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Words I thought I'd never write: "Jackass" Johnny Knoxville has made an actual movie.
I don't mean the occasional part the actor takes in someone else's film, notably Luke Duke in 2005's "The Dukes of Hazzard." Or the string of stunts that migrated pretty much intact to the big screen from MTV's "Jackass" reality series, with "Jackass: The Movie" in 2002, followed by "Jackass Number Two" and "Jackass 3D." All lowbrow, low-budget and lucrative.
What I do mean is that "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" is an evolution. The film has a story complete with a beginning, middle and end. It has some acting and emotion. And most shocking of all — it has empathy.
Which may make hard-core "Jackass" fans — the highly coveted young adult male demo that throws good money at bad entertainment all the time — shudder.
Rest easy, boys; there is still much for our man Johnny to fear. And waiting for you is that quintessential "Jackass" moment when you ask the friend or stranger next to you — between howls of laughter, it should be noted — "Is that really his …? Are those really his …?"
In "Bad Grandpa," Knoxville, now 42 and certifiably middle-aged crazy, stays very much in the danger zone. In the grand "Jackass" tradition, "Grandpa's" antics are as politically incorrect as ever — racist, sexist and salacious. Unsuspecting citizens are "caught on tape" as they are exposed to the insanity, another "Jackass" trademark. And, most important, the movie is hysterical in the worst possible ways; ones that make you feel as if a public apology is due: "So sorry, everyone."
Knoxville's brand of anarchy has been dismissed as everything from total nonsense to a real danger for those who try to replicate the pranks (all the films carry a warning label). But he's actually playing with an extreme form of performance art framed by a frat-boy, locker-room, keg-party mentality. In all that running amok that so often involves (and I don't know why) alligators, subversive social jabs can be found. Case in point: You could argue there was a subtle message to "think before you ink" in the classic "Off-Road Tattoo" bit in one of the earlier films.
Sadly, there are no alligators in "Bad Grandpa," at least that I recall, but everything else is there, including a few thoughts on the current state of our growing geriatric nation and broken families that too often leave grandparents to raise the little ones.
"Grandpa's" various bad influences have been cooked up by the original "Jackass" creative team, which in addition to Knoxville includes Jeff Tremaine and "Being John Malkovich" filmmaker Spike Jonze. The trio share screenplay credit for this docu-comedy-drama hybrid, and Tremaine, as he has from the beginning, directs.
The story is grounded in Knoxville's old-guy character, Irving Zisman, who's been used for odd scams here and there in the past. Now he's got an entire backstory.
As "Grandpa" opens, Zisman is 86 and newly widowed. To get the central gag going, there is a funeral for his late wife, Ellie (basically a coffin cameo by Catherine Keener, aged beyond recognition and as silent as the grave), with an unsuspecting choir in attendance. Zisman is thanking them for their time, making apologies for his absent daughter (Georgina Cates) and grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll), when, like a bad penny, they turn up.
The action from this point on is driven by what, where and how to handle Grandma Ellie's dead body, and by Billy's disposal as well. He's been dumped with Grandpa while mom heads to prison, and deadbeat dad (Zia Harris) lives thousands of miles away.
A road trip and many indelicate encounters follow as the pair make their way to Billy's dad for the big handoff. The patience of many will be tested, including any female of any age, many fast food and convenience store owners, some kiddie beauty pageant contestants, a few strip-club patrons and countless random people on the street.
Some forgive the old guy, or the kid — Nicoll is a chip off the Knoxville block, and I mean that with all due respect. Some do not. One 45-year-old guy threatens to "tune Grandpa up" over a penguin debacle.
There are also a surprising number of serious and sweet moments between Billy and Grandpa. Actual family bonding takes place, in the open, for anyone to see.
Now I don't mean to suggest that "Bad Grandpa" has gone highbrow — the "Jackass" brow is just as arched as ever. And to be clear, the plot is slight. The dialogue goes from not bad to not too bad.
Still, it's amazing what a little story and a little substance add to a movie. It might not be a giant leap for mankind, but it is a small step for one old man.
'Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa'
MPAA rating: R for strong crude and sexual content throughout, language, some graphic nudity and brief drug use.
Running time: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Playing: In general release


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I was recognized as an "Inspirational Working Mother" where I work—at Accenture, a global professional services company—as part of its Japan Best People Awards. After I obtained this award, many women colleagues asked me how I manage to balance working at a demanding job with my life as the mother of a young child.
One of the best ways is to creatively use whatever business tools you can to make yourself as effective as possible and to create flexibility between home and work. For example, Skype Business is a tool I use on my laptop that allows me to attend meetings from my home, so I don't always have to be in the office. This ability to meet virtually makes me much more productive and efficient with my time, which is a great bonus for the quality of life for me and my family.
When I am in the office, I usually leave at 5 p.m., so I have time to play with my son. But I'm still a core member of a very challenging and interesting team. I am able to do both and would like to be a role model for other young mothers.

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Regina King on Directing Southland and Representing Other Working Moms
Regina King is making her Southland directorial debut tonight, and she stopped by our LA studios to tell us all about playing double duty. Regina has starred on the cop drama since the first season aired on NBC in 2009 and continued her role as Detective Lydia Adams as the show made its move to TNT. Regina's flexed her directing muscle in the past, but this was the first time she's directed her own series and her Southland costars. Check out our interview to see what she told us about working motherhood and her teenage son, as well as her memorable real-life interactions from female police officers who watch the show. Southland airs Wednesdays at 10/9 Central. On Lindsay: bebe blazer.


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With the exception of retirement and certain government-mandated items, most benefits are available to full-time administrators only. In addition benefits vary for 9, 10, and 12 month full-time administrators. This web page outlines the full range of benefits. The Human Resources Department should be contacted for information about which of these programs may apply in any given circumstance.
Health Care
The complete Barnard health care program for administrators has four components: Medical Services, Prescriptions, Dental, and Flexible Spending Accounts. Health care benefits begin on the first day of the month following 30 days of employment.
Medical Services:
The Cigna Open Access Plus Plan provides medical benefits with the flexibility of using either network or non-network providers.
In most cases, the Open Access Plus Plan provides 100% coverage less a modest co-payment for some services such as prescriptions and office visits. Since care under this option is provided by Cigna's extensive network of doctors, there are no deductibles nor are there any claim forms. This is called "in-network."
On the other hand, the Open Access Plus Plan can function as traditional indemnity insurance, allowing the participants to use doctors of their own choosing with reimbursement subject to the usual controls such as annual deductibles and reasonable and customary limitations. The claimant must complete claim forms. This is called "out-of-network."
In addition, employees may choose between three Cigna plan options, all of which allow in-network and out-of-network coverage. Plan A is offered to employees at a modest cost. Plan B requires a larger employee contribution, but it has a lower deductible and out-of-pocket maximum for out-of-network providers. Plan C is a High Deductible Health Plan which is available with a Health Savings Account partially funded by Barnard. Plan C has the lowest employee contribution. Dependents may be carried on all plans with an employee contribution.
Cigna insures both same sex and opposite sex domestic partners. Employees interested in this coverage should contact Human Resources at (212) 854-2551.
On the Cigna Plan A and Plan B Prescription Program, the employee pays $15 for generic, $25 for brand drugs and $50 for preferred brand drugs at participating pharmacies. Under the Plan C Prespription Program, the employee pays $10 for generic, $25 for brand name drugs, and $50 for preferred brand drugs at participating pharmacies. A mail order program is available for maintenance drugs under all medical plan options.
Aetna Freedom of Choice (FOC) Dental Maintenance Organization, is available at a cost of $23.50 per month for individual, $44.52 per month for individual plus one and $71.43 per month for family coverage. The plan allows employees to switch monthly from the DMO to the Preferred Provider Organization (PPO).
