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Blends up to B20 Add to NFL Efforts for 'Greening' the Super Bowl
(AMES, IA) January 29, 2014—Renewable Energy Group, Inc.® (NASDAQ: REGI) today announced that it will provide biodiesel to power generators at the Super Bowl and events leading up to it, helping the National Football League enhance its 20-year effort to make the game more environmentally friendly.
REG will provide as much as 15,000 gallons of biodiesel blends from B5 to B20 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey during Super Bowl XLVIII, as well as powering more than 18 generators for events along Super Bowl Boulevard in New York City leading up to the Super Bowl.
"All of us at REG are excited and honored to help 'green' the Super Bowl with our high-quality, American made biodiesel," said Daniel J. Oh, Renewable Energy Group, Inc. President and CEO. "We are proud to be working with the NFL to help in their environmental efforts and to promote biodiesel's other benefits of energy security, energy diversity, and job creation to one of the largest sports audiences in the world."
Biodiesel is a renewable, clean-burning diesel replacement that is enhancing the American energy complex and increasing energy and food security. Made from a diverse mix of feedstocks including recycled cooking oil, animal fats, waste greases and refined vegetable oils, biodiesel reduces greenhouse gas emissions between 57 and 95 percent when compared to petroleum diesel.
"The NFL has been working on the 'greening' of the Super Bowl for 20 years and adding biofuels to our mix is one more step in that process," said Jack Groh, NFL Environmental Program Director. "We have a comprehensive program that includes solid waste recycling, food recovery, repurposing of decor and construction materials, collection of books and sports equipment for children in need, urban forestry projects and renewable energy use. Integrating biodiesel is another way we can address the environmental impact of our activities at the Super Bowl."
REG is partnering with two leading heating oil distributors in the region, Hart Energy for delivery to Times Square and Majka and Son's for delivery to Metlife Stadium.
Based in Ames, Iowa, REG is North America's leading biodiesel producer, with 257 million gallons of annual nameplate production capacity at eight biorefineries located in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Texas.
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Florida A&M gets probation lifted by regional accreditation panel
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida A&M University is no longer on probation.
In December, 2012, a regional accrediting organization gave FAMU officials a year to fix several problems. The university came under fire for several items, including whether or not students were safe in the wake of the hazing death of a marching band member.
The accrediting organization voted Tuesday on FAMU's status. Interim President Larry Robinson says the vote to lift FAMU's probation was the best possible outcome.
If accreditation had been revoked, students would not have been eligible for federal financial aid.
A committee that visited FAMU's campus this fall concluded the university made progress in dealing with problems at the school. But that report cautioned it was unclear if improvements would remain once a new president is named.

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Late Sh. RAM BHAJAN AGGARWAL
Former State Minister for Home & Tourism, Government of Haryana
Former Vice-President, Dadri Education Society, Charkhi Dadri
Former President, Chinar Syntex Ltd. (Textile Mills), Bhiwani
Former President, Gaushala Trust, Bhiwani
Sh. Ram Bhajan Aggarwal, a great Social Worker and Philanthropist provided every kind of help to poor and needy section of the society. He donated funds for fees to poor students, helped financially for the marriage of daughters of poor parents particularly widow's daughters & ensured free medicines to patients. Who so ever approached him got litter or more but did not return empty hands. He remained two times M. L. A. From Bhiwani Constituency, Minister of State for Home & Tourism and Chairman, Haryana Tourism Corporation of Government of Haryana. He had acted as President (North Zone)-cum-Director Haryana Co-operative Federation and Chairman, National Consumer Co-operative Federation. He had represented Government of India in World Co-operative Conference held in Paris (France).
He had remained the President of Gaushala Trust, Bhiwani, Kanhi Ram Eye Hospital Trust, Ram Parsad Rameshwar Das Charitable Trust & Aggarwal Charitable Trust. He was the Vice-President of Dadri Education Society, which is running Eight Educational Institutions. He was a Treasurer of Smt. Vidya Devi Jan Kalyan Society. He was a Trustee of Vaish Mahavidyalaya Trust, which is running Eight Educational Institutions, Ch. Bansi Lal Memorial Trust & Prakartik Chikitsalya Trust. He was the Founder Member of Adarsh Mahavidyalaya Education Society, which is running a premier Girls College and Patanjli Yog Peeth, Haridwar.
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Attracted to children
Plagued by abhorrent desires, Sven tries to live right. A confronting documentary that follows him as he seeks help will screen in Sydney this weekend.
Sven was still a teenager when he realised he was sexually attracted to children.
"There was a case of a 10-year-old girl that had been sexually abused and killed by her uncle," the 26-year-old student says at the beginning of Outing.
"That was when the term paedophilia was on the news.
"That was when I realised that I was like that myself.
"That I was a pig like him who might end up killing someone."
Sven's startling confession opens the documentary that follows his efforts to seek professional help to curb his sexual desires.
Sven does not doubt that his sexuality is repugnant: "And for me that's absolutely clear: any kind of sexual contact with children is taboo."
But looking at a photo album of his youth, he points to a photo of himself, aged 15, with a younger cousin: "I noticed that I felt attracted to her. She was around four."
It is one of many troubling confessions made by Sven throughout the Austrian documentary Outing, which will screen as part of the Antenna Documentary Festival at Dendy Newtown on October 13 at 3pm.
Filmmakers Sebastian Meise and Thomas Reider documented Sven's story for four years after they began researching a project at a German charity that offers therapy for people who are sexually attracted to children but who don't want to act on these desires.
The documentary features extensive footage from Sven's childhood and discusses his troubled teenage years when he felt alone and bullied and contemplated suicide.
Meise said that on a personal level, he and Reider got along well with Sven.
We wouldn't expect to see such a controversial documentary on TV or commercially screened.
"Of course, you can't judge him for an inclination that developed for unknown reasons in his youth," Meise said.
"Furthermore, Sven is genuinely trying; he wants an outside perspective, so as not to risk euphemising his problems."
At one point in Outing, Sven talks about posting on paedophile internet sites.
Meise admitted it was difficult hearing Sven discuss his fantasies.
"He wasn't telling us momentary thoughts, but recurring thoughts that were haunting him all the time," Meise said.
"He never refused to answer any of our questions; he laid everything open and kept initiating a dialogue."
However, Meise admitted that they found it difficult to trust their subject: "We keep catching ourselves questioning him, analysing what he says.
"That unsettled us; here is a person prepared to expose his inner self, almost obsessively honest, and in return we remain sceptical."
Reider said they attempted to approach Sven in an unbiased way.
He also said Sven was not unusual, with 250,000 people in Germany alone inclined towards paedophilia.
We wanted to find out what his everyday life is like," Reider said. "Sexuality is a big part of all of us; it's impossible to cast off.
"It was difficult at times, because we had to ask intimate questions, but they were important to understand the complexity of the problem."
But Reider said the filmmakers would have ended the documentary if Sven had said he had engaged in criminal acts.
The artistic director of the Antenna Documentary Festival, David Rokach, said Outing was a courageous documentary.
"We wouldn't expect to see such a controversial documentary on TV or commercially screened," he said.
Rokach said the documentary highlighted the lack of options to deal with people like Sven.
"As a consequence the options for Sven are limited; live an unbearable existence or act on his desires and harm other people," he said.
"I think that in this film, Sven is getting the opportunity to create a third option where his desires are expressed."
