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I have said several times that the county I live in does not have animal control. Do you see why?? I have to quit bitching and do something about it. I started looking tonight. I found out about the meeting which I missed last Thursday but I will be at the next one. I am going to talk to my neighbor across the way and see if she wants to come. They have actually become very good dog owners. We have talked and they feel the same way I do about the other neighbor's dogs running loose. Anyway. Is there anything yall would suggest that I need to have with me or a list written down. I don't want to go without my ducks in a row. Yall know I am not very good at coming with stuff off the top of my head so if I have it written down nice and professional like it wouldn't hurt. On another note. Our county is one of the largest around. Especially land wise. Very rural but something is needed. Yes we have had a death not long ago from a wild dog attack. We have quite a few packs of wild dogs. With all the wildlife and water supply they can get quite out of control. This county believes that shooting them is the answer. We did have to resort to that one time at our other house when I was down at the barn. It was very scary.
But we need to take control or at least try. Sorry I am going on and on, but I am excited that there is at least talk about help.
I want to help animals and responsible owners. Maybe even educate some people.
I found something else that stated they meet every last thursday of the month but I can't find it now to copy it.
Friends of Pike County Animals to Meet on Thursday
The Friends of Pike County Animals information meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the J. Joel Edwards Public Library.
Fundraising and other efforts to bring animal control to Pike County will be discussed. Come and bring a friend.
Dogs Running Loose Are a Nuisance in the Community
Dear Editor,
I am submitting this to you I hope that it will bring the issue of dogs running loose to Pike County and its residents. If you would like to share this with your readers you have my permission.
Dogs are being a nuisance to communities in our area.
Dogs running loose is a growing problem in Pike County on Flat Shoals Rd. and other communities. There is no way to tell if these are wild dog packs or friendly dogs. Dogs running free are causing driving hazards due to all the large freight trucks, dump trucks and log trucks, and other traffic.
This is also a problem for all our children, elderly persons and livestock I am sure everyone knows about some of the problems.
My husband and I had a chain link fence installed on our property before we brought our dog to our home. I love my dog and want to protect her. I know that a fence is expensive but there are other ways that are cheaper to keep pets confined. If people care about their dogs they should keep them confined to their property.
I know there are no animal control laws in the county. If they do pass an animal control law it should require dogs and cats to be spayed or neutered.
Feel free to print this in the paper and on line or share it with Friends of Animals I don't know if anyone cares or not about any of these issues.
Thank You,
Janie Wilson
Pike County Animal Control
Dear Editor,
I wish to personally thank the Pike County citizens for their continued support in reference to the animal control issues we have here in our county. The idea of one day actually having a trained county animal control department to assist our citizens with issues is finally on the horizon. Through your continued support, we can get this done.
An animal control workshop was conducted on 13 February 2008 at 3 p.m. and due to the length of the BOC meeting that day, only a few people attended. This workshop was scheduled around the BOC calendars and at least 10 days in advance. Only the County Manager and Commissioner Willis attended and I would like to thank them for doing so. The Director of the Meriwether County Animal Control and Code Enforcement and the Barnesville/Lamar County Humane Society attended and discussed their organizations mission and what kind of assistance they provide for their community. Some good ideas were generated and those are being researched.
A Pike County Citizen who was in attendance spoke up about the lack of county assistance. He passed around pictures of his cattle which were attacked by a pack of dogs. The pictures of the cattle were gruesome, many of the cattle were in bad shape, and the owner had to put many of them down. He called the Sheriffs office, filed a report, and even located where the dogs were. When he appeared in court, the case was not processed due to lack of evidence and documentation. This will not be the last time our citizens have no course of action as the problems will only continue. It is understood that animal control will not stop all the issues. However, the animal control officer can respond to the situation, document the evidence, confiscate and quarantine the dogs in question, cite the owner for not following the Georgia Statutes already in place, and appear in court as a credible witness. An animal shelter will help citizens recover lost pets, provide adoption services, reduce the number of strays, and assist the community in animal cruelty and attack cases. Who at the sheriff's office can do that? Who in Pike County can do that?
Upon closing of the workshop, the County Manager asked me if I could prepare a budget so actual figures for an animal shelter would be known. I told him I would seek the assistance of Meriwether County animal shelter since they just completed the budget process and are in their first year of operation.
On 26 February 2008, the Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to place the animal control on the next election ballot. The County Manager stated he does not see this coming out of next year's budget. The actual building and operations costs have yet to be determined. As previously mentioned, I was asked to provide a budget for this project and have not done so. When the actual figures are known, they will be made available. The goal is to let Pike County citizens decide how and what we need to do about animal control. I only wish to provide our citizens the documentation and information I have consolidated to let them know the facts. Animal Control issues will not be an instant fix, but the hope of formulating a plan and completing the action in two or three years is obtainable.
The BOC action is just a step in a direction. You ask what direction? It will be left up to you the citizens to determine if we move forward, or continue to lag behind what our neighboring counties are doing to assist their citizens. We cannot expect our neighboring counties to help us as they are overwhelmed with their own animal control and other community issues. Let's make the right coordinated effort and move forward.
Thank you.
Don Bailey
Chairman, Friends of Pike County Animals
Pike County


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Converting Django models into Graphviz DOT files
Inspired by this nice hack by Matt Biddulph I set out to create a similar thing for Django models. Below is an initial implementation, and here are some results generated with the OS X version of Graphviz:
- Graphviz DOT files for the Zyons project: comment event forum openid prefs sessions tag
- Resulting graphs in PDF: comment event forum openid prefs sessions tag
- Other samples:
- generated dot file: resulting image in PDF, PNG
- generated dot file: resulting image in PDF, PNG
You might also be interested in this Django app by Andrew Barilla from which I borrowed some ideas, that displays the graphviz results directly from the web.
#!/usr/bin/python """Django model to DOT (Graphviz) converter by Antonio Cavedoni <email@example.com> Make sure your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is set to your project and call the script like this: $ python modelviz.py <app_label> > <filename>.dot Changelog 0.5.1 Got rid of print statements, now the generate_dot() function returns a string with the file contents 0.5 Cleaned up code, now the relationship arrows start from the correct model attribute position 0.4 Fixed OneToOneField support (thanks, limodou) 0.3 Added support for GenericRelation and OneToOneField 0.2 Changed display (shape="record", thanks Malcolm Tredinnick), fixed arrow direction, added display of model attributes (thanks, Russell Keith-Magee) 0.1 First release. """ __version__ = "0.5.1" __svnid__ = "$Id: modelviz.py 4 2006-08-06 19:48:42Z verbosus $" __license__ = "Python" __author__ = "Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>" __contributors__ = [ "Stefano J. Attardi <http://attardi.org/>", "limodou <http://www.donews.net/limodou/>" ] from django.db import models from django.db.models import get_models from django.db.models.fields.related import \ ForeignKey, OneToOneField, ManyToManyField from django.db.models.fields.generic import GenericRelation def generate_dot(app_label): app = models.get_app(app_label) graph = [] graph.append("digraph %s {" % ('"' + app.__name__ + '"')) graph.append(""" fontname = "Helvetica" fontsize = 8 node [ fontname = "Helvetica" fontsize = 8 shape = "record" ] edge [ fontname = "Helvetica" fontsize = 8 ] """) for o in get_models(app): graph.append(""" subgraph cluster_%(model)s { shape = "record"; label = "%(model)s"; fontname = "Helvetica Bold"; fontsize = 10; labelfontcolor = "black"; %(model)s [label = "{""" % {'model': o.__name__}) # model attributes def add_attributes(): graph.append("<%(model)s_%(field)s>%(field)s : %(related)s|" % \ {'model': o.__name__, 'field': field.name, 'related': type(field).__name__}) for field in o._meta.fields: add_attributes() if o._meta.many_to_many: for field in o._meta.many_to_many: add_attributes() graph.append(""" }"] [color="white" shape="record"];\n }\n""") # relations rel = [] def add_relation(extras=""): _rel = """ %(model)s:%(model)s_%(field)s -> %(related)s [label="%(relationship)s"] %(extras)s;\n""" % { 'model': o.__name__, 'field': field.name, 'related': field.rel.to.__name__, 'relationship': type(field).__name__, 'extras': extras} if _rel not in rel: rel.append(_rel) for field in o._meta.fields: if isinstance(field, ForeignKey): add_relation() elif isinstance(field, OneToOneField): add_relation("[arrowhead=none arrowtail=none]") if o._meta.many_to_many: for field in o._meta.many_to_many: if isinstance(field, ManyToManyField): add_relation("[arrowhead=normal arrowtail=normal]") elif isinstance(field, GenericRelation): add_relation( '[style="dotted"] [arrowhead=normal arrowtail=normal]') graph.append("".join(rel)) graph.append('}') return "".join(graph) if __name__ == "__main__": import sys app_label = sys.argv[1] print generate_dot(app_label)
*favo: I have a large app(some model has lots fields). The generated png file is too large. Maybe this tools could work in a concision mode which only contain related field and omit other fields of a model.
