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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 11, 2014) -- East Tennessee State University women's golfer Larissa Steinfeldt (Eschweiler, Germany) has been selected as the State of Franklin Bank/ETSU Community Service Student-Athlete of the Month, an award recognizing the exemplary community service efforts of ETSU student-athletes.
When the senior from Eschweiler, Germany isn't practicing her golf swing or studying for one of her two majors, she is giving back to the Tri-Cities community in many different fashions. Some of her recent community service endeavors include: working with Habitat for Humanity and Harvest Hope – in which she gave back to those who are less fortunate – participating in the 8th Annual All-Star Reading Night at North Side Elementary, and helping raise $30,000 at the 'Make-A-Wish Chocolate Festival'.
Steinfeldt's coach, Stefanie Shelton, is proud of all the work she has done whether it's on the course or in the community.
"Not only do student-athletes have the opportunity to excel in their sport during their time here at ETSU, but they also benefit greatly from their involvement through community service. Student-athletes face the time demands of workouts, practice, competitions, and travel, while also achieving in the classroom. To have 100-percent of all student-athletes at ETSU reach out and participate in community service, shows the well-rounded men and women the university is producing. Larissa is a great example of this."
Congratulations to Larissa Steinfeldt on winning the State of Franklin Bank and East Tennessee State University's Community Service Student-Athlete of the Month award for the month of January.
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Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders - Another Gluten Free Goodie!
(Oh ... by the way, I'm now homeschooling my littlest chicken tender, too! I'm in heaven with 2 out of 3 of my brood here during the day. Homeschooling rocks!)
Back to our regularly programmed chicken story ...I already knew that the walnut recipe was fantastic, and so it was a natural leap of faith to experiment making chicken tenders using almond meal. I wanted to keep it really simple though, so I didn't go through the steps of marinating and egging, et al.The results were really good! As you know, homemade chicken tenders far, far, far outshine anything you could buy pre-made. This almond meal coating approach keeps the recipe gluten free, and is super-d-duper simple to prepare. I made a TON of these using multiple pans because I wanted to have leftovers for lunch the next day. I turned the left overs into chicken parmesan, and let me tell ya folks, that was GOOD EATS!I didn't measure out the ingredients, but it's so easy that even a first time cook could do this with ease. I'm guess-timating pared down volumes for you here.
- 1 cup almond meal (I used Bob's Red Mill brand – it's gluten free. You could finely grind your own blanched almonds if you wanted to. Your food processor may enjoy the workout! Your ears may not appreciate the noise level, though!)
- Your favorite seasonings: I used Lawry's seasoned salt, garlic salt, and black pepper.
- Olive Oil – to coat the pan
- Chicken tenders – about a dozen
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and drizzle with olive oil. Brush oil around to evenly coat the baking surface. Combine the almond meal and the seasonings in a bag. Drop the tenders into the bag and shake vigorously to coat. Place on the baking sheet taking care not to crowd the pieces. Keep those molecules apart people! It's better to use two pans than shove them close together on one pan. Place in the oven and bake for around 8 – 10 minutes. Flip the tenders over, and bake for another 8-10 minutes. Take out of the oven and let sit on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes. Carefully remove and serve.Um, does uh anybody else besides moi like to nibble on the crusty parts left on the foil? hehe Oh come on, don't judge me!These were really tasty! The almond meal actually is very mild allowing the chicken flavor to easily dominate. I served these with a super yummy sour cream dill dip (which my children didn't touch – hubbyman liked it though).
For the day two recipe, I used the left over tenders, topped them with marinara sauce and mozzarella and parmesan cheeses and had a terrific new taste sensation. Praise be to who ever first came up with that tasty combo.Best of all, chicken tenders prepared this way are ridiculously easy to prepare, full of flavor, and gluten free. My picky eaters club members snarfed them down and demanded more. They even choked down the lonely couple of green beans on their plates so they could present a clean platform for round 2.I'll be trying out more ways to use the almond meal as a coating. YUM!
15 comments:
- LadySnow said...
We just always use cornmeal to coat the chicken. I never thought about trying almond meal. I will have to do that. :-)
- April 6, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Pam said...
I don't need to be gluten free, but these sound so good, I'm going to get some almond meal!
- April 6, 2010 at 5:04 PM
- Pam said...
Oh Paula - these tenders look amazing. I've never thought to use almonds.
- April 6, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Marjie said...
A recipe after my own heart! Use a handful of this and some of that! It looks like wonderful chicken (which is what we had tonight, too!)
Glad little Miss is home and doing well!
- April 6, 2010 at 8:38 PM
- grace said...
this is a pretty terrific willy-nilly recipe, paula! it certainly shows your prowess in the kitchen when you can toss together something as marvelous as this. :)
- April 7, 2010 at 2:54 AM
- Bellini Valli said...
I will keep my eyes peeled for some almond meal. I know they should have it at our local Choices.
- April 7, 2010 at 7:24 AM
- Linda said...
I'm going gluten free now and I'm going to be on the look-out for almond meal.....at least I know a store that carries Bob's Red Mill.
- April 7, 2010 at 9:11 AM
- Levinson Axelrod said...
Great ideas. Almond meal sounds great on chicken. Thanks for sharing your cooking tips.
- April 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Those look awesome! And the crispy parts are the best part!
- April 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- zurin said...
Oh I must gv this recipe to my daughter....it looks good n is gluten fre. her little boy is allergic to so many things including gluten.. ill pass this on. thank u so much..yumm
- April 9, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- Mickle in NZ said...
Have you been peeking into my kitchen? I have ground almonds (almond meal) always and my fridge top freezer has heaps of frozen chicken - including tenders. Will go "freezer mining" tomorrow to locate and remove the tenders, and am already thinking of adding freshly grated NZ parmesan to the almond mix...
Dear Paula, it is so wonderful to have you back in the blogosphere, encouraging, tempting, and even taunting the likes of me with your wonderful recipes.
Sending happiness, care, joy and love,
Michelle down in Wellington
(word verification is "lemons"!)
- April 10, 2010 at 6:10 AM
- Robynn's Ravings said...
WOMAN! I can't believe I heard from you! I've been worried and was so glad to see you pop up on my blog. I send everyone gluten-sensitive person I know to you because you ARE the woman! :)
These look GREAT! I never thought about almond flour. YOu probably already know how awesome crused pistachios are for chicken, fish, and calamari but it you don't....well, yummmmmm!
Yay for more time with your kiddos through homeschooling! Yep. It does rock.
- April 11, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Manggy said...
I nibble! I nibble!
These look FANTASTIC - I have a bit of an excess of almond meal here!! (And way too much dessert!!)