Outing will screen at the Antenna Documentary Festival at Dendy Newtown on October 13 at 3pm.
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Herb-Marinated Steak and Soft Scrambled Eggs Recipe
How to make the best meal of the week even better.
- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 40 minutes
- Total time:1 hour 40 minutes (or up to overnight)
- For the Steak:
- 2 sprigs oregano, finely chopped
- 3 sprigs thyme, finely chopped
- 1 sprig tarragon, finely chopped
- 5 sprigs cilantro, finely chopped
- 3 sprigs parsley, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 thai chili, finely chopped (or 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Juice of 1 lime
- Kosher salt and cracked black pepper
- 1 1/2 pounds sirloin tips
- For the Eggs:
- 8 eggs, beaten
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon butter
- Kosher salt and cracked black pepper
- Chopped chives, to garnish
- Toast, to serve
For the Steak: In a large bowl, mix together oregano, thyme, tarragon, cilantro, parsley, garlic, chili, olive oil, and lime juice until all ingredients are evenly incorporated, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Or, combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until an even paste is formed.
Pour herb mixture over steak tips and mix until the steak is evenly coated. Using a fork, pierce each piece of steak on all over. Allow to sit for at least one hour, and up to overnight in the fridge.
When ready to cook, preheat your grill pan or grill to a high heat, then sear steaks until the center of the thickest piece of each steak is 135°F for medium rare, let the steak tips rest while you cook your eggs.
For the Eggs: In a large non-stick skillet, melt the butter over medium low heat. When butter is melted add the eggs. Cook over medium low heat until eggs are softly cooked and custardy.
Slice the steak and divide between four plates. Divide the eggs between the plates as well and serve garnished with chopped chives and toast.
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Mazda6 'High Jump' Commercial – What's the Song?
In the new ad for the 'All New Mazda6,' a classic rock staple gets strapped in for the ride once more. The Who are certainly no strangers to their music being used in ads, television shows, movies and ringtones. So Mazda has decided to trot out the ever familiar strains of the Who classic 'Baba O'Riley' to use in their new ad campaign. "This is the Mazda Way" the ad proclaims. Well...alright then.
We are not sure - and cannot confirm - if the recording used is actually that of the Who or another musical interpretation. It has the signature synth run, but it is slightly altered by effects, and the drums lack a certain something of the Keith Moon signature. Perhaps it's simply a remix of the 1971 'Who's Next' version, maybe a live edit, who knows? Either way, something is a little different with the aural picture here.
There are always going to be people who yammer on about musicians using their music for commercial gain. The Who have seemingly never thought this to be an issue. 'Tommy' the movie anyone? And one of their greatest albums,'The Who Sell Out,' took the concept of advertising, and turned it into a pop art statement of its own. Take that Warhol!
To be honest, we prefer the 'Great Shakes' ad the Who did in 1967. The Yardbirds even took their own ride with Great Shakes, but we seem to have gotten off topic here. Maybe you can drink your Great Shakes while driving your new Mazda!
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The Graph area produces a graph of the current system, together with all its membersThe generic facilities available to all graph views throughout the environment are available here; see Manipulating Graphs for details.
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By leveraging analytics as a priority capability, auto and industrial manufacturers can improve entire global ecosystems of suppliers, facilities and logistics and respond to shifts in consumer needs and behavior, and to emerging trends in market demand and supply.
Industrial and automotive players are now starting to view analytics much as the leading digital retailers of the world already do: the key to agile, responsive and relevant business models that drive true innovation and competitive advantage.
Analytics: Insight-Driven Growth in Automotive and Industrial Equipment.
Data, data, everywhere...but how to derive meaningful insights from it?
The answer, as most auto and industrial executives now acknowledge, is analytics: the systematic search for meaning among the mass of "Big Data" generated by the intelligent and connected devices, systems and processes that constitute the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Accenture research shows that 82 percent of organizations now recognize Big Data as a significant source of value. They also recognize its power to help make their value chains more flexible and customer-centric. Fully 83 percent of automotive executives are planning to move toward real-time enterprise platforms and systems (including analytics platforms), for example, while the personalized customer experience is a Top 3 priority for 86 percent of industrial executives, and the most important priority of all for 33 percent of them.
Their challenge going forward will be to find ways of embedding analytics throughout their enterprises—and fuel profitable growth with the insights thus enabled.
Production and all related processes are more data intensive than ever, and so have become rich sources of critical insights.
Today's predictive analytics platforms help manufacturers see trends as they develop and thus seize new opportunities as they occur, or even get ahead of them.
Analytics can keep equipment operating, save on warranty costs, and even apply insurance rates more effectively.
Today's predictive analytics platforms help manufacturers see trends as they develop and thus seize new opportunities as they occur, or even get ahead of them.
Analytics can keep equipment operating, save on warranty costs, and even apply insurance rates more effectively.
Analytics has evolved into a driver of decision-making: a true business asset. It helps companies receive early feedback about product performance. In addition, analytics help to enhance the customer experience by allowing manufacturers and their supply chain partners to anticipate problems and tackle them proactively.
Masters of analytics are in pole position to provide analytics "as a service" and help drive top-line growth. What's more, thanks to cross-industry collaboration, they don't have to do it alone. Accenture, for example, is working with MIT to fund research into how business analytics can help global companies in six key industries—banking, health, insurance, retail, communications and energy—solve some of their most critical challenges.


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In addition to providing a useful list of nineteenth-century illustrated newspapers, this page from the 6 December 1890 issue of The Graphic is...well, just beautiful.
Papers in the UK, US, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Denmark, Holland, and Russia are represented.
Click the image and then the magnifying glass icon for a much larger (and readable) version.


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Thin Film Photovoltaic Partnership Project
NREL's Thin Film Photovoltaic (PV) Partnership Project led R&D on emerging thin-film solar technologies in the United States from 1994 to 2009. The project made many advances in thin-film PV technologies that allowed the United States to attain world leadership in this area of solar technology. Three national R&D teams focused on thin-film semiconductor materials: amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe), and copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) and its alloys. The Module Reliability Team and Environmental Health and Safety Team were crosscutting. The teams comprised researchers from the solar industry, academia, and NREL who focused their efforts on improving materials, devices, and manufacturing processes—all leading to scaling up the technologies for commercial production.
Project Goals
- Support the commercialization of reliable thin-film materials and modules.
- Build a technology base on which these advanced technologies could continue to be successful in improving manufacturing and chart progress in performance, reliability, and cost reductions.
- Sustain innovation in thin-film technologies to support long-term PV cost reduction and performance goals (for example, low-cost, 15%-efficient modules with a 30-year lifetime).
Project Highlights
The project resulted in significantly reduced manufacturing and product costs and a substantial return on investment for both the U.S. government and the industries involved. As a result, the production of thin films in the United States grew from about 10 megawatts (MW) in 2003 to more than 250 MW in 2008.
Solar Companies
During the project's last decade, the focus was on three large thin-film manufacturers: First Solar in CdTe, Global Solar in CIGS, and United Solar Ovonic (Uni-Solar) in a-Si. The remaining partner companies were small businesses establishing pilot production operations. NREL's R&D assistance to these companies ranged from characterization of thin-film materials to improving manufacturing processes and verifying efficiencies. The cost-shared R&D and collaborations resulted in the companies having better products available for the rapidly expanding PV market. Many of today's successful solar companies were NREL partners at some point in their development.
