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Aramis Ramirez ended a long home run drought, Ryan Dempster threw six solid innings and the Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 in a rain-delayed game Sunday.Ramirez's line drive solo shot in the second broke a streak of 155 at-bats without a home run, the second longest stretch of his career. Ramirez went 170 at-bats between homers from Aug. 2, 1998, until April 21, 2000. Dempster (4-4) recovered from a poor start to post his fifth quality start in his last six outings. After allowing two runs, a walk and Lyle Overbay's two-run double in the first inning, Dempster settled down to shut out the Pirates on four hits over the next five innings. Dempster allowed four hits and two runs overall, striking out five and walking three. He beat the Pirates for first time in five starts dating to May 4, 2010. After a rough April, Dempster is now 3-1 with a 3.08 ERA in his last six outings. The Cubs got three scoreless innings from their bullpen, one each from Kerry Wood, Sean Marshall and closer Carlos Marmol, who earned his 10th save.The Cubs beat the Pirates for the second time in six games at Wrigley Field this season. Even after Sunday's loss, the Pirates have beaten the Cubs in 16 of the last 23 meetings.Pirates starter Jeff Karstens (3-4) allowed three runs — two earned — and struck out four over five innings. Karstens, who recently took the rotation spot of injured Ross Ohelendorff, departed after throwing just 71 pitches.The Cubs manufactured the go-ahead run in the third. Kosuke Fukudome led off with a double, went to third on Darwin Barney's sacrifice bunt and scored on Starlin Castro's sacrifice fly.Overbay walked and drove in both Pittsburgh runs with his two-run double in the first.The game was delayed by 2 hours, 34 minutes at the start because of heavy rain. However, once the storm front cleared the Chicago area, it was a mild and pleasant afternoon. The Cubs scored their first run in the second on the long-overdue homer from Ramirez, who has averaged 28 each of his seven full seasons with the Cubs. Carlos Pena, who followed with a single, has reached base in 21 of his last 23 games. Speedy Cubs rookie Tony Campana then hit a grounder to shortstop Ronny Cedeno and beat the throw, which skipped away from Overbay. Pena advanced to third on the play and Cedeno was charged with an error, snapping his 35-game errorless streak.Pena scored on Koyie Hill's sacrifice fly to right. Pena beat the throw of Pirates right fielder Garrett Jones, but he slid into catcher Ryan Doumit, who left the game with what the Pirates called an injured left ankle. He was replaced by backup Chris Snyder.Doumit will undergo an MRI exam in Pittsburgh on Monday. Some familiar Cubs nemises got the Pirates out to an early 2-0 lead. Andrew McCutchen and Neal Walker drew back-to-back walks against Cubs starter Ryan Dempster. Both scored on Overbay's double into the right-field corner. McCutchen has now reached base safely in his last 21 games against the Cubs. Walker, who singled in the sixth, has hit safely in all 15 games he's played against the Cubs in his career.
NOTES—Catcher Geovany Soto returned to the Cubs' clubhouse after being activated off the DL. He hasn't played since May 10 because of a left groin strain. To make room for Soto, the Cubs optioned backup catcher Welington Castillo to Triple-A Iowa. Soto is expected to start in Monday's series opener against Houston. … The Cubs placed CF Reed Johnson on the DL because of lower back spasms and recalled OF Brad Snyder from Iowa. The Cubs also had to clear space for Snyder on the team's 40-man roster, so they moved injured starter Andrew Cashner (right rotator cuff strain) to the 60-day disabled list.


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Boulder, CO, August 4, 2011 - Zeal Optics, Boulder, CO, manufacturer of the world's first snow goggles with GPS technology, is preparing for the upcoming ski and snowboarding season by bolstering its team with the addition of new Marketing Director, Joe Prebich.
Out of the gate, Prebich will focus on efforts to revitalize the Zeal Optics brand, broadening the scope of their current goggle market-share and introducing a new line of sunglasses in September with enhanced performance benefits and an increased focus on blending "life" with lifestyle. He leads a team that has taken the company from being a start-up in 1996 to becoming a pioneer in the development of sunglasses, polarized goggles, and prescription sport eyewear and lenses.
Prebich has deep experience in the optical industry, having served most recently as Global Snow Sports Marketing Manager for Oakley where he orchestrated marketing efforts for their eye wear and goggles businesses around the world. While there, he helped the company organize its efforts around more cohesive athlete-based product programs and produce creative marketing solutions to enhance the company's global goals, including the launch into the action sports market in China.
Prior to Oakley, Prebich was the Athlete Marketing Manager at Red Bull, where he created initiatives that put the brand at the forefront of the action sports industry. In this position, he forecasted trends, developed global marketing initiatives, and designed programs that helped the brand identify and have a conversation with consumers.
Some of Prebich's most recognized programs at Red Bull involved working with Olympic snowboarder, Shaun White, and the creation of full-scale marketing, performance and interactive programs that showcased White's talents, providing him with a training ground and a marketing platform that led to his gold medal run at the 2010 Winter Olympic in Vancouver.
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First comments on that link:If a woman as stunning as Charlize has to carry boxes of beer without any assistance from a man, than that goes to show you that it really is slim pickens out there! Why are these new breed of men so lazy?! - Kara, San Francisco, 07/2/2012 06:09
bells + DFH - works for me.
Top 20 craft breweries, by sales volume:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/top-20-craft-breweries_n_1238076.html
Have you seen this website?http://www.brewmate.net/Pretty neat resource for the home brewer!
somehow . . . though i'm sure it tastes good . . . it still looks like a meth lab production.
hopville is dope - looks like good recipes, did you develop them yourself? pretty ambitious first two brews.
something we've recently started to do is throw in whirlfloc tabs with 5 minutes to go in the brew to increase clarity. that bottle may clear up a little bit, but if you desire more of an translucent brew, i recommend it.
i didn't bother using whilrfloc with the first batch: it's a witbier, it's supposed to be hazy. the yeast that i used = a low flocculation variety. also, that pic was taken within minutes of bottling so nothing had settled down yet.i'm really on the fence about color and transparency. brewers seem to make a big deal about it but it strikes me as pointless obsession with appearances. it's like saying a dog isn't good because its ears don't conform to some weird, arbitraty standard. i'm not looking to win any competitions so it's not very high on my priorities. on the other hand it's one more thing to obsess about, and gawd knows this hobby is all about obsessing!the addition that i can't imagine brewing without is fermcap. does an amazing job of preventing boil-overs and primary blowoffs/blowups. but i'm sure you're already all over the stuff


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The college campus is a social system unto itself. We outsiders refer to it as academia. We expect the freedom and funding that academia receives to give us intellectual advances in civilization. We expect the recipients of higher education to be innovative, productive and on the cutting edge of science, technology and the arts.
We acknowledge that the campus is a bubble, an incubator for young, virile minds. We acknowledge that the time one spends within the walls of this bubble should be an educationally worthwhile season. And though we rib with tongue-in-cheek those professors who never leave its enclaves, we give them a pass because they are preparing others to go forth and carry abroad their messages of intellectual freedom and, hopefully, some notion of ethical obligation.
We don't expect the bubble to become an end in and of itself. We don't expect the graduate to enter the real world just as mentally and emotionally immature as when they entered the bubble. We are stunned by the outrageous cost of tuition verses the comparatively meager return. We feel sorry for the person holding a bachelor's degree who can't find a job because they majored in popular culture or puppetry or theme park management. In short, we expect more from the bubble.
