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PayCal is an iPhone app to help shift workers, freelancers, and students keep tack of their hours. It supports multiple jobs and multiple shifts per day and calculate gross pay per shift and pay days.
PayCal is a unique new iPhone app that allows you to easily schedule your work shifts using an efficient and beautiful gesture-based tray interface. PayCal also is the only app available that instantly translates your hours scheduled into gross pay per shift, as well as pay days.
- Simple, Easy To Use Interface for Managing Shifts
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Q. After the Mass at our parish on the feast of St. Blaise, the blessing of the throat was given by extraordinary ministers of holy Communion. Is this allowed? Don't only bishops, priests and deacons have the power to impart blessings? Lay blessings seem to me to blur the distinction between those in holy orders and the lay faithful of the Church.
-- J.W., Hanover Township, Pa.
A. Here's a reply from Msgr. M. Francis Mannion:
The Church has no difficulty with the idea of lay blessings. In 1989, the U.S. Catholic bishops, with the approval of the Holy See, issued a 799-page Book of Blessings to be used in a great variety of occasions.
The blessings are of persons (children, mothers before and after childbirth, the elderly), buildings and various forms of human activities (libraries, means of transportation, animals), objects in churches (baptisteries, church doors, bells), articles meant to foster devotion (rosaries, religious articles, scapulars), feasts and seasons (Nativity scenes, Easter food, homes), various needs and occasions (parish councils, lay liturgical ministers, departing parishioners).
The General Introduction to the Book of Blessings makes it clear that those in holy orders (bishops, priests and deacons) are given the primary task of blessing in the church and many blessings are reserved to them.
However, it points out that "laymen and laywomen, in virtue of the universal priesthood, a dignity they possess because of their baptism and confirmation, may celebrate certain blessings, as indicated in the respective orders of blessings, by use of the rites and formularies designated for a lay minister. Such laypersons exercise this ministry in virtue of their office -- for example, parents on behalf of their children -- or by reason of some special liturgical ministry or in fulfillment of a particular charge in the Church, as is the case in many places with religious or catechists appointed by decision of the local ordinary [bishop], after ascertaining their pastoral formation and prudence in the apostolate" (No.18).
The Book of Blessings contains the Order for the Blessing of Throats on the Feast of St. Blaise. It indicates that, "The blessing of throats may be given by a priest, deacon or a lay minister" (No. 1626).
You seem to indicate that the priest himself did not perform the blessing of throats. Unless there was a good reason (age or infirmity), this is not in accord with the liturgical norms of the Church. Whenever bishops, priests or deacons are present, they are the principal ministers of blessing.
The imparting of blessings is one of the fundamental duties of a Christian. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out, "Every baptized person is called to be a 'blessing' and to bless" (No. 1669).
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Christopher Schwartz is a man with guts. His Olympia Charger is a 3600-lb American force of nature packing a real-deal 1969 NASCAR dry-sump 426 Hemi. He's going to hit 185 mph on the straights and chase down Ferrari 512s and Porsche 911 RSRs at La Sarthe.
How? With American brute force, that's how. Schwartz doesn't sugarcoat the challenges.
"Imagine trying to yank a locomotive around a tight corner," he says. But give the Charger some tarmac to run, and "180-plus is really no problem."
That must be the definition of bravery. Or insanity. Both? Both.


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May 8, 1973 - July 24, 2013
Middletown, NY
Winston Ivelaw Martindale, Jr., an active NYS Trooper for Troop F in Middletown, died unexpectedly on July 24, 2013 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY. He was 40.
He was born on May 8, 1973 in Georgetown, Guyana, S.A. to Barbara Jean and Winston Ivelaw Martindale Sr. Winston emigrated to the U.S. in 1989 with his family. He proudly served in the U.S. Army for 18 years and was deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Winston was a NYS Trooper for 7 years. He was an active member of Christian Faith Fellowship Family Church in Middletown for over 10 years.
He was married to his wife, Michelle for 19 years.
He is survived by his loving wife, Michelle; his son, Kyle; daughter, Moriah, at home; his parents, Winston and Barbara of Middletown; sister, Camille; brother, Owen and his wife, Tanya; nieces, Sanai and Sydney and nephew, Owen, Jr. as well as many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Visitation hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, July 29th at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., 130 Highland Ave., Middletown, NY 10940. A Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 30th at Christian Faith Fellowship Family Church, 510 M & M Road, Middletown, NY 10940. Burial with Military Honors will follow at Orange County Veterans Cemetery, 111 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY 10924.
Arrangements are under the direction of Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., www.applebee-mcphillips.com.


