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This is strange...can you figure it out?
Follow the instructions! NO PEEKING AHEAD!
* Do the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.
* There's no trick or surprise.
* Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time
and as quickly as you can!
* Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each of
them ... really.
OK Here is the test.......
1. Think of a number from 1 to 10
2. Now, multiply that number by 9
3. If the number is a 2-digit number, add the digits together
4. Now subtract 5 from the result.
5. Determine which letter in the alphabet corresponds to the number you
ended up with
(for example: 1=a, 2=b, 3=c,etc.)
6. Think of a country that starts with that letter
7. Remember the last letter of the name of that country
8. Think of the name of an animal that starts with that letter
9. Remember the last letter in the name of that animal
10. Think of the name of a fruit that starts with that letter
are you thinking of this ??
Select the text using your mouse from here tiil the end of this blog..
Are you thingking of....
Are you thinking of a Kangaroo in Denmarkeating an Orange?
I told you this was FREAKY!! If not, you're among the 2% of the population
whose minds are different enough to think of something else. 98% of people
will answer with kangaroos in Denmark when given this exercise.
From an Ant�s Perspective!
I get locked in questions like how will the humans look like in the other creatures eyes. Do we look like huge monsters that wanders, killing these small insects and animals. Are we the dinosaurs for them! We mercilessly stamp on them and kill em! How do we look like from their eyes! But how cud they are calm when such a huge demon comes near it and watching it??
Do we reside on a sub-atomic particle called Earth?
Don�t you feel a striking similarity between how atoms and our universe are positioned! Atoms have lotsa electrons and in our solar system we have planets..
Like we examine atoms and study abt it. Does some one who has such a huge stature that even our solar system is just atom like structures are examining us?
What are we doing here. Whatz the destiny? Are we true? How do we prove?
Am I sounding crazy.. Sorry abt this guyz..
Interesting stuff.. Just came across the mirror.sytes.org .. Just type in http://aravinthan.blogdrive.com.mirror.sytes.org and see what happens..
Very interesting isnt it.. If your site needs to be mirrored :) just type in your site name and append .mirror.sytes.org and enjoy the fun J
Its bin a long time since I played table tennis (TT). Last time I played was in Vijay�s house about 2years back, if I am rite. After that, I played TT in my office only yesterday. It was really refreshing. I started to enjoy playing it again. Yesterday, since I was playing after a lonnggg GAP of more than 3years, just played all possible strokes! We are planning to play it daily.
It all began when we (myself and my PL) were discussing on playing TT. We planned to play it on last Saturday, actually I was fully prepared to play on Saturday and we came to office at around 10.00 to play TT. Our plan was to play from 10.00AM to 1.00pm in the afternoon and then go home and retire. But all our plans to play went in vain, due to a scheduled dance rehearsals that was carried out in the same place.. So we returned back to our desks disappointed. Did some pending work and went home to watch the India-Australia match..
Which again was a gr8 disappointment!
So when we came yesterday to office, we had even stronger resolve to play TT!
We decided to play TT at around 8.00pm;). SO when the time struck 8.00, we went running to setup the board and started playing TT.
We played till around 9.00pm then two other guys came and joined us to play doubles. I was in a very fierce and aggressive mood. Poor guys, I literally went for all shots possible and landed most of them into the table too J. Hope fully they don�t take those smashes as my actual quality! I generally don�t do it though! Since it was after a long time, I played like that.
It was a good feeling playing TT after a long time..
And one good newz is my best friend Vijay is coming down to Chennai in Dec, we are also planning to play TT!! Awaiting him to come over here and we shall relish playing TT together!
Do you play Table tennis?
It was pretty tightly scheduled day yesterday (28th October 2003) and was pretty busy. I was working and got a call from my mom..� Aravinth.. its already 9.15PM where are you??�..Me still in office! Uh.. My chappatis are waiting for me.. is the news that I heard from my mom..
As its already pretty late.. started from my office.. (I reside approx 22km from my office.. and it normally takes 45mins for me to travel back � due to bad roads and traffic)..
So reached home at 10.15pm! And all were asleep!..
So I took the chappatis from the kitchen, took the palak and started to have my dinner!
I Didn�t want my mom to wake up.. so I replaced these utensils without any noise.. J (See how goody guy I am)..
When I was almost about to retire to my bed.. My mom woke up! And enquired abt the dinner..! How caring she is! I just love my mom to the core! Its all natural.. anyone would love their mom!
As a daily routine She went to check if everything is okey in the kitchen.. (I usually forget to keep the milk in the fridge .. etc.. etc!)..
I was feeling bit thirsty and wanted some water, since she has gone to kitchen . I thought I would ask her to get me some water.. but as she hasn�t returned back.. I thought I would close my eyes for some minutes,as my eyes were actually tired.. (due to the continuous work and stare at the monitor!)
After a few minutes, I opened my eyes! I thought that I should not disturb her .. rather I go myself and get the water.. so went to the kitchen and took some water.. !
While returning back.. I saw the time ! how is this possible.. its already 5 in the morning! I cant believe this..! What has happened.. Did I Sleep like that.. !
I am usually pretty sensitive to sounds and I wake up for even small chirps.. but today.. how could I sleep like this! The worst part is my mind hasn�t got any rest. I still feel that I didn�t have my quota of sleep! I feel as if its only some 30mins of sleep that I had slept!
I want to fill my quota of 7hrs of sleep! But its already time to get up!
Now I am at office� still yearning for my rest 6.5 hours of sleep..! Still missing it!
Do you have similar experience??
if u were born on the 1st,10th,19th,28th of any month you are Number One...You are Smart, straight talking, Funny, stubborn, hardworking, Honest, jealous on competing basis, Kind hearted, Angry, friendly, authorities, Famous Person.. always want to be and regarded as First on pol position, they are often like to be independent, will never be under others, self confident people! you are most likely to fall in love in the younger age, but will get marry when you mature! you are likely to have problems with people who have opposite views and you are most likely to take revenge over your enemies in a long time basis. you are a spender, but you will have a good profession in the future, if you are guy you will be very popular that everybody will have mental attraction n respect at you, you can go anywhere from the local shop to the heart of the parliament so because you are positive and well talented in numerous issues!! but make sure in your life you will always have some people who will work hard to bring you & your name down this is undercover!! coz of your smart behavior you will be hated by some people too.. your family life is very cool, you will have a very nice partner & wonderful children...You are Pioneer, Independent & Original
Your best match is 4,6,8
good match is 3,5,7
If you were born on the 2nd,11th,20th,29th of any month then you are number 2..no matter what you will be loved by every one coz your ruler is the Moon and every one loves the Moon Huh!!
well.. you are a person who Day dream a lot, you have Very low-self confidence, you need back up for every move in your life, you are very much unpredictable means you do change according to time and circumstances, kind a selfish, have a very strong sense of musical, artistic talent, verbal communication, your attitudes are like the Moon comes to Gloom and fade away so everybody can expect changes in you, you can be a Next Mahatma Gandhi who is peace loving or you can be a Hitler who wants to destroy the Man kind and peace I mean in the community and your own Home. If you really have a deep thought about your own believe in God you can feel the difference which will make you stronger! most of the time your words are a kind of would be happening True! so without any knowledge you can predict the situation.. You will become Poets, writers, any artistic business people! You are not strong in Love, so you will be there and here till you get marry.. if u r a girl you will be a responsible woman in the whole family, if u r a man you will involve in fights & arguments in the family. or Vice-Versa means you will sacrifice your Life for the Goodness Sake of your Family.., You are Gentle ,Intuitive, with a broad vision, a Power behind the scenes, Well balanced People!!!