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FSIS Food Defense Risk Mitigation Tool
Contains nonbinding recommendations
This online tool is part of an ongoing effort by FSIS to help protect the nation's supply of meat, poultry, and egg products from intentional contamination. During vulnerability assessments conducted jointly with FSIS, industry representatives suggested that a searchable, user-friendly tool was needed to facilitate identification and selection of applicable mitigation strategies (i.e., countermeasures).
This tool identifies some possible countermeasures that companies could implement, as part of a food defense plan, to better protect their business, employees, and customers. Some of the countermeasures are specific to particular assets or activities (nodes); others apply more generally to the facility as a whole. Written guidance regarding mitigation strategies is also available in Food Defense Guidelines for Slaughter and Processing Establishments, which can be obtained by calling the Small Plant Help Desk at 1-877-FSIS HELP (374-7435) and is also available on the web at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/cd18dfb5-9443-42f8-b8c5-cadf862fcbc4/SecurityGuide.pdf?MOD=AJPERES.
The countermeasures listed in this tool are neither mandatory nor exhaustive. Not all of the identified strategies will be applicable, practical, or effective for all types and sizes of slaughter and processing establishments. Additional strategies not included here may also be useful. The user should implement countermeasures appropriate to the specific circumstances of their establishment and operations.
Lookup Tool
The mitigation measures are organized by the category of operation and node (i.e., specific piece of equipment).
- First, select an industry process category from the provided list, then
- Choose from among the list of Nodes associated with that category. After selecting the node of interest,
- Click "SELECT" to view a list of potentially applicable mitigation strategies.
You must choose a Category and a corresponding Node.


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HUNTINGTON BEACH – An oil derrick in Huntington Beach was dismantled after buckling Monday, prompting the evacuation of nearby residents and causing a temporary outage in the area.
Two men performing routine maintenance on a 60-foot derrick near Walnut Avenue and Second Street noticed it was buckling on one side as the crew was pulling rods out of a well, said Huntington Beach Fire Department Deputy Fire Marshal Bob Culhane.
The crew was on a platform about eight feet below the buckled section when the incident began, Culhane said. The men stopped the operation and called 911.
The 911 call came in about 1:30 p.m., Culhane said. Fire crews responded to the scene.
Firefighters then evacuated 10 apartments and three nearby homes because of concerns over flammable vapors that could have been ignited if the derrick had fallen on nearby electrical wires. Southern California Edison then cut power to the electrical lines resulting in a loss of power to some 42 customers, Culhane explained.
A crane was brought in to stabilize the derrick and a repair crew then began to dismantle the top of the derrick. The top section was eventually cut off and lowered to the ground, Culhane said.
Residents were able to return home by about 8 p.m. and SCE has restored power to the affected customers, Culhane said.


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A Study of the Effects of Giving Two Anti-HIV Vaccines to Babies of HIV-Positive Mothers
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000879
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : May 18, 2012
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections HIV Seronegativity
|Biological: ALVAC(2)120(B,MN)GNP (vCP1452) Biological: MN rgp120/HIV-1 and GNE8 rgp120/HIV-1 Biological: ALVAC-HIV MN120TMG (vCP205)
|Phase 1
Transmission of HIV from an untreated infected mother to her offspring is thought to occur to some infants perinatally and others at parturition. It is possible that administration of an immunogenic vaccine can reduce the vertical transmission of HIV-1 or moderate its course in infected infants. Successful early sensitization to HIV epitopes might succeed in preventing HIV infection. Alternately, the enhancement of HIV-specific immune function might also succeed in modifying HIV replication and affecting disease progression.
Sixty infants are treated in this randomized, double-blind study; 45 infants receive recombinant Canarypox virus, ALVAC-HIV vCP205, and 15 receive placebo. Mothers serve as proxy for their infants. All infants receive a minimum of four immunizations, at Weeks 0 (within 72 hours of birth), 4, 8, and 12. Initially, 24 patients are randomized to receive one of two doses of vCP205 or a saline placebo. When a suitable subunit vaccine is available, the protocol will be amended and 36 additional infants will be randomized to receive vCP205 alone or with a subunit vaccine at Weeks 4 and 8 (or vaccine placebo with or without subunit placebo). [AS PER AMENDMENT 11/5/97: 18 infants receive ALVAC-HIV vCP205 at one of two doses and 6 receive placebo.] [AS PER AMENDMENT 9/9/99: Cohort 1 received vCP205. Cohort 2 received a higher dose of vCP205. Cohort A received vCP205 placebo (saline). Cohorts 1, 2, and A were double-blinded and closed to accrual in March 1999. As of September 1999, infants are randomized to one of four new cohorts. Cohort 3 receives vCP1452 at Weeks 0, 4, 8, and 12. Cohort 4 receives vCP1452 at Weeks 0 and 4, then receives vCP1452 plus AIDSVAX B/E gp120 at Weeks 8 and 12. Cohort B receives vCP1452 placebo at Weeks 0, 4, 8, and 12. Cohort C receives vCP1452 placebo at Weeks 0 and 4, then receives vCP1452 placebo plus AIDSVAX B/E placebo at Weeks 8 and 12. All infants are followed every 2 weeks for the first 14 weeks of life, and then every 6 months until age 2. Cord blood is used to establish autologous B cell lines, and CTL assays are performed to characterize the immune response to HIV. In addition, CD4 count, viral load, and mucosal antibody responses are measured. Immunized infants who are not infected with HIV serve as controls for the immunogenicity of the vaccines in the infected infants.] [AS PER AMENDMENT 1/24/00: AIDSVAX B/E has been replaced with AIDSVAX B/B.]
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|48 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I/II Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of ALVAC HIV Vaccines Alone and With AIDSVAX B/B in Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2005
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 3 Days (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
The infant may be eligible if the mother:
- Is HIV-positive.
- Is willing to follow the study guidelines.
- Had her baby at Week 37 of pregnancy or later.
Exclusion Criteria
The infant will not be eligible if the mother:
- Has hepatitis B.
- Is breast-feeding her baby.
- Used certain medications during pregnancy.
The infant will not be eligible if he/she:
- Is more than 3 days old at study entry.
