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Black Hat DC 2010 //sponsors
Hyatt Regency Crystal City • Jan 31 - Feb 3
Platinum Sponsor
Novell offers a compelling set of security management tools. Novell* Sentinel* is an award winning SIEM tool that enables organizations to meet compliance goals and harden their IT environment. Sentinel automates incident identification and resolution based on built-in business rules. With Sentinel*, IT administrators can monitor and track the status of violations and remediation actions, and can quickly identify new trends or attacks across the extended enterprise using virtually any data source.
To simplify compliance with PCI-DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, Novell* Sentinel* Log Manager enables you to collect, store, analyze and manage data logs from all across your enterprise. It is a powerful log management solution that lights a clear path to complete, real-time security information and event management.
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Palantir is the industry-leading software platform for data analytics. Our enterprise analytic platform ensures a secure collaborative environment where users can ingest structured and unstructured data. Inside the platform, analysts perform link analysis, query broader networks around specific entities, search across massive data repositories, and disseminate new knowledge to the enterprise in an intuitive and seamless manner. Exporting this knowledge into the Palantir XML format puts previously disorganized data points into a structured format, where a Palantir investigation can port to other programs or other Palantir instances.
Gold Sponsors
ArcSight (NASDAQ:ARST) is a leading global provider of compliance and security management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies. ArcSight helps customers comply with corporate and regulatory policy, safeguard their assets and processes, and control risk. The ArcSight platform collects and correlates user activity and event data across the enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify, prioritize, and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cybersecurity attacks, and insider threats. For more information, visit www.arcsight.com.
Berico Technologies provides analytical and information technology/software development services to the U.S. Government and the private sector in support of high-visibility, complex projects. Berico's mission is to provide top quality, innovative solutions to the toughest national security challenges through a combination of tailored products and services.
Berico Technologies is actively seeking Full Scope Poly cleared C/C++ and Java Developers in the DC/NOVA/MD area with expert knowledge in the fields of R&D, reverse engineering, malware analysis and embedded development. We are looking for team members who are passionate about learning new technologies and further developing their technical skill set to support our cutting-edge projects for the Intelligence and Defense communities.
Berico Technologies offers an extremely competitive compensation package which includes:
- Employer paid Healthcare premiums and deductibles
- Employer Paid Tuition (relevant to job)
- Employer paid Training Allowance (5K a year)
- Book Allowance ($500 a year)
- 401k plus 4% Matching (fully vested from day 1!)
- MSDN License
To learn more about Berico Technologies and our specific career opportunities, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit our website at http://www.bericotechnologies.com.
***Do you know someone who would be a perfect fit with Berico Technologies? For every Full Scope Poly Cleared candidate you refer that Berico hires, we will pay you $2,000!!!
Core Security Technologies is the leader in commercial-grade penetration testing software solutions that IT executives rely on to expose vulnerabilities, measure operational risk, and assure security effectiveness. The company's CORE IMPACT product family offers a comprehensive approach to assessing the security of network systems, endpoint systems, email users, web applications and wireless networks against complex threats.
Fortify® Software is the leader in the category of Software Security Assurance. We provide unique security solutions that protect government agencies from today's greatest security risk: the software that runs their agencies.
Government organizations throughout the US and across the globe are experiencing dramatic increases in the quantity and sophistication of cyber crime attacks. The hackers include foreign governments, organized crime, and even individuals. As a result of the recent increase, several compliance regulations, such as FISMA, have been developed to help government agencies understand what steps need to be taken. However most agencies find they must go beyond FISMA to ensure they are protecting the software that runs their agencies and the securing their confidential data.
Fortify offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, which enables an agency to conduct static analysis of an application's source code, dynamic analysis of a running application, and real time monitoring and protection for a deployed application. No other company offers all three of these solutions in one integrated platform. Fortify is trusted by more government agencies than any other application security company and is leading the industry in vulnerability research, tool development, and deployment practices.
Harris Corporation's Crucial Security Programs supports national security programs for the United States Government. Our engineers and scientists possess unique skills, direct experience, and subject matter expertise in the intelligence collection, processing, and analysis domains.
Past performance includes: offensive and defensive computer security, research and development, wireless engineering, penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering of malware, very large databases, bulk data loading, network engineering, security architecture, OPSEC, COMSEC, secure operations centers, and data visualization.
Crucial Security Programs is developing advanced digital media exploitation technologies that enable reductions in processing time, greater processing efficiency, and faster access to actionable intelligence. We have over nine years of experience engineering and managing automated solutions for media exploitation on a large scale and provide continuing support to government customers in this and related IA/IO areas. Crucial Security works in a results-oriented partnership with our customers—making their mission, our mission.
Intel SOA Expressway
SOA Expressway is a gateway soft-appliance deployed to address common XML and SOA problem areas such as acceleration, security, service mediation and runtime service governance. SOA Expressway is available for any organization deploying services (SOA), hosted services (SaaS) or Web 2.0 (RIA). Available for standard operating systems such as Windows and Linux and requires no special custom hardware other than standard OEM servers.
For DoD of federal deployments, SOA Expressway can be deployed as a tamper proof hardware appliance with external crypto processing delivered by a Hardware Security Module. SOA expressway has the certifications, performance benchmarks, and scalability demanded by federal high assurance deployments.
SOA Expressway delivers:
- Service Governance: Runtime governance for enforcing service policies & reporting
- Security Features: Security proxy, services firewall, AAA, TLS, trust mediation, & core XML IP
- Performance: Best-in-class wire speed acceleration
- Service Mediation: Sophisticated service mediation with non-XML data handling
- Software Appliance: Appliance manageability with software extensibility
For more information, visit: www.comparedatapower.com
Established in 1998, IOActive is an industry leader that offers comprehensive computer security services with specializations in smart grid technologies, software assurance, and compliance. Headquartered in Seattle, WA, with locations around the world, IOActive works with a majority of Global 500 companies including power and utility, hardware, retail, financial, media, router, aerospace, high-tech, and software development organizations. As a home for highly skilled and experienced professionals, IOActive attracts the likes of Dan Kaminsky, Ilja van Sprundel, Mike Davis, Tiller Beauchamp, Ward Spangenberg, and Wes Brown—talented consultants who contribute to the growing body of security knowledge by speaking at such elite conferences as Black Hat, Ruxcon, Defcon, Shakacon, BlueHat, CanSec, and WhatTheHack.
With the majority of IOActive's customers ranked in the top 30% of the Fortune 500, IOActive is positioned and well experienced to handle a variety of security needs. IOActive has:
- Worked on IT disaster recovery and business continuity planning for major insurance companies, state organizations, and energy companies
- Developed and delivered secure application development programs based upon OWASP's top ten vulnerabilities, and application and network threat modeling methodologies to major software and telecommunication companies
- Helped various Fortune 500 organizations with services ranging from enterprise risk management to independent technical validations of security hardware and a wide range of applications
Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals (EP) offers part-time graduate degree and certificate programs that enable working professionals to advance their skills, knowledge, and value.
In today's world, the need to protect an organization's information and operating systems from attack is of critical importance. Johns Hopkins University's Master of Science in Information Assurance provides students with the technical foundations and applied knowledge necessary to defend information assets from technically sophisticated adversaries.
EP faculty, students, alumni, and partners form a community of experts that prepares students to become leaders in technology and innovation and to apply that expertise to their organizations' success. Classes held on weekday evenings and Saturdays, at eight campuses within the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. corridor, and online. With more than 2,700 enrolled students and over 400 faculty members from the JHU Whiting School of Engineering, the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, and many private and government organizations, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals is the largest part-time graduate engineering program in the country.
