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Brittany Kerr's Mom Denies Daughter Contributed to Jason Aldean's Divorce
Jason Aldean's name has been hot in the news lately, but not for his music. The singer filed for divorce from his wife of 12 years last month, and there has been much speculation that dancer/former 'American Idol' contestant Brittany Kerr may have been the root of the cause, as she was photographed kissing Aldean last year.
However, Kerr's mom has spoken out, denying that her daughter contributed to the fall of the country star's marriage.
"Brittany is not responsible for any breakup," Debbie Kerr assures, (quote via Wet Paint). She adds that any rumor that indicates the contrary is "simply not true," and that her daughter is single, does not live in LA anymore, and "was never with that married man."
TMZ reports that Aldean actually called Kerr after deciding to file for divorce, warning her about the media frenzy that would ensue after the news broke as a kind gesture. The 'Idol' contestant shut down all her social media pages in preparation for the media firestorm.
The 'Take a Little Ride' released a statement following the announcement that he and his high school sweetheart were splitting, saying, "This is a really tough time for my entire family. Jessica and I have been together since we were teenagers. We've been through a lot of ups and downs over the years as we grew up together as a couple."
He added, "She will always be important to me because she is the mother of my children, and I know that we will both always make our daughters our number one priority."


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Jan. 30, 2008
Lipscomb pitcher Rex Brothers and catcher Caleb Joseph have both been honored by Collegiate Baseball magazine.
Brothers, a sophomore left-hander from Chapel Hill, Tenn., was projected as Atlantic Sun Conference Pitcher of the Year. Brothers was the Freshman of the Year in the A-Sun last season, posting a 7-4 record and 3.51 earned run average.
Joseph, a senior from Franklin, Tenn., was projected as Atlantic Sun Player of the Year. He batted .335 last season with eight home runs, 25 doubles and 48 runs batted in.
Joseph was an All-Star this past summer in the Cape Cod League. Brothers also was impressive as a pitcher as a late season addition.
The Bisons were projected to finish fifth in the conference. They finished eighth last season.

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text: The U.S. Census recently released 2012 population estimates for Vermont and its 14 counties. Vermont's statewide population grew by only 270 people between the April 1, 2010, census and the July 2012 estimate. However, the statewide number conceals important regional differences. The four counties in northwestern Vermont — Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, and Lamoille — grew by 2,922 people, while the remaining 10 counties lost a total of 2,652 people.


text: Visit us in Baltimore, MD! The National Aquarium is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. Your admissions purchase supports vital conservation and education programs and includes access to close to 20,000 animals and award winning exhibits such as Jellies Invasion, Dolphin Discovery, Australia: Wild Extremes and more.


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Last time I needed to find some additional yardage I came here and received help so quickly, it was amazing! Thank you all.
Now I need help again. I recently purchased some fabric and when I got home realized that I needed at least 2 more yards of each. I contacted the store (100 miles again) via email with a photo and request for additional yardage but they haven't responded.
Would anyone know these batik fabrics? Maybe where I could find them? I know this is a long shot but hoping............ thanks in advance.


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'Diagon Alley' to open at Universal Studios in 2014
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando will expand into London next year, the theme park announced Wednesday. The new area, which has been under construction for months, will be built along Diagon Alley, and the centerpiece will be a ride based on Gringotts Bank. It is to be completed in 2014.
Diagon Alley will be located not in Universal's Islands of Adventure, with Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and two other rides, but in the adjacent park, Universal Studios. Visitors can travel between Hogsmeade and London aboard the Hogwarts Express, but will have to buy a two-park pass in order to experience all the Harry Potter attractions.
Universal announced in late 2011 that it would expand the hugely popular Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but until Wednesday had not released any further information. However, several fan websites, at least one of which claimed to have seen the plans, had posted details that Universal's announcement generally confirmed.
Diagon Alley will be much like Hogsmeade in the original Wizarding World, a neighborhood built around a signature ride, accompanied by shops and a restaurant inspired by the Harry Potter books and approved by author J.K. Rowling.
""Our vision is to create two amazing theme park experiences that combine into one, complete, magical journey," said Alice Norsworthy, executive vice president, marketing and sales for Universal Orlando Resort.
Diagon Alley is a wizards' shopping area in London, behind the Leaky Cauldron pub, and can't be seen by Muggles. It's where Hagrid took Harry Potter, when he first learned he was a wizard, to get money from Gringotts, shop for school supplies to take to Hogwarts, and buy a wand at Ollivanders Wand Shop.
Diagon Alley is being built on the space formerly occupied by the Jaws ride, which closed in January 2012.


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Important Dates for Summer 2012
Summer Block 2 classes begin on Monday, July 9th 2012. Check out more important dates on the Wilmington University Academic Calendar. Remember that online courses begin on a Monday and end on a Sunday.
Did you Know?
Wilmington University currently has 3,698 students taking at least one online course?! Online courses allow you to squeeze that extra class in without having to travel to campus or enjoy all of your courses in the most flexible format available.
Please visit our library website often
The goal of the Library is to provide students with the resources and skills necessary to become self-directed life-long learners. There is much more available than you might realize when it comes to research materials and it is all at your fingertips. Did you know you can receive individual assistance directly from a librarian at Wilmington University? did you know you have access to over 5,000 e-books as a student? the materials available are endless and you may never have to leave our library website for your research!
Be sure to utilize our student success center!
This web page details many things including our online tutoring also known as smart thinking. There are many great tips about using an APA template and other resources necessary to achieve your goals!
Do you want to know how to use Facebook effectively? Click on the below link for the tutorial It is very informational and helpful!
There are tools available in Blackboard for every course. Please take time to get to know what help is available because the more you know, the better your experience for every course will be.
This is a great way to learn for the first time or enhance your skills on many different kinds of software we sue every day. The layout is very organized and it is easy to find the specific information you are looking for.


