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Quote from: Commander Cody on August 17, 2005, 04:18 PMIt looks too much like a big family car. You're young and hip, get something cool!Just so we're clear, you're kidding right?
It looks too much like a big family car. You're young and hip, get something cool!
That's no hybrid. Environment killer.
I drive a 2000 TIE FYTR.
Quote from: Morgbug on May 7, 2007, 05:27 PMThat's no hybrid. Environment killer.Considering the SUV we briefly owned before it, I'm doing great at 25 mpg. But you're right. My next car will be. I hope to eventually live in a city where I don't really need one though.
Funny you mention that. I actually heard a bunch of scientists (well, three) talking about this on a radio program over the weekend, and someone called in with the same claim about the allegedly massive energy expenditures of making the Prius, and all of the scientists--even the global warming skeptics--said that was total bunk. One of them said that it was a rapidly circulating rumor they'd heard before, but that it was based on entirely speculative data or something.I didn't listen too closely, because the program was boring, but it's interesting to see that the story's making the rounds.
What I drive: 2005 Buick La Crosse CXS.
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Could sum1 please tell me how I can disable or hide the close (x) button th@ is present in title bar @ the top right of a vba form.
I have created the form using the VB editor in MS Excel. I need to be able to do this as I want the form to act as a password input form for the MS Excel spreadsheet which I am creating.
I am sorry to ask such a stupid question, as I do know how to program in Visual Basic (6 and .NET) and I have done this be4 in VBA, but th@ was about 2 years ago, so stupid me has forgot how 2 do it.
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Call it a change of heart, a U-turn or whatever you like, but missing out on Openworld has been bugging me so, having reviewed the company's finances, I've changed my mind and decided I'm going to accept my free pass to Openworld after all.
I suppose the main factors are :-
- I'll still be going on holiday with Mads soon. That was the first priority.
- I want to invest more in my personal education. That might include some courses this year, but hopefully there'll be plenty of learning opportunities at Openworld too. I might even get time to read a technical book on the plane!
- I really like San Francisco and Openworld was good fun last time. It's certainly a unique experience.
- It's another chance to meet up with a number of people I know through the community, some for the first time.
- I can meet the OTN and ACE team for myself, say thanks for the award and raise some of the questions that Howard's raised, face-to-face.
- I'm going to be working a lot of Sundays over the next couple of months, so this'll be my reward.
- Prince. Yep, sorry folks, but remember my age I can forgive him all his minor lunacy for some classic tunes. Better than flipping Elton John, anyway!!
Of course, now I'll feel bad about not attending Miracle Openworld (but I was at MSDBF), Hotsos (although I was there in March) and the rest, but it's been a while since I've attended an "official" Oracle conference (7 years, in fact) so I suppose it's time.
P.S. There will be some technical blogs soon. There's plenty to write about, but it just takes a little more effort than the fluff.


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Current falls research in aging is mostly focused on clinical predictors of falls and there is a knowledge gap regarding underlying biological and neural mechanisms of falls. Emerging evidence from our and other studies implicates biological derangements in inflammation, oxidative stress, and vascular pathways in the occurrence of disorders of gait, balance, and cognition, which are major risk factors for falls in older adults. We hypothesize that abnormal biological pathways initiate atherosclerosis leading to cerebral vascular damage that increases risk of falls in older adults. We draw together a multidisciplinary team to conduct high-quality research to establish biological and neural mechanisms of falls building on our extensive cognitive and mobility research. We will cross-enroll 530 participants, age 65 and older, from the ongoing Central Control of Mobility in Aging study offering a cost and time efficient strategy to study biological and neural mechanisms of falls. We propose the following three synergistic aims focusing on our common theme of biological and neural contributions to falls in aging.
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text: Yeah, and it's wrong. They claim they need these huge profits to continue their research, but I'm virtually certain they don't need THAT much money to pay guys in little white suits in labs to come up with new drugs. It amounts to free market-gone-haywire. I'm all about the market pushing forth technology and having profit incentives to keep us on an upward march, but this situation is a little different since there are lives at stake. Someone needs to do an exact study on how much these companies take in vs. how much they need to function practically and continue their research. I'm pretty sure it would be damning. After all, as soon as patents run out and competition hits, prices magically fall like crazy. That tells me they're just taking as much as they can for as long as they can, with no care about making those drugs affordable to everyone who may need them.ZAP


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Johnson City, Tenn. -- The East Tennessee State baseball team used two bottom-of-the-ninth inning rallies to sweep a dramatic Southern Conference doubleheader against Davidson at ETSU's Cardinal Park. In the first game senior Andy Baxter delivered a game-winning single in a 9-8 win and in the second game junior Brandon Cross was plunked with the bases loaded to seal a 3-2 victory.
The Buccaneer offense was geared by four player who had identical hitting stats in both games. Senior Ryan McKinney went 2-5, Baxter went 2-5, senior Nathan Copeland went 2-4 and junior Brandon Cross went 2-3 in both games of the doubleheader. Copeland launched a pair of two-run homers in the first game to key the charge.
After a scoreless first in the series opener, Davidson grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Cassidy Lundin singled and moved to second on a D.J. Dailey sacrifice. The next batter, Stephen Aldrich, hit a rocket into left field that scored Lundin. ETSU responded with two runs in the bottomof the inning when Scott Rose's double scored Cross and Chad Boruff.
Davidson's James Marino hit a two-run shot over the rightfield wall in the third to give the Wildcats a 3-2 lead. Copeland answered with a two-run homer of his own, that put ETSU ahead 4-3 after three innings. In his next at bat, Copeland belted another two-run shot to right to give the Bucs a 6-3 lead in the fifth.
ETSU added two more in the sixth on RBI singles from Rose and McKinney. Davidson's Jack Purcell hit a three-run homer in the top of the seventh to close the lead to 8-6. Davidson mounted a two-out rally in the ninth to knot the game 8-8. Tim Frend walked, followed by singles from James Marino and Matt Berry to start the rally. Billy Ryan followed with a clutch two-run single to center before Buc reliever Bryan Crouse notched the third out.
Baxter won the game with a single in the bottom of the ninth that scored McKinney. McKinney led off the frame with a double and moved to third on a Davidson error. Baxter followed with his third game-winning hit of the season.
The Wildcats also took a 1-0 lead in the second game, when Berry singled home Ryan Stroker in the first. The Bucs tied the game with a run in the second. Nathan Copeland led off the frame with a double and scored on a Rose single.
The game remained tied 1-1 until Davidson's Dylan Deal smacked a two-out, solo home run to left field in the eighth. ETSU started strong in its half of the eighth when Baxter laced a shot off the rightfield wall. The ball carromed back quickly and the first baseman was held to a single. After a wild pitch moved Baxter into scoring position, Copeland drew a walk off Wildcat reliever Ryan Stroker. Cross sacrificed the runners to second and third but Davidson's Tim Frend struck out Rose. Hampered by a wrist injury, sophomore Boruff pinch hit and drew a walk to load the bases. Baxter scored the tying run on a wild pitch.
In the ninth, with one out and runners on first and second senior Baxter entered the batter's box for a chance to win the game...again. Baxter flew out to left field and senior Nathan Copeland approached with a chance to be a hero. After Copeland singled to load the bases, junior Brandon Cross was hit on the hip which forced in the game-winning run.
East Tennessee State and Davidson will complete their three-game set tomorrow with a single game beginning at 1 p.m.


