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JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 13, 2012) – The ETSU men's basketball team will be looking to go a perfect 4-0 against the Atlantic Sun Conference's Jacksonville, Fla., representatives, as the Buccaneers take on Jacksonville University Monday evening at 7 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
The game will air on both ASun.TV as well as ESPN3.
The Bucs (13-11 overall, 7-6 A-Sun) swept both North Florida and Jacksonville on their trip to Jax earlier this season, and after a 65-50 win over UNF on Saturday, the Bucs are hoping to make it a perfect sweep over this Florida contingent with a win Monday.
With seeding to the A-Sun Tournament on the line and teams entering the final two weeks of regular season play, the time is now to build momentum heading into the championships slated for the first weekend in March at the University Center in Macon, Ga.
For more on Monday's game, click on the game notes link to the right or read the game notes located below. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2011-12 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY (Feb. 11, 2012) – Senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) scored a career high 27 points and the ETSU men's basketball team used a 19-0 offensive run in the second half to capture a 65-50 win over North Florida in Atlantic Sun Conference play at the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... With the win, the Buccaneers improved to 13-11 overall, 7-6 in A-Sun action, while the Ospreys dropped to 13-14, 7-7. ... Brown – whose previous career high was 25 points against Kentucky back in 2010 – was joined in double figures by senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) with 16 points, while junior guard Sheldon Cooley pitched in 11. ... The Bucs shot 50 percent from the field and out-rebounded the Ospreys 31-23. ETSU also enjoyed a huge advantage in the paint, outscoring UNF 34-18 from close range. ... It was a back-and-forth contest until early in the second half. Leading 35-33, the Ospreys looked on as the Bucs put together a 19-0 run to take their largest lead of the contest at 52-35. From there, UNF could not get any closer than 11. ... In first half, ETSU roared out to an early 17-9 lead after an 8-0 run. However, from there UNF hit four 3-pointers in their next seven made field goals to pull back to within one point at the halftime break, 31-30. The Bucs thought they had made it a three-point game as junior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) dropped in a layup at the intermission buzzer, but the play was wiped off for a charge.... Brown was the story of the first half, metting 13 points and helping the Bucs out-rebound the Ospreys 17-13. ... For the game, North Florida shot 42 percent from the floor and 35 percent from 3-point range. Meanwhile, the Bucs hit on a 43 percent clip from beyond the arc and 75 percent at the free throw line. ... North Florida was led by 17 points from guard Parker Smith.
The series versus Jacksonville
The Bucs are 11-4 all-time against the Dolphins, including a pair of wins over JU a year ago, and another earlier this season, 72-58, back on Jan. 14 ... ETSU has won six straight in the series.
Last time out against Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2012) – Using a first half scoring surge, the ETSU men's basketball team built a 19-point halftime lead and went on to take a 72-58 win over Jacksonville in Atlantic Sun Conference men's basketball play Saturday afternoon at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. ... The Bucs got a game-high 18 points from senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), while fellow senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) provided a 16-point, nine-rebound effort. Along with that duo, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) had 13 points, and junior guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) netted 11. ... In the first half, ETSU led just 15-14 with 12 minutes left before the break, but closed out the first 20 minutes on a 23-5 run to take a 38-19 lead into the locker room. ... The Bucs shot a blistering 55.2 percent from the floor in the first half, while holding the Dolphins to just 36.4 percent shooting and forcing 10 turnovers by JU. ETSU got a team-high 12 points from Hubbard in the first half, as the Bucs held a 26-12 advantage on points in the paint and a 12-2 edge on points off turnovers. ... In the second half, ETSU led by as many as 21 points at 60-39 with 8:38 left. However, Jacksonville managed to cut into that deficit and made it an 11-point game at 63-52 with 4:04 remaining. ... ETSU answered at that point with a 6-0 run to make it 69-52 and ended any JU chance for a rally. ... For the game, ETSU shot 55 percent from the floor and forced Jacksonville into 19 turnovers on 10 steals. The Bucs outscored JU 44-28 in the paint, and 23-17 off turnovers. The Dolphins shot 43 percent from the floor for the game. ... For JU, three players led the way with 10 points apiece, they were Aloys Cabell, Keith McDougald, and Evin Graham.
Home Sweet Dome
Despite losing its last two games inside the Dome, since the 1996-97 season the Buccaneers are an amazing 151-47 overall inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... But when looking at the past 10 years, the Bucs are an even more impressive 46-4 against non-conference opponents ... Last year, the Bucs went 13-2 at the Dome ... This year the Bucs are 8-2 in Johnson City.
