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The National Science Teachers Association, in conjunction with various corporate and association sponsors, offers a number of awards for K-12 science teachers and principals. The criteria for each award varies, but most applicants are judged on innovation and commitment to teaching. Sponsors include the Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Ciba Specialty Chemical Education Foundation; Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.; Toshiba America Inc.; Estes Rocketry and the United States Space Foundation; Dow Chemical Co.; Sears, Roebuck, and Co.; and the Drug, Chemical, and Allied Trades Association. Awards include cash prizes of up to $1 million, computers, NSTA memberships, and trips to the NSTA's national convention and workshops. For more information, contact: National Science Teachers Association, 1840 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201- 3000; (703) 243-7100; fax (888) 400-6782; www.nsta.org.
The Boyer Center, a national education resource and research organization at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, seeks applications from public and private elementary schools for its national Best Practices 2001 award. This year's theme, "Building the School Community: Parents as Partners," focuses on family involvement in literacy activities. Three schools each receive $10,000. For more information, contact: Boyer Center, One College Ave., Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027; (717) 796-5077; e-mail [email protected]; www.boyercenter.org.
The American Chemistry Council, formerly the Chemical Manufacturers Association, offers the Catalyst Award to recognize outstanding science teachers. Elementary school science teachers and secondary school chemistry teachers are eligible to receive up to $5,000. For more information, contact: Barbara Long, American Chemistry Council, 1300 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22209; (703) 741-5101; fax (703) 741-6086; e-mail [email protected] com; www.americanchemistry.com.
The level of lawlessness in South Africa has gone too far and hardly a day passes by without distressing news about violence and crime that is gripping the country.
It is how SA has become and news of gender-based violence, political killings, cash-in-transit heists, among other violent crimes, no longer come as total shock to most of the people.
Such have become habitual crime news, and the vicious killing of a car guard who was beaten to death in public in Johannesburg CBD is one such story.
The brutal killing will be treated like any other killing in SA in some quarters, thanks to the appalling state of lawlessness in our country.
The car guard was killed after he was subjected to an hour of assault, allegedly by a motorist who acted like a raging bull, according to a witness.
He was killed just two days after he started working on the streets to assist with parking cars. He died trying to eke out a living.
His death was as a result of being suspected of theft out of the alleged killer's car.
The car guard did not deserve to die like that. The honourable thing the said motorist should have done was to hand him over to police.
Unfortunately, no one was there to intervene as people now seem to be accustomed to assault incidents and, to an extent, appear like they enjoy watching the proceedings.
Bystanders seem to prefer to record such incidents with their smartphones so that they can post the videos on social media.
At For Hare University, people watched as a female student was brutally assaulted by a male student. Without putting themselves at risk by intervening, we urge bystanders to rather put their smartphones to good use by calling the police. We believe that had the spectators called the authorities, the female student would have been spared further assault. But instead the spectators, who were fellow students, preferred to capture the ugly incident on their phones.
A video of the assault has since gone viral. The level of crime and violence has reached levels of spectator sport, with people watching assaults live or on social media.
Let's join hands to end this culture of violence in our society. We have overcome the worst in the past.
Akure – A 94-year-old man, Ojo Bayode, and his son, Ade, 41, were on Friday arraigned in an Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court, charged with unlawful damage of a farmland valued at N1.1million.
The accused, whose addresses had yet to be known, pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge.
The prosecutor, Insp. Jimoh Ibrahim, told the court that the accused conspired with others (now at large) to unlawfully and maliciously damage the farmland belonging to one chief Omodara Falade.
Ibrahim alleged that the accused forcibly entered the farmland, and damaged cocoa trees, valued N300,000; kola nut trees, valued N700,000 and plantain stems, valued N100,000.
He said the accused committed the offence on Dec. 27 at about 10 a.m. at Awule Village in Akure South Local Government Area.
According to him, the offence is punishable under sections 516(a), 451 and 81 of the Criminal Code Cap 37, Vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
The counsel to the accused, Mr Fidelix Oriaifo, prayed the court to grant his client bail in liberal terms.
The magistrate, Mrs Iretiolu Dada, granted them bail in the sum of N500, 000 each with two sureties in like sum.
Dada said that the sureties must be credible and resident within the court’s jurisdiction and must fill affidavits of means with two recent passport photographs.
Is Constitutional Localism the answer to what ails American democracy?
Mike Hais, Doug Ross, and Morley Winograd are co-authors of a new book, Healing American Democracy: Going Local.
But we have a different idea.
