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To delve deeper into our coverage of the 2012 COTE Top Ten Awards, ECO-STRUCTURE asked the winning firms to detail their experiences with sustainable design. These offices didn't just happen upon a winning scheme—rather, they're all well-versed in making high-performance strategies an integral part of each project. Below we take a closer look at some of the core values that shape each firm's ethos.
Location: Kansas City, Mo. (The Des Moines, Iowa, office oversaw the 2012 COTE Top Ten Project.) Additional offices in Houston, San Diego, and Los Angeles
Principals: Rod Kruse, FAIA, principal in charge; Carey Nagle, AIA, lead designer and project architect
Founded: 1970
Size: 79 employees
Little-known fact: One of BNIM's founding principals, Bob Berkebile, founded the AIA Committee on the Environment and was a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
What was the biggest lesson you learned from your 2012 COTE Top Ten project, the Iowa Utiltiies Board Office of Consumer Advocate Office Building?
Rod Kruse: The team frequently evaluated information to make the best decisions for the project, discovering that prescriptions and seemingly good ideas can't be taken at face value. Here are several examples:
1. LEED requirements limit the energy-reduction credit for occupancy sensor–controlled lighting and plug loads. However, the team felt that these were appropriate for a demonstration facility, predicting that they would pay off under true operating conditions. Actual energy-use data supports the design team's prediction.
2. Grant funding was available for small vertical-axis wind turbines. Upon studying available wind, there was not sufficient production potential, making it irresponsible to employ this strategy and diminish its potential in other circumstances.
3. The team analyzed optimal orientation strategies with regard to glazing and massing prior to any system design.
4. In an iterative daylighting design process, the team aesthetically favored a dense louver screen over a lightshelf. Ultimately, less-dense parabolic-profiled louvers were developed to reflect high-angle summer daylight deeper into the footprint while achieving an appropriate balance of glare control and daylighting under cloud cover. Modeling verified that 10-inch-deep blades at 10-inch spacing would capture daylight down to eye level, whereas a lightshelf would operate only above circulation.
What insights from this and other sustainable projects would you share with other professionals?
We have found that an integrated design process, which is both an organized collaboration between disciplines and an interweaving of building systems, is the only way to produce architecture that is environmentally responsible and well designed. Integrated design also focuses on the triple bottom line of finding environmental, social, and economic balance for our projects. Our integrated design approach allows us to bring together teams of experts in a variety of fields, and to apply best practices in technology and methodology to create holistic, interconnected design experiences and built projects. For the IUB/OCA Office Building, and any of our other projects, we have determined that this close interaction within the project team is best at uncovering ways that a given project can reach its performance goals—and often exceed them. Also on the IUB/OCA Office Building, we discovered that a blend of multiple passive and active strategies contributed to the performance metrics that were achieved. The holistic design ensures that the building is high-performing at many different levels, and that siting, shading, systems, materials, and other strategies perform in tandem with each other.
What is your firm's philosophy on sustainable design?
BNIM has made sustainability a way of life. We understand the implications of today's choices on future generations. It is our goal to use planning and design as tools to renew communities and provoke healthy living and healthy environments. At the root of our dedication is our sincere belief that informed sustainable decisions have a threefold benefit in being economically beneficial, socially responsible, and environmentally sound. This triple bottom line influences each of our projects.
What kinds of sustainable solutions are non-negotiable for your firm? What are the baseline standards your firm aims to meet with every project?
Our mission is to deliver beautiful, integrated living environments that inspire change and enhance the human condition. As a result, the highest level of sustainable, high-performance design that we can possibly achieve is our baseline for each project. This can vary from project to project, but our integrated design approach is a constant, ensuring that every project that we work on is targeting a triple bottom line balance with its solution.
How do you think these types of innovative green solutions might become standard?
We have found that the key to achieving innovative green solutions as a standard is twofold:
First, the solution has to demonstrate value to the client. This can be through cost savings from energy performance, lowered operational and maintenance costs, and more efficient and effective employees.
Second, as with any "new" solution, the more that the sustainable products and strategies are adopted, constructed and implemented, the more efficient the architecture and design industry becomes at designing and constructing them, which is key to creating a pattern for deeply sustainable design to become the norm.
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Rapala Touch Screen Tournament Scale 15lb
The Rapala Tournament Touch Screen Scale features a large digital touch screen, which makes it easy to store up to 8 separate fish weights. It also comes equipped with 8 numerical culling floats to match up with the stored fish weights, allowing for quick and easy identification of your smallest cull fish. A running cumulative total of your 8 fish weights is also continuously displayed, so you always know at a glance what your total sack weighs. The Rapala Tournament Touch Screen Scale runs up to 400 hours on two AA batteries (not included), and Backup Memory retains stored data if battery power is lost.
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-Large Digital Touch Screen
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-Stores up to 8 fish weights
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-8 Storage Bins - stores up to 8 individual fish weights
-8 Numbered Cull Floats
-Total Catch Weight - Continuously displays total catch weight and stored weight in bins
-Back Light - illuminates screen
-Ambient Temperature - displays current air temperature
-Sound - Turn acknowledgement tone on or off.
-Tare Weight - weight fish in a container without including the weight of the container in the reading
-400 hour life - two AA batteries (not included)
-Storage Bag - convenient soft bag features sewn in operation instruction for quick reference
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Comments: By far, the best scale I have ever used. Very accurate, easy to use, and great battery life. I've had it for over a year and have no complaints. I've had cul-m-rite and others that are way more expensive and this outperforms all of them. Great investment for $50.
