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LITTLE ROCK — A bank executive and former aide to Gov. Mike Beebe was named to the Arkansas Highway Commission on Thursday, saying he agrees with the Democratic governor's opposition to efforts to tap state general revenue for road improvements.
Beebe appointed Frank Scott Jr. of Little Rock to serve the remainder of former Commissioner John Burkhalter's term, which ends in January 2017. Burkhalter resigned from the commissioner earlier this month to focus on his bid for lieutenant governor next year.
Scott, 29, is a bank executive with First Security who worked on Beebe's policy staff for five years. He was Beebe's director of intergovernmental affairs when he left for First Security last year.
"This is a young man who served on my policy team and who I came away with enormous respect for because, number one, of how utterly smart he is and how he works so hard and how he deals with people and how he absorbs information and goes and gets it done," Beebe said at a news conference at the state Capitol.
The appointment gives Beebe a new ally on the panel against efforts backed by other commissioners and highway officials to transfer general revenue toward highways. The proposal, which failed before a House committee in March, would have transferred sales tax dollars from new and used vehicle sales to the state highway department and local governments once the state's sales tax collections exceed $2.25 billion.
Beebe objected to the idea and finance officials estimated the general revenue proposal would have taken away $22 million from the general fund in 2015 and $345 million by 2024.
"We like to say in the policy department, (general revenue) is to educate, medicate and incarcerate," Scott said, referring to the departments of Education, Human Services and Correction receiving the bulk of that money.
Scott noted that voters last year approved a sales tax increase for state highways and extended a bond program for road improvements in 2011.
"I don't think there's any need to take any dedicated money, but I still have a lot to learn and am willing to listen," he said.
Beebe has appointed four of the five members to the commission, who serve 10-year terms. Burkhalter had been named to the panel in 2011 to replace Cliff Hoofman, who was appointed in 2007 but stepped down after Beebe named him to the state Appeals Court. Hoofman now serves on the state Supreme Court.

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New Grants to Support Humanities Preservation Efforts, 127 U.S. Institutions in 36 States Awarded $5.4 Million
Awards include U.S. Newspaper Program and nine education and training projects
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that 127 U.S. cultural institutions in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico will receive $5.4 million for projects that will take steps to preserve significant books, newspapers, films, audio recordings, papers, and other important records of cultural history. Several of these projects also have received offers of federal matching funds totaling $310,000; institutions receiving such offers must generate equivalent support from individual, foundation, and corporate donors. NEH Chairman Bruce Cole announced the awards today at Indiana University in Bloomington, which received two of the new grants.
The new NEH grants include five for projects in research and development, three that will advance the Endowment's program for the preservation of U.S. newspapers, five in education and training, and 114 "Preservation Assistance Grants" for projects in museums, libraries, and archives across the country. A complete list of new humanities preservation and access grants is available here.
"Throughout the United States, many collections of written materials, films, audio and video recordings, and material artifacts are threatened with physical deterioration as they age in our libraries, museums, and archives," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. "These new NEH grants will help the nation's cultural institutions protect and preserve significant materials for study by future generations."
Five grants will support research and development to advance the nation's capacity to preserve and provide access to humanities resources. Indiana University (Bloomington) will develop and test best practices for preserving analog sound recordings by converting them into digital form. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.) will construct and test a non-invasive, state-of-the-art optical scanning system that will recover recorded sound from a variety of mechanical formats, including 78 rpm, shellac, acetate, wax, and discs. The University of California, Berkeley, will develop new standards for incorporating 14 historical and minority language scripts into the Unicode standard. The University of Missouri, Kansas City, will develop tools that will facilitate the process of digitizing and encoding Latin books printed prior to 1501. Heritage Preservation (Washington, D.C.) will prepare and disseminate a "Field Guide to Emergency Readiness and Response," which will provide step-by-step advice on how to salvage humanities collections immediately after a disaster.
The Endowment's U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP) is a cooperative national effort to locate, catalog, preserve on microfilm, and make available to researchers newspapers published in the United States from the 18th century to the present. With technical support provided by the Library of Congress, NEH supports statewide projects conducted in accordance with national standards and best practices. Three USNP projects will receive new grants and matching funds totaling more than $1.8 million to continue ongoing projects in California (University of California, Riverside), Illinois (University of Illinois, Urbana), and Virginia (Library of Virginia, Richmond).
Five of the grants announced today will support education and training, which is an important component of the Endowment's national preservation effort. The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies (Mt. Carroll, Ill.) will offer courses for mid-career practicing professionals in collections care. George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) will develop a course and offer a long-distance learning curriculum in collections care and management. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) will offer six one-week workshops on the preservation of digital resources for staffs in cultural organizations across the country. Grants to the Balboa Art Conservation Center (San Diego, Calif.) and AMIGOS Library Services, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) will support regional preservation field service programs that provide surveys, workshops and seminars, disaster assistance, and information services to the staff of museums, historical organizations, libraries, and archives in the West and Southwest, respectively.
In Fiscal Year 2000 NEH launched "Preservation Assistance Grants," a new grant category to enhance the capacity of institutions to preserve their humanities collections and to reach libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations that do not normally compete for NEH funding through its other preservation categories. With awards of up to $5,000, recipients may use these grants to support
- preservation assessments of their collections (e.g., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; the Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Wash.; and the Mark Twain House, Hartford, Conn.);
- consultations with preservation professionals (e.g., the MacGregor Charitable Trust, Estes Park, Colo.; the Geneva Public Library, Geneva, Ind.; and Friends of Hildene, Inc., in Manchester, Vt.);
- attendance at preservation training events (e.g., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Mass.; and the Ramsey County Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn.); and
- the purchase of preservation supplies and equipment (e.g., 99s Museum of Women Pilots, Oklahoma City, Okla.; the Passaic County Historical Society, Paterson, N.J.; and Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.).
NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Throughout the year, humanities experts outside of the Endowment and members of the National Council on the Humanities consider all applications and advise NEH on the quality and significance of each proposed project.


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Women Plumbers Aid Jordan's Water Conservation Effort
By Claudia Pirela on April 17, 2017
Ra'eda projects confidence as she repairs leaky faucets, checks for rust in water tanks, and explains the basics of plumbing maintenance to her clients in Zarqa, Jordan. Ra'eda has an unusual profession for a woman in Jordan: She is a plumber.
