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As energy costs eat up bigger slices of the corporate budget, CIOs and other IT managers are under the gun to find ways to make their data centers more efficient. The majority of organizations are either already implementing or are planning to launch programs to create greener data centers, according to a recent survey from CDW. Those that are successful reap the rewards and save money. But, moving forward is a challenge for many IT departments, especially when it comes to budgeting and getting the C-suite to prioritize your initiative. In the end, the report reveals that there isn't a "one size fits all" solution. "Like any other aspect of IT, energy efficiency in the data center is a multi-layer stack of solutions working together, and all available solutions deserve consideration," says Norm Lillis, vice president, systems solutions, at CDW. "The combination that makes the most sense will vary with the unique environment in a data center." More than 750 IT professionals took part in the research. For more about the survey, click here.
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Alfresco Reveals First Synchronized Salesforce Document Solution
Sales Team Demands Require More than Simple File Storage to Compete
London, UK. — September 19, 2012 — Today Alfresco announced the Alfresco Integration for Salesforce, the first cloud-based application that allows sales teams to share, collaborate and control contracts, marketing materials and other business-critical documents synchronized with the rest of the enterprise making these documents more accurate, timely and compliant. Sales teams and other CRM users can now produce more with fewer errors using Alfresco's cloud-based document management and first-of-its-kind Enterprise Sync technology collaborating with the rest of the enterprise, such as legal, operations and service. The Alfresco solution offers full document management capabilities including the ability to upload, share, tag and edit content directly from within Salesforce.
"Salesforce customers with extensive content management needs can exceed initial storage user limits and extend their content management functionality to address security, compliance and file-sharing standards set within an organization," explained Ray Wijangco of Technology Services Group (TSG), a system integration partner of both Alfresco and Salesforce. "Alfresco's approach to support both cloud and on-premise contrasts with the one-size-fits-all tactic of cloud-only upstarts that fail to cater to customers' requirements for rich, contextual metadata and integration with business processes."
Alfresco's document management and collaboration solution brings business documents to life to improve sales team productivity. Unlike simple file sharing solutions, the Alfresco Integration for Salesforce adds additional information to documents such as opportunity names, sales stage and opportunity close date so that teams can discover similar documents and re-use past experience. Alfresco's Enterprise Sync empowers sales teams to collaborate, share, review and approve with teams in other departments and customer companies. Legal and compliance teams can now be assured by Alfresco's enterprise-class document management control where sensitive information remains protected from inside the enterprise as necessary. Chatter integration immediately informs sales teams of relevant changes from anywhere in the enterprise to their documents further enhancing productivity.
The Alfresco Integration for Salesforce enables users to give files true business meaning, which other cloud-based file management services lack. Alfresco's sophisticated document management capabilities include:
- Low-cost storage and user pricing
- Full text and metadata search
- Secure file sharing and collaboration
- Automated workflow
- Version control
- Mobile and tablet productivity
- On-premise synchronization options (via Alfresco Enterprise Sync) for critical data
"The synergy between Salesforce.com and Alfresco's powerful document management capabilities means that sales teams can work together more effectively with the rest of the enterprise," said John Newton, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco. "Given the importance of Salesforce to many sales and marketing teams both large and small, we are thrilled to offer a solution that allows them to work more efficiently, collaborate more effectively and automate tedious business processes."
The Alfresco Integration for Salesforce is currently in private beta and will be generally available later this year. Interested organizations can request a demo and apply for early access by visiting http://www.alfresco.com/products/integrations/salesforce.
Additional Resources:
- Alfresco One announcement
- Infographic on Salesforce document management challenges
- Connect with Alfresco on Social Content, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook
About Alfresco
Alfresco is how great businesses share, organize and protect their content. Nearly 7 million people in over 180 countries use Alfresco Enterprise, Cloud, Mobile and Community to manage over 3 billion files worldwide. Whether on the go or in the office, Alfresco empowers today's teams to do great work.
Founded in 2005, Alfresco is headquartered in London with US headquarters in Atlanta.

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NYU has never thought of itself as a gated community. It has always encouraged its students to think of themselves as participants in and shapers of a complex and changing environment. Indeed, part of NYU's teaching mission consists in preparing students for lives in a diverse world, and faculty at NYU believe that such preparation is most effective when the outside world is not held at bay. This same principle holds true as we create a Global Network University that is both "in and of the city" and "in and of the world."
Our locations beyond the portal campus in New York City include NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai portal campuses, NYU Law in Singapore, and 11 academic sites in Accra, Ghana; Berlin, Germany, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Florence, Italy; London, England; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Prague, the Czech Republic; Sydney, Australia; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Washington, DC.
Around the world, students work closely with faculty and with their peers on shared commitments. They apply what they learn and develop the skills and qualities—both needed and expected in this increasingly integrated, global climate—to make a real difference in the world.
Educating students as international citizens is part of New York University's global mission, and the University has established a wide range of initiatives both in the United States and abroad to facilitate the exchange of knowledge across international boundaries.
For more information about study abroad, including program descriptions, application information and course descriptions, visit the NYU Study Abroad Admissions Website.
The academic priorities and direction of NYU's Global Programs are overseen by faculty with related research interests that offer advice and counsel to the Provost and Vice Provost.
Faculty with research interests or affinities to a particular region are invited to serve on a Global Faculty Affinity Group. These committees guide the development of new program initiatives and propose enhancements to existing course offerings at the NYU Global Sites. Affinity Groups offer the NYU faculty significant involvement in the management and direction of the NYU programs abroad, ensuring that the Sites meet their research needs and those of their students. Additionally, the Affinity Groups offer advice on the creation of new programs and sites, assist with curriculum review and assessment, and actively participate in the planning process for new campuses abroad.
Each year, the Fulbright Scholar Program looks for a wide range of scholars and professionals to represent the United States abroad. To learn how to become part of the U.S. Government's flagship program for international exchange, visit www.CIES.org. On the site, you'll find the Catalog of Awards, tips for applying, scholar stories and the official application. You can also contact their staff at (202) 686-7877 for more information.
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Honeybees communicate by dancing. The dances tell worker bees where to find nectar. A UC Riverside study reports that under natural foraging conditions the communication of distance and direction in the dance language can increase the food collection of honeybee colonies. The study also confirms that bees use this directional information in locating the food sources advertised in the dance.
Diagram of the honeybee dance. (Credit: P. Kirk Visscher.)
Based on work done in 2001 in the Agricultural Experiment Station at UC Riverside, P. Kirk Visscher, professor of entomology, and Gavin Sherman, former graduate student in the department of entomology, report their findings in a paper entitled "Honeybee colonies achieve fitness through dancing" in the journal Nature.
