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Turbo Pascal for 8051 microcontrollers
Pascal is easy to write and easy to read
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Turbo51 is released as a freeware. You can use Turbo51 for hobby projects and for serious work. Check documentation pages and code examples that show the syntax, features and generated files. This should be enough to start a 8051 project development with Turbo51. And if you are still missing something or have a problem you can always ask for help.
If you are already familiar with 8051 assembly language programming you can start with Turbo51 as 8051 assembly language compiler and then add some Pascal statements until you become familiar with Turbo51 and Pascal syntax. A good approach is also to compile some Pascal code and then check generated code (ASM file). This way you can learn assembly language, get some ideas on how to write effective code and become familiar with the compiler. Turbo51, like many popular C compilers for 8051, generates optimized code and supports source-level debugging with OMF object file.


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Voters Strongly Support Accelerated Action on Smart Infrastructure, Clean Energy Investments
A new poll commissioned by NRDC, Ceres, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the BlueGreen Alliance shows strong support for clean energy on the West Coast.
SAN FRANCISCO (November 14, 2012) – On the day that California launches its cap and trade program, a new poll of voters in California, Oregon and Washington shows strong support for maintaining and expanding efforts across the region to account for the costs of climate pollution and invest in clean energy sources by ensuring polluters pay when they contribute to climate change.
The findings demonstrate that even in a tough economy, voters in the region prioritize efforts to hasten the transition towards cleaner energy and tackle climate change while growing the economy.
The poll, conducted October 29th through November 1st by Lake Research Partners, also found strong support for proposals to create jobs by investing in making homes and businesses more energy efficient; expand investment in clean fuels, electric vehicles, bus rapid transit and commuter rail; close tax loopholes for dirty fuels; and train workers to transition from dirty industries to clean energy industries. Support for investing funds raised from pollution fees in expanding clean energy sources beat out a proposal to invest those funds in deficit reduction.
"Partnerships between businesses, investors and government are needed to rebuild infrastructure like water, alternative energy systems, and public transportation in the wake of extreme weather events like Sandy," said Kirsten Snow Spalding, California Director of Ceres, one of the four organizations that sponsored the poll. "Infrastructure investments will create jobs here at home and ensure that future generations are better prepared." Ceres manages the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) a network of 100 institutional investors with collective assets totaling about $10 trillion.
"Moving America to clean energy is a priority for voters and a necessity to address the growing climate crisis," said David Foster, executive director of the BlueGreen Alliance. "By putting a price on carbon, we can provide an incentive to companies to cut global warming pollution and raise the funds to invest in cleaner energy, better transit, and jobs that can't be outsourced."
"This poll shows that voters in California, Oregon and Washington strongly want cleaner, more energy efficient communities and transportation choices," said Deron Lovaas, Transportation Policy Director at the NRDC. "Children and future generations deserve new economic opportunities, improved quality of life as well as cities and towns prepared to address the effects of climate change. Voters know that holding polluters responsible can help achieve all three."
"We know that critical investment in smart infrastructure and clean energy solutions, like green building, will not only save people money and create jobs but they also help make our communities healthier, more livable and more resilient. And they're solutions voters recognize and want," said Dr. Jason Hartke, vice president of national policy, U.S. Green Building Council. "Building a better future for ourselves and our kids is something we can all get behind."
The poll was sponsored by BlueGreen Alliance, Ceres, NRDC, and U.S. Green Building Council. To view the poll results, visit Lake Research Partners.


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Well, this one got outdated. I'm my own boss now, and you can find about me here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andresb.
I've partnered with three brilliant friends to start Area6 Comunicación, a full-service advertising agency. Get in touch with us if you need to rock Mexico and make the mexican market fall in love with you.
The rest of the resume is left here for historic and reference purposes.
WARNING: below this, most of it has changed. Please replace every «do» with a «did». Except in tastes and personal stuff. I'm still the same, I think.
Warning – Spoiler: I tend to be a little bit enthusiastic about myself, and this is how I'd like you to see me, so from now on you can expect a lot of hype and capital «i»s. But there's a surprise lurking at the end of this, keep reading!
If you hate parentheses, you're doomed (and the HR version of the resume will land here soon whatever).
If you already went through all the rambling and just want to contact me: andres[(at)]bianciotto.com.mx
Hi, I'm Andrés Bianciotto. I'm 29 30 and I'm happy. Really, blissfully happy.
What I do
I manage Grey Interactive Mexico and love what I do. I crush the spirits of a bunch o' really nice folks everyday. I take the credit for building great websites and interactive communications campaigns. I tend to ignore buzzwords, so you'll never hear of «devising strategies», «enabling interactions», «facilitating change» from me. I find easier and better to get things done than to get them named.
I get up every morning and take a shower. Trust me on this one. After that, I set my sights on acquiring new clients, keeping the actual ones happy and profitable, and learning something new anytime I can. All this while crushing the spirits of my dear team.
I take care of keeping costs at bay, employees working at a steady pace, driving projects to completion and reporting like you would love to have your people do it.
I also run Grey Direct Mexico, started this year. I'm in charge of nationwide direct mail campaigns. So far I love this, and I think it'll get better.
What I'm good for
Everything. I can learn quickly. I can speak about lots of things as if I know what I'm talking about. I make friends easily without resorting to bribery. I can be fun, firm AND ruthless in sequence.
I can run a business as complex as two advertising agency units, or as simple (wink) as a big bank Internet department (ok, I didn't run it, I was #2. That means I ran it without getting enough credit).
I love technology, specially when it enables new / better / faster / richer communication channels. I understand technology, and enjoy keeping myself updated.
I can fix my own car. I like to work with my hands. I own a Dremel tool and apply it to pieces of wood, with varying results. I can't dance, although I really try. I feel comfortable outdoors and indoors, downtown or in the smallest town. I was a boy scout, but I'm not big on uniforms.
I can live abroad, far, far away from my family and hometown and enjoy it like hell. I can go all the way through Mexico City and never get lost (hey! have you ever visited Mexico? that should mean something). I can eat crickets, but only in Oaxaca.
Been there, done that
I took a company and straightened it towards profitability. I cut losses, landed projects and clients, hired talented, inspired people, and drove the revenue up.
I planned, implemented and operated digital communications campaigns for Santander Serfin, the #3 bank in Mexico, where I worked at for a brief period. I lead the Vignette CMS and Pivotal CRM implementation and deployment while doing it.
After that, here at Grey I'm doing the same thing for major brands and companies: Gerber, Volkswagen, SEAT, Santander Serfin Bank itself (after leaving I kept them as clients), Procter & Gamble, The Walt Disney Company, Harvard Business Review, and many smaller outfits.
This time there isn't any Vignette to deploy, but we implemented Interwoven TeamSite for Gerber, in a breathtaking 3 months project.
I've built websites, portals, applications, pages, even server computers for my absolute delight during the almost 4 years I worked at e-volution. They brought me to Mexico.
During the dotcom boom in Argentina, circa 1999, I've brought to life the ideas and crazy promises of salesmen and gurus, helping them to keep their names and houses. It was a painful, caffeine-driven time I loved very much.
I worked for incubator/VC fund LatinLab. I evaluated projects for incubation, provided consulting for startups, designed the underlying technology, programmed the software and maintained the platform until… you know.
I've learned to program many web languages (Java, Perl, PHP, et cetera)on my own. I use naturally various SQL database engines, like Oracle,MySql, PostgreSql, MS-Sql, et cetera. Girls seem not to pay muchattention to this.
I've been working since I was 16, I've done many, many different things. I sold spring break group tours for high school students. I sold English language courses. I supervised marketing campaigns for Microsoft Corp. Argentina. At 22, I partnered with a friend to form a company. I lost that friend.
Not all THAT perfect, though
I made mistakes, y'know. I learned from them. I'm here now, right?
Maybe I'll make a few more, but I'll do my best to make fewer and newer mistakes from now on.
What I like
Reading, I can't avoid reading anything and everything I can get my hands on. I love paragliding. And learning to play golf. Driving fast cars. Fishing. Spicy food. Travelling. Writing. Discussing deep philosophy matters with my best friend. I like to cook, but I'm responsible and Domino's is in my speed dial.
