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If you spend a little time as an environmentalist, one thing you'll hear eventually from friends and family: "I wish there weren't so many groups. It's confusing—I don't know who to volunteer for. Wouldn't it work better if you all got together?"
For too long, the fossil fuel industry has had its way on the climate issue--its money has overwhelmed the scientific facts, delaying action on the largest challenge humanity now faces.
Right now, the the Clean Air Act is being threatened, the EPA is under attack, and big polluters are mounting an all-out onslaught that threatens to destroy our lands and scorch our planet. In short, we are losing ground.
In the face of these challenges, one thing is clear: if we want to win, we will have to come together like we never have before.
So this 1Sky/350.org effort to engage our citizenry in backing a strong national & international climate change movement is really serious -- and it's being grown from the bottom up. Meaning: a grassroots movement that is attempting to drag our national leadership along, and a youth-driven movement which lends energy and new ideas and savvy communication mechanisms. Geesz, I'm hooked!
Just one week ago, 30 climate activists from across the country descended on D.C. for a huge training on grassroots organizing and team building for the climate movement. This week, we will be highlighting a few of the stories coming out of that training. We hope you are as inspired as we are by the dedication, excitement, and talent these 30 activists bring to the movement. Matt Smith, from Wyckoff, NJ, is new to the climate movement, his story is our first featured story from the weekend:
Just over a week ago, climate activists across 17 states campaigned with rallies, meetings, calls, and letters to demand that their elected officials protect the Clean Air Act. The message was clear: represent your constituents, not your corporate donors.
In states such as Colorado, the message was a 'thank you' to climate champions. In Michigan, however, hundreds of people loudly voiced their disappointment with Representative Fred Upton's recent Dirty Air Act and choice to side with corporate polluters instead of his constituents.
I recently attended the 2011 Good Jobs Green Jobs National Conference, and I was struck by a number of things. The first thing was the attendance – we were filled to capacity! As an organizer, however, what really got me was the intense focus on movement building from all involved – panel speakers, moderators, and participants alike.
We are beginning to realize that our strength lies in our numbers, and that we need to get organized! I knew that's what we were doing here at 1Sky, but it was hugely inspiring and empowering to hear that goal echoed across the community.
As we all know, attacks on the Clean Air Act are coming from all sides -- and Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is leading the charge. Big Polluters are backing up the charge with a whirring PR machine, lobbying dollars, and the promise of more campaign dollars to come.
Over the past few weeks, 1Sky house parties have been popping up faster than electric car charging stations across the U.S. -- and with about the same amount of energy. This week we're celebrating these fantastic throw-downs for climate organizing.
A few weeks ago, 1Sky activists joined in the South Florida "King Mango Strut" with allies from across the state to bring attention to the BP Oil spill and shed light on the importance of clean energy. The day was packed with fun, theatrics and education.
Andrea Cuccaro is a 1Sky Organizer for Florida
I woke up Wednesday morning with a scratchy throat but also a whole lot of hope. This week was packed full of events, each one different, and each one inspiring. To kick things off, I was able to participate in a roundtable discussion with community leaders, legislators, business executives and one of my personal heroes, Van Jones, to talk about green jobs and the clean energy economy.
Find out more about this exciting 1Sky/350.org merger and how you can stay involved with the climate movement at 350.org.
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At the Marion Chamber of Commerce meeting Oct. 19, city council member and Marion Economic Development Inc. President Todd Heitschmidt presented the results of a discussion MEDI had about Marion's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. One of the weaknesses discussed was leadership. That certainly is an area where Marion, or any other community, could use improvement.
There is so much that goes into leadership. It takes charisma, organizational ability, setting ambitious but reachable goals, and recognizing successes and acknowledging shortcomings.
Leadership also takes a willingness to honestly appraise where you are, what is right, what is wrong, where you want to be, and what obstacles are between here and there. Part of that is listening to criticism — not accepting every criticism as absolute truth, but listening to it and considering whether it has merit.
Genuinely listening to criticism seems to be a skill in short supply for a couple of people paid to lead locally. Based on one sentence in a recent editorial, I had a long sit-down discussion with USD 408 Superintendent Lee Leiker over his concerns about how "negative" this newspaper is, or is perceived to be. At the end of the meeting, we agreed to find time to talk about ACT scores — the subject of the editorial that so offended him. What followed was a week and a half of trying to find a time, until Leiker e-mailed to say he didn't want to talk about ACT scores after all.
"We really don't like a story about our scores following one about Hillsboro," Leiker wrote. "We would like to be first in our local paper."
He could have told me that from the beginning. He also could have ensured that USD 408 came first in the discussion about ACT scores. If information from other school districts holds true for Marion, Leiker probably had ACT scores in August. Since then there have been two monthly Board of Education meetings, and he could have reviewed the scores with the school board at either meeting. If reviewed in September, they would have appeared in this newspaper a month before any discussion about ACT scores from any other district.
So what is a superintendent to do about negative publicity? Apparently talk a good talk about cooperation, back out of that, then announce the creation of a monthly newsletter, focused only on positive news. Positive news that can't be found anywhere else, like Girl Scouts learning about Haiti and trying to help (page 4), students putting on a fine musical production with help from many of the community's civic-minded individuals (page 1), or a local business competing for the common good (below).
The superintendent might not like this editorial, but at least I don't have to worry about it upsetting Marion City Administrator Doug Kjellin. I know he won't be upset, because I know he won't read it. And I know he won't read it, because he made a big deal of letting the newspaper know he wasn't renewing his subscription, marching into the office and making such a show of delivering the note that said he wasn't renewing that the person who helped him had to pass on the news to me.
I can't blame him for not wanting to read about himself and his adventures overstepping his authority in the newspaper. I know I wouldn't want to be reminded if I made a decision to give an improper permit for a radio tower that was overturned. But Kjellin is batting at least .500 in taking matters into his own hands that aren't his decision to make. We still have twice-weekly trash pickup despite an ordinance ordering once-weekly trash pickup.
Some people don't want to hear criticism. Others refuse to even listen to it. But the best leaders listen to criticism, consider its merits, and try to learn from it.


