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Administrative Rule 2 - RULE RELATING TO ELECTION AND DUTIES OF PRESIDING JUDGES
Effective Date: 2/1/2018
Section 1. Authority and Purpose.
In accordance with Article VI, Section 3, of the North Dakota Constitution, the Supreme Court adopts this rule relating to election and duties of presiding judges.
Section 2. The office of presiding judge is created in each judicial district as the chief administrative officer of all courts in the judicial district. The presiding judge is responsible for all court services of all courts within the geographical area of the judicial district.
Section 3. Each presiding judge is elected by the district judges in each judicial district in accordance with sections 4 and 5. Vacancies in the office of presiding judge are filled for the remainder of the term by vote as prescribed in this rule. Election results must be sent to the judges of the district by e-mail and posted on the Supreme Court website. Under Administrative Rule 22, each presiding judge is a member of the Administrative Council.
Section 4. An election will be held after January 10, 1995, for the three-year term of office beginning February 1, 1995, and after January 10 in each third year thereafter. Ballots will be sent by the State Court Administrator to every district judge of each judicial district. Individuals desiring to have their names deleted from the ballot must notify the State Court Administrator in writing before January 6 of the year the vote is to be taken. Upon receipt, each district judge will mark one choice for presiding judge and return it to the State Court Administrator by January 20.Upon receipt of the ballots, the State Court Administrator will, through consultation with the presiding judge of the district, set a place, date, and time of opening and notify all district judges within the district of the place, date, and time of opening. The presiding judge, and any other interested person, may be present at the ballot count. Results will be announced by the presiding judge no later than January 30 and later published in accordance with section 3. The candidate with the most votes will be declared the winner. If the leaders are tied, a reballoting will take place with only the tied leaders remaining in contention. If the tie cannot be broken by voting, the winner will be decided by drawing the longest straw.
Section 5. The following instructions will be provided with each ballot:
"Along with these instructions you should have one ballot with the names of all district judges in your judicial district who have not indicated their desire to have their names deleted from the ballot, one envelope marked 'Presiding Judge Ballot—Inner Envelope' and one pre-addressed outer envelope. Mark with an 'x' in front of your one choice for presiding judge, seal your ballot in the inner envelope provided and place this in the outer pre-addressed envelope provided. Election information can be found in North Dakota Supreme Court Administrative Rule 2."
Section 6. The presiding judge shall designate a judge of the district as acting presiding judge when the presiding judge will not be within the judicial district, or when the office of presiding judge will be vacant for 40 days or less. The presiding judge shall notify the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the designation.
Section 7. The presiding judge shall convene regular meetings of the judges of the judicial district to discuss matters of common concern, and to recommend improvement of court services within the judicial district.
Section 8. The presiding judge shall assign cases among the judges of the judicial district.
Section 9. Whenever a judge of the judicial district determines, for any reason, that it is inappropriate to preside in an assigned case, the judge shall refer the case to the presiding judge for reassignment.
If a presiding judge determines it is inappropriate for the presiding judge to preside in an assigned case, the presiding judge shall refer the case to the Clerk of the Supreme Court for reassignment by the Chief Justice, unless the judicial district has established pursuant to the North Dakota Rule on Local Court Procedural Rules an appropriate alternative case assignment procedure approved by the Supreme Court.
If the presiding judge is unable to make an appropriate assignment from among the judges within the judicial district, the presiding judge shall refer the case to the Clerk of the Supreme Court for reassignment by the Chief Justice.
Section 10. The presiding judge shall assign, when appropriate, judges from within the judicial district in cases of demand for change of judge under Section 29-15-21, NDCC.
If the presiding judge is the judge against whom the demand for change of judge is filed, the demand must be forwarded to the Clerk of the Supreme Court directly for review and assignment, when appropriate, by the Chief Justice, unless the judicial district has established under the North Dakota Rule on Local Court Procedural Rules an appropriate alternative case assignment procedure approved by the Supreme Court.
If the presiding judge is unable to make an appropriate assignment from among all the judges within the judicial district, the presiding judge shall refer the demand to the Clerk of the Supreme Court for review and assignment, when appropriate, by the Chief Justice.
If a party, other than the party making the demand, objects to any assignment of a judge by the presiding judge to act in the place of a disqualified judge, written notice of the objection must be sent to the presiding judge and the clerk of the trial court for review and filing.
Section 11. During each biennium, at the appropriate time designated by the State Court Administrator, the presiding judge shall review and forward to the State Court Administrator the budget request for all state funded court services within the judicial district. The presiding judge shall supervise the administration of the budget approved by the Legislative Assembly within the judicial district subject to limitations provided by the Administrative Council, the State Court Administrator, and the Chief Justice. The presiding judge shall provide administrative staff assistance, when appropriate, in preparing budgets for other court services in the judicial district.
Section 12. The presiding judge shall supervise the implementation of all local administrative practice and procedure regulations by all judges, clerks of court and other officers or employees of the courts in the judicial district.
Section 13. The presiding judge shall hire and supervise all law clerks, judicial referees, court reporters, and secretaries to judges. The presiding judge may delegate such authority to the trial court administrator or to the judge to whom the person is assigned.
Section 14. In accordance with Section 27-05-18, NDCC, the presiding judge may grant permission to any judge of the district court within the judicial district to hold consecutive jury terms of court in any county in the judicial district upon good cause shown. Permission must be granted by court order with a copy filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
Section 15. Effective Date.
The effective date of this rule is August 1, 2004.
Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota, this 8th day of March, 2004.
Gerald W. VandeWalle, Chief Justice
William A. Neumann, Justice
Mary Muehlen Maring, Justice
Carol Ronning Kapsner, Justice
I dissent. The "judicial reorganization plan" reflected in these rule changes received extensive public comment. Almost all of those who commented, including the Board of Governors of the State Bar Association and most of the district judges, objected to the plan. Although some of the objections may have been met by changes to the plan, it appears most have not.
I would make implementation of the rule changes subject to approval of the North Dakota Judicial Conference.
Dale V. Sandstrom, Justice
Penny Miller
Clerk of the Supreme Court
SOURCE: N.D. Const., Art. VI, Sec. 3, approved Sept. 7, 1976; Sec. 27-02-05.1 and 27-05-05, NDCC; AR 2-1978 (7-6-78); AR 2-1978 as amended Sept. 26, 1979; AR 2-1981 as amended June 25, 1981, effective July 1, 1981; AR 2-1985 as amended March 14, 1985, effective July 1, 1985; AR 2 amended January 18, 1990, effective March 1, 1990; AR 2 emergency amendments adopted effective October 15, 1991, amended and readopted January 22, 1992, effective March 1, 1992; amended effective October 1, 1994; amended effective August 1, 2004, Administrative Reorganization of the Judicial System, Supreme Court No. 20030098; amended effective February 1, 2018.


