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University alumnus Elmore Leonard '50 and his son Peter Leonard, both successful fiction writers, spent some time together at UDM discussing their work, Feb. 27, 2013. They are introduced by UDM Professor of English Nicholas Rombes.
This was the keynote event for the 2013 College of Liberal Arts & Education Alumni Week. Elmore Leonard has written 45 novels, and many of his works have been adapted for motion pictures and television. Recently he has served as executive producer for the FX series Justified, which is based on his novel Fire in the Hole.
Like his father, Peter Leonard is a successful writer who has published five novels, the most recent of which is Back from the Dead.
Rombes mentioned this CNN article about Elmore and Peter Leonard.
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It seems counterintuitive, but new research suggests that it is actually the world's biggest trees that suffer the most from climate change and forest fragmentation.
The Guardian's John Vidal writes:
The biggest trees in the world, known as the true ecological kings of the jungle, are dying off rapidly as roads, farms and settlements fragment forests and they come under prolonged attack from severe droughts and new pests and diseases.
Long-term studies in Amazonia, Africa and central America show that while these botanical behemoths may have adapted successfully to centuries of storms, pests and short-term climatic extremes, they are counterintuitively more vulnerable than other trees to today's threats.
Continue reading over on The Guardian, where they've also assembled a beautiful gallery of some of the world's largest and most vulnerable living creatures.
And while you're at it, check out this great piece by NPR's Robert Krulwich, who explains why the location of the tree pictured here (which, until April of 2011, was considered the largest on Earth) is known to only a handful of people.
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text: I've been involved in the arts for longer than all of my adult life. I was the kid in your middle school class who drew caricatures of the kids and teachers. Since then, I've been an art gallery director, a commercial artist and designer of things such as wall covering, silk for fashion designers, decorative laminates, luxury packaging, and been involved in other arts as well, such as Flamenco (among other styles and instruments) guitar, as a soloist and dance accompanist. I use many different materials aside from the traditional in my art, and now I'm playing with digital images of my own paintings, drawings, etchings, photographs, etc. which is a lot of fun and provides some interesting (I hope) results.


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One of the things that I found out on a workshop was that Cut 'n' Dry foam is MUCH easier to use if it is mounted on to a block. Having the foam on a block gives you something to get hold of and enables you to have much more control over the foam. I have used this foam to apply Adirondack dye based ink and it gives a wonderful soft effect. These are the same ones I use in my video.
Here is how to wood mount your foam
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- Wooden blocks. If you have unmounted your stamp collection and put it all onto EZ Mount this is a good way to use up those blocks 😉
- Double sided sticky tape; you need a good strong one I have used 25mm one from Sellotape
- Ranger; Cut 'n' Dry foam sheet
- Permanent marker pen
- Craft Knife
- Steel ruler
- Cutting Mat
- If you are recycling un-loved wooden stamps for this project, remove the rubber die (image) from the wooden mount
- Cut your foam sheet into squares/rectangles that will fit onto your blocks
(I was taking the photo) Do hold the foam as you cut it!
- If you are dedicating a piece of foam to each ink you have, write the name of the ink on one end of the foam and the brand on the other. (This prevents you muddying your colours)
- On the back of your foam (the grey side) attach a piece of double side tape; don't be mean with it cover the back of the foam with tape, to ensure the maximum grip from the tape.
- Peel off your backing from the double sided tape and press the foam sticky side down onto your wooden block.
- To make sure you have a good stick, press the foam flat onto a piece of paper as if you were using a stamp
Job done
That's all there is too it. To apply ink to your projects just dab the sponge onto your ink and working on a plastic/non stick craft sheet, starting off the paper sweep the sponge onto your project. It is better to apply several light coats of ink rather than trying to apply a heavy layer in one go. Build up your colour/s gradually for a more blended look.
Work on a plastic/ non stick craft sheet. I had to take the craft sheet away to take the picture as it reflected the light too much.
For the inspiration for this idea, thanks to;
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Sorry for the bad photos they were taken about a year ago on my old camera…even Photoshop couldn't do much with them.
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The Central Connecticut baseball team dropped a doubleheader on the road at Monmouth on Saturday, losing the first game 4-3, and the second 2-1, in eight innings. With the two losses Central drops to 9-10 overall on the season and 4-3 in Northeast Conference play.
In game one, the Blue Devils struck first with a pair of runs in the third inning and on more in the fifth to take a 3-0 lead. In the third, senior Chris Renzoni walked and went to second on a sacrifice bunt from junior Josh Ingham. Freshman Connor Fitzsimons singled to right field to score Renzoni, giving the Blue Devils the first run of the game. Junior J.P. Sportman doubled to left center to score Fitzsimons with the second run of the inning.
In the fifth inning senior Nick Palmisano's sacrifice fly score Fitzsimons with an unearned run, making it 3-0. He had singled to lead off the inning and went to third on a failed pickoff attempt.
The Hawks were scoreless until the sixth inning when they plated three runs to tie the game. They loaded the bases with no outs against Central junior starter Nick Neumann. The first run scored on a fielder's choice, and following a fly out, a fielding error was made by the Blue Devils to allow the second run to score, making it 3-2. A single scored the third run to tie the game. All three runs were charged to Neumann, but just one was earned.
The Blue Devils loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the seventh inning but were unable to push a run across. The Hawks scored the game-winner on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh.
Neumann pitched five innings allowing six hits and three runs while striking out three. Sophomore Brendyn Karinchak picked up his first loss of the season pitching the last 1.1 innings and allowing the seventh inning run.
Sportman finished with a pair of hits and an RBI. Fitzsimons had two hits, scored twice and added an RBI.
The Blue Devils struck first again in game two with a single run in the first inning. Senior first baseman Tyler McIntyre singled in his first at bat, scoring Palmisano, to give Central the 1-0 lead.
Monmouth tied the game 1-1 with a single run in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Hawks had three hits in the inning, including an RBI single, to the game against sophomore starter Cody Brown.
The game went to extra innings with the Hawks scoring the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Brown earned the loss pitching 7.1 innings and allowing just the two runs on nine hits and a pair of strikeouts.
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Brandon Stubbs isn't your typical 18-year-old high school graduate. In addition to graduating valedictorian from his Grass Valley, Calif. high school, he's joined the ranks of a growing number of students embracing the concept of taking a gap year before starting college.
While other college freshmen began their first classes this Fall, Stubbs, who plans on attending Brown University, kicked off his gap year with a trip to Malaysia.
A gap year is usually more than just a nice break from calculus exams and book reports. Many students choose to focus on personal growth and incorporate travel abroad or participation in volunteer projects. That growth can come at a high cost. Some programs, like the $35,000 Global Gap Year offered by Thinking Beyond Borders, can cost more than what some students pay for a four-year college degree.
But, there are plenty of ways to trim costs and still have a great gap year. We reported on some here, which is how we met Stubbs.
We asked Stubbs to share his budget so far. Take a look at how he's financing the first leg of his gap year in Malaysia:
We caught up with Stubbs to see how his budget is holding up in Malaysia and how he intends to spend the rest of his gap year. Here's what he said.
MagnifyMoney: Where are you now?
