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December inflation up slightly
Philippine inflation rose 2.6 percent in December due to seasonality and some tightness in supply of specific good items.
Inflation in November was 2.5 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority said Thursday.
"The uptick in inflation last month was caused by price increases partly due to the holiday season and supply constraints on some food items," said Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia in a statement.
Full-year 2016 inflation is 1.8 percent, below the government's range of 2.0 to 4.0 percent for the year, but higher than the 1.4 percent of 2015.
Food inflation increased to 3.7 percent from 3.5 percent in the previous month, and higher than the 1.8 percent in the same period in 2015. Faster increases in the prices of bread and cereals (1.6 percent from 1.5 percent), fish (5.5 percent from 4.7 percent), and meat (1.8 percent from 1.5 percent) were recorded, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.
Non-food inflation was pushed by transport (1.9 percent from 0.5 percent in November) and recreation and culture (1.7 percent from 1.6 percent in November). Rise in transport costs can be traced to increases in domestic petrol prices such as unleaded gasoline (10 percent from 3.98 percent) and diesel (16.04 percent from 7.41 percent).
"The higher prices in transport commodity reflected the hike in international oil prices caused by oil-producing countries' decision to cut oil production by almost 1.8 million barrels per day," said Pernia.
Core inflation, which excludes specific volatile food and energy prices, also inched up to 2.5 percent in December 2015 from 2.4 percent in the previous month. The 2016 full year core inflation averaged at 1.9 percent, still lower than the 2.0 percent recorded in 2015.
For 2017 and 2018, NEDA expects inflation to be within the target range of 2.0 to 4.0 percent. This already considers the scenario of higher oil prices, pending petitions for adjustments in electricity rates, but especially, strong domestic economic activity.
Pernia said damage to rice resulting from typhoons Karen, Lawin, and Nina could lead to faster inflation in early 2017.DMS


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The past few years have been great for Latino chefs: Dominican-born Amar Santana of Vaca in Costa Mesa placed second in the latest Top Chef; Ecuadorian-American Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton, along with her husband, won a James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northwest for the Argentine-inspired Ox in Portland, while Hugo Ortega did the same in the Southwest for his namesake Houston spot. And San Francisco's La Taqueria got a James Beard America's Classics award – essentially, the Hall of Fame for American restaurants – for its legendary Mission-style burritos.
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Kevin John, Manu, Jay, Jor, and I attended an amazing Real Salt Lake game versus the LA Galaxy. Real won 6 to 2 and, most important of all, we all won free haircuts. Why? If Real scores 3 goals, then all ticket holders win a free haircut. It's amazing.
HCAT wins another grant
All our summer grant writing is paying off. We just received word that our NIH P30 grant will be funded this cycle. This grant will fund a state-wide survey of Utah adults to study a number of cancer-related variables, including cancer information overload. The opportunity to continue our research on cancer information overload is…
Summer 2018 Writing Retreat: Keef House
HCAT lab had another writing retreat. In August 2018, we headed to Chicago for the glorious 5 day retreat. Five days! It was amazing.
Our house was a small mansion located just north of Chicago. We were told that the house was once owned by Chief Keef. I'm not sure if that story is true, but we decided to name it the Keef House.
We ate deep dish pizza, put post-it notes on the walls to track progress, and worked, worked, worked. Nick made salmon one night. Jake didn't sleep.
The Keef House writing retreat was hosted by Courtney Scherr and Lisa Guntzviller. It was one of the best retreats of all time.
Chocolate Pie
My grandma Myrtle Wienke used to make the best chocolate pudding. Sometimes she would poor it into a graham cracker crust and serve it as chocolate pie. She taught my mom to make that pie, and my mom taught me. I guess you could say it is a family recipe. I make it at thanksgiving,…
Another summer, another article in Delta Sky Magazine
HCAT lab was featured in Sky Magazine (again). Sky Magazine is the magazine that you encounter on Delta flights. In the summer, they like to do stories that talk about skin cancer prevention. Here is the story that features HCAT from June 2018: Tailor-made Cancer Care
Grant writing in the Summer
We've been writing lots of grants this summer: two R01s, a P30, a DP2 supplement, and several R03s. Summer is often a great time for us to develop grants. So far, we've met every week (or thereabouts) and had some amazing brainstorming sessions. I'm excited to see how these ideas evolve over the months ahead.
High Risk, High Reward Symposium
Every year, NIH New Innovators are invited to Bethesda to present our research. This year, I presented some of our work on UV photography. We were the first poster visible through the door of the session. The face of the symposium, if you will. 🙂
Kate presents parasocial research in Prague
Kate hopped the pond and attended ICA in Prague. While there, she presented HCAT's research on parasocial interactions and HIV stigma. In that research line, we evaluate the CDC's PSA campaign designed to reduce HIV stigma. *This was an article we wrote at the 2017 HCAT writing retreat.
Teaching Grad Stats in the Summer
Most summers I teach an introductory graduate stats course (HEDU 7103). I jokingly call it stats zero as it is designed to prepare students for future stats training. It's wonderful to teach stats in the summer. It is exhausting, but you really get to see growth in the students. Summer teaching is my favorite.
ADR: Snapshot of the College
In addition to my research and teaching duties, I currently serve as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities. I was appointed to this post by Dean Dianne Harris in 2015; Dianne is now a Senior Program Officer with the Mellon Foundation. In Spring 2017, I was asked to present a snapshot…
March: Dogfight
If you ran into a lab member in March, then we probably looked busy. And Jake was definitely drinking some form of caffeine. That's because we were working hard to get 7 article submitted to 2 different conferences. The end of March is home to the submission deadline for the National Communication Association (NCA) and…
Spring: research, research, research
HCAT has lots of research in progress. We are writing IRBs, designing studies, collecting and analyzing data, and writing manuscripts. It's great to have so much activity in the lab. Recently, I started using post-it notes to keep track of all the studies in progress. It helps me to visually track the studies and it…
Manu defends her prospectus
Manu successfully defended her prospectus on February 7th, 2018. In HCAT lab, the prospectus defense is a cumulative process that builds on the comprehensive exams and the preprospectus. Her next, and final, meeting is the dissertation defense. Manu's dissertation consists of three studies: a meta-analysis, a large visual communication experiment, and a biophysiological lab experiment.…
Sundance 2018
We love to go to Sundance Film Festival each year because (1) it is awesome, (2) it is nearby – Park City, UT), and (3) it is a wonderful opportuunity to learn about cutting edge communication technology (e.g., VR and AR). Sundance is approximately 11 days long and the lab was out and about the…
Death narrative research in Health Psychology
Mindy Krakow's excellent dissertation research on death narratives was recently published in Health Psychology. This research is part of a larger program that seeks to systematically investigate and compare stories where characters live (survivor narratives) or die (death narratives). We start with the assumption that both nareative forms can exert influence; the question is when…
HCAT: The Last Jedi
HCAT went to the premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Once again, we attended the fan event version. Several folks from Entertainment Arts & Engineering joined us, and we spent most of the afternoon at the Jordan Commons eating food and preparing for the movie. Jor and KKJ became celebrities as they were featured,…
L16 light camera
The lab just purchased a 16 lens Light camera. We were on the waiting list for about 2 years. This camera takes 16 shots at once so it is a cutting edge item. It might be the solution to several key problems facing our research. Fingers crossed. Excited to see what it can do.
HCAT: Ragnarok
HCAT headed out to the fan event showing of Thor:Ragnarok. We loved the swag and the comfy seats. The 6 pm showtime was also great. Looking forward to the next one (Star Wars: The Last Jedi).
Best Article in Risk Analysis
We just found out our 2017 publication in Risk Analysis was selected as a best article by the editors. The article is: Jensen, J. D., Pokharel, M., Scherr, C. L., King, A. J., Brown, N., & Jones, C. (2017). Communicating uncertainty to the public: How amount and source of uncertainty impact fatalism, backlash, and overload.…
2017 HCAT Writing Retreat – Adobe House
Once again, HCAT lab hosted a writing retreat in beautiful Park City, UT. The writing retreat was October 11th – 14th, 2017. The attendees were Lisa Guntzviller, Andy King, Courtney Scherr, Kevin K. John, Manusheela Pokharel, Chelsea Ratcliff, Kaylee Crossley, Katheryn Christy, Hannah Badal, Kevin Coe, and Brandon Rivera-Melo. We missed Rob Yale (a lot).…
Kevin John interviewed about Melanoma
Utah has the highest rate of melanoma in the U.S. Given that, Deseret News recently published a long-form story about melanoma in the…
The Dread Professor Jensen
Every HCAT writing retreat begins with an roundtable session where attendees detail what they will be working on. Typically, the roundtable is led by Jake, but this year, in honor of the 30yh anniversary of The Princess Bride, it was led by the Dread Professor Jensen. He told attendees to "work hard, submit manuscripts" as…
NIH grant: slow and steady
Year 2 of my NIH New Innovator grant is coming to a close. This is a 5 year grant, so we still have a long way to go. I'm writing our annual report, and it's amazing how much we've done…and how much we still have to do. A 5 year project is a program of…
Kevin John's Dissertation Published in JHC
The first article from Kevin John's dissertation was just published in the Journal of Health Communication. In that article, Kevin articulates a framework for studying how visual images might impact visual skill (what he labels the visual skill acquisition model). He then demonstrates how the…
HCAT day retreat in Chicago
HCAT decided to host a day retreat during the AEJMC conference in Chicago. The retreat was held in Courtney's lab space in downtown Chicago which happened to be a few short blocks from the conference hotel. After writing all day, the lab ventured off to the Barcade for fun and drinks. We ate popsicles with…
HCAT in Sky Magazine
Sky Magazine published an article about "The future of Early Detection" which mentioned HCAT's research on mole crowdsourcing. So, if you are flying Delta, then look for HCAT in the clouds.
