text: Discrimination Policy The County of Buncombe does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment, or employment, in its services, programs, and activities, in compliance with applicable federal and state laws. Naming Rights Policy General Statement Buncombe County Parks & Recreation will make any and all proposals for naming rights to the Buncombe Parks, Greenways & Recreation Advisory Board. The Board will then be responsible for approving all names for all parks, recreation areas, programs and facilities within the Buncombe County Parks & Recreation system. Once approved by the Parks, Greenways & Recreation Advisory Board, this action in recommendation form, will be forwarded to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners for final approval and official designation. Criteria for Consideration Buncombe County Parks & Recreation will accept applications for naming rights from any Buncombe County citizen or group of Buncombe County citizens who wish to recommend the naming of a park, area of facility in honor a person, historical event, natural phenomenon or geographic location. Applications or petitions to honor a person or persons will be considered only when the individual(s) has made exceptional contributions in the following way(s): Money Land Other goods and/or services The name must not duplicate, or be closely related, or pronounced similarly, to any other name within the Buncombe County Parks & Recreation system so as to eliminate any/all confusion to the general public. Buncombe County Parks & Recreation reserves the right to change the name of a park, area, program or facility. This time frame applies to only those parks, areas, programs and facilities that have been named for an individual. The time frame will be set by individual contracts. When naming or re-naming a park, area, program or facility, Buncombe County Parks & Recreation: Will accept application(s) or petitions with adult signatures of current residents of Buncombe County Have discussion and hear public discussion at a public hearing Take action at a second public hearing These meetings will occur during a period not to exceed ninety (90) days from the first public hearing. When there has not been a suggested title or appropriate suggested title for a new park, area, program or facility, Buncombe County Parks & Recreation may, at its completion, determine an appropriate title for recommendation to the Board of Commissioners. Facilities / Programs Individuals or groups may donate a sum of money, land or goods/services for the naming rights of a facility, a portion of the facility, or program. The following guidelines must be established and met before consideration is given by the Buncombe County Parks & Recreation Advisory Board: Facilities A base of $25,000 An annual donation of 25% of the total estimated value of the facility This will be established on a contractual basis for a minimum of ten (10) years Portion of Facilities (i.e. shelter, exhibit, etc.) A base of $10,000 An annual donation of 5% of the total estimated value of the facility This will be established on a contractual basis for a minimum of ten (10) years Programs A base of $5,000 An annual donation of total estimated cost of producing the program This will be established on a contractual basis for the number of years specified by the donor. Employees & Volunteers Former employees or volunteers who have deceased will be recognized by posting their name, facility or program they were involved with and years of service on a memory board in the lobby at the Buncombe County Parks & Recreation Administrative Office. The following criteria must be met: Employees Must have been employed by Buncombe County Parks & Recreation for a minimum of 10 years Volunteer Must have been a volunteer for Buncombe County Parks & Recreation for a minimum of 5 years and/or 1,000 hours. Buncombe County Parks & Recreation staff retains the right to review each individual on an individual basis. Please click here for a Naming Rights Application Park Rules Littering prohibited Destruction of plants, animals, and wildlife prohibited Swimming prohibited in lakes and ponds Vehicles on grass or foot trails prohibited Maximum speed is 15 mph Parking prohibited in non-designated areas Vending of goods or merchandise prohibited Park signs shall not be removed Persons may not enter any facility from which they may have been prohibited Permit required for certain use of parks Dogs must be on a leash Possession of weapons prohibited Alcoholic beverages prohibited No dumping garbage in county parks Violators subject to prosecution pursuant to NCGS Section 153A-123(B) & 14-4 Publicity Policy Buncombe County Recreation Services reserves the right to photograph program participants for publicity purposes. Please be aware that these photos are for BCRS use only & may be used in future catalogs, brochures, pamphlets or flyers.


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By Elizabeth O'Brien
It's a familiar ritual: a study comes out that challenges long-held conventional and clinical wisdom on a popular medical screening or treatment. This week the spotlight fell on mammograms, with the release of a study in the British Medical Journal that questioned the effectiveness of mammograms for women of any age.
The study, which involved 90,000 women and lasted 25 years, represents one of the few rigorous evaluations of mammograms done in the modern era of more effective breast cancer treatments, Gina Kolata reported in The New York Times. Researchers randomly assigned Canadian women to have regular mammograms and breast exams by trained nurses or to have breast exams alone.
Researchers found no evidence that it's best to catch breast cancers when they were too small to feel. What's more, mammograms can lead to over-diagnosis. Not every cancer is a potential killer, but since doctors often can't determine a given cancer's threat when it is discovered, all cancers get treated, Kolata reported. This can lead, of course, to unnecessary anxiety and costs for the patient, and increased costs for the medical system as a whole.
This isn't the first time that mammograms have caused a stir. Back in 2009, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force increased the starting age for mammograms for most women to 50 from 40. The group, an independent volunteer panel charged with making science-based recommendations about clinical preventative services, is currently updating its recommendation on screening for breast cancer, according to its web site.
Different organizations have different guidelines when it comes to mammograms. The American Cancer Society, for example, still recommends them annually for women 40 and over. Medicare Part B covers screening mammograms once every 12 months.
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Release date: 30 November 1982
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' / Baby Be Mine / The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney) / Thriller / Beat It / Billie Jean / Human Nature / P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) / The Lady in My Life
Sales (in millions): 29.0 US, 4.27 UK, 72.4 world (includes US and UK)
Peak: 137 US, 18 UK
Review: Thriller was the follow-up to Michael Jackson's blockbuster album Off the Wall, which had accomplished the rare feat of four top ten hits on the U.S. pop charts. "The sweet schmaltz of the Paul McCartney duet The Girl Is Mine" AMG became the leadoff single, sailing to #2. Two #1 hits followed – the massive "disco-inflected" NRR Billie Jean and Beat It, which by adding hard-rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, "bridged arena rock and soul four years before Run DMC met Aerosmith." TL Both have endured the test of time well enough to secure spots in the Dave's Music Database book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999.
Resources and Related Links:
- the DMDB page for Thriller
- the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry for Michael Jackson
- AMG All Music Guide review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- AZ Amazon.com review by Rickey Wright
- BN Barnes & Noble review by Michael Hill
- RC Robert Christgau
- CC Chris Connelly, Rolling Stone, originally in print issue 387
- MF Mike Fish (June 1992: #100), The Wire. "The Most Important Records Ever Made."
- EK Eric Klinger, PopMatters' Counterbalance series.
- JM Jason Mendelsohn, PopMatters' Counterbalance series.
- NRR National Recording Registry
- Q Q4Music.com review (from October 2000 print issue; no longer online) by Ian Cranna
- RV The Review "100 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Clarke Speicher (October – November 2001; Vol. 128: numbers 12-23).
- TL Time Magazine's "All-TIME 100 Albums" by Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light (11/13/06)
- UT USA Today, Top 40 Albums – the USA Today Way (12/5/2003).
- VB Vibe 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century, pp. 154-1964. (Dec. 1999)
- WR The Wire "The 100 Most Important Records Ever Made" (June 1992: #100).


