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News & Observer - After more than a century, a jewel of ocean research targeted for closure
By Renee Schoof and Jay Price
WASHINGTON - For more than a century, federal scientists have worked on Pivers Island near the historic town of Beaufort, N.C., and the beaches of Emerald Isle studying the ocean, and the fish, turtles and dolphins of its sea grass estuaries and rocky reefs.
Surrounded by three university labs, it's one of a handful of oceanography hubs in the nation and the only government research center between New Jersey and Miami studying Atlantic fish populations.
So it came as a surprise recently that the federal government has proposed doing away with the ocean science laboratory, which opened in 1899.
Tucked in President Barack Obama's 218-page proposed budget for 2015 was a one-sentence mention of a plan to close one lab to save money. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration subsequently identified it as North Carolina's historic research station.
"NOAA's Beaufort lab has conducted valuable fisheries and coastal science for more than 100 years," said NOAA spokeswoman Ciaran Clayton. "However, this aging facility requires infrastructure repairs and improvements exceeding agency budget resources now and for the foreseeable future."
The coastal and ocean agency plans to shift instead to grants to non-agency scientists. Closing the lab would mean the loss of 108 jobs locally. NOAA intends to relocate the federal scientists. What will happen to the lab's 31 government contractors is less clear.
Members of the North Carolina congressional delegation say they'll fight to keep the lab open, but its prospects are unclear. It's one of few cuts proposed in the Commerce Department's $8.8 billion budget.
Rep. Walter Jones, a Republican who represents the coastal district that includes Beaufort, was building a coalition to oppose the closure, said his spokeswoman, Sarah Howard.
"I am seriously troubled by the fact . President Barack Obama has proposed closing a research lab in eastern North Carolina while continuing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure projects in Afghanistan," Jones said in a statement.
Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., said she'd fight the closure to protect jobs and research that helps preserve coastal marine life. Rep. David Price, a Democrat from Chapel Hill and a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he'd be "sharply questioning" the decision when the committee reviews the budget on Monday.
"The NOAA Beaufort Laboratory is a prime location and provides the only federal access to the most diverse marine ecosystem in the United States," David B. Eggleston, a professor at North Carolina State University and director of its Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, wrote the committee.
Eggleston's letter cited examples of the lab's contributions, including pioneering work on harmful algal blooms that made forecasting them possible and the first study of invasive lionfish in the U.S. South Atlantic.
The lab sits just inside Beaufort Inlet, one of a handful of safe deepwater passages through the state's barrier islands to the open sea. Duke University has a research station next door. North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill labs are a short drive away.
Most people in the state think of coastal Carteret County, with its beaches, rental cottages and Beaufort's historic district, as being all about tourism. But marine science has grown into a major local employer.
Between them, NOAA and the three universities have 163,000 square feet of research buildings and 40 labs. All told, marine science directly employs more than 500 people locally and injects $58 million into the economy, according to the county economic development council.
NOAA has said that the lab needed $55 million in work, though the lab's supporters contend that the costs are overstated.
An engineering report showed the facility is structurally sound, they said. NOAA has invested some $14 million in upgrades in recent years, including a new administrative building in 2006 and a new bridge to the island, a cost shared with Duke.
The Beaufort lab over the decades has been known for work on Atlantic menhaden - a silvery herring - and sea grass, said Charles H. "Pete" Peterson, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City.
"It's more costly and less in your mind if you're separated from the problems or assets you're charged with to protect or research," he said.
In addition, the lab should remain at Beaufort because the North Carolina coast is one of the three places - along with south Florida and the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana - where global climate change has the potential to cause radical changes from storms and sea level rise, Peterson said.
Mike Schoenfeld, Duke's vice president for public affairs and governmental relations, said that the university's scientists were working with NOAA scientists on several important projects, including one involving salt marshes and another on how to analyze data to make better environmental decisions, a project that also includes the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune.
"We hope that the federal government carefully considers all the impacts before it makes its decision," Schoenfeld said.
The lab also is headquarters for staff of the North Carolina Coastal Reserve and Natural Estuarine Research Reserve. Teacher training workshops take place here. So do school field trips. Five minutes away by boat is the Rachel Carson Reserve, named for the author of "Silent Spring," who worked in the lab.
Patricia Tester, who came to Beaufort as an Oregon State University graduate student in 1976, married a local man and ended up working for NOAA as a scientist for 33 years, said the lab has done practical work solving fisheries problems in North Carolina and beyond.
Tester said that after the lab studied harmful algal blooms that caused the "red tide" of 1987, the Quinault Indians of La Push, Wash., asked for help to develop a new type of test they needed for their shellfish harvests.
"The problems were intractable with the skill sets we had at the time, but we incorporated molecular work and were able to help the Quinaults," she said.
Tester retired but has returned to the lab as a contractor and continues her research. She said she'd never move, because she and her husband have made their lives in Beaufort.
Conservation and fishing groups also want Congress to keep the lab open and are calling lawmakers.
The North Carolina chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association, a group devoted to protecting the coast for the general public, was calling on Congress to keep it running, said the chapter's chairman, Greg Hurt.
"Our organization and its members firmly believe that the future of fishing and the health of our states' marine resources depend upon access to the best scientific data available," he said.
Closing the lab would worsen the problem of getting timely assessments of the health of fish stocks, he said, adding that the NOAA Beaufort lab "has an excellent reputation for providing high quality data for management."
Jerry Schill, interim executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, a commercial fishing trade group, agreed.
"All we expect from these people is objectivity," he said. "With the National Marine Fisheries Service Beaufort lab, we got it."
Jackie Savitz, acting vice president for U.S. oceans at the conservation group Oceana, said NOAA "is the brain trust in helping us understand the impacts of what we do in our oceans."
"We need more Beaufort labs, not fewer," she said.

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by Tom Utescher
Over the years the boys' squash rivalry between Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and Penn Charter has produced some knock-down, drag-out battles, but the first meeting between the teams in the 2012-2013 campaign wasn't one of them.
With none of the individual bouts extending past four games in last Tuesday's match at SCH, the host Blue Devils swept the Quakers, 9-0, improving to 2-1. The Blue Devils had also blanked Malvern Prep to open the season, then they fell to defending national champion Episcopal Academy, 3-6, on December 4.
Penn Charter went home with a 2-2 record that included an earlier loss to Haverford School and victories over Malvern and Shipley School.
Springside Chestnut Hill's number six player, senior Peter Ferraro, and the number seven, eighth-grader Chris Dalglish, have won in all of their three outings this season. Because of a vacancy in the line-up when SCH travelled to Episcopal, sophomore Brian Hamilton moved up to join the varsity in the ninth position, and provided the Blue Devils with their third win against the Churchmen.
