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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When Ryan Newman, a vice president in the Investment Management Division of global investment bank Goldman Sachs, talks about the Smeal College of Business' trading room — a real-time, networked environment where students monitor financial markets and strategize on investments — a tinge of awe creeps into his voice.
"The Rogers Family Trading Room didn't even exist when I was a student," said Newman, a 2001 graduate of Smeal and the Schreyer Honors College. "This is one of the only labs in the country like this. What makes it so impressive is that it's an out-of-classroom experience that is driving the experience in the classroom. It's unique."
Newman has seen how experience shapes success on Wall Street. His appreciation for the impact that access to the trading room can have on students preparing to launch their careers has led him and his wife, a 2001 graduate of the College of the Liberal Arts and the Schreyer Honors College, to create the Ryan L. and Meredith A. Newman Family Endowment for Scholarly Activities in the Schreyer Honors College. Once fully endowed, proceeds from the $100,000 fund will support faculty involved with the trading room. The trading room boasts a variety of financial software, including two Bloomberg machines, an interactive information network that provides current and historical financial market information.
Newman said giving students access to a variety of financial software, such as the Bloomberg machines, puts them in touch with the same tools those in business and industry employ. "Financial information is voluminous," Newman said. "While there's a lot of data that is readily accessible, it can be highly disparate. The Bloomberg machine is a subscription-based network that provides a lot of data but also allows for a large amount of analysis and aggregation. The on-going subscription fees are expensive, and the machines themselves are very costly.
"For the trading room to be a place where students can get training on some of the same tools used on the trading desk is very exciting. I view this gift as getting to the heart of the preparation students need in order to be successful in this industry. While I didn't have the opportunity of having used the trading room as an undergraduate, I am someone who has first-hand experience in seeing how the trading room has been a force multiplier in preparing students to secure jobs on Wall Street."
In addition to being a teaching lab, the Rogers Family Trading Room is used by members of the Penn State Investment Association, a club open to students from all majors, and the Nittany Lion Fund, a student-managed $5 million investment fund.
With dual allegiances to Smeal and to the Schreyer Honors College, Newman envisions his gift aligning with priorities identified by each academic unit. While Newman's gift will support a Smeal faculty member involved with the trading room, that professor will be connected with the Honors College's Distinguished Honors Faculty Program, which provides select faculty with resources to engage students in innovative programs outside of the classroom. Gifts of $100,000 or more can endow Distinguished Honors Faculty Program appointments.
Newman sees his gift as introducing the dynamic environment of finance to Schreyer Scholars from across the University.
"My initial introduction to Penn State was through Smeal and all the things that a top-ranked business program at a large public university offers," Newman said. "Then later I learned about Schreyer, and I was just taken by the focus on the individual student and this concept of the development of the 'whole person' through international enrichment and scholarship.
"It is a powerful combination. In directing all of our giving to date to the intersection of Schreyer and Smeal, it is my hope that this will accomplish two things: first, that it will promote a level of enthusiasm about key financial concepts outside of the classroom which, in turn, will make the classroom environment more enriching, and second, that it will increase the number of students each year who can achieve a job in the competitive Wall Street hiring environment."
The Newman Family Endowment is the second major gift commitment made to For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students by Newman, who co-chairs the campaign committee for the Schreyer Honors College's External Advisory Board. The board has a goal of committing $2.5 million or half of the dollars yet to be raised in order for the college to reach its $54 million campaign goal.
"The External Advisory Board, as volunteer leaders of the University, stand with the community and take a leadership role in achieving our goal for the students," Newman said.
"Ryan has provided tremendous leadership to the Honors College and the University throughout this campaign," said Christian M. M. Brady, dean of the Schreyer Honors College. "It is especially exciting to see a young alumnus recognize the impact philanthropy can have upon future generations of students and find a tangible way to bring his passion for his profession directly to those preparing to pursue that same path."
The Newmans' new gift in support of the Distinguished Honors Faculty Program will help the Schreyer Honors College achieve the goals of For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students. This University-wide effort is directed toward a shared vision of Penn State as the most comprehensive, student-centered research university in America. The University is engaging Penn State's alumni and friends as partners in achieving six key objectives: ensuring student access and opportunity, enhancing honors education, enriching the student experience, building faculty strength and capacity, fostering discovery and creativity, and sustaining the University's tradition of quality. The For the Future campaign is the most ambitious effort of its kind in Penn State's history, with the goal of securing $2 billion by 2014.
For more information about the Schreyer Honors College, visit http://shc.psu.edu.


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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The warmer weather is driving up demand for a common surgery.
But before you choose it, you may want to hear about some new research.
That surgery? Breast reduction.
A study published in "Aesthetic Plastic Surgery" says that if you are considering it, for any number of reasons, you may want to ask your surgeon about reducing the size, while adding implants.
Here's why:
"Let's say you've nursed a few kids, or its just aging. If you've got a sagging breast, sometimes an implant can help lift it," said Dr. Jon Mendelsohn. "Same thing with a breast reduction, when you've got a lot of tissue, you are removing a lot and you might need a breast implant to lift the breast, it's more than just a reduction."
Dr. Jon Mendelsohn is part of a team that performs breast implant surgery. He says this idea has been around for a while.
This new research just confirms that "reductive augmentation" may be one of the better options for women who want a higher, rounder breast after reduction surgery.
"If you've got large heavy breasts, you can remove tissue, but many people undergoing those would still want breast sitting upright and that's where the implants may come in," said Dr. Mendelsohn.
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A regional transit authority would have the muscle to push a light rail network, but not the money.
By Mike Brassfield, Rebecca Catalanello and Michael Van Sickler
Published April 16, 2007
Florida lawmakers are on the cusp of creating a new transportation authority that could build a network of toll roads, rail lines and express buses to get people around seven counties in the Tampa Bay area.
The regional agency would have unusual powers.
Aside from building roads and mass transit, it would operate as a superpowered real estate developer. It could override local zoning rules, take property by eminent domain and partner with companies to build housing and retail clusters around new rail stations.
The idea is to generate money to help build the billion-dollar dream of some of the agency's backers: a light rail network through Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties.
But no one knows where the rest of the money would come from, leading some to wonder if the regional authority is really just another toll road agency in disguise.
The lawmakers and business leaders who are pushing for the new agency say it's the Tampa Bay area's best bet to get rail, though they acknowledge no one knows exactly how that would be accomplished.
"My sole goal is to create an environment for possibilities," said Rep. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, sponsor of the House bill that would create the authority.
Roads and rail
The agency would probably go by the unwieldy name of TBARTA, the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority. It would include Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Sarasota counties.
County commissioners, big-city mayors and business executives would control its board. Beginning July 1, they would have two years to decide on a master plan.
Two state lawmakers - Galvano and Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey - have steered identical bills through the House and Senate to create the authority.
Both bills have passed through several committees and are awaiting floor votes and the governor's signature.
Fasano has earmarked $1-million in the Senate budget for the authority's startup costs. The House bill has no money set aside.
Galvano says the fix isn't in for any particular transportation plan, but he says the authority could tackle:
- Commuter ferries across Tampa Bay.
- A controversial beltway the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority proposed last year, then backed away from, saying the plan was outside its Hillsborough scope. As proposed, the $3.5-billion, 70-mile toll road would stretch across north Manatee, east Hillsborough, south Pasco and north Pinellas counties.
- Future Corridors, a series of possible toll roads across rural Florida that the state is considering. One road, a top state priority, could head northeast from Tampa to Jacksonville. Another might stretch from Brooksville down through east Hillsborough or west Polk County, toward Port Charlotte.
- Light rail. This component would be the most complicated. The problem, as always, will be money.
How to pay for it?
There are always debates about whether rail is worth the cost. Hillsborough shelved a $986-million rail line in 2003. Pinellas killed a $1.5-billion monorail last year.
Still, the area's leaders are staring down the barrel of a future where the region's population may double in 40 years and it will become much harder, if not impossible, to make roads any wider.
Rail requires taxes. Orlando is building a commuter rail network with tax money: 25 percent local, 25 percent state and 50 percent federal. Cities that want rail have to pony up local money to compete for federal matching funds.
But the Tampa Bay regional authority wouldn't have the power to levy taxes.