As one of 30 women trained as plumbers through an Millennium Challenge Corporation-funded program, Ra'eda and her former classmates are challenging attitudes about women's roles and professions in Jordan, which has one of the lowest women's labor force participation rates in the world.
"People think us incapable of doing such work just because we are women," said Ra'eda, 47. By now, she is used to skepticism and even "mockery" about her abilities as a plumber, but is proud that it is "replaced by shock at my skill" once people see her work.
Women plumbers in Jordan fill a unique market need. Because of cultural norms, many customers do not feel comfortable having a man plumber visit their home unless a male head of household is also present. This means a husband or son may have to miss work or delay necessary repairs until he can be home, but the inconvenience can be avoided if a woman plumber is hired for the job.
Plumbers are important players in Jordan's water conservation efforts, which are creating new opportunities for economic growth and business investment to help people lift themselves out of poverty. The country is among the most water poor countries in the world, and when MCC launched its compact partnership with Jordan, it estimated that up to 50 percent of water in the Zarqa network was lost due to leaking pipes.
MCC's $275 million Jordan Compact invested in strengthening the country's water infrastructure to power growth and progress. The compact also included an extensive outreach campaign on water conservation and small infrastructure repairs across poor households in Zarqa Governorate, home to more than one million people.
Recognizing that women typically manage water collection and storage in the home, the outreach campaign targeted women as primary agents of change.
"They are the ones that know best how water is being used in the home and how to conserve it," Ra'eda said.
In addition to promoting the importance of cleaning water tanks and monitoring for leaks in pipes through awareness sessions across her community, Ra'eda was part of a team that provided basic plumbing maintenance training and toolkits to more than 3,000 women. Her favorite part of the experience was seeing the smiles on women's faces after their household water tanks and pipes were repaired.
Zarqa's vibrant women's networks and non-governmental organizations were essential to the outreach campaign's success. Water conservation messages and tips were communicated through awareness sessions, social media and traditional media channels. The awareness sessions reached more than 14,000 of the poorest women in Jordan and tens of thousands more. Teaching sessions for elementary school children featured an educational video, branded water bottles, and take-home flyers for parents.
Today, Ra'eda is self-employed and works about 15 hours a week as a plumber serving 50 clients in the Zarqa area. She travels to work sites by taxi and often charges less than her male counterparts to expand her clientele. In addition to households, beauty salons and women's gyms are among her clients.
By gaining valuable skills and breaking into a non-traditional field for women, Ra'eda and her classmates are expanding the realm of possibilities for women in Jordan. Ra'eda has been invited to give lectures and trainings on plumbing to local associations, and "women are now eager to give plumbing a try," she said.
She credits MCC's investment for providing her with the practical experience she needed to gain more courage and self-confidence to help the most vulnerable households in her community get crucial plumbing repairs that are aiding water conservation. In addition to plumbing training, she received business start-up and marketing know-how, and vital equipment like a plumber toolbox, business cards, and a cell phone. Some of Ra'eda's classmates have become friends and important sources of support as the women look for opportunities to take their work to the next level.
Before the five-year MCC-Jordan Compact came to an end, the agency partnered with USAID's Local Enterprise Support Project to further support the women plumbers in starting their own businesses, building on the business development training MCC provided. Through the project, Ra'eda and others will work to develop plans that will serve as the basis for qualifying to receive business start-up grants from USAID. The project will also support the organization and establishment of a trade association or help the women join an existing Women Plumbers Cooperative.
"I just have one dream," Ra'eda said. "Acquiring my own plumbing shop and hiring some women to join my team."
About the Author: Claudia Pirela serves as a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Program Officer for Guatemala and Honduras Threshold Programs.
Editor's Note: This entry originally appeared on the MCC's Blog.


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Combat veterans angered by medal for drone pilots
The American Defence Secretary is facing an angry backlash over his decision to give a high-ranking medal to drone pilots for their "distinguished" service, thousands of miles from the battlefield.
Veterans expressed "total disagreement" and "disgust" with Leon Panetta's announcement this week that he feels drone pilots deserve a medal for their "extraordinary achievements" even though they involve no act of valour or physical risk.
The proposed Distinguished Warfare Medal for drone pilots and cyber warfare specialists will rank higher than the Bronze Star, restricted to service members who were receiving "imminent danger pay" at the time of their actions and the Purple Heart, awarded to military personnel injured in battle.
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text: I'd like to weigh in on this topic with my 2 cents worth, being a long time QRP operator on various bands and modes... I think QRP means soething different depending on what kind of operating you do. On HF, its generally 5 watts into a simple antenna, such as a dipole or vertical. HF digital, there isnt much of a distinction (psk31) as many run 5 watts into a dipole vs maybe 20-30 watts into a similar antenna for QRO? I operate VHF and microwave. to me, on 2m SSB tropo, I consider QRP to be 5-10 watts into whatever and however large an array you can muster, as most QRO stations run 50 watts or more into a similar antenna. EME ops typically defines QRP as anything under about 500 watts or so into a single yagi. (no matter how large that single yagi is) Meteor Scatter I've been called QRP running 50 watts into 10 elements. However, on 10 GHz, I run 2 watts into a 18 inch offset fed dish, and I do NOT consider myself QRP. I'm an "average powered station" with that setup. When I ran 200 mW into the same dish, it was questionable even then if I could consider myself QRP. 2 watts = about 2-4KW ERP, 200 mw -= 200-400W ERP. (I havent actually MEASURED the gain, this is calculated ERP) QRP is a relative term. Depending on what kind of operating you do, ERP certainly does take into account whether you're QRP or not. I think in the satellite realm, I would understand QRP to be 5 watts or less into a low gain antenna. Maybe I'm wrong about this, as I'm still a relative newcomer, however This puts everyone on an even keel as far as someone stepping over another to make it fair for everyone. I know there are operators on the main channel that might tweak up the power to get thru on a busy channel. I know, because I have when I started out. I have realised it wasnt right, and now my power stays at 5 watts on the 857. Do i consider myself QRP on AO-51? well, with my homebrew 3 ele/6 ele V/u antenna on a fixed elevation mount, yea, at times I do, when running 5 watts. I actually have LESS antenna gain than someone would have with a handheld yagi because the antenna is hardly ever pointing right at the bird. The QRP channel does provide some interesting experimentation like what Tim, N3TL and others have done, exploring "how low can you go" and still make contact. To me, THAT is the kind of experimentation that seems like a logical purpose for the "QRP" channel. As a side note, hasnt the rule always been to run just enough signal to achieve a downlink of reasonable quality? I remember this from my AO-10 days. Too much power on an SSB bird robs power from everyone. Too much power on an FM bird robs others from getting in. Michael Heim Chief Engineer, Forever Broadcasting New Castle PA WKST WJST WWGY 814-671-0666 ARS KD0AR ----- Original Message ---- From: Sebastian <w4as at bellsouth.net> To: AMSAT BB <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:10:45 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: QRP re deux I agree 100% with you Jim. If you look at it another way. Standing on relatively flat terrain with 5 watts from an HT on a simplex channel will give you a mile or so on FM. That same 5 watts from the same HT at the Empire State Building observation deck will give you coverage to several miles, if not several states. Either of those two scenarios, I consider to be QRP. 73 de W4AS Sebastian On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Jim Danehy wrote: > the premise that I follow is that QRP in the ham fraternity for > decades prior to AMSAT was 5 watts output from the final stage of > the transmitter . . . any other attempt which hopes to replicate > that simplistic approach is speculation based upon a dynamic that is > flawed from lack of accurate measurements . . . and constantly > changing parameters . . > > HAPPY HOLIDAYS > > Jim W9VNE _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb


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With the completion of the Human Genome Project, we have now truly entered the exciting era of post-genomics biology. Several new scientific disciplines have emerged of which metabolomics holds significant promise for the understanding and diagnosis of diseases both in humans and wildlife. This introduction to the new field of metabolomics will describe several applications of this approach for monitoring the health of organisms in the environment.