An annual eye exam can help manage your overall health and wellbeing. It can spot the early signs of serious health conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, so you can be treated sooner, rather than later. EyeMed makes it easy for you to visit one of their participating doctors in their network for your annual eye exam. You will also have access to the top six national retail chains as in-network options, including LensCrafters, Sears Optical, Target Optical, JC Penny Optical, and most Pearle Vision locations. EyeMed provides an annual eye exam at no cost and an allowance for frames or contacts once every 12 months. Coverage for non-network services are limited.
Flexible Spending:
The Barnard College Flexible Spending Account enables full-time, participating employees to pay for their unreimbursed health and/or dependent care expenses with pre-tax income. The health and dependent care plans are administered by Allegiance, a division of CIGNA. Employees can contact customer services with any questions regarding covered expenses at 1-877-424-3570.
Additional Considerations:
Adjustment of Coverage - Subsequent to initial enrollment, additions to or adjustments in coverage may occur only during open enrollment periods (usually the first calendar month of the year) or if there has been a life status change such as marriage, birth of a child, or loss of a spouse's job. Dependents may be dropped from coverage at any time.
Termination of Coverage -Termination provisions for unmarried dependent children, students and non-students age 26 and above vary under the several plans (medical/drug, dental and flexible spending) that make up the complete health care program. Specific information is available in the individual plan documents. Finally, for employees who are terminating employment, coverage ends on the last day of the month in which their final working day falls.
COBRA and Conversion Privileges - Under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, employees who terminate employment under conditions other than gross misconduct may elect to remain in the group medical plans, at their expense, for 18 months from their termination date, or 29 months if termination is due to disability under certain conditions. The employee must notify ADP COBRA Services, 1-800-526-2720 or https://www.benedirect.adp.com of such election within 60 days of termination and must make insurance payments retroactive to the first date of COBRA coverage within a period ending forty-five days after such election. Subsequent payments must be made monthly. In addition, eligible dependents covered by the plans may remain in the group for a period of up to 36 months if continuation coverage is due to the death of the employee, divorce or legal separation, or loss of eligibility due to reaching maximum plan age or becoming entitled to and applying for Medicare.
Disability Insurance
The complete Barnard Disability Insurance program consists of two components: Short Term Disability Insurance and Long Term Disability Insurance.
Short Term Disability Insurance:
As mandated by the State of New York, Barnard employees are covered by Short Term Disability Insurance through CIGNA. The insurance provides a benefit of 50% of the employee's weekly salary up to a maximum of $750 per week for any non-occupational illness or injury, including maternity. These benefits will be paid for a period of up to 26 weeks depending on the severity of the illness. In order that a claim for short term disability benefits can be filed with CIGNA in a timely fashion, employees who are, or expect to be, absent from work due to disabling illness for five or more consecutive working days must contact the Office of Human Resources at the earliest possible moment.
Long Term Disability Insurance:
CIGNA also provides coverage for long-term disability. This coverage is available after one year of service. However, this waiting period will be waived upon certification of coverage under a group long term total disability plan with the employee's prior employer if coverage was in effect within 30 days of the Barnard date of hire.
After an elimination period of 180 days, the policy will pay 60% of the disabled employee's salary up to a maximum of $5,000 per month for the period of total disability. These payments will be reduced by any benefits payable from Social Security, Workers Compensation, and any benefits payable under the College's short term disability program. Benefits continue up to age 65 if the disability commences prior to age 60. If the disability commences after age 60, the period will depend on complex provisions the details of which are available from the Office of Human Resources.
In addition, CIGNA will make appropriate contributions to the employee's Basic Retirement Annuity (see below) during the period of total disability.
Life Insurance
Employees are covered by a CIGNA group term life policy with an Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) rider. The face amount of an employee's coverage equals two times their annual base salary rounded up to the next highest thousand dollars. The most important feature of the AD&D rider is that it provides the beneficiary (ies) double the face amount of the policy if the covered employee dies as a result of an accident.
Additional Considerations:
Inception - The life insurance benefit begins on the first day of the month following completion of one full month of employment.
Beneficiaries - Employees designate the beneficiary(ies) and may change that designation at any time.
Seniors - For active employees over age 65, the amount of life insurance will be reduced in compliance with current plan provisions. The plan provides for additional reductions after age 70.
Retirement Plans
Barnard College provides two retirement plans: the Basic Retirement Annuity Plan and the Supplemental Retirement Annuity Plan. Both of these plans may be administered by Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equity Fund (TIAA-CREF) or Fidelity Investments.
Basic Retirement Annuity:
Eligibility - Contributions to the Basic Retirement Annuity plan are made by Barnard. All eligible Administrative Officers whose positions are classified as Grade Five or above begin participation immediately. Those employees whose positions are classified as Grade Four or below will begin participation on January 1st or July 1st following their two-year anniversary date. However, employees with two years of full-time service at an institution of higher education during the 24-month period directly preceding their date of employment at the College may begin participation immediately. Employees are asked to notify the Human Resources Department if this exception applies. Part-time employees who work a minimum of 1,000 hours per year also participate in this plan.
Contributions - Effective February 1, 2019, for those employees whose positions are classified as Grade Eight and below, the College makes a contribution equal to 7% of gross annual salary (employees hired through searches beginning on or before January 31, 2019, may receive 9% ). For those at Grade Nine and above, the College makes a contribution equal to 10% of gross annual salary (employees hired through searches beginning on or before January 31, 2019, may receive 12%).
Supplemental Retirement Annuity:
Both full-time and part-time employees may elect to make contributions to a supplemental tax-deferred annuity. These contributions are made pre-tax and require that the employee execute an authorizing Salary Reduction Agreement, which is available from the Office of Human Resources. Employees can elect to contribute any amount up to an allowable maximum set by regulation and calculated by TIAA-CREF in each specific case. There is no waiting period. The plan includes a loan provision. Details are available through the Office of Human Resources.
Tuition Assistance
Employees - Effective January 1, 2008, all full-time administrative employees are eligible to receive tuition assistance beginning in the first academic semester/quarter following their date of hire at Barnard College. The first year of the tuition benefit is on a reimbursement basis only. Full-time employees may take the number of approved courses per year equal in cost to six Barnard credits. Job related, credit bearing courses or courses applied toward a degree may qualify if taken from an accredited educational institution. Eligibility depends on several factors, including the timing of the employee's application. Please note, the program will not pay for repeat degrees (i.e a second Associate's, or Master's Degree for employees already holding those degree) even if the new degree program is in an unrelated field. The program will pay for subject-specific, job related certificates that build and help to promote advancement with authorization from one's manager. For further information about the program, please contact the Office of Human Resources.
Dependents - Eligible dependent children of full-time administrators may receive full undergraduate tuition to Barnard or Columbia for a maximum of eight semesters within six years. In addition, for schools other than Barnard or Columbia, Barnard pays an amount equal to 25% of its own tuition, or up to 100% of the other institution's tuition, whichever is less, for dependents of full time administrators hired after December 31, 1983. Children of deceased full-time administrators and administrators who retire from the College may also be eligible. Eligibility is for Fall and Spring semesters only. Further information is available through the Office of Human Resources.
As required currently by law, tuition benefits for graduate school in excess of $5,250 per calendar year are considered taxable income to the employee, and taxes will be withheld from the employee's paycheck when appropriate.
Paid Time Off
Full-time employees hired after July 1, 1987 who work 12 months per year, earn two days per month for each full month of service up to a maximum of 24 days per year. Part-time administrators and full-time administrators, who work fewer than twelve months per year, are eligible for vacation accrual on a reduced basis. Full details are available from Human Resources. Vacation time will be accrued but cannot be taken during the first six months of employment. Further, for full-time, twelve month employees, no more than 24 vacation days may be carried over from one fiscal year (July 1 to June 30) to the next. Any additional unused vacation days will be forfeited. In addition, an employee who resigns, will be paid only for any accrued vacation time up to the allowed carryover and any newly accrued but unused vacation days. If an employee resigns within the first 6 months of employment they will not be eligible for a vacation payout.
