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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Three Bucknell University professors have been honored for their research and scholarship with the David T. Scadden Faculty Scholar Award.
A 1975 graduate and a Bucknell trustee, Scadden is the Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, where he also serves as co-chair of the department of stem cell and regenerative biology as well as co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. His fund was established to provide two $5,000 research fellowships to support eligible faculty during the academic year.
Associate Professor of Biology and Animal Behavior Elizabeth Capaldi Evans, and Associate Professor of Biology Chris Martine, who is the David Burpee Professor in Plant Genetics and Research, received funding for their project, "Gender-bending Eggplants: Cryptic Dioecy and Peculiar Pollen in Solanum."
The plant genus Solanum, which includes tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants, is of economic importance. Evans and Martine will focus on the plant reproduction biology of the solanums of northern Australia, which uses 'hermaphrodite flowers' to attract bees for pollination.
Evans and Martine will set up bee feeding experiments in the Burpee greenhouse at Bucknell, before traveling to Australia this summer for 20 days of fieldwork.
Professor of History Martha Verbrugge received funding for her project, "Freedom in Motion: A History of Racial Segregation and Public Recreation in Washington, D.C., during the 20th Century."
The abolition of slavery led to the establishment of rigid codes of racial separation, called "Jim Crow" laws, which demarcated where citizens could relax. Black families were forced to swim in polluted rivers, play in dangerous streets and on dilapidated baseball fields.
By the 1930s, individual resistance and organized protests became common and, in the late 1940s, new statutes finally prohibited discrimination at municipal recreational facilities.
Using Washington, D.C., as a case study, Verbrugge will connect debates over health and physical activity to the general history of racial discrimination, the civil rights movement, and scientific and popular concepts of 'blackness' in 20th-century America.
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If you get "This page can't load Google Maps correctly," click on "OK" (you may have to click twice) and a
map will appear. Click on a point and you should get a point forecast. You can zoom in or pan out on the map. If this doesn't work, you can enter the latitude
and longitude in the box above and get a point forecast.
A National Weather Service "Marine Point Forecast" refers to a text forecast for a single point generated from a forecaster-generated gridded data set known as the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) also used to produce graphics. The NDFD is used as the basis for the majority of local public and marine forecasts and is in the process of being further expanded to the offshore and high seas areas.
In actuality, the "point" is a single small rectangle which represents the resolution of the computer forecast models which is typically 2.5 by 2.5 kilometers.
Please Note: Being a forecast for a single point, the point forecast is very specific and mariners should also be aware of weather conditions in the surrounding area. Forecast information for the surrounding area can be found within the zone forecast and the NDFD graphics. Be aware, the forecast conditions at a particular point may not exceed the criteria of a Small Craft Advisory, Gale, Storm etc. These watches/warnings/advisories are issued for the entire zone in which the point resides and mariners should act accordingly.
The map interface and webform above may also be used to obtain point forecasts for land.
Further information on the Marine Point Forecast and "Forecast-at-a-Glance" may be found here.
These marine point forecasts are also available via the maps found at the
relevant forecast office. At the majority of offices clicking on the map will link to the zone forecast and then allow further zooming to the point of interest whereas on the Great Lakes, the first link is directly to a point forecast with the further option to link to the associated zone forecast which includes that point. As a further option, click on links below for interactive maps providing zone/point marine forecasts
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Eureka, CA
San Francisco,
Los Angeles, CA
Diego, CA
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Tampa Bay Area, FL
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Brownsville, TX
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Green Bay, WI
Milwaukee, WI
Tiyan, Guam
A number of users have inquired about the addition of air and water temperature and other items of interest to the marine point forecast pages which are currently only available for select areas. Be aware air temperature and other parameters such as precipitation potential are viewable by clicking on the "Hourly Weather Graph" in the "Additional Forecasts and Information" table at the bottom right corner of each point forecast.
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Publishing Execs Arrested, Face Jail Time, Because Book Tells People How To Back Up DVDs
from the arrested-for-what? dept
Last month we wrote about a new copyright law in Japan whose punishments seemed so disproportionate it was hard to take it seriously. For example, downloading unauthorized copies or backing up content from a DVD were both subject to criminal penalties. According to this story from Daily Yomiuri Online, it looks like it's no joke:
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Yoshiaki Kaizuka, 43, an executive of Chiyoda Ward publisher Sansai Books Inc., and three other company employees on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law, and sent papers on the firm to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. According to a senior police official, these are the nation's first arrests over the distribution of software to remove copy protection.
And their terrible crime? Allegedly selling a book that told people how to make backup copies of DVDs. That, of course, would involve circumventing the trivial copy protection on DVDs, which was enough to trigger the arrests, apparently. But as a post on Wired.it points out, if publishers can get into trouble under the new law so easily, so might others:
It's interesting to note that Japanese cyber Police could arrest the Amazon Japan CEO too as the online giant is selling a lot of magazines, books and software packages for DVD copy and ripping: exactly what put in trouble Sansai Books staff.
The same post notes that many GNU/Linux distributions come with the libdvdcss library which similarly allows the DRM system to be circumvented so that the DVD can be played, and would therefore fall foul of the new copyright legislation. So does the Japanese government plan to go after all the Web sites offering such software, and all the users?
