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For The People Comedy
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 8:00 PM (PDT)
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It's that time again! This Wednesday night, and every last Wednesday of the month. FOR THE PEOPLE COMEDY at SOFA Lounge(www.SOFAsf.com) in SF! Thank YOU for making last month's show a historic one! wOw.. Looking forward to this one..
Brazilian food menu, drink specials all night(4 beer 7 wells), and comics from around the nation including special guests featured on Comedy Central, Showtime, NBC, etc..
Hosted by SF-based comedian Frankie Quinones! www.FrankieQuinones.com
Dance party to follow with DJ SHONYE spinning your favorite feel good tunes.
Laughter, Diversity, Good Times
FOR THE PEOPLE COMEDY is a collective of artists who share a common goal of producing colorful events fueled by positivity and laughter. Always maintaining a diverse lineup to represent San Francisco culture through high energy shows filled with humor and music. Come enjoy FOR THE PEOPLE COMEDY at its new home, SOFA, an intimate venue conveniently located at 8th and Minna streets in SF close to Muni/BART and plenty of street parking.
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By ANASTASIA ASHMAN
Glo· bal· niche, n.
psychic solution to your global identity crisis
[see expanded definition of a 'global niche']
Don't coin too many terms, a search engine optimizer recently advised me. "No one'll know what you're talking about, and those who might won't be able to find you on the Internet!"
Dilemma. At expat+HAREM we like to talk about our unconventional, unmapped lives. We can't wait for popular terminology to catch up.
On Twitter someone asked, "is 'hybrid life' kinda like what a salamander leads?" Sure, you could call us culture amphibians. Water, air, land. We (try to) do it all.
Here's the expat+HAREM proposition: We're all born global citizens, even if that knowledge gets trained out of us. A global identity seems nebulous, and ungrounded. Better to bond with the concrete: family, culture, nation.
Yet we're entering a permanent state of psychic limbo about who we are and where we belong in the world. Mixed blood, culture, family, religion. International work, study, travel. The self-actualization of virtual activity, finding our tribe, and the whole location independence movement. Our concrete center will not hold.
To become the global citizens we truly are, we need to find our place in the world.
…a sense of ourselves that is both unique and as big as we can be. Call it psychic location independence.
When we discover our psychic peers and foster global community with them, and honor the many worlds we belong to by fashioning a hybrid identity — yes, a 'salamander' life — we've found our global niche.
What terms do you use to talk about this cross-worlds phenomenon we're living? What's your name for being at home in the world?
Anastasia Ashman is a California-born writer/producer of neoculture entertainment based in Istanbul. This series covers what's crossing the mind and desk of expat+HAREM's founder.
If you're of the creative entrepreneur persuasion you might like to get on a special resource mailing list run by Tara Agacayak of Turquoise Poppy about building your global niche on the web: sign up here.

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Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
BEIRUT Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday.
Video posted online showed the bodies of five small children, five women and a man, all bloodied and piled on beds in what appeared to be an apartment after a building was hit in the city of Homs. A narrator said an entire family had been "slaughtered."
Much of the violence was focused in Homs, where heavy gunfire hammered the city Friday in a second day of chaos. A day earlier, the city saw a flare-up of sectarian kidnappings and killings between its Sunni and Alawite communities, and pro-regime forces blasted residential buildings with mortars and gunfire, according to activists.
At least 384 children have been killed, as of Jan. 7, in the crackdown on Syria's uprising since it began nearly 11 months ago, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said Friday. The count, based on reports from human rights groups, included children under age 18.
Most of the deaths took place in Homs and most of the victims were boys, UNICEF said. It said 380 children have been detained, including some under age 14. The United Nations estimates that more than 5,400 people have died in the turmoil.
The U.N. Security Council met in a closed-door session to discuss the crisis, which diplomats said was a step toward a possible U.N. resolution against the Damascus regime.
However, any resolution faces strong opposition from China and Russia, and both nations have veto power. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Friday that Moscow will oppose any resolution because it does not exclude the possibility of outside military interference.
The Syrian uprising, which began last March with mostly peaceful protests, has become increasingly violent in recent months as army defectors clash with government forces and some protesters take up arms to protect themselves. The violence has inflamed the sectarian divide in the country, where members of Assad's Alawite sect dominate the regime despite a Sunni Muslim majority.
Activists said at least 35 people were killed in Homs on Thursday and another 39 people were killed across the country Friday.
The video posted Friday by activists showed the bodies of five young children, their faces bloodied, wrapped in orange plastic bags. It said the children were believed to be from two families, the Akras and the Bahadours. Brown cardboard placards with the children's names written in Arabic were placed on their chests, identifying them: Thanaa, Ali, Najm, Abdul-Ghani and Sidra.
The video could not be independently verified.
Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut, said the spike in violence was linked to increasing pressure from the international community, the Arab League and the United Nations.
"The regime is trying to finish the matter through military means as soon as possible," and for that reason the level of violence increased," he said.
On Tuesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem insisted that Damascus will continue its crackdown and said Syria would not accept any international interference in its affairs.
Assad's regime claims terrorists acting out a foreign conspiracy by the U.S., Israel and Gulf Arab countries are behind the uprising, not protesters seeking change.
The head of Arab League observers in Syria said in a statement that violence in the country has spiked over the past few days. Sudanese Gen. Mohammed Ahmed al-Dabi said the cities of Homs, Hama and Idlib have all witnessed a "very high escalation" in violence since Tuesday.


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Consumer Confidence Surges To Six Year High Boosted By Soaring Gas Prices And Mortgage Rates
Despite more than two-third of respondents expecting interest rates to rise in the year-ahead, and inflation to increase; and despite dramatically higher current mortgage rates and a surging gas price, consumers haven't been this 'happy' since July 2007. Unfortunatley for those expecting something more, it appears the slightly-better-than-expected print is not good enough to cause the market to plunge (in a good-is-bad "we've done our job" manner) and not bad enough to cause the market to soar (in a "we need moar animal spirits manner). Of course, we've seen this before (here and here) and it doesn't end well.
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More than a decade after alleging she was assaulted, Andrea Constand is still being asked what took her so long.
"Why did you wait so long to report?"
That's the question that Bill Cosby's lawyer Bruce McMonagle reportedly said he'd have asked Andrea Constand if she'd been at the Tuesday hearing where a judge decided her accusations of sexual assault by the comedian will, finally, be tried in criminal court.
To date, more than 50 women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct. Constand was the first. In January of 2005 she told police that a year earlier, Cosby had touched and penetrated her after drugging her. A prosecutor decided against proceeding with the case, and Constand followed up with a civil suit that resulted in a 2006 settlement. After that came an accelerating drip of women making allegations about incidents spanning a wide swath of Cosby's career, from Kristina Ruehli (1965) to Chloe Goins (2008).
For toymakers like Lego, where is the line between making products children love and telling kids how they should play?
Two years ago, a 7-year-old girl named Charlotte wrote a letter to the toymaker Lego with a straightforward request.
"I love Legos," she wrote, "but I don't like that there are more lego boy people and barely any lego girls." The girls in the Lego universe, Charlotte had noticed, seemed preoccupied with sitting at home, going to the beach, and shopping—while the boys had jobs, saved people, and went on adventures.
Charlotte, Lego acknowledged, had a point. "It's fair," said Michael McNally, a Lego spokesman who says the company receives letters from kids all the time. "Why wouldn't there be more female representation?"
Years before Charlotte sent her letter, Lego was already keenly focused on how girls perceived the brand. It was 2008 when the toymaker decided to gather global data about who buys Legos. What they found was startling. In the United States, roughly 90 percent of Lego sets being sold were intended for boys. In other words, there was a huge untapped market of girls who weren't building with Legos.
