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Becky Askew said she had great female role models growing up, including her mother, Lillian Askew, who was active in the community garden clubs and church work.
“As I was preparing my thoughts for accepting this award, I realized I’ve had so many women in my life who have embraced leadership roles,” Becky Askew said.
That experience, in turn, has prompted Becky Askew to encourage professional women at PRCC to embrace leadership responsibilities at the school.
Lewis, who has served as PRCC president since 2000, said the school has seen a definite shift in more and more women taking over the reins of leadership.
There is no better of example of this than Becky Askew’s own office, where she is flanked by directors Seal and Brenda Wells (institutional research).
“She’s been a leader in that area,” said Seal, referring to the cultivation of female leadership at the school.
Seal added that she continues to be a beneficiary of Becky Askew’s mentoring.
Becky Askew, PRCC vice president of planning and institutional research, will retire at the end of the academic year. “It’s very fitting that she was selected for this award,” PRCC President William Lewis said, regarding the 2014 Mildred Bulpitt Woman of the Year award.
Chairwoman of annual Women’s Health Symposium steering committee; SACSCOC accreditation liaison; coordinates strategic planning efforts, personnel evaluations, grant proposals and professional development activities for faculty, staff and administrators.
Autodesk is quietly using Amazon Web Services to harness computing power for its desktop applications and exploring software as a service business models.
The company, best known for its simulation and computer aided drafting applications, has been posting a bevy of experiments on its Autodesk Labs site.
On July 27, Autodesk will post a technology preview for its Inventor 3-D design application. The Inventor Optimization Technology Preview will allow designers and engineers to us simulation tools from their desktops via the Web.
Grant Rochelle, director of digital simulation at Autodesk Manufacturing, says these tools will leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the background. Engineers and designers are trying to ask key questions about their designs, notably whether they will bend or break and how they behave under certain conditions. "By designing Inventor into the cloud our users can consider many alternatives," said Rochelle. "These compute simulations have been restricted on the desktop due to the hardware limitations."
Autodesk's cloud experiments are all running on AWS, but Rochelle said the company has a "neutral stance" and is open to other providers. "We are seeing great performance for heavy applications," said Rochelle. "Many of our customers don't have access to that computing capacity."
Rochelle said that Autodesk plans to give the users one point of billing contact and deal with AWS in the background.
Project Neon is an online rendering service for folks that design buildings.
Project Cumulus is a SaaS-based technology preview for design engineers and plastics specialists that use Autodesk Moldflow Insight software. Coming in the future.
Project Butterfly is an online CAD editor.
Project Photofly is a service that allows you to create 3D models from digital camera pictures.
"These experiments are very challenging to do without cloud computing purely because of the capacity required," said Rochelle. With the cloud we can solve pretty big problems much faster than you would on the desktop. What we get from Amazon can't be touched on the desktop.
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When children get blood tests, they may feel less pain if they watch TV cartoons during the procedure.
Italian doctors report that news in the Archives of Disease in Childhood's online first edition.
The doctors included Carlo Bellieni, MD, of the University of Siena's neonatal intensive care unit.
Bellieni's team studied 69 children who were 7-12 years old. The kids were due to get blood tests.
The children were split into three groups. Their mothers were in the room with them during the blood tests.
One group of kids started watching TV cartoons at least two minutes before the blood test started and throughout the procedure.
Another group of children didn't watch TV. Instead, their mothers tried to distract them during the blood test.
For comparison, the third group of kids didn't watch TV or interact with their moms during the blood test.
Right after the blood test, the children rated how painful the test had been. The mothers also rated their child's pain during the test.
The lowest pain ratings came from the kids who had watched TV during the test -- and from their moms.
The other two groups had higher pain ratings, with little difference between the two groups.
In school-aged kids, watching TV may reduce distress "more than maternal attempts at distraction" during blood tests, write Bellieni and colleagues.
But the researchers aren't banishing moms to the waiting room.
"This does not mean that the mothers' presence is negative," Bellieni's team writes. "Although it does not reduce pain, the children will recall that they were not left alone on a stressful occasion."
SOURCES: Bellieni, C. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Aug. 17, 2006; Online First edition. News release, BMJ Specialist Journals.
A Kinder, Gentler Tea Party?
Spending an evening with Mark Skoda, the president of the Memphis Tea Party and a force in both the statewide and national Tea Party movements, can be instructive.
Skoda was the featured speaker at last week's regular monthly meeting of the East Shelby County Republican Club, and I went to the Pickering Center to hear him out.
For those who fear that there is a nativist or even racist edge to the Tea Party's efforts, Skoda arguably provided some grist for that mill.
