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Here's something you don't see every day -- the continuing brouhaha between Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL ) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT ) being a notable exception. South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Company (NYSE: HMY ) has announced a hostile takeover bid to acquire fellow South African miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI ) . The transaction, if it takes place, would be an all-stock acquisition, with Harmony issuing 1.275 new shares in payment for each share of Gold Fields. The deal would value Gold Fields at more than $8 billion. Harmony is currently the world's sixth-largest gold miner, and, if it acquires Gold Fields, the resulting merged company would be the world's largest by both production and reserves. However, the same day it received Harmony's proposal, Gold Fields' board of directors unanimously rejected Harmony's bid as too low. Gold Fields also gave the corporate equivalent of a "harrumph" at Harmony's suggestion that its offer was contingent on Gold Fields canceling its already-announced acquisition of 70% of Canada's Iamgold (AMEX: IAG ) . Gold Fields proposed to combine Iamgold with its own international operations to create a new "Gold Fields International" subsidiary. In sum, by all indications, Gold Fields' board has no intention of either supporting Harmony's offer or renouncing its own acquisition of Iamgold. There's at least one company out there (in addition to Harmony, that is) that hopes the deal goes through, however. Regular Fool readers may recall that, way back in March, I wrote about Russian metals mining conglomerate Norilsk Nickel (OTC BB: NILSY) and how it paid nearly $1.2 billion to purchase a 20% stake in Gold Fields. That purchase valued Gold Fields at $6 billion in total. Despite all indications that Gold Fields' board is not feeling receptive to Harmony's offer, the very fact that the offer was made has helped to boost Norilsk's stake in Gold Fields to a 17% "paper value" gain. And should the deal go through, that will make Norilsk a cool 33% -- not at all a bad return on its investment in this basically flat equities market. It's not at all surprising, therefore, that Norilsk intends to vote its shares in favor of Harmony's buyout. Whether it sells out somewhere along the way or sticks around for a stake in the new world's largest gold company, Norilsk wins either way. For more 24-carat Foolish writing, read: Fool contributorRich Smithhas.

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Gala Casino Announces Winter Online Promo Christmas has come early at Gala online casino. Players can freebies every day on the Winter Wonderland Wheel. If you are wondering what you have got for Christmas, then do not look under your tree. Just spin the wheel and wait for the mysterious prize. You could get Free Spins, Golden Chips or Cash. The Winter Wonderland Wheel online promotion will be available at Gala Casino daily from December 1 to December 31.The promotion is free to play and does not require a separate deposit or wager. Just spin the wheel and see what prize you get. If you are awarded a set of free spins, you will have to use it on the same day. The free spins will be awarded on the best selection of Playtech video slots. These are God of Storms, Batman & Catwoman Cash, Batman & The Joker Jewels, Batman vs Riddler, Batman vs Superman, Fortunes of the Fox, Frankie Dettori's Sporting Legend, Frankie Dettori's Magic Seven, Gladiator 2 Road To Rome, Gladiator JP, Halloween Fortune II, Jekyll & Hyde, King of Olympus (Zeus), Legend of the Jaguar, Man Of Steel, Miss Fortune, Nostradamus, Prince of Olympus, Robocop and Superman 2. You will be awarded a maximum of five free spins at a maximum value of £0.25 per spin. The second prize on offer is Golden Chip. You can receive a maximum three Golden Chips. The maximum value of this Golden Chips bonus is £5 per chip. Your Golden Chips will be credited automatically to the Bonus Balance section of your account. You must use your Golden Chips Bonus within one day of it being credited on the following casino games: RNG Premium Roulette, European Roulette, Premium Blackjack, Blackjack Multihand and any Live Roulette and Blackjack with minimum table bet up to £5. You may also win a cash bonus in the Gala Casino Winter Wonderland Wheel online promotion. The maximum cash bonus that you can receive is £25. Your cash bonus will be credited automatically to the Cash Balance section of your account. There is one downside to this online promotion. There is a "No prize" segment as well. If a player lands on that segment then no prize will be awarded for that day. But you can return the next day to spin the wheel again. Gala online casino is a leading gaming site for British and international players. It is licensed and regulated by both the United Kingdom Gambling Commission and the Government of Gibraltar. ...

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Fitzpatrick has had an extensive career working with musical pioneers like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, K’Naan and Ziggy Marley; top Hollywood filmmakers from the Weinstein Brothers to Francis Ford Coppola; and global thought leaders in the fields of business, media, branding and technology – using music and creativity as catalysts for cultivating higher levels of intelligence, innovation and compassion in the world. His production credits include soundtracks for over two-dozen films, countless music events, award-winning films and the sale of over six million albums. In addition to his work with Hollywood successes such as Friday, Jump In!, The Larry Sanders Show, Pirates of Silicon Valley and the billion-dollar Scary Movie franchise; the Detroit-born Fitzpatrick has worked extensively in the non-profit sector and healing arts. As Founder and Director of the non-profit EarthTones, Fitzpatrick focuses on creating media projects and large-scale campaigns that make a positive contribution to our world. Current EarthTones projects include Yoga For Hope – City of Hope’s national campaign promoting alternative and supportive therapies (music, yoga, meditation) for patients with life-threatening diseases, and Amazing – a film partnership between Shanghai Film Studios and the National Basketball Association (NBA), which helps promote health and fitness clinics for young fans and families throughout China. A delegate to the 2012 Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurs in Oxford, England, Fitzpatrick has consulted for numerous companies and spoken at forums and events around the globe including recent presentations for the Shanghai Film Academy, Singularity University (NASA) and TEDx-FIAP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has published several articles, including his WHY MUSIC series for the Huffington Post, which he is currently developing into a television special by the same name.’

https://www.yoganomics.net/to-inspire-a-revolution/

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4/13/2008 I Couldn't Resist. Part 24. I started the "I Couldn't Resist Series" a few years ago while I was an Art Director at an advertising agency in Portland, Maine. Unbillable hours are a drag at any job. Get a coffee, surf the web, talk to neighbor, get another coffee, repeat, repeat. This series became a way for me to explore new ideas and techniques during my downtime. Fast forward to now and I am running my own studio. There is no downtime. But the ideas keep coming to me, so today I made some time for this piece. It was fun. It's inspired by two great quotes I heard recently. "The journey is the destination." & "The harder I work, the luckier I get." Viva la Hustle. Click-Zoom. Newer Post Older Post

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DAY I COLLAPSED AT AFRIKA SHRINE-ADEWALW AYUBA Celebrated singer, Adewale Ayuba, would scarcely strike you as the quitessential Fuji crooner. Indeed, you will be pardoned if you mistaken the multiple award-winning star for a youthful corporate executive. Devoid of sleaze, street slang and arrogant swagger often flaunted by many practitioners of his chosen genre, Ayuba carries himself with an urbane air, charming youth with a personality that exudes confidence, poise and panache. As Daily Sun had a chat with him on that Wednesday morning, one cannot but wonder how the Ikenne-born artiste, acclaimed by all as the corporate face of fuji music, has been able to veer from the mainstream, creating a brand acceptable to both the elite and the lowly far beyond Nigeria's shores. Honestly, I can explain it. I would just say that my orientation is a little different. These things have a lot to do with one's background, you know. Ayuba, who clinched two trophies during the KORA awards in South Africa last December, breezed into New York in June this year. And since his arrival in the United States, he has been traversing many American cities to celebrate the awards with his numerous fans. That, however is not the only reason for this trip. He said he was in the US to promote a personal project, but that he was keeping the project away from the public for now. I did the same thing in Germany in 2003. “When it materializes, you will definitely know”, said Ayuba who insisted that the project which had taken him to a number of schools and colleges as well as many radio and television stations across the United States was made possible by his KORA awards. Actually the awards were made possible by the song, Fuji Satisfaction, a duet with Germany-based Nigerian artiste, Ade Bantu. This American trip, Ayuba explained was also a continuation of his self-imposed mission to internationalize Fuji music and bring it at par with other notable forms of music enjoyed worldwide. My dream is to achieve with Fuji music what Bob Marley was able to achieve with Reggae. Bob Marley took Reggae from the streets of Kingston in Jamaica and turned it into a global form of music recognized and enjoyed by everyone all over the world. I will become a fulfilled person the day Fuji music attains such a height." And Ayuba is, in truth, not without some measure of success in his pursuit of a global niche for Fuji music. At the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in New York a decade ago, Ayuba had thrilled the audience, dishing sweet songs to an array of notable world figures that included Dr Nelson Mandela and outgoing UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. He was also the first Fuji artiste ever to win a KORA. Did he expect the award? No, he replies. In fact, when we received the nomination, I thought that was the best we could get, a nomination. I never expected to win. The song that won the award was done with Ade Bantu, a Nigerian artiste in Germany. When the nomination came, I felt that was enough for me. So, I took it to several media houses in Nigeria because winning the nomination was a great achievement for me. It had never happened before that a Fuji artiste was nominated for such an international award. When we got to South Africa, I was surprised when they announced my name as a winner. I was excited. I can't even explain the feeling. I was so excited that I quickly went to a bathroom and called my wife, telling her that I had won. I called my mum, called some of my fans and friends. Unknown to me, while I was in the bathroom making calls, my name had been announced as a winner of another award and everybody was looking for me. So, when I came out of the bathroom, I didn't even know what was going on. I was walking to my seat when Kenny Ogungbe of Kennis Music saw me and said, Wale, where have you been? We've been looking for you. You've won another award. I was dumbfounded. It was an emotional thing for me. And has anything changed since he took the prize? Of course, a lot of things have changed. You can't even imagine how much things have changed. That award has opened doors for me. However, many years ago, when Ayuba indicated his desire to pursue a career as a Fuji artiste, his parents had been momentarily discomfited by the idea of their son becoming a musician. It wasn't that they didn't want me to pursue my dreams. The problem was that musicians of those days were seen as never-do wells in the society. And as soon as I assured them that music was not going to pose a threat to my education, they embraced the idea, offered their blessings and gave me 100 per cent support. But did he fulfill that sacred promise to his parents? Oh yes. As a matter of fact, I'm still studying. Naturally, I love to read. Already, I have a Diploma from the Ogun State Polytechnic, an Advanced Diploma from the University of Lagos and an associate degree from the Queens Borough Community College in New York . And I'm not done yet. My goal actually is to obtain a Ph.D in any discipline. Maybe by then I will be satisfied. And why Fuji? The singer said, I took to Fuji because it was the most cost effective form of music. It was the least expensive. Highlife, Juju and other ones would have required sophisticated and expensive instruments such as guitar, piano and drums. And again, I would need to be knowledgeable in a couple of those instruments. But with Fuji, all I needed was one or two local drums. Success, however, tarried in coming. For a guy who started singing at the tender age of seven, it took a while for this unassuming star to distinguish himself from the Fuji crowd. After five albums, Ayuba still remained just another mere name on the musical landscape, dwarfed by the larger image of already established stars like Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Kollington Ayinla and Wasiu Ayinde. Like those other Fuji singers, he sang purely in Yoruba with a smattering of Arabic. Then in 1989, almost frustrated by his seeming stagnancy, Ayuba went back to the drawing board and decided to inject a little pep into his act. I thought of how to distinguish myself. I did some research and discovered that Fuji music appealed to a certain kind of people. I started thinking of how I could attract other people like business executives, students and people in the corporate world to Fuji music in a way that traditional Fuji lovers wouldn't feel alienated. The first thing I did was to start injecting English into Fuji. I then created my own unique beat and dancing style, making the tempo a little faster than before. My outlook also changed. I told my mum my plans and she encouraged me. That experimentation paid off. Bubble, the album released by Ayuba in 1990 became a monumental hit that immediately catapulted him into national prominence. And since then, there has been no drab moment for Ayuba and his exciting career. You know a lot of people now think I started my career with Bubble. Now, I have to remind people that there were five albums before Bubble. They hardly remember that. After Bubble, I started getting invitations for concerts on university campuses. With the new Ayuba also came a nickname, Mr Johnson. And he tells you that the story behind the sobriquet is very real. In 1989, I travelled to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil . While I was participating in a musical concert at the beach, I met a very pretty Brazilian girl. We got talking and I lied to her that my name was Mr Johnson, a university student from New York. Of course, I couldn't tell her that my name was Adewale because she might not even be able to pronounce the name. I couldn't also tell her that I am a musician because she might not like musicians. So, I lied. One day she came visiting and unfortunately for me, an old video of my band's live performance was on. She was angry that I had told her lies, and that led to the end of the brief relationship. When I returned to Nigeria, I wrote a song around that event. That was how Mr Johnson was born. Fuji is said to have originated from Mushin , a sprawling slum in Lagos. That might explain why many still regard the genre as music reserved only for the hoi-polloi. In truth, at paraga joints, inside molue and danfo buses as well as in every motor park in Lagos and other cities and towns in Nigeria's South-West, your ears are relentlessly traumatized by an endless drone of Fuji din emanating from everywhere. But for Ayuba, the situation is remarkably different. His concerts are largely peaceful, shunned by such violence-prone miscreants. In this life, orientation matters a lot. Your background and your image also matter a lot. So, when people say my concerts are always peaceful, they should consider my background. If you consider my lyrics, my music can't really appeal to such people. My songs are evenly spread between English and Yoruba. I don't sing saje. My songs have intense meaning and its for both adults and children. Ayuba, however, says that his seeming non-conformist stance with Fuji has dug a gulf between him and other Fuji stars, he says. No artiste sees me as a snub. There is no animosity. They respect me and I respect them. The respect is mutual and the relationship is cordial. As an artiste, you would expect him to be a perpetual face at night clubs, bars and other fun spots. But you are shocked to learn that all through his life, Ayuba said he has never patronized any club. Well, almost never. I've visited a club only once in my life. That was at Fela's Shrine in Ikeja. In fact, that day, I collapsed when the smoke filtered into my eyes. I can still remember Fela telling his people to take care of that Ajebota musician! That was the only time I ever went to a night club. Watching Ayuba's shows and video, you cannot but marvel at his incredible dance skills and unusual vivacity as he prances about on stage. Since most artistes are religiously devoted to the trinity of wine, weed and women, you wonder if Ayuba doesn't sometimes take a little shot before mounting the stage. I do not need to do that. Those who know me closely know that I am very restless. In fact, I am hyper. I can hardly stay in one place. As for whether I rely on anything, sure you know I don't drink and I don't smoke. I cannot even stand tobacco smoke or stay near where people are smoking not to talk of smoking myself. In fact, that is why I don't go to clubs. And again, I work very hard. We rehearse very rigorously four days in a week. And by the time I find myself on stage with my band boys, I usually turn to something else. It is within me. This is not something that can be enhanced by the consumption of drinks or by drug. As per female fans, he said: "The truth is, as an artiste, you cannot run away from women, In fact, my prayer has always been that most of my fans will be women, because if you are accepted by the women, then you can be rest assured that you've been accepted by the men too. We all know the power of women. But I know where to draw the line. You know it takes two to tango. I am disciplined and that is why I'm free from scandals. I have one wife and a lovely family. So, I manage my female fans very well. Stardom is of God and so one should use it wisely.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/movie/2487/day-i-collapsed-at-afrika-shrine-adewalw-ayuba.html