From: Chris: Lake Havasu City, AZ 11/30/16
Comments: Great scale and works awesome in a tournament. Worst thing about it is the clamp that holds the fish, this parts sucks. So it bought a fish gripper and added it onto the scale in stead of the clamp or hook that comes with it. Now it is just bloody awesome!!
From: Lourens: South Africa 5/10/16
Comments: Great scale. Highly recommend. The ability to cull weights is really good feature.
From: Casey: Millboro, VA 10/24/15
Comments: Awesome scale, to answer Russ, the instructions are on the inside of the black cloth bag that comes with it....
From: Garreth: Cape Town, South Africa 6/10/15
Comments: Great scale. Great value. Especially compared to the Cull-M-Rite. Easy interface, hardly uses any battery power & very close weights to what is weighed officially. I recommend it.
From: Miles: USA 5/24/15
Comments: I was really excited and purchased 2 of these. The issue that I have is that the on/off button sticks and that makes this very tough to turn on quickly. Very tough on the fish when it takes a minute or so to turn on and be able to weigh the fish. Being a trophy hunter and catch and release guy, I have to admit that this somewhat expensive scale does not satisfy my requirements because of the sticking button issue. I am shocked that Normark did not identify this problem and fix it.
From: Jack: Kissimmee, FL 4/12/15
Comments: This scale is very accurate and easy to use. Unfortunately they will routinely turn themselves off before you can get a weight on your fish. I've owned two of them and they have both done the exact same thing. If Rapala were able fix this issue this would be an excellent scale but as it stands now I can not recommend it.
From: Daniel: AZ 1/20/15
Comments: scale is great. Tags are garbage buy good ones. Way better value than cull m rite.
From: Miles: AZ 3/30/14
Comments: The scale is awesome, however the clips on the cull tags suck. I just replace the lip clips with the safety pin type holder that way the bass won't shake them off and you will always be able to tell what fish is what number. Buy it.
From: Jeremy: Dover, DE
Comments: I would tell the weigh in official my weight (+-.12 ounce) before the weigh in was conducted. Best investment i made in 2013. Would highly recommend this product.
From: Craig
Comments: Been using this for a few years. It does have some quirks -have to push the screen a couple of times sometimes, or it turns off inadvertently (but it doesn't loose the previous entries), but, in general, works fine for me. A little unintuitive to use, but the instructions are sewn into the bag (once you remember how, its easy). I removed the clip and added a large single barbless hook. I also threw out the fish clips and made my own, using the numbered bouys that came with it and replacing stiffer nylon rope and plastic fish stringer clips (lighter than the metal ones). The scale by itself is worth every penny (compare to the more quirky Cull-M-Rite scales $). I found the weights to be dead on, if you have inaccuracies, it might be that you tared it incorrectly. I haven't dropped mine in the water, but it has been splashed plenty of times (probably every time I use it) so it seems to be adequately waterproof. Don't get the neg comments, but I'm happy with mine.
From: John: Monroe, Indiana
Comments: Scale is user friendly, and produces very repeatable readings.
From: Jesse: Waterford, MI
Comments: Works great until it gets damp. Returned it for another only to have that one fail too. If they could keep out the moisture they would have a great product. Very user friendly until it fails.
From: Lee: Hbg, PA
Comments: Extremely accurate. Warning: Not very waterproof. Used it in the rain in a tournament and it began to not work properly. Took all winter for it to dry out to where it now works. The touch screen is not very workable, have to push on the buttons real hard to register.
From: Max: Lacrosse, WI
Comments: Love this scale its accurate and has great features
From: Louis
Comments: Worked good for the first couple times and now its wayyyy off. Im better off taking a guess
From: BRAMBO199
Comments: Wow! All the negative reviews on this product This scale is highly accurate. It might have been a 1 oz off on a 29 lb. sack. I have used all kinds of scales and have yet to find one as good as this. Being able to store your weight, add your weight, and even the number the fish is on the culling system that comes with it but I use Ardent Smart Cull system so i used fingernail polish and painted the color beside the number and it makes it so easy to know which fish to cull. I have seen about 25 or 30 people in our area with this scale and nothing but high praise for this scale. Buy this and you wont go back to any other electronic scale.
From: Heath: Leighton, AL
Comments: When it works I really liked it. Found it to be pretty accurate. Problem I consistently have, is it will automatically shut off before getting fished weighed. It worked good at first but now having issues.
From: Chris: Maryville, MO
Comments: Sorry but this thing just ain't accurate. The same test weight (established on a certified scale) varied by .20# over multiple attempts. Maybe I got a lemon. Maybe not. TW made it right, as always.
From: TunaKiller: Bodega Bay, CA
Comments: Just used this scale at my last tournament. It was great highly recommend it.
From: Greg: Nova Scotia, Canada
Comments: I've had great success with this scale. I weighed a number of pike last weekend and it worked great. Don't let the look fool you, the clamp on the scale is very strong and held feisty pike in place. Unlike the previous poster, I've found this scale to be accurate. I weighed dumb bell weights and other random things and it was spot on. Compared to other scales I've used in the past, it is far superior. I highly recommend.
From: Nathan: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Comments: This scale is not accurate! I bought this scale and fished a KVD big bass tournament and it was over 1/4lb off, then I fished another tournament and weighed a fish and it said it was 4.60 and the tournament scale said it was 4.96, its a very nice scale and i love the design of the scale but its not accurate
From: Dustin: Arkansas
Comments: Great scale and like stated before the clip is alot stronger than it looks nice product from Rapala.
From: Lance: Livingston, TX
Comments: I weighted several dumbell weights i had 2, 3, 5 8 and 10 pounds. weighed them all and went back after weighing the larger and the smaller weights were right on even going back and forth several times. Turned it off and reweighed them again next day-same weights. The bag can be thrown away if you are not looking for it and this is where the instructions are on a water resistant sheet, attached inside the bag.
