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Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Metal Processing Institute is a Core Facility for a New National Manufacturing Innovation Institute
To be announced by the White House today, the $148 million American Lightweight and Modern Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute will play a key role in helping revitalize the nation's manufacturing capabilities and competitiveness.
February 25, 2014
The Metal Processing Institute (MPI) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is one of four core academic facilities for the American Lightweight and Modern Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (LM3I), a new $148 million initiative to be announced by the White House today that is aimed at helping to revitalize the nation's manufacturing capabilities and competitiveness.
MPI is one of the largest industry-university consortiums in North America with more than 80 industry members. It is dedicated to advancing the state of the art in metal processing and materials recovery and recycling. It will contribute its unique expertise in lightweight metal casting and heat treatment reflected in the missions of two of its industry-funded research centers: the Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) and the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE).
"The pioneering work of WPI researchers in materials science and engineering, and metals processing in particular, is recognized internationally," said David Cyganski, dean of engineering at WPI. "I am delighted that our research expertise and leadership can contribute to this important national effort and help make the United States, once again, a center for innovation in manufacturing."
LM3I is expected to create more than 10,000 new metals manufacturing jobs, spur innovative research and development on lightweight metals processing and manufacturing, and help train hundreds of engineering professionals and skilled trade workers in the most advanced manufacturing shills. It will be headquartered in the greater Detroit metro area and led by EWI, a nonprofit manufacturing innovation company in Columbus, Ohio, along with the University of Michigan and the University of Ohio.
Lightweight metals include aluminum, titanium, magnesium, and high-strength steels. Substituting these metals for heavier steels in cars, trucks, aircraft, and ships can result in significant fuel savings (it has been estimated that each 10 percent reduction in vehicle weight produces a 5 to 7 percent increase in fuel economy).
WPI has developed an international reputation as a leading center for innovation in metals and materials processing and manufacturing through pioneering research on new alloys, novel materials characterization techniques, and innovative materials processes conducted by MPI and through WPI's Materials Science and Engineering Program, and funded by major awards from the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies.
"From its inception, the Metal Processing Institute has been dedicated to solving problems identified by industry and developing new technology, new materials, and new techniques that can be readily translated to the field to help companies be more competitive," said Diran Apelian, Alcoa-Howmet Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WPI and director of the MPI. "We see our role in LM3I very much as an extension of that mission and an opportunity to continue to help revitalize and renew America's manufacturing might."
LM3I is part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, an initiative launched by President Barack Obama in 2013 to bolster the innovation, performance, competitiveness, and job-creating power of American manufacturing. Driven by a consortium composed of corporations, universities, and government agencies and laboratories, it will be funded by $70 million from the Department of Defense (DOD) that will be matched by $78 million from the consortium partners. The consortium was selected in a highly competitive process managed by the DOD that saw multiple teams from across the country vying for a role in new high-impact national research and development program.
The Institute will have its headquarters in Canton, Mich., a township located between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Its 60 members include university/research partners, workforce development partners, small and medium-sized industry partners, and 35 large companies, including some of the world's largest aluminum, titanium, and high-strength steel processors.
Four academic sites have been designed core facilities for the consortium. Along with WPI's Metal Processing Institute in Worcester, they are Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan will provide materials processing and characterization facilities; Columbus, Ohio, where EWI and Ohio State University will make available advanced manufacturing equipment and facilities; and Golden, Colo., where the Colorado School of Mines has unique facilities for technology development in thermo-mechanical and other lightweight materials processing.
In addition, seven "process pillars" have been designated as critical to the success of the initiative. Diran Apelian is the lead for the casting pillar; Makhlouf Makhlouf, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Advanced Casting Research Center, and Richard Sisson, George F. Fuller Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence, will be participating in this initiative.
Apelian, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an internationally recognized pioneer in metals research, founded MPI in 1996. His contributions to the metals community as a researcher and visionary leader have been recognized with a long list of awards and honors, including the 2010 National Materials Advancement Award for outstanding capabilities in advancing the multidisciplinary field of materials science and engineering and the 2012 Robert Earll McConnell Award from American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers for advancing the science and technology of materials science and engineering and advocating a broader role of MSE in solving global human challenges. A former president of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and one of only 100 living TMS Fellows,Apelian was one of six Anniversary Laureates at the TMS 50th anniversary annual meeting.
About Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. WPI's talented faculty work with students on interdisciplinary research that seeks solutions to important and socially relevant problems in fields as diverse as the life sciences and bioengineering, energy, information security, materials processing, and robotics. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global Perspective Program. There are more than 35 WPI project centers throughout North America and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe.
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|Otter kisses. Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
In just a few days, you'll have the chance to meet the zoo's new pair of Asian small-clawed otters when they make their debut in the Bamboo Forest Reserve exhibit opening May 4. These are two tiny mustelids you won't be able to resist.
|Kids test out the new play area in Bamboo Forest Reserve. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
The otters will debut alongside a tropical aviary and nature play area for kids—all part of phase one of the Bamboo Forest Reserve exhibit complex.
|Atop a rocky ledge, looking out over the exhibit. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
To get ready for their debut, the otters have been exploring their new home, investigating every ledge, stream and den to find all the best spots for lounging, swimming, eating and playing.
|Here you can catch a glimpse of the agile fingers small-clawed otters use for hunting. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
|The clear water is made possible by green design that uses biofiltration to clean and reuse water. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
Their water is kept clean by some clever, green engineering that turns their entire pool into a closed-loop biofiltration system. Visible on the surface is a constructed wetland that cleans and recycles pool and rain water back into the exhibit. That means we don't have to waste any water or dump dirty water, which also keepers our own Puget Sound waterways healthier.
|A glimpse of the otters' behind-the-scenes den building behind the exhibit pool. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
|Peekaboo. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
Spending more and more time in the exhibit each day, the otters are beginning to adjust to their new surroundings. The 3-year-old female of the pair is a little bolder and more adventurous. She was the first to explore, and her 7-year-old male partner mostly keeps to her side. The two arrived earlier this year from other zoos, she from the Bronx Zoo and he from Zoo Atlanta, so they are taking some time to get to know each other and their new shared home. We'll kick off a naming contest for the pair later this month.
|The pair gets along swimmingly. Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
The exhibit may seem big for two tiny otters—representing the smallest species of otters in the world—but it's designed for a growing family. Our pair is recommended for breeding by the Species Survival Plan, a cooperative, conservation breeding program across Association of Zoos & Aquariums-accredited institutions. As the pair gets along swimmingly (rimshot!), we hope to add to the otter bunch soon!
|One of the aviary birds, the great argus, shows its feathers. Photo by Mat Hayward/Woodland Park Zoo.
When you visit the otters, keep your ears tuned for the sonorous calls of the song birds in the tropical aviary behind you. More on the birds of the new exhibit later this week.
|Come play with us on opening day, May 4! Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
We'll be celebrating the grand opening of phase one of this new space on Sat., May 4 with live music, giveaways, and lots of family fun. Up next for us is phase two, which will bring new homes for Malayan tigers and sloth bears to the zoo. With continued support from the community, phase two will open in the future, completing the zoo's largest exhibit transformation since 1996. Learn more about how to get involved at www.morewonder.org.


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New Chinese 'commitments' to tackle spiralling emissions: EU
China has made a "commitment" to tackle spiralling greenhouse gas emissions in return for EU financial aid and expertise, the European Union announced Thursday.
One of the measures mentioned included a polluting permits trading market in Beijing.
European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs welcomed the development in a statement released after a summit between European Union leaders and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
"We commend China's commitments and we'll support their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to make cities cleaner and to better manage water, waste and heavy metal pollution," he said.
Piebalgs and Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming signed a deal for aid worth 25 million euros ($32 million).
It is intended to help China "in the long run contribute towards achieving a global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions," the European Commission statement said.
The money will be used over four years for three projects including the "design and implementation of Emissions Trading Systems in China," along the lines of the carbon-emissions permits market operated in Europe.
It was this system that raised the ire of Chinese and other international airlines when aviation was brought into the EU system earlier this year.
EU experts will help in "designing and implementing successful emissions trading pilot programmes that lead over time to effective, nation-wide action," the Commission said.
