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In the 1890s, pre-eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. envisioned large community parks connected to the neighborhoods of Louisville via "ribbons of green." His tree-lined parkways...
In the 1890s, pre-eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. envisioned large community parks connected to the neighborhoods of Louisville via "ribbons of green." His tree-lined parkways...
In the 1890s, pre-eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. envisioned large community parks connected to the neighborhoods of Louisville via "ribbons of green." His tree-lined parkways...
We stopped off for a 10 mile out and back (20 miles total) starting from Beckely Creek Park and heading south/southwest. The trail was a nice wide concrete trail that follows the creek and winds it's way through a lot of different areas (housing, farm, parks,...). Given the many average reviews on this trail we almost skipped it, but are really happy we stopped. It was a cooler late October day on our way back to Minnesota and it turned out to be our last ride of the year. Not sure what the trail is like further along but this section is world class and worth a ride.
This is a scenic trail through 4 beautiful parks and a 5 mile connecting section (all off road) all along Floyd's Fork in easy reach of Louisville Metro. The trail is nicely paved the entire way with access to water fountains, restrooms, and bicycle repair stations strategically placed along the way. The trail provides a nice mix of terrain ranging from flat to rolling to hilly. This is a family friendly destination with canoe / kayak and bike rentals along with shuttle service in the park. There are even play and spraygrounds in a couple of the parks.
it has potential, under heavy construction as i write this; some new construction, some resurfacing the existing. interesting that the old part has been around long enough to need resurfacing before these new parts have been laid. the equipment on this sunday was parked trailside. on the west side of town beyond milemarker 14-25 in either direction, the trail presently doesn't appear to be rideable or perhaps even existing.
Entered this trail at Shelbyville road and completed a 30 mile round trip. The hills can be a real challenge if you are not accustomed to them. The surface is great and is a mix of asphalt and concrete. If you ride a recumbent where you sit back so far that you use a neck rest the expansion joints in the concrete can become annoying. The trail is very scenic with plenty of trail access points and several restrooms available along the way. When the whole Louisville Loop Trail is completed and circles all of Louisville (100 miles of trails I believe) this will be a real jewel for Kentucky.
Not your typical trail, as it spans the mighty Ohio River. Beautiful view and amazing River breeze make this trail very unique. Riding the ramp up onto the bridge is a challenge, but well worth the effort. Love, love this trail!!
I would rate this trail as easy and very beautiful. It is flat for the most part. Beautiful scenery along the mighty Ohio River. For those of you with little ones, please note it is a levee...ensure your children are capable of maintaining focus to keep their bicycle on an approximate 5' wide trail. There are a few steep points off of the edge of the trail.
I am so impressed that both states and the communities put up the money to turn an eyesore into an incredible asset. Connects to excellent trails on both IN and KY sides, turning it into a unique experience. Plenty of restaurants on both sides of the river. Beautifully lit at night as well.
Great easy riding trail with wonderful food at Mike Linings of Louisville on one end and Pearls Yogurt of Jeffersontown IN on the other. Lots of interesting sights to see in between. Got in 44 miles in one day which is good for us.
This ties in the Big Four Bridge trail and the Louisville river trail The levee trail starts near the falls of the Ohio state park which is interesting and the trail is only lightly used as it follows the river. I always visit Jeffersonville restaurants then cross the Big four bridge for more trails on the Ky side
Biking across the Ohio river is fun in itself but the Louisville river trail ties in on the Kentucky side and the Levee trail on the Indiana side. There are plenty of things to do and places to visit. I recommend a trip to one of the 2 Brewery's on the Indian side. Highly recommend a visit here
The trail was clean and clear the day I took it. The views are nice and stopped at the riverboats to talk with some other bikers. I ended up going just short of Shawnee park as the trail had a detour.
If you do this, you most certainly need to link in the Big four bridge which allows bikes and spans the Ohio river. Jeffersonville Indiana has some great places to eat and yet another trail , the "Levee" trail can be caught there
When you include the nearby trails this can become an afternoon affair
Not too long ago, I hiked the Riverwalk from east of the Big Four bridge to Shawnee Park. The Riverwalk was pretty and seemingly well-kept east of about 31st Street. But from west of there, the path became terribly overgrown with tall weeds and was covered along most of the path with inches of mud and many logs and other driftwood. Sadly, the artistic and attractive bricks which spelled out history were mostly covered by debris. Even the caged-in area along the back nine at Shawnee Golf Course was in terrible shape and closed off. There was a very short section of pavement from Market Street to Broadway that was in pretty clean shape where the Riverwalk ended at its western terminus. It is too bad the city of Louisville, which touts itself as the 16th largest city in the US (certainly laughable statistics) will not keep the Riverwalk, which could be a real city treasure, clean and secure. I understand that occasional flooding will bring some mud and driftwood. But apparently this large section (miles) of the Riverwalk has been closed to bicycles and in progressive disrepair since 2011. I would expect much more from a city which aspires to be great and loves to tout its accomplishments. Louisville certainly has a LONG WAY to go to equal river cities like Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Memphis. In the meantime, bicyclists are unable to enjoy the western half of Louisville's Riverwalk, which I consider to have been its most enchanting section in former years.
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He looks like a pear that's going bad. Tall, corpulent and much the worse for gravity, W.S. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) sags his way through Topsy-Turvy, scarcely stirring except to drawl a sarcasm. His opinion of his mother? "A vicious woman who bore me into this ridiculous world." His contribution to lunchtime conversation? "Oh, horror, horror, hoooorror." His outlook, as one of his brightest operettas debuts at the Savoy Theatre? "As good as any condemned man can expect."
Though born to rhyme "scowl" with "jowl," this man has been wed in his career to someone thoroughly airy and cordial, with a Frenchified smoothness: Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner). To attend a Savoy premiere, Sullivan may have to rouse himself from a sickbed; after the performance, he may collapse. But while he's conducting the orchestra, white gloves flashing, he's all smiles, commanding others to take pleasure by exuding it himself.
In 1884, these two men undergo a professional break to match their personal rupture. The story of that near divorce provides the crisis for Mike Leigh's charming, brilliant, seemingly effortless Topsy–Turvy. The resolution, dreamed up by Gilbert and Sullivan themselves, is The Mikado, the creation of whose charmed brilliance, at the expense of much effort, is the subject of the film's second half.
Topsy-Turvy explores a relationship between antithetical collaborators, whose art (as the title suggests) turned Victorian England upside down, making it into a fantastic Japan. But the film is big enough to contain other dialectical relationships as well: authors and producers; star performers and chorus members; the imperial center and the outlying regions of the world. Ultimately, most touchingly, Topsy-Turvy is about barrenness and fecundity, which is to say men and women–men who cloak their spirits in the busy work of art, women who smother their natures and try to keep smiling.
But this is starting to sound serious. I'd better tell you quickly about the candy and oysters.
If you've followed Leigh's career, you know he takes care to feed his characters. (Life Is Sweet, which also starred Broadbent, would be the best example.) In Topsy-Turvy, he has decided that Sullivan, upon first meeting onscreen with Gilbert, should offer his partner a piece of candy. All through the subsequent conversation, which is tense with disagreement, the two men suck and slurp. Similarly, when the actor George Grossmith (Martin Savage) has to renegotiate his salary with the Savoy's impresario, Richard D'Oyly Carte (Ron Cook), he makes the mistake, just before, of gorging on oysters.
