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Sooners Win Big 12 Opener, 49-17
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- The Oklahoma Sooners
avoided the same trap that helped them get back to
No. 1.
"All of the conditions were right for us to come down here and not play well, not get excited, not bring any energy and for Baylor to play great and beat us," Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford said. "We knew we had to come out and had to play well."
With No. 5 Texas looming next on the schedule, the Sooners still never gave Baylor a chance for an upset.
Bradford threw for 372 yards with two touchdowns, DeMarco Murray ran for two scores and four other Sooners got into the end zone in another lopsided victory over the Bears, 49-17 Saturday in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
Oklahoma (5-0) this week moved into the No. 1 spot of the AP poll for a record 96th time, but first since 2003, after an upset-filled weekend when the Sooners were the only one of the top four teams to win. They seemed intent on making it 97 after their quick start against Baylor.
Manuel Johnson caught a 53-yard touchdown only 70 seconds into the game for the Sooners' quickest opening score this season. They built a 28-0 lead by the end of the first quarter.
"I loved the way we started off," coach Bob Stoops said. "We executed and have good momentum going in (against Texas). I'd rather go in this way than any other."
Next week, the Sooners have their traditional second-Saturday-in-October meeting against the Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl - in the middle of the State Fair of Texas. But they made this trip across the Red River seem more like a glorified practice session.
Oklahoma has never lost to Baylor (2-3) in 18 games. The last five in Waco have been decided by an average margin of 36 points.
The Sooners didn't make it to the Texas game undefeated last year, getting upset in their conference opener at Colorado. There was no overlooking a lowly opponent this time.
"Last year, that's what we were doing, kind of looking ahead," receiver Juaquin Iglesias said.
Johnson, coming off a school-record 206 yards receiving in last week's 35-10 victory over TCU, got open behind the secondary on the third play of the game - after Baylor went three-and-out in only 31 seconds.
Bradford was 23-of-31 with an interception, his only one in the last three games to go with 11 TDs. He was coming off a career-best 411-yard passing game at TCU.
After sneaking in for a 1-yard touchdown, Bradford added a 42-yard scoring strike to Iglesias to make it 35-7. Iglesias had six catches for 133 yards.
"We took the momentum and just kind of ran with it," Bradford said.
Murray, who ran 26 times for 96 yards, had TD runs of 2 and 1 yards. Mossis Madu (1 yard) and Chris Brown (3 yards) also had scoring runs.
While Bradford got plenty of help, true freshman quarterback Robert Griffin scored both of Baylor's touchdowns on short runs and accounted for 177 of the Bears' 269 total yards, running 21 times for 102 yards and going 11-of-26 for 75 yards.
Oklahoma scored on its first four possessions, and the first-half drive that didn't result in a touchdown ended with a strange interception.
Bradford threw a deep pass to Iglesias, who had to come back to get the ball and bobbled it as he fell onto his back. The ball was on his chest, but never hit the ground and was pulled away by Baylor's Jordan Lake at the Bears 10.
The Bears went three-and-out, and Bradford hit Iglesias for a touchdown on the next drive.
Another pass intended for Iglesias, on the Sooners' second drive in the first quarter, was intercepted by Joe Pawelek near the goal line. The turnover was nullified by a pass interference penalty against the defender trying to cover Iglesias in the end zone, setting the ball at the 2 for Murray's TD and a 14-0 lead.
"You talk about an emotional letdown and that was a big shift in the momentum," said Griffin, at 18 the youngest starting quarterback among the 119 FBS schools. "We have to forget about it. It's over. You can't go back and play the game again."
Ben Parks kicked a 32-yard field goal for the Bears, whose losses have all come against Top 25 teams, the others were Wake Forest and Connecticut.
"We've got to regroup," first-year Baylor
coach Art Briles said. "If we start getting wide-eyed
over people, we are going to have a hard time blinking
because they are going to be wide a bunch."
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Boomer Bytes | View Main
Updated each weekday morning and following games, Boomer Bytes is your quick guide to Sooners in the news:
From Sports Illustrated: "The Sooners proceeded to rack up 28 points in the first quarter and never looked back, winning 49-17. Bradford enjoyed another prolific day behind center, completing 23 of 31 passes for 371 yards and two touchdowns..."
From ESPN: "No. 1 going down to an unranked for a second straight week? Hardly. By the end of the first quarter, the Sooners had 226 yards and were leading 28-0 (outscoring opponents 103-3 in the first quarter this year)."
From the Waco Tribune: "Does OU stand for Offense University? The Sooners are a well-oiled machine, as they put together another impressive drive, culminating with an easy one-yard TD run from DeMarco Murray. The score is now 49-17, Oklahoma, with 7:51 to play."
From the Dallas Morning News: "This wasn't a monstrous blowout by OU standards, but the Sooners didn't suffer a bunch of breakdowns and get caught looking ahead to next week. Consider this a functional performance for the No. 1 team."
From Sports Illustrated: "Certainly, OU's conference foes would disagree with the notion that Stoops coaches big games with both hands around his throat. For example, you might want to ask Mack Brown how much choking Stoops does in OU's head-to-head showdowns with Texas."
From Tim Griffin of ESPN: "Oklahoma, which is one of three FBS teams not to fumble this season. The Sooners lead the nation in red-zone offense, converting 19 attempts into 18 touchdowns and a field goal."
From ESPN: "Stat of the Game: With their 49 points today, the Sooners are only 10 points away from being the first program to reach 30,000 points scored. Game ball goes to: Sam Bradford. The OU QB stayed hot, throwing for 372 yards and two TDs."


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KENT, OH (WOIO) - As Kent State students prepare to begin spring semester class on Monday, Jan. 14, students are encouraged to be aware of the seriousness of the current flu strain.
Students who have flu-like symptoms are strongly advised not to attend class or other public events during the time of their illness. Students who need to miss classes or assignments due to flu-like illness are advised to contact their professors as soon as possible.
"We just want to make sure that our students stay healthy," said Todd Diacon, Kent State's senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. "If students have flu-like symptoms, we'd rather they stay home and get better and make up the classwork."
The Ohio Department of Health reports 1,922 influenza-associated hospitalizations in the state as of Jan. 5, 2013, compared to only 86 at the same time last year.
While most people with influenza recover quickly, it can cause severe illness, hospitalization and even death. Typical symptoms are fever, cough, headache, sore throat and body aches. Students, faculty or staff members who experience a flu-like illness should rest, drink fluids and take over-the-counter pain relievers and cough medicines as needed.
"Patients are often surprised by how very ill they feel with influenza," said Dr. Angela DeJulius, Kent State's chief university physician. "Prescription antiviral medicines can sometimes help to reduce the duration of illness, but are not a cure. The flu usually lasts at least a week."
To prevent influenza and to reduce the spread of illness through the community, flu shots are recommended for all individuals over six months of age. It is not too late to get a flu shot, and it is always recommended to practice good hygiene, especially hand washing, covering coughs and sneezes, and staying home when ill with a fever.
