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If You Meet Jakob Nielsen on the Road, Kill Him (and other koans for the Internet Age)
Late last week, Sun gave a practical present to the Linux community: the findings of its GNOME usability study.
"Usability," like the word "design," found voguish status among vaguely mod information age sages. Everyone knows, for instance, that things should be "usable," and it's a sign of deep knowing to make remarks about the usability or unusability of a given thing; it's also a sign of knowing to talk about "good design" or "bad design." In either case, sometimes what you ought to be hearing is "I didn't like it," or "I did like it," or "I think this sucks but can't tell you why."
Some people spend a lot of time thinking about usability, and they've developed robust methodologies and bodies of work around figuring out what helps people do useful things with the tools in their lives. Many, many more people aren't quite so sure what makes something usable as they are that they want more things to be that way, whatever it may mean.
The danger of an over-used concept is that it becomes trite and worn out, its meaning lost in the obfuscatory wilderness of knowing party banter and guru-for-a-day proclamations. Some people I've spoken to, for instance, use the word "unusable" in everyday assessments of fairly routine things, and not as a wry way to describe a shopping cart with a straying wheel. They like it because it's a shinier way to say "this thing sucks" or "I didn't know you had to push down before turning." Others use the word "usable" to mean "dumbed down" or "simplistic," and base their understanding of usability on some vague notion of what works well with stupid people.
Although there are many, many talented people at work on building the better desktop, entrusting them with characterizing what makes a piece of software "usable" or not is a bad idea. Not because they're flawed or less than talented, but because they live with the software they're creating day in and day out. Anyone who's been around GNOME for a while has probably become used to its idiom on a level that's blinding when it comes to anticipating what less proficient and capable users need to succesfully navigate an interface. It never occured to me, for instance, that anyone would have a beef with "moon and stars" icon meaning "exit the desktop." At least not until I remembered that I'd once passed the mouse over it tentatively the first time I encountered it to make sure it did what I thought. That isn't to say that there haven't been some nice touches added. Ximian has made GNOME a better (more usable) experience for a lot of people, for instance. But there are a few more yards to go in this push.
I'm not even a hacker, and I know that I'm no more fit to figure out what that oft-cited, sometimes-seen end users need than a belligerent bash zealot: I'm used to the underlying structure of GNOME in particular and the overall family of Linux GUI applications in general. The impatience I feel when a guest user on my machine becomes ensnared in the inexplicable differences in dialogs between, say, Motif-based Netscape, gtk-based Abiword and "alien file system" StarOffice tells me I've made my peace with some terrible interface shear that others simply can't be expected to embrace as good or normal, at least until they learn to create symlinks.
So the gift Sun has given is one of outside perspective. They did more than any amount of buttonholing friends and spouses in front of a glade session, or mailing list feedback could ever hope to produce: they provided end users, methodology, and a testing environment, and they got useful feedback from people with nothing at stake in the process... they got usable (pardon me) data from which decisions can be made, personal preferences can be definitively laid to rest, and heretofore problematic blindspots exposed.
There are some cranky types out there who don't want any part of this, believing that a more usable (end-user friendly) Linux is representative of a "dumbing down." They'll hassle anyone who takes the time to listen or read to their comments over "bloat" and "cruft." My own experience has been that even the most heavily engineered distributions (I'm reserving judgement on whether Mandrake or SuSE gets the nod on that) strip down admirably well if one so desires, leaving all the "bloat" back on the installation CD, where it does nothing to weigh down the desk and dent the floor. The general vibe, though, is that more friendliness (what people used to say before "usability" came along) is a good thing. While the Linux desktop may be pretty good (it's good enough for me as a platform to work from, even if I do wish I could just go into the store and buy more than $9.99 Loki games for it), it can't hurt to get a little better, and enjoy a little more polish.
Despite GNOME being the target of this particular study, it's also a great opportunity for every other desktop project's developers to at least ponder where GNOME has gone wrong and look for similar weaknesses in their own framework. Nothing in any of this dictates a particular practice, but reading the study provides a way to see where interface designers have fallen off the path and learn how they might have arrived at some questionable decisions. After all: GNOME and KDE hackers are all, at heart, hackers, even if their more restless acolytes in the end user community would like to pretend there are genetic differences.
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1) go to Start -> Run -> type msconfig -> Enter -> and click the "Startup" tab. UNCHECK everything that doesn't need to automatically run when the computer runs. That means...almost everything. Go to the "Services" tab and check "Hide Microsoft Services". Same thing goes here - uncheck most of that stuff - it doesn't need to run. Restart the computer and be amazed and how much faster it runs. : THEN….
2) go to the Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program. This is where we spend most of our time. We uninstall everything that isn't needed or normally wanted. That is usually 50-75% of the software listed there. BE SURE to remove the old antivirus software. It's only a trial anyway and won't do you any good. It'll be bad to keep it on the computer. If you don't remove all of the software that "could" be removed, it isn't a big deal. Don't worry about getting rid of everything.
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By following this guide, you can take any new computer and increase its speed tremendously and help it to run more smoothly and more reliably. If you don't feel comfortable doing this, have a technology-savvy friend help you. We normally charged $100 for this tune-up and it was worth every penny to get your computer off to a good, efficient start.
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FRED S. LEHMANN, PLAINTIFF,v.KINTOCK GROUP, ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
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Plaintiff Fred S. Lehmann, a prisoner confined at Southern State Correctional Facility in Delmont, New Jersey, seeks to bring this civil action in forma pauperis, without prepayment of fees or security, asserting claims pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Civil actions brought in forma pauperis are governed by 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-135, 110 Stat. 1321 (April 26, 1996) (the "PLRA"), which amends 28 U.S.C. § 1915, establishes certain financial requirements for prisoners who are attempting to bring a civil action or file an appeal in forma pauperis.
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Even if the prisoner is granted in forma pauperis status, the prisoner must pay the full amount of the $350 filing fee in installments. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). In each month that the amount in the prisoner's account exceeds $10.00, until the $350.00 filing fee is paid, the agency having custody of the prisoner shall assess, deduct from the prisoner's account, and forward to the Clerk of the Court an installment payment equal to 20 % of the preceding month's income credited to the prisoner's account. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(2).
Plaintiff may not have known when he submitted his complaint that he must pay the $350 filing fee,*fn1 and that even if the full filing fee, or any part of it, has been paid, the Court must dismiss the case if it finds that the action: (1) is frivolous or malicious; (2) fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted; or (3) seeks monetary relief against a defendant who is immune from such relief. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) (in forma pauperis actions). See also 28 U.S.C. § 1915A (dismissal of actions in which prisoner seeks redress from a governmental defendant); 42 U.S.C. § 1997e (dismissal of prisoner actions brought with respect to prison conditions). If the Court dismisses the case for any of these reasons, the PLRA does not suspend installment payments of the filing fee or permit the prisoner to get back the filing fee, or any part of it, that has already been paid.
If the prisoner has, on three or more prior occasions while incarcerated, brought in federal court an action or appeal that was dismissed on the grounds that it was frivolous or malicious, or that it failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, he cannot bring another action in forma pauperis unless he is in imminent danger of serious physical injury. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).
In this action, Plaintiff failed to submit a complete in forma pauperis application as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1), (2), including a certified account statement. See, e.g., Tyson v. Youth Ventures, L.L.C., 42 Fed.Appx. 221 (10th Cir. 2002); Johnson v. United States, 79 Fed.Cl. 769 (2007).
