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June 25-27, 2009
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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With the rapid growth in computing and communications
technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful
parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice
of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved
into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining
future research and development activities in many academic and industrial
branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must
cope with very tight timing schedules.
The HPCC-2009 conference is the 11th edition of the highly
successful International Conference on High Performance and Communications(HPCC).
It provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry,
and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present
and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience
on all aspects of high performance computing and communications.
HPCC-09 is the next event in a series of highly successful
International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications
(HPCC), previously held as HPCC-08 (DaLian, China, September 2008), HPCC-07
(Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006),
HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December
2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02
(Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada,
November 2001), HPNCA-00(Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, April 1999).
Submissions must include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the e-mail
address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 15 pages, including
tables and figures. All paper submissions must represent original and
unpublished work. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking
that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register
for the conference and present the work. Submissions will be conducted
electronically on the conference website.
Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file.
Submit your paper(s) at the HPCC-09 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc09/sub/
Workshop Proposal: December 01, 2008
Submission Deadline: January 26, 2009
Authors Notification: March 20, 2009
Final Manuscript Due: April 03, 2009
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference
Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted
papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present
their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from
the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.
Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after
further revision, will be published in special issues of the several international
issues such as Journal of Supercomputing, IJHPCN,IJCSSE and WWW (Pending).
Honorary Chair
Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea
General Chairs:
Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Program Chairs:
Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain
Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA
Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia
Steering Chairs:
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Steering Committee:
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA
Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA
Ronald Perrott, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Michael Germdt, Technische Univ. Munchen, Germany
Dieter Kranzlmuller, John Kepler University Linz, Austria
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Workshop Chairs:
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Local Arrangement Committee:
HyeonCheol Kim, Korea University, Korea (Chair)
WonGyu LEE, Korea University, Korea
HeonChang Yu, Korea University, Korea
SoonYoung Jung, Korea University, Korea
Taeweon Suh, Korea University, Korea
Heuiseok Lim, Korea University, Korea
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece
Wenbin Jiang, Huang Zhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dang Minh Quan, International University in Germany, Germany
Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
Program Vice Chairs:
Parallel and distributed system architectures
Mei Yang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Parallel and distributed software technologies
Tsung-Chuan Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Parallel and distributed algorithms
Zizhong Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Embedded systems
Chi-Sheng (Daniel) Shih, National University of Taiwan, Taiwan
Grid, cluster and Peer-to-peer computing
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Web services and internet computing
Robert van Engelen, Florida State University, USA
Performance evaluation and measurement
Felix Wolf, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Distributed systems and applications
Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA
High-performance scientific and engineering computing
Matthias Mueller, University of Dresden, Germany
Database applications and data mining
Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Biological/molecular computing
Bingbing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia
Network protocols, routing, algorithms
Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence
Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada
Mobile computing and wireless communications
Bin Xie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance
Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia
Trust, security and privacy
Zesheng Chen, Florida International University, USA
Program Committee
Parallel and distributed system architectures
Xuerong Feng, Arizona State University, USA
Anthony Fong, City University of Hong Kong, China
Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Kyong Hoon Kim, Gyeongsang National University, Korea
Peng Liu, Zhejiang University, China
Enyue Lu, Salisbury University, USA
Rama Sangireddy, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Toshi Sato, Fukuoka University, Japan
Ling Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Xiaozong Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yulu Yang, Nankai University, China
Mohamed Zahran, City University of New York, USA
Parallel and distributed software technologies
Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Denis Barthou, University of Versailles St Quentin, France
Rong-Guey Chang National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Slo-Li Chu, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
I-hsin Chung, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Luiz DeRose, CRAY, USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Karl Fuerlinger, University of Tennessee, USA
Harald Gjermundrod, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University, Japan
Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
Eduard Mehofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Constantinos Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Kleanthis Psarris, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Silvius Rus, Google, USA
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Shmuel Ur, IBM Research Labs, Israel
Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
Josef Weidendorfer, Technical University Munich, Germany
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Hao Yu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Parallel and distributed algorithms
George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Alfredo Buttari, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Victor Eijkhout, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Guillermo A. Francia, Jacksonville State University, USA
Jinzhu Gao, University of the Pacific, USA
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France
Julien Langou, University of Colorado Denver, USA
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Piotr Luszczek, Mathworks, USA
Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee, USA
Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India
Qishi Wu, University of Memphis, USA
Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
Mengxia Zhu, Southern Illinois University, USA
Embedded systems
Alessio Bechini, University of Pisa, Italy
Houcine Hassan, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University, Korea
Jen-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Sung-Soo Lim, Kookmin University, Korea
Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Shao-Li Tsao, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Grid, cluster and peer-to-peer computing
Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jaeyoung Choi, Soongsil University, Korea
Alexandre di Costanzo, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Patricia Gonzalez, University of A Coruna, Spain
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Josep Jorba, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Rainer Keller, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hwa Min Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea
Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Ignacio Martin Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Michael Parkin, University of Tilburgh, The Netherlands
Christian Perez, IRISA/INRIA, France
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International, University, USA
Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Italy
Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany
Web services and internet computing
Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy
Ken Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, USA
Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany
Claude Godart, LORIA Laboratory of IT Research and Applications, France
Madhu Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Keith Jackson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Laurent Lefevre INRIA, University of Lyon, France
Michael J. Lewis, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA
Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Daniel A. Menasce, George Mason University, USA
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marcel-Catalin Rosu, IBM, USA
Pallickara Shrideep, Indiana University, USA
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Performance evaluation and measurement
Dorian Arnold, University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Rocky K. C. Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Canfeng Chen, Nokia Research Center, China
Michele Colajanni, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Franco Frattolillo, Universitá del Sannio, Italy
Karl Fuerlinger, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Arjan van Gemund, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK
Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
Tomas Margalef, University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain
Pascale Minet, INRIA, France
Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee, USA
Rolf Rabenseifner, High Performance Computing Center, Germany
