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The company, G-Zero Therapeutics, is commercializing a high potential marker of molecular age measured from a patient blood sample, which could assist physicians in making more informed treatment-management decisions.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A company based on discoveries made by UNC Lineberger member and associate director for translational research, Ned Sharpless, MD, has received a grant in the form of tax credits for more than $240,000 to help it invest in the development of new therapies designed to help minimize the toxicity of common cancer chemotherapies and radiation treatments.
The company, G-Zero Therapeutics, is also commercializing a high potential marker of molecular age measured from a patient blood sample, which could assist physicians in making more informed treatment-management decisions.
The Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project (QTDP) is designed to provide grants or tax credits, as determined by the Department of Health and Human Services, to qualified biotechnology companies employing fewer than 250 people. The companies must demonstrate reasonable potential to develop new therapies to treat cancers or chronic diseases with unmet medical needs, reduce long-term health care costs in the U.S. or significantly advance the goal of curing cancer.
"G-Zero is a great example of innovation at Carolina," said Shelley Earp, MD, director of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"The core findings on which G-Zero was founded were based on discoveries from Dr. Sharpless' laboratories and licensed by UNC to create the company. As this grant shows, there is significant potential to develop therapies that could help thousands of cancer patients avoid significant side effects from cancer treatment."
The research projects leading to discoveries licensed by G-Zero were partially supported by an Innovative Pilot Project award from the University Cancer Research Fund. The company also has benefited from working with Carolina KickStart, according to Sharpless. The market for G-Zero's services may ultimately be in the billions of dollars.
The QTDP grant defrays small business expenses incurred in 2009 and 2010, and is designed to help promote the business' growth.
The work of G-Zero Therapeutics supports the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, UNC's plan to help Carolina become a world leader in launching university-born ideas for the good of society. To learn more about the roadmap, visit http://innovate.unc.edu.


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Here are some photos and short write up for the show currently on display in Los Gatos, California... just click on here for a quick glance.
In preparing for this exhibit I thought I would contribute some newer portraits that I completed the last few months leading up to this current exhibit.
They include new versions of Irving 'Big Gangy' Cohen and Meyer Lansky, and the un- cropped version of Dutch Schultz, which was used in the publicity materials.
I realized they hadn't been posted here as of yet so here they are...
These new portraits were done partly due to the fact that some original artwork from past exhibits are no longer in my possession, but also, this, and past exhibits, are not just the portraits hanging on walls, but also represent the historical arc of the Jewish Gangster from the turn of the Twentieth Century up until the mid 1940's in the way it's displayed. So, it's important that key players are included in the exhibit.
Also it's a continuous strive on my end to come up with stronger artistic representations when I feel its needed. These three, among the couple of others that were completed for the show..
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Labels: Big Gangy Cohen, Dutch Schultz, Meyer Lansky
7 comments:
- mike said...
great jo as usual Pat! It seems there is a hugh interest in Jewish gangsters in California why do you think there is?
- June 3, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Pat Hamou said...
Thanks Mike
Not sure about the California connection - could just be happenstance
- June 4, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
Wow, Jewish gangster in Gotham, amazing! Now, I really want to wear a gangster suit and hit the town.
- June 17, 2011 at 4:37 AM
- Drazen said...
sure has been awhile since a update!
- March 6, 2012 at 9:04 PM
- Pat Hamou said...
ack - tell me about it - i do have a new portrait about half done and will get back on this horse soon!
- March 6, 2012 at 9:23 PM
- Unknown said...
nice post i like ^^
- May 10, 2012 at 12:48 PM
- μενιδιατης said...
It is very valuable article you
- December 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM
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A professional and feature-rich photo correction and manipulation application designed to automatically improve the quality of your images
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(CNN) - Casting aside his typical campaign attire of suits or shirts with rolled up sleeves and well-coiffed hair, a photo appeared on Mitt Romney's Facebook Friday with the 2012 GOP nominee donning a t-shirt and hugging his wife, Ann, in the kitchen.
"Hope everyone had a great Thanskgiving! Much to be thankful for this year," the caption read. With the exception of a recent trip to Disneyland, Romney has largely stayed out of the public spotlight since losing the election earlier this month.
Beautiful picture.
But, does anyone out there actually believe that this photo was taken yesterday? Sorry, for being a cynic, but most everything that has come out of Mitt Romney's mouth for over the past year has been lie. My favorite Romney whopper is when he called Pres. Obama a "failure" and then denied it very next day.
strangely, Mittens seems happier now than when he was running!
Enjoy life and have fun. Enjoy your grandchildren and go sailing.
yeah, give me a break!!! Rommey's wife was spending time cooking for thanksgiving!!!!
Wheres "the help" in the picture?
Go have a peaceful life. Mittens, please dont run anymore and please take your loss more gracefully that John McCain, who continue to embarrass himself.
Anyone interested?
Do use all a favor Mitt....go spend your money and help build our economy. Invest in the America you believe in so much. Don't let a blind trust invest for you anymore. Buy American.
why does Ronmey's appearance remind me a little of the Nick Nolte character in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
Looks like someone is having a breakdown. You can tell that after the campaign, he is looking at life differently. You can tell that his ego got shot down and he is changing. I hope he retires and enjoys life and becomes a more humble man. I wish him the best. This picture, even though he is hugging his wife and being nice, is not a picture you would see as a man running for president. It just does not look so presidential. He is definitely changing. Maybe for the better! Who knows. Good Luck Mitt Romney. Stay safe RETIRE PLEASE!, even though you have been unemployed for a few years, you are like 65, its a good time to just enjoy your quarter million dollars. See ya!
