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By Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 15th May 2013
What makes airline passengers happy?
Sometimes it's as simple as a smile. Along with mobile check-in, Wi-Fi in the air and other technological advances, the simple act of airline employees smiling is increasing airline passenger satisfaction.
Airline passenger satisfaction has improved to its highest levels since 2006, according to J.D Power & Associates' 2013
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U.S. airlines collect $6 billion in fees
"Traditional carriers have improved significantly across the entire passenger experience, and it is a positive sign to see them turn a corner and starting to rise again, even as there is still more opportunity to improve," said Jessica McGregor, senior manager of J.D. Power's global travel and hospitality practice.
"While satisfaction with low-cost carriers only slightly improves, greater gains in the rest of the experience are masked by lower passenger satisfaction with cost and fees."
The study measures passenger satisfaction with North American airlines based on the following criteria in order of importance: costs and fees; in-flight services; boarding, deplaning and baggage; flight crew; aircraft; check-in; and reservations.
Satisfaction improved in every category, but the largest yearly increases were in the boarding/deplaning/baggage, check-in and aircraft categories.
JetBlue, Southwest top the airline rankings
For the ninth consecutive year, JetBlue Airways ranked first for satisfaction among all North American airlines. JetBlue also earned the top score among low-cost carriers for the eighth year in a row. Southwest Airlines was a close second among discount carriers with 770 points to JetBlue's 787. Airlines are ranked on a 1,000-point scale.
"Above all, we're grateful for our 15,000 crewmembers that inspire humanity each and every day by going above and beyond to deliver the best customer service in the skies and on the ground," said JetBlue spokeswoman Allison Steinberg, via email.
Alaska Airlines topped the traditional carrier rankings, with Delta Air Lines in second place. Alaska scored 717 points and Delta scored 682 points.
"We're honored to receive this prestigious recognition from our customers," said Alaska Air Group President and CEO Brad Tilden, in a statement. "Receiving this award six years in a row is a credit to the 13,000 Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air employees who show their dedication to our customers every day and on every flight."
Overall satisfaction with the airlines improved to 695 on the 1,000 point scale, a 14-point increase over the 2012 survey.
The power of a smile
Despite passengers choosing to check in online rather than talk to someone at an airport ticket counter, how an airline's employees treat customers still counts.
Passengers who are greeted by airline staff with a smile, even infrequently, report satisfaction scores that are 105 points higher than among those who never get a smile. Passengers who report airline staff smiling at them consistently report satisfaction scores that are 211 points higher than those who do not get any airline smiles.
"Airlines don't have to invest millions of dollars in the aircraft to get employees to smile," said McGregor. A few trainings, including information about the impact on customer satisfaction, may help the cabin and cockpit crew make better eye contact and smile more, she said.
Of course it helps to have happy employees. "One of things we see is that when you see companies that have high internal employee satisfaction, they have high customer satisfaction as well," she said.
Customers love technology
Now a smile doesn't take care of everything. Customers also want their technology. Those who use Wi-Fi in-flight are happier (39 points happier) than those who do not use it.
More than one-third of customers surveyed check in online, and 15% of those technologically savvy fliers use their smartphones or other mobile devices (compared to 6% two years ago).
Passengers checking in via mobile applications are the happiest of all fliers checking into their flights, followed by passengers who check in using a mobile device, passengers who check in at an airport kiosk and those who use the main ticket counter.
Baggage fees still lower satisfaction
Even attitudes toward
baggage fees
are beginning to soften. Although passengers are still dissatisfied with being charged for something that used to be included in the price of a plane ticket, they aren't as grumpy about it.
The gap between passengers who pay for baggage and those who do not pay shrank to 63 points this year, compared with an 85 point gap last year and a 100 point gap in 2011. Some 37% of passengers who pay for bags agree that the fees are reasonable, compared to 28% last year and 18% in 2011.
"Baggage fees are still a point of contention for people, and it's still a 'disatisfier,' but people are starting to accept it's a cost to travel," said McGregor.
To help reduce costs, J.D. Power recommends using an airline's mobile application to check in, select seats and receive an electronic boarding pass. If you don't have an airline credit card or frequent flier status to waive baggage fees, look for discounts when checking in online.
The passenger satisfaction study is based on responses from more than 11,800 passengers who flew on a major North America airline between April 2012 and March 2013.
Overall airline rankings
Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines topped the traditional carrier rankings, followed by Air Canada (671 points), American Airlines (660), United Airlines (641) and US Airways (630).
Low-cost carriers JetBlue and Southwest were followed by WestJet (714), Frontier Airlines (708) and AirTran Ariways (705). (AirTran is now part of Southwest.)
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This picture is helpfully taken of what appears to be the side of the arena that that has garnered attention for the Barclays' 'horseshoe' seating arrangement for hockey. The views of the near net from one end zone of upper deck seating aren't viable and it looks like it will be blocked off by a curtain. I'm guessing the curtain isn't for the Jay-Z concert or anything non-hockey related, but I'm not certain. Here's a side view of the curtain from @kicksavetwenty:
Another interesting shot is this photo of one of the end zones from the New York Post, as it shows a pretty steep angle in the upper deck:
Of course this isn't the best way to judge the arena's hockey setup but it's interesting to get a look nonetheless. The best sample, as always, will be when we're allowed into the arena on October 2nd for the Isles' pre-season game. If that game even takes place.
For further pictures of the arena, check out the New York Post and SB Nation blog Nets Daily.


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These pages show recipes for pancakes, and for a variety of puddings.
About The Good Huswifes Jewell
Thomas Dawson wrote a number of popular and influential recipe books including The Good Huswifes Jewell (1585), The good Hus-wifes handmaid for the kitchen (1594), and The Booke of Carving and Sewing (1597). The books covered a broad range of subjects, such as general cookery, sweet waters, preserves, animal husbandry, carving, sewing and the duties of servants.
The late sixteenth century was the first time that cookery books began to be published and acquired with any sort of regularity. It is also the first time that cookery books were directed at a female audience. However, literacy rates among women were very low, so it is likely that these books would only have been purchased by the priveledged few. In addition, only the higher echelons of society would have had regular access to valuable key ingredients such as sugar, spices, hothouse-grown fruits or plentiful livestock.
It is in this period that cookery book writers begin to provide practical instructions of the kind we would recognise in recipe books of today. In The good Hus-wifes handmaid, for example, quantities are given in quarts, spoonfuls, handfuls, pints, gallons, pounds and ounces. And directions are given in great detail. The reader is instructed to strain, beat in a mortar, heat until 'luke warm' or 'boyling hot', soak, season, spread with a feather, chop very small or 'perboile'. An oyster pie must stand for half an hour before the gravy is added. The hardest apples are said to be better for baking. And in a recipe for 'a pie to keep long,' the reader is told, 'the longer you keep them, the better wil they be.'


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A San Francisco woman is paralyzed after a nearly 100-pound tree limb landed on her head and lower back at Washington Square Park last week.
The giant branch collapsed nearly 60-feet and fell on Cui Zhou as she was watching her two children play in the park on Friday afternoon. Emergency crews rushed to the scene to provide assistance, and transferred the 36-year-old woman to San Francisco General Hospital.
"I can't move by myself," said a weakened Zhou, who told NBC Bay Area she is in a lot of pain and will never be able to walk again because the branch fractured her skull and severed her spinal cord.
Zhou said she was glad the branch hit her and not her children. The victim's children are now with their father as she struggles to recover.
Police said the 9- and 5-year-old children saw the branch fall.
