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Mr. Coggin, Ms. Crawford, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Halverson, Ms. Hicks, Ms. Kendrick, Dr. Solano, Dr. Taylor, Ms. Thompson, Mr. Twomey, Mr. Watterson. Ms. Kathy Klein also participated in the conference call.
Dr. Abdullah notified the board that she would be unable to participate in the conference call due to a schedule conflict.
Chair Thompson called the meeting to order, stating that she appreciated everyone's participation. She referred trustees to the minutes of the previous meeting and requested a motion to accept. It was so moved; the motion was seconded and carried unanimously.
Chair Thompson reminded trustees of the workshop on Thursday, the reason the regularly scheduled board meeting had been rescheduled as today's conference call. Discussion from the last workshop would be continued on Thursday, particularly regarding issues that affected the University's mission.
President Delaney added that there had been a number of presentations at the last workshop. The format for Thursday's workshop would include more time for discussion. He announced that the Board would meet every four to six weeks for a couple of hours using Thursday's discussion to frame the agendas for those meetings. Dr. Serwatka would have some topics to prompt discussion if needed. These future workshops would begin early next year.
Chair Thompson thanked those involved for their efforts in planning the workshop. She said this session would revolve around the Board's future focus and framing the Board's course of work. She said Dr. Solano would help trustees to determine how best to garner faculty input in the discussion.
President Delaney announced two significant gifts to the University. One gift from the Stein family would be matched to $750,000 and used to establish endowed professorships. President Delaney also thanked Toni and Andy Crawford for their gift of $1.5 million, stating that there weren't enough words to express his gratitude for their generosity to UNF. Chair Thompson added that a number of people had been present for the announcement. She said the gift was a tremendous example of collaboration with the community. Chair Thompson noted that Ms. Crawford was extensively involved with early literacy and had been working on the gift for some time. Chair Thompson remarked upon how great the gift was for both UNF and the community. The Board applauded Ms. Crawford and thanked her for her generosity.
President Delaney provided updates on the union contract negotiations and the institution's financial status. He stated that contract negotiations were proceeding and that Dr. Kline and Dr. Hopkins had left the University in good shape financially, which had eased the effects of the budget cuts. However, the amount was larger than last year's budget. President Delaney said UNF had asked the Legislature to advance the PECO list for next year to accelerate this year's request in an attempt to obtain more "one-time" monies should they become available. He added that the Governor seemed amenable to the request.
The University had been asked by the Legislature to provide information on enrollment growth and the fiscal impact of enrollment growth. The Legislature was particularly interested in Bright Futures. Also, foundation chairs and vice presidents had been asked by Representative Byrd to look at matching gift funds. One hundred thirty million dollars had been appropriated for matching gifts in the last special session. Though the usual procedure for these funds was to match gifts in the order they were received, the Legislature had decided to grant a percentage to each university based on the total number of dollars they had waiting to be matched. Based on this, UNF would get six percent of the available funding for a total of $1.6 million. This decision was to UNF's benefit.
Trustee Twomey stated that the FAC had recently reviewed the audits of two direct service organizations: the UNF Foundation and the Training and Service Institute. He said both audits had been good news and asked Vice President Shuman to discuss them.
Vice President Shuman reported that full reviews had been conducted of the two organizations; both received unqualified opinions and were clean audits. TSI had also given $3 million toward the new library addition. The organization had received no management letter comments. The UNF Foundation was growing, all coverages were doing well for bonds; the organization was above the minimum requirement.
The Foundation did receive one comment on management. The comment provided a heads-up to the Board to make sure trustees were aware of the situation disclosed in the University's operational audit, which the Board had already discussed.
Chair Thompson asked if there were any questions or comments. Ms. Stone said the report was only a matter of review and oversight by the Board. The Board accepted the reports on the recommendation of the Finance and Audit Committee.
President Delaney asked Ms. Kathy Klein to go over the report. Ms. Klein stated that the Federal Government required two reports: a financial analysis of courses, and participation numbers for student athletes and coaches. UNF was measuring progress against goals established during the base year of 1999/2000. Title IX insisted that institutions receiving federal funding not discriminate based on gender in sports. There were several ways to meet the federal requirement. The first was to ensure that participation opportunities for the underrepresented gender matched undergraduate full-time student enrollment figures.
She said that very few universities were able to accomplish this every year. UNF was a predominately female undergraduate university. The second route was to demonstrate a history of continued expansion of opportunities for female participation in athletic programs. A third method was to provide evidence that the institution had fully met the interest level of the student body. Ms. Klein said the University was attempting to meet the requirement through the second option mentioned: demonstration of continued expansion of opportunities for female participation in athletic programs.
Ms. Klein stated that the comparison of intercollegiate athletics with current student enrollment was 58% female undergraduates to 54% female athletes. The percentage of athletes had risen from 44% to 54%. She said that coaches' salaries were another area of interest. Largely due to the conscious effort of the University and the administration, underfunded coaches salaries had increased from 44% to 49%. There had also been a significant increase in support for women's athletic programs. Scholarship numbers were almost proportional with men's programs receiving 43.8% and women's receiving 56.2%. Additionally, she said, there was a list of program functions and activities to make sure there were no gender differences in the way programs were provided, including equipment, practice space, scheduling of games, van policy, et cetera. One issue, not quite resolved, had to do with the provision of locker room space. This issue was in favor of the women's teams. Ms. Klein said the issue should be resolved by the completion of the soccer and track stadium.
Moving on to the goals for gender equity established in 2000, Ms. Klein said there were a number of goals. One goal was to make sure the institution remained current on student interest. This goal was examined annually. Another goal was to increase opportunities for women by 1% each year, which the University had been able to meet. The third dealt with number and compensation of coaches. A fourth goal had to do with increasing scholarship support to match undergraduate enrollment; this goal had also been met.
Trustee Solano asked if the University received money to help support Title IX efforts and, if UNF did receive money, did it go to Athletics and was it used for support of Title IX. Dr. Serwatka answered in the affirmative to all of the questions. Trustee Gonzalez commented that this subject had been a big issue during the early 1990s. He asked if any UNF students had taken an interest in the topic and written on it. Dr. Serwatka replied that he'd read all dissertations and theses written over the last four years. He had not read anything related to the subject over that time period.
Chair Thompson expressed her appreciation for Ms. Klein's report on gender equity and asked for a motion to approve the report. Trustee Hicks made the motion; it was seconded by Vice Chair Halverson and approved unanimously.
Trustee Coggin announced that his nephew had recently moved to Jacksonville from Africa. The first president of the Republic of Zambia would be visiting Jacksonville, presenting UNF with a wonderful opportunity to hear the former president speak of his current work fighting HIV and AIDS. Mr. Coggin said he'd sent information to the President's office regarding the visit. Dr. Serwatka thanked Trustee Coggin for the information and said he had an appointment to speak with Mr. Coggin's nephew later in the day. An invitation would be extended to the former president to attend the holiday party for the Board of Trustees and the Foundation Board, as well as a request to speak at other events on campus. Chair Thompson thanked Trustee Coggin for making them aware of the opportunity.
President Delaney said that Ms. Owen was unable to participate in the conference call thus he had relayed much of her report earlier in the meeting. President Delaney said he would like to add two items to his report. The deadline for application to Division I would be in December, however, he said he did not yet have enough information to make a recommendation. President Delaney had also asked the Technology Park to suspend sales of land east of Kernan.
