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Updated 2:33 pm, Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Lew Wolff, the 77-year-old co-owner of the A's, got into the batting cage at the auxiliary field Tuesday and took some whacks - or, as team employees would call them, graceful and powerful swings.
Bench coach Chip Hale did the chucking, hittable stuff because, as Wolff said, "His job depended on it."
Did Wolff take Hale deep?
"By my standards, yes," Wolff said.
Asked about the A's long-standing desire to move to San Jose, Wolff said he intended to fight that fight indefinitely, "until we get there, whether it's me or someone else who does it."
He added, "It's sad that we haven't moved forward, but we're part of a partnership with baseball and we try to respect that."
The commissioner's committee to study the A's ballpark situation will celebrate its fourth anniversary March 30. Assuming the members are alive. Does Wolff see any indication of anything happening on that front?
"I'm going to continue like the Giants, with no comment on that. ... We both agreed not to comment on that."
Would Wolff consider putting a move to San Jose on the agenda at an owners' meeting, for a vote?
"It doesn't quite work that way, but that isn't the way we want to do it."
Injury updates: Several injured players are taking significant steps forward in returning to action for the A's.
Closer Grant Balfour threw to hitters Tuesday and also was cleared to begin running for the first time since his Feb. 14 arthroscopic knee surgery. Balfour said he might have another session or two throwing to hitters before pitching in a game, perhaps Monday, but manager Bob Melvin said that it might be only the one session of pitching to hitters.
Balfour will have time to get in five or six outings before the start of the regular season.
"It's good. I feel like I can do stuff now, stretch with the team," Balfour said. "I feel normal again and there are still 2 1/2 weeks before Opening Day."
Starter Brett Anderson (trapezius) still is expected to make his next start, according to Melvin, and second baseman Jemile Weeks (shoulder) and outfielder Michael Taylor (lacerated pinkie) could play in Thursday's Cactus League game. Taylor hit Monday and reported no problems. He and Weeks probably will play in a minor-league game Wednesday.
Fernando Rodriguez, who left Monday's game after seven pitches with elbow stiffness, was scheduled to see a doctor Tuesday and was expected to get an MRI exam.
Catchers' corner: Melvin, asked about the catching depth in camp - the Triple-A catchers in camp are new - said that he has been impressed with David Freitas both offensively and defensively. Freitas, who is from Elk Grove and was acquired from the Nationals for Kurt Suzuki in August, has been hitting the ball hard consistently.
A's 6, Royals 3
Notable: Tommy Milone, in his third spring start, had his scoreless string snapped at five innings. The game's leadoff hitter, Alex Gordon, hit a 3-1 slider for a 450-foot homer. Milone went 3 2/3 innings, giving up six hits and three earned runs. ... The other six A's pitchers gave up only three hits, one walk, zero runs. ... Royals starter James Shields retired the first nine A's before Coco Crisp led off the fourth with an infield single, starting a three-run rally. ... Brandon Moss had two hits, with a two-run single (he was thrown out trying to stretch it), and is 8-for-20 over his past seven games, after a 1-for-8 start.
Quotable: "It's all right. I guess I didn't think it was that bad. To get ready for the season, you gotta go through situations like that, prepare for the feelings. It's nice to go through difficult situations and get ready."
- Milone, hit solidly in his 3 2/3 innings.
Wednesday's game: None.
Scott Ostler and Susan Slusser are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers.


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Cone snails are part of the phylum Mollusca and the class Gastropoda. These snails can grow to lengths of 23 cm and their beautifully ornamental shells are considered collectors items by many people. They occupy tropical marine waters and are found mostly in coral reefs.
Cone Snails are carnivorous, mainly feeding on small fish, marine worms, or even other mollusks. There are an estimated 500 species of Cone Snails. They are divides into three groups according to their diet: piscivores - fish eaters, molluscivores - mollusk/snail eaters, and vermivores - worm eaters.
Cone Snails use a venomous harpoon (called a toxoglossan radula) to catch quick-moving prey. They are the world's most venomous mollusk, and were equipped with these harpoons because they are extremely slow and cannot catch prey otherwise. Amazingly, in some of the species, the venom is powerful enough to kill a human being. There have been 30 recorded cases of human deaths as a cause of Cone Snail stings. [1].
All Cone Snails are larger and wider at one end and narrow at their base. They all have spires, (whorls above the body whorl) or different heights at the larger and wider end. A whorl is the full turn of a shell. Shells can be dull, or very shiny. They can be smooth, or very lined and bumpy. The shell has an aperture (opening). It is long and narrow. The foot of a Cone Snail is strong and muscular and can be colorful. The siphon is well developed and can also be colorful.[2] A Cone Snail's harpoon is hollow and barbed and is connected to the radula in the top of the snail's throat. Its harpoon is a modification of the radula, an organ found in Mollusks that acts as both a tongue, and as teeth. When a snail senses prey, it turns its mouth, which is a long and flexible tube, towards the prey. The snail then fires the harpoon into the prey by a powerful muscular contraction. Their average attack lasts only milliseconds. The venom paralyzes the prey and it is killed nearly instantly. Venom in Cone Snails contains hundreds of different compounds. Venom varies from each species to the next. Conotoxins is the name for the toxins found in these different venoms. The venom will also contain a pain reducer, it starts by pacifying the prey, immobilizing it, and then killing it. Some Cone Snails carry the same toxin as that in puffer-fish, blue-ringed octopus, and rough-skinned newt.[3] Cone Snails are one of the most toxic creatures on earth.
Reproduction in Cone Snails has not been widely studied, but it does appear that most of the snails have separate sexes and that they fertilize internally. Eggs are laid and attached to substrate. The eggs are laid in capsules, and each capsule will contain a varying number of eggs. Two types of offspring or hatchlings have been noted. The veligers (free-swimming larvae), and veliconcha (much like baby snails).[4]
Cone Snails are marine snails, and are found mostly in coral reefs. They are generally found in shallow waters either near coral reefs, under coral shelves, hiding in the sand, or under piles of rocks or rubble.[5] There are some Cone Snails that live among mangroves, which are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats.[6] They have been located in places including the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Hawaii, and California.
