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How do I recover from a spam attack?
So it has happened. One of your users account was hacked, and its abused to send spam via it. Since these guys don't care about your systems health, your system is probably under heavy load right now. This is what best to do:
Stop spam from being sent
Since you want to be a nice guy to others, and don't want to end being enlisted on some RBL DNS stopping the outbound mailstack is the first thing to do. This is only possible via restarting citserver with a special environment varable set:
export CITSERVER_n_session_max=0
you could add this to i.e. /etc/init.d/citadel and restart citserver.
Remember this, since you have to remove it after the situation is cleared and you want to resume normal operations.
Stop spam from comming in
Now you closed the outbound floodgates, its time to close the inbound one. Most probably the spammer is sending mails in via SMTP. Closing the SMTP ports (25 / 465 / 587) via your firewall is a good idea, but you also can close them using webcit - Administration/ Edit site-wide configuration / SMTP → and now set MTA/MSA/SMTP + SSL to -1; Save it and restart citserver again. If you run another mailer in front of citadel, its probably a good idea to stop this one too. If you've got a secondary mx running on another host, stop it too. Now you're offline; which is not as bad as you may think; Remote systems will try to reach you again later and you won't loose mail which is sent to you by others.
Analyze the Situation
This is probably a good time to tell your users that the mailsystem is unavailable, and you're working on the situation.
Now you need to find out whose account was hacked. therefore you need to inspect your outbound mailqueue.
As an aide user, Goto Administration / View the outbound SMTP queue/
The Jobs waiting for further processing: table shows you probably a huge list of mail jobs being processed. The Sender Column should show you who is the one that was hacked. Contact this person, and tell him he has to clear the situation on his system. Right now its probably a good idea to change his password.
Clearing the Situation
And now you're in the need for a way to delete a huge number of jobs from the Queue, right? Since webcit dynamicaly decides which representation to provide for a room, and the mailqueue is just another (hidden) room, you simply need to chose another representation by changing the view parameter in the URL in your browser from 11 to 1 and press enter. Now you've got the compfy mailbox view, you will get a better view of the situation. There are two sorts of messages in this room: those with regular subjects, and those with QMSG as subject. its always pairs of them; the QMSG with the queueing information, and the regular mail. We assume that NONE of the mails currently in the Queue will be sent. Select all of them and press <del> to move them into your personal trashbin. You can later check, whether there are mails from your users that they should send again. Please note that you should respect the privacy of your users.
Clearing the situation - without webcit
If your situation is that worse, that webcit can't help you anymore, we need to go a little more low-tech. Instead of webcit talking to citserver, we write a little shellscript utilizing netcat (Note: some distros call the Unix-Domain-Socket enabled netcat we need 'openbsd-netcat', test with nc -h whether 'U' is in the possible arguments).
SIDENOTE: this script will delete messages permanentely, you won't be able to look at them later.
You've probably already read about citadel scripting; more details can be found at the application protocol documentation; eventualy you may want to implement the MOVE command…
Please adjust the location of your unix domain socket according to your installation.
You need to run this script with write permissions to the admin-socket.
#!/bin/bash # get all message IDs from the spool folder: (printf 'GOTO __CitadelSMTPspoolout__\nMSGS\n'; sleep 1; ) |nc -U /var/run/citadel/citadel-admin.socket |grep -v '^200 .*' |grep -v '^000$' |grep -v '^100 *$'> /tmp/msgids # (grep out status-codes etc.) # check the file /tmp/msgids for validity, then remove this: exit # now we know all of them, chunksize items per command. chunksize=30 count=`wc -l < /tmp/msgids` chunks=$(($((count/${chunksize})) + 1)) start=${chunksize} ( printf 'GOTO __CitadelSMTPspoolout__\n' for i in `seq 1 $chunks`; do line='' messages=`head /tmp/msgids -n${start}|tail -n ${chunksize}` #printf "${messages}" for msgid in ${messages}; do if test -n "${line}"; then line=${line}',' fi line=${line}$msgid done printf "DELE $line\n" start=$((${start} + ${chunksize})) done # after we sent all commands, give citserver a while to catch up, # before we close the connection. sleep 1000000 )|nc -U /var/run/citadel/citadel-admin.socket
getting back to normal business
Now that you
- removed the spam from your mailqueue
- identified & cleared possible infections on the client host
you need to
- configure the new password on the client and tell the user his new password for the web login (or better let him choose a new one which mustn't be the old one)
- educate you user about possible attack vectors, and that his credentials are possibly burned, and he should change passwords on other accounts
- re-enable the inbound SMTP-Ports
- remove the outbound mailblock setting from your initscript
- restart citserver
- send a test mail!
- check whether you made it into some RBL, and clear the situation with them; else some remote hosts may reject mails from you as spam…


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Al Jaber Aviation takes delivery of 1st Airbus aircraft
Al Jaber Aviation (AJA) has become the first Middle East customer to offer an Airbus aircraft for VVIP charter flights, following the delivery of its first A318 Elite.
It has a further three A318 Elites and two Airbus Corporate Jetliners (ACJs) on order, which will make it the largest operator of Airbus corporate jets in the region.
"We aim to provide VVIP customers with the ultimate in comfort, space, and service, and because the A318 Elite and Airbus ACJ have the widest and tallest cabins of any business jet, can now deliver it," says Al Jaber Group Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Al Jaber. "The Al Jaber Group's success in construction, shipping and logistics has been built on quality, and AJA is now extending this into the air," he adds.
"The privacy, prestige and productivity of corporate jets is well understood in the Middle East, where there is a strong and growing demand for VVIP charter flights that AJA is well placed to satisfy," points out Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers, John Leahy. "And if you can offer a better product, which is what AJA is now able to do with the Airbus A318 Elite, you give your business model the best chance of success," he adds.
AJA;s A318 Elite is able to welcome business or family groups of up to 19 passengers, allowing larger groups to travel together than would have been possible in traditional business jets – as well as providing better value for money.
It features the comfortable and spacious seating found in well appointed offices and homes, offering a fresher and more attractive way to fly for business or pleasure. The A318 Elite also has a private office that converts to a bedroom, large bathrooms, and plenty of space for luggage.
Airbus' A318 Elite is part of the world's most modern airliner family, which has now won over 9,500 orders worldwide and features more than 400 customers and operators.
Airbus' corporate jet family comprises the A318 Elite, ACJ and A320 Prestige, as well as VIP versions of its A330, A340, A350 and A380 widebodies.
It has won more than 160 orders to date, comprising more than 100 A318 Elites, Airbus ACJs and A320 prestiges, plus around 50 VIP widebodies.
Airbus corporate jets are flying on every continent, including Antarctica.
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Okay, so you might not think that a bed, toilet-shaped, or other model of home stress balls would be just the item that most companies are looking for but these items fit perfectly into nearly every campaign. After all, the real estate industry can actually benefit from designs shaped like homes and items you might find inside like a television, a clock, or even people, along with a few you might find outside like a mailbox or a car. Such unique items can help recipients remember your brand when you customize them with your company's name and logo as well as give them away at your next event, tradeshow, or company get-together. By providing healthy products like home stress balls, companies can not only help raise awareness about their business but can actually help reduce levels of anxiety in their recipients.


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Online Audio Performances
Audio Blast Festival is a no-festival within festivals. It's a new invitation for musicians, sound artist and others noise makers to play live through the internet. This live music will be experienced in 2 venues, one in Bergen for the Piksel festival and the other one in Nantes at the Plateforme Intermedia / Fabrique as a physical node of Piksel festival.
A chance to experience new forms of music created through Networked Performanes. 8 hours of intensive live audio flowing via Nantes to Bergen over 3 days of the Piksel Festival. more than 30 hours of music Including works from Sound artists, composers, musicians from around the world.
