Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Computer Data on 103,000 Va. Adult Ed Students Misplaced - washingtonpost.com
Computer Data on 103,000 Va. Adult Ed Students Misplaced - washingtonpost.com: "A Virginia Education Department employee handed off a two-gigabyte flash drive that was not encrypted during a Sept. 21 meeting in Richmond to a representative of Virginia Tech's Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming. The information was to be used for federally mandated research.
The flash drive was reported missing the next day. It contained personal information for all students who finished an adult education course in Virginia from April 2007 through June 2009 or who passed a high school equivalency test between January 2001 and June 2009.
Pyle said it is against agency policy to transfer sensitive information without encrypting it."
The flash drive was reported missing the next day. It contained personal information for all students who finished an adult education course in Virginia from April 2007 through June 2009 or who passed a high school equivalency test between January 2001 and June 2009.
Pyle said it is against agency policy to transfer sensitive information without encrypting it."
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Get Tax Credits for Home Projects - WSJ.com
Get Tax Credits for Home Projects - WSJ.com: "Upgrade your insulation, windows, doors, roofing, heating and air-conditioning system or water heater, and you could qualify for a federal tax credit for 30% of the purchase price of the product -- up to a $1,500 maximum credit.
To qualify for the credit, you must place those purchases in service between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2010."
To qualify for the credit, you must place those purchases in service between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2010."
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Farm-to-Cafeteria conference
We are happy to inform you of a peninsula-wide Farm-to-Cafeteria conference being planned for November 5, 2009 at the Jamestown Tribe Community Center in Blyn. Please see www.clallamgrown.org for more details and to register online. The purpose of the conference is to increase awareness of the important role that Farm-to-Cafeteria programs can play in food systems, local economies, and community health and to discuss workable options for beginning Farm-to-Cafeteria programs on the peninsula now!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
MENU FOR THE FUTURE
MENU FOR THE FUTURE
NO FEE for class. Purchase book from NW Earth Institute
503-227-2807
www.nwei.org
Wednesdays
Oct 7 – Nov 11
6 pm – 7:30 pm
144 Tripp Road
Sequim
460-7941
MENU FOR THE FUTURE is a six-session discussion guide for the community. PARTICIPANTS IN THIS DISCUSSION COURSE WILL:
* Explore food systems and their impacts on culture, society and ecological systems.
* Gain insight into agricultural and individual practices that promote personal and ecological well-being.
* Consider ways to create and support sustainable food systems.
NO FEE for class. Purchase book from NW Earth Institute
503-227-2807
www.nwei.org
Wednesdays
Oct 7 – Nov 11
6 pm – 7:30 pm
144 Tripp Road
Sequim
460-7941
MENU FOR THE FUTURE is a six-session discussion guide for the community. PARTICIPANTS IN THIS DISCUSSION COURSE WILL:
* Explore food systems and their impacts on culture, society and ecological systems.
* Gain insight into agricultural and individual practices that promote personal and ecological well-being.
* Consider ways to create and support sustainable food systems.
Monday, September 28, 2009
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation - Yahoo! News
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation - Yahoo! News: "Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
'Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,' the president said earlier this year. 'Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.'
The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.
'Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press."
'Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,' the president said earlier this year. 'Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.'
The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.
'Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press."
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Google Search hack....Recently indexed content
The Return of the URL Hack: Finding Google’s REALLY Recently-Indexed Content
Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:34 AM PDT
A big thanks to Ran at Omgili.com for his recent blog post about turning Google into a near real-time search engine. You can do it too! Here’s how it works.
If you’ve been reading ResearchBuzz for a while you know about hacking URLs — changing parameters so that the pages display different kinds of results. Ran hacked a Google search result URL and changed the search results so that they were being returned only for items that had been indexed in a very small period of time — like a few seconds!
Here is a basic Google search for the word fred.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred
Ran hacked the tbs parameter, which possibly stands for Time Being Searched? The tbs parameter, added on to the end of a query, can look like this:
&tbs=qdr:d (searches a day’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:h (searches an hour’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:n (searches a minute’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:s (searches a second’s worth of indexed content)
You just add the parameter to the end of your query. So if you were searching for content containing the word fred that was indexed in the last minute, the query would look like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred&tbs=qdr:n
You can add a number to the end of the parameter to indicate a span. For example, &tbs=qdr:h3 at the end of a Google query will find content indexed within the last three hours.
Note that this parameter seems to work only in Web search — I didn’t get any results when I tried to use it in news, images, etc.
So what do you DO with this? You can find content that Google has indexed really really really recently. :-> You can also use these switches to dig around in Twitter. For example, say I want to search Twitter for Tweet accounts that describe themselves as the “official” blah-de-blah. I can’t do that with Twitter’s search page because I can’t search in just the biography text. But you can with Google using the following query:
site:twitter.com “Bio * official”
By adding &tbs=qdr:h3 to the end of a search URL for the above query, I could search Google for recently-indexed Twitter accounts/updates in a way that Twitter’s search page doesn’t allow me to. Now, will this get you everything? My assumption is no; I go by the rule of thumb that an external search engine applied to a source will never get everything that that source’s internal search engine will. But I got enough that I wanted to look around some more.
Or you can use Twitter as a Deliciousesque search using Google! The following search will look just in Twitter users’ favorited lists for the word “tool”:
site:twitter.com inurl:favorites tool
Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:34 AM PDT
A big thanks to Ran at Omgili.com for his recent blog post about turning Google into a near real-time search engine. You can do it too! Here’s how it works.
If you’ve been reading ResearchBuzz for a while you know about hacking URLs — changing parameters so that the pages display different kinds of results. Ran hacked a Google search result URL and changed the search results so that they were being returned only for items that had been indexed in a very small period of time — like a few seconds!
Here is a basic Google search for the word fred.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred
Ran hacked the tbs parameter, which possibly stands for Time Being Searched? The tbs parameter, added on to the end of a query, can look like this:
&tbs=qdr:d (searches a day’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:h (searches an hour’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:n (searches a minute’s worth of indexed content)
&tbs=qdr:s (searches a second’s worth of indexed content)
You just add the parameter to the end of your query. So if you were searching for content containing the word fred that was indexed in the last minute, the query would look like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fred&tbs=qdr:n
You can add a number to the end of the parameter to indicate a span. For example, &tbs=qdr:h3 at the end of a Google query will find content indexed within the last three hours.
Note that this parameter seems to work only in Web search — I didn’t get any results when I tried to use it in news, images, etc.
So what do you DO with this? You can find content that Google has indexed really really really recently. :-> You can also use these switches to dig around in Twitter. For example, say I want to search Twitter for Tweet accounts that describe themselves as the “official” blah-de-blah. I can’t do that with Twitter’s search page because I can’t search in just the biography text. But you can with Google using the following query:
site:twitter.com “Bio * official”
By adding &tbs=qdr:h3 to the end of a search URL for the above query, I could search Google for recently-indexed Twitter accounts/updates in a way that Twitter’s search page doesn’t allow me to. Now, will this get you everything? My assumption is no; I go by the rule of thumb that an external search engine applied to a source will never get everything that that source’s internal search engine will. But I got enough that I wanted to look around some more.
Or you can use Twitter as a Deliciousesque search using Google! The following search will look just in Twitter users’ favorited lists for the word “tool”:
site:twitter.com inurl:favorites tool
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