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Houston is home to Shell's US headquarters. What better place for students to compete in the race to shape the future?
Students from Louisiana Tech University prepare their car for the race at Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2013 on Thursday, April 4, 2013 in downtown Houston.
For the fourth year in a row, Shell Eco-marathon Americas will take place in Houston.
The event continues to stay close to the public by holding the fuel-efficiency challenge in an urban street circuit – the city roads around Discovery Park Green.
In 2012, more than 1,000 high school and university students with 112 vehicles competed in the annual challenge to see who could go the farthest distance using the least amount of energy.
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Set in the city, the competition is easily accessible to the public – for the past three years the event has welcomed over three million visitors.
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Recently in one of our IVF chats, we were talking with those members whose years of anguish and grueling procedures had resulted finally in a successful pregnancy. The question being presented to them time and again by those who are still hoping to conceive: "When did you stop worrying? Are you relaxing and enjoying the pregnancy yet?"
Some of you with whom I've chatted before know I'm usually full of opinions, and I typically don't hesitate to spout them out. This evening, though, I decided to rein myself in a bit and let someone else, a member who is very pregnant with twins, express her feelings on the question. I thought, "Perhaps I occasionally lose perspective from having this job, let's see if someone else's pregnancy experience is different from what mine was..."
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The mommy-to-be of twins couldn't have said it better: "You can't get a break." I suppose that on this note I'm still in touch with how lots of our community feels -- unfortunately.
I was wondering if I'd hear, "Oh yes, after (throw in any given number here) weeks of pregnancy, my heart felt as light as air, filled with the joy of expecting my true desire! Infertility is behind me forever now..."
You know, I regularly receive emails from folks stating something to that extent. "Please take me off your mailing list as I am pregnant and no longer need your services," which is, of course, why I created this whole conception of the Center for Resolutions to Infertility. Well, that, and because I wanted to keep an online oasis of my own, as well. So, I refer those folks here, and to the RTI newsletter, and invite them to join us in building our new, unique community.
I'd guess that about a third write back after that invitation with comments like, "Infertility has no bearing on my life any longer. Thanks, but no thanks. We don't ever want to think about our infertile days again." I appreciate their honesty. I also wonder if I'll see them coming around later.
"Do we ever get a break?" came the question from the chatroom to me and the other lucky mom. I suppose, as with everything, the answer to that is all in your perspective.
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You can make this sweet dough up to 4 days in advance; refrigerate, covered, until ready to use. Bake the cookies a day in advance, if desired; store in an airtight container for up to a week. Prep: 15 minutes, Chill: 30 minutes, Bake: 15 minutes.
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- 1/2 cup blanched, unsalted almonds
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- 4. Whisk together egg and vanilla in a small bowl, and add to almond mixture. Pulse until dough becomes sticky.
- 5. Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface, and knead several times to form a disk. (Dough will be soft.) Cover with plastic wrap, and chill 30 minutes.
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- 7. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon jam into each indentation. Bake 15 minutes or until cookies are light golden brown. Remove from oven; cool on baking sheet 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
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The return of the Internet IPO
The market seems ready to party like it's 1999 as investors eagerly await shares of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Kayak and other popular names. But should you dive in?
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Are you itching to get your hands on some Facebook or Twitter shares?
Be careful. It's starting to feel a lot like 1999 again in the market for hot Internet initial public offerings. And we all remember how that ended.
Still, there are some good opportunities to make money in the big wave of Internet companies going public this year, as long as you watch the prices and buy selectively.
Some with the best potential include Kayak Software, an online travel company, Skype, which is still shaking up the telecom world, and Demand Media, a content company.
And what about the big four -- Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon and Twitter? Hard to say, because their plans are sketchier and they haven't revealed financials.
What numbers do leak out suggest troubling valuations. Facebook, which despite the buzz seems more likely to go public in 2012, looks pricey if you believe the $50 billion valuation and an estimated $2 billion in sales often cited in the press. Given its rapid growth, that valuation could get more reasonable, though. Marketers will spend $4 billion on Facebook advertising this year, predicts eMarketer. But we'll have to wait for public filings to know anything for sure.
Before we take a closer look at the big upcoming Internet IPOs, let's consider why we are now in Internet Bubble 2.0.
1. IPO valuations are crazy again
I recently spoke with "Investing in IPOs" author and dot-com millionaire Tom Taulli about all the hot Chinese Internet IPOs now hitting the market. The conversation brought a troubling déjà vu -- because the charts and valuations of these companies seemed so much like the risky Internet IPOs folks were buzzing about in 1999.
