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Item 82111
Fire Engine 2, 'Medomak,' Waldoboro, ca. 1846
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department
Date: circa 1846
Location: Waldoboro
Media: wood and wrought iron
Item 14263
Bangor Fire Department Engine 7
Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum
Date: 1948
Location: Bangor
Media: Photograph
Item 10910
New Brunswick and Canada Railroad steam engine.
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1880
Location: Houlton; St. John
Media: monochrome photograph
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Item 70929
Engine House, Presumpscot Street (rear), Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Canadian National Railroad
Use: Engine House
Item 74948
Engine House, Thompsons Point, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad
Use: Engine House
Item 74966
Engine House, Thompsons Point, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad
Use: Engine House
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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years
While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.
Camden has been home to generations of fishermen, shipbuilders, sailmakers, and others who make their living through the sea. The lives of two Camden sailmakers, who were born nearly a century apart, became entwined at a small house on Limerock Street.
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland
When Peleg Wadsworth built his house in 1785, what is now Congress Street in Portland was on the rural outskirts of the community known as Falmouth. The house passed on to other family members and Portland changed around what remained a family home until 1901, when it became a historic house museum.
The history of a small, but vibrant, Downeast village as told by an array of local institutions and organizations. Site contributors include Blue Hill Historical Society, Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill Consolidated School, George Stevens Academy, the Bay School, and the Jonathan Fisher House. Some of the topics covered include the arts, Jonathan Fisher, the Blue Hill Fair, Rusticators, the Civil War, education, and shipbuilding.
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
A multi-village history of this western Maine town as created by students and teachers from MSAD #74, the New Portland Community Library, and the New Portland Historical Society. Exhibits are divided into sections examining North New Portland Village, East New Portland Village, and West New Portland Village.
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Service in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan by MAJ Adam R. Cote
by Adam R. Cote
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The Wright State men's basketball team trailed by just three at the half, but Cleveland State shot 74 percent from the field the final 20 minutes to win 77-55 in the regular-season finale for both teams Saturday at the Wolstein Center.
CSU scored the first five points of the contest and led 19-11 after back-to-back Anton Grady jumpers, only to see the Raiders rally with a 13-4 run, six of those coming from Julius Mays, to go up 24-23 on a Vance Hall triple with 5:12 remaining in the first half.
WSU, though, managed just a Cole Darling three the rest of the way as Cleveland State scored seven points to go up 30-27 at the break.
The margin was just four at 42-38 following an AJ Pacher three with 14:10 left to play in the game and the Raiders were within five twice until an 8-0 burst pushed the deficit to 55-42.
Wright State would get no closer than 11 the rest of the way as the Vikings gradually built on the lead the rest of the way.
After shooting 52 percent in the first half, the Vikings were even hotter in the second half, hitting 17 of 23 shots for 74 percent, including four of eight from three-point range, to finish the game at 63 percent. WSU, meanwhile, shot 39 percent in the second half to end up at 41 percent.
Mays led the Raiders with 15 points and Pacher added 12 off the bench, but no other Wright State player managed more than seven.
Harmon paced Cleveland State (22-9, 12-6 Horizon) with 20 points, 15 coming after halftime, while Montgomery had 17 and Grady 12 off the bench.
Wright State (13-18, 7-11) now turns its attention to the Horizon League Tournament, which begins on Tuesday, February 28, as the #8 seed Raiders head to Hinkle Fieldhouse to take on the #5 seed Butler Bulldogs. Game time is 7:00.

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bumpage. I need to get this card working.
I was wondering, is there was any driver or something I can download to MAKE the Dell Wireless 1450 a/b/g USB Adapter work for BT2?
Should I just spend a couple of bucks on a compatible wireless card, adapter, etc.
(BTW: I've searched on this and Google for hours, so I'm pretty sure there is no way, but I want to be COMPLETELY sure)
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Valentine's Cards vs. Valentines CardsBy Julie
In a world where we are bombarded with information, both in print and digital form, it can be hard to pick out what is correct and what is not. We pride ourselves on being sticklers for grammar here at Tiny Prints. That's why we hope that we can assure you that no matter the subject that we will always provide you with the proper spelling and grammar. Perhaps one of the most common mistakes that we see each February surrounds the phrase "Valentine's cards." So in case you're wondering, we're here to let you know once and for all whether "Valentine cards," "Valentines Day cards" or any number of alternative spellings are actually accurate.
Although the phrases "Valentine cards," "Valentine card," "Valentines cards," "Valentines Day cards," and "Valentines Day card" all appear quite commonly in the print and internet world today, in fact none of these spellings are correct. You see, Valentine's Day is a possessive phrase that originated from Saint Valentine's Day, and therefore any phrase used to describe something related to Valentine's Day should reflect a similar possessive structure. As a result, instead of "Valentines Day cards" or "Valentine cards," the proper spelling is "Valentine's Day cards. We're only willing to let the rule slide in the case of children handing out "valentines" to their friends and classmates. So don't let the appearance of "Valentine cards" or "Valentines Day cards" fool you into making a grammatical faux-pas, let yourself write "Valentine's Day cards" and "Valentine's Day" with confidence in the fact that you are now an authority on such grammatical rules.
We hope that helps clear things up for you a bit. So when February rolls around we hope that it will be filled with plenty of exciting and romantic Valentine's Day cards (with nary a "Valentine card" or "Valentines Day card" in sight!).


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Anna Nicole Smith flashed her breasts and underpants at the Saturday Grand Ole Opry audiences
Model Anna Nicole Smith did cheered up audience at Nashville, Tennessee's Grand Ole Opry held last Saturday April 23, 2005, when she deliberately flashed her breasts and underpants in front of the many onlookers attending the ceremony. The star was at first dance with her partner, but then broke away from and launched into an improvised solo routine.
It wasn't Smith solo dance that left the audience open-mouthed, yet a series of eye-catching moves she did. One source mentioned "She was shimmying around, shaking her breasts, and lifted up her skirt in a sort of square-dance-can-can move and gave the audience a view of her panties." Qickly after, the star did some sort of crazy dance, turned around, stuck her butt out at the audience as she left her skirt, and at one point, her boob popped out.


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Nanoparticle Assembly
With the advances made in solution-phase materials chemistry in the last 20 years, nanoparticles (NPs) can now be prepared out of a wide spectrum of compositions with a high degree of particle size and shape control. NPs are an intriguing class of materials because their reduced physical dimensionality leads to the appearance of catalytic, chemical, optoelectronic, and magnetic properties not found in bulk materials. They remain rather difficult to handle for applications, though, due to their colloidal nature and their susceptibility to uncontrolled aggregation. Thus, there is a need for synthetic methodologies for creating functional materials out of NPs.
We recently discovered that, under specific solution conditions, cationic polyelectrolytes can induce negatively-charged silica NPs to form micron-sized hollow spheres rather than the randomly structured precipitate that would ordinarily result from flocculation. The polyelectrolyte (e.g., polyallylamine) forms aggregates under the crosslinking action of a multivalent salt (e.g., EDTA). These aggregates act as templates around which the NPs deposit to form a multilayer-thick NP/polymer shell. We term this form of NP assembly as "polymer aggregate templating" and the resultant nanoparticle-assembled capsules as "NACs."