LogLogic® is the leader in log and security management solutions. Supported by more than 200 partners and trusted by more than 1,000 customers worldwide, LogLogic solutions provide visibility and control to any IT infrastructure so that organizations can significantly improve security, compliance and network performance. LogLogic's open log management platform enables customers to collect, search, and store massive amounts of IT log data for a comprehensive fingerprint of activity. LogLogic's business applications correlate user activities and event data in real-time for an integrated approach to security event management, database security management, security change management and compliance management, resulting in improved accountability and lower costs for any organization.
Lookingglass delivers industry's first Global Cyber Situational Awareness network intelligence platform, offering a real-time virtual, physical and contextual view of the global Internet extending into the enterprise. Lookingglass' core product, ScoutVision™, helps emergency responders predict and monitor impacts to the Internet and critical communications infrastructure during cyber attacks or network outages, physical terror attacks, natural disasters, and other destructive catastrophes.
It all started with a few questions:
- "What is the next generation security platform?"
- "How can customers achieve the 'comprehensive cyber situational awareness' ideal?"
- "Where does the enterprise boundary end?"
- "How vulnerable is the Internet and each one of us who depends on it?"
The Lookingglass team set out to answer these questions. In the process, Lookingglass developed a solution that will change the way cyber professionals view, analyze and act on Internet activity. ScoutVisionTM offers features delivered in modules unique to Enterprise Security Management, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Defense, Cyber Intelligence, and Investigative Analysis applications.
ScoutVision™ provides a dynamic view of the world's enterprise and Internet activity. By fusing data from various proprietary sources and partnerships, ScoutVision™ is the only solution that provides analysis and visualization of logical (IP routing), physical (geo-location) and transit medium (fiber, satellite) topology. Features include:
- Advanced Monitoring and Visualization
- Internet / Enterprise Routing and Infrastructure Analytics
- Malicious Activity and IP Threat Intelligence
- Geo-Selection and Cyber Dashboard
- Collaboration, Alerts, and Warnings
Download our white papers on Network Analysis 2.0 at www.lgscout.com/knowledge-center. Twitter handle: ScoutVision.
Microsoft is proud to be a continuing sponsor of the Black Hat Security conference. We appreciate Black Hat providing a unique forum in which security researchers from all over the world, IT Pros and industry luminaries can gather to share insights, knowledge and information to advance security research.
Microsoft remains dedicated to software security and privacy and continues to collaborate with the community of people and technology organizations helping to protect customers and the broader ecosystem, Microsoft is also dedicated to software security and privacy.
Since the onset of Trustworthy Computing we have fostered a culture of security within Microsoft that includes developing secure code, building strong relationships with industry researchers and partners, and providing guidance to help protect customers. We would like to thank all of the customers, partners and security researchers who have worked with us to advance the state of the art in security science. Only by working together with partners, researchers and the community can we all ensure the advancement and success of the technology industry.
netForensics security information and event management solutions enable organizations of all sizes to rapidly identify and respond to threats and adhere to ever-changing compliance regulations. Our software and appliance products collect and centralize volumes of event log data to deliver accurate, actionable, real-time security intelligence. netForensics offers its award-winning nFX Cinxi One, recognized for its ease of deployment and management, and the industry's only solution that combines security information management (SIM) and log management on one appliance. For over a decade, our nFX SIM One software solution has helped enterprises, managed service providers, and government agencies around the world to manage risk, protect their assets, and maintain compliant operations. For more information visit: http://www.netforensics.com
NetWitness® Corporation is the world leader in network forensics and automated threat intelligence solutions, helping government and commercial organizations discover, prioritize and remediate complex IT risks. NetWitness solutions concurrently solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced persistent threat management; sensitive data discovery and advanced data leakage detection; malware activity discovery; insider threat management; policy and controls verification and e-discovery. Originally developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises around the world with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and host-based risk discovery and prioritization. NetWitness customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top US and European Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Global 1000 organizations. NetWitness has offices in the U.S. and the U.K. and partners throughout North and South America Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
To download the freeware version of NetWitness Investigator, visit http://download.netwitness.com. For more information about securing your entire organization with NetWitness NextGen, contact: email@example.com. Twitter handle: NetWitness.
NitroSecurity develops security information and compliance management solutions that protect business information and infrastructure. NitroSecurity solutions reduce business risk exposure and increase network and information availability by removing the scalability and performance limitations of security information management. Utilizing the industry's fastest analytical tools, NitroSecurity identifies correlates and remediates threats in minutes instead of hours, allowing organizations to quickly mitigate risks to the organization's information and infrastructure. NitroSecurity serves more than 500 enterprises across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality and managed services. For more information, please visit nww.nitrosecurity.com
Pico Computing offers scalable, FPGA-based platforms for embedded and high performance computing. Customer applications include cryptography, signal and video processing, DSP, bioinformatics and financial computing.
We specialize in highly integrated computing platforms based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technologies. We offer standard and custom products, and we provide consulting and engineering services. We are the experts in FPGA-accelerated algorithms for data security.
Pico Computing E-Series cards are designed to be easy to use, fast to deploy, and scalable. Use a single E-Series card for rapid algorithm prototyping. Deploy your application as an embedded system, or scale to multiple FPGAs using an SC-Series FPGA cluster.
Pico EX-Series boards offer high performance for the most demanding data security applications. Deploy multiple EX-Series boards in a rack-mounted cluster for truly amazing levels of password cracking performance. Our latest FPGA computing board, the Pico EX-500, can be equipped with up to 12 Xilinx FPGAs on a single, 16-lane PCI Express card. Up to 11 EX-500 cards can be installed in a standard 4U rack mounted chassis.
Pico Computing is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has customers worldwide. For more information or to request a free Data Security White Paper, visit www.picocomputing.com.
Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions – delivered as a service. Qualys' Software-as-a-Service solutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in the world, providing customers an immediate and continuous view of their security and compliance postures.
The QualysGuard® service is used today by more than 4,000 organizations in 85 countries, including 40 of the Fortune Global 100 and performs more than 200 million IP audits per year. Qualys has the largest vulnerability management deployment in the world at a Fortune Global 50 company.
Qualys has established strategic agreements with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including BT, Etisalat, Fujitsu, IBM, I(TS)2, LAC, NTT, SecureWorks, Symantec, Tata Communications and TELUS.
RedSeal security posture management software enables organizations to continuously and accurately assess and strengthen their cyber-defenses. Unlike systems that detect attacks once they occur, RedSeal identifies security holes before hackers discover them. RedSeal delivers actionable steps for risk remediation and continuous compliance with regulations such as PCI, FISMA, and SOX.
RedSeal Network Advisor is automated security posture management software for network security. Every day, it gathers the configurations of all your network devices: firewalls, routers, load balancers, and more. It analyzes how the rules on all of these devices work together to defend business assets on your network. RedSeal validates this access control against both regulations and your own security policies to quickly identify mistakes and oversights that create potential attack paths. The result: you get the security you expected when you invested in your network devices in the first place.
RedSeal Vulnerability Advisor transforms scanning into actionable vulnerability management. Tightly integrated with and leveraging RedSeal Network Advisor's network analysis, Vulnerability Advisor combines access information with your vulnerability scans. It identifies vulnerabilities that are exposed to un-trusted networks and those that are protected to generate a prioritized list of the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest business risk. Finally, RedSeal identifies gaps in your scanning so you know where to extend coverage to be secure.
Research In Motion Limited is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software, and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third-party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services, and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems, and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.