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Some US clinics stop doing abortions as ruling takes hold (AP) -. “Some patients broke down and could not speak through their sobbing,” said Katie Quinonez, executive director of West Virginia’s lone abortion clinic, whose staff spent the day calling dozens of patients to cancel their appointments. “Some patients were stunned and didn’t know what to say. Some patients did not understand what was happening.” America was convulsed with anger, joy, fear and confusion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe. The canyon-like divide across the U.S. over the right to terminate a pregnancy was on full display, with abortion rights supporters calling it a dark day in history, while abortion foes welcomed the ruling as the answer to their prayers. Women who traveled across state lines to end a pregnancy found themselves immediately thwarted in some places as abortions were halted as a result of state laws that were triggered by the court decision or confusion over when those laws would take effect. In eliminating the constitutional right to abortion that has stood for a half-century, the high court left the politically charged issue up to the states, about half of which are now likely to ban the procedure. Abortions were immediately halted in nine states. Providers in two other states, Oklahoma and South Dakota, had already stopped performing the procedure in the past month. About 73 million people live in the 11 states where the procedure was not available — more than a fifth of the U.S. population. The reaction across the country largely fell along predictable political lines. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat in a state where abortions are available with few restrictions, called the ruling a “war on women” and vowed to stand as a “brick wall” to help preserve the right. Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vowed to seek a ban on abortions after 15 weeks. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a conservative Republican widely considered a potential candidate for president in 2024, tweeted: “The Supreme Court has answered the prayers of millions upon millions of Americans.” The issue is certain to intensify the fall election season. Both sides intend to use the issue to energize supporters and get them to vote. “This country is lurching to the right, taking away rights. The voters are going to have to intervene,” said Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the U.S. House majority whip. Some states, including Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri, had “trigger law” bans on the books that went into effect as soon as Roe fell. In Alabama, the state’s three abortion clinics stopped performing the procedure for fear providers would now be prosecuted under a law dating to 1951. At the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville, the staff had to tell women in the waiting room Friday morning that they could not perform any more abortions that day. Some had come from as far away as Texas for an appointment. “A lot of them just started breaking down crying. Can you imagine if you had driven 12 hours to receive this care in this state and you are not able to?” clinic owner Dalton Johnson said. Patients were given a list of out-of-state places still doing abortions. Abortion providers across Arizona likewise stopped doing procedures while they try to determine if a law dating to pre-statehood days — before 1912 — means doctors and nurses will face prison time now. In Texas, providers wondered which law they had to follow: a 1925 ban, a 2021 law that limits abortions to the first six weeks of pregnancy, or a trigger law that bans the procedure outright, but wouldn’t take effect for a month or more. The confusion led them to suspend abortions while they seek legal advice. Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton warned they could face immediate prosecution for performing abortions under the Prohibition-era ban, which carries two to five years in prison. It was the risk of prosecution under a 19th-century abortion ban punishable by prison that led the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia to stop performing the procedure. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican, said he will not hesitate to call the Legislature into special session if the ban needs to be clarified. In Ohio, a federal judge dissolved an injunction, allowing a 2019 state law to take effect banning most abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat. The high court ruling drew strong reactions around the country. Carol E. Tracy, the executive director of the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia, was “absolutely furious.” “They want women to be barefoot and pregnant once again,” she said. “But I have no doubt that women and like-minded men, and people in the LGBTQ community, who are also at great risk, ... we’re going to fight back. I think it’s going to be a long, hard fight.” Garrett Bess, who works with a lobbying arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, said his group will continue to press states to restrict abortion. “We’ll be working with grassroots Americans to ensure the protection of pregnant mothers and babies,” Bess said outside the Supreme Court. “This has been a long time coming, and it’s a welcome decision.” Opinion polls show that a majority of Americans favor preserving Roe. They include Alison Dreith, 41, an abortion activist in southern Illinois, where the governor has vowed to keep the procedure accessible. She said she fears for the safety of abortion workers, especially those who help people from states where the procedure is banned. Dreith works with the Midwest Action Coalition, which offers gas money, child care and other practical support to women seeking abortions. “I absolutely believe that they will try to come after me. I’m not built for prison, but I’m ready,” she said, “and I say, ‘Let’s do this.’ You want to pick that fight with me? I’m fighting back.”

https://www.wdbj7.com/2022/06/24/some-us-clinics-stop-doing-abortions-ruling-takes-hold/

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Approximately $30 Million in Total Investment and 80 New Jobs ERLANGER, Ky. (May 8, 2012) -- Toyota announced today. “Twenty six years ago, I took part in Toyota’s groundbreaking in Georgetown, which was filled with excitement for Kentucky’s future,” Governor Beshear said. “Today, we still have that same excitement for Toyota’s past, present and future in the Commonwealth. This latest expansion brings Toyota’s total investment to nearly $6 billion, meaning billions of dollars in incomes for thousands of Kentuckians, changing lives, strengthening our economy, and improving the Commonwealth.” The increase will raise TMMK total employment to approximately 6,700 and total plant investment to more than $5.96 billion. “This is great news for our team members and our company,” said Wil James, president of TMMK. “This project is the result of the strong partnerships we have locally and across the state, which will help grow our business and strengthen the communities where we do business.” United States to more than 1.2 million per year. Toyota also has engine plants in Alabama and West Virginia. Senator Mitch McConnell: “I appreciate Toyota’s continued commitment to supporting Kentucky’s economy,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. This new engine expansion project at the Georgetown plant will provide much-needed jobs, which will help get more Kentuckians back to work.” “I am thrilled that Toyota is increasing its assembly capacity at the Georgetown plant,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Toyota’s investment means more jobs and a boost for Central Kentucky at a time when our economic recovery needs momentum. Clearly, Toyota is committed to its presence in the Commonwealth.” Congressman Ben Chandler: “By investing in this plant, Toyota is making a positive statement about the economic strength of our region,” said Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Ky. This expansion will create new jobs and put more Kentuckians back to work. I’ve always been proud that Toyota chooses to call Central Kentucky home to its largest plant in North America, and today is no exception.” Congressman Geoff Davis: "Toyota's Georgetown plant has been a major economic engine for our region, and today's announcement reaffirms the company's commitment to doing business in Kentucky,” said Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky. “The new engine line will bring more jobs and economic activity to the Commonwealth at a time when they are needed most. I appreciate Toyota's continued commitment to Kentucky workers and the Commonwealth of Kentucky."

http://www.toyota.com/about/news/manufacturing/2012/05/09-1-Increase.html

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Your Holistic Pet Care Specialists campus locations in Portsmouth & Wilton, NH Portsmouth, NH Location. Wilton, NH Location Katie Heikkila has an extensive background in AKC showing, handling and training with working breeds and terriers and is a licensed AKC Earthdog Judge. Katie turned her attention to the pet grooming industry in 2005 when she started a career path that led to becoming a Lead Instructor and satellite academy for The Whole Pet Grooming Academy, a licensed secondary career school in the State of New Hampshire. Katie is certified in pet First Aid and CPR, an ABKA certified Pet Care Technician and AKC Salon and Fear Free certified. She has studied and perfected her skills as a professional pet stylist underJodi Murphy, Sue Zecco, Jay Scruggs and Tip Campbell. A large part of her career focus has been the study of dog behavior and body language with industry leaders like Susan Bulanda, Chris Murphy, Susan Briggs, and Robin Bennett. Katie is currently working towards becoming a professional Certified Professional Dog Trainer through CATCH Canine Trainers Academy. Katie enjoys sharing her knowledge, skills and experiences with students from the local high schools as well as the apprentice stylists she has trained throughout the years. Now that passion has been fine tuned and will give new apprentices a chance to begin their career through her at the Monadnock Canine Center in Wilton, NH.

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Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. <!-- YieldMo Tag--> H-Town Chow Down: Albert runs not only one of our favorite local food blogs, but also one of our very favorite local Twitter feeds at @HTownChowDown. This week, he steps into the fray of the eternal Inner Loop vs. Outer Loop battle and weighs in on the best OTL (that's Outside The Loop) restaurants. Foodie Houston: Someone had to do it! Jodie ventured into the "Midtown Mexican Madness" and tried out the new Ruby Tequila's, a Texas-based Tex-Mex chain. What did she think of it? Read on and find out. Fat Baby: For reasons we can't understand, this food blog has music that automatically plays when you first open the page -- so be sure to hit "mute" before heading over. Once you've done that, check out Fat Baby's list of Houston restaurants that serve the best mac 'n' cheese. Our favorite mac 'n' cheese (Beaver's Ice House) didn't make the list -- did yours? Jeff Balke: Zombie Kroger. Disco Kroger. Ghetto Kroger. Posh Kroger. Which Kroger is which? And how did Zombie Kroger get its name? This and more is revealed by grocery store connoisseur Jeff Balke. Drink Dogma: As soon as one throwdown ends, another rises from its ashes. Bobby Heugel of Anvil discusses the upcoming Michelada Throwdown Part 2 (and Bloody Mary Throwdown) that's happening this Sunday. And on the national scene... Chocolate & Zucchini: It's not too late to get your delicious desktop wallpaper/calendar fix, courtesy of Chocolate & Zucchini. This month's is a particularly yummy one, too. Food Goat: Ladygoat discovers the sugary deliciousness that is Mexican Coke (oh, those funny Northerners) and its replacement in a pinch, Cleveland Coke. Yeah, really. Cleveland. We were surprised, too! My Tiny Plot: Yes, we read gardening blogs over here too - your food does come from somewhere, after all. And although this English gardening blog is usually all about veggies and dirt, the author occasionally throws in some savory recipes like this one for "Posh Mushrooms on Toast" -- a recipe which even the Shameless Chef could throw together. Cooking for Engineers: Although it isn't updated as frequently as we'd like, we still adore this extremely left-brained approach to not only cooking, but equipment and gear. This particular entry left us longing for a set of brand-new knives. Sponsor Content

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Here's a list of positions available with other companies we know, both in Les Gets and across the Alps Employers: If you have a company which offers jobs in ski resorts, and would like to add your jobs to this page, please just click here. If you have a ski business and are looking for staff yourself, please just drop Bobby and email on [email protected]. We'd be happy to add your position to the above table. We also own ChaletKitchen.com, and would be happy to add your jobs to the jobs section of that website too..

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Newly reunited spouses Offset and Cardi B welcomed their first child together, daughter Kulture, on July 10 Offset has our attention. The Migos rapper, 27, revealed the release date of his upcoming solo album and accompanying documentary on Sunday evening, sharing a video montage of himself in the recording studio, FaceTiming with his son, performing on stage — and being in the room during the July 10 birth of daughter Kulture Kiari, his first child with wife Cardi B. In the latter clip, shown at the end of the montage, Offset stands behind Cardi B‘s shoulders as she gives birth, looking concerned as his wife yells out in pain and throws her head back. Another angle shows him wearing a white hoodie while standing near the hospital room door, looking wide-eyed in shock before the camera zooms in dramatically and the video reveals the release date: Feb. 22. Offset’s debut album will come two months after The New York Times reported it would be released: on the rapper’s 27th birthday, Dec. 14. After Quavo and Takeoff, he is the last Migos’ member to drop a solo record. RELATED: Cardi B Says Kulture Wears Target PJs Because “She Just Throws Up” on All Her Designer Clothes Two months after news that the pair had called it quits amid a cheating scandal — only to reunite repeatedly, including in Atlanta during the Super Bowl — Cardi B, 26, and Offset made their reconciliation red carpet-official at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. Cardi and Offset posed for photographers before leaning in to share a lick. In one of the photos, Cardi — who wore a show-stopping pink and black Mugler design with an elaborate waistline and pearls wrapped around her neck and hair — held Offset’s hands and leaned in toward him to touch tongues. In her acceptance speech for best rap album, the Invasion of Privacy hitmaker brought her beau onstage, where she thanked their daughter for helping make her dreams come true. “I want to thank … the Migos, you, husband, thank you,” she said after expressing her gratitude for other artists who helped on her record. “Seriously, he was like, ‘You gonna do this album, girl. We gonna have this baby and we gonna make this album.’ “ RELATED VIDEO: Offset Crashes Cardi B’s Set to Beg for Her Back — and She Kicks Him Off the Stage And their marriage is not for anyone except themselves. As Cardi B told PEOPLE of her relationship status in a candid interview in Atlanta ahead of the Super Bowl, “It’s a personal thing.” “My relationship — my marriage — is not for [anyone else],” said the “I Like It” rapper — still, she added, they are “just taking things slow. We have a baby right now. That’s like our real big focus.” “I hang out with him, I talk to him every day and we do our thing,” she continued of Offset. “To make things perfect … it takes time. You know, f—ing and hanging out doesn’t mean that you guys are on like a perfect note, it takes time. It takes time. And it’s a marriage and there’s a child involved and family involved.”