All the live performance will be played on a quadriphonic sound system in both country. Audio Blast Festival is curated by Julien Ottavi and organised by APO33. www.apo33.org
The first festival took place in November 2012
all pieces have created with differents diy devices handmade by Cristiano Rosa and collect along the 2012 and recorded directly in one take.
year: 2012
duration - 60mins
The first étude in a suite of hand dryer sound energy studies, in this case inspecting the Dyson Airblade™. An airblade, with c. 2 years of use, was recorded in BRE's large anechoic chamber, over a reflecting plane, with a measurement microphone. Ex-situ recording allows us to capture the inherent sound energy of the device independent of an acoustic environment, such as the highly reflective public washroom. The work slowly unfolds shards of frequency band extracted from the densely compacted, turbulent white noise generated from the 10 second cycle of interfering parallel air sheets traveling at 400 mph. Dramatic fluctuation in the spectrum are due to the interjection of the hands shortening the journey of the air sheets, reflecting the air back at the casing, causing further mutual interference. The sanitary tones suite forms a creative response to a larger project investigating the noise effects of high-speed hand dryers on users with sensitive hearing and special auditory needs.
John Levack Drever
Operating at the intersection of sonic arts, design, auditory culture, environmental acoustics and noise control, Drever's theoretical and practice-based research demonstrates an ongoing inquiry into the affect, perception and practice of everyday environmental sound and human utterance. Projects are often derived from extensive fieldwork in particular soundwalking and field recording, the most recent of which explores the crowded soundscape of Hong Kong, 'Ochlophonics Hong Kong' (2001-2010). Drever is head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research, and a Senior Lecture in Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been on the board of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology since 1997.
Secret Mercy tracks's are oscillating in between two stories, as in Haruki Murakami novel "The End of the World". All the tracks were recorded in Febuary 2013. Field-recordings are from France, Korea, Japan, Laos, Canada, recorded in between 1999 and 2012. Voices, Thomas Sinou, Dominique Blais, Dinah Bird, Caroline Bouissou, Beatrice and Florence Castonguay, The Sauvillers Family.
Emmanuelle Gibello is developing a practice combining visual art and electronic music. She uses new technologies for field recordings from both natural and urban contexts, real time performances or works incorporating networks.
Her sound collection contains archival sounds from the quotidian as well as more thematic research conducted during her travels and is the starting point for her compositions and live sound mixing. Emmanuelle Gibello considers the relationship between sound and image, soundscape and memory. She revisit urban space aesthetically through sound.
Tonesucker are a trio based in London and Suffolk, UK. They work with electric guitar and synthesised sounds - sounds they describe as "fundamentalist". They often record on location incorporating soundscape material in their work. Although they are sometimes classified in terms of drone music, Tonesucker have been working in a characteristic way since 2006 combining improvisation and composition with a sense of the occult history of the places they play live and record in, crossing the borders between post-rock, noise, free improvised and electro-acoustic music, and accompanying performances with austere and abstract films.
A typical Tonesucker piece will move between extremes of loudness, musicality and discipline, sometimes sounding delicate and minimal, sometimes intense, machinic and visceral. Though largely improvised and never rehearsed, Tonesucker work under constraints. A musical or other sound-shaping rule will be agreed in advance. This can be the requirement to use only a certain note, or a certain sound, or to observe certain 'shapes', or to follow the film as a visual score. Pieces commonly exhibit the rule at the outset with the task to explore, stretch and battle with it until it can be tolerated no more. Things break down. Literally unruly passages follow as the restraint is tugged against, mocked or negated. Tonesucker may return to where they started. They may move into unprepared territory. They may establish a new rule. Or it all may fall apart into a messy shambles.
The pleasure of Tonesucker is in the pain of restraint.
1 Omnia Convivia Crastina Pars Secunda (16.54) - download aif
Live performance at All Tomorrow's Parties, Minehead, December 5, 2009.
2 The Wrong Wire (07.20) download aif
Composed at Slaughterhouse Studios, Coddenham, Suffolk, England, at Albion Works, London, England, and at Estuary Crescent, Shotley, Suffolk, England, November, 2010.
3 Nantes Report (09.10) download aif
Composed at Albion Works, London, England, December, 2012 from live performances at Beyond Signal #9, APO33, Nantes, France, March 5, 2010.
4 Sub Rosa (26.09) download aif
Recorded live at Musatelier, Impasse des Rosiers, Saint-Dizant-du-Gua, France, March 7, 2010.
Photograph taken at the graveyard of St Mary's Church, Harmondsworth, England in the shadow of the UK Border Agency's Immigration Removal Centre.
The album Sub Rosa (to be debuted on Berlin's 88vier Radio on Tuesday 22nd January 2013) follows last year's Omnia Convivia Crastina (Onoma Research) which appeared in A Closer Listen's Top 20 Albums of the Year as well as in their Top 10 in the Drone category. Sub Rosa's four tracks examine the psychogeographical resonances of the places they were recorded, all of which are close to a river or estuary (the Rivers Severn and Orwell in England, the River Loire and the Gironde in France) and so suggest voyages, pilgrimages, migration - a sense of loss of home or being adrift but also trade, connection, messages from elsewhere, hope.
Sub Rosa is released by Fibrr Records with the cooperation of APO33, 88vier Radio, CoLaboRadio and Onoma Research.
Tonesucker appear live in Berlin at Salon Bruit, Tiefgrund, Laskerstrasse 5 on Thursday 24th January 2013.
1. crystal, 31 m 46 sec, stereo, 48 khz 24 bit download
2. symmetry, 31 m 46 sec, stereo, 48 khz 24 bit download
improvisation/experiment with electromagnetic amplifiers, hewlett packard test oscillator, super saturated solution, sugar crystals, touch. track 1 is the original recording, track 2 is a symmetrical reflection of the original.
recorded during artist residency at Studio XX, Montreal, Canada, Fall 2012
British Columbia born artist Erin Sexton explores matter, energy, space, and time through sound, performance, installation, and video. Drawing from theoretical physics and mysticism, her work is both rigorously conceptual and playfully improvisational. Through analog electronics, electromagnetic fields, pseudo- science projects, and phenomenological experimentation she creates direct links between lived experience and the processes of nature, from the sub atomic to the astronomical. She collaborates most often with Magali Babin (CA), Julie Rousse (FR), Pascale Barret (BL), and Alexander Wilson (CA, as Ænth). She has released 2 albums: Horizon (2011, les encodage de l'oubli) and Aircraft (2004, independent), and is featured on multiple compilations. Her work has been presented across North America and Europe. She has lived and worked in Montreal since 2004.
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#2 (03:11)
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Recorded August/September 2012 in London.
All source material from web browser based real-time audio synthesis and many-to-many vector mapping via TiberSynth v0.1 (Cory O'Brien 2012)
INTERSECTION Radio was a project co-programmed by various artists with the support of apo33.
Intersection - 2004/2005
Alain de Filippis, Basso & Olivier Toulemonde, Cedric Pigot, Formanex, Emmanuel Leduc, Roel Meelkop, Helmut Schäfer, Jaap Blonk, Jason Kahn, Jfrede, Joerg Piringer, Julien Ottavi, Junko & Mattin, Karl Jensac & Helmut Schäfer, Luc Kerléo, Ercklentz & Neumann, Mattin, Natassia Kouliev, Pascal Broccolichi, Pyo, Will Guthrie
With this project/broadcast, we wanted to explore the question of the diffusion of sound on the Internet. This exploration was organised in different times and following different modes. First come a time of presentation, installation : we proposed to some artists that they create one or several pieces, with no limit in duration. The various programmers question their own network of artists to whom they present the proposition in their own terms. The result was first playlist which is broadcast for the first two months followed by a new playlist etc. - as usually practised by traditional radio stations, but without a disc jockey and with pieces that can last between one second and several hours. The idea was not to present systematically something new, like most common radio stations usually do, but rather to try and create a work group of sound artists with different techniques and outlooks to explore the opportunities of the webradio (a medium involving sound transmission on the Internet through audio streaming). The artists in the work group perform in the firsts playlists according to the themes chosen by the programmers ; they can also collaborate on different themes, in future playlists. At the heart of this project, lies the will to create another radio, different from the radios (hertzian or Internet) we come across every day. There are currently no stations that broadcast sound pieces by sound artists or contemporary musicians, that last more than 5 minutes â except from full Cds and downloads. This project was a collective work in progress with many possible variables.