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Key to the Table Above
The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) is a unique and widely used international resource of the results of 6540 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests on 1547 chemicals. The CPDB provides easy access to the bioassay literature, with qualitative and quantitative analyses of both positive and negative experiments that have been published over the past 50 years in the general literature through 2001 and by the National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology Program through 2004. The CPDB standardizes the diverse literature of cancer bioassays that vary widely in protocol, histopathological examination and nomenclature, and in the published author's choices of what information to provide in their papers. Results are reported in the CPDB for tests in rats, mice, hamsters, dogs, and nonhuman primates.
For each experiment, information is included on species, strain, and sex of test animal; features of experimental protocol such as route of administration, duration of dosing, dose level(s) in mg/kg body weight/day, and duration of experiment; experimental results are provided on target organ, tumor type, and tumor incidence; carcinogenic potency (TD50) and its statistical significance; shape of the dose-response, author's opinion as to carcinogenicity, and literature citation.
Only tests with dosing for at least ¼ the standard lifespan of the species and experiment length at least ½ the lifespan are included in the CPDB. Only routes of administration with whole body exposure are included. Doses are standardized, average dose rates in mg/kg/day. A description of methods used in the CPDB to standardize the diverse literature of animal cancer tests is presented for: 1) Criteria for inclusion of experiments 2) Standardization of average daily dose levels and 3) TD50 estimation for a standard lifespan. See Methods for other details.
TD50 provides a standardized quantitative measure that can be used for comparisons and analyses of many issues in carcinogenesis. The range of TD50 values across chemicals that are rodent carcinogens is more than 100 million-fold. More than half the chemicals tested are positive in at least one experiment.
A plot of all results on each experiment in the CPDB for this chemical is presented below. These results are the source information for the Cancer Test Summary table above.
Chemical (Synonym) CAS # Species Sex Strain Route Xpo+Xpt PaperNum 0 Dose 1 Dose 2 Dose 3 Dose Literature Reference or NCI/NTP:Site Path Site Path Notes TD50 DR Pval AuOp LoConf UpConf Cntrl 1 Inc 2 Inc 3 Inc Brkly Code
FD & C RED NO. 3 (erythrosine) 16423-68-0 5471 M f cd1 eat 24m24 1811 0 3.90gm Borzelleca;fctx,25,735-737;1987 tba mix e no dre P=1. - 11.7gm n.s.s. 67/120 25/60 tba ben e no dre P=1. - 14.4gm n.s.s. 40/120 13/60 9/60 16/60 tba mal e no dre P=1. - 16.0gm n.s.s. 35/120 14/60 17/60 12/60 5472 M m cd1 eat 24m24 1811 0 360.mg 1.20gm 3.60gm --- lcl e 3.14gm Z P<.02 - 1.11gm n.s.s. 1/120 5/60 (2/60 2/60) tba mix e 17.0gm P<.3 4.50gm n.s.s. 46/120 28/60 tba ben e 25.9gm * P<.3 - 7.34gm n.s.s. 29/120 5/60 12/60 17/60 tba mal e 87.6gm * P<.8 - 9.15gm n.s.s. 17/120 18/60 12/60 12/60 5473 R b osm gav 20m24 130m 0 23.3mg 54.7mg 175.mg 349.mg Hansen;fctx,11,535-545;1973 --- lys e 122.mg Z P<.004 - 49.8mg 759.mg 0/49 6/49 (3/47 2/46 1/43) liv tum e no dre P=1. - 141.mg n.s.s. 0/49 0/49 0/47 0/46 0/43 tba mal e no dre P=1. - 1.36gm n.s.s. 5/49 12/49 6/47 9/46 4/43 5474 R b osm eat 20m24 130n 0 185.mg 371.mg 742.mg 1.48gm liv hpt e 84.9gm * P<.4 - 13.8gm n.s.s. 0/89 0/48 0/41 1/45 0/45 tba mal e 14.1gm * P<.5 - 3.08gm n.s.s. 20/89 6/48 8/41 9/45 12/45 5475 R f osm eat 24m24 1371 0 250.mg 500.mg 1.00gm 2.50gm Hansen;fctx,11,527-534;1973 liv tum no dre P=1. 334.mg n.s.s. 0/12 0/12 0/12 0/12 0/12 tba mix no dre P=1. - 7.16gm n.s.s. 5/12 4/12 1/12 2/12 0/12 5476 R m osm eat 24m24 1371 0 200.mg 400.mg 800.mg 2.00gm liv tum no dre P=1. 267.mg n.s.s. 0/12 0/12 0/12 0/12 0/12 tba mix 4.81gm * P<.2 - 1.42gm n.s.s. 2/12 0/12 2/12 5/12 3/12 5477 R f sda eat 52w52 2600 0 1.00gm Sekigawa;jnma,29,709-721;1978 liv tum e no dre P=1. - 1.03gm n.s.s. 0/20 0/20 tba tum e no dre P=1. - 1.03gm n.s.s. 1/20 0/20 5478 R f sls eat 52w52 2601 0 1.00gm Sekigawa;jnma,30,179-191;1979 liv tum e no dre P=1. - 1.03gm n.s.s. 0/20 0/20 tba mix e no dre P=1. - 617.mg n.s.s. 1/20 1/20 5479 R m sls eat 52w52 2601 0 800.mg liv tum e no dre P=1. - 824.mg n.s.s. 0/20 0/20 tba mix e no dre P=1. - 824.mg n.s.s. 1/20 0/20
See full CPDB Summary Table on 1547 chemicals. See Full CPDB for all results on 6540 experiments of 1547 chemicals.
A complete list of CPDB chemicals, which is searchable by name or by CAS number, is available here.
For a compendium of CPDB results organized by target organ, which lists all chemicals in each species that induced tumors in each of 35 organs, see Summary Table by Target Organ.
The CPDB is available in several formats that permit printing and downloading into spreadsheets and statistical databases.
A Supplementary Dataset gives details on dosing and survival for each experiment.
Relatively precise estimates of the lower confidence limit on the TD10 (LTD10) are readily calculated from the TD50 and its lower confidence limit, which are reported in the CPDB. For researchers and regulatory agencies interested in LTD10 values, we provide them in an Excel spreadsheet.
PDF versions of our publications of analyses using the CPDB are available, organized by year and by research topic.


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Student Affairs
Academic Year Reports 2017-2018
- Systemwide Report (pdf)
- Campus Undergraduate Report (pdf)
- Campus Graduate Report (pdf)
- All Student Campus Report (pdf)
Notes regarding the calculations of aid recipients on these inventory reports:
Prior to the 1999-2000 academic year, financial aid recipients were counted on a head count basis regardless of the number of terms they attended. Beginning with 1999-2000, financial aid recipients are counted according to the number of terms registered. This change was to allow for more precision in two statistics: the percent of students with aid and the average award per enrolled student. Prior to 1999-2000, total aid recipients reflected the number of students who received aid for at least one term during the academic year and the overall average for aid awards reflected the lower amounts received by students attending just part of an academic year. Beginning with 1999-2000, the number of recipients and the overall average for aid awards are now expressed as full-year-equivalent figures. The total number of recipients indicates how many full year aid awards there are and the average aid awards now reflect the amount of aid UC students receive for the full-year-equivalent of a full academic year.
Beginning with 1999-2000, a student is assigned a value of 1/3 for each term registered at a quarter-system campus. For each term registered at a semester-system campus, the student is assigned a value of 1/2. Students are assigned a whole value of 1 if they are registered in every non-summer term. Students are also assigned a whole value of 1 if the student level is unknown (i.e. those students captured in the Unknown Student Level Inventory Reports). These students do not have any registration data associated with them and therefore the number of terms they attended cannot be determined. Prior to 1999-2000, every student was assigned a value of 1 irrespective of the number of terms registered.


