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=== Adding a new module to the client build ===
=== Adding a new module to the client build ===
just one step :
Add an entry to the modulessection of <tt>orion.build.js</tt>.
Every entry needs a name property and a bundle, which tells the builder which bundle the minified module should be copied back into. For example, here is the Git Commit page's entry:
Every entry needs a nameproperty and a bundle, which tells the builder which bundle the minified module should be copied back into. For example, here is the Git Commit page's entry:
{ name: "git/git-commit",
{ name: "git/git-commit",
bundle: "${
bundle: "${}/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.git"
^ Ant-style property replacement is supported in the bundle field, but <tt>${
^ Ant-style property replacement is supported in the bundlefield, but <tt>${}</tt> is you should use there. The PDE, Hudson, and Node builds all share orion.build.js, so your new module will be correctly built everywhere
=== Adding a new client bundle to the JS build ===
=== Adding a new client bundle to the JS build ===
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=== Building stand-alone features ===
=== Building stand-alone features ===
Right now stand-alone features (the standalone Orion editor) are still handled separately by the build script. You must add logic to orion.mini.xmlthat invokes r.js, passing the build file for your feature. Use the standalone editor build as a reference.
Right now stand-alone features (
= PDE build =
= PDE build =
Revision as of 18:12, 20 March 2014
Orion currently has 3 kinds of builds:
- The PDE build uses infrastructure from Eclipse platform releng. Offical Orion releases are produced by this build.
- The Tycho build is based on Tycho and Maven. Compared to the PDE build, the Tycho build is easier for downstream products to consume, and easier to reproduce in other environments.
- The Node build is a small script that runs on Node.js. It produces an Orion server that runs under Node.js.
- 1 How to contribute
- 2 PDE build
- 3 Tycho build
- 4 Node build
How to contribute
This section applies to all builds.
Contributing changes to the build
Contributing to a build is easy: just commit your code to the master stream of the Orion repository and it will be included in the next integration build.
Setting up your workspace
- See Orion/Getting the source for instructions on how to set up your workspace to work with Orion source code.
- (If you want to try running the PDE build locally): Import 'org.eclipse.orion.releng' into your workspace. It is located in the org.eclipse.orion.server.git repository under the releng folder.
Contributing your changes
Once you have made code changes, you can contribute them to the Integration build as follows:
- Commit your changes to the local repository and push them to the master
git commit -a -m "fix lots of bugs" #commits all changes git push #push local commits to the master
The Orion build performs minification of client pages and plugins. This section has instructions on how to add new content for minification in the build.
Adding a new module to the client build
If you're adding a new page or plugin to the Orion client UI, there's usually just one step required to get it optimized:
- Add an entry to the modules section of orion.build.js.
Every entry needs a name property and a bundle, which tells the builder which bundle the minified module should be copied back into. For example, here is the Git Commit page's entry:
- { name: "git/git-commit",
- bundle: "${orionClient}/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.git"
- },
^ Ant-style property replacement is supported in the bundle field, but ${orionClient} is the only property you should use there. The PDE, Hudson, and Node builds all share orion.build.js, so your new module will be correctly built everywhere.
How optimized modules are generated
For every module {name} listed in the modules section:
- The build outputs an optimized file, named built-{name}.js, with AMD dependencies inlined and code minified.
- The build also determines the caller -- usually it's the HTML page that calls require(["{name}.js"]) or <script data-main="{name}" ... />.
- The caller is modified such that the optimized file built-{name}.js is loaded rather than the original {name}.js.
For a module {name}.js, the build by convention looks for a caller named {name}.html. If the caller is not named according to convention, it must be specified in the module entry using a caller property, so that the build can locate it. As of this writing, the caller must live in the same folder as the module.
For example, this is how the JS tools web worker (which is loaded by another script file, not an HTML file) is optimized:
- { name: "javascript/plugins/javascriptPluginWorker",
- bundle: "${orionClient}/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.javascript",
- caller: "javascriptWorkerBootstrap.js"
- },
^ Here, the build will modify the caller javascriptWorkerBootstrap.js such that it loads the optimized module "built-javascriptPluginWorker.js" instead of "javascriptPluginWorker.js".
Adding a new client bundle to the JS build
- Add an entry to the bundles section of orion.build.js.
- If your bundle contains any JSDocs, add an entry to the jsdocs section of orion.build.js.
- Add module entries for any of the bundle's modules you want minified (see previous section).
- Add an entry to the <modules> section of the client repo's top-level pom.xml. This ensures that the Maven builder finds your bundle.
Building stand-alone features
Right now stand-alone features (such as the built-editor.min.js, the standalone Orion editor) are still handled separately by the build script. You must add logic to orion.mini.xml that invokes r.js, passing the build file for your feature. Use the standalone editor build as a reference.
PDE build
The PDE builds follow many of the same practices used by the Eclipse Platform Project. The builds are based on PDE/Build and run automatically on build.eclipse.org via cron job.
There is only one kind of build. Integration builds run daily from tagged repository versions. Map files are used to specify where a project is located in the repository and what version of that project to use in the build. The map files are located in the org.eclipse.orion.releng project. The builder itself performs the tagging so all the latest changes in "master" stream are picked up by every build. No manual tagging by committers is required.
How the build works
The build is kicked off by a "bootstrap" script that is not under version control. The only purpose of this script is to fetch the real build script and invoke the build. The script is located at:
The build type is passed as an argument. -I means integration build (with tagging). -N is equivalent but does not perform any tagging (in both cases the contents of master are used to perform the build).
You can also pass an -email argument to cause the build notifications to only be sent to an individual. This is useful for test builds:
bootstrap.orion.sh -I -email email@example.com
The bootstrap script is typically invoked by a cron entry in the e4Build user account. For example here is a cron entry to start a build every Wednesday at 8:55am:
55 08 * * Wed /opt/buildhomes/e4Build/bootstrap.orion.sh -I
Invoke "crontab -e" to edit the cron entries (using vi), or "crontab -l" to simply list them.
The bootstrap fetches and invokes the main build script, called masterBuild.sh. This script is under version control, so you need to push any changes to this script into the master branch for them to take effect. If you scroll to the very bottom of this script you can see the steps it performs:
tagRepositories # perform auto-tagging of the Orion git repositories updateRelengProject # fetch latest from Orion releng project (our scripts and maps) updateBaseBuilder # fetch the PDE builder to use in the build setProperties # various initialization steps runBuild # invoke the PDE build runTests # invoke client and server tests publish # send results email
build log
The results of the build, including any failures from any step, can found found in the build log at:
This is the first place to check when the build fails. It is typically very long so it is often helpful to use tail to start near the end. This exact same log gets copied into the download directory so it is available for reference for any build we produce. For example:
Repository cache
For performance reasons, PDE build maintains a cache of fetched prerequisite bundles. This lives at /shared/eclipse/e4/orion/target/transformedRepos on the build machine. The build will pick up the newest version of each required bundle from that location. If you ever need to force the build to go back to an *older* version of a bundle, this cache needs to be cleared. Simply delete the transformedRepos directory prior to the build.
Deploying builds to orion.eclipse.org or orionhub.org
Builds are deployed using the script deploy.sh. This script should be copied to your home directory and run from there. Your home directory will contain a symlink to the downloads directory, so you can perform a deploy directly from the downloads area. The script takes a single argument which is the location of the zip containing the download. For our servers we want the Linux 64-bit build. It is useful to log the output of this script so it can be reviewed later. Example:
./deploy.sh -archive downloads/orion/drops/I201201102230/eclipse-orion-I20120110-2230-linux.gtk.x86_64.zip >> deploy.log
This script simply copies the build onto the deployment server, and invokes an upgrade script on that server - upgrade.sh. The upgrade script shuts down the old server, moves it, unzips and configures the new build, and finally starts it.
The entire deploy/upgrade process takes about 5 seconds when it runs smoothly. Occasionally there will be a communication error copying the new build onto the target machine. In this case simply re-running the script usually succeeds.
Server configuration
The server configuration file on orion.eclipse.org and orionhub.org is found in ~admin/current/orion.conf. This file gets copied into the server by the deployment script. So, any change made to this configuration file will take effect only on the next deployment.
Tycho build
The Tycho builds use the Eclipse Tycho infrastructure, centered around Maven. Orion committers can managed Tycho builds using the Orion Hudson instance. The build comprises 2 jobs:
- orion-client
- Builds Orion's client-side JavaScript code and performs JS minification.
- orion-server
- Downstream project of orion-client. Builds Orion's Java server and runs the tests.
As of this writing, Tycho builds only run Orion's Java server tests; Orion's JavaScript tests are not yet supported.
Node build
The Node build produces a Node.js-based Orion server with minified client-side JavaScript code.
As of this writing, the Node build does not happen automatically. Members of the Orion dev team run the build manually - to prepare Orion for publishing to the npm repository. Builds are published on a regular basis, at least once per milestone.
Running the build
Run the shell script make-publish.sh from the modules/orionode/build/ directory:
$ cd modules/orionode/build $ ./make-publish.sh /path/to/tempDir
The script takes a single argument, which is the output directory where the minified server will be generated. Everything in tempDir gets deleted, so do not publish to an important directory.


