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Dr. Marilyn Freeman Appointed Michael E. '78 and Janet Jesanis Endowed Chair
Dr. Marilyn Freeman, the first Michael E. '78 and Janet D. Jesanis Endowed Chair at Clarkson University.
Dr. Marilyn Miller Freeman has been named the first Michael E. '78 and Janet D. Jesanis Endowed Chair at Clarkson University.
As the Jesanis Chair, Dr. Freeman will work to grow Clarkson's materials science program. She will also mentor young faculty who are applying for research funding.
The Jesanis Chair was established by a generous donation from Michael E. Jesanis, Clarkson class of 1978, and his wife Janet, of Sunapee, N.H., in order to create a prestigious faculty chair and attract individuals representing STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields. The Jesanis Chair recognizes Freeman for her scholarly achievements and contributions to her profession and society at large.
Growing up in rural Ohio, Freeman didn't expect her career would lead to managing an over $2 billion annual budget in the Department of Defense. Nor did she think she'd end up at a university in an endowed position. Freeman says that she simply based her career on two principles: her desire to answer burning questions she had about science and her commitment to seize opportunities as they presented themselves – and the rest took care of itself.
After graduating from the University of Dayton (OH) in 1975 with a degree in Physical Science, she began her career as a high school teacher. She has always maintained a passion for teaching and education.
In December 2012, Freeman capped off 34 years as a defense department researcher and administrator. For the last two and a half of those years she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, a Senior Executive Service position. In that role, she was in charge of 21 laboratories and Research, Development and Engineering Centers, with more than 13,000 scientists, engineers, administrative personnel and technicians dedicated to providing the best possible equipment and protection to soldiers.
Prior to that, Freeman held many positions in Army Labs, Army Headquarters and in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Her research career began at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, where she ran a thin film fabrication facility for making novel capacitors devices for weapons systems applications. Her work in this area led her to pursue a M.S. in Materials Science at Stevens Institute of Technology (1990) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Texas – Austin (1996). Her dissertation was entitled "The Role of Defects in Dielectric Breakdown of Diamondlike Carbon Film."
As the Jesanis Chair, Dr. Freeman will work to grow Clarkson's materials science program. She will also mentor young faculty who are applying for research funding. Her experience as a government official who decided where to allocate funding will help her guide faculty in their grant writing skills.
Speaking about her government years, Freeman said, "I got to do what I had a passion for. The answer to an awful lot of the problems we see every day, and in particular the problems in the Department of Defense, come down to materials; so I have always been glad to be a Materials Scientist and Engineer."


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It's tempting to characterize 2007 as the year of consolidation in the metals industry. But if there's a good reason not to, it's because there's every chance that what we've seen during the past year will pale in comparison to what might take place in 2008. As long as the China-fueled commodities boom lasts, there will be demand for natural resources—and producers, profiting from high prices, will have money to spend on acquiring competitors, suppliers or customers.
The steel, aluminum, copper and scrap sectors have all experienced major consolidation during the past year. But if the players in any one of those sectors need any reminder that the consolidation process probably still has some distance to run, they need look no further than recent events in the iron ore industry.
The potential takeover by BHP Billion of Anglo-Australian rival Rio Tinto has caused quite a storm, and rightly so. Steel mills, particularly in China, are concerned about a potential combination of the second- and third-largest producers of a key raw material. But steel producers not reliant on Australian iron ore, and even companies in other metal sectors altogether, also should be watching this potential deal closely. BHP's bid for Rio Tinto tells us so much about how far the consolidation of the raw materials sector has come, and where it might be going.
One thing it demonstrates is that globalization has made it very difficult for regional regulators to control merger and acquisition activity. Only a few years ago, the threat of a single player controlling a significant proportion of a market in one nation or one region was enough to spook regulators. Today, the matrix on which every commodities deal is judged is a global one.
Even in today's industry, there are few metal or raw material markets that really have a high degree of concentration, measured by a few companies controlling a majority of global supply. Iron ore is the exception. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Brazil's Vale control more than 70 percent of the international iron ore market. And if BHP does succeed in buying Rio Tinto, it suggests that we might be a long way from reaching the limits of consolidation in markets like alumina, aluminum, copper or steel. ArcelorMittal's control of 10 percent of global steel production looks puny by comparison.
One certain consequence of a BHP-Rio Tinto deal would be to spark many more mergers and acquisitions. Competitors in the various markets in which the combined company operates—like Vale, Xstrata, Alcoa, United Co. Rusal and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold—would doubtless refocus their attention on the next deal they could make to prevent themselves from falling too far behind their giant rival. Customers of BHP and Rio Tinto would start thinking about consolidation, too, because the easiest way to retain bargaining power when dealing with such a giant supplier would be to grow to be a giant yourself.
With each successful merger, the bar as to what constitutes an acceptable deal from an antitrust perspective will be raised even higher. So if BHP and Rio Tinto form an aluminum producer with 5.5 million tons of capacity, there can't be any complaints if UC Rusal and Alcoa put together deals to take themselves to a similar level. In a short time, half of the world's aluminum production would be in the hands of three companies and there might be little that antitrust authorities could do about it.
The sounds of concern emanating from China about BHP's intentions were muted in the weeks following its announcement, but there's no guarantee that won't change. China and its rapidly growing state-funded metal enterprises are increasingly aware of the need to secure sources of much-needed raw materials.
If a Chinese government entity or a state-owned steelmaker like Baosteel Group Corp does enter the bidding for Rio Tinto it will create a major stir. For all of China's integration into the global economy, there remains strong concern in the West about state-run companies acquiring the cream of the developed world's privately owned enterprises, as the failed attempt by China Minmetals to buy Canada's Noranda three years ago demonstrates.
But it is by no means certain that there would be such strong opposition this time around. Anti-China sentiment isn't nearly as pronounced outside North America—note the lack of much furor when the Chinese government took a stake in Britain's Barclays Bank in 2007. Australia might be expected to kick up the largest fuss, but the country is increasingly dependent on Chinese raw materials demand to underpin its economy, and also has just elected a Prime Minister who is seen as far more pro-China than his predecessor.
Even if a Chinese player doesn't enter the fray this time, the world has at least been served notice that such a deal is a distinct possibility in the future. And for those who still fear Chinese control of Western assets, that should ring alarm bells. Indeed, as publicly listed companies in London and New York continue to gobble each other up and form ever-larger global commodity players, the impact of a major Chinese buy, if and when it finally comes, could be huge. China buying Rio Tinto would be one thing; China acquiring a joint BHP-Rio Tinto in a year or two would have an entirely different impact on the global market.
So 2007 was a year of consolidation, but probably not the year of consolidation. If BHP's bid for Rio Tinto opens the industry's eyes as to where we're heading in this process, 2008 might well be that year. At least until 2009 arrives.
