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Using VOICE-Online
3 Searching VOICE
3.1 Simple queries
The content area contains an input box, where a search can be submitted by entering a search item, i.e. a word or phrase to be searched in the corpus.
3.2 Display of search results
The VOICE Online interface generally displays the search results as individual utterances, which are listed according to the sequence of events in the corpus tree.
In its default setting, search results are rendered in VOICE style. To view the search results in other styles, see the different output styles.
Every occurrence of the search item is highlighted.
3.3 Search statistics
The basic search statistics are displayed in the line below the input box. The search engine counts the individual occurrences of the search item in the entire corpus, the number of utterances containing the search item, and the seconds needed for processing the search. For example, Found 279 in 248u in 0.462s means that there are 279 occurrences of the search item, which appear in 248 utterances, and 0.462 seconds were needed for the search.
3.4 Browsing through the list of search results
When you have submitted a search, the search results are displayed in the content area. For the sake of usability and speed, the search results are divided and are rendered in groups of 25 utterances per page. The letter u and the numbers on the top right corner of the content area show the numbers of the utterances displayed at a time (e.g. u1-25). The list of search results can be browsed through by clicking on the left and right arrows in the blue circles.
3.5 Search options/Types of searches
VOICE Online allows for searches of individual words and multi-word phrases, which can be combined with different wildcard characters.
3.5.1 Wildcard character *
The wildcard character '*' represents zero or more characters. It may be used at any position in the search item, i.e. at the beginning and end, but also in the middle of a search item. For examples see the table below.
3.5.2 Wildcard character ?
The wildcard character '?' represents zero or one character and may be used at any position in the search item, i.e. at the beginning and end, but also in the middle of a search item. For examples see the table below.
3.5.3 Wildcard character +
The wildcard character '+' represents one or more characters and may be used at any position in the search item, i.e. at the beginning and end, but also in the middle of a search item. For examples see the table below.
3.5.4 Examples of searching with wildcard characters
The following table lists some examples of searches with wildcard characters.
|Type of search
|Possible matches
|zero or more characters
|e.g. arise, enterprise, rise
|e.g. house, houses, housing
|house *
|e.g. house in, house the, house
|* house *
|e.g. the house and, a house in, own house with
|zero or one character
|e.g. rise, wise
|e.g. house, houses
|house ?
|e.g. house, house i; NOT: e.g. houses, house the
|? house ?
|e.g. a house, house i
|one or more characters
|e.g. enterprise, surprise, sunrise; NOT: e.g. rise
|e.g. houses, household, housewives
|house +
|e.g. house in, house the, house again; NOT: houses
|+ house +
|e.g. a house in, same house like, lovely house and
Please note that spaces before or after wildcard characters and word characters are meaningful, e.g. see the difference between 'house+' and 'house +'. Different wildcard characters can also be combined in searches (e.g. '* hous+ *').
3.5.5 Additional search information
Parentheses indicating uncertain speech (according to the VOICE Transcription Conventions [2.1]) are generally ignored in searches, i.e. searching for '(house)' is equal to searching for 'house'.
Searching for mark-up, mark-up features, and contextual information, specified as such in the VOICE Transcription Conventions [2.1] is currently not possible. This includes general tags for unintelligible speech, non-English speech, speaking modes, speaker noises, pronunciation variations and coinages etc, but also anonymized items, pauses, and intonation.
Hyphens at the end of words are not regarded as word characters by the search engine. Searching for 'twenty-' will thus produce zero results, although words such as 'twenty-five' occur in the corpus. Searches with the wildcard characters '+' or '*', such as 'twenty+' or 'twenty*' will lead to results including hyphenated words (such as 'twenty-five'). It is possible to search for hyphenated words if the hyphen occurs within the search item (but not at the end!). Thus seaching for 'twenty-five' or 'twenty-fi*' does yield hits in the corpus.


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So, Civil 3D 2013 is just around the corner and I wanted to let you all know a few of my favorite things in this release.
Well, I can't really comment on the performance yet as I haven't had much chance to push the software around but, if you listen to those in the know, they've made some serious improvements to the performance.
There are some major improvements to the survey tools in this release. In fact, there is an entire new tab on the ribbon for your survey tools. What's the big thing? Querying your survey database. One of the things I've always found awkward about the survey database is the disconnect between it and the drawing. With this release you can query your survey database and add the results of the query directly to a surface. If you add additional data to the survey database that matches the query, when you rebuild your surface, it will update (in my testing, the surfaces wasn't marked as out of data if the survey database changed).
Now that's pretty cool and really useful for surveyors but, there is also the ability to create a line label, WITHOUT A LINE! How many times have I been asked if you can do this? I've lost count and now I'll be able to say, YES!
Basically this tool creates a phantom line that is labeled. Grab the label and you can adjust the points it's labeling between.
I'm an engineer. Why did I get into engineering? I wanted to drive trains. Three years into college and I realize that I won't be driving any trains (I was wondering what statics had to do with trains) but now with Civil 3D 2013, I can design rail lines. There are new alignment types and settings (I've seen many times on the discussion groups people asking about Degree of Curvature and now we have it). Honestly, I've not done much with the rail tools in 2013 so I'll leave that for someone else to write up (at least for now).
The corridor creation has a new dialog box that makes it a bit easier. It's a small improvement but hey, I'll take anything they'll give me. The assemblies have had some very nice improvements. When you add a subassembly to another subassembly, it will detect the correct side that it's on for you so you don't have to constantly change the sides as you are creating the assembly. Additionally, you can replace an existing subassembly in an assembly as well as insert a subassembly between two subassemblies.
The Volume Dashboard Extension is now a part of the program. If you have checked out this great tool, check out the write up I did on it earlier HERE.
One thing that I always struggled with is when you need to cut out one surface at the limit of another surface. Not a difficult task but if you change these surfaces, the process for adding the boundary again is very manual in nature. Now you can simply add one surface as a hide boundary to another surface (be careful not to get into a circular reference issue).
Pressure Networks
Yup, you heard me. You can now model pressure networks in Civil 3D 2013. There is a brand new type of object, a Pressure Network. It has it's own parts lists and everything. Bends, tees, crosses, valves, etc are all available for you to add to your network. This is a pretty big addition to Civil 3D and I haven't had a lot of time to get down and dirty with this yet so stay tuned for more posts on this topic as I learn the ins and outs of this.
Hopefully you've seen something here that makes you go, "Oooh! I can use that!"

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Repair payments and transfers summary
The ANZ Internet Banking for Business service allows multiple users to access the same accounts. For security reasons there is an authorisation process in place, which ensures that no transactions are processed without the appropriate Authoriser's approval.
- If an Authoriser finds an error in a transaction they can send it for repair so that the transaction can be amended and re-submitted for authorisation.
Items for repair are listed on the "Repair payments and transfers" page with the following information:
- Payment type: Pay Anyone, Pay BPAY® bills etc
- From account: the account to be debited for the payment
- To account: the recipient of the payment or transfer
- Payment amount: in the format 0.00
- Repair reason: the error in the transaction should be outlined here
- Sent for repair by: the name of the person who sent the item for repair
- The lodgement number for the transaction.
