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To the original posters question, I am sure that the "stuff" we generate is the not cause or the solution to the above three issues. There are solutions to be found and creative minds are needed to find them.asapdesign wrote: can an Industrial Designer solve crime? gangs? poverty?
I agree fully with this:
As a designer we practice finding these solutions for physical objects, as iab and Taylor point out, these skills apply to designing social outcomes as well.iab wrote:I am a firm believer that design methodology can be applied to create solutions to complex problems, including those outside of producing a product.
I certainly think it is a superior methodology to the scientific method as it isn't necessary to test one variable at a time that is the heart of the scientific method. It is extremely difficult to quantify complex problems/issues as stated in the OP. A design approach or a qualitative approach can look at the problem as a whole and is more likely, I think, to succeed with potential solutions.
On the secondary topic of making ourselves feel good about what we do. In our sphere of making things we control a lot of factors that impact people's lives and the environment as well. We can choose different materials and processes that have different footprints. This is how I self-justify the work I do.
To know the processes and the factory conditions is key to developing more or less responsible ways of making a product. Walk through the factory that makes your product. In some cases it is a negative surprise, but you have the power to change that as well.
Example 1: The first products I designed and produced use a shiny lacquer finish, the industry standard. Volatile Organic Compounds, solvents emitted by the tons using a spray booth. One spec of dust and the product had to be sanded and repainted. That part of the factory was an awful environment. Step one was to replace the spray booth with a fountain or curtain coater, zeroed out the waste of overspray. Step two and the real solution was to design a matte finish. Tolerant of minor imperfections, no need for double coating. Became the industry standard before laquering was eliminated entirely through the use of texture raw materials.
Example 2: The company that I used to work for (Taiwanese owned in China) had workers manually removing plastic parts from injection molding tooling, reaching into the live cycling machines to do so. The workers with the knowledge of the supervisors had tied off the safety switches, so that the safety door could remain open and save time and energy. Nothing would stop the machine from closing with hundreds of tons of force. I had to raise hell with the owner and make repeated trips down to the floor to make sure that this practice was abolished.
Example 3: EPS machinery for helmets requires workers to stand on a wet board, between the huge hydraulic platens of the press in order to load the inserts in the molds. Dangerous, uncomfortable, loud work. I developed a new process of manufacturing helmets, huge press eliminated, assembly outside of the press on clean, dry well lighted tables. Less energy used, superior test results and a work environment that does not make you feel guilty when you design for product built in it.
Visit a shoe or boot factory and walk past the gluing line, walk into a screen printing room. The smell of solvents is so overwhelming, that it will make you question how you design your next projects and the processes you use. UV cure inks for example, powdercoating instead of painting.
There are options as a designer to make things better and have the same commercial result. If your role in life is to design things there are solutions to make a positive impact. If your main goal is to solve the big social issues, then product design is not the answer, but it provides an approach.


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Most CIOs are eager to find reliable mobile applications that will help keep employees productive, especially during summer months when vacations and nice weather lure workers out of the office. Indeed, the value of smartphones and tablets - whether they are iPhone, iPad, Android or BlackBerry devices - is increasingly being calculated by the applications available on the devices. Realizing that, we've decided to take a look at some of the best mobile apps on all platforms that will satisfy your desire to keep workers productive even during the summer doldrums. Many of these apps are free, others cost less than a dollar and the priciest among them is below $15. So, for little or no investment, you can provide your mobile workers with the tools they need wherever they roam. Once you review this list, chances are you'll want to download a few of these for your own smartphone or tablet as well.
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Semiconductor Industry Moves toward Automated LED Production on 6-inch Wafers
Driven by market demand, the semiconductor industry progressed toward consensus on building-block standards for automating LED production on 6-in wafers at SEMICON West
By Paula Doe, SEMI Emerging Markets
With the fast-growing demand for HB-LEDs, the industry has added roughly 100 new fabs in the last five years, for a total of 169 LED fabs worldwide. That's pushed total industry epitaxy capacity to balloon by 5X, to some 2 million (4-in. equivalent) wafers a month (Fig. 1). But the sector still has considerable headroom to improve yields and reduce costs to drive the growth of the solid-state lighting (SSL) market by moving to larger diameter wafers and automated production with tighter process controls. The major players are making good progress on the ground work to enable this transition, by collaborating to forge consensus on the basics of common wafer parameters, common interfaces for production equipment, and common communication software to communicate data from analysis tools.
Figure 1
Source: SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast , April 2012
Compelling Economics
Lower front-end processing costs for 6-in. wafers mean about a 25 percent cost savings compared to 4-in. wafers, per unit surface area, if yields are the same, estimated Eric Virey, senior LED analyst at Yole Développement, in discussions on HB-LED manufacturing solutions at the recent SEMICON West event (Fig. 2). That assumes the larger wafer costs come down to about $150, 3X as much as the $50 4-in. wafers. Though the larger wafers are still more costly per unit area, more die per process pass makes production more efficient, and the yields are better, so the product cost is less.
"We see the advantage that the newer generation [6-in.] equipment is much better and gets better yields than 3-in.," said Iain Black, VP of manufacturing engineering at Philips Lumileds, and one of the co-chairs of the SEMI high-brightness LED standards effort.
Conversion to the larger diameter wafers will take a little longer than originally expected, as LED makers currently have excess capacity on their 2-in. and 4-in. lines, and fast falling 4-in. wafer prices have made 4-in more competitive, said Virey. But prices of 6-in wafers are also falling quickly, and they could drop below $200 by the end of the year. Yole expects more than 25 percent of the total sapphire wafer surface area processed will be on 6-in. wafers within the next two to three years, 50 percent a few years thereafter.
Improving chip manufacturing process yields is the low hanging fruit for bringing down SSL costs to drive market growth, concurred Jed Dorscheimer, managing director of equity research for lighting and solar at Canaccord Genuity. He noted that process yields were typically 65-70 percent at the market leaders, and only 10 percent at some newcomers, compared to >95 percent for the semiconductor industry. Small yield losses at each process step compound quickly into big yield hits. He figures good progress in improving yields over the next two years could realistically help enable a $7-8 60W-equivalent LED bulb by about 2014, propelling the general lighting industry to surpass displays as the main driver of the LED market.
One key enabler of these gains is basic standards for materials and equipment interoperability. "Standards are needed to mature the supply chain," said Black. "We've put considerable effort into our specs to upscale the capabilities of the supply chain. Others can reap the benefits of this work, but it's still a young industry and the vendors need to mature their processes. If we are able to establish decent standards, then everyone knows what to chase, and it will drive capability much more readily. If every spec is unique, we will get there much more slowly. For automation, it's good that we can innovate mostly around established semiconductor industry standards, but we need to get the differences squared away for common cassettes and handling of bowed wafers so we can need to do as little invention as possible."
Silicon Wafers?
