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Danielle "Dani" Alexis Dunlap, age 25, died on April 28, 2013. Danielle was born in Nuremberg, Germany on January 30, 1988 to Vallera M. Gibson and Allan Dunlap. Danielle lived in California, South Carolina, and Texas before moving to Atlanta, G.A. She attended Christ Lutheran Elementary School, Brown Middle School and Benjamin E. Mays High School. Danielle was a dynamic and motivated student. In the fall of 2009, she entered Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island where she studied neuroscience in pursuit of her life-long dream to become a physician. In May of 2010, Danielle received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University. Her interest in world cultures and desire to be of assistance to those in need led to her pursuit of public service opportunities with the Peace Corps. On June 6, 2011 Danielle arrived in Ghana, West Africa for service. Throughout her time in Ghana, Danielle carried out activities aimed at improving the quality of life for her community in the areas of nutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria awareness, and sanitation. Danielle led a project whose mission was to raise funds and develop plans to build a medical health clinic in the village where she served. Danielle successfully raised the funds needed to build the clinic. The clinic is currently under construction, and the village residents will name the clinic in honor of the name they bestowed to Danielle, "Mama Grace." Danielle was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Atlanta. Her celebration of life service will be held Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 11 AM at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 3050 Cascade Rd. SW, Atlanta. Instate 10 AM. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Family and friends are asked to assemble at the church at 10:30 AM on the day of service. Danielle is survived by her mother, Vallera M. Gibson, father, Allan Dunlap, step-mother, Daniela Dunlap, sister, Mia Dunlap, grandfather Dr. John Gibson, grandmother Ms. Martha Dunlap, and a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Donations can be made to Danielle's project. Checks should be written to: "Peace Corps" with "Danielle 'Dani' Dunlap Memorial Fund" in the memo line. Please mail them to: Paul D. Coverdell, Peace Corps Headquarters Office of Private Sector Initiatives, 1111 20th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20526.
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[…] year after, April 28 will always sting (along with a few other related dates), still I know that Danielle "Dani" Dunlap prefers that her family and friends smile, laugh and dance in her […]
I am so sorry about your daughter. My Danielle, lost her life as well while serving in the Peace Corp. so I can say I know your pain. Pray. Pray. Pray. Each day is so hard that I know that it is not easy to even get up. But for your daughter's legacy and mine, TRY! Please know you are in my prayers.
Rest in peace, Danielle. I did not know you, but I wish you the best up in heaven and I am sure that you accomplished so many good things for this world in so little time.
As a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia 09-11 all I can say is I am so sad for your family. I can say from experience that the Peace Corps was among the best days of my life. Know that despite this tragedy your daughter loved what she did, was loved by her community both local and Peace Corps and became an even better and more mature person then when she left the US. She was already an amazing young woman. RIP Danielle and Thank you for your sacrifice!


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Newly built Jamrich Hall is a classroom and academic department building, containing a 500-seat lecture hall with a stage, three 80-seat lecture rooms with tiered seating and 24 active learning classrooms designed to encourage collaborative learning.There are also five academic department offices: English, criminal justice, sociology and anthropology, social work and math and computer science. Additional features include a Starbucks restaurant, six informal learning areas, and a connector walkway to the Learning Resources Center.
The building is named after former NMU President John X. Jamrich (1968-1983).
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BYRON — Randy Heinzeroth never intended to be a minister at Byron Dragway.
"It was my way of trying to get out of being a minister," Heinzeroth recalled. "When God puts a calling on you, it's a serious thing. I asked, 'Do you think we can do it with drag racing.' I figured, 'No way is God going to go for this one,' but everything lined up."
Heinzeroth linked up with Racers for Christ, a national organization with chapel services, pastoral care and outreach services, for five years. Then someone donated a 38-foot recreational vehicle to him.
"When I got the RV, it became apparent that I needed to establish my own track ministry there so I could do a lot of outreach with the racers and fans," said Heinzeroth, who also goes to car shows and "cruise nights," when people bring their hot rods to a local McDonald's or Dairy Queen.
Byron Dragway's chaplain since 2007 stopped just preaching to the choir and joined himself this year when he began racing his 1983 Monte Carlo Super Sport. That, too, was not originally by design.
At least not Heinzeroth's design.
Heinzeroth, who once restored a 1967 Camaro "from the ground up," had just finished restoring his Monte Carlo and upgrading it with an engine and transmission from a 2001 Pontiac Trans Am. He took it to Byron one weekend just to see how it ran and was spotted by Barry Fisher, a former track champion in the Pro division.
"I made about five passes that were very, very consistent," Heinzeroth recalled. "Barry Fisher looked at all of those time tickets and raised his eyebrows. He said, 'Do you have any idea of what you have on your hands here? You have a weapon. You need to be racing this car.'
"It took just that little bit of coercion. I'm there anyway, so I gave it a try. My goal was just to finish in the top 10."
Heinzeroth finished a close third in the Street Eliminator division with 53 points to 55 by Noel Norup of Rockton and 54 for Paul Zimmerman of Woodstock.
The man simply listed as Rev. Randy in the track standings also advanced through six rounds to win his first race on the final weekend.
"That was unbelievable," Heinzeroth said. "The whole season, we were trying to get my car even more consistent. I was constantly tuning and doing modifications on the car to make it more competitive."
Track owner B.J. Vangsness said such attention to detail made Rev. Randy a contender.
"He was always coming out on off weekends when there wasn't racing and practicing, practicing, practicing," Vangsness said. "He really committed himself to doing better. He also studies a lot of other cars and racers."
The Street class competes in bracket racing, where drivers estimate their time and the winner is whoever comes closest to his prediction. Heinzeroth even bought a hand-held weather station to help him gauge outside factors such as wind, temperature and humidity.
"I kept at it, knowing I would eventually figure it out," Heinzeroth said. "It's really cool to finally get a win after chasing it all year. Unfortunately, it was the last race. Now I've got to wait until next May to race again."
Becoming the Racing Rev. has helped Rev. Randy in his ministry, which includes the website sanctuaryofspeed.com.
"People want to know they can relate to you and I can relate to them," he said. "Now that I am in the staging lanes with my own car, it's given me a whole new level of appreciation of what's going on. When other people are there to test and tune, they come over and look at my car and we start chit-chatting. They will notice I have a red cross on my chest and it says 'Chaplain Randy.' They'll ask if I race.
"Yeah, we like to have fun, too. It's allowed me to do even more ministry work."