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My Budget 360
December 31, 2010
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Many Americans live precariously close to the edge of financial insolvency flirting with economic disaster daily. If you casually browse mainstream articles and watch any amount of television you would think that the US still had a vibrant and strong middle class.
When we pull back the covers on the current financial situation we realize that many Americans are merely getting by and many would like to live in some 1984 Orwellian fantasy world where suddenly things are back to financial equilibrium. 43 million Americans are depending on government food assistance to get by.
But many more millions are merely living paycheck to paycheck hidden in the cellar of the headlines. 1 out of 3 Americans has zero in any retirement account (not one slowly eroding dollar). Half of Americans have $2,000 or less which puts them one month away from needing government assistance.
With the volatile job market and turbulent Wall Street middle class Americans are feeling the once prided stability being slowly washed away. Let us examine how retirement is now becoming more of a fantasy for many Americans.
Many Americans especially young adults realize that saving large amounts of money is a key to a sustainable retirement:
Over 84 percent of 18 to 29 year olds surveyed feel they need at least $1 million saved up in order to stop working some day. 60 percent of those 30 and older feel that they will also need $1 million saved up. Yet the actual figures are somewhat disturbing in contrast to the perceptions of many:
Source: Census
The median retirement account for US households is $2,000. This is why the vast majority of retirees depend on Social Security as their primary source of funds in old age even though Social Security was never designed to be a long term pension system. You'll notice that the average retirement account is closer to $50,000 a year but this is heavily skewed by the top 1 percent that keep most of their funds in stock wealth.
The reason retirement is slipping through the fingers of many like sand is the disjointed income equality in the country that has grown in the last decade. If we look at income growth it has been heavily tilted at the top:
Source: Census, Chart: Wikipedia
There has been virtually no real income growth for most Americans. The real significant wage growth over the last 50 years has occurred at the very top 10 percent of income earners in the country with this inequality accelerating in the last bubble decade. What is more important is that 75 percent of Americans largely depend on a job as a primary source of income which seems rather obvious:
Source: Federal Reserve
If you examine the chart closely, it is only the top 10 percent that really benefit from a buoyant and thriving stock market. As we have mentioned earlier 1 out of 3 Americans has zero, nada, or zilch in their retirement account. The movement of the stock market is like watching the score of a football game where the outcome means nothing to the individual. Yet the problem is that Wall Street has taken the one item that was stable like a rock for Americans, housing and turned it into another commodity to be gambled and speculated against.
The share of income flowing to a smaller and smaller group of Americans is draining the life blood out of the middle class:
"From 1950 to 1989, nearly 40 years of data the top 1 percent earned roughly 7 to 8 percent of all the nationwide income. Today it is inching closer to 20 percent, a figure resembling the massive income inequality seen during the Great Depression."
Even within the top 1 percent the difference in incomes is striking:
This kind of income inequality is coming at the cost of the middle class. Banks and the financial press would like you to believe that this isn't the case but just look at how far your dollar is now going. If you are fortunate to have a retirement account it is likely you don't have the gambling devices of options, hedges, and other items that are largely new casino devices for Wall Street. Most Americans are comfortable with income discrepancies but not at these levels and not when much of the gains are based on bets that hurt the overall economy.
The problem as many are now seeing is the financial sector is largely rent seeking by pilfering the future of many middle class Americans. The banking system extracts wealth by devaluing the US dollar, by charging interest or fees on retail banking, and ultimately suckering many Americans to dump money into a stock market that is operated like a casino. Washington Mutual, a once popular bank used to offer free checking for life. JP Morgan Chase took over Washington Mutual in a government shotgun wedding. Now, Chase is looking to extract $10 to $12 per month merely for having a checking account. Of course they'll waive this if you have $5,000 saved in a handful of their accounts. Look above again. 1 out of 3 Americans have no savings so how will this be accomplished?
As we mentioned Social Security is largely becoming the retirement account default of many Americans. Yet the growing number of beneficiaries is now putting strain on the system:
The above chart will only continue to show expansion. Where will all this money come from? We have a smaller workforce with the young that are already having a tough time saving any money in this economy. Many of the good paying jobs of today require a college education and college has largely entered its own student loan bubble. Many of the future middle class are merely trying to service their own massive debt even before they begin their careers. To save that $1 million will become a daunting task moving forward. Also, if the Federal Reserve has its way $1 million 30 or 40 years from now may not be much.
With 17 percent of Americans unemployed or underemployed many are simply looking for that next paycheck let alone planning for a retirement where they can sip margaritas in some picturesque beach location. Wall Street has pilfered the pockets of the middle class through bailouts for their reckless gambling and incredible excess. Many Americans now understand this yet the current political class is merely interested in protecting the established *****cracy by pillaging the American village. Most Americans are becoming exhausted by both political parties and their pandering to Wall Street that provides a revolving door of money, jobs, and connections.
The younger generation is seeing their ability to grow their net worth diminishing:
This figure has only dropped even further in the last few years. Retirement was once thought of as a place where one would reach a comfortable existence after many years of hard work. Not an extravagant lifestyle but one in where a home was paid off and enough money came in for food and daily necessities. But now with Wall Street turning housing into a giant commodity and stripping bear the employment base of the country; many are wondering if retirement is even an option especially when the stock market is at the same level as it was one decade ago.
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Ultimately what needs to happen is to get money out of politics and to split up commercial and investment banking. The answer is obvious but the *****cracy is relentless in keeping this game going as long as possible. As this continues, retirement will continue to look more and more as a fantasy to millions of Americans.


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LeTourneau University has named three new trustees, Dr. Gene Frost, James Nolt and Dean Waskowiak, to its board.
Dr. Gene Frost is an alumnus of Wheaton College, where he majored in religious studies. Gene received his divinity degree from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and his doctorate in education from Northern Illinois University. He began his career as a youth pastor and Bible teacher in a Christian school, then spent 22 years in the business world. His diverse business experience included being a pit trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, a corporate trainer, and a human resources executive. His last 10 years in business were spent as President and CEO of an educational mentoring and software company. Gene returned in 2006 to his life-long passion of education, particularly Christian education, in his role as Head of School at Wheaton Academy, West Chicago, IL. Gene has had a book jointly published by ACSI and CSI entitled Learning from the Best - Growing Greatness in the Christian School and is presently working on a book concerning governance and leadership in the Christian school.
James Nolt of York, Pennsylvania graduated from LeTourneau University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Welding Engineering. After receiving a Master's degree in Welding Engineering from the Ohio State University, he worked as an engineer and manager with Allis Chalmers Corporation. Nolt co-founded American Hydro Corporation in 1986, which designs and manufactures hydraulic turbines for the power industry. Since the sale of the company in 2010 he has been active as a consultant. Locally, he has served as the president of the Central Pennsylvania Section of the American Welding Society, the president of his country club, and a member of a the board of directors of a regional bank.
Dean Waskowiak of Longview, Texas, is the president and founder of Encore Multimedia, a leading regional advertising agency in Longview, Texas, that serves the marketing needs of companies throughout the nation. Dean is a two-time graduate of LeTourneau University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science and an Associates of Science Degree in Design Technology. He is deeply involved with his alma mater, having served as a member of the LETU Alumni Council for 15 years. Most recently, he served as president of the Alumni Council and as the alumni representative to the Board of Trustees. In 2004, he was selected as the university's Alumni of the Year, and in 2012 he was presented the LeTourneau Distinguished Service Award. Dean's activities to help God's Kingdom grow in quantity and quality includes leading Bible studies, mentoring groups and personal involvement in many Christian and non-profit organizations.
Pat Bertsche of St.Charles, Ill., has been elected the new chair for 2012-2013. He earned his industrial management degree from LETU in 1989 and has been involved with financial management, strategic planning and business operations. He has most recently has served as the superintendent of the Westminster Christian School where he formerly served as board president. Prior to his work with Westminster, he served as vice president of operations at Camcraft, Inc. In January, he is returning to Camcraft, Inc. in Chicago as the chief financial officer.
Larry Mercer of Cedar Hill, Texas, was elected vice chair. Mercer has served on the LETU board since 2000. His work experience has included interaction with the public school system, adult prison system, local church ministry, juvenile justice system and Christian higher education. Prior to his current position, he was the president of Washington Bible College/Capitol Bible Seminary and senior vice president for media and church ministries at Moody Bible Institute. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from East Carolina University and a master of theology in pastoral ministries and doctor of ministry in education from Dallas Theological Seminary. He speaks at churches and Christian conferences around the country and has authored one book on Christian parenting.
Paul Abbott of Jenks, Okla., was elected secretary. Abbott is CEO of Covington Aircraft Engines. He graduated from LETU in aviation technology with a certification in Airframe Powerplant License and Private Pilot License. He is a leader in his community, serving on different boards, including a bank, an economic development board, a hospital, a safety program for pilots, and a retirement community. LETU's Abbott Aviation Center is named in his honor.
Merle Stoltzfus of Elverson, Penn., was elected treasurer. He is a general partner for Stoltzfus Enterprises, Ltd., a custom home builder and real estate developer. Stoltzfus has served in revitalization efforts and transportation advisory committees in his hometown area. He graduated from LETU in 1971 with a degree in electrical engineering technology and has served on the LETU board since 1997, serving previously as chair and as treasurer. One of his daughters is a 2008 graduate and another is currently enrolled at LETU.
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- Added June 01, 2004
- Building Capability from the Technical Revolution that Has Happened. Authored by Dr. John White, Dr. John Deutch.
- With U.S. military forces engaged around the world in both combat and stabilization operations, the need for rigorous and critical analysis of security transformation has never been greater. Toward this end, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the Strategic Studies Institute, and the Eisenhower National Security Series cosponsored a conference on security transformation.
- Added March 01, 2003
- Security Transformation: Report of the Belfer Center Conference on Military Transformation. Authored by Dr. John Deutch, Dr. John White.
- The magnitude of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the administration's aggressive and expansive response have changed the definition of national security. Meeting these challenges demands a fundamental transformation of American strategy, armed forces, and national security organization. This conference identified key issues and questions and was the inaugural event in a long-term project to assess defense transformation.


