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Sometimes a sit-down meal seems impossible at times for busy families and making sure that a meal is healthy feels like an even bigger challenge. With a little organization, you can have the chance to serve healthy meals and sit down as a family once again. However, other nights you might find yourself on the go throughout the dinner hour. With help from your pediatrician, you can establish proper eating habits throughout the day.
Breakfast Matters
Studies suggest that children who skip the morning meal run a greater risk of being overweight, which is why experts agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. By skipping breakfast, it is next to impossible for children, and adults, to make up for the nutrients lost. Healthy breakfast foods, such as milk and whole grains, provide an array of nutrients necessary for proper growth and good health. Additionally, breakfast provides a positive effect on academic performance because after about 10 hours or so without food, eating in the morning fuels the brain and body for the day ahead.
Snack Smart
Throughout the day, it is important to snack smart. Make sure you buy healthy snacks and portion them into individual servings so that you always have a grab-and-go snack for each member of the family. A snack between meals is important to keep hunger at bay and prevent binge eating. Students also need snacks to help them concentrate and learn at school, and working adults who keep healthy snacks on hand are less likely to hit the vending machine in the afternoon.
Make Smart Restaurant Choices
Yes, there will be times when a busy family has to eat out, but doing so does not have to derail your healthy eating goals. Choose the restaurant you will go to ahead of time and use its website to look at the nutritional information for the menu items offered. This allows you to make a choice that is healthy ahead of time so you are prepared when you get there. Avoid looking at the menu again, if possible, so that you are not tempted to choose something unhealthy.
Talk to your pediatrician for more information on how you can properly plan meals for your busy family. Remember, proper eating habits help your family throughout the day.


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Microsoft retools Office for touch screen, Web use
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, January 29, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's retooled version of its Office software is hitting the market as the company tries to extend one of its key franchises beyond personal computers.
Tuesday's debut comes six months after Microsoft previewed the new-look Office, which includes popular word processing, spreadsheets and email programs.
The revamped Office boasts touch controls, just like the redesigned version of the Windows operating system that Microsoft Corp. released three months ago. The company, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is trying to ensure that its products retain their appeal at a time when people increasingly rely on smartphones and tablet computers instead of PCs.
Yet Microsoft still isn't trying to get Office on the largest number of devices possible. Office 2013 doesn't include an option that works on Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad or smartphones and tablets running the Android software made by Google Inc. That leaves out the majority of smartphones and tablets sold in the past two years.
The company believes Office 2013 is currently best suited for Windows devices, said Chris Schneider, Microsoft's senior public relations manager for Office. Microsoft is trying to become a bigger player in the mobile market with its own operating system for smartphones and tablets.
Office 2013 is the first overhaul of the software suite in three years.
The bundle of programs has become a staple on desktop and laptop computers, providing a rich vein of revenue for Microsoft.
The company has reaped most of its Office sales from licenses allowing buyers to install the suite of programs on individual machines, a very lucrative strategy. The Microsoft division anchored by Office generates about $24 billion in annual sales, accounting for nearly one-third of Microsoft's total revenue.
Revenue in the Office division fell from the previous year during the three months ending in December, partly because many prospective buyers have been awaiting the latest version.
In one of the biggest changes, Microsoft has tailored Office 2013 so it can be peddled primarily as a program that's used over Internet connections. All information is automatically stored in Microsoft's data centers, allowing for access to the same material on multiple devices. The content also can be stored on the hard drives of devices.
Microsoft is offering Office 2013 in a $100 annual subscription package, called 365 Home Premium, which includes online access on up to five Windows devices or Mac computers. The fee also provides 20 additional gigabytes of storage on Microsoft's SkyDrive to supplement the 7 gigabytes that the company gives away to accountholders for free. Subscribers also will get 60 minutes of free international calls on Microsoft's Skype service for Internet phone calls and video chats.
College students and teachers will be able to buy Office 2013's online product for $80 for four years, which works out to about $1.67 per month.
The online push reflects Microsoft's recognition that people want access to documents and email on whatever Internet-connected device they might have, wherever they may be, whether it's at work, home or a store while running errands.
"The technology needs to be able to move with you," Schneider said.
It's the first time that Microsoft has tried to persuade consumers that a recurring online subscription is the best way to buy and use Office. Microsoft had previously sold online Office subscriptions primarily to small businesses.
Office will still be sold under a one-time licensing fee that allows the software to be installed on a single machine. The fees start at $140.
Microsoft's decision to reshape Office into an online service makes sense, although it may take customers a while to sign up for the subscriptions, said Edward Jones analyst Josh Olson. He suspects major companies that rely on Office probably will be among the last users to make the switch.
"This is a good innovation, but the uptake may be slow to begin because it is so different," Olson said.


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Danica Patrick captures spotlight at NASCAR's Daytona 500
Published 12:00 am Monday, February 18, 2013
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Danica Patrick is at her best in the spotlight.
Good thing, too, because she's going to be there all week.
Patrick won the Daytona 500 pole Sunday, becoming the first woman to secure the top spot for any race in NASCAR's premier circuit. It's by far the biggest achievement of her stock-car career. She's braced for the attention that will follow.
"I think when pressure's on and when the spotlight's on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments and my better races and better results," Patrick said. "I just understand that if you put the hard work in before you go out there that you can have a little peace and a little peace of mind knowing that you've done everything you can and just let it happen."
