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What is a Mud Log?
Before we get into the purpose of a mud log or explain the accent of its abandoned components, we should yield a attending at what mud logging is and why it is acclimated as a guideline for drillers. If $.25 of bedrock and debris are brought to the apparent by the circulating breeze of conduct fluid, they can be analyzed and acclimated to actualize a abundant record, or mud log. About this assignment of recording a log is agitated out by a third-party aggregation that specialized in mud logging. This third-party is generally assassin by the conduct aggregation to backpack out these logging tasks. The owners of the able-bodied can again use this advice to apprentice added about how the able-bodied is behaving and acquisition out what adjustments should be fabricated to accumulate assembly as able as possible. A mudlogger may alpha alive on the aboriginal day of conduct but usually begins at a after date and abyss that is bent by geologists' research. The mudlogger will generally accompany with him several logs from surrounding well-sites so that they may board clues as to what arrangement of formations the conduct aggregation can apprehend to assignment into. Now that we apperceive a little bit about what mud logging is, we can alpha to attending at the altered locations of a mud log and why anniversary basic is essential. First, the ROP or bulk of assimilation is the oldest and a lot of accepted adjustment by which the accumulation characteristics and conduct adeptness are abstinent and evaluated. This is aswell frequently accepted as conduct time. Addition allotment of the log is the porosity. This is a altitude of the formation's adeptness to authority oil and gas. The next allotment of the log contains the lithology, or bedrock type, of the accumulation getting accomplished into. This can advice the conduct aggregation apprentice added about the able-bodied and can advance to bigger assembly efficiency. The endure breadth of the log contains the sample description. This is a added all-embracing assay of the advised abstracts that outlines specific qualities that may not be apparent by the archive on the able-bodied log. Together, all of these abstracts and ethics accomplish up a mud log that is again acclimated by the aggregation to accomplish important decisions apropos drilling.
Rate of Penetration
As one of the a lot of admired accoutrement in evaluating a well, the ROP is afflicted by abounding altered parameters. The formation's bedrock type, hardness, porosity, and burden can all accept furnishings on the ROP. Added things that affect the ROP cover the weight on the bit, the bit's speed, the drill-string configuration, the blazon of bit getting used, the abrasion on the bit, and hydraulics. Mudloggers can manually admeasurement the ROP in three altered ways. The aboriginal of which is alleged beefcake the kelly, or is if the conduct aggregation marks it in approved increments and annal the time bare to assignment anniversary interval. Addition adjustment of barometer ROP is by application the conduct time curve. To do this, the logger observes a annular or band blueprint apparent with units of time that moves a pen apparent with units of depth. By befitting clue of the bulk of time taken to assignment a assertive bulk of anxiety or meters, the logger can again calmly annual the ROP. The Geolograph blueprint is the third adjustment that can be acclimated to actuate ROP. It is a band blueprint on a boom that rotates already every 24 hours. Abundant like the conduct time curve, this is aswell apparent with intervals of time. On here, anniversary accession of breadth is recorded as a beat mark. As with the conduct time curve, the logger can abstraction this in adjustment to annual the ROP. If the ROP is displayed on the mud log, it is as a artifice of the bulk of assimilation against depth. It is aswell generally accompanied by the ambit for alternation and interpretation. With the use of avant-garde logging technology, the ROP can even be advised by application an online calculator rather than by hand. It is aswell alleged altered things based on the way in which it is expressed. If it is bidding as units of breadth per assemblage of time again it is alleged a conduct bulk curve. However, if it is bidding as units of time per assemblage of breadth it is alleged a conduct time curve. Drill-time is about recorded in increments of 2 feet. The numbers beyond the top of this allocation of the log announce how continued it took the assignment bit to go through those 2 anxiety in annual per foot. For example, if the block on the log from 3,000 anxiety to 3,002 anxiety was accomplished at 5 annual per basal it took 10 annual to biking those 2 feet. Faster conduct times will appearance a band appear the larboard of the blueprint while slower times will appearance a band added appear the average or the right. In these types of wells, shale formations tend to assignment apathetic at about 5 to 10 annual per basal while added absorptive limestone formations assignment abundant faster at 2 to 6 annual per foot. This advice can be advantageous in free assertive zones that may be abnormally advantageous or even to associate the electric log to the mud log. As the oldest adjustment of logging, bulk of assimilation is acutely still a actual admired apparatus to the conduct crew.
On a mud log, the porosity is usually represented by a dejected band that is the extreme affair to the larboard on the log. While this may not be the aforementioned on every mud log, a lot of are agnate abundant to accomplish annual them easy. This bulk measures the pore amplitude aural the bedrock formation. This would be like talking about the holes in a sponge. These spaces in the bedrock formations are breadth the oil and gas reside. Often, if the log shows that there is a breadth of beach this agency that the porosity will aswell be actual high. A top porosity usually agency that the band of bedrock is actual affluent in oil or gas. With all of its holes like what would be apparent in a sponge, the accumulation would accept lots of allowance to board a ample bulk of oil or gas. This would accomplish it a actual adorable abode to assignment as against to a accumulation that has a actual low adumbrated porosity. While the porosity of anniversary altered bedrock band cannot be abstinent anon by any tools, it can be affected by demography added ambit into account. Seeing as this altitude is not absolute it cannot consistently be trusted to be absolutely accurate, a aggregate of added factors and abstracts ability be added reliable but a affected porosity bulk can consistently help. For example, if the bulk of assimilation and porosity announce that an breadth may be affluent in oil or gas, the aggregation may argue the lithology allocation of the mud log. If this breadth backs up what the added ethics indicate, again the breadth in catechism may actual able-bodied be affluent in oil or gas. Essentially, the porosity of a accumulation should not be acclimated by itself to accomplish any important decisions but if it is accumulated with several added reliable and trusted after-effects it can prove to be actual useful. Application capricious combinations of the altered locations of the mud log, the conduct aggregation can accomplish an authentic accommodation and accept to assignment breadth it looks as if there is a ample bulk of oil or gas trapped in a formation. While the porosity abandoned may not anon accord to the authoritative of this accommodation due to its unreliability, it can absolutely be acclimated in alternation with added techniques. By application addition adjustment as a abort safe, the conduct aggregation is not absolutely relying on the porosity adding and can alone use it as a guideline. Ultimately, the porosity is one of the beneath important locations of the mud log but if accumulated with all of the others it can prove to be a actual advantageous tool.
