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| 17 September 2010 | Issue 492
› Contents: news; Lancaster in the news; people; notices; what's on; ads
Lancaster University climbs global league tables
Lancaster University has been ranked 124 in the world top 200 universities in the THE World Rankings – the highest level that Lancaster has ever achieved in global tables.
This comes after Lancaster broke into the top ten in all three UK league tables for the first time this year ranking 10th in the Times , 8th in the Independent's Complete University Guide and 6th in the Guardian League table.
Full story. See the full rankings here.
Opinion by Professor Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster and chair of the 1994 Group.
Launch of Ł6.5m study to reduce agricultural river pollution
Lancaster University is leading a Ł6.5m environmental scheme to reduce water pollution from agriculture. The five-year project is being funded by Defra with support from the Environment Agency. The river Eden in Cumbria has been selected as one of three test river catchments in the UK along with the Wensum in Norfolk and the Hampshire Avon.
Central to the project is the University of Cumbria's Newton Rigg Farm which will be the base site for the research consortium. The experimental farm will be used to develop ways of preventing farm waste and chemicals from polluting the river Eden and will act as a demonstration farm to engage with local farmers and landowners. The involvement of farmers and landowners is an essential part of the study, which aims to bring together researchers, farmers, water companies and policy makers to develop a common approach to tackling water pollution.
The launch was covered by ITV Border, who sent a TV crew to Newton Rigg and interviewed Professor Phil Haygarth (LEC) for an item due to be broadcast on the evening news programme between 6 and 6.30pm on September 17. Prof Haygarth was also interviewed by BBC Radio Cumbria, September 16, and the Westmorland Gazette Full story
Global Food Security Meeting at Lancaster
Lancaster University has hosted The International Food Security and Safety Meeting from September 13-15, where experts gathered to address the problems of global food production at a time of population growth and climate change. Themes included Food Security in China and Africa, Sustainable Intensification and Europe's Response to the Food Security Challenge. The plenary speaker was Dr Gebisa Ejeta from Purdue University, Winner of the 2009 World Food Prize, while other contributors included Lancaster alumnus Professor Jianhua Zhang from the Hong Kong Baptist University, who was featured as one of five crop researchers who could change the world in "Nature".
Speakers from Lancaster University included Dr Saskia Vermeylen (LEC), Professor Felix Wackers (LEC) , Dr David Tyfield (Sociology), Professor Brian Wynne (Sociology), Dr Ken Wilson (LEC) and Professor Larry Busch (Michigan State University/ Lancaster University).
The meeting was organised by Distinguished Professor Bill Davies (LEC) together with the Society for Experimental Biology, with support from the Royal Society, Research Councils UK, Waitrose, the Journal of Experimental Botany, The Horticultural Development Company and the British Council. Please follow link for a photograph of some of the participants.
HR Excellence Awards for LUMS
Two professors from Lancaster University Management School have been ranked among the leaders in their field at HR magazine's Excellence Awards 2010 at Claridges in London. Professor Cary Cooper CBE has been ranked 7th in the category of Most Influential HR Thinker in the UK ; in terms of UK academics, he was ranked 3rd. The Director of the Centre for Performance Led HR at LUMS, Professor Paul Sparrow, was ranked 13th in the same category. Professor Cooper was also ranked joint 7th – with Lord Leitch, the chairman of BUPA – in the list of Most Influential HR Thinkers over the past five years in a list headed by the broadcaster and lecturer Charles Handy. Lancaster alumnus David Fairhurst, senior vice president/chief people officer at McDonald's Restaurants Northern Europe, was voted HR magazine's Most Influential HR Practitioner for the third year running.
Woodland Trails & Trim Trail
On Monday 20th September work will start on a project to improve the amenity and use of the parklands and woodlands on campus. This will include a new 'Trim Trail' which will provide dedicated activity points for staff and students to use free of charge. It will also include formalisation of existing entrance points onto campus through the boundary woodlands with the installation of wooden 'kissing gates,' signage and surface improvements. For more details about the project including a map of what will be happening where and visuals of the new 'Trim Trail' click here.
Car Parking News
Flexible Benefits applicants should note the following:
- Annual Staff Permit at Ł150 - your application is about to be processed. Your permit will be sent to your home address in time for October 1st. Please ensure that HR have up-to-date address details for you by checking your details on Employee Self Service.
- Staff Car Share Permit – from Monday 20th September you will need to visit the Car Parking Office in Security (open 09:00 – 12:45 daily) with all vehicle details and payment to collect your Car Share permit and allocation of free Staff Scratchcards (pro rata for part-time staff).
- 15 free Staff Scratchcards for walking, cycling or motorcycling commuters - from Monday 20th September you will need to visit the Car Parking Office in Security (open 09:00 – 12:45 daily) with vehicle details to collect your free scratchcards (pro rata for part-time staff).
- SN Permit – you will need to present satisfactory medical evidence at the Car Parking Office, Security after September 20th.
Staff not eligible for Flexible Benefits (e.g. staff not on a salaried contract with the University) should contact the Parking Office in Security in person or by telephone (X92179) between 09:00 and 12:45 from Monday 20th September to be flagged to apply for a permit online or choose one of the other parking options such as the Staff Car Share Permit for free scratchcards for regular walking, cycling or motorcycling commuters. This also applies to any staff that have missed the Flexible Benefits deadline.
Termly Parking Permits – available all year round (not part of Flexible Benefits) for Ł57 per term. Click here for more information.
Parking Scratchcards – from October 1st the current one-day parking scratchcard will become the new Staff Scratchcard, valid only in the Staff Zone. A new one-day Visitor Scratchcard is available from Security, valid only in Visitor Zones. Both scratchcards will cost Ł5 each. During September it will be possible for departments to trade in existing scratchcards for the new Visitor Scratchcard at no extra charge at the Car Parking Office, Security. If traded in after September 30th then a Ł2 charge per scratchcard will be made as the new Ł5 charge will be in force.
Visitor Parking – staff are reminded that from October 1st visitors will only be permitted to park in the designated visitor parking spaces and not in staff or student parking areas. Over the coming weeks the parking machines, signage and road markings will be changed to reflect the new policies and parking zones. By the end of October all machines will offer tickets for 2 hours at Ł2 or for a full day at Ł5. Payment options at the machines will include coin and chip & pin card payment. More details will follow in next week's LU Text.
New Travel & Car Parking Policy for 2010/11
Visit Day
8200 prospective students and their parents will visit the campus on Saturday. The Visit Day, organised by the UK Student Recruitment and Outreach office, will give the visitors information about courses and a flavour of what it is like to study at Lancaster. This follows the Visit Day in August, where due to Lancaster's rise in the league tables there was an increase of 30% in bookings with 6,500 attending. Feedback from that event was positive with 65.3% saying they would apply to Lancaster.
Lancaster in the news
Contributions to the media this week include Dr Hugh Tuffen (LEC) who is featured in the cover story in Science News and Dr Mark Levine (Psychology) on BBC Radio 4. Follow link to see further contributions for this week.