Last Tuesday, Ferraro faced fellow senior August Crofton, and overcame the visiting number six, 11-7, 11-8, 11-8. Dalglish kept his streak going, as well. After he opened with an 11-2 blitz, Charter junior Noah Hollin clawed back to prevail 11-8 in the second segment. Dalglish, who was also a member of the Blue Devils' varsity golf team this fall, captured the next two games at four and five.
Michael Bown, an SCH sophomore who missed the Episcopal clash due to injury, was back in his customary eighth spot against PC, dropping the first game to junior Quinn Crofton, 8-11, then taking the next three, 11-4, 11-2, 11-5. At number nine, visiting sophomore Aidan Porges succumbed to Devils junior Carlen Veasey, who won in straight games at four, four, and eight.
Another three-game tilt occurred when two seniors met right in the middle of the line-up, with SCH number five Christian Dorff doing in Charter's Scott Marcus, 11-4, 11-5, 11-6.
As a sophomore last winter, Springside Chestnut Hill's Phil Kelly was stationed at number three most of the time. With Augie Frank now a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania and with the transfer of Alex McCall (who would've been a senior this season), Kelly has taken on the mantle of the number one player for the Blue Devils.
Last Tuesday, his 11-7, 11-7, 11-9 win over Quakers' senior Randy Beck
wasn't as simple as the score might indicate, as there were many extended rallies between the two, who have been playing one another since they were youngsters. Each made some impressive shots; at one point Kelly slid halfway across the court on his knees and retrieved a ball from that position. One of the longest exchanges came on match point, which Kelly won when a shot by Beck died down in the front left corner.
At number two, PC senior Max Reiff put up more resistance as his match progressed, but Mason Blake, a junior on the host team, still wrapped it up in three games, yielding three, five and finally nine points to his rival.
Penn Charter has the Crofton brothers, and SCH also has siblings on its squad, junior number three Brian Giegerich and his brother Matt, one year younger and one rung down on the Blue Devils' team ladder.
There were many hard fought points between the older Giegerich and Quakers number three Luke Angelakis before the SCH 11th-grader came out on top, 10-12, 11-8, 11-5, 11-6. Matt Giegerich and another sophomore, PC's Owen Davis, also went four games in their set-to in the fourth spot, with SCH winning once more, 11-3, 9-11, 11-2, 11-4.
UPDATE: Springside Chestnut Hill closed out the week, and the 2012 portion of its season, with a 6-3 road win over Haverford. Along with the Blue Devils, Haverford is considered one of the major title contenders challenging league champ Episcopal. SCH picked up its victories from Kelly (3-0), Blake (3-1), Brian Geigerich (3-2), Matt Geigerich (3-1), Dorff (3-0) and Ferraro (3-0).


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Emergency lockdown drill set for November 14, participation required
November 02, 2012
College administrators are organizing a drill to simulate a lockdown scenario on November 14, 2012, at 2 p.m.
The drill is designed to help students, faculty, and staff practice the steps they should take in case there is a dangerous campus intruder or violent situation, such as a campus shooter.
Faculty and staff, in particular, must be prepared to assist, much as Emergency Team Leaders (ETLs) do, since students naturally will look to them for guidance and assistance when a real emergency occurs. Both the Blackboard Connect Emergency Notification System (ENS) and the Carillon Campus Alert Speaker system will be used to inform the community of the onset of the drill.
If you have not already done so, please register your contact information with Blackboard Connect now.
The campus-wide drill on November 14 will involve four steps. Everyone on campus must participate in the drill.
Step 1: Drill starts with recorded voice, email, and text messages—followed by live voice messaging—alerting the campus.
The drill will start at 2 p.m. with ENS recorded messaging, stating that a lockdown drill is underway, and that community members should begin lockdown procedures. The message will be sent out via email and voicemail messages to all lclark.edu email addresses and campus phone numbers. Voice, email, and text messages will also be delivered to cell phones and personal email addresses of student, faculty, and staff who have registered with ENS. Additionally, there will be a live announcement using the Carillon Campus Alert Speaker system.
Step 2: Buildings will be locked down.
Emergency Team Leaders (ETLs) wearing fluorescent colored vests in every building on campus are tasked with locking down those exterior doors that require a key or the use of a lockdown device. All community members should, however, be aware of how the lockdown devices work, and if you are near an exterior door so equipped at the time of the drill, and you know how to operate the devices, please do so, securing those doors. Please review the instructional video on the Campus Safety website.
Campus Safety will immediately lock down the exterior doors of the residence halls and some other exterior academic area doors controlled by Lenel, the system that provides building access through college ID cards. Once those doors controlled by Lenel have been locked, persons attempting to gain entry with their ID cards will not be able to swipe in. To exercise best practices during this drill, please keep in mind that during a real emergency, choosing to unlock a door and allow entry to others may be hazardous to all inside.
Step 3: Individuals should seek shelter.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE INSIDE: If you are already inside a campus building, in an interior room, lock the door if possible, or try to improvise a barricade if the door has no lock. Those in the hallways should proceed to the nearest interior room, preferably one with a telephone and door lock.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE OUTSIDE: If you are outside a campus building in an unsecured area, take immediate cover. If you are able to access a building that can be secured, quickly make your way to that location while advising others to do the same.
Persons finding themselves in an unsecured location, who are unable to gain access to a secure area, need to take all necessary steps to ensure their own personal safety—either by fleeing the immediate area to a more secure location, or by remaining in place, under cover, until the immediate danger has passed, and then seeking a more secure location.
Every effort should be made to lock access doors and close windows and window coverings in your area without compromising personal safety.
Turn off the lights. Remain quiet. Silence cell phones and pagers, and turn off radios and other electronics that might alert an intruder to your presence.
Conceal yourself as much as possible. Crouch down in areas that are out of sight from doors and windows. Do not huddle together in case an intruder makes entry into your area. Try to stay calm and make a plan of action, including the possibility of confronting the intruder if you have no other options.
DO NOT sound the fire alarm. Should the fire alarm sound, do not evacuate the building unless one of the following scenarios applies:
- You have firsthand knowledge that there is a fire in the building.
- You have been advised by Campus Safety, police, or your ETL to evacuate.
- There is imminent danger in your immediate area.
After gaining a place of safety during a real emergency, if you have relevant information about the intruder, you should call 911. Since this is only a drill, DO NOT call 911.
Wait for further instructions from Campus Safety, police, or your ETL. Do not open the door until they declare that the situation is clear.
