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The Organizing Committee of the X Congreso Mundial de la Papa – XXVIII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP) reiterates its gratitude to those who attended the event and informs them that organizing committees work will soon conclude. There were 5 days of intense work and we are very satisfied with what we have achieved: 803 attendees and 164 abstracts accepted and presented on May 28, 29 and 30 in Cusco, available on the website (if you are not able to find one of them, please write to the corresponding author to the e-mail placed in each of the titles).
Whoever accesses this platform can download them, in PDF format (available in the Program section ,and divided in Plenary, Technical and Workshop sessions). Likewise, we inform you that correct citation of the abstract book is: . The WPC-ALAP 2018 website will remain available for two more years (until December 31, 2020). We also are glad to inform you that we have uploaded numerous pictures from the different activities during the Congress. You can find them at our Flickr account .
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The WPC is held every three years and organized by the not-for-profit World Potato Congress Inc., dedicated to supporting the cultivation and development of potato around the world. This 10th WPC will mark the first time the event will be held in Latin America. Previous congresses were held in North America, Europe, South Africa, China, and New Zealand.
More than 800 scientists and potato industry representatives are expected to attend the 10th WPC and share interests, innovations and useful information for the global development and growth of the potato.
La asociación Lationamericana de la Papa (ALAP) founded in 1977 with the objective of spreading technical advancements and scientific achievements in regional and global potato cultivation. Every two years ALAP organizes a congress in a Latin American country to bring together students, researchers, businesspeople, producers, and other actors in the potato value chain.
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ARLINGTON, Texas >> The middle of the Angels' batting order handled the Rangers' pitchers and the Texas heat.
On a 96-degree day, the Angels' 2-3-4 hitters — Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton — combined to go 7 for 13 with six runs batted in and two scored in the Angels' 10-7 win over Texas on Sunday.
The Angels took a five-game winning streak into the All-Star break. Texas (38-57) dropped its eighth straight and has the worst record in the majors.
"When those three guys in the middle are doing what they can do, you're going to be able to put some games away," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "It has to be more than them, and I think it is."
Every Angels starter had at least one of the team's 15 hits.
"That's a very relentless ballclub over there," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Every time you make a mistake, they make you pay. Each inning we scored, except for one, they came back and answered.
"We've got to stop that stuff."
Trout, who will start in the All-Star game in the AL outfield, had two doubles and three RBIs. He sent three runs home by blooping a two-out double in the second inning, and broke a 4-all tie with a double in the fourth. Trout walked and scored in the sixth.
Pujols was 3 for 5, including a double and an RBI.
Hamilton finished 2 for 4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored.
"We feed off each other," Hamilton said. "If one guy doesn't get the thing done, the next guy picks him up."
Trout's second-inning double followed a line out by Kole Calhoun. Pujols' run-scoring double in the eighth, that put Los Angeles ahead 9-7, followed a leadoff walk to Chris Iannetta and two outs.
The Angels, a major league-best 26-9 since June 6, swept a four-game series against Texas for the first time.
Winning pitcher Tyler Skaggs (5-5) left after giving up two singles to start the sixth. Both runners scored, leaving him with six earned runs allowed in five innings.
"The outing wasn't what I wanted," he said. "I threw some bad pitches 0 and 2, especially the one to (Alex) Rios."
The Angels had a 4-1 lead in the third inning before Rios lined a two-run double on a hanging curveball. He then scored to tie it as Adrian Beltre grounded out.
The game was halted briefly while medical personnel worked on a photographer who was treated for dehydration near the Angels dugout.
"You're playing in an oven," Skaggs said. "I was trying to hydrate as much as possible. It was almost unbearable."
Joe Smith pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 15th save in 19 opportunities. He set an Angels record with his 10th consecutive appearance of at least an inning without allowing a hit. He is 1-0 with eight saves in July.
Scioscia wouldn't commit to Smith being Los Angeles' closer.
"I still believe it's important for us to deepen the pool of guys to hold leads for us," he said.
Scott Baker (0-3) lost in his fourth start for Texas.
Rios drove in three runs for the Rangers.
The Angels placed outfielder Collin Cowgill on the 15-day disabled list with fractures to his nose and right thumb, and recalled infielder Grant Green from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Cowgill was injured Saturday night when he missed a bunt. The pitch from Texas Rangers right-hander Matt West glanced off Cowgill's thumb and hit him in the nose.
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Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC STS-113 MCC Status Report #17 Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002 - 7:30 p.m. CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas The crews of Endeavour and the International Space Station today got ready to say goodbye to one another, checking out tools that will be used during undocking of the two spacecraft on Monday. They also configured and stowed spacesuits used in the mission's three spacewalks. Crewmembers got some afternoon time off to relax and talk via radio with family members. This morning Endeavour Commander Jim Wetherbee initiated a series of firings of Endeavour's thrusters to raise the station's altitude by about 2.8 statute miles. This was the third reboost of the flight and left the ISS almost 6½ miles higher than it was when the shuttle docked on Nov. 25. The station's average altitude is now about 247 miles. Shuttle crewmembers, Wetherbee, Pilot Paul Lockhart, Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington, and Expedition 5's NASA ISS Science Officer Peggy Whitson, her Expedition 6 successor Don Pettit and Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, spoke with representatives of Indian Country Today and Native America Calling radio network. Transfer activities wound down, with the crew wrapping up movement of supplies, equipment and experiments between the two spacecraft. Endeavour brought more than 2,500 pounds of material to the station in the shuttle's crew compartment. During the afternoon, Pettit and Whitson did additional troubleshooting on the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the station's U.S. laboratory Destiny. The glovebox allows experiments with fluids, flame, particles or fumes to be performed in an enclosed environment. The MSG's power distribution and conversion box failed Nov. 20. The box will be returned to Earth aboard Endeavour, leaving the MSG inactive. Handover talks continued between the Expedition 5 crew, Commander Valery Korzun, Whitson and cosmonaut Sergei Treschev, and Expedition 6 crewmembers Bowersox, Cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin and Pettit. Hatches between the two spacecraft are to be closed about 11:15 a.m. CST Monday, with Endeavour undocking from the station about 2:05 p.m. near the west coast of Australia after a pass over the Indian Ocean. Landing is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at Kennedy Space Center The next STS-113 mission status report will be issued Monday morning or earlier if events warrant. ### ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Join us, along with members of several other Newton shuls, as we sing Israeli and Jewish songs both old and new. No need to know the words beforehand; lyrics will be projected on a screen for all.