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NEWPORT CENTER – Late Saturday, fire destroyed the home of Charles Roberts, father of 16-year-old Dustin Roberts who passed away in February after a long battle with cancer.Firefighters were called to Number 12 Road just past 11 p.m. for a fully engulfed structure fire."When we got there, the house was fully involved," said Kurk Flynn, Newport Center Fire Chief. "We called for extensive mutual-aid from North Troy, Jay, Troy, Irasburg and Newport City."Firefighters had the blaze under control in about three hours but remained on the scene until 6 a.m."It was a very intense fire," Flynn said.The exact cause of the blaze is unknown and a fire marshal will be on the scene today, but it doesn't appear suspicious. Firefighters were able to save the urn that contained Dustin Roberts' ashes."I am very proud of the firefighters who went in and got the urn," said Flynn. "That was a heroic thing to do."The family's pets got out of the home. However, the rest of their belongings, including all of Dustin Roberts' trophies he won during tractor pulls at events such as the Orleans County Fairgrounds in Barton, were lost in the blaze.Firefighters had problems getting water to the scene. Flynn said they drained one of the nearby ponds and had to get water from another source.The fire hit close to home for area firefighters. Charles Roberts is a former member of the Newport Center Fire Department and his father and brother are still members."It affected all of us," said Flynn. The Newport Ambulance Service and the American Red Cross were on site. There were no injuries in the blaze. In all, between 40 and 50 firefighters responded to the scene."Everybody did a great job," said Flynn. "It affected us all, because they are family. It's a sad, sad, thing."Flynn has plans to set up a fund for the Roberts family. Anyone wishing to donate can call Chief Flynn at 323-7590 or Colleen Percy at 334-2890.


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When the new Congress convenes in January, the Triangle region will have double the political firepower it had this year.
Because of redistricting, the area's three-member delegation in the House of Representatives will grow to six, turning the congressional map into even more of an erratic patchwork.
Durham, for example, will be split among congressional seats.
"In some instances, it helps to have more members rather than fewer with a stake in what you're working on," said Democratic Rep. David Price of Chapel Hill. "But there clearly are also challenges with coordination and fragmentation. I don't know any way you could construe splitting Durham into four districts to be a positive thing."
The Triangle, which encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, will be split among three Republicans and three Democrats. That might translate into more clout in the nation's capital on regional issues involving cities, rural areas, higher education, transportation and economic growth.
Durham, for example, faces urban issues of crime and sprawl, but it's also a university town with high-tech business.
The nation's largest cities have six or more members of Congress, but it's quite unusual to find that many in a region such as the Triangle with 2 million residents, said Thomas Eamon, an associate professor of political science at East Carolina University and the author of an upcoming book on North Carolina politics.
Andrew Taylor, a professor of political science at North Carolina State University, said having more people in the House for issues involving federal funding might be helpful. But he said it would take time for all six to learn about their new constituencies.
He said the new districts "don't have any kind of regional identity. And so it may take them a while to really get a handle on it."
The new Republican-drawn districts mean that Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers, from Dunn, will represent part of Wake County, as will Rep.-elect George Holding, a Republican from Raleigh.
Rep. Howard Coble, a Republican from Greensboro who's served in Congress for nearly 30 years, picked up parts of northern Durham and Orange counties. A staffer will visit the counties one day a week, but the location for part-time office space hasn't been determined, said Coble Chief of Staff Ed McDonald.
The Democrats in the region will be Price; Mike McIntyre of Lumberton, whose new district will take in part of Johnston County; and G.K. Butterfield of Wilson, whose seat will now include some of Price's old territory in Durham County, where he plans to open an office.
"It's making me work harder, for sure," he said. But he said he knew the area well, having earned his undergraduate and law school degrees at North Carolina Central University in Durham.
Butterfield said it was impossible to say whether more would get done for the region. He said Price "has a long-standing commitment to Durham County. I'm sure he'll give it his all, and I'm going to do the same."
Price, who was a political science and public policy professor at Duke University before he was first elected to Congress in 1986, said the new arrangement had its challenges but that he hoped it would have some opportunities as well. Usually, local matters that members of Congress work on don't become partisan issues, he said.


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I'm thinking about building a board like one of the smaller Airrush Sectors - a free-ride type board, not a surfboard. I know that full raceboards are using Powerbox and Tuttle boxes, and the Sectors are using mini-tuttles (or have they changed?) Anyway, it seems to me that a board like the Sector is too thin for a Tuttle or Powerbox (or is it?). I'm not sure about if/where I might get mini-tuttle boxes (I didn;t find much online), or what the best option would be in terms of available fins. My very preliminary thinking is to have a more swept back fin. I'm wondering if I can get away with any type of FCS or Probox or other type of surfboard setup, and whether I can gets decent fins for what I want, and whether these boxes will hold up. I think I might want fins deeper than your typical 4 or 4.5" thruster, but I'm not looking at big deep vertical fins or anything.
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The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Suffolk University to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the fourth straight year.
Suffolk University students spend more than 9,000 hours serving the community annually in activities ranging from tutoring and mentoring schoolchildren to representing indigent tenants through one of the Law School's many legal clinics.
The University encourages an ethos of service among its students by offering opportunities for practical community experience that also enhance classroom learning. These activities help students develop a greater understanding of social justice and advocacy, achieve a sense of personal growth and discover opportunities for leadership development.
Suffolk University service efforts are organized by S.O.U.L.S. Center for Community Engagement and the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service.
Reaching out after Hurricane Katrina
The Corporation for National and Community Service has administered the Honor Roll since 2006, when it was inspired by the thousands of college students who traveled across the country to support relief efforts along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Suffolk University students joined these efforts, forgoing their traditional spring break vacations to help build in a hurricane-ravaged area of Mississippi.
The University has sponsored similar Alternative Spring Break community service trips for 13 years. More than 150 students and staff fanned out across the country this past March to engage in activities at 12 locations. And, since 2007, an Alternative Winter Break service-learning program has traveled annually to El Salvador.
"Communities are strengthened when we all come together, and we are encouraged that these institutions and their students have made service a priority," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "Civic engagement should be a key component of every student's education experience. Through reaching out to meet the needs of their neighbors, these students are deepening their impact, strengthening our democracy and ultimately preparing themselves to be successful citizens."
Carnegie Foundation recognition
The Carnegie Foundation has recognized the University's efforts with the Community Engagement Classification.
The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll program is managed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the American Council on Education and Campus Compact.


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7 families displaced after fire destroys homes
7 families displaced after fire destroys homes
Seven families were displaced after a six-alarm fire destroyed their homes in Central City on Saturday.
The Red Cross is assisting the families.
"They helped us out but not much for me," Terrell Long said of the assistance he's received. "I'm thankful for what they gave me, but it's not really enough to do anything. For the people that we have, $130 is not enough to do anything."
Long said the assistance ends Tuesday.