Krieghbaum Under 40 Award
I will receive the Krieghbaum Under 40 Award at the the AEJMC awards ceremony, August 11th at 10 am. It's a wonderful honor, and all are welcome to come out celebrating with us in Chicago. The Krieghbaum Under-40 Award honors AEJMC members under 40 years of age who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all…
College Writing Retreat
In June, I hosted the first College of Humanities writing retreat. Twelve faculty and post-docs participated, and spent 3 days writing grant/fellowship applications at a ski resort in Park City, UT. We plan to run another retreat in June 2018.
Kate Publishes Admiration Research in JHC!
Kate Christy recently published an article evaluating how admiration and memorability impact the processing of mammography PSAs. The research was published in the Journal of Health Communication (one of our favorite outlets!) and provides evidence that admired models have greater impact on intentions…
Mug Club
HCAT likes to go to movies. To that end, we formed Mug Club – a group of movie loving folks who like to go to premieres (and all have megaplex mugs). Mug Club is a mixture of HCAT members, GApp lab fold, and faculty from communication. On May 4th, 2017, Mug Club headed out to…
Ever since the 2013 Writing Retreat, we've been obsessed with shuffleboard. Given that, I purchased a shuffleboard last winter. Today, I upgraded the table by purchasing 6 speeds of shuffleboard powder. Yes, there are different speeds. Shuffleboard is a great activity for researchers as you can talk shop while playing it. Needless to say, our…
HCAT nabs top paper at DCHC
The psych reactance crew won the top paper at the DC Health Com Conference!
Collecting data in Altamont, UT
HCAT headed to Altamont, UT (2 hours from Salt Lake City) to collect data for the SUN study. We were joined by two graduate students from Yelena Wu's lab (Bridget and Ayesha). Altamont has a beautiful new high school, and both the teachers and kids were great hosts. A thunderstorm appeared just as we were…
R&R at the theater?
KKJ and I hatched a plan: meet at the Jordan Commons theater at 9 pm, work on our revise & resubmits (R&Rs), and then go to the movie Logan at 11 pm. Jordan Commons has a big courtyard full of tables, we can fill our megamugs there cheap, and it's about halfway between our respective…
Immersion Lab on KSL
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=42993197&nid=148&title=u-researchers-can-study-inversions-year-round-with-60k-camera Our Immersion Lab was featured on KSL. They visited the lab to view our Ozo, and learn more about our air quality video.
VR video – A Bad Air Day in Salt Lake City
My lab recently purchased a Nokia Ozo pro grade immersive camera. As a test of the camera, we decided to film both a good air quality day in the valley (August 30th, 2016 – a green day), and a bad air quality day (January 1, 2017 – an orange day). We filmed the valley from a trail just below the H Rock. The video begins with a good air quality day (August 30th) and then transitions to a bad air quality day (January 1st).
The Sundance Film Festival just launched a new initiative focused on climate change and environmental awareness. The 2017 festival showcases 14 innovative projects devoted to this theme, including An Inconvenient Sequel (which HCAT members attended last night!). Our air quality immersive video parallels Sundance's initiative as well as their groundbreaking work in VR.
Click here to view our video on YouTube. Make sure you have the YouTube app downloaded in advance:
HCAT goes to Sundance 2017
The Sundance Film Festival is a wonderful gathering of media and communication professionals in Park City, UT. As such, HCAT lab spends quite a bit of time going to shows, meeting with industry folks, and checking out the latest gadgets. For example, last year we were introduced to the Nokia Ozo camera at Sundance, and…
iMotions training
HCAT lab recently purchased a biophysiological measurement system from iMotions. The system allows us to measure eye movements, emotional response, and heart rate (among others). We've been interested in biophysiological measurement for years, and have conducted several eye tracking studies via the labs at Texas Tech (Andy King) and BYU (Kevin John). But now we…
2016 HCAT Writing Retreat
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 12th – 16th, 2016 in Park City, UT. The writing retreat was held at a 5 bedroom house located just above main street in old town (you can rent it here). Fourteen people attended the retreat, including folks from Texas, Illinois, and Maryland. We had two research groups at the retreat: a skin cancer research group and a psychological reactance group. Both groups wrote manuscripts, analyzed data, and designed future studies.
The 2016 retreat also saw two different trips to the emergency room. Jake was in the emergency room when one of his sons developed a nasty case of parainfluenza. Kevin John ended up in the emergency room with appendicitis!
Despite these obstacles, the retreat was a huge success. We wrote from the moment the house opened on the 12th until 2 am in the morning the night of the 15th. Lisa Guntzviller led a workshop on building tables in Excel, and Jake led a workshop on the Johnson-Neyman (JN) technique.
The tattoo sleeves made a second appearance too. As folks finished papers, they were rewarded with the awesome sleeves. Nick Carcioppolo and Rob Yale weren't able to make it this year, so we made Nick and Rob paper cutouts – and enjoyed taking crazy photos with them.
It was another wonderful writing retreat!
HCAT wins Golden Monograph (two years in a row)!
June: A month of Grant Writing
June is a major deadline for NIH. Given that, HCAT spends most of May and the beginning of June writing and submitting grants. This year, Manu, Chelsea, Jeremy, and I worked on 3 grants (all due mid-June). Two R21 grants, and one P30 grant. It can be exhausting, but the students also learn how to write grants by helping to put together all of the components.
Montana State Champs – 20 years later
Approximately 20 years ago, I had the pleasure of participating in Montana High School Speech & Drama. I competed in Humorous Duo Acting with my good friend, Rusty Limesand. He had a great sense of humor, and an amazing threshold for physical pain (which came in handy given our love of vaudevillian comedy).
My senior year, we were lucky enough to win the state title in Humorous Duo Acting, and to take home the team state championship in Drama.
After high school, Rusty became a prison guard, and a cell extractor (they guy who removes unruly prisoners from their cells).
I went to college and won a national championship in collegiate speech and drama, before continuing forward for my Ph.D.
We were an odd pair in many ways. He was a jokester, who loved big, physical comedy. I was more cerebral, and liked writing more than anything else. I always wrote our routines, an approach that would put me against the grain in college speech and drama (where it is rare for people to write their own material).
Sadly, Rusty passed away in 2011 (in a bizarre turn, his story was part of an episode of Dateline NBC). But I still have lots of great memories of him, humorous duo, and our time together. Thinking back on it, 20 years later, it seems like another life.
HCAT at BEA in Las Vegas
Mindy Krakow and I traveled to BEA this year to present research and receive a few awards. Mindy received an award for her dissertation (congrats Mindy!) and we won a top paper in the research division (congrats us!). We also enjoyed stopping by NAB and learning more about VR equipment. Nokia was there, so it was a great opportunity to chat with them about our new camera.
Plus we went to two great shows: La Reve and Ka.
College Forensics: 15 years later
I competed in collegiate forensics (also known as speech and drama) at Concordia College from 1997 – 2001. It was a great educational experience, and a wonderful way to develop as a writer.
Low-dose aspirin research published in Cancer Epidemiology
Andy King – Top Paper at BEA
HCAT goes to the premiere of Star Wars VII
HCAT wins Top Paper at NCA
HCAT lab wins Golden Monograph
The Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards were created to mark NCA's 50th Anniversary in 1964. Originally, there were awards given to monographs and to books. The book award was deleted and later reinstated as the Diamond Anniversary Book Award. The Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards are presented to the most outstanding scholarly monograph(s) published during the previous calendar year.
My randomized controlled trial published in Social Science & Medicine was honored with the 2015 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from NCA. You can read more about it here. You can see a list of past award winners here.
