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Since I made my first removable fixed kneeling mat some 5 or 6 years ago I have had a few people express an interest in how I made it.
Well its finally time to replace the existing one so heres an attempt to describe how I created it in the event that someone might like to try it for themselves.
First of all I would like to say the idea wasnt mine but I developed it into what you see today. I had a few attempts at the first mat and this guide shows how I overcame some of the problems.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious this only works in plastic canoes or composite canoes with a gel coat inner surface. The reasons will become clear very shortly.
The components:
A foam mat (obviously). This is entirely down to you but I settled on a piece of 25mm thick closed cell foam measuring 100cm x 50cm. I bought a large sheet but I have come across these mechanics mats which are the same dimensions. (They were available on Ebay but are not at the moment).
A bath mat. A very specific one in that it has to have a flat upper side as you will be sticking this to the foam and the underside needs the little suckers. The one I found is 53cm square. There is a lip around the edge but dont worry this needs cutting off to make the mat 50cm square. (See the image below).
Glue. I use spray on Evostik contact adhesive. Others are available.
If you do a trial fit of the foam mat into your canoe youll find that it is very reluctant to follow the contours of the hull. This is not so much of a problem with thinner mats but I do like the level of comfort this thickness gives me. To overcome this on the sections at each end of the mat I cut a series of slits at 5cm intervals down to half the thickness of the foam (see below). For neatness I found using a metal strip as a ruler and a very sharp blade were required. Also aim to make the cut in one pass or you will end up with slivers of foam as you try to cut it again.
Heres a picture of the sliced mat with the bath mat in its intended location.
The next step is to position the mat on the underside of your canoe in approximately the right location for your kneeling. The first time I made one of these mats I glued the bath mat to the foam on a flat surface and found it difficult to make the mat stay down in the canoe as it always wanted to straighten itself. Gluing with a natural curve in the mat overcomes this problem. Note the tape to hold the mat tight against the underside.
Mask around the mat to prevent overspray on the canoe and then clean both the foam and bath mat with white spirit. It may also be necessary to wash the bath mat in warm soapy water before hand as they often have a waxy coating when new.
Time to spray the glue onto the foam and the underside of the bath mat then wait for them to go tacky as indicated on the instructions.
The next bit I find very tricky and you may need an assistant as you only get one chance. Lower the bath mat down onto the foam in the correct position and try not to get any creases. Press down firmly all over and if all goes well they should bond straight away.
Remove the masking and leave the completed mat to dry out thoroughly.
Finally remove the completed mat from the underside, turn the canoe over, wet the inside slightly and push into place. You should find that the mat follows the contour nicely and the suckers hold firm. When going on trips I always dip the mat into the water before placing in the canoe just to get the suckers wet and help it stick in place.
I was never entirely happy with sticking mats down permanently into my canoe as it was messy and once it was there it was fixed. This solution allows a deal of flexibility and should it be damaged theres no problem replacing it.
Using thick foam is not essential but does have the benefit of doubling up as a seat outside the canoe and protects your knees when in it.
One other benefit I have found using this mat is that you dont get puddles forming in front of the mat which eventually spill over and soak your knees. The suckers actually lift the mat slightly off the bottom and create a path for the water to pass underneath it. My first attempt had a slot down the centre of the mat but I found this weakened it and was unnecessary.
On the whole I am happy with how the mat has evolved and I now have a replacement which should last me a few more years by which time the suckers will have stopped being efficient and I will need another.
If you prefer the permanently fixed solution thanks for getting this far but if like me you like the flexibility I hope this gives you some inspiration for your own removable, fixed kneeling mat.


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Remember when we were told that there was no way that Obamacare would result in driving up costs of healthcare, and in fact would lower it? Well, that ship has already sailed. But there was another popular "myth" which many of us were accused of falling for. It was the prediction that government meddling in cost setting would drive health care professionals out of business resulting in less available services and a subsequent decline in quality of care. That was just a myth, right? Ah, good times… good times….
Unfortunately, the early projections show that precisely such a result is already kicking into gear.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has recently triggered a debate within the medical community about both its potential impact on medical trainees and on practicing physicians. While the president of the American Medical Student Association has publicly supported the changes in a recent official memo, a recent survey indicates that 40 percent of medical students may not even be aware of the provisions of the act.
Institutional changes can often be double-edged swords, and this series of proposed changes is no different. There are both potential benefits and downsides to what is now widely seen as almost inevitable healthcare reform.
How is this playing out in the real world? One area of medical practice which seems particularly vulnerable is eye care. A shortage of certified, fully trained ophthalmologists is tempting some states, like Kentucky, to expand the practice of optometrists to fill the gap. But there are problems with that.
Kentucky joined the company of Oklahoma last week as the second state to conflate optometrists and ophthalmologists. Only ophthalmologists are the sort of doctors who graduated from medical school, did an internship, completed a three-year residency in eye surgery, possibly a fellowship after that, and have achieved and maintained national board certification through a program of lifelong learning in their specialty.
Optometry schools (four-year programs focused on optics to prescribe glasses and contacts and the diagnosis and management of certain eye-related diseases) have a tough application process too, and many of the same students going into optometry could have chosen medicine. But nobody ever really faces a clear-cut choice of going into optometry or ophthalmology.
I'm not knocking optometrists here. I see one on an annual basis myself and they provide a very important service to those of us who wear glasses. But they're not ophthalmologists, and the difference in skill levels and training between the two disciplines are pretty vast. When we start conflating the two in order to cut costs and make up for a lack of board certified eye doctors, problems arise.
Just two months ago, Vickie Patterson said her daughter Victoria began experiencing double vision.
"I wasn't overly worried," Vickie said, "because she's far-sighted, but we went to the optometrist when it didn't go away."
The optometrist diagnosed Victoria, 9, with weak eye muscles.
A trip to a pediatric ophthalmologist, however, resulted in an MRI.
"On Nov. 17," Vickie said, "she had the MRI, and on Nov. 18, we learned that she had two masses on her brain, one of them on her brain stem."
Unfortunately, when you start talking about cutting costs in government managed health care, one of the first groups to get hit is always our veterans. And they're apparently paying the price for it with their vision.
California veterans go blind due to bad care from optometrists "practicing beyond their scope"
A Veterans Administration probe found that eight veterans at a Northern California VA facility suffered potentially-preventable vision loss while under the care of optometrists, according to the Associated Press.
Optometrists have four years of college, and four years of graduate education. They're cheaper to see, and more widely available, than –
Ophthalmologists, who are medical doctors and can perform surgery. These folks have four years of college, four years of medical school and four years of residency and internships relating to the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases.
Of course, everyone who predicted just such results were a bunch of paranoid, Obama hating wingnuts. Sadly, they also appear to have been rather prescient. If the government control of the health care system makes it unprofitable for students to go into medicine or for doctors to continue in their practices, something's got to give. I don't know how many more parallel fields of medicine may crop up where people begin to rely on the services of less than qualified professionals, but the forecast isn't looking good.

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"Baywatch" babe turned vegetarian activist Pamela Anderson is too hot for her native Canada.
Montreal municipal authorities reportedly put the kibosh on Anderson's plans to promote her latest People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals poster, which shows Anderson in a skimpy swimsuit and marked up as if she were a piece of meat.
Anderson, 43, wanted to display the scintillating "All Animals Have the Same Parts" poster in a public square Thursday during a comedy festival.
Instead, Anderson said she had to take the campaign indoors after authorities deemed the ad -- which labels some Anderson's most bankable features as "shoulder," "breast," and "rump" – more sexist than savvy.
"It is not so much controversial, as it goes against all principles public organizations are fighting for in the everlasting battle of equality between men and women," an official told UsMagazine.com.
Nevermind that a string of striptease joints lines a road visible to those on the so-called equality battlefield, notes the Hollywood Reporter.
Anderson referenced as much in a statement following the dust-up.
"In a city that is known for its exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens," the "Dancing with the Stars" alum told Us.
She added: "In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas -- is that next? I didn't think that Canada would be so puritanical."


