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A look at the well-known engine maker's second gas offering
Featured in the May 2013 issue of Model Aviation magazine
by Jim Rice
When Jay Smith asked me if I wanted to review the O.S. GT-33 gasoline engine, I jumped at the opportunity. I have flown nearly all kinds of RC aircraft during the past 55 years, and many have been powered by O.S. glow engines.
I have settled into the 20-30cc gas category and three-cell park flyer electrics. I currently have two airplanes with 20cc engines and two with 30cc engines. I am about to test-fly a new biplane I designed with both those engine sizes in mind, depending on the pilot's performance desires.
The GT-33 retails for $419, which is slightly higher than some of its competition, but when I opened the box I was taken by its appearance, packaging, and degree of completeness. I was so excited to get to work that I forgot to take a picture of it either in the box or setting on the bench. I did take the time to weigh everything and discovered that the advertised weights were close to what my scale reported.
The engine comes with a NGK CM-6 spark plug and Walbro WT1024 carburetor installed, which I think are both pluses in the gas engine arena. It has user-friendly choke and throttle arms installed. These are often items that must be fabricated or purchased separately on similar engines.
The engine case has a built-in choke rod guide, so installing a choke rod is simple. The engine manual has a picture with choke rod installed. It would be nice if O.S. included it. The wraparound Pitts-style muffler was a nice surprise, allowing neater cowl installation and providing quiet operation.
The ignition is rated to use 4.8 to 7.4-volt (4.8 to 6.0-volt Ni-Cd or NiMH, 6.6-volt Lithium Iron, or 7.4-volt LiPo) battery pack. Current consumption is rated at 600 mAh at 6000 rpm and it recommends 1,000 mAh or larger ignition battery. The ignition module is set to not operate below 120 rpm for safety.
I used a single 2,600 mAh LiPo to power the ignition and receiver and servos. I did use a voltage regulator for the flight system, but connected the ignition without a regulator.
I was excited to try the engine in my son's Sbach that had been sitting on my bench without a radio or engine for approximately two months, waiting for me to return it to flying condition for him.
The spark plug is canted toward the rear of the engine, which helps keep the plug wire away from propeller arc and inside the cowl.
The wraparound Pitts-style muffler is included and provides a clean installation.
When I compared the mounting lugs for the GT-33 with those of the DLE-30 that had been on the airplane before, I discovered they matched perfectly and all I needed was an extra 1/8-inch spacer to get the spinner backplate outside of the cowl. It went on with little effort and looks good.
The plug is canted toward the rear of the engine, which should help keep the plug wire away from propeller arc and inside the cowl. The cowl went back on the airplane with this engine and only required minor cutout modifications. It may not have required any, but I wanted to mount the muffler to the engine before installing the cowl and it wouldn't quite fit. The modification is unnoticeable, but it makes muffler/engine/cowl assembly much easier.
Regular gasoline with Evolution synthetic oil in a 32:1 ratio was used for all engine runs. For the first start, the choke was closed and carburetor opened wide with the ignition on and it fired after roughly six flips. When the choke was opened and the carb closed it started on the fourth flip, but died quickly.
That repeated for six or seven iterations with the low throttle at various settings. There were only minor differences in run time before it stopped. I was convinced that the carburetor needed to be full and the diaphragm soaked and it would run perfectly.
Finally, I reluctantly opened the low-end needle approximately a quarter turn and it immediately fired. A Vess 18 x 8S propeller provided good transition and fairly reliable idle with only minutes of run time. I have provided a comparison of propellers.
After 30 minutes of running at different throttle settings, I refilled the tank and noted the following readings:
• Vess 18 x 8S 7,700: 1,800 rpm
• Evo 18 x 6 8,440: 1,830 rpm
• Xoar 20 x 6 7,140: 1,700 rpm
The tachometer reading prior to the first flight is 7,200 rpm on a 20 x 6 Xoar propeller.
Transition was good with every propeller, but idle was best with the bigger and heavier Xoar propeller. Throttle curve was used to set the sweet spot for my aircraft and flying style.
I installed the cowl after two tanks and took the 11-pound, 4.5-ounce Sbach to the field.
The carburetor adjusting screws aligned perfectly with the firewall, so adjusting with the cowl on became impossible. Despite the engine running slightly rich, it performed well for two flights and provided superior power-to-weight ratio, despite not being fully broken in or sufficiently leaned out. The airplane and pilot were keen on the engine.
I definitely like the GT-33. Although its displacement is 10% greater than the engine it replaced, I believe it provides more than a 10% increase in performance. The aircraft had lead in the nose to balance with the other engine, so installing this more powerful engine allowed me to remove some of the dead weight.
Knowing the condition of my shop and the stiffness of my old fingers, I accept that someday I will lose the crankshaft woodruff key and have to get a new one, something I am sure the rest of you never do. Fly safely!
Size: 33cc gas engine
Output power: 3.85 hp; 8,000 rpm
Idle speed: 1,800 rpm
Maximum speed: 8,000 rpm
Displacement: 33cc
Bore and stroke: 35.99mm x 32.41mm
Weight: Engine 34.72 ounces; muffler 5.65 ounces; ignition 3.70 ounces
Propeller: 18 x 10 to 20 x 10
Ignition battery: 4.8 to 7.4 volts; 1,000 mAh or larger
Spark plug: NGK CM-6 or equivalent
Mount: Firewall
Street price: $419
—Jim Rice
Box 9021
Champaign IL 61826
(800) 637-7660
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Updated from 9:21 a.m ET to include Dell comments and Friday share prices. NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The battle for Dell ( DELL) will continue without private equity giant Blackstone Group ( BX). Blackstone Group said Friday it is withdrawing a $14.25 a share proposal for Dell because of recent sharp declines in the personal computer market, which undercut the prospect of a turnaround. The firm is withdrawing its offer, which valued Dell shares at about $25 billion because of "an unprecedented 14 percent market decline in PC volume in the first quarter of 2013, its steepest drop in history, and inconsistent with management's projections for modest industry growth," according to a letter sent to Dell. Earlier this month, technology research firm International Data Corporation said PC shipments in the U.S. fell fell 13.9% year-over-year to 76.3 million units in the first quarter, sharply worse than the 7.7% the firm had forecast. Dell shares were trading lower by over 3.5% in early Friday trading to $13.44, below all proposals to take control of the computer maker. Prior to Friday's decision to abandon its $14.25 a share proposal, a source familiar with the Blackstone investor group said the firm had been in contact with Michael Dell and had traveled to the company's Round Rock, Texas headquarters, as it conducted a due diligence process. In a letter to Dell, the private equity firm said it learned that the company had lowered its operating income projections for 2013 to $3.0 billion from $3.7 billion, indicating a "rapidly eroding financial profile" of the company. "As the Board's Special Committee continues to oversee its process to ensure the best possible outcome for Dell shareholders, we remain focused on our customers and on providing innovative products and solutions to help them succeed," David Frink, a Dell spokesperson, said in an e-mailed statement. Blackstone's withdrawal leaves a $13.65 a share bid for Dell by Silver Lake Partners and founder Michael Dell, as well as a $15 a share proposal for a controlling stake in Dell floated by activist investor Carl Icahn, with both offers running a close contest. On Tuesday, Icahn reached a standstill with Dell that will cap his holding in the computer giant to 10% as he seeks support for his offer, which would keep Dell as a publicly traded company. Icahn's proposal relies on the support of both Southeastern Asset Management and T. Rowe Price, an institutional shareholder, which previously stated a lack of support for Silver Lake's $13.65 a share offer. Southeastern Asset Management, one of Dell's ( DELL) largest independent shareholders, said earlier in April both a $14.25 a share proposal by the Blackstone Group ( BX) and a $15 a share proposal by Carl Icahn to buy the struggling PC-maker were superior to the company's proposed $24.4 billion buyout deal with founder Michel Dell and Silver Lake. Southeastern's support for either proposal indicated that Icahn was still gunning for Dell, despite media reports to the contrary. Icahn's proposal for the acquisition of up to 58% of Dell's shares hinges on support from Southeastern Asset Management and T. Rowe Price, in addition to the roughly $1 billion stake Icahn Enterprises holds in the Dell's shares.
Those shareholders now have more limited options. "The Special Committee has obtained two preliminary alternative proposals, both of which we view as superior to the Michael Dell / Silver Lake buyout," Mason O. Hawkins, Southeastern chief executive, said in an April letter assessing all takeover proposals. The special committee was formed by Dell's board of directors to solicit competing bids to Michael Dell and Silver Lake's offer for the company. "We view these proposals as superior primarily because each offers shareholders the opportunity to remain owners of Dell while also offering a higher cash price to owners who choose to exit their investment," Hawkins wrote. To be seen is whether investors such as Southeastern Asset Management now cast their support for Icahn's proposal, or if they try to negotiate with Silver Lake's offer. Southeastern previously criticized the initial offer as an insufficient price that wouldn't give shareholders commensurate payment for Dell's cash stockpile or the acquisitions the company has made in an effort to shift from PC's to tech services such as IT security, cloud computing and databases. The activist investor has indicated investment bank Jefferies is willing to finance his proposal. Still, a firm offer by Icahn for Dell has yet to be submitted. Silver Lake, however, has financing in place and an offer that Dell's board of directors already has accepted. For more on Dell's prospects, see why Dell's buyout marks a fork in the restructuring road for struggling tech sector giants. Also see why Carl Icahn's $15 a share 'devils bargain' could be the best offer for underwater Dell shareholders. Follow @agara2004 -- Written by Antoine Gara in New York


