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Look in the mirror and you won't see your microbiome. But it's there with you from the day you are born. Over time, those bacteria, viruses and fungi multiply until they outnumber your own cells 10 to 1.
As babies, the microbes may teach our immune systems how to fight off bad bugs that make us sick and ignore things that aren't a threat.
We get our first dose of microbes from our mothers, both in the birth canal and in breast milk. Family members tend to have similar microbiomes.
"The mother's microbiome has actually poised itself over nine months to basically become the prime source of microbes to the infant," says Lita Proctor, director of the Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health.
But ultimately each person's microbiome seems to be unique, perhaps as personal as a fingerprint.
As the microbes colonize our bodies, they pick specialized real estate. The mouth, with all those moist nooks and crannies, is home to one of the most diverse habitats, like the Amazon jungle.
Wet places like our armpits are lush, too. But they have different microbes than those in the mouth.
The armpit microbes feast on nutrients in sweat, Proctor says, and produce antimicrobial compounds to protect the skin against harmful microbes.
Other body parts are like the Sahara Desert to your microbes. That forearm skin, for example, is dry — very dry. But even that driest habitat is brimming with microbes.
Feet have oily parts and dry parts, and it's those wet parts that the foot fungus just loves.
But the biggest habitat is the gut. It hosts the most complex and diverse group of microbes. Everything that microbes are doing elsewhere in the body, they're doing in the gut, in spades.
Diverse as these habitats are, the microbes on the various body parts communicate with each other and with our cells. Scientists have started eavesdropping on those conversations, and have started testing them as possible treatments for diseases like Crohn's, multiple sclerosis and asthma.
This research is all really new. No one knows for sure what most of our microbes are doing. But many scientists now think that if we're going to remain healthy, we have to maintain the health and well-being of the ecosystems for our microbes.
NPR has been exploring the world of the microbiome. To read and hear our series, click here.
On a Monday, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne, good morning.
Today in Your Health: More on the microbes that populate the human body. We've reported on how the microbes we all carry around with us are, for the most part, more friend than foe. Scientists are discovering how these good microbes affect our health.
Today, NPR's Rob Stein takes us on a journey through the microscopic world of the body.
SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN, BYLINE: Step right up, everybody - all aboard.
ROB STEIN, BYLINE: We're going to take a tour, a kind of audio bus tour through the human body...
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Welcome. Welcome.
STEIN: ...with the help of radio producer Selena Simmons-Duffin.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: OK. Everybody, come on up.
STEIN: But before we start our journey, let's stop and think about our bodies in a different way. Not as a single human, just out in the world walking around, but instead like this...
LITA PROCTOR: We are an ecosystem.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: That's our tour guide, everybody, Lita Proctor.
STEIN: She works over at the National Institutes of Health.
PROCTOR: That's the larger way to think about it. The whole human body is an ecosystem, with particular habitats in different parts of the body.
STEIN: Proctor will guide us on this eco-tour through all these habitats and all the bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes inhabiting each of them, which collectively scientists call the human microbiome.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: OK. Everyone, time to take your seats.
PROCTOR: Let's take a tour of the human microbiome.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: We've arrived at the first stop on our tour, starting at the top of the body.
PROCTOR: Your mouth.
STEIN: Your mouth, with all those little nooks and crannies, is home to one of the most diverse habitats. Like the Amazon jungle, it's just teeming with organisms.
PROCTOR: Because there's so many places they can grow: on your tongue, on your teeth, on your gums. The microbes that live in the roof of my mouth are different than microbes that are growing on the surface of my tongue.
STEIN: Some can cause gum disease but most may be helpful.
PROCTOR: These microbes produce all kinds of compounds. And when they flow through the rest of your body they seem to be closely associated to things like Type 2 diabetes or heart disease or even cancers.
STEIN: The precise mix of bacteria in the esophagus, for example, seems to play a role in whether someone develops acid reflux and perhaps, esophageal cancer.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: All right, everyone. Back on the bus.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Watch your step there.
STEIN: Now, before we move on to our next stop on our tour of the body, Proctor takes a few minutes to talk about where our microbiomes come from in the first place. Like many the things, it starts with...
PROCTOR: Our mothers.
STEIN: Like our genes, we get a lot of our microbes from our moms.
PROCTOR: The mother's microbiome has actually poised itself over nine months to basically become the prime source of microbes to the infant, then as the infant passes through the birth canal, it gets coated with all these microbes.
STEIN: These microbes may kind of seed the baby with just the right mix. Combined with bacteria in breast milk and other microbes we encounter early in life, they slowly take shape in our first few years.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: OK. If you look just ahead, you'll see our next stop.
PROCTOR: Let's go to the nose because that's actually quite interesting.
STEIN: Bad microbes try to hide in the nose, waiting to make us sick.
PROCTOR: And so, if an outside microbe comes in, some kind of germ or pathogen, your microbes themselves act as a first line of defense by preventing the entry and/or colonization of that germ.
STEIN: Lita Proctor says, that's probably one of the most important things our microbes do - protect us from infections.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: OK. Everyone, time to move on.
STEIN: As we continue our tour, Proctor explains that the overall mix of our microbes looks very personal. Sort of like a fingerprint or maybe a blood type.
PROCTOR: Each of us seems to have our own unique subset of microbes that live particularly on Lita versus particularly on Rob.
STEIN: My very own microbes, lucky me. But our microbes tend to resemble those of our parents and siblings, and may stay with us for much of our lives.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: If you look over to your left you'll see we're passing the armpits.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: Ohh.
STEIN: Wet places like our armpits are lush, sort of like a rainforest.
PROCTOR: That sweat that we produce is full of all kinds of nutrients that microbes love and they grow on that. While they're growing on all that delicious sweat, they're also in turn producing all kinds of anti-inflammatories and antimicrobials to protect us from microbes trying to colonize our skin.
STEIN: And different places on our skin can be very different environments: oily, like our backs or like our next stop.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: OK. Here we are on the forearm.
STEIN: Not wet. Not oily but dry - very dry.
PROCTOR: And that could be considered like the desert of your skin microbiome.
STEIN: But even the driest habitat is brimming, just brimming with millions of microbes.
PROCTOR: But even there, there are microbes that specifically adapt to that kind of habitat, that they thrive and grow on those parts of your body where your skin flakes quite a bit.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: OK. Everybody, time to move on - back to the bus.
STEIN: So all these different places on our bodies are totally different - but not totally independent. They're connected. And they communicate.
PROCTOR: I mean, there's a whole interaction that occurs between the different microbial habitats around the body.
STEIN: They send signals to our cells. Scientists have started eavesdropping on this complicated conversation. They've even isolated some of these signals and started testing them as treatments for diseases. Diseases like Crohn's, multiple sclerosis and asthma.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Everybody get ready. This is the main attraction of our tour.
STEIN: This brings us to the biggest, most important habitat.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Now arriving at the gut.
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STEIN: The gut. It's the nerve center - a kind of mission control.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Dynamic phase. Come back again with wrist code dynamics.
PROCTOR: I mean it is like the government of a country; it is like mission control.
STEIN: It's the most complex and the most diverse. And everything microbes are doing on all over the body - fighting off infections, revving up and dampening down our immune systems...
PROCTOR: That's all happening in the gut in spades.
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STEIN: It's sort of like the command centers of our bodies.
PROCTOR: If it's not functioning properly because of genetics or poor diet or some combination thereof, that can actually lead to all kinds of diseases.
STEIN: Diseases like colon cancer, colitis, maybe even diabetes and obesity.
PROCTOR: There's apparently a role for the microbiome in the way diet is metabolized and how fat is deposited and all those kinds of things. So there's a close link with obesity and changes in the microbiome.
STEIN: Obese people appear to have less diverse gut microbiomes than lean people. Farmers fatten up their livestock by feeding them antibiotics and skinny mice get fat when scientists give them gut microbes from obese mice. So there may be a link between the rise in obesity and the explosive use of antibiotics, and other things we're doing to mess up our gut microbes.
PROCTOR: In this modern society, we are just not exposed to as many microbes as we have in the past.
STEIN: Our microbial habitats look like they're much less diverse than earlier generations, and people in less developed countries. This may help explain why the rates of asthma and allergies have been soaring.
PROCTOR: We're not fully educating our immune system because it's not being exposed to a very wide range of microbes.
STEIN: Not being exposed because of so many C-sections, and not enough breast feeding, plus all the antibiotics kids get these days, and our obsession with cleanliness.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Antibacterial wipe anybody?
STEIN: So researchers are starting to identify which microbes we could take, you know, probiotics and other ways to keep our microbiomes healthy.
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Final stop here everybody.
STEIN: Our last stop on the tour of your body's microbes is a predictably...
SIMMONS-DUFFIN: The feet.
STEIN: Our feet - they've got a little bit of everything.
PROCTOR: Feet: there's oily parts, there's dry parts, there's wet parts of your feet. And all those different parts of your feet - you're just looking at your foot - you know, are all different types of habitats for microbes.
STEIN: Proctor ends our tour with a big caveat: This research is really new. No one knows what most of our microbes are really doing.
But many scientists think our microbes are an essential part of us. And to maintain our health and well-being, we have to maintain the health and well-being of the ecosystems of our microbiomes.
Rob Stein, NPR News.
MONTAGNE: Tonight on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, we'll explore how doctors are using microbes to keep us healthy and treat us when we get sick. And for the rest of our series, go to npr.org.
MONTAGNE: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Χριστόφορος wrote:When I get around to learning Latin, I think it would be rather nice to read texts in the exact way the Romans would have read them, especially considering the effort I'd be taking to learn their language in the first place.
Lucus Eques wrote:The Irish language, for example, was once written in a very cumbersome alphabet that was designed for carving on wood — but was completely superseded by the Roman alphabet — indeed, the form with all its lowercase letters and punctuation that we know and love; and that is the official writing system for Irish.
Lucus Eques wrote:What radical reformation do you mean?
Lucus Eques wrote:It is for this reason I fully adopted "j" and "v," for Latin benefits in clarity of expression (the purpose of all language, fundamentally) — the Roman way of doing things, I found, was not always the best way.
Lucus Eques wrote:Here is an example of Imperial writing (it's a folio of Vergil):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rtrait.jpg
Χριστόφορος wrote:I notice through reading various articles on the subject of Latin orthography, that the spelling conventions used nowadays differ quite a bit from the actual orthography used in ancient Rome. My question is, mainly just out sheer curiosity, where it is a) possible to obtain texts in the "authentic" orthography and if so, b) whether it is at all common for many people to do so. When I get around to learning Latin, I think it would be rather nice to read texts in the exact way the Romans would have read them, especially considering the effort I'd be taking to learn their language in the first place.
NuclearWarhead wrote:I have scanned three pages from Bischoff's Latin Palaeography so you can see the scripts out of context:
edonnelly wrote:Also, what are the three letters after "z" ?
Χριστόφορος wrote:Does anyone know what the original manuscripts looked like? How would Tacitus have written the whole thing?
I recommend these books, vastor // Hos libros tibi commendo, vastor
Jean Mallon, L'Écriture Latine (Paris, 1939)
Jean Mallon, Paléographie Romaine (Madrid, 1952)
Bernard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (CUP, 1990)
Most importantly though, make sure to check out the illustrated examples of lettering from the historical documents.
Ante omnia autem, litteras textuales è codicibus historicis quae ibi exhibentur benè scrutinare.
Χριστόφορος wrote:Just bumping an old thread I made here. I figured it might be better than starting a new thread for essentially the same topic...
Anyway, I've taken an extract of Tacitus and am attempting to convert it to the original orthography. One of the reasons I'm attracted to Latin in the first place is the idea of reading the exact words the Romans would have used.
Can anyone confirm or correct the following passages?
The original:
Prima novo principatu mors Iunii Silani proconsulis Asiae ignaro Nerone per dolum Agrippinae paratur, non quia ingenii violentia exitium inritaverat, segnis et dominationibus aliis fastiditus, adeo ut C. Caesar pecudem auream eum appellare solitus sit: verum Agrippina fratri eius L. Silano necem molita ultorem metuebat, crebra vulgi fama anteponendum esse vixdum pueritiam egresso Neroni et imperium per scelus adepto virum aetate composita insontem, nobilem et, quod tunc spectaretur, e Caesarum posteris: quippe et Silanus divi Augusti abnepos erat. haec causa necis. ministri fuere P. Celer eques Romanus et Helius libertus, rei familiari principis in Asia impositi. ab his proconsuli venenum inter epulas datum est, apertius quam ut fallerent. nec minus properato Narcissus Claudii libertus, de cuius iurgiis adversus Agrippinam rettuli, aspera custodia et necessitate extrema ad mortem agitur, invito principe, cuius abditis vitiis per avaritiam ac prodigentiam mire congruebat.
I had to upload images of the edited versions, because they won't display properly otherwise:
In capitals, U replaced with V, without spaces or punctuation:
In capitals, U replaced with V, no punctuation expect for a middle dot as a space:
The second is near-impossible to read, and it seems the third is perhaps more in line with what would have been read. I just don't know for sure. Does anyone know what the original manuscripts looked like? How would Tacitus have written the whole thing?
Sorry if this seems silly, but I'm determined to do this!