If 6-in. sapphire gives such an improvement in yields and cost, what about the potential of larger silicon wafers? Eight-inch silicon could potentially give a 60 percent cost improvement at the die level — provided the yields were equal, Virey reported (Fig. 2). Though the wafers are significantly cheaper, the real advantage here too is not the substrate cost, which is only 5-10 percent of the bill of materials, but the highly efficient and automated mature semiconductor infrastructure, especially if using a fully depreciated CMOS fab. The key problem to solve remains thermal mismatch, which causes more wafer bow and strain that impacts yields, which still remain significantly below sapphire, though somewhat lower yields could be acceptable with the lower costs. Most major companies have research programs, but the jury remains out on if silicon will be a widely viable replacement for sapphire.
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Source: Yole Developpement
Benefit of Si would stem from switching to 8" and using fully depreciated & highly automated CMOS fabs.
Hanmin Zhao, CTO of Lattice Power Corp, a China-based startup funded by some $120 million in largely U.S. venture capital, reported his company is now selling commercial LED die from volume production runs of several hundred wafers a day on 2-in. silicon wafers. The company uses stress reduction layers of AlN (aluminium nitride) and AlGaN (aluminium gallium nitride) to reduce bow to 20-30 µm to eliminate cracking, yielding 120 lm/W in production for a 45-mil chip. The company is working on scaling production to 6-in. wafers in the lab, and looking for available production facilities to start production next summer.
Wafers Cassettes and Capacity
Automating HB-LED production naturally requires some basic agreement on the physical characteristics of the wafers so the equipment can be designed to handle them. Taking the coming transition to 6-in substrates as a clean-slate opportunity to optimize the process from the beginning, most of the major suppliers and device makers have joined in a collaborative effort to reach consensus on basic wafer parameters and interoperability standards, with meetings at SEMICON West and other industry events. Now thanks to hard work by some 160 volunteers from across the industry, the first SEMI standards for 6-in. sapphire wafer parameters and common wafer cassettes and software protocols for automation are moving through the consensus building process.
The automation task force has agreed to keep the external dimensions of the cassette for handling 6-in. sapphire wafers in the automated process flow the same as the standard 25-wafer cassettes used for semiconductor manufacturing, so it fits the storage racks and other infrastructure already available. Discussions at SEMICON West considered the issues around how many of the thicker and more bowed sapphire wafers could most efficiently be carried by each cassette. Wider pockets within the cassette are needed, but tool makers need to settle on a common size and spacing of these slots to automate the handling and tracking of the wafers.
"A standard cassette format will help drive interoperability between tools, and reduce capital costs and manufacturing costs," notes Jeff Felipe, regional product specialist lead at Entegris and SEMI automation task force co-chair. If the carriers take 12 wafers, spaced to correspond to every other slot of the 25-wafer cassettes, the automation and wafer process tools can handle and track the LED wafers with the existing semiconductor software. But the smaller capacity cassettes would mean that batch equipment, such as metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), may need to install an additional load station for efficient throughput.
Alternatively, the LED cassettes could take 16 wafers to maximize their capacity and avoid the need to install additional loading stations. That option would come at the cost of requiring extra handling steps to transfer the wafers back to 12-wafer cassettes for the rest of the process line, or requiring revision of the rest of the equipment software to handle the different format. The industry committee is currently soliciting input on this issue from LED makers worldwide before the end of October.
Software and Communication Interfaces
On the software side, the key initial issue is a common communication interface to make it simpler for LED makers and their equipment suppliers to get the data out of the tool to monitor production quality. "Higher automation needs well established data acquisition and monitoring to control production at the fab level," notes Karl-Heinz Buechel, program manager for corporate control systems at Aixtron and the subgroup leader of the software working group in the SEMI automation task force.
The task force analyzed the available options of the semiconductor industry interface called SECSII/GEM (SEMI equipment communications standard/generic equipment model), another SEMI standard called Interface A, and XML and concluded that a system based on SECSII/GEM could meet current and future requirements for LED manufacturing. Interface A may be considered for future needs for higher bandwidth for enhanced engineering data acquisition.
The LED sector will, however, need to develop its own solution within SECSII/GEM to handle its unique need to track wafers on the graphite process trays within the batch tools by wafer, position and process. And it will need to decide whether to base its own SECSII/GEM applications dialect on the simpler 200mm wafer version commonly used on the legacy process tools, or whether it needs the more advanced capabilities of the 300mm version.
The task force is now polling LED makers to determine the most important functions users need, so equipment makers can all get that data out of the tool in a consistent way to feed into the device makers' data analysis system. "Making a custom communications system for each customer just increases the cost of the tool and the cost of integrating the data across the process," notes Buechel. "The secret sauce of the LED maker is analyzing the data, not in getting the data out of the machine and formatting it."
Common Wafer Parameters
The automation interface work can move forward because the 6-in. wafer task force has largely reached consensus on the basic standard parameters for 6-in. sapphire wafers, which should also help drive the quality and consistency of the wafer product. "With more industry standard specs we can then produce higher volumes of the same product with tighter control and lower cost, compared to making so many custom products," said David Reid, Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics COO, and a co-chair of the SEMI HB-LED Standards Committee.
The Wafer Task force solicited input from players around the world to reach agreement on wafer features ranging from physical geometry like thickness and edge profile, to conventions of wafer marking and fiducials, to quality requirements like back side roughness, amount of warp and surface condition. "The legacy specs that were in use didn't really capture what's important to our customers today," noted Reid. "We needed a common way to talk about things, and to capture expectations as well as specifications." The standards will include both 1.0-mm and 1.3-mm thicknesses, and both notches and flats, as all are widely used, although with time the industry will likely move towards the thinner wafers and the smaller notches as fiducials.
Collaborating companies also reported on their joint work to figure out solutions to some new issues posed by automation and process control systems, such as how to uniquely mark the sapphire wafers for tracking so that the identifying marks survive the processing. Current wafer IDs are not necessarily unique: some users want a mark on the front of the wafer for ease of reading, some want the mark on the back side for better survivability, and some want marks on both front and back "just in case."
The task force has devised a standard marking system with billions of unique options for each supplier, and Silian, InnoLas Semiconductor and Osram Opto Semiconductors are working together to test the survival of various deep laser marking systems through wafer processing.
InnoLas marks test wafers from Silian with various dot-matrix and alpha-numeric figures with a UV laser (Fig. 3). Osram will then process the wafers and test the marks for readability. Results are expected by October. The dot matrix marking would be preferred if the dots can successfully be made deeply and distinctly enough to survive processing, as it takes up less wafer area and is easier to check.
The group is now starting a new effort to determine which bulk and surface wafer defects have the most real impact on product yield, and to agree on common best practice methods to measure those parameters.
Other SEMI work in Asia, driven by Epistar and TSMC in Taiwan, is focusing on environmental health and safety issues for HB-LED production, aiming at specifying best practices for installing and operating production equipment to a common worldwide standard. The group is working to complete and extend the existing semiconductor safety standards to more specifically apply to the LED manufacturing process, with its MOCVD tools and pyrophoric gases.
"We're trying to change the world's lighting industry," notes Reid. "No one company can do it alone."
To learn more, or to join the industry volunteers working on forging consensus standards for sapphire wafer parameters, automated equipment interfaces, safety, and other high-volume manufacturing enablers, please see www.semi.org/en/standards/P041367, or contact Paul Trio, email@example.com.
