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Job Postings through NCWorks for May 14
The following Job Orders have been recently added or updated and reposted. Please keep in mind that all Job Orders are placed on hold for 24 hours to allow our Veterans first priority. For more information, click the highlight link.
Ross Innovative Employment Solutions is seeking a Career Advisor-Special Projects to serve Region Q. The position will be based out of our Bertie County NCWorks Career Center in Windsor, Job Order #11039197
Beaufort County Government in Washington is seeking a Public Health Nurse II – Health Department, pulled in from their Corporate site
Domtar in Greenville is seeking a Warehouse Operator, pulled in from their Corporate site
First National Bank in Greenville is seeking a Teller – Greenville, NC, pulled in from a Private Job Board – America's Job Exchange
The Air Doctor in Greenville is seeking a Bookkeep/ Accountant Opening, pulled in from ZipRecruiter
On-going Job Postings through NCWorks
Vidant Health: https://careers.vidanthealth.com/
Thermo Fisher in Greenville: www.thermofisher.com
Careers with East Carolina University: https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/
Hyster-Yale in Greenville continues to post numerous positions. Please visit their website for more information: Hyster-Yale Jobs (type in Greenville in the search bar). Hyster-Yale recruiting events can be found by
PruittHealth: www.pruitthealth.com
Sava Senior Care in Greenville: www.savaseniorcare.com
Food Lion has several job opportunities that pulled in from their Corporate site, www.foodlion.com
Aramark (ECU location): www.aramark.com
We continue to share other job postings from Facebook on our Region Q Facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/RegionQ/)
Other Career Opportunities within our Region
Perdue Farms: Search Careers Here
Grady White Boats: http://www.gradywhite.com/current-job-listings/
U.S. Postal Service Career Page: https://about.usps.com/careers/welcome.htm
TSA Careers: https://www.tsa.gov/about/jobs-at-tsa
Gregory Poole Equipment Company has several openings in the Washington and Greenville location; as well as other locations throughout NC. Please visit their website for more information (use the filter search to narrow the location): https://gregorypoole.applicantpool.com/jobs/
Greenville Utilities: GUC Careers
Carolina Ice Company which has several locations in our region has several openings. Please visit their site at: https://carolinaice.applicantstack.com/x/openings
Eastern Carolina Vocational Center: http://www.ecvcinc.com/careers-ecvc
Aramark at East Carolina University: Careers at ECU
O'Reilly's in Washington: Corporate Website: O'Reilly's.
Job ads advertised in The Washington Daily News: WDN Classified Section
Sears: https://jobs.sears.com/
The State Employees' Credit Union has also listed a few job opportunities. Please visit their website for more information: https://www.ncsecu.org/AboutSECU/Careers.html
Wells Fargo had a few positions listed on Indeed: https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/careers/
Bank of America: http://careers.bankofamerica.com/search-jobs.aspx?c=united-states&r=us
First Bank: https://localfirstbank.com/about-us/working-at-first-bank
PNC Bank: https://www.pnc.com/en/about-pnc/careers.html
Self-Help Credit Unions: https://www.self-help.org/careers
CresCom Bank: Washington and Surrounding Areas
Careers with the NC Community College System: http://jobs.nccommunitycolleges.edu/
Careers with Beaufort County Schools: https://nc.teachermatch.org/jobsboard.do?districtId=569422418.
Careers with Bertie County Schools: http://www.bertie.k12.nc.us/pages/BertieCountySchools/CentralServices/
Careers with Martin County Schools: http://www.martin.k12.nc.us/departments/personnel/job-vacancies.
Careers with Hertford County Schools: https://www.hertford.k12.nc.us/domain/33.
Careers with Pitt County Schools: https://www.pitt.k12.nc.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=194.
Local Government:
Careers with Beaufort County: http://co.beaufort.nc.us/jobs.
Careers with Bertie County: http://www.co.bertie.nc.us/employment/employment.html.
Careers with Hertford County: http://www.hertfordcountync.gov/localgovernment/employmentopportunities/.
Careers with Martin County: http://www.martincountyncgov.com/jobs.
Careers with Pitt County: https://www.pittcountync.gov/512/Job-Opportunities.
City of Washington: http://www.washingtonnc.gov/jobs
City of Greenville: http://www.greenvillenc.gov/government/egov/current-employment-opportunities
Town of Chocowinity: http://www.townofchocowinity.com/ (searching for two utility techs)
ASMO (Greenville): http://www.nationjob.com/ASMO-Greenville-of-N.C.-jobs
Martin Marietta: https://currentopenings-martinmarietta.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-435684803
Roberts Company – job opportunities can be found by visiting: https://careers-robertscompany.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&hashed=-435711769.
AAF/Flanders: AAF Corporate Site: Washington Location Careers
Nutrien (formerly PotashCorp of Aurora): https://www.nutrien.com/careers/job-postings
Oak Ridge Industries: http://oakridgemw.com/?page_id=142 or NCWorks.gov
AAF Flanders: AAF Flanders Job Search
Weyerhaeuser in Grifton: https://weyerhaeuser.jobs/grifton/north-carolina/usa/jobs/. Other NC locations: https://weyerhaeuser.taleo.net/careersection/10000/moresearch.ftl
Penco Products: https://www.pencoproducts.com/about-penco/careers/
Smithfield Foods: https://www.smithfieldfoods.com/careers
Nucor Steel in Cofield: Cofield location
Camfil Farr: https://www.camfil.us/About-Camfil-Farr-US/Careers1/
Weitron, Inc. in Everetts has listed several positions on Indeed.com
Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center: https://www.rcchc.org/roanoke-chowan-community-health-center-careers.html
Careers within the Vidant Health Network: Vidant Career Options
Careers with Martin General Hospital: http://www.martingeneral.com/martin-general-hospital/employment.aspx
BAYADA Home Health Care: https://jobs.bayada.com/
Carolina East: http://www.carolinaeasthealth.com/careers/jobopenings/default.aspx
Physicians East: https://www.physicianseast.com/careers
River Trace in Washington: http://www.rivertracecare.com/careers/
LabCorp Careers: https://jobs.labcorp.com/career-areas
American Mobile Healthcare (Travel Nurse): Job Listings
BioNetwork/Life Sciences
BioTech Job Blog: http://ncbcjobs.ncbiotech.org/
Thermo Fisher Scientific: Greenville location
Patheon: US Careers
Mayne Pharma: http://www.maynepharma.com/careers
Career Fairs/Job Fairs/Hiring Events
MegaForce is hosting multiple job fairs in our region. Please check their event page at: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MegaForceStaffing/events/ for additional information. You are asked to please bring your Career Readiness Certification (CRC) scores with you. If you do not have a CRC, please contact your nearest Community College about obtaining one.
Hyster-Yale recruiting events can be found by visiting: https://hyster-yalecareers.com/recruiting-events/
Temporary Career Opportunities
Many of the temporary agencies have 'temp to perm' positions available at various times, depending on employer needs. All agencies listed have active openings and most take applications on an on-going basis.
