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CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's efforts to broker an end to the Israel-Gaza conflict highlight the delicate balancing act he faces as his nation's first freely elected leader.
Egypt has been the go-between in many previous Israeli-Palestinian disputes. But while longtime Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was hostile to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza, Morsy's Muslim Brotherhood is the group's political cousin. And although Morsy leads a population with deep historical sympathy for the Palestinians, he has pledged to maintain Egypt's peace treaty with Israel.
"Egypt is the most pivotal state in this particular game of diplomacy now," said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the
Under Hosni Mubarak, the country's security forces had suppressed its own Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood, even jailing Morsy at one point. That has given Morsy and his government influence with Hamas that Mubarak, a product of Egypt's military establishment, never had.
"Hamas listens to Mohamed Morsy," Gerges said. "Hamas looks up to Egypt now, at this particular stage, and that is why Egypt has emerged as the most important state vis-a-vis Hamas and Gaza."
Morsy has used his intelligence chief, Mohammed Shehata, to spearhead separate talks between Israel and Hamas. Shehata played a major role in the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for more than five years, and has good contacts with Israeli intelligence officials.
Israeli President Shimon Peres praised Morsy's mediation efforts Tuesday in an appearance with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, calling them "constructive" and "a pleasant surprise."
"I hope he will continue this task, which is necessary for all parts of the Middle East," Peres said.
Morsy took office at the end of June, nearly a year and a half after the revolt that toppled Mubarak. The U.S.-educated engineer quickly rattled Western nerves by announcing he would work to free Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, now serving a life sentence in the United States in a conspiracy case related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and by attending the August summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, held in Iran, the first visit by an Egyptian leader since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
But he also took a swing at Iran's ally Syria during that conference, calling the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad "an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy" and calling for support for opposition groups trying to overthrow him.
When sniping across the border separating Gaza from Israel erupted into open warfare last week, Morsy put the blame squarely on Israel. Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel. Morsy also called the Israeli bombardment of the territory "a blatant aggression against humanity" and dispatched his prime minister, Hesham Kandil, to Gaza for talks with Palestinian officials, a step Mubarak would have been unlikely to take.
That put Egypt at odds with the United States, which contributes about $1.3 billion in military and economic aid to Cairo every year. U.S. and several European leaders have put most of the blame for the current crisis on Hamas, saying Israel has a right to protect itself from rockets fired by Palestinian militants.
Egypt needs Western support to help revive its economy, which went into a tailspin when the uprising against Mubarak broke out in January 2011. And its 1979 Camp David accords with Israel remain the cornerstone of what peace has been achieved in the turbulent region.
When the latest Hamas-Israel fighting flared, cabinet chief Mohamed Refa'a al-Tahtawi said Egypt would continue to observe that pact, but he added, "Respecting a peace treaty does not mean to stay idle or indifferent to what is going on along our borders."
Morsy faces pressure from the Egyptian public to take a tougher line against Israel. An April 2011 poll by the Pew Global Research Project found that 54% of Egyptians want to abandon the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, while 36% want to keep it in place.
While Morsy's government remains committed to that pact, Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing into Gaza, a marked departure from Mubarak, who kept that portal closed during the 2008-2009 conflict between Hamas and Israel. More than 500 Egyptian activists were allowed into Gaza this week in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians, waving Palestinian flags and chanting, "Israel is the enemy."


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2006 Super Chevy Show Norwalk - Pound It DownWritten by Johnny Hunkins on August 23, 2006 Hungry Chevy pilots gave it all they had at the Norwalk, Ohio, Super Chevy Show
Ohio has always been a Chevy-heavy state, and Norwalk Raceway Park is one of the fastest and most racer-friendly tracks in the Midwest, so when we were picking out our 2006 travel dates last December, this one stood out from the rest like an elephant in the living room. We stacked the deck in your favor (providing you like fast street-driven Chevys), and these Ohio guys didn't disappoint.
Take our lead shot of this '69 Camaro for instance. Retired Marine Sergeant Tommy Johnson bought this Camaro in California back in 1978 for $1,400--and immediately started sawing on it. "My buddies thought I was crazy when I started cuttin' it up," says Johnson (Avon Lake, Ohio). It now runs 9.30s at better than 146 mph, thanks to a 540-inch Bruce Miehls-built big-block backed by a Powerglide.
Johnson runs his '69 Camaro in Super Chevy's "Bracket Two" class, designed for foot-brake launches and no electronics. Think of it as the top street car class. The top bracket class is "Mr. Gasket Bracket One," which is for the Pro racer. Trans brakes, throttle stops and delay boxes are allowed, and lightning-quick reaction times with photo-finish decisions are the norm. On the street side, Super Chevy offers the DOT class, designed for street-legal cars with plates, insurance, street gear and DOT tires. Like the other classes, it too is a bracket handicap, but these are 100 percent street cars--obviously our favorite.When we arrived, we were pleasantly greeted by the Super Chevy Show staff. We also got an unexpected surprise: We were asked to select the Top 10 Racecars of the meet. (Just goes to show you never know what's going to happen when PHR shows up...) We gladly accepted the honor, and the opportunity to prowl the Norwalk pit with a golf cart full of slick award plaques. (Check out the Top 10 list in your results section.)
Besides the Sportsman bracket classes, everybody enjoyed the professional Nitro Coupe class, the jet dragsters and wheel standers. The car show, manufacturer's midway, and swap meet were also big attractions that we didn't dare miss. If you're a Chevy fan, a Super Chevy Show is a great way to kill a summer weekend. Look for PHR to visit the Super Chevy Show next at Route 66 Raceway in Chicago-Joliet August 11 -13. We'll be picking more Top 10 Racecars and looking for features. See you there...
