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A dynamic shift in how spectroscopy optics are developed and built is transforming the performance of scientific instrumentation.
Few areas of instrumentation have prompted as much development or efforts toward innovation as spectroscopy. Without sophisticated approaches to handling light, spectrometers as we know them would not function, and we would be without a deep understanding of the chemical nature of the world around us.
Microscopes, of course, depend on the power of optical magnification to reveal the domain of the small. But spectrometers are just as dependent on a variety of optical solutions, including gratings, mirrors, spectrographs and monochromators. The push to interpret radiative light energy as a function of its wavelength in order to learn chemical information has produced a dizzying variety of spectroscopic techniques, all of them supported by a number of key optical components.
In recent years, these components, which also include detector arrays, laser diodes and fiber optics, have been improved, miniaturized and standardized to cut cost. This has given way to a push for modular, miniaturized components that can be used almost anywhere while still providing laboratory-grade performance.
In spectrometry, modular means miniature
Ocean Optics, Dunedin, Fla., a leader in the OEM optics marketplace for spectroscopy, has helped lead the way toward more compact yet powerful optics solutions for vendors. Ocean Optics was at the forefront of development for the first miniature spectrometers, and has continued to expand and improve these offerings. Its latest example is the USB2000+, a general-purpose spectrometer for absorption, transmission, reflectance, emission, color and other applications. Compact enough to fit into the palm of a hand, this OEM-ready device covers the ultraviolet (UV) and visible light regions, from 200 to 1,100 nm on the electromagnetic spectrum. Based on fiber-optics technology, the spectrometer accepts light through a single strand and disperses it via a fixed grating across a linear 2,048-element CCD array detector. It accepts a custom wavelength range and optical resolution changes, and can be synchronized to other devices for triggering functions. Accessories such as light sources, probes, collimators and sample holders can be integrated into the light path.
Ocean Optics works with more than 100 OEM customers, and so has a formalized approach to supplying its optics and spectroscopy. According to Bill DeCosta, the Western U.S. OEM sales manager for Ocean Optics, more than 220,000 of the company's optics products have been deployed worldwide, giving the company plenty of experience in how to work with and supply customers. A standard Ocean Optics spectrometer, he says, can be built in more than 40,000 configurations. Typical OEM product specifications that Ocean Optics can directly address include communications protocols, firmware and optical interfaces. This capability helps ensure consistency and ease of integration over the product lifecycle.
"If a more customized solution is desired, we can partner with a customer at several levels of integration, from modules that integrate customized optics, light sources and spectro-analysis, to full turnkey products," says DeCosta.
A typical OEM supply item is the company's line of STS spectrometers. Designed for handheld and point-of-use applications, the highly reproducible instrument is just a 50-mm2 square, weighing only 68 g. Despite the size, an optical resolution of about 1.5-nm FWHM makes it comparable to a number of larger spectrometers. Available in visible light, UV and NIR versions, the STS spectrometers all make use of a Panavision-made 1,024-element CCD array. Ocean Optics applies a coating to this detector, which allows them to vary to the optical sensitivity.
Aside from size, the attraction to OEMs for this instrument is the interface. Power can be supplied through USB, or through a GPIO port. Because the STS is computer-controlled, all operating parameters are specified through software.
Component innovations
Some technologies that seemed impossible just a few years ago are now finding their way to the OEM marketplace. One prime example is the TAG Optics TAG Lens 2.0, an R&D 100 Award-winning varifocal device that uses acoustics to shape light. Designed to change focus by using the small density changes that occur in fluids exposed to sound waves, this lens offers a substantial increase in focusing speed. It also promises reliability because it has no moving parts.
At Photonics West 2014, TAG Optics launched the beta version of its TAG Lens HP. Similar to the TAG Lens 2.0, the new device is specialized for laser material processing applications and can accept more than 100 W of power density.
According Christian Theriault, president and CEO of TAG Optics, Princeton, N.J., several trends apparent in the photonics and optics industries continued to make their presence felt at Photonics West: the rise of solid-state/LED lighting for illumination, the use of ultra-short pulsed lasers instead of continuous-wave lasers, adaptive lenses instead of motion systems and new resolution/tunable detectors for hyperspectral imaging and spectroscopy.
"Additionally, I do believe there is a slow, but constant shift to what I would call 'smart optics' as the industry gains more trust and exposure to these non-traditional components," says Theriault.
The optical component industry is also heavily supported by a number of OEMs who specialize in support mechanisms for the core light-handling components. These include makers of enclosures, power supplies and positioning tools.
Physik Instrumente (PI), Auburn, Mass., has been filling the needs of positioning for decades, and has an extensive portfolio of miniature piezoelectric positioning stages that can align optical components, gratings and lenses, such as those used in spectroscopy and microscopy. The company recently introduced a new generation of positioning products that are driven by a ceramic motor and use no energy to hold a position, meaning there is less heat dissipation and better stability on a microscopic and nanoscopic level.
The new miniature stages are available for linear and rotary motion—with linear travel from 0.25 to 1.0 in—and provide resolution down to the nanometer range. They can be stacked for multi-axis arrangements and controlled from a computer.
According to Stefan Vondran, VP for marketing at PI, one of the key drivers for recent improvements in his company's products has been the miniaturization of optics, which requires smaller and high-precision mechanisms for test and assembly.
"The need for smaller and higher-precision mechanisms has driven our R&D department to come up with new motion technologies, more powerful control and alignment algorithms and smaller positioning products," says Vondran.
PI's piezo mechanisms and 6-axis hexapods provide the precision and flexibility. PI hexapods, Vondran says, can move in all six degrees of freedom and allow the user to program the center of rotation anywhere in space: at a focal point of a lens, at the waist of a beam or the tip of an optical fiber.
Optics transform mass spectrometry
Plug-and-play optics don't always work for scientific instrumentation, and this holds true not just for customized or single-purpose devices built in a single laboratory. High-volume instrument vendors also work to develop their own optics solutions, which they standardize for use throughout the instrumentation line, or license for outside manufacture.
For laboratory researchers, optics components are indispensable in two key instrumentation families: spectroscopy and microscopy. While microscopy relies on more traditional optics solutions—including lenses, beamsplitters and photomultipliers ubes—spectroscopy requires gratings and mirrors. Both also use imaging solutions including charge-coupled devices (CCD) and CMOS-based detector arrays.
For spectrometer development, miniaturization is playing a key part in how vendors' R&D efforts are being focused. Handheld Raman imaging instruments have been on the market for several years now, and high-performance mass spectrometry techniques are about to make an appearance as well.
Advances in optics technologies are also a major enabling factor for improved performance in mass spectrometry, particularly with regard to detection range. This is an important feature of infrared spectrometers because it allows the instruments to perform a wider variety of measurements without the need for additional analysis or secondary equipment, such as additional beamsplitters or detector exchanges.
At the same time, this performance must be carried over to instruments that have been considerably reduced in size. Recent introductions in the product line at BaySpec Inc., San Jose, Calif., reflect this balance of development. A company that specializes in the type of spectral optics required in spectrometers and Raman imaging instruments, BaySpec introduced several new imaging products at Pittcon 2014 that rely on optics technologies developed in-house.
For the benchtop, a new system was introduced that combines near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy with Raman imaging. NIR light sources penetrate samples deeper and greatly reduce noise from fluorescence and other background lights, as compared to visible light sources. Both Raman and NIR spectroscopy are non-destructive. NIR spectroscopy is based on absorptions or reflections in the NIR spectral region by molecular bond vibrations from the sample when illuminated by a white light source. Raman spectroscopy is also based on the molecular bond vibrations, but the Raman system instead disperses stokes-shifted photons scattered from the sample when illuminated by a single-wavelength laser.
BaySpec's NIR/Raman Amphi-Spec System is the first dual-band combined NIR/Raman system that can perform transmission, reflectance, attenuated total reflection and customized Raman probing. Two core components that make this instrument possible are the SuperGamut spectral engine and the PeakFinder fiber-optic probe. SuperGamut employs a highly efficient Volume Phase Grating (VPG) and a deep-cooled -60 C ultra-sensitive CCD or InGaAs array detector, providing high-speed parallel processing and continuous spectral measurement. The PeakFinder fiber-optic probe features optical filtering of 106 for efficient attenuation of the Rayleigh line for background-free Raman spectra. The probe is lightweight, compact and flexible. It can be readily used with a sample holder for routine measurements of liquids and solids, or simply as a point-and-shoot approach. The Rayleigh filtering can be turned on and off to switch between Raman and NIR spectral measurements. All components in the system utilize polymer-encased fiber-optic cables with standard connectors for coupling to various light sources, lasers and spectrographs, permitting flexible sample configurations.
More integration is on display with BaySpec's Dual-Band Agility Raman Analyzer, a spectrometer that, for the first time, integrates a computer and sampling chamber into the instrument. The design, which has self-aligning sample holders, allows the analyzer to occupy a small footprint. With battery power, analysis can be performed in any location in the laboratory. With dual wavelengths, the analyzer has a wide range of potential applications, from homeland security to food and beverage analyses to quality control.
The instrument that most benefits from miniaturization design efforts at BaySpec, however, is the family of OCI hyperspectral imagers. These NIR instruments are the first handheld hyperspectral imagers weighing less than 1 lb.
Available as the OCI-1000 and OCI-2000, the imagers considerably improve the identification and classification of objects over today's RGB or filter-based cameras. Snapshot (non-scanning) hyperspectral/multispectral imaging is a method of capturing spectral images during a single integration time of a detector array, so that no scanning is involved. One of the major advantages of snapshot imaging is it avoids motion artifacts, thereby simplifying the data processing and improving the image processing time.
In the OCI-1000, this capability is even further miniaturized, says Bergles, by integrating the hyperspectral imagers onto a sensor at the chip level. This eliminates bulky, complex optics formerly required on this type of imager. The result is an imager that weighs less than 0.5 lb and can be installed on conveyor belts in productions lines, or even on unmanned aerial vehicles.
According to Bergles, the availability of large-format, low-cost optical dispensing elements and detector arrays makes it now possible to bring hyperspectral imaging results to a wider audience of customers. He envisions them eventually being used in outpatients medical clinics for point-of-care diagnostics.
"OCI is a complete hyperspectral imager, not just a sensor. It contains the complete system for data acquisition, data process and data presentation," says Bergles.
A variety of custom lenses are available that allow wide-angle to close-up views for enabling real-time hyperspectral/multispectral imaging at video rates. This opens numerous applications for the OCI family: colorimetry, process automation, forensic analysis and food and agricultural inspection.
In addition to miniaturization, the growing availability of full-wavelength optics is affecting the product lines of many spectrometry vendors. At Pittcon 2014, Horiba Scientific, Edison, N.J., introduced the Ultima Expert ICP-OES, which features a new optical design that integrates a high-density holographic grating with 1-m focal length optics. With thermal stabilization measures employed to help retain full long-term sensitivity, the optics help allow the Ultima to achieve a wavelength range of 120 to 800 nm, which extends its capability into the far UV.
Inductively-coupled optical-emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) is based on the spontaneous emission of photons from ions and atoms that have been excited in a radio frequency discharge. An inductively-coupled plasma (ICP) vaporizes the sample in aerosol form, and liberated analytes release photons as they relax to ground state. Samples can be directly injected if they are liquid or gas, but solids must be extracted or digested to reveal the analytes. The method is often used for trace element analysis because it delivers rich spectra, and it's often used when a dispersive technique, such as atomic absorption spectrometry, can't suffice.
Optics are a key component for this system, which collects a portion of the photons emitted by the ICP using the lens or concave mirror. This focusing lens forms an image of the ICP on a monochromator, which then selects the wavelength. A photodetector is typically used to convert this information to an electrical signal. The 70 elements commonly determined by the technique can produce as many as 70,000 emission lines or more in the 200- to 600-nm wavelength range. The spectral option requires elevated resolution, and this is typically achieved using plane grating monochromators with large focal lengths of 0.5 m or more.
Interference effects are induced using ruled gratings. Not long ago, resolutions of 0.01 nm were typically possible through a combination of gratings of various construction. Today, high-end ICP-OES achieves picometer-scale resolution in part because of advanced construction techniques that can produce high-density interference gratings with thousands of grooves per millimeter. In Horiba's Ultima, a 2,400-g/mm grating is used in the first- and second-order optics. In combination with the 1-m focal length optics, it can deliver an optical resolution of less than 5 pm in the 120- to 320-nm range, and less than 11 pm in the 320- to 800-nm range. Optionally, a dual-grating system can be equipped to the Ultima, which features 4,320-g/mm gratings in the first order and 2,400 g/mm in the second order for less than 6 pm for 120- to 450-nm wavelengths and less than 11 pm in the 450- to 800-nm range.
A combination of the high-density holographic grating design, long focal length optics and the Total Plasma View system, which employs a vertical plasma torch design to permit radial viewing and lower matrix effects, the Ultima system can produce detection limits as low as 1.5 µg/L for potassium, 06 µg/L for sodium and 0.2 µg/L for chromium. The system's far-UV capability makes it suitable for intensive halogen analyses in addition to general element analysis.
"As with prior Ultima ICP-OES systems," says Matthieu Chausseau, ICP product manager for Horiba Scientific, "the new system has been designed for robust applications: mining, salt production, oil and petrochemical analysis and general metallurgical and chemical manufacturing."


