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Dr. Elane Seebo has been named the new dean of the Wichita Falls campus of Wayland Baptist University , effective Jan. 1, 2004. Seebo replaces Dr. Georgia Flanagan, who stepped down from the dean's position after 14 years to take a full-time teaching position in business and education.
Seebo comes to Wayland from the position of dean of the Community College of the Air Force, based in Montgomery, Ala., where she oversaw the college's 66 academic degree programs serving over 375,000 students and offered through 125 affiliate schools. In that position, she was the focal point for the college's accreditation through the Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and served as the key academic advisor to the President.
Prior to that position, Seebo spent 18 years at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, serving in various capacities such as such as director of the Family Support Center, technical training instructor, curriculum developer, chief of training technology, chief of faculty development, chief of training evaluation, and senior training administrator. After spending more than 30 years in federal civil service, Seebo retired at the end of 2003.
Seebo is no stranger to Wayland, having served as an adjunct instructor for the university during her years at Sheppard. She feels her experience in the military side of voluntary education and with regional accreditation will be beneficial in her new role with WBU.
Seebo holds a bachelor's degree in English from Oklahoma State University, a master's degree in education from Texas Tech University and a master's degree in human resource management from Pepperdine University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in 1991.
"We're pleased to have another person of Dr. Seebo's caliber on our staff," said Dr. Bill Hardage, executive vice president at Wayland. "She brings both quality in management and expertise in the field. Having been in the academic vice president's office of the Community College of the Air Force, she is knowledgeable about Wayland's degree programs and the educational process for the airmen at Sheppard Air Force Base. She is the second person we've hired from CCAF."
Wayland's campus in Wichita Falls is located primarily on Sheppard air base, with an off-base location in Call Field Shopping Center. The campus offers undergraduate degrees in a variety of fields and graduate degrees in education, management and business. The campus can be reached at (940) 855-4322.


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Working Out During Pregnancy
Once upon a time, expecting mothers were viewed as delicate and fragile creatures who need only be concerned with eating for two and putting their feet up to rest. Fortunately, times have changed and it's now widely acknowledged that exercise and maintaining a healthy diet throughout pregnancy has many benefits. With pregnancy-related conditions such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes on the rise, leading an active lifestyle and eating right is encouraged more than ever.
In most cases, exercise is safe during pregnancy, and is even recommended. If you were physically active before you were pregnant, it is likely safe to remain active during pregnancy. But as with anything during pregnancy, consult your physician to determine what type of physical activity is safe for you before you attempt it. According to the American Pregnancy Association, exercising for 30 minutes (the length of a 9Round workout) on most days can greatly benefit your health during pregnancy. The following are just a few of the perks of working out regularly while pregnant:
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- May help prevent, or treat, gestational diabetes
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- Helps you sleep better
- Regular activity also helps keep you fit during pregnancy and may improve your ability to cope with labor. This will make it easier for you to get back in shape after your baby is born.
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He's Back! Sox Sign Drew
The Red Sox have signed free agent shortstop Stephen Drew. The team will bring him back on a one year deal that is pro-rated for this season to the tune of about $10 million bucks.
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports and Jon Heyman of CBS Sports first reported the signing.
Drew hit .253 with 13 home runs and 67 RBI for the Sox last year. He turned down salary arbitration and a $14 million dollar deal in the off season, hoping to get a multi-year deal with someone. It never happened.
There was some speculation that Drew, through his agent Scott Boras, would wait until the June amateur draft. After that time, another team could sign him without having to give up a first round draft pick.
Apparently the Sox have given him that $14M deal, pro-rated, which means he'll get about $10M for the rest of the season.
It also likely means Xander Bogaerts moves to third base.
The Sox play Toronto at Fenway tonight.
Check back here for more updates.


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on the wiki:
- The Control.Concurrency module
Papers and other docs:
- Concurrent Haskell (the original paper, including a semantics)
- Extending the Haskell FFI with Concurrency (a specification of the interaction between concurrency and the FFI, with a semantics)
- A Draft report addendum (a shorter version of the above paper).
- A Poor Man's Concurrency Monad (Hugs' implementation of Concurrency)
- Software Transactional Memory
- Vital for some modern applications and large applications commonly require it.
- Stable
MVarimplementation is well understood and tested.
- Imposes non trivial implementation constraints.
- Providing a 'select' and non-blocking IO would be enough to allow people to implement something like it themselves in haskell and are provided by most systems as primitives.
- Things like the 'poor man's concurrency monad' can achieve some of the benefits
Proposal 1
- The Haskell' standard does not include concurrency, but includes enough to allow portable thread-safe libraries to be written. (see "thread safe", below).
- A separate addendum specifies concurrency according to the fairness requirements (see below).
Proposal 2
- The Haskell' standard includes concurrency with the fairness requirements.
- A separate addendum specifies how implementations that do not provide concurrency behave: at the least, it should include enough to allow portable thread-safe libraries.
Proposal 3
- The Haskell' standard includes concurrency with a weaker version of fairness, that is enough to admit implementations with cooperative scheduling.
- A separate addendum specifies concurrency with the full fairness requirements.
Open questions
- Require bound thread support, or make it optional? (YHC has concurrency with non-blocking foreign calls, but doesn't have bound threads as yet.)
- Do we require ForeignBlocking?
In order to write library code that is thread-safe when run in a multi-threaded environment, two things are needed:
- a way to protect mutable state against race conditions
- a way to declare that foreign calls are blocking
For (1), we have two choices:
- Provide
MVars. A non-concurrent implementation might implement them in terms of
IORef, for example.
- Provide STM. Not entirely trivial to implement, even in a single-threaded implementation, because exceptions have to abort a transaction. Ross Paterson provided an implementation.
For (2), one option is ForeignBlocking.
Pre-emption means that (1) threads have priority levels, and (2) that a higher priority thread can steal the processor from a currently-running lower priority thread, and (3) it can do so "immediately" it needs to, without waiting for some "safe" synchronisation point. By these criteria, none of the current Haskell implementations are pre-emptive, because no API assigns priorities to threads. So let's try to avoid using the term.
Fairness can be defined by two main criteria:
- No runnable process will be indefinitely delayed.
- No thread can be blocked indefinitely on an MVar unless another thread holds the MVar indefinitely.
Cooperative scheduling describes an implementation in which it is the programmer's responsibility to insert context switch points in the code. An implementation that only provides cooperative scheduling cannot satisfy the fairness properties given above. A programmer who has access to all the code may be able to insert enough context switch points to satisfy fairness, but this isn't always possible.
Concurrent foreign call means a foreign call that should run concurrently with other Haskell threads. It is a requirement of "fairness" (above) that a foreign call should not prevent other threads from making progress indefinitely. Note that we used to use the term non-blocking foreign call here, but that lead to confusion with "foreign calls that block", which are foreign calls that may wait indefinitely for some resource, such as reading data from a socket. "foreign calls that block" are the main reason for wanting support for concurrent foreign calls.
Scheduling. All current (and likely future) implementations of concurrency in Haskell use non-preemptive scheduling. That is, there are explicit time points at which any one thread can yield, allowing other threads to run. The only differences between implementations are in the granularity and positioning of the yield.
- For Hugs, yield is inserted at certain I/O actions.
- For ghc, yield is inserted after some count of allocations.
- For yhc, yield is inserted after some count of bytecode instructions.
Arguably, Hugs has made the wrong choice from a fairness point of view. It would be possible to make Hugs yield more often, such as in IO-monad's bind operator, but even this wouldn't be quite enough for fairness, because a thread might hang indefinitely performing a non-IO computation. Yielding outside of the IO monad in Hugs doesn't seem possible without overhauling the concurrency implementation completely.