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The main U.S. derivatives regulator may delay applying some Dodd-Frank Act overseas swaps rules for about six months, part of a wave of last-minute exemptions and postponements designed to ease the shift to new regulations.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission may put off compliance for overseas-based operations of U.S. banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for some risk-management rules that begin to take effect at the end of the month, according to two people who asked not to be identified because the delay hasn't been made public. The agency has already released more than 40 letters postponing other parts of Dodd-Frank, and officials have signaled that more are expected in coming weeks.
"We have and will continue to grant requests for phased compliance," Gary Gensler, CFTC chairman, said in a telephone interview yesterday. Gensler said the delays are designed to "smooth the transition" to new oversight rules.
Dodd-Frank derivatives rules, originally intended to be in place in July 2011, have been delayed as the government seeks feedback on how to bring swaps under its oversight. The regulations will for the first time lead Wall Street's largest banks to register as swap dealers with the CFTC at the end of the year and will require them to use clearinghouses to settle interest-rate and credit-default trades by mid-March.
The five-member commission has released more than 40 letters since January saying it won't enforce some of the rules for months -- and in some cases never.
'Swiss Cheese'
The letters have made the agency's rulemaking process "resemble swiss cheese," Scott O'Malia , one of two Republicans on the five-member commission, said in a Nov. 30 speech. "In addition to the rulemaking process, we have in effect been forced to set up a parallel exemptive process to provide relief from these rules," he said.
The letters give relief to entire industries or specific companies, including JPMorgan, the largest U.S. swaps dealer, and LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd., the world's largest clearinghouse for interest-rate swaps. Sometimes the letters aren't released to the public for weeks.
"Maybe four years from now someone will ask why they issued all these no-action letters taking all the teeth out of the law," Jeffrey Harris, professor of finance at Syracuse University's business school and former chief economist at the CFTC, said in a telephone interview on Dec. 4. "There needs to be some method and mechanism to go back and revisit these once final rules are in place."
On the international scope of the rules, Gensler said the agency is debating a phase-in of the regulations to be announced before Jan. 1.
Transparent Transactions
"We're anticipating that a significant part of the financial reforms will come into place as of Dec. 31 as dealers begin to register and their transactions become known and transparent to the regulators," Gensler said. "That's true here in the U.S. and for foreign dealers doing business here more than a de minimis."
The CFTC is working with overseas regulators on how to reduce the potential for gaps in the rules, Gensler said.
The agency was criticized by non-U.S. regulators after it proposed guidance in June on the international scope of Dodd- Frank rules intended to reduce risk in the $639 trillion global swaps market. The guidance indicates when CFTC regulations apply to foreign-based companies trading with U.S. clients and to branches of U.S. companies trading overseas.
The reach of the rules has prompted opposition from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp. and Societe Generale SA. Gensler said the cross-border guidance is needed to protect U.S. taxpayers from having to rescue companies whose overseas trades lead to their collapse.
Letters' Impact
Since mid-October, when new regulations for swap dealers began taking effect, the letters and other guidance have provided a series of changes for clearinghouses, funds and banks. On Nov. 1, the CFTC granted a two-month delay for rules governing segregation of collateral at Chicago-based CME Group Inc., owner of the world's largest futures exchange, and Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange Inc.
Between Oct. 26 and Nov. 29, the CFTC gave 10 banks, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Plc., delays in how quickly they must decide to accept or reject trades for clearing. The letters weren't immediately posted on the CFTC's website when they were released to banks. The rule was originally supposed to take effect Oct. 1; the banks now have until Jan. 1. Meanwhile, LCH received a delay on a related rule and won't need to meet CFTC requirements until March 31.
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California's vanishing 'fishhook'
Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters writes about the demise of California's 'fishhook,' the one-time GOP path to statewide victory where the Republican candidate carried the string of inland counties along the state's spine and then hooked into populous, GOP-oriented San Diego and Orange counties in Southern California.
Despite high levels of population growth and strong Republican margins in the fishhook counties, the strategy began to fade in the 1990s because Los Angeles County began shifting from virtual neutrality into a very strong pro-Democrat posture, thereby tilting the entire state…
This month's election, in which Democrats won almost everything, underscored the demise of the fishhook.
Not only did Los Angeles County give President Barack Obama a million-vote-plus victory over Republican Mitt Romney, but three of the largest fishhook counties – San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino – voted for the president.
To put it another way, even if Los Angeles had returned to its old neutrality, Obama would have won by about a million votes in California.
The Republican fishhook, it could be said, lost its barb.
This stat will provide an idea of just how much Los Angeles County, the most populous in the nation, has shifted: In 1988, the last time a Republican presidential nominee carried the state, Michael Dukakis won there by a relatively narrow 52 percent to 47 percent. This year, Obama won L.A. County 69-29.


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It's not very often that I make a meal for dinner that the WHOLE family enjoys, we've got some picky eaters in our house (hopefully that will change as they get older) and it makes things difficult at meal times to try and please everyone. Stack Ups, however are an absolute family favourite. It gets the thumbs up from everyone and we all like to eat it in different ways. I owe it to my Mother-In-Law (with 7 kids and a few picky eaters, this was always a winner in her house too!) for introducing me to it way back when Jaron and I were just dating. I don't think I started cooking it myself until a couple of years ago and it has been a winner ever since.
STACK-UPS RECIPETo prepare, all you have to do is make/cut up bowls of the following foods (of course, you can add more or less depending on what your family likes to eat):
** Tomato-based mince mixture (mine is always different, usually minced meat, onion, garlic, herbs, spices, beef stock, can of tomatoes, can of red kidney beans, etc. or you could add a sachet of taco seasoning mix if you want it more mexican.)
** Corn chips (I try and steer away from the highly flavoured kinds - we like the Mission brand at the moment)
** Rice
** Lettuce (shredded)
** Tomatoes (diced)
** Cucumber (diced)
** Carrot (grated)
** Cheese (grated)
** Avocado
** Salsa
** Sour cream
The "real" way to eat it is stacked up high on your plate (hence, the name Stack Ups)...
The kids like to separate everything on their plates and are a little choosier with what they include...
However you choose to eat it, I can guarantee that it is a meal that will please everyone and you can still ensure that you're getting lots of fresh veggies to keep you healthy!


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J1S Designs "Cyclone" Carbon Fiber Flybarless Main Blade Set (505mm) J1S-CYC-505
This is the J1S Designs "Cyclone" 505mm Carbon Fiber Flybarless Main Blade Set. R/C helicopter performance has been compromised by conventional "straight wing", continuous airfoil blade designs. Flybar blades are quick and responsive around center, but are unstable in fast flight and are prone to pitching up. Flybarless blades are stable and smooth at high speeds, but deliver a slow response around center and are more demanding of your electronics. Traditional designs make it impossible for one blade to provide both characteristics, forcing pilots to choose between crisp response around center or smooth high speed tracking in fast flight; blades that try to deliver both aspects are mediocre at best...until now!
Tim Jones has developed a unique, optimized airfoil design that elevates R/C helicopter blade technology to the next level. J1S Designs Cyclone blades feature an aerodynamically optimized "tapered airfoil" that allows the CG point to be configured in a way that provides fast flight stability, without sacrificing response, or "crispness" around center. The tip shape is unique and allows large cyclic inputs even at the highest forward flight speeds, eliminating the "flutter" or sluggishness that is common with heavy flybarless blades that can stress servos and reduce cyclic rates. This also allows the power system to work more efficiently and lets the blades track with one another much better, even under the most extreme combinations of collective and cyclic pitch.
J1S Designs Cyclone blades won't make you fly like the Beast, but will deliver the confidence, stability, response and efficiency that will make you feel like one.
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Traditional airfoil designs force pilots to choose between crisp response around center or smooth high speed tracking in fast flight. Using high powered CAD software and the assistance of some very intelligent aeronautical engineers, J1S Designs Cyclone blades stray from the conventional straight-line "continuous airfoil" design, and feature a "tapered airfoil" design that provides stability in fast flight, without sacrificing response, or "crispness" around center. This design has been optimized for the head speeds used on modern 3D helicopters, and allows the blade to move through the air with less drag, less turbulence and improved predictability.
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Another aspect of blade design that is often over looked or selected purely on cosmetics is the shape of the tip. Tip shape is incredibly important and has a huge affect on the lift and overall efficiency that the blade can deliver. J1S Designs Cyclone blades feature a unique tapered, swept tip design that does two things; first, the swept tip deflects turbulent air coming off the blade tip at an angle away from the disc, and away from the next advancing blade. This allows the blade to slice through the air without having to fight the turbulent air generated by the retreating blade, and produces a quiet, more efficient blade, even under high cyclic pitch conditions! Second, it reduces the "mach number" at the tip, effectively reducing airspeed and drag without sacrificing lift. This means that even though the RPM and blade length haven't changed, the airspeed at the tip has been reduced. This reduces the stress on the power system, helping to reduce operating temperatures and increase flight times! This also gives you the option to increase your head speed for more power and improved response without sacrificing the efficiency or flight time your current setup delivers!
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The pivot point of the blade affects the lead/lag that the blade experiences during flight. As the blade rotates through the air it creates drag, causing the blade to pivot rearward, or "lag" in the blade grip. The location of the pivot point is critical in allowing the blade to fly at its "aerodynamic center". J1S Designs Cyclone blades feature an optimized pivot point that helps to balance the blade dynamically, resulting in blade with superior aerodynamics, and improved in-flight stability.
- Designed and developed by Tim Jones
- Uses rotary wing technology developed in the UAV/Defense industries, as well as concepts found in full scale helicopters.
- Tapered airfoil reduces drag & increases lift. Superior aerodynamics allows for a CG more toward the root for improved response without sacrificing high speed stability.
- Swept tip reduces effective tip speed, turbulent air & increases overall efficiency.
- Optimized lead - lag allows the blade to fly at aerodynamic center for reduced noise and increased efficiency


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Grid's World at Locust Projects
In any survey of post-war abstract painting, an inescapable topic of discussion is the grid. Usual examples cite artists such as Agnes Martin and Ad Reinhardt, and the grid as aesthetic style typically bears descriptive qualities like "clinical," "sterile," and "objective"—words that have minimalistic sensibilities. However, as Zachary Cahill points out in an introductory text for Grid's World at Locust Projects in Miami, grids are[…..]


