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Predominantly used as an impact substitute throughout Bayern Munich's treble-winning 2012/13 campaign, Swiss forward Xherdan Shaqiri is confident the arrival of Pep Guardiola will increase his first-team opportunities next season, according to Goal.com.
The Yugoslav-born attacker is currently enjoying a timely period of hot form, grabbing a second-half hat-trick as 'The Bavarians' strolled to a 13-0 win as they lifted the Paulaner Cup last week.
Although only a pre-season friendly, the 21-year-old is hopeful his stellar performance can improve his chances of featuring in an encore of Bayern's near-invincible 2012/13 season.
"It was my first friendly match after vacation and we all had a lot of fun. I was particularly keen to be playing again at last, and I think it was obvious to everyone watching," the diminutive wide-man told the club's official website.
"I played a lot of games last season, but obviously I'm now looking to take the next step. I want to be starting the important matches too.
"Last year was superb because absolutely everything worked out. We have the potential for another superb year."
Further adding to the talent-packed Bayern squad, the £31.8m capture of Mario Gotze could spell trouble for Shaqiri. However, the former FC Basel man claims he is not threatened by the arrival of the German.
"It's not a problem, because we could play together. At the end of the day, it's the coach's decision," the young winger reassured.
As Shaqiri looks to catch the eye of his new manager, the young Swiss admits that Gaurdiola has done likewise in the early stages of his reign.
"I really like his [Guardiola's] training sessions," he declared. "I like the football we're playing. After all, I'm a fan of attacking play.
"You do have to think a bit and listen hard to make sure you do the training right. We have to be very focused."
An important season lies ahead for the Switzerland international. Does the 21-year-old deserve to start ahead of Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery?
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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire on view at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California from March 24 to July 5, 2010, this symposium considers one of history's most momentous confrontations, an encounter between two cultures, European and Mesoamerican, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. Scholars examine the contexts in which classicism mediated a dialogue between Mesoamerica and Europe in the 1500s-1700s, when parallels were routinely drawn between the Old World past and the pre-Hispanic cultures of the New World. This symposium takes place at the Getty Villa on Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1. A keynote lecture entitled "Nahua Artists and the Aztec Legacy in the Florentine Codex" takes place on Thursday, April 29. Further details and registration available at website.
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transcode / Transcode FAQ
# General
What packages do I need to run transcode?
If you are compiling the source code yourself, what you need for a bare-bones installation is not much:
- libz & libm (which come with most operating systems)
- FFmpeg >= 0.4.9-pre1, though you should really just check out the latest FFmpeg library from !FFmpeg CVS. FFmpeg tends to put out releases very infrequently and so a current development snapshot is likely to be more stable and mature than the last release. (at least the shared libraries are absolutely needed, not the programs themselves)
If you install a pre-built package like a Redhat or Debian package, it may or may not work depending on what the package builder wrote in as the dependencies!
See Building Transcode for more details on compiling the source, like what all the optional packages are.
How do I obtain transcode from CVS?
See the CVS section at the bottom of this page: Download
Where can I get the signature files, so I can check the tar.gz archives with GPG/PGP?
See the Signature section at the bottom of this page: General Information As of 0.6.13, this is no longer true :Digest fingerprints are listed with the download information at http://www.transcoding.org/.
# Installation
I have installed the latest transcode package from RPM (or other pre-built package). Whenever I run
transcode it dies, saying it cannot find export_mp2enc.so (or similar). What's going on?
Pre-built packages of some distributions are not complete. This is a general problem. If you want to use the mpeg2enc export module, you will have to compile transcode yourself, or try to find a complete rpm on the net. (ems)
Do I need to install avifile to write AVI files?
No, transcode has its own library for writing AVI files. The avifile library is used to enable support for win32 binary codecs, but libavcodec from the ffmpeg project has a free implementation for most of these codecs anyway. (tibit)
Help! I got lots of
no's after running ./configure, but it didn't complain about it and let me compile anyway! Is this a bug?
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Transcode supports a lot of optional libraries & binaries that provide the same codec. Starting with version 0.6.13, the use of most of the optional packages is disabled, meaning
configure won't even bother looking to see if you have the package installed. To make use of it, add the appropriate
--enable-XXXX option when running
configure. If you are sure you have a specific package installed and did enable the use of it, and transcode does not find it, have a look at config.log to find out the reason. Most likely you will just need to explicitly tell
configure where to find the library/include files by adding the appropriate
--with-XXXX=/path/to/XXXX option.
What do I need to get the
import_im.so and/or
import_imlist.so modules working?
These modules use the ImageMagick library from http://www.imagemagick.org
I do have ImageMagick, including the
-devel package installed, and I still get no
import_im.so and/or
import_imlist module.
Some Linux distributions ship an
ImageMagick-devel package which requires a
libbz2.so shared object or a
bzip2-devel package. Check your
config.log for details.
# Usage
How do I make a copy of a DVD-9?
For german reading users here is a link http://linuxwiki.de/DvdAuthoring (felix)
What's the difference between
-j and
The difference between
-j and
-Y is only the order that transcode does the clipping. In the manual page we find that the video frame operations ordering is fixed:
"-j -I -X -B -Z -Y -r -z -l -k -K -G -C"
(executed from left to right).
So if one needs to do frame clipping and resizing, in a specific order, he can choose the apropriate transcode options. For instance, if one wants to clip and then resize the video frame, in this order, he can use
-j (clip) and
-B (resize). In this case -Y and -B would not work, as the operation -Y is done after -B.
There are two other options for clipping:
--pre_clip (executed before -j) and --post_clip (executed after -Y) (ems)
Finally, there's the justly infamous ffmpeg.cfg file. What is it, what are all the parameters, and what do they mean?
ffmpeg export module uses this file at run-time to allow someone to fine-tune its use. Really,
ffmpeg just reads it all in, sets the parameters as specified, then passes them all to the running codec in libavcodec.
transcode also uses libavcodec, but supplies the parameters to it from a combination of resources: defaults, profiles, command line options, and now also from parameters listed in the ffmpeg.cfg file. Because
transcode has to play by different rules, not all of the parameters you specify in ffmpeg.cfg will be used...even if
ffmpeg uses them.
The parameters themselves are not really that well advertised. Mplayer also uses libavcodec (but it doesn't use an ffmpeg.cfg file, rather it takes all the fine-tuning parameters on command line) and its manpage has pretty good documentation on each parameter. See at the mplayer manpage (mencoder specific options section) on the web at ![!mplayerhq.hu]|http:www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html|mplayerhq.hu], and scroll down to "lavc". I remind you that not all parameters you see there are supported by
By the way, if you're just going to encode to (S)VCD or DVD with the ffmpeg module, you should use the profile support. Also, in transcode you can see what all the supported options are, and what they are set to, by adding
-q2 to the command line.
How do I transcode an
avi to an
(Partial answer) In this form, your question cannot easily be answered. You're talking of container formats (avi, mpeg) while you probably mean video and audio formats.
A container is just a format designed to hold a combination of video and audio (and sometimes more, like sub-title) data in such a way that a player application can read it reliably and play it all back properly (that means with video and audio synchronized).
Examples of container formats are:
- avi
- dv
- wave
- mpeg-ps (aka "vob")
- mpeg-ts
- asf
- quicktime (aka "mov")
- mp4
Examples of video formats are:
- mpeg1
- mpeg2
- mpeg4
- DivX
- mjpeg
- xvid
- realvideo
- wmv
- dv
- yuv
- yv12
Examples of audio formats are:
- mpeg-layer1 (aka "mp1")
- mpeg-layer2 (aka "mp2")
- mpeg-layer3 (aka "mp3")
- wma
- aac
- pcm
- dts
- ac3
Most of these video and audio formats compress the data in some way. Any program that works with these video or audio formats needs to work with the appropriate COmpressing/DECompressing library (shortened to just CODEC). It is common to use the word codec in place of audio and/or video format because it's easier to say and people usually understand that you need that particular codec to interpret the material.
Typically you will find that avi files contain mpeg4 video content and mp3 audio content, but that is just an example. Use
tcprobe to find out what's inside a particular container.
With this information you should be able to rephrase your question a get a proper answer ;-)
Also see, for example ![!AviToVob]|http:inferno.slug.org/?AviToVob|AviToVob]
How do I calculate the best tcrequant number from within a script when going from a DVD9 to a DVD5?