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Aman Ali is an award winning storyteller in New York City and one of the most popular social media personalities in the Muslim community today. His passionate and animated tales he regularly posts to Facebook continue to go viral by the thousands daily.
He is also one of the only young American Muslims in the public spotlight today. He's made appearances on dozens of media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, HBO, ABC News, and NPR to talk about his upbringing as a 20-something Muslim born and raised in America.
His storytelling comes from his background as a former newspaper reporter – having covered everything from Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans to Capitol Hill politics in Washington DC to high-profile criminal murder trials in New York to hula festivals in Hawaii.
He is recognized for being the co-creator of the social media phenomenon 30 Mosques in 30 Days, a 25,000 mile road trip he took to all 50 states in the U.S. with the mission of telling groundbreaking and profound stories about Muslims in America.


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Hans Hartung Biography
Hans Hartung (1904 – 1989) was a modern painter who's work aimed to portray emotions rather than the visual world. Sometimes these emotions were disturbing. His work was banned in his native Germany when the Nazis came to power. He did not start painting until he was 18 but he was a quick learner. He worked in oils, pastels, watercolor and lithographic prints.
Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany. Accepted to the University of Leipzig, he studied philosophy and art history. He took art classes at the art Academies of Leipzig, Dresden and Munich. He travelled to many European countries to study art. He hated the Nazis. He had to leave Germany completely in 1935. He joined the French Foreign Legion during World War II and lost a leg in 1944. By 1947, he had his first solo exhibition. He lived in France for the rest of his life.
Hartung titled his works by numbers instead of words. One of his best known works is the oil painting "T 1962-U4″ a complex work which looks somewhat like soft hair against a black and light blue background. Another well-known work is the stark "T 1996-9″, a series of dagger-like crosshatches in black and brown against a light background.


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bruth'-er ('ach; adelphos = kin by birth, from the same parents or parent):
Used extensively in both Old Testament and New Testament of other relations and relationships, and expanding under Christ's teaching to include the universal brotherhood of man. Chiefly employed in the natural sense, as of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:8); of Joseph and his brethren (Genesis 42:3); of Peter and Andrew, of James and John (Matthew 10:2). Of other relationships:
(1) Abram's nephew, Lot, is termed "brother" (Genesis 14:14);
(2) Moses' fellow-countrymen are "brethren" (Exodus 2:11; Acts 3:22; compare Hebrews 7:5);
(3) a member of the same tribe (2 Samuel 19:12);
(4) an ally (Amos 1:9), or an allied or cognate people (Numbers 20:14);
(5) used of common discipleship or the kinship of humanity (Matthew 23:8);
(6) of moral likeness or kinship (Proverbs 18:9);
(7) of friends (Job 6:15);
(8) an equal in rank or office (1 Kings 9:13);
(9) one of the same faith (Acts 11:29; 1 Corinthians 5:11);
(10) a favorite oriental metaphor used to express likeness or similarity (Job 30:29, "I am a brother to jackals");
(11) a fellow-priest or office-bearer (Ezra 3:2); Paul called Sosthenes "brother" (1 Corinthians 1:1) and Timothy his spiritual son and associate (2 Corinthians 1:1);
(12) a brother-man, any member of the human family (Matthew 7:3-5; Hebrews 2:17; 8:11; 1 John 2:9; 4:20);
(13) signifies spiritual kinship (Matthew 12:50);
(14) a term adopted by the early disciples and Christians to express their fraternal love for each other in Christ, and universally adopted as the language of love and brotherhood in His kingdom in all subsequent time (2 Peter 3:15; Colossians 4:7,9,15).
The growing conception of mankind as a brotherhood is the outcome of this Christian view of believers as a household, a family (Ephesians 2:19; 3:15; compare Acts 17:26). Jesus has made "neighbor" equivalent to "brother," and the sense of fraternal affection and obligation essential to vital Christianity, and coextensive with the world. The rabbis distinguished between "brother" and "neighbor," applying "brother" to Israelites by blood, "neighbor" to proselytes, but allowing neither title to the Gentiles. Christ and the apostles gave the name "brother" to all Christians, and "neighbor" to all the world (1 Corinthians 5:11; Luke 10:29). The missionary passion and aggressiveness of the Christian church is the natural product of this Christian conception of man's true relation to man.
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FTV News, Cambridge: Caleidoscope 2017, the largest Indian Film Festival in New England, was held between Sep 8th through 10th at MIT and Apple Cinemas, Cambridge. A total of 14 contemporary, acclaimed feature films, shorts and documentaries were screened in two prominent, prestigious locations, Apple Cinemas and at Stata Center, MIT. The event was co-organized by Calcutta Club USA of Acton, MA and the MIT Sangam graduate students association.
A nine member jury panel evaluated the films across multiple categories over the 2.5 day festival. Said judge and actor Sujoy De, "we were going back and forth" for over an hour to select awards recipients. Ultimately, Sanal Sashidharan's Malayalam film Sexy Durga and Kaushik Ganguly's Bengali love story Bisorjon clinched the top honors, as announced at the awards dinner on Sep 10th. Other major categories were won by popular 2017 films like A Death in The Gunj by Konkona Sensharma and Marathi feature Half Ticket by Samit Kakkad. Juried prizes included both a trophy and a cash award. Full Caleidoscope 2017 results are available at www.calfilmfest.org.
The most popular film of the event, as expected, was Alankrita Shrivastava's Lipstick Under My Burkha, which drew a record audience of 230 people. Nalini Sharma of Sharon, a sponsor of Caleidoscope, was struck by this film – "Indian Independent Cinema is alive and thriving… impressive to see the sophistication with which some hard hitting and raw topics have been dealt with." Said Koushik Chakraborty of Belmont – "Most of the Indian films in this genre become preachy and sloganeering; Lipstick is an exception…it remains with you even after you leave the theater…these films made on a shoestring budget can become a serious contender to masala blockbusters." Overall, the festival was attended by 800 people.
The film industry felt buoyed at the success of Caleidoscope and optimistic about the future of Indian cinema in USA. Director Suman Ghosh, whose recent disputed film on Amartya Sen, called "The Argumentative Indian" was shown at the festival, remarked, "this year, the films were all of very good quality – please continue to maintain this standard." Dir Sarbari Choudhury came from Phoenix, AZ; her documentary Broto Alpona won the best Documentary Award. She said, "the audience interaction on the presented films was very informative and refreshing. Caleidoscope was a very well organized festival with a great variety of excellent films." Director Tanni Choudhury of Rhode Island, who was conferred the Hope Award for her work on AIDs survivors in Beyond had high words of praise for the organizers whose hard efforts "created a remarkable milieu of established filmmakers, big actors, new ventures and engaged audiences united beyond borders in their love of cinematic storytelling." Filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly, Samit Kakkad as well as actors Jaya Ahsan, Vikrant Massey and others tweeted and posted about their awards, leading to Caleidoscope being covered in several national newspapers in India and Bangladesh.
For Chitro and Ruma Neogy, founders of Calcutta Club USA, Caleidoscope 2017 provided reaffirmation of their belief that novel experiments often find a way to success if pursued with sincerity and clarity of vision. The couple, who both work full time in the software industry acknowledged it was arduous work executing on the idea across three continents but are happy that in three years, Caleidoscope now stands well recognized as a premier Indian film festival. "If we feel an idea is unique and has merit, we often to try it out," said Neogy. "In most projects, we do not have prior experience. We define the desired outcome and features and apply sound project management principles to execute on that concept. Our sponsors and members have always been super supportive." Ajay Jain, a club member who managed the festival judging activities said "We actively collect feedback from jury to ensure our quality improves every year."
Caleidoscope 2017 introduced several new dimensions such as an academic institution collaboration with MIT and a big focus on picking top rated films." Dr Arundhati Tuli Banerjee, Executive Director of the office of philanthropic partnerships at MIT, said: "I was impressed with the energy and commitment of the club to creating a vibrant cultural platform for the diasporic community in the New England region. Caleidoscope brought a set of diverse and intriguing films to the local audience in Boston, and I look forward to exploring potential collaborations with the group in the context of the films I teach in my class."
Calcutta Club USA, the host of Caleidoscope, is a small Boston based organization established in 2015, with the charter of promoting Indian art, lifestyle, cuisine and literature. It also organizes several other uniquely popular public events – Sanskriti Literature Fest and Cuisinier Live Culinary Competition. More information on the club and its activities can be obtained at www.calcuttaclubusa.com.


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French ace Moussa Dembele is first piece in Brendan Rodgers' Celtic rebuilding plan
Moussa Dembele has been confirmed as Brendan Rodgers' first signing as Celtic manager.
The highly-rated French forward has signed a four-year contract at Celtic Park after leaving Fulham.
The 19-year-old hit 17 goals for the Championship side last season.
Dembele arrived at Parkhead as Stefan Scepovic became the latest striker to leave.
The teenager joined Fulham in 2012 from Paris St German and made his first-team debut the following year in the Premier League.
The French youth international struck up a formidable partnership with Scotland striker Ross McCormack last season and was linked with the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Juventus, Galatasaray and Stuttgart.
Dembele was close to joining Tottenham earlier this year, but the deal fell through and Celtic have signed him for a relatively small compensation fee given he was out of contract.
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Since Competing on Big Break: Currently competing full time on the PGA TOUR. First Big Break contestant to earn PGA TOUR card after competing on Big Break. First Big Break contestant to win on the PGA TOUR (2012 McGladrey Classic.)


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|Tools Development
|Bernhard Wodok
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Body and City is a photographic work, which explores the interrelations between the human body and its urban environment. In Body and City, every element of the city is imprinted upon the body. The city appears, thus, in a corporealised infrastructure. The body functions with the codes of the city and the latter receive the influences of the body.
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Dining room is a part of home that is also important. It is usually used to enjoy the meal and also for gathering with the entire family member. So that, the dining room must be designed and decorated as well as possible. For modern home style there is the dining room set with bench. That is amazing design. It can make wonderful dining room.
Do you ever dream having dining room with the beach view? And, it is also with the great interior design. So you will not only need your dining room in your eating time, but you will also sit there to refresh your mind while waiting for your meal.
Here there is an example of the dining room set with bench in Bali. The interior design is very interesting. It looks fresh with the view of the lake. The natural view you can get here. The atmosphere can refresh your soul while you are eating. There is a great lighting on the ceiling unit of that dining room that is equipped with the dining room set with bench seat design. The choosing of the color is very amazing. It is dominated with dark color like dark brown. The combination with the wall painting and also the floor is very fit. Besides that, the bench is very comfort to sit on it. That is looked different with ordinary dining room. The table is wide enough so you can be easy to place your meal.
That is the design of dining room set with the bench seat in Bali. You can take it for your inspiration to design your own dining room. Make your dining room set with the bench seat to make different of your dining room.


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Discussion of Derek Jarman's work tends to coalesce around his final years, which saw the decline of his health from AIDS, which would inevitably kill him, but during which time he strained to keep working and making films, videos, and other art, right up to his death in 1994. It's unavoidable that we should couch the most significant part of his filmography between when he learned that he'd contracted HIV (in 1986) and when he succumbed to AIDS, but it's also not inappropriate, since his work during these years was often defined by a temptation toward rage, stayed by a desire for beauty, poetry, and solace. In other words, Jarman deserved every ounce of his fury, but also exhibited heroism by insisting that there are wonders that cannot be extinguished.
The Last of England is nothing if not a maelstrom of conflicting emotional responses, set in the mold of "found" footage (newly shot by Jarman to render the effect) and 8mm home movies. Its inconsolable rage and bitterness is protean, chafing at the absurdities of Thatcher's England, but also at the wider dome of existence, man's inhumanity to man, and so on. This juggernaut can pass before the lens of Jarman's biography, or it can be anyone's audio-visual tirade. It is very, very English, but only insofar as we're talking about a dying empire, tipped by a feather into jackbooted fascism, as envisioned by writers and artists ranging from George Orwell to Alan Moore (and Pink Floyd between them). Jarman names his horror with sequences where the poor, huddled (and likely gay and/or punk) masses are bullied by a handful of masked men carrying automatic weapons—weapons they eventually use. Attempts at utopia amid decay, forever to be thwarted by agents of the will of the state.
There's also unfathomable mourning, equally everywhere-directed, and like everything else in The Last of England, it's often represented in stagings of pointed, unabashed symbolism or unfettered abstraction. Sets and setups recall Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith, anticipating Guy Maddin (among others), the actors wandering through wastelands and cheaply fabricated sets. Every scene contributes to a larger tapestry of apocalyptic decrepitude, taking place in exteriors and interiors defined by abandonment and condemnation. These places witness every act that society has made illicit (vandalism, scavenging, gay sex and sexuality, as well as extra-judicial killings, sanctioned by the state), thus transforming Jarman's collage into an anthropological act—an archaeological expedition on the present moment.
All the same, Jarman doesn't permit the viewer to identify which sights and sounds are "ugly" and "beautiful," as the intermingling of opposing conditions is precisely the point: hard realism and kitsch, revulsion and adoration, compassion and contempt. Attempting to locate an unambiguous, declarative statement in The Last of England would be folly. It would be better to say that Jarman transmits his vision of 1980s England through a diverse body of emotional frequencies: sarcastic, bombastic, tender, or nostalgic, anything but indifferent or numb.
Most of The Last of England is staged found footage mixed with a small amount of Derek Jarman's home movies, all shot on 8mm stock; Kino's HD transfer of the result is more than passable, if, perhaps, not on the same level as Criterion's work with experimental filmmakers like Hollis Frampton or Stan Brakhage. The low resolution of 8mm makes it easy to conceal problems with posterization and interlacing. The stereo soundtrack is presented on the disc's only sound option, in DTS.
Naked as a forgotten man in a junk heap.
Rage, bitterness, sorrow, and beauty, all in unison against the dying of the light; Derek Jarman's poison love letter to England is presented in a passable HD transfer from Kino, in all its rag-and-bone glory.


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ZooFest 2012 had over 5,650 visitors on May 5th.
We celebrated the Zoo's 34th Anniversary with over 800 visitors on July 2nd, 2011.
The third annual ZooBOO! Event was hosted on October 29, 2011 with over 5,000 visitors.
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The Navajo Nation Zoo is Tribally-funded through the Navajo Nation Government, but outside assistance really does help us to provide better services and an improved facility for our visitors. There are many ways in which you can help, and your donations and efforts are greatly appreciated. Contact the Zoo if you would like to provide assistance in any of the following ways:
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The Cornell men's lacrosse team is on a mission.
After being unseeded in the 16-team NCAA Division I tournament, the Big Red wants to prove that it was slighted and is one of the best teams in the country.
After Cornell defeated No. 3 seed Ohio State, 16-6, on Saturday in the quarterfinals at Maryland's Byrd Stadium, there are few who will argue.
In fact, the Big Red just might be the best.
"We were excited to hear our name called on Selection Sunday," said Cornell coach Ben DeLuca, who is in his third season. "Were we surprised we were unseeded? A little bit. We're going to be underdogs from here on out, but it's not something we're not prepared for."
The Big Red (14-3) knocked off No. 6 Maryland, 16-8, in an opening-round game last week in College Park, but Saturday's win against Ohio State (13-4) was even more impressive. Cornell attackmen Rob Pannell and Steve Mock combined for 15 points as the Big Red led from 32 seconds into the game, when Mock scored the first goal.
This win was sound and methodical as Cornell took apart the Buckeyes in every phase. Mock had seven goals, and Pannell had two goals and six assists. Cornell outshot Ohio State 37-20 won 16 of 26 faceoffs and had a 39-28 advantage in ground balls.
The Big Red appears to be peaking at the right time.
"I've been impressed with our focus in practice, and we've spent a lot of time developing depth, not just working on our first team," DeLuca said. "We've grown in tremendous fashion from the start of the year. We're playing our best lacrosse right now, but we know we can play better."
It's hard to imagine that Cornell could play any better. The Big Red is averaging 15 goals per game in the postseason and shut down Ohio State and its top attackman, Logan Schuss, who finished with one goal and two assists.
Despite playing variations of zone and man-to-man defenses in the first half, Ohio State couldn't stop Mock or Pannell, and the Buckeyes also lost 11 of 16 first half faceoffs. Cornell led 11-3 at the half, and the rout was on.
"They've got guys that can put the ball in the back of the net," Ohio State coach Nick Myers said. "It's not necessarily just one guy that hurts you. I think, to be honest with you, they just had more possessions. When you give a team like that a lot of opportunities to get in a rhythm, they can find it.
"We struggled a little bit to come up with some loose balls in the faceoffs," he said, "and I think that was key. I think that contributed to them getting into a bit of rhythm on the offensive end. It's a great group of guys that we prepared for."
The Big Red will face the winner of Sunday's quarterfinal between No. 7 seed Duke and No. 2 seed Notre Dame next Saturday in the semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
According to DeLuca, his team focuses more on itself than on the next opponent. Of course, the opposition has to focus on Mock and Pannell. Pannell, a Tewaaraton Award finalist and two-time winner of the Jack Turnbull Award as the nation's top attackman, is considered by many to be the best player in the college game. By halftime Saturday, he already had five assists, three of which came on goals by Mock.
"We stressed all week in practice about shooting, being selective and staying disciplined," Pannell said. "We wanted to stick with our game plan, and when we do that we tend to be very successful."


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The Signature of All Things is an undulating novel of botany and desire, redolent of Dickens and Eliot—a modern classic, a reader's book. "It was the most joyful thing I think I've ever made, and I think that it was such a homecoming," says author Elizabeth Gilbert.
What may seem like a departure for the best-selling writer is, indeed, a return: Gilbert started out as a journalist and novelist influenced by the sprawling stories of Dickens and Eliot. What she is trying to achieve with her new novel is "to give my readers a giant galloping narrative, to transport them through unexpected turns and twists and reversals of fortune, to bring them with me on every page," she says.
The novel follows an extraordinary woman to near death, beginning with her first breath. "Alma Whittaker, born with the century, slid into our world on the fifth of January, 1800," reads sentence one. From White Acre, the sprawling estate built up by a monomaniacal British botanist father and stern Dutch horticulturist mother, in Philadelphia, to Tahiti and back again, Alma engages in scientific and sensual exploration with equal verve, and meets with varied successes.
She has exceptional academic aptitude. "Her mind was like a terrific repository of endless shelves, stacked with untold thousands of books and boxes, organized into infinite, alphabetized particulars," Gilbert writes, but a relatively lower emotional intelligence quotient. After years of studying White Acre's books and grounds, she becomes the foremost expert on mosses and develops a pioneering theory of transmutation: "Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died," she writes. Yet she endures a marriage blanc to ethereal, esoteric Ambrose, an uncommonly gifted illustrator of plants. When tragedy befalls, Alma launches an epic quest, hungry for the truth. "Women have tremendous capacity to survive disappointment, not just to endure it but to go forward and...become full and complete human beings," says Gilbert.
What makes Alma such a compelling character—a full and complete human being—is the application of a modern sensibility to the 19th century. The treatment of Alma's alternately burgeoning and stymied sexuality could never be found in a Victorian novel. "This is where I'm veering away from Eliot and Dickens and Austen, but with great freedom comes great responsibility. I didn't want to humiliate this character who I loved but she very much in my mind needed to be a very sensual and earthy person. She needed that carnality," says Gilbert. The result reads as both familiar and exciting.
Alma's surroundings and interests were painstakingly researched over a course of several years by Gilbert, who placed an emphasis on 19th-century letter-reading to internalize vocabulary and cadence (Walt Whitman's letters were of particular interest). Captain Cook's journals informed Alma's Tahiti voyage. The famous writings of a certain evolutionary biologist, Alma's contemporary, are also in evidence.
At over 500 pages of lush verbiage, verdant scenery and compelling characters, Signature is an epic journey to which Gilbert eagerly invites readers of all stripes. "We are going to go on a great adventure together, so just come with me, just come along, trust me," says Gilbert. "I had to convince myself that I could do it—and I hope that is the experience." For the juxtaposition of new and old, the tension between scientific and sensual aims, the love triangles, the bildungsroman of the first half and the mystery of the second, for the sense of a whole world in your hands—say yes.
Megan Labrise is a freelance writer and columnist based in New York. Follow her on Twitter.


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Category: Climate change
Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. While the rhetoric took one route, the agenda took another. Explore this topic and discover how Agenda 21 will affect you.
Hurricane Sandy MICROWAVE ANOMALY
I am sure you will find a lot on this subject (check out HAARP technology and Chemtrails) on the Internet. I hope this clip will inspire to further investigations.
The Gulf Oil Spill with Jesse Ventura
The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has led to devastation along Louisiana's coast and in its fishing and tourism industries. But was it deliberate? Jesse Ventura leads his team into the bayou where they investigate claims of a plot to depopulate Louisiana and turn it into America's refinery. At the core: the government's alleged secret, multi-billion dollar depopulation program that began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and was kicked into Phase Two with the oil rig blast.
See also https://onlinedocs.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/bp-oil-spill-stalls-gulf-loop-current/
BP Oil Spill Stalls Gulf Loop Current
Global Consequences if Current Fails to Reorganize
Yowusa.com – BP Oil Spill Stalls Gulf Loop CurrentOceanographic satellite data now shows that the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico has stalled as a consequence of the BP oil spill disaster. This according to Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, an Italian theoretical physicist, and major complex and chaotic systems analyst at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy.
He further notes that the effects of this stall have also begun to spread to the Gulf Stream. This is because the Loop Current is a crucial element of the Gulf Stream itself and why it is commonly referred to as the "main engine" of the Stream.
The concern now, is whether or not natural processes can re-establish the stalled Loop Current. If not, we could begin to see global crop failures as early as 2011.
JOURNALISM, WHAT CAN I SAY!!! I just have to add a quote from the "news" of the Norwegian weather forecast site called "yr.no". The article is about the cold that strikes Europe as well as the US.
"It reminds me of "The day after tomorrow" – the movie where the United States froze to ice in a flash because the warm Gulf Stream stopped. Fortunately, only on film that such things happen." Check out the article!
The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
This Canadian girl addressed a UN Meeting on issue of environment.


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2003 GMC Savana Cargo Van 1500 AWD 3dr Van (5.3L 8cyl 4A)
I love my van ! I have had vans all my life but the modern AWD , rack and pinion , all wheel disc , full size Savana drives like a Cadillac and I get 17 mpg consistently when its not brutally cold . I live in Minnesota . I had reservations about the drivers side double doors as I had never had that option before , I soon realized that when you jump out of your truck but need to reenter to grab something you are hauling around you can't beat drivers side double doors for access ! I drove over 100,000 miles before my Brakes needed pads and have hadexcept for some minor door switch partial failures "No Problems" with my truck ! Did I say"I Love This Truck"?
Drives like Cadillac
Double doors all the way around
17 MPG in a full size van
Nice looking body style
Cargo van yet the cab has all options
Put a Cummins diesel in it ?
2003 GMC Savana Cargo Van 2500 AWD 3dr Van (5.3L 8cyl 4A)
Have had one major problem since I bought it new a few years ago. The pas-lock security feature disables the fuel injection so that it won't start. The dealer replaced the computer and it malfunctioned again within a couple days. I cleaned the electrical contacts on the doors and it hasn't messed up since. But it nearly left me stranded. I am not completely sure that was it but it has been a while since it had the problem. Other than that, the van has been great. A driveshaft seal is starting to leak and the dealer wants almost $500 to fix it. My van has about 63,000 miles on it now. Engine has awesome horsepower too.V8.
Favorite by far is the AWD. It also came with a posi-trac rear end so I never get stuck in snow. I feel very safe when driving this in the Colorado mountains. The engine power is also most excellent with not too shabby fuel economy.
Get rid of the pas-lock security garbage. Check internet websites on this and you will see a lot of unhappy people who have this waste of poor technology. It is difficult to impossible to disable this thing. Also, the transmission could work a little better when going up hills.
2003 GMC Savana Cargo Van 2500 Rwd 3dr Ext Van (4.3L 6cyl 4A)
We use this van in our air conditioning business. It carries about 2,000 pounds of racks, equipment and tools daily and is a workhorse. After almost 50,000 miles it has had no major problems and runs great. The brakes are huge 4 wheel discs and the pads are still original. It's a perfect fit for our business.
Size, the extended wheelbase is large enough for tools, parts, and a complete A/C system. You don't even know that you are carrying the extra weight. The engine has tons of power. Brakes are excellent. Towing is no problem.
The sliding side door may be a better option for us. We average about 12 Mpg which is mainly city driving. The diesel engine which is now available would improve fuel economy although for it's size and weight I don't think 12 mpg is too bad.
My 2003 Savana 2500 extended van has surpassed my expectations. I love my van and couldn't imagine performing my job without it. 83,000 miles in 3 yrs and it's still running as good as the day I bought it. I highly recommend it.
I especially like the power under tow it has in reserve. I'm an impatient driver, but no problem with this van. I always tow an 18ft. trailer and have absolutely no problem passing just about anyone or anything on the highway. Awsome!
I would like to have doors on both sides of the van and better fuel economy. Other than that, I've been completely satisfied.
2003 GMC Savana Cargo Van 2500 Rwd 3dr Van (4.3L 6cyl 4A)
I bought this for utility, and was not
expecting a lot, but this van rides
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tight and quiet, very comfortable
seats, and great power and 18 MPG on
the 5300 V8!!!!!
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Centro per lo studio della moda e della produzione culturale (MODACULT)
Director: Prof. Emanuela Mora
The Centre for the study of Fashion and Cultural Production (Modacult) is a research institute founded in 1996 within the Faculty of Political Science at the Catholic University of Milan bringing together scholars from the Department of Sociology of the same university. The Centre benefits from the collaboration of Italian and international researchers with professional experts.
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Milano Fashion Institute
Milano Fashion Institute is a interuniversity consortium for the higher education in the fashion industry founded in 2007 by three Milan universities: Università Cattolica, Politecnico di Milano e Università Bocconi, whose goal is the creation of a multi-disciplinary training center of excellence at an international level.
Sistema QuESTIO
QuESTIO, Quality Evaluation in Science and Technology for Innovation Opportunity, is a tool developed by Regione Lombardia to promote innovation through the mapping of research and innovation centers, the Industry and the Technological Clusters.


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Ron Baiman joined the faculty at Benedictine University in 2013 as an Assistant Professor within the M.B.A. program.Ron has taught introductory, as well as international and regional economics, at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Roosevelt University where he was an Assistant Professor of Economics. Before moving to the Chicago area Ron worked in economic forecasting and rate evaluation, and in database marketing, at AT&T in NJ, and as a telecommunications policy analyst for the New York State Department of Economic Development.More recently, he has worked in public policy as Director of Budget and Policy Analysis at the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability in Chicago; in government as a Research Economist for the Illinois Department of Employment Security; in academic research institutes at Loyola University's Center for Urban Research and Learning, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs of the University of Illinois, and the Center for Urban Economic Development at University of Illinois at Chicago. Ron has published numerous papers on regional, public, and international political economics in academic journals and as well as research and consulting reports on local, state and national economic policy; co-edited a book: Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism that received the Choice title for "Best Academic Title" in 2000; received research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and from the Woods Fund of Chicago; and served on the Editorial Board of the Review of Radical Political Economics for many years. He holds a Ph.D., and an M.A. with Honors, both in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City, did graduate work in Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated "very good" (Magna Cum Laude) with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from Hebrew University, Israel.
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James D. Ludema, Ph.D., (Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University) is the Co-founder and Director of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership and a Professor of Global Leadership at Benedictine University. He is Past Chair of the Academy of Management's Organization Development and Change Division and is the author of two books and dozens of articles on leadership, strategy and organizational change. His book The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner's Guide for Leading Large-Scale Change is widely considered a classic in the field.
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Peter Sorensen Jr., Ph.D., is an award-winning scholar, a distinguished educator and a world-recognized pioneer.
For nearly a half-century, Sorensen has been a leader in the field of Organization Development. The director of the Ph.D. in Organization Development (OD) and the Master of Science in Management and Organizational Behavior programs at Benedictine University, Sorensen was instrumental in developing one of the first master's-level programs in OD at George Williams College in 1967 and one of the first Ph.D. programs in OD at Benedictine in 1996.
A prolific author and editor, the Naperville resident has written more than 300 articles, papers and books, including a number of best paper selections. His work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Group and Organization Studies, Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization and Administrative Sciences.
Sorensen has worked with more than 100 organizations including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Steel, the DuPage County Health Department, Commonwealth Edison and CNA. He was an invited, distinguished scholar to the first Academy of Management Conference on Global Change, has been chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management, and is a past recipient of the "Outstanding OD Consultant of the Year Award" from the OD Institute.
In 2014, Sorensen was presented the Judith Ann Whinfrey Distinguished Faculty Award for Leadership by Benedictine University. The award recognizes a faculty member who has provided exceptional leadership during their tenure.
"One of the biggest benefits of the OD program at Benedictine was learning from scholars and practitioners who I would consider OD superstars," said Meghan Wright, Ph.D., assistant professor of Management at Texas Wesleyan University and a 2013 graduate of the Organization Development program at Benedictine. "It was great to be in person with these OD 'greats' and also be able to engage with them in such an intimate fashion."
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Ramkrishnan (Ram) Tenkasi, Ph.D., began his academic career as an assistant professor with the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1993, and joined Benedictine University in 1998 as an associate professor.
Tenkasi's research and practice interests are in the areas of organizational knowledge, learning and change and their mediation/moderation by organizational design choices, including the role of information technologies in facilitating/inhibiting these processes in organizations. He approaches the study of these issues from both interpretive and positivist frameworks usually combining these traditions to draw on their unique strengths.
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Tenkasi serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Change Management and has been a program review panel member for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and is currently part of a core team brought together by the National Cancer Institute to assist in the identification of effective implementation systems for tobacco control in the United States.
Tenkasi is also the division/program chair-elect for the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management. His more than 50 articles and book chapters appear in both academic and practitioner outlets such as Organization Science, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Employee Relations, Acquisition Review Quarterly, Research in Organizational Change and Development, Advances in the Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams and the OD Journal.
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The author of more than 50 papers and articles including three books on Appreciative Inquiry with Peter Sorensen, Thomas Head and David Cooperrider, Yaeger is an active member of the Academy of Management, the Midwest Academy of Management, the OD Network, the OD Institute and the American Society for Training and Development.
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Rachael L. Narel, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the M.S. in Management and Organizational Behavior program. While teaching a variety of courses both in the classroom and online, she continues to pursue research in the areas of Organizational Agility and Thriving. She has presented papers at the Academy of Management, Midwest Academy of Management, Southwest Academy of Management and Irish Academy of Management.
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Outside of her scholarly work, Narel is also a solutions strategist at Peters & Associates. Her experience includes more than 18 years in IT and software working in virtually every functional area of an organization through team and leadership roles. Her diverse background includes organization development, change management, agility, strategic planning and process improvement, product management and marketing, new product development, and customer service, sales and support.
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When Gary Klahr met Steve Barbin during a chance encounter in a Connecticut bar some twenty-seven years ago, something clicked. There was an immediate bond, a soul connection. "A guy could have no better friend," Gary wrote on the back of a photograph that he gave to Steve in 1988. "You are truly my brother."The men were so close that their wives often teased them about their degree and level of attachment. "You think alike. You talk alike," Carolyn Klahr, Gary's wife, used to marvel. "Sometimes you even finish each other's sentences!"
When Gary's construction worker father, Ben Klahr, died suddenly in 1979 after scaffolding collapsed on him, Steve's friendship helped Gary get through the grieving process. Gary had three other siblings, but Steve was an only child. Steve had always longed for siblings, and Gary-a couple of years older-assumed the role of mentor and big brother.
As Gary switched from athletic achievements (which included a brief stint in the National Football League) to acting triumphs (which included Broadway, TV, and parts in movies such as Married to the Mob, Big, Three Men and a Baby, Legal Eagles, and Quick Change), Steve steadfastly preserved the growing collection of professional clippings and mementos. When Steve married in 1988, there was no question that Gary would be his best man.
With Steve married, both friends' lives were now on parallel tracks. But on December 30, 1998, Gary received a phone call that changed both men's lives."I'm from the Connecticut Department of Children and Families' Office of Foster and Adoption Services," the woman on the other line said. "Is this Gary Klahr?"The phone call threw Gary off balance. Had his wife put in an application for adoption and not told him?
"Do you have a chair nearby?" the caseworker asked. "You might want to sit down. I have something to tell you . . . Do you know that you're adopted?"
"It was a bolt out of the blue," Gary remembers. "All my life, for fifty-one years, I had been sure of my identity-that I was the firstborn son of Ben and Marjorie Klahr. No one-including them-had ever given me any indication to believe otherwise. I had no idea growing up that I was adopted."
The caseworker explained that her phone call had been prompted by a medical search initiated by one of Gary's birth sisters, a woman who had been adopted by another family.
"I've worked on almost four thousand adoption cases so far," the caseworker said, "but I've never encountered a situation like this. You were thirteen siblings, and nine of you were given up for adoption. Twelve of the siblings are still alive."
Gary had always maintained a strong sense of identity, of knowing exactly who he was and where he was going. Suddenly, in the course of just a few seconds, everything he thought he knew about his life was turned upside down. He had been raised Jewish in the suburbs. His biological parents turned out to be a Roman Catholic couple who lived in a public housing complex. During an eighteen-year marriage, they had had thirteen children, nine of whom they had given away because of dire poverty.
"Are they still alive?" Gary asked.
Gary was numbed by the bombshell that had suddenly been thrown into his lap. It was too much to absorb at once. Still, his optimistic spirit prevailed, and he said to the social worker: "You know, I have a best friend who's adopted, and he's a great guy. We share a lot of things, and so now we share this!"
"What's your friend's name?" the caseworker wanted to know.
When Gary told her, she fell silent. "Do you have his phone number?" she asked. "I've been looking for him, too."
"No!" Gary screamed. "You're not saying that . . ."
"Yes, I am," she said. "Steve Barbin is your brother."
That afternoon, Steve came home from work to hear a message on his answering machine from a woman who said she worked for the state of Connecticut. Unlike Gary, Steve had always known that he had been adopted. He had felt loved by his adoptive family, and had never speculated about his biological parents. But even if he had, nothing could have prepared Steve for what the caseworker told him next.
"Wow!" he exclaimed.
"There's something else I have to tell you," she said.
Something else? he thought. What more could there possibly be?
"Is there anybody in your life," she asked, "about whom people have said `You're so much alike you could be brothers'?"
Steve didn't hesitate." Are you telling me," he demanded, "that Gary Klahr is my blood brother?"
"Yes, I am," she said.
"Gar," Steve called his best friend after he had had a long discussion with the caseworker. "Do you believe this?"


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Senate proposal harms area's safety-net hospitals
On either side of Tampa Bay, two historic institutions long counted on to train physicians, care for the poor and heal children are facing funding cuts in the Florida Senate of more than $25 million. If the Senate prevails in budget negotiations with the House, these cuts will slash a gaping hole in the safety net that All Children's Hospital and Tampa General Hospital provide to the area's most vulnerable citizens. This potential negative impact to our health systems is a result of the Legislature's proposed Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) proposal. Last year, the state passed legislation to research and implement a DRG system, which would mean a move from a traditional reimbursement model that pays for each day a patient is in the hospital to a model that reimburses on the basis of the severity of the patient's condition. Although a DRG system appropriately places the burden on the health system to manage care efficiently, this approach is limited in its capacity to properly reimburse hospitals for complex pediatric disorders which defy easy categorization into DRGs. The proposed Senate plan does not address the fact that teaching, children's and public hospitals face higher costs than other hospitals. The negative repercussions will be felt far beyond the Medicaid patient population, which includes working families throughout the Tampa Bay area. It also will potentially damage two valuable assets that the bay-area community has helped to build through years of philanthropic support. All Children's Hospital employs nearly 3,000 local residents. It also creates an economic ripple effect in the community that has resulted in the creation of an estimated 1,100 additional jobs at other local businesses and vendors.Nearly 70 percent of kids treated at All Children's are covered by Medicaid — the highest percentage of any Florida hospital. Current Medicaid reimbursement rates don't cover the full cost of providing care to children with complex medical problems, which are most often the types of kids that All Children's sees. Yet the Senate's proposal could further reduce All Children's funding by nearly $19 million — seriously impacting our ability to maintain and advance our commitment to teaching future physicians and researching childhood illness. Such staggering reductions could affect care provided to children today, the training of physicians needed at the bedside in years to come and the potential development of new treatments for your children's children. Tampa General Hospital also cares for a substantial Medicaid population while training some 300 medical residents annually as well. It's the area's only Level 1 trauma center and one of just four burn centers in Florida. With more than 6,000 employees, the hospital is one of the largest employers in the region and also supports myriad local businesses. Tampa General also plays a significant safety net role to residents throughout the Tampa Bay area, yet the Senate proposes reducing its Medicaid reimbursements by another $6 million this year, while for-profit hospitals statewide could see their Medicaid reimbursements increased by nearly $96 million in total. If the Senate's position is adopted, vital public funding that is lost to our two nonprofit, community-based institutions will instead be redistributed to for-profit, investor-owned hospital chains. This reallocation, which could occur within 90 days, does not save taxpayers any money — it simply takes funding from our community's teaching and children's hospitals and gives it to for-profit hospitals. We are committed to providing safe, high-quality, cost-effective care to our patients, their families and the citizens of this region and state. We are committed to working with our legislators to ensure equity in the proposed new reimbursement system. But we believe the development of a reimbursement system must not come at the expense of quality care for our most vulnerable citizens, neither now nor in the future. We urge state legislators to adopt the Florida House's more reasonable proposal.
Jonathan Ellen is the president and CEO of All Children's Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine. Jim Burkhart is the president and CEO of Tampa General Hospital.
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VIDEO: Gwyneth Paltrow Sings 'Forget You' on 'Glee'
The actress -- who also performed at the CMA Awards Wednesday night -- will appear on the Fox hit Nov. 16.
Here's the first clip of Gwyneth Paltrow singing "Forget You" -- a censored version of Cee-Lo Green's hit, "F--k You" -- on Glee.
Paltrow will appear on the Fox hit Nov. 16. She plays a substitute teacher named Holly Holiday.
"She's got the goods. She can sing, she can dance. I really was [blown away]," Jane Lynch recently said of her appearance.
Paltrow's performance at the CMA Awards on Wednesday was well-received, but the Carrie Underwood-hosted show was the lowest-rated in its history.