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It has been a long time coming, but Oshkosh is connecting Wisconsin one trail at a time.
Be the first to walk, run or bike across Lake butte Des Morts on Saturday, October 12th. from 11:00-2:30 as the Tribal Heritage Crossing of the Wiouwash State Recreation Trail crosses Lake Butte Des Morts along the Highway 41 Causeway.
This event will be held at the North end of the causeway near the driveway of Ecklund Motor Sports at 2794 Marine Dr. There will be street parking with people helping you on where to go.
At 11:00 AM there will be a formal dedication and ceremony with our own Governor Scott Walker being present. From 11:30-2:30 there will be an open house for a fun run/walk and dog walk. You can register the day of for a 5K non competitive run/walk with or without your pooch. You will receive "first across" commemorative pin, and be able to visit displays along the crossing, which includes one of each of the Wisconsin Indian Tribes. Experts will also be on hand to talk about fishing opportunities on the trail as well.


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BufferZone Home is a new security software developed by Trustware
Security through virtualization is a the concept in which every %!()^# hostile code is virtualized and runs without harming the system.
Imagine you could run things in Quarantine...
The combination between HIPS (security) and AV (usability) should take us to the next generation of PCs security.
Trial version is available in the homepage (www.trustware.com)
btw: you all think i work in the company, thats wrong i'm only using the product for about 6 weeks (beta) and i realy think you also should try ...
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The Reunion collection is a family of tables that provide uncommon flexibility to meet real-world needs. Height-adjustable snap legs with glides or casters easily pop off for compact storage. Link legs have a patented latching mechanism that allows a single leg to gang and support two tops. Vertical channels in both wrangle wires. A wide range of top shapes and sizes support Solo, Group Work, Seminar, and Conference needs.
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Called Illyricum in ancient times, the area now called Bosnia and Herzegovina was conquered by the Romans in the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. and folded into the Roman province of Dalmatia. In the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., Goths overran that portion of the declining Roman Empire and occupied the area until the 6th century, when the Byzantine Empire claimed it. Slavs began settling the region during the 7th century. Around 1200, Bosnia won independence from Hungary and endured as an independent Christian state for some 260 years.
The expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Balkans introduced another cultural, political, and religious framework. The Turks defeated the Serbs at the famous battle of Kosovo in 1389. They conquered Bosnia in 1463. During the roughly 450 years Bosnia and Herzegovina were under Ottoman rule, many Christian Slavs became Muslim. A Bosnian Islamic elite gradually developed and ruled the country on behalf of the Turkish overlords. As the borders of the Ottoman Empire began to shrink in the 19th century, Muslims from elsewhere in the Balkans migrated to Bosnia. Bosnia also developed a sizable Jewish population, with many Jews settling in Sarajevo after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. However, through the 19th century the term Bosnian commonly included residents of all faiths. A relatively secular society, intermarriage among religious groups was not uncommon.
Neighboring Serbia and Montenegro fought against the Ottoman Empire in 1876 and were aided by the Russians, their fellow Slavs. At the Congress of Berlin in 1878, following the end of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Austria-Hungary was given a mandate to occupy and govern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in an effort by Europe to ensure that Russia did not dominate the Balkans. Although the provinces were still officially part of the Ottoman Empire, they were annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire on Oct. 7, 1908. As a result, relations with Serbia, which had claims on Bosnia and Herzegovina, became embittered. The hostility between the two countries climaxed in the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, by a Serbian nationalist. This event precipitated the start of World War I (1914–1918). Bosnia and Herzegovina were annexed to Serbia as part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes on Oct. 26, 1918. The name was later changed to Yugoslavia in 1929.
When Germany invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, Bosnia and Herzegovina were made part of Nazi-controlled Croatia. During the German and Italian occupation, Bosnian and Herzegovinian resistance fighters fought a fierce guerrilla war against the Ustachi, the Croatian Fascist troops. At the end of World War II, Bosnia and Herzegovina were reunited into a single state as one of the six republics of the newly reestablished Communist Yugoslavia under Marshall Tito. His authoritarian control kept the ethnic enmity of his patchwork nation in check. Tito died in 1980, and with growing economic dissatisfaction and the fall of the iron curtain over the next decade, Yugoslavia began to splinter.
In Dec. 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia and asked for recognition by the European Union (EU). In a March 1992 referendum, Bosnian voters chose independence, and President Alija Izetbegovic declared the nation an independent state. Unlike the other former Yugoslav states, which were generally composed of a dominant ethnic group, Bosnia was an ethnic tangle of Muslims (44%), Serbs (31%), and Croats (17%), and this mix contributed to the duration and savagery of its fight for independence.


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You can set your clock to the beats of the 2012 Jets season.
The Jets go out and lose a game, usually with an offensive performance fit for a snuff film, and then Rex Ryan gets up in front of the media and tells them that Mark Sanchez remains the team's starting quarterback. The Jets took care of the first half with a 28-7 loss in Seattle and Ryan took care of the second a few minutes later.
During his postgame press conference, Ryan said that he felt Sanchez gives the team their best chance to win. As such, Sanchez will remain the team's starting quarterback after a 9-of-22, 124-yard performance that included a pair of turnovers. You wouldn't expect Ryan to say something much different in the postgame scrum, certainly not after hearing him say it after most of the first eight games this season, but it's harder to understand why Ryan feels that way.
At some point someone has to be accountable for how awful the Jets offense looks pretty much every week of the season. Sanchez isn't the only problem, but he is the only player on the team who can be replaced by a player who started for a playoff team last season. Going to Tim Tebow probably wouldn't save this Jets season, but how many times can you really watch the same results without at least trying something different?
If Ryan sticks to his word, the answer is at least 10 times for the Jets.


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Denver Arts & Venues has a new project to revitalize neighborhoods through the arts. It's called "P.S. You Are Here." Lisa Gedgaudas tells First Take the City of Denver hopes the pilot initiative will cultivate collaborative, community-driven, outdoor projects in Denver's public spaces.
The proposal submission deadline is May 30, 2014.
official P.S. You Are Here website
Music on this feature by Plas Johnson with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis, "Parking Lot Blues," from the CD The Blues.