Ready Hire Staffing in Washington posted several positions today on their Facebook page. Please visit this link for additional information: https://www.facebook.com/readyhirestaffing/
MegaForce Staffing has several jobs listed for the Washington and Greenville area. Please visit this link for additional informaion: http://jobs.megaforce.com/.
Executive Personnel in Washington has several jobs listed for the Washington and Greenville area. Please visit this link for additional information: http://www.executivepersonnelgroup.com/jobpostings.html
Nease Personnel has several listings for our service area. Job postings can be found by visiting: https://neasepersonnel.com/job-openings-greenville-office/
Roebuck Staffing in Greenville has several jobs listed for our region. Please visit this link for additional information: http://roebuckstaffing.com/job-seekers/job-openings/.
Professional Staffing Solutions has an office in Washington. Job postings can be found by visiting: http://prostaffingsolution.com/positions/.
Holden Temporaries has several listings for our service area. Job postings can be found by visiting: http://holdentemporaries.net/.
Coastal Staffing: http://coastalstaffingservice.com/?page_id=12
Please visit your local NCWorks Career Center for additional information. This is a listing of jobs available in the Region Q Service Area (Beaufort, Bertie, Hertford, Martin, and Pitt Counties). For additional job listings, please visit our online portal NCWorks.gov. NCWorks.gov is available for download in the Google Play Store or the App Store.


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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged France not to soften its stance towards Iran in the upcoming talks between the Islamic Republic and the six major world powers over Tehran's nuclear energy program.
"We hope that France will not yield," Netanyahu told French-language daily Le Figaro in an interview published on Saturday.
"For us, the United States remains an important ally, the most important ally. But our relationship with France is also very special," he said.
Netanyahu went on to say that Tel Aviv and Paris have adopted common stances for years, and the Israeli regime is maintaining this "vital" partnership with French President Francois Hollande.
"We welcome his coherent and resolute stance on the Iranian issue," the Israeli prime minister noted.
Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — the United States, China, Russia, France and Britain — plus Germany did not reach a deal in the Swiss city of Geneva over Tehran's nuclear energy program, but stressed that significant progress had been made and expressed optimism about the prospect of achieving a deal.
The two sides agreed to continue negotiations on November 20 in the same venue.
Political observers say France has been the main reason behind the West's failure to reach an agreement with Tehran over its nuclear energy program.
On November 9, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that "Israel's concerns" must be taken into consideration in the course of the negotiations, adding that there was "no certainty" whether Iran and the six powers would reach an agreement during last week's talks.


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Archive for Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Five questions: It's a leap year
This year is a leap year, making leap day Feb. 29. Below we turn to timeanddate.com for more information on leap years and why they occur.
Q: What is a leap year?
A: A leap year consists of 366 days, as opposed to a regular year, which has 365 days. During leap years, the extra day is added in February, creating a Feb. 29.
Q: How often does a leap year occur?
A: A leap year occurs about every four years.
Q: What are the criteria used to determine when a leap year is happening?
A: In our modern Gregorian calendar, some criteria must be met for a year to be a leap year:
• The year must be evenly divisible by four.
• The year cannot be evenly divided by 100 unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year.
Q: Why do we need leap years?
A: Leap years are necessary tools to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth's revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days to circle once around the sun. So if we didn't add an extra day, Feb. 29, about every four years, we would lose approximately six hours off our calendar every year.
Q: When were leap years invented?
A: One account is that Julius Caesar introduced leap years in the Roman Empire more than 2,000 years ago. Back then, however, the year only had to be divisible by four to be a leap year. This led to there being many more leap years than were necessary. The situation didn't get corrected until the introduction of the Gregorian calendar more than 1,500 years later.
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Icy moon Enceladus has underground sea
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft.
Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has been a top priority of the Cassini mission since plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered jetting from 'tiger stripe' fractures at the moon's south pole in 2005.
Subsequent observations of the jets showed them to be relatively warm compared with other regions of the moon and to be salty – strong arguments for there being liquid water below the surface.
But planetary scientists have now been able to investigate the interior of the enigmatic moon directly, using Cassini's radio science experiment.
On three separate occasions in 2010 and 2012, the spacecraft passed within 100 km of Enceladus, twice over the southern hemisphere and once over the northern hemisphere.
During the flybys, Cassini was pulled slightly off course by the moon's gravity, changing its velocity by just 0.2–0.3 millimetres per second.
As tiny as these deviations were, they were detectable in the spacecraft's radio signals as they were beamed back to Earth, providing a measurement of how the gravity of Enceladus varied along the spacecraft's orbit. These measurements could then be used to infer the distribution of mass inside the moon.
For example, a higher-than-average gravity 'anomaly' might suggest the presence of a mountain, while a lower-than-average reading implies a mass deficit.
On Enceladus, the scientists measured a negative mass anomaly at the surface of the south pole, accompanied by a positive one some 30-40 km below.
"By analysing the spacecraft's motion in this way, and taking into account the topography of the moon we see with Cassini's cameras, we are given a window into the internal structure of Enceladus," says Luciano Iess, lead author of the results published in Science.
"The perturbations in the spacecraft's motion can be most simply explained by the moon having an asymmetric internal structure, such that an ice shell overlies liquid water at a depth of around 30–40 km in the southern hemisphere."
While the gravity data cannot rule out a global ocean, a regional sea extending from the south pole to 50ºS latitude is most consistent with the moon's topography and high local temperatures observed around the tiger stripes.
"This experiment provides a crucial new piece of information towards understanding the formation of plumes on this intriguing moon," says Nicolas Altobelli, ESA's Cassini project scientist.
More information
"The gravity field and interior structure of Enceladus," by L. Iess et al, is published in Science, 4 April 2014.
The Cassini–Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
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Rounding out the news coming out of IFA 2012 Wednesday is an announcement by Qualcomm that its Snapdragon S4 processors are powering Samsung's newest smartphone and tablet.
The Ativ S, a Windows Phone 8 handset, and
, running Microsoft's Windows RT, both feature the punchy processor.
Snapdragon S4's inclusion in the Ativ S continues Qualcomm's reign as the sole supplier of processors for Windows Phones.
First of many
Samsung's got the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 device wheels in motion thanks to its mid-week unveils.
Most expected Nokia to be the first to debut a Windows Phone 8 during a Sept. 5 event, but Samsung beat them to the punch with the Ativ S, a durable device with a not-so-little 4.8-inch screen.
The Ativ Tab, aside from Microsoft's own Surface, is really one of the first slates to poke its head out.
The world will have to wait to grab either device - when exactly that'll be we don't yet know - but with the OS dropping in late October and we don't expect Samsung will keep everyone itching for that long.
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President Obama sought Wednesday to expand his push for the so-called Buffett Rule by highlighting its support among corporate chieftains and even Republicans.
Flanked by a group of millionaires and their secretaries, Obama hit for another consecutive day on themes of fairness and the need for this rule, which would see million dollar household subjected to a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent.
"Most Americans agree with me, so do most millionaires. One survey found that two-thirds of millionaires support this idea. So do nearly half of all Republicans across America," Obama said, speaking to an audience of millionaires and their secretaries, intended to personify Warren Buffett's contention that millionaires should pay at least the same tax rates as their secretaries.