Instances abound of degustation and frailty. To give only one further example, Sullivan romps in a Paris bordello with a Mademoiselle Fromage. All right, a few more: I could also mention the "little problem" of alcoholism that plagues Leonora Braham (Shirley Henderson), the Savoy's ingénue; the festering leg on which Jessie Bond (Dorothy Atkinson) gamely supports herself while playing the gay young flirt offstage and on; the interrupted work session, with rejected snack, that puts Gilbert into a towering rage against his wife, Kitty (Lesley Manville), then sends him hurrying to the dentist. Working for the first time in the mode of period drama, Leigh builds Topsy-Turvy out of a hundred such observations of character. They are the past on a human scale–which means the film's people don't knock around loose amid the costumes and sets.


text: Appendix C: The Odds Ratio as an Estimator of the Incidence Rate Ratio View Full Chapter Figures Only Tables Only Videos Only Print Share Email Twitter Facebook Linkedin Reddit Get Citation Citation AMA Citation Appendix C: The Odds Ratio as an Estimator of the Incidence Rate Ratio. In: Greenberg RS, Daniels SR, Flanders W, Eley J, Boring JR, III. Greenberg R.S., Daniels S.R., Flanders W, Eley J, Boring J.R., III Eds. Raymond S. Greenberg, et al.eds. Medical Epidemiology, 4e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2005. http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=337§ionid=39810374. Accessed August 20, 2018. MLA Citation . "Appendix C: The Odds Ratio as an Estimator of the Incidence Rate Ratio." Medical Epidemiology, 4e Greenberg RS, Daniels SR, Flanders W, Eley J, Boring JR, III. Greenberg R.S., Daniels S.R., Flanders W, Eley J, Boring J.R., III Eds. Raymond S. Greenberg, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005, http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=337§ionid=39810374. Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager Mendeley © Copyright Tools Search Book Top Return Clip Autosuggest Results ++ To understand further the design of a case–control study, and why the odds ratio from a case–control study estimates the incidence rate ratio, consider first the occurrence of a particular disease within an underlying population that gives rise to the cases. This underlying cohort is sometimes called the source population. At the start of follow-up, all subjects are disease-free; P people are exposed and Q are not. After following the cohort for t years, A of the P exposed and B of the Q unexposed subjects develop disease (Table C–1). ++Table Graphic Jump LocationTable C–1. Disease Occurrence in a Cohort by Exposure Status.View Table|Favorite Table|Download (.pdf)Table C–1. Disease Occurrence in a Cohort by Exposure Status.ExposedUnexposedNumber of new cases during follow-upABPerson-years of observationP × tQ × tIncidence rateA/(P × t)B/(Q × t) ++ To calculate incidence rates for this cohort, as discussed in Chapter 2: Epidemiologic Measures, first calculate the person-years of observation (py), which is given by ++ ++ This equation simplifies if few people develop disease during the follow-up period and the population undergoes no major demographic shifts, a situation termed the "steady state." If the steady state holds, the size of the source population is nearly constant and the equation above simplifies to ++ ++ Application of the latter equation to the hypothetical cohort yields P × t and Q × t person-years of observation for the exposed and unexposed subjects, respectively (Table C–1). Thus, the incidence rate in the exposed subjects is A/(P × t) and in the unexposed subjects is B/(Q × t), and the incidence rate ratio (IRR) is ++ ++ Now, turning to the case–control study design, cases arise from a clearly defined source population and the investigator then chooses controls from this same population. Thus, to conduct a case–control study using the source population described in Table C–1, subjects with disease (cases) and subjects without disease (controls) are sampled and their respective exposure histories are then determined. Excluded from both the case and control groups are potential subjects known to have had disease when the study began—only newly diagnosed or "incident" cases are included. In practice, it is possible to contact newly diagnosed cases and a sample from the general population, ask each subject about prior disease, and exclude those who were diagnosed prior to the study period. The data can be summarized as in Table C–2. ++Table Graphic Jump LocationTable C–2. Data from a Hypothetical Case-Control Study of a Disease and a Dichotomous Exposure.View Table|Favorite Table|Download (.pdf)Table C–2. Data from a Hypothetical Case-Control Study of a Disease and ... GET ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE Sign In Username or Email Please enter User Name Password Please enter Password Forgot Username? Forgot Password? Sign in via OpenAthens Sign in via Shibboleth Get Free Access Through Your Institution Contact your institution's library to ask if they subscribe to McGraw-Hill Medical Products. What is MyAccess? Create a FREE MyAccess profile to: Use this site remotely Bookmark your favorite content Track your self-assessment progress and more! GET ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE Subscription Options Pay Per View Timed Access to all of AccessMedicine 24 Hour $34.95 (USD) Buy Now 48 Hour $54.95 (USD) Buy Now Best Value AccessMedicine Full Site: One-Year Individual Subscription $995 USD Buy Now View All Subscription Options Pop-up div Successfully Displayed This div only appears when the trigger link is hovered over. Otherwise it is hidden from view. Please Wait


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During a five-hour meeting strewn with bickering and flaring emotions among its members, the Jefferson Parish School Board on Thursday couldn't quite decide whether it should remain in the Louisiana School Boards Association. Even the vote to defer the decision came down to the narrowest margin, a 5-4 split that favored postponement.
Board members Mark Jacobs and Larry Dale proposed leaving the group, which includes every parish school system in Louisiana, after the association formed a political action committee and endorsed candidates in races for the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Particularly galling to some board members was the committee's endorsement of either Lee Barrios or Sharon Hewitt against incumbent Jim Garvey in the 1st District race. Garvey won reelection. Board members said his opponents criticized the kinds of school reform that they support. Several members argued the group shouldn't get involved with political endorsements regardless of who they back.
Board members also raised concerns about recent firings in the association over alleged misappropriation of money by an employee. Being one of the state's largest school systems, Jefferson pays the second highest amount in dues according to a formula using the board's overall revenue, putting its membership cost at $27,500 a year according to interim Executive Director Lloyd Dressel. East Baton Rouge Parish pays $1,000 more, he said.
Dressel and Sonny Savoie, a St. Charles Parish School Board member who has served as president of the National School Boards Association, beseeched the Jefferson members to stay.
They said the political group is separate and doesn't use money raised through association dues. They said people involved with the misspending problem have been dismissed, and the group followed the advice of lawyers in notifying members through a newsletter. They argued that membership offers the benefits of training,
publications and participation in the national group.
But School Board President Michael Delesdernier said that in addition to disagreeing with what he considered the state association's anti-reform political stances in a school system desperately needing reform, he wasn't impressed with a meeting he attended of the national association in San Francisco, where he feared for his life when protestors crashed an appearance by Condoleeza Rice, former secretary of state and national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush.
"No one knew whether someone was going to pop a canister or something like that," Delesdernier said. He said he thought the association should sue the protesters, but Savoie said lawyers advised the group it wouldn't be worth the effort. Savoie also said he felt safe when he saw that Rice wasn't leaving the room.
Dale said he wasn't impressed when he attended a meeting of the state association, where he found it off-putting that other members were arguing with state education officials about the recently introduced letter grade system for rating schools.
"I don't think I have like minds with people in this association," Dale said.
Ray St. Pierre and Dale clashed over Dale's statement that his objection to the group was not about which candidates it endorsed but that it endorsed candidates at all.
"I don't want to be a part of it because they became political," Dale said.
Prefacing his response, St. Pierre said he wouldn't enjoy what he was about to do. Then he accused Dale of lying.
"You told me to my face, 'They supported the candidates I don't like,'" St. Pierre said. He advised Dale to "speak the truth all the time."
Dale shot back that it was correct the group endorsed candidates he didn't support, but that wasn't his reason to oppose membership.
