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bkleinhe necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 121 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Jennifer K Photography
I consider myself both a life-style and formal portrait photographer. The majority of my work is outdoors or on location but will soon be moving to a studio setting as well where I will be able to do more traditional posed photography. I am in my early 30's and although have an appreciation for classic portraiture, I love the new funky looks of photography and using all of the latest and greatest that photoshop has to offer to add a more artistic element to my photographs.
I like to think of myself as fun, outgoing, trendy and always wanting to try new ways of photographing my subjects
I am a brand new photographer, so I am still developing my brand.
I need a logo that can be my inspiration & starting point for my whole brand.
I want a logo that has a new and fresh feel but will not need to be changed in three years due to it being overly trendy. The logo must contain my full name- Jennifer K Photography.
My target audience is both parents and teenagers. I am doing maternity, newborn, family and high school senior portraits. My clients are typically very well connected with facebook, twitter and the Internet. They are fun, trendy and current with fashion and trends...especially high school seniors!
At some point I will also target various other groups of people for weddings and commercial photography so while the design must mainly appeal to women/families, it must be able to be used for other photography types as well.
A few words that would describe what I am looking for:
Colors -
I am open to all colors. Just start designing and l will post comments on the colors that I do not like.
Fonts -
Font should be clean and fresh.
Graphic -
I'm open to ideas. Maybe play with the K in Jennifer "K". I definitely want more of a boutique feel over a corporate feel.
What I don't want - VERY important:
- No literal photography logos, no cameras, no film strips
Finished requirements -
I would like one element of the logo to be usable for my prints, such as a signature stamp on the bottom corner of each of my prints but not the entire logo. This is so there is brand continuity between the website, business cards and final prints. Perhaps my company initials or other ways to do this. The final deliverables should be Photoshop psd file and an Adobe Illustrator file. I would also like to have a list of Fonts used. Please also provide high resolution jpg of winning design.
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(1/21/13) Partners of Black River Memorial Hospital are hosting a LINEN SALE on Monday, February 11th, 2013 from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Black River Memorial Hospital.
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Clyde McBride is one of those everyday saints who, without much fanfare, go about the work of changing, and sometimes saving, the lives of children. He teaches agricultural science on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Ariz. He's a memorable-looking fellow, with his cowboy hat, horsehide tie and a body like a giant sack of flour perched on tiny toothpick legs. His most notable characteristic, though, is his persistence. When a new school superintendent arrived in town a few years ago, McBride parked himself on the guy's doorstep. "He came in and gave me the 'I have a dream' speech," says superintendent Harry Martin. "I told him I'd think about it, but he wouldn't let me think about it. He was bugging me three, four times a week about it."
McBride's dream was a state-of-the-art agricultural-sciences building with two veterinary operating theaters--one for small animals and one for large ones--to train Navajo kids to be veterinary aides and technicians and perhaps even to start a few of them down the road to becoming veterinarians. "I thought it was a waste of money and time," Martin told me. "I'm an old English teacher. I was very skeptical about vocational education. We needed to be drilling them on basic skills. But McBride said he'd make a believer out of me. And he did."
Two years later, with the $2.4 million agricultural- and technical-sciences building up and running, Martin says, "It's without doubt the best program we have. It's an alternative way to teach them math, science and reading. They love it. They're attentive, working hard, hands on." McBride imports veterinarians from around the country to visit the reservation and work with the 226 students, who assist in both operating theaters, prepping animals for surgery and learning how to suture, draw blood and give injections. The veterinary clinic has become a valued resource on the reservation, but more than that, the academic results have been spectacular. "Nearly every one of these kids passed the state comprehensive test we give to 17-year-olds in Arizona," Martin told me. "Less than about 40% of my non-vocational-education students passed."
Vocational education used to be where you sent the dumb kids or the supposed misfits who weren't suited for classroom learning. It began to fall out of fashion about 40 years ago, in part because it became a civil rights issue: voc-ed was seen as a form of segregation, a convenient dumping ground for minority kids in Northern cities. "That was a real problem," former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein told me. "And the voc-ed programs were pretty awful. They weren't training the kids for specific jobs or for certified skills. It really was a waste of time and money."


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John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
Attention, media: Please stop writing about bus-roof gardens as if they would actually work in the real world.
Yes, I know it's an irresistible idea. Take the underutilized tops of city buses and transform them into verdant patches of pastureland chugging along at 35 m.p.h. These nomadic gardens would not only look enchanting from above, the thinking goes, but would add rare green space to concrete-besotted burgs. The roofs of New York's 4,500-something buses, for instance, could support 35 acres of green life equal to four Bryant Parks.
That calculation comes courtesy of Marco Castro Cosio, an NYU interaction-designer grad who is almost single-handedly responsible for spreading the gospel of bus-roof gardens. In his 2010 thesis on the subject, Cosio laid out a buffet of supposed benefits of a chlorophyll fleet, including:
Aesthetic Value
Mitigation of Urban Heat Island Effect
Acoustical and Thermal Insulation
Storm Water Reduction
CO2 absorption
Habitat Restoration
Storm Water Management
Public Education and Recreation
Reclaiming Forgotten Real Estate
Sound too good to be true? It is. Nevertheless, Cosio's "Bus Roots" idea has garnered loads of praise, earning the runner-up spot in Designwala's 2010 urban-design competition and landing in 2011's Festival of Ideas for the New City, an event in NYC meant to "harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it."
This is currently not happening.
Publications and websites from France, Japan, Canada, Germany and elsewhere have similarly swallowed Bus Roots uncritically, publishing Photoshopped images from Cosio's thesis that suggest these buses could be out there right now, carrying passengers. The most recent offender is Wake Up World, which ran with this Feb. 27 headline: "Gardens Flourish on Top of City Busses." Three problems: "Gardens" should be singular, because there's only one garden, a small prototype atop the BioBus that's growing sedum. "Flourish" is much too enthusiastic a verb for what the sedum is doing; the ornamental stonecrop basically sits there at ankle height doing nothing. And just to be picky, buses is spelled wrong.
You can find other misleading stories here, here and here. It's not Cosio's fault that people keep rewriting his school project like it's on track to becoming the world's greatest municipal program.
"I am very surprised" about Bus Roots' enduring popularity, Cosio said Friday afternoon by phone, noting that two European magazines had contacted him about it just this week. The designer says he's been talking to NYC officials about possibly launching such a frondy bus this summer, but has no agreement yet. "It's going slowly."
To help reality-check this bus-garden idea, and with luck lay Bus Roots gently into its grave, I went to Aaron Overman, deputy associate director for the District Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. Overman helps run D.C.'s herd of Circulators and knows a thing or two about bus design and operation. He pointed out several potential problems with Cosio's concept, the first being...
Fuel economy
Sure, a widespread adoption of these gardens could theoretically remove some harmful carbon dioxide from the air. But how much will their mechanical pack animals sweat out in return? By Cosio's own estimates, a garden could weigh as much as 2,000 pounds. The vehicle is going to have to burn a lot more gas to compensate for this extra burden. Buses are not the friendliest gas-burners to begin with, eating 3 to 4 gallons of fuel per mile, and slapping a load of dirt, soil and plant matter to its roof will make them into exhaust-spewing Sherman Tanks. "This would be a permanent load on the bus itself and you'll burn more fuel just moving that additional weight through the street," Overman says. "It just doesn't make sense from a global-output standpoint."