Chair Thompson asked if there were any further comments then adjourned the meeting.
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An open letter to WHS Students/Families and the Williston community:
As I give thanks this holiday season for all of the many blessings in my life, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for your wonderful support.
Over the past three and a half years, I have been blessed to call myself a WHS Red Devil and a member of the Williston community.
Thank you for allowing me to not only be part of your child's education, but for also being part of their life.
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Everyone is talking about no Toys for Tots in Levy County this year, but Holiday Hope is still here and has been for over 30 years.
Holiday Hope, Inc. is a non-profit organization in the Williston area that is supported by Williston businesses and community members who either choose to shop for their designated child's gift request or donate money, so others can do the shopping.
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I am a mother who lost her job at Walmart after five years. I am on unemployment, working trying hard to make ends meet. I already told my children that Christmas would have to wait. My son, who is 10, teared up. He said, "Don't worry, Mom. It's not about the gifts."
Later that day I rounded up change to buy diapers for my daughter and my grandson. My son went with me. I was short a dollar.
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This past weekend Black Sheep Gathering came to town. I love going. All the fiber, all the yarn! This was probably the best time I had because it wasn't super hot. Last year I said I was going to sign up for classes next time but I didn't. I've been too busy and just had a blast looking around.
Lots of fiber from The Fiber Addict.
An amazing needle felted wall hanging.
Beautiful drop spindles with additional shafts. Spin then remove!
My friend Kacy spinning for the first time.
Silk worms busy at work.
A rainbow of colors. Cotton cones from Eugene Textile Center.
Sparkly yarn from Huckleberry Knits.
My purchases L to R:
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Huckleberry Knits Blue-Faced leicester/Silk Lace, Weeping Willow.
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Our easy school lunch solution
It's nice because it keeps the sandwich nice and cool without an ice pack and by lunch time it's nice and thawed. All I need to do in the morning is put everything together (or have everything else together the night before). It's made my morning so stress free!
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Thank you for linking to the Back to School Traditions link up! I love this idea!ReplyDelete
This is a great idea. Does the bread get soggy at all? I wish I had a bigger freezer to do this. I so need to buy an additional one.ReplyDelete
Nope, no soggy bread. I think it works best to leave the mayo off though and have the child put it on themselves at lunchtime.ReplyDelete
Great idea! I think I might do this for my husband's work lunches.ReplyDelete
oh, this is great - I don't have freezer space or I'd do it. It would be nice to get ready for the week and forget about it :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing on the Sunday Showcase. Looking forward to seeing what you have to share this week.
I never thought of doing this! Great idea! My DD wants the same lunch everyday, too. Must be a kid thing :). Thank you for linking up!ReplyDelete


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 439 diseños de 93 diseñadores freelance.
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I am an independent email marketing consultant, the author of the Be Relevant Email Marketing Blog (http://www.b2bemailmarketing.com) and the founder of the Email Marketer's Club (http://www.emailmarketersclub.com). I help companies optimize their email marketing strategy, help them grow their list and train them on email marketing best practices and social media. More info on http://www.tamaragielen.com
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Good to know the KIWI mod is worth it. I bought the 3P from Modeless Factory and he said he'd install KIWI for no labour charge as he's overhauling the synth anyway. It is ~€200 extra though. I was considering waiting til I get the synth and seeing how it is without the KIWI mod first though. Which would you recommend?
Yeah that's cost price as far as I can tell. I know it's pricey compared to the actual cost of the synth but things like an additional EG generator, 2 assingnable LFOs with additional waveforms, fine tune on both DCOs, clockable arpeggiator and all the other fancy stuff + hugely expanded patch storage is great. Unfortunately, it can be bit fiddly what with the limited control interface and most of the original control labels are no longer applicable.


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When I downloaded the latest podcast of NPR's Fresh Air this morning I was delighted to learn that Dean Norris — aka Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad — was Terry Gross's guest on the show. Norris spoke at length about his character and the show, and since we all seem to be Breaking Bad geeks around here, I figured that y'all would enjoy it just as much as I did. Below are a few of my favorite moments from the interview, including a possible spoiler he may have let slip out.
On Walter White hiding under Hank's nose all this time…
I think we as people, certainly law enforcement, they size people up rather quickly, and I think they then hold on to that opinion. And he has known Walter White for a long time, and he's only known him to be this kind of ineffectual, milquetoast kind of guy, and that's who he sees him as.
So the concept of seeing him or even possibly imagining him as some sort of meth cook and a man who could function in that environment is just beyond ridiculous for Hank Schrader. And so the audience can often see and make leaps and say, wow. How come you can't figure it out? There's all these clues that it's him and blah, blah, blah. But they seem like good clues to the audience because, yes, they already know that it's him. But Hank Schrader doesn't. And it's been important to Vince Gilligan and to myself in portraying that character that we don't make him look stupid. He's a good cop. He just hasn't put the pieces together yet.
On why he no longer reads Vince Gilligan's scripts completely and sticks to the parts that pertain to his character…
The first few seasons, I would read it page by page. The last couple seasons, I would first look for my character's stuff. And then I would – I kind of wanted to preserve watching the show and to see it as the audience sees it over the past couple years. So I didn't always read the entire script. I needed to know what was pertinent to my character, but I kind of wanted to be surprised and be able to watch the show as an audience member would.
And so I then developed this kind of need to want to watch "Breaking Bad" in a pure sense, like everybody else does – not knowing what's going on, not knowing what's going to happen – and see if I had the same reaction to the show as a lot of critics and audience members have. So that's kind of why I did it.
On his big break as an actor: being cast in Lethal Weapon II…
That was my very first movie, and it was a great time. And I made some good money on it. That's what turned me into an actor from being a waiter…I'd gotten to L.A. with no money and with no experience as a waiter, and immediately got a – lied my way into a job at a local restaurant, and was there for about six months. And I got a phone call literally while I was at the job saying that I had booked "Lethal Weapon 2." And I was like: Are you sure? How much money, exactly? And now this is guaranteed, right? Yes, it's all done. I said, OK, took my apron off, handed my, you know, to other waiters, this hamburger goes here, that hamburger goes there, and I left. And interestingly enough, the "Lethal Weapon 2" premiered in the theater next to the restaurant where I was working.


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This is Jeremy Shockey. You might remember Jeremy from the time you drafted him two rounds too high in your fantasy draft because a) He played in New York, and b) You're subconsciously just a bit racist. Jeremy, seen here trying to convince a woman to go home with him so he can give her Hepatitis Q, has been traded to the Saints for a 2nd round pick and a 5th round pick. Jesus, a second round pick? I wouldn't trade half a bag of Munchos for Jeremy Shockey.
Shockey's rift with the Giants front office (and with anyone associated with the Giants in general) made his departure something of a fait accompli. And Saints coach Sean Payton has reportedly coveted Shockey for quite some time now.
Payton often wears a visor on the sideline. And, if there's anyone who likes Jeremy Shockey, it's guys who wear visors. Shockey will be counted on to help bring the Saints' passing game back to where it was in 2006 (not bloody likely). He'll also be asked to prematurely showboat for the cameras during any last-second losses.
Shockey will also try to help aid in Katrina recovery efforts in his new hometown by throwing himself birthday parties and charging all invitees $50 at the door. $10 off if he thinks you have cute tits.
