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Massport approves $54 million in additional funds for Terminal B renovation
The Massachusetts Port Authority gave the Terminal B renovation at Logan International Airport a $54 million boost Thursday, approving the additional funding to finish connecting the terminal's concourses behind security.
The project, slated to cost approximately $124 million by the time it's finished next year, will also include 24 new ticket counter spots, a consolidated security checkpoint with more lanes, eight new departure lounges, new concession space, and a new baggage carousel.
The new Terminal B will be home to United Airlines, which has been operating out of the A and C terminals following the merger of United and Continental Airlines. The terminal will continue to house US Airways and American Airlines, which recently announced a merger.
"As the number of airline mergers has accelerated in recent years, airports have had to accommodate these new alliances to allow passengers to more easily and conveniently connect between flights,'' Thomas Glynn, chief executive at Massport, said in a statement.
Currently, the gates at Terminal B are not connected to one another behind security. The renovations will allow passengers to go from the United and American side of the terminal to the US Airways side without having to go through security a second time. The project will also give passengers using the two gates currently used by Virgin America access to the food court and concessions in the terminal.


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|JSC2011-E-013463 (January 2011) --- Computer-generated artist's rendering of the International Space Station as of Jan. 29, 2011. Progress 41 resupply vehicle docks to the Pirs Docking Compartment. The Japanese Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) is berthed to the Harmony node's nadir port. Soyuz 25 (TMA-20) is docked to the Rassvet Mini-Research Module 1 (MRM1). Progress 39 resupply vehicle remains docked to the Zvezda Service Module's aft port and Soyuz 24 (TMA-01M) is linked to the Poisk Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2). Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Curator: JSC PAO Web Team | Responsible NASA Official: Amiko Kauderer | Updated: 11/19/2012

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Paul 'skeptical' after Romney speech
Rep. Ron Paul said GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's convention speech left him "very skeptical" that the country's economic policies will change.
"The speech is what I would expect," the Texas Republican said Friday on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." "I remain very, very skeptical of hearing anything that will change the course of history. We have a debt problem. We have a spending problem. But how many things did he list to cut?"
Story Continued Below
Not enough, he said. The former GOP presidential candidate said the "most disturbing" part of America's fiscal problems is the Federal Reserve, which Romney did not focus on during his speech.
"There was no talk of the Federal Reserve," said Paul, advocating the elimination of the Fed and fixed interest rates. "As long as we have the concept," he later added, "we will linger a long time because debt is a problem and no one is willing to face up to it, and I certainly didn't hear that last night."
So what's his take on the Republican Party?
"Well, it is not my party. I do not like politics at all," Paul said. "I think both parties are Keynesian economists and support positions that I do not like. So, the party, in many ways is irrelevant."


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New Study Helps Explain Why Tuna and Porpoise Hang Out Together
" For decades, recreational and commercial fishermen have exploited the unique relationship between yellowfin tuna and certain species of porpoise (aka dolphin) in the Eastern Pacific. Schools of yellowfin swim with pods of spotted dolphin and spinner dolphin in the tropics, as well as Pacific common dolphin and white-sided dolphin as far north as Southern California in warmer months. Commercial fishermen look for the dolphin and then wrap up the pod with purse seines to capture the schooling tuna below, sometimes killing dolphin in the process. Recreational fishermen troll lures or put baits in front of the pod to catch yellowfin.
Most anglers, including me, have always believed that the relationship was born out of the search for food, though no one knew if the porpoise were leading the tuna to food or vice versa. However, recently published research indicates that the tuna follow the dolphin, but food is not the primary reason. "
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- La Mesan Petruescu's 445-pound yellowfin makes history (utsandiego.com)
- Yellowfin tuna caught off Mexico expected to be largest ever landed (grindtv.com)
- LDWF Launches New Program to Improve the Accuracy of Yellowfin Tuna Landings (louisianalagniappe.wordpress.com)


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Georgetown Theatre Company's The Offensive
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The Georgetown Theatre Company presents a staged reading of THE OFFENSIVE: A timely comic variation on Lord Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
By R. L. Nesvet
Directed by Catherine Aselford
Friday, 19th November, 2004, 7.30 p.m.
Grace Church, Georgetown
1041 Wisconsin Ave., NW (South of M St.)
Washington, D.C.
It's 1355, and the Venetian Senate has just refused to punish with the death penalty a graffiti artist who has insulted the honour of Doge Marino Faliero, the recently elected leader of the Republic. The Doge decides to 'get justice'—by assassinating the Senators and establishing a dictatorship, with himself as Prince. All the Doge needs to accomplish "leader stabilization, regime change" is "backup," but the only backup available is "the Conspiracy," whose objective is to depose HIM. Can the Doge turn this terrorist cell into respectable "Patriots" overnight, without setting off the jewel of the Republic's defence system -- the mysterious Ratapult?
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American Airlines Places 'Largest Aircraft Order In Aviation History'
Saying it's the "largest aircraft order in aviation history," American Airlines just announced that it plans to buy at least 460 fuel-efficient "narrowbody" passenger jets between 2013 and 2022.
The purchases are to be split between Boeing and Europe's Airbus, the company says:
-- "American has firm orders or letters of intent for a total of 200 additional aircraft from the 737 family [made by Boeing], with options for another 100 aircraft."
-- "American also will purchase a total of 260 Airbus aircraft from the A320 Family and will have 365 options and purchase rights for additional aircraft."
According to the airline, "these new aircraft will allow American to reduce its operating and fuel costs."
The Associated Press calls the deal "a major coup for Europe's Airbus because American currently flies an all-Boeing fleet."
The Dallas Morning News adds that "as part of the deal, American is getting about $13 billion in committed financing from the two companies, covering the first 230 deliveries." And the newspaper adds that:
"Parent AMR Corp. disclosed the major purchase as it announced a $286 million loss for the three months ended June 30. In addition, AMR outlined its plans to spin off its American Eagle regional carrier to AMR shareholders in coming months."


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Pirates - KittywithLEGO
"Fransisco! What be we up against here?"
"Well, first there be Vergilius Raskolnikov - "
"Argh, that landlubber again."
" - then the A.N.U.S. - "
"Temptin', temptin'..."
" - and finally the Immortals."
"Immortals? We'll see just how immortal they be!"
The Bloodstained Serpent sails up and unloads a broadside.
The Immortal cruiser is smashed by cannonballs and loses a Structure Point, two remain. Their Command Data Link goes down from the damage.
Warhead sphincter - Falk
The lone A.N.U.S. fighter leaves the space station... with a new pilot.
It docks with the Immortal cruiser.
"TIme for the real Warhead to stand up..."
"As in, me!"
A.N.U.S. - Silverdream
And that is when the A.N.U.S. escorts all open fire at the Immortal cruiser! Another Structure Point is lost, and only one is left.
"We're trying to duel here you dimwits!"
Margaret Heep's escape pod docks with Raskolnikov's escort.
"Good evening. I am Diplomat-Commodore Margaret Heep, and I hereby commandeer this vessel for use by the A.N.U.S. We apologize for any inconveniences."
The Raskolnikov soldiers are not satisfied with this.
The Immortal Empire - Warhead
Warhead opens a comms link to Vergilius Raskolnikov.
"BRAVO! We truly enjoyed your educational film, let us help you out great leader!"
"I knew you would see reason."
The Immortal ships move to join Vergilius Raskolnikov's fleet...