Lancaster University weather experts have been contributing to the BBC's Wild Weather week. Dr Rob MacKenzie, Reader in Atmospheric Science at Lancaster Environment Centre, featured on BBC Lancashire news online 13 September 2010. Meanwhile historic weather diaries belonging to LEC lab technician Christine Valentine will be included in a one-off documentary on Monday, 20 September on BBC One at 19.30 hrs as part of the BBC's Wild Weather week. Dr MacKenzie and Christine Valentine were both interviewed by the documentary crew earlier this year.
Professor Allyson Fiddler (DELC) gave a plenary lecture and led an open discussion on politics and 21st-century literatures at the University of St Andrews this week. The conference focused on the theme of 'Twenty-First Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends'.
Staff Changes in Colleges & Student Life, Student Based Services: Geraldine Caldwell has now moved from Accommodation to Colleges and Student Wellbeing as Departmental Officer, tel 92381. Sue Dunkeld has moved from Pendle College Residence Officer to Departmental Officer in the central Accommodation Office, tel 94694. Gill Sudlow has moved within Accommodation from Guest Rooms to Acting College Residence Officer, Pendle College, tel 94502. We wish them all well in their new roles.
LUMS Management Science PhD Graduate Arne Strauss has won the Operational Research Society prize "for the most distinguished body of research leading to the award of a doctorate in the field of OR in the UK" for 2009. Arne, who was supervised by Joern Meissner, has since been appointed at LUMS under a PhD Plus Fellowship and will soon start a position as Research Associate under the LANCS Initiative.
Allotments on campus - A group of staff and students are discussing with the University the possibility of extending the existing organic garden at the north end of the campus. The idea is to use it in a similar way to an allotment garden, but with 'quarter plots' (5m x 10m) rather than full sized plots. The group estimates that to keep a plot productive and reasonably tidy will require roughly 4 to 5 hours per week or every lunch time. The group is gauging the potential demand for plots. Please register your interest by contacting Richard Wadsworth firstname.lastname@example.com
New Student Complaints Procedure now available online
With effect from 1st July 2010, Lancaster operates a revised student complaints procedure – details are available here. The main changes are at the first formal stage of the process, when a student lodges a complaint with a particular department, college or division. There have also been some changes to the composition of the standing complaints panel from which individuals are selected to investigate second stage complaints on behalf of the University. For more information contact Jackie Hughes tel: 01524 5-92987 or email: email@example.com.
Web content moves, from CELTWeb to Secretariat
With effect from today (Friday 17th September), a large amount of web material has moved from within CELTWeb to the Academic Standards & Quality website within Secretariat, accessible via https://gap.lancs.ac.uk/ASQ. This work has been underway over the summer break and includes new homes for:
- teaching and learning-related policies and guidelines online;
- academic quality assurance information (eg Annual Teaching Review pro-formas, PQR material including past reports which are reserved for staff-only access);
- MARP (the Manual of Academic Regulations and Procedures);
- information for external examiners;
- course design guidance and access to the online service.
In addition, MARP 2010 will also be accompanied by a 'recent changes' page (to indicate what's new in MARP that may have an impact on your work) and a full Glossary of University terms is also being developed, to appear with MARP later in the year. Re-directs have been arranged from CELTWeb to the new locations for the coming year – but please update any onward links from other pages over the coming weeks and months. Contact Jackie Hughes on tel: 01524 5-92987 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Campus Road Repairs
On Monday 20th September 'Briscoe' contractors will start work to repair the worn out areas of road around campus. The work will be completed by Friday 24th September. Disruption is expected to be minimal. If you have any queries about the work please contact the Facilities helpdesk 01524 593333, firstname.lastname@example.com
Bus news Subsidised annual Staff Unirider bus passes
Subsidised annual Staff Unirider bus passes
Applications for subsidised staff bus passes have now closed for 2010/11. Eligible staff that have applied for a bus pass through Flexible Benefits should visit the LUSU Information Desk in Slaidburn House from Monday September 27th to collect their bus pass. Staff must take a valid Lancaster University library card with them to collect their bus pass. LUSU will also be selling termly and annual bus passes for the full price as normal to both staff and students with a valid Lancaster University Library card.
Temporary underpass bus stops
There will be a number of improvements to the temporary bus stop arrangements on the underpass road in time for the new term. Further details will be issued in next week's LU Text. There will be a new temporary bus stop on North Drive once term begins.
Service 42 Lancaster – Garstang - Blackpool via Lancaster University underpass
Staff are reminded that most 42 services are now diverting off the A6 to serve Lancaster University underpass. A full timetable can be viewed here.
X1 Bus Service
Please note that the X1 still operates in University vacation periods. Stagecoach have made a timetabling error that shows the X1 operating in term-times only. This is incorrect and Stagecoach are amending their X1 timetables. The X1 continues to operate in both vacation and term-time periods.
Declaration of philanthropic income 0910
The University's HEFCE matched funding claim is currently being prepared. The matched funding scheme allows the University to receive Ł1 for every Ł3 donated, up to a maximum of Ł2.75m over the 3-year period of the scheme – the matched funds are being used to finance the new PhD studentships being introduced this academic year. In order to ensure that the HEFCE claim is correct, please could you ensure that the Alumni & Development Office has been informed of any income your area has received in the financial year 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010, that you believe may be philanthropic (e.g. grants or donations). If you are unsure as to whether some income can be classed as philanthropic, please let us know and we can review the details to determine if it can be included in the claim. More details about the matched funding scheme are available here. Deadline for receipt of this information is Friday 1 October 2010 in order that we can process the claim in time. Please contact either: Rachel Davis / ext.94897 or Katharine Robinson in Finance / ext. 93424.
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Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT)
There are still a few places left available on the following programmes:
- Staff who teach at Lancaster University
The Certificate in Academic Practice programme (CAP). Module 1 (Developing Higher Education Practice) starts with a three day workshop in September 2010; group sessions continue during Michaelmas Term and department-based tasks and teaching activities during Michaelmas and Lent Term. Followed immediately after by Module 2 (Curriculum Design and Development). For further details and the application process, please visit
- Postgraduates and researchers who teach at Lancaster University
The new Higher Education Academy accredited Supporting Learning Programme (SLP) replaces the Associate Teacher Programme (ATP) for postgraduates, researchers and others involved in teaching and supporting student learning. It has been designed to be 'lighter-touch' than ATP in terms of attendance at core workshops, assessment tasks and activities and required teaching contact hours for eligibility to enrol (minimum of 10 hours), whilst continuing to provide a support framework for professional development and accreditation. For further details and the application process visit website.
For details on our one day Survival Skills workshops, visit website.
Professional & Leadership Development
Our NEW Development opportunities for staff guide will be distributed shortly. The guide includes programmes that are scheduled over the next 12 months with new editions and exciting opportunities. To have a sneak preview of the guide and for your chance to register your attendance early please visit
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Signature Lecture Series – Professor Vanessa Toulmin
The next Faculty signature lecture series entitled 'Professor Vanessa's Peculiar Entertainments: Early Film and Edwardian Entertainment', will be held on 18 October 2010 at 6pm in the Elizabeth Livingston Lecture Theatre.