Shockey leaves behind a mixed legacy in New York. And by mixed, I mean pathetic. He was drafted to be the spiritual heir to Mark Bavaro. But Bavaro was quiet, humble, productive, played through injury, and wasn't a complete moron. Shockey, as you know, turned out to be quite the opposite. No one was better at dropping a pass, and then standing around like an idiot and acting shocked at having dropped a pass. "Brah, I can't believe I dropped that pass!" He leaves town as the tight end equivalent of Brian Bosworth.
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Studio Monitor Placement
Of all the components that make up your studio environment, the two most important for producing high-quality mixes have to be, 1) your ears and 2) your near-field monitors. More specifically, the proper placement of these key components within your room will make all the difference in achieving accurate mixes that will sound good on the widest range of systems. This article will provide an overview of common practices and considerations when setting up your project studio for monitor placement and listening position.
Everything in its Right Place: Finding the "Sweet Spot"
Unless you happen to be setting up your studio in an anechoic chamber, your room will have a specific set of resonant frequencies to consider. There are computer programs available that can analyze your room dimensions and tell you where the most troublesome "modes" are likely to occur, but simply putting your monitors on stands and playing some music through them is an easy way to figure out what you are dealing with. The first thing that will become obvious is that the effect of these room modes depends on listening position and the relative position of the speakers. Sitting in the exact center of the room is the least desirable choice for your listening position because the room's fundamental frequency or its harmonics will be creating a "null" there. You can experiment with your position between the front and rear walls, but you will want to sit centered between the side walls to achieve a balanced stereo image. You may have to consider placing the speakers along one of the widest walls if your room is overly narrow to avoid side wall reflections.
Once you've determined where the ideal listening position, or "sweet spot" is within your room, it's time to determine the best placement of the monitors. When you place a loudspeaker near a wall or hard surface, some of its low-frequency energy will travel backwards from the cabinet and reflect from the wall. Some frequencies will bounce back in-phase and create "peaks" that reinforce frequencies, while others will return out-of-phase and create "troughs" that will cancel frequencies. You should randomize these peaks and troughs by ensuring that the distance from the back of the speaker to the wall behind it is different from the distance between the speaker and the side wall and also different from the distance to the floor or ceiling. It's best to have the speakers positioned above or below the mid-point between floor and ceiling — you can always tilt the speakers slightly to aim the tweeter at your ear. Avoid exact multiples when positioning speakers to minimize the undesirable effects of this modal behavior (ex. If your speaker is 1.5 feet from the rear wall, don't place it exactly 3 feet or 4.5 feet from the side wall).
For stereo imaging, the ideal monitor setup is for the listening position and monitor placements to create three points of an equilateral triangle with the monitors turned in to aim toward the ears at approximately a 30-degree angle to the center line. Whether you should position the speakers with the tweeter or the woofer at ear level is an ongoing argument; so experiment with both to find your preference, but "ear level" is the key. "Near-field" refers to monitoring where you are hearing more of the speaker and less of the room's reflections — in small rooms and project studios, this means your listening position is typically going to be three to five feet from the monitors. Ideally, the monitors should not be placed on the console or desktop, but rather behind it on secure, decoupled stands. This will help avoid unwanted early reflections caused by the desktop and prevent one monitor's vibrations from affecting the other. If you must place the monitors directly on your desktop, place them as close to the front edge as possible and on foam blocks to minimize coupling with the desk. Use some form of rubber feet or tacky material on stands and under the foam to prevent the monitors from moving due to vibration; this can subtract from the bass output and potentially cancel the tweeter.
Acoustic Treatments & Fine Tuning
A professional studio will usually have the luxury of room design expertise and a wealth of acoustic treatments. The project studio owner however, will generally have to make do with off-the-shelf monitors in an existing room and minimal acoustic treatment materials. Every room will require some form of acoustic treatment. If you've ever listened to music in an empty, uncarpeted room, this is clearly demonstrated. Fitting a room with carpet is probably the most significant thing you can do to control room reverb behavior. Without spending a fortune, you can fine-tune your listening environment by adding squares of acoustic foam on the side walls to either or both sides of your listening position to help minimize flutter echoes and clean up the stereo imaging. If you're working in a room with a low ceiling, a foam square mounted to the ceiling above the mixing board or console will help tame ceiling reflections. You may also want to mount some acoustic foam behind your monitors if they are positioned close to the wall in a small room. Avoid over-treating the walls, as this can lead to a "boxy" or "honky" sounding room.
Listening Tests for Final Adjustments
Now that you've found the "sweet spot", set-up your monitors, and considered acoustic treatments, it's a good idea to do some listening tests with some of your favorite, professionally recorded CDs. This will help verify that you've achieved a natural balance within the room across the frequency spectrum and alert you to any "hot spots". It's also a good practice to create some original recordings without using any EQ to test on other systems to check the accuracy of your monitoring set-up. If your recording sounds too bass heavy — or conversely lacking in the low-end — on another system, you will know that you need to make adjustments to your monitor placements to correct problems and increase the accuracy of your mixes.
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3-FREE is a pretty common catch phrase in the world of nails nowadays. No one wants toluene, formaldehyde or or DBP in their nail polish anymore. Um, fair enough.
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The Mets are closer to settling on their Opening Day roster, and being the Mets, some of their decision-making is predicated on injuries.
Half their infield – third baseman David Wright and second baseman Daniel Murphy, both of whom are slowed with strained intercostal muscles – will be determined at the end of the week, but the disabled list remains very much in play for both.
Wright reported no problems after taking live batting practice today, but how he felt after his swings is not the story.
"It's the next step,'' Wright told reporters. "Any time you get to the next step, it's a significant step. It's one step closer. … It's important that I see how I feel tomorrow. I've said all along that Opening Day is my goal.''
In all probability, Wright and Murphy will open the season backdated to the disabled list, meaning they would miss only the first five games of the season. It they were to play in a major league exhibition game and are injured, their DL stints would be backdated to the day after the injury.
Murphy played in a minor league game today and saw his first meaningful pitch since last season said it was "like trying to hit an aspirin.'' Murphy went 1-for-2 with a walk, but said the biggest test might have been when he checked his swing and didn't feel anything.
Because of the structure of minor league spring training games, Murphy could get as many as five or six at-bats a game, but that could increase the possibility of overdoing things and sustaining another injury.
If both Wright and Murphy go on the DL, one scenario has Justin Turner playing third and Jordany Valdespin at second. Another has Zach Lutz playing third and Turner at second.
Brandon Hicks is no longer a third base option as he was outrighted to the minors today, leaving way for Omar Quintanilla to make the team.
In addition, the Mets optioned to the minor league camp left-hander Aaron Laffey, Andrew Brown, Brian Bixler and Jamie Hoffman. By sending down Laffey, the Mets are reasonably sure Shaun Marcum – who missed his last start and took a cortisone injection in his shoulder – will be able to rejoin the rotation Thursday. Of course, if he's not, it's easy enough to recall Laffey.
A long shot to make the Opening Day roster, despite their need for defense in the outfield, was center fielder Matt den Dekker. That's not going to happen now as broke his right wrist attempting to make a catch today. Compared to Jim Edmonds, den Dekker has had an exceptional spring in the field, but has struggled until recently at the plate.
METS OPTION d'ARNAUD: The Mets' key to the R.A. Dickey was getting catcher Travis d'Arnaud, who was sent to Triple-A Las Vegas.
