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In a time of crisis, one university turned to real-time chat technology to communicate with students-and ended up with a whole new way of handling admissions questions, too.

Click Here to Chat LiveHOW OFTEN DOES it turn out that times of duress prove to be precisely the kick in the pants we need to change our ways? For people, that can mean giving up self-destructive habits. For schools, it can mean giving up practices that are no longer suited to the purposes for which they were originally developed.

A case in point: the way admissions used to be handled by the University of New Orleans, a 12,000-student private university in Louisiana. Direct mail campaigns (in printed form) were a common marketing and recruitment strategy up until Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. Of course, students also could visit the school's website to download forms and request information, but that interaction was unidirectional only. When someone submitted a question to UNO, that would require an e-mail response on the school's end. And several staffers had to dedicate themselves to separating legitimate requests from spam, which, understandably, delayed responses. (Now, in an era of real-time instant messaging, texting, and voice/ video over IP, that process sounds archaic.)

But in the autumn of 2005, after Katrina devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas, UNO shut down when its home city did. After brief stints of operation in provisional offices set up in Baton Rouge and on one of its satellite campuses, the university officially reopened its main campus that December.

By then, says Longin Gogu, the school's assistant director for admissions data management, "100 percent of the student body had been displaced to other institutions." And that wasn't the only seemingly insurmountable challenge. There was the matter of limited resources- staff, working phone lines, access to e-mail, printed matter- and a web infrastructure that had to be reassembled. "Katrina pretty much shut down our entire recruiting, mailing, and communications operations," recalls Gogu. Hence, that kick in the pants.

Emergency Response

UNO needed an alternative mechanism that could immediately be used to start reaching out to displaced and prospective students. There was no time for a request for proposals, vendor presentations, web demonstrations, or reference checks. Gogu describes the evaluation process like this: "I did a Google search for 'chat management systems' or 'customer relationship management systems,' and simply looked at the products that came up."

Within two or three weeks, he'd made his choice. "Whoever got in touch with us first and responded promptly were the companies we considered. In the end, LivePerson was the most responsive and customer-friendly. Plus, the company offered very competitive pricing for its services," says Gogu. The LivePerson Contact Center software enables an operator to chat via instant message with a student (current or potential) in real time-precisely what Gogu was looking for.

In UNO's initial post-Katrina deployment of the product, he says, the school purchased a license that allowed it to run two copies of LivePerson Contact Center concurrently, which meant two operators could chat with students at the same time. Staff in the Admissions office took two-hour shifts answering questions in real time through a chat window; questions about whether the university still existed, how displaced students could get copies of transcripts, and how they could access their records. Why just two-hour shifts? "Each staff member also had to cover 10 other duties to help the university start over and reinitialize operations," explains Gogu.

Live Chat (LivePerson's chat module) works like this: A user fills in a quick form that requires a name and optionally prompts for a student ID and e-mail address. When the user clicks "Start chat," an instant message window pops up, and if there is a wait to speak with an operator, the chat window indicates how long the queue time will be. An operator soon introduces him- or herself, tackles questions, provides links to online resources, and acts as a customer service face to the university.

These days at UNO, that university person frequently is a student. (The switch to student operators came about once the school's physical campus was reopened.) The use of students as chat operators is something the university stumbled on. As at most campuses, student workers are part of the university Admissions office staff. It didn't take long for Gogu to discover that those students really shone in the chat environment. "They're all pretty much growing up with chat technology," he says. "It was easy for them to pick up on it." Over time, as the Admissions office expanded its use of the LivePerson technology for both emergency communications and marketing purposes, it increasingly utilized students to tackle the work. Gogu points out, "Students can relate to each other. Students communicate and bond more effectively when they talk to other students. We saw that as a positive aspect."

A New Way of Doing Admissions

In June 2007, long after UNO's initial LivePerson deployment- designed as an emergency measure to address communication problems-the university added modules: e-mail management, Live Call (a click-to-talk option that allows a user to enter a name, phone number, and message to request a phone call back from an operator), and a knowledgebase (a web-based FAQ repository that's available for both visitors and internal people). The enhancements have allowed the software to become the centerpiece of UNO's current online contact solution for admissions.

In fact, the university has expanded its software license to allow five concurrent operators to handle chat requests as they come in (typically, general information or admissionsrelated questions). Like a phone bank, the chat software manages the division of work among the UNO operators. As a staffer starts up a chat with the first person in line, that individual disappears from the queue, and the next inquirer can be claimed by the second operator. Once a chat window has been closed, a voluntary feedback form pops up for the user, asking about the helpfulness and effectiveness of the chat experience.

After Hurricane Katrina shut down UNO's entire recruiting, mailing, and communications operations, admissions officers turned to live chat software to answer the flood of student questions.

Student response to the new contact center has been positive, says Gogu. "Because it's a distributed workflow, answers come quicker," he notes. "There's a lot of follow-up and a lot of functionality built in that allows us to be more efficient." That amounts to better customer service.

Gogu also believes that students appreciate the relative anonymity of the live chat function and the convenience of the call-back capability. Although metrics are hard to come by yet, he says the school has seen its phone volumes shift. "We still receive a lot of phone calls, but the trend goes toward students using the Live Call feature of our website."

He notes that the Admissions office has become the hotspot for all student questions, even those that aren't admissions-related. He sees this as a fundamental change in the communication between school and customer. "Apparently, it's becoming a habit: Whenever they have questions, they come to us," he says. "That's a good thing-it only reinforces our customer service efforts."

7 Best Practices for Emergency Notification: Technology by itself won't save the day when a crisis hits. If it did nothing else, the Virginia Tech massacre taught us to think about instituting best practices-before we purchase that next solution. Case Study: Penn State implements text messaging alerts with Omnilert's e2Campus emergency notification service. Think '360': When it comes to CRM, higher ed institutions are bypassing traditional offerings in favor of targeted solutions that provide an up-close, allencompassing view of student interactions.

-Dian Schaffhauser covers technology and business for a number of print and online publications.

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EG 131: Diversity

Vasnetsov_Maria_MagdaleneOn the topic of charisms, Evangelii Gaudium 131 gives a brief elaboration on the theme of diversity:

131. Differences between persons and communities can sometimes prove uncomfortable, but the Holy Spirit, who is the source of that diversity, can bring forth something good from all things and turn it into an attractive means of evangelization. Diversity must always be reconciled by the help of the Holy Spirit; he alone can raise up diversity, plurality and multiplicity while at the same time bringing about unity. When we, for our part, aspire to diversity, we become self-enclosed, exclusive and divisive; similarly, whenever we attempt to create unity on the basis of our human calculations, we end up imposing a monolithic uniformity. This is not helpful for the Church’s mission.