Scheduled - Employees receive eleven scheduled holidays per year. These are: New Year's Day; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Election Day; Thanksgiving Day; Day After Thanksgiving; Christmas Eve; Christmas Day; and New Year's Eve.
Floating - In addition to scheduled holidays, twelve-month employees receive three floating holidays per year; those hired after January 1st receive two days for the first fiscal year ending June 30th. Nine and ten-month employees receive two floating holidays per year; those hired after January 1st receive one day for the first fiscal year ending June 30th.
Sick Leave:
Full-time Administrators working 12 months per year will receive 5 sick days at hire and 10 sick days on the next following July 1. Maximum in the sick bank at any time will be 15 days. Each July 1, the Administrator will receive up to 10 sick days to a bank total not to exceed 15 days. (For example: If at June 30, an employee has 5 days left in the sick bank, 10 days will be added on July 1 for a bank total of 15 days. If at June 30, the employee has 7 days left in the sick bank, 8 days will be added on July 1 for a bank total of 15 days. If at June 30, the employee has 3 days left in the sick bank, 10 days will be added on July 1 for a bank total of 13 days.) Part-time Administrators and those working fewer than 12 months per year receive a pro-rated benefit. There is a Salary Continuation Program available for employees on leave with a serious illness, disability or pregnancy.
Commutation Benefit Program
The College offers employees the opportunity to use pre-tax dollars to pay certain commuting costs. Employees who join the program can exclude up to $255 per month pre-tax for the purchase of Metrocards and transit passes. For those who drive or car-pool, the program can be applied to the lesser of the actual authorized parking costs or $255 per month. Complete details on the commutation program are available from the Wageworks website https://myspendingaccount.wageworks.com or 1-800-654-6695.
Mandated Benefits
In addition to Short Term Disability (discussed above), there are four other mandated programs. These are:
Family and Medical Leave:
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 requires that eligible employees be given up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job protected leave during any 12 month period for the birth and first-year care of a child; the adoption or foster placement of a child; the serious medical condition of the employee's spouse, child, or parent; the employee's own serious medical condition; or for Active Duty or Caregiver Leave. Both the employer and the employee have certain rights under the act. The Human Resources Department can be contacted for further information.
New York State Paid Family Leave:
The NY State Paid Family Leave benefit provides eligible employees a leave with partial wage replacement, job and health benefits protection for these reasons:
- To bond with a child during the first 12 months following the birth, adoption or fostering of a child;
- To care for certain family members with a serious health condition; or
- For qualifying exigencies arising out of a family member's covered active duty in the military.
To be considered an eligible employee, the following criteria apply:
- Full time employees (20 or more hrs/week) are eligible to participate after working 26 or more consecutive weeks of work.
- Part time employees (less than 20 hrs/week) are eligible to participate after the 175th day of work.
Under NYS law, the amount of paid family leave benefits will be phased in as follows
|Paid Family Benefit
|January 1, 2018
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|50% of the employee's average weekly salary
|January 1, 2019
|10 weeks
|55% of the employee's average weekly salary
|January 1, 2020
|10 weeks
|60% of the employee's average weekly salary
|January 1, 2021
|12 weeks
|67% of the employee's average weekly salary
The New York PFL benefit is funded entirely through minimal deductions from employee's paychecks. The New York PFL benefit will run concurrently with leave under the Family Medical Leave Act.
Employees may be eligible for a waiver to opt-out of Paid Family Leave benefits and the deduction. An employee has the option to waive if: (1) the employee regularly works 20 hours or more per week but will not work 26 consecutive weeks; or (2) the employee regularly works 20 hours or less per week but will not work 175 days in a 52 consecutive week period. The waiver is optional and revocable.
The College's Paid Family Leave Policy can be found here: Paid Family Leave Policy
Social Security:
Social Security is a federal program of retirement, disability, survivor and health related benefits covering most staff. Contributions to Social Security are shared by the College and the employee.
Worker's Compensation:
Income protection, medical benefits and survivor benefits are provided for job related illnesses and injuries. This mandated coverage is provided to the College by CHUBB and is independent of the health care coverage provided by Cigna. For this reason, among others, any job related injury or illness must be reported immediately to the responsible supervisor, department chair or director and to the Human Resources Department.
Unemployment Insurance:
Staff and faculty who become unemployed through no fault of their own and are able and available to work, but unsuccessful in finding employment, may be eligible to receive a weekly benefit.
Voluntary Benefits:
Barnard offers faculty and staff several voluntary benefit packages. Further information is available from Human Resources.
Backup Care: Through Bright Horizons, the College offers discounted Backup Child and Elder Care services for those times when an employee would otherwise miss work to care for a loved one. The program is designed to provide up to 20 visits annually either in a childcare center (Copays: $15/child or $25 for 2 or more children) or in a private residence ($8 per hour) when regular care for a child or dependent adult is unavailable on a temporary basis. Employees can visit the website at http://backup.brighthorizons.com or call 877-BH-CARES (877-242-2737) or 800-557-0847 for more information.
Employee Assistance Program: We are pleased to announce our new Employee Assistance Program through Humana (formerly known as "Harris Rotherberg International, Inc"). We encourage your participation in this program and take advantage of the available resources provided. This program is available to you at no cost. You may contact Humana at 800-448-4358 or at www.hriworld.com
MetPay: Offers discounted insurance rates for auto and home through Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Call 1-800-GET-MET8 for further information and a no-obligation quote.
Chase Banking: Chase checking and savings with no balance required, fee waived banking, when you set up direct deposit. Benefits include debit card, on-line banking, credit cards, access to mortgage and home equity loans and other banking services.
Health Club Membership: Faculty and staff can secure discounted health club memberships through GlobalFit Corporate Fitness.
New Employees are urged to review and understand their first pay stubs to assure themselves that their elections of benefits have been correctly recorded. Questions may be referred to Human Resources Department.
More comprehensive information is available on all these matters through the Human Resources Department. In the event of any discrepancy between this brochure and the underlying plan documents, the underlying documents shall govern. The College may modify benefits at any time without prior notice.
Healthcare While Traveling
Domestic Travel (including Canada, Mexico and U.S. Possessions)
If you are traveling domestically or are in a temporary domestic residence, medical services for medical emergencies and urgent care will be covered as an in-network benefit. Cigna requires notification within 24 hours of an emergency hospital admission. All urgent care requires pre-certification. Please call Cigna at the number on the back of your ID card available 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
Routine Medical Care
If you are traveling domestically or are in a temporary domestic residence and decide to seek non-emergency medical care, any covered services will be processed in-network if you use a Cigna physician. If you use a physician not affiliated with either network, the charges will be processed as an out-of-network benefit up to the Usual, Customary and Reasonable Charges, subject to coinsurance and deductibles.
Please note: Cigna policies and procedures, including precertification for some procedures, remain in effect, so you should continue to seek appropriate referrals and precertification as necessary when using a Cigna physician. If you obtain care without appropriate referrals for a Cigna in-network service, any covered services will be processed under your out-of-network benefit up to the Usual, Customary and Reasonable Charges, subject to coinsurance and deductibles. If you have questions about precertification, please phone the Cigna customer service number on the reverse side of your membership card.
International travel (except for Canada, Mexico and U.S. Possessions)
If you are traveling or in a temporary residence abroad, medical services for medical emergencies and urgent care will be covered as an in-network benefit. Cigna requires at least 24 hours notification after an emergency hospital admission. All urgent care requires pre-certification. Please refer to the Urgent and Emergency Care While Traveling brochure for details.
Routine Medical Care
Cigna is not licensed to insure for routine, non-emergency medical care abroad. You will not be reimbursed for the costs of any routine care that you incur while abroad. If you are planning to live and work abroad on a grant or sabbatical leave, please be aware that health coverage through Cigna is limited to emergency care. You may wish to explore well in advance of your trip whether routine healthcare is available through institutional or governmental plans in the host country. In addition, Barnard now offers Gateway Premier international medical coverage; information is available in Human Resources. Anyone wishing to explore this option should make an appointment with HR no less than one month before leaving the U.S.
