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Lawyer, graduated by Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, member of the Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo Section (OAB/SP) nº 398.216. Post Graduation student in Civil Procedure Law at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP / COGEAE).
Languages: English and Portuguese.
Languages: English and Portuguese.
Lawyer, graduated by Centro Universitário de Campo Limpo Paulista/SP, member of the Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo Section (OAB/SP) nº 412.211. Post Graduation student in Labor and Labor Procedure at Damásio Educacional.
Lawyer, graduated by Faculdade 7 de Setembro. Postgraduate and specialist in environmental law and new trends, with emphasis on social and environmental risks in mega-projects, by Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Postgraduate and specialist in public law, with emphasis in International Environmental Law, by Universidade Federal do Ceará. Master in Law and Development (LL.M), with emphasis on the exploration of pre-salt and Public Finance, by Universidade Federal do Ceará. Attending to a PhD in Political and Economic Law, with emphasis on National Sector Plans and Public Finance, at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Monitor of the Infrastructure Post graduation program at FGVLaw. Researcher by merit at Prodoc "A Estratégia brasileira para a gestão sustentável dos recursos vivos e não vivos marinhos" at Universidade Federal do Ceará, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Universidade Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne. Member of the Business and Human Rights research group at Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Also graduated in Dispute Settlement by the WTO Chair and Center on Global Trade and Investment (CGTI-FGV).
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Lawyer, graduated in Law by the University of Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP), member of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section (OAB / SP) nº 297.105. Graduated in Business Administration by the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
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Lawyer, graduated in Law by the Universidade Padre Anchieta, member of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section (OAB / SP) nº 354.500. Post Graduation student in Tax Law at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP).
Lawyer, graduated in law from the University Center of Brasília (UniCeub), member of the Brazilian Bar Association in the São Paulo Section (OAB / SP), under the number 359.179. Post Graduate and specialist in Constitutional Law, Consumer Relations Law; Criminal Law; Electoral Law; Labor Law and Labor Process; and Tax Law. Master in Political and Economic Law, author of books and articles, lecturer, university professor, member of the São Paulo Lawyers Association and the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM).
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TM Law is highly qualified in litigation matters of the main areas of the corporate law, in which we approach in a few basic principles, as follows:
Events that threaten the companies, putting them in crisis, are rarely confined to a judicial or administrative litigation proceeding. Such events, that represent a great risk to the business, usually, in addition to a dispute, are exposed in the media, bringing immeasurable damages to the company.
In this regard, TM Law understands that the complexity of crisis events that threaten companies, should be dealt both within and outside of the processes, whether judicially or administratively, and dealt directly with the administrators (Board of Officers, Board of Directors, among others), and internal corporate teams, whether in Brazil or abroad, providing a strategical treatment in all fronts of the business crises.
In this sense, we assist our clients in addressing simultaneously with discrete and intelligent responses, all sides of corporate crises (judicial, administrative or media), minimizing its impacts whether they are related to finances, corporate image or to a dispute.
Dealt and identified as alternative ways to resolve conflicts, clearing the Judiciary, the Arbitration and Mediation are procedural models that are being commonly used in Brazil, providing celerity and efficiency in resolving disputes.
Those who choose to resolve their disputes through arbitration can enjoy several benefits. Among the main benefits, we can highlight the celerity to resolve the conflicts in a definitive way, allowing the sentence to be immediately enforced. Another important factor is that, other than a judge, the arbitrator is usually an expert and have specific expertise on the litigation subject, allowing the case to be better assessed. Moreover, the dispute can be resolved without publicly exposing those involved. Thus, the content will remain between the parties and the arbitrators that compose the court, which are subjected to professional secrecy, enabling confidentiality in all stages of the conflict resolution.
The mediation, other than arbitration, is characterized by being a non-litigious procedure. In this regard, with the help of the mediator, the parties seek to resolve the conflict together in order to reach a satisfactory outcome for both.
TM Law has extensive experience in representing our clients in arbitration and mediation procedures.
Regarding corporate governance and anti-corruption practices, TM Law conducts technical investigations and procedures in the administration and management of business, reaching all its boards (board of officer, board of directors, among others), in order to provide the adoption, implementation or even the review of policies of transparency, accountability, social and environmental development, ensuring to our clients greater credibility and boosting their market confidence, making them more competitive in its segment and more attractive for new investments, thus ensuring the sustainability of the businesses and the longevity of its operations.
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DNA samples from yesterday and this morning were quantified using the Roberts Lab Qubit 3.0 (Life Technologies) using the Qubit ds DNA BR reagents. Used 1μL of each sample.
Raw Qubit readout (Google Sheet): 20160810_DNA_quant_Qubit_Ava_abalone_WS
Master spreadsheet for these, and future, samples for this project (Google Sheet): Ava WS Transmission DNA Extractions

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Private Stormwater Facility Inspections
The City of Seattle is issued a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit by the Washington State Department of Ecology to be in compliance with the Federal Clean Water Act. The permit requires that all development be reviewed to control or treat stormwater prior to entering the City's drainage system. SPU conducts maintenance inspections to ensure that these systems continue to operate as designed to protect private property, City infrastructure and the environment.
What is the inspection process?
- Notification: A notification letter is mailed to the property owner. The inspection will be conducted within 30 days of the date of the letter. If the owner would like to be present, or if access to the property is restricted, please contact the Inspector to schedule an appointment.
- Maintenance: Shortly after the inspection, the property owner will be sent a report with the inspection results. If the system requires maintenance or repairs, the report will include a checklist with details, a property map, and a Drainage Contractor List (pdf). Contractors on the list have agreed to certain expectations in working with Seattle property owners regarding maintenance of their systems. View the expectations (pdf).
- Certification: When the work is completed, the property owner is responsible for returning the completed checklist with the Contractor's invoice (if applicable) to the Inspector. The Inspector may return to verify the work.
How often will the system be inspected?
The discharge point of your site determines the inspection frequency of your drainage system. For sites that discharge to our lakes, streams and creeks, the current inspection frequency is every 2 years. For sites that discharge to the sewer treatment plant, the inspections are less frequent.
The City's goal is to establish an appropriate inspection frequency for each site based on characteristics such as the stormwater system, property type, etc. The inspection frequency will vary for each site, but will likely be somewhere between 2 – 10 years.
What are my responsibilities as the owner?
As the owner of the system, you are ultimately responsible for the inspection of the system. However, SPU performs the inspection to ensure proper maintenance is being performed and the system is functioning as designed. If the system requires maintenance and the maintenance is not conducted in a timely manner, SPU will initiate its progressive enforcement policy to gain compliance.
Stormwater systems are required to be maintained by the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC 22.800-808):
SMC 22.807.090, Responsibility for Maintenance and Inspection: "The owner and other responsible party shall maintain drainage control facilities, source controls and other facilities as required by this subtitle and by rules adopted hereunder to keep these facilities in continuous working order."
The Stormwater System Maintenance Inspection Program is part of the City's overall Stormwater Management Plan, developed to comply with the requirements of the City's NPDES permit. Maintenance standards are provided and enforced under the City's Stormwater Code, Chapter 22.800 – 22.808 and associated Director's Rules.