The Mets gambled keeping d'Arnaud around this week because had he been injured he would have opened the season on the major league disabled list, which would have started the clock on his service time. Should d'Arnaud, who hit .343 this spring, spend the first 20 days of the season in the minor leagues, his free agency would be delayed from after the 2018 season to after the 2019 season. His arbitration status would also be delayed a year if he's not one of the top 22 percent of rookies called up.
That's irrelevant insists GM Sandy Alderson.
"I know people talk about control and all of that,'' Alderson said. "If John Buck gets hurt tomorrow, Travis d'Arnaud is the front-line catcher.''
THE GAME: Matt Harvey's next-to-last spring training start was not a good one, as he was hit for four runs in five innings in a 9-4 loss in a split-squad game to Detroit. In the other game, the Mets rallied from six runs down to beat St. Louis as Jamie Hoffman, Lutz and Mike Baxter homered.
Harvey struck out the side in the first, including Triple-Crown winner Miguel Cabrera, but it was all uphill from there. Harvey said he let his emotions get away from him and overthrew after the first inning.
"Definitely something I learned is try not to get too pumped up for a team and a lineup like that – back off and let everything work,'' Harvey said.
Also not having a good day was set-up reliever Brandon Lyon, who gave up five runs on six his in one third of an inning.


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The behavior is in the past: I told you he would act that way.
Your second one is right.
I am not sure how reported speech should be applied in two cases.
1. When for example I meet someone that I spoke to before and I warned him that other guy will behave in some way and now it come true. So now when I meet him should I say "I told you that he would act like this?" o " "I told you that he will act like this?"
2. What if there is an conditional sentence in reported speech? For example I warned somebody in the past that "If he become rich he will leave you." and now I want to repeat that words after things come this way (e.g. the girl was left). Should I shiftback used tenses in conditional:
"I told you that if he became rich he would leave you"?
Thanks in advance.
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The behavior is in the past: I told you he would act that way.
Your second one is right.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
Thank you for your help. : )


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The market value of the fuel cell industry, including all applications in the stationary, portable, and transport sectors, will reach $15.7 billion in 2017, the study concludes.
"Due to a jump in orders in the first quarter of 2012, the industry is on target to surpass the billion-dollar mark by the end of 2012," says research director Kerry-Ann Adamson. "The period 2014-2015, when the first fuel cell vehicles are expected to be rolled out, remains critical in terms of transitioning from a niche industry to starting to move into the mainstream."
The stationary fuel cell sector continues to provide the foundation for the entire industry in terms of shipments, success stories, and decreased costs. The stationary fuel cell sector broke 20,000 systems shipped in 2011, according to the report, a significant jump over 2010. The area that saw the largest jump was combined heat and power (CHP), with residential CHP taking the lion's share of the growth.
The report, "Fuel Cells Annual Report 2012", provides an assessment of the state of the global fuel cell market across its three major industry sectors: stationary, portable, and transport. The study includes qualitative and quantitative analysis of demand drivers and barriers, public policy factors, and key industry players in the worldwide fuel cell industry. Market sizing and forecasts are included for megawatts shipped, electrolyte adoption rates, system shipments, and revenue by sector and application. This year's edition of the report also includes a special section on the impact that the current natural gas boom could have on the fuel cell industry. An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the Pike Research website.
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Ironically BART to Pleasant Hill takes about the same time as it would take me to ride out to the Golden Gate Bridge. Then the suburban-timed traffic lights from there to the base of the climb are no more delay than the riding the pedestrian path across the Golden Gate Bridge. Despite this for a long time East Bay rides were all too rare for me. Instead I bundled up against San Francisco and Marin's summer chill and rode north. But I've been riding Diablo more recently, trying to work on my extended climbing, breaking out of the rut of efforts 5 minutes and less. Even Mt Tamalpais lacks continuity from the most popular access point in Fairfax: that climb is in segments separated by short descents. For a continuous effort, Diablo is the easiest weekend access, the climbs on the peninsula south of San Francisco less attractive due to Caltrain's poor weekend service.
So in part to help kick myself out of my post-half-marathon tired legs slump, today I rode Diablo.
The Low-Key Hillclimbs last climbed Diablo in 2009. We started the climb just past the gate which sits on the road at the northern boundary of the park. This is also where C4 Racing starts their race, which goes 10 km up the hill, ending 500 meters from the junction between the North Gate, South Gate, and Summit Roads. So I think it's safe to say this is a popular "start" to the climb.
For the finish of the climb there's no question: the end of Diablo is a memorable experience. Strava has it at 15.2% for 200 meters. And at the end of 1100 vertical meters you feel every % of that... But it's the final sprint, so you do what it takes to make it to the parking lot at the top. A sign tells you where you are:
Brenda Brunner photo
So remembering my climb of Old La Honda a week and a half ago, I made sure to use the lap timer on my Edge 500. I'd upgraded my firmware so the Strava representation of my lap should be within 2 seconds or so of reality.
Here's the start of the lap as reported by Strava:
The sign is near that big tree, so the position here is fairly close to where I hit the lap start.
Then here's the finish:
There's a bit more error here; obviously I wasn't riding off the side of the road. I hit the lap finish close to where the paint is directing traffic, somewhat past the end of the indicated segment. But the error here is also fairly small.
So I was surprised when I compared my lap time to what Strava gave me for the segment Diablo NG to summit.
Here's what fitdump says about my lap:
temperature (13-1-SINT8): 37deg.C (37)
timestamp (253-1-UINT32): 2011-09-03T12:59:34 (684014374)
start_time (2-1-UINT32): 2011-09-03T12:01:12 (684010872)
start_position_lat (3-1-SINT32): 37.9017256deg (452185200)
start_position_long (4-1-SINT32): -121.9931266deg (-1455434692)
end_position_lat (5-1-SINT32): 37.8815485deg (451944477)
end_position_long (6-1-SINT32): -121.9149209deg (-1454501662)
total_elapsed_time (7-1-UINT32): 3501.660s (3501660)
total_timer_time (8-1-UINT32): 3501.660s (3501660)
total_distance (9-1-UINT32): 17607.62m (1760762)
Time was 58:21.7. This is only 0.7 seconds longer than Strava claimed for the lap, a smaller difference than I'd seen at Old La Honda due to my firmware upgrade and selection of one-second sampling.
But when I look at the segment, it says 58:35. So where'd that 14 seconds come from?
The listed start for the segment is the same, so no difference there:
But the finish is quite striking -- the finish was marked in the middle of the parking lot:
Bad match, perhaps? Here's the reference data:
Also the middle of the lot.
That's sort of strange, since many riders will reach the lot then stop, or even reach it then take a tight left to descend. On the plus side, moving the end of the segment away from the steep section guarantees riders will have completed the entire steep portion. But in this case it seems almost criminal to destroy people's results because they stopped in what at least in theory could be a congested lot.
So there's another segment: "Diablo North Gate to Summit". I'll not post images like I did from the last one, but if you follow the link you can see this one starts considerably later. South of the north gate itself, there's a bit of a rolling section which includes a descent before the road begins its monotonic ascent. This segment omits this beginning portion, which I understand. But the finish of this segment is what's most unfortunate. It's at the beginning of the 15% grade leading to the lot! I'm sorry, if you reach this section then faced with the sheer horror of what awaits, you turn back, then you, my friend, have not climbed Diablo. You've got to include that last portion.