- Has a serious infection or life-threatening illness.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00000879
|United States, California
|Long Beach Memorial Med. Ctr., Miller Children's Hosp.
|Long Beach, California, United States, 90801
|Children's Hosp. of Orange County
|Orange, California, United States, 92868
|UCSF Pediatric AIDS CRS
|San Francisco, California, United States
|Harbor - UCLA Med. Ctr. - Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Diseases
|Torrance, California, United States
|United States, Illinois
|Mt. Sinai Hosp. Med. Ctr. - Chicago, Womens & Childrens HIV Program
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60608
|Chicago Children's CRS
|Chicago, Illinois, United States
|United States, Louisiana
|Tulane Univ. Health Science Ctr., Tulane Univ. Hosp. & Clinic
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
|United States, Maryland
|Univ. of Maryland Med. Ctr., Div. of Ped. Immunology & Rheumatology
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|United States, Massachusetts
|HMS - Children's Hosp. Boston, Div. of Infectious Diseases
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|WNE Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS CRS
|Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
|United States, New York
|Jacobi Med. Ctr. Bronx NICHD CRS
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10461
|Nyu Ny Nichd Crs
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Columbia IMPAACT CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|SUNY Upstate Med. Univ., Dept. of Peds.
|Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Univ. of Pennsylvania Health System, Hosp. of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|The Children's Hosp. of Philadelphia IMPAACT CRS
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
|United States, Washington
|Seattle Children's Hospital CRS
|Seattle, Washington, United States
|Study Chair:
|John Lambert
|Study Chair:
|Daniel Johnson
|Study Chair:
|Stuart Starr
Publications of Results:
Other Publications:
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00000879 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10601 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 18, 2012
|Last Verified:
|May 2012
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
AIDS Vaccines
Disease Transmission, Vertical
HIV Preventive Vaccine
HIV Therapeutic Vaccine
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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BRISTOL — The newly renovated Holley Hall will open its doors to the public from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, to celebrate Bristol residents' contributions to its new look.
The town offices will host tours, presentations and the unveiling of both the historic painted curtain and a time capsule.
"We wanted to show off the new renovations and give the public the opportunity to come in and see how their taxpayer dollars were spent," said Carol Wells, a member of the selectboard and executive director of the Bristol Downtown Community Partnership.


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Stockland is powering up in innovation, rolling out universal ChargePoint Electric Vehicle (EV) and dedicated Tesla Destination Chargers across 31 of our shopping centres. Electric Vehicles and Tesla owners will be able to charge their cars for free in Stockland retail centres, boosting convenience for our customers while they shop, dine or spend time with family and friends.
With Electric Vehicles playing a major role in the future of transportation, Stockland are proud to launch this initiative to meet the ever growing Australian demand whilst maintaining our commitment to sustainability. Our encouragement of Electric Vehicle usage will help reduce toxic gas and carbon emissions into the environment as these vehicles run on electric powered motors.
These chargers have the ability to top up an Electric Vehicle's battery by 20-40% in half an hour on average, saving our customers over $3 in electricity cost.
To further support this initiative, Stockland have incorporated designated parking bays for Electric Vehicles across our centres that have the charging units installed. In Electric Car terms, when a conventional petrol powered Vehicle is parked in an Electric Vehicle bay, the Electric Vehicle driver socially refers to this as being ICE'd (Internal Combustion Engine). Therefore, we encourage non-Electric Vehicles to park in regular spaces to free these charge points for their intended use.
The centres which currently have Electric Vehicle charging units installed include:
• QLD: Burleigh Heads (2 charge points)
• NSW: Jesmond (1 charge point), Glendale (1 charge point), Shellharbour (4 charge points), Balgowlah (1 charge point), Cammeray (1 charge point) and Baulkham Hills (2 charge points)
• VIC: Point Cook (1 charge point)
• WA: Harrisdale (2 charge points) and Baldivis (2 charge points)
Furthermore, Stockland is also installing Tesla Destination Chargers over the next twelve months. At present, Tesla drivers can utilise the current charging stations located at our centres for free, provided they utilise their Tesla adaptor to connect to the charging unit.
The Stockland shopping centres to have Tesla Destination Chargers installed over the next 12 months include:
• QLD: Cairns, Townsville, North Shore, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Hervey Bay (installed), Caloundra, Cleveland, Pacific Pines, Benowa Gardens, Burleigh Heads
• NSW: Balgowlah (installed), Cammeray (installed), Green Hills, Jesmond, Merrylands, Baulkham Hills, Wetherill Park, Shellharbour, Bathurst, Nowra, Corrimal, Forster, Tamworth, Glendale, Wallsend
• VIC: Highlands and The Pines
• WA: Baldivis
All our Stockland charge points are located on the PlugShare website (www.plugshare.com) with the aim of accommodating our centre customers over the course of their journey.
For updates regarding our Electric Vehicle and Tesla Chargers, register now as a Stockland Member.


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Carteret County Commissioner Elaine Crittenton appreciates the compromise that went into the county�s new budget.
BEAUFORT � Carteret County Commissioner Elaine Crittenton appreciates the compromise that went into the county�s new budget.
The Board of Commissioners closed out budget deliberations with the adoption of a 2013-2014 fiscal year budget that retains the current tax rate of 0.29 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.
�I think the citizens won,� she said of the outcome.
That doesn�t mean it�s a perfect budget.
Crittenton fought to keep a 2-percent cost of living pay increase that was in the proposed budget but it was ultimately cut by the board, which found it difficult to give a pay raise when the economy is still struggling.
But the board did agree to keep in funds for a compensation study, which she was glad to see.
�We�re going to look at salaries over the next year and that may be the better way to go,� she said.
There is disagreement on the board on the issue but she sees the county as a �professional incubator,� training employees in clinical and other positions, to have them move on to other higher-paying jobs.
The board agreed 3-2 to keep money in the budget for the compensation study. Commissioners Bill Smith and Jonathan Robinson ware against the idea.
The new budget will take effect July 1.
The $78.2 million general fund budget is a decrease from this year�s $85.5 million amended budget.
Spending for education remains the county�s top expense.
The appropriation for Carteret County Public Schools is below what the school system requested but slightly above what was in the recommended budget.
The recommended budget kept funding for schools at the current level of $18.4 million, while the school system requested $23.2 million
The adopted budget includes the $18.4 million plus $500,000 to be held in contingency.
It was initially proposed that the $500,000 go to capital budget to help address some security-related projects but school system officials said the money is better spent on school operations.
�We put the money in contingency to allow them time to come back to us with a plan,� said board Chairman Greg Lewis.
Not in the budget is funding for school resource officers at every school. The idea that was raised by concerned parents after the shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year but funding for additional SROs was not in the school system�s recommended budget or added to the county budget.
The school system has state-funded SROs at its three high schools.
Lewis said the board, which includes three new commissioners worked well together and the budget process went smoothly.
A final budget, he said, is always a compromise.
�We reached a balance jointly and we�re moving forward,� he said.
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Dr. Clifford Bleustein joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Adjunct in Economics in fall 2008.
Cliff recently joined Dell Services as the Managing Director & Global Head of Healthcare Consulting for the Healthcare & Life Sciences business unit. Cliff runs the global P&L for consulting services and leads an integrated team of professionals across Management Consulting, MEDITECH, Cerner, Epic, McKesson, and ICD10 /Revenue Cycle.
Cliff is a Healthcare Executive with a passionate interest in improving healthcare systems. He brings expertise as a business leader and consultant, delivering clinical care, mentoring healthcare professionals to develop new capabilities needed for future success, and having the courage to tackle high risk, high exposure innovative engagements. Cliff has a blend of intellectual curiosity and an ability to understand how systems operate in the real world. These have equipped him to develop business solutions that deliver value and trusted client relationships. By way of background, he is a board certified urologist, he has conducted award winning research, has helped mentor and train residents as an assistant clinical professor of medicine, and teach Healthcare Economics as an adjunct Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business. He completed an MBA degree and previously had 5 successful years of consulting in healthcare at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has led a diverse set of client work including business strategy, mergers & acquisitions, healthcare operations, physician alignment and resource optimization. Cliff brings international experience with on-the-ground projects in Ireland, the UK, South Africa, China, and India as well as assessments in the Middle East.
