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Distributed learning provides a training model in which resources and instruction are independent of time and place. NCEAS' Distributed Graduate Seminars (DGS) combine elements of traditional and distributed learning and build on the collaborative approach that is a hallmark of NCEAS' research. These integrated, multi-campus graduate seminars are designed to engage students in ecological analysis and synthesis.
What Are Distributed Graduate Seminars
Articles About NCEAS DGS
Developing Curricula and Model Systems for Sustainability Science
A Graduate Seminar Network to Facilitate Synthetic Research on
Context-dependency in Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
Engaging Undergraduate Students in Ecological Investigations Using Large, Public Datasets
Landscape Genetics: Developing Best Practices for Testing Landscape Effects on Gene Flow
Finding Common Ground in Marine Conservation and Management
The Role of Marine Protected Areas in Ecosystem-based Management: Examining the Science and
Politics of an Ocean Conservation Strategy
Past Distributed Graduate Seminars
What Are Distributed Graduate Seminars?
The concept of a distributed graduate research project at NCEAS emerged directly out of NCEAS Working Groups' activities. Working Groups which incorporated graduate students had resulted in multiple publications with both faculty and graduate students participating as first authors, attention from national and local media, and data resources that are accessible via the NCEAS Data Repository.
In 2006, NCEAS sponsored its first independent DGS, with a goal of supporting two DGS a year. In order to secure sponsorship, Principal Investigators propose a research question with data needs too large for one group to tackle independently. To carry out the DGS, faculty members at participating universities conduct seminars that address this question. Graduate students participating in the individual seminars use previously existing local or regional data, learning to assemble, synthesize and analyze the data using ecoinformatics tools. At the end of the seminar, faculty leaders and two students from each university come to NCEAS to participate in a cross-site analysis and synthesis, comparing patterns and results from the various locations.
DGS provide students with valuable experience in collaborative research, as well as training in available techniques and tools to acquire, manage, and synthesize multi-scale data. DGS also demonstrate to the next generation of investigators the importance of shared data and benefits of its availability, as well as the significant role of ecological synthesis in the process of scientific discovery.
Faculty leaders benefit from the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues at widely distributed universities while engaging in meaningful and creative pedagogy at their home institutions.
Recent DGS Awarded
Developing Curricula and Model Systems for Sustainability Science
Cavender-Bares, Jeannine
Sustaining the systems that support life while meeting human needs represents one of the greatest challenges that we face in the 21st century. Sustainability science is a use-inspired science aimed at addressing this challenge. We propose a two-year distributed graduate seminar across six institutions to address core concepts in sustainability science and to develop model systems for advancement of theory and tools for sustainable management. The collaboration will benefit from interaction and synthesis across institutions and disciplines, the hallmark of NCEAS, and from the technical, data management and cyber-support that NCEAS can provide. Four key outcomes include:
1) A curriculum and publically accessible wiki for sustainability science to provide a pedagogic foundation for the emerging field;
Participating Institutions
Arizona State University
Project: 2010-2012
A Graduate Seminar Network to Facilitate Synthetic Research on
Context-dependency in Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
Hoeksema, Jason
Mycorrhizal symbioses, in which plants exchange carbohydrates for nutrients with root associated fungal symbionts, are classically considered a mutualism. But they can display a high degree of variability in ecological outcomes ranging from mutualism to parasitism. Given the ubiquity and importance of this interaction, understanding the controls on its variability is paramount for basic and applied ecology. One centerpiece activity of a previous NCEAS working group ("Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Mycorrhizal Management," 2005-2007) was to initiate an effort to understand this ecological variability through an empirical synthesis of mycorrhizal inoculation experiments. As part of that effort, we created a database of nearly 2000 such experiments, and developed innovative new methods for multi-factor meta-analysis to assess the relative importance of numerous biotic and abiotic factors hypothesized to explain variation among experiments in plant responses to mycorrhizal inoculation. Although important insights were gained from that analysis, it revealed limitations of the approach which prevented full exploitation of that effort. Through the NCEAS distributed graduate network project proposed here, we plan to address these limitations to answer fundamental questions about context-dependency in mycorrhizal symbiosis. In this process, graduate students will be trained in mycorrhizal ecology, data management/ecoinformatics, and statistical meta-analysis, and will have the opportunity to take the lead in meaningful synthetic, ecological science. NCEAS will provide necessary logistical support, staff support, and funding for planning and face-to-face collaboration, without which this project would not be possible.
Participating Universities
Indiana University
Project: 2010
Engaging Undergraduate Students in Ecological Investigations Using Large, Public Datasets
Mourad, Teresa
Collaborative website for the group
With easy access to large-volume public datasets now commonplace, high-quality data are available to investigate many ecological questions and issues of interest to scientists, policymakers, and citizens. Many people, however, do not have the experience or skills to search, use, analyze and interpret these data. The Ecological Society of America (ESA), in close partnership with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), will facilitate a Distributed Graduate Seminar to focus on examining effective student activities and assessment strategies for using large public datasets in the classroom.
This seminar builds on a preliminary education framework generated at a 2008 ESA faculty workshop, organized to make recommendations to NEON as they developed their education and outreach plan. The new seminar will be instrumental in refining this education framework. Faculty participants at the Summerr 2009 seminar designed undergraduate teaching modules focused on topics such as climate change and polar bears, patterns in bird diversity, and the carbon cycle. Developed with current learning theory in mind, they emphasize student active-teaching methodologies that are inquiry-based and participatory.The modules will be revised over the next year, implemented with students, and assessed. These key issues will be considered in developing assessment tools:
(1) misconceptions and anxieties that students bring into the classroom related to data manipulation and interpretation
The group will reconvene in late 2010, along with two undergraduate students from each institution, to synthesize their experiences and discuss ways to promote use of data-based experiences in undergraduate science courses. We anticipate that the synthesis and results will be submitted for publication and that the set of teaching activities will be published online by ESA.
The teaching activities will provide undergraduate students the means to better understand ecological concepts, and to gain experience in effectively applying quantitative skills to the analysis and interpretation of large-volume datasets. Gaining fundamentally critical, quantitative ecoinformatics skills will position students well as demand for a data-savvy workforce grows steadily in the 21st century.
The project will also prepare faculty at minority-serving and small undergraduate institutions in the basics of good ecoinformatics practices, enabling them to seize opportunities that will present themselves when data from observatories such as NEON, rich with biotic data, come online.
New teaching tools require assessment strategies. The new teaching activities will be evaluated for their effectiveness in the undergraduate classroom.
Participating Institutions
Alcorn State University
Seminar: Summer 2009 Project: 2009-2010
Landscape Genetics: Developing Best Practices for Testing Landscape Effects on Gene Flow
Wagner, Helene
A key objective of landscape genetics is to study how landscape modification and habitat fragmentation affect organism dispersal and gene flow across the landscape. Landscape genetics requires highly interdisciplinary, yet specialized professionals, and makes intensive use of spatial analysis tools such as remote sensing, GIS software and spatial statistics that have not historically been a component of training programs for population geneticists. Even when students receive disciplinary training in several of the involved fields of landscape genetics, educational programs lack the necessary linkage and synthesis among disciplines. This linkage can only be accomplished after experts from each discipline work together to develop guiding principles for this new research area.
This distributed graduate seminar is designed to unite some of the most active landscape genetics groups in North America and Europe. It will draw on the experience of experts both in population genetics and landscape ecology with the goal of providing an integrated overview of approaches for testing the effect of landscape pattern on dispersal and gene flow, a key topic of landscape genetics.