Michael Brush
Take the Chinese online TV company Youku.com (YOKU, news) and E-Commerce China Dangdang (DANG, news), a Chinese online retailer. Youku.com rose 161%, and Dangdang jumped 87% their respective first days of trading in December.
Youku.com has a price-to-sales ratio of 75. That's a common measure of valuation; to show you how crazy a 75 ratio is, Yahoo (YHOO, news) trades for just 6.8 times sales. Dangdang goes for a price-to-earnings ratio of 219, compared with 50 for Amazon.com (AMZN, news).
2. Elitism is back
In the late 1990s, bankers took a lot of heat for handing out hot IPO shares to corporate executives and favored clients. This kind of cronyism always seems to get worse when markets overheat. So it wasn't encouraging to see Goldman Sachs Group (GS, news) recently create a special investment vehicle to try to get around U.S. securities law and give its elite investors early access to Facebook well before any IPO.
So it's quite possible investors who aren't those favored clients will face the same conditions they did during the tech boom (and most major IPOs since then, to be honest.) You'll have to buy at inflated prices in the hours and days after shares hit the market, or wait in hopes they dip as time goes by.
Which of course, is not what you're hoping for if you chase a hot IPO.
3. The magazine cover kiss-of-death returns
Back in December 1999, Time magazine marked the top of the Internet bubble by putting Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on its cover as person of the year. The crash started in March 2000, and it would take 10 years for Amazon stock to recover. Investors cite this as an example of the "magazine cover indicator" -- where popular magazines often mark the top for stocks, with cover stories on bull markets.
Ominously, Time put Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on its cover as person of the year last month.
So be warned. "Whenever you have these IPO boomlets and the market gets hot, that's usually a risky time to buy," cautions James Angel, a professor of finance at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
On the bright side, IPO experts like Angel and Lise Buyer of Class V Group, which helps companies navigate the IPO process, say it's positive that so many companies are going public now, given all the concerns that the number of U.S. listings is shrinking. "The IPO market is not broken, it's selective, and that is a good thing," says Buyer. (Read "How the stock market is killing jobs" for more on this.)
Now here's a closer look at some upcoming Internet IPOs to play -- or to avoid.
Kayak Software
Kayak scours the Internet for the best deals for travelers. It collects fees from airlines and hotel chains when travelers book trips. It also makes money from advertising.
Started by the co-founders of Expedia (EXPE, news), Travelocity and Orbitz Worldwide (OWW, news) in 2004, Kayak could have its IPO within the next few months. The recent strength of the shares of online travel companies Priceline.com (PCLN, news) and MakeMyTrip (MMYT, news) suggests there will be a lot of interest, says Nicholas Einhorn, a research analyst at Renaissance Capital, which specializes in IPO investing.
Certainly, growth rates are impressive. Kayak revenue was up 48% for the first three quarters of last year, to $128 million, as users made more than 469 million requests, an increase of 37% over the year before.
And there's plenty more room to grow, given that online travel is such a big business. Consumers in the U.S., Europe and Asia made $216 billion worth of online travel purchases in 2009. Travel is the largest category of e-commerce.
I'd avoid paying pay more than about 10 times sales for Kayak, a healthy premium, compared with 6.8 times sales for Google. To calculate Kayak's price-to-sales ratio, divide its market cap, once it begins trading, by annual sales of about $180 million. The big risk here is that Google might roll out a similar travel search service, says Georgetown's Angel.
Skype provides software that lets people use computers and smart phones to talk, video chat and text via the Internet. Instead of paying for a voice plan, Skype users need only a data plan.
Talking with other Skype users is free. The company makes money by charging for calls outside its network. Skype's big advantage over traditional phone companies is that it doesn't have to build and manage networks. Skype hopes to grow in part by getting more businesses to use its service. It brought in $406 million in revenue in the first half of last year.
There's no word on the timing of the IPO just yet, but it's worth watching for. "This is definitely a high-profile IPO," says Einhorn. "It will get a lot of interest." Skype was purchased from eBay (EBAY, news) in November 2009 by private investors, who are now spinning it out.
Demand Media
As a writer, I have mixed feelings about Demand Media. On the one hand, it barely pays writers who produce its generic "how to" content. Then it games the search algorithms at Bing and Google to drive traffic to its own sites, like ehow and livestrong.com, generating ad revenue. Critics like Josh Brown, an investment adviser at Fusion Analytic, describe this as "industrial-strength spam."
