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My younger daughter was born one day shy of St. Patrick's Day. We named her Kate for her Great-Aunt Kitty because we loved the name, not because she was Irish. I didn't understand then that a strong ancestral link could be forged with a country across the sea. My family hails from a part of the country that when asked, "Where did your people come from?," the answer is probably Virginia or South Carolina. Our connections are more local than global.
Then I moved to the North, to a street filled with Maloneys and Callahans who named their children Meghan and Timmy, Margaret Mary, and Patrick. And I learned a thing or two about being Irish.
I learned I'd better wear green on St. Patrick's Day or risk being pinched by a leprechaun. I learned to have at least a passing familiarity with the lyrics to "Danny Boy." I learned to identify the green, white, and orange of my neighbor's flag of Ireland.
And those things I call biscuits? The ones my family slathered with butter or honey, served with fried chicken, and passed piping hot around the Sunday dinner table? The Irish throw in currants or plumped-up raisins, serve them with clotted cream and homemade preserves, and call them scones.
My friend Edel is a transplanted Dubliner, a gourmet cook, and a terrific hostess. When she invites her girlfriends for a chin-wag and a spot of tea, I know that along with lively conversation, I'll sample the most delicious scones ever to pop out of an oven.
Last March, when she visited me in Florida, she agreed to prepare St. Patrick's Day dinner. The menu featured her mother's colcannon, a dish made with potatoes and kale. But kale proved elusive.
At the sixth Publix super–market we visited, we found a helpful produce man. "Do you have any kale?" we asked after a search turned up nothing. It was the wrong time of year, he had just sold the last bag, and it wasn't a highly requested item in our area.
But he offered to check the new deliveries. With great hope, we waited. When he returned with a big smile and a huge package of the dark-green leafy stuff, we took the kale triumphantly home. And although my friend claims colcannon is everyday food in her mom's kitchen, the dish was the hit of the meal.
This year, on March 17, many of the 35.9 million Irish-Americans living in the United States will be cooking corned beef and cabbage, soda bread, or boxty (a potato pancake).
I may not be able to dig deep enough to prove I'm Irish, Scottish, or a mixed-up conglomerate of all those vagabonds who migrated from the Old World to Virginia or South Carolina. But I'll tie my green shamrock scarf around my neck and bake scones for the neighbors. Then, if I'm fortunate enough to find a few bags of kale in my grocery store's produce aisle, I may even attempt colcannon.
My friend Jim Maloney claims that anyone with a daughter named Kate born minutes from St. Patrick's Day must have a wee bit o' the Irish in her. Besides, Jim tells me with a twinkle in his blue eyes, "On St. Patrick's Day, everyone's Irish!"
Irish Colcannon
2 pounds potatoes, peeled and quartered (Yukon Gold work well)
1 pound (about 4 cups) kale, washed, stemmed, and chopped
1 cup half-and-half or light cream
1 large bunch of green onions, chopped fine
5 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
In a large pan, cook the potatoes in boiling water until tender. Drain thoroughly.
While the potatoes are cooking, cook the kale in a separate pan of boiling water until very tender. Drain thoroughly.
In a small saucepan, simmer the green onions in the cream just until tender.
Mash the potatoes well. Add cream and onions. Mix in kale, salt, and pepper.
Mound potatoes in a large bowl. Using a spoon, make a well in the top of the potatoes. Pour the melted butter into the well. Serve hot.
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We run a number of projects and studies aimed at providing concrete evidence and data in the area of innovation in education on which to base policy recommendations.
Additionally, we also regularly publish European Schoolnet's Perspectives papers, which summarize research evidence from key studies on innovation in education, translate this evidence into concrete ideas for policy action, and highlight the implications of the evidence for using technology in teaching and learning.
Policy experimentations
European Schoolnet runs large-scale policy experimentations which use rigorous research methods to develop innovative educational tools and resources which are then tested in order to arrive at results that can be effectively mainstreamed. Our current policy experimentations include:
MENTEP (Mentoring Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy) is a policy experimentation which aims to develop a reliable, user-friendly and sustainable prototype tool for teachers to self-assess progress in Technology-Enhanced Teaching (TET) competence. MENTEP aims to test the tool's impact on TET competencies and peer learning in field trials; provide policy-makers with a national and EU picture of teachers' TET competence, its evolution over a school year and training needs; and disseminate and sustain the tool, the experimental approach and the findings through online courses on European Schoolnet's Academy.
TeachUP (Teacher UPskilling Policy experimentation) is a policy experimentation aiming to develop online courses for teachers in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) on topics related to their new role: Teacher collaboration, Personalising learning, Formative peer assessment and Creativity.
Assess@Learning is a European policy experimentation which aims to support the systemic uptake of Digital Formative Assessment (DFA) practices in schools.
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Around the Future Classroom Lab, a series of EU funded projects aim at tackling the issue of mainstreaming innovation in schools though pilot activities, exchange of best practices, training sessions on site and online as well as designing new learning activities and products:
CO-LAB is a forward-looking project focused on making collaborative teaching and learning a reality in the classroom. Practitioners and policy makers need a dedicated space and time to experiment and better understand what collaborative teaching and learning means in terms of policy and practice. CO-LAB provides these stakeholders with that opportunity.
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ESA's SMART-1 ready to fly
After the completion of all mechanical and electrical verifications, ESA's SMART-1 passed its flight readiness review successfully on Tuesday, 8 July 2003.