I've built and deployed two blog hosting communities: Cool-Blog.com and Blografias.com. I collaborate with pLog, the open source software that runs behind the communities, writing some plugins and additions.
Ego boost: I know there are very few «Andrés Bianciotto» on the web, but it's nice to know that Google says I'm the most popular.
Who I am
I'm Andrés, remember? I was born in Córdoba, Argentina on Nov 26, 1975 (didn't I tell you I'm 29 30?). I've lived with my fiancee Bárbara since a year and a half ago, and she's the main cause of all my happiness.
I've been living in Mexico City for the last 3 years and a half, and I'm enjoying it all the time.
I started working in the IT industry while attending high school (selling Acer and clone PCs). After a year, when it was time to choose my career, I discarded Computer Science for Business School, becoming a full-fledged Accountant (at that time in Argentina it was the career that would land you a management position the soonest).
So it was kind of a rational decision, Internet didn't exist back then, and IT didn't have all the glamour it later had. I wanted to keep working on my hobby-passion, while preparing to run businesses «just in case».
Parting words
If all this makes sense, you can contact me by writing to andres[(at)]bianciotto.com.mx. If not, write anyway. I'll try to correct the personality traits you don't like, or (much likely) I'll just delete your email with a huge grin.
And the surprise? Grasshopper, if you kept reading until here, your patience is ready to leave the temple.


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Email remains a resilient form of communication for marketers, despite the myriad of other communication platforms available today. Most people check their emails at least once a day, and spam now has a hard time slipping through the net. What's more, email newsletters from businesses are a part of everyday life and if someone has subscribed to your list, the chances are they'll have at least some interest in what you have to say.
Having said that, the reality is that not everyone opens them, even if they have a genuine interest in your products and services. It's a busy world in the midst of a digital age, so readers' attention spans are stretched to the maximum; days pass quickly and time is precious. Those who don't want a chaotic inbox may delete your email instantly…unless you can grab their attention fast.
You have to stand out from the crowd.
If you want your communications to be noticed, you need to come up with content that is concise, intriguing, and visually compelling. An eye-catching design is more important than ever, and if your email doesn't look professional, your business won't either. Here are some basic rules for creating winning email newsletters:
1. Choose an Appealing Color Scheme
The aim here isn't to dazzle with a prism of color, but to establish brand recognition at the same time as presenting aesthetically pleasing content. The best way to do this is by matching your color scheme to your company logo. The logo will be one of the first things people see, as it's going to be part of your header.
Try matching your borders, fonts, headers and subheaders to the colors in your company logo. If your logo isn't particularly colorful, choose something compatible and use it consistently. People will associate these colors with your brand and come to recognise your emails before they even open them.
2. Give it a Compelling Header
This is your hook, so you need to get it right. People want to know who is talking to them and what it is they're expected to read. You wouldn't read a magazine that didn't have a name, or an article that didn't have a title, would you? A newsletter is no different.
Your header should consist of your company logo and name, and the newsletter title. The title should be clear and simple, preferably with an element of intrigue. It should focus on your industry rather than your business name, which nobody really cares about. For example, there is a distinct difference between "Wealthy Entrepreneur Today" and "Triple Your Profits Report". Don't actually call it a newsletter—it sounds a little dull… consider words like 'news', 'guide', 'review', or 'insider' instead.
To create decent headers, you can use online DIY tools like Stencil or Pixlr, which are easy enough for anyone to use. Once you have your header, you can keep on using it – just make sure you change your newsletter titles each time.
3. Go For Crisp, Clean Typeface(s) and a Simple Layout
As holding a person's attention is largely about ease, it's important not to challenge their eyes with overly fancy typefaces, or even multiple typefaces. Basic faces such as Times New Roman, Calibri or Helvetica are clean and familiar–you can't go wrong with those. One simple typeface throughout gives a neat look that won't take the attention away from your content.
Secondly, your newsletter must be legible. Nobody wants to see reams of text unfolding on their screen; that's a sure fire way to get deleted rapidly. Likewise, to avoid skim reading, you'll need to use punchy subheadings that tell the reader what the next section is about. You'll want to break the text up into several blocks, each with its own subheading. Make sure the subheadings are smaller than the main heading, and bigger than the article text.
Lastly, stack your content so that each piece of information appears in an organized fashion, ideally inside its own block or with divider lines. Side by side is also fine (dependent on the volume of text) but most newsletters are stacked block on top of block.
4. Use Plenty of Attractive Images
You need to strike a balance between chunks of text and relevant images. The images need to convey the point of the text somehow, so be careful not to share incongruent images just because they look good. The visual element of any communication is always the most powerful aspect. It keeps the overall look interesting, and creates space between the blocks of text. For example, placing one image on the right side of the text in one block and on the left side in the next can look good.
Taking your own photos is a good idea, provided you have a worthy camera and some editing ability. If not, opt for quality stock photos; you can get these from free sites if you don't want to fork out.
5. Make Sure Your Content is Relevant and Interesting
You should spend time analysing your database. Creating segments and email lists based on specific interests is a great idea; your click-through rate will be a lot higher this way. There are online platforms available that allow you to do all of this, and some give you statistics so you can see who is opening what, when, and how often (there's more on this below). This way, you can target your audiences more effectively over the long term.
Put yourself in your readers' shoes. Most of us want to be entertained in some way, and we want to read about things aligned with our interests. It's helpful to send out content that contains clear benefits, such as free information (think ebooks and articles), info-bites, events, industry news and offers. Be sure to encourage feedback with one-click surveys, and incentivize with prizes and discounts. Oh, and don't forget to include an unsubscribe option; you can't please everyone, however hard you try.
6. Use an Email Marketing Platform
If you want to take the hard work out of it, there are various platforms that help you to create engaging, visually attractive newsletters. Mailchimp is a particularly good one, but you have many to choose from. Some people prefer to use Photoshop and hand code, but this requires a little more knowledge.
Platforms like Mailchimp will cover all of the above design aspects for you. They will help you to create campaigns in a strategic manner, step by step. You'll be able to choose from various templates that help you lay things out in an appropriate style; you'll have drag and drop options to place your dividers, content blocks and images, and you can even add buttons that encourage people to click through to web pages.
You'll also have reasonable scope for reformatting, you can keep all your email lists in one place, and you can duplicate campaigns and change the details each time for swift send outs in a consistent format. Lastly, you can add a footer and put your social media links in the form of icons, making it easy for people to follow you with a couple of clicks.
You're almost ready to go…
Finally, don't forget to test your mails via your own email address before you send them out. Be consistent with your frequency; daily mails could be annoying, but once per week should be fine, depending on what you're sending. Follow these simple guidelines and it won't be long before you've created top quality communications that are bound to raise your profile and boost your brand awareness. Good luck!


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Xtra.fund is a DeFi venture which covers capital safety techniques and assurances that have formerly been unavailable in any blockchain venture.
Xtra.fund has been imparting B2B loans to corporations inside the lending enterprise functioning within the actual international within the European Union for over 6 years.
Xtra.fund is consequently a hybrid of actual-international mortgage income and the area of blockchain.
The decentralized fund, which ensures as much as 90% of the token buy price, is a crucial detail of the Xtra.fund.
Our long-time period aim is to construct the maximum worthwhile DeFi staking platform in history. Xtra.fund needs to gain an APY of 14.7% to 45.2% whilst being absolutely transparent, decentralized, and safe.
The Guarantee Fund and Lending Fund are specially meant to offer incredible returns whilst additionally making sure the safety of the investments.
1. Where will investors get their arms at the Xtra fund token?
PancakeSwap now gives the Xtra.fund Token. However, within the future, investors can maximum possibly be to be had on extra decentralized or managed exchanges.
2.How does the Guarantee Fund (GF) work (Example)
To illustrate, the users stakes 100,000 xtra.fund tokens, which at 0.001 is equal to 100$ investment for 100 days. The platform forecasts an expected ROI of 3.8 percent. This is a forecast and this profit may not be generated.