Bucs lead nation in steals, Cooley ranked 11th on list
Key to the Bucs' wins this year has been the ability to swipe the ball from opponents ... Through games of Feb. 9, ETSU ranks No. 1 in the country in steals per game, averaging 10.5 steals a contest ... In fact, in the Bucs' last game, the team swiped 18 steals against James Madison (1/30) ... Meanwhile, junior Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) has been on a torrid pace this season and a big reason for the Bucs' success in the steals category, averaging a conference best 2.4 steals per game ... He currently ranks 11th nationally in steals per game. ... The Bucs have four players ranked in the Top 10 among A-Sun Conference players in steals: Cooley (1st, 2.4), Tommy Hubbard (2nd, 2.0), Adam Sollazzo (5th, 1.8), and Isiah Brown (10th, 1.4).
Rembert breaks out
Freshman guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa), who was recruited for his ability to score the basketball, came off the bench to provide valuable minutes in the Bucs' win over Kennesaw State (2/4) ... Going a perfect 4-for-4 from the field and 3-for-3 from 3-point range, Rembert netted 11 points for ETSU during a critical stretch midway through the game ... Afterwards, head coach Murry Bartow commented how Rembert was probably the player of the game.
Block party for Brown
With a block in last season's finale against Iona, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new school record for blocks in a single season, swatting away a total of 71 shots on the year ... For his career, he is now second on the all-time list with 176 blocks, but is just six behind the program's all-time leader Zakee Wadood ... In addition to those marks, Brown's six-block performance against Belmont last year also matched the program's single-game record ... At the time, Brown joined six other ETSU players who have had six-block games, including former standouts Brad Nuckles, Eryk Thomas, Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood, Greg Dennis and Greg Hamlin.
Brown sets new career mark
With his 27-point effort in the win over North Florida, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new career high for single-game scoring ... Brown, who was honored prior to the UNF game for recently eclipsing 1,000 points for his career, put on an offensive show against the Ospreys ... For the 6-foot-8 senior, it was his best game since netting 25 points against Kentucky in the 2010-11 season opener.
Sollazzo stepping up his offensive game
Senior point guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) has found a strong offensive rhythm in recent games ... In his last 20 games, Sollazzo has scored in double figures 18 times, eclipsing 20 points in five of those games ... Over that time frame, he has averaged 17.0 points, 4.3 assists, and 5.4 rebounds, and is shooting 46 percent from the floor. ... Sollazzo currently ranks first on the team in points (15.7 ppg) and assists (4.5 apg), and third in rebounds. (5.5 rpg).
Poderis reaches career mark for rebounds
In recent weeks, junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) has become a truly valuable part of the Buccaneers attack ... In the win over Mercer, Poderis picked up a career high 10 rebounds, and that effort came two days after he matched his career high for points with 14 against USC Upstate ... In the win over Kennesaw State, he posted another nine-rebound effort ... For the year, Poderis is averaging 4.4 points and 4.5 rebounds in 20.8 minutes a game.
Bucs showing "flex"-ability with offense
In ETSU's game against Appalachian State back on Dec. 10, the Bucs debuted a new offensive wrinkle, utilizing one of basketball's most traditional offenses ... The "flex" is an offense that utilizes multiple screens and a great deal of slashing throughout the paint ... The results were good for the Bucs, who enjoyed several layups and dunks against the Mountaineers, as they won 65-48 to snap a four-game losing streak.
On their way to 1,000 points
As they began their seniors seasons, ETSU's trio of Isiah Brown, Adam Sollazzo and Tommy Hubbard were all eying the 1,000 point mark for their careers. While Brown has now reached the mark, Hubbard and Sollazzo are still in the hunt. After the Bucs' last game, here is where each stands:
Adam Sollazzo ................................................................ 945 points
Tommy Hubbard ........................................................... 811 points
To reach 1,000, the three would have to average for the season:
Adam Sollazzo............................................ 14.8 points per game
Tommy Hubbard....................................... 14.7 points per game
Getting to the free throw line a key for the Bucs
In recent years, the Bucs have focused on playing stingy defense, but also driving to the basket on offense and trying to get "tough" points thanks to fouls ... One way for the ETSU coaching staff to determine how successful the Bucs have been is charting free throw attempts and makes ... Well if this statistic is a true indicator, then the Bucs did just as the coaches would like ... Last season, ETSU set a school record for free throw attempts, putting up a total of 856 free tosses ... The Bucs also made their share of those attempts, ranking second on the all-time list with 580 makes ... The 2010-11 edition of the Bucs came up just nine makes short of the all-time record, held by the 1991-92 Bucs at 589. ... This season, after starting out the year shooting poorly from the foul line, the Bucs are have improved those numbers and are now shooting 64 percent for the year as a team.
Bucs add to postseason resume
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
ETSU picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Buccaneers -- who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT and one CIT berth, 14 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85 -- ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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Hi teachers,
Could you tell me the difference between the phrase "use something to do something" and "use something for doing something"?