SMART-1, Europe's first mission to the moon, will be sent to the ESA launch site at Kourou in French Guiana at the beginning of next week. The last electrical checks and fuelling will take place here before the spacecraft is mated with its Ariane 5 launcher. SMART-1 will be a co-passenger together with two other satellites on board this launcher. The launch is currently scheduled for 28 August 2003 (Kourou time).
SMART-1 will be the first ESA mission to test solar-electric propulsion as a main propulsion system. It will also test advanced miniaturisation technology which will pave the way for future planetary missions.
Giuseppe Racca, ESA's SMART-1 Project Manager, said: "Everything has gone as expected. We're proud of the work done and we are looking forward to sending SMART-1 to the Moon."
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In a stunning bit of hypocrisy, Catholic Health Initiatives – a non-profit that runs about 170 health facilities in 17 states – is arguing that fetuses are not people. Specifically, two fetuses involved in a wrongful death suit brought against them in Colorado.
This began on New Year's Day 2006, when 31-year-old Lori Stodghill arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City, CO. The seven-months-pregnant woman was short of breath and vomiting and she lost consciousness soon after her arrival. Her obstetrician, Dr. Pelham Staples (who also happened to be the OB on-call that night) was paged but he did not answer. Ms. Stodghill died from a heart attack less than an hour after she arrived at the Emergency Room. The twins she was carrying died in her womb. Her bereaved husband filed a wrongful death suit against the hospital on behalf of himself and his daughter (who was 2 at the time), charging that Dr. Staples should have at least directed the ER staff to perform an emergency C-section. An expert testified that while Lori could not in all likelihood have been saved, the babies could have been if a caesarean had been performed right away.
Catholic Health Initiatives, being the parent company of Thomas More Hospital, is the defendant in the case. For a non-profit they do remarkably well, with at least $15 billion in assets. But they maintain that all they seek to do is "nurture the healing ministry of the Church" guided by "fidelity to the Gospel." Of course, they follow the rulings of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the form of the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church. Those directives, as we well know by now, speak of the sanctity of life "from the moment of conception until death." The Church has made quite a big deal out of this lately to the point of objecting to birth control and even cancer screenings (don't even try to follow that "logic").
But I guess that sanctity doesn't extend to fetuses it was tacitly responsible for because Catholic Health's lawyers are arguing that the Colorado court
"should not overturn the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term 'person,' as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive. Colorado state courts define 'person' under the Act to include only those born alive. Therefore Plaintiffs cannot maintain wrongful death claims based on two unborn fetuses."
Hold the phone, Catholic Health. You're saying that those two fetuses – far enough along in their gestation to have been viable outside the womb – are not people now? Talk about your insanity level of hypocrisy! Not only that but so far, two courts have bought this: Fremont County District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals have both upheld that argument. Yes, the Stodghills' attorneys are appealing this case to the Colorado state Supreme Court but it is not definite that the court will even hear the case. If they don't this could affect the state's malpractice laws, setting a scary precedent for all pregnant women in Colorado. If it stands, all viable fetuses would now be considered not to be a person in the eyes of the law.
So it boils down to this: the Catholic Church strongly believes that life begins at conception (never mind that they didn't always think that)… unless that might cost them damages in a lawsuit. So their strident calls for no abortion, no exceptions, not ever! only applies when they want it to apply. When it's more convenient – and less expensive – for them, their strongly held beliefs go by the wayside. It's all just meaningless rhetoric.


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This is easy. That's what I thought as we flew up the California coast near Monterey, with crashing waves and a purple swath of ice plants to our left and the wind at our backs. We were going about 25 but the spinning was effortless. Part of it was the bike—I was riding a badass, black-on-black Specialized Venge outfitted with the new SRAM Red group and Zipp 303 carbon clinchers. Part of it was my company—I was being towed by two friends (and BICYCLING contributors), Selene Yeager and Mike Yozell, both of whom can chat amiably and pedal with restraint and disassemble someone like me in a few hours. Which is just what I expected to happen during the 50-mile fondo at the Sea Otter Classic.
But there's no point dwelling on the inevitable tragedy of the final scene during the romance of the second act. The conversation and the three-lane bike path meandered pleasantly. I had two dependable wheels to sit on. As we ripped out of town, I pondered how the Venge was a perfect fit for the moment, how the rigid speedster with quiet shifting and a raucous freehub would forever be woven into the memory of this excursion as much as the barking sea lions.
Forty-five minutes later, not long before my check-engine light illuminated, I began cataloging recent rides with a similar synergy—where the bicycle, the route, the company, and the intangibles had added up to something flawless. There was that frigid four-and-a-half-hour winter ramble on a BH Prisma, a ride that would have been a death march on a bike that wasn't so steady and comfortable and full of character. I recalled pedaling up Tucson's Mount Lemmon with the BICYCLING test team on a Focus Izalco Pro 3.0, specifically the smooth, confident feeling of rising out of the saddle and pushing that bike, and myself, as hard as I could. There was that day I came home from a bike race and jumped on a Public D1 to get frozen yogurt with my kids; the journey was fun and sweet and dignified. I cannot forget the Pinarello Dogma 2 that I dove into lines I normally wouldn't contemplate as I corkscrewed down 5,000 feet of vertical on a 15-mile descent in the Italian Prealps.
