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June 6, 2007
Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.Peter Lurie, M.D., M.P.H.Kate ResnevicShiloh Stark
Public Citizen's Health Research Group has calculated the rate of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 doctors in each state. Using state-by-state data released in late April by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) on the number of disciplinary actions taken against doctors in 2006,[1] combined with data from earlier FSMB reports covering 2004 and 2005, we have compiled a national report ranking state boards by the rate of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 doctors for the years 2004-6 (See Table 1, PDF) and for earlier three-year intervals (See Table 2, PDF).
Because some small states do not have many physicians, an increase or decrease of one or two serious actions in a year can have a much greater effect on the rate of discipline in such states (and their ranks) than it would in larger states. To minimize such fluctuations, we therefore calculate the average rate of discipline over a three-year period: the year of interest and the preceding two years. Thus, the newest ranking is based on rates from 2004, 2005, and 2006, not the rate for 2006 alone.
Our calculation of rates of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 doctors by state is created by taking the number of such actions for each state (revocations, surrenders, suspensions and probation/restrictions, the first two categories in the FSMB data) and dividing that by the American Medical Association (AMA) data on total M.D.s as of December 2005[2] in that state. We add to this denominator the number of osteopathic physicians[3] for the 37 boards that are combined medical/osteopathic boards. We then multiply the result by 1,000 to get board disciplinary rates per 1,000 physicians. This rate calculation is done for each year and the average rate for the last three years is used as the basis for this year's state board rankings (Table 1). We then repeated these calculations for each of the three previous three-year intervals (2001-3, 2002-4, and 2003-5; Table 2).
In previous years, we have used AMA data on non-federal M.D.s, but the AMA now only provides information on the total number of licensed physicians, without a breakdown by federal/non-federal status. We therefore amended our traditional protocol to use data on the total number of M.D.s in each state as the denominator in calculating the rates. To ensure that the ranks based on this new denominator are as comparable as possible to data from previous years, we entered the data for total physicians and re-calculated the rates of serious actions of every state for each year in the period from 2001-2006, as well as the related three-year rankings. All states' rates, as currently calculated, are therefore somewhat lower than rates in our previous reports because of the larger denominator. However, this had no effect on the rankings of most states because the larger denominators affect all states:[4] the ranks of 39 of the states for the 2002-2004 interval were identical to what they had been in our report for that interval issued in 2005,[5] in which we used only non-federal physicians. Of the 12 states with different ranks, the rank of six increased by only one place and the other six decreased by one place.
There were 2,916 serious disciplinary actions taken by state medical boards in 2006, down 10.4 percent from the 3,255 serious actions taken in 2005. The national average disciplinary rate was 3.18, compared to 3.62 in 2005. The three-year state disciplinary rates ranged from 1.41 serious actions per 1,000 physicians (Mississippi) to 7.30 actions per 1,000 physicians (Alaska), a 5.2-fold difference between the best and worst states.
As can be seen in Table 1, the bottom 10 states, those with the lowest serious disciplinary action rates for 2004-2006, were, starting with the lowest: Mississippi (1.41 actions per 1,000 physicians); South Carolina (1.45); Minnesota (1.45); South Dakota (1.52); Nevada (1.68); Wisconsin (1.78); Washington (2.06); Delaware (2.22); Maryland (2.25); and Connecticut (2.34).
Table 2 shows that five of these 10 states, (Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, South Carolina, and Wisconsin) have been among the bottom 10 states for each of the last four three-year periods.
Nine states have experienced at least a 10-place drop in ranking between the 2001-3 ranking and the 2004-6 ranking: Alabama went from 13th to 26th; Georgia from 15th to 25th; Idaho from 14th to 24th; Mississippi from 20th to 51st; Nevada from 33rd to 47th; New Jersey from 24th to 40th; North Dakota from 3rd to 19th; South Dakota from 37th to 48th; and Virginia from 30th to 41st.
The top 10 states for 2004-6 are (in order from the top down): Alaska (7.30 serious actions per 1,000 physicians); Kentucky (7.10); Wyoming (6.37); Ohio (6.01); Oklahoma (5.54); Missouri (5.43); Iowa (5.32); Colorado (5.24); Arizona (5.12); and Nebraska (4.91).
Seven of these 10 states (all but Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska) have been in the top ten for all four of the three-year average periods in this report. Seven states have improved by at least 10 places from the 2001-3 ranking to the 2004-6 ranking. Most notable are Nebraska and Missouri, now both among the top 10 states. Nebraska improved from 28th to 10th and Missouri from 31st to 6th. Illinois improved from 35th to 12th; North Carolina from 41st to 16th; Tennessee from 44th to 29th; Pennsylvania from 45th to 32nd; and Hawaii from 51st to 33rd.
These data demonstrate a remarkable variability in the rates of serious disciplinary actions taken by the state boards. Only one of the nation's 15 most populous states, Ohio, is represented among those 10 states with the highest disciplinary rates. Absent any evidence that the prevalence of physicians deserving of discipline varies substantially from state to state, this variability must be considered the result of the boards' practices. Indeed, the ability of certain states to rapidly increase or decrease their rankings (even when these are calculated on the basis of three-year averages) can only be due to changes in practices at the board level; the prevalence of physicians eligible for discipline cannot change so rapidly.
Moreover, there is considerable evidence that most boards are under-disciplining physicians. For example, in a report on doctors disciplined for criminal activity that we published in the last year, 67 percent of insurance fraud convictions and 36 percent of convictions related to controlled substances were associated with only non-severe discipline by the board.[6]
In this report, we have concentrated on the most serious disciplinary actions. Although the FSMB does report less severe actions such as reprimands, it is not appropriate to provide such actions with equal weight as license revocations, for example. A state that embarks on a strategy of switching over time from revocations or probations to fines or reprimands for similar offenses should have a rate and a ranking that reflects this decision to discipline less severely.
A relatively recent trend has been for state boards to post the particulars of disciplinary actions they have taken on the Internet. In October 2006, Public Citizen's Health Research Group published a report that ranked the states according to the quality of those postings.[7] The report showed variability in the quality of those websites akin to that reported for disciplinary rates in this report. There was no correlation between state ranking in the website report and state ranking in this disciplinary rate report (Spearman's rho = 0.0855; p=0.55). A good website is no substitute for a poor disciplinary rate (or vice versa); states should both appropriately discipline their physicians and convey that information to the public. However, no state ranked in the top 10 in both reports.