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Here's a common scenario. Someone emails and asks about an elearning tutorial I have on the blog. It's not always easy to find the specific tutorial buried in a given post. In fact, there are many times I either forgot that I had created that tutorial or I can't recall where it's at either. I know. It's part of getting older.
Today I am going to fix that. I have listed every blog post that has a video tutorial that shows how to create something related to online learning. So, if you're just getting started with building online learning courses (or new to the blog), now you have a handy resource with links to all sorts of rapid elearning tutorials.
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Clark Vandeventer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Looking for an established, corporate feel. But also want a cutting edge, different approach. Love the concept of acorns and oaks and the symbolism there. Have used in marketing materials in past.
The logo should have the words "Major Gifts Fundraising" I like the idea of having an acorn/oak and perhaps a dollar sign in the logo. Major Gifts Fundraising is a subsidiary of World Changers Inc. You can view what we have up now at http://www.worldchangers.us.com. You'll see we have a long way to go to get where we want to be.
I'm also working on a website. I'll share with you exactly what I shared with the person helping me with my website:
I like this site you previously sent me: http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/ but I want a more corporate feel.
Defenitely want people to be able to sign up for our blog and newsletter....this would be two separate things. We could have multiple blog entries over the course of a month. Newsletter may be a quarterly thing.
I plan to do a podcast and am recording now me doing several two minute vignettes.
I defenitely want an events section and want to utilize eventbrite.com or some other mechanism as an on-line RSVP tool and as a means of capturing information.
Obviously, capturing information, via events, podcasts, newsletter, blog subscriptions is all important.
Stephen Clouse & Associates -- http://www.stephenclouse.com/ -- is largely in the same market as me. I like his website, particuarly the quotes and endorsements that go across the home screen. You'll see something similar at http://www.fundraisingstrategies.com which is also in the same market as me (although both provide a different service than me).
I really like the whole look and feel of the Koch Foundation website at http://www.cgkfoundation.org/
A few general thoughts.
First is that I want a corporate or "established" feel to the site.
Second, I've previously used a lot of acorns and oaks in my materials. I like the concept and would like to continue this theme in some way.
Third, I'm building a business system. Or at least that's the goal. But in the end, clients really buy me. Therefore, the site should have pictures of me.
The site needs to explain what I now explain what I currently explain to each client individually. I know this is a content thing, but just saying it.
Have used shades of green in the past, but am open to something different.
Tag line: Audacious gifts, and the audacious vision that inspires them
I'm open.
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is constantly changing, with updates to the algorithms released on a regular basis. It is vital to have the latest developments in place, to keep you one step ahead of the competition. So, what trends must you keep in mind for this year to continue to enhance your visibility online?
AMP, What is it and Why it is Important?
The launch of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), means it is now more essential than ever to ensure your pages can be viewed correctly on mobile devices. In short, AMP is a project from Google and Twitter designed to make really fast mobile pages. AMP can significantly lower the load time of your website, as it strips away redundant content and only display's the key content needed. AMP benefit greatly from an enhanced visibility in Google searches. It is vital to driving traffic, that your website is mobile optimised.
Voice Searching
Virtual Assistants such as Siri and Google Voice are quickly becoming a bigger part of our daily lives. According to Google an estimated 20% of all mobile searches are now conducted through voice searches. As voice search continues to grow, long tail keywords will become essential as the virtual assistants will be dealing with queries like "Where can fix my car in Glasgow". There has never been a better time and opportunity to have your content tailored SEO ready for voice searching.
Content – Then, Now, Always…
Content is still and may always will be the most important aspect of SEO. It is essential that your audience have relatable content to interact with on a page. Content comes not only in text format but can come in the form of imagery and video, which ensures that visitors have plenty to engage with on a page and also search engines can display the page more effectively.
Importance of Speed
It won't come as a surprise that the speed at which a website loads, is
essential in having effective SEO. People browsing through mobile devices continues to rise at rapid rates, meaning that slow loading websites can lead to a high increase in drop offs. To ensure that you capture your mobile audience, it is essential to compress images/videos etc. which would lead to faster load times on your web page.
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text: The European Union has long been an staunch opponent of biotech crops, refusing until fairly recently to allow the production of any genetically modified grains or oilseeds. But Europe's farmers are beginning to push against the ban, demanding that European Union officials allow them to begin using those sustainability tools. One of the leaders in those efforts is Gabriela Cruz, a farmer from Portugal, who received the Kleckner Trade and Technology Advancement Award at the World Food Prize International Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa. She spoke with Farm Press editor Forrest Laws in this interview in Des Moines.


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Like many people, I'm often skeptical of broad, sweeping claims made without some numbers to back them up. I'm not saying I need to see complicated math like the kind David Krumholtz's Charlie Eppes performs on Numb3rs, but I do like to see some quantifiable proof before I'll buy into certain things. For most things, blind faith doesn't cut it for me.
Pro wrestling is problematic in this regard, because there aren't a lot of helpful numbers floating around. Since the outcomes of matches are pre-determined, statistics are few, and the ones that do exist don't mean much. Sure, Ric Flair may have the most world title reigns, but what, exactly does that mean? It's a testament to his longevity and proof that he's been at the top of the industry on numerous occasions, but does it automatically mean he's had a better career, than, say, Hulk Hogan? Most people would say it doesn't.
But there are some numbers in wrestling that do matter, and one in particular that means a lot to the Vince McMahons of the world: the weekly TV ratings. The number of eyeballs watching wrestling programming is readily available, easy to compute and other than the financial bottom line of a promotion, the most important number to measure its health. I've been exposed to the ratings for wrestling shows through various sources over the past eight years, but I've never taken any time to look inside the numbers to see what they might reveal.
That changed this past week when I finally utilized the mighty power of the internet (thank you Wikipedia!) and dug up the weekly ratings from the WWE's glory days, circa 1998 and 1999, as well as those from the past year and a half. I'm certainly no Charlie when it comes to interpreting numbers, but I did find a few statements -- some theories and others widely held beliefs -- that were easy to put to the test.
Please note that I am simplifying things by studying only Raw, mainly because it's the only wrestling show that's been on television continuously since 1998. I'm also using the ratings for the U.S., since that's what I have access to, but don't worry Canadian readers -- I promise to tie things in to a topic important to all of you before I finish.
Statement 1: Raw benefited from its return to the USA Network
The numbers say: Yes, but not right away.
One of the most-hyped events of 2005 was Raw's return to USA, its home for years, after a stint on TNN, which eventually became Spike TV. The WWE put a lot of time and energy into publicizing the move, and it certainly paid off on the first night. The final broadcast on Spike TV earned Raw's second-lowest rating of the year at 3.2, while the USA "Homecoming" episode pulled a 4.4, the second-highest mark of 2005. The momentum didn't last long though, because Raw averaged a 3.88 rating for the final 13 weeks of the year, less than a tenth of a point better than its 2005 average of 3.81.
As Jim Ross might say, business picked up once the calendar flipped over to 2006. Raw has done six percent better than last year through July 10, and the ratings have consistently come in at or above 4.0. Comparing the new USA era to the last 41 weeks on Spike, the increase is even higher, suggesting that while it took a little while for the move to pay off, the WWE did the right thing by returning to its roots.
Of course, it's quite possible that the increasing number of viewers has nothing to do with USA and is just a symptom of an overall upswing for the WWE. Let's see...
Statement 2: Raw, and by extension the WWE, is on the upward portion of its business cycle
The numbers say: Possibly, but it's too early to tell
Through June 5 of this year, Raw's average rating was a 4.07, not too far off from the 4.12 the show averaged through the same period of 1998. You might remember 1998 as the year that the WWE really caught up to its rival WCW after getting trounced in the Monday Night War for quite a while. Propelled at first by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and later by the emergence of The Rock, Raw took off over the second half of 1998 and became a juggernaut in 1999, pulling in an average rating above 6.0 and turning in its highest rated show ever (an 8.1 on May 10, a night when WCW Nitro did not air) and its best quarter-hour of all time (September 27, for the "Rock, This is Your Life" segment).
I'm pretty sure even Vince McMahon's wildest dreams don't include a similar performance in 2007, but a successful run over the second half of this year could be a promising sign of brighter times ahead. But to paraphrase Eminem in 8 Mile, if something's going to happen, it needs to happen now. Raw saw a nine percent increase from the first third of 1998 to the second, and got an additional 10 percent boost over the final three months of the year. Raw's 2006 numbers have been pretty level as we head into the third show of July, so McMahon and company have to hope this isn't as good as it gets this time around.
There's also another hurdle on the horizon, because football season is less than two months away. And we all know that Raw's numbers take a hit once Monday Night Football starts. Right?
Statement 3: Monday Night Football takes some of Raw's audience away during football season
The numbers say: Not so fast
There's no doubt that both MNF and Raw are popular among the 18 to 34 male demographic, so this statement seems pretty reasonable. The funny thing is, the numbers just don't support it. Back in 1998, the ratings train didn't even slow down once football season kicked off, with Raw's average rating up against MNF averaging 4.76, compared to a 4.44 mark for the year as a whole. The next year saw a decrease on Mondays in the fall, but it was a drop of less than one percent, hardly cause for concern.
In the less heady days of 2005, Raw experienced a decrease of just over one percent, from a 3.83 average to 3.79, once the pigskins started flying. The show even turned its highest rating of last year in the middle of the season, on November 14, though that was admittedly a special case since it was the tribute show following the tragic death of Eddie Guerrero. The point is that wrestling viewers are loyal, and the effect of Monday Night Football on Raw appears to be minimal.
That's something for Canadian viewers to keep in mind as you prepare for the big WWE announcement this Wednesday, which is expected to be Raw moving from TSN to The Score. As Tim Baines recently wrote in his column for the Ottawa Sun, conventional wisdom says TSN's acquisition of Canadian broadcast rights for MNF made it less willing to re-up for Raw, since the WWE's flagship show would be pre-empted for four months. The numbers suggest that may be a hasty move, since at least here in the States, fans find their way back to Raw once the pigskins stop flying -- ratings for Raw always show an increase of some sort come January. There are financial considerations in play as well, but The Score should be pretty happy with its new Monday program in the fall, and even happier in the new year.
At least that's what the numbers say, and we all know they don't lie.
On a totally unrelated note, a number of readers e-mailed after my last column to let me know that a number of wrestling simulations exist for the PC that allow you to run your own fictional wrestling fed. When time permits, I'm planning on pitting them all against each other, battle royal style. Thanks to everyone who wrote, and keep those comments and e-mails coming.
Nick Tylwalk has been a SLAM! Wrestling contributor since 1998, and his column, Walkin' That Aisle with Nick Tylwalk, appears most Mondays. Comments, compliments and complaints can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you'd like to see a response to your question or comment in a future column, please include your full name and hometown in your e-mail.