This article was originally published in LED Magazine September 2012
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Official and private sector surveys on China's manufacturing sector suggest the economy is finally perking up, boosting stocks in Shanghai almost 2 percent on Thursday. But exports, the main engine of growth, are still struggling and that means the Chinese recovery is not on solid ground yet, economists say.
China's official Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI) rose to 50.2 in October from 49.8 in September, pushing above the 50-mark that separates contraction from expansion, China's statistics bureau reported on Thursday.
Separately, HSBC said the final reading for its October PMI came in at 49.5 from 47.9 in September, with factories at their busiest in eight months, while new orders were at their highest in a year. The reading also deviated more than usual from an initial estimate released last week of 49.1.
The data had a clear impact on financial markets, which have been fretting about a sharp slowdown in China, the world's second biggest economy, for months now. The Shanghai Composite Index was up 1.8 percent in mid-day Asian trade.
But a closer look at the PMI data and the information they reveal about export orders tells a different story and points to continued weakness in China's main export markets, according to Louis Kuijs, Chief China Economist with RBS in Hong Kong.
"There's no rebound guaranteed," Kuijs told CNBC Asia's "The Call". "Things still depend very much on what happens in the United States, Europe, so while I think it will be more likely that the PMI stays above 50 than below, there's no guarantee."
Export Engine
Exports are a key component of the Chinese economy, making up about 35-40 percent of gross domestic product in 2011. The nation's biggest market, the European Union, has been mired in near-zero growth this year, while growth in the U.S. economy has also been weak.
(Read more: A Global Recession? The Warning Signs Are Everywhere)
The new export orders sub-index of the official PMI rose to 49.3 last month from 48.8 in September, but has been below the key 50-level for much of the year. The new export orders component of the HSBC PMI meanwhile declined for a sixth successive month in October.
Weak demand from China's key export markets throws into doubt a firm rebound in China's GDP growth, economists say.
"Externally, there are still a lot of challenges remaining," Donna Kwok, Greater China Economist with HSBC said. "We do see a pickup in domestic demand, thanks to Beijing's continued easing measures. We need those to continue to come through if domestic demand is to hold steady."
China unveiled a series of measures, mostly in the third quarter, to prop up an economy that was on track to expand at its slowest annual pace in 13 years.
Beijing said in late September it would allow faster payment of export tax rebates and an increase of loans to exporters to help the export sector. That was on top of approvals for infrastructure projects worth more than $150 billion earlier that month.
It has also eased credit conditions, cutting interest rates in June and July and slashing reserve requirement ratios for banks three times since November.
Bhaskar Laxminarayan, Chief Investment Officer, Bank Pictet & Cie, said more help needs to be directed to small and medium sized enterprises and to activities that will boost domestic consumption. That will reduce China's dependence on exports and ensure a more sustainable path to growth.
(Read more: Betting on a Spending Boost, Investors Eye China's Retail Space)
Until that happens, markets need to be "cautious" about any positive economic news from China, he said.
"We don't know how sustainable that (the PMI) is," he told CNBC. "It's early days in terms of saying that there's a complete recovery. The global recovery is not in great shape, so I think we need to monitor the situation. I don't think it's a sustainable reversal at this stage."
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(Udee Bangkok locates on 49, Pradiphat Soi 19. Enter the alley approximately 200 meters, our 4-story building with red Chinese door is on your left hand side.)
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- Going to others tourist attraction can be done easily by public transport around our place, Sky Train, under ground, bus and taxi.


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Yesterday evening, Aria and I had a wonderful play date with Ella at my friend Thi-My's. For dessert, Thi-My prepared an apple pear chocolate crumble. The recipe I'm sharing today is a bit different, using home-grown pears, blackberry and chocolate.
Thi-My and I have been friends since we were 15. We reminisced about the good old days and stared at our little girls playing with their scooters in the park next door to her apartment. Ella is two-and-a-half years old and she's such a sweetheart. She kept saying "l'autre trottinette est pour ma copine Aria" ("The other scooter is for my bestie Aria"). We melted! And we melted a second time after eating Thi-my's delicious crumble!
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Reference the information provided in this article for guidance on installing display drivers in Windows 10.
In previous versions of Windows, select Dell displays had a specific driver for the display in addition to the graphics adapter (Video Card) driver.
These drivers enabled expanded capabilities/calibration of the display.
With Windows 7 and Windows 8 when you right click the desktop and select screen resolution, you would see the dialogue box below which highlights the monitor model names. With Windows 10, when you right click the desktop you no longer can access this like you could on Windows 7 and Windows 8. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1 - Display Properties
You have to follow the new steps below to access the Display Properties page.
In Windows 7, 8 and 10 you will only see reference to "Generic PnP Monitor" under monitor tab and under device manager unless you load the display/monitor drivers
Unlike the graphics card driver, which normally requires a specific driver for full functionality, in most cases a dedicated Display Driver is not required.
For Dell plug and play monitors, a dedicated Windows 10 driver for the display connected to the system is not needed. The Windows 10 operating system will automatically read the monitor Extended display identification data (EDID). If your monitor calibration software or other software needs a specific monitor INF file, you may install the monitor Windows 8/8.1 driver into Windows 10.
Does the Windows 10 Device Manager show that the monitor is connected by displaying it as, "Generic PNP Monitor"? (Yes/No)
Do the computer and monitor allow the monitors native/prime resolution? (Yes/No)
If a touch monitor, does touch function? (Yes/No)
If yes to the above, then the computer has correctly read the monitor EDID and a dedicated Windows 10 driver in not required for normal operation.
The following displays do have WHQL certified display drivers for Windows 10 available on the Dell Support Website In the Browse for a product box, click View Products, Select Monitors and Projectors, then Select Monitors, then select your display model. Any drivers for your display will be in the Drivers and downloads section:
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On March 3, 1995, the House Ways and Means Committee completed action on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) provisions in a comprehens ive welfare reform proposal based on the "Personal Responsibility Act" (H.R. 4)--the welfare reform bill contai ned in the House Republican Contract with America. The proposal is expected to reach the House floor in late March. (The Committee voted on conceptual language, not statutory bill language . However, under House rules, the proposal cannot be taken up by the full House until the proposal is drafted in statutory bill language.) As passed by the Committee, the proposal includes the following SSI provisions:
- Provides generally that noncitizen aliens would be ineligible for 35 Federal welfare
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enactment with the following exceptions:
- aliens admitted to the United States (U .S.) under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act would remain eligible for Federal welfare programs during their first 5 years in the U.S;
- legal permanent residents over 75 years of age who have been in the U.S . for 5 years or more would also remain eligible for Federal welfare programs; and
- other noncitizens who are currently eligible for benefits would remain eligible for 1 year after date of enactment.
- Provides that noncitizens would remain el igible for the earned income tax credit, 13 education and job training programs, and emergency medical services and immunizations.
- Requires each Federal agency that administers a program from which noncitizens are to be disqual ified to provide general notification to the public and program recipients of the eligibility changes.
- Requires State agencies administering the AFDC progr ams to provide to the INS the names and addresses of illegal al iens with children who are citizens of the U.S.
- Provides that sponsorship agreements, by which family members and others agree to help noncitizens who would otherwise qualify for welfare, would be made legally binding and would apply until the immigrant becomes a citizen. The agreements are not now legally binding and last for either 3 or 5 years.