This report ranks the performance of medical boards by their disciplinary rates; it does not purport to assess the overall quality of medical care in a state or to assess the function of the boards in other respects. It cannot determine whether a board with, for example, a low disciplinary rate has been starved for resources by the state or whether the board itself has a tendency to mete out lower (or no) forms of discipline. From the patient's perspective, of course, this distinction is irrelevant.
Boards are likely to be able to do a better job in disciplining physicians if the following conditions are met:
Most states are not living up to their obligations to protect patients from doctors who are practicing medicine in a substandard manner. Serious attention must be given to finding out which of the above bulleted variables are deficient in each state. Action must then be taken, legislatively and through pressure on the medical boards themselves, to increase the amount of discipline and, thus, the amount of patient protection. Without adequate legislative oversight, many medical boards will continue to perform poorly.
[1] Federation of State Medical Boards. Summary of 2006 Board Actions, available at http://www.fsmb.org/pdf/FSMB%202007%20Summary%20of%20Board%20Actions.pdf.
[2] Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S. American Medical Association, 2006 Edition.
[3] Fact Sheet: American Osteopathic Association. Statistics as of August, 2004, available at http://www.do-online.osteotech.org/pdf/ost_factsheet.pdf.
[4] This is not surprising as in the 2004 edition of the AMA publication, the last to include the federal/non-federal physician breakdown, only 2.46 percent of all physicians were federal employees. Moreover, these physicians were disproportionately represented in a small number of states (e.g., Alaska, District of Columbia, Maryland and Hawaii).
[5] Wolfe, SM, Lurie P. Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards' Serious Disciplinary Actions: 2002-2004, available at http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=2381.
[6] Jung P, Lurie P, Wolfe SM. U.S. Physicians Disciplined For Criminal Activity. Health Matrix 2006;16:335-50.
[7] Larson, M, Marcus B, Lurie P, Wolfe SM. 2006 Report of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Web Sites: A Survey and Ranking of State Medical and Osteopathic Board Web Sites, available at http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=700.
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Posted April 1, 2003; 11:32 a.m.
Princeton juniors Charlotte Lanvers and Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky are among 76 students from 63 U.S. colleges and universities named 2003 Truman Scholars by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The award recognizes their leadership potential, intellectual ability and commitment to public service.
Each scholarship provides $30,000 -- $3,000 for the senior year and $27,000 for graduate school in preparation for a career in government or another area of public service. Scholars also receive priority admission and supplemental financial aid at some premier graduate institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling and internship opportunities within the federal government.
Lanvers, a graduate of Park City High School in Park City, Utah, is majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She plans to attend law school and work in children's advocacy and education reform. Ramos-Mrosovsky, a graduate of Kew Forest School in Forest Hills, N.Y., is majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He plans to pursue graduate study in international law, leading to a career in diplomacy.
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We think Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are just the cutest couple ever and it pains us that they keep breaking up! Here are 8 reasons why they should keep trying to make it work!
We were devastated to confirm that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez broke up a week ago, just before New Year's Eve! But the on again/off again couple may be headed for another reconciliation, a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. Click through this gallery of eight reasons why they should get back together!
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Thread: Suspended algae problem
09-29-2012, 04:37 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Suspended algae problem
I have a 120 gal freshwater tank with an eheim g160 canister filter
And my water is greeny and not clear. I have been told this is suspended
Algae. I have tried chemicals and a max clear product that is pebbles
That go in my filter. Nothing seems to work. I change my fine filter every
Month. The tank is only two months old so I haven't reached the 6 month timeline recommended by eheim to start changing other parts of the canister. I remember having this problem in another tank and it was a spent charcoal filter. So I am wondering if I should start changing my other filter internals like my bio or course mechanical. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
My water parameters are all in spec as I have been doing water changes to try to clear the water. I also add aquarium salt and have live plants
Is your tank near a window? What percentage water changes do you do? How often?
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It is not near a window. I do however have a two lamp t5 light and two t8 for lighting for my plants which are on about 10 hours a day. Not sure if that's too much
My water changes are 20-30% bi weekly but have been more frequent since the green water
Jeffsdime! Geez louise man!! How ya been?
Op. Drop your lighting amount to just the t5s,drop the schedule back to 7 hrs a day and up the wc to 25% a week and do gravel vacs weekly as well. Cut back to minimum feeding of fish and don't dose any liquid ferts til the green water goes away. Should take about a week and half with my recomendations. Stop using all chems,don't change your filter media at all,simply rinse it clean in nonclorinated water,never change your biomedia. Increase aeration as well.
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+1 to the above
You could even change more water, like 50% every other day (or more)
Have you tested for nitrates and phosphated latley ???
Edit, I have also moved your thread to the correct section of the forum
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I picked up a copy of Fisheries guide to the Lakes and Ponds of CT from the DEP store this past week. At just under $20 it's got to be one of the best buys out there! Packed with detail including contour depth maps, species density / distribution, stocking policy, access. It also including some great info on the CT river and some of the major coves - inlcuding the Salmon River cove where I met up with Mark and Roop back in the spring.
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The first time I was knocked out by Esperanza Spalding, she wasn't even playing — she was talking. It was a public meeting of the Boston chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association at Scullers. Spalding — then a Berklee student star — came in a little late, bass in tow, wearing blue denim, a red scarf and red sneakers, and, afro bobbing, joined the panel on stage and started to talk.
I can't even remember now what she said. Being a JJA meeting, we were probably in a hand-wringing session about the fate of jazz and live performance in Boston. But Spalding changed the temperature in the room. Self-possessed and self-deprecating, she had a sense of humor and an aura like a cool breeze. Her vibe floated over the room of jazz-nerd angst as if to say, "Chill."
That was then. Before her triumphs at the Newport Jazz Festival, before her stunning Grammy upset over Justin Bieber as Best New Artist, before her recent show-stopping performance on the Oscar telecast, and before her new CD, Radio Music Society (Heads Up) debuted at #10 on the album chart.
Spalding has been presenting the new album as the natural sequel to its predecessor, the Grammy-winning Chamber Music Society. That disc emphasized the 27-year-old bassist, singer, and composer's contrapuntal writing for an ensemble that included string quartet. The new one, as the name implies, indicates her more explicit desire to take on pop.