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In some Cone Snails, the venom has shown good promise for providing a non-addictive pain reliever 1000 times as powerful as morphine. The first pain killer, Ziconotide, was derived from Cone Snails and was approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration in December 2004.[7] Other drugs are now in trial. Some of these could eventually be used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and epilepsy. Cone Snail venoms contain substances called conotoxins. Conotoxins are very small, measuring about 20-30 amino acids in length. Their short length makes them fairly easy to manufacture.[8] If you are stung by a Cone Snail, it is important to seek medical attention immediately. If you come upon a Cone Snail, it would be wise not to handle it. Symptoms of a Cone Snail sting include intense pain, swelling, numbness, and tingling.[9]
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Jasmeet Kukreja on October 11, 2012 at 7:29 am
Near n clean …nicely written
Rohan Kachalia on October 11, 2012 at 8:12 am
Thankyou Jasmeet and welcome to the blog. 🙂 Hope to see you again.
shivprasad123 on November 26, 2012 at 7:09 am
hey nice one… pretty having much to explore in your writings.. 😉
Hetal Kachalia on November 26, 2012 at 9:56 am
@shivprasad123 Thank you so much! 🙂 Would be happy to see your footprints in future.
sowmya on November 30, 2012 at 8:58 am
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Cleveland managed just 37 points in the first half of Tuesday's matchup with Phoenix. But they turned it up in the second stanza and blew past the Suns, 89-74, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
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With Kyrie Irving back in Cleveland, awaiting surgery on his fractured right hand, the Cavaliers have gone with Donald Sloan at the point. Sloan got the start again against Phoenix, but Waiters came off the bench – a role he's certainly familiar with – to run the point starting in the second quarter. He's not the pure playmaker that Irving is, but his aggressiveness got the Cavaliers in gear in Tuesday's victory.
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Till afternoon, JKLF volunteers and locals donated 100 points of blood and Rs one lakh. The donors included Hindus and Sikhs.
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Cars is Pixar's most improbable success to date, a film that could easily have misfired, but somehow does not.
Elevated Art and Entertainment
Directed by Pixar honcho John Lasseter, who helmed Pixar's first three films (the brilliant Toy Story films and the lackluster A Bug's Life) but hasn't directed since, Cars ominously recalls some of the elements that made A Bug's Life the most pedestrian and uninspired project in Pixar's filmography. The total absence of human beings, for one thing. And a formulaic story of a threatened community pulling together to overcome adversity.
Happily, Cars is no A Bug's Life. Offbeat and counter-intuitive, Cars finds a quirky creative groove and an emotional center that eluded the earlier Lasseter effort. The story of a callow young rookie racecar named Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) whose rise to the top is sidetracked by an unplanned stopover in a sleepy time-forgotten town may be formulaic, and on first viewing the first forty minutes or so especially to an automotive non-enthusiast like me seems a bit shaky. But the film's sense of time and place, its 1950s small-town nostalgia, its jaw-dropping visual beauty, and its love of cars, the open road and the American Southwest ultimately elevate Cars to a level of art and entertainment that continues to defy even the best efforts of Pixar's competitors.
Perhaps the film's biggest risk is creating a automotive parallel universe without drivers a world in which fixtures of 20th-century Americana, from NASCAR racing to the forgotten towns and mom-and-pop shops of Route 66, exist independently of human beings or indeed any animal life forms. In this world, if you squint at the flies buzzing around light fixtures, they turn out to be little VW Bugs, and tractors stampede like cows and are subject to nocturnal tipping by rural pranksters. Even buttes and cloud formations in the background reflect the film's autocentric milieu, with fin-tail and hood-ornament shapes cropping up everywhere.
The absence of drivers is reflected, almost literally, in the character design of the cars themselves, specifically in the placement of the eyes. Animated anthropomorphic autos (e.g., Speed Buggy) often "see" with their headlights, but in a driverless world it would be odd to see through the windshield into the empty driver's seat, and so the windshields in Cars are transformed into the whites of enormous conjoined eyes.
Why does the absence of humans matter? The non-human worlds of the Toy Story films and Monsters, Inc. provided an emotional point of entry for viewers precisely by imagining how toys and monsters would feel about us, thereby holding up a mirror to our feelings about them. Had Cars developed the automotive side of the driver–car relationship, that might have been an intriguing way of tapping into the great American love affair with the automobile; but the filmmakers haven't gone that route.
Without a Driver, What Motivates a Vehicle?
Without drivers to care about, what motivates a vehicle? As you might expect, it's the same things or rather, the same range of things that motivate their human counterparts.
Take Lightning McQueen, who has come out of nowhere to be a spoiler for the Piston Cup. Like any brash, callow up-and-coming young athlete feeling his oats, McQueen is hungry to topple the big guys at the top and to enjoy the rewards of celebrity, notably a lucrative new endorsement deal with Dinoco Oil. (Dinoco, the name of the gas station where Woody and Buzz fell out of Andy's mom's car in Toy Story, is one of numerous Pixar in-jokes.) Arrogant and self-centered, McQueen isn't exactly a team player, and has little loyalty either toward his pit crew or his slightly stodgy current sponsor, Rust-eze, with its unglamorous clientele.
There's also McQueen's competition: classy reigning champ The King (voiced by racing icon Richard Petty), a 1970 Plymouth Superbird who'd like to retire in a (hopefully metaphorical) blaze of glory; and The King's longtime rival, perennial runner-up Hick Chicks (Michael Keaton), who's even more obnoxious than McQueen. Off the track, McQueen's easygoing transport bigrig Mack (Pixar veteran John Ratzenberger) is content to haul the sporty racecar from race to race, and may be the closest thing McQueen has to a friend.
However, contrary to McQueen's expectations, the most significant chapter in his life and the heart of the film takes place not on the racetrack or in the spotlight, but far from the beaten path of the Interstate, in the one-light town of Radiator Springs in Carburetor County. Once a prosperous rural community on the Route 66 thoroughfare from Illinois to California, Radiator Springs shared the decline of many similar towns that were bypassed by the new Interstate system.
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The plot elements are familiar and somewhat corny, most overtly resembling the 1991 Michael J. Fox comedy Doc Hollywood. But Cars has a specificity that goes beyond the lip service to small-town values typical to such films. It's a heartfelt elegy to a lost culture, an almost mythic part of America's past.