- Grants States the option to follow the Federal classification of U.S. citizens and aliens in determining eligibility for any State, local, or municipal means-tested public assistance program.
Eliminate SSI Benefits to Drug Abusers and Alcoholics (DA&A)
- Prohibits SSI eligibility, including cash SSI benefits and Medicaid coverage, to those individuals whose DA&A is a contributing factor material to his or her disability if he or she cannot qualify based on another disabling condition. Provides that $100 million of the savings realized from denying cash SSI payments and Medicaid coverage to individuals disabled by DA&A will be targeted annually to drug treatment and drug abuse research.
General Restrictions On Eligibility for Cash and Other New Benefits for Certain Children
- Repeals the "comparable severity" test and eliminates "individualized functional assessments" in determining disability in children. Eligibility for cash benefits or newly authorized medical services will be based solely on meeting or equalling the current Listings of Impairments.
- Provides that children may be eligible for cash SSI payments in one of three
- Children who are currently (defined as during the month prior to the first month for which this provision takes effect) receiving cash SSI disability payments will continue to be eligible for cash SSI payments if they have an impairment(s) which meets or equals the level of sever ity of an impairment specified in the Listing of Impairments.
- Children who file new claims for SSI disability benefits may only receive cash payments if they have an impairment(s) which meets or equals the level of severity of an impairment specified in the Listing of Impairments and is either in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, residential treatment facility, or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded or otherwise would be placed in such a facility if the child were not receiving personal assistance nessitated by the impairment.
- Currently eligible children who are overseas as dependents of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces , but who would be eligible for block grant services if they were in the U.S., shall continue to be eligible for cash payments so long as they are outside the United States.
- Provides for the reinstatement to eligibility for SSI cash benefits under the grandfathered provision (i.e ., meets or equals the Listing of Impairments) following a per iod of suspended el igibility due to excess income and/or resources.
- Requires the Commissioner to notify, within one month of enactment, all individuals whose eligibility for SSI benefits would be terminated under these proposals.
Continuing Disability Reviews (CDRs)
- Requires CDRs at least once every 3 years for children with disabilities who have non-permanent impairments.
- Requires CDRs for low birth weight children when SSI payments have been made for 12 months.
- Requires the Commissioner to issue regulations necessary to implement the provisions that apply to 551 benefits for children within 3 months of enactment.
- o Requires the Commissioner to review the Listing of Impairments annually and recommend to Congress any necessary revisions.
- Requires the Commission on Childhood Disability to examine the childhood mental listings to ensure that the criteria in these listings are appropriate to ensure that SSI eligibility is limited to serious disabilities for which Federal assistance is necessary to improve the child's condition or quality of life.
Block Grants for Children with Disabilities
- Requires the Commissioner to make block grants for children with disabilities to States that apply for them for FY 1997 or thereafter pursuant to statutory and regulatory requ irements. The purpose of such grants would be to provide authorized medical and non-medical services, other than cash benefits, to children who are determined to be physically or mentally impaired under the medical listings.
- Allows States to decide which services may be provided to qualified children using block grant funds by selecting from a list of authorized medical and non-medical services specified by the Commissioner of Social Security. The final list would be issued by the Commissioner no later than January 1, 1996. Requires that the Commissioner ensure that serv ices on the list are designed to meet the unique needs of qualifying children that ar ise from their physical and mental impairments.
- The amount of the block grant allotment for each State for a fiscal year would be the
product of:
- The difference between the total number of qualifying children in the State and the number of qualifying children in the State who were eligible for SSI cash benefits, and
- an amount equal to 75 percent of the mean average of the respective annual totals of cash benefits paid to each qualifying child who received an SSI cash benefit.
- Allows States to designate an already existing State entity to administer the childhood block grant, if the State determines appropriate.
Medicaid Coverage Under Block Grants
- Provides that children who are eligible solely for medical serv ices through the block grant but do not rece ive coverage under Medicaid because they live in one of the twelve 209(b) States will be elig ible for cash SSI benefits until October 1, 1996, when medical services through the block grant become available.
- Requires that any child who meets or equals the medical listing criter ia, currently or in the future. will receive Medicaid, whether or not they are receiving block grant services at a given time, except those children who would not be eligible for Medicaid under the current eligibility criteria.
Other SSI Changes
Provides that SSI-eligible children who are in a medical facility and whose care is being paid for through private insurance would be eligible for a benefit of up to $30 a month.
- Provides that, in the case of parents who disposed of theirs or their child's assets (or a guard ian who disposed of his ward's asset) within 36 months of the child's application for SSI benefits. the child' s eligibility for benefits will be delayed for a number of months equal to the uncompensated value of the divested resource divided by the SSI Federal benefit rate.
- Eliminates the maintenance of effort requirement ("passalong") on States with regard to their State supplementary payment programs.
Provisions Regarding Other Programs
- Provides that the value of the authorized services offered through the block grant shall not be taken into account in determining eligibility for, or the amount of, benefits or services under any Federal or federally-assisted program. Authorized services provided under the block grant are considered to be SSI benefits for purposes of Medicaid coverage. An individual who would be eligible for block grant services but lives in a State in which such services are not available is considered an SSI recipient for purposes of Medicaid coverage.
- Provides for the establishment of block grants for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
Guam, and American Samoa for the establishment of adult assistance programs for the
aged, blind and disabled in those jurisdictions. Funding would be set by the Secretary
of HHS based on 1994 funding levels of adult assistance programs operating in these


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Divided into three sections (Diagnosis, Antidote, and Recovery), this work draws insights about fear from medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas. Furthermore, Bader-Saye stresses the importance of sharing our fears in ecclesial communities, where we can develop courage. Most important, Bader-Saye notes that a reclamation of God's sovereignty will help us reframe our lives; the doctrine of providence not only assures us that the fragments of our lives will cohere into a narrative unity but also demonstrates that God is our Provider.
A timely and applicable resource, Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear will resonate with academics, church leaders, and church members. Instead of allowing your own or others' fears to motivate you, you'll be encouraged to forsake an "ethic of safety" for an "ethic of risk." This new way of living manifests itself in hospitality, peacemaking, and generosity. Each chapter includes questions for discussion.
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Do not be afraid. We live in a time when this biblical refrain cannot be repeated too often. Both John Paul II in 1978 and his successor, Benedict XVI, in 2005 used these words to begin their papacies. Among all the things the church has to say to the world today, this may be the most important. No one has to be convinced that we live in fearful times, though we are not always sure what we should be afraid of and why. We suspect that our fears make us vulnerable to manipulation, but we find it hard to quell the fear long enough to analyze how it is being produced and directed for the benefit of others.
One reason we are a more fearful culture today, despite the fact that the dangers are not objectively greater than in the past, is because some people have incentives and means to heighten, manipulate, and exploit our fears. Fear is a strong motivator, and so those who want and need to motivate others--politicians, advertisers, media executives, advocacy groups, even the church--turn to fear to bolster their message. I call this the "fear for profit" syndrome, and it is rampant. We have become preoccupied with unlikely dangers that take on the status of imminent threats, producing a culture where fear determines a disproportionate number of our personal and communal decisions. The sense of ever-increasing threats can overwhelm our ability to evaluate and respond proportionately to each new risk, thus we allow fear to overdetermine our actions.