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Liesbeth75 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 196 diseños de 70 diseñadores freelance.
We (Gino & Liesbeth) have been selling wooden toys online for three years now. Gino designed and built the website himself from scratch, a turtle has been our logo from the start. We've been trying to come up with something better, without much luck so far, it seems we're just not that good in logo-design :-)
Jolena is the name of our shop, being a part of our company "3 up a tree" (we sell wooden toys, hence the tree... and we have three children, all boys...)
Our audience are young parents, mostly mothers or mothers-to-be.
Our logo should be simple, playful, a bit cheeky and fun. We run a toy shop :)
Wooden toys apparently are very much associated with building blocks and trains, we don't want any of those, since it's been done too often before.
Edit 28-09-09: we'd prefer an animal as our mascot.
Colors should fit with the ones used on our website http://www.jolena.be
Name to be used: Jolena
Font: no Italic, no handwriting, rather simple fonts.
On our website, the phrase "Natuurlijk spelen" is added to the current logo. Since this is Dutch and our website comes in different languages, please don't use this phrase in the logo anymore. Just Jolena will do.
We will need a PSD file. Don't violate any copyrights, no stock images or clipart.
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Hayward® Commercial Pool Introduces Two New Versions Of World's First Wireless CAT Controller®
The advanced web-based management tool that revolutionized remote monitoring and control offers new enhancements including conductivity/TDS monitoring
For more information, contact:
Gary Young
Phone: 908.351.5400 x4252
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ELIZABETH, NJ (November 12, 2013) - Hayward® Commercial Pool Products, which introduced the world's first wireless, internet-based water quality controller with worldwide coverage, is announcing two new advanced controllers for the commercial pool market. The new Hayward CAT 3500® automated controller and CAT 5500® wireless, communicating controller are equipped with the most state-of-the-art components and monitoring capabilities tailored specifically for salt chlorine applications. These products were developed for commercial pool servicers, operators and managers seeking simple, yet powerful wireless controllers with pH, ORP, conductivity, backup sanitization and internet-based monitoring capabilities – all at an affordable price.
According to Hayward, the advancements to the new CAT 3500 and CAT 5500 further enhance the capabilities of the feature-rich CAT Controllers product line to address the growing adoption of salt chlorination in commercial applications. The new models feature an innovative new sensor to monitor salinity levels and total dissolved solids (TDS). Additionally, both controllers feature dual ORP set points specifically to satisfy back-up sanitization requirements and secondary ORP control.
The CAT 3500 is ideal for monitoring and controlling pH, ORP and salinity/TDS in recreational water applications using salt chlorination. The CAT 5500 additionally features satellite, cellular, or Wi-Fi® communication protocols to connect with PoolComm®. The CAT 5500 also features a temperature sensor and two additional relays that can be used to control chosen features of the pool such as temperature control, water level control and even backwash cycles.
"The CAT 3500 and CAT 5500 represent the logical extension of our controller range; as the industry embraces advances in sanitization technology, our controllers continue to provide a simple, cost-effective, future-ready platform to ensure effective water quality management" said Patrick Sweeney, General Manager of Hayward Commercial Pool Products. "The CAT 5500 specifically works in conjunction with our wireless web-based PoolComm, water quality management platform, enabling remote monitoring and management of multiple bodies of water, from anywhere in the world."
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The company manufactures and markets the Totally Hayward® System of advanced pool equipment designing innovative solutions to enhance the swimming pool experience. Our eco-friendly Hayward Energy Solutions® products employ advanced energy efficient technology to deliver environmentally responsible products with lower cost of ownership.
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Pure genius. It's the only thing I can say to describe this game. Gameplay, graphics, story; all reach or pass the apogee of current videogame experiences.
The premise is simple: 16 giant monsters (Colossi) roam the land, and you gotta take em down. All you have is your sword, a bow and arrow, and your trusty horse. You start with these tools, and it's all you ever get or need.
The story presentation is minimalist, but very powerful. In the opening you are simply shown your character carrying a young woman to an altar. When he arrives, a booming voice tells you that if you wish to bring her back to life, you must kill the Colossi, destroying the idols built to them. You never get told what your character's relationship is to the girl, but he is determined to go to any means to revive her, so you set to your task.
The world is VAST and constantly streaming, no load times ever, except when you start a new game or die. From the outset you have freedom to roam anywhere you want, but you can only tackle the current target Colossus. To find it, you hold your sword to the sky and follow the reflection of the sunlight. Once you reach your destination then the real action begins...
Every colossus is effectively a "stage" unto itself. If you think you have fought big bosses in other video games, think again. For perspective everyone here can relate to, the first Colossus is about as big as Olga Flow from the end of PSO. They only get bigger and bigger (ok, there are 2 "shrimps" but they make up for their size in pure rage!) as you progress.
Taking them down is usually a 3-fold task. First you need to figure out their weak point(s), again reflecting the sun's light towards them. Second, you gotta figure out how to get onto the colossus to attack it. They definetly don't sit still for you, and once you get on them they sure as hell try to shake/knock you off. Finally, you have to maneuver around the colossus, hanging off their fur, running across their armor, and leaping from limb to limb to reach the weak points and topple the beasts.
The weak points are usually in a hard-to-reach spot where you need to be hanging to stab at it, so strategic planning of your movements is important. Time is also of the essence because you have a stamina meter, so you can't just hang on forever, and different actions will drain your stamina more quickly (say hanging upside-down by one arm as opposed to crouching so you don't lose your footing on a bucking Colossus).
I'm probably going on too long, but this game is just completely breathaking. My jaw was wide open from the moment I encountered the first colossus to the shocking ending. The contrast between the serene "traveling" segments when you are on the way to the Colossus, and the chaos and intensity during the battles gives a great pace to the game, and the music backs up every scene perfectly.
It took me about 11 hours to clear it the first time on normal, and then about 5 on hard (it's noticeably easier once you know the "tricks" to fighting the Colossi, and how to travel to them quickly. But at least hard mode gives them more HP, more weak points you need to attack, and they try to shake you off a lot harder.) There's also a time attack mode that gets unlocked after you clear the game, and the challenges are ROUGH.
Bottom line: Top notch in every aspect, easily one of the best titles on PS2, and a definete contender for my personal GOTY. The entire game feels like you are part of some epic fairy tale, and every detail shines with polish and love from the developers. It's only $40 so go buy it now!


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With the current generation now drawing to a close, each member of the VideoGamer.com team share their own games of the generation. For the sake of making them struggle, they've been restricted to picking just three...
Read Editor-In-Chief Simon Miller's Games of the Generation here.
Editor's Note: The generation was classed as PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii. If we included handhelds, these lists would never have been finished...
From a personal perspective this console generation was the first to truly live up to the phrase. Almost a decade has passed since the original announcement of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and within this period of time my life has changed beyond recognition. In 2005 I was a booze-fuelled student with ridiculous hair and nothing to do, now I'm a borderline-professional adult with ridiculous hair and too much to do.
Great games provide us with moments - memories that we'll treasure for the rest of our lives. Plot twists and emotionally explosive moments always jump out and grab you fiercely at the time, but it's often the subtle slow-burn stuff that seeps down deep and lingers the longest.
Games offer a window into our imagination, and the best games encourage you to take something away with you.
My three games of the generation have all stayed with me in some small way, and for that reason these are also the games that I consistently recommend to strangers are parties. If you play three games from the past generation, play these.
Dark Souls
In retrospect I'm horrified that I almost gave From Software's masterpiece a 6/10. It took me many more hours to understand Dark Souls, and many months before I could find a way to explain my thoughts about the game with much clarity. It's a myth that Dark Souls is a difficult game - it's merely a game that doesn't subscribe to the strict rules and framework that the action-RPG genre religiously seems to follow. Playing Dark Souls for the first time is like playing video games for the first time all over again, which naturally leads to frustration and confusion.
See through that and Dark Souls is an incredible reminder that games always have the capacity to surprise and excite. After two decades of playing hundreds of games, a 2011 release came out of nowhere and made me feel like a wide-eyed child. The mechanical design of Dark Souls made it great fun, but the subtle use of aesthetic and narrative make it one of the greatest games of all time. Lordran is a place, and I feel like I've lived there.
Red Dead Redemption
Grand Theft Auto gets the mainstream buzz, but Rockstar's finest work is Red Dead. Believable characters and a great storyline keep the wagon wheels rolling along, but the game's greatest achievement isn't even the frankly stellar finale: Red Dead's sense of place is on par with that of Shadow of the Colossus. Publishers pitch video game immersion as a sort of high-octane buzz, while the reality is always strangely mundane.
There's something magical about being so absorbed in a game that you start exhibiting boring real-world behaviours, like absentmindedly getting off your horse to stop and watch the sun rise. When playing games like GTA I find myself emulating real-world behaviours in the hope of kick-starting incomparable feeling, but Red Dead is a game that just flawlessly nails it. There's something about the freedom and expanse of the desert that allows your mind to wander and meld with the world, and I don't think I've ever played anything quite like it.
Portal 2
Despite playing and loving the original Portal, I was skeptical about the worth of a sequel - let alone a full-price game. I've never been happier to be proven so wrong. Portal 2's consistency and scope in terms of what it achieved have always been a bit of an inspiration. The scripting, characterisation, and plot are all superb - and I honestly think the visual detail and art direction remain unparalleled. Portal 2 was gripping, hilarious, and - surprisingly - emotionally touching.
Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto are the go-to games when it comes to talking about Hollywood experiences, but for my money Portal 2 is the only game that's ever truly nailed it, with perhaps the exception of The Last of Us. The story was brilliantly memorable stuff, but Portal 2's greatest impact was the way it changed how I looked at the world. Painted white walls ceased being boring, giving my imagination something cool to do on even the dullest of dull train rides. Games aren't just a way for me to pass the time - they're a way to ensure I keep looking at the world through the eyes of a crazy child.