Specifically, we call for a new civic ethos or governing framework which we call Constitutional Localism, that will shift the greatest number of public decisions possible to the community level—albeit within a clear constitutional framework to protect the individual freedoms and rights won over the past 250 years.
We see the pursuit by Americans of varied lifestyles and cultural preferences as a healthy sign of American freedom and choice, not a destructive force. We need to rebuild public confidence in American democracy, not by insisting on a singular national answer to each problem, but by celebrating the ability of America’s varied communities to find solutions that work best for them. As we see it, the challenge confronting the nation is to find a way to permit this range of opinion and action to flourish while restoring a shared faith in the common democratic values and processes that define American self-government.
Our prescription to provide better governance while restoring faith in democratic processes is to encourage more democracy, not less.
We believe empowering local communities promises greater benefits than simply escape from the frustrating deadlock in Washington. In the near term, it offers venues to solve real problems facing Americans, and the opportunity for citizens to experience democratic successes in more homogeneous and immediate settings. In the longer term, we see Constitutional Localism as the right way to adapt American democracy to a country with an ever-wider range of ethnicities, social mores, political philosophies, and economic opportunities without sacrificing either self-government or membership in one nation.
The “constitutional” part of Constitutional Localism is critical for us. We cannot overstate our conviction that local empowerment must not risk undermining the historical agreement on American’s individual and civil rights. A bias towards local action cannot be seen as an invitation to individual communities to selectively secede from the Constitution.
Our urgent call for a new civic ethos reflects our belief that the old New Deal structure that relies on centralized, standardized solutions does not align with the variety of life in America today. America has evolved over the past 80 years from a 90 percent-White Christian nation with 90 percent of its immigrants of European descent to one of great racial, ethnic, religious, and generational diversity. Add to that the revolutions in the status of African Americans, women, and gays, and it should come as no surprise that efforts in Washington to craft “one-size-fits-all” responses to the challenges confronting the nation struggle to find broad national majorities of support.
The misalignment between efforts at standardized federal actions and the variegated realities of American life has been accelerated by sweeping economic and social changes. Competitive advantage in the globalized economy comes increasingly from specialized, local economic ecosystems and less from federal regulations and incentives. Where America once had three national TV networks, it now has a communications world of dis-intermediated person-to-person social networks.
Americans by substantial majorities believe that their local community offers the best opportunity to solve real problems.
Localism is an increasingly crucial economic reality. As Brookings’s experts and others have documented, cities have emerged in this century as the engines of American innovation and economic growth.
The rising generation of Millennials believes direct involvement at the community level is the most effective way to change things at the global level.
Constitutional Localism will require establishing new institutions such as government-to-government networks to allow these local “laboratories of democracy” to share innovations with other communities and bring them up to scale. Mayors should become leading actors in this effort.
Those on the left will fear Constitutional Localism as a return to states’ rights and “separate but equal”. The right will see an effort to neutralize the Trump presidency and Republican control of Congress. For those reasons, support for Constitutional Localism must be broadly bipartisan in order for it to succeed.
Doug Ross is a former Michigan State Senator, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor, and candidate for Governor. More recently, he has founded and led a number of public charter schools in Detroit.
We believe this challenge is unique in America’s history. The Founders had to confront the question of whether a continental nation could adopt a form of government previously restricted to small city-states. Today we face the challenge of figuring out how to preserve liberal democracy in a nation with an unprecedented array of ethnicities, economic arrangements, life-style preferences, and cultural beliefs.
Unless we can find a better way to ensure that our constitutional democracy serves the country’s needs, we run the risk of losing support for democracy to the growing forces of autocracy here and abroad. The only way to unite America is to reinvigorate our common bond based on shared democratic experiences and ideals. To do otherwise risks losing our national identity to a politics from either the left or right that seems to exclude too many Americans.
We strongly believe Constitutional Localism offers a powerful and needed strategy for healing American democracy.
We would like to thank the following companies for supplying and supporting us with our test system hardware and equipment: Intel, ASUS, Leadtek, Corsair, LSI and Noctua.
Today we are looking at A-DATA's S599 100GB SandForce SF-1200 controlled SSD. This is the first drive we have tested with the new Intel 9.6 Rapid Storage Technology driver. You will see today that the new driver increases the performance of the SandForce SF-1200 controller by a very significant amount in PCMark Vantage (Windows HDD Tests). All of the other drives presented in the chart were tested on either the Marvell SATA 6G controller (Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6G results) on the basic Microsoft AHCI driver that fully supports Windows 7's TRIM command. Until the 9.6 RST release, Intel SATA drivers did not support TRIM.