There are several levels of concurrency support which require sucessivly more implementation support and imply more implementation overhead.
No Concurrency
The report says nothing about concurrency at all
Concurrent Friendly
Enough is specified to allow people to write completley portable programs and libraries that while they may not depend on concurrency, will not break in the presence of it. See "Thread-safety" above.
Concurrent Capabale
This would allow concurrency needing programs to be written, but perhaps not as transparently as it curently is with GHC. This would include everything needed to write concurrent programs without anything that would imply a run-time or implementation overhead in the non-concurrent case.


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Demi Lovato's team pretend to be Demi on Twitter; Answer Fan questions
While Demi Lovato takes some time out of the spotlight for her health, her team continues to help cover up her 2nd visit in rehab. Today it was announced that she'd be taking a break from her twitter break and doing a Q&A with fans on Twitter for Seventeen magazine.
The answers are very... um, well.. do you think this is the real Demi? is this her mom, her publicist? Who is trying to pretend that Demi Lovato actually has computer access right now? I don't think many people are buying it, Demi's Team. FYI, gummy bracelets only get you so far!
Check out "Demi"'s tweets behind the cut.
Do YOU think that this is the RILL @ddlovato???
source: @ddlovato / my musings
ETA: Update on some of the twitter accounts that "Demi" replied to (thanks flutesinger262!!)...
-@TRkmForever was created AFTER she replied. the first person she tweeted didn't exist either but i guess the account is up now "
-@julianrocha hasn't tweeted since August 2009: https://twitter.com/#!/julianarocha
-some of the accounts that she answered questions for never even tweeted that question
-most of the people she replied to seem to be sockpuppet accounts with like, 2 tweets each.


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Leadership Sweetwater students learn about healthcare in Nolan County
The Leadership Sweetwater class of 2012-2013 gathered for their healthcare session on Tuesday, Jan. 8, at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital. The group had the chance to tour the facility including the admission department, pharmacy, physical therapy department, cardiac rehabilitation department, surgery department, cardiopulmonary department, radiology department and laboratory. They then spoke with Rhonda Guelker, RPMH senior finance director and Julie Hall, RPMH business director about healthcare finance. The group had lunch with RPMH board members Kirby Andrews and Cheyenne Smith, and they also had the chance to tour the construction site of the new medical office facility. Shown are Mike Fernandez, Texas National Bank; Tommy McCoy, McCoy Funeral Home; Jared Monday, Roscoe State Bank; Darrell Doggett, Buzzi Unicem; Stephanie Wiele, Ludlum Measurements; Martin Baker, Ludlum Measurements; Richard Fergeson, State Farm Agent; Renee Garcia, First Financial Bank; Dr. Ellen Walthall, Walthall Surgical Center; Peggy Elliott, Southeast Elementary School; Mandy Richburg, Bennett & Associates; and Dr. Tim Jones, Family Practice. Not pictured are Gabriel Acosta, EMA; Brenda Watts, Nolan County Sheriff's Office; Brian Frieda, Sweetwater Police Chief and Kim Porter, Texas State Technical College.


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1.automatic mustard oil machine ---castor oil mill machinery prices
castor oil mill machinery prices- Main Equipments:
1. Storange tanks: Oil seeds receiving and storage
2. Magnetic box: Clearing the iron impurity which might be in the oil seeds. The iron impurity will be harmful to the following machines, so we need take the iron impurities out.
3. Cleaning: This parts have different size cleaning sieves to clean the different impurities. After going through this part, most of the impurities are moved from oil seeds.
4. Cooker: This machine can adjust the water content of the oil seeds. Itâs also good for the press and oil extraction section.
5. Press: The press machine is used to take parts or all of the oil in the oil seeds. We will design the suitable machine according to your requirement.
6. Oil filter: After getting coconut oil, the filter is used to move the impurities in the oil.
2.Edible oil extraction workshop-castor oil mill machinery prices
castor oil mill machinery prices=========Main Equipments:
1. Solvent pumps: continuously spray solvent to the rotary-typr extractor.
2. Roary extractor: spray and soak the cake with solvent so that oil fats can be dissolved in solvent (form miscella). After processing, you can get wet meal and miscella (mixed oil).
3. LD: used to separate the solvent from the wet meal.
4. Miscella tank 1st: pump the miscella ( oil with solvent) into the miscella 1st, then add 10% saline water to it. The phospholipid and impurities in the miscella will react with the saline water, at last the reactant precipitate, reaching the goal of purifying.
5. Miscella tank 2nd: the purified miscella will be pumped into it.
6. Miscella stripping: it will remove the remaining solvent in miscella. And the solvent will be discharged to condenser for recycling.
7. Condensers: used to cooling the solvent gas separated from the wet meal and miscella for recycling.
3.Edible oil refining workshop---castor oil mill machinery prices
castor oil mill machinery prices--Main Process:
1. Degumming and deacidification: The gumming is moved by phosphoric acid and hot water. There are two ways to move the acid in the edible oil. One is chemical way, the other one is physical way. The chemical way is using NaOH to react with acid. This way is suitable for the capacity of 5-30T per day.
The physical way is using steam and centrifugal to move the acid. This way is used for capacity from 30-2000T per day.
2. Decolorization: This step is used to adjust the color of the oil. You can control the color of the edible oil according to the requirement of your market.
3. Deodorization: The function of this step is to move the special smell in the oil. This is an important standard for refined edible oil.
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3.Leaching workshop turnkey project (Towline extractor, Rotocel extractor, loop type extractor, LD separated machine, the full negative pressure evaporation, paraffin wax recovery, leaching workshop degum, phospholipid concentrate).
4.30-1000T/D oil continuous grade two or one physical (chemical) refining production line.
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6.10-200T/D Fatty acid esterification production cooking oil production line.
7.30-300T/D Palm oil extraction turn-key project.
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1. Deacidification tank, used for acid refining, alkali refining and hydration
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3. Deodorization pot, used for removing fatty acid and other rare delicacy high efficiently
Leaching Section Processing of after sales- engineer sevice overseas,castor oil mill machinery prices:
1. The material (for pretreatment) is sent to rotary extraction by the scraper conveyor. The material will extracted by the solvent or mix oil. After this step, we will get meal and mix oil.
2. Meal is sent to toaster. Through the toaster, the solvent in the meal will separate from the meal. The solvent goes to condenser and is recycled to rotary extractor.
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The Shadowshopper is a partial catalog of over 200 Bay Area artist's wares for sale at Shadowshop, a temporary retail project by Stephanie Syjuco embedded in SFMOMA's fifth floor galleries. 100% of all sales go directly to the artist-producer. Support local creative capital!
3/14 UPDATES!Time is running out to visit Shadowshop! We officially shutter our doors forever on May 1, 2011. Only open for just over five months, we were always meant to be temporary. Join us to see hot new inventory from local Bay Area artists, and save the date of April 28 for our "FINAL DAYS" closing event party!
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- She was born July 2, 1881
- She married John William Prewett
- She had thirteen children
- She died January 21, 1942 in Los Angeles, CA
- She was buried in Lightning Ridge, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
When & Where did she get married? According to a "cousin's" family tree, she & John got married on November 12, 1896 in Red River County, Texas. But he has no verification. I haven't been able to find any either. Don't even get me started on how many spelling variations there are for Prewett, Prewitt, Pruitt, Prouette, etc.
