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By documenting the adequacy of its resources and capacity, the institution demonstrates the potential to fulfill its mission, accomplish its core theme objectives, and achieve the intended outcomes of its programs and services, wherever offered and however delivered. Through its governance and decision-making structures, the institution establishes, reviews regularly, and revises, as necessary, policies and procedures that promote effective management and operation of the institution.
|2.A – Governance
The institution demonstrates an effective and widely understood system of governance with clearly defined authority, roles, and responsibilities. Its decision-making structures and processes make provision for the consideration of the views of faculty, staff, administrators, and students on matters in which they have a direct and reasonable interest.
In a multi-unit governance system, the division of authority and responsibility between the system and the institution is clearly delineated. System policies, regulations, and procedures concerning the institution are clearly defined and equitably administered.
The institution monitors its compliance with the Commission's Standards for Accreditation, including the impact of collective bargaining agreements, legislative actions, and external mandates.
|Governing Board
The institution has a functioning governing board consisting of at least five voting members, a majority of whom have no contractual, employment, or financial interest in the institution. If the institution is governed by a hierarchical structure of multiple boards, the roles, responsibilities, and authority of each board—as they relate to the institution—are clearly defined, widely communicated, and broadly understood.
The board acts only as a committee of the whole; no member or subcommittee of the board acts on behalf of the board except by formal delegation of authority by the governing board as a whole.
The board establishes, reviews regularly, revises as necessary, and exercises broad oversight of institutional policies, including those regarding its own organization and operation.
The board selects and evaluates regularly a chief executive officer who is accountable for the operation of the institution. It delegates authority and responsibility to the CEO to implement and administer board-approved policies related to the operation of the institution.
The board regularly evaluates its performance to ensure its duties and responsibilities are fulfilled in an effective and efficient manner.
|Leadership and Management
The institution has an effective system of leadership, staffed by qualified administrators, with appropriate levels of responsibility and accountability, who are charged with planning, organizing, and managing the institution and assessing its achievements and effectiveness.
The institution employs an appropriately qualified chief executive officer with full-time responsibility to the institution. The chief executive officer may serve as an ex officio member of the governing board, but may not serve as its chair.
The institution employs a sufficient number of qualified administrators who provide effective leadership and management for the institution's major support and operational functions and work collaboratively across institutional functions and units to foster fulfillment of the institution's mission and accomplishment of its core theme objectives.
Policies and Procedures
|Academic policies—including those related to teaching, service, scholarship, research, and artistic creation—are clearly communicated to students and faculty and to administrators and staff with responsibilities related to these areas.
|Policies regarding access to and use of library and information resources—regardless of format, location, and delivery method—are documented, published, and enforced.
|The institution develops, publishes widely, and follows an effective and clearly stated transfer-of-credit policy that maintains the integrity of its programs while facilitating efficient mobility of students between institutions in completing their educational programs.
|Policies and procedures regarding students' rights and responsibilities—including academic honesty, appeals, grievances, and accommodations for persons with disabilities—are clearly stated, readily available, and administered in a fair and consistent manner.
|The institution adopts and adheres to admission and placement policies that guide the enrollment of students in courses and programs through an evaluation of prerequisite knowledge, skills, and abilities to assure a reasonable probability of student success at a level commensurate with the institution's expectations. Its policy regarding continuation in and termination from its educational programs—including its appeals process and readmission policy—are clearly defined, widely published, and administered in a fair and timely manner.
|The institution maintains and publishes policies that clearly state its relationship to co-curricular activities and the roles and responsibilities of students and the institution for those activities, including student publications and other student media, if offered.
|Human Resources
|The institution maintains and publishes its human resources policies and procedures and regularly reviews them to ensure they are consistent, fair, and equitably applied to its employees and students.
|Employees are apprised of their conditions of employment, work assignments, rights and responsibilities, and criteria and procedures for evaluation, retention, promotion, and termination.
|The institution ensures the security and appropriate confidentiality of human resources records.
|Institutional Integrity
|The institution represents itself clearly, accurately, and consistently through its announcements, statements, and publications. It communicates its academic intentions, programs, and services to students and to the public and demonstrates that its academic programs can be completed in a timely fashion. It regularly reviews its publications to assure integrity in all representations about its mission, programs, and services.
|The institution advocates, subscribes to, and exemplifies high ethical standards in managing and operating the institution, including its dealings with the public, the Commission, and external organizations, and in the fair and equitable treatment of students, faculty, administrators, staff, and other constituencies. It ensures complaints and grievances are addressed in a fair and timely manner.
|The institution adheres to a clearly defined policy that prohibits conflict of interest on the part of members of the governing board, administration, faculty, and staff. Even when supported by or affiliated with social, political, corporate, or religious organizations, the institution has education as its primary purpose and operates as an academic institution with appropriate autonomy. If it requires its constituencies to conform to specific codes of conduct or seeks to instill specific beliefs or world views, it gives clear prior notice of such codes and/or policies in its publications.
|The institution maintains clearly defined policies with respect to ownership, copyright, control, compensation, and revenue derived from the creation and production of intellectual property.
|The institution accurately represents its current accreditation status and avoids speculation on future accreditation actions or status. It uses the terms "Accreditation" and "Candidacy" (and related terms) only when such status is conferred by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
|If the institution enters into contractual agreements with external entities for products or services performed on its behalf, the scope of work for those products or services—with clearly defined roles and responsibilities—is stipulated in a written and approved agreement that contains provisions to maintain the integrity of the institution. In such cases, the institution ensures the scope of the agreement is consistent with the mission and goals of the institution, adheres to institutional policies and procedures, and complies with the Commission's Standards for Accreditation.