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'The Bachelorette's' Emily Maynard Thanks Fans After Brad Womack Split Episode Airs
On Monday night's Bachelorette, Emily Maynard finally admitted what many fans of the ABC show already knew: she had called off her engagement to Brad Womack. The two were set to wed after last season's finale of The Bachelor.
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The tearful single mom said on The Bachelorette Monday that Womack will "always be a huge part of my life" and she'll "always be in love with Brad" but that there were "red flags" about their relationship (which she did not specify).
Viewers immediately took to Twitter to react to the news, including some nasty comments ("So Emily is talking about how "nobody prepares you for this" Has she lived under a rock for the past 10 yrs of the #bachelor #bachelorette?") and some supportive ("This interview with Emily is so heartbreaking. I wanted Barbie and Ken to work out.").
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Maynard thanked those who were on her side Monday after the episode aired.
"Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all of the supportive comments. They mean more to me than you know. xo" she wrote on Twitter.
And she also made another promise: To stop using "you know." Several Twitter followers slammed her for saying the phrase over and over, including one who wrote, "Watching Emily from The Bachelor on The Bachelorette. So far she has said 'you know' 19 times! Maybe think about a class in public speaking?"
Tweeted Maynard: "BTW, I'm going through my thesaurus to find different words for 'ya know.' That is a nervous habit I definitely need to break. yikes."
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On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden bashed Republicans at a fundraiser for Democrat Ed Markey, the candidate for Massachusetts Senator. After punching at Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), Biden turned to problems within the Democratic Party, explaining that it would be difficult to get blacks and Hispanics to vote without a black candidate on the ticket. "Barack Obama's not at the head of the ticket," said Biden. "And that means those legions of African-Americans and Latinos are not automatically going to come out …. No one has energized them like Barack Obama. But he's not on the ticket. So don't take this one for granted."
He added, "Please, don't be asking yourself two months from now, 'God, why didn't I do more?'"
Obama's 2012 election victory was driven in part by heavy turnout from the minority community, which constituted a larger-than-average percentage of the vote in swing states like Ohio.
Of Cruz and Paul, Biden stated that Republican Senators didn't want to go up against them, especially on gun control. "Almost to a person," Biden related, "they said, 'I don't want to take on Ted Cruz. I don't want to take on Rand Paul."
Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller "Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America" (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).