NIH New Innovator Award
Chamber House Writing Retreat – Fall 2015
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 8th – 15th, 2015 in Park City, UT. The writing retreat was held at a 5 bedroom house located just above main street in old town (you can rent it here). Courtney and I gave a workshop on writing NIH grants, and we also reviewed vitas and (for…
Jake becomes Associate Dean for Research
The Origin Place of Jake
Jake Featured in Countering Cancer Series
Jake featured on NPR
Dogfish Beer in Utah?
Woolrich – the flannel shirt maker – and dogfish head brewery recently formed a partnership. The Woolrich guys came out to salt lake city for the outdoor expo, and they also hosted a big sundance party in park city. For the party, dogfish head brewed a new beer called the Pennsylvania tuxedo, an IPA infused with spruce tips. After the party, 4 kegs were leftover. The Woolrich guys didn't want to fly them back, so they gave them to the owner of the rental house.
That guy is my neighbor.
That's how Mindy and I ended up with several kegs of Dogfish Head. The world needs to know.
NCA 2014 – At the Parade
Throwback – My honors lecture as a junior at Concordia College
Long, long ago in the cold land of Moorhead, MN, I gave an Honors Student Lecture. I was already an experienced public speaker – given my background in high school and college forensics – but this was, in many ways, my first academic talk. It was based on a paper I wrote for an honors…
Lisa wins a Top Paper
Writing Retreat at the Roundabout House
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 16th – 19th, 2014 in Park City, UT. The writing retreat was held at a 5 bedroom cabin just off the old town roundabout (you can rent it here). Nick Carcioppolo led a workshop on Mplus, I led a workshop on validity in confirmatory factor analysis, and we worked on 15 manuscripts, 8 of which were completed by the end of the retreat. A pool table on the top floor of the house was our relaxation sport of choice. We also enjoyed trying to ride the house elevator, which was wonderfully inconsistent. Finally, we visited Olympic Park during this retreat, and that is quickly becoming a tradition.
You can see photos from the retreat here:
The Great Beard Contest
In May of 2014, Professor Kevin Coe challenged me to a "beard off." A beard off is a contest wherein two people decide to grow beards and see who has the "best" beard at the end of the day. I agreed.
Typically, a beard off is started in the fall or winter. Why? Because beards are hot. And damn are they itchy. Especially when it is hot. But Coe wanted a beard off in the summer, so we did it.
On August 8th, 2014 we declared an end to the beard off. We took these photos, then immediately went home and shaved. "Never again," we both declared.
The photos were posted to Facebook. In a close vote, Coe was declared the beard winner. His prize? Never to grow a beard again. 🙂
Are News Coverage & Cancer Funding Related?
HCAT evaluates mammography campaign
HCAT goes Curling
HCAT wanted to go curling. But you have to take curling lessons before you can officially join the league. Oh, and you better bring your own stone. League stones are for chumps.
We had a few drinks before curling lessons. Everyone but KKJ. Only one person fell on the ice and seriously hurt his back. You guessed it: KKJ. 🙂
Jake named Presidential Scholar
Dallas Writing Retreat
HCAT held a writing retreat March 14th – 17th, 2014 in Dallas, TX. Twelve faculty and grads attended the retreat. Jake led a workshop on writing grants, and we also talked a lot about publishing strategies. Jake's consumption of Mountain Dew during the retreat reached epic levels, I think I slept a total of 2 hours. An air hockey table provided us with quite a bit of fun. A pool also occupied our time. The retreat was put on by HCAT members Rob Yale (Assistant Professor, University of Dallas) and Andy King (Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University). A great time was had by all.
This was the first retreat to have it's own logo:
Nordic House Writing Retreat in Park City
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 11th – 14th, 2013 in Park City, UT. The writing retreat was held at a 5 bedroom cabin in Deer Valley that described itself as the Nordic House (you can rent it here). Eleven faculty and graduate students attended the retreat. I led a workshop on Lisrel and confirmatory factory analysis, Lisa Guntzviller led a workshop on bibliography software, and Rob Yale took us all out to dinner at the Blue Iguana (which would become a writing retreat tradition). We also discovered numerous quirks such as my love of high quality scrap paper and Kevin Coe's need to have lots of gum on hand while writing. Finally, Rob Yale impressed everyone (as he tends to) with an amazing suitcase.
We worked on 12 manuscripts during the writing retreat, 7 of which were finished by end. We played an excessive amount of shuffleboard.
Jake wins ICA Young Scholar Award
Cancer Information Overload
Mole Crowdsourcing
HCAT wins ComSHER Article of the Year
The cartoon we made
Once upon a time, I animated a cartoon. It was animated in the style of Chuck Jones (i.e., Road Runner artist). I created this cartoon for research on media violence. You can read the subsequent research here.
It was created using an early version of Flash. I remember working on this for days and days. I love to make things. It's my nature.
NCA Grant Writing Workshop
Jake gets a Pie in the Face
OnTrack Tailoring Software
The WORD Intervention
In 2010, we won a subcontract on a Department of Defense/Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center Grant. Our job was to conduct research to inform the design of an HPV vaccination campaign. To that end, we created experimental stimuli to test threat-to-efficacy ratio hypotheses at the heart of EPPM research. This required the creation of lots and lots and lots of stimuli – one for each ratio combination. Here they are, provided for your use and pleasure. Seriously. Feel free to use them.
Here's the article citation:
Carcioppolo, N.,* Jensen, J. D., Wilson, S. E., Collins, W. B., Carrion, M., & Linnemeier, G. (2013). Examining HPV threat-to-efficacy ratios in the extended parallel process model. Health Communication, 28, 20-28.
How we design studies
Cozy Cabin Writing Retreat – Fall 2009
Delay Hypothesis Wins Top Paper at NCA
Our research on the delay hypotheses (aka, the Sleeper Effect) won a Top Paper Award in the Mass Communication Division of NCA. Jensen, J. D., Bernat, J. K., Wilson, K., & Goonwardene, J. (2009, November). Narrative persuasion and the sleeper effect: Further evidence that fictional narratives are more persuasive over time. Paper presented at…
2009 "To Do" List
All the Yo-Yos
Research sometimes requires you to buy odd things. For example, I once bought hundreds of yo-yos. I bought so many yo-yos that the company selling them designated me a "toy store." That's a true story.
Why was I buying all those yo-yos? We were running a study in several elementary schools, and we couldn't pay the kids in cash. But we could give them yo-yos for doing the study. So, hundreds of yo-yos.
Notice how long my hair is. You would think this was a hair growing contest, but I believe I was just lazy. The life of an Assistant Professor.
Distinguished Article in Health Communication
Dan O'Keefe and I received the Distinguished Article/Book Chapter in Health Communication from NCA's Health Communication Division. The award was for our meta-analysis of loss/gain framing research. That project took several years to complete, and yielded multiple publications, but our analysis in Journal of Health Communication seemed to have the biggest impact. I learned a…
Jake goes to China
In 2008, I journeyed to China as part of a delegation from Purdue University. We attended a Health Communication conference, met with several universities, and traveled. Fun Fact: I was a Political Science and East Asian Studies major in college. The latter focused on Chinese history, culture, and language.
Jake wins Top Paper at ICA
Top Paper in Mass Communication
Ryan Hurley and I were lucky enough to win Top Student Paper in Mass Communication at NCA in 2004. Originally, we wrote two papers: one that focused on the third person effect and another than examined the impact of reading news coverage about environmental threats, including dioxin (which, incidentally, won Top Student Paper in…


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but then there is a silence when one gets closer to home in the time line. odd.
or is it?
black prince's temper tantrum in the 1300s would by now have been settled, but what if it happened 70 yrs ago?
now THIS explains a LOT!
it explains why people don't got all animated about recent history and why lalonde will not speak to masson, but all are perfectly happy to chat with the youngs and the hares. not having realised it, but the villagers had quietly checked that these outsiders didn't bring their family feuds or Nazi sympathies with them.
a few miles south there is a village we checked out, longue... something. when we drove up, there were a few rubbish fires going, but - again - only a few stray cats visible. the village is ancient, before the horse and buggy era. the approach looked over its location up on a long, lean hill, from beyond a barren valley and past yet another grey, sullen cemetery.
we walked around, said we did not like the creepy feel of it. never went back.
today we found out just outside that village the Nazis had rounded up all the area's resistance fighters, young and old, herded them into a field. they shot them and just left them there.
closer to home:
that's 5 miles from here and they'd syphoned victims even from spain to cram in there.In a report addressed to the Ministry of the Interior at the end of February 1939, the Prefect of Aude specified that in less than three weeks a true city had been built at BRAM, with electricity, drinking water, drain network for dirty water, highways department, postal service, hospital, mortuary, cemetery!