There's this: "We now have the king of Saudi Arabia. He came into the United States today. Did you know that? Do you know why he came into America?" A medical problem, Skoda noted.
"He wanted the very best health care. I wonder if he got his junk touched. But you as an American, as a white citizen, as an old person, get your junk touched every day, but the Saudi king can come over here and gets right through customs and gets into his private jet with all his gold stuff and enjoys all the benefit of our health-care system."
And, for those who see Tea Partiers as barn burners in general, there's this: "We're at the point now where a little anarchy can go a long way. Not suggesting violence, but we have to no longer trust our federal government."
But Skoda, who acknowledges having gone all out to see conservative purist Glen Casada of Franklin named speaker of the new Republican-dominated state House of Representatives, was restrained in his statements about the surprise nominee of the GOP House caucus, the more moderate Beth Harwell of Nashville.
"I hope that she'll be true now to her conservative values and evidence that in her appointments," Skoda said, and he professed to be equally open-minded about Governor-elect Bill Haslam of Knoxville, also regarded as more moderate than Skoda's erstwhile candidate, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey.
And in what may have been Skoda's most surprising comment of the night, he declined to support calls for abolishing the state's current requirements for gun-carry permits. This was an issue that during the late campaign bedeviled Haslam, who told a persistent gun-rights advocate he would sign legislation doing away with permits and then spent two weeks trying to modify that position.
Skoda was forthright. He said he favored the continuation of permits based upon approved training (though with "fees as low as possible").
"Firearms have responsibility just like a car," he said, and while the Second Amendment "absolutely" guaranteed the right to purchase and own a weapon, a "responsible process" was in order.
Skoda, who had much to do with last February's national Tea Party Convention in Nashville, keynoted by Sarah Palin, said the next one would be held in Memphis, April 9th to 11th, and would feature such luminaries of the right as Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.
• Back in October, a coalition of Shelby County commissioners combined to put the county commission on record as opposing the then pending November 2nd referendum on city/county consolidation.
This was the same county commission which (though differently constituted) had combined with the Memphis City Council a year earlier to create and subsidize the Metro Charter Commission, which developed and proposed the referendum in the first place.
And, of course, the voters on November 2nd pretty much obliterated the consolidation concept. The referendum lost by a majority of 85 percent in the outer county, and though it passed muster in the city, it was only by the barest of margins, 51 percent. Decisive? Enough to put the issue on hold for the generation that usually passes before wiped-out consolidation proponents decide to try again?
Nah! Not by Steve Mulroy, the intrepid and decidedly un-bashful commissioner from District 5, an East Memphis-based swing district on the seam of city and county. Mulroy believes that what was defeated so badly was not consolidation per se but only the somewhat feckless variety that was proposed by the 2009-2010 version of a charter commission, one that was basically put together by Memphis mayor A C Wharton, who transitioned from county mayor to city mayor during its formation and thereby was able to name all its members.
So Mulroy, less than a month after consolidation was rejected, has a brand-new resolution proposing that the county commission (yep, the same county commission that said no in October) give its approval to — are you sitting down? — a "Resolution in Support of the Concept of Consolidation," which would provide for a new charter commission.
The measure was scheduled for discussion in committee this Wednesday and, presumably, will be taken to the county commission's regular biweekly public meeting on Monday for a vote.
Mulroy professes to believe that the commission will be open-minded, particularly his fellow Democrats — several of whom joined the majority of the commission's Republicans in October to reject consolidation.
At the time there was an ongoing backlash against the referendum among African Americans in the inner city, and both Sidney Chism, the current commission chairman, and James Harvey joined newcomer Justin Ford in voting no to consolidation, along with GOP members Wyatt Bunker, Terry Roland, Heidi Shafer, and Chris Thomas — the latter three being new members representing suburban areas outside the city.
Mulroy's resolution suggests that the commission's October vote, like that of the voters in November, "could be misinterpreted as opposition to metro consolidation generally," which is described as "appropriate and inevitable."
The resolution proposes that "the city council and county commission have greater input into the selection of members of any appointed Metro Charter Commission"; that "[g]reater efforts are made to achieve racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity among any charter commission appointees"; and that "[a]ppropriate efforts are made to avoid any undue influence of corporate interests on the process."
Lastly, the resolution declares, "The issue of school consolidation, if still applicable, should be given weight equal to that of any other major issue in charter commission deliberations."
That, of course, is an allusion to the currently raging controversy between the city and county school boards, which seem locked in a race to transform the relationship between the two school systems of Shelby County. The Shelby County school board may seek legislative approval in January for a separate county school district for county schools, while the city board is considering a proposal to surrender its charter, a move which, if approved by city voters in a referendum, would automatically consolidate the two systems.