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Amy's Organic Two Bars Andy's Dandy Candy - YUM ALERT. These chocolate-covered candy bars come in four varieties: Creamy (whipped filling layered with caramel), Chewy (caramel and pecans), Crunchy (English toffee and almonds), and Crispy (rice crisps, almonds, and caramel). Crunchy is the HG favorite! Each piece (HALF of the pack) has 100 - 120 calories, 5 - 7g fat, 45 - 50mg sodium, 10 - 19g carbs, 0 - 1g fiber, 8 - 15g sugars, and 1g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). In select health-food stores and online.
Quaker Warm & Crunchy Granola - Wondering how a hot cereal can also be crunchy? The specially baked granola clusters stay crisp even after being cooked! In Apple Cinnamon, Honey Almond, and Cranberry Almond, each packet has 190 - 200 calories, 3.5 - 4.5g fat, 125 - 140mg sodium, 36 - 38g carbs, 4g fiber, 10 - 12g sugars, and 5g protein (PointsPlus® value 5*). It's meant to be prepared with milk -- we'll be using the fat-free stuff!
Weight Watchers Smart Ones Classic Favorites Soups - Frozen soup rocks! We can't wait to try these single-serving, heat-n-eat finds in Fire Roasted Vegetable, Southwest Style Vegetable, Loaded Potato, and Spicy Black Bean. Each 8-oz. portion has 60 - 170 calories, 0.5 - 6g fat, 420 - 550mg sodium, 11 - 28g carbs, 2 - 7g fiber, 3 - 5g sugars, and 2 - 8g protein (PointsPlus® value 1 - 4). Hit the freezer aisle, people!
In case you missed last week's Side Dish email, we recently teamed up with the United States Potato Board. And we're SO thrilled about the resulting recipes and cool contest, we feel the need to blab about 'em some more right here and now. (This story is in no way sponsored... We're just really excited!) First up, you MUST try our Mashie-Topped Meatloaf Cupcakes. Beyond-words amazing! Click here for MORE exclusive HG potato recipes. We're also pretty jazzed about the Guilt-Free Potato Goodness Recipe Contest... In fact, it's one of the BEST CONTESTS EVER. Submit your own slimmed-down spud recipe on Facebook for a chance to win a deluxe trip for two to Los Angeles to meet Hungry Girl Lisa and the HG crew! It gets better... The grand-prize winner also gets admission to a movie studio and the taping of two TV shows, plus TWO GRAND in spending money. WOWOWOWOWOW!!! What are you waiting for? Bust out your 'taters, and get started! (Official Rules apply. Deadline 3/28/14.)
Coffee-mate Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Liquid Creamer - Nothing says fall quite like tasty seasonal creamer in your coffee. Add a tablespoon of this yummy stuff for 15 calories and 1g fat (PointsPlus® value 0*). And if it's still 90 degrees out where you live (like it is here at Hungryland), spike your iced coffee with it. Just remember to measure to avoid an overpour! Trader Joe's Nonfat Pumpkin Greek Yogurt - YAY! This tasty protein-packed treat is back. Stick your spoon into an 8-oz. container -- 190 fat-free calories and a whopping 18g protein (PointsPlus® value 5*). Another seasonal yogurt returning to shelves? Yoplait Light Pumpkin Pie, with 90 calories and 0g fat per 6-oz. container (PointsPlus® value 2). Yum! Starbucks VIA Ready Brew in Pumpkin Spice - Sweet spiced coffee is our friend, especially when it's this easy to prepare. If you're looking for a dairy-free alternative to the Pumpkin Spice Latte (which reportedly has condensed milk in the base), give this a try with your milk swap of choice! Each packet of the instant coffee has 60 calories and 0g fat (PointsPlus® value 2*).
Hungry Girl is joining forces with a pop-culture powerhouse... Check out The Dish in the NEW Great Ideas section of People.com! Lisa (HG herself) will be posting about food trends and giving celebrity recipes a guilt-free spin. Look for the latest every Monday! ***Could exercise reduce your calorie intake? Maybe! A recent study suggests that high-intensity interval training may reduce a person's desire to eat. Reportedly, this study did use fairly neutral-tasting foods for objective results... We wanna know what happens if exercisers are presented with post-workout cake. ***Gnu Bars have a gnu look… and a gnu name! Show some love for Gnu Foods FiberLove Soft-Baked Fiber Bars. In flavors like Cinnamon Raisin and NEW Peanut Chocolate Chip, each deliciously chewy, high-fiber bar has 130 - 160 calories and 3 - 6g fat (PointsPlus® value 4*). Gneato! ***Who else is getting a makeover? Cracker Barrel! The country-style chain has added a lightened-up section to its menu. Wholesome Fixin's features breakfasts with 500 calories or less and lunch & dinner options with no more than 600 calories. The Spice Rubbed Pork Chop meal has just 420 calories when served with a side of green beans and mixed seasonal vegetables or steamed broccoli. Mmmm... And that's all we've got. HG out!
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Today, September 23rd, is National White Chocolate Day. (Some say it was yesterday, but we're celebrating today!) Sounds like a great reason to make some White Chocolate Macadamia Softies. Do it!
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During last weekend's Thanksgiving Live show (a live TV event where Food Network chefs cooked an entire Thanksgiving meal on live TV, all while answering viewers' questions about Turkey Day) many people asked via Facebook and Twitter about how to make gluten-free gravy. Gravy is traditionally thickened with flour, so if you can't eat flour, are you stuck with watery gravy? The answer is no, and we've rounded up the best answers from the show and from the Food Network Kitchens.
Food Network Stars' Ideas for Thickening Gravy Without Gluten
Aaron Sanchez: "Use masa harina instead of flour."
Giada De Laurentiis: "You can use aarowroot."
Alex Guarnaschelli: "Roast turkey with vegetables in the bottom of the pan, then puree them and add them to the gravy to thicken it."
Alton Brown: "If you're making a rice dressing or stuffing, you could puree some of the rice from that and add it to your gravy."
The chefs in Food Network Kitchens recommend using corn starch or potato starch instead of the flour; but use half of the amount the recipe calls for. So for this gravy recipe from Food Network Magazine, mix 1/4 cup of corn or potato starch with 1/4 cup of water. Whisk the starch-water mixture in with the hot broth continuously until thickened, taking care not to boil if you're using potato starch.
And another great, quick tip for thickening gravy from the Food Network Kitchens: whisk in a spoonful of mashed potatoes until your gravy reaches the desired consistency. This one works whether you're gluten free or not!
More Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Recipes:
Honey-Cherry Stuffing
Pumpkin-Apple Soup
Mini Quinoa-Stuffed Mushrooms
Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Stuffing
Gluten-Free Raisin-Walnut Muffins
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There is an old saying that dates back to the early 1600s that a lot of folks go by: "Only eat oysters in months with an 'r'."
The months without an "r" are the warmer months in a calendar year - May, June, July and August. It probably was considered a rule of health at that time because there was no refrigeration, but eating oysters during this time is allowed; they're only thinner and milkier.
Oyster season
The 2013 harvesting of oysters begins Tuesday. Even though September does have an "r" in it, the season has been pushed back until October because higher bacterial levels exist when water temperatures are above 80 degrees, presenting a health hazard.
Shellfish harvesting is prohibited during the summer months and anyone caught harvesting before Tuesday will be fined. The season typically is open from Oct. 1 through May 15. For season date changes, call 953-9300.
Rules and restrictions
Shellfish may be harvested recreationally from state and public shellfish grounds, which are marked with signs. A person must have in their possession a S.C. Recreation Fishing License.
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources maintains dozens of state shellfish grounds for the recreational harvester. Maps of these areas may be viewed at www.dnr.sc.gov.
Oysters may be harvested 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.
Limits are set at two bushels per person per day, from public or state shellfish grounds, no more than two days within a seven-day period.
No boat or vehicle may contain more than three personal limits, regardless of the number of people on the boat or in the vehicle.
Oysters' growth
During the summer months, oysters spawn and release free-swimming larvae, called spat. The spat are released into the water and carried by the tide. They spend two weeks in the water column, seeking a suitable surface upon which to attach and start building their shells of calcium carbonate.
Unless disturbed, they will spend the remainder of their life cycles where they have attached.
Conservation of oysters
The increasing popularity of backyard oyster roasts contributes to a shortage of oyster shells used for planting purposes to sustain a healthy oyster habitat.
Replanting shells is part of the cycle for maintaining the resource by providing a substrate for larval oysters to attach.
The DNR Shellfish Recycling and Replanting Program continues its efforts to encourage the public to recycle their oyster shells. Drop-off locations located throughout coastal counties and collection sites are available.
The program coordinates with oyster roast caterers and local restaurants to pick up large quantities of shucked shells when practical to add to the DNR stockpiles.
For more information, call oyster shell recycling program coordinator Ben Dyar at 953-9397.
Oyster shell recycling tips
Separate shells from the trash.
Only dump shells in the bins and bring shells to the nearest recycling center.
In Bluffton, there is a DNR trailer at Trask Landing at the end of Sawmill Creek Road that is seasonably available from Sept. 15 to April 30.
Don't put live oyster in state waters.
If the oysters you bought were harvested outside of South Carolina, it is illegal to place them in state waters.
Placing imported oysters in our waters can create environmental problems and may harm local oysters or other marine animals.
Don't put freshly shucked oyster shells in state waters.
To avoid contamination, shells should be recycled to DNR and properly quarantined for six months.
Abiding by the rules and regulations for recreational harvesting of oysters and disposing of shucked shells properly to be used in replanting for conservation of our oyster resources will almost guarantee a future of many more backyard oyster roasts to warm up to when the temperatures get - "burr-r-r" - cold.
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Fifteen years ago, a research group called The Fraunhofer Institute announced a new digital format for compressing movie files. This wasn't a terribly momentous invention, but it did have one interesting side effect: Fraunhofer also had to figure out how to compress the soundtrack. The result was the Motion Picture Experts Group Format 1, Audio Layer III, a format you know and love, though only by its acronym, MP3.
The recording industry concluded this new audio format would be no threat, because quality mattered most. Who would listen to an MP3 when they could buy a better-sounding CD at the record store? Then Napster launched, and quickly became the fastest-growing piece of software in history. The industry sued Napster and won, and it collapsed even more suddenly than it had arisen.
If Napster had only been about free access, control of legal distribution of music would then have returned the record labels. That's not what happened. Instead, Pandora happened. Last.fm happened. Spotify happened. ITunes happened. Amazon began selling songs in the hated MP3 format.
How did the recording industry win the battle but lose the war? How did they achieve such a decisive victory over Napster, then fail to regain control of even legal distribution channels? They crushed Napster's organization. They poisoned Napster's brand. They outlawed Napster's tools. The one thing they couldn't kill was the story Napster told.
The story the recording industry used to tell us went something like this: "Hey kids, Alanis Morisette just recorded three kickin' songs! You can have them, so long as you pay for the ten mediocrities she recorded at the same time." Napster told us a different story. Napster said "You want just the three songs? Fine. Just 'You Oughta Know'? No problem. Every cover of 'Blue Suede Shoes' ever made? Help yourself. You're in charge."
The people in the music industry weren't stupid, of course. They had access to the same internet the rest of us did. They just couldn't imagine—and I mean this in the most ordinarily descriptive way possible—could not imagine that the old way of doing things might fail. Yet things did fail, in large part because, after Napster, the industry's insistence that digital distribution be as expensive and inconvenient as a trip to the record store suddenly struck millions of people as a completely terrible idea.
Once you see this pattern—a new story rearranging people's sense of the possible, with the incumbents the last to know—you see it everywhere. First, the people running the old system don't notice the change. When they do, they assume it's minor. Then that it's a niche. Then a fad. And by the time they understand that the world has actually changed, they've squandered most of the time they had to adapt.
It's been interesting watching this unfold in music, books, newspapers, TV, but nothing has ever been as interesting to me as watching it happen in my own backyard. Higher education is now being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup.
We have several advantages over the recording industry, of course. We are decentralized and mostly non-profit. We employ lots of smart people. We have previous examples to learn from, and our core competence is learning from the past. And armed with these advantages, we're probably going to screw this up as badly as the music people did.
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A massive open online class is usually a series of video lectures with associated written materials and self-scoring tests, open to anyone. That's what makes them OOCs. The M part, though, comes from the world. As we learned from Wikipedia, demand for knowledge is so enormous that good, free online materials can attract extraordinary numbers of people from all over the world.
Last year, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, an online course from Stanford taught by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun, attracted 160,000 potential students, of whom 23,000 completed it, a scale that dwarfs anything possible on a physical campus. As Thrun put it, "Peter and I taught more students AI, than all AI professors in the world combined." Seeing this, he quit and founded Udacity, an educational institution designed to offer MOOCs.
The size of Thrun and Norvig's course, and the attention attracted by Udacity (and similar organizations like Coursera, P2PU, and University of the People), have many academics worrying about the effect on higher education. The loudest such worrying so far has been The Trouble With Online Education, a New York Times OpEd by Mark Edmunson of the University of Virginia. As most critics do, Edmundson focussed on the issue of quality, asking and answering his own question: "[C]an online education ever be education of the very best sort?"
Now you and I know what he means by "the very best sort"—the intimate college seminar, preferably conducted by tenured faculty. He's telling the story of the liberal arts education in a selective residential college and asking "Why would anyone take an online class when they can buy a better education at UVA?"
But who faces that choice? Are we to imagine an 18 year old who can set aside $250K and 4 years, but who would have a hard time choosing between a residential college and a series of MOOCs? Elite high school students will not be abandoning elite colleges any time soon; the issue isn't what education of "the very best sort" looks like, but what the whole system looks like.
Edmundson isn't crazy enough to argue that all college experiences are good, so he hedges. He tells us "Every memorable class is a bit like a jazz composition", without providing an analogy for the non-memorable ones. He assures us that "large lectures can also create genuine intellectual community", which of course means they can also not do that. (He doesn't say how many large lectures fail his test.) He says "real courses create intellectual joy," a statement that can be accurate only as a tautology. (The MOOC Criticism Drinking Game: take a swig whenever someone says "real", "true", or "genuine" to hide the fact that they are only talking about elite schools instead of the median college experience.)
I was fortunate enough to get the kind of undergraduate education Edmundson praises: four years at Yale, in an incredible intellectual community, where even big lecture classes were taught by seriously brilliant people. Decades later, I can still remember my art history professor's description of the Arnolfini Wedding, and the survey of modern poetry didn't just expose me to Ezra Pound and HD, it changed how I thought about the 20th century.
But you know what? Those classes weren't like jazz compositions. They didn't create genuine intellectual community. They didn't even create ersatz intellectual community. They were just great lectures: we showed up, we listened, we took notes, and we left, ready to discuss what we'd heard in smaller sections.
And did the professors also teach our sections too? No, of course not; those were taught by graduate students. Heaven knows what they were being paid to teach us, but it wasn't a big fraction of a professor's salary. The large lecture isn't a tool for producing intellectual joy; it's a tool for reducing the expense of introductory classes.
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Higher education has a bad case of cost disease (sometimes called Baumol's cost disease, after one of its theorizers.) The classic example is the string quartet; performing a 15-minute quartet took a cumulative hour of musician time in 1850, and takes that same hour today. This is not true of the production of food, or clothing, or transportation, all of which have seen massive increases in value created per hour of labor. Unfortunately, the obvious ways to make production more efficient—fewer musicians playing faster—wouldn't work as well for the production of music as for the production of cars.
An organization with cost disease can use lower paid workers, increase the number of consumers per worker, subsidize production, or increase price. For live music, this means hiring less-talented musicians, selling more tickets per performance, writing grant applications, or, of course, raising ticket prices. For colleges, this means more graduate and adjunct instructors, increased enrollments and class size, fundraising, or, of course, raising tuition.
The great work on college and cost-disease is Robert Archibald and David Feldman's Why Does College Cost So Much? Archibald and Feldman conclude that institution-specific explanations—spoiled students expecting a climbing wall; management self-aggrandizement at the expense of educational mission—hold up less well than the generic observation: colleges need a lot of highly skilled people, people whose wages, benefits, and support costs have risen faster than inflation for the last thirty years.
Cheap graduate students let a college lower the cost of teaching the sections while continuing to produce lectures as an artisanal product, from scratch, on site, real time. The minute you try to explain exactly why we do it this way, though, the setup starts to seem a little bizarre. What would it be like to teach at a university where a you could only assign books you yourself had written? Where you could only ask your students to read journal articles written by your fellow faculty members? Ridiculous. Unimaginable.
Every college provides access to a huge collection of potential readings, and to a tiny collection of potential lectures. We ask students to read the best works we can find, whoever produced them and where, but we only ask them to listen to the best lecture a local employee can produce that morning. Sometimes you're at a place where the best lecture your professor can give is the best in the world. But mostly not. And the only thing that kept this system from seeming strange was that we've never had a good way of publishing lectures.
This is the huge difference between music and education. Starting with Edison's wax cylinders, and continuing through to Pandora and the iPod, the biggest change in musical consumption has come not from production but playback. Hearing an excellent string quartet play live in an intimate venue has indeed become a very expensive proposition, as cost disease would suggest, but at the same time, the vast majority of music listened to on any given day is no longer recreated live.
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Harvard, where I was fortunate enough to have a visiting lectureship a couple of years ago, is our agreed-upon Best Institution, and it is indeed an extraordinary place. But this very transcendence should make us suspicious. Harvard's endowment, 31 billion dollars, is over three hundred times the median, and only one college in five has an endowment in the first place. Harvard also educates only about a tenth of a percent of the 18 million or so students enrolled in higher education in any given year. Any sentence that begins "Let's take Harvard as an example…" should immediately be followed up with "No, let's not do that."
This atypical bent of our elite institutions covers more than just Harvard. The top 50 colleges on the US News and World Report list (which includes most of the ones you've heard of) only educate something like 3% of the current student population. The entire list, about 250 colleges, educates fewer than 25%.
The upper reaches of the US college system work like a potlatch, those festivals of ostentatious giving. The very things the US News list of top colleges prizes—low average class size, ratio of staff to students—mean that any institution that tries to create a cost-effective education will move down the list. This is why most of the early work on MOOCs is coming out of Stanford and Harvard and MIT. As Ian Bogost says, MOOCs are marketing for elite schools.
Outside the elite institutions, though, the other 75% of students—over 13 million of them—are enrolled in the four thousand institutions you haven't heard of: Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Bridgerland Applied Technology College. The Laboratory Institute of Merchandising. When we talk about college education in the US, these institutions are usually left out of the conversation, but Clayton State educates as many undergraduates as Harvard. Saint Leo educates twice as many. City College of San Francisco enrolls as many as the entire Ivy League combined. These are where most students are, and their experience is what college education is mostly like.
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The fight over MOOCs isn't about the value of college; a good chunk of the four thousand institutions you haven't heard of provide an expensive but mediocre education. For-profit schools like Kaplan's and the University of Phoenix enroll around one student in eight, but account for nearly half of all loan defaults, and the vast majority of their enrollees fail to get a degree even after six years. Reading the academic press, you wouldn't think that these statistics represented a more serious defection from our mission than helping people learn something about Artificial Intelligence for free.
The fight over MOOCs isn't even about the value of online education. Hundreds of institutions already offer online classes for credit, and half a million students are already enrolled in them. If critics of online education were consistent, they would believe that the University of Virginia's Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies or Rutger's MLIS degree are abominations, or else they would have to believe that there is a credit-worthy way to do online education, one MOOCs could emulate. Neither argument is much in evidence.
That's because the fight over MOOCs is really about the story we tell ourselves about higher education: what it is, who it's for, how it's delivered, who delivers it. The most widely told story about college focuses obsessively on elite schools and answers a crazy mix of questions: How will we teach complex thinking and skills? How will we turn adolescents into well-rounded members of the middle class? Who will certify that education is taking place? How will we instill reverence for Virgil? Who will subsidize the professor's work?
MOOCs simply ignore a lot of those questions. The possibility MOOCs hold out isn't replacement; anything that could replace the traditional college experience would have to work like one, and the institutions best at working like a college are already colleges. The possibility MOOCs hold out is that the educational parts of education can be unbundled. MOOCs expand the audience for education to people ill-served or completely shut out from the current system, in the same way phonographs expanded the audience for symphonies to people who couldn't get to a concert hall, and PCs expanded the users of computing power to people who didn't work in big companies.
Those earlier inventions systems started out markedly inferior to the high-cost alternative: records were scratchy, PCs were crashy. But first they got better, then they got better than that, and finally, they got so good, for so cheap, that they changed people's sense of what was possible.
In the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it's a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it. And if some of the hostages having trouble coming up with the ransom conclude that our current system is a completely terrible idea, then learning will come unbundled from the pursuit of a degree just as as songs came unbundled from CDs.
If this happens, Harvard will be fine. Yale will be fine, and Stanford, and Swarthmore, and Duke. But Bridgerland Applied Technology College? Maybe not fine. University of Arkansas at Little Rock? Maybe not fine. And Kaplan College, a more reliable producer of debt than education? Definitely not fine.
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Udacity and its peers don't even pretend to tell the story of an 18-year old earning a Bachelor's degree in four years from a selective college, a story that only applies to a small minority of students in the US, much less the world. Meanwhile, they try to answer some new questions, questions that the traditional academy—me and my people—often don't even recognize as legitimate, like "How do we spin up 10,000 competent programmers a year, all over the world, at a cost too cheap to meter?"
Udacity may or may not survive, but as with Napster, there's no containing the story it tells: "It's possible to educate a thousand people at a time, in a single class, all around the world, for free." To a traditional academic, this sounds like crazy talk. Earlier this fall, a math instructor writing under the pen name Delta enrolled in Thrun's Statistics 101 class, and, after experiencing it first-hand, concluded that the course was
…amazingly, shockingly awful. It is poorly structured; it evidences an almost complete lack of planning for the lectures; it routinely fails to properly define or use standard terms or notation; it necessitates occasional massive gaps where "magic" happens; and it results in nonstandard computations that would not be accepted in normal statistical work.
Delta posted ten specific criticisms of the the content (Normal Curve Calculations), teaching methods (Quiz Regime) and the MOOC itself (Lack of Updates). About this last one, Delta said:
So in theory, any of the problems that I've noted above could be revisited and fixed on future pass-throughs of the course. But will that happen at Udacity, or any other massive online academic program?
The very next day, Thrun answered that question. Conceding that Delta "points out a number of shortcomings that warrant improvements", Thrun detailed how they were going to update the class. Delta, to his credit, then noted that Thrun had answered several of his criticisms, and went on to tell a depressing story of a fellow instructor at his own institution who had failed to define the mathematical terms he was using despite student requests.
Tellingly, when Delta was criticizing his peer, he didn't name the professor, the course, or even his institution. He could observe every aspect of Udacity's Statistics 101 (as can you) and discuss them in public, but when criticizing his own institution, he pulled his punches.
Open systems are open. For people used to dealing with institutions that go out of their way to hide their flaws, this makes these systems look terrible at first. But anyone who has watched a piece of open source software improve, or remembers the Britannica people throwing tantrums about Wikipedia, has seen how blistering public criticism makes open systems better. And once you imagine educating a thousand people in a single class, it becomes clear that open courses, even in their nascent state, will be able to raise quality and improve certification faster than traditional institutions can lower cost or increase enrollment.
College mottos run the gamut from Bryn Mawr's Veritatem Dilexi (I Delight In The Truth) to the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising's Where Business Meets Fashion, but there's a new one that now hangs over many of them: Quae Non Possunt Non Manent. Things That Can't Last Don't. The cost of attending college is rising above inflation every year, while the premium for doing so shrinks. This obviously can't last, but no one on the inside has any clear idea about how to change the way our institutions work while leaving our benefits and privileges intact.
In the academy, we lecture other people every day about learning from history. Now its our turn, and the risk is that we'll be the last to know that the world has changed, because we can't imagine—really cannot imagine—that story we tell ourselves about ourselves could start to fail. Even when it's true. Especially when it's true.