Governments and private companies could chip in to pay for projects, but the only way the authority could raise money itself would be to sell revenue bonds, to be paid off by tolls and fares.
The catch: Revenue bonds are used for projects that make investors money, like toll roads. They're not used for projects that lose money, such as taxpayer-subsidized rail or bus lines.
So skeptics doubt the authority would really be able to pay for a mass transit network.
"What you have here is a toll road authority, and nothing else," said former Hillsborough County Commissioner Ed Turanchik, who chaired the defunct Tampa Bay Commuter Rail Authority.
The authority's backers disagree. They insist TBARTA's focus will be on mass transit.
Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Partnership, a regional business group that's backing the new agency, is looking to state government to funnel more money into transit.
"The state's where the money is," he said.
Galvano says the authority's success will largely depend on partnering with businesses. A company interested in the development opportunities surrounding a rail line might invest in the project itself and share profits from concessions at hubs. "It would be more of a collaborative effort," he said.
But it would be unprecedented for private investment to pay for a rail line by itself. Local money for rail typically comes from sales taxes.
Pinellas and Hillsborough county commissioners have the ability to put a referendum on the ballot for a transit sales tax, but they never have.
Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio wants a referendum in Hillsborough once a new plan for rail is in place, but county commissioners have shown little support for it.
In any case, TBARTA's backers say the new agency could be a magnet for federal cash. And Galvano and Iorio think the federal government would be more likely to sweep dollars toward the new authority once the area shows a commitment to regional planning.
'A lot of power'
The authority could build - or have private companies build - dense developments within a half-mile of rail stations.
Initially, those developments weren't going to have to comply with local zoning or land use regulations. Now they'll have to, thanks to a rewrite of the bill. The authority's transportation projects - roads and rail - still won't have to comply, though they would be encouraged to obey to the " maximum extent feasible."
"It is a lot of power," Galvano acknowledged, especially since the proposed rail lines would run through the middle of St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Tampa.
Some officials think that could cause major clashes later if local governments can't regulate the authority's projects. "Land use decisions are the purview of city councils and county commissions," Iorio said.
Yet there's been little opposition from cities or counties. After state lawmakers sparred over whether the authority should have this power, Galvano amended the bill, granting local communities more say-so in regional projects through public hearings and a mandatory dispute-resolution process.
But if the authority wants a project and one county doesn't, short of court action, the regional plan wins.
The changes to the bill have won over several opponents. A few weeks ago, Lutz activist Denise Layne was the bill's fiercest critic. Now her concerns have mostly been addressed.
But she says she'll keep watching.
"Is there a potential for abuse? ... Always," she said.
Mike Brassfield can be reached at 813 226-3435 or email@example.com Rebecca Catalanello can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (813) 610-6372.
Who would control the authority?
A 15-member board:
- Seven elected officials, one from each county.
- Two mayors or mayoral designees from St. Petersburg and Tampa.
- A third mayor's seat, to flip between Bradenton and Sarasota every two years.
- An appointee from the West Central Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization, made up of local counties' transportation planning agencies.
- And four governor's appointees from the business sector.-The state Department of Transportation would name two nonvoting members.
- The staff could include an executive director, legal counsel, engineers and financial officers.
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BURLEIGH HEADS, Queensland/Australia (Sunday, 22 January, 2012) - Today saw a slight decrease in swell size at Burleigh Heads for Day 2 of the Billabong World Junior Championships Gold Coast, and the call was made to run Rounds 1 and 2 of the Women's event. The women went for it in the fun 2 foot (1 meter) surf, putting on a good show for the hundreds of onlookers lining the Burleigh Headland.
Sarah Baum (ZAF) was the talk of the town today after starring in the last heat of Round 1. The young lady from Durban, South Africa used her powerful backhand attack to post the highest heat total of the event thus far - 18.53 (out of a possible 20).
Ellie-Jean Coffey (AUS) who recently relocated from Crescent Head, NSW to the Gold Coast, put her pointbreak experience to good use today after taking out her Round 1 duel with her younger sister Holly-Sue Coffey (AUS) and current ASP Women's World Junior ratings leader Joanne Defay (FRA).
"It's good to surf against my sister, but it's also nerve racking because if she beat me she'd never let me live it down," Ellie-Jean Coffey said. "I'm so thankful to Billabong for giving me the wildcard into this event, I've got no pressure and nothing to lose, but everything to gain."
Leila Hurst (HAW) is currently 2nd on the ASP Women's World Junior ratings and is looking for a solid result here at the Billabong World Junior Championships Gold Coast to help her claim the ASP Women's World Junior title.
Dimity Stoyle (AUS) put on a show for the Sunday crowd at Burleigh Heads today, catching 13 waves and posting some scores in the excellent range courtesy of her smooth style.
The Billabong World Junior Championships Gold Coast will be webcast live via www.billabongpro.com
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Our satellite navigation systems are about to take a pummeling from the Sun. The Sun is on schedule to experience an increase in solar activity that will interfere in a number of ways with the communication between satellites and navigation receivers on the ground, resulting in some potentially annoying outages and errors.
After a period of low solar activity, the Sun's radiation is scheduled to rise again in the coming months. The heightened activity includes an increase in the occurrence of solar flares, which contain radiation in most wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as high-energy particles. While the effects of the flares are not incredibly strong, it doesn't take much to mess with the satellite navigation systems we have in place.
Satellite navigation, such as the US GPS system and Russia's Glonass network, depends on the weak transmission of radio signals between satellites and receivers on Earth's surface. While the connection is tenuous, use has been on the rise since the last high solar activity period around ten years ago, and is now used in everything from emergency vehicles to military operations.
The satellite signals must travel through Earth's ionosphere, where the ionized particles interfere with the signal and already cause significant variations in results. The solar radiation will create more ionized particles in the ionosphere, causing errors of distance, a hundred feet or so, that could persist for hours or days. The direct interference of the radiation with the satellite signals themselves may cause ten minutes or so of blindness in receivers a few times a year. The blips are more likely to be annoying more than anything else, but still something to look out for.


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Okino Computer Graphics has released its V5.3.2 set of JT PLM/MCAD bidirectional import and export converter modules. With the JT converter modules, users can import and export geometry, hierarchy, materials, and texture-mapping data to native JT disk-based MCAD, aka DirectModel, files. Users can also import PMI graphical data and then re-export to compatible Okino export file formats, such as SketchUp and U3D. Okino built the modules on the official JT Open Toolkit from Siemens AG, ensuring the consistency of JT files across the enterprise and throughout the PLM supplier chain. JT, suitable for use throughout a product development life cycle, supports various file sizes and multiple tessellations and levels of details—from compact files with facet data to rich files that hold associations to the original CAD information, assemblies, product structure, geometry, attributes, metadata, and product manufacturing information.
Okino Computer Graphics; http://www.okino.com
Autodesk has launched AutoCAD Freestyle, its 2D drawing software package for creating professional-looking drawings and sketches, layouts, and plans that can be shared. The software is designed to offer a simplified user interface and to require no training. AutoCAD Freestyle enables a variety of users—from hobbyists and do-it-yourselfers to professionals working in home improvement, gardening and landscape design, and light or specialty construction—to produce professional, 2D layouts and plans. Previously known as Project Cooper, a technology preview from Autodesk Labs, AutoCAD Freestyle is now available for download from Autodesk for $149; the Autodesk eStore is selling the electronic download for $79 for a limited time.
Autodesk; http://www.autodesk.com/estore
Automatic Duck has upgraded its Media Copy and Pro Import AE timeline integration solutions. Media Copy now enables users to read and manage Avid bins and project files, simplifying the editing workflow. Pro Import AE 5.0, the latest version of the company's timeline translation tool for Adobe After Effects, offers compatibility with Adobe's Creative Suite 5 from Adobe and support for Motion 3 and 4 project import. Version 5.0 also features DPX/Cineon sequence support from Final Cut Pro; support for MXF4Mac and other MXF QuickTime components; updated third-party, plug-in translations; the option to replace Final Cut Pro proxy media with R3D files; and improved text import with font, color, size, and style info. Now available, Media Copy 3.0 is priced at $95 and Pro Import AE 5.0 is priced at $495.