Each seminar will start with a video-taped lecture that introduces foundations and methods and highlights points for discussion in local seminar groups. Practical experience applying various methods to selected cases studies will be provided through a combination of computer labs, interpretation of sample output, and paper discussions. Student groups across universities will focus on a specific step in the data collection and analysis process, evaluating the consequences of different choices of methods and deriving recommendations when to use which method, with each group project leading to a scientific publication. The main goal of the synthesis meeting is to discuss how consequences of methodological choices propagate to later steps in the analysis, leading to a joint publication of best practices for testing landscape effects on gene flow.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH
Finding Common Ground in Marine Conservation and Management
Hilborn, Ray
Rebuilding Global Fisheries
There is increasing concern among scientists, resource managers, and the general public about the current state of marine fisheries and their supporting ecosystems. Recent scientific progress on this topic has been partly overshadowed by significant controversy about how to assess marine resources and how to address current problems in ocean management. Marine ecologists and fisheries scientists often tend to favor contrasting approaches, and these schools of thought have become polarized over time.
Recognizeing this situation as counterproductive, an NCEAS Working Group is engaged both in defining common ground among marine ecologists and fisheries scientists and, for focusing future research, in identifying areas of continued disagreement. The central question being addressed is: how can we merge contrasting objectives, tools, and scientific criteria among marine ecology, fisheries science, and management into a unifying framework.
One of the solutions to polarization is to expose young scientists to the goals and approaches of the various interested parties dealing with these issues. NCEAS, with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will coordinate such an effort by offering a Distributed Graduate Seminar (DGS) that will involve graduate students and mentors from six universities in the research process.
Participating Universities
Seminar, Project: Spring 2009
The Role of Marine Protected Areas in Ecosystem-based Management: Examining the Science and Politics of an Ocean Conservation Strategy
Pavia, Robert
Recent reports by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission recommend specific actions necessary to drive advances in ocean governance, including the use of marine protected areas (MPAs) as tools for ecosystem-based management. With coastal development, pollution, and resource extraction pressures on MPAs increasing, national and international efforts are focusing on developing MPAs in the context of the ecosystems, both terrestrial and marine, in which they occur. We will conduct a Distributed Graduate Seminar dedicated to clarifying the role of MPAs as tools for ecosystem-based management. The National Marine Sanctuary Program, one of the primary MPA management programs in U.S. Federal waters, will serve as a vehicle for this exploration. Graduate students from Hawaii to New Hampshire will examine how our growing scientific understanding of ecosystem processes within MPAs, and evolving ocean-observing capabilities, can allow us to manage MPAs as integral components of the ecosystems in which they reside.
Participating Institutions
California State University, Monterey Bay
Seminar: Summer-Fall 2008 Project 2007-2009
Past Distributed Graduate Seminars: Participants, Data and Results
Ushering in a New Era of Functional Ecology: Dynamics in a Changing Environment
Biodiversity, Conservation and Ecosystem Services in Managed Landscapes
Economic Impact of Non-native Forest Pests and Pathogens in North America
Habitat Conservation Planning for Endangered Species
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
Prospectus for an Analysis of Recovery Plans and Delisting
Articles about NCEAS DGS
Andelman, S.J., C.M Bowles, M.R. Willig and R.B. Waide. 2004. Understanding environmental complexity through a distributed knowledge network. BioScience 54(3):240-246.
Boersma, P. Dee and DeWeerdt, Sarah. 2001. Tapping the ivory tower; how academic-agency partnerships can advance conservation. Conservation Biology in Practice 2(3): 28-32.
Savage, Lisa T. 1998. Innovative national graduate student seminar analyzes habitat conservation plans. Integrative Biology: Issues, News and Reviews 1(2): Pages 45-48.


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Frank Zappa once told a reporter that jazz wasn�t dead, it just smelled funny. This wasn�t a swipe at jazz, but a sad commentary on its standing in the culture. I believe this can also be said for customer service.
Jon Dawson is trying to recover from his usual Christmas excess. Today�s column was originally published on July 24, 2012. � Editor
Frank Zappa once told a reporter that jazz wasn�t dead, it just smelled funny. This wasn�t a swipe at jazz, but a sad commentary on its standing in the culture. I believe this can also be said for customer service.
I�ve worked in the service industry a bit and I�ve encountered customers so boorish no court in the country would convict me if I jammed mashed potatoes into all of their orifices with the back side of a claw hammer.
The guy that habitually showed up 30 seconds before closing with his entire family in tow really needed a couple of weeks at Gitmo. I once saw him pull into the parking lot and managed to get the front door locked before he got in. He kept knocking and waving and I kept looking in every direction but his.
After 10 minutes of this, I called the cops and told them some crazy man was trying to break in. When the police showed up, they had a brisk conversation with Mr. Timex and he went on his way.
Having worked in a restaurant, I�m an extremely good customer. Unless the waitress is doing a line of cocaine off of her shoulder while pouring my water, I�m not usually one to complain. That being said, when I took Tax Deduction No. 1 out for Daddy/TD time on Saturday, I nearly ended up in the police blotter.
The day before our excursion took place, I stopped by the object of TD�s desire to see what time it opened. According to the hours posted on the door, they opened at 9 a.m. on Saturday. To be sure this was the case, I went in and asked someone if the hours posted on the door were current, which � after a few blank stares � resulted in a �yeah.� To recap � the door states 9 a.m. and the staff states 9 a.m. This will be important later.
On Saturday morning, we headed out for breakfast and then to our destination. We reached Mecca at 9:15 a.m. only to find the doors locked. I peered inside and knocked on the door a few times; an employee arrived after me and went around to the front and a few minutes later someone unlocked the door and let us in � at 9:17 a.m.
Instead of asking the staff person if they were on some sort of new quasi-daylight savings time that caused them to be 17 minutes behind the rest of the universe, I stood mute. Not wanting TD No. 1�s last memory of me to be berating a slack attendant before stroking out, I just took a deep breath and soldiered on.
Unbeknownst to me, the seemingly straightforward activity we were going to partake in relied on a computer system of the Cape Canaveral variety � a computer that no one had even turned on at 9:17 a.m. At this point, I�m looking around the facility for something to steal.
At 9:27 a.m., the computer finally juices up and we�re ready to go. TD No. 1 had a good time and never realized how close her father was to either a massive cerebrovascular incident or a misdemeanor charge of larceny. My belief that no real good can come from leaving the house is reinforced and we go on about our day.
On Sunday when I try to get online to see if any of you folks have made naughty comments on Kinston.com that have to be deleted, my wireless Internet card isn�t working. My first call to Sprint customer service was less successful than Kanye West�s Oak Ridge Boys audition. I kept trying to tell the customer service rep that I was calling about Internet service, but she kept trying to upgrade my cell phone.
�Would you like to upgrade your phone service to include Canada and Saturn,� she asked.
Wishing I had an old-school phone that could be slammed down, I ended the call and tried again. This time, a man named Ernest answered the phone � and changed my life.
Ernest spent the subsequent hour trying to help me resuscitate the blinking-but-not-functioning wireless card. While we waited for the computer to shut down and restart several times, we got to know each other pretty well.
In a voice that was a cross between actor Yaphet Kotto and jazz critic Stanley Crouch, Ernest told me he was from Greensboro. After a stint in the military, he took a job with Sprint in Texas. I told him I was headed to Greensboro for a concert in November. Our meeting was a clear-cut case of kismet, which ironically is also the name of a network detector for ... wireless Internet cards.
Eventually, Ernest�s shift ended, but he suggested I download the previous version of the card�s software.
�My shift was over a few minutes ago,� Ernest said. �But I�m back on tonight at 8 p.m., so I�ll call back and see if it worked.� I was a bit shocked to encounter this level of commitment from a technician working at a far-away call center, but it was nice. THEN, Ernest called back to make sure I knew 8 p.m. for him meant 9 p.m. for me.
�I just didn�t want you to think I�d forgotten to call back,� Ernest said.
Usually, I find men repulsive, but I�ll admit � at this point � I was a little bit in love with Ernest.
I drive to my folks� house, download the previous software to a flash drive, bring it home, install it and the card comes back to life. A few #*$& &$**�s and $*# $&@*�s are removed from the website and life is good � until I realize that it�s 9:12 p.m. and my phone is in the car.
