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text: Share: August 16, 2009 Mountaintop Mining If you were to pick up the Appalachian Trail in New York State, and hike 600 miles south, after passing through some of the nation's most scenic vistas, you'd reach some very disturbing topography. Treeless hills rising to a flat top—much like the arid mesas of the desert Southwest—are separated by valleys filled with broken rock and barren streams. Welcome to mountaintop removal coal mining.Mountaintop removal is a relatively new form of strip mining in the southern Appalachians. And it is environmentally devastating. To access coal seams, forests are clear cut and explosives are used to blast up to 800 feet off mountain tops (the equivalent of an 80 story building). Heavy equipment is used to push mountain top soils and mining discard into adjacent river valleys, burying hundreds of miles of ecologically-important headwater streams.To date, more than 500 mountains have been destroyed in the Appalachians, forever altering the region's topography. Current regulations require that mining companies restore the original contour of the landscape, with some vegetation cover. But, due to compacted soils and fractured rock, blast sites seldom support reforestation. Their soils are especially low in nitrogen and phosphorus-two essential nutrients for plant growth.On one former mining site in Maryland, 15 years after the site was restored it contained a mere 2% of the biomass found on adjacent forested lands. Even on mine sites where forests have been successfully reestablished, carbon sequestration?an important ecosystem service?is compromised. Studies indicate that after 60 years, when compared to unspoiled sites, reclaimed sites sequester 62% less carbon.During mountaintop removal, nearby streams are buried. This makes the restoration of natural drainage is difficult. Often, new channels are dug, but the water flowing into them originates from adjacent mine spoils. As a result, the water contains elevated levels of toxic metals, such as selenium, and sulfate concentrations higher than seawater. Native fish, mussels, and other aquatic species are absent from impacted streams. And local residents, often rural and poor, suffer. Not only do they lose access to fishing and swimming sites, but they are often unable to drink poisoned groundwater supplies.Given the multitude of problems it causes, why is mountaintop removal so widespread in the southern Appalachians? The answer is simple: blasting mountains provides easy access to energy-rich coal supplies, and a handful of mining companies benefit tremendously from streamlined excavation strategies.Before mountaintop removal, most mines in the southern Appalachians were underground. This labor-intensive removal process involved large mining crews, considerable safety risks, and a commitment to longer-term infrastructure. By allowing access to coal seams without the high costs of underground mining, mountaintop removal made eastern coal competitive. And it has had an explosive growth trajectory.Between 1985 and 2001, more than 1200 miles of streams were buried by valley-fill operations in the southern Appalachians. In some areas of West Virginia, more than 25% of the land surface is under permit for current or future mountaintop removal, and in western Maryland, 15% of the landscape is under some form of reclamation. One doesn't have to click down many levels on Google Earth to see the shocking rearrangement of the land—it looks like a moonscape.For Upstate New Yorkers, mountaintop removal may seem like a distant problem. In the last year of reported data, only 20% of the electricity supplied by Central Hudson Gas and Electric was derived from coal. But we should be concerned.Nationally, over 50% of electricity is derived from coal. Coal from any source produces lots of carbon dioxide when burned; weaning our energy sources from coal is an important part of any effort to combat global warming. Legislation that discourages the use of coal will have the ancillary benefit of discouraging mountaintop removal as a way of coal mining.The U.S. House and Senate both have bills before them seeking to overturn a Bush administration rule that made it all too easy for mountaintop mining operation to dump debris into valley streams. This is a small step in the right direction.New Yorkers have another option: a check-off for renewable energy on their electric bill. In the last year of data, less than 1% of our electricity came from renewable sources. A simple check-off will help ensure that renewable energy supplies grow more rapidly in the coming years-helping to reduce mountaintop removal and eliminate this wholesale destruction of some of the richest areas of biological diversity in the United States. Share: Feature Mountaintop coal digging has dire consequences › August 16, 2009

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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2329?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12863865#action_12863865 ] Michael Busch commented on LUCENE-2329: --------------------------------------- I probably missed something here. What exactly is broken and how is it related to this patch? > Use parallel arrays instead of PostingList objects > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2329 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2329 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Index > Reporter: Michael Busch > Assignee: Michael Busch > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 3.1, 4.0.0 > > Attachments: lucene-2329-2.patch, LUCENE-2329.patch, LUCENE-2329.patch, LUCENE-2329.patch, LUCENE-2329.patch, lucene-2329.patch, lucene-2329.patch, lucene-2329.patch > > > This is Mike's idea that was discussed in LUCENE-2293 and LUCENE-2324. > In order to avoid having very many long-living PostingList objects in TermsHashPerField we want to switch to parallel arrays. The termsHash will simply be a int[] which maps each term to dense termIDs. > All data that the PostingList classes currently hold will then we placed in parallel arrays, where the termID is the index into the arrays. This will avoid the need for object pooling, will remove the overhead of object initialization and garbage collection. Especially garbage collection should benefit significantly when the JVM runs out of memory, because in such a situation the gc mark times can get very long if there is a big number of long-living objects in memory. > Another benefit could be to build more efficient TermVectors. We could avoid the need of having to store the term string per document in the TermVector. Instead we could just store the segment-wide termIDs. This would reduce the size and also make it easier to implement efficient algorithms that use TermVectors, because no term mapping across documents in a segment would be necessary. Though this improvement we can make with a separate jira issue. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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. . . for nine days of researching, conferencing and traveling with only a tablet and a smart phone?
The thought of that makes me just a little nervous.
In three weeks, I'm going to Salt Lake City to research at the Family History Library and attend Rootstech 2012. All of my previous research and conference travels have been road trips so I've never had to limit what I take. My usual packing policy is "if there is the slightest possibility that I might
need want it, take it." That doesn't work when a plane is involved so I'm hoping to get by with the tablet and phone.
I don't have any doubts about using the tablet at the library. I've successfully used it at other repositories but I also had the laptop to use back at the hotel so I've never depended on these smaller devices for absolutely everything.
Here's the list of things I will need or want to do and the results of my testing. (Don't hesitate to let me know if you think of something I forgot.)
- Access my genealogy database and files.
- Check. My database is loaded to both devices using the Families app (purchased for $14.99). I'll load an up-to-date file right before I leave home. All of my genealogy files are in Dropbox so they are also accessible from both devices.
- Access To Do List and other files in PDF.
