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Would you like to hear about the Ursuline Historic Preservation experience from the students themselves? Then please watch this webinar, hosted by Heritage Ohio. After a 20 minute introduction to the program from the director, 4 students share their experiences and projects with you.
"The intimate environment of Ursuline affords students the opportunity to network with professionals on a level that is unparalleled at larger institutions. The experiences and activities that I have participated in at this institution have laid the groundwork for my career and lifelong goals." Kristina, Historic Preservation '09, Interior Designer, Herman Gibans Fodor, Inc., Architects??
"Pursuing a Master of Art in Historic Preservation at Ursuline College has been a rewarding, challenging and enlightening experience. The Ursuline College Historic Preservation program has provided me with an in depth opportunity to study historic preservation. Courses have explored all areas of historic preservation and broadened my concept of how cultural heritage impacts our communities and our country. The faculty has brought a vast array of knowledge to the classroom and beyond. Field trips have allowed me to learn off campus and on the site of all kinds of structures from National Landmarks to green building to adaptive reuse projects. I have had many opportunities to participate in conferences and symposiums throughout the state of Ohio. I have been encouraged to network and discuss preservation with professionals in the field. The faculty has been engaging, supportive, and learned. I cannot say enough positive things about the Historic Preservation Program at Ursuline College and my experience over the last two years." Margaret, Historic Preservation '12, Heritage Home Program Assistant, Cleveland Restoration Society
"I did my undergraduate work at a prominent research university in Cleveland. After coming back to school with a few years of corporate work experience behind me, I really appreciated the unconditional support and individual attention that I received at Ursuline. I was able to complete an internship with the Western Reserve Historical Society for academic credit, and class projects connected me with several local history organizations with which I still stay in contact. The historic preservation program reflects a wonderful combination of the liberal arts tradition and practical field training. While I enjoyed the reading, writing, and discussion that occurred in a traditional classroom setting, classes like Conservation Studio also provided hands-on technical training that isn't available anywhere else. On a personal note, the faculty were extremely understanding and accommodating throughout my pregnancy and the birth of my first child. Ursuline is a special institution, and the graduate historic preservation program is a unique and vital addition to it. I am so proud to be among the first graduates of the program." Karen, Historic Preservation '11
"Being the only college in Ohio to offer a bachelor and graduate degree in Historic Preservation, I appreciate Ursuline College for having the vision to implement this program into their curriculum. Historic preservation is challenging because it encompasses federal, state, municipal laws and guidelines, as well as private and public interest. It involves community revitalization, conservation, and civic pride, as well as being a major player in development through tax credits. The curriculum meets this challenging field because it addresses all aspects of preservation. This provides the student with a well-rounded sense of historic preservation, the opportunity to identify a specialized field, with the exciting reality that this profession is constantly evolving. As a graduate student this is an experience that I am blessed to have (even with the stress), and will be extremely proud of accomplishing a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation." Victoria, current graduate student
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Internship: Congratulations to Hannah for receiving the Heritage Home Program Summer Internship at Cleveland Restoration Society. April 2014.
Career: Congratulations to Kristina for completing her first LEED Silver Certification project through her firm, Herman Gibans Fodor Architects, for the Benjamin Rose Institute for Aging office building. Check out HGF's Facebook page for more details.
Employment: Congratulations to Jessica for her new position as Principal Investigator/Architectural Historian at Environmental Resources Management in Beachwood.
Professional Development: Congratulations to current students Ashley, Beth, Hannah, Jessica, Karl, and Sarah for the acceptance of their panel presentation "Preservation Pockets: Past, Present, and Future in Northeastern Ohio" for Heritage Ohio this September 2014.
Travel: Congratulations to alum Elizabeth for being selected to join Kent State University's travel abroad program in Florence, Italy. June 2013
Professional Development: Congratulations to Emily for presenting a program based on her thesis, "Cain Park" to a standing room only crowd as part of the National Preservation Month series hosted jointly by the Cleveland Heights Library, Cleveland Heights Historical Society, and Cleveland Heights Landmark Commission. June 2013.??
Graduate study: Congratulations to new alum Jessica for the award of her graduate assistantship in the M.A. in Humanities program at John Carroll University.
Awards: Congratulations to Emily for earning the "Best Research Practices from a Graduate Student" award at the May Ursuline Student Research Symposium. May 2013.??
Career: Congratulations to Margaret for her new position at Cleveland Restoration Society. May 2013.??
Prospectus Hearing: Congratulations to Victoria for her very successful prospectus hearing on Sunnimoor Farm. 2012.??
Prospectus Hearing: Congratulations to Emily for her very successful prospectus hearing on Cain Park. 2012.??
Career: Congratulations to Mary for her new position as Heritage Home Assistant at Cleveland Restoration Society. May 2011.??
Awards: Congratulations! to Mary for receiving Ursuline College's Brand Illumination Award, January 2011.??
Community Project: Congratulations to Mary as her National Register nomination for Cleveland's LaSalle Theatre continues to make its way successfully through the state and federal nomination process. This is also a paid consulting project! January 2011.??
Community Project: What fun! Mary helped lead the Leadership Geauga Youth Heritage Bus Tour for another successful year. December 2010.??
Professional Development: Exceptionally well done! Heather, Elizabeth, Margaret and Rachael did a tremendous job presenting their M.A. thesis topics to the Western Reserve Architectural Historians. November 2010.??
Professional Development: Thanks to Mary and Barb for representing us at the Stan Hywet Historic Preservation Symposium. November 2010.??
Professional Development: Kudos to Mary, Heather, Rachael, and Julia for journeying to Austin, Texas, for the National Trust for Historic Preservation annual conference. Special thanks to Ursuline College for financial support. October 2010.??
Professional Development: Thanks to Mary for representing Ursuline at the Ohio Modern Symposium and the Cleveland Restoration Society's Annual Community Partner Lunch. Fall 2010.??
Professional Development: Thanks to Mary for representing UC at the Association for Midwestern Museum Conference. October 2010.??
Scholarships: Congratulations to Mary, the current recipient of the Goudreau Scholarship in Historic Preservation. September 2010.??
Prospectus Hearings: Congratulations to Karen Wright and Mary Ogle for the very successful completion of their M.A. thesis prospectus hearings. Fall 2010.??
Professional Development: Congratulations to Jessica for her hiring on the Preservation Corps. September 2010.??
Internship: Congratulations to Emily for successful completion of her internship in preservation planning in Wilmington, North Carolina. Summer 2010.??
Internship: Congratulations to Heather and Elizabeth for successful completion of internships at the Cleveland Restoration Society. Summer 2010.??
Professional Development: Thanks to Josh and Mary for representing UC at the Heritage Ohio conference. And thanks to Ursuline College for supporting their attendance. June 2010.??
Community Connection: Thanks to the students who represented UC at the Donovan Rypkema presentation in Cleveland for Preservation Month. May 2010.??
Professional Development: Mary reprised her panel session "Czeching It Out for More Than a Grade: A Study in Community Outreach" at the Ohio Academy of History. April 2010.??
Community Connection: Congratulations to the Issues class for creating such a great exhibit table (The Greenest Building is the One that is already Built) for EarthFest at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Special thanks to Karen for creating a companion website. Business cards were used to direct people to the website to cut down on the need for brochures. April 2010.??
Professional Development: Mary and Cassidy were accepted as presenters at the Fall 2009 Stan Hywet Historic Preservation Symposium. Their panel was entitled "Czeching It Out for More Than a Grade: A Study in Community Outreach." Dr. Stith moderated. Thank you to Ursuline College for financial support for their attendance.??
Internships: Mary completed her internship as a paid assistant for Dr. Stephen Sebesta on his Czech History project.??
Community Connection: Congratulations to Mary whose Archival Methods Practicum has developed in to a paid, part time position at St. Paschal Baylon. Summer 2009.??
Internships: Karen was accepted into an 8 week Public History volunteer internship this summer at Hale Farm and Village, a property of the Western Reserve Historical Society.??
Internships: Cassidy completed an internship with the Cleveland Restoration Society.??
Community Connection: Karen's project on Parkman, Ohio, for the Survey and Nomination class will provide much needed information for the Parkman Township Trustees and Parkman Historical Commission as they evaluate historic district possibilities for their community center which is being threatened by the proposed widening of Rt. 422 by ODOT in 2010.??
