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News and Events Home 2012 Religious Liberty HonorThe 2012 International Religious Liberty Award was presented to Professor Douglas Laycock at a dinner 11 October 2012 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington DC. The award is given annually by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University to a person who has made a significant impact in the efforts to preserve and defend religious liberty. Professor Laycock was accompanied by his wife Teresa Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia. The keynote speaker at the event was Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, the new Chair of the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom. She also is president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. Also present were various delegates from countries such as Vietnam, Italy, Russia and others who had recently attended the annual symposium of the International Center. Dean James Rasband, BYU Law School and Professor Cole Durham, director of the International Center presented the award to Professor Laycock, calling him a “towering figure in the law of religious liberty,” Laycock is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and is considered one of the nation's leading authorities on both religious liberty law and the law of remedies, Professor Laycock has testified frequently before Congress and has argued many cases in the courts, including the recent landmark religious freedom case Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v. E.E.O.C., in which the United States Supreme Court unanimously held there is a ministerial exception to employment discrimination laws that allows churches and other religious groups to select people performing ministerial functions free of government interference. Professor Laycock is widely published and he recently released Religious Liberty, Volume I: Overviews and History, and Volume II: The Free Exercise Clause. These two volumes are the first half of a four-volume collection of his many writings on religious liberty. Before joining the law faculty of the University of Virginia in 2010, Professor Laycock taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Texas and the University of Chicago law schools. He is vice president of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2009 winner of the National First Freedom Award from the Council on America's First Freedom. Also announced at the Awards Dinner were the winners of the Third Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition. The first prize of $2000 was awarded to Aaron R. Petty for his paper Faith, However Defined: Reassessing JFS and the Judicial Conception of Religion. The second prize of $1000 went to Brian K. Mosely for Zoning Religion Out of the Public Square: Constitutional Avoidance and Conflicting Interpretations of RLUIPA’s Equal Terms Provision. A third place award and several honorable mentions were also awarded. The event is also made possible in part by the Sterling and Eleanor Colton Chair in Law and Religion and various other sponsors. Michael Merrill, Chair for the event noted the importance of encouraging young scholars to produce well researched papers in this area of law as well as the value of recognizing those who make valuable contributions in protecting religious liberty. He expressed congratulations to Professor Laycock and these students for their excellent scholarly contributions to the field of religious liberty. Posted: October 12, 2012

- The Need - What We Do - About Us - How You Can Help - In the News MGEF is working to educate Maasai women and the members of the community in which they live. Our scholarships, awarded to Maasai girls, are continuous until each student has the knowledge and skills to enter the workforce in Kenya. This is a long-term commitment to improve the literacy, health, and economic well-being of Maasai women, their families, and their communities. Learn more. Throughout the year, we organize workshops to address the social customs and cultural beliefs that prevent girls from getting an education, sustain illiteracy, contribute to the spread of HIV, and perpetuate poverty among the Maasai. We also address the need for economic self-sufficiency among Maasai women, by leading business trainings. Our Community Education programming is facilitated entirely by Maasai educators, counselors, and health care professionals. Learn more. All of our work is designed in consultation with the Maasai community and implemented by the Maasai people. We support a community-based organization (CBO) in Kajiado, Kenya that administers all scholarships and workshops. This close working relationship with the community ensures that our work is culturally appropriate, and results in shared ownership and pride in our achievements. Learn more. MGEF provides scholarships for girls who would otherwise never go to school and those who would have to end their education early for cultural or economic reasons. MGEF organizes Life Skills Workshops to address the social customs and cultural beliefs that prevent girls from getting an education.

Long-term care commission's work unlikely to fuel changes LeadingAge's Larry Minnix The fiscal cliff avoidance deal seems to prove an adage about politics being the art of compromise. But as tradeoffs go, long-term care providers didn't fare too badly. An automatic 2% Medicare payment cut was avoided, as were physician payment reductions. Wins also were racked up in areas such as therapy caps and bed taxes. In fact, the only real defeat for the industry was that the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act was officially terminated. Even here, the defeat was not total: In return, a national long-term care commission will be set up. Its 15 members will look for ways to improve service delivery and payments. But chances of the panel acting as a catalyst for change are slim: The group is being hastily put together and must report recommendations within six months. Moreover, Congress is under no obligation to respond to its findings. According to most analysts, the commission is likely to develop a comprehensive report that will do little more than gather dust. In fact, the real fight in the short term is likely to be over raising the nation's debt limit. In an all-too-familiar development, President Obama and GOP leaders in Congress have dug in on opposing sides of the issue once again.

Named for the end moraine that was left behind when the Wisconsin Glacier retreated some 12,000 to 17,000 years ago, much of this Metro Park was once covered with farm lands. In late summer and early fall, fields of beautiful aster, goldenrod and purple coneflower can be enjoyed in the south end of the park. With help from Honda of America, Metro Parks has restored a 250-acre wetland area. Visitors can traverse a boardwalk through the wetlands or climb a 25-foot observation tower to see waterfowl and other animals. Teachers will want to bring their students to the outdoor classroom to explore the valuable role wetlands play in our lives. Eleven miles of trails wind through the park. Disc golf course 9801 Hyland Croy Road Plain City, OH 43064 ALTERNATIVE DIRECTIONS: Hyland Croy Road is closed between Brand Road and McKitrick Road from June 7 through August 31. Please follow these alternative directions: From SR 33 westbound (toward Marysville), exit at 161 / Post Road / Plain City. From ramp, turn left onto 161 toward Plain City. Follow the detour signs for Hyland Croy Road. You will reach a roundabout after going about 0.4 miles. Stay to the right and go 2.8 miles on Industrial Parkway. Turn right on Mitchell Dewitt Road. Go 0.7 miles and turn left on McKitrick Road. Go 1.3 miles and turn left on Hyland Croy Road. Entrance on right. Northbound from Honda Wetland Education Area: To get to the main park entrance from the wetland area, go 0.7 miles on Tullymore Drive and turn left on Wareham Drive. Go 0.2 miles and turn right on Westbury Drive. After 0.2 miles turn right on Brand Road. Go 0.4 miles and turn left on Avery Road. Avery Road becomes Manley Road and then Jerome Road, north of the Glick Road roundabout. After 1.8 miles, turn left on McKitrick Road. Go 0.5 miles and turn right (north) on Hyland Croy Road. Main park entrance on left. REGULAR DIRECTIONS: Take I-270 toward Dublin. Take 33/161 west (exit 17B) toward Marysville. Follow 33/161 west to the 161/Plain City/Post Road exit. Turn right at the light and then immediately left on Hyland Croy Road. The Honda Wetland Education Area is 1 mile north on the left (7825 Hyland Croy Road). The park’s main entrance is 2 miles further north, at the roundabout, opposite Glacier Ridge Elementary School.

Yuri Dabaghian, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's HospitalAssistant Professor, Department of Computation and Applied Mathematics, Rice University Research focus: Modeling spatial learning and memory in the hippocampus and in the parietal cortex Moving through space is one of the fundamental tasks of an organism: evading predators, procuring food, finding a safe spot to nap in the sun. We take these activities for granted—until a movement disorder makes our hand continually overshoot the pencil it tries to grasp, or an elderly relative gets lost a block away from the home where he has lived for the past 20 years. “Space" encompasses a number of concepts: spatial order and connectivity, scale, size and shape, arc and direction, spatial perspective and spatial curvature, among others, which must all be brought together to produce a coherent, navigable map of the environment. From the biological perspective, all these constructs must be somehow represented in the brain, within neurons or neural networks. Spatial perception, indeed, is so fundamental to life that its functions are distributed all over the brain: different aspects of spatial representation are encoded in different brain areas, and most brain areas are involved in representing spatial information. Dr. Dabaghian draws from his doctoral training in theoretical and mathematical physics to develop theoretical models and experimental approaches for investigating how the brain can consistently and rapidly assemble and modify various spatial "maps" into a fully integrated representation of the environment at various levels of spatial awareness. His work currently focuses on modeling spatial learning and memory in the hippocampus and in the parietal cortex. He is also collaborating with Microsoft to develop a virtual reality-based, noninvasive diagnostic tool to identify spatial deficits early in the development of physiological dysfunction caused by, for example, Alzheimer’s disease or brain tumors.

Opus’ traffic modelling specialists provide effective transportation modelling and economic evaluation solutions, using a wide range of macro, micro and intersection simulation models. This supports a range of master planning and transportation planning scenarios, and integrates fully with our Planning and Environmental teams. We have experts in all aspects of transportation modelling within New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK, and they have delivered many major land use assessments and evaluation of transportation infrastructure projects. Four stage and network assignment modelling is used to assess the macro effects of new projects and land use changes. This recognises the link between land use, urban design and transportation planning. Micro simulation modelling is used to assess the effectiveness of projects and improvements at a vehicular level with realistic visual simulation which greatly assists the consultation process. Intersection modelling and optimisation is also undertaken to provide operational improvements.

Beach / Outdoor Activity Party Earth Review It may be one of the smallest of Chicago’s lakefront beaches, but Oak Street Beach is also one of the most popular – and certainly the most upscale. Nestled in the shadow of the skyscrapers, ritzy apartment buildings, and designer stores of Lake Shore Drive, the beach doesn’t exactly channel the ... more 500–1550 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60611 Party Earth Review Unlike its often status-conscious namesake neighborhood, Lincoln Park itself is a serene escape from the bustling city, providing access to a host of sandy beaches, cultural events, outdoor theater, water activities, and wide open spaces. Spanning nearly six miles, the park runs through the neighborhoods of Lincoln Park ... more 2045 Lincoln Park West (address of Lincoln Park Cultural Center) Chicago, IL 60610 Beach / Outdoor Activity Party Earth Review One of the most popular of Chicago’s 33 lakefront beaches, North Avenue Beach gets packed as soon as it opens on Memorial Day, as a wave of image-conscious 20-somethings peel off their heavy fleeces to reveal the results of their winter workouts. Besides surf and sun, the beach’s main draws are the nearly ... more 1600 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60614 Chicago is a bitter, windy, and freezing cold city in the winter – so whenever the sun decides to poke its head out and warm up the icy waves of Lake Michigan, Chicagoans flock to the stellar beaches to get a little color, play some sports, and pretend they’re somewhere tropical. When it comes to beaches in Chicago, there are really two that come to mind for great sand, sun, fun, and day drinking. The first is North Avenue Beach. Once Memorial Day rolls around, this desolate sandy landscape turns into a sea of buffed and bronzed twenty-somethings. The beach features nearly fifty volleyball courts and is also known for its massive restaurant and bar on a landlocked cruise ship called Castaways. Another great Chicago beach is Oak Street Beach. Although it’s relatively small compared to some of the other thirty or so sandy escapes, Oak Street is by no means less popular, especially among the see-and-be-seen Chicago crowd. Although there are sports to be played here as well, Oak Street is more relaxing and the go-to spot for simply working on that tan. There are tons of Chicago beaches to choose from and whenever the weather is warm you can’t really go wrong with any of them. So if you’re looking for some sand-filled sports, fun beach-side bars, or just a quiet place to read with some Vitamin D, then the beaches in Chicago between Memorial Day and Labor Day will serve you well.

Baltimore Parks & People Foundation’s Grants Program Several Baltimore community groups have received small grants from Parks & People, a city-wide nonprofit organization, to complete projects alongside or near the Gwynns Falls Trail. The grants program was started in 1995 with a grant from the Merck Family and the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds to encourage community involvement in parks and environmental improvement. The grants help strengthen the ties between community residents and the new 14-mile trail. The program awards grants of $250 – $1,000 to community groups for neighborhood greening projects or for involvement in the development of the trail. The project targets communities which are underserved or needy and do not usually have access to greening programs. To apply, the group must be community-based and must have a bank account. The group can have formed only in order to do the project with the Parks & People Foundation; all applicants must work with a Parks & People Foundation staff member in planning their projects. Parks & People is trying to foster independence in the groups to which they award grants. If applicants are turned down, they may be offered a contingency award to tighten up their project description in whichever area the application was weak. The grants program can help less-established groups gain the strength and structure they need to run an independent greening program. Some groups, having completed a greening project with Parks & People, then turn their attention to other projects, such as housing problems.

History of the Churches of the Pittsburgh Baptist Association by William Pankey BEULAH BAPTIST CHURCH WEST ELIZABETH, ORGANIZED 1911 The Beulah Baptist Church, West Elizabeth, had its origin in a series of cottage prayer meetings conducted by five local missionaries. Following a revival meeting conducted by the Rev. C. A. Rockwell, the Beulah Baptist Mission was organized, March 1, 1911. Frequent series of revival meetings have been conducted by various ministers. The membership has grown slowly. The pastor's salary in 1921 was only six dollars a week. The church was received into the Pittsburgh Baptist Association January 27, 1922. The following ministers have served the church: Rev. C. A. Rockwell (1910-1911), Rev. E. H. Leizure (1911-1912), Rev. O. M. McCracken (1912-1914), Rev. J. Hughes (1914), Rev. H. Bailey (1918- 1919), Rev. J. H. Hanson (1919-1922), Rev. Charles F. Ransbottom (1923-1925), Rev. S. M. Smith (1925- 1926), Rev. M. L. Champion (1926 ). The present membership is 137. |Share This Page Using:||Tweet| The Reformed Reader Home Page Copyright 1999, The Reformed Reader, All Rights Reserved

Toll Rates of Road Tunnels and Lantau Link (Note: Currency in Hong Kong dollar) The Aberdeen Tunnel was opened in 1982. The toll is $5. The Kai Tak Tunnel, opened in 1982, runs beneath the runway of the former Kai Tak Airport linking the central area of Kowloon with Kwun Tong. It is free of charge. The dual 3-lane 1.6-kilometre long Cheung Tsing tunnel, which is within the Tsing Ma Control Area, forms part of Route 3 and links West Kowloon with Lantau and northwest New Territories. It is free of charge. The Cross-Harbour Tunnel, opened in 1972. Following the expiry of the franchise on August 31, 1999, the tunnel was vest in the Government. Tolls range from $8 to $30. The Discovery Bay Tunnel Link, opened in May 2000, is operated by the Discovery Bay Road Tunnel Company Limited. Tolls range from $50 to $250. The Eastern Harbour Crossing, opened in 1989, is operated by the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited. From 1 May 2005, tolls have been adjusted to a range between $13 and $75. The Lion Rock Tunnel, opened in 1967, provides a road link from north Kowloon to Sha Tin and north-eastern New Territories. The toll is $8. The Shing Mun Tunnels, opened in 1990, link up Tsuen Wan to Sha Tin. The toll is $5. The Tai Lam Tunnel and Yuen Long Approach Road is operated by the Route 3 (CPS) Company Limited. Opened in May 1998. From 1 January 2011, tolls have been adjusted to a range between $20 and $135. The Tate's Cairn Tunnel is operated by the Tate's Cairn Tunnel Company Limited. Opened in 1991. From 25 December 2010, tolls have been adjusted to a range between $12 and $32. The Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, opened in 1990, provides a road link between Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O New Town. The toll is $3. The Western Harbour Crossing, opened in 1997, is operated by the Western Harbour Tunnel Company Limited. Tolls range from $23 to $128. The Lantau Link comprises two crossings linking northeast Lantau to Ma Wan at Kap Shui Mun (the Kap Shui Mun Bridge) and from Ma Wan to Tsing Yi across Ma Wan Channel (the Tsing Ma Bridge). The Tsing Ma Bridge in the form of a suspension bridge with a main span of 1,377 metres is one of the longest of its kind in the world and has become a prominent landmark in Hong Kong. The Kap Shui Mun Bridge is a cable stayed bridge with a main span of 430 metres. Both bridges were opened to traffic in May 1997. Tolls range from $20 to $80. The Ting Kau Bridge forms the vital link between the Tai Lam Tunnel and Tsing Yi sections of Route 3 and connect the Western New Territories via Tuen Mun Road to the Lantau Link. The bridge was opened to the public in May 1998. The Eagle's Nest Tunnel and Sha Tin Heights Tunnel are within Tsing Sha Control Area which form part of Route 8 linking east New Territories with West Kowloon . The Tunnels were opened to public in March 2008 and the toll is $8. The Tai Wai Tunnel is a 0.5-km dual two-lane tunnel connecting to Road T3. The Tunnel is within Tsing Sha Control area and was opened to public in March 2008. The Nam Wan Tunnel is a 1.2-km long dual three-lane tunnel going through the southern part of Tsing Yi Island. It is linked to Cheung Tsing Highway and Stonecutters Bridge by viaducts. The Tunnel is within Tsing Sha Control area and was opened to public in December 2009. The Tunnel is free of charge. The Stonecutters Bridge is a 1.6-km long dual three-lane high level cable stayed bridge with a clear span of 1,018 metres. The Bridge straddle the Rambler Channel. The Bridge is within Tsing Sha Control Area and was opened to public in December 2009. The Bridge is free of charge.