From: Andy: Houma, LA
Comments: The plastic clip is a lot stronger than it looks in the picture. It will hold fish and they can wiggle all they want, but that grip will not let go as it swivels around while the fish is attached. I was upset when I first got it because it doesn't come with instructions, but you can download them off the Rapala site - http://www.rapala.com/products/tools/touch_screen_scale/ - so far they are fairly accurate to within a few hundredths of an ounce. When fish are that close, the cull beam comes out so it's not a problem!
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This Thursday 2/21 at the Electric Tea Garden on Capitol Hill- an evening of electrically elevated sonic meditations and cosmic jams.
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A two-tone Sister Wives mug is one thing the gals on the TLC reality show don't have to share. On the surface, the Browns seem like one big happy American family, but Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn share one husband, Kody, who struggles with keeping their polygamy a secret from the rest of the world. The two-tone Sister Wives cup has a pink interior and a white exterior, is dishwasher and microwave safe and holds your favorite beverage while you follow the Browns' complicated family dynamics. EXCLUSIVE!
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A touch of gold on these ultra chic ballet flats will make your style shine. The Steve Madden Inid pointy toe flat has all the style you need for the season.
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Steve Madden Inid Flat
"This shoe is so cute ! I wish I;d gone a size up. I have narrow feet and the shoe is rather narrow than normal, and tight. The gold accents are a treat for any fit you pair it with. Although they are uncomfortable I 've worn casually and to work and received many compliments. Just by a size up from what you normally wear."
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IntroductionIreland, Republic of, Gaelic, Eire, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,016,000), 27,136 sq mi (70,282 sq km). It occupies all but the northeastern corner of the island of Ireland in the British Isles. (For physical geography and history to 1922, see Ireland.) From 1922 to 1937 the country was known as the Irish Free State, and from 1937 to 1949 as Eire. Dublin is the capital of the republic and by far its largest city.
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As described in Rachael Yamagata's song "Sidedish Friend". A friend who you don't want to always hang out with you, but you want them when you call them. Someone to have as a friend only when it's good for you.
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Jules Demikovsky was born on 27 March 1922 in Snovsk (now Shchors), Ukraine. In 1923 his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Brooklyn, New York. In 1940 he enrolled at the National Academy of Design, New York, to study painting. He also attended evening classes in sculpture at the Beaux Arts Institute. Drafted into the army in 1942, he took American citizenship and also his stepfather's name 'Olitsky'. After his discharge from the army, he briefly studied sculpture at the Educational Alliance, New York, in 1947 and then, in 1949, travelled to Paris where he studied for a short time in the studio of Ossip Zadkine. He held his first solo show at Galerie Huit, Paris, in 1951, before returning to New York. From 1952 to 1955 he studied art education at New York University, serving as a curator at the New York University Art Education Gallery until 1956. In that year he joined the faculty of Long Island University, becoming associate professor and chairman of the Fine Arts Department, and remained there until 1963. His first solo exhibition in the United States was held in 1958 at the Zodiac Gallery, New York, where his name was spelt 'Olitski', a European spelling which the artist has retained.
In 1964 Olitski began to apply colour with rollers and, by the end of the year, was using a spray gun. He showed his paintings at Kasmin Gallery, London, and at Galerie Lawrence, Paris. Also in 1964 he was selected by Clement Greenberg to participate in the exhibition Post-painterly Abstraction at Los Angeles County Museum. The following year Olitski, together with Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella, was selected by Michael Fried for the exhibition Three American painters at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. In 1966 he represented the United States at the Venice biennale, together with Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein and Noland. His first solo exhibition in a museum was arranged by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1967. In the late 1960s Olitski began to make sculptures using coloured aluminium and, later, sheet steel. In 1973 a retrospective exhibition was organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which toured to three other museums in the United States. From the late 1970s, the artist worked with thick, textured paint and a muted monochrome palette. In 2000 the exhibition Five decades of Jules Olitski was held in Naples, Florida, and other venues. Olitski worked in Florida and New Hampshire until his death in New York City on 4 February 2007.


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By GARY ARRINGTONSports writer
The Emery High Spartan football team played their second consecutive game against an undefeated, highly ranked region team and came away with another lopsided loss. The only difference this week was the fact that the Spartans were ice cold, literally.
When the team left Castle Dale, it was T-shirt weather. When the team stopped in Salina, it was T-shirt weather. But in Delta, it was far different. It was cold and windy; a wind that bit right through you and it was only going to get worse as the sun set.
Delta would score five of the six times they had the ball in the first half, once on a returned punt. Delta piled up 247 yards of offense versus 44 yards for Emery.
The only solace for the Spartans was the fact they actually scored on the Rabbits. The touchdown pass from Gatlan Huntington to Colby Snow was the first touchdown given up by Delta against a Utah foe this season. They had pitched five previous shutouts.
Emery will now travel to Mt Pleasant this Wednesday night and play region foe North Sanpete. Emery looks to bring home a win after playing two of the best teams in the state the last two weeks.


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"A Man for All Seasons" -- the great play by Robert Bolt concerning Sir Thomas More's doomed battle to reconcile his conscience with service to his king -- is narrated by a multirole character called the Common Man. He starts with an observation: "The 16th century is the Century of the Common Man. Like all the other centuries. And that's my proposition."
And a fine proposition it is, as can be seen now in the news from the 21st century. A pair of uncommonly common men are the heroes or villains, according to your taste, of leaking the government's secrets.
