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The football gods dropped the hammer on Bears Nation on Monday, as quarterback Jay Cutler is out at least four weeks with a torn groin muscle and linebacker Lance Briggs is out four to six weeks with a shoulder fracture.
Which means the Bears have to replace their offensive leader and their defensive leader for at least a month. Coach Marc Trestman did his best to look on the bright side, as coaches do.
"The positive thing is they're not out for the season," he told reporters at Halas Hall, adding that neither player will require surgery. "They're going to be back."
The news is a little better regarding cornerback Charles Tillman, who's week-to-week with right knee inflammation, the Bears said.
Here's the lowdown on what the Bears lose without Cutler and Briggs as well as the "next man up," to borrow Trestman's phrase.
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Quotable: "We still have Peanut [Charles Tillman] out there," cornerback Tim Jennings said. "We have myself. We've got Julius [Peppers]. We've still got guys out there who are capable of being the leaders out there. But one guy is not going to carry us all [with Lance out]. We just need every guy to do their job and be where he's supposed to be to pick up the slack now that Lance won't be out there with us."
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Career starts: 1
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Upside: Costanzo's got six years' experience and can cause the other team to cough up the ball. He's forced five fumbles in his career, including one this season.
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Quotable: "He's very sharp to be around," backup Josh McCown said. "I learn a lot from him just watching him play and some of the things he does."
Career starts: 33
Touchdowns: 38
Interceptions: 44
Upside: McCown still has (mostly) healthy weapons around him in Matt Forte, Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery and Martellus Bennett. He also proved he can run a little bit when need be. Now, if the Bears can just get him to slide more often than not, they might have something.
Quotable: When asked to evaluate his strengths, McCown said: "Trying to stay calm. Trying to lead the team. Get the guys in and out of the huddle. Be accurate with the football, and use my legs and try to make plays with my feet as well."
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One afternoon this spring, a half-dozen young computer engineers sat in the headquarters of Prolexic, an Internet-security company in Hollywood, Florida, puzzling over an attack on one of the company's clients, a penileenhancement business called MensNiche.com. The engineers, gathered in the company's network operations center, or noc, on the fourth floor of a new office building, were monitoring Internet traffic on fifty-inch wall-mounted screens. Anna Claiborne, one of the company's senior network engineers, wandered into the noc in jeans and a T-shirt. The MensNiche attacker had launched an assault on the company's Web site at 4 a.m., and Claiborne had spent the night in the office fending it off. "Hence," she said, "I look like hell today."
MensNiche's problems had begun a week earlier, with a flood of fake data requests—what is known as a distributed denial-of-service attack—from computers around the world. Although few, if any, of those computers' owners knew it, their machines had been hijacked by hackers; they had become what programmers call "zombies," and had been set loose on MensNiche. The result was akin to what occurs when callers jam the phone lines during a television contest: with so many computers trying to connect, almost none could get through, and the company was losing business.
The first wave of the attack was easily filtered by Prolexic's automated system. The assailant then disguised his zombies as legitimate Web users, fooling the filters so well that Claiborne refused to tell me how it was done, for fear that others would adopt the same tactic. She spent the night examining the requests one by one as they scrolled by—interrogating each zombie, trying to find a key to the attacker's strategy.
"He's clever, and he's been trying everything," Claiborne said. "If we ever find out who it is, seriously, I'd be willing to buy a plane ticket, fly over, and punch him in the face."
Prolexic, which was founded in 2003 by a twenty-seven-year-old college dropout named Barrett Lyon, is a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week operation. An engineer is posted in the noc at all times, to monitor Prolexic's four data hubs, which are in Phoenix, Vancouver, Miami, and London. The hubs contain powerful computers designed to absorb the brunt of data floods and are, essentially, massive holding pens for zombies. Any data travelling to Prolexic's clients pass through this hardware. The company, which had revenues of four million dollars in its first year, now has more than eighty customers.
Lyon's main business is protecting his clients from cyberextortionists, who demand payments from companies in return for leaving them alone. Although Lyon is based in Florida, the attackers he deals with might be in Kazakhstan or China, and they usually don't work alone.
"It's an insanely stressful job," Claiborne told me. "You are the middleman between people who are losing thousands or millions of dollars and somebody who really wants to make that person lose thousands or millions of dollars." When the monitors' graphs begin to spike, indicating that an attack is under way, she said, "it's like looking at the ocean and seeing a wall of water three hundred feet high coming toward you."
Only a few years ago, online malfeasance was largely the province of either technically adept hackers (or "crackers," as ill-intentioned hackers are known), who were in it for the thrill or for bragging rights, or novices (called "script kiddies"), who unleashed viruses as pranks. But as the Web's reach has expanded real-world criminals have discovered its potential. Mobsters and con men, from Africa to Eastern Europe, have gone online. Increasingly, cyberextortionists are tied to gangs that operate in several countries and hide within a labyrinth of anonymous accounts.
"When the attack starts, the ticker starts for that company," Lyon said. "It's a mental game that you've been playing, and if you make a mistake it causes the whole thing to go down. You are terrified."
Lyon, as usual, was wearing shorts and flip-flops. He has blond hair and a trim build, with narrow hazel eyes that were framed by dark circles of fatigue. A poster for the 1983 movie "WarGames"—a major influence—hung above his desk, on which were four computer monitors: one for writing program code, one for watching data traffic, one for surfing the Web, and one for chatting with customers. Lyon leaned over and showed me a program that he had created to identify the zombies attacking MensNiche. When he ran it, a list of countries scrolled up the screen: the United States, China, Cambodia, Haiti, even Iraq.
Examining the list of zombie addresses, Lyon picked one and ran a command called a "traceroute." The program followed the zombie's path from MensNiche back to a computer called NOCC.ior.navy.mil—part of the United States Navy's Network Operations Center for the Indian Ocean Region. "Well, that's great," he said, laughing. Lyon's next traceroute found that another zombie was on the Department of Defense's Military Sealift Command network. The network forces of the United States military had been conscripted in an attack on a Web site for penis enlargement.
Michael Alculumbre's first communication from the extortionists arrived on a Thursday evening in August, 2004. An e-mail message was sent to him just after 8 p.m. at Protx, an online-payment processing company based in London, where he is the chief executive officer. The subject line read, simply, "Contact us," and the return address—firstname.lastname@example.com—offered no clues to the message's origin. The note was cordial and succinct, written in stilted English. "Hello," it began. "We attack your servers for some time. If you want save your business, you should pay 10.000$ bank wire to our bank account. When we receive money, we stop attack immediately. If we will not receive money, we will attack your business 1 month." The note said that ten thousand dollars would buy Protx a year's worth of protection. "Think about how much money you lose, while your servers are down. Thanks John Martino." Alculumbre had never heard of John Martino. He decided to ignore the demand.
Two months later, Alculumbre's network technician called him at home. He said that customers were complaining that the system was off-line. By the time Alculumbre arrived at the office, the source of the disruption was clear. Thousands of computers were inundating Protx's Web site with fake data requests. Many of Protx's legitimate customers received the Internet equivalent of a busy signal—a message saying that the company's servers weren't responding.
Every minute that the Web site remained off-line, Protx's business suffered. As the company's engineers struggled to contain the attack, another ten-thousand-dollar e-mail demand arrived, this time signed "Tony Martino." Again, Alculumbre ignored it. He had received a call from an agent of the British National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which had been monitoring the attack. The agent let him know that paying Martino wasn't an option; the extortionist would only return. Beyond that advice, there wasn't much that the N.H.T.C.U. could do to help. By the time Alculumbre's engineers were able to get the site running, it had been disabled for almost two days.
Alculumbre heard from Tony Martino again the following April, when he received a message offering a thousand-dollar-a-month protection-money payment plan. Before he could respond, an army of up to seventy thousand zombies ripped through Protx's defenses and knocked its Web site off-line. This time, it took Protx's engineers three days to fight off the attack.
The company now spends roughly five hundred thousand dollars a year to protect itself—fifty times what Martino had asked for. This includes a hundred-thousand-dollar-a-year security contract with Prolexic. Martino, it turned out, had been targeting Lyon's clients for months before he hit Protx.
"This is very similar to the pubs and clubs in London forty years ago that used to pay money to not have their premises smashed up," Mick Deats, the deputy head of the N.H.T.C.U., told me. "It's just a straight, old-fashioned protection racket, with a completely new method." The cyberextortionists also make use of an elaborate money-laundering system, Deats said. "They have companies registered all over the place, passing the money through them."
"I started prosecuting network-attack cases in 1992, and back then it was more the sort of lone hackers," said Christopher Painter, the deputy chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice. Today, he says, "you have organized criminal groups that are adopting technical sophistication."
The most potent weapon for Web gangsters is the botnet. A bot, broadly speaking, is a remote-controlled software program that is installed on a computer without the owner's knowledge. Hackers use viruses, worms, or automated programs to scan the Internet in search of potential zombies. One recent study found that a new P.C., attached to the Internet without protective software, will on average be infected in about twenty minutes.
In the most common scenario, the bots surreptitiously connect hundreds, or thousands, of zombies to a channel in a chat room. The process is called "herding," and a herd of zombies is called a botnet. The herder then issues orders to the zombies, telling them to send unsolicited e-mail, steal personal information, or launch attacks. Herders also trade, rent, and sell their zombies. "The botnet is the little engine that makes the evil of the Internet work," Chris Morrow, a senior network-security engineer at M.C.I., said. "It makes spam work. It makes identity fraud work. It makes extortion, in this case, work."
Less than five years ago, experts considered a several-thousand-zombie botnet extraordinary. Lyon now regularly faces botnets of fifty thousand zombies or more. According to one study, fifteen per cent of new zombies are from China. A British Internet-security firm, Clearswift, recently predicted that "botnets will, unless matters change dramatically, proliferate to the point where much of the Internet . . . comes to resemble a mosaic of botnets." Meanwhile, the resources of law enforcement are limited—the N.H.T.C.U., for example, has sixty agents handling everything from child pornography to identity theft.
Extortionists often prefer to target online industries, such as pornography and gambling, that occupy a gray area, and may be reluctant to seek help from law enforcement. Such businesses account for most of Prolexic's clients. I asked Lyon how he felt about the companies he defended. "Everybody makes a living somehow," he said. "It's not my job to worry about how they do it."
I asked whether that applied to extortionists as well. After a pause, he said, "I guess I'm partial to dot-commers."
Several weeks later, he called me to say that he'd reconsidered his answer. "The Internet is all about connecting things, communicating and sharing information, bits, pieces of data," he said. "A denial-of-service attack is the exact opposite of that. It is taking one person's will and imposing it on a bunch of others." In any case, Lyon added, his clients now included mainstream businesses—a Japanese game company, foreign-exchange traders, and a multibillion-dollar corporation that wanted to have additional security in the days before its I.P.O.
Lyon first gained a measure of online fame in 2003, with a project called Opte, in which he created a visual map of the entire Internet—its backbone, transfer points, major servers. After reading that a similar project had taken several months to complete, he bet a friend that he could do it in a day, and won. (A gorgeously rendered print of the map—which Lyon licenses free of charge—appeared in a travelling exhibition on the future of design.)