The allegations of the Complaint do not suggest that Plaintiff is in imminent danger of serious physical injury.
For the reasons set forth above, Plaintiff's application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis will be denied without prejudice and the Clerk of the Court will be ordered to administratively terminate this action, without filing the complaint or assessing a filing fee. Plaintiff will be granted leave to move to re-open within 30 days,*fn2 including his completed in forma pauperis application or his filing fee of $350.
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A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands and a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice Department to join the investigation.
Dutch trading house Argos Energies, a mid-sized trading company that deals in physical oil products and owns storage facilities, was visited by inspectors from the European Commission on Tuesday, a source familiar with the investigation said on Friday.
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In Washington, the chairman of the Senate's energy committee asked the Justice Department to investigate whether alleged price manipulation has boosted fuel prices for U.S. consumers.
"Efforts to manipulate the European oil indices, if proven, may have already impacted U.S. consumers and businesses, because of the interrelationships among world oil markets and hedging practices," Senator Ron Wyden, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Authorities have sharpened scrutiny of financial benchmarks around the world since slapping large fines on some of the world's biggest banks for rigging interest rate benchmarks.
Over the past year many observers have noted the resemblance between the Libor self-reported benchmark and the journalist assessment-based methodology used to set most of the world's oil prices, but this week's investigation is the first indication that EU authorities are taking a harder look at the system.
Hungary's Pannonia Ethanol, a recent entrant to Europe's market, was the first company to identify itself as having complained to Brussels over access to the Platts market-on-close (MOC) system - a daily half-hour "window" of trading during which the agency determines prices through a series of bids, offers and trades.
The source said that inspectors were still on the premises of Argos Energies on Friday and that it was also the last day of the inspection at the company.
Argos Energies declined to comment.
Platts said trading in the oil market has not been significantly affected by the investigation.
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Meanwhile Neste Oil, a Finnish refinery, said it had received a request from the European Commission to provide information, although it said it was not under inspection.
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Platts, a unit of McGraw-Hill, provides clients with price benchmarks set by reporters for opaque energy markets.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch leader accused of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, has filed a motion to disqualify the judge in his case.
Zimmerman, 28, claims Judge Kenneth Lester showed bias against him in his recent ruling after a bond hearing. The state responded on Tuesday ,filing a motion to disqualify O'Mara's filing on Friday.
Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda writes that Zimmerman's motion is "short on actual fact and devoid of legal merit."
In a motion released on Friday, Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, wrote, "the Court makes gratuitous, disparaging remarks about Mr. Zimmerman's character."
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Lawsuits from victims of faulty Bard IVC filters have been centralized in a newly formed multidistrict litigation (MDL) in Arizona. This will allow recipients of the Bard IVC to join together in a common lawsuit that will challenge the devices manufacturer for allegedly designing and distributing a faulty product that carried potentially life-threatening side effects. In the wake of the Arizona Bard IVC MDL ruling, thousands of potential plaintiffs may be able to pursue their legal claim in the state.
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If there's one thing the NFL does better than just about everyone else in the world, it is hype.
There's no story too small for the league to turn into a media firestorm and they've gotten so good at stoking the fires that it sometimes seems like the off-season generates more attention than the games themselves. Given this ability, it's a bit odd that it has felt like the 15-1, defending Super Bowl champion Packers, have been flying under the radar this season.
Odd, perhaps, but totally understandable. The hype machine is so big and so good at what it does that any story that crops up over the course of the season inevitably grabs hold of all the oxygen in the room and leaves nowhere for the consistent greatness of the Pack to go to get attention.
In a year where an unquantifiable amount of time was spent talking about Tim Tebow, Aaron Rodgers' MVP season got little more than nods from the gallery. That remained true even as Drew Brees was feted for breaking the record for passing yards in a season that stood for nearly 20 years, even though almost no one found Brees' greatness worthy of votes for the All-Pro team.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Whether it was concussions, Ndamukong Suh's behavior, Jets dysfunction, Jerome Simpson flipping into the end zone, quarterback injuries, coaching changes or TEBOWMANIA PLAYOFF EDITION, there was always something that shunted the Packers off into a corner.
Even now that the postseason is upon us and the spotlight has narrowed onto the teams still in position to win the Super Bowl, the Packers are finding it hard to grab any for themselves. They've won 15 games this season, 21 of their last 22 overall, and haven't lost at Lambeau Field since Week Six of the 2010 season, yet all anyone can talk about this week is the fact that the Giants beat a Packers team led by a different quarterback four years ago.
The Packers have beaten the Giants twice since then with Rodgers at quarterback, including a one-sided rout last season at Lambeau when the Giants' season was on the line. That doesn't mean that the same thing will happen this time and it doesn't mean the Giants can't win, but it does suggest that we've become a bit numb to how good the Packers have been over the recent past.
If it wasn't for the Discount Double Check commercials, you might even forget the Packers exist. So let's thank their existence for that and absolutely nothing else.
At least there's a happy ending to this. If the Packers lose this weekend, the hype factory will have plenty of grist for the mill. You can already imagine the columns talking about the distractions caused by the death of offensive coordinator Joe Philbin's son and the talking heads bursting at the seams about the perils of resting players before the postseason. Throw in a small portion of revisionist historians claiming the Packers weren't that good in the first plalce and you've got quite a recipe for hypeburgers.
There's no trouble if the Packers win, either. Then we'll get a week about the inevitability of their repeat and overwrought discussion about the special character of Lambeau Field.
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RAPID CITY - Work is getting under way on a large housing development in Rapid City.
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Because scientists often tend to dismiss what they don't fully understand, many of them used to think that C-peptide had no physiological function. But while it's true that C-peptide does nothing to lower blood sugar, recent research is finding that it might have a role in preventing diabetes complications.
C-peptide binds to cell surfaces and activates cell-signaling pathways, stimulating enzymes that usually have reduced activity in people with type 1.
Pancreas transplants promote reversal of diabetic neuropathy and stabilization of diabetic retinopathy, and both pancreas and islet transplants lead to reversal of diabetic nephropathy (kidney dysfunction). The assumption now is that the production of C-peptide associated with these procedures is behind the improvements.
C-peptide administration is also accompanied by increased blood flow in skeletal muscle, heart, and skin reduced glomerular hyperfiltration and urinary albumin secretion, and improved nerve function. This effect occurs in patients with type 1 diabetes, but not in healthy people.
In one study, nerve conduction speeds were measured in diabetic and healthy rats that were treated with either C-peptide or a placebo. The progressive decline in nerve conduction speed seen in placebo-treated rats was arrested when C-peptide treatment was started one week after onset of diabetes. The nerve conduction velocity also increased significantly when C-peptide was administered at five months after onset of diabetes.
In a three-month clinical trial involving patients with peripheral diabetic neuropathy, sensibility impairment improved after C-peptide treatment but then returned three months after treatment stopped. In another trial, sensibility impairment improved after three months of replacement C-peptide treatment.
Where C-peptide Comes From and What It Does
Discovered in 1967, C-peptide is a byproduct of insulin production that starts out as part of the proinsulin molecule. Proinsulin is the raw material for finished insulin. Made up of 86 amino acids, it's produced in the endoplasmic reticulum, deep within the beta cells of the pancreas. During the manufacturing process, the proinsulin molecule is folded into a tidy shape that can be neatly severed by enzymes into three parts: the A chain of the insulin molecule, the C-peptide molecule, and the B chain of the insulin molecule.