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High demand as World Cup ticket sales begin
SAO PAULO (AP) — Tickets for next year's World Cup have gone on sale online with 16 of the 64 matches immediately seeing a high number of applicants.
FIFA's website shows there are more ticket applicants than the number of seats available in all four price categories for the opener and the final at Maracana Stadium, meaning the chances of securing a ticket will depend on a random selection draw conducted by football's governing body in October.
The other matches had a high demand for tickets only in the cheapest category, available to Brazilians.
Tickets went up for grabs early Tuesday and applications quickly started pouring in. The FIFA website said there was a virtual queue "due to an exceedingly high demand for access to the ticketing page."


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The Government estimates yesterday's mass public sector walkout cost Derbyshire's economy more than £3million.
Hundreds of workers went out on strike – paralysing services across Derbyshire.
Members of six public sector unions – including council workers, teachers, firefighters and civil servants – walked out as part of the national revolt.
They are unhappy about a number of issues including pay, pensions and job cuts.
The strike closed schools and leisure centres across the county and caused disruption to bin collections.
Speaking at a rally in Chesterfield town centre, Jeanette Lloyd, Unison branch secretary for Derbyshire, said: "Nobody wants to strike but we need to make a stand.
"For many local Government workers, pay is back to the level of the 1990s.
"After all these years we deserve a decent pay rise.
"We're also fighting for private sector workers who are in a similar position – we're all in this together."
Figures from the Treasury suggest the walkout sucked £3.25m out of the local economy.
Chris Hobson, head of policy and information at Derbyshire chamber of commerce, said: "These strikes were a real inconvenience for business at a time when the economy is returning to growth and stability.
"With the teachers walking out parents were forced to take time off work to look after children and there are industries which serve the public sector which will have lost productivity as a consequence of this action.
"Striking should always be a last resort and we would call on both sides to ensure they are doing everything possible to prevent this dispute escalating."
On the Derbyshire Times' Facebook page, opinion was divided.
Martin Wood said: "I agree with this strike – public sector workers deserve better."
Steve Barnett said: "Sack the lot then they can get a job in the private sector – worse pay, worse pension.
"What on earth are they whining about?"
Firefighters are set to strike for eight consecutive days next week. Members of the Fire Brigades Union will down tools on Monday between 6am and 8am and 5pm and 7pm; Tuesday between 6am and 8am and 5pm and 7pm; Wednesday between 6am and 8am and 5pm and 7pm; Thursday between 6am and 8am and 5pm and 7pm; Friday between 6am and 8am and 11pm and 1am on Saturday; Saturday between 11am and 1pm and 11pm and 1am on Sunday; Sunday between 5pm and 7pm and Monday between 6am and 8am and 5pm and 7pm.