The honey bee "dance language," first described in the 1940s, reflects the distance and direction to the food source visited by the forager. A bee returning from a rich source of food will "dance" on the vertical comb surface by running in a circle. On each revolution, the bee will bisect the circle at an angle. The angle with respect to 12 oclock represents the angle to fly with respect to the sun. If the bee ran from 6 to 12 oclock (i.e., straight up), this would communicate to the other bees to fly directly towards the sun. As the bee dances, it also waggles its abdomen whilst crossing the circle. The number of waggles tells the other bees how far away from the beehive the nectar is. The more the waggles, the greater the distance to the nectar.
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Hey Pontoon I like your thinking (but do those caps mean you are yelling at us?). My favorite is the combination of side-off winds, wrapping in at the beach to appear side shore, and the hand-held wind meter at one meter height in front of the camara showing a nice steady 6mph.
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The Rotary Club of Hillsville will observe its 75th anniversary on Thursday.
The club was chartered on Aug. 8, 1938. Club meetings were held at the Hillmont Hotel on Main Street for several years.
Other meeting venues have included Mountain Top Restaurant, Blue Ridge Tavern, the Red Barn, Corner Restaurant, the Tompkins House, Shenandoah Restaurant, Captain Pete's Seafood Restaurant, Peking Palace and Countryside Restaurant.
The club presently meets at noon Thursdays at Shoney's Restaurant.
Twenty-two men were charter members: B.P. Goad (lawyer), Dr. G.M. Goad (dentist), R.E. Wilkinson (farmer), Dr. J. Glenn Cox (physician), Dr. Walter A. Porter (physician), J.M. Cassell (agricultural Extension agent), Rev. C.A. Brabston (minister), G.E. Guynn (hardware retailer), J.D. Dix (hotel manager), E.M. Jett (restaurant owner), Roy E. Kyle (superintendent of Carroll County Schools), J.W. Hope (drugstore owner), Willard Stoneman (auto retailer), J.S. Smith (clerk of court), C.F. Blankenship (insurance company owner), J.L. Tompkins (banker), S.E. Joyner (garage owner), J. Howard Early (department store owner), George E. Edwards (sheriff), Dr. H.L. Lyons (veterinarian), B.D. Ferrill (highway engineer), and Walter Edwards (newspaper publisher).
The purpose of each Rotary club is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
The most notable current project for Rotary International is PolioPlus, which works toward the global eradication of polio.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a partner in this campaign. In 2007, the Gates Foundation gave the Rotary Foundation a $100 million challenge grant for polio eradication, and in 2009 increased it to $355 million.
Rotary agreed to raise $200 million in matching funds by June 2012, and Rotarians succeeded in raising a total of $228.7 million toward the challenge.
The Hillsville Rotary Club has several ongoing local projects. Rotary gives a scholarship annually to a graduating senior at Carroll County High School. The club sponsors a cottage at Southwestern Virginia Training Center. Members buy gifts for the residents and give a party each year at Christmas time.
Hillsville Rotarians also support Senior Olympics, Boy Scouts, Empty Bowls, the Carroll County Fair, and other community projects.
The Interact Club at Carroll County High School is sponsored by Rotary Club of Hillsville. Students participate in service projects throughout the year, including sponsoring a walk to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, giving a Christmas party for needy children at Hillsville Elementary School, visiting nursing homes, collecting toys for needy children at Christmas, assisting with the haunted house as part of Safe Halloween in Hillsville, and assisting with Smoke on the Mountain in Galax and downtown celebrations in Hillsville.
Rotarians are encouraged to put into practice in their business and professional lives the high ideals of Rotary. The Four Way Test can be applied to all avenues of service and to virtually all areas of life:
"Of the things we think, say or do: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?"
Hillsville Rotary has 27 members: Marion Ayers (accountant), Strader Blankenship (superintendent of Carroll County Schools), Kay Carter (banker), Lauren Chitwood (retail florist owner), Dwight Compton (lawyer), Bill Copeland (pharmacist), Martha Crowder (building contractor), Brad Dalton (lawyer), Nick Fairhurst (naval architecture), Kathryn Fariss (retired educator), Greg Goad (lawyer), Ches Helmick (financial advisor), Ina Horton (retired newspaper publisher), Dr. Jim Kilbourne (dentist), Bob Leonard (retired social services director), Dr. Barry Mayberry (physician), Dr. Oliver McBride (educator), Dr. Katie McKown (chiropractor), Mike Mock (director of county emergency services), Steve Pottorff (county Extension agent), Joe Snyder (industrial automation), Brian Spencer (restaurant owner), Marlin Surratt (retired retail florist owner), Sam Terry (retired educator), Michelle Tompkins (banker), Dennis Ward (auctioneer/auction company owner), and Noel Wood (banker).
Club president for 2013-2014 is Michelle Tompkins.
• Anyone interested in joining the Rotary Club of Hillsville is welcome to contact a member for information. As membership grows, Rotary is better able to meet the goals of this international organization with the motto of "Service above Self." See www.facebook.com/hillsvillerotaryclub.
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Well, I just had a Wrangler installed on my deck. I had it hooked up to my natural gas line. Hoping I didn't make a mistake after reading about how it doesn't have a "smoked taste". I was used to a regular gas grill.
Question is this - I'm used to cooking on the old grill, a "ham slice" - you know those 1/2" thick slices about the size of a plate. I usually make a glaze of brown sugar and orange juice - any hints on what to do?? Just put it on and leave it until ready to flip it?? Length of time?? It's not in the recipe book. Thanks for any hints ~
Tom Kirkman
A 1/2 inch slice won't take long. I would try maybe 4 minutes per side and see how it goes. You can add another minute or two, or deduct depending on how it comes out. Write it down. Once you figure out how long it takes to cook various items you can replicate it over and over and over.
For smoke flavor, put some flav-o-buds in the chip tray.
I do hope your grill regulator is set up for gas and not propane.


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Did you love Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and make out with its sequel? Did you have an extended fling with Champions of Norrath but only spend a tepid weekend with Champions: Return to Arms? If familiarity breeds contempt, you may want to give Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade a fake number and a good excuse. While it delivers the same basic experience as its progenitors, that experience is slimmed down, worse for wear and has little kick left in its two-step.
Using a modified version of the same Snowblind engine that sustained multiple incarnations of the Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath franchises on the PS2, Sony Online Entertainment has bet the minimum on a tried-and-true, button-mashing formula. Back is the isometric camera, the gridded item menus and enough hacking and slashing to deforest the Amazon valley. The Snowblind engine has always provided solid controls and an imminently playable Gauntlet-like experience, and this installment is no exception.
In Untold Legends, you choose between four character classes: Knight, Alchemist, Druid, and Berserker. The Knight is a basic brute, the Alchemist is your standard Wizard, the Druid specializes in healing spells and basic melee offense, and the Berserker is a skill-heavy class employing small knives and throwing stars. Although each class plays differently, the character models themselves are not very customizable; while you can choose skin color and hair color, the gender of each class is predetermined. Considering the wireless capabilities of the game, it would have been nice to have larger palette to work with in creating a distinctive look.