Great guy; too bad all the takers were too envious/lazy to vote for him.
good to see mitt and not hear him speak because mosr of what he said is not true and im so glad he lost because he
hate 47 percent of the peoples.
Romney's turkey was already cooked, for good.
Romney is trying so hard to look like a regular person, he is overdoing it.
Obviously Photoshopped. Where is his magic underwear?
"Great guy; too bad all the takers were too envious/lazy to vote for him."
You think this is why Obama won. Really @Really???
Hey Willard, you forgot the turkey on the roof of your SUV!


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There's quite a bit of hoopla about MDM lately, mostly due to awareness. While "Lacks needed data" was cited as the number 1 problem (with 21 votes) in data warehouses in the recent IBM Data Warehousing Satisfaction Survey (2007), "Insufficient or inadequate master data" made a decent showing at second with 17 votes (see Table 3).
The new Microsoft MDM site is a good place to start learning about Master Data Management and Microsoft's efforts in this area.
Master Data is a pretty common thing for engineers. I learned about it way back in my manufacturing engineering days.
The Issue
Consider this scenario: Conglomerate C (CC) makes widgets and starts acquiring businesses that also make widgets. CC sells widgets by the pound, but Acquisition A (AA) measures them by counting individual widgets, while Acquisition B (AB) sells them by the case (gross, or 144 ea).
CC now wants all this data in a data warehouse so they can compare apples to apples and know, among other things, how many widgets they're actually making and selling on a given day.
Note: Instrumentation and measurement are scientific disciplines in their own rite. There's a lot more to this, which I hope to cover here and in my new Applied MDM blog.
The Unit of Measure in the existing database, dbCC, is pounds. The Widgets tables from the three companies look like this:
1 Jan 2007
2 Jan 2007
3 Jan 2007
Standards, Standards, Standards
One facet of MDM is standardizing this data. The keys to standardizing this data are recognizing traits in the data types, along with the quality of any proposed conversion.
For example, the Cases to Count ratio is most likely stable and predictable. Conversion is easily accomplished using multiplication (or division, depending on which way you go in the standardization). Quality will be high.
But the weight to count (individual or case count) conversion is going to be impacted by other factors. Most notably, do all widgets weigh the same? If not, what's the acceptable tolerance? Quality will be adversely affected by tolerance.
Dimensional analysis (the multiplication or division you do to convert known quantities) is also a question about measurement granularity. Trust me: You will want to store as fine a grain as possible.
Looking at the sample data, you will want to store WidgetCount somewhere. dbAA is already in this format. Yay. dbAB is easy enough: dbAB.dbo.Widgets.Cases * 144 gives you WidgetCount. Again, the math on widget Weight in the dbCC data becomes fuzzy. But our customer assures us each pound contains five widgets. Five widgets per pound is probably a high quality number. It's much higher than, say, five hundred or five thousand per pound!
"Fuzziness" will impact the integrity of your data. A couple important measures of data warehouse integrity are data accuracy and signal to noise (usually defined by the percentage of "unknowns" in the data).
When I have encountered this scenario in the field, I have informed the customer of the dangers and begged them to collect better metrics at the WidgetWeight station for company CC.
Enter Stage Left...
There are other issues in these examples: date and ID standardization. Dates are fairly straightforward. The IDs can be a little tricky. To standardize the IDs in this example I may consider a LocationID and ProductDateID (ID) composite key on the first pass.
I might create a couple tables in the data warehouse staging database that look like this:
I've assumed (based on customer feedback) I get 5 widgets / pound from dbCC, and I know the math for the rest. Here I've prepared Location data for a star schema via a LocationID and Location table. But I haven't touched dates and IDs, they will need some work before reaching the destination data warehouse.
Just the Fact, Ma'am
When I load the destination data warehouse, LocationID maps nicely to the Location dimension surrogate key, while I could simply make the column now labeled ID into a Date dimension surrogate key (removing the Date column from the fact table altogether because it's now redundant because it's now redundant).
This three-column table then makes a decent Fact:
There's more to Master Data Management, but this is one type of business problem folks are trying to solve when they talk about MDM and how it ultimately relates to data warehouse quality and customer satisfaction.
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Excellent post and great resources. I learned about Master Data and Unit Conversions while building inventory systems and MRPII. It's amazing - a good data modeler learns more about how a busines runs than many professional managers.
Good article... I remember working in a civil engineering company where sheet steel was designed by area (square yard or meter, depending on the design office), ordered by the ton (imperial, US, metric, depending on the vendor), made by the batch, and issued by the plate. Working out how to reconcile this kept a few people busy... And the constructor had to record where bits of each sheet were used in case a batch was later found to be sub-standard and failure scenario analysis showed critical parts required replacement.


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"Kate and Eric's Wedding at the serene Temecula Creek Inn will make you feel like a part of their family."