"It shouldn't happen to anybody in the park," Jian Cong Tan, Zhou's husband, said. "Nobody should suffer like this."
Arborists have determined the pines in the San Francisco park are in good condition, and say what happened to Zhou was a freak and tragic accident.
Tan says the doctors don't yet know when his wife will be released. Although aware of the doctor's prognosis, he is "hoping for the best."
"We will go to rehab," he said, to help his wife walk again.
Zhou remains concerned about her children. Her younger daughter was playing in the sand and the older girl was sitting next to her mother, but walked away with only a scratch.
"They saw pretty much what happened and they were really scared," Tan said. "They didn't know what to do at the moment."
He said the family is trying to remain strong and help the girls return to some sense of normalcy.
Although the children are "much better now," Tan said they "don't eat a lot" and are "always thinking of their mom."
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Carl Icahn ventured out of his comfort zone a bit and called for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated investment banks and commercial banks.
Icahn, in an interview on Fox News and Fox Business Network, that aired on Tuesday afternoon, said he thought the removal of the Depression-era law in the 1990s contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. The activist investor is known for sharing his thoughts on corporate America but rarely has commented on the nation's banks.
"What they should do is go back to Glass-Steagall," he said in the interview. "Investment bankers are going to be real mad at me, but I think that was one of the real problems in 2008."
He added, again with the warning that bankers would be mad at him, that he agreed with the "Volcker rule," which clamps down on the types of investing banks can do with their own money.
Icahn did offer some praise for the banks. He said he likes Brian Moynihan, Bank of America CEO. He said he doesn't really know JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon.
Icahn is only the latest voice to call for a possible return of Glass-Steagall. The list includes a recent push by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has called for banks to return to "boring." Warren has support from several Republican lawmakers including John McCain.
Former Citigroup CEO and builder Sandy Weill caused a stir when he insinuated that banks should be broken up on CNBC in June 2012. Weill is widely regarded at the man who got Glass-Steagall repealed in the 1990s when he lobbied for deregulation and created Citigroup through the merger of Citicorp and Travelers.
The big banks, including Dimon, have argued that the conglomerate banks were actually the safe ones in the crisis while the pure investment banks or pure commercial banks were the ones that failed. By combining the more risky investment banking operations with the more staid commercial banking, the bankers argue, there's diversification that can keep a bank afloat.
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As miserable and dismal as Monday's weather was, the weather today and Wednesday will be just what the doctor order: sunny, pleasantly warm and dry.
Highs today should reach the mid-70s. Tonight we dip down to the low 50s. Tomorrow is looking like another winner under mostly sunny skies and highs in the low 70s.
Thursday and Friday are looking cool and wet again so enjoy these next two days as best you can.
Even though it seemed like yesterday's rain was always there we only picked up about a quarter-inch of rainfall. Freshly planted gardens will appreciate that.


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Consider two numbers $a,b\in R/Z$ and some integer $p\geq 1$. Let $T:L^p(R/Z)\rightarrow L^p(R/Z)$ be the operator given by $$T(f)(x)=1/2(f(x+a)+f(x+b))$$ For which values of $a,b$ do we have almost everywhere convergence of the sequence $T^nf$ for all $f \in L^p$ ?
If $a-b$ is rational, it's not difficult to show that a.e. convergence fails. If $a=-b$ and $p>1$, then a.e. convergence follows from Stein (1961), Rota (1962). Note that if $a-b$ is not rational, then $T$ is ergodic and the mean $1/n\ \Sigma_k^n\ T^kf$ converges almost everywhere to a constant. So maybe this is the right condition (together with p>1 ?).


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Here's an Admixture graph from a paper published in Science today, which focuses on ancient genomes from Mesolithic and Neolithic Sweden.
I think it sums up very succinctly some of stuff we've discussed at length on these blogs in recent months. Note that it's the Neolithic farmer, Gökhem2, and post-Neolithic European, Oetzi the Iceman, who appear to be mixtures of two very distinct Eurasian clades; one shifted towards Sub-Saharan Africa, and the other basically identical to that of European hunter-gatherers.
On the other hand, hunter-gatherers La Brana1 and MA1, from Mesolithic Iberia and Upper Paleolithic Siberia, respectively, are each derived entirely from two closely related north Eurasian hunter-gatherer clades. Moreover, Ajvide58, a hunter-gather from early Neolithic Gotland, appears to be a mixture between these clades.
Note also that the ancient Amerindians, Anzick-1 and Saqqaq, are significantly East Eurasian (pink clade), but the ancient European and Siberian foragers don't show this ancestry.
Moreover, one of the main findings of this study is that the Swedish hunter-gatherers had unusually low conditional nucleotide, or genomic, diversity (0.18122). Much lower than the ancient Swedish farmers (0.20134), modern Europeans (from 0.20754 among the British to 0.21269 among Spaniards) and even modern Han Chinese (0.19442), who are known to be amongst the least genetically diverse human groups. Refer to Table S16. in the freely available supplementary material PDF for more details (see here). This quote explaining the results is from the main article:
The distinct features of the two Neolithic Scandinavian groups; non-symmetric gene-flow into farmers, low level of diversity among hunter-gatherers and strong differentiation between groups have important implications for our understanding of the demographic histories of these groups. The greater diversity in the farmer population may have been influenced by gene flow from hunter-gatherers. However, the low level of genetic diversity in Neolithic hunter-gatherers likely has a demographic explanation, similar to the Iberian Mesolithic individual (8). Although we cannot exclude that this low diversity is a feature restricted to the Gotland island hunter-gatherer population, we note that this may be due to the fact that their ancestors resided in ice-free refugia in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), potentially causing population bottlenecks. Climatic changes and occasional population crashes, likely affected the population sizes of hunter-gatherers (24, 25).
The PCA from the paper underlines how extremely closely related La Brana1 was to the hunter-gatherers from up north. That's despite the fact that he was from Iberia and his Y-chromosome belonged to haplogroup C6, while all of the successfully tested Y-chromosomes from among the Northern European hunter-gatherers to haplogroup I.
However, just like Motala3, Motala12 and Loschbour from the Lazaridis et al. preprint, Ajvide58 belonged to sub-haplogroup I2a1, which is presently much less common across Northwestern Europe, especially in Sweden, than I1. It actually peaks today in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, and in fact the Loschbour I2a1b sequence is most closely related to that of a Russian from the HGDP dataset, sampled in the Kargopol district in the northwest of the country. It's still a mystery how I1, and also R1b, became so prevalent in Northwestern Europe after the Mesolithic.
By the way, it warms my heart to see the following two figures in the supplementary material, in which the authors note that the sharp genetic differentiation between Ajvide58 and Gökhem2 is reflected in their varying affinities to modern northwestern and southwestern Eurasians. That's because two years ago I wrote a blog entry based on an ADMIXTURE run arguing that modern West Eurasians descend from two main ancient stocks: the Northwest Eurasians and Southwest Eurasians (see here). Looking back at that effort, I certainly rambled on and didn't quite hit the nail on the head, but the general idea wasn't too far off from what we're now finding out about our deep ancestry thanks to ancient DNA and more sophisticated methods.
Interestingly, the Northern European sample with the lowest affinity to Ajvide58 are the Saami from Norrbotten, Sweden. This is most likely due to relatively recent Siberian ancestry among the Saami, which is essentially East Asian admixture and, as per above, not found among the Neolithic and pre-Neolithic North Eurasian hunter-gatherers or European farmers.