Obama also noted that the concept of closing tax loopholes used by the rich is historically not a strictly liberal idea and that Ronald Reagan -- whom Obama jokingly called a "wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior" for his support of the idea – called the loopholes "crazy."
He mused about changing the rule's nickname to the "Reagan Rule" if that might encourage more Republicans to support it.
While the president's remarks didn't include the heavy campaign optics of his speech yesterday in Florida on the same topic, the continued push for the rule still comes against a political backdrop. The Obama re-election campaign has used it to highlight Republican front-runner Mitt Romney's immense personal wealth, and they have demanded for a fuller release of Romney's past tax records.
Republicans have called the Buffett Rule a red herring, pointing to the fact that the law, if enacted, would only make a small dent in the deficit. Obama acknowledged that the rule would only raise about $47 billion over 10 years, but, he said, just because it doesn't singlehandedly close the deficit doesn't mean it shouldn't be enacted.
"There are others who are saying, well, this is just a gimmick," he said. "Well, I agree. That's not all we have to do to close the deficit. But the notion that it doesn't solve the entire problem doesn't mean that we shouldn't do it at all."


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U.S. EPA Recognizes Kuehnle AgroSystems for Innovative Algae Biofuel Work
Release Date: 08/14/2012
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Hawaiian company recognized for first-of-its-kind achievement in protecting the environment
HONOLULU-- U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld recognized Kuehnle AgroSystems today for the company's innovative work in producing algae for use in biofuels as part of the Pacific Southwest region's environmental awards program.
"EPA is pleased to recognize Kuehnle AgroSystems for its innovative techniques that can turn a tank of algae into a tank of gas," Blumenfeld said. "This clean-tech company's work on renewable biofuels will help make Hawaii energy self-sufficient, and it protects the quality of our air, water and land."
The EPA Pacific Southwest region's Environmental Awards program acknowledges commitment and significant contributions to the environment in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, Pacific Islands and tribal lands. Groups and individuals were selected from nominees received this year from businesses, local, government officials, tribes, media, environmental organizations and community activists.
Most biofuels used as replacements for oil are grown on large tracts of agricultural land, but algae has the potential to produce a high density, efficient biofuel feedstock on industrial land. Kuehnle AgroSystems, a Hawaii-based company, has built a system to continuously produce algae for biofuel.
Their system pipes carbon dioxide and wastewater from an oil refinery into tanks that accelerate algae growth, and demonstrate emission reductions. In November 2011 their project, constructed at Chevron's Hawaii oil refinery, successfully achieved the nation's first connection of industrial CO2 from an oil refinery with a working algae production site.
In addition, to demonstrating its technology in partnership with Chevron, the company also has done significant work with the U.S. military to grow algae for biofuels. Kuehnle also works on overseas biofuels operations, aquaculture farms for shrimp and fish, and companies such as General Atomics, which operates a large algae production facility on the island of Kauai using algae sourced from Kuehnle.
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Organized intercollegiate athletic competition among women has grown rapidly in recent years, in quality, in the number of participants, and in public awareness.
For those reasons, it is a popular misconception that women's intercollegiate sports are a fairly recent phenomenon, notably since the early 1970s when the national Title IX legislation was enacted.
For many colleges that is true, but for Hope College, women have a long history of organized intercollegiate competition that dates back many decades.
However, the formal recognition of those athletes has been largely absent.
On Saturday (Oct. 6) Hope will honor female athletes as pioneers in women's sport at the college. Approximately 50 of the 240 alumnae who have been identified as participants in athletics while Hope undergraduates between 1938-1972 will be presented varsity "H' letters during the annual Homecoming luncheon of the alumni H-Club. The luncheon will be held in the DeVos Fieldhouse on the Hope campus.
The idea to recognize these alumnae was stimulated by the research of two students, now graduates, their professor, Dr. Donald Luidens of the sociology department, and Eva Dean Folkert, director of athletics for women. Dr. Luidens serves as one of the college's Faculty Athletic Representatives (FARs). The students who collaborated on the research were Rachael Sauerman and Lisa Smith, both 2007 graduates. They were outstanding athletes while at Hope, Rachael in soccer and Lisa in swimming.
Their research, gleaned mainly from student publications, determined that while there were intramural and on-campus athletic opportunities for women dating back many years, there were also intercollegiate activities for "premier" female athletes in sports such as archery, tennis and basketball that went unrecognized in the media when compared to the recognition given men's sports.
They compiled a list of these athletes from the late 1930s through 1972. "...it is from this list of acknowledged competitors that the authors have chosen to highlight a cadre of remarkable women athletes who are deserving of recognition by HopeCollege, regardless of how long it is overdue. Sadly, some have already died so they will never know the esteem that posterity holds for them. For the others, it is high time to stand and applaud their accomplishments," the research paper stated.
The lack of recognition of female athletic accomplishments in intercollegiate competitions prior to the 1970s was not so much an attempt to deny this recognition as it was the nature of the structure of the competitions, according to Thomas A. Myers in his work, "Pioneers in Women's Athletics: A History of Women in the MIAA." Myers contributed his work for the centennial year publication of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, "Celebrating a Century of the Student Athlete."
"The women, themselves, did not place a high value on records and championships. They emphasized participation in sports and de-emphasized the importance of individual and team titles. This difference in emphasis from men's sports directly contributed to the lack of recognition, but cannot be said to account for it. The simple truth is that in the male dominated sports world, athletic competitions among 'girls' weren't very important."
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), the nation's oldest collegiate conference, noted in a centennial anniversary publication in 1988 that its member colleges, including Hope, were far ahead of many other colleges in women's intercollegiate sports. The women of the MIAA founded their own conference, the Women's Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (WMIAA), and on a national level were members of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). In 1978-79 the MIAA became the first collegiate conference in the nation to create a combined governance for men's and women's athletics. Two years later the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established a similar governance on a national level.
Women's basketball traces its roots at Hope back to the beginning of the 20th century. The 1904-05 team, known as the Basquette Club, was the first female squad to meet outside competition. The champions from WMIAA competitions were added to the records of the MIAA in the late 1980s. Hope, for example, is listed as the 1939 women's tennis conference champion and 1955 graduate Betty Scheppers Scholten is recognized as the recipient of the conference's tennis sportsmanship award. The Hope archery team won the first conference championship in 1952.
Hope College today sponsors 18 intercollegiate sports teams, nine for men and nine for women. The women's intercollegiate teams are basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, volleyball, tennis, and track & field,


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If you are familiar with WordPress and you are comfortable with the process of installing it on your site you can skip down to the theme-specific documentation below. Because many people who use our themes have little or no experience with WordPress we start off by showing how easy it is to get WordPress set up. Follow the video below to get a domain name registered, web hosting set up, and WordPress installed in a matter of just a few minutes.
General WordPress Documentation:
This part of the documentation for our free WordPress themes assumes that you already have WordPress installed on your server or hosting account. If you haven't yet installed WordPress, please see the video on this page for instructions.
There are a few WordPress settings that we recommend changing or at least checking to make sure they are accurate.