If the token price drops to the value of the guaranteed price, the fund will supplement the loss to the value of the investment.
If the token price drops more than the value of the guaranteed price, the fund will supplement the loss up to the guaranteed price.
If, after 100 days, the token price is 3.8 percent higher than the initial one, the user will be able to pay out the same number of tokens with the generated profit, of course in the investment value.
If the price rises by more than 3.8 percent but less than 103.8 percent, the additional profit in the investment value will be divided into 2 equal parts – one will go to the user, the other will to the Guarantee Fund.
For example, with an increase of 50%, the user's profit will be 21%.
If the token price rises more than 103.8 percent, the user gets ROI + 100% in the investment value.
If the price is the same, the user will pay out the same amount of tokens as he put in.
3.How big is the Guarantee Fund (GF)?
The initial number of XTRA.FUND tokens in GF is 80.000.000.000!
GF is powered by Liquidation Fees and token price appreciation.
Remember that 80% of all tokens are in the Guarantee Fund, which is protected by Smart Contract against any modification by the team!
4. What is a LENDING Fund (LF) and who can use it?
XTRA.FUND cooperates with loan market consortia like Kuzman, Primecorporation, Kuzman Development, etc. that have long experience and offer B2B loans on the real EU market.
Additionally, we are in talks about cooperation in the ASIAN market.
Thanks to this cooperation, XTRA.FUND can share high profits that come from such cooperation and distribute them to its users TODAY.
XTRA.FUND is therefore a combination of the world of real-world profits arising from loans with the world of blockchain technology.
Lending Fund (LF) specializes in loans to micro and small businesses (B2B). Financing is offered for the period of 12 months. MIN LOAN INTEREST IS 56% YEARLY. Transactions are secured by "blank" notes from borrowers and other guarantees. The LF business model is based on modern technologies, the best credit information providers and proprietary risk assessment models.
5.Why does it have high profits in XTRA?
We seek out those markets with the highest returns to give XTRA.FUND the highest APYs.
It's easy to count profits that XTRA can generate – users can expect a very tempting range from 14.7% to 45.2% per annum.
Why can we afford such a high rate of return? All thanks to our real-world LOAN CONSORTIUM which offers loans with an annual interest of 56%.
So even if every XTRA USER staked for 10 or 15 years (which gives them a return of 45% per year), the company still earns 11% on the difference.
Currently the average profit of the XTRA CONSORTIUM is between 25% – 30% since our average XTARIAN investor stakes between 1 and 3 years.
6. What precisely is staking?
Staking is a trustworthy process. Investors can lock their coins for the term they decide, and at the belief of the staking period, they can gather the precept and they can be staked plus any hobby that has amassed over time.
Simply visit the internet site and click on the stake button, hyperlink the Metamask wallet,choose the quantity and staking time, and complete the process.
It is crucial to mention that on desktop, investors need to upload the Metamask plugin to the browser,but on mobile, it can be accessed using the Metamask inner browser.
Each cryptocurrency pocket carries keys: public and personal. The public secrets are absolutely public, permitting different users, exchanges, or systems to deposit finances into your account.
However, investors want a related personal key to retrieve that cash. This is why it's vital to preserve the personal key private in any respect.
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To close out a big year for Dream Theater, guitarist John Petrucci, keyboard player Jordan Rudess and drummer Mike Mangini recently sat down to answer a series of burning questions. Check out their answers below!
Dream Theater recently received their first-ever Grammy nomination for "On The Backs Of Angels" in the Best Hard Rock/Metal Category.
1. Noting your current album is called A Dramatic Turn Of Events, what dramatic historical event would you like to have witnessed?
John Petrucci (Guitar and Vocals): Many of the events occurring recently that are shaping the world we live in have to do with uprising and breaking free from oppressive rule. Our own American Revolution must have been an incredible moment to have lived through.
Jordan Rudess (Keyboards and Continuum): Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was premiered on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the Consecration of the House Overture and the first three parts of the Missa Solemnis. This was the composer's first on-stage appearance in twelve years; the hall was packed. I would certainly have wanted to witness that!!
Mike Mangini (Drums): One dramatic historical event that I would have liked to witness was Jesus walking on water to the boat full of apostles. That ranks high on my list of "jaw-dropping" events.
2. Can you talk about a song or musical moment on the new album that you feel brings you as a musician and/or the band to a new level?
JP: For me, including the song "Beneath The Surface" on the new album was something unique and special. It is a song that exposes a very personal subject matter in a song structure that is a bit different from what DT is known for. Taking those types of risks makes for a more interesting and compelling album.
JR: I feel that the song "Outcry" really brings our band to the next level. Although it is surrounded by some very majestic thematic sections, the whole center section of the song is the wildest prog we have ever written. When we play it live, it is like this amazing ride that you strap yourself into and make a commitment to and when you finally reach the end, you feel like "wow" that was cool!!
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MM: One musical moment on the new album I feel brings the band and me to a new level is the first "riff" section in "On the Backs of Angels." I had practiced hard to play this, so I got better from it. This section features a level of coordination that allows me to orchestrate the simultaneously (but different) parts played by the guys. The 'Johns' [Petrucci,guitar; Myung, bass] are playing in unison and Jordan is playing a different part. I feel that by coloring it in rather than layering on another complex part, or too simple a drumbeat, is very different for DT.
3. If you were to record a duet with an artist outside the genre of music for which you're known, who would that be and what song would you cover?
JP: I would love to record a version of "In Your Eyes" with Peter Gabriel.
JR: It would be cool to do a duet with Yo Yo Ma. Maybe an arrangement of "Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones--that would be beautiful.
MM: If I recorded a duet with an artist outside of the progressive rock genre, I would record a drum track with Violinist Itzhak Perlman. In this duet, I would orchestrate his violin part on the drums like it was a drum solo with associated musical notes.
4. The new album proves that you guys remain as uncompromising and fearless as ever; 3 of the 9 songs clock in over 10 minutes. What do you feel these expansive song lengths enable the band to achieve musically?
JP: By breaking the boundaries of traditional song arrangements and time constraints, we are able to develop ideas more fully. The music is allowed to take some twists and turns, and take the listener on a more adventurous type of sonic journey. It also enables us to stretch out on record as soloists and to develop our lyrical concepts and musical themes more thoroughly.
JR: As someone who grew up studying classical music, the idea of longer forms feels very natural. It takes a while to fully develop and explore musical themes and emotions. We love the idea of taking the listener on a journey or "experience" and the longer form definitely allows that! All told though, we have nothing against a good standard song format and enjoy working in that form as well!
MM: The expansive song lengths we use in Dream Theater allow us to achieve a level of artistic completion with an idea. By being able to add sections in a song, or expand on them, we're able to explore music like it is a journey rather than to play a recurring theme over and over.
5. If you could have a conversation with any historical figure, living or dead, who would it be and why?
JP: Well, he may not be an historical figure exactly but it would be amazing to sit down and talk with Walt Disney.
JR: I'd like to hang with Jimi Hendrix because to me he was the epitome of cool. He had a flow and trippiness to his music that influenced me so much. It would have been cool to feel the energy of the human being in person!
MM: I would have a conversation with Pope John Paul 2nd out of any historical figure. I would ask him how to interpret the philosophies of Aquinas, Augustine and Marcus Aurelius, as well as his own with regard to the use of musical talent as it affects the human soul.
6. As musicians who tour the world regularly, we're sure you have had that classic night where it all goes wrong a la Spinal Tap. So can you describe your worst night on tour, ever?
JP: Although there are many embarrassing moments that I would rather choose to forget, there probably isn't anything much worse than falling off the stage. It was a long time ago and very early on in our career. I literally walked right off the front of the stage and fell into the audience. You heard a loud "clunk" and it stung a bit but I got up and continued the song! I promise you'll never see me do that again!
JR: The final night of our last tour we were in Mexico City, Mexico. It was a huge show! The total Spinal Tap moment was when 20 minutes into the show, my hydraulic keyboard stand got stuck in the down angle position! I played the rest of the show (one hour and forty minutes) on this very unusual angle, hoping that as each section went by I would be able to keep it all together. The whole band was looking at me and knew that I was in trouble! Some were taking pictures and others just looked at me sadly. It was amazing but true that I managed to play all the keyboard parts fairly well, even in this predicament!
