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Part I Oracle Solaris Resource Management
1. Introduction to Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones
16. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
17. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
18. About Installing, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Overview)
19. Installing, Booting, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
20. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
21. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
22. About Zone Migrations and the zonep2vchk Tool
23. Migrating Oracle Solaris Systems and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
24. About Automatic Installation and Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11.1 System With Zones Installed
25. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
26. Administering Oracle Solaris Zones (Tasks)
27. Configuring and Administering Immutable Zones
28. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems
Part III Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
29. Introduction to Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
SVR4 Packaging and Patching in Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
About Using Packaging and Patching in solaris10 Branded Zones
About Performing Package and Patch Operations Remotely
Non-Global Zones as NFS Clients
About Oracle Solaris 10 Zones in This Release
Networking in Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
Networking Components That Are not Supported
Networking Features That Are Different
30. Assessing an Oracle Solaris 10 System and Creating an Archive
31. (Optional) Migrating an Oracle Solaris 10 native Non-Global Zone Into an Oracle Solaris 10 Zone
32. Configuring the solaris10 Branded Zone
33. Installing the solaris10 Branded Zone
34. Booting a Zone, Logging in, and Zone Migration
An additional step in the P2V process occurs when there are native zones on the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 (or later released update) source physical system. Because zones do not nest, the P2V process on these systems makes the existing zones unusable inside the branded zone. The existing zones are detected when the zone is installed, and a warning is issued indicating that any nested zones will not be usable and that the disk space could be recovered. Those zones can be migrated first using the V2V process described in Chapter 31, (Optional) Migrating an Oracle Solaris 10 native Non-Global Zone Into an Oracle Solaris 10 Zone.
If you apply the kernel patch on a system running an earlier release, apply the patch before you migrate the existing zones.


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Sioux Falls Woman Goes from Preemie to Powerhouse
SIOUX FALLS - An 18-year-old O'Gorman High School woman is the South Dakota State Women's Powerlifting Champion. Klarissa Kobernusz earned the title at the state meet in Madison.
"I never thought of lifting as a competition. I still can't believe it. I can't believe I can lift that much. Every time I look at the record board, I think that it's awesome," said Kobernusz.
Kobernusz broke the school record with 325 pounds in the deadlift. She then broke her own record at the state championships with a 335 pound deadlift. She squats 300 pounds and can bench 125 pounds.
This little girl didn't start out life this powerful, Kobernusz was born 11 weeks premature weighing in at 2# 6 oz. at birth. But lifting weights just felt right to her.
"It was really intimidating at first but I thought why not? I wanted to learn how to lift weights."
Kobernusz played soccer and ran track but found great success in the weight room. "It's very intimidating at first to walk into the weight room and see these strong people that know what they're doing. " And it wasn't easy walking into a sport that is dominated by men.
"I haven't found a guy yet that said 'you shouldn't be in powerlifting, you're a girl.' They are very supportive and the guys are amazed that I can lift that much." Her coaches also awarded her with the Outstanding Female Lifter Title.
Kobernusz encourages anyone to pursue what they're interested in and keep at it. "They can find hidden strength that they didn't know they had."
Her next competition is the high school USA Powerlifting Nationals in Colorado next month. Next fall she plans to attend the University of South Dakota eventually becoming a physical therapist.


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The Washington Post publishes a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23. After reading the manifesto, David Kaczynski realized the writing style was similar to that of his brother, Theodore Kaczynski, and notified the F.B.I. On April 3, 1996, Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his isolated cabin near Lincoln, Montana, where investigators found evidence linking him to the Unabomber crimes.
Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago. A talented math student, he entered Harvard University at age 16. In 1967, after receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Kaczynski was hired as an assistant professor at University of California, Berkeley. However, he resigned abruptly in 1969 and eventually began living as a hermit in a small Montana cabin that lacked electricity and running water. Kaczynski received occasional financial support from his family.
From 1978 to 1995, the Unabomber carried out 16 bombings and mail bombings across the U.S. and became the subject of a massive F.B.I. manhunt. The F.B.I. code named him UNABOM because his targets included universities and airlines. Over the years, his victims included professors, scientists, corporate executives and a computer store owner, among others.
In June 1995, the Unabomber sent a 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto to The New York Times and Washington Post and said if it wasn't published he would continue his bombing campaign. On September 19 of that year, after discussions with the F.B.I. and Attorney General Janet Reno, the Post, in collaboration with the Times, published the manifesto, which railed against industrialized society. David Kaczynski suspected his older brother might be the Unabomber after comparing the manifesto to some documents written by Ted that David found in their mother's home.
In 1998, Kaczynski agreed to plead guilty and received four life sentences without the possibility of parole. He is serving his sentence at the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado.


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- Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Olympique de Marseille: Lewandowski leads BVB to comfortable success14:49 | 02/10/2013
The Poland international netted twice, while Marco Reus also found the back of the net, as last year's runner-up kick-started their European campaign.
Borussia Dortmund picked up their first points of this season's Champions League courtesy of a 3-0 win over Olympique de Marseille on Tuesday.
Robert Lewandowski, who netted a double, and Marco Reus were the men on target as the hosts – beaten finalists last term – got their first-ever win in the competition against the French side.
Poland international Lewandowski put the finishing touches to a well-worked team goal after 19 minutes before Reus' free-kick found its way into the back of the net seven minutes after the break.
Lewandowski then added a third from the spot late on to wrap up the victory.
The home side – who were watched by coach Jurgen Klopp from the stands as he served a one-match touchline ban for his protests in the defeat against Napoli – were without goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller following a red card in the Group F opener, while Eric Durm replaced the injured Marcel Schmelzer.