THIS RELEASE IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS USB KEY (16Go) WITH ALL THE PIECES AS MP3 & WAV (not compressed format)
I taught biology few years in the 90's before devoting myself entirely to my art work. As an artist, i practise installations, videos and performance mainly. "Les cerfs " is my solo project in the field of experimental music. Music can exist as independent media, and it can act as a sculptural material in the plastic work (sound tracks in videos, installations or in the work of performance art). It may take the form of noise climates, organic textures, but it can be built in a more chaotic and rhythmic approach. Another part of my sound work uses textual elements, or attempts to bring elements of improvisation in more composed pieces involving voice. I am interested in the relationship between music and its mode of theatrical representation, and particularly the relationship between music, sound experiments and the "scene" of the performing arts, in its prospects of meeting and hybridization. My work involves the animal body, and I try to push the boundaries of the physical presence of the body on stage
chaos audio teorie - extrange attractors–[from mathematical functions to organic jungle sounds]
EP: one track 25 minutes + code (pure data)
Release generated from the heretical use and the experimentation with the sonic possibilities of the iterative function "logistics" in a "complex number" versión [real+imaginary].
Inspirated but desviated from the research and work by "Elaine A. Walker" http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/ChaosMelodyTheory.pdf
f(xn+1) = 1 – rxn2
adding chaos to the chaos
jumping from attractor to attractor
eternal instability
3d Fractals modulate the temporal frequency of the iterations (Chaos PD external by Ben Bogart) Audio generators : I used [polywavesynth] a polyphonic synthesizer for Pure Data by Phil Stone http://www.pkstonemusic.com/polyWaveSynth.html and some other more simple oscilator, [nqsint] + FM-AM .
After record some audio blocks using the code included. I edited and mixed them into Ardour.
software : Pure Data + Ardour Linux: Ubuntu Karmic Koala
Download Audio VBR MP3 31mbhttp://www.archive.org/download/eetz_noish/eetz_noish.mp3
Download Audio WAV 256.6 mbhttp://www.archive.org/download/eetz_noish/yupana_c_a_t_noish.wav
Donwnload code!!yupanaExploit.pd
web +audio +info + code NOISH
Retrospectres (VIBRIRRR005)
Everything London Concrete 2008-10. Cover art, edits and Retrospectre's I, II, III by Seth Guy, 2010.
Retrospectres is the last LP of London Concrete and uses material we were working on prior to our demise in the summer of 2009. Since then I've noted our popularity has steadily increased, particularly in the US and Europe as more people discover the breadth of our output. I've been pleased to receive both invitations to perform, to release works, and notably to the many who have conveyed thanks and positive words about what we did. Finally, I am very grateful that Julien has given me the opportunity to put LC to rest with this album. London Concrete 2006-2009. R.I.P.
Special thanks (in no particular order): The Mother, Stinky & Hannah, Chris n Tim Savage, Chris Fazio, Mark Pearce, Pedro Rocha, Nazmeen Latif, Mr. Nick Brown & Charlotte, Robert Pepper & PAS, Julien Ottavi, Ian Simpson@Electronic Music, Dave Phillips, Maria Tidball-Binz, Steve Marshall, Amps For Christ, Tamon & Ed@ILL FM, Ryan Jordan@Noise=Noise, Lizzie Sells, Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, Joel Cahen, Wajid@ScrapClub, Richard Whitelaw, Scant Intone, Mark Aitkin, Pat Bone, Remora, Vibejays, Ascsoms, Sykora, Marcel & Jeremy@Bow Arts, Anne Bean, Tom Bailey, Pete Johnstone@Second Layer, Mar & Monica, Iwonka, Resonance FM, Heathen Harvest, Phil Julian, Mark Whettler, Adrian Pye, Andy Lane, Sukran, Claire Davidson, Linda Himbert, Magda Kondracka, Mrs Venson, Viv Blanchard, Victoria Davenport.
About London Concrete
Formed in January 2006, London Concrete are artist Seth Guy (Brignell) & Dee Bowen. London Concrete's improvisations utilise plunderphonics, field and concrete recordings, reclaimed objects and hacked electronics, instruments, voice, contact microphones and manipulated technologies such as jumping speakers and pick-up coils. In juxtaposing everyday and alien sounds and re-contextualising found texts and visual art sources they create unique collaged recordings and performances. London Concrete provide an alternative perspective of contemporary sound art and experimental music, injecting into it more physicality, humanity, chance and play; away from tightly controlled laptop and digitally-driven composition. Their evolving and exploratory approach to sound making has included work for theatre, radio, dance and live performance. They initiated an ongoing collaborative network via MySpace with other artists such as Amps For Christ, Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer and Dave Phillips, and have also worked directly with performance artist Anne Bean, Joel Cahen/Spax, poet Mark Anthony Pearce and dancer Lizzie Sells. London Concrete's work has been published on a number of occasions, strengthening their massive recording output most of which is available to hear online. London Concrete became defunct in the summer of 2009.
Second Thought / Same Palace (VIBRIRRR004)
Born Penang, Malaysia Goh Lee Kwang (family name Goh) is internationally recognized sound artist from Malaysia. He has created sound installations, sonic-visual interactive installations, single channel videos, multi channel videos, electro-acoustic improvisation music performances, tape music, works for radio broadcasts and soundtracks for theater / dance / independent movie. They are shown in various festival, galleries & independent art space in Asia as well as in Europe. Goh's works focus on the various possibilities of both natural sound and recorded sound, crossing the boundaries of digital and analog, electronic and acoustic, go beyond language, allowing audiences to experience the work directly, and in their own personal way.
. buy it on CDr - 10€
"Bed&Hearts" - (VIBRIRRR003)
by Jenny Pickett & Julien Ottavi
"The Bed" for the majority of us homosapiens is, in one form or another, the place where life is created and where life is brought to an end. Indeed, many of us will spend at least half our lives there. "The Bed" a place of so much human activity and seemingly inactivity, where imagination gives birth to new ideas, dreams solve unanswered questions, the territory of both beautiful and deadly passions. "The Bed" is witness to the raw desires an hidden dramas of the ongoing human dramas. Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi explore the interia dimension of the bed's sonic space, it's reverberations with the flesh and metal pulses of the object and it's inhabitants.
buy it on CDr - 10€
"collaboration in NYC : more than 30 hours of music" (VIBRIRRR001)
Buy it All on DVD (MP3) - £10
FIBRR RECORDS publish musics on http://musique-libre.org
You could find links from FIBRR RECORDS on their website
FIBRR RECORDS support Musique-Libre!!!
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Recruiting for Battle for Azeroth!
The Hand of Shadow are now recruiting for Battle for Azeroth!
We ask new recruits to read a little about us and fill in an application, so you can judge whether we are the right guild for you, and we can judge whether you're the kind of player we're looking for. Once we assimilate minions we like to keep them!
Successful applicants will undergo a 2 week trial, during which you'll be subject to our regular raid rules, systematically brainwashed, and have your soul temporarily removed anytime the warlock needs to borrow it. Please familiarise yourself with our raid rules and make sure you find them agreeable.
What kind of applicants are we looking for?
Our priorities are atmosphere, progression and stability, so we're seeking recruits who genuinely enjoy raiding, have a sunny disposition (being slightly unhinged is fine), and don't get super salty after a couple of wipes. We expect raiders to know their class, perform to a reasonable level, and gem and enchant their gear appropriately etc, although we aren't so hardcore that we'll throw you to the leper gnomes for the odd mistake… usually. Teamspeak is a must, and we prefer players who have found the happy balance between stoney silence and oversharing every bodily function with the guild. You should generally be able to attend all 3 main raids, although occasional absences are not a problem.
Our raid days are:
Wed 19:45 – 23:00
Thu 19:45 – 23:00
Mon 19:45 – 23:00
Ready to apply?
Fill in an application
Or if you have questions or prefer to chat first contact Mikälie#2457 or Creed#22658 on Battle.net!
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Academic Success and Personal Development
The Student Development and Success Center (SDSC) assists students through their transitional periods focusing on academic and personal development. Working closely with faculty, family members, University housing staff, counselors, health services personnel, and off-campus agencies, the SDSC assists students with their problems through proactive intervention. Our developmental approach emphasizes personal responsibility and helping students learn to help themselves.
Emergency and Crisis Follow-up Assistance
The Student Development & Success Center (SDSC) serves as an emergency contact for students experiencing immediate health, emergency, or personal problems that may affect their academic performance. The SDSC acts as a liaison between students, family members, faculty, University personnel, and community agencies in crisis situations. As a liaison between these diverse areas, the SDSC staff provides academic and moral support to those who have experienced personal difficulties. In the event of the death of a student or immediate family member, the SDSC will assist with necessary notifications.