...but with typical Immortal treacherousness open fire once they have reached the best angles! One of the Weltschmerz' batteries is destroyed.
The fighters do no worse, and destroy one of the engines.
But the fighter pilots find their flying style somewhat lacking.
That looks more potent.
Vergilius Raskolnikov - Apollyon
The entire fleet opens fire on the A.N.U.S. ships.
The defected Immortals prove their worth...
The escorts are utterly annihilated.
The Weltschmerz docks with the space station, and Vergilius Raskolnikov himself boards it.
"Warhead and Warhead... your allegiance to me did not last very long."
"I propose that we settle this in another way..."
"...a way that your kind can understand."
An ImmortalTechTM InfinityKeg of Maniac Beer, captured at the cost of millions of soldier lives!
"We drink Maniac Beer until we perish. If one of you wins, he is the real Warhead. If I win, I get the Immortal Empire."
Shit just got real.
Kills & Deaths
A.N.U.S. - Silverdream
Kills: 1/8
Ships left: 0/7
Units left: 3/3
Vergilius Raskolnikov - Apollyon
Kills: 3/8
Ships left: 3/4
The Immortal Empire - Warhead
Kills: 3/8
Ships left: 5/5
Warhead sphincter - Falk
Kills: 1/8
Units left: 1/1
Pirates - KittywithLEGO
Kills: 0/8
Ships left: 1/1
Vergilius Raskolnikov's escort
Space station
Send in your Turn 4 orders! I will now be gone for about two weeks though, so don't expect the next turn very soon...
Top Thread


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SPRINGFIELD – The Growing Resources and Opportunity for the Workforce in Illinois is pleased the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has begun the process of registering – and ultimately granting permits – to companies wishing to conduct hydraulic fracturing in Illinois.
The Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act requires a permit applicant to register with the DNR at least 30 days prior to submitting a permit application, according to a news release from GROW-IL.
Once the registration is accepted, companies can apply for individual fracturing permits that should occur early next year.
The state Legislature passed earlier this year a law that regulated the practice in Illinois.
Registration information can be found at http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/mines/Pages/HydraulicFracturing.aspx.
"We are very pleased the Department of Natural Resources is opening up the registration process," Mark Denzler, co-chair of GROW-IL and vice president and COO of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, said in the news release. "Our coalition is excited progress is being to realize the tremendous economic benefit of hydraulic fracturing here in Illinois. This law will create thousands of jobs, millions of dollars in revenue while keeping our environment safe."
"We need to create jobs for working men and women and we're one step closer in doing that today," Michael T. Carrigan, co-chair of GROW-IL and president of the Illinois AFL-CIO, said in the news release. "We're encouraged with the progress being made by DNR that will result in good paying jobs for working families in Illinois."
GROW-IL is a coalition of more than two dozen business, labor, construction, transportation and agricultural organizations focused on enacting common sense hydraulic fracturing legislation.


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About this job
Job description
As of now, we're looking for a passionate Software Development Engineer in Test (Backend) (m/f) for our backend services development in Berlin office.
* Architect and build the test infrastructure.
* Set up and maintain test environments.
* Test and validate REST services.
* Test services separately and also check the integration with others as a whole.
* Create test plan to conduct and coordinate testing activities.
* Build monitoring system and improve the metrics.
* Actively monitor health and performance data of services, and alert for incidents.
* Oversee release of features to our production systems, collaborate with other platform/service teams.
* Evaluate and respond to issues post-release.
* Evangelize the code/product quality to the team, set a goal and push the improvement constantly.
* Responsible for 2nd level technical support as a team effort, be the key player for the bug process.
* Be accountable for all topics above, but work with the team together on them.
* Stay on top of the latest technology trends, apply the best practices to our daily work.
Basic Qualifications:
* Passion
* Java / Kotlin
* Mock MVC / REST Assured / RestFuse
* Scrum
* Team player
* Fluent English
Preferred Qualifications:
* Spring * Bamboo / Jenkins
* Swagger / OpenAPI Specification (OAS)
* Microservices
* Docker
* Gatling / JMeter / LoadRunner
* Kibana / Grafana
* ELK stack
* SonarQube
Life at mytaxi (Intelligent Apps GmbH)
About mytaxi (Intelligent Apps GmbH)
Design the future of mobility with us!
mytaxi was founded in June 2009 and was the world's first taxi app that established a direct connection between a passenger and a taxi driver. With more than 10 million passengers and 100,000 drivers, mytaxi is the leading taxi e-hailing app in Europe.
Since September 2014, mytaxi has been part of Daimler Mobility Services GmbH (part of the Daimler Group). In July 2016, mytaxi announced a merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland, an important step in becoming the leading taxi e-hailing app in Europe. Mytaxi works with more than 500 employees in 26 European offices and is available in more than 100 European cities. Eckart Diepenhorst is CEO of mytaxi.
Join a fun, global team of top engineers and seasoned entrepreneurs for the challenge of a lifetime. We strive to be passionate yet practical, driven but focused and visionary but humble. Our employees are routinely challenged to solve large-scale, highly complex technical problems. As a new "family member" you will be stretched, but will learn best practice at scale in our creative and fun environment!
What can we offer you?
- The chance to bring in your own ideas
- A strong team spirit
- Excellent monetary benefits (a pension plan, a monthly mobility allowance for free taxi rides, subsidised public transport ticket)
- Have your birthday off!
- ...and all the usual start-up goodies like unlimited soft drinks, after-work beers and many more
Oh, and the opportunity to work with the best team in the world (we know, everybody says so, but at mytaxi it's true)!
- Mobility allowance for free taxi rides
- Flexible working hours
- Teamevents
- Flat Hierarchies
- Working with the newest Macs
- Most awesome Team ever
- Modern office (small, no bullpen)
Joel Test
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Now that your kernel is configured and compiled and the necessary system
configuration files are filled in correctly, it is time to install a
program that will fire up your kernel when you start the system. Such a
program is called a
Several bootloaders exist for Linux/Alpha. You must choose one of the supported
bootloaders, not all. You have the choice between
We first install aboot on our system. Of course we use
# emerge --usepkg aboot
The next step is to make our bootdisk bootable. This will start
# swriteboot -f3 /dev/sda /boot/bootlx # abootconf /dev/sda 2
Additionally, you can make Gentoo boot more easily by setting up the aboot configuration file and SRM boot_osflags variable. You will need to make sure that the bootdef_dev is also properly set (easier to do at the console than from Linux).
# echo '0:2/boot/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda2' > /etc/aboot.conf # echo -n 0 > /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/boot_osflags # echo -n '' > /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/boot_file
If you're installing using a serial console, don't forget to include
the serial console boot flag in
Aboot is now configured and ready to use. Continue with
Before continuing, you should decide on how to use MILO. In this section, we will assume that you want to make a MILO boot floppy. If you are going to boot from an MS-DOS partition on your hard disk, you should amend the commands appropriately.