The current action probably doesn't presage a massive crackdown on every infringing use, since that would involve arresting a significant fraction of the Japanese population. It's more likely to be an attempt to put the frighteners on people in the hope that everyone will stop downloading files and cease making backups. As we know from similar situations, that may work for a few months. But once things die down, people will go back to doing what they did before until the next time the Japanese authorities decide to make an example of someone, and the whole pointless cycle begins again.
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Who has heard of Code Golf? I hadn't up until about 3 years ago when I first stumbled across some on Stack Overflow. I faintly recall the horror as I gazed upon some of the most cryptic code ever – somewhat akin to the feeling I had the first time I was shown a regular expression.
According to Wikipedia, "Code golf is a type of recreational computer programming competition in which participants strive to achieve the shortest possible code that implements a certain algorithm."
Now I would never claim to be able to hold my own against some of the veteran golfers, however I do find myself growing more and more interested in how I can shave off a few bytes here and there. Such was the case today when I set out to answer a question on Stack Overflow.
The OP was asking how he might take a single-dimension array of words, sort them alphabetically, and then print them out. Each new group of words, categorized by their first letter, should be preceded by that letter. So you would first see "A", followed by all "a" words, then "B", followed by all "b" words, and so on. I've personally wanted to do this in the past myself.
After a few minutes I had posted the following:
$firstChar = ''; sort( $aTest ); foreach ( $aTest as $word ) { $firstChar = substr( $word, 0, 1 ); if ( $firstChar != $currChar ) { $currChar = $firstChar; echo $currChar; } echo $word; }
This is ugly, but fairly straight-forward. You cycle through the array, printing out the first letter of the current word whenever it differs from the last iteration. Simple enough. But then one of the members pointed out via comment that instead of writing
substr( $word, 0, 1 );
I could just access the first letter as though the word itself were an array:
sort( $aTest ); foreach ( $aTest as $word ) { if ( $word[0] != $currChar ) { $currChar = $word[0]; echo $currChar; } echo $word; }
Now it had been a while since I did that. So I was pleased to be reminded of this. Then that little spark of brevity begin to grow, and I wanted to see where else I could shave off some chars. My eyes were then drawn to the assignment and echo portion:
$currChar = $word[0]; echo $currChar;
That would be shortened so that the assignment and echo take place all at once:
sort( $aTest ); foreach ( $aTest as $word ) { if ( $word[0] != $currChar ) { echo ( $currChar = $word[0] ); } echo $word; }
So now it's down to a single if statement, and a trailing echo. I wondered if I could just load this up into a ternary, so I set my hand to do that:
sort( $aTest ); foreach ( $aTest as $word ) { echo ( $word[0] != $currChar ) ? ( $currChar = $word[0] ) . $word : $word; }
At this point, I was getting a little OCD about my second and third expression. They seemed unbalanced. The second one was setting the new current category letter, as well as echoing out the word. The third one was just echoing out the word. This is when my mind returned to something Brendan Eich called an "abusage" – using && in somewhat of an if-statement fashion.
$cond && ($foo = 'bar');
The second part is only evaluated when the first part is determined to be true. If the first part is false, the operation short-circuits and the second part is never touched. I realized I could use this to test the equality of the current category letter and the first char of the current word. If they were not equal, I could use the right hand side of the operator to record the new letter:
sort( $aTest ); foreach ( $aTest as $word ) { echo ( $word[0] != $currChar ) && ( $currChar = $word[0] ) ? $currChar . $word : $word; }
Awesome. Looking very slim. Now that I have only one statement within my foreach loop, I can strip away the curly braces. I can also reduce even more space by moving away from long variables names. Instead of "word", I can simply use "w". Instead of "currChar", I can use "l" (for "letter"). I can also collapse my ternary operator onto one line:
sort( $aTest ); foreach ( $aTest as $w ) echo ( $w[0] != $l ) && ( $l = $w[0] ) ? $l . $w : $w ;
Nearly there. Last we can strip out all of the white space possible. Unfortunately with the syntax of the foreach, we cannot remove the spaces around the keyword "as" in the condition.
sort($aTest);foreach($aTest as $w)echo($w[0]!=$l)&&($l=$w[0])?$l.$w:$w;
In the end we've reduced about 195 characters and 11 lines down to 1 line and roughly 70 characters! Granted, that's nothing compared to what others have acheived, however it's awesome to see this solution iteratively collapse before my very eyes.
With some clever substring alternatives, ternary operators, and hacking the way logical operators work, we're able to reduce a dandy solution into a horrific and cryptic trace of insanity. I don't suggest you actually produce code like this when you ship (outside of the obvious minification), as it's far better to write readable code than it is to write short code.
In the end, I was able to switch away from the original array declaration and use the deprecated split function to save even more bytes:
$a=split(",","apple,pear,banana,kiwi,pineapple,strawberry"); sort($a);foreach($a as $w)echo($w[0]!=$l)&&($l=$w[0])?$l.$w:$w;
So how about you? Do you engage in this type of behavior? Have any tricks of the trade to share? Place them in the comments below! Or perhaps you can shorten my code even further – I'd love to see what you come up with!


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Kevin Spacey on the Future of TelevisionAugust 27th, 2013
From The Telegraph:
"We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn – give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it."