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Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific ExplanationsSeptember 12, 2011http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=peace-of-mind-near-deathNear-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features. The details of what happens in near-death experiences are now known widely—a sense of being dead, a feeling that one's "soul" has left the body, a voyage toward a bright light, and a departure to another reality where love and bliss are all-encompassing.Approximately 3 percent of the U.S. population says they have had a near-death experience, according to a Gallup poll. Near-death experiences are reported across cultures, with written records of them dating back to ancient Greece. Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death—one study of 58 patients who recounted near-death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.Recently, a host of studies has revealed potential underpinnings for all the elements of such experiences. "Many of the phenomena associated with near-death experiences can be biologically explained," says neuroscientist Dean Mobbs, at the University of Cambridge's Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Mobbs and Caroline Watt at the University of Edinburgh detailed this research online August 17 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.For instance, the feeling of being dead is not limited to near-death experiences—patients with Cotard or "walking corpse" syndrome hold the delusional belief that they are deceased. This disorder has occurred following trauma, such as during advanced stages of typhoid and multiple sclerosis, and has been linked with brain regions such as the parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex—"the parietal cortex is typically involved in attentional processes, and the prefrontal cortex is involved in delusions observed in psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia," Mobbs explains. Although the mechanism behind the syndrome remains unknown, one possible explanation is that patients are trying to make sense of the strange experiences they are having.Out-of-body experiences are also now known to be common during interrupted sleep patterns that immediately precede sleeping or waking. For instance, sleep paralysis, or the experience of feeling paralyzed while still aware of the outside world, is reported in up to 40 percent of all people and is linked with vivid dreamlike hallucinations that can result in the sensation of floating above one's body. A 2005 study found that out-of-body experiences can be artificially triggered by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction in the brain, suggesting that confusion regarding sensory information can radically alter how one experiences one's body.A variety of explanations might also account for reports by those dying of meeting the deceased. Parkinson's disease patients, for example, have reported visions of ghosts, even monsters. The explanation? Parkinson's involves abnormal functioning of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that can evoke hallucinations. And when it comes to the common experience of reliving moments from one's life, one culprit might be the locus coeruleus, a midbrain region that releases noradrenaline, a stress hormone one would expect to be released in high levels during trauma. The locus coeruleus is highly connected with brain regions that mediate emotion and memory, such as the amygdala and hypothalamus.In addition, research now shows that a number of medicinal and recreational drugs can mirror the euphoria often felt in near-death experiences, such as the anesthetic ketamine, which can also trigger out-of-body experiences and hallucinations. Ketamine affects the brain's opioid system, which can naturally become active even without drugs when animals are under attack, suggesting trauma might set off this aspect of near-death experiences, Mobbs explains.Finally, one of the most famous aspects of near-death hallucinations is moving through a tunnel toward a bright light. Although the specific causes of this part of near-death experiences remain unclear, tunnel vision can occur when blood and oxygen flow is depleted to the eye, as can happen with the extreme fear and oxygen loss that are both common to dying.Altogether, scientific evidence suggests that all features of the near-death experience have some basis in normal brain function gone awry. Moreover, the very knowledge of the lore regarding near-death episodes might play a crucial role in experiencing them—a self-fulfilling prophecy. Such findings "provide scientific evidence for something that has always been in the realm of paranormality," Mobbs says. "I personally believe that understanding the process of dying can help us come to terms with this inevitable part of life."One potential obstacle to further research on near-death experiences will be analyzing them experimentally, says cognitive neuroscientist Olaf Blanke at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland, who has investigated out-of-body experiences. Still, "our work has shown that this can be done for out-of-body experiences, so why not for near-death-experience-associated sensations?
There is nothing paranormal about near-death experiences: how neuroscience can explain seeing bright lights, meeting the dead, or being convinced you are one of themDean Mobbs, Caroline Watt Approximately 3% of Americans declare to have had a near-death experience [1]. These experiences classically involve the feeling that one's soul has left the body, approaches a bright light and goes to another reality, where love and bliss are all encompassing. Contrary to popular belief, research suggests that there is nothing paranormal about these experiences. Instead, near-death experiences are the manifestation of normal brain function gone awry, during a traumatic, and sometimes harmless, event.
Dr Sam Parnia, director of resuscitation research at the State University of New York and author of What Happens When We Die said: "Every experience, whether near-death or otherwise such as depression, happiness and love is mediated by the brain."In fact many experiences share the same brain regions, and so it is not unusual to be able to reproduce them."Discovering those areas or reproducing them, doesn't imply the experience is not real. By the same token, we wouldn't say love, happiness and depression are not real.
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I had a near death experience and I had PLENTY of oxygen at the time.
Graybeard, good stuff. Because this is a topic that often comes up from theists, I think this would be a good resource for busting them. By the mojo vested in me as moderator, I hereby make this thread "sticky". That sounds bad. We should find an alternative word for it.
People who have NDE undergo PROFOUND changes in their belief systems! Suddenly, they convert to Christians. This CANNOT be compared to someone who undergoes a drug trip such as LSD or whatever. A doctor shows the consistancies of NDE displayed in his studying over 1300 cases.
People who have NDE undergo PROFOUND changes in their belief systems!
Suddenly, they convert to Christians.
This CANNOT be compared to someone who undergoes a drug trip such as LSD or whatever.
A doctor shows the consistancies of NDE displayed in his studying over 1300 cases.
People who have NDE undergo PROFOUND changes in their belief systems! Suddenly, they convert to Christians.
This CANNOT be compared to someone who undergoes a drug trip such as LSD or whatever.
So how many of your specks are required, of your whole being, to function correctly and in relative harmony with the other specks, in order to cause you to function?
What makes those specks do the right or wrong thing?
Do you suppose they each have a conscience, as we do?
Do you think it is connected with ours?
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You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
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Procedural error or not, the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole made the correct decision last week when it overturned an earlier decision to parole murderer Bryan Lankford in 2018.
The "rights" of killer brothers Bryan and Mark Lankford have been preserved since the 1983 murders, and subsequent 1984 convictions, of Robert and Cheryl Bravence. Anyone who served on the jury in 1984 or the retrial in 2008 – and any taxpayer in general — should be offended the brother assassins should continue to appeal and cost the state money through their tactics to drag out the case and obtain publicity for themselves.
The Lankford brothers are violent criminals plain and simple. They beat to death two innocent people. For the families it probably doesn't matter much who did the physical killing and who watched or covered it up or protected the other. That it happened more than 30 years ago and the brothers have been in prison the majority of that time makes no difference: They must continue to face the consequences of their actions.
What we, the public, cannot lose sight of are the victims. Robert and Cheryl are not just a case number, not just Idaho County murders. They were someone's son, someone's daughter … brother, sister, friend. They are more than the sum of what happened to them. Their families still grieve their tragic deaths and mourn them. Their faces are what we must keep in our minds.
Chances are you know more about the people responsible for school and theater and mall shooters than you know about the people who were injured or died. Can you recall the single name of a Green River victim or a student who died at Columbine or Sandy Hook? Sadly it's the mugs of the killers that have been plastered across our televisions time and time again.
When you see the images of Mark and Bryan Lankford pasted in the newspaper or flash across your screen, remember them. But also remember the faces of Robert and Cheryl who died violently and unexpectedly one summer night while they were simply camping. Their rights are the ones we should be fighting to preserve.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soft soap in a bottle that could be dispensed by a convenient little pump handle on the top.
Robert R. Taylor knew he had a phenomenal product on his hands the day he invented it, one that would revolutionize the way people wash their hands.
He was so certain, in fact, that he worried that as soon as word got out about what he called SoftSoap, a much bigger company would put out its own rival brand, shoving his right off the nation's store shelves.
There was only thing to do: If a big company started putting soap in a bottle, figured Taylor, who died last month at age 77, he'd have to make sure they couldn't get it out — at least not conveniently.
Leveraging his company for $12 million, every penny it was worth, he ordered 100 million little bottle hand-pumps from the only two U.S. manufacturers that made them. That created a back order so huge the companies couldn't make pumps for anybody else for more than a year, giving Taylor's brand time to become established.
The risky gamble paid off handsomely. In six months, Taylor had sold $25 million worth of SoftSoap. Earlier this year, Inc. Magazine declared his cornering of the hand-pump market one of the three shrewdest business moves ever made.
Taylor, who died of cancer in Newport Beach on Aug. 29, would go on to create and sell more than a dozen businesses during his lifetime, including those that produced toothpaste, shampoos, various kinds of soap and several hugely popular fragrances.
Most well known among the latter was likely Calvin Klein's Obsession, which he marketed in the 1980s with what was for the time a winkingly risque ad campaign.
"Between love and madness lies Obsession," became the fragrance's popular and sometimes parodied catchphrase.
It was SoftSoap, however, that made Taylor's reputation as a business genius.
"He was just driving to work one day and he had been looking at the soap in the sink and seeing how messy it was and he was like, 'There's got to be a way to not have to deal with that,'" his daughter, Lori Lawrence, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
He came up with the marketing concept first. Then, through home experimentation and some trial and error, created the soap.
He had been doing business since he was a child growing up in Ohio, his family said, once selling a home pigeon to a pet store several times.