Patrick, who taped interviews Sunday with CNN, ESPN and Good Morning America, was the first woman to lead laps in the Indianapolis 500. She finished third in 2009, the highest finish in that illustrious race for a woman. And she became the only woman to win an IndyCar race when she did it in Japan in 2008.
Her latest stamp in the history books came with a lap at 196.434 mph around Daytona International Speedway. Patrick went out eighth in the qualifying session, then had to wait about two hours as 37 fellow drivers tried to take her spot.
Only four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon even came close to knocking her off the pole. Gordon was the only other driver who topped 196 mph in qualifying. He locked up the other guaranteed spot in next week's season-opening Daytona 500.
"It's great to be a part of history with Danica being on the pole," said Gordon, who joked that at least he was the fastest guy. "I think we all know how popular she is, what this will do for our sport. Congratulations to her. Proud to be on there with her."
The rest of the field will be set in duel qualifying races Thursday.
However the lineup unfolds, all drivers including boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will line up behind Patrick's No. 10 Chevrolet SS.
"I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl," she said. "That was instilled in me from very young, from the beginning. Then I feel like thriving in those moments, where the pressure's on, has also been a help for me. I also feel like I've been lucky in my career to be with good teams and have good people around me. I don't think any of it would have been possible without that.
"For those reasons, I've been lucky enough to make history, be the first woman to do many things. I really just hope that I don't stop doing that. We have a lot more history to make. We are excited to do it."
Even before her fast lap, Patrick had been the talk of Speedweeks. Not only did she open up about her budding romance with Stenhouse Patrick officially filed to end her seven-year marriage to 47-year-old Paul Hospenthal in January but she was considered the front-runner for the pole after leading practice sessions Saturday.
Now, she will garner even more hype.
"That's a huge accomplishment," team owner and fellow driver Tony Stewart said. "It's not like it's been 15 or 20 years she's been trying to do this. It's her second trip to Daytona here in a Cup car. She's made history in the sport. That's stuff that we're proud of being a part of with her. It's something she should have a huge amount of pride in.
"It's never been done. There's only one person that can be the first to do anything. Doesn't matter how many do it after you do, accomplish that same goal. The first one that does always has that little bit more significance to it because you were the first."
The result surely felt good for Patrick, especially considering the former IndyCar driver has mostly struggled in three NASCAR seasons. Her best finish in 10 Cup races is 17th, and she has one top-five in 58 starts in the second-tier Nationwide Series.
She raced part-time in 2010 and 2011 while still driving a full IndyCar slate. She switched solely to stock cars last season and finished 10th in the Nationwide standings.
She made the jump to Sprint Cup this season and will battle Stenhouse for Rookie of the Year honors.
Starting out front in an unpredictable, 500-mile race doesn't guarantee any sort of result, but securing the pole will put her in the limelight for at least the rest of the week.
"I don't think about Danica as a female race-car driver," defending Cup champion Brad Keselowski said. "I think of her as a rookie and someone that hasn't won races or proved that she is competitive."
Patrick won the pole at Daytona for last year's Nationwide race.
But this is considerably different, significantly bigger.
The previous highest female qualifier in a Cup race was Janet Guthrie. She started ninth at Bristol and Talladega in 1977.
"It's obviously a history-making event that will last a long, long time," Guthrie said, praising Patrick's feat. "It's a different era, of course. Different times. I can't imagine what I would do with a spotter or somebody telling me how to drive. It's rather a different sport now. Back then, there was a much greater difference from the front of the field to the back."


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Even on the water, it seems the connection between seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady and his receivers cannot be denied.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers held a boat parade Wednesday to celebrate their first NFL title in 18 years on a sun-splashed day with thousands of fans lining the Hillsborough River near downtown Tampa.
At one point, Brady was captured on video tossing the NFL's Lombardi Trophy from his boat across the water to a shirtless Cameron Brate in another boat. That brought wild cheers from fans and players.
Brady threw two of his three touchdown passes in the team's 31-9 Super Bowl victory over the Kanas City Cheifs to Rob Gronkowski, who teamed with Brate to form one of the best tight end tandems in the NFL this season.
As the parade came to a close, coach Bruce Arians said the Bucs could easily repeat as champions if the team stays intact. Brady has already said he'll be back, and Arians is determined to hold on to several other key players, too.
"We have the best coaching staff in the NFL. And we damn sure have the best players in the NFL," Arians said. "We're going to keep the band together."
Mayor Jane Castor had emphasized that people attending the parade needed to wear masks outdoors and observe social distancing rules.
It appeared many abided by the mask order but many others did not. There were also dozens of people on private boats, kayaks and other watercraft crowding the river to catch a glimpse of the team. They were directed to stay at least 50 feet (15 meters) from the boats carrying players.
After Tampa Bay's win in Sunday's title game, throngs of people gathered in the city's entertainment districts. Many were seen maskless despite the orders requiring them.
For Tampa Bay players and the team's fans, celebrating their first Super Bowl win since the 2002 season was the main attraction on Wednesday.
"We just made history in all the world," said linebacker Jason Pierre-Paul. "This means so much to me, I'll do it again. We're gonna do it again."
Wide receiver Chris Godwin said the team came together at the right time. After a sluggish start, the Buccaneers reeled off eight straight wins to claim the championship.