Schematic of NP assembly: polymer aggregate templating
Selected publications:
75. H. G. Bagaria and M. S. Wong, "Polyamine–salt aggregate assembly of capsules as responsive drug delivery vehicles," J. Mater. Chem., 21 (26), 9454-9466 (2011). DOI: 10.1039/C1JM10712G (Abstract) (Feature Article)
51. V. S. Murthy, S. B. Kadali, and M. S. Wong, "Polyamine-Guided Synthesis of Anisotropic, Multicompartment Microparticles," Appl. Mater. Interfac., 1, 590-596 (2009). DOI:10.1021/am8001499 (Abstract)
21. R. K. Rana, V. S. Murthy, J. Yu and M. S. Wong, "Nanoparticle Self-assembly of Hierarchically Ordered Microcapsule Structures," Adv. Mater. 17, 1145-1150 (2005). (Cover Article) DOI: 10.1002/adma.200401612 (Abstract)
Nanoparticle-assembled Capsules as Advanced Encapsulation/delivery Agents
There are several methods to prepare microcapsule structures: surfactant self-assembly, sacrificial templating, and physical extrusion. Vesicles or liposomes are hollow sphere structures composed of a bilayer of surfactant molecules. They can form very easily and can readily encapsulate water-soluble compounds; however, the structure is very sensitive to fluid conditions and is difficult manipulate physically. In sacrificial templating, solid or liquid particles are enveloped by a solid shell, and the inner particles are removed through solvent extraction, chemical dissolution, or high temperatures. Uniformly sized shells result from this multi-step process, but non-destructive encapsulation is difficult to perform. Physical extrusion encompasses many methods for the scalable generation of coated liquid droplets, in which the coating contains a crosslinkable precursor that reacts or hardens around the droplet (that contains the target encapsulate). Shell sizes smaller than 1 micron are difficult to achieve, though.
Uniquely different from these methods is polymer aggregate templating, which is the simplest method yet to generate stable microcapsule structures for encapsulation purposes. This materials synthesis route is quite general, as a variety of NP compositions and polymers can be used. The nanoscale properties of the constituent NPs can be incorporated into the NACs, and the polymer molecular structure can be modified to a great extent (to increase functionality, for example) as long as the charge-driven NP assembly process is not disrupted.
SEM image of tin oxide NACs (average diameter = 620 nm) prepared from SnO2 NPs, poly(allylamine), and phosphate anions.
The mild conditions (room temperature, atmospheric pressure, near-neutral pH, water solvent) and simplicity that allow microcapsule synthesis to be a highly scalable process, also allow compounds to be encapsulated easily and without damage. The encapsulation of dye molecules, drug compounds, and enzymes, for example, can be carried out by simply contacting the target compounds with the polymer aggregates prior to shell formation (i.e., prior to addition of the shell-forming NPs).
Enzyme-containing NACs can be considered individual micro-bioreactors. The enzymes are protected by the NAC shell wall from direct contact with the external aqueous environment, but can interact with reactant molecules that penetrate the semipermeable shell wall via concentration-gradient-driven diffusion. There is no well-defined pore size or shape in the shell walls, but it is presumed that the transport pathway is defined by the interstitial spaces of the NP/polymer composite.
Selected publications:
73. N. X. Zhao, H. G. Bagaria, M. S. Wong, and Y. L. Zu, "A nanocomplex that is both tumor cell-selective and cancer gene-specific for anaplastic large cell lymphoma," J Nanobiotechnol, 9, 2 (2011). DOI: 10.1186/1477-3155-9-2 (Abstract)
62. G. C. Kini, S. L. Biswal, and M. S. Wong, "Non-LBL Assembly and Encapsulation Uses of Nanoparticle-Shelled Hollow Spheres," Adv Polym Sci, 229, 175-200 (2010). DOI:10.1007/12_2010_53 (Abstract) (Link)
58. J. Yu, D. Javier, M. A. Yaseen, N. Nitin, R. Richards-Kortum, B. Anvari and M.S. Wong, "Self-assembly Synthesis, Tumor Cell Targeting, and Photothermal Capabilities of Antibody-coated Indocyanine Green Nanocapsules," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132 (6), 1929-1938 (2010). DOI:10.1021/ja908139y (Abstract)
56. S. E. Plush, M. Woods, Y. Zhou, S. B. Kadali, M. S. Wong and A. D. Sherry, "Nanoassembled Capsules as Delivery Vehicles for Large Payloads of High Relaxivity Gd3+ Agents,"J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 (43), 15918–15923 (2009). DOI:10.1021/ja906981w (Abstract)
32. P. R. LeDuc, M. S. Wong, et al., "Towards an in vivo Biologically Inspired Nanofactory," Nature Nanotech., 2, 3-7 (2007). DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2006.180 (Abstract)
Palladium-on-Gold Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Groundwater Remediation
Groundwater remediation through the catalytic breakdown of the undesired contaminants is a more effective and desirable approach than the conventional physical displacement methods of air-stripping and carbon adsorption. Palladium (Pd) catalysts are known to catalyze the hydrodechlorination (HDC) of trichloroethene (TCE) in water, at room temperature, and in the presence of hydrogen. TCE is one of the most common organic pollutants in US groundwaters today. Mostly used as a solvent to degrease metal parts in a number of industries and at numerous Department of Energy and Department of Defense facilities, it contaminates 60% of Superfund sites at concentration levels that far exceed the current EPA maximum contaminant level of 5 ppb. TCE is also one of the most hazardous pollutants, as it has been found to cause liver and kidney damage and is suspected to be a carcinogen.
We recently discovered that palladium-on-gold nanoparticles (Pd/Au NPs) can be >70 times more active than Pd supported on alumina on a per-Pd gram basis, and are currently working towards understanding the source of the catalytic enhancement and towards improving the potential of this catalyst as a groundwater remediation technology. We synthesized Pd/Au NPs with a core diameter of 4 nm and with different Pd loadings. The most active catalysts were considerably more active (1956 L/gpd/min) than Pd NPs (54 L/gpd/min) and conventionally synthesized Pd/Al 2O3(47 L/gpd/min). Accounting for a gas-liquid mass transfer effect and for the magic-cluster-like core/shell geometry, the reaction rates in terms of initial turnover frequencies were 1.43, 4.35×10-2, and 3.76×10-2 s-1, respectively. These materials exhibited a volcano-shaped activity vs. Pd surface coverage curve, in which the HDC activity peaked near 70% surface coverage.
These NPs can be immobilized on alumina, magnesia, and silica supports to yield active oxide-supported catalysts.
This effort, in collaboration with environmental engineers, will lead to an engineered treatment system that can
be studied for long-term operational stability and efficacy for remediation of other oxidized water pollutants.
Such a system is envisioned to replace the thousands of existing, but aging, pump-and-treat systems throughout
the United States.
TCE HDC reaction rate constants of Pd/Au NPs (4-nm Au NPs) plotted against Pd loadings (on metals basis)
Selected publications:
54. K. N. Heck, M. O. Nutt, P. Alvarez, and M. S. Wong, "Deactivation Resistance of Pd/Au Nanoparticle Catalysts for Water-phase Hydrodechlorination," J. Catal. 267, 97-104 (2009)DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2009.07.015 (Abstract)
49. M. S. Wong, P. J.J. Alvarez, Y.L. Fang, N. Akcin, M. O. Nutt, J. T. Miller, and K. N. Heck, "Cleaner Water using Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts" J. Chem. Tech. & Biotech, 84, 158-166 (2009). DOI:10.1002/jctb.2002 (Abstract)
30. M. O. Nutt, K. N. Heck, P. Alvarez, and M. S. Wong, "Improved Pd-on-Au Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts for Aqueous-phase Trichloroethene Hydrodechlorination," Appl. Catal. B Env. 69, 115-125 (2006). DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2006.06.005 (Abstract)
17. M. O. Nutt, J. B. Hughes and M. S. Wong, "Designing Pd-on-Au Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts for Trichloroethene Hydrodechlorination," Environ. Sci. Technol. 39, 1346 - 1353 (2005). DOI: 10.1021/es048560b (Abstract)
Improving the Synthesis Chemistry and Scalability of Quantum Dots
Fluorescent semiconductor NPs, or quantum dots (QDs), have potential uses as an optical material, in which the optoelectronic properties can be tuned precisely by particle size. Advances in chemical synthesis have led to improvements in size and shape control, cost, and safety. A limiting step in large-scale production is identified to be the raw materials cost, in which a common synthesis solvent, octadecene, accounts for most of the materials cost in a batch of CdSe quantum dots. Thus, less expensive solvents are needed. Heat transfer (HT) fluids is a class of organic liquids commonly used in chemical process industries to transport heat between unit operations, and have physical properties that suggest possible use as such alternative solvents for QD synthesis.