|Academic Freedom
|The institution publishes and adheres to policies, approved by its governing board, regarding academic freedom and responsibility that protect its constituencies from inappropriate internal and external influences, pressures, and harassment.
|Within the context of its mission, core themes, and values, the institution defines and actively promotes an environment that supports independent thought in the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. It affirms the freedom of faculty, staff, administrators, and students to share their scholarship and reasoned conclusions with others. While the institution and individuals within the institution may hold to a particular personal, social, or religious philosophy, its constituencies are intellectually free to examine thought, reason, and perspectives of truth. Moreover, they allow others the freedom to do the same.
|Individuals with teaching responsibilities present scholarship fairly, accurately, and objectively. Derivative scholarship acknowledges the source of intellectual property, and personal views, beliefs, and opinions are identified as such.
|The institution has clearly defined policies, approved by its governing board, regarding oversight and management of financial resources—including financial planning, board approval and monitoring of operating and capital budgets, reserves, investments, fundraising, cash management, debt management, and transfers and borrowings between funds.
|2.B – Human Resources
|The institution employs a sufficient number of qualified personnel to maintain its support and operations functions. Criteria, qualifications, and procedures for selection of personnel are clearly and publicly stated. Job descriptions accurately reflect duties, responsibilities, and authority of the position.
|Administrators and staff are evaluated regularly with regard to performance of work duties and responsibilities.
|2.B.3 The institution provides faculty, staff, administrators, and other employees with appropriate opportunities and support for professional growth and development to enhance their effectiveness in fulfilling their roles, duties, and responsibilities.
|Consistent with its mission, core themes, programs, services, and characteristics, the institution employs appropriately qualified faculty sufficient in number to achieve its educational objectives, establish and oversee academic policies, and assure the integrity and continuity of its academic programs, wherever offered and however delivered.
|Faculty responsibilities and workloads are commensurate with the institution's expectations for teaching, service, scholarship, research, and/or artistic creation.
|All faculty are evaluated in a regular, systematic, substantive, and collegial manner at least once within every five-year period of service. The evaluation process specifies the timeline and criteria by which faculty are evaluated; utilizes multiple indices of effectiveness, each of which is directly related to the faculty member's roles and responsibilities, including evidence of teaching effectiveness for faculty with teaching responsibilities; contains a provision to address concerns that may emerge between regularly scheduled evaluations; and provides for administrative access to all primary evaluation data. Where areas for improvement are identified, the institution works with the faculty member to develop and implement a plan to address identified areas of concern.
|2.C – Education Resources
|The institution provides programs, wherever offered and however delivered, with appropriate content and rigor that are consistent with its mission; culminate in achievement of clearly identified student learning outcomes; and lead to collegiate-level degrees or certificates with designators consistent with program content in recognized fields of study.
|The institution identifies and publishes expected course, program, and degree learning outcomes. Expected student learning outcomes for courses, wherever offered and however delivered, are provided in written form to enrolled students.
|Credit and degrees, wherever offered and however delivered, are based on documented student achievement and awarded in a manner consistent with institutional policies that reflect generally accepted learning outcomes, norms, or equivalencies in higher education.
|Degree programs, wherever offered and however delivered, demonstrate a coherent design with appropriate breadth, depth, sequencing of courses, and synthesis of learning. Admission and graduation requirements are clearly defined and widely published.
|Faculty, through well-defined structures and processes with clearly defined authority and responsibilities, exercise a major role in the design, approval, implementation, and revision of the curriculum, and have an active role in the selection of new faculty. Faculty with teaching responsibilities take collective responsibility for fostering and assessing student achievement of clearly identified learning outcomes.
|Faculty with teaching responsibilities, in partnership with library and information resources personnel, ensure that the use of library and information resources is integrated into the learning process.
|Credit for prior experiential learning, if granted, is: a) guided by approved policies and procedures; b) awarded only at the undergraduate level to enrolled students; c) limited to a maximum of 25% of the credits needed for a degree; d) awarded only for documented student achievement equivalent to expected learning achievement for courses within the institution's regular curricular offerings; and e) granted only upon the recommendation of appropriately qualified teaching faculty. Credit granted for prior experiential learning is so identified on students' transcripts and may not duplicate other credit awarded to the student in fulfillment of degree requirements. The institution makes no assurances regarding the number of credits to be awarded prior to the completion of the institution's review process.
|The final judgment in accepting transfer credit is the responsibility of the receiving institution. Transfer credit is accepted according to procedures which provide adequate safeguards to ensure high academic quality, relevance to the students' programs, and integrity of the receiving institution's degrees. In accepting transfer credit, the receiving institution ensures that the credit accepted is appropriate for its programs and comparable in nature, content, academic quality, and level to credit it offers. Where patterns of student enrollment between institutions are identified, the institution develops articulation agreements between the institutions.
|Undergraduate Programs
|The General Education component of undergraduate programs (if offered) demonstrates an integrated course of study that helps students develop the breadth and depth of intellect to become more effective learners and to prepare them for a productive life of work, citizenship, and personal fulfillment. Baccalaureate degree programs and transfer associate degree programs include a recognizable core of general education that represents an integration of basic knowledge and methodology of the humanities and fine arts, mathematical and natural sciences, and social sciences. Applied undergraduate degree and certificate programs of thirty (30) semester credits or forty-five (45) quarter credits in length contain a recognizable core of related instruction or general education with identified outcomes in the areas of communication, computation, and human relations that align with and support program goals or intended outcomes.
|The institution demonstrates that the General Education components of its baccalaureate degree programs (if offered) and transfer associate degree programs (if offered) have identifiable and assessable learning outcomes that are stated in relation to the institution's mission and learning outcomes for those programs.
