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Danielle Johnson is on a mission both professional and personal, spiritual yet grounded in research.
With a gentle air of conviction, Johnson, an academic adviser in the Daniel Acker Scholars Program in UB's Cora P. Maloney College, describes her role on campus: to help students figure out who they are and how they fit into the world. And, ultimately, to help them succeed.
Johnson's job as an adviser is to uncover pathways for her students, whether they need academic advice about the Acker program or about their other studies. Increasingly, however, student groups also look to her for leadership within UB's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) population.
Johnson is something of a star among the local LGBTQ community. Last spring, she was named the first recipient of the Lavender Star Award for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer Leadership at UB. She was honored to have been nominated by her boss and longtime mentor, Letitia Thomas, assistant vice provost and director of Cora P. Maloney College, and her colleague and friend Gudiya Msuku-Purks, senior academic adviser in the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program. The award will be given each year by the Buffalo Center Chapter of United University Professions (UUP) and its LGBTQ Committee.
Johnson says it's been "a great honor" to be recognized by UUP for her work to advance a culture of tolerance and acceptance. UB, she adds, is unique in that its large size belies a real sense of community among its tight-knit student communities. Its faculty, too, have shown great openness in the classroom toward discussing LGBTQ issues and giving students room in which to discover themselves.
First-year students of all stripes, she says, are anxious to find peer groups on campus and seek out comfortable environments where they feel they can belong. A longtime friend of UB Wellness Education Services, especially Jim Bowman, special populations outreach coordinator, and Sherri Darrow, director, Johnson recently took part in the unit's 2012 outreach video "It Gets Better ," echoing a national movement toward LGBTQ acceptance and advocacy. The video features UB students, faculty and staff who are positively working through their own unique issues.
Johnson's own journey toward self-discovery began when she was very young, rooted in what she calls her family's "deep spirituality." Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in New Orleans for several years before moving to Buffalo, she initially majored in chemical engineering at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., before switching her major to humanities and discovering the field of higher education administration.
This shift to her current profession came about in large part, Johnson says, because of Tony Collins, her mentor and then dean of the Clarkson engineering school who later became president of the university. "He really believed in me and my abilities," she recalls. "I feel blessed to have met him. I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Tony."
Mentors continued to play a key role in Johnson's career. After graduating from Clarkson, she began work on her master's degree at Buffalo State College, where she studied student personnel administration. At Buffalo State, Amy Reynolds, then a senior psychologist in the college's Counseling Center, mentored Johnson through the process of applying for admission to pursue her doctorate before Johnson enrolled in the higher education program in UB's Graduate School of Education in 2004.
At UB, she met her adviser and longtime mentor and dissertation chair, Raechele Pope, associate professor of education, leadership and policy. Pope and Reynolds, both of whom are now associate professors at UB, are guiding Johnson through her doctoral studies.
After switching dissertation topics several times, Johnson is now two semesters away from completing a PhD that explores spiritualism and sexuality within the LGBTQ community. "I finally came across an article about the topic and realized how it connected to my personal and spiritual feelings about life," she says. "It just felt right."
During her second year in the doctoral program, Johnson came out as a lesbian to friends, family and colleagues, profoundly connecting her professional and personal lives. "I wasn't sure if God would approve of me identifying as a lesbian," she says. Even with her family's support, it wasn't until she arrived at UB that Johnson says she became comfortable enough to accept herself openly.
Since then, as she says in the "It Gets Better" video, working with such groups as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Alliance Student Association "has helped me heal in ways I hadn't anticipated. To see them be so confident and secure within themselves is just so amazing."


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Fellaini probed over claim he spat at City defender Zabaleta
The Football Association has confirmed it will look into claims that Marouane Fellaini spat at Pablo Zabaleta during the Manchester derby on Tuesday.
Footage on YouTube has emerged appearing to show Manchester United midfielder Fellaini spitting near to Zabaleta's head while the City defender lay on the floor following a clash between the pair.
The FA is aware of the clip and is now considering whether it should charge Fellaini for misconduct.
It is understood referee Michael Oliver did not mention the alleged spit in his match report, but the FA can retrospectively punish Fellaini if it thinks he is guilty.
The FA will request clearer footage of the incident from broadcasters Sky before making a decision on the matter early next week.
The FA banned Hull's George Boyd for three matches after he spat at Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart earlier this month.
Oliver booked Fellaini moments before the alleged spit towards Zabaleta for an elbow on the Argentinian full-back.
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It's not exactly the Schramm Johnson Tea Room, but hot caffeinated beverages are again being purveyed on the northwest corner of Salt Lake City's Main Street and 100 South.
Two weeks ago, Starbucks opened shop on the ground floor of the 120-year-old Crandall Building in the exact spot where, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Utah "gentiles" huddled in the Tea Room to pass the time and maybe a little scuttlebutt.
Parked just down Main Street from the newly opened City Creek Center, the seven-story gray sandstone masterpiece named to the National Historic Register in 1977 will be kitty-corner from the Utah Performing Arts Center, scheduled for a March 2016 opening at 137 S. Main.
If walls could talk the Crandall Building, originally known as the McCornick Building, would have a lot to say. It's seen Utah's entrance into the Union, women's suffrage and the Great Depression even the Olympics. It's seen trolley tracks come and go and come back. It's seen the horse and buggy give way to the Tin Lizzie, the sedan, and, finally, the SUV.
And fashion? Imagine turn-of-the-20th-century customers dropping into the Chalk Garden clothing store, which opened in August, in the second-level space where bank tellers once took deposits. Old vaults now act as dressing rooms.