One of the ironies of the current situation is that the issue of school consolidation, carefully sundered from the November 2nd vote, is now front and center, and Mulroy's more inclusive resolution clearly acknowledges the issue as relevant to his proposal for a new Metro Charter Commission.
Mulroy's resolution had already prompted a response by one prominent opponent of consolidation, Tom Guleff of Save Shelby County, an organization formed to combat the consolidation effort.
"The pro-consolidation forces are back. To be honest, the cult-like fascination with consolidation is creepy. After being soundly defeated by an 85 percent margin in the county, the losing side wants to rewrite the narrative of its demise and bring it back to life. I could understand the current effort, if the vote was close, but it wasn't. This small group appears disconnected from political reality. This is just plain weird."
The fat, as they say, is once again in the fire.
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Dyson to stop making wired vacuum cleaners after the launch of its latest intelligent machine, the Cyclone V10.
In what may be a sign of things to come, Dyson said it is no longer going to produce wired vacuum machines with mains leads connecting them to walls.
The news came as the UK manufacturer – which also plans to enter the electric car business – revealed its newest machine, the Dyson Cyclone V10 cord-free vacuum.
The digital motor V10 is almost half the weight of its predecessor, the digital motor V8, and is Dyson’s fastest and most power-dense digital vacuum motor, spinning at up to 125,000 revs per minute, or 2,000 times a second.
The new machine, which will cost around £400, will come with intelligent sensors that can sense altitude, barometric pressure, temperature and can even figure out the weather.
Using its pressure sensors, it knows whether you are upstairs or downstairs. It is so sensitive that it knows the altitude difference between the table and the floor.
It uses this information to make minute adjustments to deliver constant performance at different air pressures. It aims to give the same performance whether you are in a high-altitude city like Denver, or a low-lying city like Amsterdam.
The new motor allowed engineers to rotate the cyclones and bin assembly through 90 degrees, into an in-line format. This creates a linear airflow path, improving the number of air watts of suction by 20pc.
Along with improved electronics and battery management system, the new machine can vacuum up to 60 minutes in mode 1 because it uses a trigger rather than an on/off switch.
In many ways, the company is evolving machine technology and changing the way we thought of household machines.
CEO and founder James Dyson said that the evolution of wireless and battery technology signals the death knell of full-size vacuum machines.
“‘A strong-performing machine starts with an efficient motor,” he explained.
“The Dyson digital motor V10 is Dyson’s most advanced. It’s what enabled us to entirely change the format of a vacuum cleaner, to achieve Dyson’s best ever cord-free machine performance.
“The Dyson Cyclone V10 vacuum is so light, so powerful, it can deep-clean anywhere in your home.
“It is the reason why I’ve stopped developing full-size vacuums,” he said.
Dyson has also launched its new Pure Cool purifying fan, which can tell users how it is cleaning the room.
The new LCD display on the fan identifies pollutants in the room in real time and can then react automatically using a unique Dyson algorithm.
The fan also comes with Dyson Air Multiplier technology and a new 350-degree oscillation system that can project purified air around the whole room to purify every corner.
BANGKOK – A billionaire construction tycoon has been convicted by a Thai court on charges related to a high-profile poaching case last year but was found not guilty of possessing the carcass of an endangered black panther seen in photos that had sparked the public outcry.
The Thong Pha Phum Provincial Court sentenced Premchai Karnasuta to 16 months in prison Tuesday for possessing the carcass of an endangered Kajij pheasant and possessing firearms in public areas. He has been released on bail.
Premchai was arrested last February after park rangers found that he and three of his company's employees had set up camp at the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, where they were found with guns and animals carcasses.
The three others were also sentenced Tuesday.
Zakaria has said that India calling Kashmir as its essential part is a violation of United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) resolutions.
Talking to PTV news, the Spokesman said, Pakistan would always resist this notion at every legal and diplomatic forum.
The Spokesman said Pakistan’s main concern was the human rights violation in Kashmir and regretted that the international community remained oblivious about the situation.
The Spokesman emphasized that the recent wave of protest in Kashmir must not be taken as a fresh movement of resistance.
which over 0.1 million (One hundred thousand) Kashmiris have lost their lives on the hands of Indian security forces.
resistance movement and termed it an internal drive of Kashmir’s younger generation against the atrocities of Indian security forces which they are suffering for the last 26 years.
“According to its policy, the government of Pakistan has always been registering its protest through their envoys at every legal and diplomatic forum,” he added.
He called upon the international community and media to support the Kashmir issue and play their respective roles in highlighting the ongoing atrocities in Indian-held Kashmir.
Pakistan and India, Zakaria said the resumption process had faced a delay due to ongoing situation in Kashmir.