Site Name
From the WordPress dashboard (which will be located at http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/) click on "Settings" in the left sidebar.
Under the "General Settings" you can enter your church's name in the "Site Title" field, and if you'd like you can enter a tagline in the "Tagline" field.
Lower on the same page (General Settings) you can set your time zone. It's usually easiest to select a city in your timezone.
When you are done making changes, click on the "Save Changes" button at the bottom.
Another change that we recommend is for the permalink settings. (Click on "Permalinks" under "Settings" in the left sidebar of the WordPress dashboard.) The permalink is the URL of a page or post created on your site. By default WordPress will give your page a permalink like http://yoursite.com/?=p123. That is not ideal for search engine rankings or for being helpful for your visitors. We recommend checking the box for "Post name". This will give your pages URLs like http://yoursite.com/about-us/. That is much better for both search engines and human visitors.
Click the "Save Changes" button when you are done editing the permalinks settings.
You'll also want to make sure that your site will be accessible to search engine users. From the WordPress dashboard click on "Settings" and "Privacy" in the left sidebar. Then make sure the box is checked to allow the site to be visible to everyone.
Click the "Save Changes" button when you are done editing the visibility settings.
WordPress themes use things called widgets to allow users to control certain, including the contents of a sidebar. Some of our themes use widgets and some don't. When you first install WordPress it comes with a default theme, and the sidebar will look something like this:
All you have to do to change the widgets is go to "Appearance" in left sidebar of the WordPress dashboard, and then click on "widgets".
If you look to the right side of the screen you'll see a list of widgets under "Main Sidebar". To remove any of the widgets, move you mouse over one of the listed widgets, left click (and hold the left mouse button) and drag the widget to somewhere in the middle of the screen, then release the mouse button.
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Documentation for the Simple Style Photography WordPress Theme:
This documentation will take you through the steps of setting up your site using the Simple Style Photography WordPress Theme.
Setting Up the Pages
From the WordPress dashboard click on "pages" in the left sidebar.
Then click on "add new".
Title the page "Home" and under "Page Attributes" select "Home" as the template. No content/text needs to be added to this page. Then click "publish" when you are done.
Then click "add new" again and add a page titled "Blog". No content/text needs to be added to this page. Click publish when you are done.
Then click on "pages" in the left sidebar again. This will list the 2 pages that you have created plus a sample page that comes by default with your WordPress installation. Since you don't need the sample page, click "trash" under the title (you will need to hover your mouse over the title to bring up the "trash" link).
Now we want to set the "Home" page to be displayed when someone visits yoursite.com (your own domain name, of course). Click on "Settings" in the left sidebar and then click on "Reading".
Then check the radio button to display a static page as your front page, and select "Home" from the dropdown. For the dropdown that says "Posts page", select your "Blog" page. That will show your most recent posts on the page that you created and titled "Blog". Then click "save changes"
You can also add whatever additional pages you like. All you have to do is click on "add new page" under "Pages" in the left sidebar, and then title your page and add content. You don't need to add pages for your photo portfolio, we'll create image galleries in an upcoming step. Examples of pages that you might want to create would be an "About" page, a "Services" page, or a "Contact" page.
Choosing the Color Scheme
Simple Style comes with 2 color schemes, a light and a dark option. To select the color scheme that you want, click on "Theme Options" in the left sidebar of the WordPress admin dashboard. To set the color scheme, click on "General Settings".
The first option you'll see in the General Settings is for the color scheme. Choose either white or black, and then either continue to the other options or if you are done, click "save changes".
Customizing the Logo
Of course, you'll want your website to feature your own logo. If you have a logo file ready (we recommend .png format) you can easily upload it through the theme options dashboard and it will be applied to the header of all pages on your site. The logo file should be no larger than 400 pixels wide and 150 pixels high. Larger sizes will cause issues with the layout.
The logo options are located directly below the color scheme options in the general settings of the theme options.
When you are done, click "save changes" and your logo should be appearing on your website.
Homepage Slideshow
The homepage of the Simple Style Theme features a slideshow that allows you to add your own images, and you can link each image to any page if you'd like. You can use this area to welcome visitors to your website, promote upcoming events, promote the current sermon series, highlight some of your ministries, or even to link to your page on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
To add items to the slideshow click on "Slides" in the left sidebar of the WordPress dashboard.
Click on "add new slide".
Now a page will open for you to enter the slide. Give it a title (for admin purposes only, the title will not be visible on the site), and click on "set featured image" in the right sidebar.
This will open a window that allows you to insert your image for the slideshow. You can either upload the image from your hard drive by clicking "select files" or click on the "From URL" tab if the image is already online and you can enter the URL for the file.
The image you are uploading should be at least 940 pixels wide by 580 pixels high. If it is larger it will be re-sized and cropped automatically. You can use any image editor like Photoshop, or a free option like the online version of Photoshop to re-size and crop your images. If your image is smaller than 940 pixels by 580 pixels it won't fill the area and will look awkward.
Select "full size" and then click "use as featured image".
Then close out of the window or click "save changes". When you are done click "publish".
Repeat this process to add several slides. If you want to set a specific slideshow effect, you can do so in the Theme Options. By default it will be set to random. If you change it, click "save all changes".
You now have a working slideshow on your homepage!
Adding Content
You can add new content to your website any time you need to. We've already gone over the process of creating a few of the key pages, but you can create new pages at any time by clicking on "Pages" and "Add New Page".
Adding Blog Posts
Your website can include a blog if you'd like. To create a blog post click on "Posts" and "Add New".
Entering a blog post is very similar to entering the content of a page. You'll give it a title and enter the text. In addition, you can also create categories to help organize your blog posts. In the right sidebar click on "Add New Category" and enter a category name.
Additionally, each blog post can have a featured image that is displayed above the post. The featured image should be 940 pixels wide, but it can be any height. When you're entering a blog post, click on the "Set featured image" link.
Then you'll see the window for uploading your image. Find the image on your computer and upload it. Check the box for "full size" and then click on "Use as featured image".
Your post now has a featured image assigned to it.
After the post is published with the featured image it will look like this.
The featured image is completely optional on both posts and pages. If you choose not to use one the content will simply be displayed directly below the header.
Adding Photos and Galleries
You can add as many photos and as many categories as you want (assuming your host allows enough disk space. Check out BlueHost if you need unlimited space). Adding photos is easy. From the WordPress dashboard, click on "Photographs" and then click on "add new photograph".
You'll want to give your photo a title (for admin purposes) and then click on "set featured image".
Next, click on "choose file".
You'll now browse your computer and find the photo that you want to upload. After selecting the photo click on the "upload" button and you'll see the following screen:
Make sure "Full Size" is checked and then click "Use as featured image". Close out of that box and you should see a screen like this, with your image in the lower right. Click "publish" when you are done.
Adding photos is as easy as that.
Adding Galleries
Now that you know how to add a photo, we can set up several galleries. Galleries are basically categories of photos. For our demo we'll set up several galleries, but we'll show the first one. Click on "Galleries". You'll then see a spot that says "add new gallery". Give your gallery a name, our example is "Landscapes". You'll then also enter a slug. The slug will be used in the URL of the gallery. If your gallery title is one word we recommend simply using the word in all lowercase letters, such as "landscapes". If you gallery title is more than one word, we recommend using hyphens instead of spaces between each word.