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catamic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 10 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
I am a design and typography interested twitter user, looking for an identity. At the moment I use a very simple icon made from letters in FF Cocon, but now looking for a more stylish and unique one. Please, feel free to use your creativity and do not copy the old one because this one is boring.
My preferences are partitioned in approx. 50% design, 45% typography and 5% cats.
Designers, typographers, twitter users
Would be great to get an additional set for different occasions (Christmas, Easter ...) but that's not a must.
No colours preferred, no design idea in mind.
I've just found a logo, that I really love. Maybe you can use the style of it as an example: http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…ers/199782
Would be nice to get a .psd or similar, but that's not a must.


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You've just recently brought home the newest addition to your family – that spunky, adorable little puppy that just loves to run around and play all day long. After reading through How to Puppy Proof Your Home, you've probably taken all the necessary steps to keep your puppy safe and prepare your home for his arrival. Now it's time for the hardest task of all: Puppy potty training.
Simple Steps to Potty Training Your Dog the Right Way
There are lots of books and articles written on puppy potty training, but the most important lesson you can learn is that consistency is the key to successfully potty training your dog. During the first months of his life, you must constantly take your puppy outside to potty train him and get him used to a routine. Set up a time that you will be able to take him outside to potty and stick to that time religiously. If you are going out of town, it's important to let your doggie daycare or your neighborhood doggie sitter know the time that you have specified for your puppy to go potty. In the beginning, your puppy will need to get up in the middle of the night to go potty – his bladder is small and he will need to go often. To help give you a little more rest at night, it's best to put the water bowl away about 2 hours before you tuck him in for bedtime and take your puppy out just before you turn in for the evening.
While you are in the midst of potty training your dog, you should give him encouragement as he does his business and make sure you use the designated word that you will want to use when he gets older. For example, say something like "good potty", and possibly even give him a treat while he is going, so he is reassured that what he is doing is correct. In the future, you will be able to just use the word "potty" and he will know it's time to go outside and take care of his business.
It is also very important to know that when your puppy has an accident in the home, it is not his fault and he should not be corrected for it. Usually, it will be your fault for either not taking him outside when he needed to go potty or ignoring the subtle signs that he gave off when he needed to go.
If you have to leave your puppy in the house during the day while you go to work or run errands, you're going to want to place an Indoor Dog Potty in a strategic location in your home so your puppy will know right where to go if he needs to take care of his business indoors. The Indoor Dog Potty will save your carpet and flooring from the unwanted mess and will give your puppy a clean and secure place to go. With the Indoor Dog Potty, hard waste stays on top of the 2-piece fitted grate for easy disposal, while urine passes through to the base of the pet potty – simply line it with newspapers and discard daily.
I don't know how they do it, but some dogs have a built-in door scratch mechanism that kicks in when they need to go outside. If your dog likes to scratch your door to tell you he needs to go potty, you can protect it by attaching a pleasant-sounding Dog Doorbell to your door handle. Just hang the dog doorbell onto your doorknob and since it has bells at 2 different heights when your dog goes to scratch the door, he will hit the doorbell instead, alerting you that it's time for him to go outside.
For maximum protection, while training your dog to use his own doorbell, you may want to attach a clear plastic Door Shield over your door. Virtually invisible, it attaches to your door with sturdy double-stick tape (included) and can be cut to fit your specific door measurements.
Once you've got your puppy potty trained to go outside, you're going to want to designate a specific area for him to go. Some dogs will leave dead, bleached-out circles on your otherwise beautiful solid green grass when they go potty. If your puppy has this amazing ability, it's time to add a Pooh Stone to your yard. A poo stone is a puppy potty training device that has a special, built-in scent that will not wash away and will motivate your dog to use it to relieve himself. This puppy potty training rock is made from a pumice stone.


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Ruth Zimmerman, 77
Ruth Zimmerman, 77, formerly of St. Marys, died on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at Carolina Medical Center - Northeast in Concord, N.C.
She was born on Oct. 16, 1935, in Dorchester County, S.C. to Le Roy and Annie Laurie (Mizell) Hilton.
On Oct. 15, 1960, she married Richard Zimmerman, who died on March 11, 1993.
She is survived by two sons, Anthony Wertenberger of Fort Wayne, Ind. and R. Troy (Anna Langenkamp) Zimmerman of St.Marys; two daughters, Anne (Jimmy Rivera) Stewart of Convoy and Renee (Charlie Breeding) Gilbert of Albemarle, N.C.; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers, Le Roy Hilton of South Carolina and Robert (Georgiana) Hilton of South Carolina.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Le Roy and Annie Laurie Hilton and her brother, James Hilton.
She managed the club room at the VFW Post #9289 in St. Marys for 27 years, where she also volunteered countless hours as a lifetime member of the ladies' auxiliary.
Rites are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Miller-Long and Folk Funeral Home, 314 W. High Street Chapel in St. Marys.
Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery in St. Marys.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.


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We have a new Central Clinic for Sexual Health services in Wakefield.
Our teams have moved from their previous premises at Margaret Street and King Street and are now at the Trinity Walk Shopping Centre (ground floor, behind Asda Living).
You can contact the clinic on 01924 846628 or email@example.com
Spectrum to provide services in the North West Prison Cluster
Spectrum Community Health CIC has been selected as the new prime provider for 3 prisons in the North West Prison Cluster.
This is great news and will see Spectrum delivering healthcare services for:
- HMP Preston (category B male prison – capacity around 842 men)
- HMP Lancaster Farms (category C male prison – capacity around 550 men)
- HMP Kirkham (category D male prison – capacity around 658 men).
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Global climate change has the potential to impact on two key aspects of the temperature regulation of regeneration in the natural environment: rate of dormancy loss/induction, and germination stimulation/inhibition. Under conditions of non-limiting water, temperature is the driver for both dormancy loss and germination in temperate and alpine floras. In addition, short term treatment with sub-optimal moisture for germination is known to invigorate seeds and enhance seedling performance.
Thus we are developing:
- thermal time models for a range of species and use these to compare and predict emergence patterns in situ.
- molecular and biochemical markers for such quality traits and test these on seedlots for restoration purposes, particularly in Europe
Classification of dormancy types is a valuable, practical means of describing a seed trait in relation to a predetermined set of environmental conditions, plant hormone applications, and given time intervals. To test how much one type of dormancy merges into another to challenge the assumption that the classes are discreet, we use:
- dormancy markers to map responses onto the APG phylogeny and evolutionary pathways considered in relation to embryo morphologies.
- complementary studies to assess the importance of epigenetics on seed dormancy.
Recent Publications
- Deng, W., Jeng, D-S., Toorop*, P.E., Squire, G.R., Iannetta, P.P.M. (2012) A mathematical model of plant mucilage expansion in myxospermous seeds of Capsella bursa-pastoris L. Medik. (shepherd's purse). Annals of Botany 109: 419–427.
- Mattana*, E., Pritchard*, H. W., Porceddu, M., Stuppy*, W. H., Bacchetta, G. (2012) Interchangeable effects of gibberellic acid and temperature on embryo growth, seed germination and epicotyl emergence in Ribes multiflorum ssp. sandalioticum (Grossulariaceae). Plant Biology 14: 77-87.
- Newton*, R.J., Hay, F.R., Ellis, R.H. (2013) Seed development and maturation in early spring-flowering Galanthus nivalis and Narcissus pseudonarcissus continues post-shedding with little evidence of maturation in planta. Annals of Botany, doi:10.1093/aob/mct051.
- Paulsen, T.R., Colville*, L., Kranner, I., Daws, M.I., Hogstedt, G., Vandvik, V., Thompson, K (2013) Physical dormancy in seeds: a game of hide and seek? New Phytologist 198: 496-503.
- Toorop*, P.E., Campos Cuerva, R., Begg, G.S., Locardi, B., Squire, G.R., Iannetta, P.P.M. (2012) Co-adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering time in the arable weed Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. (shepherd's purse). Annals of Botany 109: 481–489.