On the other hand, given the traffic and sales growth numbers, consumers seem to like it. And who am I to argue with that? Demand Media says its own sites and affiliates got more than 1.6 billion page views in November. For the first three quarters of last year, revenue was up 25% to $179 million. The company is just turning profitable.
I'm also not convinced by critics who argue that Demand's accounting is dubious, because it spreads out the cost of articles over a number of years, which boosts near-term earnings. This makes sense. After all, unlike a news article about a local snowstorm, an article on how to shovel snow will retain its value to readers.
At a proposed offering price of around $16 a share, the company would have a market cap of $1.24 billion. It brings in about $240 million a year in sales. That works out to a price-to-sales ratio of 5, which doesn't seem too rich for such a fast-growing business.
Demand does face a big challenge. At some point, all the easy articles will be logged, and it will be more costly to create new content. Or growth will have to level off.
Is the IPO a sign we are there, with 2 million articles and videos added to Demand file cabinets last year alone? Probably not. But if you make money on this stock over the next year or so, then it might be time to cash out.
GameFly looks a lot like Netflix (NFLX, news) because it rents popular video games through the mail. Given the big rise in Netflix shares, which have more than tripled in the past year to trade for $180 recently, you might look for a similar move in this stock.
But be careful with this comparison, cautions Scott Stevens of Strata Capital Management in Beverly Hills. Netflix shares have skyrocketed because of high hopes for success as it transitions to online distribution. But it's going to be a while before GameFly can make a similar transition, because streaming video games is much more complex, says Stevens. GameFly has been posting strong growth, so its stock may do well after an IPO. Just don't look for another Netflix.
Chinese Internet stocks
Given the vast potential growth for the Internet in China, it's no wonder investors love Chinese Internet stocks. There are already more than 400 million Internet users in China, and that number has a lot of room to grow, because only about a third of Chinese people use the Internet.
Throw in the twist that popular sites like Facebook and YouTube are blocked in China, and it's no surprise that investors can't wait to get their hands on companies that run similar websites there.
Oak Pacific Interactive, for example, owns China's largest social networking site Renren, which is a lot like Facebook, and Nuomi, which is like Groupon. It may come public in the first half of this year. Zynga and Sunity are two online game Web sites that are on the IPO docket.
Then there's Tudou.com, a Chinese YouTube. "In light of what happened with Youku.com, this stock is going to fly," says Taulli. (Youku.com went up over 160% in its first day of trading.) "If you can get Tudou.com at the offering, do it," he adds.
To get shares of hot IPOs early, however, you typically have to be a big customer at a brokerage that's helping the company go public. Otherwise, leave these Chinese Internet companies to the skilled traders because they are so volatile, suggests Taulli.
The big 4
That may turn out to be good advice for the big four U.S. Internet companies everyone wants a piece of. LinkedIn and Groupon will likely go public within the next several months, according to Reuters and the New York Times. Facebook and Twitter look like 2012 IPOs.
All these companies will have sky-high valuations, and their stocks are likely to be volatile. They face other challenges, too. IPO analysts like Taulli wonder what barriers protect Groupon from competitors, including the similar LivingSocial, backed by Amazon. It's not clear how Twitter makes money.
And what if the current social networking giants turn out to be fads? This may seem farfetched, but remember what happened to MySpace.
Already, there are signs of a backlash against social media. Last November, late night comic Jimmy Kimmel promoted "National Unfriend Day," encouraging people to pare fake Facebook friendships.
Books like "Alone Together," by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Sherry Turkle (who was recently on The Colbert Report) tell us that all the texting, tweeting and status updates crowd out true, real-world interaction.
Apologists say social media sites create more communication, not less. But even Pope Benedict XVI is not so sure. In a recent speech, he cautioned that online friendships are no substitute for the real thing.
Don't try to debate the pope on this by friending him on Facebook. He doesn't have an account.
At the time of publication, Michael Brush did not own or control shares of any company mentioned in this column.
Michael Brush is the editor of Brush Up on Stocks, an investment newsletter. Click here to find Brush's most recent articles and blog posts.
People just don't learn, do they? Facebook is pure air, no assets, no intellectual capital, very few employees. Companies like that can vanish overnight and nobody will care.