"It's all content. It's just story. And the audience has spoken. They want stories. They're dying for them. They're rooting for us to give them the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus, and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it."
The full lecture is also quite interesting:


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Divisional Committees
- 2.1 AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy
- 2.2 CJCLS Section
- 2.3 Instruction Section
- 2.4 Western European Studies Section
- 2.4.1 Membership Committee
- 2.4.2 Cataloging Discussion Group
- 2.4.3 College & Medium-sized Libraries Discussion Group
- 2.4.4 Romance Languages Discussion Group
- 2.4.5 Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Discussion Group
- 2.4.6 Research & Planning Committee
- 2.4.7 Germanist Discussion Group
- 2.4.8 Scandinavian Discussion Group
- 2.4.9 General Membership Meeting
- 2.5 Women's Studies Section
- 5.1 LITA Pre-Midwinter Workshop
- 5.2 Membership Development Committee
- 5.3 LITA Town Meeting
- 5.4 International Relations Committee
- 5.5 LITA Open Source Interest Group
- 5.6 LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resource Management Interest Group
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All-Committee Meeting
The AASL All-Committee Meeting will be held on Saturday, January 20, 1:30 - 5:00 pm at the Westin Hotel, Grand Ballroom III.
See the complete schedule of all AASL meetings and events at Midwinter on the AASL Midwinter pages.
AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy
The AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy will meet on Saturday, January 20, 5:30-7:00 pm at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Capitol Room. Please join us if you are interested in collaboration between K-12 schools and academic institutions.
Open Forum on New Learning Standards
In order to recognize the changing role of school library media programs now and in the future, AASL has begun to develop new learning standards for school library media programs.
The AASL Learning Standards Rewrite Task Force will present a SECOND DRAFT of the Learning Standards at the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle:
AASL Open Forum on New Learning Standards
Friday, January 19, 2007
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Westin Hotel
Cascade Ballroom II
Affiliate Assembly Networking Session
The AASL Affiliate Assembly Networking Session will be held on Saturday, January 20, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the Sheraton Hotel, Metropolitan A.
Affiliate Assembly Caucus
The AASL Affiliate Assembly Caucus will be held on Sunday, January 21, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm at the Red Lion Hotel, Emerald Ballroom I.
AASL Candidates' Forum
The AASL Candidates' Forum will be held on Sunday, January 21, 12:00 - 1:00 pm at the Red Lion Hotel, Emerald Ballroom I (immediately after the Affiliate Assembly).
AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy
The AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy will meet on Saturday, January 20, 5:30-7:00 pm at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Capitol Room. Please join us if you are interested in collaboration between K-12 schools and academic institutions.
CJCLS Section
See our schedule of activities and join us where you can.
Instruction Section
Discussion Group Steering Committee
- ACRL IS Discussion Group Steering Committee: Meeting I Agenda
- ACRL IS Discussion Group Steering Committee: Meeting II Agenda
- ACRL IS Current Issue Discussion Groups at Midwinter 2007
Research & Scholarship Committee
Membership Committee
Instructional Technologies Committee
Teaching Methods Committee
Policy and Publications Review Committee
Western European Studies Section
Saturday, January 20th
Membership Committee
Cataloging Discussion Group
College & Medium-sized Libraries Discussion Group
Romance Languages Discussion Group
Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Discussion Group
Research & Planning Committee
Sunday, January 21st
Germanist Discussion Group
Meeting Sunday, January 21st at 8 a.m. at the Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 NW 67th Street, Seattle, WA 98117
General Membership Meeting
See the WESS schedule of activities and join us where you can.
Women's Studies Section
Saturday, January 20th
General Membership -- 4 - 6pm -- Fairmont Olympic Hotel; Metropole Room
Social Hour -- 6 - 8pm -- TBD (will be announced on WSS-L closer to Midwinter)
Sunday, January 21st
All Committees Meeting -- 10:30am - 12:30pm -- Grant Hyatt Seattle; Leonesa I/II
Come if you are interested in joining a committee and want to see what we do!
Monday, January 22nd
Discussion forum -- 8 - 10am -- Renaissance Seattle; North Room
Whither Women's Studies?: Feminism, (Inter)Disciplinarity, and the Future
In recognition of the approaching 25th anniversary of the Women's Studies Section, we will discuss how women's studies in academia is changing and what trends for the future we need to be aware of to best serve this population. Has women's studies infiltrated the disciplines? Is it partnering with other interdisciplinary areas? Where do gender studies and sexuality studies fit in? What new areas of study are branching off from women's studies? We will compare trends and experiences from our institutions to create a vision for the future.
CMDS (Collection Management & Development Section)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 8:00 – 10:00am, Westin Seattle room: Cascade BR II
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 10:30 - 12:30pm, Westin Seattle room: Cascade BR II
Monday, 1/22/2007, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Grand Hyatt Seattle room: Leonesa II
Discussion Groups
CMDS Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group
- Saturday, 1/20/2007, 8:00 AM-12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Hotel room: Evergreen BR
CMDS Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group
- Saturday, 1/20/2007, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Hotel Andra room: Ballroom
Interest Groups
CMDS Collection Devevelopment Issues for the Practitioner Interest Group
- Sunday, 1/21/2007, 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Washington State Convention & Trade Cent room: Room 309
CMDS Forum on Collecting E-Resources Use Data: Outsource or In-house?
