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Knowledge is Power - Even with Death Row Statistics

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:57:01 GMT

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DEATH ROW INMATES BY STATE

Total Number of Death Row Inmates as of January 1, 2008: 3,309

State	# of Inmates	State	# of Inmates	State	# of Inmates
California	667	Mississippi	64	Connecticut	9
Florida	397	S. Carolina	63	Kansas	9
Texas	373	U.S. Gov't	51	Utah	9
Penn.	228	Missouri	48	Washington	9
Alabama	203	Arkansas	40	U.S. Military	9
Ohio	188	Kentucky	39	Maryland	6
N. Carolina	173	Oregon	35	South Dakota	3
Arizona	126	Virginia	21	Colorado	2
Georgia	107	Delaware	19	Montana	2
Tennessee	102	Idaho	19	New Mexico	2
Louisiana	88	Indiana	19	Wyoming	2
Oklahoma	84	Illinois	13
Nevada	77	Nebraska	10

Tags: death penalty, human rights

The 50 Best Colleges Ranked By Looks

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:18:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.popcrunch.com

50. Illinois

49. Missouri

48. Pacific

47. Maryland

46. Oregon State

45. Virginia Tech

44. Louisville

43. Indiana

42. TCU

41. Washington State

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40. Stanford

39. Iowa

38. Purdue

37. Penn State

36. Oklahoma

35. Nebraska

34. Colorado

33. North Carolina State

32. Michigan

31. Vanderbilt

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30. Duke

29. Utah

28. North Carolina

27. Michigan State

26. UNLV

25. Tennessee

24. Ohio State

23. Kentucky

22. Wisconsin

21. Arizona

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20. South Florida

19. Washington

18. Alabama

17. University of Miami (FL)

16. Kansas

15. Clemson

14. Cal

13. Arkansas

12. Texas

More University of Texas co-eds

11. Oregon

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10. Louisiana State University

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9. University of Georgia

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8. Auburn University

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7. UCLA

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6. South Carolina

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5. Ole Miss

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4. University of Florida

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3. Florida State University

2. University of Southern California

1. Arizona State University

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New program teaches preschoolers reading skills, getting along with others

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:01:02 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: This is why education is going nowhere in western countries. This program has been running in preschools everywhere since I was first teaching (1971). Someone pushes the wheel round and up comes the same old with a new title. Access for all to the preschools is the first priority, not wasting money doing the bleeding obvious. Just proves the "experts" don't know what is happening with the kids and are only interested in promotion or glory. And, as the average kid begins to read at seven, they will be mighty sick of pre reading skills after three years.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

A study funded by the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies shows that it's possible to teach preschoolers the pre-reading skills they need for later school success, while at the same time fostering the socials skills necessary for making friends and avoiding conflicts with their peers.

The findings address long standing concerns on whether preschool education programs should emphasize academic achievement or social and emotional development.

"Fostering academic achievement in preschoolers need not come at the expense of healthy emotional development," said Duane Alexander, M.D., director of NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which provided much of the funding for the study. "This study shows that it's possible to do both at the same time."

The study appears in the November/December issue of Child Development and was conducted by Karen Bierman, Ph.D., distinguished professor of Psychology at Penn State Univer

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Iowa stuns No. 3 Penn State

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:46:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ahhhh.

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Iowa stuns No. 3 Penn State on last-second FG

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Penn State can’t blame the BCS for this.

Daniel Murray, who hadn’t made a field goal since the season opener, hit a 31-yarder with a second left and the Hawkeyes rallied to stun the third-ranked Nittany Lions 24-23.

He drilled it down the middle, sending Iowa’s freezing fans spilling onto the field.

“I’ve always dreamed about it,” said Murray, who grew up in Iowa City. “I kept hoping and hoping I’d get my chance.”

This was the biggest win for Iowa in years, its first against a top-five team since 1990. The Hawkeyes suffered through two seasons of mediocrity after finishing No. 8 in the country three years in a row.

The Hawkeyes had lost four games this season by a total of 12 points — and they got beat last week by Illinois on a 46-yard field goal with 24 seconds left

Tags: penn state, hawkeyes

PRESIDENT of Penn State asked not to attend Palin's speech AT PENN STATE

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:55:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.collegian.psu.edu

Penn State President Graham Spanier was asked not to attend Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Tuesday night speech at Rec Hall, a university official confirmed Thursday.

A staffer working for Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign told a member of Penn State public information that the campaign did not want Spanier to greet Palin after calling him a "big Democrat," Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon said.

Tags: person.sarah_palin, person.graham_spanier, democrat, republican, campaign

Another GOP voter-suppression suit rejected

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:28:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now Pennsylvania.

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Penn Judge Rejects GOP Suppression Bid

Add Pennsylvania to the list of states where GOP voter suppression efforts are going down in flames.

A state judge yesterday declined to support a grab-bag of a lawsuit filed by the party, which had sought to require ACORN both to turn over a list of the 140,000 voters it says it has registered, which could have made it easier for the GOP to challenge voters at the polls.

According to the Associated Press, the judge, Robert Simpson Jr., said "he was not convinced that the party and its fellow individual plaintiffs can ultimately prove their allegations that ACORN is fostering voter-registration fraud and that the state's election system lacks the safeguards to stop it."

Tags: voters

Kill the Office

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:45:44 GMT

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At least that’s what Wired columnist Brendan I. Koerner says in his latest piece championing the values of telecommuting - and urging bosses to send everyone home for good, saving green on all the cubicle space the company won’t need.

Last year, researchers from Penn State analyzed 46 studies of telecommuting conducted over two decades and covering almost 13,000 employees. Their sweeping inquiry concluded that working from home has “favorable effects on perceived autonomy, work-family conflict, job satisfaction, performance, turnover intent, and stress.” The only demonstrable drawback is a slight fraying of the relationships between telecommuters and their colleagues back at headquarters — largely because of jealousy on the part of the latter group. That’s the first problem you solve when you kill your office.