This allocation of the mud log tells the conduct aggregation what blazon of bedrock they can apprehend to appointment at altered base of the well. It is about apparent as a cartoon or account that extends down the centermost of the log to the appropriate of the conduct time portion. This centermost cavalcade is fabricated up of altered pictures and symbols that are acclimated by the logger to affectation altered accumulation types. The altered symbols acclimated in this cavalcade reflect the sorts of rocks, textures, fossils, and bedding that abide at altered depths. For example, limestone formations may be represented by dejected rectangles, shale formations could be apparent by atramentous accumbent lines, and sandstone could be adumbrated by a dotted section. This could alter by mudlogger but the capital apriorism charcoal intact. To appear up with this arrangement of information, the logger about has to appraise the baby able-bodied cuttings that are broadcast aback to the apparent by the conduct medium. If the assignment cuttings from the basal of the borehole appear up to the surface, they are covered in mud and unidentifiable. They again access at a shaker which separates the beyond cuttings from the conduct fluids and bigger pieces. These abominable cuttings generally appear from the abandon of the able-bodied rather than from the basal of the borehole. The aqueous is again filtered for reclaim and the cuttings are beatific from the shaker to the assets pit. Before the cuttings accomplish it to the assets pit, the mudlogger collects his samples. The samples are again done and dried, either by air or in ovens. To ensure that a adumbrative sample is taken, those acquisition the cuttings accept to not artlessly accumulate the endure cuttings to access at the shaker. Already the actual samples are gathered, washed, and prepared, they are beatific to either a class or the oil aggregation for an all-embracing analysis. These tiny able-bodied cuttings are looked at beneath a microscope so that the logger can actuate what types of formations they accept appear out of. This is usually done beneath a 10x deepening microscope. Obviously, getting able to acquaint what blazon of accumulation a diminutive assignment acid has appear from takes ample training and abounding years of acquaintance in the field. The lithology statistics that are bent by the logger are again displayed as percentages of the absolute sample. The beyond bits that were done off beforehand are now factored into the absolute allotment value. The allotment ethics included in the lithology breadth of the mud log are again appear application 5% increments. Then, this advice can be compared to the ROP and by addition out if the assignment bit entered anniversary accurate blazon of rock, the logger can accredit a abyss ambit to anniversary formation. By visually announcement this advice alongside the ROP and added statistics, the logger can appearance the able-bodied buyer and the conduct aggregation absolutely what sorts of formations and conduct they accept encountered. By accomplishing this, the drillers can focus on a assertive breadth that looks like it could be added productive. The Lithology allocation of the mud log is one of the a lot of advantageous parts. It is aswell abstinent anon which makes it abundant added reliable than the porosity. However, this adjustment is bound too. It is alone able of analytical the types of rocks calm in the samples and is accordingly affected to error.
Sample Description
While the added portions of the mud log are numerically based, the sample description is a added abundant arbitrary of what the logger sees. Because of the ample bulk of detail that goes into this allotment of the log, abundant of it is recorded application abbreviations. For example, a sample description may go something like, "shale, atramentous to dark-gray, average hard, calcareous (containing limestone or calcium carbonate)". Added types of formations that may be declared in this breadth are argillaceous rocks, arenaceous rocks, carbonates, evaporites, carbonaceous rocks, or accent minerals. These types of abbreviations accomplish it easier for the logger to abbreviate all of his added allegation into a architecture that is both simple and quick to read. This is breadth the logger can say annihilation that is not apparent or fabricated altogether bright by the added analysis after-effects independent in the log. Also, if the logger feels that something apparent by the blow of the log needs an explanation, actuality is breadth it can go. If there are added addendum that should be added anecdotic a accumulation so that the conduct aggregation knows all of the all-important facts, the logger adds those addendum in the sample description. Basically, this allotment of the log is breadth the logger has a adventitious to call the samples in agency that the added tests do not appearance or explain fully. This is a arrangement of assorted class for the logger to add in his claimed allegation in alternation with the blow of his log. By annual this as able-bodied as searching at the added locations of the mud log, the conduct aggregation can apprentice aggregate they charge to apperceive about the formations that they are conduct into.
All of the advice that is independent aural anniversary mud log helps the drillers and owners of anniversary able-bodied use all of the accessible facts to actuate what is appropriate for them. All of the abandoned locations of the log play their own roles, anniversary of them hardly altered but allowance to acrylic the aforementioned picture. Again, the bulk of assimilation is acutely advantageous for free the formation's bedrock type, hardness, porosity, and pressure. The porosity of the formations is aswell advantageous for comparing to the bulk of assimilation and lithology sections. While not absolutely reliable, it is still useful. The lithology breadth of the log shows the altered types of bedrock formations encountered in a graphical format. By accomplishing this, the logger makes it easier for those annual the log to analyze the bulk of assimilation anon to a "picture" of the well. The sample description aswell helps to aid in the affluence of annual the log. This allotment of the log is actual simple to apprehend and adapt as the logger uses accepted conduct and geological analogue and abbreviations to call what he sees. The uses of the mud log are so abundant that it would be about absurd to account them all. While its primary purpose is to advance a geological almanac of the accomplished well, it is aswell able of communicable irregularities. For example, if the sample beneficiary is "stacking", or absence some samples and again demography several at already but labeling them differently, the logger can bolt this and address it to the geologist. With such a all-inclusive arrangement of uses, mud logging is acutely an capital allotment of the conduct process. Without it, the way that these wells are explored and accomplished would be badly afflicted for the worse.


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Ventilated ATEX container for process analyser (gas chromatograph)
For a customer in the Far East, ELECTROMACH has developed an explosion protected container for a process analyser for usage on an oil refinery.
Gas chromatograph
The gas chromatograph will measure the amount of hydrogen. This should be done at the refinery and as close to the process gas pipe as possible. For the most accurate result, the hydrogen measurement must be completed in a limited time frame. The length of the heated sample-pipe has a major influence on the amount of total time necessary for this measurement.
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The gas chromatograph will be installed in an explosion protected container. The container has been designed as a fully welded construction and has been insulated and specially coated to meet the extreme site conditions.
To guarantee the functioning of the analyser, the temperature inside the container will be kept on a average of approx. 25°C, while the temperature outside the container can vary between -5°C and +60°C.
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In every newsletter you will find an actual overview of standards relating to explosion safety. In this issue we publish the EN-61241 and EN-80079.
Electrical apparatus for use in the presence of combustible dust
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Highlights, explosion protected Exe enclosures in stainless steel
The 8150 series explosion protected Exe stainless steel enclosures can be used as junction box/terminal box or control box. All STAHL components and accessories, e.g. cable glands and stopping plugs, can be used in this enclosure.
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Starting 3 October up till 7 October the Elektrotechniek will take place in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.
Electromach will also participate this year. On our 150m² stand, we'll show you all our new products. One of the highlights will be our ATEX certified HVAC system, which we've developed together with the Amerian Air Conditioner specialist, Specific Systems.
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E2S has introduced new versions of its all-digital Appello combined voice signalling and tone sounders that allow four different 30 second long voice, music or sound messages to be recorded and replayed at CD quality, improving clarity and intelligibility.
The Appello can be configured to replay just the recorded messages or the content can be alternated with one of the 45 alarm tones embedded in the unit. The four alarm stages are remotely selectable and the message playback and the alarm tones have independent volume controls, enabling the outputs to be fine-tuned to the installed location.