Help me
See also
Use our faqs to find out more about repairing transactions.
|Who can send transactions for repair?
The Administrators and Authorisers with the correct access to the business accounts will receive payments/transfers for authorisation.
|What is the difference between the terms Administrator and Authoriser?
An authoriser is the person who has authority to make payments on the account.
|What happens to payments awaiting authorisation?
Payments awaiting authorisation sit in a "For approval" section in "Authorise payments/transfers" under the "Payments" menu until they reach the payment expiry period as selected on the registration form.
|Can errors in payments be fixed after they're sent for authorisation?
Yes. An Administrator or Authoriser can choose to "Repair" or "Reject" a payment. Any payment that has been sent for repair will appear in the repair queue and can be corrected and resubmitted.
|What does a status of "expired" mean for a payment/transfer?
Payments can expire in one of the two ways:
If the status shows that the payment has expired, the same payment cannot be authorised again. A new payment needs to be set up and authorised within the authorisation period.
|What does a status of "rejected" mean?
The payments has been rejected by one of the Authorisers.
|If a payment is sent through for authorisation with an error, can it be fixed?
Yes. An Administrator or Authoriser can choose to "Repair" or "Reject" a payment.
|I am entering the reason for repair, but it does not let me proceed from here. Why?
If the repair reason is provided in an invalid format, you won't be able to proceed.
Please make sure that the repair reason is:
|What information can I find on the "Repair payments/transfers" page?
The "Repair payments/transfers" page contains the list of payments/transfers sent for repair by the Authorisers. The following information for each payment can be obtained from this page:
Need more help?
For further assistance please call the ANZ Internet Banking team on 13 33 50 (International callers: +61 3 9683 8833) 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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The Town of Porter Republican Party continued its assistance to the community by presenting a $250 check to the Ransomville Volunteer Fire Co. The donation will go toward the fire company's ambulance fund.
In the photo, Chairman Duffy Johnston (second from left) presents an oversized check to Ransomville Fire Co. Treasurer Jim Stone. Joining him are Niagara County Legislator Clyde Burmaster, at left, and Town of Porter Councilman Joe Fleckenstein.


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Measures: 68 x 54,8 cm
Technique: Oil on canvas
Depository: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Klimt very precisely studies the male nudes' muscles by accurately shadowing the light on the skin. Highlights are set by using white reflections, the dark parts are enhanced by a very delicate mélange of grayish brownish colour.
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New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie is said to be seriously considering running for president, so where does he stand on climate change? For the answer, let's take a look back at Christie's May 26, 2011 speech announcing his state's withdrawal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI):
Morning everybody. Thank you for coming. First, a couple of preliminary things. In the past I've always said that climate change is real and it's impacting our state. There's undeniable data that CO2 levels and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing. This decade average temperatures have been rising, temperature changes are affecting weather patterns and our climate. In order to best deal with climate change we have to understand its causes. That was the root of the question that I was asking at the time of my town hall meetings and it's gotten a lot of attention. So in the last number of months since that time I've taken some time to develop a better understanding of the role that humans play in global warming and what impact human activity has on our climate. The last few months I've sat down with experts both inside the government and outside the administration in academia and other places, to discuss the issue in depth. I've also done some reading on my own on the topic as well. I'm certainly not a scientist which is the first problem.
So, I can't claim to fully understand all of this. Certainly not after just a few months of study. But when you have over 90% of the world's scientists who have studied this stating that climate change is occurring and that humans play a contributing role it's time to defer to the experts. Climate science is complex though and we're just beginning to have a fuller understanding of humans' role in all of this. But we know enough to know that we are at least a part of the problem. So looking forward, we need to work to put policies in place that act at reducing those contributing factors.
Now, after extensive review with the DEP and others in my administration, our analysis of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI reveals that this program is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future.
First, RGGI allowances were never expensive enough to change behavior as they were intended to and ultimately fuel different choices. When RGGI began the industry projected that the cost of allowances would eventually be as high as twenty to thirty dollars a ton compared to the current price of less than $2 per ton, at which point the cost would have been sufficient to affect a decision of energy producers to choose lower carbon fuels or more efficient production technologies. This is not the case. It has not happened. Trends indicate the cost of the allowance will continue to be at the floor reserve price and there will be no significant secondary market for allowances. In other words, the whole system is not working as it was intended to work. It's a failure.
Second, New Jersey's carbon emissions from a report the DEP will release today are already below the goals for 2020 set out in New Jersey's Global Warming Response Act, the legislation that permitted the state to participate in RGGI. According to this most recent report which was conducted before RGGI was implemented, greenhouse gas emissions are down in New Jersey. Reduced emissions have been due to increased use of natural gas, and the decreased use of coal. We're seeing that the market and not RGGI has created incentives to reduce the use of carbon-based fuels.
Third, given that we now have laws that provide significant market incentives for wind, solar, and instate natural gas generation, any benefits that the RGGI tax may have had are miniscule. In fact fourteen laws have been passed since the Global Warming Response Act was passed authorizing us to join RGGI. These fourteen laws all accomplish the goals of promoting clean energy without the need to participate in RGGI at all. RGGI has not changed behavior and it does not reduce emissions. We're looking for broader results that benefit all ratepayers and all citizens.
Finally and importantly, RGGI does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses, with no discernable or measurable impact upon our environment. Because states such as Pennsylvania are not RGGI members it's just possible that by making the cap too stringent clean New Jersey plants would be forced to close only to be replaced by power from dirty Pennsylvania coal plants. It doesn't make any sense environmentally or economically and the continuation of this tax makes no sense for my efforts and the Lieutenant Governor's continued efforts to make New Jersey a more business-friendly environment and a place where private sector jobs can continue to be created.
So, we will withdraw from RGGI in an orderly fashion by year's end. This also corresponds with the end of the first compliance period when compliance entities must true up, match their allowances to their emissions. By giving them this notice we are confident that the market and the participants will be able to adjust to our withdrawal from RGGI.
So, to be clear, our commitment continues to combating climate change and looking for new clean and cleaner energy sources for New Jersey. We're committed to putting in place policies that actively work to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and achieve the 22 ½% renewable portfolio standard target by 2021. The future for New Jersey is in green energy and already we've put in place policies to broaden our access to renewable sources of energy, cleaner natural gas generation and ending our reliance on coal generation.