"I guess just wait to see what happens with the fire report and just go from there," he said.
Red Cross generally gives fire victims spending money and a hotel room for up to three nights, but that assistance could be extended on a case by case basis, according to a Red Cross news release.


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A new issue of GOOP. And it's not wellness or mother-ness and food-ness. Instead, this newsletter is dedicated to GOOP Punk...at the MET Gala!
For all her sh-tting on the event and moaning about what a terrible time she had, she still couldn't resist sharing with us what the styling experience was like.
It's a GOOP how-to, punk edition!
Gwyneth worked with her stylist, Elizabeth Saltzman, to create her look. It was apparently all Elizabeth's idea to have her in a pink ball gown...a pink ball gown for Punk Night:
"When I first started to research the punk theme, I visited a neighbor of mine who'd been in the music business and had a collection of all her punk pieces from the past. She had this one big pink ball-gown skirt that I immediately took to. In thinking about what Gwyneth could wear, I didn't want her to show up in a costume. So this look is all about anarchy – truly going against the grain and not wearing what everyone expects. That's about as punk as you can get, which is why the dynamic duo, Pierpaolo and Maria of Valentino, made so much sense. Their clothes are so pretty..."
When you remember G's dress from the MET Gala, is "anarchy" the first word that comes to mind?!
There follows a step-by-step recounting of how it all came together. The first fitting happened 3 weeks before the party. And you'll note, it was too big for her when she first tried it on... OBVIOUSLY.
Supposedly she ate cheese when she was getting ready. It's like that line from Devil Wears Prada, delivered beautifully by Emily Blunt:
"I'm on this new diet. Well, I don't eat anything and when I feel like I'm about to faint I eat a cube of cheese. I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight."
But didn't it look so much better in the sketch?
Especially her hair?
As Chloe Sevigny said, by way of Dean, maybe her sleeves really were too tight, because they're crazy if they thought this was a winner, punk or not.
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The company has been working with the affected vendors and fellow members of the Cyber Threat Alliance to alert customers and lock down devices, and has been blacklisting domains associated with the attacker infrastructure for its customers.
"The attackers could turn loose another NotPetya … DDoS, literally anything. They are only limited by their own creativity," Williams says.
What to Do
Users of the infected devices should reboot them as soon as possible, which will kill off the stage 2 and 3 malware. That's a temporary fix, however, since the persistent first-stage malware isn't removable with a reboot and the attackers could come back and reinstall the stage 2 and 3 malware again. The devices also should be updated with the latest patches and default credentials should be changed to new strong credentials, according to Symantec .
Updates from the various equipment vendors are rolling in. Netgear said in addition to firmware updates and password resets for its routers, users should turn off remote management in its devices.
"Hopefully, we caught it in time," Williams says of the VPNFilter campaign. Ensuring the actual patching and securing the infected IoT devices mostly will fall on the ISPs, small businesses, or even large businesses who have these devices installed, he says.
Cisco is urging ISPs to "work aggressively" with customers to get the device patched and up-to-date, and to assist users in rebooting their routers.
Mounir Hahad, head of Juniper Threat Labs at Juniper Networks, recommends all home routers and NAS devices be rebooted just in case. "Given the list of compromised device models is large and potentially incomplete, it is recommended that everyone reboots their home routers and NAS devices one time," he says.
That doesn't mean VPNFilter is randomly scanning each and every vulnerable device like Mirai did, however, according to Symantec. Symantec thus far has not seen indiscriminate scanning via its honeypot and sensor data.
Security experts meanwhile have been warning that Russia and other nation-states could ratchet up more aggressive cyberattacks against the US, likely posing as other nations and attack groups for plausible deniability. Russia has been honing its skills on that front for the past year or so, with its destructive NotPetya attack campaign targeting Ukraine, its election-meddling operation during the 2016 US presidential election, and most recently, the false flag operation in its hack of the Winter Olympics systems.
"This is an alarming variant of malware, as it can destroy infrastructure and take western allies back to the Stone Ages," says Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer with Carbon Black. "This will spread to NATO members' [countries] this week, and I feel that Putin has taken his gloves off."
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INTERFLO 200 Oresundsbanan total signalling - Sweden
Svensk-Danska Broforbindelsen awarded Bombardier Transportation a turnkey contract for the specification, delivery, installation, test and commissioning of an INTERFLO 200 solution for part of the Swedish land works of the Oresund Link, linking Sweden and Denmark.
The INTERFLO 200 signalling system supplied includes EBI Lock computer-based interlocking, EBI Screen control room, EBI Cab ATC onboard equipment, EBI Light signals, EBI Switch point machines and EBI Track train detection.
The land section of the line in Sweden is a 15 km double track, passing through 2 stations with up to 150 trains per day travelling on the line.


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Tommy Baker enters his fourth season as the leader of the Cobra women's golf program.
In just three short years, Baker has transformed the Coker women's golf program into a regional competitor. During the 2012-13 season the Cobras had three top-5 finishes and they completed eight of their nine events in the top-15. Taylor Demby was an all-conference selection and she was also named the conference women's golfer of the month for April.
Baker joined the Coker golf program in January of 2008 after spending a year and a half at UNC-Pembroke as the Graduate Assistant Coach for the Men's and Women's teams.
Baker is a native of Fayetteville, N.C., and a 2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he received a B.S. with honors in Exercise in Sports Science. He was a four-time letterman for the Braves and was a four-time Peach Belt Conference Honor Roll selection.
Coach Baker earned his Masters of Arts in Sports Administration from UNC Pembroke.


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I excitedly began to look around and I had a severe case of sensory overload! First, the setting was spectacular. It was a clear and sunny day, with a beautiful view of the Monterey Bay.
I spotted Alton Brown!! I did try to get a photograph with him, but I'm just not aggressive enough. I have to say that AB is a very gracious person. Not once did he snub anyone who asked for his photograph. He's also very funny.
My new friend, Valerie, watched my purse so that I could find a glass of wine. There was a lot of food!
Check out all of the oysters! Would you believe I don't like oysters. I know-- what a travesty!
I moved on to the cheese selection-- pretty, but I was far too excited to try and plate a selection of those.
I stopped to survey the ingredients table:
Pictured are Alexandra Guarnaschelli, from NY's Butter Restaurant, and Thomas Keller and Sam Choy.
Finally, I settled on crostini with morels and wild mushrooms, and seared scallops. Now, that's what I'm talkin' about!
I hurried back to my seat and took photos of my lovely appetizers (while my non food blogging friends smiled at my trying to balance a plate on my lap to use my macro lens). Doesn't this look marvelous?