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Builder: Ready Corporation, based in Richmond, Va., teamed with a Haitian firm
Style: Walls made of wheat or rice straw compressed into panels, then plastered over, with steel posts and beams for framing
Size and cost: A 600-square-foot home would cost $20,000
Time to build (estimated): Three weeks, with four workers, including plastering time
Builders described this house as a "supergreen product" developed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that flooded New Orleans. Wall panels are made of CAF (compressed agricultural fibre), generally rice or wheat straw, a part of the plant that is not used in food production and is normally discarded. Readily available in Haiti but normally discarded, now it could serve as an extra source of income for farmers. Most of the other homes in the competition had walls made of polystyrene, a petroleum-based product, or cement, which requires large amounts of energy to produce, Ready Corporation president William G. Hancock noted.
His CAF panels, on the other hand, required only 4 per cent of the energy used to create a sheet of drywall. The rice or wheat straw is contained in a waterproof craft paper, then covered with one coat of rough plaster, another coat of finishing plaster, and painted. The wall panels are similar in cost to lumber, Hancock said.
Ready Corporation paired with Haitian builder Lionel Pressoir, who designed an airy and attractive Haitian styled home complete with an "inside garden," enclosed within a courtyard wall where families could congregate outdoors under the banana tree and sit to do their laundry or cooking. Painted in bright pastel hues, the house has two bedrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen and full bathroom. It has been certified to withstand winds of 200 kilometres an hour, Hancock said. All materials would come from Haiti. If accepted in Haiti, it would be the company's first major contract.


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Political Science
Professors: Berry, Dugas, Einspahr (Chair), Elman
Political Science is an essential component of a liberal arts education, providing students with the tools to understand the complex world of politics and, in the process, to become better citizens. As a field of academic study, Political Science is both a classical discipline and a more recently developed social science. The study of politics utilizes philosophical, historical, comparative and empirical analysis to examine governments, transnational institutions, political movements, politics, and policies. Knowledge of these areas enables students to participate more effectively in the political process on behalf of their own values. Students also learn skills to scrutinize both their own value systems and those of others.
The Political Science Department seeks to provide broad yet rigorous training in the fields of U.S. politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory. This training provides a thorough grounding for study in graduate and professional schools (including law school), as well as preparation for public service, nongovernmental employment, civic engagement, and political activism at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Requirements for the Major in Political Science
Number of Units
Nine units are required, not including the SIP.
Required Courses
POLS 105 Introduction to U.S. Politics: Theory and Practice
POLS 106 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLS 107 Introduction to International Politics
POLS 490 Contemporary Behavior, Theory, and Methodology
ONE of the following:
POLS 257 Justice and Political Community: Classical Political Thought
POLS 260 Liberty, Equality, and Authority: Modern Political Thought
POLS 263 American Political Thought
The political science department requires all majors to pass a written comprehensive examination covering the fields of U.S. politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory. In addition, the department strongly encourages students to complete their introductory courses prior to leaving for study abroad.
Requirements for the Minor in Political Science
Number of Units
Six units are required.
Required Courses
POLS 105 Introduction to American Government
Five additional political science courses
Off-Campus Credits
One Political Science course from off-campus (study abroad or transfer credit) may count for credit toward the Political Science major or minor. Students must formally petition the department for approval of the course and provide the necessary materials (e.g. syllabus, notes, papers, etc.) for review. In general, the Political Science Department will accept for credit only a course that is not offered at Kalamazoo College.
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An official catalog is produced each summer for the following academic year and stored in the Archives section of this site. These versions are used for degree audits. Throughout the year, approved changes are incorporated immediately. Updates that have been submitted and approved by early summer will be included in the archival catalog for the next academic year in mid-summer.


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Ubisoft posted its financial release yesterday, and hidden amongst all the Econ 101 mumbo-jumbo were some choice tidbits of news relating to delays of some key Ubisoft software.
Noticeably absent from Ubisoft's list of Q4 releases was the PlayStation 3 version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, despite the fact that all other versions of the game made the list. An industry pundit close to IGN confirmed this delay. Another game that will see delays is the upcoming Free Radical FPS, Haze, which shuffled off its original winter 2007 release to sometime in early 2008. Ubisoft also announced that three of its in-development Wii titles would be slipping from the final quarter of this fiscal year to sometime in the first half of next fiscal year.
Despite these delays, Ubisoft still has four Wii titles set to release before the end of March, as well as a plentitude of Xbox 360 and PC games. As for the three mystery 2007 Wii games, we can't help but think that one of them has to be the as-of-yet unannounced sequel to Red Steel.


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I downloaded scummVM, but I can't figure out how to use it! Also, I've seen screenshots of scummVM, and the layout of the program looks alot different than what it looks like on my Palm Pilot.
Can someone give me steps on how to start playing a game on my palm pilot using scummVM? I'd like to try playing a humongous entertainment game. Thanks!
followed the steps in http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=3334 carefully ?? Where exactly is the problem ?
What device are you using (is it compatible with ScummVm http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/PalmOS#Compatibility_List) ?
Check also if your game is compatible with ScummVm (http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php). Note that this does not mean, these games all work on the PalmOS port - i have no clue if Humongous games work at all on PalmOS
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Okay, I have the game "Putt-Putt Travels Through Time" on the list of games. (Thanks to the link you gave me, sending me to the ScummVM Manual thingy...) To answer your questions, by the way, I have a Palm Tungsten T3, and ScummVM is supposed to be compatible with it. Also, Putt-Putt Travels through time is compatible with ScummVM. The only questions I have now are:
-What engine am I supposed to use to run Humongous Entertainment Games? (I have no idea which enine I need to use to run it.)
-On the list of data files needed to run this game on ScummVM, there are: * PuttTTT.HE0,* PuttTTT.(A),* PuttTTT.HE2, and *PuttTTT.HE4. I don't know if I need to have ALL these files, and if I do, I don't even have all these files! I looked under the program files on my Windows computer, and found the folder called, "PuttTTT", however, the only file in this folder that matched the data files that I supposedly need to have, is "PuttTTT.HEO". Is this the only file I need to use to run the game?
If you can help me with these two problems, that would be great! Thanks for your help on your last reply, thatgui.
two links indicate, that you have to choose the "ScummVM Games" - engine for humongous games. But they also indicate that it is unlikely (but not impossible) that the game will run properly on your palm.
I can't help you with your file problem though. If you haven't already, try to run the game with the Windows Version of ScummVM. If it's working there you have all the required files.
I didn't have all the right files for Putt-Putt (I tried the Windows version of ScummVM), so I tried downloading the demo of Freddy Fish 3. I thought that the download directly from the ScummVM site would have all the necessary data files, and sure enough it did. I added that game to ScummVM, and it didn't generate any error messages this time, it just crashed. So, like you said, I guess Humongous Entertainment Games don't work with PalmOS. Thanks for you help anyways!


