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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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Pat Williams: Deep commitment to the University of Montana
Sixteen years ago, in mid-career, I left a job I loved representing Montana in the U.S. Congress. I came home so I could teach at the University of Montana, where I was once a student. My commitment to and respect for the university and our students are deep and genuine. Prior to being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, I was a classroom teacher. I now have been in front of classrooms for 30 years, teaching students from sixth-graders to post-graduates. For 18 years, I was a member of the Education Committee in the U.S. Congress and for eight of those years I was chosen as chairman/senior member of the Postsecondary Education Subcommittee, with jurisdiction over the writing of federal laws affecting public colleges and universities.
Guest column by PAT WILLIAMS
A month ago, a New York Times reporter called to ask my opinion concerning those few students whose actions have insulted and scarred our university community. As one member of the Board Regents, I gave the Times reporter my purposely blunt opinion. At no time during the interview did I make any reference to personnel, the team or other athletes. We Montanans have always preferred straight talk from those who represent us. My choice of words with the reporter was candid; chosen to illuminate my concern with the actions of outlier, convicted student-athletes whose behavior have damaged public and personal safety as well as scarred our university.
During the intervening days since the newspaper's interview with me, there has been obvious controversy about my quote, but I have not responded until now because of a then-ongoing court trial.
Nationwide, arrests of college athletes are at a near all-time high. And, according to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education, more than 20 percent of these cases involve women. That represents a deep violation of our humanity - one toward the other.
We have all known for a long time that our student athletes can be some of the University of Montana's best ambassadors, and we're proud of their accomplishments both in the classroom, on the court and the field. It does a disservice to the vast majority who so ably represent this school, that a handful of student offenders give the program a black eye.
For 50 years I have worked to improve and enhance educational opportunities for young people across our state and throughout the nation. As a teacher and a member of the Board of Regents, I will continue to defend our efforts to educate the next generation and form leaders of conscience. If I turned a blind eye to violence in our university communities it would impede these goals.
Carol and I are the parents of three University of Montana graduates. Like all parents, we wanted to ensure the university would both educate and protect our kids. All these years later as a regent, I insist on the same for all parents and grandparents who choose to send their children to this university.
Pat Williams served nine terms as a U.S. representative from Montana. After his retirement, he returned to Montana and taught at the University of Montana. He has served one year on the Board of Regents and is awaiting Senate confirmation for a full term.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Woods wins another World Championship at Doral
DORAL, Fla. (AP) ? Tiger Woods is hitting his stride on his march to the Masters.
Woods had full control of his game Sunday and never let anyone get closer than three shots until he had locked up his 17th World Golf Championship title. With a bogey that didn't matter on the final hole, he closed with a 1-under 71 to win the Cadillac Championship.
One year ago at Doral, Woods left after the 11th hole with tightness in his left Achilles tendon. He since has won five times in his last 22 tournaments worldwide, and can return to No. 1 in the world with a win in two weeks at Bay Hill.
Woods won by two over Steve Stricker, who gave Woods a putting tip on the eve of the tournament.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/woods-wins-another-world-championship-doral-225324972--spt.html
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GE's Barista Bots are exactly what SXSW needs: coffee printing robotic arms
The best way to get the attention of a bunch of sleep-deprived, possibly hungover SXSW Interactive attendees? Coffee-slinging robotic arms, naturally. GE's fully embracing Austin's caffeinated food trick culture with a pair of Barista Bots, arms that operate similarly to your standard 3D printer, moving along the X, Y, Z axes to extrude coffee through a syringe, atop of a latte's foam. The process starts when one of the robot's human barista counterparts takes a shot of an image with a webcam, digitizing it on a nearby computer. Then the arm goes to work.
It's an imperfect science, of course. For one thing, foam is a really difficult canvas to work on, what with all the unevenness of constantly popping bubbles. There's also an awful lot of wind in Austin today, and with all those people inside, the van did a little bit of rocking. We saw some more complex images that didn't come out particularly well (facial scans, for one thing), so we decided to throw something a simpler at the 'bot, drawing our "e" logo on a sheet of paper.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/10/barista-bot/
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Web Design Tips from the Internet Marketing Trenches | Site ...