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These are all the News & Announcements posted in April, 2013.
Monday, 29
Personalized Reading Suggestions
Are you looking for a good book? Whether you like plot-driven police procedurals or humorous historical fiction--we can help. The Logan Library offers a service in which we provide personalized reading suggestions based on your individual reading likes and dislikes. To get your own handpicked list of 3-5 books, simply fill out this form letting us know about your reading preferences. We'll get back to you in 3-7 days with your list. Happy Reading!
Posted By Logan Library at 9:59 AM / Category:Books & Reading
Thursday, 25
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Recommended by: Joseph
Henrietta was a poor black woman living outside Baltimore at the time she discovered she had terminal cancer in 1951. When one of her doctors was able to keep her cancer cells (now known as HeLa cells) alive and growing indefinitely in the laboratory, it was one of the most important discoveries of modern oncology. But who was this woman who had unknowingly contributed so much to science at the moment of her death? Skloot expertly uncovers the mystery of the face behind the cells.
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
Posted By Logan Library at 10:12 AM / Category:Staff Picks
Monday, 22
What's Happening?
Are you looking for something to do this weekend? To find out what's going on in Logan and the surrounding area take a look at our Community Events Calendar. The Community Events Calendars lists all kinds of happenings of interest to Logan residents including:
Posted By Logan Library at 9:43 AM / Category:Community
The Latest News!
Oct 16, 2018
» Community Book Discussion Oct 10, 2018
» The Dead Awaken Oct 5, 2018
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Sara Robinson liveblogs Howard Dean's talk at Netroots Nation, starting at 9am ET Friday morning. Come on by and join the chat!
There are a lot of people here, considering we were all up drinking past 1 am at vodka reception given at the nearby Andy Warhol museum by an associated gaggle of gay groups. (It was totally fabulous.) Dean can turn out progressives, even at this unholy hour among this many people with hangovers.
A spirited introduction by the co-author (sorry, he said his name fast and I didn't catch it, but he's a Think Progress editor) of Howard Dean's Health Care Prescription for Real Health Care Reform. Mike Lux and Tanya Tarr will be moderating — this should be good. I saw Tanya in a panel yesterday afternoon and found her very impressive.
Here's Dr. Dean.
The people in this room will be carrying the ball over the next 10 weeks or so: in the face of the lies, the net is the only real resource to get the truth out.
The public option cannot be compromised. We have already compromised from single payer — this IS the compromise. We can't back off from this, because we won't get universal care without it. If people have the choice, they'll reform the system on their own.
Fifty percent of Republicans want a public option.
Tanya asks: How do we make plain English argument to people who aren't tracking this issue day by day?
Dean says: We need to control costs, without rationing. We spent 70% more than Canada or Germany, the next most expensive systems.
Eliminate fee for service medicine. They're doing this in Massachusetts. Primary care doctors here make less than they do in the UK. The public option allows for the market to reform itself.
Control costs. Medicare is structurally able to do this in a way that private medicine can't. Costs have gone up at 2.5x the rate of inflation on the private side, which strains businesses' competitiveness. Medicare, on the other hand, goes up 2% a year. It's much better controlled.
Mike asks a funny pseudo-question from a "death panel" grognard. Dean says: These meetings are not about health care. He says he gets smart questions from conservatives at book signings, and they're not shouting. But the teabaggers have been running on anger for 30 years– Karl Rove used to talk about polling for anger points, looking for ways to incite activism around race and other issues.
He also notes that this group skews older — these are not the generation that voted for Obama, and they're threatened and angry by the younger uprising. They are contentious and polarized (and have always done politics that way); but the younger generation does it differently. They are aging, losing power, and getting smaller. And they have a president "who's not accustomed to what they're seeing in the White House." Dean notes that he saw people like this when he signed Vermont's civil union bill, which got a lot of pushback from moderates who had supported him. He needed police protection for a while after that. That's what's going on: people are resisting change.
People don't know what's in the bill. They don't even want to know. This isn't about health care; it's about a generational transition.
Tanya asks: What happens to reproductive choice in this bill? How do we ensure choice is protected?
Dean replies: we're really discussing what the public option will cover; whatever's in the bill won't dictate to private insurers what they'll cover.
And the actual benefit package hasn't been determined yet. That comes later. So anybody who says that this issue has been settled simply doesn't know what's going on.
In the end, we need to let the as-yet unnamed benefits panel, which will be made up of fairly distinguished health care providers, decide. He doubts they'll "break new ground" in changing abortion access.
Mike asks: How has the politics around this changed?
Dean says: It's changed a lot. The fact that the other side is reduced to making things up and acting out tells how how done and over this really is. He also thinks the Blue Dogs contributed to the conversation, holding up the conservative arguments when the Republicans themselves would not. The Blue Dogs insisted on protections for small businesses under half a million bucks, which Dean supports. (He doesn't discuss what happens to their employees. People in the room are shaking their heads.)
He predicts that the bill will be settled in reconciliation and get passed. It'll be ugly, but it'll pass.
Mike asks about single payer, which has a lot of supporters in the room. Why didn't the Democrats start with that as an opening position, and then retreat to public option as a compromise point?
Dean: This was a mistake, and was a holdover from the old way of Democratic politics. "Single payer" was seen as a bad word, and taking it off the table was seen as necessary to "reasonable" debate. But the other side isn't interest in debate. The public option is the compromise — it's OK, but we can't back off of it.
The fact about single-payer is that it's more efficient — only about 4% goes to overhead, versus non-profit private at 12% and for-profit at 20%. We should have gone that route.
Tanya: How do we involve more health care professionals in this debate? She's heard from people whose doctors are telling them scare stories.
Dean: The polling on this is interesting. When the AMA endorses Henry Waxman's bill, that's a remarkable moment. For 15 years, the insurers have treated both doctors and patients so badly that the majority of physicians now favor single-payer. They've figured out they stand to make more money, or at least have better working conditions and the ability to provide better care.
Mike: He was recently in Oregon, doing a panel. A medical student asked him about the way new doctors are incentivized to go into specialties, and forego family practice.
Dean: Medicare rates are too low, and this has a lot to do with it. In Vermont, they raised those rates — and some insurers left, which was fine, because they didn't need those companies anyway. If you make under $66K a year in Vermont, the kids in your family (up to age 18) are covered for $480 a year. They raised pediatricians' reimbursement rates at the same time.
Doctors go into specialties because they've got massive education debt that's hard to pay off if you're in primary care.
Also: A well-qualified nurse practitioner can do about 60% of what doctor can do. We should be relying more on NPs. The best quality of an NP is how well they know what they don't know, and how willing they are to refer up to the doctor. He advocates independent NP practices, especially in rural areas; helping primary care doctors pay off their debts; and federally-qualified health centers — clinics where people can get low-cost primary care.
Some of these things are in the health care bill as it stands now.
Tanya: A local candidate from NY asks: How to frame the health care conversation for a local campaign?
Dean: The American people have made it clear this is what they want. Are you going to represent your donors, or your constituents? We'll find out and talk about it during the election campaign.
Right now, the only choice people have is to sign a contract they can get kicked out of any time. The health care companies are Wall Street flim-flam; they're in the business to make money, not provide care. The public option will incentivize them to become more consumer friendly.
Mike: How do we make sure these new plans are affordable for everyone?
Dean: The public option, and the competition it provides, is the most important part of this. Primary care physicians don't like the way they're practicing now, which incentivizes them to practice bad medicine. The public option allows them to do things differently, and may actually allow them to innovate new kinds of cost controls that aren't possible in the current system.
Tanya: How do we maintain innovation?
Dean: There is a role for the private sector in medicine. We bash the pharmaceutical companies, but they're only 10% of our medical expenditures. Still, they drive innovation, and that should continue. (And they shouldn't be allowed to advertise.)