While the sums and deadlines involved suggest small steps, the cooperation agreement is designed to help ensure China met "its environmental, energy- and carbon-intensity targets," the statement added.
A report earlier this year by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre showed that China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions had soared in 2011. That put it level with Europe on a per-capita basis.
Last year, China's CO2 emissions rose 9.0 percent to the equivalent of 7.2 tonnes of the gas for each resident, compared with 7.5 tonnes in the 27-member EU and 17.3 tonnes in the United States.
"It makes a significant difference when now also China wants to use carbon markets to reduce emissions cost-effectively and boost low-carbon technologies," added EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard.
"This is a huge opportunity to modernise our economies, stimulate growth and create jobs in new dynamic industries with innovative technologies and clean energy," she added.
Greenhouse gas emissions are a sensitive issue with major developing nations such as China and India arguing that it is the developed world which should do most to curb them since they had got a free ride as they industrialised.
To impose limits on them puts them at a disadvantage as they seek the same economic progress long enjoyed by developed countries, they say, arguing that their total emissions may be high, but on a per capita basis they are low.
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New U.S. sanctions hit Russian energy barons, but not their companies
The Obama administration sought to tighten the noose on the Russian economy Monday, imposing new economic sanctions against 17 companies and seven associates of President Vladimir Putin for Russia's failure to keep promises made in recent Ukraine peace talks.
President Barack Obama announced the new asset freezes and visa bans against rich or politically connected members of Putin's inner circle at a news conference in Manila, Philippines, where he was completing a four-nation tour of Asia. He said the sanctions were intended to chastise Russia for not matching U.S. and European efforts to ease tensions in Ukraine under an April 17 agreement reached in Geneva.
"We have not seen comparable efforts by the Russians, and as a consequence, we are going to be moving forward with an expanded list of individuals and companies that will be affected by sanctions," Obama said. "They remain targeted. We will also focus on some areas of high-tech defense exports to Russia that we don't think are appropriate to be exporting in this kind of climate."
While the new sanctions don't target Russia's energy sector _ Obama said that step would be taken if Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine _ they take aim at individuals whose wealth comes largely from Russia's vast oil and natural gas industry. The reluctance to impose broad sanctions on Russian sales of oil and natural gas reflects concerns that such a step would cripple Europe's economic recovery _ the European Union is deeply dependent on Russian energy _ and likely drive up global oil prices, which would hurt U.S. consumers and slow the U.S. economy ahead of hotly contested midterm elections in November.
The sanctions also don't target Putin. "The goal here is not to go after Mr. Putin, personally," Obama said. "The goal is to change his calculus with how the current actions he's engaging in in Ukraine could have an adverse impact on the Russian economy."
"It seems to me a pretty modest step," said Michael Singh, a former senior national security adviser in the Bush administration, who thinks the administration's approach has emboldened rather than punished Putin. "You have to be willing to show that you are ultimately willing to incur a cost to deter Russia."
Republicans expressed similar dissatisfaction, with Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, referring to the new sanctions as "just a slap on the wrist."
"Until Putin feels the real pain of sanctions targeting entities like Gazprom _ which the Kremlin uses to coerce Ukraine and other neighbors _ as well as some significant financial institutions, I don't think diplomacy will change Russian behavior and de-escalate this crisis," he said. Gazprom, a major Russian energy consortium, provides natural gas to Ukraine and much of Europe
Senior administration officials, speaking only on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the crisis freely, acknowledged that sanctions won't have an immediate effect. But they said that over time the sanctions would damage Russia's already troubled economy and that would persuade Putin to change course.
"It's important that together with the additional prospect of sectoral sanctions, Russia sees the dead end that it's going down in Ukraine and, frankly, the fact that their interests will be severely compromised and set back in the world if they continue down this course," said one of the officials.
Russian officials condemned the move as "revolting" and vowed to retaliate against Washington.
"We will respond, although it is not our choice," the Itar-Tass news agency cited Sergey Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, as saying. "But we can't leave this situation without reaction, without practical reaction, without reaction by means of our own decisions. U.S. behavior in the field is becoming provocative."