From what I’ve seen in church life the past thirty-some years, this is an accurate assessment.

Sincere people can try too hard one way or the other to either stand apart with “their” gifts, or to impose rigidity on something that seems “messy.” My sense of the Ignatian way is that there is a time in which it is good to let variety surface. We keep in mind two things: that in the Christian context we have the mission of Christ, and that within the mission of evangelization we have a focus on presenting the Gospel to non-disciples, seekers, and non-believers.

Given that, it is easy to see we will need a variety of methods to draw people in. It is also easy to perceive that a unified presentation is essential. What does that mean? Message is consistent: Jesus Christ. Means of communicating: dependent on various charisms in the evangelizing community.

Getting back to the Ignatian way, the context of seeking unity is prayer and discernment. Uniformity is to be distrusted when it is false, monolithic, and undiscerned.

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I love the game. I love the hustle. MP Staff Writer and Retired Rapper. Twitter: @_StephenAdamson
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According to Dana White, Chris Weidman is going to get a chance to redeem himself against Luke Rockhold who defeated him a few months ago at UFC 194. It was pretty objectively a much better fight than Aldo and McGregor, which was supposed to be the marquee event.

Of course that fight only lasted 13 seconds, so like...

Anyway, here's the Tweet proving this is all going down, at UFC 199 in June.

There was no word on whether Rockhold-Weidman would be the event headliner or where the UFC is targeting to hold the card.

Who do you think takes this rematch?

Who is going to win this rematch at UFC 199?

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Chatroulette with girls only

The movie “The Social Network” and the title “Person of the Year” awarded to Mark Zuckerberg are signs of how the mainstream media embraced the popular social networking site called Facebook. Also known as the biggest album of the world, with Facebook, people from any parts of the globe can connect and share photographs.

Based on the billions of Google searches though, Facebook is not the number one search word. Facebook is toppled by the word chatroulette. Aside from Facebook, chatroulette also toppled the words iPad, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Friv, Myxer, Katy Perry, Twitter, and Gamezer.

The social networking site called chatroulette, founded just over a year ago, also got the attention of the mainstream media, including the New York Times. In the highly competitive social networking industry, chatroulette added a perk: the chance for online users to be able to chat to random strangers from across the globe using the webcam. Through the webcam, the encounter becomes in your face, literally. What was not perceived by online users of the original chatroulette site is the on and on – to no end encounter with males, naked makes and the maddening naked boys.

Experience and backed by a number of studies have proven that close to 90% of the people you met over the original chatroulette site are either men or naked men. Your chance, therefore, of ever encountering a female – you be lucky if you encounter a single female or better yet a nude female – is only 10%. Also, based on studies, what most of the men ever wanted is simply to chat with a female and a bonus if they are without clothes.

Precisely because of this need of men to chat with girls only that the innovative site called Chatroulette Girls was established. This site enables online users to randomly chat with girls only. And this site has over close to 2,000 live girls for you to chat with. You can join this niche video chatting service by simply signing up. No need to worry as the signing up process is free from charges and fees.

Armed with your computer, your broadband internet connection, webcam, and the site Chatroulette Girls, you can chat away with 100% girls only. As an added bonus, with this site, you will have a chance to chat again with your favourite girls as this site enables online users to save their favourites girls. Once your favourite girls are online, as well, you will be notified of their presence.

With zero percent of encountering men, naked men and naked men doing other stuff, Chatroulette Girls website has emerged as the industry leader in the niche video chat industry.

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Our last day

Posted by amandamelissagomes on 4 October, 2010

Our last day in Hyderabad was one interesting day that basically seemed to extend until Christie and I made it back to the U.S. on Sunday afternoon.  We started Friday morning in the car ensconced with concern that we may not make it to our final site visit at Life Spring given our “driver’s” poor ability to follow directions and the loss of our chief Hindi correspondent, Shobha.  Despite our concern, during our ride over we discussed some maternal fetal medicine issues that truthfully I haven’t ever given much thought about.  What is the major cause of maternal death? Where is the infant mortality rate the highest? How common is Down’s syndrome and what about metabolic disorders in India? We even discussed circumcision practices.  Armed with our questions we (again by sheer luck) made it to Life Spring. We waited in the small clean lobby under a prominently placed sign that displayed the costs of deliveries, hysterectomies, tubal ligations, all of which seemed quite affordable, for our tour guide.  Our Life Spring ambassador was a lovely, young, civically minded, American trained, Indian business woman who after a self-proclaimed identity crisis found her niche at Life Spring.  She gave us a thorough tour of her small hospital that embraced the idea of low income patients being called and, more importantly, treated as customers.  We understood this concept easily enough, but using the word customers instead of patients did not roll very easily off our tongues.  Afterwards a physician joined us to answer more of our medical questions.   Life Spring was clearly a haven for our MBA trained and women’s health minded colleague but we all left impressed and pleasantly surprised to have experienced yet another unique innovation in Indian health care delivery.

We spent our afternoon completing some last minute shopping.  Our tasks: petticoats for our beautiful (if I do say so myself) saris and more pearls!  Not surprisingly this took a lot longer than expected but we are nothing if not task oriented.  We made it home for one last Kumar lunch of our favorite chicken before heading out for one last evening with our Hyderabadi guardian angel, Neena Auntie. Next thing I know we are saying our goodbyes to Luis and Peter; it is 3:30 Saturday morning and Christie, Sapna and I are off the airport. Christie and I spent a fabulous day sightseeing and shopping in Delhi but quickly notice the difference in travelling without the rest of our CIT4b family.

To steal a line from Luis’ blogging, dhanyavad (thank you) to the faithful blog readers (special shout out to KBA) and for all the support and encouragement from everyone at home when things got kinda scary.   Most of all I must give a heartfelt thank you to Shobha, Luis, Peter, Sapna, Puja and Christie for their sound medical judgment, for the thought provoking (and loud!) debates and discussions and for all the laughter.

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  1. Keith said

    and…….black pearls??
    enjoyed all the blogs

  2. Puja said

    Gomes though I will miss the blogs, glad you are home healthy and safe (against all odds). You were amazingly courageous on this trip and managed to make light of a very stressful situation(s). You are truly inspiring.