Dessert and light refreshments will be served. The cost for this event is $5.00 per person.
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On April 13, the parents of Kate Sessions Elementary School children held their annual auction to raise money to fund art, music, Spanish and library programs. Held at the Mission Bay Yacht Club, nearly 200 people attended the event.
Parent Kelly Hammel, whose husband is in the military, attended for the first time.
"The parents here are much more involved than in Miami, where my daughter attended school last year," she said. "We didn't have the extra programs the money from this auction provides our kids … I had a blast dancing side by side with the other moms who are not only a lot of fun, but you can tell they truly care about our school."
Those who helped make the auction possible included parents Jennifer Henehan, Julia Seiders and Susan Levin, as well as area business like PB Shore Club, Duck Dive, The Fish Shop and Fortune Builders. Dozens of others also gave their time and talent.
"The auction plays a key role in funding particular programs, but people can always donate to the school. And not just money — we also need services such as printing, as well as office supplies, computer equipment and health supplies for the nurses' office," said Levin, who was responsible for gathering donations.
Donations can be sent to Friends of Kate Sessions at 2150 Beryl St., 92109 or by calling (858) 273-3111.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — At least for one series Tom Brady looked like Tom Brady again.
The four-time Super Bowl champion overcame two early interceptions to lead his first touchdown drive of the preseason as the New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers 17-16 on Friday night.
New England's first six possessions included four three-and-outs and two Brady interceptions, although one came when Panthers cornerback Charles Tillman wrestled the ball away from Aaron Dobson on the ground. Brady's other pick came when he fired over the middle in traffic and safety Kurt Coleman stepped in front of the pass.
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Prometheus, in efficient 3-D, places most of its bets on the wonders that today's visual artists and technicians can work with digital tools. This tale of an interstellar search asks cosmic questions about the meaning of life, but comes up with lame answers in a script that screams attention-deficit disorder.
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Scott seduces audiences with thought-provoking possibilities, then pulls a bait-and-switch, subbing in a familiar monster thriller and fiery explosion-fest.
Although Ridley Scott's 3D visual feast is no classic, the oozing alien tentacles hit all the right sci-fi horror notes.
This is jumbo-size science fiction, with a handsome, impermeable titanium gleam - and a thick coating of creationism lite.
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Parents need to know that Prometheus is a science fiction/horror movie that's somewhat related to director Ridley Scott's original Alien; it's not as creepy as that film, but it often feels more harrowing and intense. There's some intense monster violence -- mainly attacks, with humans getting torn open or burned. There's also blood and many dead bodies, plus guns, shooting, and flamethrowers. Characters are shown in the beginning stages of sex, and other characters talk about sex. Language is fairly strong, including one use of "f--k," several "s--t"s, and other words. Adult characters are shown drinking socially (or smoking cigars), and one is shown drinking too much.
Messages: The movie asks all kinds of big questions. Who created us? Who created the creator? What's the difference between creating and destroying? Some of the answers are rather cynical, but others illustrate the general hope, empathy, sacrifice, and goodwill of human beings.
Role models: Most of the characters are deeply flawed -- thinking selfishly, drinking, or engaging in casual sex. They seem rather short-sighted at times, failing to consider long-term consequences. But many of them are also strong, brave, and smart, and some of the strongest characters are the women.
Violence: Gory monster violence, with blood and dead humans. In the most harrowing sequence, a woman finds that she has an alien fetus inside her, and she climbs into a medical chamber for emergency surgery. The bloody "baby" alien is removed from her via a very bloody C-section, and she's stitched back up again. In another sequence, characters are brutally attacked by an alien that eventually crawls inside one's body. Otherwise, an alien head explodes, an infected human is set on fire (alien bodies are also burned), a creature breaks a man's arm, and there's general fighting and chaos, including guns/shooting, and flamethrowers. Also, a little girl talks about death with her father. Aliens' bodies mutate and dissolve in a somewhat graphic fashion when they drink a particular substance.
Sex: No nudity, but a man and a woman are shown beginning to have sex in their quarters. They kiss and start to remove their clothing. Later, a man and a woman agree to have sex, but it's not shown. A female character is shown to be pregnant with an alien and is seen running around in just underwear.
Language: "F--k" is used once, as well as several uses of "s--t." Other words include "bastard," "piss," "hell," "damn," "son of a bitch," "laid," "bugger," and "goddamn," plus "oh my God" and "Jesus Christ."
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"Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity and vibrancy of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's efforts over the past two-and-a-half decades," says Doug Kassab, co-chair of the event, which also serves as an exclusive way to experience the summer Gallery Crawl. This year, the crawl included three venues: the Trust Arts Education Center, 121 Seventh Street, and the Byham Theater. "It really draws a broad range of people on different art and cultural levels who support the Trust. They make it a dynamic event," says Kassab. Ticket holders visited the first two watering stops, which played host to artists both visual and culinary. The evening drew to a spectacular close with an unforgettable party at the Byham Theater. Guests delighted in cocktails and fare from some of the city's premier restaurants as they were dazzled by psychic entertainment and the sounds of DJ Edgar UM, who transformed the 100-year-old theater stage into a hip nightclub.Read More
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Hooksett council delays vote on police board
HOOKSETT - The Town Council delayed a proposed "vote of confidence" in the Police Commission to April 24.
The vote would come 13 days before the town election, a move some fear will result in the council influencing the outcome of a petition warrant to abolish the commission.
In September, the Town Council voted "no confidence" in the Police Commission. The 4-3 vote cited concerns over delays in hiring a new chief and the lack of transparency in the commission's activities.
After a series of promotions, reforms and the hiring of a well-received new police chief, Peter Bartlett, commission supporters said that the body had made great strides over the fall and requested at the council's Jan. 9 meeting that the council retract its earlier vote with a "vote of confidence."
David Pearl and Marc Miville, school board and budget committee members respectively, had argued that the board's no-confidence vote could be construed as support for the warrant article to abolish the Police Commission.
The council decided to schedule the vote as an agenda item for the next meeting. But at Wednesday's meeting, Councilor Leslie Boswak asked for a delay.
"This is a subject that has been very controversial and very divisive for the town, and I would just like to ask that everybody to just let it go and leave them alone until the election is closer," said Boswak.