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A science fan who made explosive devices after being inspired by the hit television show Brainiac has been jailed for six months.
Michael Thomas, 40, was part of a group of friends who made six pipe bombs before taking them to a remote quarry in Corsham, Wiltshire, to detonate.
One of the devices was blown up inside a microwave in a re-enactment of an experiment in the show, which has been presented by Richard Hammond and comedian Vic Reeves.
However, the group forgot to detonate one of the pipe bombs and it was unwittingly carried home in an Adidas sports bag by Thomas, who placed it in his shed following the outing in 2006.
Bristol Crown Court heard Thomas separated from his wife in 2010 and on August 17 last year, she decided to clear out his shed.
Police were called when the woman, who was not named in court proceedings, spotted a copper pipe and green cord poking out from the sports bag.
Eighty homes close to the shed, described as being in a "built-up area", were evacuated for five hours while an Army bomb disposal squad used a robotic device to examine the bag.
It was taken to a remote location nearby and safely detonated, while concerned residents took shelter in a nearby supermarket.
Thomas, who is in a new relationship and the father of two young children, was arrested and admitted a charge of making an explosive substance.
Judge Michael Roach told the stock controller that those "reckless enough" to build such devices - despite not having a sinister motive - should go to prison.
"The consequence of that discovery were sufficient not only to excite the police but also the bomb squad," the judge said.
"A street had to be evacuated and people had to be looked after at a nearby supermarket. There's no doubt at all that this is a serious offence. On any view you were enormously reckless.
"I accept that there was no sinister purpose of that device but the potential for it being on a street, unguarded, available in a residential area makes it obvious that the risks were significant.
"I can't ignore those risks."
Prosecuting, Nicholas O'Brien said Thomas lived with his ex-wife in a "built-up area", Kennmoor Close, in Warmley, Bristol, until 2010, when the couple separated.
"In August 2013 his wife decided to clear out the shed where she needed some space," Mr O'Brien said.
"She found a sports bag and having opened it she saw a number of pellets and a copper pipe, with green cord poking out the end."
Thomas was arrested on August 18 last year and officers who searched his computer discovered material relating to making explosives, Mr O'Brien added.
"It is serious and dangerous but really it seems to be a rather juvenile, amateur interest in explosives," he said.
Representing, Sam Jones said his client, who moved to Bridgwater, Somerset, was a hard-working family man with two children, aged two and 10 months.
Mr Jones said Thomas made the devices with a group of friends in 2006, before taking them to a quarry in Corsham to detonate.
"One was set off inside a microwave, inspired by a programme called Brainiac," Mr Jones said.
"At the end of the programme, which focused on science, various experiments were carried out in things like microwaves. It was used in an educational way.
"That was really the catalyst for what followed."
Mr Jones said one of the devices made a "loud bang" when it was blown up, but the others simply fizzed and smoked.
As Thomas, who wore a smart black suit, was led to the cells, the judge told him: "What a sad day for your family."
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NELSON – To passers-by, the building was an eyesore, a hazard, an accident waiting to happen.
To Joan Sendra, it was heartbreaking. Five generations of family history dating back to the mid-1800s was gone.
Sendra's great-great grandfather, Jonas "John" Stitzel, opened a general store in his clapboard house. For more than a century, it was a piece of small-town Americana in Nelson.
Neighbors would come and go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to buy basic essentials to get them through the day, and medicine during the night for their sick children.
The lot next door to his family's home is where the family erected M.C. Stitzel & Sons General Store, named after his son Millard "Miller" Charles Stitzel, in 1894.
The building began to lose its luster, and the store closed in 1988. The post office, located in the store's front, remained open until 1994, when Sendra's mother, and then postmaster, Dorothy Sendra, died suddenly of a heart attack.
That general store was the hub of Nelson, but over the past 20 years, the building has been vacant, slowly dilapidating, crumbling into itself, becoming a financial nightmare for Sendra.
Facing fees and court costs, her dream of restoration painfully passed. On Aug. 19, the demolition process began.
As machinery mowed down the walls, many onlookers wondered aloud why Sendra never took up the historical society's offer to take over and renovate the building.
Susie DeVries, a former Nelson resident, said there was talk of the building being saved.
"I heard a lot of people say the historical society wanted to buy the store and redo it as a historical place, like a museum," she said, "and every time I heard that, I said, 'Oh, come on; they don't have that kind of money!' But you know how people are."
Unsure where or how the rumor began, Sendra said she was never approached by the historical society or the National Registry of Historic Places.
"I made contacts with a few people who are professional architects that deal in renovations of historic buildings, and they all said it was too large a project, or that it was too far gone, and it couldn't be done," Sendra said, dumbfounded by the rumor.
Lee County Historical Society President Patrick Gorman said his group never gave that indication.
"There is nothing on record stating that we made any attempt to take over the general store in Nelson at any time," he said.
The society's research center is named after 99-year-old Stella Grobe, who also said she had never heard anything about the store.
"I never heard that we tried to get the building, ever, and I have been in that society since, oh, back in '64, I think," she said. "I go to meetings. I miss once in a while, but I still go. I'm sure I would have heard something if that were true."
Terry Buckaloo, director and curator of the Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society, also said such rumors are not unusual.
"I've been here over 20 years, and nothing has been said about that building," he said. "I don't know how these things start. There were people talking about us taking over a home in Rock Falls once, which was never the case, either."
Rustin Quaide, archivist at the National Register of Historic Places, also was unable to find any documents regarding the Nelson icon.
Wanting to restore the building, or at least save as much as she could, Sendra hired a contractor to shore up a wall 3 years ago. She had high hopes of doing a little at a time, but her dream to renovate was quashed.
The contractor removed an air conditioner, which was the only thing holding up that supporting wall. Once the wall gave way, the roof and other walls slowly followed.
Before the renovation attempt, she was unable to insure the building because an inspector said it was in too bad of shape.
For Sendra, the place that brought her joy throughout her own childhood had become a headache and a financial nightmare.
The place where the Stitzels and Sendras sold their wares, and townsfolk gathered, kibitzed, and picked up their mail, and children purchased penny candies, is but a memory, and an empty lot beside the old clapboard house.
The memories live on
NELSON – M.C. Stitzel & Sons was a place where kids came for penny candy, new school shoes, and to pick up their folks' mail. It was where neighbors congregated after work to hear of the latest proposal, pregnancy, death or illness to strike a family.
Later, in the 1970s, M.C. Stitzel & Sons was where you could buy Billy Beer, named after and promoted by former President Jimmy Carter's brother.
As demolition took place Aug. 19, dented, rusty beer cans were unearthed.
The stories and memories flowed as people of all ages watched as the rest of what was left was torn down. For many, the loss felt personal.
Among the items unearthed was a weathered but still readable diary. Its inscription read, "Merry X'mas from Mamma to Earl D. Stitzel 1905."
"I can't believe it," Joan Sendra said as her trembling hands thumbed through her grandfather's diary.
All of 10, Earl Stitzel wrote of his daily routine in pencil, the cursive still clear on the yellowing pages. "Tended the store. Went after milk. Went to the farm, took in 16 lodes [sic] of hay. Took care of [his baby sister] Mabel some. Went to school. Going hunting with Percy."
Jerry Stees has lived across the street from the home and general store for 30 years. "It sad, but it's time," he said as neighbors gathered on his porch.
He said the decline of the building came in 1988 when the store closed. Then in 1994, Joan's mom, Dorothy Sendra, died suddenly of a heart attack.
"Joan wasn't the same after that. I don't think she could bring herself to go in the building," Stees said.
The demolition, though, begins a new chapter of Sendra's life, which she is looking forward to, hoping to retain the good memories the store brought her and the community.
Vietnam veteran Rick Moeller, 63, is a lifelong Nelson resident.
"It really saddened me to see everything go down like it did. It was not only a store, gas station and post office, but it was kind of a gathering place," Moeller said. "I just think sometimes that people don't realize how lucky they are to have something like that in your community until something like that is gone."
Moeller recalls walking to the store, a block from his home, when he was 7. Back then, candy was a penny, popsicles were a dime and soda was 15 cents. Kids congregated there, sitting on the bench, on the stoop and on the metal polka-dot-painted Wonder Bread box.
It's a fond memory Sendra's cousin, Bob Stitzel, 66, of Los Angeles, shares. He and his sister, Barb Struble, spent summers in Nelson while their parents were on vacation.
"They had an old showcase of wood and glass, high-buttoned shoes for sale," he said. "Barb and I we would go back there and steal candy, but Grandpa knew. For a kid, it was heaven. He had every conceivable candy."
Struble said, "It was the center of the community. Grandpa would let us have any candy we wanted. We'd have fresh fruit, Hostess Cupcakes, oh, we just gorged on junk food, reading comic books, which was wonderful. I am sure my parents would be horrified if they knew."
Susie DeVries of Rock Falls lived in Nelson for 50 years. She grew up on Main Street and also spent time at the store.
"We used to swim at the gravel pit every day. Sometimes I'd not even think about wearing shoes or a towel, would walk in barefoot, dripping wet to get the mail. They didn't care. You don't do that at Bergners. In Nelson — no shirt, no shoes, no service — no one lived by that rule," she said with a laugh.
"It was a wonderful time of our lives. We had a wonderful childhood," she said. "I wouldn't have wanted to grow up anywhere else. It brings back wonderful memories. I cry because I'm sad, but we had it good. Oh God, I wish every kid could have what we had."


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MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is touting the deposit of nearly $109 million into the state's rainy day fund, money that can be tapped in an emergency.
The deposit announced Monday comes after the state ended the last fiscal year in June with a surplus of about $342 million. Even though it is less than 1 percent of what is spent out of the state's main account every year, it is the largest deposit ever into the rainy day fund. It marks the second year in a row that a deposit has been made.
Walker says "we remain committed to making the tough decisions necessary to avoid tax increases while maintaining services."
He says his proprieties for the next two-year budget include creating jobs, developing the workforce, reforming government and transforming education.