The character classes may sound unusual, but their skill sets include all the basic moves seen in BG: DA and Norrath.
Unlike those games, however, Untold Legends eschews any established D&D system for its model, creating instead a hackneyed fantasy backdrop that doesn't have to pay any dues.
And the story is about as generic as a kobold in a cave. Your city of Aven is being terrorized by monsters, and its redemption can only be achieved by recovering a number of artifacts hidden in dungeons around the monster-infested countryside. The bland plot unfolds through humorless dialogue. The characters you meet have as much personality as cardboard; only through creative misreadings can you develop anything close to drama. Many of the missions are long affairs and all follow the same find the artifact/monster/distressed prisoner in the dungeon program.
Untold Legends' dungeons are randomly generated, which gives a nice, unpredictable feel to the mostly uninspired environments. Without the joy of randomly stumbling upon a +20 Fierce Great Mace of Justice, plowing through dead-end hallways and countless scattered chests would be unthinkable. But since the random dungeon design still tends toward complicated mazes containing loads of dead-ends, you will ultimately find yourself ignoring the chests and running straight for the end goal.
There are tons of missions and, perhaps due to the reusability of environments, innumerable areas to explore. You can save at any point in the game, which is absolutely essential for the PSP platform, and reliable mission information means you won't forget which artifact you were searching for and which dungeon it was in.
However, the game is saddled with long and frequent loading times. Whenever you leave an area you can expect at least a thirty second wait, so teleporting back to Aven to sell off your booty, which you'll do often, becomes a long digression from the plot and the action.
Then again, after a couple hours' worth of "action" at the expense of Untold Legends' predictable enemies, a long digression might be exactly what you need. Every enemy follows one of two programs: rush and melee-attack or run away and attack from afar. There is nearly zero tactical strategy, and there are no special combos to lend variety to the monster weeding. Your foes also seem to level up as you do, which means that on one hand you will never meet ridiculously weak monsters, but you won't meet any monsters that are impossibly strong, either. This removes the urgency of getting the best weapons and leveling up – not a good thing for a RPG.
The tedium is compounded by the fact that the game reuses many of its environments and creature models. Different colors and background music are all that distinguish the purple trees of, say, Splinterfull Forest from the yellow trees of the Riven Plains. Most of the environments are rendered clearly, but each one is entirely composed of right-angles and straight lines, making even the most beautifully illustrated Infernal Caverns squarer than a lawful good cleric.
The musical score might have had potential had it not been performed on a Casio keyboard, and the dialogue is delivered in boxes, not voices, though given the quality of the music, that might not be a bad thing.
At least it offers some multiplayer co-op support. Like Dark Alliance and Norrath, Untold Legends is a perfect cooperative experience. Character classes complement each other and rules governing the division of loot make the leveling up even. And, unlike the multiplayer versions on the consoles, the players do not have to remain on the same screen at the same time, just the same area.
But since Untold Legends only supports Ad Hoc (local) wireless connectivity, you cannot take the game online to meet up with players outside your immediate vicinity. Given the revolutionary Infrastructure wireless function of the PSP, this is an almost unforgivable omission. And whereas playing cooperatively on the console units only requires multiple controllers, playing with a friend on your respective PSPs requires each of you to have separate copies of the game, $40 a pop.
Given the unimaginative plot and lifeless gameplay, however, you may not want to be in the immediate vicinity of anyone you have convinced to buy Untold Legends. While not necessarily straying from the formula that made its predecessors great, this one seems unmotivated and underachieving, like something a dungeon master with a hangover might scrabble together to pay the overdue rent.


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I hope this doesn't violate the rules of the forum, but I need some text translated into Latin.
"A Mother's Love" and "My children, My Soul".
I need this for a good friend of mine who has asked for my help. I think she has confused my knowledge of the Greek language with Latin. But I don't want to let her down. It's for a tattoo, because she is one of the most devoted mother's out there. Her Dad is dying of prostate cancer so I know she would like to get it done for him to see. I just don't want to tell her the wrong thing, because a tattoo is forever!
Thanks for your time
I have been given "Liberi Mea Anima" for My Children My Soul, and "Amor Matris" for A Mother's Love. Pretty confident about the mother's love one, just want to know if the first one is correct?


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A walk-in bath is a fairly straightforward concept that can be one of the most important items in a home. One of these bathtubs replaces a home's standard tub and features a sealed door that swings either out or in. The purpose is simple: allow easy access to and from the bathtub. For those with limited mobility, this type of tub can be a liberating piece of safety equipment.
Much like other Wingdale, NY bathtubs, walk-in baths are typically made from acrylic material, Walk In Tubs For Seniors fiberglass, porcelain, or steel. Acrylic tubs are durable and are able to insulate well, but are generally more expensive than fiberglass. Porcelain is not as durable, but it is easy to clean and resistant to corrosion. Fiberglass is inexpensive and light but can accumulate scuffs easily. Steel is often utilized as a sturdy frame for other tub materials. Other considerations may matter more for some customers, but it is still a good idea to learn about the different tub materials before committing to a purchase.
Features that vary among walk-in tubs include the type of door, the size, the inner bench seat, the inclusion of faucets, and various jet options. There is not a significant difference between an inward and outward swinging door, but some users may find that an outward swinging door permits more room to make oneself comfortable before the door shuts. The size of the walk-in bath is important because it needs to fit the intended space. If at all possible, it should be large enough to comfortably accommodate the largest user in the home. Many people with limited mobility appreciate a bench seat so that they do not have to get down to ground level in the bathtub. For this reason, most walk-in tubs include these seats. Many people also enjoy massaging jets in a walk-in bath. Both water jets and air jets are available, and some tubs provide both options. If hydrotherapy is helpful for the tub's user, make sure that jet options are included with the tub. On the other hand, if price is a concern, eliminating some of the extra options can significantly cut down on costs.
A walk-in bath can be an extremely valuable item in the home of a person with limited mobility. Independence is an important commodity and equipment such as walk-in tubs can permit the elderly to maintain a great deal of independence for many extra years. When it comes to something highly personal like bathing, independence is truly at a premium. People know it is important to stay clean, but they also do not want to depend on others to bathe them. This puts many people in a difficult position. A walk-in tub helps to solve this dilemma by allowing the user to take a bath without assistance. For those living alone in Wingdale, NY, the bench seat is especially important. Those with limited mobility are at risk to get stuck at the bottom of a conventional tub. Walk In Tubs For Seniors Even if there is a way to call for help, the situation can be dangerous and very upsetting. Walk-in tubs are valuable on both a physical and emotional level.
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Alabama's football lore might be instructive for the state of Georgia.
Many years ago, USC flew east with a bi-racial squad to face an all-white Alabama team - and won big.