When we first showed up to shoot this wedding, I knew that it was going to be a good day. The weather was down right perfect and the moment I walked into the bridal suite it just felt right. Throughout the day as I got to really know Kate and Eric and their family, I got to see how closely knit each family was with each other.
From Boston To Temecula
When I first heard that Kate and Eric were from Boston and were going to have their wedding in Temecula, I was both excited and sad. I was excited because I always enjoy hearing different accents from around the world, even if they only from Boston. But I was sad, because I wanted to shoot their wedding in Boston... :( In the end however, I am truly glad that I was able to capture their wedding for them regardless of location. It was not only a joy to shoot, but an absolute joy to put together.
Some Technical Rigmarole
I actually had to look up "rigmarole" to make sure it meant what I thought it meant...
- rig·ma·role Noun /ˈrig(ə)məˌrōl/
- A lengthy and complicated procedure.
- A long, rambling story or statement.
So enough of the rigmarole on the word rigmarole. I experimented with something a bit different on this edit, the use of different ratios and seemingly different film/video mediums. Reason being, I wanted certain elements to really suck you in, to make them feel larger than life. If you watch this full screen you will really know what I'm talking about. I jump between the cinema 2.40:1 ratio and the now home standard "widescreen" of 16x9 or 1.77:1.
Knowledge Bomb Dropped
Some would say that the cinema ratio is loosing part of the image, the top and bottom. That would be the case if I was just cropping off the top and the bottom, but I actually shoot with that ratio, so I gain more area on the sides.
"makes it more intimate and heightens the emotion"
So with the 2.40:1 ratio I am able to really capture more of what is going on. Then when I switch to the 16x9 ratio, it really feels up close and personal, it makes it more intimate and heightens the emotion of that area of the short film.
Secondly I changed the color grading of the 16x9 content to somewhat emulate a more vintage approach to film, so instead of the big budget 35mm film I was going for more of the 16mm film. So using these differences for a purpose was really the key to the success of this edt. Of course I couldn't have done it with out the amazing content that makes up the story.
But the use of these mediums to further the story was something I hadn't really thought about before and I'm really glad I decided to try it out.
Family, Family, Family
This wedding was a really small and intimate wedding, since they were from Boston, only family and really close friends were able to attend the wedding. However they did have a reception back in Boston after the wedding and this short film was featured for all the guests who weren't able to make the actual wedding. I have a feeling that those that were in attendance that night were able to really feel like the were a part of the wedding day.
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Conservative television personality Glenn Beck is absolutely outraged because he went to a hospital emergency room in an upscale area (where the President of GE is treated, no less), and was made to wait in the ER for 40 minutes. Even after he got into a bed, for two horrifying hours he was given no pain medication, and he was ignored by hospital staff.He even cried, trying to get attention, but it didn't work. What does an incredibly annoying, self-important, arrogant and pompous television personality have to do to get some medical treatment these days, anyway? Beck complained about "massive, massive pain", and complained that a large orderly did not help Mrs. Beck get him up out of the chair. He requested oxygen, but that request was denied.
He says he has hospital stories from that stay that will "melt your brain". He compared his hospital experiences to the movie "Saw". He felt that there was "no reason to live".
Eventually the situation was put into perspective for us by Beck's employer, CNN, when they compared Beck's experience to that of Edith Rodriguez.
Last year, [Rodriguez] was on the floor of a Los Angeles hospital emergency room vomiting blood, and witnesses say no one did anything to help her. Her boyfriend actually called 911, which refused to help since she was already in a hospital. Rodriguez died in the emergency room.
CNN is absolutely correct. Glenn Beck could have died right there in the ER, from his life-threatening case of …..
You're kidding, right?
Okay, that's just plain funny. Becky needs to man up and stop acting like a whiny little sissy girl, ROFL.
If anyone can stomach watching this ass-clown whine incessantly about his horrifying hemorrhoid hospital experience, here's the video he made (yeah, he actually made a video so we could point and laugh at him – thanks, Becky!)
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Beck's hemorrhoid horror
CNN: Five things not to do in the ER
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Bard to stage Sergey Taneyev's opera 'Oresteia'
Sergey Taneyev's opera "Oresteia" is being given its first fully staged American production at this summer's Bard SummerScape Festival in New York.
Bard College said Monday that Thaddeus Strassberger will direct the opera, which was composed from 1887-94 and is based on a trilogy by the ancient Greek writer of tragedies Aeschylus. There will be five performances from July 26 through Aug. 4.
This year's Bard Music Festival runs from July 6 to Aug. 18. It has a theme of "Stravinksy and His World," about composer Igor Stravinsky.
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Wow Model Viewer, wierd crash :/
Wow Model Viewer, wierd crash :/
Dec 29 2008, 12:07 PM
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Well, im all 100% new at this, and i really just thought it would be fun to play around with a little with he WMV, but then after i got it down, launched and got ready to learn, then it crashed, when i try to pick character or creature, or anything tbh, it just closes down, i get this in my log(no idea if it helps, a friend of mine told me to link it as i said, 100% newbie)
13:05:06: Starting:
WoW Model Viewer v0.5.09d
13:05:06: Initiating Objects...
13:05:06: Creating Anim Control...
13:05:06: Creating Char Control...
13:05:07: Creating Light Control...
13:05:07: Creating Model Control...
13:05:08: Creating Settings Control...
13:05:08: Creating Model Bank Control...