- Check. Adobe Reader app takes care of that.
- Load FHL copies from jump drive or camera and back them up.
- Check. The tablet has a USB port and SD card slot. Files can be transferred to the tablet and then to Dropbox or loaded directly to Dropbox from either media.
- Use Evernote.
- Check. The Evernote app works even when there is no wi-fi connection. Changes will sync the next time a connection is available.
- Search Ancestry and FamilySearch.
- Check. Both websites work in the tablet's browser including downloading copies of records. There is no opportunity to name the files or select a location. They go to the tablet's "Download" folder by default but can easily be renamed and copied to Dropbox or some other location from there.
- Search the FHL Catalog.
- Check. That works fine from the browser on the tablet.
- Create, read and update Word and Excel docs.
- Check. Quickoffice Pro app was purchased for $14.99.
- Post status updates, links and photos to social media.
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- Facebook – check (with a caveat). I think FB works better through the browser than the Android app. If you paste a link to a blog post (or anything else) through the app, it just shows that link – no blog title or picture like when you post from a computer. Using the browser, it works just like on the computer.
- Google+ – check (with a bigger caveat). G+ has the same issue with links posted through the app as FB does. However, the problem can't be skirted by using the browser for G+ because you can't paste a link (or anything else) in the browser version of G+ on the tablet. This is apparently a problem within G+ because things can be pasted other places using the tablet's browser including Google Search. Annoying but not a big enough problem to warrant taking a laptop.
- Write blog posts.
- Check. The Blogger app works well enough.
- Read blogs.
- Check. Google Reader app has that covered.
- Upload photos to SmugMug.
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- Minor photo editing.
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- In flight entertainment.
- Check. I can read a book through Kindle or Nook apps, listen to a book through Audible.com app, play games and listen to music. (These apps are free but most books and music aren't.) Or sleep. That is probably a better idea since it's going to be a very busy week.
So. Unless I missed something big, it looks like I can survive. I guess we'll see what happens.
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Simple jobs and complex jobs, jobs with people and jobs with things and jobs with concepts and ideas (20/09/17 21:23:22)
According to folklore based on a hypothesis from some Nobel laureate, the left brain is a square and limited thinker, while the right brain is an inspired and holistic artist.
Not verified by experiment
There is a need for experts with holistic views based on solid knowledge. Holism based on hearsay is too vulnerable to political, economic and emotional pressure. Holism should be based on facts and reasoning there facts are unavailable or ambiguous.
Creativeness,too, needs to be based on knowledge of the existing art. Creativeness without knowledge of the field is just a waste of time. Most acts of creation have already been done similarly by others. My experience is: I have a good idea. Then I look in the databases - including Wikipedia and Google. And then I can read the articles about it. Nothing new. Think of something else.
Creating jobs needs to take seriously that there are different people and different jobs. Talents are different. Some talents run in families and are heritable together with money. Some families are burdened with little talent and seem destined for poverty because there is no inheritance and little possibility of good earning. The difficult and important task is to help those people into useful and agreeable positions in society: converting potential losers into reasonably satisfied citizens. Putting everybody through universities certainly is no remedy, although some on the left side seem to believe it. It mostly looks like a convenient and cheap way of disguising unemployment. Leaving them unsatisfied and using the police against their anger and despair isn't a good idea either.
But someone has to pay for it. Count me in.
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BOSTON (AP) Boston Red Sox outfielder Ryan Kalish will have surgery on his right shoulder. He is expected to miss spring training.
Dr. Lewis Yocum will perform the operation on Tuesday, the team said.
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DETROIT — The FBI has scheduled a forensic interview Tuesday with 12-year-old Charlie Bothuell V, who was missing for days before being found in the basement of his home, Detroit policed said.
"Based on the outcome of this interview, the Detroit Police Department may be submitting a package to the Wayne County Prosecutor's office as early as Wednesday afternoon," according to a statement from Detroit police. "For the time being, Charlie is currently staying with relatives in an undisclosed location."
Charlie was found in the basement of his home Wednesday, while police executed a search warrant.
When he was taken to a hospital, a doctor observed a half-circular scar on his chest, which Charlie said was from his father "driving a PVC pipe into his chest," according to a petition filed in Wayne County's juvenile court last week regarding Charlie's two younger siblings.
Those two children were removed by Children's Protective Services from the custody of their parents, Monique Dillard-Bothuell and Charlie Bothuell IV, who is Charlie's father.
According to the petition, Charlie told authorities that Dillard-Bothuell, his stepmother, placed him in the basement of their home and told him "not to come out, no matter what he hears."
The petition says that a PVC pipe with blood on it was recovered from the home. It's unclear whose blood is on the pipe. The petition says that on June 23, Bothuell "disclosed physically disciplining" his son with a pipe.
Bothuell has denied abusing his son and his attorney, Mark Magidson, denied that a pipe was used to abuse Charlie.
The petition filed in juvenile court regarding Charlie's siblings — ages 4 years and 10 months — has to be authorized. It says that, because of the abuse allegations involving Charlie, the other children should not be in their parents' care.
In the petition, the Department of Human Services requests that the court "find the children are without proper care and custody." According to the petition, DHS also requests that the court take jurisdiction over the children, make them temporary court wards and place them with DHS.
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Humble Bundle 9 is now available and it includes Trine 2: Complete Story, Mark of the Ninja, the beta for Eets Munchies and Brütal Legend. Also, if you pay more than the average price of $4.03 you will unlock FTL: Faster Than Light and FEZ. Sountracks inlcluded in the bundle are Trine 2, Brütal Legend […]
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The fourth annual Canadian Videogame Awards ceremony was held over the weekend, with Far Cry 3 picking-up six including Game of the Year while the excellent Mark of the Ninja won Best Indie and Best Downloadable Game. Hit the break for more winners.
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I have been interested in football pretty much ever since I became conscious of its existence. My family are huge Arsenal fans and my younger brother, sister and I have always been treated completely equally by our parents. I've never felt that there was any expectation that I wouldn't love football due to my gender – despite the rest of society suggesting otherwise.
Inspired by Sporty Spice and, later on, Bend it like Beckham, I played football at school. I was actually on the school football team until the age of 11, when we were told that boys and girls were no longer allowed to play football together because the girls might get hurt, and there weren't enough girls to have our own team. And that was the beginning.