Ellis, Dawn. Historic Preservation and Car Culture. 2012. This thesis explores the relationship between car culture and historic preservation in the United States. It examines the role of governmental programs such as the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 and national urban renewal projects of the 1960s and 1970s in the development of the dominance of the personal automobile in relation to land use and the built environment in the United States. The Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood of Tremont is highlighted as an example of the interplay between the forces of car culture and historic preservation in the United States
Fisher, Heather S. Defining Sense of Place Through Historic Character of Vernacular Architecture: The Creation of the Larchmere Boulevard Historic District. 2011. The focus of this Master's thesis is on the exploration of the relationship between vernacular architecture, as represented on Larchmere Boulevard, and historic district eligibility criteria and its significance in identifying historic character and sense of place. Research will focus on the eclectic mix of historic commercial buildings and converted residential properties located in the Larchmere Boulevard Business District and the district's potential for National Register of Historic Places and City of Cleveland Local Landmark historic district designation. This thesis will concentrate on the establishment of an historic district based on the district's genuine local historic character and its vernacular architecture that conveys its unique sense of place.
Lann, Margaret A. Behind the Wall: The Painter Estate and the Ursuline Nuns of Cleveland. 2011.
Laudadio, Cassidy. The Warner and Swasey Observatory, East Cleveland, Ohio. 2010.
Meinke, Elizabeth. Planning, Preservation and Persistence: Progressive Planning Advocate Charlotte Rumbold and Her Legacy's Importance to Historic Preservation. 2012. Throughout her life and career Charlotte Rumbold was noted for her persistence and dedication to improving the conditions of residential housing and to creating more thoughtfully organized and accommodating public buildings and spaces. Though she was not an architect or lamenting the loss of historic structures, her work in both public and private planning organizations directly impacted the built world. To accurately interpret the history of the built world, a fundamental core of historic preservation, it is imperative to understand the motivations of those who helped shape the built world. I assert interpreting such influence is fundamental to the discipline of historic preservation. This thesis will explore Rumbold's direct influence in the first half of the 20th century on residential housing, urban parks, city planning policy, broad social reforms, and how all these elements relate with the discipline of historic preservation.
Ogle, Mary. LaSalle Theatre: The National Register Nomination and Assessment for Adaptive ReUse. 2011.
Smith, Emily. Cain Park: Preserving an Innovative Park in American Theatre Movements. 2013. Cain Park is a community-owned and operated open-air performance space and has operated in this capacity almost continually since it opened in 1938. A designated Cleveland Heights Landmark, the park is also eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and is a significant site in both local and national history. It is the only known WPA-era municipally owned and operated outdoor theater in the state of Ohio. Conceived in the mid-thirties, Cain Park is rich in history. The brainchild of Heights High School drama teacher Dr. Dina Rees Evans and Cleveland Heights Mayor Frank C. Cain, Cain Park's original purpose remains unaltered. In 1934, with the help of WPA funds and the Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission, construction began for an amphitheatre complex. Since its inaugural season in 1938, Cain Park has remained a living symbol of the City's commitment to nurturing quality programming in the arts for an area population that undeniably thrives on it. WATCH EMILY'S "CAIN PARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY" PRESENTATION AT http://youtu.be/lb2ZEXuJvd0
Toth, Rachael, A Fight for Change: The Story of Union Chapel. 2012.
Viviani, Kristina Kosloff. St. James the Greater Catholic Church in Lakewood, Ohio. 2009.
Wobig, Jessica. Adapting Preservation: The Cleveland Environmental Center. 2013. The Cleveland Environmental Center historic retrofit project represents the evolution of historic preservation practice towards a more sustainable and conservation based approach, but this investigation shows that the first historic commercial retrofit in Cleveland, Ohio, succeeded by remaining true to historic preservation standards rather than relying solely on sustainability principles. ??
Wright, Karen. A Study of Buildings Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. 2011.


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Local TV news tends to stay local more for lack of budget than interest in faraway stories of concern to viewers. But this past March, Christopher Heath of KWTX Waco, Texas and David Nancarrow of KKTV Colorado Springs, Colorado were able to spend a month reporting daily from Iraq with the help of innovative production techniques and technology including Vegas 6 software.
"We had to put together a very efficient operation and being able to get up-to-speed on Vegas 6 fast was crucial." said Heath. "After a four hour tutorial and practicing on the long flight over, we were able to bring back soldier's stories that would not be told otherwise."
Follow the Beat
Heath had regularly covered Fort Hood as part of his beat in Central Texas. When the 4th Infantry Division stationed there got orders to deploy to Iraq, he was invited to come along. The challenge for his station was making this practical given the constraints of local TV news budgets. A traditional field crew consisting of reporter, camera operator and video editor would break the budget. Could a single reporter succeed with a "one man band" approach?
As it happens, Heath would not have to go it alone for what became Assignment Iraq. The 4th ID is divided up between Fort Hood and Fort Carson in Colorado. Gray Television, KWTX's parent company, also owns KKTV, a sister station that serves viewers in the Fort Carson area. Taking a reporter from each station would create an effective team and broaden the potential audience. Heath and Nancarrow could trade off duties behind and in front of the camera to create separate stories for their viewers. Then, the reporters would individually craft these on a laptop running Vegas 6 Software. While this sounded fine in theory, putting it into practice depended on their ability to master both videography and Vegas 6 editing on short notice.
We had to put together a very efficient operation and being able to get up-to-speed on Vegas 6 fast was crucial. After a four hour tutorial and practicing on the long flight over, we were able to bring back soldier's stories that would not be told otherwise.
Christopher Heath, KWTX
The gear selected for the trip needed to be light and small, easy to operate and able to deliver cost-effective high quality imaging. Also, they would have to buy two complete sets of whatever production setup they selected. Having redundant systems was the only insurance against the uncertainties about how equipment would hold up in the sand and dust of Iraq. Each reporter would also be equipped with a full set of body armor.
The Sony HVR-Z1U HDV camcorder was the perfect match for size, weight, and point-and-shoot operation to deliver broadcast quality footage. While the camcorder gives expert camera operators full manual controls to set white balance, exposure and focus, Heath and Nancarrow relied on the automatic settings to yield excellent results. Combined with the Z1U's small size, they were able to work effectively and unobtrusively in a combat zone to capture a real sense of what life is like for soldiers stationed there.
"It had been five years since I'd done any shooting so I was a real novice when I got my hands on the Z1U," said Nancarrow. "It was completely user-friendly freeing us to focus on getting the stories instead of worrying about the tech details."
Despite the adverse conditions, the primary Z1U operated flawlessly and the backup unit stayed safe in its case.
Chase to the Cut with Vegas 6
Heath and Nancarrow's task was to deliver daily features that would be sent back over the military's DVIDS (Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System) satellite uplink to their home stations. Through DVIDS, the reporters could also appear live on camera to provide "wrappers" for the pieces. A typical day was spent out with the troops and then back to camp at night to edit the material on Vegas 6 software loaded into a laptop.
For expert editors, crafting intriguing footage into two-minute news cuts is quick work. But Heath and Nancarrow were at the novice level. KWTX has long used Vegas software for fieldwork and the reporters received their hands-on primer with the staff expert to get them ready. They reinforced what they learned by practicing on the long flight over. By the time they landed, they were set to hit the ground running with the troops. Over their month-long trip, each reporter filed close to thirty stories.
"At first, I was intimidated at the idea of having to do my own editing, but was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was for me to pick up Vegas 6. I had the basics down immediately and was soon focused on improving my storytelling with it," said Nancarrow.
According to Heath, developing a core production methodology allowed them to quickly move from raw footage to finished pieces ready for air. The capabilities of Vegas 6 were more than a match for their needs. Three audio tracks covered location sound, interviews and voiceover. Video clips were layered in as needed. As their proficiency increased with use, the time needed to turn a "package" dropped from an hour to 30 minutes.
"I've just scratched the surface of Vegas 6's capabilities, and can see that you can do most anything you can imagine with it," said Heath. "But what really impressed me is how fast I was able to get up-to-speed."