Brandon Stubbs: I'm taking two months of my gap year in Malaysia, one of the most diverse countries in the world. Right now I'm in Johor Bahru, the southernmost city of Malaysia, just across the bridge from Singapore.
MM: What drove your decision to take a gap year?
BS: After my high school graduation, I was definitely, to an extent, burnt out and, while I was excited to attend Brown University, I wasn't as ready or enthusiastic to start college this fall as I will be next fall. This gap year has provided me the opportunity to gain experience in the real world while simultaneously recharging my mental battery. I'm learning a lot in an entirely different way than in the classroom. And my enthusiasm and excitement for next fall has only increased as I've grown as an individual throughout this gap year.
MM: Why Malaysia?
BS: As a student going into archaeology, it's really important for me to be getting this exposure to this blend of Eastern cultures as well as to the geography and climate. Tropical rainforests thrive here, so I've been able to go on some real Indiana Jones-esque expeditions into the jungle. I've also visited some incredible Buddhist and Hindu temples throughout the country that have proven to be very enlightening experiences.
MM: How did you you save up for this trip?
BS: I had $2800 saved up for this trip, which I earned working as a tutor throughout high school and as a music camp counselor during the summer. I paid for my flight through StudentUniverse [ a site that offers affordable fares to students]. I booked a flight on AirChina for $535.
MM: How do you stay on budget?
BS: My room and board is covered in exchange for my volunteer service [at the hostel where I am staying] so I only have to spend money on food and transportation. Often, I'll only spend money on brunch and dinner during a day, but I'll spend a little more for excursions into Malaysia or Singapore.
MM: What are you doing for money out there?
BS: I've done some street performing in the past on my trumpet at the local "Cornish Christmas" celebrations and other outdoor festivities. On top of that, I am focusing on the style of New Orleans Dixieland jazz, which lends itself quite well to solo street performance. I intended to bring my trumpet, anyway, if just to practice, so the idea of playing it in public was natural. So far I'm earning about 160 [Malaysian Ringgit] a week, which translates to $40 USD, for playing five nights a week. But the money is enough to cover most of my daily expenses in Malaysia.
MM: What's your typical day like?
BS: I have two days a week off from my work at the hostel. On those days, I'll either go into Singapore and visit some of the attractions and districts of that amazing city or explore the nature and culture of Malaysia, hiking or visiting new towns. On my work days, I'll spend a few hours cleaning and checking guests in and out and on my downtime work on my second book or street perform on my trumpet.
MM: Did your parents help you with any expenses?
BS: My parents did help pay for some of the preparatory expenses, like my typhoid shot or general supplies – flashlight, mosquito repellent, etc. Aside from that, I am covering all of my own expenses.
MM: When do you get back?
BS: I'll return to the States toward the end of November.
MM: Will you have any funds left when you return?
BS: I expect to return with $1800 or $1900 remaining. I shouldn't spend more than $1000 on the entire two-month trip, all expenses included.
MM: What will you do for the remainder of the gap year?
BS: Once I return to the U.S. I intend to spend several months publishing and advertising my first book, The King of Kamaahr. My plans for the spring are still not set in stone, but right now I think I'll go to Sydney, where I have some family and Australian citizenship, and spend a few months living there. I'll try to find work there as a musician and/or an actor as well as advertise my book outside the U.S.
Do you want to share your gap year story? E-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The post With $655 Malaysia Trip, This Student Proves Gap Years Don't Have to Cost a Fortune appeared first on MagnifyMoney.


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This all changed in 1969 when FDA scientist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, went on the NBC Nightly News to tell the world that baby chick embryos injected with cyclamates suffered from severe birth defects. And she had pictures of the deformed birds to back her claim up! When it comes to putting an entire nation off of non-caloric sweets, few things are as effective a picture of a grotesquely malformed bird. Here's one we made ...
... maybe that's a bad example, because that was kind of awesome. But you get the idea.
At any rate, there's a reason the FDA likes its scientists to run the results of their wacky lab experiments past their peers before they take to national television to share them with the world. In this case, Dr. Verrett's peers were quick to point out that, while the results of her experiment were troubling, most humans didn't get their artificial sweeteners by way of in-the-womb injections and therefore may not be affected in the same way.
But when tests performed a few days later showed that cyclamates caused bladder cancer in 8 out of 240 rats when consumed in an also-real-world-applicable dosage equaling 350 cans of diet soda per day, the deal was sealed. Cyclamates were banned in America.
In the years since the ban, tests on cyclamates have continued but none of them have been able to duplicate the results of the 1969 tests. The World Health Organization along with several other research groups has gone so far as to publicly declare that the evidence shows no link between cyclamates and cancer. Nevertheless, subsequent appeals of the initial cyclamate ban have all been rejected and cyclamates are still unavailable in the United States.
But don't lose too much sleep over it, our team of scientists have conducted some studies of their own and 4 out of 5 of them agree, even if cyclamates were available, most of us would still be lard asses anyway.
In 1969, Cyclamates killed fewer people than ...
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Contact: Pamela Clapp (212) 387-7555 MAY 22, 2003 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Major Grants to Six Contemporary Art Centers
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts today announced grants of $100,000 each to six small-to-mid-sized visual arts organizations. The grantees are: the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center of Atlanta, 911 Media Arts of Seattle, the Salina Art Center of Salina, KS, Southern Exposure and The Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center, both of San Francisco, and White Columns of New York. The grants, designed to help ensure the groups' continuing fiscal health and their contributions to their communities, are part of the foundation's $5 million nationwide Warhol Initiative, which provides capacity-building grants to small-to-midsized non-profit visual arts organizations.
Announcing the awards, foundation president Joel Wachs praised the groups for the pivotal role they play in strengthening the arts infrastructures of their regions. The Warhol Initiative was created, he said, to assist such non-profits in achieving the long-term fiscal stability they need in order to effectively serve artists and their communities.
Oftentimes, Wachs noted, these organizations are the main support for artists within their communities. They nurture America's artists where they live and work, offering both needed services and supportive environments. "To a very great extent, organizations like these are what keep American creativity thriving," Mr. Wachs said, "and we owe them a great debt of gratitude for the important work they do, generally with very limited resources."
Foundation program director Pamela Clapp called the Initiative "an excellent example of the Warhol Foundation's proactive approach to assisting our primary constituency, the nation's non-profit visual arts organizations." She said that the Initiative had been launched in response to the fact that while small-to-midsized visual arts organizations play a unique and essential role for artists in this country, they are often financially fragile, especially during an economic downturn. The Initiative was designed specifically to meet the needs of groups like these, "artist-centered organizations" with budgets of $1 million or under. It offers sizable grants for organizational capacity-building, and also provides technical assistance. The resources it provides are generally used to support stabilization-oriented efforts like starting endowments, paying off mortgages, creating cash reserves, and other similar projects.


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Merry Christmas Guys!
Hope you are all having a great one! Christmas isn't much of a holiday really though, is it? Visiting people, social obligations, endless torturous shopping expeditions. We should all just chill out at home, eat lots and have fun.
The Giveaway is still on, and will be up untill New Year, when I will pick names out of a hat. You can go back to an earlier day too and enter the competitions, as I won't be tallying the winners untill January 1st.
Gotta go. There's a turkey that needs a massage.