|The related instruction components of applied degree and certificate programs (if offered) have identifiable and assessable learning outcomes that align with and support program goals or intended outcomes. Related instruction components may be embedded within program curricula or taught in blocks of specialized instruction, but each approach must have clearly identified content and be taught or monitored by teaching faculty who are appropriately qualified in those areas.
|Graduate Programs
|Graduate programs are consistent with the institution's mission; are in keeping with the expectations of their respective disciplines and professions; and are described through nomenclature that is appropriate to the levels of graduate and professional degrees offered. They differ from undergraduate programs by requiring greater depth of study and increased demands on student intellectual or creative capacities; knowledge of the literature of the field; and ongoing student engagement in research, scholarship, creative expression, and/or appropriate high-level professional practice.
|Graduate admission and retention policies ensure that student qualifications and expectations are compatible with the institution's mission and the program's requirements. Transfer of credit is evaluated according to clearly defined policies by faculty with a major commitment to graduate education or by a representative body of faculty responsible for the degree program at the receiving institution.
|Graduate credit may be granted for internships, field experiences, and clinical practices that are an integral part of the graduate degree program. Credit toward graduate degrees may not be granted for experiential learning that occurred prior to matriculation into the graduate degree program. Unless the institution structures the graduate learning experience, monitors that learning, and assesses learning achievements, graduate credit is not granted for learning experiences external to the students' formal graduate programs.
|Graduate programs intended to prepare students for research, professional practice, scholarship, or artistic creation are characterized by a high level of expertise, originality, and critical analysis. Programs intended to prepare students for artistic creation are directed toward developing personal expressions of original concepts, interpretations, imagination, thoughts, or feelings. Graduate programs intended to prepare students for research or scholarship are directed toward advancing the frontiers of knowledge by constructing and/or revising theories and creating or applying knowledge. Graduate programs intended to prepare students for professional practice are directed toward developing high levels of knowledge and performance skills directly related to effective practice within the profession.
|Continuing Education and Non-Credit Programs
|Credit and non-credit continuing education programs and other special programs are compatible with the institution's mission and goals.
|The institution maintains direct and sole responsibility for the academic quality of all aspects of its continuing education and special learning programs and courses. Continuing education and/or special learning activities, programs, or courses offered for academic credit are approved by the appropriate institutional body, monitored through established procedures with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, and assessed with regard to student achievement. Faculty representing the disciplines and fields of work are appropriately involved in the planning and evaluation of the institution's continuing education and special learning activities.
|The granting of credit or Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for continuing education courses and special learning activities is: a) guided by generally accepted norms; b) based on institutional mission and policy; c) consistent across the institution, wherever offered and however delivered; d) appropriate to the objectives of the course; and e) determined by student achievement of identified learning outcomes.
|The institution maintains records which describe the number of courses and nature of learning provided through non-credit instruction.
|2.D – Student Support Resources
|Consistent with the nature of its educational programs and methods of delivery, the institution creates effective learning environments with appropriate programs and services to support student learning needs.
|The institution makes adequate provision for the safety and security of its students and their property at all locations where it offers programs and services. Crime statistics, campus security policies, and other disclosures required under federal and state regulations are made available in accordance with those regulations.
|Consistent with its mission, core themes, and characteristics, the institution recruits and admits students with the potential to benefit from its educational offerings. It orients students to ensure they understand the requirements related to their programs of study and receive timely, useful, and accurate information and advising about relevant academic requirements, including graduation and transfer policies.
|In the event of program elimination or significant change in requirements, the institution makes appropriate arrangements to ensure that students enrolled in the program have an opportunity to complete their program in a timely manner with a minimum of disruption.
|The institution publishes in a catalog, or provides in a manner reasonably available to students and other stakeholders, current and accurate information that includes:
|Institutional mission and core themes;
|Entrance requirements and procedures;
|Grading policy;
|Information on academic programs and courses, including degree and program completion requirements, expected learning outcomes, required course sequences, and projected timelines to completion based on normal student progress and the frequency of course offerings;
|Names, titles, degrees held, and conferring institutions for administrators and full-time faculty;
|Rules, regulations for conduct, rights, and responsibilities;
|Tuition, fees, and other program costs;
|Refund policies and procedures for students who withdraw from enrollment;
|Opportunities and requirements for financial aid; and
|Academic calendar.
|Publications describing educational programs include accurate information on:
|National and/or state legal eligibility requirements for licensure or entry into an occupation or profession for which education and training are offered;
|Descriptions of unique requirements for employment and advancement in the occupation or profession.
|The institution adopts and adheres to policies and procedures regarding the secure retention of student records, including provision for reliable and retrievable backup of those records, regardless of their form. The institution publishes and follows established policies for confidentiality and release of student records.
|The institution provides an effective and accountable program of financial aid consistent with its mission, student needs, and institutional resources. Information regarding the categories of financial assistance (such as scholarships, grants, and loans) is published and made available to prospective and enrolled students.
|Students receiving financial assistance are informed of any repayment obligations. The institution regularly monitors its student loan programs and the institution's loan default rate.
|The institution designs, maintains, and evaluates a systematic and effective program of academic advisement to support student development and success. Personnel responsible for advising students are knowledgeable of the curriculum, program requirements, and graduation requirements and are adequately prepared to successfully fulfill their responsibilities. Advising requirements and responsibilities are defined, published, and made available to students.
|Co-curricular activities are consistent with the institution's mission, core themes, programs, and services and are governed appropriately.
|If the institution operates auxiliary services (such as student housing, food service, and bookstore), they support the institution's mission, contribute to the intellectual climate of the campus community, and enhance the quality of the learning environment. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators have opportunities for input regarding these services.