- April 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Jan said...
I've never heard of almond meal but I'll be looking out for it, this chicken sounds delish. Also, you're not the only one who scrapes the crispy bits off the foil. :-)
- April 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- Erin said...
These look delicious! A good friend of mine if allergic to gluten so I passed along your blog to her.
Thanks for visiting my blog!
- April 23, 2010 at 6:29 PM

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Alderson was the president of SAIC's defense group, but was terminated after one of her employees was involved in a bribery and kickback scheme, as part of the CityTime contract in New York City.
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For that year, as executive vice president, she learned about SRA operations and customer base. She also worked on a strategy to accelerate growth. "That's what I love to do," she said. "It is a natural transition to take over the line organization."
Finding growth in today's market won't be easy, but "it is still a huge market," she said. "And it is nice to be our size and private."
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What happened to Captain of the Ship theory? Looks like more of the nothings my fault mentality in store for SRA, she clearly doesnt 'get' that delegating includes providing intent, providing controls, and checking in regularly. If she did, the incident behind why she was in my opinion rightfully fired would have never reached the stage that it did.
An inspiring story, Deb. I was fired before I came to SRA, and have been kicked off projects by clients - but I'm still here and still fighting every day to make this an even better company!
It's a great story to share and we are proud to have you on the team.
Any company that is lucky enough to have Deb Alderson is a winner! She exudes leadership qualities many leaders lack!
Very sympathetic article--perhaps fully deserved. But who was responsible at SAIC Defense, if not her? Did she select and or supervise the several levels above the miscreants on the NYC job?? Someone was not watching something. And the company did not appear to have any controls designed to ferret out the classic kind of subcontractor kickback scheme that was the center of the criminal activity. Thus half a bil dollars and a bunch of reputations take a hit. But not hers, it seems, because, after all, she was not responsible, in her view and perhaps others. Does this make any sense? Or is just the way the industry (and government) work. "Mistakes were made," eh?
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This activity demonstrates optical properties of water: that different constituents in water affect the transmission, absorption, and scattering of different colors in the visible light spectrum. Inexpensive, off-the-shelf components are used to... (View More) build a light sensor and source, creating a simple spectrophotometer that can measure light absorption. In the second part of this activity, principles of ocean color remote sensing are applied to measure reflectance. Using components that are clearly visible allows students to configure them in different ways. Playing with the instrument design gives students a practical understanding of spectrophotometers, in-water optics, and remote sensing. As an extension of this concept, students are encouraged to think about how ocean color is used to estimate the concentration of chlorophyll to infer phytoplankton abundance, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments. (View Less)
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indra needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 66 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
A full colour graphic advertisement is needed for a 'green' Australian business that reduces junk mail and plants trees to offset carbon emissions.
Greencents.com.au plants trees to offset carbon emissions generated by the printing industry as well as putting your details on all official stop mail lists to prevent junk mail being delivered to your letterbox.
Greencents.com.au needs a 'one eighth' box ad (wide 91mm x height 59mm with no bleed) using CMYK and supplied in a print quality PDF format (a specifications sheet is available).
The ad is to be printed in the Greenpages.com.au business directory - an annually printed magazine available for purchase at newstands.
The purpose of the ad is to sell - we want people to sign-up via the website after seeing the ad.
- Color scheme - blue & green + a highlight color.
- Blurb - Each Greencents supporter offsets 140,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, saves 1000's litres of precious water & prevents 100's kg waste going to landfills each year. Become part of the solution for a cleaner future.
- Call to action - Join at http://www.greencents.com.au
- Logo needs to be present, but not prominent in the ad design.
- Fonts need to be easy to read for print (serif preferred).
- We are prepared to purchase stockphoto's if needed from istockphoto.com. Please let us know if we need to do this for your entry.
- Illustrations that are cute (anime style, holly hobbie, cartoon animals etc.).
- No pink.


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BCG's Digitization Strategy Framework helps companies capture new digitization opportunities.
Digitization trends are reshaping the industrial world. The risk of disruption brings with it significant opportunities. BCG's Digitization Strategy Framework provides companies with the tools needed to capture new digitization opportunities. The framework consists of a diagnosis phase that helps industrial organizations set the basis for strategy development through understanding global trends, customer needs, and competitors' activities, and to evaluate current capabilities and gaps. Organizations can then employ a set of building blocks to develop a successful digitization strategy:


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Alternative Names
Biopsy – endometrium
How the Test is Performed
This procedure may be done with or without anesthesia. This is medicine that allows you to sleep.
- You lie on your back with your feet supported by foot rests.
- Your health care provider gently inserts an instrument (speculum) into the vagina to hold it open so that your
cervixcan be viewed. The cervix is cleaned with a special liquid. Numbing medicine may be applied to the cervix.
- The cervix may then be gently grasped with an instrument to hold the uterus steady. Another instrument may be needed to gently stretch the cervical opening if there is tightness.
An instrument is gently passed through the cervix into the uterus to collect the tissue sample.
- The tissue sample and instruments are removed.
- The tissue is sent to a lab. There, it is examined under a microscope.
- If you had anesthesia for the procedure, you are taken to a recovery area. Nurses will make sure you are comfortable. After you wake up and have no problems from the anesthesia and procedure, you are allowed to go home.
How to Prepare for the Test
- Tell your health care provider about all the medicines you take. These include blood thinners such as warfarin, clopidigrel, and aspirin.
- You may be asked to have a test to check if you are pregnant.
- In the two days before the procedure, do not use creams or other medicines in the vagina.
- Do not douche. (You should never douche. Douching can cause infection of the vagina or uterus.)
- Ask your health care provider if you should take pain medicine, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen, just before the procedure.
How the Test will Feel
The instruments may feel cold. You may feel some pain when the cervix is grasped. You may have some cramping as the instruments enter the uterus and the sample is collected.
Why the Test is Performed
The test is done to find the cause of:
Abnormal menstrual periods (heavy, prolonged, or irregular bleeding)
Bleeding after
Bleeding from taking hormone therapy medicines
Thickened uterine lining seen on ultrasound
The test is usually done in women over age 35.
This test can also be used to test for
Normal Results
The biopsy is normal if the cells in the sample are not abnormal.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Abnormal menstrual periods may be caused by:
Uterine fibroids
Fingerlike growths in the uterus (uterine polyps)
Hormone imbalance
Endometrial cancer or precancer (
Other conditions under which the test may be performed:
Abnormal bleeding if a woman is taking the breast cancer medication, tamoxifen
Abnormal bleeding due to changes in hormone levels (
anovulatory bleeding)
Risks of endometrial biopsy include:
- Infection
- Causing a hole in (perforating) the uterus or tearing the cervix (rarely occurs)
- Prolonged bleeding
- Slight spotting and mild cramping for a few days


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Five Indiana University faculty have signed on to a statement published in the journal Nature countering widespread criticism of a recent research study of Facebook users.