Valerie graciously brought a dessert plate:
I'm really beginning to like Valerie...Our seats were directly in front of Nate Appleman, co-owner and executive chef of A16 Restaurant (San Francisco) and a Beard Award nominee. He's adorable... honestly, he's a cutie patootie.
To my right was Alexandra Guarnaschelli, from NY's Butter Restaurant-- and also from Food Network shows "Chopped" and as a judge on "Iron Chef". In person, she's delightful. We locked eyes, and she gave me a warm hello and she was very gracious. She's very different than the harsh judge personna she has on "Chopped".
Alton Brown and Sam Choy (Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch & Crab in Honolulu) and Iron Chef guest were circulating during the competition.
Other guests chefs were Xavier Deshayes (Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center-- Washington D.C.) and Canadian Chef Paul Rogalski. Thomas Keller (The French Laundry) sat three seats to my right along with numerous celebrity chefs.
The secret ingredient was Albacore Tuna. This event was nothing like the Iron Chef show on Food Network. It was low key, and the chefs were very relaxed. Alton Brown kept us all laughing-- especially when he made fun of Alexis' quinoa. Truthfully, I haven't learned to bond with it, either.
Nancy and I were spellbound, just watching all the knife skills.
Truly, it was so hard for me to even think about wanting to eat the wonderful hor's doevres. I found myself watching Nate prepare several dishes with his lovely sous chef (whose name was not mentioned).
It's getting late, and I have more to share. Actually, I had so much fun-- and I want to share those highlights with you. Hopefully, you'll tune in tomorrow for Part II of my fun evening in my beautiful hometown of Monterey, California.


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Michigan Tech Names 3 Endowed Chairs, Adds Sustainability Faculty
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In a bold, first-ever Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative (SFHI) that cuts across academic disciplines to focus on a research theme, Michigan Technological University has named three professors to endowed chairs and hired seven additional new faculty members. Their research focuses on sustainability.
Michigan Tech's Board of Trustees adopted the new hiring concept last year, as a multi-year drive to enhance the University's competence in selected research niches and to increase the size of the faculty to a level appropriate to a leading technological research university.
"The Board of Trustees recognized that we must make a long-term investment to position Michigan Tech as a premier university capable of responding to our world's emerging challenges and workforce needs," said Michigan Tech President Glenn D. Mroz.
Sustainability is already a central theme of research across many disciplines at Michigan Tech. The University's goal is to make Michigan Tech a world leader in creating and communicating the science and technology necessary to support a sustainable future.
Within the broad scope of sustainability, research groups are already working on air, water, energy and materials. The new Robbins Chairs in Sustainability target three areas where sustainability is practiced: sustainable management of the environment, sustainable design and manufacturing, and sustainable materials.
Named to the Robbins Chairs in Sustainability were David F. Karnosky (sustainable management of the environment), David R. Shonnard (sustainable materials) and John W. Sutherland (sustainable design and manufacturing). Karnosky is a professor of forest genetics and forest biotechnology and director of the Ecosystems Science Center in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. Shonnard is a professor of chemical engineering, and Sutherland is a professor of mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics and director of the Sustainable Futures Institute. He presently holds the Henes Chair in Mechanical Engineering.
"These chairs were made possible through the generous support of Dick and Bonnie Robbins, who recognized that our students' understanding of the fragile nature of the world around them depends on direct experience in class and research on today's key environmental challenges," said Mroz.
Richard Robbins graduated from Michigan Tech in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He and his wife explained why they endowed the chairs for interdisciplinary sustainability research.
"Three sustainability chairs add impact to Michigan Tech's progressive work on some of the world's complex problems," they said. "Interdisciplinary work involving teams of students and faculty provides a truly broad view and solutions that could achieve unexpectedly creative results for world-class sustainable progress."
New faculty includes Rupali Datta, Paul Doskey, Wenzhen Li, Audrey Mayer, Claudio Mazzoleni and Shiliang Wu.
"Many of the faculty hired through this initiative may not fit the traditional mold of any single academic department," said Michigan Tech Provost Lesley Lovett-Doust. "Because they are involved in interdisciplinary research, they are valued as professors in more than one of the traditional disciplines, so we have, where possible, shared these new professors between two areas so that they can contribute to both academic programs."
Cross-disciplinary hiring is not the only innovative aspect of the SFHI. A committee representing all of Michigan Tech's colleges and schools crafted a unique hiring process that incorporated evaluation of candidates by existing faculty whose interests were close to those of the applicant, and invited feedback on the live and videotaped presentations of the candidates by the entire University community. The goal was to ensure that the faculty hired would be the very best, regardless of their academic field.
Lovett-Doust added, "This initiative will add to the capacity of the University to support growth in doctoral education and research productivity, particularly in interdisciplinary programs such as the graduate certificate in sustainability, the PhD program in atmospheric sciences, and proposed doctoral programs that might address more efficient and sustainable industrial processes, environmental public policy and natural resource economics. Our students, both graduate and undergraduate, will benefit greatly from this interdisciplinary scholarship, which will reinforce the connection between research and learning."
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David Karnosky's recent research has focused on the sustainability of the productivity of forest ecosystems in this time of global change. His decade-long Aspen FACE project has been examining the impacts of elevated levels of greenhouse gases--carbon dioxide and ozone--on the forests of northern Wisconsin. He also is working in the US and West Africa to improve forest productivity and increase the capacity of forests to sequester carbon to help offset increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, while developing useful, value-added forest products from indigenous tree species that will help support local communities with outside revenue. Karnosky has been on the faculty of Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science since 1983.
David Shonnard, a founding participant in Michigan Tech's Wood to Wheels research, works on the development of processes to produce more efficient and cleaner-burning ethanol from wood and other forest-based biomass. He conducts enzyme-engineering research to improve the conversion of the cellulose in wood to glucose, which can in turn be fermented into ethanol. His goal is to help achieve sustainability through the production of forest-based biofuels. Shonnard was recently named one of four Michigan Tech faculty members in the state's first University Center of Energy Excellence. Shonnard joined Michigan Tech's Department of Chemical Engineering in 1993.
John Sutherland conducts research designed to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing processes, to promote remanufacturing and recycling, and to develop product designs that support used product recovery and remanufacturing. Sutherland also works to develop model corporate and networking systems that support sustainability. The Strategic Futures Institute that he heads is a nexus for discussion and innovation in sustainability research, education and outreach. It supports the NSF-funded IGERT program (Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Traineeships), which emphasizes interdisciplinary research by diverse groups of students. Sutherland has been on Michigan Tech's Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics faculty since 1991.
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Rupali Datta has been at the University of Texas at San Antonio. With her collaborators, she has developed a plant-based method of detoxifying soils contaminated by lead-based paint, using vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides). She will hold a faculty appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences.