|Intercollegiate athletic and other co-curricular programs (if offered) and related financial operations are consistent with the institution's mission and conducted with appropriate institutional oversight. Admission requirements and procedures, academic standards, degree requirements, and financial aid awards for students participating in co-curricular programs are consistent with those for other students.
|The institution maintains an effective identity verification process for students enrolled in distance education courses and programs to establish that the student enrolled in the distance education course or program is the same person whose achievements are evaluated and credentialed. The institution ensures the identity verification process for distance education students protects student privacy and that students are informed, in writing at the time of enrollment, of current and projected charges associated with the identity verification process.
|2.E – Library and Information Resources
|Consistent with its mission and core themes, the institution holds or provides access to library and information resources with an appropriate level of currency, depth, and breadth to support the institution's mission, core themes, programs, and services, wherever offered and however delivered.
|Planning for library and information resources is guided by data that include feedback from affected users and appropriate faculty, staff, and administrators.
|Consistent with its mission and core themes, the institution provides appropriate instruction and support for students, faculty, staff, administrators, and others (as appropriate) to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness in obtaining, evaluating, and using library and information resources that support its programs and services, wherever offered and however delivered.
|The institution regularly and systematically evaluates the quality, adequacy, utilization, and security of library and information resources and services, including those provided through cooperative arrangements, wherever offered and however delivered.
|2.F – Financial Resources
|The institution demonstrates financial stability with sufficient cash flow and reserves to support its programs and services. Financial planning reflects available funds, realistic development of financial resources, and appropriate risk management to ensure short-term solvency and anticipate long-term obligations, including payment of future liabilities.
|Resource planning and development include realistic budgeting, enrollment management, and responsible projections of grants, donations, and other non-tuition revenue sources.
|The institution clearly defines and follows its policies, guidelines, and processes for financial planning and budget development that include appropriate opportunities for participation by its constituencies.
|The institution ensures timely and accurate financial information through its use of an appropriate accounting system that follows generally accepted accounting principles and through its reliance on an effective system of internal controls.
|Capital budgets reflect the institution's mission and core theme objectives and relate to its plans for physical facilities and acquisition of equipment. Long-range capital plans support the institution's mission and goals and reflect projections of the total cost of ownership, equipment, furnishing, and operation of new or renovated facilities. Debt for capital outlay purposes is periodically reviewed, carefully controlled, and justified, so as not to create an unreasonable drain on resources available for educational purposes.
|The institution defines the financial relationship between its general operations and its auxiliary enterprises, including any use of general operations funds to support auxiliary enterprises or the use of funds from auxiliary services to support general operations.
For each year of operation, the institution undergoes an annual external financial audit by professionally qualified personnel in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. The audit is to be completed no later than nine months after the end of the fiscal year. Results from the audit, including findings and management letter recommendations, are considered annually in an appropriate and comprehensive manner by the administration and the governing board.
|All institutional fundraising activities are conducted in a professional and ethical manner and comply with governmental requirements. If the institution has a relationship with a fundraising organization that bears its name and whose major purpose is to raise funds to support its mission, the institution has a written agreement that clearly defines its relationship with that organization.
|2.G – Physical and Technological Infrastructure
|Consistent with its mission, core themes, and characteristics, the institution creates and maintains physical facilities that are accessible, safe, secure, and sufficient in quantity and quality to ensure healthful learning and working environments that support the institution's mission, programs, and services.
|The institution adopts, publishes, reviews regularly, and adheres to policies and procedures regarding the safe use, storage, and disposal of hazardous or toxic materials.
|The institution develops, implements, and reviews regularly a master plan for its physical development that is consistent with its mission, core themes, and long-range educational and financial plans.
|Equipment is sufficient in quantity and quality and managed appropriately to support institutional functions and fulfillment of the institution's mission, accomplishment of core theme objectives, and achievement of goals or intended outcomes of its programs and services.
|Technological Infrastructure
|Consistent with its mission, core themes, and characteristics, the institution has appropriate and adequate technology systems and infrastructure to support its management and operational functions, academic programs, and support services, wherever offered and however delivered.
|The institution provides appropriate instruction and support for faculty, staff, students, and administrators in the effective use of technology and technology systems related to its programs, services, and institutional operations.
|Technological infrastructure planning provides opportunities for input from its technology support staff and constituencies who rely on technology for institutional operations, programs, and services.
|The institution develops, implements, and reviews regularly a technology update and replacement plan to ensure its technological infrastructure is adequate to support its operations, programs, and services.
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The deadline has come and gone with no bids for the four McKinley Street properties that the city of Spring Lake Park was trying to sell.
There were only a couple of interested parties that inquired and feedback from them indicated the value of the properties, which are a third of an acre each, should be closer to $55,000, said Assistant City Administrator Dan Buchholtz at the March 18 Spring Lake Park City Council meeting.
The city assessor had set the value of the each of the lots between $70,000 and $80,000 when the council put the lots up for bid in December 2012.
The city was looking for a minimum price of $70,000 for each lot.
The council agrees with Buchholtz's recommendation to retain the four lots, which are located near Lakeside Park, until the market is more favorable.
When the lots sell, the city plans on using the proceeds to build a parks and recreation building.
Tammy Sakry is at [email protected]

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It's Tuesday night in the Queensland town of St George and residents are scrambling to build levees ahead of the inundation that is expected to arrive within days, flooding the region for the second time in the past year.
Nationals senator
The flood in March, which was described then as a "once-in-a-century" event, peaked at 13.39 metres and the levees this time have been built to only 13.5 metres. But the frustration and strain are really evident in Joyce's voice when the talk turns to whether there could be any relation between this extreme weather event and man-made climate change.