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Section 556(b)(3) requires assurances that parents and teachers of Title 1 students be consulted when the LEA Title programs are designed and implemented. Furthermore, Section 556(e) requires that all LEAs convene an annual meeting to which all parents of eligible students from District public and private schools are invited to attend.
To help promote the Title 1 parent involvement in the District, the following activities will occur. While these activities listed are the minimum requirements, they do not represent all the activities which can be utilized to increase parental involvement:
1. Notification of each child's parents by written letter before the child actually begins Title 1 instruction. Letter to include an invitation to parent to meet with the Title 1 teacher to discuss why the child has been selected to be served by the Title 1 program.
2. Report to each child's parent on the child's progress at two (2) scheduled parent/teacher conferences each year.
3. Establish additional conferences between individual parents and teachers when requested by parents.
4. Provide materials and suggestions to parents to help them promote education in the home.
5. Provide timely information concerning the Title I program including program plans, objectives, and evaluations.
6. Accept parents' suggestions in the planning, development, and operation of the local Title 1 program.
7. Consult with parents about how the school can work with parents to achieve higher pupil success at school and home.
8. Provide timely responses to parent's recommendations.
9. Provide parents with listing of summer school programs which are held in the District or surrounding area.
10. Test students previously enrolled at the beginning of the next school year.
Legal Ref: Federal Law 556(b)(3)(e)
First reading: June 2, 2009
Second Reading: July 21, 2009
Date Adopted: July 21, 2009
For the Board: Tom Steiner, President; Lynn Jaeger, Vice President; Cole Marshall, Clerk; Bill Barhyte, Treasurer; Sue Giovanni, Member


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Getting to Know Alexandra ChandoMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Soon to be 21, Alexandra was also featured in MTV's True Life: I'm Getting My Big Break - just as she got her big break on the hit soap opera.
Alexandra stopped by and talked to BuddyTV about working with MTV, her character, Maddie Coleman, and balancing acting with education.
Question: Alexandra, can you start by telling us a little about your background and how you eventually ended up as Maddie Coleman on As the World Turns?
Alexandra Chando: Okay. Well, when I was younger I did a lot of community theater, I was really heavy into theater and musical theater especially, and in high school I stuck with it and did a lot of theater. And then my summer going into my freshman year of high school I went to the city on an open call for a manager and they signed me. I started auditioning during my freshman year of high school and I got a pilot when I was a sophomore and commercials and everything, but the pilot did not get picked up. And then, it was time for me to decide what I wanted to do about college and so I either picked schools out in L.A. or New York; I decided to go to school in New York and I did one semester and then I got As the World Turns. I auditioned for it, I thought it was one of the worst auditions I'd ever went on, and I ended up getting it.
Question: So this was your first major gig then?
Alexandra Chando: First major gig that is airing.
Question: Were you always a fan of soaps?
Alexandra Chando: I grew up watching General Hospital actually. But I never pictured myself on a soap opera. I always said I don't think I would do a soap opera but I absolutely take any of that back because it's like school. I'm learning so much. You get so much experience and exposure and I've improved and I've learned so much just by being on the show for a year and a half.
Question: If I'm not mistaken, I think I read this somewhere, but shortly after you landed your role as Maddie Coleman, MTV gets in contact with you and they end up documenting your whole experience on MTV's True Life: I'm Getting My Big Break. Is that how it happened?
Alexandra Chando: Well actually, I found out I got the role and then like an hour and a half later the publicist calls for the show and was like, "MTV contacted us and they want to know if you want to do this." I mean, my head was spinning. Two hours later I got an offer to do this great show and it was a great opportunity.
Question: That's crazy. Tell me what was that like for you? I mean, first day at a new job is always stressful and crazy as it is. What was it like having MTV and all these cameras following you around?
Alexandra Chando: It was so insane. The first day…what happened was that I found out the show on a Friday. MTV was at my house Saturday, in Bethlehem, Pa., just recording me and doing kind of like a pre-interview. I started work on Monday so I had like... I jumped right into it and it was very nerve-wracking the first day, especially because I hadn't met anybody.
I met two people and they were the people I had screen tested with so I was really uncomfortable with the fact that I was gonna walk in there and have a camera crew following me around. It was very nerve-wracking, but after a while I got used to it, people on the show got used to it, and it's awesome that I have the first couple of months and the first big event that I went to and some other things documented, it's like a scrapbook.
Question: So can you tell us a little bit about your character Maddie? Are you anything like the character that you play?
Alexandra Chando: I used to be! She's kind of changed through the years. But in the beginning she was really kind of quirky and she's just a really caring person and she was very comedic. She's still is. But she's very comedic and kind of dorky and quirky. And I kind of see myself as just a big dork so in that sense. But she's really changed in the past few years. She started out kind of silly and then over the summer, this past summer, we had found out that she was attacked by her brother-in-law and sexually abused so it kind of turned the whole character around because for about four months she was just almost crazy. She wouldn't tell anybody about it and she had held it in for a year. It was really hard for her. She kind of went to this dark place and now once that was all cleared up then they kind of are starting to bring her back and she's a little bit more quirky, but she's just like a really caring person, loves all her friends, and is so supportive and would do anything for them or for her brother. The thing about her is she can be really nosy. I get a little annoyed even sometimes when I read the script I'm like, "God why is she so nosy? Just keep your nose out of other people's business!"
Question: Do you have any hints that you might be able to give fans as far as what we can expect from Maddie in upcoming episodes?
Alexandra Chando: Well, now that it was announced that Casey, or Zach Roerig who plays Casey, is leaving the show, things get a little rocky for Maddie and Casey. Casey has a jail sentence and after he's sentenced she kind of is without him for a while and then someone new comes into the picture. She starts working with him and I don't know what happens from there. It hasn't even started yet so.
Continue reading this interview here ...
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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Existentialism: An Introduction
Key Elements
Ludwig Biswanger
Rollo May
Viktor Frankl
R.D. Laing
Therapeutic Approach
Existentialism is a philosophical perspective which was also expressed
in art, literature and other forms of socio-psychological comment.
Existentialism was at its height during the 1930'-1950's in Europe.
Key figures included Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, also Friedrich
Nietzche and Soren Kierkegaard who were earlier philosophers.
Existentialism understands the human to be challenged by the reality of
temporary existence, and the view that life has no inherent meaning;
meaning had to be constructed. Authentic human beings were those
who could face existential futility and yet still go on to construct a
meaningful life. The existential perspective could be understood
All existence ends in death
Therefore, what is the point?
human challenge:
into nothingness
or have
the 'courage to be'?
Existentialism represents the philosophical root of the phenomenological
approach to personality.
After WWII this philosophy gained a large
following in Europe. The purpose of existential philosophy was to
regain contact with the experiences of being ALIVE and AWARE.
Key questions of existential philosophy: What is
the nature of existence? How does it feel? What does it mean?
The key issue for existential psychology is: All
existence ends in death. Therefore, what is the point? The human
challenge: Do we descend into nothingness or have the 'courage to be'?
All we have is existence. So existential psychology is about helping
people to BE and helping people take responsibility for their lives.
According to the existentialists human beings
have no existence apart from the world. Being-in-the-world or "dasein"
IS man's existence. Dasein is the whole of mankind's existence. The
basic issue in life is that life inevitably ends in death. Thus we
experience angst or anguish because of our awareness of death's
So we either retreat into nothingness or have
the courage to BE. The extreme of the retreat into nothingness is
suicide but we can also retreat into nothingness by not living authentic
From this perspective it is extremely important
that we BE, that we live authentically. This entails living a life that
is honest, insightful and morally correct. Authenticity is about living
genuinely with one's angst and achieving meaning despite the temporary
nature of one's existence. Life has no meaning, unless you create it.
Friedrich Nietszche said the only logical response to this void and
meaninglessness was to rise above it and become a superman (sadly
Nietszche went insane and died in an asylum!).
We are all responsible for our choices but even
honest choices won't always be good ones. You will still feel guilty
over failing to fulfill all the possibilities in your life. Existential
guilt, or existential anxiety or ANGST is inescapable.
Ludwig Biswanger, an existential psychologist,
suggested in 1958 that in order to understand how existence feels, which
is at the heart of the phenomenological approach, we need to understand
our experiences at three different levels. That is, that the conscious
experience of being alive has three components: biological (Umwelt),
social (Mitwelt) and inner or psychological experience (Eigenwelt).
Umwelt: In order to understand how existence
feels we need to be aware of our physical sensation such as pain,
pleasure, hunger, warmth, cold etc.
Mitwelt: In order to understand how existence
feels we need to be aware of our social relations. What we think and
feel as a social creature who exists in a world with other people. Your
thoughts and feelings about others and the thoughts and feelings you
receive from them is your experience of Mitwelt.
Eigenwelt: This could be simply classified as
"introspection". In order to understand how existence feels we need to
be aware of the inner workings of ourselves. This is all about our
attempt to understand ourselves: the experience of experience itself.
The existential perspective was introduced into
the US by Rollo May. May accepted many psychodyanmic principles (such as
neurosis, repression and defense). May believed that individuals can
only be understood in terms of their subjective sense of self. He felt
that abnormal behaviour is often just a stratagem for protecting the
centre this is the subjective sense of self) against perceived threats.
The person may give up on self-growth if he or she feels his centre is
threatened and retreat to the secure, known centre. As May put it in
196, this is a "a way of accepting nonbeing…in order that some little
being may be preserved" (p.75).
May was concerned with people's loss of faith in
values. If we lose our commitment to a set of values we will feel lonely
and empty. Life will be meaningless. Ultimately we need therefore to
take responsibility for ourselves and find meaning in our lives.
Viktor Frankl spent from 1942-1945 in Nazi
concentration camps. Frankl's father died in the Nazi concentration
camp, Theresienstadt, in 1943.
In 1944, Frankl and his wife Tilly, and shortly
later his 65 year old mother, were transported to the extinction camp
Auschwitz. His mother was immediately murdered in the gas chamber, and
Tilly was moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she dies at the age of 24. In
cattle cars Viktor Frankl is transported, via Vienna, to Kaufering and
Türkheim (subsidiary camps of Dachau).
In 1945, in the last camp he comes down with
typhoid fever. To avoid fatal collapse during the nights he kept himself
awake by writing on slips of paper stolen from the camp office. On April
27 the camp was liberated by U.S. troops. In August Frankl returned to
Vienna, where he learned, within a span of a few days, about the death
of his wife, his mother and his brother who has been murdered in
Auschwitz together with his wife.
During his time in the camps, he observed people
who survived horrific circumstances but were able to resist despair. He
felt that those who were able to do so were people who found some
spiritual meaning in their lives. He believed that the prime motive of
human behaviour is the "will-to-meaning". In order to find a meaning in
our troubled existence we need to discover meaning through values and we
have a moral duty to discover these values. And we discover our values
through work, through love for others and through confrontation with our
own suffering.
Frankl devised a treatment for to help people
find the meaning in their lives. It is called Logotherapy from the word
Logos = Greek for meaning. Logotherapy views psychological problems as
symptomatic of the person having lost meaning in life. Once meaning is
rediscovered, the problems tend to resolve. This is done by confronting
patients with their RESPONSIBILITY for their existence and by helping
them choose values.
According to the R. D. Laing, the British
psychiatrist and existentialist the mind of modern man is a divided
entity: the false self and the true self. He believes that modern social
communication and the family in particular is very damaging. He believes
the family requires us to stifle our true feelings and to pursue
meaningless goals. According to Laing, the family discourages authentic
(real) behaviour. By the time we reach adulthood we are cut off from our
"true self". We might seem normal but we are really deeply impaired (Laing,
1967). According to Laing, abnormal behaviour a function of
relationships. Schizophrenia, according to Laing (1979, p. 115), is "a
special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable
situation". Laing conceded that there may be some biological
predisposition towards schizophrenia but he firmly believed that
interpersonal stresses could lead people to find they can no longer
maintain their "false self" and hence they retreat from reality into
their own inner worlds.
Existentialists: freedom is a constant struggle,
something people may wish to avoid, and that once embraced still comes
with a price: existential guilt and anguish. The goal of existential
therapy though is to set the client on this hard road. It encourages a
sense of responsibility for their symptoms by attempting to make them
see that this way of being is something they have chosen and helps to
show them that they are free (in fact obligated) to choose better ways
of coping; ways that will give meaning to their lives. The therapists
tries to help restore a sense of self-responsibility & courage and to
facilitate self-discovery of meaning & purpose. They try to see the
world as the patient sees the world but they are less emphatically warm
than the humanist therapist. The most important source of meaning is
honest, respectful personal relationships.
Therapy is good in that it deals with the person
as a whole but it is long and costly and is best for neurotic disorders.
The existential approach also has much more
negative undertones than the humanistic approach. It emphasizes
powerlessness, loneliness, emptiness, and angst and admits that it is
very hard to find meaning and value in our lives.


