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Doctor of Business Administration Course (DBA)
The First DBA Course in Leeds
The Leeds Business School Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme is designed for experienced professionals seeking to become a practitioner-researcher and thought-leader in their field. The DBA aims to support professionals from a wide range of occupations to enhance skills in order to develop novel solutions to address key challenges.
The programme is for individuals with managerial-level organisational experience who wish to develop research in an area that would impact on business practice and, potentially policy. It provides you with the opportunity to join like-minded professionals and make a contribution to your field.
You will develop a theoretical understanding of elected corporate problems and create sophisticated solutions to these. You will be encouraged to challenge and expand the existing frontiers of knowledge in order to make a major contribution to academic knowledge and professional practice.
The thorough grounding in business research methodology, advanced analytical training and critical skills that you will receive will allow you to research a topic and contribute to the body of knowledge in your area. This will benefit both your career and the organisation and profession you work (or go on to work) in.
Delivered part-time, our structured DBA programme allows you to combine the managerial demands of your career with your drive to gain doctoral-level recognition for your specific area of study.
As a manager, you have the advantage of being an insider to your own organisation, with ready access to data and respondents. Combine this with the academic research skills you will gain through studying with Leeds Business School and you'll be in a strong position to undertake research that makes a powerful impact.
With a focus on the development of knowledge with practical application, our DBA is specifically designed to help professionals in industry address real business issues in a contextual setting. It will strengthen your knowledge of the fundamentals in undertaking doctoral research, enhance your expertise and academic knowledge, and instil an element of creativity and innovation in the research you undertake.
You'll be part of a group with a common identity of industrial experience, and will be part of an ever-developing relationship between academia and business, that generates a valued learning experience for both parties.
Undertaking a DBA enables you to:
- Conceptualise current research literature to identify gaps in knowledge.
- Demonstrate sound understanding of techniques to undertake research.
- Develop key skills in constructing research instruments (quantitative or qualitative).
- Demonstrate advanced research analysis skills (for both quantitative and qualitative data).
- Develop ability in judgement, foresight and problem analysis when assessing original research material derived from empirical research.
- Develop academic writing skills to enable you to submit researched work for publication, ensuring it satisfies peer review and merits a contribution to knowledge by extending the boundaries of professional practice.
- Make an original contribution to the enhancement of professional practice.
- Clearly articulate your thesis to meet the academic standards of a doctoral award.
- Apply original thought to managerial-level practice.
A DBA is a research degree and therefore the entry requirements are the same as all our research degrees with the requirement that applicants also hold a Master's degree, and – for those candidates from non-English speaking countries outside of the UK - an IELTs certificate of 7.0 with no sub score below 6.5.
|Entry Requirements
Undergraduate degree
Master's degree or MBA
IELTs (7) for non-English speaking students outside the UK
|Work Experience
|4 - 5+ years
|Junior to mid-level management
|Research Proposal
|2000 words
Annual Fees
For the latest information on any funding that may be available towards the DBA programme, please contact the research office by calling +44 (0)113 812 5375 or emailing email@example.com
For information on how to apply please find further details here.
Leeds Business School offers organisations a new perspective on challenges that have resulted in tremendous upheaval throughout the last decade, as a result of the global financial crisis, corporate scandals and more recently, Brexit.
These business challenges have been extensively researched by our academics who can offer you new insights in order for you to research and develop solutions to address these challenges within your sector.
If you have any queries about the DBA please email: email@example.com
Delivery of DBA units
The first two years' units will require attendance to three four-day blocks of scheduled programmes for each of the two years (six four-day sessions in total). Evenings and a potential further 'day five' offers you independent learning time or activities including guest speakers and 'industrial visits' to businesses. In total, a minimum of 24 days attendance will be required during the first 24 month period.
The blocks will initially be tutor-directed seminars or workshop-based tuition sessions that will evolve to tutor and participant-led discussion and activities. In the method and analytical units, you will use appropriate software for analysis. Students will be expected to read/prepare materials in advance of the sessions.
You will also spend substantial independent learning time undertaking wider reading, drafting assignments and revising your assignments after receiving formative feedback.
Structure of the DBA
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Years 3, 4 & 5
Unit 1
Management Literature Review (Theory & Practice)
6000 word assignment
Unit 4
Critical Management Literature Review (Conceptual Development)
6000 word assignment
Development & submission of THESIS (60,000 words)
Defense of thesis – Viva Voce
Unit 2
Research Design for Business Inquiry
6000 word assignment
Unit 5
Advanced Business Analytics
6000 word assignment
Unit 3
Contemporary Management Challenges l
6000 word assignment
Unit 6
Contemporary Management Challenges II
6000 word assignment
|If conditions are met the potential for the exit award of 'Masters in Research Methods' (MRes)
|End of Year 3: Production of Conference Paper
|End of Year 4: Production of Peer Reviewed Journal Paper
Confirmation of Registration (at 6 months stage)
Annual Progression Interviews (year-end)
|Annual Progression Interviews (year-end)
|Annual Progression Interviews (year-end)
|Annual Progression Interviews (year 4 and 5 if required)
In year one, you will be able to attend three units to help develop your critical evaluation skills and writing style for academic reports. This will be complemented with an insight into research philosophies and how these can be applied to investigate contemporary practices.
Year 1 Subjects
- Management Literature Review
- Research Design for Business inquiry
- Contemporary Management Challenges I
In year two, the foundation skills of management literature review, research philosophy for business, advanced analytics, and contemporary management challenges will be further explored to help you gain a deeper and richer understanding of the key skills required to undertake an independent research project. The units in years one and two will be delivered three times in a year, over a four-day intensive study period.
Year 2 Subjects
- Critical Management Literature Review
- Advanced Business Analytics
- Contemporary Management Challenges II
Students will be required to submit an outline of their coursework for each subject, a week after the four-day workshop. Feedback will then be provided so that participants can start to prepare their critical review for each subject.
Each coursework submission will form the foundation chapters for the final thesis.
The final two year(s) will be dedicated to the thesis.
Class contact will be supported by electronic and personal meetings with the unit tutor(s) and DBA management team to help provide guidance on key reading material and assessment structure for each unit.
After each block of delivery, students will be required to submit a short synopsis of the outline of their subject assignment and academic feedback will be offered.
The DBA thesis will be comparable in structure to a PhD thesis (c. 60,000 words) and will be examined viva voce in the same way as any other doctoral programme.
Candidates seeking admission onto our DBA will be required to submit a research proposal on one of the following research priorities for Leeds Business School:
- Accountancy & Finance
- Business Strategy, Operations & Enterprise
- Economics, Analytics & International Business
- Leadership, Governance & People Management
- Marketing (Branding, Strategy, Innovation, etc.)
- Public Relations, Communications & Journalism
Other business-related topics will also be considered.
Candidates who enrol on our DBA will be expected to start their research journey with a specific problem in mind. This will require candidates to initially submit a 2000 word research proposal on a topic / business problem they will investigate to make a contribution to knowledge and an impact in the sector.
Structure of Research Proposal
|Word Count
|1. Title of research
|What will you research and what will be the impact?
|8 - 12 words
|2. Aim / Purpose of the Research
|What specifically will you research and what do you hope to achieve from undertaking it?
|200 - 300 words
|3. Research Objectives
|List three to five focused objectives of what you will investigate and how you will make a contribution to knowledge.
|3 - 5 sentences (max 50 words)
|4. Literature Review (Contribution to knowledge)
|What are the current views / models in your research topic? Who has been critical of research issues in the subject? How will you make a contribution to knowledge and practice?
|800 - 1000 words
|5. Research Methodology
|How will you investigate your research topic? How will you collect and analyse the data? What is your sampling criteria? How will you prove your results are reliable and valid?
|500 - 700 words
|6. Proposed Outcomes
|List of three to five bullet points of your contribution to knowledge and practice
|3 - 5 sentences (max 50 words)
|7. References
|Cite all references used in your research proposal. Make sure you use contemporary references in your chosen research topic area and methodology selected
For more information on how to develop your proposal, please contact us.
DBA Alumni
Dr Timothy D. McCulley, Facility Manager, Pactiv Foodservice
The experience of achieving the DBA was indeed transformative. As a senior manager the DBA opened my eyes to how naturally creative people are, how to empower them, and how to convert ideas to capabilities. Mostly, it taught me, in very real, very detailed ways how organizational strategy can determine innovation capabilities.