"If you want to piss people off at the moment, start talking about climate change," Joyce says.
"This is just nature. It's just how it works. There's nothing more infuriating than someone on an inner-suburban kick to start pontificating about an area they've never been and know little about."
Despite his well-known combative scepticism on climate change, Joyce's theory on the floods is actually not so controversial. The experts seem to agree that this soaking summer is about a much less contentious climatic phenomenon – La Niña.
This is the quaint name (meaning little girl) given to a specific set of meteorological and oceanographic circumstances including water temperature, trade winds and atmospheric air pressure over the Pacific Ocean.
La Niña is the opposite of the El Niño – or little boy – pattern, which many hold responsible for the decade-long drought over much of Australia.
The scale of the system that generates these patterns is immense, stretching right across the Pacific Ocean; its influence is felt around the globe.
That means it is not just Australians looking at the heavens and scratching their heads.
La Niña has been blamed for drought in Argentina and swamping rains in Indonesia.
Coincidentally, the northern hemisphere has frozen solid thanks to movements in another system, known as the Arctic Oscillation, which effectively drove the chill of the North Pole to regions much further south.
This confluence of extreme weather has produced a steady slide show of flood-stricken homeowners rowing down their suburban streets or travellers trapped in snow-covered airports or, before the big chill set in, bushfires outside Moscow.
So what's with the weather? The answer is important to everyone from the opportunistic traveller to the farmer, miner or insurer.
Global reinsurance giant Munich Re recently plotted 950 natural catastrophes over 2010 and more than 90 per cent of them were weather related.
That is two-and-a-half catastrophes a day, the second highest result in 30 years and one which drove losses of about $US130 billion.
And it would have been worse had the American hurricane season lived up to its billing.
"It was just fortunate that the tracks of most of the storms remained over the open sea," says Munich Re chief executive Torsten Jeworrek. "But things could have turned out very differently.
"In terms of the number and intensity of the storms, [2010 was] one of the severest hurricane seasons of the past 100 years."
But specialists in the area resist pinning the tempestuous conditions on climate change, at least for now.
"You should not be able to find a climate scientist who says this event is associated with global warming," says co-director of the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre, Andy Pitman, of the Queensland floods.
Pitman says there is simply not enough evidence to rule one way or the other, but the increase in extreme events does fit with theories on climate change.
"But there are so many events going on . . . that they are just occurring at such an anomalous frequency that something is going on," he says.
"You start to get extremely suspicious that you are observing behavioural change associated with global warming."
The patterns in Australia have certainly been somewhat extreme. In its annual climate statement released last week, the Bureau of Meteorology found the mean rainfall for 2010 (690mm) was well above the long-term average (465mm). This made last year the third wettest on record.
Rewind 12 months, as the bureau's annual statement described a year of below average rainfall and the second hottest on record.
Barrie Hunt, research fellow with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, says the swings locally are all about the switch from El Niño to La Niña and climate change is not likely to be the culprit.
"That cycle from one to the other is just natural variability," he says. "So far global warming has been about 0.8 degrees over 100 years. That's clearly modest compared to what may happen in the future . . . it probably hasn't influenced El Niño and La Niña events."
Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA, agrees that the temptation to finger climate change should be resisted in favour of the simpler explanation found in La Niña.
"The Southern Oscillation (a key part of the La Niña /El Niño system) has always given Australia a wild ride," he says.
"You are a pretty dry continent but every once in a while the La Niña puts you under water. By nature, Australia has these big swings in climate from dry to wet and back again."
Patzert also plays down the severity of this year's system, saying it fits within the upper end of a normal La Niña cycle.
"This is not the Godzilla of La Niñas, this is just a big La Niña," he tells the Weekend AFR from his California-based laboratory.
For Patzert, the reason for the increasing damages bill from storms can be blamed on human development patterns more than intensifying weather events.
"More and more people are living in flood plains and farming in areas that historically, if you looked back far enough, have flooded," he says.
"Blaming everything on climate change is a cop out. It ignores how we have taken certain risks even though we know there were predictable risks associated with it. In Queensland, whoever made the decisions decided [the risk] was acceptable and now they are living with the consequences.
"Pinning everything on CO2, on climate change, gets people who made the zoning decisions off the hook. It is just not true."
Joyce argues in a similar vein that it is the job of humans, or rather their governments, to plan for the extreme events; for example, by building more dams to hold back the waters.
"Man's job is to minimise what nature does," he says. "What would help is major water storages that would regulate the flow and reduce massive damage from these events, and create capacity for greater wealth rather than massive destruction."
Further north from Joyce's home town, the Fairbairn dam did not spare Emerald from severe flooding but local farmer and vice-president of lobby group AgForce, Ian Burnett, says it could have been so much worse were it not for the dam built in the 1960s.
"Building more storages and capturing some of the flows would be certainly a very attractive alternative," he says.
"The Fairbairn Dam has buffered the effect. It does prolong the flooding but mitigates the extent of it."
He believes consideration should be given to how communities plan for future flood events, which could mean changing of the operation of those floodplains.
Wayne Newton also works with AgForce and farms to the west of Dalby. He detects significant cynicism about the climate debate in rural areas.
"Rural people are very aware of the climate and weather, and one of the most noticeable things about Australian climate is the wide variability," he says.
"We normally have extreme variability. People will say we have never had climate like this before but, back in about 1893 I think it was, the flood around here was actually higher.
"Anecdotally, in 1893 the flood waters lapped right up around the Loudon homestead, which sits on a natural high bank about half a kilometre back from the river. It was a significant island in this flood event."