As you are adding more categories you may or may not want to use parent and child galleries. When you add a new gallery you have the option of setting a parent. An example of the parent-child relationship would be if we were going to add separate galleries under landscapes for different regions or states. So if we were creating a gallery called "Yosemite Landscapes" we could set the parent gallery to be landscapes.
If you want to designate a photo that you have already uploaded to be in a particular gallery, click on "Photographs", where you will see a list of the photos that you have uploaded.
Then click on the photo's title and the edit screen will come up. From here you can select a gallery to the right side of the screen. You can add it to multiple galleries if appropriate. You can also create new galleries from this screen.
When you're done, click the "update" button to save the changes.
Going forward, you can just assign photos to galleries whenever you upload them.
The Navigation Menu
One of the most important elements of your website is the navigation menu because it has a big impact on the usability of the site and allowing visitors to find the content that they want. You have full control over the links that are included in your navigation menu (the same menu will be used on all pages of the site). Please note: If you don't do this step, the theme by default will include a menu with all of your pages.
From the WordPress dashboard click on "Appearance" and "Menus".
Enter the name "Header" for your menu and click "Create Menu".
Then select your "Header" menu in the dropdown for "Main Navigation Menu" (this step is needed in order to apply your custom menu to the site's header).
Now move down a little lower on the page and you'll see a list of all the pages that you have published. Check the box next to each page that you would like to add to the menu and click the "Add to Menu" button.
After clicking "Add to Menu" the pages that you have added will appear in a list at the center of your screen.
Next, we'll also add some links to our galleries. Below the list of pages (to the left) you'll see a list of the galleries. Check the boxes for each category that you would like to add to your nav menu, then click "Add to Menu".
Please note, if you are not seeing the option to add your galleries to the menu, look to the top right of the screen and click on "Screen Options". Then check the box for "gallery".
Your menu should now list all of the pages and galleries that you have checked.
You can drag items up or down to change the order in which they are displayed (to drag, click and hold the mouse button while moving the mouse up or down). If you want to make certain links appear in a dropdown menu, move the item slightly to the right. For example, we want the child landscape galleries under the parent landscape gallery. This will place them in a drop down menu under "Landscapes", so we will move them slightly to the right under "Landscapes".
When you're done click "Save Menu" and the changes will be applied. Now you can check your site and see the menu in action.
Setting the Number of Posts/Images
One last thing that you will need to do is set the max number of posts to show per page. This is important because it will also impact the number of images that are shown per page in your galleries. By default, WordPress sets the number to 10. The gallery pages use 3 columns, so we recommend setting this number to a multiple of 3. Something like 6, 9, or 12 will work.
Below is an example of how a gallery will look with 10 images per page:
It could look better. So go to "Settings" and "Reading". You'll see a field that says "Blog pages show at most". We'll change that from 10 to 9.
After changing it, click on the "save changes" button. Now if you view the same gallery you'll notice that it shows only 9 images, and adds pagination to view the second page.
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(Nov. 12, 2004) - In a match lasting just over an hour, the Lady Bucs swept the UNC-Greensboro Spartans tonight in Brooks Gymnasium (30-27, 30-23, 30-16) to win their fourth Southern Conference match of the season. With the loss, UNCG falls to 3-30, 0-15 in SoCon play in 2004, while ETSU improves to 6-22, 4-11 in conference action. Leading the way for the Bucs was freshmen middle hitter Callie Kiselich (Colorado Springs, Co.) with 12 kills while Cindy VanDervoort led the way for the Spartans with 11 kills and four digs in the loss.
ETSU took control of the match from the start as Kiselich posted four kills in the first set en-route to the 30-27 Lady Bucs victory. Both teams struggled from the offensive end as UNCG hit just .163 compared to the .128 hitting percentage of the Bucs. Game two saw ETSU take the early lead, however UNCG battled back to tie the score at the 12-point mark. Behind the service of right-side hitter Andrea Piercy (
After the intermission ETSU came out firing taking the immediate 12-7 lead. Behind the combined service efforts of Piercy and Mislan, the lead extended to 14-8 before the Spartans rallied for three unanswered points to near the score at 14-11. From that point the Lady Bucs sailed to the easy 30-16 win and the 3-0 match sweep.
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ETSU will continue action tomorrow when they face Elon in Southern Conference action beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Brooks Gymnasium. Tomorrow's match will also host Senior Day festivities beginning at 1:20 p.m.


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SEGA`s popular blue dude with attitude, Sonic the Hedgehog, blasts his way onto the Nintendo DS and takes high-speed action gaming to a whole new level. The fastest hedgehog in the world is now pairing up with a mysterious character named Blaze the Cat. This dynamic duo heads out in search of the powerful and dangerous Sol Emeralds to ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands. In their quest, Sonic and Blaze must battle all-new enemies, and as they do, ripple effects will change the events of their worlds` inhabitants. Sonic Rush takes full advantage of the dual screens on the Nintendo DS system to deliver an action-packed adventure with dizzying dives, near-vertical curves, extreme jumps, brain-twisting loops and more! This 2D game features 3D visual effects, which give Sonic Rush a totally unique look. Sonic himself is also modelled in full 3D. Game Features
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Over the past decade, Linux has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of computingincluding in the embedded space where it has been adapted to numerous processors. Embedded Linux, also known as "uClinux" (pronounced "micro-see-Linux"), is a minimized version of standard Linux that runs on highly resource-constrained devices. uClinux is maintained by the Embedded Linux/Microcontroller Project (http://www.uClinux.org/), a group whose sponsors include (among others) Analog Devices, the company I work for. Analog Devices has also ported uClinux to its Blackfin architecture (http://blackfin.uclinux.org/).
Applications executing in resource-constrained environments typically try to conserve on CPU and memory use, while still executing in a robust and secure fashion. However, during development, these barriers can be broken. For example, memory leaks, stack overflows, missed real-time application deadlines, process starvation, and resource deadlocks are frequently encountered. In this article, I present tools and techniques for resolving these critical issues, thereby facilitating development of robust application software for Embedded Linux.
Desktop to Embedded Debugging
One of Linux's most attractive features is its programming environment. Not only is the standard desktop environment friendly to traditional UNIX developers, but modern Linux programmers are also equipped with state-of-the-art IDEs such as Eclipse. uClinux, however, is much more restricted than the native Linux development environment. The typical uClinux development environment consists of a remote interface from a host to the target platform.
The host platform is usually the standard Linux or Windows desktop executing a debugger such as a GDB or commercial IDE. This debugger communicates with the target platform over a bridge, which interconnects a host interface (USB or PCI) to the target processor, such as serial JTAG. The target device (Analog Device's Blackfin processor, for instance) sits on a firmware board interfaced to all requisite peripherals and external interfaces (network, memories, RS-232, and other serial interfaces, possibly PCI and other system buses). Although the host platform may communicate with the target over any of these external interfaces (network and RS-232), the JTAG interface is the primary means of communication to the target device because JTAG enables "on-chip" debugging and control. That is, it lets you remotely start, stop, and suspend program execution, examine the state of the target processor, memories, and I/O devices, and execute a series of target instructions.