Edward Snowden, described by The New York Times as a "relatively low-level employee of a giant government contractor," recently revealed hitherto unknown government surveillance programs. Pfc. Bradley Manning, a low-level employee of a giant armed forces, is now on trial for sending thousands of secret diplomatic dispatches to WikiLeaks.
These two could show up at the Nonentities Ball -- although I think their ball-going days are over -- and someone would say: "Who are those two ordinary guys over at the bar with their ears flapping and their thumbs a-texting?"
Whatever other sentiments come to my mind about these unauthorized disclosures -- disgust, celebration, wonder, outrage, surprise or the lack thereof -- it seems to me that humility also must be part of the mix.
Speaking as one who has been a common man for many years, I view these revelations with a tinge of jealousy. Despite disgraceful table manners and slovenly dress, nobody has confided any secrets in me. I have nothing to leak at all. What is the point of being so common, nondescript and of lowly station, I ask myself, if nobody will dish the dirt?
You are probably asking the same question yourself, unless you are one of those superior elitist persons, in which case you are rendered clueless by being so removed from the commoners who know all the secrets. By the way, we ordinary people have assumed you were clueless all along.
There's an old saying: "No man is a hero to his valet" -- the sense being that valets see their masters without their pants on, know all their secrets and are not impressed. Today, no executive is a hero to his contractor employee, no commander is a hero to his private soldier.
You might otherwise think that the best source of secrets would be the high and mighty, but spymasters might be better advised to fire all their agents trained to sneak around the halls of power and replace them with a crew of hairstylists in the salons of gossip. Hairstylist contractors would be better still.
But back to the point. My proposition is that we the common people are directly responsible for the government spying on us and keeping its secret close to its chest, so that they can only be seen by tens of thousands of odd characters lurking in the depths of the chain of command.
The natural temptation is to blame Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush and the Congress. That is fair up to a point. But as a great Republican once said, it is a government of the people and by the people. Whether it is a government for the people is the question of the hour.
Inconveniently, we cannot view this president, his predecessor and the Congress as a breed apart from the rest of us. They are doing what most ordinary Americans wanted them to do. That's the unfortunate truth of the matter.
Consider surveillance cameras. They are everywhere but they were erected with few complaints and now none since the Boston Marathon bombers were identified by cameras. They seem like a very good idea in the light of that event. Thus, by seemingly reasonable degrees, privacy retreats.
The government is not the sole threat. Corporations collude with the government all the time. Edward Snowden worked for one -- Booz Allen Hamilton. And he said he was the source revealing that Verizon was handing over phone data to the National Security Agency under a secret order, and NSA had direct access to private Internet data.
And why did the government do this? Not surprisingly, because it feels it has to, or else be accused of being soft on terrorism in this age of the common man listening to his common talk radio. After all, the accepted wisdom after 9/11 was that the government could spy as much as it liked as long as it kept us safe from Islamic terrorists. Common men everywhere agreed.
Now the government camel is occupying the tent, nose and all, and we want to blame government leaders. So here we are, trying to reconcile our consciences with this dubious service to our country. Some common men have stirred themselves. Will others?reghenry
Reg Henry: email@example.com or 412-263-1668.


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The Arch Coal teacher awards were presented in Richfield last week. An Emery County teacher, Lori Labrum earned top honors in the event. Ken May from Arch Coal, Sufco mine was the emcee for the event.
Labrum believes the most important lesson she leaves with her students is to enjoy learning, because learning is for a lifetime. "It does not matter if a student values learning about the past, present, future, literature, science or any other discipline, all students need skills and knowledge to search out their interests," says the 26-year teaching veteran.
"As a teacher in the 21st century, I need to guide students in new ways of accessing available information to increase their learning," she adds. "With new technology so readily available, this is certainly an exciting time for a teacher."
Labrum is one of only five Utah teachers to receive a 2011 Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. Arch Coal Senior Vice President Paul Lang made the announcement at Ashman Elementary School. He was accompanied by Utah Education Association Vice President Tom Nedreberg. This is the fifth year the Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Awards have been made in Utah.
"Lori Labrum's goal is to help her students become lifelong learners, to use available technology to enrich knowledge in their areas of interest and to broaden their interests," says Lang. "She wants them to see there is a big world out there and help them find ways to improve their own parts of that world."
An Orangeville resident, Labrum teaches third-grade students at Cottonwood Elementary School, Orangeville. "My philosophy of teaching comes from many years of experience and is continually being refined," she notes. "As the years go by, I have seen children's abilities and desires to learn change, requiring a change in me as well.
"I know that students will rise to the expectations that are set for them," she adds. "I expect my students to always achieve, and together we work for the goal. I do not accept the word 'try,' because it allows an excuse for not accomplishing a goal. In my classroom, our motto is, 'I will do it.' We don't just try; we do it. We do our best each day, and tomorrow our best will be better."
Labrum earned a bachelor's degree at Weber State College, Ogden, and a master's degree at Southern Utah University, Cedar City. A past Arch Coal Golden Apple Achiever recipient, she has achieved reading and math endorsements and uses every opportunity to keep current on teaching styles, new curriculum, classroom management and other aspects of education through college classes, workshops and seminars, as well as her extensive library of professional books, journals, periodicals and the Internet. Labrum further supports her community by helping older residents. She also has volunteered for a range of community sports, civic and church activities.
The Arch Coal Foundation's teacher recognition program is available to classroom teachers in Carbon, Emery, Sanpete and Sevier counties. The counties surround the Skyline, Dugout Canyon and Sufco mines operated by Canyon Fuel Company, a subsidiary of major U.S. coal producer Arch Coal, Inc. Each recipient receives a distinctive trophy, a classroom plaque and a $3,500 personal cash award.