Step 4: Take a moment to provide feedback so that we can evaluate our preparedness.
At the conclusion of the emergency drill, a survey questionnaire will be circulated to help us measure our progress in instilling community awareness around emergency procedures. As a thank you for completing the survey, you can enter to win a gift card redeemable at the Lewis & Clark bookstore.
Please provide feedback on our survey—AFTER THE DRILL ON NOVEMBER 14—on your ability to do the following:
- Locate the campus website where you can sign up for ENS – Blackboard Connect.
- Locate at least one site or publication where all L&C emergency procedures are displayed.
- Secure the lockdown devices on many campus exterior doors.
- Take the necessary basic steps if and when a lockdown is ordered.
- Locate the Evacuation Assembly Area (EAA) for the area you are in, should you be ordered to leave what had been a place of safety.
For information on procedures to follow in other campus emergencies, please consult the Emergency Procedures booklet prominently displayed at many campus locations or visit the Campus Safety website.
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In October 2009 Chancellor Charles B. Reed convened California State University executives to launch a Graduation Initiative involving the 23 CSU campuses with the aim of improving graduation rates and closing the achievement gap among students.
In January 2010, the Initiative was presented to the CSU Board of Trustees. The initiative is expected to raise six-year graduation rates by eight percentage points by 2016 (from the current 46 percent to 54 percent), and cut in half the gap in degree attainment by CSU's underrepresented students. The Initiative's team members have visited 21 campuses to review plans, and will visit the remaining two campuses in April.
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In May 2010 the California State University Board of Trustees adopted an Early Start policy designed to help students become better prepared in mathematics and English when they enter the CSU as incoming freshmen so that they do not have to take remedial courses.
Tied to the Early Start program is the Early Assessment Program (EAP) in which 11th grade students take a test to determine if they are "CSU ready" in math and English.
If not, they have the senior year to get up to speed or the summer before their freshman year to reach college-level.
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Transfer students are a significant segment of the undergraduate population of the California State University.
The Student Transfer Agreement Reform Act (SB 1440) signed into law on September 29, 2010, enables the California Community Colleges and California State University to collaborate on the creation of Associate of Arts Degree (AA) program for transfer to a CSU campus.
A community college student who has earned the AA transfer degree will be granted priority admission to the CSU into a similar baccalaureate (BA) degree program with a guarantee of junior standing as long as the student meets all prescribed admission requirements.
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of News and Reflections, the quarterly online newsletter for the CSU Division of Academic Affairs. We will be featuring systemwide issues as well as spotlighting at least one campus academic program per issue. Student success is at the heart of our 23 campuses and the Chancellor's Office. Faculty and staff work closely with students on advising, mentoring and conducting research to make sure they continually progress to graduation. The CSU is working hard to keep its promise to California to provide the state with an educated and accomplished workforce even in the face of unprecedented budget cuts. I want to thank all our campus colleagues for all you do to put students first. For the latest budget news, please go to CSU Budget Central
The CSU Summit on Transformative Change in the Preparation of Teachers represented a milestone in teacher education nationally. It was hosted by the California State University in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences. The summit focused on exemplary strategies for teacher preparation that clearly warrant dissemination and scaling up in California and nationally. Watch the video highlights and peruse the summary. Read More
Cal State San Bernardino's 2011 Arabic Language Summer Intensive Program for college and high school students has received a nearly $100,000 grant as part of the STARTTALK program.
The university's Arabic Language Summer Intensive Program focuses on teaching college students and some high school students in the San Bernardino-Riverside areas to speak Arabic and explore Arabic cultures. Students receive individualized instruction by interacting with faculty, classmates and peer tutors (who are native-speaking college students). Read More
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Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
THE JEANNE CLERY DISCLOSURE OF CAMPUS SECURITY POLICY AND CAMPUS CRIME STATISTICS ACT2018 Annual Security & Fire Safety Reportoptional hidden text
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics
Act (the Clery Act) requires higher education institutions to provide timely warnings
of crimes that represent a threat to the campus community and to publish their campus
security policies. The Act also requires that the crime data is collected, reported,
and disseminated to the campus community, the Department of Education, and potential
students and employees.
Your safety and security are of utmost importance at the University of Alaska Anchorage. It is our policy to comply with the Clery Act and provide you with required information. The 2018 Annual Security Report contains important information from the previous three calendar years (2015-2017) concerning reported offenses, arrests, crimes, and disciplinary referrals that occurred on campus; in certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by the University; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. The report also includes institutional policies concerning campus security, alcohol and other drug use, crime prevention strategies, and how to report crimes, sexual assault, and other related matters.
This report includes statistics for the Anchorage campus, the Aviation Technology Complex, the Chugiak-Eagle River campus, the Kenai Peninsula College - Kachemak Bay campus, the Kenai Peninsula College - Kenai River campus, Kodiak College, Matanuska-Susitna College, Prince William Sound College, and the University Center.
The general information included is relevant to all University of Alaska Anchorage campuses. Where appropriate, information unique to particular campuses is also included. UA Board of Regents Policies and University Regulations are applicable to all campuses.
This report is published by:
Dean of Students Office
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Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act
The Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act was signed into law on August 14, 2008. This legislation requires colleges and universities to report fire safety information related to on-campus residence halls. The 2018 Fire Safety Report includes general information and fire statistics from the previous three calendar years (2015-2017) for UAA's three residential communities.
Several statistics are required to be included in the report: the number of fires; fire-related deaths; fire injuries; the cause of these fires; as well as the amount of damage caused by fires. Additionally, UAA is required to report the fire safety features of on campus residence halls including sprinklers, fire alarms, and other fire/life safety systems along with plans for future improvements to fire safety systems. Finally, UAA is required to list the type and amount of fire safety training provided to students and employees.


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Fernando Torres has yet again rebuffed suggestions he could join Barcelona before the summer transfer deadline, although admits he enjoys a good relationship with the Catalan club's president Sandro Rosell.
The Chelsea striker has been linked with a move to the Camp Nou with his future at Stamford Bridge in apparent doubt following the appointment of Jose Mourinho as the club's new manager.
Barcelona are reported to have identified Torres as a potential transfer window acquisition but, although flattered by the suggestion, the Spain international maintains he wishes to continue at Chelsea.
Torres has dismissed claims his relationship with Rosell could force through a transfer to Barcelona, stating that never have the two discussed a possible move from Chelsea to Catalonia.
"I have known Sandro Rosell for a long time," Torres told Radio Marca. "There is a personal relationship, but nothing else.
"My head goes through the Confederations Cup, and then onto Chelsea. I want to talk with Mourinho and then prepare for the coming season."