Under the sanctions, seven individuals will have their U.S. assets frozen and will be prohibited from traveling to the United States. Seventeen companies also will have their assets frozen. In a new wrinkle, the administration imposed requirements for the sales of high-tech equipment to 13 of the 17 newly sanctioned companies. These licensing efforts will begin with the "presumption of denial" to prevent Russian companies from buying anything that "could contribute to Russia's military capabilities." Already existing licenses for the sale of such equipment will be canceled, the White House said.
The most prominent individual blacklisted under the sanctions is Igor Sechin, the head of energy giant Rosneft, Russia's leading petroleum company. Rosneft has tentacles across global oil markets, including several joint ventures with Texas-based Exxon Mobil. The sanctions would freeze any assets held in the United States by Sechin, a former deputy prime minister and former chief of staff to Putin. Rosneft's assets would remain unaffected.
Monday's sanctions also target Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin friend, ally and longtime head of the Russian state-owned company charged with developing, manufacturing and exporting high-tech industrial products. The sanctions target Chemezov personally but not his company, known by the acronym Rostec.
Another important target Monday was Yevgeny Murov, an elderly and influential army general who heads the Russian federal protective services unit.
The four other Putin allies sanctioned include Moscow's new envoy to Crimea, the Ukrainian territory that Russia annexed last month.
The 17 companies targeted are tied to individuals who were hit with a round of sanctions imposed March 20. They include InvestCapitalBank and SMP Bank, controlled by brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Putin allies who won lucrative contracts tied to Russia's hosting of the recent Winter Olympics. Also sanctioned was Stroygazmontazh, also known as the SGM Group,
a gas pipeline construction company owned or controlled by Arkady Rotenberg.
Hitting at a wealthy energy mogul, the Treasury sanctioned the Volga Group, whose sole investor is
Gennady Timchenko, who was also sanctioned March 20. Volga Group is an investment group that holds interest in a variety of Timchenko assets including natural gas, timber, railroads and financial services. The sanctions affect Transoil, an oil transportation company, as well as nine other companies tied to the Volga Group.
The remaining three companies _ Abro, CJSC Zest and JSB Sobinbank _ are tied to Bank Rossiya, which was also targeted in March.
Lesley Clark and Lindsay Wise in Washington and Stuart Leavenworth in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.


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The pool of candidates for Bronson Town Council has dropped by one with Monday's announcement by Council Member Jason Kennedy that he has dropped out of the race.
Kennedy, who for the last four years served on Seat 5, said in an interview Monday evening after a candidates' forum he attended but did not participate in, that he was tired of dealing with the conflicts among council members.
"I can't bring that home to my family," Kennedy said, adding that serving on the council was taking away from his responsibilities to God, family and to his business.
Kennedy said that although turmoil had been building for a long time, a decision by Mayor Franklin Schuler at the last council meeting to have Kennedy removed as fire commissioner was the last straw.
Vice Mayor Berlon Weeks asked Schuler at that meeting why he was removing Kennedy from the position, considering that Kennedy still held Seat 5 and that he was unable to attend the night's meeting. Schuler did not elaborate.
"Our mayor doesn't know how to run a meeting. He didn't have the courage to call me or have the clerk call me," Kennedy said, explaining that the meeting was just one of only a handful he hasn't been able to attend in the last few years. "If council's being run that way, I don't want any part of it," and, he added, "There are too many decisions being made outside of council chambers."
Kennedy, though already serving on Seat 5, opted in the qualifying period a few weeks ago to go after Seat 3, leaving his seat to be automatically filled by unchallenged newcomer Bruce Greenlee after the election Sept. 10. Before dropping out Monday, Kennedy was running against Seat 3 Incumbent Beatrice Roberts and challengers Jamie Griffin and Sandy Mosely.
The Seat 1 race has been unaffected, leaving Incumbent Aaron Edmondson to duke it out with challenger Paul T. Phillips.
Kennedy said he will continue to play an active part in the community and hasn't ruled out future political aspirations.
"I just need a break from it."
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Éalá Éarendel Engla Beorhtast (an Old English title, rendered in modern English as The Last Voyage of Eärendel) is an early poem by J.R.R. Tolkien (according to Christopher Tolkien "the first of the mythology"[1]). It is published in full in The Book of Lost Tales Part Two[2].