The lecture will be delivered by Professor Vanessa Toulmin, Sheffield University. Professor Toulmin is Director of the National Fairground Archive (NFA) at the University of Sheffield Library and Chair in Early Film and Popular Entertainment. Originally from a show family who ran the Winter Gardens Fairground in Morecambe, she founded the NFA in 1994. The Archive is now the largest collection of ephemera, photographs and books relating to the history of circus and fairground entertainment in the UK.
Professor Vanessa's Peculiar Entertainments will offer an overview of the world of illegitimate entertainment culture, out of which grew circus, sideshow and variety performers. Covering mysterious beasts, performing wonders and highly-skilled performers, her lecture will be illustrated with rare visuals from the NFA, including moving footage of bizarre entertainments such as boxing kangaroos, dancing pigs, jugglers and contortionists. For more information please visit, www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/3401/. All are welcome to attend.
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Northern Arizona Regional Training Academy
Welcome! On behalf of my academy staff, I want to welcome you to the Northern Arizona Regional Training Academy.
The goal of our Basic Training Program is to provide you with the highest quality law enforcement training so that you may acquire the needed knowledge, develop necessary skills, and become confident in your ability to become a successful peace officer. You will soon discover that the law enforcement profession is one of high demands and self rewards. Along the way, you will be challenged with a rigorous training program to help prepare you to perform the duties of a peace officer.
Thank You,
Jeff Newnum, Academy Commander
About the Academy
NARTA is regional training center serving city, county, tribal, and state law enforcement agencies throughout the state of Arizona. Recruits must be sponsored by an agency before entering the academy. The training center is housed at the Yavapai College Prescott Valley Campus in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Drivers and Firearms Training, and Stop and Approach are held at off-campus locations.
"Northern Arizona Regional Training Academy is dedicated to provide the highest quality of basic law enforcement training to the diverse law enforcement agencies thought the state of Arizona, through effective instruction and leadership."
The basic training program is designed to introduce recruits to law enforcement work. The training provided will be demanding, as is the job of law enforcement. The experience at NARTA will challenge you mentally, physically, and academically, while at the same time, lay a foundation for advanced training. In order to assure the best possible chance of future success, attention to detail, individual responsibility, self-discipline, autonomy, and teamwork, amongst other qualities will be stressed and required. The academy staff will provide a positive, professional environment for recruits so they may acquire needed knowledge, develop necessary physical skills, and become confident in their ability to become successful peace officers.
Basic Training Program:
This program is an 20-week course encompassing 800 training hours. The program includes an Intoxilyzer 8000 Operation Certification, Impaired Driver Detection, Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Training/Wet Workshop, Taser Certification, and Response to Active Shooter.
Standards of Conduct - The law enforcement profession demands honesty, integrity, and moral decency from its members. To foster this type of behavior, recruits will be expected to abide by the Academy's Standards of Conduct.
Class Start and Graduation Dates
- Class 41: August 1 - December 15, 2016
- Class 42: January 9 - May 25, 2017
The Academy is required by Arizona Peace Offices's and Standards Training (AzPOST) to ensure that each graduate of basic training meets specific minimum performance objectives. How NARTA meets this legal duty by enforcing the following training standards visit this link for detailed information.
For the first few weeks, all recruits will be required to wear appropriate business attire. This consists of a button-down white shirt, black dress pants, and running shoes. Recruits will begin wearing agency uniforms at the discretion of the class sergeant. Recruits must have their agency uniforms available no later than the beginning of the third week of training. For more detailed information regarding uniform standards visit this link.
Housing at Yavapai College in Prescott is available for recruits living outside a 35-mile radius of NARTA headquarters. For more detailed information visit this link.
NARTA recognizes the value of community involvement as a precursor to community-orientated policing. To that end NARTA is involved in many projects in the community to instill a sense of commitment to the community. Some of the projects NARTA has been involved in include: Head Start, Adopt a Highway, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The 100 Club of Arizona, Shop With A Cop, and Special Olympics of Arizona.
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So I was introduced to their music a few months ago and have only recently gone back and listened to all their stuff. I have to say, these guys are awesome! Anyone else a fan?
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I like it but not as much as Flogging Molly, pretty similar though in style. FYI - Flogging Molly will be at the Val Aire in August, tickets available now on TicketMaster.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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YES! I don't own any but I need to. I first heard them on the digital music channels on cable. Then I saw a recorded concert and they were awesome.
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I like it but not as much as Flogging Molly, pretty similar though in style. FYI - Flogging Molly will be at the Val Aire in August, tickets available now on TicketMaster.
Agreed. A lot like Flogging Molly.
Had to youtube them since I have never heard of them. Not too bad, I like a little different music.
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DKM is my current favorite band. I've got their four most recent CDs and just ordered 1999s The Gang's All Here tonight. They are similar to Flogging Molly but are much more punk oriented.
One of my old roomates introduced me to them and ever since then I have become a huge fan. One of my favorites is Murphy, Murphy Darling Dear. I know they were in Chicago for this past St. Paddy's day celebrations I really wish I could have been there.
My old roomie use to listen to them all the time, so I was introduced to them 4-5 years ago.
dkm is the goods
Flogging Molly is coming to Val Air? Holy crap, and I was just thinking while listening to one of their albums how awesome it'd be to hear them in concert. I just might have to investigate...
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Day 13, Broccoli and pesto tagliatelle
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Tonight is day 13 of a year of cooking Jamie Oliver recipes.
I find that it not only helps me to learn more about cooking it also inspires me to spring clean the kitchen .
In his book Ministry of food and also in one of his apps Jamie lists the essential kitchen list. After reading it I bought one new frying pan and a speed peeler.
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A Mississippian who wants to carry a concealed handgun will still need a concealed weapons permit just like he or she would need today. What the new law changes is that it will be legal to openly carry a handgun without having to have any sort of permit. This new law has been receiving a great deal of attention, primarily because law enforcement personnel are trying to figure out what it means for them.
Many of the implications of the new law remain unknown, or at least have not been widely disseminated to the public. As I understand it, the new law will not change the pre-existing restrictions associated with concealed carry permits. For example, even with a concealed carry permit, a gun owner cannot carry a pistol into a courthouse, a public school, or on private property where the property owner decides to restrict guns. I have always found this private property area to be interesting because it sounds like a property owner who does not want guns on the premises must post a sign and hope that visitors pay attention to it. I am not sure what happens if someone does not see the sign. I suppose an employee would be placed in the position of having to confront someone with a gun and ask them to leave.
Our attorney general has described the new law as "clear as mud" and "poorly written." It sounds like he expects our courts will be busy for years to come determining how to interpret it. This might not be welcome news for those hoping to begin taking advantage of the law as soon as it goes into effect.