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Published on October 28th, 2013 | by Cynthia Shahan

Ecotricity Gets Record Number Of New Customers After Offering Rate Freeze

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cheapest UK electricity provider ecotricityWell here is some lovely holiday cheer. Ecotricity recently declared a rate freeze until at least the New Year, responding to moves by the “Big Six” (UK’s biggest energy companies) to raise fares by up to 10%. Ecotricity provides only green, renewable energy to its UK citizens… for less than the price of electricity from the Big Six.

Dale Vince, Ecotricity’s founder, says:

There are millions of British households on the Standard Tariff of the Big Six energy companies, so even before the current price rises, millions of households could switch to Ecotricity and get Green Energy for less than the price they pay for brown energy. But now that the Big Six are raising prices again,what was originally a modest saving, is becoming more significant.

Dale continued to emphasize that renewable energy is not vulnerable to inflation in the same way as the Big Six. It’s also a decentralized and local energy source that boosts rather than hurts the national economy. This all helps Ecotricity to continue beating the energy prices of the Big Six indefinitely.

“In addition, if and when we do raise prices next year, we promise that it will be by less than the Big Six are raising prices now,” Dale notes. Later in the article, Dale continues, “the more of our own energy we produce through our own renewable sources, the greater we’ll be able to shield our customers from price hikes that come with an over-reliance on fossil-fuels. It’s all part of our vision for a Green Britain.”

There is integrity in using renewable, clean, infinite resources that take nothing from children, mothers, or communities — but indeed give back. It is a very different realm than a realm that deplete resources, operating from monopoly. In energy as in all things, one realizes these are different realms — one is holistic, one is predatory.

“On average, Ecotricity spends more per customer on building new sources of green energy than all other energy providers in Britain put together – on average, over the last nine years, this has equated to almost £300 per customer.”

Check out Ecotricity’s site for more information. As of now, Ecotricity provides power for over 77,000 homes and businesses. Earlier this year, it obtained permission for what is set to be the fourth-largest wind farm in England, a wind farm at Heckington Fen in Lincolnshire.

Head through our Ecotricity archives for more cool news about this green electricity provider.

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    So UK folks have a choice as to the company from whom they purchase their electricity?

    If so, that means that some companies will concentrate on ever cheaper renewables and be able to avoid the expensive nuclear that may be built?

    I can see a death spiral forming unless the guaranteed price for nuclear comes out of taxpayers’ pockets.

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    Heckington Fen is very close to my home of many years and happens to be famous already for the unique 8-sailed windmill in the village. At a time when the UK is being subjected to a crippling succession of fossil power price hikes this alternative is undoubtedly a breath of fresh air.

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Post-conditioning to Reduce Infarct Size

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Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Identifier:
First received: September 18, 2008
Last updated: December 3, 2013
Last verified: December 2013

When angioplasty (PTCA) and stenting of the blood vessels of the heart is the treatment for a Heart Attack, there is damage to the heart muscle that is caused by the sudden opening of the blood vessels. This is called "reperfusion injury". The cell death is due to inflammation and the generation of free radicals.

The primary objective of this study is to determine if post-conditioning(four brief (30 second) PTCA balloon inflations) reduces damage to the heart muscle. This will be measured by heart enzyme tests-CK measurements- and by cardiac MRI.

Condition Intervention
Myocardial Infarction
Procedure: Post-conditioning

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Modification of Reperfusion by "Post-Conditioning" Reduces Infarct Size in Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Further study details as provided by Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Infarct size, determined by late-enhancement measurements of the LV using gadolinium contrast with cardiac MRI [ Time Frame: 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • The degree of Microvascular Obstruction (MVO), as measured by Cardiac MRI [ Time Frame: 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 43
Study Start Date: September 2008
Study Completion Date: August 2010
Primary Completion Date: August 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1 Procedure: Post-conditioning
The post-conditioning protocol consists of performing 4, 30-second PTCA balloon occlusions followed by 30 seconds of reperfusion for a total of 4 minutes. The first balloon inflation occurs immediately after an angioplasty guidewire is placed through the obstruction in the artery and flow is restored. Following this protocol the vessel will be stented as part of usual practice for treatment of acute MI.

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 80 Years   (Adult, Senior)
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age ≥ 18 < 80
  • Able to give informed consent
  • 100% occlusion of a major epicardial vessel with TIMI 0 Flow

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Significant collateral blood flow to the distal vasculature of the occluded vessel.
  • Previous CABG
  • Previous q-wave myocardial infarction in the same territory
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT00755469

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Principal Investigator: Jay H Traverse, MD Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital
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Responsible Party: Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Identifier: NCT00755469     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: opt002
Study First Received: September 18, 2008
Last Updated: December 3, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation:
Reperfusion injury
Infarct size

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myocardial Infarction
Pathologic Processes
Myocardial Ischemia
Heart Diseases
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Paper and Pulp Foundation

The NC State Pulp and Paper Foundation partners with alumni, corporations, friends and foundations to generate support for the continued success of the NC State University Paper Science and Engineering Program in the Department of Forest Biomaterials.

Membership gifts to the foundation support scholarships, professorships, academic programs, research, facility and lab improvements and various student programs not typically supported through state appropriations.

By joining the NC State Pulp and Paper Foundation you make an investment in the future of the Pulp and Paper Industry.

Member Benefits

  • Member affiliation with the largest traditional Paper Science program in the country
  • Recognition and visibility for your company on the NC State Pulp and Paper Foundation website and all printed publications and in front of students
  • Company representation on the PPF Board of Directors; voting rights
  • Invitations to our annual PPF meeting
  • Favored access to the NC State pilot plant and research facilities widely used by industry clients for process and product development
  • Graduating student profiles are made available for members to view, these students have the most experience of any program’s graduating class
  • Access to education programs: Customized mill education training programs; Hands on Workshop for Pulp and Paper Basics
  • First access for on-campus interviewing within department (summer internships, co-ops and permanent positions)
  • Access to knowledge and expertise of the largest  and most diverse research faculty in the field

Your Membership Funds Provide:

  • Scholarships for high achieving undergraduate students
  • Support of high school and mill town recruiting program to enhance enrollment
  • State of the art labs providing the best hands on learning available
  • The continuation of the only traditional paper science program serving the southeast United States, graduating class in the country in Paper Science
  • Funds provide international exposure to students entering a global marketplace

2016 Foundation Events

We are pleased to announced the dates of our fall foundation events.  Check back for registration updates!

Paper Industry Career Fair
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Commit Access

Commit access requires an account on our gitolite server. You must submit patches and establish a relationship with us prior to being granted commit access.

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  • develop - Mostly stable development branch. Small changes only. It is acceptable that this branch have bugs, but should remain mostly stable.
  • feature/<name> - Large code changes and new features.