"We love being here," said Chalk Garden proprietor Deborah Kotter Barkley. "It's a fun place. Tourists come by and say they just want to see it."
The structure, built by banker and industrialist William Sylvester McCornick, cost $300,000 and was completed in 1892. With its seven stories, it was billed as Salt Lake City's first "skyscraper," recalled David H. Epperson, whose father-in-law, Robert E. Crandall, now owns it.
"It was one of the first buildings in the state with elevators," Epperson said. "They finally decided they could build more than four stories because they didn't have to climb stairs."
Canadian-born and Presbyterian, McCornick saw business potential in Utah before 1890, when the federal government, as part of its war on polygamy, was impeding Mormon business interests. But unlike some non-LDS Utah industrialists of the day, McCornick got along with Mormons, Epperson said. Later, when the LDS regained financial strength, they helped push business McCornick's way.
By 1909, The Salt Lake Tribune declared McCornick & Co. Banking House the largest bank between Denver and San Francisco.
After McCornick's death in 1921, the building was home to several banking interests. In 1955, Crandall and his father, Earl Crandall, bought it from Pacific National Life Insurance. Robert Crandall has owned it ever since and, at 94 years of age, continues to keep regular hours in his sixth-floor office.
"I'll be ready to retire in about 10 years," he said last week.
Salt Lake City's early planning policies encouraged the placement of prominent buildings on corners, explained Kirk Huffaker, executive director of the Utah Heritage Foundation.
"That building still holds great significance from that period,"he said. "It's important to keep the flavor of what things were like 100 years ago."
That flavor was altered a bit in 1909 when it was widened by two window-widths, Epperson explained.
Crandall and Epperson have spent the past 10 years or so bringing the building back to its former glory, including tearing off exterior siding from a 1959 remodel and restoring the red sandstone at street level.
City Creek and the Performing Arts Center will help bring a new era downtown, Epperson said, and the Crandall Building will be part of it. "With Chalk Garden and Starbucks, we've gotten the corner back to its original appeal and vitality."


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The University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Marhaz Fez in collaboration with Moroccan Group of Heterocyclic Chemistry are organizing an International Symposium in Fez, Morocco, on 27-28 October 2011, entitled: "HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY: VALUE ADDING, PROSPECTS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"
Following their 63rd General Assembly, the Unites Nations General Assembly has declared 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. In 2011 the world will celebrate the chemical sciences and their contributions to knowledge, environmental protection and economic development.
In this regard, the Moroccan 8th National Meeting of Heterocyclic Chemistry (RNCH) is broadening its horizons as an International Symposium on heterocyclic chemistry and is open to chemists, economists and companies interested in various aspects of this branch of chemistry. It aims to be a forum where Moroccan and international participants can discuss the latest advances in the field of heterocyclic chemistry and forge contacts between different scientific, economic and social partners.
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"We're conditioned to seeing men holding guns but not men holding hands."
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I looooooved this quote myself. It made me smile a great deal.ReplyDelete
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And what I thought, as I'm sure you did as well, was, how can we so readily accept guns in men's hands, used for the purpose of killing each other, yet not accept men holding hands and loving each other? I don't get it. The more I think about it, the more I don't get it.
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Tightening credit markets have made it difficult to finance new club construction and renovations. Indications are that we may get some relief this year, but the fact remains that tight budgets and limited funds will have a deep effect on what and how we build, lease and even renovate for the next few years.
The tendencies to conserve money, build cheaply (if at all), hunker down and resist renovating all sound reasonable, but ultimately, that may be shortsighted. This actually could be the best time to set up your business for future success. Good deals can be found, and with focus and careful consideration, you can parlay a tough economy into future success.
Coupled with the many challenges we face are opportunities. Construction costs are down, allowing us to build much more with less. Lease rates in most markets have dropped, and landlords are willing to provide more build-out allowances than ever to help bridge the funding gaps. Searching for ways to grow during tough times may sound adventurous, but with vision, professional help and careful planning, it may be the smartest way to build your future.
Building new clubs from the ground up can be a smart move. In the long-term, owner-occupied real estate is still a sound investment. Since location is one of the primary markers of any good real-estate deal, knowing precisely where to build is critical. To make the right decision about where and what to build, consider hiring a firm with experience in analyzing the market, calculating potential memberships, evaluating the competition and providing clear data about your project. These findings and reports also will show the banks that you did your homework and can help you get funded.
Staying focused on the available funds once the location is secured becomes paramount. Even though construction costs are the lowest in years, restricted budgets can still yield less-than-desirable buildings.
Design is a great differentiator. Entering a new market with less than the best possible design you can afford will leave you vulnerable to competition. Even at modest budgets, hiring an experienced architect that you trust early in the process can save you big money in actual money spent and in the future value of your building.
If you decide to rent, this recession has yielded vacant primary and secondary spaces in most markets at historically low prices. Not only are the rents much more affordable, but landlords are providing a lot of incentives towards the build-outs. It's not rare for a landlord to provide funding for a large part of tenant improvements.
I advise my clients to negotiate a tenant work letter carefully with the landlord. This work letter should outline the landlord's obligations for construction. It also becomes an important tool to getting your club built on budget because simple miscalculations can cost you later. The landlord should be responsible for keeping the building shell secure from the elements, including items such as the mechanical units on the roof, power and water. Other incentives, such as allowing the landlord to do part of the interior build-out, should be taken as cash instead. Also, negotiating a flexible date, calculated from when the space gets a certificate of occupancy rather than a fixed date from when you sign, allows you to open the club before you have to pay rent.
Renovations are a great way to get a membership boost. Studies have shown that the greatest jump in membership occurs after major renovations.