The public option will help us move from an illness model to a wellness model of medicine. The big innovators now are big co-op type companies like Kaiser. They change the incentives toward wellness. Some of the big companies that self-insure are also being pro-active: taking the crap out of the cafeteria, setting up health clubs for employees — this is an investment in lower costs. They get that a wellness model works better for everyone.
A public option will allow us to bring that kind of thinking to national health care.
Mike: Should President Obama focus on bipartisanship when no Republicans are going to vote for this anyway?
Dean: Obama's playing this well. He's letting the Republicans speak for themselves, in saying they want this to fail so Obama will fail. He's forcing them to show their true colors.
Mike: About co-ops. Some senators from rural states are proposing this. Other people are pointing out that there are problems with this (using electric co-ops as a model). What about this?
Dean: Kent Conrad is a friend — but he's wrong about this. It's a political compromise, not a policy one, and it won't work.
They're too small to do any good. And we already tried this: Blue Cross/Blue Shield was a non-profit co-op, and now it's a private insurance company just as bad as any of the rest. We don't want to make it easier for the insurance companies to come in and co-opt the co-ops. They're too small. The insurance companies will come in and undercut them and drive them out of business.
They will not work.
Q&As from the audience:
Jill from Ohio: How do we keep mental health parity as part of this discussion?
Dean: This was one of his first issues in the Vermont legistator. We have a national mental health bill now, but it's really up to the benefits panel when it's convened. They need to provide a benefit; but they'll settle the limits and other details.
We're also starting to realize the degree to which brain health is integrated into the rest of our health. We're moving closer to a medical model of mental illness, which means there's less reason to treat it differently. I hope the benefits panel will take that into account.
Another blogger: How do we talk about this in our work? How do we keep it simple?
Dean: This is not about refuting right-wing death panels and other lies.
This is about: Are we going to let the American people choose for themselves? Are we going to give them a full range of choices, or let Washington choose?
Whose side are you? The American people have spoken. Legislators need to choose who they work for — and be prepared for the usual consequences that come to people who don't work in the best interests of their employers.
Another blogger: Won't the plan just stick us with the bill for high-risk people?
Dean: No. The bill eliminates restricting insurance on the basis of pre-existing conditions. There are a disproportionate people in the uninsured pool that are high-risk, but it's not overwhelmingly disproportionate. Also, the difference in overhead rates will give the public option more money to deal with increased risk. Finally: So what? These people are getting bad health care in emergency rooms, and we're paying for that now anyway via taxes. At the end of the day, we may end up paying less, because these people will be getting more rational and consistent care. It'll all work out pretty much evenly.
Mike: A questioner is skeptical of the small business exemption. In the Clinton plan, we tried to subsidize small business to the point where big businesses rebelled — and we lost their support. Should small business have to pay into the pot, or exempted entirely?
Dean: Big business gets a lot of breaks from Congress and the taxpayers. It has no right to complain about the few subsidies small businesses get. These businesses create 80% of all new jobs in America. I'd say anybody with under a million dollars in revenue or fewer than 50 employees should be exempt from this.
I'm not pushing this (though it was part of my 2004 platform). I don't think we need a mandate. It won't be popular — though Republicans are also mandating that we stick with the system we have now.
Also: We should give people under 30 the same Medicare we give people under 65. They're cheap to insure since they're generally healthy, they're not heavy users, they're hard to get signed up for anything, they're moving constantly and hard to keep insured. We did it for $480 a year in Vermont.
For the over 55s, I'd let them buy into Medicare. The public option advances that. This lets us do a lot of cost controls — this is in the bill.
I wouldn't do away with employer-based insurance, though I argue for this in the book. People like it. They get good benefits, even though they're expensive. CEOs like it, for reasons that aren't quite reasonable. And America is a conservative country: we think we want change, but we won't always vote for it.
So we need to give Americans the choice, and Obama's bill does that.
We have failed to insure Americans — not only because the insurance companies, but because 80% of us have insurance, and 60% have good insurance. They don't want to change. We need to let people experience an alternative, and let them make the choice. This allows the pace of reform to go at a pace people will be comfortable with.
Mike: Last question. What can we bloggers do to make health reform happen this year?
Dean: More than most people. Go to StandWithDrDean.com and find out what you can do. Bill Press's website list legislators we need to work on. E-mail them and ask what these Democrats are doing to pass the Democratic President's bill. Make sure they get contacted by people in their states.
This is even working on Max Baucus: he's going home to Montana and getting an earful. He knows he has to get a bill out of his committee with zero Republican votes, so he's got to work with the Democrats. In the end, I think we're going to get almost every Democrat in the Senate, because they know people want this.
For legislators, this is a choice between the insurance companies and the people who voted for them. We can be polite, but firm. We have made our compromise. There will be no more compromises. We expect them do what we elected them to do.
(And the crowd goes wild.)
Follow ups: Organizing for America is rounding up bloggers to do phone banking today for health care reform. (We're trying to get 10,000 calls out today.)
Dean's going out canvassing in Pittsburgh tomorrow with SEIU.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC women's basketball head coach Phil Stern announced the completion of his staff for the 2013-14 season, with the additions of Rich Conover, Taryn Christian and Marisa Crane during the offseason. Conover and Christian, who make their returns to the America East Conference, will join Carlee Cassidy as assistants for the black and gold, while Crane will serve as the squad's Director of Basketball Operations.
Conover returns to the league after four seasons as the head coach of Division II Le Moyne. During his time in Syracuse, N.Y., Conover served as the Coaches Council Chair, bringing forth ideas and concerns to the program's Athletic Director.
In 1999, Conover began a four-year stint as an assistant coach at Binghamton, where he helped the Bearcats transition from a Division II institution to Division I. During the 2002-03 campaign, Conover was named the acting head coach for the final 16 games of the year and earned the head coaching job following that season's end.
Conover spent five seasons (2003-08) at the helm of the Bearcats, posting a 74-87 overall record, including a 62-55 mark in league play. The Yonkers, N.Y., native registered a seven-win improvement in his first full season as the head coach, the 18th-best improvement in the nation that year, en route to earning America East Women's Basketball Coach of the Year recognition.
"Rich is one of the best defensive minds in our game," Stern said. "I coached against him for many years and am thrilled to be working with him."
Christian makes her return to the conference, having served as the Director of Basketball Operations at the University of New Hampshire for the 2011-12 season. She joins the Retrievers' staff after one season as the Director of Basketball Operations at Towson University, where she organized all the team's scheduling and travel plans, in addition to coordinating the Tigers' camps, clinics and community service initiatives.
Chrisitan was a four-year member of the Northeastern University women's basketball team from 2007-11. Prior to her graduation, Christian served as a student assistant coach and director of team travel during the 2010-11 campaign.
The Silver Spring, Md., native played at Springbrook High School, where she helped lead the squad to a 4A West Division Championship, regional championship and a 4A State Semifinal appearance in 2005-06.
"Taryn has worked in our conference and has an excellent knowledge of the state of Maryland," said Stern.
Crane was a four-year member and three-year starter for the Drexel University women's basketball program (2008-12). Despite battling injuries throughout her career, Crane finished the 2009-10 season as the Colonial Athletic Association's leader in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.7) and dished out 134 assists – the best total by a Dragon player in 20 years.
During the 2012-13 season, Crane served as an assistant coach for Division III Albright College, which nearly doubled its win total from a year ago. A former point guard, Crane focused on the development of the team's perimeter players and aided in the guidance of freshman star Kelecia Harris – the Mid-Atlantic and ECAC Regional Rookie of the Year and a member of the DIII News' National All-Freshman Team.
Marissa comes highly recommended from her playing days at Drexel and her time spent last year at Albright," explained Stern. "She will be an asset in many ways to our program."
Stern enters his 12th season at the helm of the Retrievers' program and is 13 wins away from surpassing Sue Furnary for the most wins by a coach in UMBC women's basketball history. Stern returns four letterwinners and one starter from last year's squad, which earned its second-highest seed ever in the America East Tournament.