So two segments, neither really doing the job. Of course I could define my own, but there's already too many segments flying around. Just remember when you climb Diablo to keep going once you reach the lot to make sure you trigger that first, more complete segment.


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My favorite part was when the snake swore he would kill the man, and the man screamed like a little girl. It was very funny. This book is special because you can learn a lot about Egypt. I even learned about sandstorms. I felt like I was learning a lot about Egyptology. I know more about how Egypt was formed after reading this book. My favorite character was the Egyptologist, Samuel Carter, I learned a lot from his adventures.
This is the perfect book to read if you want to learn about Egypt. The author really helps you to visualize what Egypt looks like. I highly recommend this book to students in grades 2nd – 8th. It's full of action, excitement, and you can also learn some things about Egypt by reading it.


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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred School masters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M.A.S.H, Colonel Potter
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968


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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
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Labels: corn, decorations, fall, indian, ornamental, wordless wednesday
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I save my corn from year to year. It doesn't go bad and it is sometimes hard to find the really pretty ones.
- October 1, 2008 at 6:28 AM
- earthlingorgeous said...
those corn looks so yummy and ready to be consumed.
- October 1, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- Amy-Happy Momma said...
I have corn like this hanging on my front door!
Happy WW!
- October 1, 2008 at 7:45 AM
Yup. It is that time of yer. I think I'll go get me some too. Thanks for the reminder!
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What's Going On?
Sometimes as a simulation specialist you have to climb behind your AV rack to retrace your signal path. Digging into the dark corners where all the cords blend into a nest is not fun but necessary from time to time. Every time I introduce a new piece of equipment into the control room or lab I do so temporarily, because I know that there is a possibility of moving it somewhere more appropriate. For example, if you upgrade your video mixing system - will the new mixers take up desk space, get racked up or sit on something else? We don't know how something is going to "fit" until we use it for a while in the "flow" of a simulation. Once a new piece becomes "fixed" in the cramped space, I realign the cabling more permanently. It just so happens that with all the upgrading I've been doing, I've been visiting the back of my media desk a few times this winter. And here's what's been upgraded, purchased, fixed and/or enhanced this semester:
1. Installed the new video mixers for enhanced playback of vital signs monitor. A"superimposed" image from a camera or monitor lays over the main camera view. Both SimMan and HPS are hooked into the recording and video matrix this way so it goes direct to DVD and the classrooms that way too. Students and facilitators see the action in the room and also see a continuously changing vitals monitor "on top of" the main camera image.
2. The METI HPS systems have been upgraded and now support drug editing, so you (or a researcher) can create a new drug or upgrade to a new one on the market as it becomes available to METI.
3. Created a temporary debriefing room/observation area by running AV cable to the Nursing lab across the hall and attaching a video projector to it. Voila instant debrief room! Maine Med and Nursing are currently using this space.
4. Installed and tested the new METI ACLS scenario case files for the HPS. They are pretty excellent from what I can tell. This gives us the ability to do high fidelity ACLS with the HPS simulators-both at the same time. The case files are diverse and offer some unique challenges and excellent worksheets with each case.
5. Repaired several glitches and problems with one of our METI HPS simulators. The problems were wear and tear issues involving replacing pneumatic tubing and electrical pieces. But I also had an incredibly long winded affair with a lung that was staying super inflated. Throughout the process of trying to zero in on the reason why it was never releasing the pressure in the right lung, I learned a lot about the HPS rack and the pneumatic system in detail.
I ended up changing out several key components in the body and the rack. I think there were seven pieces changed (including the master Linux computer) in all before it turned out to be a very small pneumatic sensor thingy. Needless to say I'm not afraid of anything on the HPS now. A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO CURT FROM METI. I couldn't have done it without his patient help.
6. Installed a voice transformer. This little toy is fun. A female can sound like a male or vice versa. Also an actor or facilitator can speak through it and sound like a child or an elderly person. We've found that it helps the "reality" factor for students. If they hear an "old man voice" coming out of a patient who's supposed to be an old man this is better than hearing a woman trying to imitate and old man. Or vice versa. I think we need another one, maybe two.
He he he he....
7. Implemented wireless headphones into the control room. The reasoning is simple - less wires running across the room is better. The thing is, a control room tends to be an electromagnetically heavy zone. Lots of waves criss crossing the space. We have found that the headphones work but because there are so many pieces of equipment running in the immediate vicinity, the range for hearing is quite small. If you get up and walk beyond 8 feet from the cradle/transceiver the sound cuts off completely. However no cross talk problems have turned up yet.
8. Implemented walkie talkies for facilitator/actor communications. These will be used so that the control room folks can discreetly "control" an actor or faculty member with voice cues. For example, the person in the lab could be playing the girlfriend of a man who's been in a motor vehicle accident. She can stay in character and take cues from the facilitator in the control room as they say, "Okay, now start getting agitated and question the PA's decision making". The person playing the girlfriend has an ear bud in and can hear the instructions and act appropriately. Also during busy days the use of the walkie talkies helps keep track of your colleagues. Multi uses for multi-taskers.
9. OH, Yeah...started this blog. (And it's taking on it's own life.)
10. Ordered and installed new emergency bedding. Now the sims are all mobile.
So those are the larger updates to our little sim universe. This summer there are plans for even more "stuff" to be introduced to the program. I'll keep folks in the loop during the summer.
Seeya next week.


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Barnes & Noble Inc said on Wednesday that Michael Huseby, the head of its digital division, was named chief executive, a move Wall Street interpreted to mean the bookseller still sees e-books and e-readers as a priority.
The largest U.S. bookstore chain had been without a CEO since July, when William Lynch resigned in the wake of several quarters of poor sales of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers and e-books business, which he developed. Last quarter, Nook division sales fell 32 percent, continuing the decline.
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Huseby joined Barnes & Noble as finance chief in March 2012 and was made head of its Nook digital unit last summer.
The selection of Huseby "shows tech still a priority," said Barclays Capital analyst Alan Rifkin in the headline of a research note.
In November, he told investors that Barnes & Noble was in the device business "to stay," although the company had suggested in June it would scale back its digital business.
The company is facing declining sales in all its units, in its Nook business, its superstores and at its college stores, and Huseby has his work cut out for him, Rifkin said.
"We remain concerned around material same-store sales declines in the Retail segment, volatility in the College segment and significant losses in the NOOK segment," Rifkin wrote.
In November, Barnes & Noble estimated it had a 20 percent share of the U.S. e-books market, compared with about 27 percent in February.
Two year ago, Barnes & Noble floated the idea of splitting the company, with one entity for its digital and college business and the other for retail. The retailer abandoned those plans in August and Chairman and founder Leonard Riggio decided not to make an offer for the retail business, an idea he floated in February 2013.
Huseby has experience in spinning off businesses and overseeing mergers. Earlier in his career, he worked at AT&T Broadband and led the team that completed its merger with Comcast in 2002, and he spun off two businesses at Cablevision, where he was chief financial officer from 2004 to 2011.
At the time of his hiring, Barnes & Noble touted Huseby's deal-making skills.
The bookseller is set to report its holiday sales on Thursday.
(Reporting by Phil Wahba in New York; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Andre Grenon)


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updated 5:19 p.m. ET June 24, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Justin Verlander "didn't feel particularly great" Sunday.
So what did he do on a ho-hum day?
