Claiming that the High Court has stayed the Regional Commissioner’s order of reclaiming his land and evacuation of the resort built on it in Survey No. 20 of Mangala Village in Angala Hobli of Gundlupet Taluk, former MLC G. Madhusudan has said that the RC’s order smacked of a political game in the wake of Nanjangud and Gundlupet Assembly by-polls.
Addressing the press meet at Patrakarthara Bhavan this morning, Madhusudan said he had legally purchased the land in Mangala village Survey No. 20 and had not encroached any Government, Forest or Tribal and Dalit land. But the Regional Commissioner, without thoroughly scrutinising the documents that he had submitted, acted in haste and transferred the Khata back to the Government’s name besides ordering demolition of Tiger Ranch Resort which he had built on the land.
Questioning the RC’s order, he moved the High Court, which issued a stay to the RC’s order, besides directing the Government not to evacuate the land owner, Madhusudan said while reiterating that the Congress Government’s action was politically motivated and aimed at tarnishing his image.
Maintaining that he had struggled for saving 1,976 acres of ‘B’ Kharab land in Kurubarahalli Survey No. 4 to the Revenue Department, 1,500 acres of land in Sattegala Survey No. 1 and 174 in Kollegal Taluk and land belonging to Wakf Board worth thousands of crores of rupees, which was encroached upon, Madhusudan said he was targeted solely for political reasons.
“Now that I have got relief from the High Court, I will start campaigning in Nanjangud and Gundlupet from now on,” Madhusudan said.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs developed the Protégés Mentoring Program (PMP), a peer mentoring program that serves as a resource to students of color by assisting their academic and social transition into the Wake Forest University community. PMP helps students by providing a continuing orientation to the University and community life, as well as inspiring students through a variety of support mechanisms. PMP provides incoming students with an upper-class peer mentor who not only has a genuine concern for the new student, but is also trained to assist him or her in their transition to Wake Forest. New students have this guide to help them learn the ins and outs of Wake Forest, as well as get them actively involved in new and exciting opportunities around campus.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs also coordinates M4 Initiative (Making Manhood Mean More) and the Latino Male Initiative to foster support for African American and Latino men, respectively, and the WE3 (Womens' Empowerment) initiative to support black and Latina women.
The LGBTQ Center provides support and advocacy to Wake Forest University’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students, faculty and staff, and education to the entire campus community about issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. Safe Zone training, the center's signature program, is an in-depth, interactive presentation designed to educate Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students about the LGBTQ community. Participants learn what it means to be an ally—a person who supports and stands up for the rights of LGBTQ people—as well as how to create a Safe Zone.
The Women’s Center strives to create an educational and professional environment that supports women and promotes gender equity by fostering safe spaces to reflect on individual and collective experiences and identities, developing co-curricular programming around women’s and gender issues, supporting professional development, and identifying and advocating for policies to improve gender climate and inclusive practices at the institution. The center works with and advocates for students, faculty, and staff, and is open to all members of the campus community.
Additionally, each graduate and professional school in the university has graduate student organizations designed to provide support to underrepresented students, and the student services offices in each graduate and professional school have staff designated specifically to address the needs of underrepresented students.
The University has developed a Bias Reporting System through which students, faculty, and staff may report bias or hate incidents. Those who have been the targets of, or who witness a hate orresponse bias incident may use this online form to make the University aware of these incidents. Wake Forest University encourages all faculty, staff, students, and volunteers, acting in good faith, to report suspected or actual wrongful conduct. The University is committed to protecting individuals from interference with making a good faith report and from retaliation for having made a good faith report or for having refused to engage or participate in wrongful conduct.
All reports are reviewed by the Bias Incident Review Group led by the Dean of Students and the Assistant Provost for Diversity & Inclusion. Upon review of each report, the Review Group will: (a) ensure the report is properly routed for investigation and resolution in accordance with the applicable University policy, (b) assess avenues for minimizing or eliminating the possibility of future harm, (c) and support community healing and educational outreach.
The Bias Review Group may appoint a Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) to provide support to the individual(s) involved. The Review Group may also call upon the BIRT to explore avenues to minimize future harm.