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Not only do I have specific year-long goals, but I've got a few ones for February, too. So, you know, if you, like, wanted to join me on this spending cleanse 'n stuff. . . this is what I'm working on and we could like collaborate. . .
OH! Speaking of February, this month marks the first official time we don't have a mortgage to pay. And let me just tell you, I am totally blown away by how absolutely difficult, impossible, and a bunch of total buttheads our mortgage bank has been, since requesting a pay-off. But the issues I've had with them in the last month could be a post all on it's own, and I don't feel like getting all fired up right now. Moving on.
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I recently had dinner with Mike Pantaleo, sales & development manager for Michelin North America, who told me about the company's latest tire offerings and interjected some little-known facts about tires.
First up was a new premium bias ply tire for backhoes and telehandler loaders. The offering, called the Michelin Power CL, is designed to be at a price point that most can afford and who don't need all of the high-performance features of a radial. "For example, if you aren't driving down the road and instead are carrying the backhoe on a trailer and just bringing it out to the location, that presents less wear than if you were driving the vehicle down the road, where a radial would be the better choice," Mike says.
He says the bias ply also is a good choice where floatation and traction are not a big concern.
This is not the first time Michelin has been in the bias-ply market. "Six years ago we made a bias ply tire for ag under a different brand, but we are better known for our radials so that became our focus. What's new about the tire is that it is the first bias tire that Michelin has made for backhoes and telehandlers."
When asked whether we would see a bias ply from Michelin reenter the agriculture market, Mike said no. The compaction and roading requirements of large agricultural vehicles will always require the flotation and wear characteristics that only radials can provide.
For farm tractors, the latest innovation from Michelin is the new Michelin AgriBib 480 95 R50 model, a taller-sized, rear fitment tire designed primarily for larger, front-wheel assist tractors. It also can be used in a row-crop application on large, four-wheel drive machines. This brand new Group 49 tire will be rolled out in Q4 of this year on John Deere and Case IH tractors. He says the reason for the launch is that farm equipment is getting larger, and the tire needs to have a higher volume of air to support it. With its taller carcass (5 in. taller than the next size down), the new tire will be able to lay down a longer footprint and still maintain the narrow width required by the application. The ultra-flexible sidewalls allow the contact patch to grow uninhibited by the casing like a balloon if you were to push down on it, or as Michelin says, "flex," to carry and distribute the weight. With this new tire, the sidewalls are higher than the current standard 480/80R50 radials to allow for the higher air volumes through its height rather than the width of the tire to keep it narrow enough to fit between the rows. He says the tire is designed for high-hp mechanical front-wheel drive row crop tractors or all positions of large row crop 4WD tractors. There is also interest by growers in using them on their self-propelled sprayers.
Lisa Bocklage, a Michelin account director from Osborn Barr, said that at the 2014 National Farm Machinery Show, farmers were commenting on how supple these tires stay even in the sub-zero weather we had been having. The farmers said that other radials thump over the road and take a while to move smoothly.
Mike said that's because of the construction of the tire. "A little known fact is that we use polyester in the carcass of our tires. Other tires use rayon and nylon in the carcass of the tire. Polyester is stronger and is less affected by the temperature. Polyester remains flexible in cold conditions, which is why our tires will not develop a flat spot that requires a warm-up period to smoothen the ride."
The new AgriBib tire is the largest within the standard sized AgriBib lineup from Michelin for North America. There is a tire that is larger, a group 50 tire, from Michelin that was recently launched in Europe but not yet commercialized in North America. Michelin says it is the largest farm tire in the world. Market demand will dictate when the company will market it here.
How much bigger can this equipment get? I asked. "I wouldn't think much larger because of the soil compaction left by its weight," Mike said.


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2013-02-14 / Events & Bulletin
Power Squadron offers Suffolk County residents boating safety course
After Oct. 2013, all Suffolk County residents who operate a boat in Suffolk waters will be required to carry evidence that they have completed an approved boating safety course. Nassau and even New York State are expected to adopt similar legislation, just as New Jersey and Connecticut already have.
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October 5, 2011
To whom it may concern,
My name is Philip Van Deusen I am a analyst at a small boutique brokerage firm. I have been active in the markets for nearly a decade now and been witness to the booms and busts of the dot com era, accounting scandals with regard to the Enron, and Worldcom and now fraudulent Chinese firms. I have gone through the insider trading scandals of the hedge funds, the seemingly fraudulent MBS activity with regard to CDOs at the investment banks and their partners at the rating agencies.
Through this time I have avoided taking undue risk and advised others to do the same. I have helped many friends, family and co-workers avoid the pitfalls of a treacherous equity market. And I have primarily done this by recommending investing in shares of Annaly Capital Management. Their management team have demonstrated an even and steady approach at managing these markets while providing many investors with income and capital returns in the most difficult market environment in 70 years.
It would be devastating to me, my family, closest friends, and many thousands of investors who have made the right investment decisions, if mortgage REITs like Annaly were negatively impacted by new regulations. The team at Annaly are the most thoughtful, prudent and shareholder friendly management team I have ever had the pleasure of coming across and have helped to improve the lives of countless Americans. Taking away a legitimate tool for helping people to generate income and returns at such a critical moment in our countries history is unfathomable and I truly hope that no such actions are taken by the SEC.
Philip Van Deusen


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President Weiss On Commencement 2014
I am writing to report on the controversy surrounding our invitation to Dr. Robert Birgeneau to receive an honorary degree and come to campus as one of four speakers to our graduating class of 2014.
This unfortunate episode has caused concerns among people on all sides of the issues. News coverage reported certain facts of the matter, but judging by what people have said to me or posted online, I hope you will find the following points helpful.
First and foremost, the College did not withdraw, rescind or in any way walk away from its decision to honor Dr. Birgeneau for his good work on behalf of millions of people over decades of service. After those who oppose this tribute made clear their objection, I convened a community meeting – a customary venue for Haverfordians to share their thoughts – which I think enabled us all to appreciate one another's points of view.
Attendees included members of our Honorary Degree Committee, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, Board and Corporation. They did not dismiss or discount the concerns that were voiced, but listened with open hearts and minds. In the context of one of the more contentious issues that the Haverford community has faced in recent years, numerous students later told me that this candid, challenging conversation was one of the seminal moments of their college careers. I know that many were moved by, and felt a new appreciation for, the place of the Occupy Movement in the lives of American college students. However, the Committee and I reaffirmed our decision to invite Dr. Birgeneau to commencement. I did so emphatically in a subsequent letter to him.
As many observers have pointed out, had he spoken at our event, anyone who took exception to his appearance would have been free to do so in any number of ways. Indeed, they are guided by their judgments just as our Honorary Degree Committee of representatives is guided in nominating those who should be considered for an honorary degree.
That Dr. Birgeneau chose not to attend is both unfortunate and understandable. Having participated in dozens of such events myself, commencement is a joyous celebration, and I will never second-guess any speaker's decision to step aside in the face of opposition to their appearance, nor would I burden an individual with my expectations about what they should or should not be willing to tolerate on principle.
What is clear, in my view, is that our community is the poorer for not hearing from a man whom I have described as one of the most consequential leaders in American higher education. He has much to offer, and I am disappointed that those celebrating our Class of 2014 on their graduation day will not go forth into the world with the benefit of his insights about some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Despite this, I believe that over the course of four years – right up until the moment they receive their diplomas – we have enabled our newest alumni to make the most of both the opportunities and the challenges they will face, and that our recent debate will inform their sense of constructive engagement. There is benefit and light in all things, and it is up to each of us to find it. I have great confidence in our Class of 2014 to do so.