This camp had been built on a vast area of 12 hectares located in the MONTREAL district. It comprised 165 wooden huts and housed between 10,000 and 15,000 internees, mainly civilians and old people.
The camp at BRAM, which had begun to fall into disrepair, was temporarily closed down in October 1940.
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What is a community? What connects communities and why is this important? How do we want to envision our community in the future?
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How to Keep Worms Out of My Chestnut Trees
The forest landscape of the eastern United States drastically changed in the first one-half of the 20th century. The American chestnut tree (Castanea dentata), which is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 8, almost disappeared when it was attacked by an introduced fungus. Efforts to revive the species are underway, but two other species often are used in its place. They are Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima), which are hardy in USDA zones 4 through 8. Wormlike larvae attack different parts of all three Chestnut species and require different treatments.
Leaf Feeders
Gypsy and tussock moth caterpillars, along with cankerworms and fall webworms, feed on chestnut foliage. In large numbers, the caterpillars can completely defoliate a tree. Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki is a soil bacterium that is harmless to plants and other animals but creates holes in the digestive system of caterpillars. When they ingest leaves treated with Btk, they stop eating and die. Mix 4 teaspoons of Btk concentrate with 1 gallon of water in a garden sprayer. Spray both surfaces of the chestnut trees' foliage thoroughly when caterpillars are young and feed actively. Applying the product on an overcast day or in late afternoon is necessary because the bacteria are susceptible to sunlight. Repeat the application one week later for tussock moth caterpillars, cankerworms and fall webworms that reappear but about 14 days later if gypsy moth caterpillars reappear. Wear protective eye-wear and clothing that covers your skin and head when you prepare and use the product, and avoid inhaling its mist.
Wood Tunnelers
A few kinds of larvae tunnel in chestnuts. Larvae of clearwing chestnut moths tunnel in and under bark and are capable of causing serious injury to chestnuts. No known treatments exist against the pests. Grubs of the two-lined chestnut borer beetle excavate woven galleries under bark. Keep chestnut trees healthy with fertilizer and water because these pests target weakened or injured trees. Twig pruner beetle larvae live inside of and cut off chestnut twigs. They overwinter in twigs that fall to the ground. Clean up and burn or dispose of fallen branches immediately to eliminate twig pruners.
Nut Borers
Among the creatures that bore into chestnut nuts are chestnut weevils. They lay eggs inside the nuts, where the larvae develop. When the nuts fall to the ground, the larvae bore their way out and crawl into the soil. They emerge as adults in one to two years and re-infest the trees. Gather fallen nuts daily to prevent chestnut weevil larvae from entering the soil. Heat the nuts to 140 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes, which kills the larva.
Filbertworms, filbert weevils and acorn moths also bore into the nuts, which they eat. Healthy chestnut trees can withstand damage from those three pests. Dispose of damaged nuts, however, because they still may contain the pests.
Gall Makers
The chestnut gall wasp was introduced to the United States from Asia in the 1970s and continues to spread across eastern states. Adult wasps lay eggs in chestnut buds. Larvae develop inside, forming swollen galls on stems and leaves. Because gall tissue is difficult to penetrate, no effective chemical treatments are available. An introduced wasp species that preys on gall wasps tends to keep their populations in check.
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- American Chestnut Restoration Project: History of American Chestnut
- The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station: Chestnut (Castanea)
- University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment: Nut Weevils
- Missouri Botanical Garden: Plant Finder -- Chestnut
- University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment: Asian Chestnut Gall Wasp (ACGW) in Kentucky
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TITLE: Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
EDITORS: Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman
PUBLISHER: Seal Press
RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2010
GENRE: Nonfiction, Memoir, LGBTQI+
The second gender-bending anthology edited by Kate Bornstein brings together an extraordinary range of trans-spectrum creators. This book celebrates diverse LGBTQI+ experiences, while encouraging readers to take a long, hard look at their society's gender laws.
Instead of looking to the binaries for answers – male/female, femininity/masculinity, sex/gender – I've decided to take my body back for myself – for me to shape, show off, love and dress and play. But above all, for me to name – Transliteration by Francisco Fernández
I love how this book raises up voices that have been silenced. The diversity represented in this book opened my eyes to many new ways of seeing the world, and made me realise just how terrible it would be to live with my heart closed to other people's individuality. Each contributor has their own interpretation of what it means to be a "gender outlaw". From performance artists to drag queens; from comic strips to an ode to special needs toilets; from the "manly art" of being a pregnant trans man, to being a queer Muslim trans man. The experiences shared in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation are unique, while striking countless universal chords.
By telling my story, I am reclaiming my voice as an intersex person. Those of us with intersex conditions and varying gender identities are the only ones who can know and tell our own stories – I am the "I" by Sean Saifa Wall
Despite addressing heavy taboos, the overall tone of this anthology is light, since most of the contributors have developed a positive, hopeful attitude towards their future. This choice of self-aware tone adds meaning to the anthology: firstly, it reminds readers that the creators don't need our permission to love themselves and be happy with the lives they've made. Secondly, it helps us engage with the content on a personal level (instead of feeling like we're the target of blame and anger). Lastly, it reveals the creators' humanity and rawness, and encourages readers to breach any socio-cultural divides and stop seeing gender outlaws as "Other".
We're all outlaws at one time or another, simply because laws are designed to govern people as groups. No group of laws can encompass the varied desires and actions of an individual, and when the law omits or excludes us, we are be definition outlaw – not breakers of that law, but outside of it to begin with. We are all outlaws by omission – On Living Well and Coming Free by Ryka Aoki
While reading this book, I was struck by the realisation that the gender labels I was taught growing up are totally inadequate. If we view gender identity as a spectrum, and remember the endless combinations of gender identity and sexual preference, we learn that nothing is as simple as we've been led to believe. The diversity of contributors to Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation goes a long way in opening readers' eyes to the possibilities and complexity of constructing identity.
Every piece of information, every experience, has served to mould me into who I am at this moment, just as what I am undergoing in this moment is shaping who I will be tomorrow. The only thing I have always been doing is growing. Who cares whether we have always been this way? Let us instead say: I have always been becoming what I am right now – Transcension by Katie Diamond & Johnny Blazes
Intimate, delightful, and passionate, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation is an Own Voices book worth treasuring. It offers readers a peak into a handful of incredible lives, helping us to foster a more inclusive, more aware worldview.


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Most of us, whatever we write, don't write massive Broadway musicals about early American history featuring an ethnically diverse cast capable of imparting our stories in soaring melodies, stunning harmonies, and astonishingly complex verses of rap.
As far as I know, the only person doing that is Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer of the incredible Broadway smash "Hamilton."
However! No matter what we write, there are lessons to be learned from other people's writing, across genre and form. So I thought we might take a quick look at "Hamilton" and talk about three possible lessons from the text, and how we might consider incorporating them into our own work.
The caveat here is that I haven't seen "Hamilton" (and given the ticket prices and availability issues, I'm not likely to.) But in a way, that's the best way to come at this. I'm working from the words and music, without visuals. (Except, I have to admit, I've watched this video of the three actors who have played King George lip-synching to "The Schuyler Sisters" approximately 183 times – and those are probably not the visuals Lin-Manuel Miranda really had in mind.)
Three things "Hamilton" does that you might try in your own writing:
- Tell more than your hero's story. Alexander Hamilton is not the narrator of "Hamilton": that honor goes to Aaron Burr, who, if you recall, actually shot and killed him in a duel. It's a bold choice, and not what we're used to seeing in books and movies about Great Men. And Burr isn't the only person who speaks for himself here. Many of the characters have their opportunity to speak their minds (I'm thinking particularly of Angelica and Eliza Schuyler) and that makes them feel like full-fledged people, not just foils and props. You don't necessarily want to switch from a single POV to a whole slew of them, but even if your non-hero characters don't speak for themselves, think about their stories independently, not just how their actions serve the main plot.
- Sometimes, less really is more. Description can make or break a story, and sometimes, you have to know when not to go overboard. One of the most affecting lines in the show's opening song, "Alexander Hamilton," describes how Hamilton and his mother were both ill, "half-dead", after being abandoned by his father. Novelists might be tempted to indulge in description here, choosing details to show the squalor of their surroundings, the desperation of their situation, but Miranda doesn't indulge. (Frankly, in a show that covers this much ground, he doesn't have time.) But the brief mention of their circumstances ends with a short line that speaks volumes: "And Alex got better but his mother went quick."
- Forward isn't the only way to go. We see the hero meet his wife – they're introduced at a ball by her sister – and we hear everything that's said by all three. But later on, we hear the internal thoughts of a character, and realize that what we thought we saw wasn't the whole story of what was happening. This isn't something to overuse. Withholding information from the reader is always dangerous. But on occasion, it can have a huge impact.