First Solar (CdTe)
- In 2003, developed a new solar cell coater process that reduced maintenance costs by enhancing material utilization rates and automating and improving production
- In 2007, expanded to a 144-MW manufacturing facility in the United States
- In 2008, achieved a production cost of $1.08 per watt
- In 2009, achieved a production cost of $0.89 cents per watt
In 2009, became the largest solar producer in the world, holding 12.8% of the world market share.
Global Solar (CIGS)
- Developed thin-film CIGS solar modules with efficiencies greater than 18%
- In 2004, developed "peel-and-stick" thin-film roofing material
- In 2008, expanded to a 40-MW U.S manufacturing facility and added a new 35-MW CIGS manufacturing plant in Germany.
Uni-Solar (a-Si)
- In 2004, developed triple-junction solar cells with an efficiency of nearly 12% that could be made using a "roll-to-roll" deposition process on stainless-steel sheet metal
- In 2005, developed "peel-and-stick" thin-film solar roofing material that reduced installation and balance-of-system costs
- In 2008, expanded to a 160-MW manufacturing facility.
ITN Energy Systems (CIGS)
- Developed an intelligent processing system to improve processing conditions and yields in cell and module fabrication for CIGS solar cells.
Ascent Solar (CIGS)
- In 2008, developed aflexible monolithically integrated solar module
- In 2009, NREL verified the highest efficiency at 10.4%.
National Laboratories and Universities
NREL's national laboratory and university partners supported project objectives to significantly reduce costs. University partners could provide a better understanding of solar cell physics because, unlike solar companies, they were generally able to reveal more research detail. University research contributions ranged from characterizing the role of impurities in solar cell materials to new characterization techniques and deposition processes that contributed to device efficiency and reliability. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed low-cost transparent encapsulation schemes for CIGS cells that reduced power losses.
Thin-Film Module Reliability
Studying and testing the reliability of thin-film modules was critical to understanding how various module designs worked and which areas needed improvement to assure 30-year outdoor reliability. This work was particularly important when the researchers developed new module designs or reconfigured existing ones.
Environmental Health and Safety
Advances in health and safety included ensuring the safe handling of toxic chemicals in manufacturing as well as helping solar companies set up module recycling programs. Brookhaven National Laboratory was a key contributor to this area of R&D.
Project Partners
Solar Companies
- Boeing
- BP Solar
- Energy Conversion Devices
- Energy Photovoltaics
- First Solar
- Global Solar Energy
- Golden Photon
- International Solar Electric Technologies
- ITN Energy Systems
- Shell Solar Industries
- Siemens Solar
- United Solar Ovonic (Uni-Solar)
National Laboratories, Institutes, and Universities
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Case Western University
- Colorado School of Mines
- Colorado State University
- Iowa State University
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Pennsylvania State University
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- University of Delaware (Institute of Energy Conversion)
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- University of Illinois
- University of Nevada
- University of North Carolina
- University of Oregon
- University of South Florida
- University of Central Florida (Florida Solar Energy Center)
- University of Toledo, Ohio
- University of Utah.
Awards and Recognition
The program and its partners shared many R&D 100 Awards for thin-film products that reached early commercialization.
- 1984—Boeing: CIS device
- 1991—Golden Photon: CdTe modules
- 1998—Uni-Solar: Triple-junction a-Si
- 1999—Siemens Solar: CIS modules
- 2002—BP Solar: Powerview modules
- 2003—First Solar: High-rate module deposition
- 2004—Global Solar: Flexible CIS modules
For more details about the Thin Film PV Partnership Program, read the following reports available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.
Overview and Challenges of Thin Film Solar Electric Technologies. 2008.
Processing Materials Devices and Diagnostics for Thin Film Photovoltaics: Fundamental and Manufacturability Issues; Final Report, University of Delaware. 5 September 2001–31 May 2008.
Thin Film CIGS and CdTe Photovoltaic Technologies: Commercialization, Critical Issues, and Application. Conference Paper presented at the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference. (2007).
Lessons learned from the Photovoltaic Manufacturing Technology and PV Manufacturing R&D and Thin-Film PV Partnership Projects. 2006.


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I've just uploaded DBD::ODBC 1.30_1 to CPAN.
If you use Windows or a Unicode build of DBD::ODBC on non-Windows platforms you should really test this release as it contains a change in behaviour for Unicode. This release also contains a small but perhaps significant change to the silent rolling back of a transactions when disconnect was called when AutoCommit was disabled. The complete changes since 1.29 are below. Again, many thanks to all the people RTing issues and providing feedback/testing.
This all started with a stackoverflow question at Automatic character encoding handling in Perl / DBI / DBD::ODBC. It then led to DBD::ODBC doesn't handle windows-1252 characters and lastly a small discussion on dbi-dev at Decoding data from the database in DBD.
Recently I've been required to look at writing a Facebook application. I don't use Facebook and have little interest in it myself. I looked around for a quick start with Perl and Facebook and came across Facebook Authentication with Perl and Facebook::Graph which looked interesting to follow and work through.
Putting aside the problems I had getting something set up on our system that allowed Facebook to post back to us I was left with the error:
I've had a little time to work on my electricity meter logger (See New data shield) over the bank holiday and have made some improvements to both the script and the power usage. The new schematic is:
An official release of the 1.28 development releases.
I'm about to release DBD::ODBC 1.29 after 4 development releases. Unfortunately, (as is often the case) I've found a bug just after the last development release related to batching of SQL statements and odbc_more_results. I'm fairly confident in it but if you use DBD::ODBC I'd love you to test it before I release it as it may be a while before I can release a new version.
You can find it here
I came across someone asking about DBIx::ProcedureCall today on Perl Monks in Execute Oracle Stored procedure using DBIx::ProcedureCall. Years ago I remember finding DBIx::ProcedureCall when we were about to embark on writing an application that used stored procedures in DB2, Oracle and MySQL. DBIx::ProcedureCall did not support DB2 and MySQL then and I was not that happy about the way it creates symbols in Perl for database procedures/functions so I dismissed it and I wrote my own code. When I saw it again on Perl Monks I thought I'd take another look at it and was surprised the supported DBDs has not increased (it is still Oracle and Postgres).
Recently at $work I've been battling with some Perl code which retrieves data from Oracle via DBD::Oracle and a package function which returns a reference cursor. As I've mentioned before in this blog, the user has no select privilege on the database but can call package procedures/functions which return reference cursors and hence data from the database.
The query we have a problem with attempts to return multiple rows but one column is actually a list of primary keys from another table:


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Letterwinners on spring sports teams at Hope College have been announced by athletic directors Tim Schoonveld and women's athletic director Eva Dean Folkert.
Letterwinners on spring sports teams at Hope College have been announced by athletic directors Tim Schoonveld and women's athletic director Eva Dean Folkert.
The spring season culminated a successful year of intercollegiate athletics as Hope College won the Commisioner's Cup for having the best cumulative men's and women's program in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Hope finished first in the MIAA women's and second in the men's all-sports standings. It marked the 33rd time in school history that Hope has won the coveted MIAA Commissioner's Cup, the most of any member school.