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A multinational team of ground controllers are undergoing intense training for the launch of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), one of the most complex spacecraft ever built and flown by ESA.
It is 05:00 at the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) in Toulouse, France, and the simulator operator watches as his computer screen shows the initialisation of a computer simulation of the ATV spacecraft.
Across the globe, in Moscow, Russia (local time 07:00), and Houston, USA (local time 01:00), other operators also prepare their computers, ready for one of several multi-national training sessions preparing for the launch of ATV, ESA's automated transfer vehicle.
ATV will be launched in 2008 on board an Ariane 5 launcher and will be controlled from ESA's ATV Control Centre at CNES (French national space agency) in Toulouse; after several days of flight, it will dock with the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS).
Training, therefore, involves engineers and ground controllers at the ATV, Russian and American control centres, together with ISS crew members and engineers at ESA's Columbus Control Centre, in Germany - who provide the global communications networks for the mission. Jointly, personnel at these locations have been participating in an intense training campaign to prepare them for the launch and operation of ATV.
Joint training connects international ISS partners
The training campaign is supported by a real-time simulator, which simulates the ATV spacecraft, the International Space Station, the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRS) space communications network, the ESA space communications satellite Artemis as well as parts of ESA's and Russia's ground station networks.
The simulator comprises three main parts, which run in the three control centres, feed data between each other (and into the ATV ground segment) and ultimately to the various control centres.
The ground control teams must recognise, analyse and diagnose the problems, and then implement the correct response – often under time pressure and sometimes with several problems occurring together.
Each control centre has a dedicated training instructor, who is responsible for directing the simulation and observing the behaviour of the teams.
The whole training simulation is coordinated by the ESA training instructor, who today is observing the simulation from Moscow. Together, the team of trainers devise the scenarios which will be used to prepare the teams.
These are carefully chosen to include a wide variety of problems, which are introduced into the simulator by special commands, causing the apparent failure of various functions or equipment on board the ATV spacecraft or within the communications systems.
The ground control teams must recognise, analyse and diagnose the problems, and then decide upon, coordinate and implement the correct response. This is often done under time pressure, and sometimes with several problems occurring together, forcing them to prioritise and delegate as necessary.
At 06:30 the teams arrive for a pre-simulation briefing. The ESA training instructor ensures that all team members are aware of the details of the simulation, and a check of the intercom loops which connect the four sites is made.
This morning the start of the simulation is delayed because of real-life difficulties with the simulator in Toulouse, and the operator spends anxious minutes tracking down the actual problem. If the simulator cannot start properly, it will be necessary to reconvene the scores of engineers have who gathered across the globe to participate in the simulation at some later date, affecting the overall training schedule. Thankfully, the problem is solved.
Teams unaware of what they will be facing
Finally, at 08:05, the 'GO' button is pressed, and the simulators begin sending data. They have been set up with data corresponding to the position and status of the ATV spacecraft (and the ISS, and TDRS, and Artemis) around seven hours before docking, and today's simulation covers an approach to the ISS, culminating in an "escape" manoeuvre to prove that the safety-critical docking can be aborted successfully if there are any problems.
As the simulation gets underway, the training instructors privately confer over the impact of the delayed start. The Houston control centre can only participate for eight hours, after which their facilities are required for other simulations (preparing for an up-coming shuttle launch). The training instructors decide to advance one of the planned contingencies to ensure that the necessary training is achieved; the teams in the various control centres, meanwhile, remain unaware of what they will be facing.
Around 15:00 Toulouse time, the planned escape manoeuvre is commanded, and ATV manoeuvres harmlessly away from the ISS.
The simulation progresses nominally for around three hours. Then, as ATV starts a series of homing boosts, there is a problem reported with data coming from the communications centre, in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Unknown to the trainees, a failure in the communications link between Oberpfaffenhofen and Toulouse has been introduced. There is a flurry of calls on the intercom system, and the problem is rapidly and successfully dealt with by the ground controllers.
About two hours later, the ATV Flight Director calls up the Moscow Control Centre over the voice loop. Sloshova ("go ahead") replies the Moscow Flight Director. The French Flight Director continues over the voice loop: "ATV Flight - SRP" ... "ATV-CC is GO for S3 Departure" ... "ATV Flight - SRP ... GO!"
ATV-CC sends the GO command and ATV approaches the ISS. Suddenly an urgent voice can be heard on the intercom: "This is an emergency." The control centre in Toulouse reports to the Flight Directors in Houston and Moscow that they have lost all communication with the spacecraft.
Eventually the failure is traced to a problem with NASA's space-based communications system TDRS – which has been deliberately injected by the training instructor.
The training instructor judges how long to leave the teams in this critical situation, and then "fixes" the problem. But now the team in Toulouse have more work to do – they have to command ATV to pull away from the ISS and repeat the approach manoeuvre.
Finally, around 15:00 Toulouse time, the planned escape manoeuvre is commanded, and ATV manoeuvres harmlessly away from the ISS. In reality, this would be followed two days later by the docking itself - but today the team stands down, and gathers to review the day's activities.
Four-way discussion spans three continents
The Flight Directors and Training Instructors from each control centre have a four-way discussion over the intercom system (translated into Russian, as are all meetings involving the Russian partners). They identify the key successes and failures of the day, and the main items which need to be improved or changed.
Despite the morning's delayed start, and a long, hard day, the team are clearly pleased with their achievements. They mill around in the main control room, congratulating themselves on having dealt successfully with the problems thrown at them. They have demonstrated their expertise in controlling the most complex spacecraft ESA has ever built, and as their confidence grows, they move one step closer to be ready for the ATV mission.
Editor's note
This article relates to a recent live training session held at ATV-CC and is based on a discussion with Adam Williams, a Training and Simulation Manager at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) and now working at ATV-CC. The first ATV, Jules Verne, is scheduled for launch early in 2008.


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The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major tobacco companies that requires them to spend more than $30 million in advertising with the three major television networks and run full-page ads in 35 White and Hispanic newspapers as well as purchasing space on their respective websites, but not make a single purchase from a Black print or broadcast media company.
The 24-page proposed consent agreement, reached Friday, went before U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday, for final approval.