- Monday, 1/22/2007, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Grand Hyatt Seattle room: Princessa II
PARS (Preservation and Reformatting Section)
PARS All Committee Meeting
- Monday, 1/22/2007, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM, W Great Room 2
Discussion Groups
- Sunday January 21, 4pm -6pm, Westin, Grand Ballroom III
Continuing discussion of disaster preparedness from the ALCTS Preservation Section sponsored by the Preservation Discussion Group.
After the popular consciousness has forgotten, how can we sustain recovery programs to provide collection management, building safety, and public service in libraries? Preservation and Reformatting Section is discussing this issue with other ALA Divisions and Round Tables to provide a holistic and long-term perspective on disaster response and recovery.
LAMA Board of Directors
Session I
Saturday, January 20, 8:00am-12:30pm, Washington Convention and Trade Center Room 310
Session II
Tuesday, January 23, 8:00am-12:30pm, Washington Convention and Trade Center Room 310
LAMA Web Coordinators/Web Advisory Board
LAMA's various web coordinators will meet with the Web Advisory Board on Monday, January 22, 8-10am in the Washington Convention and Trade Center Room 307. It will be an opportunity to meet and answer questions. More details to follow.
LAMA Council of LAMA Affiliates
The Council of LAMA Affiliates will be meeting on Sunday, January 21 in the Hyatt Sealth Room. Come and network with other representatives from State Associations. Share ideas, topics and concerns and help LAMA stay connected to Library Managers across the country.
LAMA Leadership Development Seminar
John McNeil, Vice President of Implementation and Design for the Pacific Institute http://www.thepacificinstitute.com/, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Leadership Development Seminar on Friday, January 19, 2007, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Westin Seattle, Cascade Ballroom 1. The Pacific Institute specializes in performance improvement and professional growth, change management and leadership development. The Institute's curriculum teaches how to accelerate individual and organizational potential by changing habits, attitudes, beliefs and expectations that inhibit and often block high-performance people. Mr. McNeil, Vice President of Implementation and Design, is dedicated to the primary purpose of delivering the psychological tools necessary for individuals and organizations to obtain the results they choose for their lives.
In addition to our exciting keynote speaker, LAMA President Andrea Lapsley will discuss plans for LAMA's 50th Anniversary and LAMA's Web Coordinator, Brian Gray will demo "Online Community." Please join us for a stimulating, thought provoking afternoon and invite a current or potential LAMA member and /or a friend as a special guest. Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP to Fred Reuland firstname.lastname@example.com by January 5th if you plan to attend. See you in Seattle.
LITA Pre-Midwinter Workshop
Podcast U: Libraries, Podcasting, and the New Culture of Personal Broadcasting on Campus Friday, January 19, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Renaissance Hotel, South Room
Membership Development Committee
Washington Convention and Trade Center Room 212 Sunday, January 21, 8:00am-10:00am
LITA Town Meeting
Washington State Convention Center, Room 606 Monday, January 22, 2007, 8–10 a.m.
International Relations Committee
Washington Convention and Trade Center Room 212 Monday, January 22, 10:30am-12:30pm
LITA Open Source Interest Group
Sunday, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center in room 202. Contact for Open Source IG information: John Rutherford firstname.lastname@example.com.
LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resource Management Interest Group
Friday, 6:30pm - 8:00pm Hilton Seattle, Windward Room
Agenda: 1. Brief presentation and discussion on ILS Acquisitions and ERM module interactions and relationships led by Linda Miller (Library of Congress) 2. Brief presentation and discussion on implementing SUSHI led by Oliver Pesch (EBSCO) and Patricia A. Brennan (Thomson Scientific) 3. Standards groups updates and other items of interest from the audience 4. Brief business meeting
LITA Public Library Technology Interest Group
Washington State Convention & Trade Center Room 309 - Sunday, January 21, 8-10 am
Agenda: Meeting will open with a brief presentation on Groovix, a vended open source public access computing platform, by Brian Auger from Howard County (Md.) Library, followed by open discussion of topics of interest to attendees. The session will end with a brief business meeting.
LITA Meeting Schedule
View the LITA Meeting Schedule for a complete list of LITA meetings at ALA Midwinter in Seattle.
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Did you thought before about Hereditary Traits? My toddler thinks she can do anything—until she can't. "Mommy do it!" she demands, thrusting the offending object my way. Daddy also gets flustered quickly, like the time he let the f-bomb fly while fussing with three different TV remotes. Now our daughter has a new weapon to deploy when a video takes more than two seconds to load.
Did my daughter inherit his temperamental ways? Can parents pass on traits that aren't in the DNA, like sense of humor or style? Child psychologists say yes. It's called modeling, where a child learns by observation and imitation. And like the genes that provided our daughter's red hair and pixie nose, it contributes to who our kids become, says George Holden, Ph.D., a psychologist at Southern Methodist University and author of Parenting: A DynamicPerspective. "When you observe a behavior in your child, ask yourself, 'Where did that come from?' In many cases for young children, it came from a parent."