Once you have separated (using tcextract) the audio and the video, get the file sizes of the audio and video files. If you are burning to a DVD5, the maximum image size is 4700000000. So the following equation will give you a 'best fit' number. 1.04 is a fudge factor to leave space for the file system and other overhead.
If you are including more that one audio stream or a subtitle stream, those filesizes must also be subtracted from the maximum dvd image size.
requant_factor = (video_size / (dvdmax_size - audio_size)) * 1.04; tcrequant -i ofile.m2v -o movie.m2v -f requant_factor
What parameters do I specify in ffmpeg.cfg for encoding to DVD with ffmpeg when not using profile support?
First try using transcode with a DVD profile and add
-q 2 to the command line. All the parameters and their values will be listed. Take what you need from that list and put it in your own ffmpeg.cfg file. An example ffmpeg.cfg is here:
If ratecontrol still is insufficient, try adding:
(try lower lmax if still not right) (ems).
How can I save the audio track of a DVD directly to a WAVE file suitable for burning onto an Audio CD?
A: Suppose you want the 2nd audio stream from title #2:
transcode -x null,dvd \ -i /dev/dvd \ -T2,-1 \ -a 1 \ -y wav \ -J resample \ -E 44100 \ -o foo.wav
The resampling is needed since DVD audio is usually sampled at 48 kHz.
How do I transfer my DVD-encoded multimedia to DVD so that they playback on my stand-alone DVD player?
A: Anything targeting DVD (NTSC or PAL) will ultimately have to pass through the program dvdauthor. :A step-by-step HOWTO can be found at http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/dvdauthor_howto.php
:There is also a very simple shell script for creating DVD's from arbitrary .avi input files with mixed codecs and aspect ratios called ![!AviToVob]|http:inferno.slug.org/?AviToVob|AviToVob]. The code is very well documented and worth a read.
:There are some GUIs out in the meantime, too, which you may prefer:
- Qdvdauthor: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
- Polidori: http://polidori.sourceforge.net/
- DVDstyler: http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/
# Problems
I am using a 0.6 version of transcode and I am having some sort of problem.
Upgrade to the most recent release (1.0.x) or the CVS version. Old versions of transcode are not supported.
How do I obtain transcode from CVS?
In the Download section there is a description how to obtain transcode from CVS.
I now got transcode from CVS, how do I compile and install it?
See the INSTALL file.
So I got transcode from CVS and compiled it according to the directions in the INSTALL file, and now I (still) have some sort of problem.
Join the transcode-users mailing list (see the Support section on the Main Page) and check the archive to see if your problem has been discussed at the mailing list before.
I still have a problem and it hasn't been discussed before.
If your problem is that transcode "hangs" immediately, or even after some time, you may be experiencing the venerable old thread-version problem.
If running transcode this way: "
env LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0 transcode ..." fixes the problem, then it's thread version issues, not transcode, that's at fault.
See: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html
I still have a problem and it's not that transcode hangs.
See Reporting Problems. If your problem is that transcode crashes (with a "Segmentation fault" or similar), also see Reporting Crashes and follow the instructions carefully. You can also take a look at Bug Showcase to see if your problem is a known one.
Talking of ffmpeg, I seem to be suffering from having an almost infinite number of copies of it. For example, it comes bundled with transcode-0.6.12 (and older), mplayer and avifile. None of these seem to be even closely the same file! Am I missing something?
The ffmpeg package is needed for its superb set of codecs, which are bundled inside one of its libraries: libavcodec (also nicknamed as lavc). Up until recently the API for this library was changing frequently enough to cause headaches for developers of other programs who used it. It was easier to just pick one version of the library, copy it to the package that's using it, and statically link it right into the program. Because each project used a different version of the library, anyone wanting to compile all of these packages had to deal with all these different versions.
But now the API has settled down and become stable, so it's safe to link to the library dynamically. Starting with version 0.6.13, transcode no longer ships with libavcodec, nor will accept it as a static library. Transcode needs to have it in shared (aka dynamic) library form. When you compile ffmpeg you have to build the shared libraries by passing the
--enable-shared to its
configure script.
Peoples' faces are purple! Why does this happen and how do I fix it?
This is usually because the red and blue components of the image are being swapped. Transcode uses the de facto standards for component order (R-G-B for RGB mode, Y-Cb-Cr for YUV mode), but some external libraries use different orders for various reasons; for example, on little-endian systems (like the Intel x86 CPU family) some RGB-based routines use B-G-R order instead. Transcode tries to handle all of these differences, but if it fails, you may end up with the purple-face problem.
To fix it, add
-k to the transcode command line.
People are upside-down! How do I fix this?
-z to the transcode command line.
When trying to read a DVD I get something like
(dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit. What am I missing and what do I need to do to fix it?
You have probably installed transcode from source and you don't have the libdvdread package installed (including -devel if you're working with pre-built packages), so transcode did not compile in the support for it.
I am missing the mp3 import module (import_mp3.so)! What am I missing and what do I need to do to fix it?
See previous question. You need to have a recent version of lame installed (including -devel if you're working with pre-built packages).
What does "Can't step back 17" (or similar) mean?
This message comes from the mp3 decoder (lame). It means that one or more previous mp3 chunks are missing. mp3 uses interdependent chunks, so if any chunks are missing the other chunks that depend on it couldn't be decoded properly. This usually happens when the file was split at some time or had its beginning cut off. There is not much you can do about it.
I have problems encoding with the divx4linux libraries from http://www.divx.com, what's going on and how do I fix it?
Transcode supports two DivX encoder modules. One is divx4 and the other is divx5. Please note that the `4' in divx_4_linux only stands for the word "for", it does not denote the version number. Use
-y divx4 if you have a really old version of the divx4linux libraries installed. The divx5 export module depends on the divx4linux libraries you had installed when you compiled transcode. The developers from DivX.com changed their API in a non-backwards incompatible way causing
-y divx5 to either supports the new API or the old one. They are mutually exclusive. If you have problems with
-y divx4 try
-y divx5.
Please note that the current version of the divx4linux libraries available from http://www.divx.com have a bug which may cause a segfault on Pentium 4 systems. There is another bug in older versions of divx4linux which results in a crash when writing data to a FAT32 windows partition. See http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/faq.cipp#faq11 for details.
Also note that DivX is really crap. You can make DivX-alike files (mpeg4) with the ffmpeg and xvid export modules. We don't support DivX ;^)
Transcode cannot find libdivxdecore.so/libdivxencore.so/libxvidcore.so ...
The best place to put these libraries is the transcode libdir (
/usr/local/lib/transcode/ by default). You can find out the libdir of your transcode installation by executing
tcmodinfo -p. Transcode will look into this libdir first when searching for a library. When that fails, transcode will look at the standard library locations. You should make sure that the location of the library is in
/etc/ld.so.conf and don't forget to run ldconfig afterwards. You do not need to put the transcode libdir into the dlloader config file.
I have VOB files from a DVD which transcode won't decode correctly. At some point, there's a "broken stream" error, and in the resulting AVI the picture exhibits some artifacts at that point and the AV sync is gone from there on. The VOB files can be played back perfectly without any problems with various players, though.
First, concatenate the VOB files into a single VOB file (called
all.vob here).
Next, use mencoder to generate an AVI file (and a fixed index, which really fixes your problem):
mencoder all.vob -o all.avi -ovc copy -oac copy
Then process the AVI file with transcode. If mencoder crashes (as it did on my system), do it in two pieces like this:
mencoder all.vob -o all_noaudio.avi -ovc copy -nosound\\
tcextract -i all.vob -x mp3 -a 0 > all_audio.mp3
which will give you an AVI without sound, and an MP3 with all the sound. Transcode that (I use xvid for video output module, you can use whatever you want):
transcode -i all_noaudio.avi -x mpeg2,null -y xvid,null -o transcoded_noaudio.avi
and finally merge audio and video with
avimerge -i all_noaudio.avi -p all_audio.mp3 -o all.avi
This can probably be improved; I was happy enough that it worked. (meier)
I'm trying to encode a series of images into a raw DV file using the
dvraw export module, but no matter what I do I get an empty output file.