"We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the Justice Department, the Tobacco-Free Action Fund and the tobacco industry would all agree to sign off an advertising plan that totally disrespects the Black community," said Cloves C. Campbell, chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of nearly 200 Black newspapers. "The industry's past efforts to target African American consumers have been thoroughly documented. It is sad that an industry that sought to exploit our community with a product that is harmful to our health now seeks to further devalue African Americans by ignoring the Black media when it is being forced to atone what a federal judge determined was a deliberate effort to deceive the American public."
Peter S. Hamm, director of communications for the Tobacco-Free Kids Action, said on Monday that the media outlets were selected by Judge Kessler and disclosed in an order issued Aug. 17, 2006. Hamm said he did not know how she determined what media outlets would be utilized to carry the newspaper ads and television commercials.
A telephone call Monday requesting comment from the Justice Department was not returned.
The story of the agreement was first disclosed by Target Market News, published by Ken Smikle. The Chicago-based publication said an advertising source placed the value of the total buy at $30 million to $45 million.
The advertising campaign, which won't go into effect until all appeals have been exhausted by the tobacco companies, was agreed to as part of a settlement that found tobacco companies misled the public about the dangers of smoking. The four defendants are: Altria, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard and Philip Morris USA.
The U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the cigarette manufacturers on Sept. 22, 1999 charging that they had violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations Act (RICO). They were found guilty at the conclusion of a trial that lasted from Dec. 21, 2004 to June 9, 2005.
Judge Kessler wrote a stinging opinion saying, that the case "is about an industry, and in particular these defendants, that survives, and profits, from selling a highly addictive product which causes diseases that lead to a staggering number of deaths per year, an immeasurable amount of human suffering and economic loss, and a profound burden on our national health care system. Defendants have known these facts for at least 50 years or more. Despite that knowledge, they have consistently, repeatedly, and with enormous skill and sophistication, denied these facts to the public, to the government, and to the public health community… In short, defendants have marketed and sold their lethal products with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted."


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(By Delegates Morgan, Stephens, Hatfield,
Hartman, Staggers and Talbott)
[Introduced January 12, 2012; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-1-2a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to annual seminar requirements for professional licensing boards.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §30-1-2a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§30-1-2a. Required orientation session.
(a) The Auditor shall provide at least one seminar each year for state licensing boards to inform the boards of the duties and requirements imposed by state law and rules. All state agencies shall cooperate with and assist in providing the seminar if the Auditor requests.
(b) The seminar may include the following topics:
(1) Powers and duties of the boards and board members;
(2) The financial procedures for boards;
(3) Purchasing requirements;
(4) Open meeting requirements;
(5) Ethics;
(6) Rule-making procedures;
(7) Procedures for the handling of complaints, investigations and administrative hearings;
(8) Disciplinary actions available to boards;
(9) Records management procedures;
(10) Annual reports; and
(11) Any other topics the Auditor determines necessary or informative.
(c) (1) The board members and the executive director or the chief financial officer of a board newly created under the provisions of this chapter shall attend a seminar provided under this section within one year of the creation of the board.
(2) The chairperson, the executive director or the chief financial officer of the board shall annually attend a seminar provided under this section.
(3) Each board member shall attend at least one seminar provided under this section during each term of office.
(d) The Auditor may charge a registration fee for the seminar to cover the cost of providing the seminar. The fee may be paid from funds available to a board and a board may approve an expense reimbursement for the attendance of its members, executive director and the chief financial officer of the board.
(e) Prior to January 1 of each year, the Auditor shall provide to the chairs of the Joint Standing Committee on Government Organization a list of:
(1) The names and titles of the persons who attended the seminar;
(2) The boards represented; and
(3) The number and dates of the seminars offered by the Auditor during the previous year.
(f) Ex officio members who are elected or appointed state officers or employees and members of boards that have purely advisory functions with respect to a department or agency of the state are exempt from the requirements of this section.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to revise the subject matter and attendance requirements for professional licensing boards' annual seminar.
This section has been completely rewritten; therefore, it has been completely underscored.


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Dr. Souran Manoochehri
- B.S. (Magna Cum Laude), Mechanical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1981
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1983
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1986
- Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
- Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing
- Knowledge-Based Engineering Systems
- Integrated Product Development; Concurrent Engineering
- Modeling and Simulation
- Design Optimization; Composite Materials and Processes
- Integrated Design of Electronic Enclosures
Institutional Service
- Department Service Chair of the Department Director Search Committee
- Member of Graduate Affairs Committee
- Member of Department Executive Committee
- Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; Member of Manufacturing Program
- Member of Doctoral Qualifying Examination Committee Institutional Service
- Director, Design and Manufacturing Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 1996 - Present
- Head of Design Automation, Design & Manufacturing Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 1993 - March 1996
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1994 - 1998
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1989 - 1993
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson University, 1986 - 1989
- Member of ME Faculty Search Committee
- ME Faculty Mentoring
- Member of Graduate Affairs Committee
- Member of Manufacturing Program Committee
- Member of ME Facilities and Laboratories Committee
- Member of Executive Committee for the School of Engineering
- Member of Core Engineering Curriculum Committee
- Member of Institute Transition Team
- Member of Information Technology Planning Team
- Member of Search Committee for the Chief Financial Officer
- Member of Search Committee for the Dean of School of Engineering
- IPD Manufacturing Track Coordinator
- Member of Search Committee for the Dean of School of Technology Management
- Member of Research Planning Board
- SOE Faculty Reappointment Reviewer
- Member of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Committee
- Member of Biomedical Engineering Committee Department Service Chair of the Department Director Search Committee
- Member of Graduate Affairs Committee
- Member of Department Executive Committee
- Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
- Member of Manufacturing Program
- Member of Doctoral Qualifying Examination Committee.