Despite the capabilities provided by on-chip JTAG interfaces to IDEs, debugging a remote uClinux platform is still not the same as that of native Linux. Under the desktop, a native debugger can execute in a protected environment, allowing application processes to be traced and monitored throughout their life. If exceptions or error events occur in the program, the native debugger detects and responds to them, without affecting the overall system. Embedded Linux environments, on the other hand, do not provide this level of program protection. When an exception occurs, the remote debugger may detect the event and halt it; however, all other processes within the system are also halted, including the kernel.
To emulate the native scenario, uClinux developers use gdbserver, a uClinux application program that executes just like other user-level processes. However, its primary function is to enable control of a target program's execution and communicate with remote host debuggers (such as GDB) over standard links (TCP/IP or serial connections).
Application Awareness
Although gdbserver has the advantage of stepping through uClinux application programs and monitoring their execution state, it does have significant shortcomings. For instance, if the network or serial connection is not 100 percent available as a trusted communications interface, then gdbserver cannot be used. Because uClinux programs run in a virtually unprotected environment, when the program encounters an exception or error event, it is likely that gdbserver itself fails, resulting in all debugging capability being lost. In the uClinux environment, most catastrophic errors are unrecoverable by the system. And so, other mechanisms are required to enable a more robust debugging environment.
One such strategy we've developed for Analog Devices' Blackfin-based eM30 platform (which is designed for set-top boxes, media servers, portable entertainment devices, and the like) is to let the host debugger become "application aware." In this case, the uClinux kernel provides knowledge of what application processes are executing and where they reside in memory to the host debugger. It does this by maintaining a table of all active application processes and sharing it with the host debugger. The debugger examines this table and uses it to reference symbol table information for the corresponding application to control its execution and report its state. With these capabilities, users can set breakpoints within any of the application programs, step through these programs at source level, examine expressions of data variables, and so on. Also, users can continually step through application code into runtime library code and across into kernel space. Users have simultaneous access to all user-space and kernel-space structures.
Kernel Awareness
Exceptions and errors encountered within the uClinux kernel are the most frequent cause of system failure. Such causes are memory overwrites due to stack and data overflows, missed deadlines of kernel threads and interrupt service routines, and resource deadlocks and starvation due to race conditions in semaphore usage. To debug these conditions, more debugging information is required from the kernel for the debugger than is currently available.
For the eM30 platform, we've added extensions to the standard uClinux 2.6.x kernel and GDB Blackfin-uClinux target debugger to expose this relevant internal kernel state.
Most of the kernel state is visible through existing kernel data structures, such as the task_struct task structure and network statistics. However, certain states are not captured in the existing kernel and require code extensions. One of these is the processor mode, which describes whether the processor is in kernel/supervisory mode, user mode, or is idling. This state is updated only during mode switching, as in the state diagram in Figure 1. As shown, the processor states are assigned only when the appropriate state transition occurs, such as when a processor event occurs or a kernel routine is invoked.
During debugging, it may also be of interest when timer and scheduler events took placeto know when processes are scheduled, how long the processor was occupied in them, and when deadlines may have passed or missed. We've added profiling of these events in the entry and exit points of the existing timer_interrupt and schedule routines. This not only provides information about when these events took place, but also how long it took to process these events.
The Linux kernel does not provide all necessary structures for accessing the entire kernel state. Wait queues and spin locks are some of these structures that cannot be accessed globally. To gain visibility into these structures, we customized the Blackfin uClinux GDB debugger to support this awareness. During the kernel load process, a GDB script examines all declared static and dynamic wait_queue and spin_lock structures and initializes a global list of both types of structures within kernel memory. It also loads the static portions of these structures. For dynamic instantiation of these structures, we modified the kernel allocation routines to load the respective information into this global list. With this scheme, we can examine and access the state of all resource-locking mechanisms within the kernel. This gives us the ability to debug resource deadlock and starvation scenarios.
Modes of Interaction
Debugging under uClinux requires you to interact in different ways with the target system:
- When a system crash occurs, you can resort to examining postmortem information from the last preserved system state within the debugger.
- When a memory leak is suspected, the amount of free memory may be periodically checked to see if it is shrinking.
- When a resource deadlock occurs, you may require a history of all locking and unlocking events on the resource to see how the state was arrived at.
Each of these scenarios requires a unique approach to collecting and analyzing debugging information.
The first scenario requires interactive debugging on the target device from within a debugger. The debugger may halt when a program exception event occurs on the target device to let you examine the postmortem state from within the debugger. You can define specific events (breakpoints) in the program code to trigger the debugger to halt. You may decide to walk through program execution (single-step) as each statement (or instruction) is executed. You may interrupt an already-running program by entering a specific key sequence (for example, CTRL-C) or resume a halted program. The debugger may let you change the state of the program, contents of memory, and machine state (internal and shadow registers). All of these methods necessarily intrude upon the actual execution of the program on the target machine.
Because debugging under the debugger can result in modifying program behavior, a second type of interactive debugging can be used to periodically examine the state of the target device. In the second scenario, dynamic memory allocation may be affected when the machine state is altered (such as when an interrupt service routine allocates memory). Hence, debugging via the debugger may not accurately reproduce the given scenario. An alternate means of debugging this problem is to examine the system state via the operating system.
uClinux provides the /proc filesystem for examining (and even modifying) system state from the target's shell command prompt. In this example, the output of the shell command # cat /proc/meminfo (Figure 2) may be inspected. If the MemFree field shrinks during the course of program execution, this may provide evidence for a memory leak.
The usefulness of the /proc filesystem was exploited in the eM30 to output more details of the internal state of the Linux kernel. This uClinux enhancement has been incorporated inside a special miscellaneous, character-mode driver called "bfin_profiler." This driver provides not only this /proc facility but also a mechanism for the kernel to log events and a user application to output these events to a filesystem.
Listing One (available electronically; see "Resource Center," page 5) presents the functions that dump the bfin_profiler driver output to the /proc filesystem. Listing Two (also available electronically) is sample output from this dump. Measurements provided under "read count" indicate the user application response time to an interrupt event in clock cycles. Special instrumentation is provided within the kernel to measure this latency. The count itself indicates the number of response events that were received by the application. Cycle measurements indicate average, minimum, and maximum wait times. The CPU profiler provides special instrumentation to measure how much of the processor's time was spent in user mode, kernel mode, and idle state. Performance figures as cycle counts are reported under "CPU profiler." Measurements of how long was spent in the timer interrupt service routine timer_interrupt and the scheduler schedule are also reported. Telemetry statistics are reported following the scheduler. Finally, the number of active user application processes currently running in the system is reported, along with each program's pathname, code and data size, pointer to task structure, and process ID. The report in Listing Two identifies the key elements of the uClinux kernel state, directly accessible by users to monitor system activity.