13:05:08: Creating OpenGL Canvas...
13:05:08: Initiating OpenGL...
13:05:09: Info: GLEW successfully initiated.
13:05:09: Video Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
13:05:09: Video Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
13:05:09: Driver Version: 2.0.6748 Release
13:05:09: Support wglPixelFormat: true
13:05:09: Support Texture Compression: true
13:05:09: Support Multi-Textures: true
13:05:09: Support Draw Range Elements: true
13:05:09: Support Vertex Buffer Objects: true
13:05:09: Support Point Sprites: true
13:05:09: Support Pixel Shaders: true
13:05:09: Support Vertex Shaders: true
13:05:09: Support GLSL: true
13:05:09: Support Anti-Aliasing: true
13:05:09: Support Pixel Buffer Objects: true
13:05:09: Support Frame Buffer Objects: true
13:05:09: Support Non-Power-of-Two: true
13:05:09: Support Rectangle Textures: true
13:05:09: Support OpenGL 2.0: true
13:05:09: Max Rectangle Texture Size Supported: 8192
13:05:09: Max Texture Size Supported: 8192
13:05:09: Loading Session settings from: (null)
13:05:09: Initiating File Menu..
13:05:09: Initiating GUI Docking.
13:05:09: Max Lights used: 4
13:05:09: Setting OpenGL render state...
13:05:09: Initiating Archives...
13:05:09: Game Data Path: D:\World of Warcraft\Data\
13:05:09: Use Local Files: false
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\patch-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\patch.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\backup-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\lichking.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\lichking-speech-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\lichking-locale-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\expansion-speech-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\base-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\expansion.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\common.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\common-2.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\speech-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\locale-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Opening D:\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\expansion-locale-enGB.MPQ
13:05:09: Loaded Content TOC: v3.00.00
13:05:12: Initiating Databases...
13:05:13: Finished initiating database files.
13:05:13: Info: GUI Layout loaded from previous session.
13:05:13: WoW Model Viewer successfully loaded!
13:06:24: Loading model: Character\Nightelf\female\nightelffemale.m2
so if anyone could help me it would just be awesome :D
edit: btw im running a vista 32bit, and i ran it as adminitrator
Dec 30 2008, 02:24 AM
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Member No.: 849
Currently, that version of model viewer is broken because of the latest wow patches that came with the expansion. To make it work you need to have a second install of wow with a version number of 2.4 or lower.
There is also apartially stable wrath compatble version available at wowmodelviewer's forums.
Dec 30 2008, 03:26 AM
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ok thanks :) ill get the less stable one as soon as the http is up again :)
Apr 1 2009, 01:10 PM
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Now there is a WotLK version of WMV. It's on the frontpage of wowmodelviewer.org.
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Should California's Democrats, now in control of supermajorities in the state legislature, raise taxes more -- or stick to the voter-approved temporary increases in sales and income tax rates that were part of Prop 30?
That's a big question right now in California politics. But it's also the wrong question.
The Democrats -- and all Californians -- should be asking not whether to raise rates but, rather, how best to tax.
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And the trouble with Prop 30 -- and most existing tax proposals -- is that they build on the existing tax system. Prop 30 merely raised rates temporarily on sales taxes (a quarter cent for 4 years) and on income (limited to those making more than $250,000, and only for seven years).
There are two big problems with this approach. One is that the taxes are temporary -- so people who believe the state needs more revenues (a group that includes Democrats, many independents and more than a few Republicans) should realize Prop 30-style taxes aren't a solution.
The second is that these taxes -- particularly the tax on sales -- miss broad swaths of the California economy.
The sales tax in California is focused on goods. But the growth in California's economy has been in services. To get more revenues, the state should look to a tax on services. Instead, California state government and local governments keep adding to a sales tax on goods -- even though that tax is likely to bring in less money.
This is not a new observation. Over the past four years, two big efforts to look at taxation have recommended that the state try to boost revenues by aligning its taxing structure more with its existing service economy. Members of a state tax commission suggested a tax on business net receipts. The Think Long Committee recommended extending the sales tax to services -- while lowering the overall rate.
So far, these proposals have gone nowhere. But they are worth revisiting. Instead of getting bogged down in a debate over the Prop 30 taxes, Democrats should look for ways to improve the tax system, while drawing in more revenues. One big way to do that is to tax California's real economy.


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Lisa Szymanski, 45, recently enrolled in an apprenticeship program in Portland, Ore., with her sights on becoming a carpenter.
Until recently, she was making her living in graphic arts, but the work has dried up and she decided to try something new.
"As long as you know how to use a hammer, someone will pay you a few bucks to do something," she said. "You can't outsource this kind of work. You can't call India to get a carpenter."
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For the last few decades, the prevailing wisdom among many has been that you have to go to college and get an office job in order to make it in the technological workplace of the future. But today, many workers, rattled by the recession and wondering if their desk jobs will ever come back, are turning to trades that require more hands-on, dirty work — everything from carpentry to plumbing.
These types of jobs may be coming back into vogue thanks in part to promised infrastructure investments from the federal government, such as bridge improvements, which will drive a need for welders. Tax incentives to boost home energy efficiency are opening the door for everything from electricians to solar panel installers.