Casiano Rodriguez Leon, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Matthew Sottile, University of Oregon, USA
Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Roland Wismüller, Siegen University, Germany
Jing Wu, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Erfu Yang, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Distributed systems and applications
Anne Benoit, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA
Spyros Kontogiannis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Mario Lauria, The Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM),
Jongsuk Ruth Lee, KISTI, Korea
Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Seetharami Seelam, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Daniele Scarpazza, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia
Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA
Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
Martin Swany, University of Delaware, USA
Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yong Meng Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
High-performance scientific and engineering computing
Henrique Andrade, IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory, USA
Saad Bani-Mohammed, University of Glasgow, UK
Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA
Raphael Couturier, LIFC, Belfort, France
Andres Gomez Tato, Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA), Spain
Rick Kufrin, NCSA, USA
Sik Lee, KISTI, Korea
Yiming Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
?Maria J. Martin, University of A Coruna, Spain
Rodrigo F. de Mello, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alexandros Stamatakis, ?Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
Database applications and data mining
Josep Aguilar, IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
Ranieri Baraglia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Greg Buehrer, Microsoft Research, USA
Carmela Comito, University of Calabria, Italy
Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK
Sven Helmer, Birbeck College, UK
Mauricio Marin, Yahoo! Research Latin America, Chile
Volker Markl, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Victor Muntes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, FORTH, Greece
Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy
Marta Patiño, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Erich Schikuta, University of Vienna, Austria
Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy
Antoni Wolski, SolidDB, Finland
Demetris Zeinalipour, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Biological/molecular computing
Alessio Bechini, University of Pisa, Italy
Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia
Federico Fontana, University of Verona, Italy
Giuditta Franco, University of Verona, Italy
Marian Gheorghe, University of Sheffield, UK
Mauri Giancarlo, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Thomas Hinze, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Zuwairie Ibrahim, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy
Maurice Margenstern, University of Metz, France
Marion Oswald, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mario de J. Pérez Jiménez, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Yurii Rogozhin, Academy of Sciences, Moldova
Apostolos Syropoulos, Greek Molecular Computing Group, Greece
Uwe Tangen, FhG, Germany
Gyorgy Vaszil, Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Gennaro Della Vecchia, National Research Council, Italy
Lorenzo Verdoscia, National Research Council, Italy
Chen Wang, CSIRO, Australia
Claudio Zandron, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Network protocols, routing, algorithms
Raad S. Al-Qassas, University of Glasgow, UK
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, UK
Jianliang Gao, Fujian Normal University, China
Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Zongpeng Li, University of Calgary, Canada
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Kai Ouyang, Tencent Int., China
Benno Overeinder, NLnet Labs, The Netherlands
Rubem Pereira, Liverpool John Morres University, UK
Sumesh J. Philip, Western Illinois University, USA
Balakrishna Prabhu, Dutch Center for Mathematics and Computer Science,
The Netherlands
Nigel A. Thomas, University of Newcastle, UK
Lan Wang, University of Bradford UK
Xiaofang Wang, Villanova University, USA
Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Yulei Wu, University of Bradford, UK
Hao Yin, Tsinghua University, China
Peidong Zhu, National University of Defense Technology, China
Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence
Rosa Alarcon, Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Chile, Chile
Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University, Canada
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Miguel P. Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Komosny Dan, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Esteban Egea Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yeonkwon Jeong, Information and Communications University, Korea
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
Riccardo Lancellotti, University of Modena, Italy
Eddie Law, Ryerson University, Canada
Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yang Li, British Telecom, UK
Hai Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Xiaodong Liu, Napier University, UK
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
Sudip Misra, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Frédéric Le Mouël, INSA-Lyon, France
Shumao Ou, University of Essex, UK
Maria Papadaki, University of Plymouth, UK
Khaled Ragab, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Habib F. Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Max Walter, Technische Universitat München, Germany
Paul A.S. Ward, University of Waterloo, Canada
Boon Sain Yeo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mobile computing and wireless communications
Basel Alawieh, Alcatel-Lucent, Canada
Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research North America, USA
Pei-Jung Chung, University of Edinburgh, UK
Shyam n Kapadia, University of Southern California, USA
Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Amiya Nayak, University of Ottawa, Canada
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Yong Pei, Wright State University, USA
Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Lakshmi Santhanam, Intel India Pvt. Lt, Bangalore, India
Dongmei Sun, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Xiaofeng Tao, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China
Lin Wang, Xiamen University, China
Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA
Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance
Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Li Bai, Temple University, USA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shaun Dai, University of Tennessee, USA
Geert Deconinck, University of Leuven, Belgium
Andreas Doering, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory GmbH, Switzerland
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Susan Donohue, National Academy of Engineering, USA
Elias Duarte, Jr., Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan
Masaaki Kondo, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Kenichi Kourai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Erik Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany
Henrique Moniz, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Takashi Nanya, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA
Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Justin Rough, Deakin University, Australia
Jichiang Tsai, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
Geoffroy Vallee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, USA
Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA
Trust, security and privacy
Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France
Feng Bao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Chao Chen, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA
Adel Cherif, University of Qatar, Qatar
Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennessee, USA
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA
Xiaoyan Hong, University of Alabama, USA
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Limoges University, France
Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
Deng Pan, Florida International University, USA
Maria S. Perez-Hernandez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Damien Sauveron, University of Limoges, France
Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK
Masumi Toyoshima, Kitakyushu University, Japan
Weichao Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Ning Weng, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China


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stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Pitt Branch (0.9km)
- Greasy Creek (1km)
- Double Branch (1.3km)
- Taylor Creek (1.4km)
- Shop Branch (1.4km)
- Double Branch (1.6km)
- Billy Creek (1.9km)
- Keener Creek (2km)
- Rickman Creek (2.7km)
- Blacks Creek (4.2km)
- First Prong (4.6km)
- Blacks Branch (5.1km)
- Silver Branch (5.2km)
- Kilby Branch (5.4km)
- Jerry Branch (5.4km)
mountain an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Lookoff Mountain (2km)
- Edmonds Top (2.3km)
- Scrugg Knob (2.4km)
- Marsen Knob (2.6km)
- Elisha Mountain (3km)
- Smokehouse Knob (3.2km)
- Blackrock Mountain (3.2km)
- Keener Mountain (4.3km)
- Penson Knob (4.4km)
- Billy Mountain (4.5km)
- Big Face (4.8km)
- Cedar Knob (5.2km)
- Ledford Mountain (5.2km)
- Gulf Knob (5.5km)
gap a low place in a ridge, not used for transportation.
- Taylor Gap (2.4km)
- Gibson Gap (2.4km)
- Scrugg Gap (2.6km)
- Blue Ridge Gap (3.9km)
- Wolf Fork Gap (3.9km)
- Rabun Gap (4.4km)
- Darnell Gap (5.2km)
church a building for public Christian worship.
- Wolf Fork Church (1.4km)
- Blue Heights Church (4.2km)
- Black Rock Church (5.2km)
- Mountain Grove Church (5.3km)
Accommodation around Millers Mill (historical)
Regal Inn Clayton 707 Highway 441 S, Clayton
Days Inn Clayton Ga 54 Hwy 441 North, Clayton
Knights Inn Dillard 3 Best Inn Way, Dillard
dam a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Black Rock Lake Dam (1.1km)
- Rabun Gap Nacoochee School Lake Dam (3.9km)
- Cox Lake Dam (4.6km)
- Rabun School Dam (4.7km)
Local Feature A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Millers Mill (historical) (0km)
- Taylor Chapel (1.1km)
- Almond Bald (4.8km)
- Camp Barron (5.4km)
populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Dickerson Mill (3km)
- York (3.8km)
- Mountain City (4.2km)
reservoir(s) an artificial pond or lake.
- Silvan Lake (0km)
- Rabun Gap Nacoochee School Lake (3.9km)
- Cox Lake (4.6km)
tower a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- WALH Radio Tower (3.7km)
- WALH-AM (Mountain City) (3.8km)
cemetery a burial place or ground.
- McCurry Cemetery (3.3km)
- Wesley Chapel Cemetery (5.5km)
spring(s) a place where ground water flows naturally out of the ground.
- Darling Spring (4.8km)
lake a large inland body of standing water.
- Black Rock Lake (1.1km)
park an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Black Rock Mountain State Park (2.4km)
Wikipedia entries close to Millers Mill (historical)
- Mountain City, Georgia city o city
- Clayton, Georgia city o city
- Dillard, Georgia city o city
- Grassy Ridge mountain k mountain
- Tiger, Georgia city o city
- Sky Valley, Georgia city o city
- Dick's Knob mountain k mountain
- Rabun Bald mountain k mountain
- Hightower Bald mountain k mountain
- Tallulah Falls, Georgia city o city
- Double Spring Knob mountain k mountain
- Highlands, North Carolina city o city
- Tray Mountain mountain k mountain
- Franklin, North Carolina city o city
- Hiawassee, Georgia city o city
- Whiteside
Airports close to Millers Mill (historical)Anderson rgnl(AND), Andersen, Usa (102.3km)
Mc ghee tyson(TYS), Knoxville, Usa (139.9km)
Dobbins arb(MGE), Marietta, Usa (191.4km)
The william b hartsfield atlanta international(ATL), Atlanta, Usa (216.2km)
Augusta rgnl at bush fld(AGS), Bush field, Usa (278.3km)


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- Above is the latest episode of WWE Playlist with The Undertaker's most supernatural moments.
- WWE filed to trademark the term "Immune To Fear" on September 12th, which is a catchphrase Jeff Hardy used during his 2009 WWE run.
- Below is full video from last night's Loudwire Music Awards in Los Angeles, which were hosted by Chris Jericho. You can see Zakk Wylde battle WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz on-stage in a game of WWE 2K18 at around the 1:18:00 mark.
The @Loudwire Music Awards are live! Watch @mikethemiz play #WWE2K18 against @ZakkWyldeBLS here: https://t.co/9KMGFpYyKo pic.twitter.com/MPb4nCQDPP— WWE 2K18 (@WWEgames) October 25, 2017
.@mikethemiz is HERE at the 2017 #LoudwireAwards and he's already running his mouth! @ZakkWyldeBLS better watch out! ?? pic.twitter.com/1WtDDLFiwk— Loudwire (@Loudwire) October 25, 2017
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The Missouri Lottery today sent $22.1 million to the Lottery Proceeds Fund to benefit public education. The monthly transfer of $22,167,963 is based on April sales and brings the total transferred in FY13 to more than $258.5 million.
Since Missouri Lottery sales started in 1986, the Lottery has generated more than $4.5 billion for the state and public education. Programs funded in FY13 include the A+ Scholarship Program, the Foundation Program and Access Missouri. For complete information about Missouri Lottery proceeds, including maps of proceeds by program and by county, see the "Where the $ Goes" section at MOLottery.com.
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Players have less than two months to redeem prizes from the following seven Scratchers games:
• Game 613, "Lifetime Riches," – expires June 29;
• Game 865, "Diamond Mine," – expires June 29;
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• Game 871, "Triple Luck," – expires June 29;
• Game 872, "St. Louis Cardinals," – expires June 29;
• Game 878, "5X the Cash," – expires June 29; and
• Game 897, "Scary Cash," – expires June 29.
For a complete list of expiration dates and games, visit the Missouri Lottery's website at: http://www.molottery.com/scratchers.do.
Players must be 18 years or older to purchase Missouri Lottery tickets.
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Charlottesville Neighborhood Development Services planner Brian Haluska AICP presents information regarding the purpose and intent of the "Special Use Permit" provision within the zoning code. How are such permits applied for? Who can grant an SUP?
The informational meeting was held at the Woolen Mills Chapel, organized by Cindy Cartwright and Bill Lankford. Attended by 30 citizens…
Mr. Haluska pointed the assembled toward the definition and regulations pertaining to music halls.
My fears regarding the future of neighborhoods? Cut them open to get to the golden eggs, trade them for a handful of magic beans, shrink National Historic Districts and ADC's to the size of handkerchiefs, widen roads, install sewage pipes in the air, cut down the trees, fire engines everywhere. Anything is possible.
Charlottesville Tomorrow has the story:
Urban Design
Our City is currently involved in several urban design discussions simultaneously.
Are cities gender neutral? Our city, being Charlotte's Ville. Maybe she can multitask. Talk about redesigning her central park and her bridge downtown and not cut off the wrong leg by mistake.
I have missed the bridge-design events & discussion. Watching the video by Dan Bluestone and Brian Wimer has me playing catch-up.
Why do we allow our bad things to happen to our cities? Why do we allow our cities to be designed by autos and fire engines?
Jim Kunstler talked a bit about the Law of Perverse Outcomes in his November 2011 "Eyesore of the Month".
Humpty Dumpty
failure to control
My first dog was executed by the Albemarle County dog warden by rifle shot at my request. Mr. D would have taken Charlie away and gassed him, I preferred to have it be quick and dead.
Charlie was a fabulous dog, I was a bad dog owner.
Problems with domesticated animals can generally be traced back to the owner. Having my dog die of lead poisoning made an impression on me.
Charlie the Labrador slew rabbits at Carlo Columbini's place on Route 20 North.
You kill livestock in Virginia, you die. There is a law for that.
When a state or a municipality enforces its existing laws, changes in behavior will occur.
I support leash laws for dogs and cats. I am tired of domesticated cats killing wild birds and defecating wherever they see fit.
In our town there is one Council meeting every two years opened by the City Manager. This is the first meeting following the expiration of the Mayor's term when the City Councilors choose one of their colleagues to be the boss of the dais for the next two years and another of their colleagues to be the underboss.
Now, our City is a bit of a machine politics town, all the Councilors are Democrats. They do argue amongst themselves, have healthy debates, intrigues, kerfluffles. They get things done, spend money.
Still, I like the pretense that a vote will be taken, it just feels more democratic.
So, do they do this every time? Telegraph the result of the vote before the vote? That is Mr. Jones, our excellent City Manager, sitting on the mayoral throne, gaveling open the meeting. And the sign in front says Huja.
Huja is the mayor who was elected several minutes later.
water water everywhere
Workers from TriState Utilities reline 8″ diameter waste water pipe from an access point at 10th and Market Street. To prevent infiltration and exfiltration related to sewer pipes in the water and sewer authority service area would require an expenditure of 2000 million dollars.
Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd gives an interview to local TV following the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority Board Meeting September 27.
Charlottesville City Council Independent candidate, Bob Fenwick, advocates dredging of the region's reservoir as the most effective means of protecting water supply. Mr. Fenwick shown here with corn growing in dredging spoils.
September 29, a citizen addresses a representative of the state Department of Environmental Quality at a public hearing regarding a Modification Request for VWP Individual Permit No. 06-1574, Ragged Mountain Expansion Project, Albemarle County, Virginia.
River Thing
Wednesday, July 20, the City Council will interview candidates for the City's "Planning Commission".
I hope the Councilors will ask PC wannabees to:
Identify strategies to maximize the presence and value of the Rivanna River in the life of the City.
The city of Charlottesville has a 3.6 mile waterfront without a single path from the river's edge to the water.
Imagine that.
A city that ignores its river cannot call itself great.
Mr. Jefferson's River
In 2005 the RWSA "discovered" that in wet weather events leaky pipes and insufficient "transmission capacity" meant that they were losing around 20-25 million gallons of sewage. Where was this liquor going? Into Mr. Jefferson's river.
Some leaky pipe fixing was begun, 25% of the leaks are slated to be fixed by 2020.
But, that leaves a whole lot of mixed liquids and suspended solids (yeck) burping into the waters of the State of Virginia.
Tonight, Charlottesville City Council holds a public hearing on the subject of how best to deal with this environmental catastrophe.
From the beginning, RWSA has solicited input from the public, "give us your ideas. Think outside the box". The public has responded with some good ideas which are generally dismissed.
For instance, the Public said "fix the leaky pipes". Nope, too expensive, no one in the sewage industry tries to fix all the leaky pipes.
One of the RWSA fix options (they call them concepts) was dismissed by City Council, that concept was to locate a massive sewage pumping plant (53mgd capacity) in Riverview Park, the Community's primary gateway to the river.
Now RWSA is advocating locating the pumping plant at the foot of Monticello Mountain, 6/10ths of a mile from Mr. Jefferson's crib, this plan is known as option D.
Locating the pumping plant on the northwest face of Monticello Mountain would require the destruction of the riverine environment visible on the left side of the river above. All those trees have to go.
The public has suggested option E. which avoids destroying environmental resources and threatening the architectural resources of the Woolen Mills Village National Historic District. Option E doesn't threaten anyone or anything. Option E is a bored pathway, in existing easements, to the Moore's Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Option E will be expensive. It is cheaper to leave the burden of transmitting the sewage from 43 square miles of County, City and University land squarely on the shoulders of property owners and residents in the Woolen Mills.
What will City Council recommend? What will the RWSA Board vote for?
We long for the day when fact based decision making trumps politics and when our community is reconnected with its River. Voting for option E would bring that day closer.


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Another simple deck that is very powerful. The objective gives most of the significant advantages so it is important to get it flipped as soon as possible. Use a gift against other alien decks. If it is an imperial deck then save "artoo" and "a gift" for force you have to lose. Getting Tessek and kabe to the audience chamber are the second priorities. Bo Shuda is not used because you want the opponent to attack you on tatooine. Numbers will allow you to spread far and skiffs let you spread thin. The great thing about this deck is that it can go anywhere. There are a lot of advantages to this deck playing against alien decks (mainly from Artoo and A Gift), but if you play against an imperial deck it should not do too bad either. Use Heading For The Medical Frigate along with Uh-Oh! and Do or Do Not to start the game, and if you see imperials or an imperial objective then deploy with confidence to Audience Chamber and take it early.
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Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale: Lunch with the Parents!
Gwen Stefani and her husband Gavin Rossdale walk hand in hand while heading to lunch on Monday (August 19) in London, England.
The 43-year-old No Doubt singer and the 47-year-old rocker were joined for the lunch by his dad Douglas and wife.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Gwen Stefani
The day before, Gwen was spotted heading to home in London after spending some time in France.
Also pictured: Gwen sporting a pink bikini on a boat with shirtless Gavin and two sons Kingston and Zuma on Friday (August 16) in Cote d'Azur, France.
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Delaware Chancery Court
G&E represented two institutional investors asserting derivative claims on behalf of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. ("Outdoor") against the company's Board of Directors for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the company's unsecured loan of nearly all its cash to its parent company and controlling shareholder, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. ("Clear Channel").
In 2008, two private equity firms, Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P, took Clear Channel private in a $24 billion leveraged buyout – one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history. Since that time, Clear Channel had been saddled with billions of dollars in debt and had been using Outdoor as a primary source of funding. Specifically, through a cash management agreement that allowed Clear Channel to sweep all cash held by Outdoor on a daily basis, Outdoor's Board permitted Clear Channel to borrow over $700 million, nearly all of Outdoor's cash, on an unsecured basis from Outdoor at approximately half of the going interest rate for similar loans. Meanwhile, rating agencies viewed a Clear Channel default as "imminent or inevitable," and there was serious concern that Clear Channel could file for bankruptcy. In that case, Outdoor would have been left as an unsecured creditor, unable to recover the funds it had provided to Clear Channel.
In 2013, G&E was able to negotiate a settlement that returned $200 million to Outdoor's shareholders, through an immediate reduction in the outstanding loan and the payment of a special dividend. In addition, the settlement included substantial changes in the cash management agreement between the companies that, among other things, permits the independent directors of Outdoor to unilaterally recall the loan and declare a special dividend in the event that the loan balance exceeds certain thresholds, and establishes several reporting requirements on Clear Channel's financial position to assist the Outdoor Board in controlling the financial risk of the company.


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No matter who you are, you've got something to offer our hospice patients. Typically the needs are simple: companionship and friendship, emotional support, someone to listen and give the gift of their time. But the small things you do can make an enormous difference in someone's life. You can assist patients by visiting, reading, writing letters, playing music, or just sitting quietly. We serve patients and families in their homes and in various care facilities in the Cedarburg/Grafton area. This flexible location means that there is likely a patient close to you. Most volunteers commit to from two to four hours per week. The timing is also flexible.
This opportunity will let you practice soft and social skills, such as active listening, empathy, and conversation. It will also give you experience in a health care environment. Both of these reflect positively on a resume.
Volunteers must be 18 years or older with good interpersonal and communication skills. Orientation and training are provided.
Volunteers need to have the ability to work independently with indirect supervision, and a willingness to help others as a member of the hospice team. Volunteer schedules are based on your availability and are very flexible. Assignments are based on your level of comfort.
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Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised leader in the development of creativity, innovation and skills in education and business. The videos of his talks at the prestigious TED conference on how creativity can revolutionise schools have been viewed over 25 million times. He has been listed as "one of the world's elite thinkers on creativity and innovation" by Fast Company magazine. His latest book is titled 'Creative Schools: Revolutionising Education from the Ground Up'.
Education is mankind's most significant investment in its future. However, the current school systems in most developed nations are built around an old economic and social model that predates today's massive technological and societal changes. They were created in the context of the Industrial Revolution and are now hopelessly out of date.
Firstly, given the scale and the rate of change in the size of our populations and the consequent strains we are putting on the planet, the future doesn't lie in increased competition for resources but in collaboration between nations and individuals. Our educational structures have yet to reflect this fundamental requirement that we all learn to work together to collaborate rather than compete.
Secondly, our children are being subjected to an increasing process of standardisation and testing. The result is narrowing the curriculum and it hasn't worked. We have made education, for a lot of people, a stressful and exhausting process.
What we should be doing above all is cultivating the great diversity of people's talents, especially investing more and more in developing innovation, creativity and collaboration.
Creativity is common, but often also latent. People are born with immense natural talents but you have to discover them and then cultivate them.
One example is that most children, by the time they're eighteen months old, are speaking fairly competently. It's interesting how nobody teaches them how to do it. You don't take your child out at eighteen months and say, "We have to talk." We are deeply curious creatures and we have a fantastic appetite for knowledge. We like to learn.
The problems tend to occur, curiously, when we try to educate children. They go off learning when we try to school them. Not always, but often. By the time they get to be about eight, nine, or ten and they get to high school, learning may have become a bit of a drag.
There is a wonderful example in Venezuela of a national music programme called El Sistema. The program takes kids from slums, supplies them with instruments and puts on music classes. They have produced a whole generation of classical musicians including the star Gustavo Dudamel, who is now the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and one of the world's most distinguished musicians.
Time and again, if people are given the opportunity, they discover that they are capable of all kinds of things they hadn't considered. When you make education impersonal and focus on a certain type of academic work, it becomes very linear and limits rather than expands the horizons of those who are subjected to it.
These ideas don't only apply to children and teenagers. They also apply to people in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. The current attitude to teaching is based on the idea that you get educated once in your life, but there have always been small programs of adult education.
One of the great pioneers of that model was the Open University in the UK, which represents a radically important shift in the way we think about education. It started in the 1970s and made university-level education available to anybody, at any age, irrespective of their background and qualifications.
I once had the great privilege of receiving an honorary degree from the Open University, and I gave the commencement address. It is a wonderful thing to watch people of all ages, even in their 90s, sit at the front in gowns, while their children and grandchildren cheered them on in the back. It is absolutely the case that we are all capable of carrying on learning, growing and developing our whole lives. As we live longer, returning to learning during our lives will become even more important.
It's why the shift from the old industrial model to a more organic model is important, because in the industrial model you make something once and off it goes. You may have to do a bit of maintenance on it from time to time but it's not expected to last forever.
But we need to see education through an organic lens. Farmers know that you have to keep planting every year – you keep growing and developing, and natural systems go through cycles which keep refreshing, and they carry on indefinitely if you create the right conditions for them. One of the big shifts we have to see is that education is not just about young people; it's a lifetime opportunity.
We also need to encourage students to find their passion. Some time ago I met an inspirational individual in Oklahoma named Bart Connor. When Bart was about seven, he discovered that he could walk on his hands as easily as he could walk on his feet. Nobody thought much about it except his mother, who took Bart to the local gymnastics centre. For Bart the gym was like Santa's Grotto and Disneyland all in one.
Ten years later, he walked on to the mat at the Montreal Olympics representing the US gymnastics squad. He went on to become the most decorated male gymnast in American history. He is married to Nadia Comaneci, who was the first female gymnast to get a perfect ten from Romania. Together they have a gymnastics centre, a TV program and they also work as ambassadors for the Special Olympics movement. Between them they helped to liberate the gymnastic capabilities of hundreds of athletes with special needs.
So, how do you facilitate creativity in education? I believe there are four key elements: the curriculum, teaching techniques, assessment, and the physical environment.
Firstly, the curriculum must be broad and dynamic. Most current curricula are narrow, and focused on particular subjects like maths and science. I am not saying that those subjects are not creative; they absolutely are. But the problem is the humanities, the arts and physical disciplines are pushed further and further down the priority list. But music, art, dance and theatre are every bit as rigorous in their own way.
Secondly, we must rethink most teaching methods. The job of a teacher is to help children to learn. Having them sit in front of you at desks and talk at them for an hour is one of the worst techniques, because it turns people off. Kids learn a lot from each other as well as from the teacher. So active group work is a big part of having a creative curriculum. When learning becomes a process of inquiry, you kindle the appetite for it.
Thirdly, our current standardised approach to assessment has to change to recognise that in many creative processes there isn't one answer. There may be many answers. You can look at a child's artwork, or musical composition, and criticise the composition, but it wouldn't make sense to look at a child's poem and say "that's wrong." One of the ways of encouraging creativity is moving away from the idea that there is only one answer.
Lastly, physical environment is really significant. A lot of what goes on in school is not required by law, it is just a function of habit, because we have just always done it that way. So we need to be flexible with physical spaces and school timetables, structuring our learning environments around students' needs, rather than conforming to tradition for the sake of it.
Children – and adults – have tremendously sharp minds and the appetite and ability to absorb vast amounts. We need education systems that help them to fulfil themselves, and systems that accept that there is no one good way to write a song; there is no one way to write a novel; and that there is no one way to run a school. Only then will we move from being constrained by conformity to being cured by creativity.


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When we think of spiritual powers, we usually imagine walking on water or performing some kind of miracle. However, Daido Roshi points out that true mystical power resides within the simple actions of our everyday lives, whether we are cooking a meal, washing the dishes, or driving a car. These activities seem ordinary, but they have an extraordinary aspect as well. Yet if our lives are truly filled with the miraculous, why do we experience so much pain and suffering, so much greed, anger, and ignorance? The key lies in stopping our internal dialogue and allowing ourselves to realize the moment-to-moment reality of our life. When we become conscious of our lives and unify our thoughts and energy, our internal light shines without hindrance.
Zen Buddhism emphasizes zazen, or seated meditation, as the means to study the self and understand who we truly are. Dharma talks are an essential aspect of Zen training and take place in the context of zazen. Said to be dark to the mind and radiant to the heart, a dharma talk is one of the ways in which a teacher points directly to the heart of the teachings of the Buddha. In our meditation practice, it is easy to get lost in self-doubt, fantasy, numbness, and emotional agitation. Dharma talks help to ground our practice, providing inspiration and an essential recognition of exactly where we find ourselves, so that we can learn to face difficulties and obstacles with a free and flexible mind. This talk was given at Zen Mountain Monastery or the Zen Center of New York City of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, founded in 1980 by the late American Zen Master John Daido Loori, Roshi (1931-2009).
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Answer: Re-aging a debt, credit card or other past due accounts resets the collection limitations clock and may give collectors and creditors a fresh start. Creditors DO NOT have to re-age past due accounts, but when they do without your permission or payment, their actions may be in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, if the re-aging constitutes false information furnished or transmitted to a credit reporting agency. Re-aged debts may also restart a statute of limitations on collections. Speak to Attorneys For Consumers in your state for a free consultation about how re-aging may affect you.
Re-aging a past-due account means your creditor sets the account due date back to current or marks payments as more current than they actually were. Creditors may only re-age your account once in a 12-month period and twice in a five-year period for open-ended accounts (credit cards, charge cards, store cards etc.). To be considered for re-aging:
- You must demonstrate a renewed willingness and ability to pay;
- Your credit card account should be at least 9 months old;
- You need to make at least three consecutive minimum monthly payments.
Don't ask for re-aging if you will not be able to keep up with the payments. In other words, don't waste your re-aging opportunity! It's better to wait until you can truly keep up the payments before approaching your creditors and asking them to re-age your account.
Some creditors never re-age accounts, some will only re-age an account one time and other creditors follow the federal guidelines that allow once in a 12-month period or twice every five years. It simply depends on the creditor's re-aging policy. Some creditors will re-age past due accounts if you agree to enter a debt-workout program or debt-management plan.
When asking creditors to re-age your accounts, be sure to get it in writing! If your creditor won't put the details of your re-aging program in writing, do it yourself. Keep a record of the conversation and send a copy of it to your creditor (keep a copy for yourself).


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Men offered lump-sum benefits under defined contributions plans will generally do better using that money to buy annuities directly from insurance companies. Women, on the other hand, will get a better payout on such annuities through the employers. Pending federal unisex insurance legislation could, however, render this point moot.
Basic pensions (defined-benefits programs) will be unaffected for workers of both sexes. But it will cost women substantially more to provide joint-and-survivor benefit for their husbands, and they will have to take a greater discount in benefits to retire early.
Don't expect dramatic changes right away as a result of the Norris ruling. If , however, the federal unisex insurance legislation is passed with its ''topping up'' provision intact, equalizations of benefits will be achieved by bringing the benefits of the ''disadvantaged'' up to the level of the ''advantaged.''


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Great leaders find innovative ways to unite and engage people, creating a workforce that's ready for any challenge.
What You'll Learn
You will discover what causes an employee to become disengaged from an organization and the most important factors to address those causes. You will recognize the benefits of building a culture of engagement and the positive effects such a culture has on the bottom line. You will gain practical tools that you can use both in person and virtually to build an effective culture to create motivated and inspired employees.
Why you want to learn it
Engaged team members consistently have a positive effect on core business goals. They choose to bring discretionary effort to the organization rather than just doing the minimum. Effective leaders know how to respond to issues and resolve conflict to increase productivity. By expanding your leadership toolkit you will find new ways to engage your team members.
How it will help you
You will develop awareness as a leader as to what you can do to make a difference. You will learn how to tap into people's potential and bring out the best in them. You will have an improved understanding of the value of your people and the effect that they have on your results.
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."


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The school stands quiet and deserted, its classes closed until the 1985 school year starts after the Southern Hemisphere summer holiday. Yet it was this modest high school in Atteridgeville, a black township west of Pretoria, that early this year probably lit the fuse to the black unrest still troubling South Africa.
The police vehicles that kept a watchful eye last week as some students finished their exams have withdrawn.
But the calm now falling over South Africa's black schools is a superficial one, say black students, community leaders, and parents. Black education remains in a state of turmoil and has become so politicized in the minds of young blacks that its ultimate solution lies only in the granting of meaningful political rights to blacks.
The unrest that has plagued South Africa for much of this year has broadened well beyond the sphere of youth and student demands. But the attitude of black youth remains a critical feature that could either drive the protest further or allow it to peter out, analysts say.
This year's trouble in the black schools is at odds with government claims that it has made a major effort to right past wrongs and improve the facilities and overall quality of black education. The more things change, the more things stay the same, many blacks seem to be saying.
Student unrest hit Atteridgeville early this year and was so widespread that six high schools were closed for much of the year. School boycotts spread countrywide and affected hundreds of thousands of black students, on and off, through the school year.
Black students have paid a high price. Some have been killed in clashes with the police. Many have been detained under the security laws. And many have had their educational careers cut short.
Ruben, a lanky 18-year-old black student, has boycotted classes since July this year. He has also refused to sit for his matriculation examination, meaning his hopes of going to a university have been dashed - at least for now. About 5, 000 blacks have been unable or unwilling to take their matriculation exams this year due to unrest in the schools.
''Sure I wanted to go to university,'' Ruben says with a shrug of the shoulder. But he adds, ''I'm not fighting for myself, but for the coming generation.''
Ruben is a member of the Congress of South African Students, the main black student organization that has spearheaded this year's boycott movement. He says COSAS's main demand is for black students to have their own ''student representative councils,'' or SRCs, which would be elected by students to articulate their demands about how the schools should be run.
The government recently said black students may have councils next year. But COSAS has rejected the government's offer - principally because it doesn't like the way the government has structured the SRCs. It also objects that COSAS was given no role in drawing up the constitution of the SRCs.
The idea of giving high-school students a say in running their schools strikes many as excessive. But some blacks believe the demand is a natural outcome of the apartheid system, where blacks have no political rights and their segregated government-run schools are seen as something over which they must have more control.
The government believes it is making major strides in black education. Annual budget increases in black education have in recent years been greater than for white education. Black school enrollment is rising rapidly. And the pupil-teacher ratio in black schools is improving, from 58 to 1 in 1968 to about 40 to 1 today.
In the next few years, depending on a number of factors, the number of black high-school graduates should exceed for the first time the number of white graduates.
But blacks see a different picture - one where the quality of education is actually falling. In some respects, this is an outcome of the expanded enrollment. The government has not been able to provide enough new qualified teachers, and has relied on instructors with very poor qualifications. Generally , morale among black teachers is said to be very low.
Blacks point to lower exam results. The percentage of blacks passing the matriculation examination has fallen sharply from 83 percent in 1976 to about 50 percent last year. (It should also be noted that the absolute number of students taking the exam rose from 9,500 in 1976 to 72,000 last year.)
The percentage of blacks qualifying for university also has fallen. More than 35 percent of blacks who took the matriculation exam in 1976 qualified to go to university, but 10 percent qualified last year. (Again, though, the absolute number increased.)
Blacks are also critical that the government spends more on education for whites than it does for blacks. Black students outnumber whites by more than 5 to 1, but the per-capita expenditure on a white student is about seven times greater than what it is for a black.
But looking at black students' grievances in narrow educational terms probably misses the point, some analysts say. There is a growing feeling among blacks that education can never be acceptable within the framework of apartheid.
In a nutshell, the problem with black education is that ''it's imposed,'' says Dr. Abrahim Nkomo, a community leader at Atteridgeville. ''We have no opportunity to participate in the decisionmaking process'' that determines education policy, he complains.
The newly formed Soweto Parents' Committee has presented a list of grievances to the government that it says must be met. The committee held extensive talks with student groups and has proposed that the government, students, parents, and other ''interested parties'' draw up a new constitution for student representative councils. The committee also called for more parental involvement in education, the scrapping of the government's age limits for each grade in school, stricter control of corporal punishment by teachers, better classroom facilities for blacks, and the release of detained students.
But the committee said that at best the proposals could only temporarily ''normalize'' the situation in the black schools. Ultimately a political solution was needed.
Manas Buthelezi, chairman of the Soweto Parents' Committee, says the student uprising of 1976 raised the political consciousness of young blacks tremendously and has made them very determined.
''They've experienced what we never experienced: tear gas and bullets. Its not a normal experience for the average schoolgoing child. Our children have become hardened and I think they see themselves as part of a guerrilla warfare, but without any weapons,'' says Buthelezi.
''The government may introduce wonderful reforms'' in the schools, says Buthelezi, but as long as the basic philosophy remains, where whites make the final decisions about education, ''you'll have problems.''


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Porsche Rolls out the One Millionth 911 Sports Car
Still to this day the Porsche 911 is made mostly by hand, and it's that attention to detail that creates such a high-quality product. Yesterday was a historic occasion, Porsche produced its one millionth 911 car and it just rolled off the production line. Porsche has been putting out the 911 sports car since 1963, and it finally hit a historic figure that rarely comes for exotic sports cars. The one millionth vehicle produced and it's not so different than the original produced back in 1963. Sure there's more tech crammed inside, the engine is significantly more powerful and advanced than before, but the makeup of the car itself remains the same. It's a rear-engined sports car meant to go fast and offer excellent handling mechanics.
Irish Green Nostalgia
The one millionth 911 sports car was given the same Irish green paint job as the original 1963 model for nostalgia's sake. The car also comes equipped with a steering wheel that's partially made up of wood, and the dials are chrome capped just like the originals were. Overall 911 number 1 million looks very different from the original, but Porsche went the extra mile to tie the two together with décor.
The Power Gap
In terms of power and performance the 911 has come a long-long way. Consider this, the original 1963 model offered just 128 HP from its air-cooled engine. The current base model 911 Carrera offers 370 HP and they get much more powerful from there. The high-powered 911 Turbo S can go from 0 to 62 in just 2.9 seconds, a feat that likely seemed all but impossible back in 1963. The original 911 does the same thing in 8.5 seconds, something more akin to a modern-day family sedan.
Not for Sale
If you're hoping for a chance to bid on the millionth Porsche 911, you'll be sadly disappointed. No collector will have the opportunity to own the vehicle. Instead it's going to take a tour of modern racing locations around the world, and it will be retired at the Porsche museum when it's finished making its trip.
Few performance sports cars hit the one million production car mark, and that's a real testament to the Porsche 911 and its longevity.


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DCW On-Line: Bridgeport CT Review
Hot Time in Bridgeport as DCI returns to Connecticut
July 5, 2010 – Bridgeport, CT . . . Steamy temps and even hotter music came to town as the Boston Crusaders hosted "Bridgeport Drums" at historic John F. Kennedy Stadium. It was the first time in almost a decade that the junior circuit had visited the 'Port and the sweaty throng showed their appreciation as they were treated to a heapin' helpin' of music and motion. Fresh off a tornado a few days before, Beepo recorded record temps that clung to the Central High turf well into the evening.
Let's put it this way: it was so flippin' hot, Moe Knox had shorts on!
The CT Tigers Honor Guard presented the colors in a touching moment; these differently abled kids stood proud to kick off the proceedings.
The show
It was great to see the Spartans back on the field. Although they are not fielding the numbers they did in their salad days of D-II prominence, the navy-and-cream-clad Nashuans dished up a spritely Key Poulan/Robert Smith book in fiery fashion, as if the Park City needed more of a burn.
Splendid equipment work by a classy guard highlighted the Dante-inspired program. Even with only ten trumpets, the brass line was incendiary, with a high risk/reward factor. Especially pleasing was the closer of La Giudecca, punctuated with some muy caliente low-horn dissonance.
The only DCI corps from the Nutmeg State followed with Macabre. 7th Regiment fittingly opened with Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns, emulating the scordatura tuning of the original, tip-toeing deftly with two lips. Sensitive brush work from snares spiced the Navarette piece (with a vocal intro!), leading into Ravel's famous F-major quartet.
Now it was a volley of the dolls as guard members found well-stuffed dancing partners (corps corpses?) as they sashayed stunningly through the piece. Then it was time to hit the throttle and do a quick u-ey into a Danny Elfman dismount from his Serenada Schizophrana, complete with a killer accelerando section. By this time, corps was sweating a lake. Eerie? You bet. The best I have ever seen the New Londoners.
Yes, you can do this country proud musically without a Sousa march. Jersey Surf kicked off the World Class segment with a well-sorted gavotte over the fruited plains and shining seas. Off the gun was the anthem, with a 6/8 touch and too-cool, fake-out ending in the Key of Francis Scott.
America was dotted with tricky 16th-note trumpet runs and ended with a sweet dollop of Latin love via perc and pit. America the Beautiful in 12/8? Not a problem, as the corps rode a rollicking wave into the Ray Charles version with verve and vivacity.
Later in the piece, the groove went South with a funky Dixieland feel (with pit pleasingly providing a clarinet-y touch). Goose-bumps on that seventh-chord ending, too. This writer's first time seeing the Hang Tenners as a World Class outfit. Which they are.
Spirit punched the clock with blood, sweat and veers via their industrial-strength Forging an Icon offering. Guard members wielded "sledges" and "workbenches" as SFX from the well-sorted pit gave us the sounds of the factory, including hissing steam, whirring machinery — everything short of a Cuisinart.
Drum Corps World photo by Pat Chagnon
The span of music was remarkable: it's hard to go wrong with a Keith Emerson opener (which ended in a terrific block formation) with stops at Prokofiev, Herrmann and Daugherty. Not be copycats, they also trotted out the Elfman schizo sortie which was Oingo-Boingo good — fast, frantic and fun. Multiple backdrops made for a visually stunning picture, very artful and pleasing.
No one in the activity has interpreted Pat Metheny better than Crossmen, who came back in black to Beepo with a new spin on their fave composer. If you're looking for head-pounding 4/4 time, look elsewhere. Dem Bones wove time signatures swimmingly, providing hints of years past without Xeroxing them.
A lusty, in-your-face pit delivered slammin' tom work, "where's one" hand-clapping and some scintillating keyboard runs. Minuano evoked some fond memories of my earlier, Crum-mier days covering shows for DCW. Full circle, indeed, with a nice stopover at Bensalem.
Yes, the best came last as the Boston Crusaders took the turf. The opening itself is breathtaking, aurally and visually, as the kingdom comes in from the northeast corner in a moving warm-up. Then there is a breath-long break — just enough time for an announcer to slip in the corps' name. Good luck, Brandt Crocker, I hope you hit your mark.
The entire show is regal, stately, majestic even. Cool moment: the snare drum "duel at the throne." I stood with a grizzled BAC alum (probably from the El Capitan days) and probably forgot to breathe during the Rachmaninov. Paganini sounded simply lustrous, featuring the brass in umpteen different dynamic levels, with tons of technique and seamless execution.
On an editorial note: it is a wonderful thing to see a cadre of designers take classical music and not just adapt it for the field, but make it sound like true drum corps. Halfway through this show, I wanted to hear it again.
Mad props go out to the hometown Connecticut Hurricanes, in exhibition, who not only wowed the steaming masses, but changed their start time to accommodate the late-arriving corps held up in traffic. This year the gold rush climbs Jacob's ladder in the Heaven Sent program. Nifty opening quotes from Ode to Joy, a brief homily from Bernstein's God Said and a finale of Rutter's Gloria. The top-shelf guard is as good as ever and Kevin Lynch has the battery battering like demons.
The numbers
One was the onliest number for the Cru crew, garnering a fistful of firsts, as did Spartans in Open Class. Spirit and Crossmen swapped seconds and thirds, with Bones getting the nod in music and GE, but the Southern feet provided a bigger gap, enabling them to squeak out second by .15.
On the sidelines
Overall a well-done job by Crusader staff, led by Tom Spataro and Dave Simon, to orchestrate a show 150 miles from home. Help came in from the Hurcs and Regiment, too. Old friends on the adjudication team, Mickey Kelley, back in his home town, on visual. Jeff Prosperie (with his lovely daughter Savannah) on drums, he's now teaching the Hellcats at West Point.
"Judge Judy" Ulchinsky was in the house, along with brass maven Paul Hinman. I had Spirit and Xmen neck and neck – – so did the panel. Contest coordinator Dave Surface worked like crazy, having to shuffle corps around due to their arrival from Bristol, RI, where many had marched in a parade that day.
This was my favorite BAC version since the '60s; I have never seen the corps better since I began at Drum Corps World in 1991. Yes, I would gladly see a show of 13-22 "slotters" anytime, anywhere. That's how good the level of DCI talent is right now. DCI, please make Beeport a yearly stop on the tour!
See you, as always, on the sidelines.
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text: PRESIDENTIAL libraries have been alternately called monuments to Pharaohs and treasure-troves of history. Today, whether museum or memorial, the nation's 11th presidential center will open on a hilltop here - inaugurated by perhaps the first gathering of five chief executives in history.President Bush and former Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter are scheduled to join the man of the moment, Ronald Reagan, to dedicate the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in this community of Spanish-roofed homes one hour north of Los Angeles. It is an apt setting for a paean to the actor-turned-40th president. The mission-style complex looks out on a vista of elephant-hide hills that were once the backdrop for Hollywood westerns. Although Mr. Reagan never donned chaps here, Gene Autry, the Lone Ranger, and dozens of other celluloid cowboys did. This is also Republican-white-and-blue territory. None of the opposition that surfaced at Stanford University, where "left wing" faculty members objected to the campus as a library site, is evident here, even though this is the first library without ties to a president's hometown or a college. "This is Reagan country," says Charles Jelloian, director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The adobe-tiled complex on 100 acres of land houses a museum chronicling Reagan's life and presidency, a policy center, and storage for 54 million White House papers in acid-proof boxes - the most of any presidential library. Some 6.3 million documents will be released immediately, none of which is expected to be headline-grabbing material - mainly greeting cards and routine policy papers. By law, the most sensitive documents, including those dealing with the Iran-contra scandal, won't be made available for at least 12 years. Dr. Ralph Bledsoe, library director, promises no shading of history in releasing materials. In the museum, the president's life is presented in films, interactive videos, and exhibitions, as are the forces and ferment that shaped his ideology and tenure. Cases feature his boyhood in Illinois, photos from his Hollywood days, college essays, and a high-school yearbook in which he is listed as "Donald" Reagan (an apparent misprint his estranged former chief of staff, Donald Regan, might not appreciate). One gallery features economic initiatives - what detractors called "Reaganomics and another foreign policy. Some of the 75,000 gifts the Reagans received are on display, including a gold purse from the Saudis and a pistol from the king and queen of Spain. Still in storage: the surfboard from Pepperdine University and saddles from almost everyone. Dignitaries, former Reagan aides, and friends will be on hand to dedicate the privately funded $57 million complex. Jimmy Carter, the lone Democrat among surviving presidents, will attend if back from Africa. One who won't be there is Oliver North. He will likely be out promoting his new book, the one that charges Reagan knew everything about Iran-contra.


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Monday, 11 July 2011
Doctors4Justice wins campaign to improve CPD for barristers by Dr Helen Bright
Last year Doctors4Justice campaigned for improved training for lawyers (Continuous Professional Development=CPD).
Now we are pleased to see that the number of required hours of CPD have been doubled. Please, click on the photo to read more in Guardian article by Alex Aldridge.
Lawyers are still behind doctors a great deal in how they organize themselves and record their learning process. And UK doctors are behind US, in my opinion.
It could be a good idea to join forces to improve the matters for both professions. Medical profession in UK is damaged by ignorance of competition law and Equality Law 2010. I think there is abuse of monopoly position by some medical Royal Colleges. What I mean by that is that doctors are damaged by requirements to limit Internet learning to only ten hours a year so that colleges could make money from their annual conferences. This is so silly in modern age when professionals in most cases can do both. Internet learning is revolutionary, great for those who travel a lot, part timers, professionals who are also carers (children and elderly), ill professionals on sick leave, suspended professionals, those on sabbatical leave and so on.
Learning can be such a pleasure if well organized and doctors are very good at that: nice international conferences in beautiful places abroad have special appeal. While it can cost several thousands of pounds it is worth it. Meeting friendly professionals from different parts of the world and enjoying good entertainment after a day at the seminars and workshops is fun. The nice choice of good vines and excellent food in intelligent company every evening springs to memory - who could ask for more?
When on a low budget Internet is great and sufficient for keeping up to date. Professionals must not be penalized for being IT competent and medical colleges have to keep up with academic competition on Internet. The aim of CPD is learning and not conformity in itself to a prescribed method.
One way to ensure some learning takes place, at least for a period of time, is to perform testing at the end of a topic(s) presented on Internet, for example, on Bar Standards Board website. Lawyers should be allowed immediate retakes of tests (automatic) on Internet until they get the answers right and pass to get a Certificate. This penalty free learning would achieve the aim of meeting core standards as set by the governing body. Yearly check in this format would be fair.
Personal requirements dependent on the area in which lawyers specialize would be additional to core standards being met and recognized by Bar Standards Board. Doctors certainly do have that recognized in their CPD which is linked to Personal Development Plan.
Therefore. flexibility combined with rigidity is the way to do it. Flexibility for specialism and creativity (writing, research, lecturing should count too) and rigidity of testing of the core skills by regulator (allowing automatic retakes until 100% pass rate is achieved) is what I think would be fair.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The pressure is likely to be on South Africa in the return series against Australia, said visiting captain Ricky Ponting when his squad flew in on Monday.
"South Africa will start as favourites, that was made clear to me by the Australian media before I left, but the pressure could come back on them," Ponting told reporters.
"There's a lot of expectation among their fans, they played some excellent cricket in Australia."
South Africa clinched their first test series win on Australian soil last month and the world number one ranking will be up for grabs when the two teams clash in another three-match encounter that starts in Johannesburg on Feb. 26.
Ponting said he would take heart from the way his side battled back to regain the Ashes on home soil in 2006-07 after losing in England in 2005.
"I remember at the end of the 2005 Ashes in England, when we lost for the first time in a long time, we went back to Australia and regrouped," he said.
"England then came to Australia as favourites but they did not live up to expectation and could not handle the pressure."
Vice-captain Michael Clarke is Australia's only injury concern but Ponting was optimistic the middle-order batsman would recover from a back problem to play in a warm-up match against South Africa A in Potchefstroom starting on Friday.
"We'll have to see how Michael's back is after the flight," said the captain.
"Hopefully he'll be okay. Everyone else is fully fit."
Ponting said his players were keen to stay top of the world rankings.
"We want to be recognised as the best and being number one does mean a lot to us," he said. "We were a long way off our best cricket in Australia and our worst cricket was very bad.
"We need to maintain a level of consistency but I am looking forward to the challenge. This is a great tour for Australia to come on and we really enjoy playing here."
Ponting said Australia's one-day international series and Twenty20 victory over New Zealand lifted his team after South Africa had won the test and limited-overs series immediately before.
"It was nice to end the summer back home on a good note by winning the last two matches against New Zealand," he said.
"There's a good feeling around the group and we need to keep that close-knit feeling through this tour."
Australia were last in South Africa three years ago when Ponting led his team to a 3-0 triumph.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The pressure is likely to be on South Africa in the return series against Australia, said visiting captain Ricky Ponting when his squad flew in on Monday.