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In the pits, we bumped into Ashley Adams (left, Mansfield, Ohio) and Katrina Moss (Amherst, Ohio). They're posing in front of Brian Fleenor's winning '68 Chevelle. Katrina was running her own '55 Chevy shoebox in Bracket Two--it looks like James Taylor's '55 in the cult hot rod movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."Kirk Martell does his best imitation of a Saturn V rocket as he launches his Turbo-400-equipped '87 Monte Carlo. Martell (Sandusky, Ohio) credits a 10.2:1 GMPP 509-cid crate-motor short-block for the deed, which sports Dart oval-port aluminum heads. This run produced a 10.48/129 on motor with pump gas. Naturally, we gave him a Top 10 award.On the other side of the track, the Tremec Car Show was in full swing. Showgoers were particularly impressed with the '65 Corvair of David Hermans (Parkersburg, W.V.). And while it's not really our fare at PHR, we too admired the small-block nestled in the rear seat. Take that Mr. Ralph Nader...Here's an exercise in contrast: The block on the left is correct for a numbers-matching 427-powered '67 Corvette. It will cost the unlucky collector $3,000. The larger, more practical 454 block on the right had a $300 asking price.We found two things of extreme interest in the swap meet area: Kimberly Jahnke of Buffalo, N.Y., and a sturdy Norco body lift for the down-to-earth price of $800.The father-and-son team of Cliff and Jeff Fargo run this '81 Pontiac Lemans Safari wagon in the Bracket Two foot-brake class. Fortunately, Super Chevy Show promoters allow any GM-powered car to drag race, and this wagon was sweet. The Fargos have been racing it since 1991, making regular upgrades to it. A 502-inch BBC has pushed it to a best ET of 10.71/124--and that's running on 91-octane pump gas.
We gave another Top 10 Award to Rob LaRocco (Elyria, Ohio) and his '70 Nova. Rob's got around $17K invested in it including the car, which runs low 10s on motor. It's got a 505-inch big-block with 13.5:1 compression and a Turbo 400.We have a soft spot in our heart for Second Generation Camaros, so our radar lit up like NORAD during Warsaw Pact War Games when Randy Franks' '74 Z/28 came to the line. Franks' 496-cid big-block has the snot to knock down 10.70s and relies on a Holley 750 with a Team G intake. Without a sniff of nitrous in sight, 1.47 60-ft times are possible with a stock-type suspension. You know we whipped out another Top 10 Award for Randy...We fell in love with Eddie Corcino's copper '71 Nova, and so will you when you see the feature in an upcoming issue. Eddie built his 10-second street machine for $10,000, including the car and paint. It runs on air and a home-built 396 with home-ported oval-port iron heads. We couldn't give him a Top 10 plaque fast enough!Check out Eddie Corcino's homemade air pan with the PHR decal. It seals off the carb from the hot engine compartment and feeds the motor with high-pressure air from the base of the windshield. "I picked up a tenth doing it," says Eddie.Women are often the motivators of good men, and we suspect that to be the case with Dina Martell (left, Sandusky) and April Allman (Columbus). These young lasses are partnered with Darren and Kirk Martell (respectively), so keep away.Meet the Martell brothers from Sandusky, Ohio--Kirk (L) and Darren (R). We showed you Kirk's Monte earlier, so here's the poop on Darren's '68 Camaro: It's got a ZZ4 crate motor with an RPM Airgap intake, and it's run a best of 12.32/108. We had hoped to shoot both cars as a feature at the Columbus MSD True Street Challenge, but neither showed up as promised. (C'mon guys, you gave up a chance at a PHR car feature for what, to go on Power Tour?)The Hardcore Motorsports booth in the manufacturer's midway has been a lot more popular this year, especially since it's been manned by Danielle Bowers (left) and Trayc Horner. As they polished their supercharged LS1, they explained to us that Hardcore Motorsports was the first to build an LS1 that ran in the 7s. For more pix and video, check out www.weracehardcore.com, where you can find Danielle, Trayc, and all the Hardcore girls online."Sweet," is all we can say about David DeLlowe's '70 Z28. DeLlowe is from Clarkston, Mich., where he puts roughly 10,000 miles a year on his pump-gas street car. It's packing an 11:1 427 big-block with a Torker II intake, Holley 950 HP carb, Turbo 400 tranny, and 4.10 gears. On this day we witnessed an 11.60 at 115 mph.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- The State University of New York at Geneseo will feature works by faculty, students and guest artists during its "Connected Kinetics" dance performance April 12-15 in the college's Alice Austin Theater in Brodie Hall. The Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m. The Sunday matinee begins at 2 o'clock.
The program will include dance by guest artist Edward J. Murphy Jr., part-time professor of dance at SUNY Brockport and owner of Drumcliffe School of Irish Dance in Rochester, N.Y. The program will feature his restaging of the second section of a traditional Irish work, "Dancing Home in the Heart of Yates," an original piece based on the change in seasons and the effect the changes have on the swans of a mythical lake from an old Irish folk tale. The section is titled "Tealtaithe Loch, translated literally to "vanishing lake."
Also on the program are works by Sabatino Verlezza, artistic director of Verlezza Dance in Ohio, who has restaged two movements of his modern work "Tobi Roppo" (1986), a Kabuki term that translated literally, means 'flying in six directions' and pertains to the physical readiness to move in any direction. This piece was originally created as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Guest artist and Geneseo alumnus Joe Langworth has staged an emotional work titled Cut Short and alumna Kylee Pike Fassler, has created a flirtatious jazz work to Tierney Sutton's "Route 66." Professor Jonette Lancos and junior Megan Killea have restaged a trio from Act II of "La Bayadère," a Russian classic ballet based on the original by Marius Petipa.
Adjunct Dance faculty Heather Acomb, a 2006 Geneseo alumna, will present a new group work titled "Maria Va." The concert will also feature an energetic modern work that captures the process of building positive energy in a quest towards happiness, choreographed by senior Jamie Hartle and titled "Moving Forward." Hartle's work, along with "Cut Short" and "Tobi Roppo," were recently performed at the American College Dance Festival at Penn State University.
"Connected Kinetics" is directed by Professor Jonette Lancos with Heather Acomb along with seniors Rachael Beckman and Katie Keller. Kelsey Bendlin will be the stage manager for the show, with student lighting designers mentored by theater faculty member Johnnie Ferrell. Professor Michael Teres' students have designed the posters, and costumes have been coordinated by Nicole Carson and Sandy Carroll.
Support for "Connected Kinetics" comes from the generous donors to the Dance Studies Program through The Geneseo Foundation.
Tickets for the concert are $8 for reserved seating and are available by visiting the Brodie Hall Box Office or by calling (585) 245-5873.
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Inside Line Promotions – COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (July 6, 2014) – Although he didn't ascend to the top of the pyramid, Henry Van Dam had about as consistent of a weekend as a sprint car driver can hope for.