Coding Standards

We follow PEP-8, the guide for python style.

Ganeti Web Manager has a fairly complete test suite. New code should have matching tests. Before committing code suite for Ganeti Web Manager and Object Permissions

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./manage.py test object_permissions
All views should be thoroughly tested for security, checking to ensure that the proper http codes are returned.
  • Test Anonymous User access
  • Test Permission based access
  • Test Superuser based access
Check for invalid input.
  • missing fields
  • invalid data for field
Templates & Javascript

The test suite does not yet include selenium tests for verifying javascript functionality. Some basic tests can be performed using django's test suite:

  • Check objects in the context: forms, lists of objects, etc.
  • Check for existence of values in forms.

Submitting Patches

Patches should be attached to tickets, or may be sent via email. Both Diffs and git url+identifier are acceptable ways to submit a patch.


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Jul 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM

My goal is to have a web site dedicated to downloads, little like...Codeplex :=) But it is possible to download sources ? I saw the home page but no download link was available. Or do you know what other CMS for downloads could I use ? Thanks in advance.

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Hi metan,

Please see the following information regarding CodePlex source code. Regarding finding a CMS system, I recommend searching for existing projects. It may also be beneficial to narrow your search first via tags.


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    Frame Level Instructor Notes -- 11.1 now at Frame, how to print?

      Just upgraded to 11.1, Seeing that there are now Instructor comments at the Frame Level, expected to see them print with the Instructor Manaual.

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    Standby to Primary database switching problem

      I have created standby database through RMAN (I have Oracle STANDARD edition on both primary and standby server,

      beware of its restrictions) and open it in read only( I applied archives by manually copying it to standby database and giving

      this command
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      • 30. Re: Multiple block size advantages.
        Richard Foote
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        Strange. Whatever gave you the idea that I'd be in
        San Francisco?
        Hi Howard

        I think he might be confusing us ?

        Although we're both Australian, I'm clearly the better looking ;)

        • 32. Re: Multiple block size advantages.
          Hi Howard,
          I think that he's confusing us
          Yeah, sorry, you all look alike to me!!!

          You are at OOW this week, right?
          On the other hand, you have been invited to adopt a testing approach.
          Howard, I know that you think that I "make things up", but I swear to God, I have a rigorous testing approach for all my clients, and my original advise stands:

          "Don't guess - If you think that you DB may benefit from multiple blocksizes, test it yourself and prove it, using a real-world workload from your database"

          BTW, Dr. Scalzo has a good book on Oracle benchmark testing with real workloads, and I'll be glad to mail you a copy, if you like:

          I don't know if you are a consultant, but over 95% of my clients require a strict NDA, and I simply cannot publish ANYTHING from their databases. Is it like that in Oz?

          I'm trying to show evidence, truly. I sent e-mails to some of my clients asking if I could disclose details about their experiences with multiple blocksizes, and they all refused or ignored my request. . . Some shops don't even want it disclosed that they use Oracle . . .

          But I'm still trying, stand by . . .

          As Oracle moves toward workload-based testing, it;s going to be even more difficult to share evidence.

          BTW, I updated my notes, and I'll be glad to add any comments that you want:

          The IBM Oracle Technical Brief titled "Oracle Architecture and Tuning on AIX" (November 2006) notes that careful evaluation is required before implementing multiple blocksizes:

          While most customers only use the default database block size, it is possible to use up to 5 different database block sizes for different objects within the same database.

          Having multiple database block sizes adds administrative complexity and (if poorly designed and implemented) can have adverse performance consequences. Therefore, using multiple block sizes should only be done after careful planning and performance evaluation.

          The paper continues with specific examples of differing I/O patterns that are related to the database blocksize:

          Some possible block size considerations are as follows:

          - Tables with a relatively small row size that are predominantly accessed 1 row at a time may benefit from a smaller DB_BLOCK_SIZE, which requires a smaller I/O transfer size to move a block between disk and memory, takes up less memory per block and can potentially reduce block contention.

          - Similarly, indexes (with small index entries) that are predominantly accessed via a matching key may benefit from a smaller DB_BLOCK_SIZE.

          - Tables with a large row size may benefit from a large DB_BLOCK_SIZE. A larger DB_BLOCK_SIZE may allow the entire row to fit within a block and/or reduce the amount of wasted space within the block. Tables or indexes that are accessed sequentially may benefit from a larger DB_BLOCK_SIZE, because a larger block size results in a larger I/O transfer size and allows data to be read more efficiently.

          - Tables or indexes with a high locality of reference (the probability that once a particular row/entry has been accessed, a nearby row/entry will subsequently be accessed) may benefit from a larger DB_BLOCK_SIZE, since the larger the size of the block, the more likely the nearby row/entry will be on the same block that was already read into database cache.

          But what is Oracle's official position on multiple blocksizes. For Oracle metal-level customers we have the Oracle Metalink system which provides the official position of Oracle's own experts.

          Metalink Note:46757.1 titled "Notes on Choosing an Optimal DB BLOCK SIZE" says that there are some benefits from having larger blocksizes, but only under specific criteria (paraphrased from Metalink):

          Large blocks gives more data transfer per I/O call.

          Larger blocksizes provides less fragmentation (row chaining and row migration) of large objects (LOB, BLOB, CLOB)

          Indexes like big blocks because index height can be lower and more space exists within the index branch nodes.

          Moving indexes to a larger blocksize saves disk space. Oracle says "you will conserve about 4% of data storage (4GB on every 100GB) for every large index in your database by moving from a 2KB database block size to an 8KB database block size."

          Metalink goes on to say that multiple blocksizes may benefit shops that have "mixed" block size requirements:

          What can you do if you have mixed requirements of the above block sizes? Oracle9i "Multiple Block Sizes" new feature comes into the rescue here, it allows the same database to have multiple block sizes at the same time . . . "
          • 33. Re: Multiple block size advantages.
            Hi all,

            Very interesting discussion.

            So, here's my 2 cents.

            In one specific instance here, I had to implement multiple block size, and it prove benefic.

            Siebel is an oltp system, but we had to add some tables to produce reports. These tables were big enough (200gb minimum) and the sql statement on it were reading a lots of blocks.

            Performance wise, it was better to create 32k tablespaces, and put these tables in it.
            We created a 32 cache in the sga for that purpose.

