation.) Elyse also noted, on Sept. 12, "One more week on twitter for a while," which is a big hint that she's off and running to find love … or just get a step closer to Pauly D.
2. Erika Uhlig: 23, is the current Miss Chicago 2011. On her Miss Chicago site, http://www.misschicago.org/erika.html — which has lots of pics of her — it says she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and attends the University of Illinois College of Law. She's a political science major. Her pageant platform was Arts for Alzheimer's and her talent is listed as Jazz Violin.
As she tweeted @misschicago on Sept. 16, "Alrighty ladies and gentleman, my time on twitter has come to a close. Any future updates will come from someone on the Miss Chicago board.
It's been a blast and I will continue to serve Chicago to the fullest even whilst you don't hear directly from me <3."
What do you think of the ladies so far? Kind of young for a show that's supposed to end in an engagement, but Bachelors tend to pick the young'uns. Brad Womack, 38, chose 24-year-old Emily Maynard; Jake Pavelka, then 31, chose 23-year-old Vienna Girardi. Ben is 28, so this is actually an improvement as far as matching ages goes.
What do you think? Getting pumped for the season?
Source: Reality Steve
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In an interview with AllHipHop.com, Cypress Hill member B-Real showed his support for fellow West Coast rapper Ice Cube and his stance on local, up and coming rappers. In a recent blog entry, Ice Cube explained that he doesn't feel it's his job to help the young, up and coming rappers out of the West Coast.
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In Cube's blog, the rapper explained that local Los Angeles rappers "can't make a name for themselves so they need help from the O/G's. I refuse [to] throw 'em a life line…It ain't my job to make nobody famous."
B-Real, who has had issues with Ice Cube in the past, went on to explain that Ice Cube paid his dues just like everyone else and didn't receive any help getting to where he is today.
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RecommendedRadio drama was a distinct art form in the middle of the 20th century, and Tanya O'Debra's Fringe show, Radio Star, evokes that evocative mode of storytelling, complete with sound effects, with a distinctly modern filter. All by herself onstage, seated at a table with an old-fashioned radio microphone and surrounded by devices to replicate doors opening and closing, footsteps approaching and disappearing, cigarettes lighting, bodies falling and more, she gives creates "The Iron Lung Radio Hour." That title is the first tip that this particular noir drama might have a few twists that don't quite belong in the 1940s.
Although she looks like a demure gal from the day — dressed in a fitted burgundy suit with black-trimmed lapels, her dark hair pulled up and a slash of hot red lipstick —O'Debra has a whole cast of voices that emerge.
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But O'Debra, also the playwright, has made the piece both more self-aware (McKitrick's "internal monologues" are occasionally overheard by other characters and he wonders if he said things out loud or with his "inside mouth"). When a character is challenged after asking for a cigarette when she earlier said she didn't smoke, her quick, sardonic reply is, "It's the 1940s, you twit. Even babies smoke."
The tale is also full of wryly-stated sexual innuendo (one hapless character is described as "useless as a fishnet condom") and double entendres that are purely and obscenely 21st century. It starts with McKitrick's unsubtle advances to widow and then the secretary (he's not afraid to say "fuck" and does so frequently), but his libido takes an even more unexpected turn when he and the police commissioner banter about private matters.
O'Debra breaks up the drama with several tongue-in-cheek radio ads with recorded musical jingles; they sound like the period, but the products are beyond absurd. All this is delivered with distinct deliberation and quick wit. She is both a virtuoso performer and a clever writer. I would have liked a little more diversion in the performance — a newscast, perhaps, or something else to vary the pace — but the sold-out audience was with her every step of her sound-effect shoes.
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RHP Josh Collmenter surrendered an 11th-inning home run to pinch hitter Scott Van Slyke on Tuesday as he picked up the loss. Collmenter, who leads NL relievers in innings pitched, came in on a hot streak, with just one earned run in his last 20 1/3 innings.
1B Paul Goldschmidt continued his tear against the Dodgers as he went 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored on his 26th birthday on Tuesday. It was Goldschmidt's eighth multi-hit game in 14 games against Los Angeles this season.
LHP Patrick Corbin has lost his All-Star form the last few weeks but takes the mound Wednesday against a Dodgers squad against which he has had success. Coming off three straight losses, including a 3-0 defeat to San Francisco on Sept. 6, Corbin can rectify his down streak against Los Angeles, against whom he has a 2.49 ERA and 2-1 career record in five games.