Council Chairman Jim Sullivan, noting that his concerns and questions with the commission had been assuaged since his vote of "no confidence," agreed with removing the matter from the agenda.
Ultimately, the council delayed the vote until its April 24 meeting, 13 days before the town's May 7 election when the petition warrant will be voted on.
Pearl and Miville opposed the delay.
"I come here very disappointed in the council tonight," said Pearl. "We hear that we want to leave them alone and have some time with their new chief and not have a bad press article. We just had an opportunity for good press article."
He argued that holding a vote so close to voting day would bring the council more involved, not less, in the affairs of the commission and the vote's result.
"Now, you have scheduled yourselves to be part of the influencing of a warrant article," Pearl said.
Miville urged the council to get the vote over with.
"If the council decides to have a vote of confidence in the commission a week before the election, I think that's terrific, because it supports my side," said Miville. "But thinking in a nonpartisan manner, I can see how the other side would be upset about that."


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"Just a Breeze to a Hurricane," an original contemporary musical production written by Campbellsville University senior composition major Matthew Hodge of Taylorsville, will be performed at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19 and at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 20 in The Gheens Recital Hall.
"I'm going to college now!" opens the show and sets the stage for the production that follows the lives of a close-knit group of friends as they journey through college.
The Mid-Kentucky Chorus spring concert will feature the multi-faceted sounds of the chorus and will serve as one of the opening events celebrating the Lincoln Bicentennial.
Started as the Community Chorus at St. Catharine, at least seven counties are represented with the majority coming from Marion, Washington and Nelson counties.
The Campbellsville University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Director of Bands Dr. David M. McCullough, will present its spring concert on Tuesday, April 22 at 8 p.m. in the University's Ransdell Chapel.
The concert is free and open to the public.
"The program will feature some of the greatest works of the wind band repertoire and should offer an exciting concert experience for audience and performers alike," McCullough said.
Campbellsville University is hosting the third annual Upper Green River Aquatic Fauna Symposium on Friday, April 18 at 1 p.m. in the Banquet Hall of the Student Union Building.
Dr. Richie Kessler, associate professor of biology/environmental studies program coordinator, said the symposium is free and open to the public, especially for visiting researchers, faculty and students.
The symposium schedule follows:
- 1 to 1:10 p.m. - welcome and introduction.
The Taylor County Public Library will host an Earth Day celebration on Tuesday, April 22 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Stories, crafts and refreshments will be available.
The library is now open until 8 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday.
For more information, call Bonnie Webster at 465-2562.
Two upcoming events at Lindsey Wilson College will offer area residents an opportunity to enjoy compositions by musical pioneers and then learn about a medical pioneer from Kentucky.
The Green River Trio will perform pieces by Joseph Haydn and Johannes Brahms on Sunday, April 20. Then on Tuesday, April 22, a living history event about medical pioneer Dr. Ephraim McDowell will be performed.
Both events - which are part of the Lindsey Wilson Cultural Affairs Series - are free and open to the public.
The Kentucky Blood Center is encouraging eligible blood donors to give at an upcoming blood drive and to bring a new blood donor along.
Not only will blood donors help save the lives of Kentucky patients, they also will receive a free mini-physical.
The next opportunity to donate will be Friday, April 18 at Forcht Bank on East Broadway from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment by calling (800) 775-2522.
Experience Works, the nation's largest training and employment organization for mature workers, is searching for Kentucky's outstanding older worker. Experience Works Prime Time Awards program is part of Experience Works' national effort to raise awareness of the contributions made by older individuals and to break down barriers associated with the hiring of all older workers. Outstanding older workers from every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be honored in Washington, D.C., and in their home states for their contributions to the workforce and local communities.
Last summer, Green River Ministries was approved for a $356,610 USDA grant and loan. GRM officials were presented with a check last August and will close on the grant/loan April 14.
In honor of the closing, GRM is planning a groundbreaking ceremony for Wednesday, April 23 at 2 p.m.
With the grant/loan funds, GRM plans to build an 8,000-square-foot building that will include an office complex to create a "one-stop shop" for those in the community to go to in their time of need. The new building will increase shelter capacity from one unit to five units.
Fannie Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church will host the Louisville-Lexington District Conference on April 17-19.
"We are overly excited about hosting this historic event in our church," stated Delmetria Cayson Combs, pastor.
The community is invited to be a part of the Communion Worship Service on Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m.
"Please come worship with us, commune with us and enjoy the preached word of God that will be brought to us by our elected leader, Bishop E. Lynn Brown," Cayson Combs said.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. pop star Michael Jackson tops Forbes magazine's list of the highest earning dead celebrities, having earned more than $160 million in the past year.
Coming in at No. 2 on the 2013 roster is rock 'n' roll icon Elvis Presley with $55 million, followed by Peanuts comic-strip creator Charles Schulz at No. 3 with $37 million, actress Elizabeth Taylor at No. 4 with $25 million and reggae singer Bob Marley at No. 5 with $18 million.
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Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, Director of African American outreach for Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., responded today to the NAACP's charge that the Tea Party movement tolerates racism.
"We all need to examine and repent of our own tolerance for discrimination," said Dr. King, "but to condemn an entire group because of a few people, yet support Planned Parenthood, an organization marinated in racism, is to strain out gnats and swallow a camel."
"The most obvious practitioner of racism in the United States today is Planned Parenthood, an organization founded by the eugenicist Margaret Sanger and recently documented as ready to accept money to eliminate black babies," added Dr. King. "The most positive step we can take to fight racism is to end the hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies given to an organization that fulfills the dreams of the Ku Klux Klan – a group Planned Parenthood's founder once addressed."
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In the beginning, there was Linus. He said, let there be Linux, and Linux was there. Actually he wrote some code. Then there was Miguel. He said, let there be GNOME. Actually he announced it on IRC. But then GNOME was there. As many years passed, both Linux and GNOME grew in size and complexity at niceness. And so it is that we have on our doorsteps, Linux 2.6, and GNOME 2.6.
I downloaded Fedora Core 2 test 1 recently to give GNOME 2.6 and Linux 2.6 a spin. Yes, GNOME 2.6 wasn't out yet when I was writing this article, but I could test with the release candidate included in Fedora.
A lot has been said about 2.6. 2.6 is a much bigger jump from 2.4 compared with the jump 2.0 to 2.2, or 2.2 to 2.4. There are two things most people will have been waiting for. First, GTK 2.4 is now out, and most, if not all core GNOME components already use it.