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Should You Edit Your Agency's Wikipedia Page? Probably Not
But the online encyclopedia would love your help on other articles.
Wikipedia has become a go-to source for the online world with 30 million articles in 278 languages. The site can be a minefield, though, for government and its employees who want to ensure online information about their agencies is accurate but are wary of violating conflict of interest policies.
Nextgov spoke recently with Jay Walsh, communications lead for the Wikimedia Foundation, about how government employees should use the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia and about what governments and its employees can do to make Wikipedia better.
Here are the highlights.
When can and should government employees edit Wikipedia articles about their own agencies? Is there a way to do this without violating conflicts of interest?
There's no quick and easy answer to this, Walsh said, but the best advice is to tread very lightly on any topics you have a professional interest in, to disclose any conflicts you have and to understand Wikipedia culture well before you make any edits.
If a novice Wikipedian creates a profile simply to edit an article about his agency director, that will certainly be seen as a conflict of interest, Walsh said, even if the employee had the best of intentions. Those edits will likely be reverted by other Wikipedians, he said, especially if they include removing negative information.
If a government employee who's also a longtime Wikipedia editor makes a few factual corrections in an article related to her agency's work and discloses her conflict on the article's "Talk" page, on the other hand, many -- but not all -- Wikipedians would say that's acceptable, he said.
"The short answer is most Wikipedians prefer that people don't get involved in topics with which they're professionally connected," he said. "That being said there are a lot of hard working Wikipedians who work in an industry and they may edit that topic to make sure it's accurate. That involves a high level of disclosure. They'll say I work in this department, so I want to make clear there's a substantial conflict, but I'm fixing an error."
"That's likely to be non-controversial," he said. "It's making Wikipedia better and it's transparent. That's the best case scenario. Unfortunately, what most people do when they're doing it wrong is they're removing information that's backed up by relevant sources like media and academic articles, and that smacks of censorship. That's not making Wikipedia better; it's effectively vandalizing it."
Is there a danger that this conflict of interest policy might scare off some of the best editors on a topic?
"What's interesting is that those people who disclose conflicts are likely to be active Wikipedia users, meaning they're probably editing on a whole range of topics from athletics to opera to pandas," Walsh said.
"They probably have a history of thousands of edits so they've built up trust in the Wikipedia community and they're unlikely to do something that will destroy their credibility or harm their reputations. Wikipedia is a meritocracy. If one Wikipedian is looking at another all they have to do is see how many edits they've made and how many have been challenged or reverted. There are some Wikipedians who will never touch an area where they have a conflict. And there are some really good editors who occasionally edit a topic where there may be a conflict, but they'll be really careful about it and disclose everything."
What about government employees who aren't active Wikipedians? What should they do if they spot an error?
There are three ways non-Wikipedians can fix factual errors, Walsh said. The easiest route is to alert a volunteer editor through Wikipedia's contact page, describe the error and include documentation to back up your claim.
That usually gets errors fixed pretty quickly, he said, but because Wikipedia's run almost exclusively by volunteers the turnaround won't be immediate.
"We're not like Dell or Apple," he said. "We can't necessarily resolve your situation while you're on the phone."
Another fix, he said, is to reach out to other people in the agency who are active Wikipedians -- there almost always are some -- and rely on their expertise about how to handle it.
Finally, the error spotter can wade into the world of Wikipedia himself, Walsh said. That means creating a personal username, disclosing basic details about who you are such as "an accountant working for the Treasury Department" and reading through the Talk page and edit history of the article with an error and, possibly, related articles.
At that point, the error spotter can post a message to the Talk page noting his conflict and describing the error with documentation to back it up, Walsh said. Once that's done, another page editor will likely make the correction for him.
So, outside of spotting errors, what can government employees do for Wikipedia?
The best thing government employees can do for Wikipedia is contribute their knowledge and talents as Wikipedians, Walsh said. That's because government employees tend to match the profile of a good Wikipedia editor. They're typically highly educated; they're used to working within pretty tight regulatory boundaries; and they may have a broad slate of interests that goes well beyond their professional work.
What can the government itself do for Wikipedia?
The best thing the government can do for Wikipedia is to make its own data more available and more digestible so Wikipedians can rely on it as a primary source, Walsh said.
"Government data is an excellent, high quality source and it's trusted more than a lot of other data because it goes through so much auditing and review," Walsh said.
The CIA's World Factbook, for example is among the most cited sources on Wikipedia for geographic and population data.
Government data is often difficult to use, though, either because it's tough to find online and not regularly updated or because it's presented in a format that's inscrutable for most citizen editors.
The Wikimedia Foundation is also developing the project Wikidata, a repository of structured data sets, some of which can be digitally linked to content in Wikipedia articles. That way, for instance, when new Census Bureau data comes out, a single edit in Wikidata about the population of Los Angeles could automatically change that figure in hundreds of Wikipedia articles.
In addition to making basic data sets available, Walsh urged the government to put more of its non-digital holdings online, such as historical documents held by the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.
"The more free stuff there is the better we can bring it to the world," he said.
Guidance from the government
Nextgov also asked the digital team at the General Services Administration about guidance for federal employees editing Wikipedia. Here's what they had to say:
"As a collaboratively written platform, Wikipedia operates in the same manner as many social media sites. In that regard, the same federal agency policies that employees follow for Facebook, Twitter, etc., also apply to their use of Wikipedia.
"Wikipedia has well established policies and recommendations to keep content in line with its five pillars built on the ideas of neutrality, openness, civility and flexibility. Government users should be transparent and open in providing and editing content in line with these five pillars.
"Wikipedia strongly discourages users and organizations from adding or editing content about themselves. Even with the best of intentions, self-editing can be perceived negatively. Since Wikipedia follows the encyclopedia model to have verifiable supporting sources, a best practice recommendation for federal contributors is to focus on their own agency Web content and to rely on Wikipedia's established editing process for verification."
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My nine-year old startled me today by repeatedly using "truce" as a verb. He was talking about a dodgeball game in which the kids make side deals with individual opponents not to aim at them. "He truced me," "I truced him"—you get the idea. The opposite of "truce" is "backstab," apparently. You can call off a truce by yelling "Backstab!" or you can just renege on the deal by hitting the other kid. This can be described by saying "I backstabbed him."
This may not be new. I never heard this when I was a kid, but I'm a very elderly parent. Any comments?
It reminds me a bit of the new verb "to verse," as in "We verse the Blackhawks in basketball on Saturday." A back-formation from "versus," of course. I've heard this and seen a discussion of it in a newspaper, so apparently it's near-universal kid-speak.
This is a new one for me, as well, but the OED knows about it and provides examples in both transitive and intransitive flavors. Either your son's been reading 100-year old copies of the Columbus Dispatch, or modern kids have spontaneously reinvented an obsolescent verb. Here's the OED entry—smooshed to fit in one quotation block:
(Now rare.)
1. intr. To make a truce.
1569 T. STOCKER tr. Diod. Sic. III. v. 109 Who after that victorie, trused with the Aretians. 1731 FIELDING Mod. Husb. II. xi, If you please, my lord, to truce with your proposals. 1893 E. L. WAKEMAN in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 25 May, The factions had attacked each other, retreated, parleyed, blarneyed, scorned, truced.
2. trans. To bring to an end by or as by means of a truce; to put an end to.
1618 MIDDLETON Peacemaker Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 326 Spain..betwixt whom and England the ocean ran with blood.., nor ever truced her crimson effusion. 1706 T. BAKER Tunbr. Walks II. i, We may truce the debate.


