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Table of Contents
- Cautions on the Use of Aggregate SAT Scores
- Background
- Results
- Gender
- Race/Ethnicity
- Family Income
- Academic Preparation
- North Carolina and the University of North Carolina System
- North Carolina School Systems and Schools
- Background on Recentering the SAT I Score
- Sources of Data for the Report
- References
- Data Appendices (Adobe Acrobat Files):
Cautions on the Use of Aggregate SAT Scores *
As measures of developed verbal and mathematical abilities important for success in college, SAT scores are useful in making decisions about individual students and in assessing the academic preparation of individual students. Using these scores in aggregate form as a single measure to rank or rate teachers, educational institutions, districts, or states is invalid because it does not include all students. And in being incomplete, this use is inherently unfair.
For example, in order for one to make useful comparisons between states, of students' performance, a common test given to all students would be required. Because the percentage of SAT-takers varies widely among the states, and because the test-takers are self-selected, the SAT is inappropriate for this purpose.
The most significant factor in interpreting SAT scores is the proportion of eligible students taking the exam the participation rate. In general, the higher the percentage of students taking the test, the lower will be the average scores.
In some states, for example, a very small percentage of the college-bound seniors take the SAT. Typically, these students have b academic backgrounds and are applicants to the nation's most selective colleges and scholarship programs. Therefore, it is to be expected that the SAT verbal and mathematical averages reported for these states will be higher than is the national average. In states where a greater proportion of students with a wide range of academic backgrounds take the SAT, and where most colleges in the state require the test for admission, the scores are closer to the national average.
In looking at average SAT scores, the user must understand the context in which the particular test scores were earned. Other factors variously related to performance on the SAT include academic courses studied in high school, family background, and education of parents. These factors and others of a less tangible nature could very well have a significant influence on average scores. That is not to say, however, that scores cannot be used properly as one indicator of educational quality. Average scores analyzed from a number of years can reveal trends in the academic preparation of students who take the test and can provide individual states and schools with a means of self-evaluation and self-comparison.
By studying other indicators such as retention/attrition rates, graduation rates, the number of courses taken in academic subjects, or scores on other standardized tests one can evaluate the general direction in which education in a particular jurisdiction is headed. A careful examination of other conditions impinging on the educational enterprise, such as pupil/teacher ratios, teacher credentials, expenditures per student, and minority enrollment, is also important.
Summaries of scores and other information by state, college, or school district can be used in curriculum development, faculty staffing, student recruitment, financial aid assessment, planning for physical facilities, and student services such as guidance and placement. Aggregate data can also be useful to state, regional, and national education policymakers, especially in tracking changes during a period of time.
Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores measure developed verbal and mathematical abilities necessary for success in college. Toward this end, SAT scores are useful in assessing the academic preparation of individual students and in making decisions about individual students. Using SAT scores in aggregate form as a single measure to rank or rate states, educational institutions, school systems, schools, or teachers is invalid because not all students take the SAT and those who do are self-selected. Comparisons of this kind are incomplete which makes their use inherently unfair. Consequently, rankings or residual rankings are not used in this report in compliance with The College Board and with professional standards for educational and psychological testing.
Aggregate scores can, however, indicate the preparation of groups of students who aspire to attend college. In addition, average scores analyzed for a number of years can reveal trends in the academic preparation of students who take the SAT. Consequently, this report includes the SAT performance of North Carolina students who took the test in 1998, as well as historical data on the SAT performance of North Carolina's students.
The data in this report are SAT results for students scheduled to graduate in 1998 and are these students' most recent scores regardless of when they last took the test. The results for North Carolina and the United States in this report represent the performance of public and non-public school students. North Carolina's results include performance of students in public schools, charter schools, North Carolina School of the Arts, and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
This year North Carolina students made a mean gain of four points while the nation's mean SAT score improved by one point (see Figure 1). The North Carolina mean (average) total SAT score for 1998 college-bound seniors is 982. North Carolina students continue to show improvement each year, however, they are 35 points below the national mean. The gap of 35 points between the North Carolina mean and the United States mean is the smallest in 27 years. The gap between North Carolina and the nation has decreased by 48 points since 1972 and has decreased by 23 points since 1988.
North Carolina continues to close the gap on the Southeast as well. Compared to North Carolina's four-point gain, the Southeast mean total SAT score increased by two points in 1998. North Carolina is four points below the Southeast mean of 986.
Students in North Carolina public schools are faring even better when compared to public school students in the nation. For public school students in the nation the mean total SAT score is 1011 compared to North Carolina public schools' 981 (a difference of 30 points).
North Carolina students are closer to the nation on the verbal portion of the SAT than on the mathematics portion. North Carolina students' mean score on the verbal portion of the SAT was 490 compared to 505 for the United States (a difference of 15 points). On the mathematics portion of the SAT, North Carolina students' mean score was 492 compared to 512 for the United States as a whole (a difference of 20 points).
In North Carolina and the nation, males historically have higher mean SAT scores than females (see Figure 2). North Carolina males' mean total SAT score is 1002 compared to females' 967. The gap between North Carolina males and females has been 32-33 points the past four years, but increased to 35 points this year. The difference between North Carolina males and females is largely in mathematics where North Carolina males' mean score of 509 is 30 points higher than North Carolina females. North Carolina females only trail five points behind North Carolina males on the verbal scale.
North Carolina males trail males nationally by 38 points, while North Carolina females fall behind females nationally by 31 points. North Carolina males and females had a net gain on the mean total SAT of three points compared to their counterparts nationally. Nationally, males' mean total SAT improved by three points while North Carolina males improved by six points; females nationally improved by one point while North Carolina females improved by four points.
Race /Ethnicity
Whites and Asians in North Carolina schools and in the nation typically score higher than other ethnic/racial groups (see Figure 3). Of all the ethnic/racial groups represented in North Carolina, only Hispanic students' score higher than their national counterparts. North Carolina Hispanics' mean total SAT score was 984 compared to 916 for Hispanics nationally (a 68 point difference). Hispanics of all backgrounds (Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Latin American) in North Carolina had higher mean scores than their national counterparts. Hispanics, however, make up a very small proportion of the total SAT test takers in North Carolina, representing only one percent compared to eight percent nationally.
All other ethnic groups, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, and Whites in North Carolina trail their national counterparts in SAT performance. Of these groups, Blacks in North Carolina are the closest to their counterparts nationally (a difference of 23 points). In North Carolina the mean total SAT score for Blacks was 839, a five point increase over last year. This compares to Blacks nationally who increased three points to 860. Black students have demonstrated improved performance in North Carolina, while representing a much higher proportion of SAT test takers than in the nation (20% in North Carolina versus 11% nationally).
North Carolina's American Indian students, although improving performance, are the farthest behind their national counterparts (a difference of 57 points).
Family Income
In North Carolina, as in the nation, the higher the family income the higher the student's mean total SAT score (see Figure 4). There is very little change from year to year in the mean within each family income category. The relative difference in mean total SAT score between family income categories is also fairly stable from year to year.
The more academic credits students have in six subject areas (Arts and Music, English, Foreign and Classical Languages, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and History), the higher their mean SAT scores (see Figure 5). Students in North Carolina are earning one-half additional academic credit on average compared to students in 1994. While the mean SAT scores of students in the nation in each range of earned academic credits have fluctuated over the last five years, the mean scores of North Carolina students in two of the higher levels of academic credits earned (18-18.5 and 19-19.5) have steadily decreased over the last five years (see Figure 5). This trend may be a result of a more diversely prepared group of students taking the SAT which is reflected in the percent of SAT test takers with 20 or more academic credits increasing from 39% in 1997 to 47% in 1998.
Typically, the higher a student's high school grade point average (GPA), the higher the student's mean total SAT score (see Figure 6). North Carolina students with a high school GPA of A-, A, or A+ are further behind their national counterparts than students with a B or C average. North Carolina students with a high school GPA of A-, A, or A+ trail their peers nationally by 65, 60, and 51 points respectively. Additionally, North Carolina students with a GPA of A-, A, or A+ represent 43 percent of students compared to 38 percent nationally. North Carolina students with a GPA of B are 41 points behind their peers nationally and represent 44 percent of students compared to 48 percent nationally. Students in North Carolina with a GPA of C are only 28 points behind their peers nationally and represent 13 percent of students in North Carolina and in the nation. Examining the information on student GPA and mean SAT scores, it appears that North Carolina teachers' standards for A's and B's are lower than their peers nationally, while their standards for C's is comparable to their peers nationally. A small decline in the mean SAT scores for students with a GPA of A-, A, or A+ and a small increase in the mean SAT scores of students with a GPA of C over the last five years (see Figure 6), further implies this discrepancy in standards.