The Eisenhower-era nostalgia may be heartfelt, but it's not entirely convincing. After all, it was Eisenhower who signed the Interstate Highway Act that doomed Route 66 and its small-town culture. Cars romanticizes the local feeling of a road that turned and wound "with the land" rather than cutting across it conveniently overlooking the fact that those turns and bends cost lives, earning sections of the highway the moniker "Bloody 66."
By contrast, the Interstate is disparagingly said to save drivers only "ten minutes of driving time," but multiply the number of drivers per year by the time and fuel saved, and the benefit seems appreciable. Painful as it may be to watch communities decline, the answer, if there is one, isn't not building better roads.
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If Cars is heavy on hooey, it's also genuinely endearing. The story is polished to a fare-thee-well, and the filmmakers have a few surprises up their sleeves. Refreshingly, neither of the big races that bookend the film ends the way formula would dictate. Cars doesn't just mouth the platitude that winning isn't everything; respect, dignity and loyalty are really honored above finishing first.
Mater the tow truck (Tow Mater, get it?) is funny and sweetly personable, and Newman's Doc Hudson has real dignity and quiet authority. And, while praising the visuals in CG cartoons has become commonplace, Pixar's work here goes beyond eye-popping realism into stunning beauty. This isn't just technique, it's art. The sprawling landscapes in Cars are even more gorgeous than the colorful coral-reef vistas of Finding Nemo, and that's saying something.
Is Cars a disappointment? Only Pixar's enviable track record could make it seem so. Compared to even the better efforts of their competition (e.g., Over the Hedge Robots ), Cars is firing on all cylinders, and then some.
For what it's worth, no matter how consistently brilliant Pixar has been, I find that I never come to expect the next Pixar film to meet the same standard. Going into Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, I rather doubted each time that the film I was about to see would live up to their predecessors, and I was pleasantly dumbfounded each time to find my expectations exceeded. Cars doesn't exceed expectations, but it continues the winningest streak in Hollywood history with a film that any other creative team in Hollywood would kill to have be the weakest of their last five films.
P.S. Whatever you do, don't miss the end-credit outtakes, which include the funniest end-reel gag in Pixar history, as the cars go to a drive-in and watch excerpts from a number of films that seem awfully familiar.
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In 1368 DR, the following laws are posted at all major entry points to Cormyr.[1] When this started or was/if discontinued is unknown
Laws of Cormyr
- All persons entering Cormyr must register with the officials of a border garrison.
- Foreign currency can only be used in certain locations. Please exchange your coins for Cormyrean golden lions at your first opportunity.
- Adventurers must acquire a charter before undertaking any operation as a group.
- All weapons must be peace-bonded. The only persons exempt from this law are members of chartered adventuring groups and members of mercenary groups that can offer proof of employment.
- Harming cats is forbidden.
- Bow your head to royalty and the local nobility.
- Purple Dragons have the right to search you upon request.
- Hunting on private land is forbidden.
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Only someone with Obarskyr blood may assume the crown. This means that, for example, Queen Filfaeril Obarskyr could not assume the crown.[2]
Maritime lawEdit
Cormyrian maritime law governs the activities of Cormyrian ships on the Sea of Fallen Stars. Captains of ships on which individuals commit crimes will usually imprison the individual in question in the ship's brig until making landfall in Cormyr where local authorities will deal with the case. Mutiny is usually a hanging offence, although there are a small number of cases in Cormyr where mutineers have been spared. Piracy is dealt with harshly: upon the first offence, the pirate has one hand cut off. Upon a subsequent offence, the pirate is put to death.[3] Fishermen must pay the local authorities for the right to fish in Cormyrian waters.[4]
- ↑ John Terra (November 1997). Four from Cormyr. (TSR, Inc), p. 6. ISBN 0-7869-0646-4.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb (April 1998). Cormyr: A Novel (Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 170. ISBN ISBN 0-7869-0710-X.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend (1999). Sea of Fallen Stars. (TSR, Inc), p. 14. ISBN 0-7869-1393-2.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend (1999). Sea of Fallen Stars. (TSR, Inc), p. 15. ISBN 0-7869-1393-2.


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Math Lesson: A new way to multiply
WOW!!!!!!!! Thats sick!!!
I gonna try use that on a math test at school one time.
omg, wish i'd been taught that at school coolio
Well, this isn't really new. It's just a visualisation, of what we learned in primary school.
Yeah it's only a visualisation, but a nice one. I have never think of it this way and it can be helpful for that people having trouble with discalculi disease.
I see it today, not in past, i am very surprised. Did you see it or similar thing in primary school really? this is awesome.
No. As I said. It's just visualized with the lines.
At frist you take the last number of the first factor and multiplicate it with the second factor.
21 * 45
1*5 = 5
1*4 = 4
=> 45
2*5 = 10
2*4 = 8
Then you add the numbers.
8 ___
So you have 945.
We called that "in writing multiplication"
Sometimes when I got lasy and didn't want to do all the carries.. I just added lines underniegth. It was faster than tracking the carries sometimes. In the example... if all the digits multiplied to dual digit numbers... you likely would have used 4 lines instead of 3.
funny thing... but now, there are no problem to use calculator on math classes because it's faster... there are harder things than "x" and ":" integral? ... :]
Yea, I think I haf somewhat forgotten all the tricks to calculate multiplications and stuff in a shorter time as after going to secondary sch, u basically get to use the calculator and depend on it heavily.
according to me, code optimizers use this method, because number of interoperations is lower.
For integer math as in this case... it really uses the more standard technique.
What this technique offers is that you don't track carries directly. You do this by writing the individual results on separate lines.
Since a computer uses binary... there are no carries as you mulitply by 0 or 1. So the techniques become effectively the same. However, many computer processors have hardware support of multiplication... and the compiler doesn't have to optimise, just code for the optimised hardware.
You can't manually compute integrals?
hardware support ? do you mention arihtmetical logic unit (ALU). where is the multiplication doing? please describe. For example, in asm
what kind operations are carried out ? Which hardware is used ?
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First time seeing this lol. That takes way too much time, I'll just stick to the old one, which is way faster for me.
For human, you are right but for the machines, grid is the perfect solution.