"We fought all year. We stuck together. And now we're world champions," Godwin said.
Brian Ford, chief operating officer of the Buccaneers, said in video announcement that fans should heed the rules as they celebrate the team's victory.
"It's essential we do it the right way," Ford said. "We want to do our part to ensure it's done in a safe and responsible manner."
Also Wednesday, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis lashed out at the news media when he suggested there is bias in coverage of the pandemic, particularly at the Super Bowl in Tampa.
"You don't care as much when it's a peaceful protest," he said at an appearance in the city of Venice, south of Tampa. "You don't care as much if you're celebrating a (President Joe) Biden election. You only care about if it's people you don't like."
DeSantis attended the Super Bowl and was photographed at times not wearing a mask despite a requirement to do so.
Associated Press writer Curt Anderson in St. Petersburg contributed to this report.
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Consumer prices post largest increase in nearly four years
Consumer prices recorded their largest increase in nearly four years in February as the cost of gasoline surged, but details of the report on Friday showed no sign of a pickup in inflation to trouble the Federal Reserve.
The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.7 percent last month, the largest gain since June 2009, after being flat in January. Gasoline accounted for about three quarters of the spike in consumer inflation.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected the CPI to advance 0.5 percent.
In the 12-months through February, consumer prices rose 2.0 percent, the largest gain since October. They had increased 1.6 percent in January.
Fed officials are likely to dismiss the gasoline-driven jump in price pressures as temporary when they meet next week to evaluate the economy.
Gasoline rose 9.1 percent, the largest gain since June 2009, after falling 3.0 percent in January. Gas prices at the pump, however, have declined in the past two weeks.
Excluding food and energy, consumer prices rose 0.2 percent slowing from January's 0.3 percent advance.
The generally benign underlying price pressures should give the U.S. central bank scope to keep pumping money into the economy, despite signs of improvement in labor market conditions.
The Fed last year embarked on an open-ended bond buying program and said it would keep it up until it saw a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market. It hopes the purchases will drive down borrowing costs.
In the 12 months through February, so-called core CPI increased 2.0 percent, also the largest increase since October, after rising 1.9 percent in January.
Last month, food prices edged up 0.1 percent after being flat in January. There is still no sign of a pass-through from last summer's drought.
Housing costs maintained their steady rise. Owners' equivalent rent, which accounts for about a third of the core CPI, rose 0.2 percent after a similar gain in January.
Apparel prices fell 0.1 percent after increasing 0.8 percent in January. New motor vehicle prices fell 0.3 percent after gaining 0.1 percent the prior month.
Prices for used cars and trucks rose for a second straight month.
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I don't know whether this forum is an appropriate place to post, but I will see where the thread leads.
A feature missing from Xfce that I would much like to see added is simple screen captures to the clipboard using the Print Screen and Alt-Print Screen keys. The former grabs the entire desktop and the latter only the active window. This feature is standard in KDE and GNOME, and has been standard in Windows at least since Windows 3.1. Xfce provides no such feature.
I am not seeking an extravagant screen capture tool, or even something like KSnapshot, although that too would be a great addition to Xfce. Just a simple screen capture-to-clipboard feature activated by the commonly used Print Screen and Alt-Print Screen keys.
I think the plugin route is the more immediate and efficient route. At a later date the plugin could be absorbed into the main trunk code if desired. If any plugin hackers want to take a go at this, please email me through the forum. I am prepared to help test and write/edit documentation. As this feature is standard in KDE and GNOME, there really is no need to reinvent the wheel. Just grab that code and adapt to Xfce. I'm guessing for any skilled Xfce/GTK hacker that such a project would require only a few of hours or so.
Note: I am not interested in cutesy command line hacks or work-arounds. The wonderful beauty of this standard one-key screen capture to the clipboard is the feature just works and satisfies the needs of most people most of the time.
Thanks everybody for your time.
After posting my original request I later browsed the Zenwalk 4.6.1 distro. By pure happenstance I then discovered the screenshooter plugin! This plugin is not listed at the Xfce plugin web site and hence my previous ignorance about the plugin.
This plugin seems to more or less provide what most users need. However, I have not discovered a way to map the Print Screen or Alt-Print Screen keys. Seems the only way to distinguish between a full screen capture and capturing the active window is to open the Properties dialog box and toggle the check box. A bit clunky but doable.
An improvement request is to provide a way to map the keyboard to those two functions. What is the appropriate channel to make such a request?
Also, the plugin does not release the captured files after saving. Perform an lsof to verify this.
Salut !
I wrote a little script for my personnal use. It provides two ways of taking a screenshot : the whole screen or a selected window (see code, there is two options --screen and --window)
edit : it doesn't alas capture to the clipboard as you wish ...
I bound this script with the usual shortcuts using the keyboards settings panel.
here is a code snippet :
# needs imagemagick's tools
# some doc : http://www.imagemagick.org/script/import.php
new_name() {
echo ~/screenshot`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`.png
case $1 in
import -frame -screen -display :0 `new_name`
import -window root -display :0 `new_name`
echo "options :
you may place the script in your $HOME/bin directory with a lovely name of your choice. don't forget to chmod +x it and be sure $HOME/bin is in your path. You may also place the script in /usr/bin/ if you prefer.