Paul Doskey comes to Tech from Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked in the Climate Research Section. He studies environmental and biogeochemical processing of organic chemicals and of gases and aerosols that affect climate. He also develops models to predict the fate of chemicals in the environment under various conditions. He will hold an appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Wenzhen Li, who joins Tech from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the State University of New York-Albany, works with proton exchange membrane fuel cells. This nanotechnology shows promise as a method of converting hydrogen or methanol directly into electrical energy, with zero emissions. He will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Chemistry.
Audrey Mayer comes to Tech from the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on sustainability indices, which can help manage environmental systems by measuring the impact of time and space as well as the interaction of ecological, economic and social dimensions. She will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Social Sciences and the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.
Claudio Mazzoleni joins Tech from Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research focuses on air quality and climate science, including measurement and analysis of emissions from large fleets and biodiesel-powered vehicles under real-world conditions and characterization of the properties of aerosols that can affect climate. He will hold a faculty appointment in the Physics Department.
Shiliang Wu holds a postdoctoral position at Harvard University; his research is in the area of atmospheric sciences, and biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Wu will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The final new faculty member, who is completing arrangements to move to Michigan Tech from his current position, is an expert on energy conservation in the built environment, particularly in relation to lighting and heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC). His specialty is an integrated approach to the "green retrofitting" of existing buildings. He will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Michigan Technological University is a leading public research university, conducting research, developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering, forestry and environmental sciences, computing, technology, business and economics, natural and physical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences.
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I've just finished reading this post from start to finish. Is it even possible to write a program that can solve a puzzle automatically. If so, then these speeds make sense as computers are fast enough. However, I can't believe many people can write or even know how to write code for this purpose. As far as using a spreadsheet to solve them, I wondered if one could do so when I learned how to solve these puzzles on this site. However, even if you created a spreadsheet that could do it, it would still require time to input data from the clues to allow the spreadsheet to work, thus defeating the intent. When I considered a spreadsheet, I thought of it as an intellectual challenge to myself, not as a way to get a leg up in competition. I have found that my times and depth of understanding has dramatically improved as I do more puzzles. I also don't understand someone being perturbed about fast times as there will always be someone better out there and I do these puzzles for myself, not to impress anyone else. I guess that's just me however.
Multiple Answers
I haven't played to long but I have found some puzzles for which a number of answers work, but the site only accepts one. So there is a lack of info in the clues in some cases
Fast Times
I know this issue was raised a few years ago, but I'm seeing quite a few average solve times that are absolutely astounding! It takes an average of 30 mouse clicks to solve a puzzle and for a very fast reader, it would take each question about 2 seconds to read.
I've solved a few in about 80 seconds (very few ), but am wondering what the secret is for the consistent low scores.
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I just solved a 4x4 puzzle in 59 seconds, my first ever under one minute (although I've come close before).
No cheating, just logic, and luck, because if the clues come in a convenient order it makes it quicker to solve.
Definitely doable.
I wasn't talking about individual puzzles — since that post a few months ago I actually did one in 40 seconds, but that's because I had done the same puzzle less than an hour before. My solve time on some puzzles has lowered quite a bit and I'm not hooting anymore when I solve a puzzle under 80 seconds.
My question was about average solve times of 30 and 40 seconds. And individual game solves of 14 seconds. (Interestingly we haven't seen those since the new puzzles were introduced — they don't have such discernible patterns.)
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So does it count or not?
Hi, I just solved a puzzle in a new personal record time of 46 seconds. Am I right in thinking that it won't be counted toward my stats because it's too fast? I solved the puzzle straight-ahead, no cheating of any kind, no pattern recognition... it was just a particularly easy 4x4 puzzle. It would be sad if there were a disincentive to solve puzzles in under a minute because they might not be counted. Just sayin.
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Your solve will still be counted toward your stats, both monthly and lifetime.
Thanks for playing,
Hmm, it only took me a few minutes to figure out one way to do it, at least for a computer professional like myself. Input is easy, all you need is prior access to puzzles so they can be solved, which is also easy if you think about it.
Certainly you can detect the more obvious users, but I don't see any way to eliminate the possibility other than handing out unique puzzles every time.
It's not about access to the puzzles, it's about repeating patterns....I find that a lot when I get working a lot of puzzles in one day. After awhile I start seeing the same patterns in the grids.
Confession Time!
I've never achieved a monthly trophy, but I had a simple system to achieve record times when I felt so inclined.
Before Logic Puzzles added heavily to their puzzle list, I worked 4x5's exclusively, and soon discovered that the solutions to puzzles containing a '5 person' clue could be predicted solely from the 'x' pattern resulting from that single clue. Of the thousands of 4x5 puzzles, there were probably only about three-hundred patterns, and it seemed like two-thirds of those contained one '5-person' clue. And those '5-person' clues always resulted in nine 'x's. Most of those made for 4 'x's in the uppermost 5x15 squares. I focused on those.
I printed up sheets of blank grids, onto which I would record the four upper deck 'x's from the '5-person' clue of a given puzzle, and then, after solving, I would also record the 15 answer circles. Repeating this until I had around 120 distinct patterns was enough so that I could simply 'look up' the answer to a large percentage of the 4x5's that I encountered. I arranged the patterns in a quasi-numerical order according to where the 'x's fell row/column-wise, so I could quickly locate a particular 'x' pattern/solution that matched a new puzzle, and simply plug in the answers. It was crude, but I achieved some blazingly fast 'solve' times. Several were in the thirty-something seconds range.
My main motivation was to equal, or eclipse, the crazy records I saw. After doing so, I was satisfied that they were achieved by methods essentially the same as mine, and I threw all my cheat sheets away. But it was fun thinking about how it so irked and confounded some players. There you go!
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Against All Enemies
- Inside America's War on Terror
- Narrated by: Richard A. Clarke
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Release date: 05-04-2004
- Language: English
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Regular price: $30.86
Publisher's Summary
Clarke knows the secret stories of Bill Clinton's great victories (shutting down anti-U.S. terrorism sponsored by Iran and Iraq) and his great frustrations (failing to kill Osama Bin Laden despite many attempts). When President Bush took office, Clarke was ready to present him with a master plan to roll back and destroy al Qaeda, yet the president did not grant a briefing for months. His aides had little interest in Osama Bin Laden, preferring to talk about Saddam Hussein at every turn. Clarke knows why we failed to shut down terrorist financing within our borders prior to 2001.
After ignoring existing plans to attack al Qaeda when he first took office, George Bush made disastrous decisions when he finally did pay attention. Thanks to the determined, even conspiratorial views of Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and Bush, we went after the wrong enemy.