Q: What other lessons have you taken from a work you really enjoyed, not necessarily in your chosen genre or form?
About Greer Macallister
Greer Macallister's debut novel THE MAGICIAN'S LIE was an Indie Next pick, Target Book Club selection, and a USA Today bestseller, and has been optioned for film by Jessica Chastain's Freckle Films. Her novel GIRL IN DISGUISE, about pioneering private investigator Kate Warne, received a starred review from PW. Her latest novel WOMAN 99 is now out in hardcover, e-book and paperback. www.greermacallister.com


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Outputs and Performance Measures: A Case Study of Two New Zealand Public Sector Organisations (2006)
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Thesis DisciplineAccountancy
Degree NameMaster of Commerce
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems
AuthorsPhang, Meaw-Fongshow all
Measuring performance is a necessary management practice if action is to result in desired outcomes. An important objective of the New Zealand public sector reforms that started in the late 1980s, was to focus the attention of public servants on clear specified results rather than bureaucratic procedures. Based on an implicit assumption that all public sector organisations are of a production nature, the reforms promised greater efficiency within the public sector by holding managers accountable for results while providing them with greater freedom to allocate resources. Consequently, outputs became key performance measures to enhance the accountability structure and to improve efficiency of the public organizations. The development of performance measurements to date appears inadequate in that the most important component of results outcomes is overlooked from the measurement. Currently government departments in New Zealand are implementing the early stage of the Management for Outcomes initiative, with an aim of ensuring all public service departments adopt a more strategic and outcome-focused approach to management and reporting. This thesis studied the latest developments in using outputs as performance measures in two public organisations. The findings demonstrates that outputs do not indicate performance for a procedural or a coping organisation as output information may not be relevant, meaningful or useful. However the most significant risk is that just as in the past, reliance on outputs will continue to lead to the fragmentation of public services and the ineffective delivery of services that the Management for Outcomes initiative aims to overcome.


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Sabah Tea Garden offers a wonderful dining experience at the Tea House. Be sure to ask for the Tea House specialties including Butter Prawns, Pandan Teh Tarik and the one-of-a-kind Tea Pancakes!
A spacious cultural hall where you can enjoy cultural performances and to cater to your group activities and company meetings, Chooseto stay at the Cottages or traditional longhouses.
No visit would be complete without a quick stop at the souvenir shop. Bring home and brew your own pot of Sabah Tea today! Ideal as souvenirs and gifts.
Just an hour's drive from Kinabalu Park, Sabah Tea Garden is located along the main Kota Kinabalu Sandakan road. Drive past the Kundasang War Memorial and the vegetable market. Sabah Tea Garden is located 15-minutes away past the Poring Hot Spring Junction, Signboards will guide you along the way.
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Sloping hills, dipping valleys and a sea of green as far as the eye can see... Immerse yourself in the lush surroundings of Sabah Tea Garden a 2 1/2 hours drive from Kota Kinabalu. Located conveniently between Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan, this is the perfect pit-stop to relax and unwind before you continue your road trip. This is where you will find Sabah's finest tea, harvested with care, processed with precision and brewed for your pleasure. Be it a corporate meeting, a school trip or Just a getaway for family and friends, Sabah Tea Garden is the ideal venue.
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The guided package includes obstacle-training, team-building, survival-cooking and river knowledge activities at the Sapaon Recreational Area. On the second day, explore the challenging trail of Kamunsu Hill, a 2-hour trek through the Bornean rainforest. Tea factory tour included.
Accommodation: Triple-sharing rooms at Sabah Tea Longhouse. Minimum 15pax per group.
Go for a 2-hour jungle adventure in Kamunsu Hill and bask in your natural surroundings. To rejuvenate those tired muscles, experience the unique Fish Massage at Kampung Luanti and learn about the tagalfish conservation practice. In the morning, start your day with a walk to view the stunning
Mount Kinabalu. Accommodation: Longhouses or Cottages.Minimum 4 pax per group.
A package that focuses on various games ideal for teambuilding purposes including Leap of Faith' and Tug of War. Discover traditional Malaysian garnes such as the Congkak and enjoy classics such as Chess, Scrabble and Sudoku as you unwind at the Cultural Hall. Have a go at the art of batik painting and enjoy a morning walk to view Mount Kinabalu.
Accommodation: Longhouses or Cottages. Minimum 15 pax pergroup.
Camp by the Sapaon River and enjoy a myriad of activities including the obstacle challenge, learning outdoor survival skills, supervised river swimming and outdoor cooking. End the day with campfire sessions as you enjoy a starlit night. Minimum 15 pax pergroup
Get your spirit soaring with our Team Building Program! Go through the obstacle course, learn survival cooking, enjoy a blowpipe challenge and a variety of rope garnes over two days. In the morning, enjov a walk to view Mount Kinabalu in the cool, crisp air and come evening, sit around the
campfire or have a go at karaoke. Accommodation: Triple-sharing rooms at the Sabah Tea Longhouse. Minimum 15 pax per group.
Ideal for meetings, conventions, conferences and seminars, this package includes the exclusive use of Cultural Hall for all your activities, equipped with tables, chairs, PA System, LCD Projector and screens. Enjoy a traditional dance performance by the local children. Tea factory tour and all meals are included. Accommodation: Longhouses or Cottages. Minimum 15 pax per group.
SABAH TEA RAINFOREST CONSERVATION AND GLOBAL WARMING PREVENTION (Tree Planting)
Nature-enthusiasts will love this overnight package which includes a jungle adventure through Kamunsu Hill. After a video presentation on 'World Global Warming', groups get together to discuss environmental issues and concerns. The fun continues with an obstacle course and river knowledge
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Blog: Tesla's Gigafactory - world's biggest building
Glenn Brooks | 9 May 2016
The hype over Tesla's so-called 'Gigafactory' is reaching new levels with the release of drone footage showing its sheer size.
When the giant factory is finished and ready to produce battery packs for the EV specialist's cars, it will be world's largest building, it is claimed.
Sectors: Electric drive, Environment, Vehicle manufacturers
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I'm starting to get a small idea of the scale of things here in China, but really, I'm only scratching the surface of this vast country....
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These portable interactive carts encourage informal learning through active looking, discussion, and hands-on activities related to aviation, space exploration, astronomy, and planetary geology. These programs typically last from 15 to 20 minutes and are used to supplement other educational programming.
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Living and Working in Space: Human Space Exploration
Share the excitement and wonder of human spaceflight, from the Mercury missions in the 1960s to the space shuttle era and beyond. Hands-on demonstrations include real space artifacts and spacesuits!
Maps, Models, and Measuring Devices: Tools of Astronomy
Astronomers throughout history have used amazing tools to help explain and better understand the universe. Investigate several centuries of astronomical tools including astrolabes, quadrants, and celestial spheres.
Telescope Power! Tools of Astronomy
Learn the basic principles behind how telescopes work with special emphasis on Galileo's work. Learn the major differences between Galilean, Keplerian, and achromatic telescopes. Learn how to make your own telescopes from materials you can find at home.
Black Holes
Massive objects such as black holes can distort space-time and deflect light. Investigate how black holes or galaxy clusters can amplify the light of distant stars and galaxies, enabling astronomers to see farther into space.
Decoding Starlight: Tools of Astronomy
Discover how scientists can determine the makeup of stars by analyzing starlight. Learn about the light spectrum, energy waves, spectrometers, UV rays, and more.
Kite to Flight: Problem Solving with the Wright Brothers
Examine early kite models, learn about the many experiments the Wright brothers conducted, touch the kind of materials used on their 1903 Flyer, find out why they were used, and learn about the principles of wing warping.
What Is a Wing? Problem Solving with the Wright Brothers
One of the major contributions of the Wright brothers relates to wings and propellers. This station uses interactive games to show how the Wright brothers used wings, airfoil shape, and Bernoulli's principle to take to the air.
Out of This World Materials: The Space Shuttle, a Battle of Weight Versus Strength
A meteorite entering Earth's atmosphere looks like a ball of fire because of friction with the air. This same phenomenon happens when the space shuttle enters the atmosphere. Its high speed causes its surface to reach a temperature of 1,650 degrees C (3,000 degrees F). So what protects the shuttle from that kind of heat? Find out by examining real shuttle tiles and materials.
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|Welcome to the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) application page.