I have never seen that kind of "visualisation" before. Quite a good method to calculate if you are not very fast the "normal" way.
It is funny!
I think that I would likely work in binary
OK .... this is likely best to explain by example. Why don't we try by using 7*5. Sounds like I might be trying to over simplify by using single digit numbers. But binary comes to the rescue. This will be sufficient to explain the method. So we have:
* 101
so first we want to multiply by 1!... welll it has to be a 1 or a 0.
* 1 being the right most 1 in the 101 term
111 and gives us a 111 as a result. No big surprise.
so next we shift the top number to the left and the bottom number to the right (from the original problem) and we have
* 10
lets take a little segway and explain this. It should be obvious because we do this normally, but rarely explain it when we do it. The bottom # shifts right because we have already done the multiplying by the right most number and it falls off, or we just ignore it normally. The top number shifts left because we are using a higher digit from the bottom. Typically we just shift it when we right it in the summation. This is true with the method described above or the one we used before dinosaurs.
done with segway. here we multiply by the right most digit in the bottom number. Forturnately multiplying by 0 is easy! we get 0000. So then again we do the same shifts as before and we have
* 1
11100 and end up with an easy multiplication as such.
Now we have to go back to add up all the terms as before.
11100 hopefully this look OK since it is proportional spacing?
---------- but now we add in binary
converting to decimal is 35. Hmmmm, I think it works. Remember that 1+1=0 -- carry the one!
acient toaster processors I think microcoded this function. It increased speed significantly over assembly languages... and no -- C could not optimise faster than proper assembly for this simple of a problem.
Larger processors may have placed this hardware in differently. I have not checked since the time of dinosaurs.
Calculators are a great tool, but there are times that it helps to understand the hows and whys. You may not always have access to this level of computing.
Great post, thank you.
i didn't knew about it, but the traditional way is easier anyway i think... or at least shorter.
I don't think either of my kids, who are doing well in gr. 9 and gr. 7 respectively could multiply 13 x 21 without a calculator. this might be good for them if they're ever without a calculator.
my little one.... now 18 could multiply 3 digit numbers before he started kindergarten... all with the help a a silly little toy called "Math to Go".
As someone said:
converting to decimal is 35. Hmmmm, I think it works. Remember that 1+1=0 -- carry the one!
acient toaster processors I think microcoded this function. It increased speed significantly over assembly languages... and no -- C could not optimise faster than proper assembly for this simple of a problem.
But this form of math is purely geometrical how can something like this be achieved with simple lines and calculating angles.
I think you either need a sliderule or a Smith Chart
Wow thank you, this is definitely very helpful. It does become a burden if the lines you have to draw are 5+. None the less, this is a great way to do multiplication. I'll try to do this with decimals.
Like others have said, not a new way to multiply, but it IS more interesting.
I want to see someone turn that in as their scratch work on some math homework or exam and see what the teacher comments.
wow thats pretty cool...
very easy and thought ful
Great visual and would be neat to show people, but not practical.
I think multiplication is nothing more than repeated addition.
Technically, In mathematics, multiplication is an elementary arithmetic operation. When one of the numbers is a whole number, multiplication is the repeated sum of the other number.
For example, 7 × 4 is the same as 7 + 7 + 7 + 7.
Fractions are multiplied by separately multiplying their denominators and numerators: a/b × c/d = (ac)/(bd). For example, 2/3 × 3/4 = (2×3)/(3×4) = 6/12 = 1/2.
Multiplication can be defined for real and complex numbers, polynomials, matrices and other mathematical quantities as well. The inverse of multiplication is division.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply
About, the link, well don't you think it is only for symmetric numbers?? Like
12 x 21 or 123 x 321??
Easier, and faster methods of multiplication cane be found in Vedic Mathematics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Mathematics
I don't I should quote something from there as this will not be morally correct to just increase my points. But, I recommend you to have look at it!
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Thanks for posting, I am going to send to my friend who is a math teacher...
that is pretty kool. Ive only been taught the regular way and that seems to provide a pretty good shortcut, im going to show it to my friend who is crazy at math.
WOW, thats great. I agree with others though, its not very practical, in my opinion its far quicker and easier to do the multiplication the old fashioned column by column way.
This is purely elementary stuff
i think the purpose of that method is just for amusement, i've shown that method before to my cousin and he was astonished haha.
I'm definately showing this to my math class who will be blown away and totally not realize this is just a visualization. (I still love em though) . Neat idea for putting it down on paper. I can see this being use when teaching multiplication. The only trick would be breaking the habit and getting them to do it the real way.
I need to learn this, that was amazing!
I always have trouble multiplying >,<
I feel close to retarded without a calculator
Because this is so practical. Why even bother drawing it out like that? What a waste of time. And do any of you know how old this video is? And it's just now making it onto Frihost...sad.
It is really nice, how would you figure this out since this is really nice to do. You don't need a calculator!
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It was the Lathrop District Chamber of Commerce informing the Papa John's Pizza franchisee that she had been named the organization's annual Entrepreneur of the Year.
All she could do is stop and cry.
They, of course, were tears of joy, but they were also tears that marked the culmination of a long process that began at the Chamber's installation dinner the previous year when she made a pact with herself.
"I saw Andy (Kotecha) get up there and receive the award for Entrepreneur of the Year and I told myself, 'Next year that's going to be you,'" Johal said. "It was something to aspire to. I wasn't actually thinking that I would get it, but I carried out my business with that in mind, so when I got the phone call all that I could do is cry."
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The day began with a presentation at OSU, including opening remarks by Duane McDougall, president and chief executive officer of Willamette Industries and a 1974 OSU College of Business accounting alumnus. Hal Salwasser, dean of the College of Forestry and business professor Steve Lawton, also spoke about the day's events.
The first stop was at a Soap Creek logging site just north of Corvallis, which was harvested earlier this year. An active tub grinder that was generating hog fuel for electric cogeneration was working at this site. The tour focused on rural and urban interfaces in forestry and the impact of neighbor concerns on forest utilization.
Also toured was an area with a fish-bearing stream that was logged last year and planted with tree seedlings this year. The stream habitat offered opportunities to explore issues such as riparian protection, stream restoration and competing vegetation.