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Property consultant Knight Frank has said the Indian hotel room market is estimated to touch Rs 11,900 crore by 2013, translating to 17% average annual growth rate for 10 cities. Room in demand per day is estimated to grow at an average annual growth rate of 13.9% for upscale hotels and 9.3% for midscale and economy hotels, a report from the firm added. This is expected to impact the overall average room rates (ARR) in the country. A total of 2,843 rooms is expected in upscale and midscale categories of hotels, out of which 1,797 rooms will be added in the western suburbs by the end of 2013. Overall, occupancy across the hotels in India is about 45%-60%, except for Mumbai and Goa that are witnessing an occupancy of above 70%.
Projects that were at the core of completion in 2010 will come up by 2011. However, those in the pipeline for 2012 and 2013 will get further delayed, impacting developers' plans, Gulam M Zia, national director, research & advisory services, Knight Frank said. With the supply at its peak now, Zia added that developers are not keen on starting up with new projects in the coming year.


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Connie Smith
Missing since July 16, 1952 from Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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Connie was last seen picking daisies, as she walked along U.S. Route 44 in Salisbury. She was seen looking for a ride. She was never seen again.
Earlier on that day, Connie had walked down the driveway that wends through Camp Sloane, the Salisbury summer camp where she was staying. She was going to the camp dispensary to return an icepack she had borrowed the previous evening after she fell out of the tent and hurt her hip. Instead, with just a week of camp remaining, Connie left the icepack in her tent and walked on past the stone pillars that mark the camp entrance. She turned right on Indian Mountain Road and paused to pick some daisies, a camp caretaker later told police. Others also saw her on the road.
Connie set off for the nearby village of Lakeville. When she hadn't returned almost three hours later, camp officials called state police. Despite massive search efforts she has never been found.
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I love my boyfriend but he is in a world of hurt right now, financially speaking. It's a deadly combination of credit card debt, student loans, and chronic underemployment. He's 90 days past due on student loan and has no means to start paying it back.
I am financially stable with no bad debt. I received an inheritance many years ago that I never planned on touching and it sits in a brokerage acct that I never think about. Easily, I could cash in 1/3rd of my inheritance and eliminate his credit card debt completely. This would enable him to focus on the student loan debt which keeps mounting.
I love him, and I want to help him.
But then I think - this is his problem and he should find a way out of it. We're not married, and we probably can't ever get married b/c it would subject me to financial risk.
But then I think about how much money I'll be saving him - thousands of dollars in interest - if I give him the money now. It kills me to watch him throw what little money he has at a problem every month that keeps getting bigger.
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This Onix is a rock/ground-type Pokémon owned by Grant.
Grant's Onix first appeared when Grant was battling against Viola and her Surskit at the Battle Chateau. During the battle, Viola used the ice floor strategy she previously used in her Gym Battle against Ash. Unfortunately, Onix was able to withstand Surkit's attacks and trapped it with its Rock Tomb attack. Once it was trapped, Onix single handedly defeated Surskit with the combination of Rock Polish and Flash Cannon.[1]
Onix was later used in the Gym Battle against Ash. It was the first Pokémon Grant used and it went up against Ash's Froakie. Onix tried to defeat Froakie, but somehow got confused with its Double Team. While trying to find the right one, it used Iron Tail and Rock Tomb. However, to Grant and Onix's surprise, Froakie used the tactic, the Rock Tomb Climb, to climb higher and Froakie finished Onix off with a direct hit with Water Pulse, thus winning the first match for Ash.[2]
Known moves
|Rock Tomb
|Breaking Titles at the Chateau!
|Flash Cannon
|Breaking Titles at the Chateau!
|Rock Polish
|Breaking Titles at the Chateau!
|Iron Tail
|Climbing the Walls!
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Voice actor
Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese and English)


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May 18, 2013
"All Hope Lies In Doom"
There are many comics worth reading; many genres, many popular names, many themes to choose from. But if you're new to comics or you are searching for a new series, where do you start? The great thing about comics is you can get many at your local comic store or, if you want a wider selection, you can buy them online. Even better, for those interested in Marvel comics, they offer a deal known as Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited (or MDCU), which is where you pay one price and get a year's subscription to read as many comics available on their online library (which is quite extensive and covers many decades). One of my personal recommendations is a great series called FF.
No, the FF does not stand for Fantastic Four (though they are closely related). What FF stands for is Future Foundations. Future Foundations is an organization/club started by Mr. Fantastic to include extremely brilliant children and work together to solve the world's problems. These are the sort of kids who can keep up with Reed Richards intellectually and most could easily obtain PhDs though they aren't even high school age! The members include Alex Power of the Power Pack; the Moloids Tong, Turg, Mik and Torr; Bentley (clone of the super-villain, The Wizard); and Valeria Richards. Other members to join are Spider-Man, Artie Maddicks, Leech and Uhari co-heirs Vii and Wuu.
The first overall story line is really memorable and one that really makes the series worth reading. The basic storyline starts with the return of Reed's time-traveling father, Nathaniel. Nathaniel starts to secretly converse with Valeria (who, at about the age of 4, is as smart if not smarter than her father) and warns her that the world is going to end unless they concoct an elaborate plan to stop Mad Celestials from destroying Earth. The one big clue she gets as part of her plan is "All hope lies in Doom". This starts a chain of events that really tests the Fantastic Four, especially since now they must include their arch-nemesis as part of their team in order to save the Earth.
What makes this storyline so intense is the additional problem of the Council of Reeds (who are trying avoid the Celestials yet use our world as bait so that they may return to their worlds while trapping the Celestials on ours). With this the Future Foundation must stop both the Council of Reeds while simultaneously stalling the Mad Celestials long enough for unexpected help to arrive. What readers won't suspect are the acts of Doctor Doom, whom, for a glorious moment, will transition from villain to anti-hero (but I can't say more, that's what reading is for!). This new Doctor Doom really adds a level of complexity to the story, one that is almost touching and makes the reader question the character that is Victor Von Doom.
I highly recommend this series to all readers. This is one of my all-time favorites and I think really sets a standard for modern comics that shows the quality of work that goes into it. The intensity of the series will keep you going, while the few comic relief moments will crack up readers (if they can get the complex or sometimes intellectual jokes). If you need a new series to read, start with FF.
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An annotated translation, into regular Perl, and layman's terms, of the nugget of (apparent) nonsense I sometimes drop into my email signature.
For the uninitiated, JAPH stands for "Just Another Perl Hacker," - it's a tradition, amongst Perl programmers, to create tiny programs to output those four words in the most outlandish and esoteric of ways.
I chose to use the Lingua::Romana::Perligata module, which allows you to write your code in Latin, instead of the normal Perl syntax.
The original:
1 2 3 4
Pretty nasty, even if you know Perl and Latin.
Now let's format it, BSD/Allman style, still in Latin:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Okay, that almost looks like a computer program. And it still compiles (at least, it does here, in Perl v5.8.4 on Debian). Now let's see what it would look like in regular Perl - without the Latin insanity:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Calm down, I never claimed it was good code. The object of the exercise was to produce four lines of text with the ability to both bewilder, and compile!