To install MILO, we use
# emerge --usepkg milo
After MILO has been installed, the MILO images should be in
(First insert a blank floppy)# fdformat /dev/fd0 # mformat a: # mcopy /opt/milo/milo-2.2-18-gentoo-ruffian a:\milo # mcopy /opt/milo/linload.exe a:\lilnload.exe (Only if you have a Ruffian:# mcopy /opt/milo/ldmilo.exe a:\ldmilo.exe )# echo -ne '\125\252' | dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=1 seek=510 count=2
Your MILO boot floppy is now ready to boot Gentoo Linux. You may need to
set environment variables in your ARCS Firmware to get MILO to start;
this is all explained in the
Not reading the
Now continue with
Exit the chrooted environment and unmount all mounted partitions. Then type in
that one magical command you have been waiting for:
# exit cdimage ~# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo cdimage ~# reboot
Of course, don't forget to remove the bootable CD, otherwise the CD will be booted again instead of your new Gentoo system.
Once rebooted in your Gentoo installation, finish up with


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Outstanding Earth Science Teacher ProgramAward Recipients | Make a Nomination
The Award
Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) awards are given for "exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth Sciences at the pre-college level." Any teacher or other K-12 educator who covers a significant amount of earth science content with their students is eligible. Ten national finalists are selected, one from each NAGT regional section. Some sections also recognize state winners. Individuals may apply themselves or nominate a colleague for the award.
The Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Awards program was adopted by NAGT in 1971. Devised to honor pre-college teachers of earth science, the program has the following specific objectives:
- Identify excellence in teaching
- Appropriately recognize and reward excellence in teaching
- Stimulate higher levels of teaching performance
- Establish NAGT as a strong support organization for pre-college education, and
- Via active statewide and sectional programs, build a solid state, regional, and national liaison with administrators of pre-college earth science education.
There are also a variety of awards for state winners, section runners-up, and honorable mentions.
Sectional winner awards include:
There are also a variety of awards for state winners, section runners-up, and honorable mentions.
Award Recipients
2018 Section & State Recipients
Read bios for the 2018 Section and State Winners.
Section Winners
- Central Section: Collin Reichert
- Eastern Section: Tom Gazda
- Far Western Section: Diane Tom-Ogata
- Midcontinent Section: Angie D Nelson
- New England Section: Melanie Cutler
- North Central Section: Natalie Davis-McGrath
- Pacific Northwest Section: Jeff Karlin
- Southeastern Section: Phillip Cox
- Southwest Section: David Thesenga
- Texas Section: Sabrina Ewald
State Winners
- Arizona: Matt Haverty
- California: Leonard Bloch
- Colorado: Stephanie Seevers
- Georgia: Brenda Paul
- Idaho: Marc Brousseau
- Illinois: Andrew Peterson
- Kentucky: Cayeann Cowan
- Louisiana: Lacey Hoosier
- Minnesota: Dan Gruhlke
- New Mexico: Anna Suggs
- New York: Tom Gazda
- North Carolina: Phillip Cox
- Oregon: Connie Robbins
- Puerto Rico: Elizabeth Torres-Rodriguez
- South Carolina: Robin Wright
- Tennessee: Jana Young
- Virginia: Jeanette Dellinger
- Wisconsin: Dennis Rohr
OEST State and Section winners are strongly encouraged to take an active role in NAGT, NESTA, and all other organizations that support the OEST Award Program.
Past Recipients
2017 Section & State Recipients
Read bios for the 2017 Section and State Winners.
Section Winners
- Central Section: Jill Weaver
- Eastern Section: Kathleen Tait
- Far Western Section: Dieuwertje Kast
- Midcontinent Section: No Award in 2017
- New England Section: Laura Preston
- North Central Section: No Award in 2017
- Pacific Northwest Section: Robert Doherty
- Southeastern Section: Annette Bartlett
- Southwest Section: Ben Graves
- Texas Section: No Award in 2017
State Winners
- Alabama: Virginia Hall
- Arizona: Allison McIntosh
- Colorado: Annette Calabretta
- Delaware: Lindsay Lancaster
- Florida: Leigh Arnold
- Georgia: Catherine Warren
- Idaho: Heather Swanson
- Kentucky: Thomas Reed
- Louisiana: Ann Robichaux
- Michigan: Sherry Claflin
- Minnesota: Denine Voegeli
- Mississippi: Tammie Bright
- New Mexico: Turtle Haste
- New York: Rebecca Remis
- Ohio: Karly Lyons
- Oregon: Celia Hampton
- Pennsylvania: Kathleen Tait
- South Carolina: Marc Alexander
- Virginia: Rebecca Musso
- West Virginia: Bryan Schuerman
- Wisconsin: Robert Shannon
2016 Section & State Recipients
Read bios for the 2016 Section and State Winners.
Section Winners
- Central Section: Troy J. Simpson
- Eastern Section: No award in 2016
- Far Western Section: Laura Branch
- Midcontinent Section: Will Squires
- New England Section: Joan Kadaras
- North Central Section: Sharla Hanzlik
- Pacific Northwest Section: Jonathan Hill
- Southeastern Section: Lindsay Knippenberg
- Southwest Section: Matt Affolter
- Texas Section: Sabrina Ewald
- Alabama: Kathryn Busby
- Arizona: Pradip Misra
- Colorado: Jessica Kindel
- Florida: Mohamed Kabani
- Georgia: Stephen Csukas
- Louisiana: Holly Payton
- Maryland: Meaghan Richardson
- Minnesota: Jody Bergeson
- Mississippi: Shelby J. "Dixie" Houchen
- New Mexico: Gary Bodman
- North Carolina: Lindsay Knippenberg
- Ohio: DeAnn O'Toole
- Oregon: Karen Shelton
- South Carolina: Deborah Ezell
- Tennessee: John Griffin
- Texas: Belinda Jacobs
- Utah: Kirk Wright
- Washington: Dustin Smith
2015 Section & State Recipients
Read bios for the 2015 Section and State Winners.
Section Winners
- Central Section: Michele Svoboda
- Eastern Section: John Russell
- Far Western Section: Ryan Hollister
- Midcontinent Section: No award in 2015
- New England Section: Rodney Ward
- North Central Section: Ann Anderson
- Pacific Northwest Section: Andrew Bagley
- Southeastern Section: Susan Oltman
- Southwest Section: Rob Reisener
- Texas Section: No award in 2015
State Winners
- Alabama: Michelle Peterson
- Florida: Christine Danger
- Georgia: Susan Oltman
- Idaho: Kenneth Berger
- Illinois: Joe Schoen
- Indiana: Heather Hall
- Iowa: Brandon Fritz
- Louisiana:Lisa Swenson
- New York: Kenneth Abbott
- North Carolina: Rebekah Fuerst
- Ohio: Beth Holmes
- Oregon: Christopher Carlton
- Pennsylvania: Blake Colaianne
- South Carolina: Jennifer Pitman
- Wisconsin: Adam Keeton
2014 Section & State Recipients
Read bios for the 2014 Section and State Winners.
Section Winners
- Central Section: Ella Bowling
- Eastern Section: Victoria Gorman
- Far Western Section:No award in 2014
- Midcontinent Section: No award in 2014
- New England Section: Rita Chang
- North Central Section: No award in 2014
- Pacific Northwest Section: Dale Lehman
- Southeastern Section: Lisha Hylton
- Southwest Section:No award in 2014
- Texas Section: Lawrence Witt
State Winners
- Alabama: Wendy Bramlett
- Alaska: Darren Kellerby
- Georgia: Donna Governor
- Illinois: Keni Rienks
- Indiana: Martha Hoyt
- New Jersey: James Miller
- New York: Mark Percy
- North Carolina: Mark Townley
- Ohio: Paul Genzman
- Oregon: Laura Orr
- Pennsylvania: Michael Baer
- South Carolina: Lisha Hylton
- Washington: Randy Taylor
- Wisconsin: Beth Spear
2013 Section & State Recipients
Read bios for the 2013 Sectional and State Winners.