Ten years ago, my family got season tickets for our team. Let me tell you, nothing makes feel more like a part of something than sharing the highs and lows of a match with 50,000 other fans who love your team as much as you do. At least, that is, until during a heated London derby, a Chelsea player gets an injury and Eva Caneiro (the team's obviously incredibly intelligent, and, incidentally, very beautiful medic) runs out into the pitch and the man in front of you shouts: "Get your tits out!" whilst his mates laugh along. Yeah. That can make you feel a little separate from the crowd.
So here's the thing about being a female football fan. However much you follow and love the game, every so often there's a little reminder that, to some people, you'll never quite belong; that football, even in the 21st century, is essentially a lads' club; and that because you were born with a vagina, you are not allowed a full membership.
This extends way further than a couple of metres from the pitch, incidentally. When I finally downloaded Tinder recently (I know, I know), I was surprised by one thing in particular. It wasn't the prevalence of mirror selfies or profile pictures from Tiger Temple, but the amount of attention that one of my pictures got from members of the opposite sex.
One my profile pictures on Facebook is of me at an Arsenal game wearing a team shirt and scarf - and, since Tinder links up to your Facebook account, everyone can see it. I happen to think I look pretty good in the photo (y'know, it got 40 likes, but whatever, who's counting?) plus it represents me as a person pretty well, in one of my favourite places of all time, throwing up a gang sign, obv.
And one of the most common questions I get asked by these modern suitors, having seen my pic, is some variation of: 'R U one of those girls who pretends to like football just to get guys lol?'
Literally, is that even a thing?!
Nowadays I feel confident enough to stick up for myself in situations like this, but younger me, despite having the role models of Mary-Kate and Ashley in Switching Goals for inspiration, simply stopped voicing my opinions on my favourite sport in mixed sex contexts, for fear of being embarrassingly ignored, or, even worse, hideously patronised for having "tried to join in the conversation". Put simply, women's only legitimated role in this arena is as something to be looked at.
Don't believe me? Take a terrifying jaunt to the annals of Twitter, where there are accounts run by female football fans, some with tens of thousands of, mostly male, followers. What is immediately noticeable about these popular accounts, however, is that alongside their tweets about Hodgson's squad selection or #DareToZlatan banter, you can find pictures of the tweeter pouting in her knickers and cropped Man U shirt, or retweets of her photos being featured on Lad Bible's "Cleavage Thursdays". These women and girls have realised that, in order to be taken seriously in any capacity when it comes to football, they need to play up to the sport's culture of female objectification. Consequently female football fans become a fetishised commodity, never equal to their male counterparts. Is it any wonder that, when the Brazilian referee Fernanda Colombo Uliana made the news after officiating her first top-flight match earlier this month, the coverage was pretty much dominated by admonitions to look at her arse in a white bikini?
The whole things makes me really sad and really, really, fucking angry. I hate the fact that so many female friends of mine, who I know would absolutely love the excitement and emotional drama the sport entails have no idea that that side even exists. I hate the fact that they'll probably never know what it's like because they feel excluded or victimised by the media coverage of the sport. And I hate that I can't imagine things any other way. Because it doesn't actually have to be this way.
But you know what? Mostly I hate the fact that there are men out there who genuinely believe that their attention is worth so much to me that I would put time and effort into pretending to like football just for a right swipe on Tinder. No one is worth that much trouble. Except maybe Olivier Giroud.


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Telefónica integrates its M2M offering of services for Smart Cities in a global solutionUtilities & Smart Cities | Tuesday, 13 November 2012
13 November 2012 - At the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona Telefónica Digital presents a Smart City solution based on the company's M2M capacities. It is an offering which will allow municipal corporations, urban service providers and entrepreneurs from worldwide to integrate in a single scalable, flexible and self-managing solution the complex environment of necessary sensors and technology, which are characteristic of the so-called "Smart Cities".
This integrated offering will provide professionals in the sector with access to Telefónica's M2M capabilities and services, capabilities which deliver added value to town councils and other bodies in the supervision and management of connected devices, their installation and maintenance, and the collection and analysis of data.
The solution presented today by Telefónica will allow the creation of an open ecosystem which will generate new business models, helping entrepreneurs to develop their own applications on top of it. For the cities, meanwhile, the fact that the solution is fully adaptable to their particular needs will allow them to improve management and optimise the services they offer to their citizens.
"With this offering, Telefónica is demonstrating its capacity to respond in an open and flexible manner to the needs of its customers in the increasingly important M2M sector. We are convinced that the solution we are presenting will allow us to deliver an integrated, quality solution which covers the whole value chain in Smart Cities", said Carlos Morales, Telefónica Digital's Global M2M Director.
As part of this offering, Telefónica Digital is also announcing today the signing of two important agreements. The first, with Streetline, the global leader in sensor enabled real-time vehicle detection and telematic services and applications designed for the optimisation and management of Smart Parking. Under the terms of the agreement, Telefónica will offer its Smart City customers the chance to enjoy Streetline's Smart Parking solution. Telefónica contributes with its M2M capabilities, financial services, sales network and customer support, while Streetline will provide the Smart Parking services, applications and technical support necessary. Streetline will be Telefónica's primary smart parking partner.
The second agreement reached by Telefónica Digital is with the developer of wireless sensor networks for Smart Cities, Libelium. This agreement enables Telefónica to integrate wireless sensors made by Libelium, which have been certified to operate with Telefónica's M2M technology, in its portfolio. This will allow integrators to create M2M applications based on real-time information flows quickly and at low cost.
Telefónica's Smart City offering currently has 27 different applications, including traffic management, Smart Parking and environmental and agricultural monitoring.
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Congratulations to Nucleus, the Tory-led group recently formed to maximise Britain's influence in Europe. Dubbed "euro-realists" by Mathew Barnett on Tim Montgomerie's Conservative Home website, Nucleus will undoubtedly play an important role in the Conservative Party's future views and policy on Europe.
Headed by former Conservative candidates Peter Wilding and Rob Marr, the Nucleus mission statement sets out its beliefs:
"By seeking to maximise its influence in Europe, Britain can better defend Europe's single market from protectionism and protect British influence"
"By promoting areas where Britain's interests coincide with those of France and Germany, Britain can work effectively to achieve these aims within Europe"
"That the future must be a globally-focused Britain which leads in the places where global policy is made. Without this, Britain will be sidelined by the USA, in the EU and within international institutions. Moreover our US allies and others want Britain to play a full part creating an outward-looking European Union shaping the developing global world order."