MM: My worst night on tour can appear more than once in that it has to do with not enough warm-up time. This shows itself in the form of a song mess-up because I'm thinking about how to loosen up as quickly as possible. The level of mental and physical pressure I put on myself to play what it is my mind is greater than my body can accommodate if I am not warmed up enough. It is a rare night that I can just walk to the stage with no warm up and play, but it isn't a random thing. I have to be feeling just the right combination of mental calm and physical looseness in order to do that.


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Lincoln's Contested Legacy
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was our sixteenth president?
From the time of his death in 1865 to the 200th anniversary of his birth, February 12, 2009, there has never been a decade in which Abraham Lincoln's influence has not been felt. Yet it has not been a smooth, unfolding history, but a jagged narrative filled with contention and revisionism. Lincoln's legacy has shifted again and again as different groups have interpreted him. Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, East Coast elites and prairie Westerners, liberals and conservatives, the religious and secular, scholars and popularizers—all have recalled a sometimes startlingly different Lincoln. He has been lifted up by both sides of the Temperance Movement; invoked for and against federal intervention in the economy; heralded by anti-communists, such as Senator Joseph McCarthy, and by American communists, such as those who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the fight against the fascist Spanish government in the 1930s. Lincoln has been used to justify support for and against incursions on civil liberties, and has been proclaimed both a true and a false friend to African-Americans. Was he at heart a "progressive man" whose death was an "unspeakable calamity" for African-Americans, as Frederick Douglass insisted in 1865? Or was he "the embodiment...of the American Tradition of racism," as African-American writer Lerone Bennett Jr. sought to document in a 2000 book?
It is often argued that Lincoln's abiding reputation is the result of his martyrdom. And certainly the assassination, occurring as it did on Good Friday, propelled him into reverential heights. Speaking at a commemoration at the Athenaeum Club in New York City on April 18, 1865, three days after Lincoln died, Parke Godwin, editor of the Evening Post, summed up the prevailing mood. "No loss has been comparable to his," Godwin said. "Never in human history has there been so universal, so spontaneous, so profound an expression of a nation's bereavement." He was the first American president to be assassinated, and waves of grief touched every type of neighborhood and every class—at least in the North. But the shock at the murder explains only part of the tidal wave of mourning. It is hard to imagine that the assassination of James Buchanan or Franklin Pierce would have had the same impact on the national psyche. The level of grief reflected who Lincoln was and what he had come to represent. "Through all his public function," Godwin said, "there shone the fact that he was a wise and good man.... [He was] our supremest leader—our safest counsellor—our wisest friend—our dear father."
Not everyone agreed. Northern Democrats had been deeply opposed to Lincoln's wartime suspension of habeas corpus, which led to the imprisonment without trial of thousands of suspected traitors and war protesters. Though Lincoln had taken care to proceed constitutionally and with restraint, his opponents decried his "tyrannical" rule. But in the wake of the assassination even his critics were silent.
Across much of the South, of course, Lincoln was hated, even in death. Though Robert E. Lee and many Southerners expressed regret over the murder, others saw it as an act of Providence, and cast John Wilkes Booth as the bold slayer of an American tyrant. "All honor to J. Wilkes Booth," wrote Southern diarist Kate Stone (referring as well to the simultaneous, though not fatal, attack on Secretary of State William Seward): "What torrents of blood Lincoln has caused to flow, and how Seward has aided him in his bloody work. I cannot be sorry for their fate. They deserve it. They have reaped their just reward."
Four years after Lincoln's death, Massachusetts journalist Russell Conwell found widespread, lingering bitterness toward Lincoln in the ten former Confederate states that Conwell visited. "Portraits of Jeff Davis and Lee hang in all their parlors, decorated with Confederate flags," he wrote. "Photographs of Wilkes Booth, with the last words of great martyrs printed upon its borders; effigies of Abraham Lincoln hanging by the neck...adorn their drawing rooms." The Rebellion here "seems not to be dead yet," Conwell concluded.
For their part, African-Americans' pangs of loss were tinged with fear for their future. Few promoted Lincoln's legacy more passionately than critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass, whose frustration at the presidency of Andrew Johnson kept growing. Lincoln was "a progressive man, a human man, an honorable man, and at heart an antislavery man," Douglass wrote in December 1865. "I assume...had Abraham Lincoln been spared to see this day, the negro of the South would have had more hope of enfranchisement." Ten years later, at the dedication of the Freedmen's Memorial in Washington, D.C., Douglass seemed to recant these words, calling Lincoln "preeminently the white man's President" and American blacks "at best only his step-children." But Douglass' purpose that day was to puncture the sentimentality of the occasion and to criticize the government's abandonment of Reconstruction. And in the final decades of his long life Douglass repeatedly invoked Lincoln as having embodied the spirit of racial progress.
Douglass' worries about America proved prophetic. By the 1890s, with the failure of Reconstruction and the advent of Jim Crow, Lincoln's legacy of emancipation lay in ruins. Regional reconciliation—the healing of the rift between North and South—had supplanted the nation's commitment to civil rights. In 1895, at a gathering of Union and Confederate soldiers in Chicago, the topics of slavery and race were set aside in favor of a focus on North-South reconciliation. As the 1909 centennial of Lincoln's birth approached, race relations in the country were reaching a nadir.
In August 1908, riots broke out in Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois, after a white woman, Mabel Hallam, claimed she had been raped by a local black man, George Richardson. (She later admitted to making up the story.) On Friday, August 14, two thousand white men and boys began to attack African-Americans and set fire to black businesses. "Lincoln freed you," rioters were heard to yell. "We'll show you where you belong." The next night, the mob approached the shop of William Donnegan, a 79-year-old African-American shoemaker who had made boots for Lincoln and at whose brother's barbershop Lincoln used to mingle with African-Americans. Setting fire to Donnegan's shop, the mob dragged the old man outside and pelted him with bricks, then slashed his throat. Still alive, he was dragged across the street into a school courtyard. There, not far from a statue of Abraham Lincoln, he was hoisted up a tree and left to die.
Horrified by the reports of such ugly violence, a group of New York City activists formed the National Negro Committee, soon to be renamed the NAACP, with a young scholar named W.E.B. Du Bois to serve as director of publicity and research. From its beginning, the organization's mission was intertwined with Lincoln's, as one of its early statements made clear: "Abraham Lincoln began the emancipation of the Negro American. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People proposes to complete it."
The centennial of Lincoln's birth marked the largest commemoration of any person in American history. The Lincoln penny was minted, the first coin bearing the image of an American president, and talks took place in Washington about a grand Lincoln monument to be erected in the nation's capital. All across the country, and in many nations around the world, America's 16th president was extolled. An editorial in the London Times declared, "Together with Washington, Lincoln occupies a pinnacle to which no third person is likely to attain." The commander of the Brazilian Navy ordered a 21-gun salute "in homage to the memory of that noble martyr of moral and of neighborly love." The former states of the Confederacy, which less than 50 years earlier had rejoiced at Lincoln's death, now paid tribute to the leader who had reunified the nation. W. C. Calland, a state official in Missouri—which, during the Civil War, had been a border state that contributed 40,000 troops to the Confederate cause—barely contained his astonishment in a memorandum reporting on the festivities: "Perhaps no event could have gathered around it so much of patriotic sentiment in the South as the birthday of Abraham Lincoln....Confederate veterans held public services and gave public expression to the sentiment, that had 'Lincoln lived' the days of reconstruction might have been softened and the era of good feeling ushered in earlier."