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text: Whether you're on a strict training plan or let your active time outdoors take on a more organic form, summertime sweat sessions take their toll on your body. Working hard in the heat saps you of valuable nutrients and electrolytes, and if you don't replenish them, you risk day after day of not feeling your best. Rather than reaching for a soda or a sugary sports drink as soon as you finish a workout, take a few extra seconds to let a Nuun Active tablet dissolve into an ice cold glass of water--the wait will be well worth it. Nuun uses a refreshingly simple blend of plant-based sweeteners and non-GMO dextrose to give Active its subtly sweet taste while keeping the sugar content below one gram without the use of gluten, dairy, or soy. The elixir also contains sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium, all of which work to help your muscles rebuild and your body rehydrate in a balanced way, helping you avoid middle-of-the-night muscle cramps and all-out lethargy after a few miles under the hot sun.


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The oil market is tipping slowly from glut to equilibrium.
Output cuts from OPEC and 11 non-OPEC countries have begun to reduce crude flows in the oil market.
The market is not quite there yet. Indeed, the grand "re-balancing" of supply and demand has yet to take place. However, the International Energy Agency does at least believe "that the market is already very close to balance."
What's more worrying, and where the IEA's number-crunchers differ sharply with their OPEC counterparts, is what happens next? Re-balancing is one thing, but the OPEC output cut was also meant to usher in a period when demand would start running ahead of supply. At that time inventories would be reduced.
It's here where there's a hell of a discordance between the two groups, and even within the IEA's own figures.
OPEC, which published its own monthly report a day before the IEA, paints a much less optimistic picture. It shows global oil inventories increasing by 430,000 barrels a day in the quarter just ended. No confusion there. The world is still over-supplied with oil, according to its biggest producer nations.


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Matthew Weiner Nominated for Outstanding Producer Award; January Jones Books TV Role
This week, Matthew Weiner is nominated for an outstanding producer award, while January Jones books a new TV role. Plus, The Washington Post is thankful for Teyonah Parris. Read on for more:
• Matthew Weiner is nominated for outstanding producer by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
• TVLine reports that January Jones has joined the cast of FOX's The Last Man on Earth, a comedy featuring Will Forte.
• The Washington Post is thankful for Teyonah Parris, whose Mad Men performance "frequently makes what could be a token role about a token black secretary something more complicated."
• RadioTimes is thankful for Mad Men, describing it as "still the smartest and most literary show out there."
• Variety says that the U.S. rights to Bluebird, a movie starring John Slattery, have been acquired by Factory 25.
• According to Dread Central, Preservation, a movie starring Aaron Staton, will be released in both limited theaters and VOD outlets on Jan. 9.
• InStyle has the news that Janie Bryant has designed a wedding shoe, a pump style shoe with a blue bow on the heel.
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It has been shown both experimentally and by density functional theory calculations that the primary diffusing species during the epitaxial growth of TiN/TiN(001) are Ti and N adatoms together with TiNx complexes (x = 1, 2, 3), in which the dominant N-containing admolecule species depends upon the incident N/Ti flux ratio. Here, we employ classical molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations to probe the dynamics of TiNx (x = 1–3) admolecules on 8 × 8 atom square, single-atom-high TiN islands on TiN(001), as well as pathways for descent over island edges. The simulations are carried out at 1000 K, a reasonable epitaxial growth temperature. We find that despite their lower mobility on infinite TiN(001) terraces, both TiN and TiN2 admolecules funnel toward descending steps and are incorporated into island edges more rapidly than Ti adatoms. On islands, TiN diffuses primarily via concerted translations, but rotation is the preferred diffusion mechanism on infinite terraces. TiN2 migration is initiated primarily by rotation about one of the N admolecule atoms anchored at an epitaxial site. TiN admolecules descend from islands by direct hopping over edges and by edge exchange reactions, while TiN2 trimers descend exclusively by hopping. In contrast, TiN3 admolecules are essentially stationary and serve as initiators for local island growth. Ti adatoms are the fastest diffusing species on infinite TiN(001) terraces, but on small TiN/TiN(001) islands, TiN dimers provide more efficient mass transport. The overall results reveal the effect of the N/Ti precursor flux ratio on TiN(001) surface morphological evolution and growth modes.
This thesis concerns computer simulations, using classical molecular dynamics, of transport processes related to TiN(001) growth. It is motivated from the challenge to understand transport processes at the atomic scale responsible for crystal and film growth and their different growth modes. Not even the most advanced experimental techniques are capable of resolving the sub ps time and sub-Ångström length-scales required. TiN belongs to an important class of transition metal nitrides, and is chosen here as a model system for such fundamental studies of surface transport. The simulations show that on terraces, Ti adatoms exhibit much higher migration rates than N adatoms. For TiNx complexes, as x increases from 1 to 3, rotation becomes increasingly more prevalent than translation. This leads to surprisingly high mobilities of TiN2 trimers, higher than that of N adatoms. On islands, Ti adatoms experience a significant funneling effect, resulting in short residence times. TiN dimers and TiN2 trimers exhibit surprisingly high diffusivities and residence times even shorter than Ti adatoms. TiN3 trimers, however, are essentially stationary on both terraces and islands and serve as nucleation clusters. Overall, Ti adatoms and TiN2 trimers are the most efficient carriers of Ti and N atoms with and between TiN(001) surface layers. These results indicate that Ti/N flux ratios close to one promote layer-by-layer TiN(001) growth, whereas lower ratios result in surface roughening. Understanding of these phenomena enables experimentalists to tune the growth processes to optimize material properties.
In this thesis I also carry out theoretical calculations to investigate the role of configurational order on the metallic sublattice in relation to toughness enhancement. My studies set out from the recent understanding that the toughness of transition metal nitrides can be enhanced by tuning the valence electron concentration. My results show that ordered alloys exhibit lower resistance to shear deformations than disordered alloys, and higher resistance to tensile deformation. The lower resistance to shear deformations is explained by the formation of fully bonding electronic states perpendicular to the applied stress. Using the Pugh-Pettifor criterion, it is shown that while configurational order has an effect on the ductility of the material, this is primarily governed by the valence electron concentration.
The atomic-scale dynamical processes at play during film growth cannot be resolved by even the most advanced experimental methods. As such, computational methods, and chiefly classical molecular dynamics, are the only available research tools to study these processes. The investigation of key dynamical processes during thin film growth yields a deeper understanding of the film growth evolution, ultimately allowing for the optimization of experimental parameters and tailoring of film properties. This thesis details the study of fundamental surface dynamics processes, and the role played by primary diffusing species, during TiN film growth, here employed as a model system for transition metal nitrides in general. It is found that Ti adatoms and TiN2 admolecules are the fastest diffusing species, and the species which most rapidly descend from islands onto the growing film. Thus, they are the main contributors and players in driving the layer-by-layer growth mode. TiN3 admolecules, in contrast, are essentially stationary and thereby promote multilayer growth. Large-scale growth simulations reveal that tailoring the incident N/Ti ratio and N kinetic energy significantly affects the growth mode and film microstructure.
The mechanical properties of ternary transition metal nitride and carbide alloys, investigated using density functional theory, are also discussed herein, in comparison to recent experimental results. By optimizing the valence electron concentration in these compounds, the occupation of shear-compliant d‑t2g electronic states can be maximized. The investigation of M1M2N alloys, where M1 = Ti or V and M2 = W or Mo, with different structures demonstrates that this optimization leads to enhanced ductility, and thereby toughness, in transition metal nitride alloys regardless of the degree of ordering on the metal sublattice. Estimations based on the calculation of the mechanical properties of the corresponding M1M2C transition metal carbide alloys indicate that these materials remain brittle. However, charge density analysis and calculations of stress/strain curves reveal features commonly associated with ductile materials.


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Schweiss was honored to complete two rocket hangar doors at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. The hangar doors, six and seven stories tall respectively, are two of the largest in company history. The two great big doors were ordered to Launch Complex 39A, where reusable rockets are launched, landed on oceanic drone ships and returned to Cape Canaveral for reuse.
Kennedy Space Center, on the southeast coast of Florida, provides access to a wide range of low and medium inclination orbits frequently used by communications and Earth-observing satellites and supply missions to the ISS (International Space Station). The launch site also allows access to geostationary orbits, as well as departures to the moon and other interplanetary destinations for space tourism and entrepreneurship.
The 150 mph wind rated doors at Kennedy Space Center are quite an accomplishment, even when eclipsed by the astonishing spacecraft. The larger door is 90 ft. wide x 60 ft. tall, equipped with auto-latches, four bottom-drive 480 volt, 3-phase motors and 31 patented Schweiss lift straps. The door requires tremendous power to lift, weighing in at 53,000 lbs. The taller 40 ft. wide x 69 ft. tall door required three powerful motors, 16 liftstraps, five internal trusses and one external truss to lift.
The Schweiss engineering team spared no expense to make sure that every launch from the hangar is a success. That's the type of planning and control you can expect from Schweiss Doors.


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Nintendo Switch News and Latest Updates From Nintendo Direct 2017.