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On November 12, Emily Umberger and I will each give a half-hour talk on our research at Calixtlahuaca. This is part of the Archaeological Institute of America lecture series, called "Notes From the Field: Aztecs."
New and Old Excavations at Calixtlahuaca, an Aztec Regional Capital
Speaker: Michael E. Smith
Reassembling the Calixtlahuaca Sculptural Corpus
Speaker: Emily Umberger
This even will be Thursday Nov 12, 6:30 - 7:30, in Business Administration C, Room 316.
Informal reports from current archaeological research at Calixtlahuaca. Calixtlahuaca was a large urban center of the Matlatzinco culture, closely related to the Aztecs.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Calixtlahuaca lectures at ASU
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Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Education
A student majoring in Chemistry Education at Evangel completes coursework for both a Chemistry major and an Education major. Our program prepares students to teach chemistry or a broader range of science classes for grades 9-12 in public and private schools. Teaching certification is granted by the Missouri State Department of Education. This curriculum also meets the approval of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The Evangel University Department of Natural and Applied Sciences is dedicated to the spiritual, academic and social growth of every student. The department's purpose is to provide an excellent scientific education that is thoroughly integrated with the University's emphasis on the development of strong Christian character. Within this framework, students must contend with new scientific, social, ethical, and technological challenges. Students learn to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively and exhibit analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. The Subject Certification track prepares graduates to obtain certification and teach chemistry in grades 9-12. The Chemistry Education major normally requires at least one year of coursework in high school chemistry, and for the Unified Science track, one year of high school biology. Students not having this background can expect to take introductory courses during their freshman year at Evangel. The chemistry portion of the major consists of 40 credits of core science courses satisfying Missouri certification requirements necessary to become a secondary chemistry teacher. The 34 credits in education are certification requirements for all secondary teachers regardless of major. In addition to the academic coursework in education, a chemistry education major will have three field experiences in public schools assisting high school chemistry/science teachers followed by the student teaching field experience during the final semester. Unified Science Program Plan (5-year)
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Each of Evangel's academic programs is made up of a set of core curriculum, program requirements and electives. The courses listed below are just a small sample of courses that might be taken as a part of this specific program.
|General Chemistry
|Fundamentals of chemistry.
|Organic Chemistry
|General principles and theories of organic chemistry. Preparation, properties, mechanisms of reactions and uses of the aliphatic compounds, basic spectroscopy, introduction to aromatic compounds, coverage of functional groups pertinent to biologically important molecules (such as alcohols, carbonyls, carboxylic acids and derivatives, amines), and an introduction to biochemically important molecules.
|Chemistry related to life processes in plants and animals. Included is a study of enzymes and metabolism as well as carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and nucleic acid chemistry.
|General Physics
|College-level physics, including the fundamental principles of mechanics, thermal properties of matter, electromagnetism, optics, and modern physics based on a knowledge of college-level algebra and trigonometry
|History and Philosophy of Science
|Study of the history and philosophy of science and their effects on the actual practice of science today. Intended to provide an understanding of the logic and operation of science.
Evangel University's world-class faculty is made up of caring, Christian professionals who are distinguished in their fields and dedicated to the development of tomorrow's Christian leaders.
- High school chemistry or science teacher with Missouri certification. In general, most states recognize Missouri certificates and require few additional courses for certification in those states.
|Achieve a 3.0 grade point average in content area and professional education courses, while maintaining a 2.75 cumulative grade point average across all courses.
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|Application for provisional admittance to teacher education is made in EDUC 225 Introduction to Curriculum and Instructional Planning. This class is prerequisite to all teacher certification courses unless an equivalent course has been transferred from another college. Applications for admittance are available in the Department of Education office.
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HANG TIME MIDWEST — The Atlanta Hawks and their fans (hey, they know who they are) probably are too busy enjoying this nine-victories-in-10-tries ride to focus on teams other than the one they're facing that night. But if they wanted to, hoo boy, could they have some laughs at the Los Angeles Lakers' expense.
While Lakersland wrings its hands over its glamour team's 9-11 start, the Hawks are flying below pretty much everyone's radar at 12-5. That puts them third in the Eastern Conference, slotting in where we might normally expect to see the Boston Celtics or the Indiana Pacers.
Even as the Lakers were going through their massive offseason makeover – adding Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, among others – in pursuit of an insta-contender, the Hawks were undertaking a more traditional tear-down-and-rebuild. Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams, two central pieces of a squad that made five straight playoff appearances, were traded away more for salary-cap maneuverability than talent returned. New Atlanta GM Danny Ferry appeared to just be getting going.
Now he and the Hawks might be closer to a destination than they could have predicted. Coach Larry Drew, whose job security was bandied about during a 2-3 start, sounded in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story like he hadn't seen this coming.
"I knew these guys as individuals," Drew said. "I knew what their skill level and their talent was. The big question was, would it all fit? Would they mesh together?"
The offense, with Drew opting to speed things up now that the "iso-Joe" focus through Johnson is gone, still is coming along. The Hawks rank just 13th in offensive rating (104.6) and are 28th in offensive rebounding, while making only 69.6 percent of their free throws.
But defensively, Atlanta is a unit. Sixth in defensive rating, second in opponents' turnover percentage (16.5 percent), all the while giving away points through fouls and free throws at a stingy pace (Hawks opponents average only 20.4 FTA).
Point guard Jeff Teague ranks 10th in assists percentage. Al Horford already has played more games than he did in 2011-12 (torn pectoral muscle), at a higher level (16.6 ppg, 10.2 rpg) than in his first five seasons. Then there's Josh Smith, finally looking like a cornerstone player even as he heads toward unrestricted free agency. Smith is making more 3-pointers (38.1 percent) while taking fewer, his blocked shots are back above 2.0 and he's enjoying himself so much that signing elsewhere might not appeal to him the way it once might have. As Smith told the AJC's Jeff Schultz:
"No disrespect to anybody else. But when you're willing to do stuff [together] off the court, it creates a different kind of bond. Guys really care for each other. It makes us want to help each other out on the defensive end that much more."
And to think, it's all happening without Howard, the All-Star center Atlanta coveted but a fellow who has his hands full now – and his freedom looming – out West.
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Ann Arbor, MI
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Northville, MI
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Stockton Park
Detroit, MI
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River Crab
St Clair, MI
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Find romance along the St. Clair River at Blue Water Inn's River Crab! The perfect home away from home, it presents a cozy and chic backdrop as you exchange your vows and celebrate with your closest family and friends. Specializing in succulent seafood, tender steaks and pasta specialities, River Cr...