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Control Spell Checking in QuickBooks 2012
No company preferences exist for the Spelling Preferences in QuickBooks 2012, but the My Preferences tab provides several options for controlling how spell checking works for you within QuickBooks.
You can select the Always Check Spelling Before Printing, Saving, or Sending Supported Forms check box, for example, if you want to have automatic spell checking performed before you actually distribute a document to an outside party, such as a customer or vendor.
You can also use the Ignore Words With check boxes to tell QuickBooks not to spell check words or phrases that aren't going to appear correctly spelled because they aren't real words.
For example, you can select the Internet Addresses check box to tell QuickBooks that it shouldn't check Internet URL addresses. And you can select the All UPPERCASE Letters check box to tell QuickBooks that it shouldn't attempt to spell check words that are acronyms and abbreviations, such as OK and ASAP.
QuickBooks also lets you remove custom-spelled words from your spell-checking dictionary. (You add custom-spelled words during spell check by telling QuickBooks that a word flagged as possibly misspelled is, in fact, spelled correctly. To do this, click the Add button when the Check Spelling dialog box appears.)


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Select and Remove Picture Backgrounds in Office 2011 for Mac
Remove Background is a new feature for Office 2011 for Mac applications. The Remove Background feature automatically figures out a shape's boundaries, which make removing it super quick. In many ways, this tool is easier and more capable than Photoshop, and it works amazingly well on many pictures.
Select a picture.
Click the Ribbon's Format Picture tab. In the Adjust group, click Remove Background.
Remove Background surrounds the area(s) of your picture it guesses that you want to keep with a selection box. Remove Background indicates what it interprets as the background with a pink overlay. Resize the selection box by dragging the handles so that the desired foreground is highlighted. As you drag, the size of the selection is indicated in a ScreenTip.
Press Return to remove the background.
The perfect result, determined automatically.
The Remove Background tool is simply brilliant at picking out the subject from the background. But if you have a picture that Remove Background did not interpret perfectly on its own, you can help it out by specifying which portions of your image are foreground or background.
To manually add to the selected area, take these steps:
Notice that as you move the mouse cursor over the pink overlay, it becomes a green plus.
When the cursor is a plus, drag a line across a portion of the picture you want to add to the selection.
To manually remove portions of the selected area, hold Command down to change the plus to a minus and then drag over the area you want to remove.
If you make a mistake, click the small circle in the center of each line to undo that line. Note that you don't click on boundaries — you draw lines over the center of areas to select them.


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Wild Guide - Passport to New Mexico Wilderness
This comprehensive guide to New Mexico's protected wildlands is the only book that features each of the state's designated wilderness areas and wilderness study areas as well as other treasures such as the Rio Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks national monuments.
Part hiking guide and part reference book, Wild Guide: Passport to New Mexico Wilderness can help you discover our best public lands. The book replaces the Wilderness Alliance's annual publication and is an update of the out-of-print New Mexico Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide by Bob Julyan.
Paperback wirebound books are $19.95 plus $3.25 shipping.