But what about the future? People returning to their homes and businesses and governments toting up the multibillion-dollar damage bill will understandably want to know if a warming globe means more of these style of storms. Hunt says that is still an open question.
"As the global climate warms up, the scenario for Australia is for warmer temperatures and less rainfall . . . except for north-west Australia," he says.
"So if you already have warmer temperatures and also a drying tendency, which will exacerbate any El Niño-induced drought, the combination – even if they don't influence one another directly – the combination will be for a bigger impact on Australia."
NASA's Patzert also says the real problems from climate change are still ahead of us, which would be a sobering thought for those returning to their homes in Queensland.
"I'm definitely thinking that in the next 50 to 100 years, the most challenging issue facing civilisation is anthropogenic warming due to greenhouse gases," he says.
"In the coming century the natural variability that will happen with climate change, rising temperatures and sea levels is definitely going to swamp what we saw in Queensland – but not yet."
The swing from El Niño to La Niña suggests a search for a natural equilibrium and what exactly "flips the switch" from one to the other is not well understood.
That, says Patzert, is one of the reasons it is simply not known how climate change will impact that cycle.
"What will it do to El Niño and La Niña?" Patzert asks.
"Will it make one more frequent? One more intense? That is the scary part."
The Australian Financial Review


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2014 is about half over, and the Amazon team has already chosen their top 10 books of the year so far, just in time for you to make a few additions to your summer reading list before the avalanche of prestige titles hits in the fall. There are already books here that will likely make plenty of top 10 lists at the end of the year, including Redeployment by Phil Klay, as well as some books that should have been a bigger deal: Red Rising by Pierce Brown, anyone?
In case you're wondering, none of the books in Amazon's top 10 is a Hachette title, although a few made the top 20: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (#11), The Fever by Megan Abbott (#14), and Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta (#19). See below for Amazon's list:
1. Updike by Adam Begley: This biography of the American master goes far beyond simple chronology of this complex (and often paradoxical) character, layering on the lit crit where his real life bled into his novels. Detailed and compulsively readable, Updike is essential for admirers, and illuminating for anyone with an interest in literature.
2. The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel by Cristina Henríquez: Henríquez's powerful novel captures readers with the quiet beauty of her characters and their profoundly rendered experiences as immigrants in America. Following nine families who arrived in the States from South and Central America, Henriquez has crafted a novel that is inspiring, tragic, brave, and unforgettable.
3. Redeployment by Phil Klay: The strength of Klay's stories, all about the Iraq War or its aftermath, lies in his unflinching, un-PC point of view, even for the soldiers he so clearly identifies with and admires. These stories are at least partly autobiographical, and yet, for all their verisimilitude, they're also shaped by an undefinable thing called art.
4. Euphoria by Lily King: Loosely based on the life of the anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is both romantic and intelligent. It is the best kind of historical novel—the kind that will send readers running to learn more about its real-life inspiration.
5. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald: Both a tense account of Greenwald's cloak-and dagger encounters with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and a blistering commentary on surveillance in a free society, No Place to Hide is thrilling and enlightening, a bellwether moment in a crucial debate.
6. In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen: Three-time National Book Award winner Matthiessen set his final story in a mid-'90s spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, exploring the sadness, horror, and absurdity—and even occasional joy—that accompany it. The result is a novel that is as profound as anything the late author had ever written.
7. The Invention of Wings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd: In the early 1830s, the Grimké sisters were the most infamous women in America for speaking out in favor of liberty and equality and for African American slaves and women. Monk Kidd brings Hetty and Sara to life in a powerful novel that spans decades, vividly imagining the Grimké sisters' courageous trials and personal transformations.
8. Red Rising by Pierce Brown: Pulsing with nonstop action, surprising twists, and unforgettable characters, Brown's debut—and the first book of a projected trilogy—sets its tale of struggle and revolution in the desolation of Mars, tackling the large questions of fate and loyalty in brutal and heartfelt turns.
9. Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman: Was the scion of an American billionaire eaten by cannibals in New Guinea? Award-winning journalist Hoffman steps into Michael Rockefeller's boots to investigate his 1961 disappearance, and succeeds in both solving the puzzle and spinning an engrossing tale of adventure.
10. Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs: Continuing the story that mesmerized readers in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Riggs packs Hollow City with more eerie vintage photographs, and like a seasoned magician, seamlessly incorporates them into a remarkable—and totally original—feat of imagination.


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Paul C.-P. Chao received his B.S. degree from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1989. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. After graduation, he worked at the CAE Department of Chrysler Corp in Auburn Hill, Detroit, MI, USA, for two years. He is currently a Faculty Member of the Electrical Engineering Department at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Chao was the recipient of the 1999 Arch T. Colwell Merit Best Paper Award from the Society of Automotive Engineering, Detroit, MI, USA, the 2004 Long-Wen Tsai Best Paper Award from the National Society of Machine Theory and Mechanism, Taiwan, the 2005 Best Paper Award from the National Society of Engineers, Taiwan, the 2002/2003/2004 CYCU Innovative Research Award, the 2006 AUO Award, the 2007 Acer Long-Term 2nd Prize Award, the 2007/2008/2009 NCTU EEC Outstanding Research Award, the 2009 Best Paper Award from the Symposium on Nanodevice Technology, and the 2010 Best Paper Award from the 20th Annual ASME Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS). He was the University Associate Provost of NCTU. He served as the Secretary General of the IEEE Taipei Section, from 2009 to 2010, and the Founding Chair of local chapter for the IEEE Sensor Council. He currently serves as a Member at the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound. For editorial services, he is the Technical Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and also the Associate Editor of two other well known SCI-index journals: the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the Journal of Circuit, System, and Computer. In recent years, his research interests focus on dynamic analysis and designs for sensors and actuators, micromechatronics, and control technology.