In most of America the celebrations were thoroughly segregated, including in Springfield, where blacks (with the exception of a declined invitation to Booker T. Washington) were excluded from a dazzling gala dinner. As the Chicago Tribune reported, it "is to be a lily white affair from start to finish." Across town, inside one of Springfield's most prominent black churches, African-Americans met for their own celebration. "We colored people love and revere the memory of Lincoln," said the Rev. L. H. Magee. "His name is a synonym for the freedom of wife, husband and children, and a chance to live in a free country, fearless of the slave-catcher and his bloodhounds." Referring to the "sacred dust of the great emancipator" lying in Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery, Magee called upon black people across America to make pilgrimages to Lincoln's tomb. And he cast his gaze forward a hundred years—to the bicentennial of 2009—and envisioned a Lincoln celebration "by the great-grandchildren of those who celebrate this centenary." In that far-off year, Magee predicted, "prejudice shall have been banished as a myth and relegated to the dark days of 'Salem witchcraft.' "
A notable exception to the rule of segregated commemorations took place in Kentucky, where President Theodore Roosevelt, a longtime Lincoln admirer, presided over a dramatic ceremony at the old Lincoln homestead. Lincoln's birth cabin, of dubious provenance, had been purchased from promoters who had been displaying it around the country. Now the state, with Congressional support, planned to rebuild it on its original site, on a knoll above the Sinking Spring that had originally attracted Thomas Lincoln, the president's father, to the property. The 110-acre farmstead would become the "nation's commons," it was declared—a crossroads linking the entire country.
Seven thousand people showed up for the dedication, including a number of African-Americans, who mixed in among the others with no thought of separation. When Roosevelt began his speech he hopped onto a chair and was greeted by cheers. "As the years [roll] by," he said in his crisp, excitable voice, "...this whole Nation will grow to feel a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days; the lover of his country and of all mankind; the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race: Abraham Lincoln." The ceremony in Kentucky heralded the possibility of national reconciliation and racial justice proceeding hand in hand. But that was not to be, as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 13 years later would make all too clear.
Members of the Lincoln Memorial commission—created by Congress in 1911—saw the monument not only as a tribute to the 16th president but also as a symbol of a reunified nation. With Northerners and Southerners having fought side by side in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and again in World War I, it was time, they felt, to put aside sectional differences once and for all. This meant that the Lincoln honored on the National Mall must not be the man who had broken the South militarily or had crushed the institution of slavery but the preserver of the Union. "By emphasizing his saving the Union you appeal to both sections," wrote Royal Cortissoz, author of the inscription that would be etched inside the finished building behind Daniel Chester French's nearly 20-foot-tall sculpture of the seated Lincoln. "By saying nothing about slavery you avoid the rubbing of old sores."
Two American presidents—Warren G. Harding and William Howard Taft—took part in the dedication ceremonies held on May 30, 1922, and loudspeakers on the memorial's rooftop carried the festivities across the Mall. Black guests were seated in a "colored section" off to the side. The commissioners had included a black speaker in the program; not wanting an activist who might challenge the mostly white audience, they had chosen Robert Russa Moton, the mild-mannered president of Tuskegee Institute, and required him to submit his text in advance for revision. But in what turned out to be the most powerful speech of the day, Moton highlighted Lincoln's emancipationist legacy and challenged Americans to live up to their calling to be a people of "equal justice and equal opportunity."
In the days that followed, Moton's speech went almost entirely unreported. Even his name was dropped from the record—in most accounts Moton was referred to simply as "a representative of the race." African-Americans across the country were outraged. The Chicago Defender, an African-American weekly, urged a boycott of the Lincoln Memorial until it was properly dedicated to the real Lincoln. Not long afterward, at a large gathering in front of the monument, Bishop E.D.W. Jones, an African-American religious leader, insisted that "the immortality of the great emancipator lay not in his preservation of the Union, but in his giving freedom to the negroes of America."
In the decades since, the Lincoln Memorial has been the scene of many dramatic moments in history. A photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt taken at the memorial on February 12, 1938, shows him leaning against a military attaché, his hand on his heart. "I do not know which party Lincoln would belong to if he were alive," Roosevelt said two years later. "His sympathies and his motives of championship of humanity itself have made him for all centuries to come the legitimate property of all parties—of every man and woman and child in every part of our land." On April 9, 1939, after being denied the use of Constitution Hall in Washington because of her race, the great contralto Marian Anderson was invited to sing at the Lincoln Memorial. Seventy-five thousand people, black and white, gathered at the monument for an emotional concert that further linked Lincoln's memory to racial progress. Three years later, during the bleak days of World War II, when it seemed that the Allies might lose the war, Lincoln's memory served as a potent force of national encouragement. In July 1942, on an outdoor stage within view of the Lincoln Memorial, a powerful performance of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" took place, with Carl Sandburg reading Lincoln's words, including "we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
In 1957, a 28-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. came to the Lincoln Memorial to help lead a protest for black voting rights. "The spirit of Lincoln still lives," he had proclaimed before the protest. Six years later, in 1963, he returned for the March on Washington. The August day was bright and sunny, and more than 200,000 people, black and white, converged on the Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial. King's speech called Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation "a beacon of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been scarred in the flame of withering injustice." But it was not enough, he went on, simply to glorify the past. "One hundred years later we must face the tragic fact the Negro is still not free....is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chain of discrimination." And then he told the enraptured crowd, "I have a dream." Author and New York Times book critic Richard Bernstein later called King's words "the single most important piece of American oratory since Lincoln's Gettysburg Address."
Just three months after the speech, President John F. Kennedy would be assassinated, ushering in a period of national grief not unlike that after Lincoln's murder. Also echoing the previous century, Kennedy's efforts to advance civil rights had prompted some to mourn him as the "second emancipator." A. Philip Randolph, who had organized the March on Washington, declared that the time had come to complete "this unfinished business of American democracy for which two presidents have died."
To address a profound need for national healing and unity, JFK's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy—in consultation with other family members and official planners—decided to model her slain husband's funeral upon Lincoln's. The president's casket was laid in state inside the White House East Room, and was later taken to the Great Rotunda of the Capitol and rested upon the catafalque used at Lincoln's funeral. On their final procession to Arlington National Cemetery, the funeral cars passed reverently by the Lincoln Memorial. One of the most poignant images from that era was a political cartoon drawn by Bill Mauldin, depicting the statue of Lincoln bent over in grief.
In the nearly half century since, Lincoln's reputation has been under assault from various quarters. Malcolm X broke with the long tradition of African-American admiration for Lincoln, saying in 1964 that he had done "more to trick Negroes than any other man in history." In 1968, pointing to clear examples of Lincoln's racial prejudice, Lerone Bennett Jr. asked in Ebony magazine, "Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?" (His answer: yes.) The 1960s and '70s were a period in which icons of all kinds—especially great leaders of the past—were being smashed, and Lincoln was no exception. Old arguments surfaced that he had never really cared about emancipation, that he was at heart a political opportunist. States' rights libertarians criticized his aggressive handling of the Civil War, his assaults on civil liberties and his aggrandizing of federal government.
In particular, the Nixon administration's perceived abuse of executive power during the Vietnam War prompted unflattering comparisons with Lincoln's wartime measures. Some scholars, however, rejected such comparisons, noting that Lincoln reluctantly did what he thought necessary to preserve the Constitution and the nation. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., for one, wrote in 1973 that since the Vietnam War didn't rise to the same level of national crisis, Nixon "has sought to establish as a normal Presidential power what previous Presidents had regarded as power justified only by extreme emergencies. . . . He does not, like Lincoln, confess to doubt about the legality of his course."
Decades later, another war would again bring Lincoln's legacy to the fore. Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush addressed Congress with words evocative of Lincoln's comments at the outset of the Civil War: "The course of this conflict is not known," Bush said, "yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." As in the Vietnam era, subsequent controversies over the White House's conduct of the war on terror—such as the use of secret wiretapping and the detention of "enemy combatants" without trial—provoked another round of debates over presidential powers and the precedents created by Lincoln.
Despite such lingering controversies, Lincoln has consistently polled as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents, along with George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt. And though many African-Americans lost their veneration for him over the decades, recent statements by President Barack Obama and others suggest renewed appreciation. It was black Americans, after all, who refused to give up on Lincoln's emancipationist legacy even when American whites wanted to forget it. And if Lincoln shared in the racial prejudice of his day, it is also true that his outlook grew significantly over the years of his presidency. He was "the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely," Frederick Douglass wrote, "who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, of the difference of color."