My script works well but i think the name generator (new_name) is too complicated. I would rather use a simple incremental naming algorithm.
i.e. :
screenshot 1
screenshot 2
but i have no idea how to do this without a lot of code. Any idea ?
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Story by Ethel Navales
When I began reading Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus, I had no idea what was in store for me. I didn't expect to find each page more difficult to digest than the one before it. I didn't expect that I would need to pull away for moments just to process what I had read. I certainly didn't expect to be on the verge of tears, but that's exactly what happened.
In riveting detail, Boat People brings together the heartbreaking stories of those who survived one of the largest mass exoduses in history – an exodus which had more than a million Vietnamese citizens fleeing their homeland after the Vietnam War. The book's editor, Carina Hoang, was only 16 when she took part in this journey in 1979. Despite previous hardships – including her father being taken away for 14 years as a political prisoner, her house being confiscated, and nearly unbearable poverty – nothing could have prepared her for the difficulties that were to come as a refugee. "I was not aware of the risk involved," says Hoang. "I did not realize that once I [stepped] foot on the boat, my chance of survival was very slim – it was something like 10 percent."
Hoang's account of her own experiences proves to be just as horrifying as the other stories in Boat People. "There were 373 people on board. It was so crowded that most of us sat with knees to our chins for nearly seven days," she says. "We were tossed about by a violent storm; we threw up all over each other, and sat with the vomit and the stench for the rest of the trip." As difficult as this may seem, the hardships of the journey were far from over. Hoang and the others on her boat were attacked by pirates, faced starvation and dehydration, and were quickly overcome with disease. "There were times when I didn't think we would make it," recalls Hoang. "It was God's will that we lived while hundreds died and were buried in the jungle."
Now, 34 years later, Hoang has dedicated herself to telling her story, as well as the stories of the other survivors. "My main motivation," Hoang explains, "is to help my daughter, my nieces and my nephews know about their heritage and to understand why and how their parents fled Vietnam." Of course, a task like this is no easy one. After months of searching and interviewing, Hoang and her co-editor, Michelle Lam, found many people who resisted the idea of digging up their past. "Not everyone we approached was willing to share his or her stories. Some found it difficult to relive their tragic past," says Hoang, "especially when we touched the subject of the boat people being brutally and inhumanely attacked by pirates."
Despite these obstacles, Hoang continued to work on Boat People because she understood how important it was to tell these stories. She points out that although the Vietnam exodus was one of the largest in history, many people do not know the enormity and details of this event. To help heal and educate, Hoang organizes trips back to the refugee camps. "Many families lost their loved ones while in refugee camps," she says. "It is part of our culture to visit the graves of our loved ones regularly, but more importantly, it's just hard to grieve as the loved ones died in such a tragic way and the families were unable to give their loved ones a proper burial. In some cases, people just couldn't let go; thus revisiting the graves of their loved ones gives them a sense of comfort or a form of closure."
Whether through organized trips, public speaking or Boat People, Hoang continues to fight to give voice to these stories. "I believe that as people are more informed, they will have better judgment about refugees and will hopefully approach the matter with more compassion."
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Mark Bittman is trying to convince people to make pizza at home and his argument is that not only is it budget-friendly but the pizza also tastes better – I have got to agree with the guy. :)
The last time I ordered pizza at my house was nearly 7 years ago and so far we haven't missed it – actually, to be honest, the pizzas we ate at other people's homes (because I am the only "crazy person" who makes them at home) cost a lot and/or weren't all that in terms of flavor.
Here's my pizza, if you're interested in becoming a "crazy person" like me; I used to make Richard Bertinet's pizza dough (which is amazing) but since I am always pressed for time I've switched to Donna Hay's recipe: it is much faster and equally delicious.
Buffalo mozzarella, artichoke and lemon pizza
adapted from the wonderful Modern Classics (Book 1) and from the always delicious Donna Hay Magazine
Pizza dough:
1 teaspoon dried yeast
pinch of sugar
2/3 cup (160ml) lukewarm water
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 ¾ cups + ½ tablespoon (250g) all purpose flour
1 teaspoon table salt
1/3 cup tomato sauce (more if you like it)
200g buffalo mozzarella, coarsely grated
6-8 store-bought marinated artichoke hearts, drained and halved lengthwise
finely grated zest of 1 lemon
fresh basil leaves
Place the yeast and sugar in a medium bowl. Add the water and mix with a fork. Let stand for 2-3 minutes or until foamy. Add the olive oil, flour and salt and mix to combine. Transfer to a clean surface (no need to flour it) and knead until smooth and elastic – sprinkle with a little flour if necessary. Form dough into a ball. Lightly oil the same bowl and place the dough in it. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise in a warm place for 45-60 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 250°C/480°F. With your hands, shape the dough into a rough circle and transfer to a large baking sheet*. Spread with the tomato sauce and cover with the mozzarella. Arrange the artichoke halves on top of the cheese, sprinkle with the lemon zest and bake until golden, 20-25 minutes. Sprinkle with the basil leaves and serve.
* I place the baking sheet in the oven for a good while before baking the pizza; then, I place the dough onto it when it's really hot, spread the sauce and topping over it very quickly and put it back in the oven – it works really well (since I do not have a pizza stone) and the crust doesn't get soggy
Serves 4 (at my house it serves 2). :)
Friday, April 20, 2012
Buffalo mozzarella, artichoke and lemon pizza - a great idea for the weekend
13 comments:
- Sara said...