We found that two heat transfer fluids (Dowtherm A and Therminol 66) can be used successfully in the synthesis of CdSe quantum dots with uniform particle sizes. The synthesis chemistry for CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots and CdSe quantum rods can also be performed in HT fluids. We noted subtle differences in the growth patterns of the QDs using the different HT fluids, octadecene, and trioctylphosphine oxide. With the aid of a population balance model developed by Prof. Mantzaris, we concluded that these differences are due to solvent effects, specifically solvent viscosity, CdSe bulk solubility in the solvent, and surface free energy of the oleic-acid -covered QDs.
These findings on HT fluids use and QD growth kinetics should be applicable to NPs of other compositions, and can help guide the development of control strategies for liquid-phase production of high-quality NPs.
Fluorescing suspensions of CdSe quantum dots (QDs) synthesized in a heat transfer fluid, of varying particle diameters: blue (2.0 nm), green (2.5 nm), yellow (3.0 nm), orange (3.9 nm), and red (4.2 nm).
Along the same lines, the synthesis of 4-legged CdSe QDs called tetrapods are difficult to scale up. They are difficult to prepare with uniform arm lengths and widths; non-tetrapod QDs invariably get formed simultaneously; and the synthesis requires expensive and toxic phosphonic acid surfactants. We discovered that cationic ligands in the form of quaternary ammonium surfactants induces faceting in QDs, and that cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) surfactant in particular lead to >90% selective synthesis of uniform CdSe tetrapods. The use of CTAB enables the greener and scalable synthesis of tetrapods, which are currently being studied for solar cell applications.
Schematic of new synthesis method for CdSe tetrapods
Collage of transmission electron micrograph (TEM) images, of uniform CdSe tetrapods of various sizes. Images are false-colored to indicate the emitted color of the tetrapods. Scale bar = 50 nm.
Selected publications:
60. W. Y. L. Ko, H. G. Bagaria, S. Asokan, K.-J. Lin and M. S. Wong, "CdSe Tetrapod Synthesis Using Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide and Heat Transfer Fluids," J. Mater. Chem. 20 (12), 2474-2478 (2010). DOI:10.1039/b922145j (Abstract)
37. S. Asokan, K. M. Krueger, V. L. Colvin, and M. S. Wong, "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of CdSe Tetrapods Using Cationic Surfactant Ligands," Small 3(7), 1164-1169 (2007). DOI: 10.1002/smll.200700120 (Abstract)
24. S. Asokan, K. M. Krueger, A. Alkhawaldeh, A. R. Carreon, Z. Mu, V. L. Colvin, N. V. Mantzaris and M. S. Wong, "The Use of Heat Transfer Fluids in the Synthesis of High-quality CdSe Quantum Dots, Core/Shell Quantum Dots, and Quantum Rods," Nanotechnology 16, 2000-2011 (2005). DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/16/10/004 (Abstract)
Structural and Catalytic Studies of Nanoparticle-Supported Metal Oxides
Supported metal oxides represent a large class of materials used in many catalytic processes. There are a number of well-established preparation methods that lead to some molecular structure control of the supported metal oxide in the form of isolated, polymerized, and crystalline species. Advances in metal oxide-forming chemistries have come about recently that provide new ability to form pure metal oxides and mixed metal oxides, with structural and compositional control at the nanometer-level. We are exploring several synthesis routes to NP-supported metal oxides. There is emerging evidence that suggests that nanocrystalline domains of the surface oxide can be active sites, based on studies of WOx/ZrO2 materials in methanol dehydration.
In addition, we have analyzed one overlooked aspect of supported metal oxides, the surface density metric. Confusion in SMO literature can arise because there is no generally accepted method for determining surface density. As the metric that characterizes the surface oxide of supported metal oxide catalysts, surface density allows one to consider the various structures of the surface oxide on a common scale, independent of total oxide content, preparation method, calcination treatment, and surface area of the support oxide. Some analogy can be made with supported metal catalysts and the metal dispersion metric.
Surface saturation and monolayer coverage are important threshold surface density values at which surface oxide crystals form and at which complete consumption of surface hydroxyl groups of the support oxide occurs, respectively. Differences in these values come about, though, because of (i) inconsistency in their definitions, (ii) difficulties in compatibilizing data from different characterization techniques, and (iii) and the use of support surface area instead of the overall composite SMO. These differences can make structural comparison of the same SMO composition difficult across different research groups. Calculated properly, however, surface density provides the most simple and useful basis for understanding the relationship between surface nanostructure and catalytic and surface properties.
Selected publications:
66. N. Soultanidis, W. Zhou, A. C. Psarras, A. J. Gonzalez, E. F. Iliopoulou, C. J. Kiely, I. E. Wachs, and M. S. Wong, "Relating n-Pentane Isomerization Activity to the Tungsten Surface Density of WOx/ZrO2," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132 (38), 13462-13471 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/ja105519y (Abstract)
57. W. Zhou, E. I. Ross-Medgaarden, W. V. Knowles, M. S. Wong, I. E. Wachs and C. J. Kiely, "Identification of Active Zr–WOx Clusters on a ZrO2 Support for Solid Acid Catalysts," Nature. Chem, 1, 722-728 (2009). DOI:10.1038/NCHEM.433 (Abstract)
50. E. I. Ross-Medgaarden, I. E. Wachs, W. V. Knowles, A. Burrows,
C. J. Kiely, and M. S. Wong, "Tuning the Electronic and Molecular
Structure of Catalytic Active Sites with Titania Nanoligands," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
131, 680-687 (2009). DOI:10.1021/ja711456c
27. M. S. Wong, "Nanostructured Supported Metal Oxides," in Metal Oxides: Chemistry and Applications; J. L. G. Fierro, Ed.; Taylor and Francis: Boca Raton; Chapter 2, pp. 31-54 (2006). (Abstract)
Fundamentals of Colloidal Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts
The Pd-on-Au NPs currently investigated for the catalytic reduction of organic halides dissolved in water are highly useful as a model catalytic material to study in greater detail (i) the effects of mass transfer on reaction kinetics), (ii) the bi-metal distribution of the core/shell nanostructure, (iii) the nature of the catalytically active sites, and (iv) the details of the surface reaction pathway. We have successfully addressed these questions through the development of new spectroscopic techniques (gold nanoshell-based surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and in situ x-ray absorption spectroscopy), careful synthesis methods, and the application of classical reaction kinetics analysis (e.g., experimental identification of mass transfer resistances and Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanistic studies). Our research team and collaborators continue to deepen our understanding of bimetallic catalysts.