"Many adults are seeking to improve their technical skills to gain a labor market advantage," said Clyde Hornberger, executive director for Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, located near Allentown, Pa. Adult enrollment at the school has jumped to 1,057 this year from 855 three years ago, he said.
David Montano, Plumbing and Pipefitting Training Coordinator at Local 412 in Albuquerque, N.M., said the union has a waiting list of 200 people who want to get into the program and a total of 250 apprentices in the program now, compared to 55 apprentices 10 years ago. Among apprenticeship applications, he gets about 20 percent more from adults today than he did a decade ago.
"A lot of them have gone to college and find out all they have is debt and not much to show for it. ... Even the jobs they're getting don't pay that much," he said. "People are noticing the trades is a noble way to make a living."
High school educators also are realizing that it's not wise to prepare students for college and nothing else because many of them will never graduate from college, Montano said.
Alternative to college
Indeed, McClain Walsh didn't think he would be able to get into college, so he signed up for the Northeastern Pennsylvania Pre-Apprenticeship Initiative during his senior year in high school.
The 12-week program Walsh got into was funded through a local industry partnership and managed by the Northeast Pennsylvania Labor Management Council. It exposes high school seniors to the trades and is supported by 60 school districts in the state.
Walsh, who lives in Scranton, Pa., is now in the electrical apprenticeship program at the IBEW Local 81.
"I've always been a hands-on type learner, and it sparked my interest being in the construction field," he said about his experience in high school.
Right now, there is anything but a job bonanza in the skilled trades because of the economy, but most labor and skilled-trade experts believe the future is bright.
Many of the people in the trades right now will be retiring in the next five to 10 years, said Fred Humphreys, president and CEO of the Home Builders Institute, the work force development arm of the National Association of Home Builders. "We do not have enough workers coming into the industry to replace them," he added.
He's also convinced initiatives by President Barack Obama's administration will lead to more jobs. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 earmarked $5 billion for home weatherization, Humphreys said. And estimates show that every $100 million worth of residential remodeling activity creates over 1,000 jobs, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
The Department of Labor projects jobs such as plumbers will jump 15 percent through 2018; electricians by 12 percent; and carpenters by nearly 13 percent.
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The focus on green technologies has also sparked interest in the skilled trades.
"In Pennsylvania, we predict 115,000 new jobs to be created over the next five years in the green economy," said Sandi Vito, Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry. "In the long term, there are real opportunities in the skilled trades."
And David McCord, executive director of the electrical apprenticeship program of the Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee in Washington, D.C., a union and contractor partnership, said he has 800 electrical apprentices in his program now, and they can choose to go into a host of areas including alternative energy, such as solar and wind power.
Many apprenticeships within the skilled trades involve a combination of classroom studies and on-the-job training, working with an experienced trades workers. The apprenticeship programs typically run for five years.
First-year electrical apprentices in the Washington area get $16.90 an hour, plus benefits, on day one, McCord said. When they reach journeyman status, which is basically someone who has fully learned his or her trade, workers can make as much as $37.56 an hour.
But "jobs are limited now," McCord said.
Maria Flynn, a vice president for the Building Economy Opportunity unit for the nonprofit advocacy organization Jobs for the Future, wants to make sure that the stimulus dollars going to communities across the country for training and education of workers is in line with real demand. "We're working with communities to make smart choices and make sure that individuals are being trained for jobs that are going to be there when they get their certification," she said.
Workforce development programs in the late 1990s came under a lot of criticism, she said, because "the training did not mirror the labor market demand in an area." But, she said, the federal programs now have tried to build in more employment realities.
For workers trying to figure out if welding or plumbing will be in demand where they live, Flynn suggested they contact their local Department of Labor career centers. You can find one near you by going to www.servicelocator.org and type in your zip code.
Don't just rely on a community college or trade school telling you a job will be hot, Flynn said. "The school could be pushing their own agenda."
Special programs
There are also special programs available for women, like the one Szymanski signed up for in Portland called Oregon Tradeswomen, and programs for veterans.
In 2008, the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Sprinklerfitters teamed up with the U.S. military and formed the UA Veterans In Piping (VIP) program, to train veterans in welding.
Anne St. Eloi, a special representative for the program, said after a 16-week training program they are able to promise vets employment, although that could involve relocating to states where there are more job opportunities such as Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia and Illinois.
The program is now offered in Washington state and California, but will be rolling out to Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota soon, she said.
The demand for welders is actually expected to decline by 1.6 percent through 2018, according to the labor department. But job opportunities in welding will depend on where you live, St. Eloi said, and government initiatives to fund infrastructure projects around the country will potentially boost job growth in the field.
Cancy Terrel, 27, a former Marine who was deployed in Iraq, isn't worried.
Terrel, who lives in Seabeck, Wash., graduated from the VIP program last week. He will be placed in an apprenticeship program with a local union in the state and will begin work as a welder.
"I was a combat engineer in the Marine Corp, and my skills didn't convert to civilian life," Terrel said. " I had to find a new skill, and welding was always something that interested me."
Once he's done with his apprenticeship, he expects to make upwards of $60 an hour, including benefits.
"It's a skilled trade," he added. "If you have a skill, you can always have work."