Again, with construction costs low, you can get a lot for your money. Since there already is a track record, banks are more willing to lend money for improving assets than they are for new ventures. But before you start renovating your club, consider what your whole club may need.
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Enterprise Sector Keeps Booming as Actifio Scores $500M Valuation
When data storage company Actifio raised its new $50 million Series D round, investors valued the company at roughly $500 million. As high as that valuation was, it could have been even higher.
The company received offers at valuations that were 15% more than what it ultimately took for its latest round, but its management accepted this deal because it didn't want the valuation to get too far ahead of the company's own growth rate, according to Ash Ashutosh, Actifio's founder and chief executive.
"I would have to start doing unnatural things to try to meet those expectations," Ashutosh said. "This ($500 million) was a number we could comfortably create a four-to-six-times return."
Ashutosh is one of a growing number of entrepreneurs in the enterprise software sector carefully weighing whether opting for the highest valuation possible might limit a company's options in the future. That dilemma is more relevant than ever, since momentum in the venture market is shifting to the enterprise sector after years of soaring valuations in the consumer Internet sector.
Actifio makes storage systems that make one "golden copy" of a company's data. That copy can be accessed by other applications that need copies of data, such as disaster recovery, archiving or software development and testing. This spares businesses the expense of keeping multiple copies of the same data for each of those applications. The Waltham, Mass.-based company finished last year with bookings up eight-fold from a year earlier, to about $17 million.
"They have simplified a product line that can do the tasks that, if I was to go to (storage giant) EMC would take four or five product lines that are poorly integrated and at significant greater cost," said Rick Kimball, a founding general partner of Technology Crossover Ventures and lead investor in the round.
While the appeal of companies like Actifio is driving greater competition among venture investors, the resulting higher valuations can cause tensions among investors and even harm companies. New investors who paid a high price to get into a company may be inclined to hold out for a blockbuster IPO exit as a way to recoup their investment, while founders and early investors who have worked for years to build a company would be more inclined to accept a good acquisition offer.
In the $10 million Series B round that marketing software company Wildfire Interactive raised a few months before its July 2012 sale to Google, the company was offered term sheets with investments between $30 million and $40 million and post-money valuations as high as $400 million.
Instead the company took a valuation of $200 million, according to a person familiar with the investment. If the company had taken those larger valuations, the sale to Google never would have happened, the person said. Google paid more than $400 million for Wildfire, according to the person.
"There's so much late-stage capital that tends to be momentum-driven that when they find a hot company they're willing to pay up, but they want all kinds of provisions that ensure their multiple," said Bob Ackerman, a managing director of early-stage venture capital firm Allegis Capital, speaking generally about the current environment. "If that gets in the way of an exit or delays an exit, is it worth it?"
Turning away higher valuations isn't the only way some enterprise startups are managing their growth. Some entrepreneurs are keeping a lid on the bidding by finding a range the company is comfortable with and then bringing the investment opportunity to just a few venture firms.
AppDynamics, an application management company that recently raised $50 million at a $550 million valuation, was looking for an investor that would view an IPO as a milestone, not an exit. Once it found one in Institutional Venture Partners, a firm that has a history of buying stock in the IPOs of its companies, it didn't look much further, said Jyoti Bansal, its founder and CEO.
His company was being pursued by many other venture firms. While the valuation it took was very high, it could have taken time to talk to more investors and get it up further, but it chose not to and focused on getting the best firm and partner, Bansal said.
"If you raise money at too high a valuation, you're setting expectations that you can only sell to a few acquirers," said Peter Falvey, founder of Falvey Partners, a technology-focused investment bank.
Like Mr. Bansal of AppDynamics, Billy Bosworth, CEO of database company DataStax, also opted against a "Sand Hill crawl"--taking a series of meetings up and down the Menlo Park, Calif., street that is home to many of the biggest venture firms--to maximize the valuation, he said. The company raised $25 million last fall.
"I want a fair price, but at the same time I didn't want to sell to the highest bidder and create a bad dynamic on the board," said Bosworth, who declined to disclose the valuation of the latest round.
Before joining DataStax in 2011, Bosworth was an executive at Quest Software, a database tools company and frequent acquirer of venture-backed companies. Sometimes he would see potential acquisitions where the valuation wasn't tied to math that any reasonable person could understand.
"That meant either I would just walk away or hope that whatever fickle winds got them that valuation would wear off, and buy them in a pinch when they couldn't raise more money," he said.
New investor Technology Crossover Ventures led the Series D round for Actifio. It also included participation from existing investors Advanced Technology Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. With this round, the company has now raised $107.5 million.
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A Comparison of the Representations of Women in Zuozhuan and Shiji
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From Chunqiu and Zuozhuan to Shiji, women have experienced a downgrade of their formal status in historical records. In Shiji, women, the wives of dukes, lost their formal equality with their duke husbands in terms of being written into state history, as we see in Chunqiu. Their activities, including marriage, returning home, visits, and death, disappeared from Sima Qian's history for the Spring and Autumn period, which focuses on the activities of male members of ruling lineages. A positive representation of women's wisdom, eloquence, and authority is no longer in the interest of nor taken as a ritual part of history writing in Shiji. In the terms of representation of women, especially those from the Spring and Autumn period, in Zuozhuan and Shiji, Zuozhuan gave fuller representation of women than Shiji and its attitude toward women was more positive in comparison to the latter. First, Zuozhuan in many examples presented women as having authority, agency and initiative; in the Shiji versions of these stories, the roles of women were reduced in order to strengthen the agency of and focalization through the male members of a ruling lineage toward a goal of a linear logic of succession. Second, Shiji stressed the disruptive role of women in state affairs by intensively preserving the stories in Zuozhuan that associated women with political disasters and emergencies. Third, Zuozhuan had a non-gendered approach to the effect of women's wisdom, knowledge and eloquence; it left space for complexity of characterization for women. In contrast, Shiji and Lienü Zhuan, where these stories in Zuozhuan were transmitted, emphasized a patterned understanding of women and produced gender role types. With the representation of women in Shiji, the effect of the agency of women in history is patterned. In Shiji, women's agency is more closely connected to political disasters and negative political situations. In the limited representation of positive heroines, their good roles came from their virtue in being self-restrictive and submissive. It implies as a historical teaching in Shiji that the limitation of the political autonomy of women is a way to promise the success of lineage and tradition.