Professor Bleustein earned his M.B.A. from NYU Stern and his M.D. from the Medical college of Wisconsin.
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Medical College of Wisconsin
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|Montefiore Medical Center/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine
|The Pfizer Scholars in Urology Award
|The New York Section, AUA, Inc.
|First Place Clinical Prize, F.C. Valentine Essay Competition
|10th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research. Montreal, Quebec
|Best Paper on Female Sexual Dysfunction
|10th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research. Montreal, Quebec
|Zorgniotti-Newman Prize for the Best Clinical Paper on Sexual Medicine
|Brooklyn and Long Island Chapter American College of Surgeons
|Second Place winner, Murray Friedman Essay Competition
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Bleustein CB, Cuomo B, Mingin GC, Ohebshalom MM, Lauto A, Shin SJ, Stewart RB, Felsen D, Soslow R (2000)
Laser-Assisted Demucosalized Gastrocystoplasty with Autoaugmentation in a Canine Model.
Urology 2000; 55 (3): 437-442
Bleustein CB, Felsen D and Poppas DP (2000)
Welding characteristics of different albumin species with and without fatty acids
Lasers Surg Med 2000; 27 (1): 82-86
Bleustein CB, Felsen D, and Poppas DP (2000)
Semi-Solid albumin solder improved mechanical properties for laser tissue welding.
Lasers Surg Med 2000; 27 (2): 140-146
Bleustein CB, Sennett M, Poppas DP, and Stewart RB. (2000)
Differential scanning calorimetry of albumin solders: Interspecies differences and fatty acid binding effects the protein denaturation
Lasers Surg Med 2000; 27(5): 465-470.
Poppas DP, Bleustein CB, and Peters CA (1999)
Box stitch modification of Hasson technique for pediatric laparoscopy
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Readers Star and Gene Parsons from the town of Caspar, in Mendocino County, Calif., dropped by our office on an early June day, when snow was still falling in the high country. Paonia is Star's old stomping ground: Her father, Florian, was born here, and her great-uncle Orange (and yes, that is his given name) was both a printmaker and molder of bricks; one of his brick buildings, the town's Christian Church, was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. Gene, who was the drummer for both the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, told us they'd driven to Colorado through the towering smoke of Arizona's still-uncontained wildfires but managed to dodge the fires themselves. The only real excitement of their trip so far was watching their dog Tilly impersonate a black bear at a campground. Two women staying in a nearby tent took one look at their fuzzy, 50-pound dog, assumed it was a bear and fled back to their car. This was great fun for Tilly, who chased them, said Gene, but definitely not as enjoyable for the frightened tourists.
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Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil) is the country's largest commercial enterprise, with a sales turnover of Rs. 1,30,203 crore (US$ 29.8 billion) and profits of Rs. 7,005 crore (US$ 1,603 million) for fiscal 2003.
IndianOil is India's No.1 Company in Fortune's prestigious listing of the world's 500 largest corporations, ranked 189 for the year 2004 based on fiscal 2003 performance. It is also the 19th largest petroleum company in the world. IndianOil has also been adjudged No.1 in petroleum trading among the national oil companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
India's Flagship National Oil Company
Beginning in 1959 as Indian Oil Company Ltd., Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. was formed in 1964 with the merger of Indian Refineries Ltd. (Estd. 1958).
As India's flagship national oil company, IndianOil accounts for 56% petroleum products market share among PSU companies, 42% national refining capacity and 69% downstream pipeline throughput capacity.
The IndianOil group of companies owns and operates 10 of India's 18 refineries with a current combined rated capacity of 54.20 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) or one million barrels per day (bpd). These include two refineries of subsidiary Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd and one of Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited. IndianOil owns and operates the country's largest network of cross-country crude oil and product pipelines of nearly 8,0000 km, with a combined capacity of 56.85 MMTPA.
Countrywide Network
IndianOil's countrywide network of over 22,000 sales points is backed for supplies by its extensive, well spread out marketing infrastructure comprising 162 bulk storage terminals, installations and depots, 94 aviation fuelling stations and 87 LPG bottling plants. Its subsidiary, IBP Co. Ltd, is a stand-alone marketing company with a nationwide network of over 3,000 retail sales points.
For the year 2003-04, IndianOil sold 48.60 million tonnes of petroleum products, including exports of 1.81 million tonnes. Its seven own refineries achieved a throughput of 37.66 million tonnes, and the pipeline network transported 44.50 million tonnes of crude oil and petroleum products.
IndianOil reaches Indane cooking gas to the doorsteps of 40 million households in over 2,100 markets through the country's largest network of 4,350 distributors. The country's leading SERVO brand lubricants from IndianOil, with over 42% market share and 450 grades, are sold through more than 9,100 Company retail outlets, besides a countrywide network of bazaar traders.
IndianOil's ISO-9002 certified Aviation Service, with 67% market share, meets the fuel and lubricants needs of domestic and international flag carriers, Defence Services and private aircraft operators
To maintain its strategic edge in the market place, IndianOil has planned investments to the tune of Rs. 24,400 crore during the X Plan period (2002-07), mainly in linear integration & diversification projects, besides refining and pipeline capacity expansions, product quality upgradation and retail operations
Customer Care
Customer delight is the key driver of IndianOil's marketing operations. Under the XTRA retail outlet brand unveiled during 2003-04, IndianOil is making customers visiting its petrol and diesel stations a number of XTRA offerings, including assured quality and quantity, efficient forecourt service and high levels of housekeeping, choice of regular and branded fuels, 100% electronic dispensing, cashless transactions, loyalty programmes for cash & credit customers, and a number of non-fuel offerings tailor-made to customer profile and requirements
Academy Company
IndianOil is an "academy" company with a score of full-fledged training centres across the country building skills and competencies among IndianOilPeople to face the challenges of the market place. Among these, the IndianOil Institute of Petroleum Management (IIPM) at Gurgaon, the IndianOil Management Centre for Learning at Mumbai, and the IndianOil Management Academy at Haldia have emerged as world-class training and management academies.
Pioneering R&D
IndianOil's world-class R&D Centre has won recognition for its pioneering work in lubricants formulation, refinery processes, pipeline transportation and alternative fuels. It has developed over 2,100 formulations of SERVO brand lubricants and greases for virtually all conceivable applications – automotive, railroad, industrial and marine – meeting stringent international standards and bearing the stamp of approval of all major original equipment manufacturers. A wholly-owned subsidiary company, IndianOil Technologies Ltd., is commercialising the innovations and technologies of the Centre, which has over 140 national and international patents to its credit. Apart from leadership in development and commercialisation of bio-fuels, the R&D Centre is currently the nodal agency of the hydrocarbon sector in India for ushering in Hydrogen fuel in the country.
Expanding Horizons
IndianOil is currently metamorphosing from a pure sectoral company with dominance in downstream in India to a vertically integrated, transnational energy behemoth. The Corporation is implementing a master plan to emerge as a major player in petrochemicals by integrating its core refining business with petrochemical activities, besides making large investments in E&P and import/marketing ventures for oil and gas in India and abroad.
Spreading Wings
IndianOil is also strengthening its existing overseas marketing ventures and simultaneously scouting new opportunities for marketing and export of petroleum products to new energy markets in Asia and Africa.
Two overseas subsidiaries are already operational in Sri Lanka and Mauritius, and a regional office at Dubai is coordinating expansion of business activities in Middle East region. Within an year of incorporation, Lanka IOC Pvt. Ltd. (LIOC) has captured a 25% market share in Sri Lanka, with a target to take it to about 40% in the near future. IndianOil is investing US$ 18 million in Mauritius through its subsidiary, Indian Oil Mauritius Ltd. (IOML), to set up a range of marketing infrastructure there.