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Argentina and Venezuela take gold in fourth stage of Nanjing qualification tournaments
Vargas, Venezuela, April 28, 2014 – Argentina's women and Venezuela's men have taken gold in the fourth stage of qualifiers for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
The women's duo of Camila Hiruela/Irene Verasio
were the first Argentinians to win a qualification stage for Nanjing 2014 after
defeating the duo from Ecuador Carolina Mishelle Pacheco Molina/Valeria
Briggite Batioja Ocampo in the final 2-0 (21-19, 21-15 ).
"We only recently started playing
this sport," said Hiruela. "The truth is that we still cannot believe what has
happened. We are very happy and will keep practicing to improve."
Her partner Irene Verasio also expressed her delight at getting to this stage. "This is a beautiful experience and it's something you cannot live every day," said Verasio. "But with heart and desire it is possible to have this major achievement."
Paraguay's Michelle Brave/Maria Johana Ocampos won third place after beating Venezuela's Adriana Monasterios/Celeinis Bernal 2-1 (18-21, 21-14, 15-4). The Paraguayan duo reached the semifinals undefeated but fell to Hiruela/Verasio 2-1 (21-7,14-21,12-15).
The Venezuelan duo of José Gomez/Rolando
Hernandez continued their winning streak to defeat Uruguay's Mauritius Vieyto
Sebastian Acosta/Marco Cairus Lucarelli 2-0 (21-15, 21-19) in the gold medal
match to win their second consecutive championship.
Following their victory, Gomez
said, "First of all I would like to thank God for the victory, the
Ministry of Sport, the Venezuelan Federation of Volleyball, the coaching staff
and the whole country for supporting us."
He also made mention of a larger goal. "Another thing that awaits us is qualification for the Youth Olympic Games. Once this happens we can turn our focus fully on the Youth Olympic Games. This is something that we have talked about to all the coaches so that we can have strong mental preparedness and focus on one goal - an Olympic medal."
Rolando Hernandez also expressed his joy at winning. "I am very happy with my partner and would like to thank God for the victory today. The expectations are the same. Now we're going to Peru in order to get our ticket to the Youth Olympic Games," he concluded.
Argentina's Santiago Gazaba/Exequiel Yacob took
the third sport in the fourth stage of the Nanjing 2014 qualifiers after
beating Luis Alberto Bramont-Arias/Jimy Stiven Vasquez Heredia 2-0 (24-22, 21-12).
Paraguay d. Venezuela 2-1 (18-21, 21-14, 15-4)
Argentina d. Ecuador 2-0 (21-19, 21-15)
Argentina d. Peru - 2-0 (24-22, 21-12)
Uruguay d. Venezuela - 2-0 (21-15, 21-19)