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30 million visitors experience "The Story of a Patriot"
Film shown daily for 45 years at Colonial Williamsburg
September 20, 2002
"Williamsburg – the Story of a Patriot" has been seen by more than 30 million visitors to Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. The film, shot in 1956 and directed by academy-award-winning director George Seaton ("Miracle on 34th Street"), gives visitors to Williamsburg a "you-are-there" look at the events and emotions that raced through the colonies in the 18th century. The film debuted March 31, 1957, and has been shown daily ever since, making it the longest-running film in American motion picture history.
Linda Carpenter of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., became the 30-millionth viewer to see "Williamsburg – the Story of a Patriot" in the theatre specifically designed for watching this film. Carpenter and her husband Don visited Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Va., on September 20, 2002, and were greeted by Colin Campbell, president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. To mark the occasion, the Carpenters were presented with a videocassette copy of the film, lodging at The Williamsburg Inn for two nights, two Freedom passes for admission to Colonial Williamsburg for one year, and other gifts.
Colin Campbell congratulates Linda Carpenter.
The film's story is told through the character of fictional planter John Fry, from 1769 to 1776. Fry struggles with the questions that faced all colonists in the years leading up to the revolution: Shall the colonies unite to oppose British punishment of Boston for its Tea Party? Meet Britain's use of force with force? Declare independence? The choices made by the colonists were not easy ones, and, as the film depicts, family members and old friends were often at odds with one another over those choices. Through Fry, the audience is introduced to George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and other patriots who conceived the "idea of America."
Earl Robinson prepares to show the film.
"The Patriot" was originally shot in Vista Vision, the first ultra-wide-screen film format, to maximize its visual impact. The pioneering movie technology included Todd-AO six-channel stereo in one of the first uses of "surround sound." The twin Patriot Theatres at Colonial Williamsburg are the only cinematic environments ever created for the exhibition of a Vista Vision motion picture.
The film is currently undergoing digital restoration, funded in part through the generosity of fans of the film and friends of Colonial Williamsburg. Robert Harris of the Film Preserve, Ltd., a New York company specializing in the restoration of classic films, is supervising the work, in concert with Pacific Title and Eastman Kodak's CineSite. Harris has restored several classic films, including "Lawrence of Arabia," "Spartacus," "My Fair Lady," "Vertigo," and "Rear Window."
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YIC Celebrates IYCActivity by Jagadeesh Ellil | added on Feb 04, 2011 | Saudi Arabia
Sponsor(s): Yanbu Industrial College, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
Poster presentation on the development of Chemistry, Video shows on life and work of eminent chemists, Exhibitions of chemical equipment, Fun and wonder generating experiments.
I would like this IYC celebrations to pave the way for organizing video shows on the life and discovery of great chemists/scientists of the past, Nobel laureates and eminent chemistry professors, Exhibitions of amazing chemistry experiments generating inquistiveness and fun and demonstration of various sophisticated chemical equipment and their capabilities.
The List of activities are given below.
1. Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Exhibition.( with Student participation, in the month of April )
Elements and their spectra and applications.
Electrochemical reactions and applications
Gases and their reactions.
Acids, Bases, indicators and some fun experiments.
Chemical equilibrium and oscillating reactions.
Colourful reactions
Analytical experiments and applications.
2. Seminars on recent advances in Chemistry ( By faculty members) ( Monthly)
Topics: Green Chemistry, Solar Hydrogen energy, Nanochemistry, Ionic liquids and applications,
Trace analysis, Software in Chemistry.
3. Video shows ( Monthly)
4. Training the students on selected analytical equipment, extraction procedures and safety regulations.
5. Circulationg articles on chemistry through Moodle
|celebrating chemistry, chemistry education, hands-on activities, sustainable and green chemistry
|students, industrial chemists, secondary school students, general public, educational institutions, decision makers
Comments Jagadeesh Ellil | May 13, 2011 11:42AM
The chemiluminescence website was launched on 7th May 2011 by HE Dr. Dabroom, Managing Director of Yanbu Industrial College.http://chemiluminescence.yic.edu.sa
Training for students on amazing experiments started on 8-5-2011 to prepare the students for the major exhibition to be conducted in the month of October 2011
"Colour of Chemistry" contest made popular among the students and invited photographs with a description on the reasons for the colors seen in the photgraph.
Chemical safety week is going to be organized for a week starting from 14-5-2011 to 21-5-2011.
Photographic Contest indicating a "unsafe condition due to improper chemical usage or storing" announced while observing the "chemical safety week"
A talk by Dr.E.P.Jagadeesh scheduled for 22-5-2011 at 10-11am on "International year of chemistry" and frontiers of chemical educationJagadeesh Ellil | Dec 07, 2011 02:38PM
May 22nd, 2011.
As part of the celebration of International year of chemistry, under the aegis of Chemiluminescence 2011, a Lecture on "Frontiers of Chemical education" was delivered by Dr.E.P.Jagadeesh, convener, Chemiluminescence 2011.
International Year of Chemistry Celebrations resumed after the summer vacation in October 2011. Preparation for the Chemiluminescence day to be observed in November started.
November 18th 2011.
T- shirts with logos of the IYC 2011, IUPAC, UNESCO and Chemiluminescence2011 were released and distributed to the students of the college by Dr. Ahmed Alghamdi ,Chairman of Chemiluminescence and Head of Chemical Engineering Technology Dept.
November 19th 2011.
Students carrying Helium filled balloons recreated the periodic table in the courtyards of the college, which were later released off symbolic of spreading the message that the chemical elements and their chemistry brought all the comforts of our modern life. This was followed by colorful entertainment and educational programs. His Excellency Dr. Alaa Nassif, CEO Royal Commission graced the occasion. Dr. Ahmed Alghamdi, chairman of the celebrations welcomed the gathering. Dr.Jagadeesh, presented the report on the preparations and previous activities conducted in connection with IYC 2011 celebrations and gave a brief on upcoming events too. Movies commemorating the Nobel prize awarded to Madam Curie and short films - "Chemistry- Its all about you" and "living without chemistry" were screened in front of a large gathering. A short play depicting the practice of chemistry in ancient Islamic world and its growth to the present was staged by students of the college. Dr.Salah Naeem, delivered a talk on development of chemistry in the Islamic world.
Prof. Sadhan Kumar De, chair professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals delivered a public lecture on "Polymers in the service of human." The audience comprised of students from the college, invited guests from other institutes and technocrats from chemical industry.
November 20th 2011.
Prof. Sadhan Kumar De delivered an invited lecture on "Polymer Technology and recycling polymers" to the students and faculty members of the Chemical Engineering Department and invited guests from Chemical Industry.
November 21st, 22nd and 23rd 2011.
Groups of students from the neighboring schools visited the chemical laboratories of the college. Some amazing experiments were shown to them by various faculty members of the Chemical Engineering Department. Lectures on achievements of chemistry were delivered to them at the college auditorium by Dr. Salah Naeem and Er. Khalid Jalil. Er. Emad Muktar and Er. Abdulla Hilali guided the students through the labs. Souvenir with event logos inscribed on them were distributed to the "chemicurious" school children.
November 27th 2011
The students were taken for an educational tour to different plants and to chemical analysis labs of the Saudi Aramco refinery.