Since completing my DBA I have presented my findings at various workshops and conferences. Many organizations, wanting to innovate, but frustrated not knowing where to begin, have received my research with excitement. The DBA programme at Leeds Beckett University was an incredible experience. The professors, academic advisors, and research committee are supportive, informative and dedicated to your success. This was truly the greatest and most enjoyable experience of my life and I recommend the DBA at Leeds Beckett University to anyone who wishes to pursue doctoral level education and research.
Dr Michael Agamah, General Counsel, Keystone Bank Limited
I studied the DBA because of the desire to refine my research skills and deepen my knowledge of business processes, which I believe will advance my career.
My work consists of rendering advice on legal, regulatory and compliance implications of my employers' business. I also advise on corporate strategy; and sit on the board of an insurance a company which is a subsidiary of my employers. Possession of sound research skills, as well as deep understanding of the theory and practice of business and organizational processes (which the DBA has enabled) have improved my leadership and decision-making skills.
My research will cause business leaders in Nigeria especially to appreciate the place of risk management in corporate governance. It will make them realise that delivering shareholder value and achieving corporate sustainability is possible only when governance is anchored on a strong ethos of compliance and risk consciousness.
Dr Michail Kanakis, Regional Area Manager, Eurobank, Greece
My research in connection with the substantial guidance and encouragement of my experienced professors helped me to deepen practical and scientific skills in important areas of my work such as customer service, customer satisfaction, financial performance in retail banking etc.
My thesis, I believe, create added value to my organization providing important elements for recovery, reflection and action. The results of the customer satisfaction survey of the bank's customers using the appropriate methods (linear regression, multicriteria methods etc.) gave concrete impact based on customer segmentation.
The flexibility of study at a recognized university, the educational level of professors and their effective guidance for the successful completion of the doctorate are the strengths of this course. This course can improve your ability of your mind to think. If you believe in your strengths, you have to take the chance.
Dr Goodluck Obi, Partner & Head Consumer Markets, Audit Services KPMG Professional Services
The DBA has impacted me tremendously in my role as a professional. I have acquired knowledge on making informed decisions in the work place, mentoring employees and contributing articles and speeches to the Nigerian business environment.
My research will provide insights to governments and regulators in developing countries, in particular Nigeria on some important factors to be considered in developing an effective regulatory framework. The research provides justification that global and international reputation is very important (even more important than implementation) in the making of regulations. It further supports the need for proper stakeholder engagement in the regulation making process.
The DBA is important to Managers and industry leaders in order to enhance their professional profile as well as assist managers to develop a methodical process of decision-making. The DBA will also help improve the research attributes of Managers, challenge status quo so as to be able to make recommendations that will change and positively influence practice.


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Today's sandwich is the "B.L.T." sandwich from the Town Landing Market in Falmouth. It combines bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a soft hero roll.
Location: 269 Foreside Road, Falmouth
Price: $4.25
Notes: Today is perfect. Blue sky, green leaves, chirping birds, temperatures in the upper seventies. It was a good day to drive around Falmouth, eventually finding the Town Landing Market. I like this little store a lot. It is cute without being precious, with corn, peaches and tomatoes in bins on the front porch and lots of locals, coolers of beer and wine, dry goods, a few shelves of Stonewall Kitchen stuff and a very small sandwich counter in the back, where they also have cooked lobster, clams, local and organic meat and chowder for sale.
Inside, the air was fragrant with bacon. The menu consists mostly of Italians, as well as hand written additions about lobster, shrimp and crab rolls. Something was different today. I was different. I boldly and without precedent ordered a BLT for lunch. I don't believe that everything is better with bacon. I think bacon is just okay. I like it as a friend, and nothing more. I would, however, go steady with egg salad, if it asked politely.
It was my husband who delivered the fatal words: Miracle Whip. While I personally have never met or been friends with, nor reached across the aisle to those people, I know you are out there. Consider seeking Marcus Bachmann for a cure. (zing! topical!) There's even a newish ad campaign, which is pretty brilliant, rebranding MW as a maverick's quirky choice. The stuff has not crossed my lips in decades. Actually, I had it once. At the house of a classmate. The kind of kid who keeps her treasures in an animal crackers box. I never went back there again. Sorry, Allison.
So, while I cannot state with complete authority that the condiment dressing up my sandwich was the dreaded white stuff, I can attest it had a decidedly tangy zip. Which is unfortunate, because, otherwise it was good. The roll it was served in was an oversized hot dog bun. The lettuce shredded and tomatoes really red, with, I would say, four strips of bacon blanketing the top. It wasn't toasted, which is a requirement for some, but not for me. I give it a B+, if you need a letter grade.
Two sandwiches were less than nine dollars, a major bargain. There are lots of salty snacks, dessert, and drink options as well as some produce, so it's a good place to stop and stock up on your way to beach or boat. The Town Landing Market is exactly as it should be, quaint, quiet, and perfect.

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British scientists are developing the next seabed to the Atlantic coast of the Orkney Islands (UK), the installation of a new large machine called Oyster, designed to harness energy from ocean waves and converting it into "green" electricity . In autumn 2009, the first tests will be done to test whether this technology can be a commercial source of renewable energy, and if you can use in coastal areas around the world.
Unlike many other mechanisms of harnessing the energy of waves, Oyster uses hydraulic technology to transfer wave power to shore, where it is transformed into electricity. According Ronan Doherty, technical director of the team that developed the prototype of Oyster, a key aspect of its design is an oscillator of 18 meters wide, which uses tanks waves and based on research conducted at Queen's University of Belfast under the direction of Trevor Whittaker.
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The environmental and financial cost of incandescent lighting leads many companies to replace it with other lighting, even incandescent exit signs with ones that use less energy, a move that reduces annual electric cost while reducing carbon pollution. Yet, there aren't just one or two eco friendly exit signs on the market. In fact, at least four types of exit signs are commonly promoted as replacements for incandescent ones in the name of cost savings and lower carbon pollution: compact fluorescent, LED, Tritium, and photoluminescent. So, which one is really the best for the environment and your annual utility bill? Let's compare them and find out.
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August 7, 2009
Japan Will Use Deep-sea Probes To Hunt For Minerals
New unmanned probes have been developed and are ready for a full-scale survey of the seafloor of Japanese coastal waters on a hunt for mineral deposits.
An official of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) said Thursday that the project will involve sending two underwater robots strapped to a ship in hope of discovering rare minerals in the seabed.
The project is set to begin in fiscal year 2010.
The chief mission of the researchers will be to find and study hydrothermal deposits at the bottom of the sea that could contain minerals, such as manganese, cobalt, lead and zinc. These minerals are used in a variety of Japanese products, ranging from cars to the batteries in IT gadgets.
A seafloor hydrothermal deposit refers to an outlet for releasing heated water in the periphery of a seabed volcano. Until now, ultrasonic waves were sent from the surface of the sea to check on the topographical features of the area.
Experts had previously expressed hope that the new probe would be able to directly examine the seafloor, since ultrasonic waves could not be used to find out the level of metal components.
JAMSTEC, a government-linked agency that specializes in environmental research and marine technology, plans to invest $42.55 million in the probes and upgrading the ships used to haul the probes for surveys, the official said.
This project is part of Japan's attempt to assert its independence from foreign imports of raw materials and energy.
With an increasing demand from emerging economies causing concern about a supply crunch, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is attempting to secure stable supplies of rare metals.
"It is extremely important to ensure stable supplies of rare metals from the standpoint of maintaining and strengthening the competitiveness of Japan's manufacturing industry," the ministry said in a strategy published last week.
It went on the emphasize how vital it is for Japan to "strengthen the technology it holds for securing natural resources."
According to experts, deep-sea mining will become possible regardless of the enormity of the technical difficulties and expenses, as particular minerals because scarce worldwide, especially near mineral-discharging hydrothermal vents on the sea-floor.
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Civil Engineering Facilities and Resources
Identify the facilities to be used at each performance site listed and, as appropriate, indicate their capacities, pertinent capabilities, relative proximity, and extent of availability to the project. Use "Other" to describe the facilities at any other performance sites listed and at sites for field studies. Use additional pages if necessary.
LTU College of Engineering and Science. Well-equipped on-campus various laboratories for graduate level basic and applied research in: Civil, Geotechnical, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering. Chemistry laboratories also available for this research.