Seventeen athletes lettered in their sport for a fourth consecutive year. They are Colton Bodrie (baseball), Drew Carmody (baseball), John Donkersloot (track), Emily Fischer (track), Dezmon Fulton (track), Derek Fairchild (baseball), Katherine Garcia (tennis), Emily Kreichelt (track), Cameron Lampkin (track), Steve Lewis (baseball), Michelle Marra (softball), Kori Nieuwsma (softball), Nicholas Rinck (track), Abby Phillips (softball), Andrea Reinecke (softball), Kara VandeGuchte (track), Jeff Vredenburg (tennis).
Baseball Letterwinners
Colton Bodrie****, senior from Fremont (Fremont)
Drew Carmody****, senior from Grandville (Grandville)
Jordan Carrigan**, sophomore from Buchanan (Berrien Springs)
Joey Carty*, freshman from Dearborn (Edsel Ford)
Adam Clements***, junior from Saline (Saline)
Kyle Coggins*, freshman from Traverse City (Traverse City Central)
Eric Dawson*, freshman from Grand Haven (Midland)
Danny Detmar***, junior from Chesterton, Ind. (Chesterton)
Curtis Drozd**, sophomore from Allegan (Allegan)
Steven Esbin***, junior from Carmel, Ind. (Carmel)
Derek Fairchild****, senior from Saline (Saline)
Phil Haywood*, freshman from Grand Rapids (Forest Hills Northern)
Jordan Herman*, freshman from Midland (H.H. Dow)
Alex Hunt*, freshman from Holland (West Ottawa)
T.J. Klein**, sophomore from Circle Pines, Minn. (Centennial)
Andrew Klinkman***, senior from Dexter (Dexter)
Josh Kranz*, freshman from Carpentersville, Ill. (Jacobs)
Steve Lewis****, senior from Ada (Forest Hills)
Alex Luke**, sophomore from Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids)
Chris Mattson***, junior from Muskegon (MonaShores)
Kevin Olson*, freshman from Lake in the Hills, Ill. (Jacobs)
Ty Peterson**, sophomore from Wheaton, Ill. (Warrenville South)
Jon Ponte***, junior from Novi (Divine Child)
Cory Schmidt**, sophomore from Milan, Ohio (Edison)
Eric Sherman*, freshman from Troy (Seaholm)
Tom Tresh*, freshman from Grand Rapids (Northpointe Christian)
Eric Vachon*, freshman from Sterling Heights (De La Salle Collegiate)
Zach VanNoord***, junior from Hudsonville (Hudsonville)
Eric Zylstra**, sophomore from Grand Rapids (East Kentwood)
Softball Letterwinners
Amanda Barker*, freshman from Manchester (Manchester)
Amber Born*, freshman from Galesburg (Galesburg Augusta)
Molly Collins**, sophomore from HoughtonLake (Houghton Lake)
Cara Conrad*, freshman from St. Joseph (Michigan Lutheran)
Stephanie Faber***, junior from ByronCenter (South Christian)
Jo Forst**, sophomore from Gibbon, Minn. (Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop)
Kristin Higgs**, sophomore from Sturgis (Sturgis)
Julia LaBounty*, freshman from Buchanan (Buchanan)
Michelle Marra****, senior from Waldwick, N.J. (Waldwick)
Brooke Nienhuis*, junior from Zeeland (Zeeland West)
Kori Nieuwsma****, senior from Lakeville, Mn. (Bethany Christian Academy)
Emma Page*, freshman from Portage (Portage Central)
Abby Phillips****, senior from Wayland (Wayland)
Andrea Reinecke****, senior from Eaton Rapids (Eaton Rapids)
Suzie Stevenson**, senior from Granger, Ind. (Penn)
Laura Tjepkema**, sophomore from Dorr (South Christian)
Men's Tennis Letterwinners
Brad Boelkins**, senior from Ada (Forest Hills Central)
Parker Bussies*, freshman from Zeeland (Zeeland West)
Gabe Casher**, sophomore from Ann Arbor (Pioneer)
Kevin Hagan**, senior from Okemos (Okemos)
Alex Hughes***, junior from Hudson, Ohio (Hudson)
Kyle Kreps*, sophomore from Holland (Holland)
Jonathan Lautz**, senior from Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton North)
Davis Vanderveen**, sophomore from Clarkston (Clarkston)
Jeff Vredenburg****, senior from Grand Rapids (Forest Hills Northern)
Women's Tennis Letterwinners
Casey Baxter**, sophomore from Saline (Saline)
Melissa Bieri**, sophomore from Holland (Holland Christian)
Sarah Fodor*, freshman from Clarklake (Lumen Christi)
Katherine Garcia****, senior from Battle Creek (Battle Creek Central)
Stephanie Huffman*, freshman from Grand Rapids (Forest Hills Eastern)
Leah LaBarge**, sophomore from Hudsonville (Hudsonville)
Andrea Pickelman*, sophomore from Marshall (Marshall)
Shelby Schultz**, sophomore from Allegan (Allegan)
Mallory Smith*, freshman from Grand Haven (Grand Haven)
Men's Track & Field Letterwinners
Elliott Barney**, sophomore from South Holland, Ill. (SetonAcademy)
Alex Brock*, freshman from Holland (West Ottawa)
Christian Calyore***, junior from Naples, Fla. (Barron Collier)
Aaron Chew**, junior from Novi (Northville)
David Dolfin*, freshman from Hingham, Wisc. (Oostburg)
John Donkersloot****, senior from Zeeland (Zeeland East)
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New and Improved Electronic Proposal System Launched
Individuals submitting proposals for the 2009 annual meeting in New York will note improvements in the electronic proposal system. The new system, maintained by a new outside contractor, is more user friendly, with clearer instructions and a better interface for adding presenters and presentations to a session proposal. The system is accessible via the AHA web site at www.historians.org/annual/proposals.htm; those submitting proposals should be sure to consult the instructions and guidelines linked to that page. Only electronic proposals will be accepted. The submission deadline will be midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on February 15, 2008.
The new system has been customized to better reflect the AHA's different session types. (See the web site for a detailed description of the different modes of presentation.) Organizers of multi-session workshops will now be able to assign a common title to the workshop and will be required to submit a brief description of its overall purpose and goals. They will also be able to indicate the preferred order of the component sessions and enable colleagues to enter sessions into the workshop. Organizers of experimental sessions will be prompted to include a 50- to 75-word description of the session format. Organizers of roundtable or discussion sessions will be able choose from two styles for listing the session in the program: Panel style will list the name and affiliation of each discussant, but will not include titles for individual presentations. Topical style will list a title for each presentation. (Organizers must submit a brief abstract describing what each discussant will talk about for both listing styles.)
The system will enforce word limits for session abstracts (500 words), presentation or paper abstracts (300 words), and presenter biographies (250 words). Organizers should be sure that their material conforms to these restrictions before attempting to enter a proposal. Organizers will now be able to use special characters, such as accent marks, when entering names, titles, and abstracts. Users will receive an automated e-mail as they proceed through each step of the submission process, enabling them to access partially completed proposals should they encounter computer problems before completing the submission process. Organizers should be sure to save confirmation e-mails so that they can access submissions in process. They will be able to return to the system and modify their proposals up to the February 15 deadline. Best of all, organizers will be able to contact the contractor directly via phone or e-mail for help with technical problems. Support will be available by phone (401-334-0220) Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Assistance can also be obtained by e-mailing email@example.com.
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Since I get this question a lot, namely what boots do I use while in the open field in winter, here's the short answer: military boots!