"It is not too late to be immunized, as flu season often continues into February or even later," DeJulius said.
A limited number of flu shots are still available at University Health Services. Many local pharmacies are also offering the vaccine.
Copyright 2013 WOIO. All rights reserved.

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2013 a fresh start, new ideas, and more vintage!
Over the past year we have had so many brides interested in vintage and rustic weddings. So much so, that we are jumping into the world of vintage rentals and styling.
Scary, not at all! Exciting and refreshing most definitely.
We have been doing "vintage" for seven years. Styling our farm events and vintage markets. It's a natural next step and so motivating and exciting for us to branch out and help make couples dreams come true!
No worries, Of course we will still be hosting our occasional vintage markets too!
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Hillsboro Mile, Hillsboro Beach, Florida. One of the newest oceanfront condominiums on the famed Hillsboro Mile, with one of the world's most prestigious addresses, the exclusive Ocean Grande Beach & Marina Condominium fronts the Atlantic Ocean in an idyllic tropical landscape with a gated dune walkway to the sands, and also looks west over the Intracoastal Waterway. Composed of only 76 residences, introduced by an elegant oceanside lobby, this beautiful nine-story building opens to a spectacular resort-style infinity pool by the ocean, and also has its own marina where dockage is additionally available. The full-service luxury lifestyle is complete with a 24-hour doorman, valet, parking, plus a fitness center, club room, business center, and social rooms.
Alluring views of the cerulean waters backdrop this direct oceanfront residence in a spacious wraparound corner floor-plan which is beautifully updated in neutral tones. Floor-to-ceiling impact-glass window walls and sleek marble floors carry through the clean-lined interiors, with three bedrooms and two and a-half baths included in 3,019+/- total square feet. There are two garage parking spaces.
Entered directly from the private elevator vestibule, the gallery foyer leads into the bright and airy great room where wraparound window walls open the living/dining areas to the glorious ocean view from inside and out on the balcony's lounge space. Also flowing out to the oceanside balcony, the dine-in gourmet kitchen is appointed with crisp white Snaidero cabinetry, quartz counters, a Thermador range and double ovens, Sub-Zero refrigerator, and Bosch dishwasher. Opening to a private balcony overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, the large master suite provides a double sized custom-fitted wardrobe room next to its luxe bath featuring a glass-enclosed multi-head shower, dual vanity, and separate water closet. Two more bedrooms, one opening to the main balcony, both have Ocean-to-Intracoastal views and are served by a connecting bath.
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- 3
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- Total Square Feet
- 3,019
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- Garage Spaces
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- Tax Year
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History hidden in plain view
Some of the neatest discoveries are hidden in plain view. One of these in the Wairarapa is the W A Miller Reserve. More commonly known as the ANZAC Bridge
ANZAC Bridge, is situated just north of Pukaha Mount Bruce on State Highway 2 at Kaiparoro. It's one of those places that we all drive past, often on the way somewhere else so we haven't factored in stopping time. This time, on your way, give yourself an extra 30 minutes to explore this historical spot.
The ANZAC Bridge is a commemoration of Mauriceville's war veterans; those who went and didn't return. In 2010 the bridge was given Category 1 status by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The names of those locals that fell in World War 1 are inscribed on the bridge and are a constant reminder of their sacrifice.
The reserve has a nice bush walk and also a well maintained track beside the road to the ANZAC Bridge. There is a picnic table and river access is excellent and is good for a swim in warmer weather.
For more things to do while you're visiting the Wairarapa head to www.wairarapanz.com. When you're here be sure to call into one of our i-SITE Visitor Centres for advice and trip suggestions.
Masterton i-SITE
Cnr Bruce and Dixon Streets
+64 6 370 0900
Martinborough i-SITE
18 Kitchener Street
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BYU students answer question "When will I use math?"
Via MAA News, a new website put out by math undergrads at BYU shows just what math is good for. Pretty, cool, and pretty cool.
Tyler Jarvis, head of the department, blogs:
What would Jason Lezak do?
I've been reading Steven Krantz's book How to Teach Mathematics lately, looking for some words of wisdom. One item has resurfaced during these Olympics.
All learning of significant knowledge requires considerable effort on the part of the learner. This fact has not changed since Euclid told Ptolemy (over 2000 years ago) that "There is no royal road to geometry."...
Go to any athletic facility and you will see young people spending hours perfecting their free throw or their skate board technique or their butterfly stroke. They don't hire tutors to achieve these goals...An eighteen-year-old understands clearly when an athletic coach says, "No pain, no gain." However, the same concept makes little sense to him in the context of mathematics or another deep academic subject.


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COLLEGE STATION Around 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, College Station Police Department were dispatched to 1300 block of Augustine Ct for a Deadly Conduct call.
It was reported to dispatch that one group of suspects had run the victim off of the road causing an accident and that they then threatened him with a handgun.
Officers were able to locate the suspect vehicle a short distance away and detain the occupants. Through the investigation into this incident it was learned that the victim had originally planned to sell narcotics to the suspects. They met near the intersection of Harvey Mitchell and Welsh for the exchange.
During the sale of the narcotics, two of the suspects stole the narcotics from the victim, using a handgun during the theft. The victim then fled the scene in his vehicle, pursued by the suspects. The suspects then attempted to block the victim in on Augustine Ct and again pointed a handgun at him.
During the victim's attempt to flee a second time he struck a parked vehicle. A witness had come out on his porch after hearing the accident and the victim asked him to call the police department. The suspect vehicle had been stolen from the city of Bryan.
Officers were able to recover two handguns from the vehicle as well as a quantity of narcotics.
It was just before midnight Thursday when officers then received another report of deadly conduct at 134 Luther, Southgate Village Apartments.
The reporting person told dispatch that there was a fight in the parking lot and handguns were involved. A second reporting person advised that their brother was being led away at gun point by several suspects. Upon investigation it was learned that this incident was connected to the earlier aggravated robbery.
The victim in this case knew the victim from the robbery and had acted as a middleman during the narcotics deal earlier in the day.
After the robbery, friends of the robbery victim, believing that this victim had set up their associate, attempted to force the victim to take them to another apartment where they believed the robbery suspect to be at gun point. Upon the arrival of the Police, the suspects attempted to flee the complex but were soon detained.
A third handgun was recovered during this incident.
The following persons were arrested in the Aggravated Robbery:
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Robbery, Possession of Marijuana, and Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon: Juvenile College Station resident.