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It's been quiet here lately. Not "here" in my life, but here in this blog. I suppose the inactivity over here is due to it being anything but quiet everywhere else. Crunch time at work is having me ask Santa for more hours in the day instead of that ice cream maker that I have been eyeing.
Also, with the Christmas shopping season in full frenetic swing, we are rushing to make our bags fast enough to satisfy the orders that are coming in! Which of course is a very good thing 🙂 More bags sold means less plastic bags being used! Yay!
Which brings me to my own Christmas shopping, with which I am dangerously falling behind, despite ardent promises to "start early this year, really".
I'm not even going to go into the alarming size of my laundry pile.
And, as if it wasn't enough that all my waking moments were spoken for, I've started dreaming about charts, graphs, outlines, and unanswered emails!
So, despite valiant resistance, I've fallen under the weather. Nothing serious…just a scratchy throat and achy bones and general "unwell" feeling. But enough, coupled with all of the above, to leave me little time to come over here and chat.
My foolproof solution to this bout with the sniffles would be a vacation of course, somewhere sunny with no cars or worries – just a hammock, a nice breeze, and ten good books…and lots of yummy things to eat and cocktails involving both rum and mango. Unfortunately, that's just not in the cards right now so I've had to go with the next best thing – Chicken Soup.
Chicken Soup with Orzo and Ginger
(adapted from Donna Hay's Chicken, Risoni, and Herb Soup, Donna Hay Magazine, issue 41 page 62)
- 1 liter chicken stock
- 10-20 grams ginger, peeled and sliced into coins
- 100 grams orzo
- 1 cup shredded cooked chicken
- The leaves from 3-4 sprigs of cilantro
– Place stock and ginger in saucepan and bring to a boil.
– Add orzo and cooked as per package directions (10-12 minutes) or until al dente.
– Add chicken and cook for a further minute or so until the chicken is warmed through.
– Take off heat and stir through the cilantro.
– Serves two.
Nothing hits the spot when you're feeling all sniffly-ill like chicken noodle soup. This is my version adapted from a Donna Hay recipe I spotted in her last issue. I've loved orzo (which is pretty much the same thing as risoni I think) since I first had it in lamb youvetsi so I was excited to use it in a different way. I added ginger to the soup because, at least in my sparse medical knowledge, ginger is the best thing ever for a scratchy throat (I also brew a wickedly strong ginger infusion, salabat in Filipino, when I have a sore throat). Plus, there is just something about ginger in soup that makes me feel like I am already getting better.
This is simple and requires minimum fuss to make…making it perfect for someone who is not feeling well enough to prepare a meal. It will serve two people on a rainy night or one sick person for a day (returning to the pot from lunch to dinner), perhaps with some toast. My only advice would be to use the best chicken stock you have since there is not much else in the soup. I don't use homemade stock in every single recipe that calls for it, but this would definitely be all the more curative for using an excellent homemade stock. I used a batch I had made one lazy Sunday from two roast chicken carcasses I had stashed away in my freezer. The shredded chicken I added to the soup was leftover from another roast chicken – yet another way to use leftovers!
That's all for now – I'm back to work filled with vitamins and chicken soup. Hopefully that will be enough to get me through the day!
Don't think I have forgotten about HHDD #24: Pesto! I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!
Some news: If you're in the Philippines and would like to see some of my ideas for your Christmas meal leftovers, I've put together some dishes with that in mind for Yummy Magazine's December 2008 issue…in newsstands now! Also, although this is a bit late, I've written all about my neighbourhood market for the November 2008 issue of Homestyle Magazine…if you are curious and can still find it, have a peek! 🙂


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Current projects in production: Batman v Superman, The 5TH Wave, Ben-Hur, King Arthur, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Independence Day 2This position is for those available for Summer. July through September start.
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- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee StainsCoffee is a remarkable substance — we recently encountered it ground into LEGOs and even powering cars — and now Malaysian artist Hong Yi has made deft use of the beverage and its otherwise pesky capacity to stain in her exceptional portrait of musician Jay Chou. Completed in just 12 hours on Valentines Day, the artist used saucers of coffee as ink applied to her canvas with the base of a coffee cup.1
- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee StainsThe 26 year old artist, who is also known as RED, drew inspiration for the portrait from one of the Chou's songs, "Secret" (Bu Neng Shuo De Mi Mi). While her use of coffee is drawn as a literal reference from the opening lines of the song, the tones it created proved apt to the song's nostalgic narrative.2
- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee StainsIn this portrait, Hong Yi discovered that coffee does have its complexities as a medium — if the coffee is too concentrated, it was too dark and hard to manipulate.3
- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee Stainsbut when too weak, the rings would not form at all.4
- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee StainsThe singer tells a tale of heartbreak, a lost romance with a time-traveling girl from 1979. Hung Yi describes her portrait's earthy, imperfect details as suggestive of a sepia toned photograph, and the imperfect circles from which his form is defined as broken and imperfect "like falling autumn leaves".5
- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee StainsA detail of Hung Yi's portrait, shows the level of detail created from the simple, repetitive yet imperfect shapes created with the base of a coffee cup.6
- Hong Yi RED Creates Amazing Portrait from Coffee StainsHung Yi first caught the public eye with two other equally extraordinary art works in which she drew inspiration for her choice of materials from the subject of the portrait. In her awesome representation of NBA player Yao Ming, she challenged herself to apply bright red paint to paper with the use of a basketball with extraordinarily precise results. In her portrait of artist Ai Wei Wei, she constructed a large scale representation of his likeness from sunflower seeds, in reference to Ai's own art.7


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The article is entitled From PHP to Perl: What's hot, what's not in scripting languages.