Your best match is 2 ,5 ,9
no other people can put up with you!!!
If you were born on the 3rd,12th,21st,30th of any month then you are number 3..you are a person of hard hearted, selfish most of the times, religious, loves to climb up in your life, you always tend to have lots of problems within your family in the early stages but you will put up with everything.. you have the strong word power, pretty happy face.. so wherever you go always you have got what you wanted!!! and from the birth always wanted to work hard in order to achieve something.. you will not get anything without handwork! when you become a Man/Woman age you want other younger once to listen to you, because you want younger people to Respect people older than them.. you do set so many examples to others!. generally you are not a cool person. its not easy thing dealing with you.. a tough player you are! but once you like someone's attitude then here you go, what can I say? it will be a lasting friendship. you always have respect from others
your life seems to have lots of worries and problems but sure they wont be long.. you will always have brilliant Kids!!! you love the money a bit too much so temptation will push you to endless trying and trying.. if you are a guy then its over looking after your family helping friends, so you will spend a life time just being generous and kind (except 21st born Men). and Number 3s .you will be such an example of how to be in the culture & Life!!! if you are girl then its your good character and culture & hardworking attitude you always follow..
You are a Freedom Lover, Creative, Ambition focused who brings Beauty ,Hope & Joy to this world!!!
your best match 6 ,9
Good match 1 ,3 ,5
If you were born on the 4th,13th,22nd,31st of any month then you are Number 4...you are very stubborn too, very hard working but unlucky in important matters in life, very cool, helpful, you have rough word power.. might put lots of people away from you, you may cause nuisance to others if you are a man, you often understands others well. n. their problems, if you are a girl you are very good with studies and Arts, if you are guy you spend most of the time after girl friends (almost) at times, you will have sort of too much fun life with mates&Girls your friends will spend your time & money and get away with their life and you will become empty handed and don't know what to do.. so be careful!! you love to spend anyway!!! your good will is you are always there to help family and friends.. tell you what you people are little Gems. specially the Girls.. you always fall in love in younger age as well.. often you people live with disappointments, for an eg- say you have got a degree in some thing.. but you will be unemployed.. or will do very ordinary jobs, but you will take care of your family very well.. all you need to be careful of people who will take advantage of your Kind heart!!! and beware of your relations too.. You are Practical, patient, Persistent, a bit old-fashioned, You live with Foundation & Order!!!
Your best Match 1 , 8
Good match 5 ,6 , 7
If you were born on the 5th,14th,23rd of any month then you are number 5..well forward you are very popular within the community, you can get things done by just chatting.. to even Enemies! you have a pretty good business mind, you are often have no-idea what is today is like, or tomorrow is like, you are a person who does anything when your head thinks lets do this!!! you will be famous if you open up a business, get involve in share dealings, music etc.. very popular with sense of humor ,you are the one your friends and families will always ask for help, and you are the one actually get money on credit and help your friends!! you will have more than 1 relationship, but when u get settle down you will be a bit selfish anyway, coz your other half will have a pretty good amount of control in you, be careful you tend to go for other relationships/contacts even you are married at times. coz your popularity.. you are some one who get along with anyone. coz the number 5 is the middle number..
Changes & Freedom Lovers you are! You are a Explorer with Magic on your face, You learn your life through experience and its your Best Teacher!!!
Your best match 1 ,2 ,9
Good match 6 ,8
If you were born on the 6th,15th,24th of any month then you are number 6..ooopppss.. you are born to enjoy.. you don't care about others I mean you are always want to enjoy your life time, you are a person.. You will be very good in either education or work wise or business management! you r Talented, kind (but with only people who you think are nice), very beautiful girls and guys..,popular.. and more than Lucky with anything in their Lives.. all the goodness does comes with you., there mind, and body is just made perfect for love...they are lovable by any other numbers, but If you are a number 6 man.. you will experience kinda looks from most girls and will involve in more than few relationships until you get marry!!! if you are girl.. well most of them will get marry/engage early.. you are caring towards your family & friends .if you miss the half-way mark then you are about to suffer physically and mentally..
Generally.. you will lead a very good inner-home Happiness with Nothing short of.. You are a person of Compassion, Comfort & Fairness, Domestic responsibility, Good judgment, and after all you can Heal this worlds Wounds to make Peace for ever Lives coz you have the Great power of caring Talent to make this world of love one step further...
Your best match 1,6,9
Good match 4 ,5
O.k.. If you were born on the 7th,16th,25th of any month then you are number 7 straightaway.. you have got the attraction to anyone out there, you are realistic, very confident, happy, such a Talented individual with your Education, Music, Arts, Singing, and most importantly Acting too.. you have real problems with bad temper!! if you are girl you are popular with the subjects listed above, you give up things for your parents, I mean you value your family status a lot, you will be in the top rank when you reach a certain age! if you are a guy you are popular with Girls, you are a very talented too! most of the number 7 s face lots of problems with their marriage life.. only a very few are happy!! when everything's there in their life.. but still always number 7s have some sort of un-fluffiness, such worries all their lifetime! its probably the Lord given you allsorts of over the standard Humans talents and you are about to suffer in family life.. so you need to get ready looking for a partner rather than waiting.. if you don't then you might end-up single!!! so take cares with this issue.. o. k
You are a wonderful ,Friendly, Artistic ,Happy person.. you are born to contribute lot to this world!!!
Your best match is 2
Good matches are 1,4
If you were born on the 8th,17th,26th of any month then you are number 8..You are a very strong personality, there's no one out there will understand you, you are very good at pointing your finger at some thing and say this is what!!! you are more likely to suffer from the early ages..poverty, if your times are not good you might lose either of your parent and end up looking after your entire family, you often suffer all the way in life.. the problems will not allow you to study further, but you will learn the life in a very practical way!!! you are the one will fight for Justice and may Die in the war too.!!! you are normally very reserved with handful of friends and most of the time live life lonely,, and always prepared to help Those, well.. once you get marry (which is often late) then your bad lucks will go away a bit, then you become safe.. beware of un-expected problems from the terror, government, Poisonous animals & accidents.. You are some one with Great Discipline, Persistence, Courage, Strength which will take you to the Success! You are a Great part of a team, Family a Fighter!!!
Your Best match 1 ,4 ,8
Good match 5
If you were born on the 9th,18th,27th of any month then you are number 9..Hey.. you guys are the un-compatible people in the world, you are so strong, physically and mentally.. you are often have big-aims.. you will work hard and hard to get there, normally you suffer in the early age from family problems and generally you will have fighting life.. but when you achieve what you have done, its always a big-Task you have done!! you are so much respected in the community, you are a person who can make a challenge and successfully finish the matter off.. you are very naughty in your younger age often beaten up by your parents.. and involve in fights and you seemed to have lots of injuries in your life time, but when u grow you become calm and macho type!!! tell you what Love is not a easy matter for you.. you are good in engineering or banking jobs.. coz people always trust you! your family life is very good, but will have worries over your children.. Your such qualities are Humanitarian, Patient, very Wise & Compassionate, You are Born to achieve targets and serve every one all equally without any prejudice! You are totally a Role Model to anybody in the world for a Great Inspiration!!!