Selected publications:
72. Y. L. Fang, K. N. Heck, P. Alvarez, and M. S. Wong, "Kinetics Analysis of Palladium/Gold Nanoparticles as Colloidal Hydrodechlorination Catalysts," ACS Catal., 1 (2), 128-138 (2011). DOI: 10.1021/cs100067k (Abstract)
69. L. A. Pretzer, Q. X. Nguyen, and M. S. Wong, "Controlled Growth of Sub-10 nm Gold Nanoparticles Using Carbon Monoxide Reductant," J. Phys. Chem. C, 114 (49), 21226-21233 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/jp107945d (Abstract)
65. Y. L. Fang, J. T. Miller, N. Guo, K. N. Heck, Pedro. J. J. Alvarez, and M. S. Wong, "Structural Analysis of Palladium-decorated Gold Nanoparticles as Colloidal Bimetallic Catalysts," Catal. Today, 160 (1), 96-102 (2011). DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2010.08.010 (Abstract)
54. K. N. Heck, M. O. Nutt, P. Alvarez, and M. S. Wong, "Deactivation Resistance of Pd/Au Nanoparticle Catalysts for Water-phase Hydrodechlorination," J. Catal. 267, 97-104 (2009)DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2009.07.015 (Abstract)
46. K.N. Heck, B.G. Janesko, G.E. Scuseria, N.J. Halas and M.S.Wong, "Observing Metal-Catalyzed Chemical Reactions in Situ Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Pd-Au Nanoshells" J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 130 (49), 1659216600 (2008). DOI:10.1021/ja803556k (Abstract)
Nanoparticles for Oil-Field Applications
A futuristic application of nanoparticles is the 4-D detection of petroleum deposits within a reservoir, in which nanoparticles are released into an injection well and recovered at the production well. These nanoparticles would "record" the conditions of their ensemble trajectory based on their physical and/or chemical changes, which may provide a more detailed assessment of a production site. A materials challenge that impedes such developmental work is the conventional lack of colloidal and chemical stability of nanoparticles at mild temperatures (~100 C), high pressures (<100 atm), and high salinities (ranging from seawater to brine). In a first step, we recently developed a processing method that successfully takes any solvent-suspended, bilayer-coated nanoparticles into high-salinity water. A breakthrough is the recognition that high-salinity conditions are conducive towards an outer bilayer coating with a high charge density, important to enhanced nanoparticle stability. In a second step, nanoparticles can be rationally designed to contain a marker molecule that leaches into oil deposits nearby which the nanoparicles travel. The synthesis and transport of carbon nanoreporters were successfully carried out to demonstrate the proof-of-concept.
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70. J. M. Berlin, J. Yu, W. Lu, E. E. Walsh, L. L. Zhang, P. Zhang, Wei. Chen, A. T. Kan, M. S. Wong, M. B. Tomson, and J. M. Tour, "Engineered nanoparticles for hydrocarbon detection in oil-field rocks," Energy Environ. Sci., 4 (2), 505-509 (2011). DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00237B (Abstract) (Hot Article)
68. H. G. Bagaria, G. C. Kini, and M. S. Wong, "Electrolyte Solutions Improve Nanoparticle Transfer from Oil to Water," J. Phys. Chem. C, 114 (47), 19901-19907 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/jp106140j (Abstract)
67. J. Yu, J. M. Berlin, W. Lu, L. Zhang, A. T. Kan, P. Zhang, E. E. Walsh, S. N. Work, W. Chen, J. M. Tour, M. S. Wong, and M. B. Tomson, "Transport study of nanoparticles for oilfield application," SPE 131158, 2010 SPE International Conference on Oilfield Scale, Aberdeen, UK, May 26-27, (online) DOI: 10.2118/131158-MS (Abstract)


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Posted: January 18th, 2012
UPDATE: The deadline to apply for spring research grants is Feb 1; click here for details.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH TABLEAU – A recent production of Shakespeare's Macbeth spreads itself across the main stage of Lake Superior State University's Arts Center in sault Ste. Marie, Mich. LSSU fine arts student Eric Cairns landed an undergraduate research grant to present an original independent film production on the main stage in April. An anonymous donor provides funding for the grants through LSSU's Foundation office. Two other students received grants for senior thesis research in the natural sciences. (LSSU/ John Shibley)
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Three students have received cash awards to support their undergraduate research projects at Lake Superior State University. An anonymous donor through the LSSU Foundation provides funding for the Undergraduate Research Grant program.
The award is competitive and targeted to help fund undergraduate senior research projects that are required for graduation. Up to six students may receive awards each semester for three years. If the program is successful in stimulating a wider variety of rigorous student research, the Foundation hopes to raise further funds to continue it into the future.
"An area of pride for our university is the incorporation of student research into the academic programs," says Dr. Barb Keller, Dean of the College of Natural, Mathematical and Health Sciences and also the Chair of the Undergraduate Research Committee that awards these grants.
"The availability of the undergraduate research funding has given students access to funding for research projects that otherwise may not have been possible," says Keller. "The LSSU Foundation has been instrumental in helping to raise the funding for this program. We hope to continue this competitive process for many years to come."
Undergraduate research has always been a vital part of the student experience at LSSU. In fact, the University mission and vision statements emphasize its role in helping students develop their full potential, as well as contributing to the growth, dissemination and application of knowledge beyond campus.
Students who graduate from Lake State must first demonstrate and apply their knowledge in the form of a senior project that is evaluated by fellow students and faculty. Many of these projects become posters and papers presented at professional conferences. Open sessions held on campus each semester share research results with the public as well.
"For many students, a senior thesis project is their first pass through rigorous university-level research," says Keller. "Now we add another first-time opportunity by making an undergraduate research grant available. The selection process itself provides our students with skills that may not only fund, but steer the research they go on to conduct as graduates."
LSSU's undergraduate research grant application process has students define their project's timeline and submit a detailed accounting for materials and supplies, printing costs, software, project-related travel, and other related expenses excluding student wages. Each line item also requires a formal justification as to how it relates to the project's final outcome. Student applicants must also disclose other potential funding sources, be they departmental, state, or local - even expenses covered out of pocket.
Finally, if animal or human test subjects are part of the study, a full research plan must be submitted to faculty oversight committees that verify certain standards of laboratory care and research ethics.
This semester's grant topics range from an original production to be presented on the LSSU Arts Center main stage, to how common the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which can affect humans, is in animal shelter cats.
Eric Cairns (Traverse City, Mich.) is producing an original short-feature film for his senior-year project. "Violet" is a feature film about an 18 year-old girl who is an honor student in her high school in Chicago on the verge of winning a scholarship to go to medical school. Violet's world is suddenly turned upside down when her mother Monica decides that the two of them will move from the big city of Chicago to a small town called Northport in northern Michigan. Violet encounters many obstacles and she overcomes her self obsessed mother, the burdens of moving, and the pressures of school in order to come to a new sense of self.
Hannah Connor (Brighton, Mich.) continues research on a common parasite in cats that can jump to humans. Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that typically infects cats and rodents. However, humans can also become infected if they eat contaminated food or water, or if they accidently ingest the eggs found on cat feces in litter boxes. Infected humans with healthy immune systems are usually asymptomatic, however if a pregnant woman becomes infected, a miscarriage, stillborn, or birth defect can result. In this study the blood and feces of cats will be analyzed from a local animal shelter to determine how many are infected. The serum will be separated from the blood and sent to J.P. Dubey, a T. gondii expert with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and subjected to a modified agglutination test to check for T. gondii. Feces from shelter cats will be analyzed with a fecal floatation technique to determine if oocysts (the common infective stage to humans) are present. This research will help us determine how prevalent T. gondii is and how likely humans are to contract it.
Matt Elya (Harbor Springs, Mich.) is examining the crucial contributions fish make to the food webs of Michigan streams. Migratory fish contribute nutrients during spawning runs to many Great Lakes streams, which often stimulate growth of algae, the base of stream food webs. Historically, native fish species have had spawning runs in great numbers, but their populations have declined while concurrently non-native migratory fish numbers have increased. As a result, stream food webs may be changing. This project will compare the amount of nutrients provided to Great Lakes streams by a native species — the white sucker — against non-native species, Chinook and Coho Salmon, and ultimately expand our knowledge on their impact to Great Lakes tributaries.
"We are very grateful to receive a gift that will help to fund an undergraduate research program. There are many opportunities for students to collaborate with faculty on research, however there is always a challenge to fund such a program," says LSSU Foundation Executive Director Tom Coates. "The anonymous donor determined an area they wanted to support and made this opportunity possible."