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SharePoint Engage 2017 in Raleigh, NC will feature Geoff Ables as a keynote speaker and session leader. The event is scheduled for October 24-25, 2017.
SharePoint Engage Raleigh 2017 will be held at the Embassy Suites Raleigh-Durham Airport/Brier Creek in Raleigh, NC on October 24-25, 2017. SharePoint Institute is hosting the conference. SharePoint Engage has been organized for SharePoint users to network, collaborate, and exchange with other SharePoint professionals, while gaining knowledge about SharePoint and its uses to increase business productivity. There are three learning tracks: SharePoint project management and business analysis, real-world SharePoint user application, and advanced topics and the future of SharePoint.
Geoff Ables, Managing Partner of C5 Insight, is delivering the Keynote Address, ?Reimagining Productivity: Finding Digital Workplace Success in an Unlikely Place. He will discuss how to prepare for the future of work, looking at how people, and not technology, will be a key factor in the next generation of working together. Everyone wants to be more efficient and effective in their daily work, and Ables will talk about the perfect storm thats brewing and how impending changes will transform not only the way people work, but the very work itself.
Ables will also lead the session, ?CPR for SharePoint: How to Improve SharePoint Adoption. In this session he will provide an in-depth look into why collaboration tools such as SharePoint fail to meet expectation and what organizations can do to get struggling intranet projects back on track, forge new connections, become more productive, increase employee engagement, and build a lasting culture of collaboration. Attendees will learn:
– 5 trends that are affecting collaboration today
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Ables is the author of ?The LUCK Principle, Business Results at the Intersection of People & Profit. In the book he teaches how to harness the power of people, process, and technology to transform a business into a workplace that balances a people-first culture with bottom-line results. The book is available in both paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon at https://www.Amazon.com/dp/B01N0QW5H4.
Geoff Ables, C5 Insight Managing Partner, is a best selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He has over 20 years of consulting experience on topics including intranets, customer relationship management, social collaboration, and big data. As a thought leader on customer and employee engagement, his insights have been seen and heard in dozens of global venues. He founded C5 Insight in 2002, and has consulted with hundreds of companies in a broad range of industries. The firm has twice been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies.
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John Densmore, songwriter and drummer for The Doors, and Steven Page, former lead singer and guitarist for Barenaked Ladies will sit down with John Covach, director for the University of Rochester's Institute for Popular Music (IPM) for a behind-the-scenes look at their careers on Monday, April 22 and Wednesday, May 1.
Both talks are part of the IPM's new "In Conversation" series which explores the lives of popular recording artists and their creative process. The events are open to University faculty, staff, students, and the general public, space permitting.
"This is a great chance for students to get to know someone who has an impact on pop music, and to hear them discuss topics that rarely come up in television or magazine interviews," said Covach, founding director of the IPM, the Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor of music in the college music department, and a professor of music theory at the University's Eastman School of Music. "The goal is to give students a glimpse into the real-world life of the people most responsible for pop music and its history."
"In Conversation" is one of two lecture series presented by the newly established Institute for Popular Music at Rochester which offers courses, lectures, workshops, and performances as a way to increase awareness and understanding of the scholarly study of popular music.
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"In Conversation" with John Densmore
Monday, April 22, 2 p.m., Strong Auditorium, River Campus
Densmore's talk will provide a look into the creative and turbulent world of rock music during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Later that day Densmore will participate in a book signing at Record Archive in Rochester for his new book,"The Doors: Unhinged".
"In Conversation" with Steven Page
Wednesday, May 1, 5 p.m., Strong Auditorium, River Campus
As the former primary songwriter and lead vocalist for Barenaked Ladies, Page will provide insight into how a song goes from an idea to a hit single and discuss the business of popular music.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: High-res photos of Densmore and Page are available by request. For more information about the events or general questions, contact Elaine Stroh in the college music department at email@example.com.


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Lucy Pinder: Naughty Christmas Model
I'm not gonna lie, Lucy Pinder is one of my favorites. So as an early Christmas present for myself, I figured why not spend some time searching for Lucy getting naughty for Christmas? It used to be that Lucy Pinder would not pose topless, and thus it was impossible to find a photo of her naked. After a big coming out party in Nuts, now almost the exact opposite is true when you do a not-so-safe search on Google Images. However, there is no shortage of photos of this beauty, who must literally spend eight hours a day posing for a cameraman while you are filling out your TPS reports. So we're proud to present over 40 photos of Lucy Pinder getting a bit naughty for the Holidays with her busty british friends.


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INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham's cottage industry
'If this nerve centre didn't exist, neither would I' says Reg man
Untold stories
While the mindset of secrecy is encouraged with good reason, it does have its drawbacks for those with ambition. I recall a few jaded souls who had stayed so long that, despite having exceptional talent, would find it difficult to leave because they couldn't tell a future employer on the outside what they'd been up to. So unless they could find a government job posting elsewhere, they were destined to remain residents of Hotel Gloucestershire: you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
On the other hand, high-flyers fresh from university would find they had an opportunity to shine given the brain-tingling tasks they had to tackle and the resources at their disposal. Don't be shy of working there if you have the skills, but you might want to keep an eye on the calendar unless you're planning on being a lifer.
That being so, the secretive side of things can begin to seep into your thinking. Who's watching you? Surely, somebody must be from time to time as a routine security measure so you don't end up becoming vulnerable financially or in other ways.
"My, that codecracker Jenkin's is a lucky chap, he's nearing retirement and that gorgeous 19-year-old Chinese girl he met at the bus stop has totally fallen for him. Who'd have thought it?"
Just how closely you are monitored can tease the imagination. On this point, my Dad would joke about voting Communist to see just how secret the secret ballot was. I don't suppose he ever put it to the test, but if you work there and feel lucky when the next election comes around, why not give it a shot?
Working there affected my thinking too, as it's only in recent years that I've stopped dreaming about returning to the place to embrace the technological challenges and achieve great things. Yes, I would finally have a crack at Star Trek and get to the Emeritus level, if only I could find a PDP-11 handy. Still, I picked up useful transferable skills there, as fault tracing combined with being a dab hand with soldering iron worked out very well when I found myself in London working in recording studios.
Naturally enough, the establishment has moved with the times. The intense efforts to monitor Cold War threats have largely given way to focus on the terrorism and cyber-security issues of today, as highlighted on the GCHQ website. Whatever you think about the secrecy of the place, the intelligence services endeavour to keep us safe. It was a motivating force for those who'd experienced WW2 and went on to take jobs at GCHQ so this country wouldn't experience anything like that again.
I've no doubt it's a commitment that continues to this day: so far, so good. ®
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by Milon Townsend
Featuring Kiln-Combed Glass Art by Kevin Tappin
Photography by Robert Lowery
Artists who are involved in the production of educational DVDs need to be sure that attempts to keep down costs don't sabotage the quality of the product. One important aspect includes the question of whether to perform all of the details personally or to work through video professionals.
This article was originally published on page 32 of the November/December 2011 issue of Glass Art.


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(AP) — The largest wind farm to be built in Kansas is set to begin operating within the next few days, but future expansion is up in the air because of the pending expiration of a tax credit companies say is critical to making wind energy competitive.
Flint Ridge 2, jointly owned by BP Wind Energy and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, will have 294 wind turbines on 66,000 acres in parts of Harper, Barber, Kingman and Sumner counties when it fires up before Tuesday. A BP spokesman declined to be more specific about the start date than "the end of the year."
The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/U9AeUO) reports each of the turbines will have the capacity to generate 1.6 megawatts of electricity, or enough to supply 160,000 homes.
Its owners said the $800 million project was built in Kansas partly because of the business environment, but mostly because of the state's wind resources, ranked second best in the U.S.
"Kansas is blessed by very strong winds," said John Graham, the CEO of BP Wind Energy, which is a unit of the BP oil and natural-gas conglomerate.
Despite its abundant wind, Kansas is ranked only ninth in the amount of wind-energy installations. According to the Kansas Energy Information Network, the state has 2,192 megawatts of wind energy capacity, not counting Flint Ridge 2. By comparison, Iowa has 4,536 megawatts of installed capacity, the third highest in the U.S.
The Kansas City, Mo., law firm Polsinelli Shughart conducted a study financed by the wind industry that found wind energy had created 3,484 construction jobs in Kansas, 262 operation and maintenance jobs, and 8,569 indirect and introduced jobs as the investment rippled through the state's economy.
Landowners have received about $273 million from leasing land for the wind turbines, while community organizations and local and state governments have taken in $208 million.
Despite those economic numbers, wind energy's future is unclear because of the low price of natural gas — an economical option to generate electricity — and the end of the Production Tax Credit at the end of the month.
Many states, including Kansas and Missouri, have requirements that electric utilities use renewable energy to meet part of their electricity demand. The tax credit, which is used to reduce the price of renewable energy to help make it more competitive, also has provided a boost for the industry.
Graham said it will probably take another six years for the cost of wind turbines to decline enough, and their efficiency to increase enough, to allow wind energy to be competitive without the tax credit.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and the state's two U.S. senators support renewing the tax credit.
The American Wind Energy Association, a trade group, has proposed a six-year phase-out, but one of the tax credit's toughest opponents, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., said that plan doesn't pass the laugh test.
The wind industry is comprised of multi-billion dollar companies that can stand on their own two feet, he said, adding that he would consider a phase-out only if it quickly moved the industry off the taxpayer dole.
"Without a real phase-out on the table, the only remaining solution is for the wind PTC (tax credit) to expire as scheduled at the end of the year," he said in a statement.
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Editor's Note: The Associated Press refers to the project as Flint Ridge 2; however, other references name the project Flat Ridge 2, an extension of a Flat Ridge 1 Wind Farm which became operational in 2009.


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Deep Black is a third-person shooter that feels like Dead Space, Halo, Gears of War, and Call of Duty all got together and produced a mutant offspring. Frankenstein's monster comes closer to being a part of humanity than this game comes to being playable, or fun.
It attempts to be a half-on-land, half-underwater shooter that offers unique gameplay, but in the end, Deep Black is just half-baked.