There is a b, positive relationship between the average performance of students on the North Carolina end-of-course tests in a high school and the mean total SAT score for that school (see Figure 7). The Pearson correlation between the performance composite and mean total SAT score by high school was 0.88 on a scale of 1.0 to +1.0. This relationship was determined by plotting a high school's performance composite against its mean total SAT score. The performance composite is the weighted average of the percent of students at or above level III on end-of-course tests (i.e., students mastering the course content). The performance composite is based on student performance on six end-of-course tests: Algebra I; Biology; Economic, Legal, and Political Systems (ELPS); English I; English II; and U.S. History.
North Carolina and the
University of North Carolina System
The mean total SAT score of North Carolina students graduating in 1997 was 978, while the University of North Carolina system mean for first-year students was 1060 (1997 is the most current year for which comparable data are available). The fact that students entering the University of North Carolina system have a higher mean total SAT score than students graduating high school is expected since many students who do not perform well on the SAT choose other post-secondary options including community college and full-time employment. University of North Carolina institutions, however, serve a wide-variety of student abilities as evidenced by the institution averages which range from 825 to 1220 (The University of North Carolina, 1998).
North Carolina School Systems and North Carolina Schools
Most people assume there is a negative association between the percent of students taking the SAT and the mean SAT score. This association is true when the percent of students taking the SAT and the mean total SAT scores for states are compared (see Figure 8). However, the opposite association occurs when the percent of students taking the SAT and the mean total SAT score for public school systems and public schools are correlated (see Figures 9 and 10). The Pearson correlation between the percent of students taking the SAT and the mean total SAT score is 0.39 for public school systems in North Carolina and similarly the correlation is 0.41 for North Carolina public schools. These results mean that schools and school systems in North Carolina cannot assume that their scores were better or worse because the percent of students taking the SAT changed. In fact, 51% of all schools and school systems in the nation had a change in their mean verbal or math SAT of plus or minus 10 points (The College Board, 1998). This fluctuation in mean SAT scores means that school systems and schools should take into account other factors such as course-taking patterns, content of the curriculum, and course standards when attempting to explain changes in mean SAT scores.
Background on Recentering the SAT I Scores
The College Board recentered the score scale of the SAT I, re-establishing the original mean score of 500 on the 200-800 scale in order to maintain the SAT's statistical integrity and predictive validity. The scale had not been recalibrated since 1941 when it reflected the norm of some 10,000 students from predominantly private secondary schools who applied to the nation's most selective private colleges and universities. As mean scores shifted below 500, the score distribution became stretched in the upper half and compressed in the lower half.
Now that scores are recentered on the renormed SAT I, they reflect the more than two million students who take the test today. They also reflect a more diverse college-bound population than the group who took the SAT in 1941.
Although a student's score may change after recentering, the rank order of individual scores, expressed as percentiles, remains the same. What is more, a specific score on the verbal test now has the same relative position and meaning as the same score on the math test. For example, a 450 on verbal and math signifies comparable performance in both areas. Before recentering, a score of 450 represented above-average performance on verbal and below-average performance on math. While recentering permits legitimate comparisons of verbal and math scores and reduces earlier confusion, it has no effect on historical score trends, or on the difficulty level of the test and the relative standing of students to each other.
Sources of Data for the Report
The data in this report are from three primary sources: (1) National Report 1998 College-Bound Seniors: A Profile of SAT Program Test Takers and profiles from earlier years (The College Board); (2) North Carolina Report 1998 College-Bound Seniors: A Profile of SAT Program Test Takers and profiles from earlier years (The College Board); and (3) a data file of individual student scores for the state's 117 public school systems, charter schools, North Carolina School of the Arts, and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. The data file was prepared by Educational Testing Service in cooperation with The College Board. SAT scores are reported each year for students scheduled to graduate. Only the most recent scores of these students are reported, regardless of when they last took the test.
The University of North Carolina. (1998, April). Statistical abstract of higher education in North Carolina, 1997-98 (Research Report 1-98). Chapel Hill, NC: Author.
The College Board. (1998, September). College-bound students set records in racial and ethnic diversity, precollege credit, and grades, but College Board sees growing disparities among subgroups. New York: Author.
* Excerpted from Guidelines on the Uses of College Board Test Scores and Related Data. Copyright 1988 by College Entrance Examination Board. All rights reserved. Back
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Lions make it three wins out of three
Lions 248 for 9 (Bodi 45, Kemp 2-23) beat Cape Cobras 229 (O'Reilly 3-61) by 19 runs
Lions increased the gap between them and the rest with a third consecutive win in the Momentum One Day Cup, beating Cape Cobras by 19 runs at Newlands. It was their hardest-fought win yet.
After choosing to bat on a slightly difficult pitch, Lions made a positive start, reaching 65 for 0 and then 101 for 2 in the 23rd over. It was then that Gulam Bodi, whose 45 was eventually the innings' top score, was run out by Justin Ontong. Lions lost two more wickets for 22 runs and their momentum was shot. Temba Bavuma and Zander de Bruyn made 30s but were dismissed before converting their starts into substantial scores. Johann Louw and Justin Kemp took two wickets each for Cobras as Lions were restricted to 248 for 9.
The Cobras chase got off to a swift start, with Richard Levi leading the way. Andrew Puttick's struggle - 13 off 32 balls - ended in the 10th over, and then Levi was dismissed in the next, leaving Cobras on 55 for 2. From 99 for 2 they slipped further to 158 for 6 in the 36th over, with none of the top and middle-order batsmen making significant contributions. However, the equation boiled down to 47 runs to get off 40 balls with four wickets in hand, and Cobras were in the game. Ethan O'Reilly then struck the telling blow, Kemp caught behind for 24, and Cobras were eventually dismissed for 229. O'Reilly finished with 3 for 61, but the Lions spinner Aaron Phangsio proved most economical, taking 1 for 31 in ten overs.
Despite maintaining their 100% win record, Lions captain Stephen Cook asked for improvement from his side. "We probably didn't play as well as we have the last few games," he said. "Perhaps we were a tad lucky to get over the line at the end, but that keeps everyone honest and working hard at their game."
The Cobras captain Ontong was disappointed with his team's batting. "I thought we didn't get a partnership going and, although a couple of the guys got starts, we just couldn't really kick on," he said. "We've got to do some hard work now and get some wins under our belts."
Cobras are third in the points table with one win in three games.
Match abandoned Dolphins 67 for 2 v Warriors
Only 17 overs were possible at Kingsmead before rain washed out the game between Dolphins and Warriors. After getting sent in to bat, Dolphins had reached 67 for 2, with Makhaya Ntini and Wayne Parnell striking for Warriors.
Neither team has won a match in the tournament so far and they are at the bottom of the points table.

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Share your workplace experience and help our students define and achieve their career goals. Mentors are typically matched with students based on shared areas of interest and expertise. During the academic year, you'll periodically meet with your mentee in person and stay in touch by phone, email, and/or text messaging.
For many students, the mentor relationship represents the onset of a lifelong career.
- Thomas Tinlin, MPA '10, the commissioner of transportation for the City of Boston, opens career opportunities for MPA student.
- Michael Felicetta, MHA '11, clinical practice manager at Harvard Vanguard, helps student enter a new field. [Read More]
Several programs, including the Master of Healthcare Administration, Master of Public Administration, Executive MBA, and MS in Finance, offer mentoring opportunities. To get involved, contact the program director in your field.
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Work with some of our brightest, most career-driven students who are seeking real-life experiences. We carefully match students with positions based on their career goals, interests, and strengths.
For recent alumna Alyson Reitano, an internship offered her the chance to explore her two greatest interests—marketing and global business. As an intern for the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB), Reitano worked in the communications department, where she managed their social media sites and wrote blogs. Many of our interns do so well, they transition into full-time employees after graduation.
Contact the Career Development Center if you have an internship opportunity for a student or would like help creating one.