            Overall, we gain better thoughput and reduced IO.
            • 34. Re: Multiple block size advantages.
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Another Seller Swears Off eBay Forever

There was a time, around approximately 2001, when eBay was a global marketplace where you could easily and efficiently unload items with any market value that you wanted to get rid of. Now, it’s more of a global flea market full of scams and villainy. eBay and its old accomplice, the U.S. Postal Service, worked together to make Keith’s old iPhone disappear into the ether.

I thought that after I upgraded my iPhone to the 4s, I’d throw my old 3gs up on eBay and maybe make a few bucks back. It got purchased pretty quickly and the buyer asked me to send it to Indonesia, despite the auction clearly saying US buyers only. When I refused, he asked me to give him good feedback and he would do the same – clearly this scam works better if people think you’re a good buyer.

I refused and reported the scammer to eBay which meant that he gave me negative feedback, not a good thing for a seller.

I re-listed the item and eventually got the fees from the first auction reversed and it sold again, albeit for a few bucks less. I asked the new buyer what method of payment and shipping he wanted. First class it was and he declined insurance. Just to be on the safe side, I sent it with “delivery confirmation” so I couldn’t be in a position where he claims he never got it.

Well, he claims he never got it. Politely at first and then, as the days passed, a bit more aggressively. I know I sent it, so I’m reassuring him and waiting.

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Then, the buyer did what any aggrieved person would and should do – they complained to eBay and they sent me “the email”.

I provided them the tracking number, but since it didn’t show they ever received it, I didn’t have much of a case. They ruled against me.

Then I had a thought, I sent it from the mail room in my building and they have cameras all over the place. I spoke with security and they had the shot – a video of the USPS employee picking up my box. I grabbed my laptop and fired off an email to eBay — I have the proof I sent it now, surely the eBay gods wouldn’t hold me accountable when I followed their every instruction and the buyer chose the method of shipping.

Then they explained the rules – had the item been stolen after it was scanned as delivered, I’d be off the hook, but if it’s stolen en route, that’s still your fault and you should have purchased insurance. Of course, the irony is that insurance wouldn’t apply here either because the USPS claims they never got the package.

eBay forwarded my case to a collection attorney and we are currently chatting.

But suffice it to say, I’m not using eBay anymore. And if you’re a buyer, I suggest you quit them also. There’s simply no protection for you.

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If you’re the kind of person who enjoyed watching 11 hours of brisket cooking and is looking for your next challenge, you might want to slip into some extra soft pants and prepare yourself for a real food marathon: A Norwegian company is live streaming footage of barrels of caviar aging over 11 months.

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Norway Marks The Legalization Of Segways With First Drunk-While-Segwaying Arrest

As my cool cousin Charlie once said, laws are made to be broken, man. That’s certainly true in Norway, where someone already got arrested for driving a Segway while under the influence of alcohol a month after the country legalized the electric scooters. This is why you can’t have nice things, Norway. [More]

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Truckload Of Flaming Cheese Shuts Down Norwegian Highway

For five days, hot toxic gases filled the air near a highway in Norway after the contents of a truckload caught fire in a tunnel. The hot temperatures were too dangerous for highway personnel to approach: one told reporters that the material could be “almost like [gasoline] if it gets hot enough.” What was in the truck? Carmelized goat cheese.

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Listen, HSBC Fraud Department, we need to talk. We know it sounds like a joke, but Phil is actually in Norway. We’re sure people call all the time and navigate your byzantine series of computer menus just to tell you hilariously absurd lies like “I’m leaving the country, here’s my forwarding contact information.” We’re sure labeling every foreign transaction as potential fraud isn’t nearly as fun as caring about the part of Phil’s account notes where it says “Travel advisory: In Norway.” The one joy of this endless runaround, the one nugget worth sharing, is that every time you flag a transaction, Phil gets to call you collect, and calling international collect makes a huge difference…

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Gillard's partner under fire for 'tasteless' joke on 'prostate cancer and Asian women'

Sydney, Jan. 29 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said her partner Tim Mathieson is a passionate advocate for men's health, but he picked a tasteless way of conveying his message.

Gillard has responded to criticism of Mathieson, who had joked to the West Indian cricket team about prostate cancer and Asian women at a function at The Lodge.

She told ABC Radio that 'Tim apologized for a joke that was in poor taste, adding that she thought that was the right thing for him to do, to offer an apology'.

She said that 'Tim is very passionate about men's health causes and he does go around the country talking to men about getting regular check ups'.

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She added that 'obviously there's various ways of getting that message across, but he's certainly acknowledged that the joke cracked last night was in poor taste'.

Mathieson made the quip during a speech at The Lodge last night for the Prime Minister's XI cricket match which will be held in Canberra today.

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Chennai, June 17 (IANS) Southern actress Tamannaah Bhatia, known for films such as "Tadakha" and "Rachcha", has landed a role opposite superstar Mahesh Babu. They will be seen together in Telugu action-thriller "Aagadu".

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Enjoyed all the ports and the ship is beautiful

Pros: Good ports

Recommends Brilliance of the Seas? Yes!

Ship Quality
Very nice ship
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All the dining areas were nice and the food was great
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Carnival Liberty Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

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3 out of 5

good one .......................

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Traveled As: Couple

Room Type: Inside

too much people too much days on ship

Pros: friendly and helpfull personal

Cons: too much people

Recommends Carnival Liberty? Yes!

Ship Quality
very clean ship. Pande and his partner who cleaned my room did a grate job
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only one choose soup a day. overall food was good
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staff was very friendly and very helpful know every thing what I asked
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Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

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3 out of 5

Another Great Cruise on Grandeur

Sail Date: January 01, 2014

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Traveled As: Large Group

Room Type: Inside

The ship was great!

Pros: The Staff and Shows

Cons: Having to wait for hot water

Recommends Grandeur of the Seas? Yes!

Best of any cruise we've taken. the Tango show was absolutely spectacular.
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Great. Jeffery\, the Cruise Director was great!!
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Kitchen getting the food out was slow at times.
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Smaller than others\, but you learn your way around quickly.

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Seven Seas Navigator Cruise Review to Bermuda

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3 out of 5

Excellent ship

Sail Date: April 01, 2014

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Traveled As: Couple

Room Type: Suite

Very modern and up to date ship...

Pros: food and friendlyness of staff

Cons: lack of short programs..daily movie\, seasoned passanger talks

Recommends Seven Seas Navigator? Yes!

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Not too big and not too small
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exceptional food but needed a couple more small restaurants
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They followed thru on requests...checked back on days that we were in port to see about our choices for afternoon snacks

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Spark could redefine strobe systems for deaf

Back in the day, deaf people used strobe systems to alert them to phone calls, door bells and other sounds around the home. Because strobe systems are connected to landlines, they are of little use to those who primarily use cell phones for communication.