Interactive debugging, from within a debugger or within an operating-system console, is intrusive to overall system operation, although to a lesser extent using the /proc filesystem. Also, it does not provide a history of system activity, only the current system state. This history information is often needed, as in the third scenario, when trying to debug resource deadlocks. A history of all resource locking and unlocking events is necessary to analyze how the deadlock conditions were arrived at.
To assist uClinux programmers in gathering this type of event history, we added a kernel-callable function, bfin_profiler_event (available electronically; see "Resource Center," page 5) to the bfin_profiler driver. In addition, we inserted event-capture calls to specific areas of the kernel for measurement. For instance, the timer_interrupt kernel routine (also available electronically) shows event-capture code inserted into the timer-interrupt service routine timer_interrupt. Upon entry into this routine, the bfin_profiler_event procedure is invoked with a unique event identifier BLACKFIN_PROFILER_TIMER_ENTER (value of 0x20000) to denote entry; likewise, upon exit, BLACKFIN_PROFILER_TIMER_EXIT (value of 0x20001) is used to denote the exit event. Both calls unconditionally timestamp each event. Only the first call increments the event counter, so that both the exit and entry events are associated with the same event instance. The event ID, timestamp, and event count are recorded for each instance into a telemetry buffer called bfin_profiler_telem_buffer. Figure 3 shows sample contents of this buffer. The prof2txt postprocessing utility generated this output. The Id field indicates the event ID (BLACKFIN_PROFILER_TIMER_ENTER and BLACKFIN_PROFILER_TIMER_EXIT in this example), Cycles indicates a relative timestamp based on the interval between current and last event, and Value denotes the event instance (note that the timer entry and exit events are associated according to each instance).
The bfin_profiler_event utility routine may be used to log any kernel event. All that is required is that a unique event ID be passed as an argument. As illustrated, timestamps are taken as a 64-bit sample of a hardware cycle counter to allow accurate measurements to be performed at the finest granularity. Although not all architectures may provide a hardware cycle counter, a programmable timer may also be used for this purpose.
Once event information has been logged into the target machine's system memory, there are several ways to store the event data for external monitoring and analysis. For offline analysis, the telemetry buffer may be read out by a user application using the ioctl(BFIN_PROFILER_TELEM_READ) driver call and storing its contents to a file. For online analysis, the contents can be read out the same way and sent to a remote host over the network. Because this method may interfere with event logging (for instance, if network events are being logged), a separate JTAG interface is provided for transmitting the event data. Although the JTAG interface is much slower than the network interface, it is much less intrusive to the overall system.
Once the event data has either been captured to a file or delivered to a remote host program, the event trace may be analyzed for relationship between events, timing, and so on. Two utility problems have been written for postprocessing analysis. Again, the prof2txt utility dumps the event trace in readable format with event IDs, relative timestamps, and instance values. In the simplest analysis, the dump displays an ordering of events when they occurred chronologically. Alternatively, for more complex analysis, the output of this utility may be loaded into a spreadsheet or math-processing tool such as MATLAB. Using these tools, event plots may be obtained, performance metrics may be calculated, and correlation between events and timing can be analyzed. The profbin utility performs a histogram analysis of each pair of events. It places each event pair instance into a separate bin and calculates the minimum, maximum, and average frequency of each event pair in number of cycles. Sample output of this utility is provided for the timer entry/exit example in Figure 4. As illustrated in this example, during a run of 5.1 seconds, the timer interrupt service routine spent 0.11 percent of the CPU and took an average of 6092 cycles for each timer event.
Debugging in the uClinux environment requires an assortment of tools, including interactive debuggers, operating-system facilities such as the /proc filesystem, and event-based telemetry capture and analysis tools. However, this is not all. The Linux kernel and debugger require key modifications to enable visibility into the internal kernel state and the applications executing on top.


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Gaining weight and regulating fat - liver tells all
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Austin Health have come one step closer to understanding how our bodies regulate fat and weight gain
Dr Barbara Fam from the University's Molecular Obesity Laboratory group at Austin Health with Associate Professor Sof Andrikopoulos have discovered that the liver can directly talk to the brain to control the amount of food we eat.
The results have demonstrated that the liver, which has never been classed as an important organ in controlling body weight before, is in fact a major player and should be considered a target for treatment of weight gain.
Test on mice showed that over-expression of a specific enzyme in the liver resulted in 50 per cent less fat and the subjects ate less food than mice without the extra enzyme. Needed in the production of glucose, the enzyme called FBPase previously led to speculation that too much FBPase was bad for you.
"We actually thought that the mouse with the over-expressed enzyme would show signs of becoming diabetic since the enzyme is important in producing more glucose from the liver," Dr Pham said.
"However when we studied our mice in more depth, we were very surprised to see that this enzyme triggered a number of hormones that influence the control of appetite.
"The really striking result was that the genes in the brain, important in making us increase our food intake were actually reduced.
"The results suggest that consumption of a diet high in fat, causes an increase in liver FBPase that was likely put in place as a negative feedback mechanism to limit further weight gain.
"Importantly, FBPase does not function to control body weight under normal physiological circumstances but acts only when the system is exposed to excess nutrients such as fat.
"When people eat diets loaded with fat and sugars particularly over the long term, it can have a number of different effects on the body but it appears that we actually have in place an innate system that protects us from any further weight gain that could happen while eating these type of diets."
More needs to be investigated to verify this in further trials, however this study has demonstrated that liver FBPase should be viewed not only as a mediator of glucose metabolism but also as an important regulator of appetite and fat. It also gives us great insight into why the liver is a very important organ.
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What was the best investment niche in the U.S. energy sector the first half of this year?
Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs.
Consider one key benchmark, the Alerian MLP Index (AMZ). Since December 31, 2007, the index has returned 66.6% for investors, with about 32% of that from capital gains. Compare that to the S&P 500, where returns slid by 1.55% over the same time frame.
This year has been no exception: over the first six months of 2012, MLPs kept up the pace, outperforming all major investment indexes (as follows):
Index Return Through 6/30/2012
Alerian MLP 6.4%
Utilities Index 4.1%
REITs 3.9%
There's lots to love about MLPs:
- They combine the income-producing benefits of bonds with the capital appreciation advantages of stocks – and combine them into one energy investment that has outpaced every other leading investment benchmark in 11 of the last 12 years.
- On top of that performance, factor in a tax element that wipes clean 80%-to-90% of your tax burden on that investment.
- Combine that performance with an oil and gas industry investment that, historically, makes money no matter what commodity prices are doing
That's where MLPs may just may change the way you look at investing, altogether… especially in the more conservative part of your portfolio.
They are particularly engaging in a tepid economy, where finding oil and gas investments with reduced downside risk and returns that beat average dividend stocks is no easy task.
Can MLPs be a game-changer for you? Sure – if you know the lay of the land, and if you know how to play them right.
Here are seven key points on MLPs:
1. What are MLPs, exactly?
In short, MLPs are publicly traded investment partnerships. MLPs have unit holders, and not shareholders, and are targeted toward the energy sector (primarily oil and gas), and trade on major exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange, or Nasdaq.