In fact, I don't see this album as all that different conceptually from Chamber Music Society, or even her Heads Up debut, 2008's Esperanza. On all of her albums, Spalding upholds her commitment to jazz, but also to a kind of vocal pop music that's all her own.
And part of what's fascinating about the new album — and makes it hold up on repeated listenings, and even get better — is the cohesiveness of her diverse approach. She has at least three songs on the disc that have crossover potential — the opener "Radio Song," the love ode "Cinnamon Tree," and the affirmation for young African-American men, "Black Gold."
The album is rich in such details, and in telling guest appearances by the likes of Loueke, the brilliant young saxophonist Dan Blake, and by Spalding's sometime boss, Joe Lovano.
Spalding's dominant mode is a kind of sunny embrace of life — even when she's sad. At time, her lyrics risk sentimentality, as in the intentionally sweet "Cinnamon Tree." But I had that initial reaction to her setting of William Blake on the last album, "Little Fly," and damned if it wasn't the tune I kept humming in my head.
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I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
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9. Royal Guard
10. Yarna...just kidding Malakili... gotcha again Bib Fortuna (seriously this time.)
11. Lando General
12. Nien Numb
What the heck as long as I'm here and thinking about it, my ROTS votes are: This one was tough. There are a few obvious (for me)choices, we need a few Jedi (preferably ones that haven't won previously,) since their deaths at the end of the movie really seal the deal for Anakin's fall to the Dark Side and I hate to say it, but you need different clones for different scenes. It pains me to use 3 choices on clones but it could have just as easily been 8 or 9.
1. General Grievous
2. Darth Sidious
3. Anakin Jedi preferably with a swapable head giving us Sith Eyes
4. 501st trooper
5. Obi Wan
6. Padme with baby bump
7. Shock Trooper
8. Aayla Secura
9. Bail Organa
10. 212th attack battalion clone
11. Eeth Koth
12. Shaak Ti
and if a moderator wants to make these 3 posts into one, I'm absolutely fine with that.
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As for Yoda or Plo Koon - I think I'll go with Plo. Yoda does look different every time we see him, even if only somewhat (the space between his nose and mouth is way too stretchy in AOTC; it's much better in ROTS and TPM Blu-ray/3D), but I don't know if these differences would be that noticeable in such a small scale, especially if he has different robes. Still, since we're already getting an ESB Yoda, I guess Plo wins. (It's reasons like these that I prefer to have 2000+ figures rather than just 144. ).
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Plo for me as well. I think, visually, he's more interesting than Yoda, even though he doesn't say anything.
Looks like there are five votes for Plo Koon, so even if the final two who haven't chimed in (me and Chux) vote for Yoda, the best Yoda can manage is a tie. So, since we already have a Yoda figure, I'll give the tie-breaker to Plo Koon (even though I was going to vote for Yoda in the run-off). You can still vote for a prequel Yoda in the ROTS round if you want, though.
So, you can now vote for your top 12 ROTS figures. Tycho, you will have to repost your list with a replacement for Kit Fisto. The list mtriv73 posted is fine, so no need for reposting that. I'll post ROTJ results tonight, and after that will open up voting for the all-OT round.
1. Anakin
2. Obi-Wan
3. Palpatine Senate Duel
4. Mustafar Padme
5. Shocktrooper
6. General Grievous
7. Commander Cody
8. Commander Gree
9. Tarfull
10. Wookiee Warrior
11. Utapau Clonetrooper
12. 501st Clonetrooper
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
So we're sticking with the "different alien face but same name so it's Kit Fisto" argument?
Here's my ROTS list, it's not... good. I really had to struggle to fill these slots:
- Anakin
- Emperor Palpatine Senate Duel (meltyface)
- Chancellor Palpatine Jedi Duel (non-meltyface)
- Phase 2 Clone Trooper
- General Grievous
- Cmdr Cody
- Cmdr Bly
- Obi-Wan
- Grievous Bodyguard Droid
- Bail Organa
- Galactic Marine
- Yoda (look, prequel Yoda is different, of this there should be no doubt, and here he's part of a big action scene so I guess that's good enough to warrant inclusion even though you'd have to pay me to take one.)
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.


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With citizens being charged with sedition for speaking their minds, with books and films being banned or censored, not just by the state but by chauvinist forces, with artists forced to flee the country for offending 'public sentiment', with historical enquiry stalled and history being rewritten, we are seeing increasing constraints on freedom of expression says Dilip Simeon. When such practices become common in democratic systems, they inaugurate the slide towards tyranny
A million tyrannies now
The communal campaigns variously targeting newspapers, magazines, TV channels, books, art, cinema and music -- the entire panoply of cultural production -- today constitute the biggest threat to freedom and democracy in India. And ironically, this new censorship is as much the creation of democracy and development as it is simultaneously antithetical to it. For, the more free speech advocates confront it, and the more the media report this confrontation, the worse it becomes, says Maseeh Rahman
Sedition and the death of free speech
The repeated use of India's sedition laws – most recently against human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen -- has made them one of the biggest threats to the freedom of speech and expression. Along with other colonial laws such as criminal defamation, laws dealing with obscenity, and blasphemy laws, sedition laws undermine the right to dissent and the right to criticise state policy. Is it time to seriously re-examine the need for these undemocratic laws in the world's largest democracy, asks Siddharth Narrain
Freedom in security
In recent months we have seen a counter-productive debate on freedom vs security, and mounting criticism of 'draconian', 'colonial' statutes such as the law on sedition, on the grounds that they are susceptible to abuse. But isn't the problem rooted not in the legislations themselves but in the inability of the state and its agencies to implement the rule of law, and the subordination of legal processes to political expediency? Ajai Sahni explains
Reasonable restrictions and unreasonable speech
Two cases – one related to the left-leaning journal Crossroads and the other related to the RSS mouthpiece Organizer – led to the first amendment of the Indian Constitution which, unlike the first amendment in the USA, did not promote freedom of expression but curtailed it, prioritising the promotion of national security and sovereignty over the promotion of democratic institutions. Lawrence Liang reports
The secret life of film censorship
The processes and practices of censorship are really a series of transactions by which the boundaries of 'prohibition' and 'acceptability' are constantly negotiated. Conventional studies of censorship invariably emphasise its institutional and prohibitive aspects, writes Shohini Ghosh. But the processes, practices and consequences of censorship are also 'productive', suggesting not just what we may not see but also suggesting the proper way of seeing, and building a theory of cinema, of spectatorship and the idea of the public
When is 'news' better off not reported?