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Robbery, Possession of Marijuana, and Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle: Brianna Kidd 19 year old College Station resident
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Robbery and Possession of Marijuana: Dreion Moore 19 year old College Station resident
The following persons were arrested in the Aggravated Kidnapping:
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Kidnapping, Tampering with Evidence, and Evading:
Enrique Pineda Jr. 25 year old Caldwell resident
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Kidnapping:
Milton Kearney 23 year old Bryan resident
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Kidnapping and Fail to ID Fugitive:
Jerry Morris Jr. 23 year old Bryan resident
Arrested and charged with Aggravated Kidnapping:
Perry Monroe Jr. 27 year old Bryan resident


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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Luchthaven Schiphol
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|Amsterdam, Netherlands
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|Statistics (2013)
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|$27.3 billion[2]
|Sources: CBS[3] Schiphol Group[4] and AIP[5]
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (ICAO: EHAM) is the main international airport of the Netherlands, located 20 minutes (4.9 NM (9.1 km; 5.6 mi)[5]) southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer. It is the fourth busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers.
Schiphol is the primary hub for KLM[6] and its regional affiliate KLM Cityhopper as well as for Arkefly,[7] Corendon Dutch Airlines, Martinair,[8] and Transavia.com. The airport also serves as a European hub for Delta Air Lines[1] and as a base for Vueling.[9]
The airport's official English name, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, reflects the original Dutch word order (Luchthaven Schiphol).
- Description 1
- History 2
Infrastructure 3
Terminal 3.1
- Departure Hall 1 3.1.1
- Departure Hall 2 3.1.2
- Departure Hall 3 3.1.3
- General Aviation Terminal 3.1.4
- Further facilities 3.1.5
- Future Expansions 3.2
- Tower 3.3
- Runways 3.4
- Terminal 3.1
Airlines and destinations 4
- Passenger 4.1
- Cargo 4.2
- Other users 4.3
- Statistics 5
- Other facilities 6
Ground transport 7
- Rail 7.1
- Bus 7.2
- Car 7.3
- Incidents and accidents 8
- See also 9
- References 10
- Bibliography 11
- External links 12
Schiphol is an important European airport, ranking as Europe's 4th busiest and the world's 14th busiest by total passenger traffic in 2013 (16th in 2012). It also ranks as the world's 6th busiest by international passenger traffic and the world's 16th busiest for cargo tonnage. 52.569 million passengers passed through the airport in 2013, a 3% increase compared with 2012.[4] Schiphol's main competitors in terms of passenger traffic and cargo throughput are London Heathrow Airport, Frankfurt Airport, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Airport and Madrid–Barajas Airport.
In 2010, 65.9% of passengers using the airport flew to and from Europe, 11.7% to and from North America and 8.8% to and from Asia; cargo volume was mainly between Schiphol and Asia (45%) and North America (17%).[10]
In 2010, 106 carriers provided a total of 301 destinations on a regular basis. Passenger destinations were offered by 91 airlines. Direct (non-stop) destinations grew by 9 to 274. Regular destinations serviced exclusively by full freighters (non-passenger) grew by 8 to a total of 27.[11]
The airport is built as one large terminal (a single-terminal concept), split into three large departure halls, which connect again once airside. The most recent of these was completed in 1994, and expanded in 2007 with a new section, called Terminal 4, although it is not considered a separate building. Plans for further terminal expansion exist, including the construction of a separate new terminal between the Zwanenburgbaan and Polderbaan runways that would end the one-terminal concept.
Because of intense traffic and high landing fees, some low-cost carriers decided to move their flights to smaller airports, such as Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Eindhoven Airport. Many low-cost carriers, such as EasyJet, however, continue to operate from Schiphol, using the low-cost H-pier.
Schiphol is equipped with 18 double jetway gates in preparation for airlines introducing the Airbus A380. Emirates was the first airline to fly the A380 to Schiphol in August 2012, deploying the aircraft on its daily Dubai–Amsterdam service.[12]
Schiphol's name is derived from a former fortification named Fort Schiphol which was part of the Stelling van Amsterdam defence works.[13] Before 1852, the Haarlemmermeer polder in which the airport lies was a large lake with some shallow areas. There are multiple stories of how the place got its name. The most popular story is that in the shallow waters sudden violent storms could claim many ships. This was the main reason for reclaiming it. In English, Schiphol translates to 'Ship Grave', a reference to many ships supposedly lost in the lake. When the lake was reclaimed, however, no ship wrecks were found. Another possible origin of the name is the word 'scheepshaal'. A scheepshaal is a ditch or little canal in which ships would be towed from one lake to another. A third explanation would be that the name derived from the words 'scip hol'. This is a low lying area of land (hol, like in the name Holland) from where wood would be obtained to build ships.[14]
Schiphol opened on 16 September 1916 as a military airbase, with a few barracks and a field serving as platform and runways. When civil aircraft started to use the field (17 December 1920) it was often called Schiphol-les-bains. The Fokker aircraft manufacturer started a factory near Schiphol airport in 1919.[15] The end of the First World War also saw the beginning of civilian use of Schiphol Airport and the airport eventually lost its military role completely.
By 1940, Schiphol had four asphalt runways at 45-degree angles, all 1,020 metres (3,350 ft) or less. One was extended to become today's runway 04/22; two others crossed that runway at . The airport was captured by the German military that same year and renamed Fliegerhorst Schiphol. A large amount of anti-aircraft defences were installed in the vicinity of the airport and fake decoy airfields were constructed in the vicinity near Bennebroek, Vijfhuizen and Vogelenzang in an attempt to confuse allied bombers. A railway connection was also constructed. Despite these defences, the airfield was still bombed intensively, and an exceptionally heavy attack on the 13th of December 1943 caused so much damage that it rendered the airfield unusable as an active base. After that it served only as an emergency landing field, until the Germans themselves destroyed the remainders of the airfield at the start of Operation Market Garden. At the end of the war, the airfield was restored quickly, with the first aircraft, a Douglas DC-3, landing again on the 8th of July 1945.[16]Schiphol-Rijk industrial estate. In 1967, Dutch designer Benno Wissing created signage for Schiphol Airport well known for its clear writing and thorough color-coding; to avoid confusion, he prohibited any other signage in the shades of yellow and green used.[17] This was part of the new terminal building which replaced the older facilities once located on what is now the east side of the airport. The A-Pier of the airport was modified in 1970 to allow Boeing 747 aircraft to make use of the boarding gates.
The construction of a new Air Traffic Control tower was completed in 1991 as the existing tower could no longer oversee all of the airport. New wayfinding signage was designed that year as well by Paul Mijksenaar.[18] A sixth runway was completed at quite some distance west of the rest of airport in 2003 and was nicknamed the Polderbaan, with the connecting taxiway crossing the A5 motorway. The distance of this runway means that taxi times to and from this runway can take between 10 and 20 minutes. It also required the construction of an additional Air Traffic Control tower as the primary tower is too far away to oversee this part of the airfield.[19]
On 25 February 2005, a diamond robbery occurred at Schiphol's cargo terminal. The robbers used a stolen KLM van to gain airside access. The estimated value of the stones was around 75 million euros, making it one of the largest diamond robberies ever.[20] Later that year a fire broke out at the airport's detention centre, killing 11 people and injuring 15. The complex was holding 350 people at the time of the incident. Results from the investigation almost one year later showed that fire safety precautions were not in force. A national outrage resulted in the resignation of Justice Minister Donner (CDA) and Mayor Hartog of Haarlemmermeer. Spatial Planning Minister Dekker (VVD) resigned as well, because she bore responsibility for the construction, safety, and maintenance of state-owned buildings.