And that 50 billion $ valuation: please... An intellectual no-assets company is always valued at about its yearly income, precisely because it can dissipate so quickly.
Facebook is worth 4 billion at most and we all know that G-S created a fake valuation with that purchase of a percentage of the company for 500 million. Now they can get their investment back ten-fold on the day of the IPO release with sheep getting into another Wall Street pyramid.
Fact is, if people are willing to spend that much, then thats how much that product [in this case, facebook.com] is worth.
As I said: people never learn... Nobody is willing to spend anything close to 50 billion on Facebook.
I don't know how clearly I need to spell it out for some poeople to get this: G-S have spent only 500 million of Facebook. That's it. The have spent that money on some arbitrary percentage of the Facebook to bump up its valuation.
Now they need some suckers, oh... sorry... "investors" to buy the IPO stock of Facebook valuated at 50 billion and they make a killing to the tune of 5 billion of pure profit on it.
Facebook has a revenue of 4 billion a year. We don't even know how much of that revenue is actually profit. Probably a lot since they do not produce anything and Facebook is a very poor quality software (cheap to develop, expensive to modify and maintain in the long run).
Even so, let's assume a pure profit of 3.5 billion a year. That means if you buy stock of Facebook as IPO you need to wait 15 years to get even from your initial investment. 30 years for it to double. There is nothing about Facebook that has a 30 years longevity to it. Cars age in the 5 years cycle. Consumer software apps in a 6 months cycle.
That means 30 years for Facebook is the same as 300 years for GM... How well is GM doing after less than 1/3 of this period?
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this is glorious. omg. i still want a live-action movie but if disney handled this with care an animated movie could actually be done really well.
ugh i even get chills in animated format. this musical
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After forty years the sights and sounds of that jungle
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VC shadows silently moving in the wire just out of sight.
The yellowish, flickering light of a pop flare precariously
descending in the black of night.
The roar of the howitzer, the acidic smell of napalm in the
early morning dew, sand bags bunkers and machine gun crews.
Bouncing Betties, clamor mines, monsoon rains, red mud and no battle lines.
Death constantly lurked in the tall elephant grass, sappers, satchel grenades
and bloody late night raids. Body bags that set the stage for mother's and father's perpetual tears.
Boredom, loneliness, anxiety, anger, constant fear and occasionally a lonely tear.
Buddies that gave their all and old friends that still suffer when they visit the wall.
It all comes back in the middle of the night, no matter how I scream and fight.
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rain water leaking into crawlspace
First of all thank you for any advice. We built a home back in 2009. We recently checked out the crawlspace and found water damage from rain around the base of our chimney on the rim board and floor joists. The chimney is made of osb and houses a ventless gas log fireplace. The copper tubing going to the fireplace has started to corrode from the rain water. We have brick veneer around the entire chimney. What could be causing this issue? Thanks!
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|Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 35 (1987) 2389-2408
|Phase-space organizations in prolate and oblate potentials: classical - semiclassical and quantum results
|R. Arvieu1F. Brut1J. Carbonell1J. Touchard2
|The three-dimensional trajectories of a neutron in an average deformed potential are studied for two different potentials with prolate or oblate ellipsoidal deformations. The simplest one is a simple cavity which is shown to be integrable. The motion is studied and is found to be separable in spheroidal coordinates. It is shown that the phase space of an oblate cavity may contain a separatrix which is associated with the crossing of the focal circle while the prolate phase space does contain a separatrix only for the planar trajectories. By using arguments based on a uniform semiclassical approximation, it is shown that the quantum-energy-level spectra present indeed a difference between prolate and oblate shapes corresponding to the crossing of this separatrix. The second potential studied, the Buck-Pilt potential, has a diffuse surface. When it is deformed it becomes unintegrable. For this potential Poincaré surfaces of section are drawn. Large regular regions are shown in which the organization of the phase space is that of the cavity. Chaos and nonlinearities are also seen. Consequences of the existence of the regular regions similar to the cavity are drawn for the energy spectrum.
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-Memory leak in resolved-writer.c in Avro C, with patch
Hi -
I was able to isolate a memory leak in the new schema resolver
(resolved-writer.c) in Avro C on the avro-trunk (v1.6.0), in which the
code attempts to access and free memory that has already been freed. I
was able to fix it with a simple patch. What is the best way to proceed?