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For instance, MBA and Executive MBA students often participate in flash consulting experiences on site, where they help solve actual business challenges for your organization. To learn more, contact the department chair or program director in your field.
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Cook '66 Offers Path to Wabash Blissby Howard Hewitt • February 4, 2010 Share:
Religion Professor Bill Cook '66 gave Wabash men "Seven Ways to Find Bliss at Wabash College" during Thursday morning's Chapel Talk.
Cook gave his seven tips and followed each up with anecdotes, pearls of wisdom, and a healthy dose of humor to an attentive Wabash audience.
See Cook's entire talk in the YouTube video below.
Here are his seven steps, but you have to watch the video to get the full explanation of each.
1. Find mentors or teachers who'll be your principal educators.
2. Find some specific educational experiences outside your major and minor.
3. Makes some of the greatest friends of your life.
4. Have good times – that you remember.
5. Keep connected to the world beyond Wabash.
6. Don't take summers off – do something interesting.
7. Learn how to sing.
Cook talked about his Wabash College experiences and those from a lifetime of teaching and learning. But the common thread was those who impacted him during his time as a student.
"John Fisher (retired Classics professor) gave me two things no one ever gave me before or since – an artichoke and an F-plus," Cook said. "He made me eat the artichoke before another bite of food. And he told me the F-plus wasn't just failure, it was an insult."
When talking about good friends and good times he urged the students to embrace Wabash traditions. "Keep some of the ideas that are a bit ludicrous, like the Homecoming Queen Contest," he said.
And he wrapped his talk about talking about singing. He made it clear he doesn't like the current version of Chapel Sing and liked some of its predecessors even less. "At the Lambda Chi House we used to sing every night after dinner. Learn to sing "Old Wabash, don't chant it like a 1901 rap."


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They're not measurements anymore, apparently—at this week's NBA combine in Chicago, players underwent, "Anthropometric Tests." Whatever you want to call them, here's a look at how the results of those tests shake out (heights are with shoes, since, you know, basketball is played in shoes):
Big winner, I
One scout told me of Kansas forward Thomas Robinson, "If he were 6-10, he would challenge Anthony Davis as the top pick."
Well, he is not 6-10, but he did measure in at 6-8.75, which is big enough to play power forward in the NBA—especially when you additionally factor in his 7-3.25 wingspan. Just for some context, that's a bigger wingspan than any of the three 7-footers at the combine. He's got to be looking better and better for Charlotte at the No. 2 spot.
Big winner, II
That would probably be St. Bonaventure's Andrew Nicholson, whose spot in the first round is sewn up, and who could wind up climbing into the Top 20. Nicholson has already had some good workouts for low first-round teams and it has become no secret that he is coveted by the Thunder, Heat and the Celtics (who pick at No. 21 and 22).
But he has been in impressive in Chicago, and measured in at a healthy 6-9.5. The best part though is his extra-long wingspan, which came in at 7-4, and his hand size—10 inches in length (longest at the combine) and 10.75 in width. It is possible that Nicholson won't even be around when the Celtics pick.
Names of note
Presumptive No. 1 pick Anthony Davis' measurements were solid as expected, with a height of 6-10.5, a wingspan of 7-5.5 and a weight of 221.8. Center Andre Drummond is, as we all know, big: He is 6-11.75, weighs 278.6 pounds and has the biggest wingspan (7-6.25) in the draft.
A pair of shooting guards—Austin Rivers (6-5) and Brad Beal (6-4.75)—measured up nicely, but Connecticut's Jeremy Lamb topped both, coming in at 6-5.25, with a 6-11 wingspan.
Jared Sullinger, who seems to be losing ground every day, measured 6-9 with a 7-1.25 wingspan, weighing 268.2 with 10.7 percent body fat (fifth-highest at the combine).
There were no surprises among the top small forwards in this draft, Harrison Barnes (6-8 height, 6-11.25 wingspan) and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (6-7.5 height, 7-0 wingspan).
Now, about those 7-footers. Hard to believe, but in last year's draft, the tallest player at the combine was Nikola Vucevic, who was 6-11 and change. But, further emphasizing that the theme of this year's draft is size, there will three 7-footers this time around, and all three are expected to be first-round picks.
The tallest is Illinois center Meyers Leonard, who came in at 7-1.25, and has a 7-3 wingspan. Next up is North Carolina's Tyler Zeller, who was 7-0.5, but whose wingspan was only 7-0. Fab Melo from Syracuse was an even 7-0, with a 7-2.5 wingspan.
Probably not a great day for St. John's forward Moe Harkless, who is one of a handful of small forward/power forward hybrids in this draft. Harkless will probably have to play power forward in the NBA, but he stands just 6-8.75, and his wingspan was only 7-0.
Michigan State's Draymond Green measured just 6-7.5, but did have a 7-1.25 wing span.
Terrence Jones showed some power forward size, standing 6-9.5 with a 7-2.25 wingspan.
Maybe the biggest and most mysterious tweener in the draft is ultra-talented Perry Jones, but size (his height is 6-11.25) is clearly not a problem for him—the question is more one of how to use that size in combination with his athleticism.
His teammate at Baylor, Quincy Acy, won't be a first-round pick, but the knock on him has been that he is a 6-6 power forward. Not so. He is 6-7.75, and has a freaky wingspan of 7-2.25.


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EPA, Chesapeake Bay Trust Announce $400,000 in Grants through Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns Program
Release Date: 07/24/2013
Contact Information: Chesapeake Bay Trust: Molly Alton Mullins 410-271-3469 firstname.lastname@example.com; EPA: David Sternberg at 215-814-5548 firstname.lastname@example.com
(WASHINGTON - July 24, 2013) Today, the Chesapeake Bay Trust and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $400,000 in funding to seven municipalities and nonprofit organizations through the Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns Initiative (G3).
Jointly funded by the Trust and EPA, G3 supports green infrastructure projects that improve water quality, community livability, and economic vitality throughout the region. Today's grantees and their green infrastructure projects were unveiled at the site of the new Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., also the location of one of the grant-funded green infrastructure projects.
"Local governments around the country are seeing the benefits of utilizing green infrastructure for controlling stormwater," said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "G3 grantees are leading the way - providing valuable examples to others on the road to creating sustainable communities and healthy watersheds."
G3 was created in 2011 to support projects that reduce stormwater runoff through the creation of "green streets." A green street is one that minimizes the environmental impact of a roadway by practices such as reducing the amount of water that is piped directly into streams and rivers; creating rain gardens; installing street tree canopy; using energy efficient lighting; and encouraging pedestrian and bicycle access. Green streets also provide aesthetic and economic benefits.
"The Chesapeake Bay Trust is pleased to partner with EPA to promote green infrastructure practices that not only improve water quality but also positively benefit local communities." said Jana Davis, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Trust. "Our goal is to leverage gray infrastructure projects that a community already plans to undertake, such as roadway reengineering. By adding the green component during the construction process, it minimizes costs while improving results."
The G3 effort was developed under the President's Chesapeake Bay Executive Order to provide assistance to communities in urbanized watersheds for reducing stormwater runoff; improving energy conservation; promoting livable communities; and, creating green jobs.
Today seven grants were announced totaling $400,000 in funding to municipalities and nonprofit organizations in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. One of the grants will go to the District of Columbia to support stormwater management and green street development along a new section of O Street, NW at the reconstruction site of Dunbar High School. Washington D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, both graduates of Dunbar, attended today's announcement to discuss the project that will include the installation of 6,125 square feet of bioretention cells that will collect stormwater from the school and surrounding area.
"The District Department of General Services is excited to be a part of the G3 Initiative, because it will not only help us to reopen O Street as a "Green Street" and enhance the modernization of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, but it will also help to protect our environment by reducing the amount of rain/precipitation that goes into the District's sewer and stormwater treatment system," said Brian J. Hanlon, DGS Director.
The O Street project will also involve newly planted trees in large treeboxes, built on a neighborhood street, where the stormwater will be collected and help to avoid sewer backups. Other "green" elements of the new Dunbar High School include the use of a geothermal heat pump, a 500,000 kW photovoltaic array, two (2) 20,000 gallon cisterns for reusing rainwater, enhanced acoustics, and materials with low concentrations of volatile organic compounds and plentiful daylight and views.