December 5th 2011
Students of the chemical engineering department led by faculty members went around the college campus to pick the carelessly thrown solid wastes and deposit them in the waste bins. Dr. Ahmed Alghmadi , head of chemical Engineering and technology department spoke to the students about the need of creating awareness among the community on solid waste management and protection of our environment. He reminded the students the need of paying serious attention to the problems associated with the solid wastes and the various harmful chemicals it may release in to our environment, if not properly disposed off.
December 6th 2011
Dr.Ghasim Alandjani , DMD (IAD) addressed a team of students and faculty members of CHET department, set off for the cleansing operations in the neighboring beaches under the leadership of Dr. Alghamdi. The team spent around 2 hrs with great enthusiasm in the beaches picking up the plastic bags, lids, soft drink cans and bottles and depositing them in proper bins.
While appreciating the achievements of chemistry in various walks of life, these activities were organized to create awareness among the public on various routes of release of toxics to our environment and their management for sustainable development and environmental protection.Jagadeesh Ellil | Dec 09, 2011 12:48PM
Video link of the events on November 19th available in Youtube.
The Visit to Yanbu Refinery (ARAMCO) was a memorable one in all respects. The academic benefits and close relationship that could be established with industrial fraternity at the comany would be benefitted mutually. The visited team were taken around the laboratories and process control room. Saudi Aramco also is a partner of Yanbu Industrial College in all respects and for the celebration of International Year of Chemistry 2011 and Chemiluminescence 2011. The team also gratefully remembers the hospitality and souvenir provided by the ARAMCO company. There are more such collaborative programs the College is planning with ARAMCO
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December 12th 2011
Mr. Khalid Al-Haajri of the Environmental Control Department delivered a talk on "Environmental Sustainabilty of Yanbu Industrial City" at 9.00 am in the Recreation Centre of the YIC. He explained the details of the environmental aspects of the existing plan of the Yanbu industrial city and development plan for the coming years. He elaborated on the measures taken for the control of pollution in the industrial city, the constant monitoring programs of the ambient air, sea water, stack emissions etc and the green belts installed around the industries.He emphasized the need of harvesting renewable energy, mass transportation, waste minimization etc for the sustainable development.
December 17th 2011
Department of Chemical Engineering Technology organizes exhibition and open house!
The open house and exhibition organized under the activities of the celebration of International Year of Chemistry was inaugurated by Dr.Ahmed Dabroom , General Director of Colleges and institutes of Royal Commission on Saturday,17th December 2011 at 9.00am in the Multipurpose Hall of YIC. Prominent industry collaborators and equipment manufacturers and dealers opened their stalls exhibiting their products. Prominent among them were YANSAB, Gulf Scientific Company, Future Scientific, Naizak and IGB. Dr. Ghasim Alandjhani, Dr.Nasser Bajaaba and many other dignitaries visited the stalls. The stalls of Chemical Engineering Technology Department drew large crowds from the college and various schools in the neighborhood. The students of the department demonstrated various categories of amazing experiments to the visitors They also visited the labs of the department housing state-of-the-art equipment. Short films under the "Spellbound" series produced by the American Chemical titled as "How kids became Scientists", Discovery channel series titled as "100 great discoveries" and the humorous song on periodic table of elements "we have just crammed it" sung by Billy Joel, world famous pop singer were also screened and added great charm to the event. The exhibition came to an end by 5.00 pm.
December 19th 2011
Curtains down on Chemiluminescence 2011!
Concluding function of Chemiluminescence 2011 was held on Monday 19th December in the YIC auditorium at 9am while Dr. Ahmed Dabroom, the General Director of Institutes and Colleges of Royal Commission presided. A webinar on "A Green chemistry Moonshot" was delivered by Prof. Paul.T.Anastas, Assistant Executive Director, United States Environmental Protection Agency. A memento presented to Prof.Anastas was received by Dr.Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, on behalf of him from Dr.Dabroom. A short film produced by the YIC Media Centre was then screened, giving glimpses of all events conducted under aegis of Chemiluminescence 2011 since the launch of the celebrations. Dr. Dabroom during his concluding remarks congratulated Dr. Ahmed Al-Ghamdi and his team for the hard work carried out by them for making the celebrations of the International Year of Chemistry, a big success. He emphasized the need of bringing together the industry, institutes and the community around for sustainable development and technological growth, through similar programs. Dr. Dabroom then distributed the prizes and certificates for the winners of the various contests conducted for the students. He also distributed mementos to the participated schools and industries and individuals who worked as a team for the success of the programs.
A Green Chemistry Moonshot, the webinar presented by Prof.Paul T Anastas, USEPA available here.
The complete Album of various events organized under the International Year of Chemistry ( IYC 2011) Celebrations of the Yanbu Industrial College(YIC), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is available here : YIC Celebrations of IYC 2011
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H.E Dr.Ahmed Dabroom inaugurating the website
Dr.Ahmed Al-Ghamdi distributes the event T-Shirt
H.E Dr.Alaa Nassif, CEO Royal Commission releases the Balloons
Balloons bearing the names of elements up in the sky
Dr.Ahmed Dabroom presents a memento to Dr.Alaa Nassif
Dr. Ahmed Al-Ghamdi delivering welcome speech
A Skit by students on chemistry in ancient islamic world
Prof.S.K.De, KFUPM, receives a memento from Dr.Dabroom
Prof.De speaks on Polymer Technology
Visit of school children to YIC labs
Visit of school children to YIC Labs
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A tour to Saudi Aramco Refinery
YIC students inside Aramco refinery
YIC students received handfuls of gifts too from Aramco
Team ready for Campus cleaning
This really would send a strong message on the need for the protection of our environment
YIC students After a tiring job of campus cleaning!
Yanbu Beach cleaning on Dec 5th,2011
Pepsi cans and bottles, easy to find but difficult to collect
Dr.Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, YIC with student volunteers on Yanbu beach,Red Sea
Talk on environmental sustainabilty of Yanbu Industrial city by Mr.Khalid Al-Haajiri, Env.Control Dept., Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
Dr.Ahmed Dabroom, General Director for Colleges and Institutes, RC for Jubail and Yanbu performing the "Ribbon cutting " ceremony of the open house and exhibition conducted on 17-12-2011
Exhibition stalls
Fun zone with spitting doll and amazed children
Dr.Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, YIC with students from neighboring schools
Kids exploring the various devices exhibited
Concluding function
Dr.Ahmed Dabroom, General Director for Colleges and Institutes, RC for Jubail and Yanbu presented memento to various participated schools
Er. Abdulla Helali receiving certificate of appreciation from Dr.Dabroom for his contributions to the celebration activities of IYC 2011


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Agriculture scientist Dr Matthew Cock, chief scientist for Cabi, a UK-based agri-environment research organisation, lists some of the biggest biological threats to global food security.
Pests like desert locust, western corn root worm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera), the Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium), mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) are suggested together with plant diseases, causing famine in the past: potato blight (Phytophthora infestans), or big economic losses in agricultural production: wheat stem rust strain Ug99 (Puccinia graminis tritici), South American rubber blight (Microcyclus ulei) and cofee wilt disease (Fusarium xylarioides).
