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|Latin: Cognitio, sapientia, humanitas
|"Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity"
|1824 (1824) (as the predecessor of UMIST)
|£169.2 million (as of 31 July 2013)
|Tom Bloxham MBE
|Dame Nancy Rothwell
|Manchester, England, United Kingdom
|Urban and Suburban
Blue, Gold, Purple
|Universities Research Association Russell Group EUA N8 Group NWUA ACU
The University of Manchester (UoM) is a large research university situated in the city of Manchester, England. Manchester University, as it is commonly known, is a public university formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (est. 1824) and the University of Manchester (est. 1851). Manchester is a member of the worldwide Universities Research Association group, the Russell Group of British research universities and the N8 Group. The University of Manchester is regarded as a "red brick university", and was a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century. It formed a constituent part of the federal Victoria University between 1880, when it received its royal charter, and 1903-1904, when it was dissolved.
The main campus is south of Manchester city centre on Oxford Road. In 2012, the university had around 39,000 students and 10,400 staff, making it the largest single-site university in the United Kingdom. The University of Manchester had an income of £827 million in 2012–13, of which £200 million was from research grants and contracts.
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Manchester came third in terms of research power and eighth for grade point average quality when including specialist institutions. More students try to gain entry to the University of Manchester than to any other university in the country, with more than 60,000 applications for undergraduate courses. According to the 2012 Highfliers Report, Manchester is the most targeted university by the Top 100 Graduate Employers.
University of Manchester is ranked 30th in the world by QS World University Rankings. In the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Manchester is ranked 38th in the world and 5th in the UK. It is ranked 58th in the world and 12th in Europe in the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library and Jodrell Bank Observatory which includes the Grade I listed Lovell Telescope.
The University of Manchester has 25 Nobel laureates among its past and present students and staff, the third-highest number of any single university in the United Kingdom after Cambridge and Oxford. Four Nobel laureates are currently among its staff – more than any other British university.Contents
The University of Manchester traces its roots to the formation of the Mechanics'' Institute (later to become UMIST) in 1824, and its heritage is linked to Manchester''s pride in being the world''s first industrial city. The English chemist John Dalton, together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists, established the Mechanics'' Institute to ensure that workers could learn the basic principles of science.
Similarly, John Owens, a textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1846 (around £5.6 million in 2005 prices) to found a college to educate men on non-sectarian lines. His trustees established Owens College in 1851 in a house on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street which had been the home of the philanthropist Richard Cobden, and subsequently housed Manchester County Court. In 1873 the college moved to new premises on Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock and from 1880 it was a constituent college of the federal Victoria University. The university was established and granted a Royal Charter in 1880 becoming England''s first civic university; it was renamed the Victoria University of Manchester in 1903 and absorbed Owens College the following year.
By 1905, the institutions were large and active forces. The Municipal College of Technology, forerunner of UMIST, was the Victoria University of Manchester''s Faculty of Technology while continuing in parallel as a technical college offering advanced courses of study. Although UMIST achieved independent university status in 1955, the universities continued to work together. The Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology agreed to merge into a single institution in March 2003.
Before the merger, Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST counted 23 Nobel Prize winners amongst their former staff and students. Manchester has traditionally been strong in the sciences, it is where the nuclear nature of the atom was discovered by Rutherford, and the world''s first stored-program computer was built at the university. Famous scientists associated with the university include physicists Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. The university has contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing; author Anthony Burgess; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.2004 to presentThe Sackville Street Building, formerly the UMIST Main Building
The current University of Manchester was officially launched on 1 October 2004 when Queen Elizabeth handed over its Royal Charter. The university was named the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006 after winning the inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year prize in 2005.
The founding president and vice-chancellor of the new university was Alan Gilbert, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, who retired at the end of the 2009–2010 academic year. His successor was Dame Nancy Rothwell, who had held a chair in physiology at the university since 1994. One of the university''s aims stated in the Manchester 2015 Agenda is to be one of the top 25 universities in the world, following on from Alan Gilbert''s aim to "establish it by 2015 among the 25 strongest research universities in the world on commonly accepted criteria of research excellence and performance". In 2011, four Nobel laureates were on its staff: Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov, Sir John Sulston and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
The EPSRC announced in February 2012 the formation of the National Graphene Institute. The University of Manchester is the "single supplier invited to submit a proposal for funding the new £45m institute, £38m of which will be provided by the government" - (EPSRC & Technology Strategy Board). In 2013, an additional £23 million of funding from European Regional Development Fund was awarded to the institute taking investment to £61 million.
In August 2012, it was announced that the university''s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences had been chosen to be the "hub" location for a new BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, as part of a $100 million initiative to create industry-changing materials. The centre will be aimed at advancing fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of oil and gas industrial applications and will be modelled on a hub and spoke structure, with the hub located at Manchester, and the spokes based at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Campus
The university''s main site contains most of its facilities and is often referred to as campus, however Manchester is not a campus university as the concept is commonly understood. It is centrally located in the city and its buildings are integrated into the fabric of Manchester, with non-university buildings and major roads between.
The campus occupies an area shaped roughly like a boot: the foot of which is aligned roughly south-west to north-east and is joined to the broader southern part of the boot by an area of overlap between former UMIST and former VUM buildings; it comprises two parts:
The names are not officially recognised by the university, but are commonly used, including in parts of its website and roughly correspond to the campuses of the old UMIST and Victoria University respectively.
Fallowfield Campus is the main residential campus in Fallowfield, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of the main site.
There are other university buildings across the city and the wider region, such as Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire and One Central Park in Moston, a collaboration between the university and other partners which offers office space for start-up firms and venues for conferences and workshops,Major projectsThe atrium inside the £38m Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Following the merger, the university embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by 2010, partly financed by a sale of unused assets. These include:
The buildings around the Old Quadrangle date from the time of Owens College, and were designed in a Gothic style by Alfred Waterhouse and his son Paul Waterhouse. The first to be built was the John Owens Building (1873), formerly the Main Building. The others were added over the next thirty years. The Rear Quadrangle is older than the Old Quadrangle. Today, the museum continues to occupy part of one side, including the tower, and the grand setting of the Whitworth Hall is used for the conferment of degrees. Part of the old Christie Library (1898) now houses Christie''s Bistro, and the remainder of the buildings house administrative departments.ContactThe Contact TheatreMain article: Contact Theatre
Contact stages modern live performance for all ages, and participatory workshops primarily for young people aged 13 to 30. The building on Devas Street was completed in 1999 incorporating parts of its 1960s predecessor. It has a unique energy-efficient ventilation system, using its high towers to naturally ventilate the building without the use of air conditioning. The colourful and curvaceous interior houses three performance spaces, a lounge bar and Hot Air, a reactive public artwork in the foyer.Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre Main articles: Manchester Conference Centre and Chancellors Hotel & Conference CentreChancellors Hotel & Conference Centre
The Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre was built around The Firs, a house built in 1850 for Sir Joseph Whitworth by Edward Walters, who also designed Manchester''s Free Trade Hall. Whitworth used the house as a social, political and business base, entertaining radicals such as John Bright, Richard Cobden, William Forster and T.H. Huxley at the time of the Reform Bill of 1867. Whitworth, credited with raising the art of machine-tool building to a previously unknown level, supported the Mechanics Institute – the birthplace of UMIST - and was a founder the Manchester School of Design. Whilst living there, Whitworth used land at the rear (now the site of the University''s botanical glasshouses) for testing his "Whitworth rifle". In 1882, The Firs was leased to C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian and after Scott''s death became the property of Owens College. It was the Vice-Chancellor''s residence until 1991.