Let me start there. One of the things that I'm announcing today is that there will be no new coal permitted in New Jersey. From this day forward any plans that anyone has regarding any type of coal-based generation of energy in New Jersey is over. We know that coal is a major source of CO2 emissions. We will no longer accept coal as a new source of power in the state and we will work to shut down older dirtier, peaker and intermediate plants that emit high greenhouse gases. We need to commit in New Jersey to making coal a part of our past. We're going to work to make New Jersey number one in offshore wind production. Last year I signed the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act to provide financial assistance and tax credits to businesses that construct, manufacture, and assemble water access facilities that support offshore wind products. The DEP has completed the first of its kind, two-year baseline study that identifies optimal sites for offshore wind turbines. This study combined with the strong policies I've spoken about is going to be instrumental and has been instrumental at the Department of the Interior recognizing New Jersey in its Smart from the Start program as a wind energy area. That provides us the opportunity for expedited federal permitting in this area, and we're going to try to take advantage of it. We've joined with the federal government and other East Coast states to establish the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium to promote commercial wind development on the outer continental shelf. And we've accelerated the development of offshore wind projects by working closely with Interior and the Bureau of Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement to speed the implementation of 1100 MW of wind turbines. Since the call for interest last month we will be receiving applications for more than 3,000 MW of projects within the next two weeks.
So the interest in New Jersey in wind power is significant, because of the laws that this administration has helped to put into place and we are going to continue to pursue that.
Second, we are going to go further with solar energy. Last year, I signed legislation exempting solar projects from certain land uses restrictions, recognizing that solar energy development is an important land use that is protective of our environment. Currently, 9000 solar- voltaic projects totaling 330 megawatts are in use statewide as of April 30th of this year. We are focusing on expanding solar on brown fields and landfills. We talked about this during the campaign, we believe that we can re- duel environmental and economic benefits by promoting remediation
We're focusing on expanding solar on ground fields and landfills, we talked about this during the campaign, We believe we can reap dual environmental and economic benefits by promoting remediation of sites otherwise lacking in value, and returning them to beneficial use. Specifically, the Meadowlands Commission has now re-zoned portions of the closed landfill sites in the Meadowlands for use as solar fields. This is exactly the type of thing we talked about in the campaign, and I'm happy that the Meadowlands Commission has moved forward with the re-zoning and now we can work towards increasing solar energy in the Meadowlands. Solar is increasing, as you know, in both the residential and commercial sectors, and that trend is likely to continue with the reduction in solar installation costs and the expectation of continued technological advancements in solar.
Next, we're encouraging in-state energy generation, which is cleaner. We joined the legislature in a bi-partisan fashion to create the LCAPP program to encourage the construction of natural gas power plants within New Jersey dedicated to serving New Jersey customers. This program will bring new generation into the state and safeguard electric reliability and reduce New Jersey's dependence on environmentally harmful coal resources for both inside and outside of our state. This is going to provide a mechanism for up to 2,000 new megawatts of generation. Awards were given to three strategically located natural gas projects, we've appealed the FERC ruling that says that we can't move forward with this, and separately, the BPU is proceeding to expand our in-state natural gas generation on their own. 78% of New Jersey's electric resources come from in-state sources and more than half of our electricity is carbon-free, coming from either nuclear or renewable sources. Part of our long term plan will look to see whether additional nuclear units in the state make sense as well. The 22% of electricity we do import accounts for 50% of New Jersey's carbon emissions, which is why our focus is on home-grown generation and going after power plants that are outside of New Jersey and polluting our state, like the Pennsylvania coal-firing plants we're battling under section 126, for the Cortland, Pennsylvania plant, and in court, for 4 western Pennsylvania plants, which are polluting the environment here in New Jersey.
Lastly, it's this administration's belief that the cleanest energy is the energy that we don't use, and the State has to lead in terms of conservation. And so we're going to lead by example on energy efficiency and I have established today a State Energy Savings Initiative Oversight Committee which will be chaired by the Treasurer and by Commissioner Martin. And they're going to design a framework for a successful program that will take the New Jersey Energy Savings Improvement Programs Act, which enables the state to improve facilities, thereby lowering operating costs without upfront capital costs. The cost savings of the energy improvement measures will pay for the Capitol improvements and provide additional savings to the state in terms of lower utility bills, and just as important, reduce the state's use of energy, and reduce the effect that the use of that energy has on our environment.
But we see that this is happening already on a large scale at the Empire State Building. They began renovations last summer, expected to reduce their energy use by 38% a year by 2013 and an annual savings of $4.4 million dollars. By reducing energy use, the Retrofit Plan envisions cutting down the pollution the Empire State Building produces by 105,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year. New Jersey is going to strive to bring the same type of energy efficiencies to our public buildings through this oversight committee that we're establishing and the utilization of existing legislation and statutes in the state.
So, we remain completely committed to the idea that we have as a responsibility as a state to make the environment of our state and of the world better. We have an obligation to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and we're going to do it in the concrete ways that I've laid out here today. We're not going to do it by participating in gimmicky programs that haven't worked. And, you know, in the end, our view is it's better to do things the right way than to do things the politically correct way. The fact is, we've looked at this program, we've spent 16 months looking at it, and it simply doesn't work. And we're not going to participate anymore in something that doesn't work, but that is not abandonment of our commitment to continue to work towards more renewable energy and, for those energies that are not renewable, the cleanest possible energy we can use, including natural gas and nuclear. So, I want to thank both Commissioner Martin and BPU President Solomon for their hard work on this portion of the issue. We'll have more to say in the next week or two regarding the overall Energy Master Plan, which we'll be announcing and putting even more specifics on the outline that I gave to you here. But New Jersey continues to be committed to being a responsible user of energy and a responsible steward of our environment, and we're going to do it in the way we think the facts prove can be done the best way.


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According to Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 2 by Patricia Law Hatcher (via Ancestry.com), Mr. Fritts, who was maybe 18 years old in 1776, served in the American Revolutionary War.
Died march
The 27 1829
Aged 71 years
This is a beautiful gravestone that has aged fairly well. Look at the decorative detail!
Look even more closely and you can read an epitaph—or part of one—at ground level.
R[---]d head Shall lie
Although we cannot see the complete epitaph, it appears to have been taken from an Isaac Watts hymn:
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound;
My ears, attend the cry;
"Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
"Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers;
The tall, the wise, the rev'rend head
Must lie as low as ours!"
Great God! is this our certain doom?
And are we still secure?
Still walking downward to our tomb,
And yet prepare no more?
Grant us the powers of quick'ning grace,
To fit our souls to fly,
Then, when we drop this dying flesh,
We'll rise above the sky.
Fancher Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio


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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Ginger and Pumpkin Jam Recipe
Have you had pumpkin jam before? You should, believe me. When I had a huge pumpkin to dissect and prepare few weeks ago, then pumpkin jam was one of the items on my to-try-list. And as we've already eaten most of the jam I made, I'm going to make some more tomorrow.
The jam has a beautiful bright yellow colour, and lovely ginger kick. We love it. We had this on pancakes this morning, but it's also great spread of a slice of toast, or served as a condiment with some grilled meat (especially if you go heavy-handed with ginger).
Ginger and Pumpkin Jam
1 kg chopped up pumpkin flesh
50 to 70 g peeled and grated fresh ginger
1 lemon
200 ml (a scant cup) of water
500 g jam sugar (with added pectin)
Wash the lemon, pat dry and grate the zest. Remove the white pith and discard. Cut the lemon flesh into smaller pieces.