Nucleus will, apparently, have offices in London and Brussels and provide daily bulletins to MPs, and from April will prepare briefings for journalists, think-tanks and business figures. From next month they will host quarterly visits to Brussels. Interestingly the daily bulletins are being written by David Gow and David Seymour, formerly of the Guardian and Mirror respectively.
The Nucleus website also features a blog offering "opinion pieces following in the footsteps of this country's greatest Euro-realist; no less than Sir Winston Churchill himself." At last there are people in the Tory Party willing to face up to their hero's legacy.
Nucleus sounds to me like a very good thing. The Tory Eurosceptics have had it all their own way for far too long. Politics and democracy require debate, discussion and healthy disagreement. It is very heartening indeed to see members of the Conservative Party standing up for these cherished principles.


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WASHINGTON — The top Republican in the House says a recent proposal by GOP members of a special deficit committee is a "fair offer" despite criticism from conservatives who say it breaks the party's pledge on taxes.
"It's important for us in my opinion to reform the tax code," said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, adding that a tax overhaul would "make America more competitive and produce economic growth."
And a top GOP member of the panel got some words of support from House Republicans Tuesday morning after briefing rank-and-file Republicans on last week's GOP proposal, which called for a net tax revenue increase of almost $300 billion in exchange for significantly lowered tax rates.Super committee wrestles with taxes, entitlements
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chairman of the deficit panel said the badly divided group is still working in hopes of reaching an agreement.
"They haven't thrown me out, so I guess I got a good reception," Hensarling said of how House Republicans reacted to his status report on supercommittee talks. "I gave them an update, I told them we haven't lost hope yet but ... this week is crucial."Video: Highly Disapprove (on this page)
The panel faces an official target of next Wednesday to approve a plan, but sometime this week is a more realistic deadline, given the realities of drafting proposals into legal language and getting them "scored" by congressional analysts to measure their impact on the deficit.
Hensarling, a stout conservative, got support from some of his colleagues inside a closed-door GOP caucus Tuesday morning. He pointed out that a far larger tax increase looms at the end of next year with the expiration of the Bush-era cuts in tax rates, investments, and breaks for married couples and families with children.
"I thought it was a very serious effort in trying to break a logjam and get a compromise," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "Held up against the big tax increase coming, I'll take that any day.
But last week's GOP plan has gotten a cold shoulder from GOP presidential hopefuls like former Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Campaigning in Iowa, Gingrich said he would "do everything in my power to defeat" any committee deficit-reduction plan that includes higher taxes.
Jason Miner, a spokesman for Perry, said the Texas governor "wants to look at details but if those details include a tax increase he's not going to be for it. He does not favor higher taxes."First Read: Gingrich rises
Some conservative Republicans are restive about last week's GOP proposal for higher tax revenues, which would be skimmed off the top in a future overhaul of the tax code that trades the elimination of many tax breaks for significantly lower income tax rates.
"I would still be concerned about any proposal that basically would violate a pledge on raising taxes," said Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J.
The committee has been at work for two months, hoping to succeed at a task that has defied the best efforts of high-ranking political leaders past and present.
The principal stumbling blocks revolve around taxes, on the one hand, and the large federal benefit programs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, on the other.
Democrats are unwilling to agree to cuts in benefit programs unless Republicans will accept higher taxes, particularly on the highest-income individuals and families.
"I'm willing to make significant inroads into, for example, some of the mandatory programs, which include Medicare and Medicaid, but that comes as part of a big deal where everyone shares in the sacrifice," said Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., a liberal member of the panel.
Republicans counter that out-of-control spending largely accounts for the government's enormous budget deficits, and they say raising taxes will only complicate efforts to help the economy recover from the worst recession in more than seven decades.
At the same time, each side is grappling with the possible political consequences of the committee's work, with an eye on the 2012 campaign for control of the White House and Congress.Story: House Republican leader says deficit deal likely
Liberal Democrats are highly reluctant to agree to curbs on programs the party long has been identified with, and last week members on the supercommittee jettisoned an earlier proposal to slow the rise in cost-of-living benefits for Social Security recipients.
The same goes for conservatives, many of whom fear the possible political cost of changing their positions in order to pursue a less-than-certain bipartisan compromise on deficit reduction.
Many GOP officeholders have signed a pledge circulated by Americans for Tax Reform not to vote for higher taxes. The organization is led by Grover Norquist, a conservative activist, although in comments to reporters Cantor suggested that influence by an outsider isn't the dominant concern.
"It's not about Grover Norquist. It's about commitments that people made to the electorate they represent, the people that sent them here. That's what it's about," he said.
Conservative blogger Erick Erickson, whose views carry weight with GOP lawmakers, weighed in Tuesday with a blunt attack on the proposed Republican compromise on taxes.
"The Republicans who back in June were telling us they would hold the line on tax increases have decided that they must have tax increases," Erickson wrote in a Tuesday morning post.
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SACRAMENTO—While an average of 1.3 million California children each day participate in the state's School Breakfast Program, about 63,000 more last year than in 2011, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson marked National School Breakfast Week by urging families to make sure all children get the nourishing food they need to succeed in school.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports 14.9 percent or nearly 17.9 million American households were uncertain of having or acquiring enough food to feed their families in 2011. This food insecurity rate is worse in California, where 16.2 percent or about 2.1 million households did not have enough money or resources for food.
California's School Breakfast Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Program provides nutritious breakfasts at low or no cost to children. The children must be in public and private nonprofit schools; and public and private nonprofit licensed residential child care institutions, such as group homes, juvenile halls, and orphanages.
The School Breakfast Program is open to all enrolled children. If a child already qualifies for free or reduced-price lunches, then the child would also qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts. The breakfast may include items such as whole-grain breads, eggs and yogurt, fruits and vegetable juices, and milk.
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I was looking at the 33 blocks you made for a round robin and all of them are gorgeous by the way, and I was just wondering if you buy fat quarters so that you have so many beautiful fabrics or do you buy yardage? You have a great eye for color, wish I did.lol
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I just looked at your round the world blocks in your album. They are beautiful. Did you ever put them into a quilt? I'd love to see it if you have.
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L+M has created an offshore company in Grand Cayman
When I first heard of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital's new offshore business venture, it was by way of a rumor circulating prominently in political circles around the city, that the nonprofit community hospital has parked $20 million in the Caribbean banking capital Grand Cayman.