Student Absence
Students are responsible for notifying their instructors via O.A.R.S. when they will be absent from classes in accordance with the instructor's guidelines for attendance. The SDSC will serve as a liaison with faculty in extreme emergency situations when students are unable to make direct contact with their instructors and offer guidance and direction to students. For further absence information, call the Student Development & Success Center at (309) 298-1884 or check out the Student Absence web page.
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A little while ago at QuakeCon, Tim Poon had a go at a new level in Bethesda's much-anticipated sneaking/killing game Dishonored. Back from Gamescom. the fine folks at VG 24/7 have posted this video in which Dishonored co-creative director Raf Colantonio walks players through that level, in which they must identify the right "Lady Boyle" out of a few possible suspects and then, of course… kill her.
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Chris Weber
Financial Advisor, The PCMW Group at Morgan Stanley
Alignment Rockford Pathways Committee
Bio and Professional Experience
I am a life-long Rockford resident and a 1995 Guilford graduate before getting my degree from Augustana College. I have been an advisor for the last 11 years at Morgan Stanley, where I lead a wealth management team working with successful individuals and families along with corporate retirement plans. I'm active on Alignment Rockford's Pathways Team, Rockford Public School's Budget & Finance Subcommittee, and I've been a member of Next Rockford since 2010 where I currently serve as the Vice-Facilitator and Education Committee Chair. For fun, I love playing competitive tennis, working out, and spending time with my wife, Tenille, and our 3 kids, Elise, Greyson, & Emery.
When and why did you first get involved with Alignment Rockford?
I have been involved with Alignment Rockford since one of the first meetings back in July of 2010. The perception of education in Rockford has been a huge issue for me along with the fact that I graduated from a public school and wanted my kids to excel in Rockford Public Schools. Prior to being a financial advisor, I was also a math and science teacher for the Gifted Program at West Middle School and at Keith School. Those years of teaching certainly helps me in my business today but also taught me how incredible the impact of great teaching and great schools can be on kids in our community.
The Pathways team in which you are a member has evolved a great deal since its inception. Could you tell us some of the major work that has been accomplished from this team and how it has impacted Rockford?
We started as the K-5 committee back in 2010, focused on increasing parent participation with their children at King School. We used King's Family Fun Night's to engage the parents with their kids and gave them monthly opportunities to stay more involved. Then we helped organize parents and volunteers for a Career Fair at Lewis Lemon in order to give students the opportunity to see all that they could become in the future. As the Academies have expanded to all of the high schools over the last few years and that process has really had an impact, we felt like changing our focus from elementary students to connecting our high school students to their future jobs could really resonate. To me that's the benefit of Alignment Rockford, everyone in the room has an equal say as to where the committee is headed and what we are trying to accomplish on a daily basis. We are all taking our own time to shape a process for improving schools and it never works out perfectly or even as expected, but we learn from each engagement and keep trying to improve.
The Pathways team is now refocusing on work-based learning opportunities for RPS high school students. Could you tell us why work-based learning opportunities such as internships are important experiences for the students and community to be involved in?
Work-based learning opportunities truly bring what you are learning at school to life. An internship allows you to put the math skills you just learned at school to work to solve an actual problem for an employer. I believe that students who go through that situation will never forget how to handle those problems and if we are lucky, they'll go back to school after an internship anxious to learn more so that they can apply it in the future. Not only does it push the students out of the comfort of a text book and into problem solving situations but internships also help them develop relationships. It's those relationships that will keep them living and working here or help bring those that leave for college back to Rockford.
With our holiday edition we wanted to highlight a team member who is really in the spirit of giving. You obviously give back to the community in so many ways with your involvement in Next Rockford and Alignment Rockford but you also have coordinated a coat drive the last couple of years for Rockford Public School students. Could you tell us a little more about this?
When you live in a diverse city like ours with a large school district there are so many ways the average person can help out. Opportunities to truly make a difference that don't take a ton of time or a ton of money are easy to come by. Last year Next Rockford ran its first book drive hoping to collect 900 gently used books, so that every 3rd – 5th grader at 5 schools could have a book to take home for the summer and read over and over again. We ended up having 7500 books donated which allowed us to put multiple books in the hands of those kids at 15 local elementary schools. Currently, we are helping to fill volunteer positions in the Science Technology Engineering & Math program at Froberg Elementary. Children meet for an hour once a week with engineers from Sundstrand who help them build fantastic projects, like a jet car! The kids love it and everyone has time to volunteer once for 60 minutes. If you're looking to get involved I'd encourage you to contact Marsha Sisney, she's the district's Parent & Community Engagement Supervisor, one of the most positive people I know. Call her at 815-966-3271, she will give you a ton of guidance on what you could do to impact Rockford students or just help cheer you on with your own idea! Currently, through Next Rockford and Alignment Rockford we are running our annual Boots & Coats drive. There are still too many elementary students that walk to school in a foot of snow in tennis shoes and a hoodie. This is an easy way to take your children's gently used winter coats and boots and impact students across the city. Or swing by Target during a Christmas sale and pick up a pair of snow boots for a first grade child whose parents can't afford them. You can find a full list of the drop off locations on the Alignment Rockford website but they include all of the Beef a' Roo's and all of the Rockford Fire Stations.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Volunteering in Rockford, whether it's through Alignment Rockford or one of our many non-profits, doesn't have to be a full time or even a part-time job. An hour here and an hour there can allow you to have a bunch of fun, meet some great people, and have a huge impact!


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African states are party to over a thousand investment agreements, the vast majority of which have been signed with non-African countries.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Treaty, signed by Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, contains investment-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions, but no disputes have been registered to date
In 2006, Members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) signed the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol that also includes the ISDS mechanism. Only two claims have been registered under these terms, both against Lesotho (but the governments in the region do not typically disclose such information). In 2016 amendments to the protocol were adopted. They eliminated ISDS provisions (only state-to-state arbitration remained) and narrowed the scope of investors' rights.
In South Africa, shortly after settling a dispute with foreign mining companies over its new post-apartheid mining rules (Piero Foresti & Others case), the government began to withdraw from bilateral investment treaties (BIT) that include ISDS, arguing they belonged to a bygone era. It claimed BITs focus on the interests of investors from developed countries and do not address concerns of developing countries.
The South African government decided to develop a new model BIT and strengthen its domestic legislation in regard to the protection offered to foreign investors, such as compatibility of BIT-type protection with South African law. South Africa also sought to incorporate legitimate exceptions to investor protection where warranted by public interest considerations.
Provisions of South Africa's new model BIT have been incorporated into SADC's. This model sets out provisions that mitigate the risks of earlier treaties and leaves open the option for state-to-state dispute settlement in addition to investor-state dispute settlement procedures.
In 2014, voices from the Namibian government cast doubts on the correlation between foreign direct investment and investment treaties including ISDS. They argued that ISDS represented a risk for developing countries, due to important legal fees and awards which can pose a significant budgetary threat. Further, statistics show most claimants come from developed countries.
About 11% of all arbitration disputes have involved African states.
In 2013, an arbitration court ordered Libya to pay US$935 million in a dispute over a land-leasing contract for a tourism project, making it one of the largest known awards to date.
Egypt has been the fifth most targeted state worldwide with 34 registered ISDS cases against it. Tanzania has been the most targeted country in sub-Sahara Africa with six disputes, all of which were initiated by European investors.
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WASHINGTON -- Department of Veterans Affairs officials are dropping their annual verification requirement for pension payouts, a move that should save tens of thousands of veterans paperwork grief and free up VA staff to work on other benefits claims.
The decision kills the VA's cumbersome Eligibility Verification Report, which had asked for annual updates on veterans' finances, medical coverage and living situation. The two-page form had an accompanying six-page set of instructions and required numerous other documents to ensure veterans didn't lose their benefits.
Instead, department officials will use data from the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration to confirm veterans' eligibility in real time. David McLenachen, VA's director of pension and fiduciary service, said the move should speed up processing times and cut down on administrative errors.
About 500,000 veterans and family members current receive pension payouts. Without the move, at least 150,000 of them would have been required to resubmit the eligibility report next month or risk losing their benefits.
The shift will also free up about 100 claims processors, about two-thirds of the workforce assigned to processing those files.
Allison Hickey, VA's undersecretary for benefits, said those staffers will be reassigned to work on the department's problematic benefits backlog.