Tags: telecommuting

Top Ten College Football Programs Of All Time

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:35:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The list of the best college football programs of all time. USC, Notre Dame, Ohio-State, Oklahoma, Alabama . . .

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This is the definitive list of the top college football programs of all time.

USC

11 National Championships: 1928, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1962,1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, 2003, 2004
7 Heisman Trophy Winners
Winning Percentage: 70.2%
Street & Smith Rank: 2

Notre Dame

11 National Championships: 1924, 1929, 1930, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988
7 Heisman Trophy Winners
Winning Percentage: 73.8%
Street & Smith Rank: 1

Ohio State

National Championships: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002
7 Heisman Trophy Winners (6 winners)
Winning Percentage: 71.3%
Street & Smith Rank: 8

Tags: usc-football, notre-dame-football, ohio-state-football, oklahoma-football, alabama-football, nebraska-football, miami-football, penn-state-football

Researchers teach computers to search for photos based on their contents

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:51:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One could imagine some very "job specific" details being used. Type in slime ball and see who comes up.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

A pair of Penn State researchers has developed a statistical approach, called Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time (ALIPR), that one day could make it easier to search the Internet for photographs. The public can participate in improving ALIPR's accuracy by visiting a designated Web site http://www.alipr.com, uploading photographs, and evaluating whether the keywords that ALIPR uses to describe the photographs are appropriate.

ALIPR works by teaching computers to recognize the contents of photographs, such as buildings, people, or landscapes, rather than by searching for keywords in the surrounding text, as is done with most current image-retrieval systems. The team recently received a patent for an earlier version of the approach, called ALIP, and is in the process of obtaining another patent for the more sophisticated ALIPR. They hope that eventually ALIPR can be used in industry for automatic tagging or as part of Internet search engines.

Tags: computers

'Tis the Season of Election Dirty Tricks: Scaring Student Voters

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:53:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Other underhanded tactics seek to confuse voters about their voter registration. In 2006, voters in Virginia reportedly received fake voicemail messages from the state elections commission claiming that the voters were registered in another state and could be criminally charged if they cast their vote in Virginia.

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Election officials and watchdog groups are bracing for the wave of sneaky or suspicious phone calls, leaflets and emails that typically hit battleground states in the final 30 days of the presidential campaign.

Young voters at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. have already been targeted, with students reporting that flyers have been posted around campus warning that undercover police will be at the polls on Election Day looking to make arrests.

Political experts say the Drexel flyer is a classic example of voter suppression – a practice that involves scaring, angering, or confusing voters so that they stay at home on Election Day.

Tags: ditry, politics, elections, democracy, scummy, gop

Test Clip

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:34:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.blueband.psu.edu

The PENN STATE BLUE BAND is recognized as one of the nation's finest college marching bands and performs to capacity crowds in 107,232 seat Beaver Stadium — home of Penn State Nittany Lion football. The Blue Band has performed at every major bowl game in the U.S., including the Rose Bowl and the Tournament of Roses Parade. The 2008–2009 season is the 109th year of the Blue Band's proud, tradition-filled history.

Honey for Coughs

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:20:09 GMT

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A new study from Penn State College of Medicine found that honey might make an effective and safe alternative for over-the-counter children's cough medicines. The randomized, partially double-blinded study found that when children received a small amount of buckwheat honey before bedtime, it provided better relief of nighttime cough and sleep difficulty than no treatment or the common over-the-counter cough suppressant dextromethorphan (DM). The results are published in December’s Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (“Effect of Honey, Dextromethorphan, and No Treatment on Nocturnal Cough and Sleep Quality for Coughing Children and Their Parents,” Ian M. Paul, MD, MSc; Jessica Beiler, MPH; Amyee McMonagle, RN; Michele L. Shaffer, PhD; Laura Duda, MD; Cheston M. Berlin Jr, MD, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2007;161(12):1140-1146.

Tags: health, honey for coughs

The Cat - Finding Sources Research

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:14:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How to look for information for your research project

Clip Source: cat.libraries.psu.edu

The CAT

The CAT My Library Account Course Reserves Find Articles Materials Not at Penn State Library Home Page ASK!

Big Brown horsies and steroids

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:55:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

“These are training drugs — you don’t need them in your body for competition; the effect has already taken place,” he said. “It’s really immaterial that he is not doing it now.”

However, Charles E. Yesalis, a professor of sports science at Penn State, said that the steroids previously injected into Big Brown had already affected his training, and that the athletic machine had already been built.

Trainers have found that steroids provide a boost for horses who are not eating well or are listless, and also aid in muscle recovery after rigorous workouts.

Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:33:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Retroelements are an ancient and highly diverse class of proteins; therefore, they provide a rigorous benchmark for us to test our approach. We are happy with the results we derived, even though our method is in an early stage," said Patterson. The team plans to make the algorithms that they used in their method available to others as open-source software that is freely available on the Web.
Scientists map out the evolutionary histories of organisms by comparing their genetic and/or protein sequences. Those organisms that are closely related and share a recent common ancestor have greater degrees of similarity among their sequences.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once and for all over which of these life forms came first.

"We have just begun to tap the potential power of this method," said Randen Patterson, a Penn State assistant professor of biology and one of the project's leaders. "We believe, if it is possible at all, that it is within our grasp to determine whether viruses evolved from cells or vice-versa."

The team is focusing on an ancient group of proteins, called retroelements, which comprise approximately 50 percent of the human genome by weight and are a crucial component in a number of diseases, including AIDS.

Tags: life, computers, science