Who the heck are her parents? I was really hoping to have this one answered by now! Back in May I ordered a copy of Cora's death certificate. It arrived a few days ago. Her father is Frank M. House (birthplace unknown) which goes along with what my husband's sister thinks she remembers. She thinks his name was Francis Marion, which is a very common name in her George line, so she wasn't sure. It's nice to know she may be right! Her mother's name and birthplace are both unknown. :(
Most of the trees online list her parents as Francis Marion House and Rhoda Elizabeth Turner. They believe this because a 1900 Federal Census for Sulphur, Sebastian, Arkansas shows a Cora B House born in 1881 in Arkansas as the daughter of Francis M and Rhodil House. I have a problem with this because a 1900 Federal Census for Township 1, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory has Cora Prewitt with her husband John W Prewett and first child, Harvey O. How can she be both people?
How I long for a copy of the 1890 Federal Census, it would answer so many questions!


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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Wreath block tutorial and Merry Christmas!
7 comments:
- Jess said...
I love this. I create costers for my aids for each season and could not find one to do for christmas. This is perfect and will look good in a smaller size. Thank you for the tutorial. Jess
- December 22, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- Noela said...
Lovely block and so quick. Thanks for the tutorial. Will make one for next year. Hugs....
- December 22, 2012 at 3:26 PM
This is sooo attractive, thanks for sharing!I so love the color choices! You might enjoy my quilt with vintage hankies, just go to the search box on "Quilted Nights..."
Keep up the lovely work! What creative ideas!
- December 22, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- Rosa said...
Great block and tutorial.Merry Christmas!!
- December 23, 2012 at 7:16 AM
It would be! And a great table topper, too. I may have to make some - 1 a month this year. It wouldn't take much time, which is limited around here, but I could make 12 friends happy next year! That gives me a NewFO project.
- December 23, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Oh, darn, I meant to say thanks for sharing this.
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This article contains a snapshot of what you can expect to see in the technical preview of Visio 2010. Some features are incomplete and are subject to change.
If you are used to working with Visio 2007, you will discover several new features in Microsoft Visio 2010, and you will notice that some familiar features have been updated. To help you get your bearings quickly, this article covers the major improvements and changes.
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It's Easier to Create Diagrams
Office Fluent interface, including the Ribbon
Visio 2010 now has the Microsoft Office Fluent interface, including the Ribbon. The Ribbon keeps the most often-used commands visible while you're working instead of hiding them under menus or toolbars. Also, commands that you may not have known about before are now easier to discover.
Commands are located on tabs, grouped by how they are used. The Home tab has a lot of the commands that are used most often, and other tabs have commands that are used for special purposes. For example, to design and format your diagram, click the Design tab to find themes, page setup, backgrounds, borders, titles, and more.
Starting a new diagram
When you start Visio, you are presented with the New window in a new part of the Microsoft Office Fluent UI. The New window contains the templates you use to start a diagram.
Many of the commands that used to be on the File menu are now in this area. When you start a new diagram from any of the templates, this space closes and the drawing window opens. To get back to this area for saving your file, printing, publishing, setting Visio options, or other non-diagramming actions, click the Microsoft Backstage Button.
Shapes window update, including Quick Shapes
The Shapes window shows all the stencils that are currently open in the document. Title bars for all the open stencils are at the top of the window. Click a title bar to see the shapes in that stencil.
The new Quick Shapes area at the top of every stencil (above the faint dividing line) is designed as a place for you to put the shapes you use most often. If you want to add or remove shapes, just drag the shapes you want into or out of the Quick Shapes area. In fact, you can rearrange the order of shapes anywhere in the stencil by dragging them where you want them.
If you have several stencils open and you know you only need a few shapes from each stencil, click the Quick Shapes tab to see the Quick Shapes from all open stencils together in one place.
Finding more shapes
The More Shapes menu is now in the Shapes window, so you don't have to leave the Shapes window to open a new stencil.
By default, the Search box is hidden to make more room for shapes and stencils. To open the Search box, click More Shapes, and then click Search for Shapes. Search for Shapes uses the Windows Search engine to find shapes on your computer, so you must have Windows Search turned on to use it. To search the Internet for shapes, click Find Shapes Online.
Live Preview
Live Preview shows how formatting options, such as fonts and themes, will look before you commit to them. The style you point to is applied temporarily so you can quickly try several options.
Auto Size
Auto Size replaces the printer-paper-sized visible page in the Visio drawing surface with an expandable page that eases the creation of larger diagrams. When Auto Size is turned on and you drop a shape outside the current page, the page extends to accommodate the larger diagram. Printer-paper divisions are shown by dotted lines.
Insert and delete shapes with automatic adjustment
If you have already created a diagram but you need to add or remove shapes, Visio does connecting and repositioning for you. Insert a shape into a diagram by dropping it on a connector.
The surrounding shapes automatically move to make room for the new shape, and a new connector is added to the sequence.
When you delete a shape that's connected in a sequence, such as the middle shape above, the two connectors are automatically replaced by a single connector between the remaining shapes. In this case, though, the shapes do not move to close up the spacing, because that might not always be the right action. If you want to adjust the spacing, you can select the shapes and click Auto Align & Space.
Auto Align and Space
Make alignment and spacing adjustments to shapes by using the Auto Align & Space button. You can adjust all the shapes in a diagram at the same time, or select shapes if you want to specify which ones are adjusted.
To perform alignment and spacing adjustments, on the Home tab, click Auto Align & Space.
To perform alignment, spacing, or orientation adjustments separately, on the Home tab, click Position, and then click the command you want.
AutoConnect enhancements
The AutoConnect feature makes it easier to connect shapes:
When you hold the pointer over a blue AutoConnect arrow, a mini toolbar appears that contains up to four shapes from the Quick Shapes area of the currently selected stencil.
If your shapes are already on the page, you can drag a connector from a blue AutoConnect arrow of one shape and drop it on another shape. By connecting shapes this way, you don't need to switch to the Connector tool.
Point to a shape on the mini toolbar to see a live preview on the page, and click to add the shape, already connected.
Clarify the structure of diagrams
A container is a shape that visually contains other shapes on the page. Containers make it easier to see groups of shapes that are logically related to each other.
Containers also manage the position of member shapes by moving, copying, or deleting the member shapes along with the container. To protect the shapes, you can lock the contents of a container so shapes cannot be deleted or added.
Containers can automatically expand themselves as you add shapes, and also reduce their size to fit the contents after you remove shapes.
Some containers manage sets of shapes
Some containers help you manage ordered sets of unconnected shapes by making it easier to add, remove, and reorder the items in the list. Examples of such shapes include Tree Control in the Wireframe diagram, and Swimlane shapes in Flowchart and Cross Functional Flowchart diagrams. You can add the default member shape to this kind of container by clicking the blue insertion arrow that appears when you hold the pointer over a corner of the container.
Use callouts to explain or describe shapes in the diagram. Callouts are usually associated with a particular shape, and they move with the shape during manual and automatic adjustments.
Data graphics legends
Legends explain what the icons and colors mean in diagrams that use data graphics, so your diagram is easily understandable even without text labels beside every data graphic.
Click the Insert Legend button, and Visio generates the legend automatically based on the data graphics that are on the page.
Enhanced grid, alignment, and snap
New guides show when shapes are aligned and spaced evenly, and snapping points based on alignment and spacing help you position them in the right place.
Paste copied shapes with greater control
Visio 2010 offers two options to help you paste shapes where you want them:
Paste shapes in the same location as the original page.
Right-click to paste at the pointer location.
Paste shapes in the same location as the original page
When you copy one or more shapes from one page and then use the Paste button or CTRL+V to paste them in a different page, the shapes are pasted into the same relative location on the new page.