Did it make sense for the Gujarat government to ban use of the image of the burning Sabarmati Express in the media before the Godhra judgment, nine years after the event? Is some limit on press freedom necessary in order to keep the peace at all costs? This article, by Jyoti Punwani, explores this and other dilemmas of mediapersons
Cultural memory and the politics of intolerance in Maharashtra
How should the scholar or historian negotiate a community's cultural memory, and public outrage against perceived misrepresentations of its icons such as Shivaji? The liberal perspective is quick to spot the threat posed by chauvinist forces to freedom of expression. But how is such freedom to be reconciled with the imperative of respecting popular sentiment, asks Mangesh Kulkarni
Dissent vs incitement?
Are human rights organisations failing to draw the line between prisoners of conscience and individuals who espouse extremist and violent forms of identity-based politics? Are organisations such as Amnesty International failing to make clear that some of the people whose rights they were upholding intended to destroy fundamental human rights? Gita Sahgal explains
Freedom gagged
Much of the information circulated in the Kashmir valley tends to be half-truths and one-and-a-half-truths, if not outright fabrications, writes Sualeh Keen. There are no clearly set standards of what is allowed under free speech, and what constitutes the abuse of this right. Information asymmetry is counterproductive. Any lopsided and biased perspective is far from 'free' if it closes itself to other narratives. This is equally true for the state, which must realise that not allowing people space to protest democratically will lead to protests in less desirable forms


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Cisco Systems (CSCO) this afternoon reported fiscal Q4 revenue in line with analysts' expectations, and profit per share that beat by a penny.
Revenue in the three months ended in July rose 6%, year over year, to $12.4 billion, yielding EPS of 52 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $12.41 billion and 51 cents a share.
Gross margin of 59.2% was down from 60.6% in the year-earlier period.
Cisco ended the quarter with $50.6 billion in csh and equivalents, up 4% from the year-earlier period, and up 7% from Q3′s level.
CEO John Chambers remarked, "My confidence in our ability to be the #1 IT Company is increasing."
Our fourth quarter was a record on many fronts, with record revenue, and record non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP earnings per share. In every case, we exceeded the midpoint of our guidance. We also generated $4 billion in operating cash flow in the quarter, another record.
Cisco management will host a conference call to discuss the report at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch the webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
Cisco will usually offer greater detail about its product performance by category and region during the call, as well as a forecast for the current period.
Cisco shares are down 91 cents, or 2%, at $25.84.
Update: On the call, Cisco forecast revenue this quarter to rise by 3% to 5% from the prior year level, which would be $12.23 billion to $12.47 billion, a bit below consensus for $12.46 billion. EPS is seen in a range of 50 cents to 51 cents, again, below consensus of 51 cents.
Cisco also said it would cut its workforce by 4,000, or 5%, as part of a "rebalancing."
Cisco offered details on the performance of its individual lines of business. The company's switching products saw sales rise 5%, to $3.8 billion. So-called Next Generation Routing sales were flat with the year-earlier period at $2.09 billion. Sales of video products for service providers were up 23%. Sales of "collaboration" tools, such as video conferencing, fell 2%. Wireless access points and routers and the like rose 32%, to $637 million. Sales of equipment for data centers rose 43%. Sales of security gear was unchanged. And finally sales in the category of "other" were down 56%.
Regarding product orders, Cisco said they were up 5% in the Americas, up 6% in Europe, down 3% in Asia-Pacific, and up 4% in total for the company.
Following the announcement of layoffs, Cisco shares dropped sharply in late trading, down $2.61, or almost 10%, at $23.77.
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the bottom line is this, our guy jumped on the ball as 2:02 was turning to 2:01, he rolled around on the ground and magically the clock stopped at 2:01.
If the clock actually stopped before he had possession and was down by contact (like you guys were claiming), then I would agree. That is not what happened.
he was rolling on the ground w/ the ball at 2:01 and magically it stopped at 2:01.
That ^ is not magic. It is having possession and being down by contact and the clock stopping like it is supposed to. He was not rolling around, but even if he was, you don't need to be completely still to be ruled down.
except tha you can't b/c our guy JUST jumped on the ball and was still rolling w/ it, a still shot doesn't show that. The clock should have run to at least 2:00 if not 1:59 or 1:58 the way the clocks always run.
You are the one that can not back up what you are saying. All you can do is bring up some examples when the clock ran an extra second or 2 after the play was dead. So what? Bad calls happen all the time. We don't use those as examples to make up new rules. If the Jets were down by a touchdown with 7 seconds to go and completed a pass, went out of bounds at the 1 with the play being signaled dead with 2 seconds left, would you be arguing that those 2 seconds SHOULD tick off? I think not.


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Sodium lauroyl lactylate is a type of salt formed from the fatty acid lauric acid. A white, powdery solid, lauric acid is found in high concentrations in coconut oil, laurel oil and the milk of cows and goats. The fatty acid is also utilized by the human body and is contained in breast milk, where it accounts for 6.2 percent of the total fat content.
Although sodium lauroyl lactylate is derived from natural substances, the ingredient is not found in nature. The salt belongs to a class of organic compounds that were first developed during the 1950s as an alternative to a chemical that was at that time the primary preservative used to prevent bread from going stale. This class is known as the lactylates and includes a variety of different substances, including calcium stearoyl lactylate and sodium stearoyl lactylate.
To manufacture sodium lauroyl lactylate, lauric acid derived from coconuts is combined with lactic acid. This natural sugar is found in milk and can also be produced by fermenting other types of sugars like glucose and sucrose. Typically, the fermentation route is chosen over rendering lactic acid from milk, so that products that contain sodium lauroyl lactylate are safe for those who are lactose intolerant. Although sodium lauroyl lactylate must be manufactured industrially, the ingredient is completely biodegradable and environmentally friendly.
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Masato Resigns as EP of K-1 Global
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In what has to be considered peculiar timing, K-1 Global released a press release via their website on December 31st during the big NYE events to announce that Masato has resigned as Executive Producer of K-1 Global Holdings. It is a rather brief announcement and Masato says that it is time for him to move on from K-1 and is unclear about what his involvement will be with the world of fighting sports in the future.