"We are making this stand because the vitriolic criticism of this study could have a chilling effect on valuable research. Worse, it perpetuates the presumption that research is dangerous," said the authors of the Nature article, led by Michelle N. Meyer, director of bioethics policy at the Union Graduate College–Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Bioethics Program in New York.
The Facebook study, published June 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, attempted to test whether "emotional contagion" -- in which people take on the emotional states of those around them -- could occur as a result of changes in the emotional content of Facebook's news feed.
Working with researchers from Cornell University, Facebook randomly selected 310,000 users. Using automated software, Facebook altered the users' news feeds to remove a portion of negative content from some users' feeds and positive content from other users' feeds. The researchers reported that the changes did have an impact, though small, on the Facebook users' use of positive and negative words in their own posts.
The study has generated much criticism from those arguing it was unethical manipulation of unwitting users, and that the users should have been advised in advance, similar to the informed consent required in tests of new drugs.
The Nature authors argue that Facebook alters its news feed algorithm on a regular basis, that no one's privacy was invaded, and research is needed if we are to understand the effects of such services.
"Finding the correct balance between individual privacy and research interests is one of the thorniest problems faced by policymakers, lawyers and ethicists. While I lean towards protecting individual privacy and wish Facebook would do more in that direction the hysteria greeting this research was unwarranted," said Nicolas Terry, director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
"This study got people's attention because it showed how science, marketing and social media are now joining forces in unexpected ways. I hope Facebook and the public each learned something," said Eric Meslin, director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics.
In addition to Terry and Meslin, those from IU signing in support of the statement were Fred Cate, director of the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information, Peter Schwartz of the IU Center for Bioethics and Ross Silverman of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
The six Nature authors noted that there was some disagreement among them over the issue of informed consent -- the general requirement to advise people participating in clinical trials of the procedures and risks involved in the trial -- although none of them thought informed consent was necessary in this case.
"The informed consent issue is complicated," Meslin said. "According to U.S. research regulations, informed consent wasn't required since the study did not personally identify the approximately 310,000 people involved.
"But even if the regulations could be interpreted to apply, obtaining informed consent would have made the study virtually impossible to carry out since informing people about its purpose may have affected the way they responded to the manipulated information. Some other form of information sharing was needed: better disclosures up front and better debriefing on the back-end."


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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said European policy makers are still falling short in efforts to revive their economy, intensifying pressure on them to further ease their budget-cutting.
"We feel very strongly there needs to be the right balance between austerity and growth," Lew said in an interview on CNBC Television in London today. "Overall, Europe is going to need to do a little bit better. There's room for progress."
Europe's recession is emerging as the main topic of discussion for Lew and fellow finance chiefs from the Group of Seven as they meet in the U.K. seeking new ways to rally lackluster global growth. The lobbying may be paying off, with French and German officials acknowledging to varying degrees a need to blunt their fiscal squeeze.
"We reject an austerity track, this dogma which slows growth," French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio today. European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said today that "we can for the moment afford a smoother path of fiscal adjustment."
In the biggest rhetorical shift, the German government is indicating acceptance that austerity can be overdone. Governments have earned "enough room to maneuver" to act, having reduced budget deficits and bond yields, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said yesterday.
Record Unemployment
Forcing the shift are signs the euro area's slump is outlasting forecasts and driving unemployment to record levels at a time when growth in Japan and the U.S. is also below par.
"Our task is to nurture the recovery," U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said before chairing the G-7 meeting in Aylesbury, north of London. "We cannot take the global recovery for granted."
Evidence has mounted in recent weeks that Europe is willing to cool the austerity drive that marked its response to the three-year debt crisis. France and Spain may be given two extra years to meet European Union deficit goals, while other nations, like the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia, may get one additional year.
Lew's call for Europe to do more echoes predecessor Timothy F. Geithner, who often used forums such as the G-7 to press Europe to fix its debt and economic woes faster. The new Treasury chief, who took office in February, today used the U.S. as an example for Europe. He said that delaying reduction of budget deficit had left the U.S. with a stronger economy and leeway to restore fiscal order.
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I saw Borat the other night. It's very niiice.
Usually when I see a movie that's been hyped to all get-out I end up being disappointed. Conversely, when I see a film that's gotten little or no press, or bad press, and that film turns out to be good, it seems a lot better than maybe it really is. I loved the first new Gamera movie in 1995 way more than it deserved because my expectations were so low, for example. But, then again, I also liked Titanic a lot in spite of the way it had been promoted.
Borat isn't nearly as good as everyone seems to think. But, then again, nothing could ever be that good. I guess I don't really get why every God damned thing in this world has to be presented as if it's THE GREATEST THING ANYONE EVER CREATED IN ALL OF HISTORY!!!! Aren't we tired of that approach by now? I am, anyway.
But Borat is a funny movie. I like it because it's got a point, which is something sorely lacking in lots of comedy. I gotta hand it to Sasha Baron Cohen for putting himself in some really dangerous situations just to prove his point. I wouldn't go that far, I know. I mean, kissing random men on a New York subway and singing an anti-American version of the national anthem at a Southern rodeo. That takes some 'nads.
Cohen's point seems to be that, when you get Americans to let their guard down, they say some really assinine things. I'm sure you've heard about the guys who are trying to sue him for putting their asshole comments in the film under false pretenses. They say Borat got them drunk and they said all kinds of things they never would have said if they weren't plastered. Hey, guys, here's a simple solution: DON'T DRINK SO FUCKING MUCH! How about that? Or, if you do, DON'T SAY STUPID SHIT. I have no sympathy.
A lot of Khazakstani people are up in arms over Cohen's portrayal of their country. I can understand that. On the other hand, one of the many ex-drummers for my band Dimentia 13 was from Eastern Europe, and, just like Borat, one of his hobbies was taking pictures of ladies while they made toilet. So there ya go... At any rate, as much as it makes fun of Khazakstan, it makes more fun of how easily so many people fall for this completely ridiculous character. No matter how far he pushes it, no matter how over-the-top he plays it, so many of them keep right on believing.
Watching in in So Cal, you really get a feel for just how highly folks out here think of themselves. The people next to me were making all kinds of self-righteous comments to the people on screen. As if they'd never be that gullible. As if their attitudes are so much more progressive and Correct. Uh-huh.
So, in conclusion, don't get drunk and be stupid and don't fall for fake foreign commentators making documentaries.