Right-click to paste at the pointer location
For greater control when pasting, right-click the page where you want the shape to be and then click Paste. The shape is pasted in the page with the center of the shape at the location you clicked.
Improved page tab functionality
A new Insert Page tab is available that adds a new page with one click.
In addition, you can get to the Page Setup options for a page directly from the page tab's shortcut menu.
Change your view by using the status bar navigation tools
The status bar contains tools to help you navigate diagrams and documents. The tools include Full Screen, Zoom Level that you can set by percentage, a Zoom slider, a Fit page to current window button, a button to open the Pan & Zoom window, and a button to Switch Windows.
Visio Services
Visio Services integrates your diagram with SharePoint Web parts to create a high-fidelity, interactive experience for one person or many people at once, even if they don't have Visio installed on their computers. Viewers can zoom and pan around the diagram, and follow hyperlinks in shapes.
You can publish a diagram directly to SharePoint from inside Visio 2010. Create the diagram in Visio, use Visio to publish it to the server, and view the diagram in a browser.
Diagrams can also be linked to data, and the view can be refreshed automatically or by the user to stay current.
Process Management
In addition to all the diagramming improvements noted above, Visio contains new tools to help you model, validate, and reuse complex process diagrams.
Process diagrams are visualizations of any sort of step-by-step process. They are usually created as flowcharts, with shapes that represent steps in the process connected by arrows that show the direction to the next step.
Validate process diagrams
You can now analyze process diagrams automatically to make sure they're properly constructed and compliant with business logic that is defined for the document.
Validation errors are displayed for resolution in the Issues Window.
Visio includes sets of rules that are specific to each type of process diagram.
Sub-process diagrams help you break up complex processes into manageable pieces. You can select a sequence of shapes:
Click Create from Selection:
Visio moves the selected shapes to a new page and replaces them with a Subprocess shape that is automatically linked to the new page.
If you have not drawn the subprocess yet, you can click Create New to add a Subprocess shape to the page and also a new page that is linked to the shape. If the subprocess is already diagrammed on another page or in a different document, you can drop a Subprocess shape on the current page, click Link to Existing, and navigate to the subprocess page.
SharePoint workflows
Visio includes a template and shapes for designing workflows that can be imported into SharePoint Designer. You can also take workflow files that were created in SharePoint Designer and open them in Visio, which generates a diagram of the workflow that you can view and modify. You can pass a file back and forth between the two with no loss of data or functionality.
SharePoint process repository
The process repository is a site template that is included with SharePoint. It provides a place to share and collaborate on process diagrams. The repository has built-in file access control and version control; users can view the process diagram simultaneously and edit the diagram without corrupting the original.
New and Updated Diagram Types and Compatibility
Improved swimlane management in cross-functional flowcharts
Cross-functional flowchart diagrams use the new Container and List functionality to improve swimlane management, and support the concepts of phase and straddling shapes.
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagrams
Create flowcharts that follow the Business Process Modeling Notation 1.2 standard, and use the new validation tool to help find issues that you can correct before finishing the diagram.
Six Sigma diagrams
Create Six Sigma flowcharts and House of Quality diagrams.
Wireframe diagrams
Wireframe diagrams contain medium-fidelity UI shapes for software application prototyping and design.
SharePoint Workflow diagrams
Diagram your workflow in Visio using the SharePoint template and shapes, and you can export it to SharePoint Designer to implement on your site.
Updated AutoCAD compatibility
You can import, save, and work with CAD files from AutoCAD 2008.


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ATHENS, Ga. (Feb. 6, 2009) - For over two hours the No.37-ranked ETSU men's tennis team gave back-to-back NCAA Champion Georgia all they wanted and more. However, ETSU's upset bid fell just short as the third-ranked Bulldogs railed back after losing the doubles point dropping the Bucs 5-2, Friday night at the Hopkins Indoor Tennis Center in Athens, Ga.
"I was proud of how I guys competed today," said head coach Yaser Zaatini. "Georgia is one of the top programs in the country and you never like to lose, but I thought our players played hard and gave it our best effort."
ETSU (1-3) started the contest with a bang, sweeping all three doubles matches for the early 1-0 lead. The Bucs jumped out early as the ETSU duo of freshman Robin Asker (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) and junior Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Colombia) won the first doubles contest by defeating Drake Bernstein and Javier Garrapiz, 8-5. ETSU followed that match up as seniors Alex Ahlgren (Tyreso, Sweden) and Enrique Olivares (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) rallied to shock 40th-ranked Jamie Hunt and Nate Schnugg, 8-6, giving the Bucs the doubles point. Not to be outdone the Bucs duo of sophomores Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaume, France) and Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia) made ETSU three-for-three in pairs competition dropping Georgia's Christian Vitulli and Borja Malo, 8-7.
As singles play started Georgia (4-0) opened play by knotting the score at 1-1, after No. 35-rankend Jamie Hunt defeated ETSU's Grega Teraz 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 3 singles draw. Georgia took its first lead of the match as Borja Malo squeaked by ETSU sophomore Matej Zlatkovic (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 6-1, 7-6 to close out the No. 4 singles contest.
ETSU looked like it might get back in the match as No. 9-ranked Enrique Olivares took an early one-set lead in the No. 1 singles draw against No. 18-ranked Nate Schnugg. However, Schnugg, the defending NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player, rallied back in the final two sets taking the contest 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, giving the Bulldogs a 3-1, advantage. Georgia would go on to clinch the match after Javier Garrapiz closed out ETSU's Charles Bottoni, 6-2, 6-4. Each squad would split the remaining two singles contests as ETSU's Sander Gille (
"It was good to see us start the match on a positive note winning the doubles point," said Zaatini. "That gave us a chance to get out in front and build some momentum early. Enrique lost a tough three-set match and Sander again played well. Georgia, being the two-time NCAA Champion, has some good teams and so even though we fell short in our singles matches this is something our guys can build on as we move forward."
ETSU returns to action in its first home match of the season as the Bucs welcome in-state rival Middle Tennessee, Feb. 19.
1. Oliveras/Ahlgren def. #40 Hunt/Schnugg (UGA) 8-6
2. Bottoni/Teraz def. Vitulli/Malo (UGA) 8-7
3. Akser/Izasa def. Bernstein/Garrapiz (UGA) 8-5
1. #18 Nate Schnugg (UGA) def. #9 Enrique Oliveras (ETSU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
2. Javier Garrapiz (UGA) def. Charles Bottoni (ETSU) 6-2, 6-4
3. # 35 Jamie Hunt (UGA) def. Grega Teraz (ETSU) 6-2, 6-2
4. Borja Malo (UGA) def. Matej Zlatkovic (ETSU) 6-1, 7-6
5. Drake Bernstein (UGA) def. Alex Ahlgren (ETSU) 6-1, 6-2
6. Sander Gille (ETSU) def. Josh Varela (UGA) 6-4, 6-3
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Captain's Report
The Full Spectrum
First things first… how can Tigé make a boat that performs across the full spectrum, and just what is that spectrum anyway? Well, first understand that if a slalom skier is behind the boat, that will require a smooth, shallow wake. A wakeboarder, on the other hand, wants a fat wake to jump off of and get serious air that carries across to the opposite wake. And a wake surfer wants a tsunami to carry the ride without the need for a towline.
So what to do…
To get a shallow wake on a typical boat, go faster so that it planes better. Yet, that can't be done while towing a skier. They need a mid range speed to stay in control. To get a fat wake, just slow a typical boat so that the bow is up high and the stern is dragging. But that does the wakeboarder no good for high jumps. So what to do?