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The Repeaters all singing from Labour's songsheet
It looks like the mainstream media repeaters are all singing from Labour's prepared songsheet this weekend. The problem for them is that they all went tp press at the same time making themselves all look like…well…repeaters.
Fran O'Sullivan, Tracy Watkins and loyal Labour mouthpiece John Armstrong are all running the ame lines; that the government isn't controlling the media like the last government!
OK so, let's get this straight, they want a return to the micro-managed inside snippets, approved and released by the ninth floor. They want this because…
Well they want it because they are now having to think and write for themselves and repeaters don't like doing that especially when they can have ready made articles churned out by a bevy of taxpayer funded spin flunkies.
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I haven't seen the original Despicable Me film, but even though I'm a newbie to the super-villainous animated franchise, and was just a little lost with the initial set-up for this sequel, Despicable Me 2 is fiendishly funny and a fantastic film for the whole family. I enjoyed this movie so much that I'm definitely going to be seeking out the first one on video and I'm also already looking forward to next year's prequel, Minions (which is currently slated for December, 2014.)
If you've seen the first film, then I probably don't need to tell you that the "Me" in the movie is a character named Gru (voiced by Steve Carell – although you could never tell it was him), who is kind of a cross between Mr. Burns of The Simpsons and Quasimodo. He's an ultra-smart former bad-guy, who is also the father of three adopted (and adorably animated) young girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) – oldest to youngest.
Gru lives in a normal suburban neighborhood where all the cookie-cutter homes look the same except for his dark and intimidating mansion that also houses a secret underground laboratory where his hundreds of minions slave away on whatever projects the once evil-genius is currently working on.
Gru's minions steal nearly every scene in the movie and they are short, yellow and capsule-shaped characters who are mostly bald and wear goggles and bib-overalls. They speak in some sort of gibberish language (as voiced by the film's co-directors, Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud) that when mixed together with animated facial expressions and body language is actually pretty easy to understand.
When Despicable Me 2 begins, Gru is retired from villainy and is working on raising his kids, and developing a new line of jellies and jams, when he is called on by the Anti-Villain League (AVL), headed by Silas Ramsbottom (Steve Coogan), to help locate and capture a super-villain who has stolen a serum that turns living organisms into monstrous creatures (think "Gossamer" from Bug Bunny's classic "Hair-Raising Hare" episode.
Reluctantly, Gru teams up with AVL Agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) and the two go undercover at a cupcake bakery in the local shopping mall where Anti-Villain League sensors have found traces of the mutant transformation compound in one of the adjoining businesses.
At a Mexican restaurant in the mall, Gru recognizes the owner as a former villain, El Macho (Benjamin Bratt), who is thought to have died in the most manly (and hilarious) fashion ever – a feat that would be certain to make the "most interesting man in the world" jealous. But despite Gru's gut feeling that Macho is the man responsible for the serum theft, the AVL instead arrests a hair-dresser named Floyd Eagle-san (Ken Jeong) for the crime.
With the case closed Lucy and Gru have to go their separate ways, just as they are beginning to acknowledge their love for each other; but farcical sci-fi style wackiness ensues as the screenplay (by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul) has Gru, his partner Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand), his daughters, his minions and Agent Wilde all teaming-up to help save the world. For me the film has the same spoofy tone of Futurama, but has excellent computer animation is much friendlier to families with young children.
I normally hate, I mean really hate, 3D films, but I have to admit that this one has some pretty darn good 3D effects going for it that almost make the annoying glasses and the darkened picture worth the sacrifice. In particular there are a couple of first-person style sequences, from the perspective of a mutant minion, that are very cool and extremely funny at the same time.
On top of being great entertainment, this movie is just a visual joy to watch. It has one of the most colorful palettes I have ever seen, which I'm sure is intentional to make it appealing to the youngest of kids – but it worked on me too. (Ooooh, pretty!)
As I walked out of the theatre I could already hear and see little kids excitedly quoting the movie and acting out the minion antics (to the chagrin of some parents), and I don't think you can ask for a better endorsement of a family movie. Despicable Me 2 is the best animated film that I've seen so far this year, and I may just go see it again for the fun of it. Grade: 8/10


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52 Filipinos working in Algerian gas field accounted for
Manila: Fifty-two Filipino workers who were held hostage alongwith hundreds of Algerians and foreigners by militants in Algeria have been accounted for and some of them were expected to be in the capital by Sunday afternoon. They were working in the gas field of Amenas, where on Wednesday Algerian militants sympathising with rebels in Mali, seized a number of foreign and Algerian workers. In the attempt to free the captives, two Filipino gas field workers had reportedly lost their lives.
Department of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Raul Hernandez, in his twitter post on Sunday, said 39 of the Filipinos workers are expected to arrive at 4pm.
"So far, 52 OFWs [Overseas Filipino Workers] are accounted for. Our team in Algeria continues to coordinate with Algerian authorities and employers," he said.
On Thursday, a rescue attempt was mounted by Algerian state forces resulted in freeing 537 Algerian hostages and 100 foreigners, including several dozen Filipinos.
Families of the Filipino hostages had been on tenterhooks since news of the hostage-taking broke out.At the presidential palace in Manila, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte welcomed reports about the safe release of the Filipinos.
"We're happy to know they are safe and sound," she was quoted as saying over government-run station, dzRB radio.
Valte, however, refused to comment on the two reported Filipino deaths in the rescue operation.