As of this week, more than 567,000 veterans claims have been pending for more than 125 days. That number has moved little over the last year, and the lengthy wait has drawn harsh criticism from veterans advocates and lawmakers.
McLenachen said that while the new process means veterans won't have to resubmit eligibility forms, they will still receive notifications from the department if their payout totals change or if questions arise about their financial status. The appeals process to protest VA decisions remains the same.
Veterans receiving pension payouts will get a letter in the mail in coming weeks explaining the change.


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Two corpses were found in Bulgaria with an iron rod pinned down through their chests, the remnants of a practice that was thought to keep people from turning into vampires in medieval Europe, according to reports.
The skeletons were excavated near the Black Sea town of Sozopol. Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the National History Museum in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, told The Associated Press. The corpses were treated this way before being buried in some parts of Bulgaria up until the beginning of the 20th century.
According to the pagan custom, the bodies of people who were considered bad during their lifetimes were pinned down to prevent them from rising from the grave and terrorizing the living, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.
"These people were believed to be evil while they were alive, and it was believed that they would become vampires once they are dead, continuing to torment people," Dimitrov said.
According to Dimitrov, over 100 buried people whose corpses were stabbed to prevent vampirism have been discovered in Bulgaria in recent years. He said the "vampires" were often aristocrats and clerics and noted that they were all male.
"The curious thing is that there are no women among them," he said. "They were not afraid of witches."


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Morrison day to day with sore hamstring
ARLINGTON -- Logan Morrison wasn't in the Mariners' lineup Tuesday because Seattle was facing a left-handed starter in Robbie Ross, but the right fielder would have been unlikely to play anyway after his right hamstring tightened up just prior to Monday's first pitch.
"In an emergency, yeah, he might play," manager Lloyd McClendon said prior to Tuesday's game. "Right now they're telling me it's day to day. But we'll see how it is again tomorrow."
Morrison was in the starting lineup in Monday's series opener against the Rangers, but had to be replaced in right field in the bottom of the first inning by Michael Saunders even though he never came to the plate in the top of the inning.
McClendon said he had no idea Morrison was having any problems, which is why the change wasn't made until after Mariners leadoff hitter Abraham Almonte came to bat in the first inning when Morrison was already officially entered in the lineup.
"He was not iffy before the game. That was the problem," McClendon said. "If he was iffy before the game, I'd have never burned him and we'd have had an extra player. It literally happened when he came in from getting loose and Almonte was stepping in the box. That's when I was informed. It was tough."
Rookie Stefen Romero got the start Tuesday against Ross as McClendon continued playing the right-left matchups, with Saunders again available as a defensive replacement.
Morrison, acquired from the Marlins in December, has hit .150 (3-for-20) in eight games.


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WWL multi-media superstar Rick Reilly's been busy with many new ESPN projects lately, but apparently it still isn't enough to justify his expensive paycheck.
One of the most strident anti-blogovist and curator of 800-word essay pieces, ESPN's Rick Reilly has finally caved and will now give the short-and-snappy a whirl. Behold, "Go Fish", Reilly's new blog on ESPN The Magazine. But it's not really called a blog. It looks like "Too Short For A Column", "Freak Celebrity Sighting", "Ricktionary" are all separate sections but, no, they're just the headlines. His first entries were all done on January 16 but there have been no other updates since then. Maybe he got frustrated. And for those of you still pining for W. and American Idol humor, enjoy your oil:
Not everything George W. Bush did as president was a disaster on the order of Sanjaya's hair.
Pretty soon they're going to have him moderating the comments section, too.
Go Fish! [ESPN The Mag]


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The Other Colors of Money
This story appears in the July 2004 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Even with all the venture capital choices we've presented in "Seeing Green," you may need some alternatives to banks and VCs. Alternative financing sources abound-if you look in the right places.
Start close to home, and consider these three options: hidden personal wealth, angel investors and commercial finance companies.
Hidden Gold
It may sound clichéd, but no one believes in your dreams quite as much as you do. So it's natural that you should try to bankroll yourself. Doing so will impress partners, investors and customers. After all, nothing says "I'm serious" like investing your life savings in your business.
Before you apply for a second mortgage or a wallet full of new credit cards, however, you might want to dig a little deeper for your own "hidden" wealth. You may be surprised to find more capital than you imagined.
These hidden sources of personal wealth can include nearly any current financial asset. Life insurance policies, 401(k) plans, IRAs and stock portfolios are among the most commonly overlooked sources of business capital.
"Borrowing against life insurance can actually be very beneficial," says Russ Grzywinski, a registered investment advisor and president of Oak Brook Financial Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. "You can take a loan against the cash value of a policy, then pay it back at a flexible rate that suits your business cash flow."
You may think his approach is counter-intuitive, but Grzywinski suggests borrowing from yourself at a high interest rate: "When you borrow against a life insurance policy, the interest is a deductible expense for the business [as well as] tax-deferred income for the individual. It's a very powerful concept." Not only are you repaying your loan, but you are also effectively creating a higher cash balance for the next time you need it. Says Grzywinski, "You're taking the finance company out of the loop and becoming your own bank."
With a whole life policy, Grzywinski adds, you may have the option of not paying back the loan at all. Any shortage will simply be deducted from the death benefit when you die. If you can't take it with you, use it to grow your business.
Your retirement savings is the next logical place to look for hidden personal wealth. That 401(k) from your previous employer may be the best place to start. Grzywinski advises entrepreneurs to keep retirement savings in a 401(k) account, since it's easier to borrow against than, say, an IRA.
IRA accounts, including SEP and SIMPLE retirement plans, typically have stricter limitations on borrowing or investing. Generally, you can invest your IRA money in a private company (with some restrictions), but there are only a handful of custodians that would allow that to be done, says Grzywinski. "The problem is valuation," he explains. "The account custodian can't get a handle on what that investment is worth each year."
Finally, Grzywinski says, don't forget your public stock investments. But before you ask your broker for a traditional margin account, check with your local banks. "The interest rates are probably better at a lender than in a margin loan at your brokerage firm. Plus, a local bank may be more sensitive to an entrepreneur's needs," he says. Check around for the best rates.
Silver Wings
There are many benefits to using personal assets first. But if you're tapped out, don't despair. The next best source for small-business capital may be right around the corner.
According to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, there are some 400,000 active individual or "angel" investors who invest in more than 50,000 businesses each year. Compare that to the country's approximately 450 venture funds, which, according to the National Venture Capital Association, invested in just 2,715 companies during 2003. Clearly, individuals-not VCs-are much more likely to provide the capital your company needs.
Where to find angels has always been a problem, but that may be changing. "More and more angels are joining clubs or networks," says Marianne Hudson, director of Angel Initiatives at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. "There were fewer than 10 of these groups in 1996. Now there are about 200 of them, and we hear from more all the time.
"The good news for entrepreneurs is that these groups have Web sites, and they're looking for quality deal flow," says Hudson. That's a welcome change from the past, when finding an angel investor usually meant months of careful networking.
One new angel investment group, the Blue Ridge Angel Investor Network (BRAIN), is an excellent example. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, the group hired executive director Jim Roberts to reach out to both new and growing companies throughout the Southeast in an effort to expand the economic region of Asheville and western North Carolina. "Our members are often semiretired or retired," says Roberts. "They want to get involved in growing something."
BRAIN, a group of individual investors that meets quarterly, brings several entrepreneurs to present their business plans at each meeting. According to Roberts, the forums facilitate the introductions that will be critical for Asheville's continued economic growth.
A quick Web search will help you find a local angel group near you. Or just ask around-most CPAs and business lawyers will know somebody who's involved in your area.
So what's his answer? "Get customers to fund your growth by targeting early adopters-those people who have more money than time," he says. As an example, Birol points out that the Palm Pilot was once priced at more than $1,000, yet early adopters happily paid the price. Those early sales helped Palm get the cash in and the price down.
When cash is tight, young companies need to focus more on selling and less on fund-raising. An overemphasis on fund-raising is one sign that a business suffers from the "if we build it, they will come" approach to sales. Instead, Birol suggests a new tactic. "I believe organizations have to focus on their best and highest use-what they do well, what they enjoy doing, and what customers have valued in the past."