Hot scripting language: Python
In a sense, the tipping point for Python came when the housing market crashed.
For those stuck trying to decode bond market prospectuses to figure out who got paid what when the bankruptcy dominoes were done falling, one thing became clear: English is a weaselly language, and some weaselly folks revel in its ambiguities to profit from complicated derivatives.
Enter one smart group that offered a compelling solution: Force every bond to come with a Python program that defined who got paid and when they were paid. While they may have been a bit too hopeful about the power of computer languages, the proposal spoke to Python's growing acceptance in the greater world of smart people who aren't computer geeks. Relatively easy to pick up, Python is becoming increasingly popular in economic research, science departments, and biology labs.


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Ryan Mielke joins UH West Oʻahu as executive director of public affairsUniversity of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu
Public Relations and Marketing Department
Mielke directs public affairs activities related to staff and programs at UH West Oʻahu and serves as the primary liaison for the chancellor on all strategic communication issues. In addition, he is responsible for legislative activities involving the university and provides assistance to the chancellor in managing internal and external programs that affect the long-term objectives for the institution including management of UHWO's new office in Kapolei.
"The University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu is one of the most dynamic venues in Hawaiʻi for anyone wanting to glimpse the future of higher education programs, sustainable building practices and educational opportunities for families and students throughout Hawaiʻi and around the globe," said Mielke. "Our planned campus will bring new opportunities to students, families and Hawaiʻi businesses for generations to come."
An experienced professional, he brings more than 15 years of management and public affairs experience to the university and was previously the deputy asset manager at Actus Lend Lease, LLC and Hickam Community Housing as well as vice president at StarrPR, the public relations arm of the former Starr Seigle Communications.Prior to joining StarrPR, Mielke also served as the programs and information director at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). A Hawaiʻi resident of more than 20 years, Mielke resides in central Oʻahu with his family.
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Last Fall, UH West Oʻahu became a four-year, comprehensive university when it served its first class of freshmen. The University offers quality education, small classes and personalized attention at convenient locations. A new campus in the City of Kapolei is scheduled to serve students in fall 2010. For more information about UH West Oʻahu, visit uhwo.hawaii.edu or call 454-4700 or toll-free (866) 299-8656.
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Back in 1996, the original Resident Evil (RE) was released for the PS1 and it kicked off the survival horror genre with a bang. At the time, it was amongst the best-looking titles available and offered up unique and enjoyable gameplay with a creepy and horrific setting. Even the campy full motion video segments that ushered in the experience and the cheesier-than-a-hunk-of-Velveeta dialogue that carried it through to the end didnt disappoint, only making the title more endearing.
With Nintendo and Capcom working closely together in the GameCube days, RE saw a complete overhaul and was rereleased for the purple lunchbox. Given its drastically touched up visuals and other various improvements, the RE remake felt almost like a complete reimagining of the game. Unfortunately though, that was roughly seven years ago and not much has changed for this Wii port of the title.
With one of the most redundant titles ever, Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil (REA), it should come as little surprise that the rerelease of a remake of a thirteen year old title isnt going in a completely new direction. Instead, REA is essentially a verbatim copy of the stellar GameCube reimagining with only a few fairly unimportant changes that dont really affect gameplay (namely control options, sound, and discs). This isnt necessarily a terrible thing given the GameCube never sold incredibly well, so many players may have missed out the first time around. For those players, youre in for somewhat of a treat, otherwise youve seen everything this title has to offer before.
You start off the game with a cinematic that explains your arrival at a frightening mansion full of flesh-eating zombies, undead canines, and enormous bosses. Players will take control of one of the iconic original RE characters by choosing either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield. Each character has a slightly different path through the game, adding a fair amount of replay value if youre so inclined to play through as both, with Chriss being slightly more difficult. If youve only played the original RE, youll notice that some rooms have been moved and/or altered, some objectives have been changed, and there is plenty of all-new content and surprises. This keeps the game feeling fresh for these players although they will still have a leg up on newcomers to the series, since several things will play out almost identically to the original (yes, you can still make Barry swear and headshot an insane zombie).
Graphically, REA looks every bit as good as the GameCube remake did seven years ago. Even today, the complete graphical overhaul of the original is somewhat impressive. Sure, we all know the backgrounds are just prerendered 2D images, but they are still beautiful. The dramatic and fixed camera placement used in the game really adds to the sense of fright and appropriately sets the mood, although it isnt always conducive to the gameplay. There are even some really nice touches such as character reflections in windows and lighting changes due to a nearby thunder storm that help the game feel that much more immersive.