If you are not comfortable with buy submit your article and executing quick and important decisions, then it is critical that you know that ability is indispensable with online marketing and business. It is always the very early stages that pose the greatest threat to success or even continuing with the endeavor. We are obviously all different, and some adapt more readily than others. We understand the feeling of wanting to know it all, but the really good news is you do not have to know it all, right away or even ever. You have seen the largest businesses in the world make the wrong decision about something, and so you should not ever fear that. Once you have have survived for a while, then you will see your mistakes dwindling in numbers. If you pay close attention to what transpires in this article, then you will be able to add significantly to your results. Any person who spends money with any business or salesperson will be influenced by the appearance of the business, and the same effect applies with your website design. Your focus should be on making your site?s design stand out from the rest, pass on the right message to your visitors and at the same time be visually appealing. It is understandable if you feel a bit confused about this subject. This article will discuss several areas of web design so your pages will keep people on them. The Right Graphics: It is important to be consistent with your graphics so make sure that they are sized and defined properly. This will help you make your site perform better and that will help it stand out from all of the others. The truth is that it is easier to load pages that have good and consistent graphics. Well defined graphics enhance the look and the performance of the website, which makes it work seamlessly across all browsers. Images that are well sized and will help the browsers have an easier time of working and make loading time faster. If you want to get the absolute most from onlinesportsbettingv.com and all it has to offer, then you will need additional information. Obviously there is tremendous variation among small web business owners when it comes to knowledge base about marketing techniques. There is a certain minimum threshold of information on any particular IM method that needs to be reached as soon as possible. Our articles are designed to be an introduction, and of course we cannot go into great detail when presenting multiple methods or ideas in a single article. You will read something, and it make ring true or resonate with you; pay particular attention to those moments as they can lead you to something profitable. Your Content Should be Easy to Read: How your content appears will have a large impact on how many people take the time to read it and how many skip over it because it?s not easy on the eyes. Make sure that you format all of your content in such a way that readers will have no trouble accessing it. Too much unbroken text can be exhausting and off-putting, so use white space as much as possible to create a more open feeling. Anyone with a site that?s content-rich has to be careful to give people a break from too much text. The more you focus on developing a neat and user friendly design of your site, the easier it will be for your visitors to spend more time on it. Another best practices tip is to verify that your design looks as advertised in other browsers. Any type of upgrade or mod, mainly large ones, have the potential to cause problems; so be sure to verify all is still OK. So even if you make any minor changes to your site?s design, you should make sure you test it out so that you don?t have to face any embarrassing situation in front of your visitors. We urge you to continue learning more about website design because knowledge will not hurt you. You can always make changes to your site design, but it is generally not a good idea to make large changes.
Source: http://sitepromotionfree.tk/2013/03/10/web-design-tips-from-the-internet-marketing-trenches/
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Sierra Leone charges 29 with defrauding Gates Fund
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) ? The head of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission says that 29 government health officials will appear in court on corruption charges for having allegedly defrauded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's vaccine program.
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara told The Associated Press that the government's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kisito Sheku Daoh, six other medical doctors and 22 health officials are charged with defrauding the Gates Foundation's Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization Fund of $523,000. He said all those charged are out on bail and scheduled to appear in court on March 18.
The Gates Foundation's immunization fund has suspended payments of $6 million to Sierra Leone over the allegations of misuse of funds.
The immunization fund has disbursed more than $27 million to Sierra Leone since 2001.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-leone-charges-29-defrauding-gates-fund-113624726.html
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Four Ways to Open a Science Story | Communication Breakdown
There are many ways to begin a story. And finding the right opening line can make writing the rest of the story much easier. Finding the right opening line is also important if you want the reader to keep reading.
I am not the first person to say this. Tim Radford?s famous ?Manifesto for the Simple Scribe? lists the all-important first line in rule number 12, which says (among other things) that ?there is always an ideal first sentence.? But how do you find that ideal first sentence?