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, February 24, 2011
Swimming Pool Alarms: Layers of Protection
Swimming pool alarms save lives. More and more communities are adopting this attitude and requiring pool alarms to be installed on swimming pools, in addition to laws requiring proper pool fencing and other Layers of Protection.
Swimming pool alarms have been around now for nearly 30 years. In speaking with Ben Stoner, from Poolguard pool alarms, his father invented and patented one the first pool alarm in the 1980's, as a response to growing needs for safer swimming pools.
Layers of Protection around your swimming pool can include:
- Outer barriers or outer fencing surrounding the pool
- Inner Barriers or pool access limiters. Walls, Shrubbery, Fences, Safety Covers
- Security Cameras or Laser perimeter alarms
- Poolside pool alarms or wristband pool alarms
- Window, Door and Gate alarms on all points leading to the pool
- Rescue equipment and a working telephone
- Pool Rules signage
- Clear line of sight from the house
Types of Swimming Pool Alarms
- Laser Perimeter Pool Alarms - As shown in the picture above, the PE41 pool alarm shoots an invisible beam of light between posts. Each post is a receiver and transmitter to the next post. Anytime the light beam is disrupted, the alarm is triggered. The PE41 is not a wireless system, meaning that you will need to install wires between the posts. These can be run in conduit on the edge of the deck, or put into the expansion joint behind the coping stones, beneath the caulking. It can give false alarms, if a leaf or bird flies in front of the beam, but on the whole, laser perimeter pool alarms have seen steady growth and use in the U.S..
- In Pool Displacement Sensor Pool Alarms - Either sitting on the edge of the pool, like the PoolGuard PGRM-2, or attached to the ladder or coping, like the PoolEye PE22, displacement alarms sense the displacement of your pool water when an object greater than 15 lbs enters the water. These alarms sound a loud warning at the unit, and also at a remote unit that is plugged in, inside the house. False alarms can occur during heavy storms, or if a flock of ducks visits your pool. Sensitivity adjustments allow you to account for such activity or the activity of pool alarms or water features.
- Wristband Pool Alarms - Made by SafetyTurtle, these cute, colorful wristbands lock onto the child's wrist. If that wrist is submerged in water for a fraction of a second, a 120db alarm will sound at the Safety Turtle base station. The wristbands come in 5 colors, but all wristbands need to be the same color, to match the frequency of the base station. An available battery pack allows use on the boat, beach or lake. A new competitor to SafetyTurtle has added a feature that will also sound the alarm if the child wanders beyond a pre-set limit, say 100' from the base station. One can imagine many uses, in shopping malls or amusement parks, in addition to staying inside a safe perimeter, and away from the swimming pool.
- Floating Pool Alarms - Sometimes the best choice for certain pools, especially small portable pools, ponds or irregular water features. The Pool Patrol is free floating, or it can be tied to something on the edge. It basically operates like a Tilt mechanism in a pinball game. When the unit is jostled too much, two sensors come in contact with each other, and set off the alarm in the pool, and for the P-30 model, also sounds the alarm at a remote unit installed elsewhere.
Pool owners should be wary of new alarms coming from overseas, as they are of poor build quality. Look for an alarm that has been tested over time and is 3rd party certified to ASTM standards. Also look for an alarm that comes with a good warranty and a company with a good reputation, that can help you calibrate and configure your pool alarm, if necessary.


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Hollywood stars Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen have ended their romance, according to a report.
"The Notebook" beauty began dating the Welsh actor after they played lovers in Woody Allen's romantic comedy "Midnight In Paris," and they went public as a couple in October 2010.
However, a source now tells Us Weekly magazine the relationship is over.
Just last year, McAdams admitted she and Sheen had racked up "a lot of air miles" flying around the world to see one another.
She told The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine, "Michael and I never spend more than three weeks apart – we rack up a lot of air miles – but you have to be quite adaptable in this business whether you are in a relationship or not."
Representatives for the stars had yet to comment on the report as WENN went to press.
McAdams was previously engaged to Ryan Gosling, while Sheen had an eight-year relationship with British actress Kate Beckinsale, the mother of his 14-year-old daughter, Lily.


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Back to Airline Industry and the National Safety Council (NSC), International Air Transport Section
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and "The Airline Group" comprised of Air Canada, AirTran Airways, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, ATA Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Midwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways, and in affiliation with the International Air Transport Section of the National Safety Council, recognize the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safer and more healthful workplaces. OSHA and The Airline Group therefore agree to renew the Alliance, signed on November 12, 2002 and renewed on April 21, 2004 and May 31, 2005 to use their collective expertise to help advance a culture of prevention while sharing best practices and technical knowledge, especially in the area of ergonomics and the issues related to handling passenger checked baggage. In developing this Alliance, OSHA and The Airline Group recognize that OSHA's State Plan and Consultation Project partners are an integral part of the OSHA national effort.
OSHA and The Airline Group will work together to achieve the following outreach and communication goals:
OSHA and The Airline Group will work together to achieve the following goals related to promoting the national dialogue on workplace safety and health:
OSHA Alliances provide parties an opportunity to participate in voluntary cooperative relationships with OSHA for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication, and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health. The Alliances have proven to be valuable tools for both OSHA and its Alliance participants. By entering into an Alliance with a party, OSHA is not endorsing any of that party's products or services; nor does OSHA enter into an Alliance with the purpose of promoting a particular party's products or services.