The $517,000 in funding to stop the leakage at the disused Mount Diablo mine was secured this month after lobbying by a trio of East Bay Democratic representatives - Congressmen Jerry McNerney and George Miller and Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher - whose districts are affected by the pollution. The area that's being polluted is the Marsh Creek Watershed, a 128-square-mile expanse of rangeland, farmland, protected parkland and urban land east of Mount Diablo. Marsh Creek flows approximately 30 river miles from its headwaters in Morgan Territory Regional Preserve through Brentwood and Oakley and empties into the Delta at Big Break. Although the 14-acre Mount Diablo mine was shut down in 1958, rainwater has continued to leach mercury out of the site as it washes over the mine's tailings (dirt dug out of the mine and dumped outside the tunnel onto Mount Diablo's slopes). A study conducted at UC Davis in 1995 concluded that 90 percent of the mercury found in Marsh Creek can be traced to the miles of tailings at the mine. That mercury is then flushed downhill 10 miles via two small streams into Marsh Creek before eventually draining into the Delta and San Francisco Bay. The funds came through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but represent only a fraction of the overall funds needed to fix the mine. It will cover barely half of the cost of preliminary design and planning studies, which are expected to run to at least a $1 million. "The money we've got will be used to gather information … to go in and do some geological studies and biological and water assessments," said Mitch Avalon, deputy director of the Contra Costa County Public Works Department, which will be involved in the cleanup. The actual cleanup work, which involves diverting rainwater around miles of mine tailings and burying the tailings in soil, isn't complicated, said Avalon. "We'll basically need to re-grade the area so the storm water doesn't flow through the tailings, cap it with soil and vegetate it." But it can be an expensive undertaking that's estimated to cost over $3 million. Exactly how the county will obtain the balance of the funds needed to complete the cleanup is unclear at this stage. Nevertheless, the initial funding that's been handed to the county is a start, though long overdue, according to Diane Burgis, coordinator of Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed, a local advocacy group that promotes awareness, preservation and restoration of the creek and surrounding area. "This has been a long time in coming; we've been pressing the county for years," Burgis said. "The Marsh Creek Watershed is the largest in Contra Costa County and we're lucky to be in a unique situation where we have such a big expanse of natural beauty and wildlife in the middle of an area that's undergoing rapid urban expansion." Burgis added that many such areas haven't been so lucky. Many fall victim to neglect, pollution and encroachment from overdevelopment. "Since we haven't," said Burgis, "this is our opportunity to preserve Marsh Creek and make it an asset and jewel in our community for generations to enjoy." While the problem of mercury pollution is well documented, figuring out who takes responsibility for cleaning up a mess that was created nearly half a century ago remains an ongoing challenge for Bay Area legislators and local authorities. Many regional and local authorities have been reluctant to get involved, fearing that it will open themselves up to million-dollar lawsuits from environmental groups that might force them to pay for the cleanup. Forcing former mine owners to cough up the cash isn't an option, either, as all went out of business decades ago. The mine is now under private property ownership and the current owner can't be held liable since he didn't create the damage and hasn't engaged in any mining activities. "We want to help clean up this mess, but we need to have some liability protection first," said Public Works Department deputy director Avalon, whose department is responsible for providing flood control and water conservation in the area. "We've never owned the mine and right now we're not required to clean it up. If we were to go in, we'd have a lot more liability on our hands." To ensure such protection, Avalon said that the Public Works Department would be signing agreements with both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Regional Water Quality Control Board to outline his department's role in any cleanup effort. That, he said, would provide shelter from liability at both local and state levels.

Field of Expertise Sara Seager is an astrophysicist with a research focus on both extrasolar planet atmospheres and cosmology. Her recent focus has been on writing detailed computer models and using them to both guide and interpret observations of extrasolar giant planet atmospheres. One of her predictions led to the first extrasolar planet atmosphere detection in 2001. In addition, Seager co-runs a search for transiting short-period extrasolar giant planets. She is involved in many planned and proposed space missions, including NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder which is being designed to detect and characterize Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars. One of Seager's long term goals is to find signs of life, via extremely remote sensing of Earth-like planet atmospheres. Sara Seager was born in Toronto, Canada. She received a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto in 1994. Seager earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1999, where her thesis was one of the first ever to be written on extrasolar planets. During her graduate work, Seager also completed a thorough investigation of the physics of hydrogen and helium recombination in the early universe, resulting in a detailed computer model that has become the standard in the field. Seager spent three years at the Institute for Advanced study as a Keck Fellow and Long Term Member. Since August 2002, Seager has been on the faculty at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She is a member of the American Astronomical Society as well as the Canadian Astronomical Society. |© 2003 Educational Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.

On the eastern fringe of Misty Fiords National Monument, at the head of Portland Canal, is Hyder, a town that may be in Alaska but identifies more closely with its Canadian neighbors just across the border in Stewart, British Columbia. Even though Hyder has mainland road access, the town is so isolated from the rest of Alaska its 72 residents are almost totally dependent on larger Stewart (pop. 700), just across the Canadian border. Hyder's residents use Canadian money, set their watches to Pacific Standard Time (not Alaska Standard Time), use Stewart’s area code and send their children to Canadian schools. When there’s trouble, the famed Canadian Mounties step in. All this can make a side trip here something of an international affair. Things to do Hyder has a number of gold rush-era saloons, which are popular with visitors. The Glacier Inn is the best known and features an interior papered in signed bills, creating the “$20,000 Walls” of Hyder. Next door is First and Last Chance Saloon, and both bars are lively at night. There’s also the Toastworks in Stewart, a restaurant that doubles up as a toaster museum with more than 500 models on display. But the best reason to find your way to this out-of-the-way place is for bear viewing. From late July to September, you can head six miles north of town on Salmon Glacier Road to the Fish Creek Wildlife Observation Site and watch and photograph large brown and black bears feeding on pink and chum salmon that are spawning by the thousands upstream. The U.S. Forest Service maintains a viewing platform and boardwalk here and there are interpreters onsite during the summer. Another 17 miles north along the road – in British Columbia - is a viewing point of impressive Salmon Glacier, the fifth largest in Canada.

the early part of 1994 the people of Old Providence and Santa Catalina, two small islands in the south western Caribbean and part of the San Andres Archipelago, carried out their own process for strengthening community involvement in planning and decision-making. They hoped that their work would lead to an improved quality of life for them and their children, as well as creating a stronger community community visioning process began when it became known that permits had been issued for two foreign development projects on the island of Old Providence. Community members, drawn from NGOs, church groups, community groups, local politicians and the Ministry of the Environment worked together for eight months. The result was a Municipal Development Plan that was adopted as the development policy for the islands. the island community sought to realise their vision and to implement their plan, which included a small scale, locally owned ecotourism industry, they have come up against many obstacles including a lack of air access and a 'boycotting' of the island by the national tourism industry, combined with air crashes and hurricanes. the beginning of 2005, the subject of community planning was discussed on the Small Islands Voice Global Internet Forum, and in particular response referred to this initiative in Old Providence and Santa Catalina. a result of the interest generated, it was decided to assess the community visioning process in Old Providence and Santa Catalina in the second half of 2005. A local organization, the Providence Foundation, carried out the assessment, see their brochure. Invitations were sent out to the community and the results have been compiled in a report. of the most important outcomes of the assessment is that the island community is embarking on a new visioning process to plan collaborative action in the face of changing circumstances. other islands interested in starting their own community visioning process, a bilingual (Spanish and English) booklet has been prepared in the form of a powerpoint presentation detailing the steps required to undertake a community visioning process.

Susan Jacoby interview - Part 2 listen04/07/08 Mitch E. Perry WMNF Drive-Time News Monday | Listen to this entire show: Susan Jacoby’s new book, The Age of American Unreason, is her attack on an America that is losing its intellectual standards. In its tone, it could be considered one of a series of books written over the years by academics who mourn the country’s basic lack of knowledge slipping every year. It’s the type of book that both liberals and conservatives have written in the past. In fact, as Jacoby writes, seemingly it’s one place where those on all ideological stripes can come together. But Jacoby tells WMNF that’s not the case. We’ll air the final part of this interview later this week on the Evening News.

|On Nethery Wings| |Level||70 (Requires 68)| Professor Dabiri at the Protectorate Watch Post in Netherstorm wants you to use your Phase Disruptor when you get in range of the Void Conduit that rests atop Ultris. Drop as many charges of the Phase Disruptor as you can to ensure total annihilation. The Phase Disruptor charges will automatically home in on the Void Conduit so long as you are close enough to use it. Return to Professor Dabiri should you succeed! - Void Conduit Destroyed: 0/1 This quest is the 2nd step in a quest chain in Netherstorm that begins with . Here it is, <name>. Take this phase disruptor and mount up! The Protecotrate nether drake will fly you close enough to Ultris so that you can drop the disruptor on top of the void conduit. Drop as many disruptor charges as possible to ensure complete annihilation! When you are ready, speak with the nether drake and he'll take you up. If you miss the mark you will have to get more bombs from me before you can go up again. - +250 reputation with The Consortium - One more towards - One more towards (or the earlier ones, if not completed) This can be done by flying mount and presumably druid flight form; the nether drake is provided for players who don't have access to either. The nether drake's loop takes 1 min 26 secs, and is a fun little static flight. A druid is able to use flight form, however you will be knocked out of flight form and cannot return to flight form fast enough to save yourself from an undesirable splat.

LevelUp Leads “Cambrian Explosion” of Mobile Payments & Rewards (Page 2 of 2) LevelUp and I’m sure that as these hundreds of new companies evolve, they’ll try to differentiate by adding unique value beyond the payment. I think that’ll be the exciting trend a few months from now. X: What’s the most innovative thing LevelUp is doing, from a business strategy standpoint? SP: Well, beyond Interchange Zero [reducing merchants’ fees for moving money around to zero] I think the next most innovative thing we’re doing is actually tied to this financing. If you look at the backers we’re assembling, it’s the dream team of who you’d want backing a mobile payment company ready to go to war: —Card network experience: The founders of Discover Card invested in the first tranche of this round. —Mobile phone scale: Google Ventures (venture arm of Google) is an investor, with one of the founders of Android on our board. —Carrier leverage: T-Venture (venture arm of Deutsche-Telekom, who owns T-Mobile, who’s a backer of ISIS) just invested. These three partners complete our tri-force of unfair advantages in the marketplace. Interestingly, you’ll also see that all of those companies (at least the corporate arms) have their own mobile payment plays but are also investing in LevelUp. X: What is your biggest challenge now? How do you get massive adoption? SP: There are two big challenges: user acquisition and merchant acquisition. The good news is, we’re onboarding users and merchants faster than ever. The bad news is, it’s not fast enough. From a user acquisition perspective, we’re about to roll out some pretty awesome new viral features and new co-marketing initiatives to help our merchant partners activate their customer base more effectively. From a merchant acquisition perspective, we’re launching with a number of partners with huge scale who are going to introduce the LevelUp solution to their hundreds of thousands of merchants come Q4. X: How has your leadership role evolved as your company has grown and matured? What have you learned? SP: Oh man. Tough question. The best part of our growth over the last year is that my role has stayed pretty much where I want it to be, on product and engineering. We hired a killer CTO (Harald Prokop) and a top-notch CFO (Mark Amabile) to tackle those parts of the organization. Andrew Boch, our operations lead, handles the infrastructure (both human, technical, and partner related) to scale LevelUp to hundreds of thousands of merchants, and Michael Hagan is leading our sales team. Chris Mahl has taken on the role of Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer focusing on the big deals with huge partners (like our Sovereign partnership) that would be too difficult for me to pull off (really!) but give us huge scale. With an executive team like that, I get to hide in my office, drawing on orange whiteboard walls and working with the rest of the engineering team to dream up what’s next. That’s my favorite thing and luckily I’ve learned how to build a rock-solid team so I just get to keep doing it. X: What can we expect to see in the coming year from LevelUp? Is it predictable from here? SP: We’ll cross the million-user mark within the next 12 months. We’ll keep our interchange rate at zero (forever) and increase our revenue streams faster than ever. We’ll probably introduce NFC [near field communication] to our LevelUp terminals if it becomes more mainstream. And, LevelUp will likely be integrated into all major POS [point of sale] systems (a huge milestone) by the end of this year.

It’s been a while (I guess… 10 months?) since I’ve been in the Middle East or North Africa. Which is one of those awkward geographical categorizations that reminds us that we only really call things something like “middle east” because we’re looking at the world from an orientalist perspective anyway. People always ask me why I love this region so much. It’s been my favoite part of the world since before I came here. I studied it after all, long ago in that magical world of undergrad. While my reasons have changed a bit since those days just weeks after Operation Cast Lead when a woman named Hyatt Avi Aziz became the first college professor to win my respect by being willing to tell people they were idiots (“I don’t care about your chest. It’s IRaq , not I. Rack.”), the middle east still evokes a love in me that’s all its own. Latin America is a close second. South Asia is a third, though largely because of common elements between the cultures, but nothing compares. I’ve taken more risks for this region than for anywhere else, spent far more money on flights and given up my ability to enter the US very easily (Iraqi visa stamps will do that…) but the appeal is still there. Herein we have the last 24 hours of my life. The first 24 hours I’ve spent in Tunisia. Well… 34 if you count the ferry. And trust me, you should. The Zeus Palace (which, somewhat contradictorily, travels from Italy to Tunisia directly) is not what one has in mind when they think of the cheapest passenger ferry plying this particular segment of the Europe/North Africa route, though it is. It has a swimming pool (albeit empty and roped off) a karaoke bar (fully functional) and, if all experiences are like mine, comes equipped with some of the most badass little kids who love Michael Jackson dances that I have ever met, or probably ever will. And who speak Italian. Which meant I could talk to them marginally better (read, more than not at all) than I can these Francophones in Tunis :-) ). Follow that with the obligatory concerned old matrons coming over to click their tounges (you’re coing to Tunis. ALONE. Why aren’t you married?! And you don’t speak FRENCH? ……Don’t pay more than 10 euros for a taxi. Don’t sleep in the street. Good luck.) and I was off. To haggle about Lonely Planet prices that are phenomenally incorrect (the most consistent thing about arriving in any country) For a brief stretch I was overwhelmed. Sometimes I convince myself I speak rudimentary Arabic. I don’t. Plus, Arabic in Tunisia is notably different from that in the Levant and Egypt. So, there we go. Secondly, I don’t speak french and don’t claim to. Italian was somewhat useful at first, and still can be, until I found out that Italians are known throughout Tunisia as tending to be the seediest of seedy sex tourists (generally true from the few Italians I’ve met here). Then the hospitality set in. I had dinner with a family from Benghazi who were visiting for medical treatment, generally very common since the quality of virtually all hire level education went down the drain during the Gaddafi years. Anyone who has spent time in this part of the world can picture the scene… I was trying to order a schwarma in a mix of terrible Arabic and worse french, and the 50 something year old matron in her black headscarf started to point and smile, before forcing her daughter, who was my age, to come over and talk to me in english. We then had a really nice dinner together, I was bombarded with gifts (fruits, nuts, yoghurt, and a coke) and was invited to Benghazi (“no, the border is open now, and things are quite safe!…” while I cannot attest to the saftey, the border remains quite tightly closed to indepent travel as of the latst information I can find). I came home to an Algerian guy who was determined to talk to me. I am not really sure about what. He showed me a bag of blue jeans, what must have been 50,000 euros in 100 euro notes, and told me he was going to Istanbul the next day. Over and over. In French. Which. You know. I don’t speak. But he was still very happy to talk to an American. The little bit I got was pretty funny: “Yes, you should come to Algeria! It is beautiful!… Do you believe in Allah? No… Hmm… Nevermind. It could be dangerous for you….” He might have been joking. But was awesome nonetheless. And so it goes. There is a real magic to this region that is unmatched anywhere else in the world, besides, perhaps, for south Asia, which shares so many influences of Islamic society. And it’s great to be back. Even if it’s Summer and a million fucking degrees.