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Rambus Destroyed Documents, Patent Case Tossed
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Rambus' reputation keeps sinking lower and lower. Remember, this is the company that sat on a standard board for a while, pushing certain technologies to be included in the standard while simultaneously quietly filing for patents on the same technology, and then using those patents to threaten to sue just about everyone. In the latest patent infringement case from Rambus (against Infineon) the judge has decided to throw out the case, when it came out that Rambus had destroyed various documents in preparation for the case. Whatever happened to just competing in the market? Guess that's just too complicated.


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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Thirty-seven Washington State Patrol troopers were sworn in by state Supreme Court Justice James Johnson Friday in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.
The troopers were given their commission cards by Gov. Chris Gregoire and patrol Chief John Batiste.
The new troopers made the grade after a selective application process, background investigation and more than 1,000 hours of training. They are being assigned to detachments across the state.
The patrol is putting an emphasis on recruiting to fill vacancies created as veteran troopers reach retirement age.
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Grant Funds Pilot Program Aimed At Improving Math Scores
The test scores don't lie. Year after year, Virginia middle school students struggle with very basic mathematics.
In an attempt to improve those scores, four teachers from Harrisonburg Public Schools and four teachers from Page County Public Schools will participate in a pilot program that will attempt to make mathematics less abstract and easier to grasp by providing an earth science context.
"Just linear systems are beyond some kids," said Dr. Eric Pyle, professor of geology and environmental science at James Madison University. "But if I told you what the line represented, the line was the amount of sediment vs. stream velocity, OK, now I can handle that."
Pyle has received $149,577 from the National Science Foundation to test the idea over the next two years. The eight participating teachers will begin training on Monday, June 25, on ways to implement the material. The program requires a math teacher and a science teacher from each of the four participating schools—Skyline Middle School in Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg High School, Luray Middle School and Page County High School—to work in teams, Pyle said.
The program will start with teachers in each team alternating time teaching and observing the other teach so they can discuss how to improve the teaching. In the end, Pyle said, the teachers are improving and the students are the beneficiaries. "If I have these two teachers in a room at the same time and you can't tell the math teacher from the science teacher, then it has worked," he said.
The first year of the pilot will involve organizing and integrating the curriculum and the second year will be spent designing a site-based case study that could lead to expanding the program to more schools and school districts, Pyle said.
"We're trying to change the rules a little bit," he said. "Let's turn this problem sideways and look at it from a different perspective. And that's what we want to do, turn this problem sideways and say, 'What would happen if?'"
To read about more academic accomplishments, check the scholarly news section of Madison Scholar, the online journal of scholarly work at JMU.
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Forty years ago, ex-Porsche works driver and Ford's former Racing Manager Jochen Neerpasch - and 35 other wise men - joined forces with one intention: to make BMWs go fast and win races. Like Teutonic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, they combined power and knowledge to become a singular unstoppable force in racing that would lead to some of the most exciting and accessible road cars… in the world.
We'll forgive you if you don't recognize the individual names. Neerpasch and his team were the founders of BMW Motorsport GmbH, or what we now know by a single, glorious letter: 'M'.
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Autism-Vaccine Link Researcher Andrew Wakefield Accused of Faking His Data
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Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who in 1998 sparked the public controversy over whether the MMR (mumps measles and rubella) vaccine is linked to autism, may have faked his data. Wakefield and others published a small study of only twelve subjects in The Lancet claiming it was evidence for a link between the MMR vaccine and autism (Wakefield 1998). As a result, compliance with the MMR dropped from 92 percent in the U.K. down to 85 percent, and measles cases soared from only fifty-eight cases in 1998 to 1,348 cases in 2008. Fears have also spread to the U.S., where measles cases are also starting to increase.
Wakefield's paper has already been thoroughly discredited, and subsequent studies have shown convincingly that there is a lack of association between MMR or vaccines in general and autism. For example, one of the key components of Wakefield's theory is that autism is linked to gastrointestinal disorders in some children, potentially allowing the measles virus from the vaccine to enter the bloodstream and wreak havoc. A replication of Wakefield's experiment by Mady Hornig was published last September in PLoS ONE (Hornig 2008). Hornig found no correlation between MMR and autism and also did not find the measles virus in the guts of children with autism and GI complaints, directly contradicting Wakefield.
Far larger than the scientific controversy stirred up by Wakefield, which has largely been settled, is the storm of ethical concerns regarding his scientific behavior. In 2004, ten of Wakefield's co-authors withdrew their names from the original publication, and The Lancet's editors published a retraction, citing undisclosed conflicts of interest by Wakefield (Lancet 2004). Specifically, Wakefield did not disclose a large consulting fee he received from attorneys representing clients suing over claims that their children's autism was caused by MMR. In fact, eleven of the twelve children in Wakefield's study were part of the litigation. Further, nine months prior to publishing the study, Wakefield applied for a patent for a new MMR vaccine that he claimed was safer. He therefore stood to make phenomenal profits from scares over the current vaccine's safety (Deer 2008).
Investigative journalist Brian Deer has been putting the pieces of the Wakefield puzzle together for several years now. His investigations recently uncovered evidence that Wakefield may also have faked his original data. He writes: "Our investigation, confirmed by evidence presented to the General Medical Council (GMC), reveals that: In most of the twelve cases, the children's ailments as described in The Lancet were different from their hospital and GP records. Although the research paper claimed that problems came on within days of the jab, in only one case did medical records suggest this was true, and in many of the cases medical concerns had been raised before the children were vaccinated. Hospital pathologists, looking for inflammatory bowel disease, reported in the majority of cases that the gut was normal. This was then reviewed and The Lancet paper showed them as abnormal" (Deer 2009).
Andrew Wakefield remains under investigation by the U.K.'s General Medical Council for ethics violations. He remains unrepentant about his claims and has since moved to America, where he runs the Thoughtful House autism center in Austin, Texas.
- Deer, B. 2009. MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism. Times Online, February 8. Available online.
- —.2008. The Wakefield Factor. Available online at http://briandeer.com/wakefield-deer.htm.
- Hornig, M, T. Briese, T. Buie, M.L. Bauman, G. Lauwers, U. Siemetzki, K. Hummel, P.A. Rota, W.J. Bellini, J.J. O'Leary, O. Sheils, E. Alden, L. Pickering, W.I. Lipkin. 2008. Lack of association between measles virus vaccine and autism with enteropathy: A case-control study. PLoS ONE, September. Available online.
- Editors. 2004. A statement by the editors of The Lancet. The Lancet 363 (9411).
- Wakefield, A.J., S.H. Murch, A. Anthony, J. Linnell, D.M. Casson, M. Malik, M. Berelowitz, A.P. Dhillon, M.A. Thomson, P. Harvey, A. Valentine, S.E. Davies, and J.A. Walker-Smith. 1998. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The Lancet 351 (9103):637–41.