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 24, 2007) -- In what is without doubt the most important two-game road swing of the season for the ETSU men's basketball team, the Buccaneers will first face second-place Belmont in a crucial Atlantic Sun Conference tilt Thursday night at 8 p.m. (EST) inside the Curb Event Center. For fans unable to attend, the game will be available on live video streaming at ETSUBucs.com.
Currently holding a one game edge on the Bruins in the A-Sun standings, the first-place Bucs are hoping to avenge a 75-74 overtime loss to Belmont earlier this season. In that game, the Bucs struggled from the foul line throughout, and later gave up a four-point lead in the extra period to allow the Bruins to escape with the vicotry. In addition, to the importance of the game in the league standings, the Bucs will also be attempting to garner the program's 1,100th win all-time.
The Bucs will once again rely on the efforts of senior forward Brad Nuckles (Council, Va.) and sophomore guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis). Nuckles is coming off his fourth straight double-double in the OT win over Kennesaw State last Friday, and was selected the A-Sun Player of the Week for his efforts. Meanwhile, Pigram continues to play well, ranking fourth in the A-Sun in scoring at 16.2 points a game, while also leading the league and ranking 11th nationally in steals per contest.
ETSU holds a 5-3 all-time advantage over the Bruins, but have lost three straight.
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Hey everyone, I'm back. I've been getting a ton of requests for a hair tutorial, so this is it. I'm gonna show you my blow-dry routine for a straight and smooth hair style.
I'm gonna do a separate video for my other go-to style, "Greasy tangled ponytail because you pressed the snooze button instead of showering again," so look for that tutorial soon. For this one, we start with a shower!
It's always better for your hair to use a comb when it's wet to slowly get out any tangles. But since I'm constantly rushing and can't handle any pain without starting to cry, we're gonna use a brush instead. The nice thing about using a brush is that it violently rips out your hair little by little, so once enough hair has built up on the brush, you can just remove it and put the hairy clump in the garbage like a slimy rat's nest.
I like to let my hair air-dry a little bit before I start blow-drying, and I help this process along by kind of shaking it out with my fingers like this. This will get even more hair to come out on your fingers because you're a disgusting animal who is literally constantly decaying. You can just discard these stray hairs by accident throughout the day, on your floor, on your clothes, or on any food you eat as soon as you start eating it.
Once your hair is lightly damp, I pin up everything but the bottom section. I like to look around my room for that hairclip that I only ever use for this, not be able to find it, give up and use a ponytail holder, and then find the hairclip.
Time for the blowdryer. Always be using the hottest setting on your hairdryer just so you know you're doing the maximum damage to your hair possible. To get my hair nice and smooth, I'm going to try to do that thing hairdressers do where they wrap the hair around a round brush, but since I don't have a round brush I'm gonna use this normal flat brush. Just wrap your hair up in it and get it really tangled in there to the point where you can let go of the brush and it stays in your hair, and the only way to get it out involves ripping a pretty big chunk of hair out. After that I'll usually just give up and start vaguely waving the hairdryer around with the diffuser pointing in the general direction of my hair.
If you get hot while you're blowdrying, a good tip is to take your shirt off for a little bit so you don't get sweat and hair all over it like a sweaty hairy pig. Once you do that, you can enjoy being really paranoid that someone will knock on your door and you won't hear it over the hairdryer, so they'll come in and see you blowdrying your hair in a bra with half of your hair balled up on the top of your head like a poodle.
When you're about halfway through your hair, it's a good idea to let your arm get really tired from holding the blowdryer and gradually hold it closer and closer to your head until you burn your scalp. Another technique here is to try switching to the other arm and realize that you're even more terrible at this with your non-dominant hand.
Rest here for a moment to allow your hair to curl and frizz unattractively as you wonder why you're even doing this. Can't you just wear a ponytail again? Spend a few minutes on the Facebook page of your friend who has a pixie cut, trying to convince yourself that you could pull that off.
As you move onto the hairs that frame your face, you'll want to let these hairs get really nice and sweaty from being under so much heat. This will start a cycle where the hairs are wet from your sweat, so you have to re-blowdry them, and that makes them sweat even more.
Once the front of your hair looks basically the way you want, it's time to remember that you've completely ignored the back. Luckily there's an easy way to fix it. Just grab a hand mirror and position yourself in front of your wall mirror so that you can see the back of your head. At that point, you'll forget all about your hair looking bad because you'll be so distracted by the idea that that's what your chin looks like to someone standing behind you?? Whoa.
If you want superstraight hair, find my video tutorial on forgetting you plugged your hair straightener in, stepping on it, and burning your foot!
Otherwise, congratulations, you're done! All that's left to do is to look down and see literally so much hair on the floor you're surprised you have any left on your head. Now it's time to go outside and have it instantly poof up from the humidity so that you end up putting it in a ponytail anyway! Byeeee!