Speculation about how Ramsay Bolton might die reveals the challenges of devising a cathartic TV death—and illuminates a larger issue facing the series.
Warning: Season 6 spoilers abound.
Ever since Ramsay Bolton revealed himself as Westeros's villain-in-chief, Game of Thrones fans have wanted him dead. He first appeared in season two disguised as a Northern ally sent to help Theon Greyjoy but quickly turned out to be a lunatic whose appetite for cruelty only grew as the series progressed. (Last year, Atlantic readers voted him the actual worst character on television.) After several colorful and nauseating years of rape, torture, murder, and bad visual puns, speculation about the Bolton bastard's looming death has reached its peak this sixth season. But "Will Ramsay die this season?" also gives way to a slightly more complicated question: "How should Ramsay die?"
Whatever banking's post-recession connotations may be, the historian William Goetzmann argues that monetary innovations have always played a critical role in developing civilization.
The title of the financial historian William Goetzmann's new book is hard to argue with: Money Changes Everything.
In his book, Goetzmann, a professor of finance and the director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management, has documented how financial innovations—from the invention of money to capital markets—have always played a critical role in developing every culture around the world. In the fallout from the Great Recession, it's been commonplace to vilify those working in the financial-services industry. But Goetzmann argues that finance is a worthwhile endeavor, beyond just earning a ton of money: Its innovations have made the growth of human civilization possible.
Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity—a psychologist investigates how Trump's extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.
In 2006, Donald Trump made plans to purchase the Menie Estate, near Aberdeen, Scotland, aiming to convert the dunes and grassland into a luxury golf resort. He and the estate's owner, Tom Griffin, sat down to discuss the transaction at the Cock & Bull restaurant. Griffin recalls that Trump was a hard-nosed negotiator, reluctant to give in on even the tiniest details. But, as Michael D'Antonio writes in his recent biography of Trump, Never Enough, Griffin's most vivid recollection of the evening pertains to the theatrics. It was as if the golden-haired guest sitting across the table were an actor playing a part on the London stage.
"It was Donald Trump playing Donald Trump," Griffin observed. There was something unreal about it.
In recent years, the idea that educators should be teaching kids qualities like grit and self-control has caught on. Successful strategies, though, are hard to come by.
In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public-school students in this country—51 percent, to be precise—fell below the federal government's low-income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch. It was a powerful symbolic moment—an inescapable reminder that the challenge of teaching low-income children has become the central issue in American education.
The truth, as many American teachers know firsthand, is that low-income children can be harder to educate than children from more-comfortable backgrounds. Educators often struggle to motivate them, to calm them down, to connect with them. This doesn't mean they're impossible to teach, of course; plenty of kids who grow up in poverty are thriving in the classroom. But two decades of national attention have done little or nothing to close the achievement gap between poor students and their better-off peers.
Bernie Sanders is contesting the Democratic primary to the end, just as Hillary Clinton did eight years ago—but that parallel has its limits.
In May of 2008, two Democrats were somehow still fighting over the nomination. The stronger of the two had a comfortable lead in delegates and made calls to unify the party. But the weaker contender, buoyed by a loyal base, refused to give up. It got awkward.
The difference in 2016, of course, is Hillary Clinton's position in the drama. She played the spoiler eight years ago, refusing to concede to Barack Obama in a primary that dragged into June, to the consternation of party elders. (They were nervously eyeing John McCain, who had pluckily sewn up his nomination by late February). But this year, she is the candidate ascendant, impatient to wrap up this whole Bernie Sanders business and take on Donald Trump.
LBJ led crucial legislation in 1965, changing the demographics of the U.S. But it offers a difficult model for future presidents to follow.
Nearly every new American president of the modern era has viewed the nation's immigration policies as deeply flawed. Yet few of these modern executives have been willing to make immigration reform—one of the most dangerous issues in American politics—central to their agenda. Even fewer have had a measure of success doing so. Even the most dramatic and successful of all—Lyndon Johnson's landmark 1965 reform—came with high political costs and uneven results. Yet, Johnson's battle for reform underscores the way immigration policy can be a potent political tool and offers a model for future presidents.
Today, as in the past, efforts to significantly revise U.S. immigration laws and policies have divided even the most unified party coalitions. Campaigns for sweeping reform in this arena have regularly followed a tortured path of false starts, prolonged negotiation, and frustrating stalemate. And when non-incremental reforms have passed, rival goals and interests have complicated enactment. The result has been legislation that is typically unpopular among ordinary citizens and stakeholder groups alike, and which often places new and sometimes competing policy demands on the government. These dynamics—intraparty conflicts, elusive problem definition, difficult compromises, and unpopular outcomes—have typically frustrated most American presidents.
Start in the weeks after birth, with equal leave for parents of any gender.
Though the words "parental leave" appear regularly in press releases and news articles, most companies and employees still think and talk primarily about maternity leave: time for a new mother to recover from childbirth, breastfeed her infant, and—unwittingly—become an expert in family management.
"My husband doesn't know what size shoe my kid wears." "My husband doesn't know what time the baby naps." "My husband doesn't have the daycare number stored in his phone."
These were just a few of the things mothers responded when asked how they divide household responsibility in their family. I'd posed the question because I was writing a book about what moms can do to keep their careers on track during pregnancy and parenthood, and I wanted to incorporate some tactical advice. Millions of women want a partner who is an equal partner. What can they do to get one?
But we're better off believing in it anyway.
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous. Our codes of ethics, for example, assume that we can freely choose between right and wrong. In the Christian tradition, this is known as "moral liberty"—the capacity to discern and pursue the good, instead of merely being compelled by appetites and desires. The great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant reaffirmed this link between freedom and goodness. If we are not free to choose, he argued, then it would make no sense to say we ought to choose the path of righteousness.
Today, the assumption of free will runs through every aspect of American politics, from welfare provision to criminal law. It permeates the popular culture and underpins the American dream—the belief that anyone can make something of themselves no matter what their start in life. As Barack Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope, American "values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will."
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Fall Fest Concert featuring Johnnyswim
The University of Tennessee will be hosting Fall Fest, September 27, 2013. The Street Fair will begin at 5:30 pm and the concert featuring Johnnyswim will begin at 8:00 pm at the Humanities Amphitheatre. THE SHOW IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. We encourage students, the community, and visitors to come out and enjoy a spectacular show.
Johnny swim is a, soul, folk, pop, and blues music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez rooted from in the enclaves of Nashville, Tennessee. According to MTV, "like melody is to harmony, the voices of Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano Ramirez are uniquely symbiotic." The singer-songwriters from Los Angeles, spend most of their time writing, recording, and performing their songs. Besides their love for entertainment, Johnnyswim are highly involved in non-profit efforts around the globe and at home. They aim to bring hope and inspiration to places that often do not get enough of it.