For Canadians, MLPs are akin to their former Energy Income Trusts, as both can send most of their income—with almost no taxes—to unit holders.
Energy-related MLPs have one critical legal threshold to clear: In order for a partnership to qualify as one, the partnership must get 90% of its cash flows from commodities (usually oil and gas).
MLPs merge the tax benefits of a traditional limited partnership with the liquidity of a publicly traded company. The MLP doesn't pay taxes from the profit. Instead, the money is only taxed when the partnership's unit-holders receive their cash distributions.
And yes, MLPs are growing. According to industry figures, over the past 10 years, MLP market cap growth has grown from $25 billion to $350 billion. MLPs own oil and gas pipelines, transportation and processing, refining, and storage sectors.
|MLP Fact SheetThere are over 100 MLPs actively traded on major global financial markets.MLPs focus on the transport (pipeline) side of the energy market – meaning they earn money no matter the price of oil and gas.
The Alerian MLP Index tracks the performance of 50 MLPs weighted by market capitalization.
BNN interview on Income Trusts — Canada's counterpart to U.S. MLPs.Click here to watch.
2. How long have MLPs been around?
While the first MLP, Apache Oil Company, was formed in 1981, the investment vehicle really gained momentum in 1986, via the Tax Reform Act, and in 1987, via the Revenue Act. Both pieces of legislation stated that as long as 90% of MLP revenues originated from natural resources related to the exploration, development land ownership, and investment gains and losses, they would be considered "established" MLP structures.
Later in the decade, MLPs morphed into midstream ownership entities that owned assets that transported, refined and stored oil and gas products. That "asset ownership" feature helped MLPs reduce their exposure to volatile oil and gas prices, and provided a steady and reliable cash flow for MLP investors.
Historically, investors have been drawn to MLPs for two significant reasons:
- Income generation — In volatile markets, where high investment risk is par for the course, income-generation is a priority.
- Tax benefits – Since master limited partnerships are considered legal, qualified partnerships by the I.R.S., unit holders earn more income – but pay less tax on that income.
MLPs have taken a pivotal, even leadership role in getting energy to U.S. consumers. They generally trade at a higher valuation than regular corporations (the industry calls those "C-corps") and can therefore raise money for big projects more cheaply than them.
As owners of the storage facilities and pipelines needed to transport oil, gas and other commodities from the refineries to consumers, MLPs are ideally positioned to benefit from rising energy demand.
3. How are MLPs structured?
MLPs are generally structured with a General Partner (GP) acting as management, and the Limited Partners (LP) providing the capital.
- MLPs can have one or more General Partners, who can have a 2% ownership stake in the partnership.
- MLPs can have thousands of Limited Partners (known as unit holders) who own publicly traded units. Limited Partners play no role in the management of the partnership, and are eligible for quarterly cash distributions.
Most MLPs have a tiered-hierarchy, with a General Partner at the top of the organization, and are tasked to manage the MLP on behalf of unit-holders. Typically, General Partners have a 2% interest in the MLP, while the participation rate varies for individual Limited Partners, and they are tasked with providing financial capital, and benefit from investment gains from the partnership.
Unlike stocks, MLP partners own "units" of the partnership, and the number of units owned represents a Limited Partner's stake in the partnership. Typically, Limited Partners look for two investment results from MLPs – strong yield and solid growth. In both areas historically, investors have often been rewarded handsomely.
Operationally, MLPs offer investors the following benefits:
- As a partnership, MLPs aren't taxed like corporations. That "pass through" structure means unit holders aren't "double-taxed" on dividends they receive. For the partnership, that tax structure means a lower cost of capital, thus giving MLPs a big advantage in generating more assets.
- MLP's unique tax structure allows for more money to funnel to investors. And since MLPs are publicly traded, that enables MLPs to gain access to a wider ranger of investors.
MLP Business Structure
4. How Can Individual Investors Get Going With MLPs?
Historically, MLPs were only available to the public as individual investments, but in recent years they've become available as closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds, and are now widely available on financial exchanges.
Some of the most widely traded individual MPs include:
- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP)
- Enterprise Products Partners (EPD)
- Magellan Midstream Partners (MMP)
- Linn Energy Corp (LINE)
The most prominent exchange-traded fund is the Alerian MLP (AMLP), which holds over $4.4 billion in net assets. The Alerian ETF invests at least 90% of total assets in its underlying index, the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index.
Note that individual MLP investors based in the U.S. generally must file a unique IRS tax form annually, called a K-1 form. It's advisable to consult a professional tax specialist before filing the K-1 form. Canadians can buy MLPs but may be subject to a withholding tax by the U.S. government—again, check with a financial advisor.
5. How do MLPs offer energy investors special tax advantages?
Master Limited Partnerships earned a unique benefit from the Tax Reform Act of 1986, as it largely exempted MLP investors from corporate taxes. Investors may look to real estate investment trusts (REITs) as a blueprint. Like REITs, MLPs are considered pass-through entities by Congress and by the Internal Revenue Service. In that regard, any profits or losses are "passed along" to MLP unit-holders, who pay any associated taxes at their individual, ordinary income tax rate.
Due to what accountants refer to as "depreciation allowances," MLP investors may receive up to 80% to 90% of investment distributions without paying immediate taxes on the income, thus providing an ample tax deferral advantage for investors.
*Non-U.S. residents get hit with a 35% withholding tax by Uncle Sam. There is paperwork to ensure there's not double taxation on what you do receive.
6. What are the major risks associated with MLPs?
MLPs do present some risk. For example . . .
- Commodity risk: MLP returns can be impacted if there is a slide in oil and gas exploration and production due to gyrating energy prices.
- Correlation risk: This just means that MLPs go up and down with the market and with commodity prices more now than ever before.
- Liquidity risk: MLPs don't always offer the same easy liquidity prominent with stocks, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds.
Of course, you have to throw in the regular volatility of the oil and gas industry, macro events, changes in legislation etc—which aren't always good for the oil and gas industry.
7. Outlook for MLPs going forward
Energy-related master limited partnerships are positioned positive for substantial investment growth over the next few years.
You see, a lot of MLPs transport energy, and as more oil and gas are produced by the U.S., it has go somewhere—and the oil and gas transport services MLPs provide is influenced energy volume, not price. And there's a strong argument that the lower oil and gas prices go, the more demand there will be for it.
Put another way, pipeline-oriented MLPs are paid to move oil and gas, no matter if it's priced at $100 or $25 per barrel.
That's a big advantage for MLP unit holders, who already enjoy some of the best investment returns on the global financial markets over the past 25 years.
More and more investors are becoming aware of that fact.
– Brian O'Connell, guest editor


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Hi Everyone..
It's little ol me.. finally settled into my new home here in Tucson Arizona. Just got my internet hooked up yesterday and trying to catch up on everything.. emails and such.
OMG.. that move was horrible.. I'm no longer built for that much concentrated physical effort.. and I still have over a dozen boxes left to open and put away.
Anyway, will be dropping in and out over the next few days as I settle in.. Glad to be back here.
And Retired to BOOT! (Yea!!!!!)
Best wishes all,
Dave :^)