C-peptide, so named because it connects the A chain and B chain of insulin within the proinsulin molecule, is snipped out from the center of the proinsulin. C-peptide ends up with 31 amino acids, and four amino acids are removed altogether. The two ends of the proinsulin (the B chain, made up of 30 amino acids) and the A chain (made up of 21 amino acids) are connected to each other by two disulfide bonds, forming the finished insulin molecule of 51 amino acids.
For each insulin molecule produced, obviously, one C-peptide molecule is also produced. Measuring C-peptide, therefore, is a handy way to measure naturally produced insulin and to distinguish it from injected insulin, which has no C-peptide. (The C-peptide is removed when insulin is manufactured synthetically.)
What's Normal in People With Diabetes
In non-diabetics, a normal concentration of C-peptide is about 0.5 to 3.0 ng/ml. Even though C-peptide and insulin are produced at the same rate, the body's levels of the two are not identical because they leave the body at different speeds. Insulin is processed and eliminated mostly by the liver and has a half-life of about five minutes. C-peptide is removed by the kidneys and has a half-life of about thirty minutes. As a result, there is usually about five times as much C-peptide in the blood as insulin.
Because type 1 diabetes is caused by autoimmune destruction of beta cells, it is characterized by reduced levels of both insulin and C-peptide. Type 2 diabetes, in contrast, which begins with resistance to insulin, is initially associated with normal or even increased insulin and C-peptide levels. That's why a C-peptide test is often used to help distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. In a basic C-peptide test, fasting C-peptide levels are measured. Blood glucose levels are measured at the same time, and the two are correlated.
How a C-peptide Stimulation Test Works
In a C-peptide stimulation test, which is far less common than the fasting test, glucagon is administered to stimulate high blood sugar. In healthy people, this hyperglycemia would stimulate secretion of insulin molecules, each one associated with a C-peptide molecule. With type 1 diabetes, however, the pancreas is on the fritz. As a result, little insulin and C-peptide is secreted.
Conversely, C-peptide levels are increased in early type 2 diabetes because the pancreas is still going strong but the body's cells aren't able to use the insulin it produces. In people with type 2, C-peptide levels may also be monitored to determine whether the pancreas is burning out and insulin production is dropping, resulting in a need for insulin supplementation.
C-peptide and Medicare/Medicaid's Insulin Pump Policies
Medicare and Medicaid regulations require C-peptide testing as part of the qualification process for an insulin pump. C-peptide testing is also used to differentiate among different causes of low blood sugar, such as an insulin-producing pancreatic tumor called an insulinoma, which leads to excessive production of insulin and associated C-peptide.
The test can also identify an accidental or deliberate over-administration of insulin; because synthetic insulin does not contain C-peptide, C-peptide is low in persons with hypoglycemia due to overdose of insulin. C-peptide levels are also used to monitor beta cell function following surgical removal of all or part of the pancreas. Additionally, they are used to find out whether transplanted islet cells are producing insulin.


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Yes there are pretty boxes and baskets to store them in, but really... Do you need that much space? No bueno.
Here's my organised mess! The current storage solution is utterly horrible, as it looks way too cluttered because of the acrylic see through drawers. It will NOT be like this for much longer. Seriously looking at it makes me want to cover it up with a white cloth! :)
I will be buying a distressed white dressing table very soon and will only keep whatever makeup I can fit into it's drawers, I certainly do not want to clutter the top of the table. I want to keep it as empty and as calm as possible. Good luck to me!
Let's pretend all my make up disappeared and I was only allowed to buy 15 items which is ridiculous, it was going to be 10 items but seriously that's just absurd. This is what I would go out and buy:
- Bourjois 10hr sleep effect foundation
- Bobbi Brown creamy concealer
- YSL touche eclat
- Chanel Bronze Universel
- Benefit Moon beam.
- Mac Moon River mineralised highlighter/blush.
- Mac Ripe Peach blush
- ELF Pink Lemonade all over color stick
- Bobbi Brown Calypso Coral pot rouge for lips and cheeks
- Mac Creme d'nude lipstick
- Mac Pink Lemonade lipglass
- Urban Decay Book of shadows palette
- Mac blacktrack fluidline
- L'oreal Voluminous mascara
- Benefit Speed brow - brow gel
FYI: I will show you what my new setup looks like once it's complete! :)


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When you think about Alabama, chances are the first type of outdoor recreation that comes to mind is football.
Lance Haynie, program coordinator for outdoor recreation at the University of Alabama (UA), in Tuscaloosa, admits that most people—including many Alabamans themselves—don't associate the state with outdoorsy pursuits, such as hiking, rock climbing and kayaking. And he is on a mission to change that perception.
"Outdoor recreation, leadership and education are not, in my opinion, a part of the local economy or in the forefront of people's minds here, the way they are in places like California, Idaho, Oregon or Colorado," says Haynie, who will present a session at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) show in April about how he promotes his program. "So it requires a lot of outreach on my part to make the benefits of those types of programs known."
UA's decade-old outdoor rec program already has gone a long way toward helping the university's students and members of the local community discover the state's caves, canyons, forests, rivers and rock formations through the organized trips that the program offers as well as training clinics and equipment rentals that enable individuals and groups to plan their own adventures.
"No other place in the area offers a one-stop shop where you can rent gear, sign up for guided trips, use an indoor climbing facility and have your bike serviced," Haynie says. "The closest thing like it is an hour and a half away—at another university."
Across the country, Mat Erpelding, outdoor program coordinator at Boise State University (BSU), in Boise, ID, says that promoting the program is his biggest challenge, too—but for exactly the opposite reason.
"In Idaho, outdoor recreation is a part of the culture," Erpelding says. "So for us, selling trips can sometimes be difficult because people can already do it on their own. In other parts of the country where they don't have the same access to facilities and resources to do these trips on their own, it might be easier to run an outdoor program than here, where there are trails 10 minutes from campus."
As a result, BSU's outdoor program tends to offer field adventures that require a higher level of technical skill and more organization, such as ice climbing, to entice participants.
However different the landscapes and cultures of their locations, the outdoor rec program at BSU is similar to UA's in that it, too, is becoming a bigger part of campus recreation. Erpelding says that although the program has existed at the university since the mid-1970s, it has grown significantly in the last decade.
Part of the growth is due to increased administrative support—BSU's associate director of campus recreation, Geoff Harrison, comes from an outdoor rec background and is a big advocate of the program—and the other part is because the general perception of outdoor pursuits is gradually changing, Erpelding says.
"Historically, outdoor programming has been considered a 'fringe' part of traditional recreation," Erpelding says, "but it's become increasingly mainstream, along with interest in 'green' activities and the rising popularity of extreme sports. It's sort of created the perfect storm for growing outdoor programs."
UA's program also is growing rapidly, both in terms of its offerings and the level of participation. Haynie, the program's sole full-time employee, says that he works hard to promote the program as an addition or alternative to traditional rec facility activities, but believes that when people are exposed to outdoor recreation, its benefits speak for themselves.