Automatic Duck; http://www.automaticduck.com
Noise Industries' development partner SugarFX has updated its Video Wall plug-in with new video and 3D options, auto-animation features, and other capabilities. Video Wall 2.0 with keyframable parameters enables users to twist, bend, and animate multiple images and videos for unique wall effects. Users also gain added complexity modes, including Standard, Advanced, and Expert modes and presets for creating more intricate presets and effects. Video Wall is an FxFactory- powered plug-in designed to extend the visual effects capabilities of Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Apple Final Cut Express. Video Wall 2.0 is a free update for Video Wall 1.0 users and available for $69 via the Noise Industries Web site.
Noise Industries; http://www.noiseindustries.com
Shotgun Software and Tweak Software have released an integration package combining their VFX and animation production tools, Shotgun and RV. Shotgun is a flexible, scalable Web-based project management system for digital production studios, whereas Tweak Software's RV is an image and sequence viewer for VFX and animation artists. The combination is intended to help studios track, organize, play, and review their work quickly and easily. The integration module enables users to move between the programs quickly, launch Shotgun-aware playback from anywhere in the pipeline, load neighboring shots to see shots in context, display Shotgun metadata in the RV player, easily Trim or reveal handles and slates, and swap in high-res frames, QuickTime movies, or alternate media. The new integration module is provided at no additional cost to users of both products.
Shotgun Software; http://www.shotgunsoftware.com Tweak Software; http://www.tweaksoftware.com
Eyeon Software announced Stereoscopic Site Licensing, designed to provide studios with a roadmap to affordable GPU rendering. A site license of multiple tools—such as Fusion, Rotation, and Render Nodes—is intended to provide greater creativity and workflow efficiency. Rotation 6.1 combines with Fusion 6.1, for example, to introduce new tools for rotoscoping, keying, and color management for shot prepping, touch-up, tracking, and depth-map generating for stereo conversion. Eyeon's Stereoscopic Site Licensing is priced at $9995 for two Fusion 6.1, 10 Fusion Render Node 6.1, and 10 Rotation 6.1 licenses; a $19,995 package delivers five Fusion 6.1, 20 Fusion Render Node 6.1, and 20 Rotation 6.1 licenses.
Eyeon Software; http://www.eyeonline.com
E-on Software has upgraded its Vue 8 Frontier, software that combines nature-creation tools with built-in Poser and Daz 3D character rendering for producing images and videos filled with characters and scenic nature. Based on the Vue 8 core application, Vue 8 Frontier will import static Poser or Daz 3D models as Collada files through DazStudio. Vue 8 Frontier also supports the native shading tree of Poser and includes a free version of SkinVue, a VuePython-powered utility for enhancing the realism of human skin. Vue 8.4 Frontier is available for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 as a 32- and 64-bit application, and on Mac OS X 10.5+ as Universal Binary. Vue 8.4 Frontier is priced at $99, and is available at no additional cost for existing Vue 8 Frontier users.
E-on Software; http://www.e-onsoftware.com
Bits from Bytes unveiled the BFB 3000, a desktop 3D printer for outputting quick, affordable prototypes and models from CAD files. The BFB 3000, able to print objects from converted STL files on an SD card, comes with an optional second head for printing support material. It is geared to professionals and hobbyists alike.
Bits from Bytes; http://www.bitsfrombytes.com


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Super Mario World!
The Wii U update is finally here, and with it, the Virtual Console has launched today in North America. While the choices are far from impressive, mostly consisting of promotional $0.30 games that were already offered, I'm just glad the Virtual Console is finally here, and hopefully Nintendo won't stagger releases as much as they have in the past.
Today, you can pick up Super Mario World ($7.99 - yeesh), Ice Climber ($4.99), Kirby's Adventure ($0.30 temporarily, $4.99 regularly), Donkey Kong Jr. ($4.99), Balloon Fight ($4.99), Excitebike ($4.99), Punch Out!! ($4.99), and F-Zero ($7.99). If you already own an NES game, you can pay $1 to upgrade to the Wii U version, or pay $1.50 for SNES games. You'll net customizable controls, remote play, restore points (save states), and Miiverse support for your upgrade.
As a recap, that's only the NES and SNES available right now. I've already had my fill with the anniversary games, so I don't think I'll quadruple dip on Super Mario World just yet.
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When my wife's boss first moved to our small town it was more than a little culture shock. Raised on the slick windy streets ofChicago, he had mastered the ways of the urban jungle, but this experience had done little to prepare him for the Deep South. He had never eaten grits. He did not know what chicken and dumplings were. He had not the foggiest idea about pork rinds. He had never attended Cotillion classes as a child, been to a church homecoming, or attended the Sequoya Ball (our town's largest and most elegant annual charity soiree).
This was all very foreign to him. As was the Southern hospitality dripping from the mouths and handshakes of his new neighbors. One evening shortly after moving, he and his wife were unpacking their boxes and beginning to settle into their new, alien surroundings. There was a knock at the door. Out on the stoop was the first of several neighbors he would meet in the days ahead.
She was the typical, sweet, small-town Southern lady, apple pie in hand. She gave the usual "welcome to our town" speech, drawling over every word, and finally ended with an invitation for them to join her in worship at First Baptist Church the next Sunday. Well, you can imagine this dear lady's disbelief when she was immediately informed of my wife's boss' atheism. "No ma'am, I do not believe in God and will not be attending church with you. Not next week. Not ever."
This poor woman looked at him, dumbstruck. To relieve the tension she turned to his wife: "What about you, dear? Would you join me for church next week?" Again, the answer was shattering. "No, I am afraid not. See, I am Jewish." The charming saint from the First Baptist Church turned and left, taking her apple pie with her. She never tried to engage them again; no invitation to the neighborhood barbecue, no friendly exchange of garden tools, no further invitations to church on Sunday, and certainly no more apple pies.
It used to be that everyone we met was a bit like "us." Not anymore. From religion and race, to politics and lifestyle, the diversity that now surrounds us is far greater than anything we could have imagined a generation ago. So, in shock, we exercise kindness toward those who are like us, and we keep our apple pies away from those we find different than we ourselves. We retreat into the sanctuary of our own homes or churches, keeping the unfamiliar at a distance. This is hardly "hospitality," Southern or otherwise. In fact, it is hostility.
Jesus asked in the Sermon on the Mount, "If you love only those who love you, what have you gained?" I don't know what is gained, but I know what is lost: Community itself. Researchers now say that our polarization and cocooning can do more than make sparks fly during a political debate. When people fail to get to know others outside their religious and social circles, everyone grows precariously distrustful. Everything from public health and government effectiveness, to economic strength and crime rates suffer as a result of our failure to simply connect with those who share the space around us.
So share an apple pie (or a conversation or a cup of coffee). There just might be something to sharing these with our neighbors that will be good for the whole world.
There are things in our life that are very, very good. Money, family, jobs, church, possessions, friends: These are all good and in many cases irreplaceable, but you cannot build your life on these things and expect your life to sustain itself. These can all turn to sand. Money vanishes a lot quicker than we can make it. Consult the year-end statement from your broker if you do not believe me. Fortunes, retirement accounts, mutual funds all wash away these days. If your life is built on such things, you may not have much to live for.
Our families are one of God's great gifts to us. But spouses can prove unfaithful, children ungrateful, and parents unmovable, leading to the worst frustrations. If you build your life on these things, your house can easily collapse in on top of itself. And your job? Forget it. Consult the unemployment numbers. Yes, friends can forsake you. Possessions can be lost. Churches can rip your heart from your chest. Homes can be repossessed. Automobiles can be destroyed. Partners and lovers can disappoint. Your health can fail you. None of these things are worthy enough or substantial enough to hold your life together when the rains falls, the winds blow, and the waters rise.
The glue that holds life together in the hardest and stormiest of times is the way of Christ. Don't trust your broker. Don't trust your boss. Don't trust your best friend. Don't trust your pastor or priest. Trust Jesus. Cling to him, and even if everything else is lost, even your life, you will still be found standing – not because you are an expert builder – but because the bedrock of your life is certain and sure; it's not sand.
The emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson Rivera few years ago was one of the most incredible things any of us have ever seen. Every time you get on an airplane, either by video or intercom a flight attendant tells you what to do "in the event of a water landing." I always look at Sky Mall magazine during this portion of the program because my flights rarely take me across large bodies of water. I think I'll pay closer attention next time. A few people on Flight 1549 were paying attention. All one hundred fifty-five people on the flight survived with only a few injuries.
Those survivors all have a similar tale to tell. Everything went from normal into the toilet, literally, in less than four minutes. And one of the reasons people remained so calm, not only because of the pilot's training and the flight attendants' leadership, was because of the speed of the entire event. And because of the nature of the crash, with rising water just outside the windows and in the tail of the plane, outside of a few panicked passengers, everyone got quickly out with no thought for what they were leaving behind. Some passengers stopped to grab their bags from the overhead bins, but they were quickly shooed away by those with clearer thinking.
Experts say that when a crash takes place and there are survivors on board, evacuation is often crippled because a passenger is reaching up to take a suitcase or laptop out of the overhead bin. Pay attention to that pre-flight speech and what you should do is very clear. Unfasten your seat belts. Proceed to an emergency exit. And do not take anything with you. That's what those survivors did, and it made all the difference. Studies show everyone has approximately 90 seconds to get out of a crashed airplane. So what is more important? Your stuff, or your life?
You can build upon or cling to all these things – important things, yes – but things that will drown you if you cling to them once the plane has crashed. Get yourself to solid ground and let the rest go.
My children have returned to school; let the rejoicing begin. But I don't know why they go to school. They know everything already, just like I did when I was their age. See, when I was a kid, I really thought my father was something. I looked up to him as if he was a superhero who could leap tall buildings with a single bound, could bend steel bars with his bare hands, and defeat all of his arch enemies.
With hands the size of pot roasts and the strength of an ox, I was amazed at how he could lift me above his head, how fast he could run, and how there was nothing he could not do. "My daddy can beat up your daddy," was a routine phrase on my lips. And smart? Lord, yes, he was smart. He was a master problem-solver. He understood how things worked. He could do pre-algebra in his head and long division without picking up a pencil. He could read the hardest words. He might as well been a king.
But as I got older, as a teenager, I discovered my father was growing remarkably stupid. In just a couple of year's time, somehow, he became a backward, bumbling simpleton with not a clue to how the world really worked. He offered inane advice on everything from money and education to automobiles and the opposite sex. He set ridiculous boundaries in regard to time, work, school, and my friends. A few times he even dared to critique or forbid my well-made decisions. What an idiot.
Then, in my twenties, my father must have returned to school or started taking smart pills. His counsel improved dramatically – almost overnight. His words were far sounder than I could ever remember. It was obvious an old dog could learn new tricks. I was so proud of him. And now, with growing children of my own, my father practically has a PhD. No, he's not as big and strong as he once was, but he is absolutely brilliant, even smarter than before. His intellectual turnaround has been miraculous.
But what bothers me is the fact that I am my father's son. See, I get more like him every day: The cadence of my voice, my mannerisms, the gray in my beard, my dietary habits, my elevated cholesterol. So I fear I too will have a mid-life plunge into idiocy. I don't have a "chair" at home, but today my children look upon me with something akin to worship, as I looked upon my father. Tomorrow they will despise my advice, my words, and the limitations I place upon them because my IQ will have shrunk down to nothing as their own rises to near Einstein levels.
I know it is coming. I can feel it. Sometimes, just by the way my children look at me, or how they question my judgment, or when they angrily resist me, I can tell I'm getting dumber. I don't understand. I don't "get it." I'm in the way of them having a good time. It is all sure to get worse before it gets better. But hopefully, after a decade or so on the dark side, my mental capacities will improve as my own father's did. Maybe then I won't be such a bonehead, and my children will find me worth listening to again.
It's really too bad that we fathers take these short trips into stupidity when our children are at such vulnerable junctions in their lives. They sure could use a little help.


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Of Lenses and Tinderboxes
D. A. Saguto, portraying a seventeenth-century settler, coaxes the flame he started with a burning lens, most likely what archaeologists found at Jamestown, below.
Archaeologists who recovered it from a plow zone context within the triangular palisaded fort place the lens with objects dated to the first half of the seventeenth century. The plano-convex—one side flat, the other curved—lens was too encrusted with debris to test, but given its dimensions we were able to replicate its basic optical properties. We calculated a focal length of 225mm, or about 9 inches, give or take 35mm, depending on the index of refraction of the glass used. Pretty short for a telescope of that era. A typical Galilean telescope would have had a focal length between 30 and 40 inches. The Jamestown example measures an ultra-short 18 inches. It would have consisted of a plano-convex objective—the lens nearest the object—and an ocular of about two inch focal length at the other end of an adjustable tube to place the object in focus.
The short focal length and solitary context of the find (there were no other telescope parts unearthed in the vicinity) make it more likely that the Jamestown lens was a burning glass. They have been known since antiquity. Aristophanes mentions one in his play The Clouds, written in 424 b.c. Burning glasses were typically five to ten power lenses that could be used on sunny days to ignite tobacco or tinder. One would usually carry the flammables in a tinderbox, the lid often fashioned to contain a compartment that housed the lens.
Burning glasses are listed among ship's cargo in Volume One of his The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith in a passage about what Virginia's Indians thought of English equipments:
Most things they saw with us as Mathematicall Instruments, Sea-Compasses; the virtue of the Loadstone, Perspective Glasses, burning Glasses: Clocks to goe of themselves; Bookes, writing, Guns, and such like; so far exceeded their capacities, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods than men; or at least the gods had taught us how to make them, which loved us so much better then them; & caused many of them give credit to what we spake concerning our God.Lodestones have magnetic properties. Perspective glasses are magnifying glasses.
Smith also refers to the manufacturing of glass in Jamestown—indeed the glassworks of 1608 have been recreated at the original spot—and to shipments of such glass from the colony to England.
—Anthony Aveni and Roger Williams


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Today's Therapist Thursday comes from our friends at The Inspired Treehouse and is full of great ideas to prepare your children for school during the last few weeks of Summer!
Every year in our school based therapy practice, we create and send home summer programs for our students because we believe that practice makes perfect! Let's be frank, no one wants to think about school over the summer. And when children have long breaks where they don't have regular opportunities to practice the skills they need in school every day, they often need extra time to get back into the swing of things when they return to school in the fall. It may take weeks to get a child back to where they left off! Here at The Inspired Treehouse, we want kids to have what they need to start the school year confident and ready to learn. Here are 10 functional skills used every day in the school environment with some playful summer activities that will give the opportunity for practice and development of these skills. These summer activities for kids are so much fun, we promise your little ones won't even realize that they're actually doing homework! 🙂
1. STAIR CLIMBING: Most children have many opportunities to navigate steps in their school environment on a daily basis: to get to art or music, to play on playground equipment, and even to get on the bus. This may sound simple enough, they practice stairs everyday at home, right? BUT, have you ever thought that, at school, there may be 20 other kiddos trying to navigate those stairs at the SAME time?? This challenges balance, motor planning, strength, and body control. To make sure your child stays confident and comfortable on the stairs, work on stair climbing as often as possible and in as many ways as possible.
Try these activities to help develop your child's confidence and ability on the stairs:
Child Development Quick Tip: Stair Climbing
Simple Activities for Kids Using Stairs
2. HANDWRITING AND COLORING: These skills are challenged every single day in the classroom. The expectations for handwriting grow more challenging as our children progress and as they transition to a new grade level. Learning to write requires continual development of fine motor and visual motor/perceptual skills. Our children need to be able to grasp a pencil or crayon efficiently, sustain pressure while writing/coloring, demonstrate enough strength to hold their writing utensil for a length of time, and motor plan to create writing and drawings. On top of that, they need to be able to visually attend to their paper!
Try these activities to practice handwriting and coloring skills:
Child Development Quick Tip: Visual Motor Skills
3. TRANSITIONS IN HALLWAYS: Children need to be able to line up, walk forward in a line, maintain body awareness throughout crowded hallways and rooms, and get to and from spaces calmly and independently. This challenges motor planning, body awareness, and sensory processing skills.