Individuals who submit a report and include contact information may be contacted to discuss the event in further detail. Other University offices such as University Police, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Student Services, and/or Human Resources, may be consulted to determine an appropriate response.
While a publicly accessible inventory of gender neutral bathrooms on campus is not available at this time, the President's Commission on LGBTQ Affairs has approved the designation of 45 current restrooms as gender neutral and is adding signage this summer. In addition, all new construction will contain gender neutral bathrooms. Information will be made available to the public as part of this initiative to support the LGBTQ community at Wake Forest.
This workshop covered a variety of copyright considerations related to online curation. This included basic aspects of copyright for use of content materials in courses. Topics covered include fair use, public domain, open access, Creative Commons licenses, and more.
Norris, Sarah A., "Copyright Considerations Curating across the Curriculum" (2017). Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 60.
I now have my Apache Solr Server setup and it appears that all the tales you hear in the Drupalverse about Solr being the way to go are true. But there is quite a bit of work that goes into a Solr setup unless you decide to take an outsourced route – Acquia for example.
Search for Drupal may be the least documented feature of the whole CMS. Which is kinda weird considering how important search is overall.
I plan on putting together something fairly comprehensive for the setup and implementation of Solr for Drupal including the indexing of attachments (15k PDFs, in my case) and search UI from Drupal Views 3.x. But for now, here are a few of the highlevel items for Solr running on Centos 6.4 Linux.
To be honest, it’s kind of a mess and there are many of other options than what are listed here. And the documentation is not as thorough as it might be.
I have been up to my neck in various Drupal search modules/configs/nightmare scenarios for almost a month now. But since Google has set the bar as high as they have, search must be easy, fast and accurate.
If you have the resources, an Apache Solr server is probably the way to go. But if you don’t have the infrastructure for that, there are still a lot of options out there. After working with the Search Files search mods and the native drupal search, I have decided to go with The Search API module with some of its submods – specifically, the Search API Attachments mod. This will allow me to parse attached documents in several different formats, including PDF, the one that I am mainly concerned with.
To parse attachments, you have to have some sort of a helper app installed. In the case of the Search API Attachments module, that would be Apache Tika. Plus, Tika is also needed for Solr Server so this doc also serves that end as well.
mvn install from the root directory of the tika files. This will run for about three minutes and will end up compiling a nice .jar file that you’ll need.
If all the text from the PDF goes scrolling past your screen, you have everything installed correctly from the Tika/OS standpoint.
Since I recently dumped almost 17,000 new nodes into my DB in a relatively short time, I have been keeping a close eye on how the back end is responding. The main concern that I have is the indexing process for the new data. I began receiving errors from MySQL as seen in the SS.
CRON run. In my case, I had it set to 500, the maximum. This was a bit of overkill and I ended up making the value lower. I also increased the PHP memory, which you can check under “status reports”.
I really had simply to tweak the settings. I ended up at 100 nodes per run, one run per hour and PHP mem allocation as seen above. From the Search Options UI, you can see the status of the indexing, how fast, how many nodes, etc.
Well, I am throwing in the towel on this. I have made it work, but it just doesn’t work very well. too bad because, as nodes, the stories can be indexed and searched the same way that the rest of the site can. But all I can get from the current setup is a title and a description. I am going to leave the rss items as db items and use Views to search through them.
Google proved it – Search is key. and the search that comes with Drupal is OK. But not great. I have some search features that I am using by exposing different Views’ filters to the site users. But that really isn’t good either. Melissa Mayer showed the world that simplicity is best (she designed Google’s nearly blank search page)
and that lesson isn’t lost here. I need one way to search everything on my site. and that’s it. that is my quest for today and the last one that I will undertake before I start in on the actual design of the site with CSS and all that fun stuff. From the standpoint of function, this is the last thing to be done.
This is a good page to start with in regards to search. What is cool about the core search feature is the ability to extend the functionality via the checkboxes for additional search mods. —–>
What I really need to be able to search is the Aggregator items that I store. They are DB objects and not nodes which is what makes them tricky.