I retrieve the phone and sure enough, I missed Ernest�s call at 9:07 p.m. For the next half hour, I call every Sprint number on this and any other earth trying to track down Ernest in the Texas call center.
Finally, I reach a Brooklyn transplant in the Texas call center. I tell him I�m looking for Ernest to thank him for his amazing service. Mr. Brooklyn then makes everybody within earshot of him stop talking and tells them who I�m looking for and why, and a few of them start clapping. A few minutes later, Ernest and I are reunited on the phone while �Chariots of Fire� plays in the background.
I told Ernest I was going to write about him and asked for an email address so I could forward it along. If you�re Ernest�s boss or the person in charge of the purse strings, please give this man a raise and actively recruit any of his offspring.
Thanks, Ernest!
Jon Dawson�s columns appear every Tuesday and Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Purchase Jon�s book �Making Gravy in Public� at the Free Press office and at jondawson.com.

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The House of Representatives is poised to vote as early as tonight on a bill addressing a series of tax increases and spending cuts taking affect this week. But first lawmakers voted on a plan to freeze the salaries of lawmakers and federal employees.
Despite Democratic objections, the bill passed 287 to 129, with 55 Democrats voting with Republicans to approve the measure.
House Democrats charged that the vote to freeze salaries was intended to provide political cover for conservative Republicans planning to vote against the fiscal cliff bill passed early Tuesday by the Senate.


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strawer[ straw ]SEE DEFINITION OF strawer
Synonyms for strawer
- albino
- auricomous
- bleached
- champagne
- fair
- fair-haired
- flaxen
- golden-haired
- light
- pale
- pearly
- platinum
- sallow
- sandy-haired
- snowy
- straw
- strawberry
- towheaded
- washed-out
- yellow-haired
Antonyms for strawer
Old English streaw "stems or stalks of certain cereals," literally "that which is scattered or strewn," related to streowian (see strew), from Proto-Germanic *strawam "that which is scattered" (cf. Old Norse stra, Danish straa, Swedish strå, Old Frisian stre, Old Dutch, Old High German stro, German Stroh "straw"), from PIE *stere- "to spread" (see structure (n.)). The notion is of dried grain stalks strewn on a floor as carpeting or bedding. As a type of what is trifling or unimportant, attested from late 13c. Meaning "hollow tube through which a drink is sucked" is recorded from 1851.
To draw straws as a means of deciding something is recorded from 1832. The last straw is from the proverb of the camel. Straw poll is from 1932; earlier straw vote (1866). Straw hat first attested mid-15c. To clutch (or grasp or catch) at straws (1748) is what a drowning man proverbially would do.


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Tuesday's Tip – Read a Book
Today we are going to move slightly away from software and talk about books. As researchers, we all have our favorite genealogy and history books.
Sort Your Story blog author, Jennifer, has a great read to share. It is Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social History by Katherine Sturdevant. I love this book because it discusses adding depth to your family history through stories, artifacts, local history, and other topics. The book is full of tips and suggestions on how to write social history into your family history and other topics to investigate. Those topics may lead you to new records too!
This book is currently out of print but many libraries have it so check yours or inter-library loan. I was able to secure my copy through an online used bookstore.
What are some books that you have in your genealogical library that have helped you or you could not live without?
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I hope you got my letter of November 22. I've been thinking about you a lot lately. My little ones are getting quite excited to think that you'll be visiting them very soon! In fact they are so excited that they are having trouble being good. I want to remind you that they are, for the most part, very good little boys and girls at heart. I haven't written a naughty report on a single one this year! I know I should have written a report on Jamie for punching his sister in the eye today, but he really felt badly after I was done
Now I know that they have probably already sent you their own personal little notes but I'm betting that not one of them remembered to ask you for personalized name tags for their clothes. Santa they really need them! The lost and found box is filling up everyday. If they only had their names in their coats, hats, scarves, sneakers, mittens and snowpants I could get them back to them right away. I still have the pair of tiny designer boots that I found last week. I looked them up online and they were expensive! But I've asked every day and nobody knows who they belong to, not even the little girls in the seat where they were found. If you know who they belong to maybe you could return them for me on your regular rounds!
Santa my real reason for writing you again is because I have so many older kids and co-workers that no longer believe in you so I know that they haven't written to you. Now there are a few that I have written naughty reports for. I'm sad to say this Santa but maybe if you stopped by and left a lump of coal (or ten) it would reaffirm their belief and let them know that their poor choices are noticed by someone other than me.
The rest of them are great kids and so I would like to make some requests on their behalf.
For the girl in the white parka that rides the bus two past mine I would like to request a warm pair of boots. Her flip flop collection is amazing! She has a different pair for each outfit and I think maybe some extra pairs but the bare feet in the flip flops just doesn't cut it in 6" of snow. I know that even if you bring her boots she won't wear them if there are flip flops in her closet so maybe you could toss the flip flops in your sack and pass them onto someone in the tropics.
I'd like to make the same request for the three girls on my bus that insist on wearing soccer sandals. I know they show a little more common sense by wearing socks but I'm tired of listening to them whine when they have to get off and the snow is up to the bottom of the door.
Now my boys all wear reasonable footwear. Except for David. He is 16 and thinks that slippers are just the perfect fashion statement. Could you bring him new ones with a good rubber tread on the bottom maybe? Several of the boys feel that if their feet are warm the rest of them will be warm so they don't need to be bothered with coats or even hoodies. Then they get
Now that the bad weather is here and we have the aforementioned fashion issues to deal with I have several stops where the kids just can't be out waiting for me in the morning. The people in the cars that have to wait for them to get out to the bus, well they're not waiting! This creates a dangerous situation so these kids need you to leave them the alert system the beeps when the bus is 2 minutes from their house. I know I saw the system in one of the trade magazines that I read but I can't find a link to it right now. If they elves can't handle this request maybe they could make a cube that sounds a siren at a preset time and cannot be turned off until the child walks out the door. Since I arrive at the same time everyday I can give the the correct time for each house.
Trevor has asked you for a new skate board and a half pipe and he is certain he is getting them. I believe that he forgot to ask you for all the protective elbow and knee pads and the helmet that he should have. I know he didn't get them last year because he wasn't wearing them when he scared the
I know many of the older kids are asking for all of the latest electronic stuff. Could I request that for each gadget you bring them you also put a nice old fashioned book under the tree? The Harry Potter books are always popular. I hear that the older kids really like the books written by my neighbor. I haven't had a chance to read any of her books yet so maybe you could leave me one too.
The mechanics have really been super! I
Now as you know, Shirley has been having some memory problems and I've been having to pick up the kids that she forgets. I really don't mind picking them up but by the time I get there they are half frozen. So maybe you could bring Shirley a Remembrall.
Betty is vertically challenged and can't quite reach the toe step to climb up on the tire to clear her windshield wipers so if you could bring her (and me too!) some extras she (we) could make like a little ladder up the side of the bus and wouldn't even need to open the hood to stand on the tire!
I can't remember a year where all of the drivers have gotten along so well. So chocolate for everybody! You can never go wrong with chocolate.
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WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- The Internal Revenue Service has canceled a Friday softball game with a team from the office of a Republican senator critical of the federal tax agency.
"We contacted them to confirm our game was scheduled for tomorrow [Friday] night and they said they needed to reschedule," Drew Brandewie, spokesman for Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told NBC News.
The game was supposed to be the first by Cornyn's office team, The RBIs of Texas, against the Cheetahs, the IRS squad.
Cornyn has been sharply critical of the federal tax agency for targeting conservative, Tea Party and Patriot groups for extra scrutiny on their applications for tax-exempt status and posted the IRS softball game default on Facebook and Twitter.
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cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib \ -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> char erasechar(void);
int erasewchar(wchar_t *ch);
char killchar(void);
int killwchar(wchar_t *ch);
The erasechar() function returns the current ERASE character from the tty driver. This character is used to delete the previous character during keyboard input. The returned value can be used when including deletion capability in interactive programs.
