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I am 20 weeks into my 7th pregnancy and finding myself incredibly discouraged with my care providers approach to gestational diabetes. In my first 5 pregnancies, I passed the one-hour glucose test, but failed it by one-point in my sixth pregnancy. So, being the compliant patient I was at the time, I took the 3-hour test and failed miserably (course, I also just sat in the waiting room from one draw to the next not knowing it would be smart to be active instead). There is diabetes on both sides of my family, I was 38 at the time and I have a history of larger babies (8 pounds 6 ounces, 8 pounds 15 ounces and 9 pounds 1 ounce were my three largest). So, I continued to be a compliant patient and I followed all of their directions regarding diet, exercise and eventually, insulin. My son was born weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. His initial blood sugar level was 40 and they climbed up from there. He was considered jaundiced and they sent us home with a biliblanket.
Because of the gestational diabetes in his pregnancy, I was told I had to take the one-hour glucose test at 14 weeks. Unfortunately, it never occured to me to refuse it. I drank the glucola, went to my pre-natal appointment and returned to the lab one-hour later for my draw. It took the tech three pokes and 30 minutes to get blood out of me (finally succeeded in my hand). I failed the test by several points, but refused to take the 3-hour so they turned me over to the Diabetes and Pregnancy Care team whom I have been working with for the past 5 weeks (it took a week before I had test results and an appointment). Before meeting with them, I started keeping a food log and testing my glucose levels 4 times a day. For the past 3 weeks, they have been pressuring me to start insulin because my fasting levels are above 90. My fasting levels range from 85 to 111 with the majority of them falling between 90 and 100. So far, they are not concerned with my post-prandial numbers.
I am incredibly hesitant to start on insulin at this point. I have been told the point of insulin is to reduce the risk of having a big baby and because I have a history of big babies to begin with, there is more reason for me to start on the insulin. I am not concerned about baby's size so much as baby's blood sugar levels at birth. I have been told the only side effect to insulin is the potential -- albeit quite rare -- for me to get hypoglycemic. I'm struggling with the guidelines they have established for fasting numbers (60-90) as they seem low and rigid. I'm quite concerned -- based on previous experience as well as those of friends and acquaintences -- about the amount of intervention that will be "recommended" as I progress through the pregnancy.
Can you direct me to anything in particular regarding insulin therapy in pregnancy that would support not starting it at this point? would you agree with my care providers that it is in mine and baby's best interests to begin?
Thank you so very much for your time and reply!
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Arc'hanmael Gaillard
Age: 34
Nationality: French
Resides in: Rennes, France
Candidate for the crew for the 520-day isolation period of the Mars 500 study; member of the backup crew for the 105-day study.
Current employment: Study and development engineer who has worked for Thomson R&D France on the research and development of technologies for flat panel displays, which includes the design of drivers, pixel circuits and backplane realisations.
Education: 2003~December 2007 – PhD in Electronics at the Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR), University of Rennes1 with THOMPSON R&D France.
2002 – Master of Science in Electrical Engineering & Electronics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Rennes.
2001 – Bachelor of Science in Electronics from the University of Rennes1.
Other Experience: Teaching experience at the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, Rennes, where he taught semiconductor material physics, properties of transistors, solid-state semiconductor devices to graduate students.
Interests/hobbies: Science (e.g. physics, electronics, space engineering), general knowledge games, cinema, squash, jogging, judo, and archery.
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- European Mars500 participants announced
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For a long time I held off purchasing anything from NARA. First, I really didn't know how to do it, and second, it's expensive. I finally came to a point in my research that I knew I had to order something. And now I can say after ordering and receiving several items from NARA that it is money well spent! Not only have I found the origin of my 2nd Great-Grandfather, William Porter, before he came to Ohio, but I have also proved a couple relationships, found additional children, dates and places of birth, marriage, and death, and female married names.
The first item I ordered was the complete Civil War pension file for a man that at the time I wasn't sure how he was related to me. After finding two additional children, complete with date and place of birth, I also found that the wife had died 2 years after he had, leaving three very young children. While I was waiting to receive this file I did find his relationship from another source, but again the file gave me so much more.
Today I received another Civil War pension file. With this file I now have a husband previously unknown, birth dates for all children including a child I previously had no record, and more importantly what the Civil War had done to this man. While in Vicksburg, Mississippi he came down with "camp diarrhea". He spent 15 years after the war with chronic diarrhea that eventually did kill him. Now as I prepare to write the story of this man I have so much more than just his name and the dates of his birth, marriages, and death.
I'm currently waiting on one more Civil War pension file. I'm crossing fingers and trying to be patient!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
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I just recently ordered copies of naturalization papers for an ancestor using NARA's online system and was exceedingly pleased with how quickly I received the packet in the mail and all the information it contained.ReplyDelete
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Welcome to the Geneablogging community!ReplyDelete
I love the NARA too - but I especially loved it years ago when it was much cheaper to order pension packets. :)
It was the cost more than anything that kept me from ordering for so long. But now that I've seen how much information can be obtained I will be adding "ordering from NARA" on my to-do lists.ReplyDelete
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Meet The Ilyn Family
From left to right, here are the Ilyn sisters: Natasha, Samantha and Tatianna. This is a KZSC first: two siblings on our Governing Board at the same time. Natasha was elected into the Promotions Director position (handling ticket & swag giveaways) and Tatianna will be our new Design Director (stickers, shirts and other goodies). Sadly, we couldn't make it a trio; Samantha is only 17 and came by to visit her sisters at The Great 88. Who knows? It could be all Ilyn, all the time in 2014 at KZSC!


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Former England international Ian Wright is flying home from Brazil after his wife and children were burgled at knifepoint.
Four men armed with knives made their way into his north-west London home and held his wife and children before making off with personal possessions.
The 50-year-old pundit, who has been working for ITV at the World Cup, tweeted on Wednesday night: "You won't get away with it."
You won't get away with it!
- Ian Wright (@IanWright0) June 18, 2014A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are investigating an aggravated burglary at an address in north-west London after we were called at 9.20p.m. BST last night [Wednesday].
"Personal possessions were stolen. The suspects are described as four black men aged between 18 and 25, with London accents, wearing dark clothing and hoodies obscuring their faces."
The former Arsenal striker travelled back from the World Cup after learning the gang had held a blade to his wife Nancy's throat, The Sun reported.
Wright's manager Steve Kutner told the newspaper: "It was a terrifying ordeal. They marched Ian's wife from room to room.
"I would like to thank ITV for helping Ian to get home as quickly as possible."
ITV later confirmed that Wright had left Brazil and would be replaced on Thursday night's broadcast by Gus Poyet.
"Ian travelled home immediately to be with his family on hearing this shocking news. Our thoughts and best wishes are with them," a statement from ITV read.
The robbery at Wright's property was the latest in a string of raids on the homes of famous footballers in recent years.
Watford midfielder Alexander Merkel was robbed on the doorstep of his home in Hampstead, west London, by a gang who tried to batter down his front door with mopeds last month.
Wigan player James McArthur had his FA Cup winner's medal stolen in a burglary at his home along with two wedding rings.
Swansea head coach and former player Garry Monk was burgled in November last year while he underwent knee surgery.
A number of Merseyside footballers have also been targeted, including Everton and England defender Phil Jagielka, who was robbed at knifepoint at his Cheshire home in 2009.
The homes of England captain Steven Gerrard and then-Liverpool players Peter Crouch and Dirk Kuyt were also raided.
In 2005, former Bolton defender Mark Fish was tied up and robbed after his home appeared on TV show Footballers' Cribs. He was the second victim of raiders following an appearance on the MTV show after former England goalkeeper Ian Walker was also targeted.
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Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Corey Hart underwent right knee surgery Friday morning and will be sidelined four months, the team announced.
Milwaukee's team physician, Dr. William Raasch, repaired a tear in Hart's meniscus and debrided his knee joint, taking away damaged tissue to help the healing process.
Hart, the Brewers' longest-tenured player, is in the final season of a three- year, $26.5 million contract. Hart had an average of .270 in 2012, with 30 home runs and 83 RBI in 149 total games.