He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University in 1959 and, after working as a salesman for Johnson & Johnson for a few years, he and a college buddy formed their own marketing company. In 1964 he formed Village Bath Products with $3,000, later renaming it Minnetonka Corp.
He initially ran the business out of his Minnesota home, making hand-rolled soap balls marketed in homey glass jars and baskets, fruit-scented shampoos and other bath products.
His daughter, who as a child helped him with some of the soap formulas and tested them for him in the bathtub, recalled various failures, including some soaps that would explode.
But, overall, the successes began to pile up.
"He always had a quote: 'Whatever the mind of man can conceive, he can achieve,'" said another daughter, Karen Brandvold. "He lived his life that way."
After buying the Calvin Klein Cosmetics line, Taylor brought out the Obsession and Eternity fragrances in the 1980s.
He sold his Village Bath and SoftSoap brands to Colgate-Palmolive Co. in 1987 and, two years later, Unilever PLC bought his Minnetonka Corp., which included the Calvin Klein fragrances, for $376 million.
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In addition to his daughters, Taylor is survived by his wife, Mary Kay, of Newport Beach. His son, David, died in 1984.


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"My team will have the data support in Visual Studio Premium. We released a version of that with 2008. We've updated it now. We've got partners: Like IBM has done DB2 and we announced with Quest Software that we'll have Oracle support. Database support in the tool from an ALM perspective gives you things like stored procedure refactoring, data testing, moving more specifically to SQL Server itself to match up with it. A lot of improvements have been made around the libraries and things at the core. Things like adding the next version of the Entity Framework that goes into .NET Framework 4.0 and the POCO (or the plain old CLR objects) and things like that. Agility: that's another thing. You want to be able to construct and do your objects very straightforwardly. There's a bunch of brand-new support inside of the libraries in particular and then on top of that. Gives you a combination from the frameworks, all the way up through ALM."


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MipoFanatic wrote:nzfooty - did you want to have a go at adding updates (such as this thread) to your index when your uni exams are finished?
HolyJoe - any chance you could sticky this thread?
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There was a time when the only people who would wear band T shirts were metal heads still loyal to their ageing rocker heroes, Ned's Atomic Dustbin fans, who a decade on hadn't bought any other new items of clothes, and Teenage Fanclub fans who'd give them a quick iron and pop them on each time their favourite Glaswegians hit their local venue
Then a few years back rock T shirts suddenly became cool in an ironic way. The Kate Moss set started wearing Ramones shirts and pretty soon you couldn't move in Top Shop for vintage rock band shirts and disco diva fifteen year olds desperate to snap them up.
Things then got way out of hand and in parts of north London your pre school child wasn't properly dressed without a Pistols or Clash T shirt.
One only feels sorry for those earnest aging rockers whose enquiries about Sonic Youth records to youngsters sporting the Goo t shirt were met by blank stares.
Nevertheless the band T shirt is back and is likely to remain a staple for both kids looking for cool designs and adults wanting to broadcast their musical taste.
So the other day we began arguing in the office about which is the most iconic band T short of all time. A couple of Flat Whites and bit of Facebook research later and we had a list of contenders.
Surveying the list it becomes obvious that band T shirts fall into one of four categories.
1 The classic band logo – This is the band's whose ident is captured in one little graphic device. The band's brand if you will and the illustration that appears on their drumkit, behind them at gigs and obviously on their merch. Band logos have included some of the finest and most iconic pop art emblems of the recent decades and not too surprisingly our list is dominated by them.
2 The classic album cover – Oddly there aren't as many of these in the list as you might think. In fact if you peruse any list of the great albums of all time you'll find that many near the top like The Beatles albums for example, have not been widely replicated on T shirts. The ones that work well tend to have designs that are either black and white or two basic colours. So Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures looks great on your chest, whereas Ziggy Stardust less so. I think The Smiths may have got lucky here. Morrissey famously designed most of their single and album covers or rather appropriated them from 60s films. For reasons of taste (or maybe even budget) they were almost always two colour affairs that look great as T shirts.
3 A logo taken from an album cover – This works occasionally. Think The Stone Roses whose debut album sleeve was covered in lemons – the exact same fruit that became the motif for their most iconic T shirt.
4 Something utterly off the wall that the band ends up championing – see number two.
Anyhow, here then is our list of the ten most iconic rock and roll T shirts of all time. It was close but sadly Ned's Atomic Dustbin didn't quite make the cut.
12 Sonic Youth
As worn by hipsters across the planet. One wonders how many of them are on nodding terms with the album from which the print is taken - Goo. The image is a Raymond Pettibon illustration based on a paparazzi photo of Maureen Hindley and her first husband David Smith, witnesses in the case of the "Moors Murders" serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, driving to the trial in 1966.
Sonic Youth Goo AC/DC Motorhead Stone Roses The Who Nirvana Joy Division Inspiral Carpets Ramones Smiths Beatles Stones


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TORONTO — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will invest nearly 500 million Canadian dollars ($451 million) in its Canadian operations over the next year, a move that signals a continued push by U.S. retailing giants into Canada's key grocery category.
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Nashua driver owes her life to trio of heroesBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
May 04. 2014 10:21PM
NASHUA — It was May 1, 2013, when Joshua Parker and his co-workers at Water's Edge Landscape Associates were building a patio on Manchester Street and heard a loud crash.
"We heard the bang, saw the vehicle on fire and ran over. There was really no thought process behind it," Parker said.
Parker, 42, along with Jose Palacios of Nashua and David Sampson of Billerica, Mass., jumped into action to save a 35-year-old Nashua woman who had crashed her minivan into a tree.
"We did what needed to be done," Parker said.
The men were able to remove Suzanne Winslow from her burning car, while also grabbing a fire extinguisher to help douse the blaze.
"I don't really think about what could have happened if we weren't there," Parker said.
Parker and Palacios, both New Hampshire residents, will be presented with Union Leader Hero Awards this month.
Parker, who recently moved from Nashua to Rindge, said he never spoke with the woman they helped rescue. Two of her relatives, however, did visit the landscapers at a job site shortly after the accident, thanking them for saving Winslow's life.
"It is nice to be recognized, but honestly, I don't think any of us deserve the attention. We all thought it was something anyone would do in that situation," Parker said.
At the time, Deputy Fire Chief Karl Gerhard said the three men should be considered heroes for their actions. He said the woman would not have survived the accident if she had not been immediately removed from the burning vehicle, which was leaking flammable liquids.
"They put themselves in a considerable amount of risk, but they did make a difference, and it was a positive outcome because of that," Gerhard said previously.
Winslow suffered a fractured hip and lacerated spleen in the accident.
The Union Leader Hero Awards honor New Hampshire residents who have risked their lives in the previous year to save or attempt to save the life of another person.
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November 21. 2013 10:46AM
LINCOLN — A stretch of Interstate 93 North near Exit 33 is expected to be closed until late morning Thursday after an early morning crash involving a tractor-trailer unit.
About 5 a.m. Thursday, a 2007 International truck and 28-foot trailer operated by Scotty Grandmaison, 37, of Allenstown, drifted into the high-speed lane before striking and damaging about 60 feet of guardrail.
The tractor-trailer, owned by Performance Transportation LLC of Augusta, Maine, then traveled over an embankment and into the median before coming to rest in a stream.
State police said Grandmaison, who was not injured, fell asleep at the wheel.
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Clip showing a young woman in her knickers playing the new Wii Fit hula hoop game has been faked on behalf of Nintendo. The UK Telegraph and LA Times have been talking about this online video, showing at YouTube and has gotten over 500.000 views, when last reported. The guy that created it Giovanny Gutierrez has said that even though he works at an advertising firm, the video was not a viral ad for Wii. Nintendo is denaying all links to the guy. I don't know this smells funky.