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On my knees I beg forgiveness for my greed—
and for starving myself.
By your eyes I see you love this priest,
follow his lyrical fingers in praise of
a small white host he points here,
I—on the other hand—directly deal
with that twisted god over his head.
That god and I promise
never to go hungry again. We promise
to eat lilies and drink summer storms,
feed all evening on maize races and amaranth,
fast only in winter, a diet of light.
Abruptly, the church
shuffles to its feet, illuminated. You reach aloft
for that elevated thin-edged redemption.
I reach, mi amada, for you.
Rose Marie Berger, a Catholic peace activist, is Sojourners magazine's poetry editor.
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There is no doubt that the automotive history of the United States is full of innovative and imaginative people who chose to create the fine tradition that continues through generations. Among the most popular and well-respected of these original companies is Chevrolet. This particular company was started in answer to the growing Ford Company. Chevrolet Motors was the brainchild of William C. Durant and Louis Chevrolet. Durant was a well-known businessman and was able to provide access to wealthy financial backers, while Chevrolet was famous for engineering and proved successful on the U.S. race tracks.
For drivers who want a good, solid truck with a variety of capabilities, the Chevrolet Silverado is their answer. Even in the heavy duty towing package models, test drivers noted that the Silverado offers a quiet, smooth ride for such a powerful truck. Most full-size trucks aren't known for providing such a comfortable space, but the Silverado is equipped with nice, plush upholstery and quality interior materials.
A few disadvantages have been noted with the Chevrolet Silverado as well. In the four-speed automatic transmission models, there has been some attention paid to the truck's hesitant response when downshifting. The six-speed models don't seem to have this issue and respond with the precision expected from a Chevrolet product.
Like past Silverados, the 2012 model is available in a variety of styles and trim options. Consumers can choose from two-wheel or four-wheel drive options, as well as different cabin styles such as two-door regular cab, extended cab, and crew cab choices. In higher grade trims, the Silverado's cabin continues to offer comfortable seating and other accessories for the driver and passengers to enjoy.
The standard 2012 Silverado WT comes equipped with a 4.3-liter V-6 motor. It is an option for buyers to choose one of the larger V-8 engines either in the 4.8-liter or 5.3-liter sizes with the LS trim package. The engine choices are even larger with LT trim options, which allow for a 6.2-liter V-8.
Naturally, there is also a variety of transmission packages to consider with the 2012 Silverado. The standard transmission package continues to be the four-speed automatic transmission with a built in towing and hauling mode. Consumers can choose to upgrade to six-speed transmission with trucks containing the larger V-8 engines.
When selecting a new Chevrolet Silverado, consumers also get the choice of rear wheel or all-wheel drive options. All four-wheel drive Silverado models come with traction control, designed to shift the truck into four-wheel drive when the truck detected the tires slipping.
Consumers were able to choose from the Chevrolet Silverado models since 1999 when the truck formally received its name. In all of its incarnations, it has been made available in a variety of trims and styles and is pressed into service as a family vehicle, capable of hauling home improvement supplies, the family boat, or just about anything necessary. This truck is also right at home on the job site and continues to be popular in the construction industry.
The 1999 to 2006 generation is often the target for consumers looking to purchase a used Chevrolet Silverado, and with good reason. These trucks feature powerful V-8 engines that range from 4.8 to 6.0-liters—some models have V-6 motors, but most people seem to feel the full-size monster needs the larger motor for optimum performance. While discontinued in 2006 due to the high cost to consumers, some of these trucks also feature QuadraSteer, a four-wheel steering system unique to Chevrolet products. This system allowed for greater control and reduced the down to 37.4 feet, a drastic improvement over similar trucks of the Silverado's size.
2014 Chevrolet Silverado
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2013 Chevrolet Silverado
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The 2013 Chevrolet Silverado stays strong, even in its last year before replacement.
2012 Chevrolet Silverado
Besides the updated GPS navigation system, the 2012 Chevrolet Silverado gets two new appearance packages. The White Diamond Edition, offered on the 2012 Chevy Silverado LT and LTZ models, adds exclusive White Diamond Tricoat exterior paint, and chrome mirror caps and door handles.
2011 Chevrolet Silverado
While heavy-duty versions are all new, the Silverado 1500 enters its fifth model year with minor changes. It benefits from wind noise enhancements, and also gets the ninth generation of OnStar. Steel Green Metallic replaces Carbon Flash Metallic as an exterior color. And there are two new special model and promotional exterior paint colors, Victory Red and Magna Steel Metallic.
2010 Chevrolet Silverado
2009 Chevrolet Silverado
The Chevrolet Silverado has a wide variety of cab and cargo sizes, beds, and trim levels.
2008 Chevrolet Silverado
2007 Chevrolet Silverado
The Chevrolet Silverado is a full-size pickup truck that was introduced in 1998.
2006 Chevrolet Silverado
The 2006 Chevrolet Silverado classifies as a full-size pickup truck manufactured by General Motors along with the GMC Sierra lineup of trucks.
2005 Chevrolet Silverado
The 2005 Chevrolet Silverado series has limitless customization options.
2004 Chevrolet Silverado
The 2004 Chevrolet Silverado is looking more like its fellow family members, the Avalanche and Trailblazer, since it was refreshed in 2003.
2003 Chevrolet Silverado
The 2003 Chevrolet Silverado is a full-size truck available in multiple trim levels, cab sizes, and bed lengths.
2002 Chevrolet Silverado
2001 Chevrolet Silverado
The 2001 Chevrolet Silverado succeeds the well-respected Chevrolet C/K pickup truck.
2000 Chevrolet Silverado
The Chevrolet Silverado is General Motors' best-selling full-size pickup truck.
1999 Chevrolet Silverado
As a new model introduced as a replacement for the extremely popular Chevy C/K line of pickup trucks, you might think that the 1999 Chevrolet Silverado has its work cut out for it.


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Adopting and caring for a puppy is always a rewarding experience. In exchange for food, shelter, exercise, and regular veterinary care, your pet offers loyalty and companionship for the remainder of his life. Dogs that have lived in puppy mills, however, pose a unique challenge for owners. The treatment they received at the mill will likely have made them distrustful of people, and fearful of anything that is unfamiliar to them. Owners who adopt such dogs must take a few extra steps toward making them feel comfortable and secure in their new homes.
In this article, we'll describe how puppies are treated in mills so you'll understand the reasons such pups are hesitant and fearful of others. We'll also describe the typical behaviors puppy mill dogs exhibit once they're rescued. Lastly, we'll provide a few suggestions for helping your puppy feel comfortable within your home.
Inside A Puppy Mill
Puppies are treated poorly in mills. Their physical and mental health take a back seat to revenue. The mill generates this revenue by breeding the pups in their care. But there is a key difference between the breeding activity that takes place in a mill, and that which is done by professional breeders.
Professional breeders do everything possible to minimize genetic problems in the puppies they breed. Mills take no such precautions. Instead, they breed pups without consideration for the likelihood that defects may pass to the litters. For this reason, many of the puppies born from this process are saddled with eye, dental, and joint problems.
The pups at the mill are usually housed in overcrowded pens. The living conditions are often dirty to the point of being unhygienic. Moreover, the dogs seldom receive the basic essentials they need to stay physically and mentally healthy. They rarely see the sun, or have access to a constant source of clean air.
When a puppy is adopted from a mill, the transition to a "normal" life can be jarring to him. You may notice behaviors in him during the first few days in your home that seem odd.
Establishing His Personal Den
Keep in mind that everything is new and potentially frightening to your new pet. When you bring him into your home, he may appear especially hesitant. This is because he has lived with fear his entire life. He has learned to dread the unfamiliar.
First, establish a room – or part of a room – as his personal den. Place bowls for food and water in this area along with newspapers on which he can urinate and defecate. Having an area to himself will make him feel safe, and slowly build his confidence.
Second, after a week has passed, begin acclimating him to a collar and leash. Place both on him for short periods, and let him drag the lead as he roams throughout your home. This will help him become accustomed to the feel, and prepare him for going on walks.
Minimizing Fear And Stress
Because your puppy's exposure to the outside world was so limited while he was at the mill, he may be easily startled by unfamiliar noises. For example, the sound made by a vacuum cleaner may frighten him. A toaster, television, and blow dryer may also cause him stress. Desensitization training will prove invaluable for helping him become used to hearing these sounds. This type of training takes time and requires patience. But it's the most effective way to minimize your puppy's fear and stress of routine noises that occur in your household.
Once your dog begins to feel safe and secure within your home, he'll explore on his own. He'll start to peek into other rooms to discover what lies beyond the confines of his personal den. Over time, he'll gain confidence regarding his place within your life, and look to you as his best friend.