None of the board members expressed support for the group forming the PAC, but St. Pierre said he benefits from membership and the better course would be to try influencing the association from the inside.
"You don't have to agree with everything that happens in an organization, and I implore you, if you agree with everything, then you're not using your gray matter," said board member Etta Licciardi, who argued the group provides useful training.
Jacobs argued quitting the group would send a message that Jefferson stands strong on reform. Licciardi disputed that.
"I don't think it's the best use of taxpayer dollars to be part of that association that
continues to push non-reform agendas," Jacobs said.
But Licciardi said departing is a weak response. "Because we disagree with something, a thing that this group did, that we take our membership and leave," Licciardi said. "That's not saying anything for our fortitude."
Ultimately Dale, Delesdernier, Jacobs and Pat Tovrea were the members who voted against deferring the membership decision.


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Thanks to all those that have helped by none of you were correct :P
After finding out that it showed in the Bios and sometimes in My Computer, I started to wonder if there was a loose cable/ dust in the system.
I took my computer apart and there wasn't much dust (cleaned out every other month). I progressed to find the 'Sata' cable. I took it out (expecting a broken wire or something) and I was surprised to see that I installed a DMI cable instead (Desktop Management Interface).
Its clear that some information was getting transferred between the hardware and PC but not all of it. I now have bought a REAL SATA cable and works a treat now.
The DMI cable on the left. At a glance it looks exactly the same as a Sata cable
The DMI cable is on the left. You can see that the pin structure is completely different from the SATA cable. Although there is the same amount of pins, I will assume that they weren't quite the right size to carry the information on the spacing was slightly different to the SATA one.
Lesson to be learnt.. Carefully check your cables if installing new hardware.
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I recorded a CD from WMP last night and it was completed within 5 minutes. I went to play this in my cars stereo and only to find its 1 long track but without any music on it.
I have had 2 thoughts.
1) CD player in the car doesn't accept CD-R
2) WMP isn't recording properly, I'll need to use another program, can anyone suggest one?
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Try burn aware free it will burn cd audio, mp3, disc images etc and its free obviously
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Try burn aware free it will burn cd audio, mp3, disc images etc and its free obviously
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DvdShrink doesn't seem to work on my system and makes the system freeze.
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There's a list of some here, don't personally use one so can't give any recommendations
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Airplanes, conveyor belts, mythbusters
by PhilipJ on 28 January 2008
After the airplane and conveyor belt internet hysteria, it looks like the guys on Mythbusters will do the experiment. January 30th, 9pm.
For anyone who missed it the first time around, the problem is such:
"A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). Can the plane take off?"
Update — physics is saved! (the plane takes off.)
- Andre 3856 days ago #
Exciting. Place your bets now!
- John S. Wilkins 3856 days ago #
What gets planes airborne is airspeed, as lift relies mostly on downwards airflow (Newton's law of action and reaction) and to a lesser extent the Venturi effect on the airfoil cross-section. If the plane is standing still with respect to the air neither will operate, although if the plane moves through the air, then irrespective of the conveyer, it will take off.
- Jesse Kinder 3856 days ago #
My first thought was like John's, but I now believe he is wrong. The conveyor belt can't change the plane's speed relative to the air or ground. Unlike a runner on a treadmill, or a car on the road, the thrust for a plane comes from its jet engines, not it's wheels. The plane is pushing against the air, not the road, and that is what accelerates it. The conveyor belt can make the wheels rotate faster, but the effect on the plane's speed relative to the air will be small.
Imagine pushing a rolling pin against a conveyor belt. The speed of the belt might make the pin rotate faster, but it's speed relative to the ground —- and air —- only depends on how hard you push —- i.e., the thrust.
I say the plane takes off.
- Jesse Kinder 3856 days ago #
Sorry, John. I didn't read all the way to the end of your comment. I guess you covered both possibilities, so you can't be wrong ,,,
- eric 3855 days ago #
no way the plane takes off.
- Lee 3855 days ago #
Of course the plane takes off. The angular velocity of the wheels will be twice that of a normal take off, but otherwise everything is the same.
- Jeff Hayenga 3854 days ago #
I'm not bragging, but my I.Q. fortunately surpasses 9 points.
Anyone who knows anything about physics should understand the concept of lift.
(it's what makes planes fly).
I was blown away by two "so-called-myths" recently.
Ordinarily a great show, they actually tested the tread-mill-plane "myth" and the freeze your tongue to a pole "myth".
I'm from the North and freezing your tongue to a sub-zero pole has absolutely been proven.
If you are from San Diego, and have no concept of physics, enjoy the outcome of these "myths".
I still tip my hat to Adam and Jamie for shutting up you virginal/semi-retarded science geeks.
- Andre 3854 days ago #
Jeff, thanks for freezing your tongue to a pole for science.
In case it wasn't clear from Jeff's helpful comment, the plane takes off! The semi-retarded science geeks were correct.
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- Max 3853 days ago #
Remember that the people who get this wrong are still qualified to vote for the next President of the United States.
- Ben 3853 days ago #
It was especially worrisome that the pilot they hired didn't think he would be able to take off. You would hope that pilots at least would understand how planes work.
- Bobby T. 3850 days ago #
This myth was tested improperly in my book.
If the conveyer belt goes backwards at 25 MPH and the plane on the conveyer belt speeds up to 50 MPH, the planes relative speed to the air around it is still 25 MPH which is all that matters… This is clear as the plane still passed the road cones while it was on the ground, meaning the plane was traveling forward faster than the treadmill was going backwards…
The real myth should have been if the conveyer belt moved back at the exact same speed the plane was moving forward (at all times), would it take off?
- Ben 3849 days ago #
That was sort of the whole point. A conveyor cannot keep the plane from accelerating. It can make the wheels spin faster, but the engine and propeller are acting against the air, not the ground. That's the only interesting thing about this myth. The way it is worded makes you believe an impossible premise, that is that the conveyor can keep the plane stationary with respect to the ground and air.
- Tom 3838 days ago #
[Sorry— the thrust doesn't actually come from "pressing against the atmosphere", it results only from conservation of momentum, in this case the air with mass m_air pushed out by the engine with velocity v_air such that
m_air X v_air = P = m_airplane X v_airplane, with dP/dt = F. This doesn't actually change the result I believe]
- Tom 3838 days ago #
An airplane with mass M sits on a conveyor belt. The airplane's jet engine is turned OFF. The conveyor belt starts moving backward at a constant velocity V_conveyor. (note that all velocities will be quoted relative to the ground referential)
Which direction does the plane go? Backward, with velocity V_conveyor.
Intuitively it is reasonable to expect that the plane will have to overcome this backward velocity before taking off.
At time T=0, the jet engine is turned on, generating a thrust, F by pressing against (we all agree) the atmosphere. As a result, the plane experiences a forward acceleration A = F/M. Note that the conveyor belt provides no acceleration, just constant velocity. [As an aside, also note that acceleration is independent of any fixed frame of reference].
We are allowed to decompose the velocity of the plane relative to ground (V_total) into the velocity component due to the conveyor belt (V_conveyor) and the velocity resulting from thrust acceleration (V_plane):
V_total = V_plane – V_conveyor
As velocity is the integral of acceleration, at the instant in time T=0 its (forward) velocity component due to the thrust force is still V_plane = 0: the plane is still moving backward relative to earth with velocity V_conveyor – V_plane = V_conveyor.
Time, T, continues to pass. Thrust F guarantees constant acceleration A=F/M, and the equation for the velocity of the plane due to thrust is V_plane=TA.