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e-Public Policy Newsletter - July 2012
- ASM Joins Coalition to Avert Cuts to Science Budgets
- ASM Comments on FDA Guidance for Industry on Animal Drugs
- Webinar: A National Conversation on the Future of Agricultural Research
- Payment Determinations for Calendar Year 2013 for New Clinical Laboratory Tests
- ASM Meets with CDC and APHL in June CDC Campylobacter Diagnostic Meeting
- FDA User Bill Signed into Law with Antibiotic Incentives, LDT Guidance
- Release of the 2012 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Strategy
- NIH Common Fund Announces New Programs
- NIH Human Microbiome Project Defines Normal Bacterial Makeup of the Body
- National Science Board Report: Research & Development, Innovation, and the Science and Engineering Workforce
- National Research Council Report: Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security's Planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
- ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grants Awarded
- S3 Federal Biorisk Management Policy Newsletter
- Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter
ASM Joins Coalition to Avert Cuts to Science Budgets
The ASM joined with approximately 3,000 organizations to avert the sequestration or across-the-board cut to nondefense discretionary programs, including science and public health programs, required by the Budget Control Act in 2013. A letter, delivered to Congress on July 12, asked members to adopt instead a balanced approach to deficit reduction that does not include indiscriminate cuts to nondefense discretionary programs like science and public health. In 2011 nondefense discretionary spending represented less than one-fifth of the federal budget and 4.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Under the discretionary caps in the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011, by 2021 nondefense discretionary spending will decline to 2.8 percent of GDP if sequestration takes effect. The goal of the letter is to educate Congress about the impact of indiscriminate cuts on a range of national priorities that strengthen economic growth, safety, security and public health. To read the letter, go to: http://publichealthfunding.org/uploads/NDDLetter.Final.July2012.pdf.
ASM Comments on FDA Guidance for Industry on Animal Drugs
On July 9, the ASM Public and Scientific Affairs Board sent a letter to the FDA commenting on its draft guidance for industry that is intended to phase out the nontherapeutic use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals (see Microbe Forum). The FDA published three documents in the April 13, 2012 Federal Register, proposing a voluntary initiative to phase in certain changes to how medically important antimicrobial drugs are labeled and used in food-producing animals. Under the initiative, certain antibiotics would not be used for production purposes, such as enhanced growth or to improve feed efficiency in an animal. These antibiotics would still be available to prevent, control or treat illness in food-producing animals under the supervision of a veterinarian. The ASM letter is available at http://www.asm.org/index.php/public-policy-2/97-policy/documents/7814-fda-213.
Webinar: A National Conversation on the Future of Agricultural Research
Wednesday July 25 from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM EDT
World hunger. Food safety. Childhood obesity. Energy. Farming Conditions. These are all pressing issues our nation is facing. How is agricultural research addressing them? Join four of the nation's leading voices in agricultural research and food policy for a webcast to discuss the future of agricultural research in America.
- William Danforth, Chancellor Emeritus of Washington University and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Donald Kennedy, President Emeritus of Stanford University, former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and the former editor-in-chief of Science;
- Roger Beachy, former Chief Scientist at USDA and the first director of the agency's National Institute of Food and Agriculture;
- Carol Tucker Foreman, Distinguished Fellow at the Consumer Federation of America's Food Policy Institute and a nationally known expert on food safety.
These leaders have created Supporters of Agricultural Research or SOAR, a new organization working to build a coalition of farm and consumer groups, universities, and scientific organizations that will encourage federal science policy to generate agriculture innovations. SOAR's goal is to substantially increase federal support for investigator-initiated agriculture research grants.
To register for the webinar go to: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=drajzjdab&oeidk=a07e64jb44t631dd2b5&oseq=a026pch4fowocw
Payment Determinations for Calendar Year 2013 for New Clinical Laboratory Tests
One July 6, Vickie Baselski submitted ASM's recommendations with respect to payment determinations to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) for select new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to be included in the 2013 Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. These recommendations were based on a consensus of ASM's Public and Scientific Affairs Board Committee on Professional Affairs and Committee on Laboratory Practices, which reviewed the codes to be addressed and provided input. Of particular interest are several new multi target respiratory virus CPT codes, new codes for genotype analysis of CMV and Hepatitis B, and a new code for cell enumeration using immunologic selection and identification in fluid specimen. The public meeting, intended to provide expert input on the nature of the new test codes and receive recommendations to either crosswalk or gap-fill for payment, was held July 16-17 in Baltimore, MD and was attended by Dr. Baselski and ASM staff member Kimberly Walker. A summary outlining the ASM's recommendations can be found at the following link: http://www.asm.org/index.php/public-policy-2/97-policy/documents/7818-cms-13.
ASM Meets with CDC and APHL in June CDC Campylobacter Diagnostic Meeting
ASM, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a joint forum entitled "Developing Best Practice Laboratory Guidelines for Campylobacter Diagnosis" in Atlanta on June 26. Susie Sharp, Chair, PSAB Committee on Laboratory Practices, presented findings on a survey of laboratories performing EIA or culture to detect Campylobacter and Vickie Baselski, Chair, PSAB Professional Affairs Committee, discussed practical considerations associated with productivity and payment for enhanced Campylobacter detection. The working group, which also included Alice Weissfeld representing ASM, has begun to assign tasks to members to aid in preparation of the first draft of the guidelines.
FDA User Bill Signed into Law with Antibiotic Incentives, LDT Guidance
The FDA user bill that was signed into law in July includes provisions from the Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now (GAIN) Act. This is the first time Congress has passed legislation that includes provisions to incentivize the development of new antibiotics. GAIN was supported by public health groups, including the ASM. The congressionally passed provisions provide five years of additional FDA exclusivity for new antibiotics that treat serious and life threatening conditions, guarantee fast tract status and priority review for qualified infectious disease products and direct the FDA to develop new guidance on pathogen focused antibacterial drug development. Passage of GAIN is viewed as an important first step in refilling the antibiotic pipeline with promising new drugs to treat patients with drug-resistant infections. A second provision prohibits the FDA from issuing draft guidance on the regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) without a prior 60 day notification to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Health Education and Pensions Committee of their intent. They are also required to provide the anticipated details of any such guidance.
Release of the 2012 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Strategy
The 2012 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Strategy was released in June. This document articulates the strategic direction for federal efforts to protect the population from national health security threats through the use of medical countermeasures. It is in alignment with the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Strategic Plan, the HHS Secretary's Strategic Initiatives and the National Health Security Strategy.
The 2012 PHEMCE Strategy establishes the following strategic goals:
- Goal 1: Create, develop, manufacture, and procure critical medical countermeasures.
- Goal 2: Establish and communicate clear pathways to facilitate medical countermeasure development and use.
- Goal 3: Develop logistics and operational plans for optimized use of medical countermeasures at all levels of response.
- Goal 4: Address medical countermeasure gaps for all sectors of the American population.
The 2012 PHEMCE Strategy can be found online at http://www.phe.gov/phemce/strategy.