Instead, we get a multitude of college grads who should have saved their (parents') money. They should have gone to a vocational school. They should have gotten an entry-level job and worked their way up the ladder. They should have nurtured a creative idea and started their own business. They should have, at the very least, taken a year or two off to travel, meet people and figure out what they actually wanted out of life.
Instead, they learned how to view pornography. They learned how to mix drinks. They learned how to hook up. They learned that capitalism is bad, that western civilization is hurtful and that the most productive thing to do with one's time is to worry about a statue of a man who had slaves and incidentally penned the Declaration of Independence.
The bubble has betrayed us. Perhaps we ignored it for too long. We assumed all was well within. We shrugged because we were once in that bubble and we turned out okay. Perhaps we forgot that there is a whole generation of people who were raised in a culture of the screen, with a smart phone glued to their hand.
Those same naïve youngsters then go to an institution that teaches them equality is God and no one should be left behind. It teaches them that the worst sin is to possibly hurt someone's feelings, and that any perceived offense deserves to be punished. It teaches them that only certain people and groups have free speech, that one person can decide what books don't get read, and that professors can be bullied into submission.
These institutions of higher education foster the notion that nothing is as important as getting a "like" on social media. They encourage narcissism, racial division and a loathing of costume parties. They lure these youth into a bubble, coddle them and send them forth completely unprepared for life, not to mention, in debt.
Yes, the bubble has betrayed us. And we've yet see the full consequences of this betrayal on society.


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We can hold Kimberlé Crenshaw (a "woman of colour") responsible for the ugly word, 'intersectionality'. (She coined it in 1989.) The incredible thing is that she deemed it to be a "common everyday metaphor".
I'll let Crenshaw herself define the term. Thus:
"The view that women experience Oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity. Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated, but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, Class, ability, and ethnicity."
What we have here, essentially, are various (Leftist/ "progressive") movements and individuals trying to discover -- or invent -- yet more minorities to exploit for their own political/social ends.
Thus today we have to take on board the following identities and backgrounds: cisgender (female/male at birth, and still identifying as female/male), national origin, criminal record, race and ethnicity, class/socioeconomic background, ideology, religion, immigrant status, refugee status, body type, educational background, appearance... ad infinitum.
Some sorry souls are the victims of various "axes of oppression". There are some people, for example, who are transgender, black, and poor.
It's not always doom and gloom, however. Certain individuals will suffer both "privileges" and "oppressions" if, say, she/he is both middle class and black. Or, alternatively, if one is a very well-paid academic (say, researching into intersectionality) and also a woman, you'll be oppressed because of the latter category and privileged due to the former one.
Thus it can be the case that one's oppressions cancel out one's privileges. Or, alternatively, one's privileges can cancel out one's oppressions.
Marxism or Post-Marxism?
It's been said (by intersectional theorists and others) that in the old days (Marxist) activists didn't realise, for example, that black women are more oppressed than black men. Now, almost by definition, that's taken to be of prime importance. (See here.)
The Telegraph's (yes, the "Torygraph"!) very own intersectional theorist (an Ava Vidal) offers her own view on, for example, why traditional Marxist feminism wasn't radical enough. She writes:
"The main thing 'intersectionality' is trying to do... is to point out that feminism which is overly white, middle class, cis-gendered and able-bodied represents just one type of view -- and doesn't reflect on the experiences of all the multi-layered facets in life that women of all backgrounds face."
What's more, Ava Vidal quotes someone saying that
"white feminists... refuse to acknowledge that they benefit from a white supremacist hetero-normative [sic] patriarchal system".
Despite all that, Marxists have always been aware of "identities" other than that of class. Indeed, Marxists have been theorising about gender and race for decades. However, most Marxists have also stressed the point -- which they see as being of vital importance -- that it is class, and class alone, which gains a privileged place amongst these hierarchies of identity/oppression.
Thus Intersectional Theory is certainly "post-Marxist", if that simply means Marxism + other theories. In other words, Marxist theory hasn't been forgotten. Intersectional theorists, for example, still highlight the fact that we all live within a "capitalist Euro-centred modernity". Indeed, it's capitalism (or capitalist democracy) which accounts for the fact that people are, amongst other things, "raced and gendered".
To highlight this Marxism/intersectional alliance, take these words from Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century; which is made up of former members and leaders of the Brtish Socialist Workers Party. (See here.)
Firstly, we are given reasons as to why intersectionality matters. Thus:
"... that one form of oppression can be shaped by and can shape other forms of oppression. Racism, for example, can be sexualised, or women's oppression can be racialised – and this happens in such a way that it becomes impossible to view different oppressions as separate."
But now we get to the prime and traditional bête noire of revolutionary socialism (if tinged with intersectional theory): democratic capitalism. Thus:
"We already know that all oppressions are connected by having material roots in capitalism. And by claiming that all oppression and exploitation intertwine, there is at least a vague recognition by intersectionality that all oppression is rooted in the same societal structures."
And later we also have the following:
"Marx knew nothing of intersectionality as it exists today, but he speaks in similar terms in his sixth thesis on Feuerbach: 'But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.'..."
Finally, we have the same Marxist actually selling us intersectional theory again. Thus:
"... the way intersectionality is used today – for example on campuses... is as a call to unity! The argument is that everyone concerned with oppression should naturally be concerned with the nuances of everyone else's oppression."
So even though new genres have been introduced, class (though sometimes race) is still often still seen to be of prime importance.
Not that all Marxists are happy with intersectional theory and other "progressive" alternatives to pure Marxism. Take "the most well-known thinker of our time" (according to the Guardian) – Slavoj Žižek. In Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (2000), Žižek writes:
"... today's capitalism, rather, provides the very background and terrain for the emergence of shifting-dispersed-contingent-ironic- and so on, political subjectivities."
Žižek then says that capitalism
"has created the conditions for the demise of 'essentialist' politics and the proliferation of new multiple political subjectivities. So, again, to make myself clear.... [capitalism] creates the very background against which 'generalised hegemony' can thrive."
Let me put that in plain English:
Multiple political "subjectivities" are a problem for Žižek. He wants the Working Class as a whole to fight capitalism. Or, at the very least, Žižek wants all the other subjectivities to unite behind the "hegemony" that is the working class (if led by a middle-class university-based vanguard). This multiplicity of subjectivities and "hybrid identities" simply muddies the water that is the ancient (Marxist) class war.
You see, what the intersectional theorists, postmodernists, poststructuralists, etc. don't realise is that all this
"playing with multiple, shifting personas... [simply] tends to obfuscate... the constraints of social space in which our experience is trapped".
In other words, all this "playing" still occurs within capitalist democracies.
Here are a few more minorities of identities to throw into the radical pot: people born on a Tuesday in June, serial killers, people with long fingernails, white upper-bourgeois academics who specialise in intersectional theory, black/ Muslim Uncle Toms and so on.
Indeed, I'll let the reader indulge in the possible juxtapositions or permutations of the following "oppressed groups": the "transgendered", black, gay, women, black gay, white working class, black working class, rich and ideologically powerful academics, etc.
It's complicated, isn't it?