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NILES, Ill., December 11, 2012—The Official Blues Brothers™ Revue is a live touring performance that pays homage to Chicago's rich history of blues, soul music, and gospel. Featuring the characters of Jake and Elwood Blues—created by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in 1978 and featured on Saturday Night Live and in two subsequent iconic feature films —the show involves dancing, comedic acts, and an eight-piece band. Joining the production as tour and production manager was long-time Shure user Bill Girdwood, who made it an immediate priority to upgrade the show's existing gear to more reliable, higher caliber equipment. Girdwood turned to Shure.
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The honeymoon period didn't last long for some healthcare providers and their electronic health records (EHRs). As providers become more sophisticated and informed, and IT departments grow more comfortable recommending alternatives to long-established vendors, demand for replacement electronic health record (EHR) systems continues to expand.
By 2016, almost 50% of large hospitals will replace their current EHR, health IT research firm KLAS reported. In the first quarter of this year, 40% of buyers said they want to swap out their EHRs, according to a survey by Software Advice. Twelve months prior, 30% sought alternate EHRs, the review and consulting site found. Most providers wanted better performance and integration, the study showed.
"We're building portals of information for our patients but they're not interconnected," said Dereesa Reid, CEO of Southern California's Hoag Orthopedic Institute, in an interview. "We can log into any number of banks in which we have deposits and even move money around. Why can't we do that with our health information? Once that happens we enter a whole new frontier of empowerment. Then, suddenly a patient can gather up all their information and know what it is. It totally changes what we can do in population management and research."
Hoag Orthopedic is not switching from its Allscripts EHR; instead, it's expanding the software's capabilities by adding a portal and increasing its use of mobile devices, especially smartphones, she said.
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Hospital management company Universal Health Services once used a best-of-breed approach, purchasing separate EHRs for its various departments, recalled CIO Mike Nelson in an interview. Integrating these disparate systems was difficult, and accessing data was challenging for physicians and nurses, he said. Over the past three years, UHS has steadily replaced these separate systems with a Cerner EHR, said Nelson.
"I do think the major vendors improved their functionality. What we found was, having an integrated system, as we created orders in the emergency department, the naming conventions were the same. We had the same syntax for an order in the emergency department as in the radiology department," he said. "Clinicians could communicate in the same language. We could exchange information more readily."
To drive maximum efficiency, leverage shared insight and best-practices, and integrate systems, newly affiliated providers typically standardize on one EHR, he said.
Having used EHRs for a while, clinicians and executives realize the potential these applications hold for improving care, reducing costs, and driving new discoveries, said Edwin Miller, VP of product management at medical software and services company CareCloud, in an interview. "They're a couple of years into it," he said. "Now they're a more savvy customer and so they're going back to the market with a different point of view. [The pressure] is in continuing to get excitement around health IT because a lot of the market's become disenchanted with it after the past two or three years."
Mergers and acquisitions fuel some replacement sales, Bill Fera, principal at EY, told InformationWeek. Yet healthcare executives recognize EHRs are only the beginning of their IT -- and business -- strategy, said Fera. They want to ensure they've got the strongest, most integrated basis for analytics, big data, mobility, and other vital initiatives.
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In fact, about 93% of hospitals were "in possession" of an EHR with MU certification in late 2013, according to the US Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology. But only 61% of all physician practices used EHRs, a January 2014 study by SK&A determined. A year ago, 50.3% used the software, the research firm found.
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demangone wrote:I read the article and went straight to youtube and watched this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5m8VueG56A . I love how he reacts at the end of the fight. Anyone think he'll give the Kennedys of the team some competition for fourth line minutes?
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Speaker: Dana Dachman Soled, UMD
Abstract: In a recent result, Dachman-Soled et al.~(TCC '15) proposed a new notion called locally decodable and updatable non-malleable codes, which informally, provides the security guarantees of a non-malleable code while also allowing for efficient random access. They also considered locally decodable and updatable non-malleable codes that are leakage-resilient, allowing for adversaries who continually leak information in addition to tampering. Unfortunately, the locality of their construction in the continual setting was Omega(log n), meaning that if the original message size was n, then Omega(log n) positions of the codeword had to be accessed upon each decode and update instruction.
In this work, we ask whether super-constant locality is inherent in this setting. We answer the question affirmatively by showing tight upper and lower bounds. Specifically, in any threat model which allows for a rewind attack-wherein the attacker leaks a small amount of data, waits for the data to be overwritten and then writes the original data back-we show that a locally decodable and updatable non-malleable code with block size Chi in poly(lambda) number of bits requires locality delta(n) in omega(1), where n = poly(lambda) is message length and lambda is security parameter. On the other hand, we re-visit the threat model of Dachman-Soled et al.~(TCC '15)-which indeed allows the adversary to launch a rewind attack-and present a construction of a locally decodable and updatable non-malleable code with block size Chi in Omega(lambda^{1/mu}) number of bits (for constant 0 < mu < 1) with locality delta(n), for any delta(n) in omega(1), and n = poly(lambda).
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Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Title: Online storage management in electricity market
With unprecedented benefits in terms of efficiency, economy, reliability, and environmental awareness, in the recent years, there has been a rapid proliferation of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind in electric power systems. Despite these benefits, the inherent uncertainty in renewables places severe challenges on the management of the entire energy systems, including electricity market. Leveraging energy storage systems is a promising approach to mitigate the uncertainty of renewables, by charging and discharging during the mismatched periods. Energy storage systems, however, offers a new design space for additional optimization. That is, a storage system can capture energy during periods when the market prices are low and surrender stored energy when energy prices are high.
In this talk, we consider different scenarios of storage management in both supply and demand sides of the electricity market. The uncertainties in both renewable output and electricity market price, emphasizes the need for online solution design. The underlying theoretical problems could be described as extensions of conversion problems in financial markets, i.e., the search for best prices to buy and/or sell assets. The difference with the conversion problems, is that in addition to the uncertainty in the price, our problems suffer from another uncertainty originated from renewable output. We follow online algorithm design and use competitive ratio as the performance measure of our algorithms. We present our recent results in designing competitive online algorithms that achieve constant competitive ratios. In addition, we briefly talk about the case of utilizing aggregate potentials distributed small-scale storage systems, such as EVs or residential storages, to participate in electricity market through an aggregator. This setting is more challenging than the previous one, since the distributed sources also arrive in online manner with heterogeneous profiles.
Overall, we believe that changing the landscape of electric power system from a centralized predictable system to a distributed uncertain system opens a new research direction for leveraging online framework designs in this relatively under-explored area.
Speaker: Kuan Cheng
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Title: Near-Optimal Secret Sharing and Error Correcting Codes in $\AC^0$
We study the question of minimizing the computational complexity of (robust) secret sharing schemes and error correcting codes. In standard instances of these objects, both encoding and decoding involve linear algebra, and thus cannot be implemented in the class $\AC^0$. The feasibility of non-trivial secret sharing schemes in $\AC^0$ was recently shown by Bogdanov et al.\ (Crypto 2016) and that of (locally) decoding errors in $\AC^0$ by Goldwasser et al.\ (STOC 2007).
In this paper, we show that by allowing some slight relaxation such as a small error probability, we can construct much better secret sharing schemes and error correcting codes in the class $\AC^0$. In some cases, our parameters are close to optimal and would be impossible to achieve without the relaxation. Our results significantly improve previous constructions in various parameters.