"There would need to be some sort of irrigation equipment and water on the bus – again, more weight and fuel consumption," says Overman. Granted, plants like sedum don't require frequent watering to survive, normally. But this is not a normal garden. The soil layer is much thinner than what you get in a backyard. Buses often run on marathon schedules from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. on weekdays, exposing the plantings to long periods of direct sunlight and dehydrating currents of wind created by the movement of the vehicle. It would take a special kind of plant to withstand such an alien environment – Spanish moss stapled to the roof might work. Otherwise, somebody would need to water the beds regularly to prevent plant death.
Add water and you create the potential for leaking. Bus roofs would require "additional layers to ensure that water does not drip through to the passenger areas," Overman says. Even buses with well-waterproofed hides might have seals between joints that could deteriorate enough to turn the inside of the coach into an indoors rainforest.
This is more realistic: the Bus Roots prototype garden atop the BioBus. (Image via Bus Roots)
In Cosio's prototype, the plants embed their roots in a textile commonly used in the green-roofing industry. The beds rest in a Tyvek membrane and are surrounded by an aluminum frame. I would still think that should the bus driver hit the gas pedal while chugging up a hill, he would lose a rear chunk of the garden to spontaneous erosion. Likewise, if he were to brake hard in traffic, the car ahead of the bus could become covered in soil and plantings.
Emergency Access
Buses are required to have multiple evacuation points in case of a serious accident. Often these exits are located on the ceiling, forming impromptu doorways when a bus is knocked on its side. Regulators would not look kindly on any emergency scheme that requires people to claw through dirt and leafs to reach safety.
Although the roofs of city buses look barren, they're not. Take D.C.'s fleet. There are six or seven different devices on the roof that keep the bus functioning properly: GPS equipment that makes predictions of arrival times; radio antenna to maintain the driver's link with a supervisor; a wireless connection for the fareboxes to keep track of the day's revenue and passenger count. Bus designers would have to be mighty creative to make room for both a garden and all this gear. Antenna trees, perhaps?
To help flatten the curve in the Covid-19 outbreak, officials at all levels of government are asking people to stay home. Here's what's worked, and what hasn't.
Because of coronavirus, millions of tenants won't be able to write rent checks. But calls for a rent holiday often ignore the longer-term economic effects.
As the coronavirus crisis forces changes in transportation, some cities are building bike lanes and protecting cycling shops. Here's why that makes sense.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what's next.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 4, 2011) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on April 4 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas and other team news.
MONTREUX VOLLEY MASTERS POOLS DETERMINED: The U.S. Women's National Team will compete in the Montreux Volley Masters event held June 7-12 in Montreux, Switzerland. The U.S. opens the tournament on June 7 versus Peru. After its off-day in pool play, Team USA faces Germany on June 9 followed by a June 10 match against China. Semifinal round matches will take place on June 11, followed by the classification matches on June 12. In the opposite Montreux Volley Masters Pool, the four teams competing for the title are Cuba, Italy, Japan and Netherlands.
KIRALY, MORRISON LEADING AUSTRIAN CLINIC: U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.) and U.S. Women's National Team Technical Coordinator/Assistant Coach Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) will lead a coaches' clinic in Austria on April 10. Morrison, who is serving as the head coach of the Austrian professional team Post Schwechat, helped organize the clinic. Among the topics Kiraly will speak on are: "Secrets of American Success," "The Work of a U.S. National Team Coach," "U.S. System of Block Defense" and "U.S. System of Service Reception." Meanwhile, Morrison will discuss the efficient use of DataVolley in preparing for a competition as well as analysis and evaluation of matches. Post Schwechat has six Americans competing on the squad that has reached the Austrian Bundesliga final round after advancing to the Challenge Round of the CEV Cup.
BERG, HODGE WITH VILLA CORTESE IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) are competing for MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese in the Italian Serie A league during the 2010-11 professional club season. In Italian Serie A action, Villa Cortese (14-4, 39 points) edged first-place Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo (13-5, 40 points) 25-18, 25-20, 23-25, 21-25, 15-11 on April 3. Berg set the squad to a 43 kill percent for the match while chipping in a point each in kills, blocks and aces for three points. Hodge contributed 16 kills on 36 attacks, one block and one ace for 18 points from her outside hitter spot. Villa Cortese, now just a point out of first place, returns to the court on April 10 to face third-place Scavolini Pesaro (11-5, 35 points). During the Italian Cup Serie A, Villa Cortese has advanced to meet Yamamay Busto Arsizio in the semifinals on April 16, with the final on April 17.
PAOLINI WITH NOVARA IN ITALY: Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing this professional season in Italy with Asystel Volley Novara of the Italian Serie A Division. Novara (11-7, 34 points) topped third-place Yamamay Busto Arsizio (11-7, 35 points) 14-25, 25-21, 27-25, 17-25, 15-9 on April 3. Paolini charted 10 kills on 21 attacks to go with two blocks for 12 points in the victory. She also handled four service receptions with a 75 positive percent. Novara, now in fifth place with the victory, takes on 10th-place Despar Perugia (5-12, 16 points) on April 10 in its next league match.
HARMOTTO WITH LIU-JO VOLLEY MODENA IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) is playing for LIU-JO Volley Modena in Italy's Serie A League during the 2010-11 professional club season. Modena (6-12, 19 points) moved into eighth place in the league standings following a 25-18, 25-21, 25-19 victory over sixth-place Spes Conegliano on April 3. Harmotto totaled 10 kills on 14 attacks as part of a 13-point performance that included three blocks. Modena returns to action on April 9 to face last place Riso Scotti Pavia (1-16, 5 points).
SYKORA, ALISHA GLASS SETTING TABLES FOR VOLEI FUTURO IN BRAZIL: Three-time U.S. Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) and U.S. Women's National Team setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) are competing for Volei Futuro in the Brazilian Superliga during the 2010-11 professional club season. Volei Futoro, which entered the Brazilian Superliga best-of-three quarterfinal round as the number-three seed, captured the second match of the quarterfinals over Macae Sports with a 25-19, 24-26, 32-30, 25-18 victory on March 31. Sykora was the libero providing 21 digs on 32 chances, while Glass is still out with an injury. With the victory, Volei Futuro advances to the semifinal round to play Solly/Osasco in a best-of-three series. The first two matches are on April 12 and April 23 with a third match on April 26 if necessary.
FAWCETT IN BRAZIL WITH USIMINAS MINAS: Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), a U.S. Women's National Team opposite, is playing the 2010-11 professional club season in Brazil with Usiminas Minas. Usiminas, as the fifth-seed in the Brazilian Superliga best-of-three quarterfinal round, lost the final two matches of the playoff round to Pinheiros/Mackenzie after an opening victory. On March 29, Fawcett scored 17 kills on 42 attacks and a block in a 24-26, 25-22, 25-18, 25-13 loss. In the rubber match on April 2, Pinheiros/Mackenzie swept Usiminas 25-15, 25-22, 25-22. Fawcett scored seven points in the loss.
SCOTT-ARRUDA IN BRAZIL WITH SAO BERNARDO: Four-time U.S. Olympian Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) is back on the volleyball court after giving birth last spring and is playing for BMG Sao Bernardo in the Brazilian Superliga. Sao Bernardo, the eighth seed in the Brazilian Superliga playoffs, dropped both of its best-of-three quarterfinal series matches with top-seeded Unilever. Scott-Arruda scored two points in the 25-20, 25-16, 25-16 second match played on March 29.