- Trenchless Technology Center. Utilizes the following on-campus research facilities:
Pipeline Rehabilitation Test Laboratory - approx. 88m2 (950sq. ft) laboratory space (Bogard Hall)
Materials Characterization Laboratory - approx. 100m2 (1,100sq. ft) laboratory space (Bogard Hall)
Field Test Facility. A field test bed for research in trenchless methods and equipment, on the Louisiana Tech Farm, at the edge of the LTU campus . Total area approx. 6,500m2 (70,000sq. ft). Electric power available to the site. Accessible by large construction equipment. Contains four different soil test sections, each approx. 14.6m (50ft) long: local clay, sand, silt and clay-gravel mixture to depth of about 2m (6.5ft). The test section has a 3m by 6m (10ft ft by 20ft) jacking section at one end. Fully available for the project.
Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling (CNSM). On-campus computer facility and office space (Carson-Taylor Hall). Includes: the High-Performance Computing Laboratory, the Unix Laboratory and the PC Laboratory, and the Visualization Laboratory.
Center for Applied Physics Studies (CAPS). On-campus laboratory and office space, adjacent to the Trenchless Technology Center office space (Engineering Annex building). Approx. 1,860m2 (20,000sq. ft.). Partially available for the project.
Institute for Micromanufacturing. Institute for Micromanufacturing (Institute for Micromanufacturing). On-campus facility, partially available for the project. Approx. 3,800m2 (41,000sq. ft) of laboratory and office space. The 1,860m2 (20,000sq. ft) laboratory area is environmentally controlled. Includes:230m2 (2,500sq. ft) of cleanroom with fully certified class 1000 and class 100 working areas
a laboratory-type teaching and training facility
a metrology laboratory, a micromachining laboratory
a laser process development laboratory, electronic assembly/test laboratory
a laboratory for precision machining under tightly controlled temperature and humidity conditions
12 application specific, process development laboratories. An additional 500m2 (5,500sq. ft) is reserved for cleanroom facility expansion.
Distance Learning Classrooms. On-campus classroom space (Woodward Hall) - three classrooms for delivery and reception of compressed video courses, approx. 60m2 (645sq. ft) each, and a conference room in the Institute for Micromanufacturing. Additional space in the final stage of preparation (Woodward Hall, Technology Transfer Center): one more classroom of the same size and a large 350-seats auditorium. Receive sites are in: Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC), LSU Baton Rouge, LSU Shreveport, LSU Medical Center, and in high or elementary schools in Farmerville, Oak Grove, Springhill, Castor, Homer, Minden, Sterlington, and Winnsboro.
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University Computer Center. Located in Wyly Tower. Provides computing and consulting support for instructional, research, and administrative activities of the University. The Center reports administratively to the Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Planning activities include periodic reviews by outside consultants (EDUCOM), formal self-studies (IBM Application Transfer Study Team, Institutional Self-Study), as well as Computing Center responses related to indicated user activities.
University Computing Center Hardware. The Louisiana Tech University Computing Center operates one IBM ES/9000 Model 210 mainframe computer serving both academic and administrative applications. It is normally available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and can be accessed from various departmental/faculty offices, student labs (during hours of operation), dial-in lines (24 hours/day), the campus network (24 hours/day), and the INTERNET network (24 hours/day). The computer hardware is classified into two groups: system and network hardware.
System Hardware. The E'S/9000 Model 210 is an air cooled mid-range IBM host mainframe containing a 12 MIP processor, and 64 megabytes of central core memory. The CPU uses 16 four-megabit channels to interface its various subsystems, which consist of disk, printer, tape, terminal, and dial-in subsystems. See for an overview of the Computing Center hardware.
Dial-in Subsystem. Dialup services are provided by a 64 line terminal server with 33.6Kb modems. The system provides access to the central mainframe as well as to all multi-user systems on campus. It also provides remote IP network services via PPP and SLIP, thereby permitting access to Internet and local networks.
Communal Software. The Computer Languages available on the E'S/9000 Mainframe are ASM (IBM 370 Assembler), BASIC (IBM Basic Compiler), C (IBM C compiler), COBOL (IBM Cobol Compiler), GPSS (General Process Simulation System), ESE (Expert System Environment), FORTRAN (IBM FortranNS I and FortranNS II Compiler), LINDO (Linear Programming Language), LISP (List Processing Language), PASCAL (IBM VS/Pascal), PLI (IBM PLI Compiler), REXX (CMS Command Language Interpreter), RPG (Report Generating Programming Language), SAS (Statistical Analysis System), SAS/FSP (Full Screen Support Procedures for SAS), SAS/GRAPH (Graphics Support for SAS), SPSS (Statistical Data Processing Language), SPSS/LISREL (Economic Algorithms for SPSS), TSP (Statistical Programming Language), and WATFIV (WATFIV Fortran Compiler), and WATFOR-77 (Interactive Fortran-77 Compiler). The following subroutine libraries are available for public use: DI3000 (Fortran Graphics Subroutine Library), ESSL (Engineering Scientific Subroutine Library), and IMSL (Fortran Mathematical and Statistical Subroutines).
Specialized Academic Software. The mainframe provides the following special purpose programs for the College of Engineering and Science: ACSL (Advanced Simulation Language), BOAST (Black Oil Applied Simulation Tool), CHEMSHARE (Chemical Engineering Bonding Program), COGO (Civil Engineering Stress Analysis), INSTITU (Combustion Prediction Modeling Program), FLOWyly TowerRAN (Chemical Engineering Tool), MCPALK (Chemical Flow Prediction Modeling Program), NASTRAN (Mechanical Engineering Tool), PCAP (Electrical Circuit Analysis), POLYMER (Polymer Prediction Modeling Program), PROCESS (Engineering Simulation Sciences Tool), QGERTS (Industrial Engineering Simulator), STREAM (Stream Flow Prediction Modeling Program), and SUTRA (Water Flow & Energy/Solute Transport Simulator).
College of Engineering and Science (COES) Computer Facilities. Located in seven different buildings on the LTU campus. Accessible from any of the 300 computers in the college.
COES Computing Hardware. A range of computing platforms having varying capacities. Several UNIX server platforms (generally mid-range computers from vendors like SUN, Silicon Graphics and DEC). Virtually every faculty and staff member has a computer on a desktop. Most of these computers are IBM-PC compatible computers running Windows 95, Windows 97 or Windows NT 4 Workstation. The rest are UNIX Workstations and Apple Macintosh computers. Nearly dozen computer laboratories located throughout the college for student access to computers.
COES Computing Software. FLAC, a general-purpose explicit finite difference static analysis and wave propagation program. ABAQUS, a general-purpose finite element analysis program. A variety of applications and programming language software on the COES network: finite element programs like ANSYS, ALGOR and COSMOS/M, simulation software like DADS and EASY5, mathematical software like Mathematica, Mathcad and MATLAB, general office software like Microsoft Office 97, Corel WordPerfect Suite 8.
Internet services. 3 Mbit connectivity to Louisiana state network LANET, which provides a 45 Mbit connection to the Internet.
Intranet services. Desktop 10Mb connection to campus backbone consisting of a mixture of 10Mb and 100Mb Ethernet as well as OC-3 ATM. Provides access to University e-mail, web and other resources.
Trenchless Technology Center (TTC). On-campus newly remodeled space (Engineering Annex building). Approx. 180m2 (1,900sq. ft). Includes four offices, a conference room and a reference library. Has an extensive collection of research and information materials related to the trenchless technology. The reference room houses also the former library holdings of the Underground Space Center at the University of Minnesota, covering a broad range of issues related to the design, construction, and use of underground facilities.
Institute for Micromanufacturing (Institute for Micromanufacturing). Offers additional space for visiting researchers.
Technology Transfer Center. Off-campus office and laboratory space under construction (in the Shreve Park Industrial Campus in Shreport, about 100 km from LTU campus). Approx. 1,860m2 (20,000sq. ft).
Prescott Memorial Library. Centrally located in the heart of the campus. A modern, ten floor, open stack library which offers a full array of informational resources and services. Reading areas, computer laboratories, books, periodicals, microforms, media materials.
Major Equipment
List the most important items available for this project and, as appropriate identifying the location and pertinent capabilities of each.