"We go and do these things, like rock climbing, backpacking or mountain biking, and your mind is automatically engaged in the present moment," Haynie says. "Whether you're on a rock face or moving along a trail, there are things that are intrinsically interesting in those activities. And the by-product of engaging in those activities is aerobic activity, muscle conditioning that most people don't even think about."
In addition to the physical benefits, outdoor recreation allows a unique mental health advantage because students get away from campus and the stresses of tests and homework, Haynie says.
Although field adventures take students off campus, learning the skills needed for some trips often takes place at the rec center (both UA and BSU have climbing walls and hold kayaking clinics in their rec center pools). This could mean that some students who wouldn't otherwise take part in traditional rec center activities will discover and use the facilities more frequently.
According to NIRSA, 46 percent of campuses now offer an outdoor adventure program, and that number is rising precisely for the reasons Haynie and Erpelding identified: its natural association with a growing awareness of the environment along with an increased interest in fitness activities that benefit the mind as well as the body.
Just as the activities and benefits of these flourishing outdoor programs differ from those of more traditional campus recreation programs, the opportunities and challenges they present in areas such as revenue generation, place in the greater community and staffing also are unique.
Every university recreation department is different, but in general many of the facilities and programs they offer are funded wholly or in part by mandatory student activity fees and subsidies allocated by the university administration. As state budgets, private investments and donations have decreased, many rec center directors have sought ways to replace the lost funds and generate their own income. It's something both UA and BSU are doing successfully.
UA's recreation department gets a lump sum from the administration that is divided among the recreation programs as needed, according to Haynie. However, that only accounts for 50 percent of its funds. The other half is generated by the programs themselves.
A big portion of that self-generated money comes from membership fees. Currently enrolled students have automatic membership at UA's rec facility, but the university rec offers fee-based memberships to university staff, faculty, alumni and community members. UA's outdoor program also is a major contributor, thanks to money generated by equipment rental, guided trips and the bike repair shop. All of these services are available to the greater community as well as to students.
"Behind the membership office, I believe I generate the most money for the facility," Haynie says of the outdoor program.
BSU's outdoor program is similarly lucrative, and that is also largely due to revenues generated by equipment rentals, which are available to the public. Erpelding says that the subsidies his program receives from campus rec primarily go to support administrative staff.
The field adventures are paid for by trip participants (who must be students, faculty or alumni) and usually just break even. The rental program generates the primary profit, he says, adding that BSU offers the largest four-season equipment rental program in the region.
Since 1998, BSU's rental program revenues have grown by 75 percent, which Erpelding says is due in part to a greater student population but largely to strategic expansions in inventory.
The rental program's profits were previously directly reinvested in BSU's outdoor program. But after some changes in campus recreation's structure, Erpelding says that more of his program's profits are now going into a student affairs account and being redistributed to the program as subsidies as needed.
It's a different story for Cal Adventures, the outdoor recreation program at the University of California, Berkeley.
The program is part of Berkeley's Recreational Sports department, which was at one time merged with the school's NCAA athletics department but now comes under the management of Business and Administrative Services (BAS) because it must be a self-sufficient department, despite getting some money from student activity fees, says Rachel Herrmann, Cal Adventures' youth program manager.
"It's a challenge because we need to make prices accessible to our students, but we also want to give them services that they really want," Herrmann says.
Berkeley's outdoor program also includes youth programming, such as recreation-based summer day camps and weekend clinics for children in the community.
The youth adventures program is part of the university's commitment to serving its community by providing access to its facilities and services in a difficult economy.
"We basically operate like a nonprofit government agency," Herrmann says. "The money that we're charging for our programs covers our costs. And obviously with the economy as it is, we're struggling to keep ourselves out of the red."
Cal Adventures offers a variety of activities, and almost all are open to the public. Unlike UA and BSU, much of Berkeley's outdoor program is customized for its participants, who range from student organizations and nonprofits who request backpacking and kayaking trips to corporations that arrange ropes course activities to promote group dynamics and team-building for employees.
The corporate groups pay a higher price, which helps Cal offer a reduced rate for student and nonprofit groups.
Berkeley's largely aquatic-based program has one major external source of funding. For the past 10 years, it has received a grant from California's Department of Boating and Waterways, which can only be used for aquatic equipment.
The department also provides assistance for staff training and certification, and they contribute to scholarships for Berkeley's youth aquatics program, which benefits individuals and groups that could not otherwise afford to participate.
Partnerships with private companies are important for these outdoor programs as they can help increase revenues, referrals and value for participants.
The Berkeley program has formed a relationship with REI, a national chain of outfitters that sponsors an annual touring film fest. Berkeley's campus hosts the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and in return proceeds from ticket sales go to the outdoor program's scholarship fund.
UA has an ongoing relationship with a local gear shop, Alabama Outdoors. The outdoor program often puts the shop's logo on the flyers for program trips, and participants receive a card that offers a one-time discount on equipment they may want to purchase for the trip. In return, the for-profit outfitter refers to UA any customers who want to rent rather than buy equipment and displays the program's trip schedule in the store.
The outfitter also gets involved with UA's annual indoor climbing competition, helping to advertise the public event and sometimes negotiating with the shop's suppliers to provide product samples for the event's goody bags. The program does not advertise most of its services off campus, so word of mouth referrals from partnerships like this are all the more important.
Erpelding says BSU's program does not have any formal partnerships, but it, too, relies on referrals rather than advertising to generate equipment rental business, so he maintains a good rapport with local businesses.
"We have a really positive relationship with private outfitters in the area—we send customers their way and they send people to us," Erpelding says. "Because the program is so well established and known in the community, we don't need to publicize it."
Staff requirements for outdoor programs can be different from those of traditional recreation programs, especially given the technical skills needed to lead off-campus trips.
Berkeley's outdoor program employs a handful of students who lead the freshman orientation trips program, On a Trail Somewhere, among other things, but Herrmann says its staff primarily consists of professionals. Student commitment is often shorter term as they are busy with coursework or opportunities such as internships and study abroad. The professionals, on the other hand, have a longer-term commitment, even though they are often part-time or seasonal employees. Some of the program's sailing instructors have been there for 20 years.
Both BSU's and UA's outdoor programs are largely staffed by students, but each trains its trip leaders differently.
BSU's trip leaders are students at the university who are trained by senior campus and outdoor rec staff as well as some instructors hired from the community, Erpelding says. The students, who get between 120 to 140 hours of training before going into the field as an assistant leader, pay for their training, which is based on curriculum from various outdoor education bodies, such as the Wilderness Education Association and the American Mountain Guide Association.
"They don't receive university credit for the training they do with the outdoor program, yet if you ask them when they graduate what the most influential part of their college career was, they'll almost always say it was the training they got in outdoor programs," Erpelding says.
Haynie is the only full-time staff member of UA's outdoor rec program, but he employs 25 student staff members.
He personally trains his staff, including trip leaders, and involves current student staff members in the hiring and training process whenever possible. For instance, this year he instituted an apprenticeship program for bike shop employees and now has two freshmen studying under the shop's three senior bike mechanics who will soon graduate.
In addition to staff with technical skills, UA's program also requires a lot of administrative staff to help organize the trips. Before every off-campus adventure, the program's administrators collect participants' medical information and local sheriff and emergency room contact details for a packet designed by UA's risk management office. They also pre-program a trip cell phone with participants' emergency contact numbers and those of the local hospitals, sheriff's office and search and rescue groups.