Kathy Kane of Denver sees modeling played out in a more positive way. Her 5-year-old son, Patrick, has had plenty of opportunities to watch his mom paint and draw, and has picked up on her artistic sensibility. "He'll stop and tell me how beautiful something is, or point out cloud shapes," notes Kane, adding that "according to his teacher, Patrick is well developed in writing his letters and shapes." Not a bad by-product.
Does this mean we can direct our kids to pick up our interests? Yes, with limits, says Margaret Tresch Owen, Ph.D., director of the Center for Children and Families at the University of Texas. "Show enthusiasm or recognition for an ability you like," she says. But if your kid has no interest in becoming the next Picasso, leave it be.
As for those not-so-great traits: When Jackie Candelaria of Orlando sees her youngest child lashing out at his older brother, she thinks he's acquired her occasional hotheadedness: "I've told him that Mommy doesn't always handle things the best way." Good move: Awareness of your actions—and a willingness to talk about them—are the best ways to stop the cycle, says Owen. In a calm moment, she suggests saying, "I showed you a side of myself yesterday that I don't feel good about."
"Letting your child know the difference between appropriate and questionable behavior will help him make better decisions about expressing raw emotion," explains Owen.
As for our 2-year-old, my husband and I have become more conscientious about our behavior. Because in the long run, patience is more important than her red hair and pixie nose, although patience isn't nearly as cute.


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safariguy5 wrote:BPB. Just to see what they talk about on their private forums.
Bruceswar wrote:I would like to see the inside of the THOTA forum.
Postby chapcrap on Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:01 am
Whichever one has a decent King's Court partner. Don't think I could have a better one that happyfeet in KOA though.
Bruceswar wrote:I would like to see the inside of the THOTA forum.
Dako wrote:safariguy5 wrote:BPB. Just to see what they talk about on their private forums.
Unfortunately, they are fairly quite in their own forum.
Master Fenrir wrote:Kort would be good just for the Joskoisms. I'd be curious to see what goes on in the TOFU forums too unless it's just Ace Rimmer posting crotch shots.
sdh wrote:I wouldn't join any clan because of a team partner, because all of my regular partners are already in my clan. I would love to have a peek at the THOTA/TSM/KORT/TOFU forum just to see how the top clans do things. If I was to apply to another clan it would probably be TNC, just to get a few more clan medals (they play so many wars!)
AndyDufresne wrote:If I could apply to join a clan, I'm not where I would fit the best or would want to apply. Actually, I think usergroups are probably more of my calling than clans are!
BGtheBrain wrote:As for me, do any other clans play Mafia in their clan forum?
If not, I'll follow clapper and vote clanless.
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STARKSBORO — Starksboro residents will be the fourth group of voters in the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union to revote their school budget.
After a group of town residents last week submitted a petition to the school board to force a second vote on the Robinson Elementary School spending plan for the coming fiscal year, the board tentatively scheduled the revote to be held at a May 2 meeting.
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In a marathon meeting that lasted more than three hours, staff and residents raised concerns about layoffs that the proposed fiscal year 2016 budget would likely necessitate, and the process by which the budget is created.
Bristol residents will vote on the proposed $4.9 million spending plan on March 3, Town Meeting Day.
BRISTOL — A group of Bristol Elementary School parents have expressed concern about local control of how their education tax dollars are spent, and are urging the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union to be more transparent.
"It seems that currently the budget is developed with a small handful of people with little opportunity for the public to weigh in," said parent Kristin Siringo. "It's not entirely clear how much the board is even involved in the process."
BRISTOL — On Town Meeting Day, residents of the five-town area will vote on a proposed Mount Abraham Union Middle/High School budget that features spending that is virtually the same as what was approved for the current fiscal year.
The Fiscal Year 2015-2016 budget, approved by the Mount Abe board last week, calls for $14.06 million in spending, which is a fraction of a percent less than the $14.09 million spending plan voters approved last year.
VERGENNES — Voters in the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union got their first look at what next year's budget for Vergennes Union High School may look like when district administrators presented a draft to the school board Monday evening.
This week's writer is Stephen Dale, executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association.
Vermont's school districts provide very generous health insurance benefits to their employees — among the most generous health insurance benefits available to any Vermonter. The current cost of these benefits is contributing to rapidly rising property taxes, limiting the ability of schools to invest in the education of our students.
Editor's note: The following statement was submitted on behalf of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union Board by RNeSU Chairperson Carol Brigham.
ADDISON — Addison town and Addison Northwest Supervisory Union officials last week confirmed that write-in candidate Laurie Childers did in fact win enough votes on Town Meeting Day to become the town's representative on the Vergennes Union High School board.
LINCOLN — A majority of the increase in spending for the Lincoln Community School next year, as set forth in a budget proposal that residents will vote on next month, is due to a change in the way the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union allots special education costs, according to the head of the school board.
The proposed Lincoln school budget for fiscal year 2015 sets spending at $2,035,197, which represents an increase of $131,926, or 6.93 percent, from the previous fiscal year.
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PASCHALCAzT 47 – Easter Sunday: Leave the shrouds in the tomb
It's Easter Sunday. Christ is risen! Alleluia! Today we hear from Fulton Sheen something that might disturb us, even on this beautiful day. Then, from the 7th century, a rush of joy.