Lyon's obsessive interest in computer networks began early. In the third grade at a Sacramento, California, private school for learning-disabled children—Prolexic's name derives from Lyon's pride in overcoming severe dyslexia—he and a friend hacked a simple computer game. In junior high school, Lyon discovered the Internet, and with a friend, Peter Avalos, he soon founded a company called TheShell.com, which provided accounts to chat-room users. But his grades suffered, and, after high school, he failed a year's worth of classes at California State University at Chico.
When a friend he met online, Robert Brown, offered Lyon a job at his computer-security company, Network Presence, he quit school and took it. Brown sent him off to secure the network of a large insurance company in the Midwest. Lyon was nineteen and, he said, "I looked thirteen. So I wore a suit every day, and I worked my ass off for those guys." He burned out after two years—"I didn't know you had to meter yourself"—and returned to school, this time at California State University at Sacramento. There, Lyon signed up for philosophy classes, dumped his computers in a closet, and joined the rowing team. But he couldn't get away from computers entirely; he still took assignments from his old employer, and he and Avalos (who graduated from the United States Naval Academy and has recently returned from flying P-3s in Iraq) continued to operate TheShell.com. The company's clients tended to be advanced Internet users, and this had the effect of bringing the site to the attention of hackers. At one point, Lyon was fighting off several zombie attacks a day.
In August, 2002, Dana Corbo, the C.E.O. of Don Best Sports, called Network Presence for help. Don Best, which is based in Las Vegas, is a kind of Bloomberg for the gambling world, providing betting lines for both real-world and online casinos. The company had ignored an e-mailed extortion demand for two hundred thousand dollars, and it was under attack. Network Presence sent Lyon.
The next day, Lyon and another engineer flew to Las Vegas and helped Don Best's engineers set up powerful new servers. Lyon's strategy worked: the attackers gave up. Corbo treated them to a night out in Vegas, with dinner in front of the Bellagio fountains. (He also paid Network Presence a fee.)
Lyon still wanted to find out who was behind the attacks. He and Brown scanned the traffic data, found a zombie, and, thanks to an opening in Microsoft Windows, were able to see what other computers it had been connected to. This led them to a chat server in Kazakhstan; when they connected to it, they saw more attacks in progress. They notified the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, but, Brown said, "they sort of threw up their arms, because it was in Kazakhstan." To Lyon, however, the lesson was clear: with clever techniques and a little luck, any attacker could be found.
In the late spring of 2003, Mickey Richardson, the general manager of Betcris, a Costa Rican-based gambling firm, received an extortion e-mail. (Online bookmaking, which is illegal in the United States, has flourished in Costa Rica and the Caribbean since the mid-nineteen-nineties.) The letter requested five hundred dollars in eGold—an online currency—and was followed by an attack that crippled Betcris's Web site, its main source of revenue. Richardson couldn't afford to have the site disabled. He paid the five hundred dollars.
The extortionists began hitting other offshore bookmakers. One firm after another paid up, anywhere from three thousand to thirty-five thousand dollars, which they wired to addresses in Russia and Latvia. Richardson expected that he, too, would be hit again. He heard about Don Best's successful defense and called Lyon. But Lyon was back in school, and reluctant to take the job. Instead, he told Richardson to buy a server that was specially designed to filter out attacks. "The box," as Richardson called it, cost about twenty thousand dollars. Over the phone, Lyon helped Richardson's information-technology manager, Glenn Lebumfacil, configure it.
A few months later, Richardson got another e-mail from the extortionists. It arrived just before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest betting periods of the year, and it asked for forty thousand dollars. The e-mail said:
*{: .break one} ** If you choose not to pay for our help, then you will probably not be in business much longer, as you will be under attack each weekend for the next 20 weeks, or until you close your doors. **
*** ** Richardson believed that he had "everything in place to protect the store," and he refused to pay. **
When the attack came, it took less than twenty minutes to overwhelm the box. The data flood brought down both Betcris and its Internet service provider. After a few days of trying in vain to make the box work, Lebumfacil called Lyon in a panic. "Hey, man, remember that thing you set up for us?" he said. "It just got blown away."
Lyon saw a business opportunity. He quit school again and started a company, with Betcris as his first customer. He knew that he couldn't just add capacity to Betcris's system to capture the zombies, as he had with Don Best, because Costa Rica wasn't wired for that sort of system—there wasn't enough capacity in the entire country. So he decided to build his own network in the United States and use it to draw the attackers away from Betcris. The extortionists would think they were attacking a relatively defenseless system in Central America but would find themselves up against Lyon's machines instead.
Richardson, meanwhile, was stalling for time with the extortionists, claiming a medical emergency. "I guess you did not take my warning seriously," came the reply. "The excuse that you were in the hospital does not matter to me." The correspondence became increasingly belligerent. "Sorry moron but I am just having so much fun fucking with you," one e-mail said, raising the price to sixty thousand dollars. Richardson responded by offering the extortionists jobs in Betcris's I.T. department. "I appreciate the offer to do work for you, but we are completely booked until the football season is over," one of them replied.
As Lyon brought his system online, the confrontation turned into a chess match. "Every time Barrett would change something, these guys would change something else," Brian Green, the C.E.O. of Digital Solutions, Betcris's Internet service provider, said. "They threw wrenches, they threw everything they could at Betcris."
Finally, after three weeks, the attacker gave up. "I bet you feel real stupid that you did not keep your word," he wrote. "I figure by now you have lost 5 times what we asked and by the end of the year your decision will cost you more than 20 times what we asked." Richardson says that those numbers may not have been far off.
By then, everyone in the insular gaming world seemed to have heard that Lyon could stop zombie attacks, and he was getting calls from Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Panama. "It was kind of like stumbling into this strange little community in the middle of nowhere, where everybody worships a weird stone," Lyon said. "They all had superstitions about when they were going to be attacked."
Lyon decided, once again, to trace the source of the attack. He and Dayton Turner, a goateed twenty-four-year-old engineer he had hired, allowed one of their own machines to become a zombie and watched as it was drawn into the botnet; by early January they had found the chat channel that controlled the zombies.
Logging on as "hardcore," Turner pretended to be a bot herder who had been out of the game for a while. "i want to get back into it," he wrote. "i ha[v]e a small group of zombies so far which is why i came back looking." Turner had spent years in chat rooms, and communicated easily in the emoticon-heavy shorthand common to hackers. He gradually ingratiated himself with a Russian who called himself eXe and often logged in from a server that he'd named "exe.is.wanted.by.the.FBI.gov." Other members were not so welcoming; when Turner wrote, "i wanna help," one of them, uhdfed, replied, "we don't need ur HELP," and set his zombies on him. But Lyon and Turner kept returning, establishing their technical credibility and becoming a part of the scene.
They continued the ruse for weeks, occasionally with an F.B.I. agent on the phone helping to direct the conversation. As bait, Turner described a program he had written that would help eXe to collect zombies, which he promised to give him as soon as he could rewrite it in a different programming language. "It was a matter of simply befriending the guy and making him think that he could trust us," Lyon said. Piece by piece, eXe revealed himself:
**{: .break one} ** hardcore: its pretty cold here right now, what's russia like? hehe eXe: i'm good eXe: something hot eXe: =) eXe: Russia is like the Russian Vodka=) hardcore: hehehe eXe: u give me code? **
At one point, during an exchange about the number of computers each had infected, eXe asked Turner how old he was. Turner replied that he was twenty-three, and added, "How about you? :)." eXe told him that he was a twenty-one-year-old Russian student named Ivan. Turner said that his name was Matt and he lived in Canada. Then, trying to provoke a confession, he told Ivan that he made money from extortion: "They always pay because they want their business back and they don't want to admit they have a weakness . . . stupid Americans."
Turner then asked Ivan about a specific attack: "I figured it would be you since you have so many bots :P."
"Good idea . . . hehe," Ivan replied.
Before they signed off, Ivan wrote, "Bye friend."
In February, 2004, Lyon and Turner submitted a thirty-six-page report to the F.B.I. and the N.H.T.C.U., outlining their profile of Ivan and their correspondence with his crew. At this point, they were operating as DigiDefense International, which Lyon had founded, hiring Turner and Lebumfacil as his first employees. At the company's temporary headquarters, in an office building in Costa Rica, paranoia about reprisals from Russian mobsters reigned, even though there were armed guards in the lobby. Meanwhile, Lyon and Turner kept chatting with Ivan.
A few weeks later, on a Saturday in March, Ivan slipped up: he logged in to the chat room without disguising his home Internet address. The same day, Turner happened to be online, and decided to look up eXe's registration information. To his astonishment, he found what appeared to be a real name, address, and phone number: Ivan Maksakov, of Saratov, Russia. Lyon dashed off an e-mail to the authorities with the subject line "eXe made a HUGE mistake!"
A few months later, the Russian police, accompanied by agents from the N.H.T.C.U., swept into Maksakov's home, where they found him sitting at his computer. In television footage of the arrest, Maksakov looks like a clean-cut kid, with brown hair and a teenager's face. He sits glumly on his bed in shorts and a T-shirt as the police rummage through his room and carry out his equipment. The video shows the officers walking him to the local station and slamming the door shut on his cell.
In simultaneous raids in St. Petersburg and Stavropol, the police picked up four other Russians whom the N.H.T.C.U. had traced by setting up a sting at a bank in Riga, Latvia, where a British company that was coöperating with the authorities had been directed to send its payment. "We were waiting for people to come pick the money up," Mick Deats, of the N.H.T.C.U., told me. "But that didn't happen immediately. What did happen was that the bad guys we were watching picked up lots of different payments—not ours. We were seeing them pick up Australian dollars, U.S. dollars, and denominations from all over the world. And we're thinking, Whose money is that?"
The N.H.T.C.U. has never explicitly credited Prolexic's engineers with Maksakov's arrest. "The identification of the offenders in this came about through a number of lines of inquiry," Deats said. "Prolexic's was one of them, but not the only one." In retrospect, Lyon said, "The N.H.T.C.U. and the F.B.I. were kind of using us. The agents aren't allowed to do an Nmap, a port scan"—techniques that he and Dayton Turner had used to find Ivan's zombies. "It's not illegal; it's just a little intrusive. And then we had to yank the zombie software off a computer, and the F.B.I. turned a blind eye to that. They kind of said, 'We can't tell you to do that—we can't even suggest it. But if that data were to come to us we wouldn't complain.' We could do things outside of their jurisdiction." He added that although his company still maintained relationships with law-enforcement agencies, they had grown more cautious about accepting help.
When the authorities picked up Ivan Maksakov, he was one semester away from graduation at a technical college in Saratov. He spent five months in prison before being released on bail, and now awaits trial. According to the authorities, he was a lower-level operative in the gang, which paid him about two thousand dollars a month for his services. A source close to the investigation told me that Maksakov, who faces fifteen years in jail, is coöperating with the Russian police.
One afternoon in Prolexic's offices, I asked Turner if he had felt a sense of justice when Ivan was arrested. "I suppose," he said halfheartedly. "It was a difficult situation for me when I saw his picture, because I kind of felt for the kid. He wasn't necessarily a bad kid." Perhaps, Turner told me, Ivan had "just said, 'Let's see if it works. Hey, it works, and people pay me for it.' "
Lyon, too, was one semester from graduation when he dropped out of college to start his company. He was, in his own way, unable to resist the challenge, and he, too, had discovered that people would pay him for what he did. I asked him if he'd ever done anything illegal on the Net. He thought for a minute, and then told me that once, as a teen-ager, he had poked around and discovered a vulnerability at Network Solutions, the company that at the time registered all the Web's addresses. "I went in and manipulated some domain names," he said. "A month later, I got a call from somebody with a badge," who had traced the intrusion back to Lyon's computer.
In the end, Lyon said, the authorities let it go. Those were simpler times. "I was scared shitless, but I learned my lesson," he said. "If something like that happened now, I can't imagine what would happen to me." ♦