"We do a lot of work on the front end to make sure our students and our trip leaders are prepared," Haynie says.
While managing the staff he has today, Haynie is always looking to the future. He recently taught an outdoor leadership course in UA's New College, an interdisciplinary studies program, which culminated in a class trip that gave each student the chance to take the lead on a particular segment. He will teach the class again next semester and says that over time, it could become a good way to recruit student staff and help spread the interest in the program and in outdoor recreation in general.


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I'm new to Sabayon. I just installed it on my laptop and I got everything (including my Optimus setup using Bumblebee) working. However, I'm a bit disappointing about how Portage and Entropy work together (they don't, if I understand it correctly).
I was under the impression that it worked just like the package management in FreeBSD, and that is as follows: if build a package from the Ports (= source tree, ebuild-like) it builds a package and installs it as a binary package in the binary package management. It is a single system and you can mix binary packages with source-built.
In Sabayon this doesn't seem to work however. For example, when I try to emerge Thunderbird, it fails because a dependency is already installed in Entropy (I think):
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* Detected file collision(s):
* /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
* /usr/share/info/pinentry.info.bz2
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
* app-crypt/pinentry-base-0.8.3:0::sabayon-distro
* /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
* /usr/share/info/pinentry.info.bz2
* Package 'app-crypt/pinentry-0.8.3' NOT merged due to file collisions.
* If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
* above message.
- How do I fix this?
- If it isn't possible or impractical to do so, can I use Portage only? How?
(cross-posted from http://www.reddit.com/r/sabayon/comment ... t_portage/ because I didn't get a reply there)


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Architecture Council/Minutes September 11 2008
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|Meeting Title:
|Architecture Council Monthly Meeting
|Date & Time:
| Thursday September 11, 2008 at 1500 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1600 London / 1700 Berlin
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- Sign up here (alphabetical by last name), since it's hard to catch all names during the call.
- Signed-up: John Arthorne, Chris Aniszczyk, Wayne "Mad Dog" Beaton, Boris Bokowski, Eugene Chan, Brian Fitzpatrick, Philippe Mulet, Martin Oberhuber, Michael Scharf, August Schmidt, Darin Swanson, Thomas Watson, Darin Wright
- Tentative: John Duimovich, David Williams (will join late, if my conflict ends early)
- Regrets: Oliver Cole (standing meeting), John Graham(last minute client mtg), Richard Gronback (travelling), Mik Kersten (travelling), Markus Knauer (g-Eclipse tutorial), Andrew Overholt (meeting conflict), Gunnar Wagenknecht (city council meeting), John Wiegand (travelling)
Agenda / Notes
- Feel free to edit, but not during the call!
Review of Action Items
- Last meeting Architecture Council/Minutes August 14 2008#Action Items
- Boris to start Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations
- Martin to draft an E-Mail to eclipse.org-committers for review, inviting to put EAC on CC of bugs
- Martin to send E-Mail to EAC list as a reminder for "Architectural Walkthrough".
- Mik to create initial "architectural walkthrough" material for mylyn. One more to follow before publicly announcing?
- MichaelS to draft an E-Mail about the "plugin granularity" idea, searching for people to lead the effort
- Bjorn or Anne to add a "year of appointment" to members on the councils page
- Martin to propose alternate meeting scheme on the mailing list
- Everyone to think about time commitments that can be made for "architectural things" at Eclipse (3 hours == 1 hr meeting + 2 hrs E-Mail and mentoring)
- Everyone to propose new members on the mailing list
- Martin to create bugzilla bugs for the ISchedulingRule (bug 246840 and LGPL {bug|246945}} discussions
- Meeting Dates - any additional comments? The vote was to keep 2nd thursday of each month (and I propose moving to tuesday as first choice in case there is a public holiday or other conflict on thursday).
- EAC and bugzilla, and the E-Mail to Committers
- Spamming the list already?
- Virtual inbox (firstname.lastname@example.com) or direct mailing list address as bugzilla user?
- Who wants to be a secret-keeper of the EAC user's bugzilla password?
- Architecture Council/Members and Mentors - is it accurate?
- What projects should have a mentor? (Every / Incubation / Those who ask / ...?)
- Who's mentoring Apogee?
- What to do with the COSMOS and Aperi projects, which seem mentorless after Harm Sluiman quit
- Can we (auto)generate a list of mentor-less projects?
- Other wishes for re-assigning mentorship?
- Should the list express some "area of expertise" with mentors like "technical/coder" vs. "management" ?
- Dormant Status Proposal:
- Do the 3 month / 1 year times make sense?
- Mike needs to sign off changes in membership
- New Member Proposals:
- Are we too big a crowd already? New Member Proposals?
- Some ideas (from E4 mostly): Dave Carver, Tom Schindl, Scott Lewis, Konstantin Kommissarchik, Kevin McGuire, David Orme, Paul Webster, Paul Coltron
- Google Calendar Bugs and Requests -- does anybody know how to report them?
- Changing an event, "Dont send" does send notifications
- Response from to mailing list invitation should track attendance of each member separately
- Welcome Gunnar Wagenknecht as Technology PMC representative to the Architecture Council
News from the Board (EMO)
- We have board reps and EMO reps on the council (Mike, Bjorn, Jeff, Ed, zx, Mik and Doug Gaff; Wayne)
- Would like to have a standing "news from the board" topic, since as mentors we should be top informed
- Other channels (PlanetEclipse, Blog, Committers / Project-leads mailing list, ...) should work but 1st-hand is better
- Do information channels work well?
Top Ten Recommendations
- Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations
- More recommendations?
- Add links into some code which exposes a recommendation as example?
- Could easily convert a Recommendation into an article / blog post / ... ("The EAC Series")
Deadlocks, Jobs and Scheduling
- Examples: bug 245573 comment 12 (Dali JPA Tools Deadlock, John CC'd to EAC); bug 246840 discussion about ISchedulingRule (saving project preferences)
- What is causing issues?
- work performed during class loading (Activator.start()) - unknown context
- work performed in callbacks - unknown context
- Job / SchedulingRule intermixed with Resources - cannot extend rules after the fact, need to know who locks what internally
- What can we do to make the Platform safer for Concurrency?
- Come up with some items in our Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations (e.g. avoid synchronous callbacks, avoid in Activator.start(), static initializers or Singleton getters) - a general recommendation could be to avoid performing work at unpredictable times, but that would recommend against lazy initialization in general
- Does anybody have a well-working, consistent model on top of the current infrastructure?
- Totally new concurrency mechanism as part of E4 ?
- David Orme mentions DataBinding Realms and the Threads Considered Harmful blog which references Erlang message-based concurrence
- Would it help to become more asynchronous under the hood, even if old APIs need to remain for compatibility?
- Are there any other good known models for concurrency?
- Better Javadoc ?
- Example: ISchedulingRule.isConflicting() vs. ISchedulingRule.contains(), and how does it relate to RuleFactory and MultiRule?
- Articles ? - John referenced the resouce-deltas article
LGPL Works-with vs. Requires
How to start Releng?
- Question from a new project: I am trying to create some update sites and build scripts for TmL and I am having some difficults to find some reference material to working with this. Do you have any idea where I can find a starter material to do that??
- Bjorn, NickB & Denis Build Workshop 3: Build Hard With A Purpose but is that an answer for now? Current status?
- Refer people to clone existing projects' releng? Which ones are good?