NIH Common Fund Announces New Programs
New programs exploring novel approaches to cell-to-cell communication and understanding undiagnosed diseases, which represent challenges or scientific opportunities for a wide array of health research, are the latest priorities for the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. The Common Fund targets strategic investments that have the potential for rapid and significant impact. The programs are scheduled to begin during fiscal year 2013. The research products of Common Fund programs are expected to catalyze disease-specific research supported by the NIH Institutes and Centers. Additional information about the NIH Common Fund can be found at http://commonfund.nih.gov.
NIH Human Microbiome Project Defines Normal Bacterial Makeup of the Body
Microbes inhabit just about every part of the human body, living on the skin, in the gut, and up the nose. Sometimes they cause sickness, but most of the time, microorganisms live in harmony with their human hosts, providing vital functions essential for human survival. For the first time, a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans, producing numerous insights and even a few surprises. The Human Microbiome Project is managed by National Human Genome Research Institute, in partnership with the NIH Office of the Director, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, all part of NIH. For more information, go to: http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v01.i13.
National Science Board Report: Research & Development, Innovation, and the Science and Engineering Workforce
The National Science Board (NSB), the policy-setting body for the National Science Foundation, issued a white paper concerning current research and development trends. The NSB said that "between 2008 and 2009, in the midst of the most recent recession, American businesses cut funding for research and development by nearly five percent, or $12 billion. The science board said these cuts coupled with government budget constraints at all levels are reasons for concern." The report did find, however, that total national R&D expenditures reached a record high of 2.9% in 2009. To download the report go to: http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124863&org=NSB&from=news
National Research Council Report: Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security's Planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
Congress requested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) produce a site-specific biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment (SSRA) of the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas. The laboratory would study dangerous foreign animal diseases -- including the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which affects cattle, pigs, deer, and other cloven-hoofed animals -- and diseases deadly to humans that can be transmitted between animals and people. Congress also asked the Research Council to review the validity and adequacy of the document. Until these studies are complete, Congress has withheld funds to build the NBAF. To read the report go to: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13031.
ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grants Awarded
During the asm2012 General Meeting in San Francisco, CA the awardees of the ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant were honored at the Education Board's annual reception. The ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant program offers travel grants to increase the participation of underrepresented minority (URM) groups in the ASM General Meeting. The following outstanding 2012 awardees were introduced at the ASM General Meeting:
Faculty Awardees
Jesse Dillon, Ph.D., California State University, Long Beach
Michele K. Nishiguchi, Ph.D., New Mexico State University
Teshome Yehualaeshet, Ph.D., Tuskegee University
Postdoctoral Awardees
Zomary Flores-Cruz, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Elise A. Lamont, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
The Committee on Microbiological Issues Impacting Minorities (CMIIM) chair, Dr. Marian Johnson-Thompson presented the awards. The CMIIM developed the grant program for ASM.
The ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant program selects post-doctoral scholars from underrepresented minority groups in the microbiological sciences or faculty from Minority Serving Institutions. Each grantee is offered up to $2000 to defray expenses associated with travel to the ASM General Meeting. The grants are supported by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. For more information about the grant program contact email@example.com. The deadline for submission to apply for a grant to attend the asm2013 Meeting in Denver, CO is January 25, 2013.
If you have colleagues or post doctoral members of your department who you think are eligible for the award, please let them know about the program. The CMIIM would like to encourage as many applications as possible. For more information go to the ASM web page: http://www.asm.org/asmgmminoritytravelgrant.
S3 Federal Biorisk Management Policy Newsletter
The May issue of the Science, Safety, Security Quarterly newsletter has been published by the Division of Biosafety and Biosecurity, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This newsletter communicates Federal efforts in biorisk management in support of a broad initiative to optimize coordination and stakeholder outreach on biorisk management. The S3 website, found at http://phe.gov/s3 is our major effort to compile, clarify, and improve communication on Federal biosafety and biosecurity policies. The newsletter is available at: http://phe.gov/s3/Documents/s3newsletter-may2012.pdf.
Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter
The July issue of the Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter has been published by the Committee on Microbiological Issues Impacting Minorities. To read the newsletter go to: http://www.asm.org/index.php/public-policy-2/135-policy/documents/newsletters/minority-microbiology-mentor-newsletter/7851-mmm-7-12.


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Glen Campbell - An All-Star Tribute to John Wayne (1976) - True Grit
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Patty18 -
How appropriate this video is since the passing of Glen Campbell on August 8, 2017. RIP Glen. You're with your hero now.
I don't think I knew there were words to that song!
Look at Glen Campbell's hair! Holy cow! (Though that's exactly how I remember him, in my mind's eye)
Is this special, in its entirety, available anywhere?
Mrs. C
Kevin -
Not sure. Didn't find the whole thing on YouTube. Not sure it's for sale anywhere.


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<—- Hanging On Martha's Revenge —>
Olga's Diary (Continued)
Dear Diary
The Convent: Marie is in boarding school now at Our Lady's Convent in Dartford and is very nice and lots of posh people's children go there. Matron thought I was her nanny when we arrived and didn't hide her surprise when I said I was Marie's mother.
While we talked Marie was crying because she didn't want to leave me. I gave her a white lace handkerchief to wipe her tears and she was wiping her little face with it saying
"Don't go Mummy, please don't go". It upset me.
"Never mind, when you are gone and she sees the other children she'll be alright" Matron said. In bed that night I cried my eyes out because I didn't have Marie with me..
I know this will be good for her because she will be taught how to become a lady and to speak nicely. The sisters say she will settle down and make new friends and not to worry about her. Poor Madeline is missing Marie a lot.
Mrs Hammell is worried because Madeline is not as strong as other children she might get hurt at school, so she prefers to employ a private tutor for her at home. I think Madeline would be fine at school. Mrs H is over protective of her.
Dear Diary
Madeline and I are getting very excited because Marie is coming home for the holidays.
Then Mrs Hammell said it wasn't really convenient for Marie to come home during half term and would I mind asking the nuns if she could stay in the convent instead.
So Marie stayed in the convent again and I haven't seen her for such a long time.
Will have to give both girls lots of special treats.
Dear Diary
At last Marie is home for the holidays but there is a change in Mrs H's attitude to me. She is off-hand with me.
"Have I done something wrong?"
She said she was unhappy with my work and thinks I am more interested in Marie than in looking after Madeline. That's unfair, and it's not true, and I told her I go out of my way to pay Madeline more attention than Marie. I took the girls to the Zoo and when we got back home, Madeline came up and hugged me and gave me a kiss to say thank you.
In the evening Madeline likes to come to our room to play with Marie rather than be with her mother. If I tell her she must stay with her Mummy she gets upset and thinks I don't want her.
I think Mrs H is jealous because Madeline is very fond of Marie and me..
Mrs H and I have had a little talk.
"I apologise if I was wrong" she said.
"But, really, Carmen, no mother can look after another person's child and neglect her own".
She said she thinks it would be better if I leave.
Oh dear, I don't want to, but I suppose she's right.