The poem was originally titled The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star (with the Old English version Scipfæreld Éarendeles Ǽfensteorran) and was written at Phoenix Farm in September 1914[3][4]. Under this title Tolkien read the poem at the Oxford Essay Club in the November of the same year, as referenced in Letter 2. By the latest revision, written at an unknown date but "substantially later"[2] than the first, the newer title was given in its Old English form only.
It was the first poem on the subject of Eärendil and describes his voyage from "Westerland", through "the darkling West" and ultimately beyond the world itself[2]. The fourth verse describes the movements of the Sun and Moon in a way which anticipates cosmology of the The Hiding of Valinor and the Tale of the Sun and the Moon[2].
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- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "The Tale of Eärendel", p. 271
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "The Tale of Eärendel"
- ↑ Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 71
- ↑ Andrew H. Morton, John Hayes, Tolkien's Gedling - 1914


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No injuries were reported at the refinery from the blaze in a tank containing wastewater from the refining process, said Marathon spokesman Shane Pochard.
"We're working with Melvindale police to return residents to their homes," Pochard said. "That has not yet been completed."
Melvindale Police Sergeant Michael Welch said the evacuation order was canceled before all the residents of a square mile (2.6 square km) of the Detroit suburb could be evacuated. He did not know how many residents were affected.
The blaze broke out about 6 p.m. EDT and was extinguished at about 8 p.m.
"As far as I know, the refinery is still operating normally," Pochard said.
Pochard and Welch said air monitoring in Melvindale showed the air in the community was within acceptable levels.
The tank contained what is called sour water, which includes hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from crude oil refining. The pollutants have to be stripped from the water before it can be reused or sent to an outside wastewater system.
Marathon's Detroit refinery is the only one in the state and can refine up to 106,000 barrels of crude oil a day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Feed, water, groom, bathe, exercise, or otherwise care for pets and other nonfarm animals, such as dogs, cats, ornamental fish or birds, zoo animals, and mice. Work in settings such as kennels, animal shelters, zoos, circuses, and aquariums. May keep records of feedings, treatments, and animals received or discharged. May clean, disinfect, and repair cages, pens, or fish tanks.
Sample of reported job titles: Animal Care Giver (ACG), Animal Care Technician, Aquarist, Dog Groomer, Groomer, Kennel Attendant, Kennel Manager, Kennel Technician, Pet Groomer, Pet Stylist
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- Feed and water animals according to schedules and feeding instructions.
- Mix food, liquid formulas, medications, or food supplements according to instructions, prescriptions, and knowledge of animal species.
- Examine and observe animals to detect signs of illness, disease, or injury.
- Provide treatment to sick or injured animals, or contact veterinarians to secure treatment.
- Do facility laundry and clean, organize, maintain, and disinfect animal quarters, such as pens and stables, and equipment, such as saddles and bridles.
- Perform animal grooming duties, such as washing, brushing, clipping, and trimming coats, cutting nails, and cleaning ears.
- Answer telephones and schedule appointments.
- Respond to questions from patrons, and provide information about animals, such as behavior, habitat, breeding habits, or facility activities.
- Order, unload, and store feed and supplies.
- Collect and record animal information, such as weight, size, physical condition, treatments received, medications given, and food intake.
- Adjust controls to regulate specified temperature and humidity of animal quarters, nurseries, or exhibit areas.
- Discuss with clients their pets' grooming needs.
- Observe and caution children petting and feeding animals in designated areas to ensure the safety of humans and animals.
- Anesthetize and inoculate animals, according to instructions.
- Transfer animals between enclosures to facilitate breeding, birthing, shipping, or rearrangement of exhibits.
- Clean and disinfect surgical equipment.
- Exercise animals to maintain their physical and mental health.
- Install, maintain, and repair animal care facility equipment, such as infrared lights, feeding devices, and cages.
- Find homes for stray or unwanted animals.
- Train animals to perform certain tasks.
- Sell pet food and supplies.