Raw DV is a container format that requires both a video stream and and audio stream. The
dvraw export module doesn't write any data until it has received both a video frame and enough audio for that frame, so if your input doesn't have any audio, no frames will get written to the output file. In order to force the
dvraw module to output frames, you have to tell transcode to provide a dummy audio stream. This can be done with (using the
im import module as an example):
transcode -x im,null -y dvraw
By explicitly adding a
,null to the
-x option, transcode knows that it needs to generate dummy audio data for the
dvraw module. (Do not add a
,null to the
-y option, however; this disables all audio output and leaves you back where you started!)
I have a capture card that produces MPEG output, but when I try to transcode the MPEG data to something else, transcode hangs or gives errors like "invalid program stream packet size".
-x mpeg2 in the command line:
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Wyoming was the first territory to pass a women's suffrage law in 1869. It was intended only as a public relations gesture, and was expected to add no more than 1000 active voters to the electorate. In addition to allowing women to vote, it gave them the right to hold office. Most men assumed the ladies would choose to stay home "where they belonged."
The newly allowed voters however, had other ideas. They promptly demanded more active roles for women in government. This so unnerved the all male legislature, that in 1871, it tried, and failed by one vote, to repeal the suffrage bill.
The first woman office holder was the territory's most renowned suffragist, Esther Morris. Despite any legal training she was appointed justice of the peace for South Pass City, where she ran her court with an iron hand, and never had a decision reversed by a higher court. At the same time, other women were pioneering as members of juries in Laramie and Cheyenne. Despite a healthy dose of ridicule from cartoonists, the women took their new duties seriously, such as in a Laramie murder case. The jury of 6 women and 6 men were locked up for two and a half days trying to reach a verdict. The men, three of which favored acquittal, played cards, smoked, and drank beer in one room, while the women who were unanimously for conviction sang hymns and prayed next door. The only way they could break the impasse was a compromise verdict, guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter.
Through Wyoming's much publicized example, women from all over were emboldened to seek the same rights. By 1896, women had won the vote in Utah, Colorado and Idaho and had begun to play a major role in politics all across the west.
Iowa women received the right to vote in 1920 after Tennessee became the 36th state necessary to ratify Congress's amendment of the Constitution allowing the woman's vote. Before that, Iowa women had been allowed to vote in certain cases, usually a yes or no issue (such as to build a new library, etc.), but they could not vote for a candidate.


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Amir Khan's dream shot at Floyd 'Money' Mayweather looks to be a step closer as reports have emerged stating that a deal is done for May 3.
Despite earlier denials, Khan's team are yet to confirm or deny the latest bout of rumours.
The negotiations could be made easier by the close relationship between Golden Boy Promotions, Khan's promoters, and Showtime TV, who has the American tied to a six fight, multi-million dollar contract.
And now looks as though the Bolton fighter will return to the centre of attention after a humbling 2013.
With only a victory over Julio Diaz to boot- a fight which he suffered a knockdown en route to a unanimous decision victory- Khan was set for a shot at Devon Alexander's IBF Welterweight belt, only for the fight to fall through. Alexander now defends against fellow countryman Shawn Porter on December 7.
Previous to the Diaz win, Khan suffered a dreadful duo of defeats. A points loss to Lamont Petersen, albeit under controversial circumstances, along with a devastating knockout against Danny Garcia hampered the 26-year-old's progress, seeing him plummet down the welterweight pecking order.
It will come as a surprise to many that Khan is even considered for Mayweather and the early bookies odds reflect this, with 'Money' available at 1/9 with some to take victory.
However, boxing insiders believe Khan's lightning quick speed could cause the American the type of problems he hasn't faced before.
Mayweather is coming off the back of a wide points decision against Canelo Alvarez in September. Billed as 'The One', the owner of 'The Money Team' defeated a man who was considered the best challenger available, advancing his ledger to 45-0 in the process.
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Then we got an email entitled "Texas Tailgating" from our new best friend Tom which read:
Sorry about y'all loss. Hopefully this tailgating pic will ease your pain.
Thank you, Tom. Thank you. Yes, I think that goes a long way toward helping.
In fact, thoughtful emails such as Tom's during this difficult period go such a long way toward helping those suffering from acute CFB depression that I'd like to ask any other readers who may have such "therapeutic recovery pictures" in their possession to please help as well by sending them our way. Do your part as our bestest friend Tom did.
God bless Texas!
P.S. I hope folks out there appreciate the solidarity amongst Michigan bloggers during these dark days following The Debacle. I mean, think about it: our pal Brian at MGoBlog gave us kittens to help U-M fans cope during the grieving process and, in a way, we just did, too.


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Per SC (Reds top story), Bruce is just the 5th player to hit a walk-off homerun to clinch a playoff berth. Ever.
Great pic Sir Charles...and thanks for the new background. Hopefully I can change it in a few weeks!
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
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This pic cracks me up. On here we are always going back and forth, who should play and who sucks, yada yada yada.
This picture is Janish dumping a Bud tall boy on Gomes' head. No talk about UZR, RISP, BA vs RHP/LHP or anything else. Just two guys about winning.
Mo Egger tweeted that they're working on a link to Marty's call.
In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either. - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
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My boys went running around the house, priceless! Their first and at times I wondered if they'd ever get to see such a night with the Redlegs in my lifetime.
Then, there is my dad, who missed his first playoff run since becoming a fan. I am sure he is smiling if the Lord let him peak in on his grandsons tonight. Hey, dad, thanks for being a Reds fan. We continue to carry the torch, buddy!
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
Amzaing feeling! I forgot how good it was. I could get used to this again on a regular basis.
I'm thrilled for the fans, the area, the management, everyone. I'm proud to root for these guys too because they seem like like and honestly good group of guys. proud of them and proud to root for them.
One question though... do you think the poofy-haired fancy-boy got any beverages in his coif?
Alsohave to add a special congratulations to Dusty. I've been tough on him at times, but I gotta say all-in-all, he did quite a job.
anyone have marty call?
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We are excited to announce our 2013 Field Survey Schedule. Spaces are already starting to fill up so reserve yours today. These trips offer a great introduction to fish identification for novice fishwatchers, and are a fun way for experienced surveyors to build their life list while interacting with fellow fishwatchers. Each trip features daily classroom seminars and a full diving schedule. Complete package details and prices can be found online at www.REEF.org/trips. To find out more about any of these trips or to book your space, contact our travel consultants at Caradonna at 1-877-295-7333 (REEF), or via e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Make a Dive Trip That Counts!
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May 11 - 21, 2013 Fiji, aboard the Nai'a, Led by Paul Humann
May 18-25, 2013 Southern Bahamas, Lionfish Research Cruise aboard Explorer II, led by Lad Akins, REEF Director of Special Projects, and Peter Hughes
July 13-20, 2013 Little Cayman, Southern Cross Club, led by Paul Humann, REEF Co-Founder and Renowned Underwater Photographer and Marine Life Author
July 20-27, 2013 Utila, Deep Blue Utila, led by Ned and Anna DeLoach, REEF Board Members and World-Famous Marine Life Authors and Photographer/Videographers
September 25-28, 2013 Barkley Sound, British Columbia with Rendezvous Dive Adventures. Led by Janna Nichols, REEF Outreach Coordinator
October 5-12, 2013 Grenada, with True Blue Bay Resort and Aquanauts Diving. Led by Dr. Christy Pattengill-Semmens, REEF Director of Science
December 3-12, 2013 Socorro Islands, aboard Rocio del Mar, led by Andy Dehart and Marty Snyderman, Shark Experts, Photographers, and REEF Board Members
December 7-14, 2013 Cozumel, Aqua Safari, led by Tracey Griffin and Sheryl Shea, REEF Fish Experts and Cozumel Naturalists
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As aircraft become even more complex, the need for precise and accurate maintenance instructions increases. Back in the early days of aviation, a good mechanic could tell what was wrong with an aircraft engine by putting a long-handled screwdriver up to the cylinder and listening. Today, even the most-advanced diagnostic tools sometimes fall short. Having correct maintenance and troubleshooting guidance is essential for maintaining a safe aircraft and keeping it operational.