As I mentioned, the fixed camera angles are great for the aesthetics and mood of the game but hamper the gameplay in several ways. The most notable hindrance comes in the form of good old tank controls. Anybody who has played an RE title before RE4 has become well-versed in these, having the onscreen character turning sluggishly in the appropriate direction no matter the cameras position. These controls are pretty archaic at this point but are still manageable once you get the hang of them again. Another annoyance caused by the fixed camera angles is that you have little to no idea when the camera will suddenly switch to another position. While you may be able to take note of where you think these shifts will occur, there is no onscreen indication or warning present to alert the player that instead of looking at an attacking zombie, theyll be given a fantastic shot of the door they just came through.
Seven years, or thirteen if youre counting from the original, is a long time, especially in game years. Nowhere does this title show its age more than in its largely infuriating and clunky save system. While players now enjoy almost constant checkpoints scattered throughout games to ensure their progress will remain intact, REA has no such feature. Instead, players are forced to collect ink ribbons that provide a limited number of saves at typewriters found in specific areas in the game. This system can lead to several unnecessary issues such as running out of the ability to save, not being able to find a typewriter, ink ribbons taking up badly needed inventory space, and a ton of backtracking if you happen to die. Nothing makes me want to put down my controller more than dying and finding out that it had been an hour or so since I actively sought out a typewriter in order to save, meaning Ive got to retread through everything I had just done.


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"Pedir" means "to ask for (something)." "Preguntar" means "to ask (a question)."
Pedir translates as "to ask for" or "to order" and can be used in a variety of contexts (ex: restaurants). Preguntar means "to ask" and generally refers to a particular question.
Pedir is used in Spanish when you want to ask for something. For example when you are in a restaurant and you want to ask for a glass of water. Preguntar is used when you are asking a question about something. For example if you wanted to ask the waiter whether or not the water comes with ice or lemon.
Pedir - to ask for an objectPreguntar - to ask a question, to ask for information
Pedir means "to ask for something or to order something". I personally would use this in a restaurant setting. Preguntar means "to ask a question". It's easy to differentiate because the word for question in Spanish is "pregunta".
Pedir is to ask for something (examples: I am asking for help. Pido ayuda. Ask him for the check. Pídele la cuenta.)Preguntar is to question something (examples: I wonder why this is here? ¿Me pregunto por que ésto está aquí? Ask her if we can take the dog on the train. Preguntala a ella a ver si podemos llevar el perro en el trén.)
Pedir means "to request" or "to ask for," whereas preguntar means "to ask a question."
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If Hillsborough County voters approve a one-cent sales tax hike in the next election, they're promised better highways, more buses, and a new light rail train system. Proponents say it will create jobs, clear the roads and bring Tampa Bay up to par with competing metro areas. But critics of the plan say light rail's not the answer to our traffic problems, and argue that a down economy is no time for a tax increase. Other counties are watching, and the Hillsborough referendum could help determine the future of transportation in Central Florida. We'll hear from both sides, tonight at 6:30 on WUSF 89.7.
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The WTO Chairs Programme aims to support and promote trade-related academic activities by universities and research institutions in developing and least-developed countries. Fourteen institutions were selected as WTO Chairs for a four-year term in 2009. An additional seven institutions were selected for Phase 2 of the Programme in 2014.
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For prevention of rheumatic recurrences, continuous antibiotic prophylaxis is now recommended by health authorities throughout the world [ 4 ]. Monthly injections of 1.2 million units of benzathine penicillin G are the most stringent regimen. In some populations with a high prevalence of RF, however, some observers have reported that the last week of the month is not completely covered by this regimen, and they choose to administer it every 3 weeks [ 45 , 46 ]. One should be sure, in any case, that the commercial formulation of the drug contains the full dose of 1.2 million units of benzthine penicillin G, and that it is not like the commonly marketed, confusing formulations, which contain smaller amounts of benzathine penicillin G mixed with shorter-acting penicillin G compounds. Where ARF is no longer prevalent, oral penicillin V, 600,000 U b.i.d., now suffices. For that matter, sulfadiazine, 0.5 g b.i.d., is also effective and inexpensive and thus useful for secondary (but not primary) prevention.
How long to continue these regimens is a matter of clinical judgment, with recognition of the major variables that affect the decision: (1) how frequently RF occurs among cohorts, (2) how recent and severe the rheumatic attack, and (3) the presence and severity of rheumatic heart disease. In a community in which RF has not appeared for many years, patients who have had polyarthritis alone and who reach adult life without rheumatic valvular disease are at lower risk (see the diagnosis of "isolated polyarthritis" below). Penicillin prophylaxis has been safely suspended after several years of treatment when rheumatogenic streptococci have been shown to have disappeared from the community [ 1 , 47 ].
Following a new GAS infection, patients with isolated polyarthritis who were observed prospectively in long-term follow-up studies developed recurrences with an attack rate greater than that of the 3% noted for first RF attacks in the military population. In a classic 5-year follow-up study that stratified recurrences by various risk factors, patients without rheumatic heart disease developed recurrences after GAS infections, with attack rates that varied from 4% in patients with a 2-tube increase in ASO titer to 36% in those with a 4-tube rise [ 48 ]. With such a relatively high propensity to recur, particularly by the challenge of more severe GAS infections, these patients with isolated polyarthritis have been considered rheumatic subjects. The recurrent attack rate was, of course, still higher in patients with polyarthritis who have rheumatic heart disease.
The risks of travel should be considered, particularly for patients with rheumatic heart disease—especially travel to so-called "undeveloped countries" in which close contact with indigenous populations may be anticipated. Problems in the diagnosis of isolated poststreptococcal polyarthritis are discussed below (see "Diagnosis").