Finally, here is some pious and righteous advice (from Geek Feminism Wikipedia) for all you evil white, cisgendered, racist, hetero-normalist, fascist oppressors out there:
"If someone suggests that you're doing something racist, ableist, etc., you will tend to react defensively. That's OK and natural! Take a deep breath, step away from the keyboard if you need to, think about the perspective of others in that situation, then apologise and figure out how not to do it again."
And what can you say to all that?
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Premature ovarian failure (POF) is characterized by primary or secondary amenorrhea in women less than 40 years old. 再加上,我们可以发POF1B 抗体 (30) 和 POF1B 蛋白 (3)和数多这个蛋白质的别的产品。
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The data show that during mouse development Pof1b expression is activated in the external layers of the epidermis just prior to formation of the epidermal permeability barrier.
POF1B was restricted to granular layers in human healthy epidermis, whereas it largely increased in hyperproliferative human skin diseases, thus demonstrating the localization of POF1B also in desmosomes of multistratified epithelia.
The POF1B candidate gene for premature ovarian failure regulates epithelial polarity
Our findings could not demonstrate any involvement of POF1B in premature ovarian failure
Premature ovarian failure (POF) is characterized by primary or secondary amenorrhea in women less than 40 years old. Two POF susceptibility regions called 'POF1' and 'POF2' have been identified by breakpoint mapping of X-autosome translocations. POF1 extends from Xq21-qter while POF2 extends from Xq13.3 to Xq21.1. This gene, POF1B, resides in the POF2 region. This gene is expressed at trace levels in mouse prenatal ovary and is barely detectable or absent from adult ovary, in human and in the mouse respectively. This gene's expression is restricted to epithelia with its highest expression in the epidermis, and oro-pharyngeal and gastro-intestinal tracts. The protein encoded by this gene binds non-muscle actin filaments. The role this gene may play in the etiology of premature ovarian failure remains to be determined.
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Being charged with a felony in state criminal court is a life altering event. My goal is to represent you vigorously and to keep you well informed so that you may make informed decisions. If you have already been charged with a felony crime you have most likely been arraigned on that charge.
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Engineering Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer
Modern cancer therapeutics are typically developed to aim at key pathways and proteins that are critical to the survival and progression of malignant cells. Nevertheless, they are still associated with undesirable side effects due to nonspecific toxicity that non-targeted tissue and organs experience. In recent years,nanoparticle (NP) based drug delivery systems that carry drugs to tumor in body have greatly improved the efficacy of traditional therapeutics, while decreasing the associated systemic toxicities. NPs with a diameter of 10-200 nm can selectively target and preferentially home at the tumor site via the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. More complex NPs, such as multiple drug carriers (for combination therapy) and coatings of targeting elements for receptors on cancer cells, have also been engineered to improve the overall outcome by overcoming problems associated with tumor tissue targeting and penetration, drug resistance, cellular uptake and circulation half-life.
Microporous Membrane Reactors for Antibody Digestion and Characterization
Antibodies are the fastest growing class of therapeutic drugs. Due to the complex composition and biosynthesis of these drugs, quality control is vital to ensure that antibodies are effective and do not induce side effects such as an immune response. Mass spectrometry is the most powerful tool for antibody characterization, but it usually requires antibody digestion into smaller pieces that are amenable to characterization. This research aims to use membrane reactors to control antibody proteolysis and create a few large peptides that enable rapid detection of antibody modifications such as oxidation, phosphorylation, and glycosylation. Controlled digestion may also identify changes in protein conformation or the formation of disulfide bonds. The project will likely include immobilization of enzymes in membranes, performing digestion reactions and mass spectrometry, and interpreting mass spectrometry data.
Nanostructured Polysulfone Polyelectrolyte Copolymer Membranes for Fuel Cells
Sulfonated polysulfone copolymers with controlled nanophase-separated morphology hold great potential
Preferred disciplines: A student in materials science, chemical engineering, or chemistry is preferred, and having previous experience in a chemical laboratory would be helpful.
Polymer Membranes with Tunable Microporosity for Gas Separations
Polymers with well-defined microporosity are highly desired for gas separation membranes, wherein high
Preferred disciplines: A student in materials science, chemical engineering, or chemistry is preferred, and having previous experience in a chemical laboratory would be helpful.
Perovskite Photovoltaics
In recent years, nanomaterials have emerged as the new building blocks to construct light energy harvesting assemblies.1 Efforts are being made to design high efficiency organic metal halide hybrid structures that exhibit improved selectivity and efficiency towards light energy conversion.2-5 This project will evaluate the performance of solid state cesium lead halide perovskite solar cells. The summer research involves synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals and dissolution processed thin perovskite films on various oxide films and construct solar cell. These cells will then be evaluated to establish their photovoltaic properties. The overall goal is to tune the photoresponse of the thin film solar cell through mixed halide composition and improve the solar conversion efficiencies.
2. Christians, J.A., Fung, R., and Kamat, P.V., An Inorganic Hole Conductor for Organo-Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells. Improved Hole Conductivity with Copper Iodide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014,136, 758–764.
3. Manser, J.S., Christians, J.A., and Kamat, P.V., Intriguing Optoelectronic Properties of Metal Halide Perovskites. Chem. Rev. 2016, 116, 12956–13008.
4. Christians, J.A., Miranda Herrera, P.A., and Kamat, P.V., Transformation of the Excited State and Photovoltaic Efficiency of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite upon Controlled Exposure to Humidified Air. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1530–1538.
5. Yoon, S.J., Draguta, S., Manser, J.S., Sharia, O., Schneider, W.F., Kuno, M., and Kamat, P.V., Tracking Iodide and Bromide Ion Segregation in Mixed Halide Lead Perovskites during Photoirradiation. ACS Energy Lett. 2016, 290-296.
Preferred disciplines: The expected and/or anticipated involvement of the REU student in the research. The student will involve preparation of perovskite films, spectroscopic and material characterization, solar cell fabrication and performance evaluation.
Preferred discipline(s), expertise, lab skills, etc. Chemistry/Physics Background at sophomore level.
Nanostructure Assemblies for Sensing Application
Recent advances in the construction and characterization of graphene-semiconductor/
1. Lightcap, I.V., Murphy, S., Schumer, T., and Kamat, P. V. Electron Hopping Through Single-to-Few Layer Graphene Oxide Films. Photocatalytically Activated Metal Nanoparticle Deposition. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 1453-1458.
2. Lightcap, I.V. and Kamat, P.V. Graphitic Design: Prospects of Graphene-Based Nanocomposites for Solar Energy Conversion, Storage, and Sensing. Acc. Chem.Res. 2013, 46, 2235–2243.
3. Bridewell, V.L., Karwacki, C.J., and Kamat, P.V., Electrocatalytic Sensing with Reduced Graphene Oxide: Electron Shuttling between Redox Couples Anchored on a 2-D Surface. ACS Sensors 2016, 1, 1203-1207.
Preferred disciplines: The expected and/or anticipated involvement of the REU student in the research.
Preferred discipline(s), expertise, lab skills, etc. Chemistry/Physics Background at sophomore level.
Contact: Professor Prashant V. Kamat, 235 Radiation Lab , 574 631-5411, (email@example.com)
Fabrication of Solid State Batteries
Solid state batteries (SSB's) may be a key enabler for electric vehicles. A solid electrolyte can overcome many shortcomings of present technology including offering wider electrochemical voltage ranges, better chemical compatibility, and improved safety. Progress is needed to overcome electrolyte limitations and provide more economical processing while still delivering sufficient energy density for automotive application.