Section Winners
- Central Section: Mary Lestina
- Eastern Section: Russel H Kohrs
- Far Western Section: Herman Hilkey
- Midcontinent Section: Kathy Rusert
- New England Section: Erica Wallstrom
- North Central Section: Rod Benson
- Pacific Northwest Section: Helen Farr
- Southeastern Section: Olivia Boykin
- Southwest Section: Cheryl L. B. Manning
- Texas Section: Gary Poole
- Alabama: Alison Starr
- Alaska: Jonathan Smith
- Arizona: Jeremey Williams
- Georgia: Nancy Adgate
- Louisiana: Lacey Hoosier
- New Jersey: Steven Carson
- New York: Michael Wing
- North Carolina: Mary Catherine Mills
- Texas: Katie Wagner
- Virginia: Russel H Kohrs
2012 Section Recipients
- Central Section: No award in 2012
- Eastern Section: Dr. Edward Cohen
- Far Western Section: No award in 2012
- Midcontinent Section: No award in 2012
- New England Section: Ray Pavlik
- North Central Section: No award in 2012
- Pacific Northwest Section: Marie Carver
- Southeastern Section: Kevin McMahon
- Southwest Section: No award in 2012
- Texas Section: No award in 2012
Read bios for the 2012 Sectional and State Winners
2011 Section Recipients
- Central Section: No Award in 2011
- Eastern Section: Rosemarie Sanders
- Far Western Section: No award in 2011
- Midcontinent Section: No award in 2011
- New England Section: Karen A. Saul
- North Central Section: No award in 2011
- Pacific Northwest Section: Frank R. Hladky
- Southeastern Section: Valerie Willis
- Southwest Section: Bonnie B. Dodge
- Texas Section: Michael R. Brunt
Read bios for the 2011 Sectional and State Winners
2010 Recipients
- Central Section: De Anna Tibben
- Eastern Section: Heather H. McArdle
- Far Western Section: Nick Crooker
- Midcontinent Section: No award in 2010
- New England Section: Jennifer Judkins
- North Central Section: No award in 2010
- Pacific Northwest Section: Chris Hedeen
- Southeastern Section: Bryan E. Freeman
- Southwest Section: Laura Lukes
- Texas Section: No award in 2010
2009 Award Recipients
- Central Section: Dennis Dougherty
- Eastern Section: Shelly Anne Witham
- Far Western Section: Laura Hollister
- Midcontinent Section: Richard Snyder
- New England Section: Elisa D'Amore
- North Central Section: No award in 2009
- Pacific Northwest Section: Roger Groom
- Southeastern Section: Cliff Hudson
- Southwest Section: Deborah Morgan
- Texas Section: No award in 2009
- Central Section: Teresa Lee Huckleberry
- Eastern Section: John D. Moore
- Far Western Section: Anna Foutz
- Midcontinent Section: No Award in 2008
- New England Section: Gregg Wachtelhausen
- North Central Section: No Award in 2008
- Pacific Northwest Section: Jeff Hashimoto
- Southeastern Section: Tina Coleman
- Southwest Section: Suzi Shoemaker
- Texas Section: No Award in 2008
- Central Section: Paul Varsho
- Eastern Section: Debra Faulkner
- Far Western Section: Diane Kelsey
- Midcontinent Section: No Award in 2007
- New England Section: David Eatough
- North Central Section: No Award in 2007
- Pacific Northwest Section: Clay Good
- Southeastern Section: Patricia Royle
- Southwest Section: Carol Ticho
- Texas Section: No Award in 2007
- Central Section: Aaron Spurr, Price Lab School — Northern University High School, Cedar Falls, IA
- Eastern Section: Walter "Len" Sharp, Liverpool High School, Liverpool, NY
- Far Western Section: David Meade, New Jerusalem Charter School, Tracy, CA
- Midcontinent Section: No Award in 2006
- New England Section: Marguerite Murphy, Georges Valley High School, Thomaston, ME
- North Central Section: No Award in 2006
- Pacific Northwest Section: Jodie Harnden, Sunridge Middle School, Pendleton, OR
- Southeastern Section: Bryan Byrne, Cox Middle School, Columbia, TN
- Southwest Section: No Award in 2006
- Texas Section: Christopher Marchall, The Colony High School, The Colony, TX
- Eastern Section: Bernard Picklo, Bradford, PA
- New England Section: Anita Honkonen, Sudbury, MA
- Pacific Northwest Section: Lynda Sanders, Coos Bay, OR
- Southeastern Section: Rose Lummus, Dyersburg, TN
- Southwest Section: Christine Donovan, Tucson, AZ
- Texas Section: Heather Marshall, Frisco, TX
- Eastern Section: Mary Sue Burns, Marlinton, WV
- Far Western Section: Noah Hughes, Sonora, CA
- Pacific Northwest Section: Pat Ellis, Richland, WA
- Southeastern Section: Tina King, Mt. Juliet, TN
- Southwest Section: Tony Occhiuzzi, Tempe, AZ
- Central Section: Craig Wolter
- Eastern Section: Glenn Dolophin, Birmingham, NY
- Far Western Section: Joan Hacken Carter, San Jose, CA
- New England Section: Shelly F. Snyder, S. Burlington, VT
- Pacific Northwest Section: Shawn E. Doan, Bellingham, WA
- Southeastern Section: Christine Henry, Knoxville, TN
- Southwest Section: Rita Grusemeyer, Santa Teresa, NM
- Texas Section: Michael Milburn, McKinney, TX
- Eastern Section: Christine Anne Royce, Scranton, PA
- East-Central Section: Natalie Drummond, Ft. Wayne, IN
- New England Section: Hannah W. Neville, Erving, MA
- Pacific Northwest Section: Tammie Schrader, Cheney, WA
- Southeastern Section: Jane Luhn
- Southwest Section: Darell A. Speer, Fort Collins, CO
- Texas Section: Rick A. Ford
- Central Section: Joy Reeves, Chicago, IL
- Eastern Section: Steve Kluge, North Salem, NY
- Far Western Section: Tom Hollis, Los Osos, CA
- New England Section: James Sammons, North Kingstown, RI
- North Central Section: Barry Olson, Harwood, ND
- Southeastern Section: Virginia Cooter, Greeneville, TN
- Texas Section: Dr. Aileen Wajtal Duc, Plano, TX
- Eastern Section: Dr. Tom Arnold
- East-Central Section: Kimberly A. Mullen, Columbus, OH
- Far Western Section: Ted Reeves
- Midcontinent Section: Melinda Rose Thomas, Atkins, AR
- New England Section: Will Kiendzior, Shelburne Falls, MA
- Pacific Northwest Section: Linda Selvig
- Southeastern Section: Andrea Walker, New Orleans, LA
- Texas: Shannon Miller, Kingsland, TX
- Eastern Section: George "Gib" Brown, Plattsburg, NY
- New England Section: Patricia Millet
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Just listening to the Podcast while doing housework, and the interview with the Nerdist is great, so getting a couple of his Podcasts. They have one with Jon Oliver who is my favorite comedian. Thanks. Looks like some great discussion on the Star Trek Episode.
I was happy to see Chris as guest. I'm a big fan of his Nerdist podcast. To have two of my favorite podcasts come together in nerdy harmony was so very nice. I finished listening to it while running today and had a big smile on my face.