Seminar FF Benelux Fieldbus Live
On May 19, the first Benelux seminar was held at the 'Acta' premises in Kalmthout (Belgium), on which Electromach was also present. More information about the subjects and speakers can be found on the website of Fieldbus Foundation.
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The 21st annual Musical Showcase concert will be presented by Hope College on Monday, March 9, at 8 p.m. in DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids. Featured will be the Chapel Choir, College Chorus, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, Symphonette, and Wind Symphony, as well as soloists and chamber ensembles.
The evening will open with a piano solo, Frederic Chopin's "Etude Op. 10, No. 5 'Black Key,'" by Sally Vanderploeg. Following will be the Women's Chamber Choir under the direction of Jennifer Wolfe singing "Cantate Domino." Next is saxophone quartet consisting of Kaitlynn Zigterman, Shelby Peterson, Emily Brower, Nick VanVoorst and Dana Wilson performing "Howling at the Moon." Violinists Alexandru Hamzea and Catherine Bennett, accompanied by pianist Jennifer Wolfe, will also perform Pablo de Sarasate's "Navarra."
Lauren Conley, accompanied by pianist Brent Smith, will perform Stephen Flaherty's "Your Daddy's Son." Violinists Beth Barnadyn and Kirsten Schroeder will perform a duet arranged by Robert Elkjer titled "Royal Garden Blue." Next will be Kaitlynn Zigterman, flute; Jennifer Wolfe, piano; Nick VanKampen, bass; and Matt Mayes, drums performing Claude Bolling's "Veloce" from "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano. Soprano Briana Sosenheimer, accompanied by pianist Sally Vanderploeg, will perform "Traveling," by Libby Larsen. Flutist Lydia Post and pianist Elizabeth Claar will then perform Carl Reinecke's "Undine Sonata." Closing the first half of the show will be the Orchestra under the direction of Richard Piippo performing "Light Cavalry Overture."
Opening the second half of the concert will be the Jazz Arts Collective directed by Brian Coyle performing "Dunes at Dawn into Dromadaire Extraordinaire" from "Vignettes for Nonet" by Christopher Brubeck. Next will be soprano Sarah Ashcroft, accompanied by pianist Sally Vanderploeg performing "Zueignung" by Richard Strauss. Following will be organist Robin Pulsifer playing Louis Vierne's "Carillon de Westminster." "Amor de mi Alma" by Z. Randall Stroope will be sung by the Chapel Choir under the direction of Brad Richmond. Next will be the Brass Ensemble: Robin Pulsifer, trumpet; Peter Smith, trumpet; Julia DeGroot, French horn; Sam Pettigrew, trombone; Zach Mitchell, euphonium; and Collin Taylor, tuba performing "Prelude to Act I" from "Carmen" arranged by Georges Holcombe.
John Donkersloot will perform a piano solo, "Prelude in B-flat, Op. 23, No. 2," by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Following will be Katie Ross, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Stodola, viola; and Emily Chapman, piano performing Johannes Brahms' "2 Gesange," Op. 91, No. 1 'Gestillte Sehnsucht.'" Next will be a violin solo by Alexandru Hamzea playing John Corigliano's "Fifth Variation" from "The Red Violin." Baritone Jared Graybiel, with pianist Emily Chapman, will perform Eric Coates' "I Heard you Singing." Closing the concert will be the Wind Symphony directed by Gabe Southard, which will perform "Les Halles from Paris Sketches" by Martin Ellerby.
Tickets for Musical Showcase are $10 each, and may be ordered through the Hope College ticket office in the main lobby in the DeVos Fieldhouse, located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and may be called at (616) 395-7890.
Tickets may also be purchased over the counter at the Grand Center Ticket Office, which is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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As she watches her 12-year-old son grow weaker from repeated rounds of chemotherapy, Palo Alto resident Liz Poux stays focused on what will be needed to save his life.
Nico Poux, a seventh-grader who has lived with leukemia since the age of 6, is preparing for a bone-marrow transplant at Stanford Hospital. His family is casting the widest possible net for the most suitable donor.
Palo Altans will have a chance to help this Saturday as they celebrate the May Fete Parade.
In a booth at the parade's end at the Addison Elementary School fair, healthy adults can provide a swab of their cheek cells and enter themselves into an online registry of millions of potential donors.
The booth in honor of Nico, whose father is French Caucasian and mother is Korean American, is sponsored by the Asian American Donor Program -- but is seeking volunteers of all races and ethnicities. The organization brings potential donors into the national Be the Match Registry, formerly known as the National Marrow Donor Program.
The odds of a registrant actually being called are about on par with winning the lottery, Asian American Donor Program staff member James de Lara said.
"This isn't just about Nico but about all the other people looking for donors," Liz Poux said.
"At Stanford alone, there are plenty of people having difficulty getting a match.
"I just hope we can get past this and try to move on. It's hard that my children's experience right now is still full of cancer, especially for Nico."
Nico is the middle of Liz and Philippe Poux's three children.
Though Liz Poux grew up locally and graduated from high school in Mountain View, the family has lived in Paris until moving here last summer.
Nico is enrolled in the International School of the Peninsula but has not been well enough to attend since October, his mother said. When he's up to it, teachers from the school sometimes have come to the house.
Born and raised in France, Nico is bilingual and has studied a third language -- Spanish -- at school. He enjoys reading, loves Star Trek, roots for the Cal Bears and hopes one day to become an oncologist, his mother said.
"He's had chemotherapy for a long time, and his body is now very, very tired," she said.
At Stanford alone, more than 275 patients are looking for donors, said Professor of Medicine Rob Negrin of the Medical School's Bone and Marrow Transplantation program.
"The problem we face when we're looking for someone who could be a donor ... is they have to share certain genes," Negrin said.
"There's a one in four chance that any sibling would match, but most of us don't have six, eight, 10 siblings," so it is common for patients to need alternative donors, he said.
The Be the Match Registry is among the largest in a global registry system.
"About 13 million people (worldwide) have volunteered to be donors for someone they've never met -- it's really amazing," Negrin said.
"So let's say, we find somebody in China. They don't have to come here -- they can donate locally and the cells are shipped here. On Sept. 11 when all the planes were grounded, there were six to eight products in the air at that moment," he said.
If a suitable match is found and verified, about 75 percent of the time donors can give through what's known as peripheral blood stem cell collection, in which blood is drawn from the arm. The other 25 percent have marrow collected from their hipbone while under anesthesia.
"If one were chosen to be a donor, it's a minor medical procedure," Negrin said.
"You give up some of your bone marrow cells, but they grow back."
For more information, contact the Asian American Donor program at www.aadp.org or 800-59-DONOR.


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The WebSphere Technical Conference in Berlin is well under way with the first two days completed. I'm presenting in the performance track with both a hands-on lab for performance troubleshooting and analysis and two sessions (repeated) on top 10 Performance Tuning settings for WebSphere and Performance Testing and Analysis. Despite airBerlin losing my checked on bag for a couple of days the event has been pretty exhilarating. It is great to be able to meet with like minded techies who are dealing with the challenges of day to day production environments.