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Is it different?I guess something here is used as a placeholder.
I'm going to use this rag to clean the house. (infinitive)Originally Posted by richard001
=> This rag is (used) to clean the house. (adverb)
I'm going to use this rag for cleaning the house. (gerund)
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(NewsUSA) – Studies have shown that parents have the greatest influence on their children's financial habits, and now, more than ever, mothers and fathers are taking the primary role in educating kids about healthy money management.
"Most financial experts agree there is a need for financial discussions among families to avoid or soften potential future economic upheavals," says Suzanne Poole, executive vice president, retail sales strategy, TD Bank. "According to a recent financial literacy poll by TD Bank, only 50 percent of families report having weekly conversations with their children, even though there are easy ways to incorporate tips about money in everyday conversation."
TD Bank surveyed 1,637 consumers within the Northeast as well as in Florida and Washington, D.C. With a little more than half of families having weekly conversations with their children about money matters, it's important to keep it simple, be honest, and make it fun. Now, let the lessons begin:
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Set Savings Goals: TD Bank's survey showed that teaching children to save with a piggy bank is one of the most popular money-related activities. That being said, only one in three parents reports setting a savings goal. If your child is saving, help them set goals and define the steps needed to reach them.
Establish a Family Budget: Despite the evidence that better budgeting can lead to saving, the survey shows that 47 percent of families are still not following or creating a monthly budget. Financial websites, such as Mint.com, offer free programs and budget templates to develop a financially fit family budget.
Enroll in Financial Literacy Programs: Financial literacy can be a daunting task for parents, but there are educational tools and programs that can help with this process. For example, TD Bank offers an interactive financial literacy program for grades K-12 called "WOW!Zone." It is available online for free at www.tdbank.com/wowzone and offers advice and resources for parents to teach children and teens about money, savings and banking.
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This isn't the North Pole -- this is in Lake Michigan!! These amazing iceberg pictures from lake michigan may or may not be authentic. We don't know -- however someone sent in these amazing striped iceberg photos and said "post these to the DTG Gallery" ... they are amazing if they're real, so -- okay -- here they are!
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Icebergs in Lake Michigan sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melt water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the lake, a layer of water can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the lake.
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Frozen Wave Pixs - Nature is amazing!
The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Lake Michigan where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instant it comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the water is already some degrees below freezing.
Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!! Now, that is cold!!!
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Santa Ana (El Salvador)
Santa Ana is the second largest city of El Salvador and a very important one in terms of agriculture, coffee production(coffee is in all the stores) and more. Santa Ana has a mall, restaurants, good paved roads and nice people you can talk to. It also has some of the best architecture in El Salvador, including the Cathedral of Santa Ana, a marvel of neo-gothic architecture, the Teatro de Santa Ana, beautifully decorated theatre of the early 1900's; and the Palacio Municipal, or in Spanish, the Municipal Palace, in front of the main plaza with giant palm trees shooting out from its courtyards.
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You can enter the city through the Pan-American Highway, which also has an exit leading towards the mall and the city center. Many buses have stops in Santa Ana, and there is a large bus terminal in the city. Also, taxis can take you there from San Salvador or the Airport. Also, people in El Salvador are simply amazing!
Most buses headed towards San Salvador from Guatemala City stop along 25 Calle Poniente in Santa Ana. Be sure to let the conductor know you want to stop in Santa Ana. Entering from Guatemala may be to your advantage, because tourists from the United States rarely pay the $10 for a tourist card. Four bus lines headed from Guatemala stop through Santa Ana on their way to San Salvador : Tica, Galgos, Melva, and Pezzarossi.
A Metrocentro Mall is located in Santa Ana. The mall here has department stores such as Siman. Also there are many shops and a cinema in the two floors that are in the mall.
You can also buy things in the city center such as handcrafted goods, electronics, furniture, and many more items found in stores across the city. There are also car dealerships here, but tourists don't really come to Santa Ana to buy cars.
Santa Ana has many places to eat. Many of the chain restaurants have locations in the city and in Metrocentro(fried chiken, pizza, hamburguer, hot-dog). Of course, there are more typical foods such as pupusas,tamales and atole in which you can buy in establishments in the downtown area, also in "Colonia el Palmar", next to Stadium Oscar Quiteño.
A recommended place for the view is the restaurant "Los Horcones" right next to the cathedral, is - a fascinating structure with charming decorations and a first floor with tables looking onto the square below. For the sweet tooth, don't miss Pasteleria Ban-Ban. Serves up probably the best desserts in all of El Salvador. Locations in the downtown area and Metrocentro.
Santa Ana is also famous for its famous sherberts (ice-cream): "Sin Rival" is considered the best brand, with several stores scattered throughout the city.