SS Didi Gregorius is picking up a little power late in the year, bashing his seventh home run Tuesday. It was Gregorius' second homer in four games over the last week, during which he has five RBI.
RHP Trevor Cahill allowed just one earned run on four hits in a no-decision against Los Angeles on Tuesday. Cahill remained unbeaten (5-0) against the Dodgers, with a 2.04 ERA in his sixth start since returning from the disabled list on Aug. 17. He's 3-0 in that span.


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Why Most People Do Their Yoga at Home
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According to Matthew Yglesias, quite a few people are making the effort to go to yoga classes when "it would clearly be cheaper and more convenient to just unroll your yoga mat in your living room and work out while watching yoga videos."
We are informed that "when possible, people simply prefer to do this in person with a live human being standing in front of them."
Yglesias concludes that "affluent American parents will continue to foot the bill for their kids to get schooled in person" rather than making use of online learning.
His analysis would be totally persuasive were it not for the fact that 97 percent of all people who do yoga do their exercises at home, either with or without yoga videos. When possible, people stretch and bend and twist at home, because they do not like other folks staring at them when they are contorting their bodies in a variety of embarrassing ways, especially when their yoga skills are under-developed. A tiny percentage—no more than 3 percent—prefer to have someone coaxing them along or like to snigger at their less proficient classmates.
From these facts it can be concluded that Americans—both affluent and otherwise—will be insisting that their children take their high school classes online so that they are not bullied or embarrassed in the classroom when they are not as skilled as others.
You may wonder where I got my data. I picked it up from the same place Yglesias got his info—the distant corners of nowhere.
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I don't think I understand what the contradiction here is supposed to be.
My claim:
1) Currently, many people do yoga classes in person even though it's less efficient.
2) That's because people with disposable income sometimes prefer to do things in a less efficient way.
3) My hypothesis is that in the future many affluent people will continue to choose to educate their children in relatively cost-insensitive ways.
Which one of those do you disagree with?
It occurs to me that "the distant corners of nowhere" are precisely the places from which Paul and his cohorts are informed that business-like competition and choice will totally work in American schools. Kinda like how charters and vouchers have worked so well in countries that eat our lunch on measures of academic achievement.
@Matthew: According to Webster's dictionary,many is a "large, indefinite number."
A numerator without a denominator has no meaning.
Your essay does not even have a numerator, much less a denominator.
Your observations are meaningless.
I am unable to either agree or disagree with a meaningless statement.
@Jeffrey: On the strong relationship between school choice and student achievement internationally, see the EdNext article by West and Woessmann – http://educationnext.org/school-choice-international/
I appreciate your response but there is no there, there in the West and Woessmann piece, Paul. I read it over like three times and still could not find the causal link, only statistical (sleight of hand) correlations. For example, the Netherlands would seem to be a fine example of a country with many (faith-based) private schools doing will on PISA compared to most other nations. However, they present a compelling but incomplete history of Catholicism's role in education and most egregiously in the Netherlands. For a more nuanced (and more complete, if not accurate) interpretation of how to understand Dutch schooling, see http://www.fulbright.nl/cache/30/30dbd0481349e7a6188e372c5b049e51/31dutchsecondaryeducation.pdf
There are other problems with their work in how they control for possible confounding variables including assorted assumptions they make about the political machinations of parochial schooling in various countries and to what extent such behavior can accurately be said to be 'competitive' in the same sense that modern reformers like yourself view competition in business ventures.
Really, don't we require more than a "strong relationship", if such existed, before we ask for multiple millions of dollars be invested in a business model of education reform? Frankly, I wouldn't make that kind of investment unless I saw a clear and persistent causal link between choice and academic achievement across a wide range of students and cultures. But hey, maybe your version of choice somehow works for American kids like no other–something special about Americans? Even if that were your argument, there still is no conclusive data that even suggests that might be so.
His point is that you're trying to draw the conclusion that people prefer doing things in person with an instructor than at home/online with a video or remote teacher without any actual supporting evidence – "prefer" being operative word, i.e. if given a choice of "live" or "not-live" (whatever that may be), people will choose live, all else being equal.
Some people prefer online, some people prefer live, and fundamentally, no one's going to argue with that statement (as it's obvious enough that it doesn't require restating). However, the implied sentiment that the attendance of yoga classes has anything to do with preferences for in-person education is not actually based on anything.