Second, there is spatial Nautilus, which implements a new desktop navigation paradigm. Here I use the word navigation very loosely, and this will become clearer later why.
Third is Gstreamer. This has come a long way and is implemented more widely this time around. It is certainly more integrated with the core GNOME. Its use is wider spread throughout the environment.
The are a few other enhancements in GNOME too which we will encounter as we go along.
So, what is new.
Heading over to the module list to see what actually made it in, and what didn't make it. And why?
There are a few new tricks in this release of GNOME. Some below the surface, and some above it.
Before you begin reading, please note that this is not a review of default GNOME. So the theme used is not the default, and neither is the arrangement. This varies from distro to distro, and anyway, I wanted a review which featured GNOME and the way it worked, not the way it looked per se.
GNOME keyring
GNOME Keyring. This is a new module. This module is responsible for authentication information. It enables you to keep your authentication information for a specified period, currently either for a session, or in some database. No more typing your passwords in plain text for everyone to see. It is good that this is now in GNOME, but the bad is that it does not support ftp. So I cannot connect to an ftp site and have a prompt for the password yet.
This is something that needs to be done very quickly too. Though many are of the opinion that a dedicated ftp client is best for ftp, it is always nice to have a quick way to navigate in ftp sites, and I would prefer the Nautilus view of an ftp site, rather than how gftp does it for example.
There is GTK 2.4, with the much awaited file selector. Well, what about it? It brings a few new widgets of its own, plus the file selector. The flame wars should be over at last. Is there anything good about this file selector. Well, there is the good, the bad, and the beautiful.
The bad is that there is no way to open hidden files with the file selector, or if there is, it is well and truly hidden from your truly, the guys doing this review. This is a bug that should not have made it past release candidate. I am truly stumped. Even if it is somehow possible, it should be far easier.
The good is that the file selector looks and acts very well in the rest of the cases.
The beautiful: Well, the book-marks. I can now book-mark directories I use a lot easily in the file selector. It comes with a few bookmarks of its own too, such as the home directory, and root file system. If you book-mark a directory, and then move it, it removes it from the book-marks, and if you move it back, the book-mark reappears. This is probably very useful for removable volumes.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fish & Richardson announced today that Ruffin B. Cordell, a principal in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America.
Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only to those trial lawyers with at least 15 years trial experience who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility, and collegiality. Less than one percent of attorneys in each state are admitted to the College.
At Fish, Cordell's practice emphasizes all aspects of intellectual property litigation, including patent and trade secret cases. He regularly serves as lead counsel in major patent litigation matters before the International Trade Commission (Section 337 proceedings) and in district courts throughout the country. In 2011, Cordell was recognized as a leading litigator in Intellectual Asset Magazine's international patent litigation survey. Cordell was also named one of the "Top 50 Under 45" attorneys by IP Law & Business, one of the "Top Lawyers: Intellectual Property" by Washingtonian, and a Chambers USA Best Lawyers in America from 2006-2012. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.S., Tau Beta Pi, in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University.
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Salman Hameed of Hampshire College addressed the challenge of Islamic creationism in the December 12, 2008, issue of Science (322 [5908]: 1637-1638), warning (subscription required) that "although the last couple of decades have seen an increasing confrontation over the teaching of evolution in the United States, the next major battle over evolution is likely to take place in the Muslim world (i.e., predominantly Islamic countries, as well as in countries where there are large Muslim populations)."
Amid the hoopla as the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin of Species approach, it is good to be reminded of the contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace, who also formulated the idea of evolution by natural selection. "Wallace's story is complicated, heroic, and perplexing," as David Quammen writes in "The Man Who Wasn't Darwin" (published in the December 2008 issue of National Geographic).
Judge John E. Jones III, who presided over the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, was interviewed by Jane Gitschier for PLoS Genetics.
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When Walter Rasmussen founded Rasmussen College at the turn of the century to meet the needs of a growing business class, the world was a different place.
Streetcars and electricity were still new ideas when the Rasmussen Practical School of Business opened its doors to train secretarial and accounting students on September 1, 1900 in St. Paul, Minnesota. But, while the times have certainly changed in more than 100 years of operation, the school's ability to prepare students to succeed has not.
The Aim and Purpose of Rasmussen Practical Business School is twofold:
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Walter Rasmussen founded Rasmussen College at the turn of the century, to meet the needs of a growing business environment. Originally named the Rasmussen Practical School of Business, the first campus opened its doors in 1900 in Stillwater, Minnesota. The college was a welcome addition to the city's landscape, where the promise of top-notch secretarial and accounting programs gave eager new students the skills to succeed in the new business climate.
Though the Depression hit Minnesota in 1929, Rasmussen College remained a strong establishment in Minnesota, continuing to offer programs and teach the emerging business class. Women were given the right to vote just a few years earlier, and their importance was now recognized in the workplace. As a result, the young women of Rasmussen College now sat side by side with young men, learning to become secretaries, clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers. By the end of the 30's, the economy had bounced back, and Rasmussen's graduates were ready to meet the new business environment head-on.
When Walter Rasmussen retired in 1945, he named Walter C. Nemitz to succeed him as director of Rasmussen College. Nemitz had been with the school since 1934, as both a teacher and an assistant principal. Under Nemitz's new leadership, Rasmussen College underwent a number of upgrades. By 1950, the college's 50-year anniversary, Rasmussen had graduated more than 22,400 students. By 1960, Rasmussen's students were not only graduating to become secretaries, stenographers, typists, accountants, bookkeepers and clerks, but also machine operators, and salespersons.
Between 1961 and 1980, it became clear that the traditional educational path was not always the most effective path. University graduates were having a hard time finding positions, while the demand for business trained secretaries and accountants skyrocketed. Because of the increased interest in business college graduates, Rasmussen College grew quickly during this time. Two new campuses were added, and the court reporting program was expanded to include a new business curriculum. By 1980, Rasmussen College was placing a high percentage of its students in the workplace - a trend that would continue through the present day.
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The National Security Agency's data gathering operations are generating a lot of debate among security and privacy proponents, but one thing is sure: all that data will have some place to go, and NSA will have the capacity for it.