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- Anatomy (structural biology)
- Biochemistry
- Cell & molecular biology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
Advisory Committee
Your advisory committee plays a key role in guiding you through your graduate degree in biomedical engineering.
First-year advising
Entering graduate students will be advised by the Biomedical Engineering Curriculum Committee until a formal student committee has been established. First-year students will meet with the Curriculum Committee to determine initial coursework. Courses may be added to address gaps in your undergraduate preparation or waived for students who have completed some graduate training.
Graduate student committees
Sometime during your first semester of coursework, you should establish your advisory committee. Each committee should have at least four members on it: three from within the biomedical engineering faculty and one from outside the program.
Within biomedical engineering, each student will select a primary mentor, who is primarily responsible for directing your progress. A secondary mentor must also be selected with a background specialty that complements that of your primary mentor. For example, if your primary mentor has a background in Engineering and Physical Sciences, your secondary mentor should have a background in Life and Medical Sciences or vice versa.
In addition, we recommend that at least one member of each committee have a formal background in biomedical engineering. The Biomedical Engineering Program Director may waive this requirement if the proposed committee members adequately represent the broad field of biomedical engineering. The director must approve all student advisory committees.
Applicants should identify a general area of research interest prior to submitting an application. The admissions committee considers areas of common interest among students and biomedical engineering faculty during the admissions process. You are encouraged to contact individual biomedical engineering faculty members, faculty members throughout the campus or email the BME office to discuss research interests.
Applicants to the master's degree program should have a strong undergraduate background in math and science. In general, we recommend applicants meet the following requirements:
Academic preparation
- 2 semesters of biology or physiology
- 2 semesters of physics or biophysics
- 2 semesters of chemistry or biochemistry
- Calculus (including differential equations)
- Proficiency in at least one computer programming language
Admissions standards
- GPA of 3.0
- Combined (verbal + quantitative) GRE scores of 301+
- Quantitative GRE scores of 156 (720 in old system)
- Analytical GRE scores of 4/6 (3.5 in old system)
- TOEFL scores of 550 (required for international students only)
How to Apply
Contact Dr. Bahram Parvin
Director, Biomedical Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
Mail Stop 260
Reno, NV 89557-0260
(775) 784-6927
Applicants to the biomedical engineering degree program should apply through The Graduate School website. The graduate school application requires the following:
- Three letters of recommendation.
- Official college transcripts
- Copy of your GRE scores
- Copy of TOEFL scores, for international students
- Statement of purpose
In addition, the biomedical engineering program requires an additional page to be submitted with the application that contains the following information:
- Name
- Are you interested in continuing on to a doctorate in the program?
- Brief description of research plans you have discussed with faculty members identified in your Graduate School application
- The BME program does not restrict entry to the fall or spring terms. Often students can begin their program by performing a research rotation almost any time of the year. Please identify a general start date (which can also be the beginning of the fall or spring term, as described in the Graduate School application).
- Brief paragraph describing your career goals in the area of biomedical engineering
- Sentence describing how you learned about our program
Application deadlines
Applications must be submitted by the following deadlines for full consideration.
- Fall semester: February 1
- Spring semester: November 1
Financial support
Master's degree students pursuing Plan A, the thesis option, are eligible to apply for department assistantships. Assistantships include tuition and fees as well as a stipend for living expenses.
- Teaching assistantships are very limited and highly competitive. International students typically need to complete at least one semester in the program before being considered for teaching assistantships.
- Research assistantships are offered by individual faculty. Prospective students are encouraged to contact faculty directly to inquire about research opportunities.
No student can be considered for any form of financial support until after being admitted into the program.
Housing Options
The University offers on-campus housing for graduate students. Visit the graduate housing website to learn more about living at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Related Degrees and Programs
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5 types of blog comments you should never write
Weighing in on blogs and articles online has a number of PR and marketing benefits—unless you're leaving one of these types of comments. They will make you look, well, dumb.
It wasn't long ago that blog commenting was considered a decent tactic for building links and driving website traffic. Those days are long gone. As a result, many people have written off blog commenting for marketing and PR purposes.
However, commenting on blogs can be a smart move. By leaving insightful comments on targeted blogs in your niche, you can:
- Build relationships with bloggers;
- Connect with readers;
- Increase your authority and position yourself as an expert;
- Drive traffic back to your website.
Of course, you can't just leave any old comments on blogs and expect to enjoy these benefits. You have to make sure you're leaving high-quality comments, not those that make you look like a fool.
What kind of blog comments should you avoid leaving? Here are a five types:
1. Short, generic comments that aren't specific to the post. Don't waste your time leaving comments that say only, "Good post!" or, "I agree!" These are the types of comments spammers leave. If you're going to weigh in, take the time to read the post and respond to the topic. Show that you have a strong understanding of the content, and try to push the conversation forward.
2. Comments that are controversial for the sake of being controversial. Yes, being controversial will get you noticed, but if you're raising eyebrows just because you want attention, people will see right through you. If you don't truly believe what you're saying, don't post it to simply provoke a reaction.
3. Disrespectful comments. There are a lot of mean people on the Internet. Don't be one of them. No one likes an obnoxious troll, and you won't enjoy any of the benefits mentioned above if you're rude or disrespectful.
4. Comments filled with links. Don't cram your comment full of links back to your website. It will be obvious that you're leaving a comment because you want to drive traffic to your site. You'll be called out as a spammer. If the comment form has a space for including a link, put it there and leave it at that.
5. Comments riddled with typos. Blog comments are fairly casual, but if they have a number of misspellings and punctuation errors, you'll undermine your credibility.
What are some other annoying things people do when leaving blog comments? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
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Please welcome Tom Townsend as our next guest blogger!
Tom has over 20 years experience in engineering and technology in companies that include Synopsis and TransDataNet Corp, and has solid insight into the real estate industry from being the former VP of IT for New Homes Realty, Inc. out of Tampa, Florida.
Today Tom is the owner of Virtual Interactive Systems and blogs regularly on his wife's real estate blog, The Greater Tampa Bay Real Estate Blog.
So, in addition to Tom writing about current real estate trends in local markets in Florida, he will be contributing quite a bit on the technology side. He'll also cover the Media side of the Social Networking spectrum with a niche area devoted to the real estate industry, which I'm really looking forward to.
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Apple confirms white iPhone 4 on sale tomorrow
Fanboys all a-quiver
It's official: the white iPhone will be with us tomorrow, Apple said today.
"The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it's beautiful," gushed Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief in the way only marketing chiefs can.
"We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we've worked to get every detail right," he added.
The once seemingly utterly vaporous white iPhone 4 will be available in 28 countries including the UK, the US and most of Europe, Australasia and Asia itself. Prices match the black one - for which see Apple's website. ®