Thus V_total = TA – V_conveyor. The plane's ground speed V_total will be zero only when
T_null = V_conveyor/A
Until this time the plane will continue to move backward. As more time passes, the plane's forward velocity component due to thrust will continue to increase linearly with time, whereas the backward velocity component due to the conveyor belt motion will remain constant, and so the plane will progressively pick up forward velocity (V_total = TA – V_conveyor > 0 ), develop lift and take off.
Thus if the conveyor belt has constant velocity the plane will, of course, teventually take off. If the conveyor belt's velocity increases linearly with time at a rate A, then the plane will not develop forward velocity and will not take off.
- PhilipJ 3838 days ago #
Tom, I'm afraid you just don't seem to understand what role the wheels on a plane play. It has been described in perfect detail above (see the 13th comment from Ben why you are wrong), and the plane takes off.


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The original lion capital has four lions (the fourth is hidden from view) perched on a circular platform engraved with four small animal figures – an elephant, a bull, a horse and a lion. The animals are separated by wheels known as Dharma Chakras or wheels of righteousness. In the adapted emblem, there is only one wheel in the centre. The platform rests on an inverted lotus flower – this does not figure in the national emblem.
So, what does the lion capital symbolize?
The lions are considered to be symbols of power, courage and victory. While the four animals were originally supposed to represent the four stages in the life of the Buddha, a more secular interpretation is that it stands for the four directions. The Dharma chakra, which epitomizes the triumph of righteousness, has twenty-four spokes representing the hours in a day.
The Indian national emblem has the words "satyameva jayate" inscribed in Devanagari script beneath the lion capital. This phrase from the Mundaka Upanishad literally means "truth alone triumphs". Thus the emblem is a depiction of the eternal and universal power of righteousness and truth.


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Yesterday was Mother's Day, and my mom, brother and I were able to celebrate together for the first time in over a decade. It was wonderful to be together (also: my brother had his hooding ceremony for his master's degree, which was amazing, and proud doesn't cover it)!
Anyone who's had the pleasure of meeting my mom can tell you that she is the coolest. We'd run into her old school friends at the grocery store or in the church parking lot, and invariably they'd pull me aside, mischief in their eyes. "Your mom," they'd say with a wicked grin, "she sure knew how to have fun!" In middle and high school, my friends would lean against the kitchen island and talk to her, smitten.
During my freshman year at college – my first time at a fraternity – a senior from my hometown said, "Wait – you're Mrs. Dixon's daughter? She was the hottest teacher at my school!" Her natural, contagious joy has inspired her to dance atop a picnic table or two.
Somehow, this beautiful, effervescent woman had a daughter who was shy and anxious and had to be grounded from reading and told to go play outside. She tried her best to teach me to wear make-up and encouraged me to stay out a little later if I wanted to. Despite our differences, this woman has always been home to me. She looked at this nervous little person she birthed into this world and loved me immediately and without reservation.
When she lost her husband and was left with two gutted teenagers, she grabbed us each by the hand and marched forward. She not only kicked cancer's butt, she learned to sit with herself in the quiet and listen, and how to start trusting the wisdom that bubbled up.
She went on a summer study abroad in Athens, Greece – the only participant (besides the professor) over 50. And then she decided to retire from teaching to write a book.
But what I treasure most is that she has been courageous enough to share her broken places, too. Feelings of inadequacy. The fearful, desperate moments. Times she felt like she had to ignore the unique beat of her heart to go along, to be loved. Her willingness to share her truth, rather than a sanitized, cheery version of events, is a powerful gift for her children. We are learning that we can be broken, too, and we can also be okay. We can be afraid and also brave.
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This book presents some definitions and concepts applied in Latin America on lean manufacturing (LM), the LM tools most widely used and human and cultural aspects that most matter in this field. The book contains a total of 14 tools used and reported by authors from different countries in Latin America, with definition, timeline with related research, benefits that have been reported in literature and case studies implemented in Latin American companies. Finally, the book presents a list of softwares available to facilitate the tools' implementation, monitoring and improvement.Therefore the benefits of TPM are vertical down method, which starts from the pinnacle of the hierarchy and reaches the operator (Torres 2005). ... Status and trends in the development of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)aa review of international articles. Proceedings from CINet ... Introduction to the methodology of scientific research. Cordova ... New York, NY, USA, Cambridge: Productivity Press.
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DENVER, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) and its brand ambassador – actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik – are joining thousands of math educators at the NCTM 2013 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, to share innovative new classroom technology including TI-NspireTM Apps for iPad® and the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, as well as educator resources to increase student engagement and achievement in critical STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects.
Bialik, who plays the loveably geeky neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit TV comedy "The Big Bang Theory," will give the opening keynote about her real-life role as a scientist and teacher tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Bellco Theatre at the Colorado Convention Center. On Thursday, April 18, Bialik will join an experienced T3 Teachers Teaching with Technology instructor to teach an interactive math lesson with TI-Nspire CX technology at 9:30 a.m. in Four Seasons Room 2/3 at the Colorado Convention Center. She also will make a surprise appearance at the TI booth #217 sometime on Thursday.
Bialik is part of an exciting line-up from TI that showcases technology, online content and T3 professional development that improves math and science teaching and learning. At its booth and in conference sessions, TI will offer hands-on opportunities for teachers to experience the power of the TI-Nspire CX family of math and science technology including graphing handhelds, software and new TI-Nspire Apps for iPad, plus data collection tools for science and hundreds of free Math Nspired and Science Nspired classroom-ready activities. TI will also feature its latest color-screen graphing calculator, the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.
In addition, TI will share strategies and best practices from leading math teachers, as well as technology, professional development and free classroom resources for implementing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Mathematics. Educators can learn more at the TI CCSS Solutions Booth, which is directly across from the TI booth #217.
"Every year we look forward to NCTM and the unique opportunity to interact with and learn from leading math educators throughout this conference," said Melendy Lovett, president of Texas Instruments Education Technology. "This year we are excited to introduce new professional development and curricular support for implementing Common Core State Standards and Mathematical Practices. Educators will also have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with our newest innovations for math and science teaching and learning. Additionally, we are excited to bring our brand ambassador Mayim Bialik to share her incredible journey and passion for inspiring all students to pursue a strong STEM education – a passion that she shares with TI."
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A group of usually four friends, who are all different but the same. They mix well together like a packet of mixed nuts.
holly, erin, annalise and amanda go together like mixed nuts.
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Peanuts, almonds, cashews, brazils, hazlenuts, pecans, filberts, and or any other member of the nut family.
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by Bob November 29, 2003
The people inside of an insane asylum. This is so because you have schizos, retards, crazies, loonies, multividuals, lunatics, and just plain fuckered up sorry-ass mofos.
After intensive phyciatric evaluation, it was determined that Mark needed to be thrown into the can of mixed nuts.
by Rob B. from Canada November 21, 2006
When at least 4 men of different ethnic backgrounds stand in a circle around a decorative holiday themed bowl and simultaneously stick their scrotoms into the aforementioned bowl.
After the guys made some mixed nuts, they all docked.
by Scratch n' sniff November 20, 2007
A peanut is not actually a nut, it is a legume. Legumes have nitrogen fixers called "nodules" on their roots which convert N2 gas into Nitrate, which is edible for a plant.
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By Chris Ingram
The Tampa Bay Times seems to be in a funk. Of late, the newspaper has shown poor judgment and a lack of journalistic standards. On two recent occasions the paper has shown why readers may be abandoning it – it lacks credibility. Meanwhile, cross-bay rival the Tampa Tribune's (which I contribute a column to, but am not employed by) circulation numbers have increased – one of just two Florida dailies to post increased circulation numbers last year.