This question came up recently when I was speaking to an undergraduate science writing class. In response, I talked about four broad types of ledes ? or introductory paragraphs ? for science stories. I?ll explore these four categories here. I want to stress that this is not an exhaustive list; some of the categories can overlap, and there are many others that I don?t touch on at all. But these thoughts should, hopefully, serve as a good starting point for conversation.
Mystery
Some science stories begin with a line that simply begs to be explained. I don?t mean that they are written in technical language that can?t be understood; I mean that they capture a reader?s imagination and almost force the reader to find out what is going on. Carl Zimmer is particularly adept at this.
He wrote one of my favorite ledes: ?In 1941, a rose killed a policeman.? After I read that first line, I had to keep reading. Ultimately, the piece was about antibiotics and the microbiome. Some readers might have been put off if the story had begun with a reference to the microbiome, but by the time you got to the nitty-gritty details, the story had built up enough narrative momentum to propel readers through to the finish line.
More recently, Zimmer led a piece this way: ?This is a story about the discovery of an organ that measures twelve feet long and four inches wide.? Again, the reader is compelled to keep reading. (And, again, the subject matter may otherwise have caused some readers to steer clear.)
Humanize It
It might be difficult to get people to read a story about microbiology. It could even be a challenge to get people to read about something as eye-catching as a crime, if the crime happened some place far away. But if you open the story by making it about a person, you can usually get someone?s attention.
Deborah Blum used this approach powerfully in a piece that begins: ?Your daughter died. Your daughter died thousands of miles from home.? Any reader, or at least any reader who is a parent, can immediately connect to the story. Even if they don?t yet know exactly what the story is about, they recognize it as every parent?s nightmare. Maybe it?s because I am the father of three daughters, but that lede was like a punch in the gut. I kept reading.
For a less direct example, I?ll point to Melinda Wenner Moyer. Earlier this year, she started a piece this way: ?David Gems?s life was turned upside down in 2006 by a group of worms that kept on living when they were supposed to die.? Gems, Wenner Moyer quickly explains, is a researcher who uses a specific species of roundworm to study the biology of aging. But by making the first sentence focus on Gems, rather than his work on cellular damage caused by oxidation, Wenner Moyer pulls the reader in. Readers can?t identify with (or perhaps even understand) oxidation, but they can identify with a person.
Make It About the Reader
People love reading about themselves, so making the story about the reader is often a good bet ? especially if you?re writing about something that touches on the reader?s health or can save them time or money. This technique may be overused (and is often misused), but it?s not necessarily a bad idea.
Gisela Telis wrote a piece for ScienceNow that begins like this: ?If you were plagued by pimples in your teen years, you may have bacteria to blame?but not all of them.?
As her story notes, more than 80 percent of people in the United States have experienced acne. That means that most people can relate to her lede. Former acne sufferers may want to read it to find out what was behind their condition, and those still dealing with acne will keep reading to see if there?s anything they can do about it.
External News Hook
If you can tie your story to something that is the subject of significant public attention, odds are good that you can tap into that interest ? even if the subject is something silly.
I wrote a blog post in February that begins this way: ?In early February, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said on Twitter that the superhero Thor?s hammer (aka Mjolnir) ?weighs as much as a herd of 300 billion elephants.? News outlets pounced on this, and the news was quickly circulating online. Sadly, Tyson was wrong.?
I did not do this to pick on Tyson, whom I admire. I wrote that lede because I wanted to talk about physics and materials science, and tapping into the superfan enthusiasm of comic book enthusiasts was a great way to do it. It worked.
For more ideas about crafting good opening lines, check out this Storify that Maryn McKenna made following a session she led at ScienceOnline with David Dobbs on what science writers can learn from genre novels. There?s some great stuff there.
Now I turn it over to you. How do you approach writing the opening lines of your stories? Please share any tips, tricks or questions you might have in the comments.
PS: Please admire my restraint. I did not mention ?It was a dark and stormy night? even once.
Source: http://www.scilogs.com/communication_breakdown/four-ways-to-open-a-story/
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