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I have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 11.10 came out. I was very satisfied with how Ubuntu has evolved over the past few years, but now I would like to try out Fedora 17 since that has been out for a while simply for a change. I first had Windows 7 and Ubuntu on a dual boot; however, I got rid of the dual boot and installed Ubuntu 12.04 (32-bit recommendation) from a CD as my primary operating system. My problem is, now that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is my primary operating system, how can I install Fedora 17 in its place?
I downloaded the Fedora 17 iso file (64-bit) and installed it on both a CD and USB, but I cannot get it to run from either. I investigated the problem and tried going into my BIOS by pressing f2 to make the USB the primary boot; however, this didn't work either. When I put the USB first in boot order, I receive a message that states "bootmgr is missing, press ctl+alt+del to restart". I've searched all over the internet in hopes of figuring out a way to fix this, but to no avail. Also, I have tried pressing f12 to pick the CD to boot from, but this option is nonexistent (I remember when I had Windows 7 that it was an option though).
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Heresy!!! But, yeah.
I'd be more concerned about people who dismiss this music, and who don't hear the magic in it.
Like John, my preference is weigh in on ambient musicians' whose music I like or who I feel should heard by more people (such as Matthew Florianz and Pete Kelly). If I have critical points to make, I would rather express those thoughts directly to the musicians themselves. I think that those of us who have stuck it out in our genre for a while should try to be as supportive as we can, as it is too easy on the net to drift into negativity and flame wars. The net is inherently limited as a medium for communication. I also prefer not to comment on music from artists who are friends of mine, as it might perceived as shilling if the comments are positive, and poor form if the comments happen to be a little negative.Forrest


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Students learn flag folding techniques in time for Veterans Day
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by Nathalie Gagnon-Joseph
BARTON — Many eager hands shot into the air when American Legion State Commander Frederick E. LaTour of Barton asked for flag-folding volunteers at St. Paul's School on Thursday.
St. Paul's students learned how to properly care for and respect the American flag when members of the American Legion, equipped with flags and a documentary, came to the school and showed the kids how to properly fold a flag.
"It's important for them to learn how to respect the flags, how to respect the veterans," said Angie Poginy, who organized the activity.
They kicked off the session with a viewing of the film For Which It Stands about a boy who writes a paper about the flag, and how he came to understand and respect it more.
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EPA Moves To Clarify Clean Water Act, Fox Cries "Power Grab"
Fox is accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of a "power grab" for proposing a rule to clarify the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act. In fact, the new classification is based on sound science and intended to address years' worth of confusion surrounding the proper protection of the nation's waterways.
Newly-proposed guidelines would allow [1] "greater consistency, certainty, and predictability nationwide by providing clarity in determining where the Clean Water Act (CWA) applies," per the EPA, specifically by incorporating recent research [2] on the extent to which small streams and wetlands connect to larger bodies of water downstream. That research, which is under review [3] by the EPA's Science Advisory Board, found [4] that small streams, even those that only flow at certain times, "are connected to and have important effects on downstream waters," and that wetlands are similarly integrated, making them subject to CWA protection.
That is, unless you ask Fox News and Fox Business. This week, the networks have adopted [5] the complaints [6] of GOP lawmakers to claim that the EPA is only using the study to justify a "power grab." Lou Dobbs claimed [7] on his show that the clarified jurisdiction represented "unprecedented control over private property" -- "maybe" extending to "mud puddles." And Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano baselessly asserted on Fox & Friends that the study is "bogus" -- merely a rationalization to "regulate all bodies of water" and "control more behavior."
Despite these claims, the new EPA study did not provide the basis for regulating "all bodies of water" (or "mud puddles"). It found [8] that the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could evaluate [9] small streams on a case-by-case basis to determine their impact downstream. The rule is necessary because the parameters [9] of the CWA are currently quite muddled, as even conservative critics and industry lawyers have noted [10] in the past. This process is in keeping with the March 2013 decision [11] in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, which re-affirmed [12] nearly unanimously that federal agencies are granted a wide berth in interpretations of their own rules.
Napolitano vastly oversimplified the legal precedent of the issue, suggesting that the Supreme Court previously limited the definition of protectable waters to those connected to "navigable waters," a classification that is now allegedly being undermined. Actually, according to E&E News, the 2006 Supreme Court case Rapanos v. United States, which ended in a split decision, resulted [13] (sub req) in dual definitions of waterways subject to the CWA. One, from Justice Antonin Scalia, defined protected wetlands as those "with a continuous surface connection" to navigable water. But Justice Anthony Kennedy classified waters subject to the Act much more broadly, stipulating only that they must have a "significant nexus" with navigable waters, such that they "significantly affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of other covered waters." To lower judges, it was unclear who was speaking on behalf of the court (let alone how to decide which streams or wetlands met each qualification). In short, it was never decided in definitive terms which bodies of water fall under the rubric "Waters of the United States," which was given as the original CWA definition of "navigable waters" (though some have cited [13] a "consensus [...] that the significant nexus test applies"). This split led to years of disorder. Many lawyers agree that the Supreme Court "bungled" the 2006 case, producing "confusion" where it was supposed to provide clarity. Even some who favor Scalia's designation, like a lawyer from the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation who ostensibly won the 2006 case, have said the "lack of clarity" around CWA jurisdiction is a major issue.