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November 04, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- The UCLA Entertainment & Media Management Institute (EMMI) at UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced that it will host the annual Bruce Mallen Business and Economics Scholars Workshop November 7-8 in Los Angeles, California. The Workshop will bring together top academic scholars and industry professionals to discuss research focused on measuring, predicting and/or impacting performance in film financing, production, marketing, distribution and exhibition.
"As the dramatic pace of change in the entertainment industry continues to accelerate, the need for thought leadership on the issues surrounding this change becomes more and more apparent," said Nelson Gayton, Executive Director of EMMI at UCLA Anderson School of Management. "The Bruce Mallen Workshop is a premium knowledge event aimed at fostering a robust dialogue between industry and academic thought leaders. Our hope is to create a unique and extraordinary environment to share, challenge, support and collaborate on ideas about the motion picture industry and other facets of the entertainment business."
Now in its eighth year, the Bruce Mallen Workshop provides attending researchers with critical peer and industry feedback prior to completion and publication. Past research has been published in a wide range of technical, business and academic journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, and Journal of Business Research.
Research topics to be discussed this year include:
- Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship (Baraky Y. Orbach, University of Arizona)
- Knowledge Integration in Bollywood (Jamal Shamsie, Michigan State University)
- Providing Hollywood Access to the World's Capital Markets (Arthur De Vany, Extremal Security Partners, LLC)
- MGM and Tom Cruise (Anita Elberse, Harvard University)
- Union Activism in 21st Century Hollywood (Alan Paul, Giant Angstrom Partners)
- Dilution & Enhancement of Celebrity Brands through Sequential Movie Releases (Lan Luo, University of Southern California)
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- Advertising Content and Film Revenues (S. Abraham Ravid, University of Pennsylvania)
- Product Differentiation and Film Programming Choices (Darlene C. Chisholm, Suffolk University)
Previously presented papers by scholars in the field have explored the profitability of films with sexual and violent content versus family-oriented films, and how big box-office openings may not be correlated to large box-office gross revenues. Industry attendees at workshops have included Gary Concoff, of Troy and Gould Law offices in L.A.; Frank Davis, former Sr. Executive V.P. MGM; Peter J. Dekom, Weissman, Wolf, et. al.; Hamid Hashemi, CEO Muvico Theaters; Arthur Hiller, director; William Immerman, CAO and General Council, Yari Film Group; Thom Mount, founder of the Mount Company and former President of Universal Pictures; Barry Reardon former head of Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros.; Daniel Selznick, producer.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to UCLA Entertainment & Media Management Institute at (310) 825-6870, or via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Workshop will commence on Friday, November 7 in conjunction with the participants attending the Finance Conference of the American Film Market. It will continue later in the evening with a cocktail reception at the Fowler Museumon on the UCLA Campus (7:30pm). On Saturday, November 8, the Workshop presentations will begin at 8:30am and continue in the afternoon, with an industry luncheon at noon. The Workshop will conclude in the evening with a dinner and award ceremony, presenting The Carol & Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award for scholarly contributions to motion picture industry studies and the UCLA Entertainment & Media Management Institute Award for outstanding business leader in the motion picture industry.
About UCLA Entertainment & Media Management Institute
The Entertainment & Media Management Institute at the UCLA Anderson School of Management has been established to serve as the preeminent interdisciplinary center for knowledge development and dissemination in global entertainment, media and sports. Through innovative research and knowledge dissemination, experience-oriented educational curriculum and best-in-class industry relationships, the Institute's mission is to develop best-in-class, global business and creative leaders in the entertainment, media and sports industries. For more information, please visit "http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x1030.xml" www.anderson.ucla.edu/x1030.xml.
About Dr. Bruce Mallen
Bruce Mallen, PhD., LL.D. (honoris causa), D. Litt (honoris causa), was the second longest serving Dean in the 40 year history of the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. The College is one of the largest accredited business schools in the nation, and during his tenure, the largest College in the University with approximately 6,400 students. He is also the founding Director of The DeSantis Center for Motion Picture Industry Studies, as well as the InternetCoast Institute ("ICI"), which is aimed at spurring the growth of South Florida's web-based industries. At the end of 2004, Dr. Mallen retired from his Deanship to become the full-time Director of the DeSantis Center. He was a Professor of Economics, Finance & Real Estate, and Marketing at F.A.U. Dr. Mallen is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and the Society for Cinema Studies. He is Vice Chairman of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. He is also a Senior Fellow at The Center for The Digital Future at USC's Annenberg School. As a commercial real estate developer, he conceived, financed, developed and leased the $175 million complex (now called) Sony Pictures Plaza, in Culver City, CA.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are advancing management thinking through innovative research and teaching. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,700 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson prepares global leaders.


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Conserving together: the challenges of establishing Protected Areas for the in situ conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in five mega-diverse countries
Teresa Borelli, Biodiversity International
In 2004, five countries - Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan - working together under the global project "In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives through Enhanced Information Management and Field Application", supported by the GEF and UNEP and coordinated by Bioversity International, embarked upon an arduous task: the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives or CWR for short.
In simple terms, crop wild relatives are the ancestors of modern cultivated crop varieties. They have provided breeders throughout the ages with the genetic material to enhance the nutritional quality and productivity of crops, or supplied useful traits to counteract extreme weather conditions and provide resistance to pests and diseases. However, due to habitat loss, over-exploitation and global changes many of these species are now threatened with extinction. Already, bioclimatic models are predicting that climate change will be responsible for a 50% loss in the distribution range of wild populations of peanut (Arachis sp.), potato (Solanum sp.) and cowpea (Vigna sp.), and that, due to its effects, 16-22% of these species will go extinct by 2055 . Evidence also suggests that many protected areas will suffer moderate to substantial species loss, questioning the ability of protected areas in their present form to secure species in a climate-change scenario .
To try and reverse this trend, these five mega-diverse countries, which are centres of origin of important cultivated crops, as well as home to significant numbers of economically important crop wild relatives, worked hard to promote the conservation of these species in the wild (in situ), where they can continue to evolve along with their surrounding environment and maintain the adaptive traits that make them so important for current and future food production.
A major focus of the project's in situ conservation strategy was to work closely with protected area authorities to identify priority protected areas for the conservation of these important genetic resources. This included the modification of existing protected area management plans to target the effective conservation of CWR, as well as the development of stand-alone CWR species management plans.
What became obvious from the project's outset was that the in situ conservation of CWR is not an easy task and cannot be achieved alone. Most protected areas do not include the conservation of agrobiodiversity in their main objectives, so getting amendments to management plans approved and implemented may prove a challenging task. This required substantial and sustained effort on the part of project partners, who worked in close collaboration with protected area managers to make things happen. Effective partnerships had to be established among national agencies and individuals working in the Agriculture and Environment sectors, who, more often that not, had little history of working together. Across the five countries, the partnership included almost 60 national and international agencies essential to the complex and multidisciplinary nature of CWR in situ conservation.
Below is a detailed description of the protected areas and the species that were targeted for management plans by the project: wild cereals in Armenia, wild cacao in Bolivia, wild yams in Madagascar, wild cinnamon in Sri Lanka and wild almond in Uzbekistan. It is hoped that these examples and the lessons learned will provide a catalyst to scale-up similar efforts and initiatives in other protected areas not only in the five project countries but in other countries and regions.