"It was pretty solid, but not good enough for where we needed to be," he said. "Winning races definitely raises the bar."
Van Dam claimed his heat race on both Friday and Saturday at Cottage Grove Speedway during the final two ASCS Northwest Region Speedweek events.
"I think we were second in points (after the heat races) both nights," he said. "We just drew high."
On Friday, Van Dam led his entire heat race after starting on the outside of the front row to earn a position in the feature redraw. Unfortunately, he pulled the highest number – eight – during the random draw to line up on the outside of the fourth row for the main event.
"We had a really good car," he said. "I made one or two mistakes and drove myself off the race track and cost myself a lot of time. I had to work to get those spot back. We were right on the back bumper of Kyle (Hirst) and he was on the back bumper of (Jonathan) Allard. We had a car that could contend for the win. I got too impatient."
After driving off the track in turns one and two while running fourth with less than 10 laps remaining, Van Dam rebounded to post a fifth-place result.
When he returned to the quarter-mile track on Saturday, Van Dam powered from fourth to win his heat race and again advance into the feature redraw. This time he randomly chose the second-highest number to start the main event on the inside of the fourth row.
"Saturday night I made some really bad calls on the setup," he said. "I went too far with my adjustments thinking (the track) was going to be a little worse than it was. The track was great again. It had a bottom and top lane on both ends. I knew once we went out exactly where I screwed up. The car wasn't where it needed to be, but we came out with a good result."
Van Dam maneuvered to a fourth-place finish, which marked his seventh top five of the season.
He will return to Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash., this Friday and Saturday for two rounds of the Summer Thunder Sprint Series. Van Dam led all 25 laps to claim the opening event on June 7.
July 4 – Cottage Grove Speedway in Cottage Grove, Ore. – Heat race: 1 (2); Feature: 5 (8).
July 5 – Cottage Grove Speedway in Cottage Grove, Ore. – Heat race: 1 (4); Feature: 4 (7).
18 races, 3 wins, 7 top fives, 12 top 10s, 15 top 15s, 15 top 20s
Friday and Saturday at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash., for the Summer Thunder Sprint Series
Website: http://www.HenryVanDam.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VanDamRacing
Here is a link to a video by ARRacing of Van Dam winning the Summer Thunder Sprint Series event at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash., on June 7: http://youtu.be/a2sBRaf5l1c
Van Dam has t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at his race trailer.
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Van Dam would also like to thank Kovash Logging, Johansen Excavating, Les Schwab Tire of Enumclaw, Clems Enumclaw Powersports, Factory Kahne, A.R.T. Speed Equipment, Van Dam Dairy, Village Green Resort, D&L Equipment Repair, Zender Equipment, Big Bob's Flooring Outlet, Bob and Joan Shumway, Kellan and Kelsey Hall, Foothills Auto Supply, American Powder Coating, Pete Vos, Char's Barber Shop, Wesmar Race Engines, SpeedMart, Van Dam Farms and Rich Van Dam Dairy for their continued support.
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Music is so very very personal, so I wouldn't begin to suggest the best music, but regardless of your music choice, I think it is crucial to deliver it in the best possible way. For me - blending music is really satisfying, both as a means of progressing a class through the HR or topography profile I have chosen and as a technique for continuity and flow. At this stage, when I simply hear music butted up against each other or with a 1 or 2 second gap between, it feels stilted - broken even - and not the seamless, "purpose-built" path for the Spinning® journey I plan.
There are several very "user-friendly" programs - Mixmeister, for example, comes to mind. I used this before I got a Mac. But Mac's built in garageband is very simple and does the trick.
There are tutorials on YouTube if you are unfamiliar with the program you have access to. Take the time to watch them and experiment with blending music - fading out one song as it ends and fading in the next song.
A few quick tips.
* Don't be stiff in your music choice. I've recently broadened my music selection by adding in the orchestral sound tracks from movies like 300 and Ender's game. There are a bazillion choices like this - even a 1:30 minute track that pulls you from a heavy thick cadence of 60bpm/rpm to a lighter quicker cadence of 90 might sound better if you buffer the transition with a less rhythmic, more ambient sound....use it as coaching time, if that makes sense to you.
* You can pull your music from iTunes in two ways - one as indicated inside the Garageband display - bottom right....or more simply, drag a song from iTunes and just drop it into garageband.
* Listen to your blend several times before adding the next song. When you fade your first song into your second song, hear it...hear it again with your eyes closed - be very picky at this stage so that it doesn't sound messy. Did you fade out song 1 too quickly or not enough? Did song 2 come in on an audible beat at the right volume as it cranks up to take over the sole music being played? If you are not picky now and you decide to change it later, then all other songs afterwards will be altered.
* Network and share. Of course - be mindful of the laws where you live. This changes, but generally you can't profit off someone else's music, but you can let others hear it and give you feedback (if you're open to feedback, that is). Most instructors think about sharing the playlist - the actual list of song titles, but until you hear the music and feel how it is blended, it is hard to know the ebbs and flows of mood of your playlist.
* Be warned....if you get bit by the bug of garageband music blending....it is going to cost you. Time. Big time - but it is fun and addictive and ever-so-worth it when people come up to you after class with compliments because it is apparent that to deliver that 45-60 minute class, you put 4 hours of time into it. (wouldn't it be nice if we were ACTUALLY paid for the hours we put into delivering a single Spinning class?)
If you are new to manipulating either the Mixmeister or Garageband programs, don't be shy. There is NOTHING you can't learn on YouTube and with practice.
Got questions? Want to hear samples of music that I have blended and compare them to music that is not blended so you can feel the difference? drop me a note and I'll share.


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Thursday, 16 March 2006
Women need female role models
Lockwood asked 44 female and 38 male students to read a fictional newspaper account of an outstanding professional who had excelled in the same field that they aspired to work in. Some of the students read an account of a female professional while others read about a man.
Afterwards female students who'd read an account of a female professional rated themselves more positively than the female students who read about a man, and more positively than control students who hadn't read any account. By contrast, male students who read about a male role model did not rate themselves any more positively than male students who read about a female role model, or than control students who hadn't read any account.
In a second study, students were asked to name a real person who was a role-model for them in their career ambitions. Sixty-three per cent of female students chose a woman, 75.6 per cent of male students chose a man. But crucially, whereas the male students said gender was not a factor in their choice, 27 per cent of female students who named a female role-model said that they were inspired by the gender-related obstacles overcome by their choice.
"Outstanding women can function as inspirational examples of success, illustrating the kinds of achievements that are possible for women around them. They demonstrate that it is possible to overcome traditional gender barriers, indicating to other women that high levels of success are indeed attainable", Lockwood concluded.
Lockwood, P. (2006). "Someone like me can be successful": Do college students need same-gender role models? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30, 36-46.
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As a man of colour, this only makes sense: if you did the same study with black and white people instead of men and women, I think you would find the same thing. Any group that is not part of the dominant power group would feel the same way about positive images of their group.ReplyDelete
This is something I've been thinking about a lot. I believe that there is so much truth in it but that unfortunately it is incredibly hard for young, driven women to find such role models. The main obstacles are identifying suitable women mentors / role models, having access (in one way or another) to them and lastly, them wanting to be perceived as such.ReplyDelete
Personally, I think it is a real shame that most women are not naturally inclined to build strong networks and acts as mentors to each other. I'm convinced that all of us would profit so much from strong female support networks (in a learning / business contexts). Fortunately, with the rise of the Internet, there are now at least a few such networks and I'm looking forward to these communities gaining even more momentum over the next few years.
I guess that's one of the things which we can label under the glass ceiling predicament of women's rights.ReplyDelete


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In the 1993 movie, The Last Action Hero, can the magic ticket be used for more than one time? Like for multiple movies/show? I think that it must not be as the ticket was torn into two at the starting of the movie and also in the real world ordinary tickets cannot be used more than once.
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The cross-discipline integration of modeling and analysis tools can help select the best design options and ensure the safe and profitable operation of process plants.
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Chemical process simulators were first introduced to the
market in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Beginning with that
original modeling breakthrough, process engineering has
undergone significant transformation over the years, catalyzed
by advances and innovation in software, both within individual
disciplines and also in the integration across the workflow.
This continuous evolution has created tremendous value for many
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with dramatic improvements in engineering quality and
This article outlines specific innovations and best
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additional opportunities for change in process engineering
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economic evaluation, energy management, debottlenecking and
continuous improvement, and engineering support to
manufacturing and planning.
A common aspect of all these examples is the huge impact
that cross-discipline integration of modeling and analysis
tools have on the selection of the best design options, the
overall quality of the designs, and the safe and profitable
operation of process plants. The ability to achieve superior
energy and environmental performance while, at
the same time, saving both capital and operating expense would
not be possible without the capability of the models to rapidly
analyze many alternative solutions and present design and cost
tradeoffs to decision-makers. This is critical, as companies
across the globe are facing an increasingly interconnected and
highly competitive environment.
Process engineering plays a critical role across the entire
asset lifecycledevelopment, design, construction, debottlenecking and
operations. At the front end, process engineering decisions
determine and constrain the ultimate economics of a facility
(Fig. 1). In operations, process engineering
decisions solve throughput, yield, regulatory and performance
Fig. 1. Impact of
integrated economics on
capital projects.
Unfortunately, within many organizations, communication
between engineering disciplines and with other functions is
manual, sequential and inefficient. Understanding of the
current state of the asset and opportunities for improvement
are not consistently shared and executed across the groups.
Organizational silos hold the expertise and data of
each group and discipline largely within the group; this
expertise is shared with other groups only after a design is
released, or on a case-by-case basis, when it is
important. This leads to significant loss of opportunitiesm,
since ideas developed in one group are not fully exploited by
other groups. Furthermore, the sequential nature of the
interactions between engineering groups limits the screening of
multiple alternatives during design and manufacturing, leading
to suboptimal choices.
This sequential workflow results in a significant loss of
opportunity in capital, energy and operating costs, and a
missed chance to improve safety and reliability, which amounts to
hundreds of billions of dollars per year in lost value.
Improving this information-sharing and workflow presents a
compelling opportunity to help asset owners and engineering
companies to actualize the lost opportunities through a clear
understanding of current asset performance and identification
of optimum improvement opportunities that can be consistently
executed across the lifecycle.
What follows is an examination of the journey of process
engineering over the last three decades and the exciting
innovations driving its evolution.
Following the introduction of process simulators (first on
mainframes and mini-computers), personal computer (PC)
price/performance was the next major breakthrough.
This had a dramatic impact on process engineering practice
in the 1980s and 1990s. It lowered the barrier-to-entry to
automate engineering calculations and democratized the ability
to model and analyze an asset through process simulation and
The steady increase of PC power to solve bigger simulation
models quickly moved the simulators from mainframes to each
engineers PC. The evolving Microsoft Windows user
environment spurred an evolution in ease of use of the models
with graphical user interfaces, making them more accessible to
a broader range of chemical engineers.
This accessibility has enabled process engineers working on
plant problems to quickly establish an understanding of the
current asset performance and rapidly consider improvement
opportunities through the modeling of what-if
scenarios. Expanded access to plant data and to manufacturing
and planning tools helps process engineers translate
improvement ideas into real benefits for the asset owners.
In parallel, desktop environments also made engineering
design, cost estimation and analysis tools widely available and
easier to adopt, enabling greater opportunities for idea
creation and collaboration across disciplines. Desktop
environments ultimately helped improve performance and increase
However, the authors have observed that, despite all of
these democratizing trends, there is still a huge opportunity
for all organizations to take advantage of these powerful
modeling capabilities. To break through this barrier, we have
conducted extensive usability studies and introduced radically
new user interface concepts into several modeling tools, and we
are continuing to do so across the gamut of engineering
optimization products. Of this breakthrough user environment,
BP Chemicals Dr. Godwin Tongo reports, The new
paradigm has provided us with a big leap in flexibility and
ease of use, to enhance and optimize our engineering
Evolution of user interface and workflow paradigms has
continued to accelerate, catalyzed by new innovations in
software, hardware and mobile environments.
Another related area of improvement involves the convergence
of steady-state modeling with dynamic modeling tools and the integration of sequential modeling
with equation-oriented solution approaches. This has great
significance, with the time-consuming efforts to build dynamic
models and equation-oriented models for a complex process being
overcome through building models, first in the steady-state
mode and then reusing and building on them.
The ability to model processes dynamically is required to
address the increasing complexity of safety, startup and
quality challenges in highly optimized, large and integrated
process plants, as well as for effective modeling of sequential
batch units within process plants.
A recent example that demonstrates the power of this
approach is the use of dynamic modeling together with relief
system analysis tools for more accurate relief load and flare
system analysis. This results in significant savings in capital
costs related to flare capacity.2
Web and software evolutions have enabled several areas of
core chemical engineering innovation that provide the
foundation for process modeling and optimization. Such
innovations have been an integral part of achieving
optimization benefits.
Today, a large and expanding set of highly accurate
thermophysical properties is accessible to modelers. The
example of a close-boiling distillation column (Fig.
2) provides a clear picture of the value of better
thermophysical property characterization. A 5% error in
vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) predictions can result in 100%
error in capital cost estimation for the distillation column, which is a
major capital item. Therefore, accurate physical properties are
a key input parameter for reducing project capital and
technical risk.
Fig. 2. Importance
of accurate physical
properties: Estimating the cost of a
boiling distillation column.
Availability of physical properties data has always been a
challenge in developing a new process or equipment design.
Innovations in this area continue to accelerate engineering
efficiency while improving the accuracy and reliability of model predictions and
equipment sizing.
New optimization algorithms have continued to expand the
scope and impact of process optimization. Improved analysis and
visualization tools help engineers understand complex
phenomena, enabling the development of more efficient
processes. Continued focus on these innovations will be
critical for value creation through process optimization.
In addition to innovations in process engineering, another
aspect critical for value creation is collaboration among
groups and disciplines to consider cost and energy parameters
in the designs.
The traditional workflow for conceptual engineering today is
sequential. During conceptual engineering, the main objective
is to screen multiple design alternatives to ensure that an
optimum design has been selected. A process engineer typically
develops these alternatives using a process simulation tool.
The most promising alternatives are then passed on to equipment
(e.g., heat exchanger) specialists to size and design the
equipment. The equipment specialist develops preliminary
equipment designs and passes these to cost estimators. This
sequence of tasks may take several days or even weeks to
The sequential nature of the workflow slows down the overall
process and limits the number of design alternatives that can
be evaluated in the short window of opportunity available for
conceptual engineering. One consequence is that economics and
adequate equipment options are not considered early enough. The
result is suboptimal designs and lost opportunities.
Fig. 3 shows the integrated conceptual
engineering workflow that is now possible today. The integrated
approach provides access to equipment modeling, sizing and
economic analysis capabilities inside the simulation environment simultaneously, in a
manner that a process engineer can use without being a
specialist in design and estimating.
Fig. 3. Todays
integrated conceptual engineering workflow.
This integrated approach allows the process engineer to
rapidly screen multiple alternatives in a matter of hours
instead of days or weeks. This saves 10%30% capital and
energy compared to the traditional approach, since multiple
alternatives can be rapidly screened and designs can be
optimized early. BASF believes that its net benefits from the
broad use of process simulation and conceptual engineering, in
a comprehensive way, have been between 10% and 30% of installed
capital cost of projects.3
Additionally, Dow Chemical reported savings of $65 million
(MM) using integrated simulation and equipment modeling. The
approach enabled identification of a debottlenecking
opportunity in a chemical process while diagnosing and fixing a
specific operational problem.4
Another newly accessible integrated workflow enables
activated energy analysis directly from within the simulation
model, so that promising conceptual options for energy savings
can be identified during process design. Activated energy
analysis, with equipment and cost analysis, enables process
engineers to quickly identify the most promising options within
their familiar process simulation user environment.
Using this innovation, Huntsman Chemical reported a
reduction of 25% in energy intensity5; Honam Petrochemicals saw energy savings of
17.5% with the integrated conceptual engineering
approach6; and S-Oil reported savings of $39 MM with
payback of less than one year.7
A significant part of process engineering at operating
companies involves supporting manufacturing and supply chain
activities to troubleshoot and optimize assets. One of the key
challenges is that engineering, manufacturing and supply chain
teams do not share a common understanding of the current state
of the asset and opportunities for improvements. As a result,
initiatives to improve performance are often developed in silos
and, in some cases, they compete with each other.
The process engineers focus is on understanding the
process and predicting its performance. However, this is not
shared effectively with the stakeholders in the manufacturing
and supply chain. Communication tends to be ad hoc through a
variety of mechanisms including emails, Excel spreadsheets,
models, drawings and face-to-face meetings, among others. This
prevents complete alignment across the key disciplines and,
more importantly, results in lost opportunities for the asset
Today, one may reuse a process model of the asset for
what-if analysis, decision support and optimization of the
asset. A process model encapsulates knowledge of the asset and
provides the ability to reliably predict asset behavior. One
approach to enable plant personnel to access the models is to
use an Excel-based or real-time interface to shield model
Another opportunity involves reuse of process modeling
information in production planning. This ensures that the
production plan is based on accurate information of the current
state of the operation and can correctly predict the
optimization potential. Another area of innovation is the
provision of real-time data for viewing and analysis within the
process model itself. This provides a one-stop shop
for troubleshooting operational issues.
Saudi Aramco has been using a combination of process models
and production planning modelsreferred to as the
Integrated Oil and Gas Modelto optimize exploration and
production assets. This model is used for daily optimization
and for planning purposes. Saudi Aramco has reported benefits
of a 3%8% increase in production, a 3%5% reduction
in energy usage, and a 50%70% decrease in planning
A large number of new engineers are joining the process
industry. This generation of engineers is rapidly changing the
composition of the process industry workforce. There are
considerable challenges in transferring an organizations
intellectual property and knowledge, which are tied up in
sophisticated models, to this new wave of engineers.
Discussions with key users have highlighted that, beyond the
use of software, learning is also integrally tied to becoming
experienced in discipline practices, such as developing
conceptual design, flare systems analysis, and capital project
estimating (among others); as well as in effectively training
organizations to use the integrated workflows correctly. The
software industry has responded to this need by introducing
effective search tools and online training for engineering
An overview of the integrated process engineering workflow
achievable today is shown in Fig. 4. The
overall benefits of adopting a well-integrated process
engineering workflow are a 10%30% capital and operating
cost savings due to inherently better designs, a 10%20%
improvement in engineering quality, and a 10%20%
improvement in engineering efficiency. The integrated workflow
enables process optimization and complements innovations in
process engineering.
Fig. 4. An overview
of todays integrated
process engineering workflow.
Process engineers play a key part in this workflow because
of their understanding of the process. Their ability to model
and optimize processes is at the core of value creation from
the entire integrated workflow throughout the asset
lifecyclefrom conceptual design to operations.
What are the key opportunities for process engineering? New
innovations will continue to broaden the scope for process
optimization through new, more accurate models for physical
properties and process equipment, and through new optimization
innovations. Further integration will enable process modelers
to have better vision in optimizing process schemas against
more parameters, including economics and sustainable
Standalone design and analysis, such as equipment sizing and
detailed equipment design, can be expected to play a more
prominent role in the simulation modeling world. Advanced
collaboration within engineering tools, combined with advances
in engineering databases, will provide opportunities to better
integrate global teams.
This journey is already beginning with the introduction of
new process modeling search tools. IT innovations such as
social networking, mobile and cloud computing platforms, and
search technologies will transform process engineering once
Breakthroughs here can be expected to increase access to
process modeling tools, reduce the learning barrier, and make
optimization choices more visual and transparent. Web and cloud
innovations will integrate people in addition to facilitating
the integration of software applications. Process engineers
will play an even more important role in this transformation
due to their focus on understanding, modeling and optimizing
processes. HP
1 Press release, AspenTech, March 6,
2 Feliu, J. A., Assessing Safer Blow-Down
Options Using Dynamic Process Simulation, Inprocess Technology and Consulting Group,
February 7, 2012.
3 Polt, A., Collaborative Conceptual
Engineering at BASF, AspenWorld 2004, Orlando, October
4 Kolesar, D., Aspen EDR Helps Troubleshoot
Thermosyphon Problems, AspenTech Global Conference,
Boston, May 2010.
5 Smith, B., Huntsman Saves Millions of
Dollars with Energy Efficiency Overhaul at Port Neches,
TX, Chemical Week, April 23, 2010.
6 Park, J.-S., Site Energy Assessment and
Total Site Study, OPTIMIZE 2011 AspenTech Global
Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2011.
7 Kim, J. J., S-Oil Refinery Energy-Saving Project, OPTIMIZE 2011
AspenTech Global Conference, Washington D.C., May 2011.
8 Jones, G., J. Savla and D. French,
Integrated Oil & Gas Model, AspenTech User
Conference, Houston, May 2009.
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Dr S Banik
This a good example of low cost innovation in process engineering. I congratulate the authors for the article.Integration of process modeling and equipment design is infact being practised by Process licensors who would have a tie-up with an equipment vendor .This is a win-win situation for both. However for a design and engineering organisation this aproach may not be practical always. It is unlikely for the Engineering company to have state-of-the-art equipment design capability. Some companies do spend a lot to acquire such capability by becoming member of cooperative research organisations e.g. FRI, HTRI, UMIST etc. Also in equipment design lot of experience is used. However the approach is sound and need to be encouraged which would ensure low cost optimised design.
Hirak Dutta
Very well written article. I endorse that collaboration is the key. The communication process amongst the group of engineers viz. process engineers, instrumentation, mechanical, metallurgist is a must. A well structured meaningful interaction would undoubtedly help in achieving optimisation. Working in isolation on PCs do not serve the purpose. Further regular field visits and talking to the people at shop floor also provides lot of avenues for improvement.
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The 7 Most Insane Things Done in the Name of Love
#3. Man Fakes a Hate Crime to Save His Marriage
You know how sometimes your wife serves you with divorce papers and your first impulse is to get her back by staging a horrific hate crime that will scare the shit out of her? LB Williams is right there with you. To keep his marriage together, he set a cross on fire smack dab in the middle of his own lawn, complete with a note from the KKK warning his future ex-wife that she "better not leave that [N-word].")
Confused? We probably should have mentioned that LB is black and his wife, Donna, is white.
Oh, wait. That actually just makes it more confusing.
Though to be fair, the first part of LB's plan worked like a hate crime charm. Donna was understandably shocked and scared that the KKK had done such a horrifying thing to them. Until she realized that the Ku Klux Klan is not known for violently supporting interracial marriages. What's more, when police began to investigate the supposed crime, they noticed that the cross had been meticulously placed on the lawn in such a spot so as to not burn up the driveway or otherwise damage the house. Since when was the KKK this considerate?
"We've really been working on improving our public image."
The cops got around to questioning LB, who quickly fessed up to the shenanigans, saying they were the desperate acts of a desperate man. A desperate man who used an emotionally charged symbol of hate and terror to woo his wife.
#2. Hit Man Falls in Love With His Target, Fakes Her Death
So your husband is having an affair. You have a few options: You could A) get a divorce B) ignore the affair and take a lover, because you've always wanted to take a lover or C) murder the shit out of someone. For the truly insane, C is the only answer. Which was what jilted wife Maria Nilza Simoes decided to do when she discovered that her husband was boinking someone on the side.
"If I divorce him, I only get half his stuff."
Not knowing any first rate assassins, Maria hired an unemployed ex-con to kill her husband's girlfriend. For all we know, she found him on Craigslist under the "Dumb as Balls" section. After all, it's not like you can just order up a murderer out of the L.L. Bean catalog. She did the best she could. Which is important to remember when you find out what bullshittery happened next.
The unfortunately named hit man, Carlos Roberto de Jesus, finds Lupita, the lover, and discovers that she's his childhood friend. He can't murder the girl he once raced down gentle rolling hills in slow motion with, so Carlos does the next best thing: He convinces her to douse herself in ketchup and pose like she was straight up murdered. And she does!
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"I appreciate your dedication to realism, but soiling yourself was really unnecessary."
No one told her that the knife-under-the-arm trick only works in profile. No one told Mrs. Cheated On either, because the picture totally convinced her that the mistress was dead. Maybe she thought the knife in the armpit was the remains of a "Just Murdered" sign conveniently used to label corpses.
In either case, Carlos claimed his money and Maria went back to her life of not getting enough affection from her husband. Until a few days later, when Maria saw her hired assassin "canoodling" with the dead woman in the marketplace.
"I said get rid of the body, not Weekend at Bernie's it!"
With her pride taking a hit and obviously not thinking this through, she reported them both to the police for fraud. You don't need a law degree to see the flaw in her logic here. While indeed the couple was being investigated for fraud and extortion, Maria is now being charged with issuing death threats. Because duh.
It's not all bad, though. While facing the embarrassment of being labeled "ketchup woman," Lupita the lover is being championed for a possible seat in the local town hall. If there's one thing people in her town value, it's a woman who will play a corpse covered in ketchup.
#1. Man and Wife Live Like Cavemen, for Love
Fifty years ago, Liu Guojiang was a 19-year-old Chinese kid who fell in love. But to the dismay of his family and the delight of local gossips, the object of Liu's affections was Xu Zhaoqing, a widowed woman who was 10 years older than he was. In other words, a cougar. Back in those days, there was only one thing to do when you fell in love with a cougar: suicide by wrestling an actual cougar imported from the Americas. Liu and Xu decided to run away to a cave on the side of a mountain instead. And they lived there for 50 years.
You're probably thinking, "Eh ... so they lived in a cave. So did my ancestors. How bad could it be?" Deliberately leaving behind plumbing, electricity and, for the most part, food to be with the one you love is pretty dramatic. In the beginning, Xu and Liu had nothing but roots, grasses and sex juice to sustain them.
Mostly sex juice.
Liu even managed to bring some crude versions of big city amenities to the couple's new home. Like stairs. In order to help his wife get around the mountain, Liu hand-carved 6,000 steps into the side of the mountain, with nothing more than a chisel and his devotion to his wife to chip them. Now don't you feel stupid for breaking up with your girlfriend over who was the best Doctor in Doctor Who?
"I will knock you down these stairs if you say 'The Sixth Doctor' one more time!"
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In the 1970s and 1980s, multistage centrifugal compressors
in the 3,000 acfm (about 5,000m3/hr) and lower flow
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high-speed, low-flow centrifugals.1 Using API-617
and API-614 standard baseline-compliance guidelines, newly
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Fig. 2 is the general layout of a typical
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well-designed integrally geared centrifugals machines open new
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During a recent factory visit, HPs reliability editor was impressed by
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convenience occasionally practiced in the compressor
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1 Colorado-based Sundyne LLC concentrated on
developing vertical single-stage (BMC) machines.
2 Sundyne LLC developed the multistage LF2000
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I want study more about cryptography reading papers, but I have a problems to understand few concepts: security notions, random oracle model, IND-CCA, ... etc. I began study this concepts by internet: wikipedia, sites etc, but I like have a didactic book to learn this concepts. Please anybody will be able to recommend a didactic book?
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Practical Cryptography, by Ferguson and Schneier, is slightly more engaging than a pure reference book, and you might find it more readable than some of the other more technical tomes. Otherwise, there are not many straight-up "story books" that discuss the technology at a bits-and-bytes level.
You will likely find more interesting books in the history category, especially those that discuss wartime codes and cyphers. "The Code Book" by Simon Singh, is a more technical history than most, and is not a bad read. "The Story of Magic: Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer" by Frank Rowlett, is a first hand account of setting up the United States' code breaking capabilities - it's dry, common in the style of the era, but it's obviously very personal. "Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945", by Leo Marks, is an extremely well-written story, and he brings in a lot of excitement and adventure. Mr. Marks went on to become a successful screenwriter, and has a gift for telling the stories in a very colorful and engaging way.
While the history books are not overly technical, they still present many of the concepts you seem to be asking for.
Modern Cryptography Theory and Practice is what i would suggest , it finely balances theory and practice as title suggests and all the theory concepts are well explained in normal language with ample references


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From the NES up until the seventh generation of video games, video game controllers have featured a "Start" button and some these platforms had a "select" button. The select button hardly seems to be used these days, and the start button always pauses the game. Why are these buttons labeled "Start" and "Select"?
"Start" would be used to start the game from the Title Screen. "Select" would be used to select from the options presented in the start menu (such as 1 or 2 players). Some early games actually didn't use the directional pad at the start menu, so the only thing that worked was the Select button.
Start also became a de-facto pause button because interrupting the game is separate from the normal activity of the game. This matches its utility in starting the game as "administrative" in nature. This is also probably why they're kept separate from the "face" buttons (A + B).
Since most option prompts in later games use D-Pads or joysticks to go through a lot more options, the usage of Select has indeed fallen out of usage. On the consoles where it does still exist, it's mostly used as a secondary administrative button, doing things that aren't on the level of face buttons in importance, but also not as high as Start.
The start button certainly originated in some form or other on some of the original arcade machines, and they were copied by the consoles of the time. The select button probably come from the many multi-game home consoles, and cartridges. I can't find any reference to a select button on an original arcade cabinet before the consoles like the Atari 2600. Probably because they tried to keep arcade machines very simple. Put a coin in and play, or put a coin in and select 1 player start or 2 player start.
You can see that the Atari 2600 had a Game Select and Game Reset. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo had copied this set-up, as the Atari was very popular. Dropping the word game from both and re-labelling reset as start. (The reset button on the Atari would start the game, or restart it.)
Many games on consoles like the Atari 2600 didn't even have menus or title screens, the game select button would cycle through the different game modes available which were usually printed on the cartridge. e.g. Playing Combat, you would need to press the Game Select button 5 times to get to Tank Pong (you start on game 1).
I think it's easy to imagine why Nintendo put its buttons on the controller, as it saves you from getting up off the couch. :)


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Mammographic Needle Localization Biopsies
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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
In my last mammogram they found 9 microcalcifications in a cluster in my left breast, which was an increase over past mammograms.
It was suggested to my husband and me that I have a biopsy procedure done. They explained that I would go for another mammogram, and the radiologist would insert a needle, then a wire of sorts to pin point the location for the surgeon. She would then make a small incision and then somehow remove an area slightly larger than the area of the cluster of calcifications.
Is this sufficient or should I be having a surgical procedure?
Todd Doyle, MD, OncoLink Editorial Assistant, responds:
Thank you very much for your interest and question regarding the significance of microcalcifications on mammography and needle localization biopsy for diagnosis.
Screening mammography has been shown to reduce mortality rates from breast cancer by 20 to 30%. This provides compelling evidence that early detection and treatment can prevent the progression of disease to metastasis (spread of cancer) and eventually death.
Findings which are considered suspicious for malignancy on a mammogram include: a mass with ill-defined (or spiculated) margins, distortion of the normal pattern of breast tissue (architectural distortion), skin or nipple changes, and "microcalcifications". Calcifications are worrisome for breast cancer when they are less than 0.5mm in size and are clustered with a variety of sizes and shapes. Using guidelines currently accepted in the U.S., the probability that a suspicious non-palpable (meaning that you cannot feel it, but is found on mammogram) lesion found on screening mammography is cancerous is 20 to 30%. Given this low percentage of cancers, there will be a fair number of negative biopsies. However, doing fewer biopsies (and just watching borderline suspicious lesions) would reduce the number of negative biopsies, but this would be at the cost of reducing the sensitivity of the test (not diagnosing a number of women with cancer at the earliest stages). Obviously each woman's risk of having a positive biopsy is different and is based on many factors, including age, family history, clinical findings, and number and type of abnormalities found on the mammogram.
There are several techniques that can be used to help the surgeon (or radiologist in some cases) find the area to biopsy when it cannot be palpated, but mammographic needle localization biopsy is the most common. The procedure involves placing the tip of a needle in the exact location of the abnormality by using mammography to show the needles' position. If this is not technically feasible, ultrasound or CT guidance can aid in placing the needles. When the needle is in place, a wire with a hooked end is threaded to the end of the needle and the needle is withdrawn over the wire, leaving the wire in place. An incision is then made by the physician doing the biopsy and the tissue around the wire is removed. The excised tissue with the wire tip in place is then x-rayed to confirm the presence of the abnormality (microcalcifications) in the removed specimen. If cancer is detected in this biopsy, further surgery is typically performed to remove the entire tumor and an area of normal tissue around it.
Advantages of an excisional biopsy include:
- complete knowledge of histology prior to planning further surgical treatment should cancer be found
- avoidance of false negative biopsies due to a sampling error (possible when pieces of tissue are biopsied with other modalities such as fine needle aspirations)
- If cancer is found and the specimen margins are negative for tumor, the biopsy may serve as the definitive lumpectomy
Disadvantages include:
- the need for an incision and scar
- discomfort, anxiety
- increased health care costs
For an increase in number of clustered microcalcifications on serial mammograms, particularly when no mass is palpable, a needle localization biopsy is an indicated procedure. You should discuss all the specifics of your case with your oncologist.
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Official opening ceremonies were conducted over the weekend for "It's a White County Christmas." Activities began the prior weekend and the festival included a Christmas Youth Choir concert and official tree lighting Friday evening at Veteran's Memorial Park followed by the "It's A White County Christmas Parade" Saturday, Nov. 24 through the streets of Carmi.
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Leading the parade was Mayor David Port and his wife, Phebe. The parade included several entries from area organizations and businesses and concluded with Santa Claus riding on the Christmas Train, which brought him to his final destination at Veteran's Memorial Park to the Santa House. Several kids were patiently waiting to get their requests into Santa as he opened for business shortly after the parade.
The top entry for the parade was The Yellow Tavern and the 4-H Mad Hatters finished second.
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Those participating in the choir included Gia Berekashvili, Grace Biggerstaff, Olivia Bohleber, Clara Emery, Kera Harrington, Kelsi Kessler, Katie Kays, Gabrielle Knox, Niki Lamont, Brittany Little Deborah Raczykowski, Mary Rose Raczykowski, Brianna Stocke and Genna Biggerstaff. The group, directed by Cathy Riley, sang "O Christmas Tree" to kick off the concert Friday, Nov. 23 as the official Christmas tree at Veteran's Memorial Park was illuminated. Also, the lights along Main Street and connecting streets were lit for the first time in 2012.
The choir continued with several Christmas classics and solos by Brianna Stocke, Gia Berekashvili, Kelsi Kessler, Niki Lamont, Kera Harrington and Brittany Little. Kara Kessler assisted with the arrangements on the piano during the concert.
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ACRL Plan for Excellence
ACRL Plan for Excellence
On April 20, 2011, the Board of Directors adopted the ACRL Plan for Excellence effective July 1, 2011, and rescinded Charting Our Future: ACRL Strategic Plan 2020 (PDF).
Development of the Strategic Plan
The ACRL Plan for Excellence was developed with significant member input and informed by the latest available trend data. At the ALA Midwinter Meeting and ALA Annual Conference in 2010, the ACRL Leadership Council identified challenges facing academic librarianship and prioritized areas for action. These conversations along with Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians, the 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries and The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report, as well as the 2010 Strategic Plan Activities Report, informed the strategic plan development process.
The ACRL Board of Directors dedicated its fall 2010 Strategic Planning and Orientation Session to drafting a new strategic plan. The ACRL Board accomplished the goal of creating a focused and streamlined plan in drafting the ACRL Plan for Excellence. ACRL members were invited to provide feedback to the ACRL Board of Directors via an online survey and during table discussions at the 2011 Midwinter Leadership Council Session. The Board adopted the ACRL Plan for Excellence on April 20, 2011, to be effective July 1, 2011.
Implementation and Assessment
ACRL's strategic planning process continues with the development of annual Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each of the strategic goal areas, Value of Academic Libraries, Student Learning, and Research and Scholarly Environment, as well as the enabling programs and services in order to provide the metrics the Board needs to assess progress achieving the goals detailed in the Plan for Excellence.
2011-2012 Strategic Goal Area KPIs
2011-2012 Enabling Programs and Services KPIs
All ACRL Division-level committees are charged by the Board with advancing ACRL's strategic goal areas or enabling programs and services. Through the Annual Work Plan Process, the Board guides and assesses ACRL's progress in implementing the ACRL Plan for Excellence.
Previous Strategic Plan
Documents related to ACRL's previous strategic planning process (some of these items are available to ACRL members only ) include:
- ACRL Strategic Priorities for 2009-2013 (PDF)
- Charting our Future: ACRL Strategic Plan 2020 (PDF)
- Assumptions about the Relevant Future for Academic and Research Librarians and Libraries (updated September 2006)
- Developing a strategic plan: ACRL focuses on the future, C&RL News article, May 2004