Professional Service
- Conference Co-Chair and Organizer, "2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences," New York City
- Member of Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications
- Conference Co-organizer and Speaker "Integrated System Development and Operational Support: Strategies for Enhanced System Effectiveness" on June 21, 2000 at Arlington Virginia
- Conference Organizer and Chair "Intelligent Design and Manufacturing Tools for Affordable Military Product Development" on October 1998 at Stevens Institute of Technology co-sponsored by US Army–TACOM/TARDEC
- Attendee and Exhibitor - Defense Manufacturing Conference, Annually since 1998
- ASME Design Technical Conferences and Design Automation Committee active participant; Paper reviewer for ASME Journal of Mechanical Design; Paper reviewer for Advances in Polymer Technology, Inter. Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
- J. of Finite Element in Analysis and Design
- Paper reviewer for ASME Design Technical conferences
- Invited Participant, "Air Force and NSF Manufacturing Modeling and Simulation Roadmap Task Force", Orlando, Florida, June 2002
- Invited Participant, "DARPA Robotics Workshop", Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 1998
- Attended ASME, DMC, NCMS, SPE, SAMPE, SME Conferences
Consulting Service
- Co-Inventor, USRE036602 "Concurrent Engineering Design Tool and Method "
- Co-Inventor, US5822206, Continuation Patent, "Concurrent Engineering Design Tool and Method"
- Industrial Research and Development Institute, Midland, ON, Canada
- McToy Division of McDonald's Corp., Chicago, Illinois
Honors & Awards
- ASME, The Design Engineering Division Award, 2008
- Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) Best Presentation Award, 1998
- ASME Mechanisms Conference Best Paper Award, The Mechanical Software Award, September 1988
- Pi Tau Sigma, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin, 1985
Professional Societies
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASME (Senior Member) Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- SME (Senior Member)
Selected Publications
Conference Proceedings
- E Du, S. Manoochehri. "Microgrooves Enhanced AC Electrothermal Pumping for Conductivity Microfluids", Proc. of ASME IDETC/CIE 2008, no. IDETC2008-49492.
- E Du, S. Manoochehri. "Numerical Simulation of AC Electrothermal Microfluidic Pumping", Proc. of ASME MicroNano 2008, no. MicroNano2008-70066.
- C. Yu, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri. "Pultrusion Process Analysis Using Knowledge-Based System", Proc. of 2008 ASME IDETC /CIE, IDETC2008-49895.
- N. Liu, S. Manoochehri, and Chan Yu. (Sep 10-13, 2006). "Multidisciplinary Conceptual Modeling and Optimization with Uncertainty Effects Consideration", ASME IDETC, Philadelphia, PA.
- C. Yu, N. Liu, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri and K.H. Ko. (Sep 10-13, 2006). "Development of Distributed Computing Framework for Parallel Multi-Disciplinary Optimization", ASME IDETC, Philadelphia, PA.
- N. Liu, S. Manoochehri. (Mar 26-28, 2006). "Reliability based MEMS System Modeling and Optimization", roc. of IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, San Jose, CA.
- C. Yu, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri. (2006). "Low Tool Cost Molding for Thick-Section Composite", SAMPE 2006, Long Beach, CA.
- C. Yu, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri. (2006). "ptimization of Command and Control Systems for Port Security Applications under Uncertainty", 1th Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, San Diego, CA.
- C. Yu, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri. (2006). "Pultrusion Process Analysis Using Knowledge-Based System", ANTEC 2006, Charlotte, NC.
- N. Liu, S. Manoochehri. (Nov 5-11, 2005). "System Hierarchy Optimization Method for MEMS Applications", Proc. of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Orlando, FL.
- E Du, S. Manoochehri. (2008). "Electrohydrodynamic-mediated Dielectrophoretic Separation and Transport Based on Asymmetric Electrode Pairs", J. of Electrophoresis.
- E Du, S. Manoochehri. (Sep 2008). "Enhanced AC Electrothermal Fluidic Pumping in Microgrooved Channels", J. of Applied Physics, 104 064902.
- K. H. Ko, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri. (2007). "An Embedded System for Knowledge-Based Cost Evaluation of Molded Parts", J. of Knowledge-Based Systems, 20 (3), 291-299.
- K. H. Ko, K Pochiraju, S Manoochehri. (2007). "Dynamic Evolution of Information Complexity for Analysis of Design and Development", JSME J. of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems and Manufacturing, 1 (1), 36-47.
- K. H. Ko, C. Yu, K. Pochiraju, S. Manoochehri. "Analysis of information complexity during product development", Proc. of ASME IDETC/CIE 2005 IDETC2005-85284, 2 719-727.
- K. Park, K. Pochiraju, C. Chassapis, S. Manoochehri. (2002). "Knowledge-based Rapid Design Evaluation Methodology for Die-cast Components", Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications.. 10 (1), 67-74.
- V. Jovanovic, S. Manoochehri and C. Chassapis.. (2001). "Parameter Estimation for Resin Transfer Molding", Journal of Engineering Computations.. 18 (8).
- S. Tumkor, N. Turkmen, C. Chassapis and S. Manoochehri. (2001). "Modeling of Heat Transfer in Thermoplastic Composite Tape Lay-up Manufacturing", J. Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer. 28 (1), 49-58.
- S. K. Esche, C. Chassapis, C. and S. Manoochehri,. (2001). "Concurrent Product and Process Design in Hot Forging", J. of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications. 9 (1), 48-54.
- B. D. Mottahed and S. Manoochehri. (Nov 2000). "Optimal Design of Electronic Systems Utilizing an Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Process", IEEE Trans. Adv. Packaging (CPMT).. 23 (4), 699-707.
- Esche, S. K., Fidan, I., Chassapis, C. & Manoochehri, S.. (2000). "Knowledge-Based Part and Process Design for Metal Forging", Journal of Materials and Manufacturing. . 108 (5), 92-99.
- B. Mottahed and S. Manoochehri.. (1999). "Design Considerations For Electronic Enclosures Utilizing Polymeric Materials", J. of Polymer-Plastic Technology and Engineering.. 38 (5).
- P.Y. Shim and S. Manoochehri. (1999). "A Hybrid Deterministic/Stochastic Optimization Approach for the Shape Configuration Design of Structures", J. of Structural Optimization.. 17 (2/3), 113-129.
- P. Y. Shim and S. Manoochehri. (Nov 1998). "Optimal Configuration Design of Structures Using the Binary Enumeration Technique", J. Finite Elements in Anal. and Design.. 31 (1), 15-32.
- 11. L. Q. Tang, K. Pochiraju, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri.. (1998). "A Computer-Aided Optimization Approach for the Design of Injection Mold Cooling Systems", ASME J. Mech. Des. 120 165-174.
- K. Pochiraju, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri.. (1998). "Multidisciplinary Parametric Design Optimization For Enhancing the Affordability of Molded Composites", J. Thermop. Comp. Mat.. 11 364-392.
- T.P. Skourlis, S. R. Mehta, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri. (Jan 1998). "Impact-Fracture Behavior of Injection Molded Long-Glass Reinforced Polypropylene", J. Polymer Eng. Sci.. . 38 79-89.
- M. Weinstein and S. Manoochehri.. (1998). "Identification and Elimination of Parts Undercuts for Molding Applications Through Part Geometry Integration", Journal of Computer-Aided Design.. .