Most technicians have a good aptitude for learning aircraft systems, and training is a huge help toward understanding a system's intricacies, but no one can be expected to maintain an aircraft from memory. Even if that were possible, FAR Part 43, paragraph 43.13, Performance Rules (general) states:
(a) Each person performing maintenance, alteration or preventive maintenance on an aircraft, engine, propeller or appliance shall use the methods, techniques and practices prescribed in the current manufacturer's maintenance manual or Instructions for Continued Airworthiness prepared by its manufacturer, or other methods, techniques and practices acceptable to the administrator. . . .
The problem comes when these instructions are incorrect. Even though the manufacturer is required by regulation (Appendix H to Part 25, and Appendix A to Part 33 [engines] and 29 [rotorcraft]) to provide them, erroneous information can find its way into print. But since we as technicians are both bound by regulation and an ethical code to prevent an unsafe aircraft from returning to service, what are we to do when following the manufacturer's instructions would create such a condition?
Even more serious is when a maintenance instruction is ambiguous or missing. On Jan. 8, 2003, a Beech 1900D with two pilots and 19 passengers aboard departed Charlotte-Douglas, N.C., International Airport heading to Greenville-Spartanburg International in neighboring South Carolina. Immediately after lifting off, the nose of the aircraft continued to rise. The pilots struggled to get the nose down, but the aircraft began to roll and then struck a maintenance hangar past the departure side of the runway. All aboard died in the crash.
Accident investigators discovered that the day before the crash, technicians conducting a maintenance check found low tension on the elevator cables. Finding no specific instruction for simply adjusting the cable tension, the technicians adapted an existing procedure for rigging, but inadvertently omitted steps and ended up restricting the elevator travel. The aircraft was also loaded improperly in an aft c.g. position, and the two combined missteps were cited as contributing causes to the accident.
Maintenance manuals need to be correct and written with enough clarity of detail to ensure the task will be completed safely. Unfortunately, instructional errors are an all-too-common occurrence and become even more problematic to the maintainer when the system is complicated. To help maintenance managers and senior technicians address this issue, we looked into ways to handle the problem.
The Ticking Clock
The typical scenario for discovering a maintenance publication error involves a technician working on a task for the first time, and usually at night in advance of an important flight scheduled for the next day. Some of the most frustrating errors come in the form of an unexpected or contrary result during a step sequence. For example, the instruction could say to turn a thing clockwise to increase, when the correct direction is the opposite. While this is annoying, if you end up in the expected range, you are probably OK. But that raises the question: If directed action is incorrect, can the result be OK? Step sequencing is very important, especially when it comes to rigging and adjustment of sensors and switches. A wrong instruction will often result in pushing the system further away from the normal range, causing the technician to start over and adding significant time to the job.
Absent steps or incorrect value information can have much more serious consequences. Say you need to engage an interlock to prevent the gear from collapsing, or prevent an actuator from working while powering a system, but the manual doesn't contain this information. Even basic safety steps like fully deflating a tire and removing the core before taking the wheel assembly apart can have deadly results. Incorrect torque instructions can lead to either fracturing a fastener or leaving it too loose. In many ways, training and experience help technicians detect these types of errors and good practices can mitigate the dangers, but a good maintenance manual will have these steps included and with correct values.
The first thing to do after discovering a maintenance manual error is check the manual for currency and make sure all updates are present. Most OEMs have a method for checking both a paper and online pub's status, and that includes both permanent and temporary revisions. Remember, it is the technician's and manager's responsibility to ensure the pubs are current before starting a job, so it's good practice to double check the pub's status. If, after checking, you determine that the error has gone uncorrected, you should contact either the OEM's technical support office or local technical representative. You may not be the first one to discover the error, and a fix may be in the works. This is often the case on new model aircraft, but it happens to older aircraft as well.
If the publication error is minor and the tech support people have enough documentation readily available, they may be able to provide an immediate resolution to the problem. They can send an email or other official correspondence issuing an instruction, or clarification. You should keep a copy of this with the aircraft maintenance records. While this works well for Part 91 operators, those who operate under Part 135 or 119 may need to ensure that they can accept this type of instruction without updating their ops manuals. In addition, you should ask the OEM to commit to correcting the publication to avoid a repeat of the same problem.
When the manual errors are major, addressing the problem is much more involved. Technical data must be researched and reviewed by a Designated Engineering Representative (DER) or Organizational Delegation Authorization (ODA) Unit Member. This can take time — days, weeks or longer. Most maintenance manual data are considered "Acceptable" in the eyes of the FAA unless it involves an Instruction for Continued Airworthiness (ICA), which must be approved data and that approval process can take a while to complete.
According to John Bucher, an aviation maintenance consultant based in Castlewood, S.D., "Publication errors are really two issues — to get the correct information from the OEM to solve your problem or opportunity, and to get the maintenance manual corrected for the next person." Bucher should know; before starting his consultancy, he spent 26 years as chief of maintenance at Honeywell's corporate flight operations. When confronted with bad information, he advises, "Call the OEM's service center and ask how they are doing it and returning the aircraft to service. Talk to friends in the industry for current advice. Work with the OEM's technical services to get engineering involved, and for manual revisions. Ask the OEM to communicate to you when the revision goes into the maintenance manual."
One way to help spread the word of maintenance publication errors is to disseminate them on line via the NBAA's Airmail and through the NBAA Technical Committee, whose primary focus is to prevent problems by creating a conduit of information between NBAA members and the manufacturers. And the committee can use its influence to accelerate a response. "I have seen publication errors that have taken years to be resolved, and that is just inexcusable," said Kevin Smith, chief of aircraft maintenance for Raleigh, N.C.-based Progress Energy Service Co. and a member of the NBAA Maintenance Committee. "The NBAA Tech Committee really has the ear of the OEMs and is a great resource," he added. Visit the NBAA website: www.nbaa.org/about/leadership/committees/tech/
Ethics and Pub Errors
Maintenance publication errors not only affect safety, but can raise ethical issues as well. Say you are going through a pre-purchase evaluation and you discover maintenance log entries for a task with known publication errors. Was the task performed correctly? Was it performed at all? We trust others in the community to do the right thing, and discovering a suspect maintenance entry can be disturbing if not illegal. Part 43.12 states:
Maintenance records: Falsification, reproduction or alteration. (a) No person may make or cause to be made:(1) Any fraudulent or intentionally false entry in any record or report that is required to be made, kept or used to show compliance with any requirement under this part. . . .
If you sign off on the task that you know is incorrect, are you violating Part 43.12? You are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. With no relief from the OEM, do you keep your aircraft grounded while you wait? It really depends on the type of error. If you cannot get the OEM to provide a response, you may have to take matters into your own hands.
"First off, is this a critical item? Or is it just a procedure that has been wrongly written and the operation of the airplane will not be impacted if the item fails to work as advertised?" asked John Gibson, president of Brush Prairie, Wash.-based Latitude 45 Aviation Consulting Services and an experienced business aviation maintenance manager. "If you can say, 'No, it's not flight critical, and yes, safety or operation will not be impacted if the system/part fails,' then you move to the next step. Talk to your folks. Brainstorm with them on what we all think the checkout should be, and reason your way through not only the system affected, but also any interactions with other systems on the airplane. Then, you make the decision, as the DOM, on whether, using your best judgment, you can release the airplane; you carry it out and you, as DOM, take full responsibility for the release."
As cited in Part 43.13, you can use other techniques, provided you do not create a hazard. One source of information on "other" is Advisory Circular 43.13-1B, Acceptable Techniques and Practices — Aircraft Inspection and Repair. Although a bit dated, it still has good information on common maintenance procedures that you can use as the basis of developing your own repair.
Download a copy at: www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/documen...
When dealing with bad manual information, remember common sense combined with a good functional checkout or other verification of condition are always preferable to adhering to an incorrect publication. One word of caution: Do not presume a manual is in error for containing too many steps in completing a maintenance task and that the right thing to do is to create shortcuts. There may be a good reason for all those steps. Confer with the OEM and get concurrence before you implement a procedure that appears to be a time saver.
While to err is indeed human, as professionals we should demand responsiveness to correct a problem. If you are unsure of a maintenance instruction or statement, ask for clarification. Accurate and clear maintenance instructions are essential for safe maintenance, so do your part to ensure publication errors are corrected. BCA


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The 34th Annual Birmingham Ethnic Festival – a "Sunday in the Old Country," will be held Aug. 17 on the streets of the old Hungarian neighborhood in East Toledo.
The festival will be held from noon to 10 p.m. on Consaul Street in the middle of East Toledo's Birmingham neighborhood.