At Willamette's Black Rock Forest near Dallas, the group learned about long-range planning, reforestation challenges, genetically improved seedlings, road design, construction and maintenance, legacy roads, and wildlife policy.
The tour then moved on to observe an active timber harvesting operation. The discussion focused on capital investment in the logging equipment and the importance of environmental concerns during harvest operations. The tour then headed out of the forest for a look at the Willamette sawmill in Dallas. At the mill, discussions focused on the future of the workforce and equipment used in the processing of logs in the mill.
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Hey, are you sick of the Biogenesis mess yet? Of course not! According to a report from ESPN's Outside the Lines, the latest person to be linked to the controversial south Florida clinic is a woman named Sonia Cruz, who is the spokewoman of Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano's foundation. Cruz denies ever receiving anything from the clinic, and claims that Cano also never received anything. Of course, this isn't stopping people from connecting dots that really aren't meant to be connected. From the OTL piece... Cano has denied knowing clinic founder Tony Bosch or having ever used performance-enhancing drugs. But as his best friend, Melky Cabrera, his mentor, Alex Rodriguez, and now his spokeswoman have all been connected to clinic documents, MLB wants to know whether any relationship between Cano and the clinic exists. Cruz, 31, says she was never a client of the Miami-area clinic at the heart of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal, but records obtained by "Outside the Lines" list her as owing $300 in both July and August of last year. The records indicate that she paid the full balance in July, but the August records do not mention any payment. Two former Bosch associates said the $300 monthly tab was consistent with a weight-loss regimen, not performance-enhancing drugs. [...] "I met with a nurse who works for the clinic, but I met her outside the clinic just to talk to her about a diet program they have for women," she said. "I never went through with it once she explained what it was. I thought it was just a diet/nutritional thing, but it was diet, nutrition, pills and stuff." Cruz said she was introduced to the nurse "by another person" and said she never followed up to find out what sort of pills the nurse was recommending. She said she could not remember the nurse's name. A man described by several sources as Cruz' boyfriend, Orlando Dager, is also listed as a client in the July and August records. He is listed as having owed $300 each month, but having paid $100 and $150. Dager could not be reached for comment, and Cruz declined to describe their relationship or anything about him. So let's get this straight. Cano is being linked to the clinic because someone who works for his foundation was listed as owing money to Biogenesis. That employee has a completely logical story, and the payments were just over a two month period in the middle of the season. It'll be interesting to see if the accusations towards Cano fade like they did with Gio Gonzalez of the Nationals, whose father's name was mentioned in Anthony Bosch's notebooks. But the elder Gonzalez trotted out the same "weight loss" excuse that Cruz is, and that was apaprently suitable enough for people to drop it. I think it's extremely sloppy for ESPN to try to shame Cano just by tying him to Cabrera and Rodriguez, with no evidence aside from his foundation's spokeswoman's name tied to Biogenesis. This isn't a Yuri Sucart situation, where Cruz is a well-known advisor to Cano and has a history of impropriety. There is potential for this to spin out of control pretty quickly. [ESPN] [follow]
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The Village of Brookfield Economic Development Team is dedicated to your business success. We work closely with developers to ensure a smooth zoning review process, prompt building inspections, and timely resolution to issues. The team also provides complimentary consultations with smaller businesses that are developing business location plans and that seek informal advice on zoning and building permit issues.
Keith Sbiral, AICP – Village Manager
As Village Manager, one of Mr. Sbiral's first initiatives was to establish a new Department of Community & Economic Development and prioritize economic development initiatives. Prior to becoming the Village Manager, Mr. Sbiral led a complete restructuring of all Information Services within the Village including implementing GIS, a new Village ERP system, web services, new website development, police records management servers, and VoIP phone and networking systems. He also coordinated the adoption of the Village's first two TIF Districts.
Keith earned his M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning with emphases in economic development and land use planning from the University of Iowa in May of 2001. He is a member of the International City/County Management Association, the American Institute of Certified Planners, and the American Planning Association (APA).
Nick Greifer – Director of Community & Economic Development
As Director of Community & Economic Development, Mr. Greifer works in tandem with the Village Manager to promote economic growth in the Village. In practice, this involves (a) ensuring good customer service on building and zoning reviews, (b) creating incentives to developers to locate or expand in the Village, and (c) engaging closely with existing businesses to identify and remove barriers to economic growth (parking, licensing issues, etc.). He is also working to enhance the visibility of the community and to partner with key stakeholders such as the Brookfield Zoo, the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce and Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. Prior to joining the Village Economic Development team, he was a Vice President with Kane, McKenna and Associates.
Mr. Greifer earned a graduate degree from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy.
Emily A. Egan, AICP – Village Planner
Ms. Egan leads the Village in the development of long-range plans, as well as the day-to-day zoning reviews. In both instances, she is dedicated to the implementation of best practices in urban planning – including sustainable land-use planning practices such as storm water mitigation, transit-oriented development, bike and pedestrian planning and infill development. Her role also includes development of a modern Comprehensive Plan in collaboration with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning as well as a new "form-based" zoning code pertaining to the three business districts surrounding the three Metra stations in Brookfield.
Ms. Egan holds a Masters of Urban Planning and Policy degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and is a member of Women in Planning and Development and American Planning Association.
Scott Bernacki – Permit Services Coordinator
As Permit Services Coordinator, Mr. Bernacki is the first contact in the permit review process. He quarterbacks all the steps and assembles staff resources such as internal inspectors, external inspectors and specialized reviews to achieve a fast turn-around on building permit reviews and inspections, as well as re-inspections.
Mr. Bernacki holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from UIC.
Paul Trudeau – Chief Building Inspector
Mr. Trudeau conducts all building inspections and plan reviews, and issues certificates of occupancy prior to all business openings. He brings a wealth of experience from a lengthy background in commercial and residential construction. He graduated from the Building & Fire Code Academy's Career Development Certificate Program.
Mr. Trudeau attended West Point and is a graduate of Lake Forest College.


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The Phil offers four free Foellinger concerts
FORT WAYNE—The school year might be done, but the Fort Wayne Philharmonic is just getting warmed up. The Phil's 2013 Summer Season brings a wide variety of music to the Foellinger Theatre for four great concerts, and thanks to a generous donor, every concert will be free to the public. They include:
• Patriotic Pops kicks off The Phil's Summer Series on June 23. This Fort Wayne tradition begins the area's Independence Day celebrations with a line-up of patriotic songs that celebrate everything that's great about our country, including Yankee Doodle, the 1812 Overture, and a tribute to the veterans of our Armed Services.