The reason for that? I think it's really simple: I like to use gear that's tried and tested over time. The Military know their stuff when it comes to what works and not in low temperatures. So I have a pair of Bunny Boots, the really bulky ones. I found that nothing beats those at keeping my feet warm during the whole day. And I've got feet that get cold easily, that's for sure. So I've been thru a number of different boot pairs testing them out. I gotta tell you, the best test for a boot is to keep you warm through the day when you're mostly stationary in one place. When you're moving, you generate heat. But when you're standing ground, like for instance when you're hole fishing, or tending to astronomical instruments, then you're basically relying on the boots' insulation alone. And that's where they stood or fell for me. The Bunny boots were the only ones to remain standing. I got mine for around 60 bucks from Amazon, and never looked back.
They're 100% rubber with some one inch of insulation in between the rubber layers. That's one thick boot, I gotta tell you that. One good description of them that I found, on a page about military winter boots that also contained a mickey mouse boots review (and a bunny boots review), was http://www.rangermade.us/best-military-winter-boots/. Another good resource is the actual reviews page on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Weather-Waterproof-U-S-Military/dp/B004ZCW8UO#customerReviews.
So, what's special about the Bunny Boots? The bunny boots are the white type II boots, after the black type I Mickey Mouse boots. The white bunnies have an extra half pound of insulation on each boot, which makes them extra warm. They're rated for temperatures down to -65 Fahrenheit. That's a lot. Use them in warmer weather and your feet will be swimming in sweat, since these boots don't have any kind of anti-perspiration lining like Goretex. They're missing any kind of bootie on the inside. I usually wear them with a simple pair of hunting wool socks, that's longer than the boot since the rubber at the top of the boot has a tendency to chafe at my leg.
All you have to do before going out is to warm up the inside of the boots a bit, 'cuz the insulation is so good that it will maintain whatever temperature it started with in the first place. Your foot will have a hard time warming up that mass of rubber and insulation all by itself. Warm the boots up before putting them on, and they'll keep ya' feet nice and toast.
When you're spending a long time in the cold outdoors like I do, these boots are a God-send. Try them on in an army surplus store if you have access to one, and you'll know what I mean on the spot. Or you can take my word and order them online, since they will not set you back by a lot of cash. You'll thank me later.
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Black Hawk Powwow Grounds, Jackson County, Wisconsin
The Black Hawk Powwow Ground site (Wau-che-raw-was-kaw Allotment, John Big Black Hawk) is a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) of the Ho-Chunk Nation (Ho-Chunk Wazijaci people). The powwow grounds, in Jackson County, Wisconsin, have been used as a ceremonial and social event center, as well as a dance-ring or powwow ground, since at least the late 1800's and possibly well before. As a center of religious, social and community life for the Ho-Chunk Wazijaci people, the area has been continuously used for the same or similar purposes for more than 100 years. While the physical facilities at the site have changed over the years, the Black hawk Powwow Grounds site is a center place for the Black River Falls Ho-Chunk community and the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The site consists of the original 40-acre federal government allotment granted to Wau-che-raw-was-kaw (John Big Hawk) in 1896, although Ho-Chunk occupancy has been present in the Black River Falls area since at least the 1850s, but was only legally recognized during the 1870-1880s. The establishment of the land claim in 1896 therefore probably represents only the legal recording of a previously established occupation and use of the area by the Ho-Chunk people for an unknown period during the early 19th century. The current 20-acre grounds are used for the annual tribal celebrations (i.e. powwows) on Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays. Today the grounds are primarily open grassland surrounded with trees with a number of permanent and semi-permanent buildings.
As early as 1884 local newspaper clippings (many written or submitted to papers by Ho-Chunk members) record the earliest evidence for powwows held at the Black Hawk Grounds site. These probably do not represent the first occurrences of these powwow events in the area. The cultural concept of the powwow at Black hawk as a "Homecoming Dance" or annual reunion event is particularly relevant given the social and economic conditions faced by the Ho-Chunk people during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, due to their refusal to cooperate with Federal government efforts to forcibly remove them from their homelands in Wisconsin in the early and mid 19th century, the Ho-Chunk were denied a contiguous reservation in Wisconsin. Instead the Ho-Chunk congregated in a handful of clustered settlements in Western and Central Wisconsin. The Black Hawk Powwow represented an annual event and congregation that allowed the scattered and segmented Ho-Chunk communities, clans and families from across the state to congregate together for an extended period of visiting and socialization, ceremonial and religious activities, political council and group decision making. Formal delegations from other tribal nations such as the Ojibwa and the Mesquakie were frequently received with ornate ceremonies at the Black Hawk Powwow. Local Euro-American political and community leaders frequently spoke or were frequently received at the Black Hawk Powwow as well. As a tribal "center" place, the Black hawk Powwow Grounds site would have been used by the Black Hawk Ho-Chunk community for more than just the ceremonial, social and political events of the annual powwow ceremony. The site would have been the site of medicine lodge ceremonies, tribal councils, clan festivals and dances and other ceremonial and religious events.
Honoring veterans continue to have an important place in the ceremonies. These sentiments take physical form in the historical marker for Gold Medal (U.S. Medal of Honor) awardee Mitchell Red Cloud and the presence of the Black Hawks VFW Post. Historically significant for its importance in the history of ethnic heritage, (both Native American and religion), the Black Hawk Powwow Grounds were listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 2007.
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James Adams, who performs as a woman under the name Serenity Jones. dreamed up the drag gospel worship service, now in its second year.
Porcha Lynne performed following the drag gospel worship service Sunday at the First Church Somerville.
Bobbie Pinz watched the performances. Money raised from the event will go to support the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force.
Lady Gigi Gill performed at the festival.
The Rev. Jeff "Fabiola Feast" Mansfield performed. The grag festival was not part of the morning worship service, but was held afterwards.
"I feel great," Mansfield, associate pastor of the First Church, said of his costume. "I feel beautiful."


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Adaptation of the board game mega-hit. The clever, speedy, and sneaky reap the rewards in a Trivial Pursuit game with ingenious new features (like betting and stealing), celebrity hosts, and big-time online showdowns. Prove yourself the smartest trivia-whiz on the block in this digital version of the classic Trivial Pursuit board game. Features high quality graphics, exciting animations, brand new gameplay styles, hundreds of multimedia clips and clues and thousands of celebrity read questions. The game offers multiple game modes: choose from the Unhinged mode, the original classic Trivial Pursuit game, and a customizable minigame. Xbox Live enabled for anytime brain battles against thousands of players.
Trivial Pursuit has been around for twenty years now, so I guess it's here for good. As a trivia buff, that makes me happy. Trivial Pursuit's strength has always been the amount of questions in each set. However, Trivial Pursuit Unhinged ignores this and instead opts to focus on some peripheral features, and in doing so takes away the heart of the game. There're just not enough questions to give the game lasting playability. Read More »
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A new venue, more brands and major buying power built to a crescendo as the music product industry converged in Nashville for the largest Summer NAMM in five years.
"DrumLine Battle Summer NAMM" launched at noon on Saturday in the plaza at the Music City Center.
The last day of 2013 Summer NAMM wrapped up with "Best in Show," a roundup of the best products and services at the show.
Summer NAMM set the scene for celebrating community music stores—and for recognizing 2013's Top 100 Dealers and their efforts as the most proactive and innovative dealers in our industry!