Eventually, the topography interrupted my musings. We turned inland toward the finish at Laguna Seca and the day's only significant climb. Suddenly it was very warm. Mike was describing how he had made matzah on a pizza stone and Selene mentioned that she was doing a 'cross race in the afternoon, and while I was digesting all of this (along with a pomegranate gel), a gap opened up. I made a little effort to close that gap, and another that appeared two minutes later. Mike and Selene kept chatting and spinning, oblivious that my legs felt roughly like wood-fired matzah. My bad-ass Venge could not save me from myself. The third act was beginning. Within minutes, my friends looked like little figurines up the road.
Still, the last 3 miles of climbing were not bad after all. I got out of the saddle and gave it a go. The air was hot and the pavement was perfectly nubby and the pistachio green hills stretched into the distance. All in all, it was a highly satisfying tragedy.
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I have an electronics curse.
I don't know what I've done to make the ohms and amps so angry at me. But when the general curse that frazzles anything that plugs in at my house — that is, anything that doesn't have to do with cooking or writing, thank God on bended knee that my computer and electric teakettle work fine, or truly the men in white coats would have to take me away — I say, when this general electronics curse decides to extend its domain to MY SEED STARTING APPARATUS — the time has come for an existential HOWL of PROTEST.
My pathetic little seedlings have been trying their best, really they have, despite the fact that my costly light rig from the home & ranch store has refused to fire up the second of its two grow-light tubes ever since I brought it in from the garage. Refused, despite my spending $12 on another tube. So it must be the fixture, curse it with a thousand curses from every gardening ancestor I can summon, may rust infect its every weld and join. Not the light tubes themselves.
OK. So I scurry my bee-hind to the Big Box Store of Home Accoutrements and purchase a shop light. $10 on sale. I do not assume said shop light WILL actually light, seeing as how this is my life and such presumption on my part would be certain to anger the malevolent spirits. Nor do I assume the light will not be a quarter-inch too long to be suspended from the light-suspension rack, also purchased last year at a price I quail to mention.
No, no, I do not assume. I test. I take the light fixture from its carton and I test its length. Hurrah. 48 inches on the label translates to 48 inches EVEN WHEN YOU TAKE THE LIGHT OUT OUT OF THE BOX. Amazing. I move back out to the living room to perform more tests. I plug the light in. I bring one tube. And I slowly, carefully — you who have put long, fluorescent light bulbs into shop-light fixtures, you know this dance — I gently maneuver the pairs of pins on each of the tube ends into the little sockets and try to roll the tube into the proper position for these pins. I plug the light in. THE TUBE LIGHTS UP! THE BAND PLAYS! THE CROWD GOES WILD!
OK, no crowd, just the dog, who doesn't exactly go wild because she's hiding in the bedroom, having seen this movie before. Traitor.
So far, so good. Fetch light tube No. 2. Maneuver it into socket-inserting position. Pins lined up. Pins into their sockets. Hold breath. Roll the tube. Plug the fixture in. OH MY GOD!!! WE HAVE TWO LIG … flicker flicker flicker flicker fzzzzzzzzt.
And we have no lights. Both tubes lie, dead opaque white in the light fixture, like big fat beached useless walrus tusks. And nothing that I do, no way that I gently, CALMLY roll or adjust or de-socket or re-insert the tubes, seems to make a bit of difference. Except that one tube, where the silver metal of its end cap is attached — a friend calls this end-cap thingamajig a "baffle," which is just about the most appropriate name it could possibly have — one end cap leaks a tablespoon of a brown, crumbly
substance into the light fixture. NOW WHAT THE HECK IS THAT STUFF?
All right, all you gardeners with your mechanically gifted spouses who can induce anything that plugs in to stand up and recite Shakespeare and who carve you garden gargoyles with their chain saws, all of you ubercompetent women with your pink or purple-handled tool sets who can fix a potty and miter a corner and sump a pump and build French drains: I'm pausing to hate you now, just for the briefest moment, here in the midnight hour when I'm trying to do right by my baby seedlings and yours are all tucked in for the night in their custom greenhouses with their little timers clicking off their perfectly functioning light systems and singing them a lullabye in Old French. Oh, garden hardware envy is a mean, righteous beast and I'm giving myself over to him completely. THERE. Phew.
OK. I'm done hating you, but these light fixtures? They are still On. My. List.
And I'm doing what my blogging she-ro, the Yarn Harlot, does when her knitting threatens her sanity. I'm having a strong drink and a little lie-down.


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Fine Arts Foundation presents 25 at its 2014 debutante ball
Some might call it tempting fate, this business of holding as grand an occasion as a debutante ball outdoors. In June. When early evening thunderstorms are always a threat.
There have been some anxious moments, to be sure, but only twice since Denver's first summer ball was held in 1969 has a storm forced organizers to utilize Plan B.
The threat of rain was there this year, when the Fine Arts Foundation held its 45th debutante ball on the University of Denver campus.
While storm clouds remained overhead as master of ceremonies John Henry Tatlock announced the names of the 25 debutantes, not a single drop of rain fell.
The debutantes — who will soon be off to such institutes of higher learning as Notre Dame, the University of California at San Diego and Gonzaga University — curtsied to a receiving line that included the ball chair, Lynn Wong, and co-chair Julie Anderson, who presented them with tiaras handed to them by tiara mistresses Brianne Rose Engel, Nora Willow Engel, Ava Grace Mohler and Lyndsey Megan Watt.
Receiving line escorts were Casen Taylor Dunn and Austin John Richard Hartman.
Following the presentation and traditional father-daughter waltz, guests repaired to a festively decorated tent to dine on grilled tenderloin from Rendezvous Catering and dance to the music of New Society.