ASI has recently developed the ability to produce high-quality uniform CNF-reinforced, polymer films. ASI’s thin film materials are well-suited for use as pre-pregging sheets or as fully-cured surface coating materials for EMI shielding. ASI was awarded a Navy Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program to refine the production methodology for these products and produce pilot scale sized thin films. This program will build on the success from a Navy Phase I SBIR where ASI demonstrated a new proprietary film production method. Representative Optimized Conductive Thin Films Benefits of ASI’s Thin Film Technology - Uniform conductivity - Low filler content - Thinner material with properties equivalent or better than legacy materials - Great product for pre-pregging - All the benefits of carbon nanofiber in a closed-form solution Conductive films and inks are widely used for electrostatic dissipation as well as EMI shielding in electronics, aircraft, and aerospace applications. These materials are typically fabricated using conductive materials such as carbon black and metal flakes. While effective, carbon black requires high loadings in the resin film, and inks can negatively impact the durability of the resultant films and coatings. The use of metal flakes in these types of applications also has limitations associated to high particle loadings required to reach resistivity targets. Furthermore, compatibility with the polymer matrices is a prevailing issue, as well as corrosion. With the growing maturity of carbon nanomaterials (CNM) and large scale production of these materials, it is of increasing interest to utilize (CNM) in conductive films and inks. The potential to achieve low electrical resistivity targets at very low filler loading lies in the high aspect ratio and high electrical conductivity of graphitic nanofibers and nanotubes. Successful Demonstration of Film Properties During Navy Phase I Research Through use of nano-scale reinforcements and their proper application, ASI capitalized on the promise of these materials during a Navy Phase I SBIR program to increase the performance of polymeric films which meet all of the Navy’s requirements at a lower thickness (and therefore less parasitic mass) than legacy materials. ASI will build on this success in the Phase II program through proving in the capacity for commercial manufacture. Significant progress was achieved in the both the formulations of conductive solutions and the film production processing methods. Under this program, ASI identified an effective and synergistic combination of graphitic nanomaterials. The blend of materials was found to balance conductivity and uniformity, while providing control of the percolation threshold and minimization of the loading of graphitic nano-scale additives. Furthermore, both of the selected conductive additives and the selected polyimide resin are all commercially available in large volumes and at low cost. A readily-scalable and effective dispersion protocol for preparing the film-forming conductive solutions was established and verified through dispersion analysis. The ASI-developed process is advantageous in that scaling up production to larger area films will only require purchase and modification of appropriately-sized commercially available equipment as opposed to designing and fabricating custom equipment. Using the equipment assembled for the feasibility study in Phase I, it was found that preparation of robust, uniform films was quite rapid and reliable. The film materials developed by ASI are thinner (less parasitic mass) than the legacy material while meeting, or exceeding, all of the Phase I program goals, thereby enabling weight reduction. These materials also met or exceeded the solvent resistance and bend testing requirements. Development of more robust conductive thin polymer films will provide benefits to numerous commercial electronics applications as well as commercial aircraft applications. The benefit to Defense applications will be an increase in the lifetime of the conductive thin films compared to materials currently in use and a reduction in weight. Contact Patrick Lake to learn more about Thin Polymer Films. Mr. Lake is a Chemical Engineer with experience in growth of VGCF and CNF, and fabrication of high thermal conductivity carbon-carbon composites. Patrick pioneered the development of ASI’s Thin Films under funding from the US Navy. Patrick is currently working under phase II funding from the US Navy to refine the production process and develop new applications for the material.

You have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You have a right to remain silent. You may even have a right to sing the blues. But you may not be aware of one of your most taken-for-granted rights; it plops onto your porch each year. The phone book. The phone companies and their competitors are more than delighted to deliver their profitable business listings to you free of charge. Pacific Bell, which serves the great majority of Orange County and California, has four Yellow Pages competitors in Orange County alone, not including alternative directories in foreign languages or for specialized interests like Christian-, gay- or ecology-friendly businesses. But for these phone book publishers, the "white pages" are an immense expense with no return. The white pages persist, partly because the state requires phone companies to print and deliver them free to wherever your phone is located under the doctrine that a telephone is useless without telephone numbers. What began in New Haven, Conn., in 1878 as a single 6-by-9-inch sheet listing the town's telephone subscribers has become the biggest, cheapest series of books in publishing history. Pacific Bell's Orange County white pages book, which does not include phones south of Newport Beach and Lake Forest, contains about 1,400 pages this year. If the unlisted numbers, about 45% of all subscribers, were included, there would have been closer to 2,500 pages--if that were possible. In reality, printers can't bind a phone book much larger than 2,100 pages, and a goodly number of customers could not lift it. About a million of the Orange County white pages are printed and distributed each year, a huge undertaking but still a small part of the 35 million books containing 45 billion pages that Pacific Bell publishes each year. Merced Color Press at Merced in the San Joaquin Valley devotes four huge presses to nothing but Pacific Bell directories and has them running three shifts a day all year. "We try to take weekends off," says a spokesman. The Orange County white pages come trundling out of the bindery at a rate of 5,000 an hour, and when they're done, the easy part is over. Then it's up to Jerry Weaver at Product Development Corp., the largest phone book delivery firm in the nation, to deliver the books, usually in November or December (May for South County). The Orange County job is one of the firm's largest in California, and it must be done by people willing to drive their cars for a piece-work job that lasts only about a month. "Orange County is real tough to recruit," Weaver says. "Unemployment is low there. We have to assign a field manager with staff in an office down there. "We advertise through the papers, some direct mailings, advertise in senior citizens periodicals. We do some hand delivery door-to-door, we advertise on the radio stations, we post at the colleges, at community centers, on bulletin boards at all kinds of organizations--anywhere we can." The result in a typical year is 350 applicants, in a bumper year, 500. "There were several other directories being delivered at the same time, so we're pulling from the same labor pool," Weaver says. "We get a mixture, people who are transient or in between jobs, retired people. We also have a few people who follow us from area to area and distribute for us." Routes are sized according to how many directories can be shoved into a standard-size sedan, but the distributors can have as many routes as they want, Weaver says. They are paid according to how many households they supply, "but we try to make it so people get the equivalent of $6 to $8 an hour." Distributors pay their car expenses. In the old, old days, you had to pay if you wanted a second copy of the directory. Nowadays, if you want a \o7 dozen \f7 more directories, no problem. Weaver will have placed a stack of them for the taking at some nearby supermarket or shopping center. But do you really want more than one? In some areas, people receive four or five phone books from different publishers each year, a total of perhaps 25 pounds of paper and ink. And next year, or maybe sooner, you're going to want to get rid of them. For the ecologically challenged, it's a simple chore: Toss them in the trash. But, increasingly, cities and counties are trying to discourage this practice, because the books take up so much room at the dump. In 1994, Pacific Bell started a recycling program for its directories, and now 20 cities in Orange County are participating. Last year, Laguna Beach alone sent 66 tons of old phone books to the pulping mills. Heather Mindel, this region's recycling manager for Pacific Bell, says the linchpin of the effort is the phone company's contract with Daishowa America, the mill in Port Angeles, Wash., that supplies the paper for Pacific Bell directories. The demand for recyclable paper varies and sometimes disappears, but Daishowa has agreed to always buy and recycle the directories.

4000bce - 399 400 - 1399 1400 - 1499 1500 - 1599 1600 - 1699 1700 - 1799 1800 - 1899 1900 - 1999 Exchange of Notes Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes, signed at Washington April 28 and 29, 1817. Originals in English. Submitted to the Senate April 6, 1818. Resolution of approval and consent April 16, 1818. Proclaimed April 28, 1818. WASHINGTON April 16, 1817 The Undersigned, His Britannick Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has the honour to acquaint His Royal Highness, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, agrees, that the Naval Force to be maintained upon the American Lakes by His Majesty and the Government of the United States shall henceforth be confined to the following Vessels on each side-that is On Lake Ontario to one Vessel not exceeding one hundred Tons burthen and armed with one eighteen pound cannon. On the Upper Lakes to two Vessels not exceeding like burthen each and armed with like force. On the Waters of Lake Champlain to one Vessel not exceeding like burthen and armed with like force. And His Royal Highness agrees, that all other armed Vessels on these Lakes shall be forthwith dismantled, and that no other Vessels of War shall be there built or armed His Royal Highness further agrees, that if either Party should hereafter be desirous of annulling this Stipulation, and should give notice to that effect to the other Party, it shall cease to be binding after the expiration of six months from the date of such notice. The Undersigned has it in command from His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to acquaint the American Government, that His Royal Highness has issued Orders to His Majestys Officers on the Lakes directing, that the Naval Force so to be limited shall be restricted to such Services as will in no respect interfere with the proper duties of the armed Vessels of the other Party. The Undersigned has the honour to renew to Mr Rush the assurances of his highest consideration. The Undersigned, Acting Secretary of State, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Bagot's note of the 28th of this month, informing him that, having laid before the Government of His Britannick Majesty, the correspondence which passed last year between the Secretary of State and himself upon the subject of a proposal to reduce the naval force of the two countries upon the American Lakes, he had received the commands of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent to inform this Government that His Royal Highness was willing to accede to the proposition made by the Secretary of State in his note of the second of August last. The Undersigned has the honor to express to Ms Bagot the satisfaction which The President feels at His Royal Highness The Prince Regent's having acceded to the proposition of this government as contained in the note alluded to. And in further answer to Ms Bagot's note, the Undersigned, by direction of The President, has the honor to state, that this Government, cherishing the same sentiments expressed in the note of the second of August, agrees, that the naval force to be maintained upon the Lakes by the United-States and Great Britain shall, henceforth, be confined to the following vessels on each side,-that is: On Lake Ontario to one vessel not exceeding One Hundred Tons burden, and armed with one eighteen-pound cannon. On the Upper Lakes to two vessels not exceeding the like burden each, and armed with like force, and on the waters of Lake Champlain to one vessel not exceeding like burden and armed with like force. And it agrees, that all other armed vessels on these Lakes shall be forthwith dismantled, and that no other vessels of war shall be there built or armed. And it further agrees, that if either party should hereafter be desirous of annulling this stipulation and should give notice to that effect to the other party, it shall cease to be binding after the expiration of six months from the date of such notice. The Undersigned is also directed by The President to state, that proper orders will be forthwith issued by this Government to restrict the naval force thus limited to such services as will in no respect interfere with the proper duties of the armed vessels of the other party. The Undersigned eagerly avails himself of this opportunity to tender to Mr Bagot the assurances of his distinguished consideration and respect. Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America. Edited by Hunter Miller Documents 1-40 : 1776-1818 Washington : Government Printing Office, 1931.

With 2012 coming to an end we have another opportunity to set goals for our future. But, at BIO CrossFit we are going to handle what we do with these goals a little differently. We are going to post them for all to see on a “Goals Board”, the only thing different about our goal board is that it will all be written in permanent marker so that we cannot erase or change them. You see the biggest challenge the average person has when they set goals for their New Years resolution is that they make them to broad, which makes them to easy to change. Your goals will be in 2 parts, and they can be anything you would like them to be as well as long as you would like them to be. The first part will be a short term goal which you would like to have completed in 2-4 months, an example “I would like to lose 10 pounds”. The second part will be long term goals, something you hope to complete by years end ” I would like for all my Olympic lifts to be over 200lbs”. What I want this goal board to be is something that can constantly be added too. A place where you can see your goals every time you come in be reminded that you promised yourself you would complete that challenge. The goals do not have to be CrossFit related, or workout related if you don’t want them to be. Lets make 2013 a year of progression not a year of settling. I would like to have all the goals turned in by January 12th! EVERYONE must participate! Every day past January 12th you do not have a goal written on the board, you will complete that many rounds of 13 burpees. So that means if you are 5 days late you will complete 65 burpees before each workout. So start thinking of what your goals will be now!

Lawsuit Claims Facebook Illegally Uses Minors for Advertisements |Mothers dislike their kids being used in Facebook ads.| The ads are part of Facebook's "enhanced" sponsors package, allowing advertisers to target users based on the interests and tastes of their friend network. Mention your obsession for Coca-Cola on Facebook, for example, and you could unwittingly appear on your friend's Facebook page endorsing the soft drink. It's brilliant marketing, really. And it's also illegal when it comes to minors, according to a lawsuit filed this month in federal court in East St. Louis. Laws on the books in all 50 states prohibit advertisers from using a person's name or likeness for marketing purposes without their knowledge. Facebook gets around the laws in the fine print of its users' agreement, with language waiving those rights. But can children under the age of eighteen really agree to such a contract? That's the crux of the lawsuit filed by two Granite City mothers on behalf of their children. The suit argues that juveniles cannot legally enter into such a contract and that Facebook, which allows anyone thirteen and older to create an account, needs to change the conditions for enhanced ads. "Facebook has two choices," says Aaron Zigler, the St. Louis attorney representing the Granite City mothers. "It can either either get parental approval to allow minors to appear in enhanced ads, or it needs to get rid of that feature for its users under the age of eighteen." Similar lawsuits have been filed in California and New York. Zigler tells Daily RFT that the suit filed here is somewhat different because it's a class action and focuses on Facebook using a person's profile picture for its enhanced advertisements. He adds that his clients contacted Facebook to try to get their children opted out of appearing in enhanced ads, but could not do so. Facebook has yet to file a response to the complaint, which seeks statutory damages and attorney fees. How much could Facebook lose should the court agree with the Granite City mothers? That's anyone's guess. But here's a possible scenario: Facebook operates under California law, which says that a person is entitled to $750 in damages or more each time an advertiser uses his or her name or likeness without consent. Multiply $750 by how ever many times a minor has appeared in one of Facebook's enhanced ads, and the figure could get pretty high very fast. View a copy of the lawsuit below.

The USDA’s Food Safety Discovery Zone has finished its spring 2012 tour, taking hands-on food safety lessons across the Southeast. Stopping in the smallest towns and big cities like Dallas, we were able to educate over 175,000 people on preventing foodborne illness. Real food safety experts who work in meat and poultry plants near each town—like veterinarians, investigators, and other FSIS personnel—came out to staff the events. FSIS Administrator Al Almanza even came to the last stop in San Antonio. Here are some of my favorite moments along the way: Elm City, NC, April 3: The first stop on the tour was in Elm City, North Carolina. We parked the Discovery Zone at Elm City Elementary School, where students and educators learned to clean, separate, cook, and chill. Elm City has a population of 1,400, and in a tight-knit community like this, the Discovery Zone staff knows our messages will be put into practice at community barbecues and potluck dinners. Byram and Madison, Miss., April 8-9: These two towns are in the heart of FSIS’ Jackson District, an area known for poultry production. Grocery stores are one of my favorite places to host events, because people have good food safety questions about their purchases. Shoppers were surprised by the unusual installment in their Kroger parking lots, and over 400 people took away food safety resources to use at home. Dallas, Texas 4/14: The White Rock YMCA hosted us as part of its “Vive tu Vida” (“Live Your Life”) Health Fair. As the staff’s bilingual member, I enjoyed leading Discovery Zone tours and manning the Food Safety Wheel game for the mostly Spanish-speaking crowd. With an estimated 3,000 in attendance, the Discovery Zone’s presence in the community was certainly felt. San Antonio, Texas 4/17: Our staff made an immediate impact at the South New Braunfels Avenue HEB grocery store. Late in the afternoon, a couple approached the Discovery Zone with a serious dilemma. The wife had been thawing frozen pork in bowls of warm water, ignoring her husband’s warnings that this could make them sick. Convinced she was right, the woman wanted our staff to prove her husband wrong. She was shocked when we told her the three safe ways to thaw frozen meat: in the refrigerator, in the microwave, and in cold water. The couple took home a Kitchen Companion to consult next time there is any uncertainty. Fiesta San Antonio 4/20-21: What a joy to be in San Antonio for its annual Fiesta, the city-wide multicultural celebration! The Discovery Zone set up shop among vendors at the Fiesta Oyster Bake held on St. Mary’s University campus. Visitors wanted to know about Vibrio at this event, a pathogen that can be present in shellfish, and the staff was happy to talk to them about food safety practices for all foods. FSIS Administrator Al Almanza gave out food safety materials while we were there, taking pictures with the FSIS staff and visitors alike. Fort Sam Houston, Texas 4/22: An important military medical training facility, “Fort Sam” hosted a fireworks display and carnival for armed service members and their families. This was a unique and meaningful opportunity to talk food safety with a special group. Young children are at higher risk for foodborne illness, and we welcomed at least 200 families into the Discovery Zone, setting them up for a safe and fun summer. The fireworks display was a fantastic finale for our trip, and then it was back to Washington, D.C. for some local events.