As Napolitano noted, in the wake of the decision, hundreds [14] of CWA enforcement cases were allegedly stalled or dropped entirely. However, he left out the fact that corporate interests reportedly [15] (sub req) pushed the Bush administration to drop the cases. Contrary to claims [16] that the new process clarifying CWA jurisdiction has been "rushed," it is a response to years of legal ambiguity that caused many bodies of water to slip through the cracks. Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Jon Devine told [9] Bloomberg's Water Law & Policy Monitor that a new rule informed by the recent study would "remedy the current approach to law enforcement, for instance, where officials have largely abandoned efforts to enforce the law in the headwaters of watersheds."
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Location: Systematic Entomology LaboratoryTitle: A new genus of Neotropical Monoplatina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) from leaf litter Author
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Submitted to: The Coleopterists Bulletin
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Publication Acceptance Date: 1/27/2012
Publication Date: 4/6/2012
Citation: Konstantinov, A.S., Linzmeier, A.M. 2012. A new genus of Neotropical Monoplatina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) from leaf litter. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 3260:19-32.
Interpretive Summary: Leaf beetles, especially flea beetles, are among the most important insects to U.S. agriculture. Many are serious pests, feeding on crops and destroying valuable plants; others are important biological control agents that can be used to control unwanted weeds. This work describes a leaf beetle group that inhabits leaf litter and 4 species new to science from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. We provide characters, descriptions, and illustrations, as well as 2 keys for their identification. This study will be useful to biological control workers, taxonomists, ecologists, and anyone interested in phytophagous beetles.
Technical Abstract: A new genus (Andersonaltica) containing four new species from Central America is described and illustrated. It is compared to Aedmon Clark, Apleuraltica Bechyne, Distigmoptera Blake, Hypolampsis Clark, and Pseudolampsis Horn and a key to identification of these genera is provided


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Xavi says Iker Casillas will not leave Real Madrid for Barcelona in the summer in order to replace Victor Valdes as the club's first-choice goalkeeper.
Valdes has said he does not want to extend his current contract until 2014 and could therefore be on his way out of Barca. Casillas, 31, on the other hand has lost his starting berth at Madrid and has been linked with a move away from the Blancos, too.
Nevertheless, Xavi believes it is unlikely Casillas will leave the Santiago Bernabeu side for their arch-rivals.
"I feel bad for Iker that he has ended up on the bench and I think it's unfair. I do not think that he will come to Barcelona, though," Xavi told El Mundo Deportivo.
"He's a real Madridista. We cannot look beyond that. I would welcome him with open arms, but I cannot see it happen to be honest."
The influential midfielder then went on to stress he does not expect Valdes to change his plans for the future, while praising the goalkeeper for his fine performances.
"I know Victor pretty well and I do not think that he will have second thoughts. He is an extraordinary person and I am sad that he will leave," he added.
"He is not only a friend, but also a real leader. He has probably received the worst treatment in the media I have ever seen in my career. He has always overcome criticism. The harsher the criticism, the better his performances."
The 31-year-old shot-stopper has made close to 500 official appearances for Barcelona since making his debut in 2002-03.


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Five Takeaways From Stanford's Exhibition Game on SundayPosted by KDanna on November 5th, 2012
Stanford played an exhibition game against UNC Pembroke on Sunday afternoon at Maples Pavilion, and here are five thoughts on the Cardinal's performance.
- Too close for comfort? The final score read Stanford 85, UNC Pembroke 71, but it was a single-digit game for most of the way, and Stanford actually trailed the Braves 8-2 about six minutes into the game. As we discussed with Washington's exhibition nail-biter, however, the closeness of the game doesn't really mean too much. Also, Stanford's Dwight Powell and Stefan Nastic didn't play in this game for undisclosed reasons. Don't judge this team before the November 9 opener against San Francisco.
- John Gage has diversified his game. The official roster says Gage has put on 10 pounds from last year to this year, and it showed in the way he plays. The junior known for his shooting touch held his own strength-wise against a 255-pound UNC Pembroke post player and had a sequence in the first half where he blocked a shot, stole a post entry pass, got a couple of rebounds, and hit a three. These are exactly the kind of things Gage needs to do to earn more minutes on the floor. As one of the tallest guys on the team, Gage will need to prove he can play in the post and body up with the likes of a Kaleb Tarczewski, Aziz N'Diaye or Josh Smith. If he can hold his own on the defensive end, Gage will be rewarded with more time and hence more opportunities to unleash it from deep on the offensive end. At the end of the day, Gage amassed 11 points and seven rebounds to go along with two blocks and two steals.
- Josh Huestis is more confident with the rock. The shooting stroke was already there for Huestis last year, but he was hardly consistent from outside of the key. While he didn't connect on three three-point attempts, he showed more assertiveness in his jump shot and connected on 50 percent of his field goal attempts, not all of which were bunnies (one left wing 18-footer comes to mind). He also did all the other things that makes Huestis so valuable to the team, grabbing 12 rebounds and swatting away a shot.