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KOffice Developers Meet with KDE Core People for ODF Infrastructure
KOffice, the KDE office suite, has always stood behind the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an industry standard. Now with KOffice 2.0 around the corner, with OpenOffice.org quickly becoming a new leader, and with Microsoft to release its own so-called "open" format, ODF and the interoperability that it promises is more important than ever. The KOffice developers will meet in Berlin during the weekend of May 12th-13th to do as much ODF-centered development as possible. Read more to find out what this can mean for KDE at large.
First a little background. In May 2006 the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (the OpenDocument Format) was voted an ISO standard for office documents. KOffice is one of the initiators of the format, and has its own representative on the OASIS technical committee: David Faure. Since KOffice 1.5, OpenDocument has been the default file format, making it the first office suite in the world to implement the format.
During the last year the KOffice developers have been working on the next generation of KOffice, based on Qt and kdelibs version 4. This will bring new qualities to KOffice, like improved text layout, better embedding of new data types, and also support for new platforms like Windows and MacOS X.
With a new platform (qt4, kdelibs4) comes new possibilities. The KOffice architecture has changed much since the 1.x days and therefore much of the old code has to be reimplemented. The KOffice developers will gather at the KDAB offices in Berlin during the weekend May 12th-13th to design the new ODF infrastructure and also implement as much of it as possible during 2 frantic days.
That is not all, however. Many people in KDE recognize the importance of ODF as a standard that ensures interoperability. The meeting will also include the participation of Aaron Seigo, who will represent kdelibs and other parts of KDE. The idea is to create a library like kdepimlibs (perhaps to be named kdedoclibs) that will be usable by all KDE applications to create and view ODF files.
KOffice will always be a prime ODF editor suite, but there is no reason to believe that other applications won't need to create or view simple ODF documents. Tobias König of okular will also be present at the meeting to present his view on what is needed to implement effective ODF support in okular. Other potential uses are the creation of tables or diagrams from kde-edu applications, invoices from Kraft (see last Akademy presentations), and so on. There is no end to the potential possibilities.
This OpenDocument library will not be ready for KDE 4.0, but a preliminary goal is to finish the design and also have the first version of it ready for KOffice 2.1 and KDE 4.1. We will produce reports on the progress during and after the meeting so that the KDE community is kept well informed about the progress. We believe that this initiative will help make KDE the premier desktop for business and school use and also produce a strong platform for years of exciting future development.
just put all stuff in libraries
niice, btw. cant wait to try the alpha of kde4 that is coming out on thusday !!
#it looks like a trend currently - perhaps if the apps were already designt that the buisness logic is in a seperate dll, we already could have all this stuff.
By srettttt at Sat, 2007/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: just put all stuff in libraries
Um. On my system, /usr/bin/kword is 8 kilobytes.
Still think the 'business logic' isn't in dynamically linked libraries?
By mart at Sat, 2007/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: just put all stuff in libraries
You are looking at the wrong binary. The KWord-specific code will be found in the library pointed at by /usr/lib/libkwordprivate.so. In my case, this is about 2.2MB
I don't think the original comment was thought through properly. All applications provide a certain amount of unique functionality and that code is not shared with the rest of the system. However, where the authors can identify functionality that is common to multiple applications, that code can be placed in a shared library. This is what already happens with the KOffice, KDE, Qt libraries and others.
To see a full rundown, run "ldd /usr/lib/libkwordprivate.so"
A quick glance at the output shows that shared functionality includes, amongst other things, and in addition to the Qt/KDE foundations:
- User interface elements
KOffice 2 goes somewhat further through the "flake" library, which provides various "shapes" ( text containers , Krita images , spreadsheets , videos , vector graphics ) and associated tools to manipulate them in dynamically loadable plugins which can then by used by, I think, all KOffice applications.
By Robert Knight at Sat, 2007/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: just put all stuff in libraries
Uh.. I was looking at the right binary - I think was just being somewhat more pedantic about the comment that the functionality wasn't in dynamically loaded libraries. libkwordprivate is still a dynamically loaded library - but as the name suggests, the API isn't public.
I think my point was that moving things into dlls (.so files, then) is required, but not sufficient. It's also necessary for that API to be public. Hence the meeting to discuss it.
Oh, look. Never mind. I knew what I meant. :o)
(FWIW, I'm still vaguely trying to follow KOffice development, although I haven't actually done anything for months.)
By mart at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: just put all stuff in libraries
> Um. On my system, /usr/bin/kword is 8 kilobytes.
$ objdump -x `which kword` | grep NEEDED
It's a trick to make KWord startup fast.
If things are in libraries, it doesn't automatically mean those libraries can be shared between applications.
By Diederik van de... at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
eh sorry if my question sounds stupid, but is there any planned standard xml file format for exchanging between planning project software( kplato, gnome planner, taskjuggler)
and by the way, please didn't you find a better name then Koffice, specially with the fact that(hopefully) the next version will be cross-platform.
By djouallah mimoune at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
A common and open file format for project planning applications is something that has been under discussion for years, but the task is big enough and the pool of developers working on such applications small enough that there have not yet appeared any concrete and implementable results.
As for the name: KOffice is getting quite a bit of name recognition. It would be a bit of a waste to lose that through a rename.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
unfortunaltely, taskjuggler is mainly the work of one person "chris schlaeger" and kplato is eh dag anderson. it's a pity
and even worst primavera the market leader has no plan to support linux, and wine can't handle it ? really regarding project management software, linux really suck.
By djouallah mimoune at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
What does being cross-platform have to do with the name KOffice?
By Anonymous at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
Because the logic behind the naming scheme of puting a K before any application who use KDElibs is a nosens for me as a user, because i see applications more important then kde then gnome then even linux, because we need to be more open to other kind of users, who perhaps see this K every where as just stupid, because gnome vs kde war is over. And because we care more about software features then the underlaying technology and toolkit.
By djouallah mimoune at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
I personaly like Koffice as a name, because it make me feel like coffe (sss) which is, as far as I know, something at the basement of office work :)
On the other hand, I don't think that knames are so bad.
finaly, take a look at other vendors. Apple as it's "i-suite" whit ipod, itunes, iphoto ..., and I don't see people saying that's stupid.
Devs, if you can't figure out a good name, go for a KWhatMyAppDo, even if not good sounding, it's good understanding.
By David at Sun, 2007/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
At last, some support for the old naming scheme !
The name of a piece of software has a few purposes : tell what the software does, where it comes from, and sound nice / catchy. I wont discuss that last point, as it is strictly subjective, but here are a few examples :
kmail, kontact, konsole, koffice, kdevelop, digikam, kwrite... ? Great.
Amarok, Konqueror, Okular... Harder but you can still get it right.
Kopete, K3b, Kross, Kate... Well at least you know it's using the KDE framework.
Akonadi, Avahi, Strigi, Dolphin, Plasma... Yeah, right.
Phonon, Decibel... My first guess would be a VoIP app ("phone"), and a sound framework.
It's hard to find a good name. But the current trend (not only in KDE) to use cool names that convey no information is annoying at best, and quite a mistake IMHO. The "KWhatMyAppDo" names are really not that bad.
By moltonel at Mon, 2007/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
yeah! I *still* can't remember which flashy name is for which part of kde4... decibel? I keep thinking it's something to do with sound, not... messaging or whatever. plasma? I can't remember what that does at all right now.
By Chani at Sun, 2007/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
' finaly, take a look at other vendors. Apple as it's "i-suite" whit ipod, itunes, iphoto ..., and I don't see people saying that's stupid.'
speechless to your remark, definitifly, it is not commun here to have auto critics
By djouallah mimoune at Mon, 2007/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: eh what about an xml standard for kplato ?
What I was saying is that, not as you do, I don't dislike Knames, that they are useful, and to prove it right, I gave an example from another trend.
I _can_ understand some people don't like strange sounding names.
So, which is beter or worse ? Depends on your feeling. We will never agree on that, but I respect your view.
If you whant apps to get cool names, fork the KDE project and rename things as you whant ;-) or you could just take renaming contest ( for instance, I'm proud being one of the Mailody name fathers (as name can have two fathers and no mother) I think it's a good name :)
But don't forget, it may be bad to change the name of a well established software. User not knowing where to go, feeling laid off, when A just became B (and much cooler :)
By David at Tue, 2007/05/01 - 5:00am
what about chinese format?
since odf is native format of koffice, does that make it difficult to add support for the emerging chinese document format, as support would add a lot of new users to kde.
By mark cox at Mon, 2007/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: what about chinese format?
It should be pretty easy -- with a couple of provisos:
* We'd better wait to see if Sun's attempt to merge odf and the Chinese format go anywhere.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2007/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: what about chinese format?
Just to make clear; KOffice already supports almost all alive languages and writing systems. Notable exceptions are top-to-bottom writing systems, but the font-layout meeting in aKademy later this year is aimed at that, and KOffice will automatically benefit from that.
So, we don't need support for this new standard in order to support the Chinese language or Chinese users. KOffice already works fine for Chinese (and Japanse and lots of other) users.
By Thomas Zander at Mon, 2007/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: what about chinese format?
And just after I had booked my flight, I discovered that the font layout meeting was scheduled right the day after I leave aKademy again :-(.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2007/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: what about chinese format?
Sounds like you turned into a backpacker :)
By Sebastian Sauer at Tue, 2007/05/01 - 5:00am