Marseille were once again without striker Andre-Pierre Gignac, who has been sidelined with a toe injury.
Both sides came into the game off the back of domestic wins at the weekend – against Lorient and Freiburg respectively – but it was Dortmund who began the brighter, with Reus firing narrowly over in the second minute before forcing a save from Steve Mandanda.
However, Marseille had strong claims for a penalty turned down shortly afterwards when Saber Khelifa went down under a challenge from Durm.
Dortmund eventually went ahead through a goal of the highest quality after 18 minutes, with Lewandowski netting his third goal in four days.
After a quick break, Reus played in Henrikh Mkhitaryan. He fired across goal to Durm, who in turn put the ball on a plate for the Pole to cap off a wonderfully worked team goal.
While Dortmund continued to enjoy plenty of possession, they struggled to create too many further clear-cut chances before the break.
However, they were two goals ahead six minutes after the interval after a Reus free-kick forced Mandanda into a costly error.
The visitors' goalkeeper flapped at the inswinging delivery and, while he tried desperately to claw the ball out, his efforts proved futile as the ball crept in and Dortmund doubled their lead.
Mandanda then went some way to atoning for his error, producing a smart stop to deny Durm from close range after 58 minutes.
But Lewandowski made it three 10 minutes from time from the penalty spot after Reus had been pulled down by Khelifa in the area to cap off a comfortable victory for Klopp's men.
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Portrait of famous people
- Le Huynh Duc is former captain of Vietnamese national Football team. He is currently coaching SHB Ðà Nẵng.
- Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is to retire at the end of the season.
- Striker Le Cong Vinh is playing for SLNA
- Lionel Messi became the best scorer in a year with 91 goals in 2012.


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As with the Ruché settee, the Ruché bed is lifted from the ground by a simple, fine structure which supports a comfortable sleep platform. The headboard and frame are dressed with a distinctive quilting, a kind of boutis stitch of padding made using a cross-hatching of interrupted seams. Alternately flattened by the stitches then set free, the fabric 'curls' in places, giving rise both to its unique appearance and to its name, Ruché (a gathered or pleated fabric which serves as decoration on a piece of clothing). For Ligne Roset, Ruché also brings together the unusual and the traditional. The unusual thing about this piece is its solid wood structure, and the great traditional element: the quilting, the very heart of its savoir-faire. Its rangy uprights and the undulations of its duvet combine to produce a harmonious union of rigorous straight lines and soft, welcoming curves.
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Grace behind glass
Fish ladders and beauty, on the Columbia
The Columbia rolls blue and wide, sluicing through brown suede hillsides, glacier-flattened and sun-baked. Along the banks, apples ripen under a puffy-cloud sky. Jet skis whine; powerboats groan; fishermen wade into the shallows. I drive this road regularly, so the scene is familiar: torn-out orchards, newly planted vineyards, a fence to keep bighorns from dashing into traffic, painted rocks lauding various high school classes. On the horizon, mountain peaks sport dregs of snow. The day is gorgeous. It's also hot as hell, over a hundred, and I'm racing to try to see some fish.
Which seems a little silly. We see salmon all the time, Kokanee usually, at home where the land-locked sockeye come to spawn each fall. Going to see salmon at a fish ladder is like going to see chipmunks at a zoo. But the newspaper reported last month that this has been a record season for sockeye, the largest since they began counting -- over 23,000 in one day -- and I realized I'd passed Rocky Reach Dam a thousand times and never stopped. So today is my day, I've decided, if I can beat the 4 p.m. closing time.
I take a hard left and stop beside an entry booth. U.S. Homeland Security. An armed guard asks for my picture ID and then waves me on, down a curved lane into another dimension. Parking lot lampposts hold pots of petunias in near-patriotic shades -- pink, white and blue. Signs direct visitors to a native plant garden, a visitor center, RV parking, and a large multicolored playground for kids.
Then you see the dam. None of the diversions compares with the shock of this arcing slab of concrete across the wide river. A large tube snakes around its edge like an industrial waterslide: a new juvenile fish bypass. Close to a mile long and up to nine feet in diameter, the bypass is designed to take young salmon and steelhead around the dam on their trip downriver. More or less the opposite of a fish ladder, it cost $107 million to build. The new bypass, though, is not the reason for the record run. Biologists say only that the run was "unexpected" and "hard to explain." In other words: A mystery.
The place is deserted, not one other car. It begins to dawn on me that a record run reported last month might not mean much this month. Undaunted, I park and head into the visitor center building, sleek-lined and dusty turquoise, a throwback to the 1960s, like something you'd see on I Dream of Jeannie. Another guard. A metal detector. Then I'm inside. I ask about fish, and the guard looks up from take-out Thai, glances at the clock, and points down the stairs to an empty room with three large viewing windows.
Nothing, nothing. Murky water. Sun glare on cement. Then it appears, muscled and purposeful. Not a sockeye -- a steelhead. Undulating like a belly dancer's abs, all grace and power and seduction.
I hear my own voice echo off linoleum: A gasp, a cry, an exclamation.
Years ago I read an article where the author described watching young lovers in the Soviet Union walk arm-in-arm and marveled at how even in such a repressive setting -- surrounded by concrete architecture, straight-legged soldiers, Cold War tension -- tenderness endured. Then, the writer said, he began to notice joggers. Not just romance, but a more individual urge, too, thrived. The author was heartened, maybe even moved. Now I am, too.
Despite the oppression of roads and dams, concrete and steel, powerboats and pesticide run-off, a steelhead charges upstream. What magic. What mystery. It's like young love -- like a mid-life marathon.
Another fish appears, and I cry out again. I can't help it.