Our constructions combine several ingredients in pseudorandomness and combinatorics in an innovative way. Specifically, we develop a general technique to simultaneously amplify security threshold and reduce alphabet size, using a two-level concatenation of protocols together with a random permutation. We demonstrate the broader usefulness of this technique by applying it in the context of a variant of secure broadcast.
Based on a joint work with Yuval Ishai and Xin Li.
Speaker: Ilan Komargodski
Affiliation: Cornell Tech
Title: White-Box vs. Black-Box Complexity of Search Problems: Ramsey and Graph Property Testing
Abstract: Ramsey theory assures us that in any graph there is a clique or independent set of a certain size, roughly logarithmic in the graph size. But how difficult is it to find the clique or independent set? This problem is in TFNP, the class of search problems with guaranteed solutions. If the graph is given explicitly, then it is possible to do so while examining a linear number of edges. If the graph is given by a black-box, where to figure out whether a certain edge exists the box should be queried, then a large number of queries must be issued.
1) What if one is given a program or circuit ("white-box") for computing the existence of an edge. Does the search problem remain hard?
2) Can we generically translate all TFNP black-box hardness into white-box hardness?
3) Does the problem remain hard if the black-box instance is small?
We will answer all of these questions and discuss related questions in the setting of property testing.
Joint work with Moni Naor and Eylon Yogev.
Speaker: Ran Ben Basat
Affiliation: Technion
Title: Classic Network Measurement meets Virtual Switching
Abstract: In modern cloud infrastructures, each physical server often runs multiple virtual machines and employs a software Virtual Switch (VS) to handle their traffic. In addition to switching, the VS performs network measurements, such as identifying the most frequent flows, which are essential for networking applications such as load balancing and intrusion detection.
Unlike traditional streaming algorithms, which minimize the space requirements, the bottleneck in virtual switching measurement is the CPU utilization. In this talk, I will present new hardware-oriented algorithms and acceleration methods that optimize the update time for software, at the cost of a slight memory overhead.
Bio: Ran is a Ph.D. candidate at the Technion, Israel. He does research in streaming algorithms for networking applications, focusing on efficient processing and query speeds.
Speaker: Samson Zhou
Affiliation: Purdue University
Title: Pattern Matching over Noisy Data Streams
Abstract: The identification of low-complexity structure in strings is a fundamental building block for many algorithms in computational biology or natural language processing. The general paradigm in these algorithms is to find either highly repetitive structure, in the form of periodicity or palindromes in a pre-processing stage, to filter out locations where a certain pattern cannot occur, thus improving efficiency.
Unfortunately, we must expect massive data to contain a number of small imperfections, such as through human error or mutations. This motivates the need to study structure in models of sublinear space, resilient to sources of noise. In this talk, we introduce several types of structure and noise, and discuss efficient algorithms to identify these structures over data streams.
As a warm-up, we provide an algorithm for identifying a longest common aligned substring of two inputs, resilient up to d errors of insertions, substitutions, or deletions. We then present a streaming algorithm for identifying the longest palindrome, resilient up to a threshold of d substitution errors. Finally, we discuss the problem of finding all periods of a string including up to d persistent changes or erasures. For each of these scenarios, we also provide complementary lower bounds.
Joint work with Funda Ergun, Elena Grigorescu, and Erfan Sadeqi Azer.
Samson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, under the supervision of Greg Frederickson and Elena Grigorescu. He received his undergraduate education at MIT, where he obtained a Bachelor's in math and computer science, as well as a Master's in computer science. He is a member of the Theory Group at Purdue, and his current research interests are sublinear and approximation algorithms, with an emphasis on streaming algorithms.
Speaker: Venkata Gandikota
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Title: NP-Hardness of Reed-Solomon Decoding and the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott Problem
Abstract: Establishing the complexity of Bounded Distance Decoding for Reed-Solomon codes is a fundamental open problem in coding theory, explicitly asked by Guruswami and Vardy (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2005). The problem is motivated by the large current gap between the regime when it is NP-hard, and the regime when it is efficiently solvable (i.e., the Johnson radius).
We show the first NP-hardness results for asymptotically smaller decoding radii than the maximum likelihood decoding radius of Guruswami and Vardy. Specifically, for Reed-Solomon codes of length N and dimension K = O(N), we show that it is NP-hard to decode more than N-K-O(log N / log log N) errors.
These results follow from the NP-hardness of a generalization of the classical Subset Sum problem to higher moments, called Moments Subset Sum, which has been a known open problem, and which may be of independent interest. We further reveal a strong connection with the well-studied Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem in Number Theory, which turns out to capture a main barrier in extending our techniques. We believe the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem deserves further study in the theoretical computer science community.
This is a joint work with Badih Ghazi (MIT) and Elena Grigorescu (Purdue).
Speaker: Amirbehshad Shahrasbi
Affiliation:Carnegie Mellon University
Speaker: Samson Zhou
Affiliation: Purdue University
Title: Password Hashing and Graph Pebbling
Abstract: Although the passwords of users are no longer being stored, we show an offline attacker is compelled to crack all stolen passwords under current security recommendations. Memory hard functions have been proposed as moderately expensive cryptographic tools for password hashing. The cryptanalysis of these functions has focused on the cumulative memory complexity and the energy complexity of the function. The first metric measures how much memory users must commit to evaluating a function, while the second metric measures how much energy users must commit. We prove these evaluations reduce to pebbling games on graphs but show that a tool for exact cryptanalysis of functions is unlikely to exist. Nevertheless, we provide asymptotic upper and lower bounds on several families of functions, including Argon2i, the winner of the password hashing competition that is currently being considered for standardization by the Cryptography Form Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force.
Joint work with Jeremiah Blocki, Ben Harsha, Ling Ren
Samson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, under the supervision of Greg Frederickson and Elena Grigorescu. He received his undergraduate education at MIT, where he obtained a Bachelor's in math and computer science, as well as a Master's in computer science. He is a member of the Theory Group at Purdue and a winner of the Sigma Xi Research Awards Competition for graduate students in engineering. His current research interests are sublinear and approximation algorithms, with an emphasis on streaming algorithms.


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As announce earlier, Google is looking into the card business. Now it is official: there is a Google Debit Card. This allows customers to use an ordinary plastic card in order to pay at MasterCard enabled terminals as well as withdraw money at an ATM from their Google Wallet Balance.
Mittwoch, 20 November 2013
Sonntag, 3 November 2013
This week Google announced version 4.4 of is mobile OS Android, also known as "kitkat". One of the most existing features in this release is the so call "Host Card Emulation" (HCE) mode. This allows application developers to developer software that simulates a smart card with having access to the secure element. In this case the Card Application is running on the host processor. Thus it is call "Host Card Emulation".
Freitag, 11 Oktober 2013
Four years after the SEEK Project was started by G&D, the library for accessing the SIM Card from an android application is finally available for Android SDK. At API Level 17, G&D is now providing the Library in a way that it can be integrated into various apps. The library is actually the key for a bunch of application doing so call "OTA-Transactions" (Over-the-Air) in order to install applications on the UICC or make changes to parameters in applets with could be used for payment or ticketing.