Longer Version:
I created a small test program to test schema resolution in C. The
program contains a writer schema with two integer elements and a reader
schema with three integer elements. Since the reader schema has elements
that the writer doesn't contain, and default values are not yet
supported in C, the function try_record() goes into the "error" section
(by design) and tries to clean up after itself. This cleanup process has
a memory bug in it.
Specifically, if the reader schema contains two elements of the same
type (in my case two ints), try_record() uses the same resolver for both
elements. This common resolver is used because the function
avro_resolved_writer_new_memoized() tests to see if the schema's of the
two elements are the same, and if they are matched, it returns the
resolver, and does not create a new resolver. So, multiple elements of
the array of field_resolvers[] can contain pointers to the same
During the cleanup process, there is a loop that checks if the pointer
field_resolvers[i] is non-NULL, and tries to free all non-NULL
resolvers. Since we have two elements of the field_resolvers[] array
pointing to the same resolver, the code tries to call
avro_value_iface_decref() on an already freed resolver.
This can be simply fixed by checking the field_resolvers[] array for
duplicate entries, and setting the duplicates to NULL. This is what I do
in my patch, appended below. I also verified the patch using valgrind.
Multiple valgrind errors were seen in try_record() and
avro_refcount_dec() before applying the patch, and these errors went
away after applying the patch.
I would be happy to provide my test program, upload my bug report and
patch to JIRA, or make any requested changes to the patch. Please let me
know how to proceed.
Vivek Nadkarni
Start patch
diff --git a/lang/c/src/resolved-writer.c b/lang/c/src/resolved-writer.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index bc7a93e..bb219b1
--- a/lang/c/src/resolved-writer.c
+++ b/lang/c/src/resolved-writer.c
@@ -2431,7 +2431,15 @@ error:
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < wfields; i++) {
if (field_resolvers[i]) {
+ unsigned int j;
+ for (j = i+1; j < wfields; j++) {
+ /* Compare pointers to detect and remove duplicates.
+ if ( field_resolvers[j] == field_resolvers[i] ) {
+ field_resolvers[j] = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ field_resolvers[i] = NULL;
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NEWS RELEASE) – More extensive repairs are planned later in January on a deteriorated support column that led to the closure last month of the ramp that carries traffic from I-65 North to I-64 West.
Walsh Construction Co., leader of the Design-Build Team that is building the Downtown Crossing, will remove the deteriorated concrete, replace damaged steel rebar and pour a new layer of concrete around the column to encase the repaired core. The work is expected to take less than a week and will require closure of the ramp.
Meanwhile, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is continuing an inspection of scores of other columns in the Kennedy Interchange as a precautionary measure. The inspection, which will be completed in several weeks, is focusing on columns with exposed rebar or other signs of deterioration.
In December, KYTC closed the I-65 North/I-64 West ramp for a weekend after significant deterioration was discovered. Walsh Construction quickly installed temporary shoring with steel beams to take the load off the damaged column. The entire ramp will be torn down and replaced in 2015, but KYTC decided to repair the column to ensure maximum stability.
Reconstruction of the Kennedy Interchange, where I-64, I-65 and I-71 merge, is a major part of the Downtown Crossing project.
"We are building a brand new interchange that will improve safety for many decades to come, but we must focus on the immediate safety needs that we face today," said Andy Barber, KYTC Downtown Crossing project manager.
Support columns in the Kennedy Interchange have a center core of concrete surrounded by a steel rebar cage. The columns are encased with an outer layer of concrete that protects the core and provides a finished look.
A number of columns in the 50-year-old interchange have damage to the outer shell, which has exposed the rebar cage. But KYTC officials said the deterioration found on Pier 9, Column 1 was the first discovery of significant deterioration of the center core of a column in the interchange.
Columns in the interchange are inspected every two years, and several columns with deteriorating concrete have been repaired in the past.


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Martin Luther King Day is celebrated the Monday aroung Martin Luther King's birthday. The day is an official United States holiday honoring Dr. King's life and work.
December 26 Kwanzaa
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Kwanzaa (non-specific)
Kwanzaa, December 26 to January 1, is celebrated by many North Americans of West African descent in recognition of their African heritage. The candles of a seven-branched candelabrum representing the attributes such as unity, self-determination, responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith are successively lit over the seven days of the festival.


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ARTICLE 1. Name.
The name of the organization shall be the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, hereafter called "the Society." The Society shall be an international organization.
ARTICLE 2. Purpose.