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Gettysburg College has an affiliation agreement with Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Salus University for an accelerated 3-4 Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) degree program. Students complete three years at Gettysburg College and four at PCO, receiving the Doctor of Optometry degree in seven years instead of the usual eight years. After completing all Gettysburg College requirements at PCO, the student is awarded a BA or BS degree from Gettysburg College. A Doctor of Optometry degree from PCO is received at the conclusion of the professional degree program. Students also may attend PCO immediately after graduation from Gettysburg College under this agreement. Admission Requirements
For more information about the affiliation agreements, please contact Kristi Waybright, the Health Professions Office Administrator (email@example.com or (717) 337-6020).
Admission Requirements for Optometry at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University
1) Prerequisite courses (completed with a "C" or better):
- General Biology with laboratory - 2 courses
- General Chemistry with laboratory - 2 courses
- General Physics with laboratory - 2 courses
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- Microbiology with laboratory - 1 course
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- English - 2 courses
- General Psychology - 1 course
- Additional coursework in such areas as Biochemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Experimental and Physiological Psychology are encouraged but not required
- An applicant need not have completed all the prerequisite courses prior to applying, but must complete all the prerequisite courses prior to enrolling.
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Hi guys,
Pretty new to openbsd and confusing myself on what I would like to do. I was using openbsd as my gateway box for everything, worked great. Recently I have moved to a wireless router, but I would still like to use my openbsd box. Instead of just throwing it on the wireless network though, I would like my openbsd box to use another internet connection(dsl). Wireless router is on cable.
So right now I have Openbsd connected to the dsl and online. Next to that I have a windows xp box connected via the wireless router on the cable. I have an open NIC in both computers. Can I connect these via the 2 nics directly, and access the openbsd box locally for any computer on the cable network? If that makes sense.. I've confused myself thinking about this and not sure how to go about setting it up.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
1. heh, this is kind of as good as it gets from me. couldn't get spacing to show up in the post. so had to image it below.
Ok, so that windows XP with an extra unused NIC in it, which is next to the openbsd.. Id like to connect to the other extra NIC in the openbsd to be able to then connect locally through to the openbsd computer from anything on the Cable connection(on the left) through that network.
I hope that makes sense. I don't want to share internet connection between the 2, just be able to connect back and forth from the network cards between the cable side network / openbsd(dsl)
2. not that im aware of
3. 2 NICs. 1 being used to connect to the DSL modem. 1 unused at this point.
So, you are looking for something like this?
( Internet ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | Cable DSL | | ---------------- --------------- | Wireless | | Router/ | |Router/Modem | | Modem | ----|----|------ -------|------- | | | ------ | _______|_______ |Other| -|---------- | if0 | |Hosts| | Windows | | OpenBSD Box | ------- | Box ---Xover Cable----- if1 | ------------ ---------------
Edit: to do this sort of ascii-art, author your art in a text editor (vi, emacs, notepad if in windows), and then paste it between [code]..[/code] tags.
The only dumb question is a question not asked.
The only dumb answer is an answer not given.
Yep, that is exactly what i am looking for. I had originally tried just setting ips, connecting but i wasnt able to ping or connect from either side.
Will give it another try, not sure what i could have done wrong though.
Ah, it looks like i was able to ssh into the openbsd box from the windows xp box it was directly connected to.. I just can't see that on anything else on the windows xp network("Other Hosts" in the above ascii), just that 1 computer.
not really sure what needs setup to reach it from the others on the cable side of the network. if thats something to do with the openbsd config and/or the windows box its directly connected into.. or something that needs allowed on the cable side router?
thanks again
What is still not clear from discussion thus far is what IP addresses are used for this subnet between the Windows box & your OpenBSD system.
I suspect that you have configured each interface on your Windows box to be on a different subnet, & you are questioning how to communicate from other hosts connected to this wireless router through your Windows box to your OpenBSD system. In other words, you are wondering how to route packets from one subnet to another through this Windows box. In the Microsoft world, this is called multihoming, & you will need to ensure that the Windows box is appropriatedly configured. Some information on multihoming can be found at the following:
Reason Id like to do this setup is because the openbsd box is fairly far away from the router, and if I put it on wireless it gets a little flakey and id like to keep it online. I figure I can do this by keeping it online via the other internet connection(dsl) but still get onto it locally from the windows box next to it. Which is on the wireless that may be flakey but at least wont kick it offline. Just knock me off the local ssh.
So far I have it setup as.
Other hosts(from ascii) - 192.168.0.x/255.255.255.0
Windows Box - Wireless nic - 192.168.0.5/255.255.255.0
- 2nd nic - 10.0.0.2/255.0.0.0
Connected to that 2nd nic via crossover cable to openbsd is
xl0 - 10.0.0.1/255.0.0.0
2nd nic - xl1 - dhcp(dsl connection)
So from other hosts I need to reach 10.0.0.1/255.0.0.0
It seemed simple to me, but when I try to figure out what to do next.. I'm stumped. I've been looking through trying to figuring out the windows multihoming setup but I can't seem to find what relates to what I'm trying to do yet. I'm not even entirely sure if I've done everything upto this point correctly.
I can access the openbsd box from the windows box though. It's just being able to get to it from the other hosts on that side..
Thanks again
The problem you are experiencing is when hosts on 192.168.0.0/24 want to send a message to 10.0.0.0/8, the sending NIC will see that the target address is on a different subnet, so they will send packets destined to 10.0.0.0/8 via the default router -- which is most likely configured to be your wireless router. When your wireless router receives packets for yet another private network, it will most likely be dropping the packets as it should.
What you really want to do is:
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Remember history on Halloween
To the Editor:
Halloween is a time of the year that we sanction glorifying the gruesome and the macabre. It should not be a time when we lose sight of the impact the displays we select for our homes have on others.
As I drive through Rockville Centre, I have been shocked and appalled to see lifelike figures hanging from tree branches. We all know about the regrettable history of lynching in America. Such insensitive displays have no place in our community.
Louise Skolnik
Rockville Centre
The trees of RVC
To the Editor:
Many of our residents were drawn to Rockville Centre by its tree-lined streets, which are an important part of the village's character. Allen Road is blessed with rows of sycamore trees that form a beautiful canopy. The sycamores have deep roots and survived many storms and hurricanes over the past 70 years.
I recently found a notice from the village that our street was to be repaved and that the two 70-year-old sycamore trees on our curb were to be removed. Our neighbors received a similar notice, and were all extremely upset as we concluded that the rows of sycamores were slated for removal. I contacted the mayor's office and was amazed at the rapid and positive response. Two days later, Mayor Francis Murray, Deputy Mayor Nancy Howard, and Superintendant of Public Works Harry Weed met with me and my neighbor in front of our house to discuss our concerns.
Our fears were quickly addressed, as the mayor made it very clear that his administration made preservation of RVC's trees an important priority. If the notice was not signed and returned, then the trees would not be removed. The village notice will be modified to make this important choice clearer. Residents with trees that pose a danger to homes due to poor condition, weak roots, disease or other reasons can opt to have their trees removed during the repaving process and replaced with new trees.
Mayor Murray had previously met with neighbors down the block, and had worked closely with residents on Wright Road to ensure that 17 trees were not cut down. Our appreciation goes to Mayor Murray and to his administration for their efforts in saving RVC's trees.
Herb Friend
Rockville Centre
Shame on thieves
To the Editor:
What a negative indictment of our present culture when stealing becomes a career choice.
Tuesday, Oct. 15, during the evening hours, four planters were stolen from my front lawn.
Mary Sabbatino
Rockville Centre
I'm here to help
To the Editor:
Although I do not yet represent the Rockville Centre community until January, a letter in the Oct. 10-16 Herald from Mr. Richard Skolnik about a dangerous intersection on a county roadway got my attention ("county won't help").
As a county legislator, I take my responsibilities very seriously — especially regarding matters of safety — and appreciate when I hear from neighbors. It's one of my top priorities to improve the county's infrastructure, but for whatever reason, the matter went unaddressed by my predecessor.
To correct this serious public hazard, I took quick action and directed the County Department of Public Works to the area. The concern Mr. Skolnik shared was rectified overnight.