Partners for the program include the Office of the Governor, Utah State Office of Education, Utah Education Association, Utah School Superintendents Association, Carbon County School District, Emery County School District, Sevier County School District, North Sanpete School District, South Sanpete School District, Far West Bank, Market Express, radio stations KMTI, KLGL, KMGR, KSVC, KCYQ, KOAL, KARB, KRPX, and both TacoTime and Bookcliff Sales in Price.
Arch's Canyon Fuel Company is Utah's largest coal producer and a large, state employer, with a workforce of more than 800. U.S.-based Arch Coal, Inc. is one of the world's largest and most efficient coal producers, with more than 160 million tons of coal sold in 2010. Arch's national network of mines supplies cleaner-burning, low-sulfur coal to customers on four continents, including U.S. and international power producers and steel manufacturers.
The five award-winning teachers of 2011 are: Bonny Dahlsrud from Salina Elementary School; Karen A. Hansen-Gunnison Valley Middle School; Lori Ware Labrum
Cottonwood Elementary School; Ashlee Larsen-Monroe Elementary School; Janiece Tuttle-Ashman Elementary School in Richfield.
"It's clear that Utahns believe in the value of quality education provided by caring, professional teachers," said Lang. "These award-winning teachers are not only masters of the materials they teach, but also provide a caring, nurturing environment for their students. They challenge the children and support their efforts to succeed."
"The Utah Education Association is proud to partner with the Arch Coal Foundation to honor these outstanding educators," said Nedreberg. "These professionals are helping to build a bright future for our state. They represent the very best of Utah's many talented teachers. I learned about coal as a child. Where I came from they mined coal with a steam shovel so big and large that one school would fill an entire truck."
Nedreberg asked the students if they knew what coal was used for. They answered for fire. He told them coal can be used for a lot of things including electricity which keeps the lights on. Eighty percent of electricity comes from coal. Coal is an important resource and our teachers are an important resource. "We are proud to partner with Arch Coal to honor teachers who enrich our students lives," said Nedreberg.
May told the audience that in Sevier County coal related production and activity accounts for one third of the tax base. Lang said that Arch Coal believes in the importance of giving back to the communities where Arch Coal mines play an important role.
Labrum said, "Teaching is just wonderful and I love it. The kids are so great. The parents at Cottonwood Elementary are so great to work with. The faculty and staff are the greatest."


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The Self-Adjusting Mystery Clock
RAY: This puzzler was sent in by a fellow named Mark Sylvia.
Here it is:
It used to be that when we changed into or out of Daylight Savings Time, you had to manually change all the clocks and appliances in your house.
Now, many of them are wired into sources that change them for us. So, for example, you change your wall clock and your microwave clock, but your computer, your cell phone, and your cable TV clocks automatically show the newly changed time without you having to do anything.
There is, however, a certain clock in my house that is not wired into anything. In fact, it runs on a battery, and it reads correctly all the time without my having to change it every spring and fall at the time changes.
The question is, how does it do this?
Think you know? Drop Ray a note!
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Doisy Research Center: Towering Beacon of Hope
Striking Facility Is Testament to SLU's Commitment to Research
A view of SLU's Doisy Research Center
The scientists who work in state-of-the art laboratories within the Doisy Research Center share a pledge to fight human suffering as they search for lifesaving vaccines, cures and treatments for a broad range of diseases.
For many students, academic research is part of the Saint Louis University experience. SLU has been designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of a handful of Catholic universities that is "research extensive."
Gateway to Medical Center
Situated at Grand Boulevard and Choteau Avenue at the northern gateway to the University's Medical Center, the 206,000-square-foot building is named after the late Dr. Edward A. Doisy, a Nobel laureate and professor at Saint Louis University for five decades. Doisy was internationally recognized for his pioneering work in the field of biochemistry and his discovery of vitamin K and its chemical nature.
University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J., has called the Doisy Research Center "the most significant building project in the modern SLU era" and an effort that, in every way, "honors the memory of a pioneering scientist and researcher."
"The work being done in the Doisy Research Center will touch many lives far beyond the walls of this structure and will keep Saint Louis University on the forefront of cutting-edge medical research," Biondi said.
The 162 scientists in the Doisy Research Center are working on five key areas of scientific discovery: cancer and molecular biology; liver disease; cardiovascular disease; neurosciences and aging; and vaccine development.
Inspiring creativity
The building's very design is aimed at furthering scientific progress and inspiring creativity and collaboration. The 80 research labs on eight floors have a flexible design, with many of them open so researchers from complementary fields can share knowledge as they work on experiments.
The Doisy Research Center does more than simply propel scientific and biomedical progress. By giving researchers laboratory space worthy of the lifesaving discoveries they make, the facility boosts SLU's ability to attract and retain the brightest and most promising faculty.
Moreover, the building is another huge step forward in the University's effort to revitalize the Midtown neighborhood of St. Louis, where SLU has invested more than $840 million during the last two decades.
The building itself forms the eastern anchor of CORTEX -- the Center of Research Technology and Entrepreneurial Exchange -- an initiative to develop a nationally recognized life sciences industry in the corridor between SLU and Washington University in St. Louis.
Environmentally friendly
Because the Doisy Research Center is dedicated to improving people's health, it's fitting that the facility is environmentally friendly in design, construction and operation. LEED-certified as a green building, the Doisy Research Center integrates environmental awareness in day-to-day operations.
The design itself features walls of windows that flood the building interiors with natural light, saving energy and promoting well-being among the researchers and technicians.