The documentation is pretty good, but the key points to understanding it are:
The three variables @x, $x and $y are translated as xis, xo/xum (depending on case) and yo/yum (again, depending on case). The -um suffix indicates the accusative case, -o is the dative. Ah, high school Latin…
And yes, it's a particularly evil feature of Perl which allows me to have two completely unrelated variables called @x and $x. And yes, the elements of @x would be referred to as $x[$_], which would still be nothing to do with $x. Anyway, back to the Latin:
da xis Just tum another tum Perl tum hacker translates as "give Just and then another and then Perl and then hacker to @x". da is approximately the same as the equals (=) assignment, and tum in this context is the equivalent of a comma.
dum .. fac is the while() loop, and sic .. cis are the equivalents to braces in regular Perl. xis decapitamentum damentum xo translates as "behead @x and give it to $x". Nice.
Within the while loop, xum scribe egresso is "write $x to an exit". We then "write a hole to an exit, unless $y is equal to 3″.
$y? Where did that come from? How could it be equal to 3? Ah, well Perl will magically declare it for us at this point, with a value of null. So it can't be three yet…
yo preincresce. "Increase $y". Aha. On the first iteration, it will add 1 to null, which in this case makes 1. So on the fourth iteration, we print 'hacker' (the 4th array element), but not the space afterwards, since $y is 3.
This ends the while() loop, and now we just XLIV indementum scribe egresso. Or "give a name to 44 , and write it to an exit". 44 is the ASCII code for a comma.
Oh, and why did I have to use chr() just to print a comma? Simply because the module didn't seem to provide a "clean" way of doing it.
Phew. No more Perl for at least a week, I promise!


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Pope Benedict slips quietly from the world stage on Thursday after a private last goodbye to his cardinals and a short flight to a country palace to enter the final phase of his life "hidden from the world".
In keeping with his shy and modest ways, there will be no public ceremony to mark the first papal resignation in six centuries and no solemn declaration ending his nearly eight-year reign at the head of the world's largest church.
His last public appearance will be a short greeting to residents and well-wishers at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence south of Rome, in the late afternoon after his 15-minute helicopter hop from the Vatican.
When the resignation becomes official at 8 p.m. Rome time (1900 GMT), Benedict will be relaxing inside the 17th century palace. Swiss Guards on duty at the main gate to indicate the pope's presence within will simply quit their posts and return to Rome to await their next pontiff.
Avoiding any special ceremony, Benedict used his weekly general audience on Wednesday to bid an emotional farewell to more than 150,000 people who packed St Peter's Square to cheer for him and wave signs of support.
With a slight smile, his often stern-looking face seemed content and relaxed as he acknowledged the loud applause from the crowd.
"Thank you, I am very moved," he said in Italian. His unusually personal remarks included an admission that "there were moments ... when the seas were rough and the wind blew against us and it seemed that the Lord was sleeping".
Once the chair of St Peter is vacant, cardinals who have assembled from around the world for Benedict's farewell will begin planning the closed-door conclave that will elect his successor.
One of the first questions facing these "princes of the Church" is when the 115 cardinal electors should enter the Sistine Chapel for the voting. They will hold a first meeting on Friday but a decision may not come until next week.
The Vatican seems to be aiming for an election by mid-March so the new pope can be installed in office before Palm Sunday on March 24 and lead the Holy Week services that culminate in Easter on the following Sunday.
In the meantime, the cardinals will hold daily consultations at the Vatican at which they discuss issues facing the Church, get to know each other better and size up potential candidates for the 2,000-year-old


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Sports fans will give up a lot to see their team do well. In one recent survey, soccer enthusiasts said they would submit to week-long starvation if it meant their favorite country would win the World Cup. Some respondents even said they would forfeit their job.
The trend is no different in Germany, according to a new study. AFP reports that a Reader's Digest survey found only 5% of participants would choose sex over watching a German World Cup final game. Approximately 20% said that even an emergency wouldn't get in the way of their World Cup viewing.
While fans might prefer soccer to sex, it seems the two may go hand in hand. According to the article, Germany saw "a flood" of new babies nine months after the 2006 World Cup.


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It's a problem, of course, only for those in the enviable position of owning a rental property or six – but, if a report by Knight Frank is to be believed, we can, in the next nine years, expect to see a large increase in the number of "super-rich" people living in the Middle East. By "super-rich", Knight Frank means billionaires and those with over US$30 million in assets.
The dilemma of the wealthy landlords got me thinking about what other types of problems the region's super-rich might face. Does ACE Hardware sell helicopter dust covers, for example? Are the berths in Dubai's marinas large enough for the average superyacht? Reading the news gives more insight into the type of problems the super-rich may have:
"My falcon makes my supercar look cheap" – Last January, a falcon sold for AED 1 million (£178,500) at a falconry festival in Qatar. If you think that's a lot, don't even think about getting a camel – prices for dark-skinned camels range from AED 9 to 20 million (£1.6 to £3.57 million).
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Editor's Summary
In his 15 years of teaching information architecture classes, Thom Hallers aim for students was to identify their goals and help them work toward them. His 10-week courses focused on useful knowledge about how humans think and use information and how good information architecture can facilitate the process. The courses covered visual thinking, user actions, interconnections between information items and navigating mental models. From the theories and techniques introduced in the course, the most important points would continually surface when the class considered the question, What sticks? Weekly and at the end of a course, the students reflected on lessons with lasting value about the field, user experience and the practice of information architecture. In recent discussions with Haller, former students reported on enduring principles that stuck, resonating through their daily work. They agreed that the core tenet of information architecture that making things simple and understandable creates the best user experience is equally true in other domains. The concept is graphically represented by a triangle of connected fingers, symbolizing audience, goals and success metrics around a communication product.
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Bulletin, October/November 2013
What Sticks: Reflections from 15 Years as an IA Instructor
by Thom Haller
For 15 years, I taught information architecture classes to graduate students in Washington, D.C. Unlike most graduate students people pursuing an advanced degree these students enrolled in 10-week classes to explore new ideas and interact with others interested in the same subject matter.
I began teaching the class in the fall of 1998 with colleague Steve Ritchey (@steveritchey). We shared a passion for making the complex clear, buoyed by the emerging Internet and web structure we believed could improve. At the time, web resources were few.
Web Pages That Suck topped the web geeks best-seller list. But from the very beginning, we were armed with a text Rosenfeld and Morvilles
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (the so-called Polar Bear book, from the illustration on its cover) a resource to which we were able to refer for the entire 15 years of the course.
Performance Focus
From the beginning the course was structured in a performance-focused framework. Students identified goals for the class and worked to accomplish them. Goals, like students, differed. Flipping through a list of goals, I note that some were very focused:
- Gain an understanding of the principles of IA and their various manifestations in the world around me
- Determine if this is a career direction I would like to pursue
- Apply principles of information architecture outside of websites for example, print documents, airports, cubicles, etc.
Other goals were more immediate:
- Learn techniques for making information more accessible (and apply those techniques to my current project)
And others
- Develop a strategy to perpetuate optimization as paradigms progress and technological advancements allow increasing accommodations to security classifications.
took a while for me to process.