Good government that provides quality services to neighbors is what I strive for each and every day; it helps improve and sustain our great quality of life. The feedback I receive indicated that I've been very successful in this regard. If I can be of assistance to any Rockville Centre resident, their family or neighbors, please do not hesitate to contact me. I'd be happy to help. Feel free to call my office anytime at (516) 571-6207 or reach me via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss your concerns, offer feedback or share your input.
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The author laments about humiliated Jerusalem, listing various facts. In 5:13, the New American Standard Bible reads :
"Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood."
The meaning is perfectly clear, the sentence referring to some kind of hard labour.
Yet the Latin Vulgate says something completely different (at least in the first part of the verse) :
Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt. "They shamelessly 'took advantage' of young men, and youths stumbled in wood."
The Septuagint has yet another version :
[face=SPIonic]e)klektoi\ klauqmo\n a)ne/labon kai\ neani/skoi e)n cu/lw| h)sqe/nhsan[/face] "Chosen ones lifted up laments and youths got sick in wood."
Can Young's Literal Translation help us ? It reads : "Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled."
All translators had before their eyes the same Hebrew text : b-ch-w-r-y-m ("young men", lit. "chosen") t-ch-w-n ("mill") n-s-)-w ("lifted/carried"), w-n-(-r-y-m ("and-youths") b-(-ts ("in/by wood") k-sh-l-w (stumbled)
First, Young's Literal Translation appears not to be so literal, because there is nothing denoting "to" ("to grind"), so the obvious literal meaning should be "Young men carried the grind mill";
2° New American Standard Bible seems to have "adjusted" the sentence to offer a natural meaning. Working at the grinding mill was really hard work, but the text says young men "carried" the mill, not "drove".
3° The Latin Vulgate seems to offer a "dynamic interpretation". Hieronymus and the Romans knew well that working at the mill was hard work, often a punishment for slaves, but he alludes rather to sexual abuse. He knew maybe, or at least believed, that the Hebraic phrase could have such a meaning ? Hieronymus translated by "in" ("in wood") the Hebraic preposition "b" that can also mean "due to"
4° The Septuagint seems to have "weakened" a meaning that would be too harsh. They preferred also "in" rather than "by"
So we can conclude : "Ah ! translation !"


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Security Slideshow: Information Security Strategies Found Lacking: PwC
By Bob Violino | Posted 10-05-2011
A large number of global companies think they have an effective information security strategy in place and are proactively executing their security plans, according to a new survey by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). But a relatively small percentage of the organizations surveyed (13%) are what the firm calls true information security "leaders." The PwC 2012 Global State of Information Security Survey, in which more than 9,600 business and IT executives worldwide were surveyed online between February and April 2011, finds that companies are actively investing in information security, driven by a quickly evolving and dangerous landscape of cyber threats, according to PwC. "The face of cyber threats has rapidly evolved from curious college kids taking their hand at hacking to an enormous global ecosystem of cyber-crime," says Mark Lobel, principal at PwC and co-author of the study. "Companies need a comprehensive approach to security--technology, education and awareness--and a very small number have truly mastered all three."
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Living or Non-living?
Lesson Overview
Grade level(s):Elementary School (K-5), Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Subjects(s):Biology/Life Science, FOSS-Related
Topic:Common Functions of Living Things
Big ideas(s):
All living things share common characteristics. Living things are made up of one or more cells, use energy (which includes nutrition, excretion, respiration), grow and develop, reproduce, and respond to their surroundings (which includes movement and sensation).
Vocabulary words:
reproduce, feed, excrete, grow, sense, respond, respire, cell
What you need:
- 1 basin of 3 specimens from the list below for each pair of students. Pairs will have different combinations of items: one alive and the other either confusing or not alive. It makes for a very interesting discussion if some objects are given to multiple pairs, but paired with different items.
- Extra specimens for students to choose from who have finished early.
The following are possible specimens to use. Feel free to come up with your own ideas and vary which specimens are grouped together.
Not Alive
Heat Pack, Compass, Weasel Ball, Battery Operated Toys, Baking Soda & Vinegar, Drinking Bird, Rock
Bacteria/Mold Plate, Worms, Plant, Isopods, Yeast Bottle, Fungus, Worms, Goldfish, Elodea/Aquarium Plant, Potato or Onion with roots
Seeds, Dried Yeast, Moss, Lichen, Pieces of Wood, Corn Cob, Carrot, Pinecone, Cut Flower, Soil, Shell, Plant Bulb
Non-living materials are available at the SEP Daly Ralston Resource Center (K 118, K137, K138)
Time needed:
One class period 40-60 minutes
Students will investigate different objects and discuss whether they are alive or not alive. Students are challenged to provide evidence for their decision and defend their opinion.
This is the second lesson of a unit (What are Living Things and How does a Living thing Respond to Its Environment?) that was designed to precedes teaching the adopted FOSS unit on life sciences. In this unit students are given time to think about and discuss the fundamental question, "What is a Living Thing?" They are also introduced to a method for doing their own science investigations on the topic of how different living things interact with their environment. The unit ends with students deciding on a testable question, designing an investigation, doing the investigation, collecting data and drawing conclusions. Students then create poster presentations of their investigation and findings for a grade level science fair.
Students will be able to list some characteristics that all living things have in common. See Lesson "What Do Living Things Have in Common?"
Students will use a class generated list of characteristics of living things to identify objects as living or non-living.
This lesson also allows students to practice:
1) Building a community of scientists
2) Thinking critically and being skeptical
3) Constructing an argument and defending a position
Living things are made up of one or more cells, use energy (which includes nutrition, excretion, respiration), grow and develop, reproduce, and respond to their surroundings (which includes movement and sensation).
Gather objects and place two objects in each basin as described above. Have enough basins for each pair of students.
Have extra objects for students who finish early. This may include a candle to light if there is a volunteer to light the candle and have a discussion with students who are finished.
Lesson Implementation / Outline
- Share with students that their task today is to try to identify objects that they are given as either living or non-living things.
- Review the class generated lists of characteristics of all living things created during the prior lesson. Review any vocabulary on list that are new to students. Remind students that this is just our initial list. They can use the characteristics that they agree are common to all living things to help them identify objects that are living or non-living.
- As students look at the objects, ask them to think if there are any new characteristics to add or if they question ones that are already listed.
Explain activity and distribute basin of objects to each pair of students. Hand out record sheet (attached).
Investigation in pairs:
1) Examine your objects.
2) For each of your objects, discuss the following questions:
a) Is this a living thing? If I think it is, why do I think so? What is my evidence? (focus on what you can directly observe). What does it have in common with all living things?
b) Is this a living thing? If I thing it isn't, Why do I think so? What is my evidence? (focus on what you can directly observe). Does it have anything in common with all living things? How does it differ?
3) Write down your ideas.
4) Choose the object about which you have had the most interesting discussion, and be prepared to present your conclusions about whether it is alive or not. Your conclusions should be supported by your observations.
Report Out:
Post directions on board
1) Reporter 1 holds up object and describes it to the rest of the class.
2) Reporter 2 answers the following:
a) Did you and your partner decide that the object was alive, not alive, or are you not sure?
b) What is your evidence for that decision?
Encourage students to question and challenge each other during their discussions with partners as well as during their report-out. Depending on the age of your students, you might want to model how to ask clarifying and/or skeptical questions. Sentence starters can be displayed:
Why do you think that?
What made you decide that?
But what about ______?
How does that fit with your decision that ____________________?
Questioning each other does not only challenge students to think deeper but also models that it is the nature of science to encourage researchers to be skeptical of one another's findings. Questioning also allows students to become accustomed to defending their positions with evidence.
Revisit the class generated lists of characteristics of all living things created during the prior lesson. "After today's lesson, decide if you still agree with all the characteristics we have listed as common to all living things. Spend a few minutes discussing this with your partner. Is there anything you would add? Is there anything that you would remove from the list?"Have students who want to add or take away expain why. See if there is class agreement, and if so adjust list.
Extensions and Reflections
This lesson is part of the unit, "What Are Living Things and How does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment?" It follows the lesson, "What Do All Living Things Have in Common?"
I have found that for students to have a good understanding of the structures and functions of living things and how they adapt to environmental changes, they must first have an opportunity to reflect upon and discuss their basic understanding of what a living thing is. That is the primary goal of this lesson and the lesson that precedes it.