The inside of a Californian red abalone shell, Haliotis rufescens (compare size to the coin in photo). The shellfish is susceptible to a disease called withering syndrome. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Introduction to metabolomics
Metabolomics is the study of all the naturally occurring small molecules, called metabolites, in biological samples such as cells, biofluids, or tissues. These small molecules are the products of metabolism and include, for example, sugars (or carbohydrates), fats (or lipids), and amino acids. The collection of all the metabolites within a cell is called the metabolome. Scientists have started to characterize the metabolome in a quest to better understand and diagnose disease.
- Metabolomics incorporates the use of bioinformatics, the application of computer and statistical techniques to the understanding and management of biological information, to search for unique patterns of metabolites that are indicative of a particular disease.
- Metabolomics is a multidisciplinary approach involving biologists, computer scientists, and analytical chemists. The tools used to measure the metabolites are more commonly associated with chemistry laboratories and include nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.
The advantage of metabolomics for disease diagnosis, whether in humans or wildlife, stems from the fact that this approach measures the phenotype of an organism, the biological characteristics of an organism that result from the interaction of its genetic make-up with the environment. When an organism becomes diseased or stressed, thus triggering specific molecular changes, the phenotype becomes altered. This change can then, in principle, be measured using metabolomics.
Current applications in human disease diagnosis
For many years doctors have been measuring specific metabolites in a patient's blood or urine to diagnose particular diseases. Perhaps the most familiar is the measurement of glucose to diagnose diabetes. Metabolomics is opening up new horizons as hundreds of metabolites can be measured rapidly and simultaneously, providing a much more comprehensive assessment of a patient's health status. Recently, notable applications of metabolomics in the study of human diseases have begun to emerge:
- Detection of the presence and severity of coronary heart disease using NMR-based metabolomics.1 This noninvasive approach identified the disease from human serum samples and in the future could reduce the use of angiography, which is highly invasive.
- Prediction of the clinical outcome of a sudden hemorrhage of a blood vessel over the surface of the brain (termed subarachnoid hemorrhage), by means of metabolomics analysis of cerebral spinal fluid.2
- Classification of patients with progressive neurological diseases (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in which loss of nerve cells produces muscle paralysis) into clinically relevant groups on the basis of metabolite profiles in serum samples.3
Metabolomics in the environmental sciences
Researchers have been developing and applying these methods to study the effects of both diseases and chemicals on wildlife species, or "environmental organisms." This is a particularly important area of science for several reasons, ranging from concern over the health of the environment to maximizing profits for the aquaculture industry. Environmental metabolomics may prove of major benefit in a variety of ways:
Environmental monitoring using so-called "sentinel species" of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Many organizations, typically government related, monitor the prevalence of diseases in certain species of wildlife as indicators of the health of the environment. For example, within the United Kingdom the National Marine Monitoring Program collects several fish species to assess the effects of disease, pollutants, and other stressors such as climate change on fish stocks and biodiversity in the aquatic environment.
Chemical risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and other household and industrial chemicals. Prior to the use of any new chemicals in society, the company that has developed and manufactured the chemical must assess the risk posed to wildlife and the environment. Only if a new chemical poses minimal harm can it be licensed and sold.
- Maintenance of healthy stocks of animals in the aquaculture industry, including fish and invertebrates. As with any type of intensive farming, rearing large numbers of animals in close proximity can drastically increase the occurrence and spread of diseases. Maintaining healthy animals is important for both animal welfare and productivity.
Identification of cancer in marine flatfish
Metabolomics and proteomics, the study of thousands of proteins simultaneously, have been used to study liver cancer in a marine flatfish species called dab (Limanda limanda).4 Scientists had noted high levels of tumours in up to 14 percent of the fish collected from the open sea and estuaries around the United Kingdom. It was hypothesised that metabolomics and proteomics could identify differences between healthy and diseased dab livers, and that these differences, or biomarkers, could be used to rapidly diagnose liver cancer in the future.
Initial studies using mass spectrometry did indeed find molecular differences between healthy and diseased livers, although the exact metabolites remain unidentified. The goal of the investigation is to identify the specific causes within the environment that may be responsible for the disease. Potential causes include chemical pollutants that are ingested by the bottom-feeding dab or biological factors such as bacteria or viruses.
Chemical risk assessment in fish, mammals, and earthworms
A number of research groups have been developing and using metabolomics to study the effects of chemicals on organisms in the environment. In addition to the work on aquatic organisms, several studies on terrestrial invertebrates have been conducted, and a limited number of studies on terrestrial mammals have been reported. The advantage of metabolomics over traditional approaches for assessing the effects of chemical toxicity is that earlier methods tend to measure only a small number of responses. With metabolomics, hundreds of metabolites can be monitored simultaneously, providing a much more comprehensive snapshot of the effects that a particular chemical has on a living organism.