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|ENERTECH ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. Patent applications
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|TREATMENT EQUIPMENT OF ORGANIC WASTE AND TREATMENT METHOD - A method for treating an organic waste, in which the organic waste is pressurized and continuously supplied to a high temperature and pressure treatment apparatus to produce a slurried material by blowing steam into the organic waste to cause a reaction while heating, pressurizing and agitating. The slurried material is dehydrated to produce a separated liquid product and a separated solid product. The separated solid product includes sufficient combustible content to produce a fuel product. The separated liquid product is purified.
|SLURRY DEWATERING AND CONVERSION OF BIOSOLIDS TO A RENEWABLE FUEL - In the processes for treating municipal sewage and storm water containing biosolids to discharge standards, biosolids, even after dewatering, contain typically about 80% water bound in the dead cells of the biosolids, which gives biosolids a negative heating value. It can be incinerated only at the expense of purchased fuel. Biosolids are heated to a temperature at which their cell structure is destroyed and, preferably, at which carbon dioxide is split off to lower the oxygen content of the biosolids. The resulting char is not hydrophilic, and it can be efficiently dewatered and/or dried and is a viable renewable fuel. This renewable fuel can be supplemented by also charging conventional biomass (yard and crop waste, etc.) in the same or in parallel facilities. Similarly, non-renewable hydrophilic fuels can be so processed in conjunction with the processing of biosolids to further augment the energy supply.
|DISPOSAL OF SLURRY IN UNDERGROUND GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS - The current invention provides processes and apparatuses for introducing slurry into underground geological formations thereby disposing of the slurry, while also sequestering carbon dioxide and collecting methane from the slurry.
|METHOD FOR CONVERTING ORGANIC MATERIAL INTO A RENEWABLE FUEL - Processes for converting organic material into renewable fuel products. A feedstock containing organic material is processed at an elevated pressure and temperature to lyse, decarboxylate, and carbonize cell structures. A portion of the processed slurry may be recirculated and mixed with cool, pressurized feedstock prior to reaching a mechanical mixing device to preheat and reduce the viscosity of the feedstock. The pressure and temperature are reduced, which may occur simultaneously to flash volatile materials, such as ammonia, out of the slurry, thereby reducing the presence of the materials in the final product and allowing recovery of the materials. The processed slurry may be treated with a halide to reduce mercury emissions in the final product. The treated slurry is mechanically and thermally dewatered resulting in a renewable fuel product in dried particulate or pelletized form that is a viable energy source having a positive heating value.
|DISPOSAL OF SLURRY IN UNDERGROUND GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS - The current invention provides processes and apparatuses for introducing slurry into underground geological formations thereby disposing of the slurry, while also sequestering carbon dioxide and collecting methane from the slurry.
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Basic Tips for Shopping for Clothes on a Budget
Shopping for nice clothes doesn't have to break the bank. So many guys spend so much money on fashion and accessories it is ridiculous.
Sorry boys, but women do not care where you got your clothes (and if they do, you may want to get out now, you will not afford their tastes down the road!). The important thing is to look nice. That's it, pretty simple hey?
Looking good doesn't cost a lot of money, however. You can simply spend $100 at the mall on a Saturday and get potentially 2-3 outfits (depending on what you consider an outfit to be).
Recently I went shopping and came away with a ton of stuff. It doesn't have to be expensive, here are some basic tips for shopping for clothes on a budget:
- Shop during bargain events. Pretty simple right? Keep an eye out when you are watching tv and take advantage of the practically weekly sales that most department and clothing stores have. Never buy clothes for full retail (except below).
- Shop for only things you need. You probably do not need more than five pairs of jeans, period. Make sure they fit nice and buy the same brand if you are picky, but shop smart. Most of the time, you can get buy one get the second 1/2 off (Express Men does this a lot, I love me their jeans).
- Don't shop at the super name brand stores. Unless you are going straight to the back, stay out of stores like American Eagle or Abercrombie. Don't let the loud music and horrible smells seduce you, do not buy something for retail at these stores, they are outrageously priced and poor quality for the most part.
- Shop at Marshall's or TJ Maxx. I can not stress this enough, I bought 5 shirts there for a little over $65 dollars. Shirts, not t-shirts. I got nice polo and short sleeve dress shirts (my favorite) for anywhere from $12.99-16.99 and they are all perfect.
Don't get suckered into the latest fads, find a style that is reasonably priced and comfortable and buy the heck out of their products.
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Tune in to MTV's TRL TODAY, June 11th @ 3:30 pm to see Plies perform "Bust It Baby Part 2" with Ne-Yo as part of Spankin New Music Week!
Tune in to BET's 106 & Park today, June 10th and watch Plies as he performs "Bust It Baby Part 2" with Ne-Yo! "Definition of Real" in stores and online tomorrow, June 10th!
PLIES new album 'Definition Of Real ' features the BIGGEST Record of 2008 "Bust It Baby Part 2" with Ne-Yo, The OFFICIAL Street Anthem "Who Hotter Than Me" and the CERTIFIED Sexy Single "Please Excuse My Hands" with Jamie Foxx & The-Dream. Additional guest appearances by J. Holiday, Keyshia Cole and Trey Songz.
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May 31, 2016
Health officials think the West Nile virus might follow a similar track as its mosquito-borne cousin -- St. Louis encephalitis.
In 1975, St. Louis encephalitis spread through 29 states, killing 95 people and infecting about 3,000 others. No outbreaks on that scale have occurred since.
Transmission rates of both St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile are dependent on ecological and environmental factors, such as rainfall and temperature, said Sally Slavinski, an epidemiologist for the Mississippi Department of Health.
Given the history of West Nile and other illnesses, it's not likely the outbreak will increase exponentially next year, Slavinski said.
In 1999, seven people died and 55 others were hospitalized in New York with West Nile -- but that state hasn't reported any cases this summer.
Nationwide this year, 135 people have been infected with West Nile -- 41 in Mississippi.
County death is likely because of the virus. Officials blame the virus for seven deaths in Louisiana, and say a Hinds
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Sophia Young Sidelined with ACL Tear
SAN ANTONIO San Antonio Silver Stars forward Sophia Young sustained an ACL tear in her right knee during the semifinals of the Womens Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) Championship on Thursday, January 24. An MRI performed in San Antonio confirmed the injury. Young will undergo surgery in San Antonio to repair the tear this week. A timetable for her 2013 season return will be established once she begins her rehabilitation process.
Young earned All-WNBA Second Team honors and was named to the WNBA All-Defensive Team in 2012 after leading the Silver Stars in scoring average (16.3), rebounds per game (7.2) and steals per game (2.24).
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In the IBM® Intelligent Transportation solution portal, if you click Back in any of the reports portlets when the required IBM® Cognos® services are no longer running, the solution portal page displays within the portlet instead of an error message.
IBM® Cognos® is used by IBM Intelligent Transportation to provide measuring, monitoring, and reporting metrics. The issue occurs if the Cognos middleware services stop running while you are using the solution, and you click Back in the WebSEAL error message that is displayed in the portlet. If that happens, the entire page is rendered within the reports portlet.
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Who could it be? I open the door. A Campmor box? I didn't order anything from there recently. Strange. I pick it up bring it indoors. Sit it on the table.
I start to sweat. Internet Detective Agency, Disposal of Evidence Division?!?
My mind races. Thinking of all the bad things I've done. I put two and two together. Last summer I went camping and accidentally murdered someone. They are playing mind games with me sending it in a Campmor box. But no, I'm pretty sure I disposed of the body really well. Besides, the box is much to small and doesn't smell bad. Check sender. James Joyce? He's dead...another clue pointing to me surely doing jail time.
I shake it. Crap! What if it's a bomb? What if it's a creepy picture collage by a stalker?! I must open it. Grab a knife. Go back and get a bigger knife. (In case it's tarantulas) I slice slowly...wince, waiting for something to jump out at me. I get up and close the windows, go back to box surgery. I open the first flap.
Do people wrap body parts in newspaper or is that meat? Isn't that the same thing? I push on the paper. Something's hard underneath not squishy. That's a good sign. I slowly unravel the paper. I remember I'm not wearing rubber gloves! Good going MP. Now my fingerprints are all over this thing. Finally just as I'm about to call 911 and confess, the last paper lifts and reveals:
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Scores on school tests drop sharply
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Harrington said that she will tell parents who are concerned about the drop in scores that the game has changed. but Oceanside is still in the game. "We are not going to be defensive," she said. "Our only intent is the betterment of students, and our parents know that. They have faith that we are working in their best interests — working hard."
The district's website has been updated to include information about the tests and the district's reaction to the scores, as well as a letter from State Education Department officials.