The killchar() function is similar to erasechar(). It returns the current KILL character.
The erasewchar() and killwchar() functions are similar to erasechar() and killchar() respectively, but store the ERASE or KILL character in the object pointed to by ch.
Is a pointer to a location where a character may be stored.
For erasechar() and killchar(), the terminal's current ERASE or KILL character is returned.
On success, the erasewchar() and killwchar() functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), get_wch(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)


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12-year-old Vincent Wu is the unofficial president of the "unofficial" Captain Stupendous Fan Club which consists of exactly three members . Unofficially, Vincent is a geek. Officially, Vincent is about to try to save the world! Of course, secretly crushing on the spunky Polly Winnicott-Lee can only make the job that much harder.
Vincent is assisted in his adventures by his friends (and fellow fan club members) George and Max who spend nearly as much time busting each other's chops (and Vincent's) as they do helping each other out. Clearly, the three of them are the best of friends.
Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities is a fantastic middle grade debut from author, Mike Jung, that's packed with adventure and full of surprises. It's a story about friendship, secrets (the good kind!), bravery and doing what's right even when everyone says it's time to give up and let the grown-ups take charge.
The voice of Vincent Wu really carries the story. It sets the tone from page one, preparing you to enter a world where "Stupendous Alerts" about the latest evil villain attack are commonplace, and where kids everywhere rush to the scene to cheer on Captain Stupendous (the reigning superhero in Copperplate City) as he Corkscrews, Whirligigs, and Meteor Strikes his way to victory! Captain Stupendous can not only fly, he has super strength, he's impervious to all known attacks, and he's always around when you need him. Well, almost always…
You'll have to pick up a copy yourself to find out why.
You won't be disappointed!
"A snappy, hilarious adventure set in a world I would love to live in. Clever, fun and full of surprises." ~ Michael Buckley, author of NEEDS
"Jung's novel is a hilarious twist on the classic superhero story! Giant robots, hidden lairs, middle-school crushes and uber-fanboys combine to make one stupendous debut!" ~ Matthew Cody, author of POWERLESS
"Fast-paced, suspenseful and downright hilarious. Mike Jung gets the details of the comics world exactly right. Readers will love the surprising twists and turns." ~ H.N. Kowitt, author of THE LOSER LIST
"Wow! Superheroes, Supervillans, geeks on bikes, a stinky swamp, real friends, deep dark secrets, shattering windows, BIG decisions…and everything else that matters!!" ~ Kathleen Duey, author of SKIN HUNGER
"Mike Jung is an active blogger, parent, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators member, and library professional. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two young children. This is his first novel."


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Sara Askew Jones Arbor completed in Hess Camellia Garden
Over the weekend, Robinson Iron Inc. and John Jones completed the installation of a new arbor at the entrance of the Hess Camellia Garden. The Sara Askew Jones Arbor is named for the Healthy Living Editor of Southern Living magazine, a beloved friend of many people within and outside Southern Progress cooperation. She was a person with a warm heart, caring smile, helping hand and friend to all. She was a multiple time cancer survivor. As one of her former coworkers wrote, "It is an amazing tribute to a beautiful person." Her family and any one that knew Sara would agree.
The arbor was made possible through a generous donation from Ms. Jones's family, friends and former coworkers at Southern Living, the Lucille S. Beeson charitable trust, Rebar Express and Ready Mix U.S.A. It was designed by former Southern Living Architecture Editor Robert Martin.
Tags: Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Hess Camellia Gardens, Robert Martin, Sara Askew, Sara Askew Jones, Sara Jones, Southern Living, Southern Progess, The Gardens


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The introduction of TD Bank's Aeroplan Visa card is going better than expected and will add to earnings for the year, TD chief financial officer Colleen Johnston said Thursday as the bank reported stronger first-quarter results.
"The initial portfolio that we received, which is just over $3 billion from CIBC in early days, is performing well, but it was really a modest contribution to the quarter because we only had one month of earnings," Johnston said.
"What we've seen is that the new account openings have vastly exceeded our expectations in the first couple of months."
Johnston didn't say exactly how many new customers TD has signed up since launching four types of Aeroplan Visa credit cards this year, but said they were expected to add gradually to earnings "and add nicely to our bottom line."
TD reported Thursday a profit of $2.04 billion or $1.07 per share, up from $1.78 billion or 93 cents per share a year ago, and raised its quarterly dividend by four cents to 47 cents per share. Revenue totalled $7.57 billion, up from $6.57 billion a year ago.
Excluding one-time costs, including $155 million related to the launch of the Aeroplan Visa cards, and a gain of$196 million on the sale of TD Waterhouse Institutional Services, the bank earned an adjusted profit of $2.02 billion or $1.06 per share, up from $1.91 billion or $1 per share a year ago.
Under a deal with CIBC, TD acquired about 540,000 cardholder accounts with an outstanding balance of $3.3 billion. The agreement was a compromise between the banks and Aeroplan's parent company Amia.
Johnston, who noted Aeroplan Visa users tend to be higher spending customers with good credit quality, said Canadians are loyal to the Aeroplan program even with the rise of more flexible travel reward credit cards and other programs.
"There's a lot of our competitors who are very interested in acquiring new accounts, but we think we are very well positioned competitively in terms of what we are offering to the customer," she said.
CIBC's sale of half its Aeroplan credit card business to TD helped boost its first-quarter results to $1.18 billion or $2.88 per share compared with $785 million or $1.88 per share a year ago. Revenue was $3.63 billion, up from $3.17 billion.
Excluding the gain on the sale of the Aeroplan business and other one-time items, CIBC said it earned an adjusted profit of $951 million or $2.31 per share for the quarter compared with $882 million or $2.12 in the first quarter of 2013.
CIBC also raised its quarterly dividend by two cents to 98 cents per share.
To help make up for the loss of roughly half of its Aeroplan Visa customers, CIBC has launched its own Aventura Visa travel reward cards.
"The value proposition of our enhanced Aventura card is resonating well, and CIBC is enrolling new clients at a pace well in excess of our expectations," CIBC president and chief executive Gerald McCaughey told a conference call with analysts.
"Our quarterly travel reward card sales were the highest we've experienced in over a decade."
CIBC also recently launched a collaboration with Tim Hortons for a co-branded credit card which will offer Tim Hortons loyalty rewards.
Barclays analyst John Aiken noted the CIBC results felt the impact of the Aeroplan Visa card sale but, with only one month included, said it would carry over into the second quarter.
"That said, it was a reasonably strong quarter, on the back of lower provisions (for credit losses)," Aiken wrote.
For TD, Aiken said the acquisition of the Visa portfolio implies further upside in the second quarter its domestic retail banking business.
"While the headline results may not capture the imagination of investors, similar to Royal's results yesterday, there is little denying the solid underlying results generated by TD this quarter," Aiken wrote.
"There is little reason to believe that TD should not be able to garner above average industry growth, and likely the greatest dividend increase reported this quarter amongst the group underscores management's confidence in its relative outlook."
The Canadian retail banking earnings at TD totalled $1.2 billion or $1.34 billion on an adjusted basis, up five per cent compared with a year ago on increased deposits, improvements at its wealth management business and favourable credit performance. Provisions for credit losses slipped to $230 million compared with $244 million a year ago.
Meanwhile, TD's U.S. retail business benefited from a weaker Canadian dollar as it reported a profit of $492 million, up from $355 million a year ago. Provisions for credit losses in the U.S. were $224 million compared with $177 million.
Johnston attributed the year-over-year increase in provisions for bad loans to TD's acquisition of the Target credit card portfolio.
"If you take out that addition of that new business, they were down," she said.
Wholesale banking earned $230 million for the quarter for TD, up from $160 million in the first quarter of 2013.