TAMAS WITH AZERRAIL BAKU: Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist playing middle blocker for Team USA, is playing for Azerrail Baku of the Azerbaijan Super during the 2010-11 professional club season. In CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup action, Azerrail faced country rival Lokomotiv Baku in the final round for the European title. In the first match of the home-and-home series, Azerrail rallied to win 23-25, 25-20, 25-16, 25-22 on March 29. Tamas scored five kills on eight attacks to go with three aces and two blocks for 10 points. For a photo gallery of the match, click here. In the rematch on April 2, Azerrail again defeated Lokomotiv in four sets with scores of 30-28, 22-25, 25-13, 25-17. Tamas charted six kills on 18 attacks and three blocks for nine points. For photo galleries of the match, click here and click here. In the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs, third-seeded Azerrail defeated Shirvan 25-11, 25-13, 25-14 in the first match of the best-of-three quarterfinal round. With the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup completed, the two teams will resume the playoff series.
DAVIS, METCALF, RICHARDS HEADLINE LOKOMOTIV BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Olympians Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), along with 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), are playing for Lokomotiv Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League. In the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup, Lokomotiv lost consecutive four-set matches to Azerrail Baku in the final round home-and-home series for the title. In the first match, Azerrail won 23-25, 25-20, 25-16, 25-22 on March 29. Metcalf recorded 18 kills, two aces and two blocks for a team-high 22 points according to the team's stats. Richards added seven points and a 100 positive percent on 21 service reception attempts. Davis held a 91 positive percent on 23 service reception attempts. For a photo gallery of the match, click here. Needing a win in the second match and a Golden Set win, Lokomotiv could not pull out the victory as Azerrail won 30-28, 22-25, 25-13, 25-17 on April 2. Metcalf collected 19 kills on 39 swings, one block and an ace for a team-leading 21 points. Richards contributed 13 kills on 30 attacks with two blocks for 15 points. Davis handled 20 service receptions with a 60 positive percent. For photo galleries of the match, click here and click here. Lokomotiv, as the fourth seed in the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs, defeated Baki 25-19, 25-21, 25-15 in the first of a best-of-three series in the quarterfinal round. With the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup completed, the two teams will resume the playoff series.
KIM GLASS WITH RABITA BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Rabita Baku of the Azerbaijan professional league in 2010-11. By finishing first in the Azerbaijan Super League regular season, Rabita received a quarterfinal round bye in the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs. The Final Round will take place April 19-21 as it has been delayed due to the successes of Azerbaijan teams in CEV competitions. In addition, Rabita competed in the CEV Champions League and was one match away from winning the prestigious European title.
IGTISADCHI LOADED WITH AMERICANS IN AZERBAIJAN: Two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) is playing for Igtisadchi of the Azerbaijan Super League. By finishing second in the Azerbaijan Super League regular season, Igtisadchi received a quarterfinal round bye of the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs and awaits its semifinal opponent. The Final Round will take place April 19-21 as it has been delayed due to the successes of Azerbaijan teams in CEV competitions.
MORRISON, SIX AMERICANS ON ONE AUSTRIAN TEAM: U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) is serving as head coach of the Austrian Post Schwechat team during the 2010-11 season. The team has six American players including Jill Collymore (Seattle), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.), Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.). Post Schwechat competes in the Middle European Volleyball Zonal Association (teams from Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia). Post Schwechat is nearing the completion of its 2010-11 season and is taking part in the Austrian Bundesliga Final round versus Linz. In the opening match of a best-of-seven series, Post Schwechat came away with a 25-13, 25-16, 25-17 victory on April 2. Pressey scored 15 points with 13 kills on 23 attacks and two aces, while Jones added nine points with five kills on seven errorless attacks, three blocks and an ace. Thompson started started just the first two sets, leading the squad to a50 kill percent during her time setting the squad. Miyashiro handled 12 service receptions with a 75 positive percent. The final round continues with matches on April 6, April 9, April 13, and if necessary, on April 16, April 20 and April 23.
TOM WITH GUANGDONG HENGDA IN CHINA UNDER FORMER U.S. HEAD COACH: Three-time U.S. Olympian Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) is playing for Guangdong Hengda (also known as Evergrande) in the Chinese club league's top division. Evergrande, led by 2008 U.S. Olympic Games head coach "Jenny" Lang Ping, finished the regular season with a 16-2 record, but dug itself into a hole during the final round playoffs by losing the first match of a best-of-three series to Tianjin. However, Evergrande evened the series at one match apiece with a 25-23, 16-25, 13-25, 25-20, 15-12 comeback over Tianjin on April 2. Tom scored 11 kills, two blocks and two aces for 15 points in the victory. For a photo gallery of the second match, click here. In the deciding third match, Tianjin prevailed by rallying from two sets down in another five-set nail-biter 12-25, 19-25, 25-20, 25-20, 15-10 on April 3. Tom notched 13 kills and three aces for 16 points in the loss. "We have done a good job, not only in this final, but also in all season," Lang Ping said after the third match of the final round series. "We have made progress and we did an excellent job in the first two sets today, but it is not good enough to realize our goal of a gold medal."
LARSON WITH KAZAN IN RUSSIA: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) is playing for Dinamo Kazan of the Russia Super League during the 2010-2011 pro club season. Kazan is now 18-1 on the season and atop the league standings after defeating second-place Dinamo Moscow (16-2) 25-23, 26-24, 23-25, 25-18 in its last match on March 25. Kazan challenges fifth-place Odintsovo (12-6) on April 7 in its next match, followed by fourth-place Uralochka-NTMK (13-6) on April 11 and sixth-place Omichka (11-8) on April 15.
BOWN WITH TURKEY'S ECZACIBASI: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a three-time Olympic Games middle blocker for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing in Turkey for Eczacibasi during the 2010-11 professional club season. In the Turkish League, Eczacibasi dropped a 20-25, 25-22, 25-18, 25-22 match to Fenerbahce Acibadem (18-1) on April 2. Bown was not on the active roster for the match. Eczacibasi is now in a second-place tie with an 18-2 record on the season, while Fenerbahce moves into first place with the victory. CEV Champions League gold-medalists Vakifbank (18-2) is also tied for second place in the Turkish League standings. Eczacibasi will seek to start a new win streak on April 5 against 11th-place Karsiyaka Izka Insaat.
SPICER WITH POLAND'S GCB CENTROSTAL BYDGOSZCZ: Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.), a setter for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing in the Polish professional league this winter for GCB Centrostal Bydgoszrcz. Spicer's side swept last-place Sandeco EC Wybrzeze TPS Rumia (0-18) on April 2. Bydgosrzcz, now 10-8 on the season and in a fifth-place tie, converted 34 percent of its attacks into points in the first two sets when Spicer was setting. She added one of her team's seven blocks in the match. Bydgoszrcz ended the regular season in fifth place with a 10-8 record and 28 points. The same two teams will meet on April 8 in the Polish Cup quarterfinals.


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What do you think, is it too far fetched to expect that theists realized the absurdity of their beliefs by my pointing out that the same book, which to them is the ultimate morality guide, includes idiotic rules that no one in their sane mind would even consider to carry out?
This is the kind of tweet that only atheists find logical.
This is the link to the original tweet, in case you want to retweet it, or something.
I get a lot of hate mail in reply to this kind of tweets, Christians are so peaceful when their beliefs are challenged!
This is a great representation os this verse:
… but all the rebuttal replies I get from Theists are from the nice parts of the bible. They like to think that the bible is all inspirational and sweet.