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This three-car roundup has us feeling like Goldilocks, and only one of us is blond. We've got the usual complaints: One's too cramped, one's too slow, one's too hot, one's too lumpy, and so on. What we have here are three quite different sports cars with the same things in mind: maximal involvement, minimal suffering.
Our fairy-tale quandary starts with the new Lotus Evora, which draws existential questions from passersby, such as: "Uh, is that, like, a Lotus?" And from C/D staffers who ask, "What, exactly, does this car compete against?" What indeed.
The mid-engined, two-plus-two Evora configuration is an anomaly (as long as Lamborghini continues to not build a Urraco). The price of this Lotus—$74,675 base, $85,270 as tested—lines up with the Nissan GT-R's and the bottom end of the Porsche 911 Carrera range, but those cars don't feel like proper competitors somehow. The Evora aims for chassis feel above straight-line times, light weight over complexity, and a connection with the driver above all else. While it nevertheless makes concessions to cabin comfort, the Evora couldn't more concisely define British sports-car-ness if it were wearing string-back gloves, a tweed cap, and women's underwear.
Our first problem, then, became what to put up against the Lotus. We found two automotive icons—one from Germany and the other from America, each proffering their native definitions of what a sports car should be. The Porsche Cayman S and the Chevy Corvette Grand Sport are highly evolved and decorated examples of the genre. They are practical and usable yet still retain their edges. This is exactly what the Evora purports to do. In other words, game on.
The mid-engined Cayman S is arguably the closest car to the Evora in size and horsepower—aside from an Acura NSX. And while it's sacrilege to Porschephiles, the Cayman's mid-engine powertrain configuration beats the 911's full diaper when it comes to handling. As usual, Porsche delivered a test car bristling with options—18 grand worth, including a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox and an adjustable suspension—bumping the $62,450 base price to $80,695.
The Corvette Grand Sport is the cheapest here, at $67,565 as tested. Power-wise, it plays the role of anti-Evora, with a big, torquey V-8 in front as a foil to the Lotus's mid-mounted, Toyota-sourced 276-hp V-6. The Grand Sport is the thinking man's Z06: $19,515 cheaper but with the former's body styling, dry-sump oiling system, fat Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar tires, and brake and suspension upgrades that make the base Corvette look soft. With 436 horsepower, this Corvette outhunks the Evora by 160 stallions and tops the Cayman by 116.
Aside from our usual battery of performance tests, we ran the three cars through the mountain passes between Bakersfield and Lake Isabella at the bottom end of California and then spent a day lapping at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, north of Los Angeles. The range of these three cars' driving personalities is as various as the pajama sizes of Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear, but a clear winner emerged nonetheless.


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Riding on the Night Train to Terror, Part II! (Click here for related posts)
If you've been reading this site for a while, are a Mill Creek fanatic, or just have alarmingly little going on in your life, you probably know about the mash-up of movie madness that is Night Train to Terror. If not, a brief catch-up: in the movie, God and Satan hop on the titular track-based transport to "review" three cases whose outcomes they can't decide, for some reason. Meanwhile, a cadre of headband-and-sweatsuit-clad 80s pop singers croon the most infectiously inept ditty ever written in the dining car. The stories themselves are actually 3 full-length b-movie bombs that have been ruthlessly cut down to 25-30 minutes each, with the effect of immersing the viewer in a disjointed nightmare-logic ride that is often entertaining but NEVER makes the slightest bit of sense. For more detail, see my full review HERE.
Recently I made it a quest to seek out the three movies that were mashed to a pulp in service of NTtT, to find out if they could possibly be as mad, bad, and dangerous to watch at full-length as they were in abbreviated form. In the case of my first experiment, The Nightmare Never Ends (review here), the answer was a reverberating YES. So, buoyed by my enjoyment of that flick, I recently dove into the second, with the unwieldy title Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars. I expected ineptitude; I expected illogic; I expected Madness.
But what I didn't expect? To find that the mashed-up movie in question was ITSELF a mash-up! Layers within layers, people! Who'd have thought?
According to imdb user todmichel (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0945188/comments)--who as near as I can figure is the world's leading authority on the subject--director John Carr started the movie sometime in the 80s, then for whatever reason (funding problems, I presume) left the film unfinished and went to England for a time. In his absence, his incomplete footage was incorporated into Night Train to Terror, released in 1985. Producers then added footage and released a "complete" version of the movie on VHS, entitled Scream Your Head Off, surprising and displeasing Carr on his return to the states. (Try as I might, I could NOT locate a copy of this version.) Some time later he decided to complete *his* vision of the movie, somehow convincing original star John Phillip Law to come back and shoot new scenes to flesh out the gaps. This final, official version he called Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars, which was finished and released on VHS in 1992.
It's important to have all this information up front, as it explains a lot of inconsistencies of tone, stlye, and even medium. However, it can't explain EVERYTHING...thank god!
Sidney (Mark Petrich)--wearing a fetching ensemble of overalls, goggles, and World War I leather flying helmet--is visiting the grave of everyone's favorite bombshell, Marilyn Monroe. "Is Marilyn buried here?" a couple of tourists stop to ask. "No! People think she is, but she's NOT!" he replies, cryptically. (Ba-dump.) Sidney then gets gone with the Schwinn and returns to his place of employment, a private asylum that looks like the interior of someone's condo, and brings breakfast in bed to a mysterious inmate...no points for guessing who.
Meanwhile, sometime in the 80s, newlywed Harry Billings (John Philip Law) and his nameless wife are driving from the ceremony to their honeymoon getaway. Sadly Harry decides to take a detour down the Stock Footage Expressway, where they are sideswiped by a semi and thereafter plummet a dozen feet off a bridge toward a watery grave. Somehow Billings survives, but his wife--whose entire role consisted of staring bright-eyed at her wedding ring and loosing one rather impressive scream, and who I can't even guarantee was in the same car as Law--is killed.
Harry is extremely depressed, as we realized when he's discovered sleeping barefoot atop his wife's grave. With nothing left to live for, he returns to the scene of the tragedy and flings himself into the water, but is rescued via jump cut and finds himself in the hospital, where attending Dr. Nobody quips, "This one's goin' to the sanitarium!"
Back at said sanitarium, Dr. Brewer (Arthur Braham, doing his best Alfred Hitchcock impression, which I have to say is a fairly decent one) and hulking assistant Otto (Night Train/Court alumnus Richard Moll) are ministering to a bikini-clad blonde bound to a stretcher. She resists their attempts to "help her," but the doctor is not worried. "She'll come around," he lisps. "They all do." When a lost couple arrives to use the phone and Otto kills the husband and kidnaps the blonde for similar tie-down activities, we start to believe that this asylum may not be on the up and up.
Harry arrives at the asylum (again via jump-cut), and Dr. Brewer and his MILF-tastic partner Dr. Fargo (Sharon Ratcliff) decide he'd be the perfect replacement for their former kidnappy muscle Robert, who had to be lobotomized when he got too greedy. Reasoning that "Suicide attempts are a manic-depressive state of mind. The fastest way of curing that is electric shock treatment!", Brewer pumps Harry fulla volts, erasing his personality temporarily. They then train him to go out into the community and kidnap every blonde he can get his paws on, bringing them back to the asylum so that they can be similarly tabula-rasarized and sold into white slavery to the OPEC board member--complete with suit, giant sunglasses, keffiyeh, and suitcase full of cash) who comes by every now and then to replenish his harem.
While wandering around the asylum between assignments, Harry discovers the Mysterious Madwoman's room upstairs, and of course the inmate is revealed to be none other than the one and only Marilyn Monroe! Apparently she's been starring in her own mashup of Oldboy and Some Like it Hot since her apparent death, confined to this room with only the numerous photos of herself on the walls (including an awesome velvet rug painting!) to keep her sane. As she explains:
"The story they told me here was, when the studio dropped my contract, I was signed by an independent company to do a film. I didn't know that it was owned by Powerful People! They never intended to make the film! They insured my life for millions of dollars, and then they murdered a lookalike Marilyn Monroe, and left her in my bedroom!"