It has been speculated that his position with K-1 was simply as that of a figurehead and that he was used to help promote the brand in Japan. With the loss of Masato by K-1 it will be difficult for them to gain any sort of foothold in Japan right now, it would seem.


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Last night on Clone Wars the slavers fought the ARCs and Gunships with their own fighter craft.
If those tail wings swiveled flat, and I have to remember how they were when the ships took off, they were Skipray Blastboats - the craft that Luke flew when he first met Mara Jade on Myrkyr in HTTE!
They could make this ship and get a vehicle done for HTTE as well!
If it included a pack-in figure:
1st issue - the slaver pilot
2nd issue - Mara Jade (the old one as that was the outfit she wore, Luke is available, and Hasbro will save $$)
Toy ship features:
1) swivel wings
2) cockpit holds up to 2 figures and R2-D2 (inside, not a droid socket) if possible
3) 2 launching missiles
4) manual landing gear
5) box with window for pack-in figure to be seen
I'd sell this as a store exclusive, then a year later, make it a different (or the same) store exclusive with a different figure.
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Hrm... my first diary entry here. No clue what to put here though, other than that's it's quite late, I'm utterly bored, and I finally managed to let the roxen2 webserver swallow and parse PHP4 code. Right now, I moved my webserver from the reliable workhorse that is apache to that new fledgeling promising upcomer that is roxen. I like Roxen. It's fast, feature rich, easy to maintain, and it's got a shedload of cool stuff there that I can't wait to play with.
Once I get fluent with pike and RXML, I might just port all of hackerheaven.org over to it. Anyone up for PikeNuke?
Should be an interesting thing to do though, Roxen's got all that PostNuke needs: Session variable support, a nifty database abstraction, scripting support (although I had to make it understand PHP by using php as a CGI, which I don't really like) through pike, perl and RXML, an efficient caching system and easy extendability.
Of course this thing will get a BSD license stamp on it (heck, I like BSD license).
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I liked the Thrawn trilogy for this reason. The New Republic had been at war with the Imperial remnants for five years, and they were doomed to lose because of infighting and a lack of organization. Then Thrawn shows up. He is able to unite the warlords under his command--and, most importantly, he's a likable character. He completely turns the tables around on the Rebels until one of his seemingly most loyal subjects kills him because of an agreement between Vader and his race, and Thrawn not taking into account they might recognize Leia as Vader's daughter.
The fall of the Empire didn't play out like the fall of Nazi Germany. Germany had been declining, losing territory for a while, and then Hitler killed himself as the Russians captured Berlin. The destruction of the second Death Star would be more akin to Hitler and Himmler holding a secret meeting at the Wolf's Lair (following years of trouncing the Allies repeatedly and preventing them from getting a foothold in Europe, most recently taking over, say, Britain) and a small group of Allied commandos blowing up the building with them inside. In this case, there's nothing to make us presume the remaining Nazi generals and other leaders wouldn't keep fighting. They weren't losing, exactly. They just lost their two top guys and a superweapon at once. (Granted, we see the general populace celebrating Palpatine's death in the Special Editions, but what's to say the Stormtroopers didn't give everyone present a severe spanking immediately afterwards?)
BTW, is Obsession is still canon (which seems debatable following what I've heard about the last season of Clone Wars), Asajj Ventress is believed to be dead, but is in hiding. Trouble is (in terms of her being an E7 villain), she no longer wants anything to do with Sith or war.
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I've got MOC CTC Stormtroopers that I would be willing to trade one-for-one on any of the following figures;
1) R2-B1 6x
2) TC-14 2x
3) Naboo Royal Guards 6x
Card condition doesn't matter as long as the figures and accessories are mint. Prefer to deal with multiples to save on shipping. If you've got these but don't need the CTC Stormies, email me your wants and I'll check if I've got them.


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AUDIO: Mike Cammalleri | Brian Gionta | Benoit Pouliot | Tomas Plekanec | Mathieu Darche | Jacques Martin
• At a Glance: The Detroit Red Wings snapped a two-game losing streak at the Joe Louis Arena with a 4-2 win over the Canadiens Friday night in a matchup of Original Six teams. Things had started off well for the Canadiens as they opened the scoring when Travis Moen scored 11:25 into the first period after he gathered a rebound off a Micheal Cammalleri shot that went wide of the Detroit net and banked the puck off Jimmy Howard's leg and into the net. The Red Wings tied the game with one second left to play in the first during a 5-on-3 man advantage. After Carey Price stood on his head for the entire period, Nicklas Lidstrom beat him on the 18th Detroit shot of the frame. In the second, Niklas Kronwall scored 3:48 into the period for a 2-1 Red Wings lead on a shot that fooled Price. Pavel Datsyuk made it 3-1 Detroit at the end of the Montreal power play with a great backhand over Price's left shoulder and right under the crossbar for his 10th of the season. In the third period, Benoit Pouliot narrowed the Detroit lead with a blistering slap shot that Howard had no chance on with a little more than 12 minutes to play. The Canadiens fought to tie the game the rest of the period, but came up empty despite a their best effort and Patrick Eaves scored into an empty net to seal the win. Howard notched his 16th win of the season, closing the gap on Price, who has 17 wins in his 27 starts.
• Key Moments: A lack of discipline on the part of the Canadiens cost them early in the game as they received the first five penalties of the game, allowing the Red Wings to finally score during a two-man advantage, the first time the Canadiens have allowed down two players all season.
• What It Means: Montreal's three-game winning streak is snapped and the Canadiens' record falls to 18-9-2, but they remain three points up on the Bruins for first place in the Northeast Division.
• What's Next: The Canadiens are in Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Montreal is then home for games against the Flyers and Bruins next Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.


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Another post regarding my recent switch to Ubuntu as my primary OS, this one concerns the VNC client/viewer bundled. I've been having problems with Remote Desktop Viewer which is the bundled and preferred VNC client in a default installation of Ubuntu 8.04, I've had random freezes and disconnects with a logout/login of my machine sometimes resolving the issue temporarily.
The alternative is to use the Terminal Server Client application to connect to a VNC server, should just be a case of selecting VNC in the protocol dropdown right? nope, it's greyed out*sigh*
To enable the VNC option in the Terminal Server Client dropdown you need to install the xtightvncviewer package either in Synaptic or with
sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
I fired up the Terminal Server Client, selected the VNC protocol, set the display to full screen and connected to my server.