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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
How Information Flows During Emergencies
MIT Technology Review
Mobile phones have changed the way scientists study humanity. The electronic records of these calls provide an unprecedented insight into the nature of human behaviour revealing patterns of travel, human reproductive strategies and even the distribution of wealth in sub-Saharan Africa. All of this involves humans acting in ordinary situations that they have experienced many times before. But what of the way humans behave in extraordinary conditions, such as during earthquakes, armed conflicts or terrorist incidents? READ MORE.
'Fragile Five' Is the Latest Club of Emerging Nations in Turmoil
The New York Times
The long-running boom in emerging markets came to be identified, if not propped up, by wide acceptance of the term BRICs, shorthand for the fast-growing countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. Recent turmoil in these and similar markets has produced a rival expression: the Fragile Five. The new name, as coined by a little-known research analyst at Morgan Stanley last summer, identifies Turkey, Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia as economies that have become too dependent on skittish foreign investment to finance their growth ambitions. The term has caught on in large degree because it highlights the strains that occur when countries place too much emphasis on stoking fast rates of economic growth. READ MORE.


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I give up. Jet lag doesn't usually get the best of me, but here I am wide awake at 2:30 in the morning. Actually being awake at 2:30 am isn't that big of a deal for me, but the problem this time is I just woke up after sleeping for the past 8 hours. I have a feeling getting back into a Pacific Time rhythm is going to be difficult.
I just realized, many of you probably have no idea what I am talking about. I suppose if you haven't been on my Twitter feed or Facebook Page you may be out of the loop. Yesterday, I ended a 10 day trip to Liberia with 32 straight hours of traveling. It's good to be home to say the least. I had an amazing time, met some wonderful people and saw a part of the world I had never been to before. It was quite a learning experience, and I want to thank MiiR Bottles for working with me on this project. I will have a lot more to say and show in the weeks and months to come, but that is not why I am writing now.
Before I left for Liberia, I started a fun contest on Twitter and I want to extend it to everyone who reads my blog as well. It's very simple. Guess how many pictures I took in Liberia. The person with the closest guess will receive a free print from my trip. One guess per person, and I will only accept guesses left as a comment on this blog post, on Twitter (@johnkeatley) or on my Facebook Page. I am looking for the total number of shots. I shot for 6 1/2 days, and I used my Canon 5D Mark II and Hasselblad H3DII. I will stop taking guesses on the 21st of January at noon PST. If the winner Likes this post on Facebook and or guesses the EXACT number correctly there will be a bonus prize. Good luck! Start posting your guesses.


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Well, I know what me and my friends do when we are bored at school. We think up stupid things we can do to get in trouble, or we do something productive, like tonight. We changed the green LED in my friend's wireless card to a blue LED. If you are interested in seeing pictures of that: http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~dlelewsk/
I was wondering, what do other people do when they are bored at their college? We are at a tech school and there aren't many girls to speak of, so that is out of the question. Anyone?


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Windows 8's Internet Explorer 10 Reigns Supreme in Browser Safety Test
People sometimes ask me, "Why do I have to buy security software? Shouldn't the operating system keep nasty programs out?" In a perfect world that might happen, but not in our world. However, Windows 8 brings us just a bit closer to that Utopian ideal. In a test by NSS Labs, its Internet Explorer 10 browser detected and blocked over 99 percent of malicious downloads without any help from a third-party antivirus program.
NSS Labs researchers spent most of September putting Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari to the test under Windows 8. Every day they captured hundreds of real-world malicious URLs and inflicted them on each of the four browsers. To ensure freshness of each sample, they performed the browser tests immediately and verified that the URL was actually malicious afterward, discarding any that didn't meet the test criteria. They accumulated over 90,000 real-world URLs and used around 900 of those in testing.
Levels of Protection
IE and Chrome block malicious downloads in two ways. First, they check the URL's reputation; if it's a known malware-hosting site they divert the user to a warning page. Second, they check the downloaded file itself and warn the user if it's malicious. For testing purposes, the researchers tracked these two types of protection separately.
Safari and Firefox also rely on Google's Safe Browsing API to block known bad URLs, but only Chrome includes the additional detection for malicious downloads.
Lopsided Results
Internet Explorer 10 protected the test systems against 99.1 percent of the malicious URLs thrown at it by the researchers. It blocked almost 90 percent of the URLs before the malware download even began. The Application Reputation component handled the rest by flagging the downloaded file as dangerous.
Chrome has earned low scores in earlier editions of this test—better than Opera and Safari, but still poor. This time around it achieved 70.4 percent protection, which is a big improvement. Just 4.5 percent of the detection occurred at the URL level via the Safe Browsing API. Chrome flagged the remainder as malicious after the download.
As for Opera and Safari, the only protection they offer against malicious downloads comes through the Safe Browsing API, so they both scored barely over 4 percent protection.
Not surprisingly, NSS Labs recommends choosing a browser that's effective at blocking malware downloads. Those who just can't bear to use Internet Explorer should make sure to use "antivirus suites with robust web reputation technologies." The full report, available on the NSS Labs website, offers an extremely detailed look at the test methodology.
For more from Neil, follow him on Twitter @neiljrubenking.