Dear Diary
Back to the kitchen: Now Marie is in boarding school I have a better choice of jobs. I'm working for Googie Withers, the film actress, and her husband, John McCallum, as an assistant housekeeper in their London home. I keep their house clean and on their cook's day off, I do the cooking. I really like it. They are both very sweet and kind to me. They have all sorts of interesting people to dinner, other actors and writers, and they're not demanding. Mr McCallum is so handsome he makes me swoon. He's like the hero in some of Ruby's stories.
The only problem is Marie can't come home for the holidays. I didn't tell them about her because otherwise I wouldn't have got the job. I know Sister Bernadette is getting cross with me because she thinks I am neglecting Marie. I promised Marie I would go to the sports day. She was running in the egg and spoon race but I had to miss it. I feel simply dreadful and I miss her terribly.
She wrote me a letter and said she was very upset and crying.
"All the other Mummies came to sports day but not my Mummy".
It's no good, even though I like this job a lot, I will have to find another one before Christmas so I can have Marie in the holidays.
Falling behind on my savings.
Dear Diary
I had a letter from my friend Moores today. I wrote to her to ask her to lend me some money because I have to pay Marie's school fees. I hated doing it. She's so kind Moores, she always was to me – and she sent me more money than I asked for. She said she was still in touch with Ethel who was married and has two children. But Moores isn't married. She said she hadn't found the right bloke.
Moores still kept in touch with some of the other nursing students we worked with and she'd heard that John Edward, Marie's father, had died in December 1949. He'd married an American girl and moved to New York and was working as a doctor in one of the hospitals there. He was standing on the subway platform and just fell forward onto the railway lines and was hit by an incoming train and killed outright. Witnesses said he just toppled forward. Moores said there was a mystery surrounding his death. An autopsy had revealed nothing unusual and so the medical examiner concluded that he probably had an accidental fall. But some of his colleagues were sure he'd committed suicide. Apparently he suffered from depression quite a lot.
Moores asked me if I had worked Obeah on him for what he did to me. Honestly, how could Moores think I'd do that! Of course, I didn't, but if any of my family knew what he had done to me, they would certainly have worked obeah on him.
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HobbyPlex Summer Series Round 1May 1, 2013
Event Name: Summer Series
Event Location: Omaha, NE
Event Date(s): April 27, 2013 to April 28, 2013
Round 1 of the Summer Series in Omaha, NE had a great showing, with 142 racers showing up for a great day of 1:10 off-road racing. Team Associated was the title sponsor for the six-race series. The track is fairly large for 1:10 scale, and the drivers stand lifts you 15 feet into the air. Mack Vanderbeek enter in the Mod Buggy and Mod Stadium Truck Class. His son, Alex Vanderbeek, was entered in Mod Buggy and Pro2.
Pro 2 was all Alex Vanderbeek, all day. We received the new Factory Team SC10.2 on the Tuesday before the race, and Alex went to work. The new LRP Flow Works Team came on Thursday, so we were set. I called fellow teammate and SC guru James "Bubba" Boggs to get a starting point for the setup on the truck, and he was happy to help. Alex set TQ in the first round by ten seconds, and was just a few tenths faster the second qualifier, which put him first on the grid. As the tone went off, he settled into a comfortable pace, and lapped through third on the 20+ second-per-lap track. At the finish he had the win, nearly lapping second place on the last lap.
Mack started round 1 with a TQ in Mod Truck over TLR driver and track promoter Alex Sturgeon. I maintained TQ in round 2, placing me at the top spot as the A-Main tone went off. I made a mistake on lap 1, and allowed a few spots to slip away. In lap 3 I was back in second, working on the lead. I moved into first with about 3 minutes down of the 8-minute race and never let it go again. My Factory Team T4.2 was locked in. As I crossed the line, second place had some traffic issues, which allowed me a comfortable 15-second lead.
Mod Buggy was much more interesting as the day went on. Alex Sturgeon was dialed in early, grabbing TQ. Mack and Alex Vanderbeek were working on where to find the time needed to make it a race in the Main. Sturgeon was first on the grid, Alex Vanderbeek second, and Myself third. In the first lap Sturgeon was able to get away as Alex Vanderbeek shorted a double that collected us both. He was able to get away, maintaining second, as I was owned sending me back to ninth. Both Vanderbeeks had a lot of work to do. Sturgeon tried settling into a solid pace, but Alex Vanderbeek was making up ground in a hurry. The 14-year-old kept the pressure on, forcing Sturgeon to make an uncharacteristic mistake. Alex Vanderbeek took the lead and drove off. I meanwhile was working my way back through the pack. With about a minute left in the race, I had caught Sturgeon, and made a move into second. Alex Vanderbeek went on to win by 12 seconds, and Sturgeon and Mack battled right up to line, with Mack getting second by a mere tenth of a second.
Mod 4WD saw Team Associated driver Will Brenton TQ and finish first with a wire-to-wire win as well. Will was on point all day, looking strong for a podium spot in 2WD until an unfortunate breakout. Will was driving the Factory Team B44.2, and Factory Team B4.2.
Thanks to the entire HobbyPlex crew for an amazing facility to race at.
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ThermoLab Baram 2010 Review
Cooling is a big issue to consider when running a high end system. With the speeds of today's processors, a system builder needs to choose the correct cooling solution based on their system needs and the point to which they want to push their computers. There are many different cooling methods in use today such as water cooling, phase change, and the tried but true air cooling. Air coolers used to be frowned upon when overclocking a computer to the extremes but as times have changed so has the design and the shape of these copper and aluminum monstrosities.
With many models and manufacturers of air coolers it is hard to choose which one is right. There are so many factors you need to consider including thermal design, shape, and socket compatibility to name a few. One manufacturer that is in the business of keeping your components cool is ThermoLab and they are bringing to the table a redesign of one of their popular coolers the Baram 2010. Baram in Korean means "airflow" which is what this cooler is designed for, to maximize the airflow and in turn increasing efficiency. Without wasting any more time let's get a good look into the design of this air cooler.
Closer Look:
The ThermoLab Baram 2010 comes packaged in a black box with a picture of the cooler on the front allowing you to see what you are buying without having to open it. Also on the front for quick view is a list of the sockets that the Baram supports. If you flip the package to the left side there is a list of the features and specifications for the Baram cooler which we will show you later in the review.
Opening the box gives you a view of how well the Baram is packed up to keep it safe. ThermoLab uses a large cardboard cutout that wraps around the cooler keeping it still during movement. This package design makes protecting the cooler the top priority and does away with the need for foam which costs more and is harder to recycle than the cardboard. Once everything is removed from the box we can see what is included. In addition to the cooler there is an installation guide, the retention brackets, and some thermal paste. The Baram 2010 supports a wide array of CPU platforms including Intel's socket 775, 1156, 1366 and AMD's socket AM2, AM2+ and AM3.
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Linda Plecity
Hometown: Danbury, Conn.
Major: Health Administration
WCSU Degree: Master of Health Administration
Activities: Work full time at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn.
Linda Plecity graduated from St. Raphael's School of Nursing in New Haven, Conn., in 1976. She worked for several years and then realized that in order to advance her career, she would need to obtain a Bachelor of Science in nursing. "I enrolled in the WCSU BSN program, which I finished in 1980," she says.