That's all well and good, but why would Powerful People--powerful enough to find a perfect lookalike of Marilyn and murder her, get away with it, and then incarcerate the real Marilyn for twenty or so years--not simply murder the real Marilyn instead? And WHY are they keeping her imprisoned? Clearly not to sell to the Arabs, or they would have done so by now. Harry is wondering these things too, and reaches the reasonable conclusion that she's NOT Marilyn, but a crazy woman who just thinks she is. That doesn't stop him from visiting her every time he comes back from snatching an innocent into white slavery, though, and as their love blossoms, Harry's core decency starts to return and they plan a daring escape.
So most of the movie is John Philip Law putting himself in different situations where he can mack on blondes--which include hanging out in bars, posing as a taxi driver at the bus station, cruising for Elderly Care Nurses in the public park, and in the most memorable scene, visiting an evangelical church--slipping them a mickey, and then taking them back to the docs to fuel the whole Blondes-for-Cash revenue stream. Interspersed (and seldom connecting) are his scenes with "Marilyn" (played all "Happy Birthday Mr. President" breathy by busy TV actress Francine York), torture scenes with Docs Fargo and Brewer shocking the shit out of writhing bikini blondes strapped to gurneys, and Richard Moll occasionally popping up to swing a comically large cleaver at some would-be escapee's head.
You might be wondering how well Carr was able to blend his scenes shot pre-1985 with those shot in 1991 and 1992, and the answer is, not so well AT ALL. While the asylum and many of the kidnapping scenes were shot on film and have a nice shadowy look, the "Marilyn" scenes look to have been shot on a consumer-quality video camera with the warm, yellowy glow of overexposed photos. Worse, there's a very noticeable and absolutely pervasive tape hiss in these scenes, which magically disappears whenever we get back to the asylum in the 80s. Also, the gore and nudity scenes used so prominently in Night Train to Terror (usually involving Moll's Otto character molesting the inmates) are missing from this version, and might have been among the unauthorized footage producers shot for Scream Your Head Off.
Further, Carr was either unable to or uninterested in matching the sets from one segment to the other. The asylum of the Marilyn scenes is CLEARLY not the same building as the hospital in the older footage, and in fact looks like somebody's apartment or a rented condo. (Her "cell" even has a security peephole in the door!) Furthermore, while John Phillip Law is still a handsome man, you can clearly see the difference the 7 years lapse made on his looks. His acting in the 1985 segments is passable, but in the '92 segments he's phoning it in while sleepwalking (often barefoot, for no reason that's ever explained). One has to wonder why he returned for the reshoots--my theories are that either Carr is a personal friend to whom Law owed a favor, or else JPL found himself short of cash in LA and needed the work to finance a flight back to Europe. Or maybe those electroshock scenes weren't done with props. At any rate, it's bad.
"Okay, Vicar," you might well ask, "So the movie is a laughably inept hodgepodge of unmatched footage. But what about the MADNESS?" Sadly MA&BB does not approach The Nightmare Never Ends in this regard, but that's not to say there aren't a few high spots. To wit:
Objectively, there's really no way Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars could have POSSIBLY been any good. The odd idea of Marilyn-as-Oldboy is intriguing, but only goes so far, and without any nefarious plan for Harry to save her from, falls absolutely flat. I'd kind of like to see the Scream Your Head Off version just to find out if the gore/nudity additions do any good, but I'm guessing the improvement would be negligible. As a movie whose backstory is more interesting than the flick itself, I give Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars 1.25 thumbs. Unless you're a Richard Moll/John Philip Law completist, stick with the Night Train version.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars (1992): or, Hello, Norma Jeane
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 10:39 AM
Labels: '80s, '90s, 1-2 Thumbs, Bad Medicine, Boxcar on the Night Train to Terror
3 comments:
- Matt Bradshaw said...
I absolutely love Night Train To Terror (feel free to check out my video review of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EH3M_tLe8).
I own all three of the movies that went on to become Night Train, but I've never gotten around to watching Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars. Death Wish Club is a real bore in its full length form, though it taught me that the annoying lesbian strapped to the electrocution machine is actually the main character Gretta under the delusion that she is a man. The Nightmare Never Ends wasn't bad and it filled in a few story elements, but it's tough to beat the idiotic breakneck pace of the Night Train To Terror Version. What I thought most interesting was that the cheezy yet awesome stop-motion effects were missing from the originals and were apparently made specifically for Night Train to Terror.
Great review, love the site.
- April 30, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Thanks, Matt! DEATH WISH CLUB will be my third and final Boxcar on the Night Train to Terror entry--I have a copy, just waiting for the right time/mood to strike. It's funny that both DWC and this one had added scenes in the NTtT versions, even though they were cut down such a huge amount from their original run times. Anyway, keep watching for the caboose!
- April 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Emily said...
Wow. Just wow. Really. Wow.
And is it me, or does Harry resemble a Return of the Jedi-era Mark Hammill?
- August 24, 2010 at 10:45 PM


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By Anne Conlin, KF15, Indonesia
In a past blog post, I discussed how loans from Kiva's partner Mitra Usaha Kecil (MUK) in rural West Bali, Indonesia are helping women expand the scale of their pig breeding businesses. MUK's Pig Breeder Group Loan enables women who have long casually raised one pig in their yard to take small loans of 1 – 2.5M IDR ($117 – $263) to formalize their business and raise additional pigs. As part of MUK's mission statement is to address local environmental issues, MUK is currently piloting a program that would put pig waste to good use, by installing biogas digesters in the backyards of some successful pig borrowers.
MUK's biogas pilot program is called BIRU, short for Biogas Rumah (house in Bahasa Indonesian) and is funded by the Dutch government in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of Energy. BIRU was motivated by the role of energy in the Millennium Development Goals and has set a goal of 8,000 installed units by the end of 2012. The Dutch government has dedicated $1M to establishing a "market-oriented, feasible and self-reliant biogas sector" in Indonesia. To make the systems more affordable, BIRU has trained masons to construct the systems efficiently and has partnered with several banks and MFIs – including MUK – to finance construction.
How the BIRU system works:
The pig breeder puts pig waste into a cement inlet and mixes with water in a 1:2 ratio.
The mixture flows into the digester, an eight cubic meter underground cement box with a domed roof. The slurry is mixed every day via the manhole and allowed to ferment for several days.
After fermentation, the gas rises to the top of the domed digester and flows through a pipe into the house where it is connected to a special stove. If all goes well, the household will be able to run their stove without any other sources of fuel. If all goes really well – and if the house has a lot of pigs – they should also be able to run their lights. The important question: how much does this all cost? The fully installed cost is 7M IDR, but the Dutch government has offered a 2M IDR subsidy bringing the cost to the client to 5M IDR ($590).
At first glance, BIRU seems like a winning situation for all sides: MUK can make a loan to fund construction of the digester, the households benefit from reduced energy costs, and the whole system serves an environmental mission. The economics of BIRU are a little more challenging.
BIRU can appeal to borrowers in many ways. Even in a country where the government subsidizes fuel, energy costs are a significant contributor to poor households' budgets. Most MUK borrowers spend at least 100K IDR ($12) monthly on LPG fuel for their homes, before factoring in electricity costs, which can be another 80K IDR. A perfectly functioning BIRU system could therefore replace up to 180K per month in energy costs. (In the first MUK pilot house, the stove is functional but electricity costs have not yet been offset.) Additionally, the digester's byproduct – Bio Slurry – is a potent organic fertilizer which may be more effective than chemical fertilizer. If the household saves roughly 200K per month on LPG, electricity, and fertilizer, cost savings would allow breakeven in 25 months.
Additionally, there are non-economic benefits of the BIRU system. Of course, the natural fertilizer produced is safer and better for the environment. Less apparent but still attractive are the benefits to the family's health: fully-fermented pig waste and the Bio Slurry fertilizer are odorless and don't attract flies, making BIRU more hygienic – and less stinky – than other methods for disposing of pig waste. Keeping in mind that most pigs in Bali live within a few yards of the home, this benefit increases exponentially for households with more than a few pigs. Though most MUK clients already cook with gas, biogas is generally lauded for providing an economical alternative to wood or charcoal fires for cooking, yielding reduced respiratory and eye problems for women.