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NEW YORK -- One recent morning at Yankee Stadium, David Price was approached by a reporter who had inquired about an interview. A suspicious Price looked up after finishing tying his shoes and asked, "About what?"
These are confusing times for Price and the Tampa Bay Rays, who after Sunday night's win against the Tigers had won 10 of 12 games and 17 of their past 25 to suddenly surge back into the conversation in the American League East. Tampa woke upon Monday morning just 8.5 games out of first place after having gone 9-2 on a recent road trip against the Orioles, Yankees and Tigers.
On June 9, the Rays were a season-high 15 games out of first place. The win on Sunday pushed them out of last place for the first time since May 27.
"We're just capable of playing better baseball than we had been," Rays manager Joe Maddon said last week in the middle of his team's streak. "For me it was a matter of time and keep pushing pushing pushing, and don't permit to let anyone give up on the season because we certainly are not. But you have to be careful about that and guys are responding well."
For weeks, the only bit of conversation that trailed the Rays, who many had predicted to win the division, was about the possible dismantling their roster surely would see after spending most of the season in last place. In particular, most of the trade talk revolved around the former Cy Young winner Price, who quickly grew tired of all the speculation. In the middle of yet another successful year, Price, who was named an All-Star on Sunday, had to spend the majority of his press availability talking about the possibility of pitching elsewhere.
In reality, the questions about being traded almost began from the moment Price was brought up to the majors. Surely, the cost-conscious Rays would not be able to afford keeping Price once he reached free agency after the 2015 season. And nothing recently indicates that they will be able to keep him past 2015.
Understandably, Price had now become wary when any reporter approached him because he did not want to talk about the same uncomfortable subject he's been talking about for most of the season. The standard answers were: Yes, he wanted to stay in Tampa. No, he did not have any news about a possible trade. Yes, all of this talk was becoming a distraction.
Price had nothing more to offer on the topic.
When told that morning at Yankee Stadium that the subject of the interview would be to discuss his evolvement into one of the most precise pitchers in the game, Price let his guard down and seemed to lose any tension of having to once again snub someone. Price got up from his seat, crossed his arms, and invited the reporter to go ahead with the interview. But he cautioned, "let's keep it to that, OK?"
Few pitchers in the game have been as adept at making adjustments as Price. In his seventh year in the majors, Price is on pace to set a career high in strikeouts per nine innings (10.25) while at the same time lowering his walks per nine innings to a career low 1.29. Price's career low 3.5 percent walk rate ranks second in the majors. His 27.9 percent strikeout rate ranks third.
"I feel like at the major league level you see a lot of guys come up and come down and go down that have unbelievable stuff," Price said. "It's just their inability to command the strike zone whether it be with their fastball or their best breaking or whatever it is. And I want to make sure I can command my zone with all of my pitches. Doing that, it doesn't allow a hitter to sit on any certain pitch in any certain count. I think that kind of allows you to almost make more mistakes because you've been around the zone. They don't know what you want to throw."
He added: "I'm just on a good run. I feel like that as simple as my delivery was before, I feel like I've kind of made it a little bit more simple. I've taken a lot of the movement out of it. It's very repeatable, so it's easy for me to stay in my delivery and stay within my mechanics and that helps a lot."
Prior to his Cy Young-winning 2012 season, Price resolved to make tweaks to his mechanics to become a better pitcher. His 2011 season was not bad (12-13, 3.49) but he believed he was getting stagnant on the mound. The problem was that Price, who does not watch much video, didn't exactly know what he wanted to change.
So Price just began to experiment. He began to cut out extraneous movements that he thought were causing him to lose command. Price was not reinventing himself. He was only readjusting.
"I just did what felt good," Price said. "It's all about being comfortable on the mound. Being comfortable in uncomfortable situations. Stuff like that. Repetition and being out there, and when you are, getting positive results. That does a lot for a pitcher's confidence: Knowing that you're out on the mound and being in control. The game starts and stops with the pitcher, and I have the ball."
In previous years, Price had shown a willingness to adjust. While some players are resistant to mess with their mechanics, Price welcomed such changes. He didn't see it as changing his identity. He simply saw it as a normal part of a pitcher's maturation.
"Sometimes I just make changes on the fly," Price said. "This game is constantly evolving and if you don't evolve with it, it will leave you in the dust pretty quick. I just want to be able to make sure keep hitters on their toes and keep switching up what I'm doing...I make changes pretty often, whether it's big or small. I make changes in between innings. I can't give away all my secrets, but I make a lot of changes."
When Price was called up from the minors in 2008 for a bullpen role, he was essentially a fastball and slider pitcher. As a full-time starter the next couple of seasons, Price added a fastball with some sinking movement. He also began to experiment with a curveball and a change up.
After tweaking his delivery in 2012, Price's use of his curveball and change up has gone up significantly and he's completely ditched his slider.
"I'm a different pitcher now than I was two years ago," Price said. "I just have command of all my stuff. I feel like in 2012 I was, not necessarily a two-pitch pitcher, but a two-and-a-half pitch pitcher. Change up would come and go. Curve ball would come and go. Now I consider myself a four pitch pitcher. I throw a strike with whatever pitch I want right now. It helps. Makes it a lot easier."
The question of course is whether Price will stay in Tampa for the rest of the season. While he doesn't like to talk about the subject, a trade is still certainly possible. Though their current winning ways have momentarily quelled talks of a lost season, the Rays began Monday with only a 41-50 record. They still have a long way to go before winning the division is a realistic possibility.
Any type of losing streak would once again send them tumbling in the standings. They have very little margin for error. Before heading to the All-Star break, the Rays play the Royals and the Blue Jays, two teams with winning records, at home in two series that will be critical in how they view the trade deadline.
Prior to the start of their just-finished road trip, the Rays conducted what Maddon called "Spring Training in June." The aim was for the team to improve its fundamentals. While not perfect, Maddon said the Rays have become less sloppy in regards to baserunning and situational hitting.
"I have said it all along, and I tend to say things, I have have felt that we are absolutely going to get back into this thing," Maddon said. "But you have to go ahead and do it. We're still not there yet. But it's getting better."
Maddon said the Rays only need to concern themselves with winning series.
"I believe the way this division is working right now, it's just by sticking with those short term goals, we can definitely find ourselves back in the hunt," he said.
Yet even during their surge, reports surfaced that Rays management were still in the middle of trade talks. Prior to having landed Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, the A's reportedly were having talks with Tampa about Price.
So while the Rays have managed to change the conversation about their season, it still may ultimately come back to the one topic that Price doesn't like to talk about.


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If you open up a dictionary (yes, the same Concise English Dictionary as last time), the term icon reveals four possible meanings; we can obviously discard the first and third option - it is option two and four we care about:
"icon n 1 (also ikon) a religious image, e.g. of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint, typically painted on a small wooden panel and used as an aid to devotion in the Eastern Orthodox churches. 2 a pictorial representation; an image or symbol. 3 somebody who is an object of uncritical devotion; an idol. 4 in computing, a picture or symbol displayed on a screen to show a program option or a facility available to the user."
The history of the computer icon dates back to Ivan Sutherland's revolutionary computer program "Sketchpad". Sketchpad was a sketching program with some extremely remarkable features, especially considering it was a Ph.D. project in 1963, running on a Lincoln TX-2 (every dot on the screen was created by "brute force" as Alan Kay describes it [part I | part II]). For instance, you could draw a "messy" shape, and make it "clean" by "tapping" the shape's edges with a laser pen, and telling Sketchpad to make them mutually perpendicular and parallel (see the below image and this YouTube video). Sketchpad also introduced the concept of a master image and instances; you could work on one "master" image, switch to an "instance" (today, we would call it a different window), draw a new shape there, and import it into the master image.
Even though Sketchpad itself did not include any icons in its interface, it is still important to mention it because it was the first computer program that actually had a need for icons in the first place; in those days, computers were mostly still massive mainframes that were run in batch mode, using punch cards and the like. That type of computing did not require abstractions like icons because this type of computing was done by highly educated scientists; Sketchpad was the first program that tried to lower the barrier-to-entry for using computers, allowing non-programmers and non-scientists to use a computer in a meaningful way. Consequently, it created the need to abstract computer operations so that normal people could use them.
To stick with my examples, Sketchpad had a need for icons describing the action "make these lines mutually perpendicular" and "import the shape in an instance". Previous computer programs did not have such needs at all.
The next important milestone in the history of computer icons is the actual coining of the term "icon" by David Canfield Smith, in his Ph.D. work in 1973 at Stanford University. Smith was part of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's team.
Which brings us to the Xerox Alto computer developed at Xerox PARC in 1973. Commonly seen as the father of the graphical user interface, this is one of the first graphical user interfaces which included actual icons, the best example being Draw, the paint program. It includes several icons on the screen that symbolise the actions the icons would start; exactly what Sketchpad lacked, but created a need for.
Image courtesy of ToastyTech
The Alto, however, was never commercialised; several thousands were made, but none were ever sold. Consequently, the honour of the first commercialised graphical user interface goes to the Xerox 8010 Information System (better known as the Xerox Star), a personal computer inspired to a great degree by the Xerox Alto computer, brought to market in 1981. The Star's GUI is scaringly similar to what all of us are staring at today, for a relatively simple reason: it was the graphical user interface that introduced the desktop metaphor, used today by basically all popular desktop graphical user interfaces.
Image courtesy of ToastyTech
This metaphor also dictates how icons look today, and how they looked 25 years ago: they represent items found in an office (simply put). Even though icons of course got a lot more colourful and realistic over the past 25 years, they are still essentially the same as the icons in the Xerox Star, or, as seen below, the Apple Lisa.