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Hostel Lagares for 2 people
Hostel Lagares for 2 people
We are a small hostel hosted by owners and an outstanding staff that gives the best to help you achieve an excellent stay in Mendoza, with the maximum quality of possible attention , a comfortable stay, safe and clean experience.
If you are looking a chill and relaxing place to rest, to get to know travelers like you, Hostel Lagares is your best option in Mendoza. You can enjoy the city to the maximum and be surprised with many tours and adventure activities, including the wineries and mountains.
Our property is a charming place where you can chat comfortably, enjoy a movie with friends in the living room, or prepare a typical argentinian bbq on the terrace with a glass of wine.
We are located in the historic centre of the city, two blocks from the main avenue San Martin. There you can find the wide path Alameda surrounded by large trees , flower sellers , little bars and restaurants that give it a special atmosphere. In our neighbourhood you can find many shops close by such as supermarkets, banks , and money exchange, all in your hands.
We are a few blocks from the Sarmiento pedestrian street , the Plaza Independencia, and the citys historical museum also known as the area fundacional
Our services includes:
Buffet breakfast with coffee , milk , juice , tea , bread ,buns, cereal ,homemade jam , butter and dulce de leche. We provide maid service , air conditioning and heaters in all the rooms, terrace with tables, chairs, and a grill to bbq when you want . We have a dvd collection with more than 500 movies available , free internet and wi fi ultra speed ,. We have wines , beers , and cold drinks for sale . We have of course the best attention and touristic recommendations .
* Any rooms that have been pre-booked must be cancelled before 12 noon the day before otherwise you have to pay the full balance.
* Check in at 12pm / Check out at 10am .
* The Double Bed private consists of together twin beds.
* Double Room Ensuite: The room is with private bathroom not inside but outside the room just for the use of the client of that particular room
* We do not accept credit cards , kids under 10 years old (only in private rooms with their parents), pets.
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I admit I wasn't expecting much from The House of the Seven Graves (La Casa de las Siete Tumbas, dir. Pedro Stocki). And at first, I seemed to be getting what I was expecting. However, as the movie wore on, what started out as a standard flick about possibly supernatural childhood trauma turned into an eerie, dark fairy tale about witches in the woods, haunted wells, and the destructive tensions between lovers and friends. Perhaps that doesn't entirely excuse some of the film's narrative and technical shortcomings, but it did make for an entertaining and somewhat pleasing pelicula from our friends from way way south of the border.
Somewhere in rural Argentina, besties Clara and Cecilia make their way through an idyllic, thoroughly normal childhood. They ride their bikes, braid each others' hair, and play the innocent juvenile games of an age before Internets, XBoxes and lipstick parties. This all changes, however, when down by the train tracks an old hobo entertains them with the legend of a witch who lives nearby, who has a penchant for luring young 'uns to her house, draining their blood, tossing their lower halves down a well and shoving their disembodied heads into a huge, haunted dovecote* on her estate grounds. With nothing better to do, adventurous Cecilia drags timid Clara to the house in question and dares her to go into a workshed, only to abandon her friend once the dusty door clatters shut. If you're thinking this is a recipe for life-long psychosexual trauma, you've clearly been to Argentina before.
*Note to the Vicarage Architetural Corps: we need a haunted dovecote. STAT.
|So THAT's what it sounds like! Thanks, your Purpleness!
Jump-cut twenty years into the future: somehow the girls have made it to adulthood, and even more amazingly have remained close friends. Clara is now a reclusive piano teacher whose much-older husband Roberto is always away on business, and Cecilia a hot-to-trot maneater on the verge of settling down with hunky hombre Armando. Shouting over the noise of Clara's time-bending hallucinations and flashback-filled fucktuppery, Cecilia tells her friend she's taking a trip back to their old home town with her fiance, for...some reason or other. Clara wishes her friend well and sees her out the door, anxious to get back to playing plaintive piano pieces and stomping her bare feet to ribbons on her glass-framed wedding portraits. As one does.
|Tootsies of the Damned
Meanwhile, out in the big scary world, Cecilia meets up with Armando in Buenas Aires just as he's finishing a tennis match against a much younger, fitter chica. Laughing off his intramural activities, Cecilia hustles him into the car and away they go! Soon they're deep into the Argentinian countryside, where Armando proves bafflingly difficult to keep on task; spying an overgrown gravel path leading away from the main throughway, Armando immediately slams on the brakes and hits the turn signal. Questioned by his lover, he shrugs and says, "I've always liked dirt roads!", as if that explains everything, and thus sets them on a collision course with destiny and a suspiciously massive dovecote.
Yes, of COURSE it's the old witch's house, complete with said dovecote, a wailing well, and six well-tended graves in the front yard. Not put off AT ALL, Armando asks directions from a creepy old groundskeeper bearing a canvas bag full of yowling cats. Unhelpfully, the man asks Armando for the loan of a few cups of petrol, which he then uses to set the bag on fire! (Editor's note: what in the ACTUAL FUCK?) Turns out the lady of the house really hates cats, and it falls to Groundskeeper Willie--er, Ruperto--to get rid of them via fiery CATaclysm.
|"Call the ASPCA, NOW!"
Yes, it's CATastrophic. But really the PURRrect way to...oh, shut up.
Still bravely trying to get directions, Armando is interrupted by a horrible scream from one of the upper floors of the house. "Leave! Leave!" shouts the cackling, dare I say witchy voice. "Because here there is no way out!"
"Can we spend the night here?" asks Armando, the Man Without Brains.
Here the movie veers very strongly into horror-laced fairy tale territory. Their hostess the Witch says cryptic things before locking them in the Murder In the Dark suite, where rats the size of guinea pigs watch them make out and Cecilia cries hysterically about someone hiding under the bed. Armando is unsympathetic, alternately slapping the hell out of and trying to get busy with Cecilia. We get lots of eerie shots of dark woods, that huge and increasingly sinister dovecote, and the haunted well, while somewhere in the house the Witch soliloquizes to her ward, a Pig-Slopping Retard girl, about how all men are pigs and cats are all traitors. It doesn't make much sense, but it does manage to create a respectable feeling of oddness and unease.
|Sure, Armando could be a little rough, but he was the only one who loved Cecilia enough to cut her back hair for her.
Meanwhile, back in the city, Clara seems psychically linked with the occurrences at the house, calling out to her friend that she will never escape while making confetti out of her own photo albums. (She also takes a bath or two, showing off a surprisingly hot bod for a reclusive looney.) She hears voices, and the hallucinations continue. Director Pedro Stocki again shows a sure hand, with off-kilter angles and sinister lighting that purposefully (and meaningfully) recall Polanski's Repulsion.
As the flick rambled on, I began to get a strange feeling that here was a movie that was actually a lot better than it had at first seemed. Though early on we got some truly bad cinematography and editing, Stocki seems to find his groove, gaining confidence and skill as the movie barrels forward. Strange happenings at the house continue, as Cecilia falls under the witch's man-hating spell and Armando begins to plot his lover's death with Ruperto the Cat Scorcher (for no reason I caught). Skulls show up in the dovceote, creepy dolls float by in the nearby river, shadowy horsemen prevent our lovers from escaping, and creepy noises emanate from the well. All this is interspersed with flashbacks to their childhood, Clara's escalating psychosis back in her apartment, and a disturbing pig-slopping scene in which the retard girl gets intimate with a pile of mud.
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Again, it doesn't make much sense, but I found it nearly impossible to look away.
La Casa de Las Siete Tumbas started out inept, but through force of strangeness and eventual skill snuck up on me and pulled me into the bushes of its narrative. By the time we get the explanation for all the weirdness--which might not surprise aficianados of this kind of thing, but nonetheless was well-executed--I had a well-entertained smile on my face. And as you know, parishioners, that's really all I ask for.
A few more images from The House of the Seven Graves (1982):
|Toys now, therapy bills later
|Room for One More
|Sensing Clara's distress, Glycerin Man rushes to her rescue.
|"Wanna buy a knife?"
|One man's slop is another man's forearm.
|"Next time, let's not coordinate our hats, okay guys? It's weird."
|"And my heart...will go OOOOOOOON!"