Mittwoch, 2 Oktober 2013
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced its partnership with Etisalat & du to launch its first 'Smart Nol' Service for Dubai commuters utilizing public transport. Smart NOL enables smoother travel and accessibility via NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled mobile phones. Commuters can utilize RTA's Smart NOL technology by placing their mobile devices against the card readers at the passing gates of the metro stations, or validator devices onboard public buses and water buses.
Donnerstag, 19 September 2013
Today a consortium out of MNOs (T-Mobile, Drei), Banks (Erste Bank, Raiffeisen), Card Issuers (Card Complete, Paylife) and Acquirer announced the "Mobile Wallet Austria" NFC-Initiative in order to create an open, nationwide standard for mobile wallets. With this mobile wallet consumers are able to pay contactless with their mobile phones and subsequently to use special offers like loyalty cards, vouchers and coupons at the Point of Sale by a simple touch. At least this is the basic idea that is behind the concept.
Mittwoch, 27 Februar 2013
Today at the mobile world congress (MWC) in barcelona Samsung showed its newest innovations for the Samsung Galaxy Series Devices: The Samsung Wallet. The wallet application — which is very similar to Apple's passbook in multiple aspects — will be available only as a developer preview at the moment. But with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S IV, the Samsung Wallet will hit the mass market. Currently it was not clear, if and which devices in the market will be able to install at the Samsung Wallet. By the Way: The Wallet will not use NFC, this feature will be left to other players such as VISA.
Montag, 25 Februar 2013
Today the mobile world congress (MWC) in Barcelona, handset Manufacturer Samsung and Visa announced joint efforts to bring mobile payment using NFC onto the customer's mobile phone. Therefore Samsung provides APIs on the device for Post Issuing Personalization as well as Visa a new Mobile Provisioning Service for service providers. The first device, which support for these exciting features is the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV, which will be announced on March 14th, 2013.
Mittwoch, 23 Januar 2013
Today Rainer Schamberger, CEO of Austrias largest card issuing supporter Payment Services Austria (PSA), announced the rollout of 4 Million contactless debit cards. The cards are based on MasterCard Maestro Scheme using MasterCard paypass for contactless transactions.
Sonntag, 11 November 2012
Austria's 2nd largest Retailer Spar is currently replacing its existing payment infrastructure. Today all of its stores are equipped with Hypercom Hybrid Terminals from Paylife. Since this week Spar is replacing these terminals with the Ingenico iPP H-Touch 480 from the Austrian acquirer card complete.
Mittwoch, 7 November 2012
As reported by AndroidPolice already two days ago, now user can see for their shelves what Google's plan for the Google Wallet is: a contactless Card. Yet it is not clear how this will work in detail and why Google is doing this, but lets look behind the curtain, to see what options there are.
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April 15, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio – For the second time in just three days, the No. 16 Ohio State women's lacrosse team has defeated a Top 10 opponent. The Buckeyes (12-4, 4-1 ALC) concluded their memorable 2014 home season with a 12-9 victory over No. 9 Notre Dame Tuesday night under the lights at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The win over the Fighting Irish marks the first time in school history the Scarlet and Gray have defeated back-to-back Top 10 opponents, while extending their win streak to six-consecutive games.
"I thought we showed tons of heart with both highs and lows during the game," head coach Alexis Venechanos said. "We shot the ball very well and defensively held strong when we needed to against a great Notre Dame team. It was a complete team effort. We only had a few days to prepare and I thought our team's mental toughness showed tonight. We will take this momentum heading into our final ALC game next week."
Under Venechanos, the 12 wins by the 2014 Buckeyes are second-most in OSU history behind the 2003 campaign when the squad won a school record 14 contests. Ohio State's nine home wins this year also is a school record.
Offensively, junior midfielder Kelsea Ayers (3g, 2a) and sophomore attack Cian Dabrowski (2g, 3a) had five points (tied her career high), while junior midfielder Mary Kate Facchina (3g, 1a) had four points. Jackie Cifarelli notched a pair of goals, while senior attack Katie Chase and junior midfielder Christine Easton each netted scores.
Defensively, junior goalie Tori DeScenza once again had a strong performance for the Buckeyes in front of net, collecting 11 saves, including seven stops in the first half. She improves to a season-best 12 wins on the year. DeScenza also collected a game-high five groundballs, while junior Taylor Donahue claimed three and classmate Emily Valli notched two groundballs. Overall, the Buckeye defense held the Fighting Irish to a 0-for-5 mark on free position attempts.
After Notre Dame jumped out to a 2-0 lead, the Buckeyes went on a 4-0 run, scoring four goals in a 12-minute span. A won draw by the Scarlet and Gray led to their first goal of the contest when Dabrowski tallied her first score following a quick pass by Ayers from the far post at 16:16. Dabrowski then found Mary Kate Facchina cutting through the crease, who buried in a shot just 24 seconds later at 15:52 to tie it, 2-2. Ohio State claimed its first lead of the evening when Cifarelli finished off a Notre Dame turnover with a low shot into net at 7:32 making it 3-2. Ayers scored the team's fourth goal at 3:36 when she received a long pass from the near side by junior attack Hallie Keselman and finished off a shot passed UND starting goalie Allie Murray. The assist was Keselman's second of the year. Ayers gave the Buckeyes a 5-3 lead heading into halftime when she netted in her second goal with 34 seconds left on the clock on a free position shot.
At half, shots were 12-8 in favor of Notre Dame, while the Fighting Irish held a close 5-4 advantage on draw controls. Mary Kate Facchina put the squad up 6-4 at the start of the second half with an unassisted score at 27:16 after she sprinted around the net and fired in her 25th goal on a man-up situation. Easton then got in on the scoring with her third goal of the year when she fired a shot into the top of the net at 26:48 with help from Mary Kate Facchina.
Notre Dame scored three-consecutive goals to tie it at 7-7, but it would be the last time the game would be knotted up as Ohio State scored five times in the final 20 minutes, while holding strong on the defensive side en route to the win.
Cifarelli scored for the second time at 19:26 followed by Ayers, who spun her way passed two UND defenders and sent one into the cage at 15:33 for an unassisted score.
Dabrowski boasted the hat trick at 9:11 after she sprinted through the Notre Dame defense and ripped a shot into goal to give the Buckeyes a two-goal lead. Chase made it a three-goal advantage to extend her point streak to 10-consecutive games when she netted in a shot at 4:24 with the assist from Ayers. Mary Kate Facchina wrapped up the evening with team's final score at 3:44 assisted by Dabrowski.
Overall, shots were 29-19 in favor of the Fighting Irish, while Notre Dame held a slight edge in draw controls, 12-11.
The Buckeyes will now have 11 days off to prepare for their regular-season finale at No. 7 Johns Hopkins at 2 p.m. April 26 in Baltimore, Md. The ALC contest vs. the Blue Jays will be broadcasted live on ESPNU.


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As previously discussed in my Superior Race? post, Nazi Skinhead tattooing is a popular albeit confused subsection of our culture. "Not our culture!" you exclaim. In fact, I am certain that we would all rather it -- and the inherent concerns about racism, bigotry and mid-western in-breeding that it evokes -- ride back into hell and take with it gang ink, prison scratching and regrettable celebrity tattoos.