Pipeline Rehabilitation Test Facility contains:
a high pressure water storage and delivery system composed of a 300 gallon supply tank, a large air compressor and two positive displacement pumps
two 3.6m3 (128 cu. ft) environmental chambers to perform elevated temperature testing of pipe liners
MEPTS 9000 computer based data acquisition system for measuring liner radial displacements and pressures
steel host pipes and associated stiffeners and end seals for performing liner buckling tests:
90 pipes - 30cm (12in) in diameter and 1.8m (6ft) long
90 pipes - 20 cm (8in) in diameter and 1.5m (5ft) long
The materials characterization laboratory contains:
MTS 810 servohydraulic test system with TestStar IIs controller and a 55,000 lb. actuator
MTS 810 servohydraulic test system with TestStar IIs controller and a 22,000 lb. actuator
MTS environmental chamber for use with the MTS 810 systems
Load cells with 1,000 lb., 10,000 lb., 22,000 lb., and 55,000 lb. capacities
Two MTS extensometers for tensile testing
Grips, fixtures and fittings for performing tensile and flexural testing
400,000 lb. Tinius Olsen tensile / compressive testing machine
4 SATEC creep testing stations with environmental chambers for tensile loading
4 SATEC creep testing stations with environmental chambers for compressive loading
2 SATEC creep testing stations with environmental chambers for flexural loading
108 square foot walk-in environmental chamber for environmentally controlled testing Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling (CNSM) contains:
Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling (CNSM) contains:
SGI Origin 2000 with 16 CPU, 4 GB memory, seven SGI Workstations, one Sun, one IBM, 20 PCs, professional recording system, visualisation hardware and software.
ImmersaDesk virtual reality system
Institute for Micromanufacturing (Institute for Micromanufacturing) contains:Lithographic-based equipment:
Two dedicated beamlines at the CAMD facility
Leica EBML 100 electron beam writer, 100keV beam energy, <10 nm spot size.
Photoresist spinning, baking and development capabilities.
Research Devices 1um resolution pattern generator.
Electronic-Vision dual side mask aligner.
Plasma Therm dual chamber reactive ion etcher.
Uni-Film dc/rf magnetron multi-target sputter deposition tool.
Plasma-Therm dual chamber plasma enhanced CVD apparatus.
CVD Equipment Corporation low pressure thermal CVD apparatus.
CVD Equipment 1100 C thermal oxidation ovens (four stacks, two tubes ).
Wet chemical benches and associated acid and solvent baths.
An inductively coupled plasma etch tool will be ordered on the DoD grant.
Additional electroplating equipment will be ordered on the ARI grant.
Non-lithography equipment:
Potomac Photonics excimer laser micromachining system, at 248 and 351 nm wavelengths, forlaser induced polymerization and ablation.
Coherent Specs CW argon ion laser for photon stimulated deposition of metals.
Lee Laser Inc. CW Nd:YAG 40 Watt laser for metals deposition.
Two Lucent Technologies Bell Labs custom built focused ion beam (FIB) apparatus-maximum beam energy 30 keV, 0.4um and 0.25 um spot size (one is installed at Sandia National Laboratories).
National Jet /Dover Instruments four axis ultra-precision machining center.
Precitech Optimum 2000 computer controlled ultra-precision lathe.
Dicing Technology automated wafer dicing diamond saw.
Diagnostic equipment:
Olympus AHMT3 research optical microscopes (two).
Tencor stylus profilometer.
Amray 1800 scanning electron microscope.
Cambridge 250 scanning electron microscope with Kevex X-ray microanlyzer.
Wyko SPM scanning tunneling/atomic force microscope.
Wyko RST white light interferometric microscopes (two)
Nikon automated optical inspection station.
PHI 5802 small area X-ray photoelectron spectrometer, with upgrade capability to a scanning
Auger spectrometer.
Center for Applied Physics (CAPS) contains:
six DEC ALPHAs 200/400MHz and two DEC Stations w/UNIX, 25 Tektronix x-window terminals, 20 assorted PC
data acquisition systems - VME, CAMC, and FastBuss based DAQ systems
friction/heat transfer test apparatus
Distance Learning Classrooms has state-of-the-art a/v equipment with two-way, interactive compressed video conferencing capabilities. LTU is connected to the Board of Regents video network through T1 dedicated line service. This service provides 384 Kb connections to up to 22 sites simultaneously by making use of available multi-point switching services. The network is currently made up of over 100 sites statewide. The network has the capability of dial-in access from sites throughout the world over ISDN lines. Switching services are provided by BellSouth.
Other Resources
Provide any information describing the other resources available for the project. Identify support services such as consultant, secretarial, machine shop, and electronics shop, and the extent to which they will be available for the project. Include an explanation of any consortium/contractual arrangements with other organizations.
Manufacturing Processes Laboratory/Machine Shop: A small aluminum foundry, welding shop and general purpose machine shop which support experimental research projects throughout the college.
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The Gallery: Gaines Peyton
Birch August, 2004 - oil, encaustic on panel, 9 x 12"
Introducing Gaines Peyton .
I am feeling so lucky! Finally I'm in town while Gaines Peyton is showing her paintings...at last I'll get a good look at these. I love the layers and layers of oils and encaustic, the mysterious hovering patches of colors, the composition of trees, branches, bodies of water and light.
Sunny Patch, 2005 - oil, encaustic on panel, 9 x 12"
And these enigmatic birds! Always in profile, egg-shaped, and floating as if flying without any effort. When you see a grouping of these paintings, you realize that some of these birds are particular birds, particular characters, that appear over and over in different settings. There is much to puzzle and wonder about...
Red Canoe, 2005 oil, encaustic on panel, 9 x 12"
Winter Morning, Dark Trees, 2004 - oil, encaustic on panel, 9 x 12"
Birch Winter, 2005 - oil, encaustic on panel, 9 x 12"
Drift, 2004 - oil on linen over panel, 15 x 34"
I encourage people to go see Ms. Peyton's paintings at the Fischbach Gallery
where they will be exhibited until December 16. The gallery is located at 210 Eleventh Avenue (between 24th and 25th Streets)and open Tues to Saturday, 10 – 5:30.
When she isn't painting, Ms. Peyton is co-director of the Sears-Peyton Gallery (with founder Macie Spears) which specializes in works on paper by contemporary American artists. It also happens to be one of the friendliest galleries I've ever strolled into, and where I've learned so much on each visit.
Get out to Chelsea and go see! Happy Thanksgiving!
For questions about these paintings, please contact the Fischbach Gallery.


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- Date: 04/07/2017 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Mitchell Sandvig resides in north county San Diego, California. He formally studied architecture at Oklahoma State University and interior design at the Harrington Institute of Chicago. Inspired by his passion for architecture and furniture design, he then pursued his interests at the Bauhaus Apprenticeship Institute in Chicago, from which he graduated 2001. There, he discovered a path that would unite his dedication to modernist design with his commitment to traditional practices of woodworking.
While Mitchell continually strives to refine practices of old world traditional joinery for contemporary sensibility, his ideal aim is to express the essence of his materials. Under his craftsmanship, the raw beauty of wood comes vividly into focus, as if the soul of the wood were being revealed for the first time.
The harmony of the functional art furniture produced by Sandvig Studio testifies to the power of minimalist design applied conscientiously, and with respect, to a physical medium.
Below are some of my featured pieces. If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to contact me.
If you are interested in a custom piece designed and built by Sandvig Studios, get in contact with us and we will make that happen. Thank you!
You can get in touch with Mitchell with a simple phone call. His studio number is listed to the right. You can also contact him by filing out the form below. He is usually working on a piece, but will respond in a timely manner.
SANDVIG Studio, Inc. 748 South Vinewood . Suite B
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Last night my husband paid me the best compliment of our entire marriage (over 30 years). He asked me where I had found the recipe for this Mediterranean Langostino Pasta. For a moment I thought that he was kidding and then when I looked at his face I realized that he was serious.
"Uhhhh…from my own noggin," I said while tapping my head.
"You made this up?" he asked, looking genuinely surprised. "How?"
I wasn't offended. Actually I felt like a little kid who has just done something really smart for their age. Wait. That can sort of apply to someone of my *maturity*…I did something smart for my maturing age.
Speaking of age, I am reminded of when I first went back to college, 9 years ago this week. I was in my mid forties and scared spitless. I knew that I was up against very bright, young minds and it was completely intimidating. I tried to keep a low profile–sat at the back of the classroom, slumped down in my seat, never raised my hand to ask or answer a question. Things were working pretty well and I felt completely unseen for the first few weeks.
Then we had our first test in anatomy. I aced it. "Yeah for the old lady," I thought. Still I remained incognito at the back of the room, invisible. A few days following the test, a woman approached me and said that she had noticed me and was wondering if I would help her study. She explained that she had flunked the test and had spoken to the professor about it. He had advised her to find somebody in the class to help her study. For some reason she picked me. Later that same day, a young man in his mid twenties stopped me in the library and also said that he had seen me in class and was wondering if I would like to study with him.