Your Best match 3,5,6,9
Good match 2
Hey.. at short notice.. its kinda tough.. and you couldn�t prepare.. I was intimated just one day b4 that I need to take a training session to some freshers at HCLT!
Its all about UML- from requirement analysis, to Designing..
The problem is .. I had pretty busy schedule and I know that I wouldn�t be able to concentrate on this presentationJ As my HR promised me that the target audience are freshers.. I am quite okey with it.. I don�t mean freshers are that easy to do with, my only concern is if there are some UML expers among the audience.. I know I would be done with it J ! Uh� I have already forgot lotsa terminology in UML.. its been more than 6months that I took a session! As I have to make some project release to my client last week it was kinda tough..
So the next day I checked the schedule for the training� wow mam. Its mentioned its only on this Friday.. which means I have one more extra day.. thought my HR is very kind to me.. so didn�t care abt the presentation and thought I shall start on the evening of Thursday(today 16th Oct 2003). So started to concentrate on my project and stuff�
You know.. I kinda wrote some new recursive algo for some undefined tree searching J was proud at the end of finishing the algorithm. Started to implement..in c#, the language I have just started loving. I was deep into the monitor.. carving out my code .. then at about 11.30AM suddently a new pop came! It was a mail alert. The from address told me its from my HR.. thatz okey.. then the subject virtually devastated me.. it was a reminder mail ..the subject went similar to this.. �Reminder for the UML presentation held today at 3.00pm in Platinum Conference room�!!!!! whaaaaatttzzzzzz.. that!
I quickly checked with my HR to find that the program was not advanced and I mistook the date to Friday..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my God save meJ.. Poor me.. Poor me�
So started hurriedly preparing for the presentation.. Thank God ..i didn�t forget some concepts of Uml.. but other than that � almost most of them have already drained out of my mind�.. might be due to this unplanned event (No fault of HR anyway. Its all my mistake to read the mail wrong)!
Scanned my hard-disk for any of my previous presentations on UML..
The search was pretty slow today,� I have a feeling suddenly that the time is biking at 100kmph and all my work is progressing at a mere 15kmph! Hmmm.. got it atalst.. there is one presentation on UML that I have given previously. So took it and started to scroll thru it.. !
Did I prepare the presentation ??? I couldn�t attribute the examples inscribed in it�.. I knew I composed the presentation long back.. the problem with me is I tend to forget things J Though my only advantage is I can grasp new things fast� but I forget at the same speed..
I went thru the 90 odd slide presentation to understand what I have written first� then started absorbing/ refreshing the concepts.. One more glance of the presentation would give me the confidence�. So went to the first slide to plan for a different presentation and flow of my session.. then a new alert came from my outlook J Its time.. snooze 5mins b4 the schedule?? Looked at my watch to find its 2.45pm J cool buddy.. still 15mins left.. so went thru the presentation again.. and was pretty confident J
It was almost 2.55 .. I started to the conference room and reached there at 3.00pm to start.. ! The guy who took the previous session has switched off the projector.. Today nothing seems to go for me.. I tried to switch it on.. but each time I press the power button in the remote.. it seems as if I have switched it off!! No lights coming out of it�.
So as I couldn�t do much with , I just looked upon the audience for help�.. eeeeeekkkkkkk.. what am I seeing @#$$@@ where are the freshers????????????
Oh.. I could spot one gal pretty young.. could be a frsher or some 3+yrs exp! But the rest of the ppl.. I know definitely there are not freshers!! GOD help meeeeee� plzzzzz
I already knew am gonna spoil my reputation J And its never possible for ppl with such experience to be ignorant of UML.. So I am already feeling dead..
Now I told myself.. look my dear aravinth.. its part of life.. its just another good situation to tackle.. lemme take it that way J told myself to take the challenge on its face..
After such a revelation abt life in that flash momement.. I got so much confidance in me that I started with a bang..
SO I started my presentation and it was real interactive session. I even organized some �dumb chariots� kinda stuff in the session, I asked one person to act out �Sun� and asked ppl to guess it.. each of them guessed a different answer. This I used that to emphasis on the need to have good communication / standard. AS the communication is the key to pass on the design/requirements.. it has to be properly communicated to at various stages in the organization. This illustration is to emphasis that a standard like UML is used to help bridge the communication lag .. so that different ppl can interpret the same design in the same way intended by the architect who designed it..
Ppl were kinda impressed with my approach to UML.. it all went well.. until the last 10mins.. One of the project managers sitting there started asking me about the sequence diagrams in detail.... you know ..I started to answer his question� and there was no response from my brain .. the stimuli for sequence diagrams seems to be corrupted! And my brain would have done some garbage collection on those affected part of my memory.. clearing all sequence diagram related stuff from my brain!!!!!
.. I knew that I am doing a spoil sport at the fag end..! but some how managed to answer his questions� luckily my logical reasoning skills which were still part of my brain.. helped in answering his queries..
Then showed my last slide of �Thank you� and packed back sharing my presentation and case study to them.
But even now am feeling pretty bad for the last 10mins.. I know that I wasn�t answering them properly due to lack of preparedness.. whatever excuse that I can give for those last 10mins.. I still feel bad.. I am not supposed to give them some �may be answers�.. thatz not the way I am supposed to be atleast.. This was totally not the way I used to be.. !
I was feeling very bad abt it.. but now kinda okey.. you cant be always successful in what ever you do.. rite..
Any way its part of life.. lemme take it in the same sense.. J
If you have read till this line.. then I can infer two things abt you..
1)you like the way I write J ..
2)we might gel as good friends..
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I felt this story below is pretty interesting to sahre it with all of you :) Read on..
An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to
spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work.
His only son, who would have helped him, was in
The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned
his situation:
Dear Son, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks
like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this
year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your
mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting
too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were
here, all my troubles would be over. I know you
would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.
Love, Dad
Shortly, the old man received this telegram:
"For Heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden!!
That's where I buried the GUNS!!"
At 4 a.m. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents and
local police officers showed up and dug up the entire
garden without finding any guns. Confused, the
old man wrote another note to his son telling him what
happened, and asked him what to do next. His son's
reply was: "Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad.
It's the best I could do for you from here.
Moral of the Story:
Shall soon post abt the schok..
