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a texas a&m researcher is arguing that moore's law will inevitably end within the next 6 years. laszlo kish notes that thermal noise is becoming an increasing problem for transistors, and that within the next 6 years this intractable problem will limit transistor density. because of thermal noise, the supply voltage of transistors cannot be reduced below a certain limit. below about 40 nanometers, thermal noise will cause random "bit flips" which will ruin the reliability of transistors. kish claims that the only way around this problem is to limit transistor integration density. if mr. kish's comments are correct, then cmos scaling should end at the 45 nanometer node, in about 2009. of course, one way to get around this problem would be to cryogenically cool the chips, which would reduce or even eliminate the thermal noise problem. currently, it appears likely that if we ever use microprocessors with 10 nanometer features, such chips will be immersed in a bath of liquid nitrogen.
rob's note: being the stubborn guy that i am, i'm still holding out for breakthroughs to carry us down to 10 nanometers or less. we'll know in 6 years … or 10 years, i suppose.
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|kmos (1:50pm est fri dec 20 2002)
we see…
i am glad we can't see in the future, life would become extremely boring… – by bassie.
|hard to say… (2:28pm est fri dec 20 2002)
i've not heard the thermal noise argument for some time – but perhaps it is a twist on the dopant-quantitization issue that is looming. in a nutshell, silicon needs either to be p (positive) or n doped in order for pn junctions to do what they do (e.g. rectify in diodes, amplify in fets and bpts).
the number of atoms that constitute the 'dopant' is pretty tiny. 1:1,000 is pretty typical. now consider… if atomic spacing is on the order of 0.7 to 2.0 angstroms (tenths of a nanometer), then at say 1.5� interatomic spacing, there are some 200,000,000 atoms in a fet channel that is 130�130�30 nm. (today's measures) there are then about 200,000 dopant atoms, so random variations in dopant density probably account for some 0.2% or so in the number.
but at 10 nm (10�10�5 nm channel) you have only 150,000 atoms in the channel, and only about 150 of them are dopants! hmmm… sounds like a big deal to me: �20, and voila: maybe the trannie will work, maybe it'll be a dud. now, multiply those odds by the few billion trannies expected to be on the mass-scale devices of 2010.
wow. doesn't sound promising. i've managed to scare myself even more than i intended.
and no, the # of dopant atoms cannot be upped past 1:100 because the semiconductor looses its semiconducting properties.
it may – in the end – come down to completely abandoning silicon and germanium and go directly to quantum tunneling across peroskovite insulators in strong magnetic fields. the equivalent of "transistors" have been demonstrated, and there are no dopants. thermal effects are stronger, but dissipation is 3 orders of magnitude lower. could answer the "surface-of-the-sun" heat problem that also is looming.
– by goatguy
|biology (2:49pm est fri dec 20 2002)
biological compounds exist that are 10 nanometers and they function at room temperature. it can happen but they don't line up on a wafer too easily. – by ds
|halfhardware (2:56pm est fri dec 20 2002)
prob. polymering isn't such a bad solution – by bassie.
|try using… (3:32pm est fri dec 20 2002)
peanut butter in between the waffers this help too with all ntwking issues too. – by jkgoose
|right on goatguy. (3:44pm est fri dec 20 2002)
if moores law is to continue, we will have to abandon silicon. many companies are working on this. ht & superscalar tech work will also continue. heat & noise are major issues. – by tech
|re: biology (5:02pm est fri dec 20 2002)
yes they do work, but that is an analog computation, not a digital one.
a lot more flexible, just harder to setup. – by old sampler
|good riddance (6:57pm est fri dec 20 2002)
why are we following some old dude. i'm trying to make this funny, but it isn't really.
things like moore's law are keeping us back. intel is really to blaim. amd was happy keeping their mhz down and just making chips that do more per clock.
intel is also on the right track with itanium now at least. itanium isn't going to run at 3mhz for several years.
in a way it can still keep going by having multiple dies at smaller manufactoring proccess. maybe stacked on to of each other, but not connected. meaning in the same 2-d space, not 3-d you could double your transitor counts.
each die combined could be considered as the speed and hence the overall speed could still rise exponentially.
it's all how you look at it i guess. it is not like moore's law is a physical law, it is something to keep our brains busy.
one thing is for sure, we can't predict the future. in 6 months some reasearch team could come out with a radical transitor that makes all of these predictions useless. maybe goatguy will :) – by et
|re: goatguy (7:13pm est fri dec 20 2002)
what you are referring to is transistor mismatch. altough a severe problem, this is not the mentioned thermal noise. thermal, time varying noise is the noise that is generated over all resistors. for cmos processes, it comes down to track down this resistive effect as cmos logic is based on charging capacitances. i do not know how the guy came to that claim, but it is at least a very bold one. it requires the combined and deep knowledge of physics, analog design and digital design to be able to make conclusions like he did. – by jd
|its a bunch of crap anyways (9:28pm est fri dec 20 2002)
ever notice how moore's laws only apply to intel and not amd or anyone else?
mabey some rules apply to amd, but not all, for example, amd was the first to come out with a 1ghz cpu, yet 18 months later amd did not release 2ghz cpu. only 18 months after intel's 1ghz chip did intel release a 2ghz chip.
so, the 18 month rule isn't really a rule, its just a intel policy to double their clock speed every 18 months. – by synonymous
|so…. (12:36am est sat dec 21 2002)
then it isn't moore's law, but rather moore's theory? – by buster
|i know this much (1:10am est sat dec 21 2002)
moore's law is anything but a law. – by the iceman
|but… (1:26am est sat dec 21 2002)
isn't the law every 18 to 24 months, not just 18 months – by dash
|i wonder (10:07am est sat dec 21 2002)
what roger moore has to say about this. 007 will take care of all your problems. – by bones
|moore's law has nothing to do with speed (10:52am est sat dec 21 2002)
moore's law is: "transistor density on a substrate doubles every 18 months."
doubling the number of transistors does not say anything about speed, let alone the amount of work done.
intel has managed to get everyone to believe that clock speed is the only attribute of a cpu that matters. those of us that know better don't buy it.
i think it would be interesting to see a comparison of chips thus: thermal output versus computational output, and also power consumption versus computational output. i think we would see a very different picture emerge of what we consider "efficient".
remeber the 80286? it was faster, clock-for-clock, than the 80386. by making the 80386 capable of some more complex stuff, it wound up being slower in ipc than the 80286.
i also think it would be interesting to see what a z80 could do if it could be built to run at 1 ghz. i know, 64 kb max memory, but it would still be interesting. – by brian corbino
|hmmmm (2:51pm est sat dec 21 2002)
dose this mean im not geting my petaflop laptop by 2015? – by bob
|re: goat guy (3:52pm est sat dec 21 2002)
quick question. what is the best way to paint my cermaic bathroom tiles? – by bob vila
|bob (4:22pm est sat dec 21 2002)
before you stick them to the walls? – by repoman
|translation… (7:12pm est sat dec 21 2002)
moore's "law" is really moore's "observation."
we are moving forward with technology at a fast pace. if someone said vacuum tubes can only get so small… and eventually we're doomed because vacuum tubes will limit us… and therefore moore's observation is wrong… i'd simply point out that the technological advances at not married to a specific technology.
if we one door is closed, plenty of other doors we have not even considered trying are probably open. a few that we've discussed include: quantum computers, dna chips, etc.
eventually we will migrate onto the next great and fantastic platform. and that means that all of you smarties will have to learn a new lingo and then press on!
|actually…. (11:16pm est sat dec 21 2002)
moore's law is:
the number of transistors on chips would double every 12 to 24 months.
found it on the intel site.
– by buster
|well look what they said about cd speeds not going above 4x (11:55am est sun dec 22 2002)
there were arguments that cd speed couldn't go above 4x because the plastic would warp. the solution? harder plastic.
i am sure we will find a way around this problem. – by nosebreaker dot com
|problem? (2:57pm est sun dec 22 2002)
i thought the heat problem could be solved by introducing nano-tubes to channel the heat away. – by nano-nano
|i'm not interested in moores law (8:11pm est sun dec 22 2002)
… but i hope murphys law will end in 6 years.. gg – by lol
|murphy rules….! (8:35pm est sun dec 22 2002)
murphy hangs around behind your computer and tangles all the wires while you sleep.
– by murphy's brother
|goat (8:49pm est sun dec 22 2002)
your math needs work bud. you're off by an order of mag.
also, i know you're a teacher, so, i was wondering what jr. high or high school you worked at?
– by m.e.
|m.e. is right… (8:54pm est sun dec 22 2002)
…goat. your math is incorrect.
and your "theories� regarding semiconductor physics are out dated. might i suggest a recent publication of my own: semiconductor devices: physics and technology, 2nd ed. i would advise that you read it before making such posts in the future. – by s.m. sze
|ouch (8:31pm est mon dec 23 2002)
that must sting. – by jason hughes
|moore's law and employment – my posting in google newsgroup (3:09am est thu jan 02 2003)
i want to figure out two scenario :
optimistic one ( ray kurzweil like ) :
realistic one ( may be pessimistic ) :
any comments ??? – by rustam
|quantum computing (7:14am est tue feb 11 2003)
gchq of great britain already as a quantum computer – so the debate on silicon density is now somewhat academic.
– by reece
|the goat guy has it! (10:01pm est wed feb 04 2004)
i think we will eventually abandon silicon-based chips because of their declining semiconducting properties as they shrink. the quantum computer is an exciting prospect, as it would utilize the most fundamental parts of matter that we know of.
another possibility is to create an on/off switch through the use of self-assembling monolayers. these are simple carbon chains that arrange themselves on metal substrate. some of these sams have unique chemical structures that change when voltage is passes through them. all in all, this would create a transistor 1/10th the size of the predicted limit from moore's law (40nm -> 5nm).
the difficulty comes in when one tries to decipher whether one, let alone, several million, of these transistors are "on" or "off" in a timely manner. – by xen
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: EGGLESTON HALL
List entry Number: 1121626
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District: County Durham
District Type: Unitary Authority
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EGGLESTON B6281 North side
25/4 Eggleston Hall
House, now private residential school. 1827 by I. Bonomi for T. Hutchinson,
incorporating parts of earlier house. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; older rear
wing sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; roof of small graduated Lakeland
slates. Irregular plan: main range with long returns and set-back right wing.
Main range 2 storeys, 4 bays; right wing 2 lower storeys, 5 bays. Main block symmetrical; projecting end bays linked by tetrastyle fluted Doric colonnade; entablature with triglyph frieze. Central double panelled door, partly glazed, flanked by aproned sashes with glazing bars. Similar windows in ground floor of end bays; first floor sashes have glazing bars and projecting stone sills. Top string, cornice and blocking course. Right wing windows mostly sashes with glazing bars, the first and fifth bays wider. Low pitched hipped roofs have corniced ridge chimneys. Rear range of rear courtyard incorporates gabled 2-storey, 2-bay range with blocked oeuil de boeuf over blocked doors with wood lintels on both floors.
Interior: rear open-well stair has moulded rail on brass balustrade and moulded wood steps. Hall screen of 2 ground-floor Ionic columns and 2 first- floor Corinthian columns; Greek key fret at first floor sill level, with large sash window; ceiling has stucco rinceau frieze. Stucco cornices in principal ground-floor rooms: Greek key pattern in entrance hall and former morning room (now subdivided); oak, vine and strawberry trails in dining room; and floral in sitting room. 6-panel doors in fluted doorcases with acanthus flowers on corner blocks. Older part in rear has deeply-bowed chamfered tie beam visible in upper room.
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EAST BRUNSWICK – Gov. Chris Christie used his 8oth town hall meeting since taking office to chastise Democrats for failing to pass his budget proposal that includes the first stage of a 10 percent across-the-board state income tax cut.
The governor initially made his tax cut proposal in his State of the State speech earlier this year as he touted a "Jersey Comeback," but that narrative has run into the harsh reality of tax collections that have not met expectations. Christie plans to take money from New Jersey's Clean Energy Fund and dollars that had been allocated for transportation spending to close a $676 million budget shortfall for the current and next fiscal years.
On the same day that a Star-Ledger's PolitiFact™ New Jersey column wrote that the Garden State's rate of job growth has lagged behind neighboring states since Christie took office, the governor again blasted those who challenge his "Jersey Comeback" message.
"I've never seen a group of people who are supposed to be serving the public root more against their state the way the Democrats root against it," Christie said in a video clip posted to the governor's YouTube account. "This state has a strong and hearty workforce that is starting to come back. And they're coming back because they finally have someone in the governor's chair who believes in them, who understands if their potential is unleashed, that they'll bring the state back, almost despite what we do in this city. If we ever started to give them some help, imagine what would happen. And that's what we've been doing for the last 2½ years… That's why you're seeing private sector job growth, that's why you're seeing more investment in New Jersey, because there's finally someone in New Jersey who's talking New Jersey up rather than talking New Jersey down. "
Democrats have offered their own plans to help New Jersey taxpayers by increasing property tax credits, rather than providing income tax cuts that would allow higher-salaried taxpayers to save more money than low income workers.
Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) released the following statement on Thursday in response to Governor Christie's East Brunswick town hall meeting:
"As usual, Governor Christie is using a handpicked audience in a controlled forum where he can remain unchallenged to perpetuate the myths of a New Jersey Comeback and Democratic opposition to tax relief," said Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) through a statement released in response to the governor's town hall meeting. "The truth is that there can be no comeback while New Jersey continues into its third year with unemployment at or above 9 percent. The truth is that Democrats are united in support of property tax relief targeted to those who need it most — New Jersey's hard working middle class families. As the Star Ledger's Politifact™ column demonstrated just last week, Christie's statement about Democratic opposition to tax relief is 'pure nonsense', 'just ridiculous,' and a 'Pants on Fire' outright lie."
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Long before Up in the Air became showered in Oscar nominations, actress Melanie Lynskey signed on for many other reasons than Academy Award accolades. Up in the Air premieres on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download March 9 as the actress calls SheKnows to exclusively discuss this amazing film.
SheKnows: For you to do scenes with George Clooney, as an actress, this is a guy working at the top of his game right now. What did you take away from him, acting wise, that maybe surprised you?
Melanie Lynskey: The wonderful thing was to see how open he was. There's one scene in particular in which he was very vulnerable. It was really nice. Sometimes you work with people, and they just have it planned out a little, I think. Especially when someone's a little bit bigger and they sort of want to modulate performance in a way -- just drawing out stuff -- and you're just kind of reacting to it. But he was so open, he would change it up. It just was really lovely feel a real connection with him and not feel like here's the guy giving the movie star performance and I'm just reacting to it. It was really sharing something. He's brave. He's a really brave actor.
SheKnows: What's so wonderful in this home video age is you get the joy of attention of the film when it's in theaters, then people seem to revisit it again when it's out on home video. For you as an actress, as part of something like this, what is that like to be able to revisit your work?
Melanie Lynskey: I think it's really a wonderful thing. I was just talking about this with somebody, actually. I think my favorite thing about having watched the movie now a few times, Vera Farmiga's performance, in particular, is just really, if you see the movie you'll see -- I was just so blown away with what she was doing. Just how subtle and how many layers that she gave to it, that you might not necessarily see in one viewing. It's really pretty wonderful.
SheKnows: Obviously, there is so much to like, but what were you most excited about when you joined the Up in the Air project?
Melanie Lynskey: I was excited because I loved the script. I thought the script was really wonderful. Even though I had a pretty small part in it, I felt that it was a lot to play. I was really excited to be working with Jason because of his previous movies, and the actors! Vera is one of my favorite actors. I just think she's incredible. George, obviously, is so wonderful. Although I was a little bit nervous because I thought, famous people can be a bit tricky sometimes -- but he was the loveliest men!
SheKnows: You mentioned Jason (Reitman, director) and how incredibly talented he is at such a really young age for a director. What was the Jason Reitman experience like for you?
Melanie Lynskey: I mean, it's crazy because he's younger than I am. He goes around in a little beanie hat and like a plaid shirt and looks like a grungy musician or something. He's so delicate with the material. The way he talks to actors is like an old master. There's something he has where he just knows. He's great with the tone and he just knows if something screens a little bit false. It's really amazing working with him. He's very precise but he lets you feel very free at the same time, which I don't even know how that's possible. He's pretty great.
SheKnows: I frequently refer to you as a scene stealer.
Melanie Lynskey: Well thank you. That's so nice.
SheKnows: It's so true. I look on down the list from The Informant, to Two and a Half Men, Away We Go, you're just scene stealer after scene stealer. When you go into a film and, like you said, you might have had a smaller part -- but you go in and hit it out of the park. Is there a science to what you do to remain that focused?
Melanie Lynskey: That's just a very kind thing to say. I do play a lot smaller parts. I think the thing that I always try to remember is that you're really trying to the story. I think it can be kind of self-involved as an actor to think, "OK, I only have this much screen time so I've got to try to do something interesting or make an impression somehow." It's just funny to work in a world where you're just really trying to be honest in the moment and just realize you're such a small part of a such bigger things. You really just need to bring as much authenticity as you can.
SheKnows: I am a big fan of two of your earlier works: Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners.
Melanie Lynskey: I'm not really in The Frighteners! I'm in one shot where I kind of stand up or something!
SheKnows: That for us here, in America, was kind of a window to New Zealand cinema. What was it about acting in the movies that kind of drew you to that, growing up in New Zealand?
Melanie Lynskey: Well, acting in the movies seemed like a fine concept. I always wanted to be an actor, but I come from a very provincial town where people don't just become actors. So I was trying to do all the research I could thinking how you do it. I was going to try to go to drama school and this and that, but the movies just seemed crazy. Someone came around to my high school, Peter Jackson. He came around to my high school looking for girls for a movie and I thought this would be great. I can put it on my application for drama school that I auditioned for this movie -- whatever that means! That was how I got the part -- by him coming to my high school. It really changed the course of my life and it took me a long time to feel OK about it in a weird way. We're just very, sort of, quiet people in New Zealand and nobody wants to make a big deal about themselves. So if you stand up and say you want to be in movies, people don't take it very well. So it took a really long time, even after I did a movie for me to go, "OK, I think I want to do this for a career."
SheKnows: Absolutely and Heavenly Creatures, like I said, is just a stunning piece of movie making.
Melanie Lynskey: I really loved that movie.
SheKnows: Did you move to California at some point?
Melanie Lynskey: It took me a really long time. I lived in England a couple of years. I made the move very slowly, but I moved here when I was about...I guess 15 years ago.
SheKnows: I had to ask about playing a stalker on Two and a Half Men, if there was any kind of research you did, and maybe who you stalked? Just kidding.
Melanie Lynskey: (Laughs) I don't know. I think the tricky thing about that character is that so much of what she does is really, really creepy, honestly. If you wrote a list of the things that character has done, it's kind of horrific. So, I think the list, like the real stalker she is, would be there, that's kind of the trick to it I think. She doesn't know that she's doing wrong. She's just kind of sweet. I think it's only funny if she's really strong in her convictions that she's doing the right thing and she's a good person. She's just really creepy!
SheKnows: Like you said, it's a fine line and the audience wouldn't embrace it if they didn't really believe that you had a heart of gold, and your character really did.
Melanie Lynskey: It's kind of a weird fate of life that created this character. People love this character! She's like a torturer (laughs)!
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Nottingham's Welfare to Wages Inter Agency Monitoring
Group was formed in April 1998 as a response to the Government's
request that New Deal should be run in partnership with other
organisations. The group provides a monitoring role of the New
Deal from the perspective of the various organisations that its
members come from, and is a valuable source of feedback to the
I have chaired the group since its inception.
The group includes representatives from the CAB, Race Equality
Council, Welfare Rights advice agencies, the Employment Service,
local councillors, the Benefits Agency, the Local Authority Housing
Benefit Office, Colleges and Training agencies and the University
of Nottingham. It is this diversity of representation and expertise
that makes the group unique. The main aim of the group has been
to identify and offer solutions to overcome the barriers to work
faced by people on New Deal. In doing this, it has also identified
areas in which existing legislation runs contrary to the key objectives
of New Deal.
It is requested that the resulting evidence
from this submission be considered as evidence for the inquiry
New Deal: An Evaluation. The Group has met on a bi-monthly basis
since April 1998, although in the main the feedback presented
here is in response to the Select Committee's Eighth Report
of Session 1999-00, New Deal for Young People: Two Years On
and the current call for evidence. Additional data is from focus
group and individual interviews with New Deal clients, advisers,
employers, Employment Service personnel and Ministers, collected
over the past two years and currently being written as a doctoral
thesis by one member of the group.
This paper limits its contribution to two
key areas of inquiry addressed by the call for evidence:
The Government defines sustainable employment
as jobs that last for more than 13 weeks. As was noted in the
Eighth Report, approximately 75 per cent of people who have entered
employment through NDYP have had at least one job that has lasted
13 weeks or moreleaving 25 per cent who have not obtained
a sustained job. Nottingham can either be a success or a failure,
according to what you measure. Only 40 per cent of New Dealers
make it into jobs, but 75 per cent of those are still in employment
after 13 weeks (and 62 per cent after 26 weeks). We may simply
need a more sophisticated look at core Performance measures to
assess long-term and short-term objectives.
Where there have been problems with moving people
into sustainable jobs, it is important to recognise that this
is inextricably linked with the key factors that influence barriers
to success for New Deal. These are set out below, with recommendations.
Following that, a list of factors that influence the success of
New Deal is given.
Pressure on Personal Advisers to meet targets
The role of the Personal Adviser (PA) is recognised
as key to the success of NDYPsetting it apart from previous
schemes. However, high caseloads and Employment Service targets
place unreasonable demands on PA's. This impacts in two main ways:
There should be a return to the client-centred
approach envisaged in the original New Deal design. Targets should
emphasise sustainability and other long-term client needs.
The design of the New Deal Personal Adviser
job should be reviewed. This should include:
Despite the Chancellor's clear message that
there is "no Fifth Option", there could be a positive
Fifth Option, in the form of intensive help for a longer period
for those who are harder to helpa "Pre-Option Option".
Evidence shows that there is a hard core of clients who keep coming
around. In terms of using resources well, it would be better to
deal with the problems they face head on, and not use the "pistachio
principle"chucking the ones that you can't open back
into the bag. For a significant number of young people a jobalthough
the goalis often a long way away. In terms of the "success"
of New Deal, we need to ask how we are measuring success.
The idea that getting a jobany jobas
preferable to receiving benefit prevails. This argument, however,
is contested strongly by many. For example, the view taken by
the Council of Churches of Britain and Ireland (CCBI) argues that
the issue that now arises is what kind of work, on what conditions
this should be. In previous generations it was assumed that this
meant full-time work at a wage that would support a family, and
asks "how do we now relate this to a temporary part-time
job at £2 an hour[27]
or less selling useless products over the telephone"[28]
(CCBI, 1997, p 44). The report goes on to ask whether the experience
of insecure, part-time work at low pay is so much better than
the experience of unemployment with much the same income as social
security, and argues that many of the jobs open to the unemployed
may not give them much sense of real achievement.
So which is more importantthe dignity
of work (any work), with the value of a job depending on the experience
it gives and the opportunities it may open up in the future, the
theoretical opportunity to work, or a situation where people actually
do have work to do, appropriate to their abilities? It must be
recognised that when we are measuring success we need to understand
that for some of the pistachios we may need to shift our perception
of "success". It will be achieved in incremental stepsgetting
up in the morning, turning up to something on timebut incremental
steps can take you a long way when you know where you're going.
An enhanced Gateway or a Pre-option Option,
with the welfare of the young person handed over to an intermediary
organisation is recommended. This would go a long way to ensuring
that people had some basic skills before they started New Deal.
Ideally, this would also include some kind of basic information
about where benefits come from, and how they are paid for, in
order to begin to change attitudes towards rights and responsibilities.
There is nothing yet that exists as a programme
that could deliver this. It would need to be something very imaginativenot
a school-type experience (which may have already failed them),
and not a private sector company coming in to sit them in a room
and show them a video of "Dangerous Minds", but intensive
help as a separate programme, not delivered by already overworked
PA's. A pre-option Option, delivered by intermediaries who could
engage those with particular problems, would be a better use of
some of the money currently spent on advertising and publicity
The Select Committee report indicates that changes
are being considered to Follow Through with an emphasis on a fresh
approach. This is welcomed.
There should be an intensive mandatory course
similar to the two week Gateway to Work course in Follow Through.
In exceptional circumstances there should be
flexibility for clients to remain on Options longer (in particular
the VS/ETF Option).
Clients on Follow Through should be able to
access the Subsidised Employment Option. This will support entry
into employment and maximise the skills acquired during their
participation in New Deal while they are still motivated. Losing
them at this point will undo a lot of progress.
Greater involvement of PA's in Follow-Through,
which should be recognised and reflected in New Deal caseload
sizes and workloads. Current analysis of New Deal caseload sizes
concentrates on "live" Gateway caseloads, ignoring the
additional work that PA's have with clients on the Options and
Follow Through should be re-launched with additional
provision, raising the status and profile.
With specific regard to the FTET option, this
should be about learningwith the enhanced possibility of
a job at the other end. Andrew Smith, when he was Minister for
Employment, stated: "New Deal is not a job creation schemeit's
about giving people opportunities and helping them to become more
Current targets and emphasis on finding employment means that
this, as an aim, is not always consistent with reality. Under
New Deal, continuation in learning is not regarded as a positive
outcome, and yet it may be very positive for those returning to
education because it supports social inclusion and addresses the
need for higher-level skills (IT experts, teachers etc). Continuing
in further learning (if agreed with the Personal Adviser) should
be recognised as a positive outcome for New Deal performance measures
and Employment Service purposes. Moreover, it is compatible with
colleges' agendas and Government commitment to Lifelong Learning,
rather than two areas of policy being at odds with each other.
The emphasis on Vocational Education within
the FTET fails to recognise the skills and needs associated with
"adult education". Research undertaken into barriers
to adult learning is also relevant to New Deal participantshence
FTET has to contend with issues such as high drop out rates. The
structure, theory and practice of the FTET Option should be examined
with a view to learning from good practice in adult education.
The FTET option is structured around College
priorities and Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) requirements. It does
not necessarily benefit New Dealers. The majority of courses that
New Dealers are placed on are the 16-hour "part time"
courses designed for JSA claimants. New Dealers must have 30 hours
of study. This usually means they must take "add-ons"and
these are often unrelated to their main course (often known as
the "bread making" or "library skills" options).
Absenteeism is much higher in the add-ons than in the main courses.
Generally, more need to be done to look at ways
of "mixing and matching" options. For example, currently
if someone drops out of an FTET course they cannot transfer from
one option to anotherthey have to wait and start all over
again. Given that clients signing up to the FTET option make a
big commitmentoften with no real way of testing out what
they wantit is clear that there will be some "leakage"
and drop out. Getting on to another option more quickly would
be far more positive than having to churn around again.
Continuing in further learning (if agreed with
the Personal Adviser) should be recognised as a positive outcome
for New Deal performance measures and Employment Service purposes.
The structure, theory and practice of the FTET
Option should be examined with a view to learning from good practice
in adult education.
Extend PA's remits to contract for training
packages appropriate to individuals, rather than convenient to
the college.
Re-examine the 30-hour rule. Make it an entitlement,
not an obligation. Tie this to the personal package that the Adviser
and participant contract for in order to cut disillusionment and
drop out rates.
Job specific training through the FTET Option
should also be delivered by approved Employers. This would provide
clients with tangible skills and experience recognised by local
employers as well as giving clients a taste of working in an area.
This would enhance the possibility of matching New Deal participants
with the employer delivering the training. This may be able to
be progressed through the proposed "Approved Supplier"
lists for future contracted provision.
The best way to show the problems with this
is to present the following case studies:
As well as being inappropriate or counter productive,
the current bureaucracy around the issue of NVQ level 2 is also
costly. In Nottingham, any course for New Dealers is charged at
£750 per person, even if it amounts to a £60 computer
course. The in-house alternative to the NVQ is a skills-mapping
exercise that is currently very costly (£1,000+).
Extend the remit of Personal Advisers to allow
appropriate training packages to be negotiated with/on behalf
of participants.
Where such training is unnecessary or irrelevant,
Advisers should be able to recommend a work-experience only option.
The rigidity and bureaucracy of the benefits
system is the biggest single obstacle to making New Deal work.
Without the introduction of new entitlements or flexibilities,
the recent extension of means-tested benefits will make this a
greater threat to New Deal. It is hoped that changes to the Employment
Service will also mean that some of these problems are alleviated.
The experience of those on the Monitoring Group suggests that
there is not one area of the Benefits system where problems have
not arisen for New Dealers. The specific details are too numerous
to include here, but can be set out if the Committee requests.
An example is given below in the form of a case study. The Nottingham
Welfare Rights Service sees cases such as Michael's day in, day
out, and it is not difficult to see why many people do not persevere
with employment.
Case study
Michael is 18 and on New Deal. He has not worked
since leaving school, but was offered a job and sent in his ES40
card to sign off. Four weeks later he received a letter from the
City Council to say he was in arrears with his Council Tax, and
his landlord issued him with a red letter for non-payment of rent.
He took time off from his new job to see his New Deal Personal
Adviser, who told him he is no longer eligible for extended Housing
Benefit because he didn't claim within eight days. He went to
the Housing Benefit Office for a claim for, where he queued for
two hours. His landlord gave him notice that unless he paid his
rent arrears he would be evicted. Michael needed five weeks' pay
slips, and Housing Benefit could not be backdated because of his
late claim. Michael was paid monthly, and was still waiting for
his first wage slip. Michael's employer gave him a verbal warning
for taking time off.
The Housing Benefit Office wrote to him asking
to arrange another meeting. Michael tried to do this to fall on
his lunch break, but was delayed at the HB office and was late
back to work. His employer was angry, and said Michael could not
have any more time off. Michael didn't go back to work the next
day. He felt it was easier to be on benefit, he didn't want to
lose his flat, and would rather have left than be sacked.
In Michael's case (but as mentioned above there
are so many permutations to the benefits barrier to work), the
changes to the system that would help him are:
. . .
Key factors influencing the success of New Deal
The Personal Adviser
Despite the paradox here, the PA has been a
really important success for New Deal. Feedback from new Deal
participants consistently identifies the PA as a marked change
from schemes experienced before. We should heed the warnings that
are coming from PA's who are struggling to meet the Employment
Service targets.
Financial Support and Continuity
The Job Seekers Grant has been a valuable asset
to the unemployed, with the flexibility of the grant being key.
The PA has been able to use the fund to suit the individual's
need for equipment, tools, work clothes, travel expenses etc.
The Job Finders Grant has been an important
incentive to finding work, and staying in it. It minimises financial
difficulties in the initial period of employment, during which
time the New Dealer is usually waiting for their first pay packet.
Extended Housing Benefit has been helpful, but
the loophole of the short claim time must be addressed.
Mr Alan Simpson, MP
Member for Nottingham South
November 2000
Unemployment and the Future of Work, Council of Churches
for Britain and Ireland, 1997, p 44. Back
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See a Heartwarming Short Movie About a Thai Kids' Soccer Team
They build their own field, and it gets emotional.
Based on a true story and sponsored, oddly, by the Thai Military Bank, this video meets all your underdog-sports-story needs in a quick five minutes. Highly recommended for fans of Rudy and/or those sob-story videos they play during the Olympics.


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Parent Volunteer Network
Volunteerism and service to the community are central components of the education your student receives at Cal Lutheran, and we invite you to consider making them a part of your own Cal Lutheran experience by volunteering with other Cal Lutheran parents and families.
Please see below to learn more about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities!
- Commencement
Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement Ceremonies
Alumni and parent volunteers are needed for one of our biggest events of the year, Commencement! We will welcome more than 10,000 visitors to campus for our undergraduate and graduate ceremonies.
Volunteering is a fun role, with no heavy lifting! All you have to do is roam around handing out "Proud Cal Lutheran Family" stickers and fans to graduation attendees while you congratulate them on their students' success.
So join the celebration – help us welcome the newest group of graduates to Cal Lutheran Alumni!
- Family Weekend
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Volunteer as a Parent and Family Host during the Alumni & Family Festival.
- Other Opportunities
Parent Calling Campaigns – Fall and Spring
The college admission process can be a confusing time for students and their families. As such, we offer support in the form of phone calls to parents of admitted and deposited students in the Spring each year. Newly admitted parents receive calls of welcome and support from those best qualified to answer questions about the parent experience: current Cal Lutheran parents. Then, in the Fall, parent callers follow up to check-in on the new Cal Lutheran parents in their area to see if they can provide any guidance.
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Share pictures, stories, tips and perspectives with other parents and families through The Family Connection, our monthly e-newsletter devoted to the parent and family experience.
New Student & Family Orientation
Move-in day! There is no better time to provide support for families, particularly those dropping their children off for the first time! Volunteer as a Parent and Family Host to welcome our new class of families on campus!
Host a Cal Lutheran Reception
At various times of the year and in various locations around the United States, we take advantage of opportunities to network our alumni, parents, families, friends, and supporters.
- Social events with other Cal Lutheran families
- Viewing parties to support Kingsmen and Regals athletics
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Hello! I'd like to share my latest creations. I was quite busy last days, because I promised to do about 10 cards for my customers and girls around. Mostly for weddings and new babies :-) Besides that I got an idea about upcycling a matchbox to something more valuable. And I created a new small box of a matchbox size which I embellished with 2 swans. It can be used either as a wedding gift for guests, gift for Valentine or an original box for wedding rings ...
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a challenge 261 at SOS: "Create your own matchbox / matchbook."
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Several students at Langley Middle School have been busy making their marks with various literacy skills.
Seventh grader Katy-Rose Jordan of Langley and sixth grader Livia Lomne-Licastro, also of Langley, were chosen from among 3,368 Washington students as state finalists in the "2012 Letters About Literature Contest" sponsored by the Library of Congress.
Tristan Cortes, a seventh grader from Clinton, won a Major League Baseball Club package for his Breaking Barriers Essay about the challenges he faced moving as a young boy from Mexico to the United States. And seventh grader Kari Hustad of Clinton was named a state winner in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.
The students were assigned the projects by their Langley Middle School teachers Rachel Kizer, (seventh) and Rosie Donnelly (sixth).
Kari wrote a cursive sample and won an engraved Zaner-Bloser State Winner Medallion from the educational service company, an engraved rosewood box and pen from Kizer and a $200 Zaner-Bloser coupon. Her cursive sample now moves on to be judged with other state winners for the national award.
In her entry, Kari was asked how handwriting makes her a better reader and writer. She responded in cursive, of course.
My handwriting makes me a better reader and writer because it engages my brain and encourages me to be neater and write more succinctly, she wrote.
Kari, 13, commented on the surprising fact that she was a state winner, even though both her parents, in her opinion, have terrible handwriting. She will find out if she is a national finalist in May.
Tristan's assignment was to write about "a barrier you have faced."
The national Breaking Barriers Essay Contest is inspired by ball player Jackie Robinson and is sponsored by Major League Baseball and Scholastic. It received 9,700 entries in 2011. Tristan, 13, was one of 30 students awarded the club prize, which includes a set of baseball tickets to a major league season, a framed winner's certificate and a set of T-shirts.
In the opening line of his essay, Tristan wrote: The plane's wheels screech on the concrete runway like finger nails on a chalkboard. I walk out of the airport and take my first steps into America. As a 6-year-old moving from my hometown in Mexico to the United States it was a struggle.
Although Tristan knew no English when he arrived seven years ago, his English is excellent today without a trace of his Mexican roots in his pronunciation. He said making friends was one of his biggest barriers, but staying strong and courageous was the key to his success, just as the first African-American major league baseball player had to do.
Tristan said he could relate to what Robinson went through, feeling like he was on the outside and not being accepted into the group. He overcame his fears and now is an essay contest prize winner.
In the Letters About Literature contest, only 98 finalists made the cut in Washington out of the more than 3000 entries, which Donnelly introduced to middle school students beginning in 2007.
Katy-Rose, who is almost 13, was one of 49 Level 2 finalists (grades 7 and 8) and Livia, 12, was one of 29 Level 1 finalists (grades 4, 5 and 6.)
Both girls will join all the state finalists in the Capitol Rotunda in Olympia in May at a recognition ceremony for their achievement.
The Letters About Literature program encourages young readers to write letters to their favorite authors to share how the author's book has had an impact on them.
Katy-Rose wrote to Kathryn Stockett, author of "The Help," because she was inspired by the book's treatment of the injustices against African Americans in the United States.
"I've gotten some racist comments on my Chinese origin," Katy-Rose said.
"I've always been one who has been indignant about injustice. It's all about the shade of our skin and it shouldn't matter."
Katy-Rose said that "The Help" is her favorite book and that she appreciates the story's depiction of small town Mississippi in 1962 during the American Civil Rights Movement and the struggle of one of its main characters Aibileen, an African- American maid.
"I think this book captures what happened," Katy-Rose said. "And I know a lot of people would like to pretend it didn't happen, but it did. That's one of my favorite things about this book. It really portrayed something in human history that was important."
In her letter to Stockett, Katy-Rose wrote: I can only wish that other readers of your book feel as I do. I wish that this world would exist as a place where all men are equal, where everyone gets the same opportunities, and no one has to feel ashamed of who they are. … Your book gave me this hope, and I will hold onto it forever.
Livia, 12, wrote to Tamora Pierce, author of "The Song of the Lioness Quartet" series about her admiration for the stereotype-defying main character.
"All her books are about strong women based in a truly beautiful world called Tortall," Livia said.
"I wrote about "Allana: The First Adventure" about a girl who wanted to be a knight, but because she was a girl she had to learn magic to be proper, maybe a healer, but she just didn't want to."
Fantasy is definitely her favorite, Livia said, and Pierce's books have inspired her to write her own novel, on which she is currently at work.
"I'm writing a novel about a girl who is a clone, but she doesn't know it," Livia said.
In her letter to the author, Livia told Pierce that her books have given her strength during hard times in her life. She wrote: Your books have changed the way I look at myself. Your books have given me wings of courage and of hope, and I thank you with all of my being.
What all these students came away with from entering these contests are not only beaming, proud teachers, but also a sense of wanting to keep trying.
"I'm in sixth grade and we can still enter," Livia said. "And, who knows, we could be a national winner one day."
Katy-Rose said winning felt satisfying.
"With contests I'm always like, 'I'm not gonna win, I'm not gonna win,' and usually I don't win. It was nice to be recognized because I wasn't really expecting it," she said.


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FREDERICK, Md.—The Graduate School at Hood College is hosting an Instant Admission Event on Nov. 3 to show how it can help students go further in their lives, in their careers and in their communities.
Those interested in learning more about Hood's Graduate School should bring their résumés and transcripts to the Whitaker Campus Center Commons between noon and 1 p.m. or 4:30 and 6 p.m. This event is an opportunity to talk with faculty and staff about professional aspirations, learn how Hood College helps students achieve their goals, allow students to tell the Graduate School how they can contribute to the learning community, and apply for instant admission.
For more information and to RSVP, visit www.hood.edu/gradevents. Walk-ins are welcome.


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* CEO pay rose 14 pct in 2011 vs 23 pct in 2010
* AFL-CIO presidents says Citigroup pay vote "a bell-ringer"
* Mutual funds still vote with management on most pay votes
* BlackRock with management on pay in 97 pct of votes
By Ross Kerber
April 19 (Reuters) - Compensation of top executives at publicly traded companies rose by 14 percent on average in 2011, a sharp slowdown from the prior year amid growing shareholder pressure on pay and performance, the AFL-CIO said in a report on Thursday.
The results demonstrate that major shareholders are beginning to focus on executive pay and corporate boards are paying attention, Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor group, said during a conference call to present the findings.
"The good news is that after 15 years, shareholders are beginning to protest," he said.
Compensation for top executives in 2010 had risen on average by 23 percent, the AFL-CIO said.
The average chief executive received $12.9 million last year, almost 400 times the pay of the average American. The average American earned $34,053 and got a 2.8 percent raise, the union said.
The disparity in pay has become a flashpoint in the ongoing debate over U.S. pay inequality. Last fall's "Occupy Wall Street" movement led demonstrations against wealth disparity in 100 U.S. cities. Now large investors are taking an increasingly hard line on executive compensation.
The two trends seem to be converging to create a particularly contentious annual meeting season at many large corporations.
Just two days ago, shareholders of Citigroup shocked the giant bank's board with a vote on no confidence on its executive pay package for 2011, which included $14.8 million for Chief Executive Vikram Pandit. In an advisory "say on pay" vote required by the Dodd-Frank law, 55 percent of voting shareholders opposed the pay plan.
The surprise rejection vote was "a bell-ringer" showing how investors are giving companies tougher reviews, Trumka said on Thursday. "Shareholders are more concerned, and hopefully that will have an even more moderating effect," he added.
In a presentation accompanying the report, Trumka and other union leaders urged investors to press companies for more disclosures like the ratio of CEO pay to average employees.
The study by the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 unions that represent more than 12 million workers, reviewed the pay for the chief executives of about 300 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index that so far had disclosed 2011 compensation in proxies filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The results were generally consistent with surveys done by private-sector firms.
Total pay as reported in company "summary compensation tables" rose by 2 percent in 2011 compared with a 24 percent gain the prior year, according to a survey of about 225 companies in the Fortune 1000 that filed proxies by late March, Frank Glassner, partner of Meridian Compensation Partners, said.
Compensation growth slowed amid the flat financial performance of many companies because boards of directors have added new measures to link executive pay more closely with actual results, Glassner said. "Pay for performance is starting to be engaged," he said.
Also, "say on pay" votes like the one at Citigroup, though only advisory, are adding public pressure for more corporate responsiveness, Glassner said.
The AFL-CIO study also analyzed how large mutual fund families vote on pay questions. As major shareholders, the firms often decide the outcome of proxy contests, yet rarely discuss their voting. As a result, the regulatory filings they make each summer provide a rare window on their thinking.
Among 40 fund firms last year, the median level of support for "say on pay" questions was 12 percent.
BlackRock, the world's largest money manager with about $3.7 trillion of assets under management, was dubbed a "pay enabler" by union officials. BlackRock voted against management on "say on pay" votes just 3 percent of the time last year, the study found.
Some smaller firms voted with management even more often, including Harbor Funds and the fund unit of Goldman Sachs Group . Both opposed only about 1 percent of "say on pay" questions.
Officials of BlackRock, Harbor and Goldman Sachs did not respond to questions.
The fund company most likely to vote against management on "say on pay" questions was Federated Investors, which opposed 74 percent at companies in which it voted.
Federated declined to comment.


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When you compare back in the days to the new generations, there are so many changes that have taken place. And the use of the chemical product has increased too though so many people are changing from this behavior because they are so many disadvantages of using the chemical products. The natural way that so many people are running to is the essential oils they have so many benefits and no side effects because of their natural nature. The hard part comes when you have to choose the best essential oil since they are so many brands in the stores it might get confusing. Though it is not a doubting task, you can do it. Here is a list that will help in choosing of the essential oils for burns.
Before going ahead and buying any essential oil you have first to know where that essential oil is coming from. About the cost of the essential oil, you should be aware that they will be a bit expensive because for the essential oil to be produced so much will be used. So when you see an essential oil that's cheap at the stores, then you have to know that it's good to be true. So when buying an essential oil don't be scared when you see the price because the more expensive it will be the purer it will be, and you will be using less in every application which is a good thing.
Though it will be hard to tell the purity of the essential oil, you should be careful not to be a victim of people that want to exploit people by selling diluted essential oils. What you can do to tell the purity of the essential oil is by trying to use it for a while because for an essential oil that is pure it will work very fast. If you notice that you have used a certain essential oil for your burns and it has not worked for a couple of months, then you should consider changing.
So that you know that the essential oil that you will choose will be the best for your burns, then you need to ensure that it blends very well. When you blend the essential oil, it will be so helpful in getting the best result, and at the same time, it will be helpful in the fastening of the result. It will ensure that within no time the burns will be healed.


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Definition of deity
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- such established American deities as Daniel Boone, Kit Carson
- —J. D. Hart
- the deities of the banking world
to the ancient Greeks, Zeus was the deity who ruled over the sky and weather, and Poseidon was god of the sea
we prayed to the Deity for guidance
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Pritzker Prize-winner Philip Johnson was a supporter of Nazism according to a controversial new book by American journalist Marc Wortman.
Wortman describes Johnson's role in pushing the Nazi agenda in the US in an in-depth story in Vanity Fair magazine, adapted from the writer's new book, "1941: Fighting the Shadow War", which probes the US involvement in World War II.
The author describes Johnson's growing support for the Nazis in the 1930s and his efforts to import Fascism to America.
"He found in Nazism a new international ideal," writes Wortman. "The aesthetic power and exaltation he experienced in viewing Modernist architecture found its complete national expression in the Hitler-centred Fascist movement."
The author also describes how Johnson aligned himself with Fascist supporters in the US and participated in political campaigns. He backed controversial figures such as Charles Edward Coughlin, an antisemitic Roman Catholic priest who promoted Fascist ideas. For one of Coughlin's rallies in Chicago, Johnson allegedly designed a speaking platform modelled after one used by Hitler.
Johnson, one of America's best-known architects of the 20th century, was born in 1906 to a wealthy family in Cleveland, Ohio. He was awarded the first ever Pritzker Prize in 1979, and died in 2005.
He funded the creation of the architecture department at the city's Museum of Modern Art. His 1932 show on the International Style is credited for introducing Americans to prominent modern European architects, including Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, and "set the course of world architecture for the next 40 years," Wortman writes.
The article says Johnson travelled to Berlin and attended a youth rally led by Hitler.
It would be the first time he saw Hitler," Wortman writes. "That day, he experienced a revolution of the soul, a revelation he would ultimately describe as 'totally febrile'."
Johnson returned to Europe several times as the Third Reich expanded, says Wortman.
"Johnson found in the Nazi Party rallies much of the spectacle of Wagnerian opera — an artistic performance encompassing all the audience's senses and beyond its power to resist," writes Wortman. "Here was a vision combining aesthetics, eroticism, and war, forces capable of sweeping away the past and building a new world."
Thearchitect's pro-Nazi efforts started to garner attention back in the US. Harper's Magazine listed him as a leading American Nazi in a 1940 article, and the FBI began to track his activities.
Upon the urging of friends, Johnson "knew he had to change his spots," writes Wortman. At age 34, he enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and sought to erase his pro-Nazi past, even starting an anti-Fascist group on campus.
"Johnson always wanted to be on the winning side," writes Wortman. "The Thousand-Year Reich was not to be, but so far the American century had been turning out just fine."
Johnson went on to design seminal works such as the Glass House, completed in 1949, and New York's AT&T Building, which opened in 1984. He received the AIA's Gold Medal in 1978 and the first Pritzker Prize, awarded in 1979. He died in 2005 while asleep at his Glass House.


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Chattanooga police were able to arrest a suspected gunman after the victim pulled through surgery and identified the man in a photo lineup, according to an arrest report.
Robert Allen, 20, selected a photo of 25-year-old Ronnie "Man Man" Dobbins out of a collection of eight photographs.
Allen, who was listed in stable condition at Erlanger hospital, was found Tuesday inside Beauty World at 2421 Fourth Ave. with multiple gunshot wounds. He had been arrested on possessing marijuana for resale and unlawful possession of a firearm in February.
As of Wednesday Allen was the city's 119th shooting victim in a total of 102 shooting incidents so far this year. The number of shootings is close to surpassing the total for all of 2012, which saw 103 shootings and 122 victims.
Dobbins was arrested less than a block away from where the shooting took place, according to the police report. He was walking in the 2500 block of Fourth Avenue when a Chattanooga police officer yelled, "Stop. Police." Dobbins took off running and was eventually caught on the street, the report stated.
He faces charges of criminal trespassing, evading arrest, resisting, unlicensed carrying of a weapon, reckless endangerment, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault.
Dobbins has prior arrests on charges including escaping from a police car, aggravated assault and possessing drugs for resale, as well as failure to appear in court. With the new charges, his bond is set at $218,000.
He is scheduled to appear Tuesday before Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Clarence Shattuck.


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BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene blog
One of the expected highlights of this year's A3C Festival is no longer performing.
Upstart Atlanta rapper 21 Savage was nixed from Sunday's lineup due to "unforeseen circumstances." None of the artist's social media accounts indicate any issues; his most recent tweet posted Friday and simply said, "ready to go on tour" and a new photo was posted on his Facebook page Saturday afternoon.
Festival organizers say "a few surprise acts" will take his place. Also scheduled to perform Sunday at the Festival Grounds (at Chamberlain and Boulevard in The Old Fourth Ward) are Cousin Stizz, Masego, Alex Wiley, Jerreau, Tate Kobang and more. The Beat Junkies will spin all day at the Toyota DJ House and Master P's No Limit Boys, Mystikal, Silkk The Shocker and Snootie Wild will wrap the evening.
21 Savage, whose latest EP, "Savage Mode" with Metro Boomin', arrived in July, was part of XXL magazine's influential 2016 Freshman Class lineup.
For more in the A3C Festival, visit www.a3cfestival.com.
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rootin for UCLA tomorrow so a 7-6 team can be in a BCS game, too.
I am not claiming I am right, I am saying I don't get it.
You are not alone.
Neuheisel fired after just before leading UCLA back to the Rose Bowl; that would be the best of lulz.
Neuheisel fired after leading defaulting UCLA back to the Rose Bowl because of USC's ineligibility; that would be the best of lulz.
Good grief these teams ain't that good. Just think, due to the conference limits, WV could sneak into a BCS bowl with a win tonight. It's not UCONN bad but still, it's pretty terrible.
Resonance...metal folding chairs or hard tile floors cannot be beaten when it comes to firing off a loud fart.
Gus Johnson is on the call tonight for the Pac-12 game.
Can our Admin change the thread title to Austin Allen's Cock? If so, then put me down for 10 inches, at least.
Why is this game being played in Oregon? Nike buy the game?


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