"After receiving my BSN, my life was busy raising my two children and working at Danbury Hospital in the Operating Room for 21 years," she says. "I went to work at Greenwich Hospital in 1999, and there I met the coordinator of WestConn's Master of Health Administration program, Dr. Neil Dworkin, at a career fair. He inspired me to return to school to obtain my master's degree."
Plecity enrolled in WestConn's MHA program and started classes in January 2004. "I remember sitting in the class the first night after not being in school for more than 24 years and thinking, 'What did I get myself into?' I called my family after the class ended and said that I would never make it — these people were all so smart. Well, 12 classes later and a 3.77 GPA, I am finally done!"
Plecity currently works as the educator for Surgical Services at St Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport. "I am very lucky to work with a cohesive team of people who value everyone's input," she says. "I use the skills I learned in the management classes taught by Dr. Gene Buccini and Dr. Fred Tesch on a daily basis. I take what I learned from Dr. Dworkin's finance class to help us keep a balanced budget, especially in this economic climate."
Asked what she will remember most about her WestConn experience, Plecity says, "I loved Dr. Buccini's classes; there was always a surprise."
After graduation, Plecity will continue with her career. "I have a great job and it's a great place to work," she says.
Plecity's advice to students entering WCSU is: "It is never too late to start learning. It doesn't matter what age you are, as I can attest. I have found I miss the challenges of the classroom and homework and am now looking to further my education. Find your passion and expand on it. Find a job that inspires you and that you love. "


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GUNUNG MULU, Sarawak's premier national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is named after the 2376m mountain at its heart. Modern explorers have been coming here since Spenser St John in the 1850s, who didn't reach the summit of Gunung Mulu but wrote inspiringly about the region in Life in the Forests of the Far East. A more successful bid in 1932 saw Edward Shackleton, son of the Antarctic explorer, get to the top during a research trip organized by Tom Harrisson.
The park's best-known feature, however, is atop another mountain, Gunung Api – the dozens of fifty-metre-high razor-sharp limestone spikes known as the Pinnacles. It is to catch sight of them – a three-day trek, there and back, from the park offices – and of the park's incredible network of caves, that visitors stream into Mulu (as the park is generally known) year-round. The park contains the largest limestone cave system in the world, formed when surface water eroded vast amounts of material, dividing the limestone belt that runs southwest–northeast across the middle of the park into separate mountains as well as carving cave passages within. Most people see some or all four of the dramatic show caves, though other caves are accessible on adventure packages and yet more are still being explored (wmulucaves.org).
Attractions aside, Mulu is a national park like no other in Sarawak, for the simple reason that it has been privatized. While the Sarawak Forestry Corporation remains in overall charge, most things to do with tourism, including the accommodation, is now run by Borsarmulu, the firm that owns the Royal Mulu Resort a few kilometres away. Now Mulu feels more Singapore than Sarawak: tours are timetabled and formatted, and you can explore few parts of the park unaccompanied. The tours are certainly well run, the guides are better communicators than at any other Sarawak park, and close supervision has helped prevent the poaching of valuable plants – but if it were possible to make the jungle somehow corporate, this is it. The only way to avoid taking the tours is by having your own registered guide, which enables you to book boat charter and accommodation on the trails separately, though this only makes sense if you are in a group.
The show caves – Clearwater, Wind, Lang's and Deer – are a must, though the interest can begin to wane if you see all four. If you're doing a Pinnacles trek, the cost will usually include a tour of the Clearwater and Wind caves. If not, and you don't want to spend ages underground, opt for the Lang's and Deer caves – the last is the most impressive of the lot – then hang around for the incredible "changing of the guard", when the bats leave Deer Cave at sunset. Tours of these caves fill up quickly, so book as soon as your plans are fixed. It's also possible to do tours of Lagang Cave, where obscure cave-dwelling fauna is the highlight, plus more challenging caving trips.
Five million years ago, the splatter of raindrops gradually dissolved Gunung Api's limestone and carved out the Pinnacles – fifty-metre-high shards, as sharp as samurai swords – from a solid block of rock. Erosion is still continuing and the entire region is pockmarked with deep shafts penetrating far into the heart of the mountain: one third of Gunung Api has already been washed away, and in another ten million years it might all be gone.
The chance to view the Pinnacles draws many visitors to Mulu, and the trek offers exactly that, by heading not to the Pinnacles but to a ridge across the way from where you can take everything in. It's a three-day, two-night hike, but only the ascent of the steep final ridge and the awkward descent are genuinely demanding; you will ache afterwards in places that may never have ached before. That said, if you're reasonably fit and suitably equipped, you should cope fine, and the guides put safety first and make allowances as appropriate for the slower members of their group. With whomever you arrange the trek, book or make enquiries at least a week in advance; base camp, Camp 5, sleeps fifty people, so there's a firm ceiling on the number of climbers per day. The park itself charges RM325 for the trek, including accommodation but no food; tour operators offer similar packages, as well as the Headhunters' Trail north of the Pinnacles.
The route to the summit of Gunung Mulu (2376m) was first discovered in the 1920s by Tama Nilong, a Berawan rhinoceros-hunter. Earlier explorers had failed to find a way around the huge surrounding cliffs, but Nilong followed rhinoceros tracks along the southwest ridge trail, and thus enabled Lord Shackleton to become the first mountaineer to reach the summit in 1932. It's still an arduous climb, a 48km round trip that usually takes four days. Few visitors attempt it, but with enough notice, the park office can usually arrange it for groups of three or more. Expect to pay around RM400 per person, including accommodation and a guide, though you'll have to bring provisions and sleeping bags; a porter costs around RM100 extra.
Day 1, for most groups, is usually spent heading to Camp 3 roughly midway along the route, passing Camp 1 en route (there is no Camp 2). The trek takes you from the limestone belt that most tourists associate with Mulu into sandstone terrain that dominates the southeast of the park. On day 2 you spend the night 1800m up at Camp 4. Most climbers set off well before dawn on day 3 for the hard ninety-minute trek to the summit, if possible arriving there at sunrise. Big clumps of pitcher plants dot the final stretch, though it's easy to miss them as by this point you are hauling yourself up by ropes onto the cold, windswept, craggy peak. From here, the view is exhilarating, looking down on Gunung Api and, on a clear day, far across the forest to Brunei Bay. Once again you spend the night at Camp 4. Day 4 is a very full day as the aim is to get right back to the park HQ by nightfall.
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Elance Relaxed Duplex Sling seating is relaxed for a more casual appearance and a more comfortable sit. Duplex sling seating features a sling-construction with an extra layer of fabric integrally sewn to the sling. This allows for added durability for use in the most demanding environments, as well as additional styling options. Color, pattern and fashion choices are expanded by incorporating one of Tropitone's solution-dyed acrylic and PVC fabrics. The Elance Duplex Sling Collection was designed by John Caldwell.


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Potato Salad with Crunchy Pastirma
October 16th, 2009 | Category: Salad
The inspiration for this potato salad came when I was preparing eggs & pastırma for a brunch with friends. For those who haven't heard of it before, pastırma (pass-trrr-mah) is an air-dried cured beef, which I consider to be one of the ultimate treats for a typical Turkish breakfast or brunch. Pastırma is believed to be the origin of the Italian pastrami, but for me the taste ...