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If you have bike commuter friends, co-workers or family, you know that they're covered with a film of sweat in the summer. In the winter, they show up to work slurring their speech and fumbling with objects after their face and hands have been numbed by the cold. Regardless of the season, getting around on two wheels is easier, safer, warmer and more fun with some good gear. Now is your big chance to make life better for these salty individuals. A WAY TO HAUL STUFF) Hauling your stuff in an over-the-shoulder messenger bag on your daily commute can put your spine and posture all out of whack. Give your bike commuter a pannier to lessen their load. KoKi, based in Hood River, Oregon, makes hard-shell panniers that feature a strap to carry them around after they've parked their bike. They'll keep your bike commuter's things dry in the winter. In the summer, the pannier will even keep a six-pack cold. $60 • MonkeyBoy Bicycles • 1206 W. Summit Pkwy. A Pair of Gloves For the bike commuter who insists on getting to work on two wheels even during unforgiving Inland Northwest winters, finding a good pair of gloves is essential. Right now, REI is offering up 25 percent discount on gloves from Pearl Izumi, a Tokyo-based apparel company. They're even designed so its wearer can tap on a smartphone while wearing them. $30-$40 • REI • 1125 N. Monroe Street AN EXTRA SET OF EYES In a world where cameras are affixed to seemingly everything (buildings, phones, police officers), you might as well add one more camera to your bike to document boneheaded moves by drivers, or even just capture the highlights of a mountain biking excursion. Cycliq makes a line of cameras (which double as LED bike lights) that can be attached to both the front and back of a bicycle. Both weather-resistant cameras have six hours of recording time, and the footage can be downloaded using Wi-Fi or smartphones. $170 • The Bike Hub • 12505 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley A GOOD PAIR OF LIGHTS Maybe you know a bike commuter who has a pair of barely functional, dim bike lights – or none at all. Get them a pair of lights. Because bike lights can quickly eat through batteries, Serfas makes a line of bright lights that are USB rechargeable. It also helps that bike lights fit perfectly into a stocking. $40 • Spoke 'N Sport • 212 N. Division ♦

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23 Sep UX and Marketing Strategies for Banks UX and Marketing for Banks Corporations have extensive amounts on data about their customers. However, most corporations, especially banks, are not leveraging this data to their advantage. According to a FICO report 46% of established customers state that banks do not send relevant marketing material for future financial decisions1. Banks are witnessing a trend of discontinuity between them and their customers and although alarming, banks have the resources to fix and overcome the gap between them and their customers. Big Data gives banks access to information about their customers relevant to understanding financial decisions they may make in the near future. With all the available data, banks must take advantage of the opportunity to enhance marketing efforts by making them hyper relevant. Millennials expect personalized product offerings that meet their financial goals; which are much different than other generations. How Does It Work? So, what could this look like? Say, for example, I am a recent college graduate in the market to purchase my first home. I have been researching neighborhoods, mortgage rates, and the different tax rates in the nearby cities around me. When I click on a bank’s main webpage, I should be greeted with a banner personalized to my interests. In this case, if I were to arrive at a banks homepage and I saw an advertisement for home mortgage options I would be more inclined to trust the bank than if the first advertisement I came across was for retirement savings. Banks have the opportunity to leverage cookie data to personalize their customers’ experiences. Perhaps the hesitation to adopt personalized advertising has been because of the fear customers will feel their privacy is being invaded. Although a good point, some consumers are willing to give up their online privacy in exchange for personalized and better services and products. Younger generations such as millennials and generation z tend to agree that if a company is transparent about how they use consumer data, they will have less hesitation giving their consent to use it. Moreover, if companies provide meaningful, personalized experiences with the data they collect, customers won’t be hesitant, instead they will be excited. Transparency is key when using consumer data, 95% of millennials say they will be loyal to a company with transparency and business practices they can trust2. Banks have a large opportunity to gain loyal customers if data is used well to create emotional, relevant and timely messages. How Can UX Help? UX merges targeted advertising and smooth customer experiences. Excited at the opportunity for personalized marketing, banks may be inclined to bombard customers with repeated advertisements. UX professionals know that this is not the most effective approach and that the most impactful marketing efforts are end-user oriented. Customers should feel their experiences are personalized and should not feel overwhelmed; by leveraging healthy user experiences practices banks can harmonize their goals with their customers’ needs. Flawed customer experiences often come from ineffective communication between different fronts of a company. For example, the marketing, content, and data collection divisions must all work together to create a cohesive online experience. When communication fails between these different groups it manifests as fractured online experiences. A UX professional creates processes to ensure all groups work together to accomplish the same goal: attract and convert customers. Conclusion Banks must do a better job relating to their customers. Banks can no longer take a one size fits all approach to marketing, as newer generations of consumers look for companies that personalize their experiences. Marketing efforts centered around customer experience have the best success rates because they consider what the customer wants, and not just what the business needs. Creating a UX strategy may seem daunting at first, but is worth the investment to attract and secure customers. The Good Life Consulting has experience managing, implementing, and measuring UX initiatives with several international banks. - - .

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Showreels and BAFTA nominated student film showreel 2014 - Sizzle Reel Since getting clearance to show previs is so difficult (from the corporate studios), I have opted to show the finished result since I did all the groundwork. The camera, the action, the fx and the lighting choices were all done by me. I am still in hope of being able to show just how close the two match, but you can see examples at thethirdfloorinc.com/#projects-1e8865 (the showreel). father (1988) This is my Third Year Graduation film from West Surrey College of Art and Design. It was selected as the Best of British category in the international film festivals: Stuttgart (Germany), Los Angeles Animation Celebration (USA), Gent (Belgium) etc.). It was also nominated for a BAFTA award and was shown on BBC2 twice. It took three months to make and was filmed in one continuous day and a half session. *** Christmas break, only 7 months until graduation, and I still had no clue as to what to make a film about. Nothing grabbed me. I had flunked the Non-European Cultures course of lectures and so was in a bit of a bind. The faculty accepted a creative essay as an option instead and so I grabbed it. One of the topics was to write about your father. Two pages into the essay I realized I wasn't writing about my father at all. I was writing about my step father. I guess as a child you have the ability to lock away that which doesn't conform to normality. It was the only explanation I could think of. I do not recall what course my essay took, but it received top grades and was asked if I'd consider making a movie about the one day that my world collapsed about me. The day I found out my father was not who I had thought he was. The months following that Saturday are still lost to me. But I found my real father and we write often, I am happy to say. *** Hope you like this dated film. watch all my videos smoothely on vimeo..... psst... click here some Bolt work 1. animated all first section 2. choreographed this bike chase (which made me look into previs). animated some shots. 3. animated third section Some "shot chunks" I animated in the Penny meets Thug. Got to be animation supervisor for both Penny and the Thug. This sequence I got to choreograph with Terry Moews. I had a team of animators (Penny team) that did the majority of the Penny animation. Great artists like Scott Robideau, Irene Parkins and Anthea Kerou. It was so challenging and rewarding coordinating the entire sequence that I turned my focus to previs or previsualization as a result... and ended up at The Third Floor. This Rhino chunk was so much fun to do. showreel 2009 Long Reel: showing scenes in context, which is the only way to see the performance. Casper - Animated Casper and the Ghostly Trio shown. Star Wars - A New Hope - Special Edition - Creature Animation Supervisor - All hand keyed. Even the FK ropes hand keyed, the storm trooper dismounting the dewback, hand keyed. The dewback in the sand shot, animated the sand with geo scaling poking through the ground plane, large stretched spheres for the tail swish. Animated the speeders added. Dinosaur - (Lead) Supervising Animator for "Aladar". Lemurs were animated by other talented artists. Just Aladar. Treasure Planet - Animated B.E.N. the robot character. Just B.E.N. Mickey's Philharmagic - Animated all finale shown. Had help finishing the instruments all lined up playing, Amy Smeed. I apologize for the small format, the screen was 100ft wide. Chicken Little - (Lead) Supervising Animator for Foxy Loxy and Goosey Loosey. Just those two characters. Meet the Robinsons - Animated Wilbur Robinson and the mother in all shots shown. This reel is pre-Bolt release. Why no Bolt shots on THIS reel. treasure plant collection I started on this movie with the task of filling out the skies with manta birds and space whales. One shot has 60 space whales in it, all with unique animation. No two are alike. When this was complete I helped Oskar Urretabizkaia with the robocops. B.E.N. originally had a dome or rounded button shaped head. When "Star Wars Episode I" released footage showing their "pit droids" Disney pressed for the shape to change to avoid lawsuits from Lucasfilm. So the character ended up with the bucket shaped head in the movie. We animated B.E.N. with a mixture of 1's and 2's, drawing from our tradition backgrounds to help integrate him in with the 2D cast.

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Kalakalapu 2 Full Movie Download in 720p bluray, directly Download Kalakalapu 2 2018 Hindi Dubbed South Indian HD Movie free high quality Video For mobile phone or PC. Kalakalapu 2 Full Movie Download Movie File Information Language: Hindi Dubbed Size: 965mb Quality: 720p HDRip Release Date: 9 February 2018 Country: India Actors: Yogi Babu, Santhana Bharathi, Thalapathi Dinesh Click Below To Download Kalakalapu 2 Movie Kalakalapu 2 Full Movie Review: The film was most noticeably awful. No one acted great in the motion picture. Melodies and BGM in the motion picture were likewise most exceedingly bad. There was nothing diverting in the film. Kalakalappu was a phenomenal film and was one of my most loved motion picture. Be that as it may, Kalakalappu 2 was most exceedingly bad film.

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Dragonar 04 released!… and sad news :( Yes! September 13, 2008 at 7:16 pm Thanks you guys for hanging on to the project , i love it so much hope you guys can find a translator soon. September 13, 2008 at 7:18 pm We wish that too. Sadly it seems that no translator is interested in this kind of old and awesome series 😦 January 30, 2009 at 6:47 am i loved this series, i liked it so much i watched the hk rips, thanks for doing this show, definitely one of the most underrated robot shows. it be a wish come true if we see more frequent releases. January 30, 2009 at 8:11 am My comment from the 13 of September would be valid again. We wish that too but no translator is interested, they prefer to make 1000 versions of Naruto than these old series.

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IMAGES:. Click NEXT to read further... For Rediff Realtime News click here Image: A man collects shoes left behind during a stampede in Junagadh district, in Gujarat Photographs: Reuters Tragedy unfolds at Junagadh Mahashivaratri fair heading towards Bhavnath from the nearby old Panja Bridge. Image: A woman injured in the stampede is rushed to a nearby hospital in the town Photographs: Kalpesh Gohel Tragedy unfolds at Junagadh Mahashivaratri fair leaving many children and women wailing. About 80 persons fell from the bridge and three women, two men and a kid lost their lives in the hustle and bustle that followed. Image: At least 100 people were injured in the stampede Photographs: Kalpesh Gohel Tragedy unfolds at Junagadh Mahashivaratri fair As the news of the tragedy spread like wildfire, the police stopped the people and vehicles at Girnar Gate itself and did not allow them to proceed to Bhavnath. But there were so many people and vehicles on the road leading to Bhavnath that it was an uphill task for authorities to clear the traffic jam. So much so that even ambulance personnel had a hard time taking the injured to the hospital. Many of the injured were carried to the hospital on the bonnets and roofs of private vehicles. Image: An ambulance was rushed to the spot to ferry the injured piligrims to a hospital Tragedy unfolds at Junagadh Mahashivaratri fair It is learnt that the police had to take recourse to a mild lathicharge to control the pilgrims. With the mobile network being jammed for 150 minutes in the wake of the tragedy, no communication was possible between the devotees and their relatives, adding more to the chaos. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was constantly monitoring the situation. State agriculture and co-operation and law minister Dilip Sanghani rushed to Junagadh. Image: Police try to control pilgrims, who went into a frenzy as the news of the stampede spread Photographs: Kalpesh Gohel Tragedy unfolds at Junagadh Mahashivaratri fair Sanghani reached the civil hospital at 2 am on Monday and met the injured. While the state government has announced an aid of Rs. 1,00,000 each for the kin of the deceased, the Congress has demanded a compensation of Rs 5,00,000 for the victims. Meanwhile, the government has set up a high-level inquiry committee to look into the whole incident. Image: The state government and Junagadh Municipal Corporation has announced a compensation of Rs 25,000 for the injured Photographs: Kalpesh Gohel this Comment article

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From Ald. Cappleman: "The Wilson L rehab started yesterday and the dream of a new L stop will soon become a reality. From now until Oct. 31, the sidewalk on the south side entrance to the Wilson L will be fenced off and closed to pedestrian traffic so that the carpenter shop can be demolished. The sidewalk on the north side of Wilson will remain open during this time." We also spotted fencing up along Broadway just north of the stationhouse, blocking off the parking lot to the old Wilson-Broadway Mall that will also be demolished. Can't wait until the Wilson stop loses the title of "ugliest El Station" that the Red Eye runs. Hopefully, the renovations will disperse the local degenerates that continue to linger on that infamous intersection. This of course calls for an IrishPirate Youtube video moment. I know what you're all saying: Please Gawd, Not the Carpenters. I understand. Here's a better version brought to you by the master of the panflute(scratch that) master of jazz guitar O'Donel Levy. Panflute says bad late night commercials and maybe some concert over at the JPUSA coffeehouse. Jazz guitar harkens back to the Uptown of an earlier time which was both better and worse in some ways. The Wilson EL rebuilding is a positive thing for Uptown and for Chicago. It's not a cure all for the gang problems that plague that part of Uptown, but it's something and something ain't nothing. Muskrat love.

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Glimpses Of Our Ancestors In Sussex - online book With Sketches Of Sussex Characters, Remarkable Incidents &c | Order | Support | About | | Search Share page Contents Sussex Poets. 251 arrived at Byron's Palazza, at Pisa, and hither, to meet them, Shelley and Williams, with a young English sailor, named Vivian, set out in their little yacht, which they had had built for them at Genoa, and in which they had been making excursions in the Italian seas. They reached Leghorn in safety, and spent several days with their friends at Pisa; but Shelley receiving a gloomy letter from his wife, who seems to have had the cloud of an impending calamity hanging over her, hastened his departure from Leghorn; Williams and he and the sailor-boy Vivian embarking again in their little yacht on the 8th July (1822) for their home at Lerici. The weather was very sultry, and clouds were gathering in the south-west when they set sail from Leghorn; but a profound stillness overspread the Bay. By and bye a sea-fog came on which concealed Shelley's boat from the watching eyes of his friends, Trelawny and Roberts. At half-past six (they had started at 3 p.m.) it was almost dark, and the wind began to rise, in short, panting gusts; and big drops of rain struck the water. " There was a commotion in the air," says Mr. Trelawny, who records these particulars, "made up of many threatening sounds, coming upon us from the sea." The vessels in the harbour were all in hurried movement, and the tempest soon came crashing and glaring, in the fury of thunder, wind, rain and lightning, over the port and the open waters. The storm only lasted about twenty minutes, and during its progress Captain Roberts watched Shelley's vessel with his glass from the top of the Leghorn lighthouse. The yacht had made Via Reggio when the storm began. " When the cloud passed onward," writes Mrs. Shelley, " Roberts looked again, and saw every other vessel sailing on the ocean except the little schooner, which had vanished." Mr. Trelawny thought for some time that his friends would return to port; but he waited for them in vain. They were never to return alive. After an agonising suspense of some days for wives and friends, the terrible truth was made certain by the casting ashore of the bodies, Contents