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What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and inThe Lucifer Effecthe explains howand the myriad reasons whywe are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark side." Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women. Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into "guards" and "inmates" and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners. By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the "bad apple" with that of the "bad barrel"the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around. This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves to act heroically. Like Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate,The Lucifer Effectis a shocking, engrossing study that will change the way we view human behavior. From the Hardcover edition.Zimbardo, Philip G. is the author of 'Lucifer Effect', published 2008 under ISBN 9780812974447 and ISBN 0812974441.[read more]
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Do not worry if you feel that no one know who you are on the internet today. I will show you ways that will get your friends lined up with their wallets opened to see you in no time. Yes this can happen and this article will give you all the pros and cons of buying social fame. Social fame comes from having a big fans base on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and other social networking sites.
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We as human beings tend to believe if someone has 220,000 twitter followers then they are famous and that we should worship them compared to someone with just a few hundred twitter followers. Just because of this very human nature, they tend to follow you when you have many fake fans. For a regular user, they would not know that you have a huge fake follower base. Nor they care that you do. They only care that your twitter follower count is huge and hence that you must be famous and that you are worthy of following.
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This is a real achievement for someone who had less than 1000 twitter followers to begin with. Who knows how long it took him to get the initial 700 he had in August.
Even the Presidential Candidate in the United States is buying fake twitter followers!
Another great example of this sort of activity is by the very own United States of America's Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. NBC News reported that in July of 2012, a suspicious increase in twitter followers for Mitt Romney. I am not going to get into details but you can read more about it on the NBC News page. I will however touch on this later in the article as to why it may backfire on you.
The same sort of boost will be given to you other social profiles such as a facebook fans page, google plus page, youtube videos, etc with such fake fan purchase. You can use the initial boost as an opportunity to build off of that and gain real views or real fans.
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These fake fans are not real people. They are fake accounts created by automated programs (bots) and then those bots will like or follow your profile. It is that simple. Don't expect 200,000 accounts to be manually created by someone and then to follow your profile manually. If that is the case, I can bet that it would cost more than $1/twitter follower or $1/youtube views or $1/facebook likes.
It won't even be affordable for the vendors to be in this business. Therefore, all of these fake fame is created for you by automated bots. Therefore the fake profiles are rarely updated or kept up to date on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc. The fake profiles at some point, when the social site catches up, will be deleted or removed. Hence, your followers could one day disappear (all at once)!
Sites like Twitter and Facebook are already taking measures to prevent such activities. You can read more on Facebook Notes – facebook fake likes.
As you can see, this will ruin your reputation in a matter of hours. As you have celebrated your gain in popularity on the day you've gained enormous amount of fans, on the day you lose them all, you will have to explain to your real fans what the heck just happened. This could really hurt your reputation UNLESS you have put mechanisms in place to use initial boost provided by fake followers to gain a lot more real followers. This way even if your fake fans are gone, you will have a substantial number of real fans. No one can really tell the difference.
So you can see there are pros and cons to this approach. You need to decide what you need to get your online campaign going to build your identify. You may want to buy youtube views to build your youtube profile in the early days and then once you start picking up traction, stop buying youtube views and focus on earning them from real visitors. Same strategy can be applied for other social networking sites.


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I am still outrageously behind in reading everyone's blog posts from the past week, but I have managed to select a few for inclusion in Around the Blogosphere.
Since so many folks attended FGS in Springfield, Illinois this week, I kept up on those activities via blogs, tweets and postings on Facebook. Rather than single out any of these posts, I suggest you take a look at the blog roll and tweets from the conference that are available on Geneabloggers.com
The best photos to capture the event were posted by Linda McCauley. My favorites were Abe Lincoln listening intently to Thomas MacEntee, and Dear Myrtle wielding a pitchfork. I hope someone shares the story about that! I think Abe really wants to get his hands on some geneablogger beads!
Good blog reading this week came from:
Labor Day Isn't a Good Day For Me - Debi Austen's beautiful tribute to her father on Who Knew?
Deb Ruth shared how she made use of her electricity-deficit time in When the Lights Go Out on Adventures in Genealogy.
Beatles fans will get the reference in Everyone Knew Her as Nancy, but her name was Agnes by Jean on Bluegrass and Buckeye Roots.
It's a short list this week, but as I get through my Google Reader, perhaps more of this week's posts will show up in next week's list.


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Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer of the walls of the blood vessels caused by the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8). It may also affect other body tissues, including the throat, lungs, and gastrointestinal tract.
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MSR MicroZoid
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Historic Range: $134.96-$179.95
Reviewers Paid: $140.00-$170.00
4-star: 2
3-star: 1
2-star: 2
1-star: 0
I've been using the MSR MicroZoid for the last three years. I needed a small, light, rainproof tent. I paid $140 at the time. When the salesperson brought it out to me I was shocked and impressed at the size of this bag he just handed me. The bag as seen in the pic is the red one on the bottom.
My measurements are: 15" long and 18" around, pulled tightly on the thickest part. That's with tent body, rain fly, poles, stakes and guy lines in the sack. On my scale it weighs 3.19 pounds. I've used it in the middle of the summer and the middle of the winter. For summer camping there are large mesh panels on the tent that enable a nice breeze to flow through the tent. During the winter and rainstorms I never had a problem with condensation. The trick is staking the tent out tight and guying it out. When done correctly the rain fly is never close to the tent wall.