Hart moved to first base last season following Mat Gamel's torn ACL in May. Now, however, with Gamel being 100 percent, it's his turn to take the place of the injured Hart.
According to the team, Hart experienced swelling in his knee during offseason workouts. He was originally expected to undergo surgery Tuesday, but waited for a second opinion on an MRI scan from Colorado specialist Richard Steadman.


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Time: May 28, 2012 from 11am to 6pm
Location: Loantaka Park- South Street Rec Area
Street: 480 South St
City/Town: Morristown, NJ
Website or Map: http://njyperks.com/Loantaka-…
Event Type: morris county, social, athletic
Organized By: Brian and Mike
Latest Activity: May 30, 2012
Spend Memorial Day with us at NJYP's 6th Annual Memorial Day Picnic! Expect tons of fresh food and cold beers, softball and kickball games, sun, fun, and around 100 young professionals who are ready to make friends!
Here are the Memorial Day '11 Pics at the same park, http://www.njyp.org/photo/albums/memorial-day-picnic-may-2011 Over 100 members attended and we played hard all day long!
You can find pricing info on this ticket page.
Please bring all of the softball equipment you have because we will be sharing. Kickballs, a wiffle ball set, frisbees, and water guns, are also encouraged.
Bring blankets, beach chairs, music. Don't forget sunblock and sunglasses.
Consume (this is important so please read):
At this event everyone is expected to bring something to share! We will set up "shared food and drink" tables. If everyone brings a little it ends up working out great. When you buy your ticket let us know what you will be bringing.
* Think pasta salad, homemade salsa, fruit salad, hummus, brownies, cookies, cake, etc.
* We will also need burgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers, and buns. IF YOU ARE BRINGING MEAT, IT MUST BE ON ICE (think cooler and ice packs or loose ice)
* Bring charcoal, lighter fluid, ice, plates, soda, water by the gallon.
* We bought an alcohol permit so BYOB.
* Bring forks, spoons, knives, napkins, and aluminum foil (all leftovers will be used at the Labor Day Picnic).
Go GREEN!
Please bring a reusable water bottle that has your name on it.
Expect to recycle! We'll set up a recycling center for glass, plastic, aluminum, etc.
Heavy/consistent rain will cancel this event and tickets will be refunded if it is canceled. Otherwise, all SALES ARE FINAL.
Using Google Maps, look up this address 480 South St, Morristown, NJ 07960.
Or use the park map http://njyperks.com/Loantaka-Map.gif and look for the South Street Recreational Area. If the lot is full you will have to find another lot and walk over. Perhaps print the map out so you can navigate around the park and please try to carpool.
Do not park illegally or they will tow your car.
anyone find a blue REI water bottle with carabiner?
It was great seeing everyone today! Thanks for all the great photos. See you all again next year! :)
I'll be bringing Tortilla chips and two types of salsa.
Online sales have ended. Tickets at the door are $20. Get a wristband at our registration table. Passing showers will not cancel this event.
Bring water guns :P
Scratch the potato salad, changed to deviled eggs
We are also bringing ladder golf and horseshoes, also water balloons :)
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
Hi guys, I'm bringing chips, dip, salsa, and PICKLES!


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Place of Birth
First Appearance
Sentry #1
194 lbs.
The Sentry can also project energy fields, control light, and has vast psychic and mental forces mainly used for holding his physical powers together, though it is not yet known whether the Sentry can use them the way Professor X and other psychics use theirs; the only psychic abilities he had displayed so far is implanting his memories inside Paul Jenkins' mind and calming the fury of the Hulk.It may be theorized that the Sentry also has the ability to produce hard-light constructs similar to those of Dazzler's when it was revealed that the Void is a just an expression of his repressed persona, and thus his creation. With the people dubbing The Sentry as the world's most powerful superhero, and with the serum causing a photosynthetic reaction to his body, completely altering his state of consciousness, it is nonetheless conceivable that Sentry's powers are limitless, and may even rival those of the Silver Surfer's and Phoenix's. In effect, the Sentry's powers are seemingly limitless.
Years later, Robert's memories slowly returned along with the Void, who rampaged across Europe, murdering many members of the Super-Heroes of Europe (SHE). The Sentry contacted his former colleagues, but the only one who recalled their shared history was the Hulk. As the Void returned to Manhattan, the pieces began to fall in place and the Sentry's former friends assembled to defend him and the city. Remembering the dual nature of Robert's powers, Sentry and Reed Richards reactivated the Watchtower, dispelling the Void and making the world forget the Sentry once again; however, Robert's memories of the Sentry soon returned, and he demanded to be placed on the Raft, S.H.I.E.L.D.' high-security prison for super-villains, claiming that he had killed his wife. During a mass breakout at the Raft, Sentry helped several other heroes subdue many of the escaping villains - notably Carnage, whom Sentry ripped in half. Inspired by this adventure, the other heroes soon formed the new Avengers, but Sentry vanished before they could invite him to join them. The Sentry stayed in hiding, but remained a person of great interest to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, who were both fascinated by his powers and worried that they may lead to another Scarlet Witch situation.Inhumans and the X-Men. He cried, saying that he had warned them of the Void's coming and that it was now too late. The group was suddenly attacked by the Void. Robert, along with the help of Emma Frost, discovered that the reason no one remembered him was not because of his own attempts to erase the Void, but because of the intervention and manipulation of his mind. Mastermind, hired by the General, had used the great mental powers the Sentry needed to contain his abilities to force everyone (himself included) to forget of the Sentry's existence. Should the Sentry ever remember his life, then he would be struck by a fear of the devil attacking the world, hence the Void. With this new found knowledge, the Void disappeared, and Emma Frost resurrected the Sentry. The Avengers offered him membership, partly to keep an eye on him and partly because they would need his power, which he accepted.
The Sentry believed that the Void was trapped in the basement of the Watchtower. When he routinely visited him to make sure he was secure, the Void claimed he knew something the Sentry didn't. Robert believed his wife was cheating on him and that she didn't love him. As his psychiatrist, Doctor Cornelius, tried to probe Robert with questions about his origin and about the Void, Robert grew hysterical and attacked an amusement park. There, it was revealed that-- as opposed to what was commonly believed, that Robert Reynolds was the Sentry and the Void was a separate being-- that it was the Sentry who was the separate entity, and Robert who was the Void. The Void fled, and the Sentry explained to Doctor Cornelius that Robert had been bullied as a child.
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PC/SC-Proxy allows for access to PC/SC daemons on remote machines. There are two use cases. It can be used with thin clients and a terminal server to make the session access readers connected to the thin client. In this case, the address of the remote PC/SC service is taken from the login information (utmp). The second use case is when applications running inside a virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) need access to card readers of the host machine without disturbing operations on the host itself.
OpenOTP is an implementation of the HOTP protocol using a ZeitControl Cardsystems ZC3.9 BasicCard and standalone balance reader, standalone Spyrus PAR2 (Personal Access Reader), or PCSC-Lite supported smart card reader. Included is a C library implementation of the HOTP protocol and associated user database management, HOTP PAM library, OpenVPN plug-in module, micro RADIUS server with HOTP support, and utilities for managing the smart card, Spyrus reader, and host side HOTP user database. The PCSC-Lite API provides reader support for smart card management.
A small, non-interactive, shell-like scripting language.
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There is nothing worse than coming home after a night out and finding that your clothes smell like smoke. Another thing that is really bad is walking down the street behind someone smoking a cigarette. Every time they exhale out comes that cloud of smoke and, one walks straight into it. No one likes to experience this. There are a lot of people in this country that smoke. Most of them are probably fed up with people who do not smoke always talking to them about their 'bad habit' and telling them what to do. The thing some smokers do not know is that they are harming everyone around them including themselves. People die each year just because they have breathed other peoples smoke. I think smoking should be banned in public places.
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SAN DIEGO – Announcement has been made of the engagement of Sarah Lara-Toney and Laurent Quenaud, both of San Diego.
She is the daughter of David and Debby Lara-Toney of Palm Springs, Calif. He is the son of Michel and Karen Quenaud of Crystal Lake.