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Opinion: Romney's Shrinking Map
Senior editorial writer Collin Levy and editorial page editor Paul Gigot on Democratic victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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COLONIE — In what was anticipated to be a close race for town supervisor, incumbent Democrat Paula Mahan beat out Republican Frank Mauriello.
Mahan took 11,941 votes to Mauriello's 10,631 tonight, a margin of 53 to 47 percent.
Based on Democrat and Republican votes exclusively, Mauriello fell behind Mahan by 3,100 votes. He managed to tighten that gap through his endorsements from Conservative (1,212), Green (217), Independence (771) and Reform (70) parties.
Michael Hallisey is managing editor of Spotlight Newspapers.
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Domestic Concerns Slow Indonesia Growth
Indonesia's economy grew by 6.02% in the first quarter of 2013, the slowest rate since 2010. The WSJ's Eric Bellman tells us what this may signal for Southeast Asia's largest economy.
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[UPDATE 1:34 p.m.] Radio Granada Reports That, According to Family and Friends, the Body Found Near the Confluence of the Van Duzen and the Eel Belongs to Missing Person Ivan Linan
A Spanish radio station, Radio Granada, began reporting today that the body found Monday at the confluence of the Van Duzen and the Eel River belonged to Ivan Linan, a Spanish national that went missing in November on Hwy 36.
According to Google's Spanish to English translator,
Marta Cárceles, who is a friend of Ivan and has been in contact with the investigation at all times, has explained to Radio Granada that "we can now confirm that it is Ivan", and has detailed that "we can confirm it by the photos received from there, they show the tattoo he has on his leg. " It also confirms the…outcome of a test of the victim's dental record…
The family intends that Ivan's body be brought to Spain without the need for DNA testing, as requested by the California police, because this procedure delays the repatriation several weeks…
Linan went missing, according to a friend, after becoming progressively more paranoid. "From thanks giving he started making strange coments about people trying to hurt, kidnap ir take pictures from him," wrote Iban Fernandez, who was driving the car that Linan was in when he disappeared.
"We were in our way to met our friend's on [Hwy] 36," Fernandez stated, "when suddenly he grab the steering wheel and we Crash with a fallen tree…After that he got agressive, hitting things and me…We where fighting during a while, and when i tried to get help…he ran away into the woods."
UPDATE 1:34 p.m.: The Humboldt County Sheriff's Department spokesperson, Samantha Karges, confirmed the above information. "We have positively ID'd the body as Ivan Linan," she said.
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NASD Orders Morgan Stanley to Pay Over $6.1 Million for Fee-Based Account Violations
Washington, D.C. — NASD announced today that it has fined Morgan Stanley DW, Inc. $1.5 million and has ordered the firm to pay more than $4.6 million in restitution for failing to adequately supervise its fee-based brokerage business. More than 3,500 Morgan Stanley customers will be receiving restitution.
Fee-based brokerage accounts are an alternative to traditional commission-based accounts. In a fee-based account, a customer is charged an annual fee that is either fixed or a percentage of the assets in the account, rather than a commission for each transaction as in a traditional brokerage account.
"Fee-based accounts can be appropriate for a wide range of customers," said NASD Vice Chairman Mary L. Schapiro. "But firms have an obligation to their customers to periodically reassess whether a fee-based account, like that offered by Morgan Stanley, remains appropriate. Firms must have systems and procedures in place that adequately evaluate the continued appropriateness of these accounts for their customers."
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a report (commonly known as the "Tully Report") in 1995, noting that fee-based accounts are appropriate for investors who are building assets in their accounts, and may be appropriate for investors with moderate trading activity. But it also noted that because of the imposed annual fee, small and low-trading-activity accounts would pay higher costs as a fee-based account than as a commission-based account.
The following year, Morgan Stanley began offering its customers a fee-based brokerage account program, called "Choice." NASD found that Morgan Stanley recognized and instructed its brokers, consistent with the Tully Report, that Choice accounts were not appropriate for certain categories of investors, including buy-and-hold customers and certain accounts that fall below $50,000. The firm typically required a minimum of $50,000 in eligible assets to open a Choice account and charged an annual fee based on the total amount and type of eligible assets held in the account.
NASD found that between 2001 and 2003, all Choice accounts, regardless of size, paid a minimum annual fee of $1,000. By the end of 2001, the firm had 129,630 Choice accounts, holding $19.8 billion in assets. By the end of 2002, there were 157,143 Choice accounts, holding over $21.2 billion in assets. Morgan Stanley had 176,274 Choice accounts holding $30.6 billion in assets by the end of 2003.
NASD's investigation showed that from January 2001 through December 2003, Morgan Stanley failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system reasonably designed to review and monitor its fee-based brokerage business to determine whether Choice accounts remained appropriate for its Choice customers. As a result of the firm's deficient system and procedures, Morgan Stanley allowed 3,549 of its customers to continue using Choice accounts without adequately reassessing whether the accounts remained appropriate for them. These customers, who either conducted no trades in their Choice accounts for at least two consecutive years or had Choice accounts whose assets averaged below $25,000 for at least one full year, or both, will be receiving restitution under the settlement announced today.