The Corporation has launched 11 joint ventures in partnership with some of the most respected corporates from India and abroad — Lubrizol, Nyco SA, Petronas, Oiltanking GmbH, Marubeni, to name a few. SERVO lubricants are being marketed in Dubai, Nepal, Bhutan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Bahrain, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Bangladesh, etc.
IndianOil has been lending its expertise for nearly two decades to various countries in several areas of refining, marketing, transportation, training and research & development. These include Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Algeria, Nigeria, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Malaysia and Zambia.
IndianOil's sincere commitment to Quality, Safety, Health and Environment is reflected in the series of national and international certifications and awards earned over the years.
The 19th largest petroleum company in the world, IndianOil, is well on its way to becoming an integrated, transnational energy corporate.
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Greece is struggling to get the EU and IMF to agree to bail them out, because Germany is opposed to the country getting aid when they haven't made serious cuts to their public spending.
One of the biggest issues is the Greek's gluttonous pension system, which hands out money much more freely to the retired than the German system. Populist German newspaper Bild is making a big deal over this diparity.
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You may remember Fabrizio from a recent post I did about him and his feature in Elle Decor.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
You may remember Fabrizio from a recent post I did about him and his feature in Elle Decor.
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And then they say Camo isn't in this season.. a perfect Chameleon!!
ooo I love this style, it's so cool!!!
Love the argyle socks and that spectacular wall!
I'd love to know more about that jacket he's wearing.
If I am not mistaken, I own the same one:
Beautiful, really!
Fantastic portrait, and the colour balance is astounding.
Great picture!!
classy simple jacket!
Great harmony of colors! Great photo!
I agree.
I like how he rolled up his pants to expose the argyle socks and buckled shoes
i love the background! :)
Love his quilted jacket!
nice picture!
Great shot!
xo Jennifer
Great pic!!
This version of librarian chic meets English royalty casual I always admired. Not to mention the beauty of the shoot and all the metaphors!
love the vintage style published here lately. so chic!
Still rolling up those trousers, I see.
but mostly I remember this wall from another beautiful photo of yours.
Yes! I recognize the wall!
Good shot! I like his jacket !
I absolutely love everything of this look so dandy so cool
Daddy Lele from Lelli, italian fashion family
The shape on the wall is quite interesting. Isn't it?
Does it look like lips to you?
Is he really taking a picture of that crack on the wall? Interesting…
Actitude is everything!
L'artiste y voit l'Origine du Monde…
love the argyle socks
All is in the detail.
Holy chic!
Great wall!
I wonder what his photo will look like…
If I remember well, Scott took a picture of this wall a few years back.
I kept it in my own "Style" file because of its beauty.
i wonder if his picture of the wall came out better than your picture of the wall some time ago… which is still one of my favorite picture from this blog :)
All great, except rolled-up trousers
I not only remember the person, I remember the wall. I believe you shot that wall or a similar one 2 years ago…..not that I'm keeping track ; )
when i scrolled down….he turned up his pants….no
Nice shot but those rolled up trousers just look silly.
His point of view is pulling.
nice socks!
God I love his shoes and his socks…and his beret!
Like how he has combined classic trousers with a coat in technical material.
Exquisite detail and the textures on the wall, only emphasize this 'meta' image, fantastic.
Great Shot! love the style, love the socks….Love everything!
Can I just say "he's a very naughty boy" for the photo he is taking. Mr. S – perfectly timed capture.
Fabulous to read all your comments! Scott is a genius! And more….I really want to thank you all ….. Love, Fabrizio
Style is style and period.
Estilo ├® estilo. Quem tem, tem!
is it leather jacket or a parachute one? I want this jacket :)
Love the jacket and the hat, but those pants are ridiculous.
Every single person in Venice is wearing black puffy. I hate it with all my heart.
Love the socks! This guy really knows who he is.


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For almost a decade, Kevin Kennedy has searched for proof that Babe Ruth's upright piano sank to the bottom a Massachusetts pond. Although he's always come up empty, new information from two brothers who remember an ancient piano crumbling on the shoreline four decades ago has given Kennedy hope his search might have hit the right note.
For almost a decade, Kevin Kennedy has searched for proof that Babe Ruth's upright piano sank to the bottom of Willis Pond in Sudbury.
Although he's always come up empty, new information from two brothers who remember an ancient piano crumbling on the shoreline four decades ago has given the Sudbury resident new hope his search might have hit the right note.
Babe Ruth rented at least two different houses near Willis Pond, say brothers Steve and Charlie Barry, who spent their boyhood days in the area. The fact that there were two locations may drive home why no one has found evidence of the former Red Sox pitcher's piano near Butler Road.
Ruth also stayed in a cabin across the cranberry bog on Lakeshore Drive.
Kennedy began his search of the pond nine years ago. After receiving information from the Babe Ruth Museum, he narrowed his hunt to the part nearest Butler Road.
"An old-timer and family friend, the late Barney Meampaa, told us that Babe Ruth used to live up at the Borden property on Lakeshore Drive," said Steve Barry. "Other old-timers also told us he lived there."
Ruth's piano played a major role in the Barry brothers' boyhood days, and that new information has brought new life to Kennedy's search.
Steve and Charlie Barry, who now live in Grafton, not only remember the piano, they know what happened to the instrument left rotting on the shore of Willis Pond along Lakeshore Drive.
In April, the men learned that rotting piano had probably belonged to Ruth, who took the Red Sox to three World Series before he was traded to the Yankees.
"Hearing the story of Babe Ruth, we never thought that would have been his piano," said Charlie Barry. "We never had an explanation for the piano on the shore, but we used to find so many things -- including cars and a motorcycle.
"Around 1973, my friends and I wanted to clean up the area and the moldy piano that was falling apart was in the way," said Charlie Barry. "It had been stripped of its brass pedal and ivory key caps. The area was littered with trash, old rims, tires and a sofa, so we burned the piano along with everything else. The keyboard section was waterlogged, so it mostly smoldered."
Charlie Barry and his friends had planned to use the metal harp plate to cook on, but they nixed the idea and rolled the heavy plate into the pond.
"The strings, which we had removed from the harp, were thrown into the bog," he said. "We had planned to use the strings to make bows for arrows, but we never got to it."
The brothers remember first seeing the piano on the shore in 1963, when they were 5 and 9.
"At that time, the piano was upright and intact," Charlie Barry said. "But it was quite bleached by the weather. The black keys were white, so it had been outside for a few years."
The men's story may not be out of left field.
Babe Ruth and other Red Sox players stayed in cabins along Willis Pond, said Lee Swanson, curator for the Historical Society in Sudbury. "He stayed in the area after he was traded," Swanson said.
The curator told the second-hand story of a man who lived on the pond and was there on a winter day around 1919 when Ruth took the piano outside on the ice.
"Whenever Babe visited the area, word spread quickly and an instant party was created in his little cabin," said Swanson. "Babe and his wife both played the piano and they took the piano outside."
That area is now overgrown, and the shore of the pond eroded.
After hearing the brothers' story and visiting Willis Pond with them, Kennedy has sent an e-mail asking the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources if his reconnaissance permit allows him to look under the bog to confirm if they find part of the piano.
"If someone, without a permit, takes or disturbs the harp, it becomes worthless because an archaeologist has to confirm how long it has been there by the level of silt, etc." said Kennedy.
If Kennedy gets state approval, he would have to get an experienced diver to document the finding and apply for an excavation permit.
"I've never been more encouraged," said Kennedy. "Evidently, the legend of the piano is not tied to one location."