Try these fun activities to practice these skills:
4. MAINTAIN UPRIGHT POSTURE IN A CHAIR: How many times have you been in a classroom, or in your kitchen at homework time, and noticed a child slouching in a chair with his bottom sliding toward the edge. Or maybe he's completely bent over with his head resting in one hand or, better yet, his head down on the table. Is he tired? Maybe! But, it's possible that this child just doesn't have the core strength or postural stability to maintain an upright sitting position in a chair for periods of time. Or maybe he needs more propriceptive input to tell him what exactly his body is doing.
Help your child develop stability for good posture and give him proprioceptive input for better body awareness with activities like these:
Core Strengthening Exercises for Kids
Make Me Strong Partner Yoga for Kids
5 Olympic-Inspired Strengthening Activities for Kids
5. PARTICIPATION IN GYM: Did you know that in the U.S., kids are observed and measured against all of the other kids in the nation in gym class? Are they performing gross motor skills to the level of their peers? Are they confident enough in their gross motor abilities to perform them in a group setting? Can they control their bodies to complete requested skills in their own space within a gym full of other children? Mastery of gross motor skills is dependent on age, but there are lots of fun activities that can help to develop some common developmental motor skills.
Try some of these activities to work on skills that might be required in physical education classes in the elementary years:
Child Development Quick Tip: Jumping Jacks
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Meth Lab Arrest
The Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force served a search warrant at 2202 S. Grange Ave. in Sioux Falls on Wednesday.
Located during the search warrant were several components to a meth lab, marijuana, meth and paraphernalia.
Arrested were Heather C. Schmidt, Nicolas Sherard and Jonathon K. Wallace for manufacturing a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, maintaining a place where drugs are kept or used, possession of marijuana less than 2 ounces and possession of drug paraphernalia.


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This September, some of the top minds and decision makers in litigation finance will attend the much anticipated and highly selective LF Dealmakers Forum. The event is scheduled to take place on September 17-18 at the Apella event space in New York City. Seating at the event is capped at 200; those interested in attending can register online for the application approval process .
The event follows on from the highly successful flagship event – now in its fifth year – with a focus on commercial litigation finance including, but not limited to intellectual property.
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Stellar student gains job with international tax firm
Rachel Hom, a third-year law student, is poised to follow her Wayne State University Law School success with the launch of a career in international law after graduation.
She's been hired by Deloitte Tax LLP, one of the largest financial advisory firms in the world, to work in the firm's Detroit office in the Renaissance Center.
"I am thrilled to join such a large and prestigious firm with a well-respected global presence," Hom said. "I secured the job through on-campus interviews during Wayne State's fall recruitment. I initially applied for the interview after the prompting of fellow classmates who worked at accounting firms in the city and thought I would find it a good fit. Their recommendations alone are reflective of the Wayne Law community, because it is truly that — a community."
Hom, who earned her undergraduate degree in political science and sociology at the University of Michigan, said one reason she chose Wayne for law school was for its "strong community presence." She's had a broad exposure to international law through her studies with the Law School's Program for International Studies, which drew her interest soon after she started at Wayne Law.
"Rachel's enthusiasm for international law is a real inspiration," said Professor Gregory Fox, director of the program. "She's applied for every opportunity in our international program, and excelled at them all. Her remarkable success not only reflects her own exceptional talent, but shows how a strong grounding in international topics during law school can lead to success in the job market."
"Each opportunity I've encountered in law school, locally or abroad, has significantly impacted my career path," Hom said. "One of the most influential international experiences was studying at The Hague Academy of International Law."
Hom completed her studies in the Netherlands last summer as a recipient of the Freeman Fellowship, which is awarded once a year to a student studying with the Program for International Legal Studies at Wayne Law so he or she can attend classes at The Hague Academy.
"It was awe-inspiring to be attending classes in The Hague taught by renowned international scholars, and equally as exciting to share desks with students and attorneys from all over the world," Hom said. "It was a truly international experience. There were over 250 students from almost 100 countries, and I was the only American. It was incredibly eye-opening to be the minority in such a large group, and to gain insight into the diverse cultures, attitudes and backgrounds of those around me."
While she was in the Netherlands, she met international attorneys who worked with Deloitte.
"Not only were they working with Deloitte, but most were also involved in Jessup International Moot Court in their home country, either in a student or coach capacity," Hom said.
She is chancellor of Wayne Law's Jessup team, which has always done well in regional competition, and this year, under Hom's experienced leadership, came out on top, and soon will be going on to international competition. The Jessup team is another facet of the Program for International Legal Studies at Wayne Law.
Hom also is involved with five different student associations, is a member of the Wayne Law Review, and in 2011, won an International Public interest Law Fellowship to serve as a legal intern with The Bahamas Crisis Centre. That opportunity also is a feature of the Program for International Legal Studies. Hom worked in 2010 as a foreclosure intern at Orlans Associates PC and in 2012 as a summer associate with Dickinson Wright PLLC.
All of these experiences have strengthened her interest in international law, she said.
"Unlike domestic law, international law provides constant change, conflict and uncertainty in its binding/non-binding governance on various state and private sectors," Hom said. "Determining which laws to apply and in what capacity is consistently challenging and very exciting."
She expects to work with client issues relating to tax and accounting events at Deloitte, she said.
"There will be the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the client's individual and business needs, and a chance to build strong, long-term relationships within a variety of situations," Hom said. "I look forward to gaining diverse exposure to many areas of tax and in whatever areas my supervisors at Deloitte believe they can best utilize my legal skills and training."
Photo caption: Wayne Law student Rachel Hom (center) stands with Yves Daudet, secretary general of The Hague Academy of International Law, and his wife at a reception at their home in The Hague.


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Hope College sophomore Carl Deeg of Zionsville, Ind., won first place for a research poster presentation during a national symposium held earlier this summer.
He placed first in the "grand challenge" category during the 2013 Annual SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) Symposium held at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Va., in June.
The symposium hosted students and faculty mentors from the more than 70 colleges and universities participating in the SEA-PHAGES program. A total of 12 students from across the nation had submitted posters in the category, through which participating institutions had been challenged to develop an improved analysis method for research.
Developed by HHMI, SEA-PHAGES is a year-long, freshman-level course sequence through which students engage in research by isolating, naming, sequencing and analyzing newly discovered mycobacteriophages. Hope was one of only 12 institutions nationwide chosen to pilot the program in the fall of 2008.
The course sequence, which at Hope is titled "Freshman Honors Lab: Phage Genomics Research," begins in the fall with each student studying an individual mycobacteriophage. A few viruses are chosen in the late fall to be sent to a national genome sequencing center, with the data collected ultimately returned to the class for additional study in the spring.
Across the history of the program, more than 25 distinct groups of viruses have been identified, with some found more commonly than others. Through the "grand challenge," the SEA-PHAGES program encouraged participating schools to develop new methods that students could use to determine, as early in the year as possible, the type of virus they isolated, so that those that are rarest can be chosen for additional study.
Deeg's poster, "Refining Restriction Enzyme Digest Strategies to Identify Cluster Membership of Newly Isolated Mycobacteriophages," outlined a method developed collaboratively by the students in the 2012-13 course sequence at Hope.
Entering its sixth year at the college this fall, the course is taught by Dr. Aaron Best, who is the Harrison C. and Mary L. Visscher Associate Professor of Genetics at Hope, and Dr. Joseph Stukey, assistant professor of biology. Stukey attended this year's conference with Deeg.
Deeg is a computer science major who is conducting collaborative research this summer with Dr. Matthew DeJongh, associate professor of computer science. He participated in the Phelps Scholars Program during the 2012-13 school year, and during the coming year will be on the Executive Board of the Black Student Union as website coordinator. He is a 2012 graduate of Zionsville Community High School and the son of Susan Deeg of Zionsville


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Alzheimer's disease advocate and author David B. Troxel warned that the "most expensive disease in the U.S." is diagnosed every 68 seconds in America, and that a death from Alzheimer's touches one in every four or five American families.
There is no magic pill to halt Alzheimer's disease, said Troxel, who spoke at a Dec. 5 Rotary Club of Los Altos Rotary meeting.
While 460 unique compounds were researched in the U.S. between 2002 and 2012, the failure rate was 99.6 percent, Troxel said. Although core knowledge about Alzheimer's doubles every 18 months, long-term care is needed for the 15 million cases estimated to be diagnosed by 2050, he added.