Pre-festival events will include the 13th Annual Waiter's Race Saturday, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. on Consaul Street. In the European tradition, teams of wait staff from neighborhood taverns and non-profit organizations will compete in a relay race. The 2008 contestants include Tony Packo's Restaurant, VFW 4906, Rumpus Room/East Side Raiders, Ironworkers, Waite Coaches and the Hungarian Club.
Guests can enjoy a celebration of Hungarian folk dance and music at Foklor Tanchaz from 5 to 11 p.m. at Calvin Church's parking lot. The Gyanta Band will perform Hungarian folk dance and music. Hungarian foods, including gulyas soup and palacsinta (Hungarian crepes) and a beer garden will round out the evening. VFW Post 4906 will be having a fish fry on Friday.
The kickoff for the festival begins with Opening Ceremonies at noon on the steps of St. Stephen's Church, followed by a parade down the Festival Mall.
On Sunday, visitors can choose from a huge variety of foods. St. Stephen's Catholic Church, the Hungarian Club of Toledo and Calvin United Church of Christ will feature their famous chicken paprikas, kaposta galuska and kolbasz dinners along with Hungarian pastries, paprikas noodles and gravy, kolbasz sandwiches, stuffed cabbages and szalonna sütes.
VFW Post 4906 will serve shish kabob, pigs-in-a-blanket, bratwurst, corn on the cob and szalonna sütes. Patrons can also choose from street vendor fare including potato pancakes, pierogis, chicken and Greek sausage pitas, curly fries, grilled chicken, barbecue chicken & ribs, cotton candy, pizza, and gelato ice cream.
Entertainment will be available throughout the festival and includes the Szikra Citera Egyuttes, Cspike Children's Group, Holzhackers Buam Group, Rumblin Rythem Cloggers and the Csaladi Ensemble. Special musical guests include the Gyanta Band, which features seven musicians and dancers from Montreal and Toronto.
Along with enjoying the live entertainment, festival guests can shop for imported Hungarian embroidery and other ethnic items offered by Magyar Marketing. An arts and crafts area featuring many crafters will include Hungarian dolls and bears, quilted handbags, soy candles, jewelry, sand art, ceramics, paintings, shirts, silk floral arrangements, wall hangings, hand-blown glass and more.
The 34th annual Friends of the Birmingham Community Award is being bestowed upon Micky Gaetzke, coach of the Hungarian Soccer Team. The award is given annually to an individual, organization or corporation that has provided exemplary support to the Birmingham community.
This year's Birmingham Ethnic Festival is being dedicated to the Hungarian Soccer Teams. Program books containing information about festival events, sponsors and organizations are available at all Andersons and Kroger stores.
Sponsors of this year's festival include title sponsors St. Charles Mercy Hospital, Budweiser and the William Penn Association.
Admission is free. Street parking is available on the perimeter of the neighborhood bounded by Front, York and Wheeling streets. Handicapped parking is available in the lot behind the fire station at Consaul and Front streets.
For more information, visit Web site at www.birminghamethnicfestival.org


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Prof. Xavier Gabaix's research on shrouded prices is featured
— May 25, 2012
Excerpt from MSNBC -- "Gabaix argues that it's impossible for consumers to intelligently shop for printers. No consumer knows how much ink costs -- the cartridges don't come in standard sizes, the amount of ink used to print varies and ink costs are unpredictable. That makes the true price of a printer 'shrouded,' in Gabaix's terminology."
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WINTER PARK, CO (March 30) - Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA/Squaw Valley Ski Team) landed a massive 1.2 second super G victory at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships Friday to extend her national title record to 14 in spring-like Winter Park. Leanne Smith (North Conway, NH/Mt. Washington Valley Ski Team) nabbed silver with Laurenne Ross (Bend, OR/Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation) bronze. Colorado local Anna Marno (Steamboat Springs, CO/Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club) finished seventh overall to take the top junior honors under bluebird Winter Park skies.
QUOTESJulia MancusoIt's fun coming to nationals and it's fun to win races. Racing World Cup all the time you don't get to win all that many races so it's actually a really special feeling. Winning my 14th national title is pretty cool, but I'm going to race until I have 30.
It's spring conditions and kind of like an obstacle course. It's always fun to come to nationals to see all the enthusiasm of the clubs from across America. I really like cheering for all the athletes. I remember racing with the veterans on the U.S. Ski Team at U.S. Championships when I was a young racer and I hope all the young racers like coming here to compete against me and the other fast girls.
It was a really long season with no World Champs or Olympics so it was definitely a push, but I had a lot of fun. My super G went really well and I'm really happy with it. The rest of it was a battle and I know I can be a lot faster.
Leanne SmithIt's fun to be here at Winter Park, the weather has been beautiful and it's the second to last race of the year. I'm happy and just here to have a good time and hopefully get a couple of podiums.
The snow is a little sugary and hard to ski but you have to adapt to every situation.
Julia had a great run and it's been great to ski with her and the rest of the team this season. We've got such a strong group of women's athletes and that continues to keep me motivated to ski fast.
Laurenne RossToday was pretty good, but it didn't freeze last night so the snow was kind of tough conditions, but it was still a lot of fun and I love super G. It's great to be here in Winter Park with all of our families and friends here to see the races.
So far the highlight of my week has been the ProAm on Tuesday, but I always have fun at U.S. Championships.
Anna MarnoThe year has been a little up and down, but I've raced a lot at Winter Park and it's always good to come back here. I grew up nearby in Steamboat Springs, so Winter Park is like a second home to me and it's nice to have a good result here.
To end the year with something like this really feels good. This is going to make my prep season for next year that much more fun and make me work that much harder.
TVNBC will air the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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Small tool to accurately identify the CPU frequency. The PC is slow! Is it the CPU?
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$.50/2 – $.50 off 2 products
AR – After Rebate
AYOR – At Your Own Risk
B1G1 or BOGO – Buy One Get One Free
B5G1 - Buy FIVE Get One Free
BC/AC – Before/After Coupons
BIL – Brother-in-law
Blinkie – SmartSource machine with a red blinking light on it. Coupons are thus referred to as ' Blinkies'
BTFE – Box Tops for Education
BTW – By the way
CAT – Coupon that prints from a Catalina machine at the register.
CC - Concealed Cash
CH – Clearing House
CLFE – Campbell's Labels For Education
C/O – Cents Off
CRT – Cash register tape (receipt)
CYE – Check your email
DB – The WeUseCoupons.com coupon database
DD – Darling daughter
DEAD – Refers to a dead deal, or that the offer is no longer valid
DH – Darling husband
DND – Do Not Double
DS – Darling son
DW – Darling Wife
ECB – Extra Care Buck (earned at CVS)
ENVIE – Envelope
ES – Easy Saver, seen at Walgreens rebate booklet
ETS – Excludes Trial Sizes
EX or X. – Expires on
FAR – Free after rebate
FC – First class postage stamps
FIL – Father in law
FL – Could refer to Food Lion, or to a site Forum Leader
FS – Forever Stamp
FS – Free Shipping
FSOT – For Sale or Trade
FWIW - For what it's worth
GC – Gift Card
GDA – Good Deal Alert
GM – General Mills Insert, a booklet of coupons that appears in newspapers every month or two.
HBA – Health & Beauty Section in the store
HTH – hope that helps
IDSO – in desperate search of
INSERTS – Coupon booklets found in the Sunday paper
IMHO – in my humble opinion (there are variations of this, but that's the most common!)
IMO – In My Opinion
IP – Internet Printable coupon
IRL – In Real Life
ISO – In Search Of (basically you need it)
IVC – Instant value coupons – seen in Walgreens rebate booklet
IVDSO – In very desperate search of
KWIM – Know What I Mean
LMK – Let Me Know
LOL – Laugh/Laughing Out Loud
MFR – Manufacturer
MIL – Mother in law
MIR – Mail In Rebate
MOD – Site Moder
MQ – Manufacturer coupon
MRP – Manufacturer's retail price
NAZ – Name, address, zip code
NAZP# – Name, address, zip code, phone number
NED – No Expiration Date
NFN – No Form Needed
NIB – New in Box
NIP – New in Package
NP – No problem
NT WT – Net Weight
OAS – A Coupon that is good on one Purchase, Any Size
OASN – On A Side Note
OOP – Out Of Pocket
OOS – Out of Stock
OP – Original poster or original post (person who started the thread)
OT – Off Topic
OYNO -On Your Next Order
P&G – Proctor & Gamble (Sunday Booklet Coupons)
Peelie – Coupon found attached to a product. You have to peel it off.