In addition to the O Street project, other grantees announced today are:
- · City of Cambridge, Md.: $75,000 for the transformation of an impervious surface area into a landscaped park incorporating native trees and vegetation to reduce stormwater runoff.
· Borough of Northumberland, Pa.: $30,000 to implement new green infrastructure that will address flooding issues in residential areas.
· The Low Impact Development Center, Inc. (two grants): $35,000 for a plan to convert Arapahoe Street in the town of Forest Heights, Md. as part of the town's goal to be a zero-runoff community; and a $35,000 grant to develop a green street in Bladensburg, Md.
· Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay: a $95,000 grant that includes funding for the installation of a green corridor in the city of Richmond, Va.
· Prince George's County, Md.: $35,000 to develop cost-effective financial partnerships that will construct and maintain the County's new water quality infrastructure.
The Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns grant program is open to local governments and nonprofit organizations interested in pursuing urban green stormwater infrastructure and green jobs as part of an overall integrated community or watershed plan. The initiative, administered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust, supports President Obama's Executive Order for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay through the creation of "green streets."
For more information on the Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns Grant Program, please visit www.cbtrust.org. You can request additional detail on each of the grant projects referenced above by emailing email@example.com.
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code M60.8
Other myositis
Diagnosis Code M60.8
Short Description: Other myositis
Long Description: Other myositis
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- Disorders of muscles (M60-M63)
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Myositis means inflammation of the muscles that you use to move your body. An injury, infection, or autoimmune disease can cause it. Two specific kinds are polymyositis and dermatomyositis. Polymyositis causes muscle weakness, usually in the muscles closest to the trunk of your body. Dermatomyositis causes muscle weakness, plus a skin rash.
Other symptoms of myositis may include
- Fatigue after walking or standing
- Tripping or falling
- Trouble swallowing or breathing
Doctors may use a physical exam, lab tests, imaging tests and a muscle biopsy to diagnose myositis. There is no cure for these diseases, but you can treat the symptoms. Polymyositis and dermatomyositis are first treated with high doses of a corticosteroid. Other options include medications, physical therapy, exercise, heat therapy, assistive devices, and rest.
NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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William and Elizabeth Robinson settled in Ontario shortly after the American Revolution. In July 1806, they bought 81 hectares of farmland in Markham Township. William died in 1824 and over the next few years, the land was split amongst their children with their son John acquiring the southernmost part of the property.
In 1834 and 1835, John acquired land adjacent to his farm on what is today the west side of Main Street North. Some of this was for the development of the tannery at the end of Robinson Street. The Robinsons soon became leading manufacturers of leather goods and prominent in local politics and community life.
One of John's sons, William, farmed part of his father's property. He had married Elizabeth Reesor in 1869 and it was Elizabeth who had the house at 1 Orchard Street built in 1887. Following William's death in 1922, 60 hectares were bequeathed to his son, James G. and 18 hectares to his daughters Hannah, Mary, Edith, Christine, Annie, and Helen. The daughters also acquired the house on Orchard Street. Sadly, James G. died shortly after the transfer.
In 1923, the daughters sold approximately three hectares to Austin Graham, who then sold them to the Village of Markham. This is the property at the southeast corner of Parkway Avenue and George Street that became Morgan Park.
Albert Richard Lewis purchased James G's 60 hectares in 1926. As there were no dwellings on the property, Albert and his wife Margaret lived in a rented house on Wales Avenue. Their first dwelling at the farm began as a barn and had a parlour room added to the front. By the early 1930s, a vacant house from a neighbouring farm had been moved to the north side of the barn. Today, this house remains at 27 Parkway Avenue.
When Albert and Margaret's son Carman founded Markham Dairy, he used the first dwelling as the bottling plant. Carmen Lewis died in 2009 and is commemorated in the naming of a park at Parkway Avenue and Paramount Road.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Progressive School of English Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Progressive School of English Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message heather11211Joined: 11 Jul 2008Posts: 1 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: Progressive School of English Hi! Does anybody here know anything about the Progressive School of English? I am interested in teaching English in Poland and it seems like there are just so many different options. I'm sure that some schools are terrible and some are great, and most are somewhere in the middle. I've sent my information to a couple of different places just to see what their requirements are and what my options might be. The Progressive School is one that I'm interviewing with. I have never been to Poland, but I really want to become better at speaking the Polish language. I've been studying only a year, but I feel like moving there is the only way I'll ever really learn the way that I'd like to. I realize that I am probably naive about the whole process. I've really just been reading as much as I can about it, and reading all of the old posts from this forum. For those of you who have learned Polish, do you feel like I might benefit more from studying Polish another year before moving to Poland? I guess it's probably hard to say, since everyone learns so differently. I appreciate any advice that you have to offer, and I'm sure I'll have more specific questions down the road. Thanks! Heather Back to top RichfilthJoined: 24 Sep 2007Posts: 225Location: Warszawa Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: Ive not heard anything about the school itself, but Rybnik is a small city at the coal-mining end of Poland, so don't expect a hugely buzzing nightlife. As for Progressive, they use the Avalon Direct English method, which means that you probably won't need any teaching qualifications to work there, which can be a bonus, but later employers won't think much of it on your CV when you leave. As for learning Polish, yes, it's frighteningly difficult but you'll only develop it if you get the chance to use it regularly. Life in a small town can be gloomy with no Polish, but if you've got a few basics the locals will help you rapidly advance, so it might not be so dull after all. Back to top Mike EJoined: 06 Oct 2011Posts: 132 Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject: Heather, did you wind up teaching at Progressive? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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As someone who is shortsighted, I have always found sunglasses shopping really difficult and expensive. Each summer for the last 3 years I've launched myself enthusiastically into a search for the perfect retro frames, but the cost was a deal-breaker once actual prescription lenses and subsequent lens-thinning are added on (let's face it, there's not enough sun in England to make it worth paying loads).
The quest continued earlier this summer, given that Paris is a little sunnier! I spotted Jimmy Fairly on the ethical section of Nettement Chic, and soon found several frames on the site that fitted my retro requirements. After a bit of investigation, I realised that the lenses are FREE if you're prepared to leave them un-thinned and without anti-reflection coating (although seek some professional advice if you're using them for driving). How can they afford this? By designing and making their own glasses, they can cut out the middle man. Hooray!
Jimmy Fairly operate in a similar way to Toms: for every pair of glasses bought, they give away a pair to someone in need, through their partner institutions Voir la Vie, Peuples d'Himalaya and Emmaüs.
After bit of umming and ahhing over whether they would suit me (the problem with not actually being able to see how you look without your own glasses on), I decided to purchase the Monroe frames - €95, all included! And when I realised that the graded tint didn't work for me, they exchanged the lenses for plain ones, also for free. I was really impressed with their service, especially given that I was a particularly annoying, indecisive customer.
So without further ado, here are my new sunnies. Oh... and freshly cut new hair. Hehe.
I tried to take a close up to give an idea of the quality, although it's not very clear. But I'm very impressed with the overall construction of the glasses and would recommend them!
If you're unable to visit the shop, they have a free returns policy to put you at ease when choosing some frames.
What do you think of them? Do you have trouble finding good prescription sunglasses?
P.S. This post is not sponsored in any way - I just love the sunglasses!


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Online games, it seems, just want to be free.
Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced that it will offer up substantial portions of its "Star Wars: The Old Republic" multi-player online game to players for free starting this fall. A premium version with unlimited access to all levels, plus any new content, will still be available for $14.99 a month.
The move by the Redwood City, Calif., game publisher is an acknowledgment that the current economic climate makes it virtually impossible for a subscription business model to thrive on the Web, where thousands of free games now compete aggressively for attention.
"Players want flexibility and choice," Matthew Bromberg, general manager of BioWare Austin, one of several studios that developed the game, said in a statement. "The subscription-only model presented a major barrier for a lot of people who wanted to become part of the 'Old Republic' universe."
In July, EA cracked open the game's first 15 levels for free in hopes that would bring in more players.
Other companies have made similar moves. Sony Online Entertainment, which operates "EverQuest 2," "DC Universe Online" and many other online games, has gradually made its entire catalog of titles free to play over the last year, choosing instead to make money by selling virtual items for use in the games.
Only Activision Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" has been able to maintain its ability to charge players a monthly fee to play, although that title has seen its subscriber base shrink to just above 10 million this year from a peak of 12 million in 2010.