Prescriptions are not covered by your insurance while you are traveling or living abroad. To assure that you have adequate quantities of any medication before you travel, phone Cigna's Customer Service at 800-244-6224 (available 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week, except Thanksgiving and Christmas) and request a "vacation override renewal." You will then need to pick up this prescription at your local pharmacy before your trip.
Lastly, anyone traveling abroad for the College should complete an application for evacuation insurance with C.M.I., which provides coverage for evacuation services should you need to return to the U.S. for a medical emergency. Applications should be completed no later than 3 weeks in advance of leaving the U.S.
***************Should you have any questions about medical services while traveling or in a temporary residence, we suggest you phone Cigna directly at the 800 number on the back of your insurance card. If you are traveling or in residence abroad, please refer to the Urgent and Emergency Care While Traveling brochure for details. You may also, of course, phone Human Resources at 4-2551.
Emergency International Insurance
The College now maintains a policy with WorldNet International Insurance to provide certain kinds of protection to both faculty and administrators pursuing international educational activities. This insurance can provide for emergency medical evacuation and other kinds of emergency assistance. A web link explaining the benefits is provided below. If you anticipate being out of the United States for international study or work, please contact Human Resources at extension 4-2551 with the date of your departure and the country to which you will be traveling.
It is important to note: This is not medical insurance. Emergency medical care while traveling is covered under the Cigna medical plan.
If you have enrolled in WorldNet International coverage and need to activate it while traveling, the contact information follows:
For medical evacuation, repatriation or other assistance services call Worldwide Assistance at 1-800-368-7878 (inside the U.S. or Canada) or call direct or collect to 202-659-7815 (from outside the U.S.) or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
When you call, please be prepared with the following information:
1) Name of caller, phone #, fax# and relationship to insured;
2) Insured's name, age, sex and the policy number for your insurance plan, which is GLMN00175341
3) A description of the insured's condition;
4) Name, location and telephone of the hospital or other service provider; and
5) Other insurance information including health insurance, worker's compensation, or auto insurance, if the insured was involved in an accident.


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The Oregon Law Commission convenes Work Groups to draft and then submit legislation for consideration each session to the Oregon Legislature.
In this section we have a listing of all of the minutes from the Oregon Law Commission meetings. They are listed by date.
For each of our Work Groups and for each piece of proposed legislation, we provide an accompanying report. This report summarizes memberships of the Work Groups, the process and outcomes of the groups and a legislative history, where applicable. We have separated the reports by session.


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Graduation Information
COMMENCEMENT IS HELD IN THE COMMONS BUILDING. You will be instructed to meet in rooms 114-117 Student Union one hour prior to the start of the ceremony.
If you are planning to graduate from Penn State Brandywine, it is necessary to take the following steps:
- Declare your Intent to Graduate
You can do this by using the "Apply to Graduate" link on LionPATH. You must do so within the required time period.
- Meet with your Adviser
Run a degree audit on LionPATH and review it with your Academic Adviser to ensure that all requirements have been met.
If you are missing course, credit, or grade requirements, you will NOT be able to graduate.
- Check your Address
You will be receiving important graduation information in the mail, so it is important that your address is up-to-date. You can check your address on LionPATH by selecting the "Address Information" tab. Make sure that your LOCAL address is correct.
- Transfer your Credits
You should avoid taking classes at another institution during your intended semester of graduation. If you do, you MUST ensure that Penn State receives the grades on time.
Transfer credits should be sent to:
Attention: Nancy Nagle
Undergraduate Admissions
201 Shields Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16804-3000
If you are planning to attend Commencement at Penn State Brandywine, it is necessary to take the following steps:
- Check your Mail
If you have declared your intent to graduate you will receive important graduation information in the mail. This information will include:
-The date and time of the commencement ceremony
-The deadline to RSVP to the Registrar's Office
-How and when to obtain graduation tickets
-How and when to purchase your cap and gown
You will receive a letter with contact information and the deadline to RSVP to the Registrar's Office regarding your invitation to attend commencement. Please RSVP even if you are NOT planning to attend.
If you do not RSVP, you will NOT have tickets set aside for you.
- Pick up your Tickets and your Cap and Gown
It is important the you pick up your commencement tickets and your cap and gown as directed in the instructions you receive in the mail.
- Arrive one hour before Commencement
To ensure organized procession and seating, you must arrive 1 hour before the commencement ceremony.


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Listening to the women around her discuss their husbands� work schedules and family dinners, Amy Hueitt said she didn�t feel she had much in common with the married mothers at her church in Gastonia.
Hueitt , a single mom of a 5-year-old and 2-year-old, was looking for a community of parents facing the same challenges. So when she saw a sign for a �Single and Parenting� class while driving down Union Road one day, she called to sign up.
Now, Hueitt is participating in a course at Firestone Wesleyan Church in Gastonia designed to support and encourage mothers and fathers who are raising kids alone.
�This is more real to me,� said Hueitt , who is still part of her home church, First ARP of Gastonia, but is finding support and encouragement at Firestone each Sunday night.
Every week, the small group of parents meets to watch a video, discuss practical and spiritual aspects of raising children, and share challenges and frustrations, prayer requests and achievements.
The 13-week course, which started in late June, is part of the church�s goal to serve families who might not be cared for elsewhere, said Firestone�s pastor, Roger Parsons.
�That�s basically what our church is about more than anything else � to address the needs that are in the community,� Parsons said. �We�re trying to adapt programs and curriculums that meet their needs, not ask them to fit our model.�
Parsons, who has served as Firestone�s pastor since 2009, said the church began this type of outreach in 2011 when he and his wife started leading �Divorce Care,� a course designed by Church Initiative, a Wake Forest-based nonprofit. Church Initiative also has developed a �Divorce Care 4 Kids� curriculum, which Firestone started offering in 2012, as well as the �Single and Parenting� class. All three courses are now offered on Sunday nights, and while the parents are in class, their kids are able to attend a time of games and devotional lessons.
Single and Parenting�s weekly lessons include practical tips about discipline and communication as well as deeper topics like suffering and adversity. Mark Drakeford , the father of a 2 �-year-old, doesn�t attend Firestone but came to the class to look for advice on raising a toddler.
�I�m new � a daddy with no experience. That�s why I went. These serve as sort of a blueprint of how to do it,� said Drakeford , who works in environmental construction.
The facilitator of the group is Sharon Combs, a member at Firestone. Though she�s now engaged to be married, Combs has been raising her daughter alone for the last six years. While other members at Firestone have been supportive of her through the years, Combs said, there weren�t many other single parents in the congregation. Leading the course has provided more of a sense of community, she said, while challenging her to work on her own parenting techniques. She also appreciates the chance to encourage those who are just starting their journey of raising children alone.
�I think the biggest impact to me has been getting to walk beside somebody who�s struggling with the same things I�ve struggled with; to be able to stand beside someone and pray for them and know that God will lead them through this the same way he�s led me through,� she said.
At a recent class, the group talked about working to see the blessings that can come out of hardship, as well as how single parents should try to be honest about their struggles rather than pretend that everything�s going well.
Wendy Harris, a member of Firestone who is going through a divorce, said she wanted to be honest about what�s difficult without being overly negative.
�I want to reflect happiness to my kids,� she said.
Harris said she also appreciated the class discussion on looking for the good things God was working through hardships, noting that she�s been able to spend more time with her two children recently.
�There�s a better story down the road ... He�s still writing it,� she said.
That kind of hope for the future is what Parsons, the pastor at Firestone, said he hopes the class and the church will provide.
�Hopefully, what we�re offering is unconditional love, that they will understand that we�re here to help them with no strings attached ... We feel that�s what Jesus would do if he were in Gastonia. We want to meet people where they are, in whatever season of their life, offer them hope, and help and healing, and let them know that they�re not alone, that they�ve got a friend. And in the meantime, find out what God�s plan is in their life and get on with life.�


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In January of 1864, H. I. Libby of Portland wrote to introduce "Mr. Towle," brother-in-law of F.O.J. Smith, a well-known politician; and "Mr. Baxter."