The deadline to apply for next semester's award is February 1. Details on the program may be found by running a Web search for "LSSU Undergraduate Research Committee."
Anyone who wishes to support the undergraduate research fund can contact the LSSU Foundation office at (906) 635-2665 or make a contribution through the LSSU Foundation online giving form.
CONTACTS: John Shibley, e-mail, 906-635-2314; Tom Pink, e-mail, 635-2315; Dr. Barb Keller e-mail, 635-2185 ; Sharon Dorrity, LSSU Foundation, e-mail, 635-2665.


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Carnes Presents Research at Conference on Gender Equality in Science
Molly Carnes, MD, MS, Professor in the Department of Medicine, represented the United States at an international conference on "Practicing Gender Equality in Science," sponsored by the Italian Department of Equal Opportunity on November 3-4, 2009, in Rome, Italy.
Dr. Carnes joined four others from the United States, including Virginia Valian, author of the book, "Why So Slow?" and presenters from nine other countries to discuss effective strategies for increasing the participation and advancement of women in medicine, science and engineering.
Dr. Carnes, director of the UW Center for Women's Health Research, presented research she and her collaborators have conducted through the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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By BL Ochman
June is Adopt a Cat Month and the ASPCA has cheered up its advertising with the hard dancing Hovercat.
The ASPCA says Nightline's Dan Harris, who makes a cameo appearance in the video, adopted an amazing cat, named George, who can hover. The minute Harris leaves the house, George starts his hover dance, which really does rock.
"There are millions of other animals waiting to be adopted," the ASPCA advises. "Get one and make your own viral videos."
After years of tortuing late night TV viewers with the maudlin, depressing, slit your wrists because you can't adopt them all right now Sarah McLachlan "In the Arms of an Angel" plea, the ASPCA has turned to humor and fun to persuade people to adopt sheloter cats. Great decision!
The McLachlan video was voted "most hated commercial" at a recent social media for non-profits conference. It provokes comments like this one:
"hi, im Sarah McLachlan. and i'm here to ruin your fu*king day with tears and depression…"
While it's easy to understand the reason for the sad appeal, humor and an upbeat approach are a welcome relief. It will be interesting to see the stats on which of the two approaches is more successful in promoting adoptions and raising funds.
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YuYu Hakusho - Open Your Eyes!! (GN 8 of 19)
Title: YuYu Hakusho - Open Your Eyes!!
Volume: GN 8 / 19
Pages: 192
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 2005-09-15
Suggested retail price: $7.95
Age rating: 13+
Dr. Ichigaki's ultimate biological weapons are in the ring, but Team Urameshi is suddenly having a severe attack of conscience. After Kuwabara's enlightening reverie about how Dr. Ichigaki implanted blood-slaver nodes in the brains of Master Mitamura's martial-arts students, Yusuke and company just don't have the heart to conduct their demon-slaying business as usual.
Meanwhile, the Shadow Channelers the ninjas of the Demon Plane are on deck. With their fiendish adrenalin pumped-up to the max, Team Urameshi better pray Yukina the Ice Maiden, who came to watch, turns out to be their lucky charm.
Story and art by Yoshihiro Togashi.
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[Footnote 1: Daily Tropic (New Orleans), May 18, 1846.]
[Footnote 2: Plantation and Frontier, II, 38.]
[Footnote 3: Mississippi Historical Society Publications, X, 444.]
July 10, 1853
Peyton is no more
Aged 42
Though he was a bad man in many respects
yet he was a most excellent field
hand, always at his
On this place for 21 years.
Except the measles and its sequence, the
injury rec'd by the mule last Nov'r and its sequence,
he has not lost 15 days' work, I verily believe, in the
remaining 19 years. I wish we could hope for his
eternal state.
[Footnote 4: Captain L.V. Cooley, Address Before the Tulane Society of
Economics, New Orleans, April 11th, 1911, on River Transportation and Its
Relation to New Orleans, Past, Present and Future. [New Orleans, 1911.]]
[Footnote 5: Olmsted, Seaboard Slave States, p. 179.]
[Footnote 6: Nehemiah Adams. A Southside View of Slavery, or Three Months
in the South in 1854 (Boston, 1854), chap. 2.]
[Footnote 7: [Z. Kingsley] A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society
as It exists ... under the Name of Slavery. By an inhabitant of Florida.
Fourth edition (1834), pp. 21, 22. (Copy in the Library of Congress.)]
[Footnote 8: [Z. Kingsley] Treatise, p. 22.]
[Footnote 9: W.L. Fleming, "Jefferson Davis, the Negroes and the Negro
Problem," in the Sewanee Review (October, 1908).]
[Footnote 10: William Bartram, Travels (London, 1792), pp. 307-310, 467,
[Footnote 11: Plantation and Frontier, I, 203-208.]
[Footnote 12: MS. records in the possession of W.H. Stovall, Stovall,
[Footnote 13: Plantation and Frontier, I, 293, 294.]
[Footnote 14: Ibid., 192, 193.]
[Footnote 15: MS. copy in Manigault's letter book.]
[Footnote 16: MS. in the possession of Mrs. J.F. Minis, Savannah, Ga.]
[Footnote 17: Olmsted, Seaboard Slave States, p. 57.]
[Footnote 18: Plantation and Frontier, I, 179.]
[Footnote 19: Mississippi Historical Society Publications, X, 439, 443,
447, 480.]
[Footnote 20: Louisiana Gazette (New Orleans), June 11, 1822, quoting the
Lynchburg Press.]
[Footnote 21: MS. in the possession of W.H. Stovall, Stovall, Miss.]
[Footnote 22: MS. in the Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans.]
[Footnote 23: MS. preserved on the plantation, owned by ex-Governor H.C.
[Footnote 24: William Allen, Life of John McDonogh (Baltimore, 1886), p.
[Footnote 25: Niles' Register, XLV, 84]
[Footnote 26: Federal Union (Milledgeville, Ga.), Sept. 14 and 17 and
Oct. 22, 1834.]
[Footnote 27: Edward J. Forstall, The Agricultural Productions of
Louisiana (New Orleans, 1845).]
[Footnote 28: Harper's Magazine, VII, 755.]
[Footnote 29: DeBoufs Review, XI, 401.]
[Footnote 30: Olmsted, Seaboard Slave States, pp. 90, 91.]
[Footnote 31: W.H. Russell, My Diary North and South (Boston, 1863), pp
272, 273, 278.]
[Footnote 32: Robert Russell, North America, Its Agriculture and Chwate
(Edinburgh, 1857), p. 272.]
[Footnote 33: A. de Puy Van Buren, Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the
South (Battle Creek, Mich., 1859), pp. 84, 318.]
[Footnote 34: Olmsted, Seaboard Slave States, pp. 550, 551.]
[Footnote 35: Letter of I.E.H. Harvey, Jefferson County, Georgia, April 16,
1837, to H.C. Flournoy, Athens, Ga. MS. in private possession. Punctuation
and capitals, which are conspicuously absent in the original, have here
been supplied for the sake of clarity.]
[Footnote 36: Daily Delta (New Orleans), April 17, 1849.]
[Footnote 37: John Drayton, View of South Carolina (Charleston, 1802), p.
[Footnote 38: Macon, Ga., Telegraph, Feb. 3, 1859, quoted in DeBow's
Review, XXIX, 362, note.]
[Footnote 39: MS. among the Allen and Ellis papers in the Library of
[Footnote 40: Adlard Welby, Visit to North America (London, 1821 )
reprinted in Thwaites ed., Early Western Travels, XII, 289]
[Footnote 41: Basil Hall, Travels in the United States, III, 227, 228.]
[Footnote 42: Olmsted, Seaboard Slave States, p. 146.]