A digital ticker above the emergency exit lists the number of each species that passes through the dam. So far today the video monitor has counted 238 chinook, 242 steelhead, 28 sockeye, three lamprey. The miracle, I realize, is not just that the fish survive, but that they're shepherded past this dangerous place. By biologists, engineers, activists, judges and ratepayers. We've made mistakes, God knows. No surprise there. The surprise is that, despite rancor and derision, despite terrorist protections and antiquated facilities, despite our ignorance, even, about why salmon runs swell or deplete, we can still, collectively, decide to spend $107 million to try to get juvenile fish downstream. Just so they can come back up. What hard-wired instinct is this? In a world of such weight and trouble, to care for a creature shorter than my shin.
Three minutes to closing. I decide to leave, only to find a motley group just arriving, people in business dress with name tags on. What brings them here, I cannot imagine. They look more chamber of commerce than eco-tourist. I pass them on the stairs. Then wait.
Within moments, I hear it: a cry of delight. Then another.
Ana Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin, Washington.


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As for my education, I received my high school degree in applied art, then a DMA (Art degree) in traditional animation and finally a higher degree in Visual communications with an option in graphic advertising publication. When I finished my studies, I quickly joined the team at Poulain Studios, a company based in Lille which specialises in printing. There I cut my teeth in graphic art (print, web) but even though I enjoyed the work, I still felt my soul lacked the foundation, the drawing, animation… illustration. So I set myself up as a freelancer at the same time in order to make my childhood dream possible! This second job gave me the opportunity to work on a graphic bible for an animated series, a graphic bible for a video game and some contracts in animation and illustration… In four years of this double-jobbing, I realized without a doubt that my passion lied in illustrating and animating. That's why I'm delighted to have come to Ankama. I make visual development for Ankama animation & Game.
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§ 416.1550. Notice of charges against a representative.
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Edward Gardner (English National Opera), Vladimir Jurowski (Glyndebourne) and Antonio Pappano (Royal Opera House) © ROH/2011
What do you get when you put three world-famous conductors in a lift? One asks of another: 'do you have any tips on Mahler's Das klagende Lied? 'It all depends on which choirs you've got,' is the reply. 'What's it like to conduct?,' says the third.
This improbable, but rather wonderful, scenario was played out last night, here in the Opera House, en route to the Linbury Theatre where the English National Opera's Edward Gardner, Glyndebourne's Vladimir Jurowski and The Royal Opera House's Antonio Pappano prepared to discuss the daily life of the modern-day conductor. Veteran broadcaster Sir John Tusa lead the questions as part of an Insight event.
On stage, they stopped just short of discussing the niceties of baton technique, but spoke eloquently of their love of music and drama, the challenges of switching from opera to symphonic music, and, most tenderly of their childhoods. Jurowski recalled hearing the last act of Otello as a teenager, the first opera that made him cry. Gardner remembered his love of Fidelio as a boy. Pappano told of seeing his father perform in I Pagliacci and almost crushing the prop knife he was brandishing on stage, he was astonished and thrilled by the physical intensity of the performance.
All three of these moments lie behind the maestros' favourite pieces of music. We recorded some off-stage moments in the Green Room for you - where they explained all.
Notes on the video: First clip: Antonio Pappano on I Pagliacci, Second clip: Vladimir Jurowski on Otello, Third clip: Edward Gardner on Fidelio


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Flexjet's Deanna White
Deanna White, the new president of Bombardier-owned fractional provider Flexjet, told us her company will continue to pursue what she called a "stealth wealth" clientele while offering customized solutions to clients' private air travel needs. Doing so, she added, may require bringing more capital into the business from Bombardier or "some other facility."
"You're talking about moving from a mix of products where the customer owned the asset in the fractional model versus more products where Flexjet becomes the owner of the investment to provide a lease or a jet card," White commented. "You have to look at how the company is structured to finance that to remain one step ahead of the customer's needs."
White joined Bombardier's fractional, jet card, charter and aircraft management program in 2005 and became president last October. Prior to coming to Flexjet, she worked in the fast-paced and ever-changing telecommunications industry for 15 years at GTE and later at Genuity, an Internet company spun off from the GTE-Bell Atlantic merger into what is now known as Verizon. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Tampa in Florida and an MBA from the University of Dallas. She is a certified public accountant.
Flexjet, which was founded in 1995, has 700 employees, including approximately 300 pilots. Its 83 Bombardier aircraft range in size from the Learjet 40 to the large-cabin Challenger 604/605. It owns 31 super-midsize Challenger 300s, which is its most popular aircraft. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas. It has remained the third-largest fractional program in the U.S. over the last decade, behind industry leader NetJets and Flight Options.
We spoke with White in Texas, aboard one of her company's Challenger 300 aircraft.
You came to Flexjet from the telecommunications industry at a time when it was undergoing rapid change. One could argue the same could currently be said for the private jet industry. What parallels do you see between the two fields?
There are interesting dynamics going on in the private jet business right now. Since the boom of 2007 a lot of niche players have been coming into the market and you are seeing a shift in how people are flying privately. Fractional is still a player and provides a lot of value for those who are interested in investing in a jet to get the low [hourly] operating rates that go along with that. But there has been a lot of demand for [hourly] card products, including debit cards, as well as discounts for the long-haul products. So you are seeing a shifting of how the services are procured. That is why we provide cards, leases and charter.
Among these various products, what is the mix of your business right now?
Seventy percent is still fractional, but some people don't want to make that investment given the economy, so they are using other products. We have a solution for virtually every customer, including leases with 90-day opt-out periods and debit cards. If our fractional customers want to shift out, we can keep them with our other product choices. Our FlexShare program allows you to purchase a share but to fly in more than one type of aircraft. Our debit card also allows you to fly in all of our airplanes. That said, there will always be individuals and businesses with an appetite for capital investment and all the various tax and operational benefits that go with that.