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Christopher Wood
English, 1901–1930
Carnations in a Green Vase, c. 1925
oil on canvas
28.1 x 23.4 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift from the Estate of Arnold O. Brigden
This vibrant still life of red carnations in a green vase demonstrates the wonderful naive expressionism which highlights Wood's short painting career. There is freshness to this simple work, both in the ready application of paint and the straightforward rendering of the subject. Its intimate scale provides a heightened sense of immediacy for the viewer. Born in London, Wood travelled to Paris to study painting, moving in the circles of Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, and absorbing elements of Cubism and Fauvism in his work. He moved back to London in 1926 and joined the 7 & 5 Society, but he returned to Paris several times, and spent considerable time in Tréboul, a port town in Brittany. Wood suffered from a severe addiction to opium, and committed suicide at the age of 29.
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In some texts on classical mechanics and not only, the Euler--Lagrange equations of motion are directly obtained as solution of variational problems.
On the other side, sometimes reading about hamiltonian mechanics, one find the expression that this latter formulation is preferred to the lagrangian one because of it does completely avoid the appeal to variational principles.
This observation suggested to myself the following question:
Is the variational approach to the Euler--Lagrange equations the only one viable?
If not, is there some reason that explain why the geometry of the Euler-Lagrange eqns is much more hidden than the geometry of the Hamilton eqns?
I was searching for suggestion of reading for best tackle this question.
As usual any feedback is welcome.


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As far as Frederica Jansz is concerned, "The Sri Lankan media have been completely cowed into submission by this regime with the exception of The Sunday Leader. It is Mahinda Rajapaksa's biggest success story next to winning the war."
Jansz is the Leader's editor who, over the weekend, had the temerity to call up the president's brother, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and ask him "to clarify and find out if he was aware that the management at SriLankan Airlines had taken a decision to change a wide bodied A340 scheduled to fly to Zurich on Friday July 13, to a smaller A330. The change was to be made so that a SriLankan Airline pilot, who is dating a niece of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, could personally fly the aircraft that would carry a 'puppy dog' for Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa from Zurich," to quote the Leader's lead.
The question apparently did not go down well with the defense secretary. Jansz reported his lengthy, abusive response fully in the Leader, and you can read it at "Gota Goes Berserk." Beware: It's a verbatim account filled with the obscenities Jansz says the minister heaped on her. (CPJ emailed and called the defense ministry seeking Rajapaksa's side of the story; the email went unanswered. On the phone, after I identified myself to someone and asked to speak to the minister, that someone hung up. Subsequent calls went unanswered).
This is more than a juicy story of a government official behaving badly. It is a first-hand account of something that many Sri Lankan journalists speak of privately, but few make public out of fear of retribution. CPJ research shows that threats--some delivered over the phone, some by text, some by word of mouth, some by firebomb or claymore mine, others by gangs of thugs wielding pipes and clubs--are a fact of life for many Sri Lankan journalists.
CPJ first wrote about Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2007 (see "Government moves to re-enact criminal defamation law"). In May 2009, he ordered a Channel Four team deported back to Britain. "Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the second most powerful man in Sri Lanka, next to the president. He enjoys complete immunity coupled with the trappings of power equivalent to holding executive office," Jansz told CPJ.
In January of this year, Sonali Samarasinghe, the widow of slain Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunga, mentioned him in her statement marking the third anniversary of her husband's death, "Sri Lanka's democratic institutions have metastasized into something dangerous"--a headline which, for me, captures succinctly the state of Sri Lanka. Samarasinghe suggested Gotabaya Rajapaksa is part of the larger problem behind the "murders, abductions and assaults [that] are not random acts or accidental killings. These are acts of violence that have become emblematic of the current leadership, the erosion of society, and the impunity with which the regime now operates."
In that statement, Samarasinghe called on the international community "to urge Sri Lanka's government to hold a proper independent investigation into Lasantha's murder." CPJ has repeated that call many times in the cases of many other threats, attacks, arsons, and beatings directed at journalists and media organizations. After years of denials and legal obstruction, we have come not to expect action from the Sri Lankan government, but we try to get external peers--diplomats and the United Nations, mainly--to engage the government in a way that brings some sort of relief to the media community.
Jansz inherited the Leader's editorial position after Wickramatunga was killed by eight men on four motorcycles during morning rush hour on a busy Colombo road a few hundred yards from a military checkpoint. Despite interminable hearings, no prosecution has ever been launched in the case. (CPJ's 2009 investigation of that murder can be found at "Failure to Investigate.") In her email communication with CPJ Monday, Jansz said "I fully expect some repercussion following yesterday's publication, but in what form remains to be seen."
CPJ is in touch with several diplomatic missions in Colombo. They should step into this situation before it gets worse.


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You sit down and play a few matches, alternating between races, when you realize something- you've been here before. Déjà vu sets in- the units are different, the graphics are augmented with another dimension, but this is Starcraft. Somehow the people at Blizzard have managed to balance power-armored marines, mutant bugs, and space wizards a second time. Alone in your basement you stand up and applaud. Well done Blizzard
well done. Now finish your Hotpocket and spawn more overlords!
The people at Blizzard would like to tell you a story. Wings of Liberty is only the first game of three in the Starcraft II series. Why the break up? Well, it's definitely not to make more money. The developers at Blizzard say they want to do the story justice. Apparently the new non-linear campaign could take somewhere between 20 hours and 3 years to complete; so as soon as you finish Wings of Liberty, the second installment might be out.
Who are we kidding? We'll probably be waiting another 12 years.
Apparently since the first Starcraft, Optimus Prime got a little frisky. He lit some candles, put in some Barry White, and turned the TV to "The Best of Monster trucks 08'"- and then he made sweet love to an M1 Abrams tank. The resulting lovechild is the Thor. It lumbers around the battlefield making sure it doesn't squash the siege tanks scurrying around its feet. This thing has cannons on its cannons. It looks deadly enough to give the hivemind writer's block.
When you're terrible at a videogame, it's only reasonable to blame the company that made the game. Hell, that's pretty much all we do. That's why we were a little disappointed to see that Blizzard added a new Challenge Mode to Starcraft II. Now we don't have any excuses for losing. Basically, the challenges are meant to reflect situations you'll face online, such as using hotkeys effectively and fending off early rushes. There are no challenges based around taunting 13-year-olds and swallowing your pride- you'll have to practice those yourself.


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Nowadays, it seems as if most of the world has been mapped and all unknown lands visited. However, the cold and inhospitable land known as Antarctica has always seemed a bit mysterious to most of us. Recently NASA announced in a press release that it has "created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica."
Creating the map took a lot of effort and time. Using radar and a collection of international satellites, Eric Rignot, Jeremie Mouginot, and Bernd Scheuchl, scientists from UC-Irvine, "used billions of data points captured by European, Japanese and Canadian satellites to weed out cloud cover, solar glare and land features masking the glaciers. With the aid of NASA technology, the team painstakingly pieced together the shape and velocity of glacial formations, including the previously uncharted East Antarctica, which comprises 77 percent of the continent."
The scientists discovered a new ridge between the 5.4 million square miles of land between East and West Antarctica and unknown formations of land that move 800 ft. ever year towards the Antarctic Ocean. The findings will give these scientists plenty of data to pore over, including "tracking future sea-level increases from climate change."
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Oh, brands love to connect with you via Facebook, don't they? But they've gone beyond fan pages and apps to using something called Facebook Connect to get into your data nuggets, as it were. And now Coke has something in common with the Grateful Dead: It wants to steal your face.
The promotion, aiming to promote Coke Zero with the tag "If Coke Zero has Coke's taste isn't it possible someone has your face?" asks you to add your photo to a "social experiment" in the hopes of finding your lookalike so that you can then "connect" with them. Great. Just what you wanted: a creepy doppelgänger who you are virtual friends with.
The best part may be the laughably bad name, "Facial Profiler." Really? Making a pun on a racist policing practice is the way to go?
Of course, Coke is just one of the many, many brands and advertisers looking to connect with you on Facebook, and that is why you, dear social networker, are lining Mark Zuckerberg's pockets. Let's say Facebook has a $6 billion valuation (in fact it does), that means that some portion of that value is attributable to you based on your activity and the number of friends you have and your "influence."
In conjunction with his new book "Viral Loop," author Adam Penneberg has come up with, yes, a Facebook Connect App that tells you exactly what you are worth in dollars to, well, Facebook.
Then you can even see what you are worth compared to other users and celebrities -- at press time Ashton Kutcher was worth $630,466.20, Megan Fox $969,324.40, and God $587,496.20 (at least He is more valuable than Jackie Chan).