NASD found that Morgan Stanley's written procedures did not prescribe a system for ongoing supervisory review of the appropriateness of Choice accounts until June 2003. Beginning in December 2003, the firm's branch managers began receiving monthly exception reports based on a suppressed-commission-to-fee ratio for all Choice accounts with an anniversary date within that month. At that time, Morgan Stanley provided the branch managers with specific guidance on the review to be conducted and the specific actions to be taken with respect to accounts that appeared on the exception report. Although the firm improved its system and procedures, Morgan Stanley's system and procedures still were fundamentally flawed, in that the exception reports failed to capture any accounts that fell below $50,000 in assets.
NASD also found that between January 2001 and December 2003, there were 1,818 Choice customers whose billable asset level averaged below $25,000 for at least one full year. Morgan Stanley's supervisory system failed to capture these accounts, so the firm failed to conduct an adequate supervisory review to determine whether the accounts should remain in the Choice program. All of these customers paid at least the minimum annual fee of $1,000 applicable at the time, which represented at least four percent of the assets in their Choice accounts - well in excess of Morgan Stanley's stated maximum rate of 2.25 per cent. Those customers paid a total of $2.7 million in Choice fees.
In addition, NASD found that 2,062 customers conducted no trades in at least two consecutive Choice years. Although many of these customers had traded previously in their Choice accounts, after these customers went an entire Choice year without trading, the firm's system and procedures failed to determine whether these accounts remained appropriate for Choice. Consequently, without an adequate supervisory review of their particular circumstances, these 2,062 customers remained in Choice for at least an additional year, in which they incurred an additional $2.8 million in fees without conducting any trades.
In sanctioning Morgan Stanley, NASD took into account the firm's demonstrable steps, undertaken shortly after NASD's inquiry began, to enhance its system and procedures and which led to the firm's identification and removal of large numbers of accounts for which the Choice program was not appropriate.
In settling these matters, the firm neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to the entry of NASD's findings.
This case is part of NASD's continuing focus on fee-based brokerage accounts. In April, NASD fined Raymond James & Associates, Inc. $750,000 and ordered the firm to pay $138,000 in restitution for fee-based account violations. In November 2003, NASD issued Notice to Members 03-68, reminding firms that before opening a fee-based account they must have "reasonable grounds for believing that a fee-based program is appropriate for that particular customer" - taking into account the services provided, the projected cost to the customer, alternative fee structures available and the customer's fee structure preferences. In that notice, firms were also reminded that after a fee-based account has been opened, firms should implement procedures requiring a periodic review to determine whether the fee-based account remains appropriate for each of their customers.
Investors can obtain more information about, and the disciplinary record of, any NASD-registered broker or brokerage firm by using NASD's BrokerCheck. NASD makes BrokerCheck available at no charge to the public. In 2004, members of the public used this service to conduct more than 3.8 million searches for existing brokers or firms and requested more than 190,000 reports in cases where disclosable information existed on a broker or firm. Investors can link directly to BrokerCheck at www.nasdbrokercheck.com. Investors can also access this service by calling (800) 289-9999.
NASD is the leading private-sector provider of financial regulatory services, dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation and complementary compliance and technology-based services. NASD touches virtually every aspect of the securities business - from registering and educating all industry participants, to examining securities firms, enforcing both NASD rules and the federal securities laws, and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and member firms. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.nasd.com.


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SWOSU Summer Classes Begin June 5
Southwestern Oklahoma State University summer semester classes in Weatherford and Sayre begin on Tuesday, June 5.
Bob Klaassen, registrar on the Weatherford campus, said the university does have online enrollment available through the SWOSU website (www.swosu.edu), so enrollment can be completed at any time. In order to use the online enrollment system, a student must already be fully admitted to the university and have no unresolved issues related to their enrollment.
Students can enroll in person by stopping at the registrar's office on either the Weatherford or Sayre campuses. Additional information is available by calling the Weatherford office at 580.774.3777 or the Sayre campus at 580.928.5533.
Late enrollment continues through June 11. The summer semester at SWOSU concludes on August 2.
Students can also enroll now for the 2007 fall semester that starts August 22.