Place pumpkin, water, lemon flesh and grated ginger into a heavy-bottomed saucepan and cook on a low heat, covered, until the pumpkin flesh is softened. Remove the lid for the last 5 to 10 minutes, so the extra moisture could evaporate.
Smash the pumpkin flesh with a wooden spoon until broken (or press through a fine sieve, if you want a very smooth jam).
Add the jam sugar and grated lemon zest, and cook for another 10 minutes.
Spoon the hot jam into sterilised jars and close immediately.
15 comments:
- Ilva said...
Pille, this is just wonderful, I MUST make it! Great colour and I'm sure I will love the taste too! Thanks baby!
- 4:29 pm, October 18, 2008
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Oh yes Pille! I especially like it's using the lemon flesh, that would tend to thicken it I would think!
- 5:26 pm, October 18, 2008
- elizabeth said...
I've never tried pumpkin jam before, great idea! This is now a must try on my fall cooking list. Thanks!
- 11:04 pm, October 18, 2008
- karolcia said...
Beautiful!!! I can't wait to try it. There's a Polish food blog event featuring pumpkin recipes next week, can I use your recipe for it? And, did you mean 200 ml of water, or sugar?
- 8:58 pm, October 19, 2008
- Ivo Serentha and Friends said...
Greeting from Italy,good luck
Hello, Marlow
- 11:36 pm, October 19, 2008
- kathryn said...
This looks beautiful Pille. What an interesting combination for a jam.
I'm keen to try out - just wanted to clarify how much water you add to the pumpkin and lemon?
Thanks for posting though/
- 5:07 am, October 20, 2008
- Carolina deWitte said...
This looks delicious, and just in time for Thanksgiving. Thanks.
- 10:46 am, October 20, 2008
- Inne said...
Never had pumpkin jam, but it sounds very intriguing, Pille. I will definitely give this recipe a try.
- 4:22 pm, October 23, 2008
- Haley said...
Yum! I can't believe I've never had pumpkin jam. I will be making this asap!
I would love to include your recipe in our pre-loaded Demy, the first and only digital recipe reader. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com if you're interested.
- 11:53 pm, October 23, 2008
this was sooo tasty! Thanks
- 1:40 am, October 26, 2008
- mara said...
It looks gorgeous! Do you know if it can be preserved? I mean, does it need to be refrigerated immediately? Or does it store? Thanks!
- 3:28 am, November 02, 2008
- Jeanne said...
Oooh, I've never had pumpkin jam but I'm sure I'd love it. Glorious colour too!
- 1:55 am, November 07, 2008
- Happy Jam said...
Never heard of pumpkin jam before. I have to try to make this recipe. Thank you. Jam and Marmalade Recipes
- 12:41 am, November 29, 2008
- Trish said...
superb .. love the subtle gingery taste .
i didnt have jam sugar so used half a cup pure apple juice to provide the pectin .. looks and tastes great.
thanks for the recipe.
- 2:29 pm, April 30, 2010
- Karolina said...
It was easy to make and came out delicious. What I particularly like about it, is that the jam isn't too sweet and has a lovely slightly spicy ginger flavor which goes perfectly with the mild pumpkin taste.
- 6:34 pm, December 28, 2012


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Clothing is evidently too complicated for me.October 15th, 2010
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Recently, I've taken to checking the weather before getting dressed in the morning. It's a pilot program motivated by my tendency to wear a cute mini-skirt and some kind of tank top, only to go outside and find out, hey, surprise! It's snowing. And then, having found myself in this predicament, I won't decide to go back and change into something, for example, warmer. No, you see, going back to change at that point feels like an enormous chore. It feels like the sort of task Zeus would have set before Sysiphus if he hadn't thought of that awesome rock thing. It feels like defeat. Which is how I end up at the bus stop, covered in two linear inches of snow and four square inches of fabric, praying for death.
It's instructive that I never have the opposite problem. I think this has to do with the ways men react to me based on what I'm wearing. I have discovered a formula:
where Se is the percent of skin exposed, t is the outfit's tightness (the percent of covered skin in contact with the outermost layer of fabric), and k is the coefficient of douchebag.
I haven't walked down the street naked or in a cat suit, so the equation may be more complex at its limits, but I think it's accurate to the first order. In any case, you'll notice that the less clothing I wear, the more I get harassed by random men on the street. Since I don't actually want this, you might expect that I would wear only parkas with culturally-problematic yet extremely effective veils. But I don't do this, because it turns out that as much as don't really want strange men harassing me on the street, I really really want strange women to harass me on the street. To date, this has happened exactly once (July 20th, 2009 around 8:57pm in Portland, OR), but hope springs eternal.
You guys, as I'm writing this, there is a guy sitting on the other side of the room. Whenever I look up, he's watching me. It's not a staring-at-my-tits kind of watching, either. It's a more… nuanced sort of thing. Like he's taking in the detailing on my purple combat boots, or trying to figure out if my liver would be flavorful enough to make a delicate pâté. WTF?
So, to stop myself from freezing… myself… to death, I have started checking the weather before getting dressed. This actually worked pretty well for a couple of days, but like all plans to improve my life, it was ultimately doomed to failure.
This morning, I asked the Internet to tell me what the weather would be like. "Seventy-five degrees," said the Internet, "Also, sunny."
"Thank you, Internet," I replied.
"It's no problem! Would you like some porn? Or maybe some LOW COST PENIS ENLARGEMENT?"
"Er… No, thank you. I don't think I'm really in the target market, anyway."
"Are you sure about the porn? Here, take a look at Autostraddle."
An hour later, as I was getting dressed, I noticed that the air blowing in my for-some-reason open window was… not warm. It wasn't seventy-five degrees. It was something more along the lines of minus one million degrees. Shit, I thought, I can't go out in this small skirt. I will fucking freeze my cunt off. I must put on leggings, I decided.
Besides, I continued, What do weather forecasters know, anyway?
You guys, I looked this up, and it turns out that weather forecasters know a fuckton. In addition to knowing the types of clouds and the water cycle and all that weathery stuff you "learned" in the first grade and "forgot" in the second grade, they also know all about fluid dynamics, which is one of those fields that looks really complex but is actually so incredibly fucking complex that the massive supercomputers that figure this shit out basically have to resort to guess and check. The weather, it turns out, runs on the Navier-Stokes equations. I can't pronounce that either, but here's what they look like:
The only parts of that I understand are the "=" and the "∂." "∂"s are partial derivatives, which sound like they should be easier than regular derivatives, but if my grade in Calc 3 is any indication, totally aren't. If you don't know what "=" means, this post must be very confusing to you.
The moral of this story is that if you're picking a team for the Math Olympiad and you're trying to decide between the nerdy guy who is always trying to talk to you after physics class but can't seem to construct a sentence that doesn't involve the word "tits," and the nerdy guy who can't stop staring at yours long enough to make eye contact and even initiate audible contact, you should totally fucking pick Kathy Sabine, y'all. She will pwn that math shit, and then she will feel your tits, which sounds pretty much magical.
That guy is still watching at me. But he just saw me looking at him looking at me, so now he's doing the thing where he pretends to be reading a book.
The other moral of this story is that when the Internet tells you it will be seventy-five degrees, you should probably believe it.
I didn't. So I put on leggings. Not the light kind of leggings, either. No, these were my heavy-duty leggings. My look-like-really-tight-jeans leggings. You could wear these in Antarctica, though as I understand it, you can wear naught but Jell-O in Antarctica, so maybe that's not saying a lot. Satisfied that I wouldn't die of chill, I went outside.
It was at least seventy-five degrees outside. I'd venture a guess that it may have been seventy-six or seventy-seven degrees, so maybe these weather people don't have that Navier-Stokes thing totally figured out, but the point is, it was hot. Eighty degrees is widely agreed to be hot, and it was, at best, a mere five degrees under that, and there I was, wearing my fucking woolly mammoth hunting leggings.
"How silly of me," a sensible person might expect me to say, "I should go back up to my apartment (which is very nearby, indeed, just up these stairs), and I should remove my boots, remove my increasingly-claustrophobia-inducing leggings, replace my boots, and then resume my day." Though, honestly, if you think that's where this is going, you haven't been paying much attention.
Dude comes up to me.
"You have very nice legs," he says.
"Thank you?"
"Are you writing a book?"
"No, I'm writing a blo—, uh… I'm working on homework."
"Oh! Very nice."
There is a pause at this point, during which he looks at me. I would call it an "awkward" pause, but it isn't really any more awkward than the conversation surrounding it. It's almost a relief.
"Very pretty," he says, finally, eliding any mention of a direct object.
"Thank you?" I start to smile. I've been told I'm prettier when I smile, though I'm not really sure why I want to be pretty at this moment. That thought interrupts the movement of my muscles, and threatens to halt my face in some kind of half-smile, half-writing-face liminal state, as if the smile was lost in a transporter accident but some pieces tragically made it through to my face. I manage to regain control and land somewhere between "pleased" and "happy," thankfully avoiding "flirtatious."
He smiles, says "very pretty" again (and, again, doesn't say what is "very pretty," leaving me hope that maybe he's talking about my handwriting or my government-standard notebook). Then he walks off.
Mystery solved?
Instead, I decided to take off my leggings in the car. Though you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise based on evry single previous sentence in this post, I did not decide to do it while driving. I did, however, decide that taking off my boots was just too much work, and I can just slip my leggings over them, and there's nobody around anyway, so it didn't even matter. I started pulling my leggings down. I had gotten them as far as my ankles before I realized two things:
- There was absolutely no way I was getting my leggings off without taking off my boots. Which, of course, I couldn't do, since my leggings were bunched up over the laces.
- The owners of the car parked next to mine were coming to retrieve their vehicle.
I think they saw me first, because by the time I looked up, one of them was smiling a broad smile, and pointing out my predicament to his friend. They came up to me, both of them smiling the smiles of men who might be about to get flashed panties, and I realized, perhaps a little late, that my plan had two substantial flaws: I was essentially incapacitated. Also, I was essentially incapacitated. I know that technically, that's only one flaw, but it's such a large one that I thought I'd mention it twice.
"Hey," one of them said. It wasn't a neutral, friendly sort of hey. It was the other kind.
I smiled vaguely, and kept working my leggings over my boots, trying to act as though it was a perfectly normal thing to do. I do this all the time, I tried to say, wordlessly, It is a perfectly normal thing to do. And then I realized that while I couldn't run with my feet tied together, I could drive. I gave them a little salute as I slammed the door and peeled out of the parking space.
Which is how I ended up stripping in the parking garage, trying to avoid having a breakdown while contemplating my failure to complete this, the most basic of adult tasks.


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This breakup song was created by Tim Urban, an ex-'American Idol' alum who thought it'd be super funny to beat Taylor Swift to the finish line and write a break-up song about her and Harry Styles from One Direction.
Because let's face it, with her track record, it seems to be inevitable anyway, right?
"At the moment Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are together, I guess, but there have been a lot of people wondering what song she's going to write about him," said Urban in the opening of the YouTube video. "I personally had an idea of what that song just might sound like... so this is my version of the song Taylor Swift is going to write about Harry Styles."
We were kind of skeptical about the whole thing at first, but Urban's first line of the song got us hooked immediately, "He was the wrong direction / With a beautiful face." Tell us that's not something she'd write herself!
"It serves me right for thinking he was different / It serves me right for never ever listening / But next time, there won't be a next time for him / And he can keep his accent," sings Urban in the chorus, emulating a Swift hit that seems to come so naturally to him!
We love T. Swift, but Urban's creativity gets an A+ from us because his song is so spot on and funny.
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The New York Fed's February Empire State Manufacturing survey is out.The headline index surged to 10.04 in February, way past economists' estimates of a slighter rise to -2.00 from last month's -7.78 reading.
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The February 2013 Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates that conditions for New York manufacturers improved for the first time since the summer of last year. The general business conditions index rose into positive territory, advancing eighteen points to 10.0.
The new orders index also rose sharply, climbing 20 points to 13.3, and the shipments index increased to 13.1. The prices paid index pointed to a continued acceleration in selling prices, and the prices received index, while positive, inched lower. The index for number of employees rose for a third consecutive month and, at 8.1, registered its first positive reading since September, though the average workweek index remained negative. Indexes for the six-month outlook were noticeably higher and suggested a fi rming in the level of optimism about future business conditions.
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Phishing attacks generally rely on a number of simple tools and techniques to trick unsuspecting users. The underlying infrastructure to support a phishing scam may be as basic as a simple copied HTML page uploaded to a freshly compromised web server and a server side script to process any user input data, or it may involve more complex web sites and content redirection, but generally the objectives are the same - to set up a fake web presence for a trusted brand with the necessary back end capabilities to process user input data and make it available to the attacker. Using modern HTML editing tools it is very easy to produce a web site mimicking a target organisation, and poorly secured web servers can easily be located and compromised if an attacker is not adverse to scanning entire portions of Internet IP address space in the search for vulnerable target hosts. Once compromised, even home PCs can make effective hosts for phishing web sites, so not only well known corporate or academic systems are targeted. Attackers are often indiscriminate in their choice of target computers, purely selecting large IP address blocks to scan at random for a particular exploitable security vulnerability.
Once a phisher has established a realistic and convincing fake web site that mimics a trusted brand, their main challenge is how to divert users of a legitimate web site to the fake web site instead. Unless the phisher has the ability to alter the DNS for a target web site (DNS poisoning) or somehow otherwise redirect network traffic (a technique sometimes referred to as pharming), they must instead rely on some form of content level trickery to lure unfortunate users to the fake web site. The better the quality of the lure, and the wider the net that can be thrown, the greater the chance of an innocent user mistakenly accessing the fake web site (and in the process potentially providing the phisher with the victim's credentials or other personal data).
Unfortunately for the attacker, when they target an individual organisation (such as a bank or trusted retailer), the phisher probably does not have any information about who on the Internet is a customer of the target organisation and therefore who might be most receptive to a particular lure. Although the attacker could post hyperlinks pointing to the fake web site on chat rooms and forums related to the target brand (such as a technical support web site or community discussion group), it is likely that the target organisation would be notified reasonably quickly and the offending hyperlinks removed or discredited before many victims had accessed the content and submitted their personal details. There would also be a significant risk that the target organisation or law enforcement agencies might trace and potentially shut down the fake web site. The phisher therefore requires a method of reaching the maximum number of potential victims with the minimum amount of risk, and they have found their ideal partner in crime in the form of spam email.
Spammers have databases containing many millions of active email addresses, so the latest mass emailing techniques can be employed to allow a phisher to distribute their lure to a very wide audience with very low risk. Spam emails are often sent via compromised servers hosted in foreign countries, or via global networks of zombie PCs (botnets), so the likelihood of an individual sender being traced is low. If an unsuspecting user receives an officially branded email that appears to have been sent by their bank which asks them to go to what appears to be the bank's usual branded web site to change their online banking password for security reasons, they are much more likely to consider doing so than when confronted with standard spam emails about novelty products and links to unknown web sites. To increase the likelihood that a user will believe that an email is genuine, the phisher can employ a number of techniques to further improve the quality of their attempted deception:
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To reduce the load on the hard drive during the use of "Scan System", go to the configuration of the scanner by selecting Extras → Configuration in the main menu.
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Below the header "Scan process" on the right side you should set the Scanner priority to "low" (see screenshot).
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At Bucknell, this year's College of Engineering annual Engineers Week competition ran Feb. 22-26. This is a week of events organized to celebrate engineering and to provide both competitive and professional opportunities for the students.
Events this year included the annual departmental banner competition, trivia competition, dance competition, video competition, alumni networking events and ended with the Engineering Week Banquet on Friday evening.
The banquet included over 500 engineering students, faculty, staff, and alumni who gathered to celebrate engineering and to enjoy the camaraderie developed within the College of Engineering throughout the week. In addition to recapping the winners of the week's events, the banquet showcased the top departmental videos. The entertaining evening concluded with the announcement of which departments placed in the top three for the week. When the Biomedical Engineering students, faculty and staff learned that they had won another Engineers Week title, they celebrated the victory and proudly received the coveted Golden Hammer and E-Week Champions Plaque.
James Baish, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering (co-investigator), and his colleagues Lance Munn (co-PI), Timothy Padera (co-PI), received a grant to be awarded to Massachusetts General Hospital and subawarded to Bucknell for their work in "Systems Biology of Lymphatic Transport. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute." Congratulations on the grant!
Joseph Tranquillo, Associate Professor for Biomedical Engineering, was recently nominated by Bucknell University for CASE US Professor of the Year.
Sarah Denning, BME '16, was also selected for one of the BMES Graduate Design and Research Awards for the BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL for her extended abstract: Peak Extraction Force Of Kirschner (K-) Wire And Reference Probe Indentation Parameters As Predictors Of Bone Mineral Density (BMD).
Kelly Tong, BME '16, was selected for one of the BMES Graduate Design and Research Awards for the BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL for her extended abstract: Comparison of Mechanical Testing Methods for Biomaterials: Nanoindentation, Pipette Aspiration, and Compression Testing.
Greg Danchik, BME '15 was selected as a winner in the BMES Undergraduate Student Research & Design Competition for his work on "Comparison of Head Impact Accelerations Based on Ground Cover of Playgrounds." He also was selected as the top poster in the "Engineering & Natural Sciences" track at the Susquehanna Valley Undergraduate Research Symposium in spring 2015.
Sarah Denning, BME '16 was named the winner of the 7th World Congress of Biomechanics' Student Paper Competition, sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Out of more than 120 submissions from nine of the world's major biomechanics communities, Sarah was named the winner of the undergraduate Solid Mechanics & Materials, Design Dynamics, Rehabilitation group.
Erica Gaugler, BME '15, received the following awards in May 2015: The Louis W. Robey Prize, the Bucknell Prize in Biomedical Engineering, The Oliver J. Decker Prize and The Ernest and Josephine Christensen Award.
Mark Daley, BME '17, also received the following awards: The George Morris Philips Prize and The President's Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement
Mary Helen Schwartz and Heather Bothwell both BME '15 received the Biomedical Engineering Professionalism Award.
Greg Danchik, BME '15, received the Biomedical Engineering Excellence Award.
The Spring 2013 Newsletter for the Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) of ASEE is now online!
Eric Orbison '10 receives dental fraternity scholarship
Orbison is studying at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.
BME 3-Peats!! Wins third consecutive Engineers Week competition
For the third year in a row and the fourth time in seven years, the BME students, faculty and staff won the College of Engineering's annual Engineers Week competition which ran from February 18th-22nd, 2013.
Rats go high tech to root out land mines
Bucknell professors Kevin Myers (psychology) and Joe Tranquillo (biomedical and electrical engineering) are developing technology and training rats to eradicate land mines in developing countries.
Geisinger Partnership: Engineering solutions in healthcare
Bucknell's biomedical engineering students each year partner with surgeons, nurses and other medical professionals to solve real-world medical issues.
So you're a cyborg — now what?
Joe Tranquillo (biomedical engineering) and John Hunter (humanities), spoke about the tension between technology and memory at the Neuro-Humanities Entanglement Conference at Georgia Tech in April 2011, where academics and thinkers from a variety of disciplines came together to discuss how their seemingly disparate areas of study might connect.
Students build critical skills, connections through Engineering Success Alliance
Now in its second year, the Engineering Success Alliance provides students who come from under-resourced high schools with the academic resources, peer support and opportunities they need to succeed.
Professor's study of blood vessels could aid in cancer drug delivery
In a discovery that could aid in cancer treatment, a team of researchers at Bucknell University (including James Baish), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have found a better way to map blood vessels in normal and cancerous tumors.
Article captures key aspects of vascular geometry
Professor James Baish was first author an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled, "Scaling rules for diffusive drug delivery in tumor and normal tissues." (PNAS Feb 1 2011). In August, the Faculty of 1000 placed this article in a library of the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine.
Study seeks to find out if Wii Fit builds better balance in older adults
A Bucknell professor and student worked with 11 residents at a local retirement home to learn if balance training can help prevent falls in older adults.
Biomed engineers develop brain-powered device
Biomedical Engineering students are testing a brainwave- and muscle-activated mechanism they developed for a Fundamentals of Biomedical Signals and Systems class at Bucknell University.
What Will Be the Hot Jobs of 2018?
Biomedical engineering jobs are predicted to grow by 72% by 2018.


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Fox Sports is reporting that new Raiders coach Dennis Allen has decided to retain running backs coach Kelly Skipper and that he interviewed Greg Manusky for the defensive coordinator position held by Chuck Bresnahan last season.
Skipper has been with the Raiders the past five seasons. He coached tight ends in 2007-08, running backs the past three seasons.
Manusky, 44, has spent 11 seasons coaching in the NFL. He was the San Diego Chargers defensive coordinator last season, until he was dismissed by head coach Norv Turner at season's end.
Before that, Manusky was the defensive coordinator for the 49ers from 2007-10 and coached linebackers for the Chargers (2002-06) and Washington Redskins (2001).
In summary, Greg Knapp has replaced Al Saunders as the offensive coordinator, Skipper is back as the running backs coach, defensive line coach Mike Waufle and special teams coach John Fassel signed with the St. Louis Rams and wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal went to the New York Jets.
Allen and the Raiders have not confirmed any coaching moves yet.
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Opportunity Commission
The following is a summary of the four issues the Office of Inspector General considers the most significant management challenges facing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). All of these challenges were included in earlier OIG reports. They include the Private-Sector Charge Inventory, Budget and Performance Integration, Strategic Management of Human Capital, and State and Local Partner Performance Management.
On July 22, 2010, the Senate Appropriations Committee, in its recommendation for the EEOC's Fiscal Year 2011 appropriation, stated, "The Committee remains concerned at the rising backlog in charges of employment discrimination at the EEOC…The Committee is disturbed that this issue has not been addressed in a systematic or strategic manner. The Committee is concerned that there is a lack of leadership response and will at the EEOC to adequately address this problem and it could affect the ability of the EEOC to meets its mission and mandate to promote equal opportunity at the workplace."
In both fiscal years 2009 and 2010, the EEOC received funding increases to its annual appropriation. In our view, the Agency needs to show congressional appropriators that the EEOC is using the increased funding from 2009 and 2010 to achieve improved performance, especially in reducing the private-sector case inventory.
In April 2010, Jacqueline A. Berrien was sworn in as Chair of the EEOC. The new Chair possesses an opportunity to convert the EEOC to a performance management culture, but will need to overcome the resistance of some senior agency leaders. As we stated in previous reports, the Agency must fundamentally change its management culture to effectively meet major challenges--including the reduction of the case inventory. While pursuing such change carries risk, without it, the EEOC cannot become a high-performing organization better positioned to succeed in its efforts to overcome these challenges.
The EEOC continues to face a major challenge in adequately addressing the large backlog of private-sector discrimination charges. According to preliminary data, the charge inventory at the end of FY 2010 was 86,338, charge receipts numbered 99,922. The inventory at the end of FY 2009 was 85,768, and 73,951 at the end of FY 2008. In FY 2009, the EEOC received 93,277 new private-sector charges.
The primary negative effect of a large inventory is the delay in charge resolution for thousands of EEOC customers and stakeholders. To help address the backlog, The EEOC invested some of its additional funding in FY 2009 and 2010 to hire new staff, including investigators and mediators. For example, EEOC hired about 100 investigators in the June-August, 2010 period.
The Office of Field Programs indicated that the hiring and other efforts resulted in more resolutions, but the increased charge filings diluted the impact of the resolutions on reducing the charge inventory. Regardless of whether these efforts were successful, the EEOC needs to introduce case processing efficiencies in order to make major inroads on the inventory.
The EEOC has not implemented any major program initiatives to reduce the inventory or to reduce the growth of the inventory in over 10 years. The last major initiative was the Priority Charge Handling Process (PCHP), instituted in 1995. Most recently, in its FY 2011 budget justification, the EEOC failed to propose major improvements in charge processing.
Budget and performance integration remains a key challenge. Without better performance measures and corresponding data, Agency managers cannot know how well the EEOC performs given the resources it expends. As we have previously stated, until the EEOC's senior managers, particularly those responsible for private-sector case processing, accept the need to gather and use performance data to improve charge processing, this challenge is likely to remain.
The EEOC lacks, in key areas, performance measures and/or adequate performance data. For example, the EEOC still lacks solid performance data to adequately support target performance levels for the private-sector charge inventory. Therefore, the EEOC will continue to face challenges in determining and justifying performance targets. The EEOC also does not use performance measures and accompanying data to manage the performance of its state and local partners.
Although the EEOC made progress in this area, it did not commence implementation of two key elements in the strategic management of human capital. An example of EEOC's progress is the July 2010, launch of its Mentoring Program. The EEOC Mentoring Program partners a group of 25 established EEOC employees (mentors) who understand the Agency and its culture with junior employees (mentees) to provide opportunities for mentees to learn more about the organization and develop and broaden core competencies and leadership skills to enhance their professional growth and development. Due to demand for the program, OHR expanded the number of mentors/mentees relationships to 40.
The Office of Human Resources finalized the EEOC's draft human capital plan and, after obtaining input and approval from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, completed its draft leadership succession plan. While the EEOC has made progress on both of these initiatives, it has failed to commence implementation of either plan. These plans are being reviewed by senior Agency officials.
The EEOC provides substantial annual funding, ($30,000,000 for FY 2010) to state and local partners, known as Fair Employment Practice Agencies (FEPAs), through its State and Local Programs office, to conduct investigations and resolutions of employment discrimination charges. Work performed by FEPAs, both the EEOC funded and non-EEOC funded, is critical to fighting employment discrimination.
In 2007, the EEOC agreed with OMB to adopt such a measure, but has not done so, despite a workgroup report and accompanying recommendations for a performance measure.
In September 2010, the OIG began a review of the EEOC's oversight of its State and Local Programs. The firm of Williams, Adley & Company-DC, LLP, will conduct the review. The OIG plans to issue draft and final reports in the second quarter of FY 2011.
We agree that managing the private sector charge inventory continues to be a significant challenge for the EEOC. However, the focus of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on "major program initiatives" is far too narrow. The Commission has, in fact, taken significant steps in the last few years to address charge resolutions. Initially, however, it is helpful to recognize a few important factors that led to the growth in the pending inventory. As noted by the OIG, our charge receipts have been increasing significantly for several years - rising from just over 75,000 in FY 2005 to nearly 100,000 in FY 2010. Additionally, and most importantly, between FY 2004 and FY 2008 the EEOC lost 25% of our investigators without the ability to backfill those positions.
As noted earlier in this report, the EEOC launched an effort in FY 2009 to rebuild resources and capacity and focus on managing the pending inventory. This initiative included working to hire front-line staff, revitalizing our Priority Charge Handling Procedures (PCHP), using best practices from our field offices and investing in training for new and existing employees. As a result of these efforts, at the close of FY 2010 EEOC was able to resolve 105,000 charges. In contrast, in FY 2007 there were 72,000 charge resolutions. The end result is that EEOC was able to end the fiscal year adding fewer than 600 charges to the pending inventory – a dramatic success. We believe that this sustained effort constitutes a major program initiative.
One of the most important lessons from the past, however, is that charge processing backlogs are not a transitory operational challenge addressed by short-term redirection of resources or temporary increases in staffing or funding; rather, they require sustained management attention and commitment of resources and consistent implementation of systems developed to ensure that charges are processed fairly and efficiently. There must be sustained attention to case management and implementation of systems that facilitate efficient charge processing. We are committed to finding long-term answers for inventory management. However, this process must, out of necessity, be thoughtful and thorough. Accordingly, as the IG notes, we have set aside funds in the FY 2011 and FY 2012 budgets to address the backlog. We have also launched a series of "benchmarking" conversations with several federal and state agencies to learn as much as possible about strategies we might employ to address our charge processing challenges.
We recognize the OIG concern about budget and performance integration and are deeply committed to ensuring that the Commission is effective as a law enforcement agency and, at the same time, a good steward of public funds. Senior leadership in both our field offices and headquarters have worked diligently to ensure that the Commission achieves the agency's strategic goals. The Commission has had remarkable achievements in many of our measures, including maintaining a high quality in our charge investigations, in our mediation satisfaction and most demonstrably, in our Workplace Impact changes, where more than 6 million individuals have benefitted from our enforcement actions in just the past year.
While targets for private sector charge processing were lowered in FY 2008, those responsible for private sector enforcement have incorporated the strategic goals under the current Strategic Plan into its data collection and management practices. As we move forward on the development of a new Strategic Plan we will work to establish a robust data collection and verification process, as well as the establishment of challenging and realistic targets.
The greatest resource the EEOC has is our employees – their dedication to the mission of the agency and their institutional knowledge are invaluable. Because of this, the ability to manage our workforce in a strategic manner and provide for appropriate succession planning is both important and a challenge. Since Chair Berrien was sworn in as Chair in April 2010 we have been working with the Office of Human Resources on the EEOC's Human Capital Plan and Leadership Succession Plan. We look forward to the approval and implementation of these plans; however, we already have launched a number of activities to strengthen our human capital efforts.
The EEOC partners with 96 state and local agencies, called Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs) to enforce laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In FY 2007 we began the process of working with the FEPAs to explore an appropriate and accurate way to measure their performance. This work has resulted in the establishment of a workgroup and the development of a set of recommendations. As we conduct a full evaluation of our Strategic Plan in FY 2011 we will consider the recommendations of the workgroup as we move toward establishing a shared performance measure with our state and local partners.
November 10, 2010
TO : Jacqueline A. Berrien, Chair
FROM : Milton A. Mayo, Jr., Acting Inspector General
SUBJECT : FY 2010 Agency Compliance with the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (OIG Report No. 2010-08-AIC)
The Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA), P.L. 97-255, as well as the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Circular A-123, Management Accountability and Control, establish specific requirements for management controls. Each agency head must establish controls to reasonably ensure that: (1) obligations and costs are in compliance with applicable laws; (2) funds, property and other assets are safeguarded against waste, loss, unauthorized use, or misappropriation; and (3) revenues and expenditures applicable to agency operations are properly recorded and accounted for in order to permit the preparation of reliable financial and statistical reports, as well as to maintain accountability over the assets. FMFIA further requires each executive agency head, on the basis of an evaluation conducted in accordance with applicable guidelines, to prepare and submit a signed statement to the President disclosing that agency's system of internal accounting and administrative control fully comply with requirements established in FMFIA.
EEOC Order 195.001, Internal Control Systems requires the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to annually provide a written advisory to the Chair on whether the management control evaluation process complied with OMB guidelines. On November 5, 2010, the Office of Research, Information and Planning (ORIP) submitted EEOC's Fiscal Year 2010 FMFIA Assurance Statement to the Chair and to the OIG for review. The OIG reviewed: (1) assurance statements submitted by headquarters and district directors attesting that their systems of management accountability and control were effective and that resources under their control were used consistent with the agency's mission and complied with FMFIA; (2) all functional area summary tables, and functional area reports; and (3) ORIP's Fiscal year 2010 Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act Assurance Statement, and Assurance Statement Letter, and attachments. Based on our limited independent assessment of this year's process, OIG is pleased to advise you that the Agency's management control evaluation was conducted in accordance with OMB and FMFIA regulations.
Further, based on the results of audits, evaluations, and investigations conducted by OIG during Fiscal Year 2010, OIG concurs with ORIP's assertion that the Agency had no material weaknesses during this reporting cycle.
OIG concurs with ORIP's reporting of sixteen instances of financial non-conformances. One of the financial non-conformances was identified in FY 2009 and two were identified in FY 2008. The Agency has or is in the process of implementing corrective action plans to resolve the remaining non-conformances during FY 2011.


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In 2010, the Government of Flanders (Kingdom of Belgium) signed an agreement with UNESCO establishing a Trust Fund that will, among others, support the World Heritage Marine Programme activities. In addition to general programme support, the funds will be used to increase the credibility of marine sites on the World Heritage List and enhance management effectiveness of sites already inscribed. To this end, the following activities will be implemented:
- Development of a baseline assessment of management effectiveness in marine World Heritage sites. The assessment will form part of a roadmap for capacity building in marine World Heritage sites
- Development of practical guidance to ensure a more ecosystem-based approach to the management of marine World Heritage sites. Several marine World Heritage sites suffer from activities which occur in the immediate surroundings of the sites boundaries. An ecosystem approach to the management of marine World Heritage sites is one way to increase protection from such influences and better protect the core values of the site
- Development of a regional overview of potential areas with Outstanding Universal Value in the Indian Ocean, with a focus on areas under jurisdiction of African countries. As concluded in the 2010 Bahrain Action Plan on Marine World Heritage, several marine areas are currently underrepresented on the World Heritage List of which this one
- Strengthening the foundation for the development of a strong, solid and sustainable World Heritage Marine Programme over the next decade.
The programme will work together with the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) through its ICAM Programme and International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and a number of regional and local entities for the implementation of these activities.
The results will particularly benefit marine site managers of both existing and potential marine World Heritage sites in economically less developed countries and countries in transition. It will specifically enhance capacity on World Heritage site nomination in African countries around the Indian Ocean.
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- Africa Nature
- Historic Urban Landscapes Workshops on the Swahili Coast of Africa
- Sustainable Tourism Capacity Building
- World Heritage Cities Programme
- World Heritage Marine Programme
- World Heritage Marine Sites - Best Practice guide
- World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme
- World Heritage at the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014: the promise of Sydney
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- Strengthening marine World Heritage in Sudan through South-South cooperation Friday, 12 October 2018
- Spearheading a global conservation movement: Marine World Heritage 2018 annual report Tuesday, 6 February 2018
- Children call on world leaders to save the ocean, launch #My Ocean Pledge campaign at World Oceans Day event Thursday, 8 June 2017
- Celebrating a decade of Marine World Heritage Tuesday, 20 December 2016
- New partnership will shed light on impact from fisheries on World Heritage marine sites Tuesday, 15 March 2016
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- Marine World Heritage Expert Meeting - Sudan 09-Oct-2018-12-Oct-2018
- #MyOceanPledge 08-Jun-2017-09-Jun-2017
- Building a global network of site managers 27-Aug-2016-31-Aug-2016
- Technical support mission to the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System 19-Jan-2015-26-Jan-2015
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The challenges of testing to the standard are:
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It is important to review ASTM D882-12 in order to fully understand the test setup, procedure, and results requirements.
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