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The Purple Raiders are the defending NCAA Division III national champs.
No. 1-ranked Mount Union will host Washington & Jefferson (Pa.) in an NCAA Division III first-round playoff game at noon, Saturday, at Mount Union Stadium. The Purple Raiders are the defending national champs and are seeking their 12th title this season under first-year head coach Vince Kehres.
Washington & Jefferson won its 23rd Presidents Athletic Conference title to claim the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Playoffs. The Presidents are making their 23rd NCAA Playoff appearance. They own a 21-22 record in the tournament and advanced to the title game — the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl — in 1992 and 1994.
This game will be the sixth meeting between the teams with Washington & Jefferson holding a 4-1 lead in the series that dates back to 1913. The teams last played in a 2009 first-round playoff game at Mount Union and the Raiders won 55-0.
Mount Union, ranked No. 1 in both the American Football Coaches Association and D3football.com rankings, is also ranked No. 1 in the NCAA North Region rankings, which is used to determine seeding and at-large teams.
The Purple Raiders are 10-0 and one of 24 conference champions to claim an automatic bid after winning their 22nd straight (25th overall) Ohio Athletic Conference championship.
The rest of the field includes three spots for independents and five national at-large bids.
The Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl is 7 p.m., Dec. 20, at Salem Stadium in Salem, Va.
Mount Union has a 78-13 record in NCAA playoff games. The Raiders have advanced to the Stagg Bowl 16 times and have won a record 11 national championships.


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MISA detainees in Rajasthan to get pension
Jaipur, Jan 3 (IANS) Rajasthan Friday announced the relaunch of a scheme in which the state will give pension to those detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) during the Emergency.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
Raje had announced the monthly pension to MISA detainees in 2008 when she was chief minister. However, her successor Ashok Gehlot ordered the scrapping of the scheme in 2009 when the Congress came to power.
Minister Rajendra Rathore said: "It was decided in the cabinet meeting that we will revive the pension scheme to benefit those who were detained under MISA. Quantum of pension will be decided soon."
Launch of a special sanitation campaign across the state Jan 10-30 and review of some ordinances passed by the previous government were also among decisions taken in the meeting.


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Desalination Can Boost U.S. Water Supplies, But Research Needed to Understand Environmental Impacts, Lower Costs
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From the National Academies National Research Council:
Washington, D.C. -- Recent advances in technology have made removing salt from seawater and groundwater a realistic option for increasing water supplies in some parts of the U.S., and desalination will likely have a niche in meeting the nation's future water needs, says a new report from the National Research Council. However, a coordinated research effort with steady funding is required to better understand and minimize desalination's environmental impacts -- and find ways to further lower its costs and energy use.
Over 97 percent of the Earth's water -- seawater and brackish groundwater -- is too salty to use for drinking water or agriculture. Interest in desalination has grown in the U.S. as some regions face water shortages and contention over existing freshwater supplies. Though desalination still generates less than 0.4 percent of the water used in the U.S., the nation's capacity to desalinate water grew by around 40 percent between 2000 and 2005, and plants now exist in every state. Most use a method called reverse osmosis, which pushes water through a membrane to separate out most of the salts.
The report recommends that federal R&D on desalination be planned and coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and funded at the level of existing desalination R&D programs -- approximately $25 million a year. Currently there is no overall strategic direction to federal research on desalination, which is conducted by many agencies with varying goals. It also depends heavily on earmarks, which are unsteady sources of funding; from 2006 to 2007, federal funds declined by nearly 60 percent. Meanwhile, the private sector appears to fund the majority of the nation's desalination research. Both the public and private sectors can contribute to the proposed research agenda, the report says.
Environmental Research Should Be Highest Priority
Substantial uncertainties remain about the environmental impacts of desalination, the report says. Limited studies suggest that desalination may be less environmentally harmful than many other ways to supplement water -- such as diverting freshwater from sensitive ecosystems -- but definitive conclusions cannot be made without further research.
Desalination also has raised concerns about greenhouse gases because it uses large amounts of energy. Seawater reverse osmosis uses 10 times more energy than traditional treatment of surface water, for example, and in most cases uses more energy than other ways of augmenting water supplies. Researchers should investigate ways to integrate alternative energy sources -- such as the sun, wind, or tides -- in order to lower emissions from desalination, the report says.
R&D Needed to Lower Costs, Energy Use
Recent improvements in technology have lowered desalination's costs and energy requirements, which used to be prohibitively high. Meanwhile, other ways to augment water supplies have grown more expensive, making desalination more competitive. Finding ways to further lower costs should be another goal of the research effort, the report says.
Developing cost-effective, environmentally sustainable ways to dispose of salt concentrate should be a priority. The cost of disposing of this waste varies widely by site and has generally risen. Inland plants, in particular, have few or no cost-effective and environmentally sustainable disposal methods.
Even if costs are lowered, the report notes, conserving water or transferring it from one use to another will in most cases remain a less expensive option than adding water through desalination or other methods.
The study was sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. They are private, nonprofit institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under a congressional charter. The Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
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This Thanksgiving, New York's wind energy has given us a lot to be grateful for.
A new report by Environment New York, "Wind Power for a Cleaner America," shows that wind energy in New York is already avoiding carbon pollution equivalent to taking 382,203 cars off the road.
In addition to reducing global warming pollution, wind energy in the state is also avoiding 1,724 tons of smog-causing nitrogen oxides which contribute to asthma, and 2,130 tons of sulfur dioxide which is a major component of acid rain. If wind development continues at the current pace, we could reap the same benefits over the next five years.
These benefits have made wind power a key component of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which seeks to reduce global warming pollution 17 percent by 2020.
Federal incentives for wind – the investment tax credit and the production tax credit – are largely responsible for wind's success, but are set to expire at the end of 2013.
To curb global warming pollution and prevent future extreme weather events like Sandy, senators Schumer and Gillibrand should continue to be champions for clean energy, and I call on our House delegation to do everything within their power to extend these critical clean energy incentives before the end of the year.
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We know what you're thinking, and we're thinking it too: this sounds crazy. Essentially, Apple is saying that the problem is how you hold your phone, and that the solution is to change that habit, or buy one of their cases. Admittedly, this isn't a problem that exists only for the iPhone 4 -- we've seen reports of the same behavior on previous generations (the 3G and 3GS), and there is a running thread about this problem with the Nexus One. While it is definitely true that interference is an unavoidable problem, we can't help feeling like this is really a bit of bad design. If the only answer is to move your hand, why didn't Apple just move the antenna position? What we can say without question is that in our testing of the phone, we had improved reception and fewer dropped calls than we experienced with the last generation, and we never noticed this issue. Additionally, when using a bumper we can't recreate the signal loss. So, now we have an answer... all we're wondering is whether or not the company will start handing out bumpers pro-bono to those who are experiencing problems. It certainly seems like the right thing to do.Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.
Update: To add a little perspective, check out a video from 2008 after the break showing the same issue with the now-ancient iPhone 3G (thanks Inge).