The Basics.
Planing isn't a problem as most boats will do it at a moderate speed. So the slalom guy is happy. To get the wake up, keep the speed and sink the boat lower. That means adding ballast by filling tanks or removable bags called "fat sacs". Then drain them later to haul back to the dock without burning more fuel. Tigé seems to have come up with a boat that can do it all.
Convex V and VX Hull
The Convex V
hull runs opposite to conventional wisdom of hooking the stern down to create a fatter wake. That leaves no flexibility, and the wave it creates is the wave you get. But with Convex V, the hull is curved up at the end. Now some flexibility can be created by adding an adjustable plate at the center of the stern. That's called TAPS2, but we'll get to that in a minute.
Convex VX.
Now as if that weren't enough, the Z1 also offers an option called the "Convex VX." This is a fiberglass extension that attaches to the underside of the swim platform and is easily removable. This extension channels water from the prop downward, under and into the wake. This adds size, volume, and density to the wave. Now surfers have the room to recover given the amount of power, push, and extended length of the wave. It's one more reason that this is billed as the ultimate surf boat. And it still works in conjunction with the TAPS system.
Playing T.A.P.S.
T.A.P.S. stands for Tigé Adjustable Performance System, and it's exactly as the name implies. Behind the transom, is a plate that is adjustable at the helm to tweak the characteristics of the hull, and therefore, the wake.
In normal mode the Z1 is a planing boat with a light wake, and at the touch of a switch to lower and raise the plate, the stern can be made to squat to increase the wake. Its performance is heaven for watersports enthusiasts and it's on every Tigé hull.
Not only is there great wake control, but she is a great performing boat. Thanks to her triple hull tracking fins, the Z1 can turn on a dime. There's very little slide so there's no feel of falling off the turn. Acceleration is crisp, with our tests showing a time to plane of only 2.1 seconds (one of our fastest ever recorded!), and a 0-30 mph time of 7.4 seconds.
Since this is a V-drive installation
, there's more room in the cockpit without having to work around a bulky engine box in the middle of the boat. The Indmar engines not only have four engine mounts, but an additional two under the transmission as well which better distributes the weight and torque. That translates into less vibration and less discomfort for the passengers.
Speed Data.
With an Indmar 350-hp M57 5.7L engine as standard, our test boat reached a top speed of 43.6 mph and had a best cruise of 25.8. At that speed, she was burning only 7.45 gallons per hour. The Indmar M57 engine has dual exhaust and drives through a ZF transmission. Perhaps most important of all, it carries a
5-year Indmar factory warranty.
The Layout
At the bow,
Tigé went with the traditional V-bow, completely filled in with cushions, and surrounded by upholstery that is diamond stitched with UV resistant Gore Tenera thread. Fully forward a flat backrest allows for aft facing seating for another set of eyes dedicated to keeping an eye on the end of the towline.
Air Dam.
Previous versions had an air dam that had to be pulled out from storage, and laid into place. Now the air dam is hinged and under the center bow cushion. Just raise the cushion, swing the lexan dam into place, and close the windshield… done.
Access to storage inside the port and starboard consoles is through the swing-open seatbacks in the bow, and the port storage is also accessed from lifting the observers seat, which also has a mirror and small cargo net storage underneath.
Tigé went with a soft touch helm, color matched with soft vinyl with Gore Tenera stitching. Three gauges keep the panel uncluttered. Tach and fuel to the left, speed in the center, and the TAPS2 gauge with a LCD temperature scale embedded in. Any other information can come from the Tigé Touch display, which is standard on the Z1 and now includes Bluetooth streaming audio and a 5-year warranty. The upholstery continues down to the lower panel where the steering wheel is mounted to a tilt base.
Seating wraps around the entire cockpit making full use of all available space. The usual accommodations for storage are underneath, the diamond stitch upholstery continues. The corner seats are curved to allow for a more comfortable position while still facing the crowd.
is generally deeper than in a number of boats in class because of a slightly higher freeboard amidships. This means a dryer ride and an extra margin of safety for small children. There is lockable storage under one of the seats, a trash receptacle under another, and storage under a third.
Sun Pad and Stern
Behind the cockpit seating is the requisite sun pad that is the staple of any dayboat. It is nearly full beam and has storage hatches that open gull-wing style to access the compartments underneath. This is where there is not only storage, but inflatable ballast sacs. Between the two side pads is a center pad flanked by two elevated storage bins. The center pad itself can be unlatched from its position and flipped to create a non-skid walkthrough to the swim platform.
The Swim Platform
is part of the Transom Activity Center that includes a staging area for putting on boards, self draining wet storage, drink holders and a stereo remote. With the platform itself being nearly at the surface of the water, there's no need for a reboarding ladder. It also has the same effect of a submersible platform when two or more people are sitting on it.
Our test boat was fitted with the Alpha Z tower that was custom-designed in-house by Tigé. It can accommodate a host of options including up to 4, color matched, Wet Sounds speakers, tri-color LED courtesy lights, Clamp4rce ratcheting and swiveling board racks, LED docking lights and a swivel tow point camera that can display on the Tigé Touch screen.
There's one more ingredient to the equation of creating the perfect wake. And that's adding weight to the boat to get it down further in the water. This is done by the tried and true method of adding ballast or weight to the boat. And the easiest way to do that is with the closest available source of weight… water. It's readily accessible and weighs 8.35 lb. (3.785 kg) per gallon of fresh water, and saltwater weighs about 8.3 lbs. (3.9 kg) per gallon. But we can't just open up a thru hull fitting and let the water come in now can we?
Fat Sacs
Ballast bags, or sacks are strategically place around the boat to hold water. A flip of a switch at the helm, one for each ballast sack, will start a pump which brings water into the individual ballast sacks. Once they're full, the boat is much heavier, and because it sinks lower in the water, a larger wake is generated. Now the previously mentioned methods can dial-in that wake to perfection. At the end of the day, reverse the pumps and empty the liquid weight out.
So How Much Weight is Enough?
The standard ballast package is 900 lbs. (408.2 kg) and should suffice for intermediate to advanced riders. This standard base package consists of two 250-lb. (113.4 kg) tanks below the floor of the rear storage compartments, and two more 200-lb. (90.7 kg) ballast sacs in the bow of the boat.Now, for the intermediate wake boarder to the advanced wake surfer, an optional ballast package is offered that utilizes larger 600-lb. (272 kg) tanks in the rear of the boat bringing the total up to 1,600 lbs. (725.7 kg). For the Pro Surfer, in the Z1 Tigé goes still further and allows a total of 400-lbs. more to be added the bow for a total off 2,000 lbs. By doing this, and operator can actually increase the total weight of the boat by 47% -- not counting the weight of all the people aboard. Say six people are aboard at 150-lbs each, that is another 900 lbs. Now the boat is 60% heavier than she was in her original dry weight. Put this prodigious weight together with the Convex VX hull and the Taps2 system and monster wake is created. Ballast sacs added to the hull allow for adding weight to the Z1. The Surf System provides 700-lbs. more. The ProSystem adds an additional 400-bs. to the bow for a total of 2000-lbs.
Tigé Warranty
The Tigé warranty program falls into three time periods -- Lifetime, 5-years and 3-years. As for the Lifetime warranty, here is what Tige' says on its website: "Tigé offers the only complete hull replacement warranty in the industry. If you ever experience a structural hull failure or delamination, at any time while you own your boat, Tigé will replace it with a new boat at no charge."Tigé has a 3-year stem to stern warranty on all items and components on the boat, and a 5-year warranty on the Tigé Touch system as well as the 5-year warranty offered by Indmar on the engine.