Its energy-efficient heating and cooling system contains no chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs, considered harmful to the environment. A "green roof" -- with low-growing vegetation that requires little care or water -- was planted on a two-story roof extension to help stabilize temperatures inside the building.
The building also includes bike racks, showers and locker rooms for people who ride bicycles to work. Priority parking is available for those who drive alternative-fuel cars.
Recycled steel, concrete, carpeting and other floor finishes, and materials from rapidly renewable sources such as bamboo and cork were used throughout the building. During construction, steel, brick and other materials were removed and recycled during the demolition of previous buildings.


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Girard-Perregaux Men's Vintage 1945 Squared Watch
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The Mission SLYDE Series Goalie Catcher is specifically designed for roller hockey goalies. Lightweight pro construction and HEX foam technology deliver outstanding performance and protection. The Mission SLYDE goalie glove features a game-ready break-in design and pre-curved palm for enhanced puck retention.
Mission's new SLYDE goalie catcher is constructed from high grade synthetic leather ensuring excellent durability. Various lightweight foams and injection-molded plastic inserts are used to disperse shot impacts to the goaltenders glove hand. The flared cuff box design helps direct rebounds into the pocket and allows additional wrist room for improved mobility. Mission's molded trajectory angled thumb provides solid shot protection for the thumb and helps direct the puck into the deep split-T pocket. The split T-pocket design helps create a larger pocket for retaining the puck.
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Wacky Weather Patterns Create Confusing Allergy Season
A SLU Allergist Offers Tips to Distinguish between the Common Cold and Allergies
ST. LOUIS - There's a local proverb that says if you don't like the weather in St. Louis, just wait 10 minutes. That saying gained validity this winter with temperatures into the 60s one week and snow and sleet the next.
|Raymond Slavin, M.D.
The sharp temperature changes aren't just creating major wardrobe challenges. For people coughing, sneezing and blowing their nose, the weather is also making it harder to diagnose the cause of their symptoms.
According to Raymond Slavin, M.D., professor of internal medicine at Saint Louis University and SLUCare allergist, signs of an early allergy season were starting to bloom in early February as significant counts of tree pollen were detected during the area's warm spell. Winter weather since then, however, has made predicting the start of allergy season more difficult while also extending cold season.
"Allergies and colds share many of the same symptoms which can make diagnosing the problem more difficult," Slavin said. "However, there are a few distinctions that can help you differentiate between the two."
- Duration: Cold symptoms usually last for only a few days. Allergy symptoms can last weeks or even months when left untreated.
- Timing: Seasonal allergies occur the same time every year. A cold is more sporadic, and is most often contracted during the winter.
- Itching: The presence of itching either in the eyes or nose is a common symptom of an allergy, but rarely occurs with a cold.
- Family history: Allergies to a particular irritant can be passed down genetically. If you have a family history of allergies, your symptoms are more likely to be caused by allergies than a cold.
The prevalence of allergies is nothing to sneeze at. Roughly 40 million Americans suffer from allergies of some kind, and those numbers may be growing.
"Over the last ten years, allergy diseases have increased markedly," Slavin said. "While there have been no definitive explanations for the increase, global warming is believed to be extending the pollen season which may be impacting allergy sufferers."
When left untreated, allergy sufferers can develop allergic rhinitis, or hay fever, leaving the individual more susceptible to sinus infections, ear infections and a predisposition to asthma. Allergies can also cause fatigue and trouble sleeping which can impede an individual's work performance and quality of life.
Though allergies are a common condition, the symptoms can be controlled. Slavin offers the following tips for allergy sufferers:
- Purchase an over-the-counter non-sedative antihistamine such as Allegra, Claritin or Zyrtec.
- Resist the urge to roll the windows down while driving. Keeping windows closed both in your home and in your car will help you avoid allergens.
- If the first two steps don't work, seek a physician for a cortisone nasal spray. The medication is a very effective treatment but requires a prescription.
SLUCare, the physician practice of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, is the only academic medical practice in St. Louis that is fully accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc. This accreditation is a voluntary process through which the quality of SLUCare services and performance is measured against nationally recognized standards. To schedule an appointment, call 314-977-4440 or 1-866-977-4440. More information is available at www.slucare.edu.


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An IRCE speaker will explain how to boost web traffic and conversion.
Paul Demery
As e-commerce continues to take a larger share of total retail sales, small retailers don't have to sit back and watch the big retailers rake in all the gold, says Craig Smith, CEO and founder of Trinity Insight, a company that helps online retailers boost web site traffic and convert more consumers into buyers. Smith will discuss how small retailers can take advantage of the latest trends in e-commerce technology to build sales in a June 5 presentation at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Small retailers face the challenge of choosing among a wide range of technology applications to optimize e-commerce and fitting their choices into limited technology spending budgets. To help set retailers set priorities, Smith will address spending options in the IRCE session, "E-commerce technologies for growth: What's now and what's next for small retailers" in the Small Retailers track on June 5.
He'll discuss new applications and methods for optimizing consumer engagement in search marketing and e-mail marketing, and feeding product data to search and comparison shopping engines. "Retailers will learn about new testing, targeting and inbound optimization methodologies to help improve efficiency and conversion," Smith says.
The session will also offer a special focus on how small retailers can use new applications and methods in collecting and measuring data on consumers' shopping behavior to maximize conversion rates in mobile commerce, including both mobile sites and mobile apps, across multiple mobile devices, Smith says. "A focus will be placed on preparing to maximize the mobile opportunity by improving cross-device shopping insights through new advances in data collection and measurement," he says.