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Accounts and tax returns for private limited companies
After the end of its financial year, your private limited company must prepare:
- full ('statutory') annual accounts
- a Company Tax Return
You need your accounts and tax return to meet deadlines for filing with Companies House and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
You can also use them to work out how much Corporation Tax to pay.
|File first accounts with Companies House
|21 months after the date you registered with Companies House
|File annual accounts with Companies House
|9 months after your company's financial year ends
|Pay Corporation Tax or tell HMRC that your limited company does not owe any
|9 months and 1 day after your 'accounting period' for Corporation Tax ends
|File a Company Tax Return
|12 months after your accounting period for Corporation Tax ends
Your accounting period for Corporation Tax is the time covered by your Company Tax Return. It's normally the same 12 months as the company financial year covered by your annual accounts.
Filing your accounts and tax return
You can file with Companies House and HMRC together or separately.
You must take additional steps:
- at the end of your company's first year
- if you restart a dormant company
There are penalties for filing late with Companies House and HMRC.
Get more time to file your accounts
Companies House may extend your accounts deadline if both:
- an event you could not control stops you from sending your accounts
- you apply for more time before the filing deadline
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SLEEPY EYE, Minn. (AP) — Sleepy Eye High School will be open to students, despite a day off from classes.
School district administrators will open the school from 10 a.m. to noon Monday for students to gather and deal with the deaths of four young people killed in a Friday night car crash. Monday was scheduled as an in-service day for teachers.
Eighteen-year-old John Mangen and 20-year-old Tyler Hadley recently graduated from the high school. Caleb Quesenberry and Payton Adams, both 17, attended nearby high schools. Police say Adams' brother, 19-year-old Kansas Adams, was driving the car when it slid into the path of a pickup on an icy road near Sleepy Eye. Kansas is hospitalized in critical condition.
The State Patrol says the pickup driver and two children are hospitalized with non-critical injuries.
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June 2009 Readers 4x4 Trucks - Readers' Rides
Send us your rides
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Send us a picture of your ride if you've never done so. We keep a surplus of Readers' Rides submissions, but only one submission per person, and we love all off-road vehicles so send in your entries whether your rig is stock or not. Make sure each digital image is at least 1600 x 1200 pixels (or two megapixels) and saved as a TIFF, EPS, or maximum-quality JPEG file.
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Tires & Wheels (size, make, model)
Suspension (lift, springs, shocks)
Drivetrain (tranny, transfer case, axles)
Performance (engine mods)
Other mods
Does it work the way you want?
Anything you would change?
Funniest Wheeling Incident
Anything to add?
Hi Layover
Vehicle: '81 Jeep CJ-8
Owner: Jason Carson, Honolulu, HI
Tires: 33x12.50 Pro Comp Mud-Terrains
Suspension: 4.5-inch Rubicon Express
Drivetrain: TF999, Dana 300, Dana 30 front with an Aussie Locker, Model 20 rear with a Detroit Locker and one-piece shaft conversion
Performance mods: Weber carburetor, custom exhaust and radiator
Other doodads: Rock Hard 'cage, custom bumpers, Superwinch, PS sliders, dual batteries
Funniest Wheeling incident: Flopping it on its side 10 feet from the road after taking this picture!
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Axles, gears, and 35-inch tires
Anything to add?: Thanks for a great magazine and wide variety of topics
No Bert
Vehicle: '96 GMC Jimmy
Owner: Ernie Schwalm
Tires & Wheels: 33x12.50 Pro Comp All-Terrains on 15x8
Suspension: Custom 6-inch via a solid-axle conversion
Drivetrain: Dana 44 front, 9-inch rear, 3.73 gears
Performance mods: Cold-air intake
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: V-8 swap
Crazy Ram
Vehicle: '01 Dodge Ram 1500
Owner: Tom Stack, Stevens Point, WI
Tires & Wheels: 315x75-16 BFG A-Ts on 16-inch American Racing Outlaw IIs
Suspension: Daystar 2-inch spacers, Rancho shocks
Drivetrain: Stock
Performance mods: Hypertech Programmer, K&N intake
Other doodads: Optima YellowTop
Does everything work the way you want?: Pretty much
Anything you would change?: Beef up the steering, add a front locker and a winch
Anything to add?: Most Jeepers think I'm crazy for taking it wheeling!
Tomball Tom
Vehicle: '01 Jeep Cherokee
Owner: Jay Tompkins, Tomball, TX
Tires & Wheels: 36x13.50 Iroks on 16.5 recentered H1
Suspension: Rock Krawler long-arm kit with Rubicon Express springs, Teraflex shocks
Drivetrain: AW4, Atlas four-speed, Dana 44 front with chromoly shafts, Ford 8.8 rear, ARB Air Lockers, 4.88 gears
Performance mods: I-6, cold-air intake
Other doodads: TNT sliders and bumpers, MileMarker winch, PSC hydraulic assist, Tom Woods Drive Shafts
Does everything work the way you want?: Absolutely
Anything you would change?: Not a thing
Dog Tired
Vehicle: '74 Ford F-250
Owner: Tyson Nielsen, Huntington, UT
Tires & Wheels: 35x12.50 BFG A-Ts on 16-inch
Suspension: Custom
Drivetrain: Dana 60 axles
Performance mods: 390ci
Funniest Wheeling incident: While running my puppy for the first time I paid more attention to him in my rearview mirror than I did the road and ended up driving into a ditch!
Does everything work the way you want?: Sure does
Anything you would change?: Swap in a 460ci
Anything to add?: Somehow I manage to keep it running, barely. I guess that's something me and Mr.Pw have in common!
Elbe Season
Vehicle: '81 Toyota Longbed
Owner: Chad Averill, Yelm, WA
Tires & Wheels: 37-inch Pit Bull Rockers on Bobby Long beadlocks
Suspension: 4-inch front springs, 63-inch Chevy 1/2-ton rear springs
Drivetrain: 4.7:1 transfer-case setup, 30-spline axles, ARB Air Locker front, spooled rear, 5.29 gears
Performance mods: 22RE
Other doodads: Custom bodywork
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Getting ready to swap in a new 3.4L
Anything to add?: I'd like to see next year's Ultimate Adventure pass through the Elbe OHV trails!
Con's Path
Vehicle: '94 Nissan Pathfinder SE
Owner: Mike Conard, Bonney Lake, WA
Tires & Wheels: 31x12.50 Pro Comp Mud-Terrains on 15-inch American Racing
Suspension: Sway-A-Way torsion bars, Rough Country control arms, Rancho shocks in the front, stock '96 Jeep Grand Cherokee V-8 front coil springs with Gabriel Hi-Jacker air shocks in the rear
Drivetrain: Rear Lock-Right
Performance mods: K&N filter, Flowmaster 40-series muffler
Other doodads: 3-inch body lift
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Bigger tires, bumper, and winch
Good Green
Vehicle: '77 Ford F-150
Owner: Ed & Sue Knight, Ann Arbor, MI
Tires & Wheels: 33x12.50 BFG A-Ts on 15x10 Xtreme Alloy
Suspension: 3-inch Rancho, Bilstein shocks
Drivetrain: C6, Dana 44 front with a Detroit Locker, 9-inch rear with a spool, 4.10 gears
Performance mods: 466ci, MSD ignition, 200hp shot of Nitrous
Funniest Wheeling incident: Getting stuck in what I thought was a small water hole, which turned out to be the deep abyss
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Vehicle: '98 Dodge Ram 1500
Owner: Stefan Brownell, Ithaca, NY
Tires & Wheels: 35-inch MT/Rs on 16x8 BBS
Suspension: 5-inch
Drivetrain: Dana 44 front, 9 1/4 rear
Performance mods: 5.9L, Hypertech programmer, Turbo City intake, custom exhaust
Other doodads: ARB front bumper, MileMarker 12K winch, dual batteries, diff guards, onboard air
Funniest Wheeling incident: Winching out a stuck backhoe while strapped to a tree
Does everything work the way you want?: 98 percent of the time
Anything you would change?: Lockers and a diesel!
Anything to add?: This build was inspired by the 4xQuad Dodge Dakota built by you guys so many years ago
Extra Fuel
Vehicle: '01 Ford Excursion
Owner: Ron & Lisa Beatty, Farmington Hills, MI
Tires & Wheels: 35-inch Toyo Mud-Terrains on MB Razor
Suspension: 6-inch Superlift, Bilstein shocks, custom track-bar setup
Drivetrain: Stock
Performance mods: 6.8L, Hypertech Programmer, K&N intake, custom throttle-body spacer, Flowmaster exhaust
Other doodads: Custom fold-down spare-tire carrier, Rhino-lined doors, 135-dB airhorns
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Lockers, more lift, and a Whipple supercharger
Anything to add?: Need more money for gas!
Pickup lines
Vehicle: '03 Chevy Trailblazer
Owner: Ryan Vohs, South Bend, IN
Tires & Wheels: 285/75/16 MTZs
Suspension: 2-inch BDS
Drivetrain: Stock
Performance mods: Cold-air intake and a custom exhaust
Other doodads: 2-inch body lift
Funniest Wheeling incident: I got stuck in two-wheel drive after my frontend didn't engage, and then I got pulled out by a hot chick in a Wrangler...twice!
Does everything work the way you want?: All the time
Anything you would change?: Needs more lift and 4.56 gears
Brooklyn San
Vehicle: '01 Nissan Xterra
Owner: Thomas Kurahara, Brooklyn, NY
Tires & Wheels: 33x12.50 BFG M-Ts on 15x8 steel wheels
Suspension: 3-inch Spencer Low Racing front, Bandit 4x4 rear springs, Bilstein shocks
Drivetrain: Rear ARB Air Locker
Performance mods: Volant intake, Safari Snorkel
Other doodads: 2-inch body lift, SLR steering, Skid Row skidplates, ShrockWorks sliders and bumpers, Warn winch, Hi-Lift
Does everything work the way you want?: So far so good
Anything you would change?: Get the right bumper brackets to match my body lift.
Drive by Will
Vehicle: '01 Chevy 1500
Owner: Kirk Williams, Douglasville, GA
Tires & Wheels: 39.5x13.50 Iroks on stock 16-inch wheels
Suspension: 6-inch Rough Country
Drivetrain: NV3500, NV261, 5.13 gears
Performance mods: 4.3L, K&N intake, Flowmaster exhaust
Other doodads: 3-inch body lift
Does everything work the way you want?: Pretty much
Anything you would change?: Currently collecting parts for a solid-axle swap using a Dana 60 and 14-bolt axle combo
Anything to add?: I've done all the work myself in my driveway
Open Hood
Vehicle: '03 Jeep Liberty
Owner: Taylor Hood, Orange Beach, AL
Tires: 265/75/16 Green Diamond Icelanders
Suspension: 3-inch Old Man Emu, Jeepin' by Al upper A-arms, Rancho shocks
Drivetrain: Rear Detroit Locker
Performance mods: Air intake
Other doodads: ARB front bumper, custom sliders, Spidertrax wheel spacers, Skid Row skidplates, onboard air, Warn winch
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: Straight-axle swap and a 4:1 transfer case
Anything to add?: This is how Jeep should build them from the factory!