- Refer to the PDE Build docs? But that's only half of the story?
Other Ideas for Discussion
- Mentoring New Projects
- Experiences? What could be improved?
- Webpage improvements: more pre-canned content for new projects (like Sourceforge)?
- Mentoring Galileo: What could be improved?
- Running each project's unittests with full Galileo installed; especially interesting for Performance tests
- Don't duplicate work done by the Planning Council
- Integrated bug reporting: Mylyn is providing a bug/error/enhancement reporting facility that will provide a flexible and product-configurable mapping between features, bundles and bug trackers bug 212209 (Example: http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/8/86/Mylyn-Bug-Reporting-Example.jpg ). Do we want this for Galileo?
- E4 now has bi-weekly calls -- won't discuss E4 on the EAC unless asked / invited
- Eclipse Pain Points
- Performance & Memory Footprint, Bloat
- Restrictions on Resource model (Maven)
- IP due diligence and the processes around it
- Lots of these issues are already worked on by E4, and/or Committer Representatives at the Board, and/or the Planning Council
- But the EAC's charter includes identifying and naming pain pionts... anything not yet being addressed?
- Re-activate Top Ten Architectural Problems in all of Eclipse ?
- Re-activate Architecture Council Discovery and Reuse Activity ?


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Let me tell you why I'm so excited about this year's expo:
- The Keynote speaker. Robert S Davis. This guy is smart and entertaining. I sat in on one of his classes last year and I plan to do so again this year.
- Low Price. For only $69 (before October 9th) this two day event is very affordable. Both my mom and sister are planning to attend.
- Socializing. It's fun to get out and meet other genealogists. They have ideas, tips and stories to share. Who knows, maybe we're related? You might find that you miss a class when you get caught up chatting.
- The Classes. It's going to be hard to pick classes. Topics range from geologically or ethnically specific to organizational tips. From new technology to old handwriting analysis. From source citation to DNA for genealogy. Each year there are new classes on new topics. I might have to split up my group to cover multiple classes in the same time period.
- The Exhibitors. This year I really need to find time for the Ask-the-Pros booth. There will also be big companies such as expo sponsors Ancestry.com and FamilySearch, as well as local societies and businesses. Interestingly, the soon-to-be closed to the public Georgia Archive will have a booth there.
And that last note, about the Georgia Archive, is one reason why I think that it's important for anyone who can attend to do so. It looks like, despite our best efforts, that the Georgia Archive is going to close at the end of October. We need people to turn out to the Expo this year to show that Genealogy = Money for the state of Georgia. The higher the turnout, the more we show our government that access to the Georgia Archive is important to the citizens of Georgia.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again this year!


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The Return of Charli Baltimore
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Is it a Sprain or Strain?
Strains happen when you injure a muscle or tendon -- the fibrous tissue that attaches muscle to bone. Sprains occur when you hurt a ligament, which connects the end of one bone to another. For both injuries, the answer is often RICE: rest, ice, compression, and elevation.
Rest is one key to help heal everyday strains and sprains. Depending on where the injury is, you may need to keep weight off it for a day or two. Crutches and canes can help in some situations. If your sprain or strain turns out to be severe, you could need physical therapy. Your doctor can assess your injury and advise the best treatment plan. In any case, ease back into activity slowly.
Ice helps prevent swelling and pain. So for the first 24 hours after a minor injury, apply a cold compress for 20-30 minutes, then remove it for 20-30 minutes. A pack of frozen peas works well. Or place ice cubes in a plastic bag, then wrap the bag in a towel (to avoid frostbite). Don't apply heat in the first 24 hours of an injury. It may make swelling worse. Later, heat can be used to relax muscles and ease pain.
Compression of an injury can help keep swelling down. For the first day or two after an injury, wrap a sprain or strain in compression bandages. Your doctor can give you advice on which compression aid to use and how to apply it.
Elevating your injury helps reduce swelling, so try to keep the injured area higher than your heart, if possible. Gravity helps reduce the swelling and relieve pressure. If you've taken every RICE precaution and still have pain with noticeable swelling after a couple of days, call your doctor.
Also call your doctor if pain is severe, you cannot put weight on a leg or ankle, or if there is any numbness, weakness, or unstable joints.
Other Sprain and Strain Treatments
Sometimes an injured limb needs to be immobilized with a device such as a splint or cast. Your doctor will oversee the device, because prolonged use can lead to stiffness and loss of range of motion. To recover from a sprain or strain, you may need to do exercises at home or work with a physical therapist. In some cases, you may need surgery to repair the damage.
Soothing Bruises
Bruises happen when impact breaks small blood vessels below your skin and blood seeps into tissues. You can help bruises heal by applying a cold compress right after the injury, then elevating the site above your heart, if you can. Bruises usually last about two weeks and change color from red/purplish to yellowish as they heal. If a bruise is severe or swells painfully, see a doctor.
Soothing Black Eyes
Leave the steak in the fridge. You don't need potentially bacteria-laden raw meat to soothe a black eye. Instead, apply a cold compress or towel-wrapped ice pack for 20 minutes every hour while you're awake. Make sure to see your doctor to check for the presence of a serious injury.
Relieving Head Bumps
The best way to reduce the swelling and pain of most minor head bumps is with a cold compress or ice pack. Get medical help immediately for a bump if there's any bleeding from the head or face; severe headache or vomiting; unconsciousness; slurred speech; vision problems or pupils of uneven size; breathing issues; or convulsions.
Medication Pain Relief
Chances are good your doctor will prescribe rest, ice, compression, and elevation for a minor bump, bruise, sprain, or strain. However, if you have lingering pain, talk to your doctor about over-the-counter or prescription relief that may include pills, patches, or assistive devices.
Assistive Devices: Crutches/Braces
If you can't put weight on a sprained or strained knee or ankle, your doctor may suggest a cane, crutch, or brace to help as you heal. If you need a brace or assistive walking device, get your doctor's advice on how to use them.
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My question is why the weird random values when nothing is connected to the pin and how can I account for that?
Lefty,Thanks for the quick reply. I guess my concern comes from more of my software design background and trying to test for the "floating input pin condition" to ensure that something is connected to the pins. For example lets say I had 2 of the water sensors but wanted to disconnect one. Instead of having to change the code a simple IF statement could catch this floating input pin condition, test for it and then NOT read the voltage from that pin if nothing was connected to it. This all depending on there being a way to test for the floating input pin condition, which I'm going to take a stab at and say there isn't a way from looking at the Arduino reference library. If I'm wrong please let me know.Thanks,whit3fir3
my software design background and trying to test
but is it really worth the effort
No, there is no logical method I can think of for a program to determine if a returned ADC count of say 200 was the result of a valid input voltage of that value sent by a sensor or of the results of a disconnected sensor.
Why do you want to see if the spoon is touching the pad... and (supplementary question) why is it all dolled up in that snazzy Bond, James Bond spy case?
Why do you want to see if the spoon is touching the pad.
why is it all dolled up in that snazzy Bond, James Bond spy case?
The blue button dispenses Corn Flakes, and the red dispenses Fruity Pebbles. White dispenses milk, of course. All actions are ignored unless a cereal bowl is detected on the pad. The spoon conducts according to the amount of milk dispensed, ensuring that at all times there is a proper milk/cereal ratio.It's in a flight case 'cause that's how I roll.
it might be worth a try to create a high-pass filter that you could apply to the adc input, and based on the noise level you could detect the floating input condition.