Money raised at the ball is given in the form of grants to performance-focused arts organizations in the Denver area. Twenty-one grants were given in 2013, to groups that included PlatteForum, the Rocky Mountain Children's Choir, Swallow Hill Music Association and Wonderbound.
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ALAMEDA (AP) — Coach Dennis Allen is pleased with the progress he's seen the past two months during the offseason program for the new-look Oakland Raiders.
The Raiders wrapped up their mandatory three-day minicamp on Thursday and won't reconvene as a team again until they report to training camp in Napa on July 24 — two days before the start of practice.
The team that arrives in wine country will look very different from Allen's first one with the Raiders with key players like quarterback Carson Palmer, receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, defensive linemen Richard Seymour and Tommy Kelly, and defensive back Michael Huff long gone as part of the rebuilding plan in Oakland.
"We got a lot of change, a lot of turnover on this football team and the thing I've been the most pleased with is the mindset of this team," Allen said. "I know there's a lot of experts out there that might think differently, but I like this football team."
While making plenty of subtractions as general manager Reggie McKenzie got the team's bloated salary cap in order, the Raiders also made one key addition since starting the offseason program April 15 by bringing defensive back Charles Woodson back to Oakland.
Woodson has moved right into the starting free safety role and has become a leader on a rebuilt defense that could have as many as nine new starters from a year ago.
"Nobody's going to give us a shot this year to do anything," Woodson said. "But for us, if we come out and practice in a way that's going to help us go out there and win games it won't really matter what anybody else says. It'll be about what we do out here on the field."
The changes on defense are part of a complete overhaul engineered by Allen and McKenzie since January 2010, when they took over a franchise that had been run by late owner Al Davis for a half-century.
"I'm getting used to it," said kicker Sebastian Janikowski, whose 13 years with the team make him the longest-tenured player on the roster. "But it's for a good reason. We need to change and we need to change now."
Only 17 players are left from the roster at the end of the 2011 season as McKenzie tries to overhaul a team that hasn't had a winning season or playoff berth since 2010.
There are still some major questions unanswered after the offseason conditioning program, three weeks of OTAs and this week's minicamp. The most notable of those are who will start at quarterback and what to expect from first-round pick D.J. Hayden at cornerback.
Matt Flynn was acquired in April from Seattle to be the front-runner to take over at quarterback from Palmer. Flynn has started only two games in five NFL seasons as the backup to Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay and Russell Wilson in Seattle.
Flynn was expected to start for the Seahawks last year only to be beaten out by the rookie Wilson. While he has failed to seize the job during the offseason program, Terrelle Pryor and rookie Tyler Wilson have been at least equally inconsistent, keeping Flynn the favorite to start when the season opens in September.
"I think they've gotten better," Allen said. "I really do. We're not where we need to be yet but we're not playing tomorrow. I feel good about where we're at from a quarterback standpoint. We got some different elements at the quarterback position, I think all of them have their strengths and we got to try to put them in position to try to utilize their strengths."
The Raiders have little idea what Hayden can do after his offseason program was shut down quickly after he underwent surgery to remove scar tissue from his abdominal region. Hayden was picked 12th overall despite missing the end of his final season in college at Houston because of a torn blood vessel that nearly killed him last November after a practice collision with a teammate.
Hayden is expected to be fully recovered when training camp starts in July and will compete with veteran offseason additions Tracy Porter and Mike Jenkins for a starting cornerback spot.
NOTES: Jenkins returned to practice after leaving early Wednesday when he banged knees with a teammate. CB Phillip Adams remained sidelined with a sore hamstring. ... All of the players who missed the minicamp with injuries are expected to be healthy for the start of training camp. ... The Raiders announced Thursday that they had signed third-round draft pick Sio Moore, a linebacker out of Connecticut.


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Let me start by saying I'm not anti-HTML5. I think it's great. I think open standards are core to the DNA of the web and that's part of the reason I've been encouraged that Adobe is moving more in that direction with AMF, RTMP, and some of our underlying protocols. But I also don't think that means there is no room for companies like Adobe and Microsoft that want to see the web be better. I don't think it's an issue of corporate greed or vendor lock-in, but I understand the economics of how those end up being profitable. On the Adobe side I think it's just that we have a lot of services and tools that we want to provide and we need a platform we can innovate quickly on. When the winds of technology shift we want to be able to make sure our customers can stay ahead. Video? RIAs? Real-time collaboration? Enterprise data management? All things our customers needed that we could build into the platform and make available to them. With the way open standards work it's just not feasible to push those innovations through. So we've been very careful with the Flash Player. That's how we provide our customers value. But it goes beyond features and into another problem with the web: a consistent experience. From browser to browser you're going to get wildly different implementations of a "standard". With Flash Player you can deploy your content and know it will run the same way for everyone that has Flash regardless of browser or operating system. There was an example today that made me chuckle and write this post. It's not the best example; blurs and sparkly trails are not necessarily ideal uses of Flash, but in this context it was important. They wanted to capture a specific experience, it added value to the overall presentation, and was worth taking the time to create. Here's the email:
Hey all-
My 20% at Google is the NORAD Santa Tracker, which gazillions of adults and kiddies use each year to track the progress of Santa across the world.
Last year, I used our Flash API to create the tracker map, primarily so that I could make a glittery comet trail of Santa's past 7 stops. I tried it in JS with resized animated GIFs, and then decided that Flash would be much less painful – and was right. The code drew a line on a Sprite, blurred the line, then added some little sparkle movies and animated them.