Rovi Corporation delivers technology solutions that enable consumers to intuitively connect and discover to new entertainment content from many sources and locations. The company provides industry leading interactive media and program guides; a catalog of entertainment metadata; advanced media recognition solutions and industry standard networking technologies for the discovery of new media. These solutions are deployed by companies working to create a more cohesive entertainment experience for the consumers. More information about Rovi can be found at www.rovicorp.com.
Rsignia, Inc. is the industry leader in providing network security, protection, and digital assets monitoring and management. Through superior engineering, we provide custom solutions that address new and emerging security issues including lawful intercept and data forensics. We take a full large scale systemic architecture approach, with full understanding of front end data acquisition, to signal processing, storage, record and session replay, to real-time analysis, post replay, to threat detection methods, as well as implementing required data center necessities such as power and cooling; a comprehensive solution which fit your specific needs and requirements.
SAINT Corporation, a global leader in network security, offers the first integrated vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Examine your network with the SAINT vulnerability scanner, and expose where an attacker could breach your network. Go to a higher level of visibility with the SAINTexploit™ penetration testing tool and exploit the vulnerability to prove its existence without a doubt. The SAINT scanner and penetration testing tools are fully integrated within the same interface, making it easy to determine where to begin remediation—with the exploitable vulnerabilities found by the scanner.
WebSAINT, the online SaaS (Software as a Service) vulnerability scanner is ideal for organizations that need to perform vulnerability scans or meet PCI ASV third party quarterly scanning requirements. WebSAINT Pro, is the online SaaS solution that includes vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and Web application scanning along with the full functionality of the award winning SAINT scanner and exploit technology.
SAINT provides support to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) specification as an Unauthenticated Vulnerability Scanner and Authenticated Vulnerability and Patch Scanner. SAINT SCAP supports includes OVAL, CPE and CVE enumeration, and CVSS scoring.
SAINT can help to –
- Manage and reduce security risks to your network
- Document compliance with government and industry regulations like PCI, HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, and with internal policies
- Emulate potential attackers with the suite of exploit tools.
For more information, visit www.saintcorporation.com, call 1(800) 596-2006 x0119 or send a message to firstname.lastname@example.com.
SecureWorks is a market leading provider of world-class information security services with over 2,600 clients worldwide spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. Organizations of all sizes, including more than ten percent of the Fortune 500, rely on SecureWorks to protect their assets, improve compliance and reduce costs. The combination of strong client service, award-winning security technology and experienced security professionals makes SecureWorks the premier provider of information security services for any organization. Positioned in the Leader's Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, SecureWorks has also won SC Magazine's "Best Managed Security Service" award for 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 and has been named to the Inc. 500, Inc. 5000 and the Deloitte lists of fastest-growing companies.
Solera Networks develops high-speed active network forensics solutions for both physical and virtual networks. These solutions are unmatched in speed and scalability—capturing, indexing, searching, and replaying all network traffic, even in 10Gb environments. The Solera Networks architecture provides open platform interoperability, extensible storage, and portability. These capabilities enable security professionals to quickly identify the source of any attack, remediate, and fortify against further risk.
Using their groundbreaking technology, Solera Networks also provides a suite of lossless traffic capture, index, storage and search products that can be used to strengthen Cybersecurity:
- Solera DS™ Capture Appliances – Full network capture (both packet header and payload), up to 10Gbps with onboard storage up to 16TB
- DS SAN – Add to Solera DS Appliances to expand and scale to any storage need.
- Solera DeepSee™ Forensics Suite – Complete indexing of all captured traffic and web-like searching for instant artifact reconstruction and replay of any network event. The suite includes DeepSee Reports™, DeepSee Search™ and DeepSee Sonar.™
- Solera Virtual Appliance – The only virtual capture appliance in the market that provides full capture, indexing, and replay for complete visibility within virtual environments.
- Solera APIs – Solera Networks offers REST-based APIs to allow third-party network analysis tool providers to directly integrate into Solera DS capture and network forensics appliances. With the REST APIs, these tools can make direct calls to the Solera DS file system and interface to provide full context to any security event.
Splunk was born from our founders' frustration in managing and securing some of the world's largest IT infrastructures. Armed with state-of-the-art IT tools, they found it nearly impossible to locate the root cause of problems, investigate security attacks and assemble all the data required for compliance audits. Their conclusion: the silo approach to managing IT, with separate tools for every technology and IT function, was cumbersome, costly and didn't scale.
So, they founded Splunk to develop a new approach. The concept is simple. If Google can index and let users instantly search billions of pages of Web content, why not do the same for the datacenter? This new approach, called IT Search, is changing the way we manage, secure and audit IT infrastructures. Using Splunk IT Search software, organizations can now search and analyze all their IT data from one place in real time.
With Splunk, they can now troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents and demonstrate compliance in minutes, instead of hours or days. Splunk arms IT with a new level of visibility and insight to protect critical resources, increase productivity and deliver improved service quality. Download a free version of Splunk today: http://www.splunk.com/download
SRA is a leading provider of information technology and strategic consulting services for government organizations serving the national security, civil government and global health markets. A trusted leader in cyber security, SRA operates some of the largest security operations centers within the U.S. federal government. Through SRA One Vault™ – our end-to-end cyber security solution suite – combine leading-edge technologies, proven methodologies and multi-disciplined cyber expertise to provide our clients with a proactive approach that enables them to stay ahead of today's most sophisticated cyber threats while minimizing the gap to exposure. SRA One Vault...Intelligent Cyber Security.
StillSecure delivers comprehensive network security that protects organizations from the perimeter to the endpoint. Offering both products and managed security services, StillSecure enables customers to affordably deploy the optimal blend of technologies for locking down their assets and complying with security policies and regulations. StillSecure customers range from mid-market companies to the world's largest enterprises and agencies in government, financial services, healthcare, education and technology. For more information please call (303)381-3830 or visit http://www.stillsecure.com
TippingPoint provides security solutions that secure next-generation data centers for enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. TippingPoint's modern network security platform and intrusion prevention system (IPS) can be rapidly deployed, providing immediate protection at critical entry and isolation points in the network. With TippingPoint, data centers remains protected through network security filters continually updated by Digital Vaccine® Labs (DVLabs), TippingPoint's cutting-edge team of top security researchers. TippingPoint solutions automate most security functions, freeing organizations from the growing associated cost burden and helping security executives drive to zero administration.
Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand and subscription-based information security and compliance management solutions to businesses and government entities throughout the world. Trustwave has helped thousands of organizations ranging from Fortune 500 businesses and large financial institutions to small and medium-sized retailers manage compliance and secure their network infrastructure, data communications and critical information assets.
SpiderLabs is Trustwave's advanced security team responsible for incident response & forensics, penetration testing and application security for Trustwave's clients. In addition, the team provides intelligence and research to enhance Trustwave's product and service offerings through real-world experience. SpiderLabs has responded to hundreds of security incidents, performed thousands of penetration tests, and security tested hundreds of business applications for the organizations ranging from the largest companies in the world to nimble startups. Members of SpiderLabs are frequently asked to speak at security conferences around the world including Black Hat, DEFCON, OWASP, SANS, SecTor, ShmooCon, SOURCE, ToorCon, and YSTS.
Trustwave is headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.


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ANIML SC 4070BRW - Honours Animal Sc Project (Two-Year) Final
Roseworthy Campus - Semester 2 - 2020
General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code ANIML SC 4070BRW Course Honours Animal Sc Project (Two-Year) Final Coordinating Unit School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences Term Semester 2 Level Undergraduate Location/s Roseworthy Campus Units 18 Contact By supervision Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Incompatible ANIML SC 4004ARW/BRW, ANIML SC 4006ARW/BRW, ANIML SC 4030ARW/BRW Restrictions Available only to students admitted to the relevant Honours program Course Description Students completing this course carry out a research project under the supervision of a member or members of staff. The overall aims of the course are to develop knowledge and skills in a particular area of research, and skills required for the practice of independent scientific research. The Honours year commences in February or July and the research project is chosen through consultation with the Honours coordinator prior to the commencement of the Honours year. Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Dr Rebecca Forder
Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.
Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the course students should be able to:
1 demonstrate knowledge and understanding of principles and concepts in a particular area of research, related to Animal or Veterinary Science 2 demonstrate an ability to recognise current gaps in our understanding and future areas for experimental investigation in a particular area of research, related to Animal or Veterinary Science 3 identify and evaluate a problem and define the important elements required for its solution 4 identify and critically evaluate appropriate and relevant information sources 5 use and apply scientific principles and techniques required forthe experimental study of a research question 6 demonstrate a rigorous and methodical approach to the maintenance of laboratory records and the collection, storage and analysis of experimental data 7 communicate scientific information clearly and effectively both in writing and orally
University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
University Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s) Deep discipline knowledge
- informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies
- acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1
- accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)
1-4 Critical thinking and problem solving
- steeped in research methods and rigor
- based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development
- demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment
1,2,3,4,5 Teamwork and communication skills
- developed from, with, and via the SGDE
- honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies
- encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning
6,7 Career and leadership readiness
- technology savvy
- professional and, where relevant, fully accredited
- forward thinking and well informed
- tested and validated by work based experiences
1-6 Intercultural and ethical competency
- adept at operating in other cultures
- comfortable with different nationalities and social contexts
- able to determine and contribute to desirable social outcomes
- demonstrated by study abroad or with an understanding of indigenous knowledges
1,2,3,4,7 Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- a capacity for self-reflection and a willingness to engage in self-appraisal
- open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors and peers
- able to negotiate difficult social situations, defuse conflict and engage positively in purposeful debate
1-7 -
Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
Students complete an independent research project of their choice under the supervision of an academic supervisor. This provides active learning opportunities in the ability to use and apply scientific principles and techniques. The associated assessment tasks further develop the student's knowledge in a particular discipline area, and their ability to identify and assess problems and knowledge gaps in the area. Interactive tutorial programs build students' knowledge and skills in the areas of critical evaluation, data management and analysis and oral and written communication.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
A student enrolled in this course should expect to spend up to 1384 hours across 40-42 weeks of the year on the studies required to complete their independent research project and the associated assessment tasks.Learning Activities Summary
This course requires on-campus attendance
1. Students complete an independent research project of their choice, and the associated assessment tasks.
2. Students will attend tutorials on topics designed to develop their research skills
- Project development and management
- Critical analysis and literature review
- Oral presentation skills
- Data management and analysis
- Writing a scientific paper
The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:
- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Assessment Task Task Type Due Weighting Hurdle Learning Outcome Final Seminar Summative October 10% No 1-7 Thesis Paper Summative October 70% No 1-7 Poster Presentation Summative November 6% No 1-7 Supervisor Mark Summative November 14% No 1-6 Assessment Detail
All written assessment tasks are assessed by three examiners, and marks are averaged to provide the final grade. Where possible two examiners with expertise in an area related to the students research project are chosen from within or external to the University, and the third examiner is a member of the School's Honours panel.
Final Seminar (10%)
Each student will present a seminar describing the results of their research project. Students are assessed on content and structure of the seminar, understanding of the research area, and their oral presentation. The seminar is scheduled for late September (February intake) or early May (mid-year intake). Seminars are assessed by all attending academics.
Thesis – Final Paper (70%)
Each student will prepare a thesis paper, reporting, discussing and critically evaluating the results of their project in the form of a manuscript for a scientific journal (max 5,000 words). The Thesis paper is due at the end of October (February intake) or May (mid-year intake). Students receive written feedback on their thesis; the thesis grade is not released.
Poster presentation (6%)
Each student will prepare a research poster to report the results of their research project. Posters will be displayed during a poster session during which students will provide a short oral description of their poster, and answer questions. The poster session is held in November or June (mid-year intake). A panel of examiners assess the poster.
Supervisor's assessment (14%)
The student's supervisor will provide an assessment of performance in the laboratory/field and research components of the research project. The supervisor completes a formative feedback form mid-year, which is returned to the student. The supervisor's final assessment is completed after the student has completed all of the assessment tasks.Submission
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A mark of zero will be allocated to late submitted assessment.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
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Seeking a God to Glorify, by Leroy T. Howe
Here is what I wrote for Amazon.com:
"This book is a wonderful read! Dr. Howe guides us through his own journey of spiritual formation, or faith development, courageously sharing the kinds of deep questions, thoughts, and feelings that many of us have been trained to avoid and deny at all costs. Supported by his exceptional scholarship, Dr. Howe's thinking is as penetrating and clear as his compassion for humanity is warm and accepting. This soulful combination allows him to voice great sympathy for the profound struggles of religious life, especially with church doctrine, while also permitting him to be both funny and surgically precise in criticizing a great deal of popular dogma. Personally speaking, at every turn I felt as though I was reading the thoughts and feelings of a true kindred spirit. Dr. Howe knows the only god truly worthy of worship is the God who is Truth and Love. This being the highest possible concept of God, we best honor God through our own genuine commitment to the principles of truth and love, and so we must seriously question any doctrine, text, or authority that leads elsewhere."
With regard to mysticism, Dr. Howe speaks clearly of a world-shifting spiritual experience in which he felt connection with an infinitely caring "Knower." He also alludes to exploring some methods of spiritual practice, yet he never labels his faith as mystical. Even so, many of us will find that his work belies a truly meditative depth of reflection, if not a genuinely contemplative openness to the still small voice of the Spirit in his own heart and mind. One of the nice things about the lack of the mysticism label, combined with his personable writing style, is that it illustrates an approach to communing very deeply with God to which almost anyone can relate.
Dr. Howe also has his own excellent blog: Faith Challenges – Searching for a Credible Faith.
As a more intimate note to readers of my blog, I'm happy to point out that Dr. Howe dedicated this book to his good friend, Dr. John F. Miller, III. John was my philosophy professor in college, my first meditation teacher, has remained a mentor all these years, and is one of my dearest friends. Given that John's career as a philosopher is most noteworthy for championing love above all else, it's no surprise to me that Dr. Howe would dedicate this book to him.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson has scheduled a meeting with Ron Rivera Saturday morning to discuss the coach's future with the team, said a person familiar with the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press Friday on condition of anonymity because the meeting has not been publically announced.
It's uncertain if Richardson will inform Rivera whether he will remain Carolina's coach at the meeting or gather input from Rivera and then make a determination at a later date.
Rivera has two years remaining on a four-year contract.
He's 19-32 in two seasons as the Panthers coach.
Richardson hasn't spoken to the media since firing GM Marty Hurney after Carolina's 1-5 start. Rivera said that's when Richardson informed him the Panthers needed to be "trending upward" for him to keep his job.
The Panthers went 6-4 the rest of the way closing the season by winning four straight games, which would seem to bode well for Rivera.
However, Richardson has not said anything definitive on whether or not he'll bring back Rivera, a former Chicago Bears linebacker who won a Super Bowl ring playing alongside Walter Payton.
The Panthers went 6-10 in 2011 and 7-9 this season under Rivera.
Richardson's Panthers have not been to the playoffs since 2008 and have not won a playoff game since 2005.
"What I was told is Mr. Richardson and I will sit down and discuss things and we'll go from there," Rivera said at his season-ending press conference Monday. "I can't tell you anything more than that. I do look forward to the opportunity to meet with him and discuss this."