At last my daughter and I are settled in Hataitai, Wellington - and I can finally relax! We moved on Monday in torrential rain and high winds, to a house one approaches up a steep, winding, very exposed path... The bookcases in particular were fun... |Flunk, Steam-Tank-Engines, Pantagruel and Steam Boat.| Anyway, be that as it may, we made it and the unpacking began. |Two Gatling guns and a piston broke off Gargantua... Minor damage really.| |Gargantua's 'mouth' - missing a gun| |...the second missing Gatling gun...| I admit, I was expecting some damage to my models, and so I was very pleasantly surprised to discover almost everything arrived unscathed. Predictably, perhaps, HMSW Gargantua needed a little repair (and there was a minor issue with Professor Shandy Tanglefoot's Overcompensatory Death-Ray of Doom) but that was all. |The piston is quickly put back in place with a couple of dobs of superglue.| |Fixed up and ready for battle!| But it hasn't all been moving house and fixing machines. I have actually found a little time to continue with Lord Smudgington Smythely-Smythe's Hydraulically Motorvated Sextupedal Land-Traversing Vacational Domicile... I finally started work on the dome-roof of the engine room. As you will probably be aware by now, this is inspired by the work of Joseph Paxton - the engineer responsible for the greenhouses at Chatsworth House and later the Crystal Palace. |An exact-size drawing of the dome end, complete with hole-punches for each pane size.| |The basic frame, in cardboard, is pinned to a sheet of styrene.| The plan is to complete a fully removable dome of glass and iron. I have started with the ends, and will follow with the girders that form the curved roof. |The dome, drawn on styrene...| |Holes are punched out...| Using a copy of my exact-size drawing, I made a card template of the basic frame. I had already planned which size hole-puches to use in order to create rounded corners within the window panes. |Windows are trimmed to shape and the dome is cut out.| Once the frame was cut- and punched-out, I built up the ironwork with simple strips of plastic and many, many rivets. Using more than one layer of 'iron' gives an impression of strength and makes the model so much more interesting to look at, yet it's not really a lot of work. |Strips are added.| |...and the rivets...| I will be making the corresponding dome for the other end of the engine room next, detailing the insides before starting on the roof. This brings me to the Rivet Count... This end of the roof has no fewer than 385 rivets. (Count 'em!) bringing the total so far to: ...with so many more yet to come! Anyway, with rivets in place, I added a quick bit of paint and so on, glued a sheet of clear acetate to the back (later to be enclosed with interior ironwork) et voila! |The painted dome.| So there you go - I think the dome looks great so far and I hope these pictures give you all a clearer idea of where I am going with this. |The dome, held in place by the Hand of The Colonel...| All the Best!

Harlem proves moms and dads are clamoring for school choice The parents of Harlem have been given the wonderful benefit of school choice - and they're taking full advantage of the ability to select the best educations for their children. Long trapped in dead-zone local schools, Harlem's mothers and fathers are figuring out that they now have a remarkable range of options. That's because charter schools have blossomed in the community, making the neighborhood a national epicenter for reform. The demand for better was on full display over the weekend, when 5,000 people turned out for the first Harlem Education Fair, an event at which parents got to consider the merits of 50 schools. And at which those schools competed for enrollments. Among competitors were traditional public schools - getting more than a run for their money now that Harlem has 24 charter schools, with a student body of 6,000 and growing. Parents citywide should be so lucky as to be able to pick where to send their kids after studying the quality of education the schools vow to deliver. Harlem's District 5 has been a victim of educational neglect by a system with a monopoly on public education. More than 70% of the district's eighth-graders and half the third-graders don't read at grade level. Now, thanks to Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to school choice, parents are leaping to charter schools, which are publicly funded and privately run. They admit by lottery. And their children are thriving. Last year, more than 84% of city charter school students scored at or above grade level on math exams, compared with 74% in traditional public schools. In English, 67% met or exceeded standards, versus 58%. This explains why tens of thousands of parents have kids on waiting lists for charter admissions. They want rigorous academics. They want a challenging curriculum. They want accountability. They want success. Choice is the way to get it. Opening more charters would force all schools to raise performance. The obstacle is the Legislature, notably Assembly Democrats, who have capped charters in the city and state. They are wrong. They are defending an atrocious status quo to the detriment of children. For when schools must prove their worth, the students come first. That was the message of the Harlem Education Fair. Which is as it should be. Not just in Harlem, but all over New York.

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Heath and I were both off on Friday, so we bought tickets to Alcatraz in the morning and planned on hanging out at Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf in the afternoon. We left Pier 33 on the Alcatraz Tour Cruise at 9:30 am! Approaching the island. Alcatraz is now maintained as a national park, so although it's in disrepair from decades of use and neglect, it seems to be getting better. The gardens are still maintained by volunteers, and the structures themselves are intimidating and impressive. Cellhouse exterior. Alcatraz was never filled to capacity. General population cells. Windows facing San Francisco. If the weather and wind were exactly right, the inmates could hear the sounds of the city through these windows. So close and yet so far away... View of San Francisco from Alcatraz. Cell staged like one of the escapee's cells, complete with wax/soap head. Kitchen - the knives were stored with silhouettes painted on the backboard so workers could quickly see if one was missing. Most of the residences and social buildings were either demolished intentionally or destroyed in fires over the years. More scenic views The recreation had a baseball diamond and stone bleachers. If you stand at the top of the bleachers you can see and hear the city across the bay. Back at Pier 39, looking down from the second level on all the shops and the merry-go-round. Jenna recommended Boudin's for lunch. They're famous for their sourdough. Tasty AND friendly! ;-) Sourdough bread bowl with tomato soup! Sea lions hanging out in one area of the pier. There were a couple of ships from the WWII era in the dock as well. We didn't pay to go in, but they were pretty impressive from the outside! Liberty war ship We only rode the cable cars once (we walked pretty much everywhere). We stopped at the cable car museum, which is also where all four of the functioning lines come back to their driving motors. Being engineers, we were extremely impressed with the ingenuity and creativity of such a complex system! Cables, motors, and pulleys. Each line has 2 driving wheels and 1 tension wheel, which is pulled taut and moved over time to keep the cable tight. They repair the cables until they have to be replaced in its entirety every 75 to 250 days! That's a lot of cable!

The same technology that is destroying the economics of content—and particularly of news–also brings unprecedented and nearly unlimited possibilities to informing society. Every day, the gap between what is possible and what is commercially viable grows wider. Picture two curves forever diverging beyond the horizon. As far as I know, this is sui generis. Think about it: Moore’s law does not drive the list price of the newest Pentium processor toward zero, nor do advances in solar technology make electricity free. This unique state of affairs provides the textbook construct for philanthropy: non-profit journalism both defends against a threat and capitalizes on an opportunity. At the threat end of the spectrum lies the public good argument: that a la national defense, market mechanisms alone will not produce the minimum threshhold of public interest journalism that society requires. And the opportunity is that every day, the art of the possible in any given topic area, arcane as it may be (e.g. campaign finance in New Jersey) grows richer. But as content floods the zone, the potential for monetizing this content becomes yet more remote. It’s not surprising that when it comes to such information, society as a whole has a “much longer tail” than does any individual. Welcome, philanthropists. The root problem faced by newspapers is neither declining circulation nor spiraling ad revenue. The real bugaboo of the newspaper biz is unbundling. Even though the article has always been the fundamental unit of news, the paper—the whole package (or at least the section)—has forever been the fundamental unit of profit. Papers are profitable because it’s hard to get to the article about the football game without at least tripping over an ad for a new Chrysler. (Well, a new Toyota). Now that the article is available outside the package (and 80% of the time, without even being mediated by a home page), the fundamental unit of profit has become the article. This must be true, as Google has so decreed it–and before Congress, no less, through the mouth of Marissa Mayer: Changing the basic unit of content consumption is a challenge, but also an opportunity. Treating the arrticle as the atomic unit of consumption online has several powerful consequences. When producing an article for online news, the publisher must assume that a reader may be viewing this article on its own, independent of the rest of the publication. To make an article effective in a standalone setting requires providing sufficient context for first-time readers, while clearly calling out the latest information for those following a story over time. It also requires a different approach to monetization: each individual article should be self-sustaining. Thanks, Marissa. We’ll get back to you on that cold fusion stuff, too. Yikes. What she’s really saying is that the atomic unit of profit–not consumption–is the article. She’s also saying, correctly I think, that the same technology which turns articles into just so many lemonade stands makes yet more granular the fundamental unit of news. In an unbundled world, the basic unit of news now the topic, or even the fact. You get the picture: as the unit of news chases the unit of profit upstream, monetization becomes ever more impossible. Only a handful of articles work or will ever work as standalone p&l’s. But by how many orders of magnitude does that problem expand you’re trying to monetize a topic? Or a fact? Again, I say: welcome, philanthropists.

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A better title for this essay would be Retirement From Life, but the word sex attracts more readers – don’t worry, I’ll get down to the juicy parts soon enough, just consider this intro foreplay. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about retirement from work, but I realize the word retirement can encompass far more than just that one part of life. Retiring from work is a major transformation in one’s personality, but as we get older we go through so many transformations that can also be called retirement. For instance, I’ve long ago retired from going out to bars to hear live bands. That used to be part of my personality, listening to live music, but I’ve gotten old and can’t handle noise. Even loud restaurants feel like psychological torture. My wife hasn’t retired from live music, so she still feels youthful in that regard and I feel old. I know lots of guys who have retired from going to the movies. I haven’t yet, but only because it’s a major way to socialize with my lady friends. Another area that I will be retiring from is heavy lifting. Guys like lifting heavy stuff because it proves they are still young and strong. A woman mentions she needs a 25″ TV carried up three flights of stairs and you volunteer, to make a point about your maleness. Women don’t need men for much, but lifting is something they seem to appreciate. So to retire from heavy lifting means checking out of the strong male club and it means you are admitting you’re weak, like a woman. And this is a big change. It’s humiliating to have to say, “Sorry, I can’t pick up something that heavy.” Men retire from the heavy lifting club slowly. As you get older and something needs to be picked up and younger guys are around, you start letting them show off. But if you’re the only guy you keep trying to prove yourself as long as possible. George Carlin recently joked about this in his new comedy routine about turning seventy. He tells his audience, once you turn seventy you never have to lift anything again. Oh, you might pretend to try, but a younger person will rush over and do the job for you. I’m only 56, so I still have to lift things, but there are times when my wife talks about helping friends move, and I’ll remind her of my back problems. Of course, if a lovely young woman at work is in need of heavy lifting help, I don’t worry about my back so much. Retirement from work means a huge change. Work means you are useful to other people. It’s more than just earning a living, work is social and it defines an essential part of our personality. The first thing people want to know when meeting you is what you do. Saying you’re retired is like saying you’ve stop being somebody. Of course, you solve this problem by becoming somebody new, but that’s hard to explain, especially if your hobbies are rather piddling. Now, back to sex. Sex is a big topic, but few people express the personal details of their sex life, and neither will I. Let’s just say I’ve reach an age where I can see an end to my sex life. I feel sort of cheated by that because I remember back in the 1960s seeing documentaries about how people in their nineties could have active sex lives. I think there are some people who are still balling when their age hits three digits but they are few and far between. Sex is not something I want to retire from, but I’m starting to see the dirty writing on the bathroom wall. I am appreciative for all the sex my wife gives me, and I do know on her part she’s doing a lot more giving than receiving, because she’s been closer to retiring from sex since menopause. (At least with me, I don’t know about her and her boyfriends.) She feels guilty about retiring from sex, which is lucky for me, but it’s not an emotion I want to play on for long. I’ve joked with her that if she doesn’t want to change the cat box then maybe I can find someone else for the job. She told me to go for it, but I think she’s confident that few women want the chore of being kindly to an overweight old bald guy. I guess she knows, it would still be changing the cat box to them too. I don’t think I’m the only guy in this situation. I’ve gotten hints and jokes telling me the well is running dry in other marriages. Some of my friends even allude to losing interest themselves, and a couple joke like Al Bundy when he complains about having to service Peg. Although, I have heard rare reports of lucky older guys who have wives with matching libidos, but those guys might be lying, just like how some guys lied about the frequency of their sexual successes when they were younger. But statistically, I know the world is filled by all kinds, and anything is possible. Of my male friends who dine alone, they just make jokes about how happy they are they don’t have to move furniture all the time. What surprises me about retiring from sex is how men are so much different from women. I know a lot of divorced and widowed women my age, and older, and the common consensus is they are overjoyed to be out of the sex provider business. I find this a little hurtful because it makes me wonder if they ever really liked making us guys happy. I always ask my single lady friends if they wouldn’t like to get married again, and they universally groan. There is one common joke I hear, “Oh, I wouldn’t mind marrying a rich guy with a bad cough.” This strikes me as severely mercenary, and makes me further wonder about the motives of the women I knew when I was younger. I know books, movies and television shows are all about romance and sex, but I’m starting to wonder if pop culture hasn’t been perpetuating a long standing urban myth. I just assumed women were different before and after menopause, but now I wonder. Retirement from sex means learning who you really are. When I was at Clarion West Writers Workshop I wrote a science fiction story about a guy who volunteered for an experimental treatment to temporarily turn off his sex drive to see what life would be like without his little slave driver. The story got a violent reaction in the critique group. The night before my older classmates, both men and women, told me how much they liked the story, so I went into the critique the next morning thinking I’d have a hit, but I was blasted by the young people. Some of the younger women called the story misogynistic, which was scary. I spent a lot of time thinking about that. On one hand, it could have been true, on the other hand, why was the story admired by some and hated by others, and the dividing line seemed to be age? If a man turns off his sex drive does that mean he devalues women, or even hates them? Since the younger women were writing romantic stories, I could see my anti-sex story as anti-romance. What’s funny is women become anti-romantic after menopause. Well, that’s not quite true, they become anti-sex romantic. Jane Austen is the queen philosopher of post-menopausal women. All my older women friends want a Mr. Darcy for dinner and dancing, handsome, rich, dashing – and a man who never expects the heroine to leave her Empire silhouette gown. Retiring from sex for men, means fulfilling a new role for women, one more fitting for a Jane Austen tale. Don’t get me wrong, young women also love Jane Austen, but they either want or expect to unsnap their jeans for Mr. Darcy. Retirement from sex means changes in personality for both men and women. I think many woman are happy to go off to their little houses to live alone after their children grow up and their husbands leave them through death or indiscretion. And I think with older married couples, the concept of romance changes with them too, with women preferring their husbands to retire peacefully to their workshops or computer rooms. In the life-long battle of the sexes I’m never sure if either sex understands the other. Women smugly claim to understand us males, thinking we live by one single motivating force, and claiming we don’t have a clue about their fairer sex. I think men have multiple drives, with sex just being the obvious one. It’s like asking little kids about going to the bathroom, inquiring if they need to go do #1 or #2. Well, there’s a lot of males hopping on one foot needing to go to #3, and that’s all women see. Sometimes it’s, “Oh, how cute,” and other times, it’s “Can’t you wait.” I know when I go out with my women friends and the dinner check comes, they whip out their purses insisting to pay their half. I’m amused by this because I wonder if they are thinking, “I don’t want him believing I’m going to put out for $18.35 plus tip.” Like I said before, many of my lady friends have joked they would marry an old rich man with a cough. I’ve got to wonder if there is an incentive that would bring them out of retirement that falls between the price of dinner and a large inheritance. Retirement from work means withdrawing from the complex social life of the office. Retirement from sex means withdrawing from a life of close physical contact. I don’t think men and women experience this retirement in the same way. I think the constant intense biological pull that women feel to be mothers and wives disappears after menopause, so they actually feel free and relieved to be independent. Whereas men who have always been free and independent feel psychologically cut off from people when they retire from sex. Men often die after retiring from work, and they often die when they have to live alone, and sometimes I wonder if they die when the final realization comes that the little guy is not going to have any more fun. Old women seem to thrive on independence and their retirement from sex. What’s weird about thinking about having to retire from sex is how it changes my personal opinion about myself, and what it reveals about my personality. Gays and lesbians teach me a lot about sexual identity, in a rather round-about way. We define ourselves by who we want to get naked with, but what happens when we never take off our clothes with other people? Do we lose that identity? Do we suppress or bury it, or does it just slip away like time. Already I feel my sexual life has regressed to what it was like when I was a teenager, when I considered getting to first base a major goal. I’m back to wondering why women are so stingy with their riches. Does retirement from sex mean a total regression, a devolution back to virginity? The phrase “old men and their toys” takes on a whole new meaning. Or will retirement from sex be the undiscovered country of my future? Or should my work retirement goal be to become an old man with money and a bad cough looking for a younger women willing to trade a few years of cat box changing duties for a long term retirement plan of her own? Or should I admit that I am not Mr. Darcy in anyone’s eyes and I should just develop a new identity, but one without sex? Time Goes By, is my guide to getting old, and even Ronni, my elder guru, discusses the waning life of sex in, Been There, Done That. What’s Next?, although she is quick to defend that elders are having sex in, CNN: Elder Sex is a Dirty Joke, which reports 73 percent of people 57 to 64 are still having regular sex, and 53 percent of people age 64 to 75, and 26 percent for people 75 to 85, are still getting it on too. So retirement from sex, is like retirement from work, not everyone retires at the same age. My point of this long-winded essay, is retirement is all about change, and fundamental changes, changes deep in our personality. This makes me not want to retire in any way, and keep on going the way I have been. On the other hand, I’m ready to rush into this new undiscovered country and start exploring. Escaping death is not an option, but I’d like to think everything else is, but that may not be true either. A lot of men would prefer to die at their desk, and I can understand that. And a lot of guys joke about coming and dying at the same time, and I can understand that too. The harder thing to imagine, even scary to think about, is living twenty or thirty years without work or sex or the ability to lift heavy objects.