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Human noses know more than 1 trillion odors
Smell played an underappreciated role in evolution
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Respect the nose. Humans use it to tell apart an average of more than 1 trillion odors, a new study finds.
That estimate of smell's reach vastly exceeds the roughly several million colors and 340,000 tones a typical person can distinguish, reports a team led by geneticist Leslie Vosshall of Rockefeller University in New York City. A decades-old claim that humans discriminate only about 10,000 odors had not been systematically tested until now, the scientists say in the March 21 Science.
Most odor researchers already thought that people could whiff far more than 10,000 scents. Previous investigations found that humans have 400 genes that code for odor-sensing molecules. That's a sign that smell discrimination played a significant role in human evolution, says Rockefeller geneticist and study coauthor Andreas Keller.


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NEW DELHI (AP) — An official of India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, says production at a factory hit by rioting during a labor dispute cannot be resumed until an investigation is completed into the causes of the violence, which killed one executive and injured dozens of other people.
The plant, which normally makes 550,000 vehicles a year in Manesar in the north Indian state of Haryana, halted production on Wednesday night because of fire damage caused by workers.
Company chairman R.C. Bhargava told reporters on Saturday that Maruti Suzuki cannot resume production "until we are able to identify the causes and apply correctives."
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Belle Calhoune grew up in Massachusetts in a family of five children. The daughter of a physician and a biologist, she always had her nose in a book. A lover of romance novels since she was in middle school, she always dreamed of writing her own love stories. After graduating from Thayer Academy she attended Syracuse University, where she received a B.A. in English. After a thirteen year career as a Federal Investigator in Boston, she became a stay-at-home mom after the birth of her youngest daughter and a relocation to Connecticut. She spends her days writing, catering to her two dogs (a mini poodle and a chocolate lab) and driving her kids to their various activities. In her downtime Belle enjoys family time, swimming, eating chocolate and watching classic movies. She loves traveling to such locations as Bahamas, Mexico and Puerto Rico. She enjoys spending summers in lovely Cape Cod. Having studied French for ten years, Belle has traveled extensively through France and visited Paris, Nice, Provence and Normandy, as well as many other French towns. Belle lives with her college sweetheart husband and two beautiful daughters in Southern Connecticut. Writing inspirational romance novels and working in her pajamas is a dream come true.


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1930 Seils & Sterling Circus Maniton Family Troop or Troupe Gymnastics Vintage Poster
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This beautiful horizontal acrobatics sports related circus poster advertises the world`s youngest acrobats in new and original tricks. The Lindemann Brothers (later known as Seils and Sterling) Circus gave its first performance in 1918. By 1925 the circus was well under way, the Lindemann adopted the name Seils-Sterling, they became one of the country`s greatest motorized shows. In 1937 they worked in 10 states, but the depression of the 1930s led to the end of Seils-Sterling's travels. By 1938 the circus closed.
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April 24, 2007
Theo Brunner helped lead the UCSB men's volleyball team to a 3-1 win over UCLA in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament quarterfinal at Robertson Gymnasium on April 21.
The junior middle blocker totaled 10 kills with a .421 attack percentage, making just two errors in 19 swings. Brunner also added a service ace, three digs, 15 points, and a match-high seven blocks.
Brunner, who was recently named to the All-MPSF First Team, is hitting .543 this season, which ranks fourth in the country. He is on pace to shatter UCSB's single season hitting mark, set at .486 by Brunner in 2005.
The victory over the Bruins advanced the Gauchos to the league semifinals, where they will take on top-ranked Pepperdine April 26 (5:30 pm) at Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu.


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Aaron Maybin has reached the end of a curious football road.
The Toronto Argonauts announced Tuesday that Mabyin has retired. The 26-year-old linebacker had been playing in the CFL following NFL stops with the Buffalo Bills, New York Jets and Cincinnati Bengals.
Maybin was selected by the Bills with the 11th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. He earned the nickname "Mayhem" at Penn State for his ability to disrupt offenses, but that skill set was noticeably absent at the next level.
In two seasons with the Bills, Maybin started one game and failed to record a sack before the team pulled the plug in 2011. He found a home and some success with Rex Ryan and the Jets later that season, compiling six sacks as a situational rusher.
Maybin was unable to build on that momentum, however, and was released by New York eight games into the 2012 season. He caught on with the Bengals last summer, but was released during training camp.
Fans of the HBO series "Hard Knocks" might remember Maybin as the burgeoning painter known to toil away in an impossibly large studio apartment in downtown Cincinnati. If Maybin saved his money, that passion could become a second career.
The "Around The League Podcast" wrapped up the draft by picking our winners and losers.


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Jan 29, 2012
LA JOLLA, Calif. – Former VCU star John Rollins' 2012 season is off to an outstanding start.
Rollins (-14) fired a final round 71 Sunday and finished two strokes off the pace to take third at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Brandt Snedeker (-16) defeated Kyle Stanley on the second hole of a sudden death playoff to win the tournament.
It's Rollins' second top-10 finish in three events this season. The Richmond, Va. native placed 10th at the Sony Open in Hawaii two weeks ago. Sunday's finish earned him $408,000 and pushed his career earnings to nearly $16 million. The performance marked Rollins' best since he took second at the Travelers Championship on June 26, 2011.
At the Farmers, Rollins (70-65-68-71=274) vaulted into contention on the event's second day when he fired a blistering 7-under 65. He was sharp on Saturday as well, carding a 4-under 68 to move into a second place tie entering Sunday's final round.
Rollins' remained in contention throughout Sunday, but was slowed by back-to-back bogies Nos. 7 and 8. He steadied himself to shoot 35 on the back nine, birdying No. 16, a 227-yard par 3, after stroking his tee shot within a foot of the pin.
During his collegiate career, Rollins led VCU to its first two CAA Championships in 1996 and 1997. He was named the league's Player of the Year at the conclusion of both seasons and captured the CAA Championship individual crown in 1996 at Lane Tree in Goldsboro, N.C.


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Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton [US]; Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart [CS]
Forces Engaged: Divisions
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Description: On July 8, the Confederate cavalry, holding the South Mountain passes, fought a rearguard action against elements of the Union 1st and 3rd Cavalry Divisions and infantry. This action was one of a series of cavalry combats fought around Boonsboro, Hagerstown, and Williamsport.
Result(s): Inconclusive
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Spending time online is normal behavior for teenagers. But too much Internet use by teens — or too little, for that matter — might be related to depression, a new study finds.
The findings, reported in the journal of Pediatrics, do not mean that the Internet is to blame. For one, teens in the study who spent no time online were also at increased risk of depression symptoms.
Instead, the researchers say that both heavy Internet use, and non-use, could serve as signals that a teenager is having a hard time.
For the study, Dr. Pierre-Andre Michaud and colleagues at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, surveyed 7,200 individuals ages 16 to 20 about their Internet use.