Beacock Music Company Inc. of Vancouver, WA is the 2013 'Dealer of the Year,' as recognized by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) at the Top 100 Dealer Awards held at Summer NAMM in Nashville on July 12.
Friday's Breakfast Session, Take the Stairs, was presented by Rory Vaden, New York Times best-selling author of Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success.
Moderated by NAMM Foundation Executive Director Mary Luehrsen, the SupportMusic Coalition's July webinar—"Live From 2013 Summer NAMM"—highlighted Nashville's Music Makes Us music education reinstatement effort.
On Thursday, the NAMM Foundation hosted a luncheon to raise awareness of Nashville's Music Makes Us program and to celebrate what has been accomplished since it began a year ago.
A hot breakfast and great discussion kicked off the first day of 2013 Summer NAMM. The NAMM Retail Summit, hosted by NAMM President/CEO Joe Lamond, offered ideas for increasing store traffic and sales during the holiday season.
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Other Forms of Renewable Energy
Wind Energy
Wind energy systems are a relatively new technology that Portlanders are deploying to generate clean, renewable electricity. Advances in small-scale wind turbine technology in recent years make it possible to incorporate wind power into urban areas and building design, or add small systems to rooftops. While these technologies do promise environmental benefits, proper siting is important in order for the systems to effectively deliver energy production and to ensure that the installations and compatible with the surrounding structures.
Wind Zoning Standards
Through code development process in 2009, the City of Portland created zoning standards that regulate the placement and scale of wind turbines. The Wind Turbine Code seeks to stimulate advancement of the technology and encourage entrepreneurial efforts in this industry, while ensuring safety and appropriate placement. Incentives are available for installation of certain models of wind turbines through the Energy Trust of Oregon Small Wind Program .
For information on converting your fleet vehicles to Biofuel, visit http://www.biofuels4business.com/
Locate biofuel retail locations in Portland: http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/locator/stations/
Renewable Fuel Standard
In 2006 the City of Portland became the first city in the country to adopt a citywide renewable fuel standard (RFS). The standard requires all diesel and gasoline fuel sold within the city limits to contain a minimum blend of renewables. Diesel fuel must contain a minimum blend of 5 percent biodiesel and gasoline at least 10 percent ethanol. The standard became effective July 1, 2007.
With this effort, the City is helping create demand for thousands of gallons of renewable transportation fuels, in order to spur market development of large-scaleOregonbased biofuel production facilities to meet that demand.
This growing renewable fuels market will generate a need for oilseed crops like canola and mustard seed that can be grown as rotational crops by Oregon farmers. With efforts like this the City continues to implement innovative, result-oriented strategies that meet our goals for job growth, greenhouse gas emission reduction and local environmental health.
Biofuels offer promising benefits for Portland and Oregon as whole, including local and regional economic development opportunities, improved air quality, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and decreased dependence on volatile oil supplies.
Find more information about the RFS on these pages:
- RFS Information & Administrative Rules: http://www.biofuelsportland.com
- Original Biofuels Ordinance: http://efiles.portlandoregon.gov/webdrawer/rec/2777903/
- Amended Biofuels Ordinance: http://efiles.portlandoregon.gov/webdrawer/rec/2844151/
- BiofuelsCityCode: http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?a=146102&c=28608


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Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Review - AMD's Triumph
AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 Technology
No, you aren't seeing things; this is indeed our second "review" of the AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB graphics card. The first iteration was officially coined a "preview" of the card since it didn't have a final BIOS, final drivers and AMD asked us to limit our testing to just a handful (three) of games. Since then we have been given more information on the card, how it differs from the HD 3870 X2 technology and were able to spend a bit longer with the product.
Let's jump right into the action...
Behind the HD 4870 X2 2GB
For those of you that didn't read up on the initial preview of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB these slides should provide a good overview of what we are getting into. The HD 4870 X2 will be the new flagship card from AMD under the ATI Graphics brand and continues in the tradition of the Radeon HD 3870 X2 by combining a pair of current generation GPUs in permanent CrossFire mode on a single PCB.
The GPUs on this card are identical to those found on the single-GPU based HD 4870 512MB cards - if you haven't read our detailed analysis of this technology you should check out my review of that product for a technical background.
What is most interesting about this technology is that though AMD told us about it, it isn't enabled yet. The current plan is to offer a software update for the card that will enable the technology for better performance. The problem is that AMD is allowing board vendors an option to include the sideport technology or leave it out for a cost savings. This means that there will be some HD 4870 X2 cards on the market that will be able to use sideport technology and some that will not - distinguishing between the two will be nearly impossible unless the card vendors explicitly indicate their card's status. In the end I think that this will just cause a lot of confusion and AMD should either force vendors to implement the sideport technology or leave it out all together.
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Marcus Lattimore 6'0" 220 RB South Carolina
Lattimore is the type of player every team wants and needs to become successful. He is a leader on and off the field with a very high work ethics that makes the whole team better. Reminds me of a more focused Shuan Alexander who has suffered two knee injuries. Check-out his bio's and watch some tape on him. Listen to what Steve Spirrier has to say about him.
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Prescott on if Cowboys should draft a TE, WR: 'We've got to take a guy or a couple of guys'
Prescott on what Witten's retirement would mean for Cowboys
Mayock says Allen's tweets won't make a difference on draft day
Sam Darnold explains the origin of his outlandish high school nickname
Rosen on what he'll buy with NFL paycheck: 'If I get a hot tub, I might keep it this time'
Lamar Jackson on draft night: 'I hope I get picked early'
Barkley on having daughter born during draft week: 'You couldn't have written up a better story'
Denzel Ward shares which QB he wants to pick off the most
Nick Saban: 'I start to have butterflies' when names start getting called at draft
Shaquem Griffin's mom reflects on her son's emotional journey to the draft
Josh Allen answers for his inappropriate tweets from high school
Best swag? Best dancer? Edmunds family shows off on red carpet
Bradley Chubb on taking opposing quarterbacks' towels: It flusters the QB
JuJu Smith-Schuster shows off his pizza suit
Josh Jackson wants to wave to kids at Iowa Children's Hospital when he's drafted
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Michael Announces New U.S. Tour Dates!
July 10 Uncasville, CT- Mohegan Sun Arena
July 11 Manchester, NH- Verizon Wireless Arena
July 12 Atlantic City, NJ- Boardwalk Hall
July 25 Grand Rapids, MI- Van Andel Arena
July 26 Columbus, OH- Schottenstein Center
July 27 Milwaukee, WI- BMO Harris Bradley Center
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August 2 Oklahoma City, OK- Chesapeake Energy Arena
August 3 Austin, TX- Frank Erwin Center
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Doug Tallamy
Doug Tallamy is currently professor and chair of the department of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, where he has taught insect taxonomy, behavioral ecology, and other subjects. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.
Doug won the Silver Medal from the Garden Writer's Association for his book, Bringing Nature Home.
Books by Doug Tallamy
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden by Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (Updated and Expanded) by Doug Tallamy


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Shards of glass in your eye!
Established in 1995 by Kari Tervo, Shards Of Glass In Your Eye! is a humor + random zine featuring offbeat insights from an unconventional observer.
Issue Summaries
Issue 1 (I'll Be Your Best Friend; 1995 [Out of Print]): The inaugural issue of Shards, created overnight in a fit of creative frustration, features half-baked adolescent political rants, poetry, book and movie recommendations, a baking tip, and more.