Occupying an area of approximately 89 ha, Erebuni State Reserve is Armenia's smallest protected area managed by the Reserve-Park Complex of the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia. It was established in 1981 in the vicinity of Yerevan specifically to protect wild cereal species such as wheat (Triticum araraticum, T. urartu, T. boeticum), goatgrasses (Aegilops spp.), barley (Hordeum glaucum) and rye (Secale vavilovii). The Reserve is also home to 292 species of vascular plants, representing 196 genera from 46 families. Erebuni is one of the very few reserves that was specifically established for the conservation of wild relatives and it will be interesting to observe if it is possible to conserve more than one CWR in the reserve without creating a separate management regime for each of the species. Participatory work carried out with local communities living in close proximity to the park has raised the profile of CWR and helped raise awareness on the need to conserve them. http://www.reservepark.mnp.am/htmls_eng/regions_1.htm
Ranging in altitude from 180-3000m and extending for 1,372,180 ha between the northern part of the Cochabamba Department and the southern part of the Beni Department, the Parque Nacional y Territorio Indigena Isiboro-Secure (TIPNIS)[IUCN Category II – NP] is home to high species and ecosystem diversity. Its range of habitats includes montane cloud forests, sub-Andean Amazonian forests, mid- to lowland evergreen rainforests and flooded savannas, each harbouring a unique flora and fauna. The protected area, established in 1965, is also an Indigenous Territory, property of the Chimán, Yuracaré, and Moxeño tribes. Thanks to efforts led by the Viceministerio de Medio Ambiente, Biodiversidad y Cambios Climaticos through the UNEP/GEF CWR Project team in Bolivia, the Servicio Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (SERNAP) who manages the Park and the local organization of the indigenous people living in the Park (Sub Central Indígena del TIPNIS), has agreed to develop and establish a specific "Programme for the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives existing within the Park" and formulate a "Management Plan for the protection of wild relatives of cocoa" to be included in the Park's Management Plan. The wild cacao (Theobroma sp.) existing inside the Park is currently threatened by habitat destruction and deforestation.
Ankarafantsika National Park Madagascar is home to more than 150 crop wild relatives which are distributed among 30 genera. One of the most important genera is Dioscorea which counts over 40 species. Of high economic value as a staple food crop, several species of yams are now threatened due to overexploitation and are listed as critically endangered. A conservation programme has been initiated with local communities in the framework of the management plan for Ankarafantsika National Park trying to reduce the pressure on wild species by convincing communities to grow cultivated yams. Located in the north western part of Madagascar, the National Park [IUCN Category II] was established in 2002, covers an area of 130,026 km² and is managed by the Madagascar National Parks Association (PNM-ANGAP). http://www.parcs-madagascar.com/fiche-aire-protegee_en.php?Ap=15
Sri Lanka
Located in the Southern Province, near Galle, Kanneliya-Dediyagala-Nakiyadeniya (KDN) is the last large remaining rainforest in Sri Lanka, covering an area of 10,139 ha. Its importance in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem services is such that it was designated as a biosphere reserve in 2004 by UNESCO. This protected area harbours many plants and animal species endemic to Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka component of the UNEP/GEF CWR Project has worked hand in hand with the Park's governing body – the Department of Forest Conservation – to modify the existing management plan for the area, which now includes a species management plan for the important endemic Cinnamomum capparu-coronde Blume, which is normally harvested for medicinal and commercial purposes. Awareness-raising activities have also been carried out to educate local communities on the importance of preserving these species.
The prominent Russian botanist Vavilov identified Uzbekistan as one of the centres of origin of many modern crops. The country forms part of a global centre of plant diversity in the mountains of Central Asia and is home to some of the closest wild relatives of many wild fruit and nut species. To help conserve these species in the wild, species management and monitoring plans have been developed for a number of plants that are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation due to severe deforestation and over-grazing. One of these is the wild almond Amygdalus bucharica, classified as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2008), for which a species management plan has been developed in the Chatkal Nature Reserve. Established in 1992 as a IUCN category Ia protected area, the park extends for 3,570 ha and is managed by the State Forest Fund. Support is also being provided to the conservation of CWR in the form of capacity building, community awareness and education.
'In general, the idea that the conservation of agrobiodiversity is a potentially valuable function of a protected area is as yet little recognized. … Indeed, a study by WWF found that the degree of protection in places with the highest levels of crop genetic diversity is significantly lower than the global average; and even where protected areas did overlap with areas important for crop genetic diversity (i.e. landraces and crop wild relatives) little attention was given to these values in the management of the area' (Amend et al. 2008)
|With support from the UNEP/GEF and guidance from Bioversity International, in collaboration with the international organizations Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), the project "In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives through Enhanced Information Management and Field Application" set out to improve the conservation and sustainable utilization of CWR species occurring in Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan by maximizing the use of existing information and conservation resources of these important species.
Examples of CWR conserved in protected areas in Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.
|Crop Gene Pool
|Protected Area
|Dioscorea maciba, D. bemandry, D. antaly, D. ovinala and D. bemarivensis
|Ankarafantsika National Park
|Cinnamomum capparu-coronde
|Kanneliya Forest Reserve
|Sri Lanka
|Amygdalus bucharica
|Chatkal Biosphere Reserve
|Triticum araraticum, T. boeoticum, T. urartu and Aegilops tauschii
|Erebuni State Reserve
|Theobroma spp.
|Parque Nacional y Territorio Indigena Isiboro-Secure


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I wrote about Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa and what it has to offer its residents earlier, you can find a link here if you missed it. This article a separate one purely on the food that we enjoyed at the Resort, which is down to Executive Chef David Miras and Senior Sous Chef Peter Sebby and the rest of their amazing team.
After a quick and speedy check-in into Al Maha we headed straight down to the Al Diwaan Restaurant and nabbed ourselves a nice table on the terrace in the shade. The views are amazing, straight out into sand dunes as far as the eye can see, spotted with Oryx and Gazelle, with birds coming and going all the time. The tranquillity of the setting is breathless. ĀWe were immediately offered water and a menu, I knew what I was having, yes seafood, seafood and more seafood. ĀSo off we started on our culinary tour of Al Maha.
I ordered from the Ala Carte Menu a starter of Crumbed Crab and Scallion Cake served on Seasonal Leaves with Lemon Hollandaise Sauce, whilst my husband opted for Chilled Vichyssoisse Soup with White Truffle Espuma, the presentation of both dishes when they arrived was truly spectacular. I will post a link later of photographs for all the dishes we experienced at Al Maha. ĀWe followed this with main courses of Jumbo Prawns with Bearnaise Sauce and Buttered Root Vegetables for me and Dorado Fillet with Spicy Chilli Sauce and French Fries for him, outstanding, the King Prawns were fit a King and cooked to perfection! ĀThe Dorado was very tasty though I don't go too much on chilli if I am honest, unlike my spicy husband who has everything hot! ĀIt was at lunch that we were telling Chef Sebby that we thought a Chilli Chocolate Creme Brulee might be a nice addition to the menu, he seemed rather impressed, not as impressed as my husband was as he had thought of the dish and now had himself down as some famous celebrity Chef! Ā For desserts we had the Vanilla Creme Brulee with Lemon Shortbreads, and the Baked Chocolate Torte with Orange Sorbet, divine!!