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Linda Celeste Sims of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs during "The White House Dance Series: A Tribute to Judith Jamison" in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC. US First Lady Michelle Obama invited world renowned dance companies to perform at the Administration s first event celebrating dance. The event was organized to tribute to Judith Jamison for her outstanding career as an American dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for the past 20 years.
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J/111 Lake Effect to represent Niagara Hospice in Nationals
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Taken from the July 6 Sentinel
Not your typical day out on the lake.
Over the past several years my boating experiences have involved the usual fare - cruising, sightseeing, plenty of swimming, sunning, skiing, some fishing, and overall good times on-board, even some Wednesday night sailboat races out on Lake Erie off Buffalo.
Not so last Saturday. This one involved work, at times a lot of it. But it also turned out to be a neat time for a very good cause.
Starting out at 8 on a cool and gloomy morning on the river, it turned into a beautiful afternoon later on out on the lake as the 2013 edition of the Niagara Hospice Regatta played out off-shore of Fort Niagara.
An annual event of the host Youngstown Yacht Club, the 2013 Past Commodore Paul and H. Joan Joy, Niagara Hospice Regatta featured two fleets of boats in multiple classes - competing in timed races over set courses that were determined by the winds of the day. The local version of a national event, proceeds of which go to benefit hospice programs assisting thousands nationwide, the Niagara Hospice Regatta featured the boats of course - the smaller J/22, J/70s and Shark vessels, and the larger Beneteau 36.7s, a Sabre 38, J/35C and J/111 class. All were manned by helmsmen who paid entry fees and covered their own insurance and expenses to participate. Crews ranged from four to five on the smaller fleets to up to 10 on the larger ones - all volunteers who were in it for the joy of sailing and the experience.
But the event went beyond that; it literally enveloped the YYC, its members, even the community. Amidst the occasional morning drizzle, a number of volunteers from the club and the Youngstown area were seen scurrying about the YYC grounds, loading up boats with supplies and equipment, organizing crews, even pumping out. "See? This is how we get started," quipped YYC race coordinator Adam Burns with a laugh as he worked the manual bilge pump about 8:15 that morning, emptying out the water on one of YYC's two marker boats.
In addition to the fleets, YYC had two boats manned by two volunteers apiece who were responsible for the frequent relocation of markers in the lake - their placement on the race course dependent on the wind. They were joined by a race boat anchored 1-2 miles off-shore, which consisted of a five-man race committee (this writer included) whose job was to measure winds, plot distances of the races and directions, man the raising and lowering of flags in sync with announcement horns, and then time, score and log the races.
Getting underway in the neighborhood of 9 a.m., all of this activity would continue over the course of the next six-plus hours as the two-fleet, six-race Niagara County Hospice Regatta program slowly moved along.
"I can't believe I'm out here this early," said volunteer Colleen Mary Johnson of Youngstown, who worked one of the marker boats all day with Steve Suitor, repeatedly yanking and then repositioning gigantic marker balloons out in the lake.
All told, the regatta was to be very much dominated by the winds, or the lack of them. Wind speeds at times ranged from zero and drifting, to the occasional west and northwest wind bursts in the 12 knots range. At one point, race committee organizers did consider canning the remaining balance of the program in the later stages of the fourth race due to a complete lack of wind and the prospect of boats not being able to finish in the prescribed time frames for the balance of the afternoon. "We're down to less than three minutes, might have to call this," said John Tracy, a lead coordinator on the race committee boat. That didn't happen, however, as a group of J/70s suddenly came to the finish.
At other times the action became intense, such as during one turn in the later stages when a group of the larger Beneteau 36.7s and a J/111 looked like all were going to collide with each other near the anchor of the race committee boat. Placement finishes on these boats were at times within 10ths of a second apart, particularly among the top three.
When all was said and done, it was Bob Hesse and the crew of the Class J/111 Lake Effect, who took top honors in points with 13.0 and will go on to represent Youngstown and Niagara County Hospice at the Hospice Nationals in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the spring of 2014.
In second with 16.0 was Obsession, a Beneteau 36.7 helmed by Norm Stessing, and in third with 17.0, Margaritaville, another Beneteau 36.7, helmed by Scott Dinse.
The Lake Effect Team will be competing against 20 other Hospice districts across the entire United States. "Congratulations to Bob Hess and the crew of Lake Effect," said Burns at the YYC awards event later on Saturday.
Burns also complimented the efforts of the numerous volunteers, saying, "We appreciate everyone who supported and volunteered for this regatta to make it a success."
For myself and numerous other volunteers, it wasn't your typical day of boating, but this one was unique and rather neat.