Instructional Challenges
My instructional challenge was to provide content in coherent wholes that built upon previous lessons learned. I always reserved our final class in Week 10 for student presentations. Students would often present a research idea they were exploring, synthesize a practical assignment they were accomplishing often for the employer who was funding the class or report back on a class (group) project exploring real-world architectural challenges and providing recommendations or solutions.
How could we all travel effectively from Week 1 (introductions and overview) to Week 10 (final presentations and a class party)? We used the syllabus to guide our journey, and we used a class conversation we called What sticks? to serve as glue from week to week.
The syllabus always began with an opportunity for students to interact and explore their perceptions of the field. Obviously, this exploration incorporated reading from texts (a variety of recommended texts supporting the Polar Bear book), but also included interviews with information architects. It was not uncommon for guest speakers frequently a panel to visit with us early in the course to talk about their experiences as information architecture professionals.
I framed the class as a quest for useful knowledge: What happens in humans heads when we use information? What are strategies for helping them out? What framework can we adopt for envisioning users? What research techniques can we adopt? What political hurdles do we cross? What enables humans to get their jobs done? The class provided a link between information structure and human experience.
During the early weeks of class, we spent a good bit of time talking about humans wed explore what happens in their heads as they use information and make their way through the world.
I clustered content using the mnemonic GAIN (humans think Graphically, they seek to Act, they look for Interconnections and they try to Navigate). Students explored each concept getting lost in visual information, trying to accomplish tasks in think-aloud protocols, articulating different organizational relationships and exploring mental models and patterns.
I was fortunate to come upon a quote by Albert Einstein that helped frame my thinking for the class. Apparently, a colleague asked him why Einstein was asking students the same question in the final exam that he had asked the year before. Because the answer has now changed, he responded. Similarly, IA conversations constantly changed, and I often benefitted from guest speakers following (or leading) these changes.
Guests took on different topics: incorporating cognitive research, developing search systems, communicating design, identifying and using patterns, developing intranet systems, using different research methods, conducting card sorts, sketching, running usability tests, using remote testing tools, comparing research methodologies and practices, designing a content strategy, developing responsible design, optimizing search results with metadata, incorporating accessibility thought I would thank all our guests by name, but Im not prepared to leave anyone out.
You may wonder how students could maintain focus in a class with such disparate topics. I owe a lot of our camaraderie and success that emerged from a beginning-of- class conversation in which we discussed what sticks.
For our graduate (work-world adult) classes, folks would arrive in class harried from a long day at the office. To help reacclimatize students to the lesson topics of the day, I would begin by asking, What sticks from your reading? What sticks from your individual study or project work? What sticks from your real-world job experiences this week?
Students had to synthesize their week-gone-by experiences or relate an aha moment. Some classes turned into therapy encounters. Students would face obstacles on the job, take a lesson from class back into the workplace and emerge with new installments in their experience.
At the conclusion of our 10 weeks together (if time allowed), we would reflect on what sticks from the entire course. Heres an example of a class summary:
About the field:
- Integrated field with no discrete boundaries.
- There is value in being a generalist (and the UX community offers that option).
- Work offers silos. The class provides community and breaks down the walls.
- You might spend all your time working on something, but it may be useful.
- Community helps.
About user experience:
- The user experience touches every aspect of your life.
- Content plus structure = communication.
- We need to be the users voice so we need to understand who our audience is and what they want to do.
About our practice:
- We must think about context and politics as we look for solutions.
- Everything on the website matters.
- There is an art in the presentation of information and the amount of detail and placement of information matters to users.
- We can highlight those topics/areas that matter to others.
- Patterns, patterns, patterns.
- Many opportunities for continued learning (this is exciting).
- Breadth is good the label IA can be narrow. But the skills are broad (they matter).
- Tools, thinking, approaches all come together.
- We have an opportunity to present and refine stories.
- Having this knowledge is power (makes projects successful).
- We have the power to articulate what we feel about design and interaction.
- Finding vocabulary, finding research, matters.
- Thinking matters.
What Sticks Now
In assembling this article for the Bulletin, I reached out to some former students and asked them what sticks from having participated in the class.
- More than anything, what sticks for me as one who hasn't been a part of the professional online world for several years is how relevant IA/UX principles are to my work. As a writer and editor, I'm equally concerned with my audience and how I can provide an experience that makes them receptive to what we ask them to read and hope they'll do. Every day, I think about those principles, use them in my work and try to instill them in my colleagues.
- What sticks for me? Im still going with the Remove, Organize, Hide, Displace advice from Giles Colbornes book, Simple and Usable. Ive been doing a lot of mockup work lately, and those four directives are often on my mind as Im working through the process of developing those. That book was also the first thing that sprang to mind at a meet-up I attended last week when someone in the group asked the panel to name the book that really got them interested in doing UX the book that they recommend others to read about UX.
- As an archivist (during the class and since), I deal with IA/UX in the context of making information accessible to users through catalogs, websites, brochures, and also interacting directly with patrons reference requests. What sticks for me is everything. At the recent national archivist conference, I attended a session on UX with digital primary sources and the theme for students of information architecture. I am currently working with a sizable oral history collection, designing our publicly available information in such a way that our cultural wealth reaches its audience. All my work relates [to] what I learned in my information architecture course.
- IA and UX are not an exact science; they very much depend on the human context, a context that is ever evolving. Our role as IA and UX professionals is to bring knowledge of how humans understand and interact with information and apply that knowledge to the evolving context of ever-changing technology. Technology will change, but human needs to understand information won't.
I recently attended a happy hour gathering organized by a former student. She invited all the attendees from our Fall 2012 class to meet for a chance to catch up and share stories. I handed each student a button (Figure 1) that shows fingers connected in a triangle. In class, we used the triangle as a focusing strategy. The corners encouraged us to consider who our audience is, what they want and how they (and you) measure success. The triangle helped us think about content we would put in a communication product and content we would leave out.
After accepting the button, one former student placed it on her lapel saying, This sticks .This definitely sticks.
Thom Haller teacher, speaker, writer and user advocate teaches principles of performance-based information architecture and usability. Thom volunteers time supporting advocates of plain language. Thom can be reached via email: thom<at>thomhaller.com.
Articles in this Issue
Information Architects: What We Do and How We Learn
Learning and Teaching Information Architecture: The Current State of IA Education
What Sticks: Reflections from 15 Years as an IA Instructor
Strategic Action: Information Architecture in Platform Migrations
Migrations: Not Just for Developers Any More
Information Science & Technology and Human Rights: ASIS&T's Participation in the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition
Selected ASIS&T Board Members Discuss Trends in Information Science: A Summary
European Doctoral Forum at the 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference
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B. Questions to the President.