The two men were on their way to New Orleans "hoping to make some money by raising cotton or in some other honest way."
Shepley's files do not contain remarks on the outcome of these requests for assistance.
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Top 10 Things To Do In Rotorua
To help you get the most out of your visit to Rotorua, we've put together our 'Top 10 things to do in Rotorua'
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Geothermal Attractions
The incredible landscape is apparent as soon as you arrive. The steaming geysers, crater lakes, colourful silica terraces, bubbling mud pools are a sight to behold. Wai-O-Tapu, Orakei Korako and Waimangu Volcanic Valley are our pick of the geothermal attractions to visit.
Polynesian Spa
Hot pool indulgence doesn't come any better than this. Overlooking Lake Rotorua, The Polynesian Spa has 26 different pools with varying temperatures that include private pools, deluxe pools and adult-only areas. The waters are also well known for their therapeutic qualities.
Skyline Gondola
From 500 metres above the city, Skyline Gondola offers panoramic views of Lake Rotorua and the surrounding region. it's great fun for the family with a luge ride, Skyswing and Skyvue 4D Motion theatre. The Cableway Restaurant and Bar provides the scenic dining option.
Tamaki Maori Village
Visit an authentic Maori village situated in the heart of Rotorua forest and learn about Maori art forms, ancient rituals and traditions. During your visit, you'll enjoy Maori song and dance and share a traditional 3 course meal with your Maori hosts.
White Island
White Island is an active marine volcano situated 50km off the coast of Whakatane. The volcanic island climbs a thousand feet and is 2km across. Guided tours leave Whakatane, Rotorua and Tauranga by either boat or helicopter.
Rainbow Springs
Rainbow Springs is great family fun. It's home to fascinating wildlife and plants with magical walkways through forests with giant redwoods, kauri trees and spring fed streams. The park includes 'The Big splash', an interactive journey through time, where dinosaurs come to life.
Step into a giant inflatable ball, with or without water, and throw yourself down a steep hill. Welcome to the art of Zorbing. The two main players are Zorb Rotorua and Ogo Rotorua.
The Redwoods
The Redwoods, are situated in Whakarewarewa Forest, 288 hectares of native and exotic forest that includes a large network of walking, biking and horse riding trails. The imposing Califonian Redwoods are an impressive sight from the walking trails that lead from the visitor centre on Long Mile road.
Rotorua Museum
Rotorua Museum displays Rotorua's fascinating history through cinema experiences, innovative multi-media displays and guided tours. The viewing platform at the top of the building has panoramic views of Goverment Gardens and the surrounding area.
Agroventures & Agrodome
We've grouped these attractions together as they sit next to each other. Agroventures features 5 types of adventure thrills, including Agrojet, bungy, a super swing, freefall and aerodynamic racing pods. Agrodome is a family attraction set in 350 acres of farmland and features a farm show and organic farm tour.


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For Immediate Release
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Jeff Juel, (509) 209-2401
Tim Layser, (509) 671-2501
Mike Leahy, (406) 586-3970
Lawsuit Launched Against Elimination of 90 Percent of Protected Habitat for Endangered Mountain Caribou in Idaho, Washington
BOISE, Idaho - A coalition of conservation organizations filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today over the agency's decision to cut more than 90 percent of protected critical habitat for the endangered mountain caribou — from a proposed 375,562 acres to a mere 30,010 acres. The November decision was a major setback for the animals, which in recent decades have been limited to a small area in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington, where they are threatened by disturbance from snowmobiles, roads and loss of habitat.
"This reduction in protected habitat is a death sentence for mountain caribou in the United States. They will not survive in this country if we don't protect their habitat," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "The Fish and Wildlife Service's decision ignored the science and caved to political pressure."
Caribou once ranged across much of the northern lower 48 states, including the northern Rocky Mountains, upper Midwest and Northeast. The last remaining population in the northern Rocky Mountains was protected under the Endangered Species Act in 1984. The Fish and Wildlife Service, however, never designated critical habitat for the caribou, and in 2002 the groups filing today's notice petitioned, and eventually litigated, to obtain a designation.
In keeping with a scientific recovery plan for the caribou, the proposed critical habitat issued in 2011 included more than 375,000 acres, which encompassed a majority of the area specified in the scientists' plan as necessary for the animals' recovery. In cutting this proposed acreage by more than 90 percent, the Fish and Wildlife Service appears to have abandoned the goal of recovering caribou in the contiguous United States.
"The Fish and Wildlife Service's cut in critical habitat will greatly increase the caribou's risk of extinction in the lower 48 states," said Jeff Juel, policy director at the Lands Council. "It will be a sad day if we have to tell our children and grandchildren that we once had our own reindeer, but that we allowed them — like the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and so many others — to be wiped out."
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In 2005 conservation groups sued the Forest Service and obtained a closure to snowmobile use for most of the caribou's critical habitat included in the proposed rule. The final designation, however, only includes a fraction of this area, and the Forest Service is already considering lifting the closure. With new technologies allowing snowmobiles to get ever farther into the backcountry, these machines are a major threat to the shy, easily spooked animals.
"Now is not the time to back away from nearly 30 years of effort to recover the mountain caribou," said Tim Layser, a wildlife biologist with the Selkirk Conservation Alliance. "With adequate protection from snowmobiles and other threats, caribou can once again thrive in the United States."
Mountain caribou are a unique form of woodland caribou adapted to surviving winters of deep snow, with dinner-plate-sized hooves that work like snowshoes and an ability to subsist on nothing but arboreal lichens found on old-growth trees for three to four months. U.S. caribou are part of a population that straddles the border with British Columbia and consists of only 40 to 50 animals.
"To save the last caribou in the lower 48 we must take bold action to protect the forest habitat they need to survive," said Mike Leahy, Rockies and Plains director for Defenders of Wildlife. "Reducing the amount of protected areas by more than 90 percent is clearly a step in the wrong direction that goes against the best available science."
The groups on the notice of intent include the Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Northwest, Selkirk Conservation Alliance, The Lands Council, Idaho Conservation League and Defenders of Wildlife. They are represented by Laurie Rule of Advocates for the West.
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Modelling and Simulation of Simultaneous Intrinsic Kinetics, Hydrogen Transport and Heat Transfer in Complex Hydride Hydrogen Storage SystemsG. A. Lozano, J. M. Bellosta von Colbe, T. Klassen, and M. Dornheim
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In proper designs of hydrogen storage systems based on metal hydrides three processes are modelled and simulated: hydrogen flow (through the metal hydride bed), solid-state chemical transformation, and heat transfer (due to the highly exothermic chemical transformation).
In this work, modelling and simulation of the hydrogenation in complex hydride tanks is performed using COMSOL, case study is sodium alanate. For the intrinsic kinetics modelling we discuss a new approach: the material is described as a mixture composed of different types of reacting materials. We also analyse possible boundary conditions and the results when working in different space dimensions. The methodology is not limited to sodium alanate and can be rapidly applied to other hydrogen storage materials.


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Director Jennifer Urban at the University of Southern California (USC) and Laura Quilter at the University of California-Berkeley have released a summary report that studies a sample of over 900 notices collected as part of the Chilling Effects project. The full report will be available in the March 2006 edition of the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, but in the meantime the summary report is available in PDF and HTML versions.
The report analyzes notices that reference the On-Line Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), most commonly known as section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). These "takedown notices" typically demand that either Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or search engines remove articles or links that violate copyright. Under section 512 of the DMCA, ISPs are required to "expeditiously" take down the offending material, notify the alleged infringer that the material has been removed, and forward any counter-notices from the alleged infringer back to the complainant. Search engines are not required to notify the alleged infringer of the removal of links to their material. If, after 10-14 days, the complainant does not notify the ISP or search engine that it has followed up the notice with a lawsuit, the material may be reinstated.