Hi All, sorry about not blogging for last four days! Eh.. After the my itenary, I have become kinda lazy! Ok ok.. I was always lazy.. but this time.. l became an embodiment of it! (satisfied!) Hey Shadow.. here is my post..J
It was a good trip. We (me and my father) we planned to cover most of the temples near the Mailaduthurai, it�s a place in Southern Tamilnadu near to Kumbakonam. We were particular to cover only Dhivya desams, (Dhivya desams - these are the Temples in which Alwars have sung about the deties and is a considered sacred among other temples!) So we travelled by Bus and reached Mailaduthurai on Thursday Morning (02 Oct 2003), we got out of the bus and we were welcomed by our driver there, its really good to see some person receive your even in a place where you don�t have any acquaintance. He took us to a decent Hotel, where we took some rest and started off our spiritual journey. Wow! man, you wont believe, we almost covered 12 temples in the day, all were Divya Desams and all were very near to each other, in a 20km radius. It was pretty a strenuous journey, traveling all day long continuously. Then we came back to the hotel. I never closed my eyes to sleep, I didn�t know when I started sleeping, when I opened my eyes it was 5.00 AM! We were supposed to get up at that time, as our driver would come to the hotel by 6.00AM to take us to some distant temples. I was feeling pretty lazy to get up, so I woke my father up and asked him to alert me once he is ready. So I actually got ready by 6.15AM only, huh, but our driver haven�t yet come to the hotel, he too would have felt very tired and hence the delay. He actually came at 6.30AM , by which time we were in the reception. We went to 3 temples which were located pretty far off from our place. We actually decided to goto �Uppiliappan� temple in Kumbakonam, which is one of my favorite deities. So we vacated the hotel by around 1.00 in the noon and went to Kumbakonam and offered our prayers over there. We then disposed the car and took a bus again to reach Trichy. We stayed in one hotel near to the bustand, actually we had one ritual to be performed in Srirangam on Saturday. When we reached tiruchi, it was almost around 3.00pm, we took rest for 1hour and took a bus and went to Srirangam to visit the famous Ranganathar temple. We had a good dharshan. It was already very tiring. I did a mistake when I was in Mailaduthurai, on Friday, I took water from the one of the hotels! I could feel it having effect in my throat, I don�t know why I am sensitive to water! Even if I take once, I face the problem! My throat goes irk!!!!
Then we finished the ritual on Saturday and retuned back to Chennai the same day. We reached Chennai at 10.30pm. Good to have a mobile and the number of Chennai call taxi. These guys (Chennai call taxi) were really cool. I just fixed a taxi 15mins before I arrived in Kathipara junction in Guindy, the Taxi came in less than 5mins to that place. I could realize the power of the technology, you have phone , you can book a taxi while you are still on the bus, reaching your destination, and you have a taxi ready to serve you when you arrive your destination! Cool one, Chennai has improved a lot. The Taxi driver seemed to be a real decent guy, he was conversing fluently in English, that too pretty decent English. Was surprised to see a customer oriented taxi drivers.
Then we reached home by 11.00pm and went to bed.. when I woke up next morning.. a shock awaited me�. I never expected it�
Continued in my next blog..
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Climb aboard Concorde, the fastest commercial airliner ever built; experience for yourself the beauty and sound of the iconic Spitfire and stand in awe of our recently renovated American Air Museum. With eight hangars to explore you'll find plenty to see and do.
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The same tired arguments about crossbows got trotted out recently during the state's deliberations about using them during archery season and, again, proponents got shot down in the final vote.
It's happened in almost every state where the topic is brought up for discussion and change. It's going on in New York right now, too, and has happened in Southeastern states in recent years as crossbow seasons and regulations have been expanded.
A Kansas Senate Natural Resources Committee voted 5-4 during a March 15 meeting to table a bill allowing crossbow hunting during archery season. That means the bill's probably as dead as a deer hit with a crossbow bolt.
It had been presented as a way to kill more deer, get more hunters involved, remove roadblocks from some potential hunters and not ignore a viable hunting weapon that has been around for centuries. Opponents said expanding their use will water down hunting, bring out poachers, increase the number of quickie hunters looking for something easy and help ruin Kansas deer hunting.
The state wildlife agency says it's looking at crossbows. Like other state agencies that issue these kinds of statements, they're simply dragging their feet and postponing the inevitable. All they have to do is look at other states that have gone through this exact scenario to see that hunting and deer populations didn't get ruined.
In a Topeka Capital-Journal report, Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, R-Shawnee, said the bill is "not really a deer management issue."
"This is just giving people the ability to hunt in a season in a way they haven't before," she said. "It's going to create lot of animosity. Bowhunters spend a lot of time training, and learning their skills. Crossbow hunters just do not have to have the same threshold. There's lot more competition in bowhunting. It's a sport."
Natural Resources Committee chairman Ralph Ostmeyer, R-Grinnell, disagreed.
"What we're talking about is another way of putting an animal down," he said. "The research is out there that shows it's not any more dangerous. I know the bowhunters are strictly against this, but I don't understand why. What they consider a sport, this isn't going to change that at all."
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ARTH 259 (TH) Western Medieval Art and Architecture (1)
This course explores the development of the mostly Christian art and architecture of Western Europe during the Medieval period from its beginnings in the late Roman Empire to its most grandiose expression in the great Gothic cathedrals. Emphasis will be placed on the historical, social and political context of this artistic development. Issues to be considered include the impact on Western Medieval art of Byzantine art and culture, of the Crusades and the pilgrimage routes, and of the emergence of the monastery and the university. The role of patronage and women in the art and architecture of this period will also be discussed. Other specific topics that will be covered include the art of the Early Christian catacombs, Hiberno-Saxon manuscript illumination, Charlemagne's palace chapel at Aachen, the Bayeux Tapestry, the pilgrimage church of St. Pierre at Moissac, and the sculptural program of Chartres Cathedral.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Thinking Historically
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- Professor: Nicgorski


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The Material on Demand system from Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. enables machine operators to draw material from one hopper during production and, when it is empty, continue drawing material from the second hopper without halting production to wait for more material.
Production was humming along at the Madison, IN, plant of the plastics designer and manufacturer Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. (MOD). Bulk containers were being molded four at a time, one group after another like clockwork, until the plastic resin ran out. Even at MOD, the 17th largest rotational molder in the United States with 28 plastics molding machines in four different facilities, reaching the bottom of the resin barrel meant a precipitous and unscheduled end to production.
While idled workers awaited the forklift that brought a fresh container-load of the powdered material from storage, the machines that had already been heated to their ideal molding temperature began to cool. The lack of on-hand, ready-to-mold material not only triggered a production delay, it also forced the crew to reheat the machinery before resuming production. This process consumed both time and energy—two of the company's most precious commodities. The fact that many other plastics processors had relied on this or similarly untenable systems for years offered little comfort to Michael Dorsey, MOD's vice president of manufacturing and engineering.
Squeezed by sharp cost increases in plastic resin, energy, and freight, Dorsey sought to minimize these costs and their impact on margins. Identifying this oddly impractical yet entrenched material-handling and storage approach as the leading cause of unplanned downtime, Dorsey and his team of design engineers went to work on a new approach.
Material on Demand
The result of Dorsey's efforts is the Material on Demand system. A novel approach to storing and dispensing powdered, granular, or liquid materials, this system features two durable plastic hoppers set side by side in a steel rack that is placed near the molding machine. Each hopper can hold up to 800 lb of material—the same amount of material a typical Gaylord or container-load of plastic material holds. Machine operators draw material from one hopper during production. When the hopper is empty, they can continue drawing material from the second hopper without halting production, while the forklift operator removes the empty hopper and restocks it with a fully loaded hopper.
The new system eliminates downtime and costly machine reheating. In addition, by removing material availability as a factor in determining when a production run ends, the system no longer requires operators to estimate the number of parts or products that can be manufactured per container-load of material. Under the old system, a machine capable of running four or more molds at a time occasionally would have been run with only one or two as material petered out. By ensuring that the maximum number of molds is filled throughout the production run, the Material on Demand system promotes efficient allocation of machine capacity and efficient energy consumption.
Weighing and Batching for Quality Control
A lift truck sets a hopper loaded with 900 lb of plastic material into the steel frame of the Material On Demand system.