Job done? not quite. I'm now prompted by my server with a "press ctrl-alt-del to logon" message. That's where I had some problems, pressing ctrl-alt-del caused Ubuntu to ask me how I want to shut down. I needed some way of sending a ctrl-alt-del to the remote machine but I couldn't see any obvious way of doing it. Queue the next problem, I'd selected full screen and that's what I got, completely full screen, I couldn't even switch to an alternative workspace since the VNC viewer remained on top.
I really didn't want to restart my machine just because I couldn't get rid of one window so I started randomly hitting buttons whereupon I found that F8 was rather useful! Pressing F8 with the VNC viewer focussed brings up a small menu with a number of options one of which was to toggle full screen and another was to send ctrl-alt-del to the remote machine, hooray!
I've found this VNC viewer to be a bit quicker at screen refreshes (though it does more of them) and more stable than the bundled viewer in Ubuntu, feel free to leave a comment to the contrary or suggesting another alternative that you may use.


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The Recording Academy, leading personalized radio service Pandora and PepsiCo Inc. today announced an original content video series showcasing the 54th GRAMMY Best New Artist nominees. Newly created Pandora GRAMMY genre stations have been created in conjunction with the series, designed to help music fans celebrate and capture the excitement around the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. The video series can be found at www.pandora.com/pepsigrammyvideo and the GRAMMY genre stations are accessible at www.pandora/genres/grammys.
The Best New Artist video series includes exclusive interviews with the Band Perry, Bon Iver, J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, and Skrillex. During the interviews, the artists discuss the evolution of their careers, share their excitement surrounding their Best New Artist nomination and describe their anticipation for Music's Biggest Night.
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Chapter 3: Equations of Lines
Solving equations is one of the most important mathematical skills you will learn. And in order to solve a equation, you'll need to manipulate it to isolate its variable. That isolation may require the application of one mathematical operation or rule, two operations/rules, or more than two operations/rules.
Some day-to-day situations in which you might have to use equations are figuring out the amount a cab ride will cost you, determining the final cost of a restaurant bill with the tip included, and converting temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa.
In this chapter, you will learn how to apply math operations and rules to linear equations so that you can solve for a particular variable. You will also be introduced to ratio, proportion, percentage, and percent change problems.
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One-Step Equations Transformed by Multiplication-Division
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Applications of One-Step Equations
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Two-Step Equations and Properties of Equality
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Multi-Step Equations with Like Terms
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Solving Real-World Problems with Two-Step Equations
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Multi-Step Equations
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Solving Real-World Problems Using Multi-Step Equations
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Equations with Variables on Both Sides
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Scale and Indirect Measurement Applications
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Conversion of Decimals, Fractions, and Percents
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Percent Equations
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Percent of Change
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This chapter begins with one-step equations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It then moves on to more sophisticated equations that require two or multiple steps to solve. Here, you'll learn how to combine like terms. Next, it introduces equations that have variables on both sides of the equal sign. Ratios and proportions are also discussed as are problems that entail scales and indirect measurement. The chapter concludes with a thorough discussion of percentages, an introduction to the percent equation, and a collection of real-life problems that involve percent of change.


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Theater, dance and song will be showcased in "The Lounge," the spring extravaganza presented by the Black Arts Company at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, in Forbes Black Box.
The group's drama wing will showcase scenes from "A Raisin in the Sun" and "The Colored Museum." The dance members will present hip-hop and lyrical interpretations of modern music. There will be a special performance by Culturally Yours , an a cappella group dedicated to sharing music written, performed or popularized by persons of African descent.
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Title says it all, well, mostly. I've got several concert DVDs that I'd love to convert to MP3 and CDs so I can listen to them whenever and wherever I want. I know there are a crapload of programs out there, none (at least that I can find) for free. Does anyone have one that's reasonably priced (or, even better, free) that is fairly easy to use and can convert both MP3 or high-quality WAV? (Even if just WAV, I can work with that.)
'Cause it'd be hella cool to be able to blast GNR: Use Your Illusion Live in Tokyo on long drives again. :cool:


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P303 is a misfire on cylinder three.
If its s late nodel car your issue is almost certaintly the number three coil.
Just change it and be done with it.
Now does the guy charging $119 know how to take advantage of that equipment?
I read on Jeepforum where a guy took his jeep into pepboys to get an oil change. Mechanic took his jeep out for a ride and ended up wrecking it behind a walmart. he was able to get the camera footage of the mech hitting a telephone pole. mechanic was doing donuts
If they decline then they can't come back and blame you when their timing belt breaks and wrecks their engine.
Sometimes the right way involves suggesting that the customer replace some things that they hadn't anticipated when they brought their vehicle in. Part of being a good mechanic is recommending everything that you can to the customer in order to ensure that they don't come back into your shop all pissed off because you didn't fix something that you should have while you were in there the first time.
Sure they can. "That scumbag mechanic broke my timing belt after I told him I didn't want it replaced."
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Permanent transportation tax should be rejected
Original post made by Tim Hunt, Castlewood, on Jan 2, 2012
Public attention has been focused on the project list and Livermore's efforts to get $400 million allocated to the extension to Livermore. The first half-cent sales tax measure, passed with a two-thirds vote in 1986, provided critical funding to get BART extended to Dublin/Pleasanton.
The county transportation authority brought a second measure back before voters and got it reauthorized it before its scheduled expiration in 2001. Now advocates are planning to double the tax to 1-cent and make it permanent. That's terrible precedent, both the doubling and making the tax permanent.
Alameda County residents already pay one of the highest sales tax rate in the state thanks to the one-half cent surcharge for the county hospital, the half-cent surcharge for transportation and the half-cent surcharge for BART (effective in BART counties).
Making the tax permanent would eliminate the accountability that the transportation agency has had since its inception because both the elected officials and the staff knew they would have to face voters for the extension. Does that make a difference?
Consider BART, which has a permanent tax and a directly elected board (which makes it a bit more responsive to the public than the county agency, which is made up of elected officials who serve on a regional agency.
Despite being in a business that uses capital equipment (trains and rails), BART has no fund for equipment replacement—it is simply put a hand out and hope the feds come through or turn to the voters again. And, of course, thanks to the strong unions and union-favoring directors, BART salaries and benefits are among the best in the nation.