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There is growing interest in building large knowledge bases (KBs) of everyday knowledge about the world, comprising tens or hundreds of thousands of assertions. But with large KBs, general-purpose reasoners used to answer queries tend to suffer from combinatorial explosion. One promising approach to grappling with the complexity of such KBs is to structure the content into multiple domain- or task-specific partitions. But how are the partitions created, and how do we exploit them in reasoning?
Our research concerns detecting and exploiting the implicit structure of knowledge to make reasoning more focused and efficient. In particular, we investigate how two closely related questions: (1) How can we automatically decompose a large KB into a network of tightly-focused, minimally-connected partitions? (2) Given a network of (possibly heterogeneous) knowledge systems, how can we achieve efficient global reasoning?
In our approach, a first-order or propositional theory is partitioned into tightly coupled subtheories according to the language of the axioms in the theory [1]. This partitioning induces a graphical representation where a node represents a particular partition or subtheory and an arc represents the shared language between subtheories [2].
We developed a family of message-passing (MP) algorithms [1,3] for reasoning with partitions of axioms in propositional logic (PL) and first-order logic (FOL). We analyzed the computational benefit of our algorithms and detected those parameters of a partitioning that influence the efficiency of computation. These inference algorithms are sound and complete, i.e., provide all the correct answers and only those answers. The efficiency of our algorithms has been shown empirically to be superiour to widely used inference strategies.


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Today during sessions with the media, it was revealed that the Browns were going to send tape to the league regarding two holding calls against Ray Ventrone against the Colts. They were gut-punches in terms of field position and some on Twitter, including the Plain Dealer's Dennis Manaloff indicated that Ventrone might need to find his own way home after the game. Because CBS can't be bothered to show penalties in replay anymore, I rewound it myself yesterday during the game and discovered that they were some pretty bad calls. After further review, the D-Man has also exonerated Ventrone. Now here are the pictures to prove it.
Here's the first "hold" showing Bubba engaged with his man and also shows his position with regard to the ball, which is pretty important when determining if a play is a hold or not.
Here is the second play where they said Ventrone was "holding." In this case, Ventrone was locked up with his guy again and as the ball moved past he released his guy. There might have been a split second where Ventrone was engaged and should have let go, but you can see from the second pic that it couldn't have been more than an instant.
See below. Still blocking and then on the right hand side his guy is released and chasing Cribbs.
Obviously the Browns won't get anything out of this. Also obviously the Browns didn't lose the game against the Colts only because of the refereeing. Still, it is noteworthy just how poorly this game was officiated, I thought.


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I need to validate XML Schema Instance (XSD) documents which are programmatically generated so I'm using the following Java snippet, which works fine:
SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(
Schema xsdSchema = factory.newSchema( // Reads URL every time...
new URL("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd"));
Validator xsdValidator = xsdSchema.newValidator();
xsdValidator.validate(new StreamSource(schemaInstanceStream));
However, when I save the XML Schema definition file locally and refer to it this way:
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(
new File("test/xsd/XMLSchema.xsd"));
It fails with the following exception:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'file:/Users/foo/bar/test/xsd/XMLSchema.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
I've ensured that the file exists and is readable by doing
exists() and
canRead() assertions on the
File object. I've also downloaded the file with a couple different utilities (web browser, wget) to ensure that there is no corruption.
Any idea why I can validate XSD instance documents when I generate the schema from the HTTP URL but I get the above exception when trying to generate from a local file with the same contents?
To elaborate, I've tried multiple forms of
factory.newSchema(...) using Readers and InputStreams (instead of the File directly) and still get exactly the same error. Moreover, I've dumped the file contents before using it or the various input streams to ensure it's the right one. Quite vexing.
Full Answer
It turns out that there are three additional files referenced by XML Schema which must be also stored locally and
XMLSchema.xsd contains an import statement whose
schemaLocation attribute must be changed. Here are the files that must be saved in the same directory:
- XMLSchema.xsd - change
schemaLocationto "
xml.xsd" in the "import" element for XML Namespace.
- XMLSchema.dtd - as is.
- datatypes.dtd - as is.
- xml.xsd - as is.
Thanks to @Blaise Doughan and @Tomasz Nurkiewicz for their hints.


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