The purposes of the Society are to provide facilities for association and conference among molecular evolutionists and to further the goals of molecular evolutionary biology and its practitioners, including the publication of the two journals, Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE), and Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE).
ARTICLE 3. Membership.
All individuals actively interested in any field of molecular evolutionary biology shall be eligible for active membership. One becomes an active member when the dues are accepted or when they accept an invitation by the Society.
ARTICLE 4. Officers and Council.
a. Composition. The officers of the organization shall be the Immediate Past President, the President, the President-elect, the Secretary, and the Treasurer. A full council will also have six elected councilors. The officers and the councilors shall constitute the Council. The Chief Editors of MBE and GBE will also serve on the Council as ex officio non-voting members.
b. Nominations. The President shall appoint a Nominating Committee by the end of December each year to propose candidates for the following year's election of Council members who will begin their duties January 1 of the year after the election. The Nominating Committee shall consist of three to five active Society members who are not members of the Council. The Secretary shall be an ex officio non-voting member of the Committee. The Committee shall be chaired by a senior Society member. Once the Nominating Committee is formed, the Secretary shall inform the entire Society membership of its composition and invite suggestions for nominees. Two candidates shall be put forward for each office to be filled. Upon recommendation by the Council, a single name may be put forward for the offices of Treasurer and/or Secretary. The Nominating Committee may or may not accept this recommendation. Candidates for all offices must be Society members at the time of the election.
c. Election of Officers and Councilors. Election shall be by a simple majority of those voting. Elections shall be held by mail ballot. Here and elsewhere in these Bylaws, the term "mail" shall be interpreted as standard postal mail, electronic mail, or other types of clear announcement to the Society membership.
d. Terms of Officers, Councilors, and Chief Editors. The terms of the officers shall be three years. A person elected for Presidency shall serve as President-elect, President, and Past-President for the first, second, and third year, respectively. Councilors will each serve 3-year staggered terms so that two new councilors are elected annually. The Chief Editors of MBE and of GBE shall be appointed by the Council. The terms of the Chief Editors shall be five years but may be extended or terminated by the Council after consultation with members of their respective Editorial Boards. The terms of the Secretary and the Treasurer shall be staggered. Terms shall begin on January 1, except for the Chief Editors, who shall assume their duties so as to be responsible for the next volumes of their respective journals. An overlap period between out-going and in-coming Chief Editors, Secretary, and Treasurer may be negotiated with terms mutually agreed upon and approved by Council. During any overlap period, final decisions on matters concerning each position will be determined by the individual actually serving at that time (defined by the start dates indicated above).
e. Vacancies. Vacancies on the Council shall be filled by appointment by the Council, except: in the event of a vacancy in the Office of President, the President-elect shall become the President for the remainder of the unexpired term as well as for the subsequent term. In the event of vacancy of any other office, the Council shall appoint an active member to serve for the remainder of the year, and the office shall be filled at the next annual election.
f. Duties.
i) President. The President shall preside at the meetings of the Society and the Council. With the advice of the Council, the President shall appoint such committees and representatives as may be needed. With the exception of the Nominating Committee, Committees shall consist of a maximum of one Council member and at least two Society members not on Council. Individuals not members of the Society may be asked to join committees and may be offered a one one-year gratis membership.
ii) President-elect. The President-elect shall preside in the absence of the President. The President-elect shall direct the planning of annual meetings in accordance with rules established by the Council.
iii) Past-president. The Past President shall Chair the Fitch Committee to choose participants in the Fitch Symposium. This committee or another appointed by the Past-president shall also take responsibility for awarding travel grants and promoting participation at annual meetings of younger scientists and under-represented groups.
iv) Secretary. The Secretary shall: (1) keep the records of the Society; (2) send to all members the date and place of the annual meeting, a call for contributions to be presented at that meeting, and a call for suggestions for nomination for all offices to be filled by election; (3) At least six weeks before the annual meeting, send all members a ballot bearing the names of nominees for office; (4) prepare minutes of the annual meeting and present an annual report to the members concerning actions of the Council and activities of the Society and its Committees and representatives; (5) deposit those records of the Society no longer needed on an electronic archive accessible through the Society web site; in addition to Society records such as all formal reports, minutes of Council and Society meetings, and materials relating to the annual meetings, other material deemed of historical value may be deposited in the archive only with approval of Council; and (6) be responsible for maintaining the Society web site; for this purpose, the Council may designate a webmaster.