If the old material-storage approach common to many plastics processors seems inefficient, the method by which material is loaded into the molds must seem doubly confounding. In most plants, operators lean into open Gaylords to scoop out resin and carry it to a scale for weighing. The accuracy of the shot weight depends on the operator's patience and willingness to return excess material to the Gaylord or collect more if necessary. Scooping material from a Gaylord and dumping into a smaller container causes significant contamination and spillage, resulting in material waste and labor time to clean it up. This procedure also subjects operators to ergonomic hazards by forcing them to lean farther and farther into the Gaylord the emptier it gets. When approximately 50 lb of material remains, the Gaylord is usually tipped over to empty it, resulting in even more contamination, spillage, and waste.
A machine operator at Meese Orbitron Dunne's
Madison, IN, plant dispenses powdered plastic resin
from the Material on Demand system.
The Material on Demand system eliminates ergonomic hazards, contamination, and spillage by employing a weighing and batching assembly under each of the two hoppers. Operators place a small container on a scale under the hopper and dispense material using a valve that MOD engineers designed specifically for powdered materials. When the exact amount of material required is dispensed, the operator shuts off the valve and the small preweighed container is removed. To reduce lifting, the scale is placed on conveyor rollers, permitting the filled container to be rolled forward during removal. By ensuring that the exact amount of material is dispensed and loaded into the mold without spillage, MOD has reduced waste and eliminated machine downtime resulting from material shortfalls. Consequently, parts quality has become even more consistent and reject rates have fallen, eliminating the costly reruns that used to result from contamination or underfilling of the mold.
National Rollout
When it was tested at a single rotational molding machine, the Material on Demand system streamlined and accelerated production to such an extent that the company quickly manufactured and installed more than 50 such systems in its four facilities nationwide. Some of the machines are equipped with up to six hoppers to accommodate multiple color requirements. "The old approaches had become accepted in the industry because they evolved when the cost of material and energy were far less significant in terms of overall costs," says Dorsey. "With a rising cost structure to manage, it was critical for us to address every facet of operations, including how we store and handle our material. We haven't had a single machine idled for lack of material since we installed this system last year, and our material yield due to less waste has increased by over 5%. The ergonomic value of less fatigue and potential back injuries to our operators is an intangible benefit not yet fully realized."
According to Dorsey, virtually any plant that dispenses measured batches of a material—whether powder, granule, or liquid—will derive similar benefits from the Material on Demand system.
For more information on the Material on Demand system, contact Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. at 800-829-4535 or visit www.shipshapecontainers.com.


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Greg Hensley, an Ace level participant in The First Tee of Brunswick County, has been selected to compete in the Home Care & Hospice First Tee Open at Pebble Beach Sept. 3-5, a Champions Tour event.
The Fill the Pantry Golf Tournament, to benefit the Loaves and Fishes food Pantry, was played July 31 at Crow Creek Golf Club. The tournament raised more $10,000 that will be used to supply the needy of Brunswick County with hams and turkeys during the holiday season.
The overall tournament winners in the captain's choice event were Larry McCarthy, Glen Maynard, Joe Melton and Ed Jacobs with a score of 57.
Youth participants from eight of 13 The First Tee chapters throughout the Carolinas gathered recently for the fifth annual Summer Leadership Academy at St. James. Each year the academy sees more growth in attendance, volunteers and activities.
The academy took place Aug. 2-5 and included leadership workshops, golf clinics, golf tournaments, guest speakers and lots of fun for the youth.
Most golfers have played in a charity golf event; many of us have run one or served on a committee. Whether the tournament is a fundraiser for a local family with extreme medical bills or a posh Rally for the Cure at a private club, it takes a tremendous amount of time, effort and organizational skills to pull it off.
A charity tournament is not like a regular golf tournament. There are sponsors to recruit, raffle prizes to solicit. There might be a silent auction, a breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner, snacks and refreshments on the course.
Kellan Bodenheimer, 12, of Winston-Salem, won a junior golf tournament played Aug. 9-10 at Lexington Golf Club.
In the second tournament in which he has ever played, Bodenheimer, the son of Jeff Bodenheimer and the grandson of Jim Bodenheimer, of Ocean Isle Beach and Lewisville, shot a 3-over-par 38 on the first day and 45 on the second day. He won by two strokes.
Kellan Bodenheimer recently had won the 12-and-younger division in the Forsyth Open, the first tournament in which he ever competed.
The Sea Trail Plantation Couples Golf Championship was played Aug. 7-8 on the Byrd and Maples courses, using the Ryder format.
The overall champions were Sharon and John Markatos with a score of 163.5. In better ball for nine holes, the winners were Lorraine and Ed Kazan with a score of 30. In modified alternate shot, the winners were Sharon and Charlie Winter with a score of 28.25. In captain's choice, the winners were Dick and Joanna Brawley with a score of 25.25. In aggregate score, the winners were Ron and Madeline Dubas with a score of 66.5.
The Brierwood Golf Club men's and women's championships were played Aug. 14-15.
The field was divided into three flights, based on the scores from the first day of play. Prizes were awarded for first and second low gross and first and second low net. Overall low gross was the overall champion.
The overall men's club champion was Randy Milazzo.
In the championship flight, the low gross winner was Randy Milazzo. Chris Lane was second. The low net winner was Bill Tonking. Pete Kolvik was second.
An all-you-can pizza and putt-putt golf event will take place from 5-9:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Bridge Grill in Sunset Beach. "Proceeds go to American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer," Shirley Tacchetti said.
Results of the league event played at Arcadian Shores Golf Club. Low gross: Dan O'Connell, 89. Low nets: O'Connell 70, Jim Beairsto 72. Team two low nets each hole: O'Connell, Beairsto and Bob Brownley, 11-under par. Golfer of the week was O'Connell.
The team of Marianne Nobes, Glen Green, Bob Nobe and John Beavers finished first at at 2-over par in the Brierwood nine-hole mixed scramble Aug. 11. Fran Thomas, Rita DuGan, Ron Arvidson and Ralph Trimmer were second.
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Becca Tobin and Heather Morris show off their diva sides in these new stills from tonight's all-new Glee.
In "Diva," Finn (Cory Monteith) challenges the glee club to find their inner powerhouses for "Diva Week."
Meanwhile, in New York, Kurt (Chris Colfer) can no longer take Rachel's (Lea Michele) arrogant attitude and calls her out, causing tension between the two friends. Emma (Jayma Mays) is in a whirlwind preparing for her upcoming wedding
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sixteen girls from one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest slums have celebrated a fairy-tale evening in a debutante ball sponsored by local police.
The 15-year-old girls from Mangueira wore long evening gowns and fancy hairdos as they were driven in a pink limousine to the samba school where the ball was held Thursday night.
The ball was organized by the Peacemaking Police Unit installed in Mangueira last year.
The unit is one of several in a program aimed at improving the city's security before the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
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Debutante balls have been a custom among upper-middle-class and wealthy Brazilian families. They mark a girl's transition from childhood to adulthood.


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Meet EAC Member Sean Tobin
Sean Tobin is currently Managing Director of Cross Rates Sales for Deutsche Bank's San Francisco office. He grew up in Ridgewood, N.J. from the time he was four. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1988 and headed to JMU.
Why JMU?