PITA – Pain in the *** (we use abbreviations for a reason!)
PLMK – Please Let Me Know
PM – Private Message
POP – Proof of purchase
PP – PayPal
PSA – Prices Starting At
Q – Coupon
QQ – Coupon Queen
RAOK – random act of kindness (means you will give the coupons away free)
RC – Rain-check
ROFLMAO - Rolling on the floor laughing my *** off (found in the mood tab)
RP – Red Plum (Sunday Booklet Coupons) (formerly Valassis)
RR – Register Reward from Walgreens – use as a $ off coupon on your next purchase
SAHM – Stay At Home Mom
SAHW – Say At Home Wife
SASE – Self addressed stamped envelope
SCR – Rite Aid Single Check Rebate
SIL – Sister or son in law
SMP – Specially marked package
SO – Significant other
SRP – Suggested retail price
SS – Smart Source (Sunday Booklet Coupons)
STACKING – Often stores will allow the use of more than one coupon per item, IF the coupon itself does not restrict such usage. (Usually store Q + mfr Q)
SUPER DOUBLES or DOUBLES – coupons that are doubled $1 + in value (IE, a $1 coupon – $2, etc)
TEARPAD – A pad of forms/coupons found hanging from a store shelf or display
TIA – Thanks in Advance
TMF – Try Me Free – mail in rebate for full amount of product
TMI - Too much information
TRIPLE COUPON – A coupon that a grocery store triples in value
TRU – Toys R Us
TYVM – Thank You Very Much
UPC – Universal Product Code, barcode on the product
WAGS – Walgreens
WL – Wish list
WM – Walmart
WSL – While supplies last
WUC – We Use Coupons (refers to the site)
WUCkie – Member of WUC
WYB – When You Buy
YGEM – You've got an email
YGPM – You've got a private message!
YMMV – Your Mileage May Vary ("Worked for me, may not work for you")
YVW – You're very welcome
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I got this from over at We Use coupons. When I first started following forums for price matching the terms confused me at first. This list helps understand how to maximize your savings.
Coupon Abbreviations
$.75/1 – $.75 off 1 product
by DawnPratt23May 22, 2012 at 11:51 AM
You know I have been on CM too long when I didn't even notice DH, FIL, etc. LOL I quickly glanced through this on their forum for coupons and didn't even click that some of them weren't coupon abbreviations, but forum abbreviations also. Sorry.
Quoting chichiwvu:
I wish it were JUST coupon lingo. What do BIL, dh, dd etc have to do with coupons lol?
TFS though, I didn't know some of those!
by chichiwvuMay 22, 2012 at 11:52 AMIt's cool :) I did learn some new ones!
May 24, 2012 at 2:03 PMTFS
by nmaxwell816May 24, 2012 at 9:24 PMThank you
by specialwingzMay 25, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Oooooo, good list, Dawn! TFS!!
May 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Thanks for the info!
by momto3ismeMay 29, 2012 at 10:18 AMThanks!
August 8, 2012 at 11:45 PM
Thank you for sharing.


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Penn State College of Medicine held its 44th annual commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 18. In all, 133 medical students and 68 graduate students received degrees. Dr. Claire Pomeroy, president of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, delivered the commencement address. Pomeroy serves as chief executive officer of the foundation and is responsible for overseeing the implementation of programs which advance the foundation's mission to "foster the prevention and treatment of disease and disability by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science, and through public education and research advocacy."
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Glass half full: UT System report highlights increasing shortage of highly trained nurses, offers solutions
With 16 million individuals projected to gain health insurance by 2016 and an increasing shortage of master's- and doctoral-level nurses in Texas and across the nation, significant challenges face an aging population that requires easy access to nursing and primary care. This is the subject of an update on current trends in nursing commissioned by The University of Texas System Office of Health Affairs.
Eileen Breslin, Ph.D., R.N., dean of the School of Nursing at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and president-elect for the American Association of Colleges and Nursing, will present an overview, "Nursing Workforce Issues, Shortages, Needs, Future Education, and Pathways," to the UT System Board of Regents during a meeting in Austin on Wednesday.
Breslin identifies several factors that account for the looming nursing shortage: an aging nursing population with 50 percent of nurses close to retirement (average age 44 to 54); an aging general population; a lack of qualified faculty, clinical placements and funding for educating nurses; and millions of individuals with greater access to health insurance coverage. Texas is no exception, with the average age of nurses at 46. In addition, population growth in southern and western states indicates the shortage will be most intense in these regions.
The Bureau of Labor statistics predicts that by 2020, 712,000 to 1.2 million positions will be needed nationwide. With over 178,612 registered nurses in Texas, nursing is the state's largest health care occupation (63 percent are employed in Texas hospitals; nationwide that number is 59 percent).
"With the economy recovering, more nurses will choose to retire from the profession. We need to prepare for these retirements," Breslin said. "In particular, given the age of nursing faculty in Texas, we could be losing approximately half of our nursing faculty within the next 10 years, which will in turn affect the nursing pipeline."
Breslin's report lists four key recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to address the nursing shortage:
- Achieve higher level of education and training through an improved system that promotes seamless academic nursing progress;
- practice to the full extent of education and training;
- full partnership with physicians in redesigning health care in the United States; and
- improved information for better data collection.
Breslin notes that in response to these recommendations, the National Governors Association has called for an expanded scope of practice for nurse practitioners as a solution to meeting the nation's primary care needs.
"Texas Team, a Robert Wood Johnson nursing action coalition inclusive of Texas Nurses Association and others, is working successfully within the state to address the IOM recommendations, including addressing scope of practice issues," Breslin said. "Senator Jane Nelson's Senate Bill 406 is an exemplar of their efforts to address regulatory concerns. Nurses have and will continue to play a role in meeting the needs of the underserved."
"Nursing Workforce Issues, Shortages, Needs, Future Education, and Pathways," is the first in a series of reports on health care workforce issues that the UT System Office of Health Affairs will review over the coming year.
Breslin holds the Patty L. Hawken Nursing Endowed Professorship and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She also is a Distinguished Practitioner in Nursing of the National Academies of Practice. Her most recent honors include the President's Award from the National Association of Hispanic Nurses and the Sigma Theta Tau Image Maker Award.
About The University of Texas System
Educating students, providing care for patients, conducting groundbreaking research and serving the needs of Texans and the nation for more than 130 years, The University of Texas System is one of the largest public university systems in the United States, with nine academic universities, six health institutions and a fall 2012 enrollment of roughly 216,000. The UT System confers more than one-third of the state's undergraduate degrees and educates nearly three-fourths of the state's health care professionals annually. The UT System has an annual operating budget of $13.9 billion (FY 2013) including $3.1 billion in sponsored programs funded by federal, state, local and private sources. With more than 87,000 employees, the UT System is one of the largest employers in the state.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Michael Rudell, a 1964 graduate of Bucknell University, will give the talk, "The Business of Entertainment: How a Creative Work Becomes a Marketable Product," on Friday, Sept. 12, at 3 p.m. in Walls Lounge of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell.
The talk, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the Career Development Center at Bucknell as part of its Alumni Spotlight series.
Rudell is a partner in Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C., a New York firm which represents celebrities and corporate entities active in the entertainment business. He is the author of Behind the Scenes: Practical Entertainment Law.
Among his clients are John Grisham, Dan Brown, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Patricia Cornwell and John le Carré.
Rudell's presentation will cover several topics including: how a manuscript becomes a book; how a book becomes a movie or TV program; issues relating to rights, controls and compensation; and trends in the entertainment industry. He also will participate in a question-and-answer session.
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Before the season I suspected that Virginia Tech and Virginia would sweep their respective non-conference games. That hunch looks better than ever today.
Two reasons: First, the Hokies and Cavaliers played pretty darn well in opening routs of Appalachian State and William and Mary. Second, their other non-conference opponents failed to impress.
Let's start with Virginia, since Mike London's crew figured to have the more difficult time going 4-0 outside the ACC. The Cavaliers' remaining non-league tests are against Indiana, Saturday in Bloomington, Southern Mississippi and Idaho.