The editors of Internet Retailer invited Craig Smith to speak at IRCE because of his experience and expertise in working with online retailers. Smith founded Trinity Insight in 2006 to help online companies maximize web site traffic and conversion rates. He has served as the firm's CEO since it launched. A year ago, he also founded Fanland Inc. as an online network for sports fans. Smith also worked as an e-commerce strategist between 2003 and 2006 at GSI Commerce, an e-commerce technology and services company that is now part of eBay Inc. Earlier in his career, Smith worked on e-commerce projects for Cigna Corp. and was a software sales executive for Netscan Technology.


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I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond. Robert has this weird addiction. He must bring his food to touch the butt of his chin before he swallows it.
Everybody has a strange addiction of some sort, or habits, OCD moments, or quirks.
For example, I can't stop shaking my legs in classroom or in front of my computer when I am bored or hyper.
I can't withstand a white piece of scrap paper on the floor, even if it's a tiny strip. As long as it is in my peripheral sight, I must remove it from the floor before I can concentrate on anything. If it's colored, I don't care.
If I am bored, I like to check my watch every half a minute. It makes others think that I am being impatient with them and get offended. So I had to learn to stop.
Highlighting whatever I'm reading.
I set my alarm 10 minutes early so I get to have the gratification of hitting snooze twice, making me feel like I had a longer sleep.
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"Band of Brothers," the epic 2001 HBO miniseries that re-created World War II from the perspective of the common soldier, won six Emmys and earned thirteen additional nominations, including a nod for Cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, BSC. In March 2010, Executive Producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks will revisit the war years with "The Pacific," a film that recounts the WWII struggle from the first battle with the Japanese forces at Guadalcanal, though the rain forests of Cape Gloucester, to the well-defended terrain of Peleliu.
As with "Band of Brothers," "The Pacific" employed a roster of several directors to handle the ten chapters. When Adefarasin was asked by Co-Executive Producer Tony To to take on the assignment, the DP was initially hesitant. "When I first considered coming onto "The Pacific," I hesitated, thinking I'd done enough of World War II," says Adefarasin. "But when Tony spoke to me about the scope of the production, and how it would be such a strong statement about how bad war can be, physically and mentally, from every point of view, I decided I had to do it."
This time Adefarasin split his camera duties with Australia native Stephen Windon, ACS. Each filmed five episodes for various directors. Each episode was filmed in 21 to 26 days, depending on the complexity of the script. The majority of the production was filmed in Australia, and the scale was vast – "The Pacific" is believed to be the most expensive television project ever mounted in that country.
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Adefarasin says that they took some cues from images shot on reversal film by soldiers during the war. "Our images couldn't look phony or doctored," he says. "Some of those archival images had an amazing look. The reversal stocks from the 1940s couldn't fake contrast too well. The saturation is quite high, so everything seems slightly exaggerated. Duplication and re-duplication over the years added contrast and twisted the colors somewhat. So the whole image is really quite manipulated, and there are wonderful textures and shapes and resonances. There's a natural patina that you couldn't actually re-create by mechanical means."
After extensive testing, the filmmakers settled on shooting with tungsten-balanced film stocks, but without an 85 correction filter, which is normally used to adjust daylight color temperatures. "That gave a very slight color twist to the negative," says Adefarasin. "We achieved the rest of the effect through lighting, by overexposure or by hard, heavy backlight, and also in the final grade." Adefarasin and Windon used KODAK VISION3 200T 5217 and VISION2 500T 5218 film stocks in the 35mm format. They framed the images for 16x9 aspect ratio using ARRI Studio and Lite cameras, and Zeiss Ultra Prime lenses.
The production mounted sets at Melbourne City Studios, and shot at locations in and around New South Wales, rural Victoria and Port Douglas, Queensland, which served as the company's base. The black-sand terraces of Iwo Jima were re-created in a quarry. Other scenes depicted Marines on leave in Australia, and the family homes of Marines back in the States, where loved ones waited and prayed. These scenes were filmed at homes in the Melbourne area. To shoot jungle battle sequences, the filmmakers braved poisonous snakes, jellyfish, crocodiles and aggressive plant life in the pristine rain-forest wilderness in far north Queensland, Australia. Strict rules preventing extensive light rigging or other alterations required inventive solutions from the cinematographers and their crews.
The decision to shoot film helped with scenes in bright sunlight and under the jungle canopy, where very little light penetrates. "Inside the jungle, you get huge changes in color temperature throughout the shooting day, as sun or cloud cover changes," says Windon. "Where possible, to counteract that problem and to smooth the differentiation between the color temperatures, we put about 50 6K Spacelights up in the palm trees, with full CTB and some plus green gel on them. In a dark environment, it was amazing how much you could lift the ambient light. We ran these lights through a dimmer system. With camouflage nets and sometimes artificial rain, this worked pretty well. The 5218 doesn't lose information in the darkness or in the highlights, even when there is a bright, white beach or a hot sky in the frame." On the ground, Windon used some white and shiny bounce cards here and there, and sometimes laid blue bedsheets on the ground to reflect cooler-toned light up into the helmets and onto the faces of the actors.
Also important to the success of the shoot was the durability of the equipment. Re-creating the amphibious assaults put the filmmakers on small landing craft in very rough seas. "Imagine floating in a tin can with vomit and salt and sand and blood flying everywhere," says Adefarasin, describing the shoot. "There was a lot of slamming around due to violent waves. If we had shot on a digital format, we'd have been dead after the first day of shooting. On a raw and epic film like "The Pacific," so many violent things happen in front of the lens: explosions, water, blood, impacts and the contrast of light and shade. Film can handle it all."