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Most industrial applications today remain the realm of analog printing processes, particularly screen printing, but inkjet is rapidly gaining momentum.
By Ron Gilboa
Many screen printers working in commercial markets such as display graphics have long since confronted the reality that digital printing is changing their businesses. The question was how quickly they needed to embrace the technology to ensure success in their businesses for years to come.
In the broad field of industrial printing, where analog processes such as screen printing are still predominate, printers are now facing the same question. Because digital technology is in an earlier stage of adoption in many of these specialized applications, many printers remain on the sidelines taking stock of technology developments. Yet, prompted by many of the same market drivers that spurred the growth of wide-format inkjet printing, manufacturers are investing heavily in industrial printing technology and they are steadily making important inroads. For many industrial printers, the time to embrace digital technology in at least a measured way to ensure future proficiency may be at hand.
This article provides an overview of industrial printing, the market dynamics that are driving interest in digital solutions, and some of the sectors where inkjet is gaining market share. I'll mention vendors who are developing solutions specifically for industrial purposes, though because we'll be covering so many applications, these should be considered examples and not a comprehensive list.
A complex, fragmented market
At InfoTrends, we like to define industrial printing through three unique differentiators that are common in almost all of these applications:
• Printing is part of a manufacturing process for another type of product.
• It enables a product's functionality or adds a decorative element, or both.
• It uses specialized inks, toners, or other technical materials or fluids (e.g., resins and conductive compounds).
To those unfamiliar with industrial printing, the vast range of products comprised by this field and the functional characteristics that are achievable can be staggering. Some of the more common industries where industrial printing takes place include automotive, construction materials, energy (including solar cells and printed batteries), printed electronics, original equipment manufacturing, consumer products, biomedical, and flat digital displays, but there are many others.
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WHITEHALL, Ohio (AP) -- Police in a central Ohio suburb say a 4-year-old boy died when he apparently pulled a kitchen stove on top of himself.
Whitehall police and the county coroner identified the child in the Thursday afternoon accident as Carlos Mullins Jr. Whitehall is a Columbus suburb.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1hHb8Jm ) reports that the child was pronounced dead at the apartment where the accident occurred around 2 p.m. Police at first thought the death was suspicious, but evidence seemed to indicate the boy died as a result of an accident with the stove.
The boy was home with his mother and a sibling at the time.
Police are still investigating and will wait for a coroner's report before making a final ruling in the case.
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com