And yet, as Bennett and others have rightly insisted, the Lincoln of earlier generations of blacks was also in part a mythic figure—his own racial prejudices passed over too lightly, even as African-Americans' roles in emancipation were underemphasized. In a series of 1922 editorials for the NAACP journal the Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois stressed the importance of taking Lincoln off his pedestal in order to place attention on the need for ongoing progress. But Du Bois refused to reject Lincoln in the process. "The scars and foibles and contradictions of the Great do not diminish but enhance the worth and meaning of their upward struggle," he wrote. Of all the great figures of the 19th century, "Lincoln is to me the most human and lovable. And I love him not because he was perfect but because he was not and yet triumphed." In a 2005 essay in Time magazine, Obama said much the same thing: "I am fully aware of his limited views on race. But...[in] the midst of slavery's dark storm and the complexities of governing a house divided, he somehow kept his moral compass pointed firm and true."
Lincoln will always remain the president who helped destroy slavery and preserved the Union. With stubbornness, caution and an exquisite sense of timing, he engaged almost physically with unfolding history. Derided by some as an opportunist, he was in fact an artist, responding to events as he himself changed over time, allowing himself to grow into a true reformer. Misjudged as a mere jokester, incompetent, unserious, he was in fact the most serious actor on the political stage. He was politically shrewd, and he took a long view of history. And he knew when to strike to obtain his ends. Just for his work on behalf of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, he has earned a permanent place in the history of human freedom.
In addition, he was a man of patience who refused to demonize others; a person of the middle who could build bridges across chasms. Herein may lie one of his most important legacies—his unwavering desire to reunite the American people. In Chicago's Grant Park, the night he was declared the winner of the 2008 election, Obama sought to capture that sentiment, quoting from Lincoln's first inaugural address: "We are not enemies, but friends.... Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."
And with the inauguration of the nation's first African-American president, we remember that, in 1864, with the Union war effort going badly, the national government might have been tempted to suspend the upcoming elections. Not only did Lincoln insist they take place, he staked his campaign on a controversial platform calling for the 13th Amendment, willing to risk everything on its behalf. When he went on to an overwhelming victory in November, he obtained a mandate to carry through his program. "[I]f the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election," he spoke to a gathered crowd from a White House window, "it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us....[The election] has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election, in the midst of a great civil war."
Around the world, governments routinely suspend elections, citing the justification of a "national emergency." Yet Lincoln set a precedent that would guarantee the voting rights of the American people through subsequent wars and economic depressions. Though our understanding of him is more nuanced than it once was, and we are more able to recognize his limitations as well as his strengths, Abraham Lincoln remains the great example of democratic leadership—by most criteria, truly our greatest president.
Philip B. Kunhardt III is co-author of the 2008 book Looking for Lincoln and a Bard Center Fellow.


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Notice Number: NOT-OD-10-037
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers
93.701, 93.702
Key Dates
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Receipt Date: March 1, 2010
Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov/)
(All NIH Institutes and Centers participate in this initiative.)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States (U.S.) institutions/organizations with active NIH research grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose of expanding the numbers of researchers qualified to oversee or conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER). Support for these supplements will come from funds provided to NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( Recovery Act or ARRA ), Public Law 111-5. Consistent with the intent of the Recovery Act, the purpose of this program is to promote job creation and economic development along with accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research. This NIH Administrative Supplement Overview describes the NIH CER-specific areas of interest, process for submitting requests, and selection criteria.
Priority-Setting Process and Inputs for Use of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Secretary (OS) ARRA Funds
There were four main inputs for priorities for OS ARRA comparative effectiveness research funds: public input; an internal Departmental workgroup; the Federal Coordinating Council report; and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. The Federal Coordinating Council identified the following as minimum threshold criteria which must be met to be considered for funding:
The Comparative Effectiveness Research - Coordination and Implementation Team (CER-CIT) will require the use of the Federal Coordinating Council's prioritization criteria for scientifically meritorious research and investments for all projects funded with OS ARRA funds. These criteria are:
Finally, investments funded from this appropriation must address at least one of the following topic areas:
A current list of priority conditions includes:
The Recovery Act was signed into law on February 17, 2009, with the purpose of stimulating the United States (U.S.) economy through job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, and other means. This administrative supplement opportunity uses funds appropriated for the purpose of CER and is one part of the overall NIH Recovery Act investment strategy, as described at www.nih.gov/recovery. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, the definition of comparative effectiveness research, which adheres to that adopted by the Federal Coordinating Council (go to http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/cer/execsummary.html), is as follows:
Comparative effectiveness research is the conduct and synthesis of research comparing the benefits and harms of different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor health conditions in real world settings. The purpose of this research is to improve health outcomes by developing and disseminating evidence-based information to patients, clinicians, and other decision-makers, responding to their expressed needs, about which interventions are most effective for which patients under specific circumstances.
Priority-Setting Process and Inputs for Use of OS ARRA Funds
There were four main inputs for priorities for OS ARRA comparative effectiveness research funds: public input, an internal Departmental workgroup, the Federal Coordinating Council report, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. The Federal Coordinating Council identified the following as minimum threshold criteria which must be met to be considered for funding:
The Comparative Effectiveness Research-Coordination and Implementation Team (CER-CIT) will require the use of the Federal Coordinating Council's prioritization criteria for scientifically meritorious research and investments for all projects funded with OS ARRA funds, which are: potential impact (based on prevalence of condition, burden of disease, variability in outcomes, costs, potential for increased patient benefit or decreased harm); potential to evaluate comparative effectiveness in diverse populations and patient sub-groups and engage communities in research; addresses existing uncertainty within the clinical and public health communities regarding management decisions and variability in practice; addresses a need or is unlikely to be addressed through other organizations; and potential for multiplicative effect.
Finally, investments funded from this appropriation must address at least one of the following topic areas:
A current list of priority conditions is as follows:
Areas of Interest
The introduction of multiple approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an increasing range of disorders creates dilemmas for health care providers and patients as they seek the most effective option(s). The discipline of CER has been increasingly emphasized as providing a rational basis for making choices, and has been the topic for recent reports (go to http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/cer/cerannualrpt.pdf and http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/ComparativeEffectivenessResearchPriorities.aspx). CER requires specialized knowledge and skills ranging from strategies for access to patients in their real world environments to economic modeling, human subject consent issues to study design, methodology, and analysis. NIH has a substantial track record of CER studies and has determined that an increase in CER will require a workforce expansion. To meet projected needs, NIH will support the training, education, and career development of researchers in CER through supplements to existing training, career development, and eligible clinical research infrastructure awards. The NIH supports the mandate of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by preserving and creating jobs through building research and resource capacity, partnerships, and innovative biomedical research activities. It is expected that the ARRA funds provided by the NIH to the research community will provide needed investment to stimulate the economy through spurring technological/methodological advances in science and health. The impact is expected to extend beyond the immediate applicant who receives funds.
In accordance with the Recovery Act, additional reporting requirements are expected with the conduct of research under these administrative supplements. Grantees must comply with the requirements set forth in the Recovery Act, including, but not limited to, the quarterly reporting requirements of Section 1512 of the Recovery Act as specified in HHS Standard Terms and Conditions for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The full text of these terms approved for NIH awards can be found in the following document: Standard Terms and Conditions for ARRA awards. Recovery Act-related reporting requirements will be incorporated as a special term of award. The due date deadline for receipt of NIH Administrative Supplement requests in response to this opportunity is March 1, 2010.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Workforce Development Administrative Supplement TopicsThis initiative will provide new training, education, and career development opportunities to researchers and their mentors and teachers which will develop and/or enhance skills essential to conduct CER and disseminate science information about CER. Training, education, and career development needs to be both multidisciplinary and multispecialty. Preference will be given to activities whose educational impact extend or can be disseminated beyond the awardee institution. Workforce development outcomes might include, but are not limited to:
If the workforce development opportunity focuses on a research topic, the research topic must address at least one of the following topic areas (as cited in the above background section on Priority Setting Process ):
1) One of the 100 IOM recommendations;
2) An issue within one the MMA 14 Priority Conditions identified by AHRQ (pursuant to Section 1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003) which are not currently addressed; and/or
3) Fall into one of the AHRQ identified evidence gaps.