Troxel, co-author of five books on caring for Alzheimer's sufferers, shared history of the affliction.
In 1906, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician, coined the term "lunacy" for the profound memory loss and delusions suffered by his patient, Auguste Deter. After Deter's death, Alzheimer documented an abnormal buildup of plaque in her brain cells.
Among the numerous varieties of dementia, the pioneering doctor's name is still used for the largest – Alzheimer's disease. Troxel said small strokes are the second most common cause of dementia. Among the U.S. population 85 and older, 50 percent are expected to develop Alzheimer's, he noted, while the younger onset form of the disease already affects 400,000 to 500,000 Americans.
A number of symptoms point to an Alzheimer's diagnosis, Troxel said, including short-term memory loss that disrupts daily life; disorientation; challenges in solving problems and planning, like the steps in making coffee; confusion of time and place; new problems in speaking and writing words; misplacing items; and losing the ability to retrace steps. Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, documented an accompanying early spike in creativity.
The four drugs commonly prescribed can slow – but do not halt – dementia. Troxel advocates the "Best Friends Approach" for Alzheimer's caregivers. Because an Alzheimer's patient may feel like a stranger in a foreign land, socialization is important in stimulating brain activity. Purposeful chores like sweeping the patio, watering plants and learning in a class setting are helpful, he said. Troxel also recommended exercise, creative activities, conversations with laughter, music, exercise, being outdoors and contact with animals as valuable.
Informing caregivers of the positive events in a patient's "life story" could help them connect with the fading memory of their patient, Troxel noted. Stories could include the patient's favorite ball team, a cherished tea party, a prized accomplishments or a favorite song. Troxel said lyrics "live in a different part of the brain" from logical thought, so they are more easily recalled.
The knack for discovering clever strategies to approach the difficult problem of caring for an Alzheimer's sufferer requires humor, flexibility, patience and respect for the patient, said Troxel, adding that one facility organized a grape-stomping event that brought exercise and laughter to patients.
Troxel said that in his estimation, the best Alzheimer's caregivers would be barmaids and beauticians, because they are accustomed to listening and chatting.
For more information on Alzheimer's disease, visit the Mountain View-based Alzheimer's Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada at alz.org.
Marlene Cowan is a member of the Rotary Club of Los Altos. For more information, visit losaltosrotary.org.


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April 8th, 2019
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Proudly located in Treaty Six Territory, the Battlefords Region is among the fastest growing communities within the Province of Saskatchewan. Residents and visitors enjoy all of the amenities of a large City with the charm and friendliness of a small town.
With a large, young and growing population, the North Battleford region also presents a great market and opportunity for business and service development.
We invite you to browse our website, learn about North Battleford and discover the possibilities!
Drawing in Perspective - With Art Instructor Kevin Quinlan AOCA
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Community Safety Strategy (CSOs, Eyes That Care Initiative, Battlefords Citizens on Patrol, Security Camera Registry and more)
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New and expanding businesses that are operating in the renewable energy sector, manufacturing (processing or value chain added), oil and gas industry, mineral processing or agriculture sector might be eligible for the new Business Incentive Program offered by the City of North Battleford.
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There is plenty of real estate here to help you maximize your potential.
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According to the Battlefords Real Estate Association, the average selling price of houses in North Battleford is about $190,000.00 and the average 2 bedroom rental rates are $676/month. Due to these low housing costs, the cost of living in North Battleford is one of the lowest in the country.
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North Battleford vitality in this respect is exemplified by our brand new Battlefords CO-OP Aquatic Centre, NationsWEST Field House, Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Northland Power Curling Centre. Check it out by clicking HERE.
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One of the main recreational attractions in the City of North Battleford is the Credit Union CUplex, a large state of the art recreation complex that includes the Battlefords CO-OP Aquatic Centre, the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts, Northland Power Curling Centre, and the NationsWEST Field House. The North Battleford Civic Centre is the home of the SJHL Battlefords North Stars and hosts annual community events. The City also boasts a wealth of cultural attractions, such as Allen Sapp - the Gonor Collection and the Chapel Gallery. Come and see for yourself!
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – After adding ten nationally renowned players to the men's soccer program on the first day of NLI signings, head coach Tim Vom Steeg picked up another star recruit on Thursday in midfielder Ryo Fujii of the LA Galaxy Academy.
Fujii is the fourth player in this recruiting class and the sixth in the past two seasons to join the Gauchos from the Galaxy Academy. All six were part of the USSF National Championship-winning 2011 team.
"We are very excited that Ryo is going to join our program in the fall," said Vom Steeg. "He is an excellent central midfielder whose physical abilities and technical skills will allow him to be able to contribute right away.
This past season, Fujii was a fixture in a Galaxy starting XI that featured future Gaucho stars and Wednesday signees Adonis Amaya, Jeff Quezada, and Axel Mendez.
As a program, we made it a priority to recruit the best players who compete in our region," said Vom Steeg. "With the addition of Ryo to our group of players yesterday, we feel like we have really accomplished that goal.
The Torrance, Calif. native was ranked as the No. 147 player in the USSF Academy system by Top Drawer Soccer, joining Adonis Amaya (No. 15) and Dalton Pando (No. 50) as incoming Gauchos ranked among the top-150 players nationwide. He was also cited as the No. 21 player in the Southern California region and the No. 51 midfielder in the country.
Fujii ends his club career with a full trophy case, winning the Surf Cup Championship in 2010, the US Nike Manchester Cup Championship and National Cup Championship (where he had 13 goals in seven games) in 2011, and participating in the Manchester Premier Cup World Finals in England in 2011. He also participated in four ODP events between 2009-10.
A strong student, he currently sports a 3.5 GPA at South High School in Torrance.
To learn more about UCSB's 11 new players, click here to read the release on yesterday's National Signing Day action.


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The IAP is the central outcome of the International Conference for Renewable Energies - renewables2004. It contains almost 200 actions and commitments from governments, international...
DEG participates in a new investment fund for Balkan countriesPublished at Jan 30, 2005
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The ?Balkan Accession Fund? (BAF), which was established at wednesday by the Balkan Accession Management Company, specialises in mezzanine finance for small and medium-sized enterprises...
Service Procurement NoticePublished at Jan 10, 2005
Multiple Framework contract to recruit Technical assistance for short-term expertise for exclusive benefit of third countries benefiting from European Commission External aid.


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My friends, even those who are fellow coders, are always amazed by how many books, tutorials, and videos I go through on a regular basis. They assume, for some strange reason, that because I have been doing this for such a long time I should know all that I will ever need to know. I don't think you can ever reach such a point.
I have been programming in JavaScript since the 1990's. Admittedly my early JavaScript programs were amateurish. They were usually just there to do some kind of trick or effect. They were not doing any kind of serious coding. Later JavaScript was included to do both validation and Ajax. Nowadays I write full solutions in JavaScript.
Why was this important? With web programming lots of values are passed as strings, for example HTTP verbs. Now there are better patterns to use instead of long rambling switch statements, however when you have only a few possible values, nothing is more to the point than a switch.
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Landowner of the Year 2001 - Kenny Knowles
landowner Kenny Knowles was named as the 2001 Landowner
Conservationist of the Year by the Oklahoma Department of
Wildlife Conservation at the October meeting of the Oklahoma
Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Knowles is a third generation farmer and rancher and was presented the award for his outstanding efforts to enhance wildlife habitat on 11,000 acres he owns and manages in Ellis County.
"Numerous pages could be written describing Knowles' lifetime contribution to wildlife and habitat management," said Russ Horton, central region senior biologist for the Wildlife Department. "He realized long ago that sound wildlife management could complement a profitable ranching operation. He has taken a leadership role in promoting multiple species stewardship of the land, with wildlife given the highest priority.
"He now has, and will always have, some of the best wildlife habitat in Ellis County, not as a result of luck, fortune or fate, but rather due to his love for wildlife and his dedication to ensuring that wildlife will always be extended a hearty welcome on all properties he manages.
He is very deserving of recognition for his outstanding, life-long dedication to sound wildlife management on private lands."
Knowles has a very good rotational grazing plan that ensures good wildlife nesting cover, Horton added. He is also in the process of converting 1,500-acres of farm ground to a mixture of native plants that will provide beneficial wildlife habitat.