April 15, 2017 by Staff
Filed under News, Opinion, Tech/Internet, Weekly Columns
(ThyBlackMan.com) On April 12, 2017, Nintendo hosted Nintendo Direct event and unveiled some new Nintendo Switch updates. The company's Deputy General Manager of Entertainment Planning & Development division, Yoshiaki Koizumi shared the news about the upcoming games and the future of Nintendo's latest gaming console, Switch. Here's what Nintendo announced during the event.
Standalone Nintendo Switch Dock Release
The standalone Dock release is scheduled for May 19. According to Nintendo, players can hook up the extra dock to a television set. Players can easily switch between the two without needing to unplug the main setup.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
The game is coming on Switch on April 28. Nintendo shared some Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gameplay details suggesting that it will bring all new battle modes, new characters, karts and tracks.
With an online mode, the game enables players to join a race against another Switch player. There's also a battle mode where the players can choose different battles. Switch users can also play with their friends for a more personalized gameplay.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe enables players to play worldwide, in the region and even with the friends. Creating or entering the tournament is also possible. To celebrate the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launch, Nintendo will be hosting 2 tournaments.
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
On May 26, the game will hit Switch. Nintendo confirmed that the game will feature an HD graphics mode and those who love playing the original pixelated graphics would not be disappointed as the game will be having a settings option for the same on the Switch. The game will also include two new fighters, Violent Ken and Evil Ryu.
Many More Nintendo Switch Games Coming This Year
Nintendo is gearing up to bring many games throughout the year. Minecraft is coming on May 11 and other than that, there are many new games coming on the platform this year. Just close to this release, Samurai Showdown is also making its way to the Switch.
Sonic Forces is expected to arrive during the holiday season and in summer, Sonic Mania, Battle Chasers Nightwar and Sine Mora EX are also coming to the platform.
Switch owners can expect Project Mekkura, Disgaea 5 Complete and Fate/Extella this year. Currently, the demo for Puyo Puyo Tetris is already available on the company's eShop and soon it will arrive as a full game.
Players will be able to buy Monopoly sometime during fall 2017 and Payday 2 release is also slated for this year. But before that, you'd not want to miss the summer release of Namco Museum. Details about some of the Switch games are already out, but the information about the game such as Project Mekkura is still under wrap.
During the recent Nintendo Direct event where the company highlighted many upcoming Nintendo Switch games, Nintendo also confirmed many titles for its 3DS console. As Nintendo has a strong lineup of games for the year, the details on the upcoming titles will soon come out as the company has several events lined up before the year ends.
Meanwhile, Nintendo has also announced via HackerOne that whoever finds vulnerabilities in Switch will be given a reward ranging from US$100 to 20,000. The announcement confirms that the company is looking for piracy issues in its console. This is undoubtedly a bold move by Nintendo that not only shows that the developers are very confident about the console's security and customer safety, but it also opens the door for building a more secure environment for Switch owners.
According to Nintendo, it will reward the person who will first report the issue to the company and the reporter will be required to provide functional codes to prove the claims.
This is not the first time when Nintendo is taking such steps. The company did the same for its 3DS console also. So ultimately, Nintendo Switch is expected to deliver better gaming experience to the customers with the company's commitment to quality and strong lineup of games.
Staff Writer; Corey Shaw
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If you launched your own e-shopping website, in order to develop your activity on the asian market, you have a strong interest in choosing a server based in Asia. This will enables you to provide a quality service to your customers, and above all, to stay at the heart of the international business activity. And for a quality service whatever happens, choose a dedicated server based in Hong Kong.
Why choose a server in Hong Kong ?
Nowadays the asian market represents billions of dollars. It is one of the biggest markets in the entire world, in many sectors. That is why choosing a server based in Hong Kong to host your website is a winning strategy. Your website will be at the heart of one of the biggest finance hubs, that will enable your customers to access to your service regardless of their location. Moreover, the servers which are based in Hong Kong are offshore. So they bring some great advantages. The Koddos society is specialized in offshore dedicated servers. Its Hong Kong Datacenter is one of the more powerful and reliable datacenters of the market. It is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the technicians team, who are in charge of the maintenance of the servers and are ready to react at the slightest sign of problem. The dedicated server enables you to provide a quality, continuous service on your website.
An offshore server has many advantages
More and more people choose an offshore server for their website. This kind of hosting enables you to remain anonymous : your personal informations never are revealed to anyone, and you never have to communicate them when you subscribe to the hosting service. That is why an offshore server is an additional protection against potential ddos attacks. Moreover, it enables the people who live in a country concerned by the censorship to manage their business freely, cause the server it outside the local authorities' control.


text: How can you come to understand something as quickly and as deeply as possible? Moreover, how can you ensure that you never forget what you have learned? The following study techniques explained by Ken Farrell are applicable to the learning of any college course. [hr]The more deeply you understand an idea, the easier it is to remember it. So, what is the fastest way to understand something? Trying to fill in the pieces of a jigsaw is much more difficult without the overall picture to guide you. Understanding will come faster if you have a general outline of the material you are going to learn. If you are sitting down to read a chapter, skim through the headings contained within it to determine the key concepts you have to learn before diving into the body of the text. The first time you encounter information will be the least efficient stage in coming to a deep understanding of it, so do not bother analysing every word in a text, and if you are watching or listening to a lecture online speed up the rate at which it is being played.[br]Once you have covered the material you are going to learn, now you can focus on deeply understanding it. Even if you can accurately state that the French phrase "J'ai donné" makes use of the "perfect tense," or that a famous philosopher was a "transcendental idealist," do you really know what these terms mean? Even if you can correctly apply a mathematical formula, do you know why it works? Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman argues that "you must not fool yourself; and you are the easiest person to fool." Use the Feynman technique to test whether or not you really do understand something. Write the concept (literally anything) which you are trying to understand, or believe yourself to understand, at the top of a page. Very simply, explain this concept as if you were explaining it to someone who had never heard it before e.g. to a 5-year-old.[br]See if you can complete these five steps (Use the "ADEPT" acronym to help you remember them): Formulate an Analogy; draw a Diagram; give an Example; describe the idea in Plain English; and finally write the Technical Term. It will be obvious to yourself if you are struggling to explain a certain step in a maths equation, the effects of an enzyme, why an economic theory was formulated etc. When you determine exactly what you don't understand, then return to your lecture notes or books. Once you have gathered the necessary information, repeat the Feynman technique. The benefits of this technique are mind-blowing. Every time you pick up a book it will be with the goal of understanding a specific piece of information. Your study periods will skyrocket in efficiency.[br]So you have proven to yourself that you understand an idea, but how do you remember it? Humans have massive visuospatial regions in the brain, so information is much easier to remember if you can visualise it to yourself. Imagine that you are studying psychology. You want to remember that the brain's "limbic system" contains the "hippocampus" and the "amygdala." Seeing as the most efficient way for you to remember this information is to somehow visualise it to yourself, how do you go about doing it? The crazier your visualisation is (make it outrageous!), the more memorable it will be – this is known as the Von Restorff effect. Similarly, the more senses you utilise in your visualisation, the higher the probability of recall – this is known as multiple-sense encoding. Imagine your good friend Amy (or TV personality Amy Huberman) riding on a giant hippo while doing the limbo. These ridiculous but simple associations are fantastic memory aids: Amy = amygdala, hippo = hippocampus, limbo = limbic system.[br]Hear Amy groan as she struggles to pass underneath the limbo bar, imagine what the texture of the hippo's skin would feel like to touch, smell the hippo's odour (or Amy's, maybe she smells awful!) and cement the scene in your mind by adding in as many details as you can. Not only is this information now easy to remember, but you will find it hard to forget that the limbic system contains both the amygdala and the hippocampus. Remember, you are the director of an avant-garde movie with a limitless budget, and the movie is in your mind.[br]Visualising information is the ultimate cramming tool. For instance, you can visualise all of the points in an essay by constructing a wild sequence of characters and events in your mind. However, if you want to commit what you are studying to long-term memory you have to do one more thing: repeat or re-visualise this information in your brain over time. Free flashcard software "Anki" is an incredible study aid. Anki has wonderful algorithms for determining how often you should repeat information you are trying to commit to long-term memory based on how easy you find it to recall – try it out![br]To recap: Attending lectures and reading books will allow you to cover the material you are going to learn, but these activities are surprisingly inefficient by themselves if you want to deeply understand information and commit it to memory. Use the Feynman technique to ensure every time you open a book it is with the goal of understanding a specific piece of information: whatever it is that you are finding difficult to explain using jargon-free language, simple examples, pictures and analogies. Once you have put in the time to deeply understand an idea by using the Feynman technique (note that the Feynman technique can also be used as a revision tool before exams), remember it by visualising the information to yourself. Make the visualisations as wild as you can, and finally, repeat these visualisations in your mind over time and you will never forget what you have learned.