Those who were online more than two hours per day were considered "heavy" Internet users, while those online anywhere from several times per week to two hours per day were considered "regular" users.
The teenagers also answered a number of health-related questions, including some standard questions about "depressive tendencies" that gauge how often a person feels sad or hopeless.
Compared with regular Internet users, the study found, kids who were heavy users or non-users were more likely to be depressed or very depressed.
Among male teens, heavy users and non-users were both around one-third more likely to have a high depression score, compared to "regular" users. Among girls, heavy Internet users had an 86 percent greater chance of depression, while non-users had a 46 percent greater likelihood compared to regular users.
That was with factors like family income and any chronic health problems taken into account.
However, the average depression scores among non-users, regular users and heavy users alike were all toward the lower end — between 1 and 2 on a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being "not depressed at all."
The authors of the current study didn't tell exactly how many kids in each group were depressed (and they didn't respond to a request for this information). A separate study from Switzerland published last year asked pediatricians in that country to estimate rates of mental health disorders in their young patients; the doctors estimated that the rate of depression in an average group of kids is 1.4%.
Exactly why both heavy Internet use and non-use were linked to higher depression risks is not clear, according to Michaud's team.
Since teenagers typically go online to connect with friends, the researchers speculate that those who are never online may be more socially isolated.
As for heavy Internet use, some past studies have also found links to depression symptoms — for reasons that are unclear. But one study of Taiwanese teenagers found that depression symptoms typically preceded kids' heavy Internet use, Michaud and his colleagues point out.
In this study, certain other health concerns were also more common among heavy Internet users.
For males, weight was an issue: 18 percent of heavy users were overweight, compared with 12 percent of regular users. Among female teens, 59 percent of heavy Internet users were sleep-deprived, versus 35 percent of regular users.
As with the depression findings, though, it's not clear why those relationships existed.
In the case of sleep loss, the researchers say, it may be that some teenage girls trade bedtime for online time. As for boys' excess pounds, it's not clear whether sedentary computer time boosts weight gain, or whether overweight teens are apt to spend more time in front of the computer.
The bottom line, according to Michaud's team, is that either excessive time online, or little to no time online, could be indicators that a teenager is having problems.
On the other hand, the researchers note, regular Internet use — up to two hours per day in this study — appears to be "normal" teen behavior.
They point out, though, that the study was conducted in 2002, before the days of Facebook and Twitter. Many teenagers now may spend much more time online, and the definition of "normal" time could also be different.
SOURCE: bit.ly/hGdtI2 Pediatrics, online January 17, 2011.


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The DRAW button completes play by dealing new cards for any unheld cards, and paying out winning hands.
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FYI: Debbie Bliss' Hooded Kaftan from Special Knits is the WORST pattern ever. I like DB's style and I don't mind that her garments knit up way too big and she never offers schematics. I can forgive her for that but I cannot forgive her for writing a really crappy pattern.
Before I start on one of her projects, I google the pattern and check the errata. One forum on Knitters' Review noted there were some problems with attaching the hood on this sweater so I was extra careful to avoid the pitfalls other knitters mentioned.
The sweater worked out fine until I got to the hood. I didn't mind binding off the back stitches only to cast on hood stitches that would eventually be sewn to the back stitches. However, any designer who thinks that the following instructions produce something resembling a hood is crazy:
(With 67 stitches on the needle…)
K4, m1, knit to last 5 stitches, m1, K4. Work 5 rows straight (in st stitch). Repeat these 6 rows 9 times more. Bind off.
That's it. That's the hood. that's a freaking trapezoid. That's not a hood. I thought the edging might pull the fabric into a hood shape. Nope. It's still a trapezoid. I intend to email DB with my criticism but I doubt I'll take the hood out. I might try to sew the trapezoid together to force a hood out of it. I don't know how well that will work but we'll see. Grr.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > October 2004 > Wayland graduates serving in various long-term care settings
Wayland graduates serving in various long-term care settings
It's no secret that Wayland Baptist University graduates end up scattered all over the country and the world, working in various careers. But it may be surprising to know how many share a similar vocation, and one that few in the outside world would expect from a Christian university.
Several graduates from Wayland's external campuses are working throughout the state and beyond in the field of long-term care administration. Wayland's senior faculty member in the program is Dr. Lloyd Cannedy, professor of business administration at the Wichita Falls Campus. This program is a specialization under either the Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education or Master of Business Administration tracks of study. But very specific coursework is necessary for students to move into this in-demand field of nursing home administration.
"A baccalaureate degree is the starting point for meeting the state and federal licensure exams requirements of long-term care administrators," Cannedy explains. "We provide the coursework that prepares them for taking the state and federal exams."
Those courses include Healthcare Law, Healthcare Marketing, Long-Term Care Administration, Health Professions Human Resource Management and Regulatory Aspects of Long-Term Care, a highly dynamic course due to ever-changing state regulations, Cannedy notes. Students are also required to have a 1,000-hour internship at an approved facility, which the Wayland campus oversees through the services of Dr. Wallace Duvall. As a licensed nursing home administrator, Duvall has taken additional advanced training required by the state to serve as a preceptor for hands-on training of students in the nursing home setting. The program requires a special agreement with the state's Department of Human Services, which has been in place for almost 20 years.
Program faculty has both academic training and experience in the industry. Duvall, for example, has served as the chief executive officer of a hospital in Denton, Texas, and was at one time the chairperson of Wayland's Division of Business. Cannedy has experience managing hospitals in Alabama, Iowa, Pennsylvania and two facilities in Texas. He was CEO of the Amarillo Hospital District, consisting of Northwest Texas Hospital, the Amarillo Psychiatric Pavilion and Kilgore Children's Hospital, for ten years.
Other faculty at the Wichita Falls program includes Dr. Joselyn Thompson, associate professor of business and education, who Cannedy says, "brings a special clinical dimension to our program. He is a kind and qualified person that develops a special relationship with his students."
Cannedy noted that many of the graduates working in this specialized field pursue the MBA in Healthcare Administration. Though it is not always required, it is becoming the entry point for practitioners, especially in the acute care field. Several courses over the Internet through Wayland's Virtual Campus are also offered to help working individuals advance toward this degree.
Virtual Campus offerings also provide access to health care administration courses by other campuses. Students from as far away as Hawaii and Alaska take courses. The Amarillo and Lubbock campuses are actively participating, as are the San Antonio and Clovis Campuses.
The following are just a few graduates who are serving in long-term care facilities across the state:
Donna Schlumpf has served as executive director at Seven Oaks Nursing Home in Olney, Texas, for the past five years. She earned her BSOE in 1997 and her MBA in 1999 and is also a licensed social worker. Schlumpf said she was drawn to the long-term care field out of a desire to serve the elderly. She said her education at Wayland helped prepare her for the job and "really helped me understand health care industry issues. I feel like my education ranks among the top schools."
Schlumpf finds her job, which also includes serving as senior administrator for three other nursing home facilities, very rewarding.
"You are always needed and get to see and become family with each of the residents. You make a difference in their lives," she said.