So much for being invisible. Two people asking me to help them study, both in the same day. I guess I looked 'safe'. Maybe sitting at the back of the room had called a lot more attention to me than I thought. I saw myself as an insecure, moderately dumpy, minivan driving, 40-something mother of three. As I think about it, that is probably pretty close to how others viewed me. I was a mom and by the looks of me I was obviously not on the prowl. Which made me a safe study partner for a woman who was desperately afraid of failing anatomy and a young man who was recently married. The young man could go home and tell his wife, "You don't have anything to worry about, I am studying with a woman old enough to be my mom. She even drives a minivan."
By the end of the week we had added a fourth person to our strange little study group, another young man who was engaged to be married in a few of months. He, too, had approached me after class one day and asked about studying together. He had a different style of approach…"Hi. My name is ——. I've been watching you sitting at the back of the class taking notes. You look smart. I bet you aced the test. Will you help me study?" He looked like a forlorn puppy that one of my kids might try to bring home, so I said yes.
Our group worked really well together. Age and gender seemed to fade into the background as we all supported one another in the learning process. Or so I thought.
One day I was sitting in the library in a carrel with my back towards the room at large. Behind me was a table of guys studying for what sounded like a math class. I was keeping my head buried in my anatomy book, relentlessly trying to memorize the parts and functioning of 'the kidney' (you'd be surprised how much there is know about the intricacies of kidneys). As I was studying, my ears picked up the sound of a familiar voice. It was the puppy from my study group and he was talking to the guys at the math table. "Hey guys, listen. Have any of you seen Terri?" "Who's Terri?" one of them asked.
"You know, Terri. That older woman in anatomy that sits at the back of the room."
Zing! I couldn't decide whether to keep my head buried in my book or turn around and own the moment and the description. I chose the later. Casually turning around and hooking my arm over the back of my chair I coyly asked, "Did you, by chance, mean me?"
The puppy went 25 shades of pink and red as his buddies slapped their hands over their mouths stiffling their laughter. "She got you, man! She so got you!" The puppy started stammering. "I, I, I didn't mean that you were old. I mean, well I mean, well I just meant…"
"Yes?" I said as I reveled in watching him squirm.
"I just was trying to describe you so that they wouldn't think I was talking about one of the other girls. I mean you're older than…". He was digging himself deeper and deeper and his friends were laughing their heads off.
I don't remember how things ended that day, but here's the bottom line: older women can still have a few tricks up their sleeves, like leading a study group or passing nursing boards or even making up a recipe right out of their own noggins. Oh, the wonder of it all.
Some notes:
- Langostino is a bit of flavor cross between shrimp, lobster, and crayfish. I found frozen, cooked langostino at Costco. Because langostino can be seasonal and/or difficult to find, shrimp or chicken could easily be substituted for the langostino in this recipe.
- Pancetta is an Italian 'bacon'. Many deli counters at grocery stores sell pancetta. American style smoked bacon is a good substitute for pancetta in this recipe.
For other recipes on this site using langostino please see:
Mediterranean Langostino Pasta
Recipe by Terri @ that's some good cookin'
- 1 pound langostino, (I used precooked langostino) (Salad-size shrimp or chunky diced regular-sized shrimp could also be used. Additionally, chicken would be a great replacement for the langostino.)
- 5 ounces pancetta, chopped or small diced (American-style bacon, chopped and fried crisp would also work well.)
- 1 yellow bell pepper, large diced
- 1 large onion, medium diced
- 4 large garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 cup chopped sundried tomatoes
- 4 tablespoons capers
- 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 tablespoons half and half (optional)
- salt and pepper, to taste
- extra virgin olive oil
- freshly grated parmesan cheese (optional)
- 1 pound pasta (I used bow tie pasta, but other pasta shapes will also work well.)
- While prepping vegetables, bring a pot of water to boil for the pasta. Cook the pasta according to package directions until al dente. Drain and set aside, reserving 1/4 cup pasta cooking water.
- In a large skillet, cook the pancetta, rendering out some of the fat.
- When pancetta is just getting a little crisp, add the onion and cook for 2 or 3 minutes. (Add a drizzle of olive oil if necessary to keep things from sticking to the pan.)
- Add the yellow pepper and garlic and cook for another 3 minutes, stirring as needed until the vegetables are just slightly past crisp tender.
- Stir in the langostino, sundried tomatoes, crushed red pepper, and the capers. Cook and stir until the langostino has warmed through.
- Stir in the parsley, white balsamic vinegar, and half and half (if using). Add salt and pepper to taste. Toss all ingredients with the pasta. Drizzle with the reserved pasta water and a little olive oil for moisture, if needed.
- Serve immediately. Can be topped with freshly grated parmesan cheese if desired.


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No, potential GOP candidate and Westchester County Exec Rob Astorino didn't exactly say "let them eat soup" when asked about Medicaid-funded dentures three years ago.
But barely five hours after the Daily News' Ken Lovett pointed out how the 2011 quip by Astorino could become an issue, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is out with a condemnation.
To recap: The News piece noted that Astorino chuckled that "soup is good" when asked about the cost of dentures, which is covered by New York's comparatively generous Medicaid program but not covered in all states.
Astorino made the comment during an interview with "Capitol Tonight." He also said, "These are the hard choices we have to make," and compared New York's program to other states including California.
Here's Stewart-Cousins' reaction:
While Mr. Astorino may think it's funny, it isn't a joke to the poor and elderly population who rely on these vital services for basic healthcare
As we seek to cut the burden on everyday taxpayers, we can't abandon our most vulnerable. In his joke, the County Executive runs the risk of forgetting the people he refers to are our parents, grandparents, neighbors and hardworking New Yorkers across the state. Seniors, who have contributed so much to our society, deserve to live out their lives in dignity.
Every day, government is called upon to address the needs of all the people it represents. Part of the way that happens is by providing a supportive healthcare network that protects the most vulnerable, while enabling hard working people and their families to rise out of poverty.


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EAST LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — Two people face charges in connection to a bomb threat at Spartan Stadium Wednesday, according to the Michigan State University Police Department.
Cynthia Marie Spade, 30, and Anthony Robert Shearer, 31, were charged Thursday with one felony count each of false report of a bomb threat.
Shearer also faces charges of driving with a suspended license and being a fourth-offense habitual offender. He had two felony convictions in 2004 and another in 2006, MSU PD says.
Spartan Stadium was evacuated Wednesday after a bomb threat was called into police central dispatch. Police searched the stadium but did not find anything dangerous.
Spade and Shearer, both of Lansing, have no affiliation with the university, MSU PD says.
Shearer's bond was set at $75,000 and Spade's at $50,000. Both were taken to the Ingham County Jail.
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Ocean acidity may threaten coral reefs, animals
Updated 12:26 pm, Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Sydney --
Oceans' rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the "osteoporosis of the sea" and threatening everything from food security to tourism to livelihoods, the head of a U.S. scientific agency said Monday.
The speed by which the oceans' acid levels have risen caught scientists off-guard, with the problem now considered to be climate change's "equally evil twin," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco told The Associated Press.
"We've got sort of the perfect storm of stressors from multiple places really hammering reefs around the world," said Lubchenco, who was in Australia to speak at the International Coral Reef Symposium in the northeast city of Cairns, near the Great Barrier Reef. "It's a very serious situation."
Oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increasing sea acidity. Scientists are worried about how that increase will affect sea life, particularly reefs, as higher acid levels make it tough for coral skeletons to form. Lubchenco likened ocean acidification to osteoporosis - a bone-thinning disease - because researchers are concerned it will lead to the deterioration of reefs.
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Scientists initially assumed that the carbon dioxide absorbed by the water would be sufficiently diluted as the oceans mixed shallow and deeper waters. But most of the carbon dioxide and the subsequent chemical changes are being concentrated in surface waters, Lubchenco said.
Higher acidity levels are especially problematic for creatures such as oysters, because acid slows the growth of their shells. Experiments have shown other animals, such as clown fish, also suffer. In a study that mimicked the level of acidity scientists expect by the end of the century, clown fish began swimming toward predators, instead of away from them, because their sense of smell had been dulled.
The potential impact of all of this is huge, Lubchenco said. Coral reefs attract critical tourism dollars and protect fragile coastlines from threats such as tsunamis. Seafood is the primary source of protein for many people around the world. Already, some oyster farmers have blamed higher acidity levels for a decrease in stocks.