EA also announced first-quarter sales fell 4% to $955 million, down from $999 million a year earlier. Net income was $201 million for the quarter ended June 30, down 9% from $221 million last year. To bolster its stock price, the company said it plans to buy back $500 million of its own shares in the coming weeks.
EA's shares, which lost 21 cents to close at $11.02, bounced back in after-hours trading, gaining 27 cents to $11.29 immediately following the earnings report. Its 52-week high was $25.20 on Nov. 4.
With a development and marketing budget of more than $150 million, "Star Wars: The Old Republic" was EA's costliest game to produce. The decision to throw the title open to free players is not expected to alter EA's financial performance this year because all of that cost has already been accounted for in previous quarters.
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I have been programming light-weight OSes for years. That includes AmigaDOS and BeOS. And one thing I depend on is lots of memory for my data structures.
When I had 4 megabytes of memory on my Amiga 1000 in 1986 most Intel PCs had less than a megabyte, but I needed the memory - the data structures I was using were 2M, 512K and 64K in size. I never even looked to the PCs because they did not have the needed flat memory.
Today, my BeOS machine is expanded to 768 megabytes, and the largest data structure is 512M and the remaining 256 is still enough to run BeOS, my code and browse the web while I wait.
In the future, Haiku may end up using even less space than BeOS but I expect my data structure to expand well beyond 2G.
This design needs memory expansion, even if it is just a single DIMM socket, people will have need for more than 128M just for their data.


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When Paramount Pictures and Regency Enterprises were finishing up "Noah," they looked to an unusual market to release the $130-million biblical epic: China.
Paramount has enjoyed tremendous success in the world's most populous nation, with "Transformers" and "Mission: Impossible" scoring big hits there. The studio has filmed on location in China, and even recently hosted several of the nation's top filmmakers for a behind-the-scenes film industry junket on its lot.
The studio even spent about $10 million to convert "Noah" into 3-D, making it more appealing to potentially lucrative territories such as China, Russia, Brazil and Germany.
But "Noah" and his ark won't be landing in China any time soon. The country's cinematic censors have refused to give the Russell Crowe movie one of the nation's limited non-Chinese release slots, two people with knowledge of the studio's efforts to bring the movie to the mainland said Thursday.
"Noah," which was released domestically March 28, has grossed $99 million in the U.S. and an additional $233 million so far overseas. China probably would have been another key to the film's global popularity.
The nation has become a big source of ticket sales for Hollywood. Last year, China recorded ticket sales of $3.6 billion, up 27% from 2012, trailing only the United States for total revenue. Three American films were among China's top 10 releases last year: "Iron Man 3," the top box-office performer in the U.S., grossed $124 million, "Pacific Rim" grossed $114 million and "Gravity" took in $73 million.
A Paramount spokeswoman did not reply to a request for comment.
Getting the Bible-based story past China's censors was always seen as a bit of a challenge, given the government's sensitivities on religious issues. ("Noah" has been banned in several Muslim countries.)
But people working on marketing "Noah" to mainland audiences, who requested anonymity to maintain their business relationship with Paramount, indicated that the plan was to emphasize the film's special effects and "environmental message."
Paramount executives had said before the movie was rejected that they were hopeful that "Noah" would appeal to Chinese moviegoers. The environmental themes sparked criticism from conservative Christians, who said the film trampled biblical truth.
As recently as Tuesday, Paramount believed that the film had been accepted for release in China, according to a person familiar with the process. Director Darren Aronofsky was scheduled to visit the country to promote the film, but now he will travel next week only to Japan, where "Noah" opens June 13.
Another person with knowledge of China's censorship system said "Noah" may have been shunned partially out of commercial concerns.
Several other potential Hollywood blockbusters already are slated for release on the mainland in the coming weeks, including Warner Bros.' "Godzilla," opening June 13. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," which opened in China on Sunday, took in $10 million in its first day in theaters. Disney's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has grossed more than $115 million on the mainland.
No official China release date has been set yet for Paramount's "Transformers: Age of Extinction," although there is strong speculation that the Michael Bay movie, which filmed some scenes in Hong Kong, may open in Beijing on June 27, the same day as the U.S.
Paramount released "Noah" in 2-D in the U.S. but made an Imax 3-D version for international markets. Under China's quota system for imported films, 14 slots per year are set aside specifically for "enhanced-format" films like 3-D and Imax.
China's state-run Xinhua News Agency seemed to anticipate the film's release in China. On April 21, the agency said in a Chinese-language article:
"Although there are other versions of the story of Noah, such as comedy, animation, even Broadway shows, 'Noah' is definitely the first big blockbuster that recreates the Bible story on the big screen truthfully. Although Noah's story happened a long time ago, it still contains profound meanings that can be reflected by people now. The film includes environmental protection, peace, human nature, kindness and evil, and redemption messages, which make the film more vivid. It is learned that 'Noah' will be screened in China in the form of 3-D and Imax 3-D. It is believed the historical epic ... will bring lots of surprise to Chinese audiences."
Paramount has been stepping up efforts to strengthen its business on the mainland; senior executives have made multiple trips here in recent months.
Chief Operating Officer Frederick Huntsberry and Vice Chairman Rob Moore attended the Beijing Film Festival in April, during which Paramount announced that it would team with state film company China Film Group to co-produce a new 3-D fantasy-action film, "Marco Polo." Shooting is to begin in October.
Paramount late last year also hosted several Chinese directors on what has been described as an "internship" or "exchange program." Directors including Wuershan and Zhang Yibai spent a week at the studio in December, meeting with executives and visiting various departments to learn more about how American studios develop, produce and market films.
Although freedom of religion has expanded in China since the late 1970s, there are still significant limits on practice and organization. The state officially recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism. But religious activities are supposed to be held under the auspices of "patriotic religious associations," which are government regulatory bodies.
Last week in the eastern coastal city of Wenzhou, authorities demolished a large church after saying that the congregation built the structure bigger than building permits allowed.
Makinen reported from Beijing and Horn from Los Angeles. Nicole Liu in The Times' Beijing Bureau contributed to this report.


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30 in 30: Dumba tops list of Wild prospectsby Brian Compton
It's difficult to search for positives when a team misses the Stanley Cup Playoffs four years in a row, but the Minnesota Wild were at least able to stock their prospect pool during those frustrating times.
Led by general manager Chuck Fletcher, the Wild, who ended their postseason drought in April, have collected a group of talented, young players who will be expected to have an impact in the NHL in the near future.
Some of Minnesota's young talent already enjoys life in the NHL. Defenseman Jonas Brodin, the Wild's first-round pick (No. 10) at the 2011 NHL Draft, had 11 points (two goals, nine assists) in 45 games last season and led NHL rookies by averaging 23:12 of ice time per game. He was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.
Forward Charlie Coyle, who was acquired at that same draft in the trade that sent Brent Burns to the San Jose Sharks, made the jump to the NHL from the collegiate and junior levels and had eight goals and six assists in 37 games. The 21-year-old is aiming to be a top-six forward again.
Mikael Granlund, the Wild's first-round selection (No. 9) in 2010, also broke into the League and had two goals and six assists in 27 games. Brodin, Coyle and Granlund are expected to have even bigger impacts in Minnesota this season. With a strong training camp, Granlund, 21, could be the No. 2 center.
The Wild did not possess a first-round pick at the 2013 NHL Draft after Fletcher traded it to the Buffalo Sabres before the trade deadline in exchange for veteran wing Jason Pominville. However, there are other young players are on the way.
Here's a look at Minnesota's top 10 prospects, according to NHL.com:
1. Mathew Dumba, D: At 6-foot, 180 pounds, the 19-year-old plays a physical game and can hit with the best of them. A Calgary native, Dumba completed his third season of junior hockey in 2012-13 and had 16 goals, 26 assists and 80 penalty in 62 games for the Red Deer Rebels in the Western Hockey League. He spent the end of last season with the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League and skated as a "Black Ace" for the Wild during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Dumba was Minnesota's first-round pick (No. 7) at the 2012 NHL Draft.
"In the coming years, the NHL's where I want to be and I'll do whatever it takes to do that," Dumba said during development camp in July. "But at the same time, I know there's a process and that comes with time.