- Skourlis, S. R. Mehta, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri.. (Jan 1998). "Impact-Fracture Behavior of Injection Molded Long-Glass Reinforced Polypropylene", J. Polymer Eng. and Science.. 38 (1), 79-89.
- K. Pochiraju, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri.. (1998). "Parametric Design Optimization of Injection Molded Parts Using a Structured Knowledge-Base", J. of AI in Engineering Design and Manufacturing. .
- T.P. Skourlis, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri.. (1997). "Fiber Orientation Morphological Layers in Injection Molded Long Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics", J. Thermopl. Comp. Mat.. 10 453-475.
- T.P. Skourlis, K. Pochiraju, C. Chassapis, and S. Manoochehri. "Structure-Modulus Relationships for Injection Molded Long Fiber-Reinforced Polyphthalamides", Comp. Eng. Part B, 998. . 29 (3), 309-320.
- ME 471 Mechanics of Materials
- ME 491 Manufacturing Processes and Systems
- ME 564 Principles of Optimum Design and Manufacture
- ME 566 Design for Manufacturability
- ME 598 Introduction to Robotics
- IPD 601 Integrated Product Development I
- ME 665 Advanced Product Development
- ME 631 Mechanical Vibrations I
- ME 654 Advanced Robotics
- ME 632 Mechanical Vibrations II


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The Jewish Museum in Berlin is a must for any visitor to the city.
The permanent exhibition in Daniel Libeskind's breathtaking building charts the course of German-Jewish history. Everyday objects and works of art, photos and letters, interaction elements and media stations covering 13 different eras from the Middle Ages through to the present day reflect Jewish culture in Germany and show how closely Jewish life is linked with German history. The museum also hosts a variety of special exhibitions.
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i will never know for sure if i invented them (well invented if a tall order - mostly from other board sports..) but i never seen anyone else try before I landed them. They probably did though...
360 push shuvit on surfboard
Nosetrip front roll to backside power slide
Surfboard kickflip
One foot strapless surfboard airs
Surfboard push tack
This is cool thread, any kind of progression ideas can lead to awesome stuff, even if tricks seen as a bit lame to start with... it just inspires other to another step which is cool. So many transitions tricks haven't been landed yet.. Imagine powered transition mobe variations. People used to ask how it was possible to stay in control strapless so many years ago, how times have changed for the better. I remember having the idea for darkslide blind judge 3 on this forum and seeing Jesse Richman stomp one not long after, not sure if inspired from my ideas but awesome all the same.
More ideas please... u gotta think outside the box to innovate sometimes


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Item Description
Letter, Alden G. Tucker to Mr. [Edward Everett] Hale
Author: Tucker, Alden G.
Date: January 20, 1854
Tucker, a twenty-three year old printer writing from Taunton, Massachusetts, to Edward Everett Hale, volunteered to go to Kansas as part of the "Emigration Association" about which he had heard rumors. Hale later became a leader of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company that was chartered in April 1854.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company Collection, #624, Box 1, Folder 3
Item Number: 100367 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Antislavery; Emigrant aid companies; Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company; New England Emigrant Aid Company; Tucker, Alden G.
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So folks, what coffee are you brewing today? How are you brewing it? How's it going? Tasting delicious?
Sorry if there's already a thread somewhere on here about this but I couldn't spot one and thought would be interesting to find out what everyone else on TMC is brewing
What am I up to? Well...
Mmm, mmm, mmm


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The boys are doing great. They are both piggies now and are eating between 3-4.5oz every 3-4 hours. Today the home nurse was here to weigh them and they both gained well. Zak went from 5lb 11.5oz to 6lb 8oz in 7 days!! Ryder went from 4lb 9.5oz to 5lb 2oz in a week. They both gained more than the average 1oz per day.
Yesterday we took Ryder to see the pediatric urologist to check on his possible hernia/hydrocele and the chordae. He thinks that there is no hernia and just a hydrocele, but we go back in December for him to see if things have changed at all. Ryder will have surgery to fix the chordae, be circumcised and to also correct the hydrocele in March. Zak will also go in March to be circumcised.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Quick Update
The boys are doing great. They are both piggies now and are eating between 3-4.5oz every 3-4 hours. Today the home nurse was here to weigh them and they both gained well. Zak went from 5lb 11.5oz to 6lb 8oz in 7 days!! Ryder went from 4lb 9.5oz to 5lb 2oz in a week. They both gained more than the average 1oz per day.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Perfect Fit
So we were mean horrible parents yesterday. While at the mall we saw some cute kids Halloween costumes in Pottery Barn Kids so we went in to look. Of course they would not fit the boys, but then we saw stuffed animals with the same Halloween costumes on. The stuffed animals were smaller than the boys so we knew it would fit them. After discovering that stuffed animal clothes would fit them we went down to Build A Bear and found lots of choices to pick from. Of course we both had our favorites, but we ended up with 2 very cute costumes. We got a Redskins football outfit and an Oriole's baseball outfit.
*I want to go back and get some more cute clothes we found like a really cute pair of jean overalls*
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Trip to ER
Ryder definitely gave us a long stressful night last night. I will start at the beginning....the NICU discharged him saying he had 1 testicle larger than the other, but all was fine int hat area. At the first pediatrician appointment they thought he had a hernia and/or a hydrocele (collection of fluid) so we scheduled an appointment with the pediatric urologist who saw him in the NICU. That appointment is this upcoming Wednesday. Yesterday when the home nurse was here to weight the boys we noticed his right testicle was twice the size it had been and was very hard now so we went to the pediatrician last night. She then sent us to the University of Maryland Pediatric ER to see a surgeon there because she thought it was a hernia that might need immediate surgery. After being there for about 7 hours and seeing several different doctors and surgeons they decided he does have a hernia and a hydrocele that will need to be fixed soon, but they did not feel the need to do it last night as an emergency. So we are waiting to see the urologist next week to see what he says and then find out if he will be having surgery or not. Will keep everybody updated.....
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
An Update
The boys are doing good. Zak had a few days where he didn't gain weight, but he is now gaining weight just as Ryder is. They are doing much better with eating. Every 3 hours they are eating 55ml which is just under 2oz. They are eating it much quicker and not having problems like they had been. We have hit the spit up phase so that is always fun. They are also starting to stay awake for a little bit after 1 or 2 feedings. We had our first family outing yesterday to Babies R Us. The boys just slept the whole time. They seem to enjoy the car and sleep very well while going for a ride.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Eye Doc & Pediatrician
Today was a busy day for the boys. We went for a follow-up visit to the eye doctor that saw them in the NICU. He did another eye exam and both boys look great, they are no longer at risk for ROP which can cause blindness for preemies. They will go back in March for a follow-up to check and see how their actual eyesight is.