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In 1982, five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake in California. The guys didn't plan on making it a tradition, but that's what it became.
For the last 30 years, they've been meeting at the lake every five years and taking the same photo as a tribute to their friendship. They recently shot their seventh photo and have a Facebook page devoted to the project.
Do you have any photo traditions with your family or friends? Upload your original images and the story behind them, and you could be featured on CNN.com.


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The Environmental Justice movement addresses the disproportionate impacts of environmental burdens on people of color, poor people, native peoples, women, and other disadvantaged communities locally and globally; the intersection between human rights, human dignity and environmental sustainability; and the exclusion of marginalized communities from environmental policy decision-making. The Environmental Justice movement engages with a wide variety of issues including: concentrations of toxic waste and pollution in poor communities; sustainable energy generation on tribal lands, food access, farmworker rights, the disequilibrium in the causes and effects of climate change between developing and overdeveloped countries, and options to balance conservation and development goals in, for example, strategies such as REDD+ or the creation of protected areas.
Environmental Justice at Yale (EJAY) bridges the gap that exists right here at F&ES. We increase the attention of faculty, staff, and students to EJ topics. We make this group both a learning tool and a skill-building experience for participants through two avenues: 1) bringing speakers and other awareness-raising events to F&ES, and 2) creating opportunities for students to become involved with environmental justice communities here in New Haven. The latter includes both long-term and short-term volunteer opportunities that build upon the progress made in strengthening bonds between the Yale and New Haven communities and to continue our own awareness about environmental injustice that occurs right here in New Haven.
Yale Human Rights and Environment Dialogues
In Spring 2011, Environmental Justice at Yale (EJAY) hosted the Yale Human Rights and Environment Dialogues (YHRED). Below you will find a short report from these dialogues, presentation slides, and reports/papers distributed by the presenters:
Yale Human Rights and Environment Dialogues Spring 2011 Report
Presentation Slides: David Mattson, Wildlife Biologist, US Geological Survey
Presentation Slides: Gary Dunning, Executive Director, The Forests Dialogue
Presentation Slides: Alyssa Johl, Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Human Dignity and Diversity Training: Clarifying Standards and Practices, by Susan G. Clark and David J. Mattson
Human dignity in concept and practice, by Susan G. Clark and David J. Mattson
Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and the Environment, by Lorie Graham & Nicole Friederichs
REDD Readiness Requires Radical Reform, The Forests Dialogue
Beyond the REDD-hot Debate, The Forests Dialogue