- Studies were conducted using Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), a species that is widely used in toxicity testing, to investigate the effects of trichloroethylene, an environmental pollutant, and the pesticide dinoseb on the development of fish embryos.5,6
- Other metabolomics studies have identified biomarker patterns in earthworms (Eisenia veneta) following exposure to pollutants such as a nitrophenol7 and fluorinated anilines.8
- The effects of arsenic, a common environmental contaminant, on kidney metabolism in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) have also been investigated using NMR-based metabolomics.9
Monitoring withering syndrome in California red abalone
Red abalone (Haliotis rufescens), an important shellfish species that lives along the Pacific Coast of the United States, is susceptible to a disease called withering syndrome. This fatal disease is caused by a bacterial infection and is known to have decimated more than 90 percent of the related black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) population in southern California.
- The potential impact of withering disease on the aquaculture industry prompted the use of metabolomics to identify and measure multiple biomarkers associated with the disease. Using NMR-based metabolomics, characteristic fingerprints of metabolites were detected in the foot muscle, digestive gland, and hemolymph (blood) in diseased abalone that were different from those in healthy animals.10
Building upon this research, scientists have since investigated the influence of food availability, temperature, and bacterial infection on the health status of the red abalone.11 They have shown that withering syndrome depends on bacterial infection, and that metabolomics correlate well with the more painstaking inspection of the tissue under a microscope.
Furthermore, scientists confirmed that a particular ratio of two metabolites, glucose and homarine, in foot muscle serves as a biomarker for distinguishing diseased animals from both healthy and starved abalone.
Metabolomics have also been used to determine whether treatment with an antibiotic, oxytetracycline, can reverse the effects of withering syndrome. The results from this study are still pending (for further information, check the websites listed at the end of this article).
Future developments in environmental metabolomics
Although much progress has been made in environmental metabolomics in the past few years, researchers have only scratched the surface in terms of potential applications. This is partly because this approach is still technically complicated, limiting its widespread introduction into environmental laboratories. Indeed, considerable work still remains in developing the chemical and computational technologies that underpin this science. As the technology advances, we will better realize and exploit the advantages of metabolomics for studying disease and toxicity in wildlife. The point is to be able to diagnose the health of organisms using metabolomics analyses of minute blood samples, and then to relate these measurements on individuals to the overall health of the environment, particularly the impacts of pollution, climate change, and other manmade stressors.
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text: « Return to Search Mass. Eye and Ear Welcomes Dr. Gregory T. Whitman February 24, 2011 Contact: Public Affairs 617-573-3340 Boston – (Feb. 24, 2011) – The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary welcomes otoneurologist Gregory T. Whitman, M.D., a balance specialist, to its Balance and Vestibular Center at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. Dr. Whitman is a resident of Quincy, Mass. Dr. Whitman has more than 12 years of experience in the diagnosis of dizziness, and gait and balance disorders. Dr. Whitman attended medical school at the University of Connecticut, completed his residency at Boston City Hospital and Tufts, in addition to completing a two-year fellowship in otoneurology at UCLA. He is board certified in neurology. In addition to his subspecialty training and experience in otoneurology, Dr. Whitman has experience in geriatric neurology and has worked as a general neurologist. His combined medical experience in general and geriatric neurology, and otoneurology, is helpful to diagnosing the causes of dizziness in individual patients. For five years, Dr. Whitman served on the full-time faculty of the University of California at Irvine, where he directed the education programs in the Department of Neurology. Mass. Eye and Ear's Balance and Vestibular Center at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital uses both clinical expertise and the most advanced computerized technology to provide complete evaluation, diagnosis and treatment for dizziness and balance disorders. The Balance and Vestibular Cente r is located at the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital at 250 Pond Street, Braintree, MA 02184. Founded in 1824, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an independent specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. Mass. Eye and Ear is an international leader in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. Massachusetts Eye and Ear is ranked in the top five for ophthalmology and otolaryngology by U.S. News & World Report. For more information, call 617-523-7900 or visit http://www.masseyeandear.org/. Dr. Whitman's online bio. Make an appointment.


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Three in Ireland has announced today that the carrier will start pushing the HTC 8X Windows Phone out its doors tomorrow. The handset, available in 'California Blue', sports a large 4.3" HD display with an 8MP camera and 16GB of storage. It's an advanced device capable of delivering a butter smooth experience.
The HTC 8X is also heading to Three UK, but still no dates or pricing details have been released to the public. While unlocked versions of the Windows Phone are readily available from retailers, including Expansys and Clove, we're still eagerly awaiting announcements from carriers.
So how much will the 8X set Irish consumers back? €459 is the price tag, while Billpay customers will be able to snatch the device for free on Three's Class Flex plan. The ability to take advantage of Three's 'All You Can Eat' data allowances, makes any Windows Phone 8 handset (particularly the HTC 8X) a worthy choice.
Elaine Carey, Sales and Marketing Director at Three, had the following to add to the announcement:
"Three is delighted to bring HTC's new flagship Windows Phone 8X to our customers. There has been quite a bit of excitement amongst our customers with this phone, in particular the added camera features and built in Beats audio technology. It's a sleek new introduction from HTC which fits comfortably in your hand and one we're delighted to be launching just in time for the busy Christmas period."
With the launch of the HTC 8X in both the UK and Ireland, Three will be set for Christmas with a flagship Windows Phone that'll sell well should the network back the launch with intense marketing that's seen in media channels for both the iPhone and Android devices. We'd also like to see Three look at the low-end Lumia Windows Phones to compete against cheaper Android hardware that will offer a better user experience.
via: Ireland's Technology Blog; thanks, Colm, for the heads up!


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iVisualize has been discontinued
iVisualize is an iTunes Plug-In that plays quartz compostions as iTunes Visualizations. Quartz Compositions can be created by anyone using Drag & Drop in Apples Quartz Composer from the XCode tools. These compositions can use a lot of information from your song, including spectrum, volume peak, album art, name, artist ... and dozens more
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UC Davis Health System's Division of Pain Medicine has been designated as a Clinical Center of Excellence by the American Pain Society. The award, which provides a three-year designation, recognizes quality pain-care programs that offer outstanding treatments and therapies for patients suffering from chronic pain disorders and acute pain after surgery or trauma, as well for people in palliative care settings who face pain from cancer and other terminal conditions.