At CIBC, the bank's retail and business banking operations earned $746 million, up $580 million a year ago. Provisions for credit losses were $210 million, down from $241 million.
Wealth management earned $114 million, up from $89 million, while CIBC's wholesale banking operations earned $264 million, up from $86 million in the first quarter of 2013.


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FBI Profiler Kathryn Drummond
During the search for Ennis, an unpredictable criminal, Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller, center) is forced to work alongside Kathryn Drummond (Kari Matchett), the FBI profiler who literally wrote the book on him. Also pictured is Gregson (Aidan Quinn, right). Photo: John P. Filo/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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A friend of mine told me that for every $100 he spends on buying an item, he devotes an hour of research to the purchase before making a move.
That seems like a good rule of thumb. In fact, I'd go even further: for every $100 I spend on an item over the item's lifetime, I try to devote an hour to researching the purchase before making a move.
What do I mean by that? Take a car, for example. Yes, we have the initial sticker price of the car, but how long do you intend to drive that car? How much gas will that take? How much maintenance will be needed to keep it on the road? Those are additional costs, and they should be an important part of the research you do.
If I buy a new computer, I might spend $500 on it (hypothetically). However, it's going to suck energy right out of the wall and inflate my electric bill, so my total cost of owning that computer is significantly higher than $500 over the lifetime of that computer.
Research pays off. Almost always, research will lead you to the option that will provide you with the most bang for your buck. Whether it's the most fuel-efficient and reliable car or the computer with the most horsepower for your dollar, time spent learning exactly what you're buying and how to milk all the value you can out of that purchase pays for itself over the lifetime of the item.
What exactly do I mean by "do the research"? Here's the process I go through for almost every significant item I buy.
What exactly am I buying? For starters, I don't buy something unless I can clearly state what exactly I want it to do. What tasks must that item be able to take on to make it worth one's money and time?
Let's say I'm looking for a new kitchen knife. What do I care about with that knife? I want it to be able to chop vegetables easily. I want it to hold an edge for a while after I hone it. I want it to be able to maintain a sharp edge (with regular maintenance, of course) for a very long time, because I don't want to have to go through the process of buying another one because the first one was junk.
This, in itself, involves research. To understand what features you want in a knife, you need to have a basic understanding of how a knife works, what knives are made of, and so forth. Reading and personal experience are both part of this. This is deeply connected to the idea that one should buy a low-end item first, become familiar with its use, and then replace it with an item appropriate to their needs. In other words, start with a cheap knife, learn how to use it, learn what you actually don't like about it and could be improved, then use that as a basis to buy the right knife for you (assuming you use it enough, of course).
What items out there match the features I'm looking for? Once you know clearly what you're looking for, you can start looking for items that match it.
I usually rely on several different sources for these types of answers. A few key magazines, such as Consumer Reports and Cook's Illustrated, provide solid and unbiased reviews of products that I often use as a baseline for what I want to buy. Another key element of this type of research is my own social network, as I'll send out emails or Facebook requests asking for their recommendations or suggestions. There are a small handful of bloggers that I trust as well. I also use the raw data provided by the manufacturer to figure out things like energy use.
Usually, this means a trip to the library and, often, a trip to a few stores, simply to understand the products I'm comparing and the features that they offer.
Where can I find the item(s) I want at the right price? I generally prefer to buy things when my back isn't against the wall so that I have time to evaluate lots of different buying options. For example, after shopping for months for the right price on the right vehicle, I actually bought my car off of Craigslist.
The moral of the story? Don't be afraid to hunt far and wide for the right price on the item that you want. Don't wait until you have to make a purchase. Instead, start the process now on items that you know you'll have to purchase down the road.
Research pays off, every single time. You'll know it when you find the perfect price on an item that you know has the right balance of features for your needs.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere. Images courtesy of Brittany Lynne Photography, the proprietor of which is my "photography intern" for this project.


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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Lots of them, but what are they?
Vacaville residents Mark and Julie Vasquez began finding little flies in Birds Landing, near Rio Vista, in late January 2009.
Their numbers are increasing rapidly.
"They're everywhere," said Mark. "They're in our storage shed and inside Julie's parents' home and grandmother's home. They were under my rubber boots in the storage shed."
"They come every year and get into everything," Julie told Mark.
Everything—including Mark's parked pickup truck. Last weekend the flies slipped through the vents and inside the cab. With no "thumbs up," they hitched a ride from Birds Landing to Vacaville.
"Some are still flying around in the cab," Mark said.
What are they?
The picture-winged fly (Ceroxys latiusculus). Order: Diptera. Family: Ulidiidae.
The insect is about the size of a house fly, but doesn't move as fast, as Mark can attest. He captured a dozen in a jar.
Little is known about the biology of this common fly, but it's often confused with the walnut husk fly.
Entomologist Whitney Cranshaw of Colorado State University says this about the picture-winged fly "It's a moderate sized fly (9-12 mm) about the size of a house fly. Its general coloration is grayish-brown but the most notable physical features are the the wings which have dark patterned markings."
Cranshaw says the picture-winged fly is commonly found indoors from early fall through spring. It is most often noticed around windows.
Meanwhile, several of the little buggers are still flying around in the cab of Mark's truck.


text: Saul Levmore, "Coase's Legacy" by UChicagoLaw published on 2014-02-20T16:11:58Z Ronald Coase (1910-2013), of Nobel Prize and University of Chicago Law School fame, influences almost every discussion in the modern law school. In this opening talk of the 2013-14 "Chicago's Best Ideas" (CBI) series, Professor Levmore begins by explaining the Coase Theorem -- probably Chicago's very best and certainly best known idea -- and why its appearance was so startling. The talk then moves to its present-day legacy. Is all bargaining suspect either because of wealth inequality or because of the "endowment effect" of law itself? Why don't we see more bargaining around legal rules? Is most "corruption" to be welcomed as Coasian bargaining, inasmuch as those parties are also bargaining around a rule? Is capitalism in modern China, the subject of Coase's last book, simply an example of a Coasian bargain for government itself, or at least for the prevailing economic system? Are all interest groups "just" Coasian? Saul Levmore is William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. This talk was recorded on October 22, 2013.


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With Apple having Siri and Samsung having S-Voice, we were kind of wondering if any other other manufacturers were going to join this voice driven assistant party. As it turns out, LG is willing to take a run at it having now unveiled Quick Voice as they're calling it in Korea. LG's Quick Voice (from what we can tell so far) will provide you with all that you would expect from a voice recognition system. Meaning it can launch searches, schedule appointments, bring up apps, make calls and even tell you what the date is. Right now, LG has noted it will be coming to their Optimus line of devices by end of June through July through a software update. At this time, there is no mention of a U.S. release date but it seems likely that LG would want to roll it out in as many places as possible eventually.
Source: LG


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50 Cent's Latest Challenge to Floyd Mayweather, Jr. [Video]
Last week, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson issued his own version of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for champion boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
His challenge was a bit different. He didn't want to see Mayweather dump water on his head. He challenged the Grand Rapids native to read a page from a Harry Potter book.
If he could successfully do that, 50 Cent would donate $750,000 to the charity of Mayweather's choice. It was basically a very elaborate way of calling Mayweather illiterate.


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The recipients of athletic letters for Hope College fall sports teams have been announced by co-athletic directors Eva Folkert and Tim Schoonveld.
Competing in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), Hope teams won conference championships in women's cross country and men's golf. Hope was second in men's cross country, football, women's golf, men's soccer and volleyball, and fourth in women's soccer. Athletes competed in NCAA championships in men's soccer, volleyball, and men's and women's cross country.