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April 1, 2013
Women Leaders named
At the annual Outstanding Woman Leader Awards reception, ten students and employees were recognized for leadership, and the first annual Legacy in Leadership Award was named for its first recipient, Dr. Jan Rogers, Vice President for Student Affairs. At the reception, from left are award winners: Sarah Baker, Cheryl Hay, Kimberly Brazwell, Kelly Hogan, Laura Shady, Dr. Jan Rogers, and students Sara Yurkovic, Kristin Balmert, Rachel Rockwell, Stacie Banes, and Jovonne Abbott.
Chatting with a Major General
Students chat with Major General Deborah Ashenhurst after her speech about the history of women in the military, given March 29 in honor of Women's History Month. Maj. Gen. Ashenhurst is the first female Adjutant General in Ohio, and she gave credit to those women who had come before her to pave the way despite the many challenges for women in the military. Ashenhurst commands the Ohio National Guard, which includes the Ohio Army National Guard, Ohio Air National Guard, Ohio Military Reserve and the Ohio Naval Militia. You can listen to a story on her visit from WOSU Radio's NPR News here.
Distinguished Teaching Award finalists selected
After reviewing a record 38 portfolios from this academic year's Distinguished Teaching Award nominees, the selection committee as has chosen ten finalists for classroom observation during the remainder of Spring Semester. Of these ten, four will be selected and honored as Distinguished Teaching Award winners during the Quality Awards Luncheon to be held in June. Please congratulate the finalists:
Selloane Asiamah, Social Sciences
Beth Barnett, Development Education
Rick Bartlett, Business Management
Ron Elizaga, Psychology
Eric Kenz, Biological Sciences
Rita Ralph, Mathematics
Don Ricker, Social Sciences
Peter "Bo" Riley, Humanities
Fauna Stout, Medical Assisting
David Tom, Psychology
Learn more about the DTA award, see this year's nominees and past winners, and nominate a faculty member for next year's award at http://cscc.edu/faculty/DTA.shtml.
Complete the "Great Colleges To Work For" survey
We are at the mid-point in the survey window for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Great Colleges To Work For survey. On March 17, 600 randomly selected employees received an email from "firstname.lastname@example.com" with the subject line "The Chronicle's Great Colleges to Work For 2013 Faculty/Staff Survey." These employees should have received a reminder email from ModernThink with same subject.
If you received this invitation please complete the survey. Columbus State is participating in this study to assess our workplace quality, culture and satisfaction. Your voluntary participation and honest feedback are critical to obtaining a full and accurate assessment. Our institution will not be given any information that would enable us to trace survey data back to any one individual.
The survey window closes on April 14 so don't delay!
Seats available in Wednesday's session of Hostmanship
You can still sign up to attend the April 3 session of "Introduction to Hostmanship: Customer Service and Leadership reframed," offered from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in WD 415.
In his book Hostmanship, hospitality industry veteran Jan Gunnarsson challenges individuals to reframe their views of customer service and leadership. At its core, Hostmanship invites us to rethink the customer service experience seeing ourselves as connected to the customer as host. This shift transforms the interaction, creating a welcoming attitude where we are able to share ourselves and our knowledge with our guests in every interaction.
In this introduction to Hostmanship, we will discuss its foundation and principles as well as its application for personal and professional growth. Register here: http://web.cscc.edu/is/employeetraining/register.asp?C=433&D=2922
Get off the couch and get ready for the Cougar Challenge 5K
The 2nd annual Cougar Challenge 5K (3.1 miles) is just around the corner! The race will be held Saturday, April 27, at the Bridgeview Golf Course. Columbus State's Wellness Program and the staff at the Human Performance Center want to help you prepare for the race, even if you have no running or racing experience! Attend a "From Couch to 5K" seminar to learn training tactics and get support on Monday, April 1, at 1:00 p.m. in WD 103 or Wednesday April 3, at 12:00 p.m. in UN 139. For more information contact Nichole Bowman-Glover, Wellness coordinator.
Reminder: First Wednesday town hall meeting is April 3
Join President Harrison for the April town hall meeting, First Wednesday, to be held April 3 starting at 8:15 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom (WD). All employees are welcome to attend this short meeting where we will recognize the April Staff Employee of the Month, and chat about current events at the college. First Wednesdays are also live streamed on a private channel for employees, so please log in at http://www.livestream.com/columbusstate using the password cougars.


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Obama Proposes an Education Employee Bailout. How Novel!
Over the weekend, the White House released a "new" report explaining why President Obama thinks the Feds need to spend -- er, "invest" -- $25 billion on public school staffing. Since July 2009 "the economy lost over 300,000 local education jobs."
Where have we heard this before?
Of course! We've been down this road many times, and the President did get a tidy $10 billion bailout on top of the original "stimulus" -- with its roughly $100 billion for education -- as a result. Why not try again?
For the same reason he should never have tried: While no one likes to see someone lose a job, the fact of the matter is we've seen decades of public-school hiring and spending binges, ultimately without even close to commensurate achievement gains to show for them. Between 1969-70 and Fall 2009 pupil-to-staff ratios dropped from 13.6-to-1 to 7.8-to-1 -- a huge staffing increase. Pupil-to-teacher ratios dropped from 22.6-to-1 to 15.4-to-1. Meanwhile, National Assessment of Educational Progress scores for 17-year-olds -- our schools "final products" -- were almost completely stagnant. And that 300,000 figure? It seems like a lot, but in 2010 there were almost 6.2 million local, public K-12 employees. That's a less than 5 percent trimming.
In addition to the dearth of evidence that more hiring will do appreciable good, there are two other big problems. The first is that $25 billion is a lot of money that we simply don't have. Anyone notice the national debt is about to surpass $16 trillion? And the second: The federal government has no constitutional authority to waste our dough in the name of education.
Frankly, this bailout idea is really stale, and we at Cato's Center for Educational Freedom are getting a little tired of ripping it to shreds. But as long as people continue to believe that public schools have no money, and that someone else (hint: "the rich") will pay the bills, we'll constantly be offered such reality-be-darned proposals.