"Focus, accomplish and grow" are the three tenets of business success, according to Birol. For more on the subject, check out his book Focus. Accomplish. Grow. The Business Owner's Guide to Growth, available on Amazon.com or at AndyBirol.com.
Blue Suits
When your growing company is facing a cash emergency, it helps to go to someone who understands the dynamics of growth. Traditional bankers, who are generally looking for something "slow and steady," are probably not your best resource in this case. That's where a commercial finance company can step in.
"In general, commercial lenders will look at tougher loans, because they are not subject to the same regulations as a bank," says Douglas Mitman, managing director of investment bank Grace Matthews in Milwaukee. The more critical your need, the less useful banks become. "The commercial finance guys can be more aggressive with a struggling company," says Mitman. "But they're typically going to look for asset coverage."
"Asset coverage" is essentially another way to say "loan collateral" and can include accounts receivable, inventory and factory equipment.
While finance companies may have less stringent rules than banks, they still look for one of two things: either hard assets to use as collateral or enough cash flow to comfortably make debt payments. If you have the collateral, look for "senior" or "asset-based" loans. If you can afford to pay back the loan from cash flow but don't have hard assets, ask about unsecured, mezzanine or subordinated loans. Rates these days are roughly equivalent to those of a credit card.
Subordinated and unsecured credit are now widely available to businesses that have solid operating profits-sometimes to the tune of two or three times the business's annual cash flow.
CIT Small Business Lending Corp. (a subsidiary of CIT Group Inc.), for one, provides SBA-guaranteed loans of up to $2 million based not just on assets, but also on the company's operating history and the strength of the business plan. "We're looking at the projected cash flow-the ability of the business to repay us. And we put a lot of weight on what the business has done in the past couple of years. But it's not uncommon for us to lend based on projections, too," says Chris Lehnes, vice president of business development for CIT Small Business Lending Corp., based in Livingston, New Jersey. Franchises, professional offices and others with proven business models are most likely to qualify for credit based on projections.
For lending companies like CIT Small Business Lending Corp., seeing businesses with a substantial amount of debt is not uncommon. In fact, according to Lehnes, private businesses frequently have leverage ratios as high as 10-to-1-meaning they have 10 times as much debt as equity. "That would be outrageous for a public company," he says, "but for a small [or midsize] business, that's very common."
While the biggest commercial finance lenders include CIT Group, GE Commercial Finance and Textron, there are also hundreds of smaller shops. Some of these lend SBA money through what's called a Small Business Investment Corporation.
Mitman sums it up: "There are a million options for you if you have an up-and-running company that's either making money or has assets. And if you're large enough, with a healthy balance sheet, you'll find capital even if you're not making money."
Your options will be dictated by several considerations, including how much money you need, how long you'll need it, what you'll need it for, and how much control you're willing to relinquish. For instance, if you need to raise several million dollars, then venture capital, a stock offering or perhaps a well-heeled angel investor will be your best bet. On the other hand, if you need only $10,000, hidden personal wealth or one of the SBA's microloans may be your best bet. Financing lasting more than a few years is usually going to come from equity investors such as VCs, angels or friends and family, unless you are financing real estate, in which case a bank loan would be suitable.
The reason you need the money will also come into play. A bank is unlikely to lend you money to allow you to increase your salary-that's going to have to come from someone with a personal interest in your business, such as an angel investor or a family member. That same family member, on the other hand, will be unable to help if what you need is an international letter of credit to wrap up an across-the-border deal. Matching your financing source to your need will eliminate many possibilities.
Control is another issue. If you want to maintain maximum control of your business, stick to hidden personal wealth, family, friends and bank financing. Angels, VCs and public markets are much more likely to want to see themselves or their handpicked assistants in the driver's seat.
Excerpted from Entrepreneur magazine's Business Start-Up Guide #1812,Growing Your Business.
David Worrell is Entrepreneur's "Raising Money" columnist.


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We love police cruisers. They're big, fast, parts are plentiful, and they're usually pretty cheap used. But even though they're cool, using one to pretend you're a cop isn't.
Kenneth DiLuigi, 53, apparently liked the police vibe his retired cruiser exuded. He was arrested by the New Jersey State Police after they received several complaints of a green Crown Victoria driving erratically and attempting to force motorists to pull over on the Atlantic City Expressway.
An investigation led to DiLuigi, who is being held on $10,000 bail. Police impounded his police equipped Crown Vic. DiLuigi looks a little roughed up in his booking photo, but if the state police know anything about it, they aren't talking.
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Every Friday morning I attend the singalong at my children's San Francisco public elementary school. Students, teachers and many parents gather in the auditorium and sing through a medley of songs. When Ms. Young starts pounding the school song on the piano, the children all sit up straight and proudly sing: "It's Jose Ortega on the hill we love…"
Whenever I hear the kids gaily belting out this song, I have to fight back the tears. The young voices are filled with hope, cheer, and school pride—and I'm deeply touched by their optimism.
These kids love their school. They love their principal who knows each and every one of them by name. They love their teachers who stay up late at night creating innovative lesson plans. They love the school's emphasis on reading and when you visit the cafeteria at lunch time many of them are eating a sandwich and reading a book. They love Mr. Jay who teaches them about science through gardening and they all look forward to the singalong when they get to express their pride for their school.
These kids come from diverse backgrounds. Some 60 percent of them are from low-income families. Statistically these kids should be failing, but they're doing the exact opposite thanks to a stellar principal, outstanding teachers and a supportive community. These kids perform well and this year our API was 840. At Jose Ortega, we're closing the achievement gap—but more importantly we're creating joyful learners who are curious about the world.
And it's because of this dedicated teaching community and these hard-working kids that I'm voting yes on both propositions 30 and 38. Why both? Because why not? It's unfortunate that there are two education propositions on the ballot that are confusing voters and splitting the vote (and I won't even bother to get into the politics around that). And so I'm voting for both to send a message to Sacramento that I care about education.
Here's more on these propositions that will stop the devastating cuts:
Proposition 30
- "The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012″
- Sponsored by Governor Brown's Initiative
- Stops the cuts and keeps schools funded at the same level as 2011-12
- Funds given to the schools this fiscal year. Expected to raise $6 billion
- Increases personal income tax on annual earnings over $250,000 for seven years
- Increases sales tax by .25 cent for four years
- Allocates temporary tax revenues 89% to K-12 schools and 11% to community colleges
Proposition 38
- "Our Children, Our Future: Local Schools and Early Education Investment Act"
- Sponsored by attorney and philanthropist Molly Munger of the Advancement Project
- Funds would begin to go to schools in 2013-14. Expected to raise $10 billion annually
- Increases personal income tax rates on annual earnings using a sliding scale
- During the first four years, allocates 60% of revenues to K-12 schools, 30% to repaying state debt, and 10% to early childhood programs. Thereafter, allocates 85% of revenue to K-12 schools
- Provides K-12 funds on school-specific, per-pupil basis, subject to local control, audits, and public input
What happens if they both pass?
Nobody will be taxed twice. The proposition with the most votes would come into play, though some non-conflicting items from each could possibly be enacted, according to Educate Our State.
Which proposition is more likely to pass?
Both propositions need a majority to pass. Right now prop 30 is polling ahead of prop 38, but prop 30 needs an extra push from voters to pass. The most recent poll shows prop 30 support dropping below 50 percent, but it also shows 14 percent undecided.
Why vote for both?
Why not? It sends a message to Sacramento that California voters care about education. It's unfortunate that there are two propositions on the ballet because this is confusing people and splitting the vote.
Forget trying to decide which one to vote for: Just vote for both!
If people advocate for voting for both, then one of these props is more likely to pass. If we continue to fight over which proposition is better, then the vote will be split and nothing gets passed. Education advocates shouldn't be fighting education advocates! We all want the same thing: the best education for kids in California.
What happens if the propositions fail?
The school year will be shorter. San Francisco will cut as many as 5 days off the current school year and take off at least 10 days from the 2013-14 year. San Diego and Los Angeles districts are faced with cutting as many 15 days off the school year. Class sizes will increase, schools will close…California's per student spending already ranks near the bottom in our nation. Let's not allow it to fall dead last!
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It is that time of year when young people walk across stages to exchange adolescence for adulthood. It could actually be that easy, if they would but listen to and act upon the wisdom of commencement speakers and newspaper columnists!