Of course, Theists get to pick and choose the parts they like, or those verses they agree with, while verses like this one get totally ignored.
I am still waiting for a good response.
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A Hubble Space Telescope image shows the core of M2, a globular cluster that is about 35,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster contains perhaps 150,000 stars, which are packed into a spherical region of space only about 200 light-years across. From a planet inside the cluster, the sky would abound with so many brilliant stars that there would be no true "night." The cluster's stars are about 12 billion years old, which makes them some of the oldest stars in the entire galaxy. [NASA/STScI]
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Most of the stars that are visible in the night sky are youngsters — most are no more than a few billion years old, while some are still in the millions of years. But many of the galaxy's stars are as old as the Milky Way itself — more than 12 billion years.
A whole bunch of those old stars congregate in a globular cluster known as M2. It's low in the west at nightfall, in the constellation Aquarius. It's not quite bright enough to see with the eye alone, but binoculars show it as a small, fuzzy blob of light.
The cluster is about 35,000 light-years away, and it spans more than 200 light-years. It contains perhaps 150,000 stars, all of which are less massive than the Sun.
When it was born, M2 probably contained lots of big, bright stars as well. But such stars burn out in a hurry. All that's left are the smaller stars, which consume their nuclear fuel much more slowly than the heavier ones.
In fact, astronomers determine the cluster's age by looking at the masses of the stars that are in the final stages of life. Heavier stars have already expired, while lighter ones are still in the prime of life.
The stars that are just now expiring are roughly as massive as the Sun. Models of how stars evolve show that those stars are about 12-and-a-half billion years old — which tells us that that's also the age of the entire cluster. That makes the stars of M2 some of the oldest in the galaxy.
Tomorrow: a star on the heavy end of the scale.
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Sun Ra Arkestra Update
"OK, so let's try for something with a good beat that the kids can dance to. I'm thinking kind of Abbaish."
News (loosely defined - politics, movies, books, articles, technology, music, art, jokes, epehmera, what I had/want to have for dinner, etc.) about that which presents itself. Updated (or not) as frequently as the urge strikes and opportunity allows. Newsonthemarch (at) Yahoo (dot) Com
"OK, so let's try for something with a good beat that the kids can dance to. I'm thinking kind of Abbaish."
Obama was the opening speaker; The closing speaker will be none other than Hank Zipzer creator, literacy proponent, and all-around cool guy Henry Winkler. (Note - The coolest guy I saw at Book Expo was Henry Rollins. Is there a pattern here? Will the next one be Hank Azaria? Buck Henry?)
Next: Ralph Malph to address the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Supporters of President-Elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad gather to congratulate him on his victory and wish him luck in bringing a greater degree of theocracy to Iran.
The fellow on the TV has all the characteristics of both Batman and Superman, and therefore symbolizes those who attempt to empathise and identify with everyone, no matter their personality types. Just look how crabby it has made him.
U.S. News & World Report this week pointed me to the Elvis Trooper.
Virginia Postrel cites Steve Forbes's article on the downsides of restricting movement across our borders.
Bookslut on the covers of books that feature book covers.
Word Detective says that some of us might be able to do some word research, a la Erin McKean or The Professor and the Madman:
Elsewhere in the news, if you've ever had a hankering to lend a hand to the fine folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, your ship has docked. In connection with a major TV series they are producing about the OED, the BBC has set up a nifty Word Hunt site where readers can help identify the origins and first uses of 50 terms, ranging from "boffin" and "bog standard" to "ska" and "snazzy." If your contribution is significant and verifiable, there's a good chance that it will be included in the next revision of the OED. Take a look and help solve the mysteries of "mushy peas" and "mullet."
Burning, urinating, defecating on the flag - this is not speech. This is offensive conduct.
Careful with the poo-poo talk, Orrin -- you might get nabbed for indecency. He must have been hanging around Metallica too long.
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham makes the same point without all the dirty words:
Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center. Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment.
Hmm. Sound logic indeed. The problem with all of this nonsense is that these control freaks mistake The Flag (an abstract symbol of our country) with every flag (physical item, probably made in China, that you can buy at Wal-Mart) that is produced. These clowns should have studied the works of one of their former colleagues, Linguistics Professor/U.S. Senator S.I. Hayakawa (R-CA), who might have told them that they were confusing levels of abstraction.
Also, I think it's interesting that they should use the term "desecrate" in reference to their proposed amendment. The definitions for "desecrate" revolve around things that are sacred (i.e. derive their status from religious traditions, not civic or governmental). Without even getting into Church vs. State, a lot of the same folks who are gung ho on the Flag Anti-Desecration stuff also would like to see the Ten Commandments get bigger play in schools, courthouses, etc. If I may quote from those same Commandments:
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. (Ex. 20:4, NIV)
To me, that says don't start making things sacred that aren't already on the sacred list provided. (Note: See cow picture from earlier post.) And how can you desecrate something that is not sacred? But, what do I know?
Some comments on this from the Atheistic Commie Lovers Union. Also from Cato. To sum up: I have a great big flag in my front window. I like it there. If someone tampered with it without my permission, I would be able to get the police involved due to them messing around with my property. If that person desecrated a flag that he purchased himself, then it might (or might not) upset me. Hatch and company want to change the Constitution just to make sure that I don't have my feelings hurt.
I liked how the film showed some of the schemes and tactics Rove used in Texas, like bugging his own office (probably) to gain sympathy in the media right before a statewide election. Also, I remember John McCain in New Hampshire, Michigan, and South Carolina in 2000. I was surprised when he lost in S.C., and interviewees discuss some of the Rovian tactics used to undermine McC's position in the Republican Primary in that state.
A list of various film & video adaptations of the plays she recommended followed, with ASINs for most entries (and studios or producers for hardly any). I must point out that the movie (video) equivalent of the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is not the ASIN. There really is no video equivalent to the ISBN (although some videos do have ISBNs), but if there were it would surely be the UPC (Universal Product Code). "ASIN" stands for Amazon Standard Identification Number. One is assigned by Amazon to any product (except books) it sells, whether the products are DVDs, spark plugs, or socks. If you look on an Amazon page, you will see the ASIN listed, but you will not see it on the product itself. However, you will almost certainly see the UPC (12 digits) or ISBN (10 digits) on the packaging of the physical item. In other words, the ASIN is only used in the context of a purchase from Amazon or one of its on-line database partners (like Target, etc.)
(Golden Calf, representing the Amazon Standard Identification Number)
As my mother will attest, this logical fallacy produced in me unencumbered delight.
In other news, I used my new chainsaw for the first time today and we got rid of one batch of trees that was up against the house, and also chopped up some long trunks/branches that we had cut down by hand previously. One more clump to go, and then it's on to the bushes along the side of the yard. Dang, I'm sore. I had some good crab Rangoons from the Chinese place by me and finally was at Blockbuster when they had a copy of the new edition of Donnie Darko, which I have not yet started watching. It's been out for months and I loved the first release; I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to it. Maybe it's a time-travel thing where my future self... Oh, nevermind.
Karoubi came from nowhere in the polls to vault into the top three. He appears to have won support in rural areas which traditionally back clerics after he promised to give all Iranians free monthly handouts of 500,000 rials ($55).I can just see it now -- A bunch of Iranian rednecks gathered around him chanting "The Great Santa." Rafsanjani might not be given an honorary chairmanship of Amnesty International, but I bet he'd at least be stable. If that Ahmadinejad nutcase gets in there, watch out... and make sure you don't drive around Tehran with a "Don't blame me, I voted for Rafsanjani" sticker on the back of your car. Just wait -- this guy will do something stupid, Bush will want to invade Iran, decide that Iraq & Iran are practically the same country anyhow, merge them and rename them "Iranqistan." In any event, make sure to keep up with Hossein Derakhshan's ongoing commentary.