Schiphol uses a one terminal concept, where all facilities are located under a single roof, radiating from the central 'plaza'. The terminal, though, is divided into three sections or halls designated 1, 2 and 3. To all of these halls, piers or concourses are connected. However, it is possible, on both sides of security or border inspection, to walk from between piers, even those connected to different halls. The exception to this is the low-cost pier M: once airside (past security), passengers cannot access any other areas. Border control separates Schengen from non-Schengen areas. Schiphol Airport has approximately 165 boarding gates.
Schiphol has large shopping areas as a source of revenue and as an additional attraction for passengers. Schiphol Plaza is the shopping centre before customs, hence it is used by air travelers and non-traveling visitors.
Departure Hall 1
Departure Hall 1 consists of Piers B and C, both of which are dedicated Schengen areas. Pier B has 14 gates and Pier C has 21 gates.
Departure Hall 2
Departure Hall 2 consists of Piers D and E.
Pier D is the largest pier and has two levels. The lower floor houses non-Schengen flights, and the upper floor is used for Schengen flights. By using stairs, the same jetways are used to access the aircraft. Schengen gates are numbered beginning with D-59, non-Schengen gates are numbered from D-1 to D-57.
Pier E is a dedicated non-Schengen area and has 14 gates. It is typically home to SkyTeam hub airlines Delta Air Lines and KLM, along with other members, such as China Airlines and China Southern Airlines. Other Middle Eastern and Asian airlines such as EVA Air, Etihad Airways, Iran Air, Air Astana, and Malaysia Airlines also typically operate out of Pier E.
Departure Hall 3
Departure Hall 3 consists of piers F, G, H and M. Pier F has 8 gates and is typically dominated by SkyTeam members such as primary airline KLM, Kenya Airways, and other members, such as China Airlines and China Southern Airlines. Pier G has 13 gates and is the only terminal that handles daily Airbus A380 service, by Emirates. Piers H and M have 7 gates each and are home to low-cost airlines. Piers F, G and H are non-Schengen areas. Pier M is a dedicated Schengen area.
General Aviation Terminal
A new General Aviation Terminal was opened in 2011 on the east side of the airport, operated as the KLM Jet Center. The new terminal building has a floorspace of 6,000 m2 (65,000 sq ft); 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft) for the actual terminal and lounges, 4,000 m2 (43,000 sq ft) for office space and 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft) for parking.[21] Due to the high traffic volume of Schiphol and the surrounding airspace, a slot must be requested for both inbound and outbound General Aviation flights, with an exception of state, emergency and humanitarian flights.[22]
Further facilities
The Rijksmuseum operates an annex at the airport, offering a small overview of both classical and contemporary art.[23] Admission to the exhibits is free.
In summer 2010, Schiphol Airport Library opened alongside the museum, providing passengers access to a collection of 1,200 books (translated into 29 languages) by Dutch authors or on subjects relating to the country's history and culture. The 968 sq ft (89.9 m2) library offers e-books and music by Dutch artists and composers that can be downloaded free of charge to a laptop or mobile device.[24] The Schiphol Airport Library closed in Sept. 2014 for refurbishment until the end of 2015.
For aviation enthusiasts, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has a large rooftop viewing area, called the Panoramaterras. It is not accessible to connecting passengers unless they first exit the airport. Enthusiasts and the public can enter, free of charge, from the airport's landside. Since June 2011, it is the location for a KLM Cityhopper Fokker 100, modified to be a viewing exhibit.[25] Besides the Panoramaterras, Schiphol has other spotting sites, especially along the newest Polderbaan runway and at the McDonald's restaurant at the north side of the airport.
Schiphol has its own mortuary, where the dead can be handled and kept before departure or after arrival. Since October 2006, people can also hold a wedding ceremony at Schiphol.[26]
Schiphol is building a new state of the art Hilton Hotel, with 433 rooms. The new building designed by the architect firm Mecanoo will have a cube shape, with rounded corners and diamond shaped windows. The spacious atrium will have a 35 foot high ceiling made of glass, and will be in the heart of the building. A covered walkway will connect the hotel directly to the Terminal. In 2015 the hotel will be completed.[27]
Future Expansions
In 2012, Schiphol Group announced a big expansion of Schiphol, featuring a new Pier,[28] an expansion of the Terminal and a new parking garage.[29] Pier A will be part of Departure Hall 1 which already has Pier B (14 gates) and Pier C (21 gates). The new Pier A will have 10 gates. The first activities are expected to start in 2016 and to be completed in 2018. The expansions will cost about 500 million euros.
The new Pier A will be built next to the Pier B, this place is now used as a freight-platform for planes. The Pier A will mainly be used for flights within Europe. To handle the extra passengers that come with this new Pier, Schiphol will expand the Terminal and build new facilities for check-ins and arrivals. From the new building, direct access will be made to the platforms of the underground railway station. When finished, Schiphol wants to grow to around 65 million passengers in 2020.[30]
The Schiphol air traffic control tower, with a height of 101 m (331 ft), was the tallest in the world when constructed in 1991. Schiphol is geographically one of the world's lowest major commercial airports. The entire airport is below sea level; the lowest point sits at 11 ft (3.4 m) below sea level (or 4.5 ft (1.4 m) below the Dutch Normaal Amsterdams Peil (NAP)); the runways are around 3 m (9.8 ft) below NAP.[31][32]
Schiphol has six runways, one of which is used mainly by general aviation aircraft.[5] The northern end of the Polderbaan, the last runway to be constructed, is 7 km (4.3 mi) north of the control tower, causing taxi times of up to 20 minutes to the terminal.
|Runway direction/code
(in metres and feet)
|Runway common name
|Source of the name
3,800 m
12,467 ft
|Decided via contest. 'Polder' is the Dutch word for land reclaimed from a body of water. Schiphol Airport is situated in a polder.
Newest runway, opened 2003.
Located to reduce the noise impact on the surrounding population; aircraft have a lengthy 15-minute taxi to and from the Terminal. The intended landing runway for Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, which crashed in a field just short of the runway.