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1. the development of the plot and characters are too common
2. the drawing is just plain out bad
3. the beginning doesnt pull u into the story
4.the plot gets confusing and uninteresting
5.the story just gets too predictable
The only reasons I'll stop reading manga is if the characters are all retards beyond belief, story sucks or if it just veers away from the main story with too much distractions/fillers.
As you should be able to tell from my DP I like my memes.
1. The story, for whatever reason, fails to deliver something exciting or impactful at a crucial moment and you can tell the author has run out of ideas and is stalling to drag on the manga. (eg. D.Grayman)
2. The characters and story doesn't hook me early enough or isn't work caring about.
3. Too much emphasis on useless side characters I don't care about (eg. latest Bleach chapter)
4. the main character doesn't have a dominating presence in the manga
5. the artwork is absolutely horrible and messy that I can't understand what is going on.
My passion. My dedication. My life.
1. There is no character development after a crucial event (I'm talking to you Sasuke!)
2. The character development isn't natural (ie they just change personalities to go along with the current storyline)
3. The characters have no sense of pride
4. The story becomes illogical
5. There is no end in site (I'm talking to you Naruto!)
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1. too much violence
2. Ugly drawing
5.If the main character (girl) crys too much
Please don't read this.
1. If the heroine ends up with the guy that physically and emotionally abuse her rather that the guy who is always there for her. ( ie Most Manhwa & some shoujos)
2. If the heroine/hero is really dumb/weak/stupid/whimpy
3. Cliche stories( triangle/quadruple romance)
4. Killing off my favorite character
5. When only one person gets to defeat all the powerful bad guys( cough**Ichigo** cough). Um like hello there are other people that can kick ass too.
***Why is it that in the majority of shoujo or manhwa romance the main male is rich and the female main is poor***
Where There Is Trust There Is Betrayal.
1. Cliche Story lines (I don't want to read something I already read)
2. Art style I dislike. (can't stand looking at it)
3. Boring (scenes that drags on for too long. Stagnant)
4. Not interesting Characters (like, too common and cliche characters.)
5. Stories with no purpose (a series must have at least a thesis right? a plot?)
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1) battle that drags for chapters and chapters (naruto,bleach)
2) Straying from their original motive
3.) Bad art
4.) too many fanservice (echiness)
5.) to many chibi (that often appear in comedy genre or manhwa) they seriously ruin the mood
bad plot, main character that is too weak and stupid, character that got taken hostage over and over again
and the list goes on
1. If the main character is annoying or stupid
2. If characters are annoying or stupid
3. when the plot is the same as another manga of the same genre you read. *coughSHOUJOcough* It goes in two directions.
-Main girl acts tsundere to the boy they like and are klutzy.
-Main girl meets older, mysterious guy and acts like a bitch to him while secretly going "blushblushthumpthump" behind his back. Childhood friend is crushing on main girl.
4. if the main girl is a mary-sue
5. if the main character makes me so frustrated that I'll be angry at a drawing and want to kill it.
Put the BAM in bamboo!
A slow and complicated beginning to a story.
Sudden character changes (like when a main character has an epiphany and immediately acts completely different).
No character progression. (Where the character never grows).
Using ecchi where plot is needed. ( I mean fanservice is good, but don't kill a story with it.)
Shounen-Ai. (Not really a bad thing, but I just can't make myself read it.)
Vice searching for Virtue
1. If i've read the same plot line b4
2. If I heard shitty reviews for it, & im not interested after a few chapters
3. If it's confusing.
4. If theres shitty drawings
5. If theres a anime about it and people say the anime is better. (i'd go watch the anime rather then reading the manga)
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5. bad start/begining
4. loads of fillers
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3. cliche
2. bad drawing
1. too perverted
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can anyone suggest me any good manga?
long hiatus
5. bad drawing
4. ugly chara
3. same story with the others (random story)
2. yaoi/yuri or something pervert things inside
1. have no time
i lie if i sad im forget abot u ,u know this heart is still beating for u
5. when one of the main love interest is actaually the girls brother!
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this is aimed at you vampire knight!how dare you~
4. when it gets too damn long...bleach
3. When the main
character dies...
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2. Every single character is an idiot. Sailor moon!!!
1. the plot makes a sudden turn...
One day I'll be sand on a beach by a sea
1.) Cliches becomes more common
2.) Plot is overstretched
3.) No development in both the story and characters
4.) Starts to focus more on ecchi and fanservice instead of the story itself
5.) Fillers, 'nuff said


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Library services shall be available on Sunday afternoons at the Regional, General Purpose, and Express Branch Libraries.
The following services shall generally be offered by the District: processing of applications for library cards and preparing borrower's cards depending upon other patron demand, circulation of library materials, accepting returned materials and collecting for fines, lost and paid items, and providing basic reference and readers advisory services including telephone reference.
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As Colin Campbell puts it, his son Gregory Campbell has taken a lot of "crap" over the years while playing in the NHL with his father serving as the NHL discipline czar.
Serious accusations have been whispered about the league favoring the son and his teams, and the dynamic has been the source of plenty of trash talk on the ice over the years.
It's enough to make you wonder sometimes why the Bruins center ever wanted to follow his fathers footsteps into the NHL. Yesterday was another one of those days that validated the veteran's decision to be a hockey player.
A little more than a month after the Bruins defeated Vancouver in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, Campbell spent his day with the Cup in and around Kitchener, Ontario, as reported by Kevin McGran of The Star. His father and a lot more family were on hand for portions of Campbell's celebration.
The Cup continues its tour of Ontario into the early part of next week.


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Summer Reading Challenge promotes reading at the right level
The South Dakota Department of Education is launching Read! SD, a reading challenge aimed at curbing summer learning loss. With the help of online resources, teachers, librarians and parents will be able to help students identify books and other materials that are at an appropriate level of difficulty and aligned to the students interests.
This challenge is unique in that it does not ask students to read as many books as possible, but rather promotes reading engaging material at an appropriate level for each individual child. By entering a Lexile measure and specified interests into an online Find a Book tool, students can create a customized reading list with challenging, engaging titles.
Summer learning loss is a primary concern when it comes to early literacy. You can help combat summer learning loss by promoting this challenge in your schools. Encourage your teachers and librarians to share information about the challenge. Click here to download a letter to send home with parents, and visit the Read! SD webpage for more ways to promote the challenge in your school or community.


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I'm going to be giving this forum a bit of a break, in that I won't be writing a weekly lesson for a while.
I'll still happily answer any questions you might have about writing, and will consider expanding any of those questions to an entire lesson, if it seems like it would be of general interest.
Sometimes Deb suggests a lesson idea for me, and sometimes my editing jobs suggest one--if either of those happen, I'll write a lesson for those, too.
But there just doesn't seem to be much demand for weekly lessons here anymore; I suppose it's part of the general reduction of interest in most of these forums (for example, the 'brick throwing' forum is no longer).
So this is a standing invitation for your ideas and questions--and please check back every now and then to see if a new lesson has been posted.


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Mickey Arthur is the latest in a long line of South Africans to have struck gold on Australia's west coast. They came in their tens of thousands in the 1980s, escaping their homeland either for anti-apartheid principle or lifestyle-orientated expedient.
Arthur went to Perth under different circumstances in 2010, though there was an element of escape too. He had ridden the inevitable waves of political interference but felt his position becoming unstable and jumped before he was pushed.
He is a canny operator. He's smart, personable and very media-friendly though I can imagine there's an iron fist lurking in there somewhere. He knows that a cricket coach's most important relationship is with his captain and his bond with Graeme Smith was the cornerstone of his five years with South Africa.
He will have to strike up the same rapport with Michael Clarke which may be easier said than done given Australia's general suspicion of the role of the coach. But that was a distortion caused by the relentless success of the team through the 1990s and early 2000s and the power that the players had to marginalise the coach. Don't forget what the axis of Allan Border and Bob Simpson achieved in the mid-80s.
Arthur is not a egotist but nor will he shrink into the background. It's a good time to be taking over because the only way is up and many of the hard decisions have been taken. There are plenty left to make though with questions over the continued selection of senior players, most pertinently Ricky Ponting.
As a selector Arthur has been given the sort of power and responsibility that was not afforded to his immediate predecessors.
There are plenty of people reserving judgement on the appointment, partly because he's Australia's first non-Australian coach and Australian cricket has been an exporter, rather than importer, of knowledge and talent in the past. There are also questions about whether he is all he's cracked up to be. South Africa's win in Australia in 2008-09 was a freakish result and they appeared to have taken their eyes off the ball when they hosted Australia in the return series. But there was plenty of excellent progress and results before that: the victories over India, Pakistan and in England.
Cricket coaches cannot be judged like football managers who have a clear role, defined over time with obvious accountability. So it is easy to overplay their influence and that is why Arthur's relationship with Clarke, and the other selectors (remember Rod Marsh fell out massively with Duncan Fletcher when the former was an England selector) is so important.
Arthur loves coming to England, follows Arsenal (aren't they French?), but he's also been pretty adept at getting under England's skin on the cricket field. Now that he's Aussie coach, that's not likely to change.