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Q: Is there a paper application to fill out for the Cherokee Nation Valedictorian/Salutatorian Scholarship, Cherokee Nation Concurrent Enrollment Scholarship, Cherokee Nation Undergraduate Scholarship, or the Cherokee Nation Graduate Scholarship?
A: No. Students have to complete the on-line application and upload required documents to the on-line application.
Q: Are students who attend a vocational/technical school eligible for the Higher Education Scholarship?
A: No. Students seeking a license, training certificate or Associate of Applied Science degree are not eligible. Students may contact the Cherokee Nation Career Services office for more information at 918-453-5555.
Q: Do I have to perform Volunteer Hours?
A: If you receive a Cherokee Nation scholarship you are required to perform volunteer hours based on the amount of funding you receive. For example: If you receive $2,000 you are required to volunteer 20 hours, or one hour for each $100 received. If a student decides not to volunteer the hours or does not complete the hours before the deadline, future funding may be jeopardized
Q: Where can I perform my community service?
A: Community Service can be done with any non-profit organization or at a Cherokee Nation sponsored event regardless of location. Must be humanitarian/community based efforts.
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A: The Student Aid Report (SAR) is the processed information from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — It's been quite a year for Alabama native and top-ranked junior golfer Robby Shelton.
The 16-year-old from Wilmer, Ala., followed up an impressive performance at the summer's premier junior championship, the 37th Junior PGA Championship presented by Under Armour and Heritage Food Service Group, with a victory in the 2012 Junior Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
"I guess I'm on a hot streak right now or something," Shelton said after his victory at the Junior Players. "Going into this tournament, you know you're one of the top juniors in the world, so it feels great to win."
His three-stroke victory in the 2012 Junior PGA Championship included a Sycamore Hills Golf Club course-record 8-under-par 64 in the third round.
"I am lucky to have won the [Junior PGA] Championship," said Shelton. "It is the biggest win of my career and feels so amazing."
He hopes his exemplary play in 2012 continues into late September at Olympia Fields (Ill.) Country Club, when a group of 12 junior golfers from the United States host their European counterparts in the 8th Junior Ryder Cup, Sept. 24-25, at the Club's South Course.
"I have never been on a team like that before and just to have a spot on that team is great," said Shelton. "It will be a huge honor and something I will never forget."
The Junior Ryder Cup competition features one day of six foursome matches (three boys' matches and three girls' matches) in the morning, same day of six mixed four-ball matches in the afternoon and one final day of singles matches involving all 12 members of each team.
Participants in the 2012 Junior Ryder Cup will also play a "Friendship" Match on Sept. 26, at Medinah (Ill.) Country Club, site of the 39th Ryder Cup.
The match will feature a combined mixed four-ball, with six groupings of four players that includes one girl and one boy from both Europe and the United States. The teams will play a composite course of ten total holes, blending both front-nine and back-nine holes.
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Since its founding in 1916, The PGA of America has maintained a twofold mission: to establish and elevate the standards of the profession and to grow interest and participation in the game of golf. By establishing and elevating the standards of the golf profession through world-class education, career services, marketing and research programs, The PGA enables its professionals to maximize their performance in their respective career paths and showcases them as experts in the game and in the multi-billion dollar golf industry. By creating and delivering world-class championships and innovative programs, The PGA of America elevates the public's interest in the game, the desire to play more golf, and ensures accessibility to the game for everyone, everywhere. As The PGA nears its centennial, the PGA brand represents the very best in golf.


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PLAYMOBIL(TM) Apple Store Playset
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- Includes store, figures, and 60+ accessories
- Use your own real iPhone 4 as the screen behind Steve Jobs in the Keynote Theater
Awesome Mini Apple Store Tugs at Your Wallet
Stylish technology nuggets made by Apple... we just can't seem to get enough. From iPod, to MacBook, to iPhone, to iPad. Even if we laugh our way through the announcement, thinking we'll "never buy an overgrown iPhone"... it happens again.
So when we spotted this amazing Apple Store Playset from PLAYMOBIL we were admittedly in a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, it's a product designed for children much younger than ourselves. On the other hand, it's a tiny representation of the store which sells us all the shiny Apple goodies we can't resist. Then we noticed that the PLAYMOBIL iStore includes amazingly tiny iPhones, Macbooks, and iPads. Our resolve began to waver. A quick peek at the miniature Genius Bar and we were feeling a bit woozy. Then we saw the tiny Steve Jobs presenting in the Keynote Theater on the top floor and that was it. Our wallets popped out faster than you can say Jonathan Ive and we plunked down whatever money was needed to own this amazing playset.
Of course, once we had the playset, we had to get the optional Line Pack to simulate our own exciting Apple product launches. Since it comes with a tiny Woz on a tiny Segway, it was a no-brainer. We decided that Apple & PLAYMOBIL together is the most unlikely and awesome collaboration ever. It changes everything.
Snag the PLAYMOBIL Apple Store "for the kids" then whisk it away to your office and set it on display. Over lunch, a bunch of us at ThinkGeek HQ get together and play Apple Store. Christian always gets to be Steve Jobs... damn it!
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[SatNews] Telestream® will demo four new products at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas April 7-10.
Three new enterprise-class products based on the Vantage® file-based video transcoding and workflow automation platform and a new desktop application, Switch, will be demonstrated in Telestream's NAB booth SL3905. Following Telestream's acquisition of closed captioning leader CPC last summer, its MacCaption™ and CaptionMaker® file-based software products and captioning experts will be part of Telestream's team this year. The complete family of Vantage transcoding and workflow products, including new HEVC/x265 encoding, 4K support and Lightspeed K20 GPU-acceleration will also be featured at the show.
New Products at NAB2014
Now available on the Vantage platform, TrafficManager™ streamlines ingest and management of commercial and syndicated content for broadcast and cable companies. As more content is being received as files, TrafficManager automates the ingest of local, regional and national spots, processes and delivers the media to ad-insertion or on-air servers, automates loudness correction, format conversion, and decision-making based upon media attributes, offering a full end-to-end solution for commercials and syndicated content.
Also available on the Vantage platform, Post Producer™ is a new content production and assembly product that addresses the issue of repetitive rendering of different versions of media. Based on user templates, Post Producer automatically assembles multi-layer composites from video and graphics – enabling the creation of uniquely-branded versions of the same package for different distribution services. Alternate versions can automatically be created by simply substituting the necessary elements.
Vantage® Cloud is a new product that will be released shortly after NAB. Vantage Cloud makes it easy to run all the capabilities of Vantage – including automated transcoding, media processing, analysis, and packaging – on cloud-based infrastructure, including at Amazon Web Services. By unifying with on-premise systems, Vantage Cloud allows users to quickly respond to new formats, regulatory requirements, and fluctuating workflow needs.
Switch™ is a new multiformat player that gives media professionals everything they need to play, inspect and correct their media in one application. Switch supports high-quality playback for MOV, MP4, MKV, MXF, GXF, MPS, MTS and more. The built-in inspector displays media properties including audio channels, aspect ratio, bitrate, and encoding formats. Users can switch to export mode to make changes or corrections to their media, including trim, scale, and crop; changing aspect ratio; rearranging audio tracks; editing speaker assignments; even changing codec and format. Switch will be available shortly after NAB.
More products and new capabilities to be featured at NAB
New closed captioning product configurations and pricing options now bring these best-in-class, file-based software solutions within reach of more users. MacCaption™ and CaptionMaker® allow users to easily author, edit, encode, and repurpose video closed captions and subtitles for television, web, and mobile delivery. A new software version with new capabilities will be demonstrated at the show.
Vantage® will feature HEVC/H.265 encoding using the new open source x265 codec, and 4K support at the show. The x265 high-efficiency video codec is now available in Vantage Transcode Multiscreen at no additional cost to users. Telestream will also feature its new Lightspeed K20 Server which utilizes cutting-edge GPU and CPU acceleration technologies from NVidia and Intel to further boost Vantage video processing and H.264 encoding speeds. The Vantage platform was recognized for its high-quality 16-bit 4:4:4:4 video processing and engineering excellence by the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) in 2013.
Vantage is being shown under FIMS control in FIMS/AMWA/EBU booth N1231 as part of the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company) pilot project. Vantage is being used to create multiple versions of content for distribution to Akamai.
Telestream will showcase major Wirecast 5 live streaming production software capabilities. Recently released, these include a more efficient, redesigned user interface, stunning x264 live encoding and improved local screen capture. Wirecast is the only cross-platform, all-in-one live streaming production software that enables capture, live production and encoding of live streams for broadcast to multiple servers and platforms simultaneously.
Telestream will also demonstrate its Pipeline HD real-time network video capture and playout system for broadcast and post-production, Pipeline Replay multi-angle live video analysis system for sports and live events, and Episode multiformat media encoding applications for post-production and new media workflows.
NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference Speakers
John Pallett, Telestream director of product marketing, will present 'HEVC – Comparing MPEG-2, H.264 and HEVC' on Sunday April 6 from 4:00-4:30 pm in room S225. Telestream captioning expert, Giovanni Galvez will present 'Quality Control for Verifying Closed Caption Data in a File-Based Workflow' on Monday, April 7 from 10:30-11:00 am in room S227.
For more information about Telestream and its products, visit http://www.telestream.net/.