In addition to perpetually having a thing for publishing exhaustingly long, one-sided, front-page stories about the Church of Scientology, the paper is starting to show low standards of journalism and good judgment. Unfortunately for readers, they may not even recognize it.
Here are two examples:
Proving the Times' bias against Rick Scott
On Friday, the Times' online "Buzz" section posted a story by the paper's political editor, Adam Smith about how Florida "political insiders" view a variety of state and local political matters. The insiders survey is something Smith does on occasion, and which I have regularly participated in. Friday's "Buzz" post was about what insiders think about the governor's race and likely match-up between Governor Rick Scott, and former Governor Charlie Crist (among other subjects). No harm there, but the devil is in the details.
As part of Smith's posting, he includes a list of all of the "insiders" who participated in the poll (participants must be invited to do so by Smith). On the list this week were the usual assortment of regulars, but one name on the list struck me as odd and inappropriate for being a participant. That name: Charlie Crist.
Yes, the Tampa Bay Times conducted a survey about Florida politics and included one of the candidates being surveyed about for his opinion about his own race! That's like asking the CEO of McDonalds, "Who makes the best hamburger?" What do you think he is going to say?
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Lil Wayne Re-created a Bunch of Historic Sports Calls for ESPN's First Take — Next Up, Full-Time Job?
His version of the Miracle on Ice would've been a little less enthusiastic.
In another life, Lil Wayne probably would've been a sports commentator. But because he's Weezy, he kind of already is, with his regular appearances on ESPN2's talk show First Take — where he constantly has to defend his allegiance to the Green Bay Packers. He previously freestyled over the SportsCenter theme song, and now ESPN had him (hopefully) audition for a full-time job by re-creating famous sports calls. Ever wondered how different the Miracle on Ice would've sounded with Wayne announcing it? Really? Why? In any case, here it is.


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No. 9 Elmira snags overtime win
No. 9 Elmira handed fourth-ranked Middlebury its first loss of the season in a 2-1 overtime win. Middlebury will play in the consolation game of the Panther/Cardinal Classic on Monday at 7:00 against Plattsburgh, while Amherst meets Elmira at 3:30.
Molly Downing gave Middlebury a 1-0 lead just 3:17 into the game, scoring her first goal of the season, unassisted. After a scoreless second period, Elmira tied the game at the 13:24 mark of the third period, when Alex Bresler scored the equalizer.
The Soaring Eagles earned the win 3:19 into the extra session, with Tori Charron netting the game-winner.
Elmira held a 26-19 shots advantage in the game, as Alexi Bloom made 24 saves in goal for the Panthers. Lauren Sullivan made 18 stops to earn the win.


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What's Your Selfie Technique?
Oh, don't pretend like you don't have one!
Every morning from January to mid-April, I check the temperature on my iPhone. Zero degrees today. It's going to be a good day.
I step out of my house and face the blinding snow, careful not to slip down the ice-packed stairs to get to the sidewalk that's covered in even more ice.
I'm a senior at Syracuse University, named the country's snowiest college, where a day that reaches above five degrees calls for sunbathing on the quad.
The crazy and often unpredictable weather is hard on a girl's beauty routine. There is absolutely no way you can hop in and out of the shower and then run to class. Your hair will freeze straight away, and then you're left feeling sicker than you were yesterday because living on a college campus is already like living in a cesspool of germs.
I learned quickly that I need to keep my hair routine pretty low-maintenance if I'm going to make it to class with unfrozen hair. After I get out of the shower, I let my hair dry as long as possible while I apply my makeup and get dressed. That way, my blow-dry time is a fraction of what it would be if I started styling it right after I finished showering.
I spray some label.m Blow Out Spray on my ends and massage a handful of the Toni & Guy Prep Volume Plumping Mousse into my roots before heading to the bathroom to run a round brush through my hair and blow it out in about three minutes. It's the easiest way I've found to add some volume and heat protection to my hair while still taking as little time as possible.
Applying makeup is always a struggle with crazy-cold weather, too. My face gets so dry and sensitive, and my foundation and concealer start to look completely unnatural, like my skin is trying to reject it. Products just tend to sit on top of my face, floating around.
I've found a few ways to fix my dry-skin problem, but my routine is changing as often as the weather does. Right now I'm completely in love with my Avène Thermal Spring Water. I spray it on my skin before I apply any moisturizer and it soothes my whole face and brings down any redness I have. It's like a primer for my moisturizer, which has been and always will be Olay Complete All Day Moisturizer SPF 15. It sinks into my skin so I can start my makeup right away. Plus, I need the SPF since the sun bounces off the snow and my skin tends to attract gnarly sunburns.
Once my skin is hydrated, I'm always worried about keeping my makeup as simple as possible, especially around my eyes, since making it to class without tears streaming down my face from the bitter cold is nearly impossible. I always use a damp beautyblender to apply my favorite under-eye concealer — the amazing Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Concealer — so it's blended as evenly as possible.
I'm not the biggest fan of waterproof mascara, so I only apply a bit of black mascara on my bottom lashes and I usually use nude liner on my water line and powder eyeshadow on my bottom lash line so I don't show up to class or work with black streaks down my cheeks.
Once I'm finally out the door, I've got a scarf around my face and a hat on my head so my efforts to look good that morning go totally unnoticed as I walk around campus. When I finally get to my destination, the building is usually so hot that I end up sweating to the point that my hair is greasy and my makeup feels gross.
Eventually, my body temperature finds some kind of balance, but my skin tends to feel completely dry, so I pull out my very well-loved C.O. Bigelow Rose Salve and my L'Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream (which has since lost its label). I apply those throughout my class since my skin tends to get itchy in random places constantly.
After my classes, I brave the elements again and get back home only to wash my makeup off, moisturize, and jump into bed. Luckily, spring is just around the corner. But I can promise Syracuse will make sure the end of my senior year is nice and frigid.


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February is always a fun and busy month for me – there's Valentine's Day, which I enjoy celebrating (this was the case even when I was still a child and had no romantic interest whatsoever – my Dad used to get me and my brother (and of course our Mom) tokens – not sure if giving your kids a gift on V-day is a common practice or not, but my husband and I give our daughter tokens too); and there's also my birthday, which I look forward to even more since my husband and daughter go out of their way to make me feel like a queen (more so than usual 😉 ).
Given my passion for handbags and my loved ones' knowledge of it, receiving a bag as a gift for a special occasion isn't all too surprising. I already wrote about the Mini Poppy which I got for Valentine's Day in my last Bag Review. This time, in this Bag Feature, I will cover one of the gifts I received for my birthday – the Kate Spade Rambling Roses Monkey Casie bag.
I've been wanting a boxy bag (some people call them vanity case bags) for some time now – something about the boxy shape and the quasi-lunchbox look appeals to me. I wanted to give it a try and looked at some premier designer versions of the design – while I found a few cute, I didn't find any that called out to me to an extent that would make me want to spend premier designer prices for it. There was a Bally pink boxy bag (I forget its model name) that I wanted a year or two back, but by the time I decided to pull the trigger on the purchase, the bag was no longer available. 😦 I abandoned my boxy bag search for a bit when life happened and other things became a higher priority (which resulted in my bag passion waning a bit).