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Where's Your Export Market?
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Key information for business owners seeking to expand sales into international markets. Join us for this hands-on, interactive session designed to provide insight and information on actions you can take to successfully identify, research and enter new international markets. Gain answers to the following questions . . .Key Session Topics:• Market Selection - It's a big world out there, where does opportunity for my product lie?• Market Research - Are there sources of information that can help me in selecting a target market?• Market Entry Strategies - Market selection made, now what?Who Should Attend? Any business or sales staff member that is new-to-exporting; businesses that are currently exporting and want to explore new markets; or banks. Participants are invited to bring a laptop or iPad.
Olivia Gill, email@example.com Connectorphone: 573-884-4334
Building Better Health Class (CCPS) (Session 5 of 40)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, noon to 1 p.m.
This weekly class focuses on the basics of nutrition, food safety, and food budgeting.
This class is open only to Cass County Recovery Court participants
Susan Mills-Gray, firstname.lastname@example.com and Exercise Physiology, MU Extensionphone: 816-506-3338
Intergenerational Science (Session 8 of 12)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Help youth learn and explore natural resources in Missouri. Missouri Master Naturalists will teach a variety of workshops about forest, fish, and wildlife resources with hands-on activities to engage youth learning and sharing.
Healthy Lifestyle Initiative (Session 2 of 12)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Session topic:
Maintaining a healthy weight has many advantages. Good nutrition, exercise, and making healthy choices all plays a part in a healthy body. This program is not only a weight loss program, but helps participants put the knowledge into practice.
Focus on Kids (Session 1 of 6)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
This workshop is for parents currently going through a divorce or motion to modify. Current research about the five top strategies to assist your children through the divorce process will be presented. Six video clips will be viewed and discussed, critiquing what the parents in the vignettes did well, and not so well. The session will conclude with an evaluation of the program.
Focus on Kids is a workshop for divorcing parents. This month 2 women and 5 men attended the class. Research is presented, parenting plan is reviewed and six video clips are viewed and processed. The session closes with evaluation.
Call Helen or Tom, at 660-269-9656 to register.
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Taking Care of YOU: Body-Mind-Spirit (Session 7 of 8)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Good intentions to take care of yourself can be pushed out of reach by the demands on your time and attention. You may overextend yourself trying to meet the needs of others, face daily responsibilities or live up to expectations. These demands can lead to feeling stressed or burned out.Life is full of choices...and those choices affect the body, mind and spirit. The Taking Care of YOU program is designed to help you deal with life's stress, make wise choices and explore ways to live a healthier life. During this 8-week program you will learn practical strategies to help you deal with the stress in your life. Managing life's challenges in healthy ways allows you to take better care of yourself and your overall health. Each week you will explore topics through small group discussion, self-reflection and activities. You will learn ways to:- Become more aware of the mind-body connection and how to use this awareness for better health.- Develop habits that can lead to a healthier you. - Respond rather than react to the stress in your life. - Discover opportunities in life's challenges. - Find ways to bring more joy into your life. - Simplify your life. - Live more in the moment.
To register or for more information, contact Vera Massey at 573-445-9792 or email@example.com more...
FastTrac - First Step (Session 17 of 24)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Gain more knowledge about making decisions that will protect them legally. Legal Structures and why I selected the form of business that I chose.
$65.00The Alternative Fee is that you will receive the $65.00 in return if You complete the project.
Chronic Disease Self-Management -- Springfield (Session 2 of 6)
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is a community-based program which assists participants in maintaining quality of life when faced with chronic medical conditions. The CDSMP is provided in two and a half hour sessions, once a week for six weeks, in community settings (e.g. senior centers, churches, libraries). People with different chronic health problems attend together. Workshops are facilitated by two trained leaders, one or both of whom deal with chronic diseases themselves. Subjects covered include: 1) techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, pain and isolation, 2) appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance, 3) appropriate use of medications, 4) communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals, 5) nutrition, and 6) how to evaluate new treatments. Classes are highly participative, where mutual support and success build the participants' confidence in their ability to manage their health and maintain active and fulfilling lives.
Session two: Making an action plan; Problem solving; Dealing with difficult emotions; physical activity and exercise; preventing falls
Pamela Duitsman, firstname.lastname@example.com Extension in Christian Countyphone: 417-581-3558
Focus on Kids - Lafayette County (Session 10 of 12)
State-mandated program for area divorcing and never-married parents who have a court case. Co-parenting class to help parents learn to be civil and business-like for the sake of their children.
Co-parenting class for divorcing and never married parents.
Call Lafayette county Extension Center at 660-584-3658 to register. Must pre-register one week in advance.
Operation JumpStart (Session 11 of 12)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Operation JumpStart is a hands-on training program designed to help aspiring and existing entrepreneurs determine the feasibility of their business ideas while building essential business planning and preparation skills. Participants will learn essential business planning and preparation skills such as product pricing, legal structure, competition, marketing and cash flow management.
Participants will gain more knowledge about where they can seek the money they need and will learn the tools to complete the feasibility plan
Register by calling 573-651-2929 or by email - firstname.lastname@example.com
Home Food Preservation Series (Apr, 2014, Ridgeway) (Session 2 of 3)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Participants will receive hands on experience as well as the most current step by step recommendations for food preservation procedures (pressure canning, water bath canning, freezing and dehydrating).
Boiling Water Canning
Contact 660.425.6434 for more information
$15.00Each session is $15. Register for individual classes or take all three.
FastTrac GrowthVenture - Piedmont (Session 7 of 10)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
FastTrac GrowthVenture helps existing entrepreneurs analyze their current business situation to identify the best opportunities for growth. Budgeting, sales strategies, management team roles, operational systems and business plan implementation are key areas of emphasis. The course also facilitates networking between entrepreneurs and professionals.
In this session, entrepreneurs will be examining their leadership styles and effectiveness and considering how their role has evolved as their business has grown.
There is no fee for the class but registration is required. Funding for this opportunity was provided by the Delta Regional Authority. All participants will receive a textbook and handouts.
Tai Chi for Health (Session 2 of 6)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Tai Chi for Health is an easy to learn and effective program to help build strength, improve balance to prevent falls, slow down the loss of bone density, and improve quality of life.
University of Missouri Extension 816-252-5051
Kirksville Area Master Gardener Meeting
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Monthly meeting of the Kirksville Area Master Gardeners.
Monthly business meeting with a tour of a local greenhouse business.
Jennifer Schutter, firstname.lastname@example.com Extension in Adair Countyphone: 660-665-9866
Cedar County Extension Council Meetings (Session 10 of 12)
When: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
These are monthly extension council meetings in which we discuss MU Extension business in Cedar County.
Council Meeting
Patrick Davis, firstname.lastname@example.com Extension in Cedar Countyphone: 417-276-3313
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That's what my friend Bill Otis calls Romney's speech:
I thought Romney's speech was a bundle of wasted opportunities. If the idea was to introduce "Romney the good family man," to soften his image as a rapacious Bain capitalist, the idea was all wrong and poorly executed to boot.
It was wrong first because it buys into the Democratic idea that the country wants and needs a President "who understands the problems of ordinary people." Isn't our central theme this year that what the country actually needs is a return to self-reliance, and that looking to the government to (further) build a culture of dependency is all wrong? Yes, there's a limit on how much the Republicans can sell that idea at 100 proof and still win, but having the first 20 minutes of the candidate's acceptance speech consist of "I love my family and they love me" is a complete cave-in, not to mention pretty darn boring (I wonder how many people stayed tuned in for the second 20 minutes). If we cannot win by being too direct or too adult, we are even more certain to lose by wallowing in the sentiment-laden mush that is the Democrats' petri dish. The country doesn't want a "family man" like John Edwards, but, short of that, it would have been a far better use of the time to explain to the electorate, not merely why Obama's gargantuan welfare state is unaffordable, but why it's inconsistent with a free people, our national creed and Constitutional government even if we had the money for it.
The second thing wrong with the speech was its execution. If we absolutely must have this sentimental goo, the person to deliver it is not the candidate. It's like a speech insisting that, "I do too have a sense of humor." It's impossible by definition to have a person establish how genuine and good-hearted he is by HIS OWN DECLARATION about how generous and good-hearted he is. Why, instead of the self-congratulation, didn't Romney's people find some workers at companies Bain Capital restored talk about how Romney had saved their jobs? [note: earlier in the evening, executives of such companies were used, but little use was made of workers] That would have established the main sort of virtue Republicans should be interested in displaying better than what we saw. It also would have been to the point the convention otherwise was often quite good at making: What creates jobs, growth and wealth is not government and not the Big Nanny, but capitalism.
As things stand, we would have been better off stopping the convention when the gavel came down Wednesday night.
I share Bill's sentiment, and Bill has usually been right about these matters in the 40 years we've been friends. But we have to win this election with the electorate we have. After months of being battered as a person, Romney probably needed to soften his image, and to do it himself.
At this convention, Paul Ryan provided the hard talk; Mitt Romney provided the soft talk. I hope that viewers who saw both — be they conservative or moderates — will find what they are looking for this in ticket.