Alas, notwithstanding the youthful propensity to learn the hard way, my (unsolicited) two cents, on politics and beyond, for the Class of 2011:
Do an internship in a local, state or federal government office. You'll answer phones and stamp envelopes but you'll get to see how collective decisions get made and how you can influence the process in the future.
Volunteer for a real campaign (and, sorry, sorority pledge director doesn't count). Student leadership roles are popular, but they're not as useful and long-term meaningful as experience in a real-world operation.
Figure out where your passion and public policy intersect. Ask your professors or company leaders. Government touches every area of life. You should know who makes the decisions for how it touches yours.
Don't be afraid to specialize. Some degrees are so broad that you can "do anything with them." In actuality, they are so general that you can't do anything with them. Specializing opens, not closes, doors. Just like boundaries for kids increase their creativity, the more targeted your endeavors, the more opportunity will come from them.
Technology has shortened communication gaps. Texting and Facebook messaging are easy and fun, but consequential business will always get done through voice to voice and face to face relationships. Practice those communication skills if you want to rise above the masses. And don't text and drive.
Run every social interaction through the rubric of "How will this situation help me lead a healthy family one day?" I hear often, "I married the wrong person," and think to myself, "No, you were the wrong person." Don't expect to give yourself physically to a slew of partners and get a committed, satisfying marriage in return.
We live in a fame-happy culture. There is an ever-present temptation to concern yourself with what other people think of you. On this topic, author and all around wise guy Mark Twain offered a helpful epiphany:
"When I was 20, I cared a lot about what people thought of me. When I turned 30, I no longer cared what they thought. When I reached 40, I realized that people weren't thinking about me to begin with."
You were born into a situation that you did not choose. For better or worse, things happened to you and around you that you did not control. You are not responsible for what happened to you as a child. You are responsible for how you respond as an adult.
It will help to believe that you have a Heavenly Father who created you and cares deeply for you. Israel's illustrious King David believed as much. His words from Psalm 62: "One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving."
Strength and love. May these your aspirations be.
Kevin Thompson is a political columnist for The Boerne Star. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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The struggling action star did The Game Plan, a comedy for Disney, and all of a sudden he's big box office and every child's best bud. He did Cory in the House on the Disney Channel. He's starring in Disney's Race to Witch Mountain, opening Friday3/13, and has an animated film (Planet 51) and another kid-friendly comedy (Tooth Fairy) due out this year. He's hosting Nickelodeon's "Kid's Choice Awards" at the end of March.
"He doesn't take himself seriously," says AnnaSophia Robb, one of his teen Witch Mountain co-stars.
"He's a dynamic personality with this self-deprecating sense of humor," says another co-star, Carla Gugino. "Kids respond to that."
Johnson laughs at the notion. But he owns it. The former wrestler is as canny as anybody in the biz about finding a niche. He's not wrestling anymore. He's no longer going by "The Rock." And he didn't really discover his big-screen appeal to kids until he tested those waters.
"I started to examine family movies, what makes them work, what makes them not work," he says. "I realized that when a family movie is done right, everybody in the family has some character they can relate to on screen. If they're done right, the lead character in the movie becomes a better person by the end of the movie and makes everybody around them better, too. That's what family is all about -- struggle, perseverance, staying together. And that's what a family movie has to have going for it, too."
The divorced father of a 7-year-old knows what kids like, which may be why he's fast becoming Disney's go-to guy for kid-friendly action. Johnson, like Disney, knows "branding."
"Disney gets that," he says. "It's a cool thing when you can make movies that everyone can go see. I love the partnership I have with Disney. I recognize the power that the brand has, its impact on families all over the world. We had great success with The Game Plan, and when they came to me with this, I was ready."
"This" is a re-boot of one of Disney's popular franchises from the 70s, the Witch Mountain movies about kids with mysterious powers. Race to Witch Mountain revives the series, with Johnson playing an ex mob "wheel man" now driving a taxi, a regular Joe named Jack Bruno who finds himself transporting two alien teens on their quest to find their way back home. The film ratchets up the action to a level not usually seen in a family film. And it lets Johnson show off his timing, his way with a funny line. That was evident even back in his days in the ring.
"As far back as when I was 8, I used to memorize monologues from Rocky II, Indiana Jones movies. And I'd memorize these Richard Pryor monologues. I know I was too young to listen to them, no business at all listening to what he was doing. I'd sneak the tapes off and commit these long, vulgarity-laced monologues to memory. You memorize Richard and you learn timing."
Johnson is the first to admit that in making his family friendly move he hadn't taken into account the old W.C. Fields maxim about the perils of working with children and dogs. He's done just that -- twice -- now.
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I'm trying to create a device medical monitor that can display realtime waveforms like ECG, blood pressure, O2 levels, and such. Maybe 4-5 waveform graphs per screen, about 500 vertices per graph, 30 fps, and hopefully XVGA with antialiasing. Are there any ARM processors and BSP's that offer HW acceleration that can handle that kind of load? I've been playing with the Atmel 9263 and Adeneo WinCE 6.0, but right now that's only giving me about 1 fps at QVGA with no antialiasing in DirectX, and Open__ won't even load. Does anybody have experience successfully implementing graphics with this kind of performance on an ARM device? (Or is ARM the wrong architecture – x86 is off the table because of power requirements, but others might be possible).
Actually, VG is something new to me – given the application of drawing realtime waveforms and labels and menus, would OpenVG actually be even more applicable than a DirectX or OpenGL option?


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so i think the connection between inbreeding (or outbreeding) and the evolution of the "innate social aptitudes of man" [pdf] works something like this:
inbreeding in and of itself does not change the frequency of genes (alleles) in a population [pg. 65], but it does move them around, concentrating them in certain family lines.
if, then, some sort of genetic mutation arises in one family line which, let's say for the sake of argument, results in the carriers somehow behaving more altruistically towards their fellow family members than strangers, and this results in them being able to increase their inclusive fitness, then that genetic mutation will be selected for.
it will really be selected for (i.e. the selection rate will be accelerated) because of the inbreeding because: 1) since the inbred family will have greater than average numbers of this "altruism gene" because it is inbreeding, its members will likely execute a greater total number of altruistic behaviors towards one another and, so, they will really benefit fitness-wise from this new gene. also, 2) perhaps — perhaps — all else being equal, the inbred family members will feel even more strongly altruistic towards their fellow family members than an outbred family would since they are so much more genetically similar to their family members. to be honest with you, i'm not so sure about that second proposition, so i'm just going to skip it for now and focus on the first one.
wrt the first proposition, that the rate of selection of "genes for altruism" is faster in an inbreeding population is exactly what wade and breden found when they ran some models — the more inbreeding, the more rapid the selection of the altruism genes:
you can imagine why.
if you have a bunch of different families in a population, and one of those families possesses some sort of "familial altruism" gene which means that its members help each other out (or whatever) more than the members of the other families do, and this increases the fitness of a majority of this special family's members, then they are simply going to be more successful than the other families. they'll leave more descendants behind and, thus, more of those genes behind. IN ADDITION, if this successful family ALSO inbreeds, each of its members is much more likely to have at least one, or even two, copies of this familial altruism gene, so more members of this successful family will be even more altruistic to each other and voilà! — they'll increase their fitness and success even more than they would have done without the inbreeding.
these familial altruism genes — genes that lead to behaviors in which individuals somehow favor their own family members over non-family members — and by family members i mean extended-family members — are only going to arise, of course, in a population in which there is more than one family. if you've got some tiny band somewhere that has absolutely no contact with any other group (doubt that's ever existed), then my evolutionary scenario simply won't happen. it's the competition between the individuals from the different families that is driving this.
naturally, genes in any population — even an inbreeding one — won't remain restricted to any one family for very long. no family anywhere inbreeds 100% exclusively, so if some successful familial altruism genes do arise in some inbreeding family somewhere, they will quickly spread to the other families in that population. thus, there is probably an ongoing familial altruism genetic arms race in inbreeding populations.
also, i think fewer familial altruism genes — or not such strong ones, perhaps — are going to arise in a comparatively outbreeding population. the accelerated selection due to the inbreeding won't be there, nor will this arms race to keep one step ahead of the joneses when it comes to familial altruism. additionally, i think that in an outbreeding population, there'll be greater selection pressures than in an inbreeding population for "reciprocal altruism" genes — i.e. genes which lead people to be willing to cooperate more with non-family members — since more of those sorts of behaviors will likely be required to be successful in life.