The person who spoke with the AP said Richardson has spent the week lining up potential candidates for the team's vacant general manager position and is expected to proceed on a coaching decision without the input of the new GM.
Those interviews with potential GMs are expected to begin next week.
Richardson hired former New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi to serve as a consultant for the GM search and the team has already received permission to interview two members of the New York Giants staff — college scouting director Marc Ross and senior pro personnel analyst Dave Gettleman — and others are expected to meet with him as well.
Rivera didn't discuss his future with his players during their brief 10-minute meeting Monday morning at the team's facility.
"He didn't mention it," offensive lineman Geoff Hangartner said. "He just said thanks for the hard work this season and finishing the season on a strong note. That's kind of where it was left."
Among the Panthers five wins in their final six games included a convincing 30-20 victory over the NFC's top seeded Atlanta Falcons. Carolina's four-game win streak to close the season came despite having five starters and 14 players overall on injured reserve.
"I like where we are and I like the things that we have done," Rivera said. "I believe we are better now than when I first got here. And it's a job that I would like to have."
Rivera was hired to replace John Fox in 2011 after a coaching search led by Hurney and team president Danny Morrison.
Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL


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For some, it's a last chance to shine before the Daytona 500. For others, it's simply a last chance.
Forty-nine Sprint Cup drivers will compete in a pair of 150-mile qualifying races – the Gatorade Duel – Thursday afternoon (2 p.m. ET on SPEED) at Daytona International Speedway.
The races will play a significant role in determining the starting grid for Sunday's 500. Although all drivers linked to a team that finished in the top 35 in owner points last season are assured of a spot in the 500, Thursday's races will be the last shot for a group that includes some big names.
Looking to race their way into the 500 Thursday will be Michael Waltrip, Bill Elliott, Kenny Wallace, Dave Blaney, Joe Nemechek, Michael McDowell, Robert Richardson Jr., Robby Gordon and J.J. Yeley.
The only specific positions solidified in the 500 field are first and second. Carl Edwards won the pole Sunday with a speed of 194.738 mph, and his Roush Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle took the other front row spot at 194.087. Other drivers assured themselves of positions on the grid in Sunday qualifying, but Edwards and Biffle are the only drivers with locked-in spots.
The front-row starters always face somewhat of a dilemma in the qualifying races – run for the win or drive conservatively and protect what obviously is a good car.
But Edwards says here is no debate.
"I know how good our backup car is," he said. "I also know you can't give these other guys any advantage. If I were to not race and not understand the dynamics that are going to happen during the daytime here at this race track with this package, I'd be giving them something. I have to go out there as a driver and mix it up, race, see how our car handles."
Biffle expressed similar feelings.
"Certainly the primary concern is to protect the race car," he said. "We know that we want to start the race with this 500 car. We got a lot of work into it.
"Secondly, we need to get in competition with this car, see how it drives, see what adjustments we need to make to it, what we want to do to it.
"I'm sure at some point we'll be back in a little bit of traffic, but we don't want to get back in the latter part of this event three-wide or something, back where guys are fighting for their life to try to get in the 500."
Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Marcos Ambrose, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Trevor Bayne will start in the first five in the first race. In the top five on the grid in race two are Biffle, Casey Mears, Jeff Gordon, Martin Truex Jr. and Mark Martin.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 30 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.


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The Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids of the European Food Safety Authority evaluated five carboxamide flavoring substances in the flavoring group evaluation 304. Of the substances evaluated, none of the substances were considered to be genotoxic.
N-pbenzeneacetonitrile-menthanecarboxamide [FL-no: 16.117], (1R,2S,5R)-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5-methyl-2-(1- methylethyl)cyclohexanecarboxamide [FL-no: 16.123] and (2S,5R)-N-[4-(2-amino-2-oxoethyl)phenyl]- 5-methyl-2-(propan-2-yl)cyclohexanecarboxamide [FL-no: 16.125] do not have safety concerns at their levels of dietary intake based on the MSDI approach.
For the remaining two substances, N-(2-(pyridine-2-yl)ethyl)-3-pmenthanecarboxamide [FL-no: 16.118] and (1R,2S,5R)-N-cyclopropyl-5-methyl-2- isopropyl cyclohexanecarboxamide [FL-no: 16.124], no appropriate NOAEL (no observed adverse effect level) was available and additional data are required.
None of the candidate substances have been reported to occur naturally.
To view the complete study, click here.


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Photos: Kurdish Hills and Komodo Dragons All in a Day's Work for Kiwi Photographer
Photographer Amos Chapple started out as a photojournalist for a domestic newspaper in his native New Zealand, but after being selected for the "Our Place" project to photograph UNESCO World Heritage sites, he left his office lifestyle behind for a career of constant world travel. Now having been to 59 different countries, Chapple's photo of a Kurdish village in Iran was named an "editor's choice" in the National Geographic Photo Contest, and he won the Cathay Pacific Traveler of the Year Award for 2009. Chapple is certainly no stranger to adventure, having faced a flaming crater in Turkmenistan, komodo dragons in Indonesia, and, most recently, the freezing climate of Asian Siberia.
We reached out to Chapple for an email interview about his experiences in Asia, including his favorite place to photograph — Iran.
How many countries have you travelled to?
I've been to 59 countries but never to North/South America or anywhere in Africa, so there's certainly a lot left to see.
What are your favorite locations in Asia?
Iran, hands down. Iranians are the coolest people on the planet. Judging from the handful of travelers I've met there, that's a sentiment shared by most everyone who goes.
Because access for journalists is so difficult, people have a skewed image of what Iran is. For ordinary Iranians, the government is a constant embarrassment. I met an American special forces soldier in Kyrgyzstan last year who said when it comes to the Middle East, America has the wrong friends and the wrong enemies.
You had the amazing opportunity to work on the "Our Place" project to travel around the world photographing UNESCO World Heritage sites for five years. How did you become involved with this?
The organizer of the project was living between Paris and New Zealand at the time. He'd been seeing my work in an NZ newspaper and then, after a few meetings, sent me to Europe for a short contract. That grew into five years of near-constant travel with the luxury of a great backup crew to call on when things got hard. You sure miss that as a lone freelancer!
You were originally a newspaper photographer in New Zealand; did this include only domestic assignments? When did you start becoming interested in international photography?
Yes, just domestic assignments. There was a lot of travel within the region of New Zealand that myself and a reporter covered but it was always just fast trips to cover breaking news, back at our desks the next day.
A lot of New Zealanders are big travelers. We're a small country without a footprint in world history so for most of us Kiwis, that first trip you take, to countries of consequence, has a huge impact. I'll never forget standing in front of a wall of wines down in a Hungarian cellar when I was very young. The cellarmaster explained that the wines had been placed on their shelves 100 years before. I stared at them, realizing that world wars, revolution and Soviet crackdowns had all rumbled over the top and these wines had stood in this quiet little cellar, on this shelf, through it all.
Even without photography as a purpose I think it's important to travel now. We are living in the best age there has ever been to be alive. The world has never been safer, more prosperous or more accessible. It would be a shame not to make the best of now.
You recently photographed in the Iranian Kurdish village of Palangan. How did you choose this location, and what was it like to shoot there?
I was researching the country and came across one picture of Palangan on the net which made me want to go. Once in Iran I found a freelance guide to take me out there.
I usually work alone but there was no way I could have made that trip without guide Reza Memar-Sadeghi. It was wild, wild country.
On the last day there, to get out we hired a driver to take us on a mountain road running to the border with Iraq. It was very isolated and when we finally saw another car driving towards us we were a little apprehensive.