Needless to say, I put a call into the New London hospital to find out about its Grand Cayman connection.
What I learned after a conversation Thursday with Lou Inzana, chief financial officer, is that the hospital has indeed set up a new corporation in Grand Cayman, one that now provides L+M with its medical malpractice insurance.
It's a fairly routine practice, now used by a large number of American hospitals, including, for instance, all the teaching hospitals in Boston affiliated with Harvard, Inzana said.
Also, L+M hasn't moved $20 million offshore, Inzana assured me.
Only $120,000 is on deposit in Grand Cayman, he said.
The $13 million in reserves held against any possible malpractice judgments or settlements is invested in the U.S., mostly bonds, Inzana said.
The $13 million used to establish the new insurance company, he explained, was money the hospital previously used in a combination of coverage in which it self-insured and bought some more catastrophic coverage from commercial carriers.
A principal reason for moving coverage to the new independent company in Grand Cayman, away from simply self-insuring, Inzana said, is because the hospital may eventually use the new Grand Cayman company to profitably sell malpractice coverage to private doctors affiliated with L+M but not on staff.
Hospital officials said that in Connecticut, they couldn't set up the company to insure itself, known as a captive, because state regulations would not allow it.
They could have set it up in some other states that would allow it, Vermont, for instance, but that would have been more expensive, because of additional regulations, than going to Grand Cayman, Inzana said.
So, unlike many for-profit corporations that move business and money offshore solely for tax purposes, L+M, a nonprofit, did it to avoid certain state regulations in the U.S., following the lead of other large hospitals.
The captives are also used in other high litigation risk industries, like construction.
L+M officials did say the new company has an office in Grand Cayman, although it doesn't have an actual L+M sign shingle hanging on the street. Presumably, hospital officials go there from time to time to execute business.
I suggested to Inzana that the reason so many rumors have been circulating about L+M's Grand Cayman connection is because people are suspicious of any organization, especially a local nonprofit hospital, moving their business offshore to avoid U.S. regulation or taxes.
I asked him if the hospital hadn't considered, for instance, lobbying for a change of Connecticut regulations to allow here what they are doing in Grand Cayman.
He said, in general, the hospital has been fighting an uphill battle in Washington and in Hartford to cut costs and operate effectively in a changing environment.
"I wish I could rely on our legislators to do the right thing," he said.
In the long run, Inzana said, moving the hospital's new insurance business offshore is going to be good for employees and patients here, because it is going to lower costs.
"Quite frankly, it is cheaper to operate out of Grand Cayman right now," he said.
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Cairns beer is back - Blue Sky BreweryMonday, August 11th, 2008
Opened only a couple of weeks ago, Blue Sky Brewery is already attracting the crowds in search of home brewed beer.
I won't be able to describe the beer at this new Cairns venue in depth, as I was the designated driver and was allowed to have only a couple of the lightest beer that they served. But from the amount of beers Steve and our others friends had, I think the experience they had must have been very good.
Apart from serving all the spirits you can think of and having an extensive wine cellar, the main attraction of this new venue is the handcrafted beer they brew onsine. Six different boutique beers, from the lightest one to the darkest variety, that will delight beer lovers. I started, and carried on with their lager, a really light but tasty and refreshing drink. Steve, even though he was determined to try each beer, only tried three different ones until he found the one he really loved: the blue sky pilsner, as he said that the taste was unusual although delicious. Our friend Dan started from the lightest one and finished with the darkest one, but I cannot say how many times he went over the menu, as we left around 11.30pm and he was still going back to the bar.
We also tried their food, as the Spaniards know very well, it's not healthy drinking on a empty stomach. Most of us had pizza, and mine was delicious. Steve wasn't as happy with his choice, Daintree pizza, it was a bit plain. Hehe, I don't know why he keeps choosing his own food, more than frequently whatever I order is usually much better than his order. And this time it wasn't otherwise.
All in all, we loved the place and we will definetely go back there again, hopefully very soon. We still have to try their ginger beer, so far the only ginger beer I have tried is the non alcoholic one, and I'm more than eager to try the real stuff. Only one little complain, the lights are too bright and it wouldn't hurt to turn them down a bit after a certain time.
We've been busy these last days meeting with Spanish people. It's great to know that more and more Spaniards are keen to travel to the other side of the world. Hopefully we will stop thinking that Australia is too far away and will be eager to discover this fabulous country. So we met up with Sonia and Javi, from Bilbao, with Monica and her group, from Madrid, with Isabel and Arkaitz, also from Bilbao, with Roger and Miriam, from Barcelona… I guess I cannot complain, I love meeting up with them and share a bit of our culture. I will never get tired of saying how small the world is, I knew one of the guys from Madrid from going to the same venues in the city.
But what's news this week is that WE FINALLY HAVE THE TICKETS TO GO TO MADRID IN DECEMBER!!! I will try to keep it quiet from my family and surprise them. So shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh everyone!


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Fixed Income
Unravelling the bond market impact of the ECB's latest policy measures
The bond market's response to the European Central Bank's (ECB) latest easing measures was immediate and broadly positive, but the implications for the real economy are harder to gauge.
Safety premium
The market's immediate reaction to the latest easing measures announced by the ECB on 10 March was, in some respects, counter-intuitive.
Most investors will be used to seeing government bond yields fall in the wake of greater-than-expected policy easing, but in this instance, 5-year and 10-year Bund yields rose steeply.
This is because Bund yields had already been driven to extremely low levels during January and February's firmly 'risk-off' market tone.
The ECB's latest support measures cheered markets, and resulted in some of the 'safety premium' embedded in Bund valuations being reduced.
A boost for bond bulls
Indeed, there is little doubt that the latest steps from ECB President Mario Draghi are positive for financial markets.
The first phase of ECB asset purchases, in early 2015, focused on buying government debt. This pushed government bond prices up and nudged investors into riskier assets to replace the lost yield.
The fact that risk assets – currently non-banking investment grade corporate bonds - are now included in the expanded €80 billion-a-month asset purchase scheme, means that the ECB is driving down the cost of risk more directly.
We expect investment grade corporate bonds1 should continue to perform strongly from here. Credit spreads2 should narrow, and investors will reach for higher-yielding corporate assets.