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Can LG G-Pad 8.3 play MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, MPG, Flash Videos?
Description: The article mainly introduces a quick and easy way to enjoy videos like MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, M4V, WMV, MPG, FLV, F4V on amazing LG G-Pad.
LG comes back to tablet market with LG G-Pad 8.3, which is equipped with an 8.3-inch screen with a better-than-full-HD display at a resolution of 1920*1200 and powered by Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. It is built in a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor clocked at 1.7 GHz, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage with micro SD slot. A healthily-sized 4,600 mAh battery is claimed to support playing videos for 7-8 hours. With a large display, pretty dual speakers on the rear and longer battery life, it is an amazing device to enjoy movies anywhere. I can hardly wait to watch movies with LG G-Pad.
However, LG G-Pad is picky of video formats and it just supports limited video formats 3GP, MP4, AVI, H.264, H.263 and audio formats WAV, AAC, MP3, eAAC+. If LG G-Pad refuses to play a video, maybe it has unsupported codec, unsupported video format or protection like iTunes videos, or else. There will be some problem in playing MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, M4V, WMV, MPG, FLV, F4V videos on LG G-Pad due to bad compatibility. To play these video formats on LG G-Pad without problems, the quick workaround is to count to a popular LG G-Pad Video Converter (G-Pad Video Converter for Mac is available for Mac users) to convert them to LG G-Pad supported format. In this way, LG G-Pad will work well with MKV videos or flash videos download from web, DVD VOB movies, etc. Even Tivo show can be played well on LG G-Pad by importing Media Access Key to the software and converting to LG G-Pad.
Pavtube Video Converter is what you are looking for. It supports to convert multiple video formats to another format for popular portable devices. And you can edit the videos such as merge multiple videos into one, trim, crop, add watermarks including image, text and videos and so on.
Download and install the Videos to LG G-Pad Converter, then follow below detailed guide:
1. Import video files to LG G-Pad Video Converter.
Click "Add video" button to import original files or drag and drop the original files to the software directly.
2. Choose output format for LG G-Pad.
Click "Format" dropdown list to choose a compatible format for LG G-Pad. "Common Video" or "HD Video" option is compatible to universal devices and players.
Choose "H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)" under "HD Video" option is friendly to LG G-Pad. H.264 MP4 will create high quality files and generate big file size. If you need a smaller file, "MPEG-4 HD Video (*.mp4)" is also offered.
Tips: Click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like bitrate, size, audio channels, etc to meet your requirement.
3. (Optional) Edit videos.
Click "Edit" icon to edit the videos. You can "Trim" it to cut out the undesired part or cut off the annoying black edges with "Crop" option. Add image, text, or video watermark will help to customize the videos. And so on.
4. Convert Videos to LG G-Pad.
Click "Convert" button to start converting MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, MPG, FLV/F4V to LG G-Pad MP4. If you do not like the default path for output files, you can click "Browse" button to find a new folder before conversion. Once the conversion is finished, click "Open" button to get the generated files quickly.
With it, you can play different videos like MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, M4V, WMV, MPG, FLV, F4V videos with LG G-Pad smoothly. Copy the generated files to LG G-Pad and then you can enjoy them whenever you want to without any problem.
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My article about economic integration and American options for Russia's aggressive moves in Ukraine brought reactions from a Worcester entrepreneur with friends in Russia as well as from a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
Worcester entrepreneur Steve Rothschild is concerned about his friends' well-being. And Steve Schlenker, a partner at DN Capital in Silicon Valley, raises interesting questions about how America would react if an ousted Mexican official asked for American help in getting reinstated to power.
Mr. Rothschild thinks that Russian views of the Ukraine invasion vary, depending on economic strata. "Russian friends who are in the upper middle class and listen to news other than official Russian news believe this is an unwarranted invasion and are truly concerned on the long-term impact on their economy. While the Russian elections are rigged, businessmen are frequently arrested (over 100,000 imprisoned), and the rule of law is absent, they know what is going on and do not support it," said Mr. Rothschild.
Regrettably, Mr. Rothschild does not perceive that America has meaningful ways to stop Russia's invasion. He explained, "We don't really have any options. The first thing is Russia considers Crimea theirs. It was theirs, but was given to Ukraine when it was all one country, by a leader claimed to be drunk. At that time, in many ways, it was viewed as similar to if the U.S.A. gave Cape Cod to Rhode Island, as it was more like Rhode Island than the balance of Mass. It was an autocratic decision that really didn't change much."
He believes that Russia's justification is a feeling that Ukraine was unfairly taken from Russia and that if they do not take it, Europe will. Mr. Rothschild argued, "Today, believing it (Ukraine) was always theirs, being a warm-water port for the military, and having a significant Russian population that Russia needs since its population is in a free fall, why not take it? There is also the fear of it falling into EU/NATO hands. Think Poland and the Baltic nations."
Russians with the most money are likely to keep it (their money) and their families as far from Russia's sphere of influence. Noted Mr. Rothschild, "What can we do? Not much. The only thing educated and well-off Russians fear is a loss of being able to exit Russia and losing their assets. This is only 5 percent of the population. All maintain a way out, a passport. They use it to make sure it is part of their routine so they can use it in a time of trouble. The wealthier keep assets and real estate holdings outside of Russia. The wealthiest keep their family outside of Russia. Losing this is the population's biggest fear, as after losing this they are completely subject to the vagaries of their leadership."
It appears to Mr. Rothschild that most of the Russian population believes in Russian propaganda and that using natural gas prices as a weapon might be America's best way to fight. As he said, "Still, it (the wealthy Russian population) is only 5 percent of the population. The rest of the population is ignorant, listening to Russian media and the church. The only thing they care about is survival. It would take the 95 percent feeling the impact to have any effect. The best way is long term; wean Europe and Ukraine off Russian gas. That eliminates funding for the Russian government and affects all. Of course, this is long term. Short-term they will have capital flight, reduced investment and fear anyway. That in itself will help temper Russia. I suppose the only short-term decision is to exacerbate that."
Mr. Schlenker provides an interesting analogy about how America would react if a deposed Mexican leader sought our military help to put him back in power.
Mr. Schlenker said, "Let's say there were a populist overthrow of President Nieto of Mexico, the military switched sides to support the populists who put themselves in power with a threat of executing Mr. Nieto, Mr. Nieto sneaks his way over to the U.S. and asks for our help reinstalling him in the seat of power in Mexico."
Continued Mr. Schlenker, "While we are still trying to understand what type of government the populist overthrowers will put in place (and the populists have publicly stated their concerns for too much previous affinity between Mexico and the U.S.), the head of the state of Baja California says that the American expatriates and other pro-U.S. sympathizers in and around Mexicali are feeling personally threatened for their safety, and wish to hold a referendum to secede from Mexico and join their neighbor California as part of the U.S., and at the very least would like the U.S. to help protect those citizens from threat of violence."
Mr. Schlenker asks: "What would be U.S. public reaction at the Washington level and the Main Street level?"
I think Mr. Schlenker's example highlights what causes America is willing to send troops to fight for, and which ones it's not. Saving Ukraine from Russian domination does not seem to be one of those. And Mr. Rothschild's analysis suggests to me that his wealthier friends may want to make a quick exit before things in Russia become too dangerous for them.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks surged Thursday as reports of efforts to put an end to the U.S. budget standoff spurred investors' enthusiasm and resulted in a slate of strong gains from the likes of Netflix Inc., Facebook Inc. and Pandora Media Inc.
As part of the attempt to bring an end to the budget crisis, House Republicans on Thursday proposed to raise the nation's debt ceiling for six weeks, though their offer doesn't include reopening the government. Republicans are due to meet with President Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss the budget issue.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.41% responded by surging nearly 83 points, or 2.2%, to close at 3,760, and turn around from three straight days of broad losses. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.82% also rallied more than 2%.
Among the advancers, Netflix NFLX, -1.55% climbed 5.4% to $303.99 a share, Facebook FB, +1.29% shares rose 5%, to close at $49.05, Pandora P, +0.64% climbed almost 4% to $24.70 and Groupon Inc. GRPN, +1.71% shares rose more than 8%, to close at $11.10 a share.
Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.19% shares rose by $3.05, to close at $489.64, even though the latest figures on PC shipments from IDC showed Mac sales dropped 11% in the third quarter from a year ago.
Gains also came from Western Digital Corp. WDC, -0.98% up almost 4% to end the day at $65.53; Oracle Corp. ORCL, +1.26% which rose 2.5% to $32.99 a share; and IBM Corp. IBM, -0.43% up almost 2% to close at $184.77.
One of the tech sector's biggest decliners was Citrix Systems Inc. CTXS, +1.27% as the cloud-based software company's shares fell almost 12% to end the day at $58.75.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Article in Digital Genealogist
Just a quick note: an article that I've written about preserving not only one's genealogy data but the means by which to access it has been published in the latest edition of Digital Genealogist magazine.
Entitled "Future Proofing Your Data," it discusses various methods for ensuring that you will be able to access your data for years to come and provides tips on how to guard against common mistakes and pitfalls.
Please check out Digital Genealogist which is published by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens. It is one of many "green magazines" to which I subscribe these days and speaks to both of my current passions: genealogy and technology.
4 comments:
- Sheri said...
Bravo Thomas! Well Done! How exciting to be "Published" Come here - let me rub your paw for good luck. Wait, your not a rabbit....you're magically delicious.
- January 17, 2009 at 1:11 AM
- Miriam said...
CONGRATULATIONS! I can't wait to read it1
- January 17, 2009 at 2:54 AM
- Apple said...
Congratulations Thomas!
- January 17, 2009 at 6:53 AM
- Andrea Christman said...
I just got my notice from Liz that the next issue was ready for download and I procrastinated! Now I am going to get it today and read your article first! Congratulations and thanks for the heads-up!
- January 17, 2009 at 7:11 AM
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LoGiCaL__ wrote:May I just ask why the .Net 2.0 did not create the ASPNET account?
Yes, I am aware that it is replaced with the NETWORK SERVICE account but what I'd like to know is why?
Possibly you are having the same issue? It doesn't exist because it was replaced with the NETWORK SERVER?
By the way which iis extension should i download?
Ya ran it as admin mode still the same error as i posted in my first post so i guess the iis is my last hope so can someone give me a hint the the above question because the Microsoft iis website offers a tone of extensions, thanx for all the help