Beyond the advantages related to health and cost-savings, the BIRU system goes hand-in-hand with larger-scale pig breeding, which has potential to facilitate a massive step-jump in familial income. MUK estimates that the BIRU system will require 16 pigs to be continuously functional. Annual profit from a pig breeding business of this scale is estimated at around 6.4M IDR or $750/year. MUK estimates that 90% of its clients live on less than $1.25/person/day, or about $1,825/yr for a family of four (much less than Bali's per capita GDP of $1,670). So, an additional $750 per year represents a huge increase in household income, enough to theoretically move borrowers into the "middle poor" category.
Stepping a pig breeding business to this level of income requires a significant infusion of working capital. MUK's biogas pilot program includes 25M in loans: a 5M loan for the BIRU system plus a 20M working capital loan to finance a 16-pig business ($2,900 total). The largest loan available through the Pig Breeder group is 2.5M, which generally enables borrowers to raise 3-4 pigs. Successful borrowers who want to continue expanding their business can get individual pig breeder loans of 5M IDR, with which borrowers generally raise 6 pigs. The BIRU loan package would represent a large increase over a previous loan for most borrowers, and a large loan relative to current income.
Given the vast difference between the scale of the BIRU loan product and MUK's other loan products, targeting this program to the appropriate clients will be crucial. MUK has stipulated that clients must have successfully completed five to ten loan cycles to be eligible, but previous MUK Pig Group clients may not be appropriate targets given the income levels of even the most successful Pig Group borrowers. MUK estimates that only 2% of clients will be candidates for this loan, and they have identified and approached 100 such clients. MUK plans to appropriately target this product to clients who will be able to repay such a large loan to avoid over-indebtedness.
Ultimately, I think that BIRU is a tremendously exciting idea. I commend MUK management for being creative and taking risks and forming partnerships with international organizations to truly act on their mission statement of environmental benefit. MUK management is already anticipating some of the implementation challenges they may face. The BIRU program requires a great deal of foresight from borrowers. It asks that clients accept a breakeven several years out on a non-productive investment. And, it requires that clients are willing to pay a premium for health and environmental benefits. Having worked alongside MUK management during my fellowship, I am confident that they will take the necessary steps to educate their community on the potential benefits of BIRU and target the program to customers most able to benefit.
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MBA program announces March 19 open house
Prospective students from all undergraduate majors can learn more about the advantages of pursuing an MBA at Lamar University at an Open House scheduled for 5:30 - 7 p.m. March 19 in room 140 of the Galloway Business Building.
The MBA program at LU offers flexible options for students interested in earning a graduate degree in business. Lamar's program allows students with an undergraduate degree in business to complete an MBA in as little as 16 months. Those with a different undergraduate major can earn an MBA in as little as two years.
MBA students have the option to focus their studies in a specific area of concentration. LU offers concentrations in enterprise resource planning (ERP), health care administration, accounting, finance, marketing, leadership and entrepreneurship. The Lamar MBA program offers two certificate programs in online ERP or Leadership for students holding a bachelor's degree who are interested in taking these courses, but not enrolling in the MBA program.
LU's College of Business is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The Lamar MBA program has been listed in the Top 100 internationally by the Aspen Institute and in the top 300 nationally by the Princeton Review.
Potential students can learn more at the College of Business's MBA Open House from 5:30 - 7 p.m. March 19. The event, which is open to the public, will be in room 140 with light refreshments served in room 139 of the Galloway Business building.
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No. 3 UConn rips No. 4 Duke
STORRS -- Senior Kelly Faris chuckled for a split second when she was asked if UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma was upset at halftime Monday. Sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis did, too.
The third-ranked Huskies have drawn the ire of their coach numerous timest. They did it again by committing 12 turnovers in the first half against No. 4 Duke.
Auriemma challenged them to respond. And in a memorable 20 minutes of play, the Huskies did just that in rolling to a 79-49 victory before 9,671 at Gampel Pavilion. UConn committed just three turnovers in the second half and outscored the Blue Devils 47-19.
"He was pretty fired up,'' Mosqueda-Lewis said. "He definitely wasn't happy about the turnovers, and our physical play wasn't really up to par. So we wanted to come out in the second half and prove him wrong, that we are tough, we are stronger and we do take pride in the way we play. So we went out there, took care of the ball and followed Kelly's lead.''
Faris finished with 18 points, 12 rebounds and six assists to lead the Huskies (17-1) to their 22nd straight win against ACC opponents dating to an 82-76 loss at North Carolina Jan. 15, 2007. They have won six straight against Duke by 29.3 points.
The Blue Devils (16-1) came into Gampel Pavilion for the second straight time as the lone remaining unbeaten team in Division I. They were 20-0 when UConn defeated them 87-51 Jan. 31, 2011.
"It was a tale, obviously, of two halves for us,'' Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. "It's unfortunate. Initially in the second half, we slept-walked through that episode and they simply made layups. And when you allow that to occur anything's possible. They're a great offensive team.''
Mosqueda-Lewis added a game-high 21 points and six rebounds for UConn. Breanna Stewart had 13 points, five rebounds and three blocks while Bria Hartley finished with six points and a career-high nine assists.
The first half featured three ties and seven lead changes. UConn's biggest lead was five. Duke led by as many as two.
But led Faris, the Huskies asserted themselves early in the second half. Leading 34-32, they scored seven straight points to power a 31-7 run.
Faris had seven points, four rebounds, four assists and one steal during the surge.
"What happened in the second half was indescribable,'' Auriemma said. "That's one of those occasions where if you were watching it in the stands, you were fortunate to be part of that. If you were on the bench. If you were part of what Kelly Faris did, you just saw a performance that people are going to be talking about for a long time.''
Duke missed five straight shots at one point and went scoreless for 5:31 as the game quickly turned into a rout.
"I think you do get a feeling (that they were defeated) when you're going out there and you're making play after play,'' Hartley said. "After a while it wears your team down. And we ran the whole game so I think we wore them down a little bit at the end.''
The Huskies rolled despite having Stefanie Dolson, who scored a career-high 25 points against Syracuse Saturday, limited by foul trouble.
She took just one shot in the first half and finished with six points (3-of-6 FG), six rebounds and two blocks in 23 minutes.
Dolson scored all of her points in a span of 2:36 during UConn's 31-7 run. She picked up her fourth foul with 16:15 left in the game, spending the next 11:31 on the bench.
UConn led by as many as 31 down the stretch.
Freshman Alexis Jones had 14 points, five rebounds and four assists to lead Duke.
The Blue Devils committed 12 of their 15 turnovers in the second half.
"Definitely one of our best (halves),'' Faris said. ``It's one of those things that this is a great opportunity for us to build off of and we'd better not pass it up.''
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PowerColor LCS HD7970 3GB Review
Liquid cooling a video card is a sure fire way to reduce both the heat and noise concerns with the current crop of high end video cards. Even with new fan designs and fan controller remapping for improved performance, cooling is still a concern when the fan noise is addressed. Slow down the fan and more heat is retained. For those users playing it safe and just installing the video card to start enjoying the new purchase, the noise to heat ratio is just fine. In that case, they won't need a card of the PowerColor LCS variety. For those of us who want more graphics firepower without paying for a higher performing video card, we tend to overclock the snot out of the video cards we have. At this point, that fan profile remapping goes out the window as the clock speeds increase along with the noise penalty for pushing the fan speeds to 100%. In comes PowerColor with the LCS series of cards. This time the company has brought forth the PowerColor LCS HD7970. In the past, I have looked at the HD 6990 LCS, HD 6970 LCS, and the HD 5970 LCS, Each card, when equipped with an EK waterblock, proved to deliver a higher level of performance and a more pleasant gaming experience due to the ability to run cooler and quieter (though that depends on the fans used in your liquid cooling system). That being said, you cannot just slap this card into an existing system without first investing in a full-on liquid cooling system. Priced at $799, the PowerColor LCS HD 7970 does come with an added price premium due to the installation of the EK waterblock and large factory overclock. Let's see if PowerColor's latest LCS rendition is up to the task of outperforming a factory-overclocked, air-cooled 7970. Welcome to the PowerColor LCS HD 7970 3GB video card.