Some attempts to address the problem are already under way. Instruments that measure changing acid levels in the water have been installed in some areas to warn oyster growers when to stop the flow of ocean water to their hatcheries.
But that is only a short-term solution, Lubchenco said. The most critical element, she said, is reducing carbon emissions.


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My husband used to eat out 4-5 times a week when we first started dating. We have cut that down to once a week! It really makes a huge difference on the budget and the waist line :) - by MTRAMMELL1
I used to eat Chinese food on Thursdays even when I was watching, just had the "diet" or steammed choices. I gave that up and put that money away. It saves me about $7.00 a week. It also saves me the extra calories for a lunch! Needless to say all the calories in the sauce too!This Sparked Me! Leave a Comment


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(Excerpted from "The Rules of Love" by Richard Templar)
You've had a long and tiring day. In fact it's been a difficult week. You get home grumpy and irritable, and you need someone to take it out on. Who's there to oblige? Your partner, of course. They are always available, and it's not surprising you're feeling snappy, so what do they expect?
What they might expect is that you'd treat them nicely. If it was a friend standing there as you walked through the door, you'd manage to find it in you to be polite, so why not your partner? After all, they should be the most important person in the world to you, so why don't they get the best treatment?
It's so easy to use your partner as a handy sponge to absorb all your angst and to vent your anger to -- but that doesn't make it right. I've known plenty of couples who are snappy and irritable with each other on a regular basis. Some are even downright rude, simply because they can't be bothered to be nice -- because neither has done anything wrong. None of them have really happy and enviable relationships.
What's wrong with a bit of old-fashioned civility? What became of "please" and "thank you" and "would you mind?" If you want to feel really positive about what you have together, you need to start by being courteous and respectful to each other. Remember your basic manners, and speak with respect and kindness to one another. Fix them their favorite drink or give them a little gift for no reason at all except the best one -- because you love them. Pay them compliments, help them with daunting tasks even if it's not "your job" to put up shelves or do the ironing or unpack the groceries.
After a few months or years together, couples can settle down into a couple personalities, which is greater than the sum of its parts. You do things together, you socialize together, and you find shared interests to follow together.
This is all very lovey-dovey and sweet, but it ignores the fact that you are also separate people. It doesn't matter how much you had in common when you met, your partner has some interests separate from yours. Maybe you met through a passionate hobby and you both want to devote most of your free time to yachting or dog walking or stamp collecting. But even so you may want to concentrate on different aspects of it, or there may be other lesser interests, too.
Your partner needs some time to do their own thing in their own way -- and even on their own. Maybe they want to meet up with their best friends without you there, shut themselves away for an hour or so at a time reading poetry/sewing/fixing outboard motors or become a world expert in pre-1930s Balinese stamps. You need to give them the time and the space to do that without getting jealous or nasty about it.
If you're never out of each other's company, and you both turn into some kind of hybrid creature incorporating bits of both of you, you'll end up losing sight of the person you first fell in love with. That's not going to help your relationship because if that happens, that's when the whole thing loses its sparkle, its magic, and becomes tedious.
Is your partner perfect, then? Mine isn't. I bet yours has got lots of flaws. Do they snore? Are they really messy -- or neurotically tidy? Do they talk too much? Have a short temper? Are they a hopeless cook? Or is it really hard for them to get out of bed to go anywhere? Do they always interrupt when you're talking or do they spend too much time at work?
That's partners for you. They always have their share of faults. You just have to live with it I guess. I know, I know. You've tried talking to them about it, explained how difficult it is to live with, asked them to do something about it. Maybe they've tried, but they're obviously not trying hard enough. Maybe they did for a while and now they've slipped back into their old ways. It's always the same old story, whoever you ask. There's never any shortage of characteristics to moan about.
But wait a minute. If that's true of all partners that means it's true of you and me, too. Yes, that's right, you and I are just as guilty as our partners. There are all those things they tell us irritate them. Do we do anything about it? Of course we don't because they're being unreasonable --- asking us to change our personalities. If they don't like us the way we are, tough. They knew what we were like when they got themselves into this.
Okay, but that has to work both ways. Either we have to accept them the way they are, or we have to do something about all our own faults --- even if we don't personally consider them faults. Or better still, both. We need to set an example by being tolerant of their little quirks and foibles, and by addressing our own.
If you want your partner to hold their head high whenever they're out with you, to feel proud of you, you need to make sure that you always act with
- Integrity
- Honesty
- Compassion
- Thoughtfulness
- Kindness
Whether you're dealing with a difficult colleague or your child's teacher, you need to make sure you always act in a way that needs no justification. Of course, this is easy sometimes but sometimes it's a real challenge. If you don't do it, your relationship will suffer.
Your partner should never be expected to cover up for you, make excuses for you, or apologize for you. It's not acceptable to go with them to a social event and then be embarrassingly drunk. It's not okay to ask them to lie to your boss and pretend you're ill when you're not. It's not fine if they are rude to somebody you have to deal with. It's certainly not alright to break the law --- even a minor driving offense --- and then expect your partner to be happy about it.
I know of a couple where the woman is universally adored by all her neighbors, but the husband is avoided like the plague. He interferes, offends, irritates, and is domineering -- and after he has ruffled everybody's feathers, the woman has to try and continue as normal. Now actually all her neighbors feel very sorry for her, as they also hear the way the man treats her and feel she deserves better, but that's not the point. He shouldn't be making her spend half her life apologizing for him (or even cause her to feel embarrassed every time she leaves the house).
No one wants to be associated with someone tactless, unkind, rude, or thoughtless. Certainly that's not a burden you should be placing on your loved one. Your partners own self-esteem will suffer quite a lot.
I know a couple who decided to seize an opportunity to build themselves a house, and he took charge of the work. Half way through the process, she decided -- for entirely valid reasons I won't go into --- that she wasn't at all sure she wanted to live in it when it was complete. He, on the other hand, had put a great deal of effort into it and didn't want to waste it.
Now at this point, a lot of couples would have fallen out badly, but not these two. What was their approach? He said that if she really didn't want to live there, they wouldn't. Meanwhile she took the approach that as he'd put in so much work, she would at least live there for a year or so and then they could sell if she really hated it. So that was their compromise: they'd try it for a while and reconsider if it really wasn't working for her.
The reason they managed to reach this entirely amicable agreement was quite simply because they were both putting the other one before themselves. To do that, of course, they had to really listen to each other and consider the other one's viewpoint. They both had to want the other one to be happy even more than themselves. To put it another way, neither of them could be happy if their partner weren't.
This is absolutely essential to a good, strong relationship. I can't think of a really happy relationship I've ever witnessed where both partners didn't operate this way. You have to put your partner's happiness before your own, you have to be unselfish, you have to put yourself second--otherwise you will have arguments and a stalemate.
How do you show your partner you love them? Do you give them flowers or chocolates? Do you take them out for a meal or cook a special dinner for them? Do you tell them half a dozen times a day, "I love you"? Do they do the same for you?
If you're feeling guilty, just hold on for a minute. I might be about to let you off the hook on this one. I remember talking to a couple of friends once over dinner. They were having a (mostly) friendly banter about the fact that -- according to her --- he hardly ever showed that he loved her. He replied, "That's not fair. What about all those morning cups of coffee I make you? What about the weekends when I mind the kids? What about the times I wash your car?" She was firm in her response: "That's not romantic. Those are just favors." He looked completely baffled, and asked, "But why do you think I do them?"
We have a very narrow idea of what constitutes a romantic gesture. Flowers, chocolates, dinner, and saying "I love you." Those are the obvious ones. In fact there is an infinite number of ways to show someone you love them. Every little thing they do that they didn't have to, that they only did because they wanted to please you, is their way of saying, "I love you."
If you want to know how much your partner cares, don't just focus on flowers and chocolates. (Although those are fine too, at least in my book.) Think about the last time they changed the sheets when it wasn't their turn, fetched you an aspirin when you were feeling ill, or made a phone call for you because youdidn't have the energy. If those mundane, banal, unromantic-sounding things aren't gestures of love, what the hell are they? What was the point of doing them?
If you learn to recognize these signs for what they are, not only will your partner feel their love is appreciated, but you'll also feel even more secure and happy after you realize that every cup of coffee is just a secret code for "I love you."
Grown-ups don't have fights. Sure they argue, they disagree, they debate. Indeed they express their feelings and say when they're hurt or angry or upset. But they don't have the kind of fights that require an apology to get over them.