Dr. Rosmarie Bovino, the superintendent of Island Park schools, said, "While we recognize the need to improve our scores, we are pleased that for the most part, our elementary schoolchildren exceeded the New York state average in both ELA and math. Similarly, they exceeded or were nearly at the same level as the Nassau County average in both areas. The middle school children did not perform as well, and this is extremely disappointing.
"Nevertheless," Bovino continued, "the State Education Department imposed new Common Core Standards, tests, and Annual Professional Performance Review evaluations for teachers and principals in what was a 'rush to failure.' It was a rush to failure because the Board of Regents let the deadline for Race to the Top monies dictate an implementation timeline for unprecedented programmatic changes. This all occurred during a year when we lost classrooms, equipment, and materials due to [Hurricane] Sandy. I believe wholeheartedly, that these test scores do not reflect the caliber or level of performance of Island Park teachers and students."
In an op-ed piece in the Daily News, Diane Ravitch — an educational historian at New York University and a member of the national educational testing assessment board from 1997 to 2004 — told a different story.
Ravitch, who was deeply involved in writing the No Child Left Behind law, wrote that she realized in 2004 that the reliance on high-stakes testing was bad for education, and she became an opponent of the law and the testing that was its most important component.
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National math test scores continue to be disappointing. This poor trend persists in spite of new texts, standardized tests with attached implied threats, or laptops in the class. At some point, maybe we should admit that math, as it is taught currently and in the recent past, seems irrelevant to a large percentage of grade school kids.
Why blame a sixth grade student or teacher trapped by meaningless lessons? Teachers are frustrated. Students check out.
The missing element is reality. Instead of insisting that students learn another sixteen formulae, we need to involve them in tangible life projects. And the task must be interesting.
Project-oriented math engages kids. It is fun. They have a reason to learn the math they may have ignored in the standard lecture format of a class room.
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As I stated in the other thread, I'd like to just start over and forget all of the heated discussion that's occured both last night and today. Please feel free to post any feedback you have for both the Iowa-Kansas ticket pick-up from last night and any general suggestions you may have for Cyclone Alley. Please leave emotion at the door, if at all possible.
Link to My Post in the Other Thread
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Does leaving emotion at the door mean no smileys?
Originally Posted by 2020cy
I agree with Tube1.
Originally Posted by tube1
Does leaving emotion at the door mean no smileys?
Haha...I would never suggest leaving smileys out of a discussion. You must be crazy ... On a side note, I think I must have two accounts on here because I logged in to the account "jcrow" instead of "j_crow" on accident...weird...
I would like it if Cyclone Alley would sell some of the "props" that they give to the students before the game. This way kids or whomever would be able to partake in the fun. You could do it to raise money for CA.
We took a 13 year old to a game once and she really wanted one of the props. I think it was a megaphone thingy. Also, at the game down in Des Moines, I paid a kid $20 for one of the foam hats for Ripvdub. He NEEDED to have one.
Just in case you didn't know... I'm a girl.
Another thread about this...ughh
Originally Posted by 4429 mcc
Another thread about this...ughh
If you don't like it, don't open the thread. It's not that hard.
Originally Posted by superfan
If you don't like it, don't open the thread. It's not that hard.
How do I close it?
I'm feeling constructive today, so a couple of thoughts.
On props:
Echo thoughts of 4VR4CY above. I've given my prop away to kids numerous times (for the record, if someone wants one after the game - come see me. Unless I REALLY want it, there's a good chance I'll just give it to you), I'd rather they go to someone who wants it than let it go to waste. Also, please give props to the pep band. I don't see any reason why they should be discriminated against just for being in the pep band.
On seating:
If you're going to make the entire lower bowl CA, either make membership in Cyclone Alley compulsory, or open up one side to open student section. (I'd much prefer the former to the latter at this point in time). I was sour on CA for a year or two (not anymore) when they first changed the seating. I share a name with a former Cyclone player, and as such my freshmen year I preferred to wear his jersey as he played. We were 15-1 when I wore that to a game, and I felt it was pretty lucky. I got pretty upset when I found out I wasn't going to be allowed to wear it anymore if I wanted good seats.
On Free throws - two things:
1.) Why can't we just do Cyclone Aerobics? Sped up, of course, I'm thinking a continuous forward-right-back-left-forward-right-back-left motion. Everyone knows it, and it should be pretty dizzying. I've brought this up several times to CAC members at games, but I'm not sure if it's ever been discussed.
2.) I'm not sure, I think this has been attempted once before, but can't we just standardize the motions? Something like - for the first half: first free throw wave left, second free throw wave right, in the last 5 minutes of either half do stand-up and sit-down.
On the ticket pickup:
Loved the idea - and should have worked great...IF there had been a ticket limit. I much preferred spending a Sunday in nice September weather (that happened to come in November) sitting outside with a few beers, a ribeye and some brats on the grill - to getting jobbed by the voucher system (i.e. getting a good number but a friend getting a bad number or vice-versa, having pickup during a class, etc.) At least tell me at some point during a meeting someone brought up the concern that a frat or floor was just going to send a freshmen out camping and pick up tickets for fifty people. Put a three-to-five person limit on it, and the problem is solved, but I think we've established this one...
On the "pink-out":
Great idea. I have to question though, why aren't we selling pink shirts to everyone in Hilton for that game and giving the proceeds to charity? If you need help selling, I'm sure you could find people to volunteer (hell, I would) and someone to donate shirts. I don't think this should be a "surprise!" thing. This should be highly publicized. I'd actually like to know when you're planning this so I can mix up some pink face paint.
On the negative criticism:
Nothing personal, but you gotta realize that yesterday is going to leave a bitter taste in a lot of mouths. It was a good idea with a flaw in it. I'm sure you'll learn from the experience and improve it for next year. If I recall correctly, the same kind of thing happened last year with the "This is how you're supposed to cheer in Cyclone Alley" pamphlet. (I didn't mind it - I finally learned the words to "For I - For S - Forever", but I remember a lot of people feeling insulted by it) I know how hard you guys work, and we appreciate it.
One final thing before I head off to class. I'm curious as to why I didn't get a response to an e-mail last year about joining CAC. I sent something about a month before applications were due mentioning that yeah, I'm down in Texas but still want to apply, can we do phone interviews or how can we make this work out..., and I never heard anything back. I was ready, willing, and able to fly up to Iowa if need be for an interview, and I e-mailed once or twice more and still didn't hear anything, and by that time I didn't have any time left to get references together or find a decently-priced ticket. I don't know, I'm just curious. I'd like to think the feeling I got that I was getting blacklisted by CAC was unjustified.
Originally Posted by 4429 mcc
How do I close it?
That's it. I call for no more threads on the Front Page. People simply do not know how to not open them. Either that, or they have no self control and simply can't resist opening them.
I share a name with a former Cyclone player, and as such my freshmen year I preferred to wear his jersey as he played.
Is your real name Marcus Fizer?
Originally Posted by 4VR4CY
I would like it if Cyclone Alley would sell some of the "props" that they give to the students before the game. This way kids or whomever would be able to partake in the fun. You could do it to raise money for CA.
We took a 13 year old to a game once and she really wanted one of the props. I think it was a megaphone thingy. Also, at the game down in Des Moines, I paid a kid $20 for one of the foam hats for Ripvdub. He NEEDED to have one.
I'd be more than willing to give up any of my props that I get from games, I usually end up with way to many somehow and I never use mine because I am to concerned with just cheering.
Originally Posted by price26
I'd be more than willing to give up any of my props that I get from games, I usually end up with way to many somehow and I never use mine because I am to concerned with just cheering.
I appreciate that, but for some reason we usually find the people that want us to pay $20 for something that is worth $5 or less. I am willing to pay, but would rather the money go towards something other than some jerks beer fund.