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a dance of the soul
Davis Waldorf School began the holidays with our annual Winter Concert. Traditionally, orchestra, band, and grades second through eighth perform for family and friends. The eighth grade students played and danced to Let It Snow. My daughter (pictured in the light blue top) and I (directing with my youngest perched on my arm in the picture) had choreographed the two and half minute piece with an East Coast style of swing, and I arranged music for a rhythm section, flute, violin, clarinet, and vocals. We practiced about three mornings per week for four weeks in lieu of our morning movement time.
When I partnered the boys and girls and told them they had to dance with each other, both sides feigned resistance, but clearly, they were happy for the sanctioned physical contact! By the third week, we had completed the steps from start to finish, and began the work of polishing up the steps, the arm angles, the spins, and dips.
As a teacher, my role is deeper than merely showing them a dance or teaching them how to play a song together. My role teaches to the soul of the child. In the case of the eighth graders, I am guiding the soul forces of adolescents. Here in this time of their lives when things can get a bit awkward physically, and turbulent emotionally, I must find a way to guide them towards healthy relationships between each other. In our every day contact between men and women, we have to be sensitive, mindful, and respectful. We must acknowledge each other's gifts, give each other a chance to shine, and be both strong and vulnerable. Why not a swing dance as an archetype to human relationships!
In swing dancing, partners have to be able to read signals and gestures, to flow smoothly in unison, sometimes to give one or the other the spotlight, and to achieve an effortless balance of male and female energy. For the eighth graders, they learned through the gentle touch of each other's hands, the movement of their bodies, and the gaze of their eyes that they must truly trust and respect each other. They discovered that their dance had the right energy and the right balance, and was just a whole lot of fun!
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Having now got the lay of the land a little re Dhamma Wheel Forum I think it unlikely that I will be visiting the "Free For All " again. It seems there really may be people who roam Buddhist websites courting controversy. I find it astonishing.
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Take-Two relocating 2K West QA Testing studio to Vegas, baby
Take-Two has announced it's relocating 2K West's QA Testing studio to Las Vegas in an effort to "enhance its operating efficiencies and infrastructure."
The studio will be moved from its current location in Northridge,California to downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, with the move finished by early 2013.
"2K is continually evaluating its expanding needs for future growth," said David Ismailer, 2K COO. "As part of that evaluation, 2K has been considering options for its 2K West QA Testing studio and has chosen to relocate our facility to Las Vegas, Nevada.
"This move will allow 2K to operate a significantly larger and more effective QA facility as we continue to grow our business across all divisions."
It's not too surprising Vegas was chosen, as Nevada has implemented a $10 million Catalyst Fund which provides incentives for business expansions and relocation.
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Police are crediting social media spotlight and the help of news outlets in tracking down Rosie O'Donnell's 17-year-old daughter, who was found in New Jersey Tuesday after missing for a week.
Chelsea O'Donnell, who suffers from mental illness, was found safe at a home in Barnegat Light Tuesday afternoon, hours after her famous mother tweeted about the girl's disappearance and posted a message on her website. The teenager was returned to her mother's home in South Nyack Tuesday night, a week to the day after she ran off with her 6-month-old therapy puppy.
"We're all very happy she's home safe and sound," said Bonnie Christian, the mayor of South Nyack.
South Nyack police said Chelsea O'Donnell had left her cellphone home but had been contacting people with a new one, and police believed she was in a Barnegat Light home down the Jersey Shore. They reached out to authorities there, and Barnegat police went to the home.
Although the person answering the door initially did not want to reveal Chelsea O'Donnell's presence, police said they would not leave until she came out, according to Lt. Keith Germain, spokesman for Barnegat police. She then appeared with her dog and left with police without incident.
She waited to be picked up by South Nyack police at the Barnegat Township Police Department, and left the New Jersey police station late Tuesday night, out of sight of news cameras.
Rosie O'Donnell tweeted shortly before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday that "chelsea has been found safe and is safe in police custody - thank u all for the help and light #missingchildren."
It was not immediately clear what relationship Chelsea O'Donnell had with the people who lived in the Barnegat Light house. Rosie O'Donnell has a vacation home in the Jersey shore area.
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'Walrus' is the handle of Ken Shifar on the ADVrider.com. Ken was nice enough to invite me over one day and I snapped photos and see how I fit on both his incredible 950 Adventure and his custom 690 with a rally shield. Eventually I rode both of these beasts and they are both are awesome. He eventually sold the 950 to get a 990.Read More
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Bedford invited to discuss assault at community meeting
The community meeting comes after police gave conflicting statements in the days following the attack, first saying residents had no reason to increase their vigilance, then warning residents that an individual could be at loose in the community and strike again.
On Tuesday, the New Hampshire Union Leader quoted residents who expressed frustration over the lack of answers from police.
Early Tuesday night, Police Chief John Bryfonski and Town Manager Jessie Levine issued a joint statement saying that a meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bedford High School theater.
Eduardo Quesada, 52, an anesthesiologist and pain medicine doctor, was assaulted about 10 p.m. in his home. Police have said his bloodied and injured wife, Sonia Quesada, ran to a neighbor's house to report the burglary. She has been released from the hospital, but her husband's injuries are more severe.
"The town of Bedford and Bedford Police Department recognize that this crime and the subsequent dissemination of information caused Bedford residents to question their safety. Both the physical safety and security of our residents as well as the sense of safety and security are of paramount concern," the statement reads.
Officials invited the public and said the meeting will "address community concerns regarding public safety and sense of security following the home invasion on Proclamation Court."
1998 home purchase
Meanwhile, a Lakes Region Realtor said she remembered Quesada from 1998 when he purchased a modest home in Gilford. He had landed a job at Lakes Region General Hospital and had just moved to the area, said Karen Beane of Blue Water Realty Group.
"He was a nice guy. He was not married at the time," Beane said. "He was just starting off as a young doctor."
His English was not good, she said. He was expecting a visit from his parents from South America.
According to property records, Quesada purchased the home at 100 Dockham Shore Road. Tax stamps place the transaction at $284,200. Beane said the home was located across the road from lakeside property. He sold it two years later.
Quesada built his luxury, Adirondack-style home in Bedford in 2007. It is now listed for sale for $1.4 million.
Working tirelessly
Police last week said that the Quesadas described the intruder as being at least 6 feet in height with a black ski mask and dark clothing. The couple's 2-year-old was in the house but was not harmed.
In the statement, police said they are working tirelessly in pursuit of the person or persons responsible for the attack.
"The December 6 community meeting is an effort to assist residents in understanding what has been done, what is being done and what residents themselves can do to help the Police Department improve the overall safety of the community," the statement reads.
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GHC API Improvement Status
This Wiki page shall serve as a central place to collect all issues and ideas related to the GHC API. If you feel that something is missing from this page, please add a comment to the comment section below.
Current GHC API design
Most exported API functions that were previously in
IO are now
in the
Ghc monad. Those functions now no longer require a
parameter. To start a GHC API session you now use:
withGhc :: Maybe FilePath -- path to GHC library -> Maybe [String] -- ^ Optional list of static flags. -> Ghc a -- ^ The action(s) to perform. -> IO a
The first parameter can be determined automatically with the ghc-path
package. The second is a set of "static" command line flags, for
example, profiling options. Having those part of the run function for
the monad avoids complicated usage rules (e.g. before parseStaticFlags
had to be called before
load and
setTarget work like before.
has been split up into:
parseModule :: ModuleName -> Ghc ParsedModule typecheck :: ParsedModule -> Ghc TypecheckedModule desugarModule :: TypecheckedModule -> Ghc DesugaredModule loadModule :: TypecheckedMod m => m -> Ghc ()
TypecheckedMod has two instances
TypecheckedModule, and
DesugaredModule. A
DesugaredModule is
very similar to a
CoreModule, but the latter contains less
information, while the former also contains all the information from
the parser and typechecker. Users should therefore be careful about
memory leaks and discard old intermediate results as soon as
Compile errors are thrown inside the
Ghc monad and can be
caught with
IO errors can also be caught
ghcCatch. (If we get a type class that allows handling exceptions in any monad, we should add instances in a wrapper package outside of the
GHC package.)