Indiana dropped its opener to Ball State 27-20. The Hoosiers were three-touchdown faves against the Cardinals, who were 4-8 in 2010.
Southern Miss needed a late 49-yard field goal, set up by a pass interference penalty, to defeat visiting Louisiana Tech 19-17.
Idaho endured a 32-15 home loss to Bowling Green. The Vandals trailed 30-7 at halftime.
Win those three – Southern Miss, with quarterback Austin Davis, figures to be the toughest – and Virginia need finish only 2-6 in the ACC to earn bowl eligibility. That wouldn't be cause for a parade, but it sure would be progress.
Virginia Tech's broom-job of App State, East Carolina, Arkansas State and Marshall was almost a given the moment the schedule was finalized. Sure enough, all lost their openers.
ECU led South Carolina 14-0 before losing 56-37. The Pirates won't be patsies at home Saturday against the Hokies, but absent a flurry of turnovers, Tech's offense should prevail.
Arkansas State, 4-8 last season, fell at Illinois 33-15. Marshall, 5-7 a year ago, lost at West Virginia 34-13 in a game called after three quarters because of lightning.
Sure, playing at home Marshall could give the Hokies heartburn. And yes, Tech could be peeking ahead to its ACC opener the following week against Clemson. But if the Hokies are truly top-15 worthy, they will not stumble.
Virginia Tech last swept its non-conference regular-season games in 2006 (Northeastern, Cincinnati, Southern Miss and Kent State). Virginia last did in 2005 (Syracuse, Western Michigan and Temple).
Other observations from Week 1:
* This season may well be curtains for Boston College's streak of 12 consecutive bowls.
The Eagles lost 24-17 at home to a Northwestern team that was without quarterback Dan Persa (Achilles tendon). The Wildcats ran for 227 yards, startling against a defense that ranked No. 1 nationally last season against the rush (82.8 yards per game).
Montel Harris, Boston College's All-ACC tailback, also was sidelined (knee), but that's a game the Eagles needed to win given their rugged remaining schedule. BC plays at Central Florida on Saturday, faces consecutive October road games at Clemson, Virginia Tech and Maryland, and closes the regular season at Notre Dame and Miami.
Coach Frank Spaziani said Wednesday that Harris' knee is progressing and that he may play Saturday.
* Maryland and Miami may be better than I thought.
Despite nasty weather and eight Miami suspensions (thank you, Nevin Shapiro), the Terps and Hurricanes staged a quality show for national television Monday night, with Maryland's 32-24 victory showcasing plenty of speed and athleticism on both sides of the ball.
Both teams are idle until Sept. 17, when we'll learn much more. Maryland hosts No. 19 West Virginia, and Miami welcomes No. 15 Ohio State.
A late pick-six notwithstanding, Hurricanes quarterback Stephen Morris played well, completing 18 of his first 22 passes. So I was surprised coach Al Golden was quick to announce that Jacory Harris, who was among the eight suspended Monday, will replace Morris against Ohio State.
Virginia Tech hosts Miami on Oct. 8; Virginia plays back-to-back roadies at Miami (Oct. 27) and Maryland (Nov. 5).
Big-time tests all.


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Black Cats held by battling Palace
Fabio Borini was denied a priceless winner by the crossbar as Sunderland were held to a costly draw by fellow strugglers Crystal Palace.
The Italian rattled the woodwork with seven minutes remaining in a game which ultimately ended 0-0 after Palace keeper Julian Speroni made a vital 51st-minute save from substitute Jozy Altidore.
Victory would have taken Sunderland above the Eagles on goal difference, but the home side passed up a series of chances to make their dominance tell with Steven Fletcher particularly guilty before he was replaced at the break.
The Black Cats have won just one of their last eight home league games, and might have left-empty-handed had Kagisho Dikgacoi not wasted a glorious late chance to win it for the visitors.
Sunderland boss Gus Poyet was stung by criticism of his team selection for last Sunday's FA Cup sixth round defeat at Hull, but insisted in advance that would have little bearing on the decision-making for a fixture he had dubbed the most important of the campaign.
In the event, he made seven changes as the likes of Vito Mannone, Wes Brown and Liam Bridcutt returned, although Capital One Cup final starters Lee Cattermole and Jack Colback found themselves sitting on the bench.
It was a game Sunderland really had to win if they are to launch a successful fight against the drop, and they made a fist of it in the opening 45 minutes as they took the game to Palace without ever looking like conceding.
However, they rarely looked like scoring either as the problem which has hampered them for much of the campaign to date showed little sign of abating.
Poyet has been searching since his arrival in October for a man to spearhead his attack with either Fletcher or Altidore usually employed in the loan striking role which was handed, with some success, to Fabio Borini in the Capital One Cup final.
It was Scotland international Fletcher who got the nod once again on Saturday, but opportunities - admittedly half-chances - came and went.
The former Wolves frontman failed to connect properly with Adam Johnson's first-minute cross and then under-achieved with two audacious back-heeled attempts from deliveries from Borini and Johnson.
They were the kind of chances he dispatched with aplomb during his early months on Wearside, but it is simply not happening for him in front of goal when his team needs it most.
Full-back Marcos Alonso had earlier thumped a long-range effort into Speroni's midriff and Borini volleyed acrobatically wide from Thomas Ince's miscued clearance two minutes before the break.
For their part, Palace, who had full-backs Adrian Mariappa and Joel Ward both booked inside the opening 13 minutes, offered little going forward, and their only real opening came courtesy of a slip by Mannone.
The Italian stumbled as he attempted to clear and bundled the ball to Ince, but he recovered in time to claim the midfielder's tame 31st-minute shot.
Fletcher was put out of his misery at the break when he was replaced by Altidore, who might have made his mark within six minutes.
The United States international miscontrolled Brown's ball over the top, which looked to have put him in on goal, but recovered his composure to spin and fire in a left-foot shot which Speroni managed to tip over.
Borini volleyed high over from Bridcutt's cross four minutes later with Sunderland continuing to dominate, although they were served warning of the visitors' threat on the break within seconds when Yannick Bolasie forced a save from Mannone.
However, there was little or no quality from either side in the final third as Speroni and Mannone were virtual spectators.
Jerome might have caught out Mannone with a clever near-post flick from Ward's 75th-minute corner, but the Italian was well placed to pluck the ball from underneath his crossbar.
Borini might have snatched victory with seven minutes remaining when he ran on to Ki Sung-yueng's through-ball only to crash a rising drive against the bar with his follow-up flying inches wide, but Dikgacoi blazed inches wide with a minute remaining when he might have done better.
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Solar power, for good reason, has a lot of fans. "It's hip, it's cool, it's trendy...and it's green," according to the Australian solar company Energy Matters. And it's certainly true that producing solar power is far cleaner than fossil fuels which are one of the main causes of pollution and global warming.
But like every good hero, the solar industry has its kryptonite. In this case, it's the hazardous waste that's created by the production of solar panels.
ABC News recently reported that while government incentives have been a boon to the solar industry, the millions of panels being manufactured are also producing millions of pounds of polluted sludge and contaminated water. "In many cases, a toxic sludge is created when metals and other toxins are removed from water used in the manufacturing process. If a company doesn't have its own treatment equipment, then it will send contaminated water to be stored at an approved dump."
Putting aside the idea of transporting a lot of toxic sludge from one place to another—most plants don't have on-site treatment equipment—a number of scientists have pointed out that the transport of solar waste isn't being factored into the product's carbon footprint score, which measures the amount of greenhouse gases produced during a product's manufacturing.
Dustin Mulvaney, an assistant professor of environmental studies at San José State University, told TakePart that he's been doing life cycle analyses and carbon footprints of energy technologies since he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, after which he started a sustainability consulting firm, EcoShift. "My particular interest in solar came through work with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition," he said.
"Approximating the greenhouse gas emissions associated with any product requires gathering information about direct energy use, embodied energy—the energy it takes to make some of the key inputs and infrastructure—and the carbon intensity of the various energy inputs," said Mulvaney. "Coal, for example, has a higher carbon intensity than natural gas."
Asked if knowing more about the hazardous waste created by the solar industry might influence consumers even though solar power is still a cleaner option than fossil fuels, Mulvaney said, "Solar power is an order of magnitude cleaner than coal and fracked natural gas."