Dr. Hillary Hart (senior lecturer, civil, architectural, and environmental engineering) asked how the faculty information program (formerly called faculty accountability) was going forward. President Powers said the program was progressing, with Provost Leslie having "developed the way the budgeting process works." The president indicated work was underway to develop information regarding student success measures, such as time-to-Ph.D., in different departments. He said much of what was being developed was uncontroversial and helpful to the administration and departments, as well as faculty members, such as when does the tenure decision need to be made for an individual who has taken time off for various reasons. However, the president added that some of the information might be misinterpreted if viewed purely at the individual faculty member level, as the past Faculty Council chair, Dean Neikirk, has often pointed out. President Powers said that a faculty member might appear to be relatively nonproductive if he or she is not teaching for a semester or two, while developing and initiating an important educational outreach project, such as attracting outstanding string musicians for the School of Music. He said the information being developed needs to be helpful in looking at the University at the "aggregate level," so the colleges and schools can monitor their overall progress toward goals. The administration wants to share information, but he is concerned that there is a movement to try and reinvent the entire system with a set of common measures to fit every institution in the UT System. He said this revamping of the information program would be very time-consuming. In addition, he emphasized that UT Austin is a different institution from the UT medical schools and other academic institutions within the System.
Next, Professor David Hillis (integrative biology) said he realized that President Powers could not publicly discuss the "specifics about conference realignment." However, he said he would like the president to share with the Council his views "about the role that academics plays in these discussions." President Powers said no decision has been made regarding realignment, and all options were being reviewed. He said the news reports were "very cynical" in emphasizing the role of money and the athletic aspects of realignment. He stated emphatically, "I can tell you, flat out, the most common and important topic on our campus, with our colleagues in the Big 12, and with other people across the country is the impact on academics and student athletes." In this context, careful consideration was being given to travel distances and the appropriateness of academic institutional partners, and he thought the faculty would be proud of everyone involved in these discussions. He added that the University would take the best solution to this difficult problem, but that the impact on academics and the student athletes was "top-most" for him, the UT Austin athletics directors, and others involved in the situation across the country. He thanked Professor Hillis for asking his question and ended by thanking everyone and saying, "Let's have a great year!"


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Fannie Mae (per attorney in fact), Federal National Mortgage Association (per attorney in fact) and Weisberg & Conway McCabe PC (attorney in fact) to Christopher Boyer and Kristi Boyer for $143,500; Dallas Township.
Frank F. Henshaw II and Linda M. Henshaw to N.P. Dodge Jr. (trustee) for $248,000; Foster Township.
Terrance D. Meehan Jr. to Brian J. Meehan and Brenda Meehan for $116,000; Harveys Lake.
Thomas Gayton to Christopher Norton for $108,000; Wyoming.
Ryan R. Love, Sarah Love and Sarah McQueen to Patrick M. Lyons for $138,000; Dallas.
Anthony Ferlenda and Brenda Ferlenda to Patrick J. Liberaski for $328,000; Dallas Township.
Lone Star Equities Inc. to Brian Corbett for $150,000; Nanticoke.
Marion H. Stortz to K.R. Foley Living Trust for $250,000; Nuangola.
Stephen Sincavage to Amy A. Derby for $80,000; Courtdale.
Kenneth Wolfe and Irene Wolfe to George R. Kollar and Therese F. Kollar for $113,000; Hunlock Township.
Michael S. Sierko and Dianne C. Sierko to Edward R. Ancas and Donna M. Ancas for $138,000; Dallas.
J.W. Holdings Inc. to Jennifer D. Hilla for $79,500; Fairview Township.
Donald Rau to Brandilynn M. Schmoll for $92,500; Wilkes-Barre.
Sandra F. Kliamovich (trustee), James A. Kliamovich (trustee) and James A. and Sandra F. Kliamovich Revocable Trust to Richard Harding for $125,000; Hunlock Township.
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So am I, I rode 500 miles last week!! yeee haaa!
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
it looks like the sun shaved its beard and got a haircut for the weekend (then partied too hard at the BBQ on Sunday and ended up disheveled again on Mon)
Won't you pour me a cuban breeze, Gretchen?
me too gonna go for a ride in about half hour when i get some water back into my system!


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When Will Congress' Inaction Push U.S. Into Default?
Determining the day on which the U.S. government might default is tricky. The Bipartisan Policy Center says the last eight days of October is a critical period because of all the payments due that week. The potential for a credit default is already causing problems for big financial firms that use U.S. Treasurys as collateral.


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X-Men: The Last Stand
Movies | With director Brett Ratner at the helm, the series sinks into overblown, special-effects-laden silliness
With X-Men: The Last Stand, The X-Men franchise reaches the point where most assumed it would start: It's a big, dumb, fun summer blockbuster. The first two films in the series, X-Men and X2: X-Men United, were unexpectedly smart-with intriguing characters wrapped in engrossing plots and a judicious use of special effects. Bryan Singer, director of the first two films (he left the series to direct Superman Returns), simultaneously satisfied comic book fans and a broader, non-geek audience.
But with director Brett Ratner (Red Dragon, the Rush Hour movies) at the helm, the series sinks into overblown, special-effects-laden silliness. This X-Men (rated PG-13) also boosts the sexual content and bad language, making the film less appropriate for the teenage boys to whom it primarily caters.
Though not nearly as smart, The Last Stand provides a modestly diverting 104 minutes of summer blockbuster entertainment. Built around the premise that the superheroes (and villains) are "mutants," the X-Men are gifted with special powers based on their unique genetic mutations. This time around, a "cure" for the mutant gene has been discovered. Though the mutant antidote is being offered as a voluntary treatment, the drug is also in the hands of the government.
Magneto (Ian McKellan), the de facto commander of all evil mutants, uses the threat, real or imagined, of forced drug administration to foment rebellion. Wheelchair-bound professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) continues to lead the responsible, law-abiding mutants and once again does battle with his old friend and nemesis.
Some previous characters return (Wolverine, Storm, Rogue), some new mutants are introduced (Beast, Angel, Juggernaut), but most everyone gets buried under the action and ludicrous plotting. Mr. Singer was deft at encouraging the suspension of disbelief with just enough logic to keep the audience wrapped up in the story. Mr. Ratner seems less interested in such trivialities, and the mutant battles seem like a violent game of "rock, paper, scissors," where the rules regularly change to serve the needs of the plot.


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|Wednesday, 26 September 2001
Commemorating the Bandaranaikes: The emergence of the political middle-class
by Ajith Samaranayake
The 42nd death anniversary of Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and the first death anniversary of Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike (both of which are being jointly commemorated today for the first time this year) take place against the backdrop of the understanding arrived at between the People's Alliance Government headed by their daughter President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna early this month. There is a gentle irony at work here because political analysts in the Sinhala language press are fond of describing the JVP as the 'children of 1956'. (Panashaye Daruwo).
How much of this is rhetoric and how much of it is reality? If one is being strictly factual, of course, this can hardly be so because only a mere 15 years separates 1956 from 1971, the year in which the JVP first made its appearance on Sri Lanka's political stage. That entrance therefore is that of a teenager and not a conscious adult if the JVP is perceived as being the direct, politically conscious product of the overturn of 1956 led by the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna with Mr. Bandaranaike at its head. However as a contention it is broadly true because it was the MEP's overturn of the outmoded political and social structure inherited from colonial rule which led to the emergence of the JVP and the traumatic and hitherto unprecedented uprising of April 1971.