After Wednesday's search, Swanson said he was saddened when he learned that the Barry brothers set fire to the piano and threw it in the pond.
He remains optimistic about finding fragments of the instrument.
"It has a real possibility of finally coming true," he said.
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U.S. Increasingly Isolated in Stance Against Kyoto
Kevin Rudd, the new Australian Prime Minister, has promised to sign the Kyoto protocol.
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Just a day after being elected to office, incoming Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd met with government officials on Sunday to discuss ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the international pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Rudd's promise to commit his country to the treaty leaves the United States as the only industrialized nation not to ratify the decade-old agreement. Rudd has also accepted an invitation to attend the upcoming United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, which is expected to be a landmark global meeting on the issue.
Rudd's landslide victory over conservative John Howard ended the 11-year reign of Australia's second-longest serving leader. Former Prime Minister Howard and U.S. President George W. Bush had been allies in their refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force in 2005. But Australia's worst drought in a century made environmental concerns a top priority in the recent election. "This is the only government around the world kicked out because of its inaction on global warming," Nick Economou, head of the politics faculty at Monash University in Melbourne, told Bloomberg News.
Rudd's Labor Party won more than 53 percent of the vote, according to the Australian Electoral Commission, and landed 82 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives. The opposition Liberal-National coalition holds 59 seats, leaving two independents and seven undecided.
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Australia is the largest per-capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the industrialized world, though the United States has the highest emissions levels overall. China is expected to surpass the United States in greenhouse gas emissions this year, but as a developing country it is exempt from Kyoto restrictions. More than 170 nations have now ratified the climate treaty, which even after Australia joins will still only apply to some 30 percent of global emissions.
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31 Mar 2014
Hi guys, how have you been? I spent a great but pretty busy weekend, on Saturday I walked a fashion show of Sarah Josis for spring/summer 2014 (photos soon!) and on Sunday I went sightseeing with my friend Katka who came to visit me in Brussels (finally!). :-)
What about you, did you spend a good weekend?
And what do you think of my outfit? You could have seen this cashmeer dress already here, but this is the first time I´m wearing it with a belt.
28 Mar 2014
Between the Doors
A combination of powder pink and light grey is one of my favourite for this season. Such a lovely soft match, what do you think?
24 Mar 2014
Gold Sequin Dress
Hi guys, sorry for the today´s post in Czech! I just have no time to write more today. Hope you like the outfit anyway. It´s one of my fav party dresses! :-)
22 Mar 2014
My Chocolate Weekend
20 Mar 2014
Hello Spring!
The original intention - a simple, light-coloured outfit with no heels. The result - a gray pioneer. :-))) Well, I have to admit that I like the result anyway. :-)
17 Mar 2014
A Flowerbed
I really dig this dress from Zara (and I do so despite my suspicion that it makes me look like a spring flowerbed)... :-)
14 Mar 2014
Horses in the Park
The weather has been really wonderful this week, such a beautiful warm spring has come to Belgium. Which also means that it´s finally time to put on my new silk horse skirt from a Belgian designer Sarah Josis, which was hanging in my closet and waiting for its moment since January.
12 Mar 2014
Powder Colours
10 Mar 2014
Golden Mykita Again
The second outfit with gold mirror sunglasses from Mykita is quite different from the previous one - simple lines, minimum of accessories and a classic beige-black colour combination free of patterns.
8 Mar 2014
Midas´ Girl
Today´s golden-toned outfit is inspired by my futuristic shades from Mykita. These sunglasses represent a perfect symbiosis of two trends I really like - mirrored shades and golden accessories.
5 Mar 2014
This time I matched my pink coat with a flower dress from Zara (which combined with a black cashmeer sweater actually looks like a skirt).
1 Mar 2014
Big Scarf, Red Shoes
Hey guys, ready for the weekend? :-) Today I´d like to show you another outfit with the maxi scarf, this time matched with suede wedges. These shoes don´t appear on the blog very often, which is quite strange given how much I actually wear them...
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Overcoming the World: 2014 West Coast Conference
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Fusion scientists of the future
In interdisciplinary subjects such as fusion energy, training PhD students is a complex task. Llion Marc Evans describes how being part of the Fusion Doctoral Training Network has helped him develop as a researcher.
Critics of UK physics education often argue that PhD programmes at many universities are both too short and too narrow in focus. In recent years, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has responded to such criticisms by introducing doctoral training centres (DTCs) in several different fields, from energy research to the life sciences, at universities across the country. These are designed to produce PhD students who are better equipped to do their own research in their later careers – partly by adding an initial period of formal training to the traditional three-year research PhD, but also by bringing together researchers from a particular subject or geographic area to create regional "centres of excellence".
One such scheme is the Fusion Doctoral Training Network (FDTN). This collaboration between the universities of Durham, Liverpool, Manchester and York aims to bring together students from different fusion-relevant disciplines – including physics, engineering and materials science – to give them a better picture of the subject as a whole and to help them work towards a common goal. As part of the scheme, students spend six months at the University of York taking lecture courses in subjects such as plasma physics and fusion technology, and learning skills such as computer programming and statistical methods. This is followed by a three-year PhD research programme at the students' home universities or the network's industrial partners, which include the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Oxfordshire
The FDTN is quite a new initiative – its first class of eight students joined in October 2009 – so it is still too early to evaluate how successful it has been. However, my experience as one of those eight students makes me think that this template is worth replicating in other departments and fields of research. Indeed, this is already happening to some extent: in 2009 EPSRC funded 50 new DTCs across the UK.
From Formula 1 to fusion
My educational background is a good example of the different ingredients that make up fusion science. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I went on to do an MSc in computational fluid dynamics at Imperial College London. My Master's thesis involved working with researchers in the Formula 1 department at Ferrari, who were interested in modelling heat transport in brake disks. Shortly after I finished the MSc, I went for preliminary interviews at Ferrari's headquarters in Maranello, Italy, and seemed to be on track for a career in F1 racing.
At that time, however, media attention was increasingly focusing on the world's carbon emissions and a looming energy crisis. Keen to find a solution to these environmental problems, I began weighing up my future career options, and found myself drawn away from F1 towards a PhD in fusion energy.
After decades of research, the underlying theory behind fusion is relatively well established. The emphasis of current research is on the practicalities of designing a power plant that can deliver commercially viable energy in a safe and environmentally responsible way. Having completed a BSc in physics and an MSc in engineering, I felt that this field would allow me to combine the theoretical know-how of physics with the pragmatic, problem-solving approach of engineering.
The project I am working on now at the University of Manchester uses a technique called image-based modelling to predict how components will behave in a fusion-power-plant environment. We begin by taking a computerized tomography (CT) scan of a sample component, which lets us build a computational model that includes cracks, holes and other features present in the sample that are introduced in the manufacturing process and would not be included in models that use an idealized geometry. This leads to more accurate results in simulating material behaviour. In addition, because it is possible to carry out tests using identical samples, direct comparisons can be made between experimental and computational results.
An interdisciplinary approach
Of course, not everyone in the 2009 group of FDTN students at York was interested in this type of research project. The biggest challenge to those designing the course was to cover topics that would be relevant to everyone, despite our diverse research interests in plasma physics, materials science, neutronics, and electronic engineering and diagnostics. The course designers also had to make sure that they included material that was relevant to both magnetic and inertial-confinement fusion, which use strong magnetic fields and powerful lasers (respectively) to produce the conditions necessary for fusion.
Most researchers in the University of York's fusion group are interested in plasma physics, so other topics, such as high-performance computing, were covered by bringing in lecturers from outside the plasma-research groups. The programme also invited guest lecturers for week-long courses such as "fusion technology" and a "frontiers of fusion" conference. This year's intake of students will benefit from a similar course on the materials used in fusion, which we are also welcome to attend.