Alabama coach Bear Bryant began recruiting talented African-American players. Soon the Tide again was rolling over most of its opponents.
The message for Georgia includes - but also transcends - racial considerations: You prosper when you deploy as many capable folks as you can round up.
That applies particularly to our lottery-funded HOPE scholarship program for higher education, including our increasingly vital technical and vocational schools.
We can boost our economy by enabling more people to do the work needed for jobs that pay well and generate more revenue without raising taxes.
But the way we award HOPE money imposes barriers. Even though a recent up-tick in lottery revenue has let the state lower some of them, others remain.
HOPE was sold to voters in 1992 as a way to increase access to higher education. It has, but largely to the upper-income families least in need of help with such access.
Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that students from better-off ZIP codes were about three times as likely as other students to win full-tuition Zell Miller Scholarships. Seven Atlanta-area ZIP codes had $100,000-plus median incomes and drew 10 percent of the scholarships - but had just 3 percent of our high-school-age population.
The impact of that disparity may well grow. HOPE officials have said the share of lottery revenue going to Zell Miller Scholars likely will increase, making less money available for partial HOPE awards, even as tuition continues to rise. Meanwhile, as demand for higher education increases, lottery revenue likely will fail to keep pace. One irony, of course, is that HOPE is bankrolled mostly by lower-income lottery players.
Supporters of the status quo say it rewards merit. They have a point - up to a point. Tying all help to need - without considering ability to do college-level work - programs many kids for failure. It also wastes their time and the taxpayers' money.
But are test scores - a critical benchmark for Zell Miller Scholarships - a fully valid measurement of merit? They do often reflect intelligence and diligence. But they also reflect quality of preparation, which is to say local high schools. On balance - and for obvious reasons - those in affluent areas do a better job.
One alternative is to qualify the best students from every high school for Zell Miller Scholarships, even kids whose scores don't now clear the bar.
We took a small step that way last year when we extended full rides to every high school valedictorian and salutatorian. But the state Senate recently blew a chance to take a bigger step, rejecting a bid to qualify the top 3 percent in every graduating class.
Might some such students from schools that prepared them poorly struggle to compete? Probably, but at least they would get to compete. And my guess is that most would succeed.
On the plus side, a bill by State Rep. Craig Gordon, D-Savannah, to make it easier for students at technical and vocational schools to keep their HOPE scholarships has passed.
We need to do more.
Some say that would dumb down HOPE and scatter our "best and brightest" kids to colleges - and likely to careers - in other states.
Indeed, one 2012 study found HOPE likely has helped Georgia retain a few more top students than it otherwise would have. But consider an anecdotal tidbit cited last year by Tim Connell, former head of the agency that divvies up HOPE money.
Connell said 70 percent of the valedictorians at a luncheon held to honor them planned to attend a Georgia college. We don't know their test scores. We do know they were from all over Georgia. And so most likely are our truly best and brightest. They're white, black, urban, small-town rural - and whatever.
Why not try to keep as many as we can in Georgia - for college and thereafter?
Bear Bryant learned that you win games more often if you get more of your potentially best players on the field.
That also applies to Georgia's system of higher education.
And to our future.
Larry Peterson is a former Savannah Morning News reporter.


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The onboard systems hovered Dennis' Nova helicopter for entire tanks of fuel yesterday! We closed all the control loops except altitude, so the throttle/collective were still under manual control. Despite a 20 degree magnetometer error, the flight controller managed to keep the helicopter within 1 m CEP during calm winds and 2 m CEP during gusts.
Onboard the Nova was our IMU / Servo controller, our three axis mangetometer, a Cerfboard with 802.11 CF, and our new u-blox TIM-LP / IO board.
We'll have movies and plots of the sensor data (plus overhead maps) available from autopilot.sourceforge.net. And Rotomotion will be selling IMU / INS kits and turnkey UAV systems based on the designs, too.


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In an earlier post, we concluded that Hunter Pence is not a "high on base percentage guy" or a "power hitter."
But here's a guy who could fit into both categories. . .
White Sox right fielder Carlos Quentin has not seen his name pop up in the trade deadline rumor mill very often. That's probably because the White Sox are just 3.5 games out of first place and figure to be a strong contender for the American League Central crown.
But the tireless Ken Rosenthal has a new blog post up that suggests the White Sox could be looking to trim payroll over the next five days. And guess who he mentions as a possible trade target?
That's right. Carlos Quentin.
The Phillies were briefly linked to Quentin by a national report during the winter meetings, although nothing ever came of it. We would find out later that the Phillies had bigger fish to sign.
Quentin at the time was something of a question mark. In fact, he still is.
He has suffered from a variety of injuries, and he is not regarded as a strong defensive player. The 131 games he appeared in last season were a career high.
But the man can hit baseballs hard. And he can do it from the right side of the plate.
Quentin is hitting .268 with a .360 on base percentage and .525 slugging percentage this season. He already has 20 home runs in 339 at-bats, to go with 27 doubles, 62 RBI and 42 runs scored. He has played right field regularly for the White Sox, serving as designated hitter in just 11 games. Critical to his success this season has been his ability to hit left-handed pitching. In 2009 and 2010, Quentin hit .213 and .211 against lefties, with a total of 11 home runs in 203 at-bats. This year, though, he is hitting .278/.392/.544 with six home runs in 79 at-bats against lefties.
It's hard to imagine the White Sox trading Quentin, particularly since they have a moveable pitcher in Edwin Jackson who makes $3 million more than Quentin's $5.05 million salary.
But Kenny Williams isn't the most predictable general manager in the world. Maybe he is hearing the type of haul the Astros are hoping to get from Pence. And maybe he is floating a trial balloon on the chance that one of the several teams looking for a right-handed bat will give him an offer he can't refuse.
You have to think that convincing the White Sox to give up Quentin would require a package starting with Domonic Brown. But Quentin is a bona fide middle of the order hitter. And his current salary is manageable. And he does not become a free agent until after next season.
With Paul Konerko in the twilight of his career and the designated hitter as an option, the White Sox could be intrigued by a player like Jonathan Singleton. And every team would be interesting in the type of pitching prospects the Phillies have at Clearwater.
Would Quentin be worth a package of Brown, Singleton and Cosart? Especially considering his defensive limitations, injury history, and reverse righty/lefty splits? Would such a deal be enough for the White Sox, who would probably like to shed their payroll without shedding their chances at contending this season? Would a right-handed power bat like John Mayberry who can contribute in a reserve role this season sweeten the deal at all? Would the Phillies be able to engage the Cardinals in a three-way deal in which Colby Rasmus eventually lands with the White Sox?
Lots of questions. Few answers. Hey, it's the trade deadline. But it's out there.