If all these measures are taken, the ISP or search engine is, in theory, granted "safe harbor" from being charged with copyright infringement themselves. The stated purpose of the "safe harbor" act is to prevent ISPs from having to constantly monitor their users' data out of fear of lawsuits. However, the requirement for material to be removed "expeditiously" and stay removed for up to two weeks at the mere receipt of a notice has already caused some people to worry that it may stifle free expression.
The study shows some interesting results about who is issuing these summary notices and what their primary motivations are. Over 84% of the notices are sent to Google, not to the ISP hosting the material in question. While the removal of a Google link makes a site much more difficult to find, it does not remove the material from the Internet itself. Most of the corporations sending the notices are small Internet businesses. 55% of the notices sent to Google are requests to remove links to the complainant's direct business competitors. A surprisingly low 6% of notices were sent by the music and movie industry.
The most surprising results, however, concerned substantial legal flaws in the notices themselves. Over 30% of the notices raised serious concerns about the fairness and enforceability of their claims. In addition, 34% of these notices concerned material that was hosted on servers outside of the United States, where the DMCA Act has no legal jurisdiction. This raises complex questions about whether Google's removal of links constitutes control by U.S. laws over foreign information.
The DMCA has been under attack before. Attempts to use the law to prevent reverse engineering and replacement toner cartridges have been rejected by the courts. Consumer price advocate website FatWallet sued Best Buy over abuse of the DMCA laws to try and remove information about the prices of goods in their stores. Will this restrictive law continue to struggle as it runs into awkward realities? Or will its proponents simply fight harder?


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Wainamu Bush Track
This tramping track descends from Long Road Track that follows ridge before descending steeply to small clearing beside Wainamu Stream.
From Long Road Track, track follows ridge before descending steeply to small clearing beside Wainamu Stream; track continues on opposite bank a little way downstream then climbs steeply to follow ridge to Wainamu Junction.
What to expect:
Tramping tracks will:
consist of formed and drained surfaces.
be signposted at track entrances and key junctions.
Tramping tracks may:
have structures in permanent wet areas but waterways will not generally be bridged.
Tramping tracks may also have limited track information, and steep grades.
Suitable for people of reasonable fitness and experience.
Distance:2.0 kmTime:2.0 hoursWheelchair access:No Pram access:No


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Wasp And Bee Removal
Wasp, Hornet and Bee Removal
At Bigfoot Pest Control, we know exactly how to deal with bee and wasp removal. Our experts will evaluate the entire issue, and exterminate the critters without any further damage to you or your home. If you need a quick and effective treatment, we can provide the necessary options for extermination of bees and wasps. Call us today and let one of our experts handle your pest issue.
All of the different types of wasps and bees in and around the West Chicago Suburbs can cause structural damage because of their nesting and building activities.
The most common types are the Yellow Jackets, Honey Bees, Carpenter Bees and Bumble Bees.
Honey Bees
They survive year-round and don't need to reestablish their colonies. When the honey starts to melt it can cause damage, which can attract even more bees.
Bumble Bees
Often mistaken for carpenter bees, these pests are very aggressive and will attack if their hive becomes threatened.
Carpenter Bees
These bees actually bore into your wood and lay eggs inside it. If they abandon their nest, other pests may invade.
Yellow Jackets
These are small and aggressive bees. They burrow into the ground or into wood and can cause damage with both their nesting and their stinging.
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Exactly what does a Wasp Seem like?
Differs enormously based on species. Most have two set of wings along with a pinched waistline. They vary in colours from black to metallic greens and blues and differ in dimension from nearly microscopic to a number of centimeters lengthy.
Conduct, Diet plan and Routines
Wasp species are classified as social or solitary. As their title indicates, social wasps reside in colonies, which can quantity within the 1000's. Inside these colonies, feminine employees carry out all responsibilities inside the nest. Solitary wasps reside on your own and thus don't have a colony. They are doing lay eggs, but their eggs are still left on your own to hatch.
Some wasps are predatory, whilst other people are parasitic. Predatory wasps destroy and eat other bugs also as other animals which they frequently feed for their larvae. Parasitic wasps usually lay their eggs within the bodies of residing creatures like caterpillars or spiders. The larvae feed around the still-living host. Wasps can help within the administration of other pests, especially in agriculture as organic manage brokers. Numerous wasps also feed on nectar from bouquets and thus perform as pollinators.
Some wasps are intense species and may sting when threatened. In contrast to honey bees, wasps frequently are able to stinging numerous occasions.
Late within the summer time, the queen of some species will create unfertilized eggs. These will create into males. The males will fertilize the wasps which will turn out to be the queens from the subsequent yr. These fertilized women will overwinter inside a sheltered place. In many instances, the remainder of the colony will perish when winter season arrives. Subsequent spring, the queen will begin laying eggs. The fertilized eggs they create will turn out to be employees, developing the nest and feeding the larvae created from the queen.
Indicators of the Wasp Infestation
Indicators are depending on species, but most frequently the employees and also the nest would be the probably indicators. Study much more on infestations.
How would Orkin eliminate wasps?
Orkin utilizes an built-in method that employs a number of efficient and effective techniques to regulate wasps. Our built-in plan consists of utilizing:
• Inspection – figuring out what's necessary to offer an efficient wasp manage strategy.
• Documentation – describing the details from the general manage strategy and also the results and outcomes of, not just the preliminary inspection, but scheduled follow-up solutions also.
• Education – describing the conduct, diet plan and habitat of wasps and the way this info will probably be useful towards the house owner.
• Selection from the very best wasp manage techniques – traps, mild modification, mechanical and insecticidal controls, bodily elimination
• Cultural controls – modifying the realm across the house or company to cut back the amount of websites which are ideal for wasps to nest.
• Exclusion – which makes it difficult for wasps to obtain within the construction.
• Sanitation – maintaining the realm thoroughly clean and effectively decreasing accessibility towards the wasp's resources of meals.
• Emergency solutions, if required
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Wasps frequently are advantageous to mankind. A number of species are utilized by people as parasites to regulate pests, like in agriculture. Other people are predators that assist preserve insect populations. Other people perform as pollinators and assist with plant fertilization.
Do all wasps pollinate?
You will find numerous species of wasps which are essential pollinators. Nevertheless, taken as being a team, wasps do pollinate, but aren't as efficient at pollinating because the bees. This really is mainly simply because bees have hairier bodies than wasps, so pollen is much more most likely to stay to some bee's physique and become transported from 1 flower to a different.
Wasps are essential towards the atmosphere simply because they prey on many pest bugs that eat crops and landscape vegetation.
Wasps Species
Japanese Cicada Killer Wasp
European Paper Wasp
Fantastic Black Wasp
Floor Wasps
Mud Dauber Wasps
Paper Wasps
Crimson Wasps
Spider Wasp
Kinds of Wasps
Wooden Wasps
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The invention of the bee nest or swarm usually produces an actual feeling of urgency. You might turn out to be nervous concerning the security of one's family members, animals and home, and you'll have an instantaneous want to eradicate the bees. Nevertheless it's essential to stay relaxed. We comprehend your issues and our expert Really Nolen specialists are prepared to help in a moment's discover.
Reactive Therapy Plan?
Throughout our website visits for your house or company, your Really Nolen technician will communicate along with you regarding your observations. For the security, family members and animals have to stay indoors whilst the method is underway.
Examine and Determine:
Your Really Nolen technician will confirm the swarm or nest and assess the extent from the infestation. They'll also determine the actual kind of insect that you're working with.
Figure out:
Your Really Nolen technician will formulate an motion intend to eradicate your bees or wasp scenario.
Manage and stop:
Your Really Nolen technician will activate the intend to get rid of the swarm or nest.