Yum, this pizza looks incredible! Great choices of toppings!
- April 20, 2012
You know waht? Your pizza looks beautiful...!!!
- April 20, 2012
- Laura (Tutti Dolci) said...
Gorgeous little pizza, and I happen to have all those toppings on hand at the moment!
- April 20, 2012
- zazacook said...
Wow this pizza looks delicious, love mozarella and artichoke hearts!
- April 20, 2012
- anilou said...
Agreed, home made pizza is so much nicer. I love a sprinkle of semolina or polenta on the bottom of the oven tray too for extra crunch.
- April 20, 2012
- Julia @The Roasted Root said...
Your pizza crust looks fluffy, yet crispy. And the toppings look awesome - I love the buffalo chicken idea! Great flavor combos - looking forward to trying it! Have an awesome weekend!
- April 20, 2012
- Rachel @ Bakerita said...
3 of my favorites on one pizza! Such a good flavor combo. I always want to make pizza myself but I never do it, but I think this may inspire me to follow through! Looks too good not too.
- April 21, 2012
- Unknown said...
That looks delicious!!!
- April 22, 2012
- Martha said...
Donna Hay never disappoints. Your pizza looks very tasty!
- April 24, 2012
- Zurynee said...
that sure looks delicious !
- April 26, 2012
- katarzynka said...
True beauty! Eat or admire, this is the question :)
- April 30, 2012
- Sara said...
Hi there, just wanted to let you know that I made this pizza and it was INCREDIBLE! So so tasty...the lemon zest is such a nice touch. Thank you for sharing a great recipe!
- May 08, 2012
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Hey, Sara! That is great news, dearie! I'm glad to know the recipe worked out for you - thank YOU for letting me know!


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A respected student-media scholar has included MTSU'S School of Journalism in his 2013 list of "50 Best Journalism Schools and Programs at U.S. Colleges and Universities."
Dr. Dan Reimold, who teaches journalism at the University of Tampa and blogs at CollegeMediaMatters.com, said he based his evaluations on "knowledge of various schools' and departments' reputations, faculty, affiliated student media, classes (and) internship and study-abroad connections."
"It is strongly biased in favor of programs exciting me in the digital journalism realm and in some way aligned with quality campus media and professional publishing opportunities," Reimold wrote. "(These are) programs I consider to be the best in the country at this moment, AKA places I would strongly consider enrolling if I woke up tomorrow back in high school."
MTSU's undergraduate program in the College of Mass Communication is the only Tennessee program mentioned in the list. It's also a part of the fifth largest communication college in the United States and has produced some of the nation's top journalists for the last 30-plus years, said Dr. Dwight Brooks, the school's director.
In April, the university unveiled a new Center for Innovation in Media, where students from all media disciplines hone their real-world print, Web, audio and video journalism skills under one roof in a high-tech facility. The center combines the newsrooms for Sidelines, the student newspaper; WMTS-FM, the student-run radio station; MT Records, the student-run record label; MT10-HD, the student-operated cable TV station; and WMOT-FM, the university's 100,000-watt public radio station.
"This recognition is a testament to the many fine students, faculty and staff throughout the College of Mass Communication and MTSU," Brooks said. "Every one of our 800 students majoring or minoring in one of the School of Journalism's programs should be as proud as I am for being listed among the top programs in the country."
Other undergraduate programs recognized by Reimold include the journalism schools at Arizona State University, Boston University, Kent State University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Syracuse University, Temple University, the University of Alabama, the University of Missouri and Western Kentucky University.
The complete list is available at http://tinyurl.com/crukngt.
Reimold said he required each program on his list to have at least a journalism major, not just a concentration or minor, as well as accreditation by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He also focused strictly on undergraduate journalism programs, which is why the list doesn't include esteemed post-graduate programs at institutions like Columbia University and Stanford.
College Media Matters is a student journalism industry blog that "provides updates on influential, controversial, innovative, and newsworthy matters" affecting college media around the world. It maintains an official partnership with the Associated Collegiate Press, the largest and oldest U.S. student journalism organization.
"I am really pleased with this most recent news," said Dr. Roy Moore, dean of MTSU's College of Mass Communication. "This national recognition points to the enhanced status the School of Journalism and other units in the College of Mass Communication continue to see as we move forward to meet the demands of a new media environment. It also is a testament to the high quality of faculty, students and staff in the school and to its leadership."


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Terry Neill played over 270 games for Arsenal and at 20 years old became the youngest captain in Club history.
But it is for his time as manager that the Ulsterman will be best remembered.
Neill crossed the North London divide after managing Tottenham and guided Arsenal to a European final and three consecutive FA Cup finals in the late 1970s and early 1980s, winning the trophy in 1979.
As a player, Neill joined Arsenal from Bangor City for £2,500 in December 1959.
The half back made the first of his 272 starts for the Club one year later in a 1-1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday.
Neill, young and ambitious after moving to Highbury as a 17-year-old, earned recognition at youth and senior international level for Northern Ireland during his 11 years as a player in north London. He also captained his country.
Neill established himself as a regular first choice in the 1964/65 season under Billy Wright before keeping his place under Bertie Mee. He made 166 appearances over a five-season period.
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He won further international honours there before taking the reins at Northern Ireland. Neill managed Spurs for two seasons and almost experienced relegation before he was recruited by Arsenal in 1976 - becoming the youngest manager in the Club's history.