"I am very honored to be recognized for the work I am doing to help wildlife," Knowles said. "Wildlife has always been a priority for my family and it will continue to be so throughout my lifetime."
An avid angler and hunter, Knowles really enjoyed hunting prairie chickens and his management activities and leadership have played an integral role in prairie chicken restoration efforts.
"He maintains a journal of habitat work and tries to keep records of lesser prairie chickens using his property for habitat use and population information," Horton said. "He has been a huge influence in the local community for wildlife related work. Other landowners are seeing his results and are beginning to take his lead."
Knowles has traveled to Washington, New Mexico and Mexico to share his knowledge, experience and support of the Lesser Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group with policy makers and other ranchers and conservationists, Horton added. He also has urged neighboring landowners to consider the benefits their land could provide for wildlife.
For more information on the Department's Landowner of the Year contact private lands biologist at (405) 521-2739.
To be considered for the prestigious award, landowners must demonstrate a commitment to managing their property to provide benefits for wildlife.


text: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ken Chase wrote: > What 'absorbs' RF? (other than stealth bomber paint) Lots of things. Water, frequently, for one. Resistive conducting pathways in general, via induced eddy currents, in particular ones that are the right size and that have the right orientation relative to the field. Hence lots of cages have holes and multiple layers. All that EMF that doesn't come OUT of your case is eventually absorbed INSIDE your case and turned into heat. Just pure reflection (as is likely enough to happen with sheet metal) can cause reverberation and potentially positive feedback for resonant cavity modes UNTIL it is absorbed by the gradual attenuation that occurs as the radiation traverses matter inside the case and surface heating at the reflecting/absorbing surfaces. Microwave ovens work fine if there is water inside the cavity to absorb the rays. With no water or other material to absorb the energy, it must be dissipated SOMEHOW, energy being conserved by natural law and all. So either the reflective grid absorbs it, heating the grid and maybe starting a fire, or it feeds back into the magnetron, heating IT and maybe starting a fire or just breaking your microwave, or it leaks out through the case and heats up you on the outside, maybe starting a fire or breaking you. The same is true, on a slightly more modest scale, for computers and other RF-emitting devices. It's attenuated by nearly any kind of matter at a rate with all sorts of interesting dependences on frequency and mode of radiation and kind and orientation of the matter. It can be at least partially reflected by most surfaces. Real RF (as in stuff with a wavelength of meters to kilometers) tends to diffract around lots of meter-to-kilometer scale obstacles and hence isn't well blocked by just line of sight reflectors or absorbers. Shorter wave stuff -- cm to m (where a GHz is roughly 30 cm, 3 GHz roughly 10 cm) is relatively easy to block and can be absorbed by conducting pathways on the scale of a quarter of a wavelength, especially when aligned with the E-field. I haven't looked, and it may well be classified (since they classify silly things) but I'd guess that "stealth bomber paint" is just a laminated layering of conducting pathways designed to absorb, instead of reflect, e.g. cm wave radiation, probably not at all unlike the way layers of polaroid films absorb and block visible radiation without a lot of reflection. Something like pressed steel wool, in a composite matrix. I'll bet steel wool layers in a ziplock baggie would make a very good RF absorber, too... > Our cabinet in the end with its smoked glass door with its futuristic > rivetting/bolting pattern (no charge) looked *MUCH* nicer than a tower case. > People see towers and go "hmm regular computer, possibly a low end server". > When they see the Monolith (as it got dubbed) they're much more impressed ;) No charge? I'll take two...;-) Seriously, one of a kind stuff like this is the MOST expensive. I like to start any comparison of spending my time vs money with: "Hmmm, my time is worth (to me, anyway:-) $100/hour..." followed by the "...and I'd be spending Other People's Money (OPM)." My time or their money? My time or their money? Decisions, decisions...I wonder. Of course, I've spent hours just doing list mail today and not gotten paid a nickel for it, so go figure...;-) Maybe the $100/hour figure is just what I OUGHT to be making, or what I'd like to be paid to do something I don't like doing anyway. > How many clusters have gone up in flames? :) Not that this is a concern, > it just suprises me that things could get that hot. Its a Murphy's Law sort of thing. I've smoked (literally, as in puffs of smoke) a number of power supplies. I've also smoked (literally, as in a charred spot on the motherboard) onboard resistors that blew, IC's and specific wires. In a really bad short, one can melt or even vaporize wires remarkably easily. A 20 amp 110V socket can deliver order of thousands of watts if you ask it nicely, BEFORE it blows a fuse or breaker -- the only question is whether there is an accidental condition within your system that can short out and draw that kind of power and turn it into heat without blowing a "fuse" (which might be a wire itself). If you run enough systems, long enough, you'll see smoke, and where there's smoke there's fire, right? Or at least the danger of fire. It would worry me to mount PC components directly onto wood of any sort. It would worry me to have paper or other flammable material "on" or near the electrical components. My guess is both are prohibited by some sort of code, although I'd have no idea where to find out. High density clusters also carry a fire risk of their very own. One can easily achieve node densities that consume 2 or 3 thousand watts in a rack (and with effort, can maybe double that). All that heat has to come out through the surface perimeter of the block of systems. A catastrophic failure of the cooling system(s) can cause the heat to build up and be contained (being more or less uniformly produced throughout the stack). Systems in the middle are heated from below, from above, and generate heat themselves. If that heat isn't actively moved out from the case, the temperature increases until the case gets hot enough on the OUTSIDE to convey heat away as fast as it is being produced and accumulated on the inside (or the system dies and stops drawing power at all). If it gets hot enough to melt insulation, or to increase the resistance of critical conducting pathways, one can potentiate catastrophic and sudden failures that can very definitely start fires. A not quite disconnected story. When I was two I stuck a hairpin directly into a 110V socket behind a chair in our living room. I remember as clearly as day that I was pretending that I was plugging in a lamp. I was. It glowed white hot within my fingers before vaporizing, blowing the fuse, knocking me a couple of feet back, and giving me third degree burns on every finger of my right hand (although I only have one small scar from this, amazingly:-). Oh yes, there is ALWAYS a chance of sparks, melted or vaporized metal, and fire where there is a power supply and conductors in close proximity -- that is, just about everywhere strangely enough. (Now you can see why I became a physicist:-) > Arent things generally considered ok if the high voltage (AC 110) is in > the powersupply box? The boards are using 12 and 5v and lower, which > isnt regulated nearly as tightly. (Our cabinet was made of metal so > im not too worried here, just asking for future 'build a test cluster > on a shelf' designs that I am *SURE* _MANY_ beowulfers are not > admitting to having running AS WE SPEAK! :) Are you talking about the risk of electrocution (lower for low voltage) or fire (where voltage is nearly irrelevant) Look at how much POWER your power supply can deliver. Typically, this will be order of 150-250 watts on certain lines (tens of amperes). Watts, not volts or amps, is what matters. Think of the filament of a 100W light bulb. Pretty hot, right? WHITE hot. Would burn through or melt anything wimpier than tungsten, with its phenomenally high melting point. A simple, not horribly dangerous experiment. Take an ordinary piece of thin copper wire (e.g. magnet wire, bell wire) and short out the ends of any 1.5V battery. Although they are fairly limited in their ability to deliver power, even a AAA can usually deliver enough to burn your fingers holding the bare wire in a matter of seconds, and don't try this with a 9V battery or even THINK of trying this with a 12V car battery that you can carry around by its poles (with dry fingers:-) otherwise. If you did this with two poles of a power supply, you'd get a BIG spark, a flash of light, and yes, very likely third degree burns on every finger that was touching the wire before it either burned through or the power supply blew or a breaker blew. With a car battery it is even worse -- you could ignite hydrogen gas produced by electrolysis in the battery chamber (with older non-sealed batteries) and blow it up, spattering hot sulphuric acid all over yourself, in addition to creating a MOST impressive spark as car batteries can typically deliver a LOT of amps at 12 volts. Needless to say I've been there, done that messing with jumper cables. I've even melted and smoked the insulation clean off the ends of a a pair of jumper cables in spite of the fact that they are a half-centimeter thick, while trying to start a car with a really bad (nearly shorted internally) battery. Low DC voltage is NOT safe from a firestarting point of view -- it is just less likely to be able to deliver a current (0.1 Amp) that can defibrillate and stop your heart, like the one delivered to your home daily at a frequency (60 Hz) that alas is particularly bad from the point of view of heart-stopping. Do NOT take it lightly when working inside or on any computer system. Note that homebrew mounting motherboards on a common conducting base provides one with all sorts of interesting possibilities for a short circuit if a wire, a solder trace, the wrong part of some component comes in contact with the conducting base. This is what the motherboard spacers in a case mount are designed to prevent -- they keep the board "far enough" away from the conducting case wall so that you don't accidentally short it when e.g. pushing in a new card. You can short and blow a motherboard by just dropping a screw or a screwdriver it if it lands dead wrong and manages to connect a voltage carrying trace or connection point and any neighboring ground at the same time. There is nothing like a UL rating, or rating from any of the various agencies that rate such things, for electrical hardware. It may not be ENOUGH -- UL rated devices still fail and cause fires. It is, however, a lot better than nothing. If an incompetently faulty case starts a fire and burns down your house, maybe you can sue. At least you can blame someone or something other than yourself. If an incompetently faulty electrical installation in a homebrew cluster starts a fire and burns down your house, who can you blame, but yourself? rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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At Edmonton Baptist Church there are activities going on through the whole week serving the community and building ourselves as a community of faith. Click on to the event you would like to know more about on our calendar to find out more.