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Media Coverage Of Amtrak Crash Ignores Federal Law That Limits Recovery For Victims
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In reporting on the recent Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured up to 200 others, broadcast evening news programs and the Sunday morning political talk shows have largely ignored an outdated federal law that could deny financial compensation to victims and their families.
After the horrific Amtrak passenger train crash on May 12, much of the media coverage has focused on the technical causes of the accident and whether increased infrastructure spending might prevent future tragedies.
But a Media Matters analysis of evening news broadcasts and Sunday shows' coverage of the derailment indicates that the major networks have largely ignored how the victims of this crash might be denied financial compensation from Amtrak that will adequately cover their medical expenses going forward. Because of a 1997 federal law that limits the amount of money the victims can recover for their injuries to $200 million, many of the victims -- and the families of those who died -- may get stuck trying to pay for the costs associated with the crash out of their own pockets.
Only the May 17 edition of ABC News' This Week briefly mentioned the outdated law, in a segment with ABC's Chief Legal Affairs Anchor Dan Abrams. As Abrams explained, the $200 million cap is not per victim, but the total amount that can be paid out per incident, regardless of the number of fatalities or extent of survivor injuries:


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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will deliver a major speech on January 18 in the Netherlands spelling out how he wants to renegotiate his country's relationship with the European Union, his official spokesman said on Monday.
"He sees it as important to set out his view about it being in the British national interest to remain in the European Union, though (with) a changed relationship," the spokesman said.
Cameron has repeatedly said he wants Britain to remain in the EU but has made it clear he intends to try to repatriate a wide range of powers from the bloc in policy areas where his ruling Conservative party believes Brussels' influence has become overbearing and pernicious.
Cameron faces a dilemma. Many MPs in his own party are pressuring him to call a fully-fledged referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU, a demand backed by opinion polls which show a slim majority of Britons would, if given the chance, vote to leave the 27-nation bloc.
But business leaders in Britain have said they are strongly opposed to the prospect of the country radically downgrading ties with its biggest trading partner, while international partners from the United States to Germany and Ireland have made it clear they oppose a British EU exit and think such a move would isolate and damage Britain itself.
"The audience will be a mixture of business representatives, European diplomats and other interested parties," Cameron's spokesman said.
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Columbus [1] is the capital of the American state of Ohio and is located centrally within the state in the Mid-Ohio region. Sited in an area where the Rust Belt, Bible Belt, Appalachia, and the Plains meet, Columbus is a fusion of many different part of America. It is the home of The Ohio State University. The combination of Ohio Government and Ohio State University has fueled amazing growth both financially and physically in Columbus. It has created a business and research enviroment that has provided substantial employment opportunities to the diverse ethnic and local graduates of Ohio State University, and other academic institutions in Columbus. The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), is projected to be one of the top 50 supercomputers in the world and among the top 10 supercomputing academic centers.
Named after the Italian explorer who sailed under the Spanish flag (In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue), this city is the largest in Ohio in terms of population with 730,657, and the 15th largest city in the United States. With 1.7 million people, the metropolitan statistical area is the 31st largest in the nation. Major area employers are state government (as the state capital), Ohio State University (the largest student population in the nation) and numerous Fortune 500 companies headquartered here (Cardinal Health, Nationwide Insurance, Limited Brands, etc.). It is a day's drive from one half of the U.S. population and is located at the intersection of I-70 and I-71.
Generally arranged in a really big wheel, Columbus is the central hub to many nearby cities including (clockwise from the north):
The COTA bus service [6] can take you to most important places in the city, which should be about 5 blocks away from any conceivable location you need to go to. This service costs $2.00 for an express bus and $1.50 for a normal bus. Transfers are free; ask for one from the bus driver when you pay your fare.
The entire corridor of High St (US Route 23) from Clintonville in the North to Merion Village in the South is extremely pedestrian-friendly, though it does pass through some less-than-scenic areas, particularly the few blocks between campus and the short north. Downtown Columbus is a walkable city with most attractions located within a 20 minute walk of each other. The Columbus Landmarks Foundation conducts walking tours, too. [7]
Columbus is a car-centric city, with usage of a car required outside of the areas directly surrounding downtown. Parking is extensive (and reasonably priced) at almost all major destinations. There are many surface lots and garages around the city. There are only a few areas of the city, like the Short North, where parking can be hard to come by; those locations all feature abundant valet parking at an affordable $5 per vehicle. Keep in mind that U-turns are illegal citywide in Columbus. Downtown is a short ten minute drive ($20 taxi fare) from Port Columbus (the airport) via I-670W.
These are a few of the larger/major events in Columbus:
To provide an idea of the diverse mix of Columbus-based business activity, the following Fortune 500 headquarters are in Columbus:
The City of Columbus issues approximately 6,000 licenses for a variety of types of food vendors, Franklin County issues about 3,000 for the remainder of the County and the suburban area.
Food Safety – In Columbus, starting late May of 2007, all 6,000 local restaurants must post color coded signs that reflect the results of the most previous inspection by the Columbus Public Health Dept. Green = passing most recent inspection. Red, yellow or white suggests you probably may want to reconsider your options. The law applies to public pools, tattoo parlors, spas, campgrounds as well as food markets. The sign must be obvious, within five foot of an entrance.
For the mid-west, Columbus has its share of ethnic and domestic eateries that shelter culinary artists throughout the city and offer outstanding meals at sometimes bargain prices, in locations that may be carry-out only, limited seating or maybe small bars that offer outstanding food. Places that are well worth the effort to find, which is part of the adventure.
Columbus is a convention city, with a large well established business and manufacturing base, as well as an education foundation that attracts many visitors. Downtown accommodations tend to be a little more expensive than those scattered near the interstate exits. But, there usually is lodging available in most price ranges.
Broad Street in Downtown Columbus is home to a number of Christian churches of considerable historic and architectural interest, including First Congregational United Church of Christ, where Washington Gladden, a pioneer in the Social Gospel movement, preached from 1882-1918. Both First Congregational and the nearby Catholic cathedral, St. Joseph's, offer a range of special services and concerts throughout the year.
Jews can attend services at Congregation Beth Tikvah, while Moslems can attend the Islamic Society.
Dial 911 to get emergency (police/medical/fire) help.
Although down somewhat in recent years, crime is still a problem in certain areas of the city. Most violent crime occurs in areas that would not be frequented by tourists. Visitors to the area should be aware that the theft of laptop computers and other items from automobiles is a common occurrence. Always store valuables in the cargo compartment of one's car and make sure it is locked.
Motorists who drink and drive will face stiff penalties if one's blood alcohol concentration is above the legal limit (0.08). Police routinely set up checkpoints along major roads where all drivers must pass through and show their license and registration to check for intoxicated people.
Vehicles are required by law to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. However, the law is not universally followed. Take care to watch for turning traffic when crossing streets.
Some of the most dangerous areas in Columbus are neighborhoods around the Port Columbus International airport. When passing through these areas in a car, it's best to stay on major streets and keep all windows and doors closed. One shouldn't try walking there on foot in the evening or after dark. Areas on the East side of town, past the Downtown areas are similarly dangerous as there are a lot of drug deals and robberies occurring in dilapidated neighborhoods there. These areas are usually defined by I71 on the West, I270 on the East, 161 Dublin Granville Rd., in the North and I70 in the South.
Neighborhoods in the South Central portion of the city, just on the inner side of the I-270 outerbelt, are also known to have a moderate volume of drug-related crimes. Abrubt growth and urbanization from Ohio's surrounding states to these areas in the late 1970's is responsible for a high unemployment rate for both white and black families, thus leading to a lower-class portion of Columbus. Though this area does not commonly attract tourists, it is a large intersection of a cross-counrty Inter-state highway system (I-270,I-70,I-71), along with Rickenbacker International Airport(RBI), which are known to be common distribution centers for drug trafficking across the United States.
Traveling through the South-Central and Eastern portions of the city should be avoided unless necessary. Attractions/businesses are scarce, due to a large lateral-strung system of housing developments. Constructed in the late 1970's, to house the many new coming middle-class families of that era. These various communities (South gate, Linoln Park, Marion Village, Southern Pines, Scioto Village) resemble racially-balanced, subtle neighborhoods. However, increasing gang activity, drug dealing, and semi-organized crime is prominent in these areas. Especially in the hours of the night when violence occurs the most. Similar to the east side, lock all doors and close windows. Avoid traveling by foot if possible. Robbery, mugging, vehicle theft and other violent crimes are a possibility.
On the West side of town, a sliver of neighborhoods around Broad St. and east of I-270 South are relatively safe during the day, but not at night. Generally, areas outside of the I270 loop (the Outerbelt) are safer and more peaceful than areas inside. Safe areas inside I270 include the Arena District, the Short North District, OSU campus areas, Clintonville, Upper Arlington, much of German Village and Bexley.
Due to the outstanding care, research and reputation of the Columbus Medical facilities, Columbus has thriving medical tourism business that attracts domestic visitors and visitors from all over the world. Those who accompany patients can expect assistance from the facilities (if you are insistant and have a little patience) in the form of long term discount lodging and local transportation to and from the facility to see the patient.
In the Columbus area, you will find a variety of Law Enforcement that includes Ohio State Patrol, Columbus Police, Franklin County Sheriff, local Police depts., in Dublin, Westerville and other local municipalities to name a few. Usually, they are what one would expect from law enforcement as far as being professional, polite and helpful. They are well trained and compensated, very good at crowd control and traffic control. Be polite, respectful and you will have few problems with them. Most have cameras in cars, do not offer any bribes of anything and keep in mind you are likely being video recorded.
Ohioans passed "SmokeFree Ohio" ballot measure in 2006 banning smoking in most public areas with very few exceptions. Some hotels, motels, or other lodging facilities may have special smoking rooms that are permitted under the new law. The law forbids restaurants and bars from allowing smoking on premises, unless they have an outdoor patio. Some private clubs, such as AmVets, Eagles, Moose, and similar establishments have been slower to enforce the smoking ban, especially in the outskirts of the city.
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Redskins receiver Niles Paul has an immense love for Capri Sun drinks, and made a habit of bringing them to practice during training camp. But he had a problem. Paul's teammates would snag pouches of his favorite drink when he wasn't looking. A cold-blooded, thirst-fueled crime.
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The company had removed the straws from every container in the case, rendering them undrinkable to the average drinker. In their place, they provided Paul with a silver straw of his own, complete with his name and number engraved on it. The straw came in its own padded case.
The straw removal was so simple yet so effective. The thirsty teammates were thwarted, and Paul can enjoy his Strawberry Kiwi Capri Suns in peace.
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In bioinformatcis, bgzip files are important for random access to big files . Bgzip is a program modified from gzip program that uses block compression and is fully backwards compatible with gzip. But I have issues when using bgzip compressed vcf files with Perl scripts that uses IO::Uncompress::Gunzip (that I believe it uses zlib under the hood). A similar problem happen to my recently with snpeff program (Java). In both cases the data is decompressed but truncated after a few hundred lines aprox. I could be totally wrong but I was wondering if zlib (or whatever gzip compatible library they are using) is getting confused with the bgzip bloks and only processing one or a few of them leaving the output incomplete. perl code that does not work:
#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip qw(gunzip $GunzipError) ; my $infile = shift; my $infh = IO::Uncompress::Gunzip->new( $infile ) or die "IO::Uncompress::Gunzip failed: $GunzipError\n"; my $line_count = 0; while (my $line=<$infh>){ $line_count++ } print "total lines read = $line_count\n";
$ perl /home/pmg/tmp/test_zlib-bgzip.pl varsit.vcf.gz total lines read = 419
#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; # I can use bgzip intead gzip my $infile = shift; open(my $infh , 'gzip -dc '.$infile.' |'); my $line_count = 0; while (my $line=<$infh>){ $line_count++ } print "total lines read = $line_count\n";
$ perl /home/pmg/tmp/test_gzip-bgzip.pl varsit.vcf.gz total lines read = 652829
[UPDATE 2014-02-28]: finally a clue come from biostars where Heng Li remind me a footnote in the SAM specs about a java library for gzip that only sees first block of bgzip when decompressing. Seems that Perl gzip implementations had the same problem.