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Four Players Earn Awards At Postseason Banquet
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The leader of the Yale softball team will remain the same in 2013. Christy Nelson, who hit a team-best four home runs this spring, has been re-elected captain. The announcement was made following a team vote at Sunday's postseason banquet. Nelson becomes only the fifth two-year captain in Yale softball history and the first since Kristen Gengaro in 1999 and 2000.
"I am honored to be re-elected captain by my teammates," said Nelson, a San Diego, Calif., native. "It was great to have so much support this past season, and everyone on the team played such an important role. I am excited to see the team grow together next season and to push each other to be the best we can be."
This spring Nelson started all 46 games at third base and had a team-best 22 RBI and 12 doubles. She will begin her senior season with 14 career home runs, three shy of Shayna Filson's school record. In addition, Nelson has 29 career doubles, which is the fourth most all-time at Yale.
Four team awards also were presented at the banquet. Senior Meg Johnson was named Most Valuable Player. She started all 46 games at shortstop, led the team with 13 stolen bases and was second in batting average (.343) and hits (49). Johnson was even better in 20 Ivy League games when she hit .390 with three doubles, two triples and eight RBI. In her outstanding career, Johnson finished with 168 hits, the sixth most in school history, and 68 RBI, the ninth most all-time at Yale.
The Barbara Chou Leadership Award was presented to senior Chelsea Janes. Janes, a senior, had career highs in games played, hits and runs scored and did an outstanding job behind the plate in only her second season at the position.
Sophomore Kristen Leung received the Most Improved Player Award. Despite having major back surgery in the offseason, Leung returned and was second on the pitching staff in wins, ERA, innings and strikeouts.
The Andy Van Etten Coaches Award was given to sophomore Alex Lucas, who pitched in eight games for the Bulldogs. The award is bestowed upon the player who represents the ideals of Yale Softball that go beyond statistics.
The Bulldogs closed out the season last Saturday by sweeping a doubleheader from Brown. The team will begin its preparations for the 2013 season in September.
"Next season I hope to bring energy and dedication to Yale Softball that I know embodies my teammates," Nelson said. "We are ready to work harder than ever, and I can't wait for it to start again."
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Application Extension Platform 1.x -- Configuring the Router
From DocWiki
Configuring the Router
To configure the Cisco Integrated Services Router, perform the following steps.
Option 1 Connect to the router by opening a telnet session from the terminal window on a PC running Windows OS. Then go to to the next step -- Connect to the Cisco Integrated Services Router using Telnet
Option 2 Use secure shell (SSH) -- for example by using client emulation software PuTTY. Then go to step Enter your username and password
Connect to the Cisco Integrated Services Router using Telnet
telnet ip-address
Enter your username and password
telnet 192.168.1.39 Trying 192.168.1.39 ... Open ..... User Access Verification Username: cisco Password: cisco 2800_w_axp#
Check the Mode
In the example above, the # sign shows that you are in privileged EXEC mode.
If you see a > symbol instead of the # symbol as the prompt, enter the
enable command, followed by your password to enable the Cisco ISR.
Verify the Running Configuration
To check the running configuration enter the following command:
#show running-config
interface GigabitEthernet0/0 ip address 10.7.0.90 255.255.255.0 shutdown duplex auto speed auto media-type rj45 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ip address 172.16.10.1 255.255.255.0 duplex auto speed auto media-type rj45 ! interface Integrated-Service-Engine4/0 ip unnumbered GigabitEthernet0/1 service-module ip address 172.16.10.2 255.255.255.0 !Application: Online on NME service-module ip default-gateway 172.16.10.190 no keepalive !
Tip: Press the space bar to scroll through the output if the entire configuration is not visible on your screen.
The running configuration shows multiple interfaces, for example: eth0, eth1, and Integrated-Service-Engine1/0 (ISE1/0). The number of interfaces depends on the model of router and the number of installed service modules. For links to hardware documentation, refer to the relevant Release Notes.
Show the Interfaces
show interfaces shows all the interfaces.
show interfaces interface_name shows only the specified interface.
2800_w_axp# show interfaces 2800_w_axp# show interfaces eth0 2800_w_axp# show interfaces eth1 2800_w_axp# show interfaces Integrated-Service-Engine 1/0
Tip: To scroll through the output, press the space bar repeatedly.
Additional References
For further information on configuring Cisco routers, refer to links in the Platform-Specific Documents section in the Cisco AXP Release Notes
Return to start of Getting Started Guide: Cisco AXP Getting Started Guide