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Kings trade rookie Robinson to Houston
First-round pick drafted by team No. 5 overall
Kings trade rookie Robinson to Houston
First-round pick drafted by team No. 5 overall
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
The NBA trade deadline looms at noon today.
Already, the Sacramento Kings made an unexpected move.
The Houston Rockets have reached separate agreements on trades that will send Patrick Patterson, Cole Aldrich and Toney Douglas to Sacramento and Marcus Morris to Phoenix.
In the deal, the Kings gave up rookie Thomas Robinson, Francisco Garcia and Tyler Honeycutt.
The Kings confirmed the deal Wednesday night.
In the other deal, the Rockets will receive a future second-round pick from the Suns in exchange for Morris, who will join his twin brother, Markieff, on the Phoenix roster.
The Kings also will receive $1 million from the Rockets.
Robinson averaged 4.8 points and 4.7 rebounds in 15.9 minutes.


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By By Andrew Parker, Editor-in-Chief | September 1, 2012
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Despite the traffic, humidity, political gridlock and so on, living in the Washington, D.C., metro area has its advantages, including for the aviation and defense industries. Cultural diversity is another major attraction, as just about every big act that goes on tour will come through the D.C. area.
Such is the case for Eurocopter's recent "summer tour" of the X3 that began June 20 in Texas and showcased the performance of the prototype hybrid helicopter to military and commercial operators. The U.S. summer tour—which started with a June 20 ceremony in Grand Prairie, Texas and included trips to the Pentagon, Redstone Arsenal, Fort Bragg, Davison Army Airfield and Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia. I caught up with the X3 test pilots and mechanics, as well as Stephen Mundt, vice president of business development for EADS North America, on July 24 at Manassas Airport as the aircraft returned from Davison. They noted that the X3 just went over 100 hours flown earlier in the day, with about half of that time logged since arriving in the U.S. More than 40 pilots flew the aircraft as part of the U.S. journey, with Rotor & Wing Editor-at-Large Ernie Stephens becoming the second U.S. pilot to fly the X3 (see Ernie's Pilot Report in the August issue on page 26).
Mundt, who piloted the prototype himself twice, described the reaction to the aircraft from both military and commercial operators, noting that many of the pilots came out of the cockpit with smiles on their faces. "You watch people walk out to this aircraft, and they're not sold. They're going, 'yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, I don't know if this is going to work for me.' They get in, and when they get out, they say, 'Wow, I could think of so many ways to use this aircraft!'"
Experimental test pilot Herve Jammayrac, who's been involved with the X3 from its start as a "clean sheet of paper" less than five years ago, says that "we've done a lot of the work" related to engineering and design required to turn the X3 prototype into an offshoot commercial or military production variant. But he cautioned that there are a lot of additional issues such as certification, maintenance support, training and tooling related to a production aircraft, adding that the X3 is still in the demonstration phase. "Clearly there's an interest in the commercial market," said Mundt.
"Time is money, and it's not just how fast it goes, but the thing that's constantly talked about is that it flies cheaper than a conventional helicopter."
Operators, he continued, are getting "at least a 25 percent savings overall. It costs a little bit more, but it goes 50 percent faster, so you're actually saving money in the long run by the seat mile." Lower operating costs are "something unheard of" when considering compound helicopters, Mundt added. "Most compounds that you talk about cost more to operate. This is actually going to be cheaper. So from a commercial perspective, VIP/corporate, offshore, EMS—they were like, 'Can you sell me one tomorrow?'"
The military involves a different set of requirements. "There are all sorts of militaries around, looking for different technologies. Here in the U.S., they're looking at Future Vertical Lift, with a target of 2030," Mundt said. But with the X3 and Sikorsky's X2, "they're starting to say, maybe there is technology to get the kinds of capabilities [needed]. It's not necessarily going to take us 20 years to get there."
According to Jammayrac, after returning to Eurocopter for a Family Day in August, the X3 will travel to France in early September and then to Germany for the Berlin Air Show later in the month. At that point, there will be a few more tests, "but that's pretty much it," he said, with retirement of the prototype scheduled by the end of 2012.


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Change is season is good time to assess your own life's seasons
I was privileged to grow up on an Eastern North Carolina farm. My dad had a very strong work ethic and did those things necessary to make sure it was passed on to his six children.
Even during winter months there was work to do. The summers were hot and with lots of back-breaking work.
I loved certain parts of farm life. It was always beautiful to see the transformation of bare fields covered with rich, wonderful plants. As they grew, you could almost daily see them change.
Finally, the harvest came and we saw the reward of our work.
Through much of the year, I had little understanding why Dad had us do the work we were doing. At times I thought he just wanted us to stay busy, even if we were not accomplishing anything.
But when harvest finally came, I was reminded that he knew all along what needed to happen for a good harvest.
Eastern NC is now in the season of harvest. We can learn from the farmer important lessons about life. Perhaps you are enjoying the rewards of having made good life decisions. Or maybe you are enduring the result of having not made good decisions and planted poor seed.
You can have a fresh start; God promises His followers a good harvest. �Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.� (Galatians 6:9 NIV)
That is good news! You can choose to follow God�s way beginning today. It is best to live your entire life His way. However, it is not too late to start making good decisions and refuse to give up. Commit to making harvest oriented decisions.
James 4:8 tells us how, �Come near to God and he will come near to you.� When you reach out to Him, He reaches out to you. God forgives, so start moving now toward the harvest you really want. A blessed harvest awaits those that move in God's direction in their marriage, their finances and work.
Set your priorities in God's direction remembering, �Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.�
Start making good decisions and consistently move your life in the direction of the harvest.
The Rev. Don Sauls is Pastoral Care coordinator at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Reach him at email@example.com.