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Set in the distant future, Destiny casts players as Guardians of the last city on Earth, who traverse the ruins of our solar system from the red dunes of Mars to the jungles of Venus. Players must battle enemies and reclaim what was lost during the collapse of mankind. Destiny's saga unfolds through grand tales and sweeping adventures by immersing gamers in a world with cooperative, competitive, public, and social activities.
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Duran Duran's A View To A Kill has topped a new list of Bond themes.
As cinemagoers and 007 fans around the world celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Bond film, Dr. No, editors at Billboard.com have compiled the ultimate top 10 of themes.
Duran Duran's 1985 hit comes out on top, ahead of Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better, which was the theme to The Spy Who Loved Me and Paul McCartney & Wings' Live & Let Die.
For Your Eyes Only by Sheena Easton and Shirley Bassey's classic Goldfinger round out the top five.


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Radiation therapy is the use of penetrating beams of high-energy waves or streams of ion particles to treat disease. Radiation therapy destroys the ability of cancer cells to grow and divide. It is used usually after surgical resection to get rid of remaining thyroid gland tissue or tumor spread elsewhere.
Two kinds of radiation therapy are available for treating thyroid cancer. One is delivered internally and the other is delivered externally.
Radioablation therapy or radioactive iodine therapy is used after thyroidectomy (surgical removal of the thyroid) to destroy any remaining thyroid cancer cells, cancerous lymph nodes, or spread of cancer to other areas of the body. Radioactive iodine therapy takes advantage of the fact that papillary or follicular cancers often take up iodine readily. A dose of radioactive iodine is given, thyroid cells take up the iodine, and the radioactivity kills them.
This type of therapy is only appropriate for patients with follicular or papillary thyroid cancer; medullary and anaplastic thyroid cancers don't respond well to radioablation therapy.
Radiation therapy is not useful in thyroid cancers which normally do not concentrate iodide such as in anaplastic or medullary cancers. Pregnant patients should not receive radiation treatment.
This is a very effective way of killing any stray thyroid cancer cells remaining after thyroidectomy, cancerous lymph nodes, or thyroid cancer that has spread elsewhere in the body. Moreover, it is very effective in treating bone pain secondary to bony metastasis.
With radioablation therapy, you may experience the following unpleasant effects:
In addition, men who receive large doses of radioactivity may become infertile. Women don't usually become infertile, but are often advised to avoid pregnancy for at least one year after radioablation therapy. There is a slight increased risk of developing a second cancer.
External radiation therapy is given to patients who have either inoperable or recurrent thyroid cancer that does not readily take up iodine, or metastasis elsewhere in the body that is not appropriate for treatment with radioactive iodine. It may also be given for palliation—to ease troublesome symptoms, such as difficulty swallowing, blocked airway, metastatic bone pain, and other symptoms.
In external radiation therapy, rays are directed at the tumor from outside the body. External beam radiation may help relieve difficult symptoms.
External radiation therapy can provide symptom relief and may be the only way to slow progression of inoperable tumors, such as anaplastic thyroid cancers.
With external radiation therapy, you may experience the following unpleasant effects:
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What you need to know about cancer of the thyroid. National Cancer Institute website. Available at http://cancer.gov. Accessed December 10, 2002.
Last reviewed September 2016 by Mohei Abouzied, MD, FACP Last Updated: 9/17/2014


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Throughout the year, the Office of Admissions receives
notices of scholarships that are offered through external
organizations. Information about the scholarship awards
that are currently available is listed below. Award
notices are listed in the order in which they were received.
You may also find information on other outside scholarship
awards on the Internet. The following sites are useful
for finding scholarship and financial aid information:
NEW! Rubenstein Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 14, 2011
The Rubenstein Scholarship Fund was established by Jeffrey and Susan Rubenstein, two friends of the law school. Mr. Rubenstein is an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent and a partner at the firm of Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg & Ament. The recipient of this scholarship will be selected based on financial need with preference given to students who are financing their law school education by working part-time jobs in the hospitality or food service industries. This scholarship ranges from $1,000 to $3,000. To apply, applicants should forward a letter of interest and current resume to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 14, 2011.
NEW! The Geri and Ron Yonover Fellowship
The Geri and Ron Yonover Fellowship was established to provide financial assistance to a full-time student who has completed his or her first year of law school and has primary custody of a child or children under the age of fifteen. The Fellowship will help defray the cost of the recipient's second year tuition. The fellowship amount is $2,000 to be awarded in spring 2011. To apply, applicants should forward a letter of interest, copy of law school transcript, and current resume to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 14, 2011.
Application Deadline: February 15, 2011
Educational scholarship funds from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago are available for the 2011-2012 academic year. Approximately $500,000 is available for Jewish students who are identified as having promise for significant contributions in their chosen careers, and are in need of financial assistance for full-time academic programs primarily in the helping professions. To be eligible a student must: be enrolling or enrolled full-time; be domiciled in the Chicago metropolitan community; establish financial need; and demonstrate career promise. The Jewish Vocational Service administers the scholarship program and personally interviews all applicants before April 20, 2011 at one of its many offices throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. To apply, go to www.jvschicago.org/scholarship/. For additional information or questions, call the JVS Scholarship Secretary at 312.673.3444 or email email@example.com.
NEW! Asian American Bar Association for the Greater Chicago Area Law Foundation Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 15, 2011
The board members of the Asian American Bar Association for the Greater Chicago Area�Law Foundation (�AABA Law Foundation�) and members of its scholarship committee, announce the AABA Law Foundation's scholarship program.� The AABA Law Foundation�was established in February 2009, and is a non-profit, charitable and educational affiliate of Asian American Bar Association ("AABA") that is tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3).�
One of the goals of the AABA Law Foundation�is to�provide financial assistance to Asian Pacific American law students who have demonstrated academic excellence and social leadership.��The AABA Law Foundation will award annual scholarships to law students who have demonstrated a commitment to serving the needs of the Chicago-area Asian Pacific American community, and who will continue to serve the needs of the Chicago-area Asian Pacific American communities through pro bono, public interest, and/or public service legal work in the future.� This year, the AABA Law Foundation intends to award two Inaugural Scholarships of $2,500 each to law students who have exemplified that commitment. Click here for the 2011 application form.
NEW! The Institute for Humane Studies Scholarship Programs
Application Deadline: December 31, 2010
The Institute for Humane Studies announces its scholarship and ineternship programs for 2011. For almost 50 years, the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) has helped students who support individual liberty achieve their educational and career goals. Last year, the organization awarded more than $600,000 to help students fund their education. IHS also sponsored internships at organizations such as the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, and the Pacific Research Institute. For details regarding the scholarship and internship opportunities available, please visit their website at www.TheIHS.org.