As it came close the driver, an old Kurdish man, urgently flagged us down and asked if the road we had passed had any police on it. We said no, and ten minutes later two small trucks hove into view on the road below. When they passed us the drivers of both looked tense and alert.
Our driver explained that they were almost certainly smugglers, and the old man had been their scout. Smugglers in the region transport liquor from Iraq, where it's legal, through the mountainous border on horses, into Iran where it's illegal to the extent you can be executed for drunkenness. Once inside Iran it's hopped from village to village in trucks, then eventually makes its way onto the urban black market. A single can of beer sells for $8 USD in the big cities.
Later, back in Tehran, a friend offered me a can of Turkish beer and we drank a toast to the long road it had traveled to get to our glass.
Where are you off to next?
Right now I'm trying to shoot a story on Qatar, then I'm off home to see my family and spend some time with my lady.


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Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1
Document 20
House of Representatives, An Amendment to Art. 1, SEC. 4, CL. 1
21 Aug. 1789Annals 1:768--73Mr. Burke.--The majority of this House may be inclined to think all our propositions unimportant, as they seemed to consider that upon which the ayes and noes were just now called. However, to the minority they are important; and it will be happy for the Government, if the majority of our citizens are not of their opinion; but be this as it may, I move you, sir, to add to the articles of amendment the following: "Congress shall not alter, modify, or interfere in the times, places, or manner of holding elections of Senators, or Representatives, except when any State shall refuse or neglect, or be unable, by invasion or rebellion, to make such election."
Mr. Ames thought this one of the most justifiable of all the powers of Congress; it was essential to a body representing the whole community, that they should have power to regulate their own elections, in order to secure a representation from every part, and prevent any improper regulations, calculated to answer party purposes only. It is a solecism in politics to let others judge for them, and is a departure from the principles upon which the constitution was founded.
Mr. Livermore said, this was an important amendment, and one that had caused more debate in the Convention of New Hampshire than any other whatever. The gentleman just up said it was a solecism in politics, but he could cite an instance in which it had taken place. He only called upon gentlemen to recollect the circumstance of Mr. Smith's (of South Carolina) election, and to ask if that was not decided by the State laws? Was not his qualification as a member of the Federal Legislature determined upon the laws of South Carolina? It was not supposed by the people of South Carolina, that the House would question a right derived by their representative from their authority.
Mr. Madison.--If this amendment had been proposed at any time either in the Committee of the whole or separately in the House, I should not have objected to the discussion of it. But I cannot agree to delay the amendments now agreed upon, by entering into the consideration of propositions not likely to obtain the consent of either two-thirds of this House or three-fourths of the State Legislatures. I have considered this subject with some degree of attention, and, upon the whole, am inclined to think the constitution stands very well as it is.
Mr. Gerry was sorry that gentlemen objected to the time and manner of introducing this amendment, because it was too important in its nature to be defeated by want of form. He hoped, and he understood it to be the sense of the House, that each amendment should stand upon its own ground; if this was, therefore, examined on its own merits, it might stand or fall as it deserved, and there would be no cause for complaint on the score of inattention.
His colleague (Mr. Ames) objected to the amendment, because he thought no Legislature was without the power of determining the mode of its own appointment; but he would find, if he turned to the constitution of the State he was a representative of, that the times, places, and manner of choosing members of their Senate and Council were prescribed therein.
Why, said he, are gentlemen desirous of retaining this power? Is it because it gives energy to the Government? It certainly has no such tendency; then why retain a clause so obnoxious to almost every State? But this provision may be necessary in order to establish a Government of an arbitrary kind, to which the present system is pointed in no very indirect manner: in this way, indeed, it may be useful. If the United States are desirous of controlling the elections of the people, they will in the first place, by virtue of the powers given them by the 4th sect. of the 1st art. abolish the mode of balloting; then every person must publicly announce his vote, and it would then frequently happen that he would be obliged to vote for a man, or "the friend of a man" to whom he was under obligations. If the Government grows desirous of being arbitrary, elections will be ordered at remote places, where their friends alone will attend. Gentlemen will tell me that these things are not to be apprehended; but if they say that the Government has the power of doing them, they have no right to say the Government will never exercise such powers, because it is presumable that they will administer the constitution at one time or another with all its powers: and whenever that time arrives, farewell to the rights of the people, even to elect their own representatives.
Mr. Stone called upon gentlemen to show what confederated Government had the power of determining on the mode of their own election. He apprehended there were none; for the representatives of States were chosen by the States in the manner they pleased. He was not afraid that the General Government would abuse this power, and as little afraid that the States would; but he thought it was in the order of things that the power should vest in the States respectively, because they can vary their regulations to accommodate the people in a more convenient manner than can be done in any general law whatever. He thought the amendment was generally expected, and therefore, on the principles of the majority, ought to be adopted.
Mr. Smith (of South Carolina) said, he hoped it would be agreed to; that eight States had expressed their desires on this head, and all of them wished the General Government to relinquish their control over the elections. The eight States he alluded to were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Mr. Carroll denied that Maryland had expressed the desire attributed to her.
Mr. Fitzsimons.--The remark was not just as it respected Pennsylvania.
Mr. Smith (of South Carolina) said, the Convention of Maryland appointed a committee to recommend amendments, and among them was the one now under consideration.
Mr. Stone replied there was nothing of the kind noticed on the journals of that body.
Mr. Smith (of South Carolina) did not know how they came into the world, but he had certainly seen them. As to Pennsylvania, there was a very considerable minority, he understood one-third, who had recommended the amendment. Now, taking all circumstances into consideration, it might be fairly inferred that a majority of the United States were in favor of this amendment. He had studied to make himself acquainted with this particular subject, and all that he had ever heard in defence of the power being exercised by the General Government was, that it was necessary, in case any State neglected or refused to make provision for the election. Now these cases were particularly excepted by the clause proposed by his honorable colleague; and therefore he presumed there was no good argument against it.
Mr. Sedgwick moved to amend the motion, by giving the power to Congress to alter the times, manner, and places of holding elections, provided the States made improper ones; for as much injury might result to the Union from improper regulations, as from a neglect or refusal to make any. It is as much to be apprehended that the States may abuse their powers, as that the United States may make an improper use of theirs.
Mr. Ames said, that inadequate regulations were equally injurious as having none, and that such an amendment as was now proposed would alter the constitution; it would vest the supreme authority in places where it was never contemplated.
Mr. Sherman observed, that the Convention were very unanimous in passing this clause; that it was an important provision, and if it was resigned it would tend to subvert the Government.
Mr. Madison was willing to make every amendment that was required by the States, which did not tend to destroy the principles and the efficacy of the constitution; he conceived that the proposed amendment would have that tendency, he was therefore opposed to it.
Mr. Smith (of South Carolina) observed, that the States had the sole regulation of elections, so far as it respected the President. Now he saw no good reason why they should be indulged in this, and prohibited from the other. But the amendment did not go so far; it admitted that the General Government might interfere whenever the States Legislature refused or neglected; and it might happen that the business would be neglected without any design to injure the administration of the General Government; it might be that the two branches of the Legislature could not agree, as happened he believed in the Legislature of New York, with respect to their choice of Senators at their late session.
Mr. Tucker objected to Mr. Sedgwick's motion of amendment, because it had a tendency to defeat the object of the proposition brought forward by his colleague, (Mr. Burke.) The General Government would be the judge of inadequate or improper regulations; of consequence they might interfere in any or every law which the States might pass on that subject.