ND researchers are developing ceramic materials (Li7La3Zr2O12) and low-cost processing methods to provide for high-power, solid-state, lithium-ion batteries for use in EVs. A key factor to drive down costs is the development of scalable, ceramic fabrication techniques.
The goal of this project is the chemical processing and sintering of nanosized electrolyte and electrode powders for development of composite electrode microstructures to yield high performance batteries. Liquid phase sintering of electrolytes has been developed to reduce required processing temperatures. Composite electrodes will be developed to permit co-sintering of electrode-electrolyte structures.
Student Involvement: Student will synthesize (chemical processing) and characterize (X-ray diffraction,
Preferred disciplines: Materials science, chemical engineering, chemistry
Elucidating Fundamental Transport Properties of Copolymer-derived Charge Mosaic Membranes
Nanoporous membranes based on self-assembled copolymer precursors are an emerging class of promising separation and purification devices, which will find application in water purification, pharmaceutical, and biofuel processing applications, due to the ability of researchers to control the nanostructure and chemistry of these multifunctional materials. To date, the most successful methodology for directing the assembly of nanostructured copolymer-based membranes has been the self-assembly and nonsolvent induced phase separation (SNIPS) procedure. This membrane fabrication protocol combines the thermodynamically driven selfassembly of copolymers in solution with the oft-used nonsolvent induced phase separation membrane fabrication technique. In addition to being facile and scalable, the versatility of the SNIPS process makes it an attractive membrane fabrication methodology. In particular, the membrane nanostructure and chemistry generated by the SNIPS process can be tuned by varying a number of engineering parameters. Recently, it was demonstrated that this flexibility could be exploited to generate charge-mosaic membranes based on the copolymer material platform. Charge mosaics contain both positively-charged and negatively-charged domains that traverse the thickness of the membrane. This structure enables both the cation and anion from a dissolved salt to permeate through the membrane without violating the macroscopic constraint of electroneutrality, and results in membranes that permeate dissolved salts more rapidly than solvent or neutral molecules. Unfortunately, the fundamental knowledge regarding how these membranes function is lagging. As such, the objective of this project is to identify the key material relationships that control the interplay between membrane nanostructure, functionality, and transport properties for charge mosaics membranes.
Student involvement: The student researcher will be asked to fabricate membranes using the SNIPS process, and elucidate how the nanoscale structure and chemistry of the membranes impact the observed
Preferred disciplines: Chemical, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineers are well-suited to undertake this
Contact: Assistant Professor William Phillip, 205F McCourtney Hall, 574 631-2708 (email@example.com
Polymer Electrolytes for Advanced Rechargeable Batteries
The objective of the research is to investigate solid polymer electrolytes for use in lithium and/or magnesium rechargeable batteries. Such electrolytes have to potential for increase battery safety due to their lower volatility and higher thermal stability compared with commercial electrolytes. Current polymer electrolytes suffer from low ionic conductivities that result in low battery charge/discharge rates, which preclude their use in commercial devices.
This project will investigate the use of novel salts and/or additives in polymer electrolyte formulations.
Student Involvement: The REU student will prepare polymer electrolyte films and characterize the electrochemical and thermal properties of these films.
Preferred Disciplines: chemical engineering, not required, though greater levels of experience in a chemical laboratory are preferred.
Dendrite Growth in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries
Widespread commercialization of high energy density rechargeable lithium metal batteries has been
Student Involvement: The REU student will prepare polymer electrolyte films, fabricate lithium metal batteries,
Preferred Disciplines: Prior lab experience and a background in chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science, or a closely related field is preferred.
Targeting Therapeutic Nanoparticles Through Supramolecular Affinity
We are motivated to advance the practice of therapeutic nanotechnology by capturing several of the
Student Involvement: An undergraduate working on this project will be expected to learn techniques for formulating synthetic nanoparticles to contain drugs and quantifying drug release using a combination of spectroscopy and chromatography. Additionally, this individual will be tasked with validating this mechanism for targeting in vitro through microscopy of fluorescent nanoparticles on cultured cells.
Preferred Disciplines: Disciplines related to Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Bioengineering are encouraged to apply. A minimum of some prior laboratory coursework is expected.
Contact: Assistant Professor Matthew Webber, 205B McCourtney Hall, 574 631-4246 (firstname.lastname@example.com) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Engineering Responsive Peptide-based Drug Nanocarriers
We are motivated to improve therapeutic specificity of self-assembling drug nanocarriers by endowing
Student Involvement: An undergraduate working on this project will be expected to learn techniques in solid-phase peptide synthesis, conduct routine characterization to study changes in material properties as a function of analyte concentration, and quantifying the loading and release of drugs from these nanostructures using a combination of spectroscopy and chromatography.
Preferred Disciplines: Disciplines related to Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Bioengineering are encouraged to apply. A minimum of some prior laboratory coursework is expected.
Contact: Assistant Professor Matthew Webber, 205B McCourtney Hall, 574 631-4246 (firstname.lastname@example.com) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Effects of Acidity and Salinity on Polymer Drug-Delivery Complexes
Research description:
This topic inspires REU projects involving characterization of coacervates through molecular dynamics
1. Using a customized version of the LAMMPS open-source molecular simulation package,LAMMPS25
2. A second project involves the influence of the highly charged environment provided by a complex coacervate in stabilizing drugs|in particular protein based therapies|against deactivation and degradation.
Student Involvement:
2. D. Priftis, X. Xia, K. O. Margossian, et al. \Ternary, tunable polyelectrolyte complex fluids driven by
3. S. L. Turgeon, C. Schmitt, and C. Sanchez. \Protein{polysaccharide complexes and coacervates." Curr.
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Overview of releasing an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in Conger, Minnesota.
There has actually been a lot of confusion on what an initial coin offering is (ICO– also in some cases called a token generation event or token sale), what sort of companies an ICO can be used for, and what enters into introducing an ICO– from a job's perspective.
Disclaimer: This is not to be interpreted as financial investment or legal guidance, but rather implied as a template to reveal the procedure behind an ICO, and what a project's stakeholders (group, board, stakeholders) ought to think of when performing an ICO.
Provided the blockchain industry is fairly brand-new, there isn't a lot of info on the subject (from a task's perspective), and with each brand-new ICO, teams are learning finest practices on what to do and what not to do. Below is a guide of all the info we gathered about the ICO process, with input from individuals who experienced the procedure very first hand.
If you want to add to this guide, or have any recommendations, don't hesitate to make recommendations here:.
The greatest two questions you need to consider first are:.
- Exactly what is the function of the token?
- Are you sure you wish to do an ICO?
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- Exactly what is the purpose of the token?
- What function or energy does it perform?
- Is the token absolutely required?
- Why does your job need to be on the blockchain?
- Can you describe a feasible financial model behind it?
If your application doesn't have to be built on top of a blockchain protocol, you should concentrate before moving forward. For instance, the computational expenses of developing an application on top of Ethereum is far more costly than something like AWS. You have to have a strong factor for why you are building a decentralized application vs. a central application.
If you are not sure whether your application should be built on the blockchain or not, you ought to do more research and spend more time finding out about Bitcoin and Ethereum. Constructing a decentralized application is fundamentally various than an application utilizing client-server architecture, and you'll have to completely comprehend the parts of a blockchain and exactly what can be built on top of this brand-new architecture.