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The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia
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Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 1.0
Ingredients and Preparation
- Cut melon in half, scoop out seeds, peel, and cut into 1 inch cubes.
- Wash grapes well and remove stems.
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Sofie and I walked to the park today, it's a few blocks away and the walk was kind of slow but we made it! [And we made it home too!] She had a good time sniffing everything and people thought she was cute in all of her old lady glory.
Heading to the park.
At the park.
Walking around, she checked out the garbage can FOREVER. I wonder how much she can actually smell...
My favorite picture of the day, she looks happy.
And this was her snoozing last night after eating an entire can of k/d!


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Stanley Lawecki was the first husband of my maternal grandmother, Anastasia Przybylski. Stanley was born to John and Maryanna Lawecki who resided at 1432 Hamilton Street per the 1900 census.
Here is a screen snap of this branch of the family tree.
While I am unable to locate their marriage record, a possible date for their marriage would have been sometime in 1909. The 1910 census reflects that Anastasia and Stanley were living at 1637 Vance Street with Anastasia's mother, Frances (Rochowiak-Przybylski) and her sister, Eva.
Stanley and Anastasia had one son, Daniel, born in July 1910. There is some discrepancy with Daniel's birthdate. The baptismal record for Daniel Lawecki from St. Stanislaus reflects that he was born July 21, 1910 and was baptized on July 24, 1910. However, Daniel's death certificate indicates that he was born on July 10, 1910.
Daniel Lawecki St. Stanislaus Parish Baptismal Record
Here is the transcription of the baptismal record:
Nomen Infantis Et Residentia: Daniel
Dies Mensis Annus Navitatis: 21a Julii Baptismi: 24a Julii
Nomen Parentum: Stanislaus Lawecki, Anastasia Przybylski
Nomen Patrinorum: ?? Lawecki, Eva Przybylska
Anastasia's sister, Eva, was Daniel's godmother.
Stanley died on October 9, 1910 of typhoid. Daniel died less than a month later of cholera on November 2, 1910. Both are buried at Calvary Cemetery, Toledo.
Stanley Lawecki death certificate
Stanley Lawecki burial record, Calvary Cemetery
Transcription of Stanley's burial record:
No. 12404
Name of deceased: Stanley Lawecki
Late residence: 1637 Vance
Age: 25 years, 0 months, 18 days
Color: W
Sex: M
Disease: Typhoid Fever
Date of interment: 12 Oct.
Married, Single, Widowed: M
Place of death: Toledo
No. of Grave: 269
No. of Lot: 26
No. of Sect.: 27
Name of Physician: E. Story
Name of undertaker: WJ Gasiorowski
Daniel Lawecki death certificate
Daniel Lawecki burial record, Calvary Cemetery
Transcription of Daniel's burial record:
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Daniel Lawecki, 1637 Vance, Age 3 months, 11 days. Cholera Infantum. Died 11/2. Date of interment 11/5. Place of death: Toledo. Grave 3, Lot 180, Section 29.