Treatment of GAS pharyngitis is in a state of some turmoil. On the one hand, the emergence of throat flora resistant to antibiotics (gratefully, not GAS, but particularly Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus ) is a consequence of overuse of antibiotics for treatment of nonbacterial respiratory infections [ 49 ]. On the other hand, fear of the return of RF has made many expert committees reluctant to compromise on the 10-day oral penicillin regimens that are required to prevent RF after rheumatogenic GAS pharyngitis [ 50 ]. Most unfortunate is the insistence by some authors that antibiotic regimens produce total eradication of GAS pharyngeal carriage, an outcome virtually impossible to achieve. Preventive antibiotic treatment of rheumatogenic GAS pharyngitis never achieved better than 90%–95% eradication of organisms from the throat. From extensive clinical observations, clones persisting after adequate therapy have limited pathogenetic potential. In order to achieve more-efficient eradication, some authors recommend that broad-acting cephalosporins or other antibiotics (e.g., clindamycin, azithromycin) replace penicillin. Some regimens are recommended for only 5 days.
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DENVER, CO (October 24, 2012) – A popular heterosexual model from the gay erotic site BrokeStraightBoys.com will be featured in a multiple-episode story arc on Logo's and OUTtv's new series "DTLA". This represents one of the first times that an amateur porn actor will be featured in a dramatic series.
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Last Wednesday our wine group got together for a much anticipated Foie Gras dinner at Lolo Dad's Restaurant in the old Malate district of Manila. Slightly more expensive than similar establishments but with a chef who likes to experiment and, crucially, a very enlightened corkage policy which is free. They also provide good wine glasses and as many as needed.
First course:
Amuse bouche of foie-ham crouton with melon slush. This was like a small sandwich of foie and ham between two very thin croutons. This sandwich was placed on top of a shot glass of watermelon slush. This dish worked very well except that the melon slush didn't really add anything to it. Paired with this was:
Roederer Cristal 1988 – This was my contribution for the evening. Very fine bubbles. Medium bodied. Freshly baked bread. Despite the age, very fresh tasting with a good dose of acid on the finish. This can probably still age a bit more although it's drinking very well now. A neutral match for the amuse. Perhaps a sweet sparkler would have been better. Maybe Moscato d'Asti?
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Goose Liver sushi. This was 3 different pieces of sushi-goose liver and caramelized eel, foie salmon mango maki, and kani foie roll. 2 Gewurztraminers were tried with this:
Sumac Ridge Private Reserve 2005 Gewurztraminer from Okanagan, British Columbia – Quite light in color. Smells remarkably like Sauvignon Blanc with a prominent guava character. Good attack but a weak finish. Paired well with the unagi. The second Gewurztraminer was from Alsace:
Meyer-Fonne Kaefferkopf Gewurztraminer 2000 – Roses on the nose. Soft and quite sweet. A beautiful wine! Very long and excellent with both the eel and salmon maki. Best white of the evening by a long shot.
Third course:
Steamed seabass and foie gras on wilted Romaine lettuce, sauteed mushrooms, ginger and truffle cream sauce. This dish was virtually perfect. One might be excused for thinking all the ingredients might end up a big mess but the chef pulled it off masterfully, creating something quite light with all the flavors seamlessly integrated. There was much debate about what to pair with this dish due to the varied and strongly-flavored ingredients. I suggested a demi-sec Vouvray or a substantial Chardonnay while others said the Gewurz might do double duty for this. We finally ended up with two wines for this, the first being:
Kanu Limited Edition Wooded Chenin Blanc 2004 from South Africa – Lots of wood on the nose. The oak seemed to overwhelm the varietal character. Candied ginger on the nose after a bit of airing. A fair match for the fish. The second wine for the fish was:
Blue Mountain Gamay Noir 2004 again from Okanagan – Light and fruity but with a slight bitterness. A good Beaujolais copy. Again, a good match for the fish. After the sorbet, we moved on to the main course.
Main course:
Confit of duck wing with glazed onions, grilled duck breast with relish and pan-fried duck liver on chestnut muffin. Actually this was more like 3 tasting portions rather than one integrated dish. Another excellent dish. I was skeptical about the guava relish but was relieved to see the chef used unripe guava which gave a piquancy to the dish. I didn't think the sweet chestnut muffin contributed anything to this course and would have preferred a more conventional starch (potato or rice) to go with it. After many whites finally the red wines came out:
Patz and Hall Pinot Noir 2002 – Arnie, who contributed this bottle, brought this wine to 2 previous dinners, each time having been frustrated in not having it opened. This time he made sure it would drunk up by uncorking it himself as soon as he sat down. Good, very fruity nose and flavor. Has an obvious sweetness and a bit of spiciness to it. A friendly wine, straightforward and nothing complex but a good match for the duck. Next bottle opened was a Chateauneuf du Pape Janasse Cuvee Chaupin 1998 which, unfortunately, had a spongy cork which broke upon extraction. That little problem didn't matter as the wine was oxidized. Fortunately a back-up bottle was produced:
Chateauneuf du Pape Domaine Pegau Cuvee Laurence 1995 – Much better! Spicy and meaty although quite soft already. Better to drink this up if you have it. Continuing the Rhone theme, we then had a:
Domaine La Soumade Rasteau Cuvee Prestige 2002 – A somewhat fat wine but with still aggressive tannins. Not quite integrated yet. Some spiciness made an appearance after 30 minutes of air. Finally, we came to dessert:
White chocolate foie crème caramel, candied foie gras, and foie gras ice cream. Why ruin perfectly good dessert by putting foie gras in it? The dessert was good because the foie gras was totally overwhelmed by the other flavors. It provided some textural substance to the ice cream but otherwise could have been left out. Our last wine was a Sauternes:
Chateau La Tour Blanche 1999 – Very nice with a good acid lift to keep it from being cloying. Refreshing. Not a heavy weight Sauternes. We offered some of this to the chef who was dining at another table but he politely declined. One of our group went to talk to him at his table and saw he was already having some Sauternes but in his case it was Chateau d' Yquem although the year could not be discerned. No wonder he spurned our humble offering!