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Slot Canyons less traveled
Buckskin Gulch, 5D Mk III, ef 24-70 f/2.8L II; 1/2 sec at f/5.6, 59mm ISO100,
on a tripod with B + W circular polarizer.
Buckskin Gulch, 5D Mk III, ef 24-70 f/2.8L II; 1/3 sec at f/8, 65mm ISO100.
on a tripod with B + W circular polarizer.Antelope Canyon, well there are others, maybe not as beautiful, but they don't have hundreds of photographers jockeying for position and guides asking you to move on so some one else can have their turn.
Wire Pass, Buckskin Gulch and Paria Canyon in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is a series of slot canyons that allow for a peaceful hike that can last up to 6 days if you want with nary a photographer in sight if you get in far enough, spend some time in there and you'll come away with some beautiful images and you wont have to pay for the privilege, unless you decide to get a permit for an overnight trip.
Its located in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona and there are a great many other locations nearby like: The North Rim, South Coyote Buttes, The Wave, etc, etc...
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Previously, at the Goth Mansion, Alexander proposed to Tiffany Sampson (YA at Sim State), and all residents were working towards their career oriented LTWs.
Dina and Alexander
(Dina Caliente Goth, sister of Nina Caliente, wife of Mortimer Goth; Alexander Goth, son of Mortimer and Bella Goth)
Alexander was over the moon about his engagement to Tiffany Sampson. The only downside was that she was still finishing up college and he would have to wait until she was done to finally marry her. So, Alexander concentrated on achieving his dream, becoming a Mad Scientist like his father. After a lot of hard work, he finally achieved it!
They got to work at building a family right away and soon, twins were born to the happy couple!
(No baby pictures for some reason...)
They had a hard time adjusting to twins AND a todder, but everyone survived and birthdays were celebrated happily:
(Emmy Goth, LTW: Education Minister)
(Gunther Goth, Child)
(Joan Goth, Child)After giving birth to the twins, Tiffany found time while they were napping to work on her skills. Sometimes with the help of her adopted daughter, Emmy.
Alex's stepmother, Dina, achieved her LTW (Hall of Famer) around the same time that Alexander was getting married to Tiffany. She was enjoying her pseudo-grandchildren, and spent time with them, as well as painting in her loft. Not long after Joan and Gunther were born, Dina painted her last picture. Grim whisked her away into the afterlife and she went willingly.
Though many snubbed her and her reputation wasn't the greatest during her younger years, Dina was a good mother and her passing was mourned by Alex, Trina, Michelle, and her sister Nina, as well as a few friends.
Trina and Michelle
(Daughters of Mortimer Goth and Dina Caliente Goth)
Trina and Michelle moved out a few days before Alexander and Tiffany were married. They now live in another suburb of Pleasantview, The Village, in this little two bedroom house:
Michelle took a slightly different approach to life post-LTW achievement... more romance! Her new goal is to have 50 Dream Dates. So far, she's had 5 with the help of her new fiance, Gilbert.
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Fatherhood has made Justin Timberlake realize how messed up his youth was.
The singer/songwriter became a child star on The Mickey Mouse Club TV show before finding international fame as a member of boy band NSYNC, and he has only just realized how crazy his upbringing was now he's a dad to young son Silas.
"You go through your life with your own traumas, big and small, and think, 'It's not that bad, I have a lot to be thankful for, my parents did the best they could...,'" he tells The Hollywood Reporter, "but then you have a child of your own, and suddenly it opens all the floodgates, and you're like, 'No, no, no! That childhood trauma really did (mess) me up!'"
Justin is keen to keep his own son far away from showbusiness, even though he's an international pop superstar and actor and his wife Jessica Biel, Silas' mother, is an actress - but if his kid insists on following mom and dad into the spotlight, the Cry Me a River singer admits he'll be a good guy to turn to.
"Would I want my child to follow my path?" Justin muses. "You know, I haven't been able to answer that question in my mind. If he wanted it bad enough, I suppose I could teach him a lot about what not to do."
That said, Justin insists he isn't qualified to do anything but sing, act and be a dad.
"I'm just following my gut in the decisions that I make about what I'm going to do next," the star admits. "I'm mostly just glad this is all working out because I really can't do anything else. I'm not gifted at anything else."


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Welcome to the publications directory for the Climate Impacts Group and the Climate Dynamics Group. Please contact the web administrator for assistance with any of these publications.
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Climatic Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America
Peterson, D.L., and J.L. Innes. (Editors) 2004. Climatic Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report GTR-PNW-614. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
Forest resource issues have been on the front page of newspapers in northwestern North America for the past two decades. Superimposed on the complexity of managing ecosystems is growing concern about increasing temperatures and other aspects of changes in the atmospheric environment. Managers of
public and private forestlands face increasing pressures to include climate change issues, particularly the disposition of carbon, in long-term management plans. Management, economic and policy approaches to carbon flows in natural resources are evolving rapidly.
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Some weeks ago in his column Ben Yitzchok referred to a number of schools and praised them for not relying on 'Government finance and educational control'. As to some new state-aided Jewish school in Golders Green he had this to say: '...So why go with a begging bowl to the Government for new schools where the admission policies involve uncertainties, to put it mildly.' He then cited the examples of Dr Schonfeld and Rabbi S Pinter and the schools they started and led respectively -Pinter didn't start any schools- for which they did not rely on outside help. He ends, 'Emulating their example is bound to pay dividends.'
This is a perfectly legitimate stance and not so long ago Menorah in North West London was offered voluntary aided status and turned it down, reportedly because they did not want government interference in the running of their school. Indeed Ben Yitzchok expressed similar reservations some 7 years ago when YHS became voluntary aided.
There is however just one slight problem. Ben Yitzchok is the pseudonym of non other than Joe Lobenstein who happens to be (or was until recently - it's impossible to know what's going on in that place) the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School. YH Seniors is of course a voluntary aided school. Irrespective of the fact that as far as parents are aware Joe does not carry out any of the functions of a Chairman and makes no effort to communicate with them, he still carries that title.
So why did Joe accept the most senior formal position of responsibility in a school relying on 'Government finance and educational control' while exhorting others to avoid this very same path? Why does he not follow at the school that he is notionally in charge of the lessons he gives to others? If Rabbi S. Pinter's refusal of outside help is so praiseworthy why is it not followed at the school where his son and heir has titled himself 'principal'?
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NGO warns of potential for massive corruption in Iraq
[JURIST] The rebuilding process in Iraq could turn into the largest example of corruption and bribery in the modern world according to the annual Global Corruption Report [official text download website] issued Wednesday by Transparency International [advocacy website]. TI warned that greater scrutiny of incoming funds and donations was necessary to ensure that all appropriations of financial resources were valid. It also criticized the US for pushing for privitization of the rebuilding phase, warning that too rapid of a transition to private contractors raised significant bribery and corruption risks. Read Transparency International's official press release. Reuters has more.


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Taylor Swift's former high school has officially renamed their auditorium after her!
Following a final Sumner County School Board vote, Hendersonville High School Auditorium will now be known as Taylor Swift Auditorium. The meeting held tonight was merely a formality in the process, as the issue was already decided last month.
Taylor has shown no lack of charity for her former stomping ground. In 2009 Taylor donated $75,000 to upgrade the school auditorium's lighting and sound, hoping that the improved equipment will inspire more students to follow their performing arts dreams.
In just a few short days, Taylor Swift will make history again as she releases her long-anticipated album, "Speak Now", which is sure to break sales records like all of her others.
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There's good news coming out of Iraq… again. The efforts of a 65-nation coalition and punishing US airstrikes have helped local ground forces roll back gains by the Islamic State (IS).
Government forces and Shiite militias, for example, recaptured the city of Tikrit, while Kurdish troops ousted IS fighters from the town of Sinjar and other parts of northern Iraq. Last month, Iraqi troops finally pushed Islamic State militants out of most of the city of Ramadi, which the group had held since routing Iraqi forces there last spring.
In the wake of all this, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter touted "the kind of progress that the Iraqi forces are exhibiting in Ramadi, building on that success to… continue the campaign with the important goal of retaking Mosul as soon as possible." Even more recently, he said those forces were "proving themselves not only motivated but capable." I encountered the same upbeat tone when I asked Colonel Steve Warren, a US military spokesman in Baghdad, about the Iraqi security forces. "The last year has been a process of constructing, rebuilding, and refitting the Iraqi army," he explained. "While it takes time for training and equipping efforts to take effect, the increasing tactical confidence and competence of the ISF [Iraqi security forces] and their recent battlefield successes indicate that we are on track."
"Progress." "Successes." "On track." "Increasing tactical confidence and competence." It all sounded very familiar to me.
By September 2012, after almost a decade at the task, the United States had allocated and spent nearly $25 billion on "training, equipping, and sustaining" the Iraqi security forces, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Along the way, a parade of generals, government officials, and Pentagon spokesmen had offered up an almost unending stream of good news about the new Iraqi Army. Near constant reports came in of "remarkable," "big," even "enormous" progress for a force that was said to be exuding increasing "confidence," and whose performance was always improving. In the end, the United States claimed to have trained roughly 950,000 members of the "steady," "solid," Iraqi security forces.


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The character and qualities of the prize are shaped by The Folio Prize Academy, an international group of people, primarily writers and critics, who are immersed in the world of books. The Academy will play a decisive role in selecting titles to be considered for the shortlist, and each year the judges will be drawn from its number.
The Academy is a community where conversations about the value and direction of fiction can take place. While the group will grow and evolve over years to come, it benefits from a stable form and a variety of individual voices. All of its members demonstrate a commitment to writing and to reading that is ambitious in its vision and scope.
Academy members are nominated by the administrators of The Literature Prize Foundation or by existing members. Members for whom there is a perceived conflict of interest in any given year will be recused from taking part in the nomination or judging process.