Your Really Nolen technician will suggest you of all steps taken to eradicate the infestation and everything you can anticipate within the 24 to forty eight hrs instantly subsequent therapy, like the existence of straggler bees.
Colony Elimination Services (extra services):
The bees are eradicated, however the honeycomb stays on website. With out the bees to supply cooling, the wax liquefies and also the honey operates down the partitions. Mildew quickly types on this sticky mess. Ultimately an offensive odor develops in the decaying nest. Harm for your construction is happening. The decaying nest can also be a secondary attractant for other pests. Other bee swarms will attempt to re-infest the deserted honey comb. Ants, cockroaches, carpet beetles, as well as other bugs are extremely drawn to the sweet honey and lifeless bee carcasses, so that they infest the realm as well.
Preventative Yearly Bee Reduction Applications:
Bee Scout TrapScout Traps:
This non-intrusive pheromone-based device draws in and traps scout bees. Once the scout bees do not return towards the nest to redirect the swarm towards your house, the swarm goes somewhere else. Without any scout bee suggestions regarding your home, it gets to be invisible towards the swarm.
Bee Swarm TrapSwarm Traps:
This pheromone primarily based device draws in the swarm towards the vessel. It is utilized as being a containment method to ensure that the swarm may be successfully exterminated. The lure is positioned about vegetation or below developing eaves exactly where bees generally swarm and nest.
Know Your Bees
Prior to selecting a way of getting rid of a colony of bees, it's essential to determine the species of stinging insect, and whether or not it's a bee, wasp, or hornet. This information will provide you with a greater estimate of damages or even the risk of stings. Some species also need specialised therapy.
Bumble Bee: Intense only when threatened, the bumble bee prefers to nest in free, fluffy supplies and sometimes underground.
Carpenter Bee: These oval-shaped bees burrow into surface area leaving ideal three-eights inch holes. They're solitary, and infrequently harm structural beams. Nevertheless, person nests can multiply, ultimately destroying the encompassing surface area wooden.
Honey Bee: Whilst honey bees aren't intense and extremely advantageous, their nests are hefty and create 1000's of employees. They're the sole species exactly where relocation out of your house is the popular technique.
Wasps resemble bees, but tend to be more intense. Typical species consist of:
Floor Bee: This smaller sized species of yellow jacket builds nests in between two inches and two ft underground, generally in deserted burrows. They're effortlessly agitated and pretty intense.
Hornet: This intense species builds exterior paper nests which are formed like an inverted teardrop.
Yellow Jacket: These black and yellow-striped bugs develop nests much like hornets. Nevertheless, additionally they develop nests in partitions and may gradually chew via drywall or surface area wooden for supplies.
Wasp: Lengthy and skinny, a wasp's legs dangle when in flight. They often colonize attics and vehicles, and also have a unpleasant sting.
Getting rid of Bee Infestations
Human constructions frequently show appealing to bees, as their all-natural inclination would be to develop their hives in tree hollows and comparable cavities. Within the occasion that a colony of bees has taken up home in your house, garden, or car, you will find actions you are able to consider to obtain rid of these. Because they are diurnal (energetic throughout the day), it's very best to cope with hives following darkish.
Getting rid of Bees out of your House
Working having a colony of bees residing in your house might be simple or tough, based on if the hive is uncovered. You need to gown in cumbersome protecting clothes and spray an uncovered hive with pesticides following dusk to prevent stings. View the hive at dawn and dusk the following day for just about any action and spray once more, if essential. When you are certain the bees are lifeless, you need to eliminate the hive to prevent the chance of honey or wax melting and creating harm for your partitions. This may also create a long term infestation more unlikely.
Within the occasion of the nest within the partitions, you might have to contact an expert. By no means ought to you plug the entry stage, as this will direct any bees within the hive to hunt an additional exit, probably into your residing locations.
Ways to get Rid of Bees within the Floor
An easy technique for getting rid of a floor bee issue would be to buy a chemical spray particularly labelled for floor bees (we suggest Spectracide). Floor bees really are a species of yellow jacket and may turn out to be intense when agitated, so make sure to decorate protectively and spray during the night. Attempt to goal the chemical in to the hive entrance to ensure that the spray reaches the nesting region. View the realm about dusk or dawn more than the following couple of times for motion and spray once more if required. Be aware that bees who endure the spray will try to relocate their nest.
By no means ought to you try to destroy floor bees by pouring gasoline or other generic chemical substances in to the nest. Performing so will poison the bottom, killing each vegetation and animals. It might also show a fireplace or well being hazard to people.
Eliminating Bees inside your Vehicle
Getting rid of bees or wasps from the vehicle is usually tough, based on the placement from the nest. It's harmful and also you ought to put on cumbersome, protecting clothes and function during the night in the event you intend to method the colony. Sprays like Raid will frequently get rid of the bees following a couple of utilizes. Nevertheless, within the situation of vehicle nesting, the most secure answer would be to search out a bee keeper or expert bee elimination professional. Merely driving or allowing the motor operate won't get rid of a colony and will show to agitate the bees in 60101 Illinois.
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Royal Air Force Flight Lt. Michelle Goodman on March 7 became the first woman to be awarded the U.K. Distinguished Flying Cross. She was honored for flying her Incident Reaction Team Merlin into "an extremely dangerous area of Basra City" in Iraq on night-vision goggles and under very heavy fire on June 1, 2007 to rescue a casualty despite mortar rounds landing nearby. The DFC is awarded for acts of valor, courage, or devotion to duty while flying in active operations against the enemy. Without the rescue, officials said, injured soldier would have died within 15 min.
Turbomeca Chairman and CEO Emeric d'Arcimoles has been promoted to head of international affairs for Safran Group, parent of Turbomeca. He was to be succeeded as head of the engine maker on March 31 by Executive Vice President Pierre Fabre.
Bell Helicopter has named Greg Williams president and general manager of Edwards & Associates, He succeeds Phil Dieterich, who retired.
Helicopter Assn International members elected a new board of directors at Heli-Expo in February. The new board members are Christopher Erickson, chief repair station office/compliance, Erickson Air-Crane; Gale Wilson, president, Hillcrest Aircraft Co., and Ardis Ashton Jr., transportation policy manager, Bonneville Power Administration-Aircraft Services. The board's new executive committee members are Patrick Corr, chairman; Mark Gibson, vice chairman; David Chevalier, treasurer, and Art Ashton, assistant treasurer.
Avidyne Corp. has appointed Peter Ring as inside sales representative. He will provide aftermarket sales support in the Northeast and Southeast United States.
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* Verify that dropping to a shell on critical errors works
* Verify that dropping to a shell on critical errors works
* Verify that pressing Escape in plymouth brings you to the detailed mode showing boot messages
* Verify that pressing Escape in plymouth brings you to the detailed mode showing boot messages
== Dependencies ==
== Dependencies ==
Revision as of 11:09, 28 September 2008
- 1 Better Startup Experience (Graphical Boot Sequence)
- 1.1 Summary
- 1.2 Owner
- 1.3 Current status
- 1.4 Scope
- 1.5 Test Plan
- 1.6 Dependencies
- 1.7 Details
- 1.9 Contingency Plan
- 1.10 User Documentation
- 1.11 Developer Documentation
- 1.12 Release Notes
- 1.13 Comments and Discussion
Better Startup Experience (Graphical Boot Sequence)
The startup experience needs to be flicker-free, seamless and shiny. To do this we are getting rid of RHGB and writing a new program, Plymouth, that starts earlier (even before / is mounted!), doesn't require an X server, and gets rid of a lot of the noise during startup.
Plymouth will requires DRM kernel modesetting drivers to get pretty graphics, but will have a text mode fallback for systems without driver support.