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To paraphrase Elmer Fudd: Shhhh. "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting Muslims" People aren't stampeding to give up their rights, their rights are being ignored for political and financial gain by folks that aren't necessarily loyal to them. Did anyone go to jail when the NSA spied on US citizens the last time? Did anyone get as much as a slap on the wrist by a nun with a ruler? This smacks of automated McCarthyism and the FBI's Hoover Files combined. There has already been documented cases of blackmailing of Muslims in NYC by the NYC Police. We are one step away from the Hungarian Registration of Jews. The government is spending billions spying on US Citizens to create an automated guilt by association system augmented with information we wouldn't want a coworker or neighbor to have free access to. Moreover, it has not made anyone safer given that shopkeepers and passer bys thwarted the last four attempted attacks. . On the other hand there is a concerted effort to demonize Muslims (that unfortunately smears Sikh's and other "brown skinned rag heads" leading to "terrorist attacks" on them in the US.)From a cost/benefit analysis this is nothing but a boondoggle. The FBI reported that terrorist attacks by Muslims rank sixth after terrorist attacks by Jews (fifth). (Terrorist attacks on Muslims are much more frequent than attacks by Muslims in the US.)So do you know the real intent and origin of this illegal activity?As for people willing to give up essential freedoms to gain temporary security, I remember the response is that they get neither freedom nor security. For a country that would ask for the former does not intend to provide the latter.
Good point about saving more lives in other efforts. Flu kills 36,000 per year yet we don't go to such lengths and give up our rights for that. Handgun deaths, food poisoning, domestic violence, traffic deaths all take more lives in a year than terrorism did in a decade. Medical mistakes are still a LEADING cause of death in the U.S. (1999 IOM report, "To Err is Human").So why the stampede to give up our rights and relinquish the keys to the kingdom to anonymous cops for such low risk ? I suggest that some people's imagination has gotten the best of them and we need to spend more time targeting the things that are actually killing us daily in LARGE numbers.
The irony of this is that if they used it to identify and fine those that are texting while driving they would save magnitudes more US citizens lives than they would tracking those who disagree with "US Interests", whatever the people in power define that to be. I, for one, question whether "US Interests" are in the best interest of The People or whether "US Interests" are the interests of the unelected appointees and their "unbreakable friendships".
"information on US citizens is the one class of data which will not be stored there" ROTFL. Why because it is "illegal"? That hasn't stopped them in the past: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?_r=0. So where is the NSA storing the massive identity graph of US Citizens they are creating from the Phone Metadata, Facebook Friends, and other association networks they are tapping into? Hopefully not China. If they aren't compiling the information why are they collecting it? To waste tax payer money? And why are they defending the collection of it in these times of sequestration? If you have a way to verify your assertion, do so. Otherwise I would be concerned you are trying to get the people to be silent when the government is doing what our founding fathers fought against. Are you a loyal citizen to The People? Or do you cry "rex non protest peccare"?
I know that some minds are not sufficiently open to accept this, but information on US citizens is the one class of data which will not be stored there.
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1) He had a democratic majority for two years and did nothing with it -- if he had, he'd probably still have one
2) There are many liberal democrats who do not approve of Obamacare, so let's not act like he accomplished something great until we have some facts to base that opinion on
3) The fact that you think we have MORE respect from foreign nations now than we used to is laughable at best
4) The biggest recessions are supposed to have the biggest recoveries. How long do we have to keep waiting?
5) I'll admit I don't know much about veteran care, past or present.
6) An openly pro-gay administration only benefits those who are supportive of an openly pro-gay agenda. To my knowledge that does not currently reflect the majority of America, so not sure why you'd think people would give him credit for this.
Four more weeks and we'll see just how supportive the American people actually are . . .


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Rochelle Sapp of Orange City walked out of the Sioux County jail on Thursday after a judge allowed her to post 10 percent of her $250,000 bond.
Her attorney, Edward Bjornstad, says Sapp is "happy to be home."
Sapp pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder and child endangerment in the death of Autumn Elgersma.
Investigators say Sapp threw Autumn to the floor after becoming angry with her while watching her on Oct. 29. They say Sapp falsely told Autumn's mother that the child was injured after falling down a flight of stairs.
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As the international community looks for ways to protect the environment while promoting development, it must keep the good of human beings and the protection of human dignity as its central goals, argues the Vatican in a position paper prepared for the Rio+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, scheduled for June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro. The gathering will mark the 20th anniversary of the landmark U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, also in Rio de Janeiro.
In a position paper published on June 14 by L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican applauds the "unanimous consensus" that has emerged around the notion that "protecting the environment means improving peoples' lives." But it worries that too often the international community focuses almost exclusively on technological solutions to environmental degradation and treats the problems human beings face as simply another set of technological challenges. In promoting an economy that minimizes environmental damage and promotes conservation and preservation, the Vatican warns, care must be taken to avoid "conditioning commerce and international aid" in a way that would become "a latent form of 'green protectionism' that would penalize countries [that] do not have access to advanced technologies and have economies heavily reliant on traditional uses of the environment, such as farming, fishing and forestry."
Another study from Catholic sources urges world leaders to act on hunger as they prepared to meet at the Group of 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, on June 18 and 19. "Food Security and the G20," published by Caritas Internationalis and Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité (C.I.D.S.E.), a European consortium of Catholic development agencies, argues that access to food is about more than mere nutrition and is linked to wider issues that must be addressed by the G20. The G20 is an annual forum for international cooperation that brings together the world's major advanced and emerging economies. Many worry that this year the continuing calamity within the Eurozone will steal much of the participants' attention, even as the global economic crisis wreaks further havoc in the developing world.
According to the "Food Security" report: "It is the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. There are nearly a billion people suffering from hunger in the world today. In every society food does not consist solely of material 'nutritional' elements, but also social, economic, political, cultural elements connected to food use, production and trade."
According to the report, food security is the consequence of precise choices taken by many of those who hold power—for example, unfair resource access, unfair market conditions, unheard voices, unresponsive institutional environments, a lack of technical solutions that use local knowledge and failure to acknowledge the complexities of local conditions in global policy decisions. Dominic Foster, author of the report and the G20 network coordinator for the United Kingdom's Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, said the Catholic agencies were "calling for urgent and tangible action from the G20 to address the root causes of food insecurity." He said, "Poor and vulnerable farmers need to be given fair and meaningful access to markets, and the G20 is central to addressing economic structures that prevent this from happening."