The house now forms the western wing of the Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre. The eastern wing houses the circular Flowers Theatre, six conference rooms and most of the hotel''s bedrooms.Other notable buildings
Other notable buildings in the Oxford Road Campus include the Stephen Joseph Studio, a former German Protestant church and the Samuel Alexander Building, a grade II listed building erected in 1919 and home of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.Organisation and administration Faculties and schools
The University of Manchester is divided into four faculties, each sub-divided into schools.Faculty of Medical and Human SciencesOld Medical School on Coupland Street (photographed in 1908), which now houses the School of Dentistry
The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences comprises the Schools of Medicine; Dentistry; Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work; Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Psychological Sciences.
The college was established in 1874 and is one of the largest in the country, with more than 400 medical students trained in each clinical year and more than 350 students in the pre-clinical/phase 1 years. Approximately 100 students who have completed pre-clinical training at the Bute Medical School (University of St Andrews) join the third year of the undergraduate medical programme each year.
The university''s Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has links with a number of NHS hospitals in the North West of England and maintains a presences in four base hospitals: Manchester Royal Infirmary (at the southern end of the university campus on Oxford Road), Wythenshawe Hospital, Hope Hospital and the Royal Preston Hospital for clinical medical training for doctors and nurses.
The university is a founding partner of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, established to focus high-end healthcare research in Greater Manchester. Future plans include collaboration with Manchester City Football Club and the National Health Service (NHS) to establish a world-leading research facility for sports science and treatment in Sportcity.
In 1883, a department of pharmacy was established at the university and, in 1904, Manchester became the first British university to offer an honours degree in the subject. The School of Pharmacy benefits from links with Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe and Hope hospitals providing its undergraduate students with hospital experience. The school''s pharmacy students are the only such students in the UK to have access to an extensive course in secondary care.
Manchester Dental School was rated the country''s best dental school by Times Higher Education in 2010 and 2011 and it is one of the best funded because of its emphasis on research and enquiry-based learning approach. The university has obtained multi-million pound backing to maintain its high standard of dental education. The number of applicants far exceeds the number of places available; in 2011 there were 1000 applicants for 75places. Graduates have some of the best employment prospects of UK dental school graduates. Other dental schools are adopting the school''s teaching style. The University Dental Hospital of Manchester is part of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was established in 1884 in association with the School of Medicine at Owens College at Grosvenor Street in Chorlton on Medlock and in 1892 moved to Devonshire Street. In 1908 the hospital moved to a new building on Oxford Road designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by Charles Heathcote & Sons. In 1905 the university established a degree and a diploma in dental surgery (first awarded in 1909 and 1908 respectively). A contribution from Godfrey Ermen towards the cost of building the hospital is recorded on a stone tablet near the entrance.Faculty of Engineering and Physical SciencesThe Grade I listed Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences comprises the schools of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science;Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science; Physics and Astronomy; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Materials; Mathematics; and Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering.
The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics comprises the university''s astronomical academic staff in Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory on rural land near Goostrey, about ten miles (16 km) west of Macclesfield away from the lights of Greater Manchester. The observatory''s Lovell Telescope, named after Sir Bernard Lovell, a professor at the Victoria University of Manchester who first proposed the telescope. Constructed in the 1950s, it is the third largest fully movable radio telescope in the world. It has played an important role in the research of quasars, pulsars and gravitational lenses, and in confirming Einstein''s theory of General Relativity. A £1.2 billion Square Kilometre Array with 50 times more sensitivity and the ability to search space 10,000 times faster than any other telescope in existence will become operational in 2020.Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities includes the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (incorporating Archaeology; Art History & Visual Studies; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Museology; Music; and Religions and Theology) and the Schools of Combined Studies; Education; Environment and Development; Architecture; Languages, Linguistics and Cultures; Law; Social Sciences and the Manchester Business School.Faculty of Life Sciences
The Faculty of Life Sciences consists of a single school. Biological Sciences have been taught at Manchester as far back as the foundation of Owens College in 1851. At UMIST, biological teaching and research began in 1959, with the creation of a Biochemistry department. The present school, though unitary for teaching, is divided into a number of sections for research purposes, these sections comprise: Cellular Systems, Disease Systems, Molecular Systems, Neuro Systems and Tissue Systems. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Faculty came 3rd in the UK on the basis of Grade Point Average for Biological Sciences with 107 staff submitted, and 2nd in the UK for Preclinical and Human Biological Sciences with 72 staff submitted.The university''s Whitworth Hall.Finances
In the financial year ending 31 July 2011, the University of Manchester had a total income of £808.58 million (2009/10 – £787.9 million) and total expenditure of £754.51 million (2009/10 – £764.55 million). Key sources of income included £247.28 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2009/10 – £227.75 million), £203.22 million from funding body grants (2009/10 – £209.02 million), £196.24 million from research grants and contracts (2009/10 – £194.6 million) and £14.84 million from endowment and investment income (2009/10 – £11.38 million). During the 2010/11 financial year the University of Manchester had a capital expenditure of £57.42 million (2009/10 – £37.95 million).
At year end the University of Manchester had endowments of £158.7 million (2009/10 – £144.37 million) and total net assets of £731.66 million (2009/10 – £677.12 million).Academic profile
The University of Manchester has the largest number of full-time students in the UK, unless the University of London''s colleges are counted as a single university. It teaches more academic subjects than any other British university.
Well-known figures among the university''s current academic staff include computer scientist Steve Furber, economist Richard Nelson, novelist Jeanette Winterson (who succeeded Colm Tóibín in 2012) and biochemist Sir John Sulston, Nobel laureate of 2002.Research
The University of Manchester is a major centre for research and a member of the Russell Group of leading British research universities. In the first national assessment of higher education research since the university''s founding, the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the university was ranked third in terms of research power (after Cambridge and Oxford) and sixth for grade point average quality among multi-faculty institutions (eighth when including specialist institutions) Manchester has the fifth largest research income of any British university (after Oxford, Imperial, UCL and Cambridge). (these five universities have been informally referred to as the "golden diamond" of research-intensive UK institutions). Manchester has a strong record in terms of securing funding from the three main UK research councils, EPSRC, MRC and BBSRC, being ranked fifth, seventh and first respectively. In addition, the university is one of the richest in the UK in terms of income and interest from endowments: a recent estimate placed it third, surpassed only by Oxford and Cambridge. Despite recent severe cuts in higher education Manchester remains at second place behind Oxford nationally in terms of total recurrent grants allocated by the HEFCE.