You can see a screenshot with some trail here: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/24/santa_nrad_edited.jpg
This year, I have ported the map to our JS v3 API, because we are doing aversion that utilizes the Earth plug-in (3d flying Santa!), and I wanted to make sure there was a version that didn't require a plug-in. But, I really miss the glittery comet trail.
– Works in FF3, Chrome/Safari, IE 7+.
– Doesn't require images (bandwidth is an issue).
– Doesn't require a plugin
I've contemplated canvas, but not sure if that supports foreground blurring,and don't know if it would translate to VML with excanvas. It doesn't seem very SVG-y. I could try animated GIFs again, but they don't animate the same across browsers. I could also try window.setTimeout with some PNGs, but that will slow down the browser, require images, and won't achieve the same blurred line effect.
Do any of you have a better idea? (Help prove to me and the kiddies that Open Web can make magic happen!
– PamElf (<- my elf code name)
Not an off the wall request by any means. It's a pretty basic task and using open standards in this case is a great way to go. Especially considering that she'd like mobile support for this (later email) and HTML is still the best way to target every level of device. What surprised me was the responses:
My two cents:
SVG Web does support the blur filter so you could get this working cross browser if you force the flash renderer.
If you just forced the flash renderer for IE, that doesn't solve the problem of Chrome/Safari who have not turned on their SVG Filter support.
SVG Web is a cool project to support SVG, but a requirement is that you have to use Flash. So even when you try to use open standards, you still have to fall back to Flash in some cases.
A hack would be to have a separate
<canvas>that draws the blur w/ an opacity and z it?
Seems like a decent solution, but requires some hacks. This is fine for a 20% project, but when you're trying to be productive, are hacky solutions the best way to go?
How 'bouts IE 7+ with GCF? That'd let you try things like
<canvas>more directly.
A perfectly fine way to do it, but GCF is the Google Chrome Frame plug-in, which would mean another plugin and as Pamela says the message after that, it's not ideal at all from an end-user case.
Now I understand that the major roadblock here is the IE 7 requirement. If it wasn't for that you wouldn't need the Flash fallback for SVG Web and you wouldn't need to use something like the Chrome Frame plug-in to make it work. But that's kind of the point of open standards. Before you can really take advantage of a technology you need to get a consensus from everyone. All of the browser vendors have different agendas and different priorities. Right now Microsoft is the hold-out, but what happens if something comes along and threatens another browser vendor's goals? Then they'll be the hold out. That's part of the price you pay for standards; you have to get everyone on the same page before you can move forward.
In the end, that's better for everyone. Once everyone gets moving in the same direction, that becomes the baseline, and the web is a better place. We're seeing that start to happen with HTML5. And despite the "Flash is dead" rhetoric, HTML5 will be a good thing for the web. Things like playing basic video and doing animation/vector graphics are so simple and yet so integral to the web experience that they should have been done in an open standards way a long time ago. But if Flash didn't exist those things wouldn't have become as important as they did as quickly as they did. And even now, as the web tries to move forward, Flash is being used as the fallback so that the web can evolve even if not everyone in the group buys in.
To me, that says that Flash will always have value. We control the platform so we can keep innovating and pushing the web forward in our own way. Maybe that's content protected video, maybe it's P2P support, maybe it's a binary transfer protocol, maybe it's hardware acceleration, maybe it's writing your own filters and blend modes, and maybe it's real-time collaboration. Eventually, the open web will incorporate all of those things. But I still wish there was more cooperation between the companies who have technology core to the web and the open standards groups who create the future of the open web. If nothing else, the open standards organizations can see what features stick and which don't so that you don't waste valuable time trying to standardize something users don't want.
In the end, everyone wins. Flash won't die, Flash developers can still be on the cutting edge, and Adobe will continue to support designers and developers on both sides of the open web/Flash spectrum. We're all part of the web ecosystem in our own ways. Just like any ecological system, if one side goes extinct, the other is going to suffer.


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courtesy of ISD 197 • West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan ISD 197 is asking residents to vote to approve a $117 building bond on May 8. If it's approved, all eight of the district's school buildings will be improved, including Henry Sibley High School.
On Dec. 4, the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area School Board unanimously voted to put a funding question before voters on May 8.
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Nine candidates were on the ballot Nov. 3, each vying for one of the four-at-large seats on the ISD 197 School Board.
The board will see only one new face, as three of the four winners are incumbents.
ISD 197 school board elections: nine candidates, four seats
On Nov. 3 residents of West St. Paul, Mendota Heights and part of Eagan will have the opportunity to select a majority of the ISD 197 school board.
The terms of current school board members Brenda Corbett, Joanne Mansur, Byron Schwab and Mark Spurr are set to expire Dec. 31. All but Spurr are running for re-election.
This summer area school districts, including 197, 199, and 6, are participating in the Minnesota Department of Education's Summer Food Service Program.
A handful of ISD 197's early childhood learning programs will be relocating to a building at 1970 Christensen Avenue in West St. Paul for the upcoming school year, to accommodate an increase in overall enrollment. (Review graphic)
As the current school year winds down with final exams, field trips and graduation ceremonies, District 197 is preparing for a bulge in incoming classes this fall — classes whose students may not graduate until 2029 or 2030.
West St. Paul area hockey players can breathe a sigh of relief — or maybe let out a duck call — thanks to the Mighty Ducks ice arena grant program.
With a string of Facebook photos Nov. 5, School District 197 thanked the community for voting to increase funding for technology and security initiatives. Similar requests failed in a special election in May. (Courtesy photo)
Steam behind stadium falls short at polls
The second time's the charm for School District 197.