This administrative supplement provides the opportunity for eligible grantees to develop, expand, and/or increase CER training, education, and career development program(s) within existing Domestic (U.S.) NIH-supported grants. The Principal Investigator (PI) of the Supplement Request must be the PI named on an NIH award. Funding will be restricted to the proposed project. Some types of awards from NIH (for example, S10 awards and many R and P awards) are not eligible for administrative supplements. Questions about eligibility should be addressed to the program officer and/or the grants management specialist for the award.
To be eligible, the parent grant must be active and the training, education, and career development activities proposed in the supplement must be accomplished within the current competitive segment. For example, if the parent award expires on September 30, 2011, the work proposed in the supplement must be complete by that time. The proposed supplement MUST be within the general scope of the peer-reviewed activities and aims approved within the parent grant, including projects on a no-cost extension; while supplemental funds may be awarded to grants during a no-cost extension, the period of support cannot extend beyond the award period for the additional time that was granted. Institutional awards that support the scope of training envisaged in this supplement announcement include the K12, K30, T32, T35, and T90 mechanisms, together with their KL and TL equivalents. Potential applicants unsure of their eligibility should contact their Institutional Program Officers. Note that while NIH recommends that a no-cost extension already be in place before an administrative supplement request is submitted, this is not a requirement for all administrative supplement requests. There is no limit on the number of applications a single awardee institution may submit. NIH encourages the participation of individuals from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research, individuals with disabilities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Applications from Foreign institutions are not permitted. Consistent with the goals of the Recovery Act to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery in the U.S., applicants must be Domestic (U.S.) institutions/organizations (i.e., those that are located in the 50 States and Territories and Possessions of the U.S.). In addition, Domestic U.S. institutions planning to submit supplement requests that include Foreign components should be aware that requested funding for any Foreign components should not exceed 10% of the total requested direct costs or $25,000 per year (per subcontract/subaward or in aggregate for multiple subcontracts/subawards), whichever is less. IMPORTANT: The funds requested by the NIH grantee in the supplement application must be within the general scope of the peer-reviewed activities and aims approved within the parent grant. A request to support new research objectives and aims that are outside of the scope of the approved parent grant (e.g., inclusion of new human subjects or animal studies that were not part of the parent grant) are not appropriate under an administrative supplement. The funding method being used to support this program, administrative supplements, can be used to cover cost increases that are associated with increasing the tempo of the education, training, and career development activities funded under the parent grant and/or achieving certain new research objectives as long as they are within the scope of the parent project.
Preferences will be given to requests demonstrating multidisciplinary and/or multispecialty representation. NIH encourages a research environment which utilizes collaborative partnerships. Some examples of the types of supplements that could be appropriate include, but are not limited to: adding scholar or training slots for CER education and training through short courses, Certificate programs, and advanced degree-awarding programs; creating a course curriculum for early or midcareer researchers to develop or enhance skills in CER; creating an outreach training or course for community based research to develop or enhance skills in CER; and developing a CER training or course to include related fields such as communication and information dissemination science, medical decision-making, and outcomes and evaluation research as long as the proposal's specific aims supports Federal Coordinating Council-defined CER.
Any cost increases need to result from making modifications to the parent project in order to take advantage of opportunities that would increase the value of the project consistent with its originally approved objectives and purposes or to accelerate the tempo of scientific research/scientific activities. NIH will not consider requests which are solely to restore previously applied budget adjustments to a project nor to supplant institutional commitments supporting individuals and other costs previously committed to projects.
Preparing an Administrative Supplement Request
Requests submitted in response to this Notice must use the PHS 398 forms (rev. 11/2007; available at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html) and include the following elements in the request packet. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications electronically as an e-mail attachment in PDF format; however, the signature of the institutional official must be clearly visible. Applicants may also submit applications in paper format to the appropriate NIH Grants Management contact person. Font size restrictions apply as designated within the PHS398 instructions.
1) Cover Letter -- Specify a request for a Recovery Act Administrative Supplement, including the following information:
2) PHS 398 Form Page 1 (Face page) (MS Word PDF) Provide requested information as follows:
3) PHS 398 Form page 2 MS Word PDF Note: The project summary is that of the administrative supplement, not the parent grant. All other information requested on Form Page 2 should be provided.
4) A brief proposal describing the project (with parts 4a and 4b not exceeding five pages), should include:
a. An introduction that clearly states the scope of the overall project and the anticipated contribution of the requested supplement. Summarize the activities that were included in the parent grant that encompass multidisciplinary education and training that will provide the capacity to develop education, training, and mentoring in comparative effectiveness research.
b. The research project plan should discuss how the supplement will expand the workforce qualified to work on CER and/or allow for job creation and retention. This section should include a description of the supplement's plan for trainee and scholar recruitment, training, environment, career development, mentoring and/or opportunities for obtaining higher degrees. Describe the relationship of the supplement request to the parent grant. The specific aim(s) in the parent award that the proposed work falls under must be clearly stated. In order to ensure that all expenditures in support of an administrative supplement advance the objectives of the Recovery Act, all applications must address Recovery Act justifications, including how the supplement is expected to stimulate the economy by:
i. Enabling hiring of additional staff;
ii. Enabling increased hours of current part-time staff;
iii. Recruiting for additional needed skills.
c. Budget for the supplement with a justification that details the items requested, including Facilities and Administrative costs and a justification for all personnel and their role(s) in this project. Note the budget should be appropriate for the work proposed in the supplement request. Applicants are encouraged to discuss budgets with their NIH Program Officer. To meet the various transparency, accountability, and reporting requirements of Recovery Act, all applications under this notice must include detailed budgets on the PHS 398 Form Pages 4 (MS Word PDF) and 5 (MS Word PDF). Modular budget pages will not be accepted even when the parent grant was funded as a modular grant. See Budget and Funding Information below for additional information.
d. Biographical Sketch for all new Senior/Key Personnel. There is no need to repeat information previously provided for other Senior/Key Personnel. MS Word PDF
e. Human Subjects/Vertebrate Animal documentation (if applicable). Include a current Human Subjects/Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Vertebrate Animals/Instutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) approval letter, if applicable. Otherwise, this letter will be required at time of funding. All appropriate IRB and IACUC approvals must be in place prior to a supplement award being made. No significant changes in the approved use of human subjects or vertebrate animals will be considered for administrative supplements.
f. PHS 398 Checklist Form MS Word PDF
Selection Factors
Administrative supplement requests will be reviewed administratively by NIH Program and Grants Management staff persons with expertise relevant to the supplement request. Awards will be determined on the basis of the merit of the supplement request, its applicability to the goals of the Recovery Act, and the availability of funds. Selection factors will include the following:
While geographic variation will be considered in awarding Recovery Act funding, the scientific merit of each request will always be the prevailing criterion.
Budget and Funding Information
The maximum sum that may be requested is $500,000, as total costs. Funding for administrative supplements to existing grants will be available from Recovery Act funds in FY2010 only. Up to 16 awards may be made. It is anticipated that successful applications will be awarded by September 2010 and, where possible, shortly after their approval. Requests selected for funding in FY2010 will be limited to one year for the budget and project period. In addition, Domestic (U.S.) institutions planning to submit supplement requests that include Foreign components should be aware that requested funding for any Foreign components should not exceed 10% of the total requested direct costs or $25,000 per year (per subcontract/subaward or in aggregate for multiple subcontracts/subawards), whichever is less.
How to Apply
To be considered for an administrative supplement, submit a request to the respective NIH Institute and Center (IC) of the parent grant, not to the Division of Receipt and Referral, NIH Center for Scientific Review. Applications must be signed by the authorized institutional official and submitted to the appropriate IC Grants Management Specialist noted on the Notice of Award (NoA) for the parent grant (referenced in the Inquiries section below). Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications electronically as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to the appropriate IC Grants Management contact; however, the signature of the institutional official must be clearly visible. Applicants may submit applications in paper format, although paper applications are strongly discouraged. Do NOT send both an electronic and a paper version of the same administrative supplement.