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SUTTER CREEK - There are three key things to know from the start about Susan's Place Wine Bar and Eatery in Sutter Creek:
� First, there is indeed a Susan. Owner, executive chef and creative restaurant builder Susan Carter left a business career to open her "place" 25 years ago.
� Second, think weekends because the restaurant and wine bar is only open four days a week (Thursday through Sunday).
� Third: yum.
Taking a break from visiting the quaint community's antique, curio, clothing and crafts stores, we took a turn on Eureka Street and stepped into Susan's.
It's a unique and diverse restaurant atmosphere, with an outside seating area under trellised covering; a quaint, almost den-library like indoor dining area; and the popular wine bar.
The meandering layout didn't just happen by accident.
Our first-rate waitress Kimberly told us a bit of how it became that way.
She said that as other neighboring restaurants would come and go, Susan Carter would buy the property and expand. That business savvy paid off because Susan's is a destination dining spot.
We arrived for lunch and got an immediate menu surprise - pricing uniformity. All wraps and sandwiches were $13, all pastas, polentas and open-face dishes were $14 and all desserts $8. And those totals included sales tax.
We decided to split a melted Brie and oven-roasted garlic appetizer, with apples, walnuts, bread and razor-thin crackers ($13). The Brie was excellent but the roasted garlic stole the appetizer show. On the whole platter, only the bread was rather blah.
It was tough to pass up a couple of other appetizers - bruschetta ($11) and baby neck clams ($13).
The main lunch course included a lobster melt dish ($14) that was so good that perhaps it's best to just lift the description from the menu so nothing is lost in translation:
"Lobster and shellfish pieces, mild green chilis, artichoke hearts and herbs blended into a light cream cheese, heated and melted over your choice of grilled polenta or on a toasted roll with sauteed veggies."
Everything about the dish was first rate. The polenta was excellent.
We also opted for a salmon burger ($13) with a very light jalape�o sauce that really accented the fish. The meat itself far out-shone the ciabatta bread. The mushroom soup accompanying the salmon burger was very good.
Nearby diners also were raving about their choices - Susan's Meat Loaf Sandwich and the basil pesto chicken (both $13).
We opted for a walnut caramel torte wrapped in a buttery pastry crust. It was tasty but there was a moment of angst over giving up chocolate for Lent (the chocolate truffle torte with chocolate ganache frosting looked decadent).
The dinner menu includes such items as lamb shanks, pot roast and Greek-style meat loaf. There's also a "design your own entree" feature in which you get to pick your sauce to pair with main dishes such as garlic pork, chicken breast, shrimp, Alaskan salmon and eggplant and portobello mushroom. Dinner entree prices range from $19 to $22 (once again, including tax).
Needing to drive back to Stockton, we just window shopped at the wine bar. That'll have to wait for another visit.
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The 2011 Nissan Armada is a full-size SUV with seating for seven, a plethora of cargo space, and a towing capacity of up to 9,000 pounds for the top-of-the-line model. For 2011, the Armada sails on unchanged, except for name changes on two trim levels.
A healthy V8 engine and 5-speed automatic transmission equip the Armada for serious work. Yet its comfortable ride and accurate response lends the nautically named SUV a degree of refinement. This is a genuine 4WD vehicle in the vein of the Land Cruiser and Jeep Grand Cherokee, not merely an all-wheel-drive system for inclement weather. Yet you can drive it in urban settings without feeling like you're navigating the Queen Mary down the Los Angeles river.
We found the Nissan Armada drives well, cruises nicely, with a comfortable ride, responsive handling for a full-size truck and strong acceleration performance from its 5.6-liter V8 engine.
The Armada is quite large. It's an inch longer than the Ford Expedition, two inches longer than the Toyota Sequoia. Armada has a slightly longer wheelbase than that of the Sequoia, and significantly longer than that of the Expedition. A longer wheelbase can increase stability, especially when towing. The Armada is longer overall and in wheelbase than the Chevy Tahoe, shorter than the Suburban. They're all about the same width.
Cargo capacity of the Armada is slightly less than that of the competition, but the second- and third-row seats fold perfectly flat, a great feature. The interior is nice, the seats are comfortable, and everything is easy to operate.
The Nissan Armada is a handsome vehicle, better looking than the Infiniti QX56. Also, it's clearly intended for hauling. The rear bumper is flat and protected with cladding on top. Stylish, aerodynamic rear bumpers such as what's found on the Infiniti can quickly get scratched up when loading heavy cargo or dogs. For towing and for driving off pavement, we recommend the 18-inch wheels over the fancy 20-inch wheels.
These days, the average consumer is understandably shying away from ginormous spot utilities in search of alternatives that are smaller, lighter and more fuel efficient. That said, the 2011 Nissan Armada is a solid choice if you need lots of space, a high towing capacity and large third-row seats. With its quiet strength and 4WD, the Armada can take you places you never expected to go.


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Whether you just want to have fun, get fit or dream of being an NRL star, Junior Rugby League is introducing record numbers of boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 12 years to the game in a safe and enjoyable environment.
Rugby League is launching its new junior recruitment campaign www.playrugbyleague.com to continue growing junior player numbers in every local Junior Rugby League Club across the country.
Rugby League presently has 126,025 registered junior club players, making up 7988 teams that belong to 1300 Junior Rugby League Clubs nationwide, with 2012 recording the highest number of registered participants in the 6-12 years age group in the history of the game.
"Junior Clubs are a vital part of the fabric that makes Rugby League the greatest game of all and we are committed to providing the best possible experience for every child," NRL General Manager - League Integration & Game Development Andrew Hill said.
"The Junior Leagues are where our elite players begin their careers, where so many of our fans come from, and where our children and their families can get out and have fun every weekend."
Children can begin playing competitive Rugby League from as young as six years of age and junior teams typically range from Under 7s through to Under 18s.
Rugby League focuses on a whole-of-game program, the day your child joins a club, is the day he/she starts playing Rugby League while developing skills including try scoring, evasion, passing, and kicking.
Natalie Walka of Seven Hills, is not only a working mum of two young boys, 12-year-old Matthew and seven-year-old Daniel who play Rugby League, her husband Michael coaches and she is the President of the St Anthony's Girraween Eagles JRLFC.
"Being part of a Junior Rugby League Club has been fantastic for our family," Natalie said.
"We're involved with a great little club, have developed some terrific friendships and it's simply a wonderful community to be a part of.
"We spend quality time together and everyone has a role at the club.