so what do these "familial altruism" genes look like?
i dunno.
maybe there are differences in oxytocin-related genes? — the luuuuv hormone that "turns out to be the hormone of the clan."
or — ya'll know that i'm kinda fascinated by interclan fighting which is the flip-side of being nice to your family (i.e. be extra un-nice to your non-family) — so maybe one familial altruism gene is the "warrior gene" (MAO-A gene)? dunno.
one that i speculated about before is CYP21A2, the gene connected to congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a recessive genetic condition which affects the production cortisol which, in turn, affects the production of androgens (like testosterone) — notably, in the most common form of CAH, androgen levels are increased. the condition is a recessive one, so you need to have two copies of the deleterious allele to have the condition, but as i mentioned in my previous post on CAH, carriers with one copy of the allele have been found to have excess androgens — and androgens have been connected to aggression. (also, children with CAH have been found to have smaller amygdalae, so … they're less fearful? don't know if this also holds true for adults with CAH.)
increased aggression? fighting at the drop of a hat? interclan fighting? see where i'm going with this?
the interesting thing is — at least i think it's interesting — is that there are different frequencies of CAH found in different populations. what we'd really want to know, of course, are the gene frequencies for CAH for different populations, but in lieu of those … here are some incidence rates of classical CAH in different populations [numbers acquired from or via here and here]:
1:282 – Yupik Eskimos, Alaska
1:2,141 – La Reunion
1:4,081 – Western Australia Aborigines
1:5,000-7,000 – Moroccan Jews
1:5,041 – Zurich, Switzerland
1:7,000 – Kuwait
1:10,866 – France (Whites)
1:10,866 – Italy (Whites)
1:11,500 – Sweden
1:11,764 – Netherlands
1:14,300 – Hungary
1:14,403 – Croatia
1:14,500-23,344 – New Zealand
1:14,869 – Western Australia
1:15,518 – Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Whites)
1:15,800-18,000 – Japan
1:17,098 – Scotland
1:19,939 – Minas Gerais, Brazil
1:20,000 – Norway
i dunno, but i see — maybe — the more inbred clannish fighters (yupik eskimos, moroccan jews, kuwaitis) having more cases of CAH than the more outbred peaceniks (new zealanders, norwegians, even northern italians). also…
– "The Texas data indicate a lower disease frequency in African-Americans when compared with Caucasians, and international data indicate higher frequencies in native Yupik Eskimos, Brazilians, residents of La Reunion, and Filipinos." [source]
– "The prevalence of the disease [non-classical CAH] in Ashkenazi Jews was 3.7%; in Hispanics, 1.9%; in Yugoslavs, 1.6%; in Italians, 0.3%; and in the diverse Caucasian population, 0.1%." [source] (non-classical CAH refers to a less severe form of CAH which might not get noticed until adulthood when it expresses itself in features like a woman having, perhaps, a bit too much facial hair.)
again, what we'd really want to know are the gene frequencies for CAH in different populations. then the über-human savants that we call population geneticists could do their math wizardry to see if these genes were under positive selection or not (zey hav vays av mayking ze data talk). (another interesting thing, btw, is that there are many different mutations in this gene which cause a range of CAH conditions from mild to severe — and different mutations are more common in different populations — see here and here and here for instance.)
of course, maybe these mutations in CYP21A2 aren't being selected for for increased aggression/upside-down familial altruism. maybe it's something else. witchel, et al., found that heterozygotes for mutated CYP21A2 alleles (i.e. individuals with just one copy of the cr*ppy gene) had increased cortisol levels and cortisol is, apparently, important for the immune system, so maybe these mutants simply survive infections better. others have found a possible connection between higher iq and CAH (masculinization = higher iq?) — see here and here and here — so maybe that's it.
or maybe these genes are not being selected for at all. however, fertility rates of people (women) with CAH are low, so it seems like a strange bunch of genes to have around if they don't have some sort of benefit.
previously: inbreeding and the evolution of altruistic behavior and looking for altruism genes and visions of altruism genes
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Today I spent most of the day filming with St Tropez and being backstage at the Mary Katrantzou show. The show was my absolute favourite so far from LFW. Amazing bold prints, bright colours and loads of personality. The FROW was graced with the likes of ANNA WINTOUR (OMG) and I did a little fangirl. I don't get why she wears sunglasses just during the show though, she had them off for the majority of the seating, then popped on for the catwalk! She is Anna Wintour after all and can do whatever she wants. Backstage is such an amazing but intense atmosphere and I had the lovely Georgia to accompany me in-between my presenting bits. I missed some big shows today because of being backstage and doing other stuff, but I managed to catch up with it all on my phone. Whoever had the brilliant idea of streaming the shows live on the internet deserves a medal. Just too awesome for words. PS. I also now need a Bulldog, a striped Willow Tote and to be Cara Delevinge ASAP.
My outfit was brand new out of the ASOS packet so hence why my top was slightly creased, it dropped after a few hours though and I didn't look like some hideously unironed fashion creature. Although I rarely iron things anyway, effort n'all that! I just went with a twist on a classic suit type thing!


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The World's Fair (also called the International Exposition or Expo) is an international festival of arts and sciences. Participating countries present artistic and educational displays in national pavilions to showcase their country's history or world issues.
The first international exhibition in the form we know it today was held in London in 1851. Paris hosted several world's fairs in the late 19th century, and the idea was soon copied by several other cities.
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Gemstones have been prized for centuries — as emblems of dynasties, as tribute and treasure, as holy relics, even as mementos of love and lust. Unearthed from the mines of India, Africa and South America, diamonds in particular have been objects of obsession for those with the means to acquire them. Their names often evoke their origins and mythos: the Mirror of Portugal, the King's Jewel, Mountain of Light, the Great Star of Africa. The long and fascinating journeys of these and other world-famous diamonds will take center stage in a glamorous new exhibit at the Museum of Ventura County.
"Diamonds Are Forever" is a collaboration between renowned gemstone expert and replicator Scott Sucher and Ventura's own historical figure creator George Stuart. The one-quarter-size re-creations of Elizabeth I, Louis XIV, Catherine the Great and other luminaries from history (including a brand-new figure made just for the exhibit) are shown wearing their famous bling. The diamonds have been crafted in cubic zirconia and sized to scale by Sucher to fit Stuart's figures. In addition, Sucher's life-size diamond replicas (also in cubic zirconia) will be displayed.
"It's kind of a mixture of history and art," explains exhibits manager Ariane Karakalos. "It's a fine line between presenting something informative and also pleasing to the eye. We want the replicas to really sparkle." To achieve that, much effort is being put into the gallery setup and lighting.
But visitors will find that the story of several of these diamonds is as dazzling as the jewelry itself. Their early history is shrouded in mystery, but most originated in India, housed in the coffers of the Mughal emperors and other dynasties of the Indian subcontinent. It isn't until the 16th century, when jewel merchants began bringing large gemstones to the courts of Europe, that their tales come into clearer focus. Passing through many royal hands (by fair and foul means) the gems lived a life of adventure, romance and drama.
The Tavernier Blue, for example, acquired through questionable circumstances in India, was cut down to create the French Blue, which was stolen after the French Revolution and disappeared. It is widely believed to be the parent stone of the Hope Diamond. The Orlov was given to Catherine the Great by Count Grigory Orlov, her jilted lover, in an attempt to win her back. She refused Orlov — but not the stone. The Sancy might have the most intricate chronology of all; stolen twice, from two separate royal treasuries, it would disappear for decades at a time and then mysteriously turn up, again and again. It traveled through three continents and numerous owners before arriving at the Louvre in 1978. It's this storied history that Sucher finds so remarkable about the stones he replicates. "You can discuss sociology, history, politics, economics, optics, the science of color — just by talking about the Sancy," he says.
These are the crib notes, of course. On July 13, George Stuart will tell "little-known stories" of some of the famous gemstones featured in the collection. Several other events inspired by the new exhibit will also be offered throughout the summer.
There's nothing quite like the glitter of diamonds to set fire to the imagination. Come see for yourself the gems and their one-time owners that even in replica bring their strange, splendid histories to life.
"Diamonds are Forever" through Aug. 24. For a full schedule of events, go to www.venturamuseum.org.


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