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I've been reading this string and also read over the string about Infra-sound and detecting 20Hz and lower.
I'm very new at these frequencies and what they mean, but I am sure I am being "talked to" in the infra-sound range and want to pick this up and record it.
I'm not a technical gal and am pretty low-income, so my situation is how to record more cheaply than buying something off the shelf.
I have a computer microphone and a regular 'ole Dell computer on broadband. Does anybody have suggestions of how I may start to understand and invest in picking up sound in the low frequency range? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! : )
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Log in.. then post your code in the 8051 forum
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i am doing a countdown timer with 8051 for my project, unfortunately our professor had to take a leave of absence before he could teach us most of it.. can someone explain the .asm code of it for me?
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hello! newbie here. i am kind of a guy who hates using ready - made existing libraries, so this helped a lot as i was trying to control and write to a character lcd display. however, i can't figure out how to set the cursor position. for example, i want to set it to the 5th column in the first row, so position 5. so according to the table, i am sending 10000101 on the 8 data lines of the lcd (register select pulled low). the cursor does not move there however. and i cant move the cursor left or right too. is it something wrong that i am doing? thank you.
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"Twilight" fans will have a pre-Thanksgiving treat next year with a Nov. 18, 2011 release date set for "Breaking Dawn."
The release date reported by Deadline Hollywood, is just one of the major housekeeping items knocked out of the way now that Bill Condon has been named as director.
The studio has not officially announced whether the climax to the series will be one movie or two. Two is almost as sure a thing as Taylor Lautner whipping his shirt off. It's where the money is and what the fans want. It's just a matter of officially announcing it.
The report starts it will be two movies and Condon will direct both. What's left to discuss? The release date of a second movie and whether these will be 3D or 2D. Stay tuned.


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In his book "The Dilbert Principle," cartoonist Scott Adams shares some wisdom that resonates with those in pursuit of an artistic life: "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Pursuing success in creative fields comes with more than an abundance of failures, mistakes, and anxiety-ridden expectations of the artistic self. Often, we mask these apparent missteps in an attempt to appear as infallible masters of our craft.
In efforts to stay focused and productive, Sioux Falls comic artist Dylan Jacobson presents his nerves and creative bloopers directly to his viewers through vlogging, blogging, and the very work that he creates. Dylan's honesty about the hardships of creating brings a sense of humanity and approachability to the artistic career. ~Jordan


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In the beginning the Internet was just an experimental network for packet transmission. It was interesting because it made possible to combine computers of different types but it did not have practical meaning thereat. Later, in 1975, the experimental network turned into an actual network. It took almost another twenty years to the World Wide Web service appeared in 1993. Then the magic began. Internet became visual, it could be seen by users with browsers. HTML-technology created a new type of documents. The first of HTML pages were very simple and they were only texts and links. But the technology developed very quickly. Images, complicated design, sound and video appeared on the computer screen. Very soon, the Sir Tim Berners-Lee's creation has learned to represent all the diversity and beauty of the contents of the World Wide Web.
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Individuals interested in information on scholarships may contact the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Student Financial Assistance, for brochures about available grants.
Basic Education Opportunity Grants (BEOGs) are awarded on the basis of financial need. High school guidance counselors or the college or university financial aid office can provide information.
US Department of Education
Office of Student Financial Assistance
50 United Nations Plaza, Room 268
San Francisco, CA 94102
(800) 433-3243
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168th Commencement: Watch Live
Albany Law School and The University at Albany have been working with practicing
professionals since 2006 to educate students and research critical issues in
financial market regulation.
Our program seeks to generate skilled professionals required to
improve the regulatory system for the financial industry, as well as provide
critical research and analysis for the industry. Our approach draws from the
different disciplines required to comprehend the breadth of financial market
regulation, specifically:
the business of financial markets
the law of financial regulation
public policy affecting the markets
the information technology systems that drive regulation
Our partners include regulatory organizations, law firms and
financial firms.
Our research focuses on how business, law, public policy and
technology shape financial regulation today.
Our students gain knowledge and skills that prepare them for
supervising the complex world of financial markets.
We network closely with the New York Stock Exchange, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the
Securities Industry and Financial Market Association:
Students hold summer internship positions
Established a speaker series
Albany-based classes have started visiting the New York
City-based organizations to meet a variety of professionals
Professionals have visited Albany to speak and meet with
students in the programs
The two schools and its partners are pursuing a variety of projects, including:
Studying levels of regulatory activity in each of the 50 state
Working with the regulatory institutions to alleviate their overwhelming workload by organizing projects faculty and students can perform
In 2008 the University at Albany established a major and minor in Financial Market Regulation. Course work includes such areas as banking, insurance, finance, money markets, law, public policy and information technology.
Contact Professor
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Bread and Roses is a video compilation showcasing all of the Hall's Inductees set to the work song "Bread and Roses," in which women describe their fight for bread (everyday necessities) and roses (love and beauty). It reminds us that women have long sought to participate in and enjoy all that life has to offer, refusing to be confined to a separate sphere.
The song is particularly appropriate as a backdrop for our Inductees' stories because their lives are filled with both struggle and achievement. Based on James Oppenheim's poem of the same title, the song is most often associated with the 1912 Lawrence, Mass., textile strike, led predominantly by women. This version of "Bread and Roses" was recorded by Judy Collins for her 2005 album Bread and Roses. The Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame is pleased to present our current Bread and Roses video!