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Click here, for complete instructions on how to update the firmware of your Mustang GT amplifier.
Version 1.6.37 (June 11, 2018)
- Footswitch Reliability Improvements
Version 1.6.36 (March 21, 2018)
- Added a fix where renaming a preset in Tone would not update the current preset on the amp
- Added a fix so the amp correctly updates it's empty presets list after saving an empty preset on the amp
Version 1.6.32 (March 6, 2018)
- Bluetooth speed and response time improvements in the Fender Tone app
- Improved Tuner stability on the amp
- Added support for auditioning Tone community presets (Fender Tone for iOS only)
- Removed noise on looper wraparound
- Various other bug fixes
Version 1.5.20 (Oct 9, 2017)
- New Effect Models (9)
- Fender Harmonic Tremolo: Straight from the great Fender "Brownface" amps of the early 1960s, this tremolo effect alternately emphasizes high and low frequencies for a distinctively swishing and almost phaser-like sound
- EQ 5 Graphic: Inspired by the EQ from the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ amp, this five-band EQ is specifically voiced for guitar
- EQ 7 Graphic: Inspired by the Boss GE-7 pedal, this seven-band pedal EQ is voiced specifically for guitar, with fine sonic tailoring
- EQ Parametric: Three-band equalizer with parametric mid control, ideal for dialing in an exact mid-boost frequency for solos or for creating deliberate feedback
- Vibe Unit: Inspired by the classic pulse of a Uni-Vibe pedal
- Octobot: A distinctive octaver effect with prominent one-octave-down plus subtle one-octave-up capabilities for otherworldly "synthesized" tones
- Envelope Filter: Automatic wah effect inspired by the temple-of-funk 1970s popularity of the mighty Mu-Tron III pedal
- Round Fuzz: Inspired by the 1969 silicon-transistor version of the venerable Fuzz Face distortion unit
- VariFuzz: A Fender-created fuzz effect similar to Round Fuzz, with the addition of variable tight-to-loose bass tonality
Version 1.4.21 (Sept,18, 2017)
- Fixed issue to avoid rare startup condition which could lead to loss of user presets.
- Improved parameter sensitivity for several amp models.
Version 1.4.19 (Sept 13, 2017)
- On start-up, the Mustang GT will now load the last used preset rather than defaulting to preset 1.
- Added a gain control for USB audio recording in the AMP SETTINGS menu.
- Added a PRESET ORGANIZER menu item and moved the CLEAR PRESET and RESTORE PRESETS options into this menu.
- Added a MOVE PRESET option in the PRESET ORGANIZER menu.
- Added wrap around functionality to the SAVE AS preset list.
- Fixed issue where the amp would reset to preset 1 issue after clicking Bluetooth RENAME in the menu.
- Fixed issue with Global EQ settings not being sent to the Tone app resulting in differences between amp and app displays.
- Fixed issue with Fuzz stompbox model where the Octave control was non-functional.
- Fixed issue with the 60's British amp model where the Cut control was non-functional.
- Fixed issue with '59 Bassman amp model where limited number of cabinet models were available. All 16 cabinet models are now available.
- Implemented enhancements to LOOPER.
- Implemented enhancements to SETLISTS.
- Improved Bluetooth connectivity for devices running Android version 6.0.1
- Various other bug fixes and enhancements.
Version 1.3.5 (Aug 02, 2017)
- Fixed an issue preventing access to the firmware update servers.
Version 1.2.25 (Jun 27, 2017)
- Added Aux In / Bluetooth Volume Control as a menu option. The default volume setting is now "Master". Note that this setting is different from the current functionality. With this setting the Aux In / Bluetooth volume is controlled by the front panel master volume control. The user can return to the existing functionality by setting the menu option to "Normal". Additionally, there are two more options, "High" and "Low", which allow for further customization of the maximum volume setting.
- Added a two-step verification process for Bluetooth audio pairing.
- Added a few new Global EQ settings including Guitar Focus 1 and Guitar Focus 2.
- Added footswitch support for Setlists. After selecting a Setlist in the menu, the user can now change presets in the list from the footswitch.
- Added a menu option to disable the looper access from the footswitch.
- Added "empty" presets in all unoccupied memory locations. All 200 locations will now show Fender factory presets, user presets or "empty" presets.
- Added a "CLEAR PRESET" option in the main menu. After clearing a preset it will show as "empty".
- Added a "SAVE AS" preset option in the save menu to allow the user to save a preset in any of the 200 memory locations. A blue list item means the slot is "empty" and a red list item means that a preset already exists in that location.
- Changed the cloud preset "SAVE" functionality to the above "SAVE AS" functionality.
- Added Encoder scrolling acceleration when scrolling through the 200 presets.
- All Cabinets are now available to all Amp Models.
- Added the option to Rename a Setlist in the Setlist edit menu.
- Fixed the DELETE SETLIST and DELETE PRESET bug in a Setlist.
- EXP-1 Global settings are now saved when cycling power
- Various other bug fixes and enhancements.
Version 1.1.2 (May 16th 2017)
- Added a hotfix that gracefully handles an issue where the amp may not find compatible WiFi networks and may get stuck on the network loading screen
- Various bug fixes and enhancements
Version 1.1.0 (May 5th 2017)
- Added full support for the Fender Tone App
- Added the functionality to retrieve presets directly from the Cloud
- Added the Shimmer Reverb effect and 2 Factory presets using this effect
- Added support for using the FX Loop as a mono loop
- Added visual indicators to the footswitch display for each of the Looper Modes.
- Fixed Looper audio clicks
- Various bug fixes and enhancements
Version 1.0.38 (First Production Run)
- Initial release
Click here, for complete instructions on how to update the firmware of your Mustang GT amplifier.
All non-FMIC product names and trademarks appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners and are used solely to identify the products whose tones and sounds were studied during sound model development for this product. The use of these products and trademarks does not imply any affiliation, connection, sponsorship, or approval between FMIC and with or by any third party.


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Rapid Inventory has manufacturing functionality. So why do we have this category? Manufacturing is not a one solution fits all type of function. Some companies' requirements are pretty advanced. If you need a true multi-level Bill of Material or have complex Process Manufacturing requirements, you know things can get tricky fast. For those companies, specialized manufacturing software solutions can be used in conjunction with QuickBooks and Rapid Inventory. In general, we say that having multiple solutions managing the inventory is problematic, but these manufacturing software solutions will work just fine.
Get started with Basic Manufacturing and experience how MISys Manufacturing software delivers on its promise to turn your QuickBooks accounting software into an Industrial-Strength Manufacturing System. The Basic Manufacturing software solution provides the following capabilities:
- Extensive tracking of manufacturing inventory and work in process (WIP)
- Multi-level bills of material with full explosion down to 16 levels deep.
- Batch-oriented or direct entry of all stock transfer transactions.
- Full back-flushing of all assembly transactions.
- Choice of standard, average, LIFO, or FIFO costing methods.
- Cost adjustment with roll-up through all BOM levels.
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Elizabethtown stops No. 18 Moravian
Comstock's RBI in ninth gives Greyhounds first win of season
CLERMONT, Fla. -- No. 18 Moravian saw a pair of leads slip away as Elizabethtown rallied for an 8-7, nine-inning win on Monday afternoon.
The Greyhounds, now 1-2 on the season, jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Miranda Sergas and Jenna Carmon each reached on fielder's choice plays before Shannen Mohr connected on a two-RBI double.
Moravian pushed its lead to 3-0 in the bottom of the second inning when Cassie Ernst led off with a single and scored on an RBI triple by Taylor Mihalik.
The Blue Jays (2-2) tied the game at 3-3 in the top of the third inning on a bases loaded, three-RBI triple from Elly McCarthy.
The Greyhounds responded in the bottom half of the inning with a pair of runs to retake a 5-3 lead. Carmon led off with a double before Mohr delivered an RBI triple. Rachel DeLucia would connect on a one-out RBI single to score Mohr.
Elizabethtown would tally a run in the top of the fifth inning on an RBI double from Jessica White, and the Blue Jays pulled in front, 6-5 with two runs in the top of the sixth inning on a two-RBI single by McCarthy.
Moravian moved back in front, 7-6 in the bottom half of the sixth inning on RBI singles from Dior George and Sergas.
The Blue Jays forced extra innings with a run in the top of seventh on an RBI single from Whitney Breneman that scored Payton Marunich, who had started the inning with a double.
Since the game is part of a tournament, the team's went to the international tiebreaker in the top of the eighth, starting with a runner on second base. However, neither team was able to get the runner home.
In the top of the ninth inning, the Blue Jays took an 8-7 lead on an RBI single from Courtney Comstock. In Moravian's half of the ninth inning, the Greyhounds loaded the bases with one out but were unable to tie the game.
Elizabethtown had a 13-11 edge in hits in the contest with McCarthy going 4-5 with five RBIs. Comstock was 2-3 for the Blue Jays while Breneman and Lindsey Cooper each went 2-5. George led Moravian at the plate with a 3-5 performance while Mohr was 2-5 with a pair of extra-base hits and three RBIs. Carmon was 2-5 and scored two runs.
Julie Sebastian went the distance and earned the victory for Elizabethtown, allowing seven runs, six earned, on 11 hits with a walk and five strikeouts in nine innings of action.
Moravian's Lizzie Mack made her first career start in the circle, allowing four runs on six hits and four walks to go with a strikeout in 4 1/3 innings of action. Carmon tossed the final 4 2/3 innings, allowing four runs, three earned, on seven hits and a walk with four strikeouts as Carmon fell to 0-2 on the season.