"I think they know there's that internal belief that I'm going to push myself, and so do I. I have that confidence in myself that each day that I go to the gym or step on the ice, I'm doing that to get better, working towards my goal of being in the National Hockey League this year."
2. Gustav Olofsson, D: The Wild's first pick in the 2013 draft (No. 46), Olofsson had two goals, 21 assists and 59 penalty minutes in 63 games last season for the Green Bay Gamblers in the United States Hockey League. Olofsson (6-3, 191 pounds) turns 19 Dec. 1 and is attempting to model his game after Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin.
Olofsson will play for Colorado College next season.
"Jonas Brodin … just his fluidness and how he skates really stood out to me. That's how I'd like to play," Olofsson told the Wild website. "A two-way defenseman with string skating ability and good hockey sense."
3. Zack Phillips, C: A first-round draft choice (No. 28) in 2011, Phillips got his first taste of professional hockey last season in the AHL. In 71 games for Houston, the 6-1, 196-pound center had eight goals and 19 assists. He also had one assist in five Calder Cup Playoff games.
With a year of pro hockey under his belt, Phillips, who had 80 points (30 goals) in 60 games for the Saint John Sea Dogs in his final junior season in 2011-12, is ready to make a bigger impact, whether it be in Minnesota or for the Iowa Wild, the club's new AHL affiliate.
"Next year, I'm going to go in with more confidence," Phillips, 20, said. "It makes it a lot easier to stick to your game. It should be an easier year and I'm excited to get it started."
4. Johan Gustafsson, G: The 21-year-old completed his second season with Lulea HF of the Elitserien in Sweden, posting a 1.70 goals-against average and .932 save percentage in 33 appearances in 2012-13. Ready to tackle the North American game, Gustafsson (6-2, 202), a seventh-round pick from 2010 (No. 159), is expected to play with Iowa in the AHL.
"One thing about this kid is he's played in a lot of big games already for a young goalie," assistant general manager Brent Flahr said.
5. Mario Lucia, LW: The son of University of Minnesota coach Don Lucia, the 19-year-old recently completed his first season at the collegiate level. In 32 games for Notre Dame, Lucia (6-2, 187) had 12 goals and 11 assists. A second-round pick (No. 60) in 2011, he will return to Notre Dame this season.
6. Raphael Bussieres, LW: Signed an entry-level contract with the Wild in May after scoring 29 goals and 39 assists with a plus-27 rating in 60 games for the Baie-Comeau Drakkar in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, his third season with the club. Minnesota's second-round pick (No. 46) in 2012, Bussieres (6-1, 198) could return to junior for one more season, but his goal is to play at the professional level.
"I've lived my whole life and played juniors in Quebec, now my pro team is in the United States," Bussieres, 19, said. "It's fun. I learned my English from hockey. I want to play for the Wild or for Iowa. That's my goal."
7. Erik Haula, LW: A seventh-round draft choice (No. 182) in 2009, Haula has moved up Minnesota's prospect chart because of his hard work and production at the University of Minnesota. Over his final two seasons with the Golden Gophers, Haula (5-11, 192) had 100 points (36 goals) in 80 games.
Haula, 22, turned pro at the end of last season; he had a goal and an assist in five playoff games for Houston) and signed an entry-level contract in April. He is expected to start next season with Iowa.
"If you look at him from even two years ago, his physique, his physical maturity, he's grown a lot," Flahr said. "Obviously he's produced at the college level and been very good, and that experience in Houston for him was extremely valuable for him."
8. Kurtis Gabriel, RW: A power forward (6-4, 214), Gabriel was selected in the third round (No. 81) of the 2013 draft, but he's already 20, which means he can battle for a roster spot in Iowa next season. Gabriel, who had 13 goals, 15 assists and 100 penalty minutes in 67 games for the Owen Sound Attack (Ontario Hockey League) last season, was a physical presence at Wild development camp this summer and impressed team brass.
"I think a lot of people will tell you that I'm a really hard-working guy," Gabriel said after being drafted. "The way I came up really instilled that in me. I think some other guys come up the easy way, and I've come up the hard way. I know how to work hard and that's what I'm going to build my career on."
9. Darcy Kuemper, G: The 23-year-old impressed during his brief stint in Minnesota last season, when he had a 2.08 GAA and .916 save percentage in six regular-season appearances. The Wild's sixth-round pick (No. 161) in 2009, Kuemper (6-5, 207) boasted a 1.88 GAA and .934 save percentage in 21 games at Houston. He will battle Josh Harding for the backup job in Minnesota but likely will head to Iowa and share the goaltending duties with Gustafsson.
10. Tyler Cuma, D: Projected to be a top-four NHL defenseman when the Wild selected him in the first round (No. 23) of the 2008 NHL Draft, Cuma has appeared in one NHL game since turning pro in 2010. With Ryan Suter, Jonas Brodin, Keith Ballard, Marco Scandella, Clayton Stoner, Jared Spurgeon, Jonathon Blum, Nate Prosser and Dumba all in the mix on Minnesota's blue line, Cuma (6-2, 180) is likely headed back to the AHL after signing a one-year, two-way deal with the Wild on July 30. This could be a make-or-break season for the 23-year-old.
For all 30 in 30 stories go to NHL.com/30in30stories and for the full 30 in 30 schedule visit NHL.com/30in30.


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In early March 2008, the European Space Agency launched a new spacecraft called the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). ATV is a bigger version of the Russian Progress, a re-supply ship for the International Space Station (ISS). ATV had a perfect launch and docked to ISS as planned. After delivering supplies, the craft was used as crew quarters, and at one point helped push ISS out of the way of a dangerous piece of orbital debris. On September 5, 2008, it was finally time to call an end to the mission and the ATV was undocked from the ISS, ready to enter Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean. Lacking a heat shield to save weight, the craft will break up on reentry in a spectacular fireball.
Our team came in the picture relatively late in the game. It turned out that we were not the only ones who were fascinated by the fact that the 13-ton ATV would enter in a controlled manner with a speed of 4.7 miles (7.6 kilometers) per second. If we could use guidance from the ATV Control Center for latest trajectory updates, we thought it would be possible to position two research aircraft alongside the shallow entry trajectory and observe the breakup process in detail. There is no way to do this for natural fireballs, which appear at random in the sky and at unknown times. Fragmentation is the single most important phenomenon that determines the physical conditions in natural meteors.
ESA was supportive of our proposed mission. A documentation of the breakup process could help validate the models built to study how that fragmentation evolves in a series of disruptions of major components. At reentry into the atmosphere, ATV would execute one final experiment before the mission completion. Our experience with meteor spectroscopy carried the promise of perhaps being able to identify some of the fragments from their radiation signatures. The ATV-1 "Jules Verne" Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign was born.
A workshop was organized at NASA Ames Research Center to discuss how best to observe the ATV reentry, bringing observers and ATV mission managers together. It was decided to postpone the reentry by three weeks so that the reentry would happen at nighttime for best viewing conditions.
As in earlier multi-aircraft (MAC) missions, NASA Ames took the lead in organizing the effort. Two aircraft will participate in this campaign. One is NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory, operated by the University of North Dakota (NSERC) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Center in Palmdale. The other aircraft is a privately owned Gulfstream V, operated by H211 LLC at NASA Ames Research Center. Together they make it possible to triangulate the important fragmentation events and measure their altitude in the atmosphere.
A large team of researchers from ESA, NASA, universities and private organizations will join in the mission, including a team from NASA's Orbital Debris Office at NASA Johnson Space Flight Center. ESA project manager Dr. Jason Hatton has organized the ESA effort, while program manager Dave Jordan of NASA Ames Research Center has coordinated the NASA effort. The logistics for some 36 researchers are coordinated by the SETI Institute. SETI Institute's meteor astronomer, Dr. Peter Jenniskens, is the mission scientist.
The reentry is expected in the early morning of September 29. The two aircraft will leave from NASA Ames and NASA Dryden in the evening of September 26 to a staging area on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. From there, the team will depart deeper into the south Pacific on the early morning of September 29. If all goes to plan, the reentry will take only about 4 minutes, during which all data need to be collected.