Office hours for the registrar's office on the Weatherford campus are 8:30 a.m. until
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Marc Goldman, Executive Director, Career Center, Yeshiva University
Twitter: @MarcGoldmanNYC
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marcjgoldman
I am a big fan of awards shows on television. For decades, I have watched the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Golden Globes, People's Choice, SAG Awards, and even the occasional Grammys or MTV Video-Music Awards. Do they even show videos on MTV anymore? Ah the good old days of MTV when it was hair bands, pop idols, and vee-jays! But I digress. When I entered the field of career counseling, I never imagined we would have our very own awards, honoring individuals, schools, and employers who developed groundbreaking and trendsetting ideas, programs, resources, and services. Well, we do applaud these colleagues, and NACE offers its official recognition through the annual Honors and Awards process, which culminates at the national conference.
One of my bright ideas while working at the NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development won a NACE Excellence Award in 2007. The Wasserman team's Business Boot Camp for Liberal Arts Students, sponsored by Morgan Stanley, was an exciting program to work on, and it addressed a big need at the time among NYU liberal arts majors who wanted to explore business careers. We were presented with the award at the New York City NACE Conference (Home field advantage blah blah blah!). It was truly a proud moment for us all. There were some nice bonuses as well: recognition on campus by our division colleagues, another selling point to employers regarding partnering with our office, a notation of success on one's resume for future reference, and awareness of a best practice to discuss with other career services professionals at colleges across the country.
At the most recent NACE Conference, my Yeshiva colleagues and I were finalists for an award for our Women in Business Initiative. We actually did not expect anything more than being nominated (Hope for the best. Expect the worst!). When we did not hear our name announced by the dapper emcee, Andrew Ceperley, we took it all in stride and applauded the victor as Jamie Belinne, University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business, strode upon the stage to receive her well-deserved kudos for Career Assessment for Business Students With Diverse Multicultural Backgrounds.
Prior to the awards gathering, for the first time ever, there was an awards showcase. What a great idea, NACE! Akin to what many of us have experienced at a job fair, all of the college and employer finalists were assembled at tables to speak to other NACE Conference attendees about their nominated programs and ideas. The room was buzzing with questions, discussions, and laughter as well. To me, that event eclipsed the awards assembly to come (Maybe, if we won, I would be singing a different tune…nah!). Coming back to Yeshiva, being a finalist was fine in my book. On our small college campus, people were thrilled with our national recognition and the NACE honor certainly brought an additional air of legitimacy to our shop both on campus and in the eyes of important external stakeholders. Winning! Did I really just do a callback to Charlie Sheen's oddity phase? Sorry.
This year, I am thrilled to be co-chair of the Honors and Awards Committee. It has been wonderful working with my colleague Blake Witters and NACE's very own Cecelia Nader, along with the entire H&A Committee, to refresh the way we look at this topic and present it at the annual conference. Having Dan Black, NACE President and part-time stand-up comic, in our corner is extremely helpful as well.
I cannot encourage you enough to submit something this year. Not only is it always worth a shot, but there are benefits no matter what. Even if you simply submit and don't get selected, the submission itself allows for self-reflection and the chance to pat yourselves on the back. And you never know—you might end up on stage with Dan Black in front of 2,000 of your closest career services and employer friends having a grand time in San Antonio!
The January 31 deadline is rapidly approaching. To get the ball rolling, please visit the NACE website at: http://naceweb.org/about-us/awards.aspx?mainindex-recslide3-awrds-01032014.
As Ed McMahon used to say, "You could be a winner." Publishers Clearinghouse? Star Search? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?


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Antenna: Tune in Radio from Around the World
Antenna is a free Adobe AIR application that you can download and use to browse stations around the globe that are streaming on the Web.
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Radio stations around the world are also broadcasting on the Web, so even if you're far away from a place you like to visit, or you're away from home and want to hear the local news from your neighborhood, you can probably find and stream what you're looking for at any time. The trouble is finding the station you want. With Antenna, the process is a little easier.
Antenna is a free Adobe AIR application that you can download and use to browse stations around the globe that are streaming on the Web. If you find one you like, you can click on it to open the stream. The app even lets you save stations that you enjoyed listening to for future reference.
Antenna is an example of an app that makes Adobe AIR a viable platform for desktop apps and widgets. If you like listening to the radio but don't want to keep a browser window open to stream it or you're not sure where to find new stations to listen to, Antenna helps you with both of those problems. Since the app uses the Adobe AIR framework, you'll have to make sure that's installed; but the upside is that it works wherever AIR works, meaning Mac OS, Windows, and even Linux.
The app is completely free, and the developer maintains the master list of radio stations. You can browse by genre or location, so if you just got back from Spain, for example, and you're looking for some of the local flavor to brighten your first day back to work, Antenna can show you stations from Spain that you can stream online. You may even be able to find a radio station straight from the area you visited. The same applies if you're a fan of a specific genre: if you've ever wondered what Russian reggae sounds like, Antenna can help you find it if it exists.