The Tigé Z1 is an impressive boat with impressive qualities for making the "perfect" wake across a broad spectrum of disciplines. She transitions equally easily into the family fun boat and that makes her even more appealing.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Tigé Z1 (2014-) is 43.6 mph (70.2 kph), burning 25.00 gallons per hour (gph) or 94.62 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Tigé Z1 (2014-) is 30.8 mph (49.6 kph), and the boat gets 3.29 miles per gallon (mpg) or 1.4 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 142 miles (228.53 kilometers).
- Tested power is 1 x 355-hp Indmar 5.7 M57.
Standard and Optional Features
Marine Electronics
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|Optional 3-vent heater
|Battery Charger/Converter
|CD Stereo
Exterior Features
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Platform
|Tower: Watersports
|Transom Shower
|Bimini Top
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This Website and all content contained on this Website, including all names, logos, graphics, artwork, photographs and text, copyrights, graphics, videos, service marks, and trademarks ("Information") are the exclusive property of Zero Motorcycles or its licensors. You are permitted to download, print, store temporarily, retrieve and display on a computer screen Information, and to print individual pages of the Website on paper (but not photocopy them) and to store such pages in electronic form on disk for your personal use or for internal use within your organisation only. Otherwise, you may not do anything else with such Information, including, without limitation, copying, reproducing, republishing, downloading, posting, broadcasting, distributing, commercially exploiting, transmitting, or modifying or otherwise using in any way any part of the Information or Website without the express prior written consent of Zero Motorcycles. You further agree not to (except as permitted by law) reverse engineer, hack, spam, block, disrupt, or otherwise change or alter the Website or act in any way to damage, disable or impair the operation of the Website or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website. If you do so you may be subject to legal liability. Zero Motorcycles will, in its sole discretion, take all appropriate legal action and recourse for such violations.Your use of the Website
You agree not to use the Website in any way that may lead to an encouragement, procurement or carrying out of any criminal or otherwise unlawful activity. You agree not to subject the Information and/or the Website to any derogatory treatment or use them in such a way that would bring Zero Motorcycles into disrepute, or cause Zero Motorcycles to incur liability to any third party. You are solely responsible for adequate protection and backup of your data and for the equipment used to access the Website.
You may place an order for a Product or Products on the Website at any time (subject to any planned or unplanned periodic downtime). Your order represents an offer to Zero Motorcycles to purchase a Product. Your receipt of an electronic or other form of order confirmation from Zero Motorcycles does not signify Zero Motorcycles' acceptance of your order, nor does it constitute confirmation of Zero Motorcycles' offer to sell. Zero Motorcycles reserves the right at any time after receipt of your order up until the Product is dispatched to accept or decline your order for any reason. Zero Motorcycles reserves the right at any time after receipt of your order, without prior notice to you, to supply less than the quantity you ordered of any Product. Zero Motorcycles may require additional verifications or information before accepting any order.Payments and Disputed Payments
Zero Motorcycles does not accept checks, drafts, or money orders for orders submitted through the Website. Zero Motorcycles accepts major credit cards and other methods of payments as posted on Zero Motorcycles' Website. Upon placing an order for Products, Zero Motorcycles may request an initial deposit, with the final balance due upon shipment. Your initial deposit is fully refundable up to one week before shipment if you cancel your order. Zero Motorcycles will phone or email you to receive payment information before shipping. You will bear all costs associated with a disputed credit card charge which results in an action from Zero Motorcycles merchant account provider, otherwise known as "chargebacks".Pricing and Shipping
Prices offered on the Website are quoted in British Pounds Sterling or Euros. Such prices do not include shipping and handling, expedited service, or sales taxes (or VAT), if applicable, which will be added to your total invoice price. You are responsible for any shipping handling and delivery charges and for any fees and taxes, such as sales tax (or VAT), that may apply to your purchase of products from Zero Motorcycles.Typographical Errors
If any content on the Website contains incorrect information, or a Product is listed at an incorrect price, due to typographical errors or an error in pricing information, Zero Motorcycles shall have the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for Products listed at the incorrect price, whether or not the order has been confirmed and payment taken. If payment has already been taken for the purchase and your order is cancelled, Zero Motorcycles shall immediately issue a credit or refund in the amount of the incorrect price. Alternatively Zero Motorcycles will give you the option of reconfirming your order at the correct price.Order Status
Once you place an order, Zero Motorcycles will send you a personalised email within two business days and provide you with an order confirmation number. When your order is shipped, Zero Motorcycles will send you a shipment confirmation email with the shipping carrier tracking number, if available. Your offer to purchase a Product is accepted by Zero Motorcycles when you receive a shipment confirmation email. By placing an order with Zero Motorcycles, you consent to receive emails from Zero Motorcycles regarding your order. You can always contact Zero Motorcycles at 380 El Pueblo Road, Scotts Valley, California 95066, USA or firstname.lastname@example.com or on + 00 1 (888)786-9376, if you have any questions concerning your order Zero Motorcycles.Delivery
Delivery dates are approximate and are dependent upon (1) receipt of all your information necessary to process the order, (2) your compliance with all of the payment terms, and (3) your compliance with any terms, obligations, covenant or condition of these Terms and Conditions.Cancellation Period
Unless you have viewed the Product at one of our showrooms, you may cancel the contract and return any Product purchased through the Website at any time up to seven business days from the day after the day on which you received the Product and we will refund the purchase price for the Product, less any charges incurred by Zero Motorcycles in relation to the return of the Product. You may not return any products that are made to your specification or personalised for you.Operation, Registration, and Licence
You are responsible for registering and operating the Products (including obtaining a driving licence) in accordance with any laws and regulations that apply to the Products. Zero Motorcycles makes no representations that its Products are legal for operation in any country in which you purchase and/or use such Products.Your Responsibility
You must not purchase or use any Product for which you are not over the legal age to use such Product. You must not purchase any Product on behalf of another person who is not above the legal age to use such Product.
WARNING: Riding an electric motorcycle off road or on road involve the risks and dangers of serious bodily injury including, but not limited to, disability, paralysis, dismemberment and death. These inherent risks and dangers may be caused by the rider's own actions or inactions, the actions or inactions of others, participating or not participating in the activity, the condition in which the activity takes place, or the negligence of others. There may be additional risks, including social and economic loss, either known or unknown to you, not readily foreseeable, and you fully accept and assume responsibility for all such risks, losses, costs, and damages incurred as a result of your participation in riding an electric motorcycle.Display
Zero Motorcycles has made every effort to display the items featured on this Website as accurately as possible. Please note, however, that the colours Zero Motorcycles use, as well as the display and colour capabilities of your particular computer monitor, will greatly affect the colours actually seen on the screen. The Website cannot be responsible for the limitations of your monitor's display of any colour or detail.Warranty
Unless a different warranty is stated on the Website for a specific Product or is affixed to the Products by Zero Motorcycles or Zero Motorcycles' manufacturer, or is specified in writing in any maintenance or operating instructions pertaining to the Products, Zero Motorcycles warrants that all Products sold by Zero Motorcycles to you will be free from defects in materials and workmanship. THIS WARRANTY SHALL EXPIRE TWELVE (12) MONTHS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH PRODUCTS (EXCLUDING REPAIRED OR REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS FURNISHED PURSUANT TO THIS WARRANTY) ARE SHIPPED BY ZERO MOTORCYCLES TO YOU, THE INITIAL PURCHASER. TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMISSABLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, THERE ARE NO OTHER WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE WEBSITE OR PRODUCTS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE WHICH EXTEND BEYOND THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION. ADDITIONALLY, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ZERO MOTORCYCLES' GENERAL LITERATURE AND PRODUCT INFORMATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE WARRANTIES OF PERFORMANCE OR QUALITY AND THAT BEFORE ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT OF SALE, YOU HAVE EXAMINED OR REFUSED TO EXAMINE THE PRODUCTS DESCRIBED OR SAMPLES OR MODELS OF EACH AS FULLY AS DESIRED AND THAT THERE IS NO IMPLIED WARRANTY WITH REGARD TO ANY CONDITION OR DEFECT WHICH AN EXAMINATION OUGHT TO REVEAL.