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Apple Ibook 1024 x 768 - Apple - MacOS - Touchpad - With DVD Drive - Notebook - 40 GB disk... Read more [ Report abuse or wrong photo | Share your Apple Ibook photo ] Manual Preview of first few manual pages (at low quality). Check before download. Click to enlarge. Apple Ibook User reviews and opinions Comments posted on are solely the views and opinions of the people posting them and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of us. Documents The technotes are also available on the reference library issues of the developer CD. USB Devices For more information about USB on Macintosh computers, developers should refer to Apple Computers Mac OS USB DDK API Reference. Information is also available on the World Wide Web, at usb.html The Mac OS USB DDK is available from the Apple Developer Development Kits page at For full specications of the Universal Serial Bus, developers should refer to the USB Implementation Forum on the World Wide Web, at: Open Firmware Three Technotes provide an introduction to Open Firmware on the Macintosh platform. They are: TN 1061: Open Firmware, Part I, available on the Technote web site at TN 1062: Open Firmware, Part II, available on the Technote web site at TN 1044: Open Firmware, Part III, available on the Technote web site at The NewWorld software architecture embodied in the new Mac OS software follows some of the standards dened by the Open Firmware IEEE 1274-1995 specication and the CHRP binding. The basis for the bootinfo le format and use is the document PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) System binding to: IEEE Std 1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization, Conguration) Firmware. A bootinfo le contains Open Firmware script, a description, information for individual operating systems, icons, and other information. A bootinfo le can be extended to contain non-Open Firmware information, such as Trampoline code and the ToolBox ROM Image. Other Open Firmware references of possible interest include: IEEE 1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization, Conguration) Firmware: Core Requirements and Practices IEEE Std 1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization, Conguration) Firmware (Version 1.7) Open Firmware Recommended Practice: Device Support Extensions (Version 1.0) Open Firmware Recommended Practice: Interrupt Mapping (Version 0.9) The Ethernet link layer is built into the Uni-N IC. The physical layer is a 5201 IC made by Broadcom. The 5201 IC contains both the physical layer and the transceiver and lter circuits. The IC provides a dual-speed Ethernet controller, supporting both 10Base-T and 100Base-TX protocols. Graphics IC The graphics IC is a variation of the RAGE Mobility IC made by ATI. Certain features of the Mobility IC are not supported in this variation. The graphics IC includes 4 MB of VRAM, which enables it to provide a display size of 800 by 600 at pixel depths of 8, 16, and 24 bits per pixel. The graphics IC also has a scaling mode that displays a 640-by-480 pixel image on the full screen. Because it uses the AGP bus, the graphics IC can use part of main memory as additional graphics storage. The computers virtual memory system organizes main memory as randomly-distributed 4 KB pages, so DMA transactions for more than 4 KB of data would have to perform scatter-gather operations. To avoid this necessity for graphics storage, the AGP logic in the Uni-N IC uses a graphics address remapping table (GART) to translate a linear address space for AGP transactions into physical addresses in main memory. I/O Device Controller The I/O controller IC in the iBook is a custom IC called KeyLargo. It is an integrated I/O controller and DMA engine for use in Power Macintosh computers with a PCI bus. The KeyLargo IC contains a PCI bus arbiter and an interrupt controller. It also provides the interface and control signals for the following devices: Ultra ATA Hard Drive The interface to the internal hard drive is an Ultra ATA bus on the KeyLargo IC. ATA CD-ROM Drive The interface to the CD-ROM drive is an E-IDE interface (ATA bus) on the KeyLargo IC. Digital audio from the CD-ROM drive goes through the KeyLargo IC and is sent to the sound IC. USB Port The KeyLargo IC provides a USB controller for the USB port. The external USB connector supports USB devices with data transfer rates of 1.5 Mps or 12 Mps. For more information, see USB Port (page 28). The USB ports comply with the Universal Serial Bus Specication 1.1 Final Draft Revision. The USB register set complies with the Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) specication. Built-In Modem The KeyLargo IC provides an SCC (Serial Communications Controller) that communicates with the built-in hardware modem. The modem hardware is a set of ICs including a modem controller, data pump, and DAA. DD(015) /CS1 CSEL /DASP IORDY /IOCS16 /DIOR /DIOW /DMACK DMARQ Signals on the ATA hard disk connector (continued) Interrupt request. This active high signal is used to inform the computer that a data transfer is requested or that a command has terminated. Asserted by device 1 to indicate to device 0 that it has completed the power-on diagnostics; not available on this computer (n.c.). Hardware reset to the drive; an active low signal. This pin is the key for the connector. /PDIAG /RESET Key The built-in ATA devices are connected to the I/O bus through bidirectional bus buffers. CD-ROM Drive The iBook has an internal CD-ROM drive with a sliding tray to hold the disc. The drive features a mechanism that supports 4x, 8x, 12x, and 24x data transfer rates and a data buffer that further enhances performance. The CD-ROM drive supports the worldwide standards and specications for CD-ROM and CD-digital audio discs described in the Sony/Philips Yellow Book and Red Book. The drive can read CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-I, and PhotoCD discs as well as play standard audio discs. Digital audio from the CD-ROM drive can be played through the sound outputs under the control of the Sound Manager. The pointing device in iBook is a trackpad. The trackpad is a solid-state device that emulates a mouse by sensing the motions of the users nger over its surface and translating those motions into digital signals. A single button below the trackpad is used to make selections. Alternatively, the user can tap and double tap on the pad itself. As described in the users manual, the trackpad responds to one or two taps on the pad itself as one or two clicks of the button. The user can tap and drag on the trackpad in much the same manner as clicking and dragging with the mouse. The keyboard is a compact, low-prole design with a row of function keys and inverted-T cursor motion keys. Removing the Keyboard The keyboard is removable to allow access to the internal components and expansion connectors inside the computer. The keyboard is held in place by a locking screw and two latches. To unlock the keyboard, the user turns a slotted screw that is part of the Num Lock LED, which is between the F4 and F5 function keys. Turning the screw 180 locks or unlocks the keyboard. The iBook leaves the factory with keyboard locking screw in the unlocked position. N The two latches are between the ESC key and the F1 key and between the F8 and F9 keys. The user can release the latches by pulling them toward the front of the computer. Changing the Operation of the Keyboard Several of the keys on the keyboard have more than one mode of operation. Function keys F1F6 can also control the display brightness, speaker volume, and the Num Lock function. The other function keys can be set by the user to open applications, documents, or Applescripts. Certain control keys can be used as page-control keys. The keys on the right side of the keyboard can be used as a numeric keypad. The next sections describe these groups of keys and the way their alternate modes of operation are selected by using the Fn key, the Num Lock key, and the Function Keys checkbox in the Keyboard control panel. Keyboard Illustrations Figure 3-4 shows the actual appearance of the keyboard. Figure 3-5 shows the alternate modes of operation of the function and control keys. Figure 3-6 shows the embedded numeric keypad. Figure 3-4 Keyboard layout Figure 3-5 and Figure 3-6 include duplicate versions of some keys in order to show their alternate modes of operation. In some cases, the alternate key captions shown in the gures do not appear on the keyboard. For the actual appearance of the keyboard, refer to Figure 3-4. Figure 3-5 Alternate operations of function and control keys fn key is down and checkbox is unchecked, or fn key is up and checkbox is checked. fn key is up and checkbox is unchecked, or fn key is down and checkbox is checked. fn key is up. fn key is down. Figure 3-6 Embedded numeric keypad operation num lock is off and fn key is down. num lock is off and fn key is up. num lock is on. Using the Fn Key Pressing the Fn key affects three sets of keys: the function keys F1F12, the embedded numeric keypad, and certain modier keys. It toggles the function keys between their control-button operation and their F1F12 functions, as shown in Table 3-6 and Figure 3-5. The user selects the default modes of operation of those keys as described in the section The Function-Keys Checkbox. It selects the embedded numeric keypad on the right portion of the alphanumeric keys, as shown in Table 3-7 and Figure 3-6. It changes certain control keys, including the cursor control keys, to page control keys, as shown in Table 3-8 and Figure 3-6. Using the Num Lock Key Pressing the Num Lock key affects two sets of keys: the embedded keypad and the rest of the alphanumeric keys. It selects the embedded numeric keypad, as shown in Table 3-7 and Figure 3-6. It makes the rest of the alphanumeric keys functionless (NOPs), as shown in Figure 3-6. The Function-Keys Checkbox The Fn key lets the user switch the mode of operation of the function keys at any time. The user selects the default mode of the function keys by means of the Function-keys checkbox in the Keyboard Control Panel. The Function-keys checkbox lets the user choose whether the function key operations are primary or secondary. Function keys primary means the function keys are normally in their F1F12 mode of operation and pressing the Fn key selects their control-button mode. Function keys secondary means the function keys are normally in their control-button mode and pressing the Fn key selects their function-key mode. In other words, pressing the Fn key reverses the mode of operation of the function keys from the default mode set by the checkbox. Table 3-5 summarizes the checkbox settings and the operation of the Fn key. The operations of the individual function keys are shown in Table 3-6 and Figure 3-5. Table 3-5 Setting the default behavior of the function keys Make Function Keys Primary checkbox Operations of function keys Fn key up Fn key down Checked Not checked F1F12 functions Control buttons Control buttons F1F12 functions Table 3-6 Key name The function keys as control buttons Control button F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 Decrease display brightness Increase display brightness Decrease speaker volume Increase speaker volume Num Lock Mute the speaker User denable User denable User denable User denable User denable User denable Operations of the Function Keys Function keys F1 through F6 are used as control buttons for the display and sound; function keys F7 through F12 are open for the user to dene. The operations of the function keys are controlled by the Function keys checkbox and the Fn key. Table 3-6 is a list of the function keys and their operations as control buttons. The Keyboard Control Panel allows the user to assign operations to function keys F7 through F12. Operations that can be assigned include The iBook computer has one RAM expansion slot. To get access to the RAM expansion slot, the user must open up the computer by performing the following operations. The user should be reminded to observe the usual precautions to avoid damage to the electronic components due to static electricity. L 1. Unplug the AC adapter from the computer. 2. Remove the battery from the computer. 3. Unlock the keyboard by turning the slotted screw that is part of the Num Lock LED, which is between the F4 and F5 function keys. Turning the screw 180 locks or unlocks the keyboard. The locking screw may already be in the unlocked position. N 4. Release the two latches located at the top of the keyboard. One latch is between the ESC key and the F1 key; the other is between the F8 and F9 keys. The user can release the latches by sliding them toward the front of the computer. 5. Lift the keyboard up and turn it over, without disconnecting the keyboards membrane cable. 6. Remove the wireless LAN module, if present, by unlatching the formed wire holder on the module, then pulling the ex tab to remove the module. The antenna cable should remain attached to the module. 7. Using a Phillips head screwdriver, remove the two screws that secure the perforated metal RAM door. The screws are to the right of the wireless LAN module. 8. Slide the perforated metal RAM door toward the rear of the computer, then lift it up and out of the computer. Once the RAM expansion module has been installed in the slot, the user must close up the computer by performing these steps in reverse order. The RAM Expansion Module The RAM expansion slot accommodates a standard SO-DIMM (small outline, dual inline memory module) that uses SDRAM devices. A RAM expansion SO-DIMM for the iBook must use SDRAM devices. If the user installs an SO-DIMM that uses EDO or SGRAM devices, the computer will beep several times when the user attempts to restart the computer. L An SO-DIMM for the iBook can contain either 32, 64, or 128 MB of memory. Total RAM capacity using devices currently available is 160 MB and is limited by the space available for the SO-DIMM. The slot can accommodate a 1.25-inch SO-DIMM. Mechanical Design of the RAM SO-DIMM The mechanical characteristics of the RAM expansion module are given in the JEDEC specication for the 144-pin 8-byte DRAM SO-DIMM. The specication number is JEDEC MO-190-C; it is available from the Electronics Industry Associations web site, at The specication denes SO-DIMMs with nominal heights of 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, or 2.0 inches. The iBook can accommodate an SO-DIMM with a height of up to 1.25 inches. The JEDEC specications for the heights of the SO-DIMM gives a plus-or-minus 0.15 mm tolerance. In the iBook, the specied height for the SO-DIMM is the maximum height. L The JEDEC specication denes the maximum depth or thickness of an SO-DIMM as 3.8 mm. That specication is also a maximum: Modules that exceed the specied thickness can cause reliability problems. Electrical Design of the RAM SO-DIMM The electrical characteristics of the RAM SO-DIMM are given in section 4.5.6 of the JEDEC Standard 21-C, release 7. The specication is available from the Electronics Industry Associations web site, at The specication denes several attributes of the DIMM, including storage capacity and conguration, connector pin assignments, and electrical loading. The specication supports SO-DIMMs with either one or two banks of memory. The JEDEC specication for the SO-DIMM denes a Serial Presence Detect (SPD) feature that contains the attributes of the module. SO-DIMMs for use in the iBook are required to have the SPD feature. Information about the required values to be stored in the presence detect EEPROM is in section 4.1.2.5 and Figure 4.5.6C (144 Pin SDRAM SODIMM, PD INFORMATION) of the JEDEC standard 21-C specication, release 7. Because the SO-DIMM connector has only two clock lines, and each clock line is limited to only 4 loads, an SO-DIMM with more than 8 SDRAM devices must have buffers on the clock lines. The buffers must be zero-delay type, such as phase-lock loop (PLL), which regenerates the clock signals. For example, the computer can support a 128-MB SO-DIMM using 16 devices and a PLL clock buffer. SDRAM Devices The SDRAM devices used in the RAM expansion modules must be self-refresh type devices for operation from a 3.3-V power supply. The speed of the SDRAM devices must be 66 MHz or greater, corresponding to a cycle time of 15 ns or less. The computer may have 100-Mhz parts installed. This is normal, and does not indicate that the memory bus is running faster than the specied 66 MHz. N The devices are programmed to operate with a CAS latency of 3. At that CAS latency, the access time from the clock transition must be 7 ns or less. The burst length must be at least 4 and the minimum clock delay for back-to-back random column access cycles must be a latency of 1 clock cycle. ROM in RAM The system software in the iBook uses the ROM-in-RAM approach also used in the iMac and the 1999 Power Macintosh G3 computer. With the ROM-in-RAM approach, also called the NewWorld design, a small ROM contains the code needed to initialize the hardware and load an operating system. The rest of the system code that formerly resided in ROM is loaded into RAM from disk or from the network. The small ROM that is needed for the computers start-up activities, called the boot ROM, is only 1 MB in size. It includes the hardware specic code and tables needed to start up the computer, to run Open Firmware, to provide common hardware access services, and to load the Mac OS ROM image. High level software resides in an image called the Mac OS ROM that is read into RAM before the Mac OS begins operation. Once the Mac OS begins operation, the Mac OS ROM image in RAM behaves in the same way that the corresponding code in ROM formerly did. Most of the changes are completely transparent to the Mac OS. Aspects of the New Approach Some aspects of the ROM-in-RAM approach are apparent in the operation of the system. RAM Footprint The iBook computer has its Mac OS ROM image stored in RAM. The area of RAM that contains the Mac OS ROM image is excluded from the available memory space and is marked as read-only. This removes approximately 3 megabytes of RAM from availability for other uses. In effect, a system with 32 megabytes of RAM appears to have only 29 megabytes available. Startup Disk Control Panel Setting the startup device from the Startup Disk control panel makes the changes to the boot process that are needed for the ROM-in-RAM approach. The Startup Disk control panel modies the Open Firmware NV-RAM partition that contains the Open Firmwares conguration variables. The previous API for controlling the startup device selection, using _GetDefaultStartup and _SetDefaultStartup, is not effective on computers that use the ROM-in-RAM approach. L Data Structures and Files The Mac OS ROM image is contained in a new le, named Mac OS ROM, that is kept in the System Folder. The Mac OS ROM image is the same as it would be if it were an actual Mac OS ROM, containing the high-level software, the kernel software, and the 68K emulator. Memory Mapping With the ROM-in-RAM approach, memory is not mapped one-to-one as it has been for previous PCI-based Macs. This could be a compatibility issue with some software. Software that assumes the logical and physical addresses are the same will fail, even when virtual memory is not on. Well-behaved software that is, software that always calls the LogicalToPhysical or PrepareMemoryForIO functions when it needs a physical memory addresswill continue to work. Designers of DMA device drivers should refer to Designing PCI Cards and Drivers for Power Macintosh Computers for information about using the PrepareMemoryForIO function to set up mapping for physical and logical addresses. The relevant section is on pages 219229. For device drivers running with the NewWorld software, the sentence on page 227 that says Certain DMA transactions require both mapping tables should be interpreted to mean All DMA transactions require both mapping tables. L Boot Process The boot process for the iBook is similar to that for other Macintosh computers that use the ROM-in-RAM approach. The iBook does not have the ability to start up in response to the power key on an external Apple USB keyboard. N The PowerPC processor executes its reset vector as dened by the Hardware Initialization code. This code runs diagnostics tests, and when enough hardware initialization has been performed to run Open Firmware, the boot beep sound is played and Open Firmware begins executing. The Open Firmware module probes the systems I/O buses to determine the device conguration and builds a device tree describing the hardware it nds. The boot device, selected by the user with the Startup Disk control panel, is stored in Open Firmwares NVRAM. Open Firmware attempts to locate that boot device (which may be a hard disk, CD, or network connection); if it is not found, Open Firmware searches for a suitable boot device according to a predetermined search order. Once the boot device has been found, the Mac OS ROM image is loaded into memory, decompressed, and write-protected so that it behaves just like a ROM. The user may interrupt Open Firmwares boot device selection by holding down the option key while booting. This invokes the OS Picker, an Open Firmware application that lets the user select an alternate operating system or boot device. The default OS is the Mac OS ROM image, loaded from the current startup device. Some of the Mac OS ROM boot code is written in 68K code. In order to run the 68K ROM, the PowerPC Nanokernel is loaded, and the emulator task is started. The emulator begins executing code in the 68K ROM. This code uses the device tree provided by Open Firmware to install device drivers, Macintosh OS Services (referred to as Toolbox Managers), and nally the ROM loads the rest of the operating system from the startup device. Power Saving Modes The iBook meets the following energy saving standards: Energy Saver Energy Star (US) To meet those standards, the default conguration of the computer must draw less than 7 watts in Sleep mode and less than 5 watts in off mode, while plugged into the AC adapter and with the battery removed. The power manager has been redesigned to reduce power consumption in Sleep mode. The new version, Power Manager 2.0, is a native Mac OS manager designed to implement common power management policy across all Macintosh models by means of the new Power Plugin component. With the new power management architecture, the following operating modes are dened: Run Single: One processor is running at maximum processing capacity. Idle One: The system is idling. All clocks are running and the system can return to running code within a few nanoseconds. In a single processor system, the main processor is stopped in DOZE mode. Cache coherency is maintained in this level of idle. Idle Two: The system is in power saving mode. This mode is entered only when a system has been in Idle one state for a substantial period of time (a half second or so) with no activity. In a single processor system, the main processor cache is ushed, and the processor is put into sleep modethe external processor bus clock is stopped. The delay in coming out of this state is on the order of a millisecond. Cache coherency is maintained by the ush on entry. Sleep: The system is completely shut down, with only the DRAM state preserved for quick recovery. All processors are powered off with their state preserved in DRAM. All clocks in the system are suspended except for the 32.768Khz timebase crystal on the PMU99 IC. The computer automatically enters Idle mode after several seconds of inactivity. This mode easily meets the requirement of less than 7 watts of power consumption. While the computer is in Idle mode, if it is attached to a network, it is able to respond to service requests and other events directed to the computer. Idle mode is not the same as Sleep mode. The computer cannot respond to network activity when it is in Sleep mode. To prevent the computer from going into Sleep mode, the Sleep setting in the Energy Saver control panel must be set to Never. Although the current public Power Manager interfaces will be maintained for application compatibility, this is a major revision that may affect developers. Information about the API changes for Power Manager 2.0 is available in a technote, which can be obtained from the web site at Suspend and Resume Suspend and resume provides a way for the computer to shut off or lose power and then, once power returns, restore the system to the state before the power loss. The Suspend feature saves the computers RAM contents on the hard disk before turning off the power. The difference between the Suspend state and normal power off is the presence of the saved RAM contents, along with some other hardware information, on the hard disk. Drivers are required to save whatever is necessary to restore state after a loss of power. L The Energy Saver control panel has a checkbox that lets the user specify whether or not to save memory before the system goes into Sleep mode. The default is yes. The Energy Setting control strip has two new items: one saves memory to disk and goes to Sleep; the second saves memory and shuts off. When the user presses the power key, the computer starts up and automatically reloads the RAM contents from the hard disk. The computer goes through a process similar to a normal boot, but it does not display the startup screen or the extension icons. It restores the prior state and resumes execution of whatever application was active at the time the system shut down. Sleep and wake queues are executed for Suspend and Resume. ATA Manager 4.0 Mac OS 8.6 includes ATA Manager 4.0, which has a modular design similar to that of SCSI Manager 4.3. This modularity provides the exibility to have multiple ATA controllers working at the same timefor example, those for the Ultra ATA and ATA interfaces. ATA Manager 4.0 supports both controllers together by including ATA Interface Modules (AIMs) for both. With this new modular design, the ATA Manager and the ATA Interface Modules (AIMs) divide the responsibilities. The ATA Manager is responsible for registering ATA plug-ins routing each request to the appropriate plug-in calling completion routines for asynchronous calls ATA Interface Modules are responsible for handling each request error handling returning errors USB Drivers A USB Services Library layer provides hardware abstraction. Below it is the UIM (USB Interface Module) that communicates with the USB hardware in the KeyLargo IC. Above it are the device drivers that are loaded dynamically when new devices are plugged onto the bus. The system software in the iBook has an ADB shim layer to allow USB keyboards and mice to appear as legacy ADB devices. The PMU99 provides the interfaces to the keyboard and mouse and communicates with the system by simulating ADB packets that are interpreted by the ADB Manager. For external USB mice and keyboards to be fully compatible and interoperate seamlessly with the built-in keyboard and trackpad, an ADB shim is used to convert USB mouse and keyboard events into ADB packets. The built-in trackpad and keyboard also appear to the system as ADB devices, as described in the section Power Controller IC (page 26). N SCSI Legacy Although there is no SCSI connector on the iBook, the high-level SCSI interfaces will remain in the system. That allows for possible future support for SCSI devices using a USB to SCSI adapter. Such an adapter would take the USB commands coming from the USB port and convert them into SCSI commands to send to the drive. A SCSI driver would also need to be written that would take the SCSI commands coming from the system and embed them in USB commands that would be sent to the device through the adapter. The iBook doesnt have SCSI disk mode. To transfer les to and from another computer, the user should connect the machines using Ethernet. N Other New Features The system software for the iBook supports several other new features. Sound Software Components The sound system in the iBook is the rst such implementation on any Macintosh computer. To support this new hardware, a Sound HAL (hardware abstraction layer) has been written. In addition to the HAL, a port handler has been written to describe the hardware capabilities. I2S-based The Sound Manager API has not been changed. N Keyboard and Key Caps The built-in keyboard has several new features. Several of the keys on the keyboard have more than one mode of operation. The function keys can also control the display and speakers; the keys on the right side of the keyboard can also be used as a numeric keypad; and certain control keys can also be used as page-control keys. The Keyboard Control Panel has been changed to support these new features, as described in the section Keyboard (page 41). External keyboards connected using USB will work. The image displayed by Key Caps toggles when input from a new keyboard is detected. Onscreen Display The iBook uses on-screen display meters for its sound and display control buttons. There are separate on-screen display meters for display brightness, sound volume, and mute. VIA WEP WLAN versatile interface adapter Wired Equivalent Privacy wireless LAN abbreviations 73 access point. See base station access to internal components 41, 55 ADB shim layer, for USB compatibility 70 AirPort Application 34 AirPort Base Station 33 AirPort Card 26, 3234 hardware components 33 security features 33 software base station 33 software components 34 AirPort Control Strip Module 34 AirPort Setup Assistant 34 AirPort Utility 34 ATA devices, TechNote for 10 ATA Device Software Guide 10, 35 ATA disk interface 35 ATA hard disk 35 See also hard disk drive ATA Manager 4.0 68 cache. See backside cache CD-ROM drive 40 class drivers 69 clock speeds 22 compatibility issues 1617, 70 I/O devices not present 16, 70 legacy drivers 70 machine identication 17 no expansion bay 16 RAM expansion 16 system software 17 USB devices 16 computer identication 65 connectors Ethernet 31 hard disk drive 37 headphone jack 50 modem 32 USB 28 custom ICs KeyLargo I/O controller 24 Uni-N memory controller and bridge IC 23 backside cache 22 block diagram 21 boot ROM 24, 60 contents of 6364 hardware initialization code in 63 box ag 65 buses 20, 23 DACA IC 25, 50 device drivers 64 device tree 64 displays at panel 49 driver software 69 I N D E X Ethernet controller IC 24 Ethernet driver 69 ethernet port 31 IDE disk interface. See ATA disk interface IDE hard disk 35 See also hard disk drive internal modem 32 interrupts 64 interrupt tree 64 features 14 at panel display 49 oppy driver, disabled 70 function keys, alternate functions of 47 Function-keys checkbox, in Keyboard control panel 45 JEDEC specications for RAM SO-DIMMs 55 G3 microprocessor 22 reference information 10 gestaltMachineType call 65 graphics address remapping table (GART) 24 graphics controller IC 49 graphics IC 24 keyboard 4148 control keys with alternate functions 48 effect of Function-keys checkbox 45 Fn key 45 function keys, user assignable 47 keys with multiple functions 42 Num Lock key 45 PMU99 interface for 26 removing 41, 55 Keyboard Control Panel assignable key functions 47 Keyboard control panel 45 keyboards, USB 72 Key Caps 72 KeyLargo I/O controller IC 24 hard disk connector 37 pin assignments on 37 signals on 39 hard disk drive 3540 connector ATA signals on 39 pin assignments on 37 dimensions and mounting holes 35 hardware initialization code 63 L2 cache 22 legacy drivers 70 low-energy mode 67 Mac OS 8.6, TechNote for 10 Mac OS ROM image le 61 ATA Manager in 68 computer identication mechanism of 65 Ethernet driver 69 power saving modes 66 idle one 66 idle two 67 run single 66 sleep 67 SCSI interfaces in 70 suspend and resume 67 USB drivers in 68 Mac OS ROM Image le, changes to 6471 Mac OS software 60 Max bus 20 memory sizing 63 Micronas sound IC 25, 50 microprocessor 22 modem, internal 32 Power button Turn your iBook G4 on and off or put it to sleep. Power adapter port Plug in the included Apple Portable Power Adapter to recharge your iBook G4 battery. AirPort Extreme antenna With an optional AirPort Extreme Card and an AirPort Extreme Base Station or other wireless hub, connect to the Internet wirelessly. For additional information about AirPort Extreme or your optical drive, see Chapter 3, Using Your Computer, on page 31. LL2541Q7X.book Page 8 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Additional Features of Your iBook G4 Battery G Ethernet port (10/100Base-T) FireWire 400 port Security slot f Headphone W Internal modem port USB 2.0 ports Video out port LL2541Q7X.book Page 9 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Internal modem port Connect a standard phone line directly to the internal modem. Ethernet port (10/100Base-T) Connect to a high-speed 10/100Base-T Ethernet network or connect to another computer and transfer files. The Ethernet port auto-sensing feature detects other Ethernet devices. You dont need an Ethernet crossover cable to connect to other Ethernet devices. FireWire 400 port Connect high-speed external devices, such as digital videocameras and external storage devices. For more information, see page 34. Two USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) ports Connect additional equipment to your iBook G4, such as printers, external storage devices, digital cameras, modems, keyboards, and joysticks. Video out (external monitor) port Connect to an external monitor or projection device that uses a VGA connector with the included Apple VGA Display Adapter. You can also use an Apple Video Adapter (sold separately) to connect to a television, VCR, or another video device. Headphone (audio line out) port Connect external speakers, headphones, or other sound output devices. Security slot Protect your iBook G4 by connecting a security cable. For additional information about these features, see Chapter 3, Using Your Computer, on page 31. LL2541Q7X.book Page 10 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Setting Up Your iBook G4 is designed so that you can set it up quickly and start using it right away. Step 1: Plug In the Power Adapter Plug the AC plug of your power adapter into an outlet and the power adapter plug into the iBook G4 power adapter port. AC plug Important: Be sure to snap the electrical prongs on your AC plug into their completely extended position before you plug the adapter into the outlet. Power adapter port Power adapter plug To extend the reach of your power adapter, you can attach the AC cord if desired. See Using Your Power Adapter on page 21. If you will be away from your iBook G4 for only a short time, put the computer to sleep. When the computer is in sleep, you can quickly wake it and bypass the startup process. To put the computer to sleep, do one of the following: Close the display. Choose Apple (K) > Sleep from the menu bar. Press the Power button () and click Sleep in the dialog that appears. Warning: Wait a few seconds until the white sleep light next to the display latch starts pulsating (indicating that the computer is in sleep and the hard disk has stopped spinning) before you move your iBook G4. Moving your computer while the hard disk is spinning can damage the hard disk, causing loss of data or the inability to start up from the hard disk. To wake the computer: If the display is closed, open it. Your iBook G4 automatically wakes from sleep when you open the display. If the display is already open, press the Power button () or any key on the keyboard. Shutting Down Your iBook G4 If you arent going to use your iBook G4 for a day or two, shut it down. To shut down your computer, do one of the following: Choose Apple (K) > Shut Down from the menu bar. Press the Power button () and click Shut Down in the dialog that appears. LL2541Q7X.book Page 16 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM If you plan to store your iBook G4 for an extended period of time, see Storing Your iBook G4 on page 69 for information on how to prevent your battery from draining completely. Calibrating Your New Battery To get the longest running time from your battery, complete the following steps sometime during the first week you have your iBook G4. To initially calibrate your battery, follow these steps: 1 Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your iBook G4 battery until the light on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged. 2 Disconnect the power adapter and use your iBook G4. When your battery gets low, you will see the first low-battery warning dialog on the screen. Continue to use your iBook G4 until it automatically 21 and Battery on page 45. To add a USB printer connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station, choose Rendezvous from the pop-up menu. 5 Select or enter your printer information and click Add. LL2541Q7X.book Page 26 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Monitoring Printing Once youve sent a document to a printer, you can monitor printing and halt or put it temporarily on hold. To monitor printing: Click the Printer icon in the Dock to open the Printer window. You can now see the print jobs in the print queue and work with them. For more information, open Mac OS Help and search for printing. Playing a CD and Connecting Headphones If youd like to listen to music while you work, insert a music CD in your optical drive. iTunes, an easy-to-use music player, will appear automatically on the screen. You can also connect headphones with a minijack to the headphone port of your iBook G4 for private listening right away. To learn more about iTunes, open Mac OS Help and choose Library > iTunes Help. To learn more about your optical drive, see Using Your Optical Drive on page 41. Warning: Listening to music at high volume over extended periods of time can damage your hearing. Keeping Your Software Up to Date You can connect to the Internet and automatically download and install the latest free software versions, drivers, and other enhancements from Apple. When you are connected to the Internet, Software Update checks Apples Internet servers to see if any updates are available for your computer. You can set your Mac to check the Apple server periodically and download and install updated software. LL2541Q7X.book Page 27 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM To check for updated software: 1 Open System Preferences. 2 Click the Software Update icon and follow the directions on the screen. For more information, search for Software Update in Mac OS Help. For the latest information on the Mac OS, go to the Mac OS website at. Connecting a Camera or Other FireWire or USB Device If you have a digital camera, videocamera, scanner, or other device that has a FireWire or USB connector, you can connect it to your iBook G4. Follow the installation instructions that came with your device. For more information about FireWire, see FireWire on page 34. For more information about USB, see Universal Serial Bus (USB) on page 32. Connecting to a Network If you want to connect your iBook G4 to an Ethernet network or a wireless network, see Ethernet (10/100Base-T) on page 38 and AirPort Extreme Wireless Networking and Internet Access on page 36 for more information about setting up an Ethernet or AirPort connection. Also open Mac OS Help and search for Ethernet or AirPort for further help. LL2541Q7X.book Page 28 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Using the Internet During the initial setup, you were instructed on how to connect to the Internet. If you need to change to a different type of connection, such as DSL, cable modem, Ethernet local area network (LAN), or AirPort Extreme network, you can find more information in Appendix C, Connecting to the Internet, on page 75. Using USB Devices To use a USB device with your computer, simply connect the device to the computer. Apple has already included software to work with many USB devices. Your computer automatically detects newly connected devices. Note: If your iBook G4 cannot find the correct software when you connect a USB device, you can either install the software that came with the device or follow the onscreen prompts to use the Internet to locate, download, and install the correct software. Chapter 3 Using Your Computer LL2541Q7X.book Page 33 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM USB Devices and Battery Power You can use USB devices, such as joysticks and keyboards, that get power from the USB connection instead of a separate power adapter with your iBook G4. However, these types of USB devices can cause your iBook G4 battery to become depleted faster. If you are using the device for an extended period, it is a good idea to connect the iBook G4 power adapter. dont allow Hi-Speed USB devices to operate at their maximum data speed. Most USB hubs have a power adapter and should be plugged into an outlet. USB hub For More Information on USB Additional information on USB is available in Mac OS Help. Choose Help > Mac Help in the menu bar and search for USB. You can also find information on the Apple USB website at. For information on USB devices available for your computer, check the Macintosh Products Guide at. LL2541Q7X.book Page 34 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM FireWire Your computer has one FireWire 400 port ( ). With FireWire, you can easily connect and disconnect external high-speed devicessuch as DV cameras, printers, scanners, and hard diskswithout restarting your computer. These are some of the things you can do with FireWire: Connect a digital videocamera and capture, transfer, and edit high-quality video directly on your computer using video-editing software such as iMovie or Final Cut Pro. Connect an external FireWire hard disk drive and use it to back up data or transfer files. Start up from an external FireWire hard disk. Connect an external FireWire hard disk (with a valid operating system installed on it), open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences, and click the FireWire hard disk. Restart your computer. Transfer files between your iBook G4 and another FireWire-equipped computer using FireWire Target Disk Mode. For More Information on FireWire Additional information on FireWire is available in Mac OS Help. Choose Help > Mac Help in the Finder menu bar and search for FireWire. You can also find information on the Apple FireWire website at. LL2541Q7X.book Page 36 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM AirPort Extreme Wireless Networking and Internet Access Your iBook G4 is AirPort-ready. AirPort Extreme offers an easy and affordable way to provide wireless Internet access anywhere in the home, at work, or in the classroom. Instead of using traditional cables, AirPort Extreme uses wireless local area network (LAN) technology to provide wireless communication between multiple computers. Through a wireless network you can set up access to the Internet, transfer files, play multiplayer games, and more. If you ordered an AirPort Extreme Card when you purchased your iBook G4, a card is already installed. If you do not have an AirPort Extreme Card installed and would like to install one, see Installing an AirPort Extreme Card or Additional Memory on page 51. The AirPort Extreme Card is compatible with both the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station and the original Apple AirPort Base Station and any 802.11b or 802.11g compliant products. Note: Wireless Internet access requires an AirPort Extreme Card, AirPort Extreme Base Station or AirPort Base Station, and Internet access (fees may apply). Some Internet service providers are not currently compatible with AirPort. Range may vary with site conditions. How AirPort Extreme Provides Wireless Internet Access With AirPort Extreme, you set up a wireless connection to a device known as a base station, which has a physical connection to the Internet. AirPort Extreme technology works like a cordless telephone. The AirPort Extreme Card in the computer makes a wireless connection to the base station, which is connected to the telephone line or a DSL or cable modem. Connection to the Internet AC outlet AirPort Extreme Base Station LL2541Q7X.book Page 37 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM For More Information on AirPort Extreme To purchase an AirPort Extreme Base Station, contact your Apple Authorized Reseller or go to the Apple Store at. Additional information on AirPort Extreme is available in AirPort Help. Choose Help > Mac Help, then choose Library > AirPort Help from the Help Viewer menu bar. You can also find information on the Apple AirPort website at or at. Using Bluetooth Devices If you purchased a Bluetooth module, your iBook G4 can connect to and transfer information wirelessly to devices that use Bluetooth wireless technology, such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Bluetooth wireless technology can help eliminate the need for the cables that traditionally connect devices together. Devices with Bluetooth wireless technology can connect to each other wirelessly within a 10-meter (33-foot) range. Bluetooth wireless technology devices include: Computers Cell phones Peripherals (keyboard, mouse, and so on) PDAs With Bluetooth wireless technology, you can do the following: Use your iBook G4 to communicate with a mobile phone equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology. Your phone can act as a modem to connect you to a wireless service provider, at speeds of up to 56 kilobits per second (kbit/s), so you can use your mobile phone to access the Internet. Communicate with your handheld PDA. Using iSync, you can perform a hot sync operation without cables or send your business card or calendar events directly to a colleagues PDA. Transfer small files between computers, even Mac to PC, using the transfer utility. Apple still recommends the use of AirPort Extreme wireless networking, however, for anything but the smallest files. For More Information on Using an External Monitor or TV Additional information on using and configuring an external monitor is available in Mac OS Help. Choose Help > Mac Help from the menu bar and search for monitor. Using Your Optical Drive You can install or use software from CDs using your optical drive and from DVD discs if your computer has a Combo drive. You can play multimedia on CD discs and music from audio CDs. If your iBook G4 has a Combo drive, your optical drive can also write music, documents, and other digital files onto CD-R and CD-RW discs, and play DVD movies and use most DVD discs. If you have an optional SuperDrive, you can record DVD movies and other information on DVD-R discs. Important: The optical drive on your iBook G4 supports standard circular 12 cm discs. Irregularly shaped discs or discs smaller than 12 cm are not supported. Noncircular discs may become lodged in the drive. LL2541Q7X.book Page 42 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Inserting a CD or DVD Disc To install or use programs from a CD or DVD disc: 1 With the computer turned on, insert the disc (with the label facing up) into the drive slot until you feel the drive catch the disc and take it the rest of the way in. The disc may need to be inserted nearly all the way in before the drive takes it in the rest of the way. This is normal. Note: Some DVD discs are two-sided. To use the second side, you need to flip the disc over. 2 When the icon for the disc appears on the desktop, the disc is ready to use. Ejecting a Disc To eject a disc, do one of the following: Drag the disc icon to the Trash. Press and hold the Media Eject ( ) key on the keyboard until the disc ejects. Allow the disc to fully eject before removing or reinserting it. If you cant eject the disc, quit any applications that may be using the disc and try again. If that doesnt work, restart the computer while holding down the trackpad button. LL2541Q7X.book Page 43 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Playing DVD-Video Discs If your iBook G4 has a Combo drive or optional SuperDrive, you can play a DVD-Video disc. Insert the DVD-Video disc in the drive and open DVD Player. Youll find DVD Player provides easy-to-use controls for starting, stopping, and viewing DVDs. If your iBook G4 is connected to a TV, you can watch a DVD-Video on the TV screen. You can also connect your iBook G4 to your stereo system. Use a miniplug-to-RCA cable (not included) to connect the headphone (f ) port on your iBook G4 to the audio input ports on your stereo. Recording CD-R and CD-RW Discs If your iBook G4 has a Combo drive, you can record data on CD-R and CD-RW discs. To record data on a CD-R or CD-RW disc: 1 Insert a blank disc into the optical drive. 2 In the dialog that appears, enter a name for the disc. An icon for the disc appears on the desktop. 3 Drag files and folders to the disc icon. 4 Click the Burn Disc icon beside the disc name in the Finder Sidebar. You can also record music on CD-R or CD-RW discs right from your iTunes library. To record music from your iTunes library: 1 Click the iTunes icon in the Dock. 2 Select the playlist you want to record. 3 Insert a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc. 4 At the top of the iTunes window, click Burn CD. Chapter 5 Troubleshooting LL2541Q7X.book Page 63 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM If you recently installed additional memory, make sure that it is correctly installed and that it is compatible with your computer. See whether removing it allows the computer to start up (see page 51). If you are still unable to start up your computer, see the service and support information that came with your iBook G4 for information on contacting Apple for service. If the display suddenly goes black or your system freezes Try restarting your system. 1 Unplug any devices that are connected to your iBook G4 except the power adapter. 2 Hold down the Command (x) and Control keys and press the Power button () to restart the system. 3 Let the battery charge to at least 10 percent before plugging in any external devices and resuming your work. To see how much the battery has recharged, look at the Battery status icon in the menu bar. Other Problems If you forgot your password You can reset your administrator password. 1 Insert your Install disc. restart your computer and hold down the C key as it starts up. If you have two iBook G4 Software Install and Restore DVDs, insert the first disc into your computer. Then restart your computer and hold down the C key as it starts up. 2 Choose Installer > Reset Password from the menu bar. Follow the instructions on the screen. If you have a problem with an application For problems with software from a manufacturer other than Apple, contact the manufacturer. Software manufacturers often provide software updates on their websites. You can configure your iBook G4 to automatically check for and install the latest Apple software using the Software Update pane of System Preferences. For more information, choose Help > Mac Help from the menu bar and search for Software Update. LL2541Q7X.book Page 64 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM If you have trouble using AirPort Extreme wireless communication Make sure you have properly configured the software according to the instructions that came with your AirPort Extreme Card or base station. Make sure the computer or network you are trying to connect to is running and has a wireless access point. Make sure you are within antenna range of the other computer or the networks access point. Nearby electronic devices or metal structures can interfere with wireless communication and reduce this range. Repositioning or rotating the computer may improve reception. Check the AirPort Extreme signal level. Check the AirPort status icon in the menu bar. Up to four bars appear to show signal strength. See AirPort Help (choose Help > Mac Help, then choose Library > AirPort Help from the menu bar) and the instructions that came with the wireless device for more information. If you have trouble ejecting a disc Quit any applications that may be using the disc and try again. If that doesnt work, restart the computer while holding down the trackpad button. If you suspect a problem with your computer hardware You can use the Apple Hardware Test application to help determine if there is a problem with one of your computers components, such as the memory or processor. If your iBook G4 came with two Software Install and Restore DVDs, Apple Hardware Test is on the first Software Install and Restore DVD. If your iBook G4 came with a series of Software Install CDs and another series of Software Restore CDs, Apple Hardware Test is on a separate Apple Hardware Test CD. To use Apple Hardware Test: 1 Disconnect all external devices from your computer except the keyboard and mouse. If you have an Ethnernet cable connected, disconnect it. 2 Start up your computer using Apple Hardware Test: If you have the Apple Hardware Test CD, insert it into your computer. Then restart your computer and hold down the C key as it starts up. If you have two iBook G4 Software Install and Restore DVDs, insert the first disc into your computer. Then restart your computer and hold down the Option key as it starts up. A list of available startup volumes appears. Click Apple Hardware Test and click the right arrow. 3 When the Apple Hardware Test main screen appears, follow the onscreen instructions. LL2541Q7X.book Page 65 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM 4 If Apple Hardware Test detects a problem, it displays an error code. Make a note of the error code before pursuing support options. If Apple Hardware Test does not detect a hardware failure, the problem may be software-related. For more information about Apple Hardware Test, see the Apple Hardware Test Read Me file on the Apple Hardware Test CD or on the first Software Install and Restore DVD. If you have problems with your Internet connection Make sure your telephone line or network cable is connected and functioning properly. If you are using a dial-up Internet connection, make sure that your telephone cord is plugged into the modem port (marked with the W icon) and not the Ethernet port (marked with the G icon) on the computer. Open the Network pane of System Preferences and verify the information entered there with your Internet service provider (ISP) or network administrator. If you have a problem using your computer or working with the Mac OS If the answers to your questions are not in this manual, look in Mac OS Help for instructions and troubleshooting information. Check the Apple Support website at for the latest troubleshooting information and software updates. 3 Type the information into the corresponding fields. If you want all users of your computer to use the same connection method, select Save password. Note: To connect automatically when you start a TCP/IP application, such as a web browser or email, click PPPoE Options, then select Connect automatically when needed. LL2541Q7X.book Page 86 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM 4 Click TCP/IP and choose either Using PPP or Manually from the Configure IPv4 pop-up menu, as instructed by your ISP. If you have a static IP address from your ISP, choose Manually and type the address in the IP Address field. 5 Type the domain name server (DNS) addresses in the DNS Servers field. 6 Click Apply Now. Once you configure your network, your Internet connection is ready. You can open your web browser or other TCP/IP application to test your connection. Important: If you did not select the option to connect automatically, you will need to open the Internet Connect application, choose the correct configuration, and then click Connect. For more information, choose Help > Internet Connect Help from the menu bar at the top of the display. LL2541Q7X.book Page 87 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM AirPort Extreme Wireless Connection You can configure your AirPort Extreme network and Internet connection using AirPort Setup Assistant, located in the Utilities folder within your Applications folder. The assistant helps you configure the AirPort Extreme Base Station and set up your computer to use AirPort Extreme. For more information about your AirPort Extreme Base Station, see the AirPort Extreme Base Station Setup Guide that came with your base station. If your AirPort Extreme Base Station is already configured, in most cases your AirPort Extreme Card is ready to access it immediately. To check if you have access to an AirPort Extreme network: LL2541Q7X.book Page 94 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM How does the Mac OS X interface work? Users new to Mac OS X often have questions about how to carry out certain tasks. Your best source for Mac OS X information is Mac OS Help. Youll find introductory explanations for new users, users switching from Windows computers, and users upgrading from Mac OS 9. Open Mac OS Help by choosing Mac Help from the Help menu in the Finder menu bar at the top of your screen. Browse the new user information listed there. Many of the basic tasks users are interested in involve the Finder, so try searching for Finder, too. How do I make my iBook G4 battery last longer? Remember to calibrate your battery when you first use it (see page 16). disk drives, that get power from your computer can also shorten the amount of time your battery lasts. You can conserve battery power by disconnecting such devices. You can also purchase an additional battery that you can switch into your computer when power gets low. For more information about conserving battery power, see Battery-Conservation Tips on page 48. I put a disc in my optical drive, but nothing happened. How do I know if the disc is compatible with my optical drive? Press the Media Eject ( ) key to eject the disc. Apple slot-loading optical drives support only round 12 cm discs. Nonstandard discs with noncircular shapes do not work in the optical drive. For more information about nonstandard discs, check the AppleCare Knowledge Base at. Warning: Inserting a nonstandard disc into the optical drive may damage the drive. How do I connect a monitor or TV to my iBook G4? Your iBook G4 comes with an external monitor port and an adapter for connecting devices with VGA connectors. You can also purchase an Apple Video Adapter and use it to connect many commonly used monitors, TVs, and video displays. If your device has a connector that is different from the adapter included with your iBook G4, you need to purchase a different adapter to connect it to the iBook G4. To see the adapter included with your iBook G4, see page 5. For more information about connecting displays and other devices, see External Video Support (VGA, Composite, and S-Video) on page 39. Appendix D Top Ten Questions LL2541Q7X.book Page 95 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM Class 1 label Service warning label Laser Specifications for Combo Drive Laser on pickup unit when reading a DVD: Type: Semiconductor laser GaAs/In(GaAI)P/InGaP Wavelength: nm Power out of objective lens: 0.33 mW Beam divergence: 20 ~ 35 (Typical 27) Laser on pickup unit when reading a CD: Type: Semiconductor laser AIGaAs/GaAs Wavelength: nm Power out of objective lens: Read = 1.0 mW, Write = 80.0 mW Beam divergence: 14.5 ~ 17.5 (Typical 16) Laser Specifications for CD Laser on pickup unit when reading a CD: Type: Semiconductor laser AIGaAs Wavelength: 78 ~ 800 nm (Typical 790 nm) Power out of objective lens: Read =.11 mW, Beam divergence: 14 ~ 20 (Typical 17) ENERGY STAR Compliance As an ENERGY STAR partner, Apple has determined that standard configurations of this product meet the ENERGY STAR guidelines for energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR program is a partnership with office product equipment manufacturers to promote energy-efficiency. Reducing energy consumption of office products saves money and reduces pollution by eliminating wasted energy. Battery Disposal Information Dispose of batteries according to your local environmental laws and guidelines.. Telephone and Apple 56K Modem Information Notify Your Telephone Company Some telephone companies require that you notify the local business office when you hook up a modem to their lines. LL2541Q7X.book Page 99 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM. Ringer equivalence number (REN): 0.1B The REN is useful to determine the quantity of devices you may connect to your telephone lines and still doesnt work, there may be a problem with your telephone line. Disconnect the modem to see if the problem goes away. If it doesnt, report the problem either to your local telephone company or to your companys telecommunications people. If disconnecting the modem eliminates the problem, the modem itself may need service. See the service and support information that came with your Apple product for instructions on how to contact Apple or an Apple-authorized file a complaint with the FCC. The telephone company may make changes in its facilities, equipment, operations, or procedures that could affect the operation of your equipment. If this happens, the telephone company will provide advance notice in order for you to make the necessary modifications to maintain uninterrupted service. LL2541Q7X.book Page 104 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM controls brightness 7 volume 7 hand positions 73 headphone port 9 DHCP 78 configuration 84 dial-up connection 79 modem 78 dialup connection 75 discs compatible 94 display cleaning 69 goes black 63 mirroring 40 release button 7 disposing of batteries 47, 98 downloading software 26 DSL 78, 81 modem 77 DVD burning 44 DVD discs 43 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) 81 image size 20 inserting a disc 42 installation instructions 5 installing AirPort Extreme Card 51 memory 55 internal modem 39 port 9 Internet configuration 80 connection 65, 93 using Setup Assistant 87 Internet service provider 75 inventory of items 5 ISP 75 LAN 81 connection 77, 78 locating your serial number 66 ejecting a disc 42 ergonomics 73 Ethernet networking capability 38 port 9, 38 external microphones 45 monitor 40 monitor port 9 Mac OS Mac OS X 24 interface 94 manual Internet configuration 83 manually using DHCP router option 77 Media Eject key 7 memory checking 59 microphone 7, 45 modem 11, 39 cable 75 DSL 75 monitoring a printer 25 mouse 23 multiple USB devices 33 fan noise 95 finding your serial number 66 FireWire cable 34, 35 devices and battery power 35 port 9, 34 Target Disk Mode 34, 35 Force Quit 29 frozen application 29 function key 7 Network Connections 91 networking two computers 34, 35 wireless 36 Network Setup Assistant 75, 93 numeric keypad 23 Num Lock key 7 general safety 71 green light 21 optical drive 7, 41 compatible discs 94 LL2541Q7X.book Page 105 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:52 PM disc sizes supported 41 password 95 resetting 95 playing a video 43 CDs 41 DVD-Video discs 43 plug AC 10 Point-to-Point Protocol 78, 81, 85 port Ethernet 9 external monitor 9 FireWire 9 headphone 9 internal modem 9 power adapter 7 USB 9 video out 9 power adapter 21, 70 port 7 Power button 7, 13 PPPoE 78 configuration 85 connections 78, 90 presentation mode (see display mirroring) 40 Print & Fax preferences 25 printing 25 setup 25 problems computer freezes 62 computer wont respond 61 computer wont turn on 62 display goes black 63 Internet connection 65, 90 pointer wont move 61 PPPoE connections 90 restoring your software 65 trouble ejecting a disc 64 trouble using AirPort 64 turning the computer on 14 with an application 63 putting your iBook G4 to sleep 15 reinstalling software 65, 95 removing the battery 46 replacing the battery 46 resetting your password 63 restoring software 65 RJ-11 cable 39 safety 71 power adapter 70 using your iBook GSDRAM specifications 51 security slot 9, 49 serial number 66 setting up 77 a printer 25, 93 to connect manually 78 setup assistant 12 shutting down 15 sleep 15 sleep indicator light 7 software installer 65 Software Update 26 speakers 7, 45 specifications SDRAM 51 static IP address 83 stopping an application 29 the computer 15 storing your iBook GSystem Preferences 24 Technical specifications Full description case resists impact. While that measure alone might have allowed iBook to comfortably survive everyday use and abuse, Apple engineers took the idea of protecting your investment quite seriously. Inside, a sturdy magnesium frame provides superior strength, while reducing the weight of the iBook G4 to well below that of other full-featured PC notebooks. Rubber mounted for added bump tolerance, the iBook's hard disk drive lets you store all of your digital goodies and still enjoy peace of mind. What's more, the iBook has no I/O doors or protruding elements - and no optical drive tray, either - to break or snap off when tucked into a backpack or briefcase. 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Coming in at number 7 is rice with pork chop, pork skin shavings and veggie side dishes. While not exactly a traditional dish, I lived on this for a few days because well, Pho 24 serves it and it's the only dish in their menu that's not Pho or spring rolls. And at the time, I was still a bit reluctant to eat on the streets or at local joints. Hey! I manned up eventually. That doesn't make this dish any less good though. I promise. Bo Kho If there was one sinful dish the Vietnamese had (and that's rare considering how fresh and healthy they eat), Bo Kho would be it. Basically, it's beef stew, but thicker, gloopier, and therefore, fatter than your normal beef stew. That's a good thing, because all that gloop comes from bone marrow, tendons and other fatty beef parts normally thrown out. It's so thick and oily and full of that very distinct beef flavor that you can't really eat it on its own. You need to dip some crusty, crunchy bread to the broth. Or not. It's just so sinfully good. Bale Well (Nem Nuong, Banh Xeo, Ram Cuon, Thit Nuong) This is probably one of the more interesting Vietnamese foodie experiences I've ever had. Bale Well is the name of the restaurant. At that restaurant, they serve only one thing. By "one thing," I mean many things but you have them all in one bite. No kidding. You sit down. They serve you everything in their menu. Yes, everything. That's grilled pork satay, rice pancakes, spring rolls, and fresh and fermented veggies. You put them all together in one roll of rice paper, dip it in peanut sauce and take a bite. As Tony Bourdain might say, you get "neighborhoods of flavor" in just one bite, from the smokiness of the pork to the freshness of the veggies and everything in between. If you are traveling through Hoi An in Central Vietnam, do visit this little restaurant, hidden in one of the alleys right outside the old town. If anything, it's a very big but very cheap meal costing only 100,000 VND (5 USD). Pho Cuon Remember Pho? Of course, you do. Now imagine all the flavorful ingredients of Pho: beef bits, soft rice noodles, and fresh veggies. But this time, imagine the ingredients not cooked in a broth but stuffed into a spring roll. Yes, that's Pho Cuon. It's beef and veggies wrapped into very soft rice paper dipped into a very light-tasting fish sauce. It's so good my Vietnamese friend says it is a very common afternoon snack with office workers in big city Hanoi in northern Vietnam. Admittedly, I would not have discovered this dish had I not met a local. He had to take us out of Hanoi's tourist district (that's the Old Quarter) and into a residential area to have some of this delicious snack. The walk alone was worth it. Com Ga Com Ga basically means chicken rice. But it's so much more than that. The rice itself is so full of flavor you basically taste the chicken with every grain. Add some sweet onions and mint leaves (which is ingenious, by the way) and you have yourself a very popular dish with locals and foreigners alike. This is one dish that has many versions, I think. The one I had (and I had it more than once) was in Hoi An, Central Vietnam. And that's good enough. Bun Cha To say that Bun Cha sustained me in cold, drizzly Hanoi is an understatement. Whenever I passed by a restaurant on the street in Hanoi's Old Quarter that was preparing it (and in Vietnam, they prepare everything street-side), I had to have some of it. It's grilled pork belly and pork patties (right there it's a winner already), twice-fried spring rolls all immersed, not just dipped, but immersed in a tangy broth made smoky by the grilled meat pieces swimming in it. You eat it with rice noodles and of course, veggies. Try to have all the ingredients in one bite (a theme in Vietnamese cuisine, I noticed) to get all the flavors the dish has to offer. It's a mouthful but it's worth it. Bun Thit Nuong Now we go to my favorite Vietnamese dish. Again, I had it in Hoi An. I sure ate a lot in that small town. Maybe it had to do with a fellow traveler I met there. He's French and you know the French with their food, right? He introduced me to this dish and I owe him my life for it. It's unfortunate that I only saw it there and not anywhere else in Vietnam (or maybe I was just too busy stuffing my face with Bun Cha?). Bun Thit Nuong is basically a salad with lots of lettuce, cucumber, thick rice noodles and big pieces of grilled pork satay. What brings them all together is the thick peanut sauce dressing, which I swear has some sort of fermented fish or shrimp paste in it. I am very familiar with that taste having grown up in the Philippines and all. Maybe that's why I liked it so much. It reminded me of a taste from home I never found anywhere else I traveled to. That's all of them, all the Vietnamese dishes I fell in love with traveling through this huge and very diverse Southeast Asian country. From hot and sticky southern Vietnam, to the cold and temperate north, I am sure there are a lot more tastes and sensations Vietnamese cuisine has to offer. I am glad I had a taste of it. I reckon I will want a bit more. Have you traveled through Vietnam as well? What dish is your favorite? What did you find the most delicious? Hey, traveler! Like this post? Any comments? Leave me a message below. A RETWEET or a LIKE would be very much appreciated, too. Sharing buttons at the beginning of this post and below. You can also subscribe to this site to get new posts via email:

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Summer is still going strong, meaning many homeowners are spending lots of time at home with their families and friends. Spending more time indoors often leads many homeowners to start thinking about how they want to improve their spaces and what companies they’ll need to hire to complete these projects. Make sure your home improvement company takes advantage of the summer heat by reading these marketing tips. Share Customer Pictures Homeowners are more likely to consider your services if they see examples of your work. That is why your website should include a “Gallery” page where you post pictures of your completed projects. You can also post pictures to your social media profiles so current and potential customers can see some of the work you’ve done and determine if they want to hire you. Social media platforms provide a space where you can ask happy customers to share pictures of the projects you’ve completed for them, allowing other people to see these pictures when they visit your page. You can also create an album on Facebook to keep these photos organized and make it easier for new visitors to find examples of all the different types of projects your company has completed. Provide Summertime Tips and Tutorials If you have a “Blog” page on your website, then you are likely always on the lookout for interesting tips and projects to write about and share with website visitors. There are many summertime projects that homeowners like to take on, providing you with a great supply of inspiration for creating new blog posts to publish throughout the season. People love to entertain friends and family with backyard cookouts during this time of the year, so consider writing blogs about remodeling the yard to make the most of this space or offering tips for maintaining a beautiful outdoor space. HVAC companies can offer their website visitors and social media fans tips for maintaining their air conditioning units over the summer, while interior design companies can write blogs about summer décor trends to try this year. The possibilities are endless—simply think about the types of projects you typically complete during the summer months and what your team thinks homeowners should know during the hottest months of the year. Run a Contest Everyone loves to win! Contests are exciting and benefit both companies and their customers, making them an excellent choice for companies who want to enhance their marketing efforts. When you run a contest, you’ll be able to reach out to more potential customers and build interest in your company, while one (or more) of your customers will win a prize. Summer is a great time for contests because homeowners will appreciate winning a home improvement-related prize when they have more free time and when they’re more likely to have company over. You can put a contest form on your website and share the link on social media or use social media for the contest by encouraging people to Like, comment, or share to enter for a chance to win. Ask Questions Interacting with people on social media is a great way to raise brand awareness, make customers feel heard, and increase loyalty. An easy way to interact through social media is to ask questions and encourage people to leave comments on your posts. You can start a conversation by posting a picture of a recent project and asking your fans and followers to leave a comment and talk about their favorite home features. When people leave comments, you can reply to them and ask more questions or simply thank them for participating. Customers who feel that they are truly being heard by a company will be more likely to remember and use that company again in the future. Offer Discounts How often do you run sales or offer your customers discounts on products and services? Giving your customers discounts can encourage them to try new products and services that they’ll enjoy, but might not have tried at full price. If you find yourselves doing less business over the summer, then discounts might be a good way to encourage more sales. Again, you can use social media to bring attention to summer specials on products and services. Include links to your website so that your fans and followers can get more details and find easy ways to contact you if they have questions about the deals. Giving your summer customers discounts on goods and services can make them more likely to use your company again for any future home improvement projects. Pennington Creative can help your home improvement business with these and other content marketing solutions. We can create custom blog posts, images, infographics, and social media posts that help your company build a strong online presence. Contact us today for more information about our services for businesses and agencies.