He threw a five-hitter, helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2.
"We had the horse going," said Detroit manager Jim Leyland, "and he pitched like the horse is supposed to pitch."
Quintin Berry hit a two-run shot for his first major league home run. He also scored the go-ahead run on Delmon Young's single in the eighth, an inning after Garrett Jones tied it with a two-run homer.
"Stupid pitch," Verlander said. "Bad location. All of the above."
Five weeks after he took a no-hitter into the ninth against the Pirates in Detroit on May 18, that was the only mistake Verlander (8-4) would make.
He had allowed only two infield hits through six innings Sunday before Pedro Alvarez singled with one out in the seventh. Jones followed by launching a 1-1 changeup into a sliver of seating in right-center.
Verlander retired all six Pirates he faced to close out the game after the Tigers retook the lead. Verlander struck out three in the final two innings to give him seven in the game.
Andrew McCutchen entered on a 15-for-28 tear but capped an 0-for-4 day against Verlander by flying out to begin the ninth. Casey McGehee and Alvarez struck out to end the game.
"That was not an easy order to go through in the ninth inning, and he took charge of that ninth inning pretty good," Leyland said.
"That's why he's, in my opinion, the best pitcher in baseball," Leyland said.
Verlander needed 117 pitches to toss his fourth complete game of the season and 18th of his career. He has won three consecutive starts.
"I actually didn't feel particularly great," Verlander said. "But at least my location was there. I was able to locate pretty well and got a lot of weak contact because of that. I didn't have the flashy fastball or anything, but I was able to pitch and go nine innings."
Detroit avoided a sweep, winning for only the second time in five games.
Berry's homer off of Kevin Correia four pitches into the game was his first in 96 career big league at-bats. Austin Jackson singled ahead of Berry.
"I willed that thing out," Berry said. "Ever since it went up in the air, I pushed it out with everything I had."
Pittsburgh remained one game behind the Cincinnati Reds, who lost to Minnesota, in the NL Central.
The Tigers matched their run total for the first two games of the series combined before many in the crowd of 35,179 had even settled into their seats. The series drew 111,878 to PNC Park, the fifth-most for a three-game series at the 12-year-old ballpark.
Pittsburgh had won 16 of its past 20 at home and had already clinched its fifth consecutive series victory at PNC Park with consecutive 4-1 wins Friday and Saturday.
A sweep appeared out of the question once Verlander was handed a two-run lead. But Jones tied it with his ninth homer and second in four games.
"I was geared up to hit the fastball, but he hung a changeup and I was able to recognize it, stay through it and get the good part of the bat on it," Jones said.
The tie lasted only a half-inning. Berry walked with one out and stole second. Chris Resop (0-3) intentionally walked Prince Fielder to face Young, who was 1 for 9 in the series until singling in his previous at-bat.
He singled to right to score Berry.
After allowing the home run two batters into the game, Correia retire 12 of the next 15 and did not allow another runner to advance past second.
"I pitched pretty good after (Berry's homer)," Correia said, "but it's tough to spot a guy like Verlander two runs. I knew after that that's all I could give up if I was going to keep us in the game."
Counting 5 1-3 shutout innings in a win against Minnesota Tuesday, Correia has put together two consecutive strong outings.
Correia was thought to be a candidate to be the odd man out of the rotation when Jeff Karstens was activated from the disabled list this week, but after the game the Pirates announced that Karstens would start Monday in Philadelphia.
Brad Lincoln is returning to the bullpen. The rest of the Pittsburgh rotation is being pushed back a day. A corresponding roster move will be made Monday.
NOTES: Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was ejected by home plate umpire Marty Foster for arguing a checked-swing call on McGehee. ... Pittsburgh claimed INF/OF Drew Sutton off waivers from Tampa Bay. He will report to the team later in the week. The Pirates also recalled RHP Bryan Morris before the game and optioned INF Jordy Mercer to Triple-A. ... The Tigers continue their road trip with three games in Texas. RHP Rick Porcello (4-5, 4.95) will start Monday. After Sunday's game, the team announced LHP Drew Smyly will come off the disabled list to start Tuesday. RHP Jacob Turner was optioned to Triple-A Toledo.
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Parks and Recreation Department taking conservation measures
Mayor Don Wesely today asked Lincoln residents to voluntarily limit outdoor water use to an odd-even alternate day schedule to conserve water during the hot, dry weather. Lincoln's water usage averaged more than 66.3 million gallons of water per day in June, an all-time high for the month. From July 1 through 4, water usage has averaged 80.7 million gallons per day. Last year's high usage came in August, with an average of 65.7 million gallons used per day that month. The all-time high usage in Lincoln was 70.9 million gallons per day in July 1974.
"With the high water usage and no rain in the forecast, it is the time to ask citizens to comply with an odd-even arrangement," said Mayor Wesely. "Our water system is designed to keep up with the demand, but there is no reason to put unnecessary demands on our supply. Conserving water is always a good idea, and it is necessary now to prevent mandatory restrictions."
Mayor Wesely said City government will follow the conservation measures recommended by the Lincoln Water System to reduce water use. Measures include watering the ornamental gardens only during the cooler parts of the day to reduce evaporation and reducing the watering of the public golf course fairways.
The Mayor said the community does not yet have an actual water shortage, but due to the ongoing drought conditions, residents have been using a lot more water than normal. "If people will voluntarily use less to reduce consumption back to the City's more typical usage levels, we can prevent an actual shortage from occurring during these hot, dry conditions," said Wesely.
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, those properties with street addresses ending in an even number, including zero, are asked to water lawns and wash cars and other vehicles on even-numbered calendar days. Addresses ending in odd numbers are asked to water on odd-numbered calendar days. Those property owners with more than one street address at the same location can choose either even- or odd- numbered days and notify the Lincoln Water System of their decision.
Jerry Obrist of the Lincoln Water System said residents have done a good job of reducing water usage since the Mayor first asked residents to conserve water June 25. Obrist said water usage went down from more than 90 million gallons a day to about 82 million gallons.
Public Works and Utilities Director Allan Abbott also reminded residents that the City's water fees are structured to encourage conservation. "The more water you use, the higher the price," Abbott said. "Those who don't cut back on their watering can expect high water bills."
Water is billed by the unit. One unit is 100 cubic feet of water or about 750 gallons. The price is 79 cents per unit for the first 8 units (about 6,000 gallons). The price increases to $1.09 for the next 15 units (11,250 gallons). It increases again to $1.45 per unit for every 750 gallons above 15 units. A complete description of water rates is available on the city web site at under Public Works and Utilities.
In addition to following the odd-even system, the Lincoln Water System recommends the following:
If dry conditions continue, Johnson said more water conservation measures may be taken, including (in priority order):
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Theologos Mintzas
Athens, Greece
Class Year:
Prior Education:
University of Athens Law School, LL.M. in Legal Theory
University of Athens Law School, LL.B.
What I Did Before Law School:
Right before I joined the Penn Law family, I worked for about two years as an Attorney, and before that, I was elected as a Member of the City Council and also served as a Deputy Mayor of the City of Imittos, a municipality within the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece.
Why I Chose Penn Law:
After my first months here in Philly, I feel pretty confident that I made the right choice. I did choose Penn Law for a number of reasons, but mostly because of its Ivy League tradition, its location within one of the greatest and most historic American cities, its medium sized student body and its interdisciplinary curriculum.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
The LLM program itself constitutes a truly amazing and unique experience. Being part of a group of about 90 bright people from all around the world is literally a lifetime experience. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it's like attending a parallel cultural University.