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The world-renowned Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an encyclopedic collection that ranges from French Impressionists to ancient Egyptian art. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) showcases contemporary art in its striking new building overlooking Boston Harbor. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, the Harvard Art Museums are home to works by Matisse, Picasso and Italian Renaissance masters in intimate galleries. And travelling north of metro Boston, Salem's Peabody Essex Museum exhibits connections between art, architecture and culture.
Large-scale American sculpture is sited throughout the 35 acres of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln. Worcester's Art Museum, acknowledged as one of America's leading small art museums, includes works by Cassatt, Gauguin, Goya, Monet, Sargent and Whistler. In Western Massachusetts, the Norman Rockwell Museum houses the largest collection of the illustrator's original art, many from the Saturday Evening Post. Fuller Craft Museum is one of eight museums in the country specializing in contemporary craft.
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Rains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don't end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms—there's been a change in the weather lately. What's going on?
MONTANAA deluge falls from the core of a thunderstorm near Glasgow in July 2010. "I felt like if you could stand in the middle and look up, you'd see straight into the heavens," says photographer Sean Heavey.
ARIZONAThe biggest dust storm in living memory rolls into Phoenix on July 5, 2011, reducing visibility to zero. Desert thunderstorms kicked up the mile-high wall of dust and sand.
TEXASA flaming fence post marks the trail of a forest fire near Bastrop on September 5, 2011, during a record drought and heat wave. The fire, which destroyed 1,685 houses, may have been sparked by dead pine trees falling onto power lines.
SWITZERLANDFrozen spray from Lake Geneva entombs cars, trees, and a promenade during a severe cold spell in February 2012. An unusual dip in the polar jet stream, which looped as far south as Africa, brought Arctic air and deep snows to Europe, killing several hundred people.
TENNESSEEJamey Howell and Andrea Silvia had just heard that church was canceled when the flood submerged their Jeep near Nashville on May 2, 2010. The teenagers clung to the roof rack for more than an hour and then—as their parents watched helplessly—let go. A mile downstream they struggled onto a riverbank, alive.
MISSISSIPPIFortified by a levee, a house near Vicksburg survives a Yazoo River flood in May 2011. Snowmelt and intense rains—eight times as much rainfall as usual in parts of the Mississippi River watershed—triggered floods that caused three to four billion dollars in damages.
ALABAMAOn April 27, 2011, the U.S. was hit by 199 tornadoes, a single-day record—but there's no clear evidence, scientists say, of a long-term rise in tornado frequency. The 190-mile-an-hour twister that carved a sharp path across Tuscaloosa missed the University of Alabama football stadium (upper left) by a mile, then threaded between a large mall (X-shaped building at center) and the main hospital, which was soon treating victims. The tornado killed 44, then roared northeast to the Birmingham area, where it killed 20 more.
NEBRASKA"It was really cranking," photographer Mike Hollingshead says of this 130-mile-an-hour twister. But to him, that was not a clue to run the other way. A dedicated storm chaser, he shot this funnel on June 20, 2011, outside Bradshaw, where it derailed freight-train cars.
CHINARainwater cascades onto a Chengdu resident rushing up a flight of stairs from an underground garage. An unusually severe downpour on July 3, 2011, flooded streets and knocked out electricity in the city, which is the capital of Sichuan Province in central China.
TEXASThe public swimming pool in Spur, a little town in West Texas, was originally closed because of leaks—but with the drought making water so scarce lately, there has been no rush to repair the pool and refill it. It has been empty for four summers now.
TEXASTumbleweeds catch in the furrows of an unplanted cotton field near Brownfield, southwest of Lubbock. High winds and a record-breaking heat wave led to damaging erosion, says Buzz Cooper, who runs a cotton gin nearby. "It was just like a hot fan in an oven," he says.
TEXASThe wildfire near Bastrop, Texas, on September 5, 2011, was so hot it melted the aluminum wheels of this boat trailer. Fanned by high winds, the fire spread rapidly. "People had literally five or ten minutes to get out," says Jack Page, fire marshal of nearby Smithville. "There were a couple of times we didn't think we would make it."
TEXASSince the drought started almost two years ago, Mark Meyers has taken in more than 800 donkeys at the Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, a shelter he and his wife, Amy, run near San Angelo, Texas. "With hay prices up to four times as much as usual, people could not afford to feed their donkeys," he says. "So they abandoned them." Meyers rounds up the strays with the help of Bonney and two other dogs.
TEXASWhite lines on the hillside (right) record the normal water level of the E. V. Spence Reservoir near the town of Robert Lee, Texas. During the prolonged drought the reservoir has dropped by more than 99 percent, and towns that depend on it have had to scramble to find other water sources—drilling wells, building pipelines, or simply trucking in the water.


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Solving Instrumentation Ground Loop Problems
Nov 1, 1999 12:00 PM, Edited by John A. DeDad, Editorial Director
Unwanted ground loops can cause inaccurate sensor readings by negatively affecting instrumentation signals.