What has been the response to FlexShare since you began offering it last year?
It is relatively new and people are still learning about it. But even prior to it we had structured some customer deals similar to it. We hope it will be an exciting way for people to buy a share and have more aircraft choices.
What role do strategic partnerships play in the mix of services you are able to offer customers?
We have strategic partnerships with various international airlines including Qatar Airways and Korean Airlines as well as arrangements with international charter companies such as VistaJet. The holiday jet card we are doing has offers available through Abercrombie & Kent Residence Club, the Lake Austin Spa resort in Texas and other upscale partners. We do a lot of that because it enhances the customer experience.
There is much speculation that taxes will be increased in the near future. What impact has this possibility had on your business?
Increased taxes always makes people more hesitant [to spend]; however, private jets are a great tool for businesses, especially businesses with multiple locations that cannot get quick access to them via the airlines. There will always be a demand for private flying, no matter the tax situation. That said, I hope government will address bonus depreciation for all capital investment as opposed to just targeting business jets [for the elimination of this deduction]. Capital investment is very important for economic growth and it is important that we have tools like bonus depreciation. [The tax bill signed by President Obama in early January extended 50 percent bonus depreciation through the end of 2013.–Ed.]
Buying a jet, in whole or in part, can be a complicated transaction. How well versed does your sales staff need to be in all the intricacies of related finance and tax topics?
Very. Our customers are entrepreneurial and have made good livings running businesses and getting the American dream. They tend to be people who do more shopping and dive into the details when looking at this type of purchase and all of the specifics of the value they are getting. They do all their homework and research. We don't have as many celebrity and sports professional clients. Our clients are more "stealth wealth." They are looking to partner with a company that provides a premium travel experience and treats them like individuals. Because of that, our sales force needs to be educated in the value proposition of Flexjet. They have to understand the customer and his flying needs and tailor a solution that meets his needs.
Bombardier has several airplanes under development, including the Learjet 70, 75 and 85, and Flexjet is typically the launch customer. How are these airplanes selling for Flexjet?
This year we did an 11-city tour with the Learjet 85 mockup to develop sales and we have already sold four of them. That is going to be a great airplane for us in the midsize class. It has a larger cabin than some competitors and a lot of ramp appeal.
It is great to be the launch customer for Bombardier and to be a private travel provider attached to an OEM. We've already started selling the Lear 70 as well. We are building a backlog in the new aircraft that are coming online. This is really going to be an exciting year for us with the new aircraft and also celebrating Learjet's 50th anniversary.
Do you find that your market is limited because you don't offer large business jets such as the Global 5000 and 6000?
We have strategically chosen not to be in the ultra-long-haul market. It is a very small part of the fractional market, about 5 percent of the total. We will grow internationally through strategic partnerships such as those we already have with Qatar Airways and VistaJet so we can provide a worldwide travel network. We are always looking at new technology and products coming online to make sure the plan for our fleet, the number of aircraft and aircraft types are right to match our market. It is a constant evolution.
The price of fuel is bumping up against $10 a gallon in some markets. What impact is this having on your business?
We haven't seen the price of fuel, or the imposition of various fees, have much of an impact. However, there is discussion in several states, including California, of the imposition of additional aircraft property taxes. We are willing to pay our fair share, but we want to make sure that any tax increase is not onerous to our customers and is properly assessed. I was in Washington, D.C. recently advocating for our customers on federal issues.
Do you see your market growing in 2013?
I think we will see modest growth, especially in the second half of the year.
Going forward, what is your biggest challenge?
Trying to keep up with the market changes. It really is evolving. We need to stay ahead of what the customer wants and needs and make sure our company delivers. That includes the way the company is structured and operates.
Résumé: Deanna White
POSITION: President, Flexjet
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Vice president of finance and administration, Flexjet; various posts at GTE and Genuity, an Internet company
EDUCATION: B.S. in accounting, University of Tampa [Fla.]; M.B.A. with emphasis on management information systems, University of Dallas
PERSONAL: Lives in Dallas. Mother of an eight-year-old son named Bennett. Involved with her local home and school association and Little League.


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Rice University founds e-learning center
Rice Center for Digital Learning and Scholarship embraces popular e-learning, textbook, K-12 initiatives
HOUSTON – (Aug.23, 2012) – Rice University announced today the creation of the Rice Center for Digital Learning and Scholarship (RDLS) to bring its array of forward-thinking online education initiatives under one banner.
Rice has been a leader in e-learning for more than a decade, since the 1999 foundation of Connexions, a platform that shares customizable classroom materials with more than a million visitors a month. The university extended its presence last year with the successful introduction of STEMscopes, an online science curriculum adopted by the Texas State Board of Education as a supplement to classroom textbooks in grades 5-8.
And this summer, Rice embarked upon two new online initiatives. First, the university introduced OpenStax College and posted the first two of a planned set of college-level textbooks that are available free in digital form and at a nominal cost for printed texts. Second, Rice became one of 12 new partners with Coursera, a platform for world-renowned universities to provide online courses.
"The rapidly evolving set of technologies around e-learning presents a great opportunity both to bring what we do at universities to a much larger set of learners and to enhance the quality of instruction on campus," Rice President David Leebron said. "Our commitment to personalized instruction and engagement with our students on campus will remain at the core of our endeavors, and in some contexts new technologies will enable us to intensify that engagement."
"We have multiple disparate digital learning initiatives, and we realized that there were substantial potential synergies if we could pull these together in a reasonably thoughtful way," said Provost George McLendon.