• I Love a Piano, July 6
• 2013/14 Masterworks Preview, July 27
• Flamenco Fire, Aug. 3
All concerts will be held at the Foellinger Theatre in Franke Park and begin at 7:30 p.m. Although Summer Series concerts are free to the public, a general admission ticket is required for entry and concerts are expected to sell out. Special VIP packages are also available for $20, which includes prime general admission seating to all four Summer Series concerts.
Tickets for The Phil's 2013 Summer Season concerts are available in advance by calling The Phil's box office at (260) 481-0777. Tickets for Patriotic Pops are available online at www.fwphil.org, and tickets for the rest of the series will be available online in the near future.
This article originally appeared in the June 19, 2013 print edition.


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Larry Crowne : watch the first two clips
March 01, 2011
We've added to the archive the first two clips from Larry Crowne that have been revealed so far.
The first clip was shown when Tom Hanks appeared on The Three Minute Talk Show on January 26. This short extract features Tom Hanks as Larry Crowne on a scooter, leaving his house and passing next to his neighbor, Lamarr Johnson, played by Cedric the Entertainer.
The second clip was shown on Jimmel Kimmel Live : After the Academy Awards two days ago. Tom Hanks was a special guest and shared a minute and half clip in which we can see for the first time both Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. It features Tom Hanks as Larry Crowne and Julia Roberts as Mercedes Tainot, Crowne's teacher.
The movie will be released on July 1, 2011 in the United States. Let's hope it will be released in Europe at the same time. Tom Hanks served as writer, director, producer and actor for the title character. It also stars Bryan Cranston, Taraji P. Henson, George Takei, Pam Grier, Wilmer Valderrama, Rami Malek and Rita Wilson, among others.


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Arcadia has announced the modernisation of its finance systems, through a partnership with Infor. The fashion giant has selected the vendor's CloudSuite Financials & Supply Management solution to overhaul its finance systems and make them fit for the modern age.
Speaking to Essential Retail, Stewart Cruickshank, head of business solutions/IT at Arcadia, said the new solution will help the business evolve and support its international expansion.
"Our business is becoming ever more complex and diverse and the finance department is increasingly seen as a valued strategic enabler for the business," he said. "This is a once-in-a-generation overhaul of an extremely complex systems landscape. It is an exciting opportunity, but a big challenge at the same time."
Arcadia previously used a number of financial systems across its group of eight brands, and found its old solution was no longer sophisticated enough to handle flexible multi-currency, multi-calendar and multi-jurisdiction capabilities.
Because Infor's solution is cloud based, Cruickshank explained this gives the finance team real-time access to critical data.
"We use data increasingly to help us make the smart, fact based decisions and believe that is becoming a significant differentiator in the retail space. We have a huge amount of data on product and customers, and we want to utilise that to the maximum to make optimal decisions."
He added: "We really want to use information and data to support intelligent decision making and with a new system such as this, we'll be able to give managers information at their fingertips, on their mobile devices and computers anywhere in the world."
Cruickshank described how a buyer visiting a factory could use the real-time data to make a decision to buy the right stock.
"Our single biggest worry was that our systems could struggle to cope with the commercial opportunities that the business pursues. Beyond that, we need to be able to confidently support ever-increasing regulation, such as information security, GDPR and new accounting standards. We support and welcome this, and we need to be sure that we have a state of the art platform that can satisfy these demands."


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Our vision is to expand the affordability and convenience of telemedicine by adding telehealth solutions for preventative medicine and wellness care.—TeleWellnessMD Founder and CEO, Brent Agin MD
Clearwater, FL (PRWEB) October 29, 2015
TeleWellnessMD, a wellness based telehealth service provider that offers program recommendations, products and services nation-wide through an online network of wellness healthcare providers, is expanding their services and enhancing the user experience on their online platform TeleWellnessMD.com.
"TeleWellnessMD is the first wellness based telemedicine platform. Our vision is to expand the affordability and convenience of telemedicine by adding telehealth solutions for preventative medicine and wellness healthcare," said TeleWellnessMD Founder and CEO, Brent Agin, MD.
Clients nationwide can request a wellness consultation with a TeleWellnessMD provider and conveniently obtain an e-prescription, when appropriate, without physically visiting a doctor's office.
TeleWellnessMD's improved online platform facilitates convenient prescription refills and improved client communication with wellness healthcare providers.
"As more consumers have adopted telemedicine as a healthcare option and e-healthcare becomes more widespread, we are growing our physician network, expanding our product and service offerings and elevating standards of client service."
TeleWellnessMD now offers basic and comprehensive lab panels and will soon provide options for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) testing, micronutrient testing as well as new wellness products and packages including fibromyalgia treatment protocols.
Since its launch in 2014, TeleWellnessMD has been providing personalized wellness plans for weight management, disease prevention and anti-aging to assist clients with managing vitamin and nutrient deficiencies, hormone imbalance, immune support, athletic performance improvement, antioxidant support, inflammation reduction, improved sleep quality, energy improvement through metabolic enhancement and general wellness support for most medical conditions.
All TeleWellnessMD clients must be at least 18-years-old and maintain an established relationship with a primary care physician with routine checkups. TeleWellnessMD does not provide primary care medical services.
Clients may be prescribed various compounded pharmaceutical therapies as part of their wellness plan. TelewellnessMD offers access to premium doctor formulated oral nutraceuticals, dietary supplements and prescribed wellness therapies through a strategic partnership with Trim® Nutrition, Inc. and Empower Pharmacy, a premium compounding pharmacy, certified and licensed in states nation-wide.
Wellness programs are individualized based on client-specific needs and may include laboratory testing. TeleWellnessMD works with LabCorp and Spectracell to provide testing and lab services as needed. LabCorp has over 2,000 locations nationwide. LabCorp provides leading-edge medical laboratory tests and services through a national network of primary clinical laboratories and specialized Centers of Excellence.