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I'm a volunteer indexer with FamilySearch indexing but haven't been able to do much lately, partly due to computer problems. However, having just bought myself a brand new MacBook I was pleased to discover that their java-based indexing software works on a Mac without any difficulties.
One of the things I like about FamilySearch indexing is the wide range of projects to choose from. So that you can either work on a project relevant to your area of interest, or alternatively you can choose a type a record you wouldn't normally encounter during your own research, in order to extend your genealogical knowledge and experience.
Having had a bit of a break I decided to plump for some relatively familiar English parish registers and this week have been indexing some batches from the UK, Warwickshire - Parish Registers 1538-1900 project.
I was fascinated, after downloading a batch, to find myself looking at a nearly blank page headed by the following:
These are to Certifie those th[a]t may make sirch for names Christeninges
Weddinges or Burialles, in Sheldon Register Book in the yeares of o[u]r
Lord God 1651 & 1652 th[a]t you find here omitted (for the major parte)
by reason of the late consumeing inward warres here in England whome
God deliver us from the like for ever Amen. for this reason I omitt
the residue of this page. Thomas Dunton junior de Sheldon
This appears to come from the Parish Register for Sheldon, an ancient parish that has now been absorbed by the City of Birmingham.
I've read about the gaps in parish registers during the period known as the English Civil War and the Commonwealth (1642-1660) but have not come across such a clear reference to it before, or one apparently for the benefit of future genealogists!
In England in 1653, responsibility for registering births, marriages and deaths was taken away from the church and given to an elected official known as a 'Parish Register'. However, this was sometimes the former parish clerk who simply carried on making entries in the parish register as previously. This may be the case here, although as I could only see one double-page of the register I am not certain.
The register does contain entries from 1653 and this was presumably when Thomas Dunton junior of Sheldon became 'Parish Register' and wrote the above explanation for the missing years. In fact, despite the warning, this register (with only two years missing) is probably one of the more complete registers for this period.
I would encourage anyone who's thought about becoming an indexer with FamilySearch to give it a try. The software is easy to use and you don't have to commit a lot of time. Just about all genealogists have used the IGI at some point and this is a great way to give something back for all the free information. Not to mention, you never know what genealogical gems you may stumble across!


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Construction toys should be part of every* child's toy experience. You'll find that kids develop preferences to building materials–go with it. Our advice is always to start with smaller sets –building your child's confidence about what they can do rather than frustrating them with a bigger set.
Here are five of our favorites. Click on the toy name to read our full review from www.toyportfolio.com
Lego Star Wars Collection Lego Systems
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During the 1950s, a quiet technological and social revolution was taking place across the United States. Chartered in 1950 by the U.S. Congress, the National Science Foundation reflected the public's interest in scientific research. The foundation's mission was to set scientific policy and encourage basic research through grants. Dollars for research flowed in, and a new generation of scientists attracted to public research joined the professional ranks at agricultural experiment stations nationwide. Employment increased by 50 percent in less than a decade.
Hollywood producers of the 1950s reacted to the public interest in science, churning out science fiction movies about plant-based alien beings, giant insects and shrinking humans, and visitors from other planets.
On campus and at regional centers across the state, Texas A&M scientists were involved in real research and agricultural investigation, with global implications. In the College of Agriculture, researchers and faculty shared in the glory of this golden age of science, making major contributions to agriculture worldwide. As the funding increased, so did the expectations from Congress, state legislators, and the American public. The College was up to the challenge.
- In a small substation in Chillicothe, Texas, J. Roy Quinby and his USDA counterpart, J. C. Stephens, developed a new hybrid sorghum. Introduced in 1955, this hybrid and new production processes more than quadrupled sorghum production in Texas. Quinby and Stephens's work on the hybrid sorghum and their adaptation of tropical sorghums for temperate climates made Texas A&M a world leader in sorghum research.
- Paul B. Pearson, professor of animal nutrition, inspired many students seeking careers in biochemistry and nutrition, including J. Russell Couch, who went on to be named one of Progressive Farmer's top 10 agricultural scientists of the 20th century for his work in poultry science. Pearson would later leave A&M to join the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C.
- Although he was offered prestigious positions at other universities, J. Russell Couch came back to A&M, where he could make things happen. Couch's research with the newly discovered vitamin B12 in poultry reduced the amount of feed and time needed for production and revolutionized the poultry industry.
- In 1952, King Ranch loaned 30 Santa Gertrudis heifers to Texas A&M and supported research to compare performance with other breeds. Beef research included new processing techniques that improved the quality and flavor of beef, enduring studies of the effects of marbling on tenderness, and the introduction of improved forage grasses. The processing techniques developed at Texas A&M are still in use by the beef industry worldwide.
- Dependency and overuse of chlorinated hydrocarbon and organophosphate insecticides during the World War II years, along with the introduction of many new pesticides, greatly affected the direction of the Entomology Department. Insects such as the boll weevil, once thought to be under control, became resistant to pesticides, creating economic and environmental problems in Texas and other states. These pest outbreaks led some researchers to call for caution in the use of insecticides and to promote a new practice of integrated control, combining biological and chemical control tactics. For entomologists, the 1950s closed with the realization that environmental problems and pesticide resistance required a reassessment of insect control practices.
During the decade, four different scientists held the office of dean of agriculture at Texas A&M, beginning with Charles Noah Shepardson. Between 1955 and 1958, three more were appointed in succession: soil scientist James E. Adams, animal scientist James C. Miller, and plant pathologist Gustav McKee Watkins.
In spite of the turnover in leadership, progress was being made on the education front as students began to take advantage of doctoral programs first offered in the late 1940s. In 1950, the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology awarded a Ph.D. to a foreign student for the first time, an indication of an increasingly diverse student body.
Overall, the 1950s was a decade of continuity and stability but also one of concern for faculty, staff, and administration. The push for coeducation, elective military training, a civilian student body, and racial integration, along with burgeoning research and graduate studies and the need to broaden course offerings contributed to the demand for change and progress. Without real change in the culture at Texas A&M, divisiveness over big issues would continue to be detrimental to academic programs and growth.