This impact has also been positive for equity markets, because the cost of capital has improved.
Will the changes make a "real" difference?
The implications for the real economy are less clear-cut.
A high proportion of the liquidity which should have entered the US economy through its own quantitative easing (QE) schemes became ensnared in the banking system, and the velocity3 of money didn't appreciably pick up.
There was no real spike in lending, and regulatory changes meant that the mortgage market remained somewhat impaired.
Of course, if QE had never been implemented, then the condition of the US economy could have been far worse.
In our view, the likelihood of the ECB achieving its vaunted 2% inflation target, even within five years, is low.
The output gap4, which bears down on both worker and company pricing power, is too significant for prices to improve to the 2% target growth rate.
Economic growth – currently forecast to be around 1.4% in 2016 – is insufficient to close this output gap quickly. The ECB, in our view, will need to do more.
The waiting game
This, then, begs the question of why Mario Draghi followed up the latest policy announcements with the suggestion that further rate cuts are "unlikely".
The euro, having fallen after the deposit rate was reduced, rose as soon as Mr Draghi made the comment. However, we see his observation as largely practical.
Running a negative interest rate policy is unlikely to work in the long term, as it would encourage investors to hoard cash.
Excessively negative rates mean that even the cost of insuring cash deposits 'in-house' could be less significant than the cost of depositing funds with the ECB.
However the ECB proceeds from here, it seems unlikely that the deposit rate will be the tool that they reach for.
For now, we believe that the amended policy environment has bolstered existing support for risk-asset markets and settled simmering nerves.
Patience will be required to see quite how effective the measures will be for stimulating more economic growth.
1. Investment grade bonds are the highest quality bonds as assessed by a credit ratings agency. To be deemed investment grade, a bond must have a credit rating of at least BBB (Standard& Poor's) or Baa3 (Moody's).↩
2. Yield spread is the difference in yield between different types of bonds. Credit spread is the difference between corporate bonds and government bonds.↩
3. Velocity of money represents the number of times a particular unit of money is spent over a period of time, or how quickly money changes hands. A country's GDP is the total amount of money available and its velocity.↩
4. The output gap refers to the difference between an economy's current output and maximum potential output. An economy with no output gap is operating at full capacity.↩
The views and opinions contained herein are those of Schroders' investment teams and/or Economics Group, and do not necessarily represent Schroder Investment Management North America Inc.'s house views. These views are subject to change. This information is intended to be for information purposes only and it is not intended as promotional material in any respect.


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Incredibly powerful, yet incredibly easy to use. For nearly thirty years, the Mac has given students the power to create in the classroom. And it continues to help unleash the potential in every learner.
With Mac in your class, students have access to powerful free apps to produce exceptional work. What they'll create will surprise you. Over and over again.
With Mac and these powerful free apps, students write, analyze data and present their work in engaging ways. In Pages, you and your students can design stunning newsletters, book reports, flyers and more. For data-rich projects, Numbers helps students build tables, charts and graphs that pop off the page. With Keynote, students and teachers can create presentations with stunning transitions, 3D charts and video. Each app includes templates to get you off to a great start. And they're compatible with Microsoft Office, so it's easy to share files with PC users. With iCloud, you can access your documents, presentations and spreadsheets from any device you're using.
These powerful apps come standard on every Mac, and they bring out the creative side of students and teachers alike. iPhoto makes it easy to put together captivating slideshows, make a photo book to recap the school year, or chronicle a field trip with snapshots. With iMovie, your class can use simple yet powerful editing tools to create video projects, like a documentary on a student election or a trailer for a school play. And with GarageBand, students can record, edit and mix their own music or sound effects for any project. The possibilities for your classroom are endless.
When curious minds meet Mac, amazing things happen. And with Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X, you and your students can produce incredible creative projects with the same tools the pros use. These apps (sold separately) let your classroom take full advantage of the power of the Mac to enhance photographs, make music and edit video. Just like the pros do in the real world.
The Mac App Store is packed with education apps to help your students learn and create. Whether they're using flash cards to practice vocabulary or high-powered statistical tools for math, you'll be amazed at what Mac apps can add to your lessons.
The Mac becomes a more powerful learning tool every time you add a new app. Let your students explore a 3D model of the skeletal system with an anatomy app. Teach about the electoral college with an app that turns data into visually stunning charts and graphs. Or find an art history app that gives your students an up-close look at museum masterpieces around the world. It's easy to search the Mac App Store and find an app (or two or three) to enhance almost any lesson.
The Mac App Store is filled with education apps that students will love. But you'll also find apps designed just for teachers. Organize your lessons for the day, homework for the week and school meetings for the entire year with one of many great planning apps. Or use a popular mind-mapping app to improve brainstorms with other teachers and administrators. There are even apps to help you grade essays more efficiently or create an interactive quiz in minutes.
iBooks is stacked with materials to help you teach practically any subject. These interactive books take full advantage of what Mac can do, so you'll get the full effect of what your students can do.
iBooks has a massive selection of books for your class. Discover children's books, classic novels, biographies, reference guides and textbooks from major education publishers. And many of them are free. You can find curriculum-based textbooks and even custom books created by other teachers. Students can use the iBooks app to download your selected books directly onto Mac or iPad, so they always have access to a locker's worth of textbooks — or even an entire library. And with iCloud, they can access their books wherever they go, on any device they use — Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
See what students and teachers are creating with iBooks Author
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Many textbooks from major education publishers are made specifically for iBooks, taking full advantage of the capabilities of Mac. Students can dive into a dynamic timeline about ancient Egypt, rotate a 3D red blood cell or take an interactive chapter review quiz. If they don't know the definition of a word, one click pulls it up. They can highlight or underline text, make quick notes and create study cards to review later. Studying is an immersive, interactive experience that goes well beyond the words on the page.
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iBooks Author is a free app that helps you make Multi-Touch books for iPad and Mac. So you can teach your subject your way. Create materials tailored to your lesson and class level. Make levelled books for different students. Teach a topic with your unique perspective. Or fill a gap in your existing course materials. You can even use iBooks Author to design an interactive report card. Or have your students use it to make portfolios, class newsletters or yearbooks.
iBooks Author makes it easy to create books that tell a story with video, audio, scrolling sidebars, even 3D objects — iPad or Mac bring them all to life. Get started with beautiful built-in templates, then customize content by dragging and dropping everything in. Include a video or an audio clip on your subject. And just like that, your custom book is ready for class.