Warnings are logged automatically and can be
retrieved using
getWarnings or discarded using
clearWarnings. An exception currently only contains the
name of the phase it occurred in and the error message(s).
Current Work
I am currently evaluating what information can be added to the output of the various phases and how hard it would be to modify or create intermediate types (e.g., typecheck a "hand-crafted" module).
Additionally, logging of errors and warnings is somewhat spread-out,
so I try to find the places where that happens and incorporate that
into the
Ghc monad.
Project Overview
Simon Marlow reported that the last time he tried to work on the GHC API, it turned into a huge refactoring task. This could mean that it may take a while until bigger changes are visible and it is very likely that programs that currently use the GHC API will break. Hopefully, though, it will lead to a more usable GHC API and maybe to a more hackable code base in general.
I plan to work with a use case and try to make it as clear and simple as possible by adapting the GHC API. The use case will be a program that generates HTML pages for Haskell programs which will give access to more and more semantic information. E.g. it will start out with linking references of names to their definitions (possibly to import statement or link to other module), then give typing information, and later give types for sub-expressions. A lot of this is already possible, but some may not.
This use case will hopefully reflect many features an IDE or code analysis tools need. Once this is working, we can move on to performing various transformations on the given code, or only a selected part of it. This will should help figure out what information needs to be available to work with exposed, separate compilation phases.
There are also a few non-functional requirements:
- Using the API should be fairly self-explainatory and safe. I.e., where necessary inputs are checked for invariants and there should be no implicit dependencies. More concretely:
- If several phases use the same AST, the AST will contain a type parameter which corresponds to the phases that have been performed with it. Hence, if a function requires input of type
AST Phase3then it is clear that the phases with types
AST Phase2 -> AST Phase3and
AST Phase1 -> AST Phase2must be performed first.
- GHC uses some evil hacks to simulate global variables but has some implicit assumptions when those are actually accessible. If you call a function too early, ie., before a certain variable is initialised, GHC will die with a very unhelpful error message. I hope to make as many of those dependencies explicit and encode those dependencies via the API (mostly via types).
- If several phases use the same AST, the AST will contain a type parameter which corresponds to the phases that have been performed with it. Hence, if a function requires input of type
Trac Tickets Related to the GHC API
- #1467 - GHC API: expose separate compilation stages
- #1886 - GHC API should preserve and provide access to comments
- #654 - Cabalization of the GHC library.
Possibly Related
- #2159 - Use a more efficient representation than
- #1631 - Make the External Package Table contain
Related Documents and Discussions
- The GSoC proposal
- Related GSoC project Dynamically Loaded Plugins for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
- Haskell-cafe question: How to get the typechecked AST?
- Porting HaRe to the GHC API Technical report describing some difficulties with the current API.
- GHC as a Library, the Haskell Wiki page
- GHC Commentary on the GHC API (may be outdated)
- hint, an attempt to provide a simplified and stable subset of the GHC API
Various Ideas, Comments, Questions
- Interface Stability
- Is there a way to reduce version-skew for clients of the GHC API (currently, there is no stability guaranteed at all, so if you don't want to live with lots of #ifdefs and breakage, you keep delaying your fantastic GHC API-base projects "until the dust settles") (Claus Reinke)
- Would it be possible to separate the monolithic GHC API into two parts, one providing a simplified and stable subset/wrapper of commonly used functionality (as in Hint, hs-plugins, GHCi), the other providing all the rest, with no stability guarantees? (Claus Reinke)
- Ast Traversals/Queries, see: GhcApiAstTraversals
- Is it possible to use standalone deriving to get a generic programming framework over the ASTs without blowing up GHC's code for its own use (deriving Data, etc.)? (Claus Reinke)
- David Waern mentions deriving `Data.Traversable` for GHC's AST
- GHC library directory in GHC API clients
- the need to hardcode the libdir is very fragile and troublesome (cf. the Haddock version during build thread on
cvs-ghcfor just one example). would it be possible to integrate the path for the compiling GHC as a default, so that one only needs to specify an explicit path if the default doesn't work (compiling GHC moved/unavailable)? (Claus Reinke)
- this has been addressed by the new ghc-paths package
- the need to hardcode the libdir is very fragile and troublesome (cf. the Haddock version during build thread on
- binary incompatibility of GHC versions
- this also affects GHC Api clients, see the Haddock 2 in GHC build issues for an infamous example
- From
-- NOTE: -- - things that aren't in the output of the typechecker right now: -- - the export list -- - the imports -- - type signatures -- - type/data/newtype declarations -- - class declarations -- - instances -- - extra things in the typechecker's output: -- - default methods are turned into top-level decls. -- - dictionary bindings
- is there a way to make all the useful functionality of GHCi more easily available from the GHC API? ie, refactoring GHCi so that both it and other GHC API clients can use the same collection of useful functionality? (Claus Reinke)
- dynamic loading of Haskell code, ala hs-plugins, but without
the version/platform issues (GHCi has to be able to do this
anyway, but it would be nice to have the ugly bits hidden,
such as
unsafeCast#, or whatever it was). that might require a standard for typeReps, if I recall correctly.. (Claus Reinke)
- since the refactoring ideas below mention error handling: it appears that some GHC Api functions output error messages directly, without providing a means to handle/capture them in callers. I ran into one such instance a while ago (#1463, comments 8, 10, 11)
- ... more comments here ...
Refactoring Ideas
There follow some notes about desirable refactorings, mainly around compiler/main/HscMain.lhs. These will be important when looking at how to modify the GHC API to expose the individual compilation stages. At the moment, the compilation stages are all hidden behind the
HscMain interface, which in turn is hidden behind the
DriverPipeline module, which is used by the code in
GHC. In order to untangle things, we need to make some changes. Not all of these are essential, and some of them might not even end up being good ideas at all; this is just a list of things we (Simon M & Simon PJ) noticed while doing a code walkthrough.
- We should separate the action of reading the old interface from checking its usages. Currently the two
are mixed up in
checkOldIface. (in the new story with fingerprints instead of versions, we also want to discard the old interface as soon as we decide to recompile, because it isn't necessary for calculating the new versions now).
- Perhaps
HsModuleshould indicate whether the module is an
hs-bootmodule or not. That would reduce the number of arguments to
tcRnModuleby one.
- It would be nicer to return error messages from each phase directly rather than invoking the
log_actioncallback in
- What is currently called
RenamedStuffshould be
HsModule Name. Hence, the
tcg_rn_files in
TcGblEnvcan be merged into a single
- instead of passing a
tcRnModuleto ask for the renamed syntax, use a flag in
mi_globalsis in the wrong place: it is not part of the interface. The reason it is where it is is because we need to keep it when a module is considered for compilation but not recompiled; when we generate the
ModDetailsfrom the
ModIface. ToDo: find a better place to put it.
Change Log
- introduced the
Ghcmonad which is (currently) defined as
Session -> IO (Either GhcError a)where Session is mutabe. This improves the following:
- API functions no longer need to pass around sessions explicitly. The single-threaded usage of a session is enforced.
- More error information than a simple
- Errors can be handled in one place rather than case matching after each API call
- ToDo: evaluate role of
- Functions that previously worked on a
Sessionare now in
newSessionis now
withGhcwhich is the exported run function for the
parseStaticFlagshas been removed, the functionality is now integrated with
withGhc. Before users had to be really careful in what order to call functions.
- ATM, most things that import
GHC.hsare broken due to the monadification.
Open Issues
- Which operations should automatically call
- Get Haddock to work.
- Error handling strategy.
- Remove
compileToCore(it says it's there for backwards compatibility only)
- What's the deal with
SuccessFlag? Shouldn't that be
Either SomeError ()?