Twenty-eight athletes lettered in their sport for a fourth consecutive year. They are Andrew Abe (soccer), Emily Atsma (golf), Paul Austin (soccer), Nicholas Campbell (golf), Josh Droppers (football), Salome Emmanuel (cross country), Benjamin Fineout (cross country), Lana Gentry (soccer), Katrina Gobrogge (cross country), Shaun Groetsema (soccer), Bethann Hamer (soccer), Brian Hernandez (cross country), Jared Kimber (football), Bruce Kraay (cross country), Nathan Love (cross country), Kelly Lufkin (cross country), Andrea McCarty (golf), Andrew McKeachie (cross country), Logan Neil (soccer), Kate Nelson (cross country), Danielle Petzak (soccer), Christopher Schmelz (football), Megan Scholten (golf), Jeffrey Stusick (soccer), Andrew Thomson (golf), Kyle Warren (football), David Whitaker (soccer), Lauren Zandstra (golf).
Men's Golf Letterwinners
Colin Breit*, freshman from Muskegon/West Michigan Christian
Nicholas Campbell****, senior from Saline/Saline
John Cannon***, junior from Traverse City/Traverse City West
Garrett DeWaal*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Central
Ben Lanting*, freshman from Littleton, Colo./Front Range Christian
Ben Lewis*, freshman from Grand Haven/Grand Haven
Andrew Thomson****, senior from Beaver Dam, Wisc./Central Wisconsin Christian
Evan Telzerow*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Northern
Graham Vanderheide*, freshman from Grandville/Calvin Christian
Jason Vanderklok**, sophomore from Scotts/Vicksburg
Women's Golf Letterwinners
Emily Atsma****, senior from Caledonia/South Christian
Mary Bradley**, sophomore from Pierson/Tri-County Area
Brittany Haight*, freshman from Otsego/Otsego
Courtney Jenkins*, freshman from Pinckney/Pinckney Community
Montana Leep*, freshman from Hastings/South Christian
Maggie Mangan***, junior from Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton-Warrenville S.
Andrea McCarty****, senior from Denver, Co./Cherry Creek
Lauren Messer*, freshman from Shelbyville/Gull Lake
Charlotte Park**, junior from Grosse Pointe/Grosse Pointe South
Andrea Powell*, freshman from Jenison/Hudsonville
Megan Scholten****, senior from Grand Rapids/Grand Rapids Christian
Stephanie Stover*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Calvin Christian
Lauren Zandstra****, senior from Flushing/Flushing
Men's Soccer Letterwinners
Andrew Abe****, senior from Naperville, Ill./Naperville North
Paul Austin****, senior from Grandville/Grandville
Mickey Biebelhausen**, sophomore from Rochester/Rochester Adams
Maxwell DeBoef***, junior from Plainwell/Plainwell
Jonathan DeVries*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Eastern
Cameron Dice*, freshman from Allendale/Unity Christian
Luke Dishnow***, junior from Saline/Saline
Jeffrey Ekdom***, junior from Holland/Holland Christian
Shaun Groetsema****, senior from Augusta/Galesburg-Augusta
Nicholas Heyboer**, sophomore from Grand Haven/Grand Haven
Conor Hughes***, junior from Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North
Connor Kogge*, freshman from Holt/Mason
Tarwo Konbloa*, freshman from Kentwood/East Kentwood
Benjaminn Lemmen**, sophomore from Holland/Holland Christian
Gavin Midlam*, freshman from East Lansing/East Lansing
Jason Muller**, junior from Petoskey/Petoskey
Grant Neil**, sophomore from Holland/West Ottawa
Logan Neil****, senior from Holland/West Ottawa
Justin Reamon*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Northview
Logan Sikkenga*, freshman from Hudsonville/Hudsonville
Macall Smith*, freshman from Holland/Holland Christian
Corey Stelk*, freshman from Bettendorf, Ia./Pleasant Valley
Jeffrey Stusick****, senior from Stevensville/Lakeshore
Brandon Underwood*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Eastern
Matthew VanZytveld**, sophomore from Grand Haven/Grand Haven
Brayden West**, sophomore from West Olive/West Ottawa
Cole Whitaker**, sophomore from Vicksburg/Vicksburg
David Whitaker****, senior from Vicksburg/Vicksburg
Women's Soccer Letterwinners
Megan Altieri**, junior from Bay Village, Ohio/Bay Village
Tricia Bajema***, junior from Grandville/Grandville
Lindsey Bieri*, freshman from Holland/Holland Christian
Kristina Bosch**, sophomore from Holland/Holland Christian
Madison Buursma*, freshman from Grandville/Calvin Christian
Mary Cefaratti*, freshman from Hinsdale, Ill./Hinsdale Central
Kylie Clark***, junior from Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville
Maria DeShaw*, freshman from Holland/West Ottawa
Kat Dickson*, freshman from Grayslake, Ill./Grayslake Central
Brooke Dippel*, freshman from Mason/Mason
Rachel Doud***, junior from Rockford/Rockford
Alyson Epolito***, junior from East Lansing/East Lansing
Maddie Estrada*, sophomore from Holt/Mason
Katie Gabriel**, sophomore from Grandville/Grandville
Lana Gentry****, senior from Traverse City/Traverse City Central
Grace Gonzalez***, senior from Park Ridge, Ill./Maine South
Bethann Hamer****, senior from Palatine, Ill./Palatine
Erin Jipping*, freshman from Holland/West Ottawa
Lindsay Jipping***, junior from Jenison/Unity Christian
Cara Johnson*, sophomore from Chelsea/Chelsea
Nora Kirk*, freshman from Maumee, Ohio/Notre Dame Academy
Lauren Kooy*, sophomore Metamore/Flint Powers Catholic
Sara Lang***, junior from Traverse City/Traverse City Central
Courtney Laux**, sophomore from Novi/Novi
Acacia Nevenzel**, sophomore from Holland/Holland
Danielle Petzak****, senior from Zeeland/Zeeland West
Rachel Rebhan**, sophomore from Holland/Zeeland East
Courtney Schmidt*, freshman from Lowell/Lowell
Raisa Yewah**, sophomore from East Lansing/Okemos
Volleyball Letterwinners
Meredith Aja*, sophomore from Traverse City/Traverse City Central
Katie Ansel*, sophomore from Zeeland/Zeeland East
Greer Bratschie***, junior from Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids
Jacqueline Canonoco**, senior from Arlington Heights, Ill./Prospect
Courtney Earles***, junior from Kentwood/East Kentwood
Nicole George**, junior from Hamilton/Hamilton
Jenna Grasmeyer*, freshman from Hudsonville/Unity Christian
Anna Lynch*, freshman from Lake Odessa/Lakewood
Jessica Maier***, junior from Grandville/Jenison
Lindy Melville**, senior from Grandville/Jenison
Marietta Schoolmaster**, sophomore from Portage/Portage
Jillian Sommerville*, freshman from Plymouth/Salem
Caitlin Trompeter**, junior from Kalamazoo/Gull Lake
Amy VanderStoep*, freshman from Holland/West Ottawa
Football Cheerleader Letterwinners
Karly Annett**, sophomore from Bloomfield Hills/Lahser
Allison Barnes*, freshman from Jenison/Hudsonville
Krystal Bean*, freshman from Whitehall/Whitehall
Taylor Berge**, sophomore from Johnsburg, Ill./Johnsburg
Anna Foos*, freshman from Clarkston/Clarkston
Ashley Fox*, freshman from Kimball/Port Huron
Lauren Gobelman*, freshman from Vernon Hills, Ill./Vernon Hills
Katelyn Klotz*, freshman from Grand Rapids/Forest Hills Eastern
Olivia Haines*, junior from Gowen/Greenville
Madeline Hazen*, freshman from Howell/Brighton
Laurel Mattice*, sophomore from Woodland/Lakewood
Nicole Miller*, freshman from Spring Lake/Spring Lake
Amber Prins*, freshman from Holland/Holland Christian
Alexander Stradal*, sophomore from Muskegon/Mona Shores
Chelsea Van't Land*, freshman from Clarksville/Lakewood
Taylor Votto**, sophomore from Ardmore, Pa./Lower Merion
Megan Walls*, freshman from Westerville, Ohio/Worthington Christian
Kevin Wonch**, sophomore from East Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids
Jonathan Yarranton**, junior from Muskegon/Reeths Puffer
Men's Cross Country Letterwinners
Alex Brock**, sophomore from Holland/West Ottawa
Seth Coffing*, senior from Bridgman/Bridgman