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The first thing we see is the feet, sticking out from beneath the huge, overladen double desk whose underside Clarence Darrow is hammering, much as he hammered at the underside of American jurisprudence for half a century, trying to keep parts such as the First Amendment in working order.
Kevin Spacey has already played a thinly fictionalised version of this great American lawyer here (defence counsel Henry Drummond in Inherit The Wind in 2009), and this time Spacey's voice assumes a gravelliness akin to that of Drummond's big-screen incarnation Spencer Tracy.
In Thea Sharrock's staging of David W Rintels' one-man play, the predominant trait of his delivery is its force; "barnstorming" is the word. Perhaps Spacey is overestimating the volume it takes to ensure clarity throughout the Old Vic's reconfigured in-the-round space; perhaps he is trying to pull the walls in to create greater intimacy (he sporadically succeeds, ranging around the stage and up and down the main aisle, constantly taking his arguments to specific audience members); perhaps it is simply a character choice. Whatever the cause, it grows wearing.
Yet you come to feel that what is grinding you down is not Darrow's bull-roaring but the iniquities against which he is railing: the series of free-speech and conspiracy-to-murder cases he defended as a labour lawyer and then a criminal lawyer, prosecutions motivated by a will to suppress worker activism and by plain racism. His most famous briefs were his defence of the right to teach Darwin in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 (as dramatised in Inherit The Wind) and of the "thrill killers" Leopold and Loeb the previous year. Darrow is candid about not always winning his cases but he boasts (not entirely factually) that of 102 people he defended on capital charges, he never lost one to Death Row.
Again and again over an hour and three-quarters, he drives home his salt-of-the-earth progressive views: "There is no such thing as 'crime' as that word is generally understood . . . the real cause of crime is poverty", and above all the simple core motive "to temper justice with mercy". This charity seemingly affects Spacey himself: when a punter's mobile phone went off on press night, he kept his response, "If you don't answer that, I will," down to a growl. His Darrow, running to seed with a lock of lank hair hanging across his high forehead like an incipient comb-over, isn't a heroic figure – but he is undoubtedly a hero.
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Heartbreak And Secrets With The Cast & Creators Of 'Regular Show' At Comic-Con 2014 [Video]
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The last year of Cartoon Network's Regular Show has brought some pretty huge changes to the lives of everyone's favorite park groundskeepers who just happen to be a raccoon and a bluejay. The departure of Margaret and the reintroduction of CJ, the secret origin of Skips and the introduction of Thomas the Intern have all shaken up life around the park, and it doesn't seem like it's going to stop any time soon.
To find out more, I went to San Diego Comic-Con and spoke to J.G. Quintel (show creator and the voice of Mordecai), Sean Szeles (writer and director), Matt Price (writer), Bill Salyers (Rigby), Minty Lewis (storyboard artist and the voice of Eileen) and Roger Craig Smith (Thomas). Find out more about Eileen's rise to prominence, hear hints about Thomas's upcoming role in the spotlight, and witness J.G. Quintel's reaction when I tell him how upset my 63 year-old mother was when Skips' girlfriend died in that flashback. Seriously.
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White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights is a stylish rock-doc that follows the Jack and Meg White's 2007 Canadian tour. The band played remote towns and provinces, while finding time at each tour stop to make an unusual promotional appearance, playing on city buses, boats, bowling alleys (where they rolled a full game while rocking), and even one free daytime show in which they only played a single note.
Director Malloy mixes gorgeously grainy black-and-white with color footage of Jack and Meg White onstage and off. The Stripes stripped-down, pop-art stage sets make a perfect backdrop for the spare, sonic attack of their music, and the lo-fi punch of their sound seems especially fitting for the landscape of the sparsely populated Canadian countryside.
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|Named Person:
|Gaspard Monge; Claude-Louis Berthollet; C -F Volney; Napoleon, Emperor of the French; Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier; Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; Déodat de Dolomieu; Nicolas-Antoine Nouet; Quesnot.; Pierre Méchain; Maris Jules César Savigny; Pierre Joseph Redouté; R Desgenettes, baron; D J Larrey, baron
|Material Type:
|Picture, Artwork reproduction
|Document Type:
|Visual material
|All Authors / Contributors:
James Gillray
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|British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VII, no. 9352.
F. Charles-Roux, Bonaparte gouverneur d'Egypte, Paris 1935.
|1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 49.8 x 40.8 cm
|Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
The French army which invaded Egypt in 1798 under the command of General Bonaparte was accompanied by a party of 165 savants, the Commission des Arts et des Sciences, including artists, naturalists, medical officers, surveyors, engineers, etc., led by the mathematician Gaspard Monge and the chemist Claude Louis Berthollet. Their activities included surveys of ancient monuments, studies of medical conditions (published by R. Desgenettes, 'Histoire médicale de l'armée en orient', Paris 1802) and collections of natural history specimens. The difficult working conditions of the savants, aggravated by a hostile native population, were revealed in letters which were intercepted by the British fleet and published in London in 1798-1800. Gillray, in this etching purportedly derived "from the original intercepted drawing", shows members of the Commission being harrassed by Bedouins and Mamluks while attempting to survey 'Pompey's column' in Alexandria, near where the French army disembarked on 2 July 1798. "Humour facile, qu'excuse la passion éveillée par la guerre. Plus tard, les Anglais porteront sur l'oeuvre civile de Bonaparte en Égypte une attention plus sérieuse et plus équitable" (F. Charles Roux, p. 100) Some of the savants, however, shared Gillray's view of their circumstances.
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Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh), June 7 (ANI): At least eighteen people were killed and several others injured when a bus rolled down in a 500 feet deep gorge in Sangrah Tehsil of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district today.
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