Historically, Manchester has been linked with high scientific achievement: the university and its constituent former institutions combined had 25 Nobel laureates among their students and staff, the third largest number of any single university in the United Kingdom (after Oxford and Cambridge) and the ninth largest of any university in Europe. Furthermore, according to an academic poll two of the top ten discoveries by university academics and researchers were made at the university (namely the first working computer and the contraceptive pill). The university currently employs four Nobel Prize winners amongst its staff, more than any other in the UK. The Langworthy Professorship, an endowed chair at the University''s School of Physics and Astronomy, has been historically given to a long line of academic luminaries, including Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–53) and more recently Konstantin Novoselov, all of whom have won the Nobel Prize. In 2013 Manchester was given the Regius Professorship in Physics, the only one of its kind in the UK; the current holder is Andre Geim.University of Manchester LibraryThe Grade-I listed John Rylands Library on DeansgateMain article: University of Manchester Library
The University of Manchester Library is the largest non-legal deposit library in the UK and the third-largest academic library after those of Oxford and Cambridge. It has the largest collection of electronic resources of any library in the UK.
The John Rylands Library, founded in memory of John Rylands by his wife Enriqueta Augustina Rylands as an independent institution, is situated in a Victorian Gothic building on Deansgate, in the city centre. It houses an important collection of historic books and other printed materials, manuscripts, including archives and papyri. The papyri are in ancient languages and include the oldest extant New Testament document, Rylands Library Papyrus P52, commonly known as the St John Fragment. In April 2007 the Deansgate site reopened to readers and the public after major improvements and renovations, including the construction of the pitched roof originally intended and a new wing.Collections Manchester MuseumThe entrance to the Manchester MuseumMain article: Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum holds nearly 4.25 million items sourced from many parts of the world. The collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean, and beetles, armour and archery from Asia. In November 2004, the museum acquired a cast of a fossilised Tyrannosaurus rex called "Stan".
The museum''s first collections were assembled in 1821 by the Manchester Society of Natural History, and subsequently expanded by the addition of the collections of Manchester Geological Society. Due to the society''s financial difficulties and on the advice of evolutionary biologist Thomas Huxley, Owens College accepted responsibility for the collections in 1867. The college commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London''s Natural History Museum, to design a museum on a site in Oxford Road to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public. The Manchester Museum was opened to the public in 1888.Whitworth Art Gallery Main article: Whitworth Art GalleryThe Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery houses collections of internationally famous British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. It contains 31,000 items in its collection. A programme of temporary exhibitions runs throughout the year and the Mezzanine Court displays sculpture. The gallery was founded by Robert Darbishire with a donation from Sir Joseph Whitworth in 1889, as The Whitworth Institute and Park. In 1959 the gallery became part of the Victoria University of Manchester. In October 1995 the Mezzanine Court in the centre of the building was opened. It was designed to display sculptures and won a RIBA regional award.Rankings and reputation
According to The Sunday Times, "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences". The 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings have placed Manchester as the 9th most reputable university in Europe (47th globally).
The 2009 THE - QS World University Rankings found Manchester overall 26th in the world. It was also ranked by the same report 5th internationally by employer reviews (along with MIT and Stanford and ahead of Yale and Cornell) by receiving a maximum 100% rating which the university has retained since 2008. The separate 2011 QS World University Rankings found that Manchester had slipped to 29th overall in the world (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). In 2014 The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Manchester 49th in the world, and 12th in Europe. In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, where CEOs and chairmans were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, Manchester placed 88th in the world and 11th nationally. The Global Employability University Ranking conducted by THES places Manchester at 27th world-wide and 10th in Europe ahead of academic powerhouses such as Cornell, UPenn and LSE.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2011 published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked Manchester 5th in the UK, 6th in Europe and 38th in the world. According to the ARWU rankings for 2009 the university is 9th in Europe for natural sciences and 4th in engineering. Similarly the HEEACT 2009 rankings for scientific performance place Manchester 5th in Europe for engineering, 8th for natural sciences and 3rd for social sciences. And finally THES ranks Manchester 6th in Europe for technology, 10th for life sciences and 7th for social sciences. More recently a survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement has shown that Manchester is placed 6th in Europe in the area of Psychology & Psychiatry. According to a further ranking by SCImago Research Group Manchester is ranked 5th in Europe amongst higher education institutions in terms of sheer research output for 2011. In terms of research impact a further ranking places Manchester 6th in Europe. Manchester is also one of only seven universities in Europe which are rated Excellent in all seven main academic departments (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Economics and Political Science) by the 2010 Centre for Higher Education''s Development''s Excellence Rankings. The Manchester Business School is currently ranked 29th worldwide (4th nationally) by the Financial Times. The latest THES rankings place Manchester 11th in Europe with respect to research volume, income and reputation and 7th in the UK.
According to the High Fliers Research Limited''s survey, University of Manchester students are being targeted by more top recruiters for graduate vacancies than any other UK university students for three consecutive years (2007–2009). Furthermore the university has been ranked joint 20th in the world for 2009 according to the Professional Ranking of World Universities. Its main compilation criterion is the number of Chief Executive Officers (or number 1 executive equivalent) which are among the "500 leading worldwide companies" as measured by revenue who studied in each university. The ranking places the University only behind Oxford nationally. Manchester is ranked 5th among British universities according to a popularity ranking which is based on the degree of traffic that a university''s website attracts. Also a further report places Manchester within the top 20 universities outside the US. Manchester was also given a prestigious award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts by the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.
At a recent ranking undertaken by the Guardian, Manchester is placed 5th in the UK in international reputation behind the usual four: Oxbridge, UCL and Imperial. Furthermore, according to the latest QS World University Rankings, Manchester is ranked 4th in Europe strictly in terms of both academic and employer reputation. However, while as a rule world rankings (such as the ARWU, THES and HEEACT) typically place the university within the top 10 in Europe, national studies are less complimentary; The Times ''Good University Guide 2011'' ranked Manchester 30th out of 113 Universities in the UK, ''The Complete University Guide 2012'' in association with The Independent placed it at 29th out of 116 universities whilst ''The Guardian University Guide 2012'' ranked Manchester at 41st out of 119 universities in the UK. This apparent paradox is mainly a reflection of the different ranking methodologies employed by each listing: global rankings focus on research and international prestige, whereas national rankings are largely based on teaching and the student experience.Manchester University Press Main article: Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press is the university''s academic publishing house. It publishes academic monographs, textbooks and journals, most of which are works from authors based elsewhere in the international academic community, and is the third-largest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.Student life Students'' UnionThe Students'' Union building on Oxford RoadMain article: University of Manchester Students'' Union
The University of Manchester Students'' Union is the representative body of students at the university and the UK''s largest students'' union. It was formed out of the merger between UMIST Students'' Association and University of Manchester Union when the parent organisations UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester merged on 1 October 2004.