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BitYota uncloaks, fires off SaaS torpedoes at data warehouse stalwarts
Blasted from behind by AWS Redshift superdreadnaught
Re:Invent Anything that you are running in your data center, someone is trying to rework as a service running out there on the cloud, and BitYota wants you to let go of your data warehousing and uses its eponymous data warehousing service instead.
Considering the cost and grief that these machines bring companies, it just might succeed, but the odds are that as with other SaaS offerings, smaller companies that don't have sophisticated data warehouses but who do want to crunch big data – and on a budget – will likely take BitYota out for a spin first.
BitYota is uncloaking itself at the re:Invent customer and partner conference being hosted by Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas this week, and part of the reason it is coming out of stealth mode there is because the BitYota service will initially be running atop the EC2 compute and S3 and EBS storage infrastructure services created by Amazon's cloudy subsidiary.
The company was founded in September 2011, and is moving as fast as it can to try to raise money and capitalize on the opportunity that SaaS-style data warehousing represents, says co-founder Dev Patel, who is the company's CEO.
BitYota is moving fast for another reason: To try to get ahead of Amazon's own AWS Redshift data warehousing service, which was launched during the opening keynote, likely much to the chagrin of BitYota's employees and investors.
If you wanted to do so, you could get a parallel database and run it out there on the EC2 cloud yourself and create a cloudy data warehouse. But BitYota reckons that the database options out there are either too expensive or not particularly well suited to run on cloudy infrastructure.
And so the company created its own shared-nothing, massively parallel relational database, as crazy as that might sound here in 2012 with a number of good open source alternatives out there.
Patel was CEO of a company called Whereonearth, which created geotargetting software during the dot-com boom and which was bought by Yahoo! in 2005.
Patel is joined by co-founders Soren Riise, who is chief of cloud services and who actually has the distinction of being a rocket scientist for the European Space Agency who has subsequently built real-time systems for BT and Tibco and also created the geotargetting system at Whereonearth and worked on Hadoop systems at Yahoo!
Harmeek Bedi, another co-founder, was a lead database architect at Oracle and Informix for many years and is the company's CTO. Poulomi Damany is vice president of products and also a co-founder at BitYota, and she did disaster recovery extensions to Veritas file systems at Symantec and then ran the engineering teams at Yahoo! who created ad targeting and recommendation systems.
"This team has a lot of experience building this kind of technology," brags Patel. BitYota has 15 employees, who are mostly coding or supporting the data warehousing service, but after a little less than a year in development and four months of beta testing, the company is ramping up its sales department and is ready to start making some money.
So are BitYota's investors. Given the heavy Yahoo! links, it is no surprise that Yahoo! co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang is an angel investor in BitYota, among a few other angels. Venture capitalists Globespan Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, Dawn Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Crosslink Capital, and Morado Ventures have all kicked in dough in a Series A round of funding. The angel and Series A funding added up to $12m, which is a good start.
BitYota wants to make data warehousing and its related analytical processing easier and less costly. "Big data solutions can be a big cost or a big headache – and are sometimes both," says Patel. "The require big capital and operational expenditures, and even if you do decide to build your own with open source software and commodity hardware, you require new skills that are often in short supply. The data warehousing space is ripe for disruption, and we want to do for data warehousing what Salesforce.com did for customer relationship management."
How the BitYota data warehousing service rides the AWS cloud
Data warehousing is a bit of a harder nut to crack in that it involves large amounts of data, just like many scientific HPC workloads do. This has been a limiting factor in the adoption of HPC in the cloud, but for certain kinds of workloads where the data sets are relatively small but the computation is large, then HPC in the cloud makes sense and works well.
Similarly, BitYota knows that some companies will not be able to use the cloud to run their data warehouses because of data compliance, security, or dataset size issues. That said, for those companies with relatively small data warehouses, or those that are already generating their data on the Amazon cloud, then pumping it over to BitYota is not a big deal.
The BitYota service speaks SQL and is compliant with the SQL-92 standard. It also has ODBC support, which means it can link out to popular business intelligence and analytics tools for presenting the results of ad hoc queries in charts, tables, and reports.
The BitYota parallel database supports scripting in JavaScript, Perl, Python, and other languages and has a web interface and a command line interface with RESTful APIs exposed through both to manipulate the data warehouse service to preset data import and export policies, create quota limits, or set visibility rules for data.
BitYota has also created what it calls "one-click integration" with popular data sources such as S3 object storage on AWS, NoSQL databases, external relational databases, and so on. This data integration facility watches how data sources change over time and can schedule transfers into the data warehouse at optimal times; it also automatically detects the format and schema for incoming data and can load data in multiple formats from multiple sources.
Patel tells El Reg that BitYota runs on the Gigabit Ethernet portions of the Amazon cloud and doesn't need 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. If you want to play around with it, there is a one-week free trial available here that has 2 EC2 units of compute (ECUs) and 100GB of storage that can do one query for one user.
The starter BitYota service costs $1,500 per month and has 10 ECUs of computing oomph, 500GB of storage, can support up to five users, and do up to five queries against that data warehouse at the same time. The starter edition has role and access management to data and queries, the freebie doesn't. If you need something larger than that, BitYota will do a custom quote for you.
You have to figure that Patel was a bit annoyed that BitYota launched just after Andy Jassy, the Amazon senior vice president in charge of AWS, finished up his keynote launching the competitor AWS Redshift data warehousing service. But Patel put the best face forward on it, much as Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, has to do when Amazon competes with Netflix for video streaming.
"The simultaneous launch of Amazon Redshift is a clear signal to the market that data warehousing in the cloud is an immediate need across the business landscape - large and small - today," Patel emailed us. "It also reinforces BitYota's value proposition that true SaaS delivery will empower any company to unleash the value of their semi-structured and structured data to gain insights and make better business decisions." ®


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Has this verse already come to pass at some time in history?
Jeremiah 31:34 NASB - 34 "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Jeremiah 31:31-34 is seen to be about the new covenant.
Are there some things that have come to pass and some that have not? Or, is it all in the past? I would not say it is all in the future because of what I know about the coming of the new covenant having passed according to the New Testament writings.
Do we teach people to know God, in our day and age? If so, is it wrong?


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Gridley crash victim identified, two others hospitalized
The McLean County Coroner's office identified the victim killed in a Saturday afternoon crash near Gridley. And two people remain hospitalized following the crash between a pickup truck and an SUV.
The victim has been identified as 72-year-old John Bruner of Fountain Inn, South Carolina. He and his fiancee were traveling from Iowa to Indiana on Route 24 when they were hit by a westbound SUV which has crossed into the eastbound lane.