- Comment in HscTypes:
-- If the module does come from the home package, why do we look in the PIT as well? -- (a) In OneShot mode, even home-package modules accumulate in the PIT -- (b) Even in Batch (--make) mode, there is *one* case where a home-package -- module is in the PIT, namely GHC.Prim when compiling the base package. -- We could eliminate (b) if we wanted, by making GHC.Prim belong to a package -- of its own, but it doesn't seem worth the bother.We now have a separate
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Ranchero Grilled California King Salmon Steak
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These salmon steaks are full of spicy goodness. Fresh roasted corn salsa is a great accompaniament to the full-flavored fish.
1 cup orange juice
1⁄2 cup lime juice
1⁄4 cup olive oil
4 garlic cloves, crushed
6 serrano chiles, seeded and minced
4 tsp. lime zest
8 6-oz. salmon steaks
7-8 ears of corn, roasted and cut off cob
3 1⁄2 cups black beans, cooked
4 Roma tomatoes, diced
2⁄3 cup green onions, thinly sliced
2⁄3 cup cilantro, chopped
1 tsp. chili powder
2⁄3 cup reserved marinade
1. In a bowl, whisk together orange and lime juice, oil, garlic, 1⁄3 of the chopped chiles, lime zest, and season. Reserve 2⁄3 cup. Place salmon steaks in remainder and marinate 1-4 hrs.
2. In a large bowl, combine corn, beans, tomatoes, green onions, cilantro, remaining chiles, chili powder, and reserved marinade. Season to taste, and let stand 30 min.
3. Remove salmon from marinade and grill, approx. 4 min. per side.
4. Serve salmon on a bed of roasted corn salsa.


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OLYMPIC and Paralympic champions raced through Northwich on Sunday in one of the most exciting cycle races organisers have known.
European Team Pursuit Champion Katie Archibald crossed the gruelling uphill finish line a massive one minute and 31 seconds faster than her closest rivals in the Cheshire Classic Women's Road Race.
Around 80 riders, including Dame Sarah Storey and Laura Trott, battled it out over 92km, which included 12 ascents of 'The Cliff' in Acton Bridge.
It was Katie's first time riding in the Classic, organised by Northwich's Weaver Valley Cycling Club, and also her first road race of the season, setting her up for the Women's Tour of Britain from May 7 to 11.
She is riding the Tour with teammate Hayley Jones, who helped Katie make the break from the main bunch on Sunday and placed second.
Speaking to the Guardian at the finish line Katie said: "That was tough.
"I misheard and thought the gap was four seconds when actually it was 54, then that opened up to the minute.
"The Classic was a pretty big deal because it's my first UK road race of the season and myself and Hayley are riding in the GB team for the Tour of Britain.
"We've got to be able to work together and trust each other."
The pair race for Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International, a team created by Paralympic gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey and her husband and fellow Paralympic gold medallist Barney Storey MBE, the manager and director of the team.
Dame Sarah, a previous winner of Classic, was captain on the road for Pearl Izumi, which swept the board when prizes were presented after the race.
Pearl Izumi won the team prize, four of its cyclists placed within the first 10, Katie Archibald won the sprint prize, Nicola Juniper was the highest placed Second Category rider and Hayley Jones won the prize for most aggressive rider.
Andy Wood, race organiser, said: "Wow, what an amazing race.
"From the start it was attack after attack after attack and I don't think we've had a race like that before.
"We'd like to thank everyone for coming out and supporting the race and thank the community for accommodating the race, we really appreciate their support."
The race was sponsored by Taylor Wimpey, Delamere Dairy, Wates and Adana Construction, Sport Cheshire, Epic Cycles, de Vere Venues and Your Sports Therapist.
A DELIGHTED Dame Sarah Storey praised fellow cyclists after her team swept the board at Sunday's Cheshire Classic Women's Road Race.
Rider Katie Archibald, from Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International, won the race with a comfortable lead of one minute and 31 seconds.
Dame Sarah, a Paralympic Gold Medallist said: "It was fantastic.
"The team performed brilliantly.
"I was captain on the road which meant I was instigating moves and keeping the pace high as much as I could during the race – I was super domestique for everyone for the day.
"Katie was on fire.
"I was having a chat with her at the end and saying 'you can do this, you can go away on your own with a couple of laps to go and win solo'."
Dame Sarah also ensured that Nicola Juniper, who currently leads British Cycling's National Series, was supported and came in at fourth place, two seconds after Wiggle Honda rider and Olympic gold medallist Laura Trott, who came third.
Archibald said: "With Sarah having won it a couple of years ago and being figurehead of our team I think she was mama hen to quite a few of us and it was a huge advantage having her backing us."
Race organiser Andy Wood, from Weaver Valley Cycling Club, said: "I want to say a big thank you to everyone who turned out today – riders and helpers.
"It's demonstrated the growth in women's cycling at the moment and the crowd at the cliff and on the bridge over the bypass was unbelievable."
The Results
1) Katie Archibald (Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International)
2) Hayley Jones (Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International)
3) Laura Trott (Wiggle Honda)
4) Nicola Juniper (Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International)
5) Lowri Devey (Abergavenny Road Club)
6) Lydia Gurley (Merlin Cycles)
7) Gabriella Shaw (Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International)
8) Katie Curtis (Starley Primal Pro Cycling)
9) Molly Weaver (Epic Cycles – Scott WRT)
10) Ann Christian (Epic Cycles – Scott WRT)
The Prizes:
Delamere Dairy Intermediate Sprint: Katie Archibald
Sports Cheshire Team Prize: Pearl Izumi Sports Tour International
de Vere Venues Most Aggressive Rider: Hayley Jones
Epic Cycles Highest Placed 2nd Cat: Nikki Juniper
Epic Cycles Highest Placed 2nd Cat: Nikki Juniper


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Teacher of Geography with Travel & Tourism
Job: Teacher of Geography with Travel & Tourism
School: St Mark's West Essex Catholic School, Harlow, Essex
Salary: MPS/UPS (Including Outer Fringe Allowance)
Start date: January 2014
The governors of St Mark's West Essex Catholic School in Harlow in Essex are seeking to appoint a Teacher of Geography with Travel & Tourism commencing in January 2014. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic professional and an excellent classroom practitioner.
St Mark's is a successful, well-ordered and caring Catholic school for boys and girls aged from eleven to eighteen. We are committed to the highest level of achievement for pupils of all abilities and we recognise that there are no limits to a child's potential. Our aim is simple; to facilitate academic and personal success in a rigorous learning community and in a culture which embraces the Gospel values of - serving others, tolerance, trust, respect, prayer and forgiveness. Our greatest resource is our team of well-qualified, dedicated staff who work creatively and professionally to give every student the chance to flourish and achieve our goals of academic excellence and personal success.
The school's recent Ofsted is Good with Outstanding Features.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Specialism and passion for Geography and Travel and Tourism
- Have excellent teaching skills
- Ability to inspire students- Ability to teach Geography for KS3, 4 and 5 and Travel and Tourism for KS5- Excellent interpersonal skills
Regular and on-going training is organised.
Closing date: As soon as possible
For more information and to apply please contact Tarja Aila at our partner Capita Education Resourcing or call Tarja on 0800 022 3829 and have a look at our recruitment website http://stmarksschool-essex.co.uk/Home
Safeguarding: St Mark's West Essex Catholic School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointments are subject to satisfactory medical and enhanced CRB clearance and references.


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Stockton, CA
LaVerne Eleanor Held
July 22, 1926 - November 15, 2012
LaVerne Held passed peacefully into eternal life while at home in Stockton, California, surrounded
by her loving family. Born to Rita and Ray Hall in Prescott, Arizona, and as an only child, LaVerne grew up in the Prescott community surrounded by many friends. She attended two years of college at Mount St. Mary's in Los Angeles, California. LaVerne returned home to Prescott and began a career training and working as a Dental Assistant. She and her parents were active parishioners in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church community.