NEW! The Honorable Dean J. Sodaro Memorial Scholarship
The Honorable Dean J. Sodaro Memorial Scholarship fund was established by Jennifer Prager Sodaro '86 in honor of her late husband Dean Sodaro '53 and has been supported by the Class of 1967, family, fellow faculty, colleagues and friends. This fund provides financial assistance to law students with need. Judge Sodaro taught part-time at Chicago-Kent while practicing law, then served on the faculty full-time from 1972 to 1990, when he was elected to the Circuit Court of Cook County and appointed to the Chancery Division. The scholarship amount is $1,000.
Sodaro Memorial Scholarship Fund applications are available online or in the Office of Admissions. Students interested must submit applications to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 14, 2011.
NEW! The Roddy Scholarship
Joseph V. Roddy, a 1962 Chicago-Kent graduate, established this fund to provide financial assistance to evening division students currently working in law enforcement. Preference for this scholarhip is given to first year students and the award amounts range from $1500 to $3000 (varies depending upon the number of scholarships awarded). To apply, applicants should forward a letter of interest and current resume to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 14, 2011.
For a complete list of the awards that have been posted
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Today I replaced the two electric screwdriver motors on my robot with a pair of electric window motors, recovered from a Jeep at a local scrap car place. These are better than the screwdriver motors because:
- They are a mirror image of each other, so suit a differential drive perfectly. The screwdriver motors had to be mounted in opposite directions, using up more space
- They use a worm gear, run slower than the electric screwdriver motors, and have higher torque
- They have a proper shaft coming out which I was able to couple with my axles using standard shaft couplers. I was never able to remove the drill chucks on the other motors, so had to use the chucks to couple with axles, which inevitably led to some slippage
- They are a lot quieter than the drill motors, presumably because they are better quality motors and use a worm gear instead of what I'm guessing is maybe a dozen conventional gears
- The window motors have proper mounting holes, making mounting onto the robot chassis fairly easy. The screwdriver motors were an extremely awkward shape, with no mounting holes or anything, and the way I was finally able to mount them was neither elegant nor especially robust
Also, previously I had my optical quadrature encoders mounted directly onto the shafts from the motors, and I was never happy with this arrangement. I have now coupled the encoders using timing belts and pulleys, which is much more satisfactory.
I still have a small about of backlash between the wheels and axles. This is due to the fact that the wheels aren't really ideal for driving from a drive shaft (they were intended as free-wheeling wheels). If anybody knows where I can get a pair of wheels of 4-6" diameter with a good solid coupling to 1/4" shafts (set screw or pin or whatever), please let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A New York Times story is being credited for jolting Apple into granting some generous raises for the hourly wage workers who staff the company's retail stores. But the raises were apparently already planned, and announced for early-than-expected release, by Apple's new retail store chief.
The Times published on June 23 a story that examined the wages of Apple's employees, in light of the spectacular sales they generate in the justly lauded stores owned and operated by the computer maker.
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Many news sites reported the raises as if they were unexpected. Businessweek reported that employees would get bigger discounts on Apple hardware products ($500 off most Macs and $250 off iPads, though not the new iPad, in addition to their existing 25% discount), along with raises that had been originally planned for September.
The Los Angeles Times suggested that Apple pushed up the raises after The New York Times began investigating for its story four months ago. "But now it seems as if Apple might have been trying to gain favor with both the press and its employees before the New York Times article was published," according to that story.
But at least one Apple-focused news site, 9to5Mac, reported months ago that both the bigger discounts, as well as the decision to make the raises effective earlier, had been reported to employees. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the new discounts, to start in June, during a January 2012 "town meeting" with employees.
And the advance in the raises was announced at the end of May, in a video to employees by Apple's recently appointed Senior Vice President of Apple Retail John Browett, who joined the company in April. He'd been CEO of a U.K. retail chain, Dixons, replacing Ron Johnson, who pioneered the retail stores and left in November 2011 to become CEO of J.C. Penney.
The New York Times story, by David Segal, packed with data on Apple's retail arm, opened with the example of a Salem, N.H., Apple store employee named Jordon Golson, who sold about $750,000 worth of products during his best quarter while earning $11.25 an hour.
That's actually much better than the retail industry average, of $7.25, and Apple offers generous benefits for its largely 20-something workforce. The Times noted that nearly 3 of every 4 Apple employees (30,000 out of 43,000 in the U.S.) are not software engineers and hardware designers, but hourly retail staff working in 327 company stores around the world. Many of them, according to the Times, earn about $25,000.
Based on revenue divided by employees, each store employee, including non-sales staff, generated $473,000 last year in revenue, an astonishing figure: "Electronics and appliance stores typically post $206,000 in revenue per employee, according to the latest figures from the National Retail Federation," reported the Times.
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Eugenios Voulgaris
Eugenios Voulgaris was an eminent nineteenth century theologian and scholar, and Archbishop of Cherson, Ukraine. He was born in Corfu, Greece in 1716 as Eleftherios Voulgaris and died at the age of ninety at the court of Alexander I in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1806.
He copiously wrote treatises in theology, philosophy and the sciences and greatly influenced the development of modern Greek thought, while also contributing to the perception of Western thought throughout the Eastern Christian world. He was thus one of the greatest exponents of the Neohellenic Enlightenment.
Eugenios Voulgaris studied in Corfu under Vikentios Damodos, an important scholar of the period. He continued his studies in the School of Ioannina (a wealthy commercial town of western Greece) under Athanassios Psalidas.
After he became a monk-priest, in 1737 or 1738 with the name Eugenios, he went to Italy in order to study Theology, Philosophy, European Languages and Natural Sciences at the University of Padua.
Teacher of the Nation
In 1742, he became director of an important school of Ioannina. There he was involved in a public dispute with Balanos Vassilopoulos, who was the director of another high level school of the district regarding the curricula of their respective schools – Voulgaris arguing for the institution of natural philosophy.
From 1753 to 1759 Voulgaris was appointed director of the School of Mount Athos (Athoniada Sxoli, Athonite School) at Vatopedi aiming at upgrading the level of studies. There he taught philosophy as well as mathematics. Though he was considered to be one of the most eminent teachers, his strong adherence to the new ideas of the European Enlightenment caused the negative reaction of the religious hierarchy of Mount Athos, and he was forced to abandon the school in the beginning of 1759.
He then temporarily headed the Patriarchal Academy in Constantinople (Megali tou Genous Sxoli). However in 1761 he permanently abandoned his educational career. Although he was associated by his opponents with the unsuccessful attempt to found a Western-style academy on Mt. Athos and at the Patriarchal Academy, nevertheless, he was also a strong opponent of Uniate and Roman Catholic expansion, and corresponded with Pierre Leclerc,[1] the French Catholic Jansenist pro-Orthodox Western theologian.