State Police report it happened just west of County Road 1800 East. The SUV hit the pickup truck Bruner was driving.
Bruner was pronounced dead at the scene. Bruner's fiancee, 75-year-old Katherine Daniel from Virginia, was taken to Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, where she is in stable condition.
The driver of the SUV, 18-year-old Brady McWilliams of El Paso, was air-lifted to Peoria, where he is stable.
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We're celebrating our 5 year anniversary this month by making a $100,000 donation to the Acumen Fund on behalf of our 16,000 store owners. The Acumen Fund is a not-for-profit venture that addresses poverty in South Asia and East Africa, and will use the donation to support pioneering entrepreneurs who are focused on providing critical goods and services such as water, healthcare, housing, and energy to the poor in their native countries.
We're deeply rooted in entrepreneurship here at Shopify (our founder and CEO, Tobi, started Shopify out of his basement), so we decided to do something that demonstrates our passion toward entrepreneurship, while expressing our commitment to helping those in developing countries. We also wanted to do something special on our 5th birthday to thank our awesome customers (we love you!) and let them know how much we appreciate them.
We learned about the Acumen Fund through one of our Build-A-Business Contest partners, Seth Godin, who is on their Advisory Council. From day one, it was clear that the Acumen Fund's mandate coincides perfectly with the spirit of Shopify and we're proud to call them our partner!
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June 28 2011, 03:09PM
I'm proud to be a Shopify customer! I haven't heard of The Acumen Fund before but it sounds like a wonderful endeavour. Thanks!
June 28 2011, 08:58PM
You know, I'm all for entrepreneurship but… I'm working as hard as I can to keep my business running in an uncertain economy. If Shopify feels they have to donate some of the money I've had them to pay in order to have my online store I wish they'd do it here at home.
June 28 2011, 09:00PM
Wouldn't be nicer if Shopify let its customers name their own charities since the money is coming from that source?
June 28 2011, 10:47PM
Cheers to the Shopify Team. You've earned what we pay you for the valuable services you provide. Thanks for sharing your rewards as you see fit. It's your privilege. Thanks for including me in whatever goods works you choose.
June 29 2011, 03:14AM
it was realy wonderful blog..!
June 29 2011, 04:06AM
Fantastic and thanks !! :)
June 29 2011, 08:49AM
The CEO and founder, Jacqueline Novogratz, pays herself $265,225.00 a year acceding to Charity Navigator: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11774
I guess my grandmother was right, the real money is in non-profit.
June 29 2011, 01:14PM
Peter: Thanks so much for your post, and it's good to see you're concerned about how the funds are spent! :-)
Here's some food for thought: With regard to the Acumen Fund CEO's salary, everything has a market price. Given the large amount of assets, size, and complexity of the Acumen Fund, the breadth of CEO responsibilities is considerable. The Board of Directors has a responsibility to ensure the Fund has an excellent leader.
When looking at the number you quoted, I like to put it in context…. imagine what some of these not-for-profit and non-profit CEO's would make leading a similarly sized company in the for-profit sector. The answer is millions and millions a year + stock options + a company jet + __________..etc..etc..
June 29 2011, 03:43PM
Well if the CEO s that good, maby some of those million s, whod keep her/him on the track doing non-proffit work for some time. Doctors do it, lawers etc knowing what (for them) a most modest salery can do for those in need. The carma invest shuld be enuff. But.. I understad youre point. Sorry for my por spelling.
July 01 2011, 08:41PM
Mark's response is a very valid one.
Everything comes at a cost and there are many talented individuals out there who choose not to earn the many millions that they could in a for-profit environment.
July 07 2011, 10:24PM
I am surprised to know that I am donating to Acumen Fund through Sopify. My good friend is deeply invoved with them voluntary. So, I shall stay with Shopify then :)
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Lightning Researchers Get National Award
SOCORRO, N.M. February 8, 2012 - A trio of New Mexico Tech professors won a top national award from the American Meteorological Society in January for their 3-D lightning mapping system, called the Lightning Mapping Array, or LMA.
|Past president of the AMS Jonathan T. Malay presents a 2012 Special Award to New Mexico Tech professors (from left) Paul Krehbiel, Bill Rison and Ron Thomas.
|Bill Rison (left) and 2011 graduate Dan Rodeheffer with the latest generation of the LMA, the solar array.
|Bill Rison sets up a sensing station in Chile in 2008 during the eruption of Chaiten Volcano.
|Krehbiel (left) and Thomas set up a sensing station near Mt. Redoubt in Alaska in 2009.
|The interior of the award-winning Lightning Mapping Array.
Drs. William Rison and Ronald Thomas, both of the Electrical Engineering Department, and Dr. Paul Krehbiel of the Physics Department attended the recent AMS Annual Conference in New Orleans to accept a Special Award "For the development and implementation of Lightning Mapping Array technology and its transfer to the operational and research communities."
The three professors began developing the array in the mid-1990s, thanks to a special research infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation. The proprietary hardware and software system allows scientists and weather forecasters to image lightning inside storms.
"It was really nice to be recognized," Rison said. "We put a lot of work in this and we think it's made a difference in the community, getting this type of data out to researchers and operational people who can help with weather forecasts and lightning warnings."
Krehbiel said the AMS gives out a number of named awards each year, and a few "Special Awards." This year the Society presented two special awards.
"It's pretty prestigious," Krehbiel said. "Bill Rison has been the guru behind the system."
Dr. Bill Winn, director of the Langmuir Laboratory, said the Lightning Mapping Array has a practical importance because the locations and time evolution of lightning channels inside thunderclouds cannot be photographed. The Array helps determine intensity and movement of thunderstorms and the hazards to airborne and ground-based activities.
"The cultural importance of the Lightning Mapping Array lies in its great contribution to understanding lighting," Winn said.
For example, research based on Array data has shown that that a single lightning flash can travel horizontally tens of kilometers inside clouds. Further, scientists have discovered that lightning usually remains inside clouds when it begins above the main negative charge but it strikes the ground if it begins below the main region of negative charge, he said.
"In research programs to study lightning, the Lightning Mapping Array is indispensable because tells us much about how lightning behaves," Winn said.
The LMA also provides a framework for understanding measurements made with instruments on the ground and carried aloft by airplanes, balloons, and rockets. "The three of us got the award, but it's been a much bigger effort," Rison said. "We've had a lot of talented students and scientists at Tech working on this. We wouldn't have been able to do it without them."
Tech Vice President of Research Dr. Van Romero said the award is well-deserved.