Angelin Dickson works as administrator at the Memphis Convalescent Center in Memphis, Texas, and is regional director over three other homes in the area. A 2001 BSOE graduate, she came into the field 22 years ago but decided to complete her undergraduate degree after educational requirements changed. She said her entry into the field was by accident: She answered a want ad for a bookkeeping job at what she thought was a nursing school in Kilgore. It turned out the facility was actually a nursing home, but she took the job anyway. She fell in love with the job and worked her way up to the administrative level.
"I feel like a lot of times that we help families. We're not just here for the patients, but it is a big responsibility to helping families adjust to difficult times," Dickson said. "There are times that we are able to help people recover and go back home. That's really rewarding."
Dickson is encouraged that her youngest son, Courtney, is following in her footsteps, working toward the same degree at the Amarillo campus and aspiring to a similar position.
Emilie Fowler, administrator at Cedar Falls Care Center in Wichita Falls for the past 10 months, completed her MBA in September 2004 through WBU-Wichita Falls. Though she'd had her license for six years and has been working in the field, she opted to return to WBU and actually finish out the graduate degree. She was familiar with long-term care since her mother worked in nursing homes for several years, but as a young woman doubted she'd ever work there herself.
As it turned out, she would also pursue a career in the industry, eventually coming to Cedar Falls to work with her mother, Donna Humphreys, who serves as director of nursing there, at the behest of their company. For Fowler, the job is very fulfilling.
"I like the interaction with residents. No matter how bad a day you are having, the majority of them love you unconditionally, and you get to feel that you're making a difference in the lives of the employees as well as the residents," she said. "It is definitely a calling."
A 2000 BSOE graduate of Amarillo campus, Janet Brown first worked as an assistant for Dickson before being named administrator at Wellington Care Center in 2001. After working at the center for many years, Brown decided to take the plunge and enrolled at Wayland at age 40, never having stepped foot on a college campus.
Brown said for her the job initially meant more career opportunities and chances for advancement, especially given the limited job choices in her small rural town. But after a short time there, she knew she'd found her niche.
"I love being with the residents and being able to help them. I love being able to tell someone in distress that I'll take care of it and seeing the fear leave their faces," she said. "They shouldn't have to worry about anything anymore."
After working as a pastor for 25 years, Sandy Sandlin was ready for a career switch. After becoming familiar with nursing home facilities while his mother was in Heritage Oaks in Lubbock, Sandlin decided that the field might befit his experiences and gifts and his desire to care for people. He began taking coursework through Wayland to prepare for the licensure exam and became administrator at Comanche Trail Nursing and Rehab Center in Big Spring in January 2004.
Seeing residents either improve and go back home or die with dignity is rewarding," he said. "Just knowing that their rights and needs are taken care of is fulfilling."
Jerry Jasper was driving a delivery truck in Amarillo when he decided to check into courses at the Wayland campus. Wanting a career with advancement, he opted to work on the BSOE in Human Services, taking the coursework for long-term care administration and graduating in 1999.
Jasper is now administrator at Memorial Hermann Spring Shadows Pines in Houston.
Linda Foley earned her MBA at Wayland in 1997 and has been administrator at Wichita Falls' Grace Care Center for the past two and a half years. Originally, she set out for a career in hospital administration, but shortly into her internship, she realized the long-term care field was where she belonged. She said the challenges of the position – dealing with patient care issues, ever-changing regulations and maintaining a profit – can be difficult, but she feels her education prepared her.
"The MBA was important to me to provide that depth of education to be able to deal with the difficult issues. The coursework and my internship really helped me to do that," she said. "Sometimes you wonder why you do this but then you go out and visit the residents and they just make your day."
According to Cannedy, a wide array of health care administration graduates serve in varying positions.
"We have military graduates helping manage military hospitals in domestic and foreign locations, including in portable hospitals serving recent combat operations. We have graduates in the military's Medical Service Corps. Our graduates are assisting in the management of Veteran's Hospitals in Texas and Florida. One of our graduates is doing a wonderful job at a rural hospital in New Mexico. We have a physician who has taken our courses that manages a large rehabilitation hospital. We even have a graduate who owns and manages a brace and limb appliance firm for the handicapped," he said. "With the significant growth in the number of elderly citizens in America, we also have a major interest in serving the long-term care patient through nursing homes and other elder care programs."
Cannedy believes "what we are doing is carrying out Wayland's Christian mission. The Bible is replete with clear instructions about service to others. Our graduates are quietly devoting their efforts in this service to mankind."


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Monday, April 9, 2012
* Bird Watching Basket
Another fun new addition to our family room is
our new Bird Watching Basket.
I was inspired by Mariah Bruehl's Playful Learning Spaces e-class.
We have a beautiful dogwood tree right outside our family room window
and we have several bird feeders hanging in it.
It is a very popular hang out in our backyard for our feathered friends.
I set up the basket with several bird guides,
a bird whistle, some nice binoculars,
and our "Birdsong Identiflyer" machine (that plays birdsongs).
I think I'll get some colored pencils and a sketchbook to add to the basket
so the girls can sketch birds as they observe them.
Time to make some more homemade birdseed cakes!
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Marriages - Joseph Edward Hagy & Alice Lamar Davis were married at the home of the bride on the 6th day of March in year of 1884.
Arthur Davis Hagy of Abingdon, Va and Mrytle Mae Moore of Lodi were married at Emnaett, TN September 12, 1912 by Justice of the Peace Joseph King.
Stamped on the front inside cover is the name "James A. Hagy."
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Police in Los Angeles are concerned about the city's growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries - especially when it comes to them preying on our nation's precious youth. This Halloween season, the L.A.P.D. are of the belief that terrifying pot heads are going to accidentally (or not accidentally) give your kids products like Keef Kat (which looks like Kit Kat), Reefer's (Reese's), and 3 Rastateers (3 Musketeers).
That's because everyone knows that people who pay a lot of money for medical marijuana love to give it out for free. It's just a thing they do because it's is so cheap and money grows on trees! Plus, getting kids' high is hilarious. Okay, that last part is
definitely probably true.
According to L.A. Weekly, the police are scurred of the weed candyman:
The Los Angeles Police Department today issued a warning about these retail-look-alike candies and asked parents to be vigilant and sort through tonight's haul just in case.
Cannabis candy seized by LAPD narcotics detectives was put on display during a press conference today in which cops urged parents to be careful about their kids' trick-or-treat loot.
Is this really a for real concern for parents? I'm genuinely curious. Because I can say with 99.99995 percent certainty that nobody is trying to give away their 3 Rastateers for free. And if they are, I woulda already known about it and been there twice (jkjk) (more like three times) (jkjkjkjk) so everybody chillll.


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Sometimes, with food and with life, simplicity is best. This is especially true when you are having a very busy, somewhat stressful week at work and all you want to do is come home and lay in bed. But you go work out anyway because you know it will make you feel better. And you take some time to clean up the house because you know it will make you feel better. And so you cook something healthy yet simple for yourself because you know it will make you feel better (and get you through the rest of the week.)