[Footnote 43: Basil Hall, III, 117.]
[Footnote 44: Seaboard Slave States, p. 91.]
[Footnote 45: American Agriculturist, IX, 93.]
[Footnote 46: William Faux, Memorable Days in America (London, 1823), p.
68, reprinted in Thwaites, ed., Early Western Travels, XI, 87.]


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Calendar allows you to access, and manage your schedule from any Web-enabled device. Since calendars can be integrated with your institution's existing information system, you will likely have calendars automatically created for you when you enroll in a class. These calendars typically contain class times, exam times, and other scheduling information pertaining to your class. You can also create your own calendars and share them with friends or colleagues. You can even make your calendars send e-mail reminders to yourself or others before a scheduled event.
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Near the top of the Calendar screen is a set of tabs, similar to tabs on file folders. The tabs allow you to view different calendar information. For example, you can view an overview of a day's events with the week ahead and any pending tasks you have listed. You can also click the day, week, and month links to show the associated view. You can update the calendar from any of these views.
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Carrasco, Myers struggle as Tribe falls 14-1
Tribe pitching allows five home runs in blowout loss
Cleveland, OH — After working out of early trouble in the first, Cleveland Indians starter Carlos Carrasco gave up seven runs before being ejected in the top of the fourth as the Indians lost their second straight game to the Yankees, 14-1.
After Ichiro Suzuki grounded into a double play in the top of the second, Eduardo Nunez and Lyle Overbay hit back-to-back singles off Carrasco (0-1, 17.18) to put runners on first and second. Following a walk to Francisco Cervelli to load the bases, leadoff man Brett Gardner singled to right-center to score the first two runs of the game. Robinson Cano followed with a two-RBI double that went over the head of center fielder Drew Stubbs and extended the lead to 4-0.
Carrasco gave up another run in the fifth on a solo home run into the visiting team's bullpen by Suzuki, putting the Yankees up 5-0. It home run was Suzuki's first this year, and it traveled 337 feet in quick fashion.
Cano put New York up 7-0 after he hit a two-run homer, his third of the season, into the left field bleachers in the fourth. In two games against the Tribe this season, Cano has six extra-base hits and seven runs batted in.
Following the dinger by Cano, Carrasco beaned Kevin Youklis near his head and was ejected by home plate umpire Jordan Baker. Carrasco just finished serving a suspension for beaning Kansas City Royals slugger Billy Butler in 2011, and it looks like he might have another coming his way.
"I know it doesn't look good," said Carrasco, who waited in manager Terry Francona's office following the game to apologize. "I really want to say sorry."
Carrasco allowed seven earned runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out two in three and two-thirds innings.
Indians starter Brett Myers came on in long relief to give Cleveland's overtaxed bullpen a breather. He allowed seven earned runs on 11 hits, including three home runs over the final five and one-third innings. The Yankees finished the night with 18 hits, five of them homers and the team now has hit eight in the first two games of the series.
"Losing a game is not fun, but Brett saved our bullpen," said Francona. "Hopefully we can win a game tomorrow night."
New York southpaw Andy Pettitte (2-0, 1.20) kept the Cleveland bats quiet over seven innings to pick up his second win of the season. He allowed just one home run to shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera on the first pitch of the sixth inning.
Adam Warren kept the Indians lineup scoreless over the final two innings, surrendering two hits and striking out one.
Stubbs and first baseman Nick Swisher led Cleveland with two hits apiece. Stubbs logged a double in each of his first two at-bats, but failed to score. Three other Indians had one hit to bring the team's total to seven for the game.
Catcher Yan Gomes, recalled Tuesday after Lou Marson was placed on the disabled list, went hitless in his Indians debut.
Cleveland will try to take the third game of the four-game series against New York on Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m. After using Myers in long relief, the Indians will likely recall right-hander Corey Kluber from Triple-A Columbus to face Yankees right-hander Ivan Nova (0-1, 7.71).
Notes: The Yankees 14-1 victory was largest margin of victory in Cleveland since winning 18-1 on August 12, 1931. ... With the loss, Terry Francona is now 81-80 in his managerial career against the Yankees.
Nathan Kemp graduated from The University of Akron in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in English. He plans to pursue a graduate degree through NEOMFA in the fall. Follow him on Twitter @NathanCKemp.


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Networking Technology of the Future
Take professional networking to the next level with Virtual Conferencing
Tags: Virtual Conferencing
BY Entrepreneur | Jan 25, 2011 comments ( 2 ) |
In a major turnaround of sorts, Graham Bell gave us the gift of phone. Winds of progress then innovated Tele Conference that allowed audio networking between more than two people at a time. Closer to its heels came Video Conferencing that allowed visualisation of the participating people as they talked. Superseding this is Virtual Conferencing also called Tele presence which permits sharing of datas apart from the above mentioned features. So, if you are hard up for time, feel the need to save on business costs like travelling expenses and hotel bills whilst still preferring to carry out your business communications and meetings smoothly, Virtual Conferencing is the best bet for you. In other words, it is a cost effective, advanced and universally accessible method of a professional internet communication entailing a technology that offers virtual meeting spaces where one can;
- Share applications and presentations
- Perform unified web browsing
- Share files
- Conduct poll
- Chat live or in private
- Record and archive meetings
Terms, types and applications
A "Webinar", also called a "web-based seminar" is used to deliver workshops, seminars or lectures to a large group of people over the internet. Its benefits can be found in educational purposes, sales and marketing and even training. Usually there is one presenter delivering a message to the audience, with limited audience participation. Audience members may be invited to participate in a poll or survey, or ask questions.
Like webinar, a "Webcast" is aimed towards a large audience and used for educational purposes, sales and marketing and training. Used mainly for announcements or broadcasting live events, Webcasts are typically much less of an interactive environment than a Webinar.
Also known as a "web meeting" or "online meeting", a "Web Conference" is basically a meeting held online. Most web conference applications allow you to share documents such as Power Point Presentations, Word Documents, Excel Documents as well as multimedia files and slideshows. Unlike a webinar, web conferences are typically reserved for smaller audiences who are looking for more interaction and collaboration between attendees.
Puneet Wahi of Regus, Manilla (H.O) informs, "You need high definition screen device. Generally, H232 is the most popular screen used. Other requisites are good band for internet connection with speed of 2mbps or more, webcam and powerful power backup and a dedicated line".
He further adds, "Then, there is a bridging company that connects all through an IP address and creates a virtual space or room so that you can see each other".
- Cost effective
- F2F integration-A natural across the table experience
- Increases time flexibility
- Reduces organization's carbon footprints
- Increases management efficiency and productivity
Utsav Seth, CEO, Pavers England shares, "Virtual conferencing facilitates data conferences where you share documents and applications with remote participants. Wonderful, cost effective and useful for increasing management efficiency and productivity".
Who can benefit:
Since the technology is cost effective and universally applicable, it suits all levels of entrepreneurship, be it small, medium or large, provided one can afford it.
Mr. Madhusudan Thakur, Country-Head, Regus-India, (providers of Telespace solutions) who gave us most of the information adds here, "Moreover, it is not specific to any sector, any business that wants to interact with clients, partners or internal staff over distance can benefit from virtual conferencing".
"Normally, cost varies depending on the number of connections that you make. We charge 24,900 for a 4 seater conference and so on", Wahi informs.
Vishal Mehta, CEO of infibeam.com shares, "Every technology has its limitations. Technology failure, bad device compatibility break up due to power failure (without any back up), bad weather, bad line, server failure, communication distortions, audio shortcomings etc can prove that they are but technology that go awry sometime".
The evolving technologies are matching steps with evolving business practices. The global revolution is nudging the Indian companies to go virtual. Modern businesses are constantly on the lookout for new technology. The technology is vital because it changes the way you can do things. As per a Gartner Group study, VC market is expected to grow from 3.8 $ billion to 8.6 billion by 2013 ( a 17.8 CAGR).