Supporters of Tehran Mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad wait in line to cast their votes.
This past week's video viewings included:
1) The martial arts classic Master of the Flying Guillotine, which I am embarrassed to confess I had (until now) gotten mixed up with an earlier film, The Flying Guillotine. MOTFG should not be confused with Flying Guillotine II either, however it is also known as One-Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Guillotine. In fact, one of the cool things about the version I have is that it incorporated both titles into the opening sequence. It seems like this would be a great film to promote the Americans With Disabilities Act, because the protagonist only has one arm and the antagonist is blind, yet both function quite well in their chosen field. The only reason I can think of that the ADA has not jumped on this already is that the characters are not in fact Americans with disabilities, but Chinese with disabilities.
2) The Hitchcock homage High Anxiety, which I watched for about the 10th time. During this particular viewing, I got a 50-point Scrabble bonus for making the word "botanies" for a total of (I think) 83 points. It's legit; look it up.
3) Uncovered: The War on Iraq by Robert Greenwald. Greenwald is a much less bombastic, much more rational Michael Moore (albeit with a prefix fetish). He directed or produced the Un- Trilogy (Unprecedented, Unconstitutional, and Uncovered) as well as Outfoxed. Greenwald avoids (as far as I am aware) Moore's tendency to throw out a bunch of out-of-context, misleading irrelevancies to support the two or three important points he has per movie.
Even though he is a lefty, I like Greenwald's approach because (unlike Moore or Karen Hughes) he proceeds in an orderly manner, which invites rebuttal in an orderly manner. The combined resumes of his interviewees must have reflected centuries of experience in the intelligence, diplomatic, military, scientific, and journalistic sectors. Were someone to respond to his points in the same style as he presented them (in print, on video, or on the Web) I would certainly take the time to consider the rebuttal as well. Note to "Outfoxed" star Bill O'Reilly: "Shut Up" does not count as an orderly rebuttal.
Speaking of O'Reilly, my problem with Faux News is not that they are conservative; my problem with them is that they are so populist. Elitists often get a bad name, but maybe the reason they got to be elite is that they actually know something about something. To me, populism just tells people what they want to hear, encourages one group to blame another, demonizes cultural change, and celebrates mediocrity and lack of individual achievement. IMHO the best Senator of the last 25 (maybe 50) years is the non-populist, non-sound bite, CFR-friendly hoosier Richard Lugar, the guy who (with Sam Nunn) we may have to thank for the fact that al Qaeda didn't get hold of four planes with nukes on 9/11. Nunn and Lugar have been snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize folks so often and so egregiously that I hear they are starting a club with Martin Scorsese. I'd like to see Pat Buchanan or John Edwards contain the WMDs of the former Soviet Union using nothing but their populist tactics (bombast in the case of Buchanan; white teeth & hairspray in the case of Edwards).
Greenwald's next (untitled) film is about the much-maligned Wal-Mart, so who knows but I may be directing my "Populist! J'Accuse!" comments at him next year. Or he may win me over. In any event, if you have a catchy title, you can submit it for consideration. Single words with prefixes get extra points. Just like in Scrabble.
This editorial by Jason Pontin of the M.I.T. Technology Review draws parallels between blogs and the commonplace books of the 17-1800s, such as those created by Thomas Jefferson. These were like scrap albums into which bloggers of the era cut-and-pasted articles from Ye Olde Gazette, which they then annotated with their opinions, observations, and ideas. These musings included what they were slaughtering for dinner, when they were going to wash their garments in the creek, and why they never seemed to have any time to transcribe all the manuscripts they really want to transcribe.
An excerpt from Jefferson's forays into Blogosphere 0.01, courtesy of the LOC. The preceding page listed five things in John Stuart Mill's pantry.
Pontin also cites an essay by Ellen Gruber Garvey in this collection (note the typo in the first sentence of the review. Hmmph!) in which she describes both the olde practice of clipping, annotating, and passing commonplace books around and the current blogging phenomenon as gleaning, which is as OK a way to describe it as anything else. She gleans this phrase from some French theorist I never heard of who is big on the idea of reading as poaching (even though the just-linked reviewer is not). I am now keeping my eyes open for an opportunity to use the phrase "Integrating the Wheat with the Chaff."
I somewhat identify with this quote:
I recently began writing a Web log, or blog (under protest: starting a blog at this late stage feels a little like developing an interest in disco music in 1980)...
But on the other hand, as we were saying at work the other day, in serial killer movies, you never want to be the first cop through the door. There's something to be said for hanging back with the rest of the pack until the moment is right.
"Honey! Why isn't this thing plugged in? Those Shemps are almost here!"
"Look, do you think my hair gets like this without a dryer?"
Props to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.
Madame Ambassador.
The book "TLD" is part of a trilogy that also includes "A Bridge Too Far" about Operation Market-Garden, and "The Last Battle" about the push to Berlin. "ABTF" was made into an all-star epic in the mid-70s, when the U.S. was in a different mood than the early 60s.
Moviewise, "TLD" ended on an optimistic note, because the Normandy landings were successful, but also because the standard war movie was still very gung-ho. "ABTF" was a lot harder to follow in terms of what was going on, who was where, etc. which could be a metaphor for the confusing battle(s) depicted. It did not end on a very optimistic note at all. Market-Garden (an attempt to drop tens of thousands of paratroopers in a line leading up a key road to an important port) did not work the way Gen. Montgomery planned it, and depending on whom you believe, it was either a disaster or a limited success. Or if you believed Monty, it was just that you didn't understand what he was doing in the first place. I think the post-Vietnam moviegoing public was looking for a more 70s-ish, cynical view of war than the 1962-3 audience, and that was what "ABTF" was able to give them.
Movies I've watched recently include Word Wars, about the world of competive Scrabble; Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, in which the noted metal band hires a group therapist to talk them through their creative differences; and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, which I liked a lot even though almost no one else I know who saw it did. I recommend the first two to everyone, and the last only to moderate-to-heavy Wes Anderson fans.
Virginia Postrel talks about her ringtones. She and I have the Clash in common ringtone-wise (although I have "Should I Stay or Should I Go"), and I also have "Back in Black," "Dirty Deeds," "Tom Sawyer," and the Imperial March from "Star Wars."
This is a good (reg. req.) NYT column by Tom Friedman. I like him a lot, and am quite optimistic and enthusiastic about the globalization phenomenon of recent years and decades. (Sorry, Greens.) An excerpt:
It was extremely revealing traveling from Europe to India as French voters (and now Dutch ones) were rejecting the E.U. constitution - in one giant snub to President Jacques Chirac, European integration, immigration, Turkish membership in the E.U. and all the forces of globalization eating away at Europe's welfare states. It is interesting because French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck.
Speaking of work, chores await. (Though I might look into a 35-minute work day today.)
The three finalists for badassest coolest (sorry Connie - I still think you're the tops):


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Monday, April 23, 2007
Genealogy of a Blog Award...er...Meme
Have you ever wondered how those things get started and where it ended up after it left your lovely site?
Check the link above to find out how it all started and who the first five recipients were.