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Dolce & Gabbana finds itself at the center of controversy once again — this time, for a sneaker from its fall '17 collection which is being accused of equating beauty with thinness. As you probably saw (most likely, and fittingly, on Instagram), the Italian label's latest ready-to-wear collection was millennial-themed (and -cast). The runway was sprinkled with homages to the generation Dolce & Gabbana was courting: letterman jackets, graphic logo T-shirts, Justin Bieber merch, and DIY-look sneakers. And while the latter was meant to harken back to a time when we personalizing our kicks with colorful pens and cheeky sayings, one of the luxury brand's fall '17 slogans is missing the mark among D&G fans, Yahoo Style reports. Advertisement. He didn't add any additional commentary to the image, but as Yahoo Style noted, many began to jump in the comments section to address what they considered a problematic implication of that slogan. 'thin'?," and "You don't think it's a little [irresponsible] to push a message of 'thin.. She noted that this is a particularly big issue in the fashion industry, which has historically pushed forward a sample-sized ideal of beauty — a concern that's been top of mind for designers, models, editors, and influencers in the past few seasons, but still hasn't necessarily resulted in inclusive optics. "From billboards to social media, we live in a media-saturated environment that shapes how we see ourselves and others," Mysko added. "When the prevailing message is thin is good, gorgeous is good, that becomes our priority, often at the expense of our health and well-being." Advertisement .@dolcegabbana's "I’m Thin & Gorgeous" graffiti sneakers = #problematic. Here's why:— NEDA (@NEDAstaff) April 24, 2017 This contentious shoe style arrives a bit over a year after Dolce & Gabbana caught a lot of heat for marketing a $2,395 pair of shoes as "slave sandals." (The style was promptly renamed following the backlash.) More recently — and on a more personal note — Gabbana took to Instagram to apologize for body-shaming Lady Gaga after her Super Bowl halftime performance. As far as what the designer thinks of the debate going down in the comments section of his Instagram profile, though? Judging from his bio, odds are he's not particularly concerned: "WHO DOES NOT LOVE MY PROFILE PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME ❤," it reads. Noted. We've reached out to Dolce & Gabbana for comment and will update our story when we hear back. Advertisement