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Hoffenheim stays in the Bundesliga. The Hoppers defeated Kaiserslautern in the rematch 2-1 in K-town to complete a 5-2 aggregate sweep. Hoffenheim deserved the victory, as they were too clever for FCK, who basically ran around like chickens with their head cut off. They generally had the match in their grip, and after taking the lead, were a solid bet to coast home.
Dresden remains in the 2.Liga. Dynamo defeated VfL Osnabrück 2-0 in the rematch in front of a sold-out home crowd. They had lost the first match 0-1, so Cristian Fiel's "equalizer" after 30 and Idir Ouali's strike in the 71st minute means that Dynamo takes the series 2-1. Dresden really dominated the match, going out for the win, and Osnabrück basically sucked, so no real unfairness here.
Duisburg may get relegated. MSV Duisburg put in a fine late-season run to move out of the relegation zone of the 2.Liga. However it may been in vain as the DFB Finance Board has denied MSV a 2.Liga operating license because they "failed to show that they have adequate funds" for the upcoming season. The MSV board states that they are "shocked", but if you run your club like a Cypriot investment bank, you shouldn't be complaining when you get kicked in the balls. Duisburg gets to appeal to the standing "sports court" of the DFB, and hopefully they can show that they are in fact solvent. It would suck to see them go down after the hard work on the field, but if their finances are too crap, well most German fans would want to see them punished. If their appeal is denied, they will be forcibly relegated to the 3.Liga. That would mean that SV Sandhausen, who were relegated as 17th, would get the option of claiming MSV's spot.
3.Liga promotion is still open. The various Regionalliga qualifiers are battling it out to see who gets promoted to the 3.Liga. The first round is finished, the return matches are this upcoming Sunday. The the first match, "RasenBallsport" Leipzig defeated SpFr Lotte 2-0. Over 30,000 showed up in Leipzig, desperate for some quality football. Interestingly enough, some fellow eastern fans showed up to cheer Lotte, as they were protesting against moneybags RedBull continuing to buy their way to the top. However I guess that if RB moves on, at least the Leipzigers might get over it, since football has sucked there since…forever. Holstein Kiel dominated against Hessen Kassel and also won 2-0. The Kasselers have their work cut out in the return match. And of course in the least interesting match, SV Elversberg defeated 1860 München II 3-2. I think were all in agreement that it would be best if Elversberg got promoted, but I would guess that the kitty-kats get the return done.
In somewhat of a proof that for most it's already vacation, the DFB squad defeated Ecuador 4-2 on their American tour. Obviously not at full strength, Germany actually jumped out 4-0 after half and hour, and I was annoyed that they didn't finish off the job, winning something like 8-0. However, as the match was played in Florida somewhere, perhaps they decided to head to South Beach in the 2nd half. (For some reason, Germans seem to like Florida as a vacation spot, perhaps they like getting mugged.) Anyway, obviously no Bayern or Dortmunders in this first match.


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Editor's Note: Upon the 25th year of Rev. Jesse Jackson's first run for president of the United States, we asked him to write his thoughts on the state of Black America at this point in history, focusing on the question, Where Do We Go From Here?
(NNPA) It's been big month. A jobs summit, the beginning of another escalation in Afghanistan, a Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo, a climate change conference in Copenhagen, a possible end game for the Senate on health care, and a jobs summit and what I hope will be the start of an effective national jobs program that puts America back to work.
Dec. 10 also marked Human Rights Day, the 61st anniversary of the day the post-WWII world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is an appropriate day to consider "where we go from here."
I'm always reminded that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. authored the essay, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? An ascendant civil rights movement organized the1963 March on Washington, the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery – a movement that led to passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. But by January 1967 when he wrote the Where do we go from here essay, the civil rights struggle was on its heels, searching for direction and strategy.
His query is especially appropriate right now. It is even more auspicious, as President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize this December 10th, 45 years to the day that the 35 year-old Dr. King was so honored.
In a way, we've reached another apex in our movement, the culmination of a 54 year civil rights journey from the 1954 Brown decision ending legal segregation, winning civil and voting rights in the 60's, organizing our Rainbow campaigns of the 1980s through to the historic election of Barack Obama in 2008.
Eight years of failed Bush Administrations left the economy on the brink of disastrous depression. One year ago, people in the U.S. voted for change and a new direction. In so doing, they inspired and unleashed the power of hope around the world to break down old barriers of cynicism, doubt and disbelief.
But just one year after President Obama's election, stiff winds of resistance are blowing from all directions. It's been some time since we've witnessed such a sustained, ideologically inspired campaign to smear and vilify a President, to drown out rationale public debate and discourse, and circumvent the people's desire for progressive change.
Wall Street has rebounded from the brink of collapse. But the sub-prime mortgage crisis ballooned into a full-scale foreclosure crisis. Student debt is soaring and jeopardizing the education of our youth. Unemployment is up, and so is global warming. Hope is up, too, but unfortunately so is poverty.
Yes, it's mid-day in our politics, but midnight in our economy. We must have the clear vision and strong will to ride out the storms of the long night until the sun rises and we reach the dawn of a new day.
Where do we go from here?
Perhaps we should go to our Biblical mission statement: bring good news to the needy, to feed the poor, heal the brokenhearted, care for the sick, and set the oppressed free.