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Many of us find emails to be essential components of our everyday lives. We use emails to correspond with friends, family and loved ones. We use emails for work and businesses. Whether for personal or professional use, emailing and email applications such as the MS Outlook have become essential parts of our lives. Despite this huge dependence and need for emails, it is also quite common for us to experience problems with the email files in PST format. When such files get corrupted, we need to have an inbox repair tool that we can rely on.
To be able to find a reliable inbox repair tool or recovery software, follow these tips:
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Since your ultimate motive is to repair and recover PST files, make sure that the program you choose has the capacity to scan, repair and recover files. Do not get a software that only scans but does not repair or a software that can only recover a few chosen files. Choose a program that can do all so you can have your money's worth.
2. Get a PST recovery software that offers free trial.
It helps to try out certain software on free trial first. That way, you can dry-run the product to see if it fits your requirements and answers your needs.
3. Get a PST recovery software that is user-friendly.
It would be useless to get software that you can not operate. The task of choosing a user-friendly software is now easy as many of the available inbox repair tool products of today can be operated most conveniently. With most software, you just have to click a few buttons, follow simple instructions and some can even run automatically.


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When a phone call is received and answered by my answering machine and the caller does leave a message then hanges up, this is then always followed by several anoying beeps.
Is this correct? What does this mean?
Also, How do I know when a voice mail has been Left?
and Can I use a answering machine & fax with U-verse Voice?
Thank You!
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Hello eZAK,
With U-verse VOIP you have the option to use your answering machine if you disable AT&T Messaging or Voicemail.
Lets take the answering machine out of the picture for a moment...
When you receive a call there is a preset number of rings before the call gets routed to Voicemail. By default you get 4 rings to answer the call but if you need this changed to more rings you also have access to do that. If you miss it, it will go to your voicemail inbox.
Lets return the answering machine back into the picture...
If you do not want to use the voicemail, you can use your answering machine. This is where it is best to disable the voicemail so your call is not intercepted by the voicemail in case your answering machine is set to answer calls after more rings.
The beeping you are hearing seems to be the notification from your answering machine letting you know you have a message sometimes this notifcation is a red LED light.
If you use voicemail instead of the answering machine you can control the notifications. When you have a message you have not listened to, you will hear an interrupted dial tone when you first pick up the phone to make a call. If you have a phone set with voicemail notification,it will also indicate you have a message with a red indicator LED light.
Typically once an answering machine answers and records the message it has a few ways it knows to hang up. Keep in mind some are different than others. One way it will disconnect is once it no longer hears any recording, another will be if it receives a CO disconnect signal from the Central Office (not available on U-voice since it's VoIP), or once it hears the "beeps" which is sort of related to the no voice above.
That's just the way those machines work.
Now to your fax question.....Yes fax machines will work with U-voice. As Sadath mentioned above, the number of rings is a determining factor in the operation of it. What I have done at my home is turn off auto answer and my U-voice voice mail answers after 4 rings. In order to receive a fax, I need to be home and tell the faxer to call my number. When I hear the fax machine beeps on the line I press my "start" button on the fax and the fax completes. My machine also has the ability for me to dial #9# from any phone I have answered on and the fax will start.
The 'beep' I had mentioned is actualy like a pulsating tone.
So, If I'm under standing correctly, I can raise the VM ring count so as not to interfeer with the answering machine.
OR I can eliminate the answ. mach. and just use VM.
If I use VM only, Then the only way to know I have a message is to pick up the receiver or look at my email.
Then to retreive a message..........Basicaly the land line becomes a cell phone.......!
What about screening a call? Is it possible with VM?
Had I known ATT was using VOIP I would have never signed up.
As far as the fax goes, it is an internal modem. I have it set for manual. With VOIP I guess I out of luck there.
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eZAK -
I would take a wild guess that the beep/tone at the end of the call is the answer machine holding the line, creating a new dial tone, that is a stutter dial tone because you have a message from U-verse welcoming you & saying to set up your voicemail. If you pick up the phone you will have the tone.
Yes you can use either or both as you describe.
Most caller ID phones & boxes also have a message waiting light. Just look for the light. Some do not show calls while you are on the phone. Some do.
Another VM plus I forgot earlier is it takes messages while you are on the phone.
The only screening you can do is by caller ID. Once it goes to voice mail you are not connected. I believe you can build a caller list to make friends and family first names. I do that on my panasonic with voice announcements of caller ID.
You can always go back to POTS. I never left. I just have TV & internet.
The FAX modem is the way FAXes work. Connect it to your dial tone just like POTS.


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Strategic Communications can help get the images needed to produce successful communication projects, from posters and fliers to websites and enewsletters.
Need a Photo? Now What?
Whether a new photo is needed or to locate an existing photo, there are some basic questions that should be answered at the start. It may seem like a lot of questions for just one photo, but in the end most all photo requests end up needing this information so it is very nice to have the answers at the beginning.
- When are the photos needed?
- How many images are required?
- What/who will be the subject of the photos?
- What will be the source of the photos? Will existing photos be used? Do photos need to be taken? Can photos be borrowed from a non-profit organization, such as a museum or library?
- How will the photos be used — in a printed publication, on a website, in a display, in a presentation?
- What size does the photo(s) need to be?
- Should the photo(s) be horizontal or vertical, or both?
- What digital file type is required?
- What resolution should the image be?
- What is the budget? Who is paying the expenses?
- Who should receive the images, and how should they be transferred?
Finding an Existing Photo
SSU Photo Gallery
Strategic Communications manages an image database of more than 60,000. Some of the images are available through Sonoma State's online photo gallery: http://sonomastate.zenfolio.com. These photos may be used for campus publications and websites, as well as for projects by outside organizations that highlight SSU. The gallery features a wide variety of photos depicting campus life, academics, buildings, people and events. The photos are accessed directly from the website and may be downloaded at no charge.
If a photo that is appropriate for your project can't be found, please contact Sandy Destiny in University Affairs, 664-4310, firstname.lastname@example.com, for assistance.
SSU Photo Archive
The SSU photo archive houses historical, non-digital images of SSU. Please contact Sandy Destiny in Strategic Communications, 707-664-4310, email@example.com for assistance.
About Copyrights, Credits and Photo Releases
Many photographs are protected by copyright and cannot be used without permission unless you know that the image is indeed in the public domain. All SSU photos are protected by copyright.
There are times when a photo credit will need to appear with a photo. Check with the photo source to find out if credit is needed and, if so, what the proper format should be. A common format is putting the photographer's name and/or organization at the end of a publication or below the photo.
The CSU Chancellor's Office requires that SSU have a signed photo release for individuals who are clearly recognizable in a photograph. The exception is photos of individuals who are acting in official, public capacities, such as presidents, trustees, elected officials, student Associated Students officers/board members. There are instances when obtaining a release may be more flexible, such as large, public events. But at such events, if you get a close up shot of an individual, you should still make every effort to obtain a signed photo release. The SSU photo/video release is available online.
For further information about the use of copyright, photo credits or photo releases, please contact Sandy Destiny in University Affairs, 664-4310, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Commercial Stock Photography
At times, for generic purposes, purchasing a stock image will be sufficient for your project. If you use a stock image, be aware of usage rights, copyrights, permissions and ownership. Whenever possible, it is best to use images of real members of the SSU community when showing people.
Public Domain Photography
A public domain work is a creative work that is not protected by copyright and which may be used by everyone at little or not charge. Search the Internet for "public domain photos" and you will find many resources.
Hire a Photographer
University Photographer
Taking photographs of campus events and people is handled on a limited basis through Strategic Communications. Generally, the UAD photographer shoots assignments that will be used in general promotion of the University through its websites, publications and communications. Please contact Sandy Destiny in Strategic Communications, 664-4310, firstname.lastname@example.com, for more information about utilizing the university photographer.
Internal Photographers
Strategic Communications relies on the resourcefulness of each campus unit to meet its needs when it comes to photography of a more specific nature. Units may choose to shoot their own photos, but should remember to use high-resolution files to ensure image clarity. High-resolution files measure at least the size you wish them to appear at 300 dpi or higher. For web sites, low-resolution images (72 DPI) should be used.
Outside Photographers
Campus units may hire commercial photographers. Please contact the Purchasing Office, 664-2191, who will guide you through the process of purchasing professional services and to help you identify qualified photography vendors.