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With the Volume Purchase Program, we've made it easy for educational institutions to purchase Mac apps and books in volume.
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iTunes U is a destination within iTunes solely dedicated to great education content. It's filled with countless learning resources like lectures, videos, books and more. And it's all free.
iTunes U is an ever-growing collection of educational content from institutions around the world. Access over 800,000 resources on every topic, many of which can be used to teach Canadian curriculum outcomes and expectations. It's easy to use iTunes U materials to complement your lessons. You can bring in an MIT physicist as a guest lecturer. Let history speak for itself with archival films from the Library of Congress. Or add to a math lesson with an origami tutorial from the Asian Art Museum. Whatever you're teaching, you can find resources to help your students gain a deeper understanding of the lesson at hand.
Browse the iTunes U catalogue
Browse the Primary Source Materials Collection
Learn how to create an iTunes U course
With Apple TV, you can use AirPlay to wirelessly stream the content on a Mac to any HDTV. Use it to lead a class brainstorm or present a lesson. Or have students connect their Mac to share their work, give group feedback and collaborate on projects all via the big screen.
The accessibility features in the Mac make it a powerful learning tool for students with special needs. It comes with a screen reader, closed-captioned support and other innovative accessibility features — right out of the box. For students with cognitive, physical or other disabilities, Mac opens up incredible possibilities for learning.
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Bosnia - A miracle which does not shine
Twelve years after its vicious war, Bosnia and Herzegovina has changed to a tremendous extent. It has seen the large-scale return of displaced persons, the restitution of property and a comprehensive process of demilitarisation. Freedom of movement has been restored. Interethnic violence has largely disappeared. Bosnia remains isolated, however, with few of its citizens feeling optimistic about their future.
This film follows a team of young researchers (Bosnians and foreigners) as they try to discover how much Bosnia has changed. Their journey takes them to the former concentration camps, to Central Bosnia, which has seen some of the worst massacres of the war, and to Doboj, a former frontline town (and infamous former hotbed of Serb nationalism) in Republika Srpska. They talk to the captain of the Bosnian national football team, to rappers and musicians, to an Orthodox bishop and a Franciscan brother, to the Slovak diplomat who still has ultimate power in the county, and to people struggling with the trauma of war.
What emerges from these conversations is a gripping and often deeply moving encounter with people who are able to move beyond recent horrors to construct new lives.
If you would like to watch the complete film please go to ESI's Youtube page.
Alida Vracic and Gerald Knaus in a former explosives factory


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After mostly healing on my druid through pug-5s, I was given the opportunity last night to dps in cat form through a couple of the ICC instances. Most recently, all of my dps play has been on my rogue, and I was shocked at myself for needing to consciously break my rogue habits in order to get back into the "groove" of cat dps.
I literally had to tell myself, "stop playing like a rogue."
(note: table looks nicer on the blog itself than through a reader. Go CSS.)
|Mut Rogue
|Feral Cat
|Both can open from stealth or unstealthed.
|Get SnD and HfB up
|Get Mangle, FF, Rake, SR up
Garrote or Rupture
to start HfB if no one
else puts a bleed up.
Rake and 5-CP Rip
Mangles or Trauma boost these
|Threat Redux:
|ToT misdirect
|Ack! Aggro:
|"Stop it/ Flee it"
Kidney Shot
Cloak of Shadows
|"Tank it"
Survival Instincts (if specced)
Bear + Bash, Frenzied Regen
|DPS Cycle:
|Mutilate <-> Envenom
1 min HfB refreshes
|Juggle to keep these up:
SR, Mangle, Rip, Rake
Shred around the timers
FB finish if timers look good
5 min FF refresh
|Combo Points:
|Use Shred, Mangle, Rake to build to:
5-CP for Rips
3-5 CP for SR
4-5 CP for FB (if you can work it in)
Gouge (incapacitate)
Kidney Shot (stun)
|Maim (incapacitate, requires CP)
Bear + Charge
|Energy Boost:
|.... Thistle Tea?
|30sec: Tiger's Fury!
|FoK, 50 energy
|Swipe, 50 energy
|er, diff kinds of poison? (heavily nerfs damage, though!)
|Heals (weak unless geared and dualspecced)
Tank (weak unless geared and specced)
|Love anyone who will put a bleed up
Envenom refreshes SnD
+3%crit to party from poison
|No poisons to reapply
No weapon skill to level
Love Arms Warriors (trauma) and Bear Tanks (mangle)
Love moonkin (FF)
+5% physical crit aura to party
4% heal on crit with aura
Is one better than the other? No, not really. Both have their ups and downs, and both can do similar amounts of damage... in fact, they buff each other and synergize well together. However: they do have a different playstyle from each other, currently. With a ruptureless cycle on my rogue, though, I must admit that playing her feels a lot simpler than playing my feral druid!
I enjoy both. I like the free and "easy" mutilate/envenom, with her vanish and ToT; I like the feral DoTs and weaving them together, with bear form to help a tank handle an unexpected circumstance. I just need to remember that they do play differently from each other... and to stop using SR at 1-2 CP when it's just going to run out in 10 seconds, because no, Rip and Shred won't refresh it :D
SnD: Slice and Dice, attack speed buff, refreshes on each Envenom/Eviscerate
HfB: Hunger for Blood, 10% damage buff
ToT/TotT: Tricks of the Trade, a misdirect
FoK: Fan of Knives
Mutilate: CP-generating attack boosted by poison on target
Envenom: finisher attack boosted by Deadly Poison on target; buffs poison applications for a short time
Garrote: bleed opener from stealth
Rupture: bleed finisher; I personally run a ruptureless rotation atm.
Kick: interrupt, requires no cp
Gouge: incapacitate, requires no cp
FF: Faerie Fire, -armor debuff
SR: Savage Roar, 30% damage buff
FB: Ferocious Bite, high-damage finisher
Mangle: attack with debuff that boosts bleed and shred damage
Shred: CP-generating attack, requires being behind the target
Rake: CP-generating bleed DoT
Rip: bleed finisher
Feral Charge: Bear-form provides a short root/interrupt; cat provides a daze
Maim: incapacitate effect that requires CP


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Project Management Certificate
Since 2009, the University of New Haven has offered a comprehensive, 30-week, non-credit program teaching the fundamentals of project management concepts. Taught by certified PMP instructors, the certificate program was designed for local professionals looking for an introduction to the field as well as seasoned project managers looking for a formal education in PM.