Here Thakur justifies, "Any solution that addresses three of the great business challenges of the twenty –first century ie sustainability, costs and business continuity planning-has to be worth considering and cannot go wrong." No wonder, modern businesses constrained for time and money will find their best solution in VC!
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Iowa State extends Fred Hoiberg's contract through 2021
Iowa State men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg had at least two direct or indirect inquires after last season, asking if he'd be interested in discussing coaching jobs elsewhere.
"It didn't get down to anything being offered," Hoiberg said Tuesday. "I wouldn't let it get that far. I'm excited about the future right here at Iowa State."
His future took a new twist Tuesday, when the university announced the second-year coach signed a new contract that will pay an average of $1.5 million annually through the next eight years. Complete terms of the contract haven't yet been released.
"Jamie (Pollard) went out on a limb when he hired me without any coaching experience," Hoiberg said of the athletic director who plucked The Mayor out of the Minnesota Timberwolves' front office.
It's not an extension, senior associate athletic director Steve Malchow stressed. Hoiberg's initial contract, a five-year deal worth a total of $4.5 million when he accepted the position in April 2010, will be torn up after next season. The new one takes its place. He will be signed through 2021.
"It's a great day for Cyclone nation," Malchow said. "In a very short time, Fred has demonstrated his abilities as a coach and especially as a leader of a program.
"The fact he's so popular to our fan base made it imperative that we work hard to maintain our relationship."
Hoiberg shared Big 12 Conference coach of the year honors with Kansas' Bill Self after leading the Cyclones to a 23-11 record and the school's first NCAA berth since 2005.
Iowa State defeated defending national champion Connecticut in its NCAA opener before losing against eventual champion Kentucky.
"Fred Hoiberg and Iowa State — it's a marriage that should never end," Wildcats coach John Calipari said during the NCAA Tournament week.
Hoiberg graduated from Ames High and Iowa State before embarking on a career as an NBA player and executive.
"It's a perfect fit," UConn coach Jim Calhoun said of Hoiberg and the Cyclones.
Hoiberg's coaching style mirrors that of the NBA, featuring isolation plays and strong ball-handling and shooting.
"It's the style everyone wants to play," said Royce White, who left after last season to enter the NBA draft.
Hoiberg would not name what schools or NBA franchises called after the season, other than to say at least one was from someone affiliated with an NBA team.
"Just people gauging interest," Hoiberg said. "Talks never got serious."
Moving is not in his plans.
"It's like I was born in cardinal and gold diapers," Hoiberg said.
Then he added:
"I'll be an old man when this contract expires."
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Marina challenge: Do more with lessPosted on Written by Jim Flannery
Operators told revenues will remain tight while customer expectations have never been higher
Post-recession, the new normal is a challenge, albeit a manageable one, for marina and boatyard operators, Bruce Lunde and Dan Williams said in an International Marina & Boatyard Conference seminar on competing in todays marketplace.
The Feb. 1-3 conference, held against the storybook backdrop of one of Disneys Orlando resorts, probed the reality of doing business after one of the worst recessions in U.S. history and prescribed ways to adapt to it and move forward.
The new reality for many today is tight budgets, caps on capital improvements, rebuffs from cautious lenders, uncertainty about returns on investment during the next two years and delays in maintenance and upgrades, says Lunde, of Lunde Williams LLC, a Madison, Wis., marina and waterfront planning and design firm.
The response to these problems? Management companies are buying marinas and boatyards in an ongoing industry consolidation, he says. Operators are honing their competitive edge.
Creating an aura
Marinas are selling value and they are selling sizzle, he says. Client expectations have never been higher. There are no excuses for mediocrity.
In this business environment, managers should aim to create an aura, an ambience that draws customers to their marinas, Williams says. As fuel becomes more expensive, more people come down to the marina to weekend on their boats and dont leave the dock.
Underwater lighting, shaded areas under stretched fabric, creative landscaping and walkways, shoreline upgrades and renovation, design features to make a marina greener or more accessible to people with disabilities, maintenance of docks and upland facilities and strong links between the docks and upland uses pools, restaurants, shops, accessories outlets and maintenance and repair facilities can create that ambience.
You need to maximize your revenue streams and cater to your customer, he says.
That means changing the mix of slip sizes to reflect the boats that customers are buying. Williams said boaters are becoming more sophisticated in their tastes. They want more than a slip. Many are looking for greener, better-engineered, better-looking places to store their boats. None of this comes cheap.
Lunde recommends renovating a facility in small bites. Prioritize goals, assess the market, tweak the slip mix and put together a realistic budget. Lastly, he says, confront regulatory issues. Work on integrated storm-water management. Make the marina accessible to people with disabilities. All new builds or renovated facilities must comply with 2010 federal standards for accommodating people with disabilities, beginning on March 15.
Just think about where you want to be in five years and do it incrementally, he says.
200 survey responses
Keeping a marina shipshape and renovating it to keep up with the times are big challenges for operators as a sputtering economy drives down slip rates, says Jim Frye, president of the Association of Marina Industries, in a marina industry update based on survey responses from 200 marina and boatyard operators.
Weve got to focus on getting more out of the same footprint with fewer dollars, he says.
Asked how long it has been since their last renovation, 50 percent of respondents said 1 to 3 years; 21 percent said 4 to 6 years; 15 percent said 7 to 9 years; and 13 percent said more than 10 years. (Percentages for some categories of the survey do not total 100 percent in this story because of rounding.)
Frye says the question failed to distinguish between a major renovation and minor changes, and he says he suspects that many of the renovations were storm-related.
Frye says 81 percent of those who had done some renovations worked on their docks; 51 percent worked on their electrical systems; 32 percent worked on their fuel systems; 39 percent worked on uplands; and 8 percent worked on their dry docks. I dont think we see a big uptick in renovations to meet [Americans with Disabilities Act] requirements, he says.
He says that just 28 percent of respondents sought federal money to help with renovations. Federal grant money is available for sewage pumpouts, transient docks and boat ramps. The vast majority have not applied for federal grants, he says. Theres money out there, but the grants require marinas to contribute matching funds.
Frye says that just 29 percent of the marinas that responded to the survey are at 100 percent occupancy, 45 percent are at 75 to 99 percent, 19 percent are at 50 to 74 percent, and 6 percent are under 50 percent. A modest number lowered rates in 2011: 12 percent lowered their wet-slip rates; 5 percent, their dry-stack rates; 5 percent, service rates; 7.5 percent, transient rates; 24 percent, fuel margins; and almost 10 percent, fuel prices.
Staffing, wages, revenue
Ten percent said they had increased full-time staff; 23 percent said the number of staff had decreased. But 36 percent said they had given full-time employees raises. Only 3 percent had cut wages. Twenty-nine percent of marinas that sell fuel said their volume increased in 2011; 38 percent said it decreased; 33 percent said it stayed the same.
Revenue was a mixed bag. Wet slips: 22 percent said revenue was up; 39 percent said it was down; and 40 percent said it stayed about the same. Dry stack: 28 percent up, 26 percent down, 47 percent the same. Winter storage: 22 percent up; 31 percent down, 47 percent the same. Service and repair: 36 percent up, 26 percent down, 38 percent the same. Transient slips: 22 percent up, 31 percent down, 47 percent the same. Ships store: 20 percent up, 35 percent down, 45 percent the same. Dealer revenue: 15 percent up, 32 percent down, 54 percent the same. Restaurant: 31 percent up, 30 percent down, 39 percent the same.
Frye says that whether a marina was up, down or the same tended to be driven by region (regional breakdowns were not yet available).
One of the things were trying to do is find out what the new normal is going to be, he says.