Except for the dessert, the dinner was judged a success and the wines, for the most part, stood up to the challenge.


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Yet another good test for the Oilers, tonight… vs. one of their biggest rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. I know several of you displaced fans are tired of being beaten up by the locals, so hopefully the Oilers will win this one and win it handily in regulation so you can shut those fockers up! I have many relatives in B.C., and I wouldn't mind to do some rare gloating! Plus, a win tonight could push us just 1 point behind 8th place (depending on outcomes from other teams).
The Oilers are continuing to play Whitney. I think he's been doing fairly well, so he could win ice time on merit alone. But I think it makes as much sense that they want to showcase him as much as possible for a deal. There are just 4 days left until the 2013 NHL trade deadline. It will likely be a snoozer like last year.
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DeLAND, Fla. (April 16, 2010) - ETSU head men's tennis coach Yaser Zaatini first came to ETSU in 1990 for the opportunity to play collegiate tennis in the United States. 20 years later, the Venezuela native presides over one of the nation's most dominant tennis programs, as his Buccaneers play for their fourth consecutive A-Sun Championship on Saturday morning.
Dave Mullins, longtime ETSU tennis coach, brought Zaatini to the U.S. to help build a winning tradition on the courts in Johnson City. Zaatini obliged, helping bring the Bucs their first two conference championships, earning two consecutive All- America honors and becoming a fixture at all the ITA's national championships.
Mullins brought Zaatini back to ETSU in the fall of 2002 to serve as his assistant coach but in January of 2003, the school promoted the veteran tennis coach to Athletics Director, and Zaatini took hold of the reins to what was, by now, a perennial power.
"Yaser did a great job from the very beginning," Mullins said. "The tennis aspect was always easy for him, but he had to learn so much about the administrative aspect of the job after he was on the job, and he has really developed in that respect.
"He has such an intense love for and loyalty to ETSU, and he's such a fierce competitor. Even as a player, I saw how he controlled every match he played in, and in practice, he never lost a match; he just wasn't going to lose to a teammate."
Zaatini's ETSU career, whether as a player or as a coach, has always been successful. He reached as high as number four in the national rankings his senior year, and as a coach has won either a conference regular season championship, tournament title or both in each of his seven seasons.
Such a high level of achievement typically attracts interest from larger schools, but nowhere else interests Zaatini at the moment.
"The love I have for this place that gave me so much is too much to describe," he says. "Too many good things have happened at ETSU, and it's where my roots are, and those roots don't stop growing. They extend to the community, to my kids' school, to where I built my house and even to the restaurants where my family and I go to eat. This place made me believe in myself as a person and as a player, because of my time here I was able to blossom into who I am today."
Other schools trying to lure Zaatini away remains a constant threat Mullins has dealt with on and off for the past 20 years, but he remains assured in his head coach's unwavering loyalty and affection for the institution.
"After his freshman year, teams would call Yaser and try to recruit him behind my back," Mullins said. "But Yaser always took pride in representing a �small school.' I think he knew we were building something special here, and he wanted to be a part of it."
As much as he is loyal to the school, much of Zaatini's devotion is directed toward the man who brought him to ETSU in the first place. Even through the relationship's evolution from coach-to-player to athletic director-to-head coach, he insists the nature of the bond remains consistent.
"Just because our titles change, it doesn't transform the essence of the relationship," he says. "For him, I think it's about respect, love and wanting the best for me. He's the reason I'm here, and I get a great sense of showing appreciation for a man who has given me everything and done all in his power to help me succeed."
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Russell Westbrook shrugged off a sore shoulder to score 19 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised past the Toronto Raptors 108-88 on Tuesday night.
Wearing a black padded sleeve to protect his bruised left shoulder, Westbrook held Toronto's leading scorer, Kyle Lowry, to two points on 1-of-4 shooting. Lowry exited with 1:29 left in the second quarter with a right ankle sprain and did not return.
Serge Ibaka added 17 points and a game-high nine rebounds for Oklahoma City. Kevin Durant and reserve Kevin Martin each scored 15.
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BEIJING, – October 11, 2007 – Lenovo, a worldwide leader in the PC market, announced today the 18 finalists selected to compete for the chance to participate in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. Lenovo launched the torchbearer search program with the help of Google to find "new thinkers" from around the world to run the torch in China. This is the longest ever Torch Relay in Olympic history with more cities visited than any past Games.
The final selection of the torchbearers is now in the public's hands. Visitors to www.Lenovo.com/torch can help determine who will become one of the three potential torchbearer nominees. Each of the finalists has submitted a 30-second video clip demonstrating the most imaginative and innovative way they would participate in the Olympic Torch Relay demonstrating what makes them a 'new thinker.'
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- Individualistic – One who demonstrates independence in both their thoughts and their action
- Explorer – One who seeks new ways of doing and achieving
To show appreciation for "New Thinkers" registering in the campaign, Lenovo managed weekly promotions to award them Lenovo Olympic pins and Olympic Torch-themed notebook PCs. Lenovo, winner of multiple awards in PC design, is also the designer of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch.
The official torch lighting will take place in Olympia, Greece, in March 2008. The torch is planned to travel to 21 cities in five continents before spending 97 days traveling to more than 100 cities in Mainland China. It will arrive at its final destination in Beijing on August 8, 2008, marking the start of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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