Chelsea are already reported to have made an attempt to offload Torres, but failed in a bid to use the 29-year-old in a part-exchange deal for Napoli striker Edinson Cavani.
Torres, though, has no ambition to leave Chelsea and is ready to prove himself under the stewardship of Mourinho when he returns for pre-season following his exertions at the Confederations Cup.
"I look forward to talking with Mourinho and knowing what he plans for me," he added.
"I'm the first I know they expected much more from me, and I also expected more from myself. Now I have Mourinho´s pressure added and that's a challenge for a player."


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Past, Present Linked in UH Production of 'Arcadia'
Thanks to the University of Houston's School of Theatre & Dance, audiences will soon discover the magic behind this award-winning play. "Arcadia" will be performed Nov. 9-10 and 16-18 in UH's Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre.
Set in an English country mansion, the play focuses on 19th century math prodigy Thomasina Coverly, who discovers the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the chaos theory. Also residing at the mansion are her mother Lady Croom, tutor Septimus Hodge and poet Ezra Chater. Offstage, literature luminary Lord Byron maintains a presence. Meanwhile, a group of modern day academicians is depicted in the same mansion conducting research that will link their lives to those previous residents.
Scenes seamlessly shift from past to present as the uncertainty of the future looms largely over all of the characters.
Working with the cast is a team of UH faculty who will offer consultation on the play's more technical themes: math, physics and literature.
"Having this on-site consultation is invaluable to our cast," said director Sidney Berger, John and Rebecca Moores professor in the School of Theatre & Dance. "Hearing from these fine academic minds will better enable the actors to communicate these concepts within 'Arcadia.'"
Since premiering in 1993 at the Royal National Theatre, "Arcadia" has become a popular stage staple. It received the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1995 New York Drama Critics Award.
General admission tickets are $15; $12 for UH faculty, staff and alumni; $10 for seniors or groups of 10 or more; and $7 for students. Ticket information can be obtained by calling the Wortham Theatre box office at (713) 743-2929. For more information about the UH School of Theatre & Dance, visit the Web site http://www.class.uh.edu/theatre/home.html.
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A former assistant accountant for the $60 million WesTex Federal Credit Union in Lubbock, Texas, will spend 37 months behind bars and pay restitution of $690,000 for embezzling an estimated $500,000 from a branch of the credit union.
Armelinda "Irma" Castillo, who worked at WesTex's southwest branch at 7802 Indiana Ave. in Lubbock, was sentenced Friday for stealing the money from April 2009 to April 2012.
According to documents filed April 18, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Castillo embezzled funds in amounts of $100 – $1,000 and then deposited the money into the credit union account of either herself or her boyfriend. The money was used, she said, to pay for expenses for herself and for others.
Castillo pleaded guilty to misapplication of funds in December 2012. U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings also ordered that Castillo, 27, be supervised for five years after the completion of her sentence.
According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the credit union contacted law enforcement when it discovered the embezzlement.
"At no time have our credit union member accounts or funds been in jeopardy," the credit union had said in a prepared statement, adding that members were notified immediately after the problem was discovered.
Vicki Lynn Love, president of the west Texas credit union, could not be reached for further comment on Tuesday.
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Quick Facts
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|From $ 300,000
|Category of Funding Activity
|Science and Technology and other Research and Development
|Eligible Applicants
Program Description
International Ocean Discovery Program Operations The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) serves to advance basic research in the marine geosciences and is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its international partners. The science plan, Illuminating Earth's Past, Present, and Future: The International Ocean Discovery Program Science Plan for 2013-2023, provides justification for the United States' participation in the IODP and reflects the top priorities of the international science community. A multi-platform approach is required to address the goals outlined in the IODP science plan, including a non-riser vessel to collect widely-distributed high-resolution cores to address climate, environmental, crustal and observatory science objectives; a heavy riser-equipped vessel to reach the deep sedimentary and crustal layers; and mission-specific platforms to support high-latitude and shallow-water projects. The light drillship, JOIDES Resolution, is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Science operations for the JOIDES Resolution are conducted through a Cooperative Agreement with Texas A&M University with scientific planning conducted by the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan provides the heavy drillship, Chikyu (Earth), to conduct the deep drilling projects in the new program. The Center for Deep Earth Exploration of the Independent Administrative Institution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) operates the vessel for IODP. Scientific planning for Chikyu IODP operations is conducted by the Chikyu IODP Board. Mission Specific Platforms (MSP) are provided by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD). The ECORD Facility Board conducts scientific planning for MSP expeditions and the platforms themselves are operated by the European Science Operator (ESO). A Science Support Office (SSO) is provided by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation. The SSO's primary tasks include: providing logistical support for the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board and its advisory panels overseeing the proposal submission and review process managing the Site Survey Data Bank providing a gateway website to IODP scientific planning United States Science Support for Drilling-Related Research Grant support for drilling-related research performed by United States scientists is available from the NSF. Proposals for most pre-expedition (e.g., site characterization) and post-expedition studies should be submitted through the appropriate NSF programs, such as Ocean Sciences Marine Geology and Geophysics, Earth Sciences, Polar Programs, etc. In addition to these NSF programs, the NSF Ocean Drilling Program (PD 14-5720) will provide support for small projects to be conducted during the expedition moratorium period to increase the scientific value of, and facilitate further research on, the expedition core, data, and associated samples. The expedition moratorium period begins with the co-chief approval of the expedition sampling plan and generally ends one-year following the post-expedition sampling party (See http://iodp.org for specific moratorium dates for each expedition). Examples of appropriate post-expedition work include, but are not limited to: XRF, CT, or other scans of entire or selected critical sections of core stratigraphic refinements for identified critical intervals refinement of shipboard measurements/analyses/descriptions as deemed necessary by the shipboard scientific party These Ocean Drilling Program (PD 14-5720) post-expedition proposals should be submitted during the initial portion of the expedition moratorium period with the expectation that the work can be completed during the moratorium period. Limited support will also be provided through the Ocean Drilling Program (PD 14-5720) for critical, expedition-specific shipboard or downhole instrumentation (not meant for large instrumentation projects like CORKS) and for data synthesis/reprocessing critical for expedition implementation. Proposals of this type may be submitted at any time prior to the expedition. Investigators are encouraged to contact the program directors identified in this program description prior to submission of a proposal to the Ocean Drilling Program (PD 14-5720) to discuss the appropriateness of the proposal for this particular program. It is expected that results generated from Ocean Drilling Program (PD 14-5720) awards will be made available to other shipboard participants upon completion and, once the moratorium is over, to the broader scientific community as required by the NSF-OCE Data and Sample Policy. Additional support for United States scientists may be obtained via the U.S. Science Support Program. Funding opportunities from this NSF-sponsored program include, but are not limited to: planning activities, such as workshops on specific ocean-drilling scientific themes, regional areas, or topics support for United States scientists participating on drilling expeditions and JOIDES Resolution advisory panels educational programs
General Information
|Funding Opportunity Number
|Funding Opportunity Title
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|Opportunity Category
|Science and Technology and other Research and Development
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|Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement
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Eligible Applicants
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Every holiday season, millions of aspiring dancers attend performances by the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. With every precise kick, the glittering costumes and lavish sets, it's no wonder that a young dancer would leave the theater with the dream of growing up and becoming a Rockette.