Observing the ATV reentry is challenging, requiring good planning and communications with the spacecraft operators. Past observation attempts have often been unsuccessful due to lack of good coordination or wrong instrument settings. One example is the reentry of MIR, which was not observed from two chartered private aircraft back in 2001. Instead, MIR was directed to enter closer to the staging area, and only those that stayed behind at the hotel in Fiji observed the MIR reentry.
Our efforts are supported by the ATV Control Center in Toulouse, France. We hope to receive last-minute updates on the reentry process to be able to position ourselves well along the reentry path. Predictions have been made of how bright ATV will be, just prior to breakup, and we hope that this will enable us to have our instruments correctly configured. It is still a challenge and we hope you will be rooting for us. This trip to Tahiti will be no honeymoon.
For more information on the mission, please visit our mission website at: http://atv.seti.org.


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Here it is, the Adobe Museum of Digital Media, the world's first virtual art museum dedicated to digital art & innovation. The brain child of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and produced along with Unit9, with the direction of digital architect Filippo Innocenti, the Adobe Museum Of Digital Media went live last week with it's first piece called "Valley" by American artist Tom Oursler.
The vision is to fill the museum with custom pieces of interactive art from around the world. The first being a very interesting piece indeed… But before you jump on over to the museum to check it out, make sure you watch the "Making Of" video below from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to get some perspective on the whole project.


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MengZhiLan (Dream Blue)
The magic of dreams radiates hues of blue -- the essence of MengZhiLan is the Chinese dream. Alive and unique, it is the dream of an individual, a nation, a country. It seeks to surpass, lead and improve; it embodies tranquility, tolerance and gentleness.
MengZhiLan is our high-end products, and is oriented towards the elite pinnacle of the liquor market. With its classic characteristics, MengZhiLan is our salute to Chinese distilling craftmanship, culture and history. Carrying on traditional craftmanship and distilling techniques from ancient Yanghe, we use base liqour stored for centuries underground as flavoring, strictly controlling every step of the production process.
MengZhiLan is strong but not overpowering, gentle but not weak. The taste, bountiful and harmonious, unfolds slowly and ends with a clean finish. The flavor is exquisite and mellow with a long aftertaste. It is truly a masterpiece of Chinese mellow liquor.
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February 2001
In the spring of 1993 Michael T. presented to a local emergency room with oral thrush and marked lymphadenopathy -- classical markers of advanced HIV disease in those days. He was assigned a dual-nucleoside regimen of ZDV and ddC, and he was started on TMP-SMX as prophylaxis against pneumocystis pneumonia. At the time, his CD4 count was 432 cells/mm3. Over the next three years it dropped to 121 cells/mm3, and in March of 1996, on his first visit to our institution, Michael T. was given a diagnosis of frank AIDS. We switched him to the three-drug combination of d4T, 3TC, and the original formulation of saquinavir (Table). At the time, saquinavir was the only protease inhibitor that had received F.D.A. approval, and the effectiveness of 3TC in reversing resistance to ZDV and d4T had just been discovered.
At the time, this combination of agents was the most potent available to us, and it did reduce Michael T.s viral load to 504 copies/mL. However, the patient promptly developed chronic and debilitating diarrhea on this combination of antiretroviral agents. This adverse reaction to therapy was attributed to the saquinavir, and so after a mere three months we substituted a newly available and far more potent protease inhibitor, indinavir, for the saquinavir. At the time of this substitution the patients viral load was 10,028 copies/mL and his CD4 count was 209 cells/mm3.
During the 15 months that Michael T. took d4T, 3TC, and indinavir, his viral load never fell below 3,000 copies/mL. By late November of 1997 the patients viral load, which had risen steadily over the past year, reached almost 12,000 copies mL, and his CD4 count, which had dropped just as steadily, fell to 151 cells/mm3. This evidence of increasing resistance led us to switch our patient to a combination of two familiar drugs and two new ones: d4T, ddI, the soft-gel capsule formulation of saquinavir, and low-dose ritonavir, given to potentiate the bioavailability of the other protease inhibitor.
Over the next year, on the combination of ddI, 3TC, nelfinavir, and hydroxyurea, our patients viral burden dropped precipitously, but it never fell below the level of detection of the ultrasensitive HIV RNA assays that had become available by that time. Indeed, his lowest HIV RNA measurement, during the year he was on this, his fourth antiretroviral regimen, was 6,746 copies/mL. And when his viral load began yet another inexorable climb, we switched him to yet another combination of two familiar drugs and two new ones: the coformulation of ZDV and 3TC plus abacavir and amprenavir, the latter drug at a dose of 1200 mg b.i.d. Although Michael T.s viral load held steady at around 20,000 copies/mL for eight months on this new regimen, it never fell below that level, and his CD4 count dropped to 108 cells/mm3.
In April of 2000 we evaluated Michael T.s case in our salvage clinic. In preparation for that evaluation we assessed his adherence (which remained high), obtained a plasma trough-level of amprenavir, and ran genotype and phenotype assays on our patients viral isolate. The results of the latter assay are reproduced on pages 26 and 27, just as we received them from the reporting laboratory (Figures 1 and 2). They show that Michael T. has exhausted his susceptibility to 3TC and has developed high-level resistance to virtually all of the other agents to which he has been exposed over the past decade.
Interestingly enough, Michael T. remains sensitive to non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors as a class. His only prior exposure to NNRTIs came in 1995, when nevirapine was briefly added to his two-nucleoside regimen -- and he promptly developed a severe rash. Although life-threatening, Stevens-Johnson-like hypersensitivity reactions to nevirapine are seen in less than 1% of patients, rash occurs in up to 33% of individuals who are started on this NNRTI. To reduce the likelihood that patients will develop rash on nevirapine, therapy is initiated at 200 mg daily for two weeks and then increased to the therapeutic dose of 200 mg twice daily. In patients who experience only mild erythema and maculopapular eruptions, nevirapine is maintained at 200 mg daily until symptoms resolve, after which the dose is increased. In patients who experience more severe reactions, as Michael T. did, nevirapine is discontinued permanently.
Given what you know of this patient's treatment history -- and given the results of the phenotyping of his much-mutated viral isolate -- what combination of antiretroviral agents would you recommend at this juncture?
The results of Michael T.s phenotype assay indicate that he has developed some degree of resistance to all five of the protease inhibitors that have been prescribed to him as components of the half-dozen antiretroviral regimens he has been assigned over the course of more than a decade. In such a situation, differences in degree of resistance become all-important. Phenotypic assays derive their findings by determining the concentration of a given drug that is needed to inhibit 50% of the HIV replication in a given patients viral isolate -- and then comparing that value, the IC50, with the concentration of the drug that is needed to inhibit 50% of the HIV replication in a wild-type viral isolate that has never been exposed to the drug. This comparison yields the fold-change bar graph seen at the right side of Figure 1.
The assay we used (PhenoSense®, ViroLogic) also gives IC50 values in µM (seen in the third column from the left side in Figure 1), and these values can be used to calculate how much of a particular drug will be needed to overcome a particular patients resistance to that drug. In Michael T.s case, what this comparison of IC50 values reveals is that it will now take concentrations of indinavir, nelfinavir, or saquinavir that are a hundred times greater than the standard clinical doses to achieve a 50% reduction in viral replication in this patient (Figure 2, panels 9-12).
The news is markedly better where amprenavir is concerned, however. Here, the fold change between the patients IC50 and the IC50 of drug-sensitive virus is only 22 (Figure 1, center column, and Figure 2, panel 8). We recognized that we could boost our patients plasma levels of amprenavir well above the IC50 fold-shift of 22. Our conclusion was based on our calculation that it would require 0.127 µg/mL of drug to overcome the resistance in Michael T.s viral isolate. The assay that we used, which is run without protein, reports how much unbound drug is needed to inhibit the patients viral strain. It is therefore necessary to calculate how much protein-bound drug will be needed to inhibit viral reproduction. Population-based studies have established that amprenavir is 10% protein bound, so it will take 1.27 µg/mL of the drug to overcome the resistance exhibited by Michael T.s viral isolate.
Our conclusion is supported by data from a recent clinical trial conducted by Piscitelli et al. They found that combining amprenavir at a dose of 1200 mg b.i.d. with ritonavir at a dose of 200 mg b.i.d. resulted in a mean serum concentration of amprenavir of 2.18 µg/mL, with a range of 0.94 to 3.54 µg/mL.