Issue 2 (Cover Model; 1995 [Out of Print]): Issue #2, also an overnight creation, features a paean to hostility and despair, an examination of traditional weddings, an encouragement not to conform to either "mainstream" or "alternative" cultures, a mild obsession with Albert Einstein, an opportunity to play tic-tac-toe, and more.
Issue 3 (Disco Ball Party Zine!; November 2010): Issue #3 was inspired by the 2011 Revenge of Print challenge (via Atomic Books), which challenged zine-makers to make one more issue of their zine in 2011. Too excited to wait until 2011 to make copies, Tervo published #3 in November, 2010. Issue #3 features a psychic reading, upper middle class terminology, photos, celebrity sightings, a roast beef sandwich recipe, and more. Notably, Tervo's essay "In Defense of Thin Women," which examines pop-feminism, beauty standards and the notion of the "real woman," was re-printed in a review zine, "Photocopy Press," in 2011.
Issue 4 (Sex Sells; April 2011): Issue #4 features a renegade Beverly Hills walking tour, a lecture to Grammar Nazis, more celebrity sightings, a series of fond reminiscences, and more. This issue contains another "serious" essay: "Beyond Raverdome" deconstructs the negatively-biased electronica-related writing of an LA Weekly writer.
Issue 5 (Heart Attack; July 2011): Issue #5 features "homeopathic cures," modern Boy Scout merit badges, likely titles found in Osama bin Laden's porn collection, what I love about sexism, humorous essays about cars, petty theft, and mood-related gambling, lifestyle tips, and more.
Issue 6 (Collated Zine Supplement; February 2012): Issue #6 features a ton of Beverly Hills tidbits, celebrity sightings (with special reality show edition), diary entries, life advice, a psychological quiz, baby shower bitchery, a paean to penises, and more. quent print runs are $3 each or free for trade.
Shards of Glass In Your Eye! received its first review in July, 2011. Sofia at Weatherfield zine enjoyed Issue #4. Sofia opined, "I did like it quite a bit; it seemed, to me, exactly like how I imagined a zine would be."
In Spring 2011, Elizabeth at Photocopy Press reviewed Shards of Glass In Your Eye! #3. Elizabeth enjoyed Issue #3, and reported that she "honestly laughed out loud at a few parts." Tervo's essay "In Defense of Thin Women" was re-printed in its entirety in the Spring 2011 issue of Photocopy Press.
In August, 2011, DJ Frederick of One Minute Zine Reviews reviewed Shards #5. He said in his audio review, "Kari Tervo has written an incredibly funny zine. . .I love zines that get this creative."
In 2011, Sarah Bennett of "LA Record" reviewed "Shards" #3 and #4, and said, "Tervo's fuck-it-all attitude is welcome in this world of polished computer-designed rags. Thanks to Atomic Books for motivating Tervo to cut, paste, and photocopy her reflections into a black-and-white half-pager. . ."
Zine Fests
Tervo sold/traded issues 3-5 at the 2011 San Francisco Zine Fest, September 3-4, 2011. She also distributed buttons that she made that said, "Be Your Own Subculture," the tagline on the back of Issue #5.
At the 2012 LA Zine Fest, Tervo distributed issues #3-#6 and gave away Be Your Own Subculture Buttons.
In August, 1995, the Five-College Discordian Society of Saint Rufus named Tervo a Pope in the House of the Apostles of Eris for Issue #2, particularly the "Special Middle Page Randomness Spread." Her resulting member name is Pope of Pink Lemonade.
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In Q3, the firm reported revenue growth of 3% while operating margins were down by nearly 50%, compared to the previous year. Things haven't improved much this quarter either with the firm warning that it could see margin contraction once again on the back of continued pressure in North America and certain delays and a decline in rig count in some international markets. Here's what to look for when the firm releases earnings Wednesday.
See the full analysis for Baker Hughes
North America: Pressure Pumping Improvements In Focus
The firm's North American operations account for more than half the firm's revenues. For this quarter, the firm expects profit margins from the region to be between 8.5% and 9.5%, down from around 11.7% in Q3 due to its heavy exposure to the oversupplied pressure pumping market and a decrease in land based drilling demand.
The overall North American rig count declined by around 15% over the last year while the number of gas rigs declined by around 45% as low natural gas prices prompted oil and gas companies to cut down on gas drilling. This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes. Additionally, the firm's margins were also squeezed by higher costs for guar gum, which is a raw material used in the fracking process.
In response to the margin decline, the firm has been holding back on capital expenditures and focusing on cutting costs for pressure pumping by improving utilization levels and exploring alternative technologies. (See Also: Transitioning Fracking Fleet To Natural Gas Can Help Baker Hughes Improve Margins) Although we believe that a complete revival in the pressure pumping space will be contingent on the recovery of gas prices, we will be watching the firm's progress in improving operational efficiency.
The trend has been more encouraging on the oil drilling front with the number of rigs growing by around 6% for the year as the United States in particular ramps up oil production. The U.S. is expected to become the world's largest oil producer by the end of this decade, leveraging unconventional resources like shale oils and tight oils. This could help the firm in improving its revenues going forward.
International: Middle East Operations In Focus
For the fourth quarter, Baker Hughes expects international operations to be impacted by a lower rig count in Brazil and Columbia and activity delays in the North Sea. The firm expects operating profit before taxes for Q4 to be around 12%, which are similar to margins seen in Q3.
We will be interested in tracking the firm's progress in Iraq where it has bagged contracts over the past two years for drilling in the West Qurna-2 and Zubair oil fields. While the drilling market in the country holds huge potential given that the country's holds as much as five times the gas reserves of the U.S., the firm's operations in the region have been slow to pick up. The firm has been experiencing high start-up costs relating to equipment movement and logistical issues. Institutional inefficiencies and a lack of clarity in rules have also been impacting the firm's operations in the country.
International unconventional plays are a target for most large oil field service firms, who are presently dependent on the U.S. for their unconventionals business. Baker Hughes has been slowly gaining ground in unconventional plays in Saudi Arabia, a country which could hold the world's fifth largest shale gas reserves. Given the head start and existing infrastructure that Baker Hughes has in the region, it could provide a solid growth opportunity in the future. We will be watching the firm's progress in bagging contracts expanding its reach in this market as well as other countries rich in unconventional plays like China.
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Rolando McClain's disappointing run with the Oakland Raiders reached its nadir this week, when the linebacker was kicked out of practice for arguing with coach Dennis Allen and later suspended two games for conduct detrimental to the team.
Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie sat down with a group of reporters Friday, with McClain serving as an obvious talking point. The GM was asked if McClain had played his last game with the Raiders.
"It's going to be a possibility because we suspended him," McKenzie said, in a transcript provided by Paul Gutierrez of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. "Now, it's always what's going to happen afterward. What's his approach afterward? I know what he texted, Facebooked or all that stuff ... what he said, that he's gone. I think I am the one that is going to make that call, not him."
McKenzie said he hasn't spoken with McClain since the suspension and replied "absolutely not" when asked if he felt the need to do so.
Does McClain need to say or demonstrate something to the Raiders to change his situation?
"Yeah, yeah. It's going to be on him," McKenzie said. "I don't feel the need to approach him. So far, he is not apologetic."
McClain is dead weight, the type of player who has kept this franchise underwater for a decade and counting. McClain has been an expensive mistake. The Raiders no longer care to hide it.