Last week, TechCrunch featured a product that could very well change that.

Spark is a dongle that screws into a lamp. Screw any dimmable lightbulb into Spark, and using wi-fi, you can control the light bulb from any smart phone, tablet or computer.

Spark can be used to turn off lights remotely, create mood lighting and time lighting for vacations. Most importantly for the deaf community, however, Spark can be programmed to blink when you receive text messages, emails or facetime requests.

Zach Supalla, creator of Spark, explained to TechCrunch how he got the idea for Spark.

“The product was inspired by my dad, who’s deaf, and uses lights for notification. At first, I was trying to solve a very specific problem that he has, which is that the old strobe systems for the deaf are intended for landlines, and now that he uses a cell phone for text messaging, he’s difficult to get ahold of when he’s home and takes his phone out of his pocket. I wanted to create a system that could flash his lights based on signals from the internet that he’s got a text message or an email. But once I started working on it, I started to realize how big the opportunity is for providing an open API for lights.”

Soldier proposes to girlfriend in American Sign Language

Private First Class James Delano came home to Pheonix from Afghanistan for Thanksgiving. His girlfriend, Samantha Penuelas, made plans to surprise him at the airport, but what she didn’t know was that Delano had a surprise of his own.

Penuelas is studying to become an American Sign Language interpreter, so Delano learned to sign “a very special phrase. After greeting each other with a hug, Delano dropped down on one knee and signed, “Will you marry me?”

Penuelas signed “yes” back to him.

The exchange was captured by Pheonix’s Fox News station and they featured the story on the evening news and their website.

Sexual abuse in deaf schools

High profile cases, such as the Jerry Sundusky case, have garnered national attention in recent years, bringing the sexual abuse of minors to the forefront of public awareness. Incidents have happened everywhere from schools, to churches, to neighborhoods. Deaf schools are not immune to this tragedy.

In the 1950s, the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy molested countless students at St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wis. Despite the boys’ attempts to report the abuse, Murphy’s actions went unaddressed until after his death in 1998.

“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” a documentary produced by Alex Gibney, explores and exposes how the Catholic church mishandled sexual abuse in schools and churches throughout the last century. He uses St. John’s School for the Deaf his primary example.

The priest abused the men in the film when they were schoolboys in the 1950s and ’60s, favoring with horrendous cunning the ones whose parents couldn’t speak to their sons in sign language.

As the boys grew into men they began to communicate with one another, and eventually became some of the first to go public, in the 1970s, with accusations against a priest. — The New York Post

Deaf children are uniquely susceptible to sexual predators, so deaf schools, particularly residential schools, should be especially vigilant.

Most deaf children struggle with communication with the hearing world.

The language barrier stands between communication with parents, church leaders, non-signing school administrators and law enforcement officers.

Because many hearing parents choose to not learn to sign, some children who go to deaf schools view the school as their family—classmates become siblings, while teachers and dorm parents become like parents. If abuse is coming from within the school, they are less likely to see their parents and others outside of the school as allies who can come to their defense.

Also, it is not uncommon for the abuser to be one of the few, if not the only, links that a child has with the hearing community. A victim is not going to ask an abuser to interpret as they report abuse.

The residential school environment creates the innumerable opportunities and provides predators unparalleled access to potential victims.

Schools shouldn’t just be concerned about faculty and staff abusing children, but students as well. Two families filed lawsuits against Colorado School for the Deaf because they believe that the staff was aware of, but did not report or prevent a 14-year-old student from sexually assaulting other students.

Like any other child, fear is another primary factor when it comes to reporting sexual abuse.  Whether the abuser is an authority figure or a peer, fear of backlash, disbelief and negative attention plague victims and often keep them from reporting abuse.

Deaf schools should have very specific plans in place to prevent, report and stop abuse.

First of all, education is the most important aspect for deaf children. They need to know what is appropriate and what is not. These standards must be communicated in a way that they understand clearly.

There should be multiple people they can go to if they feel threatened or are abused. That way each authority figure is held accountable by the others.

An open door policy must be implemented AND communicated with students. They must understand that they can come forward and report abuse without fear of repercussion.

All reports, no matter how unlikely they seem, must be investigated immediately and the proper law enforcement agencies must be notified.

Gibney’s film shows the lasting emotional impactimpact of sexual abuse. Four deaf men share their stories in ASL, voiced over by actors.

The HBO documentary will be released in Feb. 2013.

Deaf woman arrested, jailed for three days without interpreter

Lashonn White filed a law suit for $4.5 million against the city of Tacoma, Wash. on Thursday (Nov. 15).

White, who is deaf, was tased, arrested and jailed for nearly three days without an interpreter after she called for help when she was assaulted by a guest in her own home. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that deaf individuals be provided with an interpreter.

Not only did the city not provide an interpreter, the TTY at the jail did not work and they were not equipped with videophone technology.

White’s experience illustrates just how vital sensitivity training is for public officials.

Escalating conflict puts deaf Israelis at increased risk

As conflict escalates in the Middle East, deaf Israelis are at an increased risk of injury and death because they cannot hear the warning sirens.

Government issued vibrating pagers alert deaf Israelis of incoming rockets, but they are far from the perfect solution for these people. The current system is flawed and puts the lives of deaf Israelis unnecessarily at risk.

The first flaw in Israel’s alert system for the deaf is that pagers are set for the individual’s hometown. These pagers are practically useless during travel, since they don’t send alerts based on the current location of the individual, but their hometown.

The pagers used to be programmed to alert people of all air strikes, but the government decided to switch to a more localized alert system because the old system caused unnecessary panic amongst deaf people when they would receive alerts for other parts of the country.

Another issue is that the alert system itself is faulty and often goes off after an attack or not at all. This is especially frustrating, because people never know if they will be alerted or not before an attack. The Home Front Command, which supplies the pagers, has agreed set up a repair station for the devices in Ashdod.

With nearly 550 rockets landing in Israel since Wednesday and an ever expanding area affected by the conflict, those who have not formerly needed assistive technology are now in danger zones as well. The pagers were distributed to deaf people living in border towns, but not those closer to Jerusalem, because these towns were not coming under fire. However, with the recent rise in violence, these towns are under fire as well.

The Israeli government would do well to revamp its alert system for the deaf. Too many deaf people are put in danger every day when their technology fails.

First of all, alert systems should be supplied to all deaf Israelis. Israel’s Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law requires all services provided to those without disabilities to be provided to those with them. Since Israel provides warning sirens for hearing citizens, deaf citizens should be supplied with a comparable warning system.