- Name: RayStrode, KristianHoegsberg, JonMcCann, PeterJones, DavidAirlie, JeremyKatz et al
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 10
- Last updated: 2008-09-22
- Percentage of completion: 95%
F9 had kernel modesetting for Intel hardware. Ray has been working on a prototype rhgb replacement called Plymouth. It was put on hold while kernel modesetting was maturing, and has been revived after F9. Modesetting is again in flux, though, in rawhide, since there are two memory managers in play. These are the long anticipated TTM memory manager from tungsten graphics, and the newer GEM memory manager from Eric Anholt at Intel that supercedes TTM. Intel is currently targeting working Intel kernel modesetting driver on top of GEM by F10.
ATI recently released a kernel side atom parser to make radeon kernel modesetting (at least for r500 and higher) possible. Dave Airlie uses that parser to provide a GEM like api on top of the existing work that uses the TTM memory manager. Hopefully we'll have kernel modesetting for some ATI hardware by F10.
The current plymouth sources can be found here: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=plymouth;a=summary . There are plymouth packages in rawhide already, modesetting drivers, aren't, so most people won't be able to see graphical boot up yet. Having said that, we enable the text plugin by default now. Anyone using rawhide will see it, although it's sort of ugly and flickery. Live images now also run plymouth in their initrd.
The new startup sequence (including quiet kernel, quiet grub, plymouth, smooth transition to the login screen) has been demonstrated at the Red Hat Summit and was shown informally to various people at FUDcon.
Requires changes to grub, mkinitrd, initscripts, gdm, X, possibly other packages. rhgb will be replaced by Plymouth. The extent of this project is getting a graphical boot sequence that is polished and professional looking.
Boot up could be made faster, too, but that issue is orthogonal and should be tracked separately .
Test Plan
- Verify that holding a key during power-on gets you to the grub menu
- Verify that boot without rhgb in the kernel cmdline gives a traditional text mode boot sequence
- Verify that failure to set a mode in initrd falls back to a clean and simple text mode boot sequence
- Verify that the graphical boot sequence contains only a single mode switch from blank text mode to graphical mode, and that there is a smooth transition from the startup animation to the login screen
- Verify that entering encryption passwords works both in the graphical case and in the fallback case
- Verify that specifying a mode in the kernel commandline works
- Verify that failure messages from service startup can inspected after boot
- Verify that dropping to a shell on critical errors works
- Verify that pressing Escape in plymouth brings you to the detailed mode showing boot messages
- Verify that all of the above work with non-US keyboards
This feature depends on plymouth getting into F10. For other packages involved in realizing this feature, see Scope.
For a smooth and shiny experience, we want
- the mode should be changed early from text mode to the most optimal graphics mode available
- the mode should not be changed more than once
- there should be no other uncontrolled transitions
- there should be no text messages, unless the user presses Escape to see them
- there should be good, smooth transitions
The fallback if mode-setting fails or is unavailable is text mode.
Timeline of the current bootup
|grub info
|kernel boot
|initrd drivers
|text login
|gnome startup
|user session
Plan for improving this
- do away with mode switch for grub menu by default (ie, don't show the image unless "needed")
- This is in rawhide now, but the default configuration isn't making use of it.
- make kernel, nash and init obey the quiet option
- There are patches for these, though the kernel keeps sneaking messages in.
- switch to graphical mode in the initrd, draw an animation and keep it running until gdm starts up
- We have an animation but need there are some changes we need to make to the X server and GDM to keep the transitions smooth
- rhgb goes away
- rhgb is already gone
- make the X server started by gdm take over the existing vt, mode and framebuffer content
- krh has a patch which adds a -nr ("no root") option which makes the root window keep the framebuffer contents that were around when X started
- improve the transitions animation -> gdm -> session
- firstboot runs on the gdm X server
This lets us start with a blank screen in text mode, then a single switch to graphics mode, then an animation, then the login screen fades in.
|kernel boot
|initrd drivers
|gnome startup
|user session
One complication is support for encrypted disks. This may require us to ask for a password in the initrd, before we have X or toolkits. The proposal for acceptable input-handling (at least as far as keyboard layouts are concerned) is to write an xkb-to-console-converter.
- Make grub not display a splash image unless the user holds down some key (such as ctrl) to get to a menu. Grub will have a near zero timeout, but users will be able to hold the key down at the bios before grub shows up.
- Make grub not report which choice was selected if the user didn't pick a choice #239760
- Make drm drivers/mode-setting happen in the upstream kernel (see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0705.2/0893.html)
- Put drm drivers in the initrd
- If rhgb is in the kernel commandline, switch mode in initrd, use drmfb and then GDM on vt1
- If rhgb is not in the kernel commandline, we still run plymouthd and it handles input but we just don't do the graphical plugins. This lets us consistently be able to count on plymouth being available
- Put animation drawing app in the initrd, keep initrd mounted until that app exits
- Open question: what about multihead ? answer for now: all heads painted in background color except one chosen randomly with animation
- Display animation all the way from initrd until gdm comes up, keep initrd mounted until it exits
- Redirect init output early on to a pseudo-terminal
- Have something that buffers the output, can buffer it on the initrd
- If something happens that drops us to a shell (filesystem errors), hook up a framebuffer console with the pseudo-terminal
- If there are warnings in the saved bootup messages, show a "Show boot messages" button on the login screen and/or in the notification area
- Need to start X on the existing vt, not set mode (unless we are still in text mode), preserve existing framebuffer content
- Coordinate session startup. fade in ? might be able to do something nice if we have compositing
- Need to fix set ups with that specify multiple consoles on kernel command line
- Need to get initscript changes for boot transition in
- Need to fix gdm transition to fade from fb instead of white (code there, just doesn't work)
- Need to get intel modesetting drivers working. Radeon is basically working at this point.
- Make sure grub patch works with efi, too. This would probably have to be either Peter or krh, since Peter knows about EFI, krh wrote the silent patch for legacy bioses, and both have efi hardware. Peter is planning on moving grub over to an efi library, so this should block on that.
- Make sure grub patch doesn't mess up multi-os environments. See bug 458576. In particular we should probably add a new chain loader timeout config option with a reasonably high value (say 30 seconds) and use that timeout if there are any items in the configuration that chain load. The idea being we should always show the menu in that case.
- Need to run art by fedora-art-list for opinions and potential changes. They may have some useful suggestions on making the process more polished.
- Investigate why kernel messages are no longer getting redirected to boot.log and instead overwriting text plugin. Kernel messages go to the current active console which should be a pty plymouth owns. Bill mentioned the other day he saw kernel messages on top of the text plugin which shouldn't happen. Maybe upstart is calling the TIOCCONS breaking us.
- Need to make an upstream webpage, and also do a write up that compares plymouth to other graphical boot splashes
Contingency Plan
If things don't work out as expected, we can bring back rhgb from the dead.
User Documentation
Plymouth's graphical boot plugins require kernel modesetting (KMS) support. KMS is currently supported on most ATI Radeon chips; anything from the Radeon 9500 and newer should work. Intel KMS support is in development, but is not yet supported. The graphical boot sequence looks like this: FIXME insert link here.
For all other graphics hardware, the text plugin is used, and looks like this.
Plymouth's behaviour can be controlled through kernel command line options:
- 'rhgb' on the command line will direct plymouth to load the appropriate plugin for your hardware.
- 'nomodeset' on the command line will direct the kernel to not enable KMS support in the DRM driver. Use this option if you experience stability problems in X or if the graphical plugin hangs.
- 'text' on the command line will force plymouth to use the text plugin, but will not disable KMS. XXX Is this true?
TODO: Document what happens with vga=, etc.
Developer Documentation
We eventually need to have developer documentation for
- communicating with plymouth from init scripts
- writing plugins for plymouth
For now, all we have is the README in the plymouth git repository.
Release Notes
The release notes need to explain how to get to the grub menu by holding a key during power-on. Should also explain that the graphical mode of plymouth requires kernel modesetting and will only work on certain hardware (likely only intel for F10), or by forcing a vga mode on the kernel cmdline. Also, switching to detailed mode with Escape should be mentioned, along with the fact that boot warnings will be available via a statusicon on the login screen.
Comments and Discussion
See Talk:Features/BetterStartup