Library Computer Access & Retrieval System [LCARS] United Federation of Planets - Memory Alpha Historical Archives Starfleet Command Approved Chief Records Officer Edgar Lacy Plummer Reporting... Captain's Log, Stardate 43779.3: The Enterprise is prepairing detailed exospheric charts of the Hayashi system. Although tedious, this procedure is the first step towards planet colonization. Our destination is the Beta Stromgren system. Following the path of the Vega IX Probe. Apparently the probe has discovered that the star Beta Stromgren is in the final stages of an alternating cycle of expansion and collapse, and will soon result in a supernova. However, the long-range unmanned probe sent by Starfleet to observe the process has discovered something much more. Starfleet Exobiologist Devision has classified it as Tin-Man. The Vega Probe found it orbiting Stromgren. It looks like some kind of ship with an unknown energy source, or at least undetectable energy source. The people who studied the transmissions think its a starship, and their sure, its alive. Starfleet believes its an organic creature. Born in space, living its life in the wastes between the stars. No one nows were it came from or why it is here? Starfleet has failed to exstablish contact via technological mean, so they have sent Tam Elbrun, a Betazoid telepath, to attempt to contact it. It is believed that Tin-Man is too different, and that direct mind-to-mind contact is the only hope of reaching it. An added complication, the Romulans claim that sector of space were Beta Stromgren is located, it is necessary to reach the creature before the Romulans. Starbase 123 has detected two D'deridex-class Romulan cruisers on an intercept course for Tin-Man. Captain's Log, Supplemental: Traveling at high-warp we are still several days from rendesvous with the mysterious entity which Starfleet has christined, Tin-Man. My immediate concearn is with Tam Elbrum, Starfleet consideres his unique abilities to be crucial to our mission, but he seems to me, unstable. Tin-Man has the ability to telepathically communicate with other over interstellar distances of at least several sectors away, purhaps even at greater distances. It exhibited this ability with Tam Elbrun while enroute to the Beta Stromgren system. Data's Report Addendum: The aliens anatomy is indeed layed out as a vessel with what appear to be chambers and corridores. An internal environment suitable for carbon-based life forms is being maintained yet, there is no evidence of a crew aboard. Tin-Man is a living being which has been breed or has adapted itself to serve a purpose. Tam Elbrun's Alaysis Of Tin-Man: It calls itself Gomtuu. Its old captain, its roamed the universe for many thousands of years. It came from far away, maybe beyond the galaxy? Once there were millions of them. It hasn;t seen another of its kind for mellenia. Its alone, it maybe the last of its species? Captain, Gomtuu knows that the star will go nova soon, that is why it is here, it wants to die. There was an explosion, in space. Radiation penetrating the outer layers, the crew died. Tin-Man hurts and wants to die. I can't do any more from out here. If you want me to realy reach Tin-Man, I have got to be in physical contact. I have got to go aboard. Captain's Log, Supplemental: A confrontation between the Romulan warbird and Tin-Man is enminent. I have no alternative but to rely on the telepathic abilities of Tam Elbrun. Tam Elbrun's Alaysis Of Tin-Man: The ship and the crew existed symbiotically. They needed one another. When Gomtuu no longer had anyone left to care for it no longer had a reason to exist. Captain's Log, Supplemental: With all main systems at least temporarily restored we are proceding to Starbase 152 for inspection and additional repairs. We have had no further encounters with the Romulans, as for the where abouts of Tin-Man, and Tam Elbrun, we can only speculate.

Yes, the youth vote came out on Election Day and supported President Obama by a wide margin, but that's only half the story. Working-class youth mostly stayed at home. Much has been made of the importance of the youth vote in recent election cycles, but for decades, it’s largely been better-educated middle- and upper-income youths whose voices have been heard at the polls. This November, 7 of 10 voters under age 30 had at least some college education. Their turnout rate was 66 percent, versus just 35 percent for young adults with no college experience, according to an analysis by CIRCLE, an independent research center that measures youth engagement in politics. “The college, non-college distinction is the best measure of social class for young people,” says CIRCLE director Peter Levine. “The youth turnout has not surpassed about 50 percent since 1976 … and I think that ceiling has to do with social class – basically we’re just not engaging working class and poor young Americans in politics today, and that’s bad for democracy.” Obama won 60 percent of both these segments of the youth vote. But those with no college experience were much less likely to be contacted by Obama’s campaign – just 5.8 percent were, compared with 11.5 percent of those with some college education, according to a CIRCLE poll in October. President Obama’s response to hurricane Sandy turned out to be the most important factor in the vote for 27 percent of youths who had not attended college, compared with just 10 percent of those who had.

MITH is pleased to announce an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities competition for a series of workshops on data curation for humanities scholars, librarians, and archivists interested in sustaining meaningful access to humanities research materials. The Digital Humanities Data Curation Institutes project, directed by Trevor Muñoz, Associate Director of MITH and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, University Libraries, will facilitate a multi-institutional collaboration between MITH and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland, the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to provide three workshops during 2013. The practice of cutting-edge humanities research increasingly involves acquisition, synthesis, and management of data in digital form. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science represent a vital component of the skill set that will be required to succeed in the rapidly transforming landscape of the academy and the wider society. Digital Humanities Data Curation institutes will serve as opportunities for participants with all levels of expertise—from beginners to the most advanced—to receive guidance in understanding the role of data curation in enriching humanities research projects. By the conclusion of each institute, participants will be adept at formulating solutions for existing challenges and will be able to document their data curation strategies in the form of data curation plans and strategic risk assessments, key elements of innovative digital scholarship. A core resource for the Institute will be the Digital Humanities Curation Guide (DH Curation: guide.dhcuration.org) developed at GSLIS. The Guide allows instructors and participants to share scholarly knowledge about literature, tools, projects, and standards relevant to curating humanities data. A forum through which knowledge developed at the institute can be shared with the broader research community, the Guide will allow for the aggregation of resources and responses from across the Institute’s three events. Julia Flanders (WWP) and Dorothea Salo (Faculty Associate in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison) will serve as co-instructors alongside Muñoz for the three institute events and will contribute resources to the Guide. Applications to join this cohort of scholars focused on discipline-specific curation practices and skills will be announced in late fall 2012 with the Institute beginning in Spring 2013. For more information, please visit: mith.umd.edu/research/project/data-curation

Full service marketing for this forward thinking real estate franchise The work we do for this Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate franchise is the true definition of full service marketing. We are involved in every aspect of their marketing from online to offline and everything in between. Dallas / Fort Worth is one of the most competitive real estate markets in the country. With that said, we’re proud to say that we have our client and their site, TexasMLS.com, sitting at the top of search results for several local real estate search phrases. That’s some pretty valuable real estate in of itself! We built and manage their media rich website which features an IDX home search integration to pull in all of the MLS data. Video production and social media play an enormous role in their marketing strategy. The “Texaplex” video project has garnered over 200,000+ views and has been featured on NBC, in The Economist and Newsweek, on CNN radio, WBAP and countless blogs and industry publications. We’ve also produced a comedy, web series pilot called The Agent and the website MyAgentStory.com. As a result, our client and their brand are viewed as cutting edge and part of a project that realtors across the country will enjoy. The value of this to their business and the recruiting of agents is priceless. We do all of their graphic design and printing. We’ve designed and printed stationery, direct mail postcards, invitations and even their annual holiday card. We regularly design magazine ads for various industry publications and also do their branded promotional products including embroidered fleece jackets and pens. “Through innovative design and problem solving, MODassic has taken our company’s marketing efforts to the next level. We couldn’t be happier!” Better Homes and Gardens

Annie Bukacek and Montana’s most extreme anti-choicers are trying to find the silver lining in their second signature-gathering-based failure (and umpteenth legislative referenda-based failure in 20-years) to get a total abortion ban on Montana’s ballot. “These are all volunteer signatures, which is an amazing feat in and of itself.” Given the tea party, mega churches, and the general propensity of Montanans to be willing to put questions to a vote of the people, I don’t think it took that many volunteers. Nor do I think that it is “an amazing feat” that you convinced some people to sign your petition voluntarily. The fact that these right-wingers think so, however, certainly doesn’t say much about what they were trying to get on the ballot. Perhaps some will say that I misconstrue the above quotation–that this individual is trying to say that the signatures were collected by volunteers; however, I don’t think that’s the case because the press release makes the point elsewhere, and, it is their press release. Victory for Montanans (Jay wrote about it earlier and I touched on it briefly below), the integrity of the MT Constitution, and the right to privacy can be found in the failure of CI-102 to qualify for the ballot in November, so the rest of us will also be celebrating. This is not the first time Bukacek has faced failure, so it’s good to see she’s keeping a positive attitude about it all: She has written a book about weight loss, and her diabetes quality assurance efforts launched a program that is being used nation-wide. Because of her quality assurance work, she was chosen by the American Board of Internal Medicine as one of six physician consultants regarding its Diabetes Practice Improvement Model. Asked to leave a physician group practice because she refused to stop praying with patients, she started her own clinic that is flourishing. They group is not beyond looking for excuses either. In the same press release, Cal Zastrow, co-founder the national group that is pushing this nonsense on states, seems to be postulating that perhaps one reason for CI-102′s failure to qualify is that one of the movement’s key players was too busy elsewhere to make it happen here in Montana: “Jesus Christ is building a movement for personhood rights of babies across the country,” explained Cal Zastrow, co-founder of Personhood USA. “He will continue to build in Montana, and they will stand ready.” Sounds like that guy is pretty busy, plus he’s got the Derek Skees legislative race up in the Flathead and Michael Steele to worry about.

Amid all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding Iran and its nuclear program (some of which The Buzz has previously highlighted), it is refreshing to see a sober, historically grounded look at the subject. This is precisely what Brookings’ Bruce Riedel provides in a sharp piece at the Daily Beast titled “The Last Time We Fought Iran.” Riedel’s article takes a look back at the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, not well remembered in the United States but still hugely important for Iran and the region. Riedel’s addresses the impact that the war had on the Islamic Republic and its national consciousness. Beginning in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, the war was critical in shaping the identity and consciousness of the new regime. In Riedel’s words, Iranians “consolidated their revolution by successfully portraying the war as a David and Goliath struggle, started by the U.S. and its allies. The country was mobilized to defend the revolution.” This continued to be true even as the costs and casualties of the war rose dramatically. Despite an estimated death toll of 1 million on the Iranian side, the Iranians kept fighting. As Riedel says, Iran was not “easily intimidated by America. . . . Even when our navy had sunk most of theirs, Iran kept fighting, and the Iranian people rallied behind Ayatollah Khomeini.” Riedel reminds us that ending the war was no easy matter. Iran “sued for a cease-fire only after catastrophic defeat on the ground by Iraq and when Saddam was threatening to fire chemical warheads into Iranian cities.” He wisely concludes that should we find ourselves at war with Iran again, “we should not expect Iran to back down easily if history is a guide. A few air strikes will not be the end of it.” This piece is a welcome rejoinder to those who have argued that the consequences of a preventive U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities today could be easily mitigated. To be sure, history is not destiny. But the historical record provides much more support for caution than recklessness—a reality that Riedel’s smart essay does well to highlight.

Mr. Sprigg's Moment Has Come When people talk about making a mixtape or playlist that represents the soundtrack of their lives, a key ingredient is always missing: commercial jingles. As a child of the television age, commercials have a bigger house in my medulla oblangata than the Homeowners Association should allow. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with childhood heroes like Dave Winfield, Dan Fouts, Captain Kangaroo and Graham Kerr are Cal Worthington and Earl Scheib. That’s because I lived in San Diego until I was 8. I was among the many tots in Southern California who thought “Go See Cal” was some form of genetic mutation called a “Pussycow.” All I knew for sure was the pussycow wasn’t at the San Diego Zoo or Sea World, but I pestered my parents to drive me north to Lion’s Country Safari or Marineland. Worthington, who was born right here in Shidler, Oklahoma, created viral video before Al Gore cobbled together the Internet. I also grew up thinking car owners were constantly in need of steel work and changed their paint jobs as often as Cindi Lauper changed her hair color. When I moved to Texas, Cal and Earl were replaced by Oscar Snowden. The Big O was Austin biggest and most verbose dealer of Curtis Mathes television, which you may or may not recall was the “most expensive television in America and darn well worth it.” Once in Oklahoma City, I was happy to find Linda Soundtrak was breaking eardrums here as she had been back home. And then of course I learned to love the Del Rancho kid, who inspired a similarly aged Mike Hosty to boogie… and my all-time favorite, the Credit Jewelry cowboy. In recent years, one local commercial has set itself apart and that is the genius that is Mr. Sprigg’s Barbecue. So, fantastic is the jingle that Will Ferrell and Adam McKay saw fit to mount it on their Funny or Die website, making it a viral superstar. Just watching it makes me Hongry, Hongry. Message Sent Successfully Be Sure to Check Out Our Top Headlines - 82753Oklahoma tornadoes: 'It took it all' - 43754Oklahoma weather: Severe storm updates - 33000Oklahoma State football: Limiting Wes Lunt's transfer options makes Mike Gundy look bad - 23187Oklahoma Severe Storm Updates - 22920Oklahoma weather: Crews work to clear storm damage in Oklahoma City as the state braces for severe weather Sunday. - 8406Bounty hunters look for bail jumpers, fugitives on the streets of Oklahoma City - 8041Oklahoma football: Jay Norvell working on luring a tall group of wide receivers to Norman - 7870Oklahoma City Thunder: What could Serge Ibaka learn from Hakeem Olajuwon? - 7493Severe storms possible in Oklahoma again Monday - 7427Oklahoma tornadoes: Several homes damaged by tornado, but no injuries in Edmond Back to share with a friend form. Add More Recipients

Mary Dillon HOLYOKE - Mary (Mae) Rohan Dillon , 95, of Holyoke died Monday at Mt. St. Vincent Home. Mae was born in Holyoke, the daughter of the late Thomas and Mary Rohan and the widow of William F. Dillon. She graduated from Sacred Heart High School and was a communicant of Our Lady of the Cross Church. She leaves two daughters, Sheila Bennett and her husband Robert of Longmeadow and Patricia Ross and her husband John of South Hadley. The sparkling blue eyes of Mae will also be sadly missed by grandchildren, Whitney Harrington and husband Robert, Brooke Thomas and husband Andrew, Andrew Ross, Hallie DeMasi and husband Michael and Caitlin Ross. She also leaves five great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother Edward Rohan and two sisters, Julia Moriarty and Catherine McDonald. The family would like to thank the third floor staff at Mt. St. Vincent for seven years of wonderful care. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to WestMass Elder Care, 5 Valley Mill Road, Holyoke, MA 01040. Mae's funeral will be at 10:00 AM, Thursday, January 5, 2012 at Our Lady of the Cross Church followed by burial at Calvary Cemetery. Calling hours are Wednesday, the 4th from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Hobert Funeral Home, 250 Suffolk Street, Holyoke, 413-534-4535. Hobert Funeral Home Tel: 534-4535. Family owned since 1894. "Helping you make the right choice" The Guest Book is expired. Published in The Republican from January 2 to January 4, 2012