Handheld cameras were used with nonstandard frame rates and shutter angles to lend the battle scenes a frenetic, out-of-control feeling. "I only shot 24 frames per second when there was dialogue," says Windon. "The rest of the time, I would make subtle changes in frame rate – sometimes 21 or 22 fps, or even 27 or 28 fps, sometimes combined with a 90- or 45-degree shutter, depending on what felt right for the shot. That creates a heightened intensity, or a lovely staccato as a mortar goes off, or enhanced something as simple as the turn of a head or the blink of an eye." Adefarsin adds, "Our philosophy was that it should look as if a modern film crew were dropped into the past. The cameras were often handheld, but not deliberately shaken. The idea was to give it a vivid documentary urgency and vitality."
In scenes depicting the Iwo Jima assault, Windon felt that a very deep focus would have more impact and intensity, and less theatricality. "In a way, it's the opposite of a shallow depth-of-field, anamorphic look, which has one plane of focus. All the layers were sharp from eight inches from the film plane right through to a distant mountain. In the archival footage we looked at, things happened in a very nontheatrical way, and part of our job was to interpret that feeling with our photography."
About 1.2 million feet of exposed negative was processed at Cinevex/Deluxe in Melbourne. The telecine transfer was handled at Digital Pictures in Melbourne on an HD Spirit Datacine, resulting in 4:4:4 HDCAM-SR files. Dailies Colorist Neil Wood used a daVinci 2K system to set a one-light look based on digital stills taken on the set and manipulated by the cinematographers. A full-2K digital intermediate was created for future distribution options. Negative was occasionally rescanned at 2K or even 4K resolution on ARRI or Spirit scanners, if the dailies grade wasn't adequate. At Riot in Santa Monica, California, about 15 days of final color correction was devoted to each episode. DI Colorist Steve Porter did the final color timing with Postproduction Supervisor Todd London.
Adefarasin and Windon both express admiration and gratitude to their crews, who faced the location difficulties with skill and persistence. "We had a fantastic grip and lighting team," says Adefarasin. "It was truly a global enterprise – the crew members were English, Australian, German and Japanese, etc. I was filming in a country where I had never shot before, but I'd love to go back. We collaborated in the best way a film unit can." Windon agrees: "Every episode was so big and so different that it was like making ten one-hour feature films. There are incredible variations in looks. It was very interesting and engaging from an emotional point of view to even photograph. Every written word in the screenplays was powerful, strong and thought-provoking. I know this shoot will always be special to me. It was incredibly satisfying and rewarding to be a part of it."
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Wow, Johnny withdrawing. Unexpected. Hopefully everything's okay.
This is a big break for Adam Rippon. With his two World Junior golds and his gold from 4CC, he could be a dark horse competitor here. Less chance at podium level, but definitely top 10 chances, especially with the way some of the big dogs have been skating lately.
it doesn't truly surprise me. I am stuck here at home after blizzard conditions buried my truck and the road isn't clear to get to work, so I'm flipping channels and he's on the Soup right now... seems he and Evan are finally taking some time to really make the hollywood rounds, good for them.
so we'll get Adam and Ryan and Jeremy? or will none of our Olympians be in Torino?
So not surprise. Johnny's been doing the circuit and I wondered when he would announce his withdrawal. Actually I'm surprised he thinks he still wants to compete. Not a Ryan fan but I'm glad Adam will get this opportunity to start now in building towards Sochi and hopefully Jeremy will still compete.
Oh, sugar!
I'm happy for Adam though. And I'm really happy about the reason Johnny gives. Not that he wants to go to Oscar parties although it sounds like he did do some of that, and why not? But that he wants to rework his technique and make sure he places higher in the future. I don't know what that means, specifically, but more power to him ... literally!
Great chance for Adam, no doubt about it.
Not surprised at all - atleast he was honest and said it would "not be advantageous to HIM" at this time.
Good luck Adam - you are the future anyway as Weir's time passed years ago.
His comment is a bit cryptic. I'm not sure what he's re-working, or why can't go to worlds in 3 weeks and spend the rest of the spring and summer reworking stuff. I'm also not sure what he means by advantageous. Does he feel that another low placement would make his reputation drop in the judges' eyes? He seemed ready to retire after this season; wonder what lit the fire under him? At any rate, I hope that his plan works - Johnny's always been a sentimental favorite of mine.
Oh, that's too bad. I wanted to see Johnny there!
But I'm happy for Adam going to his first Worlds!
I'm surprised. I thought Worlds were gong to be Johnny's going out party.
I must say, this concerns me a bit. Without Evan and Johnny, will the US hold three spots? Jeremy, Adam and Ryan are all fantastic skaters, but Jeremy hasn't had a strong showing at Worlds, Adam doesn't have much senior international experience and Ryan is a fabulous skater when he's on, but when he's off, he's off.
Weir does need to rework his 3flip technique. He constantly gets called by the tech panel for lipping his 3flip and as a result loses many GOE points due to the wrong edge entry.
My dream team would be Abbott, Rippon, and Weir, so I'm a little sad Johnny won't compete at Worlds, but I do think he's making the right decision. It's clearly obvious that his head is not into training right now; he's been out and about away from the rink having fun and there's nothing wrong with that. He deserves a break if he feels he needs one. Good luck to him in the future!
I think Ryan is the strength of this team - so long as he is going and the rumors about his ankle are untrue - Jeremy is a mess this time of the skating season, and Rippon is a newbie who also is hit or miss... Ryan's going to be the one that has to step up and deliver. This is his olympics and I bet he brings it all to teh table.
Not to surprised though I will miss seeing Johnny at Worlds. Good for Adam.
Yay! Adam's first opportunity to compete at senior Worlds. I'm so happy for him! I hope he has enough time to practice!
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