In a letter of his to the French Jansenist Leclerc, in which he speaks about the miracles, martyrs and other saints of the Orthodox Church from the time of the Schism up to his days, Voulgaris stresses that Orthodoxy has shown forth countless saints, equal to the ancients, and that throughout this whole period she possessed the bounty of miracles unceasingly, so that, as he says, "Our Church is continuously glorified and made wondrous by God, no less afterthe Schism than before it, and up to our times" (Epistle of Eugenios Voulgaris to Pierre Leclerc, first edition, by Andreas Koromelas [Athens, 1844], p. 68).[2]
In Russia
After his unsuccessful attempts to introduce the Enlightenment to the Athonite School and Patriarchal Academy he took shelter in Catherine's court, and spent the second half of his career in Russia. In 1763 he went to Leipzig and Berlin at the invitation of Empress Catherine II. Between 1772 and 1774 he worked as as librarian at court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. Between 1775-1787 he was consecrated a bishop, and in 1801 Archbishop of Cherson.
Orthodoxy and the Enlightenment
The eighteenth century dawned in the Greek East with Orthodoxy estranged from both branches of Western Christianity. While it remained impervious to any spiritual dialogue with Western Christianity until the nineteenth century, it nevertheless grappled with new intellectual challenges emanating from the west in the form of secular learning.[3]
Voulgaris was one of the most important Greek scholars and theologians of his time. Although he was strictly Orthodox, he tried to convey the ideas of this European Enlightenment to the Greek Orthodox cultural circles, through translations and teaching of the works of John Locke, Voltaire, and Christian Wolff. Voulgaris' model for the revivial and upgrading of learning within the Orthodox Church envisaged a substantial training in the classics combined with an exposure to modern European philosophy.[4]
Greek Language Question
The discussion on the Greek language question began at the end of the 18th century. Eugenios Voulgaris, along with Lambros Photiadis, Stephanos Kommitas (1770-1832) and Neofytos Dukas, were proponents of a more archaic high-level language (Ancient Greek), while Voulgaris's students Iosipos Moisiodax (1725–1800) and Dimitrios Katartzis (ca. 1725-1807) proposed a simpler (vernacular) language (Dimotiki). This discussion later became crucial when it was to be decided which form should be the official language of the modern Greek state, which was yet to be founded.
The humanist scholar Adamantios Korais (1748–1833) influenced the further discussion a lot. While being a supporter of the language of the people, Korais sought to cleanse it from elements that he considered to be too "vulgar" and eventually invented the purified and formal Katharevousa, which was set at a midpoint between Ancient Greek and the Modern Greek of the time.[5]
Treatise on Euthanasia
In his Treatise on Euthanasia (1804), Voulgaris tried to moderate the fear of death by exalting the power of faith and trust in the divine providence, and by presenting death as a universal necessity, a curative physician and a safe harbour. Voulgaris presented his views in the form of a consoling sermon, abundantly enriched with references to classical texts, the Bible and the Church Fathers, as well as to secular sources, including vital statistics from his contemporary England and France. Besides euthanasia, he introduced terms such as dysthanasia, etoimothanasia and prothanasia. The Treatise on Euthanasia is one of the first books, if not the very first, devoted to euthanasia in modern European thought and a remarkable text for the study of very early European attitudes towards "good death". In the Treatise, euthanasia is clearly meant as a spiritual preparation and reconciliation with dying rather than a physician-related mercy killing, as the term progressed to mean during the 19th and the 20th centuries. This early text is worthy of study not only for the historian of medical ethics or of religious ethics, but for everybody who is trying to courageously confront death, either in private or in professional settings.[6]
- Logic (Loghiki), (Leipzig, 1766).
- Treatise on Religious Toleration (Schediasma peri anexithreskeias), 1767.
- Treatise on Euthanasia, St Petersburg, 1804.
- Elements of Metaphysics, (Venice, 1805).
- What Philosophers Prefer, (Vienna, 1805).
- About the Universe, (Vienna, 1805).
- He also translated (but did not publish) the works of the late 17th century scholastics John Locke (1632-1704), Christian Wolff (1679-1754), Voltaire (1694-1778), Du Hamel (1624-1706), and Edmund Pourchot (1651-1734).
See also
At Wikipedia
- Diafotismos at Wikipedia. (The Modern Greek Enlightenment).
- Age of Enlightenment at Wikipedia.
Further Reading
- Stephen K. Batalden. Catherine II's Greek Prelate: Eugenios Voulgaris in Russia, 1771-1806. East European Monographs, 1982. 197pp. ISBN 9780880330060
- Andreas Koromelas. Epistle of Eugenios Voulgaris to Pierre Leclerc. Athens, 1844.
- ↑ Pierre Leclerc: French Catholic Jansenist, persecuted for his beliefs, who became an outspoken advocate of Eastern theological positions and corresponded with the Greek monk Eugene Bulgaris about the restoration of Orthodoxy to the West.
- ↑ Constantine Cavarnos. Orthodox Tradition and Modernism. Transl. from the Greek by Patrick G. Barker. Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, California, 1992. pp. 17.
- ↑ Michael Angold (Ed.). Eastern Christianity. The Cambridge History of Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp.202.
- ↑ Michael Angold (Ed.). Eastern Christianity. The Cambridge History of Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp.202.
- ↑ Greek Language Question at AbsoluteAstronomy.com.
- ↑ Galanakis, E., and I.D.K. Dimoliatis. "Early European attitudes towards "good death": Eugenios Voulgaris, Treatise on euthanasia, St Petersburg, 1804." Journal of Medical Ethics. 33.6 (June 2007): S1(4).
- Galanakis, E., and I.D.K. Dimoliatis. "Early European attitudes towards "good death": Eugenios Voulgaris, Treatise on euthanasia, St Petersburg, 1804." Journal of Medical Ethics. 33.6 (June 2007): S1(4).
- Eugenios Voulgaris Bibliography at 18th Century Bibliography.
- Eugenios Voulgaris at German Wikipedia.
- Eugene Bulgaris, Archbishop of Cherson at St. Pachomius Library.
- Towards the Revolution: Inspired Absolutism: Reforms
- Greek Language Question at AbsoluteAstronomy.com.
- Michael Angold (Ed.). Eastern Christianity. The Cambridge History of Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Dimitris Dialetis, Costas Gavroglu and Manolis Patiniotis (Univ. of Athens). The Sciences in the Greek Speaking Regions during the 17th and 18th Centuries, in "The Sciences at the Periphery of Europe During the 18th Century'', Archimedes, Vol. 2, 1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Constantine Cavarnos. Orthodox Tradition and Modernism. Transl. from the Greek by Patrick G. Barker. Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, Etna, California, 1992.
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CASTINE, Maine – A pair of New Jersey juniors, Dan Buonocore (Mahwah, N.J.) and Steven Wilken (Ringwood, N.J.) had career days for the Salve Regina football team to lead the Seahawks to a 42-8 rout of New England Football Conference opponent, Maine Maritime, Saturday afternoon. The win improves the Seahawks to 6-2 overall and a perfect 5-0 in the NEFC while MMA falls to 1-6 and 1-4 in the conference.