3,500 m
11,483 ft
|Named after the Kagerplassen which lies at the end of the runway
|The Kaagbaan offered a location for spotters until the spotting location was closed in January 2008.[33]
3,453 m
11,329 ft
|Named after Buitenveldert, a part of Amsterdam
|El Al Flight 1862 was trying to make an emergency landing on this runway when it crashed into a block of flats in the Bijlmermeer.[34]
3,400 m
11,155 ft
|Named after Aalsmeer
3,300 m
10,826 ft
|Named after the village Zwanenburg
|El Al Flight 1862 took off from this runway before crashing into flats in the Bijlmermeer when the plane was trying to return to the airport.[34]
2,014 m
6,608 ft
|Most Eastern (Oost) of all runways
|In October 2010 a B-737 of Corendon Airlines overshot this short runway and ended up with its nosegear in the mud.[35]
Airlines and destinations
Other users
Other regular users of Schiphol are the Dutch Coast Guard whose aircraft are operated by the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the Dienst Luchtvaart Politie and the Dutch Dakota Association.
|Top Carriers
|London (Heathrow), United Kingdom
|British Airways, KLM, KLM Cityhopper
|Barcelona, Spain
|KLM, Transavia.com, Vueling
|Paris (Charles de Gaulle), France
|Air France, KLM
|Rome (Fiumicino), Italy
|Alitalia, easyJet, KLM, Vueling
|Copenhagen, Denmark
|KLM, KLM Cityhopper, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines
|London (Gatwick), United Kingdom
|British Airways, easyJet
|Madrid, Spain
|Air Europa, KLM, Iberia Express
|Antalya, Turkey
Arkefly, Corendon Airlines, Corendon Dutch Airlines, Freebird Airlines,
Onur Air, Pegasus Airlines, SunExpress, Transavia.com
|Frankfurt, Germany
|KLM, KLM Cityhopper, Lufthansa
|Zürich, Switzerland
|KLM, KLM Cityhopper, Swiss International Air Lines
|Munich, Germany
|KLM, KLM Cityhopper, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Regional
|Manchester, United Kingdom
|easyJet, KLM, KLM Cityhopper
|Lisbon, Portugal
|easyJet, KLM, TAP Portugal, Transavia.com
|Stockholm (Arlanda), Sweden
|KLM, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines
|Geneva, Switzerland
|easyJet Switzerland, KLM, KLM Cityhopper
|Istanbul (Atatürk), Turkey
|Corendon, Freebird Airlines, KLM, Turkish Airlines
|Oslo (Gardermoen), Norway
|KLM, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines
|Edinburgh, United Kingdom
|easyJet, KLM
|Milan (Linate), Italy
|Alitalia, Alitalia CityLiner, KLM
|Vienna, Austria
|Austrian Airlines, KLM, KLM Cityhopper
|Top Carriers
|Detroit, United States
|New York (JFK), United States
|Delta, KLM
|Dubai, United Arab Emirates
|Arkefly, Emirates, KLM, Transavia.com
|Atlanta, United States
|Delta, KLM
|Minneapolis/Saint Paul, United States
|Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi), Thailand
|China Airlines, EVA Air, KLM
|Nairobi, Kenya
|Kenya Airways, KLM
|Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
|KLM, Malaysia Airlines
|Curaçao, Curaçao
|Arkefly, KLM
|Toronto, Canada
|Air Transat, Arkefly, KLM
|Hong Kong, Hong Kong
|Cathay Pacific, KLM
|Tel Aviv, Israel
|Arkia Israel Airlines, El Al, Israir, KLM, Transavia.com
|Houston, United States
|KLM, United Airlines
|Singapore, Singapore
|KLM, Singapore Airlines
|Shanghai (Pudong), China
|Beijing (Capital), China
|China Southern Airlines, KLM
|Tokyo (Narita), Japan
|Seattle, United States
|Washington (Dulles), United States
|KLM, United Airlines
|Boston, United States
Other facilities
The TransPort Building on the Schiphol Airport property houses the head offices of Martinair and Transavia.com.[63] Construction of the building, which has 10,800 m2 (116,000 sq ft) of rentable space, began on 17 March 2009. Schiphol Group and the architect firm Paul de Ruiter designed the building, while De Vries and Verburg, a firm of Stolwijk, constructed the building.[64]
The World Trade Center Schiphol Airport houses the head office of SkyTeam,[65][66] the Netherlands office of China Southern Airlines,[67] and the Netherlands offices of Iran Air.[68] The head office of Schiphol Group, the airport's operator, is located on the airport property.[69] The Convair Building, with its development beginning after a parcel was earmarked for its development in 1999, houses KLM offices,[70] including KLM Recruitment Services and the head office of KLM Cityhopper.[71][72] The original control tower of Schiphol Airport, which the airport authorities had moved slightly from its original location, now houses a restaurant.[70] The area Schiphol-Rijk includes the head offices of Arkefly and Amsterdam Airlines.[73][74]
At one time KLM had its head office on the grounds of Schiphol Airport.[75] Its current head office in Amstelveen had a scheduled completion at the end of 1970.[76] Previously Martinair had its head office in the Schiphol Center (Dutch: Schiphol Centrum) at Schiphol Airport.[77][78] Formerly, the head office of Transavia.com was in the Building Triport III at Schiphol Airport.[79][80][81] NLM Cityhopper and later KLM Cityhopper previously had their head offices in Schiphol Airport building 70.[82][82]
Nippon Cargo Airlines has its Europe regional headquarters at Schiphol.[83] The National Aerospace Museum Aviodome–Schiphol was previously located at Schiphol.[84] In 2003 the museum moved to Lelystad Airport and was renamed the "Aviodrome."[85]
Ground transport
The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the national Dutch train operator, has a major passenger railway station directly underneath the passenger terminal complex that offers transportation into Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam and many other cities.[86] There are intercity connections to Amsterdam Centraal, Utrecht Centraal, both The Hague Centraal and The Hague HS, Rotterdam Centraal, Eindhoven, Leeuwarden, Groningen, Enschede, Arnhem, Nijmegen and Heerlen. Schiphol is also a stop for the Thalys international high-speed train, connecting the airport directly to Antwerp, Brussels and Paris.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is also easily accessible by bus, as many services call or terminate at the bus station located outside in front of the terminal building.[87] Bus journeys can be planned using the 9292 nationwide journey planner.
|Alphen aan den Rijn
|186, 199, 300, night bus N30
|Amsterdam, Leidseplein
|197, night bus N97
|Leidseplein is the closest destination to Amsterdam's city centre that is served by bus from Schiphol.
|Amsterdam, Osdorp
|69, 192
|Amsterdam, Slotervaart
|69, 195
|Amsterdam, Amsterdam–Zuid and Buitenveldert
|300, night bus N30
|300, 310, night bus N30
|Keukenhof Gardens
|58 (seasonal)
|Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
|300, night bus N30
|through Sassenheim
|300, night bus N30
Schiphol Airport can easily be reached by car via the A4 and A9 motorways. Schiphol offers several car parking facilities,[88] which include short term parking,[89] valet parking[90] and other parking offers.