"This is an excellent example of the work that happens at Tech and, in particular, in the Langmuir research group," Romero said. "They took something from theory to practice and now we're making practical use of it. They look at the fundamentals of physics and, combined with electrical engineering, have created a device that protects us from lightning events."
New Mexico Tech has a long legacy of lightning research since the 1950s. Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, opened in 1963 atop the Magdalena Ridge overlooking Socorro, was the first lightning research facility in the United States. Tech physicists Charles Moore and Marx Brook were the first researchers to study volcanic lightning when they made electrical measurements around the Surtsey and Heimaey eruptions in Iceland in the 1960's and 70's.
The 15-year project has been funded by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation. Tech lightning researchers have made a number of scientific and technological breakthroughs over the years, but the Lightning Mapping Array is probably the most profound invention. The array allows scientists, meteorologists and storm chasers to pierce the veil of clouds to "see" lightning as it occurs.
"With each lightning flash, we are able to monitor how it moves through the clouds and where it goes," Thomas said.
In addition to audible noise (thunder), lightning also produces impulsive radio waves, which travel at the speed of light – about one foot per nanosecond. A widespread array of stations uses GPS timing to measure arrival times with 40 nanosecond accuracy. The sensors are able to pinpoint the three-dimensional location of individual lightning sparks within about 40 feet, Krehbiel said.
Hundreds or thousands of individual segments of a single lightning flash can be mapped with the Lightning Mapping Array and analyzed on high-end computers to reveal how lightning initiates and spreads throughout a thunderstorm ... or within a volcanic plume.
"We receive radio bursts of noise generated from sparks of lightning, just like the static you hear on an AM radio during a thunderstorm," Thomas said. "We use our sensing stations to locate the lightning and track its path."
The sensing equipment has three proprietary systems developed at New Mexico Tech – the circuit boards, the firmware and the data analysis software, Rison said.
The first system weighed more than 200 pounds, had only 2 gigabytes of data storage and was housed in a large contractor's workbox. The group had to retrieve data tapes from the sensors every two days.
"A significant breakthrough was designing sensors that were more compact," Krehbiel said. "Just before the Mount Augustine eruption in 2006, we developed a portable station that could be easily and quickly transported to study Augustine's explosions."
The second generation system weighed about 10 pounds, had more than 160 gigabytes of storage capacity and fit into a picnic cooler. The improved data storage allowed the system to record data continuously for more than three months. The compact size allowed for rapid deployment.
Development of the portable sensing stations permitted Tech scientists to respond quickly to volcanic eruptions. In 2006, the Tech scientists deployed two stations at Mount St. Augustine in Alaska. In 2008, they deployed four stations at Mt. Redoubt, also in Alaska. In 2009, they deployed four stations at Chaiten Volcano in Chile and, in 2010, they deployed six stations around the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland.
The current, third generation incorporates solar cells and solid state hard drives, which permit lower power consumption and allow more rugged operation.
The stations now consume 10 watts of battery power and the hardware weighs about 10 pounds. Rison wants to reduce the weight to 3 pounds and reduce power consumption to 1 watt. He has several electrical engineering students working on that challenge.
Permanent installations of Lightning Mapping Arrays are now dotting the landscape. The first was set up around Langmuir Laboratory near Socorro. Other LMAs include the following:
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
- The National Weather Service in Washington, D.C.
- The National Severe Storms Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma
- White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
- Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah
- The Ebre Delta in Catalonia, Spain
- Texas Tech University in Lubbock
- Texas A&M will soon be installing an LMA network in the Houston area.
Two more LMAs are currently in the works. One will be owned by NASA and deployed by the Tech group in the south of France. The other is being set up in north-central Colorado for cooperative studies with Colorado State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"The Colorado LMA is going to be our best network yet," Rison said.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech
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So firstly some important information on what to do during during an ash fall event and lava flows and general information for before/during/after an eruption from CDEM.
Where to find information on our website:Current status of the volcanoes, drums and cameras here
News and Volcanic Alert Buletins here
More information and history on Tongariro here and our other volcanoes here
What do the alerts mean?
So what does this mean?Unfortunately we don't know what will happen in the days to come. As far as eruptions go this was just a small one, only lasting five minutes. And there were no signs that Tongariro was going to erupt again today, volcanoes can be sneaky like that!
We do have lots of seismic sensors on and around the volcanoes and cameras watching the mountains as well as a great team of experts currently looking at all of the data coming in! So we will be closely monitoring the volcanoes and putting out bulletins as more information comes in.
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New POST Exhibit at Vancouver Aquarium
Last week, as Vancouver was busy welcoming the world, the Vancouver Aquarium welcomed a brand new POST exhibit peppered in a few locations around its public galleries.
The exhibit features several elements throughout the aquarium that explain how scientists are using POST and what they are discovering. These features include:
- POST research equipment deployed in place alongside POST-tracked species in the large Strait of Georgia habitat, just inside the Aquarium's entrance. A 32" flatscreen explains what the equipment is, gives visitors a brief introduction to the POST, and highlights POST as a part of the Census of Marine Life and Ocean Tracking Network.
- POST lines marked on a large wall map as you enter the Treasures of BC gallery, showing where POST is listening for tagged animals along our coast.
- Model research equipment floating in a couple of the habitats in the Treasures of BC gallery, with ID labeling that explains how POST tracks particular species found in those habitats.
- The "main" installation: a 46" touchscreen, where visitors can learn how scientists are using POST and what they're discovering, through an interactive map and on-demand video. Recent news stories cycle in the header, and POST's role in the Census of Marine Life and Ocean Tracking Network is featured in scrolling "sound bite" messages at the bottom. Beside the screen, visitors can get up close and personal with real tagging and detection equipment used to track animals for thousands of kilometers along the West Coast.
If guests are looking for even more, they can pop by the Windows on Research desk to chat with one of the fabulous volunteers who are featuring POST as part of the visitor experience over the next few months.


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From: ClickGreen Staff
France may be the world's most nuclear energy dependent country, but times are changing as the country looks to increase the amount of wind—sourced electricity in its power mix.
When French President François Hollande took the reins of power in 2012 he pledged to reduce the country's nuclear dependency from 75% to 50% by 2025.Today, France has a goal of reaching 19 GW of wind energy by 2020, up from its current level of 8.2 GW, according to the European Wind Energy Association's (EWEA) latest statistics. This will significantly raise the percentage of wind powered electricity in the country from the 3% wind covers today. And, according to a very recent survey, the French people are firmly behind the transition.
Some 64% of French people see wind energy as a solution, among others, in the context of the energy transition, says a CSA survey published in March 2014. Moreover, 80% of the 1010 respondents consider it necessary to invest in wind without waiting for the traditional power plants to reach the end of their lifecycle.