West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area Schools will see a jump in funding starting next year, thanks to the around 10,000 voters who said "yes" to security upgrades and renewing and increasing the technology levy.
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As he approaches retirement at the end of the year, California State University System Chancellor Charles Reed is calling for big changes in public higher education in the state.
Writing in the LA Times, Reed offers four ideas. Three are predictable -- more emphasis on online learning, better partnerships with undeserved communities, and more accountability and measurement of higher ed's performance based on data.
The fourth idea Reed offers is provocative, and bigger than others. He argues for changing the way students pay for their education -- getting rid of tuition and fees and instead paying a certain cost for a degree that is linked to the expected salary of a degree holder.
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Creating a career-based funding model. Scrap the tuition/fees model for needs-based financial aid and consider a system that charges a fixed cost for a degree. For example, it might cost $25,000 to become a teacher and $40,000 to become an engineer. The money would go to the institution to cover the costs of the degree. When students graduate and get jobs, they pay back the money through income taxes. A teacher would have a smaller payback, for example, than an engineer, who presumably would earn a higher salary. Those who stay in the chosen career in the state for a fixed number of years would pay less.
That proposal is vague in a ton of places, and raises all kinds of questions, both practical and philosophical, about how it would work in practice. Wouldn't this effectively be a way of putting more costs, and debt on the current generation, as today's older generations continue to reduce support for education? What about the serendipity and discovery of studying at university and finding out you're not interested in what you thought you were interested in? How does this work in a world in which fields are interdisciplinary and careers change so frequently?
Related: Another Brick Falls from Higher Education Wall
And how can you anticipate professional salaries? How would you account for someone studying to be a doctor -- who would still have to do graduate study for an MD? How do you account for the wide range of salaries within fields? A computer programmer who goes to work in a high school computer lab is going to make much less than the one who goes to work at Google.
Even with all those objections and questions, Reed offers an idea worth debating. If only because California desperately needs to think about what it wants from higher education, and how it proposes to pay for it. Sadly, after 14 years in office, Reed departs CSU with those questions unanswered.


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"For ten days now we have been touring Sumatra to bear witness to the true state of Indonesia's rainforests - and everywhere we go we see forest destruction. It's distressing, but at the same time it drives us to keep fighting against deforestation, like that caused by the creation of industrial plantations for pulp and paper by companies like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). My name is Cakra, I am one of the 'tiger's eye' activists participating in the tour, and although it is tiring, our desire to protect Indonesian rainforests keeps us going.
This week we travelled to Tesso Nilo National Park, one of the last remaining natural forests in Sumatra, but its existence is under threat. I've been imagining the beauty and biodiversity of our rainforests and hoping to see some of it at Tesso Nilo.
Instead what we saw on our way there worried me. Timber trucks were a regular sight during our journey. Si Maung (my bike's name) kept moving, the King of the Forest – the Sumatran tiger – is a big inspiration for this trip and his stripes decorate my bike. Our team leader, Adhon gives us instructions to slow down and suddenly we see a big signboard ahead. It reads: PT. Arara Abadi. This is one of the companies owned by APP. My GPS (global positioning system) shows this location is not far from the spot where a Sumatran tiger became trapped and later died. This tragedy happened in July on the border of the concession area where we've now stopped.
Entering the concession area of PT. Arara Abadi, we're immediately met with a view of destruction. We stop to document it and together our whole team approaches an area of peatland, which has been destroyed. It used to be the tiger's home. The peat dome was opened to dry the peat, releasing the large amounts of carbon stored there. This destruction of peatlands contributes to Indonesia having the third highest carbon emissions in the world, after the US and China. After the peatlands have dried, this concession will become a monoculture plantation for producing pulpwood. This is exactly the kind of destructive activity that we are trying to stop.
Tiger activists crossing the canal in concession area of PT Arara Abadi, a supplier to Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). The activists are touring Sumatra to highlight Indonesia's deforestation. Image: Ulet Ifansasti
After documenting the destruction at PT. Arara Abadi concession, we continue our journey, to Tesso Nilo. Arriving there we were greeted by Novi, Dono, Indro, Tesso, Nela, Ria, Rahman, Lisa, Villa and little Imbo. They are a group of Sumatran elephants from the Flying Squad Camp WWF (World Wildlife Federation), inside Tesso Nilo National Park. We enjoyed the most unique welcome ceremony so far on our tour as we were given leis (garlands) by the elephants themselves.
One of the Tesso Nilo Fling Squad elephants places a lei on a Greenpeace activist dressed in tiger costume during their visit to the National Park - one of the last remaining natural forests in Sumatra. Image: Ulet Ifansasti
Syamsuardi, the WWF Riau Flying Squad Coordinator, explained that the importance of elephants and tigers as 'umbrella species' is because their roaming distance can be very far. One Sumatran tiger (Panthera Tigris Sumatrae) has a roaming range of up to 100 km square. And the elephant's range is up to 60 km square. This means that if elephant and tiger habitat can be protected, a lot of other species that live within the vast areas they roam in will also be protected.
In the afternoon, it's time for the elephants to take a bath. We get the chance to shower and feed them, and then tour Tesso Nilo National Park. It's a fascinating place, but also a challenging place, as it's one of the last remaining natural forests and must be protected from the kind of destruction we just witnessed at PT Arara Abadi concession.