The law imposes a duty on those providing services to the general public to also provide persons with disabilities, while recognizing their human dignity and freedom and protecting their privacy.  While services provided by non-public bodies must include “the adjustments required in the relevant circumstances,” services provided by public bodies are required to be “in a proper quality, reasonable time and distance from the person’s residence, and all within financial resources allocated to the public body.” Public bodies subject to the latter requirements include government ministries, local authorities, corporations, governmental companies, or other publicly audited bodies.

Secondly, GPS technology should be integrated into the warning devices so that deaf individuals will be alerted to warnings where they are, regardless of their location. Customizable alerts would also be beneficial — allowing individuals receive alerts for several different locations. That way if they are out of town, they are alerted of attacks in their current location and their home.

Smart phone technology may be a way to provide these services. Apps with technology similar to TapTap alert deaf people to sounds (including warning sirens) around them. Smart phones would also provide GPS technology and the flexibility to customize alerts.

Continued emergency training should also play a key role in safety programs for the deaf. Hearing people take for granted information that is consistently repeated audibly on TV, at events and in social circles. Often times deaf people miss out on these seemingly basic instructions, so these training sessions present vital survival information in a way that they understand.

With consistent conflict in the Middle East and no ending in sight, it is vital that deaf Israelis have equal access to working warning devices wherever they are.

RIT professor receives national honor

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf chemistry professor, Todd Pagano, was named professor of the year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

When Pagano began teaching at NTID 10 years ago, he didn’t know any sign language. Through the years he has learned the language and adapted his teaching style to better benefit deaf students. He explained his teaching methods to CASE.

“I focus on things like making presentations more visual or slowing down, cutting out some of the fat, and making sure students have mastery of the important topics.”

Pagano has grasped a vital aspect of deaf education that many hearing people often miss. “Hearing” methods of education don’t always work for deaf students, particularly those that use ASL as their primary language. Because of the conceptual nature of ASL, signers learn better through explanations than through detailed readings. Because English is most signers’ second language, they struggle to comprehend complex ideas presented in writing.

Subjects like chemistry that are challenging enough as they are, without a language barrier, which is precisely why Pagano deserves this award.

Parents, faculty protest relocation of Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program

Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program in Grand Rapids, Mich. is a fantastic example of an oral program that is working. The preschool and elementary program is currently housed at Shawnee Park Math/Science/Technology Elementary School. Due to a Grand Rapids restructuring project, however, the program will be relocated.

The school board plans to house preschoolers and kindergarteners within the program at Preschool University, but has not determined where the elementary students will be housed.

Parents and faculty of the Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program are pleading with the school board not to separate the program onto two different campuses. They believe that the split would cause an unnecessary drop in effectiveness for deaf education in the Grand Rapids area.

The faculty and staff is encouraging parents and supporters to get involved in a letter writing campaign, asking the school board to reconsider its plan.

“As the Grand Rapids Public Schools Superintendent and Board of Education, your goal is to ensure ALL children reach their academic potential with equal access to high quality schools with the most talented principals and teachers; and to replicate and expand what’s working in a financially sustainable environment. That summarizes the Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program. It’s working, it’s succeeding and this is what’s best for our children, our community and our future.”

Although there are a multitude of arguments on the best methods for educating deaf children, there is one thing that most deaf people would agree on: deaf children learn when they are taught in deaf specific environments.

Deaf children often miss foundational education received simply because they can’t “listen in” on what’s going on around them. Children with non-signing hearing parents are especially prone to experience this educational disadvantage. This is why early education is so vital for deaf children.

Early education teach children language skills, be it signing or lip-reading and speaking, so that they can communicate effectively. Effective communication allows students to learn and grow not only in the classroom, but also on an individual level.

American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn., founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc, was the first official school for the deaf in America. Rather than instruct students to speak, Clerc focused on teaching his pupils academic skills. This model of deaf education has been simulated in residential deaf schools throughout the United States. As mainstreaming is becoming more and more prevalent, these schools are closing and their “sign” only educational policies are declining, but they had a profound impact on the formation of the deaf community in America.

England and Scotland embraced oral communication methods exclusively from early times. Even at the height of success of the residential deaf schools, Alexander Graham Bell worked to develop an effective method to teach the deaf to speak.

Oralism is continuing to grow in popularity in the United States, particularly as the cochlear implant and the Individuals with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) continues to reshape deaf education. Putting deaf children in hearing schools with special programs to help them learn, called mainstreaming, has become an increasingly popular idea.

Though mainstreaming programs include signing and oral programs, oral education has come out at the forefront of this movement.

Atlanta Speech School celebrates 75th anniversary

The Atlanta Speech School celebrated their 75th anniversary Sunday (Nov. 11), according to The Marietta Daily Journal. The celebrations included a Language and Literacy Gala and other events throughout the year.

Founded in 1938 by Katherine Hamm, the mother of a deaf child, the Atlanta Speech School serves as a place for children to learn speech skills, as well as receive an education. It has developed from its original class of 32 students in one rented classroom to a multiprogram facility that serves children and adults with a variety of speech learning issues.

Sorenson Communications announces workshops to help interpreters deal with trauma

With the birth of videophone technology, the Deaf are able to make phone calls in their own language. Video Relay Services (VRS), such as Sorenson, expand their ability to communicate beyond the Deaf community and into the hearing world.

This is particularly helpful when trying to communicate in emergency situations. Deaf people can use their first language with the help of an interpreter to express what’s going.

This, however, means that VRS interpreters are occasionally exposed to traumatic incidents. While it is their job to remain professional, interpreters do not remain unaffected by these events.

That is why Sorenson Communications announced that they will provide additional special training to teach interpreters to deal with interpreting traumatic experiences.

They hired Ron Lybarger, a psychologist and sign language interpreting specialist, to lead workshops for interpreters.

In a release, they outline some of Lyberger’s techniques and plans for the workshops.

Lybarger notes that preliminary studies suggest that strengthening resilience and psychological health can be accomplished through training and preparation, which includes exercise, meditation, compassion for self, social support, even yoga. All are beneficial in multiple ways, says Lybarger, adding “Post-traumatic growth is not simply a return to baseline from a period of suffering; instead, it is an experience of improvement that for some people is deeply profound.”

The following is a video made to show how Sorenson’s videophone technology can be used in an emergency situation.

Marlee Signs

Deaf actress, Marlee Matlin, released “Marlee Signs,” a language learning app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices with iOS 5.0 or later.