Fast forward to February 2017 – I decided to resume my hunt for a boxy bag. I then did some research and in the most timely fashion, my favorite bag blog (which has nurtured my handbag love and has really been one of my comfort places for quite some time now – not to mention, it served as an inspiration for me to start my own blog about bags), Purse Blog – which is run by Megs Mahoney-Dusil and her husband Vlad Dusil – released a post called "Rising Trend: Vanity Case Bags". That proved to be an excellent resource for me as I saw several options of the boxy bag I wanted to try out (feel free to read the post here: http://www.purseblog.com/trends/vanity-case-soft-box-top-handle-bags/). The one that really caught my attention in that list was the Kate Spade Casie bag. I clicked on the link in the Purse Blog post and got redirected to the bag found in the Nordstrom website. While I liked the red and the white choices, I decided to do a quick search on 'Casie' in the Kate Spade website to see if there were other options available. I'm glad I did, because the Rambling Roses Monkey Casie popped up. It was adorable! Now though, I had a (first-world) problem on my hands – which one to get? All three options were appealing to me.
This is where my husband comes in. He caught me looking at the Casie bags (he seems to frequently catch me doing some online window-shopping — which means I probably do it a little too often) and asked – "Do you want that for your birthday?" Very direct, and I sheepishly replied, "I'm considering it"
My husband likes surprising me, and while this one would not end up being a complete surprise since I knew he would get me a Casie – there was still an element of mystery in terms of which one he'd pick. He asked me if I had a preference, to which I told him no, as I was not sure which one I liked most. So, he took that as a challenge to surprise me with which option he would pick for me (it was his turn to be sheepish – "If you realize you don't like the one I picked out for you, we can always return it for another one").
And that's how I ended up with my Rambling Roses Monkey Casie. I should have known he would pick that one out for me – we are partial to monkeys, pigs, rabbits and birds after all (it's a mix of Chinese astrology and family symbolism for us). I have to say I was extremely happy with his choice, and realized I would have eventually chosen that one for myself if he hadn't.
The Rambling Roses Monkey Casie has the following dimensions, as per the Kate Spade website:
- 6.8″h x 8.8″w x 4.1″d
- 6.8″h x 8.8″w x 4.1″d
- 2″ drop length
It's made of "crosshatched leather" which to me seems close to saffiano. They "used a stitch-free stacked leather technique to create the applique for a clean, modern look" – if a clean look was what they were after, I think they nailed it. It may be weird to say that considering the design, on paper anyway, would seem a bit busy – there are black and white stripes, and a pink monkey holding a rose on top of it – but for some reason, the result (perhaps due to the technique they applied) was quite cohesive and did give me an impression of being "clean". In no way was it too busy for me.
The Rambling Roses Monkey Casie has a zipper closure, a top handle and detachable strap. I used the bag for my birthday dinner and it was comfortable and easy to use for the most part – my only complaint thus far would be that the zipper sometimes gets stuck or won't close smoothly. This happens when one side of the zipper chain is not fully up. Not sure if it's considered part of the breaking in period, or if it's more of a "user error" (also known as – I'm the problem 🙂 ), or if this problem is present with just mine, or if it's really some design defect. It's not too much of a hassle, though it did get in the way of my enjoyment of the bag by just a little bit. I get that maybe I'm expected to always make sure the zipper chains are upright and ready to be zipped, but I generally don't experience this problem with my other bags with zipper closure. It would be nice if the zipper chains are in position to be closed smoothly by default, or that they close smoothly even if they are not (as is the case with some of my other bags). Maybe another type of closure would have worked better.
Still, the bag is so cute, with nice pink "Quick and Curious" lining and a good size to fit all my essentials and more, that the sometimes-zipper problem was not a big deal at all in the grand scheme of things. Primarily it was because I didn't encounter it all the time, and then there was also the fact that the bag's adorable design and other pros greatly outweighed that one con. The bag is also quite light, and is easy to carry by both handle and strap.
As some of you probably already know, I am a fan of fun bags and this one is certainly that. The Rambling Roses Monkey Casie is a bag that doesn't take itself too seriously. It comes in a bag type that is getting more and more popular and trendy (and therefore will become more common, if it isn't that already) – but it manages to stand out with its unique and cute design.
Also – I don't need to edit the contents of my bag at all when using this, it's a good conversation piece, and I get a small smile on my face when I carry it using the handle as it gives me a quasi-(adult) lunchbox vibe. Now, the whole adult lunchbox/vanity case bag/boxy bag look isn't for everyone – so I understand that some people might not opt to get this type of bag at all. If you have been looking for one for some time now (the way I was), then Kate Spade's Casie gives you several options to choose from. I ended up with the Rambling Roses Monkey Casie, and so far I am enjoying this bag. The charm of this bag is infectious and irresistible.
In closing – the nice thing with Kate Spade is that they have sales and give out discount coupons relatively often, so you can purchase their bags and other merchandise at a good discount if you wait (signing up for their email and mailing list is good for the purpose of keeping yourself informed on this too).
Thanks for reading – until my next post! 🙂


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Foodtalk is run by HCPC Registered Dietitians with over 25 years combined experience in paediatric nutrition both in the NHS and in not-for-profit organisations. Our business manager has managed contracts for both the NHS and Local Authority ranging in value from £60,000 to £1.3 million and has written successful tenders for both private and public contracts.
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We are committed to reviewing our accommodation operations on a regular basis, looking for ways to improve our performance. To this end we welcome your feedback at any time.
The following procedures are currently implemented:
Recycling bins are placed outside to encourage the recycling of plastics, cardboard, paper, tins and bottles.
Vegetable and recyclable food scraps are processed in our worm farm or compost bins. Worm juice and compost used to fertilize our garden.
Bathroom soaps and shampoos are bio-degradable products.
Refillable containers are used wherever possible.
Use ENJO microfibre cleaning cloths to minimize the use of cleaning chemicals.
No heated towel rails fitted – towels are dried as required.
Cold water used for laundry.
Laundry dried out doors whenever possible.
Linen and towels changed every three days for longer term guests.
Minimise energy consumption – turn off appliances not in use.
Security lights controlled by sensors and timers.
Energy efficient lighting used where appropriate.
Recycle used appliances and furniture in an appropriate manner.
Buy local produce and support local businesses and trades people.
Support the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary and other conservation and replanting initiatives in the Nelson Region.
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A Winnetka man was recently found not guilty of aggravated sexual assault after a Cook County Circuit Court judge ruled there was insufficient evidence of the crime.
Alan G. Rottman, 50, was acquitted of the charge on Jan. 23 following a two-day bench trial at the Cook County Circuit Court in Skokie. The charge stemmed from an alleged 2008 incident in which Rottman was accused of sexually assaulting the then-15-year-old daughter of a woman he was dating.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sandell Asset Management Corp. ("Sandell"), a significant shareholder of JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU) ("JDSU" or the "Company"), released the following letter to the shareholders of JDS Uniphase.
November 17, 2014
Dear Fellow JDS Uniphase Shareholders:
We are shareholders of JDS Uniphase Corporation ("JDSU" or the "Company"). We, like you, have an interest in seeing the price of JDSU shares reflect the significant value associated with the Company's underlying assets, which include the Company's three disparate business units (CCOP, NSE, and OSP) as well as JDSU's vast quantity of tax assets, which have a tax-effected book value in excess of $2.3 billion. While the Company's recently announced proposed spin-off of its CCOP business was a positive development, we believe that JDSU must do much more to deliver value to the shareholders, who are the true owners of the Company. It was for this reason that we had sought by way of a precatory proposal to empower the shareholders to directly voice their desire to see the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") take further steps to enhance shareholder value in a timely manner.