We spent the rest of the day exploring the resort but just managed to pop into the bar for a few little nibbles from the Afternoon Tea, my husband still claims the scones are the best he has ever tasted, I am rather partial to the mini onion quiches it has to be said. I am definitely more a savoury than sweet person, except when it comes to Creme Brulee. ĀWe both agreed that the chicken on curry bread was a definite winner all round.
After sundowners we popped back to our Suite to freshen up and then headed to Al Diwaan for Dinner, my first Dinner ever at Al Maha, I was not to be disappointed. ĀI started of with (surprise surprise) Lobster Raviolo which was served with Granny Smith Beurre Blanc, my husband opted for the Asian Beef Remoulade with hints of Chilli, Bell Pepper, Fresh Tomato, Ginger and Oyster Sauce, we both said we could eat them again as they were that good. However we went on to order the Sauteed Monkfish Fillet with Coriander Risotto, Purple Sprouting Brocolli and Champagne Butter Sauce for myself and Wagyu Beef Saltimbocca topped with Sage and Pork Bacon with Wild Mushroom Risotto and Shallots Veal Jus. ĀThere was alot of discussion about the "7 hours" Braised Shank of Lamb, but we came to our decision in the end, and we were truly not disappointed. ĀI adore Monkfish but has been a long time since I had Monkfish that tasted so fresh and flavoursome. ĀDesserts, yes we did and I honestly don't know how we managed it but I had the Al Maha Raspberry Ripple with Vanilla Greek Yoghurt Cream, Fresh Raspberries and Merinque, and my husband opted for the Lemon Tart with Strawberry Sherbet, fit for Kings is all I can say!
It was when our desserts were being presented that Chef Sebby appeared and presented, yes you guessed it, Chilli Chocolate Creme Brulee!! That is what I love about Al Maha so much, they listen to their guests, Chef David told me that at least ten tables wouldn't be ordering from the regular menu and it wasn't a problem for the kitchen, ever. ĀNeedless to say the Creme Brulee was perfect and we hope to see it on the menu regularly.
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When it comes time to vote Nov. 8, many voters will head to the polls with their own pocketbooks in mind. From taxes to health care, some of the candidates' most divisive policy initiatives, if implemented, could have a dramatic impact on the purse strings of millions of American households.
But exactly how savvy are Republicans and Democrats when it comes to matters of personal finance? MagnifyMoney decided to put the major U.S. political parties (including Independents) to the test.
We gave over 1,000 potential voters ages 18 and up a six-question quiz to test their knowledge of basic financial principles, from interest rates to inflation. The quiz itself was borrowed from the official financial literacy test created by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in 2009.
On average, Republicans were more likely to pass the quiz (answering at least 4 out of 6 questions correctly) than Democrats — 60.9% vs. 56.4%. Independents fell right in the middle, with a pass rate of 55.4%.
Not surprisingly, Republicans boasted the highest average score of all with 59.3%. Independent voters weren't far behind, with an average score of 57.7%. Democrats came in third place, with an average score of 56%.
On the bright side for Democrats, a larger share of respondents from this party were more likely to get every answer correct — 10.3% vs. 9.3% of Republicans. But in the end, Democrats were dragged down by a higher complete fail rate (answering 6 out 6 questions incorrectly). Nearly 13% of Democrats answered every question wrong, compared to 8.7% of Republicans and 7.4% of Independents.
A possible explanation for Republicans' higher scores could be the demographic makeup of the party itself. Republicans as a whole tend to skew older and male, according to the Pew Research Center. It appears the party benefited from that base in our quiz. We found that both men and older respondents scored higher overall. Democrats, on the other hand, tend to skew younger and more female, according to the same Pew study. Both of these groups earned lower average scores on our quiz.
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do you know where to download the source in order to understand it ?
I have to complain that either ks0108 or glcd library (if they're not the same) is pretty big in SRAM so hope two instances will work. Essentially like what floresta pointed out (the post), if you can, instantiate two GLCDs and with same data lines but different CS1 and CS2.
HelloI plan to control 2 graphic LCD (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/710) using the KS0108 Graphics LCD library (http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/GLCDks0108).The library assumes you use one port (A,B or C) to connect one LCD.I would like to know what I should modify in the library to use 2 LCDs?Do I need to duplicate the library changing all functions name to address LCD 1 or LCD 2 (e.g. GLCD.ClearScreen1() for LCD 1 and GLCD.ClearScreen2() for LCD 2) ? Or is there any more elegant way to do it?So far I am a user of the existing libraries but didn't try myself to write one…Thank you for your support.Raoul.Note: I am using a Mega 2560
If you don't mind using an extra chip per display, you could have a lot of them. I did an article about driving graphical LCD displays using I2C or SPI here:http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=10940With I2C you could potentially have 8 displays (since you share the same 2 pins: SDA/SCL) and you can configure the chip to have up to 8 addresses. With SPI you can have as many displays as you can spare SS pins for (3 wires for MOSI/MISO/SCK plus one extra one for SS per display).With a Mega you might not need to bother because you have some spare pins, but it is an idea.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - Crowded subway stations and a disabled train caused major headaches Monday for thousands of rail riders trying to get home from President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Despite handling fewer passengers than in 2009, the District of Columbia's mass transit system decided to temporarily close four stations near the National Mall because of crowding. The problem was exacerbated by a disabled train in northern Virginia that caused extensive delays for passengers trying to get out of city.
Lines around stations snaked for blocks in some cases, as stranded and frustrated passengers congregated outside entrances.
"People were trying to enter the station faster than trains were taking them out," Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said.
The four stations - Federal Center SW, Metro Center, Foggy Bottom and L'Enfant Plaza - closed and reopened during the course of Monday afternoon. But transit officials dealt with residual delays caused by the train that broke down, and frustrated passengers lamented how longer-than-expected waits put them at risk of missing their connections out of town.
Barbara Means and Shekita Lee were among a group of people, some of them elderly, who rode a bus from Atlanta to the inauguration. The inbound trip went smoothly, Means said. But after the ceremony, they were forced to wait for more than an hour outside the L'Enfant Plaza station, making them late for their bus's scheduled departure.
At the entrance where Means waited, police officers would occasionally open the doors and allow a few people inside. A crowd of several hundred thinned to dozens shortly before 3 p.m. as people sought different options. Some of those who remained weren't sure where else to go.
"The biggest travesty is we don't have anyone out here providing information and directions," Means said. "We live in Atlanta. This would never happen there. ... This is inexcusable. We don't know what to do, and our bus leaves at 3 o'clock."
Lee said the group was staying in the line because there seemed to be no better option.
"The disappointment is there's no alternative. Nobody seems to know what's going on. We're from out of town," she said.
The problems occurred even though Metro was handling far fewer passengers than during Obama's first swearing-in in January 2009. As of 8 p.m., 719,000 people had entered the subway system - compared to over one million in 2009.
Stessel said the mechanical problem that caused the train to break down was a random occurrence, and that Metro had adequate staff and responded quickly. But it took time to disable the brake lines on a fully loaded 8-car train and move it off the track, he said.
"It just happened at a bad time and a bad place," Stessel said. The resulting delays, he said, were "one of the challenges of operating on what is a two-track railroad."
Stessel said transit officials occasionally close stations to cope with crowding, as they did in August 2011, when a rare earthquake caused a sudden mass exodus from downtown Washington.
"It's something that we're prepared to do, based on crowd conditions, on any day," Stessel said.