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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler today announced that the West Haymarket Joint Public Agency (JPA) sold the second $100 million in bonds for the new arena in two series at a combined interest rate of 3.757 percent. The difference between the conservative 5-percent estimate the City used for planning and the actual rate will result in a savings of about $1.25 million per year during the first 10-year period. Over the 35-year life of the bonds, the savings is $32 million.
The first series was $67.965 million of Build America Bonds which are sold on a taxable basis, with the federal government providing a 35-percent subsidy. The City received five bids, and the buyer of the bonds was Robert W. Baird & Co.
The second series was $32.035 million of Economic Recovery Zone Bonds, which have a federal subsidy of 45 percent. The City received one bid from Wells Fargo.
The bids are posted online at aicauction.com (click on "results"). The City's financial advisor, Scott Keene from Ameritas Investment Corp., facilitated the transaction.
The first $100 million in bonds for the new arena were sold in August at an interest rate of 3.2 percent, resulting in a savings of about $1.8 million per year during the first 10-year period. Over the 35-year life of the bonds, the savings is $50 million.
Information on the West Haymarket JPA is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: jpa).


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Good news for drivers of two of the busiest area toll roads.
Tolls will remain the same on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway.
Transportation and Transit
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which operates both highways, approved a $1.63 billion budget on Tuesday that holds the line on tolls.
The agency is projecting a 1.5 percent increase in toll revenue from an increase in traffic.
Meanwhile, officials say they plan this week to seek proposals to privatize E-ZPass and cash toll collections in 2016. That word comes as the agency seeks more concessions from the union that represents toll collectors.
Authority executive director Veronique Hakim tells the Asbury Park Press the union negotiations are separate issues. A union official says the intent is to privatize.
The agency in 2011 reached a two-year contract that delayed the prospect of privatization.


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This site provides information using PDF, visit this link to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software.
This site provides information using PDF, visit this link to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software.
Provides tools for formal reasoning with a particular focus on applications in computer science, although no knowledge of programming is required. Topics include counting rules, propositional and first-order logic, set theory, functions (with an emphasis on recursive functions), partial order and equivalence relations, Boolean algebra, switching circuits, and graphs and trees.
Advisory: It is advisable to have knowledge in a course equivalent to MAT-121 College Algebra with a grade of C or better to succeed in this course. Students are responsible for making sure that they have the necessary knowledge.
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Enroll now so your student can start as soon as possible!
The Osseo Area Schools Enrollment Center manages the enrollment process for all new and returning students, K-12. The Center also handles address changes.
Before you visit:
- Complete enrollment forms for each student;
- Gather the required enrollment documents; and
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Note: A parent/legal guardian must be present at time of enrollment, and a parent/legal guardian signature is required on all forms. Please allow 30 minutes to 1 hour for all enrollments and school choice transfers.
During your visit, you will meet with a staff member to:
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- Receive information regarding transportation, educational benefits such as free and reduced lunch, and other applicable services;
- Provide health history and discuss any health-related concerns; and
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Dubai shopping offers amazing opportunities. The age-old souks, ultra-modern shopping malls and promise of tax-free prices redefine the whole concept of retail therapy. Dubai is known as the shopping capital of the Middle East, and the best bargains are generally in the souks. Even luxury items such as carpets, electronics, gold and textiles can be bought relatively cheaply if you know where to look when you are shopping in Dubai. No wonder that for many, Dubai shopping is practically a way of life. In January, Dubai hosts the biggest shopping and entertainment festival of the year. This month-long extravaganza is packed with exclusive offers, fun family activities, world-class events and prizes of cash, cars and gold.
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The star attraction of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF), which attracted 4.5 million visitors in 2008
The leading Dubai jewellery market, selling jewellery made of gold, diamonds and other precious metals
A massive mall with six different zones - 'China', 'India', 'Egypt', 'Tunisia', 'Andalusia', and 'Persia'
This enormous mall was an instant hit from the moment it opened. Shops and entertainment galore
A popular, smaller mall, where Italian renaissance meets Walt Disney to offer a pure shopping fantasy
The Dubai branch of a large UAE chain, and there are some real bargains to be had


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Barangaroo South is Australia's premier commercial hub for the Asia Pacific region, offering scale and quality on par with the world's best office precincts and located on our world famous Sydney Harbour.
The building boasts of spectacular views of Sydney Harbour all the way through to the city CBD skyline.
Setting new standards in sustainability, Barangaroo South is home to international banks, financial and professional service companies. This premium grade energy efficient office space is close to residential apartments, hotels, shops, cafes, restaurants, and cultural facilities. There are direct public transport connections, including a major pedestrian connection through to Wynyard station and the city.
The work environment is ideal for future-focused businesses who value flexible and sustainable workplaces to enhance productivity and innovation.
15 - 20 minutes by taxi from the Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.
5 minute walk via the Wynyard Walk from Wynyard train station. Minutes from Town Hall and Martin Place stations.
2 minute walk to Barangaroo South or a 10 minute walk to Circular Quay.
1 minute walk to the bus stop. 3 minute walk via the Wynyard Walk to the Wynyard bus interchange.
Tower One is situated within Barangaroo, one of the world's most stunning waterfront precincts in Sydney's CBD.


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After modifications and ready to roll. I cut about an inch off the seatpost, so it can be slammed down low as possible. I also slid the seat up on the rails a bit. Some old cut down mountain bike bars replaced the BMX 'bars, lowering the front end a few inches. I moved the original pink grips over to complete the look. Pretty cool, huh? Sorta like a custom chopper.
Amy in action on the new rig, she really likes it. It's still a tad big, but for buzzing around, works okay. With the aluminum frame and rims, it's fairly light as well. Plus it's pink - she digs that. Fun, quick, cheap project that worked out great. She'll be able to ride this bike for quite awhile, since I can always raise the seat and swap the BMX bars back into use. Pretty sweet deal for $25, no?


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Map of Rwanda safari areas and national parks
Click through to our Google map of Rwanda to access area-by-area maps of Rwanda's safari areas and national parks; these feature Rwanda's best safari camps, small lodges and hotels – all plotted with amazing precision on satellite maps of Rwanda.
Area-by-area Rwanda maps
Our area-by-area maps of Rwanda pinpoint the various safari lodges and hotels very precisely, on detailed, zoom-able satellite images. They include:
- Map of Akagera National Park
- Map of Kigali
- Map of Lake Kivu
- Map of Nyungwe Forest National Park
- Map of Volcanoes National Park
To deter unauthorised use, the map has been digitally watermarked and can be traced.


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Etihad appoints general manager for Kazakhstan
Etihad Airways has appointed Robert "Dougie" Douglas as its General Manager for Kazakhstan.
Mr Douglas, who assumes his new role on 1 July, will lead the airline's commercial operations in Kazakhstan based in Almaty. He will also be responsible for further growing Etihad Airways' relationships with its travel trade and corporate customers.
Mr Douglas' aviation career spans more than three decades, including over 10 years with Etihad Airways, prior to which he worked with British Airways and its partner airlines in more than 10 countries, including Kazakhstan.
He joined Etihad Airways in 2005 as the Manager for Northern India and Nepal, based in New Delhi, and later served as the airline's General Manager for Indonesia for seven years before moving to Yerevan as General Manager for Armenia.
Etihad Airways' Vice President - Global Sales, Danny Barranger, said: "Dougie is an expert airline manager, knows Kazakhstan and the region very well, and his wealth of knowledge and experience from having previously worked and lived in Almaty will be instrumental in further strengthening our presence in the market."
Etihad Airways currently flies daily between Abu Dhabi and Kazakhstan, with five weekly services to Almaty and two weekly services to Astana. Both routes are operated by a two-class Airbus A320 aircraft configured with 16 Business Class and 120 Economy Class seats.