He wished that the State Legislatures might be left to themselves to perform every thing they were competent to, without the guidance of Congress. He believed there was no great danger, but they knew how to pursue their own good, as well when left to their discretion, as they would under the direction of a superior. It seemed to him as if there was a strong propensity in this Government to take upon themselves the guidance of the State Governments, which to his mind implied a doubt of their capacity to govern themselves; now his judgment was convinced that the particular State Governments could take care of themselves, and deserved more to be trusted than this did, because the right of the citizen was more secure under it.
It had been supposed by some States, that electing by districts was the most convenient mode of choosing members to this House; others have thought that the whole State ought to vote for the whole number of members to be elected for that State. Congress might, under like impressions, set their regulations aside. He had heard that many citizens of Virginia (which State was divided into eleven districts) supposed themselves abridged of nine-tenths of their privilege by being restrained to the choice of one man instead of ten, the number that State sends to this House.
With respect to the election of Senators, the mode is fixed; every State but New York has established a precedent; there is, therefore, but little danger of any difficulty on this account. As to New York, she suffers by her want of decision; it is her own loss; but probably they may soon decide the point, and then no difficulty can possibly arise hereafter. From all these considerations, he was induced to hope Mr. Sedgwick's motion would be negatived, and his colleague's agreed to.
Mr. Goodhue hoped the amendment never would obtain. Gentlemen should recollect there appeared a large majority against amendments, when the subject was first introduced, and he had no doubt but that majority still existed. Now, rather than this amendment should take effect, he would vote against all that had been agreed to. His greatest apprehensions were, that the State Governments would oppose and thwart the general one to such a degree as finally to overturn it. Now, to guard against this evil, he wished the Federal Government to possess every power necessary to its existence.
Mr. Burke was convinced there was a majority against him; but, nevertheless, he would do his duty, and propose such amendments as he conceived essential to secure the rights and liberties of his constituents. He begged permission to make an observation or two, not strictly in order; the first was on an assertion that had been repeated more than once in this House, "That this revolution or adoption of the new constitution was agreeable to the public mind, and those who opposed it at first are now satisfied with it." I believe, sir, said he, that many of those gentlemen who agreed to the ratification without amendments, did it from principles of patriotism, but they knew at the same time that they parted with their liberties; yet they had such reliance on the virtue of a future Congress, that they did not hesitate, expecting that they would be restored to them unimpaired, as soon as the Government commenced its operations, conformably to what was mutually understood at the sealing and delivering up of those instruments.
It has been supposed that there is no danger to be apprehended from the General Government of an invasion of the rights of election. I will remind gentlemen of an instance in the Government of Holland. The patriots in that country fought no less strenuously for that prize than the people of America; yet, by giving to the States General powers not unlike those in this constitution, their right of representation was abolished. That they once possessed it is certain, and that they made as much talk about its importance as we do; but now the right has ceased, all vacancies are filled by the men in power. It is our duty, therefore, to prevent our liberties from being fooled away in a similar manner; consequently we ought to adopt the clause which secures to the General Government every thing that ought to be required.
Mr. Madison observed, that it was the State Governments in the Seven United Provinces which had assumed to themselves the power of filling vacancies, and not the General Government; therefore the gentleman's application did not hold.
The question on Mr. Sedgwick's motion for amending Mr. Burke's proposition was put and lost.
The question was then put on Mr. Burke's motion, [ayes--23; noes--28].
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 2, Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1, Document 20
The University of Chicago Press
Annals of Congress. The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States. "History of Congress." 42 vols. Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 1834--56.


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Up to 20 percent of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq have experienced at least one blast concussion.
New research suggests that nearly half these veterans may have a problem so under-recognized that even military physicians may fail to look for it. A new study conducted by Charles W. Wilkinson, Elizabeth A. Colasurdo, Kathleen F. Pagulayan, Jane. B. Shofer, and Elaine R. Peskind, all of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington in Seattle, has found that about 42 percent of screened veterans with blast injuries have irregular hormone levels indicative of hypopituitarism.
Many conditions associated with hypopituitarism mimic other common problems that veterans can suffer, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, explains study leader Wilkinson. However, unlike those other conditions, those under the banner head of hypopituitarism can be can often be well-controlled by replacing the deficient hormones. "This could be a largely missed opportunity for successful treatment," Wilkinson says.
The team will discuss their study, entitled, "Prevalence of Chronic Hypopituitarism After Blast Concussion," at the Experimental Biology 2013 meeting, being held April 20-24, 2013 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, Mass. The poster presentation is sponsored by the American Physiological Society (APS), a co-sponsor of the event. As the findings are being presented at a scientific conference, they should be considered preliminary, as they have not undergone the peer review process that is conducted prior to the data being published in a scientific journal.
A Simple Screen
Wilkinson explains that researchers have recently recognized that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can cause hypopituitarism—a decrease in the concentrations of at least one of eight hormones produced by the pituitary, a gland seated at the base of the brain. Studies in the last few years have suggested that between 25 and 50 percent of people who receive TBIs have low pituitary hormone levels. However, these early studies have focused on injuries that civilians are more likely to receive, such as an automobile accident.
As a research physiologist who works for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Wilkinson decided to investigate whether veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq who suffer blast injuries show a similar frequency of hypopituitarism.
He and his colleagues collected blood samples from 35 veterans coming home from these wars and diagnosed with a blast concussion about a year prior—enough time for hormone changes to become evident. They then did a screen to compare blood concentrations of the eight hormones produced by the pituitary with the documented normal levels of these hormones.
Missed Opportunity for Treatment
The researchers found that about 42 percent of these veterans showed abnormally low levels of at least one of these hormones. The most common low hormone was human growth hormone, which can cause behavioral and cognitive symptoms similar to PTSD and depression, along with increases in blood lipids and changes in metabolism and blood pressure that can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. The second most common problem was hypogonadism, changes in sexual hormones that can affect body composition and sexual function.
The researchers also saw that some veterans had abnormally low levels of vasopressin and oxytocin, hormones that have been linked to psychiatric problems and bonding. Problems with these hormone levels, in addition to growth hormone, could lead to personality changes that affect relationships with loved ones, Wilkinson explains.
He notes that the prevalence of hypopituitarism in the general population is estimated at 0.03 percent. The 42 percent prevalence that these results suggest is cause for further investigation, he says.
"We're not diagnosing definite disorders in this study—these individuals would still need a clinical evaluation," he explains. "But if even 10 percent of these veterans have hypopituitarism, it's a problem that physicians should be aware of."
Wilkinson adds that many veterans who suffer blast injuries may never see an endocrinologist—and a neurologist or a psychiatrist, whom they're more likely to see for post-concussion follow-up, is unlikely to screen for hormonal deficiencies. Because low hormone levels can often be successfully treated, he says, it's a missed opportunity to help veterans. The work was supported by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.


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Request to Amend Accountability Plans – Oregon – NCLB Policy Letters to States
January 26, 2004
The Honorable Susan Castillo
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Oregon Department of Education
255 Capitol Street, N.E.
Salem, OR 97310-0203
Dear Superintendent Castillo:
I am writing in response to Oregon's proposed amendment to its State accountability plan under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Oregon has proposed amending the State's handling of multiple test administrations for students who participate in the State's online assessment system. Oregon's online testing system (TESA) provides multiple assessment opportunities during a year. Each administration presents students with a separate test made up of a new set of items. Every test is aligned with and scored against the standards set for the end of the student's grade. If a student meets the standard for his or her grade on any administration prior to the official administration date in the spring, that student will be counted as meeting the standard for purposes of calculating adequate yearly progress (AYP). I am pleased to approve the multiple test administration amendment that Oregon submitted to the Department on December 19, 2003.
If, over time, Oregon wishes to make other amendments to the State's approved accountability plan, Oregon must submit information about those changes to the Department for review and approval. Approval of Oregon's accountability plan is not also an approval of Oregon's standards and assessment system.