Incidents and accidents
- On 14 November 1946, a Douglas C-47 operated by KLM from London approached Schiphol during bad weather conditions. The first two attempts to land failed. During the third attempt, the pilot realized that the airplane was not lined up properly with the runway. The aircraft made a sharp left turn at low speed, causing the left wing to hit the ground. The airplane crashed and caught fire, killing all 26 people on board, including the plane's crew of five.
- On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo airplane heading to Tel Aviv suffered physical engine separation of both right-wing engines (#3 and #4) just after taking off from Schiphol and crashed into an apartment building in the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam while attempting to return to the airport. A total of 43 people were killed, including the plane's crew of three and a "non-revenue passenger". Several others were injured.
- On 4 April 1994, Flight KL433 to Cardiff, a Saab 340 operated by KLM Cityhopper, returned to Schiphol after setting the number two engine to flight idle because the crew mistakenly believed that the engine suffered from low oil pressure because of a faulty warning light. On final approach at a height of 90 ft (27 m), the captain decided to go-around and gave full throttle on only the number one engine leaving the other in flight idle. The airplane rolled to the right, pitched up, stalled and hit the ground at 80 degrees bank. Of the twenty-four people on board, three were killed including the captain. Nine others were seriously injured.
- On 25 February 2009, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737-800 from Istanbul crashed on approach, just 1 km (0.6 mi) short of the airport's Polderbaan runway. The plane carried 128 passengers and 7 crew on board. 9 people were killed and a further 86 were injured, including six with serious injuries. Four of the dead were employees of Boeing, involved in an advanced radar deal with Turkey. An initial report from the Dutch Safety Board revealed that the left radio altimeter had failed to provide the correct height above the ground and suddenly reported −8 ft (−2.4 m). As a result of this the autothrottle system closed the thrust levers to idle, as it is programmed to reduce thrust when below 27 ft (8.2 m) radio altitude. This eventually resulted in a dropping airspeed which was not acted upon until it was too late to recover, and the aircraft stalled and crashed in a field.
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FRISCO, Texas – Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Michael Parkhurst and now Maurice Edu represent a steady stream of European-based US national team players flowing into MLS in the last six months.
FC Dallas technical director Fernando Clavijo said he expects more American internationals to return to the league, but his club will only dip into those waters if they can make a big splash.
"The message from MLS has been loud and clear: They want to have everybody back into the United States prior to the World Cup, so I know that more players are coming," Clavijo told reporters after Tuesday's training session.
Dallas currently sit fourth in the allocation order behind Seattle, Columbus and Toronto. Guatemalan international and former Chicago Fire winger Marco Pappa's return to the league via allocation means FCD could move up to third if he is selected by one of those three teams (Clavijo did not indicate an interest in selecting Pappa), so they will either have to wait their turn or swing a deal if a player they like returns to the league.
Clavijo has often stated his desire to add a "box-to-box" midfielder, and new head coach Oscar Pareja echoed those thoughts recently to MLSsoccer.com, hoping to make that player the linchpin of a three-man central midfield similar to the 4-3-3 formation he employed while head coach of the Colorado Rapids.
Clavijo acknowledged the club considered Edu for that role before Philadelphia traded into the top allocation spot to grab the Stoke City player on loan. Another national-team midfielder looking for a new club, former Schalke 04 man Jermaine Jones, would also have been of interest, but he has signed with Turkish club Besiktas.
Young Designated Player Mauro Díaz, who produced three goals and two assists in only 423 minutes last year, is likely to fill the primary attacking role.
For a more defensive, linking role, Dallas have a glut of options in 30-somethings Peter Luccin and Michel and MLS veterans Andrew Jacobson, Adam Moffat and Bobby Warshaw, and they could be joined by 18-year-old Homegrown Player Kellyn Acosta, who found his way into the lineup last year at right back but has played in the middle for US youth national teams.
While adding a hybrid midfielder to complement both positions would be ideal from an FC Dallas perspective, Clavijo expects to take a wait-and-see approach rather than targeting a specific name.
"We have to be very careful not to jump the gun and make decisions too quick before we know who is coming back," Clavijo said. "Hopefully when we reach [the first] position, somebody who we really want is back, and this is another decision we have to make."


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The Don Ryan Center for Innovation is getting close to having a director to start and lead the center.
That's terrific news for the project, CareCore National at Buckwalter Place where it's being housed thanks to a generous contribution of space in the company's headquarters building by the late Don Ryan, co-founder of CareCore, and for the town of Bluffton.
Bluffton was chosen for the three-year pilot project for Clemson's Building the Technology Village project in non-metropolitan areas. The goal is to provide a breeding ground for technology-oriented businesses, fueling new business and jobs and diversifying the economy.
Bluffton is sponsoring the public-private technology incubator project and Mayor Lisa Sulka chairs the board.
A list of finalists for the director position was narrowed to nine by a committee of the technology incubator board last week. About 42 applications were received for the position that pays between $65,000 and $75,000 plus benefits. And rightly so as the job is a desirable one for many reasons.
As the process of choosing a director moves forward we hope that it is done with transparency and open meetings.
The public-private project required the town to be the sponsor and therefore public funds are being spent.
The board met in executive session last week to discuss the nine candidates. The committee charged with conducting the screening process is expected in the next week to give the board a list of four finalists, which skirts around the state's Freedom of Information Act requirement of identifying the top three finalists.
A special meeting of the board is expected to be called to make a hiring recommendation to Town Manager Anthony Barrett. Then Barrett will make an appointment.
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Once again, U.S. takes stab at promoting a moderate Syrian opposition
The Obama administration on Monday announced enhanced diplomatic standing and $27 million in new aid for the main Syrian opposition group, part of a campaign to re-brand a coalition that's proven ineffectual, lacking in popular support and outgunned by both government forces and Islamist rebels.
The boost to the embattled Syrian Opposition Coalition, which the U.S. government recognizes as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, recognizes the group as a "foreign mission." It coincides with a nine-day visit to Washington intended to "reintroduce the face of the Syrian moderate opposition" to Americans and to European allies, said a senior administration official, who briefed reporters under the condition of anonymity.
But the upgrade in diplomatic standing is primarily symbolic – it does ease some banking and outreach efforts – and analysts of the Syrian conflict warned that it is little more than window dressing, with no major policy shift in the offing from the Obama administration.
Moreover, they noted, the opposition coalition remains made up of the same figures whose infighting and political divisions have infuriated American officials and Syrian constituents for years _ the same faces with the same ideological, religious and personal rifts among them.
"The problems, essentially, can't be solved because they're part of the very fabric of this body," said Faysal Itani, who follows the Syrian conflict closely as a fellow with the Washington-based Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
The coalition's president, Ahmad Jarba, hailed the development in a statement on the coalition's website. "This is a diplomatic blow against Assad's legitimacy and demonstrates how far the opposition has progressed," he said.