During our tour we pass close to forest next to a river and find tiger's footprints. These footprints show us that this area is natural habitat for the Sumatran Tiger, seeing the paw marks is so exciting. It makes us feel closer to the animal and the forests we are trying to protect. As we continue our tour throughout Sumatra we will keep collecting new facts on the status of its natural forests. We will continue asking for all Indonesian people - and people all over the world - to bear witness, to become the 'eye of the tiger' with us, and urge companies to stop destroying forests and become more responsible for protecting nature.
I know that deforestation and animal extinction will be closely related to the loss of Indonesian culture. I do not want to be the generation who failed to protect Indonesia's forests from the greedy. The future of our forest is the future of Indonesia. I hope the next generation - such as Almira (one of the Indonesian President's grandchildren) – will still be able to enjoy the beauty of Tesso Nilo and its biodiversity. I hope that Almira's grandfather – President SBY - and all Indonesian people will take the necessary action to protect Indonesia's forests now.
There is still time to stop the destruction."
Cakra's account of the destruction he's witnessed is alarming. It serves to remind us of how obscene and unjustified it is that such extraordinary and unique habitats are being systematically destroyed to make throwaway products such as Cottonsoft toilet paper. Despite their deliberate attempts to mislead the New Zealand public, this is the reality of what Cottonsoft suppliers are responsible for on the ground in Indonesia.
And this is why it is so important that customers and retailers send a very clear message to Cottonsoft and APP that they must immediately commit to ending rainforest destruction and ensure that they only sell paper products that meet the highest possible environmental standards.


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A. CFCA encourages sponsored children and youth to strive to achieve their educational goals. For a growing number of sponsored youth, this means pursuing a college education or vocational training.
Normal monthly sponsorship benefits, however, are not always enough to cover the entire educational expenses, and the sponsored member's family may not be able to make up the difference.
If you are interested in helping your sponsored friend with additional educational expenses beyond the monthly sponsorship amount, you can make special contributions by establishing an education fund for your sponsored friend.
If your sponsored friend still has a few years before reaching higher education or vocational training but you would like to start planning for the future now, you can make additional contributions to a future education fund for your sponsored child.
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Tips led to 696 arrests in 2013
Tips made through the Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers program continually lead to arrests and the seizure of drugs and stolen property. In 2013, 696 criminals were arrested closing 1,600 cases and resulting in the seizure of more than $1 million in drugs and property.
"That's about on pace with last year's numbers," said Crime Stoppers coordinator Trish Routte. "Funding from the state has been cut for the last three years. We always try to do more with less, but the numbers have stayed pretty steady. We did, however, seize more drugs this year."
Drug seizure is by far the top result of anonymous tips from the public. In 2013, more than $879,000 in illegal narcotics were confiscated with more than $167,000 in weapons and property recovered.
"Tipsters are the lifeblood of the Crime Stoppers program," said Routte. "We rely on citizens to report unusual activity in their neighborhoods, or anything that doesn't feel right."
Crime Stoppers works because of a partnership with law enforcement, who quickly follow up on every tip, and the tipsters.
Tips are received by phone, online and texts.
"We get a couple of hundred tips each and every week," Routte said. "We have made arrests within 30 minutes of a crime as well as weeks or years later. Some people don't like being seen talking to cops, but after some time passes they call to report something. We do everything possible to protect the identity of our tipsters, making sure nothing ever gets traced back to them."
Since last Jan. 1, Crime Stoppers paid out $144,270 in reward money, which comes from fines and costs paid by criminals, not taxpayer dollars. A portion of those fines and costs comes back to the reward fund and to operate the hotline in the form of a grant through Tallahassee. Funding for the remainder of the Crime Stoppers program, salaries, supplies, etc., comes from the Lee County Sheriff's Office budget.
Since its formation in 1981, Crime Stoppers has grown steadily. Anonymous tips in 2003 led to 204 arrests, closing 300 cases, seizing $181,072 in drugs and property, and paying out just $28,000 in rewards.
"We'd love toy see an uptick in the numbers in 2014," said Routte.
Drugs taken from criminals eventually are destroyed by law enforcement while stolen property is returned to its rightful owner if possible. The rest goes to a forfeiture fund.


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I was born in Alaska. Though my parents divorced and my mother brought me and my brother with her to California (her home state), her love affair with Alaska continued. Mom had a whole kit of Alaska materials (walrus tusks, Eskimo crafts, postcards) that she would take with her on teaching jobs. By the time I was paying attention to politics Alaska seemed to be deeply Republican. I assumed it had always been so. Sure, my family is liberal – even the ones still up there – but isn't that stereotype about rural people being Republican true enough? Most of Alaska is decidedly rural.
Chuck Thompson was born in Juneau (he has quite an attitude about my native Anchorage), and in his book Smile When You're Lying: confessions of a rogue travel writer Thompson pinpoints the Republicanizing of Alaska:
"1982, with Alaska dripping in crude, the first Permanent Fund Dividend checks were issued by the state government to all Alaskans -- $1,000 given away to each of the state's 550,043 lucky residents, every penny based on investments made with oil revenues. A pittance for corporate oil even then, but a $6,000 payout for families with four kids, like mine, was big money. Some call the Permanent Fund Dividends pseudosocialism, but the truth is less complex: they're a bribe. Alaska's once-liberal voters haven't sent a non-Republican to Washington since the day that first check was issued. Alaska today isn't so much a GOP stronghold as it is an oil fiefdom."
The Republicanized Alaska proudly ties on his ideological mask – "self-sufficiency and rugged individualism" – but behind the mask those squishy individuals glue their lips to the tit of the state. Thompson, wryly, concludes, "The importance of independence myths is inversely proportional to the degree to which any society has surrendered its sovereignty."