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Friday, June 26, 2009
Watercolor painted with Derwent Aquatone
A little landscape taking color directly from the Aquatone WC stick/pencil with a #5 brush..140 lb cold press watercolor paper in art card size....3.5 by 2.5 inches. Only 3 primary colors used:... Indigo, Crimson Lake, and Middle Chrome.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
More mini watercolors .. and photos
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Up to the ages of 5, our Ballet programme is based on action steps, mime and the very basics of ballet. This will ensure the children develop the correct technique to progress in not only their ballet classes but other forms of dance as well
Ages 4 to 7 years, your dancers will start to focus on the exercises and techniques that will help them develop their ballet skills. As well as developing their creativity through following famous ballets and fairy tales to create dance pieces.
From the age of 8 upwards, dancers will begin to have a much stronger understanding of what ballet is about. They will continue to improve their performance and technical skills. As we know even the professionals do this every day! We still look at fairy tales – but not just the traditional, we look at modern interpretations too – a create way to bring the wide range of styles of ballet to their class!
Ballet may seem a more disciplined class, each class begins with exercises at the barre or in the centre as appropriate. Followed by movement across the floor, partner work, choreographed pieces and an opportunity for improvisation.
For class – our school leotard and ballet tights should be worn with pink leather ballet shoes. A ballet cardigan may be worn.
Hair should be in a bun if possible, and no jewellery is to be worn in class.
Please bring a bottle of water for a drink and a healthy snack for the end of class, plus lots of energy and smiles!
Whether they may come for fun or with a more serious mind, Ballet classes will offer something for everyone as they continue on their dance journey.
Dancers are given the opportunity to take part in I.D.T.A. grade examinations to show their progression.


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What is the difference between a 408(k) plan and a 401(k) plan?
Both 408(k) and 401(k) refer to sections of the Internal Revenue Code that outline employer-sponsored retirement plans. Both provide guidelines that allow employees to set aside a portion of their paychecks before taxes are taken out to be invested in a special account meant for retirement. That's where these two alphanumeric codes diverge. While "401(k)" has become synonymous with a widely available retirement savings vehicle, 408(k) sets the guidelines for what is more commonly known as the Simplified Employee Pension or SEP IRA.
What is a SEP IRA?
According to the IRS, "SEPs were authorized by Congress in 1978 to provide employers with a simpler, less complicated manner of providing retirement benefits for themselves and their employees. Section 408(k)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code defines a SEP as an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity with respect to certain participation, contribution, discrimination and withdrawal requirements being met."
SEP IRAs may be contributed to by employers even when the employee is also the employer. Employers may make tax-deductible contributions on behalf of eligible employees — including the business owner — to their SEP IRAs. The employer is allowed a tax deduction for plan contributions that do not exceed the statutory limit.
SEP vs. 401(k)
The main thing that sets the SEP IRA apart from the 401(k) is that is it only available to companies with 25 employees or less. Here are some other contrasts.
- Only employers contribute to a SEP. Unlike a 401(k), employee contributions are not permitted.
- Contribution limits. Employers can contribute as much as 25% of an employee's salary, but no more than $56,000 (up from $55,000 in 2018). No catch-up contributions are allowed, as SEP IRAs are funded only with employer contributions.
- Minimum earnings to be eligible. The minimum compensation threshold remains unchanged at $600.
- Maximum compensation that can be considered. No matter how much an employee earns, the annual compensation limit that can be considered in determining contributions to a SEP IRA, according to the IRS is $280,000 in 2019, up from $275,000 in 2018.
- Contributions are not taxed. As with a 401(k), employer contributions to your section 408(k) plans are not taxed.
- Who can have one. Employees of companies with 25 employees or less. People who are self-employed who would normally not have access to a retirement plan.
- Contributions can be tax deductible. Self-employed people with a SEP IRA can deduct the cost of a certain amount of personal contributions to their retirement funds from their income.
- Employer contributions under a SEP IRA must be equal. That means that each eligible employee must get the same percentage of their salary contributed to the plan.
- Contribution deadlines follow the IRA deadlines. For example, 2018 contributions to a SEP IRA may be made until April 15, 2019, or until October with a filing extension. With a 401(k), the deadline is the calendar year.
- Employees, not employers, manage a SEP account. Overall, 401(k) plans are a bit more complex than SEPs, with many investment options set up by the employer including mutual funds that contain stocks, bonds and commodities. With a SEP IRA, the employer does not set up investment options. Instead the employee manages the SEP IRA on their own, choosing their own investments. Employers essentially put money (not real property, which is forbidden) into individual employee individual retirement accounts (IRA). This saves the employer from paying administration costs like they would for 401(k) management.
- Penalties for early withdrawal. Both types of accounts are inaccessible without a penalty until the account holder reaches the qualified age of 59½.
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Environmentally friendly? Tick. Stunning Australian timbers? Tick. Great new installation method? Double Tick.
Whether you're after a sleek and contemporary floor or more of an aged, rustic style our recycled floorboards have a classic charm that can't be found in new wood floors.
Not to be confused with reclaimed flooring, which has been lifted from existing floors, our recycled flooring is sawn down from larger recycled or salvaged timbers sourced from all kinds of old buildings and structures.
All our flooring is processed at our mill in the Northern Rivers area, just south of Casino and shipped Australia wide.
(See more on timber salvage sources below).
Floorboard options.
Our recycled hardwood floorboards are supplied in 80 x 14 mm, square dressed planks in random lengths. These boards can be supplied as sanded, part sanded or wire brushed for either an antique, rustic or more contemporary style.
You can oil them, stain them, whitewash or clear coat them to get just the finish to suit your style and décor.
Classed as "Non-structural", they must be attached (top nailed) to a substructure such a ply on concrete, yellow tongue or an existing timber floor.
Price: $127 per m2. / $10.16 per LM. Discounts apply for orders over 40m2. POA.
You can oil them, stain them, whitewash or clear coat them to get just the finish to suit your style and décor.
Classed as "Non-structural", they must be attached (top nailed) to a substructure such a ply on concrete, yellow tongue or an existing timber floor.
Price: $127 per m2. / $10.16 per LM. Discounts apply for orders over 40m2. POA.
'Easy Lay' floor panels.
All of our floor styles are now available in our 'Easy Lay' panel system.
Just like our immensely popular Modular Walls, we can now supply our floorboards on a 2400 x 240mm, 1200 x 240mm and 600 x 240mm ply backed system.
You can lay a floor in a fraction of the time - perfect for commercial jobs and well within reach of DIY-ers.
Simply glue or nail the panels to the subfloor, nailing each one in place through the overlapping ply lip. Depending on the style you choose, they may still need to be sanded and coated on site.
Supplied as 14mm hardwood on 12mm ply.
Price: $175 per m2. Discounts apply for orders over 40m2. POA.
Timber Species
The timbers we use for our flooring are some of the hardest in the world. Couple this with their many years of seasoning and you've got one tough floor!
Our flooring is supplied as mixed hardwoods or categorised into 'mixed creams' or 'mixed reds'.
Even within a single species there can be a diverse range of colours, so timbers such as Brushbox, Spotted Gum and Grey Ironbark could fall into either creams or reds depending on their colour.
(We do not supply single species).
Note that as a general rule, longer lead times may apply to a 'reds' selection.
Here are some of the main timbers we use:
The hardness rating of timber species is measured by the Janka test, which tests the resistance of the timber to indentation.
Timber sources
With thousands of tonnes per year of timber going to landfill, we are proud to be playing a small role in reducing those figures.
The timbers we recycle come from various sources, predominantly from the demolition of structures such as houses and buildings as well as from the salvage of railway sleepers and transoms.
The construction timbers we mill generally come from framework such as floor joists, ceiling trusses and wall frames sourced from demolition contractors, salvage yards and even home builders.
The majority of these timbers come from in and around the Sydney region, and are then transported to our milling facility near Casino in Northern NSW.
The railway sleepers come from far and wide – mainly within NSW and South East QLD sourced mainly from companies with railway maintenance contracts.
Old Growth Timber
The qualities found in reclaimed timbers are unlike those of new timber.
Logging from 'Old Growth' Forests is fortunately now a thing of the past, but the use of these beautiful timbers is not.
The density, stability and durability we see in reclaimed timbers is just as much about the time they have been seasoned as about the timber that was used in the first place, especially where hardwood is concerned.
Older trees produce stronger timber. It's that simple.
Years of seasoning on top is an added bonus.
Not only have our recycled timbers come from structures that are already decades old, the timbers used to construct them would have come from potentially century old trees.
It is entirely feasible that the timber in our humble floorboards was around long before our cities were... Now there's something to think about.