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The packaging for the PowerColor LCS 7970 is a departure from the small box, minimalist graphics approach to its usual packaging. This gives the card some real shelf appeal. On the front panel, the "ice cold" theme is meant to portray the fact that the card will run significantly cooler than an air-cooled card without the noise penalties associated with cooling a high end GPU. The key points are a 10% boost in overclocking on the Tahiti core, a cooler running card that should run lower than 50 ºC with zero noise, four monitors supported in a single large surface display configuration, and the inclusion of the EK manufactured waterblock. The back panel talks about the "Gold Power Kit", which includes a digital PWM with higher than 90% efficiency, DirectFet Low RDSon mosfet design for a lower thermal load, and ferrite core chokes for a 33% increase in power handling capacity. Dual BIOS functionality is used along with an EK waterblock; acetal/nickel plated copper full cover block with a backplate. A 10% boost in gaming performance is shown as an expectation.
Inside the colorful outer sleeve is a black cardboard container that holds the LCS HD 7970. Inside is a foam block that is used to transport the HD7970 LCS. The accessory bundle is hidden in a compartment that folds out to reveal the substantial accessories included with this card.
The bundle can make or break a video card, as it adds value to the purchase. PowerColor does not disappoint with this card. Much like previous LCS cards, PowerColor has stepped up and delivered a full size bundle to match the card. Included with the LCS HD 7970 are the manuals and driver diskette, a CrossFire bridge connection, Mini DisplayPort to SL-DVI adapter, HDMI to SL-DVI adapter, Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter, DVI to VGA adapter, 3/8" and 1/2" barbed adapters, barbed fitting spacers and o-rings, a hex wrench, and clamps for both supported tubing sizes.
So far PowerColor has put together a pretty impressive package with its flagship HD 7970. Let's take a look at what PowerColor has to offer.


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Could the stakes be higher for Vancouver Whitecaps FC's Saturday showdown with Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field?
Not by much. A playoff race, a Cascadia derby, and a whopping estimated crowd of over 54,000 give the match all the ingredients for yet another classic between the sides (1 p.m. PT, TSN2/RDS in Canada, MLS Live in United States).
"It's got all of the elements of a great derby match," midfielder John Thorrington said after a training session on Thursday at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. "It's important in terms of the league standings, there'll be a great crowd and the local rivalry is huge for us as players."
In terms of playoff position, both sides sit tied on points with 37 alongside the LA Galaxy. Sounders FC, however, have two matches in hand over Whitecaps FC and three over the Galaxy.
Due to the new tiebreaker rules recently announced by Major League Soccer, Vancouver sit in fifth place – the final playoff position – as their goals scored total is the lowest among the three teams. Given that position, does it make the match a must-win game for the 'Caps, given there's only nine games to go?
"It's not a must-win," head coach Martin Rennie said. "It's a big game for both teams and for our fans – it's one of those games you feel like you're desperate to win. It's not the end of the world if you don't, but we're certainly at the moment not thinking of anything else but winning at the moment."
In terms of getting that win, the 'Caps will be bolstered by the returns of starters Dane Richards and Darren Mattocks from international duty, and Gershon Koffie from suspension.
Martín Bonjour, however, will miss out due to yellow-card accumulation, adding to Vancouver's center back juggling act.
That will mean Andy O'Brien, who made his first start for the club in Wednesday's 2-0 defeat to FC Dallas, will likely see a new partner in central defence if Jay DeMerit is unavailable, as he continues his recovery from a concussion suffered in Saturday's 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake.
If DeMerit hasn't recovered, expect starting left fullback Alain Rochat to shift into the middle alongside O'Brien, with Jordan Harvey coming in to start on the left side of defence.
After playing in front of crowds as big as 80,000 in his Republic of Ireland days, O'Brien has some advice for his teammates.
"Just go out and enjoy it," he said. "It's what you aspire to when you're younger. To get that opportunity is something to grab with both hands."
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4:05 PM Thursday Nov 1, 2012
Mobile technology has created a new breed of tradespeople. Wedded to their smartphones and tablets these high-tech combatants are blowing the opposition out of the water.
Sparky Dave Woodhouse has doubled the amount of work he does since he started using his Samsung Galaxy SII smartphone. Competitors in the same market have had to lay off staff.
Woodhouse puts the difference down to new technology. Builders he works with scoff every time the smartphone comes out of his pocket. Yet it is Woodhouse whose business is leapfrogging the competition for jobs.
His Galaxy SII is rarely out of Woodhouse's hand as he replies to texts and emails from a new breed of potential customer who look for tradespeople online and communicate digitally.
One key new source of work for Christchurch-based Woodhouse Electrical is the Builderscrack.co.nz website. Anyone can post a job they want done on Builderscrack and tradespeople who want the work respond.
Woodhouse reckons he lands the majority of the work he bids for on Builderscrack because he's faster off the mark than his competitors. When he hears the special tone he has set up on his iPhone for Builderscrack jobs he pulls the phone out and makes contact immediately.
The tech-savvy electrician has sent up a connection that allows him to operate his office computer from his phone anywhere in the world. "It means that the office is always in my pocket." He has built a Microsoft Access database for quoting and can give customer a quote on the spot if they need it.
Roofing contractors Nick Jenner and Rob Lovie run a weather dependent business. The last thing they want to do is pull off a section of roof and the heavens to open. Rain, wind and the type of longrun roofing they install don't mix.
The Telecom Business Hub Waitakere customers have been assisted with setting up their home office and mobile solutions through Telecom, which has helped the business become more efficient.
Among the many technological weapons they have adopted in their business the MetVUW weather service is one of the best. Nick Jenner can access MetVUW on the office computer or his iPhone on the job. It's a better and more reliable predictor of the weather than old-style TV forecasts, which didn't always forecast Auckland four-seasons-in-one-day conditions as accurately as a roofing contractor needed. As a result Nick Jenner and Lovie have a better idea of whether the weather will be suitable for roofing later that day or the next day.
This forecasting helps lessen the number of weather emergencies where tarpaulins need to be used at short notice. That in turn has benefits for work flow planning and ultimately profitability.
Even simple improvements such as access to email help business. The iPhone helps Nick Jenner answer emails to Affordable Spouting & Roofing Ltd in a timely manner throughout the day and respond to urgent requests, says wife Katrina Jenner. As well as the iPhone, Nick Jenner has an iPad. The Telecom Business Hub showed him how to tether the iPad to the iPhone's data connection, reducing the overall cost of using the technology.
Affordable Spouting and Roofing does a considerable amount of work for builders and developers who send through building plans. In the old days those plans would have been delivered as A2 sheets of paper. Nowadays Nick Jenner and Lovie can receive PDF plans via email and study them on the job using the iPad.
Back at the office Katrina Jenner has set up a wireless printing connection so that her husband can print direct from his iPhone and iPad from wherever he is working.
She enters information from job quote sheets into MYOB and can email quotes straight through to customers. She is considering upgrading to the new MYOB LiveAccounts cloud-based accounting system. Among other benefits, her husband could, in theory, enter quotations online during his downtime on jobs.


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Heavenly Valley Ski Resort,
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Heavenly Valley Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, California is argueably one of the finest and most beautiful in the whole world. Many who visit this place never want to leave (myself included). You can imagine how excited we all were when Josh called from the ski school and said "...we love your playgrounds can we work with you to design one for us...." Most of our Hundred Acre Wood designs have a long high bridge from the upper decks but this one has a suspension bridge which I think turned out awesome. There their team added these awesome carved bears.
Josh and his team wanted something that would resemble the ole Fire Watch Towers that are used to spot forest fires out west. Then they designed and constructed this base on which this playground is perched in order to deal with their winter snow depth.
With our playgrounds, we have created a "hybrid" or balance between the innocent, natural adventure of playing in the forest and the structure for children's spaces. We have been building natural playgrounds since long before it was trendy. And we have always understood that natural, renewable materials are far greener than powder coated steel and plastics. Our expertise in creating children's outdoor spaces, and experience in log construction, is what makes Bears the perfect choice for transforming your existing space or creating a new space into a unique Bears Natural Playground.
Not all equipment may be appropriate for all children, even when designed for a target age group. To avoid injury you should closely supervise and participate in the child's use of this equipment, especially while learning to use it. Proper supervision is required.