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Janis Establish JAIHO Endowment
August 16, 2011
MACOMB, IL -- In appreciation of the campus and community, Western Illinois University Professor Emeritus Dr. Subhash Jani and his family have established an endowment with the WIU Foundation to support the Jani Annual International Home (JAIHO) Students Sports Event. Jani, his wife, Linda, daughters Jayshree and Shanti, son-in-law Xevi and granddaughter Aasha, together signed the endowment agreement Aug. 10 with Western President Jack Thomas.
The annual event is intended to provide a sports venue to promote international awareness and understanding between Western Illinois University and Macomb High School students, and to engage the community at large. Participants will come from the local and international communities of both WIU and MHS, including those with special needs or disabilities. Western's Center for International Studies (CIS) will oversee the event, which will alternate between a U.S. and international sport or game, either indoors or outdoors, for the annual focus: kite flying, baseball, cricket, golf, carrom, hoover ball, basketball, etc.
JAIHO is Hindi for "May Victory Prevail," and the title of the Academy Award winning theme song from the 2008 film "Slumdog Millionaire." The Jani family felt it was an appropriate term for the sentiment of the event.
"The International Home Students Sports Event is the Jani family's token of appreciation for the many gestures of friendship and memories that the town and gown members have provided us, especially during the time our children were in the Macomb schools," said Subhash.
"The community has been very good to us," Linda added. "Our children gained so much from their sports experiences, so we hope that this activity will foster lasting friendships and leave participants with the memory of the richness of our global cultures."
Subhash and Linda, together with their grown children, Shanti, Krishna, Jayshree and Raam, wanted to develop a program with enduring value that would incorporate their backgrounds, pay tribute to what made their family better citizens, promote town/gown cohesion, while "making our town a better place." The entire family favored the idea of fostering "collaborative competitiveness," something they all experienced and benefitted from.
"I was born in India, lived in Tanzania and educated in England before coming to the United States," said Subhash. "I came to the USA with a total of $600 in graduate assistantship funds for nine months, and the sacrifice and empowerment of my parents. I was a beneficiary of the caste system and experienced the negativity of segregation. Sports are a great unifier to the paths of justice."
"A sporting event blends our areas of interest," Linda continued. "Our children gained so much from participating in team sports growing up, where there was certainly competitiveness, but team spirit was such a big part of the experience. We like the focus on inclusion."
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I think that Atavism's currently at a major turning point in the story. Lupus has gotten most of Skandatech killed, along with (from what I know) the entire SRS cult. He's also wiped Sigma's mind via the thralldom device. However, while he may have killed off some possible threats to his goal, Zed's betrayed him. And from what I can tell, Zed was a pretty useful guy to have around.
Zed now has Oswald, Grey, Faust, and maybe Hart on his team. And while Zed and Oswald might not be big enough players to stay alive for long, I can assume that the three mercenaries are.
On Lupus's side is Sigma, who's pretty damn powerful and probably not a coward anymore. Lupus might also have any number of flunkies at his disposal.
The only other character still ALIVE I can think of is Joanne (Leander, Fox, Hart's head voice, and any others of the like don't count) and she could go to either side, really. Though I predict it will be Zed's side so she can help them stop Sigma.
Anyhoo, the number of characters has dwindled significantly and the remainder have mostly chosen (or been forced onto) sides. This could mean Atavism is reaching it's conclusion, but could also mean that things are going to greatly change, likely for the worst as far as out "heroes" are concerned, as the plot takes a massive turn.
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The OBIE Award winner will be directed by SCR Founding Artistic Director David Emmes.
"When we first commissioned Donald, his career was just taking off, and Sight Unseen was the catalyst," Emmes recalled. "Today, it's considered a modern classic. We are thrilled to bring this wonderful play back for its 20thanniversary production."
Set in the early 1990s, Sight Unseen examines the celebrity art world of its day through the character of Jonathan Waxman, an artist with a waiting list for works he has yet to paint. Jonathan's first European exhibition is just days away, but something is missing, so he heads to the English countryside for a reunion with his estranged college sweetheart and muse, Patricia. The play jumps back and forth in time to reveal the pair's tangled history, along the way exploring how time and memory transform feelings, relationships and perceptions of the past.
Gregory Sims, who appeared in the film Real Steel and in Sacred Fools Theatre Company's Richard III, will make his SCR debut as Waxman. Nancy Bell, who starred in the SCR productions of Noises Off, What They Have and All My Sons, will play Patricia. Rounding out the cast are Andrew Borba (SCR's In the Next Room or the vibrator play) as Patricia's husband, Nick; and Erin Anderson (The Actors' Gang's Cymbeline the Puppet Queen) as Greta, a journalist who puts Waxman through the toughest interview of his life.
Director David Emmes co-founded SCR in 1964 and has directed scores of productions here, including last season's Three Days of Rain, and, earlier, the world premieres of Amy Freed's Safe in Hell, The Beard of Avon andFreedomland; Thomas Babe's Great Day in the Morning; Keith Reddin's Rum and Coke and But Not for Me; and Neal Bell's Cold Sweat. He is a recipient of the Margo Jones Award for his lifetime commitment to theatre excellence.
Sight Unseen's artistic team is comprised of Cameron Anderson (set design), Fred Kinney (costume design),Geoff Korf (lighting design), Cricket S. Myers (sound design) and Kathryn Davies (stage manager).
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