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MP-CL1 mobile projector from Sony
MP-CL1 mobile projector from Sony
The mobile projector that delivers HD quality
Turn any surface into a viewing experience
Because it's Laser, our projector is clearer. And its No-lens structure makes it more compact than general DLPs. Project your favourite movies, TV shows, games and home movies wirelessly, or via HDMI or MHL. Entertain yourself with 1920 x 720 HD (Aspect ratio 16:9) quality and Autofocus environment anywhere you explore.
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Brilliant technologies behind the image
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The "Ring of Fire" has been extremely active this past year.
Riots in London - TAR 17
The morning after riots gripped its main shopping thoroughfare, parts of Ealing, northwest London, looked less like a middle-class suburb and more like a war zone. On the night of Aug. 8, a group of hooded youths ran up the street throwing trash bins while others stomped on the top of police patrol cars. Still others shattered through glass phone booths and set cars on fire, not far from the town's picturesque rows of Victorian houses. Simon Kirby, who runs Flower Haven, a small florist, says his brother phoned him at 6:30 a.m. to let him know that his shop's windows had been smashed and his floral displays ransacked. The violence sickens him, but he understands why disaffected youth whom he thinks traveled to Ealing from elsewhere would lash out. "If they had something to do, if they had money and jobs, they wouldn't do this," he says. "They see footballers who all have lots of money but aren't very bright, and they want to know why they don't have any."In the three days that followed the initial riots in Tottenham, disgruntled youth across the country have shown they're ready for a riot and whatever status and material objects their disobedience may confer on them. By 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, mobs were disturbing the peace for the fourth consecutive evening. In Manchester, hundreds of youth some clad in balaclavas, others in ski masks fought running battles with police. In Salford, a nearby suburb, separate groups of hooligans looted a liquor shop and set a clothing store on fire. In Nottingham, a group of at least 30 men firebombed a police station. And in Birmingham, a hit-and-run driver killed three men who had taken to the streets to protect local shops. That unrest followed copycat lootings and violence that had already taken place in other major hubs including Bristol and Liverpool. Nationwide, police have now made more than 1,000 arrests.(See photos of the riots in England.)Paul Bagguley, a sociologist at the University of Leeds, believes rioting will continue to spread to other cities unless police step up their intervention. The brigands hurling bricks through windows aren't doing so out of solidarity with the people of Tottenham. "They are making a rational calculation that they can go out and do this," he says. "They see on television and the Internet people looting shops, going in and walking out with new mobile phones and flat-screen TVs. And no one is stopping them." That might explain the images of one teenager calmly texting someone on her phone as she stands among looters in a computer store in Croydon or of the looters in Brixton who stood in line to try on a pair of stolen sneakers.Bulking up the police presence 16,000 officers policed the streets last night, compared with 6,000 the night before did much to turn off would-be vandals. London saw relative calm for the first time since Aug. 6, though there were a few minor clashes as community vigilantes took security into their own hands. The decision to release images of rioters, culled from CCTV footage, on the London police's Flickr page and via the BBC on Tuesday afternoon has also sent a strong message that authorities and the wider public want to see justice served. The police's Flickr page received around 3 million hits within five hours of going live.(Read "The Great Riot of London: The Stakes for David Cameron.")But arrests resulting from those photos may not come for months, if at all. And they will do little to resolve the underlying issues that are now boiling over. Racial tensions have fomented much of the anger that's being released, and that informs the deteriorating relationship between officers and the communities they police. In the past five years, the number of black and South Asian people stopped and searched by the police in the country has nearly doubled to 310,000. "Most of the time the police don't find anything," Bagguley says. "I think what we're seeing is partly a consequence of those tactics." That many of the looters come from high-crime areas that are heavily policed strains the relationship even more. The riots in Hackney on the afternoon of Aug. 8 reportedly kicked off after one of these searches.(See more about the events in Ealing.)Social scientists say it's too simplistic to make a direct connection between Britain's austerity cuts and the mob violence. But the effects of those cuts may influence idle young people. The issue, sociologists say, is not that youth are unemployed. It's that they're unoccupied and therefore more likely to loiter on the streets and in shopping centers, and to get wrapped up in the madness of rebellion. Tottenham, for instance, is in the borough of Haringey, where the local council had to shut 8 of its 13 youth centers at the beginning of July. The centers had offered courses on everything from beauty treatments to DJing, and services ranging from sexual-health tests to exam revision. "A lot of those radicalized youth who were on the street Saturday night would have been going to those youth centers," says Clifford Scott, a senior lecturer in social psychology at the University of Liverpool. "They no longer had anywhere else to go."As the sun set on Tuesday evening and the country braced for a fourth night of riots, the BBC rolled footage of still more disturbances, this time in Wolverhampton, a town northwest of Birmingham. Groups of youth dressed in black hoodies ran down the street and set to attacking shops. Back in Ealing, local MP Virendra Sharma walked through the town after nightfall to reassure residents that peace had returned to the community. Businesses shut at 3 p.m. Many boarded up their windows anyway. With reporting by Sonia Van Gilder Cooke / London and Thomas K. Grose / EalingRead more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087701,00.html#ixzz1Ud39K3Hm
Quote from: redskevin88 on August 10, 2011, 06:52:01 AMRiots in London - TAR 17Didn't they also visit London on TAR 7??
Wow. In each seasons now, there's a disaster/conflict in a country visited almost at the same time by the Race. In TAR17, they visited South Korea when there was tension between them and North Korea.In TAR 18, they were at the Japan pitstop when the earthquake/tsunami happenned.Now, in TAR19, they are coming to Thailand & Bangkok, where theres one of the biggest flood in the countrys history, with it's capital being threatened by this too.
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Arcades in China have an unfortunate association with gambling parlours, due to the fact that gambling in all forms is technically illegal in China proper, sans Macao. Normally, arcade gambling dens are deemed low class establishments where locals gamble away their money in backrooms, however one business executive for a Chinese State-owned enterprise ended up losing 2,560,000 yuan ($410,000) of public money.
After being caught for embezzlement, the executive is now in custody and public officials are trying to retrieve the funds. Zhang, a business executive for a large State-owned and publicly funded construction company in Xi'an, Shanxi province, had a penchant for gambling and embezzlement. Over the course of the last year, Zhang steadily stole money from the company coffers to use for gambling. According to the Xian city prosecutor's office, Zhang spent his money at three different arcade gambling dens around the city.
These arcade gambling dens that Zhang frequented are exactly what they sound/read like, a gambling den in a video game arcade. Keep in mind that gambling is illegal in the Chinese mainland, slot machines and poker tables are banned — these aren't similar to the pachinko parlours in Japan. The only real form of gambling that happens in China is mahjong parlours in residential buildings. It is commonly believed and accepted that arcade gambling dens are associated with organised crime.
Whenever the discrepancies with the books became an issue, Zhang would take the deposits of new construction projects to cover up the missing cash. In June this year, Zhang lost a total of $US19,000 at an arcade, he went ahead and took out $US128,000 out of the coffers for the construction of a university.
Zhang continued to take money from the company to fund his habit, until he took too much. After taking $192,000 out of another public university construction fund, details of Zhang's crimes began to leak out. Fearing arrest, Zhang attempted suicide. He survived.
The local government of Xi'an was able to recover a portion of Zhang's gambling money. It is presumed that the three arcades that Zhang visited are now closed. It sucks for the public whose money Zhang stole, but it also sucks for regular patrons of the arcades that housed the gambling dens.
国企主管挪公款赌博 查找游戏厅追回256万 [Xi'an Daily via People's Daily]