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Bobby Womack doesn't like to be rushed. "Can I do it right for you tonight? he asked Sunday on the closing night of the Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements fall showcase at the Riverfront Theatre. "I like to do it right and take my time."
Even when things are all wrong. He turned "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much" into an epic psychodrama. In the song, the narrator finds himself crushing hard for his best friend's wife, and agonizes between lust and betrayal.
In the middle of the song, he brought the music down to a hush. "Have you ever been caught up?" he asked the audience. "Don't be ashamed (to answer), they can't see you in the dark." The horns rose up behind him, and the perspective shifted to the other man and his troubled marriage: "Seems like the more you do, the more she don't." And then with a final series of anguished fist pumps on each syllable, the singer dropped the curtain: "I wish you didn't trust me so much."
The 68-year-old master was back at work. After a health scare that sent him to the hospital earlier this year to treat cancer and diabetes, he finds himself newly relevant, thanks to a strong, recent album recorded with Gorillaz' Damon Albarn, "The Bravest Man in the Universe." But he ignored the album Sunday, in part because the textured electronic atmospherics and sparse arrangements aren't a good fit for his road band. The ensemble, which expanded to as many as 13 members for certain songs, presents a full-on soul revue, with a horn section and a trio of backing singers.
Instead, Womack went back to where he began. "True lyrics never go out of style," he said, and he had reason to be confident.
Once the man who never likes to rush anything started taking his time and stretching out on album in the '70s, he became a cornerstone R&B artist. A child of the gospel era – he was 10 years old when he started performing with his four brothers in the '50s – he built a bridge from soul singles to the album era. His songs took on a conversational tone, where his brief monologues made it sound like he was talking one-one-one to each listener, as he dispensed advice and bended-knee confessions. He wrote about adult issues, regret and redemption, slipping into the roles of poet, philosopher, preacher and philanderer as the story dictated.
He looked fit Sunday in a red outfit and leather cap, his voice still bearing its gospel pedigree with extended, wordless cries and soaring pleas. The iconic "Across 110th Street" made for a fitting opener, a story of personal hardship that blazed across movie soundtracks by Quentin Tarantino and Ridley Scott decades after it was written. The band presented the song's gritty, cinematic sweep with congas percolating beneath riffing horns and the hard-charging back-up singers.
The emotional ante rose with "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out." Womack played the band – cuing horn riffs and guitar solos – while summarizing the lost decades when he was brought low by health issues and drug addiction before his recent comeback.
"I've been through a few changes, I've been sick in the hospital," he said. "But I'm well tonight."
He took a seat a few times, but his vigorous voice and engaged presence were fully in the moment. After 70 minutes he was done. The ending was somewhat abrupt -- the only moment when the show felt, well, rushed. But before he departed, he drifted back to honor those who couldn't make it with him. He checked off the names of peers and inspirations, from Chicago's Tyrone Davis and Johnnie Taylor to Marvin Gaye and James Brown. And, of course, there was his mentor, the late soul great Sam Cooke.
"I feel his presence tonight," Womack said, and he delivered Cooke's civil rights anthem "A Change is Gonna Come" with a tear in his voice. Cooke's performance of the 1964 classic was full of smooth, measured yearning – a song of hope from a young man's vantage point. Womack brought a gruffer sense of world-weariness. The change hoped for in the song still hasn't arrived, and desperation has replaced optimism.
"It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die," Womack sang. "Cause I don't know what's out there beyond the sky."
As usual, he was taking his time. Only now, he was holding on to each note as if it were a lifeline.
Bobby Womack set list Sunday at the Riverfront Theatre:
1 Across 110th Street
2 Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out
3 Harry Hippie
4 Daylight
5 I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much
6 That's the Way I Feel About 'Cha
7 Woman's Gotta Have It
8 You're Welcome, Stop on By
9 A Change is Gonna Come
10 Lookin' for a Love
11 If You Think You're Lonely Now
12 (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still be Lookin' Up to You
13 I Can Understand It


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Blogs and Blogging
Q: How does she get her dusting done when she's always blogging?
A: Oh, she doesn't do any dusting. She claims she has a lame shoulder. Strange how that shoulder doesn't bother her a bit at the keyboard.
Q: What does she do when Important Family Visitors are arriving the next day?
A: She cleans the entire house from top to bottom in 12 hours. Of course, she doesn't start cleaning seriously until 4 p.m., so she doesn't finish cleaning until 4 a.m. And that's just surface cleaning, you know. Heaven help us all if the visitors look under the kitchen sink.
Q: How does she drive to the Nashville Airport the morning after she stays up cleaning until 4 a.m.?
A: That's what caffeine is for.


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Race Machine Available at Lilly Libraryby Patrick McAlister '10 • March 21, 2008 Share:
Race - one of the most divisive subtexts of the modern world. Race affects social interaction from simple normative stereotypes pushed on individual's everyday to deep seeded ethnic hatred leading to genocide. Genetically human beings are 99.97 percent similar, making racial tensions seem almost petty from a scientific perspective. There is a machine, however, that allows you to see yourself as a different race.
The Human Race Machine, a device that allows you to see yourself as a person of European, African, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern or Indian descent, is on display now in the Lilly Library. It will be here through Sunday March 30. This digital art piece is sponsored by the Art Department and coordinated by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kristin Wilkins.
"This machine allows you to sit down in like a photo booth," Wilkins said. It's a software program that will take a picture of your face and from that you can see what you would look like. It morphs your features to look like these other features."
Dr. Wilkins will be giving a tech talk on Tuesday March 25 regarding the mechanics behind how the machine works.
"'Race' is more of a social construct," Dr. Wilkins said. "This is supposed to help us see that – I'm not a really different person if you change my outside. It's all about how you are raised and what was around you when you were growing up."
The digital art piece is the brainchild of Nancy Burson, famous for the software used to age individuals and transform features of multiple individuals.
"Nancy Burson has traditionally been making work where she morphs the features of multiple Individuals," Dr. Wilkins said. "In the 70s, she was interested in seeing what she would look like when she was older, and she started wondering if there was software so she could see what she'd look like when she was older.
"She basically had to go and find programmers to go and do this project," she continued. "Her claim to fame, in relation to that is the FBI purchased that software and that's how they age the faces of missing children. This is a software that is the descendant of that original missing children's software."
Included with the race software is the aging and multiple individual software. Students will be free to use all aspects of the machine. Dr. Wilkins had previous experience with both the aging and multiple individual functions of the machine, but she will be a novice with the race part along with the rest of the Wabash campus.
"We were particularly interested in the race aspect of the machine," Dr. Wilkins said. "this is the newest stage of it, which is why it interested me. But I thought there were lots of students on campus that would be interested in it."
Dr. Wilkins noted that in addition to more public art works like the now famous Critical Arch, the faculty wanted to incorporate more digital art. The Human Race Machine thus seemed to be the best of all worlds, as it not only fulfilled the aforementioned desires but is user friendly and definitional interactive.
We wanted to have a digital art piece on campus in conjunction with some studies we are doing with faculty in bringing digital art into the (Art) program," Wilkins said. "I thought of this piece because it sounded pretty fun – you can interact with it and it's pretty user friendly. Some digital pieces can be slightly opaque and hard to accept, but this one is very straight forward and they can jump right in and get some responses from it."
Wilkins hopes this project will help stir student discussion about not only race but public art as well, although she hopes the fate of the Critical Arch will not be the same for the Human Race Machine.
"I would love to hear students respond to this," Wilkins said. "I was very concerned by the arch vandalism that occurred, and if this is vandalized, the school has to pay $15,000. We don't want to do that."