"The boys are spending time outdoors, getting fit and playing a well organised sport in a safe and fun environment.
"They're also learning great life skills such as teamwork, sportsmanship, resilience and humility which is also very important to us.
"For us, the footy season is full on, but we love it."
The benefits of playing a team sport are enormous, not only providing an outlet for children to be active, but can also help with vital life-lessons in personal values, team work and relationship building skills as well as being a positive social outlet for the whole family.
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Samsung parades 'multi-wireless' camera
GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
How many modes of wireless connectivity can you cram into a compact camera? Three, according to Samsung, which has launched what it's called the world's first "multi-wireless" compact.
Samsung's ST1000: the most well-connected compact?
Confused by the term 'multi-wireless'? Samsung told us that it boils down to the ST1000's ability to geo-tag content and then send it over Bluetooth 2.0 or a Wi-Fi network.
As you decide what to photograph, the city name and region that you're currently in will be displayed in real-time on the ST1000's 3.5in touchscreen display. The same data can be attached to images.
You can then wirelessly send your snaps over Bluetooth to, say, a mobile phone - or email pictures directly from the camera using its Wi-Fi radio.
The camera can only connect to free Wi-Fi services, Samsung told us - so no emailing photos to friends while sipping coffee in Starbucks, we're afraid.
DLNA compatibility also means that ST1000 content can be transferred onto compatible gadgets, such as TVs and digital picture frames.
The ST1000 is a 12.2Mp compact, we should mention, but if you aren't a fan of stills then the camera can even shoot 720p video at up to 30f/s.
DLNA support and body colour options help make the ST1000 a killer camera
A nifty point-to-focus feature allows you to pin-point the camera's focus by tapping a location on the LCD screen, doing away with the tiresome bore of depressing the 5x optical zoom button.
Facial recognition for up to 20 faces and smile detection are also included on the camera, Samsung said. Blink detection has been thrown in for good measure, too.
Samsung's ST1000 will be available later this month in a range of body colours, including silver-and-red, black and red-and-black. A price hasn't been released. ®


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As for the debate, I expect nothing. To quote Sparano, the candidates will be "vanilla".
I think the VP debate will be worth watching. Might get a few sparks in that one.


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If before you were used to create your content on a compilable PDF template and then print it, now you have the chance to unleash your imagination and realize a full digital editable Moleskine Notebook.
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Up to 10 pages per MSK where to insert text, lines or images coming from your computer or from myMoleskine gallery.
Choose the size and layout of your notebook and even decide if to pick a special template coming from Moleskine Passions.
The MSKs you create will be always there stored within your account, secretly or publicly. You decide!
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Inside the MSK you can find all the support you need to learn how to proceed thanks to the help menu and a guided tour for the very first time you will access.
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Ronald P. Loftus grew up in various parts of the world including India, France, Italy and Thailand. He graduated high-school from the International School of Bangkok and returned to Washington, D.C., to attend George Washington University. After graduating and earning a Master's Degree from Johns Hopkins SAIS, Loftus entered the Ph.D. program in modern Japanese history at Claremont Graduate School. Since 1977, he has been teaching Japanese language, literature, film, and history at the university level. Research interests include late Meiji social and intellectual history and "self-writing" --- autobiographies and memoirs -- by 20th century Japanese women. He has published two books on the subject: Telling Lives (University of Hawaii press, 2004) on the interwar years and Changing Lives (Association of Asian Studies, 2013) on postwar Japan. In 2013, he was a participant in "Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms," a conference held at Emory University. on April 19-20, 2013. The conference featured presentations by Japanese Studies specialists engaged in innovative research intended to further our understanding of the diversity and evolution of Japanese feminist thought and activism from the Meiji period to the present day.
From 1997-2003, Professor Loftus was the director of the Northwest Language Consortium, a project funded by the Mellon Foundation in order to enhance the use of technology in foreign language teaching and learning, and since 2012, he has been Co-Director of the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) supported by the Luce Foundation. The project will involve faculty and students at Willamette, Tokyo International University in Saitama, Japan, and the American Studies Program at TIUA; there will be post-sessions in Japan, curriculum development projects, symposia, public lectures, etc. all on the theme of Sustainability in the Pacific Rim. Loftus is also currently Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
Books — Edited and AuthoredLoftus, Ron. The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912). Association of Asian Studies, 2017.
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It seems likely that Donovan McNabb's days as a starting quarterback in the NFL are over.
The man who holds several Eagles franchise records and helped the team get to its second-ever Super Bowl was benched this week as the Vikings will instead go with rookie Christian Ponder.
In six games (five of them losses), McNabb completed 60.3 percent of his passes with four touchdowns and two interceptions. He averaged just 6.6 yards per attempt for a QB rating of 82.9.
But according to Mike Lombardi of NFL Network, McNabb's benching was about more than just his on-the-field play:
McNabb is at a point in his career that he does not seem to want to put in the time, willing to show up late for meetings and practice, and expects to just play well. He failed to really grasp the offense in Minnesota (as he did in Washington), having trouble spitting the plays out quickly -- which meant the play sheet on his arm got bigger and bigger. It did not take long before McNabb's lack of commitment was seen by the older players, causing them to understand that a move had to be made.
It's amazing how bad things have gotten for McNabb since Andy Reid dealt him to the Redskins on Easter Sunday before the 2010 season. He had a disastrous year in Washington before Mike Shanahan and company shipped him off to Minnesota. And now, things have gotten just as bad with the Vikings.
As part of the trade this summer, McNabb reportedly signed a new, one-year deal worth $5M, meaning he'll be a free agent after the season. At 34, he's not over the hill in terms of NFL quarterbacks, but it's difficult to imagine any team bringing him on board to start after the way the past two seasons have gone.
ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that doctors believe they successfully removed the tumor in Jerome Harrison's brain during surgery on Friday.
The Eagles traded for Harrison last week, but the deal was voided after doctors discovered the tumor. The Lions have placed him on the reserve/non-football illness list.
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October 10. 2013 9:13PM
Souhegan Tea Party finds much to dislike about Common Core
By BARBARA TAORMINA
Union Leader Correspondent
The new Souhegan Tea Party heard a presentation Wednesday on the Common Core State Standards Initiative and how the education reform movement in is shifting state public education from liberal arts to workforce development.
Bedford resident Ann Marie Banfield, the education liaison for the conservative think tank Cornerstone Policy Research, presented an overview of the initiative and the change it will bring to public schools.