Thanks for the amazing feedback. A couple of thoughts:
Pinkout- Pinkout will be during the Texas game for Men's and the Women's game that follows that evening (Both are February 9th I believe). Maybe sport a pink cape? ;)
As for selling shirts, it is going to be pretty crazy handing out shirts to a pretty big crowd of students (it's a saturday game on ABC...big time), and we're already pulling some help from SALC, but logistically speaking, we just don't have a good idea as to how many people would actually purchase a shirt outside of cyclone alley (everyone in the alley gets their's for free)...being as once again, this is something new, we don't know what kind of response to expect. The shirts have already been generously donated, and they are giving us close to 2800...but believe me, this is something that we have discussed, but with only an hour before tipoff, there isn't much time to move people through...
Something that did come up recently was selling bracelets (think livestrong) to go toward our donation, as well as any cash people wished to donate while picking up their shirts, as well as alumni who understand the cause and wish to donate. I also hope to get a shirt autographed by the Men's and Women's teams and auction it off with all profits going toward Hoops for Hopes as well.
Free Throws- LOVE the idea of doing Cyclone Aerobics, especially very quick. However, doing the same thing for an enitre half ruins whatever element of surprise we have, and I think some fans like to keep it mixed up as we do them...I know everyone "hates" sit down, yet every game I have people in the front row asking to do sit down...it gets mixed reactions, but we're in the process fo adding stand up and that should be there in time for UNI...I'll bring up Cyclone Aerobics at our next meeting.
Booklet- I helped put the book together last year, and I continue to apologize to this day that everyone interpreted it as "this is how things are done and nothing else"...it was merely a way for Central to get out some of the new things we were going to try last season, ie. Free throws. It's intended audience was Freshman who were new to the section and help them have an idea what was going on and have a handy dandy roster, ESPECIALLY witht he amount of new people on the team last season. If you look in this year's, I made sure there was an entire page dedicated to clarifying the purpose, and I hope that helps to assure people we aren't trying to tell them how to cheer, just helping start some things up.
I really do apologize for your lost e-mails, but I'm not entirely sure what could have happened...last year we went through a large transition last year, having both of our advisors leave and having a state of limbo for some time without an advisor...I really do apologize, I would have loved to given you the chance to interview, but I just don't know what happened, so as Co-Chair, I take responsibility for that and I truly do apologize that this happened. I hear great things about you from other central members that know you, and it's too bad you missed that chance....hopefully you still have some time to devote to central maybe next year, even if it's jsut a semester (we have had people only on the committee for a semester due to Graduation). In no way did we intentionally blow you off, we were just amiss some changes, and there really should be no excuse...
Oh, forgot selling props.
Something else we have considered, but it's something we just don't have the revenue for...props are our most expensive thing, and it's really hard to get discounts beyond where we are at as far as numbers...yes, we always get people asking where they can buy our props, and we've been looking for a couple of months at starting up an online store where alumni can purchase some Cyclone Alley props, and we could offer cyclone alley sweatshirts and other items such as window clings and such to students in the alley....once again, it comes down to you need to spend money to make money, and we're still trying to budget everything for the rest of the season (5 buses to Lincoln gets expensive, and we try to keep it at as little additional cost to students as possible.)
Funny story about road trips, last year UNI tickets were $30 a piece, and then we had food and transportation.....and we were unable to buy tickets until about two weeks before the game itself...try to imagine taht nightmare....haha
good post superfan...
when i read the cyclone aerobics for free throws i started laughing! we will definitely talk about that at our meetings cuz just picturing that in my head with everyone yelling the da-da, da-da, I!, da-da-da-da...awesome! other than that i was going to say some things alleycrew53 said so there is no need to repeat it. i also can't wait to start the stand up...everyone will sit down and then jump up and scream at the shooter...that will also be pretty funny to watch the section across from you do and fun for you to do(we tried it at a women's game)
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Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES The best seat at the Oscars is backstage. USA TODAY was in the wings of the Kodak Theatre Sunday night, capturing off-the-cuff moments that followed the staged events.
WINNERS: Who took home gold?
COLORFUL QUOTES: These stars said a mouthful
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One of the most emotional moments backstage came after screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher won for his adapted screenplay of Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire and Mo'Nique won supporting actress for playing the film's malevolent mother.
Known for her brassy and blunt comedy, Mo'Nique humbled the audience by thanking the academy for showing that the awards "can be about the performance, not the politics." And she thanked Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, for playing Mammy in 1939's Gone With the Wind. "I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so I would not have to."
Mo'Nique had been criticized by some Oscar pundits for not aggressively campaigning throughout awards season. It didn't seem to hurt her; she won almost every major prize before also taking home the Academy Award.
Waiting just behind her in the shadows was Fletcher, his Oscar demurely held at his side. Onstage, Fletcher said, "This is for everybody who works on a dream every day. Precious boys and girls everywhere."
One of the ABC pages came by and said, "Does anyone know where Geoffrey Fletcher is?" while looking directly at him. "Do you have eyes on Geoffrey Fletcher?"
Fletcher raised his Oscar into view and with a stunned look asked, "Me? Do you mean me?" But before he would let the page take him to the pressroom in the hotel next door, he wanted his moment with Mo'Nique. A long hug ensued. But it wasn't silent.
"Oh, baby! Oh, baby," Mo'Nique repeated again and again, as they clutched their Oscars at the other's back. "Look what we did!" As they pulled apart, they raised their Oscars and clinked their heads like Champagne glasses. "To you," Mo'Nique said. "To you, my baby."
As they walked down the corridor to the elevator that would take them to the pressroom, Robin Williams jumped in front of them to lighten the mood, making "swish, swish, swish" noises as he swept an invisible broom in front of her slow walk.
"It's curling, curling!" Williams said, finally getting Mo'Nique to laugh out loud.
A bridge for Bridges
Kate Winslet was a bulldozer for Oscar winner Jeff Bridges. The actress, a winner last year for The Reader, presented Bridges with his Crazy Heart trophy and pulled him backstage, waving aside stagehands and declaring Bridges needed the place "to say other stuff, to thank the people he didn't thank out there."
She was referring to the academy's thank-you cam, an Internet-only camera that records winners' voluminous lists of names of people who need to be mentioned but were left out onstage. It's meant to encourage winners to give more heartfelt speeches rather than read a litany of managers, agents, lawyers, friends and family.
"And here," Winslet said, thrusting the open envelope with his name into his hands, "don't lose this!"
Clearly, her take-charge attitude came from being a veteran.
Though he's had a long career, Bridges didn't seem to know what she was talking about. As he wandered about, clutching his trophy, he passed the thank-you cam and its team. He laughed and said, "I don't even know what a thank-you cam is."
Soon he was swarmed. Tim Robbins first, then Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star from 1989's The Fabulous Baker Boys, who introduced him onstage, and whatever focus he had left was gone. But eventually he made his way back to the camera, and he had a lot on his mind. He even pulled up a chair and sat down for the long haul.
Sandra at sea
Sandra Bullock, after winning best actress for The Blind Side, came backstage clutching Sean Penn's arm. "Sean, what do I do now?" Penn, last year's best-actor winner for Milk, shrugged and said, "I don't know."
She could have used some of Winslet's mother-hen-like expertise. "Well, I don't know either," Bullock said.
Just then, the best-director category came up on the monitors, and they watched as the action unfolded live right behind them.
Well, Bullock watched. Penn made a quick exit, leaving the baffled actress unsure what came next. To her rescue came Forest Whitaker, the best-actor winner for The Last King of Scotland three years ago. He asked her what she wanted to do, the options being go back to her seat, go to the pressroom or just stay put.