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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jan 31, 2013) - Daxor Corporation (
Christiana Medical Center, the largest hospital in Delaware, presented a study on the diagnosis of hyponatremia in critically ill neurologic patients. The authors were Drs. Kathryn Fulda, Timothy Manzone, Gerard Fulda and Frederick Giberson. Blood volume analysis was performed on 293 patients, of which 72 had a neurologic disorder fitting the criteria for the study. Hyponatremia is a condition in which the blood sodium concentration is lowered below normal levels. This may lead to seizures and critical failure of multiple organs. In this study, 51% of the patients were hyponatremic (low sodium), 36% were normal, and 12.5% were hypernatremic (high sodium). Blood volume measurement measures the patient's red cell volume, plasma volume, and total blood volume.
Patients who have cerebral salt wasting (CSW) and hyponatremia typically have decreased blood volume and plasma volume. In contrast, another condition of low serum sodium concentration is called the Inappropriate Diuretic Hormone Syndrome. This condition results from an inappropriate release of vasopressin, a brain hormone, which causes water retention and dilution of the blood sodium. The treatment for cerebral salt wasting is to give patients the opposite treatment, which is to restrict fluid and give medications such as Tolvaptan which blocks the vasopressin hormone, to return the serum sodium to normal.
The study from Christiana shows that the usually physiologic parameters in evaluating these patients were not accurate in identifying correctly which treatment could be used. In the study mentioned above the death rate was 28.6% in patients whose hyponatremia was not corrected compared to 17.9% in patients in whom serum sodium was corrected. Patients with a life threatening condition such as hyponatremia should be treated with a blood volume measurement on a timely basis so optimum treatment can be administered. The authors noted that measurement of the plasma volume was most helpful in correctly categorizing the hyponatremic patients. In the hyponatremic group total blood volume was decreased in 41% of the patients, normal in 38% of the patients, and increased in 21% of the patients.
The President of Daxor, Dr. Joseph Feldschuh, commented that, "This important study is further evidence that patients with hyponatremia, a relatively common condition seen not only in severely injured neurology patients but in multiple other conditions such as congestive heart failure, should have a blood volume measurement performed so they are not incorrectly treated."
The study was supported by grants from NCRR and NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health, and the State of Delaware.
Daxor Corporation manufactures and markets the BVA-100, which is used in conjunction with Volumex, Daxor's single use diagnostic kit. For more information regarding Daxor Corporation's Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100, visit Daxor's website at www.Daxor.com.
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It's interesting to me how a word can define a class. The longer I teach, the more excited and quickly I can cover a concept. However, this pace does not necessarily fit well with my students, so we have a code word: Traxoline (thanks to Judy Lanier). Traxoline has taken the place of many student quotes: "I have no idea what you're saying!" or "Can you please start the lecture over?" or "Slow down,now!", etc. It gives voice to students who may not even know where to begin. Now, they simply say "Traxoline" and this gives us a place to start. I wondered how this would work in my new teaching world - community college. Yesterday we were discussing concentrations and the units that accompany them and a student declared, "Traxoline!" Everyone smiled, some acknowledging they were in the same place, and we stepped back and worked our way forward again to molarity. This is not the first time we have been "Traxolined" this semester. I'd say it works well in community college. Do you have a special language, or code words for your classroom? Have they worked in a variety of settings? Share them with us!
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Busch Gardens has unveiled its haunted house lineup for this year's Howl-O-Scream, and it includes two with evil inhabitants and a new concept designed to test mental endurance.
The after-hours Halloween event at the Tampa theme park is themed around 13 evils incorporated into its haunted houses and scare zones. Two all-new houses are The Basement (featuring a butcher and a secret recipe) and Death Water Bayou (a voodoo queen and her minions).
A new reservations-required (and extra charge) experience is The Experiment, which turns guests into psychological studies. They must "face fear-inducing elements, from roaches and snakes to needles and darkness," according to a Busch Gardens media release. Experimentees must pay Howl-O-Scream admission, then $50 for this house (Additional guests, up to four, for $10 apiece).
Returning houses (with twists) are Circus of Superstition 3-D, Blood Asylum, Zombie Mortuary, Ultimate Gamble: Reversal of Fortune and Nevermore.
Howl-O-Scream runs for 14 select nights between Sept. 27 and Oct. 26.
Admission is $89, although there are discounts and options including VIP Packages, the Fright Feast dinner buffet, front-of-line passes and multiday passes. For tickets or more information, go to Howloscream.com.


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Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. Announces Plan to Spin Off Biotechnology Business
PETALUMA, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCLS) today announced that its board of directors has unanimously approved a spin-off of its novel biotechnology business, Ruthigen, Inc.
Oculus management is currently working with securities counsel and bankers on a plan to provide equity in Ruthigen to Oculus shareholders. Oculus expects the spinoff to be a tax-free stock distribution and ultimately anticipates Ruthigen to become an independent NASDAQ-traded company. Oculus has retained bankers and financial advisors for the spinoff, and expects the spinoff to be completed in 2013. Execution of the transaction requires further work relative to structure, governance and other significant matters and risks.
Upon completion of the spinoff, Hoji Alimi, founder and current chief executive officer of Oculus, will remain on the board of directors at Oculus and serve as chairman and chief executive officer of Ruthigen, Inc. Jim Schutz, the current chief operating officer and director of Oculus, will assume the role of chief executive officer of Oculus, with a new board chair to be elected shortly. Each company will operate with independent management teams and boards of directors to establish separate governance and financials as required by accounting rules. Additional details regarding structure will be determined and disclosed at a later time.
Oculus will retain all Microcyn drug and device indications while Ruthigen will focus on RUT58-60, a drug candidate intended for the prevention of infection in trauma and surgical procedures. RUT58-60 is a new unique chemical formulation containing twice the concentration of hypochlorous acid, along with magnesium and no sodium hypochlorite.
Alimi said: "By separating these unique businesses into two companies, we believe each company will benefit from greater strategic and managerial focus and be better positioned to capitalize on future market opportunities. Under the plan currently under consideration, Oculus shareholders will receive shares of Ruthigen. Ultimately, we are seeking to create additional value for current and future shareholders of both Oculus and Ruthigen.
"Our Microcyn business will continue as it has over the past seven years providing life saving products for patients without the additional burden of drug development costs. Oculus has a foundation of strong fundamentals, including sustainable revenues from several key markets and a solid plan for new sources of revenue growth over the next several years."
Oculus' intent is to secure additional FDA and CE regulatory approvals and to expand medical device offerings over the next 12 months. This will provide current partners with new products and a growing platform of products for new partners. While Oculus will continue promoting Microcyn-based products for topical use, Ruthigen intends to focus on use of its uniquely differentiated drug for internal use targeting organ exposure. Ruthigen intends to identify a partner for its European drug indication as well as file an S-1 registration statement to fund its pivotal drug program in the United States. Upon completion of a public offering, the entities will operate as independent entities.
"The spin-off of Ruthigen should be attractive to shareholders who are interested in companies that are addressing the critical issue of surgical infection," said Alimi. "Initially, we intend to leverage our previous phase two drug data for use in regulatory approvals relative to the prevention of infection in surgeries."
The completion of the proposed spinoff is subject to certain customary conditions, including final approval by Oculus' board of directors, the filing and effectiveness of appropriate filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission including a registration statement on form S-1, and any necessary third-party consents, as well as certain other matters relating to the spinoff, receipt of legal opinions, execution of intercompany agreements, and final approval of the transactions contemplated by the spinoff, as may be required under Delaware law. Oculus notes that there can be no assurance that any separation transaction will ultimately occur, or, if one does occur, its terms or timing.
Management Conference Call
Oculus management will hold a conference call today to discuss the spin-off and to answer questions, beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET. Individuals interested in participating in the conference call may do so by dialing (877) 303-7607 for domestic callers or (973) 638-3203 for international callers. Those interested in listening to the conference call live via the Internet may do so at http://ir.oculusis.com/events.cfm. Log on approximately 30 minutes prior to the presentation in order to register and download the appropriate software. Please note that those listening via the web do not have the ability to pose questions.
A telephone replay will be available for seven days following the conclusion of the call by dialing (855) 859-2056 for domestic callers, or (404) 537-3406 for international callers, and entering conference code 87524998. A webcast replay will be available on the site at http://ir.oculusis.com/events.cfm for one year following the call.
About Oculus Innovative Sciences
Oculus Innovative Sciences is a healthcare company that designs, produces and markets innovative, safe and effective anti-infective products and medical devices while also developing multiple drug candidates for various indications including treatment of acne and surgical suite use. Oculus is pioneering innovative solutions in multiple markets for the dermatology, surgical, wound care, and animal healthcare markets, and has commercialized products in the United States, Europe, India, China, Mexico and select Middle East countries. The company's headquarters are in Petaluma, California, with manufacturing operations in the United States and Latin America. More information can be found at www.oculusis.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for historical information herein, matters set forth in this press release are forward-looking within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about the Company's commercial and technology progress and future financial performance. These forward-looking statements are identified by the use of words such as "provide," "execution," "assume," and "intended," among others. Forward-looking statements in this press release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company's business that could cause actual results to vary, including such risks that regulatory clinical and guideline developments may change, scientific data may not be sufficient to meet regulatory standards or receipt of required regulatory clearances or approvals, clinical results may not be replicated in actual patient settings, protection offered by the Company's patents and patent applications may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by its competitors, the available market for the Company's products will not be as large as expected, the Company's products will not be able to penetrate one or more targeted markets, revenues will not be sufficient to fund further development and clinical studies, the Company may not meet its future capital needs, and its ability to obtain additional funding, as well as uncertainties relative to varying product formulations and a multitude of diverse regulatory and marketing requirements in different countries and municipalities, the uncertainties associated with effecting a spinoff of a separate public company, and the discretion of Oculus' Board of Directors to delay or cancel the spinoff prior to execution, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2012. Oculus Innovative Sciences disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
Oculus press releases contain information about products, which may or may not be available in any particular country, and if applicable, may have received approval or market clearance by a governmental regulatory body for different indications and restrictions in different countries. Each country has specific laws, regulations and medical practices governing the communication of medical or other information about medical products. Nothing herein should be construed as a solicitation or promotion for any product or for an indication for any product, which is not authorized by the laws and regulations of the country where the reader resides.
Oculus and Microcyn Technology are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
Media and Investor Contact:
Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.
Dan McFadden
Director of Public and Investor Relations
(425) 753-2105