Kirby Scheimann, Southeast regional manager for Marinas International, helped present the survey data. Although hed rather see the 3 percent annual growth typical of the industry before the recession, he says it appears for now that the new normal for the marina industry is staying about the same that is, flat.
The economy
The new normal for the U.S. economy appears for now to be a long period of below-potential, but improving economic growth, says Maria Dolores Espino, an economics professor in the School of Business at St. Thomas University in Miami. She foresees opportunities to export to emerging markets Asia, Latin America and low and stable inflation, but also low pricing power for most products and services and a period of consumers and businesses re-liquifying shedding debt, accruing assets on their balance sheets.
This bodes well for the future, she says. Her projection for 2012: 2.5 percent real GDP growth, depending on how the U.S. economy is affected by the ongoing economic malaise in Europe.
Espino says bankers likely will continue to be risk-averse through 2012 and remain a drag on business expansion. U.S. banks have more than $2.5 trillion in excess reserves.
Weve never seen this level of excess reserve, she says. They have the capability to lend, but they are not doing it.
The International Monetary Fund is forecasting a further half-percentage point contraction in the European economy overall in 2012, with Spain and Italy going into deep recession in 2012-2013. Germany should be able to maintain a modest growth rate of 0.3 percent in 2012 and 1.5 percent in 2013, and France a growth rate of 0.2 percent in 2012 and 1 percent in 2013, but Spain may see a further contraction of 1.7 percent in 2012 and.3 percent in 2013, and Italy a decline of 2.2 percent in 2012 and 0.6 percent in 2013, Espino says. She believes the U.S. Federal Reserve has acted prudently to ensure that Europes banking problems dont drag down the U.S. banking system, but she says its economic problems will have an adverse effect on U.S. exports to the region.
Sales there are going to be flat, she says.
She advises U.S. businesses to explore a mix of export markets, European and emerging, maintain strong cash flow (dont get buried in debt), retain talented employees and contract for the rest and lock in interest rates now (the Fed has committed to keeping them low through 2014, Espino says).
Projects shut down
The recession shut down most new marina development, says Sam Phlegar, president of Applied Technology and Management Inc., a consulting firm with offices in Charleston, S.C., and nine other locations. Projects were canceled, mid-stream developments were put on hold, expansions and improvements were tabled and project schedules were significantly extended. Little happened in 2009-10, Phlegar says.
One strategy for keeping a project alive during hard times is to seek permits, even if the work is delayed. This creates value and positions [the project] for entry into the market, he says.
Phlegar advises, too, an audit of the original vision to test its viability in the new normal, fine-tuning plans and repositioning the project as the market changes. Where possible, developers should find and use grant money to move a project forward and look for governments overseas that are eager to promote marina development as a way to draw foreign investment and create jobs.
Phlegar sees encouraging signs: The U.S. economy is slowly improving, he says, boat sales are edging up, the volume of transient dockage is growing and lease rates are stabilizing.
The challenges: Loans still are hard to get, European economies remain a crapshoot and slips-for-sale (condominiums and dockominiums) are a dinosaur (That model looked so good in 2005, he says. Not anymore.). He warns that marinas may have to change to keep their value in fluid economic times such as these.
His advice on new marina development: Plan, plan, plan. Keep looking for lending. He says its coming back, though very modestly. Get your permits. Be ready, he says.
This article originally appeared in the March 2012 issue.


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So, here i'm back after a long time away...
I dont really know it this is the right place to post my problem, but i haven't found a better subforum to post in, so..
First of all: yes, i've googled around a lot...and yes, i've tried to search within all of the available topics with no success..
I explain my problem: a lawyer friend of mine called me last thursday offering me what he called a "small job". A company had opened a trial against a french programmer who tried to phisically steal one of their web servers, running a custom php application he made for the company itself. The lawyer is defending the company. They already won the first trial, therefore the french bailiffs (hope the term is right, i've googled for it..) went at the programmer's laboratory, they retrieved the webserver and they gave it to the owner (the company). Unfortunately, when the IT dept of the company tried to make some updates on the server, they discovered that the programmer made a complete encryption of all of the php source files using a freeware version of Sourceguardian 7.
The company has paid a regular invoice for the overall webserver, including all of the php programs, and the agreement between them and the programmer clearly stated that all of the necessary sourcefiles would become a company property after payment.
Now the bad part of all: they asked me to help them to decode the sourcefiles because they have big problems in order to rearrange all of their pictures db's. The company is a photographic agency working for some of the main italian newspapers and TV's, therefore their db contains about 50.000.000 pictures, all of them indexed and categorized on a mysql db whose access is managed by the damn php application which integrates another tricky "don't-know-well-what" fast indexer.
I already suggested them to call in another programmer and build another website from scrap. They will...but, unfortunately, since the pictures in the db are identified only by codenames, they cannot rearrange all of the categories because the "rosetta stone" of all of the file naming is encrypted toghether in one of the encrypted php sourcefiles...
This is the bad part.
Now the worst part: the first thing i tried was google in order to find if a sourceguardian cracker was already available somewhere..obviously with no success, otherwise i would not have been here asking for help.
I then analyzed how this encoder works and i discovered the following things:
1)The encryption should be reversible, since no key is required in order to encrypt a file and the encrypted code can be run on any server after installing in it a standard decryption extension on the apache/php engine. The extension is installed as a unique file which must be placed in the webserver's root under an "ixed" folder.
2) The encrypted file cannot be modified in any way: the header of the php document is in clear and contains a series of "if" statements in order to check if the necessary ixed files are installed on the servers: if everything is okay, then a call to sg_load() is made with an encoded string as argument. The encoded string contains the original php source plus a checksum of the overall php file, therefore the decoding extension does not decrypts the string if the file calling the decoding funcion is modified, thus avoiding a simple echo() of the function to print on the screen the decoded mess..
3)I've found a company (xxx.qinvent.com) which says that they can decode every sourceguardian file, but the customer does not trusts them because it's a chinese company, therefore they dont want to send them all of their sources...
4) Sourceguardian itself has already been called in and they declared that they will not decode the files because of their policy.
I've tried (with no success at all) to:
-debug the encoded files using netbeans but the function result is never displayed.
-coredump the apache/php engine in order to check if the decoded source is passed to the php engine in order to be executed
-perform some standard decoding (base64 and other) on the encoded string
no success at all.
I do know that everything sounds sick, but believe it or not, this is the situation..
Unfortunately, i'm not even a good programmer at all, therefore i'm not able to build a tool capable of sniffing the IPC between the php and apache, nor any eventual leak between php and the decoding extension.
Moreover, i do not really understand well how php works: i do know it's an interpreted language, but (as far as i've understood) it's possible to submit a php application as a bytecode directly to the engine, very much like java works...
Now i'm here asking for help...If someone could even only give me a suggestion of something else that i could try, or if someone has already done something similar and wants to give me a hand, i would really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot in advance.
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It's not as scary when the time actually comes. Also, I've always wanted to work at a bakery, that sounds like a fantastic job!
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from France
About Me Developer, Sys Admin
"Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB" is the book you need if you found that the sujet wasn't explained enough in "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide". This book covers with more details how views get built and requested in CouchDB.All exemples from the book are provided both in CouchDB web interface (Futon) and on the command line with cURL. That allows to show both a user friendly interface and to dig in more details CouchDB usage of HTTP protocol to display documents.The first part of this book presents how MapReduce is used to create views. Thoses views are an advanced type of indexes. The last part, and the most interesting one, concentrate on the way to take best advantage of views for accessing stored documents over HTTP.
Get up and running with Views fast!
By hhariri
from Spain
About Me Developer, Educator
This book is great if you're a new-comer to CouchDB and want to learn about what views are and how to write Map and Reduce functions, care about relationships, the gotchas and what nots of Document databases.
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