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Mahesh Bhupathi and Ali Hamadeh became the first ever NCAA Champions in program history by winning the NCAA Doubles Championship. The tandem defeated Texas' Chad Clark and Trey Phillips 7-6, 6-2 in the televised championship match.
Bhupathi and Hamadeh took down three nationally ranked teams, including No. 2 seed Paul Goldstein and Scott Humphries of Stanford to reach the final. For winning the doubles championship, Bhupathi and Hamadeh were rewarded with a wildcard into the 1995 U.S. Open Championships. They made their presence known as they took down veteran pros Mark Kyle and Peter Nyborg to advance to the second round, before falling to the No. 6 ranked doubles team in the world.
Subsequent to the Rebels winning the doubles championship, Ole Miss head coach Billy Chadwick said, "This is a great way to cap off a tremendous NCAA Tournament and truly makes this one of the outstanding accomplishments in Ole Miss sports. I am extremely proud of the team and their commitment all year. These players worked hard from day one."
Monday we will finish off 1995 and proceed chronologically to the following year. There are plenty more "firsts" and exciting moments in store as the years progress for coach Chadwick. Stay tuned.
Follow the Rebels on Twitter, @OleMissMTennis and Facebook at OleMissMTennis.
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AUSTIN, Texas—Criminal prosecutors investigating a troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting effort in Texas have cleared current state officials and board members with the agency, a spokesman for the board chairman said Tuesday.
No mention was made of former executives who resigned in recent months, and prosecutors could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Travis County district attorney's office last month opened a case into the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas after the embattled agency revealed giving $11 million in taxpayer funds to a private company without a required independent review.
A spokesman for Jimmy Mansour, chairman of the agency's governing board, said investigators told Mansour last week that many surrounding the agency had been cleared.
"(Mansour) was assured that CPRIT, as an organization, and all current board members, are free from suspicion in the ongoing CPRIT investigation. Mr. Mansour is pleased that this cloud has lifted," Austin lobbyist Bill Miller said.
Gregg Cox, a Travis County prosecutor who oversees the public integrity unit investigating the agency, was not in the office Tuesday. A phone message was not immediately returned.
Miller's statement did not address the agency's former leadership in charge when the grant to Dallas-based Peloton Therapeutics was wrongfully approved in 2010. They include executive director Bill Gimson, chief commercialization officer Jerry Cobbs and chief scientific officer Alfred Gilman. None have been accused of wrongdoing.
Gimson resigned in December after yearlong turmoil within the agency peaked with the disclosure of the Peloton grant. Cobbs resigned in November and Gilman stepped down in May after clashing with Gimson on the direction of the agency, which included Gilman making accusations of politics trumping science when it came to decisions on grant awards.
Months of upheaval have put CPRIT at a standstill. Gov. Rick Perry and other state leaders called for a moratorium on new grants until confidence in the agency is restored, and both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have lined up to blast CPRIT in the first weeks of a new legislative session.
Among the more significant moves is CPRIT currently being frozen out of the state budget draft currently on the table for 2014-15. CPRIT oversees the second-biggest trough of cancer research dollars in the country after the federal National Institutes of Health.
Mansour reiterated that "CPRIT will continue to work closely with investigators and the Legislature to bring this to a close," Miller said.
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ArcelorMittal , the world's biggest steelmaker, is to write down the value of its European business by $4.3 billion, underscoring gloom about prospects for the region's recession-hit manufacturers.
The group, formed in 2006 when India-born Lakshmi Mittal's steel business bought European peer Arcelor for $33 billion, said on Friday demand had fallen about 8 percent in Europe this year and there was no sign of a quick recovery.
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As a result, it will write down the goodwill - the value of intangible assets such as brands rather than physical assets such as machinery - of its European operations by 87 percent.
"It is negative, but it should not really be a big surprise that the book value of its European business was too high," said a London-based analyst who asked not to be named.
ArcelorMittal shares were down 2.7 percent at 12.85 euros at 8 a.m. ET, one of the biggest falls by a European blue-chip stock <.FTEU3> and reversing gains made earlier this week.
Credit agency Fitch cut ArcelorMittal's long-term issuer default rating to BB+, just below investment grade, due to the challenging outlook for Western European steel markets in 2013.
The $500-billion-a-year steel industry, a gauge of the global economy, has slowed sharply this year as a moderation in China's economic growth has compounded weak demand from austerity-ravaged Europe.
The World Steel Association in October forecast steel demand would rise 2.1 percent in 2012, down from 6.2 percent in 2011. It had forecast 3.6 percent growth in April.
Last month, Moody's cut the company's senior unsecured notes to Ba1 from Baa3, joining Standard & Poor's in rating ArcelorMittal one notch below investment grade.
Other steelmakers are hurting too. Earlier this month, Germany group ThyssenKrupp posted a full-year net loss of 4.7 billion euros ($6.2 billion).
Europe is a particular weak point, as austerity drives aimed at tackling a sovereign debt crisis have cut demand for cars and construction - steel's largest markets. Euro zone manufacturing has contracted for 17 straight months.
ArcelorMittal, which makes about 6-7 percent of the world's steel, said demand in Europe had fallen 29 percent since 2007 when the financial crisis started.
It highlighted better trends in the United States where, it said, demand was up 8 percent this year and is now 10 percent lower than in 2007.
ArcelorMittal, whose output is more than double that of its nearest rival, has already announced the closure of blast furnaces in Belgium and France, with other operations temporarily idled due to overcapacity.
The write-down represents over a third of ArcelorMittal's overall goodwill of $12.5 billion as of end-2012. The group, around 40-percent owned by the Mittal family, took on $6.6 billion goodwill when it bought Arcelor.
It said the write-down would be a non-cash charge in fourth-quarter results and would not affect net debt or core profit.
Before the write-down, analysts had, on average, forecast the group would make $529.5 million net profit this year, and $7.1 billion core profit, according to StarMine.
(Additional reporting by Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Mark Potter and Dan Lalor)


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Button believes McLaren can bounce back
Jenson Button has faith in McLaren's ability to turn its season around despite two races without a point for the team.
After two podium finishes at the first race, McLaren's lack of performance has been exposed at recent races, with both Button and team-mate Kevin Magnussen struggling for points. But even though the team is still working on understanding the car, Button insists he still believes McLaren can turn its season around.
"For us, it's not simply about bringing new parts to the circuit: it's about understanding and unlocking the car's secrets, and using that understanding to take bigger steps with performance," he said. "We're still at the early stages with our car, and, for us, it's less about the components that we fit to it, and more about the bigger picture - finding a useful direction, gaining trust in our measurements and pushing ahead. We all know that this team has the capacity to develop a car through a season, so I hope and trust that we'll start to push forwards again soon.
"The Circuit de Catalunya is a demanding racetrack for any car - its combination of long, sweeping corners places the emphasis on aerodynamic performance, which is an area where we're lacking at the moment. It's always been a place where a competitive car will shine and a less-competitive one will struggle."
Team principal Eric Boullier said McLaren has worked hard since the Chinese Grand Prix to understand what the MP4-29 is lacking.
"For us, the weekend will be about learning, and hopefully moving on from our disappointing performance in China last month," Boullier said. "The root of our under-performance has been comprehensively analysed; we know the areas where our package falls short, and we've taken steps - both short- and long-term - to address those. While not all of those will be in evidence in Barcelona this weekend, they mark the start of a fresh push and spirit within the whole organisation."