One great feature is the ability to adjust the fly as needed. The weather conditions can greatly affect the stretch of the material so MSR built adjustable straps onto the rain fly. A few simple pulls, where the rain fly connects to the stakes, and suddenly your tent is taut again. There is a vent at the apex of the tent and rain fly to help ventilate.
The tent's length is 100" and width is 35". Floor Area = 15.9 sq ft. Unfortunately, all that space is not usable. Due to the quick taper to a sharp point design of the tent, space near the feet and head isn't big enough to use for sleeping space. I'm 6'1" and couldn't be much bigger and fit in this tent. The vestibule is 5.8 sq. ft, comes off the door and forms a large triangle. It fits a smaller pack and boots but I usually use a pack cover and use the vestibule for other gear.
Because the tent isn't very tall (Interior Height 26") the vestibule slopes to the ground fast and a bigger pack can make contact with the fly and isn't good when it's raining. The door is big and zips along almost the whole side of the tent. This really makes getting in the tent possible. One doesn't "get" into this tent, they "roll" into it.
There is an option for a lighter fly/footprint pitch. It saves over a pound but I never saw myself in a situation were I'd use it. If there weren't bugs then there was going to be weather. Overall I've been very, very pleased with this tent. I don't hesitate recommending it to a friend or giving it raving reviews.
Quality materials and construction
Light weight
Packs small
Field repairable polls
East to pitch
Not Free-standing
Very little headroom\can't sit up\hard to dress in
Small vestibule
Design: Small, two pole, just bigger than a bivy design
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: Two poles threaded through two small sleves then a few quick clips. I has to be staked out but goes up quick
Weight: Mine weighs 3.19 (body, fly, poles, stakes and guy lines)
Price Paid: $140
Switched to a tent this season and chose the MSR for its light weight (yes, I'm a zealot) and its low profile. It's been through some torrential rain storms, and other than some minor condensation, I was bone dry. High winds roll off its super-low height. The vestibule is tiny, but I don't bring much anyway. Quality is very high, and materials are excellent. It's not a tent for hanging out in waiting for the storm to pass, but I like it much better than any bivy-sac, and it's not much heavier. This is a super little tent for ultra-lighters.
Design: Non-freestanding two pole one person
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: Idiot-proof
Weight: 1.3kg-2.9lbs
Price Paid: $230 CDN
Woke up in a flowing stream and NO water in the tent.
- Been through a viscious storms and stayed dry each time
- Not for the claustrophobic
Love this tent. It's light, durable, and can be set up in small places. You can stay dry in the worst storms.
Buy this tent if you have the chance.
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $140
I've used my MicroZoid a few times, but bought a Zoid 1 not long after buying this so it doesn't see much use anymore. Probably only slept in it about 3 times.
Compared to my Zoid 1, the MicroZoid is pretty cramped. Look at it more as a luxurious bivvy. I have to roll into this tent (I'm 6ft) and there is no chance of me sitting up once I'm in here. Even changing clothes can be tricky. For the size and the weight it's a good shelter, but I decided I would happily carry the minor weight penalty of the Zoid 1 for much more comfort.
Price Paid: 140?
Technically this is a great tent. Been through lots of downpours, etc and never been wet - from rain or from condensation. Light, durable, no problems with wear & tear, easy to set up. It always seems hard to pitch it tightly enough - but again, I've never been wet in this tent, so must be doing OK.
I'm 5'6" and fit okay in this tent. Room to roll over, have a little room for gear on the sides / at my head, plus there are interior pockets. Can't sit up at all though. That's my real problem with this tent. If I have to wait out another rainstorm lying flat on my back I think I'll go nuts.
Design: 2 hoops
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: Moderate
Weight: 2lb 11oz
Price Paid: $140
I love this little tent. Yes, it is not terribly roomy but I look at it like this: It is about the same weight as my one-hoop (i.e., one pole) bivy sack and much more comfortable - especially if the weather turns bad. I like non-freestanding tents (like this) as they are lighter. If you pitch them with the feet end into the wind they are very stable. I like the side entrance and could see how you could prop-open the rain fly above the door with a trekking pole for those warm and rainless nights.
Design: three-season, non-freestanding
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: very easy
Price Paid: $160
I'm 5'5" and this tent is way too small for me. The description says you can sit up in this tent -- I don't see how you can sit up in this tent. My small dogs can barely sit up in this tent. On the top of the mountain, the wind was swirling -- blew under the rainfly and straight through the vented sides all night long. If you're considering buying this tent to stay lightweight, save yourself the weight and go with a bivy sac, this tent offers no features beyond a bivy.
Design: three-season single person
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: Easy to set up
Weight: 2lbs 5oz
Price Paid: gift
At 6'1" I am way too big for this tent (my fault for even ordering it). That being said I can squeeze in and not touch the sides and ends if I lay perfectly still. My biggest beefs with this tent are:
1. It has to be pulled completely tight to have any kind of waterproofness. This is basically impossible b/c the fly is not a perfect, tight fit for the shell and will sag no matter how tight you adjust it. If you use it in a rainy area you will want tarps above and below. The only way this tent could be called 3-season is if two of them are summer.
2. The vestibule is big enough for a pair of boots and that's about it. Any other gear you have will be at least partially exposed.
3. You have to lay beside it and roll to get into it (by design). This makes it near impossible not to track mud etc. in with you.