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Working papers Forfattere "Foss, Nicolai"
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Abell, Peter; Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or "collectivist") explanation that is utilized in the capabilities view in strategic management - which implies a neglect of micro-foundations - is incomplete. There are no mechanisms that work solely on the macro-level, directly connecting routines and capabilities to firm-level outcomes. While routines and capabilities are useful shorthand for complicated patterns of individual action and interaction, ultimately they are best understood at the micro-level. Second, we provide a formal model that shows precisely why macro explanation is incomplete and which exemplifies how explicit micro-foundations may be built for notions of routines and capabilities and for how these impact firm performance. Keywords: Routines, capabilities, micro-foundations, production function. JEL Code: L2, M1 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7474
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The Role of LeadershipFoss, Nicolai; Stieglitz, Nils (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We draw on the complementarity literature in economics and management research to dimensionalize business models innovations. Specifically, such innovation can be dimensionalized in terms of the depth and the breadth of the changes to the company's business model that they imply. In turn, different business model innovations are associated with different management challenges and require different leadership interventions to become successful. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8876
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A Case of Kuhnian Lost ContentFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Among the many seminal contributions of Ronald Coase, founding property rights economics is a truly major one. This approach impacted a number if fields in economics in particularly the 1960s and 1970s, but gradually lost influence. What is called property rights economics in modern economics, mainly originated by Oliver Hart, is very different from the original property rights economics of Coase, Demsetz, Alchian, Cheung, Umbeck, Barzel, etc. in terms of analytical style and explanatory scope. Based on our earlier work on the subject (Foss and Foss, 2001), we argue that the change from Mark I to Mark II property rights economics led to Kuhnian loss of content. This is related to the strong assumptions concerning the definition and enforcement of ownership rights made in the latter approach which leads to many real life institutions and governance arrangements being excluded from consideration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8875
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Theoretical Foundations and Research OpportunitiesFoss, Nicolai; Husted, Kenneth; Michailova, Snejina; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: An under-researched issue in work within the "knowledge movement" is the relation between organizational issues and knowledge processes (i.e., sharing and creating knowledge). We argue that managers can shape formal organization structure and organization forms and can influence the more informal organizational practices in order to foster knowledge sharing and creation. Theoretically, we unfold this argument by relying on key ideas of organizational economics and organizational behaviour studies. We put forward a number of refutable propositions derived from this reasoning. Acknowledgments We are grateful to Anna Grandori for numerous excellent comments on an earlier draft. The standard disclaimer applies. Keywords: Knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, governance, organizational economics, organizational behavior. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7311
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Authority under "Distributed Knowledge"Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We examine the argument, put forward by modern management writers and, in a somewhat different guise by Austrian economists, that authority is not a viable mechanism of coordination in the presence of "distributed knowledge" (which corresponds to Hayek's treatment of the use of dispersed knowledge in society). We define authority and distributed knowledge and argue that authority is compatible with distributed knowledge. Moreover, it is not clear on theoretical grounds how distributed knowledge impacts on economic organization. An implication is that the Austrian argument that designed orders are strongly constrained by the Hayekian knowledge problem (Hayek, Kirzner, Sautet) is shaky. The positive flipside of this argument is that Austrians confront an exciting research agenda in theorizing how distributed knowledge impacts economic organization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7291
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Individuals, Teams and Research Infrastructure in the European UnionFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This report maps research in institutional economics in management science in the European Union for the 1995 to 2002 period. The reports applies Internet search based on a university listing, search on journal databases, key informants and an internet-based survey. 195 researchers are identified. In (sub-)disciplinary terms, organization, strategy, corporate governance, and international business are the major areas of application of institutional economics ideas. In terms of countries, the EU strongholds are Holland, Denmark, UK, and Germany. There is apparently no or very little relevant research in Ireland, Portugal, Luxembourg and Greece. Based on the findings of the report, it seems warranted to characterize the EU research effort in the field as being rather dispersed and uncoordinated. Thus, there are no specialized journals, associations or PhD courses. This state of affairs is partly explainable by the highly pragmatic way in which research in management science is typically conducted (so that institutional economics approaches are likely to be merely one type of input among many). Keywords Institutional economics, management science, European union. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7278
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Understanding Opportunity Discovery and Sustainable Advantage : The Role of Transaction Costs and Property RightsFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: On November 24, 1874, United States Patent No. 157,124 was granted to Joseph Glidden of DeKalb, Ill., for improved barbed wire fencing. Glidden's patent was the culmination of a series of nine patents for improvements to wire fencing that were granted by the U.S. Patent Offi ce to American inventors, beginning with Michael Kelly in November 1868 and ending with Glidden's patent (McCallum and McCallum, 1965), which quickly became dominant. To be sure, wire fencing had been used for a very long time. However, property rights over livestock were less secure, as wire fencing would often break under the impact of heavy livestock pressing against the fencing. This would not happen with barbed wire, so the costs at which property rights to livestock could be protected fell dramatically (Dennen, 1976; Anderson and Hill, 2004). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7448
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Maybe lost a little bit in the excitement over the Bruins' snapping of their four-game winless drought and the controversy over Brad Marchand's hit on R..J. Umberger Tuesday in Columbus was that Boston forward Mark Recchi reached another milestone.
The future Hall-of-Famer skated in his 1,640th NHL regular-season game Tuesday, which put him in sole possession of fifth place on the NHL all-time list. Only Chris Chelios, Ron Francis, Mark Messier and all-time leader Gordie Howe played in more games in their careers.
Amazingly, at 43 years old and playing a style of the game that would put a licking on a player of any age, Recchi's production has hardly dropped off. In 69 games this season, he has 12-31-43 totals. He is one of only four Bruins (along with Zdeno Chara, Dennis Seidenberg and Shawn Thornton) to skate in every game this season.
The great hockey writer from Sports Illustrated Michael Farber penned an ode to Recchi this week. In it, Farber explains Recchi's style of play like this:
There is nothing soft about it. Nothing easy. Indeed, now that he no longer has the grand burst of speed that used to whoosh him down the flank — those distinctive short, almost mincing strides don't cover as much ice as they once did — his game has become even more taxing. Recchi is spending more of it wrangling with defensemen for pucks, mucking near the crease.
Bruins fans know what an inspiration it is to every other black-and-gold wearing skater to see Recchi battle the way he does every night. He certainly has his off nights and can go long stretches without points, but the effort level is 100 percent, all the time.
If Recchi skates in 12 more games, he'll pass Chelios for fourth on that list. He can pass Doug Gilmour for 12th all-time with 12 more assists and he's just four points away from passing Paul Coffey for 12th in scoring. Best of all, his play might convince him to come back for another season and the Bruins to re-sign him for a third time since he came over in an '09 trade with Tampa Bay.
Of Recchi's place in history, Farber writes:
The problem, in terms of figuring out Recchi's proper place in hockey's pantheon, is his name was never above the marquee. He was an A-Lister in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, a star in Montreal, a Stanley Cup-winner with the Penguins, and later a Cup mercenary on Carolina's 2006 championship team. But there was always someone around who seemed more significant, if not always better, to capture the eye and the imagination: Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr in Pittsburgh, Eric Lindros in Philadelphia, Saku Koivu in Montreal. Even as Recchi became a vagabond later in his career, he was the sidekick whose name you can't quite remember in Judd Apatow movies, playing in the shadow of Sidney Crosby, Ilya Kovalchuk or Vincent Lecavalier.
Well, we all know where Recchi's proper place is. It's in front of the net creating chances for himself and his teammates, on the power play and 5-on-5. It's at his stall after tough losses and dramatic wins to explain with great detail and passion what went right or wrong. And in a few years, it'll be in the shrine in Toronto. For the Bruins though, hopefully Recchi will postpone taking his spot in that last place at least another year.


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Egenera CEO makes dash for Tech Data
Bye, bye blades
Egenera - the blade server company created by Wall Street for Wall Street - has tapped a new CEO after chief Bob Dutkowsky ran off to run Tech Data.
Current Egenera COO Mike Thompson will take on the roles of CEO and president, the company said. Meanwhile, Dutkowsky, a former IBM, EMC and JD Edwards exec, will head up computer products distributor Tech Data as of Oct. 1. Dutkowsky will remain Chairman of Egenera.
"While making the decision to leave Egenera was a difficult one, I look forward to my new role at Tech Data," Dutkowsky said. "I have every confidence that Egenera will continue to grow and thrive under Mike Thompson's leadership and I look forward to my continued role with the Board."
All in all, the departure seems amicable, and Egenera appears plenty stable. The company's founder Vern Brownell remains CTO.
Egenera has proved to be the most successful blade server start-up, outlasting pioneer RLX. The company is packed with Wall Street IT pros and has enjoyed healthy investments from financial services firms and sales to the same firms. Egenera once planned an IPO but has since scrapped that idea. ®