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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (May 10, 2014) – For the first time since 2002, the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team will be playing in the NCAA Division III Tournament. Stevens defeated Baruch College, 5-3, in the CUNYAC Championship this afternoon at MCU Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Stevens (26-13) earned an automatic bid to the tournament with three victories in the CUNYAC playoffs since Wednesday. The Ducks topped Baruch, 6-2, on Wednesday and then shut out the College of Staten Island, 3-0, on Thursday afternoon.
The 26 victories are the second-most in program history and one shy of the school record of 27 set back in 2006.
Over the three-day tournament, sophomore Nicholas Sieber (Shrewsbury, Mass.) went 6-for-11 with a homerun, a double, four runs batted in, three runs scored and three stolen bases. Defensively, Sieber made seven assists en route to being named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Baruch led off the game with a single and moved its runner up to third, but senior Matt Buccheri (Little Silver, N.J.) struck out the final batter to keep Baruch scoreless. Buccheri tossed 6.1 innings pitched in the ballgame and fanned eight batters for his third win of the season. He scattered five hits with one earned run and did not surrender a walk.
The Ducks threatened in the bottom half of the first with two runners on and two out. Sieber just missed bringing in junior Brian Hennelly (Holbrook, N.J.) and sophomore Jayson Yano (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) on consecutive pitches that landed just foul down the left and right field lines. Sieber eventually tapped out to third base to end the inning and Stevens could not score.
John Yuksekol gave the Bearcats a 1-0 lead in the top of the second with a two-out solo homerun to left, but Stevens exploded for four runs in the bottom of the third inning on three hits.
After two outs were recorded, Hennelly walked and then senior Dan Allen (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) reached on an infield error. Yano ripped a double down the left field line to plate Hennelly and Sieber brought in two more on the next at bat with a single up the middle. Sieber then stole second before a walk to freshman Bret Viola (Carmel, N.Y.) before they both pulled off a double steal. Sophomore Tyler Bush (Bristol, Conn.) drove in Sieber with another single to cap off the inning.
Baruch looked poised to answer in the fourth as its first two runners reached on a single and double. After Buccheri struck out the next hitter, Eric Ulino sent a fly ball to right for a potential sacrifice fly, but Hennelly came up throwing and gunned down Nicholas Pomo-Roman at the plate for the double play.
The Ducks tallied another run in the fifth on a wild pitch during an intentional walk that skipped to the backstop and allowed Sieber to come home. He singled to get things started, stole second and advanced to third on a ground out.
In the top of the eighth, Keith Ezersky stroked Baruch's second homerun of the contest with two outs to pull to within two runs at 5-3, but that was the closest the Bearcats would get.
Junior Gary Boardman (Staten Island, N.Y.) recorded 2/3 of an inning pitched and struck out one batter. Senior Mark Poinsett (Ocean Gate, N.J.) gave up one run in an inning of work and Allen shut the door with a perfect ninth inning for his third save of the year.
Yano also put together a stellar tournament going 5-for-11 at the plate with a pair of doubles, stolen bases, runs scored and RBI. He also tossed a complete game four-hit shutout against Staten Island with six strikeouts.
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About 6 cups loosely packed fresh stinging nettle
3 tbsp. high quality butter
1 small sweet onion, chopped
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
1 egg
1/4 cup plain whole milk Greek yogurt
1/4 cup or more crumbled feta cheese
sea salt and pepper
Rinse nettles. Drain on a kitchen towel and pat dry. Working in batches, pulse nettles in a food processor until coarsely chopped. Transfer to a bowl.
Place butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and saute until clear and aromatic, 3 minutes. Add garlic and saute another 2 minutes. Add nettles and a splash of water. Saute for about 5 minutes until nettles are fully wilted but still bright green. Season lightly with sea salt and pepper.
Transfer to a bowl and cool completely.
Add remaining ingredients and blend thoroughly with a rubber spatula.
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Turn out onto a floured work surface. Form dough into a disk and wrap in parchment. Chill for 15 minutes.
Return dough to work surface. Roll disk out with a rolling pin to about 1/4 inch thickness, keeping circular shape.
Evenly spread nettle filling over pasty. Using a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut approximately 12 pie-shaped wedges in dough.
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Reading 2: The Battle of Midway
By early June, the Japanese attacks on the Aleutians and on Midway were underway. The Midway attack force was divided into three parts. First the aircraft carriers would approach from the northwest and knock out the islands' defenses. Coming in from the west and southwest, the Second Fleet would invade and capture Midway. Admiral Yamamoto's battleships would remain 300 miles to the west, awaiting the U. S. Pacific Fleet.
Because of the work of the American code breakers, the United States knew Yamamoto's plans in detail by the middle of May: his target, his order of battle, and his schedule. When the battle opened, the U.S. had three carriers waiting in ambush, 200 miles to the east of Midway. The two opposing fleets sent out search planes; the Americans to locate an enemy they knew was there and the Japanese as a matter of ordinary prudence.
Seaplanes from Midway also were looking for the expected enemy fleet. One of the planes spotted the Japanese carrier force at about 5:30 on the morning of June 4. The plane also reported Japanese aircraft heading for the atoll. Marine Corps planes from Midway soon intercepted the enemy formation. However, the Marines were hopelessly outnumbered and their planes were no match for the Japanese "Zero" fighter planes. They were able to shoot down only a few of the enemy bombers, while suffering great losses themselves. The torpedo boats and anti-aircraft fire from Midway's guns were somewhat more successful in disrupting the Japanese attack.
One hundred and eight Japanese planes hit Midway's two islands at 6:30. Twenty minutes of bombing and machine-gun fire knocked out some facilities on Eastern Island, but did not disable the airfield there. Sand Island's oil tanks, seaplane hangar, and other buildings were set afire. The commander of the Japanese attack radioed that another air strike was required to soften up Midway's defenses for invasion.
The Japanese carriers received several counterstrikes from Midway's torpedo planes and bombers. Faced with overwhelming fighter opposition, these uncoordinated efforts suffered severe losses and hit nothing but seawater. The only positive results were photographs of three Japanese carriers taken by the high-flying B-17s, the sole surviving photos of the day's attacks on the Japanese carriers.
Meanwhile, a Japanese scout plane had spotted the U.S. fleet and reported the presence of a carrier. Japanese commander Nagumo had already begun loading bombs into his second group of planes for another strike on Midway. This news forced him to rethink his strategy. He decided to wait for the planes returning from Midway and rearm all the planes with torpedoes for an attack on the U.S. ships. He almost had enough time.
Beginning about 9:30, torpedo planes from the U.S. carriers Hornet, Enterprise, and Yorktown made a series of attacks that, despite nearly total losses, made no hits. Then, about 10:25, everything changed. Three squadrons of dive bombers, two from Enterprise and one from Yorktown, almost simultaneously dove on three of the four Japanese carriers, whose decks were crowded with fully armed and fueled planes. By 10:30, Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu were ablaze and out of action.
Of the once overwhelming Japanese carrier force, only Hiryu remained operational. Shortly before 11:00 she launched 18 of her own dive-bombers. At about noon, as these planes approached Yorktown, they were intercepted by U.S. fighter planes, which shot down most of the bombers. Seven survived, however, hitting Yorktown with three bombs and stopping her.
The Yorktown's crew managed to repair the damage and get their ship underway. Two more groups of torpedo planes and fighters from Hiryu soon spotted the Yorktown, which they mistook for a second U.S. carrier. Despite losses to the defending fighters and heavy anti-aircraft fire, the Japanese planes pushed on to deliver a beautifully coordinated torpedo attack. The stricken ship again went dead in the water. Concerned that the severely listing vessel was about to roll over, her captain ordered his crew to abandon ship. Late on June 4, U.S. carrier planes found and bombed Hiryu, which sank the next day. Two days later, a Japanese submarine located the Yorktown and the U.S. destroyer Hammann, which was helping the Yorktown return to Pearl Harbor for repairs. The submarine torpedoed both vessels. The Hammann sank immediately, and the Yorktown finally sank the following morning.
By the end of the battle, the perseverance, sacrifice, and skill of American pilots, plus a great deal of good luck, cost Japan four irreplaceable aircraft carriers, while only one of the three U.S. carriers was sunk. The Japanese lost 332 of their finest aircraft and more than 200 of their most experienced pilots. Deprived of useful air cover, and after several hours of shocked indecision, Yamamoto called off the Midway operation and retreated. The Japanese navy never fully recovered from its losses. Six months after it began, the great Japanese Pacific War offensive was over. From June 1942 to the end of the war three years later, it was the Americans who were on the offense.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What three elements were involved in the Japanese attack on Midway?
2. What damage was done to the islands in the Japanese attack?
3. How successful were Midway's counterattacks? Why?
4. What changed at 10:25? Admiral Nimitz later said that the dive-bombers were "worth their weight in gold." What did he mean by that?
Reading 2 was compiled from Erwin N. Thompson, "World War II Facilities at Midway" (Midway Islands, U.S. Minor Islands), National Historic Landmark documentation, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1986; Sidney C. Moody, Jr. and the Associated Press, War Against Japan (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994); Edmund L. Castillo, Midway: Battle for the Pacific (New York: Random House, 1989); and the Naval Historical Center Web site.