The Division of Pain Medicine offers comprehensive and collaborative patient care, extensive education, innovative research and a strong commitment to patient advocacy and to improving public policy. Known for taking on the most difficult cases of acute, cancer-related and chronic pain in adults and children, the UC Davis pain-treatment specialists work with patients and their primary-care clinicians and referring physicians to provide vital continuity of care for individuals coping with chronic pain. They also emphasize education and training for health-care providers at all levels to increase awareness about the variety of pain treatment options.
"Being designated as a center of excellence is the highest recognition that a pain center can receive nationally, and it is a particularly special achievement because our program was one of the earliest academic centers to incorporate clinicians from all disciplines and clinical services to fully address the pain-care needs of patients," said Scott Fishman, professor and chief of the UC Davis Division of Pain Medicine. "We've achieved successful outcomes for patients because our clinical pain-relief team approaches each case from a very diverse and experienced perspective."
The division's specialists encompass clinical disciplines ranging from internal medicine, anesthesiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation to psychiatry, addiction medicine, pediatric pain, and hospice and palliative care. The UC Davis pain management team also includes specialists in radiology, psychology, pharmacology, bioethics and meditation- based stress reduction.
"Our view is that most effective pain management is treatment and care that increases function, decreases pain and ultimately enables our patients to regain control of their lives," added Fishman. "That is our definition of success, and it is something we strive for in every case."
Established in 2006, the American Pain Society's Clinical Centers of Excellence program showcases progressive teams of health professionals who address critical, and sometimes unmet, needs in pain management within their communities. A hallmark of excellence among pain programs is success in helping patients to improve function and quality of life, according to Charles Inturrisi, a professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and president of the American Pain Society.
"The awards honor pain care teams for delivering optimal and exemplary care for those with myriad chronic-pain disorders, post-surgical pain, trauma-induced pain and pain from cancer and other life-threatening conditions," said Inturrisi. "By treating the whole person, not just the pain, award recipients like the UC Davis Division of Pain Medicine prove every day that integrated, multidisciplinary pain care yields the best long-term outcomes, medically, psychologically and socially."


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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
* Out Of This World Homemade Outer Space Bean Bags!
I found this planet-themed fabric in my stash
today (actually two hours ago) and decided to whip up some homemade
bean bags for the girls to play with this week
for our final week of the Smart Summer Challenge!
The girls are having a play date with one of their favorite
neighborhood friends so I actually got 45 minutes to myself
to whip these up on my sewing machine - Woo-hoo!
I was planning to make square bean bags
but "C" came into the art studio and informed me
that she thought they would be more fun if they were "planet shaped."
So, I cut around the shapes with my pinking shears
then cut a piece of fabric to fit on the back.
I stitched most of the way around each shape on the sewing machine
then we filled the bean bags with dried lentils.
I reinforced each bag by sewing around it three times.
I thought it would be fun to add some ribbons
and make some of the bean bags like comets or shooting stars.
So I sewed some of them with ribbons sticking out of one side.
It's fun to throw them!
Another Rainbow Comet!
Our finished planet and comet bean bags.
Now I want to go get our corn hole boards out of the garage
so we can get some target practice with our new bean bags : )
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How does it work?
Choose "Raids" in the left menu, and you'll see all raids that you are eligible for, filtered on faction and perhaps item level. You can select "list view", and sort after specific raids as well. If you tag characters as "friends", you'll see which raids they signed up for too.
Select the raid you want to do, and sign up, with or without a note. In this note you can for example write your previous experience, or if you want to reserve items.
Some of the raid leaders that arrange Cataclysm-raids ask for people that already have the achievements for the hard bosses. Which I can understand of course; these people have already had their progress period on this, now they just want a clean kill and get their mount. And to be honest, not every person in the game is able to do every boss in the game while they're current or semi-current. At the same time it sucks for those of us that really want the achievement; to get that kill is the reason we're at the website in the first place. Look for groups that aren't negative to newcomers that have studied tactics.
The raid leaders confirm the people they want to bring and are then able to see the real ID's. When the raid is about to happen they send out Real ID friend requests to those people, and then invite them to the raid group.
After the raid you'll get a "task" on the website to rate the people in the raid. These ratings are essentially a reputation system, which is great! It keeps people in line, I actually still haven't met a single rude or obnoxious person. :)
Personally, I've been rating the raid leaders (for their effort) and other people I've noticed (for their performance or friendliness) with max score (limited number of "max scores" available), and all others that showed up with next best score. People that haven't showed up despite of being confirmed to the raid, I've marked with this, and they will receive negative reputation. If I haven't noticed any people in particular, I've actually rated the hunters with max score. ;) I feel hunters start with a negative reputation, so I try to even it out. (Yes, I recognise the lack of logic.)
There has been discussions of implementing a reputation system in-game, for dungeon/raid finder and battlegrounds. After seeing it in use on OpenRaid, I think it could work! There would be potential problems too, it would have to be impossible for "mean people" and troll to ruin others' reputation for fun. Perhaps only recent gains or losses would count?
Who is this for?
I can imagine a discussion on server reputation spawning from this topic, on this I will just say that there's no reason to exclude people that aren't on your server from your friends list. Hang on to the friendly people that you click well with, no matter what server. You can find new friends or perhaps even new guild members with the right attitude.
Final thoughts
I would have loved to do all these raids and achievements with my guild! But although they're all great players that I love to do groups, raids, pvp and socialize with; not all of them like to do outdated content, and not many are obsessed with achievement points. We have done some old raids, but it's been a spur of the moment thing. Our raid schedule is already pretty full, so I don't want to plan too much. It just becomes too much time and effort to commit to all the things. Sure, a lot of us spend a lot of time in-game already, but there's a big difference between time you have committed to, and time that's just free to do whatever you fancy at any given time.
As a regular raid leader, it's been a nice experience to only having to pay attention to myself again in raids. There is no doubt that my DPS and performance in general goes up when I get to focus on my own job, and not everyone else as well. I think I will have to ask others in my raid team to lead our raids now and then, and hopefully I will be able to shut up and not just slip back into the role. :)
So, will I see you there? :)


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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Information Assurance, 360is feature in National Computing Centre Magazine
What is Information Assurance (IA)? Why is it so hard for organisations, large and small, public and private to achieve? When there is a failure of IA why don't the causes get put right? For the answers to these and other questions take a look at the latest issue of the UK National Computing Centre magazine. 360is Principal Consultant discusses Information Assurance and addresses the root cause of most IA failures, AKA "the people problem". The article goes on to detail some practical steps that every organisation can take to improve its IA scorecard and avoid becoming another story on the national news. The 2-page article can be accessed directly as a PDF here.