We therefore switched Michael T. to the four-drug combination of these two protease inhibitors at these doses, plus d4T and ddI at the standard doses. After only two weeks on this regimen, his viral load had fallen from more than 20,000 copies/mL, to 577 copies/mL. We also obtained a plasma trough-level of amprenavir, which was 1.48 µg/mL -- or 1.2-fold above the IC50 for this protease inhibitor. Although Michael T.s HIV RNA levels have risen over the six months that he has been on his latest salvage regimen, they have tended to hover in the range of 4,000 to 8,000 copies/mL.
Andrew D. Luber, Pharm.D., is Executive Director of Pacific Oaks Research Beverly Hills, CA.
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I just watched Episode 5 of this. Wonderful episode. It was probably a good idea to only show brief glimpses of Vivid Heroine vs. Alone fights this episode. The change of pace is good for this particular episode, and it allows the more disturbing feel caused by the focus on Rei to shine through well.
Rei, I think, is a cross between Homura and Fate Testarossa. Rei's appearance, mannerisms, and combat style is much more Homura-esque, but Rei's motivations and place in the narrative is more Fate-esque.
I'm 95% sure that Rei is being duped. The Crow is crudely manipulating her just as Fate was crudely manipulated by Precia. Rei is "fighting for her parents", while Fate "fought for her mother". It's very sympathetic, but it doesn't mean that her cause is right in the bigger picture.
Why do i think that Rei is being duped? Here are my reasons:
1. Crow imagery is almost as ominous as it gets. Actual crows are scavengers. Perhaps that's saying something about the Alones...
2. I don't think this show will be as dark and deconstruction-y as Madoka was. The BGM and mood is too consistently upbeat.
My 5% doubt here is for two reasons:
1. There's always a chance a show could go in an unexpected direction.
2. I do have very slight misgivings about this world's setup. Don't get me wrong. Everybody's heart is in the right place, and it seems like a real utopia (or close to it) to me. But 90% of the entire world's energy supply being located in one place? It's not hard to see how that could backfire horribly.
I think that VRO cleverly takes inspiration from a lot of different sources (Nanoha, Madoka, PreCure, and Strike Witches) and blends them together in a way to give the show an overall distinctive feel while still paying a certain homage to these other properties. I very much like this approach.
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Not to mention entire facilities needed to distribute that energy to the rest of the world, as we saw with Himawari's episode.
And yeah, while free energy around the whole world could definitely help things, that alone wouldn't end all conflict and war. Humans would just find new things to war over, sadly, and/or try to use that free energy for more advanced and powerful weaponry and whatnot...and then there's still corporations who would try to monopolize it, manipulate things, and so on...
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Not to mention, even if the Engine can supply 95% of the world's demand for energy now, demand for power is always increasing. New sources will be needed in a few more years.
In fact, they should be building them already. 95% simply doesn't have enough margin to accomodate spikes in demand.
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Well if the Engine is actually capable of producing infinite energy through some pseudo-scientific means, then the only bottleneck is the distribution.
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The pain in her heart is clearly growing, her dialouge with Akane there when Rei found out that Akane experienced loss in her family due to death she broached the question of, "What would you do/sacrifice to get your loved ones back if you could?" However indirectly she phrased it, it's clearly on her mind.
Also, did anyone else find Rei's dialogue with her pet parakeet painfully cute? Seeing the mask fall away to reveal the lonely girl underneath.
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I'm sure we're all sick of the PMMM comparisons, but that scene where the crow offers to grant Rei a way to change fate was a double-take inducing mirror of a specific contract scene in Madoka episode 10. From the context, to the way the bird materialized into existence, straight down to some of the camera angles used. I'd like to see a screenshot comparison, but there would be too many spoilers.
Having said that, I think the Nanoha comparisons others mentioned will prove to be more indicative of where things are going in the long run. Rei needs to take out a massive befriending insurance policy, pronto.
Also, bums. So many bums.
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This show is rapidly becoming a huge homage to Nanoha, with Akane being the title character, Rei Fate and the crow Precia manipulating her. I think any similarities with Madoka are purely coincidental.
I'm expecting Rei to be 'befriended' before the end of the show. Probably when the real truth behind her world's destruction is made clear to her.
Also, what will happen to Rei if she keeps being 'disobedient'? Will she too be getting whipped into shape (either literally or figuratively), like Fate was? So far, the signs seem to point in that direction. And what is the true motivation of the crow – love, peace and happiness for all? I think it's more like pain, death and destruction.
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Episode 6 preview is out: http://www.vividred.net/next/06.html
It's a beach episode.
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The best time to plant a tree is, well, 20 years ago. The second best time is Arbor Day 2014.
The best time to plant a tree is, well, 20 years ago. The second best time is Arbor Day 2014.
Florida recognizes the event on the third Friday in January, so the next observance is Jan. 17.
Arbor Day is an annual celebration of trees' role in our lives; we promote and plant trees on this holiday, which was first observed on April 10, 1872.
The idea for Arbor Day in the U.S. began with Julius Sterling Morton, a journalist and nature lover who in 1854 moved from Detroit to present-day Nebraska � and noticed there were virtually no trees there. So he wrote and spoke about environmental stewardship and encouraged everyone to plant trees.
Morton said that trees were needed to act as windbreaks, stabilize soil and to provide shade, fuel and building materials for early pioneers to prosper in the developing state.
The State Board of Agriculture accepted an 1872 resolution by Morton "to set aside one day to plant trees, both forest and fruit." The first Arbor Day, on April 10, 1 million trees were planted in Nebraska.
By 1920, 45 states and territories celebrated Arbor Day and, eventually, the observance became a nationally recognized holiday. In 1970, then-President Richard Nixon proclaimed the last Friday in April as National Arbor Day.
Today, all 50 states observe Arbor Day, usually when it's the optimal climate for planting trees. In Florida, the ideal time is January, so Florida�s Arbor Day is celebrated on the third Friday of the month.
Similar events are observed throughout the world. In Israel, it is the Tu B Shevat (New Year for Trees) on Jan. 16, 2014.
Germany has Tag des Baumes on April 25.
Japan and Korea celebrate an entire week in April.
Even Iceland, one of the world's treeless countries, observes Student�s Afforestation Day.
Trees planted on Arbor Day show a concern for future generations. The simple act of planting a tree represents a belief that the tree will grow and some day provide wood products, wildlife habitat erosion control, shelter from wind and sun, beauty, and inspiration for ourselves and our children.
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Harold Harmon, owner of Walter's Flowers and Interiors, will be sharing his Christian faith at the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at 7 a.m. May 2 at the Civic Center.
Harold Harmon, owner of Walter's Flowers and Interiors, will be sharing his Christian faith at the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at 7 a.m. May 2 at the Civic Center.
Cost of the breakfast is $7 and reservations need to be made to the El Dorado Chamber by calling 321-3502.
"I'm doing it for God," Harmon said of his decision to accept an invitation to speak.
Harmon has attended the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast every year since it began, but will be the featured speaker for the first time this year.
Harold, his wife Linda, and their staff designers are known regionally for their artistic creativity in flower arranging, wedding and funeral planning and servicing, gift selection and decorating.
"I'm going to be incorporating flowers into the talk," he said, "working with God's creations."
Throughout the years the Harmons have been in business, they have touched many families in ministering to them through family grievances, celebrations and other special events.
Harmon values his customers, and prays with some of them on occasion.
"We deal with emotions, whether it's a happy time or sad," he said.
Harmon will share how his faith has sustained him through his professional, military and personal life.
Walter's has been nationally recognized in many local, state and regional professional publications and Harmon's generosity with his time and talents is well known in this community.
His professional history will be of interest and surprising to some, as he shares about his life's spiritual journey.
Harold and Linda are the parents of Amy Harmon and Sara Slayton and the grandparents of the two Slayton boys.
The El Dorado Mayor's Prayer Breakfast is traditionally held on the National Day of Prayer. In addition to the breakfast, all residents of Butler County are urged to Circle the Court House for a short time of prayer at noon on May 2. Both events are interdenominational and open to the public. You do not need to be a chamber member to attend.
Newly elected El Dorado Mayor Mike Fagg will welcome the guests and local downtown business people will share scripture and music, emphasizing the faith practiced by business men and women in the downtown neighborhood.
The theme of this year's national emphasis is Hope.


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