And, "If consumers know more about the hazardous waste emissions associated with solar manufacturing, there could be pressure on companies to reduce their emissions or seek onsite treatment options where opportunities exist. More efficient use of chemicals ultimately could reduce the carbon footprint of solar as well as reduce manufacturing costs, which is the primary obstacle to more widespread photovoltaics adoption."
SolarPowerIsTheFuture.com states that, "The sun is the world's largest power plant. It provides more energy to the earth in one hour than that produced by all nations in a year."
We just need to make sure that the journey from the sun to a solar-powered home remains as clean as possible.
Are you surprised to hear about the hazardous waste and carbon footprint created by solar panel production?
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Geneva's competitive dancing team seized an IHSA Class 2A state championship at U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington over the weekend.
While the Vikings needed just four minutes, 30 seconds – the rough combined length of a preliminary and finals routine – to achieve glory, don't let that convince you any of this was easy.
"Winning state was not luck and it wasn't just something that happened," Geneva coach Amy VanWagenen said. "It's come from working very, very hard from the start of our season in June all the way up until now."
Performing a jazz routine to the Delta Rae song "Bottom of the River," Geneva vaulted to the top by virtue of its consistency. No other 2A team defeated the Vikings when they used "Bottom of the River" this season.
Geneva scored a season-high 92.38 Saturday – 100 is the maximum combined score from six judges – to edge Vernon Hills (91.74).
The tightness VanWagenen observed backstage before Friday's prelims vanished by the time the finals rolled around. Knowing the worst-case scenario still meant a 10th-place state finish in the second year of an IHSA-affiliated state series, the Vikings put together a sound routine one last time.
"At that point, they just wanted to go perform for themselves, perform for each other, and they did it," VanWagenen said.
On Monday, the 18-member team paraded through the school halls along with VanWagenen, a four-year dance team member at Iowa State who also is a veteran coach through the Universal Dance Association.
Also a substitute teacher in Geneva District 304, VanWagenen suspects she'll give "Bottom of the River" a few more listens between now and next season. Maybe it's the title talking, but she doesn't mind having the song stuck in her head.
"No, I love it. I mean, I'm probably not going to listen to it as much as I have been the past few months, but if it came on, I wouldn't turn it off," VanWagenen said. "It causes a good memory."
Moving up: Kenny Socorro, the Kane County Cougars' fourth coach in 2013 who was activated for spot bullpen duty down the stretch, has been promoted to the parent Cubs' front office. There'll be no time for throwing as Socorro assumed the duty of player development/international scouting assistant.
"No, hopefully not," Socorro said. "That took a toll on my arm."
Socorro, 24, attended scouting school during the offseason in a bid to stay in baseball.
Drafted by the Cubs as a shortstop in the 44th round in 2011, he encountered injuries early in his career but proved a good asset to Cougars manager Mark Johnson, who then was guiding Short-A Boise. The bilingual Socorro showed an early knack for coaching.
Johnson and hitting coach Tom Beyers will return for the 2014 season, but the club is bringing in a new pitching coach, David Rosario.
• Kevin Druley is a sportswriter for the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5347 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @kevindruley.


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There will be a new fire chief in Memphis following the recent resignation of Tim Franz, who led the department for five years. A three-member committee is expected to interview two candidates, current assistant chiefs Marty Cook and Justin Diaz and fill the top spot once that process was completed.
Memphis Councilman Frank Davis said he will conduct the interviews alongside former chiefs Art Ryan and Bill Lince and the trio will ultimately appoint the new chief for the city.
�We�re in good shape,� Davis said. �Both of these guys are very qualified to step in.�
Cook has served as acting chief since Franz stepped down in mid-December. A resident of Riley Township, Cook noted in his application he has a total of five years administrative experience serving as both a captain and assistant chief for the Memphis department. Diaz also has a number of years with the department and noted his certification as a fire inspector on his application, according to Davis.
Memphis currently has 24 firefighters, including Franz, who will stay on in that capacity. Davis said the bylaws for the department state firefighters must be physically fit, between the ages of 18 and 54, have or be willing to get specific training and be ready to support the department�s mission.
The resignation of the current chief seemed to surprise city officials. Franz could not be reached for comment but Councilman Eric Schneider said his understanding is that the job just got to be too much for Franz, whose regular employment prompts frequent travel. Noting all the responsibilities of the chief�s position, including everything from going on runs to the paperwork involved in getting three bids for every improvement, even if it�s simply replacing truck tires, Schneider said it�s a big job.
�My understanding is that with things in his personal life he wasn�t able to devote the time it required,� offered Davis. �He�s being an honorable man in doing this. He�s more about doing the job for citizens not for a paycheck.�
City Clerk Donna Janssens confirmed the chief�s annual salary is $1,133 plus being paid per run. The assistant chiefs receive $849 annually plus a per run stipend. The rate for paid runs today is $15.30 and members of the department also receive training at no cost.
Franz devoted plenty of time to the department including supporting local fundraisers over the past year earmarked to restore an antique fire truck for the department. Working alongside other community service agencies was also part of the chief�s role.
Jeff White, the director of Richmond and Lenox Township�s Ambulance Authority, said his agency works very closely with the local fire departments and Franz will certainly be missed in the top spot in Memphis.
�Chief Franz was a very forward thinking chief and he and the entire community should be very proud and thankful for the work he�s done in the role as the chief,� White said.
Noting there are �some exceptional young men that Tim prepared to be able to take over� in Memphis, White said the department will remain in good hands moving forward.
Davis agreed with that assessment.
�Tim is still going to be with the department so he�ll be there to help the new chief in any way possible,� Davis said. �I think it will be a cohesive transfer of responsibilities.�


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The kids both had birthday parties to go to this week. I usually make our gifts, but I had several other things on my plate this week so I took them to toys r us. I gave them a budget and let them choose. I didn't have a budget for getting anything for myself of course, but ended up buying two things. Both are butterfly related and I'll use them for school and the nature center so they'll get used, but they were a splurge. One is this butterfly in a jar called My Pet Butterfly. (I also bought a life-cycle model kit -something similar to this, but mine has four different critters)
It took me a few minutes to figure out how it worked. There is a tiny tiny thin wire that makes the butterfly flutter about in the jar. It's cool, plain cool. It really looks like a real butterfly in a jar.
It makes a great cat toy too.


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Scott playing shell game with Common Core
Caving in to tea party criticism of a national education reform effort known as Common Core State Standards, Gov. Rick Scott pulled Florida out of a multi-state consortium developing tests to the replace the failed Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. But in a move sure to confound and confuse Common Core foes, Scott directed his latest education commissioner to move ahead with the development of new tests based on the same standards.
It's a maddening continuation of reform for the sake of reform, with private testing companies and pricey consultants reaping rewards while educators and students contend with a revolving door of standards, tests and expectations.


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If you are looking for serenity in the heart of Middle England, Stratford Manor boasts the peace and quiet of the English countryside yet is a mere hop from junction 15 of the M40 and just 5 minutes from the buzz and history of Stratford-upon-Avon. The 104 spacious bedrooms are stylish and calming, the comfy beds and duvets ensure a long and peaceful nights rest. Delicious food is served in the contemporary Shakespeare restaurant, and our top team of chefs utilise local and seasonal produce to create tasty dishes for you to enjoy. The Terrace Bar offers a more relaxing environment to enjoy a snack or chill out with a nice cold drink after a busy day exploring the countryside. If that isn t enough to make you relax, the Spa offers relaxing facials and muscle melting massages which will leave you feeling utterly pampered. Alternatively, energise in our health club or dive into our pool before sitting back in the sauna or steam room. Meeting facilities include conference rooms, a ballroom, exhibit space, and banquet facilities. Onsite parking is complimentary. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Anne Hathaway s Cottage, a cruise down the River Avon are all on the door step, slightly further afield, Warwick Castle, the Cotswolds and the Malvern Hills are all within an hour s drive. If you re visiting us on business or pleasure, make sure that you take advantage of our free internet access. The hotel has been awarded a silver award by the Green Business Tourism Scheme. Free car parking for all guests.Free WiFi throughout the hotel including all guest bedrooms. We know how to treat our guests. That s why they voted us the Which! UK Hotel Chain of the Year.
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