Oh, alright then, we do. But that doesn't make it right. From time to time we forget to do the, "When you say…I feel…" thing we all know we should, and we behave childishly instead. Don't worry; we all do it. I expect they started it anyway.
The big question is, having had it out with the person we love, which isn't what we wanted to do of course, what are we going to do about it? The answer -- as you may have guessed from the title of this Rule --- is to say you are sorry and to say it before they do.
How do you feel about saying you're sorry? You can't understand why you should? Do you feel that you've lost face, been humiliated, or had to swallow your pride? Well don't. You're a Rules Player and you're big, strong, confident, and self-assured enough to do it. I'm not asking you to say you're sorry publicly in front of 500 people. This is just a private apology to your very nearest and dearest. A Rules Player can manage to do this.
What are you apologizing for? Isn't it hypocritical to say you are sorry when you truly feel you were in the right? No it isn't because that's not why you are saying you are sorry. You're apologizing for allowing a perfectly valid discussion about a difference of views to degenerate to this point. It takes two to argue, and you're apologizing for being childish and letting it happen -- and for all the mistakes you must have made to reach that point.
You should be a lot of things to your partner: friend, lover, companion, confidant(e), ally, comforter. One thing you shouldn't be is their parent. They're a grown-up and they don't need one of those any more, at least not beyond any they've already got.
Your partner is an independent and mature person who can run their own life. They choose to spend it with you, for which I hope you are properly grateful. They don't need anyone else to tell them how to run it. So don't let me catch you telling your partner, "Take those muddy shoes off before you come in here," or "You haven't eaten much. Go on -- at least finish your vegetables," or "You know, you don't exercise enough. You should join the gym."
These are all actions or decisions they are capable of taking for themselves. I'm not saying you should never express an opinion, but there's no need to tell them what they should do. It's just your opinion, Okay? So express it as a point of view and not as an instruction.
I'll tell you what will happen if you do this, because I've seen it happen to couples I know. If you act like a parent to your partner, they will respond in one of two ways. The first option is that they will respond like a child. They will meekly do as you tell them and allow you to become their parent. This might seem to work at first, but in fact it will destroy the equality in your relationship. When you want someone to look after you, they won't seem like the right person any more. They'll expect you to solve all their problems for them, which you won't always be able to do. So you'll both be disappointed and frustrated. That's hardly a recipe for a happy relationship.
The alternative is that they'll act like a rebellious teenager and quite rightly push against your attempts to parent them. This will lead to arguments and conflict as they resent and resist you.
Go on then, what annoys you about your partner? There's got to be loads of things. Come on, what can you think of, off the top of your head? Let's see --- do they always sing along to your favorite music out of tune? Do they change channels on the TV without asking you first? Take phone messages for you and then forget to pass them on? Put the greasy butter knife straight down on the table? Interrupt you when you're in mid-sentence? Snore? Throw away the toothpaste before it's really empty? I bet there are loads of little things that wind you up.
I've never met anyone who didn't annoy their partner in some kind of little way or other. It's unavoidable. Of course, we need to be tolerant and we can't ask them to change their personality but I mean, honestly, do they have to bang the front door so loudly? Or let the dog into the kitchen when it's still wet from its walk?
It's amazing how such little things can really get to you. If you're finding it impossible to be tolerant, it's much better to let your partner know how you feel than to get increasingly frustrated and irritated. After all if you don't tell them, how would they know. It's probably never dawned on them that they're being annoying.
There is one important rule though -- always use humor to let your partner know what bugs you. My wife and I have developed a system whereby every time she says, "By the way, for future reference…" I know I'm about to get into trouble for something I didn't know I was doing. Because she always usesthe same phrase it's become a standing joke, so she always says it with a smile, and I always reply, "Whatever it was, I'm sorry. So what have I done now?"
I'd just like to say before we get beyond the title of this Rule, that I'm not talking about instances where you know for a fact that your partner is cheating on you. In that case jealousy is understandable and justified. What this Rule is about is feeling jealous every time your partner is away from home, out on their own, late from work, and so on. Maybe you've even been tempted to go through their emails or sneak a look at the calls on their cell phone. (What? You've already done it? Tsk tsk.)
Jealousy is one of the most corrosive things in a relationship. I've seen it destroy otherwise excellent partnerships. When the partner who is the object of such suspicion is in fact innocent, they feel angry and resentful at not being trusted, and rightly so. Your partner is innocent until proven otherwise, and you must trust them.
There are all sorts of reasons why you may be jealous, most of which will have something to do with your own history. The thing to understand is that it's you who needs to address your jealousy. It's not your partner's job to tell you where they are all the time and keep handing over their cell phone for inspection.
Every problem is a shared one, and your partner will -- I hope --- want to help resolve this. No matter what they do, it won't satisfy you if you're inherently jealous. You'll suspect them of deleting texts before they hand over the phone, and you'll think of every 10-minute stretch you couldn't account for their whereabouts. Nope, the only thing that will sort this out is for you to deal with why you feel irrationally jealous. You might be able to do this for yourself or with friends, or you may want to talk to your doctor or a counselor. Choose whatever method works for you, but you must deal with it or you'll end up with no partner to be jealous of.
This can be so hard if you get bogged down in work and kids a few years into your relationship, but that's when it's most important. The less time there is for romance, the more you need it.
You can't expect the passion and the excitement in your relationship to last if you've abandoned the romance. That's the bit that stokes the fires, so you need to find some way to keep it going. Flowers and romantic dinners for two in glamorous restaurants are great, but the time and the budget may not stretch that far. So you're going to have to get a bit more inventive. Come on, you know your partner well enough by now to have a pretty good idea how to romance them.
If you can get out of the house and away from the kids, why not go for a romantic woodland walk or a picnic in the park? If you live in a tourist area, why not go on one of those tourist boat trips or have an evening at the fair? It can be very romantic if you both get into the spirit.
Between those possibly rare excursions out of the house, there are plenty of ways of being romantic at home. The simplest (and cheapest) of them involves whispering sweet nothings and holding hands on the couch. How about having your dinner in the garden or on the balcony? Cook a favorite meal -- it doesn't have to be fancy -- and maybe put a cloth on the table or break out the best glasses, and have your romantic dinner for two.
You have to treat your partner fairly in a relationship, or you haven't got an equal relationship. If you love them, this is one of the most basic ways to show it. Regardless of your background, education, and culture, the only fair thing is for both of you to put an equal amount of time and effort into running your lives.
In other words, no lounging around with your feet up when you get in from work while your partner gets the dinner ready. No sleeping in every morning while they get up with the kids. You should both put in the same amount of work. That means if you both get up together in the morning, no one stops working until everything is done and then you both stop at once. So, if you get home from work and your partner is busy cooking, take over from them, or get some housework done, or put the kids to bed, but don't put your feet up until they can join you.
Of course, you don't have to divide everything exactly, you can do whatever you prefer. In our household, I do all the washing while my wife does all the shopping. It suits us both that way. I get up first, but I generally need quite a few little breaks from the kids on a bad day (bit of a short fuse), whereas she gets up a bit later but then just keeps on going when I need to disappear for a few minutes. I might relax while she's finishing a few chores early evening, but that's because at the end of the evening I do the late-night chores (letting the dog out, loading the dishwasher) while she heads straight for bed. So we don't do exactly the same things, but we both feel happy that the division of labor is equal on balance, and neither of us feels used or abused.
I've heard certain people -- almost always men I might add --- patiently explain that they're earning all the money and working at a tough job all day while their partner is just staying home with the kids. This constitutes much more effort, and therefore it's only fair that their partner does more in the evenings and weekends. They need more rest after all that effort.
If this is your attitude, let me tell you something. I've done a lot of things in my time, including both hard physical work and exhausting creative-thinking type jobs. I've been the sole breadwinner and I've been in a relationship where I earned only a proportion of the household income. I've also done my share of staying at home all day with the kids. I can tell you which job is the toughest by a million miles, and it isn't going out and earning the money.
Now I know lots of people who would argue with this Rule. Just remember that this book isn't about what I think you ought to do, it's about what works. I've seen lots of couples argue about money -- in many cases it's contributed to break-ups -- but I've never seen it happen in a relationship where the finances were separate. I'm only telling you what I've observed.
There's really no need at all to pool your money. It doesn't achieve anything useful. Okay, there's often a case for having a joint account that you both pay into (from your separate finances) to pay for shared things, such as the children's clothes or the monthly bills. You'll need to agree right at the start how much you each contribute -- half and half may not be fair if one of you earns much more than the other or uses the phone more.