When Erin Harold, senior dance major, saw her first show with her parents in Cleveland, she left the theater with the determination to make her dream happen. On that two-hour car ride home to Stoneboro, Pa., Erin was dizzy with excitement after watching the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
"You know what's really funny, I was this little middle-schooler watching the show, wanting to be a Rockette, and now I'm actually dancing with a girl who was onstage performing at that time," she said.
Considering the thousands of dancers who audition each year, Erin is one of an elite minority to experience the extraordinary rush of making it through the callbacks and signing a contract. She is now in her second season on the Pittsburgh/Seattle tour of Christmas Across America.
"It's amazing just because it's so challenging to get a spot like that," said Erin. "The fact that I've been able to achieve that, and that it's something I love to do, has been really great."
By taking a leave of absence from her studies at the Conservatory of Performing Arts, Erin has been able to tour with the show during the fall semester and catch up on her course requirements during spring and summer semesters. She also holds a work-study position in the Office of Graduate and Adult Enrollment.
Erin's dedication to her studies and dance career has been a good primer for the rigors of becoming a Rockette. The show's rehearsal and performance schedule is intense, not to mention the physical demands of the two-hour cardio show with hundreds of kicks. After a month of 12-hour days rehearsing in Myrtle Beach, the Pittsburgh/Seattle cast opened at the Benedum Center in Downtown Pittsburgh on Nov. 12.
However, Erin has mixed feelings about performing in Pittsburgh. While it has been very convenient for her family and friends to come and see the show, Erin has had little time away from her performance schedule. The Rockettes performed 51 shows in Pittsburgh between Nov. 12 and Dec. 6, with as many as four shows in one day.
"On a typical weekend during the season, you're at the theater from 8:30 in the morning to do your hair and make-up, visit the trainer, get warmed up and do the show," she said. "There is usually an hour or an hour and a half between the shows and they cater for us, so you eat really quickly, take a nap and then refresh and re-stretch, and that repeats until about 10 or 10:30 at night, so it's a long day."
During rehearsals and on tour, the Rockettes stay in hotel suites with private bedrooms, bathrooms and a shared kitchen. The tour ends in Seattle on Jan. 3 and Erin will jump right back into her studies at Point Park. She's hoping to graduate on time in the spring.
Erin's journey as a dancer at Point Park started several years before her freshman year because she attended the University's International Summer Dance program as a high school student.
"When it came down to it, I realized that Point Park offers more of a variety than other universities, especially in jazz. Most other schools focused on ballet or modern and I feel that you need to be more well-rounded," she said. "Plus it's a liberal arts college, so not only am I getting dance classes, but I'm also getting academics, which has always been important to me. So if I ever get into another field after dance, I have something to get me started," she said.
Erin also attended and eventually assisted with the Rockette Summer Intensive Program, previously held on Point Park's campus.
"Erin is a very professional young lady, and she took everything that she learned from that program and kept applying it. I think that propelled her forward to becoming a Rockette," said Eileen Grace (COPA 1981), director of the Rockette Summer Intensive Program and past director of various tours of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. "Right away, I saw definite Rockette potential in her."
Story by Kate Beard MillerRockettes photos courtesy of Madison Square Garden Entertainment
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A few points and one hope. First, the hope that I have for this study is that it helps score some head shots against those zombie lies (dealt with deftly here, here, and here) that pop up every year about all the cushy jobs that under-qualified women are landing at the expense of poor, over-qualified white men.
- Up to 40% of advertised positions in 2007-8 did not fill
- Women were hired in all categories in proportion to their percentage of PhDs (this includes temporary positions and postdocs, tenure-track positions and positions in Leiter-ranked departments)
- If women PhDs are regularly being hired in proportion to their numbers, and retained at the same rate as men, we should see a rise in their numbers in the profession to 28% (their numbers are around 21%).
- The percentage of women in philosophy is at a noteworthy point. The number of women PhD's is above 25% (which is the "tipping point" for gender schemas, see Valian 1998) but the number of women employed in the profession is below 25%.
Second, the numbers themselves regarding woman hires aren't as bad as you'd expect. Women are being hired in proportion to the number pursuing Ph.Ds. And while there is obviously some work to be done with retaining women so their numbers in the profession catch up to the numbers pursuing Ph.Ds, these findings are encouraging.
Third, as noted in the report, the APA doesn't seem to keep track of any of these numbers. Why not? Why did the authors of the study have to rely on blog posts and other means for their data when this is clearly something the APA should be keeping track of?
As fellow Smoker and longtime friend S points out: "Not keeping track of the data is a sure sign that an organization or institution's not committed to fixing whatever problem you want the data about." Damn straight. No matter how many committees or reports are commissioned, having this data is key to tackling these issues. Gathering and making such data available is something we should expect from a professional organization.
Fourth, what is the significance of the fact that 40% of jobs advertised weren't filled? I mean, you'd figure with all the over-qualified white men with scary CVs getting snubbed for tenure-track positions in favor of less-qualified women or minorities, this figure would be lower. But, less snarkily and more seriously, why is this number so (seemingly) high; is there an obvious explanation, or is it convoluted?


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DAN YANKELOVICH and WILL FRIEDMAN, PH.D.
How should citizens in a healthy democracy work out their differences? Can problem-solving approaches which work well in small communities be scaled up to address problems on the national stage? How can we make sure that "democracy" is not just a word, and that government action is guided by thoughtful citizen input and complemented by authentic, broad-based citizen participation?
Toward Wiser Public Judgment, edited by social scientist and public opinion research pioneer Daniel Yankelovich and public engagement theorist and practitioner Will Friedman, revisits Yankelovich's landmark 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, on the question of how the public makes up its mind on issues and then zeroes in on what has been learned in nearly three decades of applying this theory to real-life situations.