Mr. Incognito over at Almost Anonymous was curious and did a little backtracking to discover the family tree branch that brought the Thinking Blogger Award to his worthy site.
What an interesting idea! Here is the list Mr. Incognito compiled.
Thirty-seven thinking bloggers…Check out some and see what they are thinking.
37. Almost Anonymous
36. Pugly / Nights Over Egypt
35. Dina Zaman / The Splenderful Chronicles
34. Eliza's Haberdashery / Kak Teh's Choc-a-Blog Blog
33. Bibliobibuli
32. Greening the Blue Planet
31. Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic
30. The Sleepy Reader
29. 3M's Review
28. This is the Life
27. The Song of My Soul
26. Fruit In Season
25. Sting My Heart
24. Laurel Wreath
23. Middle Years
22. Rocking Chair Reflections
21. Morning Glory
20. Ordinary Mom
19. Temporary? Insanity
18. The Smiling Infidel
17. Slacker Moms R Us
16. The State of Discontent
15. I Obsess
14. 24/7
13. Red Neck Mommy
12. A Work of Art
11. Under The Mad Hat
10. Bub and Pie
9. So Fast Away
8. Life, the Ongoing Education
7. California Teacher Guy
6. History Is Elementary
5. Another History Blog
4. Primordial Blog
3. Sandwalk
2. Greg Laden
1. The Thinking Blog
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- Teacha said...
responding to your post on my blog: (didn't know how to email you)
"Is the African American history integrated with other standards or is it a seperate course? Elective? It sounds really interesting."
It is a completely separate course. I think it will be a semester long. It is an elective; however, I believe there is a movement to make it a required course. Since my school largely African American, I believe this course will pick up steam and their will be alot of people signing up for it in future school years.
Thanks for visiting my blog, I know that i don't have that much to say, but it sure allows me to think about things that are going on in my world. Its exciting to read so many teachers blogs, I didn't know that their were so many war stories/blogs out there.
Congrats on the award.
- Mr Incognito said...
Glad u found it useful. I'll be back again. I'm quite a history buff myself, so thanks!
This is an interesting award. I saw it the other day (April 10th) on a blog entitled, "Adventures of a Christian Collegian" (http://collegejay.blogspot.com/2007/04/thinking-blogs.html)
It's odd how it travels the blogosphere, floating from one genre to another. The only tenuous connection (not that there needs to e a connection) is that this guy hopes to be a English teacher when he graduates.
BTW, thanks for the comment and encouragement about my classes. I don't really mind the core classes all that much. I do see the foundation they lay and appreciate them if for nothing else just the exposure to learning. Which I thoroughly enjoy.
- Steve Hayes said...
I was curious about the genealogy of my own award so traced it back to Another history blog, and then got sidetracked to your link. I think I'll stop now.


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Historic news that Japan will phase out nuclear power has rounded off yet another terrible week for the global nuclear industry.
Japan's decision to end its reliance on nuclear power by the 2030s means it will join countries such as Germany and Switzerland in turning away from nuclear power after last year's Fukushima disaster.
This is an incredible step forward for a country that was once 30 percent dependent on nuclear power and follows a wave of public protests in a country not known for civil disobedience.
The decision comes as two nuclear reactors are out of action in Belgium after indications of cracks were found in their reactor vessels.
And adding to the industry's woes this week, Spain said it will close its Garoña nuclear power plant in July 2013, while Quebec's new government has confirmed it will also close the Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor.
These are momentous times.
Greenpeace has cautiously welcomed Japan's new "energy and environment strategy" as a long overdue decision. Still, we believe 18 years is still far too long to wait for a full nuclear phase-out.
Japan had already shown this summer that it could live without nuclear power after no power shortages or blackouts were reported despite just two of its 50 nuclear reactors being in operation.
The road ahead is abundantly clear.
Greenpeace has shown in its Energy [R]evolution scenario that with a quick uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency, Japan can enjoy an economic recovery and meet its 2020 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It does not need to restart any of the nuclear reactors shut down after the Fukushima disaster.
In Europe, the fact that the Doel 3 and Tihange 2 reactors in Belgium are out of action after inspections indicated cracks in their reactor vessels underscores the ongoing risk to public safety that nuclear power poses.
It's possible that the damage is so great that these reactors will never be restarted.
If that isn't chilling enough, there's a chance that a number of other reactors across the globe might be similarly affected. All these reactors had their vessels made by the now defunct Dutch company, RDM (Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij).
Belgian nuclear watchdog FANC organised a meeting of nuclear safety authorities in Brussels last month to discuss the issue. Officials from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and Argentina attended the talks.
Greenpeace is alarmed, however, that the operators and nuclear regulators of the reactors in these other countries claim they have no problems at all.
We are calling for all of these reactors to be immediately shutdown to allow for proper and thorough investigations and to ensure public safety.
On a more positive note, however, public safety took a significant step forward in Spain this week when it was announced that Spain's Garoña nuclear power plant would be shutdown in July 2013.
The plant's operators were hoping to extend the aging plant's lifetime until 2019, which would have cost an estimated 120 million euros (US$153 million) in modernisation and safety upgrades, but this week finally admitted defeat.
This should signal the start of Spain's renewable and sustainable future and is a huge victory for campaigners in Spain who have been fighting the good fight for 20 years.
All this makes you wonder how many more hits the nuclear industry can take. It's battling against younger and better alternatives such as solar and wind energy - a battle that nuclear power can't win.
(Image of Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant copyright Pedro Armestre/Greenpeace)
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We Try Every Taco at Tacodeli in Austin
In the taco rivalries of Austin, I'm a devout Tacodeli loyalist. The local chain first opened in 1999 and has since expanded to two more locations in the city. They offer quality tacos for everyone: staunch carnivores, vegetarians, locavores, vegans, gluten-free people, the food-adventurous, and even just picky eaters. This isn't the type of the Tex-Mex that will make you feel sick after eating it—the food is usually fresh, bright, and well-prepared. My only complaint is that they aren't open for dinner.
Tacodeli has a massive menu to accommodate all of these dietary preferences. There are at least 6 breakfast tacos served from 7am until 11am and 22 lunch taco options and different specials every day. I've often thought, "Wouldn't it be awesome to try all of the tacos at Tacodeli?" But I always play it safe and stick to the three or so tacos in my rotation.
I finally mustered the strength to get out of my Tacodeli rut. I recruited three others to assist in an epic tasting of all the tacos on the regular menu. Ordering was easy—I called in the order to the Central Austin location (4200 N. Lamar Blvd.), and it was ready for pick-up just 15 minutes later. The staff kindly labeled all of the tacos. Since this is Texas (and for ease), we ordered everything on flour tortillas, although corn and whole wheat tortillas are also available.
We tasted every taco without salsa, and then noted if it was particularly complemented by a certain salsa. Tacodeli is known for their doña salsa, a creamy green emulsion of roasted jalapeños. This spicy sauce doesn't go with everything, so the roasted tomato roja or the mild tomatillo based verde salsa also played important roles. The bright orange habanero pico salsa (not pictured below) adds overwhelming heat, but not much in terms of flavor.
The results? Tacodeli's menu had previously loomed large in my imagination, but now I've cracked their code. Most of their tacos are simply combinations of different "proteins" (usually portobello mushrooms, sirloin, chicken breast, pork, or refried black beans), smothered in a sauce (often their signature Frontera Fundido cheese glaze, adobo, or mole) and garnished with cilantro or sautéed poblano peppers. Tacodeli really shines when it veers away from this formula, and their beef and vegetarian tacos are particularly good. In the end, I didn't discover many new and exciting tacos to add to my rotation. But I was shocked to learn here are a few tacos to avoid, and they usually involve chicken.