Rollin Cook**, sophomore from Ada/Forest Hills Central
Benjamin Fineout****, senior from Zeeland/Zeeland West
Joseph Frakes**, sophomore from Ann Arbor/Pioneer
Kyle Gibson***, senior from Alma/Alma
Erik Gonzalez**, sophomore from Athens/Athens
Jesse Henkel**, sophomore from Mason/Mason
Brian Hernandez****, senior from Saline/Saline
Will Hewitt***, junior from Grand Haven/Grand Haven
Matt Hughes*, freshman from Kenosha, Wisc./Home School
Bruce Kraay****, senior from Zeeland/Zeeland West
Tim Lewis**, sophomore from South Haven/South Haven
Nathan Love****, senior from Midland/Midland
Grant Ludema*, freshman from Ada/Grand Rapids Christian
Tom Mahaffie*, freshman from The Netherlands/American School of the Hague
Andrew McKeachie****, senior from Milford/Milford
Kyle Mireles**, junior from Livonia/Churchill
Samuel Pederson**, sophomore from Mt. Prospect/Mt. Prospect
James Rogers**, sophomore from Saginaw/Valley Lutheran
Blake Rottschafer***, junior from Spring Lake/Spring Lake
Chris Ryan***, junior from Vicksburg/Vicksburg
Daniel Schriemer**, sophomore from Vicksburg/Vicksburg
Tim Simon*, freshman from Richland/Gull Lake
Tom Smeltzer**, sophomore from Frankfort/Benzie Central
Andrew Wiersum***, junior from Minnetonka, Minn./Minnetonka
Zack Zandbergen*, freshman from Grandville/Grandville
Ben Zank*, freshman from Midland/H.H. Dow
Women's Cross Country Letterwinners
Camille Borst**, sophomore from Allendale/Allendale
Meredith Busman**, sophomore from Coopersville/Coopersville
Katie Carlson**, sophomore from Rockford/Rockford
Jacilyn Clark*, freshman from Normal, Ill./Normal West
Salome Emmanuel****, senior from Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton North
Catie Gammon**, sophomore from Petoskey/Petoskey
Katrina Gobrogge****, senior from Napoleon, Ohio/Archbold
Jessica Krantz*, freshman from Traverse City/Central
Kelly Lufkin****, senior from Houghton/Houghton
Taylor Mattarella***, junior from Traverse City/Central
Morgan McCardel***, junior from Traverse City/St. Francis
Sheri McCormack**, sophomore from Holland/West Ottawa
Kate Nelson****, senior from Williamston/Williamston
Hannah Nyboer*, sophomore from Spring Lake/Nunica
Gina O'Brien***, senior from Saline/Saline
Katy Olsen**, sophomore from Traverse City/St. Francis
Karlyn Sikma*, senior from Grand Rapids/North Pointe Christian
Julia Slesinski**, sophomore from Kalamazoo/Central
Julie Windom**, sophomore from Bowling Green, Ohio/Lakota
Emily Wrozek*, freshman from Clarklake/Hanover-Horton
Football Letterwinners
Andrew Ancy**, senior from Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook
Michael Atwell**, sophomore from Geneseo/Geneseo
Nathan Barnes**, junior from Laingsburg/Laingsburg
Russell Bernheisel*, sophomore from Bellevue/Charlotte
Gregory Bird**, sophomore from Byron Center/Byron Center
Nick Boeve**, senior from Holland/Hamilton
Marcus Bradstreet***, senior from Grandville/Grandville
Paul Brucker*, junior from Grosse Pointe/Grosse Pointe North
Taylor Brynaert*, freshman from Washington/Romeo
Kurtis Burmeister***, senior from Shelby/Shelby
Santino DiCesare**, sophomore from Dorr/Wayland
Alex Doman**, senior from Royal Oak/Brother Rice
Adam Drooger**, sophomore from Holland/Holland
Josh Droppers****, senior from Kalamazoo/Portage Northern
Reginald Duncan*, sophomore from Williamston/Williamston
Evan Finch**, sophomore from Ann Arbor/Pioneer
Jacob Hall**, senior from Corner/South Lyon
Fluarry Jackson*, freshman from Norton Shores/Muskegon
Shawn Jackson**, sophomore from Granger, Ind./Mishawaka Penn
Nathan Jazwinski***, senior from Middleville/Thornapple Kellogg
Kevin Kandow**, junior from Clio/Clio
Daniel Karam***, senior from Grosse Pointe Woods/Warren DeLasalle
Mark Karam**, junior from Grosse Pointe Woods/Warren DeLasalle
Jared Kimber****, senior from Bedford, Ohio/Bedford
Timothy Klaus**, sophomore from Saugatuck/Saugatuck
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U.S. District Judge George Singal ordered Campbell to pay nearly $8,700 in restitution with his two co-defendants.
Campbell and co-defendants Michael Barnes, 32, and Esley Porteous, 27, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., came to the attention of federal officials after 160 credit cards in the name of Shawn Collins were found in the glove compartment of the car the three were in on May 21, 2011. Scarborough and South Portland police, who stopped the trio, also found fake Illinois driver's licenses with photos of each of the defendants on them.
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Porteous is scheduled to be sentenced next month in federal court in Portland. Barnes' first court appearance in Maine has been delayed until charges pending against him in New York have been resolved, according to court documents.
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This is our first public image for the large instance types and we hope we covered all bases, but we're eager to hear whether everything works as expected. As promised the script to create the image is also available. To run the script, launch Amazon's 64-bit FC6 image and run through the steps.
A little background on RightImages for those of you not familiar with what we're doing: To configure servers we use a base image and install software at boot time using our server templates and RightScripts. This is way more modular and maintainable than baking entire servers into AMIs. Please see our blog post on the rationale behind this. As a result, we produce base images that are small yet have all the software utilities one just needs in EC2 already installed, from the Amazon EC2 tools to traceroute, curl, wget, etc. The second innovation we made with our images is that they are fully scripted and we publish the script. You can launch Amazon's FC4 or FC6 image, run our script, and out pops a clone of our RightImage. So if you want to see what we install or make some changes you can go right ahead.
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steve I receive msg: "Error: InvalidParameterValue: The requested instance type does not agree with the architecture specified in the AMI manifest." when trying to launch it from the dashboard.
Morgan Tocker Is there any interest in creating a CentOS 4 server template? There are a number of isolated incidents where MySQL does not play nice with NPTL, and LinuxThreads support has been removed from CentOS 5.
Thorsten Steve: are you sure you are launching the image on a "m1.large" or "m1.xlarge" instance? Sounds like you're trying to run it on a small instance. Morgan: to tell you the truth, we don't have the resources to pursue CentOS4. The script we use to generate our CentOS5 image is public (see the link in the blog entry), so it should be a "simple matter" for someone else to create a CentOS4 version…
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MACON, Ga. – The Atlantic Sun preseason All-Conference teams were announced, Wednesday, with Lipscomb's Garret Pettis earning recognition from the conference's coaches.
"Obviously, this is a much-deserved recognition," said Lipscomb head coach Charles Morrow. "He has had a big impact on the league since his freshman year (when he was Lipscomb's first A-Sun Freshman of the Year), and he's followed up on that."
Pettis, a first-team all-Atlantic Sun pick last season, tied for the Lipscomb lead with eight goals and 19 points. His 51 shots led the squad, as did his 20 shots on goal.
The Elizabethtown, Pa., native stands to pass significant milestones during his senior campaign; Pettis is currently ranked second all-time in goals (24) and third in shots taken (143) and points (55).