Bring good news to the needy by creating a Stimulus II that targets the zones of pain. Stimulus I focused on the zones of gain. They've watered the leaves of speculation while the roots of investment have withered. Wall Street now is paying bonuses, but the big banks still aren't lending to the real economy. We need direct, targeted jobs programs, and the expansion of lending to spur small business development. It is time to focus on helping those who are the victims of, not the cause of, the crisis.
Care for the sick by enacting comprehensive, accessible and affordable health care for all Americans. Republicans have taken a stand to crush the health care bill. Blue Dog conservatives have taken a stand to circumvent and undermine it. So must progressive stand up and fight for inclusion of the public option and create public support the President and Congress need to pass a comprehensive health care bill before year's end.
In our Rainbow campaigns of 1984 and 1988, I campaigned from coast to coast for comprehensive health care for all at a time when "only" 37 million Americans were without health insurance. Twenty years later, that number has risen to a totally unacceptable 45 million. We must do better, and now is the time.
House the homeless by confronting the home foreclosure crisis threatening to tear the heart and soul of America's communities. A record high four million families will face foreclosure this year alone, but another 13 million homeowners will face foreclosure in the next five years. To date just 4 percent, or 10,000 of the 728,000 homeowners seeking assistance, have received permanent loan modifications under the administration's Home Affordable Modification Program. That's like dipping a spoon in the ocean, as foreclosures continue to outstrip modifications. We need a comprehensive, effective foreclosure prevention/save our homes program to "save homes for the holidays" - to protect not just the most distressed families in their time of need, but also to protect their neighborhoods, the community tax base, the public services which depend on having a healthy housing infrastructure.
Where do we go from here?
Heal the broken hearted by addressing the employment demands of the 8 million workers who have lost their jobs in the last 18 months. Decades of misguided urban policies undermined our nation's manufacturing base - we export capital and jobs, and import drugs and guns. We've decimated whole cities. The hope of the recent jobs summit is that it will invest immediately and directly in job preservation and creation.
None of this can happen unless we strengthen and enforce civil rights and fair lending laws. This crisis took place in large part because predatory lending and reckless gambling were celebrated, not policed. Laws against discriminatory lending were ignored. Consumer protection laws were diluted, as subprime lenders, payday operators and credit card loan sharks had their way. The administration has sensibly called for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, but while the banking lobby descends on Congress, the administration should be using the powers it has to enforce the law.
Furthermore, as world leaders gather in Copenhagen to grapple with the real dangers of global warming, we need to get serious about a new alternative energy economy, about green jobs and weatherization, about replacing coal and oil with wind and solar.
Free the oppressed with a Stimulus II, a new war on poverty to set the oppressed free. Eight million families and 40 million Americans, or 13%, live in poverty; fourteen million children under 18 were in poverty. In 2008, 49 million people lived didn't have enough to eat, including 17 million children. In 2002, 35 million went hungry, a number that has increased by 50% since then. In the end, this administration and our nation will be judged by how we treat the least of these. The "other America" which shocked President Kennedy still exists, hemmed in by stunted hopes, circumscribed lives, broken dreams.
Where do we go from here?
The President's new policy of escalating and expanding the war in Afghanistan is risky and expensive, and, despite a projected date to begin troop withdrawal, there is no end in sight. The war on terror a real one, but it's a 21st century problem that cannot be "won" by using 20th century strategies of military conquest. In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dr. King made these time-tested remarks, "...Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time—the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression." We hope the President's plan is successful, and pray for the earliest return home of the 100,000 troops who will be sent to war in Afghanistan… but doubts abound.
Where do we go from here?
We stay true to the principles that Dr. King lived and died for, and we rebuild our grassroots movement to press for serious change, structural reforms, peace and justice. Progressives have been far too silent, too passive in face in face of winds of resistance and vitriolic reaction. It's time to stand up and be counted, to assert our progressive principles, and put a focus on policies and direction, not personality.
We celebrate last year's election, which ended the years of regression and repression and recession brought on during the Republican-dominated Bush years. But we can't stop there.
I'm reminded of the apocryphal stories of FDR and the labor movement in the 1930s, and LBJ and the civil rights movement in the 1960s. As the stories go, the movement leaders met with these presidents and presented their demands, to which these FDR or LBJ, in effect, replied: "I support you—now go out and make me do it. I agree with you, but I don't have the votes in Congress, so go get them!" We need to build a movement on President Obama's progressive flank that is impossible to ignore. We need to give political voice to our better ideals.
Isaiah speaks of beauty from the ashes, where ashes abound beauty must abound even more. Where hatred abounds, love must abound even more. Where fear abounds, love and hope must abound even more. Fear limits us – hope unleashes creative genius.
Those hit the hardest by this crisis – those in the zones of pain - must organize. Often, the malnourished children, the homeless, the jobless, those families forced from homes to shelters are largely hidden from sight. It's time to rise up and be seen. By acting collectively, the poor express their humanity. They create a forum to tell their stories. It is time to act, to come together and march together. Human lives are being crushed by this crisis. We need bold action now. We must act together to make our voices heard, in the streets and in the suites.
Absent an active and vocal movement, we cannot make our hopes for change a lasting and concrete reality.
It's where we must go from here. Keep Hope Alive.