A frequency analysis of the floating values would probably be similar to white noise,


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Leica Store Opening
On Thursday, August 14th Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, Chairman of Leica Camera AG invited guests to the Leica Store & Gallery San Francisco Grand Opening. Guests were invited to celebrate 100 years of Leica photography and the opening of the unique new Leica destination. Guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d'oeuvcres. Leica Camera shares the passion for photography with many people around the world. It is the fascination of capturing a moment and the creative art of perserving it in a unique image that inpsires Leica and why Leica Camera has been designing and constructing new destinations showcasing the unique experience of owning and photographying with a Leica camera. For more information visit Leica Camera.
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Checks from Drilling May Dry Up Amid Low Gas Prices
Erich Schwartzel Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 22, 2012
Royalty checks that start to arrive when a gas company drills on your property can make for some very profitable envelopes in the mailbox. But the low natural gas prices that have disrupted industry balance sheets in recent months could start to cut into those checks.
Put it this way: You could be having filet mignon when theyre high, and Kraft macaroni & cheese when theyre low, said Craig Tillotson, executive vice president of sales at the Downtown-based Hefren-Tillotson wealth management firm.
Mr. Tillotson is a wealth adviser whose expanding client base includes farmers and landowners signing lucrative leases for their mineral rights in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation. So-called shaleionaires can take home millions of dollars by signing a lease, but they are now entering an unpredictable market that can cause royalty checks to fluctuate or stop altogether.
The lowest natural gas prices in a decade also have forced a new industry emphasis on lease terms that allow companies to deduct certain well costs from landowner royalty checks.
So far this year, the Pittsburgh regions dominant driller, Range Resources, said it has paid $65 million in royalty payments, which should put the company on pace to match last years total of $166 million. Because it can take months to get gas from the wellhead to market, it can take months for low natural gas prices to be reflected in royalty checks.
Landowners typically make money in two forms when they sign a lease: a per-acre lump sum and then monthly royalty checks once a well is drilled and starts producing. While the lump sums can total millions of dollars for major landowners, the potential for years of royalty checks can add up to even more.
The aggregate of the royalty checks should make the bonus payment appear insignificant, said Kit F. Pettit, an attorney in Pittsburgh who specializes in representing landowners.
If a landowners income were compared to the U.S. Steel building, he said, A bonus payment would fill up the first floor and then a productive horizontal well assuming good natural gas prices would fill up the other 63 floors with royalty payments.
But low prices now threaten to keep many of those 63 floors vacant.
Natural gas has hovered around $2 per Mcf lately the lowest price in more than a decade, and one that makes drilling in parts of the Marcellus Shale unprofitable. Prices have fallen as new shale formations increase the supply of gas, and a lack of infrastructure required to take the gas to market has limited the industrys ability to sell the fuel as quickly as it is produced.
Complicating the value of royalty checks is whether a company can deduct post-production costs from a royalty payment before cutting the check to the landowner a detail often negotiated during a lease signing. Post-production costs can include everything from the cost to compress and process the gas to the cost of the pipelines needed to transport it.
Some companies will even take marketing costs out of the post-production expenses, using the funds to pay for billboards or commercials, but the extent of post-production fees allowed to be deducted varies from lease to lease.
The industry has a precedent for turning to royalty checks to help trim costs.
When the price of gas started to drop in August 2011, Chesapeake Energy saved money by deducting post-production costs from the royalty checks of about 20,000 royalty owners in the Barnett Shale in Texas. The deductions, which affected landowners who didnt have provisions guarding against the practice, slashed royalty checks by about 25 percent.
At the time, the Oklahoma company that is now a big player in the Marcellus Shale said post-production costs can range from 70 cents to $1 per Mcf.
Some leases even include a shut-in clause that allows the company to cap a well for an indefinite amount of time if it decides it cant turn a profit right away.
More recently, some of the gas companies are starting to push back on the shut-in clause, said Mr. Pettit. They want the ability to play the market and resume drilling when prices rebound, he said.
Not even 10 percent of the landowner clients at Hefren-Tillotson are receiving royalties yet because there are so many new wells and the pipeline infrastructure is not yet in place, said Mr. Tillotson.
The Downtown-based firm manages more than $7 billion in total assets and branches throughout Western Pennsylvania, with a new office opening in Greensburg to help accommodate new clients from more rural parts of the state.
Like many businesses along the drilling supply chain, Hefren-Tillotson didnt have shale portfolios as part of its traditional clientele. Executives served the portfolios of small business owners, but expanded into shale investments several years ago when those same business owners started asking questions about lease agreements on land they owned.
Now the firm works with farmers and landowners being offered potentially millions of dollars for an asset that never made them cash before, said Mr. Tillotson.
The concern is in how to invest the lump sums that come with signing a lease, which at thousands of dollars paid per acre can easily add up to millions of dollars. Sometimes a landowners portfolio is invested in energy stocks, said Mr. Tillotson, who sees the sector as a good long-term investment as the demand for energy rises.
There are tax concerns, as well. The new revenue can catapult landowners into an income strata and tax bracket.
If a lease payment pushes yearly income above $385,000, the landowner will pay about 35 percent in federal taxes. The Internal Revenue Service, however, has a ruling that allows landowners to receive lease payments paid out over several years so their incomes dont crack the high tax bracket and force costly payments to the federal government.
The ruling has been used in the past by shale leaseholders and successful court plaintiffs, said Mr. Pettit.
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Necro Butcher locked him out of the building in Reseda when he tried to interfere during the Hero/Tornado cage match. I know because Necro did it right in front of me. So I guess they could say Hero finally let him back in the building after all this time.
Sounds very plausable in PWG.


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shop! I have wanted to do this for years and I am thrilled to finally have it all together and ready!
My spoon necklaces are a lot of fun to create. I have been picking up old spoons for a while to start making these. One of the great things about these is that I get to spend some time with my daddy in the process. He has a great workshop. We start out with him cutting the handles off the spoons and then hammering the spoon flat (he's strong like that). We then drill a hole for the necklace and polish it. Then its ready to embellish. Michael's dad had an old set of metal stamps that he gave him years ago. I use those to stamp a word on the spoon and then add beads. Fun and unique.
I absolutely love old books. My collection is rather large. I have always been drawn to the sweet illustrations in many of them. I have been trying to think of ways to share these images because they are just too great to be stuck in a closed book. So you will find these one of a kind book image necklaces in the shop, too. This little deer one is particularly hard for me to part with.
I hope you will hop over and visit me in the shop! It opens at 11 a.m. est. today!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
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- Elizabeth said...
Congrats! I love having my etsy shop, I'm sure you will find it very rewarding. Perhaps with the spoon handles you could make them into cool rings??
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|Transform slices of cooked turkey or chicken with this mushroom cream sauce, served over spaghetti noodles. Great casserole to use up leftovers.
Turkey TetrazziniThis is just a basic tetrazzini, but it's sure a tasty way to re-purpose some of that leftover turkey from the holidays, or later on down the line, chicken and ham even. A simple, rich cream sauce, fresh mushrooms, chicken stock and a nice splash of white wine and you'll forget you're eating leftovers. If you're looking for a few more ways to use up some of those holiday leftovers, be sure to pop by this page for a little inspiration.