The pediatrician also went well. He checked them over and said they look good. We go back to see Dr.McGrath next week for another check-up to make sure they are gaining weight and then their first vaccines will be at 2 months.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The boys were discharged from the NICU yesterday afternoon!! We knew Ryder might be coming home soon, but when we went to visit them on Sunday the nurse told us both boys were coming home Monday. Everything has been going well. It was somewhat of a long night because we have to wake them up every 3 hours to feed and not wait for them to wake up on their own. Also, they both decided night time was a good time to be awake and alert and not sleep.
We had the 1st of 4 home visits from a nurse today. She just checks their weight gain, eating and makes sure they look good overall. Zak is the same weight as he was 2 days ago so no gain, but also no loss. He is weighing 5lb 1.5oz. Ryder gained a little bit from discharge and is now weighing 3lb 15.5 oz. We go to the eye doctor tomorrow morning for a follow-up to their exam they had in the NICU. Also, we go see the pediatrician tomorrow. So a busy day.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Eating Update
Ryder is doing much better eating from the bottle. He will generally finish all of his bottle, sometimes leaving 10ml or less (he gets 30ml per feeding). The nurses said that he does better if they offer the bottle at every other feeding so he is not tired and will then take the whole bottle. So he is getting there. His weight from last night was 3lb 10.6oz. He also got his first bath the other afternoon which he seemed to enjoy.
Zak is doing better and recovering from his intestinal infection. He will be on antibiotics for 7 days so should be done them the end of the week. He is still receiving nutrients, fat, and antibiotics through IV. They did start to allow him to have a little milk. They started at 5ml every 3 hours and he did well so moved him to 10ml every 3 hours. Today they changed him to 15ml every 3 hours and he sucks the bottles down and wants more. So as long as his tummy and intestines tolerate the milk they will continue to slowly increase his feedings. His weight from last night was 5lb 1.8oz.
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text: ISPCONFIG and DNS AND Another Question! Having fun. I think I was just not waiting long enough - it does update the allow-transfer fields in named.conf.local. Till - I see instructions for incorporating Roundcube with ISPCONFIG 3 and Wheezy (Debian). I dont see such instructions for Centos 6.4 - and (to be honest) I dont want to screw up the install... could you check them and see what we need to install with Centos 6.4? I'd paypal you an extra donation I see it uses apt-get but dont want to use that if it fails or causes other problems. what should we try to get RoundCube up and going? also - somewhat of an annoyance - my server shows no issues, but I'm getting the odd 30-60 second inability to get ISPCONFIG to update a screen. I'm not sure if its verizon (FIOS) or something else - can you think of a way to check what might be doing this? I recently moved a server to my house and switched ISP. is there anything out there for centos that might detect some intermittent DNS failure that lasts 30-60 seconds and then clears up? additional donation would be appropriate cdb. ps LOVE ISPCONFIG. Really. super nice software.


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What Is Lactose Intolerance? Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
Only humans have the ability to digest lactose as adults.
Lactose intolerance is the inability to fully digest lactose — a sugar found in milk — which results in gastrointestinal issues about 30 minutes to two hours after consuming dairy products.
Importantly, lactose intolerance is not the same thing as a milk allergy, which occurs when your immune system overreacts to the proteins in milk.
If you have a milk allergy, you will likely immediately experience typical allergy symptoms after consuming milk, including hives, wheezing, and vomiting.
Causes and Risk Factors of Lactose Intolerance
When you consume food or drink containing lactose, an enzyme in the small intestine called lactase helps you digest the milk sugar via hydrolysis, or the chemical splitting of molecules with water.
In effect, lactase catalyzes the hydrolysis of lactose, producing two simpler sugars: glucose and galactose, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream.
Many people have a lactase deficiency, or hypolactasia, in which their small intestine produces low levels of lactase.
This deficiency may lead to lactose malabsorption, wherein the undigested lactose makes its way into the large intestine and colon.
Bacteria in the colon break down the lactose, resulting in increased gas and fluid in colon.
You are lactose intolerant if your lactase deficiency or lactose malabsorption causes digestive symptoms (though this doesn't always happen).
The amount of lactose required to cause symptoms varies between people, and most people are able to consume small amounts of lactose without issues, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Lactose Intolerance Types
There are several types of lactase deficiencies that lead to lactose intolerance.
The most common type of lactase deficiency is primary lactase deficiency, or lactase nonpersistence, and it occurs when lactase production slowly declines as you age, generally beginning after you turn two years old.
Lactase nonpersistence develops when the activity, or expression, of the LCT gene decreases over time (its expression is controlled by a regulatory DNA sequence in MCM6, a nearby gene).
You can digest lactose into adulthood if you have a mutation of the MCM6 gene that, in a sense, keeps the LCT gene permanently switched on.
Congenital lactase deficiency is an extremely rare inherited disorder, in which the small intestine produces little to no lactase from birth.
It's caused by a mutation of the LCT gene, which provides instructions for making lactase.
You can only be born with this disorder if both of your parents pass the mutated gene on to you.
Lactose intolerance isn't always related to genetics, however.
Secondary or acquired lactase deficiency arises when an infection or disease — including celiac disease, infectious enteritis, or Crohn's disease (an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD) — damage the small intestine.
Treating the underlying issue usually reverses the lactose intolerance.
Research and Statistics: How Many People Are Lactose Intolerant?
Lactase persistence — the ability to digest lactose throughout adulthood — is unique to humans, and only evolved within the last 10,000 years.
However, about 65 percent of the world's population has some degree of lactose intolerance in adulthood, according to a 2012 article in the International Dairy Journal. The prevalence of lactose intolerance also varies heavily by race.
The mutation that causes lactase persistence is believed to have originally sprung up through natural selection along with the rise of dairy farming.
As such, lactase persistence is very common in people of northern European decent, with only a few percent of some populations unable to digest lactose.
But lactose intolerance is common among people of numerous descents, including:
- West African
- Arab
- Jewish
- Greek
- Italian
Lactose intolerance also affects almost all Asian and Native American people, according to a 2006 report in the journal Pediatrics.
In the United States, you are most likely to be lactose intolerant if you are African American, Native American, Asian American, or Hispanic or Latino.
Learn More About Lactose Intolerance Symptoms
Editorial Sources and Fact-Checking
- Leonardi et al. (2012). The Evolution of Lactase Persistence in Europe. A Synthesis of Archaeological and Genetic Evidence. International Dairy Journal.