That is what this meal was about last week. The Hubs was gone for the night, playing lacrosse, and I needed a detox, if you will, from the marathon eating and drinking from the previous holiday weekend.
The most extensive part of this recipe is making the zucchini noodles. If you have a mandolin, it will go pretty quickly. I have a julienne peeler which takes a bit longer but is almost therapeutic in its repetition, especially when your mind is on ten other things.
serves 2
1/4 c. olive oil
4 large zucchini, julienned into noodles
garlic powder, to taste
sea salt, to taste
1/4 c. olive oil
3 garlic cloves, chopped
crushed red pepper, to taste
1 lb. shrimp
1 Tbsp. butter
fresh parsley, chopped
Heat olive oil in large pan. Add zuchini noodles, garlic powder, and salt. Sauté noodles until soft but not soggy.
Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a seperate pan. Add garlic and crushed red pepper and sauté for about a minute. Add shrimp and cook until done. Melt butter in pan and then add noodles. Mix together. Garnish with parsley.


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Even though 1 in 5 firms still don't have a website for ecommerce sales, almost one in five pounds pulled in by UK business came through an online sale, the Office of National Statistics has found.
Nineteen per cent of UK sales revenues came through ecommerce sales, states the ONS's report on E-commerce and ICT activity in 2011. That means that e-sales pulled in £483 billion to the British economy in 2011. Ecommerce as a percentage of total UK sales revenue has crept up from 18 per cent in 2010.
Website sales to consumers were 5 per cent of total turnover in 2011, with the rest attributable to sales to business. The sector making most use of e-sales was Wholesale, which netted 31 per cent of online sales pounds from consumers, and 40 per cent of the UK's online sales revenue from business.
The manufacturing sector was making strong use of e-commerce too – taking 40 per cent of e-sales to business.
When it came to online consumer pounds, Britain's information and communication industry performed well, pulling in 16 per cent of the total pie. Retail took 14 per cent, Transport and storage took 10 per cent.
The construction, food and accommodation sectors saw the lowest percentage of their sales come through the internet.
Value of ecommerce sales to different sectors, from the ONS 2011 report
The UK keeps its position as one of the most ecommerce-centric countries in Europe. In 2010 data the UK is joint fifth with Norway for penetration of ecommerce. Behind Finland, Sweden, Hungary and the Czech Republic at the top of the list, where 25 per cent of sales are conducted through the internet.
The ONS also found that 93 per cent of businesses had broadband internet and 81 per cent had a website.
The largest businesses nab the bulk of ecommerce sales: those in the 1000 or more employees bracket. In 2011, these businesses made up almost half (46 per cent) of all ecommerce sales.
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Wash. Post overlooked apparent Bush administration contradiction on intelligent design
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Six months after his own science adviser said that "intelligent design is not a scientific theory," President Bush stated on August 1 that the concept -- whose proponents claim that life is so complex that only an intelligent guiding force could have created it -- "ought to be properly taught" alongside evolution in public schools. Yet, unlike reports by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, an August 3 Washington Post report on Bush's remark failed to address the statement of the adviser, John H. Marburger III, even while citing conservative claims that intelligent design is, in fact, scientific.
An August 3 Los Angeles Times report noted that Marburger's statement "seemed to differ with the president." Similarly, a New York Times report the same day pressed Marburger to explain the apparent discrepancy.
But the Post article, by staff writers Peter Baker and Peter Slevin, noted that "[m]uch of the scientific establishment says that intelligent design is not a tested scientific theory" without mentioning that Bush's own science adviser is among that contingent. Similarly, the report neglected to include Marburger's assessment that intelligent design is not "scientific" even while reporting claims by Bush and several other advocates of the theory suggesting that it is:
John G. West, an executive with the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank supporting intelligent design, issued a written statement welcoming Bush's remarks. "President Bush is to be commended for defending free speech on evolution, and supporting the right of students to hear about different scientific views about evolution," he said.
At a morning briefing yesterday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush was simply restating long-standing views. "He has said that going back to his days as governor," McClellan said. "I think he also said in those remarks that local school districts should make the decisions about their curriculum. But it's long been his belief that students ought to be exposed to different ideas, and so that's what he was reiterating yesterday."
In comments published last year in Science magazine, Bush said that the federal government should not tell states or school boards what to teach but that "scientific critiques of any theory should be a normal part of the science curriculum."
The president's latest remarks came less than two months after Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna and an influential Roman Catholic theologian, said evolution as "an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection" is not true.
"Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science," Schonborn wrote in the New York Times. He said he wanted to correct the idea that neo-Darwinism is compatible with Christian faith.
The New York Times quoted Marburger reiterating his previous statements on the issue -- that "intelligent design is not a scientific concept," a claim he made in February before the National Association of Science Writers, according to the Los Angeles Times, and that "evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology," made during a March 2004 online discussion at The Chronicle of Higher Education's website. The New York Times added that Marburger attempted to "play down the president's remarks" by indicating that "Mr. Bush's remarks should be interpreted to mean that the president believes that intelligent design should be discussed as part of the 'social context' in science classes."
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DCMI Registry Community/Task Group meeting 2010
At the upcoming Dublin Core conference DC-2010, to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, there will be a meeting of the DCMI Registry Community and Task Group.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 20 October, 9:00am-12:30pm.
This meeting is intended to be accessible to all, including those who have not previously attended DCMI events. The schedule below is provisional. If you would like to propose additional items for the meeting, please contact the organisers. We will send out an updated schedule nearer to the time.
- Short status reports relating to ongoing activity in the registry area.
- Presentation and discussion: Registries in a Linked Data context.
- Landscape review: the distributed registry -- Diane Hillmann.
- Further items TBC
If you have any immediate questions about the meeting, please contact Emma Tonkin (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Diane Hillmann (email@example.com).
DCMI Registry Community Projects
DCMI Registry Task Group
There are now many metadata registry projects in existence, under the aegis of groups such as the DCMI, TEL, NSDL, DART, and UKOLN, each of which has explored various aspects of registry development and use. Partially as a result of this work, there is renewed interest in learning from existing registry developments, and moving some aspects of the work forward together. For example, projects such as the Terminology Registry Scoping Study (TRSS) [1] aim to gain an overview of existing developments in this area and define common interests. It is felt that the DCMI Registry community is an important forum for this discussion.
This work is primarily designed to support knowledge sharing between initiatives with an interest in metadata schema registry work, and to address communication between established registries. This work focuses on metadata schema, vocabulary, and terminology registries.