The editors, who are also among those contributing essays to this checkup on 21st century democracy, have a unique advantage in approaching the subject of how issues work their way through the public consciousness. That focus is at the heart of the work done by Public Agenda, the nonpartisan public opinion research and public engagement organization of which Yankelovich is co-founder and Friedman is president, as well as by organizations like the National Issues Forums and Viewpoint Learning.
It's all part of what Yankelovich calls The Learning Curve - the process by which America makes up its mind - and it's more than just a theory. At a time in which civic life is more deadlocked than ever in name-calling and partisan suspicion, understanding the Learning Curve offers an important part of the solution.
With that in mind, Yankelovich, Friedman and the other public engagement practitioners who report in this volume on the practical application of the Learning Curve in our democracy take on another very timely question. Namely: is it possible for the public to move faster toward collaborative, sustainable resolutions of urgent conflicts ranging from education reform, energy and climate change on through to the foreign policy that affects the U.S. role and standing in the world?
The initiatives the authors write about illustrate new models of problem-solving, grounded in how the public really thinks about issues - and show a great deal about what it takes to truly connect and engage with the public.
As a nation, we've got to move both faster and better on all of these challenges, or risk the consequences. The question is: how?
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"Toward Wiser Public Judgment" is a product of Public Agenda's Center for Advances In Public Engagement (CAPE). It was supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as well through collaborative research with the Kettering Foundation.
About the Editors and Authors
Daniel Yankelovich
Theories on the underpinnings and functioning of our democracy abound, but their worth lies in what's done to test and apply their lessons to the problems of real life.
That has been a big part of the lifelong mission of social scientist and public opinion research pioneer Daniel Yankelovich, chairman and co-founder of Public Agenda, Viewpoint Learning, which specializes in dialogue-based learning, and DYG, Inc., a business research firm which tracks social trends.
He is the author of eleven other books, including Coming to Public Judgment; Profit with Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism; The Magic of Dialogue; New Rules; and Ego and Instinct (with William Barrett).
Yankelovich serves on board of the UC San Diego Foundation, is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council in the Social Sciences, a former trustee of Brown University and a former faculty member of NYU and the New School for Social Research. He has won numerous awards and was named by PR Week as one of the ten most influential people of the 20th century in the fields of public affairs and communications.
Educated at Harvard, Harvard's Graduate School of the Arts, and the Sorbonne, Yankelovich has had the opportunity to apply his knowledge and experience in multiple arenas of society. He is the founder of the New York Times/Yankelovich Poll, today known as the New York Times/CBS News Poll, and was founding president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
Other institutional affiliations have included: chairman of the Educational Testing Service; fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Kettering Foundation trustee; member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and served as a director for corporate boards including CBS; Meredith Corporation; Loral Space and Communications; Diversified Energies/ARKLA; and U.S. West (now part of Qwest Communications).
Will Friedman
In Toward Wiser Public Judgment, Will Friedman, president of Public Agenda and founder of its public engagement practice, takes a look at the history of public engagement, the current environment, and the road ahead, including questions on scale, scope, and impact for political change.
Since joining Public Agenda in 1994, Friedman has overseen Public Agenda's steady and expanding stream of work aimed at helping communities build capacity to tackle tough issues in more inclusive, deliberative and collaborative ways.
In 2006, he established Public Agenda's Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE), which conducts action research to assess impacts and improve practice.
Friedman is the author or co-author of numerous publications including "Reframing Framing," "Transforming Public Life: A Decade of Public Engagement in Bridgeport, CT," "Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Scope," "Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Power" and "From Employee Engagement to Civic Engagement: Exploring Connections between Workplace and Community Democracy."
Previously, Friedman was senior vice president for policy studies at the Work in America Institute, where he directed research and special projects on workplace issues. He was also an adjunct lecturer in political science at Lehman College, a research fellow at the Samuels Center for State and Local Politics, and a practitioner in the field of counseling psychology. He holds a Ph.D. in political science with specializations in political psychology and American politics.
Keith Melville and Robert J. Kingston
Imagine a network of ordinary citizens, all over the country, coming together periodically to discuss the hot topics of the moment, looking at the issues from all sides, considering the pros and cons of different approaches to problems, and weighing each against the values they consider to be most important. That's what the Kettering Foundation has been doing since the early 1980s, with the establishment of the National Issues Forums, the vantage point from which Toward Wiser Public Judgment chapter contributors Keith Melville and Robert J. Kingston report on the mechanisms of deliberative democracy.
Their experiences with the practical application of Yankelovich's theory, and what does and doesn't happen when citizens get together to discuss public policy issues, are a great laboratory and foundation for further exploration.
Keith Melville, one of the founders of the National Issues Forums and an associate at the Kettering Foundation, is a sociologist, consultant, author, and professor who has taught college and graduate level programs for the past thirty years.
Melville received his PhD in sociology from Columbia University, where he was already studying the subject of bridging gaps between different segments of society, and has held faculty positions at the City University of New York and the Fielding Graduate University.
Throughout his career, Melville has combined academic and professional work, particularly in the area of public policy and public engagement. He was a senior vice president at Public Agenda for 18 years and has designed and led hundreds of seminars and workshops.
He is the author of many books and dozens of reports on topics including immigration, income inequality, welfare, America's global role, senior entitlement programs and health care reform. One of the themes in his writing is personal lifestyle choices, and the cultural influences that shape those choices. This was the topic of his first book, "Communes in the Counter Culture," which found a large audience during the cultural changes of the early 1970s, and "Marriage and Family Today," which was for many years a leading college text.
Melville also worked in the White House during the Carter administration as a senior writer on a report on The Quality of American Life, prepared for the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the 1980s.
Robert J. Kingston is a senior associate of the Kettering Foundation. He grew up in England, was educated at Oxford, and first came to this country (of which he is now a citizen) as a professor of Shakespeare at the University of Michigan. A former president of the College Board, Kingston served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations and was executive director of Public Agenda in its formative years.
At Kettering, Kingston has contributed to the planning of virtually all of the foundation's operating programs. In addition, he has collaborated with other organizations on projects including the international Deliberative Democracy Workshops and the National Issues Convention, the latter in cooperation with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and the Stanford University's Center for Deliberative Democracy.
Kingston is the editor of the Kettering Review, edited the book "Public Thought and Foreign Policy: Essays on Public Deliberations about Americans Role in the World," and was executive producer of the annual television program "A Public Voice."
Alison Kadlec
An examination of Yankelovich's theory of deliberative democracy would not be complete without a close look at how this has played out at Public Agenda. In Toward Wiser Public Judgment, Will Friedman is joined by Alison Kadlec in a review of Public Agenda's efforts to put the Learning Curve perspective into practice to inform policymaking, strengthen communities and their vital institutions, and educate and empower citizens.