LaVerne resided in Phoenix, Arizona, San Diego, California and in 1970 she and her nine children moved to Stockton, California. The importance of attending Catholic schools and membership in the local Catholic parish community were core values to LaVerne and her family. She joined the Cathedral of the Annunciation Parish and enrolled her children at Annunciation School and St. Mary's High School. Knowing that it was important for parents to be involved in their children's school life, LaVerne volunteered as a yard duty Mom and assisted in the weekly hot dog lunch program at Annunciation School. In 1971, she joined the Annunciation School Faculty and Staff and served for 40 years as the Religion teacher for Kindergarten and First Grade. While at Annunciation School,
LaVerne worked as the school's Religion Coordinator, assisting with the all of the Religious education preparation for First Communion and Reconciliation programs, taught music to a variety of classes and continued as yard duty supervisor. LaVerne's love and enthusiasm for teaching the Catholic faith was visually expressed by her creation of God's Corner in her classroom. Over the course of 40 years some 2400 children sat on the floor in God's Corner listening and singing about scripture stories while remaining attentive to LaVerne's teaching that the experience of faith and love of God would be the focus of each child's formation. In 1998, LaVerne received the Diocese of Stockton, Catholic Schools Office annual Marian Award honoring her for her tremendous positive impact on the faith formation of students.
LaVerne is survived by her children and in-laws including, Laura Held (San Carlos), Lucas and
Ellen Held (Clovis), Lynne and Sean Burns (San Jose), Leslie Gregori (Santa Rosa), Laurence and Jenn Held (Stockton), Louis Held and Nicki Craig Held
(Linden), Louise and Rick Northcutt (Stockton), Lance and Reyna Held (Stockton) and Loretta and Craig Cecconi (San Leandro). Her grandchildren include Breanna and Brandon Seaton, Kacey and Austin Held, Brett and Kathleen Burns, Sam and Jane Held, Alexa and Olivia Held, Mary and Scott Craig, Maxwell Kinser, Derrick and Zachary Held and great grandchild, Jaxon Gonzalez. Also survived by former husband and
father of all nine children, Lucas T. Held.
Family and Friends are invited to meet and attend a Memorial Mass 11:00 am on Monday, November 26, 2012 at the Cathedral of the Annunciation, 425 W. Magnolia Street, Stockton, CA. A reception will follow at Annunciation School Gymnasium. Burial will be private. As an expression of sympathy, and in lieu of flowers, those desiring to make a memorial contribution in LaVerne's memory are requested they be directed to: The LaVerne Held Tuition Assistance Fund, Annunciation School, 1110 North Lincoln Street, Stockton, CA 95203 or Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95204. Casa Bonita Funeral Home, 2500 Cemetery Ln., Stockton, CA in charge of arrangements.
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Second Malignancies after Treatment of Early Stage Breast Cancer with Lumpectomy and Radiation or Mastectomy without Radiation
OncoLink Assistant Editor
Last Modified: November 2, 1999
Presenter: E. Obedian
Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine
Multiple studies have demonstrated the clinical efficacy of breast conserving therapy (BCT) for early stage breast cancer. Despite decades of experience, however, there are limited data regarding the safety of this treatment, specificially the risk of second malignancy.
- The records of 1029 patients undergoing lumpectomy and radiation therapy (BCT) were compared with those of 1387 patients undergoing mastectomy (MAST) from January, 1970 to December, 1990.
- Charts were reviewed with attention to second malignancies (contralateral breast vs. non-breast), age, stage, history of tobacco use, radiation technique, dose, and systemic treatment.
- Ipsilateral tumor was scored as a recurrence, and lobular carcinoma in situ was excluded from analysis.
- The median follow-up period was 14.6 years for the BCT group and 16 years for the MAST group.
- 158 contralateral breast cancers and 164 non-breast cancers (mostly gastrointestinal and gynecologic malignancies) occurred in the group as a whole.
- The 15 year risk of a second malignancy was 17.5% for BCT patients and 19% for MAST patients (NS).
- Patients who developed a second malignancy had a significantly decreased survival (55 vs. 69% at 15 years).
- The only factor predictive of a second malignancy was tobacco abuse.
- Despite the potential carcinogenic risk associated with breast irradiation as a component of BCT, there is no evidence of an increased rate of second malignancy in this study.
- Because the latency of radiation-induced malignancy can be more than 8-10 years, though, further follow-up is warranted.
- What is clear from these data, as well as from myriad other sources, is that patients who smoke tobacco should stop.
ASTRO coverage is sponsored, in part, by Varian Medical Systems, Inc.


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Toddler Friendly Road Trip Around Sydney
Planning for a road trip with a toddler is never easy and requires many thoughts and considerations. This year, we planned yet another 2 weeks long road trip around Sydney to escape the 365-day long summer in Singapore.
Upon arriving in Sydney Airport on the first day, we drove on to our first pit stop of the trip, Martys at Little Beach located at Nelson Bay which took around 2 hours 45 minutes. This was not a very wise choice as we realized that (1) there is nothing much at Nelson Bay for a toddler to do and (2) accommodations around Port Stephens and Newcastle have strict regulations that children between 2-12 of age are required to have a bed of their own (most other hotels/motels typically allow children of the same age to stay for free if they are sharing the existing bedding). Fortunately, we only had to spend one night before we proceed on to Port Macquarie the next morning.
Port Macquarie is a beautiful place to visit for families with young children with its local attractions such as Koala Hospital and Roto House. There is a big grass area around Roto House that the little one can run around freely. Another place in Port Macquarie that shouldn't be missed by young children is the Pancake Place. There is a nice corner set up for children with stuffed toys and story books during their time there.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jan 2007 23:00 UTC
Today, 00:00 CET, Vista will be on sale here in The Netherlands; some computer shops will even be open tonight to cater to the early adopters. In all honesty, I do not think we will see Windows 95-like craziness, but still, I think a simple poll is in order. What is the feature in Windows Vista you have been looking forward to the most? Read more to pass your vote.
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The name Rapa originated in the German Rabe (Rappe in Middle High German), i.e., a raven. In order to distinguish themselves from other members of the Rapa family, the members of this family added the name of the town of Porto, and thus the name Rapoport was formed . . . The family escutcheon of Abraham Rapa of Porto shows a raven surmounted by two hands raised in blessing (indicating the family's priestly descent).
"How Much Greek in Jewish Palestine לגרסאות ופירוש תיבות אלה, ראה דברי הגר"ש ליברמן "


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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Roman Combat Mechanics
2 comments:
- Unknown said...
Be a bit careful citing the WWII SLA Marshall studies on how many infantrymen fired (or aimed and fired) their rifles. There's been a fair amount of review calling Marshall's methodology into doubt.
But that doesn't mean I disagree with your basic thesis, that battles had an ebb-and-flow. Although I've not personally been in real combat, I've observed this in firefights in training. Part of the Roman advantage was in training; troops were probably trained to stab not only as more effective, but also as it takes less effort. So it's likely that well-trained legions (or auxiliaries) had better stamina than many of their opponents.
- December 13, 2011 at 9:46 PM
I didn't understand how he leaves "terrain" off that list, but then I saw from the wikipedia link that his other speciality is air warfare!
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Did anyone end up getting these figures. I've been looking for this set for a while now and I just don't come across them like I thought I would. I still see auctions for the Series 1 and Series 2 sets, but I rarely if ever see an auction for the Series 3 figures.
Just checking completed auctions & a set sold for $299.99 plus $42. shipping.
Quote from: DSJ on February 15, 2012, 04:18 PMJust checking completed auctions & a set sold for $299.99 plus $42. shipping.Holy crap! Looks like I should try to pick this up on the Project 1/6 website. They last time I looked they were still in stock and were only listed for $125 plus shipping.
I think you better man, another one sold & this time for $329.99 plus $36. shipping...
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Jimmy Page's Recording Secrets
There's no greater icon of late '60s and early '70s British blues-rock tone than Jimmy Page, the legendary guitarist with Led Zeppelin. From huge and gutsy to atmospheric and mellow, from a ominous rhythm-guitar crunch tone to soaring, wailing lead, Page's sonic palette was every bit as broad as his chops were versatile.