The charges Clarke levels against the current administration must be taken seriously by every American, Democrat or Republican. Our security depends upon it.
Critic Reviews
- Audie Award Winner, Narration by the Author or Authors, 2005
"The explosive details about President Bush's obsession with Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks captured the headlines in the days after the book's release, but Against All Enemies offers more. It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs: it's a thumping good read." (The New York Times Book Review)
"The level of detail Clarke includes is impressive....Clarke delivers it like a pro. With his deep tenor and weighty pauses, Clarke never lets listeners forget the gravity of the situation....Compelling." (Publishers Weekly)
"Clarke tells an insider's story of our government's awakening to a threat we had never faced before. Because the written words are his own, every pause and emphasized phrase serve to hone his intended meaning as no contracted narrator could do. Although this is an abridgement, none of the meat or spice in this hot dish seems left out." (AudioFile)
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- P. Michael Bailey
- 06-04-2004
Your Government At Work
This book should not be dismissed as a left leaning political rant. Clarke is critical of the current administration, but that is not the theme. You can not find a more informative look at the inner workings of the White House. The play by play of the entire day of 9/11, the crisis room in full operation, and a visit to the presidential vault in the West Wing, are all real eye openers. The White House in Crisis Mode is very impressive and is essentially universal for all recent administrations. Do not pass on this because you think it is another Bush Bash - its real value is how well our government works regardless of the administration. Clarke has acclaims from the last 5 changes in the Oval Office.
24 of 25 people found this review helpful
- Brenda
- 07-04-2004
Good background information
I expected the book to get a lot of backlash about partisanship based on Clarke's testimony but not from the people who actually read the book. I found it to be helpful in figuring out how we got here, in this mess with al-Quaeda. Richard Clarke's career started in the Reagan Administration and he told about the unintended consequences (that no one could forsee) of the Cold War and Reagan's efforts to bring down the Soviet Union.
Clarke himself acknowledges that it is likely that no one could have prevented 9/11. Those he criticizes most for not preventing 9/11 are the CIA and FBI and their entrenched, territorial view of their jobs.
He says that he knew it would take body bags for them to listen. He faults Congress and the Clinton Adminstration for not adequately funding anti-terrorism efforts. He does fault the Bush Administration for Iraq, which he views as a distraction from the war on terror, but that is not the purpose of the book.
I found the behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of our government fascinating and an interesting read for that reason alone. Clarke's frustration at trying to "turn the battleship" is evident throughout the book - in all the Adminstrations in which he served.
71 of 78 people found this review helpful
- Steve
- 07-04-2004
Personal Account of War on Terrorism
Richard Clarke offers up his own, personal, experience of our government recognizing and dealing with the war on terrorism; in particular, our war with Usama Bin Laded and his Al Qaeda network. He tracks the history of this group and our growing awareness of what are their goals. Because of our relationship with Saudi Arabia and continued military presence in the Middle East, Bin Laden has considered us a threat to his world and has declared war on us. In the early stages of this war, Clarke demonstrates, many of our terrorists attacks were not correctly attributed to him. But as the truth began to become more apparent, our desire to attack and extinguish this threat escalated. Yes, the Bush Administration is taken to task for not heading the advice of the Clinton administration. This is not an unqualified accusation, Clarke was in the trenches from the beginning of this war and watched its importance get set aside for other priorities. It is not an outright attack on the Bush administration, as some seem to claim, rather a thorough analysis of each administration?s priority with terrorism. To dismiss this book as partisan rhetoric, would be extremely ignorant of what Clarke is trying to accomplish and put forth. This is an important work on understanding how best to fight this terrorist war.
Clarke does an excellent job of narrating his book and offers chilling first-hand accounts of the tragedy of 9/11. His analysis of attacks and our responses is even-handed, detailed, and very illuminating. This is an important book not solely because of the ?press? it has gotten, but because of the tremendous insight it offers into the working of our government and the people who work within it. I highly recommend it.
102 of 117 people found this review helpful
- briank
- 06-04-2004
Poor reviews
Obviously, two of the reviewers did not read the book. The plan that was ultimately approved by Bush on September 4, 2001 was hatched under Clinton in December of 2000 and presented to Rice in early 2001 during several briefings that were arranged by members of the Clinton administration to get her up to speed on several national security issues.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful
- Mauricio Lema
- 13-06-2004
True or not, it is compelling...
I am a Colombian and (therefore) english is not my mother language. I acquired this audiobook and I enjoyed it to the fullest because of the clarity of the exposition, the engaging topic and, especially, because of the way it was read by its author, his rhythm and tone of voice made it quite a "thriller".
6 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Algay
- 06-04-2004
Insiders view of what is really going on
The book is very informative, clear and balanced. Clarke has a long history with Republican and Democratic Presidents. Describes first hand how event unfolded and the mistakes of both the Clinton and the Bush administration. Listen with an open mind and not what is presented in the press.
11 of 14 people found this review helpful
- Mark
- 25-04-2004
Great Book! Thank you Mr. Clark
Fantastic! Moving information from a great inside source. Shame on the media for parroting the Whitehouse's attacks on Mr. Clark, when they should have been holding the administration's feet to the fire.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful
- Lance
- 06-04-2004
I really enjoyed the book. Backed up stories that have been around for awhile. After coming home from Iraq, I have to say that he is right that the president took our focus off terrorism with the invasion of Iraq.
8 of 11 people found this review helpful
- Meaghan
- 21-12-2004
against all enemies
Richard Clarke's account of his many years serving our country is riveting and scary. He was the only sane person on 9-11. Now that he has disagreed with the bush administration, he has been trashed. Believe him, he has been followed by many other ex-bush people and I believe every single word of what he says.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Aaron
- 28-08-2004
Simply if you want to know what was going on behind closed doors over a few administrations with regards to terrorism, who did what and who did not. This book should be a must read for all Americans. Richard Clarke was the point man and certainly qualified to make the judgements he makes in this book. Fantastic read!!
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Blondes Have More Fun was originally released on "FUN" records, my copy was a reissue from Wizardo. The concert was recorded in Sydney, Australia on Nov. 21, 1974. The LP has a printed paper insert. Side One: Waiting For The Man / Sally Can't Dance / Vicious / Lady Day Side Two: Heroin / Walk On The Wild Side / White Light White Heat / Goodnight Ladies Rating: C I have to admit I really never got Lou. Two or three chord songs repeated over and over again, with his monotone singing. Heck


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MANY teachers in the county will be striking tomorrow over a pay dispute – resulting in some schools being closed.
Brampton Abbotts Primary School, Broadlands Primary School, Fairfield High School and Trinity Primary School will all be shutting their doors.