(Page 2 of 2) "Communities may resemble each other in many respects, but the Greeks differ from Lutheran Germans, the Chinese differ from both; what they strive after and what they fear or worship are scarcely ever similar.[This] is not relativism," writes Berlin. "'I prefer coffee, you prefer cham pagne. We have different tastes. There is no more to be said.' That is relativism. Butwhat I should describe as pluralismis the conception that there are many different ends that men may seek and still be fully rational, fully men, capable of understanding each other and sympathising and deriving light from each other, as we derive it from reading Plato or novels of medieval Japanworlds, outlooks, very remote from our own." Although Berlin is speaking of a pluralism among cultures, his ideas can be logically extended to a discussion of pluralism within culturesor of individuals across culturesas well. The end result of what French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard has famously called "incre dulity towards meta-narratives"suspicion regarding grand theories that claim to explain every cough, hiccup, and burp in human and natural historyis certainly all to the good. For even as we recognize that Enlightenment thought still largely informs our understanding of natural and social sciencesas well as individual rights and representative governmentwe should acknowledge that, as Hayek put it, the period's "naive" or "social rationalism" wrought immeasurable harm by assum ing "that man in the full knowledge of what he was doing should deliberately create such a civiliza tion and social order as the process of his reason enabled him to design.It is from this kind of social rationalism or constructivism that all modern socialism, planning and totalitarianism derives." In a sense, postmodernism merely insists that we constantly explain ourselvesand our expla nations of ourselves. "Seeing truth as made, not found, doesn't mean deciding there is nothing 'out there,'" writes Anderson. "It means understanding that all our stories about what's out thereall our scientific facts, our religious teachings, our society's beliefs, even our personal perceptionsare the products of a highly creative interaction between human minds and the cosmos." Such ongoing interrogation is in fact part and parcel of the Enlightenment tradition itself. Although postmodernism is often packaged (by admirers and detractors alike) as a radical, revolu tionary break with the past, as with many "new and improved" products, those claims are plainly exaggerated. "Our age," observed Kant in Critique of Pure Reason, "is in especial degree, the age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit." And, as S.S. Wolin wrote of Kant's philosophical flipside, David Hume, he "turned against the enlightenment its own weapons," looking "to whittle down the claims of reason by the use of rational analysis." This, then, may be the ultimate postmodern irony: In relentlessly questioning the whys and wherefores of the Enlightenment, its aims, methods, and motives, postmodernism may be stumbling closer to the real thingwhatever that might be.

From: University of Washington Risks For Heart Disease Associated With Size Of LDL Particles Researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine have produced new analyses predicting the risk of heart disease among diverse population groups -- younger women, middle-aged men and older Japanese-American men. The findings are being presented on March 26 at the 39th Annual American Heart Association (AHA) Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in Orlando, Florida. The analyses are based on results from several studies showing that for every nanometer decrease in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particle diameter or size, heart disease risk increases from 30 to 230 percent, depending on the population studied. LDL particles carry the "bad cholesterol" through the bloodstream. Smaller LDL particles may more easily become trapped in blood vessel walls than larger ones, possibly increasing risk for atherosclerosis. LDL particle size is determined using a technique called gradient gel electrophoresis that separates LDL particles obtained from blood samples by their diameter and shape. The UW researchers have analyzed data from three different population groups. In a case-control study of 231 primarily Caucasian women aged 20-44 in Western Washington, blood samples from women with heart disease had smaller LDL size than control women in the same age group. A one-nanometer decrease in LDL size was associated with a more than two-fold risk for heart disease. The relationship remained after taking into account smoking, diabetes, hypertension and LDL cholesterol level, but was reduced substantially after taking into account triglycerides (another form of fat carried in the bloodstream) or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, known as the "good cholesterol". "Many people think heart disease occurs mainly in men, but heart disease is also the number-one cause of death among women in this country," says Dr. Melissa Austin, professor of epidemiology. "We need more data to better understand heart disease risk in women." "The association between small LDL and heart disease may involve genetic predisposition," she adds. "If we can find the genes involved, and how they interact with environmental and behavioral factors, we can find new ways to prevent heart disease." Small-particle LDL has also been shown to be a risk factor among middle-aged to older Caucasian men, based on data from the Physician's Health Study, the Stanford Five-City Project and the Quebec Cardiovascular Study. However, these studies all reported the results differently. To pinpoint the strength of the association, Austin's team applied semi-quantitative methods of meta-analysis to the combined data from these studies, which included 960 men. It was found that a one-nanometer decrease in LDL size predicted a 60 percent increase in heart disease risk. After controlling for blood levels of triglycerides and HDL cholesterol, the risk was still 30 percent greater. Among a third group studied earlier -- more than 400 Japanese-American men with an average age of 65 -- the association was also found but was not as strong. A one-nanometer decrease in LDL size predicted a 30 percent increase in risk of heart disease, and was not present after taking triglyceride and HDL cholesterol into account. The study was in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Honolulu Heart Program. Other studies will be needed to determine whether this difference is attributable to age or ethnicity. "The magnitude of the association between small LDL and heart disease varies from group to group, but the risk is always there," says Austin. The study on heart disease risk among younger women is being presented by Alisa Kamigaki, an MPH student in epidemiology, while the results in the middle-aged men are a poster presentation by Austin's group at the meeting. The research was sponsored by grants from the NHLBI and the AHA.

All works of literature are the results of an evolutionary process. They have been influenced by many works that came before, selected for through publication, and generated new elements that make them unique and successful. There is also an evolutionary process at work within the book itself. The story develops over the course of the narrative, drawing on past influences, selecting for elements that move the story along, and generating an ending that is indicative of this particular evolutionary journey. Where the end product of a biological evolutionary process is the creation of a new species, the end product of a novel is literally its ending scene, words that must resolve, or not, the preceding action of the story, incorporating the evolution of the plot, characters, and themes throughout. On a larger scale an adapted literary work is the end product of an evolutionary process inspired by a generative original. On both theses levels it is helpful to analyze the results of the evolutionary processes, the ending of a story and the adaptation of an original work, in order to understand the process itself.

As if it’s not enough that the world of work is increasingly polarised by differences in earnings between the board room and the shop floor, UK managers are now being accused of being lazy and lacking a work ethic. Ratan Tata, super-rich boss of the Tata Group which owns Corus and Jaguar Land Rover, says that “in my experience nobody is prepared to go the extra mile, nobody”. He went on to say that people weren’t happy about being in meetings that went on until 1800 when they had trains to catch and that on Fridays everybody cleared off at 1530. “In India if you are in a crisis you work until midnight. At JLR the worker is willing to do that but the management is not”. According to Tata these things don’t happen in China or Indonesia, Thailand or Singapore. He then acknowledged that the new management team is different and does call meetings at 1700 (so why make the comments in the first place at a time when Corus is cutting 1,500 jobs in the North-East and a further 1,200 jobs are at risk?). UK managers may no longer claim to be working the longest hours, but it’s not uncommon for UK managers to be working at least 60 hours a week with all the health risks that entails. Most managers I know would love a better work-life balance. Tata’s comments have been roundly criticised by the TUC and the British Chamber of Commerce whose director-general said “this is not a world I recognise… business owners and managers have been working all hours to get the job done. Nine-to-five is not part of the British culture”. Perhaps what is more worrying is that Tata is a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, co-chairman of the UK-India CEO forum, and close to David Cameron. The GMB National Secretary suggested that “Mr Tata should make sure he employs the proper people to make managers come up to the standards of the workers” and there were numerous letters to the press from hard pressed managers working long hours and then taking work home, consultants arguing for better productivity, and someone from India pointing out that managers in India have maids to look after their children and drivers to get them home, complaining about his comments. And perhaps he is forgetting that leadership starts at the top? But he’s not the only boss criticising the workers lately. Andrew Rodda, Operations Director at the UK’s largest clotted cream manufacturer where they pay just above the minimum wage, was one of the delegates at the Institute of Directors’ annual convention who was critical of the TUC’s call for pay rises to stimulate the economy. He told the Observer that he thought people wasted too much of their hard-earned salaries – on things like holidays. Rodda, who has boasted in the past of his three holidays a year, thought that rather than pay workers more “there’s more to be gained from teaching employees how to manage their money more effectively than giving them more money to mismanage”. Cornwall is one of the least affluent areas in England with average full-time earnings of £9.83 an hour compared with the national average of £12.63. Needless to say his comments provoked ire from many quarters not least the TUC which described the comments as a throwback to Victorian days. If Rodda’s really want to control what workers spend their money on perhaps they should reintroduce paying their workers in tokens as in days of old in the Cornish tin mines. In many industries such tokens could only be redeemed at company shops where prices were often higher than elsewhere. (The practice was outlawed by the Truck Acts in the 19C). And if employers really want to turn the clock back and cut the number of holidays employees are entitled to they could adopt the idea of holiday dismemberment. Bosses in Shanghai told workers that they had to work as usual on a Chinese national holiday on May 2. The managers revealed a scheme for compensating the workers which they called holiday dismemberment. Instead of receiving another day off in lieu the workers would receive a series of mini-holidays spread over the year. The 8 hour shift, of 480 minutes, would be spread over the 252 days of the year “allowing staff to enjoy two minutes of holiday every day”. Staff were understandably unimpressed. The idea apparently came from a Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido. and it is not clear whether the idea is actually illegal. So remember when Tata says that we should be more like companies in the Far East what you might be faced with. We are suffering a recession, due in part to reckless bankers who have been unaffected, and everyone is either working harder or making do on less income – if they still have a job. To suggest we revert to these ideas and working practices is suicidal. Workers have long memories and there will come a time when loyalty or lack of it will be repaid. What we need now is effective leadership and strong employee engagement, not 3rd world labour practices. Updated 26 May 2011: Tata has just announced that profits have tripled. JLR made over £1billion pre-tax profit last year and saw revenue rise by over 50%.

By Joan Ellis “Promised Land” jumps enthusiastically into the national debate about hydraulic fracturing. To their credit, writers Matt Damon and John Krazinski have tried to show both sides of the question. The result is a movie that reflects the current state of the dilemma. The usual polarized argument between the business and environmental communities has moved to a new phase. With the propulsive power of an idea whose time has come, this controversial practice for extracting gas from shale has won the argument. That victory is based on the mostly correct claim of clean, cheap, energy and the appealing promise of ending dependence on foreign oil. The flip side of the promise is that there is no way to assess the potential damage to people or the earth. Will the thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals pumped into the shale poison the water tables? Will the deliberate destruction of the shale deposits lead to collapses in the surface of the land? Will the fabled open spaces of America become dotted with drills, trucks, tent cities and accidental spills? Of course. But since fracking has won the battle, the question becomes this: Is it possible to hold corporations accountable for their methods of extracting natural gas from the American landscape? Based on the BP debacle in the Gulf, the current Shell Oil misadventure off Alaska, and the toxicity of the Alberta Oil Sands, the answer is a probable no. That is the central premise of Promised Land. Matt Damon plays Steve, representative of Global, a $9 billion fracking company. He must convince landowners to allow them to drill. Sue (Frances McDormand) is the tough-minded road partner who keeps Steve in line whenever he weakens in the lovely presence of Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt) or the beauty of the land their company will destroy. The other side is offered by Dustin (John Krasinski), an aggressive environmentalist determined to stop Global in its chosen tracks. Set squarely against each other, the two men will face plot twists that are engineered to strengthen one side or another by having each man walk in the other’s shoes. Matt Damon is credible as the solid Midwesterner with a strong internal compass. John Krasinski is equally believable as the passionate hippie idealist. Each of them talks in the code of his loyalty. The vastness of middle America is filmed beautifully by director Gus Van Sant from the air and on the roads, but that glorious landscape can no longer support the people who want to live in the ways of past generations. When corporate America offers them cold cash for the golden gas beneath their feet, the temptation is enormous; but the debate is no longer limited to environmentalists vs. corporations. It has expanded to neighbors who want to sell vs. neighbors who want to stay. Whoever wins, the people will have to leave. Wherever the drills go down, corporations will have their way with the land. Side effects? That remains to be seen. Joan Ellis’ address on the Internet, which contains her review library, is JoanEllis.com.

(Courtesy of the Gowanda Historical Society) The Gowanda Historical Museum is located at 3 Chestnut Street, Gowanda. Hours of operation are: 1:00PM - 4:00 PM Thursdays April through December The name "Gowanda" is derived from the Seneca Indian phrase meaning "a valley among the hills" or "under the cliffs," referring to the village's location below the Zoar Valley gorge along Cattaraugus Creek. Occupied by various Indian tribes before the American Revolution, the westward movement of our growing nation brought the first settlers here from New England early in the 19th century. What is now Gowanda was settled in 1810 by Turner Aldrich, who bought 707 acres on both sides of the creek from the Holland Land Company. He cleared the land, built a cabin, a sawmill and a gristmill. The settlement was called Aldrich's Mills until 1823 when the name was changed to Lodi. The village was incorporated as Gowanda in 1848. Ahaz Allen settled next in 1812, erecting a cabin above Aldrich's in what is now called Hidi. The first white child born here was his daughter, Caroline, in 1813. The next year he dug a race, dammed the creek, and built a sawmill. Allen built the first frame house here in 1815 on what is now Beech Street. It burned and was torn down in 1970. Those who followed these pioneers to this beautiful valley have each left their mark, large or small, in its streets, buildings, factories, businesses and institutions. The history of Gowanda is charted through fire and flood, economic boom or bust, immigration and migration, and the inevitable march of time. First Bridge over Cattaraugus Creek First Post Office, Aldrich Street First School, Buffalo and Mechanic Streets First cemetery, near Seneca Street First newspaper, "Lodi Pioneer" Town of Persia formed from Perrysburg Great fire destroys downtown Gowanda Flood destroys Main Street Bridge Col. Thomas J. Parker commands 64th NY Regiment in Civil War 1867 Pine Many brick homes and stores built Railroad station opens Bank of Gowanda opens Fire Department organizes Iron bridge on Main Street opens Gowanda Cooperative Savings and Loan Association organized 1896 Gaensslen, Fisher & Co tannery located in Hidi Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital opens Eastern Tanners Glue Co built J.N. Adam Memorial Hospital opens in Perrysburg Hollywood Theatre build by Wilhelm family New Junior-Senior high school dedicated Iron bridge replaced by modern bridge

VIVO enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. Participants in the network include institutions with local installations of VIVO or those with research discovery and profiling applications that can provide semantic web!-compliant data. The information accessible through VIVO's search and browse capability will reside and be controlled locally, within institutional VIVOs or other semantic web-compliant applications. VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies. The rich semantically structured data in VIVO support and facilitate research discovery. Examples of applications that consume these rich data include: visualizations, enhanced multi-site search through VIVO Search, and applications such as VIVO Searchlight, a browser bookmarklet which uses text content of any webpage to search for relevant VIVO profiles, and the Inter-Institutional Collaboration Explorer, an application which allows visualization of collaborative institutional partners, among others. Download the VIVO flyer. -- VIVO team at the VIVO Conference 2010 at the New York Hall of Science on 8/13/2010. |NIH Award Senior and Key Personnel| |Michael Conlon, University of Florida, Principal Investigator| |Katy Borner, Indiana University, Bloomington||Kristi Holmes, Washington University, St. Louis| |Curtis Cole, Weill Medical College, Cornell University||Gerald Joyce, The Scripps Research Institute| |Jon Corson-Rikert, Cornell University, Ithaca||Dean B. Krafft, Cornell University, Ithaca| |Ellen J. Cramer, Cornell University, Ithaca||Leslie McIntosh, Washington University, St. Louis| |Valrie I. Davis, University of Florida||Richard Noel, Ponce Medical School| VIVO was originally funded by Cornell University and the National Institutes of Health (U24 RR029822) and is currently a community-supported incubator project under the DuraSpace umbrella.