Bullock's response: "I want a cheeseburger and french fries and a milkshake." Whitaker nodded. "Ahhh, a little In-N-Out tonight," he said, with an expression of someone who knows good, post-Oscar burger dining.
As Kathryn Bigelow accepted best director for The Hurt Locker, Bullock took a moment to peek into the envelope Penn had given her. "Oh, I better double-check the name," she joked. "Oh, good, it does say mine."
No sooner was Bigelow headed in their direction than Tom Hanks announced The Hurt Locker as best-picture winner.
"Ahhh! She's gotta go back," Whitaker said, laughing and clapping. Bigelow, the first woman to win the best-director award, is known for her tough, no-nonsense films. But after winning two of the top prizes for her movie about an bomb defuser in Iraq, she looked like her own mind had just detonated.
"I'm in such shock!" she said, walking off the stage with an Oscar in each hand. Passing her was Hanks, who summed up the feeling of the night.
"What a moment," he said with a laugh.
And with that, the 82nd Academy Awards came to an end.
But before the show...
Hollywood's biggest night got rolling with the same nervous hustle as a high school play, albeit cast with the most famous faces on the planet.
An hour before showtime, Oscar winner Javier Bardem (2007's No Country for Old Men) was the first celebrity floating around the empty corridors behind the elaborate Kodak Theatre stage.
But one by one, the stars made their escape from the red carpet, and soon Bardem was hanging out on the loading dock smoking corner alongside girlfriend and Oscar winner Penelope Cruz and The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner.
Just inside, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were secluded inside their dressing rooms, but one guest brought them out, Baldwin still in his street clothes and Martin with his tuxedo shirt untucked and unbuttoned.
That would be Williams, who at first lingered in the hallway, unsure whether to knock. "Is it all right to say a quick hello? I don't want to bother them," Williams said, sounding a little hoarse. He recently had heart surgery, and though his manic energy was more subdued than usual, he rallied for the two co-hosts of this year's Academy Awards.
When Baldwin, all smiles, greeted him, Williams said, "Let's do one of these," chest-bumping the much taller Baldwin. "Whoa!" Williams said, getting a faceful of Baldwin's burly chest.
Outside, with rain coming down in drizzles, foodie celeb Wolfgang Puck lifted spirits by handing out little chocolate Oscars to the crowd of fans.
Ripped from the hemlines
Backstage, there's always a last-second wardrobe emergency, and this year, Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Lopez, each wearing Armani gowns of shimmering silk with the strength and density of bubble wrap, needed pit stops for hurried repairs to torn material.
The trouble: fragile fabric and long trains, in a tight space, with lots of people not looking where they're walking. Marc Anthony put a hand on Robert Downey Jr.'s shoulder to stop him from snagging Lopez's gown. "I need to be following along with orange traffic cones on the back," Anthony told the Iron Man.
Close encounters
Helen Mirren, Oscar winner for 2006's The Queen, was surprisingly hanging around with teen starlet Miley Cyrus. And when Cyrus stopped for a touch-up at the makeup table corner, the older actress pointed to the greenroom and yelled, "Miley, we are forging ahead in here!" And the Hannah Montanastar quickly followed after her.
Earlier, Mirren was having fun on the red carpet with The Last Station co-star Christopher Plummer. Both were nominated for their roles as Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sofya. Of her companion, Mirren said, "It's fun to have a friend on the red carpet."
When asked who made his suit, Plummer said: "I did. I stayed up all night."
She chimed in, "I hemmed the trousers for him."
At this point backstage, the already cramped entryways started to fill up significantly, and even the biggest stars were being nudged and pushed along.
Ryan Reynolds, extending his hand to Steve Carell, got to say, "I'm a big ..." before they were pulled apart. He caught up to The Office actor and added: "Hey, let me finish the sentence. I'm a big fan, not just a big." Carell said he understood.
Before the curtain rises
The clock continued to tick until just a few moments before show time.
The main acting nominees began pouring out onto the stage for the opening introductions, a presentation of them all onstage as the curtain went up that was unique to this year.
In the midst of the March of the Nominees, Crazy Heart's Bridges caused another gown accident, planting his foot on the train of An Education star Carey Mulligan and yanking her to a halt. Luckily, no damage.
"Awww! Oh, no," Bridges said, putting his hand on his bearded cheeks in embarrassment. "Just when I thought I had perfected my ability to walk."
Directly behind him was Up in the Air's George Clooney, his rival for best actor.
Clooney put his hands on Bridges' shoulders as they walked and said, "All I know, Jeff, is if you lose tonight, you're in such (expletive)."
Winners overwhelmed
Christoph Waltz, supporting-actor winner for Inglourious Basterds, couldn't have been surprised by his victory since it had been predicted ever since the movie premiered last May at the Cannes Film Festival.
But when he came off stage after a characteristically modest speech, the Austrian actor, who before was little known outside of Germany, had an uncertain look on his face.
Carrying his Oscar, he walked with presenter Cruz, who won last year for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Both of their wins have parallels. Cruz's film also premiered at Cannes, but she was far more used to the role of "celebrity."
As she walked him backstage, Bardem came over to meet them, and Cruz said to the new Oscar winner, "Are you nervous?"
Waltz pursed his lips, thinking for a moment before answering. "Yes," he declared finally.
For another winner, it's also been a whirlwind few years.
Ryan Bingham, who won an Oscar — with T Bone Burnett— for The Weary Kind, the theme from Crazy Heart, said backstage, "Me and my band were living out of our Suburban four years ago." Director Scott Cooper "gave me a copy of the script and said, 'If you're inspired to write anything, let me know.'
"And here we are."
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Washington state is shuttering the official tourist agency that unifies its marketing message and abandoning virtually all marketing support for tourism, one of its largest industries.
Washington state is shuttering the official tourism agency that unifies its marketing message and abandoning public support for one of its largest industries.
By the end of next week, it will be the only state in the nation with virtually no money to spend on self-promotion.
The transition is the most extreme example of the widely varying strategies among states trying to balance budget cuts with ways to spur economic growth. Some are pouring millions of dollars into fresh marketing, while others like New York and Arizona are slashing their promotional spending to help shore up state budgets.
Then there's Washington.
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"What Washington has done puts that state on an island," said Geoff Freeman, executive vice president of U.S. Travel Association. "No state at this point in time has been, with all due respect to Washington, as short-sighted as those leaders have been."
Washington's tourism spending dropped in recent years from about $7 million annually to about $2 million annually. Senate Republican Leader Mike Hewitt, who has for years sat on a commission that guides the state's tourism strategy, said the full elimination of that money was an unfortunate consequence of the current budget crisis.
"When you're taking kids off health care and raising tuition, you have to make some tough decisions," Hewitt said.
Washington's tourism industry is the state's fourth largest, and visitors to the state spent some $15.2 billion in 2010, according to state figures.
While about half of states are shrinking their marketing budgets, the other half are increasing them, according to the U.S. Travel Association.
Congress, meanwhile, recently approved a public-private partnership to draw international visitors, fearing that millions around the globe were shying away from the United States as a whole. Costs for the program will be divided equally between the government and private industry.
Michigan, which has consistently had one of the nation's worst unemployment rates, has boosted its state-funded promotional spending from about $5 million per year in 2005 to $25 million per year now.
The state is in the middle of its largest national advertising buy – spending more than $11 million to splash its "Pure Michigan" message on cable. George Zimmermann, vice president for Travel Michigan, said their research indicates that a dollar spent on out-of-state advertising returns $3.29 cents in tax money alone – and much more for businesses.
"It's a bit of a no-brainer," Zimmerman said. "Tourism is not the answer to restoring the Michigan economy, but we do believe it's one of the answers."