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Inspiration for "Remember the Titans" coming to The Citadel
Herman Boone, the inspiration for Academy Award winning actor Denzel Washington's character in the movie "Remember the Titans" will visit The Citadel on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002.
Boone will discuss his experience as the first black football coach of the T.C. Williams High Titans, an integrated football team in Alexandria, Va. in 1971. The lecture, which is sponsored by The Citadel Department of Multicultural Student Services, begins at 6:30 p.m. in Mark Clark Hall Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
native of Rocky Mount, N.C., Boone, now 67, became a teacher and coach
so he could motivate youngsters. In 1958 he accepted his first teaching
position at L.H. Foster High School in Blackstone, Va., where he coached
football, basketball and baseball. His teams garnered very impressive
stats with 26 wins, six losses and three district championships.
"Remember the Titans" portrays Boone's efforts to overcome racial strife in the community and among his coaches and players as he produced a No. 2 nationally ranked football team.


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Rangers RHP Darvish has no structural damage
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) The Texas Rangers say ace Yu Darvish has no structural damage in his stiff neck but will likely begin the season on the disabled list.
Darvish was examined Wednesday by Dr. Keith Meister in Dallas. The right-hander will start a throwing program this weekend and won't need any injections.
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels says he expects Darvish will be put on the 15-day DL. The Rangers open Monday at home against Philadelphia.
"I would think so, yes," Daniels said. "That's kind of where it's headed. We're looking at 10 days already. He will play catch Saturday and if he continues to improve, then we'll put a plan together from there."
"That's going to be two weeks. He's not going to ready to break. It's a relief that's it's positive news from the exam," he said.
Darvish led the majors in strikeouts last year. With him out, Tanner Scheppers will start the season opener. Scheppers will be making his first big league start after 115 relief appearances.
"Scheppers is making his first big league start on opening day," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He's profiled as a No. 1 kind of guy. The innings he pitched last year were under a lot of pressure and I think he can handle the pressure that goes along with opening day."
The Rangers said Nick Martinez will be their No. 5 starter to begin the season. He has pitched in just five games above Class A.
Martin Perez will start the second game and Robbie Ross the third and Joe Saunders the fourth, giving the Rangers four left-handers to start the season. None of the five was in the Texas rotation to start last year.
Martinez, a right-hander, was not even in the big league camp. He finished last season 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA with Double-A Frisco. He was 12-7 with a 2.50 ERA last year between Myrtle Beach and Frisco.
"Martinez gives us an opportunity," Washington said. "He has the stuff to pitch at the major league level. I think it's on us to make certain to keep him in the mental state that he needs to be in. I think he can go out there and hold that spot down until we get Colby (Lewis) and Harry (Matt Harrison) back."
Harrison, an 18-game winner in 2012, is rehabbing from a neck injury. Derek Holland will start the season on the DL because of knee surgery and Lewis is recovering from forearm and hip issues.
"We, maybe not you, but we feel confident that we are going to be competitive and are going to win some ballgames," he said.
The 23-year-old Martinez, 23, was an 18th-round pick in 2011 out of Fordham.
"We've had a number of injuries to our pitching staff," Daniels said. "It's obviously a little quicker than we anticipated with Nick. Given the injuries and looking at our options, we had the most confidence in Nick. There was an opportunity for someone to seize it."
"As an organization, we feel Nick's the right guy for that opportunity," he said. "Nick's got three solid pitches, four really, plus command and has tremendous makeup. He's an athlete, a shortstop-second baseman in college. He's been durable. He's smart. He's poised. He attacks the strike zone."
The Rangers made a series of roster moves.
They signed right-hander Scott Baker, who was released by Seattle, to a Triple-A Round Rock contract. The 32-year-old Baker has a 63-48 record with a 4.14 ERA in 160 big league games.
Texas claimed two players off waivers, getting infielder Donnie Murphy from the Cubs and right-hander Seth Rosin from the Dodgers.
Rosin is a Rule 5 draft pick and must remain on the 25-man major league roster all season or be offered back to Philadelphia.
Murphy can play second base, shortstop and third. The Rangers were in the market for a second baseman with Jurickson Profar out 10 to 12 weeks with a torn muscle in his right shoulder.
The 31-year-old has played in 290 major league games in eight seasons with Kansas City, Oakland, Miami and the Chicago Cubs. He spent most of last season with Triple-A Iowa, hitting .265.
The Rangers also released right-hander Tommy Hanson rather than guaranteeing his $500,000 salary, which would have increased to $2 million when the season started. Hanson was 0-2 with a 6.43 ERA in four exhibition games.


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When I was a little kid one of my (many) strange and irrational fears was that someday every combination of musical notes would be exhausted and that new music would cease to exist. As a grown-up this is a hard thing for me to explain, which is probably why it was so hard for my parents to understand when I came to them with it. They thought it was just another quirk of mine, and I suppose it sort of was, but I was genuinely terrified. It was in my second year of taking violin lessons that this anxiety emerged, learning to read music had somehow sparked it. My older sister was in her early teens and heavily into radio pop and hip hop and I took their repetitive tunes and constant samplings of older songs as proof that my fear was being realized.
In the evenings after school I would spend hours playing records from my dad's collection, which spanned the entirety of our living room, finding comfort in The Smiths and The English Beat, The Pogues and Dusty Springfield while I did my homework. By the end of the night, though, I always felt that familiar dread creeping in. It's already all been done—I thought when I heard Keith Moon's drumming—how could anyone ever do any better than this?
Lately, I've felt a similar anxiety creeping in. What if someday all of my creative energy just runs out? What if eventually there simply isn't anything left to write about? What if it's all already been done?