Study of the Parameters and Bio-Markers of Crudeoils Geo-chemical Fossils are derived from living organisms and are complex compounds containing C,H and other elements. These compounds show the structures indicating that these are the components of living organisms. Geochemical fossils find their applications in correlations of oil. Organic matter input, depositional environment and biodegradation. The occurrence of biological marker in crude oil is studied qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Several ratios and specified ranges of parameters are the basis of classification and geo-chemical characterization of different types of crude oils. Molecular fossils; Isoprenoids; Biomarkers; n-alkanes - There are currently no refbacks. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. APAC©: World Science Publisher, United States

Beckham, Elihu C. The following data is extracted from Reminiscent History Of The Ozark Region, pub. Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, Chicago 1894. ELIHU C. BECKHAM. The requirements necessary for the successful filling of the office of assessor are accuracy, faithfulness and energy, and all these requirements are possessed by Mr. Beckham, who is universally pronounced to be one of the most capable assessors Stone County has ever had. He was born in Hardin County, near the Wayne County, Tennessee, line, July 13, 1840, a son of Joshua M. and Catherine (Hinkle) Beckman, the former of whom was born in Orange County, N. C., May 14, 1816, and died in Stone County, Arkansas, February 3, 1888. The mother was born in Alabama, December 26, 1819, and died here November 11, 1863. Upon the removal of the Beckham family from North Carolina to Tennessee, Joshua M. was a child of five years and grew up in Wayne and Hardin Counties, was married in the latter county, and his union resulted in the birth of six sons and five daughters. After the death of the wife and mother he married the widow Cartwright, who bore him two children and died in 1875. They were members of the Flatwoods Missionary Baptist Church, of which they were among the earliest members, and socially Mr. Beckham was a member of Zion Lodge No. 10, of Batesville, A. F. & F. M. Although always a Democrat in politics, his father and brothers were Whigs. His father, Greene Beckham, was born at about the time of the closing of the Revolutionary War, and was named in honor of Gen. Nathaniel Greene. His father was a soldier of that war. He was a farmer and died in Wayne County,. Tennessee, in 1863. His grandfather came to this country from England. Elihu C. Beckham, whose name heads this sketch,wasthe second child born to his parents and obtained the most of his education at home, by self application. October 27, 1861, he joined Company D, Fourteenth Arkansas Infantry, and was under the command of Capt. C. C. Elkins. The following spring, when the regiment was consolidated with Lemoyne's and commanded by Col. John McCarven, he became a member of Company K, Twenty-first Arkansas Infantry, and held the rank of sergeant. He remained with this command until the surrender in May, 1865, at Marshall, Tex., having been a member of the Trans-Mississippi Department. He was in many battles: Farmington, Miss., Corinth, Iuka, Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, Black River Bridge, where he was taken prisoner May 16, 1863, and was taken to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana A short time after he was removed to Ft. Delaware, where he was kept in captivity from June 11, 1863, until September 15 of the same year. From that time until December, 1863, he was kept at Point Lookout, after which be was paroled at Richmond the first part of 1864. On the 8th of February he was caught within the Federal lines in Arkansas and was sent to Little Rock for a time, and then to Rock Island, Illinois, July 6, 1864, from which place he was sent,January 17, 1865, to New Orleans, was exchanged at the mouth of the Big Red River, and in February, 1865, rejoined his command, at Shreveport, La. He traveled in twenty different States and covered over 10,000 miles during the three years seven months and thirteen days that he was in the service. October 4, 1862, he was wounded at Corinth by a ball in the back of the neck. After the war was over his sole possessions consisted of a little change, $3.60 in silver, and an old gun, but with characteristic energy he at once set to work to till the soil, but realizing the value of a good education he attended school for some time during 1866, and in 1868 became assistant teacher, at Flatwood; in 1867 he went to Hardin County, made a crop, and in the fall of that year returned home, began clerking in a dry goods store in Riggsville, continuing a few months. He then resumed farming, and after his crop of 1869 had been laid by he once more resumed teaching, and followed this occupation in addition to farming up to 1886. He is now the owner of a good farm of 236 acres, on which he lives and 100 acres in another tract, and has in all IOO acres under cultivation. For ten or fifteen years after the war he did as much hunting as anything, for game was very plentiful throughout this section. Eight years since he was elected tax assessor of Stone County, was reelected two years later, was then out one term, and in 1892 was again elected, this time on the People's ticket. He is one of the most popular officials and as a law-abiding and substantial citizen has an excellent reputation. He is a member of Flatwoods Missionary Baptist Church, is high priest in the A. F. & A. M., Blue Mountain Chapter No. 62, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. His wife, whose maiden name was Rhoda E. Lancaster, was born August 2, 1850, in Richwoods, this county, a daughter of William E. Lancaster, who for many years ran a blacksmith shop on Rock Bayou, in this county, whither he came from Tennessee, in 1844. Source: Reminiscent History Of The Ozark Region, pub. Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, Chicago 1894

TheFLCowboy From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 403 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 years 4 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2129 times: I was just wondering... In SouthWest's grand scheme of things, their mission is to do the quick turn around thingand for that reason you see them at some airports that are in the suburbs and that sort of thing. But with airports such as LAX and PHL where delays are common, why wouldn't they want to move towards an airport less prone to delays? As739x From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 5819 posts, RR: 23 Reply 1, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1972 times: Simple...it does not work anymore! LAX is huge for WN, but where else would they go? BUR,small and no gates. SNA,small,no gates and restricted.ONT, to far. No choice but LAX and they make it work. PHL, they need a big name city in the east. As other post have stated they are hurting the NYC area not flying to major airports there. B6 is making it work at JFK. BWI is not big enough and I imagine delays will be all but gone in PHL if US was to fold, which WN may contributing to. I can go farther into this if need, but this is a broad view of things. Plain and simple, WN needed a big city in the East and Philly was the best choice. LAX, no choice in the LA Basin area but LAX. "Some pilots avoid storm cells and some play connect the dots!" Socalatc From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 509 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1847 times: It is rare for LAX to have major delays due to the airport. Things like gate holds, flow times, ext.. Are not the airport fault. Rather the arrival airports, weather, or traffic over a certain VOR or intersection. I have been on southwest many times and it seems like everytime right after push back, within seconds we are cleared for take off. Unless we are going to Phoenix, then you almost always have that damn flow. LAX Is a great airport for WN, as well as ONT,SNA, and BUR. I would like to see them in LGB again too, but its not going to happen. Barney Captain From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 749 posts, RR: 14 Reply 7, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1839 times: One reason PHL had such delays is because, like any other hub, when the trunk carrier does it's bank, the system just gets saturated. Sadly (for those employed), this may not be much of an issue for very much longer with the proposed US reductions in PHL. USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 8, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1799 times: Also the extremely poor airport layout of PHL and the runway utilization patterns are a factor in PHL's delay problems too...I guess its a "wait-and-see" for how WN performs on-time wise...also depends on the flight times... Chief A.net college football stadium self-pic guru Usairways85 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3097 posts, RR: 8 Reply 9, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1710 times: If WN is smart they will schedule their planes when US isn't bringing in 40 flts an hour and make out with no delays. Very possible in PHL. During some periods of the day there are hardly any aircraft landing/taking off. Av8rDAL From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 456 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1674 times: Wish WN would come to ATL. Having to drive to BHM or BNA to get on a WN flight is a pain in the arse. Oh well, we have AirTran and Frontier to serve the west and I guess I'm fine w/ that, especially when AirTran takes delivery of the new 737NGs Maintain thine airspeed, lest the Earth rise up and smite thee. SWAFA30 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1596 times: I think there is enough money to be made in PHL that we'll be willing to take the inevitable delays. A delay is only a delay if the passenger arrives later than they expected to. Just build extra taxi time into the schedule. If you get in and out without problems you arrive "early" and everyone is happy otherwise the pax is already anticipating the inevitable sit times. I think a more important point is that even if WN were to max out their 4 gates to 40 flights per day that is just a fraction of the number of the flights operated systemwide on a daily basis. Currently the number hovers around 2,700 so even if every PHL flight is impacted by delays that is still only around 1/10 of 1 percent of the total flights in the system. Schedule the aircraft so the impact on the the rest of the system is minimal and make the necessary adjustments to block time as needed. Plus if we are talking about delay prone airports in the WN system...you gotta include STL. With the recent reductions in traffic, it has gotten better but in years past, STL wreaked havoc on the WN schedule. DCA-ROCguy From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 4402 posts, RR: 37 Reply 15, posted (9 years 4 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1561 times: As other post have stated they are hurting the NYC area not flying to major airports there. B6 is making it work at JFK. BWI is not big enough and I imagine delays will be all but gone in PHL if US was to fold, which WN may contributing to. It's probably more accurate to say that BWI is big enough for what WN needs it to do. The Maryland Aviation Administration's surveys show that WN draws about half of its traffic from the DC metro area (only 47 percent from the Baltimore metro area). But BWI isn't placed to serve metro areas other than DC and Baltimore. I agree AS739x, WN needed another big city in the Northeast, and Philly was the logical candidate for reasons you stated. Yes, Jeff, Southwest will have their own BWI terminal by the spring of 2005. Its connection to the existing Concourse B airside is slated to be finished in fall 2005. The steelwork is up for the entire new building, and they're already closing in the new Concourse A with glass. LGBGUY From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (9 years 4 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1439 times: By the end of the year LUV will have 8 gates total at PHL ,the rumor is that 16 of the new planes will be used for PHL service, tomorrow the flight & fares from PHL should be posted and LAS,PHX,PVD,MDW,TPA & MCO was just the first wave of destinations and in JUNE you should see even more destinations from PHL..LGBguyNOT!!! Usairways85 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3097 posts, RR: 8 Reply 19, posted (9 years 4 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1349 times: LGBGUY: While it wouldn't surprise me to see WN eventually get 8 gates at PHL, eventhough i don't know if that's possible at their current terminal. I think first they need to get full utilization of their current 4 gates, which would be adding another 26 flights. Then you are saying they are going to add another 40 flights by year's end. Thats 80 Southwest flights added at PHL in a 7 month period (May-December). Quite an expansion if you ask me. Flyboy7974 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1540 posts, RR: 2 Reply 20, posted (9 years 4 months 13 hours ago) and read 1291 times: burbank is one of the top performers in the whole system of southwest airlines. if you look at load factors and market share, someone here a couple of weeks ago posted that for every airline, and on the top 100 for swa, burbank was at the top of the list for flights to oak, las, and sjc, concerning load factors. i am surprised that they don't add more flights and take over all of terminal B since only aloha and america west are there now since aa has moved to terminal a

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As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece. About the Author In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. Praise for American Pastoral: A Novel American Trilogy (1)… "One of Roth's most powerful novels ever...moving, generous and ambitious...a fiercely affecting work of art." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Dazzling...a wrenching, compassionate, intelligent novel...gorgeous." —Boston Globe "At once expansive and painstakingly detailed.... The pages of American Pastoral crackle with the electricity and zest of a first-rate mind at work." —San Francisco Chronicle

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They contributed Latin language, religion, and legislature. The Visigodos were the next people whom invaded in the year of 400. They brought the monarchy to Spain. These were German people, who brought the idea of the aristocratic hierarchy. About 300 years later, the Arabs came from north Africa. They brought another religion to the peninsula, Islam. Until 1492, there were both times of peaceful and violent co-existence between the two religions. Much contribution of architecture came from these cultures that still exists today. In the north of Spain, one will find Cathedrals and churches built by the Christians. Towards the south, you will find Mosques of the Arabs. The next era is called “La Reconquista”. In 1499, the Christians ordered that the Arabs and Jews convert to Christianity or leave the country. When their king died without kids, the French and Spanish fought in the War of Succession for the Spanish crown. In 1701 ended in 1704 with the beginning of Bourbon (French) rule. Following, the first republic was named in the 1870s. It lasted only 22 months. In 1875, Alfonzo XII was named king. During the brief Spanish American War, Spain lost its territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the US in 1898. Alfonzo XIII ruled next. The second republic was born April 14th, 1931 and lasted five years, much longer than the first republic. Two sides emerged from this political change, eventually resulting in a civil war in July of 1936 which lasted three years. This was the same time that Franco, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces took over. The following forty years were lead by Franco as a dictatorship. With the death of the dictator in 1975, came the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in the name of Carlos I. Carlos, although young, was motivated to transform Spain to western-style democracy. At his side, was Adolfo Suarez, prime minister of the second Monarchy Government. The first democratic parliamentary elections were held on June 15th, 1977. In the early eighties, Galicia, Basque Country, Andalucia and Catalunia approved statutes for their own self-government. In January of ’81, Suarez resigned and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo took over. This leader presented to the king dissolution of parliament and the calling of a general election to be held on October 28th. In this election, members of The Union of the Democratic Centre lost. The Spanish Socialist Worker Party won. Their leader was Felipe Gonzalez who consequentially took on the role of the new Prime Minister. Victory of the next three elections of 1986, 1989 and 1993 also fell to the Socialists. In 1992, Spain became part of the European Economic Union. It was also the year of the Expo92 at Sevilla. In the same year, Spain developed its first high speed rail line. One of the country’s major cities, Barcelona, held the olympics that year. Later, in 2002 Spain adapted its currency from the Peseta to the Euro. Although Spain is suffering problems of unemployment and a poor economy today, it has moved far from its democratic past into a well-respected country of Europe. Daily Life of Citizens Life in Spain differs from life in other cultures. It is incredibly diverse. There are three official languages. These include Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Gallego. People spend most of their time outside of their homes. A typical night out on the town lasts until the small hours of the morning. The most common type of recreational activity is playing soccer. They mostly socialize at restaurants and bars. Food is very important in their culture. There are no drive-through services at restaurants. Their diet is based on olive oil, fish, fresh fruits, vegetables and even wine. This is also known as the Mediterranean diet. They eat dinner around nine. Spain imports machinery, motorvehicles, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines and other consumer goods. Their customers, in order from biggest to least, are France, Germany, Portugal, Italy and the UK. Spain has many different cultures rooted into its soil. The Romans contributed a great deal to today’s culture. They contributed Latin language, religion, and legislation. Later the Arabs came from north Africa. They brought another religion to the peninsula, Islam. Much contribution of architecture came from these cultures that still exists today. In the north of Spain, one will find Cathedrals and churches built by the Christians. Towards the south, you will find Mosques of the Arabs.