Technology Skills
- Calendar and scheduling software — Appointment-Plus; Groom Pro; Mobile Dog Grooming Software mGroomer; Petschedule
- Data base user interface and query software — CEEJS The Pet Groomer's Secretary; Kennel Link; Microsoft Access ; The Groomer's Write Hand (see all 8 examples)
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Aquariums — Fish tanks
- Articulating boom lift — Hydraulic bucket lifts
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Cages or its accessories — Animal cages
- Cleaning scrapers — Algae scrapers
- Compressed air gun — Spear guns
- Dissolved oxygen meters — Portable dissolved oxygen DO meters
- Diving instruments or accessories — Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA gear
- Domestic hair dryers — Blow dryers
- Dosing droppers — Eye droppers
- Electric hair clipper — Animal clippers; Cordless animal trimmers
- Electronic toploading balances — Benchtop electronic toploading balances
- Forklifts — Wheeled forklifts
- Handheld refractometers or polarimeters — Handheld digital refractometers
- Harnesses or its accessories — Animal harnesses
- Immersion heaters — Aquarium heaters
- Inflatable rubber boat — Inflatable rubber motor boats
- Kennels — Animal crates
- Laboratory ultraviolet UV sterilizers — Aquarium ultraviolet UV sterilizers
- Ladders — Stepladders
- Muzzles — Animal muzzles
- Oxidation reduction tester — Digital oxidation reduction potential ORP meters
- Personal computers
- Pet grooming products — Pet bathing brushes; Pin brushes; Shedding blades; Slicker brushes (see all 10 examples)
- pH meters — pH testers
- Pressure or steam cleaners — Pressure sprayers
- Protective gloves — Animal handling gloves
- Respirators — Air purifying respirators
- Safety sleeves — Animal handling sleeves
- Scaffolding
- Scissor lift or lift table — Scissor lifts
- Shears — Grooming shears
- Slings
- Special hoses — Siphon hoses
- Tongs — Aquarium tongs
- Underwater cameras
- Underwater lighting — Aquarium lighting
- Veterinary nail trimmers or cutters — Animal nail clippers; Animal nail files; Animal nail grinders
- Water filters — Aquarium filters
- Water pumps — Aquarium pumps
- Water purification equipment — Protein skimmers
- Water testing and sampling kits — Ammonia test kits; Carbonate hardness test kits; Nitrite test kits; pH test kits (see all 6 examples)
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Detailed Work Activities
- Care for animals.
- Prepare foods or meals.
- Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
- Maintain facilities.
- Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
- Clean work areas or facilities.
- Perform housekeeping duties.
- Document client health or progress.
- Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
- Schedule appointments.
- Discuss service options or needs with clients.
- Explain regulations, policies, or procedures.
- Monitor patron activities to identify problems or potential problems.
- Respond to customer inquiries.
- Clean tools or equipment.
- Maintain supply or equipment inventories.
- Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
- Train animals.
- Sell products or services.
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Work Context
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 84% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 78% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 62% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 46% responded "Every day."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 66% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 72% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Standing — 47% responded "More than half the time."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 53% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 62% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Deal With External Customers — 55% responded "Extremely important."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 63% responded "Very important results."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 45% responded "Extremely important."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 75% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings — 60% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 45% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Time Pressure — 48% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 36% responded "Very important."
- Exposed to Contaminants — 48% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 33% responded "Extremely important."
- Physical Proximity — 30% responded "Slightly close (e.g., shared office)."
- Spend Time Walking and Running — 36% responded "About half the time."
- Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body — 35% responded "Less than half the time."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 37% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 33% responded "No responsibility."
Job Zone
|Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
|Some of these occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate.
|Related Experience
|Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a waiter or waitress even if he/she has never worked before.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations involve following instructions and helping others. Examples include counter and rental clerks, dishwashers, sewing machine operators, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, logging equipment operators, and baristas.