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KDevelop with kdev-python 1.4 |
- Semantic syntax highlighting (not the regex-stuff kate does, but real highlighting, showing your defined functions colorized etc.)
- Intelligent code completion, depending on where the cursor is and what variables exist etc.
- Navigation features, such as Jump to Declaration, searching for functions/classes, class browser, ...
- and many more
Dependencies and language support
The 1.4 release is only meant to be used with python 2.7. It does not depend on python 2.7, but scripts containing syntax which is incompatible with python 2.7, such as stuff new in python 3.x, will be marked as containing syntax errors. You can work around some things with __future__ imports, tough. A python 3.x version of the plugin is currently being developed; it's almost done, and will soon be merged to the master branch. The next release (1.5) will support python 3.kdev-python 1.4 is meant to be used with kdevplatform 1.4 (kdevelop 4.4), which is also where the version number comes from. Versions 1.3 or older or 1.5 or newer of kdevplatform are not compatible due to API changes.
Installing kdev-python 1.4 should be possible through your distribution's package management system soon-ish. The package will probably be called "kdev-python" or similar. The sources are available from here. Compilation instructions can be found in the tarball.The checksums for the file are:
SHA-256 8743844c6bcf09b3f9db05891539973633049470eb7c046b75b3cfe4542da1e2 kdev-python-v1.4.1.tar.bz2 SHA-1 b887811d9a79eee3323cf3ad1be093c5801d31d6 kdev-python-v1.4.1.tar.bz2 MD5 8980b2cdb955f8f34f7560ffc940ef1b kdev-python-v1.4.1.tar.bz2After installing, make sure to add the installation directory to your $KDEDIRS environment variable, and run kbuildsycoca if necessary. You may want to add those two commands to /etc/profile to have them executed at login automatically.
Using kdev-python
To use kdev-python, just start up KDevelop and open any python file. You can verify that kdev-python is working by looking at Help » Loaded plugins:kdev-python in the plugins list |
As soon as you do so, the background parser will start analyzing your code. You can observe its progress by looking at the right bottom corner of the KDevelop main window:
Background parser progress bar |
The following sections will give an introduction on how to use the most common features of kdev-python.
Code completion
kdev-python does context-sensitive code completion; there will be different suggestions depending on where in the program your cursor is located. It will open up automatically when the program thinks it would be useful, or you can force it to show by pressing Ctrl+Space (by default). Here's a few examples of what it does:Even in complex cases, there often is useful completion suggestions |
Slices are interpreted correctly |
If a function which was just completed takes no arguments, the cursor is placed behind the brackets... |
... and if it takes arguments, it's placed inside the brackets. |
Full completion (Ctrl+Space) shows types of objects next to their names. |
Generator expressions are supported by this handy little feature. |
There's also completion for importing objects from libraries |
An example of context-sensitive completion: for inheritance, only classes are listed in the completion list. |
The "implement function" completion feature |
For the "raise" statement, only names that will give a valid exception object are suggtested. |
Another example of a not-so-simple case where completion still works. |
When invoking full completion inside the brackets of a function, you are presented with a list of arguments the function takes |
The most basic case: All matching objects from the local and global scope are suggtested. |
Note that it is very difficult to get proper support for python libraries written in C. Currently, only a few select ones are supported. The support for PyQt4 / PyKDE4 is very good, as can be seen from the above screenshots; there's also some very basic support for numpy and a few others. Help is very welcome here, it's quite easy to get your favourite library supported (I think it can well be done in one afternoon without prior knowledge, and you can do it in just python probably).
Navigation widget
The navigation widget is another feature of KDevelop which allows you to navigate code easily. To show the navigation widget, move your mouse over any highlighted use:The navigation widget. |
Another example of the navigation widget. While the widget is shown, all uses of the selected object are highlighted with a different background color |
The navigation widget currently does not work for import statements, that needs to be implemented in future releases.
Another very useful feature of KDevelop (which is not really specific to kdev-python) is QuickOpen. It allows you to instantly jump to any class or method declaration in your whole project. Just click into the filter bar at the top which says "QuickOpen" (or use the shortcut shown in the menu), and type parts of a function or class name, then press Enter:The Quickopen feature |
Output marks & debugging
In Run » Configure launches, you can select "Script Application" for a launch in the left toolview. Then, enter "python" for the interpreter, and provide a full path to your application in the "Script" line edit (note that this dialog has already been totally refactored, it's much nicer in kdevelop master. The changes have not yet been released tough). If you now run your application and it encounters an error, you can use F4 and Shift+F4 to jump to the next or previous line in a backtrace:Press F4 or click on an output mark to jump to that position in the respective file. |
There is also (somewhat basic) support for the python debugger, pdb; just click the "debug" button after configuring your script as described in the previous paragraph:
pdb plugin in action |
Future plans
There's two big things which need to be done next: Proper support for Python 3, and proper support for frequently used libraries. Support for Python 3 is being worked on, and some ideas for e.g. better django support are also there. So, you can be excited about what will happen in future releases! ;)Final words
So, that's about it -- as every application's first release, kdev-python 1.4 is totally bug-free; it will never crash or display something which is incorrect! If it still does, you probably found a hidden feature; you can report it to bugs.kde.org in the kdev-python product, so I can add it to the official feature list. :)If you'd like to help this project, there's lots of things to be done! Just write me an email, or visit us in #kdevelop on irc.freenode.net.