But the meetings that Jarba and his entourage have scheduled with Secretary of State John Kerry, senior White House officials and U.S. lawmakers, as well as media interviews and appearances at foreign policy think tanks, won't appreciably change developments in Syria, where President Bashar Assad is scheduled to hold elections next month that in all likelihood will see his rule endorsed after three years of bitter civil war.
Since early in the conflict, the coalition and its predecessor, the Syrian National Coalition, as well as its semi-affiliated armed wing, the Supreme Military Council, have been overshadowed by the Assad regime as well as by the jihadist fighters who took over the armed rebellion.
One goal, the official said, is to remind people that there is a moderate voice in the debate over Syria's future.
"They need to make sure that their part of the triangle also has awareness, namely, who is the moderate opposition? What are they all about? What is their vision? What are they up to right now?" the senior administration official said.
The push comes at a time when confusion swirls among close Syria watchers as to who is in charge of the Supreme Military Council and what role it's playing since U.S. rebel point man Brig. Gen. Salim Idris was ousted in February. An Islamist fighting bloc has emerged as the key rebel force; extremist elements, some aligned with al Qaida, reportedly are gaining ground in southern Syria while Assad's forces have retaken control of many key Damascus suburbs and other population centers in central Syria.
The senior administration official acknowledged what he called the "asymmetry which exists on the ground militarily," and he said it was an obstacle to finding a political solution to a conflict that's killed 150,000 and displaced millions. Talks within the so-called Geneva framework, envisioned as a blueprint for Assad's negotiated transition from power, are at a standstill.
Put more simply: Assad is winning, and there's not much the United States can or will do about it.
"Unfortunately, it has not trended in the right direction," the official said. "It's extremely frustrating."
"That doesn't mean we throw in the towel," the official added.
U.S. officials have gone from supporting the political opposition to ditching them as a lost cause to, now, orchestrating a grand "reintroduction."
Itani, the analyst, said it was prudent not to read too much into the latest moves, which he said aren't likely to translate into any serious U.S. push to shift the war in favor of the rebels.
Even the recent appearance in rebel hands of advanced U.S. weapons, such as armor-piercing BGM-71 TOW missiles, and reports that the U.S. is training Syrian rebels should be seen in context, he said.
His contacts with knowledge of the covert training program say it churns out only 100 to 200 vetted fighters a month – a rate that simply won't result in a viable foil to either the Assad government or the Islamist extremists, whose forces number in the tens of thousands.
Such measures give credence to criticism that the administration is trying to build a moderate force where none exists, Itani said.
"Because the objective of the policy is not to assure an opposition military victory _ it's just to make sure an opposition exists _ it lends itself well to fine-tuning," Itani said.


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With so many different career options out there, Margaret Harris examines what university careers offices can – and cannot – do to help physics graduates find their way in the job market.
It is a quiet morning in the University of Bath's careers advisory centre, with just a few students flicking through leaflets in the reception area or browsing the small library of resources along the far wall. "We're much busier in October and November, because that's when many popular employers have their closing dates for vacancies," says Diane Hay, the university's head of careers, as she shows me into a small office nearby. "The nature of the employers working with us definitely changes as the year goes on – more small companies with specific vacancies, fewer big graduate schemes." I notice that the room next door is reserved for the British Army; Hay explains that it is conducting mock interviews this morning. A low cadence of voices filters through the wall, and I wonder briefly if the interview – mock or otherwise – is going well.
I am here to find out what careers offices do, and what physics students can expect to gain from visiting them. This is a novel experience for me since, for a variety of reasons, I never set foot in my university's careers-advice centre. "That's not atypical," says Alan Bunch, Bath's specialist advisor for science careers. "There are lots of students we don't see because they're doing it on their own. But a fair proportion of them do engage with us in some way, whether it's through careers fairs, skills sessions or a face-to-face meeting."
The latest figures on graduate employment suggest that today's students may need all the help they can get. In January the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) released data showing that in the third quarter of 2010 almost one in five recent graduates were unable to find work. That is better than the 27% unemployment rate for 18–20 year olds without a degree, but it is still the highest for almost a generation: the last time that new graduates faced such a harsh employment climate was in 1995, when most current students were in primary school.
Many doors
There is some reason to believe that physics graduates will fare better than the average. The ONS survey does not distinguish between degree subjects, and both government and industry leaders have for many years lamented the shortage of skilled graduates with degrees in technical subjects. Moreover, in 2009 the Council for Industry and Higher Education (a charity that links top firms and universities in an effort to boost the UK's knowledge-based economy) predicted that demand for such graduates would grow significantly faster than the average across all subjects.
Unfortunately, that does not mean everyone with a physics degree will walk straight into a job. The most recent survey by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) found that in 2008 the unemployment rate among physics graduates six months after graduation was 11.7%, compared with an average of 8.9% across all subjects (see "What physicists do: a snapshot of graduate careers" below). That puts physics at a lowly 19th out of 27 disciplines surveyed, with physics graduates more likely to be unemployed than environmental scientists (fourth on the list, at 8.3%) and chemists (seventh, 8.7%), though slightly better off than mechanical engineers and fine-arts graduates (joint 20th at 11.8%).
These figures pose a challenge to the rosy image that many in the physics community have of the subject. We all know that in order to do well in physics, students must be bright, numerate and good at solving problems. Depending on the nature of their course, they may also acquire skills in other areas such as data analysis and computer programming. Employers value all of these things, so it is easy to conclude that a physics degree is good preparation for pretty much any career. And to some extent, the employment data support this view: according to HESA statistics, physics graduates who choose not to pursue further study (about 60% of the total) find jobs in a wide variety of sectors, including finance, engineering, information technology and medicine.
But for those who are just beginning their search for a career, such variety can be a double-edged sword. "Physics opens a lot of doors, but no main one," says Fran Laughton, director of teaching and resources in Bath's department of physics. "There's no default option as there is in, say, chemistry, where the pharmaceutical industry is a major employer."
Richard Budd, who advises physics and engineering students at Cardiff University's careers centre, puts it in stronger terms. "Physics is often presented as a master subject, but in reality there are so many little specialized avenues you can go down that students may not be prepared for the world of work in general," he says. "There are a very limited number of jobs out there where an ability to do quantum mechanics is actually needed." Because of this, Budd says, physics students often need help to articulate exactly what skills they can offer employers.
Getting ahead
When I asked careers officers what physics students should do to make themselves more attractive to employers, their answer was unanimous: find a placement, internship or some other form of work experience (see "A head start: work placements" below). With a few exceptions, though, work placements are aimed at first- and second-year students. Suppose you are already in your final year, I ask Hay, or you have missed the deadlines for a placement this summer. What can the careers office do for you then?
The answer, it seems, is "plenty". For students who already know what they want to do, the careers centre is a good place to get help with the technical aspects of job-hunting, such as putting together a CV or writing a personal statement for a postgraduate course. Some students also request help with finding jobs in a particular geographic area, says Penny Law, a careers advisor at the University of St Andrews. This is particularly important for postgraduates, she adds, because they are more likely to have spouses and children.