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May 15, 2008
By Paul Feinberg
Inappropriate Workplace sounds like the last thing a couple of UCLA Anderson grads want to be known for - unless they are Marc Campbell ('03) and classmate Daniel Granof ('03), two-thirds of the management team at the Independent Comedy Network (ICN, www.icn.tv) where you'll find the online comedy program called - you guessed it - Inappropriate Workplace.
Independent Comedy Network is actually a very appropriate workplace for Campbell and Granof. Located on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California, ICN's shares it's home with the Westside Eclectic, the improv and comedy theater Campbell -- a former stand-up and improv comic -- established in 2006. The facility has a stage, green screen, production and editing bays and an office. Open and airy, but with a back alley entrance, the space lends both to comic creativity and practical business, while fostering an edgy sense that the next big thing might just be happening.
The pair met at Anderson when the former was ASA president and the latter editor of The Exchange. (Coincidently, both are graduates of Hamilton College in upstate New York, but never met as they were about five years apart in school.) They grew closer when Granof took an improvisation class at Anderson that was offered and taught by Campbell.
After graduation, they went their separate ways. Campbell worked for a while at mall punk retailer Hot Topic then with a private equity firm. Granof worked at E! Networks in program development, then spent two years with a mobile content startup, developing applications and mobile web sites for entertainment properties like Lost and Desperate Housewives. It was while working in private equity that Campbell established the Westside Eclectic comedy theater with his wife Ali (also Anderson '03).
He also began to hatch the idea of an online comedy network.
The Independent Comedy Network is in many ways at the confluence of a number of new media trends, sitting at the center of a Venn diagram whose concentric circles include online content delivery services like YouTube, traditional media such as television networks, technology that enables the creation of content at a fraction of the cost it once did and Campbell and Granof's comedy-slash-business acumen.
Put simply, as a business, ICN could not have existed five years ago.
"The thinking behind the Independent Comedy Network is that we're building a portfolio of entertainment properties," Campbell explained. "And each one of these properties starts as a five episode series on our network."
"It's important to realize that we're not a destination web site," Campbell explained. "We have a destination web site, but we're looking to distribute our content as wide and as far as we can." ICN currently has eighteen distribution partnerships, including Youtube, MySpace, iTunes, Joost, and even Hulu, the the premium content video site started by NBC Universal and NewsCorp.. In most cases, the partner sells ads with ICN participating in the revenue.
ICN's first partner distribution partner was Joost. The story behind that partnership reads like a chapter out of the guerrilla-entrepreneur's handbook:
"We had a total of about four videos that we had culled together and I sponsored a booth at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, where we really had no business being," Campbell said. "We went to the Apple store and bought two Macs and four iPods, because we knew we could return them and only pay a 10 percent re-stocking fee which was far less expensive than renting them.
"We just played our videos on a loop, hopefully giving the impression that we had a lot more content than we actually did. In the end, it got us our first distribution deal, with Joost, and we've been able to parlay that into a full network of partnerships.
The epilogue to the Joost deal was that ICN had to come up with ten hours of content in just five weeks to make it work. It became a crash course in content development and licensing agreements - which Campbell says is exactly what they needed at that time.
Technically speaking, ICN owns the Westside Eclectic. It's a synergistic relationship, as the classes and shows give Campbell and Granof access and exposure to comedic talent, enabling them to create the video content for ICN.
The first phase of the business strategy was to build a content development engine and to secure distribution partnerships. Now, with nearly 3 million total views since launching in February, the second phase is brand-building for the more popular shows. "We launch these shows with five episodes and then we see what happens," Campbell said. "The ones that are the most popular we extend for a second season and look to bring on brand sponsors for product integrations, product placements, and "brought to you by" sponsorships. That's the phase that we're in now. Two of our shows have been extended to a second season, and we recently closed a deal with Viacom to exclusively distribute one of them on Atom.com." (The shows are 2/8 Life and Inappropriate Workplace.")
In addition to seeking sponsorship for their shows, they are currently in the market to raise a Series A venture capital round. One ultimate goal is to migrate ICN's entertainment properties to television or films. With up to thirty original shows planned for 2008, the company will end up with a portfolio of properties with a goal that the most successful ones getting TV or film deals, with accompanying merchandising and other potential revenue streams.
None of this would have been possible in the era when only large companies with deep pockets could produce films or television pilots.
"Actually that was something I examined for an independent study one quarter at Anderson," Granof said. "It ended up being a case study for Professor (Olav) Sorenson's entertainment strategy class. I researched the vertical integration that occurred in network television from the mid-90s through 2003.
"What happened was the studios, because of deregulation, could all of a sudden start owning the television networks. And once they could own the networks, it meant that they could control the process from a show's development all the way through to syndication and where the big dollars are. That really started squeezing out a lot of the independent producers.
"The development system has evolved to where they are spending literally two million dollars on one pilot and they are doing 15 pilots per season. Now that's a lot of money to be spending, and most of them aren't going to make it to the air, and then the ones that do make it to the air, most of those won't last very long."
But new technology has put content creation in the hands of the people - entrepreneurs, really - and has given the large media companies new avenues to seek out content.
"Online distribution is much easier, and this talent is now out there creating stuff on their own," Campbell said. "We've positioned ourselves as a business partner to that talent. So some of the shows we'll source ourselves and create completely on our own. On the other end of the spectrum, we've got partners who may produce shows completely independently and come to us to distribute and to further build out that property."
"We make shows, we try out ideas for a lot less than the studios," he Granof added, laughing. "We have a way to prove the idea and maybe get a few hundred thousand or a million viewers, and now a big company has something that they can bank on if they are trying to turn that property into a TV show."
How the new paradigms play out remains to be seen. Viewers habits are changing and they are changing differently across generational lines. Kids today will watch movies on a three inch video game screen, a screen so small their parents can't even see it without reaching for their reading glasses. How exactly content creators and distributors meet the evolving needs of their customers is a script not yet written. However it plays out, Campbell and Granof are relishing their role in the revolution.
"I'm having a blast," Granof said. "This was the perfect opportunity for me, because I'm very analytical but I also love this industry. Campbell echoed the sentiment: "It's really very exciting. We have classmates telling us they're jealous. We're very lucky."


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FY06 Challenge America Reaching Every Community
Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, $10,000
To support performances of a memorial concert for Korean-born pianist Jungran Khwarg, featuring soloist Robert Thies in the Shostakovich First Piano Concerto.
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte, FL, $10,000
To support The Great Trumpeters, a pops concert featuring guest trumpeter, Gary Guthman. The pops series will feature the music of Louis Armstrong, and NEA Jazz Masters Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis for Charlotte County residents.
Fort Smith Symphony, $10,000
To support commissioning and presenting a new work by the symphony's composer-in-residence, Philip Parker. In addition to the concert, project activities will include lectures and classroom presentations for students in grades six through twelve.
Great Falls Symphony, $10,000
To support an open rehearsal and concert with guest violinist, Itzhak Perlman. High school and university string students will attend the rehearsal and discount tickets will be available for disabled individuals to attend the evening performance.
Gwinnett Philharmonic, $10,000
To support a Superlative Strings concert. After the intermission, the Youth Symphony will augment the orchestra.
Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Jackson, MI, $10,000
To support Ebony and Ivory, a series of lectures and a concert featuring guest tenor Paul Adkins and conductor Stephen Osmond. A week of lecture-performances will precede the concert.
Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support a concert featuring Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Guest artists Marietta Simpson and Michael Hendrick will complement the orchestra's first presentation of the Mahler work for audiences from Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama.
Symphony of Southeast Texas, $10,000
To support a concert and school presentations featuring Danzas Peregrinas, a new work by South America composer Horacio Salinas. The work will be performed by the Alturas Duo of Carlos Boltes and Scott Hill with guest artist Gonzalo Cortes, who will perform other South American music in school concerts.
Barron Area Community Center, $10,000
To support residency activities by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. The symphony will perform an evening concert and present an Arts in Community Education program in the schools.
Columbus Public Schools, $10,000
To support transportation for school children to performances of the Columbus Symphony, Jazz Arts Group, and Opera Columbus. Each of the participating organizations provides pre-concert materials written to students' reading levels and gives Columbus fourth and fifth graders the opportunity to experience a variety of musical genres and performances.
Cultural Council of Richland & Lexington Counties, $10,000
To support an outreach and ticket subsidy program for the Riverbanks Mozart Festival. The outreach program for students will include concerts, lecture-demonstrations, and a museum tour all celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Performances will take place in venues throughout the capital area and will include concerts by the Degas Quartet, the South Carolina Philharmonic, and the Columbia City Ballet.
Renovation In Music Education (RIME), $10,000
To support a multimedia concert, An Orchestra's Guide to the Universe. The performance will include projections of images of space provided in collaboration with NASA. Elementary students will perform with the University of Maryland orchestra.


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The Quenta Noldorinwa, also known simply as The Quenta, is the 'second' version of the Silmarillion, written in 1930.
This version of the Silmarillion holds especially importance as it is the only 'complete' version of the Legendarium that Tolkien ever completed to its end. Following on from the 'Sketch of the Mythology' This version of the Silmarillion also moves towards the final form of the story in almost all general terms.
However this version does differ significantly from the published Silmarillion. Most notable is that it is only about a quarter of the length of the published novel. This is largely due to Tolkien's often used method of expanding while composing. The end of the narrative differs in some respects, many names were still to be changed, and a few other narrative elements are slightly different or much more compressed, but by this stage the general history of the first age is largely complete.
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Byte - What your pitbull done to cousin Jethro.
Chip - Pasture muffins that you try not to step in.
Terminal - Time to call the undertaker.
Crash - When you go to Junior's party uninvited.
Digital - The art of counting on your fingers.
Diskette - Female Disco dancer.
Fax - What you lie about to the IRS.
Hacker - Uncle Leroy after 32 years of smoking.
Hardcopy - Picture looked at when selecting tattoos.
Internet - Where cafeteria workers put their hair.
Keyboard - Where you hang the keys to the John Deere.
Mac - Big Bubba's favorite fast food.
Megahertz - How your head feels after 17 beers.
Modem - What you do when the grass gets too high.
Mouse Pad - Where Mickey and Minnie live.
Network - Scooping up a big fish before it breaks the line.
ROM - Where the pope lives.
Screen - Keeps mosquitoes off the porch.
Serial Port - A red wine you drink with breakfast.
Superconductor - Amtrak's Employee of the year.
SCSI (pronounced scuzzi) - What you call your week-old underwear.