What happened in 1956 (also in the month of April) has been described by Martin Wickramasinghe as the 'break-up of the Brahmin caste' or 'Bamunu Kulaye Bindaweteema'. This draws attention to the overtly political-cultural features of the MEP victory of 1956. The Brahmin caste which was thus overthrown was that caste of brown sahibs who inherited the white man's burden in 1948, a set of anglicised gentlemen imitating the departed colonial masters in their dress, speech and life-style in a country where the vast mass of both town and countryside knew only Sinhala and Tamil but where government business and the business of police stations and court houses were carried out in English, the language of the Queen part of whose realm Ceylon continues to remain until the promulgation of the Republican Constitution of 1972.
The greatest achievement of the 1956 victory was therefore the release of the non-English educated masses into the political arena and its greatest tragedy that the sense of nationalism of the Sinhala and Tamil people which constituted this non-English speaking mass did not run in tandem. If 1956 is therefore rightly taken as a watershed the aspirations of these two sections were represented by the JVP in 1971 and the radical Tamil youth movement which is the late 1970s and the early 1980s increasingly turned to political violence as a means of asserting its rights.
The key and common link was education. Education in the mother tongue in the large network of central schools or Madhya Maha Vidyalayas had produced a whole generation of youth who then passed into the country's burgeoning university system. Uprooted from their surroundings in the village and armed with an academic education largely in the humanities these youth aspired for employment in the public sector as befitted their education. But by the late 1960s the springs of white-collar employment in the towns were drying up while their lack of an education in the English language made this section of youth unable to gain the employment which was readily available in the private sector and thus continued to be the preserve of the Brahmin caste. It was partly these unfulfilled aspirations of upward mobility linked to romantic notions of social justice and disenchantment with the parliamentarist Old Left parties which exploded in the revolt of April 1971.
On the other side of the communal divide the educated Tamil youth too found themselves in a blind alley in a society where a premium was placed on education. In a bid to meet the growing aspirations of the Sinhala-educated youth Governments were compelled to resort to devices such as standardisation which placed a weightage on the largely Sinhala rural areas, devices which the Tamil youth saw as means of excluding them from higher education and consequent employment. While the English-educated Tamil youth could migrate to better prospects the youth educated in Tamil only was trapped in a Jaffna society dependent on subsistence farming. Both in the Sinhala south and the Tamil north the village remained mired in subsistence agriculture and rural backwardness and was ripe for revolt.
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My DD started HATING solids several weeks ago, after having done well with them since starting. Sometimes she missed an entire meal, which at this point isn't a big deal. Lots of her bottles went unfinished also. Lo and behold, a tooth finally broke through the gum a little more than a week ago, and the second one the next day. So she has 2 teeth- one is about 1/3 in and the other is like barely out of the gum. Since they broke through, she's resumed eating and drinking bottles normally, except when she'd rather still play or spit her food all over us because it's funny :)
My pedi confirmed that teething can make them not want to eat much if at all, and they might want bottles or pacis more often for the sucking (apparently it's soothing to the gums? seems like it'd be the opposite...).


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Notable books
Notable Books | Four memorable memoirs reviewed by Susan Olasky
The Road of Lost Innocence
As a child Mam descended into sex slavery, first to a man she called Grandfather, then (sold by "Grandfather") to an abusive soldier and then to a brothel. She recounts in horrifying detail the brutalities she and other young Cambodian girls endured, and tells how bit by bit she became dead in her soul. Mam recounts how an affair with a European man working for an NGO began her slow journey out of sex slavery. The book, like Uncle Tom's Cabin, is meant to rouse readers from apathy. By its end Mam has established an internationally recognized foundation that is committed to changing laws and rescuing victims-but she has not received rest for her soul.
Wild Men, Wild Alaska II
McElveen grew up in Alaska, the son of missionary parents. He now owns an Alaskan lodge from which he and the guides who work for him lead hunting, fishing, and outdoor adventures. A natural storyteller, he combines a love for the outdoors, an adrenaline junkie's appreciation for danger, and a conviction that men especially benefit from testing themselves against nature. He vividly describes confrontations between man and grizzly, boys and a mama moose, man and his own foolish pride, man and the weather, and his daughter versus a guide. (That story is gross.) The aim of all the stories is to show how these wild Alaska experiences can change lives for the good.
A Simple Christmas
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee uses events from his life to talk about Christmas spirit. In a chapter about patience, he tells how he and his sister would surreptitiously open and play with their gifts before Christmas. In the chapter about crisis, he recounts his wife's battle with cancer when they were both 20 and newly married. He said he prayed for a miracle healing but realized later that "God's greatest gift to us is not to remove us from crisis, but to walk through crisis with us." Readers looking for insight into what makes Huckabee tick will enjoy these inspirational stories told with Huckabee's folksy charm.
Lit is often painful to read. Mary Karr tells how she began drinking and eventually stopped, and how her hard won sobriety came about as she came kicking and screaming to faith in God. As Karr achieved worldly success-winning poetry awards, getting published, teaching at Harvard, marrying a New England blue blood and having a child-she began falling apart. She writes with a combination of searing honesty about her own faults and restraint in describing the faults of others, including her husband from whom she divorced. The book's raw language will offend some readers, but never have I read a more moving account of someone seeing her need for God's mercy.
The ease of self-publishing has resulted in many bad books by authors who did not spend time learning to write or building an audience. That's too bad because we live in a time when anyone with talent, discipline, and an idea can start a blog, keep at it over time, and eventually build an audience while learning to write better.
Four new books, based on popular blogs, show that blogging has become a new route to publishing success. This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks is a celebration with photographs of over-the-top food. Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions gently mocks the "overclass" culture. Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong documents, through photos, cake-decorating disasters. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl offers musings on life rather than jokes. These books have in common great photographs, engaging writing, and a built-in fan base developed over time-even when no one was reading.


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In response to soxnewmex's comment:
If we like him, we can sign him to a long term contract long before the time of his free agency option arrives, like they do with guys they like in Tampa Bay, then it's not even an issue.
who? longoria, in the lone example. though they had to sign him through 2022 to get it done.
and hand out the biggest contract in DevilRays history..


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ZF-10478: Oracle adapter does not apply foldCase() on insert/update statements.
If I use the Zend_Log_Writer_Db I will get "invalid identifier" (ORA-00904) errors from Oracle because the field casing is incorrect. The fields should be upper-case. It would be great if the caseFolding would also apply to insert (and update) statements. For the inserts a simple replacement of the code:
"Oracle.php" line 621 $cols[] = $this->quoteIdentifier($col, true); into $cols[] = $this->quoteIdentifier($this->foldCase($col), true);
would suffice.
As a work-around I now made a custom Zend_Log_Writer_Db which provides the upper-casing, it feels a bit redundant but I need to obey our coding standard to NOT hack external libraries :)
Is this an issue specific to Zend_Log? Or Zend_Db_Adapter_Oracle?
It is an issue of Zend_Db_Adapter_Oracle in my opinion (which will make Zend_Log fail). Oracle is annoyingly sensitive to the proper casing of fields and tables.
A similar thing happens with Zend_Queue, which is expecting all lowercase table, sequence, and column names.