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Recently I inserted the following command into the xstartup.cfg file (main/cscripts):
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Here's the result:
And I'm not sure if you can notice it (video quality isn't the best), but there are 6 players on Pistons' bench (one of them sitting on the floor). I created a render.cfg and inserted the following command:
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r_numPlayersPerBench 6
And voilà.
I also uploaded a scenario.bin file which enables two-man in and outside stopper anims to be performed by any player (as the regular blocks and steals). I also want to insert the two-man dunks somehow, but I am not sure if it's possible. Take a look:
Two-man stopper anims for every player
If you notice any bugs or have any questions, make sure to post them here. Thanks!


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Plummeting shares would make the company vulnerable to a bid.
Directors at Hewlett-Packard Co. acted quickly when they replaced CEO Leo Apotheker with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman because they were concerned that plummeting shares would make the company vulnerable to a takeover bid from Oracle Corp., Bloomberg News reports, citing two people close to the HP board.
Whitman took over as CEO on Sept. 22, after Apotheker oversaw a 47 percent drop in HP stock and sliced sales forecasts three times in less than a year, the Bloomberg story said.
After speaking with several financial advisers, HP has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to help it prepare for any possible moves by activist investors, although it's now unlikely that Oracle will make a bid any time soon, three people close to the software company said.
Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif., ranks No. 7 on Washington Technology's 2011 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors. Oracle Corp., of Redwood Shores, Calif., ranks No. 80.
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Department of Organization (IOA) Forfattere "Bansler, Jørgen"
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Bansler, Jørgen; Havn, Erling; Mønsted, Troels; Schmidt, Kjeld (København, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The medical record, the collection of notes and other documents concerning a particular patient, is a time-honored and robust institutional artifact. However, with patients with chronic ailments that typically are treated and monitored by multiple clinical workers, sometimes at different institutions, the medical record is more than 'beginning to burst': it is beginning to fragment. This becomes clear from our ongoing study of the coordinative practices of clinical workers dealing with patients with 'implantable cardioverter-defibrillators' (ICDs), i.e., pacemakers that dub as defibrillators.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8418
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From a piece I penned for the Daily Beast this morning. In this part of the piece I'm talking about liberal frustration with the President the first few years when it seemed he was almost afraid of change.
The turning point for many progressives was the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy in December 2010. While the repeal was obviously a big deal to those of us in the gay community, I was surprised by how many of my straight friends on the left shared our sense of victory and elation, and by those in the media who characterized the repeal as a necessary first step toward Obama's winning back the left in 2012.
Gay rights switched from being perceived as an albatross around the necks of national Democrats to an issue that could galvanize the party's base.
In that moment, the conventional wisdom shifted.
LGBT civil rights stopped being a ghettoized issue important only to a small (but noisy) Democratic constituency and started being seen as a core Democratic value.
The Obama campaign now regularly cites DADT among its top first-term achievements—and not just when speaking to gay voters and donors but to the public at large. Gay rights switched from being perceived as an albatross around the necks of national Democrats to an issue that could galvanize the party's base and, just as important, showcase the president's courage.
And that's the second important change that began with the repeal of DADT and was cemented with Obama's embrace of marriage equality. Barack Obama became a leader in the eyes of a number of doubting Democrats and independents (57 percent of whom back gay marriage).
The president who seemed almost afraid of change became an agent of change. The man we voted for was finally back.


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This post is mainly for those food-oriented people in Tallinn who haven't yet decided where to celebrate New Year's Eve this year. Here are some alternatives worth considering - not paid ads, mind you, but events that some of my favourite establishments are throwing that I'd be happy to attend if I wouldn't be celebrating the New Year's Eve at home with my lovely K., our two adorable kids and some great friends.
What are your plans - in Tallinn or elsewhere - for the New Year's Eve?
MOON ("Poppy" in Estonian) is a wonderful family-run restaurant just outside the city centre, in the outskirts of Kalamaja. It's run by the Zaštšerinski power-couple - he (Roman) is the head chef, she (Jana) is the hostess-sommelier, and they're assisted by another head chef, Roman's first cousin Igor Andrejev. They're inviting people to a 1920s inspired New Year's Eve party, with even more inspired menu and live music:
Warming welcome drink
Beetroot, cauliflower and whitefish roe "Martini"
Home-smoked eel, spicy carrots, herby brioche
Sauteéd lamb filet, mache, tomato and yoghurt
Pan-fried whitefish, tartare sauce, quail eggs, fresh horseradish
Duck and sauerkraut kulebyaka with mulled wine gravy
Warm chocolate cake with blueberry compote, sour cream ice cream, and meringue
55 Euros for a six-course meal per person, drinks not included
Reservation required: email@example.com
NEH is a atmospheric small upscale restaurant that I've blogged about before (see here). It's a truly seasonal restaurant that's only open from Autumn till Spring, when all the core staff packs their bags and return to their original premises at Pädaste on Muhu island.
The team @ NEH are inviting you to a dazzling New Year's Party.
NEH's New Year's Eve Menu
Pan-fried scallop
Gotland black truffle & caramelized cauliflower
Bisque with Laeso langoustines (I had a chance to taste that dish at a recent special event, and it was truly flavoursome and lovely)
Roasted goose with smoked black plums and cranberries
red cabbage with juniper, Alvados glazed apples
Tridura cheese soufflé
walnut in birch syrup & pear compote
Sea-buckthorn chiboust with a golden shadow
Dinner and entertainment 70 € per guest
Matching wine menu 45 € per guest
Children under the age of 13 – 40 € per person
Reservation required: email@example.com
Dress code: Black tie
KÖÖK ('Kitchen') is a charming private restaurant in Tallinn's Old Town, with an English-born head chef Tim Bramich. They're inviting you to a festive feast, starting at 8pm and lasting till 1 am. The extensive buffet table features vodka-infused gravlax with bliny, spiced parsnip soup, proper English fish and chips, a rabbit Mole Poblano, and star anise flavoured chocolate mousse cake with mascarpone cream, among other dishes.
65 Euros for the dinner per person, wine is included (Prosecco and spirits cost extra).
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As a type of quality control, we conduct taste tests now and then to see if people can tell the difference between our frozen yogurt and our ice cream. More often than not, they can't. Considering Turkey Hill Ice Cream is one of the country's best sellers, that's quite a feat. We think you'll enjoy our frozen yogurt flavors.