Partial closures will also take place at St Mary's Primary School in Credenhill and Weobley Primary School.
Librarians will also be striking, meaning that there will be no services in Hereford or Belmont.
Herefordshire Council's parent partnership service at Franklin House will also be closed.
Picketing will take place at a number of places in Hereford, including Plough Lane, the Town Hall and the library, throughout the morning.
A rally will then be held at the Shirehall at midday.
David Stevens, branch secretary for UNISON in Herefordshire, said that the strike action is to highlight the 1% pay increase that workers have been offered.
"For these workers, the offer represents a real terms cut in basic pay of almost 20% since the coalition came to power," said Mr Stevens.
"This year's pay offer would see 90% of school and local government workers receive a further pay cut.
"More than 400,000 local government and school workers are paid less than the living wage of £7.65 an hour and one million earn less than the coalition's low-pay threshold of £21,000."
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said the national strike action will be the biggest since the pensions dispute three years ago.
"Ministers praise public servants for their hard work and dedication but at the same time they are slashing their living standards," said Andrew Lloyd, midlands secretary for the PCS.


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Meet My Friend Riemann
Lesson 12 of 17
Objective: SWBAT use Rectangular Approximation Method (RAM) to approximate definite integrals given functions represented algebraically, graphically, and tabularly.
Big Idea: Students reconsider the task of approximating areas under curvy functions, then improve their approximations to perfection. Hello integrals!
Warm-Up + Homework Review
Note: Last night's homework solutions appear in the In The Classroom file.
Warmup #1 requires students to reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2) in finding the constant k that "connects" the two pieces of the piecewise function. Students likely will approach this problem algebraically, but there is value in students viewing and solving this problem graphically. As I circulate around the room, I will ask students to think of a non-algebraic way to check the reasonableness and correctness of their algebraic solution.
Warm-up #3 motivates the use of the Mean Value Theorem, which will be reviewed and applied as part of today's lesson. I used a cubic function in factored form to provide students an opportunity to consider ways to make their algebraic work easier, prior to differentiating the function. If my students mindlessly set out to multiply the first two binomial factors (x – 6) and (x – 1) from left to right, their next step of multiplying the third binomial factor will involve a trinomial multiplied by a binomial, making the algebra unnecessarily long and tedious. But if students analyze the function first, employ the commutative property of multiplication, and recognize that (x – 1) and (x + 1) multiplies into a difference of squares (x2 – 1) with only two terms, then subsequently multiplying by the (x – 6) term becomes simpler. It is difficult to break students' habit of rushing to perform the first mathematical procedure that comes to mind. With frequent opportunities like this one to analyze the function, consider its structure (MP6), and then begin algebraic work, students will eventually learn to ask whether there are more efficient methods before beginning to solve the problem.
On last night's HW set, students often have questions about the conical tank problem's setup and solution. The difficult part is how to setup and use similar triangles to relate the radius and height variables, and then using that relationship to substitute out one of the variables in the Volume function prior to differentiating. It often helps my students to think of the similar triangles ratio between the radius and height as a "constraint", akin to optimization problems where the constraint is also used to substitute out one of the variables. The In The Classroom file has an additional example if students need more practice after your class discussion about the homework problem.
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Setting the Stage
The body of today's lesson may be split into two parts:
- A continuation of yesterday's lesson if students still need more time with related rates
- Beginning the review of integration. Rather than repeating in this lesson plan, refer to yesterday's lesson plan for commentary and strategies about teaching related rates.
Integration Review
To begin our review of integration, I project for students the activity sheet from the 1st week of school where a student goes to grandma's house for lunch. On the back side students discovered that the area under the velocity graph ?coincidentally? gives the distance that the student traveled – technically displacement as students now know the difference between them. Using dimensional analysis (see Lunch at Grandma's Graph), we can justify why the rectangular areas under the velocity curve yield a measure of position. In the process, students attend to precision (MP 6) by carrying units through their calculations to interpret the units of the area output.
Once students are convinced of the purpose of fitting rectangles under functions, it follows naturally to try to make the rectangles fit better and better under curvy functions, not the simple line segments from the Introduction to Calculus sheet. Rather than me continuing the lecture at this point, I ask students to do a quick-write to recall the specific details for how we improved our area approximations under curvy functions. If students struggle to recall this work from earlier in the semester then direct them to collaborate with their neighbors and even look up Riemann Sums in their notes before completing their quick-writes and sharing with the whole class.
I hope that my students will recall two equivalent approaches: 1) increasing the number of rectangles to infinity that are fit into a finite interval, and 2) reducing the width of each of those rectangles, dx, to zero (dx à 0). This second approach motivates the area formula for one rectangle , and summing all rectangles (we now call this integrating) gives the familiar. After this discussion I play (or replay if used earlier in the semester) the Matheatre song Without Riemann because the lyrics emphasize the concept of shrinking the widths of each rectangle to zero as a way to improve the accuracy of the Riemann Sums. Plus, students get a kick out of corny math songs!
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I expect that my students will be able to apply their understanding of integration to functions defined algebraically (very familiar to students), graphically (less familiar), and tabularly (very unfamiliar).
The In The Classroom file includes task where a function is provided by giving several points in a table. The task asks students to:
- Estimate the definite integral of the function on the interval.
- Use the Mean Value Theorem to estimate the slope of the tangent line at a point on the function.
I plan to give my students plenty of time to figure out how to answer (the second question in particular). I want my students to understand that they can still make estimates about derivatives and integrals given individual points only and not the entire equation of a function.
Although we do not know how to "connect the dots" based on the points given in the table, we can still compute LRAM or RRAM as estimates of the definite integral. (In fact, this approach can be very helpful for students' Car Dashboard Projects!) Using the slope between two nearby points is a viable strategy for approximating the slope of the tangent line at a point somewhere between the two endpoints. Revisiting the image from Problem 3 on today's Warmup is a nice way to wrap up this portion of the lesson and help students understand the Mean Value Theorem by connecting the tabular and graphical representations.
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Today's Closure Activity: Write a note to an absent student explaining when RRAM and LRAM overestimate or underestimate the true area under a function. Include a picture with your written explanation.
Tonight's Homework:
F - read TEXTBOOK examples, assign problems about MVT and basics of multiple derivatives (inc/dec, concave up/down, inflection points)
V - read TEXTBOOK examples, assign problems about Riemann sums algebraically, graphically, and tabularly
E - Set 5: 1969 #9, 1973 #26, 1985 #31 – submit online


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Basic geologic mapping is the foundation for any comprehensive study undertaken to evaluate earth science related societal and environmental issues. The Regional Geologic Mapping Project (RGMP) was established to prepare and maintain a baseline source of the most current information on the framework geology of California. RGMP geologists map and compile geologic maps of the state and its offshore continental margin at various scales. The RGMP works in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through STATEMAP and SCAMP. Geologic mapping priorities are established under the direction of the State Geologist and the California Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee.