|SVP Range
|(Below 4.0)
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- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
Work Styles
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Work Values
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
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Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2018)
|$11.42 hourly, $23,760 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2016)
|242,000 employees
|Projected growth (2016-2026)
|Much faster than average (15% or higher)
|Projected job openings (2016-2026)
|State trends
|Top industries (2016)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2016-2026 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2016-2026). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
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- American Kennel Club
- American Paint Horse Association
- Association of Zoos and Aquariums
- International Horsemanship Association
- National Dog Groomers Association of America
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Animal care and service workers
- Outdoor Amusement Business Association
- Pet Sitters International
- The Association of Professional Dog Trainers
- United States Trotting Association


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|American Baptist Theological Seminary Historic District, located in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee (population ~626,680), is being nominated at the State level as a significant historic district under Criterion A in the areas of ethnic heritage, education, and religion as an African American theological seminary. American Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) committed itself to Christian education and racial equality and fostered leadership among its students who went on to become prominent individuals in local and national civil rights efforts. Also under Criterion A, the district is significant for the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-twentieth century for its associations with the Nashville Student Movement, in particular, its ties to significant local and national Civil Rights leaders, John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, C.T. Vivian, James Bevel, and Kelly Miller Smith. The success of the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville hinged on student involvement, and indeed, students would become the driving force in the movement as it pushed into the Deep South. John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, C.T. Vivian and James Bevel were all students at ABTS who came to the movement under the guidance of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith. The bonds between these men were forged both in class during the day and late at night in Griggs Hall Dormitory. Although the most iconic images of Nashville's Civil Rights Movement took place downtown, those images would not exist without the American Baptist Theological Seminary, which provided these men with the foundational experience that set them on the path to become leaders and icons of the Nashville Student Movement and the National Civil Rights Movement.
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Portland Venture Group a Waste of Time & Money for Oregon Startups
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Portland Venture Group is a bit of a joke amongst Oregon startups, it is not a investment group as much as it is a social club. Many companies I know have pitched them, but they have never actually funded anything, at least not in the past few years. As they drag things on they will ask you to pay $250 to cover "room charges" but you are actually buying the members dinner, no dinner for you though, you have to wait outside until they are ready for you.PRIVATE: Members Only (941 Characters)


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A colony of feral cats at the Montauk Downs State Park is being disbanded by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. The cats, some of which have been there for up to eight years, are being taken to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons for evaluation. Some are being placed elsewhere, and others might have to be euthanized, depending on their health.
Cared for by Elizabeth Willoughby since 2002, the cat colony has thrived on the site for more than 15 years, and all of them have been spayed or neutered. Ms. Willoughby said that in the time she has been caring for the cats, no kittens have been born and the colony has been reduced from 37 to about 20. Since state park officials began trapping the cats, Ms. Willoughby has been able to place 9 of them with new owners.
The others still consider the space behind the park's Dumpster their home, however. When a visitor arrives, felines will coyly start rubbing up against their hay-lined shelters and congregating around the food dish. They are black, gray, orange, and calico. They look to be healthy, with good coats and seemingly hearty appetites. A chorus of purring begins when Ms. Willoughby sits among them.
Ron Foley, the Long Island regional director of the State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, said the state is removing the cats because of neighbors' complaints. "They're saying, 'Your cats are fouling our yards,' " he said. Neighbors have also complained that the cats are killing songbirds.
Mr. Foley said the state's policy on feral cats is to reduce the population to none. "Through no fault of anyone, that's not happened in Montauk." He said a former park employee who took some of the cats to his house became ill, and the cats were returned to the park by a neighbor.
A letter sent out from Mr. Foley's office to cat rescuers in Montauk called abandoned cats on state parkland a continuing problem. "If these cats have not been relocated in 60 days from the date of this letter, they will either be brought to a humane shelter or humanely euthanized," the letter said.
Mike Caggiano of Nuisance Wildlife Control in Ridge said he has so far trapped 16 cats at the park. He baits traps in the late afternoon and then waits, he said. He often has to remove a raccoon from a trap before he catches a cat, which is then taken to ARF in Wainscott.
There they are medically evaluated, Sara Davison, the group's executive director, said. So far, two have had to be put down because of their age. "It was an opportunity to give them a humane send-off," she said. The others are feral and will live only outside. "We're looking for someone with a barn or a backyard, or someone who already feeds feral cats, to take them," she said.
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"Feral cats are a community concern, they are not a problem," Ms. Willoughby said. "The problem is with the people who dump cats when they don't want them anymore."


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On Tuesday, President Obama made the case for a limited military strike in Syria if diplomacy fails.
But he still sounded like a man looking for an escape hatch.