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July 31, 2017
Why You Should Stay Put and Improve the Home You Have
Posted in Houzz.com by Houzz.com
In "Staying Put," architect and writer Duo Dickinson has assembled a terrific and practical guide to help us make real improvements to our homes. Dickinson, an advocate of well-designed and affordable homes for all, has specialized in residential design for more than three decades.
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July 31, 2017
Colorado Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Colorado Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Colorado added 62,000 new jobs over the past 12 months, an increase of 2.4% over this time last year. All of the metropolitan markets included in this report saw annual employment growth, with substantial growth in Boulder (4.7%) and Fort Collins (+4.1%), and more modest growth in Grand Junction (0.3%). In May, the unemployment rate in the state was 2.3%, matching the prior month and down...
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July 28, 2017
Southern California Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Southern California Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
The markets covered by this report—Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside—added 131,900 new jobs between May 2016 and May 2017. As a result, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.7% to 3.9%. Growth in the Southern California market has started to taper, but this is unsurprising given our place in the current economic expansion.
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July 27, 2017
Nevada Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Nevada Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Employment growth in the Las Vegas metropolitan area slowed down—albeit very modestly—as the market entered the summer, with an annual employment growth of 2.9%. That said, the market has added 27,300 new jobs over the past 12 months. With this growth in employment, the unemployment rate remained at 4.8%, which is marginally above the statewide level of 4.7%. Las Vegas continues to approach...
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July 26, 2017
Western Washington Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Western Washington Real Estate Market Update by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
The Washington State economy has been expanding at a rapid pace but we are seeing a slowdown as the state grows closer to full employment. Given the solid growth, I would expect to see income growth move markedly higher, though this has yet to materialize. I anticipate that we will see faster income growth in the second half of the year. I still believe that the state will add around 70,000 jobs
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July 25, 2017
Why Owning a Home is Such a Smart Investment
Posted in Buying by Tara Sharp
The first question you need to ask yourself is, "Am I disciplined enough to invest in stocks?" According to two professors who recently studied 30 years of personal-finance performance, you need to be someone with exceptional financial discipline if you want to earn real money in the stock market. Or, you could simply buy a house.
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July 24, 2017
How to Combat the 5 Most Common Remodeling Monkey Wrenches
Posted in Houzz.com by Houzz.com
There's a lot to think about, select and organize on a remodeling project, whether it's a single room or a whole-house remodel. Small projects often have the same list of tasks as big projects, and the same potential for material selection and delivery to throw your schedule for a loop. Of course, anything can go wrong during a remodel, but some parts of your remodel will cause more difficulty...
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July 20, 2017
Why aren't homebuilders building more homes?
Posted in Inman News by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
Housing markets all across the U.S. are suffering from serious shortages of homes for sale, and this isn't expected to change in the foreseeable future. When I think about inventory levels and the fact that demand is clearly outstripping supply, it makes me question why homebuilders aren't stepping up to the plate to meet all this pent-up demand.
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July 19, 2017
#YourStoryIsOurStory: Taking the Time to Make the Right Move
Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory by Tara Sharp
When Gordy was offered a promotion, he and his wife Linda would need to relocate and give up their custom home. It wouldn't be easy, but lucky for them, they found Windermere Real Estate agent, Dawn Hardman. Over the course of a year, Dawn and Linda spent a lot of time together. Dawn took on the role of host to her new clients...
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July 17, 2017
Windermere Foundation Has Donated Nearly $1,000,000 This Year!
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood
Each Windermere office has its own Windermere Foundation fund account that they use to make donations to organizations in their communities. Year to date, a total of $979,486 has been disbursed to non-profit organizations dedicated to providing services to low-income and homeless families throughout the Western U.S.
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Photos on Flickr
Local readers who follow Nashville television news have been seeing video of the devastating flood there. For readers outside the Nashville area, here are links to a few of the photographs that have been uploaded to Flickr by Nashville residents:
Nashville Flood, set by Inyo Photo
Other Situation 2010, Nashville Flood
Nashville Flood, set by Jett Loe
Nashville Flood, 2010, set by Richard Call
Nashville May 01, 2010 Flooding, set by avatar28
Many schools in Tennessee are closed tomorrow due to flooding, including Montgomery County (Clarksville), our neighbor just across the state line south of here. School closings are merely a slight inconvenience, compared to the muddy mess that some people are facing in their homes and workplaces.


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BASKETBALL: Tigers snap skid
WAYNESFIELD — The Waynesfield-Goshen Tigers ended an eight-game losing streak with a big conference win, edging the Upper Scioto Valley Rams 40-35 on Friday night in Waynesfield.
The Tigers improved to 3-8 overall and 1-2 in Northwest Central Conference play.
The score was tied with 6:54 left in the game. But clutch free throws late by Colton Miller and Jacob Frank helped the Tigers eke out a victory.
"The guys played hard tonight and it was a good win," W-G varsity coach Ryan Taylor said.
Leading in scoring for the W-G was sophomore guard Colton Miller with 12 points, the only Tiger in double digits.
The Tigers out rebounded the Rams 40-20.
"An emphasis tonight was rebounding on both ends of the floor," Taylor said. "There were enough missed shots from both teams to do that."
Junior forward Lee Turner led the way for the Tigers with 11 rebounds.
Intense defensive pressure by W-G caused the Rams to struggle during the first half of play.
"We had a rough week of practice," USV varsity coach Aaron Thomson said. "We only made one basket in the first half."
W-G started the game with a 7-0 run. USV finally got on the board with 2:00 left in the first quarter.
The Rams took advantage of W-G turnovers and worked their way back into the game at the free throw line.
"Our free throw shooting was 17 out of 25 and that kept us in the game," Thomson said.
Paving the way for the Rams was Senior Steven Jenkins with nine points. Sophomore Austin Howard and Senior Luke Boecker also chipped in with eight points each.
"I have to give credit to Waynesfield," said Thomson. "They went through a lot of struggles and fought hard to come back."
W-G won the junior varsity game 50-56.
The Tigers hope to keep up the pace as they play at Marion Catholic next Friday at 6 p.m.