There are two points of significance to look for in today's benchmark results. The first has to do with drivers and is between the Corsair F100 and the A-DATA S599. These are the two SandForce SF-1200 drives; one tested with Microsoft base drivers and the other with the new Intel 9.6. This battle is really about the drivers and not so much a true fight between the two. That will come in the next few days.
The second comparison is as true as it gets and this is the battle between the A-DATA S599 with RST 9.6 drivers and the Crucial RealSSD C300 running on the Marvell SATA controller. Since the Marvell SATA controller has not been updated, we are seeing the highest level of performance from the drive as is possible at this time. I have learned that the C300 in 128GB capacity is slower than the 256GB model we tested. When making your purchasing decision, you should keep this in mind. We will talk about this more in the conclusion.
Over the next two weeks we will be retesting our collection of drives to gather performance data of these products with the RST 9.6 driver and get back to true apples to apples comparisons across the board.
In ATTO we see a nice progressive wave of performance that shows the drive is running normally. At the bottom of the scale we see that the A-DATA S599 is even faster than what A-DATA has claimed in their marketing literature.
Emmanuel Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, is charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder in Friday’s attack . The child plunged almost 40 feet and is fighting for his life in a Minneapolis hospital with head trauma and broken bones.
The family of the Minnesota child has asked for privacy. A GoFundMe page set up for the child, whose name is Landen, had attracted nearly $600,000 in donations as of Monday.
We mentioned earlier today that the Center for Law in the Public Interest has taken legal action to stop a plan by Gov. Jan Brewer to block low-income Arizonans from getting state-subsidized health insurance.
Benson said the crux on the legal argument will revolve around whether the state has “available funds” for the program.
As we reported earlier, Tim Hogan of the Center for Law in the Public Interest argues that the state has funds available for the program but lawmakers decided to spend them elsewhere.
Benson noted, as a side note, that the plaintiffs in the petition to the Supreme Court appear to now be covered by AHCCCS, so there may be a question of standing.
Benson added that if the state is forced to continue to provide health care to everyone in Arizona under the federal poverty line, it will cost the state an estimated $207 million, which will blow a considerable hole in the state budget.
Benson said that Brewer might consider a proposal from the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association to tax hospitals in order to continue to fill the budget hole and draw down federal matching funds for AHCCCS, but Republican lawmakers have been cool to the idea.
“She’d consider the bed tax if it had some legislative support,” Benson said.
Azure Data Lake is Microsoft's cloud-based mashup of Apache Hadoop, Azure Storage, SQL and .NET/C#. It gives developers an extensible SQL syntax for querying huge data sets stored in files of various formats, and it's accessible from the browser, from Visual Studio and even from BI tools.
In this gallery, I'll show you the ins and outs of the service's two main components: Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) and Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA). I'll also introduce you to the provisioning process; the relevant tooling; the SQL dialect and its .NET integration; and how data in Azure Data Lake can be queried from external tools like Power BI.
Getting started with Azure Data Lake is pretty easy. Just hit the "+" button on the upper-left-hand corner, choose "Intelligence + analytics," scroll down, and you'll see both relevant services: Data Lake Store and Data Lake Analytics. Set up Data Lake Store first.
Setting up Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) is also pretty easy. Enter a name for the account (it will have to be unique across all ADLS accounts), then the name of a resource group that will contain it. That's it! Now you can check "Pin to dashboard" and click the blue Create button.
If you checked "Pin to dashboard" then you should see a tile added to your dashboard indicating that your ADLS account is being deployed, as shown here.
Deployment won't take long. Once complete, you'll see this "blade" in the Azure portal. Note the button along the top that opens a file explorer-like interface for ADLS. This will be useful once you have some data in there.
With your Azure Data Lake Store account now set up, you can go back to the step we showed in slide 2 ("Pick Your Service") and choose Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA).
Once you do, you'll see this provisioning form. As before, you'll need to supply a name and resource group name, but you'll also need to click on the Data Lake Store option and pick the ADLS account that you just provisioned.
In other words, you'll do the analysis work with ADLA, and it will retrieve data from, and save data to, the ADLS account.
As before, check "Pin to dashboard" and click the blue Create button to provision an ADLA tenant.
Once provisioning is complete, this is the screen you'll see. Note the ability to add additonal users (and provide them access to your) data. The "Sample Scripts" button on the top can get you querying sample data in almost no time flat. Click it to start.