Wilken completed 21 of 31 passes for a career-best 347 yards, including three touchdown passes while Buonocore rushed for a game and career-best 136 yards on 23 rushes, including a touchdown run to open the game. Overall, the Seahawk offense went off for a program-best 604 yards, overtaking the previous mark set this year when Salve Regina racked up 594 yards against Western New England. Not to be lost in the career days was junior Matthew Traynor (Secaucus, N.J.) who had seven receptions for 146 yards, and two of Wilken's three touchdown passes.
"We came up to Maine and knew we had to stop the number one rushing attack in the country," remarked head coach Kevin Gilmartin following the game. "To hold them to just 189 yards on the ground, about 200 yards shy of their season average, is a pretty solid accomplishment. And then to back that up with over 600 yards of offense is really what drove us to victory."
The Salve Regina defense held a very explosive run offense of Maine Maritime to its second-lowest total yards rushing of the season and its lowest total number of rushing attempts in a game.
Salve Regina got out of the gate quickly, taking advantage of a Mariner fumble on the opening kick off to set off a five-play 30-yard drive that was capped by a 1-yard TD run by Buonocore to give Salve Regina 7-0 lead just 1:38 into action.
Maine Maritime took its only lead of the game after its defense forced a four-and-out with 7:34 left in the first quarter. The Mariners put together an 8-play, 80-yard drive that was capped off by a 20-yard touchdown pass from Michael Fahey to Joshua Doolan. The drive was kept alive by a roughing the punter penalty on Salve Regina and Billy Wetherbee's four-yard run on fourth-and-three. Wetherbee's two-point run gave the Mariners an 8-7 lead.
The late first quarter touchdown would be the only score Salve Regina's defense allowed for the game.
Salve Regina opened the second quarter with its second score as Wilken capped a nine-play, 80-yard drive with a 16-yard run into the end zone to put the Seahawks up for good. After forcing a punt, the Seahawks scored on their next offensive possession to take a 20-8 lead into halftime. Wilken connected with Traynor on a 17-yard pass to end an eight-play, 48-yard drive with 7:45 to play in the opening half.
The Seahawks opened the third quarter, just as they did the first and second, with a touchdown drive, this time a six-yard pass from Wilken to sophomore Alex Hulme (Hopkinton, Mass.). Salve Regina scored 22 unanswered points in the second half to secure the conference victory.
Junior Phil Terio (Trumbull, Conn.) helped keep the Mariners off the board in the third quarter after he recovered an errant Mariner handoff on a third-and-goal for MMA at Salve Regina's one-yard line to keep Maine Maritime out of the end zone in its final red zone chance of the contest.
Salve Regina scored twice more in the fourth, a 22-yard hook up between Wilken and Traynor and a 1-yard run from freshman Sam Pascale (Chesire, Conn.).
Sophomore Danny Ives (Madison, Conn.) led the Seahawk defense with 11 tackles, tying a career-high. Hulme finished the day with 109 yards on nine catches, both career bests for the sophomore.
With his three touchdown passes, Wilken inched closer to the career record at Salve Regina. Wilken has 38 TD passes in his career and needs just two more to tie the program record. This season, the junior has 18, just one shy of his own program single-season record.
Salve Regina returns to the field when the Seahawks host NEFC opponent Coast Guard on Nov. 9 for the Seahawks' senior day. The game against CGA marks Salve Regina's Military Appreciation game as well. Kick off is set for 12 p.m.
Buonocore and Wilken lead Seahawks to victory
|Salve Regina (6-2)
|Maine Maritime (1-6)
CASTINE, Maine – A pair of New Jersey juniors, Dan Buonocore (Mahwah, N.J.) and Steven Wilken (Ringwood, N.J.) had career days for the Salve Regina football team to lead the Seahawks to a 42-8 rout of New England Football Conference opponent, Maine Maritime, Saturday afternoon. The win improves the Seahawks to 6-2 overall and a perfect 5-0 in the NEFC while MMA falls to 1-6 and 1-4 in the conference.


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[thread started by Plattsburgh United on Sun 3/29 14:00 ET]
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from Plattsburgh United
on Sun 3/29 14:00 ET
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So far there have been 34 games played. I am doing especially bad in prediction points. Trying to figure out if its me or is scoring off.
34 games x 2 teams playing.
68 score lines
28 zero goals
20 one goal
14 two goals
6 three goals
0 any higher
Only 13 games out of 34 has both teams scored.
Does this seem off to people. Seems like scoring is down.
Also if you are not sure predicting, odds are put zero.
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2015- 66 goals through 34 games in Wk 4 (2 left)= 1.941 per game.
2014- 90 goals through 34 games (End of Wk 4)= 2.647 per game.
Pretty significant difference so far unless the 2 games today deliver roughly 29 goals total.
from FC Byrd Turgler
on Sun 3/29 14:30 ET
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Additionally, your 2nd and 4th highest scoring teams from last year (Sounders and FCD) combined for the first game in history with ZERO shots on goal. from rancho chevron fc
on Mon 3/30 15:24 ET
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I saw the same stat and was taken aback. Upon
watching the limited highlight reel there were shots
on goal. Just maybe not on frame, Chad Barrett
missing just a bit outside(ahem) and Castillo missing
for Dallas as well as a strange ricochet play that also
just missed. It may have just been a tough one for
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December 2012, Nayphidow, Myanmar – Myanmar has become the most recent Asian country to receive UNOSAT advanced training on the use of geospatial information technology for disaster risk reduction as part of the UNOSAT sub-regional capacity development initiative launched in 2011 [2].
The one week course was delivered by UNOSAT experts to 17 selected national experts. The activity was hosted at the Relief and Resettlement Department (RRD) and was attended by experts from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Agriculture. The diverse background and mandates of participants underscores the importance of disaster and risk mapping today in countries in need to plan their development and control their vulnerability to natural hazards.
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Luca dell'Oro of UNOSAT who managed the project in Myanmar says "We focus on augmenting the capacity of the national experts who take our courses. We like to think that we bring to them the answers they need instead of frustrating expectations with off-the-shelf training and workshops that often only increase the number of questions on the table".
The UNOSAT-ADPC cooperation arrangement [3] set up to meet the needs of countries in the region is supported by the government of Norway and set up within the UNOSAT-ADPC partnership created in 2011. The aim of the partnership is to give countries in the region access to concrete solutions in geospatial information and satellite imagery analysis for disaster risk reduction. More than 80 disaster management professionals have been trained already in Asia. Banking on the positive results, UNOSAT is discussing with ESCAP officials the enlargement of the training offer in the region.
UNOSAT in-country training courses [4]have been introduced in 2009 and implemented in Asia since 2011. They have been in great demand ever since. In most cases this type of course is part of a national capacity development package that includes in-situ assessments and direct technical assistance when needed. For more information and to request the a dedicated in-country project: firstname.lastname@example.com
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