About TeleWellnessMD
TelewellnessMD provides client care for age management, general nutrition and weight management needs through an online platform and network of wellness medical providers. All TeleWellnessMD clients maintain an established relationship with a primary care physician including routine checkups. TeleWellnessMD does not provide primary care medical services or prescribe any scheduled drugs. For more information visit TeleWellnessMD.com.
About Trim® Nutrition
Healthy Products Created By People Who Care
Trim® Nutrition's product line includes vitamins, supplements, protein shakes, protein bars and proprietary vitamin injections compounded in our certified, licensed pharmacy using the highest quality ingredients. Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, for more than ten years Trim® Nutrition's clinical staff of physicians, pharmacists, registered nurses and research and development specialists are dedicated to the mission of Making Bodies Better™. For more information visit TrimNutrition.com.
About Empower Pharmacy
Empower Pharmacy works with TeleWellnessMD to provide doctor-formulated compounded pharmaceutical products. Empower Pharmacy strictly adheres to all guidelines outlined by the United States Pharmacopeia's Chapter (797) for the compounding of sterile pharmaceutical preparations. Furthermore, Empower Pharmacy follows the guidance provided by the FDA's Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) Sec. 460.200 "Pharmacy Compounding." Federal, state and consultant agencies have performed detailed inspections of their facilities assuring compliance with the necessary regulations to ensure client safety. For more information visit EmpowerRXPharmacy.com.


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Offseason additions add to optimism in TorontoAP , Associated Press
Sep. 24, 2013 1:11 PM ET
TORONTO (AP) — Maple Leafs general manager Dave Nonis was content with his labors when he met reporters in an offseason July press conference.
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly walks off the field before an NFL game between the Bills and the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly walks off the field before an NFL game between the Bills and the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
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Toronto Maple Leafs' Josh Leivo, right, celebrates his goal against the Buffalo Sabres with teammates James van Riemsdyk and Joe Colborne, center, during the second period of an NHL preseason hockey game in Toronto on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn )
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Toronto Maple Leafs Trevor Smith (23) is congratulated by teammates after scoring on the Buffalo Sabres during first period NHL pre-season action in Toronto on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS, Frank Gunn)
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Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman T.J. Brennan congratulates Phil Kessel on his second goal of the game against the Buffalo Sabres during second period NHL pre-season action in Toronto on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS, Frank Gunn)
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Buffalo Sabres' Ville Leino (23) shoots the puck in close at Toronto Maple Leafs' James Reimer (34) as Leafs' Mark Fraser and Sabres' Steve Ott watch during the first period of an NHL hockey preseason game in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)
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Buffalo Sabres' Brian Flynn fights Toronto Maple Leafs' Phil Kessel, left, during the third period of an NHL hockey preseason game in Toronto, Sunday Sept. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
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Just 53 days earlier, his team blew a three-goal lead in the third period of a Game 7 of vs. Boston. Instead of basking in the glow of Toronto's first playoff appearance since 2003-04, Nonis had to ponder what went wrong in that first-round exit, and what needed to be done to make sure it didn't happen again.
So, he traded for Los Angeles Kings goaltender Jonathan Bernier and Chicago Blackhawks center Dave Bolland, and signed New Jersey Devils right wing David Clarkson to a seven-year, $36.75 million, free-agent contract.
Suddenly, a good Maple Leafs team that had a bad ending, was a better team with renewed vigor.
"I've done what I can do," Nonis said. "We're pretty happy. I think we'll be pretty competitive. I can tell you (coach Randy Carlyle) is happy with the options we have in a lot of areas."
Toronto opens vs. Montreal on Oct. 1.
Clearly, Nonis believes his team has been fortified. But in an Atlantic Division that includes Boston, Detroit, Ottawa and Montreal — all of which made the postseason last year — have the Maple Leafs improved enough?
Here are five things that bear watching:
DYNAMIC DUO: James Reimer had a solid year last season (19-8-5, 2.46 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage). Still, on June 23, Nonis and Kings general manager Dean Lombardi agreed on the blockbuster trade, with Bernier being sent to Toronto for left wing Matt Frattin, reserve goaltender Ben Scrivens and a draft pick. Twelve days after the trade, Bernier agreed to a two-year contract worth $5.8 million, despite only having played 62 NHL games. He was impressive — 29-20-6, 2.36, .912 — as Jonathan Quick's backup with the Kings, and with Reimer scheduled to be a restricted free agent following this season, Bernier's long-term future might be right here.
CONTROLLING THE CAP: Right wing Phil Kessel and defenseman Dion Phaneuf are Toronto's anchors, and both will be unrestricted free agents after this season. Should they reach the open marketplace, they will attract big dollars. All that said, the Maple Leafs have been building toward that end. In fact, with some cuts and creativity, Toronto will have $30 million in salary cap room next summer.
SECOND ACT: When Nazem Kadri met with reporters after agreeing to a two-year deal worth $5.8 million on Sept. 11, he was content and eager to move forward. "At the end of the day, this was the only place that I wanted to play," he said. The Maple Leafs are glad to have him back. Kadri totaled 18 goals, 44 points and was plus-15 in his first full season. And he will be expected to improve on those numbers while centering a second line with Clarkson and left wing James van Riemsdyk.
TOUGH TORONTO: When Brian Burke was introduced as general manager of the Maple Leafs in 2008, he vowed that his teams would "play a North American game. We're throwbacks. It's black-and-blue hockey. It's going to be more physical hockey here than people are used to." Burke is in Calgary now, but his words live on. Last season, the Maple Leafs led the NHL with 44 fighting majors. And the additions of Clarkson and Bolland should provide Toronto with even more grit.
JOLTIN' JAMES: Van Riemsdyk enters his sophomore season with Toronto after a debut campaign that was impressive. Traded from Philadelphia — and raised in Middletown, N.J., as a New York Rangers fan — he has never been a stranger to loyal fan bases and proud traditions. As such, he fit right in with Toronto, and finished with 18 goals and 32 points.
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MIT Air Force ROTC Detachment Named Best in Nation
The United States Air Force has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 365 for the 2016 Right of Line Award. The award recognizes the Top AFROTC detachment in the Nation. Detachment 365 also received the Best in Region Award for the Northeast, having competed against detachments at Yale and Cornell Universities. The last time Detachment 365 won at the national level was in 2010.