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Town Hall
3301 Broadway
Cheektowaga, NY 14227
(716) 686-3400
Hours: 9AM - 4:30PM
Accounting / Payroll
Enhances and promotes the professional management of our town's resources by identifying, developing, and advancing fiscal strategies, policies, and practices for the public benefit.
Animal Control Office
This office is responsible for picking up stray and injured dogs, investigating cases of cruelty, handling adoptions of animals, conducting the annual rabies clinic and other functions concerning domestic animals.
Assessors Office
Establishes the assessed value of your property by appraising the value of that property under applicable state laws.
Attorney's Office
Advises the Town of Cheektowaga on legal affairs.
Building and Plumbing Department
To work with builders, property owners and residents to establish cooperative code compliance and provide high quality structures.
Fire Safety Office
Ensures that new structures and places of public assembly and access meet standards as outlined by the State and Local Fire and Building Codes.
Housing & Neighborhood Preservation
Plumbing Inspections
Community Development
Carries out economic improvement projects and programs with the goal of making the Town a better place to live, work, and conduct business.
Council Office
The six elected Town Council members, together with the Town Supervisor, make up the Town Board. Each Council member is assigned various committees to oversee and work with on a daily basis in order to cover all fiscal, administrative and legal aspects of Town government.
Emergency Services
Employee Relations
Provides technical guidance for the Towns infrastructure.
Facilities - Parks Division & Buildings and Grounds Division
The Facilities Department Parks Division is to provide, protect and preserve a Park System that promotes quality recreational, cultural and outdoor experiences for the community.
The Facilities Department Building and Grounds Division is responsible for the repair and maintenance of all county buildings as well as landscaping of the grounds and snow removal on sidewalks.
Maintenance of town roadways includes the repair of pot holes, sweeping of all roadways with particular attention to intersections. Other duties include drainage projects, road resurfacing, tree trimmings and tree removals, maintenance of recharge basins (sumps), and installing and maintaining catch basins. Keeping main roads and secondary roads clear of snow and ice during inclement weather is also a top priority for this department.
Housing & Neighborhood Preservation
This Department creates quality solutions that expand housing opportunities and promotes vibrant well maintained neighborhoods.
Inflow & Infiltration / Time of Sale Inspection
Information Technology & Records Management Department
Oversees the Town's information and communication networks and also identifies, preserves and encourages the use of archival records. The program provides for efficient storage of records, makes records available when needed, and ensures the legal disposition of obsolete records.
Justice Court
The Town Court plays a vital role in the protection of our safety and our rights as residents. The Justice Court handles civil, criminal and small claims matters. Any criminal act, which occurs in the Town, is initially under the jurisdiction of our Town Court.
Police Department
The Cheektowaga Police Department is committed to ensuring the safety and well being of our citizen's and visitor's to the community. We are committed to enforcing the state's laws and town's ordinances. We will work in cooperation with the community to preserve and improve the quality of life, making the Town a safer, more pleasant place to live, work and visit.
Traffic Maintenance Unit
This Department is responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of all street lights, signs, traffic signals and pavement markings on Town roads.
Sanitation Department
This Department provides the service of collection and disposal of solid wastes. The Department also collects and disposes of lawn and garden waste, discarded furniture and appliances.
Senior Services
This Department promotes and supports senior citizen involvement in a healthy and interactive lifestyle through programs, activities and services.
Sewer Department
Cheektowaga's 263 miles of sanitary sewer system consists of gravity pipes (trunk lines and main lines) and forced mains. Town of Cheektowaga also has 10 lift stations and one main pumping station, The Town of Cheektowaga maintains this sewer system through flushing, root cutting and televising of these lines on a yearly basis. The Sewer Department is also involved in a program of removing inflow and infiltration of clear water into our system. To see more about this issue, go to the Inflow & Infiltration page of our website. Click here
Supervisor's Office
The Supervisor is the Chief Fiscal Officer of the Town. Responsibilities include being full time member of the Town Board overseeing the day-to-day operations of government, sits as presiding member of the Town Board, and prepares and monitors the town budget.
Tax Office
The Tax Office handles may requests for information from taxpayers, lending institutions, attorneys, title searchers and appraisers. The primary responsibility of the office is the billing and collection of property taxes, special service charges, and special assessments.
Town Clerk's Office
The Town Clerk's Office issues marriage licenses, fishing and gaming licenses, dog licenses, etc. While Town Clerk's are generally credited with issuing licenses, this is only a small part of the many duties.
Youth and Recreational Services
The recreation department provides a wide variety of year round and seasonal programs designed to meet the leisure of our residents of all ages. These programs include offerings for pre-school, school age, young adult, adults and families.
Zoning and Planning Administration
Citizen Action Request
SNOW PLOWING and STREET LIGHT CONCERNS
(reviewed M-F during normal business hours only)
Housing and Building Complaints
ex: high grass, property maintenance items, unregistered cars
FOIL Requests
Dog Licenses
Passport Applications
Commercial Bldg Permit
Residential Bldg Permit


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The rise in hip and knee replacements among Baby Boomers is doing more than putting a fresh spring in their step or helping them stay on the job. It's also making life in the bedroom much better.
Nearly a million people a year have a total hip or knee replacement; numbers have soared in the past 10 years and are expected to keep growing as Boomers refuse to accept the sedentary lifestyle that besets someone with painful arthritis. End-stage arthritis is the leading cause for joint replacement.
In 90% of patients surveyed, total hip or total knee replacement improved overall sexual function, including frequency and duration, according to lead author José A Rodriguez, director of the Center for Joint Preservation and Reconstruction at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. He will present findings today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in Chicago.
"I never want to see someone's intimacy with a partner destroyed because of a joint problem," Rodriguez says. "Sexual function needs to be discussed with patients when we make routine evaluations. I've found most patients to be very receptive to talking about it."
The average age of patients was 56.8 years old. One limitation of the study is its size: Less than half (147) of 392 patients enrolled in the preoperative study. A total of 116 returned postoperative questionnaires. Patients were asked about their overall well-being and sexual well-being before and after their surgeries.
Rodriguez says he decided to do the study because he knows doctors who aren't comfortable discussing sex with patients.
"I saw a young woman in a wheelchair ask a surgeon for a hip transplant about 18 years ago,'' he says. "She said she wanted to be able to make love with her husband again. The surgeon said no because, in his mind, she was in her 20s, and he didn't want to subject her to revision surgeries.
"Her feeling was, 'My life today is what matters to me.' I understand that completely. That discussion has shaped how I talk with my patients."
Some of the newer implants come with "guarantees'' that they'll last two to three decades. If an implant wears out, a more complicated revision surgery is required. The life of an implant is still unknown, Rodriguez says, but they have greatly improved in two decades.
Nearly twice as many people now get knee replacements (658,340) as hip implants (302,839). Both surgeries have skyrocketed in popularity since 2000, when 282,350 knee replacements and 165,065 hip replacements were done. Other reports to be presented later in the week will look at how quickly people return to work after implants, rather than take disability, and how overall health improves.
"When I started doing total joint replacements two decades ago, people were terrified,'' says orthopedic surgeon John Tongue, outgoing president of the AAOS. "We didn't know how people were going to do with them. Now, it's fascinating. People are scheduling them like they're getting a new carburetor."
How long it takes to heal is always one of the first questions patients ask, Rodriguez says. The postoperative survey was reviewed six months after surgery.
"I tell people the body will let you know when it's time to resume activities,'' he says. "It can be as quickly as six months, but if it hurts, we tell people it's not time yet."


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In response to
Ed Brand, Superintendent for the Sweetwater Union School District: "It wasn't the best financial decision...But I can live with the decision." And why not? It's not Ed's money! He doesn't even live in this district and won't be paying for this lousy real estate deal for years to come like many of us. Thanks, once again, Sweetwater. You certainly keep us on our toes trying to keep up with your mishandling of our monies.
Kate Steuernagel
Chula Vista
Maybe next year
Once again the Sweetwater Union High School District (SUHSD) has made the pages of the U-T and as seems to be the norm for SUHSD it is in a less than favorable light.
Can't the Board and the Superintendent do anything that favors the students and the employees? Recent events seem to answer that question.
The voters certainly were asleep at the last election when they had a chance to get rid of two of the Board members. Maybe next year?
Peter Klein
La Mesa
If the title fits...
I couldn't help laughing when I read this story. So, the California Trust turned the property over to Plan Nine Trust. May I quote from Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review site, "Plan 9 from Outer Space... is an unintentionally hilarious sci-fi 'thriller'... that is justly celebrated for its staggering ineptitude." How unbelievably fitting. This movie's staggering ineptitude has nothing on that of the Sweetwater Union High School District!
Al Weiss
Mind boggling
The machinations involved in the Sweetwater school district's land deal can only be described as mind boggling. Anyone that has a rudimentary knowledge of financing instinctively knows to stay away from any deal that has lots of complex twists and turns. As for the $40 million price tag? Oh well, just a drop in the bucket.
Bill DiMasi


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The Real Cost of a Vacation Home
What if instead of buying that vacation home, you invested the money?
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