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Fed up with their lot in life, three Miami bodybuilders hatch a plan to kidnap and extort a wealthy businessman. With Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie and Tony Shalhoub. Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Directed by Michael Bay. Paramount Pictures
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 30, 2013) – Each week during the volleyball season members of the ETSU volleyball team will be featured in a segment called "Getting to Know You."
The ninth player to be featured is junior outside hitter Ivey Rice (Johnson City, Tenn.). During the preseason, the players were given the questionnaire, which can be found below, and each of them submitted their answers. Below are the responses by Rice:
Name: Ivey Rice
Academic Major: Biomedical Engineering
Favorite Song: "Say Hey I Love You" – Michael Franti & Spearhead
Favorite Actor/Actress: Adam Sandler and Sandra Bullock
Favorite Book: "A Great and Terrible Beauty"
Favorite Movie: "The Underworld" series
Favorite TV Show: "Desperate Housewives" and "Reba"
Favorite Food: Crab Legs / Steak / Goldfish
Favorite Animal: My dog, Rocky!
Favorite Ice Cream: Ben and Jerry's Half Baked
Favorite Sports Moment: Winning the A-Sun Conference Tournament
Favorite Quote: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." ― Mahatma Gandhi
Favorite Athlete: Michael Phelps
Favorite Subject in School: Math
Favorite Vacation Spot: Crystal Beach, Texas … with all of my family!
What's the number one thing on your bucket list?
If you could be on any reality TV show what would it be and why?
What is one thing you can't live without and why?
If you were stranded on an island what are two things you would bring with you?
Is there any meaning behind the number you wear?
If you could be one person for a day, who would you be and why?
If you weren't playing volleyball, what sport would you play?
Do you have a gameday tradition?
What are your plans after graduation?
What's one thing most people don't know about you?
What's your favorite thing to do in the off-season?
Rice and the Bucs take their four-match win streak on the road as ETSU takes on Florida Gulf Coast Friday night inside Alico Arena. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
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Rays reaping benefits of patient plan for Moore
ST. PETERSBURG -- Back in January, former Ray James Shields offered a prediction about Matt Moore. The right-hander had been reminiscing about his time with the team when Moore's name entered the conversation.
"Dude's going to have a great season," Shields said.
ST. PETERSBURG -- Back in January, former Ray James Shields offered a prediction about Matt Moore. The right-hander had been reminiscing about his time with the team when Moore's name entered the conversation.
"Dude's going to have a great season," Shields said.
Obviously, Shields was spot on. Moore will carry a 6-0 record into his eighth start of the season, on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field against the Red Sox. Although the record is not totally immaculate -- he does have a no-decision -- the Rays are 7-0 in games he started.
Shields laughed when recently reminded about his prediction. For starters, he explained, he hadn't exactly gone out on a limb. After all, Moore possesses three quality pitches, he throws 97 mph from the left side, he works hard and he's mentally tough.
"I knew he was going to do it," Shields said. "I watched the way he grinded it out last year, even when he struggled. I remembered when I went through a bad stretch in 2010, I continued to grind it out. I would approach every single game the same way. He reminded me of that. He was doing that as well. Besides that, he's a good kid. He's definitely got a lot to learn, but he's well on his way."
Moore made his first Major League start on Sept. 22, 2011, against the Yankees, and shut them down, allowing no runs and striking out 11 in five innings in a 15-8 win. Manager Joe Maddon handed the ball to the youngster for the first game of the American League Division Series, against the Rangers, and the magic continued: He dominated with seven scoreless innings in Arlington en route to a 9-0 win.
"Easy gas" quickly became one of the superlatives issued by those struggling to explain what they were seeing from a kid who shaved once or twice a week and delivered 97-mph fastballs with relative ease. All of it looked so easy.
"I felt great, my pitches were all there," Moore said. "Things were pretty clean all season."
By the time Moore arrived in Port Charlotte, Fla., the following spring, he had a long-term deal with the Rays and a spot in their rotation, and was projected to be a favorite for the AL Rookie of the Year Award.
Alas, baseball is a difficult game, and the Majors have a way of humbling. Moore stumbled out of the gate to a 1-4 record in his first 10 starts in 2012 before finishing at 11-11, with a 3.81 ERA.
Had Moore been prematurely anointed the "Next Great Thing"?
Any player would have had a difficult time living up to those expectations. Read between the lines, and you'll notice some strong results from Moore's 2012 season, such as the 31 starts, the 175 strikeouts -- the most for an AL rookie since Mark Langston's 204 in 1984 -- and the 9-3 stretch he put together from June through August.
"I don't think there's a guy in here that at some point in his life didn't face a rough patch," said Moore when asked how he's handled his ups and downs. "I think I have to keep continuing to strive for something more and not get content or OK with the fact my changeup wasn't good. [It's] more so staying with the process of what your routine is, what your thought processes are."
Maddon has been impressed with Moore's makeup since he first joined the team.
"He's got a nice way about him," Maddon said. "He handles different moments really well. Even when he was going poorly last year, I don't remember seeing him really getting totally dejected or despondent. And when he's going well, you don't see this air about him that changes, either. I mean, he's pretty much the same cat, good or bad, and I love that. The fact that he's 23 and can be that way really speaks to future success."
Moore attributes much of his development to the foundation Tampa Bay gave him after signing him out of Moriarty (N.M.) High School in 2007. Despite having obvious natural talents, he progressed station-to-station through the system. Moore even repeated at Class A Princeton, where he spent the 2007 and '08 seasons.
"What the Rays do with high school pitchers is great," Moore said. "They never put me into a situation where I wasn't just going to take off. I got drafted when I was 17. I knew how to throw the ball in the middle of the plate, I knew how to make my curveball snap off, but I didn't know how to locate anything, and I didn't have a changeup.
"With me, it was, 'Start from the bottom with this guy. We're going to send him in to see [pitching coach] Marty DeMerritt to teach him something about how to work and be in this game and be professional.' The progression for me was right on. I don't think there was a time when I needed to be somewhere and I wasn't."
Now the Rays are reaping the benefits of their patient approach, as Moore appears headed for a great run. Reigning AL Cy Young Award winner David Price believes Moore is right where he needs to be.
"It's tough whenever you come out and have that much success," Price said. "Then guys get a little bit of video on you, and it kind of changes things. And he's changing things right now. And that's what you have to do, because all of these hitters on all of these teams, they're going to adapt to what you do.
"So you have to get off the straight path and kind of figure out ways to make these teams kind of research what you're doing again. Make sure you're continually changing things up. You don't use the same pitch sequences. You learn to pitch to different guys. That's what he's doing right now, and he's doing extremely well."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Snow showers bring more slipping on New Hampshire roads
A snow shower advanced across parts of New Hampshire early Sunday, renewing slippery road conditions that plagued motorists on Saturday, when a heavier-than-forecast snowfall was blamed for several traffic accidents.
The light snowfall Sunday came with temperatures just below the freezing mark, resulting in slippery spots where treatment had not been applied or had washed away. Accidents impeding traffic have been reported in Derry, Lee, Sandown and Brentwood.
In Derry, a spin-out on Interstate Route 93, in which two cars collided, backed up traffic for about a mile at about 9:30 a.m.
National Weather Service forecasters said some snow showers are possible Sunday afternoon with temperatures falling into the 20s Sunday night and into single digits and below-zero readings by late Monday as another Arctic cold air mass settles in for the remainder of the work week.


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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Archbishop Stepinac High School recently announced that it will dedicate a new physics lab to longtime faculty member Ron Tedesco to recognize his achievements throughout his 50 years during a retirement reception on Thursday, May 8.
"After teaching physics for so many years at Stepinac, I am deeply touched with this recognition from the school," Tedesco said. "Over the last 50 years, I have had a vested interest in the success of Stepinac's students. This new lab will continue to help students progress, and I am proud to be a part of that effort."
Beginning as a freshman student in 1953, Tedesco went on to become a physics and electronics teacher, headmaster, director of alumni affairs and the annual fund and secretary to Stepinac's foundation board and alumni association. Donations are currently being accepted for the Ron Tedesco Physics Lab, which will be constructed over this summer and unveiled for the start of the 2014-15 academic year. The funds will also help update the school's other science labs. An anonymous donor will match the donations up to $100,000.
This is the fifth lab to be dedicated to Tedesco. In 2003, four science labs were renovated in his honor. "I remember Ron's physics class like it was yesterday, He never raised his voice, and his demeanor was always perfectly calm, yet he had control over his entire classroom," said Gerry Hatcher, operations manager of Westchester Modular Homes and a 1982 graduate of Stepinac. Tedesco resides in Tarrytown with his wife, Anne O'Brien. He has been a member of the Tarrytown Planning Board since 1988. To make a donation toward the lab, contact Dennis Buckley at 946-4800, ext, 282, or email email@example.com. Checks may be mailed to the school, made payable to the Stepinac Foundation and with "Ron Tedesco" indicated in the memo.


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The American Association of Family Physicians (AAFP) has recognized UC Davis School of Medicine as one of the nation's top 10 schools for graduating medical students who go on to family medicine residencies.
The AAFP Top Ten Award is given each year to medical schools that foster student interest in family medicine and produce graduates who enter the specialty, which focuses on providing continuous, comprehensive and preventive care in the context of family and community.
Jeff Cain, president of the AAFP, recognized this year's winners for their commitment to meeting the nation's need for family physicians.
"I commend them, their leadership and their faculty for helping ensure that Americans have access to the care they need," said Cain.
According to the AAFP, nearly 16 percent (based on a three-year average) of UC Davis School of Medicine graduates entered family medicine residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Suzanne Eidson-Ton, associate professor of family and community medicine and director of UC Davis Rural PRIME (Program in Medical Education), was on hand to receive the award today at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine spring conference in Baltimore.
"UC Davis has a long tradition of providing an encouraging and academically excellent learning environment for students interested in family medicine," said Eidson-Ton. "This award recognizes our commitment to help expand the numbers of physicians in the U.S. who are in the best position to improve the health of individuals, their families and their broader communities while controlling health-care costs."
Interest in primary care, which includes family medicine, general internal medicine and pediatrics, has increased among UC Davis medical school graduates. For the most recent class, nearly half chose residencies in a primary-care specialty, representing the largest percentage since 2002. The school is also recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best medical schools in the nation for the quality of its primary-care education programs.
The AAFP represents 110,600 physicians and medical students nationwide and is the only medical society devoted solely to primary care. The association preserves and promotes the science and art of family medicine and ensures high-quality, cost-effective health care for patients of all ages. For more information, visit www.aafp.org.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
I have just published a four-part series for SQLPerformance.com on the Halloween Problem. Some of you will never have heard of this issue, and those that have might associate it only with T-SQL UPDATE queries. In fact, the Halloween problem affects execution plans for INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and MERGE statements.
This is a topic I have been meaning to write about properly for years, ever since I read Craig Freedman's 2008 blog post on the topic, which ended with the cryptic comment:
"…although I've used update statements for all of the examples in this post, some insert and delete statements also require Halloween protection, but I'll save that topic for a future post."
"…although I've used update statements for all of the examples in this post, some insert and delete statements also require Halloween protection, but I'll save that topic for a future post."
That future post never materialized, sadly, so I thought I would have a go. The four parts of the series are summarized and linked below, I hope you find the material interesting.
As always, I appreciate your comments and feedback.
Paul White @SQL_Kiwi firstname.lastname@example.com
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Good article, makes our SQL skills improve fast.
awesome!! thanks for your sharing. From Taipei, Taiwan
Nice work! Before CASE expressions, the reason given for cursors was an updating problem for book prices in the old Sybase sample database. Reduce all expensive books (>= $25) by 10% and raise the cheap books by 10%. (make up your own numbers) If you did this with two UPDATEs, one for the cheap books and one for expensive books, the books on cusp go up then down, down then up in price. $25.00 => 22.50, then back to $22.50 => $24.75. This was the argument for a cursor that would visit each book once. Today, UPDATE Books Set price = price *CASE WHEN price >= 25.00 THEN 0.90 ELSE 1.10 END; does the job.
Thank you, Joe!