Many careers offices also provide training on how to take standardized tests, which play a prominent role in the recruitment process for companies such as Deloitte, IBM and Rolls-Royce that take on large numbers of graduates each year. According to Hay, 60% of these high-profile companies use basic verbal and numerical-reasoning tests to weed out unsuitable applicants at an early stage. Some also require would-be employees to complete "in-tray" exercises that measure efficiency. Although such tests only require the ability to read graphs and charts, and to interpret paragraphs of text, physics students can still struggle with them because the time allowed for each question is very short. By taking practice tests in the careers office, students can get feedback on their performance and useful time-management tips, as well as a confidence boost from knowing what to expect in a real test.
Generating ideas
This is all well and good, I say to Bath's information-services manager, Anna Baildon, but what about physics students whose career plans are less clear – or, in some cases, non_existent? "The people who need us most are those who don't have a clue, yet they may be the most intimidated about visiting a careers office," she replies. Partly for this reason, careers officers usually advise students to begin their job search by looking at online resources, either the university's careers pages or at Prospects – a sprawling site that bills itself as "the UK's official graduate careers website".
Intrigued, I check out the Prospects site for myself. After half an hour of browsing, my impression is that its lists of careers and job titles are a decent starting point. Unfortunately, its suggestions for physics graduates are fairly unimaginative: the first two options are "research scientist" and "lecturer", although "patent agent" and "technical author" do crop up further down the page.
When I asked careers advisors where physics students could find alternative suggestions, a few suggested the Institute of Physics' website. Several also recommended looking at university-specific data on where physics graduates find employment. Such data are collected every year in surveys sent out to all new graduates (they are the basis of HESA's statistics), and they offer students very specific information on where people like them have found work.
For example, the 2009 list for the University of Bath's physics graduates includes a smattering of engineers, a radio-frequency technician and two employees at the Sellafield nuclear plant – plus someone working behind the bar at Vodka Revolutions. (They were in good company: among UK physics graduates who sought employment that year, 11.6% ended up working as "retail, catering, waiting and bar staff" six months after graduation, according to HESA.) Although few universities have followed Bath's lead in posting such data online, the lists are generally available in careers offices.
What happens if none of these jobs sound appealing, or if students are not sure what would suit them best? At this point, the approaches of different careers centres begin to diverge. A few, like the one at Bath, seem prepared to offer fairly in-depth counselling aimed at finding out where a student's strengths lie, what their work style is, and how their values may influence their career choices. Some students, for example, decide not to work for defence companies, Hay explains, or to focus on careers in the public sector. Other centres, such as the one at St Andrews, have compiled extensive lists of computer-based psychometric or "career match" tests. Both approaches are meant to get students thinking about broader work-related issues, in the hope that this will help them refine their choice of career.
What not to expect
One thing that all centres seem have in common, though, is a reluctance to tell students what they should do. "We aim to help students learn how to decide, not to make the decision for them," Hay says. For some students, this "hands-off" approach can be frustrating. "I came away loaded with magazines, leaflets, help guides – they were very generous in that way," says Nicky Guttridge, a third-year astrophysics student at University College London who agreed to visit her careers centre and send her impressions to Physics World. "But the advisor I spoke to mainly tried to steer me towards describing my perfect job, then visualizing how to get there. It seemed a bit vague...It was very much a 'how to choose' session, which may be helpful for many people but not for me."
A few decades ago it was common for advisors to sit a student down, talk briefly about their interests, and then tell them what career to pursue. That is now extremely rare at university level, Hay says, largely because "people hated it, and it wasn't very useful". After trying out one online "career profiling" test that suggested I would make a great funeral director or security guard, I am inclined to agree. Yet if a student really wants advice, why not provide it?
"Some students think that we have a crystal ball and we can tell them what to do," replies Julie Callaghan, an advisor at the University of Nottingham. "But the fact is that we don't really know them. We see them only for a brief period, and it's not possible for us to say what's best for them." There are also limitations on how detailed the advice can be if students are interested in specialized, technical roles. Few careers advisors have a physics background, Law observes, so they may refer such queries either to someone in the physics department or to alumni who have agreed to act as contacts in particular sectors.
The bottom line is that careers offices do not have all the answers, and anyone who visits one expecting a "quick fix" will be disappointed. Ultimately, students have to take it upon themselves to engage with the information, and to put in the hard work necessary to find a career that suits them. Still, says Baildon, there is no limit to the assistance on offer, and it is never too late to get started. "We sometimes get people turning up in their caps and gowns, fresh from graduation ceremonies," she says. "We always do what we can to help them."
A head start: work placements
It is perennial problem: to get a job, you need experience; but in order to get experience, you need to get a job. Or do you? In recent years, work placements have become an increasingly common way for students to pick up valuable, CV-boosting experience before they leave university, while also learning more about a career that interests them (and, often, getting paid for it). Unsurprisingly, the careers officers I spoke to were big fans. "At the moment, getting a placement is definitely the best way to make yourself more employable," says Julie Callaghan, an advisor at the University of Nottingham. Fran Laughton, from the University of Bath, agrees. "No placement student at Bath has ever come back saying they've regretted the experience," she says, adding that those who do them frequently feel more motivated about their coursework after they return. Cardiff University's Richard Budd was also unreservedly enthusiastic about placements. "It's all about opening up people's eyes to new possibilities," he says.
Placements vary in length from summer internships lasting a few weeks to year-long stints that allow students to become fully integrated into a company. The most common time to do them is between the second and third year of a university course, although some firms do accept first-year students. As with the search for permanent jobs, it definitely pays to apply early; closing dates for placements vary widely, but late-autumn deadlines are common.
Most careers offices keep information about placements to hand, but the Institute of Physics (which publishes Physics World) has recently produced a guide (Work Placements) that is aimed specifically at students who are interested in physics-based placements. Companies listed in the guide include the nuclear-services firm Babcock International, energy firms such as BP, Centrica, EDF and E.ON, and technology companies such as Thermo Fisher Scientific and IBM. Members of the Institute can access the guide via http://bit.ly/dJp4jU.
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This article appears in the March 2011 issue of Physics World.
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After waiting in limbo for a month, Spero Dedes has finally been hired as the New York Knicks radio play-by-play announcer. This deal probably would have been completed a lot sooner but Dedes received a DUI in the Hamptons about a month ago. He will also be backing up MSG Tv play-by-play man Mike Breen. This has always been Dedes' dream job as he told the NY Post:
"I can remember walking into [Madison Square] Garden for my first Knicks game as a teenager and feeling the magic of the place, I've been in love with this franchise ever since. When I was a broadcast student at Fordham all I dreamt about was what it would feel like to be a Knicks announcer and now it's become reality. I'm truly humbled by this opportunity, and having my family close to me again means a great deal. In addition, I'm forever grateful to the Lakers organization for my time spent there."
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