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When the hosting date of the Malaysian Food Fest for the state of Kelantan drew near I was very worried as I knew that it would be a very busy and crazy month for me. A new chapter in my life is starting as I am back into working world again. I know I will be crazy trying to juggle everything at once, my new daily routine and having to blog as well. As I had already said 'Yes' to hosting the Kelantan month, I would just do it and I intended to do it well. Throughout my blogging years, I have come across some not so nice characters but for each of that, I have encountered the good ones that come tenfold. For that, I am very blessed indeed, as these good people come to my rescue when I needed them the most. I was very worried that I would not have enough time to do research, the write ups and not forgetting the cooking itself which is the very essence of this whole scheme. The cooking is relatively easy but finding an authentic recipe and the ingredients is a bit of a challenge as living far away from home means I have to do without so many ingredients that are essential in many of the Kelantanese recipes. Throughout the MFF events I’ve learned many things and dishes from other states. One thing that stands out for me is authenticity of a dish. It cannot be determined per se as who is to say the dish originally came from one states. It is not uncommon in Malaysia for dishes to be begged or borrowed from other states, modified to suit local tastes and then claimed as their own. So let’s not be too critical or harsh if any of the dishes featured during this Kelantan MFF are not truly authentic. The whole idea of this feature is to introduce a specific region's food and encourage readers to try new and different foods outside their normal comfort zone. I am glad that so many of you accepted the challenge and joined in the fun. A special thank you to Nor of Secubit Garam for spreading the word amongst the blogger community and to get so many of you to participate, and also going the extra mile of providing me many of the pictures that appeared in the introduction posting. Also a special thank you to Cik Manggis of Jom Masak Jom Makan Makan for being my number one supporter... cooking a Kelantan based dish almost on a daily basis and also my good friend Shereen for being there for me. Also thank you to those of you who have let me use your photos and recipes, and who answered my many questions. Once again, a big, big thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you who participate and made Kelantan MFF a huge success with 99 entries and if I left out any of your dish in the round up please let me know and I will put them up. So without further ado here are all the dishes that I received. Appetizer/Salad Kerabu Sotong Kering by Gertrude of My Kitchen Snippets Somtam/Papaya Salad by Vivian of Vivian Pang Kitchen Somtam by Peng of Peng's Kitchen Chicken Kerabu by Lena of Frozen Wings Kerabu Taugeh Bersantan by Sheila of Nshafearee.. :) Tahniah tahniah Gert.Gembira sungguh.Kembang kuncup hidung hehe.Seronok melihat begitu byk resipi;)....terubat rindu pada masakan negeri kelahiran Cm.Taniah!!! Hi Gertrude, This is a awesome round up. Thanks for hosting this wonderful event :) mui Good Morning...Tahnih .. very2 happy and teruja...banyak betul resepi from kelantan tecinta...ada yg pernah jumpa dan x pernah rasa lg..dan ada yg x pernah lihat langsung.. next boleh i try any resepi di sini.....senyum sokmo... Tahniah Gert! tumpang happy dengan sambutan dari rakan2 blogger yg sgt menyokong.. i pun seronok dpt sama2 menyumbang resepi dari negeri Kelantan.. Tahniah Gert! saya suka...saya suka... saya suka Kelantan dishes..!! Congrats Gert and also to those participated in this KMFF...! Tq for inviting me. So sorry can't manage to join but I always come around to "jamu mata"...maybe next time. Glad to hear that nearly 100 dishes are served...I pulak yang drool tengok... ^__^ ;)