[From Gibson.com]
Any player who stamps his signature so indelibly into the annals of rock tone becomes extremely influential to others seeking to make a big sound in their own playing, and the visual that persists alongside that sonic imprint is of Jimmy Page strutting an arena stage with a sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard or EDS-1275 Double-Neck in front of a pair of roaring Marshall amp stacks.
And live, this is indeed how a major part of the tone was generated. In the studio, however, there was often a whole lot more going on—or a whole lot less—and running out to duplicate the Page live rig might not get you very close to sounding like the Page of "Dazed and Confused", "Communication Breakdown", "Ramble On", or "Whole Lotta Love".
For one thing, his use of the Les Paul and EDS-1275 weren't exclusive, but that isn't such a big secret: live performance photos and film footage often show him breaking out a Fender Telecaster or a Danelectro DC model, although they doesn't reveal the whole story—that Page also used a Tele for many of the recorded tracks on the earlier Led Zeppelin albums, as well as for the famous solo in "Stairway to Heaven".
Page and a 60's Telecaster
More shrouded in myth is Jimmy Page's amp of choice, for the seminal first two Zep albums in particular. Or to put a firmer finger on it, Page's early recording amp is more of a mystery within a riddle within an enigma—not only is this studio rig a far cry from the big Marshalls he used live, whatever it actually was remains shadowy and elusive to this day...formative artists might not be entirely keen to reveal their signature tones. Crafting your own sound—and thereby standing out from the crowd—is a big part of the game, and dropping every Tom, Dick, and Mary an easy clue to copping your tone isn't in the best interest of any guitarist who wants their playing to remain distinctive and instantly recognizable.
The mystery part of that early Page studio amp is that, rather than recording with a Marshall head and cab, the Zep guitarist purportedly used a much smaller tube amp, and one that was also far cheaper and more mundane. The riddle within that mystery is… which one? It's fairly widely reported that Page used a small to medium-sized amp made by the Valco company of Chicago, possibly a combo sold under the Supro brand name. One tributary of this legend holds that it was a Supro Thunderbolt (and amp, it so happens, that's also associated with Jimi Hendix's recording career). This combo had a single 15-inch Jensen speaker and a pair of 6L6GC tubes in the output stage, but put out far less volume than higher-end amps using similar tubes, probably something more in the 25-watt range rather than the 45 or 50 watts that a similarly equipped Fender Super Reverb produced, for example.
The mere implication that Page used a late '50s or early '60s Thunderbolt has sent the prices of these amps soaring on the vintage market from just a couple hundred bucks a few years ago to well over a grand, and upwards of two, in recent sales. And that's without any absolute verification that this was indeed "the Jimmy Page studio amp" of legend. At the time, Valco used the same handful of circuits in a range of amplifiers manufactured not only for Supro, but also for National, Airline, Gretsch, Harmony and others. To compound the confusion, Jimmy Page himself has stated in numerous interviews that he used to own "as many as 50" small Valco amps back in the late '60s and early '70s, and the studios he recorded in no doubt would have had a few of their own in the gear closet. A very different amp from the Thunderbolt was donated by Page to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame & Museum in Cleveland, OH, a smaller Valco-made combo with rare and unusual 6973 output tubes. These tubes, and the smaller speaker, make such amps sound quite different from each other, so did Page use the Thunderbolt, the 6973-equipped amp, or maybe both?
The enigma within all of this is… it doesn't really matter! Jimmy Page himself hasn't been willing to put the mystery to rest yet, and perhaps he isn't even sure of the truth himself at this point. Or there's a very good chance that he used more than one amp during the recording of each and every Led Zeppelin album. Never mind. Get your hands on any of these old Valco-made amps, crank them up—perhaps with a booster pedal in front—and it's easy to convince yourself that they sound exactly like the soaring, toothsome lead tone on "Communication Breakdown". Or plug into an old Fender Champ or Danelectro 1482, close your eyes, and apply the appropriate Page-esque riffs, and you might easily believe any of those is channeling the quirky, toneful Valco mojo. As for the truth, we will probably never know.
Originally by Dave Hunter, Gibson.com
Getting The Jimmy Page Recording Tone
There can be only one Jimmy Page...but to get a great tone in the style of early Led Zeppelin songs...here's our Jimmy Page Formula!
1) Get a small tube amp and crank it up; 2) Use a good Booster pedal; 3) '60's Telecaster like Jimmy used and...you'll get a great tone!
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I am about 3 days post partum with my second child. After a few attempts at getting him to latch on, my nipples got really sore and cracked. I tried to persevere through it, but it got to the point where I was screaming during our attempts and in terrible pain if I let him stay on. I didn't want to give up completely, so I spent today pumping and giving him the expressed milk in a bottle. Hopefully, that hasn't ruined my chances to have him latch on correctly. My nipples are still very sore, but I think they are getting better today and my milk came in this afternoon. The problem now is that I'm feeling terribly engorged and I'm not sure what my next step should be. Since the baby went practically all of yesterday without eating anything, I pumped about every 2 hours today and he gobbled up everything I gave him. Should I keep pumping at that schedule or is that what's causing the engorgement? Like, am I overproducing now because of all of the pumping? Would it be better to try to get him to latch on now that I know there's milk, even if that will probably still be very painful?
I successfully nursed my first for 9 months, so I know I can do this, but I'm really worried that I'm screwing things up by using the bottle already. Please help!


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling after the government revealed that economic growth shrank in the final quarter of 2012, the first time that's happened in more than three years.
Dow Jones industrial average is down 13 points to 13,941.30. The broader S&P futures have given up 0.60 points to 1,507.20. Nasdaq futures are up 4.4 points to 3,158.
Part of the reason for slowing growth was the biggest cutback in U.S. defense spending in four decades.
The Commerce Department says the economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.1 percent.
It immediately raises questions about the strength of the economic recovery going forward, given the tax increases that went into effect this month.
Attention now turns to the Federal Reserve, which wraps up a two-day policy meeting Wednesday.


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Rodeo Games is bringing Warhammer to the mobile market with Warhammer Quest, a treasure-hunting dungeon crawler in which players control a party of four.
It's currently set for a Spring 2013 release, a far cry from most iOS games, which are usually out a week after they're announced.
If you're into it, you can check out the teaser trailer. It's kind of boring, and the man talking sounds tired. It also sounds like he's recording from inside a tin of sardines.
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Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. This annual prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is for outstanding achievement in observational astronomy by an astronomer under the age of 36.
Kalirai, 34, received the award for his contributions to the field of stellar and galactic astrophysics, including establishing a fundamental relation of stellar astrophysics, the initial-final mass relation that maps the fraction of mass loss that stars experience over their lives.
"Being a professional astronomer is the most rewarding profession in the world," Kalirai said. "I get to use some of the most advanced tools that humans have ever created to address the universe's biggest mysteries. It doesn't get cooler than that! The Pierce Prize from the AAS is the biggest honor I've received in my life and recognizes the many years of hard work and passion that I've put into astronomy."
Kalirai's work has provided new insights on the processes by which "stellar death" occurs, and directly impacts the future evolution and properties of our Sun. Working with his colleagues, he has led studies based on over 40 nights of telescope time on the 10-meter Keck Telescopes in Hawaii.
Kalirai's research leads to new insights on the life cycle of a star by using a novel technique that connects the properties of stars that are at the end of their lives to those that are still burning hydrogen. Although one cannot see any particular star at both life cycle stages at the same time, Kalirai tailors his study to stars that are members of large clusters, where all of the objects have the same age. According to his research, our Sun will lose 45 percent of its mass when it exhausts its hydrogen supply several billion years from now.
Kalirai has also devised new methods to measure the age of the Milky Way galaxy using white dwarf stars, the remnants of stellar evolution. His recent work suggests that the inner halo of our galaxy is 11.4 billion years old.
Kalirai received a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of British Columbia in 2004. He was then selected as a Hubble Fellow Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz before coming to the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland. Kalirai is currently an associate astronomer at STScI and an associate researcher at the Center for Astrophysical Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his many research projects, Kalirai is the Deputy Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope.