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Authorities have discovered a Bronx woman running an underground business out of her apartment in which she injected liquid silicone to enhance women's breasts and buttocks.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York regarding a Complaint unsealed today in Manhattan federal court, Whalesca Castillo, who has no medical or nursing license, ran her illegal business of injecting women with liquid silicone she imported from the Dominican Republic since at least 2009. WSBT News reports that the woman ran the business out of her two-bedroom apartment on Inwood Avenue in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx.
Castillo told women the injections were safe and charged hundreds of dollars for each injection.
In the past, people have also become victims of unscrupulous individuals injecting liquid silicone, silicone gel or other dangerous substances to fill face wrinkles, despite the availability of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved wrinkle fillers from licensed medical professionals. Perhaps the most famous example of injection of silicone as wrinkle filler may be the case of Dr. Daniel Serrano, nicknamed Dr. Jiffy Lube, a fake doctor who injected his Beverly Hills clients with industrial grade silicone like that used to lubricate auto parts. Some of his victims included Shawn King, wife of Larry King, and Pricilla Presley.
The FDA allows the use of some silicones in cosmetic use, such as silicone breast implants, but has prohibited the injection of liquid silicone or silicone gel anywhere in the body for cosmetic purposes because it has caused serious and fatal injuries in patients of the United States and elsewhere. Side effects of this type of illegal procedure include permanent lumps within the skin, infection, skin ulceration and potentially fatal pulmonary blood clots.
"Castillo allegedly performed procedures she was not licensed to perform, using substances unapproved for that purpose," said Janice K. Fedarcyk, assistant director-in-charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). "She knew what she was doing was illegal, as she told one of her customers. In her thirst for profit, she put lives in peril. The mission of the FBI Health Care Fraud Task Force is not only to minimize the monetary effects of fraud, but to protect the health and safety of the public from unscrupulous practitioners."
One of Castillo's patients suffered pain and shortness of breath after receiving $1000 worth of silicone injections and fainted within hours of the procedure. The patient called Castillo to report the side effects and Castillo told her not to seek medical attention, that the hospital would not help her because the procedure was illegal.
"As we allege, Whalesca Castillo put the health of unsuspecting women at risk, all to make a quick buck," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. "She compounded the danger in which she placed her clients by allegedly discouraging at least one woman from seeking medical attention after she developed complications from the injections. We will continue to work with our partners at the FBI and the FDA to expose and prosecute such underground operations that seek to profit by offering unsafe treatments at the expense of public health and safety."
Agents from the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked with the New York City's Police Department, Department of Sanitation and Environmental Police investigating Castillo's illegal business during November and December of 2010. They collected trash bags from near her home and found over one hundred bottles, some of which were tested and had silicone residue on them, syringes, needles, bloodied gauze and dozens of tubes of Krazy Glue, which authorities say is used by unlicensed medical operations to close puncture wounds.
Castillo is not the first performing illegal buttock enhancement with silicone injections. In June of 2010, a 22-year-old California woman died after receiving a silicone injections in her buttocks by two unlicensed individuals, dubbed the "Silicone Sisters." In March 2010, six women in New Jersey developed infections and other complications after receiving bogus cosmetic injections of hardware-grade silicone caulk, the same used to caulk bathtubs, as butt enhancements.
Federal authorities have charged Castillo, 36, with one count of distributing an adulterated or misbranded product. She faces a maximum of three years in prison on that charge.
People who received silicone injections from Castillo, or anyone else, should call the FBI's hotline at 212-384-2400 immediately.
The charges contained in the Complaint against Whalesca Castillo are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.


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NOTE: As there are still many proponents of a Badon place-name with a Brythonic etymology - despite the fact that no such Brythonic etymology has been discovered or proposed - I felt it necessary to re-post this blog entry. The idea is fairly simple, and not in doubt among leading Celticists: the name is British, but is also a British form of an Anglo-Saxon name. As to why Gildas would have used such a form, well, I have discussed that in this chapter from my book THE ARTHUR OF HISTORY. Essentially, the place was named for a pagan goddess in the original Brythonic language. Gildas was a devout Christian, later to become a saint, and as such could not assign a pagan name to the scene of a great British victory against the pagans. Thus he defaulted to his own people's rendering of the innocuous Saxon word for "Baths". For those who haven't bothered to read my full treatment of Arthur's Badon battle, I include it here once more in its entirety.
The Twelfth Battle: Mount Badon
Badon is a difficult place-name for an unexpected reason. As Kenneth Jackson proclaimed:
"No such British name is known, nor any such stem." [To be briefly mentioned in the context of Badon is the Middle Welsh word bad, 'plague, pestilence, death' (GPC; first attested in the 14th century), from Proto-Celtic *bato-, cf. Old Irish bath. Some have asked me whether this word could be the root of Badon - to which Dr. Graham I. Isaac, of the National University of Ireland, Galway, responds emphatically, "No, absolutely no. A (modern) W form _bad_ etc. would have been spelt in the W of the ancient period as _bat_ and there can be no connection since _Bad(on)_ is what we find." Other noteworthy Celtic linguists, such as Dr. Simon Rodway of Aberystwyth University, Dr. Richard Coates of the University of the West of England and Professor Ranko Matasovic of the University of Zagreb, agree with Isaac on this point. Matasovic adds: "Professor Isaac is right; since we have references to Badon in Early Welsh sources, the name would have been spelled with –t- (for voiced /d/). The spelling where the letter <d> stands for /d/ and <dd> for the voiced dental fricative was introduced in the late Middle Ages."]
Graham Isaac has the following to say on the nature of the word Badon, which I take to be authoritative.
His explanation of why Gildas's Badon cannot be derived from one of the Badburys (like Liddington Castle, often cited as a prime candidates for Badon) is critical in an eventual identification of this battle site. Although long and rather complicated, his argument is convincing and I have, therefore, opted to present it unedited:
"Remember in all that follows that both the -d - in Badon and the -th- in OE Bathum are pronounced like th in 'bathe' and Modern Welsh - dd-. Remember also that in Old English spelling, the letters thorn and the crossed d are interchangeable in many positions: that is variation in spelling, not in sound, and has no significance for linguistic arguments.
It is curious that a number of commentators have been happy to posit a 'British' or 'Celtic' form Badon. The reason seems to be summed up succinctly by Tolstoy in the 1961 article (p. 145):
'It is obviously impossible that Gildas should have given a Saxon name for a British locality'.
Why? I see no reason at all in the world why he should not do so (begging the question as to what, exactly, is the meaning of 'British locality' here; Gildas is just talking about a hill). This then becomes the chief crutch of the argument, as shown on p. 147 of Tolstoy's article: 'But that there was a Celtic name 'Badon' we know from the very passage in Gildas under discussion'.
But that is just circular: ' "Badon" must be "Celtic" because Gildas only uses "Celtic" names'. This is no argument. What would have to be shown is that 'Badon' is a regular reflex of a securely attested 'Celtic' word. This is a matter of empirical detail and is easily tested; we have vast resources to tell us what was and was not a 'Celtic' word. And there is nothing like 'Badon'.
So what do we do? Do we just say that 'Badon' must be Celtic because Gildas uses it? That gets us nowhere.
So what of the relationships between aet Bathum - Badon - Baddanbyrig? The crucial point is just that OE Bathum and the Late British / very early Welsh Badon we are talking about both have the soft -th- sound of 'bathe' and Mod.Welsh 'Baddon'. Baddanbyrig, however, has a long d-sound like -d d- in 'bad day'. Both languages, early OE and Late British, had both the d-sound and the soft th-sound.
1) If the English had taken over British (hypothetical and actually non-existent) *Badon (*Din Badon or something), they would have made it *Bathanbyrig or the like, and the modern names of these places would be something like *Bathbury.
2) If the British had taken over OE Baddanbyrig, they would have kept the d-sound, and Gildas would have written 'Batonicus mons', and Annales Cambriae would have 'bellum Batonis', etc. (where the -t- is the regular early SPELLING of the sound -d-; always keep your conceptions of spellings and your conceptions of sounds separate; one of the classic errors of the untrained is to fail to distinguish these).
I imagine if that were the case we would have no hesitation is identifying 'Baton' with a Badbury place. But the d-sound and the soft th -sound are not interchangeable. It is either the one or the other, and in fact it is the soft th -sound that is in 'Badon', and that makes it equivalent to Bathum, not Baddanbyrig.
(That applies to the sounds. On the other hand there is nothing strange about the British making Bad-ON out of OE Bath -UM. There was nothing in the Late British/early Welsh language which corresponded to the dative plural ending - UM of OE, so it was natural for the Britons to substitute the common British suffix - ON for the very un-British OE suffix -UM: this is not a substitution of SOUNDS, but of ENDINGS, which is quite a different matter. That Gildas then makes an unproblematic Latin adjective with -icus out of this does not require comment.)
To conclude:
1) There is no reason in the world why a 6thcentury British author should not refer to a place in Britain by its OE name.
2) There was no 'British' or 'Celtic' *Badon.
3) 'Badon' does not correspond linguistically with OE Baddanbyrig.
4) 'Badon' is the predictably regular Late British / early Welsh borrowing of OE Bathum.
Final note: the fact that later OE sources occasionally call Bath 'Badon' is just a symptom of the book-learning of the authors using the form.
Gildas was a widely read and highly respected author, and Badon(-is) (from Gildas's adjective Badonicus) will quickly and unproblematically have become the standard book-form (i.e. primarily Latin form) for the name of Bath. Again, all attempts to gain some sort of linguistic mileage from the apparent, but illusory, OE variation between Bathum and Badon are vacuous."
It is thus safe to say that 'Badon' must derive from a Bath name. However, we must not restrict ourselves to the Southern Bath, which makes no sense in the context of a Northern Arthur.
For as it happens, there is a major Northern 'Bath' site that has gone completely unnoticed!
In the the High Peak District of Derbyshire we find Buxton. This town had once been roughly on the southernmost boundary of Brigantian tribal territory (thought to lie along a line roughly from the Mersey in the west to the Humber in the east). It was also just within Britannia Inferior (that part of northern Britain ruled from York), whose boundary was again from the Mersey, but probably more towards The Wash.
In the Roman period, Buxton was the site of Aquae Arnemetiae, 'the waters in front of (the goddess) Nemetia'. To the best of our knowledge, Bath in Somerset and Buxton in Derbyshire were the only two 'Aquae' towns in Britain.
But even better, there is a Bathum name extant at Buxton. The Roman road which leads to Buxton from the northeast, through the Peak hills, is called Bathamgate. Batham is 'baths', the exact dative plural we need to match the name Bathum/Badon. -gate is 'road, street', which comes from ME gate, itself a derivative of OScand gata. Bathamgate is thus 'Baths Road'.
The recorded forms for Bathamgate are as follows:
Bathinegate (for Bathmegate), 1400, from W. Dugdale's Monasticon Anghcanum, 6 vols, London 1817-1830.
Bathom gate, 1538, from Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office
Batham Gate, 1599, from records of the Duchy of Lancaster Special Commissions in the Public Record Office.
Buxton sits in a bowl about one thousand feet above sea level surrounded by mountains and is itself a mountain spa. The natural mineral water of Buxton emerges from a group of springs at a constant temperature of 82 degrees Fahrenheit and is, thus, a thermal water. There are also cold springs and a supply of chalybeate (iron bearing) water. The evidence of Mesolithic man suggests a settlement dating to about 5000 BCE and archaeological finds in the Peak District around the settlement show habitation through the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages to the time of the Romans.
From the historical evidence we can say that Buxton was a civilian settlement of some importance, situated on the intersection of several roads, and providing bathing facilities in warm mineral waters. In short, it was a Roman spa. Place-names in and around Buxton, and Anglo-Saxon finds in burial mound excavations, suggest a continuing inhabitation of the area and probable use of the mineral waters.
It has long been speculated that we should expect to find a military installation at Buxton. However, subsequent archaeological fieldwork, including excavations, in and around suggested locations at the spa town have singularly failed to establish a military presence. A 'ditch feature' identified initially through resistivity survey and then from aerial photography above Mill Cliff, Buxton, gave rise to the almost confident interpretation of this site as being that of the fort: subsequent evaluation in advance of development, however, has shown that these features were geological rather than man-made, and the absence of Roman finds of any description from a series of evaluation trenches suggests that if Buxton had a fort it was located elsewhere.
Today, the site of the probable Roman baths is covered by the Georgian Crescent building. In this area during the seventeenth and eighteenth century discoveries of lead lined baths, red plaster and building remains were made at some considerable depth in the sediments which surround the area of St Anne's well. In the eighteenth century, Pilkington investigated a mound overlooking the site of the previous discoveries. Here he found a structure which has been interpreted as a probable classical temple - one of only three known from Britain. In the mid-seventies, following the removal of a 20th century swimming pool, a brick structure was exposed and a deposit containing 232 Roman coins, 3 bronze bracelets and a wire clasp ranging in date from the 1st to the end of the 4th century CE was excavated.
This intriguing series of early discoveries lends tangible support to the interpretation of Buxton as the 'Bath of the North', but the character and extent of civilian settlement - and whether this was in association with a military installation or not, remains obscure. A considerable range of small finds, together with occasional glimpses of apparently Roman contexts, from the backgardens of houses has failed to provide a clear sense of the extent of Roman Buxton, let alone a soundly based understanding of its chronology and development. The dating of coinage in the 'votive' deposit from near the Crescent might be seen to indicate heightened frequencies of offerings during the third and fourth centuries. To what extent this might correlate with the development of settlement at Buxton is a matter of some conjecture.
At Poole's cavern, Buxton, excavations between 1981 and 1983 by Peakland Archaeological Society and Buxton Archaeological Society produced a large Romano-British assemblage containing a considerable body of metalwork including coins and brooches, rolls of thin sheet bronze, along with ceramics, a faunal assemblage and burials. The dating of the coins and fibulae point to use between the late 1st and 3rd centuries, with the majority being of 2nd century date. Indeed, reanalysis of the material has suggested that the cave saw its principal period of use between 120 and 220 CE. The excavators appeared to reveal some spatial separation of the coin and fibulae finds from the pottery and faunal remains, although this has been questioned.
Discussing the possible character of the use of the site Bramwell and Dalton draw attention to the comparative absence of spindle whorls, loom weights and bone hairpins which might be expected from a domestic site. Instead, they see the evidence as supporting the interpretation of the site as that of a rural shrine or sanctuary.
This too has subsequently been questioned and rejected. Instead, Branigan and Dawley interpret the site as essentially domestic, but with the additional refuse from a metalworker's activities. They see a link between Poole's Cavern and the growth of Buxton as a spa centre providing a ready local market for small decorative trinkets.
The general trend of the evidence suggests that the Roman site may have consisted of a temple overlooking a set of Roman baths. At Bath we have a clear idea of the layout of a significant bath/water shrine complex which consisted of two major ranges: a temple and a religious precinct, within which lay the sacred spring; alongside this range were a line of three baths within a major building, at one end of which lay a typical Roman bathhouse or sauna. The Bath buildings were lavishly built in a classical style and the whole complex attracted visitors from outside the province.
In essence the Buxton layout mirrors that a Bath: parallel to the spring line is a temple and alongside the springs is a range of possibly Roman baths. As the Buxton temple is two-thirds the size of that at Bath we could assume the Buxton complex was somewhat smaller.
If the grove of the goddess Nemetia continued as an important shrine well into Arthur's time (and the presence of St. Anne's Well at the site of the town's ancient baths shows that the efficacy of the sacred waters was appropriated by Christians), there is the possibility the Saxons targeted Buxton for exactly this reason. Taking the Britons' shrine would have struck them a demoralizing blow. If the goddess or saint or goddess-become-saint is herself not safe from the depredations of the barbarians, who is?
A threat to such a shrine may well have galvanized British resistence. Arthur himself may have been called upon to lead the British in the defense of Nemetia's waters and her temple grove.
There may be a very good reason why Gildas (or his source, or a later interpolator) may have opted for English Bathum (rendered Badon in the British language of the day). The two famous 'baths' towns were anciently known as Aquae Sulis and Aquae Arnemetiae for the two goddesses presiding over the hot springs. As Arthur is made out to be the preeminent Christian hero, who in the Welsh Annals has a shield bearing the Cross of Christ that he carries during the Battle of Badon, it would not do for the ancient Romano-British name to be used in this context. To have done so would inevitably have referred directly to a pagan deity. Hence the generic and less "connotation-loaded" Germanic name for the place was substituted. This explanation might do much to placate those who insist on seeing Badon as a Celtic name.
And where is the most likely location for the monte/montis of the Baths/Batham/Badon, where the actual battle was fought?
I make this out to be what is now referred to as The Slopes, at the foot of which is the modern St. Ann's Well, and the Crescent, under which the original Roman bath was built. The Slopes were once called St. Ann's Cliff because it was a prominent limestone outcrop. The Tithe map of 1848 shows that the upper half of the Cliff was still largely covered in trees. I suspect the spring was anciently thought to arise from inside the Cliff, and that the trees covering it marked the precincts of the nemeton or sacred grove of Arnemetia.
The three days and three nights Arthur bore the cross (or, rather, a shield bearing an image of a cross) at Badon in the Welsh Annals are markedly similar to the three days and three nights Urien is said to have blockaded the Saxons in the island of Lindsfarne (British Metcaud) in Chapter 63 of the HB. In Gildas, immediately before mention of Badon, we have the following phrase: "From then on victory went now to our countrymen, now to their enemies…" Similarly, just prior mention of Urien at Lindisfarne, we have this: "During that time, sometimes the enemy, sometimes the Cymry were victorious…" It would seem, therefore, that either the motif of the three days and three nights was taken from the Urien story and inserted into that of Arthur or vice-versa.
What is fascinating about this parallel is that Lindisfarne or 'Holy Island', as it came to be known, was an important spiritual centre of Northern Britain. The inclusion of the three days and three nights (an echo of the period Christ spent in the tomb) in the Badon story suggests that we can no longer accept the view that Arthur's portage of Christian symbols at Badon was borrowed solely from the Castle Guinnion battle account in the HB. Aquae Arnemetiae, like Lindisfarne, was a holy place. Arthur's fighting there may have been construed as a holy act.
Supposedly, 960 Saxons were slain by Arthur at Badon. In the past, most authorities have seen in the number 960 no more than a fanciful embellishment on the Annals' entry, i.e. more evidence of Arthur as a 'legend in the making'. But 960 could be a very significant number, militarily speaking. The first cohort of a Roman legion was composed of six doubled centuries or 960 men. As the most important unit, the first cohort guarded the Roman Imperial eagle standard.
Now, while the Roman army in the late period no longer possessed a first cohort composed of this number of soldiers, it is possible Nennius's 960 betrays an antiquarian knowledge of earlier Roman military structure. However, why the Saxons are said to have lost such a number cannot be explained in terms of such an anachronistic description of a Roman unit.
The simplest explanation for Nennius's 960 is that it represents 8 Saxon long hundreds, each long hundred being composed of 120 warriors.
To quote from Tacitus on the Germanic long hundred:
"On general survey, their [the German's] strength is seen to lie rather in their infantry, and that is why they combine the two arms in battle. The men who they select from the whole force and station in the van are fleet of foot and fit admirably into cavalry action. The number of these chosen men is exactly fixed. A hundred are drawn from each district, and 'the hundred' is the name they bear at home. What began as a mere number ends as a title of distinction" [Germania 6]
Curiously, in the Norse poem Grimnismal, 8 hundreds of warriors (probably 960) pass through each of the doors of Valhall, the Hall of the Slain, at the time of Ragnarok or the Doom of the Powers.
Osla or Ossa Big-Knife and Caer Faddon
It has often been said that the Welsh Caer Faddon is always a designation for Bath in Avon.
However, at least one medieval Welsh tale points strongly towards the 'Baths' at Buxton as the proper site.
I am speaking, of course, of the early Arthurian romance 'The Dream of Rhonabwy', sometimes considered to be a part of the Mabinogion collection of tales. Rhonabwy is transported back in time via the vehicle of a dream to the eve of the battle of Caer Faddon. Arthur has apparently come from Cornwall (as he is said to return thither after a truce is made) to mid-Wales and thence to Caer Faddon to meet with Osla or Ossa, a true historical contemporary of Arthur who lies at the head of the royal Bernician pedigree.
As Arthur is said to progress from Rhyd-y-Groes to Long Mountain, he is traveling to the northeast via the Roman road. In other words, he is headed in the direction of Buxton in the High Peak.
While the romance is entirely fanciful, the chronological accuracy in the context of choosing Osla/Ossa is rather uncanny. Furthermore, it is quite clear that in the tradition the author of the romance was drawing from, Caer Faddon is most certainly not Bath. Ossa is known in English sources for being the first of the Bernicians to come to England from the Continent. Under his descendants, Bernicia became a great kingdom, stretching eventually from the Forth to the Tees. In the 7th century, Deira – which controlled roughly the area between the Tees and the Humber - was joined with Bernicia to form the Kingdom of Northumbria.
In its heyday, Northumbria shared a border with its neighbor to the south – Mercia – at the River Mersey of 'Boundary River'. The Mersey flows east to Stockport, where it essentially starts at the confluence of the River Tame and Goyt. The Goyt has its headwaters on Axe Edge, only a half a dozen kilometers from Buxton in the High Peak.
If we allow for the story's author to have properly chosen Ossa as Arthur's true contemporary, but to have viewed Northumbria in an anachronistic fashion – i.e. as extending to the River Mersey – then with Ossa coming from Bernicia in the extreme north of England, and with Arthur coming from Cornwall in the extreme southwest - their meeting for a battle at Buxton makes a great deal of sense. In fact, Buxton is pretty much exactly equidistant between the two locations. Ossa would have been viewed as engaging in a battle just across the established boundary.
If I am right about this, the Welsh knew of the 'Bathum' or Badon that was Buxton. Certainly, it cannot have been the Bath in Somerset, as there is otherwise no reason for the Cornish Arthur to have been in central/northeastern Wales while on his way to fight Ossa.


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January 29, 2013 – Pervasive Corp. has accepted a bid from data management vendor Actian Corp., five months after an initial offer and during a period when both vendors have made efforts to repaint their portfolios.
According to statements from both vendors, Actian has agreed to purchase all of Pervasive's outstanding shares for $9.20 a piece, with a total price tag of $161.9 million.
Pervasive CEO and President John Farr said in a brief statement on his company's website that a merger with Actian held the best value for its shareholders, employees and customers based on an "assessment of our strategic alternatives" as well as the complementary portfolios and "track record of innovation."
In August, Actian put in an unsolicited bid of $154 million, or $8.50 per share, for Pervasive following what Actian CEO Steve Shine called at the time "repeated efforts" to engage in merger negotiations. Pervasive offered little comment over the subsequent months, but stated they would seek the "appropriate course" for its stockholders. In November, Actian bumped up the stock buyout price to $9 per share.
In a statement on the proposed deal for Pervasive late Monday, Actian's Shine said the merger gives both vendors the opportunity to take on "industry giants" as the industry attempts to tap into the enterprise interest and hype on large and unstructured data sets.
The merger agreement is subject to closing conditions, including approval by Pervasive's stockholders. Pervasive stated it anticipated the deal to close by the end of the second quarter of this year.
Pervasive was founded in 1994 and is based in Austin, Texas. In the last year, Pervasive has made the shift to providing more of its integration, analytics and database management offerings in the cloud.
Actian, formerly Ingres, is based in Redwood City, Calif., and counts more than 10,000 customers, including airline Lufthansa, the University of Oxford and eBay. Actian's strategy of late has focused on big data solutions, cloud processing and decision management. Actian's Vectorwise analytic platform has been central to that effort, and in releases on the proposed merger, was pointed to as a tool to boost Pervasive's existing advanced analytics software.
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January 25, 2013
I'm at work, on a quick break. Hope everyone has had a fine day. I was able to sell some of our books today at the Cranbury Bookworm. It was a really cool place. They're apparently moving soon, which was why they wouldn't take all of my books. I now have to find a place to donate them.
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Small and midsize companies often have the most trouble with the aftermath of a storm or outage, so it should follow that they test the disaster recovery plan every year, according to Business 2 Community contributor Erin Delaney. A recent report on EWEEK actually reported that 70 percent of businesses only update their disaster recovery plan once every year, with 17 percent never testing them at all. This could be a big problem for organizations who want to be ready in case anything happens.
"Small business owners may feel more secure by maintaining physical possession of their content in house, instead of allowing a relatively unknown entity to have it," Delaney wrote. "SMBs may not understand how the cloud works, and not realize that their data is more secure in the cloud than it would be sitting in the office."
Delaney suggests organizations always have a cloud or online data backup solution in addition to the physical backup on their premises. This way, even if there is a disaster, the organization should be able to get back up and running again easily.
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Industry expert Bill Abram wrote on Small Business Computing that the first point of focus for building a plan should be covering basics, including establishing emergency contacts and succession planning. After this, organizations must look to understand the potential danger by figuring out what the threats and consequences of these disruptions hitting the company would be.
"To address these concerns in the DRP, start by creating a list of potential disasters and ranking each one based on the likelihood of occurrence," Abram said said. "With the list and rankings complete, identify the level of impact each one would have on your business and briefly outline the specific consequences for your business. This will provide a framework for what issues you need to include in the plan."
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Recent Tennis Hall of Fame updates talked about Andy Roddick's Wimbledon Periscope broadcast. Many tennis fans think his scoring, challenges the future broadcasting and the Wimbledon reporting norms.
In fact, he did this two times every Sunday to spend time analyzing Wimbledon tournaments. When he did, Roddick amazingly gained more than 100,000 views in his streams on Twitter. On its final broadcast, he was able to get 60,000 more from the men's finally alone.
His stunning Periscope skills were used when he was still co-hosting a Fox Sports Radio show with Bobby Bones in 2012. At that time, he was an analyst on Fox Sports Live and joined BBC's Wimbledon commentator in 2015.
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However, there is much difference when he did these streaming. It is more personal and he is at home. He told The Post Game that he just wanted to talk moren. But he loves to do the talking without going out and free from fixed venue and schedule.
"I don't know that I enjoy getting on a plane and spending two weeks at a time away from home. But I love talking tennis, I like the following tennis, I like watching tennis," Roddick said.
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Andy Roddick also explained that he didn't want to conclude Periscopes as a future broadcasting method will be possible. "I don't know. I think those are great questions and I'd be lying if I said I knew," he stated.
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LAVAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Oct. 24, 2012) - Diamond Frank Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE:DOD) announces that geological reconnaissance work and sampling has begun on its GoldPeak (100%-owned by Diamond Frank Inc.) and Destorbelle (50%-owned by Typhon Exploration Inc. / 50%-owned by Diamond Frank Inc.) properties. Those two properties are respectively located approximately 25 km South-East and 9 km west of the Fayolle Deposit.
The GoldPeak Property is comprised, from north to south, of detrital sediments from the Caste Formation (Kewagama Group), ultramafic volcanic rocks (komatiite) from the Malartic Group and tonalites from the LaPause granitic complex. The northern part of the property goes along the Manneville Fault zone, one of the eastward branch extensions of the Porcupine-Destor Fault. Five types of gold mineralizations are present in this structure: 1) Iron carbonate altered quartz carbonate veins, (2) Porphyritic intrusions with disseminated sulphides, (3) Epithermal veins with anomalous concentrations of Zn, Pb and Hg, (4) Silver (Ag) rich quartz veins, (5) Disseminated sulphides associated with bleached zones and volcanogenic massive sulphides (VMS) associated with volcanic rock units. The recent geophysical work (magnetic and electromagnetic airborne surveys) show two distinct domains, one being associated with a large mafic intrusive, located in the southern and north-west parts of the property and the second, located in the central and north-east parts of the property, corresponding to felsic volcanites, intruded by a dyke. In addition, several high-conductivity anomalies forming high priority exploration targets were also identified.
The Destorbelle Property is mainly located in the zone from the Kinojevis-Malartic Group, between the Aiguebelle and La Pause faults, similar to a tectonic front associated with E-W overlapping formations having a northern direction. It appears to be a very complex zone, both in terms of the number of faults and tectonic segments. We find a sequence of overlapping panels of basalt-rhyolite-komatiite and turbidites, a multitude of syn-tectonic dykes and volcanics from Malartic. The main mineralized zone, the Destorbelle Showing, is spatially associated with altered and brecciated ultramafic flows as well as with a graphitic tectonic breccia. Breccia horizons are of an E-W to WNW-ESE orientation, with a steep dip towards the S-SW. Geophysical (induced polarization) and geochemical work (humus), structural study by satellite imagery, a compilation (GOCAD) and two (2) drilling campaigns show, from a structural point of view, a great similarity with the Fayolle Deposit.
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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
Today is November 1st -- and yesterday Megan (same last name but no known relation) posted 6 tips to help you survive National Novel Writing Month with your sanity intact. Did you kick off the month as soon as Halloween hit midnight?
The first year I did NaNoWriMo (apparently I've been a site member over there for about 12 years), I was super on track from day one. I finished on time and on pace.
Each successful effort year by year got a little more hit or miss -- some of that was life events and some of that was mental health. Some of it, I think, was because I had already proven to myself that I could do the writing and I got distracted by the social aspect.
(The social aspect is a balance, y'all.)
And eventually I totally failed. I was pretty OK with that -- I am still OK with that failure because I am experimenting with not expecting myself to do absolutely everything. (I'll let you know how that works out.)
I wasn't going to sign up this year but because I am taking my #AmtrakResidency ride in November, I've been thinking about NaNoWriMo a lot. Maybe I should back up -- I'll be taking my #AmtrakResidency ride from November 12th to November 21st and I'll be traveling from New Orleans to Seattle and back. This trip is coming up very quickly and I have begun the ritual obsessive list making when it comes to packing, so you know it's going to be great.
(You can read Bill Willingham's account of his journey here. Jennifer Boylan begins here journey today and has already started blogging it here.)
Events being what they are, I've been thinking about story and structure and the hows and whys of writing a lot lately. Now that I'm not spending as much time fighting my own brain, I'm digging back into narrative craft and considering aspects of story that I want to play with. I've found more of my fictional worlds -- it's almost distracting when I'm trying to do other things. (Thanks, medication!)
(Reading is more of a pleasure again, too. Come back Sunday for xoBookClub stuff.)
So, that's the long way of saying that I have been thinking about what it takes for me to find a story satisfying. That goes for stories I try to write and definitely for stories I am reading.
A Character I Can Empathize With
Empathy is distinct from sympathy; while the two are related, empathy goes beyond the "feeling sorry for" surface feeling of sympathy and involves the capability to put yourself in another person's shoes, to imagine feeling what that other person is feeling.
I may not always like a character, but I have to empathize with them or there's no joy in spending time with them. In fiction reviews, this sometimes gets described as "a character I can identify with" -- but I actually want to see more kinds of characters and sometimes thinking about empathizing is easier than asking people to identify with characters who are very different from them.
A Strong Sense Of Place
As I read, environment is more than a consideration, not quite a character. I want a strong and clear sense of setting; I don't want to imagine characters and events going on in a void.
That's not to say I want endless description of the lay of the land. There are books that do this and there are people who love them, but I am not one of those people so I do not read those books. A couple of significant details can carry me a long way and transform a story for me as a reader. Which is why I try to include them when writing.
A Thematic Clarity That Builds With Rereading
I don't know that writers build theme in from the very beginning. When I write, theme often reveals itself and then gets refined during the revision process (which is part of why revision can be exciting). That's one reason I appreciate theme so much when it's done well.
And theme can really carry a book through repeated revisits as well, if you're the type to read a book again. I totally am. I love dwelling on familiar passages and coming back to old sentences that have a different nuance depending on where I am in my own life.
That's my list -- though, of course, there's way more narrative writing craft to revel in. Reading involves so many different kinds of pleasure (easy old favorites and new difficult texts and entirely new stories and comfortable tropes you've read a million times) it was super hard to narrow down the characteristics that I love the most.
NaNoWriMo almost seems like too easy a fit. And I'm still not sure I'm signing up for it this year. Maybe I'll make that decision on a train -- or on the bus that I'm planning to take to the train in the first place. Or maybe I'll sit down this weekend with an idea and join those of you who are riding that amazing first NaNoWriMo week wave of energy.
What draws you into a story and makes you want to stay there? What do you keep coming back to when it comes to stories and the way people tell them? And how's your NaNoWriMo going?


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Mordekaiser - You can't kill the Metal, 3v3 Guide
If it's the first time you play Mordekaiser, I suggest you read through the spells so you actually know what they do since some of them can easily be misunderstood. This is also my first guide so tell me if you think I do something wrong, and no flaming please :)
About the items:
Depending on what you meet in the game, you buy Warmog's or Force of Nature. For example, if you meet a champion that uses alot of spells (Ryze, Vladimir or whatever) you buy Force of Nature. Since they do around 56% reduced magic damage to you with it. Otherwise, if it's only melee wise you can switch it out for Warmog's wich is better against them of course. I highly recommend if you meet a nuke-basic attack character, like Master Yi or maybe Tryndamere, switch out the Malady for a Thornmail.
SoD: Siphon of Destruction (E)
MoS: Mace of Spades (Q)
Shield: Creeping Death (W)
Early Game:
Start of with a Regrowth Pendant (+15 HP5) and go for first blood, or up to the upper lane tower (I don't know what you do). I usually stand near the tower before minions spawn since I usually lose first blood, but it depends on your teammates and their team. When the minions spawn, they will meet up halfway at middle lane like always, then you start spamming SoD (Try to hit the other champion with it). When later on, you get MoS wich deals alot of boosts your damage and jumps to additional targets. This is the best creep farming abilities you have as Mordekaiser. I dont pick the shield until later since I think it's rather useless, but we all have different opinions.
Mid Game:
After ~10 - 15 minutes you should have the Sorcerer's Shoes and Warmog's Armor/Force of Nature. I usually, but not always of course, have atleast one kill by now. I usually kill all of the minion waves really quick now, since your SoD does around 300 damage at the highest rank. If you are over level 11, you can go down and help your teammates for a gank, or help them push. Since Mordekaiser is quite overpowered if you time your spells perfectly, you probably will win all of the team battles by now. But remember, your teammates must be 100% sure what to do aswell. You probably can kill gankers rather easy now, since your ultimate makes a copy of them spawn, wich you can kill the other 2 easy with.
Late Game:
You probably have a Frozen Mallet now, and maybe a Malady. When I have Warmog's, Frozen Mallet and Malady I usually solo dragon as much as possible. You can do it with only Warmog, but the lifesteal from Malady really helps alot. If you havn't won by now and the match may exceed to over 30 minutes, you need to get an ace and then push really fast. Mordekaiser is one of the easiest champions in-game to push with, so if you have an ACE you can probably get a tower or two if the enemy have over 30 seconds to respawn. Remember to hold down the TAB key to check their respawn time all the time. Mordekaiser can carry a team to victory by himself, since he can solo 3 people really good. Try to get a tower each time you kill someone with your ultimate (alt-click the tower and the ghost will attack it aswell).
1v1 battles as Mordekaiser:
When I engage a 1v1 combat, or the other champion gets aggressive and attack you, I always start with MoS and then directly after use SoD. Then you pretty much spam these 2, and when you see the enemy is under 40% HP, I use my ultimate and then directly after my Ignite. If you have of course, you can use your shield since it ticks around 100 damage each second at the max rank. An easier method you activate the shield on yourself is to press ALT+W. It will the auto use it on yourself.
Teamfights as Mordekaiser:
If you're against some pretty heavy basic attack champions like Master Yi, Twisted Fate or Tryndamere, tell your team to focus on them first. If you use your ultimate and a ignite, you can pretty much win the teambattle really easy after killing them. They get a % of your damage, + their own. Then they can kill the other teammembers really quick, wich is pretty awesome for being an ultimate. I once took down a Twisted Fate with my ultimate, he had around 300 attack damage when I got him and ~2 attacks per second in attack speed. I then managed to kill the whole other team with only him in 5v5. So using your ultimate on a basic damage champion is the best thing you can do.
Thank you for reading my guide, it's the first one so it can be really messy. This is how I play Mordekaiser, but feel free to comment if there is anything you think I can change in this guide to make it better. I have won about 95% of all my matches with this build, so if you get into it you'll probably notice that it's pretty awesome. A good match for me is around 10/0, a decent one is 10/5 and sometimes it's all **** and you end up with 0/20. It all depends on you, be careful and don't charge up and think you're OP :3
Good luck!


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Join Chris Meyer for an in-depth discussion in this video Updated previewing, part of After Effects CC 2015 New Features.
- [Voiceover] In general After Effects CC 2015 has seen a large change to the way After Effects previews the composition. They keep tweaking it in subsequent releases and now in version 2015.3 they have a new engine underneath the hood that's been borrowed from Premiere and Audition. Since so many things have changed over time let's look at Preview in detail again. There's several different shortcut keys that can initiate and stop a Preview. The (mumbling) in CC 2015 has been changing how the Spacebar Preview works to make it more like a non-linear editing system.
Spacebar Preview previews both the video and the audio. It will preview what's called Work Area Extended By Current Time. In this particular case my Current Time Indicator is before the start of my Work Area. If I press the Spacebar you notice the Preview started from time zero, not from one second where the Work Area started. I pressed Spacebar to stop my Preview and as a result it moved to the Current Time, the last frame it was playing.
This is unlike the Numpad 0 Preview that many of us are familiar with where the Current Time Indicator resets to where it was originally. A small variation on this is the Shift+Spacebar Preview. And this has a behavior that has thrown a lot of users off. If caching, in other words, if it has not previous cached all of the requested frames to RAM, indicated by this green bar, when you try to stop a Preview using Shift+Spacebar it will loop just the frames it has cached rather than stop Preview altogether.
Let's try that out. I'm gonna hold down Shift and use Spacebar to start and stop our Preview. When I hit Spacebar again it's looping the section it's previewed, since it did not finish caching the entire Work Area. There I use a normal Spacebar Preview to stop. The old shortcut key many After Effects users are used to is Numpad 0, 0 on the numeric keypad. On a Mac you can also reach that by pressing Control + zero on say your MacBook's keyboard. The behaves a little bit differently.
It previews just the Work Area, not extended by where the Current Time Indicator may be in relation to the Work Area, it defaults to this If caching play cached frames behavior, which means loop what you have cached when you try to stop a Preview, and otherwise it previews video and audio. I'm gonna move the Current Time Indicator to before my Work Area, just to show what's going on, and I'm gonna use Numpad 0 to start and stop my Preview. I'm gonna start a Preview, you notice it jumps to the start of the Work Area. When I press Numpad 0 again it loops just the cached area, since it had not finished caching the entire Work Area bar.
I'll press Numpad 0 again to stop. I'm gonna press Numpad 0 yet again, and this time let it finish caching my Work Area. And you see that it loops that Work Area. Since my Work Area is fully cached if I press Numpad 0 again now it just stops, it does not loop the cached area. And again, you can change any of these default behaviors by checking or unchecking various options.
You'll also notice that Numpad 0 has unchecked the option Move time to preview time. With the Spacebar Preview when I press Spacebar to stop it leaves the Current Time Indicator where it was playing, with Numpad 0 by default when I press Numpad 0 again to stop a Preview the Current Time Indicator jumps back to where it was previously. And there's also Shift+Numpad 0, which defaults to skipping every other frame and also extends the Work Area. So it has more of a Spacebar Preview behavior. I'll press Shift, press Numpad 0, you see this time it started from where the Current Time Indicator was, even though it was outside the Work Area.
It's playing just every other frame. And finally, there's the audio only previews, Numpad . or Numpad decimal point. The video icon has been turned on, the audio icon is still on, this allows audio only previews. I have unmuted my computer audio, so you can hear what's going on, and I'm when I press the decimal point on the numeric keypad there you hear the audio playback, but notice that nothing's updating in the comp panel, no video is playing back. Now I'll press the decimal point again. This is a good time to start talking about some major changes in the way that audio is handled inside After Effects 13.8 or CC 2015.3.
In this version they have actually done a lot of rewriting underneath the hood of how previews are taking place. They have borrowed the engine from Premiere and Audition and used it in After Effects. For one, that has solved some of the problems we had during the CC 2015 release of not hearing audio for say the first two seconds during a preview. That's in the past now, that's been fixed. However, one additional thing we got with this new version is a new way of handling audio when playback's not real time. And you can see the playback speed up here in the Info panel. Now instead of stuttering or muting the audio they changed the speed of the audio.
And they'll slow it down to match the slowed down video. Now this is all cached, so it should be nice and clean, but if I start turning layers on and off or start playing around with the effect, in this case the Lumetri Color effect, which I have applied, we'll talk about this more in a couple movies, but it's a fun thing to use for demo purposes now. I might get in situations where my playback slows down. And let's hear what happens to that audio. I'm gonna press zero on the numeric keypad to start a Preview. - [Voiceover] 78.5, code six, it's 105 north avenue. - [Voiceover] Audio sounds normal, life is good. But you saw, even moving my mouse, doing something in the user interface slowed the audio down there.
- [Voiceover] 78.5, code six. - [Voiceover] Let's change what preset I'm using. (garbled music) Here the audio's slowed down to match the slower frame rate. Usually you have to cycle through the entire RAM cache once to get back up to full speed. And there we are. Sometimes turning video tracks on and off, which requires new frames to be loaded, will also cause the same problem. (garbled audio) (sirens blaring) I'll stop the Preview.
Now if you're an old timer like me and you're used to actually rocking the reels and manually changing the speed on a tape deck you might be used to this vary speeded audio playback. If you find it more distracting than useful there's a couple ways to work around it. One, you can go into your Preferences, for Previews, and enable Mute Audio When Preview is Not Real Time. This will take you back to the behavior where audio is just silent whenever it's not ready to play at full speed. I'll click OK. I'll start a Preview, change a parameter, make a couple video tracks, and notice it's silent now while playback's not in real time.
Again, you usually have to go through the entire loop of your Preview Work Area before you get back to full speed playback. (sirens blaring) And there we are. (jazz music) The other workaround is to bring back an old feature that we're used to from the earlier version of After Effects, Cache Before Playback. Previous to After Effects CC 2015 when you did a Numpad 0 Preview first the entire RAM cache would get filled up, then playback would start, just to make sure the playback could be at its optimal speed.
If I change this to say Numpad 0, and enable Cache Before Playback, and do something that gives me a different look, such as choose a different look present in Lumetri Color, notice my RAM cache, the green bar is gone now. Now when I press Numpad 0 you'll hear no audio, you'll see it's counting the cached frames, it's calculating those frames as fast as it can. - [Voiceover] 78.5, code six.
- [Voiceover] And now we get the audio and the video at full speed. Some UI interactions will still slow down the playback, but in general it's more solid than earlier versions of CC 2015. - [Voiceover] 105 north avenue. (sirens blaring) - [Voiceover] And let's stop Preview. If you have been using After Effects CC 2015 it is worth updating to this latest version, 13.8, because Preview is now better than it was before. If you're the type of person though who did not rely on interactivity during the Preview and you just want a rock solid Preview I'd still stay in a version prior to CC 2015, 'cause Preview is optimized for real time playback at the expense of no ability to edit anything during that Preview.
The choice is yours to make. Do remember that when you do go to update any app inside your Creative Cloud application and click on Update for it that you do have an option here, Advanced Options, that allows you to decide whether or not to remove the old versions, which is the default, or to keep your old versions. So one strategy is to go ahead and download the latest version, CC 2015.3, but keep your prior versions. Play with the new version, see if you like it, and if you don't, go back to using the old version. You can also get at old versions inside the Creative Cloud application by going to Find Additional Apps, View Previous Versions, click on Install, and it will show you all of the versions that you can download and install on your computer as part of your Creative Cloud license.
Check back often for updates. New chapters will be added each time Adobe releases a major After Effects update.
- Preview options
- Editing a project without stopping preview playback
- Navigating the CC Libraries workflows
- Moving animations from Adobe Character Animator to After Effects
- Using expressions to dynamically measure facial dimensions
- Setting up layers in CINEWARE and CINEMA 4D Lite
Skill Level Appropriate for all
Q: This course was updated on 12/01/2015. What changed?
A: We added 11 movies covering the fall 2015 updates to After Effects CC (v13.6), including the new start screen, preview updates, Creative Cloud Libraries import, new effects, and multitouch gestures.


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When you are about to drive 1,000 miles across America's heartland, it's hard not to wonder if you'll make it or simply fall asleep and drive into a field. Anyone who has driven across the barren nothingness of Nebraska will understand.
I intended to contemplate life along this drive, to process the past six months and to consider what I wanted the future to hold. Instead, I learned that pure monotony can actually help you stay in the present. Apparently the drive through Nebraska is similar to being at a meditation retreat. It is that boring. (No offense to the 10 people who live there.)
Instead of focusing on the monotony, I focused instead on the beauty that the heartland has to offer. Here's what I came up with. Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts.
What's Great About Nebraska:
1) Entering the western side of the state means you've finally exited the dusty eastern plains of Colorado (unfortunately other than the welcome sign, you won't recognize a difference).
2) I80 is so straight you can actually drive no-handed—pretty certain if it weren't for other drivers, you could nap and still stay on the road.
3) The fluffy clouds mean you don't need sunglasses and you can entertain yourself with the what-do-you-see-in-the-clouds? game. Of course, yelling "I see a bunny, no wait, it's a dragon" isn't nearly as fun when you're the only one in the car.
4) The state has plenty of rest areas where you can get out, stretch your legs and slap yourself awake.
5) You have no excuse for unhealthy eating; there is a Subway in every town no matter how small. I combatted my veggie delight by washing my Skittles down with a coffee-Cherry Coke cocktail.
6) Increasing humidity means your contacts don't dry out even though you must blast the air conditioning.
7) You can pretend those round hay bales are crop circles left by aliens.
8) Cows! Baby ones are adorable—and stinky. (And yes, I know they are called calves, but they seem less stinky if you call them baby cows.)
9) The '80s are alive and well. I seriously heard Prince followed by Quiet Riot followed by Joan Jett. Musical heaven!!!
10) It's only 415 miles long.
What's Great About Iowa:
1) After the flatlands of Nebraska, Iowa's few hills feel like a rollercoaster. Weeee!!
2) Birthplace of my husband. Good things do come from this state.
3) Speaking of good things. It's good to know our country will never run out of high fructose corn syrup.
4) You could build a new playground base with all the blown-out semi tires on the side of the road.
5) Unlike in Colorado, you can be outside without sunscreen for 15 minutes and you won't get third-degree burns.
6) It's home to the Bridges of Madison County (The best book ever if you are 20 and madly in love with your soul mate, or in my case, the guy who will crash your car, use your charge cards, cheat on you and basically crush your soul. It's a good thing souls can grow back).
7) The bug guts on your windshield make such a beautiful pattern that you feel sad washing them off.
8) You can actually see the humidity. It was odd to feel my eyelids sweating at 7:30 a.m., but the moisture worked better than Botox for taking years off my face.
9) The wind turbines are awesome to look at, and the tailwind gives you great gas mileage.
10) It's greener than green. After 13 summers of wildfires, all the trees and grass made me want to weep with joy.
11) More '80s music! "Rock Me Amadeus" followed by old school REM? That is a musical combo more magical than a unicorn sighting.
12) To get into Wisconsin, all you need to do is cross the mighty Mississippi. Damn, that's a long bridge.
And that brings me to Wisconsin. For now, only one item is needed on the list: It's home.
Lessons learned on this trip? First, you can take the girl out of the Midwest but apparently you can't take the Midwest out of the girl. Second, no matter how far we go in life, our hearts never let us forget where we started. And last, next time fly.


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In a surprise maneuver that drew cheers from environmental activists, the City Council effectively halted last night any chance of a speedy decision on a proposal to replace the polluting Pulaski Highway incinerator with a state-of-the-art plant.
A narrow majority of the council voted to indefinitely delay a public hearing on lifting a citywide moratorium on incinerator construction after Councilman Wilbur E. "Bill" Cunningham rose to announce the meeting would be held tonight.
"Councilman Cunningham, I would say that one day's notice is hardly good to citizens," Council President Mary Pat Clarke said.
Councilman John L. Cain, D-1st, who represents the East Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the incinerator, then introduced a motion to postpone the hearing.


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University of Bradford Open Day
Location: University of Bradford City Campus
Date and Time:
Fri 7 Oct 2016, 09:00 – 15:30
From crime scene investigations and our Outside Broadcast truck, to tours of our exceptional facilities including visits to our multi-million pound teaching laboratories – our Open Days for School and College groups are extraordinary.
On arrival our ambassadors will guide your group around our faculty zones where you will have chance to take part in various activities and have a chat with tutors and current students.
After this you will be taken to the Student Life Zone where you can meet our student societies, have a bite to eat, talk to our support services and attend any seminars.
Please note this date is for school and college groups only, all individual bookers are invited to visit on Saturday 8 October. We will also be hosting two Mini-Open Days before the end of the year.
Location Details
Location: University of Bradford


text: I forgot to brickblock and regionfree CoD5, so I quickly updated my system to 3.4E in case it asked for a NTSC system update. It did. Now it says I must perform a wii system update to play the game, now im pretty sure I can still do it because I've got the latest PAL firmware installed now, but I wanted to quickly make sure. better to be safe than sorry! and I could re-burn it with brickblocker but it took and hour and a half to burn as it was so I'm not really looking forward to waiting another hour and a half to play the game. thanks!


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PhD Studentship: Bio-Inorganic Chemistry: Bioinspired Polymetallic Sulfide Clusters for Advanced El
- Recruiter
- Global Academy Jobs
- Location
- Posted
- Jan 31, 2018
- Closes
- May 21, 2018
- Sector
- Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Hours
- Full Time
Expected candidate background:
We are looking for a self-motivated candidate with a strong interest in molecular chemistry and electrochemistry. The candidate should have a solid background in coordination chemistry and synthetic molecular chemistry (organic/inorganic). He/she must demonstrate a good knowledge of the usual spectroscopic and electrochemical analytical methods.
Bioinorganic chemistry and electrocatalysis
Ecole Doctorale de Chimie et Sciences du Vivant (EDCSV), Université Grenoble Alpes, France
PhD supervisor Vincent ARTERO
Mentor Matthieu KOEPF
Expected starting date: October 2018
Project summary:
The development of sustainable alternatives to energy-intensive industrial processes represents a major challenge for the coming decades. In that context, exploring solar-driven approaches for the production of basic chemicals and fuels is particularly appealing.1 It will require to shift paradigm from thermally- to electro-driven processes, which are directly relevant to solar-driven approaches, and thus, must be associated with the development of innovative catalytic materials. Over the past years, the SolHyCat group has built a strong expertise in the design, synthesis and study of bioinspired protons2-5 and carbon dioxide6, 7 reduction electrocatalysts. Some of which could successfully be integrated into functional photocatalytic devices.8 We are now seeking to expand the scope of active electrocatalysts for multielectronic reactions available in the group. This PhD will be dedicated to the investigation of the reactivity of discrete synthetic polymetallic sulfide clusters towards industrially-relevant substrates (H+, H2, N2). The main goal will be to probe the ability of bioinspired polymetallic sulfides assemblies to activate dinitrogen under ambient conditions.
Electro-reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia is a highly demanding process requiring the transfer of 6 electrons and 6 protons to dinitrogen. Few catalysts are known for this reaction, most of which are based on noble metals (Pt, Pd, Ru) or mixed samarium oxides, and require high temperature and pressure to be effective.9 In stark contrast, naturally occurring nitrogenases catalyze the reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia, under physiological conditions, using discrete organometallic cofactors based on earth-abundant transition metal sulfides.10 The activity of these enzymes for dinitrogen reduction is remarkable, and has sparked the study of related polymetallic sulfide-based materials for multieletronic reduction catalysis. Remarkably, the inclusion of synthetic Fe4S4 and Fe6S7Mo2 motifs within inorganic matrices led to materials able to catalyze the reduction of N2 to ammonia.11,12 Due to the amorphous nature of the latter, however, the rationalization and fine tuning of the reactivity of the system remains challenging.
With this project, we will prepare well-defined ligand-supported iron- and molybdenum-sulfide clusters inspired from the active site of the nitrogenases. We will study their reactivity towards dinitrogen and protons. The use of polypyrrole-based ligands will be introduced as versatile synthetic platforms to design a new class of thiolated cavitands. The successful synthesis of discrete ligand-supported sulfide clusters will offer an unprecedented opportunity to study subtle structure-activity relationships in a new class bioinspired molecular materials and rationally tailor the catalysts for nitrogen reduction.
Project organization:
Ligands synthesis and characterization (year 1). The first objective will be to synthesize ligands possessing thiolated cavities (cavitands) around polypyrrolic platforms. Thiolated substituents will be grafted at the periphery of adequately substituted macrocycles via a) classical peptide coupling strategy, or b) 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to build rigid thiolated substituents. The versatility of these two approaches will allow the introduction of a variety of substituents to form the cavity, and will offer the unique possibility to fine-tune both the first and second coordination sphere of the clusters.
Assembly of the polymetallic sulfide clusters (year 1+2). The stabilization of the clusters within the cavitands will be the second objective of this project. First we will investigate the stabilization of preformed iron- and molybdenum- sulfur clusters within the cavities of the ligands, by direct thiol exchange. In a second approach, the ligand-assisted assembly of iron-sulfur clusters, from molecular precursors, will be tested.
Electrochemical activation of the supported clusters (Year 2+3). The final objective of this PhD will be to explore the potential of the obtained clusters for driving the electrocatalytic reduction of selected substrates. The reactivity of the isolated cavitands-supported sulfide clusters will be investigated in the presence of relevant substrates (H+, N2) under reductive conditions. The systems will be tested in homogeneous conditions, or after immobilization of the supported clusters on Multiwall Carbon Nanotube (MWCNTs) electrodes.
Additional information:
This position will be funded by the Commissariat à l'Énergie Nucléaire et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA) for 3 years, starting in october 2018. The gross monthly salary will be ca. 2000 euros for the first two years and ca. 2100 euros the third year. The student will benefit of a total of 51 days of vacation per year.
Research unit:
The Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux is part of the Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble (BIG) which is affiliated to the Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale of the CEA. The student will join the newly created SolHyCat team (team leader Vincent Artero), which will offer a stimulating international working environment. Please visit our website for further information:
Matthieu Koepf (firstname.lastname@example.com)
This project will initiate a brand new line of research in our lab!
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3. E. S. Andreiadis, P.-A. Jacques, P. D. Tran, A. Leyris, M. Chavarot-Kerlidou, B. Jousselme, M. Matheron, J. Pécaut, S. Palacin, M. Fontecave and V. Artero, Nat. Chem., 2013, 5, 48-53.
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7. T. N. Huan, E. S. Andreiadis, J. Heidkamp, P. Simon, E. Derat, S. Cobo, G. Royal, A. Bergmann, P. Strasser, H. Dau, V. Artero and M. Fontecave, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 3901-3907.
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