v) Treasurer. The Treasurer shall: (1) have charge of all funds of the Society and be responsible for their investment; (2) be bonded in an appropriate amount fixed by the Council; and (3) prepare an annual statement to the members of the financial status of the Society. This annual statement shall be reviewed by two auditors appointed by the President before the annual meeting of the Society.
vi) Councilors. Elected councilors shall participate in all matters of the Council and attend annual meetings of the Society.
vii) Chief Editors. Each Chief Editor shall carry out policy decisions of the Council, report directly to the Council, and be authorized to act for his/her respective Editorial Boards in arriving at Editorial decisions and conducting routine business. Editorial Board meetings may be held by electronic means. Each of the Editors shall submit an annual report to the Society regarding the operation of their respective journals. Chief Editors shall also serve as non-voting ex officio members of the Council.
ARTICLE 5. Meetings.
Meetings of the Council may be called by the president or any three other members of the Council. Meetings of the Council may be by electronic means or teleconference. The time and place of the Annual Meeting of the Society shall be determined by the Council at the recommendation of the President-Elect. The registration fee shall be set by the organizing Committee in consultation with the Council to allow a lower fee for members than for non- members.
A Society Business Meeting shall coincide with the annual meeting. At the business meeting, the President shall present an annual report of the Society, including the financial status and the next annual meeting. Each Chief Editor shall present a report concerning the publications of the Society journals. At the business meeting, the President shall also solicit recommendations concerning any Society activities to be considered by the Council.
ARTICLE 6. Quorum.
Two thirds of the Council shall constitute a quorum for Council meetings; in the case of electronic meetings, two-thirds of Council must respond within a reasonable time period set by the President in order to be considered a quorum. A quorum of the membership shall be those attending a duly called meeting or responding to a polling by mail within a reasonable time period set by the President.
ARTICLE 7. Voting.
Actions of the Council at a duly constituted meeting require a majority of those present to approve. A meeting is duly constituted if properly called and a quorum is present. Actions of the membership at the annual meeting also require a majority, but are not binding on the Council excepting demands for a mail polling of the membership on any issue. Actions taken by a majority of the active membership in a mail polling are binding on the Council except amendments to these by-laws (see article 11).
ARTICLE 8. Finances.
a. Budget. The Council shall be responsible for determining the budget. Expenditures in accord with the budget are to be jointly authorized by the President and Treasurer.
b. Dues. Annual dues shall be determined by the Council and will normally include a subscription to MBE, although Society membership without a subscription is an option. Graduate students who provide evidence of their status are entitled to active membership at reduced cost. Postdoctoral Fellows are also entitled to active membership at a reduced cost. Payment shall be due January 1. New members shall be billed for dues from the previous January 1, and shall receive MBE for the entire year. Members who have not paid their dues by January 1 shall be dropped from the rolls. GBE shall be an open access journal, and is therefore freely available to members as well as nonmembers.
ARTICLE 9. Publications.
a. Journals. The Society shall publish 1) Molecular Biology and Evolution [MBE] and 2) Genome Biology and Evolution [GBE] as its official journals. Publication in the journals shall be open to members and non-members alike. Acceptance shall be decided after Editorial review solely on merit and suitability. Other publications may be issued as the Council shall authorize.
b. Editorial Boards. The Editorial Boards of society journals will consist of Senior Editors and/or Associate Editors. They shall be appointed by the respective Chief Editors from a list of candidates submitted to the Council by each Chief Editor and approved by the Council. Editorial Board members shall serve three-year terms which may be renewed by the Chief Editor. Chief Editors may also appoint Guest Editors to the Editorial Board for special journal issues and manuscripts. Guest Editor appointments must be restricted to handing one or a few manuscripts. Chief Editors may retire any member of the Editorial Board prior to the completion of their three-year term in order to improve editorial efficiency and to make room for appointment of editors who will enhance the scientific excellence and breadth.
ARTICLE 10. Procedural Problems.
Procedural problems will be resolved according to Robert's Rules of Order.
ARTICLE 11. Amending By-Laws.
Amendments to the Bylaws may be proposed by Council or by petition of Society members, whose proposal must be approved by Council. The Bylaws may be changed by a two-thirds vote of the members voting in a mail ballot. Mail voting ceases 45 days and online voting ceases 15 days after initial announcement. Proposed Bylaws changes must be accompanied by an explication and rationale for the proposed changes.