Superintendents, administrators and state policymakers have accepted Common Core as a national set of English language and math standards to ensure high school graduates are prepared for college or a career, but Banfield and others who examined the entire program say there's more to it.
"The problem is how they are coercing the states into using a set of mediocre standards," Banfield told a group of about 40 people attending the session at the Milford Library.
Developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Common Core Standards were introduced in 2010 when much of the country was struggling with a bleak economy. States that adopted Common Core bettered their odds in the Race to the Top contest for more than $4 billion in federal education aid. New Hampshire's Board of Education signed on to Common Core in July 2010, but no Race to the Top money ever arrived in Concord.
"The Common Core Standards were voted in by four appointed members of the state board," said Banfield adding a fifth member voted against adopting the program.
No vote or public hearing was held on the plan to redesign the public school system.
Loss of local control
Banfield said that loss of local control over community schools is just one of the problems with Common Core.
In addition to adopting the standards, many states agreed to create longitudinal databases that collect student test scores and personal information, such as race, ethnicity, parents' level of education, income level and religious affiliations.
"Information is collected on assessment tests," said Banfield, who added the Common Core Initiative will use a 400-point data system to gather facts on students.
"What's going to be collected, I don't know," she said. However, Banfield did say that states can share student data with other government agencies, such as the Department of Labor.
While Common Core has been presented as voluntary, all students will be required to take the Common Core assessment tests starting in 2015, and all teachers will have student test scores count as part of their job evaluations. New Hampshire agreed to those Common Core conditions when it accepted a waiver from the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Banfield and other critics of Common Core have said that because of those conditions, there's nothing voluntary about Common Core.
Shift from liberal arts
Banfield said she might have accepted the Common Core mandates if New Hampshire was getting a well-planned slate of educational reforms that aimed at achieving academic excellence.
"The Common Core Standards involve a fundamental shift away from a quality liberal arts education toward competency-based education and workforce development," she said.
Literature will give way to reading and analyzing more informational texts; calculus has been pushed aside so more time can be spent on algebra; and individual achievement will be downplayed while group projects and group problem-solving will be emphasized.
"It's amazing when you look at the real lack of academics," said Banfield. "Common Core is about teaching collaboration and workplace competencies."
Like other groups with concerns and questions about the standards, the Souhegan Tea Party thinks lobbying the state Legislature to reign in Common Core may be the answer.
"The Department of Education still reports to the Legislature," said Amherst state Rep. Peter Hansen. "They may not think they do, but they do."
Opposing initiative
Souhegan Tea Party organizer James Kofalt, who said he launched the group because he was tired of sitting alone and yelling at his television, gave everyone who attended a schedule of Common Core meetings and presentations and other tips on how to effectively oppose the initiative.
"We need New Hampshire to get rid of Common Core and elevate their own standards," he said.


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Having a rough hurricane season here in the south did slow things down a little as far as code/artwork on my game ( Skylock: Cyborga ) but the time away from the comp was kind of a mixed blessing.
I got to spend some time with just a notebook and pen and rework on some of the quirks that came out of my original design. The gameplay design itself is unchanged, I only had to rework some of the I/O issues (shared resource memory manager, database manager, custom file formats, etc).
A demo of the latest incarnation can be downloaded here. This demo shows off some of the new artwork (ie: a POW rifleman).
***Note: the control panel is missing. Everything still functions, I just commented out the sections that weren't affected by my reworkings.***
Also, I've noticed that just about 2 seconds after loading there is a slight lag that lasts about 1-2 seconds but doesn't show up after that. The FPS.log file shows a drop in frame rate but there's no explaination for it.
It only lags right at the beginning and not again after that. It's kind of weird because there isn't anything major going on at the time. It happens after all the file I/O is done and all the subsystems are loaded.
As always: runs on Win98/2k/XP with DX 7 or higher


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In our Northern California office we don't have snowy white winters, but our design team was inspired by "snow and gold" when creating our 2011-2012 holiday card. Starting with the "snow and gold" inspiration, we knew that above all, we wanted to incorporate brilliant gold foil and use our bright white letterpress stock.
Staying true to our Dauphine Press aesthetic we wanted the card to have a vintage feel, which was achieved by creating a border inspired by gold details in art deco architecture and jewelry. The subtle texture of the snow-like letterpress blind hit in the fluffy cotton paper is perfectly paired with the warm gold foil border and sentiment. The "warm wishes" greeting was by the amazing calligrapher Georgia Deaver in a script inspired by vintage packaging, resulting in a slightly traditional feel perfect for the holidays (or any wedding!). The calligraphy and gold foil are carried onto the light grey envelope completing the perfect clean and fresh wintery palette.


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Post-disaster interviewing
The Louisiana Folklife Program has a page, In the wake of the hurricanes, devoted to "collecting our stories and preserving our culture." There are some excellent resources on that page for interviewing Hurricane Katrina survivors and responders. Why might this be of interest to someone who is not from the Gulf area? (I've been thinking about interview questions today). Disasters happen. People are affected—both the survivors and those who respond. These are a good starting place to elicit details about a major disaster experience. And there are a huge number of people affected by Katrina and Rita, too. Too– the Gulf diaspora is so widespread that there may be survivors and responders close by.
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Blackhawks' Toews has flu, hopes to play Saturdayby Dan Rosen / NHL.com
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews has the flu and did not practice Friday at the Toyota Sports Center.
However, coach Joel Quenneville said the team is hopeful Toews will be able to play in the season opener Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center (3 p.m. ET, NBC).
"I think he's making some progress today so we're hoping that he should be ready," Quenneville said.
Asked how hopeful he is, Quenneville responded, "There is some good enough progress today that we anticipate him playing."
Quenneville said Toews contracted the flu Thursday night, after the team arrived in Los Angeles.
If Toews can't play Saturday, there is a chance 20-year-old rookie Brandon Saad will take his place in the lineup. Saad was practicing in Toews' spot as the center between Marian Hossa and Daniel Carcillo.
Saad played in two games last season for the Blackhawks and had no points. He has 20 points in 31 games with the Rockford Ice Hogs of the American Hockey League this season and was named the AHL's Player of the Week for Jan. 6-13.
Asked if Saad would play if Toews can't, Quenneville said, "That's something we haven't even talked about yet. We hope we don't have to go to plan B."