That's just a technicality. If you both earn money, you will both need to cover the expenses according to whatever arrangement you agree. You may want to put money into a kitty for shared luxuries like a holiday. Beyond that, your money is your own. So, if your partner wants to blow all their savings on something you consider wasteful, that's their business. It doesn't affect you. The bills have been paid this month, and it's their money. You can save yours, or invest in something sensible, or spend it all onsweets if you want to. See? No arguments.
Before you ask, this can still work if you earn an unequal amount, or if only one of you earns. Broadly speaking, the best arrangement if your earnings are very different is that you contribute to joint costs proportionately. If one of you earns double, you contribute twice as much to the pot, or you pay equally toward bills but the high earner pays for evenings out or for vacations. You can sort out the details between you.
If one of you is working all day in the home and with the kids, and therefore not earning anything, the other partner needs to give them a fair share of the money that's left over after the bills are paid. (Personally I'd suggest half of it.) This is not a generous gift or a favor, but is fair payment for the contribution the nonworking partner makes to the partnership. One of you earns the money, and one of you looks after the house. You're swapping a share of the earnings for a share in the meals, the clean house,and the kids. If one partner wasn't pulling their weight in the house, the other couldn't have earned that money, so it's joint income and should be divvied up accordingly. After that has been done, you can each keep your share in a separate bank account.
You know that feeling you get when you first fall in love? Weak at the knees, stomach churning, can't think about anything else? It's great, isn't it? On the other hand, it puts you on an emotional roller coaster that makes almost everything else, from work to eating, really quite difficult.
Some people get addicted to it. They just don't feel alive unless they're "in love." Of course, relationships don't stay like that. Sooner or later you become confident and sure enough of your partner not to worry and fret, and you get used to having them around so you don't jump at the sound of the phone. So if you're addicted to falling "in love," you'll have to keep ditching your partners and finding new people to fall for.
You may be wondering why I keep putting quotation marks around "in love." Well, there are two reasons. The first is that you don't have to be in love to have this feeling, and you may be misled. It might actually be lust or infatuation and not love at all. The other reason is that I don't want to imply that if you don't have this feeling, you aren't in love with your partner.
There are very good reasons why this heightened emotional state doesn't last forever. You couldn't function, and the state has a lot to do with nerves and excitement, and after a while your relationship will inevitably stop making you nervous and cease to be as exciting as it was. You can still do exciting things together, but the relationship itself will become routine, hopefully in the very best of ways.
So what do you end up with if you stick out the relationship past the point where you can't sleep at night and can't think about anything else? Well, that varies. For some people what's left isn't really worth having. For those people who have a combination of luck, good judgment, and a grasp of the Rules, what you can end up with if all goes really well is contentment.
Contentment isn't about fireworks and weak knees and butterflies. This is why some people completely fail to realize that despite its more subtle charm, contentment is worth a whole lot more than short-term passion. Being content with someone doesn't mean you're no longer "in love." It means you are truly and deeply in love in the best sense without any quotation marks.
So don't get hooked on getting that fix of first "love." Concentrate on making sure that you follow the Rules so that as the first flush slowly dies down, it is replaced by something that is more rewarding, companionable, warm, fulfilling, and loving. When that happens don't think about what you have lost but about what you've gained. That's contentment -- and you should be more than happy with it.


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what's the MSRP on the car anyways anybody know?
Ive seen 1 and it looks very nice! i cant remember the price but very affordable! i would def think about it if i was looking for a med priced luxury car. It felt very nice inside!
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My 5 Favorite Video Game Bromances
3. (Male) Hawke & Anders
(Dragon Age II)
Some may object to this listing, partially because Anders is gay (and many consider bromances to be strictly between straight males); others may object because you can choose to make your male Hawke gay and romance Anders in the game. However, I include it on this list because depending on how you play the game–with your straight Hawke (or even a gay Hawke if you don't romance Anders), the two of them definitely have a huge bromance going on. In my playthrough with a straight male Hawke, Anders and he were very close friends, Hawke choosing to side with him in the end even though he didn't necessarily think what he had done was right. As much as I disliked a lot of DAII, the characters were where Bioware went right, and the relationship between Anders and Hawke is one reason I enjoyed the game.
2. Sissel & Missile
(Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective)
I've said before that Missile was one of my absolute favorite new video game characters, and it's a shame that the narrative of Ghost Trick doesn't really set itself up for a sequel–not only because the game itself was fresh and enjoyable and creative, but also because I'd love to see Missile again. That said, Sissel and Missile form an unlikely friendship in the game, each helping each other (through their various Ghost Tricks) to save the day and learn the truth about Sissel's past. And their names rhyme. That's can't be coincidence. I'd love to say more–but don't want to spoil the game if you haven't already played it!
1. Akhiko and Shinji
(Persona 3)
The Persona games are full of bromances; I could easily have included the main character and Yosuke from Persona 4, for example. Still, I had to end this list with two of the guys from Persona 3 instead: Akhiko Sanada and Shinjiro Aragaki. Even though their relationship (on-camera, anyway) is short-lived, the friendship between Akhiko and Shinji in Persona 3 is one of my favorite video game bromances. Each character has a dark past, but each approaches it differently, and it's interesting to see how their stories evolve and feed off each other (especially in the portable version, where you can learn a bit more about Shinji if you romance him as a female character). Most characters who die in RPGs (or any video game) are fairly disposable, but Atlus managed an example of the tragic bromance, creating an interesting, intriguing character whom you sorely miss when he's gone. Akhiko and Shinji forever. (Warning: the video above–after the credits–may be NSFW.)


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When Asroel was born in Jember, East Java, in 1979, he was fourth child and the long-awaited only son born into his farming family. Eager to have a male heir, his parents sought the advice of a village priest and made special offerings. His mother, who continued to perform strenuous physical labor throughout her pregnancy, suffered bouts of numbness in her left arm, left leg and right arm. These physical complaints suffered by Asroel's mother perhaps foreshadowed what lay ahead, for when he was born, it was without a left arm, a left leg and most of a right arm.Born with the severe physical limitations of life with only one fully developed limb, Asroel's earliest memories paint a picture of the hazards that his handicapped existence entailed, including being momentarily abandoned by a sister while he was attacked by by swarms of angry bees and another recollection of a trampling by a herd of goats.Unable to move on his own until he was five or six, his siblings and parents carried and pulled around him around on his backside. Blessed with a good mind, Asroel excelled in school where a headmaster took note of his natural aptitudes. Ashamed because of his inability to walk, the boy took to hiding in a local coffee plantation where he tirelessly practiced standing by gripping onto the trunks of coffee tree. Eventually becoming very proficient at hopping around on one foot, Asroel grew in his self-confidence and mobility.The boy's parents refused to treat their son as handicapped, expecting the boy to help his father in his work collecting firewood and other chores. Encouraged by his parents, Asroel attended high school in East Java, hopping the considerable distance to school by leaving his home at 4:30 a.m. each morning. Excelling in art and history, the boy also mastered the ability to write and draw using his right foot.
The School of Hard KnocksFinishing school in 1997, Asroel wished to escape the drudgery of plantation life and traveled to Yogyakarta where he worked initially as a parking attendant during the days, while making and selling American Indian accessories to tourists in the evenings.Later, he "tried his foot" at portraits painting and Islamic calligraphy. Managing to only eke out a very modest living, Asroel recalls often having to sleep on the streets with friends. Living rough and often reduced to fighting to defend his turf, he developed a wide variety of friends and acquaintances, ranging from fellow street kids to wealthy people.During his stay in Yogyakarta, Asroel also met his wife-to-be, a language student at a local university. Unprepared to accept the prospects of a handicapped son-in-law, her parents compelled her to return home to Kalimantan (Borneo). Proving that love always finds a way, she returned to Yogya after several years absence and married Asroel in 2006 before moving, as husband and wife, to Bali where he could pursue an artistic career.Disturbed by the tragic effects of two bombings in Bali and wishing to contribute to peaceful understanding between religious groups, Asroel focuses on painting portraits of famous peacemakers.Refusing to see himself as handicapped, Asroel is also active in the Senang Hati Foundation where he works and inspires by teaching others with disabilities learn how to draw.Exhibition at the Dragonfly Restaurant in Ubud
An exhibition and sale of Asroel's painting will be held at The Dragonfly Restaurant on Jalan Dewi Sita in Ubud from September 22 through October 21, 2006.


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