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KONA, Hawaii - The Santa Clara University baseball team completed a four-game sweep of the University of Hawaii-Hilo in dramatic fashion Sunday afternoon, rallying from a one run deficit in the ninth inning to capture a thrilling 7-5 victory at Simmons Field in Kona, Hawaii. The win moves the Broncos to 4-2 on the season while dropping the Vulcans to 2-14.
Hawaii-Hilo got on the board first for the first time in the series in the third inning, scoring three times on three hits, knocking starting pitcher Scott Shapiro from the game. Daniel Lockett began the two-out rally for the Vulcans with a single to right field. He advanced to third base on a hit-and-run single to right field by Tom Henderson. After a Nalei Sooto walk Alan Sarmiento singled to right field, scoring Lockett and Henderson.
The Broncos got on the board in the fifth inning as Jason Matteucci led off the inning with a double to left-center field and scored two batters later on an A.J. LaBarbera infield single. Santa Clara missed a golden opportunity to even up the score as Eric Newton grounded into a fielder's choice with the bases loaded to end the inning.
SCU added one more run in the sixth inning as Jack Headley led off with a triple to center field and was driven in by Shapiro's single to left field. Shapiro entered the game as the designated hitter, replacing Scott Dierks, after he pitched 3 2/3 innings of work in which he allowed three runs on four hits.
The Vulcans pushed their lead back up to two runs at 4-2 in the sixth inning as Douglas Nassimbene reached base on a third strike wild pitch and scored on Henderson's infield single. Nassimbene moved from first to second on a sacrifice bunt by Kevin Drever, then moved to third base on Lockett's flyout to deep center field.
UHH extended its lead to 5-2 in the seventh inning as Sarmiento led off the inning with a single and scored two batters later when Scott McLaughlin doubled to the right field wall.
Santa Clara cut into the Vulcan lead in the eighth inning, scoring twice but stranded three more to end the inning with a 5-4 deficit. Matteucci reached on a fielder's choice and moved up to second when Michael Lange walked. Matteucci scored on a LaBarbera single, while Lange moved up to second base. Both Lange and :LaBarbera advanced one base on a Joe Diefenderfer walk. Lange scored one batter later when Michael Thompson was hit by a pitch. Jim Wallace stepped to the plate with the bases loaded but flew out to right field to end the rally.
The ninth inning was one of firsts for the Broncos as Matteucci belted his first collegiate home run, which was also the team's first home run of the season, with two runners on to give the Broncos a 7-5 lead. Newton led off the inning with a walk and Headley followed him by getting hit by a pitch. After Shapiro struck out, Matteucci belted the second pitch that Jason Jobes threw nearly 350 feet, landing just over the right field fence.
Anthony Rea came on in releif of Shapiro in the fourth inning and threw 2 1/3 innings in which he allowed only one run on three hits while walking one and striking out two. Andrew Slorp came on in the seventh inning and gave up one run on two hits while striking out one.
Chad Fillinger threw 1 1/3 innings in which he did not allow a run while giving up two hits to pick up his first win of the season. Patrick Overholt threw the ninth inning and set down the side in order, including two strikeouts, to pick up his first collegiate save just two days after picking up his first collegiate win.
Matteucci finished the day by going 3-for-5 with three RBI, including the game-winner.
The Broncos return to action next weekend in Buck Shaw Stadium as they welcome in UC Irvine for a three-game set. Friday's game time is scheduled for 3 p.m. while Saturday and Sunday's contests will begin at 1 p.m.


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We wrote how Walmart wasn't really any different than Target, Home Depot or BJ's, yet there was little objection to those big stores coming to town. We wrote about the double-digit unemployment rate here and how Walmart would provide good jobs. We wrote about how New York needs a Walmart, not because there is nowhere else to shop, but because competition is good for the economy...even the local economy.
And now local elected officials are mobilizing themselves again to fight the scourge that is Walmart. Why? Because they can (no, really, someone on the inside told us just that), and on the surface it looks like they are sticking up for the little guy, we guess.
When we spoke with representatives from Walmart back in August, asking what the holdup was, we got the impression the executives responsible for expanding were ready to go, but the muckety-muck big shots might be afraid of New York City after experiencing some local resistance.
You see, in most places throughout the U.S., Walmart is accustomed to feeling fairly welcomed, but not so in New York City. Sorry Walmart, you are going to have to earn your groundbreaking ceremonies, ribbon-cutting photo ops, and City Council proclamations, they aren't just going to be handed to you. (Well, if you get them, they will be handed to you, but you know what we mean.)
No, you'll have to go about this they way other big companies handle it: join the local chamber of commerce, donate a few thousand dollars to the neighborhood senior center, put their name on the back of a councilman's favorite baseball team, and maybe even raise some money for the speaker of the City Council. You're not going to get a key to this city just because you are opening a big box store and call yourself "Walmart."
And why do local elected officials have such a problem with Walmart, you ask? Well, because the company doesn't promote diversity, does not give back, does not participate in the community, etc., which is, well, just plain wrong.
Walmart has a charitable foundation that is more active than most big companies its size. It has many scholarship funds, including an Asian Pacific Islander Scholarship Fund, a Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships, program support and capacity building to students at nearly 50 black colleges and universities around the nation.
And what about its workforce? Did you know that only 59 percent of its workforce is female? Come on Walmart, you can do better than over half. And 35 percent of its workforce is minority. You'll have plenty of time to work on that already respectable number once you get to New York City.
The truth is, Walmart is already doing business here. It spends $5.5 million with New York City suppliers, its apparel offices are in Midtown, and its foundation has given more than $9 million to New York City-based organizations.
But the company's fear of the big-talking New York City Council and all of the "community-based protest" is quickly diminishing. There are City Council hearings being held this week, but it appears that Walmart executives have figured out that the New York City Council is harassing it just because...they can. (And now that they have figured that out, they are just as smart as Pol Position!)
Walmart is going to take a good deal of heat and maybe some negative national attention for trying to enter one of the nation's largest markets (not to mention the nation's largest media market, which is always looking for some controversy), but in the the end Walmart executives will have to act like true New Yorkers and just take the lumps.