Stronger links between Connexions and STEMscopes will help both bring great benefit to potentially millions of students from kindergarten through college, he said.
STEMscopes hit the ground running last summer when Texas, with reduced funding for new textbooks, chose 12 vendors to provide supplemental online materials for the state's grades 5-8 science classrooms. The Rice program, the only one to be developed by a nonprofit institution, captured nearly 50 percent of the state market, more than any other vendor.
Now, STEMscopes is expanding not only in scope, with K-12 programs coming online this year, but also in range, with a national initiative that goes from kindergarten through high school biology, physics and chemistry classes. "There will soon be a new set of national science education standards, and we are working on a product that will focus specifically on those standards and will be rolled out in about a year," said Reid Whitaker, RDLS executive director and leader of the STEMscopes program.
STEMscopes has a natural ally in Connexions founder and OpenStax College director Richard Baraniuk, McLendon said. Baraniuk, Rice's Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is developing machine algorithms for adaptive learning that will customize materials to the learning styles of individual students.
"Rich is one of the world's experts on the development and implementation of these algorithms," said McLendon of Baraniuk, who will serve as RDLS faculty director. "By coupling his work with STEMscopes, it becomes more than theoretical: We can roll this out for free to school districts across the state – and across the country – and get massive data on the learning styles of millions of students.
"Rice has a unique ability to move ahead on this project because we already have a huge, vertically integrated base of students across all of the grades," he said.
McLendon said he expects there will be opportunities to tie adaptive learning techniques to the range of college textbooks offered through OpenStax College.
More than 13,000 copies of the first two – College Physics and Introduction to Sociology – have been downloaded or print copies ordered since they became available last month and have been adopted at 66 colleges and universities, Baraniuk said. "If you do a naïve calculation of how many students have adopted the physics book alone and how much a standard physics book costs, then we'll save students well over $600,000 this fall," he said. "That's a magic number, because it equals the investment in the book by our funders. Within a few weeks of publication, the book has basically paid for itself in student savings." With more than 9,000 downloads for the physics book and 4,000 for sociology, he estimates more than a $1 million total in student savings so far.
Three additional textbooks will be introduced within six months, and funds are being raised for 20 more, Baraniuk said. "When we talk to faculty, especially at community colleges, it's a really easy sell," he said. "Students are under tremendous financial pressure and this is a way to save them a lot of money without giving up anything in terms of quality."
"We've worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 20 Million Minds Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Maxfield Foundation to address a big unmet need for inexpensive or even free textbooks for students making the transition from high school to college, in particular for the junior college market," McLendon said. "For many junior college students, their biggest expense is not their tuition, it's their books, at a couple hundred dollars a pop. There's no reason the books have to cost that much."
McLendon said there's a clear advantage to having STEMscopes and OpenStax College under one roof. "There's a lot of overlap between advanced-placement high school and junior college course material," he said. "So as we develop these books, the expertise we gain feeds back into the development of the K-12 curricula."
The center will report to Caroline Levander, Rice's vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives, who will be responsible for developing its profile and initiatives both within the university and nationally. "A key piece of my role will be to ensure the center collaborates with other endeavors so that we are more than the sum of our parts," said Levander, who is also interested in adding digital authoring tools for educators to the range of services offered by RDLS.
The newest initiative is external, but Rice officials expect Coursera to help the university solidify its standing as an online educator of the first rank.
Within the first week of online registration in July, more than 20,000 people enrolled in Rice courses via Coursera. By late August, more than 24,000 had signed up just for An Introduction to Interactive Computing with Python to be led by Computer Science Chair Joe Warren and Associate Professor Scott Rixner with assistance from lecturers John Greiner and Stephen Wong.
"We're excited and we're a little scared," said Warren, who is running an eight-week "shakedown cruise" of the course for Rice students before the Coursera version goes online in October. "I've been a professor for a long time and I like my job, but it's been a long time since I've had this level of excitement. I'm learning a lot.
"The idea of having 24,000 students or more looking at what you're doing sharpens your focus," he said.
Another course, Chemistry: Concept Development and Application, is an extension of Rice Professor John Hutchinson's popular Connexions collection. Hutchinson, who also serves as Rice's dean of undergraduates, has the chops to lecture by webcam. He has taught a Nanotechnology for Teachers course for high school instructors live, through the Internet and via teleconference for a decade.
Years of experience through Connexions, an award-winning series of educational games by the Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning (CTTL) and other initiatives with online components have prepared Rice well to fulfill a central tenet – engagement with the community – of Leebron's Vision for the Second Century. But the impact of these programs could well last beyond a single century, McLendon said.
"Rice has already made some important contributions to digital materials and digital education, but we need now to increase our level of engagement," Leebron said. "Our centennial year, 2012, is also the year in which the elite research universities made it clear that they were going to be major participants in on-line education, both as developers of technology and providers of content. We are pleased to be an early participant with Coursera, and expect to broaden and deepen our commitment to e-learning as the landscape of higher education changes significantly over the next decades. The formation of the Center for Digital Learning and Scholarship is a reflection of that commitment."
Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews
Related links:
Rice Center for Digital Learning and Scholarship: http://rdls.rice.edu/
Connexions: http://cnx.org/
STEMscopes: http://www.stemscopes.com/
OpenStax College: http://openstaxcollege.org/
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
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Anritsu is the industry standard for RF and Microwave Test and Measurement equipment for both field and lab environments, with instruments operating at all frequencies up to 110 GHz and beyond. Our handheld Site Master Cable and Antenna Analyzer, for example, enables field technicians to troubleshoot microwave cables and communication systems and detect problems before they become costly, time-consuming system failures. Other products are suitable for R&D and manufacturing applications, providing extremely accurate measurements of power, network analysis, signal analysis and frequency.