The award is presented to three detachments in the nation based on training, education, recruiting, and overall performance. Recipients are selected from 145 AFROTC detachments in the US competing in small, medium, and large categories.
Detachment 365's accomplishments include achieving the highest overall grade point average of 3.545/4.0 and physical fitness scores of 97.42/100 in the nation.
"What distinguishes the Detachment from others is not just academic excellence, but the dedication and commitment the cadets have in becoming the best officers they can be, whether their experiences come from academia, research, internships, or community service," said Captain Peterson Dela Cruz, MIT technical instructor and operations flight commander.
The Detachment has also garnered numerous individual awards this year, including the coveted 2016 USAF Cadet of the Year award given to MIT junior Martin York, as the top cadet among AFROTC, United States Air Force Academy, and Officer Training School. MIT Junior Nicholas James received the 2016 Outstanding AFROTC Cadet as the top AFROTC cadet in the Northeast region. Kira Headrick, a senior at Harvard, was highlighted in Business Insider magazine's article, "Twelve of the Most Impressive Students at Harvard Right Now," for her accomplishments as a pilot-select and NASA intern. Dela Cruz was also recognized as the 2016 AFROTC Recruiting Officer of the Year.
Balance has been the key to the Detachment's success. Students aren't just involved in academics and ROTC; they are active in research, community service, varsity athletics, and other extracurricular activities. It's common for students to participate in multiple programs within an academic year, such as study abroad programs to Oman, prestigious internships at SpaceX, and cutting-edge research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
During MIT's Open House in April 2016, the Detachment collaborated with the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics to coordinate the first-ever landing and display of an Air Force UH-1N helicopter on Briggs Field. The strong relationship between MIT and Air Force ROTC enables quality training and development for the future Air Force leaders.
The Detachment has consistently received national recognition. At the end of the 2015-2016 academic year, 100 percent of the students were on AFROTC scholarship. With a 96-perecent selection rate, students compete favorably for flying career fields upon commissioning, to include pilot and navigators.
"Our cadets come from some of the most prestigious schools in the country but humility is a big part of our cadet wing," noted Dayannara Munoz, MIT senior and spring 2016 cadet wing commander. "We're proud of our schools and detachment, but we're more proud of the team we're in. When I transferred to MIT in 2014, I imagined people bragging about being from MIT or Harvard, but that wasn't the case. Our cadets tend to focus on being a team rather than boast about their individual accomplishments, which is why we work so well and accomplish so much."
"The excellence and achievements of the Cadet Wing, recognized by this award, wouldn't be possible without the fantastic support we receive from all the Detachment's affiliated institutions – particularly MIT as our host institution," said Lieutenant Colonel Sheryl "Double" Ott, commander of Detachment 365 and professor of aerospace studies.
Detachment 365 includes students from MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, and Salem State. Graduates represent many of the nation's best and brightest in both technical and non-technical career fields. They are poised for exceptional service in the military as well as in the civilian sectors, particularly in this age of technological advancement, medical breakthroughs and intense foreign relations worldwide.


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The 12% fall in Ucas applications is welcome – young people are being encouraged to choose the path that is right for them.
A dangerous conveyor belt transports many of our young people to university education. It is dangerous, to pinch an ugly word from trade union lexicography, for its "automaticity", the almost involuntary expectation that university is the right option simply because it's available.
An unintended consequence of the fee/loan structure, which kicks in next academic year, is that it is has forced a period of reflection upon many children, highlighted by the 12% fall in applications to university revealed by Ucas. But I welcome it.
In 1969, I applied to Cambridge University to read economics but was rejected for lacking "academic maturity". I swore a bit and accepted an "easy offer" of two Bs and a C from Bristol University. In 1972, I became sabbatical deputy president of the student union and then, for two years, sabbatical deputy president of the National Union of Students. At the end of three years' full-time rabble-rousing, I was set to return to Bristol to finish my degree, but following an appearance on an ITV news programme, I was offered a job.
I rejected it and told them, and my family, I was going to return to university. I'd graduate, become an MP, the chancellor of the exchequer and change the world. It was my father who said "you're nuts" – a job versus yet more time in university? This radical approach from a conservative military man shocked me; but I reflected, took his advice and re-opened talks with ITV.
Charles Clarke was president of the NUS when I was deputy president. Later, when Labour raised fees and introduced loans, we clashed. I held to the Robbins principle that money should never get in the way of young people aspiring to university. He argued, and still believes, the new financial arrangement would demand greater efficiency and value for money from the universities; it would also, he suggested, make young people more demanding of the universities and better judges of educational value for money. Their aspirations, he insisted, would not be financially hindered.
It has taken time but I think he has been proved broadly correct; the drop-off in applications partly reflects that. Young people are now embarking upon a more astute examination of their objectives – you don't just sign up to nearly £30,000 of debt on a whim. They are thinking more profoundly about the pros and cons, for them, of a university education.
They have become sharper judges – student satisfaction surveys already reflect that – and will become all the keener after next year. If facilities are inadequate, they will want to know why. A version of "I want my money back" will replace our old chants about the level of rent and grants.
As a governor of Ravensbourne, a specialist media and design university, I am keenly aware of the pressure on providers. We have to sharpen up our acts if we are to justify high fees and continue to attract the numbers. It is a fundamental shift from the easy days of guaranteed local government finance and tenure for the academic staff. We need to do better and are striving to do so.
All young people need to secure the maximum education they can benefit from. Their minds need to be open to apprenticeships, FE, technical colleges – right up to the new and the traditional universities. Minds need to be open to what is right for them rather than embarking upon a potentially expensive journey along that educational conveyor belt.
I do not want to see any young person denied the chance of maximising educational potential for financial reasons. If that is the case, then the loan and repayment structures need to be re-examined and, if found sound, explained all the better. If they are found lacking, then, as David Willetts has promised, they need to be reviewed.
For my eldest son, who studied English at Oxford, reflection came late and he is now a content police officer. My daughter turned down a place to read music at Bristol and switched to education and English at Winchester University. She is now a content teacher. I also have a son who is a show-jumping pupil at an Olympian's academy and my youngest son, still at school, wants to be a tree surgeon. The message is beginning to filter down, slowly but surely.