There's good news and bad news on the higher education front in California these days, but so far the bad news is trumping the good.

First the good news: California high schools over the last few years graduated tens of thousands more students eligible for admission to a University of California or California State University campus than ever before. The 11 percent increase in eligible students is a sign of major progress in the state's elementary and high schools, playing out at the university level.

But now comes the bad news: All the improvements are likely to produce is a corps of thousands more frustrated young men and women.

Because just as the number of eligible students increased - 13.4 percent of all high school graduates are now eligible for the University of California and 32.7 percent qualify for Cal State - the two university systems cut back the number of students admitted for next fall.

-Tear out/print out a schedule of your local farmers markets and keep one copy on your fridge and one in your work bag so you can keep track of which day's markets happen near your job, home or travel path.

-    Make a menu plan before you go based on how many nights you are going to be house to cook.

-    Bring a material bag that has plenty of room and can hang over your shoulder. For cold meat or delicate greens, consider an insulated bag.

-    Scope the place out If you have time, walk the market once through before you buy so you can get an overview of the offerings.

-    Talk to the farmers doesn't be afraid to ask the farmers or even chefs you see at the market for recipes and tips on preparation.

-     Buy local. Some markets sell non-local make. If this is a concern, ask. "Some places have laws about this but others don't, so just ask if it's full-grown locally.

The Phoenix Business Journal wins four Arizona Press Club awards Saturday night.

The event, held at Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, drew about 250 of the state’s top journalists, designers  and Photographers.

The Journal took first place for most excellent Use of the Web, small and medium publications.

“Complete and well-designed news website that use multiple forms of media. The site hosts local news video, and a variety of community information such as events, property listings, and employment opportunities. Related content is well packaged together.”

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The world of computer animation is a cutting edge one, which can be pressurized and is also filled with ferocious competition. Taking one of the computer animation degrees available means that you can increase your chances of breaking into this career, and you could speed up your chances of promotion and sequence within this field.

BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

     If you're a beginner just getting started on the Internet, or else  you've    already  some experience then consider yourself to be an intermediate Internet user

     Here, you will learn the basics about the Internet, how to make an Internet connection, Web Browsers, Web Publishing tools, and Electronic mail software packages from guides, tutorials and other teaching materials.

     This tutorial introduces you the Web, shows how to surf the Web, and includes some advance topics about the Internet. This tutorial is presented to you by the Microsoft corporation.

SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES

1. Introduction to the World Wide Web
     This is the first level which introduces the World Wide Web and the capabilities of web browsers.

2. Searching the Web
     The Internet is a vast repository of both necessary and unnecessary information. "Surfing the 'net" can be an enjoyable pastime but when you need information on a specific topic is not efficient  then  sorting through the mounds of online materials would be preferable.

COMMUNICATING ON THE INTERNET

3. Internet Email Basics
     This level explains the various parts or "header fields" in email messages. It's then shows you how to address and send an email message. It also covers replying to messages, forwarding messages to other people, and saving message and so on.

4. Introduction to Electronic Mailing Lists
     Being able to communicate as a member of in a  group its  powerful function of an Internet. These level takes a look at the use of electronic mailing lists for group communications.

5. Introduction to Newsgroups and Newsreaders
     Newsgroup is level where people with common interests can interact with one another. This lesson explains how to find and join newsgroups.

ADVANCED INTERNET USAGE

6. File Transfer Protocol (ftp)
     A convenient way of obtaining large files, such as software and graphics is using ftp. These deals with how to use ftp using your web browser. File archive types such a compressed files are also covered.

7. Introduction to Online Graphic Files
     In this level you will download images and use graphic viewing software to view and edit these images for use in your classroom.

8. Tying It All Together
     This reviews the skills covered in the first 7 levels and shows how they can be used together to gather resources from the Internet. This lesson also identifies resources to help further your exploration of the Internet.

HINTS TO FOLLOW:

Why does the back button not work?
     Some websites cause the back button  not to work. So you have to go back to the previously viewed page.

How to save a Bookmark or Favorite
     Ever wished you could just put a bookmark on the Internet as easily as you put in a book..

How to Navigate a Website with Frames
     This is to explains why the arrow keys do not work on some web pages. Since  you find a web page that will not display all of the information.

How To Change How Letters Appear on the Screen
     This is to  explains how a website visitor can increase or decrease the size of the lettering on the screen.

Scrolling & Viewing More
     This is to  explains what scrollbars are and how to use them to view information that extends beyond the edges of the screen.
Internet and E-mail Basics - Introduction to the Internet

      It comprises a set of "teach yourself" tutorials delivered over the Web, each of which offers Internet skills training in a particular subject area grouped under six main headings: engineering and mathematics, health and life sciences, the physical sciences, reference, the humanities, and the social sciences, business and law. 39 subject areas are covered at this time, with each materials created by a subject specialist drawn from universities and professional organizations across the UK. The materials take around an hour to complete, and includes quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience. Each material is structured under four sections:

(i)  Tour key Internet sites

(ii) Discover tools and techniques to improve your Internet searching,

(iii) Review the critical thinking required when using the Internet,

(iv) Reflect on how to use the Internet for studying, teaching or research. The      Virtual Training Suite is also an excellent resource for librarians who need tools to support their user-education programs.

 
 

You might have noticed that Google and Yahoo show different results when you search, but why? The simple answer is that each search engine uses different methods to decide what's relevant to you, and also what sites they want you to see, for advertising reasons.

Search engines have a lot of different ways to decide what to show you. Among them are reading the page title, headings, the text, image names, the web site name, information you can't see (in the behind-the-scenes coding) and also how many pages are linked to each site.
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The first thing to keep in mind is these are both big, wealthy sites who make money from advertising. Fortunately Yahoo and Google will return free results alongside the paid ads, but they still have some big differences in what comes up.

Each engine places different values on what matters the most. If we look closer here are the main differences from Google to Yahoo:

Google looks closely at a web page's text and also where it links to. It can tell a little better if the links make sense, and manages to filter out a lot of sites that have added fake or broken links just to try to get themselves on top of the search results.

Lots and lots of links to different sites need to be relevant - if they are links to unrelated sites Google won't rank it as highly as a page full of relevant links.

Yahoo will often include a page filled and overflowing with one particular word - again which the owner has repeated over and over to try to get themselves up to the top of the search results. Google realises that it's probably not the best article if it needs this to get there, and will sometimes remove it from the results shown to you.

Yahoo isn't quite so good at stopping "clone" sites appearing more than once. Ten sites all saying the same exact text isn't very useful to you, and Google tends to keep these out a bit better.

Overall, Google tends to supply general information results, and Yahoo's results tend to be a little towards the shopping side of things - even if those results aren't paid advertising for Yahoo.

So there you have it. There are technical scientific reasons of course, but the search engines guard these fiercely from our eyes. Which one you use comes down to personal preference. I prefer Google as it feels a little less biased, but a true shopaholic will love Yahoo. So enjoy whichever one suits you best.