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ROCKLEDGE, FL - Today, Health First Health Plans President and CEO Margaret Haney announced the appointment of Chris Sorensen as chief operating officer of Health First Health Plans (HFHP).
In this position, Sorensen will be responsible for strategic planning and business development to identify opportunities for membership growth and plan participation in new insurance programs designated by the recent healthcare legislation. He will also direct general operations for HFHP.
Sorensen joined Health First in 1997 as a Risk Manager at Holmes Regional Medical Center, and later transferred to Cape Canaveral Hospital, where he served as director of Risk Management and Medical Staff operations. During his nine-year tenure there, he gained experience in physician recruiting, Medical Staff bylaws-sanctioned committees, The Joint Commission accreditation process, maintenance of Medical Staff bylaws, and hospital licensure as a member of Cape Canaveral Hospital's executive leadership team.
For nearly three years, Sorensen has served as Health First's chief compliance officer and VP of Corporate Risk Management. His duties included procuring applicable lines of insurance, co-chairing the Patient Safety Committee, and overseeing the Corporate Compliance Program.
"Being a locally-based health plan, it was important to select someone who understands the specific healthcare needs of our community here on the Space Coast," Haney said. "Chris brings a wealth of experience to the Health First Health Plans team during a time when the overall healthcare climate remains relatively unpredictable. His depth of knowledge will be critical to ensuring that Health First Health Plans continues to deliver the best services and opportunities to our members."
Sorensen has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management as well as a Master of Science degree in Health Services Administration, both from the University of Central Florida. Board- certified in Health Care Management, he is also a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives.
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Editor's Note: Terry Tomalin, outdoor write for the St. Petersburg Times, filed this report from the Florida RV SuperShow underway this week in Tampa, Fla.
Sometimes I dream about owning a luxury recreational vehicle with a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and all the comforts of home. Then I awake, take a look at my kids (8 and 6 years old) and the inch of sand they've deposited inside the tent, and decide that the little creatures would surely ruin an otherwise sound investment.
RVs, I've always assumed, were for retirees who have put their child-rearing years behind them.
But Dave Kelly, marketing director for the Florida RV Trade Association (FRVTA), was determined to prove me wrong.
"You are crazy," said Kelly as he drove me through the 25th annual Florida RV SuperShow at the Florida State Fairgrounds. "There are plenty of affordable RVs out there that are the ideal fit for families."
Judging from the kids in the crowd Wednesday, the opening day of this year's show, Kelly might have a point.
"But my kids are animals," I said affectionately. "They would tear one of these things apart."
Kelly smiled and patted me on the shoulder. "Let's have a look around," he said.
Simple is better
When many people think of an RV they picture the behemoths parked outside a football stadium. Many of those luxury liners cost more than my house. If I owned a nice RV, I would undoubtedly be a nervous wreck, and for sure I would drive my kids crazy each time they let a lizard loose or got mud on the upholstery.
"I bet you your kids couldn't destroy this camper," said Don Mills, manager at the Conibear RV Center in Lakeland, as he showed me the Quicksilver automotive camper. "This is all aluminum. There is no wood. You could wash this out with a garden hose if you wanted to."
Now that's my kind of RV, I thought to myself. I could clean the camper and the kids in one fell swoop.
"They are light (600 to 1,500 pounds) and easy to pull," Mills said. "You can pull one with a minivan."
The Quicksilver is a bare-bones popup camper that sleeps two adults and two children. There is no stove, toilet or refrigerator. But most campgrounds have restroom facilities and showers, and I usually pack my food in a cooler and cook over an old gas stove on top of a picnic table anyway.
"Most people just sleep in the camper anyway," Mills said. "If it starts to rain there is still plenty of room inside."
The price range of $5,500 to $8,500 will also prove attractive to many first-time buyers. For more information, go to www.livinlite.com or contact Mills at (863) 858-4455.
Light, easy to tow
Another option for cost-conscious campers is the lightweight, low-to-the-ground, easily towable Aliner camper. You don't need a big pickup or sport-utility vehicle to get this beauty to your campsite.
"You can pull this camper with just about any car," said Rick Como of Como RV Sales in Inverness and Homosassa (1-866-344-1411 or www.comorv.com). "That is a real plus for a lot of people."
The Pennsylvania-built popup has a hard top with sky lights and many of the amenities of a larger, heavier RV. Aliners, which range in length from 9 to 18 feet, are surprisingly comfortable for their size. The middle-of-the-line model, the Classic, is 15 feet long, 6½ feet wide and weighs just 2,000 pounds. It sleeps two adults and two children and retails for about $13,000.
"If you include airfare, hotel, meals, etc., it is not hard to spend $5,000 to take a family of four on vacation," Kelly said. "If you take the money you would have spent on two vacations and put it into an RV, you can have fun every weekend instead of just once or twice a year. If you think about it, that's a real bargain."