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In a hotel across the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif., about 40 miles south of Los Angeles, Clayton Christopher had dinner with Eric Dopkins to discuss consulting. He didn't expect to make a hire.
Christopher, the co-founder and CEO of Deep Eddy, a craft vodka brand based in Austin, Texas, (the Switzerland of Texas, according to Christopher) and the former CEO of Sweet Leaf Tea Company — which Nestlé Waters acquired in May 2011 — announced that he and co-founder Chad Auler have appointed Dopkins as Deep Eddy's new CEO.
But don't imagine that Christopher is leaving the space. Much as his "Grandma" character remains a living presence in the Sweet Leaf marketing scheme, Christopher himself will remain on board as a marketing schemer.
With Dopkins taking his place, Christopher will move from CEO to executive chairman and chief innovation and marketing officer. This will allow him to spend more time telling the story of the brand and its culture, and focus less on organization, which he said isn't exactly his sweet spot.
"It's exciting when the brand has become much bigger than 'you,' and Deep Eddy is not only at that place now, but also got there much faster than we ever imagined," Christopher said.
Dopkins most recently served as president of Young's Market Company, a beverage distributor based in California with a $1.55 billion annual revenue. He has also served as V.P. general manager of the western U.S. for Pernod Ricard USA, a spirits and wine company, where he drew a sales revenue of approximately $300 million, president for Boz Spirits, Inc., Diageo general manager and V.P. of the western region for Diageo North America, and district manager for Canandaigua Wine Company. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California State University, Chico.
"The spirits business is dynamic and tomorrow's category leaders are often not the big brands of today," Dopkins said. "Consumers are changing, and Deep Eddy Vodka has the potential of becoming a category-leading brand."
Christopher said that selling Sweet Leaf to Nestle was a necessary move. However, unlike the non-alcoholic space, he said that the margins in the spirits industry allow for a profitable company at a much earlier stage. He has already received attractive buyout offers, but has yet to bite. While he has left his role as CEO at both Sweet Leaf and Deep Eddy, he said that there's a significant difference between his roles with the two brands.
"This is a lifestyle deal for me. I did really well off Sweet Leaf," Christopher said. "So this is really more for sport and passion and love of the game than needing to go get money."
He considered sharing the CEO title with Dopkins, but then thought it was more important for the company to see Dopkins as a new leader. Christopher said that unlike Sweet Leaf, he'll remain very involved in Deep Eddy's progress. He thinks it can grow, he said, to eventually be a $100 million brand.
"Titles are cheap at Deep Eddy," he said. "It's really about getting the smartest people that we can on the team."


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Daisuke Matsuzaka, who presumably has won the fifth starter role, starts today for the Mets against Detroit.
Here's the lineup behind him:
Eric Young, 2b
Chris Young, lf
David Wright, 3b
Josh Satin, dh
Eric Campbell, 1b
Wilmer Flores, ss
Travis d'Arnaud, c
Juan Lagares, cf
LINEUP COMMENTS: With the report GM Sandy Alderson continues to shop Ike Davis, it isn't hard to see what the Mets are doing. By playing Eric Young at second base, the logical fallout will be moving Daniel Murphy to first base and keep Juan Lagares on the major league roster as the starting center fielder.
ON DECK: Lineup the Mets should field on Opening Day.


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Taking Off From All of Your Comments
Thanks to everyone for weighing in. I can't respond to each post, but, taken together I see a strand we all need to explore. Betty points out that Historical Fiction has a tendency to reflect the time of the author more than the supposed era in which it is set. That links nicely with Becky's referency to George Macauley Trevelyan and my post about the Cliometric/Collingwood debate. See, while all of us easily lean to the Collingwood/Trevelyan/Reach-the-Reader side, there is a danger in that position. The more we, as historians or as authors of historical fiction, use the past as a setting for our current concerns, the more we try to create a past we are sure our readers will "get," the greater danger of both getting the past wrong and misleading our readers. Cause, see, what we and readers may agree on is fine for us, but may have nothing at all to do with what actually went on in another time.
I have always loved L.P. Hartley's phase, "the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' And that is what the Cliometricians, more than the Collingwoodians, understand. For example, for 75 years or so, after the 1890s, the most famous, prestigious, American historians said that Reconstruction was a big mistake. Greedy, corrupt carpetbaggers from the North allied with southern blacks not truly ready for self government made a wrong-headed effort to rule the former Confederate states, until the nation saw the light and let the southern whites retake control. This view of the past matched the dominant white views in 20th century America. But from the 1960s on, historians went back and took a new look. They saw that blacks in the south had been quite responsible, in getting married, buying and working the land, seeking education, and voting. The problem with Reconstruction was not that it was a mistake, but that the white South resisted it, and finally found a partner in Northerners willing to end the experiment.
Of course this new view of Reconstruction was in line with post-Civil-Rights America, so was, in its way, as much "of its time" as had been the older interpretation. But it is a clear warning — if we write with our current values in mind, we are at great risk of misreading the past. The example I alluded to in my first post is the most obvious one — spunky girls. Today we value independence, ambition, and pluck in girls as well as boys. As Betty has written, if we write about girls having those same traits in the ancient world, or medieval Europe, or Victorian London, we need to make a very, very good case for why this one character is so out of the norm. The fact that our readers prefer activity to passivity, assertion to submisision, independent thinking to obedience, does not mean we can impose those traits on girls in the foreign country of the past.
In fact, if we have one prime goal as historians and authors of historical fiction it must be to honor the strangeness, the difference, the foreigness of the past, even as we offer our readers a tour of its most fascinating sites.


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LAS VEGAS--Nikon kept its point-and-shoot announcement to just one model at CES 2013, the new Coolpix S6500.
And by "new" I mean that it's an already existing model, the S6400, but with Wi-Fi.
The built-in wireless allows you to directly connect to an Android or iOS device and transfer photos and movies to them using Nikon's Wireless Mobile Utility app. The app can also be used to remotely control the camera from more than 30 feet away.
The camera's other features include a 16-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor for potentially fast performance and improved low-light photos and a 12x f3.1-6.5 25-300mm lens with optical image stabilization.
Its shooting options seem to be pretty much the same as you'd find on the S6400, though Nikon's added five new beauty retouch options for things like whitening eyes and teeth and reducing dark circles under eyes. Plus, you can now pause movie recordings while you're shooting, so you don't end up with a bunch of short clips or a long one with a lot of stuff you don't want.
The Nikon Coolpix S6500 will be in stores by the end of January for $199.95.


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Free College Basketball Betting Odds & Picks for the the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Washington Huskies Friday matchup. Despite 3 consecutive losses, there is no need for concern or panic with coach Lorenzo Romar's Huskies. Their last decade has proven December has little to do with February and March. C.J. Wilcox, Darnell Gant, Abdul Gaddy, Terrence Ross, Aziz N'Diaye, Tony Wroten and Desmond Simmons will get it done.
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the suns hit 7 wins in a row going into the pistions game tonight....are the suns better with shaq than without him?
just thought it was a good question
PTI question
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Adjustment is always hard so in the beginning it was rough for the Suns but now they are the hottest team in the NBA. We'll really find out during playoffs