The overall goal of our research program is to examine performance differences between children with normal hearing and children with hearing loss in order to develop appropriate remediation techniques that will narrow the performance gap between these two groups of children. The laboratory is equipped with computers for PC-based hearing assessments, data acquisition, and analysis. A large double-walled sound-attenuated booth suite is located within the laboratory. Custom software has been developed to facilitate data collection as well as the acoustic analyses of speech productions. A state-of-the art hearing-aid analysis/probe-microphone system (Audioscan Verifit) is available to quantify real-ear gain as a function of frequency on an individual basis. Patricia G. Stelmachowicz, Ph.D. is a research audiologist whose program of study has focused on the performance differences between children with normal hearing and those with hearing loss for a wide variety of measures. Brenda Hoover M.A., Judy Kopun M.A., Dawna Lewis, Ph.D., Ryan McCreery, Ph.D. Student, Mary Pat Moeller, Ph.D, Kanae Nishi, Ph.D, Jody Spalding, M.A., Marc Brennan, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow) Summary of Research Program For Clinicians and Scientists Current studies focus on the benefits of hearing aids with an extended bandwidth in comparison to devices that utilize frequency-lowering. We anticipate that the benefit derived from these two approaches will vary as a function of degree and configuration of hearing loss. We also are examining the ability of children with hearing loss to perceive speech in challenging acoustic environments (i.e., listening in fluctuating noise and the ability to segregate speech in a 2-talker situation). In these studies, we also will examine the effects of both fast- and slow-acting amplitude compression on the above-noted tasks. A final goal is to examine the relative contribution of acoustic-phonetic and language-based cues to speech perception for both groups of children. For all studies, data will be obtained across a wide age range in order to examine developmental changes in both groups. The long-term goal of these studies is to identify and quantify performance differences between children with and without hearing loss for a wide range of auditory tasks. Such information may provide insight into the development of strategies to improve speech, language, and psychosocial outcomes for children with hearing loss. SHARP is a PC-based computer program designed to assist clinicians with the process of selecting and fitting hearing aids to children and to provide information to parents, educators, and therapists on signal audibility under typical listening conditions. Threshold data and a variety of electroacoustic parameters are entered into the program. A series of plots are produced depicting the amplified signal in relation to auditory threshold and the saturated hearing-aid output across a variety of listening conditions (e.g. classroom teacher at different listening distances). For each listening situation, an Aided Audibility Index value is given. For additional information please send an email to [email protected]. Professional Resources: Publication Lists Each link below opens a new window in PubMed1 in which the author’s biomedical publications are listed. 1PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

- PDF (99 kb) - Full Text with Thumbnail Figures - Full Text with Large Figures - Cited by in Scopus (1) - Request permission - Why Veterinarians Should Care More About Parasitology - Trends in teaching parasitology: the American situation Trends in Parasitology, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1 January 2003, Pages 6-9 Alex D.W. Acholonu AbstractParasitic infections in both humans and animals are still rampant and appear to be increasing. There is a need for parasitologists, human and animal doctors to contribute toward the global eradication of communicable and food-borne diseases. The need for teaching parasitology, the recommendations and future perspectives are discussed in this article, and it is proposed that macrobiology should be recognized and taught as a subject area to include the study of eukaryotic organisms encompassing macroparasites. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (90 kb) - Veterinary parasitologists: not lost but proactive! Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. Trends in Parasitology, Volume 22, Issue 12, 564-567, 1 December 2006 How is veterinary parasitology taught in China? 1 Department of Parasitology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, 100 University Road, Nanning 530005, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2 Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, 2 West Yuanminyuan Road, Beijing 100094, China 3 Center for Parasitic Organisms and the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University, 135 West Xingang Street, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong Province, China 4 Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Street, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong Province, China Many parasites of domestic animals in China are of major socioeconomic and medical importance. Hence, veterinary parasitology is one of the core subjects for undergraduate and postgraduate students of veterinary science. Here, we review the teaching of veterinary parasitology in Chinese universities, including a description of the veterinary science curricula and measures to improve the quality of veterinary parasitology teaching in China.

2.2 How do Molecules Bond to Surfaces ? There are two principal modes of adsorption of molecules on surfaces : |Physical Adsorption ( Physisorption )| |Chemical Adsorption ( Chemisorption )| The basis of distinction is the nature of the bonding between the molecule and the surface. With ... Physical Adsorption : the only bonding is by weak Van der Waals - type forces. There is no significant redistribution of electron density in either the molecule or at the substrate surface. Chemisorption : a chemical bond, involving substantial rearrangement of electron density, is formed between the adsorbate and substrate. The nature of this bond may lie anywhere between the extremes of virtually complete ionic or complete covalent character. Typical Characteristics of Adsorption Processes (variation between substrates of different chemical composition) |Substantial variation between materials||Slight dependence upon substrate composition| (variation between different surface planes of the same crystal) |Marked variation between crystal planes||Virtually independent of surface atomic geometry| (over which adsorption occurs) (but a given molecule may effectively adsorb only over a small range) |Near or below the condensation point of the gas| (e.g. Xe < 100 K, CO2 < 200 K) |Adsorption Enthalpy||Wide range (related to the chemical bond strength) | - typically 40 - 800 kJ mol-1 |Related to factors like molecular mass and polarity | - typically 5-40 kJ mol-1 (similar to heat of liquefaction) |Nature of Adsorption||Often dissociative| May be irreversible |Saturation Uptake||Limited to one monolayer||Multilayer uptake possible| |Kinetics of Adsorption||Very variable - often an activated process||Fast - since it is a non-activated process| The most definitive method for establishing the formation of a chemical bond between the adsorbing molecule and the substrate ( i.e. chemisorption ) is to use an appropriate spectroscopic technique, for example IR ( see Section 5.4 ) - to observe the vibrational frequency of the substrate/adsorbate bond UPS ( see Section 5.3 ) - to monitor intensity & energy shifts in the valence orbitals of the adsorbate and substrate

Read the report: Occupational Dose Data for Major Canadian Nuclear Facilities 2001-07 (INFO-0775) (PDF). About the report The Occupational Dose Data for Major Canadian Nuclear Facilities Report provides an overview of occupational radiation doses, from 2001 to 2007, at major nuclear facilities licensed by the CNSC. The report details the average and collective effective doses and the distribution of doses among workers in the Canadian nuclear industry employed at the following types of facilities: - nuclear power plants - uranium mines and mills - uranium refineries - fuel fabrication facilities - research and radioisotope production facilities - tritium light source production facilities Highlights of the 2001-07 report Overall, the data demonstrates that the average dose for nuclear energy workers at all facilities in the report are far below the individual annual effective dose limit for nuclear energy workers of 50 milliSieverts (mSv), set out in the Radiation Protection Regulations. In Canada,the average annual effective dose for all nuclear energy workers at facilities in this report remained comparable from 2001 to 2007. The average annual dose varied from 1.54 to 1.99 mSv, with an overall average of 1.77 mSv over the seven year period (these doses are based on non-zero average doses). If you wish to receive a printed copy of the 2001-07 Report (INFO-0775), please contact us.

The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition Letter Analogy Problems CRCC's love affair with letter analogy problems goes back years; Hofstadter came up with the domain starting as early as 1980, in an attempt to distill out the essence of analogy. To the uninitiated this love can seem an arcane love indeed. The basic idea is simple: I change efg into efw. Can you "do the same thing" to ghi?(This example is taken from Hofstadter's book FCCA, page 202.) There are a great number of possible answers to the question, but consider these two: whi and ghw. In the first answer, we've construed the change as being "change 'g' into 'w'", but in the second we've seen it as "change the rightmost letter to 'w'". Each is a valid answer, but the second has something of the feel of a higher-level answer, since it's not a blind search-and-replace of the letter 'g'. A closely related analogy is I change efg into wfg. Can you "do the same thing" to ghi?Here, the same two answers, whi and ghw, remain -- but now they can be seen as construing the problem in different ways. The first can be seen as "change the leftmost letter to 'w'", but the second now looks more like a rather elegant solution, noting that the two strings are mirror images of one another in the sense of moving away from 'g', and replacing the "far end" with the letter 'w'. The letter analogy domain is thus an attempt to define a very, very small domain (just the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, the concepts of "left" and "right", the notions of "successor" and "predecessor", small numbers for grouping letters, and so forth) that still admits the possibility of expressing elegance, creativity, comparisons, even a mild form of humor if you've spent enough time with it. We don't know of anyone who's managed a belly laugh over a letter analogy, but miss enough sleep and you can certainly get a chuckle. The point is that this tiny domain allows us to model all kinds of cognitive phenomena without getting bogged down in either the attempt to compile an encyclopedia of all human knowledge or the trap of thinking that a reduced domain is somehow equivalent to such an encyclopedia. Here are a few more letter analogy problems. See if you can come up with various answers to them and compare their qualities. It's a subtle aroma you're looking for, but it's worth the effort. abc --> abd; ijk --> ? abc --> abd; ijkk --> ? abc --> abd; mrrjjj --> ? abc --> abd; xyz --> ? (Note: the alphabet does not wrap around!) abc --> abd; ydq --> ?

October 1st, 2012 Artists: Frank Benson, Peter Fischli and David Weiss Venue: Andrew Kreps, New York Exhibition Title: Airports and Extrusions Date: September 13th – October 27th, 2012 Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Airports, a photographic series by Fischli and Weiss examines the quotidian aspects of global travel by focusing the uniformity of the terminals and tarmacs in such disparate locales as Zurich and Rio de Janeiro, symptoms of the postmodern experience. The mundane subjects in these images are familiar to us all, fuel vehicles, baggage trucks, and the daily routine of the airport worker yet these photos highlight the extreme complexities of such tableaus and everyday life. Deceptively complex these photos share the same conceptual focus as their other sculptural and photographic works – the exceptional in the quotidian experience. Airports present seemingly conventional views of the heavy, inert metallic bodies of airplanes, of the machinery on the ground. But mostly we see the space around them, the vastness and emptiness of the runway, which becomes the essence of the forms themselves. And similarly, Frank Benson’s Extrusions speak to something beyond the forms themselves – the action of their making and the space in which they occupy the fine line between repose and animation.

Undergraduate Deans Office Location: Carson Hall, Suite 125 Mail: 6064 Carson Hall, Suite 125 Hanover, NH 03755 Myth: I must worry about getting my distributive requirements out of the way before thinking about a major. Fact: The distributive requirements are not intended to be completed by the time you have to declare your major. And, if you take a variety of classes your first few years, you will most likely find that your distributive requirements take care of themselves. Myth: The best way to find out about a major is to take an introductory class. Fact: While introductory courses do provide good exposure to the discipline, they generally do not reflect what the major requirements will be like. Myth: There's nothing you can do after college with a major in ______, so I probably shouldn't pursue it. Fact: Choosing a major does not automatically mean you have chosen a career. Further, just because you major in Theater, for example, that doesn't mean you have to become an actor or actress or that you're only qualified to do that. By choosing a major, you are not limited to only one career choice. By choosing a career, you are not limited to only one major. Myth: It's impossible to choose one major when you have several areas of interest. Fact: There are a variety of ways for students to combine their interests in multiple disciplines. For example, it is possible to do a double major, to do a major and two minors, or to create a modified major or special major. Myth: With so many options and choices, I don't know where to begin. Fact: Nonsense! There are a large number of resources available to help you, and by looking through this you're on the right track. Clear your head, find some time to think about what's right for you, talk to others, and you'll have a major before you know it. Last Updated: 8/20/08

Prof. Igor Markov has been named ACM Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery. ACM's Distinguished Member Grade recognizes up to 10% of the top ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous professional membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. Prof. Markov's interests include computers that make computers (software and hardware), secure hardware design, combinatorial optimization with applications to the design, verification and debugging of integrated circuits, as well as in quantum logic circuits. New algorithmic techniques developed by Prof. Markov have been implemented in open-source projects and industry tools, leading to order-of-magnitude improvements in practice. Prof. Markov has co-authored three books and more than 180 refereed publications, some of which have been honored by the best-paper awards. He is the recipient of a DAC Fellowship, an ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty award, an ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award, an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Partnership Award, a Synplicity Inc. Faculty award, a Microsoft A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award, and the inaugural IEEE CEDA Early Career Award. He was also honored by the University of Michigan with the EECS Department Outstanding Achievement Award. Prof. Markov received his M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He is a senior member of IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. ACM press release: ACM Names 54 Distinguished Members for Contributions to Computing Posted: December 15, 2011

Search this site WIN 10 YARDS OF FREE MULCH Embark Services is giving away 10 yards of free mulch to one lucky winner every month. The winner for each month is drawn at the beginning of the next month, with the next winner selected on May 1, 2013! March - Mr. Staley April - Ben Fridge At the start of a new year, people will often take a moment to reflect on the past year and use that reflection to shape goals and resolutions for the year ahead. Although Houston typically experiences milder winters, home and property owners can still face high winds and strong storms in the winter months, sometimes resulting in tree damage and tree problems. All types of trees, whether they are young saplings or mature trees, can experience damage due to high winds and flying debris. As the end of another year approaches, many commercial property owners find themselves in the midst of budget preparation and analysis for the coming fiscal year. This preparation typically includes reviewing the past year's expenses to see where improvements and adjustments can be made to promote financial stability and growth. For residential and commercial property owners, one of the first things typically done to their land is the planting of trees and landscape gardens in order to add beauty and increase the value of their property. As winter months approach, homeowners will often welcome family and friends to their homes to help celebrate festive holidays, but are often embarrassed by their bleak, empty landscape caused by the cooler weather. When tree damage occurs due to severe weather, property owners often face the daunting task of repairing or removing damaged trees, which typically involves a great deal of expense. For property owners, tree trimming is a routine part of tree maintenance, whether you try to do it yourself or hire tree care professionals to handle this for you. If you own residential or commercial property, you know that tree health is an important facet of maintaining your property's value, both economic and aesthetic. However, knowing when to properly care for your trees is just as important as how to maintain them to ensure many years of stable tree health. All across the world, people have witnessed the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, resulting in widespread flooding, millions of homes and businesses without power, and tree and property damage throughout the Northeast.

Woodcrest, CaliforniaWoodcrest is a town located in Riverside County, California. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 8,342. As of the census of 2000, there are 8,342 people, 2,550 households, and 2,198 families residing in the town. The population density is 318.0/km² (823.9/mi²). There are 2,624 housing units at an average density of 100.0/km² (259.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 81.04% White, 4.56% African American, 1.22% Native American, 3.50% Asian, 0.24% Pacific Islander, 5.81% from other races, and 3.63% from two or more races. 16.66% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 2,550 households out of which 38.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.2% are married couples living together, 9.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 13.8% are non-families. 9.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.22 and the average family size is 3.39. In the town the population is spread out with 28.2% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 29.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 98.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 93.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $70,269, and the median income for a family is $73,125. Males have a median income of $56,473 versus $33,607 for females. The per capita income for the town is $27,901. 8.8% of the population and 6.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 10.1% are under the age of 18 and 1.7% are 65 or older.

It Is Not I That Seeks the Horse, The Horse Seeks Me by KH It Is Not I That Seeks the Horse, The Horse Seeks Me by Klaus Hempfling Read a true horseman's understanding of the rider's role as the horse's natural partner, and a unique insight into one man's outstanding training method in It Is Not I That Seeks the Horse, The Horse Seeks Me by Klaus Hempfling. Emphasizing a nonviolent partnership between horses and humans, the training system presented in this book is an increasingly popular training method among equestrians worldwide. Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling explains his system of communicating naturally with the instincts and nature of horses. The reader follows the progress of Arab stallion Marouk, and Lusitano stallion Queijo, in discovering a confident and harmonious relationship with their rider. Giving comprehensive insight into Hempfling's methods, the horse's progress is documented step-by-step, uncovering old wounds in the process that have resulted in their difficult behavior. Readers will discover the fascinating process of understanding horses through body language. A Gorgeous Book! Hardback, 344 pages, 8.5" x 9.75" |Return for credit:||12 Month(s)| |Return for refund:||30 Day(s)| |Return for repair/replacement:||12 Month(s)| Equestrian Collections carries over 65,000 products. We are committed to each and every product we sell, and our goal is that you are happy with any product you purchase. Some of our products come with Manufacturer's Warranties. Please note, these warranties are through the manufacturer and not Equestrian Collections. It is the customer's responsibility to meet the qualifications of the manufacturer (For example, return a warranty card after purchase). Any warranty information provided to Equestrian Collections by the manufacturer will be included with your purchase. Products that DO NOT have a Manufacturer's Warranty are covered by the Equestrian Collections Warranty. Unless otherwise noted, Equestrian Collections will replace or repair a product that fails within six months of purchase, with normal use and conditions. There are speical, legal, and health related considerations that preclude warranties, or returns, on certain categories of products: - All Departments - The Rider - Horse Apparel - Health Care - Sales & Clearance - GIFT CENTRAL - Company Info - About Equestrian Collections - About our Website - 100% Satisfaction Guarantee - [+] Give feedback about our site. - Rewards Program - Join the Mount Up to Rewards Program - Rewards for You - Affiliate Program - Become an Equestrian Collections Affiliate - My Account - Order Tracking - Returns and Exchanges - Shipping Info - We Care - Eco-Conscious Products - No Paper Catalogs - Save Trees Item is being added to cart

Sign up for the ride of your life in the Flinders Medical Centre Foundation's UK Cancer Cycle Challenge 2013. This exhilarating journey across the spectacular British countryside will see participants cycle 1600km end to end in 14 days. By fundraising and participating in this bucket list adventure participants will not only be helping to save our loved ones from cancer, but their efforts will also be rewarded with the adventure of a lifetime. For more information visit www.fmcfoundation.com.au/ukcycle Flinders Medical Centre Foundation The Flinders Medical Centre Foundation raises money for vital medical research and equipment for the Flinders Medical Centre, to improve the quality of life for present and future generations. Funds raised support more than 400 medical researchers that are based at Flinders, many of whom are world leaders in areas such as cancer, heart and degenerative diseases, to name but a few. The Foundation was also the driving force in the building of the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC), which is the first comprehensive cancer centre focusing on the science of cancer prevention in Australia. The FCIC brings the brightest minds and kindest hearts together under the one roof to change the face of cancer.