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Aggressive blood pressure treatment does not increase fall risk after all, study says
Taking aggressive measures to lower older adults' blood pressure may not increase their risk of falls, contrary to conventional wisdom, according to recently published research findings.
The idea that intensive treatment of hypertension could actually lead to low blood pressure that puts seniors at risk of falls is a "commonly cited concern," the investigators stated. However, "few rigorous studies" have examined the issue.
The researchers compared the number of self-reported falls in two groups of participants with type 2 diabetes. One group was receiving intensive hypertension treatment, and the other was receiving a more standard treatment. The intensive group was more commonly prescribed "all classes of medications," especially thiazide diuretics, the investigators noted. There were about 3,100 participants in total, and the mean age was 62.
The group in intensive treatment did not experience more falls or fall-related fractures than the other group over an average follow-up period of about five years, the study authors found. Results did not differ based on patient age.
The study participants were all enrolled in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes trial, testing a variety of treatments. This means they were observed more closely than patients in clinical practice, which could have affected the results of the hypertension study, the authors acknowledged.
Full findings appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.


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Now that I've got a little summer reading time ahead of me, I'm definitely looking forward to diving into this new series....I think Kitty and Lucy, my printer's apprentice, would have enjoyed hanging out!!!
I find that so many people know about the "Gilded Age," the period from about the 1870s to the 1900s with its fabulous wealth and "Robber Baron" businessmen. Through novels like The Great Gatsby, we're also very familiar with the 1920s Jazz Era. But the period in between, the 1910s, remain largely uncharted in popular fiction and film—and so much happened then. The US went from a second-tier nation to the economically most powerful and culturally dominant country in the world. Women went from second-class citizens to finally winning the right to vote. Much of what we associate with modern life—cars, movies, even national boundaries—took their current form during that period. It was a transformative moment in history, which is why I explore it through the eyes of the protagonist of A Front Page Affair, Capability "Kitty" Weeks, a young woman journalist based in New York City.
A Front Page Affair, the first in the Kitty Weeks mystery series, takes place during the summer of 1915, in the aftermath of the sinking of the Lusitania and an attack on financier, J.P. Morgan. As the series unfolds, Kitty will confront the many social and political changes taking place in America in the course of her investigations.


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About The Album
C'est Si Bon was born from Sylvia Bennett's love affair with France and the enchanting songs that, like Paris herself, sparkle with seduction and panache. The protege of jazz legend Lionel Hampton, this Grammy–nominated, international recording artist, is an American diva with a French heart. C'est Si Bon is a musical tour de force that magically transports you to a place of romance, rapture, and heady possibility... Veritably, si bon! With such songs as "C'est Magnifique," "Un Homme et Une Femme," and "La Vie En Rose" the album weaves a world of enchantment where romance reigns, fancy takes flight, and Paris beckons.
Sylvia Bennett the timeless smooth jazz and pop vocalist sings of love with a warmth, clarity, and spirit that is
enveloping and tender, showcasing the depth of her skill, talent and experience. She's sung with Lionel Hampton and she's sung for presidents – all with a singular style and intimacy that is hers and hers alone.
She's one part jazz, one part pop, and one part sultry. If you like Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, and Rosemary Clooney, you'll LOVE Sylvia Bennett.
1. C'est Magnifique (2:51)
2. C'est Si Bon (3:00)
3. Que Reste–t–il de Nos Amours (3:44)
4. Moulin Rouge (2:19)
5. Un Homme et Une Femme (2:38)
6. Pour Toi (3:23)
7. La Seine (2:49)
8. Les Feuilles Mortes (3:27)
9. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (3:37)
10. Ce "Je Ne Sais Quoi" Sur Mon Paris (3:18)
11. La Vie en Rose (2:43)
12. La Mer (3:21)
13. Et Maintenant (3:24)