But, when the sales tax is permanent, the agency never faces the voters. The transportation authority is grabbing for that same status and simultaneously trying to double the tax. I have supported the transportation sales tax surcharge twice, despite too much focus on operating subsidies for inefficient agencies such as AC Transit. The current plan allocates 60 percent of the funds to operations. The sharp economic downtown is expected to reduce the available funds by about 30 percent by 2020.
The reason: delivering key projects such as BART to Dublin/Pleasanton, the Isabel/Interstate 580 interchange and improvements to Highway 84 and the flyover ramp from I-680 to I-580 even if they built the wrong connection (it should have been westbound I-580 to southbound I-680). The current project list includes some key projects such as the very overdue widening of Highway 84 between Livermore and Sunol as well as a number of I-580 projects.
Negotiations on the final project list are ongoing with the authority set to vote on it this month. Take the time to let your elected officials know they're grabbing for too much money and becoming permanent is non-starter as an idea. If they pursue it, it should be rejected.
Incidentally, both of the valley supervisors—Scott Haggerty and Nate Miley—sit on that board along with mayors Tim Sbranti (Dublin), John Marchand (Livermore) and Jennifer Hosterman (Pleasanton).
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Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Good morning Tim and welcome to the fun that is the PW blog. I will offer an opinion about having to log in for this topic; it's going to roll off the list with nary a peep. I think if you are going to join PW, you have to keep the topics open to everyone. After all, you have the power to remove offensive comments or to close it to only registered users or shut it down to further comments if it gets out of hand.
I agree with you about this potential permanent tax proposal, although even a permanent tax is subject to future requests for an increase.
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Thanks for the background. I am all for accountability for all organizations especially those that serve the public. It would be very interesting to see what we have gotten to date for all the taxes we've paid.
It would be especially interesting to see how much this infrastructure has cost us relative to what other states pay. I remember an article a while back that stated it cost California 6x the national average to build a mile of road.
Then maybe we'd understand better why our taxes continue to increase while our infrastructure continues to decline.


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Nigeria harasses, intimidates journalist for critical weekly
Abuja, Nigeria, February 15, 2013--Authorities should halt their harassment of a Nigerian journalist whose paper published allegations of extrajudicial detentions being carried out by the country's special army unit, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Armed officers of Nigeria's Joint Task Force and members of the State Secret Service (SSS) raided the Kaduna home of Musa Muhammad Awwal, an editor of the Hausa-language weekly Al-Mizan, early on Thursday, according to news reports. The agents seized Awwal's laptop and phone and took him into custody, saying they had been told to bring him to Abuja, the capital, Al-Mizan Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Musa, said in a press release. The officers did not cite a reason for the detention or produce a warrant, Abdulmumin Giwa, an editor at Al-Mizan, told CPJ. Giwa also said that the Nigeria Union of Journalists had confirmed that Awwal was being held by the SSS.


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Marquette History
Heading off a crisis
Excerpted from Dr. Thomas Jablonsky's book History of Marquette University 1881-1981
EARLY IN 1909, REV. JAMES MCCABE, S.J., president of Marquette College, received a report on Catholic elementary and secondary education in Wisconsin from Rev. Cornelius Shyne. This Jesuit colleague foresaw an impending crisis in Catholic education — not a single four-year Catholic women's college existed in Wisconsin. Religious women, the instructional bulwark of parochial schools, could not earn college degrees in the Badger State. In the not-too-distant future, Father Shyne predicted, Catholic schools would be shamed by the academic superiority of public education. ....
Father McCabe acted with remarkable resolve. From September to June each year, Johnston Hall was overcrowded with male students (and at least one female classmate) from the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Law. After Commencement day, however, these young men scattered to the winds, leaving the college hall empty except for a handful of Jesuits who used the residential quarters. Father McCabe had already planned a unique undertaking for the summer of 1909. He scheduled the first summer session in the history of Catholic higher education, beginning on June 28. These classes were intended for "deserving [male] students who find it impossible to attend the regular courses of our colleges and universities." .... Suddenly, without the sanction of his religious superiors, Father McCabe expanded the phrase "deserving students" to include religious sisters and laywomen.
THE SUMMER OF 1909 ran its course, as did the 1909-10 school year without word from Rome. And so the coeducational 1910 summer school session unfolded. In the following fall, the School of Journalism opened its doors. Dean John Copus, S.J., had long supported female journalists. He felt that they could only help a profession sorely in need of an ethical rebirth. As classes started in September Father Copus admitted women to the first "J-school" at a Catholic university. .... Finally, in the spring of 1912, nearly three years after Father McCabe's original request, Rome responded to his appeal. Permission was granted for the inclusion of "ladies and even nuns to attend" Marquette's summer session.
A dental hazing
[In late October 1915, the dental school's entire junior class was suspended by Dean Banzhaf for hazing a first-year student.]
On the day in question, a dappily attired freshman was said to have strutted past the junior dents as
they exited their building on Wells Street. The first-year student apparently failed to demonstrate a proper sense of humility toward his elders who, in turn, chased him for several blocks onto the college athletic field. When caught, this unfortunate freshman was dumped, fully clothed, into a locker room shower.
Carpenter Hall student union, ca. 1946
Student union built for men
Peter A. Brooks was a veteran of World War I, a junior in arts and sciences, and president of the Marquette Honor Society. During the first week of May 1920, this young Hilltopper (who subsequently became president of Marquette) attended a convention of student union representatives scheduled around the dedication of a $1 million facility at the University of Michigan. Within days of his return home, Brooks wrote an article for The Marquette Tribune heralding the benefit that a central facility might hold for (male) students who were scattered about town at Fourth and Reservoir (School of Medicine), Ninth and Wells (School of Dentistry) and Eleventh and Grand (everyone else). With the approval of then president
Rev. Herbert C. Noonan, S.J., Brooks called for a mass meeting of students in the Gesu school auditorium. The president suspended all university activities during this assembly and personally led the deans and faculty into the auditorium. After Brooks finished addressing the audience, a unanimous vote authorized a charge of $5 per (male) student for the maintenance of a center that would house all student activities. ....By September 1921, the union board had purchased a site for a new building. Three years of plans and counter plans created a blizzard of blueprints and design sketches before the union was completed at the cost of $65,000.