Unfortunately, the Company has chosen to exclude our proposal from its Proxy Statement. Furthermore, in what we believe was a blatant entrenchment maneuver on the part of the Company, JDSU timed the notice of its 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") in a manner that rendered it effectively impossible for us to submit Director nominations in time (1). While we had hoped that our good faith discussions with CEO and Director Thomas Waechter would result in a change to the Company's posture, we have seen no indication of further action on the part of JDSU and have heard nothing more than vague platitudes from Mr. Waechter. Given Mr. Waechter's intransigence, coupled with the Company's apparent contempt for the shareholder franchise, we are voting "AGAINST" the election of existing Director nominees Thomas Waechter and Martin Kaplan, who is Chairman of JDSU's Governance Committee, at the Company's upcoming Annual Meeting and we are encouraging other shareholders to vote "AGAINST" the election of Mr. Waechter and Mr. Kaplan.
(1) JDS Uniphase provided notice of its Annual Meeting exactly 60 days prior to the Annual Meeting date and the Company's Bylaws state that notice of Director nominations are due not less than 60 days prior to the Annual Meeting.
It is our belief that the separation of the CCOP business, a logical but wholly-insufficient first step, was approved by the Board in an attempt to ward off mounting shareholder pressure. The stock price of JDS Uniphase on September 9, 2014, the day prior to the announcement of the proposed CCOP spin-off, was $11.71, less than half its price of 10 years ago. (JDSU stock closed at $26.16 on September 9, 2004.) By any measure, this performance is abominable and based on discussions that we have had with investors, there has been growing frustration with the Company's poor stock price performance, which in our opinion is a direct result of JDSU's byzantine complexity and operational failings.
Unfortunately, the Company's recent actions have not been fully embraced by investors, as is evidenced by JDSU's relatively muted stock price reaction. We believe that shareholders are upset that the Company did not pursue a more expansive process to unlock value, particularly as it relates to the CCOP business unit, a sentiment that has been relayed by many members of the analytical community. Moreover, a number of industry analysts have indicated the need for industry consolidation in the optical components space and many have specifically noted that the CCOP business itself should be sold, as the following comments demonstrate:
"Selling off the optical unit [CCOP] to Finisar or Avago can help optical industry profits" – RBC Capital Markets, September 8, 2014
"We would like to see CCOP merge with another top tier Optical components company" – MKM, September 11, 2014
"CCOP may never see daylight as a standalone entity and optical communications industry consolidation could be poised for acceleration." – Stifel, September 11, 2014
"We believe the JDSU split is the first step to unlocking value, and only enhances opportunities for overall industry consolidation." – UBS, September 11, 2014
"Last month JDSU announced plans to split into separate companies in the 3QCY15 time frame. We have a positive view of this plan because it likely accelerates industry consolidation, particularly on the Optical/CCOP side. We think there is a meaningful chance that Finisar and CCOP will merge. JDSU management suggested there are potential tax benefits if such a deal were to occur prior to the Spin versus post-Spin." – MKM, October 30, 2014
"We also view the statement as supportive of our analysis that shareholder value would be maximized if CCOP were to be sold prior to being spun, with our research continuing to indicate a sale is the most likely outcome for the CCOP assets." – Stifel, October 29, 2014
"We believe both the Optical components and T&M segments would benefit from further consolidation, with our preferred outcome being a Finisar-JDSU CCOP combo (via a JDSU CCOP sale) and JDSU NSE rolling up the T&M industry while utilizing its almost $9b in NOLs." – UBS, October 29, 2014
"It is becoming increasingly clear that if a buyer emerges before the CCOP spinoff takes place it would be a double blessing – shareholders reap the benefit of an accelerated liquidity event, almost all of which would be sheltered by JDSU's $9 billion NOLs, while a buyer gets the asset with a tax redistribution" – William Blair, October 30, 2014
We believe that the Company must task its existing financial advisors to pursue a parallel process in which JDSU seeks the sale of the CCOP business through a formal auction while it continues preparations for the proposed spin-off. It is our belief that there are several potential buyers who would be interested in an outright acquisition of the CCOP business, and we believe that a sale could be consummated far sooner than the 3rd quarter of 2015, which is the date of the proposed CCOP spin-off. Giving heed to the time value of money is a fundamental precept of responsible corporate finance and shareholders should not be forced to wait for upwards of one year to realize value for CCOP. Furthermore, a sale of CCOP may offer the certainty of cash consideration much sooner than the 3rd quarter of next year. While the Company has seemed to suggest their willingness to consider a sale of CCOP prior to its spin-off and Mr. Waechter in the Company's Fiscal First Quarter 2015 earnings teleconference stated that "if we find another option or alternative…that brings better or greater value to the shareholders, we would definitely pursue that," the fact that we have yet to see the Company initiate any actual process makes these comments from Mr. Waechter appear to us disingenuous. By voting "AGAINST" the election of Thomas Waechter, you would be sending a strong message that he must affirmatively back up his statements with action and cause the Company to conduct a formal sale process for the CCOP business without delay.
Along with the need to explore alternatives other than the proposed spin-off of CCOP is the corresponding need to maximize the value of the Company's vast quantity of tax assets. We note that JDSU has federal, state, and foreign tax net operating loss carryforwards (NOLs) of approximately $6.1 billion, $1.8 billion, and $1.0 billion, respectively, which constitutes a tax-effected book value in excess of $2.3 billion, or over $10 per share. While the treatment of NOLs is a highly-complex topic, we are confident that several avenues exist for the Company to extract value from this effectively unrecognized asset. We note that several analysts who cover JDSU utilize a sum-of-parts valuation methodology for determining a price target, and while many have acknowledged the presence of the vast quantity of NOLs, few have factored in any value for the Company's tax assets, as is illustrated by the following table:
Sum-of-the Parts Value
Value Includes NOLs?
Sum-of-the-Parts Value (ex-NOLs)
|Goldman Sachs (9/12/14)
|Jefferies (9/11/14)
|Stifel (10/1/14)
|Yes ($1.05)
|Yes ($3.50)
|William Blair (10/30/14)
As can be seen, according to various analyst estimates, the average sum-of-the-parts value without ascribing any value to the Company's tax assets is $15.85 per share. Applying a factor of between 50% and 100% to the $2.35 billion book value of the Company's NOLs yields an incremental value of between $1.17 billion and $2.35 billion, or between approximately $5.05 and $10.14 per share, which when added to the aforementioned $15.85 ex-NOL value yields a potential value of between $20.90 per share and $25.99 per share, which is between 58% and 96% higher than the Company's November 12, 2014 closing stock price of $13.23. Astonishingly, however, the Company has not advanced a concrete plan to unlock this value. By voting "AGAINST" the election of Thomas Waechter, you will be indicating your desire to see the Company take substantive steps to unlock the value associated with the Company's substantial tax assets.
Sandell had previously submitted a shareholder proposal requesting that the Board of Directors task its financial advisors to evaluate further strategic alternatives, in addition to the previously announced proposed spin-off of its CCOP business, to maximize the value of the Company's various business segments as well as its substantial tax assets in a timely manner. In an affront to shareholders, and contrary to the actions of other well-established technology companies who have recently included precatory proposals in their proxy materials (e.g. Apple, EBay), JDS Uniphase refused to include Sandell's proposal in its Proxy Statement. While Sandell considered filing its own proxy statement to solicit shareholder support for its proposal, shareholders voting on Sandell's proxy card would have been greatly disadvantaged, as they would not have been able to vote for any candidates for the Board of Directors due to what Sandell believes was a blatant entrenchment maneuver on the part of the Company. Specifically, JDS Uniphase provided notice of its Annual Meeting after the close of trading on October 6, exactly 60 days prior to the December 5 Annual Meeting date; because of Bylaws recently amended by the Company, notice of Director nominations were due "not less than 60 days" prior to the date of the Annual meeting, which rendered it effectively impossible for Sandell to submit Director nominations in compliance with this Bylaw.