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Since 1993, Ericom's best-in-class PowerTerm Series terminal emulator products have been meeting a wide range of business host-access challenges. Increasing enterprise-wide productivity, Ericom's terminal emulators enable reliable, secure and easy access to accounting, inventory, management, and other mission critical applications.
Taking advantage of Ericom PowerTerm terminal emulators, organizations around the world are able to standardize on a single host access solution that supports over 35 terminal emulator types, while facilitating compliance with key industry and regulatory standards, including GLBA, PCI, FIPS, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX and JSOX.
In cases where you want to enable the PC to act and feel like a real host terminal, PowerTerm's Terminal display emulation emulates the display of the chosen terminal, presenting host applications exactly as they appear on an actual terminal. Once the PC connects to a host computer, you can perform all host operations as if the PC is an actual host terminal.
You can also use PowerTerm's Terminal keyboard emulation to emulate the selected terminal's keyboard by mapping the PC keys to match the host keys. Keyboard mapping definitions are stored in a .PTK file.
PowerTerm includes a powerful built-in programming language, PowerTerm Script Language (PSL), an extension of the industry standard TCL scripting language.
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PSL enables you to create scripts for automating functions, which can be mapped to clickable macro buttons. For example, you can create a PSL script which logs you in automatically. Scripts can be used to start PowerTerm, or anytime during a PowerTerm session. PSL is intended for users with programming skills.
PowerTerm enables you to use the standard Microsoft Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) mechanism to communicate with other Windows applications as a DDE client or DDE server application. You can learn more about Microsoft DDE here.
Click here for a product overview on how to connect to a session, use keyboard mapping, and configure the terminal emulator PowerTerm InterConnect. For larger enterprise deployments, we recommend using PowerTerm WebConnect, which centralizes configuration management and monitoring for easy deployment and maintenance. PowerTerm WebConnect HostView is the emulation component that contains many of the same features as PowerTerm InterConnect.
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Since we started using Ericom's product, we haven't had the need to look at others. Within the Datatel community we refer them continually. Just go to Ericom.
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MyFitOffers needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
My Fit Offers
We are developing a affiliate advertising (Fitness-based offers) site to serve as a phase one test platform for the internet vertical. If successful, we will be looking to expand the project. We are part of a larger Media Network; and we want to provide the best in product offerings and product value that will drive consumers back to our site over and over.
Though the health and fitness market ranges from 18 - 54.The primary audience is men and women 24 -44. The active and healthy/fitness oriented crowd looking for the best in latest sporting goods, apparel, and travel. Generally upscale and a convenient oriented group of consumers.
In a few simple sentences.....
•The site's 'skin' (imagery, copy, etc.) would be designed to serve the 'on-the-go' health club member audience. Utilizing a them that is sleek, modern, with silver inspired tones. Though we are open to expanding on that with other color variations.....We count on your expertise.
Please see this URL link of a template that is similar to our end product in overall asthetics.
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We're changing healthcare to what it ought to be.
Through our high-performance medical groups and national physician-led delivery networks, we're changing healthcare from a "sick-care" system to one that's purpose-built for keeping people healthy.
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Community testing meetings/2008-11-06
From OLPC
This meeting is over.The meeting was in #olpc-meeting on November 11, 2008 17:00 (Eastern standard time in the USA). Please see the meeting log for more details.
Meeting log
See http://meeting.laptop.org/olpc-meeting.log.20081106_1658.html.
Meeting highlights
- We have a (very ugly, please help fix!) portal page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing, and a meetings portal page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing_meetings.
- Greg and Brian are trying out (on Speak and Paint respectively) our http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_test_an_Activity instructions - which are under severe amounts of construction... are there any volunteers here with exploratory test experience that can help write up this guide?
- How can we encourage smart testers to take ownership of specific Activities and do "deep" testing on them, and come up with their own criteria for and metrics of quality? (As opposed to having community testers spending their time being/recruiting drones to run through scripts.) Greg quoted Patton: "Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what needs to be done, and let the surprise you with their ingenuity." (Seriously, this was a great discussion - please do read the logs to get the full blast - it starts around 17:28:29.)
- It was generally agreed that automation was a good idea for reducing drone-ness, which is boring. Ben and Mel will be dreaming up designs over the next week, and welcome help. Basically, "I'm a tester. I want to automate this boring thing. What is my ideal interface to do so / the most beautiful tool I could imagine for it?" One possible source of inspiration: Sugarbot.
- Everybody likes Joe's design which was the basis of our current semantic-mediawiki-based test case management system (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0).
- Marco brought up some great questions about the tester/developer relationship. We need to make sure that good bugs get filed when a test fails, and that developers know about the testing going on for the things they're working on (actually, this should be a "people are using my work, yay!" motivation.)
- Suggestions for rewarding community testers: cookies, whippings, whipped creme cookies, beer, wine, vodka, *Russian* vodka (it's special!), Caribbean vacations... we'll see what we can do. ;)
We also agreed to move two conversations to email - prioritizing Activities to test, and then displaying testing metrics in motivating ways. So as to not flood everyone's inboxes, I'll ask Greg and Chris to bring these conversations up over the next few days. :)
------- Everything below this line is from the pre-meeting agenda. See the meeting logs to see what was discussed. --------
Previous meeting's action items
See Testing meetings/20081030#Action items.
Community testing portal page (lfaraone, mchua)
We have a Community testing page! It needs a lot of help...
Current Activity prep-for-test procedure feedback (mchua)
Inspired by Gregdek: How to test an Activity - can we try this out?
Kimquirk requests that we spend some time on quality, metrics, and how people can take ownership of that for specific activities or features of Sugar.
Status of current Activities being tested (mchua, frandog)
To cover:
- Analyze (Mchua and Frances looking for someone to hand this off to)
- Speak (Gregdek)
- Paint? (Bjordan?)
Deferred to email
Prioritizing Activities to test (gregdek)
What options/tools are out there?
Pre-meeting notes on the topic are at /Prioritizing activities to test, add your own here!
Displaying testing metrics in motivating ways (cjl, from notes)
What options/tools are out there?
Pre-meeting notes on the topic are at /Displaying testing metrics in motivating ways, add your own here!
Action items
- mchua
to post/mail-to-list these meeting minutesDONE
- mchua
to follow-up with outstanding action items from last weekDONE
- mchua
Post an example on How to test an Activity of how a casual tester can record their test results.(done, Reporting test results)
- adricnet, mchua
Dream up automation designs to present to group next week. "I'm a tester. I want to automate this boring thing. What is my ideal interface to do so / the most beautiful tool I could imagine for it?"DONE - thanks to garycmartin, kevix, and marcopg for joining!
- gregdek, bjordan
try out (on Speak and Paint respectively) our How to test an Activity instructions.DONE for this round - again in the next!
- mchua
to talk with sj, kimquirk, and others about what kinds of brib^H^H^H^H resources we can offer to motivate and reward testers, both tangible and intangible.(Deferred to next week in consideration of Kim and SJ being very busy with G1G1 right now.)
- gregdek, cjl
to bring up items that were deferred to email in conversation in the testing mailing list over the next week.DONE
Help needed
- How to test an Activity instructions are under severe amounts of construction... are there any volunteers here with exploratory test experience that can help write up this guide?


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Beginning in just eight years, we could see permanent climate conditions across the North American Southwest that are comparable to the worst megadrought in 1,000 years. (1)
High-resolution climate models show four new climate scenarios with more detail and accuracy. The research was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The latest research from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University published in December 2012 has some truly astounding news. The megadroughts referred to in the paper published in Nature Climate Change happened around about 900 to 1300 AD and are so extreme that they have no modern counterpart for comparison (these megadroughts will be referred to in the following as the "12th century megadrought").