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The $1 million prize and title of "Sole Survivor" is within reach for one of the five remaining castaways. Meanwhile, a few castaways strike a final three deal while aboard a moving ship far from their fellow tribemates, on "Survivor: Philippines," Wednesday, Dec. 12 (8 p.m.), on the CBS Television Network.
The special two-hour season finale (8:30 p.m.), followed by the live one-hour reunion show (10:30 p.m.), will be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 16.
Castaways competing on "Survivor: Philippines" (in alphabetical order by tribe):
DANGRAYNE - Merged Tribe:
For more detailed information about "Survivor: Philippines" and the castaways, log on to www.cbs.com/survivor.
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"Children naturally look for ways to make a contribution and help others," says Deborah Spaide, founder of Kids Care Clubs, a national organization based in
that provides information on community-service projects for youngsters.
"But just as we give our children opportunities to use their legs when
they're learning to walk, we need to give them
opportunities to exercise their charitable muscles so they become really good
at giving too." New Canaan, CT
Here are a few ways to start:
1) Give in more ways than one: We tend to associate charitable giving with giving money, but encourage your children to experience charitable giving firsthand. This reinforces the concept and makes it easier to grasp.
2) Talk to your children about being charitable and selfless when opportunities present themselves in your daily lives, i.e. visiting someone in the hospital. Here is the story of how one mother educated her son's class.
3) Be a role model: If kids see you being charitable and helping out, they will too.
Click here are a few more ideas.
Click here are a few more ideas.
The amazing thing is parents may get the biggest benefit due to the trickle off effect and the world will be better off for it!
If you are interested in learning more about this topic, you can in an article written on parenting.com.


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#GivingTuesday 2013: celebrate volunteerismDec 3, 2013
This year, UNDP joined the #GivingTuesday campaign for the first time, adding a global dimension to this powerful day of volunteerism and philanthropy. UNDP was one of over 10,000 groups and organizations from all parts of society that joined #GivingTuesday in support of charitable giving. The impact: in the United States, charitable giving rose with 164% compared to last year.
Actions speak louder
Our staff members in country offices across the world also volunteered their time in local communities and joined the movement, showing enormous enthusiasm for this day of giving back.
Wide range of activities
Opportunities to donate time, knowledge and energy on #GivingTuesday are endless and our country offices did not waste a minute in coming up with creative endeavours. Our Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, for example, partnered with the NGO Second Chance to collect donations for people living in Bangkok's slum area. The people from the Klong Toey slum received "home treasures" (clothing and house appliances) that they can sell in their thrift shops. In Bujumbura, Burundi, the hospitals have been sorely lacking in blood, so our #GivingTuesday there was all about giving them precious lifeblood – figuratively and literally. The focus in Bangladesh, lastly, is on sharing knowledge and expertise about 'giving back'. Experts, local people, UN Volunteers and UNDP all met to increase our understanding of what philanthropy really means.
Doing offline, showing online
And these are just a few examples. Volunteerism and philanthropy have a million faces – faces of the communities we work with. To show these faces to the rest of the world we also collected and shared photos, videos and stories across the internet and social media, turning Giving Tuesday into a powerful celebration of giving.
See our volunteering activities in your country!
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Roth M.7 (model 1907) self-loading pistol, right side. The thin tail of the striker, which extends out of the rear of the bolt, means that the gun is half-cocked and is ready to be fired
Roth M.7 (model 1907) self-loading pistol, left side
Roth M.7 (model 1907) self-loading pistol; bolt is locked back, and a loaded clip is inserted into the gun, ready to load the magazine
The Roth Model 1907 pistol bears the distinction of the first semi-automatic (self-loading) pistol that was ever adopted by any major military force in the world. In this particular case, it was the cavalry of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The pistol was based on patents of famous Austrian gun designers Georg Roth and Karel (Charles) Krnka. This pistol was manufactured between 1907 and 1918, and some 90 000 Roth M.07 pistols were made at Steyr and FEG arms factories.
The Roth Model 1907 pistol uses short recoil action with rotary barrel. barrel has two sets of radial lugs, each consisting of two lugs. Front pair of lugs, which is located near the barrel, follows the cam tracks cut in the stationary barrel bushing, thus forcing the barrel to rotate upon recoil. The rear set of lugs locks the barrel to the forward bolt extension when barrel is in forward position. Upon recoil, the barrel rotates and the rear lugs leave their mortises in the bolt extension, unlocking the bolt and allowing it to recoil freely to complete operating cycle. The feed is from integral box magazine, which is located inside the grip. Magazine is loaded from special stripper clips that are inserted into the loading / ejection port at the top of the gun. Once the clip is inserted, shooter presses the cartridges from the clip and into the magazine, then removes the empty clip and presses bolt release button, to close the bolt and make the pistol ready to fire. The trigger of the Roth M.07 pistol was of quite advanced design. The gun was striker-fired, and the striker was only partially cocked after each shot. To complete the cocking and then release the striker, shooter have to full the trigger all the way back. Since integral the magazine was loaded from the top, pistol had a special "magazine release" button, which allowed to unload all cartridges in magazine at once, once the bolt is manually locked back.


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The head of the Spanish soccer league, Jose Luis Astiazaran, on Monday flatly denied allegations that top flight side Real Sociedad bought doping products under his presidency from 2001 to 2005.
"During my period as president of Real Sociedad, I never had knowledge or suspicion of illegal practices in relation to the medical services, which always worked with the utmost ethics and professionalism" Astiazaran said.
"If I had, I would have acted forcefully and with due diligence," he said in a statement posted on the home page of the Professional Football League.
Astiazaran said Real Sociedad had always cooperated closely with the doping control authorities.
"There were never any incidents in the innumerable drugs tests carried out," he said, describing the allegations as "absolutely inopportune and false."
Astiazaran was reacting after Inaki Badiola, who was president of Real Sociedad during 2008, claimed in an interview with sports daily AS that the Basque club had illegally purchased doping products for six years before his arrival.
Badiola said he believed the doping products may have come from Eufemaniano Fuentes, a doctor at the center of a major blood doping scandal who is currently on trial in Madrid for giving transfusions to high-profile professional cyclists.
Badiola told the paper he had records of payments made for the products and an e-mail from one of the team doctors asking for permission to buy them. Badiola said he planned to check his files against documents related to the Fuentes case. Fuentes' trial on Friday heard that one of his alleged clients was given the code name "R-Soc," but the accused doctor gave no clue to what the code stood for, telling the court: "It might refer to a good wine."
The doctor, his sister Yolanda and three other defendants from cycling teams are on trial for endangering public health, but not incitement to doping, which was not a crime in Spain at the time of their arrests in 2006.
The 57-year-old Fuentes was detained when police seized 200 bags of blood and plasma, and other evidence of performance-enhancing transfusions, revealing a huge doping network after a months-long investigation dubbed "Operation Puerto."