As mentioned I never should have purchased such a small tent. At the time I wanted the lightest, simplest, most compact tent I could find without going to a bivy. If I were closer to 5' tall, and very slim, and lived in an area where it's usually dry weather maybe I'd be writing a different review. Anyone not in falling into those categories should look for something other than the MicroZoid.
Design: 2-season freestanding
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: Easy to put up, hard to pull/keep completely tight
Price Paid: $170
This tent is perfect for me. I am however very small (4'11", 22 yrs old, 102 pounds). It fits me fine with my gear inside and as a bonus it doesn't weigh me down. It's very small too.
I've been in heavy rain, small snowfall (whoops), and blazing heat and my MicroZoid still stands. I would recommend this to ultralight fanatics or people short and weak like me.
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: Very easy to assemble
Weight: About 3 1/2 pounds
Price Paid: $150


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|'June-2011' No wonder she hates me she's always wearing the dreaded muzzle!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Dusty Update
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Haha, yes, if they were only like used cars! Wouldn't that be a bit easier? Horses are so fragile, it's a wonder any of them survive to old age. I was thinking about that the other day on my 2.5 hour trailering excursion. Why do they trailer at all? You take a half-wild animal, load it into a small contraption with wheels, then shut them in a divider, and somehow they accept that.ReplyDelete
I hope she heals up and you get that ride in!!
Oh, I'm sorry Dusty has to wear the grazing muzzle but it's really a valuable tool to help them cut back. Poor girl. She'll be helped by it, but of course, she doesn't know that yet. On the farm where I board, there is a chunky pony who has been wearing one for a long time. And the pony does look better and trimmer.ReplyDelete
And on getting a "younger model"- with horses even a young one can find things to injure themselves with. I think they are just so darn curious about things (like sleeping in a dumpster, from one of your recent posts!! LOL!) that they don't realize they are rather fragile. Still, they are the most wonderful animal of all!!
Sometimes I think they would still manage to find a way to mangle themselves, even wrapped in two layers of bubble wrap and living in a padded stall.ReplyDelete
Non-horse people really don't understand, but that's okay, because we do!
Hope you get that maiden voyage ride SOON!
Dusty is your girl! Loyalty to our horses is a good thing. She is so lucky to have you in her life.ReplyDelete
I have my fingers and toes crossed that you get to ride Dusty on the weekend!ReplyDelete
You cannot imagine the number of people who said to me "oh, if you don't like riding you can just sell your horse..." My usual response was "so if you don't like your children you will just find them another home?" because to me the responsibility is the same.
Stay safe Dusty!!ReplyDelete
Husband calls Dee the most high maintenance low maintenance horse. They are so incredibly fragile!ReplyDelete
It's not just non-horse people that don't get it. These days I seem to be surrounded by people who have horses to win or horses for status. They can't understand the attachment to one horse either. I think it's sad! Those people miss out on so much!
Fingers crossed that Dusty is feeling better by the weekend!
Ooo, lots of news to catch up on ... poor Dusty, she doesn't look at all impressed with that grazing muzzle, hope she's all healed up soon - fingers crossed you'll get to ride her by the weekend!ReplyDelete
Love the Blue-anecdotes - I think all your horses are fab but I must admit to being a little partial to him, he's such a character ... and I've always had a 'thing' for coloured horses anyway :D
- AnonymousApril 04, 2012
Fingers and toes crossed that she stays happy and sound.ReplyDelete
I just saw a new muzzle out by Best Friend that has a Thinline pad across the nose to make it more comfy, larger holes near the nostrils, and a strap that goes across from one side of the muzzle to the opposite browband - sounds weird but it looks okay and like it might give some added stability and distribute the weight in a slightly better way. Don't know if the added comfort would make it slightly less offensive to her or not! I hope she stays sound and that you can get back to riding. And if not, I think Dusty could have a job as a model - she's so lovely - take her photo with every horsey item you have on hand and send them in to the respective companies. She'll end up being the cover girl!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the info. I think we just ordered the new model for Blue. I'm sure he'll be thrilled. We'll see how it works out, he's the master of destruction with these muzzles.
Thanks everyone for the well wishes for Dusty, she and I appreciate your thoughtfulness.
That muzzle is for your own good, Dusty! Your momma loves you!ReplyDelete
Yeah. Non-horse people don't get it at all.
Glad Dusty is on the mend. That was a bit scary.ReplyDelete
My Boys are mine forever. There are no trade ins on horses where I am concerned.
It's so nice of you to take the time to visit. I appreciate your stopping by and commenting on what I've written. Even though I sometimes don't have the time to reply to each comment, I do enjoy reading them.


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Facebook reported that its daily mobile users now outnumber those using the social network on the Web.
The news was released in Facebook's fourth-quarter earnings release and seemed to be a self-fulfilling prophecy -- especially since chief Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to soothe investor anxiety about the social network's mobile growth since last September. Luckily, mobile has improved. It was about 23 percent of Facebook's ad revenue this quarter, up about 14 percent from the prior quarter, according to TechCrunch.
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"In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company. We enter 2013 with good momentum and will continue to invest to achieve our mission," Facebook chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Zuckerberg continued to promote mobile as Facebook's future, almost as if he was saying the words that investors really wanted to hear.