For me, the benefits of this training period started right away. During my first week of research, I had to present a talk on the fusion-energy industry and my research plans at a conference on nuclear technology. Thanks to the broad education I received, I felt comfortable answering questions far beyond my own research topic. This is not something I would have got from a "traditional" PhD programme, which does not include the kind of training period I went through as part of the FDTN.
Another positive effect has been the sense of community that the programme has created among PhD students from different disciplines and universities. As we develop our careers in the fusion-energy sector, I believe my former classmates and I will continue to benefit from this informal network and the way it helps us to see the wider picture. It may be premature to make too much of this aspect after just one year, but so far, despite being spread over various locations, the eight of us are still in regular contact – collaborating on research, representing fusion energy at conferences and participating in school outreach programmes.
As the number of FDTN students grows, so will the community. In October last year, 10 new students began their period of formal study at York, and during their first week we joined them for a "team building" day. This was the first of several events planned for the coming year that will help all of us who end up working in the field.
A final advantage of the FDTN comes from the scheme's close links to industrial partners. These links give us unprecedented access to the expertise and knowledge of those already working in industry. Students who, like me, want to continue their careers in that direction will also benefit from first-hand experience of the working environment at facilities such as the CCFE.
The bottom line is that this training scheme has been designed not just to produce postgraduate students, but to develop future researchers for the fusion-energy industry. With the world's largest fusion tokamak, ITER, currently under construction in southern France (and the world's largest laser, at the National Ignition Facility, already performing pre-fusion experiments in northern California), this type of investment is crucial to the future of the field. Funding for facilities is wonderful, but without skilled workers to operate them, fusion-energy research will grind to a halt.
About the Author
Llion Marc Evans is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, UK, e-mail email@example.com.
This article originally appeared in the January 2011 issue of Physics World.
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DCOP bindings for Java
Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel recently announced Java bindings for DCOP. In other words, Java can now communicate with and control KDE2 applications. A welcome addition to the existing C bindings for DCOP, originally used by the long gone kmapnotify. Then, of course, there's kxmlrpc which provides a bridge to DCOP for anything that can speak HTTP and XML (eg, control DCOP-speaking apps from a shell script or python). And as if all that wasn't enough, there's the command-line or point-n-shoot DCOP browser/executor that just goes to show how far, flexible and mature DCOP has become in a short matter of time. Simplicity pays off in the end.
Re: DCOP bindings for Java
This sounds really interesting (javadcop). I'll have to try it once I find the time to install this on my box. If something useful comes out of it, I'll let you know ...
"Real programmers don't comment their code.
By Dominik Niedermeier at Fri, 2000/10/13 - 5:00am
DCOP and SOAP
Will there ever be such a thing as kSOAP?
By Antonie Fourie at Fri, 2000/10/13 - 5:00am
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Yes probably. There is already kxmlrpc which supports the similar XMLRPC protocol. SOAP is somewhat more complicated, but it will probably be added when someone has time.
By Richard Moore at Fri, 2000/10/13 - 5:00am
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Absolutely! I wrote kxmlrpcd back before SOAP was announced (XMLRPC is a precursor to SOAP) and never got around to updating it. I'll be working on ksoapd (or whatever) after 2.0.
By Kurt Granroth at Sat, 2000/10/14 - 5:00am
Bad for WORA (Re: DCOP bindings for Java)
What's the point? If I wanted to write an app with KDE support, I would write a native KDE app, in C++, etc. The whole point of Java is to write cross-platform programs, which are not tied to any particular operating system. Don't get me wrong, I like KDE, but lets not add 'non-WORA' extensions to Java.
By Slava Pestov at Sun, 2000/10/15 - 5:00am
Re: Bad for WORA (Re: DCOP bindings for Java)
Java is a nice language, making it work well with KDE is the Right Thing (tm) to do. This only adds to the power of Java, not removes.
By ac at Mon, 2000/10/16 - 5:00am
Re: Bad for WORA (Re: DCOP bindings for Java)
Because you should have the opertunity to to whatever
By Nils Olav Selåsdal at Fri, 2000/10/20 - 5:00am
Should have called it ROBOCOP
Instead of DCOP, they should called it ROBOCOP as in Realtime OBject Oriented COP!
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At my course at UC Berkeley on Innovation, Creativity & the Entrepreneur we had an eye-opening class on "Marketing Innovation" - how the marketing profession/role has dramatically changed in the past 10-15 years, the impact of various technologies on Marketing globally, and current innovations in marketing, ranging from research, to advertising, to promotion, price, product and channel/place (the "Marketing Mix" as taught at the Haas School).
I challenged our 46 students to each go out on the 'Net and find the best examples that they could on "Marketing Innovations" – both technology-driven and "old media with a new twist". Results were FANTASTIC as we collectively found over 90 examples of all forms of creativity and innovation in today's marketing.
Wanted to share the top trend-setting blogs & sites for Marketing Strategy:
- Visionary Marketing blog – created by an international set of entrepreneurs/marketers, provides and excellent Blog Roll of many other great spots for Marketing Innovation on the Net.
- Business Week blog on Innnovation – This blog covers "new innovations in marketing from new tools to how people rethink how to get their messages out. Marketing Innovation is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Tracy Zhang.
- Monty's Social media marketing blog – Scott Monty at Ford Motor Company does a great job capturing strategic areas of interest in SMM (social media marketing)
- Tim Brown's Design Thinking blog (thank, you, Kavita) – Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, offers his cutting edge views on design and innovation. His posts tend to take a deeper dive into areas such as creative culture and how purpose creates a strategic advantage in the area of innovation.
- Adam Richardson's blog (thank you, Kavita) – The Creative Director at Frog Design's blog on the intersection of design, business, technology,and culture. His posts focus on ways to integrate creative and strategic thinking and approaches to any problem.
- Online marketing blog (thank you, Angus) – Internet marketing blog on the intersection of social media, digital public relations and search engine marketing. Tons of interesting info. and some interesting overlaps with Seth Godin's blog – try typing "marketing is ," or "marketing innovation " in Google search … makes you think.
- Future Lab – blog by global agency, FutureLab with lots of entries on strategy and innovation
- Seth's blog (thank you, Angus) – Marketing guru Seth Godin's blog which doesn't hold punches. Godin founded of Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com/) which is a user-generated- website that uses the concept of a lens to filter information (like blog posts but within a subject).
- Web Strategist (thank you, Deval) - Jeremy Owyang is a web strategist whose target audience is Marketing professionals and CMOs. He writes for Forbes as well.Very practical advice on how to leverage social media for your company.
I'd like to hear about additional sites on the strategic/general topic of marketing innovation…


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The days are getting shorter, you just wrapped up your summer job washing cars, and in a week or two, you're going to show up on campus with a hatchback crammed to the top with cardboard boxes and hangars. Fall semester is beginning, and besides the funds you've set aside for food and beer, you're going to need a nice chunk set aside for the bane of all college students: textbooks. Pounds and pounds of textbooks.
More recently, e-readers have promised to liberate college students from the heaving bundles of pages that most of them lug home from the bookstore at the beginning of every semester. From Amazon's Kindle DX to Barnes & Noble's Nook and even the iPad, a generation of digital readers promises to replace overstuffed backpacks full of musty textbooks with a lightweight, portable slate loaded with every book you'll ever need for the entire semester – or every semester, for that matter.
But can you really just download the books you need for class? Are they cheaper? Do digital textbooks make any sense to begin with? We ran the numbers, considered all the factors, and the answers don't all point to "buy." Here's everything you should consider before springing for an e-book reader this semester.