This eight month non-credit program consists of 5 six-week modules that need to be completed in order to receive the certificate. We currently have 2 cohorts, a Spring cohort that starts in April held at the Orange campus of the University of New Haven and a Fall cohort that starts in October held on the campus of Mitchell College in New London. A third cohort (Winter) is under development to start in January/February with a possible location near the Hartford area.
Click here to view the Project Management Certificate program and module objectives.
Why Get a Project Management Certificate?
Successful Project Management is about delivering projects on time, within budget and to specification, and in turn, delivering these results to the customer. Differentiate yourself to employers, and prospective clients with a Project Management Certificate on your résumé, and learn the key to successful PM. This certificate was designed for local professionals currently working as project managers or aspiring to take on project management responsibilities. Those who complete the certificate will be awarded 90 contact hours/PDUs, more than twice the amount required to qualify for the Project Management Institute's PMP® certification exam.
Why Choose the University of New Haven?
The University of New Haven is a known leader in educational programming. The institution has been continually recognized by U.S. News and World Report magazine as a top-tier regional university in its annual "America's Best Colleges" rankings. The University of New Haven is also a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) of the Project Management Institute.
Who Should Attend?
This class is designed for local professionals looking to learn in-depth training on Project Management from qualified individuals. This is a comprehensive program being offered to teach skills for good project management practices, not simply to help you memorize keywords and techniques to help pass the PMP® certification exam. Students will experience the direct application of their PM knowledge by contributing, managing and leading a cohort project through its full lifecycle.
Topics Covered
Project management concepts, project framework & lifecycle, project initiation, team effectiveness and leadership, project scope, activity sequencing, estimating resources, developing the project schedule, stakeholder management, procurement, risk management, quality management, project execution, quality control, managing project teams, project monitoring / control, communication, negotiation, managing conflict, an introduction to Agile, and other PM methodologies.
Candidates for admission to the certificate program are required to have two years of professional experience. An undergraduate degree is not a requirement; qualified students from all backgrounds are encouraged to register.
How to Register
To become a non-credit certificate student, complete the program interest form and submit it for review and approval.
Click here to fill out the PMC program interest form
Upon acceptance to the PMC program, students will be contacted by an advisor regarding any discount information, instructions for registration/payment, and additional class details.
Click here to register for the 2020 Winter Project Management Certificate program in Orange.
About the University of New Haven
Founded in 1920, the University of New Haven is a known leader in experiential education and provides its students with a unique combination of solid liberal arts and real-world, hands-on professional training. The noncredit Project Management certificate was first offered at the University's New London, Connecticut campus at the Mitchell College in 2009. We began offering the program at the West Haven campus in 2011.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Construction Company Refused to Hire Equipment Operator With Diabetes, Federal Agency Charged
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – A large Pennsylvania construction company which operates 17 quarries and eight asphalt production facilities across Pennsylvania and southern New York will pay $200,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc., made a conditional offer of employment as an equipment operator to Christopher Woomer at its facility in State College, Pa. Woomer, of Tyrone, Pa., worked for several years as a backhoe operator and demonstrated his ability to operate the backhoe during the job interview. When Woomer went for a post-offer company physical, the company learned he has insulin-dependent diabetes. The EEOC charged that Hawbaker unlawfully rescinded the job offer once it learned about Woomer's diabetes.
It is a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) to refuse to hire a qualified individual based on his disability or perception thereof. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (Civil Action Number 4:09-CV-1261) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court through its conciliation process.
In addition to the $200,000 in monetary relief to Woomer, the four-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit enjoins Hawbaker from engaging in further disability discrimination or retaliation for complaining about it. The company is required to modify its post-offer medical examination policies to engage in an interactive process with applicants and their doctors to assess fitness for duty, provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and ensure that individuals with insulin-dependent diabetes are not automatically excluded from employment as equipment operators. All employees in Hawbaker's human resources department and all employees with job duties related to hiring, the reasonable-accommodation process, post-offer and employee medical examinations and medical leave policies will be required to attend at least one day of mandatory training on the ADA. Hawbaker must also report to the EEOC about the company's response to any complaints of alleged disability-based discrimination in hiring and post a remedial notice.
"We are pleased that Hawbaker worked with the EEOC to reach a resolution that not only provides fair compensation to Mr. Woomer, but also includes comprehensive remedial relief, training and the implementation of policies intended to protect people with disabilities from discrimination in hiring and employment," said Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence of the EEOC's Philadelphia District Office, which oversees Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, and parts of New Jersey and Ohio.
Further information about Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc. is available at its web site, www.goh-inc.com.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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So far 2013 has been one serious year. We've launched BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, renamed our company from RIM to BlackBerry, launched the BlackBerry 10 platform, held BlackBerry Jam Europe 2013, and kicked off the BlackBerry Experience Forum events. Well, guess what? We're not done yet!
There's a fire and a passion here at BlackBerry that's palpable. We're on our feet and firing on all cylinders as we provide demonstrations of our powerful new mobile computing platform, present enterprise mobility management for the future of business, and begin to launch the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone in market after market around the world.
What has me excited at this point is that we're well into planning for this year's BlackBerry Live conference, and there's no question that it's going to be one that you won't want to miss. Here's just a taste of what we have in store:
- Get hands on with BlackBerry 10
- Learn about the future of BlackBerry and mobile computing
- Enter the BlackBerry Achievement Awards and win BlackBerry Z10 smartphones
- Meet the leaders, product managers, and experts behind BlackBerry
- Have tough technical and business questions? We have answers.
- BlackBerry Jam Americas conference is now part of BlackBerry Live!
- More…lots more!
BlackBerry Live is our largest conference of the year where BlackBerry community members like you – users, partners, business leaders, IT professionals, enterprise developers, and more – come together to experience the latest BlackBerry innovations. It will be a great opportunity to network with industry experts, to discuss mobile strategy, and, of course, to get some hands-on time with the new BlackBerry 10 devices.
We'll be providing updates on the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog as we approach BlackBerry Live in May. Sneak peeks of sessions, speaker spotlights, how to convince your boss to send you, and a few more tidbits are on the way to keep the energy high as we approach one of our top events of the year.
What are you most looking forward to at BlackBerry Live 2013? Share in the comments below.