Please also be aware that this letter does not address whether Oregon's accountability system for Title I, including the amendment approved above, complies with Federal civil rights requirements, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requirements under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
I am confident that Oregon will continue to advance its efforts to hold schools and school districts accountable for the achievement of all students. I wish you well in your school improvement efforts. If I can be of any assistance to Oregon in its efforts to implement other aspects of NCLB, please do not hesitate to call.
Raymond J. Simon
Assistant Secretary
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Decision Letters on State Accountability Plans


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Things have been heating up in the Microgravity Sciences Glovebox (MSG) in the Destiny Lab aboard the International Space Station as NASA astronaut, Tim Kopra performs operations for the BASS-M, a National Lab investigation which came about as a result of a partnership between CASIS and Milliken. Milliken is a commercial company who, among other things, produces custom engineering textiles, including flame-retardant ones used by a variety of industrial markets, such as the military and fire fighters.
Milliken is interested in seeing how the absence of gravity affects the burning of the textiles and materials. They are testing the hypothesis that materials in microgravity, with adequate ventilation, burn as well, if not better than, the same material being burned here on Earth under the same conditions.
The investigation tests 10 different treated flame-retardant cotton fabrics at varying air flow rates, and studies their flammability and their ability to self-extinguish.
Ultimately, Milliken is using innovation in trying to design and engineer the right chemicals so that the textiles don't burn. This applies specifically to the military and fire-fighters, for whom – if these textiles are designed correctly – could be protected from getting 2nd and 3rd degree burns.


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Regular Bowel Movements are the secret to Health
By Monica B Groover, PhD, PK
A chiropractor friend recently told me, that he recently did muscle testing for a patient, and, found out that constipation and irregular elimination increased their symptoms. When his patients have regular bowel movements, their back pain seems diminished.
Ayurveda believes that balanced elimination is KEY to good health.
The definition of Health according to Ayurveda is 'Sama Dhatu (Balanced Tissues), Sama Dosha (Balanced Doshas), Sama Agni (Balanced Digestive Fire) - hence, Balanced Elimination or Mala.
Ayurvedic text books talk about two kinds of Eliminate or Waste Materials.
i Ahara mala or wastes from food
ii Dhatu mala or wastes from the tissues
Ahara Mala:
Ayurveda believes we are not just what we eat – we are also what we digest! Digesting and eliminating whatever we put in our bodies is referred to as Ahara Mala
Ahara Mala is further divided into three types in Ayurvedic Medicine:
Purisha (Faeces) – According to Ayurveda, Purisha or faeces are the elimination of Earth, and, Water element. For a healthy BM(Bowel Movement), we need to eat the earth element(Fibre from whole grains), as well as drink warm or hot water. Cold water is not suggested. Appearance of the stools differ according to the imbalance of dosha, and, dhatus. For example, if the stool is hard, it may suggest a vata imbalance. It may suggest a variable Agni or digestive fire. Constipation or less than 1 BM a day is also suggestive of Vata imbalance. 3-5 Bowel movements that are loose along with acidity and acid reflux may suggest a pitta imbalance. For vata imbalance, and, constipation -- Triphala Ghee for Vata imbalance. For Acidity, Ayurveda suggest avoiding sour foods including fermented foods and drinks, salt, and, as going very easy on hot spices like cayenne pepper, ginger, pungent foods like onions or garlic. Cumin, Coriander and Fennel tea, whey probiotic lassi drink or eating pomegranates is excellent for pitta imbalances with more than 3 or 4 bowel movements, and, acidity.
11 Mutra - Urine – Ayurvedic texts talk about balanced elimination of water element. Drinking regular herbal teas like tulsi tea, vata, pitta or kapha tea, rose tea, or simply drinking warm to hot water is suggested to have a balanced mutra.
111 Sveda – Sweat- If a person is not sweating, or, their sweat is toxic or smells – then this may be a sign of Ama. Sveda or Sweat is induced through regular exercise, walking in the Sun (shade), as well as Steam therapy.
Now, let's move to Dhatu Malas.
There are seven Dhatus and seven Dhatu Malas.
Rasa Dhatu (Plasma)
Rakta Dhatu (Blood)
Mamsa Dhatu (Muscles)
Meda Dhatu (Fat)
Asthi Dhatu(Bones, Teeth, Cartilage)
Majja Dhatu (Bone Marrow)
Shukra Dhatu (Reproductive Tissue)
Each of these seven dhatus have elimination or Mala as well.
Secretions of the nose including nasal crust, tears in the eyes, was in the ears are Mala or waste.
When we exercise and produce lactic acid, or, exhale carbon dioxide, – that is considered a mala as well. Hence, breathing deep and pranayama is suggested in the morning time.
Hair and nails are considered Mala or waste of Asthi Dhatu. Sweat is a waste of Meda or Mamsa dhatu.
Elimination through regular bowel movements, as well as sweating, is key to good health according to Ayurvedic principles.
To be considered healthy – Ayurvedic practitioners check the quantity (pramana), qualities (gunas), and function (karma) of all the above waste products.
When body does not produce enough Mala – it causes imbalance, and Ama. Ama are fat soluble and water soluble Ahara Mala that have not been digested or eliminated by the body.
Just like a compost bin filled with organic waste when not cleaned may start smelling and start producing germs, undigested food particles or Ama gives rise to toxins.
Signs of Ama may include, but, are not limited to waking up tired even with a full nights sleep, low energy, lethargy, fatigue, bloating, flatulence, constipation, or diarrhea, pain while urinating, strong odor in stool, urine and sweat; dark yellow urine, skin breakouts, abnormal discharges, white coating on tongue, colored mucous, congestion.
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text: In a glorious collaboration, Imagination Stage and The Washington Ballet have made magic with their own "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." The spell was cast at the June 22 opening, replete with reception, and will continue to delight audiences through August 12. Jean-Marie Fernandez, Anne Marie Parisi-Trone and Evonne Courtney Connolly were the "Lion Ladies," ensuring funding for the voyage through the wardrobe. Morgann Rose is a daunting wicked White Witch and designer Eric Van Wyk's inspired lion puppet Aslan had the audience aroar. Please bring your nearest and dearest of every age to this inspirational marvel.


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We don't do scary around our house, but my girls do enjoy a little spooky fun this time of year. We recently spent an afternoon creating spooky house pop-up cards – it was so much fun!
I chose to prep a bunch of paper houses and set them out for the girls to decorate. Older kids could certainly learn this simple technique and make their own pop-up houses.
Here's the simple how-to:
Step 1: Start with a rectangle-size piece of card stock or watercolor paper. Fold your paper in half, like a card. Make two cuts on the fold to create a flap. This will be the base of your house.
Step 2: Give the flap a good fold to the front and back, then pop it through to the inside of the card.
Step 3: With the first flap still tucked inside, cut another smaller flap on the upper fold only. This will be the second-story of the spooky house. Fold this new flap forward for a good crease, then pop it through to the inside of the card as well.
Here are a few of our houses, ready for decorating. You can experiment with cutting straight or slanted flaps. You could even try for a three-story house by cutting another flap!
Decorate your spooky houses any way you choose. We drew details with crayons, then painted our background with watercolors. Any combination of crayons, markers, paint, or collage would be fun.
Use a glue stick to add a paper roof and attach your house to a slightly larger piece of colored card stock.
If spooky houses aren't your thing, you could make barns, castles, or gingerbread houses. Anything goes!
We'll be dropping a few spooky house pop-up cards in the mail and the rest are providing excellent holiday mantel decor. Have fun!