After finishing last regular season in a fourth-place tie with Mercer, this year's Bison squad was picked to finish sixth in the coach's preseason poll. Last year's regular season champion, Florida Gulf Coast, was picked to repeat in what will be their first season as a full member institution of the Atlantic Sun.
"I think we are much better (than sixth)," said Morrow. "We've proven that we can play the underdog role and play it well. Our guys will see that ranking as a challenge; I suspect they'll feel slighted and use that as motivation."
2010 tournament champion ETSU was picked to finish as the runner-up to Florida Gulf Coast, losing in a 5-4 vote from the league's coaches; on points, Gulf Coast narrowly edged the Bucs, 77-76.
For the second-straight season, ETSU and Summers-Taylor Stadium will host the Atlantic Sun Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament takes place from November 9-13 with the First, Semifinal and Championship Rounds all taking place in Johnson City, Tenn.
"Last season, we took (eventual champion) ETSU to overtime twice, and we also took Gulf Coast to overtime," said Morrow. "Our players know we can play with anyone in the conference."
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I came away from Oscarcast 2013 with supremely mixed feelings, and not just about the impromptu Shatner landing. (The Trekkie in me applauded; the taxidermist in me felt the workmanship was slipshod.) Can't be certain, but I believe there was a theme running through the show — other than "women are boob-having harridans" — and that theme was musicals! Are good! This theme was delivered by frat mainstay Seth MacFarlane, an extraordinarily multitalented host who spun extraordinarily tacky material into gold, or at least quality Naugahyde, and fused the reactionary and the classic in ways undreamt of since the Rat Pack. He sang, he danced, he led the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, and he made a compelling, subtextual case that his fan base of young masturbators and media pirates should keep a top hat and tails in the closet, alongside their nine interchangeable hoodies and suppressed homosexual tendencies.
MacFarlane's an old-fashioned triple threat and a good vessel for this message. But what, exactly, was the message about musicals — movie musicals and stage musicals — being sent by this year's heavily Misérables-scented Oscarcast? Watching sure-footed homunculus Channing Tatum spin fiberglass Charlize Theron is a slam dunk, a quadrant-spanning moment if ever there was one. But the musical high points were all fond looks back at the golden age. It's not a bad strategy, and it worked, to an extent. "My expectations for award shows are low," tweeted New York Times critic Jason Zinoman, "but the one thing that the Oscars should (and can) get right is nostalgia." Yet there was also a nagging sense of necrosis, which many folks picked up on immediately: "Shirley Bassey is my favorite thing at the Oscars," chirped the Chicago Sun-Times' Jim Emerson, " … in 2013. Singing a 49-year-old song that wasn't nominated." Comedian Patton Oswalt — who was on fire the whole night — summed it up: "Yeah, it's Shirley Bassey, then bulk erase everything else, then Adele. Wow."
Let's set aside the fact that the musical theme, while comprehensive, was not exactly cohesive: An alien could have come away from the telecast under the impression that James Bond is a movie-musical franchise. (Which, let's face it: It kind of is.) How many of the songs performed — outside of the Best Song category — were even a little bit new? The most recent selections were a quarter-century old. Catherine Zeta-Jones's reprise of "All That Jazz" from her 2002 movie version of Chicago — while more than adequately executed — felt like a producer rummaging in the trunk. Ditto Jennifer Hudson, who took the roof off with "And I Am Telling You … " from Dreamgirls … a 30-year-old show made into a film an awkward seven years ago. Later, in her tribute to a brilliant dead person, Barbra Streisand delivered a heart-tugging "The Way We Were" — but what about the way we are? (Russell Crowe, assisted by a hastily grafted bionic Franken-ear, attempted a bit of clumsy time-travel-into-the-future with his rushed tempos on "One Day More," alas, to no avail.) The message, to my ears, was that musicals, onstage and onscreen, aren't dead, just mummified: They're classy, impressive gimmicks, the Restoration Hardware of pop art. As tropes — and MacFarlane is, above all else, a trope-dealer — they're vital. But they're hardly a viable stem-cell line for new work. John Travolta was the sole representative of a newish movie-musical (Hairspray), but we didn't hear any Shaiman-Wittman tunes — presumably because this would've meant getting Travolta into a dress. (And dresses are dangerous!)
My takeaway: It's a start. Maybe sometime in the distant future — when it's Wicked's year, possibly — we'll incorporate some music composed within the lifetime of the youngest acting nominee. I'd love to hear MacFarlane and the GMC play more than the greatest hits.
Update: A commenter reminds me that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron produced this year's Oscars. (I wasn't paying attention at all until MacFarlane started soft-shoeing.) Zadan and Meron produced Chicago (and Hairspray), so that explains why their corpus got privileged. But not why very-much-living composer Marc Shaiman didn't get a song in edgewise.


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DETROIT -- A large Auburn Hills, Mich.-based manufacturer of parts for the automotive, aerospace, defense, and marine industries violated federal law by laying off various engineers on the basis of their age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit (Case No. 2:12-cv-10264) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan), Hutchinson Sealing Systems, Inc., manipulated its criteria for selecting project engineers for layoff based on age. In the first round of layoffs, William Galas was the only engineer selected for layoff. At the age of 62 at the time, he was the oldest project engineer. A mere month later, Hutchinson laid off two more project engineers. This time, Hutchinson added one new layoff criterion that led to the second- and third-oldest project engineers at the time, ages 51 and 48 respectively, to be selected for layoff. Hutchinson did not provide a satisfactory explanation for this creation of new layoff criteria mere month later, the EEOC said. The agency said that if Hutchinson had used the same criteria for the two later layoffs as for the first one (of Galas), then both of these engineers would not have been selected for termination, but rather much younger engineers would have been.
Such alleged conduct violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). The EEOC filed suit against Hutchinson Sealing Systems after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The agency seeks to recover monetary compensation for Galas and the two other project engineers in the form of back pay other relief, including reinstatement, front pay and anti-discrimination training for the company.
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ABNORMAN, Oklahoma - It has come to my attention that I have to pee. In fact, I have to pee very badly. The police are still investigating what is causing this sensation to pee, as I just went an hour ago.
Before getting this strange sensation, I had 32 -- count them, 32 -- cans of beer followed by 6 glasses of water. Then I fell asleep after watching Freddy vs. Jason on Nickelodeon... at least I think it was Nickelodeon, or it could have been the Playboy channel; I don't remember. Then I woke up with this strange feeling inside my bladder. I knew I had to pee terribly. I also knew that this would make a great UnNews story.
My bladder was arrested and charged with possession of 26.5 gallons of piss. Said one officer, who wished to remain anonymous, "That's a big twinkie! Yeah, uhhh, what we've got here is the largest, most piss-filled bladder I have ever seen since I laughed my ass off at the news that Richard Moll went on a rampage! Hahahahaha! That was some funny shit, I'll tell you. We decided against bladder sugery, and just hired Scotty to beam it outside of his body and replace it with a Michael Bolton CD. Hey, Bolton had to come in handy somehow."
Other sources claim that the tape was, in fact, a Barry Manilow CD and not a Michael Bolton CD. Some also argue that it was a vinyl record and not a CD. Others claim it was an eight track tape. I can't tell since I was put to sleep to numb any pain. This isn't really important to the story, but I just like saying "Michael Bolton," "Barry Manilow," "CD," "Vinyl record," and "eight track tape." takes me back to a time before I was even born.
My bladder was released on $6.50 bail, and I still have to pee. If I don't find a toilet soon, I'm gonna lose my marbles! I'm gonna make Larry King laugh so much that he'll pee himself. Ha ha ha ha ha!!! My bladder has been cleared of all charges, but not relieved. More information will be available as this story develops.
This just in: I no longer have to pee. I could not find a toilet anywhere, and my pants are as wet as hell. Just goes to show you, NEVER drink beer. I feel quite embarrassed right now. If you need me, I'm going to change my pants and go to bed early tonight.
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