Terms of Award
A formal notification in the form of a Notice of Award (NoA) will be provided to the grantee organization. The NoA signed by the grants management officer is the authorizing document. Once all administrative and programmatic issues have been resolved, the NoA will be generated via email notification from the awarding component to the grantee business official. The terms of the NoA will reference the requirements of the Recovery Act.
In addition to the standard NIH terms of award, all funding provided under the Recovery Act will be subject to the HHS Standard Terms and Conditions for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA). The full text of these terms approved for NIH awards can be found in the following document: Standard Terms and Conditions for ARRA Awards. Selection of an application for award is not an authorization to begin performance. Any costs incurred before receipt of the NoA are at the recipient's risk. These costs may be reimbursed only to the extent considered allowable pre-award costs.
Administrative and National Policy Requirements
A Program Official from one or more of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers will be assigned to each funded application and will assume responsibility for normal stewardship of the awards. All NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards include the NIH Grants Policy Statement as part of the NoA. For these terms of award, see the NIH Grants Policy Statement Part II: Terms and Conditions of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart A: General and NIH Grants Policy Statement Part II: Terms and Conditions of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart B: Terms and Conditions for Specific Types of Grants, Grantees, and Activities. In addition, recipients of Recovery Act funds are reminded that such funds must be separately tracked and monitored independently of any non-Recovery Act funding.
Awarded administrative supplements that include a commitment for funding in FY2010 will be required to submit a separate Non-Competing Continuation Grant Progress Report (PHS 2590) and financial statement as required in the NIH Grants Policy Statement. This will be in addition to any annual progress report required for the parent grant. The funded Recovery Act administrative supplement will also require separate closeout reports. In addition, grantees must comply with the requirements set forth in the Recovery Act, including, but not limited to, the quarterly reporting requirements of Section 1512 of the Recovery Act as specified in HHS Standard Terms and Conditions for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The full text of these terms approved for NIH awards can be found at the following document: Standard Terms and Conditions for AARA Awards. Recovery Act-related reporting requirements will be incorporated as a special term of award.
A final progress report, invention statement, and Financial Status Report are required when an award is relinquished when a recipient changes institutions or when an award is terminated. Until such time as HHS has migrated to the SF 425 FFR, award recipients will utilize the SF 269 FSR.
This funding announcement is subject to restrictions on oral conversations during the period of time commencing with the submission of a formal application, which includes the preliminary application and letter of intent phases of the program, by an individual or entity and ending with the award of the competitive funds. Federal officials may not participate in oral communications initiated by any person or entity concerning a pending application for a Recovery Act competitive grant or other competitive form of Federal financial assistance, whether or not the initiating party is a federally registered lobbyist. This restriction applies unless:
(i) the communication is purely logistical;
(ii) the communication is made at a widely attended gathering;
(iii) the communication is to or from a Federal agency official and another Federal Government employee;
(iv) the communication is to or from a Federal agency official and an elected chief executive of a state, local or tribal government, or to or from a Federal agency official and the Presiding Officer or Majority Leader in each chamber of a state legislature; or
(v) the communication is initiated by the Federal agency official.
For additional information, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_fy2009/m09-24.pdf.
For scientific or technical questions relating to research that would be supported by this solicitation, contact the Program Administrator assigned to the parent grant. For administrative questions related to this solicitation, contact the Grants Management Specialist noted on the Notice of Award for the parent grant.


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How to play Dominoes - game rules
Dominoes originated in China around the year 1120. The game came to Europe in the 18th century and was quite popular in the Venetian courts. It's popularity has now spread all over the world (it is almost impossible to find somebody who has never heard of it).
Dominoes has several variants – a variety of tile sets and rules for different ways of playing. The most popular tile sets (which get their names from the highest ranking tile) are: 'Double Six' (28 tiles), 'Double Nine' (55 tiles), and 'Double Twelve' (91 tiles). The traditional Chinese dominoes set has 32 tiles. The game of Mahjong evolved from dominoes.
The basic game of dominoes described here is played with the tile set called: 'Double Six'. The game is designed for 2 players.
Object of the game
The object of the game is to lay the tiles down in such a way as to get 100 points before your opponent. Several rounds are played to complete the game. The goal of every round is to get rid of all your tiles.
The main components of the game are the tiles (bones) divided into two ends (halves). On each end there is a number of dots (also called pips). There are also blank ends. A complete set consists of 28 tiles. Each tile has a different value and there no two tiles are alike. The value of each tile is the same as the number of dots on it.
The number of dots on each end varies from 0-6. There are 7 tiles called doubles - both halves of the tile are of the same value; and the halves of the other 21 tiles have different values on each half.
The tiles are laid out in such a way as to connect the matching ends. Ends (halves) can be connected if they have the same number of dots. Doubles are put down in a slightly different way – they are rotated 90 degrees so they can be connected from either end to tiles that match them. Doubles are also higher in rank than other tiles. The highest ranking tile is the 'double-six', next the 'double-five', and so on… The double in which both halves are blank (its value is 0) is still higher in ranking than a tile that has two halves of different values, for example: 5 and 6 (its value is 11). This is important to remember when starting the first round (more details are in the To begin section). When there are tiles that have the same value (eg. 3&6 and 4&5), the tile with a half that is higher in value is highest ranking of the two (in this case it would be the 3&6).
To begin
To start, each player draws 7 tiles and the other 14 tiles form the pot. The player who has the highest double goes first and begins the game. If no one has a double, whoever has the highest ranking non-double tile goes first and begins the game. Once they have laid the first tile, their turn is over. The first tile is laid out automatically.
Next, the players take turns laying tiles, creating the layout. They must remember to lay their tiles in such a way as to score points (more details are in Scoring section).
If a player has a tile that matches one in the layout, they add it to the layout. If a player does not have a tile that matches, they draw another tile from the pot until they get a tile that matches or until the pot runs out. As soon as a player draws a tile that matches, they add it to the layout and finish their turn. A player cannot draw a tile from the pot if they already have a tile that matches one in the layout. If the pot is empty and a player does not have a tile that matches one in the layout, they lose a turn.
The layout may have 2, 3 or 4 ends. Initially, the tiles are put on both sides of the first tile, so the layout has two ends. But layout may have up to 4 ends – when two more lines are added to the first double. The first double is the first tile played in the current round that has same number of dots on both halves. It is the only tile to which other tiles can be added to all four sides, not just two.
The game may be blocked – if no player has a tile that matches one in the layout and the pot is empty. In that case, the round ends, even if neither player got rid of all their tiles.
Points are awarded during and at the end of each round.
POINTS ARE AWARDED DURING A ROUND when the number of dots on the ends of the layout is a number divisible by 5. To see what current 'ends' are, there is a visualization of 'ends' on the left side of the game screen (above the pot).
For example, if the layout ends are '2', '2', and '1'(their sum is 5), 5 points are awarded to the player. If the layout ends are '6', and double '2' (their sum is 10), 10 points are awarded to the player.
POINTS ARE AWARDED AT THE END OF A ROUND in two ways. A round ending with one of the players getting rid of all of his/her tiles is the first scenario, and the second scenario is if the round is blocked.
If at the end of the round, a player gets rid of all their tiles, they receive points. The number of points awarded is equal to the number of dots on the opponent's remaining tiles. The number is rounded down to multiples of 5.
If the round ends because of being blocked, the winner is the player who has the most points. If both players have the same amount of points, the winner is the player who has less tiles in their hand. If both players have the same number of points and the same number of tiles left in their hands, the winner is the player who played the last tile. The winning player is awarded the total of their opponent points (rounded down to the number divisible by 5) minus any points in their own hand.
The end
A round ends when one player lays down the last tile, or if neither player has a tile that matches any tile in the layout and the pot is empty.
The game ends when one of the players scores 100 points. If a player reaches 100 points during a round, the game ends immediately and the round does not continue.