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DENVER – Beverage Distributors Company in Colorado intentionally and unlawfully discriminated against an applicant for hire due to his disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed September 29, 2011.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Michael Sungalia, who is legally blind, worked for Beverage Distributors for over four years as a driver's helper. When the company decided to eliminate this position and use contract laborers instead, Sungalia applied for a position as a night warehouse loader. Beverage Distributors offered him the position subject to a pre-employment medical examination. Following the medical examination, Beverage Distributors withdrew the job offer believing that Sungalia could not safely perform the functions of the position due to his poor eyesight. According to the EEOC's complaint, the position involves loading cases of liquor and kegs of beer into the back of trucks, which the EEOC contends that Sungalia could safely perform.
The EEOC filed the lawsuit (EEOC v. Beverage Distributors Company., Case No. 11-cv-02557) in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The suit seeks monetary damages, including back pay, compensation for emotional distress and punitive damages. The EEOC also seeks injunctive relief prohibiting further discrimination by the employer and mandating corrective action, including hiring Sungalia into a night warehouse loader position.
"An employer cannot deny an applicant a position based on its generalized fears about risks from the employment environment," said EEOC Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill. "Rather, an employer must analyze the nature and severity of the potential harm and whether the harm would likely occur. In addition, the employer must consider whether there are any reasonable accommodations that would eliminate the risk."
EEOC Denver Field Office Director Nancy Sienko added, "The unemployment rate for people with a disability is well above the figure for those with no disability. This nation has committed to making accommodations in the workplace so individuals with disabilities can work and contribute to society."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Oh yes! One of my friends is off to Disney tomorrow, and I'm so jealous! I know she will have a wonderful time, but, in the mean time, it certainly makes me miss Disney World all the more.
Today, I decided to feature meeting one of my most favorite characters: STITCH! My friend Nikki and I decided on our trip to do things we hadn't done before. One of those things for me was to go to the Best Friends Breakfast at O'hana. This particular breakfast had Mickey and Pluto and Lilo and Stitch! Two of my favorites at one meal- COUNT ME IN!
Nikki and I meeting Stitch! Don't I look about ready to jump out of my skin? It was so much fun! Right before the picture of Stitch and me was taken, I had told Stitch that Lilo had told me his badness level was high! This is his reaction:
Isn't his reaction adorable! I'm so glad Nikki captured this moment! It truly was a magical moment for me!!
Not only did we meet Stitch (and Lilo), we also met Mickey.
Nikki had said that Mickey wasn't her favorite- that she actually preferred Donald. Look at the way she is looking at Mickey! I just love it!
Me and my buddy! (Yes, the lighting in there wasn't the greatest! Oh well!)
I've shared far more pictures than I intended, but it was fun to go back and relive a little bit of my last trip! If you want to read about our whole breakfast experience and see more pictures, see my Trip Report on the Disboards! (That link will take you to the exact post, but if you want to read more, just go back to the beginning!)
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Get excited about reading again with fun and interesting tips from our experts, including The M.D., our dietitians, and our fitness expert. In our health library, you will find all of the information you need to achieve your goals of making a healthy lifestyle change. So, start reading and start losing!
Your one stop shop for everything you need to know about obesity. Discover the health risks of obesity, how it can be caused by genetic factors, and put common obesity myths to rest, once and for all.
It comes as no surprise that as obesity rises among adults, it will also rise in children. It's important to help kids avoid health complications later in life.
It's that time of year again—Summer is coming to a close, color is creeping back into the trees (for some of us) and our children are starting to reluctantly accept the reality of going back to school.
However, the University of Michigan recently released a study that associated school lunches with child obesity in America.
One issue with studies concerning school lunches is that it's often very difficult to take socioeconomic status into account. There is already a link between obesity in America and socioeconomic status, therefore, children from lower income families that are eligible for free or reduced lunch may already be overweight. We just don't know.
Have you ever wondered what's in your child's school lunch?
"Although we were not able to examine the specific nutritional content of school lunches, previous research suggests school lunches include nutrient-poor and calorie-rich foods," cardiologist and senior study author Elizabeth Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School said.
Create an affordable healthy food list and adopt these healthy eating tips to practice with your child and both of you will be on the way to better health. First, it's important to understand why you and your child should eat healthy.
According to Fitday, there are 3 reasons why you should be eating healthy
1. You just feel better when you eat right. Face it, your body knows what it wants and it gets upset when you don't listen to it. Literally. Ever heard of an upset stomach? You'll feel lighter and experience more noticeable amounts of energy throughout the day when you eat your fruits and veggies. It's also always a good idea to throw in some lean protein and STAY AWAY from the high-calorie, processed foods.
2. You'll be consistently more healthy! With the demands of work, home life and family time, most of us feel like we need to function at a high-level. Think of your body like your car. Your car works when you feed it—oil, gas, fluids—and it gets sick and doesn't work if you neglect its needs. Your body can't function at the highest level if it doesn't get the vitamins and nutrients it wants and craves. Your body will literally start to break down if you neglect it so make sure you eat your fruits and veggies.
3. There's no excuse when creating healthy meals is so easy. Making a healthy meal is about knowing your components. Start with a lean protein, add some fruits or veggies, a complex carbohydrate and end with a low-calorie drink like water. Try adding one balanced meal a day into your routine and build your way up from there.
To prevent child obesity in America, it's very important that children learn healthy eating habits at a young age
Obesity is at an all time high and it's vital that we begin to change our eating habits. According to McKinney, by the age of 2, children are forming habits that can make them more or less likely to be overweight. Besides, lifestyle habits developed during childhood can easily become lifelong habits as an adult. Studies also show that overweight toddlers and preschoolers also tend to be overweight as older children. Healthy eating habits must be introduced while children are still young.