Alison Kadlec, a senior vice president at Public Agenda, is director of the Center for Advances in Public Engagement and of all of Public Agenda's public engagement programs. She works on the management and implementation of Public Agenda's public engagement and opinion research projects, and is active in the development and evaluation of research tools and reports, and in the training for, and evaluation of, public engagement projects.
Kadlec, who describes herself as a democratic theorist who left academics to work on-the-ground on behalf of meaningful democratic practices and habits, was a visiting professor and lecturer in the political science departments at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, Baruch College and Hunter College. She holds Bachelor's degrees in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy and English Literature from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.
She is the author of a book on the democratic theory of John Dewey, "Dewey's Critical Pragmatism." Alison is also the co-author of a number of papers on the subject of public engagement, including: Beyond Debate: Impacts of Deliberative Issue Framing on Group Dialogue and Problem Solving; Promising Practices in Online Engagement; and Framing for Deliberation.
Steven A. Rosell and Heidi Gantwerk
"Just talk" - a dismissive phrase and one that would never be used to describe the work of Steven A. Rosell and Heidi Gantwerk, whose contribution to Toward Wiser Public Judgment is a deft report on the impact of dynamic dialogue as institutions public and private develop approaches to leadership that are increasingly participatory and learning-based.
As co-founder and president of Viewpoint Learning, Steven A. Rosell leads Viewpoint Learning's development of dialogue-based learning techniques and their application in the public sector and in business. Steve acts as an advisor to governments, international agencies and major firms, and is the author of numerous reports and articles and four books on questions of governance, leadership and learning, including "Renewing Governance: Governing by Learning in the Information Age" and "Changing Frames." He has worked with hundreds of executives in the public and private sectors developing learning-based approaches to leadership and governance needed to deal with new social and political realities.
Previously, Rosell was a senior official of the Government of Canada, where he led the group responsible for advising four prime ministers on the organization and machinery of government and related issues. He also served in the departments responsible for foreign affairs and international trade, consumer and corporate affairs, and housing and urban affairs. In addition, he was senior fellow at the International Development Research Centre and director of the Governability Research Program at the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Rosell is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University.
Heidi Gantwerk
A leader in the field of public dialogue, Heidi Gantwerk is vice president of Viewpoint Learning, specializing in civic engagement, public policy research, community relations, and media production. She has designed and directed numerous national and local civic and stakeholder engagement projects on a wide range of complex public and private sector issues, including health care reform, land use and housing development, governance reform, and caring for the elderly.
Gantwerk is often asked to speak about the critical role of public engagement in breaking through gridlock on complex, value-laden public policy issues. She has produced videos on the power of public dialogue and spearheaded the addition of online dialogue to Viewpoint Learning's methods for engaging the public and stakeholders on tough issues.
Previous to her work at Viewpoint Learning, Gantwerk focused on building bridges between communities, including serving as a liaison between local communities and network television, and creating innovative educational opportunities for inner-city schoolchildren.
She holds a B.A. in psychology from Yale University and is the author of numerous reports and articles.


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BOTTLE CAP SUBSTITUTION. Our favorite brand of salad dressing stopped using the caps with holes in them. To avoid pouring too much, I now put the tops from ketchup bottles on the dressing bottles. Perfect fit! — Anita, EC Blog
DUSTING WITH SUGAR. Instead of greasing the cake pans and then dusting with flour, I dust with sugar. It's prettier and less messy than flour. It leaves a slight crusty appearance, with no flour sticking to the finished cake. I also warm my frosting a little in the microwave until its consistency is workable (I must admit to using container frosting as a rule). I use a spoon to drizzle the frosting on without frosting the entire cake. This looks great and tastes great, and I can usually frost several cakes with one container of frosting. — Diana, EC Blog
EASY GRIP WITH VINYL SHELF LINER. When installing vinyl shelf liner, there is always a little extra. I use that extra piece for opening jars. It folds easily in a drawer in the kitchen for handy use. — Q, EC Blog
COCONUT OIL MOISTURIZER. I love coconut oil and use it as a moisturizer. It is a solid — like the consistency of shortening — at 76 degrees, but it literally melts on your skin. It's awesome for mixing with essential oils. I used it with some eucalyptus and lavender oils when I had my last poison ivy outbreak, and it really helped!! — Rejena, EC Blog
MOISTURIZER FROM THE PANTRY. Olive oil is a good, gentle makeup remover. Even stubborn mascara is easy to remove with this oil. I pour a few drops in one palm, rub my hands together, and rub each over my face, eyes, chin and neck. I then rinse with a washcloth soaked in warm water. Most nights, there's enough residue left on my skin that I don't have to apply more oil after the wash. I don't even have to put a moisturizer on my lips. — Kathy, EC Blog
CARPET SQUARES CLEAR THE PATH. I keep carpet samples in the trunk of my car in case I get stuck in the snow (sand or mud, too). I simply place the carpet squares in front of the tires and drive right out! — Joan, EC Blog
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Adam Moffat's late goal lifts Dynamo to tie with Fire
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Adam Moffat scored in the 90th minute and Tally Hall made seven saves to lift the Dynamo to a 1-1 tie with the Fire in MLS play on Sunday.
Moffat, a midfielder who had moved deep into the offensive play, took defender Corey Ashe's backheel pass in the left side of the penalty area and shot it high over Chicago goalkeeper Sean Johnson's outstretched left hand.
The tie, the second between the squads this season, moved Houston (10-8-7) into a tie with New England (10-9-7) for the fifth and final playoff position in the Eastern Conference. Each squad has 37 points, and Houston has a match in hand. Chicago (10-10-5) has 35 points.
Until Moffat's goal, the Dynamo had only a few good chances. Johnson batted away a hard shot from Andrew Driver in the 86th minute, his third save of the game, and most difficult since the fifth minute, when he stretched to make a toe save on Will Bruin's low shot.
Fire forward Mike Magee started Chicago's scoring play with a corner kick from the left in the 36th minute. The ball flew over the head of jumping midfielder Jeff Larentowicz and hit defender Bobby Boswell in the shoulder, deflecting in from about eight yards out.
While it went in off an opposing player, the score climaxed a furious sequence that saw Chicago take four shots at Houston from no more than 16 yards in less than three minutes. The first, by Chris Rolfe, skidded wide of the net, but Hall was forced to make saves on Magee and Dilly Duka, the latter stop setting up the corner kick.
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Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. Physically this quality "girlfriend time" helps is to create more serotonin - a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being. Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. We share from our souls with our sisters/mothers, and evidently that is very GOOD for our health.