So click here to view all the tacos in the slideshow, or check out the individual picks below.
Of course, I'd love to know your favorite taco from Tacodeli. Please let me know!
Akaushi Picadillo
Carne Asada
El Conquistador
Fish Taco
The Heather
Freakin' Vegan
Space Cowboy
The Jess Special
Good, but Not Great
Frontera Fundido Sirloin
Cowboy Taco
Happy Taco
Al Pastor
Puerco Verde
Shrimp Taco
Frontera Fundido Portobello
Migas Taco
The Otto
Don't Recommend
Frontera Fundido Chicken
Mexico City Chicken
Cowgirl Taco
Mojo Fish Taco
Mole Tacos
Sirloin and Eggs
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UH Board of Regents holds June meeting in Kapolei
Agenda items include granting of established status for the Masters of Education Program at UH HiloUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Mia Noguchi, 808-956-9095
External Affairs and University Relations
KAPOLEI, Oʻahu — At its monthly meeting held today at Kapolei Hale, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) granted established status to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo's Masters of Education program. In its fifth year, the program offers Big Island teachers an opportunity to pursue graduate education, which results in increases in pay for the teachers and increased retention for the schools.
The program at UH Hilo is designed to aid in the professional development of teachers and counselors. The cohort model of the program offers a structured learning scheme and professional networking advantages. Students attend part-time while still holding down full-time employment in teaching or other educational positions, and courses are offered in the evenings, on weekends and in the summer to accommodate work schedules. Graduates of the program so far have reported significant personal and professional growth, and employers have rated the program as high in quality and value.
In other action, UH Associate Vice President for Legal Affairs and University Deputy General Counsel Ruth Tsujimura was appointed to the interim vice president position by the BOR for a one-year period or until a permanent appointment is made, whichever occurs sooner. Her appointment is effective July 1. A search for a permanent candidate is currently in progress.
Tsujimura will take over for retiring Vice President for Legal Affairs and University General Counsel Walter Kirimitsu. Kirimitsu previously announced his departure to take on the position of president of Saint Louis School.
Tsujimura received her Juris Doctor degree from the Loyola University at Los Angeles' School of Law, and is licensed to practice law in the state of Hawaiʻi and the Federal District Court of Hawaiʻi. She was appointed UH associate general counsel in 1999 and has served as associate vice president for legal affairs and university deputy general counsel since March 2001.
The BOR also appointed Donald Young to the interim dean position of the UH Mānoa College of Education. His appointment is also for one year, effective August 1, unless sooner relieved.
Young, who is a professor of education and director of the college's Curriculum Research and Development Group (CRDG), takes over for departing College of Education Dean Randy Hitz. Hitz previously announced his decision to accept an appointment as dean of the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University in Oregon.
As CRDG Director, Young is responsible for the operation of the University Laboratory School, which serves as a laboratory for research and development to improve learning, teaching, and assessment. He has been involved for over 30 years in the development, dissemination, and evaluation of multiple science programs that are used in the United States and in several foreign countries. His recent research activities have been in learning and teaching science, program implementation and maintenance in schools, and multi-dimensional assessment. He is also director of the Hawaiʻi Educational Policy Center.
In addition, the BOR honored outgoing Regent Myron Yamasato whose term ends this year. Yamasato, who is vice president of finance with the Waikoloa Land Company, joined the UH Board of Regents in 2002. He is also treasurer for the Kohala Coast Resort Association and a member of the Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce.
Yamasato is a graduate of Hilo High School and the University of Hawaiʻi, with a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting. A resident of Kamuela, Hawaiʻi, he is married to Karen Yamasato and they have two children, Kelly and Robert.


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Data Use Policy
This data policy sets forth PeaceTech Lab's approach for data collection, storage, processing, and dissemination. Because PeaceTech Lab works in conflict-affected communities, this policy recognizes that there is a need for a high degree of sensitivity in the data lifecycle. PeaceTech Lab is committed to protecting the rights of the individuals and organizations with whom it works, which requires ensuring the safety, respect, privacy, and dignity of people who provide data to support the Lab's programs. Along these lines, this policy recognizes and addresses concerns surrounding secure storage of sensitive data. For data dissemination, this policy emphasizes a transparent, open data approach balanced by a "Do No Harm" mandate.
This policy pertains to all of the Lab's programs, and is designed to enable the Lab and its partners to take advantage of opportunities to gather insights through data gathering and analysis while ensuring responsible and ethical practices. This policy covers all of the Lab's data collection efforts as well as the transmission, storage, analysis, and dissemination of this data through visualizations or open datasets. It shall be upheld for all projects in which PeaceTech Lab retains control over data processes. PeaceTech Lab is responsible for ensuring that all staff and external partners comply with this policy and all standards and guidelines that pertain to the policy.
- Data: The physical representation of information in a manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by human beings or by automatic means
- Open Data: Data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike
- Informed Consent: Provision of sufficiently detailed information on a study to participants in data collection efforts so that they can make an informed, voluntary and rational decision to participate
- External partners: Organizations and/or individuals engaged in collaborative work with PeaceTech Lab
Policy Statements
Policy statements are categorized using elements of the data management lifecycle, including data collection, storage and processing and dissemination.
Data Collection
- PeaceTech Lab and its partners will:
- Not put participants at risk as a result of data activities. All data collection activities will include a risk assessment and mitigation approach that includes physical, psychological, social, and political considerations.
- Assess and mitigate risks to ensure each participant's right to privacy in the collection and treatment of data, and fulfill its responsibility to protect the identity of those providing data, unless otherwise agreed to in informed consent.
- Respect each participant's time and personal dignity by only collecting data that is essential to the purposes of a project, and in a manner sensitive and appropriate to the local context, and after ensuring that participants are fully informed to the extent practicable about the project, data lifecycle, and associated activities.
- Make all reasonable efforts to ensure adequate representation of vulnerable and marginalized populations in information it collects.
- Mitigate and minimize the impact of barriers to active participation of women to ensure that their voices are heard and their experiences and opinions are fairly represented.
Inform participants of potential long-term secondary uses of the data to update relevant PTL risk indices on peace and conflict.
- Assess the risks associated with using datasets collected by third parties prior to incorporation and use within the OSRx. To the extent practicable, the risk assessment will include risks to the initial data collection subjects.
Data Storage and Processing
- Peacetech Lab and its partners will:
- Only collect and store the minimum necessary personally identifiable information, and will keep this information no longer than is absolutely necessary.
- Secure stored data from external intrusion by providing only roles-based controls with limited, authorized access to sensitive data.
- Maintain a pedigree for all data processing actions.
- Anonymize data provided for dissemination, including those provided by third parties for use with OSRx services prior to sharing, including stripping of metadata in both documents and media.
Data Dissemination
- PeaceTech Lab and its partners will:
- Apply the "Do no harm" principle in assessing and mitigate the risks associated with the visualization and dissemination of data.
- Provide the option and capability to download associated data required to produce visualizations
Support and use open data standards, and document the use of APIs to ingest and visualize publicly available datasets
- Share data through a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC)
Based on risk assessment, datasets developed by the Peacetech Lab deemed too sensitive to be released will not be provided to external partners, including PeaceTech Lab partners.