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UH Hilo Alumni Assoc honors four at annual event; recognizes first graduating class
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Alumni & Friends Association hosts its 11th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet on Friday, February 25 at the UH Hilo Campus Center beginning at 5 pm. Tickets are $75 each or $600 for a table of eight. The RSVP deadline is February 14.
This year's Distinguished Alumni honorees are Judge Ronald Ibarra (1966-68), Gregg Taketa, a CPA (1973-75), and community historian Wayne Subica (1978). The Distinguished Service honoree is AIA Emeritus, Russell Oda.
Ibarra is currently the Third Circuit Chief Judge for the Big Island. He previously served in the U.S. Army and the Army National Guard where he retired as a lieutenant colonel. Known for his tireless commitment to public service and high work ethics, Ibarra is currently serving his third consecutive 10-year appointment and presides over Civil Court and Drug Court. He was nominated by former Chief Judge Ronald Moon.
Taketa is a partner in the accounting firm Taketa, Iwata, Hara & Associates. He served four years as president of the Hawaiʻi Association of Public Accountants – Hawaiʻi State and assumed various officer positions on the Big Island Chapter. He specializes in business valuation and Low Income Housing Tax credits for developers of affordable housing and is a strong supporter of UH Hilo's College of Business and Economics. Taketa was nominated by Dr. Marcia Sakai.
Subica is the author of seven books chronicling life on the Big Island. After graduating with an Agriculture degree in 1978, he began a career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. After retiring in 2003 he dedicated himself to his passion of researching and documenting the unique social, cultural and economic history of the Big Island. He has been collecting local memorabilia for more than 40 years and opened a museum in 2004 to showcase his collection. He was nominated by Clyde Matsunaga.
Oda founded Oda/McCarty Architects in 1967, which subsequently merged with Durrant-Media Five in 2004. He retired in 2010 and currently consults with Fleming and Associates, LLC, which acquired Oda's founding company from Durrant-Media Five. An award winning architect, Oda's work has been featured in numerous magazines, including Sunset Magazine, and has been responsible for many familiar buildings at UH Hilo and around Hilo, including the `Imiloa Astronomy Center, Central Pacific Bank, and the Hilo Judiciary Complex. He has been an ardent supporter of UH Hilo and in 2008 established an endowed scholarship in memory of his grandmother, Keru Oda. Oda was nominated by Gay Porter.
The evening will also recognize the Class of 1971 as it marks its 40th Anniversary of being the first graduates to receive baccalaureate degrees from UH Hilo as it transitioned from a two-year institution to a four-year university.
"The Distinguished Alumni & Service Awards banquet has become an integral component of the UH Hilo Alumni & Friends Association," said Marketing and Alumni Director Yu Yok Pearring. "Our board members have worked hard over the years to develop this annual signature event to the level of success we are proud to achieve. Besides building on our tradition to honor and profile our outstanding alumni and supporters, we have been raising scholarship funds to provide opportunities for immediate relatives of UH Hilo alumni or alumni themselves returning for another degree."
The banquet features a program emceed by UH Hilo Performing Arts faculty member Jackie Pualani Johnson, a prime rib buffet, a silent auction, and a live auction conducted by Newton Chu.
Tickets may be purchased by calling 974-7501 or 974-7643.
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We are ten physicians who have opened a hybrid spa and medical facility that performs outpatient cosmetic and therapeutic procedures including: Botox and Filler injections, laser skin resurfacing, vein consultations, sclerotherapy, ambulatory phlebectomy, laser hair removal, facials, etc. Although we perform traditional spa services, we want to emphasize in our design that this is a place where hospital level services are performed in a luxurious, elegant outpatient environment by the most qualified and skilled physicians who are board certified and exceptionally trained.
Our Clientele are professional women and men who are interested, cultivated and motivated to maintain and improve their best asset, their appearance. They are looking for highly qualified, talented physicians, nurses and aestheticians that they can trust to protect and enhance their looks. They expect the private, luxurious and elegant environment that our facility provides.
We would like a logo that would reflect our personality and could be used on a website, business cards, stationery, menus, and other printed materials. We are flexible with color schemes, but would appreciate colors that would reflect professionalism and easily translate to other media.
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The Beaufort County Board of Elections sent a letter to the South Carolina Election Commission pointing out a truth that state lawmakers have ignored — taxpayers shouldn't have to cover the cost of a political party's primary.
At issue is South Carolina's Republican presidential primary. It is not an election. It is the vehicle chosen by the state Republican Party to help the party choose its nominee for the presidential election. It is a Republican Party event. And its cost should be covered by the Republican Party.
But the GOP won't cover the whole cost. The Republican-dominated General Assembly appropriated $680,000 in a tight state budget to help pay for the primary. Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed the money, but lawmakers overrode the veto. ...
The real hypocrisy in this situation arises from the Republican Party's attempt to restrict participation in the primary. The GOP has sought to prevent Democratic voters from casting ballots in the primary, concerned they would vote for candidates who would do poorly against the Democratic candidate.
Of course, the Republicans are right about that. Only Republicans should vote in the Republican primary. Only those who consider themselves part of the party should participate in this party function. But that point is lost when the party asks the state to pay for the primary. Once it's a publicly funded event, anyone has a right to come in and cast a ballot.
Republicans ought to be able to restrict participation to the party faithful. But to do that, they have to pay for their primary themselves. The taxpayers sure can't afford it.


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Take Action: Join the Detox movement.
The last time I bought something new to wear was July 2014: it was a pretty blue dress for my graduation. Since then, every piece of clothing that found it's way into my closet has been bought second-hand, inherited or borrowed.
People are at the heart of Greenpeace, and this couldn't be more true for the Detox Outdoor campaign.
Protecting nature and providing a toxic-free environment is all of our goal, and it especially should be for the companies that...
We asked you which outdoor clothes and kit to test for dangerous chemicals (PFCs). Votes poured in for cherished brands such as Columbia, Patagonia, Jack Wolfskin, Mamut and Haglöfs, with The North Face topping the charts.
"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life... Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to...
Most outdoor brands are still addicted to dangerous chemicals called PFCs as our quest just showed. But how bad is this addiction? Most of the companies you asked didn't give a clear answer about which of their products contain PFCs.
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Contemporary high-level political rhetoric surrounding climate change — how Gore, Bush, and Obama approach the issue. (, 2012-08-08)Climate change has become a hot button issue spanning the fields of economics, politics, religion, race, ethics, and identity. This thesis provides a rhetorical criticism analyzing how three high-level politicians, namely ...


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The ability to protect yourself or a loved one
The SPEAR SYSTEM utilizes the speed and reliability of the startle-flinch mechanism to convert the sudden attack into a tactical counter.
It is a bridge between the reactive brain and the cognitive brain.
This improves reaction time during a confrontation.
Reverse Engineered Self-Defense.
For Humans.
- The SPEAR System is based on an 80,000 year old genetic survival response that helped keep our ancestors alive.
- Your reptilian brain wants you to survive.
- Its initial response to danger is to protect your head and push you away from danger.
- "Danger" is detected via the limbic system. This triggers an instinctive survival response called the 'startle-flinch' response.
- This survival reflex is hard-wired in you.
- When it is triggered, it bypasses cognition. This is neurophysiology.
- This explains why no one looks cool in a real fight and why you almost never see technical martial arts being used in real violent encounters.
- The SPEAR System harnesses this energy, then exploits the energy by converting it into a focused counter-measure. This is kinetics & physics.
- This movement is protective by nature and tactical by design and its all organic, your body-mind produces this.
- The SPEAR System combines the fastest human response (the startle-flinch) with the strongest natural human kinetic movement (the cross-extensor reflex), making the SPEAR a simple to learn, extremely effective method of personal defense regardless of gender, age, or size.
Learn more about the science behind the SPEAR System
click here.
This isn't what it looks like.
This is a demonstration of physiology and physics.
When you flinch your fingers splay and your hands push away the danger. The beauty of the SPEAR System is that we harness that energy and then teach participants how to redirect the kinetic energy using this instinctive movement. This makes the SPEAR System the easiest self-defense protocol to learn because the movement is already hard-wired in you.
coach BLAUER'S SPEAR SYSTEM IS THE ONLY PERSONAL DEFENSE SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN VETTED BY MEDICAL EXPERTS ON THREE CONTINENTS.
READ medical statements HERE
Our focus, our mission and our path has not wavered since
we began teaching real-world self-defense in 1979...
We want to make you, your family, your team and your colleagues safer.
We want to make the world safer.
Whatever your training needs are, we can accommodate. Whether you're an individual, a small tactical training group, a corporation with expats or a traveling executive, our programs will make you and your personnel safer, sooner.
Our 'open training events' are categorized by community:
Martial artists & self-defense trainers
Corporations (Please Email Us)
*Mr. Blauer is also available for private coaching and speaking engagements.


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The pencil sharpener Kastor has been designed by Rodrigo Torres. Kastor is poised and ready to gnaw on the tip of the pencil. The design has been studied in great detail: eyes, teeth, paws and tail all contribute to defining the animal's form. Kastor is practical and easy to use: by placing the pencil in the beaver's mouth, you can sharpen it with extreme ease thanks to the sharpener located inside. Thanks to the sharpener's solid construction, it also makes an ideal paperweight.
Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, he graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogota in 1998, and studied for a Master's in Design at the Domus Academy of Milan in 1999. In 1997 he won the "Santo Domingo" prize for the best Colombian design students. The same year he did an internship in the CID department at Whirlpool Europe in Cassinetta. Between 2000 and 2004 he worked as a designer for the Giovannoni design studio. In 2005 and 2008 he won the "Lapiz de acero" prize with the Morfeo (Domodinamica) sofa and the Manta (Poliform) chair. He has worked for Alessi, Poliform, Nike, Microsoft, Domodinamica, Miller, Ferrero, Baci Perugina and others. In 2006 he took part in the "La fabbrica del design" exhibition organised by the Domus Academy and Milan City Council. He has been a professor at the Domus Academy of Milan and the European Design Institute of Turin. He has held conferences at various universities in Italy and Colombia. He lives and works in Milan.