Having an origin similar to many other celebrity inspired dishes, it is believed that tetrazzini was the creation of either Chef Ernest Arbogast of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, or Chef Pavani, of the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City. Both claim the creation, kinda like that whole battle over Brunswick Stew. The one thing in agreement, is that it was named after Italian opera soprano, Luisa Tetrazzini. Here's how to make it.
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Recipe: Turkey Tetrazzini©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 30 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 1/2 pound of thin spaghetti, broken in half & cooked
- 4 tablespoons of butter, divided
- 1 (8 ounce) container of mushrooms, sliced
- 3 tablespoons of all purpose flour
- 1 cup of turkey or chicken stock or broth
- 1/2 cup of heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons of dry white wine, optional
- 1/8 teaspoon of freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon of kosher salt, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste
- 4 cups of cooked turkey or chicken, cut or torn into large pieces
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Butter a 1-1/2 to 2 quart shallow baking dish; set aside. Cook spaghetti noodles to al dente, drain well and set aside. Meanwhile, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet, add the mushrooms and cook until softened. Remove and set aside. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter and stir in the flour until smooth; cook and stir for about 2 minutes. Slowly add in the turkey or chicken stock until fully incorporated, bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook, whisking for 2 minutes or until smooth. Stir in the cream and the wine; add the nutmeg and season to taste with the salt, pepper and Cajun seasoning. Remove from the heat.
Add the cooked spaghetti noodles to the baking dish, spoon about 1/2 cup of the sauce on top. Top with the turkey or chicken, and scatter the mushrooms on top. Pour all of the remaining sauce over the top. Sprinkle the cheese on top, cover tightly and bake at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes or until cooked through and bubbly. Serve with a side salad or green vegetable and a nice glass of wine.
Cook's Notes: Very nice with sliced turkey or chicken. Great dish for leftover roasted turkey or chicken, but substitute a rotisserie chicken if you like. Also good with leftover baked ham.
Tip: To avoid watery spaghetti, don't rinse the pasta, make sure you give it time to drain really well, and don't build the casserole until it is dry and stops steaming. That steam can create condensation, leaving residual water in the finished dish. Also, you can transfer the pasta back to the hot, but empty, cooking pot and place it back over the turned off burner. The residual heat from the burner and the pot will help to dry the water out of the pasta.
Tuna Noodle Casserole: Substitute 2 or 3 (6 to 8 ounce) cans of solid, light tuna fillets (like StarKist Gourmet Selects), drained and flaked into large chunks, for the turkey or chicken.
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New report by experts on the status of seals, sea turtles, porpoises, dolphins and whales now available
The conservation status of the marine mammals and sea turtles that inhabit the Mediterranean and Black Seas has been a subject of concern and interest for many years. The species analysed in this report, previously classified by IUCN at global level, show for the first time the regional status for those cetacean species resident in the Mediterranean Sea, presenting a more endangered status as compared with their global standing. The only seal species (Monachus monachus) and the two sea turtles (Chelonia mydas and Dermochelys coriacea) found in the region are also featured in this report.
Out of the 87 cetacean species existing worldwide (whales, dolphins and porpoises), 21 species and three subspecies have been sighted in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Eight of these have regular populations in the Mediterranean, three subspecies are endemic to the Black Sea (i.e. not found anywhere else in the world) and 12 are visitors and appear from time to time in the Mediterranean. However, information for many of them is still patchy and limited to few areas. Furthermore, the status of marine turtles and the only seal in the region are highly endangered.
"This compilation, including illustrations and distribution maps, should give governments, environmental activists and all those interested in Mediterranean biodiversity a starting point for identifying, and deciding how and where to allocate limited resources as they try to restore and prevent additional harm to marine ecosystems and species which are still, quite literally, in danger of extinction." comments Maria del Mar Otero, IUCN Mediterranean Marine Programme officer.
Of the 9 resident species of marine mammals (8 cetaceans and the Monk seal) assessed using the IUCN Red List Criteria, 6 (66%) are threatened with extinction (CR, EN, VU), amongst which the Mediterranean Monk seal, the Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and the Short-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis). Craig Hilton Taylor, IUCN Red List Unit Manager, comments "This data comes from the latest assessment of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plants, animals and fungi and the most authoritative guide to the status of biological diversity. Complemented by information from specialist groups, and produced to reach wider audiences, we hope this new publication will help to know our marine species better, and to increase general awareness on their threats and conservation measures needed to preserve them, as well as the need for further research on marine species".
The study assessed all populations of Mediterranean and Black Sea cetaceans against the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. The IUCN Red List Authority, Species Survival Commission members, Species Programme, and the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) have also contributed to the review and enrichment of the data presented in the report. Financial support was provided by the MAVA Foundation and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
This new publication will be launched on the occasion of the Third Meeting of National Correspondents of the Strategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean Region (SAP BIO) / MedMPAnet Project Mid-term Workshop to be held in Málaga from 4 to 6 July 2012, organised by the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA) with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation.


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Cheerleading Camp
WSSU Head Cheerleading Coach, Eboni Graham, welcomes all aspiring cheerleaders 4-17 years of age to the campus of Winston-Salem State University for the WSSU Cheer Explosion Camp June 20-24 at the Donald J. Reaves Center. The five-day camp will take place from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., featuring members of the Powerhouse of Red and White and 2nd year WSSU alum, Coach Graham.
WSSU 7-ON-7 Football Camp
WSSU Head Football Coach, Kienus Boulware, welcomes all High School Football teams to Winston-Salem State University for the WSSU 7-on-7 Football Camp on June 21st. All camps are non-contact. Registration will begin at 9:00 AM in the Field House. Teams will be guaranteed 4 games, lunch, a camp t-shirt. Space is limited due to fields, please register and reserve your teams space now. Once registered, please email team rosters to Coach Natrone Means (email@example.com).
WSSU Prospect Football Camp
WSSU Head Football Coach, Kienus Boulware, welcomes all prospects in grades 9-12 (as of Fall 2017) to Winston-Salem State University for the WSSU Prospect Camp on July 12th . High School graduates may not participate. All camps are non-contact. Campers will benefit from both individual and team instruction. Fundamental skills will be taught and there will also be some individual and team competition.
The WSSU Women's Basketball Program will hold a Team Camp, June 17th, and the cost is $200. The team camp is open to players on JV, Varisity and AAU teams.They will also hold an Elite Camp on June 18, for just $65. The Elite Camp is open to 8th through 12th graders.
Men's Basketball Camp
The WSSU Men's Basketball Program will hold an Individual Camp, June 19th through June 21st. Second grade through fifth grade will attend from 9am to 12pm (Morning session). Sixth grade through eighth grade will attend from 1pm to 4pm (Afternoon session).
The cost of the camp is Early Bird Price $85.00. Before June 1st, 2017 and after June 1st, 2017 Price will be $100.00.
Location: Donald Julian Reaves (DJR) Student Activities Center
Men's Basketball ELITE Camp
The WSSU Men's Basketball Program will hold an ELITE Camp on August 1st on the campus of WSSU. A free t-shirt and lunch will be provided, along with a tour of campus, individual skill instruction for post palyers and guards, as well as other on court demonstration. The cost of the ELITE camp is $50.00, and the date is scheduled for August 1st 2017.
Location: Donald Julian Reaves (DJR) Student Activities Center
Homecoming 2017