By accessing the Website and/or ordering Products, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold completely harmless Zero Motorcycles and its officers, directors, shareholders, agents, and employees from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including, without limitation, legal costs, arising from or related to your use of the Website, the materials it contains, any websites linked to this Website and/or any Products purchased via this Website. You further agree to indemnify and hold Zero Motorcycles, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its officers, directors, shareholders, agents, and employees harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your negligence, breach of these Terms and Conditions, or violation of any law or the rights of a third party or due to or arising out of your use of the Website or any Products sold via this Website.Jurisdiction
The Products and Information are available in the United States, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain and may not be available elsewhere.
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Marc Le Blanc
Los Angeles
Marc LeBlanc is a writer and independent curator. He cut his teeth producing solo and group exhibitions starting from 2001, when he owned 1R Gallery in Chicago. His most recent gallery group exhibitions include Unfinished Season (2014) in Galerie Nagel+Draxler in Cologne, and Anteriors (2011) in Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemberg Platz, Berlin.
LeBlanc has also organised a number of events for NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) including the recent X Poly Nation (2015) at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, and How To Build An Art Scene That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later at Art Cologne (2015). He is currently the Curator of Events & Programming for Art Los Angeles Contemporary.
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About JPW3
JPW3 examines man's quest for energy
"The toxic orange in my submission for Absolut Art references the explosive power of coal, and the haze left in its wake."
JPW3 works in painting and sculpture to examine the chaotic crossroads of culture and the human experience. He creates lush and textured surfaces with a variety of materials, including densely applied wax, popcorn, sage and automotive parts. Colourful, and sometimes crude, each layer of his work represents an artist who actively engages with his work. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe at galleries such as Night Gallery in Los Angeles, Michael Jon Gallery in Miami and Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne and Berlin. For Absolut Art, JPW3 pays homage to an old breaker tower in his hometown of Eckley, Pennsylvania. The structure was once a place where young workers extracted anthracite coal, and represents man's quest for energy.
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Interior Design for Kitchen Room
People are sometimes they don't know how to make their kitchen room look nice, safety and ideal design for home. Ok, this is just simple post about Interior Design for Kitchen Room.
Before making any remodeling decisions, research all your options. There are some Tips how to renovate your kitchen, what you'll need to do at every stage of the remodeling process:
Find Inspiration for Your New Kitchen
Make notes about how you plan to use the remodeled space, then try to distill all that information into a one or two sentence goal such as, "Open kitchen's design (You can use this design if you want your family and friends enjoy and relax their healthy meals in your home), Closed kitchen's design (Mostly kitchen used only for cooking and put the items).
Plan Your Total Remodel Budget
You need to calculate and make total how much you need to spend your budget to design your kitchen and don't forget, Be sure to budget for the unexpected when creating your spending plan.
Determine Your Kitchen Layout
See on your plan's location, this is about the place. How is the room size for your kitchen, A kitchen might have the most beautiful cabinets, technologically advanced appliances and high-end finishes. So, try to make an effective layout when design your kitchen to meet your needs and fit your space.
Choose the Right Flooring Material
kitchen is typically the busiest spot in the house, so when weighing flooring options, think about a floor's durability and ease of maintenance on you design's plan.
Decide Whether to Replace or Reface Your Cabinets
Cabinets are a major investment when you plan your budget to design your kitchen, you'll need to sort through the available options and make choices with confidence. If you have already some cabinets, you just need to freshen them up by restaining or painting. There are many specifications options about materials, designs, finishes and accessories. Choosing custom cabinets requires the longest lead time, room's size requirements and also you need to consider the cabinets construction type and door style.
Complete Your New Kitchen With Proper Lighting
Designing a lighting plan is an integral part of any kitchen remodel. Like others room in the house, the ability to adjust light levels in the kitchen is ideal, because when cooking or cleaning up, a bright punch of illumination makes the job easier.


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Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, President Bush has vowed to transform the Middle East for the sake of American security. This week, Mr. Bush sets off on a nine-day tour of a region that, if anything, has transformed him.
The trip will showcase a president shifting his focus from the big idea of a free and democratic Middle East to more traditional US foreign-policy goals: an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, the containment of a threatening state – in this case Iran – and the assurance of US energy security at a time of $100-a-barrel oil. Whatever topic he discusses in meetings, Iraq is likely to be a key factor in the background.
Bush arrives Wednesday for his first-ever visit as president to Israel and the Palestinian territories, to be followed by stops in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Gulf states, and Egypt. He is less of a challenge to the region's order, some experts say, than its authoritarian rulers once feared.
"After vowing to transform the Middle East, the administration is submitting to it, resorting to the sort of process-driven incremental diplomacy that previous administrations had pursued and that this administration had disdained," says Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. "President Bush is no longer trying to transform the Middle East from afar. He's trying to manage it in incremental ways by arm-twisting and jawboning leaders in intimate, private sessions."
That does not mean Bush has given up on his vision for a transformed region, others add. Rather, they see Bush largely making this trip with the goal of solidifying gains made in Iraq – thereby securing the defining foreign-policy action of his presidency as a "plus" for his legacy.
"Almost all they [in the White House] are doing [on this trip] is because of Iraq or has an Iraq element to it," says Kenneth Pollack of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "They understand the president's legacy depends on it." Bush appears to be encouraging progress toward a Palestinian state for its own sake, Mr. Pollack adds, but what he's really doing is pushing the peace process as a quid pro quo for "garnering support all around the region on Iraq."
Of course another difficulty for Bush is that he makes his trip as the US presidential race grabs the headlines. Foreign leaders are increasingly preoccupied with what kind of American leadership will follow, rather than focusing on what Bush will be able to do in his remaining year in office.
White House officials bristle at suggestions that the president has waning relevance in the region – or that he has pulled back from the "freedom agenda" he laid out in his second inaugural address. They point out that he will make it the theme of what they say is a major speech in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
At a pretrip briefing with reporters last week, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said that the promotion of democracy and freedom as a "counterpoint" to the ideology of terrorism remains "the essence of [Bush's] strategy." It will be a highlight of his trip, Mr. Hadley said.
"It is integral to the president's strategy for how to bring stability and prosperity to the region and to make it a bulwark against terror, that there be progress in terms of freedom and democracy," Hadley said. "So no, I don't think he's pulled back."
Although Bush may well talk about freedom, other pressing concerns are likely to crowd it out – such as Iran. Pointing up the potential for conflict with that country, the Pentagon reported Monday a confrontation between US Navy ships and Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz at the foot of the Persian Gulf on Sunday.
Over three days in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Bush will focus on the relaunched peace process and efforts to establish a Palestinian state before he leaves office. While some observers expect a dramatic announcement – perhaps on abolishing illegal Israeli settlements – the White House continues to dampen such expectations by saying the president is primarily looking to support the efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Some experts also suspect the president's agenda allows for a surprise side trip to Iraq, or even to Lebanon.