The only other state that comes close to rivaling Washington's cuts during the recession is Connecticut, which essentially eliminated its tourism budget for two years but maintained its staff. Connecticut is now quickly reversing itself, with a new budget for the biennium that starts in July proposing to restore $15 million to the program.
Randy Fiveash, Connecticut's tourism division director, said the industry there has been limping along and struggling to stay competitive
"We know we lost market share," Fiveash said.
To fill its void, Washington's tourism industry has established the Washington Tourism Alliance to promote the state. It obtained state funding to take over some assets — such as the state tourism website — but is still trying to identify a way to steadily fund a marketing campaign.
The group has raised more than $300,000, said Kim Bennett, president and CEO of the Vancouver Regional Tourism Office in southwest Washington. She would like to see a minimum of $15 million.
"We cannot continue to operate and be competitive with other states without appropriate funding," Bennett said. "Everyone who is selling a good or a service or a destination, you have to get out and market. Your competitors are out there marketing."
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text: Online friends almost as valuable as real family Science 24 August 10 by Olivia Solon Sulake Young people identify with their online community almost as much as their own family, according to a new study.The international research, which was authored by Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, a researcher at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and Professor Pekka Räsänen from the University of Turku, Finland, looked at the users of teenage online community Habbo.Habbo is a popular teenage virtual world developed by Sulake Corporation. It has 15 million monthly unique visitors from over 150 countries, with 90 percent of users aged between 13 and 18 years old. Some 4299 respondents from the United Kingdom, Spain and Japan were surveyed for the study, titled "How do young people identify with online and offline peer groups?" and all three nationalities yielded similar results.The authors took as their starting point the fact that peer groups are important for the development of adolescents' identity and values. The study addresses the question of whether online groups are standing in for traditional peer groups that are thought to be weakening in some developed countries.The study quizzed respondents about how strongly they identified to a range of different communities, including Habbo, their own family and friends, and offline hobby groups on a scale of 1 to 5.The results confirmed that online groups can act as strong psychological anchoring points for their members. The authors concluded that games, social networking sites and other online hangouts should be seen as crucial contexts for today's youths' identification and socialisation experiences.The results also suggest that in relatively young information societies such as Spain, online groups are more often "virtual communities" consisting of relative strangers. In mature information societies such as Japan, online groups are more likely to be a way of keeping in touch with family and friends. This may influence the experiences that youth receive from online groups in different countries.Despite the heavy influence of online communities, the family was still the respondents' primary source of social identity. However, as the report states, "respondents rated the online community Habbo almost equally high, indicating that they feel nearly as much part of the Habbo community as they feel part of their own family." The study was published in the Journal of Youth Studies, the leading international scholarly journal focusing on youth research. Latest on wired.co.uk


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The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) is inviting applications for a work experience position based out of the Momentum office in Calgary, AB.
This position is offered through CCEDNet's CreateAction internship program, which is the only national internship program that provides paid learning opportunities for young people to do community economic development (CED) in their own communities.
The successful candidate will work both with Momentum (a CED organization that delivers programs for individuals living on low-incomes) and Thrive (a CED network focused on promoting and advancing CED in Calgary housed at the Momentum office) to conduct outreach, research, and web-based writing on Community Economic Development.
Community Economic Development is a unique approach to place-based poverty reduction that simultaneously addresses social and environmental concerns while increasing economic opportunities for individuals living on low-incomes.
This program is funded by Service Canada and its intention is to give out-of-school postgraduate youth (15-30 years) who have a career focus in CED a relevant five-month work experience placement. Applicants must be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, or a protected person within the meaning of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. This placement is fully subsidized by the Canadian CED Network. This position will provide an hourly wage of $20.00 with an average work week of 37.5 hours.
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I was wondering if any bikeforums members have had any success in exchanging your Norco Bikeguard locks. I have a Bikeguard 2 and have contacted Norco twice and nothing - no answer what so ever. Makes a person a little angry.
I was wondering if any bikeforums members have had any success in exchanging your Norco Bikeguard locks. I have a Bikeguard 2 and have contacted Norco twice and nothing - no answer what so ever. Makes a person a little angry.
Wasn't aware that norco had a lock exchange program... at all.
Here is a little info on the exchange.
Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 24, 2004 BIKE-GUARD® today offered more details about their plan to service customers who have been possibly affected by recent U-lock picking concerns. BIKE-GUARD® is still actively testing locks to find the cause of this problem, and to what extent it reaches. Although not all U-locks or Tubular Key locks are affected, BIKE-GUARD is not taking a Wait-and-See approach. They are taking the problem head on, and giving the benefit of any doubt to their customers and dealers.
More specific details will follow in the coming days, but BIKE-GUARD® will be offering No Charge upgrades to affected locks that have been purchased since January 2002. Any other consumer not feeling secure with their current Tubular Keyed BIKE-GUARD® U-Lock will also be able to take advantage of an offer of considerable discounts to be able to update their lock to the most current of security technology. Lock Upgrade kits (including 5 flat style High Security Keys) will be available at local BIKE-GUARD retailers in the next few weeks.
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"This potential problem affects only 5 of BIKE-GUARD®s unrivalled 63 model line-up, meaning that 92% (including Chains, Cables, and Flat Keyed U-Locks) of all models are still available to serve our customers demanding security needs." said Andrew Belson.
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... who were complaining about a TdF this year that would not be interesting?
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... who were complaining about a TdF this year that would not be interesting?
This is the most interesting TDF in years.
Interesting what happens when the dopers have been reduced.
No 8 minute solo breakaways as of yet.
It will also be interesting to see which riders will get caught doping.
The Aso Uci feud means that the UCI will start doing its job regarding doping with a little more diligence than in the past (read: not covering up) -- but only during Aso events of course :D
UCI by not looking the other way with respect to the rampant doping in the Peloton -- as it has done countless times before -- can effectively wreck the tour. I say there's a lot of bargaining going on behind the scenes between UCI and the Anaury folks right now, and the credibility of this Tour is likely in the balance...
They have all stopped watching or even checking the news. No American in the top 3 or touted as the clear favorite = Boring.
Don't kill me I'm only the messenger. Personally I think it is a great Tour, one with the potential to be one of the best of all time, especially considering the historical context. My huge hope is leaving the age of Armstrong will turn out like leaving the age of Anquetil. Going from cold second counting calculation to wild stages with swings of 5 minutes plus on individual stages. If it can be like the Age of Merckx, except without a dominant rider cycling just might become popular in the U.S.
They cannot find the TdF forum on BF. get to work, botto.
This race is soooooo boooooorrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggggg. :rolleyes:
I'm enjoying the heck out of it.
French Customs has searched a few team busses, no contraband as of yet..