65% of those surveyed said that they would invest in renewable energy (wind and solar/photovoltaic) today if they had to personally invest in one energy source, while 15% chose nuclear, 7% chose gas and 1% chose coal. Meanwhile, 69% of French people would choose wind energy if they had to choose one energy type to be constructed in their region. 75% chose solar, 21% chose nuclear, 16% chose gas and 4% chose gas.
The results show that the French are aware that an energy transition must take place, they are confident enough in renewables to invest if they could, and they know that the time to act is now.
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2012-04-18 / Library
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Metro area/city : Boulder
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Options: Splash Guards/Floor Mats/Cargo Net
Total MSRP+destination charge: $35,420
Total quote/price accepted (excluding tax/license): $27,419
Total discount (or markup): -$8001 [$4001 + $4000(NMAC)]
Additional fees: 0
Total after tax credits ($7500/fed, $5250 Colorado): $14,669+TT
Purchase or lease?: Purchase
Package deals: Three years scheduled maintenance free as part of our deal.
Dealer: Boulder Nissan
Delivery date: 6/9/2016
Plans for home charging: Considering putting 220 in garage (already have access there) but will see how we do with 110 first.
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It didn't feel like much of a gift at the time.
Eight months pregnant with our second kid, sweating day care costs for our first, and wondering, often aloud, whether our 6-year-old town house was an investment or a sinkhole, we got word of pending layoffs at my husband's company.
We quickly kicked into backup-plan mode. As in, let's come up with one.
With national unemployment stuck at 9.1 percent, a record number of home foreclosures and a national landscape of pessimism, backup plans are a stark and prevailing reality. They're necessary and grown-up and fiscally responsible.
They're also a big fat distraction from the here and now. How much energy can we devote to our current careers when we're soul searching about our next? How invested do we get in our communities, knowing circumstances may require us to pull up roots in search of cheaper pastures? And how do we focus — just focus — on our kids, our friendships, our passions when we're mentally calculating our next move?
"Life isn't certain like it was before, and that causes anxiety," says Susan Kaiser Greenland, who runs Inner Kids children's program through the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. "You've got bills coming in that are greater than the revenue coming in, and no amount of mindfulness is going to change that."
But Kaiser Greenland and other experts in her field insist that cultivating a backup plan — in the form of aspirations, lofty pursuits, even outrageous dreams — leads us to richer, more authentic lives.
In many cases, backup planning introduces us to our real selves.
My husband was laid off that month. We delivered a baby with a distressing amount of uncertainty as to whether we actually had health insurance at the time. I returned to work earlier than I wanted to and more often than I wanted to, and we spent close to a year running through various scenarios from public school lotteries and ill-timed home sales to the heck with it all let's move in with my folks and cut all our costs and start our dream business.
We started asking ourselves questions, in other words, we hadn't bothered asking when things were running along smoothly.
Planning ahead
"Life unfolds, and things happen," says psychotherapist Ronald Alexander, author of "Wise Mind, Open Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss and Change" (New Harbinger Publications). "If you don't take time for mindful inquiry, for knowing yourself, things just happen, as opposed to them happening in a structured, guided way."
Planning ahead and switching gears is not a new phenomenon. The average baby boomer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, held 11 jobs from ages 18 to 44. The trick is to plan ahead while also tending to your present self.
"You're working on a dual track," says Alexander. "On track A you're taking care of the here and now and raising your children and paying your rent or mortgage and doing the best possible job you can do. But secondarily you're cultivating something that inspires you so you're not just going through every day and it's just drudgery."
Your inspiration may be building a dream home or publishing a novel or teaching literacy to impoverished youths. It may mean a smaller paycheck in exchange for work that feeds your soul. Or it could mean investing in a career that delivers a whole lot more cash at the end of the month. The point is you're envisioning your next move and embracing, not fearing, it.
Brooklyn-based artist Amy Stringer-Mowat was working as a merchandiser for Kiehl's skin care when she designed a series of state-shaped bamboo cutting boards for her 2010 wedding. In August of that year, she featured the cutting boards on her Etsy shop, Aheirloom. They captured the discerning eye of several holiday gift guide editors and she found herself filling orders for 5,000 cutting boards by December. She's since sold about 10,000 and signed a contract with Amazon.
"I think it's important to always be resourceful and keep your interests going," says Stringer-Mowat, 36. "When you're working for a large corporation it can feel redundant and never-ending, and I think that helped me think more about what I'd like to do in my free time and what I could learn from working for a corporation that would help me pursue those interests."
Ultimately, those interests can guide you toward a more fulfilling life — whether that means a career change that lets you use your current skills in a new way or learning to excel at a new pursuit. Stringer-Mowat no longer works in corporate America, devoting her time instead to Aheirloom and preparing for her first child, due in October.
"We're making a living, but we also have the flexibility to have a child and take time off for our family," she says. "And obviously we're getting to know ourselves through the process."
Be deliberate, Alexander says.
"You have to write it down," he says. "You have to, minimally, once or twice a week, take time for mindful meditation or contemplation or prayer where you're in a state of mindful inquiry. What's important in my life? What do I value? What's the pain I'm going to experience if I don't do what I dream about in three, five, 10 years? And then what's the pleasure if I do it?"
Staying present
All this isn't to say you shouldn't revel in the richness — and chaos — of your current life.
"Mindfulness is when you can be in the middle of something chaotic and shift your awareness so you're able to hold all of it without feeling anxiety," says Kaiser Greenland. "You recognize your mind is racing or your heart is racing or you're panicking about money. But you bring those feelings into awareness and just sit with them for a while."
Experiencing your emotions — good and bad — as they happen can be incredibly calming and empowering, she says. "You recognize the emotion, but you don't take it and run with it: 'Oh my god, my kids will never go to college; I'm going to lose my house; I don't know what's going to happen next month.'"
Instead, you recognize your triggers. And those can inspire you to craft a backup plan that's both realistic and worthy of your talents.
"There's a difference between wanting something more fulfilling and just wanting something better," says Alexander. "If you're always wanting something better, you have to deal with your issues of dissatisfaction and internal emptiness — always searching for that perfect mate or perfect job. You want to reach for that next aspiration because you desire a more compelling, challenging, fulfilling relationship, role, occupation. Not because of lust or greed or anger."
The right change
Some key questions, Alexander says, can help you gut-check your ambitions.
"Is this going to make a difference in your life? How will this make a difference in the world? And is this going to bring you satisfaction and fulfillment and give you the sense that you pushed yourself and played at your creative edge?"