We are troubled that the Board of Directors has taken these steps to impinge on the shareholder franchise and deny the rights of shareholders to directly voice their desire to the Board of Directors. Furthermore, we are shocked that, in this day and age of supposedly enlightened corporate governance, a board of directors would so brazenly adopt a Bylaw that has the potential to effectively eliminate the ability for shareholders to nominate Directors. Considering the poor stock price performance demonstrated by the Company over the last decade, we suspect it was no coincidence that the Company recently amended its Bylaws in a manner timed to frustrate shareholders who would desire greater accountability at the Board level. By voting "AGAINST" the election of Martin Kaplan, who in addition to being Chairman of the Company's Governance Committee is, at 77 years of age, the longest-serving Director on the Board, you will be voicing your disapproval of the Company's attempts to manipulate the governing documents of the Company in order to disenfranchise shareholders.
We look forward to engaging in further dialogue with interested shareholders of JDSU in advance of the Company's December 5 Annual Meeting.
Thomas Sandell
Chief Executive Officer
About Sandell Asset Management Corp.
Sandell Asset Management Corp. is a leading private, alternative asset management firm specializing in global corporate event-driven, multi-strategy investing with a strong focus on equity special situations and credit opportunities. Sandell Asset Management Corp. was founded in 1998 by Thomas E. Sandell and has offices in New York and London, including a global staff of investment professionals, traders and infrastructure specialists.


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The University of Hawaii hosted two conferences in early October, the Second Cultura Conference on October 10 & 11 and the Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities between October 11-13. Additional information on these conferences can be found on the National Foreign Language Resource Center website. The Second Cultura Conference brought together language educators from different areas of the country and abroad. The Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities examined recent developments in distance education and technology-mediated instruction.
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NRCEA Testing Project Underway
Under the direction of Dr. Kimi Kondo-Brown, the NRCEA testing project began initial data collection and testing in three areas, oral, listening, and reading proficiencies.
In March 2007, a total of eight Japanese teachers (four full time instructors, two lecturers, and two GAs) and two graduate students participated in a four day intensive ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) workshop. All except one completed the required OPIs for the practice round and are in the process of certification. Once certified as OPI testers, the group will be able to conduct departmental oral assessment activities. Plans for Summer/Fall 2008 include randomly selecting students from four sections of JPN 202/212 to have OPIs. All OPIs will be conducted by the in-house certified testers.
Thanks to excellent coordination and teacher cooperation, a total of 164 students from all JPN 100/101/111 classes (approximately 95% of the students enrolled in these courses) took the listening pretest and language learning survey in Spring 2007. Detailed background information on these students was also collected and the students will be tracked for the next two years to assess program impact in terms of their listening ability. Those students still enrolled at the end of their fourth semester will then be asked to take the same test and survey again. The survey and background data will be used to interpret their score gains.
In Fall 2007, the Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP) reading test was administered to 175 first-semester students (101 and 100 students). Detailed background and language learning information from the student participants were also collected to properly interpret data. The test will then be administered again to all fourth-semester Japanese language students in Spring 2009 to examine how the reading skills of the students progressed over the two years. Already, considerable differences in reading ability exist among the students.
17th International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning
The 17th International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning (PLL) was held on March 26-28, 2007, at the Imin International Conference Center adjacent to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) campus. The three-day conference was sponsored by the UH National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), the UH National Resource Center East Asia (NRCEA), the UH College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature (LLL), and the UH Department of Second Language Studies (SLS).
The International Conference drew 279 participants from the U.S. mainland, Japan, a number of other countries from Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and Hawai'i, with nearly 60% of attendees being faculty, staff, and/or researchers.
The gathering featured two plenary addresses, two invited colloquia, two invited workshops, nearly 100 paper presentations, and 23 poster presentations. The conference addressed a broad range of topics in prag-matics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. The conference also focused on how research into sociolinguistics and pragmatics (the way language is used when interacting with others) can be applied to the language learning classroom. The languages of East Asia were especially well-represented.
Conference highlights included plenary talks by Dr. Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Dr. Steven Talmy, University of British Columbia; invited colloquia convened by Dr. Haruko Cook, UHM, and Dr. Christina Higgins ,UHM; invited workshops by Dr. Kenneth Rose, City University of Hong Kong, and Dr. Julie Belz, Monterey Institute of International Studies; paper/poster presentations, and a variety of planned social events.
The Conference was organized by Program Chairs Gabriele Kasper, Second Language Studies, UHM, Hanh Thi Nguyen, International Studies, Hawai'i Pacific University, and Dina Yoshimi, East Asian Languages & Literatures, UHM & Organizing Chair Jim Yoshioka, Pro-gram Coordinator, National Foreign Language Resource Center, UHM.
See the following URL for more details: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/


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Mid-America RV Show is the largest consumer show dedicated to the RVing lifestyle and everything associated with it in the Midwest, featuring more than 300 RVs on display. The expo is a great place to visit for anyone who is interested in traveling and the outdoor lifestyle. This 4 days RV Show is being organized by GS Events. The venue of this event is Kansas City Convention Center which is located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America. The event will be held from 11 January 2018, Thursday to 14 January 2018, Sunday. Mid-America RV Show 2018 will showcase a wide range of products and services related to caravan and RV sectors from the leading exhibitors, for example, luxurious high-line motor homes, campers, travel trailers, fifth wheels, Class C motor homes, camper vans, Class C mini motors, van conversions, truck campers and folding campers, campgrounds, RV products, RV accessories, resorts and travel destinations, vacation destinations and products. Over 50 exhibitors are expected at this event to showcase their products and services. The frequency of Mid-America RV Show is annual.
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Congress WBN is a UK-registered charity and a unique, faith-based organization affecting human, social and national transformation in nations throughout the earth.
Congress WBN operates in over 105 countries and territories and maintains a presence in major world cities including London, Washington D.C., Brussels, Paris, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Harare, Lagos, Mumbai, and Brussels.
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From simulating sex acts during her concerts, to dropping multiple f-bombs on Late Show with David Letterman, the pop icon, 53, has been creating controversies with her salacious stunts for decades.
With her latest scandal — flashing her nipple at a concert in Istandul, Turkey — making headlines across the globe, there's no telling what else Madge has cooking up in that brilliant yet oh-so-scandalous head of hers.
Click through the gallery to relive all of Madonna's most controversial moments in her music career.
However, Madonna's controversies doesn't end with her recent intentional nip slip.
Now appearing to be eating her own words, footage of Madonna criticizing Janet Jackson's infamous 2004 "wardrobe malfunction" rencently surfaced online. The interview, filmed in January before Madonna's Super Bowl performance with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., features the singer blasting the "Rhythm Nation" singer for exposing her breast on live TV.
"You don't have to show nipples to be interesting," she said. "It doesn't necessarily mean you're cutting edge if you do, right?"
On his radio show Monday morning, shock jock Howard Stern blasted Madge's Istanbul stunt, and even went as far as to call the mother of four "desperate."
However, Madonna's MDNA has proven to be nothing short of scandal. Last week, the singer projected a swastika on the face of right-wing French politican Marine Le Pen. Le Pen later snapped back at Madonna, saying, "We understand how old singers who need to get people talking about them go to such extremes."
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