"It was the Quad that brought me to JMU," Sean says. "I remember visiting UVA and seeing so few students, and the ones that I saw were running to class with huge backpacks. When I got to JMU, it was a warm spring day and the Quad was packed full of students studying, chatting, playing Frisbee and enjoying themselves. I said, 'Oh man, this is my kind of place.' "
Sean graduated from JMU in on Friday, May 1,1992, and he started working for Lehman Brothers in New York on Monday June 1, 1992. He was a finance major with an economics minor. He now lives in San Francisco proper.
"I was always drawn to the markets, even as I sat through my junior economics class in high school in 1987, when the markets crashed," Sean says. "I found my high school yearbook last year and one of my friends had written 'See you on Wall Street.' So I guess the bug was always there."
Sean says he had a blast at JMU and his earliest grades showed it. He was an Honors Scholar and his first semester away from home, he took six classes and five of them were honors.
"I have a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do, so I started helping a black belt teach the karate club (we went on to teach self defense classes to sororities, which was fun)," Sean says. "I pledged my fraternity (Pi Kappa Phi) and was pledge class president. And one night a week I helped local adults with English and Math. I remember one dad who was ashamed because his son was doing long division and he couldn't help him, so I taught him.
"Another guy needed my help with colloquialisms like 'that's cool' and 'that's hot,' " Sean says. "It made me feel great to be doing so much, helping people, and having fun. Unfortunately, my grades suffered. I got a 2.3 GPA my first semester, when you had to have a 3.25 to be in the honors program. The beautiful and talented Dr. Joanne Gabbin was running the Honors Program at the time and I remember how sad she was when she had to kick me out of the program my junior year. She said, 'Sean, mathematically you simply can't get your GPA to a 3.25 by the time you graduate.' I had lunch with her when I was back on campus last year, to let her know I'd done okay. And ironically at President Alger's inauguration two months ago, she was seated next to me. To this day, I think of her so often and how much she cared. I think part of why I've worked so hard is to prove to her (or maybe myself) that I was going to be OK, despite my academic stumbles."
Professional Experiences
Sean started out as a trader's assistant on the repo (short for "repurchase agreement") trading desk at Lehman Brothers in New York. Repo desks take the firm's inventory of bonds and borrow cash against it to fund the bank. It's not much different than a pawn shop, Sean says.
As Managing Director of Cross Rates Sales for Deutsche Bank's San Francisco office, he identifies and evaluates investment opportunities for large institutional clients who invest in fixed income securities. His clientele includes large money managers, corporations, insurance companies, hedge funds, and government pension and budget funds. In aggregate, his customers manage almost $2 trillion across various investment disciplines.
Sean is a specialist in sovereign and agency debt, swaps, swaptions and exotic derivatives of G-7 countries; and sometimes trades currencies as hedges to those products. He advises clients on market direction, yield curve shape, and relative value opportunities within and between markets.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Sean spent 11 years at Lehman Brothers. He spent three years in Lehman's New York office in the Fixed Income Department. Advancing from traders assistant to junior salesperson, Sean then moved to Lehman's San Francisco office in 1995 as a salesperson covering large institutional clients.
After eight years of building his client base for Lehman (during which time he grew annual revenues from $2 million to $25 million), Deutsche Bank hired Sean in 2003 to grow their west coast business through those client relationships.
Reconnecting to JMU
Sean came back for the '93 and '94 alumni weekends, but then moved west and lost all contact with JMU. Around 2005, a Development Director contacted him.
"She was going to be in town with Dean Bob Reid of the College of Business, and they wanted to meet me for lunch," Sean says. "Bob told me about the EAC and I enthusiastically signed on. My first EAC meeting was in 2006."
Giving Back
When Sean first came back to JMU, he spoke to a class of finance students and says he really enjoyed it.
"My first 'mentee' was Kelly Rote, who'd been in one of the classes I spoke to," Sean says. "I ended up helping her get a job in L.A. with one of my customers, and she now works at Barclays Bank in New York. Since then I've had about a dozen mentees, some official, some just kids I took a liking to. And many of them have ended up on Wall Street. I haven't gotten each of them a job, but I've been there to bounce stuff off of, for a prep phone call before an interview, for advice after an interview on how to follow up, etc.
"We have a unique situation at JMU," Sean says. "We're not Ivy Leaguers and so we don't get an automatic chance at Wall Street firms. So, as I tell every group of students I talk to, once you get out in the work world, you owe JMU. You have to do well, show the world what a JMU grad can do, and then pay it back by donating your time or money back to the school.
"They can't 'pay me back' for helping them, but they can pay it forward by bettering the experience of those students that come after them. I'm so passionate about it because I've seen the great it can do," he says.
EAC Experiences
Sean says being an EAC member has been a "fantastic experience."
"Seeing how JMU has grown, helping the Dean of the COB understand my business so he or she can continue to provide an excellent framework to prepare students for graduation, talking to students and sharing my experiences, it's all been fantastic," he says. "I feel beholden to JMU for the experience I had, I'm amazed at what the school has become since I graduated, and I want to do everything I can to make the current students experiences amazing."
Sean says he hopes the CoB at JMU continues to grow and adapt to a changing world and will continue to provide the best opportunities to students.
"Part of getting there will require serious donations from alumni," says Sean. "My wife and I funded an endowment in my parents' name because, to retain the top teaching talent, you need to subsidize their base pay with endowments, the way the best universities in the country do."
Family and Personal Life
Sean grew up the youngest of six kids — one girl and five boys.
"We had a great, tight-knit family, and still do," Sean says. "And I think that's part of why I have a fantastic family of my own now. My wife Michele was an attribution analyst for a money manager when I met her; and now she is starting her own jewelry company. And I have one daughter, Delaney (12 years old, 6th grade) and one son, David (10 years old, 4th grade) who I think are the two greatest humans on earth. I absolutely adore them, and I'm not embarrassed to say it."
In his free time, Sean likes to golf, fly fish, hike, swim, and boat. The past few years, much of his free time has been taken up coaching his kid's sports teams.
"I've coached 33 different seasons of their sports (soccer, basketball, baseball and flag football) the past seven years, but I work East Coast hours so I'm the dad who can leave work by 3 p.m.," he says. "This is my last season, as next year their school takes over all sports. But it's been great to spend that much time with them."
Sean also serves on other nonprofit boards and has been involved in other philanthropic ventures such as "Autism Speaks" (the national organization seeking a cure for autism) during his time in California.
Advice to Current Business Students
"A lot of my advice to students is simple things: Say please and thank you; shut up and do your job; do the job better than anyone before you has done it (before you ask for the next job, you have to prove you deserve it); if you make a mistake, go up to the person you hurt and say ''I'm sorry. It's entirely my fault. It won't happen again,' " Sean says. "If you try to blame others or be dishonest, your reputation will be tarnished and you're done at that firm, and maybe in the whole business.
"And I tell them what my Dad told me when I was young (and what I wished I'd realized before my mid 20s): 'Everyone is insecure. If you realize that, it explains 95% of the weird stuff people say or do to you. And once you think of them that way, it takes them from being a threatening person to a sad person, and how can you be afraid of a sad person?' It's a powerful thing. Especially since when we're younger, we think the older generation has all the answers. We don't realize they're just knuckleheads like us, navigating life as it comes."