The app provides seven video lessons signed by Matlin teaching basic American Sign Language signs and phrases. It is available in the Apple App Store for free, and five additional lessons available at $1.99 each.

Marlee Signs is the #19 Top Free Education app in the Apple App Store and is currently rated and four and a half stars.


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13 Useful Facts About Iran

1. It’s A Fear State That Majors In Victimizing Women

If you have a strong stomach, look through the Omid database.

2. It’s Ranked Not Free

Only a tad freer than China and Zimbabwe – here’s why (WSJ subscription):

The Supreme Leader wields autocratic power and reigns for life. The Guardian Council selects who can run for office. Before the 2005 elections, this clerical council disqualified more than 1,000 candidates, allowing the public to choose from only eight, all of whom endorsed theocracy and opposed far-reaching reform.
Ordinary Iranians ignore the sham: While the Iranian government claims 50% voter turnout, Iranian pilgrims in Iraq say it was less than 20%. Contrast that with Iraq, where 70% of the population braves bombs and bullets to vote.

3. It’s Ranked The World’s Second Least-Free Economy

Iran’s economy is marked by a bloated, inefficient state sector, over reliance on the oil sector, and statist policies that create major distortions throughout. Most economic activity is controlled by the state. Private sector activity is typically small-scale – workshops, farming, and services.

4. It’s Industrially Weak

The import-dependent industrial sector is further plagued by low labour productivity, lack of foreign exchange, and shortages of raw materials and spare parts.

5. It’s More Corrupt Than Mexico

6. It’s The Fourth Largest Oil Producer, With Plenty Left For Export

Oil – consumption: 1.425 million bbl/day (2003 est.)
Oil – exports: 2.5 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

7. It Imports From The Weasels, Plus Italy and South Korea

Germany 12.8%, France 8.3%, Italy 7.7%, China 7.2%, UAE 7.2%, South Korea 6.1%, Russia 5.4% (2004)

8. It Exports (Oil)

Mostly To Asia

Japan 18.4%, China 9.7%, Italy 6%, South Africa 5.8%, South Korea 5.4%, Taiwan 4.6%, Turkey 4.4%, Netherlands 4% (2004)

9. Most Iranians Are Very Poor

– 40% of the population live below the poverty line.
– GDP per capita is about the same as Turkey’s.
– A Brit woman kidnapped by the Mullahs saw
this in Iran:

Some time ago, I lived…in Peru. I have also worked in the Eastern bloc countries, so I am used to seeing extreme poverty and the mindless ugliness of socialist economies. Here, though, just 30 minutes from the wealth of the United Arab Emirates, was a brutal poverty and ugliness which – in a country that produces three-and-a-half million barrels of oil a day – was obscene.

10. Most Iranians Have Lost Faith In The Mullahs (WSJ, subscription):

Iran’s youth want no more to live under theocracy than do Americans or Europeans. Iran Institute for Democracy telephone polls sampling opinion in every Tehran neighborhood suggest that 80% of the population have lost faith in the Islamic Republic.

11. Most Iranians Don’t Hate Israel (WSJ subscription):

While the Iran-Iraq War killed hundreds of thousands, Iran and Israel have never exchanged a single shot. Many Iranians express pride that Israeli president Moshe Katsav was born in Iran. Indeed, the real ire of ordinary Iranians is expressed toward their government, not the outside world. In a 2002 labor protest, workers demanding back pay marched through Tehran, chanting, “Forget about Palestine and think about us.”

12. Its Military Is Weak

One third as powerful as Israel’s:

(measured by) a combination of the quantity and quality of manpower, equipment and weapons…multiplied by…an efficiency rating.

Its navy is poorly equipped:

The Iranian navy has been suffering from years of neglect. Its major units are mostly old, and replacing them will be expensive. Neglect of a navy can take a while to show signs, but once the signs have shown, making things good will be expensive – a lesson the mullahs are learning the hard way.

Its airforce is ramshackle but viable (they have some old F-14s):

Iran’s Air Force is held together by ingenuity a lot of scrounging, and they have also been upgrading their force with modern Russian aircraft. Iranian ingenuity has allowed them to keep their air force as a viable force.

13. But Individual Iranians Are Smart

For example, in the US in the 1950s an Iranian metallurgist made one of the key contributions to the design of the wildly successful TRIGA ultra-safe reactor.

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FAntiXRay is a powerfull and lightweight tool designed to provide protection against x-ray mod. This plugin will rewrite the chunk before it is send to the client providing full protection against almost all x-rays mods out there. This doesn't modifies the world in any kind of way.

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  • Avatar of thepicshark thepicshark Jul 14, 2014 at 04:01 UTC - 0 likes

    @alexlab2628: Go

    ...the last update was in 1.5.2. What did you think was going to happen?

  • Avatar of alexlab2628 alexlab2628 Jul 13, 2014 at 17:54 UTC - 0 likes

    DONT Download it since i download it the server crashes all the time and the console get spammed from errors every second

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    Furmiga tenho um Host com processador 6 Nucleos 3 GB RAM, uma configuração boa para proteger contra os hackers e sem atrapalhar o desepenho qual seria?

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    @Icee2199: Go

    That is because, as he mentions in the description, it only works for the version it's built for. The current version only seems to be built for 1.5.2, not 1.6.2

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    I am running Bukkit Beta Build 1 Version 1.6.2 with the Latest version of FantiXray and I get this error:

    [SEVERE] Could not pass event PlayerJoinEvent to FAntiXRay v3.0
    	at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(
    	at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.fireEvent(
    	at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerList.c(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PlayerList.a(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PendingConnection.e(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.PendingConnection.d(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServerConnectionThread.a(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServerConnection.b(SourceFile:29)
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.t(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.DedicatedServer.t(
    	at net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.MinecraftServer.s(
    Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/bukkit/craftbukkit/v1_5_R3/entity/CraftPlayer
    	at me.FurH.FAntiXRay.core.internals.InternalManager.isMcPcPlusEnabled(
    	at me.FurH.FAntiXRay.core.internals.InternalManager.getEntityPlayer(
    	at me.FurH.FAntiXRay.core.CoreListener.onPlayerJoin(
    	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    	... 14 more
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R3.entity.CraftPlayer
    	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

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    /* I know I'm 15 days late, but anyway, I'll be away from the comunity for a few more days, I've been extremely busy this last days, working almost 16 hours a day to get some stuff done, I wont be updating any of my projects at least until next week. I'm really sorry about that, but it is a big chance to me and I can't afford to lose it.

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    o FurmigaHumana esta um tempo fora pois esta muito ocupado.

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