Some healthy school lunch ideas and a new healthy food list for you and your child
This food list is a really great and printable healthy food grocery shopping list that you can keep on your fridge.
It includes high energy foods, foods rich in fiber, foods with the most antioxidants, what you should eat for your omega-3s and the best foods to buy organic.
Combine your new healthy food list with these healthy school lunch ideas to make sure your child gets the proper vitamins and nutrients they need to refresh themselves during the middle of the day when school is in full swing.
Here are some delicious Back to School lunch options from Eating Well. Some options take longer to make than others, but they have a nice variety with a lot of healthy options. Personally, the Broccoli-Cheese pie looks amazing. There are sweet snacks and even spicy snacks. But beware, some options have more sodium than others. Omit the recipes with uncomfortably high levels of sodium, like the BBQ Chicken Sandwich.
Our children love to binge on high-calorie junk food when they get home from school because they're either tired or want an instant pick-me-up from sitting in that dreaded desk all day. Here are some healthy after school snack options to keep the healthy vibes flowing all night long.
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Email marketing is increasing in popularity around the globe, as more marketers discover the cost and ROI benefits. The GetResponse Team thought it would be interesting to study our international users to see how they fit into the Big Picture when grouped by continents. For this study, we analyzed some email marketing metrics to show variations among senders from different continents.
The results revealed that the most industrialized regions don't always have the highest email marketing scores. Surprised? Take a look at these stats and maps to see how your continent performed!
Study Findings
Open Rates
We calculated the Total Open Rate as the number of email "opens", divided by the total number of emails sent. To identify any variations, we also calculated Average Open Rate of HTML messages as the number of email "opens", divided by the total number of HTML emails sent.
Note: To track open rates, HTML emails contain a piece of code requesting the display of a tiny, transparent (i.e. invisible to the viewer) image. When a message is opened and images are enabled, the image calls the server and the message is then counted as an open.
Taking first place in the category of Total Open Rates for continents was Europe, with a high score of 13.04%. Second place was South America with 12.51%, and coming in a close third was Australia and Oceania, with 8.08%.
But if we look at the Average Open Rate of HTML messages, it shows that one message out of every 4 sent from North America is opened.
Click-Through Rates
The Click-Through Rate (CTR) is the number of clicks on links in the email message, divided by the number of email messages sent in a campaign. The Click-to-Open Rate (CTOR) measures click-through rates as a percentage of messages opened, instead of messages sent. Clicks-Per-Clicker measures how often a recipient clicks on links in the same message. It captures actions by recipients who either click on a specific link multiple times or who click on more than one link in the email message.
If we take a look at the average CTR category for the continents, Europe is the winner with a score of over 4%, which is more than 60% higher than the continent with the lowest result - Asia at 2.44%. Europe also wins in the Click to Open category. More than 40 people out of every 100 who opened a message sent from Europe clicked on a link. In North America, less than 1 person out of every 3 opened and clicked on a link.
The study returned some interesting findings regarding how often a recipient clicks on links in the same message. In Asia, one of every 4 subscribers who clicked on email links, did it twice. In North America, just 1 out of every 8 clicked on a link twice!
List Churn Metrics
Bounce Rates
The Bounce Rate measures how many emails were returned to the sender because they were undeliverable for some reason, e.g. the address was invalid, mailbox was full, or the mail server temporarily unavailable, etc...
Complaint Rates
In general, Complaint Rates is the percentage of delivered email messages that generate spam complaints. It means that when a recipient reports your email as spam, his/her email address will be immediately removed and blacklisted from your account.
Unsubscribe Rates
Unsubscribe Rates measure reader disengagement. They show how many subscribers opted out of receiving further messages by clicking the unsubscribe links which are automatically added to every email sent out from GetResponse.
North America returned a 2.17% bounce rate - the highest bounce rate of all the continents. This wasn't surprising since this continent has the most robust email marketing industry in the world.
Due to the huge volume, American ISPs have developed extremely advanced and accurate tools for monitoring and verification, so senders are forced to meet very strict requirements.
Complaint rates are the result of many different factors. Recipients may report messages as spam because they don't recognize the sender or the messages were unsolicited, for example. However, according to Forrester Research, the primary reason for poor response rates is that the sender failed to provide any content of particular relevance to the recipient. Australia did very well in this area, returning the lowest complaint rate of all the continents!
Research Methodology
This international email marketing study examined approximately 1,652,000,000 emails sent by GetResponse users from 95 countries between July and December 2009. The research pulled only messages sent to at least 50 subscribers.
We hope to expand both the scope and range of metrics as we venture into interesting research topics in future studies. Your comments and suggestions are always appreciated. To find out more about GetResponse, please visit www.getresponse.com.


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If you've been reading food blogs for more than a year or so, you've probably seen some iteration of a cupcake incorporating Irish stout, Irish cream, and Irish whiskey (commonly known as the Irish Car Bomb Cupcake, after the popular cocktail). They were all the rage a few years ago when introduced by Smitten Kitchen. I've made them a couple of times, and they really are quite tasty. I mean, it's hard to go wrong with chocolate cake and Irish cream frosting, right?
This year I thought I would try out a new adults-only treat for St. Patty's Day, using the same flavor components of Smitten Kitchen's cupcakes. Since cheesecake is the medium I feel most comfortable working with, that seemed like a good place to start. After a bit of deliberation, I settled on a chocolate stout brownie topped with Irish cream cheesecake and finished off with a dark chocolate Irish whiskey glaze.
These turned out great. You can definitely detect the alcohol in the cheesecake and whiskey glaze, so they aren't a great choice for children or those that don't like the taste of alcohol. For everyone else, these are pretty amazing. They're perfect for St. Patty's Day. Or any day, really.