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Bethunes Investments Limited ("Bethunes")* is an unlisted public company with a trading history going back to the 1970's.
In August 2018, Bethunes completed a capital raising to enable the company to acquire a 33.33% interest in SwimTastic Limited a learn-to-swim business based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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* The name Bethunes was selected as the name for the Company, as it was associated with Mowbray Collectables Limited (the former parent company). In 1999, John Mowbray formed Bethunes Rare Books Limited to acquire the rare book auction business of JH Bethune Limited initially established in 1877. Bethunes had earned a worldwide reputation auctioning rare books, prints and antique maps. It therefore seemed entirely appropriate when re-naming the Company to maintain this link to the company's history.
The relationship between Management and Shareholders should be a simple one. The objective of Management is to maximise intrinsic value per share for Shareholders and they are paid to do exactly that. Based on Shareholders' own financial decisions, Shareholders of businesses provide the capital that allows Management to do its job. With these principles firmly in mind, the list below describes the relationship we wish to maintain between the Management of Bethunes and the owners of the business - its Shareholders.
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Although we are an unlisted public company, we will act like a partnership. The benefits of our corporate form should not be underestimated, as it provides the permanence of our capital structure that gives Management a real advantage to make both strategic and long-term investments.
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While Management is comfortable making investments in a wide range of industries and asset classes, they prefer investment in simple businesses and assets that generate cash flow over the long term.
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The long-term goal of Management is to maximise the average annual growth rate of the intrinsic value per share. Our focus is on intrinsic value per share as it reflects an obligation to add value for Shareholders. Likewise, our orientation will be guided by having a shareholding in the business. This will ensure both Management and Shareholders have a stake in the long-term performance of the business and that we will "eat our own cooking".
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Welcome to Virtualisation Works. In this webpage, I write weekly articles on working and playing computer virtualisation technologies.
Most of the articles will be about using FreeBSD virtual machines, firstly with public cloud providers and later with the bhyve technology. In case you ask, there are already enough articles about using another (you name it) operating system.
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Mobile is still one of the hottest investing trends going. But how can mobile companies flourish when so many users don't generate any revenue?
Last week at the VentureBeat GrowthBeat conference in San Francisco, Battery Ventures Executive in Residence Jonathan Sills sat down with Chris Erickson, the chief operating officer at Apartment List, and Kahuna CEO Adam Marchick to discuss this conundrum, and offer ideas for driving mobile business growth.
As the moderator, Sills kicked off the session by inquiring about its title: "The Dirty Secret of Mobile: When 90 percent of user acquisition is generating $0, what's to be done?" Marchick, whose company Kahuna works with hundreds of mobile companies in a variety of verticals, confirmed the seriousness of the problem: While Kahuna's customers have been experiencing explosive user acquisition growth, many discovered their number of engaged users was actually much lower than they had originally thought. In fact, 90 percent of user installs at many of these companies were doing nothing, Marchick noted, with eight to nine percent being semi-active users. Only one to two percent were very active, valuable users.
So what's to be done? Marchick suggested relevant and timely mobile messaging to inspire engagement throughout the lifecycle of a user's interaction with a mobile app. Apartment List, a Kahuna customer, adopted this marketing strategy and has seen user engagement skyrocket, Erickson said.
Erickson highlighted how Apartment List—which helps people find apartments online, mainly through mobile devices—worked with Kahuna to develop a series of behavioral-based push notifications to guide users through the Apartment List on-boarding process, from searching through Apartment List's inventory on their mobile device, to saving apartments to their list of favorites and contacting a broker to see the listing.
"If users are stuck at any point in this process, they are not getting the value of Apartment List," Marchick pointed out. This is where timely, personalized messaging comes in, he said. If a user saves an apartment to their list of favorites, but never takes action to go visit the site, Apartment List can send a push notification inviting them to contact a broker.
But part of the strategy is knowing when, and exactly how, to engage with users, according to Marchick. "In the first seven days, users need relevant, timely messaging based on what they do or don't do with the application. But it is the first or second push notification when a user is deciding whether or not to believe in the app. If you send a generic message that says, 'welcome' or 'we miss you,' the user is not going to turn off notifications, they are going to uninstall your application," he warned.
Erickson echoed this sentiment, noting that early on, Apartment List learned it could not leverage the same email marketing strategy that works on the Web, as executives realized it would exhaust mobile users who are less tolerant of receiving multiple push notifications. Instead, mobile requires its own unique strategy. With this approach, Apartment List has been able to transform its engagement curve and is now experiencing conversions from more than 50 percent of its user base, Erickson said.
VentureBeat's GrowthBeat conference was held in San Francisco on August 5-6 and drew about 500 attendees. Speakers included Amanda Kahlow from 6Sense; Justin Merickel from Adobe; Alex Shultz from Facebook; Loren Simon from Walmart; and Lisa Archambault from Zappos, among others.
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Creative Work Has Health Advantages
Employees who have more control over their daily activities and can do challenging work that they enjoy are likely to be in better health, new research suggests.
"The most important finding is that creative activity helps people stay healthy," said lead author John Mirowsky, a sociology professor with the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. "Creative activity is non-routine, enjoyable and provides opportunity for learning and for solving problems. People who do that kind of work, whether paid or not, feel healthier and have fewer physical problems."
Moreover, although people who work give up some independence, the study found that having a job does lead to better health.
"One thing that surprised us was that the daily activities of employed persons are more creative than those of non-employed persons of the same sex, age and level of education," Mirowsky said.
The study, which appears in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, comprised 2,592 adults who responded to a 1995 national telephone survey; researchers followed up respondents in 1998. The survey addressed general health, physical functioning, how people spent their time on a daily basis and whether their work, even if unpaid, gave them a chance to learn new things or do things they enjoy.
"The health advantage of being somewhat above average in creative work [in the 60th percentile] versus being somewhat below average [in the 40th percentile] is equal to being 6.7 years younger," Mirowsky said. It is also equal to having two more years of education or 15 times greater household income, he added.
Although the authors did not examine specific job positions that could confer this health advantage, professions considered not to involve a "creative" environment were those such as assembly lines.
Rather, jobs that are high-status, with managerial authority, or that require complex work with data generally provide more access to creative work, Mirowsky said. However, he added, "People with a wide variety of jobs manage to find ways to make them creative."


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I'm going to live in my own dream world for the next few minutes as I imagine myself in both of these two new drop-dead gorgeous Rolls-Royce Bespoke editions. (Why choose just one, it is my dream after all.)
Rolls-Royce just unveiled the Bespoke Wraith and the emerald embellished Dawn droptop. And yes, there are real emeralds involved. They're both inspired by the island of Porto Cervo in Italy.
Emerald Embellished Dawn
The Dawn Drophead Coupe was inspired by Porto Cervo's seascape.
It's a gorgeous emerald green color. Inside, designers gave it a seashell and green leather interior. Open-pore teak keeps the marine theme going. A Bespoke teak boot floor mat rests in the luggage compartment.
But back to those emeralds.
Precious emeralds and mother of pearl are set into white gold and presented on the fascia. They are in shape of the emblem of Porto Cervo.
The Rolls-Royce Dawn is the automaker's first new Drophead Coupe in decades. It starts around $335,000.
Bespoke Wraith
The Bespoke Wraith gets its inspiration from the dusk and twilight hours of Porto Cervo.
Designers started with a two-tone silver exterior. When you open the coach doors, I hope you like the color purple. There is a lot of it, plus some slate and black, too. The cabin also features ostrich leather.
The Wraith is the marque's most powerful motor car with a V12 engine good for 623-horses.


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When Tom left his successful Royal Marines Commando career behind, he discovered that daily exercise helped him reacclimatise back into civvy street and gave him a focus. And with a new career in sales taking its toll, Tom created a 45 minute exercise routine that he used to destress after work.
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