The bride-to-be is a 2002 graduate of Palm Springs High School in Palm Springs, Calif., a 2006 graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in medieval studies and a 2008 graduate of San Diego State University with a master's degree in 18th century U.S. history and religion. She is a development and communications manager for Walden Family Services in San Diego.
Her fiancé is a 2002 graduate of Crystal Lake Central High School, a 2006 graduate of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind., with a degree in history and minor in political science, and a 2009 graduate of San Diego State University with a master's degree in U.S. history. He is director of development for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, San Diego Branch, in San Diego.
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A current report on Form 8-K was just filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing receipt of a notice of delisting, the failure to satisfy a continued listing rule or standard or the transfer of a listing. Details of the current report are:
8-K – EndoChoice Holdings, Inc. (0001623919) (Filer)
Filed: 2016-11-22 AccNo: 0001104659-16-158487 Size: 192 KB
Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
Item 3.01: Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing
Item 5.01: Changes in Control of Registrant
Item 5.02: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
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Bug or feature? I thought the whole point of the app was to stalk people. I must have been using it wrong.
Or you are using it right and the app has a serious bug.
Or the mythical 'nerd-girl' has entered our plane of existence for a visit. She has needs too...
One of the old dating websites (in the 1990s), used to tell you how far potential dates lived from you - harmless enough, unless you live in Key West or a similar linear settlement, that gives a really big circle on which the person could live.
However, if you signed up for 3 (free, no verification required) accounts, and gave your different accounts different addresses around town, you could get three distances to the same potential date, giving a rather accurate estimate of their domicile location.... or, at least whatever they input when they signed up - if they were as paranoid as me, they also had three accounts and none of them had an accurate address.
when the story was broken on another site.
Our tumbly, 6-sided overlords must be please that we're finally catching up to the likes of Reddit
Well established,
Reddit is pretty good about bubbling up interesting stuff to the front within an hour or two, though the good AMAs always seem to make the front page just after the host has signed off...
If you want to read about what's going to be on CNN, Fox, et. al. tomorrow, watch the Reuters feeds. The news of the weird stuff usually comes across RSS 5 to 7 days before it makes it out on morning radio shows...
If you need your news faster than Reddit gets it to you, I think you have to be personally present where it is happening.
Major Vulnerability In Tinder Dating App Allowed User Tracking
On reading this headline, I thought this was some app used by scientists to compute carbon dating on tinder found in archeological digs...strangely specific, but I could see it existing. Not a huge user base for it, though, so why the fuss about user tracking? And why bother? "Both of them are in the lab...now they're at the dig site...now they're at the bar. Repeat."
Clearly my hopes for scientific stories on Slashdot are overly optimistic...
This is trilateration, not triangulation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... [wikipedia.org]
Considering I'd never even heard of this app until some Olympian young lady made a big deal out of it, I doubt this was much of a breach. All of the app's users were in the Olympic Village and they know where one another are, anyway.
So, now we can know which Olympians were hooking up?
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I recently saw, courtesy of CSPAN, the 1971 debate between John Kerry and John O'Neill on the Dick Cavett show (I also saw the debate in 1971). Many of our readers have probably seen the old debate by now and I'd be interested in their impressions. I would also encourage those who haven't seen it to do so, if they get the opportunity. My impression is that John O'Neill did »
Bursting the bubble, part II
Mark Steyn on John Kerry's real band of brothers, the mainstream media, also known as "the sheep that didn't baa" during the first weeks of the Swiftvet controversy. Steyn finds a nearly perfect analogy for Kerry's plight: "A few months back, I bought a DVD set of an old TV variety show, black and white but digitally remastered. A bit too digitally remastered, as it turned out. It would be »
Best of the Web, take 2
Dear readers, after you have read the article by Mac Owens linked below, please check out Jonathan Last's "The not-so swift mainstream media" (thanks to reader Amelia for the tip), also from the new issue of the Weekly Standard. Last reviews the development of the story of John Kerry's Kurtz chronicles over the past weeks with great care. Here's the beauty part: [T]he big news on August 6 was that »
Good Question
ABC's "The Note" says today: Someday, Karl Rove's precocious grandchildren will say to him, "Grandpapa, what's it like to run a presidential campaign against an opponent who has had his own background thoroughly researched well before the general election; who is broadly personable and possessed of great campaign skills; and who projects an image of constancy?" To which Grandpapa Rove will reply, "I haven't the slightest idea." Of course, it »
Fahrenheit 1971
Best of the Web today is the article by Mac Owens in the new issue of the Weekly Standard: "Fahrenheit 1971." Owens meditates on Kerry's 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is also published in the issue: "John Kerry, in his own words." »
Judge Posner's dissent
Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner is a very smart guy with whom I frequently disagree with on matters of public policy, but whom I always learn from. His lengthy critique of the 9/11 Commission report appears as a book review in tomorrow's New York Times Book Review: "The 9/11 Report: A dissent." »


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Although this might not sound very succulent, I was once an avid coupon clipper. But, quite frankly, I got tired of having coupons pile up at the bottom of my purse and getting all ripped and soiled and the whole thing just became too much of a hassle.
Now, before you mention that there are accessories to organize coupons, you should know that I also had a coupon folder to help organize but when I changed purses, it did not always find its way into the one I was using. By the time the coupon folder became too worn to repair, I tossed the whole thing out – coupons and all. I still do randomly clip coupons and, inevitably find them still at the bottom of my purse, past expiration date. Until now…. Digital coupons!
It's quite by accident that I noticed that my two favorite grocery stores' websites had digital coupons. I initially thought they were coupons that I would print from their website. Au contraire! NO printing. Digital coupons work by selecting specific coupons on the grocer's website and these automatically upload to your loyalty (shopper) card. When you purchase the product, the coupon discount is automatically deducted (after you've entered your loyalty card). It's like magic!
Little did I know that the concept has been around for three years at selected big chain grocery stores that have loyalty cards. Now widely used for all loyalty card based stores (i.e. Krogers, Safeway and so on), it is an easy way to save.
But wait, there's more!!! Savings just got even easier. Yes, you guessed it! There is now an app for that! It saves you the time from entering digital coupons on each loyalty card you own. Debuting next month, SmartSource Xpress allows you to register all of your loyalty cards (check participating retailers) and the coupons you select will be applied to all of your cards. If your favorite grocery store is not there, you should still sign up for updates. SmartSource Xpress is expecting to dramatically expand within the year. And really why would they not! They will carry every coupon in every magazine and Sunday paper savings, which makes it easy and fun to find and redeem savings from brands that you use everyday.
I suspect that this will bring a whole new generation of savers by making coupon clipping very succulent indeed!
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Accounting Applications
continues the study of accounting on a more in-depth and detailed basis. Building on the theory and concepts of Business 1101 and 2101, Business 3101 will emphasize the procedures and techniques required for the preparation and presentation of accounting information and general purposes financial statements.
CR: the former BUSI 3100, the former BUSI 2100
Business Law II
is designed to show the student how principles of Law are applied to four areas of Business. The areas dealt with in this course are accounting/finance, marketing, personnel and production.
Cost Accounting
(formerly BUSI 7100) deals with the use of accounting data for decision making. Topics covered include: cost estimation, pricing, joint costs, advanced variance analysis, total quality management, just-in-time, decentralization, transfer pricing, performance evaluations, activity based accounting, and backflush costing.
CR: the former BUSI 7100
PR: either the former BUSI 3100 and BUSI 4100, or BUSI 2101
Consumer Behaviour
deals with concepts related to factors which influence the purchase and consumption behaviour of individuals including culture, social class, reference groups, perception, learning, motivation, personality and lifestyle. The unique aspects of groups and organizational buyers will also be examined.
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
Linear Optimization and Extensions I: Applications
is an extension of Business 4401 to more complex linear optimization models, and models which are extensions of this of the ideas of formulation . Emphasis will be on formulation and computer-based sensitivity analysis, applications to other fields of business, cases in linear optimization and related fields.