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Author's note: I'm making transparency a central theme in this edition of Great Pairs.
Today we look at David Quay's Kade together with Joshua Darden's Freight Micro, and since I'm promoting the new Tryout feature at next.fontshop.com, all of the images shown here link you to their source, where you can go and mess around with the samples, and very possibly come up with something that works even better for your own purposes.
Quickly, let me add that this feature (the new Tryout feature) is limited to webfonts that we offer, so keeping this page open as a reference to what will work is advised: FontShop's Webfonts. I also recommend against pasting text into the Tryout feature, and also, you should use a modern desktop browser. Going against this advice (as I have as part of testing the feature) will reveal what remains to be fixed, however, the feature's failure to deliver the expected result looks a lot more like it's simply not responding to your input. Sticking to options you can be somewhat confident will work will give you a much more positive experience with this tool. Today is May 23, 2013 and the above is all subject to change. Now on to Kade and Freight Micro.
Reading about Kade, the concept comes from lettering on ships and docks in the Netherlands, an engineer's approach to letter making. Getting my own good look at the face, I see it doing well in the portrayal of the idea of technical subjects, such as math and sciences. Freight Micro is one optical size of Freight (serif) drawn specifically to function at around 6 pt and below, and part of the larger Freight Super Family.
The thing that really unifies this combination is its attention to the relationship between interior and exterior contours, hard lines wrapped with taut, smooth ones. In Kade, this is mainly a stylistic decision. In Freight Micro, similar results were arrived at under the constraints of performance at very small sizes. It's fine, by the way to use a typeface intended for small sizes at larger ones, though be careful of it falling apart. The other way around (using type drawn for large sizes to set text) generally doesn't work.
That's it. Great Pairs land here each *Wednesday.
*though you may have noticed today's not Wednesday, it's Friday. I had to replace a bad hard drive and got a little behind this week. Thanks for reading.


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Hillary Clinton well enough to take phone calls from staff
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is being treated for a blood clot behind her right ear, has been talking with her staff by telephone and receiving memos, the State Department said today.
Clinton also spoke to two foreign officials - the UN envoy on Syria and the prime minister of Qatar - on Saturday, the day before the State Department disclosed the blood clot and her stay at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
"She's been quite active on the phone with staff and taking paper, etc.," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at her daily briefing.
The secretary of state, who has not been seen in public since December 7, was revealed on Sunday evening to be in a New York hospital under treatment for a blood clot that stemmed from a concussion she suffered in mid-December.
The concussion was itself the result of an earlier illness, described by the State Department as a stomach virus she had picked up during a trip to Europe that led to dehydration and a fainting spell after she returned to the United States.
In a statement released by the State Department on Monday, Clinton's doctors said they were confident that she would make a full recovery and that she would be released from the hospital once the correct dosage of blood thinners had been determined.


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Proposals are now being accepted for Presenters and Exhibitors!
Join us for the 2012 Environmental Education Symposium in Lafayette, Louisiana on March 9-10, 2012!
Exhibitors: If your organization offers environmental resources for educators, this symposium would provide an excellent opportunity for you to display and distribute these materials to the individuals who can best utilize them – teachers and informal educators! Our Exhibit Hall will feature environmental education resources for educators, such as curriculum guides, lesson plans, CD ROMs, videos, field trip information and other opportunities that can enrich the classroom experience. Our educators would greatly appreciate your resources and the opportunity to speak to you, the experts!
Presenters: Do you have a new, dynamic lesson, activity, or program that you would like to share with fellow formal and informal environmental educators? Consider presenting at the 2012 EE Symposium! Emphasis this year will be placed on engaging teachers and students in outdoor learning experiences … so what can you add to the conversation?!
Classroom teachers are encouraged to submit proposals! Your counterparts are anxious to see what you are doing in the classroom so do them a favor and share your knowledge!
All Symposium registration, exhibitor, and presenter forms and related information can be found on our website at www.wlf.louisiana.gov/eec. For more information: Venise Ortego, EE Coordinator, 337-948-0255, email@example.com, www.wlf.louisiana.gov/eec


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Factory Part No: 25678792, 25628814, 25668603
Programming Notes:
Obtain all remote transmitters for this vehicle. This procedure will erase all previously programmed remotes. You must program all existing and new remotes that you wish to use on the vehicle at this time.
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- Locate the Data Link Port (shown above). It is located under the Driver's side dash. Identify ports eight (8) and four (4). Note that the port is wider on the top row and contains ports one (1) through eight (8). The bottom row contains ports nine (9) through sixteen (16). Be sure there are metal pins inside ports 8 and 4. The above diagram is for your reference since the numbers are not on the connector ports.
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