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Did you miss out on yesterdays $99 Samsung Vibrant at T-Mobile? Well congratulations your slacking just saved you $98.99 cause Amazon is now offering the T-Mo version of Samsung's Super AMOLED beast for the low low price of one penny with free 2-day shipping to boot.
The only caveats are that this is only available for new accounts or those customers due for an upgrade and it isn't available in all zip codes, although at this price I would suggest that perhaps you could find a friend in a zip code where it is available and then pay said friend to ship it on to you (just be certain they are trustworthy enough to not "borrow" your phone before sending it to you).
For those AT&T customers feeling left out of the wheeling and dealing your Samsung Captivate is available on Amazon for $49.99, which while not quite as exciting as getting it for a penny is still a fantastic deal.
There's no indication as to how long the deals will last so if you have been waiting for a Galaxy S phone on T-Mobile or AT&T I'd say the time to buy is now.


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MINOOKA – Students from Minooka Community High School heading to the pool this weekend aren't going to swim.
Instead, they will use their self-built underwater robot to complete tasks, such as remove debris from a hole in a simulated underwater wreck, conduct a sonar scan of the wreck, recover a sensor and deploy a new sensor.
The 11 students are members of the fledgling ROV, or Remote-Operated Underwater Vehicle Club. And they are taking part in their first contest Saturday at the University of Illinois at Chicago Natatorium pool in the Shedd Aquarium Midwest Regional MATE Underwater Robotics Competition.
"They're doing great," said Kim Villani, a biology and environmental sciences teacher and the team's sponsor. "They are eagerly working overtime to get this ready for Saturday. We just began in February. We are a pilot club right now. We're kind of behind a lot of teams, but the students are very excited."
Villani said she and fellow science teacher Alexa Tancil learned of the high school underwater robotics program through their association with Shedd Aquarium. Villani has done professional development with the Chicago aquarium and said she was thrilled to help bring the program to her campus.
There are 11 freshmen, sophomores and juniors in the club, and they meet twice a week in her classroom. They've been meeting every day this week to prepare for their first competition. For practice, they set up an inflatable pool behind the school.
To make their competition underwater robot, students used PVC pipes and other basic materials. The goal of the contest this year is to complete several underwater missions evaluating simulated shipwrecks.
The Minooka team was accepted to a three-year partnership program with the Shedd Aquarium and Motorola that began this year. As participants, they received such equipment as wrenches, wire cutters, PVC piping, motors, a battery pack, a drill and a hardware store gift card for extras. They will receive more equipment next year through the program.
Villani said the students bring a variety of talents to the team. Freshman Jack Kraft, the project's lead engineer and designer, said the team's robot is coming along. He joined the team in February because of his love of science.
"We don't have many clubs focused on science," Kraft said.
He's always loved science, he said, especially theoretical physics and astronomy, and studies science outside of class. To help his team, he researched robot designs and talked to his chemical engineer father for additional information. There are a lot of challenges in designing an underwater robot, he said, especially their first year.
"Frankly, we're high school students," Kraft said. "We have good ideas, but we're kids. I like problem-solving. When something goes awry and we have to figure out how to fix it, I enjoy working through those challenges."
Freshman Liam Dudson, the team's CFO, brings some robot-building skills to the table. He also is in the school's Technology Students' Association Club.
"I've always been interested in engineering and robotics," he said. "It's like a giant game. It's like when you use Legos. There are no instructions on how to put it together. It's all learning on the job."
Dudson said the team attended a practice competition at UIC earlier in the year. They weren't able to put a robot in the water, but they learned valuable wiring and remote piloting skills.
The main design for this weekend's competition was ready by Thursday, but Dudson said team members were still working on attaching the motors to the tether, shrink-wrapping it, making the poster, and working on the safety guidelines and biographies of members.
"We will try to do the best of our abilities," he said of the competition.
"Everybody's got skills they can bring to this team," Villani said. "Some have the ability to draw. Some of them write well. Some of them know how to do the wiring. One student wants to be a teacher and a comedienne, and he said he could see the great opportunities with this project."


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Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Characters //
Anakin Skywalker
Discovered as a slave on Tatooine by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker had the potential to become one of the most powerful Jedi ever, and was believed by some to be the prophesied Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force. A hero of the Clone Wars, Anakin was caring and compassionate, but also had a fear of loss that would prove to be his downfall.
General Grievous
General Grievous was a brilliant Separatist military strategist and a feared Jedi hunter, known for his ruthlessness and hacking cough. His body itself was a weapon, allowing him lightning quick strikes and devastating blows. But he was also quick to run from a fight, a tactic that worked until one final meeting with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Padmé Amidala
Mace Windu
A grim Jedi Master with an amethyst-bladed lightsaber, Mace Windu was the champion of the Jedi Order, with little tolerance for the failings of the Senate, the arguments of politicians, or the opinions of rebellious Jedi. As the Clone Wars intensified, Mace sensed the dark side of the Force at work, and knew the Jedi's enemies were plotting to destroy the Order and end its stewardship of the galaxy.
Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious
Scheming, powerful, and evil to the core, Darth Sidious restored the Sith and destroyed the Jedi Order. Living a double life, Sidious was in fact Palpatine, a Naboo Senator and phantom menace. He slowly manipulated the political system of the Galactic Republic until he was named Supreme Chancellor -- and eventually Emperor -- ruling the galaxy through fear and tyranny.
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A city-covered planet, Coruscant is the vibrant heart and capital of the galaxy, featuring a diverse mix of citizens and culture. It features towering skyscrapers, streams of speeder-filled air traffic, and inner levels that stretch far below the world's surface. Coruscant was the seat of government for the Galactic Republic and the Empire that followed, and was the site of numerous historic events during the Clone Wars. It also housed the Jedi Temple and Archives, which hosted Jedi training and learning for over a thousand generations -- traditions that ended when the planet bore witness to Order 66.
Ringed by numerous moons, the remote sanctuary of Utapau is a planet pitted with enormous sinkholes. Its windswept surface is dry and desert-like, but deep in the porous crust, at the bottom of the sinkholes are pools of life-giving water. Many of the sinkholes on one of the planet's small continents are lined with intricate cities that stretch deep into caves and crevices beneath the planet's surface, as well as mining operations that seek to uncover valuable minerals from the planet's depths.
A tiny, fiery planet in the Outer Rim, Mustafar maintains an erratic orbit between two gas giants. Mustafar is rich in unique and valuable minerals which have long been mined by the Tech Union. Its lava pits and rivers make this planet a dangerous habitat; its natives have burly, tough bodies that can withstand extreme heat. The planet became the backdrop for the fateful duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. After the rise of the Empire, captured Jedi were brought to the volcanic world for interrogation and execution.
Technology //
BARC Speeder
An army is only as effective as its mobility, so the Grand Army of the Republic was outfitted with an increasingly varied and versatile vehicle pool as the Clone Wars progressed. The BARC speeder gave a single clone trooper increased operational range, great speed, mobility, and firepower otherwise unavailable to the foot soldier. A more aggressive and bulkier design than slimmer speeder bikes used by the Jedi, the BARC speeder was used in scouting and escort missions on a variety of worlds. They were easily adaptable, with support struts that could be added to hold a stretcher or sidecar.
ARC-170 Starfighter
Protecting the skies over Republic worlds were specialized clone fighter forces flying the latest in starfighter technology. The ARC-170 fighter was a bulky, aggressive ship covered with weapons. Three clone trooper pilots operated this advanced combat craft, with a pilot handling the flight maneuvers, a copilot operating the laser cannons mounted on the ship's wide wings, and a tailgunner operating the dorsal rear-facing cannon. The fighter also carried an astromech droid for onboard repairs.
AT-RT Walker
While clone troopers were best deployed in large numbers, articulated battlefield armor such as this Republic scout walker transformed a single clone trooper into a formidable anti-infantry unit. Designed primarily as a reconnaissance vehicle, this two-legged open-cockpit walker is nonetheless swift and heavily armed, letting a clone trooper cut through battle droids easily. It was employed in such campaigns as the Battle of Kashyyyk. It was the precursor to the All Terrain Scout Transport seen during the Galactic Civil War.