He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym. There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged? Not true. In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking!
So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health! We are indeed very, very lucky.
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Christian Hammond has been working on a very cool branch of GtkFileChooser to let you define roots for the file dialog. Normally, this is what my file chooser looks like — it lets me browse anything on my file system:
In the following screenshot, the file chooser has been rooted to show only my $HOME. Note that no volumes or shortcuts that are outsideof my $HOME show up in the shortcuts pane.
The API makes it easy.
GSList *roots; roots = g_slist_append (NULL, "file:///home/federico"); gtk_file_chooser_set_root_uris (chooser, roots);
And in the following example, the filechooser has been constrained to my $HOME and to /tmp:
This is basically the infrastructure we need to support proper lockdown in the file chooser. At some point it may be interesting for sysadmins to say, "don't let users wander in the filesystem, but constrain them to their home directory, the corporate shares and their USB stick".
This is bug 609886 - multiroot support for GtkFileChooser.
The patches are not quite ready yet (in particular, passing a GSList of strings is not very nice for language bindings, I think), but it should be easy to fix for production. Any volunteers?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Honeywell on Tuesday said it wanted U.S. air safety regulators to explain a new proposal to compel airlines to change cockpit instrument panels the company makes for Boeing planes over concerns that Wi-Fi signals could wipe out crucial readings and create a risk of crashing.
Honeywell noted that the Federal Aviation Administration was content to make replacement of the cockpit displays optional. But on Tuesday, the FAA proposed compelling airlines to make about $10,000 in changes to each display panel.
The agency cited concerns that Wi-Fi signals from passenger mobile devices could wipe out speed and altitude readings for up to six minutes.
Honeywell Aerospace Chief Executive Tim Mahoney, in an interview at Reuters offices in New York, said the problems, which include cockpit display screens flickering or blanking completely, occurred only once in a test last year, and that Honeywell and Boeing Co had already advised airlines to replace the displays.
"The one case that was experienced on the ground was addressed and we worked with Boeing and that was concluded in 2012," Mahoney said.
"Honeywell needs to better understand what if anything has changed that would have changed that disposition" from advising airlines to change the displays to requiring it.
If enacted, the proposed FAA rule would affect displays on 139 Boeing 737 and 18 777 planes in the U.S., the FAA said, pegging the cost refitting all the U.S. planes at $1.6 million.
More aircraft would be affected if foreign regulators adopted the rule. The 737 is Boeing's best-selling jet and about 5,500 are in service around the world.
The FAA said it proposed the rule in part because the safety issue "is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type of design." A spokesman for the agency said officials were checking about further justification for the rule.
Mahoney said it was not known how many airlines had already switched to an updated display that guards against the Wi-Fi problem.
Boeing said it put updated displays on 737s and 777s starting in September of 2012 and that the proposed rule simply "mirrors" the advice Boeing gave to airlines last November.
Honeywell already is subject to an FAA action involving a radio beacon it sells that is suspected of causing a fire on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner earlier this year. The FAA on September 18 required inspections of the beacons on some 3,800 aircraft because of the fire risk. The beacons help rescuers locate wreckage if a plane crashes.
The proposed FAA action comes as airlines are beefing up onboard Wi-Fi systems to provide passengers more bandwidth and better coverage on long-haul trips over water.
Delta Air Lines, United Airlines American Airlines, US Airways and other carriers already offer Wi-Fi service to passengers on at least some aircraft, typically through providers such as Gogo Inc.
JetBlue Airways recently got the regulatory green light to put a high-speed satellite-linked broadband service on its jets.
This month, an FAA advisory committee is due to recommend the possible loosening of restrictions on use of personal electronic devices on board aircraft. Right now, devices must be powered down during takeoff and landing.
The advisory group includes representatives from airlines, government, pilots, consumer electronics firms and plane makers, including Boeing and Airbus.
Amazon.com, which makes the Kindle e-reader, is the only device maker on the 28-member committee, according to its charter. Device makers Apple, Google and Samsung are not on the committee.
The proposed FAA rule would affect the "phase 3" version of the Honeywell Aerospace cockpit display and related software. Planes typically have several of the displays, which show flight data such as speed, altitude, aircraft pitch and roll, and heading.
In testing, the FAA said, the phase 3 displays blanked out for up to six minutes, showing they were susceptible to radio signals from Wi-Fi even when the power of the Wi-Fi signals were below levels that the displays were designed to withstand.
If a screen went blank on takeoff or landing it could cause "loss of control of the airplane at an altitude insufficient for recovery," the FAA said. The FAA will accept public comment on the rule until November 8.
Under an FAA rule issued this month, Honeywell's emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) are being inspected by airlines around the world for faults that could spark a fire.
The FAA followed Transport Canada in requiring the inspections after an Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner parked at London Heathrow Airport caught fire in July.
Mahoney said inspections had turned up other examples of problems with other ELTs, but those have not started fires.
The investigation by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Ethiopian Airline fire is likely to last another few months, Mahoney said.
"The rigorous investigation is continuing" and includes the possible effect of the higher humidity on 787s compared with other jets, along with mechanical and electrical interference in the area of the 787 where the fire started, he said.
Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by David Gregorio


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Apple's revolutionary iPad tablet has made Time Magazine's '50 Best Inventions of 2010' list. From TIME:
How does Apple keep out-inventing the rest of the tech industry? Often, it's by reinventing a product category that its competitors have given up on. In theory, the iPad is merely a follow-up to such resoundingly unpopular slate-style computers as Microsoft's Tablet PC. But Apple is the first company that designed finger-friendly hardware and software from scratch rather than stuffing a PC into a keyboardless case. When it calls the results "magical" and "revolutionary," it's distorting reality only slightly. One analyst says the iPad is the fastest-selling nonphone gizmo in consumer-electronics history.
Another interesting tidbit was that Flipboard, an iPad app with a magazine-style approach to Twitter and Facebook, was also featured on the list as a top invention of 2010.
The iPad has seen amazing success since its debut, even surprising us in some cases. With the holiday season upon us, it will be interesting to see the sales numbers Apple has to announce on their next earnings call.
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MERROW's in Illinois
Having just lost another MERROW about 6 years ago I have been working on my husbands genealogy on and off. I keep hitting dead ends and have only just picked up the line yet again hoping this time to get a little further back.
So far I can reach back as far as Inverness, Scotland with his 9x Great-Grandfather Daniel MERROW (MERRILL) and his wife Rebecca BRADFORD. I guess we shall see where this hunt will lead this time. If you have any questions regarding the MERROW's of Illinois feel free to ask, if we don't have an immediate answer we may be able to track it down.
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