Now you'll see options to query a tab-separated values (TSV) file, create a database and table, populate a table and query a table. But you can't do any of that until you click through the two items above those options, which will load the sample data and the U-SQL extensions (more on U-SQL shortly) into your ADLA tenant. So click each option and let both processes complete.
Now you can click the "Query a TSV file" option. Once you do, a full fledged U-SQL script will come up.
U-SQL is a dialect of the popular Structured Query Language that you can use with ADLA to query data in ADLS. This particular U-SQL script pulls data out of a TSV file using U-SQL's EXTRACT command, and it pushes the result of the query into another TSV file using the OUTPUT command.
Notice the U-SQL editor, even though it's embedded in the Azure portal, features color syntax highlighting. There's even better editor support in Visual Studio, which we'll see. But this isn't bad for the browser!
Clicking "Submit Job" (highlighted) at the top will execute the query. We'll explore that in a bit.
Some users may find the familiar concept of tables more comfortable than keeping everything in files.
So rather than working exclusively with text files for input and output, this U-SQL script creates an ADLA database, called SampleDBTutorials, and an empty table within it, called SearchLog, into which data can be inserted later.
This U-SQL script queries data out of a TSV file with EXTRACT and then uses INSERT INTO to populate the SearchLog table with its contents.
Now that the table is populated, this U-SQL script uses the standard SELECT command to query it. No more using EXTRACT and flat files! The result set gets persisted into a variable called @athletes.
Next, the OUTPUT command is used to export the @atheletes result set, and then the entire SearchLog table, to files.
Now go back to the first script (Query a TSV file) and click Submit to run the job.
The job will go through a preparation phase, then a queuing phase, shown here. The work to be done in the job is represented by the tasks in the job graph, to the right. Bear in mind, these graphs can get much more complex than this one.
Running and Finalizing phases follow, after which the output of the job will exist as a file called SearchLog_output.tsv.
When the job is finished, click on the shape representing the SearchLog_output.tsv file (at the bottom of the job graph). This will let you preview its contents right in the Azure portal, as shown here.
As slick as it is to be able to do all that work in the browser, many pros will prefer to use a full fledged integrated development environment.
Do all that, bring up the project, log in to your ADLA tenant, open up the first script and click its Submit button. The job will run right in Visual Studio, as shown here.
When job execution is complete, right click the job graph shape for the output file, and you'll see options to preview and download the data, and more.
If you choose the "Open Folder" option from the menu mentioned in the previous slide, you'll see a full-fledged ADLS file explorer comes up right inside Visual Studio, as shown here.
Drill down to the /Output/TweetAnalysis folder, then open MyTwitterAnalysis1.tsv, the output file from the job.
The file will come up in the viewer shown here, which will display the file's metadata, several rows of its data in a tabular view, and provide options to save the data locally in CSV format or preview the data in Excel.
Visual Studio's U-SQL script editor has a drop-down at the top that lets you select "(Local)" as your ADLA tenant. Pick that and you can run jobs locally, without incurring any cloud usage fees.
Shown here is an execution of the same script as in slide 15 ("Getting visual"), but locally this time. Note that when execution is complete, you can hover over the job graph shape for the output file to see its location on your local disk.
Go to AppData\Local\USQLDataRoot folder in your user folder to get to the local disk equivalent of the ADLS root folder in the cloud. Then drill down to the Output\TweetAnalysis sub-folder within it and you'll find the output file, as shown here. Double click the file to open it in the default editor for TSV files (Excel 2016 in the case of this screenshot).
Doing Azure Data Lake work in Visual Studio is about more than using a desktop app. That's because U-SQL queries can call functions written in C#, either in code-behind files or in separate .NET assembly projects.
The source code for a C# function called get_mentions is shown here. Look at the Solution Explorer window at the upper-right and you'll see that the class file containing this code is in its own C# project, separate from the Azure Data Lake project, but in the same Visual Studio solution.
C# expressions can also be used inline, in U-SQL scripts. This includes scripts built in the Azure portal. The C# code-behind and assembly techniques require Visual Studio though.
This U-SQL script uses the get_mentions function in a SELECT query.
Note, at the top of the script, the REFERENCE ASSEMBLY command used to link to the .NET assembly created by compiling the C# project shown in the previous slide.
The CREATE ASSEMBLY command must be run once before REFERENCE ASSEMBLY can be used. The code for the former is also shown, though it is commented out.
Look carefully at Visual Studio's (admittedly crowded) main menu. If you're in an Azure Data Lake project, you'll see a "Data Lake" item, approximately 7th or 8th from the left. Click it and you'll see the options shown here.