CR: the former BUSI 4400
Linear Optimization and Extensions II: Algorithms
include the simplex and revised simplex algorithms, sensitivity analysis and duality, goal optimization, advanced formulation of 0/1 models, branch and bound algorithm, network models: assignment, transportation, transshipment, shortest path, critical path, minimal spanning tree, and maximal flow.
CR: the former BUSI 4400
Financial Management II
(formerly BUSI 7140) is an extension of Business 4500. Capital investment decision-making using discounted cash flow methodology; investments under certainty; financial structure and leverage; analysis of money and capital markets; further examination of long-term external financing.
CR: the former 5140, the former 7140
PR: either the former BUSI 4110 or BUSI 4500
Public Finance
(formerly BUSI 5100) recognizes the large role played by government in our society. Sources and uses of government funds at the federal, provincial and local levels will be covered. Intergovernmental fiscal problems will be examined with special emphasis on various incentive programs available to business from the three levels of government.
CR: the former BUSI 5100
New Venture Creation
(formerly BUSI 5030 and BUSI 7030) covers the business creation process from the idea conception stage to the launch stage. Students learn how to search for, screen and evaluate opportunities, and to plan and assemble the required resources, including the preparation of an actual business plan. Alternatives to new venture creation, such as purchasing an existing business and purchasing a franchise, are also explored. Extensive group work is required.
CR: the former BUSI 5030, the former BUSI 7030
Information Systems Analysis and Design
provides students with the skills to identify business problems which may be solved using information technology, determine requirements for information systems (IS) solutions, and develop detailed designs which form the basis for implementing systems. Topics may include: role of the user in systems development, systems development life cycle, requirements analysis and conceptual modelling, structured analysis and design, and trends in systems development methodologies. The importance of CASE tools in modern systems development will be emphasized through hands-on exercises.
Information Systems Development
- inactive course.
6000-6029 (Excluding 6001, 6008, 6009, 6010 and 6022)
Special Topics
will have the topics to be studied announced by the Faculty.
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
is designed to explore the strategic management of technology and innovation for improving competitiveness and for business development. This will include market-strategy-technology connections, and technical innovation/new product development processes. Technology and technical innovation are viewed as fundamental to strategic competitiveness and business development as important elements of the management of strategic change in the business firm. In approaching technical innovation as strategic implementation, business environmental, organizational capability, human resources and management factors will be discussed.
PR: BUSI 2101, BUSI 2201, BUSI 3320, BUSI 3401, BUSI 3700, BUSI 4320, BUSI 4500, and BUSI 5301
International Business Law
develops the skills a business student must have in understanding the laws and regulations that exist and relate to international business decision making. The course will equip students with a knowledge and understanding of laws and regulations that currently prevail in international business operations.
Intermediate Accounting I
continues the study of financial accounting by focussing on specific topics such as current assets, long-term investments, capital assets, intangibles, current liabilities, and long-term liabilities. Emerging issues in accounting will also be covered.
PR: either the former BUSI 3100 or the former BUSI 3101
Intermediate Accounting II
is designed to integrate the principles, concepts and skills acquired in previous accounting courses and to enhance the student's analytical and decision-making capabilities. The course will focus on specific topics related to deferred taxes, pension liabilities, shareholders' equity, and financial statement presentation. The skills acquired in earlier courses will be integrated for purposes of interpreting and analysing financial information.
PR: either the former BUSI 3100 or the former BUSI 3101
Taxation I
is a determination of income tax liability of individuals and corporations, and a survey of sales taxes.
introduces the student to the practice of auditing and to stress the auditor's decision-making process when determining the nature and amount of evidence the auditor should accumulate. Specific topics to be covered include the auditor's legal liability, materiality, internal control, transaction cycles, and audit of information processed through electronic data processing systems.
Marketing Research
is designed to acquaint the student with the use of marketing research as an aid to management. This is a comprehensive survey of the scope and methods of marketing research.
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200, and Statistics 2501 or equivalent
Advertising Management
provide a theoretical background on the nature, role and principles of advertising; and to develop analytical and decision-making skills in planning, executing, evaluating and controlling advertising campaigns. Areas to be examined include: social, ethical, legal, and economic considerations; market and customer analysis; advertising objectives; advertising budgets; creative strategy; media strategy; sales promotion and advertising; campaign management and retail advertising.
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
Professional Selling and Sales Management
focuses on professional selling skills and the selling process, as it is important to understand them to manage a sales force effectively. The sales management component will focus on sales forecasting; planning and budgeting; sales force organization; recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, and compensating salespeople; and evaluating and controlling the sales force and individual salespeople.
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
Services Marketing
is intended to examine the marketing of services and the role of services in supporting the marketing of tangible products. The distinction between the marketing of tangibles and intangibles will be stressed. The course will identify and examine the distinct issues which are encountered in the marketing of services and will explore appropriate strategies for implementing services marketing programs, primarily in services organizations, including health care, transportation, telecommunications, education, etc. Specifically, the course will examine in detail the role of people in delivering services, the importance of service quality as a strategic differentiating tool, and the importance of collaboration between marketing and human resources management in the delivery of services.
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
New Directions in Organizational Behaviour
provides an opportunity for students to explore and to develop their interests in topics in a dynamic field. Topics will be selected according to current emphases in the organizational behaviour literature.
Advanced Personnel and Human Resource Management
reinforces the applied aspects of theory covered in Business 4320) by examining approaches to (a) the avoidance of lawsuits, arbitration and performance-related problems which could result from the lack of both due process and effective policies and procedures, and (b) processes for the management of contemporary issues in Human Resource Management. Topics include problem solving in the areas of promotion policy, performance appraisal, test validation, training and development, compensation, job evaluation and pay equity, wrongful dismissal, occupational health and safety, absenteeism, substance abuse and AIDS. Students will examine cases and other material involving worker-management conflict in the above areas and seek to relate these to the legal, ethical and behavioural foundations of Human Resource Management in both unionized and non-unionized settings.
International Human Resources Management
develops the skills a business student must have in understanding the processes and practices of international human resource management (IHRM) for a successful managerial career. The course will equip students with a solid knowledge and understanding of human resource functions and practices that currently prevail in global/international business operations.
Employee Recruitment and Selection
(formerly BUSI 6022) is a critical factor in creating high performance work systems . This course examines the role of selection in HRM, legal issues, measurement, selection criteria, job competencies, testing, and interviewing, and making the employment decision.
CR: the former BUSI 6022
Advanced Labour Relations
provides advanced level treatment of the field of industrial and labour relations in Canada, with primary emphasis on the labour-management relationship. Emphasis is placed on understanding recent problems/issues in industrial and labour relations and the range of options available for resolving these same problems. Topics examined may include: industrial relations theory; labour law reform; union growth and structure; management strategy; the role of third parties; workplace innovations; alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; union impact; public sector labour relations; comparative industrial relations; etc. Students may be exposed to various role playing exercises that are applicable to a career in industrial and labour relations.
Advanced Management Science
- inactive course.
(formerly BUSI 6140) is a study of investment securities, risks, markets and mechanics; an appraisal of the economy, the industry and the firm; and portfolio management for personal and institutional investments.
CR: the former BUSI 6140
PR: either BUSI 4500 or the former BUSI 4110
International Finance
examines the additional risks and profitable opportunities that arise for the firm when it extends its operations into international markets. Specific topics will include the determination of exchange rates, the international monetary system, balance of payments, the foreign exchange market, international money and capital markets, the parity conditions, accounting exposure, economic exposure, transactions exposure, political risk, and global financing. Knowledge of these topic areas will give further understanding with respect to operating within the constraints of the international marketplace.
CR: the former BUSI 6008, the former BUSI 6500
PR: either BUSI 4500 or the former BUSI 4110
Managing Growth in the Small Firm
(formerly BUSI 6030) is designed to introduce the student to the challenges and opportunities of managing small growing businesses. The focus will be on functional issues and solutions within the context of growth oriented small firms. In addition, the course will explore strategic planning in the owner-managed business and strategies for growth and expansion. Extensive use will be made of cases and examples from Atlantic Canada.
CR: the former BUSI 6030
Small Enterprise and Regional Development
(formerly BUSI 7031) explores the potential and constraints on efforts to foster small enterprise formation and expansion as a means to promote regional economic development. It critically examines government initiatives to promote small business as the panacea for depressed regional economies, and reviews changes in the global economy and the organization of production which may enhance small business competitiveness. Both Canadian and international cases are studied, with theoretical and empirical findings related to the Newfoundland context.
CR: the former BUSI 6009, the former BUSI 7031
Data Management
is based on the premise that data is a valuable resource which needs to be managed effectively to provide accurate, complete, timely, relevant, and accessible information to support decision making. Topics may include: enterprise data modelling, logical database design, database management systems, query languages, transaction management and concurrent access, and security.
PR: BUSI 3700 or the former BUSI 6300
Information Technology Management
examines issues of managing information systems and technology. Topics may include: success and failure in IS implementation, IS planning, economics of IS, telecommunications and network management, and legal and ethical issues.
PR: BUSI 3700 or the former BUSI 6300
Business and Society
examines the inter-relationships among business, government, society and the environment. Topics include: the social-economic business system, business ideologies, social responsibilities of business, business ethics, stakehold and issues management, and selected current issues in business.
PR: Term 7 standing
Accounting Theory
deals with the theoretical issues of specific topics such as the accounting standard setting process, the Canadian conceptual framework, assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, not-for-profit organizations, related party transactions, and financial statement presentation and disclosure. Considerable emphasis will be given to emerging issues.
Advanced Financial Accounting
covers specific topics such as long-term investments, consolidated financial statements, joint ventures, segmented financial information, foreign exchange transactions, and fund accounting.
Taxation II
is designed to provide a detailed and comprehensive analysis of income taxation as well as sales taxation and customs duties and excise taxes. Information relating to the use of trusts, partnerships, and joint ventures will be included, as well as the use of various tax shelters and international tax implications in business planning. The concentration will be on how tax planning for both individuals and corporations can be a significant element in the regular decision-making process, especially for the private corporation.
Advanced Topics in Managerial Accounting
introduces the student to an indepth study of advanced qualitative and quantitative methodology available to the managerial accountant. The application of mathematical models and behavioural theories to realistic challenges faced by various fiscal entities will be stressed. Class instruction will include the use of cases and rely heavily on a multidisciplinary approach towards solving the unstructured problem.
Retailing Management
provides an integrative examination of the activities involved in marketing goods and services directly to the ultimate consumer. Specifically, the following areas will be examined within a managerial framework: the evolution of retailing; retailing within the marketing channel; market analysis and planning; shopping behaviour; image and retail advertising; trading area and site analysis; store layout; shelf space utilization; merchandising; and the future prospects for retailing.
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
Marketing Management
is designed to integrate the principles, concepts and skills acquired in previous marketing courses and to enhance the student's analytical and decision-making capabilities with regard to developing marketing strategies. The course will focus on: market analysis, marketing planning, the strategic decisions to be made within the framework of the marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and distribution); and the control systems related to the marketing program. The use of market research and knowledge from other functional areas of the organization (accounting, finance, economics, etc.) will be considered throughout the course.
International Marketing
provides an understanding of the effects that the international dimension has upon the strategies and management of the marketing efforts of the firm. In particular, the student is introduced to the analysis techniques of the various environments that constitute a country analysis. Entry strategies are discussed with an emphasis upon the export process. Finally, the standardization/adaptation question is discussed in the context of each element of the marketing mix.
CR: the former BUSI 6001
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
Business and Industrial Marketing
presents a comprehensive view of business markets, including industrial, institutional, and government markets. There is a balanced focus on strategy development and implementation. Particular attention is given to organizational buying behaviour, relationship management, global competitiveness, and the marketing of new high technology products and services.
CR: the former BUSI 7220
PR: BUSI 2201 or the former BUSI 3200
International Business
is designed to introduce students to the issues of international business: these are the processes of cultural confrontation and compromise; the problems of competitive sovereignty involving multinational corporations and the governments of host societies; the organization, structure, operation and control of diverse international businesses; and, finally, the role of multinational enterprise as a catalyst in economic development and resource employment, in particular, the North-South context. The relevance of international business as an area of study to the Canadian economy is discussed. The course is both conceptual and empirical in content.
Seminar in Human Resource Management
seeks to integrate policies, procedures and methods covered in B6310 with other functional areas which impact upon the management of Human Resource Systems. Stakeholder assumptions about: work-force characteristics; management philosophy; business strategy; labour markets; laws and society; task technology and unions will be examined via a combination of cases, readings, research, peer discussion and dialogue with guest speakers.
Collective Agreement Administration and Arbitration
provides advanced coverage of the substantive and procedural rights of employers, unions and employees under collective agreements, and the means by which disputes over these rights are resolved through the grievance arbitration process. Topics examined include: the legal framework and place of grievance arbitration in the industrial relations system; the nature and scope of the arbitrator's role; preparation for and conduct of arbitration hearings; arbitral jurisprudence; alternative dispute resolution processes; and the development of a sound labour relations climate. Students will undertake extensive reviews of labour arbitration cases and will examine the impact of jurisprudence on the philosophy and practice of management in the private and public sectors. Students may be exposed to various role playing exercises that are applicable to a career in industrial and labour relations.
Dispute Settlement in Labour Relations
provides advanced level study of conflict in industrial relations, its determinants, the various institutional procedures used to deal with it, and the effectiveness of these same procedures. Topics examined include: theories of industrial conflict; the legal framework; union and employer strategies; interest dispute resolution; the right to strike and alternatives to same; the role and effectiveness of alternative forms of voluntary and compulsory third party assistance; etc. Students may be exposed to various role playing exercises that are applicable to a career in industrial and labour relations.
Labour Law
provides an overview of laws regulating the employment relationship in Canada, including the common law, general employment and collective bargaining laws, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Emphasis is placed on the law of collective bargaining in the private sector, including the acquisition and termination of bargaining rights, unfair labour practices, the duty to bargain, industrial conflict and the administration of the collective agreement.
Organizational Development
- inactive course.
Simulation in Management
- inactive course.
Advanced Finance
(formerly BUSI 7130) examines advanced developments in finance. Several topics will be selected, researched and discussed. These topics shall vary as financial practices change.
CR: the former BUSI 7130
PR: BUSI 5500 or the former BUSI 5140 or the former BUSI 6140, or BUSI 6510
Options and Futures
(formerly BUSI 7170) is an extension of B6510 Investments which will introduce the student to the workings of the options and futures markets. Specific topics will include the institutional structure of the markets, option pricing, strategies such as straddles and spreads, hedging, spot/forward/futures markets, speculation, risk transference and market efficiency considerations.
CR: the former BUSI 7170
PR: BUSI 6510 or the former BUSI 6140
Current Topics in Entrepreneurship
(formerly BUSI 7032) endeavours to address recent research findings in various aspects of entrepreneurship. Students will have the opportunity to pursue issues in entrepreneurship development covering a wide range of topics using publications, journals and conference proceedings.
CO: the former BUSI 7032
Regulatory and Taxation Issues for Small Business
is designed to provide students with a general knowledge base of the various tax and other regulatory issues that should be considered in starting a business. The role that tax plays in decision making will be examined as well as the types of corporate funding to establish a new business through government grants, conventional loans and tax credits as provided under the Income Tax Act. Alternative corporate structures will be examined as well as aspects of employee compensation and business valuations. Practical aspects of starting your own business, such as registration requirements, will also be examined.
PR: BUSI 1101 or the former BUSI 3100
Strategic Information Systems
- inactive course.
Current Topics in Information Systems
examines new developments and trends in information systems. The scope of the course includes: implications of emerging hardware and software technologies, emerging systems applications, and the state-of-the-art in IS management practice. Specific topics will change each year. Readings assigned from professional and academic journals will form the basis of class discussion.


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Can't add Artist/Album to playlist
I've just bought an S9 as a replacement for my Zen Vision:M, and so far have been rather unimpressed with the music interface. I've come to grips with navigation, and adding individual songs to the "Now Playing" list. However, adding multiples of either artists or albums to this playlist is frustrating me to no end - whenever I try and add them to the favourites/now playing list I get the red circle with a cross through it come up.
I'm also having issues queueing up my entire library so that I can have it play songs at random.
I'm seriously considering selling this and looking for something different. The sound/picture quality is great, but the standard music interface is absolute crap in terms of intuitiveness...
Cowon S9
I hate this about this player. I always do my playlist in a way so that I can play a mix of music that suits the environment and the mood. With this player you start with a playlist and then you can only add individual songs ONE AT A TIME!!!!!
So I start out with August 2011 hits and want to add July and also maybe some country... That would be searching for about 60 songs. By the time i'm done were ready for some rock n roll... you get the picture. The point of a player is to PLAY! I spend hours and hours on my computer organizing my music so when I want to enjoy it I can. This player is extremely annoying once you are about 6 beers into the night and just want to be pressing the volume key and not constantly trying to get the mix adjusted. I am actually back to using my ancient creative zen touch and for as old as it is , they got the really important things right.
Grrr, my favorite pet peeve about this, and all cowon players. No actually playlist support and it's frustrating. I can take a $30 mp3 player and sync my music to playlists in record time but with a cowon it's worse than pulling a tooth. Oh, and their customer service is non-existent. They only respond when it suits them. I've messaged them on various occasions about this very topic. Oh, and if you ever get your music to sync to playlists they have a limitation of 1,000 songs. Who puts a friggin limitation on playlists? No one but cowon. They know it's a frustration point.
I love this player. The music sounds amazing when paired with a quality headset. Videos look amazing too. The major shortcoming is the playlist functionality or lack thereof. My advice is to have a secondary player. I'm purchasing a Zune. The Cowon is my primary and the Zune is a backup. However, if they don't fix this problem then I will no longer purchase their products after this one dies.
Have you guys tried Kizune's Sense UCI? It has an on the go playlist creator.
You should also check out his other UCI's leaf (browser), Vision (picture) and lynx (main menu)
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About the Book
The Relation of My Imprisonment is a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatization of the test of faith all true believers must endure. These "relation," framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recounting of suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form self-consciously, as Russell Banks has done, is not to parody it so much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more intelligently to love it.
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- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 03/27/1996
- Pages: 128
- List Price: 15.99 CAD
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Inside Hankook Tire: A Really Long Trip for a Very Short Answer
Weeks before I set off for Hankook Tire's development and manufacturing facilities in South Korea, Automotive.com's biggest kahuna, Angus MacKenzie, discussed the importance of tires with me from his Australian point of view. During our dinnertime conversation, he explained the difference between U.S. and international consumers when it comes to tires as only he could. "Typically, Americans couldn't care less about tires," he said. "They just want something that will go 60-, 80-, or even 100,000 miles. They don't believe tires are actually supposed to grip the road."[caption id="attachment_90193" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hankook's Geumsan tire plant, located south of Seoul, is one the company's six tire plants around the world."][/caption]With his insight in mind, Hankook then flew me 5900 miles across the Pacific Ocean to South Korea, a country about which most Westerners know little besides its massive consumer electronics industry and a loose-cannon dictatorship to its north. My destination: Hankook's manufacturing facilities. As the world's seventh-largest tire maker and a Korean industrial powerhouse, Hankook makes 67,000 different kinds of tires for cars, trucks, and industrial vehicles. The tire maker has said it's on a mission to change Americans' mindsets about the only part of a car that's actually designed to touch the road. The trip to South Korea became a quest for me to find out how tires are made and why customers should care about what goes on their cars, trucks, and SUVs. Executives from the Hankook explained it like this: Trends show that Europeans and Asians—especially Japanese consumers—take a certain amount of pride in tire shopping for their cars. They said Europeans are concerned with road feel, and their home-market Korean customers value a pillowy soft ride over their roads. As for North American customers—and there's no way around saying this—most of us are cheapskates. We wouldn't care if our cars rode on stone blocks as long as we got a good deal for them. Hankook vice president and CFO Cho Hyun Bum wants to change that. The 41-year-old American-educated executive said he wants to make Hankook part of American lexicon. Cho said there's foothold for Hankook's business in the U.S. to exponentially take off, and he believes Hankook is close to finding it. "I'm sure that in time we will be in a high position in the U.S. and also all over the world," he said.Education is Key [caption id="attachment_90195" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Hankook Tire CFO Cho Hyun Bum says the manufacturer is on the cusp of finding its niche in the U.S."][/caption] As explained by Cho, the chief difference in tire consumers from continent to continent stems from education, or the lack thereof. Part of why Japanese consumers are so fervent about tire selection is because they've been educated for "decades and decades" from manufacturer-owned distributors. Europeans and Koreans have also been taught what to look for from stores that sell brands under their own banner. American consumers have largely been left to their own devices, whether shopping at a mom and pop shop or in a big-chain automotive department. Over time, the lack of person-to-person marketing promoted a lack of interest for U.S. consumers, other than how much a tire costs. The information rift comes at a time when there are probably the starkest differences in products and processes from manufacturer to manufacturer that there have ever been, leaving most customers to make less-than-informed decisions that cost them hundreds of dollars. Speaking with Cho and the engineers that contribute to helping build Hankook tire into a global brand, it became clear that tires aren't like toothpaste. Tires mostly look the same, but Hankook, like other tire makers, has plenty of trade secrets for making its products. From the materials used to make them to the testing that goes into ensuring their quality, thousands of factors go into them to get them from the drawing board to your car. What Do Tires Do? It's easy enough to say that a tire is wrapped around a wheel and connects the moving parts of your car to the road. But that would be similar to saying an iPhone makes phone calls. Tires come in all different sizes, densities, patterns for different purposes and price points. All tires share commonalities in what they're made of: natural and synthetic rubber to compose most of the structure; carbon black as a bonding agent for the rubber and an aid for traction; steel or fiberglass strands to help the tire keep its shape; and most recently, silica. The last material, used in everything from sandcastles to Taco Bell's ground beef, is an expensive but increasingly more important element in making a better tire.[caption id="attachment_90227" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Tires roll down the assembly line at Hankook's Geumsan plant."][/caption] Initially, silica was used almost exclusively in high-performance tires for sports cars to help balance the sticky properties of grippy tires with reduced friction for quicker response and handling. However, with the need for greater fuel efficiency, silica has found a new purpose with low rolling resistance tires commonly found on electric and hybrid cars. Budget tires, by comparison, contain little of this high-tech stuff. Few contain much, if any, silica. There's also less widespread use of natural rubber, and more reliance on lightweight materials like fiberglass and even Kevlar. Harder synthetic rubber in budget tires has often been cited in maintaining a tire's longevity, but it's usually at the cost of on-road control, handling in emergency situations, road noise, and vibrations felt during driving. Hankook took particular pride in showing us its Optimo H426 touring tire, which serves as original equipment on some Fords, Hyundais, Kias, Lincolns, and Volkswagens. Comparatively speaking, the Optimo H426 uses more silica than what most other manufacturers use in similar tires, also adding to cost and complexity. Hankook spokespeople said the process for mixing tires rich in silica is more complicated, but it's what the company has to do to gain some advantage, slowly chipping away at the market share maintained by more-established players. Hankook also tests thousands of simulated hours, both in the virtual and real-world situations, to make sure its products are up to snuff. In what the company calls "stiffness control contour theory design," Hankook subjects tires to testing at high speeds to the point where engineers say a tire's profile can expand almost an inch due to heat and pressure. Putting Tires to the Test We had the opportunity to discover how the tires worked, firsthand, as engineer Choi Seung Pil got behind the wheel of a BMW 528i equipped with Hankook Ventus V12 Evo high-performance tires. As Hankook manufactures tires under its own label at basic to premium price points, as well as private label brands, it maintains a fleet of cars it uses for testing, ranging from tiny subcompacts you'd never see in the U.S. to midsize and large sedans. Most cars are pushed so hard that they rarely make it past 13,000 miles of use. Off to the side of its track behind a fence, we saw a handful of cars with their roofs caved in, clearly showing the testing engineers took their jobs seriously.[caption id="attachment_90183" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hankook engineer Choi Seung Pil logs 500 miles a day around test tracks to evaluate tires."][/caption] Choi says drives up to 500 miles a day on road surfaces that are cobbled in some places, potholed in others, and look remarkably like the grooved, concrete highways of Los Angeles in others still. It's all in the name of making sure tires respond well to whatever environment they're sold in. On our ride with him, he took us through simulated ice- and rain-covered surfaces, as well as several of Hankook's other environments—26 in all—spanning more than 50 acres. Choi goes through the same motions he's been going through for the last 25 years or so, not even so much as flinching with a car full of passengers who are hanging on for dear life. On most days, he doesn't have an audience, but his tasks remain the same: Conveying his findings to development engineers to tweak products for wide-scale production, mostly devoid of expensive electronic testing equipment. "I work with all sorts of cars," Choi says through a translator. "Steering and stability feeling just become second nature." Each tire has its own objectives. High-performance tires are designed to keep hold of the road, low-friction rubber maintains better fuel efficiency, snow tires are tested in slick environments, and durability and performance must live up to the expectations of both Hankook and the customers buying them. Futuristic Manufacturing When you go to a tire plant, you expect to see a gritty blue-collar plant filled with people in every crevice of space. When we reached Hankook's Geumsan Plant No. 3, we were surprised to find that wasn't the case. In fact, it was quite the opposite, eerie in how much high-tech machinery kept tires moving from station to station with laser-guided robots and relatively few people at each helm.[caption id="attachment_90225" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Despite laser-guided sensors to check a tire's integrity, every tire that leaves the plant is still checked by hand."][/caption] Spanning more than 9 million square feet between four giant square plants that make up the Geumsan facility, Hankook employs around 300 people per plant. But most are paired between two or three automated machines, laying rubber ply over a carcass belt drum or monitoring machines. That rubber is then run through a steam injection molding press, curing what finally resembles a tire at 352 degrees for 12 minutes. Tires are then visually inspected before they're handed off to even more machines and sensors that check their integrity. They get ratings of A, B, or C; the top-rated rubber gets handed off from its sensor-laden conveyor belt to storage racks before getting shipped out. B-rated tires get remolded, and C tires are shredded and discarded. Because of the quality assurance in place, Hankook estimates that just 0.0001 percent of the tires it makes ever meet the giant scrapyard in the sky instead of being exported to some 180 countries around the world. You, Your Car, and a Tire Maker Hankook Tire walked us through its plants, giving us a week's worth of dog and pony show to let us in on a little secret: It's rapidly expanding. The company just finished an addition to its plant in Hungary late last year, broke ground on a plant in Indonesia, and recently began building its third plant in China. In 2011, the tire maker posted its biggest ever sales year in the U.S., bolstered largely by its premium ultra-high-performance Ventus line. But Hankook didn't always have the same luck in the U.S. Despite its 71-year history, it was instead relegated to mostly making spare tires for automakers up through the 1990s. Then in 1997, Ford contracted Hankook to be a supplier for the Ford F-150.[caption id="attachment_90181" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A Kia Rio laps Hankook Tire's G'Trac testing facility in Geumsan, South Korea."][/caption] "They actually asked us to erase the brand 'Hankook'" from the tires to be supplied to Ford, says Hankook's Cho Hyun Bum. "We said 'No way.' "We struck a deal for a very cheap price," he added. "So we were subsidizing like crazy just to get into that." Since then, Hankook has fought a budget-brand stigma because it has usually sold with little brand recognition and a discounted price compared to rivals. All the while, Hankook has been busy winning consumer satisfaction surveys, contracts, and advertising deals that have allowed it to spread its presence in major sporting venues throughout the U.S. As Cho explained with reference to companies like Apple, or even home-grown power players like Samsung and Hyundai, "Once it's been implanted in your head that something's a good brand, it's very hard to erase." We probably didn't have to travel 5900 miles across the International Dateline to figure out that good marketing for a lesser-known product goes a long way. We also didn't need the flight over to see how tires are made or how they operate in various conditions. However, seeing the sights of a rapidly growing company, and experiencing its business practices firsthand—from the company's openness to trying new ideas with its technology to its patience with a market very much unlike its own—gave us an appreciation for trying to get its products right the first time around. Hankook calls it "proactive tireship." Tires aren't created equally. Hankook knows that, and it has focused its mission around educating consumers of that fact. It's a noble goal, and Hankook definitely seems to be on the right track. But it begs the question, can Hankook, still a relative unknown in the U.S., really make a name for itself against the likes of Goodyear, Michelin, Pirelli and other mainstream brands? Ask Hyundai.
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WETMORE, Colo. (AP) -- Wildfire managers say fires burning in the small southern Colorado town of Wetmore and in Rocky Mountain National Park are holding steady.
The 2,000-acre Wetmore Fire was reported Tuesday and is burning in grass and timber about 25 miles west of Pueblo. The fire has destroyed 14 houses and at one point 380 people were forced from their homes. Recent snowfall helped crews get the upper hand on the fire, which was 95 percent contained Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Fern Lake Fire that was reported in Rocky Mountain National Park on Oct. 9 is holding steady at 1,000 acres and is 17 percent contained. A high-pressure system is expected to move through the area by mid-week, bringing warmer and drier conditions.
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The Beverly Hills fire department says Bobbi Kristina Brown was taken from the Beverly Hills Hilton around 10:30 on Sunday, less than a day after her mother died in a room at the same hotel.
The 18-year-old's condition was not immediately known.
An e-mail message sent to a representative of her father, Bobby Brown, was not immediately returned.
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6e. Unit resources including technology
6e.1. Describe how the unit proposes to allocate resources across programs to ensure candidates meet standards in their field of study.
It is the responsibility of the Division Chair to ensure that all programs are equally funded. All program courses are scheduled to enable utilization for all programs of the Education Building classrooms which are equipped with teaching technology, smartboards, and student computer stations, or classrooms with computer or science lab resources as needed. All other primary classrooms to which program courses are assigned are also equipped with current teaching technology. Library resources supporting Education candidates' preparation are also prioritized to provide current, relevant resources for every program area. All students have equal access to student computer labs on campus for individual study.
The faculty hired across programs and satellite campuses are equally highly qualified. Those without terminal degrees have rich experiential backgrounds as teachers and administrators in the PK-12 partner school systems and have demonstrated competency for their Thomas University assignments. Along with subject matter expertise, the highly qualified faculty member in the Curriculum and Instruction and Teacher Leader programs will have recent experience supporting teachers in the PK-12 system and extensive knowledge of the current requirements and initiatives in PK-12 education.
Off campus PK-12 school-based sites are located based on the same criteria needed to teach the class on the main campus. The Thomas University library has online access to over 150 databases and nearly 300 journals from anywhere with computer access.
6e.2. Describe the information technology resources that will be available to support faculty and candidates. Describe evidence that will be used to demonstrate that candidates and faculty use these resources toward improving teaching and learning.
Faculty and students have multiple technology resources at their disposal for teaching and learning; many of these uses are mandated as part of the teaching and learning process for candidates. All faculty members are required to use a Blackboard Learn course shell to provide course resources and communication for each course regardless of delivery mode. Hybrid or online classes must fully use the Blackboard course platform to create meaningful instruction, interaction between instructor and classmates, provide feedback on assignments, and utilize gradebook functions. All faculty (full-time, part-time and adjunct) who teach hybrid or online classes are required to take and successfully pass an Online Teaching Proficiency Assessment. The online Office of Academic Technology provides frequent online workshops for students and faculty and houses video instructional modules covering most tools related to the use Blackboard and Collaborate.
The integration of technology into instruction by professional education faculty members takes place in every course. Courses specify teaching and learning utilizing various technology tools (i.e., Smartboard technology, blogs, wikis, narrated PowerPoints, Camtasia); this is evident in course syllabi. Other course assignments require demonstration of mastery of internet search skills and use of GALILEO and other scholarly databases; professors along with librarians provide instruction for these skills. Modeling the use of instruction technology for students is a practice of all professional education faculty members.
Students and faculty are required to utilize their portal access to Hawklink (CAMS), TU's fully-integrated internet-based student records system which enables online registration; student portal access to financial aid, billing, unofficial transcripts, and course Blackboard shells; faculty portal access to advisees' student records for advising and to automated grade reporting. All students and faculty are assigned Thomas University email accounts. Every syllabus states that students are expected to use TU email as faculty, administrative and student services offices will communicate exclusively through this media for email. Faculty are required to check TU email daily and expected to be adept with the features of Outlook for communication and calendars.
All Education faculty and teacher candidates must effectively utilize LiveText. Support is provided by the Coordinator of Assessment and Accreditation. Faculty are required to record student assessment in the system and to use the system to evaluate student progress. In addition, all faculty are expected to have competent skills using Microsoft Office suite programs. Use of Word, PowerPoint, and Publisher are required in Education course assignments as evidenced in course syllabi.
6e.3. Describe the resources that will be available for the development and implementation of the unit's assessment system.
The Coordinator of Assessment and Accreditation, a quarter time release assignment, facilitates the systematic process of data compilation, aggregation, and summarization of those data collected in order to allow the unit faculty, all associated partners, and the administration to analyze candidate and completer performance as well as preparation program and unit performance in regards to the outlined outcomes.
The Coordinator is assisted, as needed, by the university's Director of Institutional Assessment (a 12-month staff contract) in statistical analysis of candidate performance data and the production of meaningful reports from the LiveText and EDUbase, and CAMS (the university's integrated student records system) systems.
Additionally, a full-time (40-hour per week) Administrative Assistant to the Division of Education is assigned to supporting the work of the Division Chair and Coordinator of Assessment and Accreditation.
The university has assigned at least one Graduate Assistant to the Division of Education for up to fifteen hours per week each semester to assist with implementation of the assessment system and related Division projects. Student workers are hired, as needed.
6e.4. Describe the library and curricular resources that exist at the institution or agency. Describe how the unit will ensure that they are sufficient and that they remain current.
The TU Library houses over 34,000 holdings (print and media) in approximately 13,000 square feet of space. The library is open 60 hours a week and has reference, children's literature, career, media, and general research collections available to patrons. As a member of GPALS, students and faculty utilize GALILEO and additional databases with online access to over 150 databases and nearly 300 journals from anywhere with computer access. The Library subscribes to forty-four journals, and provides eleven databases/search engines fifteen reference resources that are Education-specific.
Inter-library loan
The library has a reciprocal inter-library loan program. Patrons can make a request using an online form. Requested materials can be obtained in the library or shipped to a patron. Articles are delivered electronically.
Faculty Support
Faculty can access library resources and professional librarian services. They can meet with librarians to find materials or to discuss specific course needs. Faculty can receive database instruction and learn about new resources. Computers, copiers, and scanners are available in the library. Laptops, Kindles, iPods, video cameras, and digital recorders can be checked out.
Student Support
Students have access to library resources and to librarians for reference services. Appointments can be done face-to-face, in online chat, by phone or email, or through Elluminate. There are two computer labs for student use to encourage individual and collaborative research. A library commons area is available for studying.
The acquisitions program operates via an online request form and through meetings between librarians, departments, and faculty members. Materials requested by faculty are given priority. Weeding policies are developed with faculty guidance.
Support for off-campus students and programs
Faculty members can ask that a librarian be "embedded" in a course to assist with specific research assignments. The "embedded librarian" can join in discussion boards, post materials/tutorials, and meet with students via Bb Collaborate. Online/hybrid students also have access to librarians via the Virtual Reference Desk in Bb Course shells. For quick questions, students can chat with a staff member via Meebo, on the front page of the library website. Materials delivery service is also available for students.
6e.5. Describe how the unit will ensure the accessibility of resources to candidates, including candidates in off-campus, and distance learning preparation programs, through electronic means
Many resources are available through the internet and accessed via password through the TU webpage and Library webpage, specifically. Access to GALILEO and additional databases, the Library's online catalog, Inter-library Loan assistance, and Live Chat with librarians for reference assistance are available through the webpage. The Technical Help Desk for student portal and Blackboard access questions as well as general technical support is available by phone, email, or in person at the Help Desk in the Library. Appointments can be made by phone or the webpage to schedule sessions in the Academic Resource Center and Student Support Services for tutoring; tutoring can be arranged in person, by phone, by Collaborate, or through email. Accommodations are provided for students with disabilities through the Office of Disabilities Services. Contact with this office can be done by phone, email, Collaborate, or in person. Accommodations include adaptations of the physical learning environment, acquiring or converting learning resources to an alternate format, and providing special assistance.


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By Wanda Williams
Ruby Wilkinson celebrated her 93rd birthday on Sunday. On Saturday night some of her family treated her for supper at Johnny's in Red Oak. Those present were: Ronda Kohrs of Kansas City, Randy and Tanya Wilkinson of Aurelia, Ronnie and Linda Wilkinson of Red Oak, and Bob and Maxine Wilkinson of Emerson. Ronda was an overnight guest. Other callers on Sunday were Carl and Maxine Brandt and Mike and Nancy Randall. We hope you had a dandy birthday, Ruby.
By Virginia Seipold
Following hospitalization, Mildred Hardy spent two weeks in Unadilla, Neb., with Deb and Howard Isaacs. She returned to her home in Malvern Thursday, March 22. Randy Hardy of St. Joseph, Mo., has spent some time with Mildred.
Raburn and Dixie Benton spent the month of February in Destin, Fla. While there, Raburn attended the Richard Brock Ag Symposium. They also visited Maida McClure, a former Malvern resident.
(100% fruit juice and milk served with breakfast)
Thursday - Breakfast Wrap
Friday - Cereal & Crackers
Monday - Cereal & Crackers
Tuesday - Donut or Yogurt
Wednesday - Breakfast Sandwich
Thursday - Frito Pie, Steamed Green Beans, Chilled Mandarin Oranges, Cowboy Bread, Milk.
Friday – Chicken Wrap, Steamed Corn, Fresh Grapes Cookie, Milk.
Brock Spangenberg and Kristina Jens of Council Bluffs have announced their engagement.
Spangenberg is the son of Randy and Angie Spangenberg of Red Oak. He played baseball at Highland Community College and Upper Iowa University, where he graduated with a degree in marketing. He is currently working at Farm Bureau Financial Services.
A 58-year-old Glenwood man has been sentenced in United States District Court to serve three years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
David Andrew Stump was sentenced March 27 in Council Bluffs by U.S. District Court Judge John A. Jarvey. After serving his prison time, Stump will be on two years of supervised release and has been ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim Fund.
It's been 10 years since a distraught man, dressed in full camouflage military fatigues and body armor and equipped with a semi-automatic assault rifle, opened fire on a Mills County Sheriff's deputy and Glenwood police officer in the darkness of a Glenwood subdivision.
Escorted by the flashing lights of a cruiser from the Iowa State Patrol and serenaded by the sounds of a fire truck siren, Glenwood's Rhapsody in Gold Jazz Choir returned home victorious last Wednesday from the Iowa Jazz Championships in Waverly.
Qualifying for the state championships for only the second time in school history, Glenwood came away from the competition at Wartburg College with the No. 1 rating and state championship trophy for Class 3A.
By Glendora Goodman
Deepest sympathy to Bev Howard and her family on the loss of her great-grandson, "Little Charlie." He was born and passed Friday, March 16, at Mercy in Council Bluffs. His parents are Brett and Ranita Hiller and grandfather is Donnie Howard.
Frances Clapper is home from New Mexico after a couple weeks there with her family. She enjoys the time with those little ones so much.
Country Cousins
By Virginia Seipold
Enjoying a St. Patrick's Day dinner Sunday, March 18 with Roger and Orla Jean Jackson in their home were Lola Hasselquist, Calvin and LaDonna Deitchler and Vernita and Norman Kruse.
The Ladies Aid of St. John's Lutheran Church, rural Hastings, met Wednesday, March 14, at the church.
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