In our family, the layoff did end up being a gift. My husband landed a job he enjoys and spends less time commuting to. Our late-night discussions brought a number of tangential topics into focus — living within our means, better dividing kid-raising duties, not allowing our identities to be so closely tied to our careers.
And it made us better backup planners.
"The people I see who are really happy are the people who have a compelling vision in their lives that's not the accumulation of more stuff or more money," says Alexander, "but a desire to do good in the world and create something that makes a difference."
Backup-planning your relationships
Online dating has made it easier than ever to backup-plan your way through the singles scene. Sure, she's cute and smart. But eight other women checked out my profile this week. Is she the cutest and smartest?
"I know people who are going on four to six coffee dates a week," thanks to online matchmaking, says Ronald Alexander, author of "Wise Mind, Open Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss and Change" (New Harbinger Publications). "I tell people, 'Before you go on that sixth date, maybe you want to write down the three most important values you're looking for in a relationship.'"
If you identify — and then, eureka! locate them — it may be easier to block the temptation to go down every possible dating path you're offered.
"What are the core values I need in a partner, what is the core connection I want to experience when I'm with someone and what are the three most compelling questions I want to ask someone and that I want to be asked?" Alexander suggests. "There's so much volume available that you literally need to be able to narrow it down."
As for those three compelling questions, he's a fan of: "What motivates you? What inspires you? And where do you get support in your life?"
"And wait to see how many questions they ask you," he says. "That's a real telling point early on."


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New Troy group Dasvandh Network represents what it means to give
A Troy group has gathered in hopes of rekindling the spirit of giving.
Dasvandh Network is a new charity created by a group of Sikhs working to support civil rights and humanitarian causes.
Founded by Troy resident Inderpal Singh, the concept of giving through this charity is simple. Donors can choose from an assortment of charities and choose where their donations go to by visiting one website.
"Dasvandh" means "tenth part" and refers to the practice among Sikhs of contributing 10 percent of their earnings to a common good of the community in the name of their guru.
The projects represent progressive efforts across North America in need of funding, specifically projects for the community or by the community. The donations for the projects can be recurring or one-time only.
Each of these organizations must apply to be a part of the network because the organization wants to maintain their values of trust and transparency.
Singh, 35, and one other person came up with the idea for the network in 2010, and launched the website earlier this year, which is currently in beta mode. They want to launch the full website in 2013.
The duo saw how other religious communities had organized their giving and thought the Sikh community should do something similar.
"I had worked quite a bit in financial services, so one of the things I'm familiar with is the venture capital industry ... there's a lot of folks looking to do interesting things and we're not supporting them in the ways they should be," Singh said.
The Dasvandh Network is made up of about 10 volunteers -- with four of them being very active in the charity. The volunteers all want to give back as a part of their faith and heritage.
"It's completely donated time and money," Singh said.
The network does not charge fees for people to donate, and all of the money goes straight to the cause.
"Donors give directly to the projects on the platform ... they pick where it goes," Singh said. "We don't take any fees at all ... all the money that comes in goes directly to the projects ... our payment processor takes 3.5 percent, but we don't charge any (fees)."
The overall goal of the charity is to spread the word of giving.
"It's all apart of reinforcing this important part of giving," Singh said. "It's not only motivating people to give time and money ... we hope that by people posting the things that they are doing that others will give back."
Contact Megan Semeraz at 248-745-4628 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her on Twitter @MeganSemeraz
To learn more about the Dasvandh Network and how to contribute to the causes, visit www.dvnetwork.org


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Norovirus: 'Tis the Season
Indiana Epidemiology Newsletter
December 2006
Lynae Granzow, BS
Enteric Epidemiologist
'Tis the season for snow, holidays, and noroviruses. Since November, this noro season has started off with a bang in outbreaks, particularly in long-term care (LTC) facilities. Although commonly called "stomach flu", it is important to not confuse Norovirus infection with influenza, a respiratory illness characterized by fever, sore throat, cough, and muscle aches. Although the seasonality of both Norovirus infection and influenza overlap, the transmission routes and prevention methods are very different.
Noroviruses are shed primarily in stool and are very easily transmitted by the fecal-oral route, e.g., consuming contaminated food or beverages or having close contact with someone who is ill. The predominant symptoms of Norovirus infection are nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. Some people may experience a low-grade fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, and fatigue. This virus has a quick incubation period, ranging from 12-96 hours and averaging 24-48 hours. While there is no treatment available for Norovirus infection besides some good couch time and fluid replacement, ill persons will recover on their own within 1-2 days.
Prevention is the key to limiting the spread of infection, since there is no effective treatment and people can be contagious up to two weeks after recovery. To help prevent Norovirus infection:
Encourage good hand hygiene. Handwashing is best, since alcohol-based sanitizer gels may not be effective against Norovirus.
Thoroughly wash contact surfaces and contaminated areas with a 1:10 dilution of bleach water. Bleach should be prepared daily and kept out of sunlight. Bleach disinfection of sensitive surfaces may be followed by disinfection with alcohol or other disinfectant to prevent damage.
Exclude anyone who is symptomatic with diarrhea and/or vomiting from high- risk settings:
Long-term care facilities
Health care facilities
Daycare facilities
Food establishments
Recommendations for Public Health Professionals
This is a good time to check the quantity and expiration dates of the ISDH 7A specimen submission containers. Since Norovirus season is under way, it is a good idea to have a sufficient quantity of 7A containers available. To report a gastrointestinal outbreak within your community, please contact your District Field Epidemiologist or Lynae Granzow at 317.234.2808.
Due to ISDH Laboratories changing facilities the following announcements are provided:
REMINDER: all submitters must contact the appropriate staff at the ERC prior to submitting samples, so that the ERC can determine if the testing is of public health significance which requires ISDH Laboratory involvement.


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2012-05-17 / Coming Events
The 11th annual Auction/Yard Sale event to benefit North Rome Christian School will be held on Saturday, June 2 at the Williams Oil Building in Wysox. The live auction begins at 10 and is run by Howard Visscher. Four silent auctions at 9:45, 11, 12:15 and 1:30. The yard sale runs from 7 to 2. Donations are being accepted for the auction or yard sale. For more information, call 570-247-2800 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The owners of a Northern California oyster farm that is scheduled to be removed from Point Reyes National Seashore are appealing a judge's refusal to allow it to stay open while its lawsuit against the government proceeds.
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. on Wednesday filed an appeal with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The company wants the court to allow the facility to stay open while its case is heard, a request a lower court judge denied.
Oyster farm owner Kevin Lunny said he is committed to fighting Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's refusal to renew the farm's lease in the national park.
Salazar said the waters of Drakes Estero should return to wilderness.