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An ICO is fundamentally various than raising money through VC's or other traditional ways.
On one-hand, you are offering future use of your platform (not giving up equity). On the other-hand, you are ending up being a public business on day one. You'll have a huge community you'll need to manage post-ICO, and you need to make sure you want to handle this burden in advance.
Here are a couple of things to remember while analyzing whether your task must do an ICO in the first place:.
- Whatever you do and all the actions you take will be shown in the price of the token.
- Your team will get bombarded non-stop, numerous times a day, with concerns about the cost of your token.
You'll have to be a worldwide business from day one.
- All of your internal group discussions will likely be pushed publicly.
- There will be excellent stress in trying to construct things that are long-lasting important vs. short-term important.
- If your product isn't open sourced already, there will be a substantial reaction to become totally open sourced. There is a strong expectation that many blockchain tasks are open-sourced tasks.
- In general, cryptocurrency jobs are way more public/transparent than common start-ups, and even standard public business.
In general, great blockchain jobs look and operate far more like open-sourced software tasks vs. traditional tech services. You and your group will need to decide both whether your application makes sense to be built on a blockchain + you wish to run as a transparent and open company.
Marketing is inadequate, individuals have to understand and trust your abilities.
A number of these early ICO's were carried out by deep stack blockchain designers that became part of the core crypto community, with high track record and performance history. The ICOs that sold out quick and quick did not come out of thin air. Early token investors– who by the way were likewise part of the core crypto neighborhood– understood these designers well, and trusted them, as their respective product concept had been discussed and peer examined for numerous months over Reddit, Twitter, Slack, Bitcoin Talk, numerous crypto podcasts, and so on.
White documents are business plans of the Web3 with which groups try to raise your funds, often prior to having a model. Writing a good whitepaper is the primary job for every single group. Prevent outsourcing the writing to 3rd parties. If you desire people to take you seriously, you need to include the entire group: from core devs to your sales people. You require a semi-technical explanation of how your task works and an easy to understand walk through for non-techies. The whitepaper needs to be interesting investors without any technical knowledge and developers alike. It has to consist of:.
Credible technical roadmap.
Plausible service roadmap.
Clear tokendistribution design.
You can take your effort one action even more and release a technical paper like the Ethereum's Yellow paper or Zcash's technical whitepaper. These documents give a more insight into the technical application and are only focused on people with deep understanding of blockchain innovation. They offer more trustworthiness to your tech know how, and enable online swarm evaluation. Technical papers have so far generally been used for blockchain token sales and not for dApps token sales.
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You will be more trustworthy if you currently have an item model. Motivate people to visit your GitHub page and have fun with the code. Please note, jobs without a single line of code raise lots of warnings in the eyes of investors. If your name is not Vitalk Buterin or Gavin Wood– simply using examples here– you might have issues raising money only with a white paper.


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two nice Infographics to explain what you already know you will be doing on the thanksgiving holiday – Travelling, Eating, Sitting, Sleeping. The first is from Schools.com. The second, Mint.com.
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International media covers Ecotech Institute and green workforce shortage
May 20, 2011
News outlets such as MSNBC.com, Reuters and Times of India are paying attention to the important role Ecotech Institute is playing in training a qualified, cleantech workforce.
Solve Climate News, for instance, profiled an example of employer interest in Ecotech Institute for wind energy technicians.
"If you look at just wind energy, the install base is getting larger and larger, so more players are coming into the space to do the development and construction work," said Doug Nieb of the Broomfield, Colo.-based Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Americas. "Everyone in the industry is competing more broadly for qualified talent."
To tackle the workforce shortage, the wind developer has teamed up with Ecotech Institute, which earlier this month unveiled a new $10 million flagship campus near Denver that will host up to 1,200 students.
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Let's see where I start. McCain's unwillingness to shake Barrack Obama's hand…or Sarah Palin showing up to numerous function sponsored by a political party that wants Alaska to be a separate country! I'll start with McCain who has a great plan to buy all of America's bad mortgages. Only thing he says he's not going to raise taxes! Ok….who does the senator think he's fooling? The money has to come from somewhere. Knowing that Republicans will cut any program for there already outrages Defense budget I wonder what Senator McCain plans to cut to fund his proposed program. Barrack Obama has made it clear before the election that he will raise taxes on those who make more than $250,000, and although people who fall in that category ,might not like it, they should respect the fact that Barrack has been up front about his plans. He could say "Read my lips no new taxes", but we all know the end results to that. I actually like McCain's plan but let's be realistic about where the money is going to come from.
Sarah Palin is trying to take the Bill Clinton route into America's heart by appearing on SNL. She wants to give a makeover to the traditional view of Republicans, maybe that's because she's an AIP at heart. It might not be a bad idea, but I can't see McCain's camp endorsing this move. And then there's the confirmed that "Sarah Palin and her husband Todd were members in of Alaska's Independence Party in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla", Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, told ABC News. So much for patriotism! Since the 1970s the AIP has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not Alaska can secede from the United States…so much for Patriotism! For Palin to always attack Obama about who he associated with, i.e. Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers, you would think her past was crystal clear. Palin, herself was involved with the AIP, and then you have McCain linked to a man who sells shirts celebrating Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Plus we all know he opposed MLK Day, to the point that the governor of his state turned down an invitation to host the super bowl which would have brought in millions of dollars. Wow they must have really been opposed to this holiday. These things can not only be attributed to McCain and Palin's friends but to the actual Senator and Governor. I wonder who's running the smear campaign for the Democrats anyway…because I never hear these issues addressed in mass media!
Under George Bush's leadership the national debt has almost doubled…it's safe to say his presidency was a failure. So do Republicans actually believe McCain is that much different? Doubling a 5 trillion dollar debt takes effort and not the kind of effort we need. Under Bill Clinton the country had some surplus. Do any of these issues matter to Conservatives…I guess will see in November.


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Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar is expected to take the house into confidence over Rangers recent raid on MQM headquarters Nine Zero in Karachi. The overall situation of law and order in the country would also be discussed during the session.
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Brosmind01 July 2011
Brosmind is a multidisciplinary studio based in Barcelona founded by the Mingarro Brothers. They speciallize in illustration, graphic design and product design, although they often develop their own projects. Their style is fresh and optimistic and always combines fantasy and humor. Their work has been awarded several times including Cannes Lions (Gold and Silver, at Cannes 2007; Bronze at Cannes 2011), Laus Trophy (Barcelona 2007), Sol de Oro (San Sebastian 2008), Shorlist (Cannes 2008).
Got to meet the Mingarro brothers in Barcelona for an interview in their studio. Genuinely friendly guys that evidently work very hard and have a lot of fun while doing it.
We filmed the whole thing, will release it on http://www.formfiftyfive.com in a months time to end our OFFF interviews series.
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One thing though is that no one is 100% sure on any stock. I used to hate Cramer back when people thought he was the best thing to ever hit the market. My stock would go down 10% one day with no news at all except for Cramer saying he doesnt like it. Now, not too many people buy or sell based on what he says nearly as much as when the show just started getting popular. He is an entertainer first and then a stock analysis second. He gets more money from that show than he does with his stocks.