Even stations that remained open grappled with major crowding. At Farragut West, crowds lined up to buy fare cards, clogging the entry to the platforms.
Earlier Monday, there were long lines to get out of Federal Center SW, a small station with a single point of entry. More than 100,000 tickets to the ceremony listed that station as the closest one. That went against Metro's advice for passengers to be flexible about which stops to use. Some trains didn't stop there because there wasn't enough room on the platform for more passengers to disembark.
The experience was frustrating to Thia Golson of Alexandria, Va., who had to double back after her train bypassed the station without warning.
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Wawrinka, Seppi advance to Portugal quarters
Oeiras, Portugal – Stanislas Wawrinka and Andreas Seppi were among the second-round winners Thursday at the Portugal Open.
The second-seeded Wawrinka rallied for a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Spain's Albert Ramos, while the third-seeded Seppi concluded the day's action with a 6-4, 6-0 thumping of Colombia's Alejandro Falla.
Wawrinka is through to his third straight quarterfinal. The Swiss veteran lost in the Casablanca semis three weeks ago and fell in the quarterfinals at the Monte Carlo Masters in his last start.
Next up for the 16th-ranked player in the world will be Portuguese wild card Gastao Elias, who followed up his win over seventh-seeded Argentine Horacio Zeballos with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 triumph over Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin.
Seppi entered this week off losses in each of his openers at Monte Carlo and Bucharest. He will next take on Tommy Robredo in Friday's quarters after the eighth-seeded Spaniard toppled Dutch qualifier Robin Haase, 6-4, 6-4, on Thursday.
Robredo, the 2005 runner-up when this tournament was held in Estoril, has had a resurgence on the clay this year. He earned his first win since 2011 with a title in Casablanca last month and also reached the quarters in Barcelona last week.
Friday's remaining two quarterfinals will feature top-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer against Romania's Victor Hanescu and fourth-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini against Spanish qualifier Pablo Carreno-Busta.
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Nate Silver considers whether Marco Rubio is the most electable conservative in the putative field. His answer appears to be "yes, but."
[L]ong before Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire cast their ballots, the potential nominees will be competing against one another in the so-called "invisible primary." In this stage, which is already under way, they hope to persuade party insiders that they represent the best path forward for Republicans in 2016. The more successful they are at doing so, the more they will be rewarded with money, endorsements and the talent to run their campaigns, giving them a huge advantage once voting actually does begin three years from now.
Mr. Rubio's most persuasive pitch to Republican Party insiders may well be that he is more popular than other, ideologically similar candidates. Some of those candidates, like Mr. Ryan, can probably offer a richer intellectual defense of conservatism, or can claim to have been better vetted. Several others, like Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, have more executive experience. Mr. Rubio's relatively favorable public image represents his comparative advantage. (There are also the facts that Mr. Rubio is Hispanic and is from Florida, but these advantages boil down to electability as well: the possibility that he might help Republicans make gains with Latinos, and that he could give them a lift in an especially important swing state.)
What makes matters tricky for Mr. Rubio is that, at the same time he is hoping to persuade Republican party insiders that he deserves their support, he will also need to maintain a reasonably good image with the broader electorate lest his electability argument be undermined. . . .When the wider electorate learns that Mr. Rubio's positions are in fact hard to differentiate from those of other conservative Republicans, will his favorability ratings turn mediocre, as Mr. Ryan's now are?
This is not meant as a rhetorical question. One measure of political talent, and something that characterized both Mr. Reagan and Mr. Obama, is the ability to sell ideas to voters across a wide range of the political spectrum. Perhaps Mr. Rubio will prove to be such a talent. Otherwise, if Mr. Rubio holds a fairly ordinary (and conservative) set of Republican positions, his popularity ratings may wind up being ordinary as well.
This is a good analysis, I think. However, Rubio is already in the process of differentiating himself from most conservative Republicans on the hot-button issue of immigration. This move may well make Rubio harder to nominate but easier to elect.
Silver also presents his rating of the conservatism of key Republicans past and present, based on a methodology explained in the piece. Obviously, his ratings aren't hard science, and his cross-era comparisons seem problematic. Nonetheless, the ratings are fun and, with a few exceptions, don't strike me as far wide of the mark.
Here is a sampling (the higher the number, the more conservative the politician is said to be):
Chris Christie 9
Jon Huntsmann 17
Richard Nixon 22
George H. W. Bush 33
John McCain 39
Mitt Romney 39
Ronald Reagan 44
George W. Bush 46
Marco Rubio 51
Paul Ryan 55
Rand Paul 65
Barry Goldwater 67


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Gamers who are familiar with Dragon's Call II may be still immersed in the colorful and shocking experience brought by the last update. Now the bigger surprise is coming. The operation team of Dragon's Call II just performed another update, which aims at enriching the play points when players compete with each other and adds the system of free PK and competition. With the battle system's appearance changed, players are led into a brand new fighting atmosphere.
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Players of Level 30 or above can enter and view the specific competition information by clicking the "Championship" icon in game, which will show a different schedule for each competition and only players reaching Level 70 can apply; and the championship is divided into knockout round, Top-16 finals, Top-8 finals, Top-4 finals, semi-finals and finals. Each completion is 5-3 game system. Players can bet on the player who participates during competition in order to gain high return of gold.
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Chippewas blown away by Rockets shooting
It was a rough night for the Central Michigan women's basketball team as it was blown away by Toledo 80-62 at McGuirk Arena Wednesday.
The 725 people in attendance saw the Rockets (17-7, 10-2 Mid-American Conference) shot lights out, 53 percent from the field, and 56 percent from 3-point range and the Chippewas (13-13, 5-7 MAC) had no answer.
"I was extremely, extremely disappointed in our effort," head coach Sue Guevara said. "I think that was as poor of a performance as we've had all year."
The CMU defense struggled to contain Toledo senior guard Haylie Linn whose only miss on the night was a desperation 3-pointer as the shot clock ran out.
Besides that miss she was perfect, ending the night shooting 9-for-10 from the field including 6-for-7 from behind the arc.
"Our defense sucked," Guevara said. "It's not like we didn't know Linn could shoot the ball, it was like a mental block."
There were a couple bright spots on what was a dark night for the Chippewas.
Junior guard Brandie Baker scored 13 points with five rebounds and four assists while sophomore forward Taylor Johnson continued to thrive since becoming a starter scoring 12 points and snatching five rebounds.
The CMU bench continued to produce as it outscored the Rockets bench 27-13. The Chippewas were led by freshman guard Crystal Bradford who had nine points, six rebounds and three steals after sitting out against Buffalo.
Rockets head coach Tricia Cullop, despite winning big, saw the potential the Chippewas have to be a threat come time for the MAC tournament.
"As this team continues to gel, I think Central (Michigan) is going to be very dangerous in the tournament," Cullop said. "We feel fortunate to get this win tonight."
Coming into the game CMU had the five seed in the MAC tournament making them a host for a first round matchup.
After the loss it dropped to the seven seed, which still gives it a home game to start the tournament.
"We have four games left and there's nothing locked up whatsoever," Guevara said. "If we have the same effort against Ball State that we did tonight the same result will happen."
The Chippewas are on the road against the Cardinals Sunday where they have a history of struggles and the schedule doesn't get easier.
They host Northern Illinois, but then have to travel to rival Western Michigan and return to McGuirk Arena to finish the regular season against MAC West leader Eastern Michigan on Feb. 28.