Professor Who Influenced Me Most:
Well, that's not an easy question to answer. Talking about influence is a little bit early, but, I can easily admit that I really enjoy both Professor Diamond's ("Negotiations") and Professor Langer's ("Antitrust") lectures. Interesting, stimulating and based on real life experiences, their lectures almost every time provide us with a new perspective.
My Favorite Course:
Without the slightest hesitation, I vote for Antitrust. It really is an important course. A course that combines both legal and economic practice and knowledge and provides you with a deep sense and understanding of the underlying streams that determine almost all legal and economic patterns. And US with more than a century of Antitrust practice is the ideal place to focus on it.
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
My trip to New York! Well, no, I am kidding of course! But one of the great advantages of Philly is that it is located close to New York, Washington, Baltimore and Boston. Philly itself, is a beautiful and historical city, with really great people and many opportunities and things to do.
What I'm Most Proud Of:
First of the people close to me who supported my decision to continue my legal studies here in the US and second, of my choice to decide to join Penn Law.
My Favorite Place or Activity on the University Campus:
Walking on the University's walkway always relaxes me and gives me the feeling that I am a part of a historic academic environment. Don't forget, that UPenn is America's first University!


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Django model mixins and utilities.
Install from PyPI with pip:
pip install django-model-utils
or get the in-development version:
pip install django-model-utils==tip
To use django-model-utils in your Django project, just import and use the utility classes described below; there is no need to modify your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
Most of django-model-utils works with Django 1.1 or later. InheritanceManager and SplitField require Django 1.2 or later.
Choices provides some conveniences for setting choices on a Django model field:
from model_utils import Choices class Article(models.Model): STATUS = Choices('draft', 'published') # ... status = models.CharField(choices=STATUS, default=STATUS.draft, max_length=20)
A Choices object is initialized with any number of choices. In the simplest case, each choice is a string; that string will be used both as the database representation of the choice, and the human-readable representation. Note that you can access options as attributes on the Choices object: STATUS.draft.
But you may want your human-readable versions translated, in which case you need to separate the human-readable version from the DB representation. In this case you can provide choices as two-tuples:
from model_utils import Choices class Article(models.Model): STATUS = Choices(('draft', _('draft')), ('published', _('published'))) # ... status = models.CharField(choices=STATUS, default=STATUS.draft, max_length=20)
But what if your database representation of choices is constrained in a way that would hinder readability of your code? For instance, you may need to use an IntegerField rather than a CharField, or you may want the database to order the values in your field in some specific way. In this case, you can provide your choices as triples, where the first element is the database representation, the second is a valid Python identifier you will use in your code as a constant, and the third is the human-readable version:
from model_utils import Choices class Article(models.Model): STATUS = Choices((0, 'draft', _('draft')), (1, 'published', _('published'))) # ... status = models.IntegerField(choices=STATUS, default=STATUS.draft)
A simple convenience for giving a model a set of "states." StatusField is a CharField subclass that expects to find a STATUS class attribute on its model, and uses that as its choices. Also sets a default max_length of 100, and sets its default value to the first item in the STATUS choices:
from model_utils.fields import StatusField from model_utils import Choices class Article(models.Model): STATUS = Choices('draft', 'published') # ... status = StatusField()
(The STATUS class attribute does not have to be a Choices instance, it can be an ordinary list of two-tuples).
A DateTimeField subclass that monitors another field on the model, and updates itself to the current date-time whenever the monitored field changes:
from model_utils.fields import MonitorField, StatusField class Article(models.Model): STATUS = Choices('draft', 'published') status = StatusField() status_changed = MonitorField(monitor='status')
(A MonitorField can monitor any type of field for changes, not only a StatusField.)
A TextField subclass that automatically pulls an excerpt out of its content (based on a "split here" marker or a default number of initial paragraphs) and stores both its content and excerpt values in the database.
A SplitField is easy to add to any model definition:
from django.db import models from model_utils.fields import SplitField class Article(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=100) body = SplitField()
SplitField automatically creates an extra non-editable field _body_excerpt to store the excerpt. This field doesn't need to be accessed directly; see below.
Accessing a SplitField on a model
When accessing an attribute of a model that was declared as a SplitField, a SplitText object is returned. The SplitText object has three attributes:
- content:
- The full field contents.
- excerpt:
- The excerpt of content (read-only).
- has_more:
- True if the excerpt and content are the same, False otherwise.
This object also has a __unicode__ method that returns the full content, allowing SplitField attributes to appear in templates without having to access content directly.
Assuming the Article model above:
>>> a = Article.objects.all()[0] >>> a.body.content u'some text\n\n<!-- split -->\n\nmore text' >>> a.body.excerpt u'some text\n' >>> unicode(a.body) u'some text\n\n<!-- split -->\n\nmore text'
Assignment to a.body is equivalent to assignment to a.body.content.
a.body.excerpt is only updated when a.save() is called
Customized excerpting
By default, SplitField looks for the marker <!-- split --> alone on a line and takes everything before that marker as the excerpt. This marker can be customized by setting the SPLIT_MARKER setting.
If no marker is found in the content, the first two paragraphs (where paragraphs are blocks of text separated by a blank line) are taken to be the excerpt. This number can be customized by setting the SPLIT_DEFAULT_PARAGRAPHS setting.
An abstract base class for any model that expresses a time-range. Adds start and end nullable DateTimeFields, and a timeframed manager that returns only objects for whom the current date-time lies within their time range.
Pulls together StatusField, MonitorField and QueryManager into an abstract base class for any model with a "status."
Just provide a STATUS class-attribute (a Choices object or a list of two-tuples), and your model will have a status field with those choices, a status_changed field containing the date-time the status was last changed, and a manager for each status that returns objects with that status only:
from model_utils.models import StatusModel from model_utils import Choices class Article(StatusModel): STATUS = Choices('draft', 'published') # ... a = Article() a.status = Article.STATUS.published # this save will update a.status_changed a.save() # this query will only return published articles: Article.published.all()
This manager (contributed by Jeff Elmore) should be attached to a base model class in a model-inheritance tree. It allows queries on that base model to return heterogenous results of the actual proper subtypes, without any additional queries.
For instance, if you have a Place model with subclasses Restaurant and Bar, you may want to query all Places:
nearby_places = Place.objects.filter(location='here')
But when you iterate over nearby_places, you'll get only Place instances back, even for objects that are "really" Restaurant or Bar. If you attach an InheritanceManager to Place, you can just call the select_subclasses() method on the InheritanceManager or any QuerySet from it, and the resulting objects will be instances of Restaurant or Bar:
from model_utils.managers import InheritanceManager class Place(models.Model): # ... objects = InheritanceManager() class Restaurant(Place): # ... class Bar(Place): # ... nearby_places = Place.objects.filter(location='here').select_subclasses() for place in nearby_places: # "place" will automatically be an instance of Place, Restaurant, or Bar
The database query performed will have an extra join for each subclass; if you want to reduce the number of joins and you only need particular subclasses to be returned as their actual type, you can pass subclass names to select_subclasses(), much like the built-in select_related() method:
nearby_places = Place.objects.select_subclasses("restaurant") # restaurants will be Restaurant instances, bars will still be Place instances
InheritanceManager also provides a subclass-fetching alternative to the get() method:
place = Place.objects.get_subclass(id=some_id) # "place" will automatically be an instance of Place, Restaurant, or Bar
If you don't explicitly call select_subclasses() or get_subclass(), an InheritanceManager behaves identically to a normal Manager; so it's safe to use as your default manager for the model.