- Heyman et al. (2006). Lactose Intolerance in Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Pediatrics.
- Lactose Intolerance; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
- Mattar et al. (2012). Lactose Intolerance: Diagnosis, Genetic, and Clinical Factors. Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology.


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I started this list with the wardrobe questions from my popular Checklist for the whole speaker (it's a free download), then added more items to make it a comprehensive checklist focused on how your wardrobe appears when you're speaking or presenting. Once you get used to working your way through this checklist, you'll find yourself making smarter wardrobe choices for your speaking engagements and presentations automatically. And by the way, this checklist works for men and women. Here it is:
- Are my clothes clean, pressed and mended? Are they likely or unlikely to look wrinkled after a short time?
- Do my clothes suit the occasion at which I'm speaking, in terms of formality, what the audience will be wearing or the event itself?
- Do my clothes fit me?
- Is my intended outfit comfortable, from head to toe?
- Will my wardrobe allow me (if needed) to do things like crawl under a table to plug in a cord or reach high to point at a chart?
- Have I rehearsed my presentation movements and gestures while wearing my intended outfit?
- Am I using color to my advantage? Will it help me stand out in the setting or work against me?
- Is there anything about my outfit that will distract me? Distract my audience? If so, can I make a change? Is it worth it?
- If I plan to gesture, have I removed rings and bracelets that may be visible or audible distractions?
- If I'm going to wear a lavalier mic, do I have a lapel or collar on which to clip it? Will it be easy to hide the wire under my jacket, and to clip the pack on my waistband or pocket?
- If I'm standing behind a lectern, or will be seated behind a skirted table, have I focused attention and color near my face?
- What from my outfit will be seen in that setting by the audience? For example, small jewelry might not be visible at all, and more attention will be focused on your upper torso and face.
- If I'm on a panel, will the table be skirted? Am I sitting in a big armchair? Have I thought about how my outfit will look when I'm seated and facing the audience?
Go here to download the wardrobe checklist as a PDF.
- If I have white hair, gray hair, light hair or no hair, am I wearing a dark suit to bring my face into focus?
- Am I wearing a French blue color near my face (shirt, scarf or tie) -- the color that flatters all skin tones?
- Have I inquired about the color of the background that will be behind me, so I can make sure my suit doesn't blend in--or clash?
- If my talk is being recorded on video--whether on television or for another purpose--have I avoided wearing clothes that will appear to bleed at the edges on camera (like a red jacket), clothes that will draw the viewer's focus away from my face (like a white shirt) or clothing that will look like it's moving on its own (like a checked or plaid shirt or jacket)?
- If I'm going to walk in and around the audience, have I considered what will be visible to someone who's seated and in front of or behind me?
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All you have to do is go to ESPN expert picks. Whenever all the experts pick the Steelers and we are at least 7 point favorites then bet all you have on the other team!!
Why can't we get up for these games: Raiders, Chiefs, Titans, Chargers
I think it's the coaching. They fail to motivate the players to get up for poor teams.
What do you guys think?


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Paging SuperKent Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Paging SuperKent Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SelyerJoined: 04 Feb 2003Posts: 62Location: Poland Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject: Paging SuperKent ...or any of you other experts on Russia! Anybody know anything about Education and Training International? I've seen some job adverts for ETIs in various countries, most recently Moscow. Just curious if anyone has any information on them. Are they a solid organization? Are all these various ETIs connected? Thanks! Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:05 am Post subject: SuperKent to the Rescue? Hello Selyer: Stronger than the CCCP; faster than an aging babushka; able to leap huge pot-holes in a single bound ... I'm here! Unfortunately, I've never heard of Education and Training International. There are several very knowledgable posters on the Russia Forum now, so I'm sure somebody will know something. Be patient. Also: We have a 4-day holiday coming up beginning tomorrow, which means I'll have some extra free time for surfing the NET. If I manage to find something useful for you about ETI, I'll come back and post it here. Warm regards, kEnT PS: Snoopy's always so cool. I wonder if he's reading pravda.ru? Back to top Buck TurgidsonJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 96 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 6:16 am Post subject: What? You mean you aren't going on an excursion someplace? Or a four-day bender at least. Happy May Day, Comrade. Workers of the world unite! Buck Back to top roganJoined: 03 Mar 2003Posts: 416Location: at home, in France Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: There's a compulsory visit to Victory Park tomorrow. Also an obligatory bottle of vodka to drink ! Enjoy the parades. Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:29 am Post subject: well now ... Howdy Boys: Ah yes, the 4-day holiday weekend is upon us, and thoughts turn to excursions, benders and parades! Me? If it warms up a little by tomorrow, I'll be sitting under a beer tent along the Volga River, watching the boats go by, slugging down 0.5L cups of tepid Russian brew, and probably giving away my pocket change to the gypsy kids and their toothless mothers who troll the embankment looking for brightly dressed foreigners. RegardsToAll, keNt PS: Selyer, where did you see the ETI adverts? I've done a quick google search, but was unable to find anything relevant. Back to top SelyerJoined: 04 Feb 2003Posts: 62Location: Poland Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject: Oh, for a 4 day weekend! Gee, I'm feeling left out...we don't "do" May Day here in the States! No 4 day weekend for poor little ol' me. Well, OK, that's not exactly true. I don't get May Day holidays but I am, coincidentally, taking a FIVE day weekend--although it's to go up to Canada to do a marathon, not sit in a beer tent! Kent...I've primarily seen the ETI job adverts on TEFL.com, and they've all been for various Eastern European countries. Wishing all you May-Dayers a fabulous holiday! Selyer Back to top Buck TurgidsonJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 96 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:11 pm Post subject: I'm stuck in the US too Selyer May Day was established by the Marxist Second International so it is traditionally celebrated in European countries. Back then they used to celebrate it by a mass strike every year. Of course we couldn't celebrate a communist holiday. Instead, we picked a different day and called it "Labor Day." Buck Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 6:40 am Post subject: ETI revisited Greetings Dear Selyer: I found the advert from ETI. Based on what they've written in their advert, as well as the specific terms and salary on offer for Moscow, I'd say it sounds REALLY good. At first I was a little concerned that it might be one of those "pay us to place you" recruiting agencies. I am now convinced that it is not such an outfit. In plain English: They look 'legit' and I'd say 'go for it' if you're still thinking about Russia. Warm regards, kEnt PS: Good luck at the marathon! I will be thinking of you at my beer-sampling marathon which begins in a few hours. Back to top roganJoined: 03 Mar 2003Posts: 416Location: at home, in France Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 9:37 am Post subject: ETI is a British based company that specialises in training oil field employees. 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Before our study group, Summerville, South Carolina #2, made a trip to A.R.E headquarters in Virginia Beach, Va., in April, 2009, Jerry Ingle, set into motion an ideal that generated a monumental synchronicity. For years, Jerry, a long-time member of our group, had been interested in Nikola Tesla. He saw many parallels between his talents and those of Edgar Cayce and hoped to somehow connect them. As a psychic, Edgar Cayce had been consulted by engineers about their inventions. Cayce was willing to help as long as it would ultimately be of service to humanity. While there are suggestions that both Thomas Edison and his former associate, Nikola Tesla, consulted Cayce separately; there is no documentation in the A.R.E. archives.