Products include statewide 1:750,000-scale fault activity and geologic maps; 1:250,000-scale geologic atlas and regional geologic map series and offshore continental margin maps; 1:100,000 and 1:24,000-scale quadrangle maps of selected areas of the state. Other products include indexes to geologic mapping and graduate theses.
Preliminary Geologic Maps are intended to provide the public timely access to digital 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 scale geologic maps being prepared by the Regional Geologic Mapping Program. Technical comment is welcome. Geologic mapping priorities are established by the State Geologist and the California Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee.
STATEMAP is a cooperative geologic mapping program funded by the USGS through the National Mapping Act. Funding is provided for successful proposals to participating states for the explicit purpose of developing digital geologic maps for areas shown to have significant societal needs. States awarded funding are required to provide matching funds. Click here to view the California STATEMAP Project Information Sheet.


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Associate of Applied Business - Computer Technology
The computer has become the ultimate tool of the workplace, processing information expediently and accurately to help us perform our work more efficiently.
Employment in this ever-changing field has steadily increased. With continued improvements in all phases of computer technology, computer-based information processing has been integrated into virtually every facet of life. Consequently, employment opportunities in the environment are expected to be robust throughout this new century. Hence, regardless of whether a student decides to pursue a computer technology degree from Kent State Trumbull, the need for computer technology classes is stronger and more relevant than ever before.
Kent State Trumbull holds to the philosophy that since technical specialists do not work in a vacuum, they should be given a broad-based education that emphasizes communications and interpersonal as well as computer technology classes. The Associated of Applied Business degree in Computer Technology offers a computer technology degree with comprehensive instruction in concentrations of Networking Technology, Application Development, Internet/Multimedia, and General Technology.
The associate degree is granted after the successful completion of 63 semester hours of computer technology classes and other coursework. By concentrating the majority of your studies in technical and related coursework, you are prepared in a short time to enter the work force. Many of the credits earned in the associate computer technology degree program can be applied toward a bachelor's degree. An adviser can help you to decide the preferred order of completion of the required computer technology classes and the possible substitution of courses for those students pursuing a bachelor's degree.
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Bought this a little under a year ago new, never got around to actually getting a cablecard and connecting it. I did verify that it could be seen on the network. It has been sitting on a shelf for the last 10 or so months, might as well be brand new. Looking for $100, pretty firm as they are going for $130 or so new.
PowerBook G4 15in
This is a PowerBook5,2.
G4 1.25Ghz
512MB Ram
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This machine is still in proper working order, the SuperDrive works beautifully. The screen is actually in really great shape, no dead pixels that I see and pretty uniform image quality. For what it is it is still a pretty snappy machine. The power adapter was replaced 2 years ago, and is working great, no fraying whatsoever. Wireless card works great. Battery is what is expected for a machine this age, 50% shows 35minutes of run time at max brightness, at 100% it is showing 2:26 remaining at max brightness.
It has OSX version 10.5.8 installed. I do not have the OSX install media.
A couple of cosmetic issues. 1 it has a dent on the left side, right above the ethernet port. This is purely cosmetic, it does not affect the function of the machine, you can still plug in the power adapter and an ethernet cord without issue. 2, someone (I swear it wasn't me) stupidly thought one of the holes of the DVI connector was an actual screw hole, so now you have a screw there, the screw itself is the one for the screwhole above the powerbutton. Again this doesn't really affect anything it is just cosmetic.
Mac2Sell shows this setup being worth $230, taking into account the cosmetic issues and the fact I want this still useful machine to find a good home I was hoping for
Lower price $100 or make an offer via PM
Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD Player
It is this http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HD-A2-HD-DVD-Player/dp/B000IJV4BC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323032301&sr=8-1
Still in proper working order and in great shape. I will also throw in 3 HDDVD movies, if memory serves me right they are 300, Constantine and Chronicles of Riddick. Great movie all around.
Looking for
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As announced here comes another asymmetrical hemline project. You might wonder about the title in combination with this blouse. Well, I am talking about the music band boy. In case you live in Europe you might know some of their songs from TV commercials. In case you do not know them, please go and listen!!! They are so energizing and fun. Now you might wonder and what has this information to do with the sewing project?!...well, I saw them live in studio on ZDF and simply fell in love with the singers black blouse...I have been a bad bad copycat. :P Listen to boy and see the original here.
As I have never made a pattern with sleeves (too scary as a project for me), I went through lots of older Burda issues and found the perfect pattern to use as a basis. It is model no.110 in Burda issue 08/2011.
Some smaller alterations were necessary. I opted for an 7/8 arm length and of course changed the hemline from the usual to an asymmetrical one.
I really like the outcome. Loose fitting this blouse has my favourite blouse collar, a stand-up collar. Also I think this blouse is not only casual, but could also work for the office.
While doing this project, I listened to boy all the time. So I am now quite good with singing all their songs along! :D...doesn't mean I sing them well. ;)
Hope to make you a fan of boy too! What do you listen to while sewing? Or do you prefer to not listen to anything and concentrate 100% on the project?


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SBA loans increase in Oregon district
SALEM — Oregon small businesses have received a record number of taxpayer-guaranteed loans for the second consecutive year, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The agency in 2011 guaranteed $391 million in loans in its Portland District, which includes Oregon and part of southwest Washington. That jumped to $428 million in loans last year.
"We're on a record pace again this year," said Robert DuCotè, acting director of the SBA Portland District Office.
The Statesman Journal reports the size of loans also is increasing following an October 2010 change in loan limits. The previous limit was $2 million and that increased to $5 million.
Most SBA lending is made in its 7(a) program, and over the last two years, 2,745 of the larger loans were made in the country, including 26 in Oregon.
"Five years ago, the average loan was about $185,000," DuCotè said. "Today, it's over $300,000."
One recipient was Salem's First Call Home Health Care. The company constructed a new building that opened in southeast Salem in 2012.
First Call borrowed $4.4 million in two loans through a separate corporation called First Call Investment.
The company also doubled its employment from 80 to 160.
"On the home care side, we can hire another 50 very easily in the next six months," First Call CEO Jacob Mullins said.
In Oregon, 52 percent of loans and 62 percent of the loan money has gone to franchises. Among them are Dairy Queen, Subway, Travelodge, Quiznos and Best Western outlets.
"Franchising is a great opportunity. The SBA supports it a lot," DuCotè said. "It's a great way to get a business up and running."
Information from: Statesman Journal, http://www.statesmanjournal.com