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SPF stands for sun protection factor. Sunscreens are rated or classified by strength of their SPF. The SPF numbers on the packaging can range from as low as 2 to greater than 50. These numbers refer to the product's ability to deflect the sun's burning rays.
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May 2007
The task force was initiated by CUR President Lori Bettison-Varga to review the nomination and election process of its executive officers and report to the council at the June business meeting. Our charge includes the following:
The task force includes the following members:
Neal Abraham
Sam Abrash
Franci Farnsworth
Susan Larson
Karen Lee
Julio Rivera (Chair)
Early in the study, a number of long-standing former and current members of the nominations committee were contacted to get a sense of what the current process entails. In those conversations, there was a consensus on how nominees are selected and what the process entails, but there was also a consensus that this process was not well known by the general Council and that more transparency would be desirable. The current process is based largely on an oral tradition and not codified like the councilor nomination and election process. In the process for executive board officers, candidates are identified and discussed in formal and informal settings involving the Nominations Committee and members of the Executive Board. A top candidate is identified and is approached to stand for office. In the candidate selection process, consideration has been given to the need for the leadership to reflect the diversity of CUR's divisions, membership and mission; hence such factors as gender, academic discipline, and CUR division of recent officers and of proposed candidates is carefully considered. An important consideration in the selection process heretofore has been finding the person who is at the right moment in his or her career who will have the time to devote to the office and strong support from the person's home institution. Candidates often have had to be recruited to serve. This is a process of selection and recruitment; the vote of the council is a confirmation.
The committee met and outlined a list of organizations to contact and questions to ask. The questions included:
The organizations contacted represented societies with a variety of membership sizes including those that matched the size of CUR. They included both disciplinary and interdisciplinary organizations.
The task force interviewed the presidents or executive directors of organizations to find out the answers to several questions about their nominations and elections procedure. The following is a condensed summary of what was discovered:
All except 2 of the 14 organizations interviewed has two candidates stand for their President office. One organization reported that more than two candidates were allowed but the winner needs 51% (even if it means a runoff vote).
The numbers of candidates for other officers (secretary, treasurer) and executive board varied. In some instances multiple candidates were put forward and other instances only single candidates were put forward. For some organizations it was less important to have two candidates for these offices. It was more important to have two candidates for President.
One organization used to run elections and went to a single candidate for each office (selection) to ensure quality control and because elections in the past created some hard feelings.
Most organizations have a clearly defined process for selecting candidates for their ballot. This selection process consists of two distinct parts: nomination and vetting
Most organizations interviewed put out a broad call for nominations from the membership (e-mail, newsletter, website, etc.). Some organizations have nomination committees that bring candidates names forward. One organization receives nominations from its executive board.
Some organizations require candidates for President to have served on the executive board or in some other leadership capacity.
Many organizations have an elections/nominations committee made up of past presidents, board members and people who know the organization well to vet the nominations and form a ballot. Some organizations assign the executive board to vet and set the ballot. Some organizations make an attempt to balance areas of specialization/discipline as well as gender and racial diversity.
Most all organizations reported that candidates for President and other officers became apparent as a result of their personal involvement in the organization.
None of the organizations interviewed seeks or expects support from the home institution—often candidates will ask for additional support from their institution. Most organizations pay for travel to meetings for its officers.
Several modifiers are used in this summary. Their use is consistent but not precise.
Modifiers: Most (more than 50%), Many (close but under 50%) Some (more than one but not near 50%) One (a single organization).
The responses from this question were the most varied. Many organizations reported that losing candidates often remained active in the organization. Some reported that occasionally there were hard feelings and the candidate dropped out of sight. Some organizations make a concerted effort to connect with unsuccessful candidates, and encourage them to remain active in the organization and stand again for office (sometimes multiple times). One organization reported that concerted efforts are made to move unsuccessful candidates into other leadership roles in the organization. Some organizations reported that unsuccessful candidates are often asked to stand again for office.
Most organizations indicate that their model serves their organization well. Some organizations report that their model allows people to become involved in the organization at smaller or local levels and that by the time they are involved at a larger or national levels they have significant experience. People are groomed for these positions.
We believe that the Council should make a series of decisions regarding the election of officers. Based on the interviews with other organizations there are potentially six separate decisions the Council can debate and decide on. Each decision should be weighed separately—although intertwined and related, debate and consideration should be separate and sequential. The potential decisions are: whether to change at all, how many candidates should stand for office, how nominations are sought, and who vets nominations, how the nominations are vetted, and who should elect the officers. In the table below the Task Force has outlined the decision followed by our recommendation and then followed by a suggested motion to be brought before the Council.
The Task Force recommends that the Council consider change.
Rationale: There appears to be a strong desire by the Council to consider this question. No matter how it is resolved, we believe it is healthy for the Council to consider the matter.
The Task Force recommends an election model for the offices of President and Secretary beginning with the 2008-09 terms of office.
Two candidates should be selected from a larger group of nominees and placed on the ballot for President
Two candidates should be nominated and offered for Secretary
The Task Force recommends that the treasurer position should be a nominated position whose appointment is confirmed by vote by the executive board and the council. This is not a contested election, rather an "advise and consent" situation. The primary rationale for this is two-fold. First, few willing and qualified are available for this position. Second, this model is likely to continue the stability and good fiscal management CUR has enjoyed in the past.
Rationale: We believe that CUR is large enough and strong enough to support a contested election by two candidates. Our conversations with other organizations suggested that this is a more common model of appointing organization officers.
The task force learned two important items for a multiple candidate model to be successful. First, unsuccessful candidates must be encouraged to remain active in the organization. This is done through personal contact from the e-board and through the appointment of the unsuccessful candidate to prominent responsible positions in the organization. Second, unsuccessful candidates are often brought back as nominees in subsequent years.
The task force strongly supports multiple candidates for President and Secretary. If the nominations group is unable to come up with multiple candidates they must justify this to the executive board who may choose to have them search further.
The Council should elect its President and Secretary from a slate of two candidates for each office. It is permissible but not desirable to have only one candidate only if there is only one qualified candidate is available or willing to serve. A single candidate should be nominated and confirmed for the office of treasurer. The candidate will be selected and vetted by the nominations group. The recommended candidate must be approved by a majority vote of the Council.
The Task force recommends that nominations for all elected officer positions should be sought from the CUR membership. These nominations would be solicited through the newsletter, e-mail, websites and other appropriate communication methods that may appear in the future.
Who should vet and narrow the list of nominations to the desired number of candidates?
The Task Force recommends an e-board nominations group (a regularized group) vet the solicited nominations. We recommend that the group consist of the Nominations Co-Chair, the immediate Past-President, and three members elected by the Council. The three elected members shall serve staggered terms and must have served as a Councilor for at least two years although we think more experience and knowledge of the organization is better. They must be Councilors at the time of election. The staggered terms are designed to create a level of "institutional memory" about the nomination and vetting process. The election of this group gives the Council direct representation in the selection of officer candidates.
This nomination group's task shall include consulting with active senior members of CUR and members of the executive board regarding nominated candidates. The consulted members and e-board should represent the Divisions within the Council. The group's discussions should be exhaustive but confidential.
The Task Force is undecided about this. Although we like the idea of having the officers elected by the membership, the current system of having councilors elect the officers also has strong appeal, and thus, we recommend remaining with this system for the time-being.
Contacted Organizations
AAG—Association of American Geographers
APS—Association for Psychological Science
FAST—Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology
HAPS—Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
NACIS—North American Cartographic Information Society
NCGE—National Council on Geographic Education
NCURA – National Council of University Research Administrators
NCUR—National Conferences on Undergraduate Research
PKP—Phi Kappa Phi
PSI CHI—National Honors Society for Psychology
SICB—The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
STP—Society for the Teaching of Psychology
TCS—The Crustacean Society
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WBCSD principal logo usage
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Still the leader of the the Powerpuff Girls. She is a bit more sensitive than her TV incarnation, but still very strong-willed. She gets kidnapped by Mandark later in the comic and develops a bit of a crush on Dexter as the comic progresses.
Dexter's relationship with Blossom is probably the most famous in the comic. Blossom soon fell in love with Dexter and gets jelous if she sees him with another girl. Dexter gets jealous if he sees Blossom with another boy. But they both like each other a lot.
When Blossom stumbles upon his makeshift lab in the school's library, Otto (from Time Squad) takes her back in time and shows her the boy genius's tragic past, which involves Mandark and Dexter's older sister Dee Dee, who died saving Dexter from a laser fired by one of Mandark's robots. Dexter later comes to Blossom's rescue when Mandark kidnaps her.
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Taiwan earthquake kills 18, more than 130 trapped
Apartment tower collapsed during magnitude-6.4 quake
Rescuers in Taiwan pulled a young man alive from a collapsed apartment tower on Sunday more than 24 hours after a strong earthquake shook the island, and kept searching for more than 130 people believed trapped in the ruins of the building.
The 20-year-old was identified by Taiwan media as Huang Kuang-wei. He was taken to hospital.
Firefighters, police, soldiers and volunteers combed through the ruins, some using their hands, as temperatures dropped, watched anxiously by dozens of the victims' family members who wore thick jackets, woollen hats and scarves.
"She's not answering my phone calls ... I am trying to hold my emotions and stay strong. I'll do that until I find her," said a woman surnamed Chang, 42, waiting to hear from her 24-year-old daughter who lived on the fifth floor of the complex.
"Nothing matters but to get her out. The lady living across the hallway was rescued yesterday. I know they will find her, but I have also planned for the worst. It's been more than 20 hours now."
A total of 132 people are still beneath the rubble of the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building in the southern city of Tainan, said a city government official surnamed Chen, with all but about 30 of them trapped deep in the wreckage.
Lower floors pancaked, rest toppled
The building's lower floors pancaked on top of each other in the 6.4 magnitude quake and then the whole structure toppled, raising immediate questions about the quality of materials and workmanship used in its construction in the 1990s.
At least 18 people are known to have died in the quake, which struck at about 4 a.m. local time on Saturday, at the beginning of a Lunar New Year holiday, including 16 found in the collapsed block, according to the latest official death toll.
"We will focus our resources on the 29 who are closest to the rescuers," he said.
The extent of damage to the Golden Dragon Building has raised questions.
Liu Shih-chung, Tainan city government deputy secretary general, said television footage of the ruins of the commercial-residential building suggested the possibility of structural problems related to poor-quality reinforced steel and cement. However, city officials have said it is too early to say for certain if poor construction was a factor in the collapse.
The dead taken from the collapsed apartment block on Saturday included a 10-day-old girl who was found in her dead father's arms, media reported.
Authorities said the building had 96 apartments and 256 registered residents, though more people were inside when it collapsed.
Rescuers wearing red and yellow overalls pulled more than 240 survivors from the ruins and inserted huge supports under slabs of leaning concrete as they searched for additional survivors.
Buildings in nine other locations in the city of two million people had collapsed and five were left tilting at alarming angles, a government emergency centre said on Saturday.
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A decision model, based on differential calculus, that determines the optimum order size for purchasing (sometimes called the economic purchase quantity) or manufacturing (economic manufacturing quantity) an item of stock. The optimum order quantity is that which equates the total ordering and total carrying costs. The formula used is:
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A favorite painting of mine, it is the second of a trilogy of images created in response to a powerful robe ceremony at Crater Lake. The Zen ritual was led by my teacher Gary and shared with my two other sangha sisters, Denice and Brooke. We had climbed to a thousand feet above the sacred lake and were gathered at the edge of a sheer cliff. Our eagle Gary spread his arm-wings wide and called to us "The way is not safe! Lead with your heart!" In this image, she (we) has surrendered to Trust as she steps off the edge into the vast unknown.
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It Felt Love
HowDid the roseEver open its heartAnd give the worldAll its Beauty?
It felt encouragement of lightAgainst its Being,
Otherwise,We all remain
Too frightened.
From the Penguin publication The Gift, Poems by Hafiz.Copyright © 1999 Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission.
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