Triple Irish Cheesecake Bites (aka Irish Car Bomb Cheesecake Bites)
Yield: 24 mini cheesecakes or 1 6-inch cheesecake
Irish Stout Brownies - adapted from: We're Not Martha
1/2 Cup Irish Stout
2.5 ounces bittersweet chocolate
6 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a mini cheesecake pan with non-stick spray. Alternatively, you can line a mini muffin tin with papers.
2. Melt chocolate and butter together in either a double boiler or in 30 second intervals in the microwave on medium heat, stirring after each interval. Continue to stir until completely melted.
3. Allow chocolate to cool slightly, then whisk in brown sugar until very smooth. Add egg and beat until very smooth. Once eggs are incorporated, stir in Irish Stout.
4. Sift together flour and cocoa powder, then fold dry ingredient into chocolate mixture until incorporated without over mixing.
5. Fill each well 1/3 full with brownie batter. Bake in the pre-heated oven until just set, approximately 12-15 minutes.
6. Remove pan from oven and allow to cool to room temperature.
Irish Cream Cheesecake
1 lb (2-8 ounce packages) cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 Irish cream (Bailey's is most popular; I really like Coole Swan brand)
3 eggs
1. Pre-heat oven to 300 degrees. Cut cream cheese into 1-inch chunks and beat at low speed in the bowl of a stand mixer until very smooth, approximately 1-2 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl and beater blade.


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Happy Holidays! If you've got family in town this weekend, or if you're just looking for something to do that doesn't require standing in long lines at the mall, consider the museum. We've got plenty on view right now to satisfy just about anyone.
First, a note on our hours this weekend: Friday night the museum is closing at 5 pm, and Saturday we'll be closed all day. Sunday everything is back to normal.
Have you had a chance to check out India's Fabled City yet? The show has been up for a couple of weeks now and it is a feast for the eyes—paintings, decorative arts, sculpture, photographs, even a couple of Bollywood clips for good measure. The exhibition looks at the northern Indian city of Lucknow, an artistic crossroads in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries where artists from India commingled with those from Europe who came to city in search of wealth and patronage. For a brief period, Lucknow was an exhilarating hybrid of cultures and artforms.
If you want to make some interesting connections between Lucknow and the rest of the world, this is a good week to do it. Inside the Resnick Pavilion are two European exhibitions whose timelines overlap with India's Fabled City: Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915 and Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection—the latter closes on January 2.
If you'd like to skip ahead to the twentieth century, you can check out the exhibitions on Steve Wolfe, Blinky Palermo, and William Eggleston—the latter two of which are also closing soon, January 16.
This just scratches the surface of all that is on view. Take a look at our list of smaller installations currently on view, plus the free docent tours on offer every day, or just pick a permanent collection gallery and start wandering.
Scott Tennent


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Marquez knocks out Pacquiao in round 6
LAS VEGAS -- Juan Manuel Marquez knocked Manny Pacquiao out cold with a vicious right hand at the end of the sixth round Saturday night, putting a ferocious end to the fourth fight between the two boxers.
Pacquiao had been down in the third round but knocked Marquez down in the fifth, and the two were exchanging heavy blows in the sixth round before Marquez threw a right hand that flattened Pacquiao face down on the canvas at 2:59 of the round.
The referee waved the fight to an end as Marquez celebrated and the sold-out crowd at the MGM Grand erupted. Pacquiao was down for about two minutes before his handlers managed to get him up.
After being helped to his corner, Pacquiao sat on a stool, blew his nose and stared vacantly ahead as his handlers cut his gloves off. It was a stunning end to a furious fight and it may have signaled the end of Pacquiao's career.
"I threw a perfect punch," Marquez said. "I knew Manny could knock me out at any time."
Marquez had vowed to finally beat Pacquiao after losing two close fights and settling for a draw in the first fight. But after Pacquiao knocked him down in the fifth round and was landing big left hands, it looked as though it would be Pacquiao's night.
The two came out for the sixth round and the pace was just as relentless. Both were landing big punches and both were brawling when suddenly as the round neared a close Marquez shot out a right hand that landed flush to the jaw of Pacquiao, who crumpled to the canvas in a heap.
Pacquiao was aggressive from the opening bell, but paid the price in the third round when he got hit by a Marquez right hand that put him down.
Pacquiao got back up and seemingly took control of the fight, dropping Marquez in the fifth round and landing the bigger punches until he was dropped. "I got hit by a punch I didn't see," Pacquiao said.


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SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ, France (AP) Retired champion Lorena Ochoa shot a 1-under round of 69 at the Lacoste Ladies Open on Thursday.
Ochoa is playing at the request of the sponsor. She was ranked No. 1 for three years and won two majors among 27 victories before retiring from full-time golf in April 2010 to focus on her family and charities.
After her first round on the Ladies European Tour in more than two years, the 30-year-old Ochoa was fairly pleased.
``I made a couple of mistakes out there that made me mad, but I think it was a good day. I was trying to go around (in) par,'' Ochoa said. ``Finishing under par is always good, so I'm happy with that last birdie. You know, it made my afternoon better.''
Ochoa's last title came at the Navistar LPGA Classic exactly three years ago.
``I need to understand that my life is different now. I don't practice as much and sometimes you have to just bear with the few mistakes,'' she said. ``I three-putted a couple of times and it made me really mad. I have to bear with some bad shots.
``I think tomorrow, if I get the speed right, especially on the front nine, if I feel more comfortable, I'm going to make more putts.''
Stacey Keating of Australia led the day with a 62 at Chantaco Golf Club.