Oh yeah, I dont know about other brokers but Fidelity has had a rule for quite some time that you cant short a stock without having at least one million dollars in your account. Its too risky since you could easily lose it all and more on top of that and they dont know if they will see that money.


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By modern baseball standards, Matt Holliday had a Stan Musial-type season for the Cardinals in 2012.
Holliday led the 2012 Cardinals in hits (177), runs scored (95), doubles (36), RBI (102), walks (75) and on-base percentage (.379).
He is the first Cardinals left fielder to pace the team in each of those six categories since Stan Musial did it in 1953.
(The last player to lead St. Louis in hits, runs scored, doubles, RBI, walks and on-base percentage in a season was first baseman Albert Pujols in 2009.)
Holliday ranked in the top 10 in the National League for 2012 in hits (10th), runs (7th), RBI (7th), walks (5th) and on-base percentage (8th). He missed by two doubles of tying Angel Pagan of the Giants for 10th.
Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak, in an interview with Bernie Miklasz on St. Louis radio station 101ESPN Nov. 1, called Holliday "probably one of the toughest players I ever saw play this game."
Still, Holliday didn't approach the numbers Musial achieved in 1953.
Starting 133 games in left field (only two other players, rookie Harry Elliott and veteran Peanuts Lowrey, made starts in left field for St. Louis that year), Musial led the 1953 Cardinals in hits (200), runs scored (127), doubles (53), RBI (113), walks (105) and on-base percentage (.437).
Musial led the 1953 National League in doubles (Alvin Dark of the Giants was second with 41), walks (Jim Gilliam of the Dodgers was second with 100) and on-base percentage (Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers was second at .425).
Musial ranked second in the league in both runs scored (five behind Duke Snider of the Dodgers) and hits (five behind Richie Ashburn of the Phillies) and was seventh in RBI (Roy Campanella of the Dodgers was first with 142).
Holliday and Musial each came close to not leading his team in one of those six categories in those years. Holliday had just one more double than first baseman Allen Craig in 2012. Musial had just one more RBI than third baseman Ray Jablonski in 1953.
Musial's 53 doubles in '53 were his single-season career high. His 113 RBI were his most since 1949 and fourth-highest single-season mark of his career.
It was, wrote Bob Broeg in an October 1953 edition The Sporting News, "the top all-around year in the last four by Stan Musial, still the game's outstanding star."
Broeg continued: Musial, overcoming the slowest start of his career, finished furiously by hitting safely in the club's last 15 games … From June 17, when he was hitting only .251, Musial went all-out and batted a sizzling .385 in the next 101 contests.
In his book "Stan Musial: The Man's Own Story" (Doubleday, 1964), Musial thanked his legion of fans for sticking with him during his early-season travails and for offering "prayers, suggestions and good-luck charms."
"I received enough four-leafed clovers to feed a horse, enough rabbits feet to make every Easter bunny a basket case," Musial wrote.
Musial credited manager Eddie Stanky with finding the key that ended the slump. "I took a long, private morning batting practice with Eddie Stanky watching," Musial wrote. "He detected that I was striding too far and not bending my left knee."
A New York advertising friend provided Musial with film taken a few years earlier of Musial hitting. "At my peak," Musial wrote, "my stride was just 12 inches. Now I was striding nearly twice that far."
In 12 games, starting June 17, Musial raised his batting average from .251 to .303.
The Cardinals posted similar records in 1953 and 2012. St. Louis was 83-71 (a .539 winning percentage) in 1953 and finished tied for third with the Phillies in the eight-team National League. The 2012 Cardinals were 88-74 (a .543 winning percentage), finished in second place in the NL Central and qualified for the postseason as the second wild-card team.
Said Musial to The Sporting News: "Even after that slow start, I believe I had a good year. I'm just sorry it wasn't enough to help the club finish higher."
Previously: Willie McCovey and his legendary St. Louis home run


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The Tremetta Ridge
This itinerary can transform a simple hike into a dream day.
When you leave the summit of the Moléson (2002 m), having got there either on foot or by funicular and cable car from Moléson-Village (1100 m), you have before you a splendid panorama - from Mont Blanc across to the Jura via Lake Geneva. When you get to the Col de Villard, the itinerary winds down to Plan-Francey (1550 m) via the well-known Chalet de Gros-Plané, where farm produce and Gruyère specialities may well fill you up before you move on to Plan-Francey, from whence you can get back to Moléson-Village on foot or using the funicular.
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S&P Cool-Off?
Just taking a raw PA look at this chart. Tons of supply was offered at 2100 and we are currently testing that 1880 weekly support level . I would look for a break of this to consider taking a short stand and aim for the 1555 handle which was previous resistance.


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Medicaid in North Carolina desperately needs patient-driven reform. State and federal expansions of Medicaid in the last 20 years have helped make it the fastest growing portion of the state budget.
North Carolina already has one of the most expensive Medicaid programs in the Southeast. Needed reforms go beyond cracking down on abuse and implementing a preferred drug list. Without reform, the state must either reduce the number of services covered or reduce the number of people eligible for Medicaid. With patient-driven reform, most enrollees can help reduce costs by making decisions about their own care.


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A Personal Perspective on Women's Equality: One Lawyer's Blog Post
09/02/14 Kristen Gentry
Kristen Gentry is a Health Law Partner in the Indianapolis Office.
I was asked to write a blog about Women's Equality. Such a broad subject. And, I was told I could choose the subject of exactly what I wanted to write about. So many different angles, issues, concerns. Indeed, there are many choices. Headline grabbing issues abound: The War Against Female Reproductive Rights; Barriers to Education; Barriers to Full Employment; Violence Against Women; Unreal and Rarely Attainable Standards of Beauty; The Proverbial Glass Ceiling; How to Maintain the Perfect Work-Life Balance aka The Never-Ending Quest To Have it All and Settle for Nothing Less.
Yet, all of these issues are "issues" and as I am typically a glass half-full kind of person, and as this is a blog post, I would rather choose to paint the struggle towards Women's Equality in a more positive, yet personal light. From a personal perspective, my life has been impacted greatly by the leaps and bounds made by women in my grandmother's and mother's generations and also by the men in my life. My grandmother lived in occupied Antwerp, Belgium during WWII. She had attained a college degree in business in France, then eventually marrying my grandfather, an American soldier, and moving (never to become a U.S. citizen) to small town USA to work in the home. My mother, who is a registered nurse, is one of the smartest and strongest people that I know. She has an advanced degree in nursing and has lived a lifetime of continuous learning. She worked nights when I was a child, so she could be with us in the mornings and afterschool, with my Dad working days and cooking for us over the weekends and those nights when my Mom was at work. I had two older brothers, with whom I played Rambo in hay bales on my grandparents' farm, and rode dirt bikes and three-wheelers. My family supported my seven year foray into gymnastics (I was no Mary Lou Retton), sweated through softball tournaments during sweltering Indiana summer weekends, cheered me on at basketball and volleyball games and track meets. They pushed me to excel academically and supported my education at both the undergraduate and graduate level. And for that, I am so thankful.
There were others too. My 6th, 7th, and 8th grade history teacher, Mrs. Maggie McClain, taught me how to analyze and review large amounts of information and complex issues. When I graduated 8th grade she asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a fighter pilot. Top Gun was all the rage in the late 80s and I wanted to be Maverick---"going Mach 2 with my hair on fire". Mrs. McClain's reaction to me was one I will never forget. She looked stunned and then said something to the effect that I could be a fighter pilot if I wanted to be one and that I should never let being a woman stand in the way of what I wanted to achieve. I was stunned. I don't know why, but I had never considered that my gender could limit my career choices in life.
That one simple statement made me evaluate "being female" at a young age. I started to look for those women that had successful careers outside of the home - - - in what were traditionally men's professions. At the time, I knew very few women who worked outside of the home. My mother was one but most of my friends' mothers worked in the home. I knew of very few female physicians, lawyers, engineers, police persons or fire persons. The blinders fell from my eyes. I discovered those women that I did know in those professions had foregone families and children to be successful in their professions. Something men did not have to do. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I wanted a successful career and a family and was hopeful to find a way for both.
Fast-forward twenty plus years. Women have come a long way and I have found a way for both--- married thirteen years with three children and I am a partner in a large and successful law firm. Yet, the struggle is omnipresent. I believe that the struggle is easier for me than it was for my mother, the barriers less restrictive. However, they are still there. As I believe all women in the legal profession can, I can tell my fair share of stories. I am frequently the only female in the room---rooms full of lawyers, businessmen and accountants. I am called, "honey", "sweetie", and "girl". I have been asked by older men at meetings to get them coffee and go get their lunches, assumed to be a paralegal or secretary rather than a lawyer, and asked "test" questions rather than accepted for my accomplishments on face value.
Luckily, I have been blessed with fabulous female mentors, one who has always pointed out the strengths that are intrinsic in women: the value of being a peacemaker when needed; the benefits that a female perspective has on any deal or negotiation; and the importance of staying in the game. I believe in and support active efforts by women to network, market to and support one another, and to work part-time and flex schedules to stay in the workforce. I know that I've been blessed by my childhood, education, and the successes of the women that have blazed the trail, and built up by the strength of family, friends and wonderful teachers and mentors.
So, what it means to me, "Women's Equality", from my personal perspective and then transposed onto a larger scale, is a recognition of where women were relegated in society just a few generations ago; a celebration of and gratitude for what we have been able to accomplish to date; and a commitment to addressing and solving the issues for my own future and the generations of women to come. Indeed, the headlines still abound and there remains much to do.


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That's because Armbrister Park is immediately adjacent to where Old Smokey had been belching out black and acrid smoke for close to 70 years. Old Smokey is also where the contaminated soil dumped in the Miami parks ordered closed had originally come from.
Despite the relative clean bill of health, the football field at Armbrister Park was immediately remediated by having the topsoil scraped, removed, and the whole thing capped with AstroTurf. Even the children's playground was capped and covered with a rubberized material, which almost immediately started to flake and disintegrate.
Everybody thought that was the end of that. Until September 7, 2016, that is.
That's when my phone and text started blowing up. Several of my faithful readers wasted no time to tell me that they heard Armbrister Field was being closed because it was found to be contaminated with toxic soil. However, none of my sources had first-hand knowledge at that moment in time. [Documents started winging their way around the internet a few hours later.]
To get confirmation, I thought I would go straight to District 2 Commissioner Ken Russell. He and I originally met over the issue of toxic soil long before he ever considered running for office. At the time he was locked in battle against the [allegedly] corrupt former-Miami commissioner, Marc D. Sarnoff over the remediation of Merrie Christmas Park. This is the park right across the street from his house. It -- and 6 other parks -- were suddenly closed without any notification after the soil had been deemed toxic.
The residents living around Merrie Christmas Park hired a lawyer (bankrolled privately) to see the park was remediated to their satisfaction. And, it was. That also led to the removal of the Brown Field Site Designation that had been illegally applied to their neighbourhood.
Tangentially, and no less important, is that the park immediately across the street from [allegedly] corrupt former-Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff was also remediated. In fact, it was the first to be remediated. What's more is that it's been remediated twice already.
My point being that it's bad optics when the park in front of your house is fixed, but there are still entire neighbourhoods waiting nearly 4 years for their parks to reopen.
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of the toxic soil at Douglas Park - July 6, 2016
Back in November of 2014, [allegedly] corrupt former-Miami District 2 Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff was assuring residents round Douglas Park that the city was on top of their toxic soil problem. However, the work did not start until July of this year under the administration of his successor. It's estimated that it will take 2 years before the park reopens. And, we know how solid these kind of estimates are.
But I digress.
My call to Commissioner Russell's office seemed to take everyone by surprise. For laughs I decided to go through his main office number. Speaking to the receptionist, I made it clear that I was a reporter, I needed to speak to Chief of Staff Eleazar Melendez, Anthony Balzbre, but more importantly Commissioner Russell, for an ON THE RECORD response. She dutiful took down all the info, said they were all in a meeting, but asked me to hold on.
Within a minute Eleazar was on the phone with me. This was the first he had heard of Armbrister Park being closed and could not confirm. I told him I needed an ON THE RECORD comment and confirmation from his boss. He said he'd get back to me as soon as he learned more. [In the meantime, I was still getting phone calls and info from other sources.]
Less than an hour and a half later Commissioner Russell called me back personally to confirm what I had heard. He knew little more than the park was closing due to elevated levels of arsenic, but promised to keep me up to speed.
Unlike the parks that were found to have toxic soil, Armbrister Field was not contaminated with the same Old Smokey landfill that was spread around all the other parks. While this appears to be a case of "what goes up, must come down" further testing is needed to determine where the toxins came from. Old Smokey belched out smoke and particulate over a wide area for around 70 years. It was carried wherever the prevailing winds blew. That's why everyone was surprised that Armbrister Field had been given a clean bill of health when all the other parks had closed.
Or had it?
During the Trolleygate fiasco, this reporter wrote about how [allegedly] corrupt former-Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff had been using new AstroTurf at Armbrister Field as a
The Now Now Silly Newsroom has published several stories that called into question Astor's motives in proffering a $250,000
In the last 2 days this reporter has had several conversations with officials, both on and off the record. I think I am finally closing in on the quid pro quo. There will definitely be a Part Two to this story as I learn more, ferret out more documents, and as more people go ON THE RECORD. Eventually I hope to answer the following questions:
How did the toxic soil under Armbrister Field
manage to fly under the radar until now?
How did Armbrister Field get remediated so quickly
when several parks that have still yet to reopen?
Did Astor Development pay a quarter of a million
dollars for the remediation of Armbrister Field?
Who received the $250,000?
What part did [allegedly] corrupt former-Miami District 2
Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff have in all this jiggery-pokery?
manage to fly under the radar until now?
How did Armbrister Field get remediated so quickly
when several parks that have still yet to reopen?
Did Astor Development pay a quarter of a million
dollars for the remediation of Armbrister Field?
Who received the $250,000?
What part did [allegedly] corrupt former-Miami District 2
Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff have in all this jiggery-pokery?
Stay tuned . . .


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Originally known as Per-Lux, the company was founded in 1962 by Lavar Holman, primarily a manufacturer of driving and fog lights for the heavy-duty market (big rig trucks). In the early 70's, an engineer came up with the idea of an electronic ignition system that would replace the points and condenser in distributors. After patenting the product, Per-Lux started manufacturing the Ignitor with sales and marketing emphasis on the lift truck and industrial engine markets. The product gained wide acceptance with fleet managers who came to realize the dramatic improvement in reliability and reduced maintenance cost whether they were responsible for delivery trucks, school buses or generator/industrial engines. Only a few automotive applications were available in those early years, but automotive enthusiasts began using the Ignitor for the superior performance it offered. Utilizing the Ignitor technology, a complete electronic distributor was developed in 1985 and supplied to Wis-Con, a major original equipment engine manufacturer. Now, the PerTronix Electronic distributor is offered to the aftermarket to fit a variety of industrial and agricultural engines.
"With the tremendous growth of the performance industry in the 90's, PerTronix began to shift their emphasis to their automotive product offering, adding over 80 applications."
In early 1990, Per-Lux sold their lighting division to Grote International and a year later the management team lead by Tom Reh, the company's Chief Financial Officer, acquired the ignition division. The name change in 1991 to PerTronix signaled the company's total commitment to the ignition business, while carrying on a 29-year tradition of quality, performance and customer service. With the tremendous growth of the performance industry in the 90's, PerTronix began to shift their emphasis to their automotive product offering, adding over 80 applications. Jim Hairston, former Director of Sales and Marketing at Hooker Industries, joined PerTronix in May 1999 in the newly created position of Director of Marketing and Product Development further signaling the company's commitment to growing their performance market with increased distribution, product development and strategic acquisitions and alliances.
"Why distribute PerTronix?†says Jim Hairston. "Maybe a well-respected performance WD answered this question best when he referred to us†as a "best kept secret, a real Clark Kent line of performance ignition products.â€Â According to Hairston, the electronic points replacement ignition category has continued to show unit sales growth in spite of the fact that most points-type distributors haven't been used in new cars since the late seventies and early eighties. This substantial growth along with the addition of their Flame-ThrowerÔ coil and spark plug wire product lines made it necessary for PerTronix to expand production and relocate to a brand new 22,000 square foot custom manufacturing facility in 1997. By the end of 1999, the company's Ignitor kit sales exceeded 2,000,000 units for the decade with double-digit growth in each year.
Hairston points out that a closer look at the market shows that many of the popular street performance cars still utilize points-type distributors. "The resto-mod element of this market is a great niche for our products. The enthusiast wants late model technology for the improved performance and reliability but also wants to preserve the stock look under his hood. CD ignition systems, with their external boxes, don't meet the customer's needs. Our Ignitor module is engineered to permanently replace the points using rotating cobalt magnets enclosed in a plastic sleeve mounted on the distributor shaft, which triggers an electronic switching module (Hall effect integrated circuit). The unit fits entirely inside the distributor with no need for an external box. Our module is also used by many racers as a trigger for multi-spark boxes and has been recommended by MSD for yearsâ€, concluded Hairston.
PerTronix has greatly expanded their ignition offering over the last few years including the addition of the Ignitor II micro controller points replacement system for increased high RPM performance, Flame-Thrower® HEI and Billet Plug n' Play distributors including marine applications, Second Strike® ignition box, Digital Rev Limiter and the new Flame-Thrower HV 60,000 volt coils.
In August 2000, PerTronix completed the acquisition of Ermie Immerso Enterprises, a 30 year old exhaust products manufacturer and SEMA member since 1974. "It made sense to get in the exhaust business because of my extensive background in the category and the strong interest from our existing warehouse distributors for a reliable, high quality and competitively priced productâ€, commented Hairston. PerTronix's newly formed exhaust division operates in a 34,000 square foot facility located in Rancho Dominguez, California. Under the brand names Patriot Exhaust, Thunderbird Products and Smithy mufflers, PerTronix supplies the Street Rod, Volkswagen and Muscle Car markets with headers, mufflers, side pipes and do-it-yourself header components primarily through performance warehouse distributors.
In January 2005, Doug's Headers became the latest PerTronix Performance Brand and a welcome addition to their exhaust division helping expand their product line to include many new header applications for muscle cars, SUVS, trucks and motorhomes. The original Doug's Headers was located in Whittier, California and began producing quality headers in 1958. Doug's personal motto was "the customer should only have to install the headers, not remanufacture them to fit their vehicle.â€Â Doug's Riverside manufacturing facilities have been relocated and integrated to PerTronix's Mexico exhaust plant. Exhaust products distribution and product development has now been relocated to a new 60,000 square foot facility in Irwindale, California.
In December of 2008 JBA Performance Exhaust became part of our growing family of exhaust brands. JBA has been a cutting edge exhaust development and manufacturing company for over 22 years, leading the industry in header and exhaust product designs for late model emissions controlled vehicles. Famous for the Cat4ward headers with the JBA Firecone® merged collectors have set the standard for late model exhaust performance improvements by greatly improving the engine's volumetric efficiency.
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Host Gator – I hated Host Monster and switched to Host Gator in late 2010. I haven't needed to use their customer service often, but when I do, they always impress me.
ING Direct (now CapitalOne360) – Unknown to me, in early 2008 ING accidentally paid a bill 3 days before my scheduled billing date. Before I even noticed, they called me to explain their mistake as soon as they noticed their error, offered to waive any overdraft fees that might occur (not a problem since we have $1000 padding built-in to our checking accounts), and credited my account with the lost interest. I was most impressed by the actual call explaining the mistake mere hours after they found out. This one experience told me that this was a bank I'm going to stick with even through crappy interest rates.
Discover Card – Two businesses have accidentally double-charged my card in 8 years and Discover was easy to use online and over the phone. When Fedex and Ebay were giving me a run-around on getting a $850 refund for an Ebay package, Discover simply credited my account until the whole thing was resolved. In fact, in the 6 times that I've needed to call them in 8 years, I have never received anything but awesome customer service from knowledgeable reps. UPDATE: When my new cell phone was stolen 2 months after I bought it in early 2011, Discover refunded the $350 for me once I filed all of the appropriate paperwork. I love Discover.
Amazon – I've always enjoyed their consistent service and prices, but they earned my business for life when they immediately replaced a misdelivered (or stolen) Ipod Nano with no questions asked.


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Crown Material Handling
Crown Materials Handling is more commonly known as Crown and is a global builder, producer and distributor of material handling equipment. Crown's award-winning line of lift trucks, reach and pallet trucks, tow tractors and stock pickers are renowned across the world for advanced product design, engineering and integrated manufacturing processes. In addition to the equipment itself Crown also provides automation and fleet management technologies, security and consultancy and a full range of product training and after sales services, including spare parts, warranty and accessories.
Headquartered in New Bremen, Ohio, USA Crown's products are used in the world-wide logistics, warehousing, distribution and shop floor industries. With offices in Munich, Germany and Sydney, Australia, Crown maintains a dealer network in every continent and manufacturing plants in Europe, USA and Asia. The company currently employs over 10,000 staff worldwide.
A family firm, Crown was founded in 1930 to build temperature controls for coal burning furnaces. Initially the company focused on these products until diversification in the late 1950's led them to begin manufacturing television antenna rotators and in the late 1960's acquired Steinbock, a manufacturer of pallet trucks. By the 1970's Crown had focused much of its manufacturing resource into forklifts and warehouse equipment and the Crown side-stance design revolutionised the industry. Today this design still retains popular acceptance, being awarded a Design of the Decade award from International Design Society of America in 2012.
Crown is heavily focused on sustainability and their ecologic approach is based on the principles of minimizing waste, managing energy and maximizing lifespan in all equipment.