WHAD at Marquette
One activity that reached out from campus into the local community was WHAD, the Marquette radio station. It began in 1921 as a university-owned 100-watt station, with a 70-foot high, four-legged tower behind Johnston Hall. During the first year, programming focused on "speeches, sermons, concerts and the like." The glee club presented the first concert. The energy behind this undertaking came from
Rev. John B. Kremer, S.J., chairman of the Physics Department. Father Kremer built most of the early equipment himself, but left the programming to others, although as faculty adviser he remained responsible for over-the-air content. When Science Hall was completed in 1924, the station moved from Johnston Hall. WHAD occupied two rooms in the new hall, a broadcast studio in the tower and a room for its generators and batteries in the basement. By 1925, the station was generating 500 watts. It became the most powerful station in Milwaukee, with a signal picked up occasionally
in Boston and San Francisco.
Student hangouts
The Weigle-Schewe Pharmacy, across Wisconsin Avenue from Gesu, was a popular gathering point
for any undergraduate with an hour or two between classes. In a letter published in the Sept. 24, 1931 Marquette Tribune, owner Henry G. Schewe expressed his hope that the store might become an all-purpose center for students. Schewe described how, during his days at Marquette, he missed the conveniences that his new shop aimed to provide. It cashed checks, sold stamps, checked parcels, made free pharmacy deliveries, and provided an array of pencils, pens and loose-leaf notebooks. It featured the Varsity Room, where lunches, sodas, phosphates and malted milks were downed amidst a thick cloud of blue-gray cigarette smoke. Students bought quick, convenient meals at the Ardmore Pharmacy, the Ardmore Restaurant, the Monitor Restaurant, the Marquette Union cafeteria, the Campus Kitchen (in the LaSalle Hotel), and the Stratford Arms Hotel Restaurant. The Abbot Crest Hotel, a few steps west of the drug store, featured a dining room, a shoe repair shop, and, its most popular business, a billiard parlor. In the fall of 1930, a splashy, terra cotta-covered, five-story office building rose on the northwest corner of 11th and Wisconsin, across the street from the Law School. Managers at the Franklin State Bank building (currently the 707 Building) promised that its tenants were all professional men who were "Marquette minded." Attorneys, physicians, real estate brokers and a dentist invited students to draw upon their services. In a Tribune advertisement, management urged overworked students to relax at the rooftop miniature golf course that featured "new Turftex greens." The course was open from 9 a.m. (just an hour after classes began) until midnight.
Marquette classrooms were filled to capacity following WWII, photo ca 1946
World War II's impact
Dr. Thomas Jablonsky, director of the Institute for Urban Life and Harry G. John Professor of Urban Studies, traces 100 years of Marquette history in his book History of Marquette University 1881-1981. Look for more in the Spring 2007 issue of Marquette Magazine.


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The vacant spaces in downtown Providence — the Industrial Trust Building and Davol Square's "Dynamo House," among others — are like ink blots. Some see them as stages for the city's next crooked, cash-dissolving deal. Others see them as slingshots to launch Providence into a Renaissance 2.0. And then there are the literalists who see something like, say, the footprint of the former route I-195 for exactly what it is: a string of irregularly-shaped grass patches littered with duck shit.
Just what will happen with those particular 40 acres is the subject of a panel discussion in Providence on May 14 at the University of Rhode Island's Paff Auditorium. The event — part of the URI's "Urbanscape" series of lectures and forums — is titled "Where 195 Used To Be: A Community Exploration." Hosted by veteran AS220 "Action Speaks!" moderator Marc Levitt, the discussion will feature professors, arts-organization leaders, developers, city planners, and two members (including the chairman) of Rhode Island's governor-appointed commission delegated to oversee the former highway land's development.
I got a chance to speak with some of them this week about what exactly the city's grassy, crescent-shaped ink blot signifies to them.
Note that the interviews have been edited and condensed and that the interviewees are responding individually to me, not each other. You'll have to go the panel to see them all on stage at once.
You have, I think, three really important things that make this chunk of land very unique and appealing for development. One . . . there are only a few other examples of where you have acres and acres of developable land right in the heart of a city. [Second,] it is the heart of where our institutional growth is happening. If you look on a map of where this district is, it's really between College Hill and the hospital district. So it's a natural place to encourage the growth and . . . spinoffs from those institutions to land. And the other thing that's unique about it is that it's a waterfront area.
Obviously Brown has been investing in the Jewelry District — especially [the area] literally adjacent to the 195 land — for about 10 years now. We have over 1000 people in the Jewelry District right. We've invested something like $200 million in that area.
Hopefully it develops into a really vital, mixed-use area that is complementing the work we're doing . . . [and that] really starts to connect [the city] so that we don't think of the Jewelry District and Downcity so separately. They've had this wall in between them for decades now and now that wall's gone, right? So, now it's just matter of knitting it back together.
When I say "mixed use," I'm imagining the same kinds of mixes of use that you see up in Kendall Square [in Cambridge]. There's research happening there, there's lot of businesses following along with it, there's developing, there's incubation, there's developing private industry coming along. And then, of course, because that's a lot of people, there's a really vital retail area.
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TFK 2012 Person of the Year Nominee
Competitive swimming changed forever the day Michael Phelps dove into the water. Raised in a family of swimmers, Phelps has been making a splash since he started racing at age 7. At the 2001 U.S. spring nationals competition, he became the youngest world-record holder in men's swimming. He was 15 years old and swam the 200-meter butterfly in under two minutes. Over time, Phelps became even faster and stronger. At the 2008 Games in Beijing, Phelps did what no athlete had ever done before: He won eight gold medals in a single Olympics.
Phelps announced that the 2012 Olympics would be his last, and that he would retire from the sport of competitive swimming. The Games, in London, England, did not turn out strong for Phelps. He failed to medal in his first event, the 400-meter individual medley. But that didn't dampen his spirit and determination. He followed with two silver medals and led his team to a gold in the 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay. These final wins brought Phelps's medal count to 22, making him the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Michael Phelps is celebrated as both an athlete and a role model. In 2008, he established the Michael Phelps Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes healthy and active lifestyles for children. Phelps has developed a mission called "Dream, plan, reach," in which he shares his strategies for success through various swim programs and events.
For his history-making medal count and awe-inspiring swimming career, Michael Phelps is a nominee for TFK's 2012 Person of the Year.