What I'm trying to tell you is that I am in the midst of the worst writer's block I have ever experienced. My fingernails are bitten to the quick, I'm self-medicating with entire loaves of bread, I'm a nervous wreck. It's sort of a shameful thing to admit, especially when one has just signed a book deal, but in most cases saying the things that you are most afraid of out-loud usually somehow makes them seem less scary (unless you finally muster enough courage to say it to your violin teacher and she just stares at you with her mouth agape). In order to admit that you have writer's block you also have to admit that you are a writer. This is a terrifying declaration. It feels heavy and self-indulgent and pressure-filled in a way that saying "I'm a butcher" doesn't.
The other night over beers I admitted this to a friend. I'm sure she was expecting a much simpler answer to her question of "How's the writing going?" We ordered more beers (this helped Hemingway, right?) and my friend started telling me about all of the famous writers she had heard about who had suffered terrible creative blocks throughout their careers. The conversation eventually lead to Donna Tartt, whose alleged writer's block has generated massive amounts of media attention and intrigue since she published The Secret History in 1992. The book was an instant bestseller and people hungrily awaited her next book. Eleven years passed in the interim between The Secret History and The Little Friend and people started talking. Rumors of writer's block-induced breakdowns abounded.
I had never read any Donna Tartt, I think her name always lead me to believe that her books would be of the supermarket romance variety (not that there's anything wrong with those). My friend urged me to pick up The Secret History, so the next day I went to the bookstore and by the end of the night I had torn through almost the entire book. It's no surprise to me that Tartt had to take eleven years between this book and her next. The anxiety of others' influence is one thing, but I imagine the anxiety of your own influence is quite another. This book must have been a daunting one to follow up.
The book's narrator, Richard, is reminiscent of Charles Ryder from Brideshead Revisted—a boy running from his humble beginnings in hopes of making a much more interesting life for himself. He leaves Plano and arrives at the fictional Hampden college in Vermont, where he becomes infatuated with a group of five misfit classics students who have isolated themselves from the masses. Henry, Bunny, Charles, Camilla and Francis spend their days studying ancient Greek with their charming and enigmatic professor, Julian, drinking massive amounts of alcohol and spending money faster than their parents can make it. After a few short weeks Richard infiltrates the group and quickly finds himself in way over his head.
Things come to a boiling point when Henry, the group's leader, decides that they have to kill Bunny because he knows a secret that could destroy them all (this is given away in the very first sentence, so I haven't ruined anything). Henry begins experimenting with poisonous wild mushrooms, trying to determine how many it would take to kill a person Bunny's size. That night, Richard is invited to Professor Julian's house for dinner, and the reader, unsure at this point of who in this dysfunctional group can be trusted, watches as Julian presents him with a plate of Henry's wild mushrooms.
There was roasted lamb, new potatoes, peas with leeks and fennel; a rich almost maddeningly delicious bottle of Chateau Latrou. I was eating with better appetite than I had in ages when I noticed that a fourth course had appeared, with unobtrusive magic, at my elbow: mushrooms. They were pale and slender-stemmed, of a type I had seen before, steaming in a red wine sauce that smelled of coriander and rue.
"Where did you get these?" I said
"Ah. You're quite observant," he said, pleased. "Aren't they marvelous? Quite rare. Henry brought them to me." (240)
The day I finished the book I got an email from the friend who had recommended it. It was a press release stating that Donna Tartt would be publishing a new novel with Little, Brown this year. It will be her third book in more than twenty years. When asked what took her so long Tartt brushed off the rumors of writer's block and unapologetically and succinctly answered, "Writing takes time."
Serves 6
- 1 3-pound bone-in leg of lamb steak
- 1 quart chicken stock
- 1 750 ml bottle red wine (I used Cabernet Sauvignon)
- 1 pound dried mushrooms (whichever you like, I used lobster, morels and porcinis)
- 5 carrots
- 1 pound fingerling or red potatoes
- 4 small shallots
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 bunch thyme
- 1 bunch rosemary
- Any variety of wild mushrooms (I used hedgehog, yellow-foot chanterelles and maitake)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Salt and pepper your leg of lamb generously and allow it to sit outside of the refrigerator until it reaches room temperature—about 40 minutes. Heat a medium skillet until very hot and sear the lamb steaks for 3 minutes on each side. Place leg of lamb in a dutch oven and cover with chicken stock, red wine, dried mushrooms, rosemary, thyme (reserve a few sprigs for cooking the fresh mushrooms), carrots and potatoes. Mince your garlic and shallots and, in the same pan you seared off your leg steaks, cook them over medium heat with 2 tablespoons of butter until translucent. Throw them in the dutch oven with the rest of the ingredients and add 4 tablespoons of butter. Salt and pepper liberally and put the entire thing in the oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 hours, or until the meat is falling off the bone.
Strain the lamb, reserving the brasing liquid. Pick meat, potatoes, carrots and dried mushrooms out and set them aside. Place braising liquid in a medium saucepan and simmer until reduced by half—this should thicken it into a sauce. While your sauce is reducing put the remaining two tablespoons of butter in a sautee pan and add all of your fresh mushrooms and reserved thyme sprigs. Salt and pepper liberally and cook over medium heat until the mushrooms are crisp at the edges and have released most of their liquid. To serve, spoon the mushrooms into a serving bowl, top with lamb, carrots and potatoes and cover in red wine sauce. Good bread will be necessary for mopping up every last bit.
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The Pearl Mist is about to drop anchor in Holland.
The 355-foot-long cruise ship, operated by Pearl Seas Cruises of Canada, is scheduled to arrive at 8 a.m. Tuesday for the first of six passages into Lake Macatawa this summer. The largest passenger ship ever to visit Holland is all set to pull up to Verplank Dock Co., thanks to some old-fashioned community spirit.
Verplank offered to accommodate the Pearl Mist to help promote Holland as a tourist destination.
�It�s truly many, many thanks to Verplank for doing this,� Holland Visitors Bureau Executive Director Sally Laukitis said.
Verplank is a U.S. port and offloading site for lots of stone, gravel and other materials.
It also happens to be the perfect setup, with its high wall, to offload the 187 passengers aboard the Pearl Mist, which is expected to dock from 8 until noon, Laukitis said.
The ideal spots for viewing the ship�s arrival are the Holland State Park Beach as it passes through the channel connecting Lake Michigan to Lake Macatawa and Boatwerks Waterfront Restaurant, 216 Van Raalte Ave.
Due to port restrictions, there is no public access to Verplank. Yet, it�s the perfect site to welcome such a large ship.
�It�s a good fit for the vessel because they can pull right up to the wall,� Verplank President Ron Matthews said. �We�re doing this because we think it�s good to promote local tourism. We�re just trying to throw in our little bit of effort on the teamwork thing.