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Freshwater species in the Western Ghats, India, are being sacrificed as collateral damage in the race for rapid economic development. For the first time, comprehensive data are available on the conservation status and distribution of all freshwater fishes, molluscs, dragonflies, damselflies and aquatic plants across peninsular India. Water pollution from agricultural and urban sources, overharvesting and invasive species are the major threats that have led to 16% of freshwater species in the region for which we have sufficient data being classified as threatened with extinction on The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM.
Alarmingly, the centre of threat is within the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot, one of the Earth's most biodiverse areas, running along western peninsular India. "This unique and up-to-date information will provide invaluable guidance to policy makers, developers and conservation practitioners alike," says Sanjay Molur, Executive Director, Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO). "It will allow for informed decisions to be made to ensure the survival of our precious freshwater species."
The results of this latest report show that freshwater fish are the most threatened group in peninsular India, with more than a third (37%) at risk of global extinction. For example, the Endangered Deccan Mahseer (Tor khudree), is one of the most sought-after food fish in the region. Sadly, due to overharvesting, invasive species and pollution it has declined massively in the past decade leaving some fisheries facing collapse. Another iconic species of fish, Miss Kerala (Puntius denisonii) is also classified as Endangered, as it is targeted and collected indiscriminately for the ornamental fish trade and its habitat is being impacted by water pollution from plantations and urban areas.
"If we continue to degrade our freshwater systems and overharvest our resources, we will not only lose biodiversity but also the many valuable services that nature provides us for free," says Rajeev Raghavan, Conservation Research Group (CRG) at St. Albert's College, Kochi. "Safeguarding these essential natural resources is important, and will become even more so given increasing population growth. If we act now based on the information available, we can make a huge difference to the future of biodiversity and the people that depend upon it."
Many communities across India, particularly those living in the poorest areas, are heavily reliant upon these freshwater species for their livelihoods. This report shows that more than half (56%) of all fish and 18% of all mollusc species in the region are being used for food, and that aquatic plants have a diverse range of uses, with 28% of species providing valuable medicinal resources.
For example, an Endangered freshwater periwinkle, Cremnochonchus syhadrensis, is only known from the northern Western Ghats in Maharashtra State, where it is impacted by pollution and water abstraction. It is highly habitat-specific, found only in the spray zones of waterfalls, and hibernates in rock crevices during the summer. Unfortunately, recent survey work has failed to find the species in one of its few remaining locations. Aquatic plants, such as the Endangered Aponogeton satarensis, are also affected. This species of pond weed is found only in a few temporary pools in the Western Ghats hill plateaus in Maharashtra where it is being impacted by development of windmills and increasing levels of tourism.
"The results of this work show the importance of the Western Ghats Hotspot for freshwater species - not only does it harbour a high level of species richness, it also contains many species found nowhere else in the world," says Kevin Smith, Programme Officer, IUCN's Global Species Programme's Freshwater Biodiversity Unit. "Unfortunately, we have also found that this particular hotspot contains the greatest number of threatened species in peninsular India – this all points to an urgent need for environmental sustainability to be given higher priority in economic development."
Find out more and read the full report, 'The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Western Ghats, India'.
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I opened up the course catalogue and I said, "Hold on a second - all the courses I've taken are neuroscience courses, and I could be a neuroscience major if I take three or four more courses." So I talked to my advisor, and so from that moment on, I headed towards neuroscience. It incorporated the things I liked from both psychology and biology. What has been your best class at Bowdoin? Fall semester of junior year, I took my first course as a neuroscience major. It was Comparative Neurobiology with Patsy Dickinson [of the biology department]. What I liked about that course was that it was small, and there was a lot of interaction with other students. It was very investigatory. It's actually the reason why I'm doing my honors project, because we looked at the things that I'm looking at now: electrophysiology, which is about elections firing and action potentials. I worked with Patsy this summer because I liked the stuff that we did in that lab. I worked with her under a Paller Fellowship. I was looking for things to do over the summer, and she had an opening in her lab, so I went and I worked on a project started by a previous student. I looked at the effects of a peptide called proctolin on the nervous system of the lobster. What extracurriculars do you participate in? What do you like about them? I am currently co-president of the Latin American Students Association (LASO). This is my second year as co-president. It's exciting. I think organizations go through periods, fluctuations, and I think this year has been LASO's year. This past semester we worked on Hispanic Heritage Month, which is from September 15th to October 15th, and even though it was at the beginning of the year, we put together a couple of activities. Next semester, we want to bring a live band - I want to work on bringing a Brazilian ensemble which came here my freshman year. LASO is also sponsoring a spring break service trip to Valparaiso, Chile. 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This program is to give guidance, learning experiences, and role models to Maine youths, primarily those of minority cultural and ethnic backgrounds. High school and grammar school students from Bath, Brunswick, Portland, and other parts of Maine attend H.Y.P.E. one Tuesday a month to listen to speakers and [participate] in activities prepared for them to accomplish our goals. What is your best Bowdoin memory? For some reason, I always look forward to Reading Period [between the last day of classes and exams], because there are so many study breaks and activities and people want to relax. I like that time of being with friends and enjoying spending time together, while you're winding down from the end of the semester. What are your plans after graduation? I eventually want to go to graduate school or medical school in neuroscience, but I want to be more ready for it, either academically or [in terms of] lab experience. I want to stay close to the academic community, either by working at Bowdoin or having a post-baccalaureate lab experience. In order to identify the type of program that I want to go into, the places I want to be, and the people I want to work with, I want to take a year off before I go to grad school. Is there anything else about Bowdoin or your experiences here that you'd like a prospective student to know? Stay in contact with as many people as possible. I think I've gotten so much from my professors on a personal basis - so much advice and so much help. From talking to Patsy Dickinson, I got to work with her in the summer. The administration is always there, too - if you need to go to a conference, it can financially provide help. That's something that I like about Bowdoin, that people like to help you. They have the time and the resources, so you should use them. Story posted on January 04, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Peggy Aycinena is a freelance journalist and Editor of EDA Confidential at www.aycinena.com. She can be reached at peggy at aycinena dot com.
DAC 2018: New venue, Fresh start, Great leadership
October 11th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Hence June 2018 will witness a glamorous return to the Bay Area for DAC, and all its stakeholders, not the least being next year's General Chair and Notre Dame CSE Professor, Dr. X. Sharon Hu.
In a recent phone call, Hu said it's particularly exciting to be coming back to San Francisco, because the City is one of her favorite venues.
In preparation for DAC in 2018 and to similarly enhance anticipation for her Executive Committee – that group of hard-working volunteers who work the magic each year bringing DAC to fruition – Hu recently hosted a team building exercise here in 2017 in the just-reopened Moscone West portion of the massive complex. The group made sushi, and with pictures of the cook-off trending on Twitter, she laughed when I asked how it all went.
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C-Sky Microsystems: Big Dreams and a 100-year Vision
October 5th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Founded in 2001, C-Sky has "developed 7 types of embedded CPUs covering a wide range of embedded applications including smart devices in IoT, digital audio and video, information security, network and communications, industrial control and automotive electronics. It is the only embedded CPU volume provider in China with its own instruction set architecture, the Yun-on-Chip architecture developed in conjunction with Alibaba."