Unlike many other students'' unions in the UK, it does not have a president, but is run by an 8 member executive team who share joint responsibility.SportThe University''s Boat Club is one of many Athletic Union Clubs that Manchester offers.
The University of Manchester operates sports clubs via the Athletics Union while student societies are operated by the Students'' Union.
The university has more than 80 health and fitness classes while over 3,000 students are members of the 44 various Athletic Union clubs. The sports societies vary widely in their level and scope. Many more popular sports operate several university teams and departmental teams which compete in leagues against other teams within the university. Teams include: lacrosse, korfball, dodgeball, hockey, rugby league, rugby union, football, basketball, netball and cricket. The Manchester Aquatics Centre, the swimming pool used for the Manchester Commonwealth Games is on the campus.
The university competes annually in 28 different sports against Leeds and Liverpool universities in the Christie Cup, which Manchester has won for seven consecutive years. The university has achieved success in the BUCS (British University & College Sports) competitions, with its men''s water polo 1st team winning the national championships (2009, 2010, 2011) under the tutelage of coach Andy Howard. It was positioned in eighth place in the overall BUCS rankings for 2009/10 The Christie Cup is an inter-university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester in numerous sports since 1886. After the Oxford and Cambridge rivalry, the Christie''s Championships is the oldest Inter–University competition on the sporting calendar: the cup was a benefaction of Richard Copley Christie.
Every year elite sportsmen and sportswomen are selected for membership of the XXI Club, a society formed in 1932 to promote sporting excellence at the university. Most members have gained a Full Maroon for representing the university and many have excelled at a British Universities or National level.University Challenge
In the eight years up to 2013 Manchester have won the BBC2 quiz programme University Challenge four times, drawing equal with Magdalen College, Oxford for the highest number of series wins. Since merging as the University of Manchester, the university has consistently reached the latter stages of the competition, progressing to at least the semi-finals every year since 2005.
In 2006, Manchester beat Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to record the university''s first triumph in the competition. The year after, the university finished in second place after losing out to the University of Warwick in the final. In 2009, the team battled hard in the final against Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At the gong, the score was 275 - 190 to Corpus Christi College after an extraordinary performance from Gail Trimble. However, the title was eventually given to the University of Manchester after it was discovered that Corpus Christi team member Sam Kay had graduated eight months before the final was broadcast, so that the team was disqualified.
Manchester reached the semi-finals in the 2010 competition before being beaten by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The university did not enter the 2011 series for an unknown reason. However, Manchester did enter a year later and won University Challenge 2012. Manchester has since defended its title to win University Challenge 2013, beating University College London 190 -140.Overseas Students
The University of Manchester attracts thousands of international students coming from 154 countries around the world.Student housingAshburne Hall, a catered accommodation offered mainly to undergraduate students, though some places are reserved for postgraduate students
Before they merged, the two former universities had for some time been sharing their residential facilities.Main campusWhitworth Park Halls of Residence
Whitworth Park Halls of Residence is owned by the University of Manchester and houses 1,085 students. It is notable for its triangular shaped accommodation blocks which gave rise to the nickname of "Toblerones", after the chocolate bar. Their designer took inspiration from a hill created from excavated soil which had been left in 1962 from an archaeological dig led by John Gater. A consequence of the triangular design was a reduced cost for the construction company. A deal struck between the university and Manchester City Council meant the council would pay for the roofs of all student residential buildings in the area, Allan Pluen''s team is believed to have saved thousands on the final cost of the halls. They were built in the mid-1970s.Dilworth House, one of the Whitworth Park halls of residence
The site of the halls was previously occupied by many small streets whose names have been preserved in the names of the halls. Grove House is an older building that has been used by the university for many different purposes over the last sixty years. Its first occupants in 1951 were the Appointments Board and the Manchester University Press. The shops in Thorncliffe Place were part of the same plan and include banks and a convenience store. Notable people associated with the halls include Friedrich Engels, whose residence is commemorated by a blue plaque on Aberdeen House; the physicist Brian Cox; and Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.Sackville Street
The former UMIST Campus has five halls of residence near to Sackville Street building (Weston, Lambert, Fairfield, Chandos, and Wright Robinson), and several other halls within a 5-15 minute walk, such as the Grosvenor group of halls.Other accommodation
Moberly Tower has been demolished. Other residences include Vaughn House, once the home of the clergy serving the Church of the Holy Name, and George Kenyon Hall at University Place; Crawford House and Devonshire House adjacent to the Manchester Business School and Victoria Hall in Higher Cambridge Street.Fallowfield and Victoria Park Campuses
The Fallowfield Campus, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the Oxford Road Campus is the largest of the university''s residential campuses. The Owens Park group of halls with a landmark tower is at its centre, while Oak House is another hall of residence. Woolton Hall is next to Oak House. Allen Hall is a traditional hall near Ashburne Hall (Sheavyn House being annexed to Ashburne). Richmond Park is a recent addition to the campus.
Victoria Park Campus comprises several halls of residence. Among these are St. Anselm Hall with Canterbury Court and Pankhurst Court, Dalton-Ellis Hall, Hulme Hall (including Burkhardt House), St Gabriel''s Hall and Opal Gardens Hall. St. Anselm Hall is the only all-male hall in the United Kingdom.Notable people Main article: List of University of Manchester people
Many notable people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that now form the University of Manchester, including 25 Nobel prize laureates. Some of the best-known are John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory), Ludwig Wittgenstein (considered one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century, who studied for a doctorate in engineering), George E. Davis (founder of the discipline of Chemical Engineering), Marie Stopes (pioneer of birth control and campaigner for women''s rights), Bernard Lovell (a pioneer of radio astronomy), Alan Turing (one of the founders of computer science and artificial intelligence), Tom Kilburn and Frederic Calland Williams (who developed Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or "Baby", the world''s first stored-program computer at Victoria University of Manchester in 1948), Irene Khan (former Secretary General of Amnesty International), physicist and television presenter Brian Cox, the author Anthony Burgess and Robert Bolt (two times Academy Award winner and three times Golden Globe winner for writing the screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago).
A number of politicians are associated with the university, including the current Presidents of the Republic of Ireland, Belize, Iceland, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Somaliland region of Somalia, as well as several ministers in the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Canada and Singapore. Chaim Weizmann, a senior lecturer at the university, was also the first President of Israel. The university educated a number of the leading figures of Alternative Comedy: Ben Elton, Ade Edmonson and Rick Mayall. Additionally, a number of well-known actors have studied at the university, including Benedict Cumberbatch, who most notably portrays Sherlock Holmes in the famous TV Series Sherlock.Nobel prize winners
The University of Manchester, inclusive of its predecessor institutions, numbers 25 Nobel Prize recipients amongst its current and former staff and students, with some of the most important discoveries of the modern age having been made in Manchester. Manchester University has the third largest number of Nobel laureates in the UK, only Cambridge and Oxford universities having a greater number.
Physiology and Medicine
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'Survivor: Kaoh Rong – Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty II' Sneak Peek (VIDEO)
The official announcement video is here for Survivor: Kaoh Rong – Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty II!
After a thrilling finale in which the Sole Survivor was revealed for Survivor: Cambodia – Second Chance, host Jeff Probst revealed the title and theme for Season 32, along with the location where the competition will take place: Survivor: Kaoh Rong is another season set in Cambodia, as 18 all-new castaways (including Caleb Reynolds from Big Brother 16!) will be split up into three tribes based on strength, intelligence, and beauty. Considering how great Survivor: Cagayan – Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty ended up being, this new season will have some big shoes to fill. Watch the announcement video below:
Of course, Survivor: Kaoh Rong is already notable for being the season that was already filmed in full prior to Season 31 being cast, as the producers got the idea for the Second Chance fan vote twist and decided to push Koh Rong back in order to film Second Chance, pronto! Filming took place between March and May 2015, so the people who've played in Kaoh Rong have been waiting a LONG time to finally see their season hit the airwaves (and by the time that finale rolls around, the final three will have been waiting an entire calendar year to find out if they won!).
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Polydiacetylene Nanofibers for Colorimetric and Ampherometric Sensors
5435 – Moisture sensors have a wide variety of applications in various environments. In industrial settings, moisture control is important in manufacturing and storage facilities, detection of pipe leaks or broken seals in controlled devices, prevention of mold growth, and monitoring of soil water content. While most moisture sensors are based on electrical conductance, there is a desirable need for... Read More
Monolithically-Integrated Micro-LEDs on Silicon Substrate for Implantable Neural Probes
6277 – Implantable neural probes with monolithically-integrated micro-LEDs on silicon substrates have been demonstrated at the University of Michigan. Monitoring how neural circuits work together and perform computational processing is critical to the understanding of brain function and behavior. Through optogenetics, photosensitive ion channel proteins called opsins can be introduced into specific... Read More
Two-Dimensional (2D) Material-Based Field-Effect Transistor (2D-FET) Sensors for Real-Time Quantification of Biological and Chemical Molecules
6781 – Background The invention disclosure reports a 2D-material-based field-effect transistor (2D-FET) sensor capable of detecting target biological/chemical molecules in the real-time mode with very low detection limits (fM-level detection limits). The use of multiple such sensors exhibit highly consistent calibrated responses with respect to target molecule concentrations. This is essential to... Read More
Metamaterial Sensor Platforms for Terahertz DNA Sensing
6246 – Terahertz sensors are a promising technology for studying DNA hybridization due to the distinctive refractive response differences between single-strand and double-strand DNA polynucleotides. This inherent difference opens the door to highly sensitive label-free detection and identification of DNA sequences. A new sensing platform now promises to greatly increase the sensitivity of DNA... Read More
Terahertz DNA Bio-Sensor Architecture Comprising Doubly-Corrugated Spoofed Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguide
5568 – A label-free, Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based biosensor has been developed by a research team at the University of Michigan. The biosensor has potential to detect molecular binding without the use of conventional fluorescent tags, easing preparation requirements and facilitating efficient analysis. Biosensing has become increasingly important to many industries including biodefense,... Read More


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Amazon style rating (2 messages)
On Amazon every knows there is a way to place a vote of approval on a review. That would be cool to have here - some posts could acquire recommendation votes and searches could utilize the vote count as parameters, etc.
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- Good idea by Dion Almaer on April 15 2004 01:14 EDT
- Good idea by John Harby on April 15 2004 09:43 EDT
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This is definitely a good idea.
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We have talked several time about ideas around "community ratings" and we will have something out there in the future.
Thanks for the idea. Keep them coming,
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Thanks - for example it would be cool to search on "EJB read only entity bean" and have a field where I could say, I only want posts returned that had more than 3 recommendations. This would be fairly easy to implement and with the growing amount of content here would help users rapidly find solutions.
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The Paraiso Residences Av. Lazaro Cardenas
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur BS23450
Property Overview
Listing ID18-780
Listing Price$740,000
Unit Number1308
Seller Financingyes
Full Baths2
Interior SqFt1386.64
Decks/Patios SqFt284.39
Primary ViewMarina
Secondary ViewMountain
CommunityCSL Marina
Property TypeCondos
BRAND NEW LUXURY CONDOS in the heart of Cabo San Lucas! The Paraiso Residences are designed for those desiring an urban lifestyle adjacent to boutique shopping, gourmet dining and Medano Beach. Resort style amenities include concierge, bell service, housekeeping and lobby staff. Comprising 1671.55 total sf, this marina front view two-bedroom and two bath residence offers contemporary design with a private back terrace affording indoor/outdoor living at its best. 24-hour security with exclusive elevator access. Gated parking. Fiber optic internet. In-house property management and rental services available. Amenities include a fitness center, lounge, security gated parking and individual storage bodegas. Incomparable vacation rental opportunity. Future amenities will include a fitness center, bar, swimming pools, security gated parking and individual storage bodegas. Concierge, bell service, front office/lobby staff.
Year Built 2018
Garage Stalls 1 car
Unit Amenities Deck/Terrace, Barbecue, Storage Area
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Range Electric
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Sub Area CSL-Beach & Marina
Subdivision The Paraiso Residences
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Oven Electric
Internet Infinitum
Water Heater Electric
Water Desal
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Common Amenities Gym, Security Guard, Garden, Picnic Area, Fountain
Road Type Paved
Number of Units in Development 58
Pet Friendly Yes
Seller Financing yes
HOA Dues Period Month
HOA Dues Amount 375
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Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, HisWife, and Her Alligator by Homer H. Hickam
Homer Hickam (the elder) has had it with Albert. He was innocently using the toilet one morning when Albert jumped out of the bathtub and snatched his pants. Now the entire town has seen Homer out in his yard in his skivvies as he gives his wife an ultimatum – either Albert goes or he does. His wife Elsie didn't want to make a decision right away but eventually decides that Albert does need to go…back to Florida. It's only right that he return to the place of his birth. So begins the journey to bring Albert home.
The author had me at alligator. I think alligators are just awesome with their toothy smiles and amazing prehistoric looks. Put an alligator in a washtub in the backseat of a car for a road trip and I'm in!
I finished this book a few days ago and was wondering what to say. I liked it overall, especially Albert and his personality and love for just about everything including his mother. I will admit that at the start Elsie is hard to like, but as the book progresses you get to understand her, and by the end her actions all make complete sense. Read on the surface it's a road trip, dig just a tad deeper and it's all about letting go of the past and coming to terms with the present and your future. The one thing I am still pondering? The rooster. An unnamed rooster goes along on the road trip. I think I know why he was there in a symbolic sort of way, but it's a bird that can be many colors.
A good choice if you want a book that will make you laugh and also tear up a wee bit at the end (in a happy way) that also makes you think a bit after you close the covers.


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502. Munbaz: The prohibition against the king having too much silver and gold
…he shall not greatly accumulate silver and gold for himself. (Deuteronomy 17:17)
The king was allowed to have whatever he needed to run his household - which might come to a great fortune - but he was not allowed to stockpile gold and silver for himself. Once again, the reason is stated by the Torah: doing so will make the king haughty and arrogant. He has this job to take care of the people, not to enlarge his own ego. Allowing the king to have personal troves of wealth would be the surest way to make the job all about him and not about his subjects.
King Munbaz of Adiabene, son of Queen Helena, was a convert to Judaism (and not king of Israel). The Talmud in Baba Basra (11a) tells how he gave all of his personal wealth to charity. When his family complained, he replied, "My ancestors stockpiled material wealth – I prefer to stockpile spiritual wealth!" That's the way to do it!
This mitzvah applies when the Jews have a king. In the Talmud, it is discussed in tractate Sanhedrin on page 21b. It is codified in the Mishneh Torah in the third chapter of Hilchos Melachim and is #365 of the 365 negative mitzvos in the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvos.


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Religious Blessings, unlike civil ceremonies, can take place at any location in Aruba with the exception of Catholic Ceremonies, which can only take place inside a church.
There are ministers of various denominations available to perform religious ceremonies in Aruba. Minister Fees range between $250.00 and $300.00 per ceremony. The Catholic Church does not charge a fee, however, they kindly ask for a donation to the Church.
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Friends of the Saint Peter Public Library
This group has a rich tradition of providing funding and support for books and wonderful seasonal programs, summer reading programs, and other special events that enhance the services that our library can provide.
Over the past several years, Friends of the Libary have provided over $50,000 in support of the library. If you are interested in joining the Friends of the Saint Peter Public Library, please fill out the membership form in the brochure below and return to the library or contact Friends President Mary Ann Hanson at 507-382-7838.
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The Books in a Bag program is funded in part by grants from the Friends of the Library and generous community donors. Each bag is designed for use with a book club and contains 8 paperback titles of the same title, a check-out sheet to keep track of your book club members and it may also include a book discussion guide. Thank you Friends of the Library for your continued support!
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Excess weight loss while minimising fat-free mass (FFM) loss is important for health. Travel is a particular period at risk for weight gain and for which the effects of a short-term intensive weight loss programme have not been studied. Therefore, we studied the effect of a novel, 1-week supervised health travel programme combining high volume, low-to-moderate intensity exercise and energy intake restriction on weight, body composition and health outcomes in adults. Weight was also monitored for 12 weeks after the programme. In all, thirty-six subjects (nineteen men, seventeen women) consisting of sixteen excess-weight (BMI: 27·1 (sd 1·7) kg/m2) and twenty healthy-weight (BMI: 22·3 (sd 1·8) kg/m2) individuals participated. Subjects performed 1 h of slow-paced intermittent jogging three times per d and other leisure activities, whereas consuming only provided foods without water restriction. Body mass significantly decreased from pre- to post-intervention in excess-weight and healthy-weight individuals (−3·5 (sd 1·5) and −3·5 (sd 1·3) %, respectively; P<0·001 for both), and losses were maintained at 12 weeks post-intervention in both groups (−6·3 (sd 3·8) and −1·7 (sd 4·0) %, respectively; P<0·01 for both). Fat mass also significantly decreased in both groups (excess weight: −9·2 (sd 4·6) %: healthy weight: −13·4 (sd 9·0) %; P<0·01 for both), whereas FFM was maintained. Similar improvements were observed for blood biochemistry and pressure in both groups. This short-term weight loss intervention yielded favourable outcomes in both excess- and healthy-weight adults, particularly a 3·5 % weight loss with no significant change to FFM. In addition, participants maintained weight loss for at least 12 weeks. Of multiple programme choices, the Health Tourism weight loss programme's results indicate that it is a viable option.
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While the iconic Haleakal silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related decline. New research published this week warns that global warming may have severe consequences for the silversword in its native habitat.
PostedFeb 6, 2013
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NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis today that compares temperatures around the globe in 2012 to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century.
PostedFeb 6, 2013
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The latest State of the Climate National Overview report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reveals that 2012 was the United States' warmest year on record by a wide margin.
PostedJan 22, 2013
In association with the release of the Draft Third National Climate Assessment Report, John Holdren (Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) and Jane Lubchenco (Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) published a post on the White House blog about the draft report and the history of the NCA.
PostedJan 22, 2013
Today, the National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee (NCADAC), the Federal advisory committee for the National Climate Assessment, approved their draft of the Third National Climate Assessment Report for release for public comment.
PostedJan 11, 2013
By Dr. John P. Holdren and Dr. Jane Lubchenco Today, a committee of independent advisors to the U.S. Government released its first draft of a new National Climate Assessment (NCA)—a 400-page synthesis of scientists' current understanding of climate change and its impacts in the United States. The Global Change Research Act of 1990 calls for an NCA
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This notice sets forth the schedule of a forthcoming meeting of the DoC NOAA National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC).
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"Yes, I am – spiritual but not religious" That's a mantra that many people chant these days. You're hearing it in bars and boardrooms. From soccer moms, grandmas and pop-pops. It seems that everywhere you turn, someone is turning on to a new kind of spirituality that has nothing to do with clergy and buildings, and everything to do with happiness, health, and good behavior. Oh, yeah – it's about God too.
Huh? What Happened?
That 'ole time religion just doesn't work for everyone anymore. We're not whining about it. Instead Prayables is pitching in and we're doing our part to make sure EVERYONE who is spiritual but not religious can be comfortable with a community that loves and appreciates them. Let's look at the facts.
42% Defy Labels
History was made when the Pew Research Center did a religious study and introduced a new religious non-affiliation. The Nones; young independent spiritualists who believe in God but don't accept the trappings of organized religion. At least not the type of religion being offered in most churches, synagogues and mosques today. 42% of the population defy religious labels as we know it, yet are connected to the Divine.
The End of Religion? Not so Fast.
From pulpits and news shows we hear that the souls of our children cannot be saved. The future of religion is coming to an end. Yet, look online every day and night and watch millions of young people across the globe who are "liking" God, "plus one-ing" scripture, and "tweeting" prayers. The median age for this audience? 20-30 years old.
Short & Sweet: Yes! Long & Boring: Heck No!
The spirituality being served up on the web is short and conveniently located. Need an inspirational hit from Matthew? It's in your newsfeed. Feeling blue? Click through a slide show about "Owning Your Disappointment." It's better than a sermon. Share 30 second bursts of God and your spiritual sweet spot is satisfied. That's what's working. Here's what scares young people off.
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Older people sitting in churches, synagogues, and mosques telling the next generation to follow their rules just doesn't work anymore. It's a new world. A start-up nation of bright young spirits looking to serve God in a new way. It begins where they live: online. But it doesn't end there. A few progressive religious leaders are getting wise.
The New Way to Engage
Clergy in-the-know are finding their future congregants online and enticing them to join their off-line community. They're offering alternative musical services where the melodies of Mumford & Sons trump an operatic Ave Maria. Technology infused study groups with a Simpson's video teaching morals, ethics, and values. Social action projects that appeal to a young person's entrepreneurial spirit.
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Medicaid Agrees to Retroactive Payment to January 1
Medicaid has agreed to pay certain resubmitted claims retroactive to January 1 in response to an MSNJ request. In January 2013, the Medicaid program required that all physicians who order, refer, or attend Medicaid beneficiaries, but do not bill for their services, enroll in the program as non-billing providers. The program confirmed to MSNJ that enrolling will not cause a physician to become a participating provider, but it will allow participating providers to be paid and will bring the program into compliance with the Affordable Care Act.
MSNJ subsequently received complaints from Medicaid participating providers who are not being paid due to the ordering/referring physician's failure to enroll as a non-billing provider. In April MSNJ requested that the Medicaid program "consider making an exception that allows for resubmission of claims for payment once the non-billing provider has enrolled." The program recently advised that the treating physician may resubmit denied claims after the ordering/referring physician enrolls as a non-billing provider.
In 2013, non-billing provider enrollment will be retroactive to January 1, 2013. In 2014 and going forward, non-billing provider enrollment will be retroactive to one year prior to receipt of the enrollment application. For instance, a non-billing provider who submits an enrollment application on March 15, 2014 will be retroactively enrolled back to March 15, 2013. This is to allow participating physicians enough time to resubmit claims within the timely filing limit (up to one year).
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"I'm extremely excited about how far we have come in just one year and how we are supporting our local municipal recycling goals" says Tim Hynd, Tucson Community Relations Advocate. He has spearheaded the recycling program since launch in 2014
Tucson, AZ (PRWEB) August 06, 2015
American Textile Recycling Service (ATRS) reports record breaking pounds of textiles donated and collected this month in Tucson AZ, establishing this municipality as an important subsidiary for ATRS in the Arizona region.
ATRS launched its Clothing & Shoe Recycling service in January of 2014 as a extended branch of its Phoenix facility. Since inception the market has experienced tremendous growth and hit a record-breaking 84,000 pounds collected during the month of July 2015. This represents an increase of approximately 70% over prior months and creates a significant impact on the city's waste diversion plan.
The City of Tucson has defined clothing/textiles (clothing and cloth scraps, household fabrics and linens, footwear, etc.) as a top priority waste diversion category. Textiles are identified as one of six watch-listed materials that are disposed at municipal landfill in large volumes and also supported by strong demand by residents for recycling collection services. Thanks to locally operated private sector businesses like ATRS, the city's waste diversion goals for unwanted clothing and other textiles are both viable and self-sustaining.
ATRS directly supports this municipal initiative by maintaining approximately 110 easy, convenient drop off recyclers within the area, by hosting recycling events throughout the community and by providing the S.M.A.R.T textile recycling curriculum to teachers and schools. This free service is not only a major contributor to waste diversion for the City of Tucson, it is maintained and operated entirely by ATRS, does not require any additional City funding or resources and supports a local charitable organization. It's a win win win for residents!
As the clothing, shoe and household textile donations grow, ATRS continues to fund its local nonprofit partner, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, based on monthly pounds collected from every bin in the Tucson area.
Every item donated into ATRS Clothing & Shoe Recyclers throughout Tucson supports the local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). The textile recycling partnership creates an ongoing stream of monthly revenue providing unrestricted funding to fill the gap between the chapter's operating costs and ever-decreasing grants available to non profits.
Much of the Tucson marketplace success is attributed to retail partners, shopping centers, fashion malls and locally operated businesses that host recyclers on property and help create important drop off locations for residents to recycle textiles. Growing relationships with property management companies like Boros Investments and Wiengarten Realty Management create high traffic destinations for neighborhoods to properly donate and dispose of their gently used, unwanted clothing, shoe, toys and household textiles.
"I'm extremely excited about how far we have come in just one year and how we can support municipal recycling goals in the near future," says Tim Hynd, as ATRS Community Relations Advocate who has spearheaded the recycling program in Tucson since its launch in 2014. "Our sister market in Phoenix really helped us get our legs under us in the early months and our close partnerships with local business that support MADD have helped us reach this goal."
To learn more about the items accepted in ATRS Clothing & Shoe Recycling bins or find a drop off location near you, please visit the ATRS website or call the 24-Hr Hotline 866-900-9308.
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Holding a press conference to publicly apologize for your sex life is gross for several reasons—it's wildly insincere; it implies that the public is part of your sex life; it encourages Dr. Drew to "analyze" the apology on CNN; etc.—but in the case of Tiger Woods it's also completely unnecessary. I don't want an apology from Tiger Woods for his sex life. I don't want to be involved in any way in Tiger Woods' sex life.
But after seeing this new Nike commercial, in which the voice of Tiger Woods' dead father admonishes the uber-repentant duh-face of his son, I do want an apology from Tiger Woods, Nike, the cameraman, the sound guy, the "creatives," and everyone else involved in making this repulsive attempt to sell swooshes.
Nike Ad Exec #1: We've got to find a way to use this whole Tiger cheating on his wife with dozens of women thing to our advantage. He's already apologized, but I think it's important that people think he's really, really sorry. You know, for the Nike brand.
Nike Ad Exec #2: Right. Nobody wants to buy golf polos from a guy who doesn't seem sorry for cheating on his wife.
Nike Ad Exec #1: You can say that again!
Nike Ad Exec #2: Well, he's already done the public apology…what about some form of public castigation? Like maybe Tiger in a dunk tank, and we can have average looking people throw pitches at him while shouting, "How could you?!?"
Nike Ad Exec #1: Too lighthearted. What if we just had Tiger standing there real serious-looking, in black and white, while the people yell at him? I think if we give the public the idea that Tiger is somehow being punished, we'll move a lot of swooshes.
Nike Ad Exec #2: I got it! What if we have the voice of his dead father admonish him for being an asshole?
Nike Ad Exec #1: I love it! The dead dad thing is genius. Not only will people see that Tiger is so sorry he let down his dead dad, but they'll remember that Tiger's dad is dead and maybe start to feel bad for Tiger! Then they'll buy thousands of Nike mesh shorts with dri-weave technology.
Nike Ad Exec #2: Exactly. Tiger, you in?
Tiger Woods [duh-faced, which is his default face]: Duh.


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Very long time no talk (again :|) and apologies for the long post. When I first started this blog and was several posts in, it became very evident to me that I missed working where I could use my brain in both a creative and professional way, and get paid to do so. So I decided to start working on a freelance basis and it's been increasing more and more. I'm loving it! However, I'm not sure what the future holds for this little Grace Gourmet. If it should still even exist and if I even have the time for it. We do have another baby in the house now. Yes- another baby! Catch a little peek of her here. So I think I'll keep it, since in six months time, she will need to be initiated into this family of food lovers. Until then, I can only promise a few recipes, tips, tid-bits, etc. here and there.
For instance, this chili…
It's become a household favorite and next to my shrimp and grits, is what I'm most often asked the recipe for. It's not your typical meat and tomato chili. It's loaded with seasonal vegetables like sweet potatoes and squash and fall/winter spices like cloves and cinnamon. I only ever make a huge batch of it so I have some to both share and save for later. Enjoy the recipe (which can easily be cut in half) and let me know if you give it a try!
Fragrant Fall Chili:
Serves: 10+
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided use
- 1 and 1/2 pound ground beef (meat is totally optional-we've done it meat-free and it's tasted just as nice)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoon cumin
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon cocoa
- 1 Vidalia onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 bell peppers, diced
- 4 small sweet potatoes, cubed
- 3 small butternut squash, peeled and cubed (alternatively, a few small bags of frozen butternut to save yourself the time and mess!)
- 2-32 ounce canned diced tomatoes
- 2-15 ounce can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 2-15 ounce can navy beans, rinsed and drained
- 1-15 ounce can tomato sauce
- Water to thin
- Generously season the ground beef with the spices and cook in a large soup pot on medium high heat until caramelized and brown. Your kitchen will smell divine. Once cooked through, remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Keep grease in pot to serve as your cooking fat. If not using meat, add a few tablespoons of olive oil. You may need olive oil anyhow depending on how fatty your meat was.
- Add the onion, garlic, and bell peppers to the pot. Cook for about 15-20 minutes until the vegetables are soft and fragrant.
- Next, add the diced tomatoes, the beans and the tomato sauce.
- Fill up one to two empty cans of water and add to the chili, more or less depending on your preference.
- Add the sweet potatoes, the butternut squash and the meat all back to the pot and give a good stir.
- Let simmer on low for 30-45 minutes (or more if you have patience) until the squash and the sweet potatoes are slightly soft but hold their shape. Taste and adjust the seasoning. I always end up adding more spices at the end so never know exactly how much seasoning I use. I'm usually very generous with the cinnamon and no one minds.
- Serve with corn chips or corn bread and lots of cheese.
P.S. These photos are from more than 3 years ago when we had a chili + bonfire night in our old house. Breaks my heart a little thinking about how long ago this was and how different things are now. Three kids and a new house! So much to be grateful for, especially this year. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Do add this chili to your winter bucket list and let me know how you like it!
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The TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge.FieldMerged returns useful information and options to manipulate the merged content in the TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge.FieldMergedEventArgs .
Since version X14 (24.0), the TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge.FieldMergedEventArgs.TableCell property returns a TXTextControl.TableCell object in case the merge field is positioned inside a table. This can be used to manipulate the table cell based on merged values.
Consider the following data structure and instance that is used to merge a template:
The following code creates a new instance of the reporting engine TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge , attaches the FieldMerged event and calls the TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge.MergeObjects method to merge a template with the created data object.
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FLIGHT International, 3 January 1974 British fuel allocations This month British airlines are having to limit fuel consumption to 90 per cent of that for January last year. This represents some 22 to 23 per cent less than what they required. Airlines have told the Government that they need 230,000 tons of kero sene during January, but supplies are being limited to 175,000 tons, a short-fall of 55,000 tons. Mr Michael Heseltine, Minister of Aerospace, told Flight that the allocation of fuel to foreign airlines would be subject to the proviso that British carriers should not be discriminated against at over seas airports. Although the industry is reticent about committing itself in public, Flight has been told that there are indications that in some instances foreign carriers are getting preferen tial treatment frotm their own Govern ments. The Minister said that because of the need to conserve kerosene for possible domestic use, should the industrial situation require it, the allocation was smaller than it might have been. He was unable to give any indication as to the size and extent of future cuts. It appears that charter airlines will again be treated slightly more favour ably than scheduled carriers. Clearly, the Department of Trade and Industry continues to subscribe to the view that scheduled airlines can save fuel by reducing flights and increasing load factors whereas charter carriers cannot. Most charter operators are confident that they will be able to fulfil their commitments. British Air ways is operating 80 per cent of the 6,000-odd flights that had originally been scheduled. Some routes from regional airports to the continent have been cut and there has been some combining of destinations. British Caledonian Airways, which last month had its fuel cut by more than 20 per cent, as opposed to an industry average of 17 per cent, says that it expects to operate "the bulk" of its schedules. • In the United States, industry sources are now openly discussing the possibility of an additional 25,000 redundancies. Despite the fact that American carriers are being allowed 90 per cent of the fuel they consumed in 1972—instead of a little over 80 per cent — aircraft continue to be withdrawn from service. Continental Air Lines has with drawn its four Boeing 747s and Eastern Air Lines is reported to be putting up for sale as many as six TriStars. Holidays and the fuel crisis "Tourism and the energy crisis" is the title of a seminar being held on January 9 at the Dorchester Hotel, London. It is organised by the Asso ciation of National Tourist Office Representatives in Great Britain and Tourism International. Details from E. A. Iatridis, National Tourist Organisation of Greece, 195-197 Regent Street, London W1R 8DL. Gen Fourquet to Aerospatiale General Michel Fourquet, former chief of the French armed forces, has been appointed president of the conseil de surveillance which is now to oversee the management of Aero spatiale. As noted in Flight on December 20, the shareholders' meeting held on December 28 accepted the new management structure of conseil de surveillance and directoire and ap pointed Gen Fourquet, the Banque Nationale de Paris and Credit Lyon- nais as shareholders' representatives on the conseil. Nine other members, drawn from the ministries of finance, transport and armed forces and from the trade unions were to be named last weekend. The first meeting of the new conseil, being held today in Paris, is expected to confirm the members of the directoire headed by Aero spatiale's new operating chief, Charles Cristofini. German thoughts on Europe How would the US aircraft industry cope if it had to satisfy seven or eight fully independent air forces on its home market territory? The European aerospace industry's problem is not its structure, but its market and pro grammes. With these thoughts, Dr Werner Knieper, chairman of the board of Zentralgesellschaft VFW - Fokker, The first of two General Dynamics YF-16 prototypes rolls out under power at Fort Worth on December 13 (see further photo graphs, page 21)
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Sophie Kinsella
An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey's daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother's gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she's never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just Audrey but also her entire family.
Things I liked about this book:
• There is NO boring part in the entire book. Every scene is funny, captivating or realistic.
• The characters are amazing. They are real and relatable. Audrey's mom is like every Mom in this entire planet, I have a cousin brother who is very much like Frank (Audrey's brother) !
• Linus is really nice and understanding, but I like that the romance part does not overshadow the other issues in the book. Audrey isn't "found" because of Linus, her character development is mostly her own credit (and her psychologist's, that's one cool lady).
• I tried really hard to go slow with this book because it's so tiny, but I just couldn't make myself stop reading!
• Finding Audrey cured my mini reading slump.
Things I did not like about the book:
• Was it very necessary for Audrey's Dad to have zero backbone? It's kind of irritating.
• The story behind Audrey's condition is still kind of hazy. I mean there are enough hints, but exactly what happened?
I'd suggest if you are thinking of reading thid book, you should definitely buy a copy and go ahead, read it. It has romance, family bonding, health issues, social issues. And plus, its extremely well-written. I think this is a kind of book everyone will enjoy, irrespective of what genre you prefer usually.
~ Sripurna.