text: The Daily Mail has a story today about how some women think about shopping more than they think about sex, which left us a bit flabbergasted. In a survey of almost 800 British women, three-quarters of them thinking about shopping every minute. Half of them said they preferred shopping to even spending time with their partner, and about the same amount said they hide their spending from their partner. It says something disturbing about the level to which the consumption of goods has become so deeply ingrained into our individual and collective psyches that it trumps even biological urges like sex and companionship. Given that I'm a blogger, I think I'll stick to thinking about sex all the time. It's way cheaper. [Daily Mail]


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Tasha Belix necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 15 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Tasha Belix, Psychological Services, MA, Provisional Psychologist
I am a Clinical Counsellor, with 15 years experience working as a Play Therapist with children who have witnessed abuse and as a Parenting Educator. I would describe myself as energetic, magnetic, creative, empathetic, skilled, knowledgeable and fun. I would like a logo which has some spunk to it!
As a Play Therapist, I use games, toys and art material to engage children in the counselling process.
I am starting a private counselling business in a Canadian city, in high need of child therapists. I My wish is for the logo to compliment my image of being playful and approachable.
My biggest target is parents/caregivers who need psychological help for their children. They are the people who pay me. Knowing that, my promotional material will also be sent to family doctor's offices and to elementary schools in my area of the city. My brochure will be distributed to prospective families who are in need of counselling services for their child/children by these professionals. I want the logo to grab the attention of potential clients, especially parents/caregivers, to let them know that my approach is child-focused and I use art and play therapy techniques to facilitate difficult conservations with children. I think a logo which appeals to the child's sense of playfulness would also be of benefit, so I will include them as part of the target audience as well.
My logo should be done in black only & simple.
I envision a continuous SCRIBBLE DRAWING, like a long piece of spaghetti, depicting a child. I would like the child to be the prominant feature of the image. Knowing that I would like the child to be holding hands or connecting with an adult in the logo as well (perhaps the adults head only??)
I think the characters should be gender neutral. My hope is that the drawing will be playful and fun"ish", so parents, doctors and other health professionals will know my counselling business is to serve children's issues, simply at a glance.
I also hope for the logo to convey the idea of conncection between child and parent and exude a feeling of well-being and/or happiness.
The logo will be used on brochures, business cards, promotional material and letterhead.
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Timo Hetzel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 182 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
The name of the company is "Undsoversum" - a play on "und so" ("and stuff") and "Universum", which is German for "universe". So a possible translation would be "stuffiverse"
We do podcasts and stuff. And we need a logo to go with that. We also got a number of existing podcast cover art designs that should go together with the new logo created in this contest.
I'm Timo Hetzel, and I recently founded a new podcasting company similar to Leo Laporte's TWiT Network, or Revision 3.
We already have a collection of podcast cover art designs, and we need the new logo not necessarily to match them, but to complement them.
The new logo could contain all the cool stuff about space. Rockets, flying cars, space ships...
Or find something more abstract to represent the concept.
We want to keep it very stylized, but recognizable. Think "The Jetsons", "Futurama", or "The Incredibles"
To make the word more legible, you may use dictionary style hyphenation "und·so·versum" or "und·so·ver·sum"
The "U" may be upper or lower case. Lower case feels better, I think.
Here's two layout options we'd like to see (just to give you an idea - you don't have to stick to this placement and these colors) - square, with the type on the bottom, and horizontal, with the logo part on the left, and the type on the right.
- use Myriad Pro Bold as the main font
- dark background, like in the samples above
- must be legible at very small sizes (think Twitter avatar pic)
- must work in square layout (logo on top, type below) as well as horizontal (logo left, type right)
- must work in color as well in a black/white version
- Robots, Space Ships, Flying Cars - and what can you come up with?
- go all corporate on the logo. this should be fun
- astronauts, space suits.
- round rects as the main design element. probably go with the space theme and work from there
- A single upper case "U" as the design element. It looks a lot like German subway station signs
- Saturn rings. There are other big brands in Germany that use this visual.
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Obviously, the man in the middle is former Queens Borough President Donald Manes, and to the right of him is the late Thomas Manton, former congressman and head of the Queens Democratic Party. But beyond that, we were having difficulty identifying the other people in the photo.
Well, we didn't get much help, although one reader noted that the photo was taken in front of Flowerama on Myrtle Avenue in Ridgewood. The reader also thought she might recognize a young Ted Renz, executive director of the Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District, in the photo, and suggested that maybe they were celebrating the inception of the BID. We can't be sure about that, but it's a very good guess.
Then a couple of days ago, we were looking through the archives again, and came across this photo (second pic) of Mayor Ed Koch with two gentlemen, and thought that man on the right looked familiar. Sure enough, he was also in the photo of the ribbon-cutting ceremony that we ran in out November 10th edition.
Well, you don't get to turn up in two photos in the Ledger/Star archives if you're a nobody, so we thought we would toss it out to our readers again. So what say you, can anybody out there shed some light on either of these photos? If so, email us at email@example.com.
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Make a statement with this eye-catching ladies' watch from Lipsy. Featuring a white multifunction dial set with subdials and rose gold hour markers, this chic watch is finished with a two tone case and bracelet strap in sleek silver and warm rose gold tones. Lipsy transfers the hottest looks straight from the catwalk to the high street.
- Brand
- Lipsy
- Face colour
- Silver
- Face diameter
- 3.8 cm
- Face shape
- Round
- Model number
- Movement
- Quartz
- Strap colour
- Two Colour
- Strap material
- Stainless Steel
- Strap style
- Bracelet
- Warranty
- 2 Years
Delivery & Returns
At H.Samuel we offer a range of delivery options to suit you:
- Free Standard Delivery available on orders of £49 or more
- Free Express Delivery available on orders of £500 or more
- Free Click & Collect to over 300 H.Samuel stores in the UK
For more Delivery Information click here
Returns policy: you can return items to us by post or in store within 30 days for a full refund or exchange.*
*We cannot refund or exchange pierced jewellery, e.g. earrings, if they have been removed from the original sealed packaging due to hygiene reasons.
For our full returns policy click here.
Help Centre
For assistance with your purchase, visit our help centre for advice & tips so you can buy confidently with H.Samuel.


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Box Office: Insidious: Chapter 2 Tops the Weekend
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Insidious: Chapter 2 frightened off the competition at the box office this weekend, taking the No. 1 spot with $41 million in ticket sales. The sequel earned three times as much as the original movie in its opening weekend, according t… Read more


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JazLabs necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
JazLife ™
JazLife ™ is a practical, social and personally relevant platform for optimizing, enjoying and actively managing your life in a condo, an apartment, a loft or townhome. It brings together the ecosystem of connections in the multifamily high-rise real estate market: those in the business of developing and managing multifamily high-rise real estate, the residents of these buildings and the local businesses in the neighborhood.
JazLife ™ will become an essential service.
While the value of any real estate will likely always depend on physical location, JazLife ™ recognizes the critical value of being emotionally located too. A deeper connection to the people and places where you live enriches your experiences in the neighborhood you have so carefully chosen. JazLife ™understands the value of connecting with neighbors, convenient utility and immediate communication with property management and uncovering the best-kept secrets in your neighborhood – all from your living room or iPhone.
As necessary as cable, hydro and water, JazLife ™ will become a hallmark of those residences who wish to distinguish themselves with a sense of true meaningfulness and connection.
Three targets:
1. Residents of multi-family high-rise buildings (condos, apartments, lofts) - JazLife lets them manage their lives, discover new friends, new interests and new businesses in their neighborhood
2. Property managers of these buildings - JazLife lets them easily communicate with residents and manage the day-to-day in the building (such as letting residents book visitor parking or a party room or schedule a delivery)
3. Local businesses that want to connect to the residents and market their businesses to them - JazLife lets them connect with people in buildings surrounding them, communicate to them and market to them directly online (no more paper flyers or newspaper ads)
We do NOT want a boring, corporate look and feel.
We want something dynamic, sophisticated, simple and fresh that stands out for our target audiences (see above)
JazLife is the combination of "Jaz" and "Life". These suggest the following:
- communication
- sharing
- connection
- innovation
- fusion
- integrity
- trust
- improvisation
- fluidity of life
- creativity
- spontaneity
- listening
- exploring
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