I haven't had a chance yet to look in detail at the inferred pigmentation traits of the ancient Swedes. But Gökhem2 carried the derived alleles for SLC24A5 and SLC45A2, which means she probably had fair skin. On the other hand, Ajvide58 was ancestral at these loci, meaning he was probably dark skinned, much like La Brana1. However, as far as I can make out right now, tables S9 and S10 in the supplementary material suggest that both Gökhem2 and Ajvide58 might have been blue eyed and fair haired.
Skoglund, Malmstrom et al., Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers, Published Online April 24 2014, Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1253448.
See also...
Ancient human genomes suggest (more than) three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Another look at the Lazaridis et al. ancient genomes preprint
Mesolithic genome from Spain reveals markers for blue eyes, dark skin and Y-haplogroup C6


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Reward Offered in Drive-By Shooting of Circus Elephant
(TUPELO, Miss.) -- A total of over $20,000 is being offered as a reward in the drive-by shooting of a circus elephant.
Police Chief Tony Carleton said that a vehicle drove past Tupelo's Bancorp South Arena at about 2 a.m. and fired into the area. An elephant with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was hit in the shoulder while it was in an enclosure outside the arena. Police are currently investigating the incident.
According to USA Today, the reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible totals $21,250. That figure includes $10,000 from the circus, $5,000 each from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, $1,000 from Crime Stoppers of North Mississippi, and $250 from former 1st District U.S. Representative Travis Childers.
The elephant, named Carol, was one of several performing with the traveling circus. While a security guard at the arena was able to provide police with some information, the investigation has not yet garnered many leads, according to USA Today.
Because the elephant is an Asian elephant, an endangered species, the crime is considered a federal offense under the Endangered Species Act. USA Today reported that the circus flew in its own veterinarian to treat the the elephant, which will take several weeks. The elephant is expected to make a complete recovery. The circus will continue as scheduled.
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SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California authorities won court approval on Monday to force-feed some prisoners on a hunger strike after officials voiced concerns that inmates may have been coerced into refusing food in a protest against the state's solitary confinement policies.
U.S. District Court Judge Thelton E. Henderson, responding to a request by state authorities, ruled that California prison doctors may force-feed select inmates near death, even if they had previously signed orders asking not to be resuscitated.
Some 136 California inmates are currently taking part in a hunger strike that began July 8 in prisons statewide to demand an end to a policy of housing inmates believed to be associated with gangs in near-isolation for years. Some 69 of the striking inmates have refused food continuously since the strike began.
This is the second time prisoners have launched a hunger strike to protest the state's practice of housing some inmates for years in its four Security Housing Units.
About 4,500 prisoners were housed in the units when the strike began, officials said. State officials say the units are needed to stem the influence of prison gangs - and in fact, administrators have repeatedly characterized the hunger strike as a power grab by gang leaders.
But the state's policy of housing prisoners for years in these units has been condemned by a number of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International. And at least one prisoner on the hunger strike has said that he is willing to die to make his point that the detentions are inhumane.
The hunger strike is the latest problem to plague the state's prison system, which is under federal court order to reduce crowding by the end of the year, possibly by releasing up to 10,000 inmates early.
The hunger strike launched last month has already gone on twice as long as a similar protest in 2011 and has attracted more prisoners - 30,000 at its peak - although numbers have since dramatically dwindled.
Now well into a second month without food, dozens of inmates have been sent to hospitals, officials said.
Prior to the judge's decision on Monday, California policy prohibited force-feeding of inmates on a hunger strike if they had signed medical orders refusing resuscitation in the event they lost consciousness or experienced heart failure.
But officials went to court to seek permission to ignore these "do-not-resuscitate" orders for inmates who signed them during the hunger strike or just prior to it, citing concerns about possible coercion.
Henderson wrote in his order that in view of those concerns, a "do not resuscitate" order signed by such inmates would be "deemed not valid."
A lawyer for some of the hunger strikers said she was not aware of inmates being coerced.
"They're exaggerating this," said inmate advocate Carol Strickman, adding that the state should not ignore inmates' wishes in such matters of life and death. "As much as I don't want to see anybody die, some people were choosing to sign those requests and some were not."
Joyce Hayhoe, a spokeswoman for the federal receiver in charge of medical care in the prisons, said Monday's request to invalidate the more recent "do-not-resuscitate" orders was not made on an emergency basis, and that no one was force-fed on Monday as a result.
Rather, she said, officials were trying to be proactive, so the new rules would be in place as inmates continued to become sick from refusing food.
"Inmates can deteriorate rather quickly when they have starved themselves for this long period of time so we wanted to make sure we had the order in place ... for us to be able to save their lives," Hayhoe said.
Hayhoe conceded that some of the "do-not-resuscitate" orders put in place during the hunger strike were submitted after prison medical officials advised inmates that this was the only way to avoid force-feeding. But she said officials with the Department of Corrections had presented compelling evidence that some inmates had indeed been coerced.
"It's better to err on the side of life," she said.
Hayhoe said she had talked to two inmates at California State Prison, Corcoran, who refused food or medical care because they were afraid other prisoners would find out if they didn't.
All three groups involved in a years-long lawsuit over conditions in the prisons signed on to the request to invalidate the "do-not-resuscitate" orders - the lawyers who brought a suit challenging the poor medical care and overcrowded conditions, the federal receiver and state prison officials.
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The story is legendary: Glenn Ellis arrives at his engineering class dressed as a mountain climber. He hooks a rope to the ceiling, projects snow-capped scenery on the wall, and asks a volunteer to join him in a mock ascent.
It's not an exaggeration to say that at moments like these, students hang on Professor Ellis's every word.
His continuum mechanics class had been studying the case of a major hotel walkway that collapsed in 1981. By discussing materials and structures from a climber's perspective, he not only made the lesson fun, but he also "masterfully illustrated the underlying concept of what went wrong ... in a completely different context," says Prof. Borjana Mikic. She has known Ellis since they arrived in 2001 to create the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College here.
The first women's college to offer an engineering degree, Smith is forging new paths in a field that's eager to swell its ranks in the United States. Women receive only 20 percent of bachelor's degrees in engineering, according to a new report by the National Science Board (NSB). Like a handful of other liberal arts colleges, Smith is producing graduates who've had a different type of engineering education – one that goes beyond technical training to focus on a broader context for finding solutions to humanity's problems; one that emphasizes ethics and communication; one so flexible that about half the students study abroad, which is rare, despite the multinational nature of many engineering jobs.
Ellis is known for his intense commitment to understanding how people learn and for pushing himself and his colleagues to apply those lessons. Now that he's been named one of the US Professors of the Year, he can shout his message from the mountaintop. Ellis received the $5,000 award in November from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
"It is just not good enough to teach the way that we were taught," he said during the award ceremony in Washington. "We know that doing so in engineering will surely exclude many of the young people we need to attract." Much research in recent years points to the idea that the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and math, known collectively as STEM, is crying out for improvement. "It needs to become ... much more hands-on, much more learner-centered," says Mary Moriarty, a researcher hired by Smith to conduct a two-year assessment of the Picker program. Yet the field has been slow to change, she says. The NSB report says that 83 percent of professors still use lecture and discussion as their primary methods in undergraduate classes.
Smith's program boasts a 90 percent retention rate and high participation of underrepresented minorities. Ms. Moriarty hopes to find out which elements of the experience at Smith most contribute to students' success. Female role models play a part (6 out of 10 engineering faculty here are women), but she says other factors are likely to be more important: "I think the methods being used here could probably translate very easily to other institutions that aren't all women," she says.
Ellis has done much to shape those methods. He draws on his experience teaching high school physics to bring the fun factor into his classes, for one. He has students use motion-graphing sensors to gain a deeper understanding of functions and derivatives, key building blocks in calculus. In a January math-skills class, six first- and second-year students came alive using these tools. It was a rare teaching appearance for him this year, as he's taking his first sabbatical in a 20-year career.
He encouraged the diverse group to "play around" as they graphed how their distance from the sensor changed over short bursts of time. Anna Lorenz amused the class as she tried a moonwalk to keep her line as straight as possible. "That's a Smith first!" Ellis declared gleefully.
For 2-1/2 hours the young women worked through problems in pairs as Ellis circulated, raising questions and at times folding his tall frame into a squat so he'd be eye to eye with seated students. His encouraging comments – "That's beautiful!" in response to a graph – lightened the mood.
At the end of class, he told first-year student Salma Mehter, "We want people like you in engineering." She had mentioned she was considering majoring in it, and agreed this class made her more confident.
Coach more, lecture less
When he first arrived at Smith, Ellis had to break some habits he'd formed as a student and professor in the crucible of more-traditional engineering.
"I did some things that were horribly wrong in terms of education methods," he says with the laughter of hindsight. "I would cold-call on students.... Everywhere else I'd been, no one ever called me intimidating ... but I got feedback from my [Smith] students saying my class was scary."
Current students wouldn't believe it. Consulting with a scholar in Smith's education department, Ellis discovered ways to approach classes differently: to let students work in groups and wait longer for responses to his questions; to coach more and lecture less. To make the goals of the class explicit and have students discover key concepts on their own. To assure them that mistakes are a natural part of the learning process.
The whole faculty discusses teaching methods regularly. "It's a real community feeling here," Ellis says, "and we know from the research that's absolutely critical for retaining women in engineering."
Briana Tomboulian, a senior and an occasional teaching assistant for Ellis, says the collaborative approach has worked well for her. She's leaning toward accepting a job at an environmental engineering company with a similar culture.
Ellis is the best teacher she's ever had, she says. "His classes are so welcoming and supportive.... No matter what it is, he can talk about it in such an enthusiastic way that you want to learn.... And he will explain something 100 times without getting frustrated, until you understand it."
Ellis received a teaching award at Smith last spring, but he says winning the national prize "was an absolute shock." Both came with $5,000, and he spent the first prize on a backhoe because he loves digging in the dirt. But he feels a large responsibility attached to the national award: "It's a challenge to me to do my job better."
Linda Jones, director of the Picker program, says the national award also affirmed the college was right to take the risks it did in launching the engineering degree. She recalls the Provost wiping away tears during the award presentation, a symbol of the hard work – and heart and soul – that people poured into the effort.
Another signal that they're on the right track is feedback from employers. During a visit to a Ford plant, an engineer came off the plant floor to talk with Ms. Jones. She was a Smith grad who had been pulled out of a mandatory writing class for new employees after the first day and asked to facilitate it instead.
An early start for engineers
Ellis offers an education course at Smith to prepare people to teach math and science at the K-12 level and he conducts workshops for teachers. "If you care about getting women in engineering, you had better go to the high school, middle school, and elementary level," he says.
He and a colleague are working on a fiction book that will be packaged with preengineering activities for middle-schoolers. It features an eighth-grade girl who faces an ethical dilemma similar to one that her mother, an engineer, is experiencing at work. Students who get hooked into the story will have a chance to learn the basics of computer-aided design by drafting a bedroom setup; they'll explore artificial intelligence through conversations with "chatterbots" – computer programs that imitate human conversation.
Smith students serve as his research assistants. "I have zero chance of relating to a middle-school girl," Ellis says, perhaps too modestly.
His "creative team" of students brought in a bunch of teen-girl magazines. "We're trying to take all the evil ways of luring girls into these idiotic things, and lure them into engineering," he says with a subversive grin.
The power of community
If they end up being lured into a place that's as supportive as Smith seems to be, they are more likely to stay with it.
Ellis recalls many conversations in a student lounge adjacent to his previous office. That's how he learned to stop giving tests where the average was expected to be a 40 (a time-honored tradition in engineering), because students who scored way above the average would nevertheless cry because they felt they did poorly. That's also where he witnessed the power of community.
"They were so tight," Ellis says. "If a student was considering leaving the program, her classmates would be like, 'Hey, we need you; we love you; you can't go!' "
Four cheers for science
In 2007, all four U.S. Professors of the Year represented the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. (One winner is chosen from each of four categories: community colleges; baccalaureate colleges; master's universities and colleges; and doctoral/research universities.)
The STEM sweep wasn't intentional, but it may reflect a widespread effort to improve teaching in those fields, says Mary Taylor Huber, a senior scholar who convenes the final judging panel at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Stanford, Calif.
"The sciences have been known to lose many of the young people who come into college interested in the sciences.... Many women drop out, [and] minorities," she says. "So the NSF [National Science Foundation] has put a great deal of effort into funding innovative work in curriculum and pedagogy in all of the STEM fields."
To learn more about Smith College engineering professor Glenn Ellis and the other three winners, and to watch videos of their acceptance speeches, see www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org and click on "2007 winners."


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News And Notes From Week 13 in the NFL.
• If you would have told us that the two surprise teams in the NFL this year would have been New Orleans and the New York Jets, we would have assumed all sorts of things, mostly that you were Eric Mangini and that you should really look into a man bra. But here both teams are, just a couple wins away from the playoffs, with the Saints even looking like a potential first-round bye team, which is just insane. Yesterday, despite the inferior opponents, was the most impressive wins yet for each team, because they just breezed by and took care of matters in an efficient and convincing fashion. And how exciting it is to see Reggie Bush being Reggie Bush again! If they can keep the Yahoo Sports guys away from him, he might be rather awesome to watch the rest of the way.
• Ah, the Giants. Their crushing loss yesterday to the Cowboys should pretty much eliminate them from our thought process the rest of the way, though we're still certain they'll own the NY tabloid backpages over a playoff-bound Jets team. Maybe they'll just fall on their faces next week and officially get this over with. But hey, look: Martin Gramatica's back! So nice to have one of the Grat Mat Brothers around again.
• Hey, Hoge, how's Vince Young looking right now?
• If you have Rex Grossman on your fantasy team, you understand why it's difficult to get too fired up about the Bears in the playoffs.
• This is what happens, by the way, when you let Jay Cutler study under Jake Plummer. His backup next year should totally be Rex Grossman.
• Congratulations to Edgerrin James, who finally ran for more than 100 yards this week (only to have Marcel Shipp — remember him? — steal all his touchdowns). Just three more years left on that contract, Edge!
• From The MJD Smorgasbord: Shawne Merriman records his first sack since he was framed for using steroids. The Juice suggests that he replace his old sack celebration dance (which is exceedingly lame) by getting up and making like he's shoving a needle into his ass. That kind of joke is uncalled-for because Shawne Merriman is a guy who could use our support to get through this difficult time in his life.


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If you didn't watch the Stanley Cup Finals Game 2 last night — and of course you did — you might have missed this odd shot of Snoop Dogg, who, for reasons unbeknown to anyone but him (and probably not him either), was wearing a fake mustache.
We know hockey gets a bad rap, around here and everywhere else, but we would really like to point that we enjoy watching hockey, particularly that of the playoff variety. But man, seriously, No one is watching these games. The rating for Game 1 was 0.72, which is "Quite Frankly" bad. Allotting for the inherent weirdness of Nielsen ratings, that translates to about 523,000 people watching Game 1 of the sport's championship. That's five Tennessee home football games.
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The summer months are packed with many holidays and even more holiday travelers. While you may do some visiting yourself, you can expect this to be the season that tests your guest bedroom's endurance. But the only spot that might get more traffic than the bedroom is the guest bath. While not every home can offer the spa-like amenities of a five-star hotel, you can come close. Consider these options in your guest bathroom if you want to pamper your visitors this summer.
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3. Calming colors. If your guest bathroom is currently a deep oxblood red or highlighter yellow, you've got some painting to do. After a day of travel or night of sleep, your visitors aren't going to want to stumble into anything that isn't calming. Go with earth tones and seaside colors - the sort of calming décor that reminds them they're on vacation.
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Taco Bell
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Bajio Mexican Grill
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Mexican Restaurants Bloomington
The ultra-popular Mexican cuisine revolves around three central ingredients: corn, beans and chilies. Together with meat, vegetables and a unique combination of fragrant herbs such as cilantro and oregano, they give rise to delightfully satisfying meals that can be enjoyed at any Bloomington Mexican restaurant. Gobble your way through a multi-textured taco or the softer burrito for a convenient snack or meal on the go, or leisurely savor an intricately-flavored stew together with rice. Polish off your meal with a slice of the decadent tres leches cake or churros dunked into a steaming cup of thick chocolate. Fortunately, Bloomington offers authentic and modified versions of these typically earthy dishes from a variety of establishments such as colorful sidewalk stalls to festive restaurants to meet every budget.


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Vern Whitten Photography specializes in aerial and outdoor photography. From the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota, to the stunning Badlands of North Dakota, it's a real privilege to fly over our region. Custom aerial photographs are available for oil sites, lakes, commercial properties and more. We also offer prints, canvas prints and digital images.
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This is a little late (sorry Chris), but registration is open for this year's Big Sandy, NorCal's only point to point race:
Its time to sign up. Registration for the Third Annual Big Sandy Point to Point Mountain Bike Race is now open. Register online Now. We love online registration so much, we are paying the service fee.
Or visit the udated website to download a registration form.
Our little race is starting to get recongnized as a must do California Race. In order to maintain the level of quality the event is know for, we have decided to limit the field size to 300. Register early and secure your place in one of the best mountain bike events you will race this year.
We are Proud to be a part of the Northern California State Championship Series this year.
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Phaidon, Sep 26, 1997 - Architecture - 240 pages
"Station to Station" is a celebation of the life and architecture of the railway station and its evolution, providing a highly readable and informative account of the social and political context of stations over the last 150 years, large and small. It examines the background of some of the world's major stations, looking at the history of their structures, the great events that have occurred there, and how the buildings have affected the life of the cities they serve.
Railway stations have always maintained a special place in the public's affection. The lure of the great railway terminus has been especially strong, with the breathtaking grandeur, swagger and opulence of the architecture fused with the dizzying prospects of adventure, escape or challenge promised by the names of far-flung destinations.
The many stations featured in this book cover a broad spectrum of architectural styles, and a wide variety of international locations, from the Victorian Gothic of London's St. Pancras and the Beaux-Arts splendor of Grand Central Station in New York, to the daring acrobatics of Nicholas Grimshaw's Waterloo International Terminal and Santiago Calatrava's Lyon-Satolas Station in the 1990s. Beautiful archive photographs and drawings combine with the ephemera of railway travel -- the signage, posters, tickets and the design of the trains themselves -- and with new photography of some of the world's most magnificent and innovative railway buildings in existence today, to create a fascinating narrative and visual record for all those interested in trains, buildings and travel.
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How to Get Focused - Get Focused in an Age of Distraction by Scott Scheper
My name is Scott Scheper, and I'm the author of How to Get Focused (http://www.howtogetfocused.com), a book about cutting out distraction and getting focus back in your life.
I've written the book using Wordpress, and releasing the book chapter by chapter. Thus far, chapters of the book have been featured in LifeHacker, YCombinator's Hacker News, Guy Kawasaki's Holy Kaw, The Big Picture, Upstart Entrepreneurs, and more.
It's also featured in the Wordpress Thesis Theme's Showcase.
I began writing How to Get Focused in January 2010. The reason you're reading this is because one night in a late, warm Southern California winter of 2009, I decided that I needed to get my life back. To be perfectly honest, I was inspired after watching the film Julie and Julia. I experienced a profound motivation to write a book. At that time in my life, I felt unfocused, out-of-control, and as if my life was slipping away into mediocrity. I'd work twelve hours, see my wife for a couple hours, get distracted by my dog, play Playstation 3 and then surf my iPhone until I fell asleep at 2 a.m. I could not find the answer to the question I was striving for: How do I get focused?
To counteract this lifestyle, I researched and wrote about the concept of focus, zen, and flow. The site grew rapidly, and I sold pre-orders for the book (which has allowed me to fund this design project).
This book fits into the following categories: self-help, business, entrepreneurship, zen, meditation, how-to, project management and lifestyle.
Similar books that my audience reads: Four Hour Workweek, Blink, Linchpin, Think and Grow Rich, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Zen Habits, The Power of Less, Making Ideas Happen.
50% Male / 50% Female
Primary Age Group: 18 - 34
Secondary Age Group: 35 - 49
Mostly Single with No Kids
Household Income: Over $100k
Mostly College Graduates
Title: How to Get Focused
Subtitle: Get Focused in an Age of Distraction
Author: by Scott Scheper
To get a general sense regarding the book's style, I'd recommend first checking out the Table of Contents here: http://howtogetfocused.com/table-of-contents/
Here's a sample chapter that received many compliments: http://howtogetfocused.com/chapters…entrating/
The feelings I want to convey:
Success (think palm trees, and relaxation like the Four Hour Workweek)
I do not have a defined idea for the design of the book, which is why I'm seeking your help; however, I do have a general sense of what might be nice:
- Perhaps an elegant black/white cartoon figure meditating over a bunch of web 2.0 application icons, noise and distraction
- Or perhaps something even simpler (like Outliers book by Malcolm Gladwell simply features a simple symbol on the cover)
Do not feel bound to those two ideas; I'd love to enlist your creativity and style.
Style: I like Helvetica and Georgia (but feel free to be creative)
I've attached two files. One with the meditating figure, and another with my picture (if you want to design a back cover with my face on it for extra credit).
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Welcome to the Grants and Sponsored Programs department, Office of Development and Alumni Relations. Grants and Sponsored Programs serves as the central point through which all proposals for sponsored funding from federal, state, and local government, and foundation and corporate sources for research, teaching, training, and community service projects are coordinated and administered.
The Grants and Sponsored Programs department will provide the support and direction to search for external funds, funds that may be used to support academic programs, student services, administrative operations, and special projects. We work for and with faculty, through the Provost's Office, and with staff to secure funding from both public and private sector foundations. We offer the technical skills to research, develop, and submit a grant proposal if you are interested in partnering with our office by providing the specific content expertise needed to secure a grant. Some examples of what we can help with:
- Provide current information about sources of grant funding (federal, state, local private);
- Obtain current guidelines (RFP's) for the application process;
- Act as liaison with funding agency personnel;
- Collaborate on ideas for projects and prepare the budget to meet all policy requirements;
- Compile the final proposal for submission, ensuring it meets all RFP guidelines;
- Obtain the signature(s) of the certifying official(s) of the College;
- Mail or submit electronically all proposals in order to meet application deadline dates;
- Maintain file copies of all pending, funded, and unfunded proposals submitted by SNC;
- Negotiate awards and set up award reviews when a grant is funded; and
- Provide on-going grant management, filing of reports, and closeout reporting support.
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Skip Hop - Alphabet Zoo Mega Playmat
A cushy and developmental mat so big there's room for two!
Baby can have her first playdate on an educational quilted mat that's big enough for two! The 100% cotton top has linen details, multiple fabrics and textures, while the cushioned filling provides comfort for tummy time or play. A removable mirror, tactile and crinkle details provide sensory fun, and built-in handles make the fun portable!
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On Thursday Austin, TX finally, finally got to summer. Not that I was unhappy with all those weird cold fronts that kept popping up and moving in, staying a few days, lifting a bit and coming back all Spring! We had the wildebeest Spring I ever saw, and so did most of my friends (what makes us worried about upcoming summer, but hey, at least it's 6 weeks shorter for the summer now!). I am taking it with gratitude.
So, on Thursday I went at 4 pm for an 8 Mile trail run, wearing yoga shorts and sports bra...in 96F and 75% humidity...and I almost died out there. Boy, was it bad! As much as we're better adjusted to warmer temps, we are NOT adjusted to THIS yet! 2 bottles and a bandanna are making a come back. But the legs felt fine.
Saturday was a 20 miler with 20 repeats on a gnarly 0.42M Hill of Life and some 266 feet of gain per each, what gave me over 5,200 feet of gain for the total. I started at 6 am, and the first 10 went in a breeze (relatively speaking), much better than 10 I did after Kansas 100k. But then the dehydration accumulated, the heat and sun peaked up, and I was under-fueled too. So, somewhere past #13 it was grind and gritter. Thankfully, lots of people to support my efforts! Rogue Running store and their trail training group under Eric Stanley were doing 4M loops from the top, so the hollered and shared their cold water (I wouldn't have finished on what I stashed!). Austin Trail Funners (a.k.s. a side-kick to HCTR club) had their run begin from the top and top photos and made small talk. There were hikers doing 2-4 times repeats, backpackers training for their adventures and going up and down with packs 3-5 times, one guy doing 10 of his own however slowly (not sure of his deal, but he was cool), a Crossfit dude who walked down, then did lunges all the way to the top, an elderly couple who were totally inspiring and talkative, and all in all, they counted with me, and encouraged me, and I felt responsibility to get through it all - and I did.
BRL Sports and back to being alive. A big omelet devoured, and 2 hrs working at Massage Envy later (one of the clients was a gal from CO having being sore from doing The Incline! What are the odds!), I was brand new, and the thought of having another run next day didn't threaten me anymore.
That's not to say I enjoyed that Sunday run much. It was humid, and I ran roads, and didn't want to go to gas station to refill my water bottle, as I it is too close to the house and I didn't want to battle getting to continue, so I asked a random person mowing the loan for some water - luckily he was nice! So, I finished, and yes, lived to get to work (Massage Envy is both days on the weekend), and to shop, and to chop for the week, and to prep a neat and healthy dinner with a little plus.


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|The aforementioned USS Enterprise has a size comparison entry. I'vealso added a USAF F-104A fighter aircraft, as seen in "Tomorrow is Yesterday",largely because I wanted to include something from the real world to give asense of scale to stuff like probes and shuttles. We also have a whole slewof new size comparison images; Friendship One, the escape pod from the DeltaFlyer, a much improved Klingon Bird of Prey image, a better Galaxy class picture,a better picture of Janeway's shuttle from Endgame, and a better picture ofNeelix's ship. All of these are from Ex Astris Scientia, as are most of thesize comp images here. For those who may not know, Ex Astris is one of the betterTrek sites on the web and I urge everybody reading this to visit it at once- you can find a link on my links page below.
|A new and rather unusual addition to the other ships list - the nuclearpowered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise! I've added this in part because itwas seen in ST IV (that was actually the USS Ranger standing in), and partlybecause it was on the recreation deck wall in The Motion Picture.
|A couple of updates on the shuttle count - Reno points out that a second TOS shuttle was lost in "The Doomsday Machine", while Tribble314 points out a couple of wrong numbers and a mistaken series attribution. Thanks for that, guys.
|Finally got around to fixing the last bit on the Klingon ships - Adam Broughton pointed out that the K'T'Inga was rated as too fast because it was on the TNG scale rather than the TOS scale. This is now fixed, along with a slight modification of the disrupter strength.
|Nit Fixing
|Thanks to Maarten De Feyter several nits on the ships pages have been fixed; the borg Sphere specs page referred to "UCC Voyager", the Intrepid specs page still had Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, and the comments page on McKinley station wrongly claimed that it was never seen after "Family", when in fact it was in "All Good Things". Thanks for that Maarten! Please keep the nits coming people - I may not find the time to fix them all, but I do appreciate the input!
|A new list - to complement the "Big Bangs" list, a "Little Bangs" Not only a Voyager shuttles count, but a shuttle count of all episodes and movies ever! This one took about fifteen hours to do, folks. I hope you guys appreciate it!
|Series Guides
|More blank-filling, this time in DS9 Season 4.
|Series Guides
|A bunch of blank spaces have been filled in for DS9 seasons 5 and 6.
|Jackie Fleck points out that the Metrones are missing from the species section, so they have been added to the Alpha Quadrant other species list.
|"The Turnerclan" also points out that the position of main engineering on deck 36 of a Galaxy class is canon, not backstage info as I had coloured it, because it is stated in "Power Play". This prompted me to search through my episode notes, and I have been able to establish the deck numbers of quite a few other items as well.
Adam Broughton pointed out a few nits in the text of the Galor and Keldon entries, these are now fixed. Adam also points out a mistake I made regarding "Tin Man" and the D'Deridex versus Galaxy class strengths. I haven't been able to check this out myself yet, so I've removed the offending section entirely. Cale Wilburn also points out that the ship's dimensions were slightly larger than the official figures; people have pointed this out before and I've resisted changes because the information came from the less than reliable DS9 Tech Manual. But since Cale says that the same figures are in Star Trek : The Magazine, I've caved in and changed not only the sizes but some of the specs of the D'Deridex in order to line it up more closely with the DS9 TM description. The Comments page has also been updated, as has the size comparison section.
|Nit Fixing
|"The Turnerclan" points out that somehow a few words vanished from near the end of the article on trilithium torpedoes. These have been restored.
|Size Comparison
|A new feature on the size comparison - now you can push a button on the selection pages to sort the lists into alphabetical order. We find that this makes it much easier to find a ship amongst all the ones up there.
|A new article goes up, this one discussing the treatment of antimatter in TOS. Thanks go to Guardian, whose similar article inspired me, and to the folks at rec.arts.startrek.tech, especially Mike Dicenso, who suggested checking out "The Immunity Syndrome".
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A new class of RV — a specialty chassis integrated with a custom cap or cockpit — was unveiled Tuesday (Dec. 1) at the 47th Annual National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky.
Spartan Chassis Inc., a subsidiary of Spartan Motors Inc., calls the company's latest innovation, the Next Generation Platform (NGP), a new class in RV platforms and is displaying the invention in Booth No. 2024 – East Hall. Spartan has filed a patent for the first-of-its-kind highline RV cap and chassis design which provides the quality and performance of a premium automotive platform with increased flexibility for fully customizable interiors and exteriors, according to a news release. Spartan said optional Coach-Ready Platforms are also available featuring a variety of OEM options for chassis integration.
The development of the NGP was based on research conducted by Spartan which provided insights into the RV buying process. The research confirmed that the exterior of a vehicle excites the potential buyer and draws them inside the unit, but it is the features of the interior floorplan that typically close the sale. In addition, the primary decision maker for the purchase is the female — like with many premium consumer products — and, not surprisingly, her main focus is on interior styling and features.
The NGP integrates more components into the chassis configuration with an emphasis on functions that are critical to operating the vehicle but that are unimportant to the buyer. This reduces chassis-prep and engineering for RV OEMs and allows them to concentrate on customer-facing priorities such as the exterior design and interior floor plan. By offering OEMs the ability to choose from an extensive menu of available options for the front, middle and rear sections, motorhome makers have the freedom to design a vehicle to their exact specifications, yet still achieve faster model changeovers and increased speed to market for new designs and product features.
"Like every other consumer category, the RV marketplace is constantly evolving as customers look for the latest body styles and new approaches to interior layouts, making it more important than ever to adapt quickly as styles, trends and desires change," said Tom Gorman, Spartan Motors COO. "The front driver's section, everything below the floor and rear-engine sections all require a significant amount of engineering time, but the research has shown these things don't drive the purchasing decision. The NGP moves the non-floor plan area to the chassis builder, enabling the OEM to focus on the areas important to the customer."
The final step of the buying process is the test drive, where ride performance and drivability are keys to confirming the buyer's decision. Inspired by Spartan's popular Furion fire truck chassis design, the Spartan NGP features a powerful rear diesel engine chassis and independent front suspension. Options including a smart wheel, tilt/telescopic steering column, adjustable pedals and six-way adjustable electric seats ensure a premium cockpit experience. Spartan said it expects to introduce a front engine configuration of the NGP in the fourth quarter of 2010, adding an even greater level of customization.
"In a marketplace where there are more than 100 OEMs, a low cost to enter and the business is hyper-competitive, products must and will change fast," said Gorman. "With Spartan absorbing a significant amount of responsibility, the NGP enables an OEM to enter and compete within the motorized segment with a minimal time and financial commitment. This new approach even makes it possible for a dealer to partner with an OEM to create their own private-label product, something that previously would have been extremely difficult due to the costs involved."


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2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 30 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a tech company with an online real estate site which brings together all (MLS) real estate listings, property data (lot polygons), assessment data, sales stats, school info, aerial photography and street level photography. We launched this year and went over 1M hits within 3 months, all in our tiny city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We think we have something that appeals to shoppers - now we need to drive home the message that we have a real estate brokerage business to go with the fantastic website.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Gospel music filtered over from the adjoining chapel as the volunteers from Marine Forces Reserve put on their plastic gloves and began setting the long, white tables. Some Marines cut cakes; others made plates piled high with steaming stuffed chicken, corn and rice; still more served out salad into hundreds of bowls and filled cups with ice. All were working together to provide for the physical and spiritual hunger of the New Orleans Mission's guests, the community's hungry and homeless.
The NOM is a privately-owned, non-profit organization that is funded entirely by donations and relies heavily on its volunteer staff. The mission provides counseling, religious services, food, overnight boarding and medical care for the city's impoverished.
The Oct. 10 trip was the Marines' second trip to the NOM, which serves many of the city's homeless and needy who often shelter under the Pontchartrain Expressway, which connects the East Bank and West Bank of New Orleans over the Mississippi River. For each trip, a group of roughly 12 to 15 Marines traveled to the NOM, which sits next to the expressway, after spending their workdays in uniform.
"In New Orleans, there's a really big need for volunteers," said Capt. Samuel Baumer, volunteer coordinator for the 4th Marine Logistics Group. "There's a need for people to get out of their comfort zone and go out and just help other people."
Once the tables were set and the food served, the Marines and the rest of the volunteers at the NOM, directed by the NOM volunteer coordinator Louis Barron, guided groups of the city's homeless and needy to their designated areas. According to Barron, the mission runs around the clock, from serving breakfast in the morning to sheltering guests at night in houses owned by the mission. All of these ventures are staffed primarily by volunteers.
"We rely on our volunteers more than 100 percent," Barron said. "I love to have the Marines come out here, so they get to see what we do here and what we are about. We want people to come out. We want people to volunteer. Our volunteers are what make the Mission."
Sgt. Joresa Burnett, the MARFORRES comptroller, fiscal section non-commissioned officer in charge, has made a habit of participating in Toys for Tots, the Special Olympics and many other volunteer opportunities around New Orleans. The Oct. 10 trip was her first trip to the mission, and she said her motivation for volunteering there was the same as volunteering at the other events she has attended.
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The volunteers spent the rest of the dinner serving and chatting with the NOM's guests, known as "disciples." After the last disciple filed out of the dining room with a full stomach and full spirit, the Marines cleaned up the last traces of their efforts while motivating each other to be ready for their next endeavor.


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Tuesday: Set sail on your Lau Discovery cruise. After boarding there will be a full briefing from your guide and a wonderful Welcome dinner as you cruise into a south pacific sunset.
Wednesday: Explore a beautiful beach on the rugged southern coastline of Taveuni at Lavena, take an easy half hour hike to a spectacular waterfall and fresh water pool and enjoy a picnic lunch ashore and a chat to the locals. For the more adventurous there may be a guided kayak tour along the coast to waterfalls directly into the sea (weather permitting.
Thursday: We reach the most northern island of Lau—Wailagilala. See the remains of a disused lighthouse, or go fishing and exploring the abundant fish life snorkelling.
Friday: Qilaqila, at the northwest end of Vanuabalavu, is known for its pristine waters and mushroom shaped islands. This is also known as the Bay of Islands and is famous for its amazing scenery and pristine reefs
Saturday: Vanuabalavu is the largest island of the Lau. At the village of Lomaloma learn about Ma'afu, the Tongan Prince, be entertained by this largely Tongan community and explore the pristine waters.
Sunday: We will arrive at Oneata where the local people will welcome us at their Methodist Tongan Church for Sunday service.
Monday: The ship has an early start today to cruise past Mago, Tavuca and Lakeba Islands to Fulaga Island the area is known for its crystal lagoon and amazing corals.
Tuesday: Explore uninhabited Vuaqava and its central lake known for turtles, snakes & amazing bird life. This is a sacred island for the Fijian culture and there will be an island walk to explore these relics. Please be warned that a reasonable level of fitness will be required as the return walk is approximately 3 hours and quite difficult to negotiate.
Wednesday: Be welcomed & entertained by the people of Naikeleyaga Village on the island of Kabara known for their wood turning and Tongan heritage. Experience a traditional Meke, Sevusevu & lovo quite different from the traditional Fijian.
Thursday: Horse-shoe shaped Totoya Island is our destination today. We will visit a local school and the children will surprise you with their entertainment and show you their work. We will also have the opportunity to explore their reefs.
Friday: We arrive in Kadavu famous for its wildlife and underwater world. The traditional Ceramic makers of a local Village will entertain you and show you some of their traditional craft. Kadavu is the southern-most island in Fiji and has an amazing array of corals and fish not seen in other parts of Fiji.
Saturday: disembark at Port Denarau feeling tired and refreshed. Most days will offer the opportunity to snorkel, swim and Scuba Dive the pristine waters of the beautiful Lau group
* Itineraries subject to change due to weather and other operational requirement
• All meals
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FARES EXCLUDE: Transfers to the ship, drinks, optional tours , scuba diving & services.
Diving in the Lau groupOur Fiji Cruises offer dive opportunities at an additional cost for both certified and 'first time' divers. Diving excursions are available through the 5 Star PADI dive operator, Viti Water Sports. The following information is provided by Viti Water Sports and subject to their normal terms and conditions.
All certified divers must present an internationally recognized Open Water Dive Certificate. If they haven't dived for 6 months or more, they will be required to complete a Scuba Review. If you have not dived before you may like to take the opportunity to complete your PADI Open Water Course, please be aware you may require medical clearance. To save you having to study on your cruise, you are strongly recommended to complete the academic part of the course online prior to boarding, at www.padi.com/elearning-scuba-registration, using Captain Cook Cruises Fiji as your training facility.
Dive LocationsDive sites will vary depending on the cruise and conditions. Generally two dives per day are available and are undertaken by smaller boats to access some of Fiji's amazing dive locations. Swim throughs, caves, coral bommies and breathtaking coral gardens are some of the highlights you may experience. The average dive duration is 40 minutes and most dives cater to part-time or occasional divers. For first time divers, a gentle entrance from the shores of a tropical island will see you exploring the spectacular fringing coral reefs. Dives are undertaken subject to weather conditions and cruise itinerary requirements.
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Great stretches of land were given to this family in the year 1177. Richard Oge de Burc, son of William, became the "Lord Justice of Ireland" under King Henry II in 1177 and was regranted the lands of his father the following year. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
O'Hart, John, Irish Pedigrees 5th Edition in 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0737-4)
Richard Mor de Burc, the older son of William, was the ancestor of the family name Bourke or Burke. They formed several septs, the two most important having been the MacWilliam Uachtar sept of county Galway, and the MacWilliam Lochtar sept of County Mayo.
It should be noted that not all of the family were in Ireland as some were found in Knaresborough, in the West Riding of Yorkshire in ancient times. "At the time of the Domesday Survey it formed part of the royal demesnes, and was given by the Conqueror to Serlo de Burgh, Baron of Tonsburg, in Normandy, who had accompanied that monarch into England, and by whom its stately castle, now a ruin, was originally built, on the rocky heights north of the river Nidd." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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A New Generation Builds Beyond Racism
Even with an African American in its top office, our nation still hasn't figured out how to have a real conversation about race. Most of us would rather dance around this uncomfortable subject than jump into a full-blown discussion of how America continually fails to live up to its principles. Though our Declaration of Independence promises life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the sad reality is that if you are a young person of color, you are more likely to be unemployed, incarcerated, or murdered during your lifetime.
But across the country, a generation of young leaders of color is working at the local level to address the problems of structural racism. Building on the energy generated by Barack Obama's campaign and election, members of Generation Y—the "Millennial Generation"—are finding ways to address America's complicated history on their own terms.
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My generation—kids who grew up in the '80s and '90s—became the battleground on which America fought to free itself of its racial contradictions. The civil rights movement knocked open the doors for equality. Our generation is practicing how to make that promise a reality. There is no generation better prepared to take on the challenges of the day. For most of our lives we've been having the tough conversations.
Of course, tackling race head-on hasn't been easy. I still have scars from my experiences of getting called "nigger" on athletic fields and school buses. But like so many from my generation, I gained from those traumatic incidents the tools to express my humanity, even in the face of continued oppression.
Long before Obama entered the national conversation, civic-minded young people were making their presence felt in the halls of power. Some of these folks, like founding member of the National Hip Hop Political Convention and green real-estate developer Baye Adofo-Wilson, have used art and creativity to change desolate communities. As the executive director of Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, Adofo-Wilson is transforming a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, into an arts and cultural district.
Others, like Minneapolis' Nimco Ahmed, have challenged the status quo by making sure that people from disenfranchised communities are involved in the civic process. A young leader in the local Somali community, she makes sure her community turns out to vote.
And when people told Pittsburgh's Chester Thrower he couldn't get financing for his weatherization company, he didn't give up. A former cocaine dealer, Thrower was inspired by hearing Van Jones talk about the green economy. He got past numerous obstacles, including lacking the resources to pay for training; has completed several green certification programs; and is currently working with state agencies to secure funding for his business. "When I was in the streets, I never thought I would be working with the state of Pennsylvania—well, except only as an inmate," says Thrower, who hopes one day to provide jobs for other young African Americans who have been shut out of the system. "Trust me, change is possible."
You might not see these stories in the mainstream news, but we are having a transformative impact on our communities. Most importantly, we're not waiting for anybody to give us permission to lead.
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Thrower's case is admittedly unusual. Far too often, youth of color from inner cities aren't able to overcome the obstacles facing them. But a group of us in Wisconsin hopes to break down the roadblocks preventing people of color from being stakeholders in society. We believe that young people of color have to be involved in all aspects of civic life if society is to become healthier and more productive.
In early 2009, a group of African Americans affiliated with my organization, the League of Young Voters Education Fund, began holding weekly roundtable meetings in Milwaukee with community residents who were interested in greening their neighborhoods. These precocious Millennials sent invitations to a diverse group of elected officials, traditional environmental activists, tradesmen, labor leaders, and local artists to come and discuss Milwaukee's future. Most of those invited were older than the conveners. Energized by the potential promised by the Obama election, we brought together people who never even thought of working with each other.
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At first the attendees were skeptical because they weren't really sure if these young folks were serious. But after several meetings, naysayers started to become believers. The meetings were professional, focused on outcomes, and democratic. The skills learned while organizing young people came in handy with our older constituents.
Many of these discussions focused on the ways that racial discrimination, both individual and institutional, continues to shape Milwaukee's economic climate. In a city where nearly 50 percent of all African American men are unemployed, these tough conversations uncovered how truly disenfranchised people of color feel. "We spent a lot of time talking about how black tradesmen have been treated unfairly," says Wesley Carter, who helped organize the meetings. "People are mad, and they don't feel like anyone is listening to them."
But rather than dwelling on the historic problems caused by racism, the young facilitators pushed participants to believe that they could collectively come up with solutions for the community's woes. They asked the group to talk about the ways that traditional, racialized, winner-take-all politics have gotten in the way of moving the city forward. The group realized that continuing on that path would make it impossible to build a green economy that would both save the environment and improve Milwaukee's unemployment rate.
No longer focused on an oppositional agenda, nearly a year after the roundtable discussions started, this collection of community residents has transformed into a diverse alliance called the Making Milwaukee Green Coalition (MMGC). Today the group is tracking stimulus spending, teaching area residents about the green lifestyle, and helping small businesses write green business plans. Most importantly, the MMGC is building bridges into whiter, more affluent parts of the city and state.
Recently, when city officials began discussing privatizing this majority-minority city's water, leaders of the MMGC helped organize a diverse, citywide coalition called Keep Public Our Water (KPOW) to protect the public trust. After weeks of heated debate on talk radio shows and nightly news, city officials agreed that they would not pursue the neoliberal policy.
Jayme Montgomery-Baker, MMGC's lead facilitator (and my wife), chaired KPOW's steering committee and facilitated the coalition's meetings. "If it weren't for the Making Milwaukee Green [Coalition] I don't think my community would have been involved in that fight," says Montgomery-Baker, who recently won an award for her work with KPOW.
MMGC is looking for more ways to involve young African Americans in green careers. This won't be easy given the historic obstacles facing the segregated city. But the young leaders are looking for bridges over the traditional problems. "The only way Milwaukee can get better is when we all work together," says Carter. "We don't know what that looks like yet, but we are going to figure it out."