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CM1306, Reviewed October 1993
Citizens have the duty and opportunity to help make many group decisions about complex issues. Group decisions are those in which two or more people have a voice or vote. The decision may affect one or more persons individually or as a group. The group decision may be of a local nature such as a change in school tax, or a state problem such as water legislation, or a national issue such as commodity referendum.
Issues that relate to broad national programs such as energy, international trade or other complex subjects are becoming more common. For these types of issues, there must be broad public support before much can be accomplished by legislation.
To make wise decisions or to encourage and support elected representatives in their decision-making requires:
The approach used is based upon the philosophy that the final decision on public issues must be left to the individual. Educational tasks preceding this decision are: identifying the real problems, pointing out alternative solutions, and exploring the consequences of each. Using this approach, educational programs can be carried out on controversial issues when adequate educational resources are available. The emphasis here is on the problems and issues affecting agriculture and rural people, but the ideas can be applied to other subjects and audiences.
Because not everyone is interested in policy questions, special effort must be given to identify those who are interested in a given topic. Participants should include those already interested and those who may become interested with additional information and insight.
Participants should be identified together with the topic or public issues selected for an extension education program.
Who are the people who have an interest in the topic or a stake in the outcome? Should the focus of educational effort be the town or the township, the county, the region or should it be a multi-regional endeavor?
These questions may have no easy answer. Often the answer is obvious and determined by the density and geographic distribution of those who will have an interest in the public issue. Consultation with other field staff, the regional director and state specialists may be appropriate. In every case, having a clear idea of the audience for which the meeting is planned is essential.
Large crowds are not necessarily the setting for an effective policy meeting. A group of 40 to 50 may be more desirable, especially if they are leaders.
Some general tasks can and ought to be done whether a policy meeting is planned immediately or not:
Continue to compile and add to these lists. This is part of the task of maintaining a readily usable tool kit. The discipline of developing lists is useful as it forces one to know people well or to know those who do know the people. Either way, the result is becoming more knowledgeable about clientele groups with which we should be working.
Regardless of the approach used, the important point is to develop a list of people by county who are a potential audience for educational work in policy — like a mailing list of dairymen, pork producers or other special-interest groups.
Public issues are those resolved by some sort of group action. The immediate impact on an individual usually is limited. Public announcement may be sufficient for promoting a meeting to discuss new technology with immediate application and immediate implications for individual pocketbooks. But don't be surprised that a similar approach for a meeting on the "Public Issues in Agricultural Policy Development" results in an attendance flop. Such a topic is too general and most individuals cannot relate to it.
Planning the topic to mean more to the audience and raising issues in which the potential audience has a stake are key publicity approaches for any extension meeting. These are even more important in meetings dealing with policy issues. Public decisions do have significant impact on groups and individuals; the job is to help them see it.
Personal contact is the key to getting attendance. You can make use of mailing lists and write people, but you should personalize letters. Circular letters have limited use for this purpose.
Don't be afraid of repetition or reminders. An initial letter followed by a second letter or a telephone call from a specialist or from a secretary may be useful. Never miss the opportunity to remind your leaders of upcoming events. Do this when you see them in the course of other activities. Do not just tell them a meeting is scheduled, ask them if they are coming, or better still ask them, "You are coming to such and such a meeting, aren't you?" There is no substitute for knowing personally those individuals who naturally, or because of their position in some organization, have an interest in the complex problems facing society.
Another way to get leaders involved is to set up a steering committee in planning and conducting the program. This may be the extension council or another group organized for this special purpose. You also might consider joint sponsorship with some other appropriate organization. The more you can give others the feeling that what is happening is theirs and not just yours, the greater the success of the public issues educational effort will be. Work to get your meeting announced in other organizations' newsletters and at their meetings.
One way to increase the chances of success is to find a local group that will support the program and maybe provide a dinner or refreshments. Meetings where food is served generally seem to go better.
After you have made complete plans for the personalized contact necessary to ensure the involvement of the people, you can go the traditional public announcement and mass media route. Do this and do it well. A personal call on one or more editors may be needed. Mass media coverage can reinforce the personal contact and possibly bring out an additional few not contacted personally.
Do not depend on mass media alone as a way to get people out and involved in public issues educational efforts. You probably will be disappointed if you do.
For public issues educational work, no single time of day or format fits all situations. In some settings, all-day meetings with lunch work very well. In others, a late afternoon and evening session with a meal in between seems more appropriate. The meal could be planned together or you could have people eat on their own.
Another approach is to piggyback public issues educational work onto other kinds of programs. For instance, when you have an agricultural technology meeting, perhaps you will also want to look at related agricultural policy and the issues involved.
On other occasions, credit courses are an appropriate way to encourage people to engage in public analysis and participation.
Whatever format you use and however you choose to do it, you will want to multiply your efforts and extend the subject matter as far as possible. If you have visiting state specialists or other speakers assisting with the program, use them on radio and television spots. Make a radio tape to use in your own radio program. Make arrangements ahead of time for the visiting persons to speak to local clubs and organizations. Quite often the local editor welcomes an opportunity for an interview. Such activities will multiply your educational efforts.
Use follow-up news articles so people who were not involved will have a chance to know what went on and perhaps to become interested in participating the next time.
Remember that public issues educational efforts are not promotions of a particular point of view. If you follow the approach outlined in this publication, you can make an educational contribution in very controversial areas. You can help people obtain data and better understand complex issues. In turn, they can evaluate proposed solutions made in legislatures or elsewhere. Our founding fathers were aware of the need for a well-informed citizenry. The need has not passed.
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A security researcher has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities affecting PayPal, the most critical of which could have enabled attackers to access PayPal's business and premier reports back-end system.
The vulnerabilities were patched recently by PayPal after security researcher Nir Goldshlager of Avnet Technologies brought the vulnerabilities to the site's attention. The most critical bug was a permission flow problem in business.paypal.com, and could have potentially exposed a massive amount of customer data.
"An attacker was able to access and watch any other user's financial, orders and report information with unauthorized access to the report backend application," Goldshlager explained. "When users have a premier account or business account the transaction details of their orders are saved in the reports application ... an attacker can look at any finance reports of premier or business accounts in the PayPal reports application and get a full month [and] day summary of the orders reports."
That includes information such as the PayPal buyer's full shipping address, the PayPal transaction ID of the buyer and the date and amount of transaction.
Further reading
The other vulnerabilities Goldshlager found included an XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability affecting the paypal.com and business.paypal.com sites that an attacker could use to steal session IDs and hijack user accounts, as well as a CSRF (cross-site request forgery) bug that exposed user account information. The CSRF vulnerability impacts the IPN (Instant Payment Notification) system, a PayPal service that sends a message once a transaction has taken place.
Once IPN is integrated, sellers can automate their back offices so they don't have to wait for payments to come in to fulfill orders, Goldshlager explained.
"This CSRF exploit method exposes the same information from the buyer as the first vulnerability ... to exploit a CSRF attack that adds a Instant Payment Notification access, the attacker will make an attack that adds his own Website address to the victim account IPN settings, and when there is transaction on PayPal the victim's transaction details will be sent to the attacker's Website," he said.
Goldshlager also uncovered smaller CSRF issues, he said. He reported the bugs to the site in February. According to PayPal, nearly all the problems Goldshlager uncovered were fixed right away.
"As you know, these types of security issues are very complex and we are grateful for our strong working relationship with the security researcher as well our partnership with the security community that have brought these issues to light," a PayPal spokesperson told eWEEK in an e-mail. "We have a shared mission to make PayPal and the Internet as safe as possible for our customers."


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The players in our secondary are ultra-talented in many ways, but how much credit does Richard, Seto and Manuel get for turning the Seahawks' secondary around? I see a lot of secondaries in the NFL loaded with talented players, but they don't create the problems Seattle's secondary does. Even when players are subbed in; such as Jeremy Lane and Jeron Johnson, they perform great and you rarely see any major breakdowns in coverage occur.
Are Kris Richard, Rocky Seto and Marquand Manuel the Seahawks best kept secret. I notice everybody raves about the players, as they should because these players are great players. I don't see anybody ever talk much about our secondary coaches, which is kind of astonishing considering two of the coaches spent most of their careers in Seattle as professional football players and coaches. Where's the love for these guys?


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HighFidelity Titan Monday 21/06/2010, 16:02
I made the following preset:http://www.urban-rivals.com/presets/?id_preset=1346570&list
i think it's pretty good for a freaks mono without splata cr and i'm trying it this week in elo, but my question:
do freaks actually stand a chance and if not what would they need to become elo competitive
8H D-Sparky Guru Monday 21/06/2010, 19:32
They need a new bonus
Pistolshrimp Guru Monday 21/06/2010, 21:01
I actually want to use freaks in elo.... I don't know how to consistently get through the attack boosting/power manipulator clans though. They seem pretty predictable too, generally wanting to get through on the first turn. If you can find a good way to do well with them i'd love to know.
HighFidelity Titan Monday 21/06/2010, 23:11
Actually the biggest problems I had in testing it was against Nightmare/Piranas. Without their bonus their damage is generally lacking quite a bit. And SoA weakens them more than i thought, as their bonus is only usefull one time. But yeah right now I guess I'm playing pretty predictable.
One thing Freaks need imho is a good damage reducer, maybe a protect:bonus with good stats and maybe a useful sob or +life card. I think they lack cards to support their poison ability in a way Jungo and Sakrohm support Sylth and Sigma.
Butterfly Circus (ELO) I did this preset a while ago... and eklore actually has sinergy with freaks... because most opponents will try to get to 5 pillz in the first 2 rounds, so that should give you a good advantage, plus eklore's damage are algo helpful and 2 dmg reducers that are wolfgang and spiaghi to prevent getting so much dmg
HighFidelity Titan Tuesday 22/06/2010, 01:12
Yeah i fugured that much, but I think freaks should get their own spiaghi, he would have a surprise poison possibility
rejoin Guru DUNYAP-U-B-DRAGONSB-H_A_K_A_N Friday 25/06/2010, 03:38
putting in Spiaghi and Uranus as substitute reducers works well too =) just remeber that the strategy usually isn't KOing the opponet, but instead beating cards that would deal high damage. Poisons gonna sink in then sooner or later and the DRs can keep u above 3 live.
You can easily put 8 pills into Baldovino at the first round. Even if ur opponet doesnt counter with any pills at all, if poison gets through and u got a bunch of reducers in ur hand, u have pretty good chance to win. Let life gainers get through, they usually just make poison do even more damage.
"do Freaks actually stand a chance and if not what would they need to become elo competitive"
In the Elo metagame, almost certainly not.
The very fact that they're almost never seen in Elo as a mono, and, in my experience, never above 1250e or so.
Honestly, their bonus just doesn't stand up in the context of modern UR, and I don't see how anything but imba OP abilities could give them the needed buff for a competitive chance in higher tier Elo.