The DCMI Registry Task Group will:
- Develop a set of functional requirements common to current registries, based on the experience and findings of current registry implementers and stakeholders. As part of this, investigate the dissemination functionality considered desirable in a registry, and appropriate use cases associated with this functionality; common requirements
- Draft a set of use cases for inter-registry interactions, taking into consideration interoperability concerns (reporting, notification, versioning, etc.) between registries and other applications sharing related goals; inter-registry use cases
- Draft a set of functional requirements related to the inter-registry transfer language or languages, including interoperability concerns related to sharing information between registries and with other applications such as vocabulary management applications that share related aims. inter-registry functional requirements
- March-April 2008: Recruit/select Task Group members
- April 2008: Review existing Registry documentation
- May-July 2008: Data collection regarding use cases, first draft of functional requirements.
- Late Summer 2008(DC/ECDL/NKOS): Reporting back with findings, and gathering comments from implementers. At DC-2008 determine dissemination and publication of findings and recommendations, or further activity required prior to publication. Consultation with possible standards bodies will be explored as well.
Reports on TG activities and findings will be presented to the community via the Registry Community Wiki at the end of each phase of activity. Full discussion of the work and its further development will be planned for the DC-2008 meeting of the Community.
Current status: (Winter 2009)
Corey Harper is working with us on the Registry Task Group work, and has recently completed a survey of the area, which he is now writing up into a report. We have also made good progress on the specific subject of interoperability, having successfully implemented a 'rough and ready' three-way transform between DCMI Registry, NSDL Registry and IEMSR RDF formats.
In the next period we hope to look at the practical proposals that have been brought up both by the recent survey and by participants at the York event (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/rcw-2009/), in order to use them as use cases for practical development based on the work that has recently been completed.
Chairs: Emma Tonkin and Diane Hillmann.
Adrian Dale of Creatifica
Christine Frodl of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Mitsuharu Nagamori of the University of Tsukuba
Andrew Kitchen on behalf of BECTA
Kora Golub / Doug Tudhope of the TRSS project
Sally Chambers of the KB/The European Library
Jane Hunter of the University of Queensland
Ian McKinnell of the NHS
Working pages
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An Amazon package. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA
The future evolution of the London Underground won't only be about tunneling, ticketing and automation. It will also be about shopping. Many Tube stations are already retail spaces too, or else right beside one. But expect the network to grow ever more tied in to the consumer and lifestyle rhythms of the city. Amazon Lockers – self-service collection-point cabinets for goods purchased online – could be one part of that process, a sign of a city in ever-increasing motion. Transport for London expects to pilot the idea before the end of the year.
There are already Amazon Lockers in London – 20 of them according to Amazon's website. A competitor, InPost, has a similar number and plans more. The first Amazon model was installed before the Olympics and others can now be found in an assortment of spots including Brent Cross shopping centre, student accommodation blocks and a handful of Co-ops, including in Chingford and Camberwell.
They may not have popped up inside Tube stations just yet, but the one in Hammersmith's Broadway Shopping Centre, where Tesco Metro meets the Piccadilly and District Lines, is very close. Here's a You Tube clip of someone using it.
It's like left luggage in a way, the main difference being that the stached item has been deposited by someone else on your behalf. But the attraction for Tube planners is that lockers could be an aspect of further integrating stations with shopping and its place in London's work day and coffee shop life – "joining stations up more with the wider retail environment," in the jargon.
This process could well be part of a much larger one shaping the Underground in the coming decades. The finance of adding new stations and enhancing existing ones seems likely to increasingly depend on arrangements with property developers, as passenger demand soars and austerity economics affect public investment. The Tube-retail marriage looks destined to deepen. I hope to have more on this next week.
This article is one of a series about the future of the London Underground. Previous intalments so far are here and here.


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FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – Jack Fleck, who produced one of golf's greatest upsets by beating Ben Hogan in a playoff to win the 1955 U.S. Open, died Friday. He was 92.
He had been the oldest living U.S. Open champion.
The Edwards Funeral Home said Fleck died after a brief illness. Jim Edwards, the general manager, said he saw Fleck hitting golf balls as recently as six weeks ago.
Fleck returned to The Olympic Club two years ago when the U.S. Open celebrated its champions at the San Francisco course.
''I was fortunate to do the playing at that time and I've read a lot about it, that I out-Hoganed Hogan,'' Fleck said in June 2012. ''There was no time at all that I felt scared or under pressure coming down to the wire.''
Hogan appeared to be on his way to a record fifth U.S. Open title in 1955, closing with a 70 to finish at 7-over 287. He already was being congratulated by players who figured no one could catch him. But Fleck, an Iowa club pro in his first year on the PGA Tour, made two birdies over the final four holes for a 67 to force a playoff.
PHOTOS: Jack Fleck through the years
Fleck shot 69 in the playoff to beat Hogan by three shots.
''It was like someone who had never won a tour tournament beating Tiger Woods today,'' Fleck said in a 2002 interview with The Associated Press.
Fleck won only two other events on the PGA Tour. He also won the Senior PGA Championship in 1979.
''Jack was a great player who will always be remembered for winning in legendary fashion, capturing one of the most memorable tournaments in the history of our game,'' PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said. ''He embodied the ideals of a U.S. Open Champion for the remainder of his career. He also played a major role in the early years of the Champions Tour for which we are all indebted.''
But it was that U.S. Open title over Hogan that made him famous. Fleck said he was advised to save his energy when he arrived in San Francisco, but he loved Olympic so much that he wound up playing 45 holes of practice on Monday and Tuesday, and 36 holes on Wednesday.
He said in the 2002 interview that he knew he would win the U.S. Open after hearing a voice in his head while shaving Saturday morning before the 36-hole final. He was listening to a record of Mario Lanza singing, ''I'll Walk With God.''
''I heard a voice that said, `You are going to win the Open,''' Fleck said.
Born on Nov. 7, 1921, in Bettendorf, Iowa, Fleck learned the game as a caddie in Davenport, Iowa, where his father was a farmer. With borrowed clubs, he did well in caddie tournaments and, when he graduated from high school in 1939, decided to head south to Texas to play golf and escape Iowa's harsh winters. He served in the Navy during World War II and saw action during the Normandy invasion on British rocket ship off Utah Beach.
''Floating and circulating mines were sinking all kinds of American ships, crafts, gun boats, destroyers, etc., a real mess, with men in the water just trying to stay afloat in a sea of blood,'' he wrote in his book, ''The Jack Fleck Story.''
Fleck resumed his golf career in 1946 and scored his breakthrough victory in the 1955 U.S. Open. Fleck won only $6,000 for that major title – last year's U.S. Open champion, Justin Rose, earned $1.44 million – and made money by doing exhibitions.
''There wasn't as much money back then,'' Fleck said in 2005. ''Golf wasn't quite that big yet. But I made two or three times more than Ed Furgol, who was the winner before. And I pushed it for two years. But it affected my golf. I should have won more.''
Fleck won his first senior title a year before the 50-and-over Champions Tour began. He later won the senior division of the Legends of Golf. He played the senior circuit regularly until 1991, when he devoted his time to teaching and running Li'l Bit of Heaven, a golf course he designed in Magazine, Ark.
Fleck is survived by his wife, Carmen; his son, Craig; a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter.
Services are Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church in Fort Smith.