But it will not. Anecdotal evidence -- the amount of criminals arrested with ridiculous white power tattoos and the amount of dedicated sites to this phenom among them -- suggests that Nazi skinhead tattooing is quite prominent and ever increasing around the world. Just check the many hate tattoo video montages posted on YouTube like this one below from the UK (turn off sound unless you want to hear hate anthems) :
A review of message boards find older, wiser racists counseling their younger cohorts to avoid the allure of multiple, elaborate and prominent tattoos for fear of arrest or detection. Nowhere was the practice derided for aesthetic or cultural taboos. But it seems the new Hitler youth isn't listening.
And so, with a built-in belief system that you can do no wrong and lax cultural mores against the practice, hate tattooing can continue to grow apace. While it moves onward, consider that Supremacist tattoos have a long reach into the history of the art form. While we hope that the meaning of spider-web tattoos might devolve into nothingness as more under-informed young adults get them, there is no mistaking the many German flags, swastikas and SS's that adorn a large portion of America's prison population. These are signifiers 50 years old. Certainly, no other iconography in the tattoo lexicon maintains such an uncorrupted understanding for so long.
[For more information on these symbols, the ADL has put together a visual database of hate emblems that are often tattooed on Nazi dregs.]
What troubles me is not that individuals seek these tattoos. More so, I am bothered by the supposed professionals that ink them. Surely, there are racists, criminals and degenerates within our lauded profession.
Curtis Allgier pictured above and interviewed in the video below is one such tattoo artist:
Upon further review of online Nazi skinhead tattoo discussion forums, I realized there are whole shops (like in Pennsylvania) dedicated to such ink: They are self-identified "white only" parlors that must find business strong enough to be able to be so selective about their clientele.
With such places accessible via a quick internet search, it would seem that anyone so dedicated to a movement, regardless of how terrible and ridiculous this movement might be, would have no problem finding and traveling to one of these shops. The fool who walks into a liberal parlor seeking an embellishment to his Doc Marten ink is proof that either those of us who are not racist would never treat them as they might treat us or that their intelligence is not quite as keen as their sense of superiority would have them believe.
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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Global Voices Advocacy
Netizen Report: Raise Your Voice Edition
"Internet activists in India are fuming over the country's sweeping new Internet restrictions on objectionable content, and are beginning to take extreme action to combat the law. This week we recognize Aseem Trivedi and Alok Dixit from Save Your Voice, who have begun a hunger strike in protest of the 'Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011' which were quietly issued by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in April 2011.
One of the flaws of the new rules is that they mandate that website or domain owners must take down material within 36 hours when a third party issues a complaint, without giving a chance for content owners to defend the material. The Bangalore-based advocacy group Centre for Internet & Society also pointed out that the rule leads to a general chilling effect on freedom of expression over the Internet." READ MORE
Amanda Makulec
Key findings from the Mobile Africa 2012 report
"Recently, the fourth annual Mobile Africa Report (2012) was recently released by Mobile Monday and Extensia. The report contains an absolute treasure trove of ideas, reflections and quantitative assessments of the continued growth of mobile ownership and use throughout the continent. The research behind the report was led by Dr. Madanmohan Rao, Research Project Director for Mobile Monday.
Instead of focusing on pulling together a laundry list of organizations working in the mobile sphere throughout Africa, the report authors queried select experts ("key informants" for those of you in the research bubble) to provide insights around who the important organizations and thought leaders in mobiles are today, what are the greatest emerging opportunities and where are the greatest challenges." READ MORE
All Africa
Africa Is a Continent of Opportunities
"In January, I was at the World Economic Forum in Davos as a Global Shaper representing Ethiopia and the Addis Hub. This meant a very rare and unique opportunity to meet and share experiences with amazing young people from all corners of the world, with impeccable achievements ranging from leading corporations to leading revolutions. It also meant unlimited access to more than 2500 corporate, political and civil society leaders that were gathered in Davos.
While in Davos, out of the hundreds of sessions, I attended four sessions on Africa. Surprisingly, the usual grim and gloomy topics of poverty, famine, drought, food insecurity, corruption,.. etc were not on the agenda. Nor were Bono or Bob Geldof leading the discussions. All the sessions were exclusively looking at the business and investment opportunities in Africa, with themes such as "Africa's Frontier Markets", "Africa: from Transition to Transformation", "The New Context for Africa", and "Climate Sustainability". Five African heads of States, the largest in Davos history, had made their way to make a collective case for Africa. The conversations were not about aid, rather about economic policies, business models, and investment opportunities." READ MORE
Center for Global Development
Is European Aid Skepticism Going to Drive Aid Innovation?
"Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) is moving from concept to reality as I learned in a recent trip to Europe. In the process we are learning a lot about measuring outcomes and other implementation challenges. While I heard about the ways aid agencies are beginning to try COD Aid or similar initiatives, the internal resistance they face told me a lot about the internal contradictions we've lived with in foreign aid for a long time." READ MORE
The Impact and Effectiveness of Accountability and Transparency Initiatives: The Governance of Natural Resources
"In the past decade there has been a rapid growth in transparency and accountability initiatives in the extractive industries sector. They reflect attempts to devise institutional mechanisms to make governments accountable for the extraction, allocation and use of revenues that, if well invested, could alleviate socioeconomic inequalities among citizens. Understanding and measuring the impact and effectiveness of these initiatives is a matter of proposing and empirically validating a causal link between interventions and governance improvements. To do this requires improved data collection, reporting and analysis; a stronger focus on the allocation and use of government expenditures that come from natural resource wealth; and a better understanding of importance of incentives and sanctions for ensuring effective impact." READ MORE
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Series of Conferences on Astronomy and ChemistryActivity by Miguel Angel Méndez-Rojas | added on Aug 26, 2011 | Mexico
Sponsor(s): Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP) and Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE)
Series of conferences on the series of talks for all public on topics related with Chemistry and Astronomy to celebrate the IYC and the 70th anniversary of INAOE.
Celebrating the IYC-2011 and the 40th and 70th Aniversary of the National Astronomic Observatory of Tonantzingla and the foundation of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), respectively, we are organizing a series of talks adressed to the general public on several topics related to Chemistry and Astronomy.
The program of talks related to the IYC is as follows:
- August 26, "Astronomy and Chemistry vs. Astrology and Alchemy" (Dr. Raul Mújica, INAOE and Dr. Miguel Mendez-Rojas, UDLAP).
- September 9, "What are we made? The chemistry of life" (Dr. Enrique Gonzalez, BUAP).
- October 14, "The chemistry of the XXI century materials: environmental, energy and conversion applications" (Dr. Felipe Cordova, UDLAP).
- October 28, "Nanoelectronics" (Dr. Alfonso Torres, INAOE).
- November 11, "Biological catalysts: from the meat softner to nanostructures" (Dr. Eduardo Torres, BUAP).
- November 25, "The chemistry of the stars" (Dr. Miguel Chávez, INAOE).
- December 9, "The fullerene: the molecule than came from space" (Dr. Miguel Mendez-Rojas, UDLAP).
All conferences will be held at the main auditorium of the Puebla's Planetary. Free entrance to all public. 18:00 hrs. More info and a poster at:
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