InheritanceManager currently only supports a single level of model inheritance; it won't work for grandchild models.
The implementation of InheritanceManager uses select_related internally. Due to Django bug #16855, this currently means that it will override any previous select_related calls on the QuerySet.
InheritanceManager requires Django 1.2 or later. Previous versions of django-model-utils included InheritanceCastModel, an alternative (and inferior) approach to this problem that is Django 1.1 compatible. InheritanceCastModel will remain in django-model-utils until support for Django 1.1 is removed, but it is no longer documented and its use in new code is discouraged.
This abstract base class just provides self-updating created and modified fields on any model that inherits from it.
Many custom model managers do nothing more than return a QuerySet that is filtered in some way. QueryManager allows you to express this pattern with a minimum of boilerplate:
from django.db import models from model_utils.managers import QueryManager class Post(models.Model): ... published = models.BooleanField() pub_date = models.DateField() ... objects = models.Manager() public = QueryManager(published=True).order_by('-pub_date')
The kwargs passed to QueryManager will be passed as-is to the QuerySet.filter() method. You can also pass a Q object to QueryManager to express more complex conditions. Note that you can set the ordering of the QuerySet returned by the QueryManager by chaining a call to .order_by() on the QueryManager (this is not required).
A common "gotcha" when defining methods on a custom manager class is that those same methods are not automatically also available on the QuerySets returned by that manager, so are not "chainable". This can be counterintuitive, as most of the public QuerySet API is mirrored on managers. It is possible to create a custom Manager that returns QuerySets that have the same additional methods, but this requires boilerplate code. The PassThroughManager class (contributed by Paul McLanahan) removes this boilerplate.
To use PassThroughManager, rather than defining a custom manager with additional methods, define a custom QuerySet subclass with the additional methods you want, and pass that QuerySet subclass to the PassThroughManager.for_queryset_class() class method. The returned PassThroughManager subclass will always return instances of your custom QuerySet, and you can also call methods of your custom QuerySet directly on the manager:
from datetime import datetime from django.db import models from django.db.models.query import QuerySet from model_utils.managers import PassThroughManager class PostQuerySet(QuerySet): def by_author(self, user): return self.filter(user=user) def published(self): return self.filter(published__lte=datetime.now()) def unpublished(self): return self.filter(published__gte=datetime.now()) class Post(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) published = models.DateTimeField() objects = PassThroughManager.for_queryset_class(PostQuerySet)() Post.objects.published() Post.objects.by_author(user=request.user).unpublished()
Previous versions of django-model-utils included manager_from, a function that solved the same problem as PassThroughManager. The manager_from approach created dynamic QuerySet subclasses on the fly, which broke pickling of those querysets. For this reason, PassThroughManager is recommended instead.


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I have recently invested some of my saving with Annaly, after consulting with financial advisors. I did so because the yields at many banks and other investments were so low. I understand that Annaly make its profits by reinvesting stock revenues into GSEs and leverages these revenues to maximize returns. I know that these support home mortgages sponsored by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which help Americans stay in their homes at a time when housing lending is compromised.
I feel that by investing in Annaly I am protecting American interests and my own simultaneously. I hope the SEC are not planning to tamper with Annaly nor the regulatory environment that it finds itself.
I think it would be in everybody's interest if we could find a way to increase REIT participation to help 'troubled' home buyers stay in their homes while still providing a steady, stable return to the investor.


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In this activity, student teams create a knowledge map of the essential characteristics or factors of a planet with a habitable climate, identifying range of inputs, outputs and variables of a planetary environmental system. Identified... (View More) characteristics are compared to extreme environments on Earth, such as the Antarctic or the Sahara desert, and are used to consider the real life challenge of searching for life in extreme environments. The resource includes a student data sheet, questions, teacher's guide and scoring rubric. This is Activity B of two activities in the first module, titled "Temperature variations and habitability," of the resource,
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Cattle breeder questions BJD review independence
A national beef industry group says an independent panel should assess government responses to a cattle disease outbreak in Queensland.
Bovine Johne's disease (BJD) was detected on a brahman stud near Rockhampton, in central Queensland, last year.
The State Government has appointed former AgForce president Brent Finlay and veterinary professor Johnathon Hill to review how BJD is being managed.
John Croaker from the Australian Brahman Breeders' Association says he welcomes the review but more people should be involved.
"I'd certainly question the independence of a past president of AgForce on a very small panel, given that they have had a very entrenched position on BJD for a long time," he said.
"I would've like to have seen a slightly larger panel."
However, Queensland Agriculture Minister John McVeigh says keeping the panel to two, takes away layers of bureaucracy.
He says the panel will be impartial.
"I make the point that Mr Finlay is no longer president of AgForce but more particularly he is a man of experience," he said.
"I have asked both he and professor Hill to give me a very robust, no holds barred review of how we've gone.
"Industry hasn't asked me to do this, this is a position I've taken as Minister."
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Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV cable reality series "Buckwild," has died. He was 21.
The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department confirmed to MTV News that Gandee's body was discovered in a vehicle along with two others near Sissonville, West Virginia, on Monday morning. Gandee had been reported missing over the weekend.
According to reports, he was last seen with his uncle David Gandee, 48, around 3 a.m. Sunday morning. Family members told The Associated Press that the men had been planning on going off-roading, but did not say where.
The bodies were discovered inside a 1984 Ford Bronco that was stuck in a mud pit with its muffler below the surface, authorities said Monday. No foul play is suspected.
According to the AP, authorities said the cause of the deaths was still under investigation and they refused to speculate on what happened. If the muffler was submerged and the engine kept running, it's possible the cabin of the vehicle could have filled with fatal carbon monoxide from the exhaust.
Police identified a second body inside the vehicle as David Gandee's, while a third victim remains unidentified.
"It's a very sad day for this county," Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said to MTV. "This is a small place and just about everyone in this community knows everybody."
A spokesperson for the network said in a statement: "We are shocked and saddened by the terrible news about Shain Gandee, and those involved in this tragic incident. We are waiting for more information but at this time, our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Shain had a magnetic personality, with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly."
The reality series "Buckwild" followed a group of West Virginia teens and twenty-somethings partying it up down-South style. The show drew criticism from many corners due to the onscreen behavior of the cast. Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia even wrote a letter to MTV's president in which he called the show a "travesty."
In the wake of Shain's death, production on the show's second season has been suspended, a network spokesperson told NBC's The Clicker.
In January, Gandee appeared with his "Buckwild" co-star Shae Bradley to defend their then-new show from critics who feared their on-screen antics would reinforce negative stereotypes about West Virginians.
The news came as a shock to the "Buckwild" cast, with many of them taking to social media outlets such as Twitter to reflect on their loss.
Shae Bradley tweeted: "Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. Just going through the motions. Please pray for Shains close friends and family."
"Rest high on that mountain Shain," wrote Michael "Buckwild" Burford. "I love you brother and miss you terribly already all I can think about is growin up thaxton holler together."
"Rip Shain Gandee," added co-star Ashley Whitt. "You are an angel, I know you will watch over me."