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The two biggest elections Tuesday provided an imperfect template for predicting the future.
In New Jersey, Republican Gov. Chris Christie so thoroughly blew away his Democratic opponent that conclusions are skewed. It would be a miracle, for instance, if Christie duplicated his showing and won close to a quarter of black voters in a 2016 run for president. In Virginia, the main candidates were so flawed you could almost hear voters begging for a "none of the above" option before they grudgingly gave the governor's office to Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
But draw conclusions we shall. Here are some glimmerings, via exit polling, from Tuesday's vote in the hottest contests.
Key voter groups:
Bad news for Republicans. Virginia provides the most accurate assessment, since it has become a reliable reflection of the country overall. The Republican Party is looking to expand its reach among women, minority voters, young voters and moderates. In all cases it failed. Women sided with Democrat McAuliffe over Republican Ken Cuccinelli, 51% to 42%. Black voters backed McAuliffe 90% to 8% (there were not enough Latinos or Asians to calculate their percentages). Voters under age 30 voted for the Democrat 45% to 40%. And moderates gave McAuliffe an expansive lead, 56% to 34%. Granted, for all those groups Cuccinelli was a tough sell, since he has been a culture warrior in a state that is rapidly moderating, and those voter groups tend to be repelled by approaches like his. But Cuccinelli accurately reflects where many Republicans are, and his is the image many voters see when they think of the Republican Party. Unless, that is, someone obliterates that image with his own.
Chris Christie:
Someone, that is, like Chris Christie. To look at the exit polls, Christie performed like a Democrat in a Democratic state. It was hard to find a voter group he didn't command (other than those pesky under-30 voters, who narrowly went to Democrat Barbara Buono). He won women handily (57% to 42%) and moderates even more handily (61% to 37%.). A third of Democrats voted for him. But while much of Christie's popularity stemmed from his leadership of the state during his first term, at least some of it resulted from the fact that he was running against a nonentity who lacked support even from Democratic Party big-shots. Worth noting: Christie defeated Buono by more than 20 points. Asked if Christie would be a good president, voters from his state said he would, 51% to 44%. But he lost a hypothetical presidential ballot against Hillary Rodham Clinton, 48% to 44%. All of which suggests that there are limits to his reach when he's in a real contest, at this point anyway.
The Republican brand:
It is badly tarnished. At least part of that stems from its association with the uncompromising tea party wing, which has powered its way to dominance in the sole Republican area of the country, the South, and in pockets elsewhere, and which propelled the hugely unpopular government shutdown. In New Jersey, the tea party was opposed by 45% of voters; in Virginia, 42% objected to it. Fewer than 2 in 10 New Jerseyans and fewer than 3 in 10 Virginians supported the tea party. That is important because the winner of the 2016 Republican nomination will have to appeal to tea partiers to some extent in order to become the party's standard-bearer. Even Christie spoke approvingly of the tea party in a CNN interview on election day.
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Appealing to the untethered voter:
Good news for candidates: You don't have to be perfect. You just have to be no more imperfect than the other guy, so long as you are walking the same path voters are. Pity the poor voter in Virginia, smothered in negative advertising about the failings of each side. Asked separately whether McAuliffe and Cuccinelli had "high ethical standards," majorities concluded that neither man did. What it came down to was not ethics but political persuasion. Half of voters said that McAuliffe's positions were neither too liberal nor too conservative, but just about right. Only 37% said the same about Cuccinelli; fully half said that he was too conservative for their tastes. The question for Republicans in 2016, coming off two successive presidential losses and a brewing civil war between the establishment and the tea party: Will the winning candidate surmount the party's positions, or be consumed by them?
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