- Develop tailored views of the information for specific audiences, including corporate partners of the PeaceTech Lab, but will not release datasets private that is are not made available to the public.
Consent in Data Collection Considerations
Participants in data collection for PeaceTech Lab or its partners should be fully informed about the data lifecycle and capable of making a decision about their participation in any data activity. For the PeaceTech Lab, this will require:
- Informed Consent: PeaceTech Lab will take steps to ensure to the extent practicable that participants fully understand the process and purposes of the data lifecycle and any risks involved before obtaining information from participants. The Lab will also explain security measures involved in retaining the data and limitations of securing this information. As part of the informed consent process, the lab will also work to provide education and training to survey participants on the use of data for conflict prevention.
- Voluntary Participation: PeaceTech Lab will explain that all participants are free to choose whether or not to give their consent, without inducement or negative consequences for not participating or withdrawing their participation later in the data process.
- Parental Permission: If the data process involves minors and collection of personally identifiable information, PeaceTech Lab will secure their parents' and/or guardians' consent, except in circumstances where it is inappropriate to do so.
- Disclosure: The PeaceTech Lab will be transparent in disclosing what data is being collected, the purposes for which it is being collected, and the methods of collection.
This data policy is informed by the following sources:
- The guidelines set forth by the Responsible Data Forum and published by Oxfam.
- Principles for Digital Development - http://digitalprinciples.org/
- Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
- Modeling Consent Policies for Civil Society Data: https://www.theengineroom.org/modeling-consent-policies-for-civil-society-data/
- Guidelines for Data Management in Scientific Research by the office of Research Integrity - https://ori.hhs.gov/images/ddblock/data.pdf


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Archive for the 'evora & ladwig' Tag
Torino Worlds Pairs: Brysica, Barney, MukhOff…
Major Universal Sports/Comcast Fail!
The Pairs LP started airing before my scheduled TiVo recording even began, discluding the entire third-to-last group, and ALL but the last two Men's SPs were covered up by a Russian news program. WTF!? A Plushy conspiracy? Thank god this didn't happen with my Olympics recordings, but it still has me fuming. Perhaps it's my local cable providers' fault. Whosever it is, off with their heads!
Notable SPs
Berton & Hotarek: I don't disagree with Tony Wheeler, an excellent (newish?) skating blogger (also from Ohio…must be somethin' in the water). This italian team is very promising, delivering one of the finest short programs, and deserving notice here. Next step: upgrade to a triple twist. How lovely too to see John Zimmerman on their coaching team. (He and Shae-Lynn should have won AT LEAST the first night of "Thin Ice"!)
Evora & Ladwig (Maranda): Her expressive face really sells this couple. She also has beautiful extension, and their program has a gentle, and sincere loving quality…well, it is "Love Actually." Their footwork and final lift feels a bit slow, but some of that could be attributable to camera angle/perception.
Denney & Barrett (Barney): Great speed and attack. This is definitely the team we've grown to love from the past two Nationals! Her triple toe is a bit Tara (ie: rollerskater-ey, fast but low), BUT she nails it, unlike in Vancouver. They leap to 6th, and with a personal best!!! Wow, with this performance, and Evora & Ladwig's great showing, I have a flash of irrational hope that they might they climb high enough to regain 3 berths.
Savchenko & Szolkowy (Szolchenko – 3rd): Not inspired, but acceptable. He doubles his triple toe, and their spin unison is off, but it keeps their placement high enough to pretty much be a sure thing for the podium, and not out of reach of gold, if Pang & Tong open the door. I wonder if his botched jumps this season are a confidence issue, or more one of some apathy creeping in.


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Have You Thought About A Career With The OCDSB?
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario serving over 72,000 students in rural and urban settings. Ottawa's abundant selection of services and natural riches allow the people of this community to enjoy unparalleled well-being, comfort, and economic security. Ottawa is ranked among the world's most desirable cities to call home and the residents of Ottawa share a deep pride in, and fondness for, their Capital.
Just over 9,000 individuals call the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board their employer and each person has an important role in supporting student learning and student achievement. Together we create an atmosphere of well-being, we promote community engagement, we understand that leadership is found in all aspects of the organization, and we encourage life-long learning.
Equity is a strategic priority of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. We are committed to an inclusive workplace culture where all employees have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. We are also committed to attracting and retaining a highly skilled and representative workforce with the knowledge and competencies necessary to deliver quality education and service to the diversity of students and communities we serve.
We promote and support employee growth and learning and engage in respectful employee relations. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board supports employee abilities, inclusive of people with disabilities, while promoting health and wellness for all. Come see for yourself!


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Eric Firkey necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
On Queue Computer http://www.on-queue.com
On Queue Computer is a reseller of refurbished servers, workstations, disk drives, processors, memory, etc. from HP, Sun, Dell, IBM, etc. Our market is very competitive and we would like for our website to look more up to date.
We would like to look more professional and to appeal to a very large and diversified market of corporate IT professionals. We are looking for a complete design overhaul with nice graphics.
On Queue Computer's site needs to appeal to high end computer users and IT professionals. These users range from the local High School IT administrator all the way to the CIO/CEO of major corporations. Our customers usually have restricted budgets and are looking for refurbished/leased/used equipment as opposed to buying brand new. Some customers are looking for complete solutions (configured servers and workstations) while others are looking for replacement/spare parts
(example: replacing a blown power supply). We have rental options for those customers with short term computing needs as well.
Currently the site is very flat and boring and lacks appeal for our business customers, we need a site that stands up to the sites that you may see at HP.com, sun.com, ibm.com
We want a big company look but also customer friendly
images of a person on the phone (customer support) and/or person at the computer (email support). Maybe use the phrase "Call now for technical Help and Pricing" in the graphic.
We need to make sure the customer understands that we have quality products, experience (18 years), technical expertise, and
cost savings. Images that portray these qualities should be used.
If possible we would like to incorporate a feel that relates to the current Green trend since most of the equipment we sell is essentially recycled back into the corporate arena.
A flash element like you see at http://www.IBM.com would also be a nice touch, but is not a mandatory requirement. Maybe something with the words quality products, technical expertise, cost savings, friendly service fading in and out with pictures representing each of these phrases. If you choose to make a flash element for the site, http://www.stikc.com/ has a
good example of what we would like.
If you wouldl like to customize or edit our logo that is up to your creativity. We are open to change.
You should include the manufacture's logos at the bottom and the HP Invent Business Partner logo at the top right of the home page somewhere in the design , however you can change the color from black
We would like very crisp graphics and more depth as opposed to the current flat look.


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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens this weekend, and some moviegoers will pay up to $6 more to see it in IMAX, where the screens are bigger and the action should be more intense. "So real you can feel it in your bones," is how IMAX puts it. But is the IMAX at the multiplex the same as the IMAX you can see at the museum?
From underwater to outer space, IMAX has produced some astounding images of the natural world. One of the first IMAX films, To Fly, has been showing at the Smithsonian since 1976 and is still popular.
IMAX was co-founded in the late 1960s by a group of friends in Canada who had filmmaking and engineering experience. Large format films existed, but they wanted to revolutionize them. With public funding, they built special theaters with screens reaching six stories high and seven stories wide, surround sound and seats on a steep slope that put you even closer to the action. They used cameras with triple-width, 70 millimeter film — 10 times the size as what's used in ordinary cameras.
Learn more from IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond as he discusses the history of IMAX on npr.org.


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