�It should be easy-in and easy-out for them. We want it to be a successful thing that�s repeated many times.�
The majority of Pearl Mist passengers are planning to board four motor coaches that�ll take them to Windmill Island Gardens and Nelis� Dutch Village for a quick tour of Dutch tourist treats.
Approximately 70 passengers instead will explore downtown Holland, Laukitis said.
She said docking at Verplank made the most sense because of the size of the ship and its proximity to local attractions.
�It�s a huge ship. Because of the size of it, that�s where they had to dock,� she said of the Pearl Mist, which is in the midst of a 10-day cruise and will be coming from Mackinac Island on Tuesday morning. �It�s a deep enough port and it allows us to have a ship like this here.�
The ship�s last stop on this voyage, which began in Toronto, is Chicago.
The Pearl Mist also is scheduled to dock in Holland on Thursday on its return trip from Chicago, plus Aug. 18 and 21 and Sept. 8 and 11.
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Film night at The Green Store at 7 p.m. with the feature film "Trudell," a documentary on the life of John Trudell, a poet, musician, actor and indigenous-rights activist. A discussion follows on "Idle No More," Leonard Peltier and indigenous-rights issues. The free event takes place at 4843 "B" Voltaire St. For more information, call Colleen at (619) 225-1083.
SATURDAY, March 9
Work party set at Famosa Slough to plant and take care of California native plants and to remove invasive plants. The event runs from 9 a.m. to noon. Participants are asked to meet at the southeast corner of West Point Loma and Famosa boulevards. For more information, call (619) 224-4591.
SUNDAY, March 10
Sacred Heart Academy in Ocean Beach will host an open house from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a kindergarten information session at noon. The school is located at 4895 Saratoga Ave. For more information, call (619) 222-7252, or visit www.s-h-a.org.
WEDNESDAY, March 20
Regular meeting of the Naval Base Point Loma's Restoration Advisory Board to discuss relevant issues. The meeting takes place at 6 p.m. at the Southwestern Yacht Club, 2702 Qualtrough St. The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call (619) 556-0193.
FRIDAY, March 22
Silver Gate Elementary School will hold its "Masked Gala & Auction" to raise funds for Friends of Silver Gate Elementary for school programs. The event takes place from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay-Mission & Bayview Ballroom, 1441 Quivera Road. The event will include a silent auction and masked gala. The evening will feature food and dancing. Cocktail attire is suggested and masks and costumes are optional. Self-parking is complimentary and valet is $10. RSVP by March by contacting email@example.com.


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According to a report, the Georgia Dome's visiting locker room apparently got a thorough cleaning after the Buccaneers — who have dealt with staph infections this season — departed the facility.
Per Fox 13 in Tampa Bay, the visiting locker room was entered by workers in hazardous-material suits after Tampa Bay personnel exited the room on Sunday afternoon.
According to Kevin O'Donnell of Fox 13, the cleaning crew told him they had a "special cleaner" and that the cleaning was related to MRSA prevention.
In August, the Patriots had their facility cleaned after news of the Bucs' staph infections surfaced, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported. The Buccaneers had worked out at New England's facility during the summer.
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Choosing the right MBA program can be challenging and time consuming. Thank you for including the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business in your MBA search.
If you've been examining graduate business programs for any length of time, you know that most of the top schools (including the Smith School) often say the same things to prospective students. They tell you about great faculty, a supportive community, rankings, a global approach, financial aid, career services and many other attributes and offerings. At some point, it all sounds the same.
The fact is, the top programs are quite similar because the best graduate business schools adopt best practices. While the similarities are numerous, the differences are few but extremely significant.
The Smith School offers its students everything other high quality MBA programs offer. That being said, I encourage you to examine the small, but very important, differences here. It's those differences that will lead you to the right MBA program. "Fit" is incredibly important. For you to succeed in a top MBA program, you need to feel comfortable and at home.
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Now that 75 percent of the evangelicals in the world are non-Western believers, one would expect them to have more and more to say on theological issues and on the conduct of ministry worldwide. This is exactly what is happening. Believers in the West need to listen and interact with Christians from many cultures in order to be relevant and effective. Missions is now an enterprise of the whole church, from all nations, to all nations. Evangelicals in North America need to view even this continent from a missiological perspective and apply the insights of non-Western thinkers to ministries here and abroad.
Global Missiology is a monumental contribution to the formation of a "road map" into twenty-first-century missions. Taylor, Dallas Seminary graduate, veteran of educational ministry in Guatemala and in schools around the world, and now executive director of the World Evangelical Alliance (formerly the World Evangelical Fellowship), has brought together the thinking of over forty scholar-practitioners from around the world in this volume. The book emerged from the deliberations of the Iguassu Missiological Consultation held in Brazil in 1999. Some of the contributions have been added since that conference to complete the treatment of various themes, all centered around the question of how to proceed in missions.
Taylor sets the stage for understanding the increasing dialogue between Western and non-Western Christians, the context of rapid globalization, urbanization, multiplication of refugee movements, persecution of Christians, and the global trend from modernism to postmodernism. He then calls for Christians to come to grips afresh with the authority of Scripture, the transforming gospel of Jesus Christ, and the meaning of being a Christian and an evangelical. He says, "We must feel free to ask each other, and God, the dangerous and presuppositional questions: Where is the power of the gospel and the church today? Has something gone wrong with the harvest? What kind of gospel have we transported around the world? Why Rwanda, Ireland, Bosnia? Why such a post-Christian and anti-Christian Europe and North America?" (p. 9).
Global Missiology deals with grounding reflections in Scripture and biblical Trinitarianism; addressing issues of globalized missiology; responding to challenges such as re-emerging nationalism; Islamic and Hindu fundamentalism; the spiritual "dryness" of the West; and the question of how gen-Xers can be mobilized for missionary endeavor.
The volume discusses the various spiritual traditions that have given rise to missionary activity. It is interesting to see that major mission movements have always came from communities of believers, including the Moravian community, and the Celts, the Nestorians, the Jesuit community, the Coptic church, and today's Brazilian Antioch community.
In Global Missiology Taylor brings concerned, committed, and biblical thinking to bear on the issues in missions worldwide. Taylor is himself a global individual who represents the best of those who interact with Christians from around the world.
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