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Compressive sampling and sensing allow for efficient signal acquisition and storage by capitalizing on the fact that many real-world signals inherently have far fewer degrees of freedom than the signal size might indicate. In some cases, for example, the signals of interest can be expressed as sparse linear combinations of elements from some dictionary, and the sparsity of the representation, in turn, permits efficient algorithms for signal processing. In other cases, the conciseness of the signal model may impose a low-dimensional geometric (often manifold-like) structure to the signal class as a subset of the high-dimensional ambient signal space. Some example application areas that capitalize on concise and low-dimensional geometric models include image compression; parameter estimation and image registration; imaging and signal reconstruction; and most recently, Compressive Sampling (CS). CS is an emerging theory which permits radically new sensing devices that simultaneously acquire and compress certain signals using very efficient randomized sensing protocols. The implications of the CS theory are very far-reaching and will likely impact analog-to-digital conversion, data compression, medical imaging, sensor networks, digital communication, statistical model selection, and more.
ECE FacultyBalzano, Laura
Fessler, Jeffrey A.
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June 12, 2008
Recent motion graphics goodness
- Roi Sabarov's Typeflow animation is poetry in motion. ("That is awesome. That goes on the blog." –Margot, Licensed Nackwife.)
- Fatal Farm makes some super, ah, unique remixes of 80's TV themes. Knight Rider is brilliant, though be warned that you won't be getting the song out of your head. The rest are of mixed taste, so don't say I didn't warn you.
- Mato Atom's "Champions" probably won't change any hearts and minds about Bush, Blair, & Co., but it's impeccably executed. [Via Sebastian Meyer]
- I like the lo-fi stylings of these animated videos for Welsh band Los Campesinos!, created by Simon Ampel & Chris Seimasko.
- The Whitest Boy Alive is all about optical illusions. [Via]
By the way, if you're going to be in NYC in a couple of weeks & are interested in After Effects, you might want to check out the next AENY meeting. Jim Geduldick writes to say that the June 26th meeting will feature some cool speakers:
- Visual Designer Marc Coleran, whose work has been seen in films like The Bourne Ultimatum, Domino, Alien vs. Predator, The Bourne Identity, Blade II, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The World Is Not Enough – just to name a few.
- Visual effects artist John Montgomery, co-founder of the online visual effects news site fxguide, as well as the training site fxphd. His Clients and Credits include Super Bowl commercials for McDonald's, Disney as well as work for Budweiser, Miller, Hallmark, Sears, Moen, Gatorade, Morgan Stanley, and the ESPN and CBS television networks.
Check out the AENY site for more details.
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Over a year ago, I wrote part one of this two-part (so far) series! I truly intended to write part II long before now, and I actually started it when Google first announced the ill-fated Google Wave. I was trying it out and working with a colleague to test the capabilities and usefulness of it for the student (and even professor) of anthropology when Google pulled the plug on it.
In part I, you'll remember (if not, click the link, silly!) I talked about some of Google's key apps: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Scholar, and Google Books. My most used is, without a doubt, Gmail. But my favorite is Google Books. I'm still amazed at the sheer utility of this part of Google. If you think I'm kidding, read the three paragraphs I wrote in Google for the Anthropology Student (Part I?) and then check out my Google Books Library. Browse a couple of the titles there. Some of these I actually own, but I turn to Google Books first to search their pages. Then I crack open the actual text and read from there. Sometimes I just read online.
Here are some other ways Google can enrich and streamline your academic experiences from the perspective of a graduate student of anthropology who is focusing on archaeology.
About a year or so ago, I downloaded and installed Google Desktop on my main computer, which is a Linux box currently running Ubuntu 11.04. What's cool about Google Desktop is that it indexes all my files. And I have a lot. If you're like me, you're a pack-rat for journal articles and PDF files gathered while researching papers and the like. I have them largely sorted in a subject oriented directory tree, but it can still be a challenge to search a thousand articles and ebooks in PDF for just the right keyword, author, or topic. That's where Google Desktop comes in.
I tap both CTRL keys on my keyboard at the same time and up pops a little search bar. From there, I type in my search terms -inside quotes if I really want to be specific- and watch the top 6 or so results float to the surface and display in a drop-down box that I can click on. Or, I can click "Show results in a browser window" to see all the results in that familiar Google results format.
Google Desktop indexes web history, emails, media files, Open Office files, MS Office files, PDFs and HTML files. And you can choose to exclude any of these. You can set up the directories/folders you want searched and you can set it to automatically remove deleted files from the search results. Clicking on a result takes you straight to the file (or email, or whatever). Or you can click and use the same search terms on the web just like you normally would with Google.
Oh, and it works with Windows and Mac as well as Linux.
Google Calendar
I used to use Thunderbird and Evolution, and I still use Outlook at my job. But, if I could, I'd even ditch Outlook for Google Calendar and Gmail. Unfortunately, when I'm not a graduate student, I work for a major world bank and they have some strict rules about what applications get used how.
But, for all my non-work needs, definitely all of my academic needs, I use Google's Calendar. I can save appointments, meetings, input my recurring class schedules, and sync it all with my desktop and many other devices. I still occasionally use Thunderbird to monitor a couple of non-Gmail pop addresses I have (like cfeagans AT ahotcupofjoe DOT net) and I can sync all my Google Calendar entries back and forth. I can also sync my Google Calendar with my Nokia e71, my Nokia tablet, my netbook, my wife's laptop, and I can access it from just about any computer with internet access (except my work machine, which is hobbled by a very careful IT department).
Every student needs their digits. For voice calls to that special someone, SMS text messaging to that special someone else, ordering pizza, ringing up a parent for more textbook money (you bought the pizza, remember?), and so on.
But with all the new trends in cool cell phone tech that keeps coming out, who wants to be trapped to a single carrier? AT&T is the only place to get that iPhone but T-Mobile and Verizon do a better job with the Blackberry… Then there will be those times when the pizza and textbook money get stretched thin and you're forced to go with a prepaid phone (but you tell yourself it's still cool 'cause Jason Bourne used it). So how do you manage all the phone numbers?
With Google Voice, that's how. I have a single phone number that I give out. That phone forwards to any and all of my other phones (work, home, whatever cell phone I happen to be on) either at the same time or at times I specify. I have an outgoing message on Google Voice and if I don't pick up at one of the three phones that ring simultaneously, the caller can leave a message. Google Voice then transcodes the message from voice into text and emails it to me. I can then surreptitiously read the message on the Blackberry or Nokia that quietly vibrated in my pocket while in class and know right away that my wife wants me to pick up Chinese on the way home. Pei Wei here I come.
And you can send SMS messages from Google Voice as well. And dial the phone from your desktop or laptop. Who needs a land line? Give me DSL and WiFi and unplug it. Oh, and when you forgot to pay that silly student loan one month (or put it off to get the car fixed), you can put their automated calls on the blocked caller list. You can do the same with that ex-boyfriend who keeps bugging you for a second chance. Another cool feature is "Add a Note" to any call in your history. Very handy for making personal notes about the message or SMS conversation so you can go back and read some of the details or important information.
This is a phone number that you can keep forever (or so it seems so far).
One of my favorite Google Apps. I've tried other RSS readers out there, but this is hands-down the best, most useful. You can get to your Reader app just about where ever you can get Google. Even my work's IT hasn't restricted it yet (shhh…).
If you've never used an RSS Reader here's what it does: nearly every blog and most other sites have RSS feeds. These are typically XML files that change over time as the content is updated. My blog has a feed, which you can click on in the sidebar. Unless you have a browser configured with a feed-reader, it'll usually come up as a continuous block of very hard to read text, links and images. But, with a feed-reader, you can sort and manage these feeds in a very orderly, library like fashion. You can get news feeds like CNN and Google's Top Headlines. You can get feeds for your favorite blogs (like mine, hopefully) and keep up with many blogs in a single, easy to manage space. And with Google Reader, you won't have to worry about whether or not you're on a particular machine or laptop. You can get it from any internet capable computer.
There are a lot of cool features in Google Reader, but the three that stand out for me are
- Starred Items – reader has the ability to star items as you browse (I like to do this when I see something I want to revisit or perhaps blog about) -you can click on "Starred Items" and see all of them in one spot;
- Shared Items: these are items you "share" among others who can see your Google profile; and
- Notes -here you can read notes you made about a particular feed entry. These notes are shareable as well and collected in one spot the way starred entries are.
There are a lot of other features that make Reader a useful and powerful tool too: tags, "like this," nesting feeds in collapsible folders, sorting options for feeds, etc.
That's it for part II of the (so far) two part series on Google for the Anthropology Student!
Related articles
- Top 5 Great Google Voice Desktop Apps For Mac And Windows (savedelete.com)
- Desktop Google Reader Shares Items To Twitter and Bookmarking Sites [Feeds] (lifehacker.com)
- Google brings Google Docs full desktop editor to iPad (electronista.com)
- A Sneak Preview of the Google Voice Desktop App [Phones] (lifehacker.com)


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"Don't You Forget About Us" part 2! The Cutie Mark Crusaders and their classmates are hopelessly lost in the woods! The only chance of salvation may lie with…Diamond Tiara?! Welcome to Ponyville, home of Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and all your other favorite Ponies! Something's not right in the town though, as some of the inhabitants are acting very, very strange! It's up to the Mane Six to find the source of the weirdness before it's too late!
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The first girls' golf team in the history of Centre High School will feature nine players. Six were on the spring co-ed golf team.
Those who played on the spring team were juniors Allison Basore and Kristin Vinduska and sophomores Raeanne Bryant, Rebecca Reneau, Karoline Chizek, and Hannah Peterson.
Valerie Craney, Cassidy Hill, and Kaitlin Brunner are the other team members.
Coach Greg Wyatt said the main reason for forming the team was to give girls a level playing field, competing against other girls.
Wyatt expects Basore and Vinduska to be leaders on the team. They have the most experience, having played a lot of varsity in the spring.


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Modeling Convective Cooling of Electrical Devices
Fabian Scheuren June 23, 2014
One of the main issues with high-power electrical devices is thermal management. Together with BLOCK Transformatoren-Elektronik GmbH, we created a model using COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software that encompasses all of the important details when modeling heating of high-power electrical devices. To do so, we had to utilize high performance computing (HPC) with hybrid modeling. Here, we will discuss how to approach this real-life task with the COMSOL software.Ler Mais