- It will take some time for the freshmen to get adjusted. Each of the three new guys (Rosco Allen, Christian Sanders and Grant Verhoeven) showed why they were sought by Johnny Dawkins and his staff, but they will all understandably need at least a few games to be able to contribute in a meaningful manner to the Cardinal lineup. The biggest positive for the freshmen is that none of them seemed to shy away from the moment — Sanders swished a jumper on his second offensive possession of the game, Allen calmly stroked a 17-footer, and Verhoeven — as advertised — didn't mind getting dirty down low and collecting an offensive rebound to go along with six points and two assists.
- Free throws. This team only shot 67 percent from the free throw line last year, often missing key tries late in games to keep the opposition alive. It wasn't any better against the Braves yesterday, as the Cardinal made just 21 of its 33 free throw attempts for the game (64 percent). Yes, it was just an exhibition game and yes, there were probably some first-game jitters involved, but that percentage needs to be around 70% to give the Cardinal the best chance to pull out close games in the regular season.


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This letter is in response to Tommicha Walker's letter, "Help find wanted man," in the Nov. 30 edition of The Lancaster News. Walker was writing in response to Ramond Johnson who wrote the letter, "System failing to keep us safe."
The system cannot help us if we decide to put ourselves in harm's way.
In the story about Javarus Hayden being wanted for attempted murder, there were two people breaking the law and Javarus was one of them.
It's time for New Year's resolutions, particularly those about our health. Although gun violence remains the leading cause of death among young people, our most dangerous weapon is still our fork. Forty-five times as many people die of chronic diseases linked to a diet containing animal products, sugar, and salt.
Hardly a month goes by without another study linking consumption of animal products with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers. No reputable study has ever shown an opposite result.
After reading the article from Mary Smith on Dec. 17, I am totally with her. People who are not from here want to change our community.
Why? Is the reason you moved here is because you liked it? If where you are from is so wonderful, then go back. I-85, I-81, I-95 all go back North. Do not try to change us. You need to change.
Another problem is people who drive in the left lane on U.S. 521 do not know the left lane is the faster lane.
With so much turmoil going on in our great free society in America today, who can be trusted?
To some degree some of those who have been elected and sworn in to serve and protect have also taken on the roles of being the judge, juror and executioner.
It's easy to imagine the families of those who have lost loved ones to senseless acts of violence to become confused, and not fully trust the authorities.
Phil Noble and I see a lot of the same problems. According to him, it is the Republicans fault for all the problems. In the absence of facts, there can be no true reality. Only ideology.
It does not take a lot to keep the mind of the average American occupied- a ball game on TV or maybe Idol and snacks.
There is no or very little cognitive discourse any where. It is not politically correct. When some discourse does happen, truth is generally left out and feelings are most important.
So much turmoil, so many demonstrations. Must be a young folks thing. Seems to me that young folks never really fought for anything, but they have strong opinions on what's going wrong.
Sure as shooting, we have some rotten apples who hide behind a badge and when the truth comes out, they need to be jailed or fired.
No demonstration is ever peaceful. The property of others has to be looted or burned under the guise of making a statement.
You wouln't have expected a meeting of the House Ethics and FOIA Ad Hoc Study Committee to be a good show. But it was.
Most of the meeting was taken up by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-York) contending for stronger language in a committee proposal. The majority of members didn't care for the stronger language, and eventually things started to crackle.
"No, it can't be done." This was the expected comment from football fans when they learned that coach Johnny Roscoe was enticed to come out of his one-year retirement to try to bring another state football championship to the Greensboro, N.C., Northern Gilford Nighthawks.
Coach Roscoe had already won three state championships his last three years of coaching, deserving a well-earned retirement.
The three state championship made history, but the big question, could he do it again.
Shucks, I was just standing in the grocery check-out line with several items in my buggy and I noticed a young man with a couple of things in his hand.
Well, at my age, I don't have too many urgent items on my agenda, so I suggested he go around me and not have to wait.
Well sir, he thanked me before moving ahead and then he thanked me after checking out. I thought he was kind since some folks move on and move out.
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Being 16 years old in 2014 has its benefits. I could not imagine living back in the technological "stone age," so to speak, where not everyone owned TVs, computers or cell phones. However, there are far more bad things about growing up in this age than good. The human race, for the most part, seems to be going down the evolutionary ladder in terms of intellect. Probably more than half of my generation does not understand vital things that they need to know to be productive members of society.
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Odessaōdĕs´ə, Rus. ədyĕ´sə [key], Ukr. Odesa, city (1989 pop. 1,115,000), capital of Odessa region, in Ukraine, a port on Odessa Bay of the Black Sea. The third largest Ukrainian city after Kiev and Kharkiv, Odessa is an important rail junction and highway hub and is a major industrial, cultural, scientific, and resort center. Grain, sugar, machinery, coal, petroleum products, cement, metals, jute, and timber are the chief items of trade at the port of Odessa, which is the leading Ukrainian Black Sea port. Odessa is also a naval base and the home port of a fishing and an antarctic whaling fleet. The city's industries include shipbuilding, oil refining, machine building, metalworking, food processing, and the manufacture of chemicals, machine tools, clothing, and products made of wood, jute, and silk. Large health resorts are located nearby. Odessa has a university (est. 1865), an opera and ballet theater (1809), a historical museum (1825), a municipal library (1830), an astronomical observatory (1871), an opera house (1883–87), and a picture gallery (1898). Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, and Greeks predominate in Odessa's cosmopolitan population.
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