Nobody wants to hoof it to class looking like a hunchback, with 30 pounds of textbooks sagging off your back in a bag that looks like it's about snap at the seams – if your spine doesn't give out first. And therein lays the primary appeal of the e-book reader: Rather than 30 pounds, you'll likely have just over one pound, in a package that's typically as slim as a magazine. Readers like the Kindle DX weigh just 1.1 pounds, while the big daddy of the bunch, the iPad, hits only 1.5 pounds. A package that weighs and feels smaller than an average textbook can literally take the place of thousands of them. Thank, you technology.
Sure, Amazon's Kindle DX will cost your $379 out of the gate, and Apple's iPad will cost at least $500, but you'll earn it back over time, right? Good question.
We made up an example schedule based on books a Syracuse University freshman might need for different introductory courses, to see how much you would actually save versus buying paper copies. The verdict: Money might not be a great reason to look into an e-reader.
We signed up for Spanish, writing, philosophy, religion and political science courses. The total tab for all the books we could buy online from the SU bookstore with one click came to $368.45. This included a total of 15 titles, buying used books whenever possible.
Then we went shopping on Amazon's Kindle store. We had intended to compare the total cost of buying print versus digital, but the digital catalog was so incomplete we ended up comparing individual titles.
When comparing brand new, hefty textbooks, an e-reader can save a bundle. For instance, Writing Analytically would cost us $66.50 brand new from the SU book store, but we could download an e-book version instantly for just $46.30 on the Kindle. Total savings from just one book: $20.20.
Factor in the used-book market, and savings dwindle a little more. Let's use Immigrant America: A Portrait as an example. It sells for $24.95 brand new from the Amazon store and the campus store. But the SU book store offered it to us used – automatically – for $18.75. Had we bought it for a Kindle, we could have scored it for $14.82 – savings of only $3.93 over the used paper copy.
Even those small savings dissipate when you consider that most students will sell their books after a semester. With Immigrant America, we could have turned around and sold our used paperback for $8.64 through online buyer AbeBooks, reducing our total cost to just $10.11 for a semester of use. We would actually pay more with the Kindle, since we can't turn around and sell our digital copy. Even online rental services can't match that: Chegg wanted $21.99 for a semester rental, CampusBookRentals wanted $18.92, and BookRenter wanted $18.95.
The bright spot for e-readers turns out to be old titles, which you can actually get for extremely cheap or even free. For instance, we could download The Book of Tea for free from Amazon, or pay $3.75 for the paperback. Ghandi's autobiography was only 95 cents through the Kindle store, or $12 for the paperback.
Had we bought every single book possible through the Kindle store, we would have saved a grand total of $35.03 for the semester. That's giving e-books the benefit of the doubt by comparing to only new paperback prices and not factoring in resale value. Other classes might offer more books online, but even if we were able to save double that every semester – $70 – we wouldn't recoup the cost of the Kindle DX until six semesters in.
If the above example didn't spell it out for you, or if you just want the Clif notes: You can't just hop on Amazon or Barnes & Noble and buy all your books online. In fact, you can barely buy any of them.
Of the 20 books required for our courses, the SU bookstore offered 15 of them online in paper version. Amazon's Kindle store offered four. So did Barnes & Noble.
The selection is bound to improve with time, but keep in mind that some materials won't translate as readily. For instance, our Spanish materials included a CD loaded with video and workbooks, and some professors print specialized readers that only ever see distribution on college campuses. While we would like to think the videos could all eventually stream, the workbook sheets could be printed, and that professors might adopt the e-book format themselves, the slow-grinding, bureaucratic gears of academia and general fussiness of crotchety old professors suggests paper will reign in college for years to come.


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Packet Assembly
The last several months have been exciting for my small shop as I have been accumulating supplies and initial equipment to begin exploring marquetry. I have been considering this for some time since it is a natural extension of veneer work. Thanks to stimulating conversations initiated by Neil Lamens, I have been augmenting my woodworking reading with the likes of Silas Kopf and Paul Schurch.
Cutting Packet with a Scroll Saw
The video clips embedded in this post were initially recorded to share with Neil my fledgling progress. I thought they would be interesting to include giving context to the process. As every other aspect of woodworking, I am self-taught at this juncture. In that vein I have been doing a lot of reading, as well as, watching a few select DVDs to the point of almost wearing them out!
Building an engagement chest for our niece has catalyzed my interest in marquetry. I have always been very practical and having a project to pursue has always provided a solid impetuous to learn and apply a new skill. I thought that a small piece of marquetry would be a nice detail to add to the bottom of the storage tray inside the chest. Beth and I decided on a small branch of cherry blossoms.
It turned out I had had a lot of inspiration right outside our kitchen nook window as the cherry trees bloomed in all their splendor this last month. I used the back-lighted window as an inexpensive light board and worked out a sketch that hopefully will not be too challenging to execute.
My first exercise was a simple 4x4 packet using some scrap veneer to get a feel of the process. I mad no attempt to work with grain or do any sand shading. This packet basically gave me a feel of packet assembly, scroll saw work and assembly. As expected, I made a lot of mistakes, but more importantly, I learned volumes.
My second exercise is a bit larger piece adding the complexity of working with grain patterns, color and sand shading. I am feeling a bit less intimidated by the scroll saw and my cuts are starting to flow with less effort. I also significantly reduced my saw blade breakage rate; 10 blades on the first 4x4 packet compared with 3 blades on the larger packet! I've noticed that good lighting at the blade and my shop magnifying eyeglasses have been a significant help.


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Well looky here. It's December! It is officially OK to put up your Christmas decorations and drink mulled wine to excess! Hurrah! We always put our decorations up the first weekend of December, which luckily this year means the 1st of the month.
I am a little nervous about putting our tree up this year as Ruby (the cat) has never been with us for Christmas and her playful nature and love of all things shiny might be an issue. Although, I don't want to speak to soon, but so far she seems utterly disinterested.
Update The peace lasted all of about 3 hours, we've had to take off all the decorations within her reach and turn the lights off. Merry bloody Christmas.
How was your week? Get up to much?
I've been busy at work as per usual. Managed to squeeze in a night of comedy on Wednesday though, it was Red Raw night at The Stand Comedy Club in Newcastle. It is £2 on the door and you get to see 10 new acts trying out their material. A friend of ours (Julian Lee) was doing a set, so we went along for support. We had an absolute blast, ended up not getting home until 1:30am, which in hindsight might not have been the best idea as we had work the next day. Thursday was awfully long and sleepy.
I've been doing some Christmas shopping this week too, I am pretty organised with presents so far but don't even talk to me about the food! I have no idea. I think we have settled on pork for dinner, but apart from that I haven't thought about anything else. Although, I did manage to order my Christmas meat on twitter this week! Huge thank to Charlotte's Butchery for their advice and cannot wait to pick up my pork shoulder and ham!
I have some old favourites in my recipe arsenal, like these Mulled Wine Frangiane Pies which are a great aternative to boring old mince pies with the added bonus of making your whole house smell amazingly festive. Or there is always good old fashion gingerbread, always a winner
Speaking of Gingerbread, if you are in Newcastle and looking for something to do today, get yourself down to the Hancock Museum from 2pm for the Gingerbread House Challenge! Lots of activities for the kids, and some amazing gingerbread creations to see (and eat!), its all for a great cause; The Sick Children's Trust.
If you have any winning christmas recipes, please do share them in the comments.
Finally, I wanted to end this little rambling post with some of my favourite blogs of the week, I read so many wonderful blogs, so I thought I'd share some of the highlights from the last week;
Overnight Cinnamon Buns from M Bakes.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing from London Bakes.
French Onion Pastry Puffs from Joy the Baker.
I also stumbled across ThatGalJenna through instagram, and although it is not food related, I want to steal this girls entire wardrobe!
Hope you all have a lovely week!


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