"I've spent 4 1/2 years working to end wars, not to start them," he said. "Our troops are out of Iraq. Our troops are coming home from Afghanistan. And I know Americans want all of us in Washington — especially me — to concentrate on the task of building our nation here at home."
He'd hit that same reluctant warrior theme in a spate of television interviews the day before the speech. In those appearances, the president returned again and again to all the reasons he hoped to avoid military action against Syria, and said very little about his once-fervent goal of driving Syrian President Bashar Assad out of power.
"This is not a problem I'm looking for," he told CBS. "I'm not looking for an excuse to engage in military action…. My central goal throughout this process has not been to embroil ourselves in a civil war."
It's also clear that Obama would prefer not to launch even limited airstrikes over the opposition of most Americans and Congress. As he told NBC: "For me, the president, to act without consensus in a situation where there's not a direct imminent threat to the homeland or [U.S.] interests around the world, well, that's not the precedent I want to set."
Small wonder that Obama embraced the sudden (if still unlikely) prospect of a negotiated deal with enthusiasm, and even took pains not to set the talks' goals too high.
"My narrow concern," he said, "is making sure that Assad does not use these chemical weapons again."
That's a narrow goal that now, thanks to an unexpected diplomatic assist from Russia, of all countries, just might be achievable — unlike Obama's attempts to move public opinion, win a vote in Congress or build an international alliance in favor of military action.
It's been a bad three weeks for Obama and his foreign policy team. A president who proclaimed that use of chemical weapons would cross a "red line" discovered that a Syrian despot was willing to call his bluff not once but a dozen times.
A president who relied on antiwar eloquence to win his job found it harder to move public opinion when he tried to sell a military intervention he didn't sound completely sold on himself.
A president whose foreign policy was based on rejecting unilateralism found himself without many allies after Britain's prime minister couldn't persuade his Parliament either.
A president who prides himself on running a no-drama White House couldn't keep his staff on the same page: Secretary of State John F. Kerry has consistently sounded more hawkish than the president, and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, more skeptical.
White House aides tried to spin Russia's offer as the product of Obama's deft diplomacy, but it didn't look so deft close up. Instead, Obama's missteps turned what could have been a brief episode — the initial plan was for about 48 hours of missile strikes that would have been over a week ago — into a long-running melodrama.
Obama has belatedly discovered something Bill Clinton and other presidents learned the hard way: It's possible to commit U.S. military forces to action without much public support, but only if you bring clarity, resolve, patient diplomatic preparation and an impressive list of allies.
Now the president is hoping that Assad and Russia's Vladimir Putin will help him find a way out. They may, but there's no reason to expect that they'll make it easy.
In any case, Syria's chemical weapons aren't likely to disappear quickly. Even if Assad follows through on his foreign minister's promise to join the Chemical Weapons Convention, implementing the treaty normally takes years.
Libya's Moammar Kadafi signed up in 2004, but only about half the country's stockpile of weapons had been destroyed by the time he fell seven years later.
The United States and Russia are still dismantling their chemical weapons arsenals, even though more than two decades have passed since the end of the Cold War.
Besides, in the Middle East, every silver lining has a cloud. It's not clear what impact even a successful outcome of the chemical weapons crisis would have on the larger problem of Syria's civil war. Obama said he hoped a diplomatic solution on chemical weapons might lead to a peaceful resolution of the larger conflict.
But one of his own former advisors on Syria, Frederic C. Hof of the Atlantic Council, says the outcome could work the other way, especially if Congress makes it clear that it won't authorize military action.
"Without the credible threat of military force on the table … [Assad] will return to business as usual, killing and terrorizing large numbers of civilians using conventional weapons," Hof warned.
U.S. policy on the Syrian civil war has often seemed like a search for the least bad option. Even now, when a diplomatic solution to the chemical weapons crisis seems possible, that's still true. Assad may agree to stop gassing his enemies, but Syria's larger problems are a long way from being solved.
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People Are Doing This Nearly a Quarter Less Than They Once Did — What Is It?
Question: According to a new survey, the amount of people doing this has dropped 23% over the past two years. What is it?
Answer: Watching TV!
Hmm, does that mean people are reading more? Nah, we think people are just spending more time online.