Have you ever had problems with process controls and electrical instrumentation? The source may be ground loops. What's this? According to the ANSI/ IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms, it's a "potentially detrimental loop formed when two or more points in an electrical system normally at ground potential are connected by a conducting path such that either or both points are not at the same ground potential."
In layman's terms, a ground loop develops because each ground is tied to a different earth potential. This condition allows current to flow between the grounds by way of the process loop.
Basically, ground loops cause problems by adding or subtracting current or voltage from the process signal. As a result, the receiving device can't differentiate between the wanted and the unwanted signals. Therefore, it can't accurately reflect process conditions. The probability of establishing multiple grounds and ground loops is especially high when you install new programmable logic controllers (PLCs) or distributed control systems. With so many connections referenced to ground within a facility, the likelihood of establishing more than one point is great.
You may have to ground at more than one point. For some instruments (such as thermocouples and some analyzers), it may not be possible to eliminate ground loops. That's because these instruments require a ground to make accurate rate measurements. Also, all analog control loops are grounded at one or more points. And as we've seen, multiple grounds can result in a ground loop that can upset the proper functioning of instruments. You also may have to ground instruments to ensure personnel safety.
So if you can't eliminate the conditions for ground loops, what's your next step? You can use signal isolators. These devices break the galvanic path (DC continuity) between all grounds while allowing the analog signal to continue throughout the loop. An isolator can also eliminate the electrical noise of AC continuity (common-mode voltage).
Signal isolators use one of two techniques to do the job. One is analog signal isolation, which uses an isolation transformer to chop, isolate, and reconstruct the signal. The other is discrete signal generation, which chops, transmits optically, and reconstructs the signal. Signal isolators using the latter technique are referred to as "opto-isolators." The choice between the two depends on your circuitry requirements.
Regardless of the isolation method you choose, an isolator must provide input, output, and power isolation. If you don't have this three-way isolation, then an additional ground loop can develop between the isolator's power supply and the process input and/or output signal.
Isolators, like most other transmitters, come in 2- and 4-wire versions. The 4-wire type requires a separate power source and is partially suited for back-of-panel mounting. You can power the 2-wire type from either the input or output loops.
The input loop type makes it possible to isolate a process signal when line power or output loop power isn't available. The output loop type solves the problem of interfacing non-isolated field signals with systems such as a computer, PLC, or distributed control system, which provide loop-power to their output devices.
You can find a signal isolator to suit almost any application. Here are just a few.
• Resistance input isolators for use as RTD, slidewire, strain, and potentiometer transmitters.
• Millivolt isolators for use as thermocouple and millivolt transmitters.
• Current/voltage isolators for use as alarm tripping, deviation alarm notification, and other special application transmitters.
So if an instrumentation system starts acting strangely or erratically, make sure you eliminate all unintended ground connections.
Sidebar: Instrumentation grounding
Almost all equipment used in a control instrumentation strategy makes use of a common signal ground as a reference for its analog signals. Introducing any additional grounds into a control circuit will almost certainly cause ground loops to occur.
To minimize the danger of introducing these loops into a complicated network, you should use a dedicated instrumentation system ground bus and connect grounds from the signal common, cabinet ground, and instrumentation AC power ground to it. The bus is tied to earth via the building ground and plant ground grid.
But, this can be much more complicated than it appears. For example, you will rarely have just one instrumentation loop. In fact, you could have hundreds or even thousands.
Many are packaged together in vendor-supplied instrumentation system cabinets. Generally, these contain a DC signal common bus and power supply common bus. The manufacturer normally ties these busses together within the cabinets at a master ground bus.
The cabinet ground is a safety ground that protects equipment and personnel from accidental shock hazards. It also provides a direct drain line for any static charges or electromagnetic interference (EMI) that may affect the cabinets. This cabinet ground remains separate from the DC signal ground until it terminates at the master ground bus.
The AC service ground is a single-point ground termination of the system AC power. This ground connects to the neutral-to-ground bond at the main AC power isolation transformer. It also terminates at a single point on the plant ground grid (usually the grounding electrode).
Sidebar: How an instrumentation signal loop works
Suppose you have an instrumentation loop, as shown in the figure (in the original article). As you can see, it's basically a DC system that operates at a specific voltage (24V in our example) to a master ground reference called a signal ground. The instrumentation signals vary within a range of 4mA to 20mA, depending on the value of the variable (temperature, pressure, etc.) seen by the sensor.
Let's say a precisely calibrated circuit takes this mA signal and converts it into a 1V-to-5V signal for a chart recorder. At 4mA, the voltage measured by the recorder is 1V (250 ohms2.004A). At 20mA, the measured voltage is 5V. Normally, the recorder scale is calibrated so the voltage reads directly in DegrF, psi, etc.


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