Back to Iran, Bush will be emphasizing to leaders in the region – who are more interested in avoiding conflict with Tehran – why they need to resist its rising influence. At the same time, he will have to explain to a confused audience why the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which concluded that Tehran had stopped a nuclear weapons program in 2003, does not mean that the international community should relax efforts against Iran's progressing nuclear energy program.
For months, leaders across the region feared that bellicose words out of Washington meant that the United States was on the brink of military strikes against Tehran – what for them would amount to the third war with an Islamic country of the Bush presidency. Then, last month's NIE was seen as quieting the war drums.
In an interview last week with Yediot Ahronot, Israel's largest newspaper, Bush said one of the goals of his trip "is to make it abundantly clear to nations in that part of the world that we view Iran as a threat, and that the NIE in no way lessens the threat, but in fact clarifies the threat."
Bush repeated in the interview that while no options have been taken off the table, he continues to want to see the threat from Iran handled "diplomatically" and primarily through economic isolation by the international community.
While in Israel, Bush is expected to hear from officials, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, that Iran remains a threat because of its uranium enrichment program. Speculation is mounting that Mr. Barak will present options for strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in the event that diplomatic pressures fail to halt Tehran's enrichment. The enrichment process could eventually deliver the fuel for a nuclear weapon.
But Bush's reception and what he hears on Iran will be quite different in the Arab countries he visits – in part because of suspicions raised by Washington's increasingly close ties to Israel over the course of the Bush administration. While the Arab countries continue to see Iran as a threat – and not just because of its nuclear ambitions, experts say – they also want to avoid another war on Muslims in the region.
"All of the Arab Gulf states have chosen accommodation and good relations with Iran for self-protection," says Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East expert at CSIS. "They fear Iran in terms of a nuclear threat that southern Gulf regimes still see as very real. They fear … a Shiite crescent … and Iran's potential ties to Shiites in Bahrain, Saudi, Yemen, and the UAE."
Bush will also take up with Arab leaders the $20 billion arms sale the administration proposes for the region. The Saudi portion of the package in particular is seen facing opposition from Congress.
Calling the defense agreements "a signal of long-term US commitment to the region" and "an important piece of our strategy in the region," Hadley says, "We think ultimately Congress will agree with that assessment."


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John Ozier Joins ole's Nashville Team as General Manager, Creative
John Ozier
April 17, 2013 14:52 ET
John Ozier Joins ole's Nashville Team as General Manager, Creative
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - April 17, 2013) -
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John Ozier has joined ole as its General Manager, Creative in Nashville. Ozier brings a wealth of experience in operating both publishing and record label businesses to ole. At ole Ozier will manage the rapid growth and expansion ole is experiencing and lead the company's mandate of being a leader in the Creative area on Music Row.
ole is pleased to welcome John and we look forward to his Creative and Operational leadership in Nashville," remarks ole Chairman and CEO, Robert Ott.
Ozier has had significant creative successes include placing songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Rodney Atkins, Clay Walker, Lee Brice, Ronnie Dunn, Jo Dee Messina, LeAnn Rimes and many more. In 2010, Ozier was responsible for 4 songs in the top 15 on the country Billboard charts; including the longest running single, "Love Like Crazy", at 56 weeks, and more recently Rodney Atkins' 2 week #1 record, "Take A Back Road," and Lee Brice's #1 record, "A Woman Like You."
He is also a published songwriter with cuts by Lee Brice, Charlie Worsham, Air Supply and others. He co-wrote Lee Brice's multi-week #1 single, "Hard to Love," which is approaching Platinum sales status.
"I am thrilled to be joining the ole team," says Ozier. "I am looking forward to contributing to the future success of ole as it continues to build its operation in Nashville. Our goal at ole is simple - become the top creative shop on Music Row. I'm confident that ole has the strategy in place to accomplish this goal and I am excited at the prospect of being a member of the ole team as it moves forward to accomplish this goal."
John will be joining the ole team on May 6, 2013.
About ole:
ole is one of the world's largest independent music publishers. Founded in 2004, and with operations in Toronto, Nashville, New York and Los Angeles, ole boasts a team of 50 experienced industry professionals focused on acquisitions, creative development and worldwide copyright administration.
ole has been named Canadian Country Music Association's Music Publishing Company of the Year for the past six years and earned its first Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Country Song, "White Horse." Other recent notable ole awards include: 2013 American Country Awards (ACA) Song of the Year "Springsteen," Academy of Country Music (ACM) 2012 Song of the Year Award for "Crazy Girl" (Liz Rose/Lee Brice); SESAC 2011 Country Performance Activity Award for "Til Summer Comes Around" (Monty Powell/Keith Urban); three BMI 2011 Most Performed Songs Awards for "Fearless" (Liz Rose, Taylor Swift); "Why Wait" (Jimmy Yeary, Tom Shapiro) and "Let Me Down Easy" (Marty Dodson, Jennifer Hanson, Mark Nesler); 2011 SOCAN Country Music Award for "Make Hay While The Sun Shines" (Steven Lee Olsen, Bruce Wallace); 2011 SOCAN Domestic Television Series Music Award Busytown Mysteries (Peter Coulman, Carl Lenox, David Tedesco); and 2011 SOCAN Award for 100,000 Radio Performances of Lighthouse's "Sunny Days" and "Pretty Lady" (Skip Prokop).
The ole catalog includes over 45,000 songs and 40,000 hours of TV music across all genres. ole has completed over $150MM USD in acquisitions, including purchases of music catalogs such as: Timbaland, Blacktop, Jody Williams Music, Rami Yacoub, Chris Wallin, Richie MacDonald, Balmur, Keith Follese, Brett Jones, Lighthouse, Frank Myers, Dream Warriors, Encore, David Tyson, and Marsfilm Music. ole has also purchased the worldwide music rights for TV catalogs such as WGBH, Cookie Jar, Cineflix, CCI and The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That.
ole is committed to the creative development of its 60+ staff songwriters, legacy writers and composers and the cultivation of our catalogs and client catalogs. ole has ongoing co-ventures with Last Gang Publishing (Alt Rock), Roots Three Music (Country) and tanjola (Pop/Rock/Urban).
ole is an expert in administrating and sub-publishing music copyrights and has concluded worldwide publishing administration agreements with some of the world's leading songwriters, publishers and film and television producers. adminow, ole's online client account transparency portal, was launched recently and demonstrates ole's commitment to modernizing its client services and to leading-edge IT.
Notable copyrights for ole include: Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie" featuring Jay Z, Taylor Swift singles "Fearless," "White Horse," "Tim McGraw," "Picture To Burn," "Teardrops On My Guitar"; Rascal Flatts' "Why Wait"; Kelly Clarkson's "Miss Independent"; and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" by Britney Spears; Pink's "U + Ur Hand"; "Sexyback," "My Love," and "What Goes Around" by Justin Timberlake; "Say it Right" and "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado; "Start a Band" by Brad Paisley with Keith Urban; "That's How Country Boys Roll" by Billy Currington; "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away" by Justin Moore; "It's Gonna Be Me" from *N Sync; "Shape of My Heart" by Backstreet Boys; iconic Canadian Olympic theme "I Believe"; "Legendary Child" by Aerosmith; "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles; Tim McGraw's "Something Like That".
ole owns or represents up to 150,000 production music tracks within its MusicBox libraries. With 10 staff in North America, ole's Production Music division delivers excellent customer service and quality Creative on a leading edge IT platform. Our production music division leverages ole's established Administration, Finance and IT services.
ole is committed to being the best and most innovative global destination for world-class songwriters, composers, and management talent, and the first choice music source for creators in all media.
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