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The Liberal Democrats will commit to "significantly" reducing the national debt as a percentage of GDP every year from 2018/19 and only borrow to invest in projects to boost growth, Nick Clegg will announce today.
The two rules will form a key part of the economic strategy in the Lib Dem manifesto for the 2015 election as Clegg attempts to distance his party from Tory future tax and spending plans which he claims would mean "austerity forever".
Clegg has committed to George Osborne's timetable to eliminating the structural deficit by 2017/18, but he will insist that the Lib Dem would do it in a way which would see the rich pay a greater share.
He will also stress the importance of investing in housing to "protect the country from another crisis" by reducing the risk of a property bubble.
In a speech which effectively starts an extended campaign by the Lib Dems ahead of next year's general election, Clegg will accuse his coalition colleagues of planning to balance the books by hitting those "down on their luck" or "scraping by on the minimum wage".
But he will also promise to avoid a return to the "reckless borrowing" of Labour's time in office, insisting that investment would focus on infrastructure and new homes.
Speaking in the City of London he will announce the party's two fiscal rules, which would be monitored by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
Stressing the need to "finish the job we've started" in balancing the books, Clegg will promise to do it in a "fundamentally different way to the Conservatives".
Highlighting the need for £12 billion in welfare cuts under the Tory plans he will say: "That means that when the Conservatives looked across society and thought 'who should bear a bit more of the burden?' they didn't choose the best off.
"They settled on people scraping by on the minimum wage, the jobseekers who've found themselves temporarily down on their luck, the men and women trying to earn their way out of poverty, often working more than one job.
"I cannot accept that at all."
Instead the Lib Dems would mix spending cuts with tax rises for "those with the broadest shoulders" including extra council tax bands for higher value properties.
In setting out his plans once the deficit is eliminated, Clegg will commit to reducing the national debt to "safe levels" at a "sensible rate" as long as the economy is growing.
"There is nothing remotely liberal or fair in handing on sky-high levels of debt to future generations," he will say. By reducing debt as a percentage of GDP year on year when there is growth, a sustainable level will be reached "around the middle of the next decade".
Once the deficit is dealt with the Lib Dems would implement a balanced budget rule, with an exception for capital spending on projects to enhance growth or financial stability.
"It means future governments will have to live within their means and the money we spend on public services will grow roughly in line with the growth of the economy as whole.
"But we will allow for one significant exception: government will be able to borrow in order to fix our creaking national infrastructure."
Borrowing would fund improvements to railways which are a "throwback to the 1970s", pay for schemes to ease congestion on roads and improve 19th century water and waste networks.
He will say "we are prepared to put our shoulders to the wheel and use the muscle of the state - if necessary through borrowing - to rewire and revamp our infrastructure".
But the biggest problem was housing, where up to 300,000 new homes a year were needed to meet demand.
"It's time to put our money where our mouth is. We have to give people the homes they need and protect the country from another crisis - and if that means borrowing a bit when times are good and debt is falling, so be it," he will say.
"We are not the Tories. We don't believe in an ever-shrinking state. We are not so ideological about making cuts that we'll deny people the things they need. We're not so dogmatic about borrowing that we'll jeopardise Britain's economic health. Responsibility, yes, austerity forever, no.
"We're not Labour either. Gordon Brown used to slap the words 'capital spending' on anything and everything just so he could get away with borrowing to pay for it. That can never be allowed to happen again. Sound investment yes, reckless borrowing, no.
"You can be fair but responsible with it. You can be credible without being cruel. You can free our children from our debts while investing in their futures too."


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The Adams Gallery presents its annual juried show of student work from the Fine Arts program of the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University.
The fifth annual Springboard exhibition, at the Adams Gallery through Aug. 12, 2013, features a wide variety of media and ideas and reflects the rich creative practices the students developed for their senior thesis work as they completed the bachelor of fine arts degree.
Krakow Gallery director Andrew Witkin, winner of the Institute of Contemporary Art's Foster prize, and Al Miner, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, were this year's reviewers of student work exhibited in the Fine Arts senior thesis show.
They awarded the 2013 Fine Arts Jurors' Award to Allison Skula for Collective, works in charcoal and photographs.Artists represented in the Springboard 5 exhibit include:
- Lisa Allard
- Taylor Crouch
- Hollie Hart
- Colleen Kortendick
- Steven Skiffington
- Alli Skula, Recipient of 2013 Fine Arts Jurors' Award
- Ren Truscott
- ChengCheng Yang


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by John Goralski
Sports Writer
Dave Palladino's game face finally cracked as he grabbed the pen and scribbled his signature across the page. The Southington catcher didn't smile during either of his no-hitters. He didn't smile at home plate after any of his three home runs as a senior.
Palladino has become known for his serious approach and his game face, but he couldn't stifle a small grin as he joined a growing list of future Southington High School graduates that have already committed to college programs.
"I really didn't think I would play college baseball until last year," he said to reporters with the hint of a smile playing across his face. "It's just a good feeling. I'm not ready to hang up the cleats. I want to keep playing."
The Knights have already signed two players to NCAA division I programs with Ted Shaw (Sacred Heart) and Brett Susi (Central CT State University). Matt Sirois (Norwich) and Matt DiNello (Merrimack) are both expecting to challenge for playing time as freshman, and Palladino has become the fifth player to commit.
It's a good reflection on a program that continues to advance in postseason tournaments, and for two seasons Palladino has been at the center of Southington's success.
"It says that we bring in a lot of athletes," he said. "It also reflects on the coaching staff. They pick the right kids to play certain spots and are able to develop them in order go on to the next level."
Palladino rose quickly within the Blue Knight organization. As a junior, he rose to prominence as a .288 varsity hitter with nine RBI and a trio of doubles. Through 18 games this season, Palladino has gone 16-for-50 (.320) with six extra base hits, including a trio of home runs and 15 RBI.
But it's behind the plate that Palladino has really made his name. As a junior, he managed to secure a .974 fielding percentage at catcher, and he's managed to find himself behind the plate for a pair of varsity no-hitters from two different pitchers. Both pitchers went on to sign division one contracts, and one opted to pursue a professional career. Palladino called both no-hitters highlights in his varsity career.
"I was nervous both times, especially when it came down to spotting pitches" Palladino said. "If they missed by an inch, it could have been a hit. I didn't want it to be on me."
That fact didn't escape the notice of Eastern's scouts. Blue Knight coach Charlie Lembo said that it was Palladino's poise behind the plate that makes him a good collegiate prospect.
"He is a strong player behind the plate. He does a good job managing pitchers and fielding his position," said Lembo. "He has power and patience as a batter. He can block pitches and has a great arm."
Palladino's decision to play at Eastern comes on the heels of Coach Bill Holowaty's announcement that he will retire at the end of this season, but Palladino said that he remains committed to the program.
"I felt comfortable with everything there when I went for a camp in August, but I'm going there for more than baseball," he said. "It's too bad that he left, but I'm still happy to just play baseball. When Holowaty recruited me, he said they needed catching. I'm going to go in there, work hard and hopefully start as soon as possible."
Nobody doubts it.
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.


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