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text: > What about this (only for one side ;) ): > Suppose we are on LAN A: > In the table mangle chain PREROUTING mark all packets coming in over > the LAN device and destined for 172.30.13.0/24 and sourced from > 172.30.12.0/24 for example with 1. > Then IPSec handles the packets. > In table mangle chain POSTROUTING mark all packets with AH/ESP > outgoing over the internet device and destined for the routable IP of > LAN B with 1. Don't know if they are marked twice with 1 but that's no > problem. So we can be sure all IPSec packets are marked with 1. > Then you can apply the filters in the schedulers for the appropriate > marks on the appropriate device in this case the internet device. > So we can prioritize outgoing packets. > Incoming should also be prioritized. So both directions get their > priorities. > So in table mangle chain PREROUTING mark all AH/ESP packets coming in > over the internet device and sourced from the routable IP of LAN B > with 1. > Then IPSec handles the packets. > In table mangle chain POSTROUTING mark all packets destinded for > 172.30.12.0/24 and sourced from 172.30.12.0/24 and going out over the > LAN device with 1. > Then apply the filters for the marks in the schedulers of the LAN device. > This way IPSec should be prioritized in both directions on one router. > If it works you can do it with canged addresses on the other one. > Don't know if it really works, because it's now 3am and I'm a bit > confused and IPSec is already complex standalone ;). > But afaik every net device gets schedulers no matter if physical or > virtual so it normally should be no problem. Daniel (and others) thank you for the reply. However I think you have (re)touched on the QoS / Prioritization of IPSec (IP/ESP) traffic verses regular internet bound traffic. I am after how to prioritize just the subset of the traffic from Lan A (or B) that is destined to the other side. More specifically I will be having SSH (interactive sessions only) / Telnet, Terminal Services (RDP), VNC (RFB), ICMP, SMB/CIFS, FTP / SCP (bulk data transfer), RSYNC, LPD, etc traffic from one LAN destined to the other LAN through a VPN that has a finite amount of bandwidth (128 kbps DSL (768/128)) which will spend a good deal of time saturated with all of the traffic going through it. Thus I want to prioritize that interactive services, i.e. SSH / Telnet, RDP, VNC, and ICMP, send their traffic through the VPN *BEFORE* any of the bulk data transfer services thus hopefully yielding what will appear to be a fairly responsive circuit. Seeing as how all of this traffic is going to be encapsulated with in the IPSec VPN and thus becoming IP/ESP traffic I can not just prioritize the IP/ESP traffic on the egress of the external interface of the router. Naturally I will prioritize like you have suggested to make sure that VPN traffic will have priority over general web traffic on the external interface of the router. However as I understand it there is no ""egressing interface for the traffic that will be encapsulated *BEFORE* it does become encapsulated thus putting all afore mentioned VPN traffic in one priority level. Here is a brief description of how I want to prioritize the traffic that will be leaving any of the LANs. There will be more LANs down the road, each of which will (for now) have equal priority with each other. I will be denoting Priority Groups (PgN) as well as sub groups (sN). All VPN traffic from one LAN to another will be a Priority Group 1 with all other traffic from the sending LAN being a Priority Group 2 or lower. The only possible exception to this will be ICMP and similar traffic. Pg1s1: ICMP destined to other LANs (IP/ESP) Pg1s2: SSH / Telnet / RDP / RFB destined to other LANs (IP/ESP) Pg1s3: LPD / SMB / CIFS destined to other LANs (IP/ESP) Pg1s4: FTP / RSYNC / SCP destined to other LANs (IP/ESP) Pg1s5: (unused as of yet) destined to other LANs (IP/ESP) Pg2s1: ICMP destined to the world at large. Pg2s2: SSH / Telnet / RDP / RFB destined to the world at large. Pg2s3: LPD / SMB / CIFS destined to the world at large. Pg2s4: FTP / RSYNC / SCP destined to the world at large. Pg2s5: (unused as of yet) destined to the world at large. I want any traffic that is in Priority Group 1 (IPSec VPN traffic) to be sent out the internet connection first. I also want Priority Group 1s traffic to be prioritized based on the sub group priority. However as IP/ESP traffic is encapsulated and can thus not be prioritized on egress of the external interface it has to be prioritized before it is encapsulated. Here in lies the problem. Where / how do I prioritize this traffic to the appropriate sub group priority. Grant. . . .


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What is the Efficiency of APS-C Sensor Photo Sites for Gathering Photons?
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I would expect current efficiency is low (20% of photons recorded). This is just a non-engineer/non-physicist guess.
And it happens to be wrong. Current models already operate at or above 45% QE... For an in depth analysis and putting the QE into context read:
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Apair of well-traveled comedies by a writer who didn't live to enjoy their full success, a sci-fi rom-com for the tech age and a world-premiere drama about a woman who gives her child up for foreign adoption due to economic hardship are among the plays opening this weekend and next at local theaters.
"The Foreigner" and "The Nerd"
Larry Shue was a crowd-pleaser.
A skilled stage actor who excelled at comic roles (though I was lucky enough to see him in a dramatic part, as the larcenous junk-shop owner in "American Buffalo"), he was also an inventor of antic, gently instructive, contemporary farces — plays which would, long after Shue's untimely 1985 death at 39 in a plane crash, become regional-theater staples in the U.S. and abroad.
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His two best-known titles emerged in the 1980s. They are frequently presented by Seattle-area community theaters and are getting higher-profile productions currently by Issaquah's Village Theatre and Federal Way's Centerstage.
In Centerstage's "The Nerd," which employs a mistaken-identity tactic Shue excelled at, a young architect is visited by a socially inept man who presumably saved his life in the Vietnam War — and now turns up to make a mess of it.
Seattle director John Dillon, who is staging the Federal Way show, goes back a long way with the play. He commissioned the work and directed its premiere at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, while artistic head there. And he was a close friend and colleague of Shue, who was part of the Milwaukee Rep acting company.
"The Foreigner," which also debuted at Milwaukee Rep, cleverly mocks American xenophobia and racism with another identity twist. A British man visiting a Southern resort pretends he doesn't speak or comprehend English, and is thereby privy to a nefarious Ku Klux Klan plot, which he is determined to (very quietly) foil.
Mounting the Village Theatre production is another director of note: former Village artistic associate and Tony Award winner Brian Yorkey, writer-lyricist for the musical "Next to Normal" and for the new collaboration with Tom Kitt, "If/Then," which is set to debut on Broadway this spring.
"The Foreigner" plays through March 2 at Village Theatre, Issaquah (425-392-2202 or villagetheatre.org). Note: Also runs March 7-30 at Everett Performing Arts Center in Everett.
"The Nerd" runs through Feb. 9 at Centerstage, Federal Way (253-661-1444 or centerstagetheatre.com)
"Ed, Downloaded"
What if you could store your fondest memories on a digital device, to be preserved for all eternity?
That's the conceit of this Michael Mitnick play, which was introduced in Denver last year and receives its Seattle premiere next week from Washington Ensemble Theatre (WET). A blend of live action and video, "Ed, Downloaded" uses technology to explore mortality, a love triangle and the possibilities of digitizing and downloading experiences to create a kind of heavenly scrapbook.
This is just the sort of multimedia/au courant material you can imagine WET tackling, which they do here under the direction of lead producer, Ali el-Gasseir.
Runs Jan. 31-Feb. 24 at Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle (206-325-5105 or washingtonensemble.org).
"The Equation"
A voyage backward in time is part of Seattle writer-director Charles Waxburg's new play, presented by Theatre 9/12.
The First Hill company describes "The Equation" as a "play of excavation" and a "howdunit" (rather than a whodunit) about a Depression-era couple trying to adopt "the infant son of a Russian woman desperate to give her child a shot at the American dream glittering impossibly beyond her grasp."
The cast includes "Northern Exposure" alum Cynthia Geary.
Through Feb. 15 at Theatre 9/12, Trinity Parish Church, Seattle (206-332-7908 or theatre912.com).
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Parents have been alerted to a case of whooping cough at one Craven County elementary school.
The Craven County School system says there's been one case of the highly contagious disease at Bridgeton Elementary School, confirmed by the Craven County Health Department.
Letters were send out to parents today and they also sent out an in-touch message as well.
Whooping cough is a very serious disease, especially for young children and infants less than one year old. The disease is highly contagious and can be easily spread through talking, sneezing or coughing.
Symptoms start out with a runny nose, sneezing, mild fever and a cough that slowly gets worse. The next stage has uncontrolled coughing spells or fits, especially at night, and a high-pitched "whoop" sound when the person inhales.
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The manner of strike off affects the accuracy of this test method and should be done as rapidly as possible to prevent consolidation of material in the cylindrical measure (Section 10.2). A strike off guide has been shown to improve the accuracy and consistency of test results, and members present at the June 2011 committee meeting recommended that a strike off guide be mandatory for this test procedure.
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