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IDC Storage Tracker: NetApp is losing market share
Third quarter in a row
IDC's quarterly Storage Tracker shows NetApp losing market share in disk storage sales for the third straight quarter while EMC rises like a rocket.
IDC's quarterly storage tracker measures external disk sales – networked arrays, in other words – and also total disk storage sales, which also covers server-attached disks. It has just published its fourth quarter 2011 and full 2011 year results. The IDC said:
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 7.7 per cent, totaling just under $6.6bn, in the fourth quarter of 2011 (4Q11)... For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just over $8.5bn in revenues, representing 3.5 per cent growth from the prior year's fourth quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 6,279 petabytes, growing 22.4 per cent year over year.
On an annual comparison basis, NetApp gained market share in the fourth 2011 quarter compared to the fourth 2010 quarter as the IDC chart below shows.
IDC chart
The same NetApp revenue share increase picture is shown by IDC's full year storage tracker numbers:
- NetApp's 2011 revenue – $2.911bn
- NetApp's 2010 revenue - $2.352bn
However, if we look at the sequence of quarterly external disk revenue market share percentages, we see NetApp steadily losing market share, as measured by IDC.
IDC numbers
Dell has been included in the "Others" category in recent quarters by the IDC because its external disk storage sales have been so low.
IDC's total quarterly disk storage revenue market share numbers show a more realistic picture from the server vendor's point of view, as server-attached storage is included.
IDC numbers
NetApp's numbers don't change of course, and neither do EMC's. Dell's look substantially better. HP shows two recent quarters of decline. IBM's most recent quarter shows substantial growth, while Hitachi Data Systems is now in the "Others" category. Its two most recent quarters do show growth in external storage sales though, unlike NetApp's most recent quarters.
If we extract the IBM, NetApp, HP and EMC external storage numbers and chart them with a line format, the NetApp decline becomes clearer:
IDC numbers
NetApp's own quarterly revenue numbers show a steady sequential rise. The company's revenues are growing each quarter. (Chart runs left to right.)
NetApp quarterly revenues and profits.
The trouble is that some other suppliers' revenues are growing faster and NetApp is losing market share as judged on a revenue basis. Charting IDC's total quarterly disk storage numbers shows this clearly:
What does this mean?
It indicates that, although NetApp's revenues are growing, the disk storage market as a whole is growing faster and NetApp is being left behind. EMC is growing the most, and steadily and significantly. IBM has had an upturn. Dell is holding its own while HP is seeing its revenue market share decline more steeply than NetApp – but then again, it has further to fall, although its server-attached storage revenues should act as a limiting factor, a factor which NetApp does not have.
Basically, NetApp could have a much higher disk storage market share if it had managed to buy Data Domain. Instead EMC snatched Data Domain out of its hands and that has enabled EMC to continue growing strongly. Meanwhile NetApp, lacking a deduplicating disk-to-disk/virtual tape library product, has languished.
This situation has probably not been helped by the extraordinary length of time it took to integrate the scale-out clustering technology from the Spinnaker acquisition into NetApp's ONTAP operating system, and the growth effect of that is looking to be limited by EMC's acquisition of Isilon and its scale-out filer technology. EMC is also being publically more aggressive about flash, particularly server-located flash.
Of course NetApp also makes storage software, but there too its revenues are on a downwards trend.
NetApp's Engenio acquisition has not yet changed NetApp's disk storage revenue market share trend direction. Unless NetApp can find accelerated growth from somewhere – possibly by the acquisition of a high-growth storage start-up rather than minor "tuck-in" acquisitions – it is running the risk of becoming a disk storage also-ran. ®


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With the economy hesitating to recover, is it time to think about finding or changing jobs? Normally, about one person in 10 changes occupations per year. Nowadays, about twice that number contemplate switching. What's so good about saying goodbye to a job or career? What's good about being fired?
Finding a new job and changing jobs, careers, or occupations can lead to job satisfaction. Many studies (and our personal experience) show that job satisfaction is an important predictor of job performance. A happy worker is a productive worker. So it's not surprising that changing occupations led us, and can lead you, to career satisfaction. But how do you find your true calling, your passion-at-work?
Some of us acquire practical job satisfaction by changing careers repeatedly until we find what's right for us, sometimes through chance encounters. (Louis Pasteur, who discovered penicillin serendipitously, said, "Chance favors the prepared mind.")
But our studies of thousands of downsized employees and job-changers prove that there's a special population who learn how to find or switch jobs naturally, easily, and freely. They find new ways to direct themselves in new avenues, to use their skills and strengths. They figure out how to find a job that dovetails with their skills. They arrive at a kind of inevitable match to their work. Their skills fit their work like a glove. They are invigorated, not exhausted, by work. They fully enjoy the exercise of their signature talents and their strongest and most enjoyable skills. One of these rare individuals put it this way: "My work is now a worthy expression of who I am."
Parents or well-meaning friends may suggest to career-bewildered youngsters, "Become a lawyer or a doctor, and you'll never have to worry about making a living." We find that many lawyers and doctors later in life, after following this advice, actually experience a rude awakening: They have a mortgage, a lifestyle, and a family to support and realize they're doing what their parents wanted, not necessarily what they want.
Career changes late in life, now common, are difficult: Is perfect paralysis better than imperfect movement?
The workplace is filled with those who do find satisfaction. A landmark study of young people by Eli Ginzberg, a Columbia University economist, found that as adults almost two-thirds had moved in a "straight-ahead career path," entering and remaining in one field. Almost a third pursued a "broad career pattern," shifting fields within their occupation. The rest (some 13 percent) zigged and zagged in a "variant pattern," changing career directions completely.
The study concluded that achieving career satisfaction is not a fully conscious process but had to be learned from the alternatives encountered — by trial and error. Those people who switch jobs or careers (by getting fired or quitting until they find the right fit) tend to be productive and satisfied in their work . . . eventually. Hard work, years of random or systematic job-changing, and even floundering may be necessary.
Compared to other countries, the U.S. labor force works the most hours annually and has the shortest period of unemployment benefits and the shortest vacations of any capitalist democracy. Charles Darwin observed that variability of offspring "coupled with the energetic searching for a niche" produce hardened survivors. Layoffs and career-changing help give us a productive American economy because of the variety and energy in our work force, in our start-ups, and in our established companies.
Changing jobs or careers lubricates and smoothes the operation of the economy. "Free movement of workers between occupations," according to economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "can be beneficial to both the individual and the economy."
The global economy drives local labor supply and demand in the U.S., making rapid competitive responses essential. For example, FedEx keeps cargo planes in the air half-empty so they can mobilize promptly in response to changing demand conditions.
Similarly, workers can mobilize their dissatisfactions as motivation to change jobs, occupations, specialties. So work force versatility and even employee unrest or layoffs become a resource waiting to be used — a virtual national asset. The U.S. economy can, in effect, turn on a dime when necessary by allowing versatile, talented, and productive workers to shift jobs or careers with ease and alacrity, as facilitators to the survival of the fittest. This is as true for laborers and tradespeople as it is for lawyers, business executives, or doctors — no matter what color collar they wear (white, blue, plaid, pink, or gold).
We do work harder and more efficiently when we work at jobs or careers we like. "The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface," Darwin wrote, "with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together and driven inwards by incessant blows, sometimes one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force." Individuals striving to find jobs or penetrate an economy (a face of nature) are similar to sharp wedges. The incessant blows that move us forward are our confident refusal to accept job loss, our energetic persistence, our struggling to the utmost, our willingness to push ourselves.
Getting fired and changing jobs or career directions may not only turn out to be good for us, but may also be good for the economy. Saying goodbye to a job layoff or career mismatch can provide a new lease on life and lead to genuine career satisfaction. Isn't imperfect movement better than perfect paralysis? You don't have to break glass to get fresh air. You can open the window.
Stephen Rosen is chairman of Scientific Career Transitions, which specializes in the career problems of scientists and physicians. Celia Paul, his wife, is president of Celia Paul Associates, a New York City-based career-counseling firm specializing in lawyers. They live part time in East Hampton.


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Women's basketball plays and serves in Guatemala
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The Women's Basketball team traveled to Guatemala May 6-14, 2012, to work with the El Faro Mission. It was the first international service trip for the Lady Crusaders. The team completed service projects in two villages and hosted basketball camps and clinics in local villages. They also played two exhibitions games against a high school team from Puerto Barrios, a local town just across the bay from the El Faro Mission.
The team also hosted an event called "Ministry City," which was part Vacation Bible School and part English class. The participants were all students taking English classes at the El Faro Mission. They enjoyed themed activities designed to teach them English and biblical principles. The students were able to "shop" in eight different shops for trinkets and goodies to take home after spending all day in class.
This was the ninth Evangel TEAM trip since the program was started in 2007. TEAM stands for The Evangel Athletics Ministry. It is a program designed to allow Evangel athletes the opportunity to blend their passions for sports with their passion for serving others. Two TEAM trips are being planned for the 2012-13 school year. Read a full feature story on the trip.


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Jasmina trys to comfort Tim who has been shaking and crying while sleeping on the floor of an abandoned apartment. Lady K finally apologizes to Tim for ignoring him the entire night. The three share a painting drop cloth they found as a blanket. It is still very cold. "I'm tired of this life," Tim said. "I want more."
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