Adopted June 12, 1992 by unanimous vote of those attending meeting and amended by mail ballot October 8, 1993, March 1, 1995, March 30, 2007, November 7, 2008 and January 19, 2011.
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Stone is the oldest person Shape magazine has ever had on the cover.
Stone adopted three children. The editor in chief of Shape told me she interviewed Stone in L.A. where stone belongs to a 24-hour gym. She doesn't think stone is in a relationship right now but as you can see she looks ready for a new love.


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Devyn Devine was a dancer before she became an adult video star and model. "You can suffocate in my cleavage," says Devyn who wears a 36 DDD bra. That means her bustline is 43 inches, only 16 inches less that her height (a bit over 58 inches). Short and stacked isn't the word! "Did I tell you that I was a dancer? I was a dancer for six years, and I would take tips with my boobs. Guys would put dollars down on tip row, and I would take them and put them in their mouth, and I'd push my tits together around their faces to take the tip, and I tell ya, I almost killed a lot of men. I'd forget that they were in there. I'd take the dollar and the song would be playing, and I'd forget a guy was in there, and I'd be like, 'Oh, crap, I'd better let him out.'" Fortunately, she never killed anyone and no one claimed to suffer any neck injuries because of Devyn like a couple of guys did years back with exotic dancers Tawny Peaks and Busty Heart. Devyn needs a strong man because she can be a tough chick from Brooklyn. "I'm so dominant in life. My personality is so in-your-face and out there, and sometimes a girl just needs to be put in her place." Agreed.
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Learning science has never been more rewarding for young girls than during the next few weeks at NJIT when FEMME, the 28-year-old, five-week, summer enrichment program, whirls to a fabulous finish. Hands-on, sophisticated projects guarantee to keep girls (ages 8-15) happy and learning. Among the lessons: building paper roller coasters to learn physics and tie-dyeing shirts to study chemistry. >>
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More than 150 girls--fourth through eighth-graders--are launching rockets, designing rollercoasters and analyzing chocolate as part of NJIT's FEMME program, which offers six summer workshops in the fundamentals of aeronautical, biomedical and mechanical engineering. The FEMME program is designed to help girls overcome the gender gap in math, science and engineering. >>


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- Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
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The third most populous city in the United States (second largest economic capital), Chicago is the financial, business, and cultural capital of the Midwest. Over one thousand exhibitions and conventions are being held annually, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange is truly the world's biggest and most well-known futures exchange. Located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago also boasts an excellent water transportation as well as air transportation system.
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A study finds that children who went hungry had a slower rate of cognitive decline in later years.
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "What does not kill me makes me stronger," and the phrase has gone on to serve as inspiration for many people who are enduring tough circumstances. His claim gets some support from a recent study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center.
People who reported being hungry often as children had slower cognitive decline compared to people who always had enough food to eat, according to a study by epidemiological researchers from the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center. The findings were published in the December 2012 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"These results were unexpected because other studies have shown that people who experience adversity as children are more likely to have problems such as heart disease, mental illness and even lower cognitive functioning than people whose childhoods are free of adversity," says study author Lisa Barnes, PhD, a cognitive neuropsychologist in the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center.
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The study involved 6,158 people with an average age of 75 who lived in Chicago. Participants were asked about their health as children, their financial situation and their home learning environment, which was based on how often others read to them, told stories to them and played games with them. Then, every three years for up to 16 years, participants took cognitive tests to measure any changes.
The 5.8 percent of black participants who reported that they went without enough food to eat sometimes, often or always were more likely to have a slower rate of cognitive decline than those who rarely or never went without enough food to eat. Black participants accounted for 62 percent of the pool. The 8.4 percent of black participants who reported that they were much thinner at age 12 than other kids their age also were more likely to have a slower rate of cognitive decline than those who said they were about the same size or heavier than other kids their age. For the white participants, there was no relationship between any of the childhood adversity factors and cognitive decline.
"Because relatively few white participants in the study reported childhood adversity, the study may not have been able to detect an effect of adversity on cognitive decline in whites," Barnes says.
The results stayed the same after researchers adjusted for factors such as amount of education and health problems. Researchers are not sure why childhood hunger could potentially protect someone from cognitive decline.
"One potential explanation for the finding could be found in research that has shown that calorie restriction can delay the onset of age-related changes in the body and increase life span," Barnes says. "Another possible explanation is that the older people in the study who experienced childhood adversity may be the hardiest and most resilient of their era; those with the most extreme adversity may have died before they reached old age."
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