C-Sky is a growing IP company serving an enormous market. I spoke recently by phone with Dr. Xiaoning Qi, CEO at C-Sky, who was in California attending meetings. No stranger to Silicon Valley, he previously served at Intel, Rambus, Synopsys, and Sun, after completing his Ph.D. under Prof. Robert Dutton at Stanford.
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Sage: Who Checks the Checkers?
September 28th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
But this is not about Sage, it's about how Sage fits into an evolving industry from the point of view of Raul Camposano, EDA veteran, former CTO at Synopsys, and currently CEO at Sage. Like so many serving in leadership roles in the industry, Dr. Camposano is a man of good cheer and an optimistic observer.
The Cognitive Era: Don't be fooled, it's already over
September 14th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Hogan's topic is revolutionary, the Cognitive Era, and the official message behind his talk is all things bright and beautiful:
"Cognitive science is a diverse field which is unified and motivated by a single basic inquiry: How does my education, career and life change in the Cognitive Era? How do people, animals or computers 'think,' act and learn? To understand the mind and brain, cognitive science brings together methods and discoveries from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and data/computer science."
The unofficial message, however, ain't so cheery. That's because we already know how people think, act and learn. They do it all around us all the time, and so do we. We don't need the sciences of neurology, psychology, linguology, philology, or digital-ology to explain it to us.
What we do need is for those disciplines to protect us from all that science and engineering has produced, the stuff that's now overwhelming our sense of wholeness and health, sanity and serenity.
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IC Manage: A Roadmap out to Forever
September 7th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Dean Drako founded IC Manage in 2003, a company whose products are targeted at IC designers who need help coordinating their efforts, integrating third-party IP into their design equation, and accelerating design. Interestingly, at the same time Drako was founding IC Manage, he was also founding Barracuda Networks, and ran both companies simultaneously for a number of years.
Today 14 years later, Drako still serves as President and CEO of IC Manage, but is 'only' on the board of Barracuda. Lest you think his plate is not full enough, however, he's also currently President and CEO of Eagle Eye Networks.
Prior to our phone call last week, I researched Drako on Wikipedia: "Drako has written a number of articles on Open Source, Big Data, and SoC design. He is a frequently invited speaker on the topic of entrepreneurship [and] is a holder of 27 patents, including patents in network security, network protocols, digital circuits, software, biochemical processes, and sporting equipment."
Yeah, pretty much just like talking to Elon Musk.
Conversations: The Pulse of the Ecosystem
August 31st, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Over the last several months, I've had the opportunity to speak with several companies in the ecosystem about Grand Challenges in IP and EDA – Sonics, CAST, Silvaco, Synopsys, Adapt-IP, and Mentor Graphics.
Now the plan is to speak with companies that are specifically members of the ESD Alliance with the following questions in mind:
History Lessons: Thomas Alva, Wilbur, Orville, Patents & You
August 24th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Edison had only a grade-school education, yet his inventiveness and fierce sense of competition drove him to create not only world-changing technologies on his own, but to establish a revolutionary full-fledged R&D facility in West Orange [moved from its original location in Menlo Park] and the means by which ideas emanating from those labs could be commercialized and ramped to volume manufacturing. He wanted to own the entire process, from invention to final sale, and in many areas of science and engineering he did just that.
The Thomas Edison National Park is really just a series of wooden buildings where breakthroughs in the electric light bulb, and subsequent establishment of a power-distribution industry, as well as ground-breaking developments in recording sound, in particular the human voice, were pursued in lock-step with equally revolutionary developments in motion picture engineering. In fact, it was on this day in 1891 that Edison patented the Kinetograph, his term for a motion picture camera.
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Turbines to Crimea: Is Mentor Graphics German, or still American?
August 3rd, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Several weeks ago, Siemens AG – a German company – was caught-up in a violation of a part of the current EU sanctions against Russia. Siemens's power turbines, having been sold to Russia – which was not a violation – were then allegedly modified and shipped off to Crimea for installation there – which was a violation.
You remember Crimea. It was part of Ukraine until 2014, and then it was not.
Anyway when the turbine situation was uncovered, the EU was not happy with Siemens; Siemens was not happy with Russia; if Russia or Crimea were unhappy with anyone, they kept it to themselves.
As a result of these revelations, Siemens AG now faces a fine from the EU, and has canceled several high-profile, lucrative business deals with Russian firms. Siemens is mad – slightly less rich, and mad.
Which brings us to Mentor Graphics. Such experts we are, who have had the chance to learn about Export Controls from the likes of Cadence's Larry Disenhof or SmartFlow's Ted Miracco, and it's that knowledge which seems relevant to Mentor.
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Austemper & Functional Safety: The Alchemy of Modifying Design
July 26th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Austin-based Austemper Design Systems is an EDA startup focused on functional safety that had the good luck to find the Design Automation Conference in their own front yard this year – making it easy for the company to exhibit in Austin and showcase their newly announced suite of tools.
Speaking by phone in a recent call, Austemper Founder & CEO Sanjay Pillay said, "We offer four different tools in our suite, one that analyzes quantitative metrics, two for design automation that go in and add diagnostic conversions and can be used for a single block of IP or for the entire design, and a fourth tool that runs fault-injection analysis."
Given that the company has only been underway since March 2015, I suggested that tool portfolio represents a lot of productivity over a short amount of time.
Pillay agreed: "Although we are young, we are already working with the largest semiconductor companies in the world, and in the process of negotiating licenses with others.
"DAC was a great place to announce our products. We had more than 30 meetings and demonstrations with potential customers and partners during DAC. It was also an opportunity for us to meet in person with people we have interacted with over e-mails and conference calls, to make that human connection."
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Concertal Systems SDA: Holy Grail, the Musical
July 20th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Per Concertal Founder and CEO Bob Ledzius, the automation of modern system design is completely dependent on the ability to seek out, vet, and integrate IP. But that process has been stalled, until now.
"A lot of people have been promising these capabilities," Ledzius said during our recent phone call, "but we're actually delivering on the promise with our SDA methodology.
"A lot of people have been doing great stuff to solve the incremental problems around system design, but we started by asking the right questions, not just the incremental ones. We took a step back and said, if you want the ability to develop designs in minutes – not months – then you need to develop a system for high-level IP reuse.
"Starting from this point of view, we came up with specific conclusions and solved the problem of IP verification and integration."
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Dr. Ann M. Peters, a retired professor (Emeritus) of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, was honored at an international symposium last month for her achievements in the linguistics field.
The July 30 symposium was held at the XI Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference reviewed her lifetime achievements in the study of children's acquisition of language, discussed perspectives on the complexity of language acquisition, and recognized Peters' pioneering efforts in the field.
"Dr. Peters' research has had a profound impact on our understanding of the complexities and variance exhibited in child language," said Associate Professor Kamil Ud Deen. "Rather than accept the standard view that child language is guided by an innate grammar and is thus relatively uniform, Dr. Peters challenged this view with empirical data from a variety of sources. Her research is held up today as a model for those interested in individual variation between children, and the role of social cognition in the acquisition of language."
The eleven speakers recounted Peters' contributions over her 40-year career in research and teaching language and linguistics. Peters' ideas have been invaluable to her colleagues: her vision has contributed to moving the field away from the assumption that all children learn language the same way. Her detailed, child-centered studies have provided evidence that children go through a long and individuated process of perception and construction of their language system. For example, Peters observed that some children begin this process by producing, not individual words, but longer chunks or phrases — such as "look-at-that".
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