Nikola Tesla was an electrical engineer who invented the alternating current Niagara power system that made Edison's direct current obsolete. He sold Westinghouse 40 patents that broke the General Electric monopoly. In 1893 he demonstrated the use of wireless radio control with a torpedo-like boat. He invented wireless transmission of electricity, an electric car that ran by tapping into the electricity of the Earth, the microwave, and the TV remote control, just to name a few. A court recently ruled that while Marconi had been given credit for the invention of the radio and made a fortune on it, Tesla was the true inventor.
Tesla was concerned with harnessing nature to meet the needs of humankind and foresaw the end of World War I as a synthesis of history, philosophy, and science,. He had the amazing ability to construct a machine in his mind and then, by operating the device in his mind, make improvements to the design. He could develop and perfect his inventions by drawing only upon the creative forces, without actually touching anything material. Just as the Cayce readings suggest, "Mind is the builder, physical is the result."
Another inventor that Edgar Cayce met was a man named Marion L. Stansell. During World War I, while stationed in France, Stansell had a near death experience with a vision. During the experience, a "spirit guide" escorted him to another dimension where he was given a formula for a mechanical device. He was told that this device would save the planet from environmental destruction in the next millennium.
On February 1, 1928, Edgar Cayce gave a reading which confirmed that Stansell was able to see the blueprints for a revolutionary type of motor in his dreams and visions. According to the readings, the motor was designed in the spirit realm by De Witt Clinton, deceased governor of New York, who in his last incarnation was the force behind the development of the Erie Canal.
Stansell needed the assistance of Edgar Cayce to relay precise technical information from Clinton in the spirit realm to Stansell and a team of like-minded entrepreneurs in the material world. The Stansell motor readings were conducted over a two-year period. One could speculate that Mr. Cayce did the same for Nikola Tesla, and that these readings were a continuation of that work, but if so, there is no record of it.
Jerry believed that there was a deep connection between the work of Cayce and Tesla and their interest in the connection between electricity and psychic phenomena. At A.R.E., Jerry found his way to the vault, where the Cayce records are kept, hoping to discover a way to get these plans into the hands of present-day inventors.
There, he and an A.R.E. volunteer named Harry talked excitedly for some time about Tesla. Suddenly, a man came to the door of the vault. "Does anybody know if there was ever a connection between Edgar Cayce and Nikola Tesla?"
"Here is the guy who can tell you," said Harry as he pointed toward Jerry. Jerry turned to face Nikola Lonchar — the President of Nikola Tesla's Inventors Club, a man who was dedicated to locating and preserving Tesla's work. The organization was made up of scientists who wanted to be sure Tesla's work was not lost! This was the first visit to A.R.E. by anyone from the Tesla organization.
Jerry was able to supply the visitor with the information he needed. The two sat in the lobby of the A.R.E. Visitor Center, oblivious to their surroundings, talking about an interest that held them both captive. Jerry was invited to speak at the next Nikola Tesla Inventors conference.
Nikola Lonchar was at A.R.E. for only one day. During this small window of time, he and Jerry had converged at the same place, at the same time, both equipped with a desire to be of service to Cayce, to Tesla, and to humanity. That's synchronicity in motion.
To learn more about the Nikola Tesla's Inventors Club visit their website at TeslaScienceFoundation.org.


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A few days, May 2008
Roberto Christen, Fredrik Nilsson, Fredrik Nilbrink
Landing page for the site. The graphic identity was developped by Roberto Christen. Despite the short deadline, we managed to port most of the elements to the web.
Some of the challenges were the non-aligned black line extending on both side and the sticky light green grass in the background.
The site was built using PHP and MySQL, but was ripped to static html files for final hosting.
Each program has a page showing a long text and thumbnails for the student projects. This is directly adapted from the print booklet and doesn't use the web fully, but that's what we could do at the last minute, ~48 hours before the event.
Contact info, email, links, phone + phone.
It's easy to do quickly for one page, less easy to do for 45 pages. Each project had to fit a basic template to avoid manual and painstaking copy/paste.
Paddles on the left and right for navigating through all the projects. It could look better, but it works!
Each student could provide many images and videos. The viewer (on the right side) allowed the images and videos to be played in the same div element. This was achieve with Javascript and FLV video flash player.


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Ohhh drizzle, drizzle. The weather's forecasting cloudy and in the 40s for Saturday but as long as it's ANYTHING but this we'll be psyched! Actually, rain is a huge part of the thaw – after all, how would thirsty crocuses get what they need to start popping their heads out of the ground?
Here's a bit of glass magic from David Jacobson Glass to brighten up your gray day. We're intrigued by his text bubbles and beautiful rendered housewares!
What new wares can customers expect to see at The BIG THAW?
I've been making a lot of new work for this show that I'm excited about. Handblown glass bud vases in celadon, robin's egg blue, turquoise and white. More slumped glass platters and bowls in new color combinations. For example, black and white stripes, cobalt blue stripes, a pale blue stripe that looks like spun sugar. And, my Conversation Pieces™ — just like the word balloons you see in comic strips, but made out of handblown white glass. You can hang them on the wall, if you choose, and write and draw on them with dry erase markers to say whatever you want, whenever you want.
2. What inspires your glass work?
Textile patterns, and colors and textures that I see in nature. The texture of the finished piece is as important to me as the colors I use and how it looks. For example, the glass bowls I make have a lot of texture as a result of the two layers of glass canes that I fuse together.
3. What is your favorite thing about Spring in Maine?
Knowing that summer is right behind, with tennis and kayaking.
As if we weren't excited enough for Saturday! You can find David peddling his wares at The BIG THAW Arts, Crafts and Vintage sale this Saturday, April 16th. Mayo Street Arts Center, 10 Mayo St, Portland, right off of Cumberland Ave on the East End. We look forward to seeing you there!