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TQ1649 : View Over Dorking, Surrey taken 10 years ago, near to Dorking, Surrey, Great Britain View Over Dorking, Surrey Taken from a narrow road which runs off South Street, properties in South Street and Dorking church can be seen. TIP: Click the map for Large scale mapping Change to interactive Map > Change to interactive Map > - Grid Square - TQ1649, 645 images (more nearby ) - Photographer - Peter Trimming (find more nearby) - Date Taken - Friday, 10 July, 2009 (more nearby) - Submitted - Sunday, 12 July, 2009 - Category - Town scene (more nearby) - Subject Location - OSGB36: TQ 164 493 [100m precision] WGS84: 51:13.8608N 0:20.0035W - Camera Location - OSGB36: TQ 164 49<<

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Today goes down as one of the 10 best memories of my life. Ever since Ava could talk, she has been singing. In fact, at Little Hearts when she was two, the class did a Thanksgiving Feast and were given Indian names. The teachers decided that hers should be, "Sings-A-Lot". She has been asking Josh for quite some time now to sing at church. Today her dream came true. I was so overcome with emotion for her. Watching your little girl be so brave when you know good and well she is shaking like a leaf. She started off a little shaking, but when she got it together, she was shining. Josh was awesome with her and I fell more in love with him today. I was truly blessed today. Below is the video as well as some pictures from today. A word of caution though, I am doing my normal "sway to the music" and didn't even realize I was doing it. The video is going to feel like your worst amusement ride. Sorry about that, but what can I say, I was side tracked. You know me!!! Podcast Ep 48: Rebekah “BexLife” Borucki Replay! 5 hours ago SO beautiful- i know you are one proud mamma!! She did amazing! What service was that at? The Well? We go to 930, but let me know next time she is singing- I want to come!! So beautiful and sweet! She needs to sing again very soon! Loved it:)

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Why San Diegans Should be Thankful for USD Athletics Credit: USD Athletics It’s clear and without question that the most followed college team in San Diego is the SDSU Aztecs. Most San Diego sports fans seem to minimize the accomplishments produced by the athletic teams wearing blue and white on the campus of USD. SDSU has almost thirty-four thousand undergraduates and multiple athletic teams that receive national media compared to less than six thousand undergrads at USD with little to no national recognition. There’s a huge difference between the two athletic programs, and the one that gets the most credit. The Aztecs have been the main subject in the local media outlets for a very long time as the Toreros are sometimes forgotten. Often overshadowed by the prevalence regarding the Aztecs, San Diegans don’t seem to view the USD Toreros as a major college team in San Diego. Historically, San Diego has focused on the Aztecs because of their rich history in athletics. The red and black representing the Aztecs can be seen pretty much anywhere around the city of San Diego on banners, billboards, and the city’s trolley system. The red and black color stands out to people as the preferred collegiate team to represent in America’s Finest City. First and foremost, San Diego sports fans underestimate the strength of USD athletics and the talent they recruit to play here. Go be thankful for the campus and the USD athletics program rivaling the SDSU Aztecs. The Athletics program at USD continues to trend upwards and still has kept historically top programs in volleyball and baseball. The Toreros have a very impressive football team that just clinched the Pioneer League. They finished the season going 9-2 while absolutely overpowering opposing teams in the Pioneer Conference. They will be looking to win their 10th game in a row and make a run to the FCS playoffs. The women’s volleyball team is currently ranked number 9 in the country and on a 14-game winning streak heading into the NCAA tournament next Saturday. They are considered a serious title contender and will be looking to bounce back from an early exit in the tourney last year. The men’s basketball team has started 4-0 for the first time since 2013 and coach Lamont Smith’s squad has looked nothing short of being able to compete in the WCC this season. On top of that, the USD men’s baseball team finished 35-19 last season and 18-9 in the WCC, tied for 4th place while narrowly missing an at large bid to the NCAA tournament. The Torero baseball program has produced plenty of Major League talent and Kris Bryant is a name everyone should acknowledge for his standout days at USD, along with Brian Matusz and current major league pitcher, Addison Reed. The football team has produced lots of NFL players including current QB Josh Johnson and cornerback Jamal Agnew, among many others. The controversial decision by Dean Spanos to move the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles left many of the city’s football fans seeking a new team they can support. With professional football no longer in America’s Finest City, the spotlight is now shining on the SDSU Aztecs as the city’s main football team. Although they play in a weaker conference, the Torero football team should not be overlooked by anyone. A potential move out of the FCS would be huge for the Toreros and help them gain more national and local media attention while providing a tougher schedule and better competition. For those betrayed Chargers fans that still want to support a local team, USD football is a smart choice. San Diegans should be thankful for the USD Toreros and the Division 1 athletics program that makes for a great compliment to San Diego sports. USD’s picturesque campus is composed of the Jenny Craig Pavilion, Fowler Park, and the Torero Stadium as the homes for its athletic teams. The athletic facilities are top-notch and should continue to attract local residents who grow to be more thankful for the blue and white from the University of San Diego. USD is another established Division 1 school that’s nationally acclaimed for its academics and has often underrated athletic programs that are trending to success and reaching new heights in the last two decades. San Diegans should take a look at the beautiful sights on Alcala Park and be thankful for the school, the campus, and its undervalued athletics program.

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Written on: 02/06/2011 Booked an all inclusive holiday to Turkey two weeks ago. Due to fly out tomorrow, recieved a phone call from Broadway Travel this morning advising that the hotel we had booked was closed. We were told it would not be ready until July, so why didn't they tell us this when we booked!! They offered another hotel but this was in a remote area and trip advisor reviews were terrible. Offered yet another hotel and told we would have to pay £13.00 pp extra.....why should we....we didn't cancel our hotel! So they waived the extra charge, but we were then told that this hotel was fully booked. Offered another hotel for an additional £120 pp. We said we couldn't afford this and were told basically take it or leave it. Said we wanted to a full refund and were told that if we cancelled this was subject to a 100% cancellation fee. There attitude was terrible...not at all helpful. Can't help feeling that this whole booking has been a scam. Why leave it until today to tell us that the hotel was closed. Broadway Travel look out, because we will report you to the office of Fair Trading and we will be taking legal action to recover our money. You have breached the terms of contract and offered a hotel that clearly was never going to be available for the dates booked. my advice to would be holiday makers....don;t use Broadway Travel...they are con artists!! As rated by real users " Quick, cheap airfare!!! " " Online system and queries " Written by oxomick " Great service with company " " Fantastic every time " Written by md.lee

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Troy Nagle was born in Booneville, Mississippi and grew up in Red Bay and Huntsville, Alabama. As a child he became interested in math and science, and went into electrical engineering at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa as an undergraduate, receiving his masters there as well. Nagle went to Auburn University for his doctorate, writing his dissertation in control systems, and then went on active duty for two years in the Ordnance Corps. While on active duty, Nagle served in the Army Missile Command in Huntsville, and then was posted in Vietnam working on electrical power systems. After active duty, Nagle returned to Auburn University as an assistant professor. Nagle later got an MD at the University of Miami to work in medical devices and in 1984 began teaching at North Carolina State, with a research professorship at the medical school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He became involved in the IRE in 1962 as a student and continued on to take part in the Computer Society and Industrial Electronics Society before becoming involved in the larger Institute. Nagle has served as President of the Industrial Electronics Society and Vice President of area activities for the Computer Society, leading to larger Institute roles such as TAB, the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 1994, Nagle served as IEEE President. He has remained involved since his term as president on the Awards Board and Sensors Council. In this interview, Nagle discusses his career and involvement in the IEEE. He talks about the various positions and committees he sat on in the IEEE – including TAB and the Board – and the various issues faced by them and their procedures. Nagle also discusses running for posts such as Division Director and President. Nagle talks about his education at Alabama and Auburn, and how his later interest in medical devices led him to move to North Carolina to be closer to medical research facilities and multiple universities. His time as President is covered, including his election campaign, and the various issues he dealt with such as globalization, industrial relations, promoting technical activities, diversity, publications, and the IEEE computer system. Nagle also talks about changes he has seen in the IEEE over the years, and about colleagues such as Martha Sloan, John Powers and Tom Cain. TROY NAGLE: An Interview Conducted by Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center, 27 July 2009 Interview #5roy Nagle, an oral history conducted in 2009 by Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Interview: Troy Nagle Interviewer: Sheldon Hochheiser Date: 27 July 2009 Location: Paterson, New Jersey Hochheiser: This is Sheldon Hochheiser of IEEE History Center. It is the 27th of July, 2009. I’m here at a studio in Paterson, New Jersey with 1994 IEEE president, Troy Nagle. Good morning. Nagle: Good morning. If you don’t mind, I’d like to start with a little bit of background. Okay. Where were you born and raised? Well, I was born in Booneville, Mississippi, and grew up in Red Bay, Alabama, and Huntsville, Alabama. I know where Huntsville is. Where’s Red Bay? Well, Red Bay is on the border of Mississippi. It’s a little bit hard to find. But it’s about, maybe 40, 50 miles south of the Tennessee state line. Now I have it in my mind. What did your parents do? Well, my father was an electrical engineer who grew up in Tishomingo, Mississippi, a small town near Red Bay. He went to Mississippi State University, studied electrical engineering, and when he came back home there wasn’t really engineering jobs at that time, so he went up to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I think, and my mother was from the local area there in Mississippi, and she went up with him. They got married, and then decided they wanted to move back south, so they went to Red Bay, and they both ended up being schoolteachers. He was the principal of the school there, which was grades 1 through 12, and she was the home economics teacher. Were you interested in technology and science growing up? Yes, yes, always interested in math and science, and well, back in those days you had a standard curriculum. Right. Everybody took most of the same courses, so there really wasn’t a lot of shopping around that students can do today. Mm-hmm. And, let’s see, so you graduated from high school in Huntsville? Yes. We moved to Huntsville from Red Bay, Alabama, and I started the fifth grade there, so the fifth through the twelfth. Graduated from Butler High School in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1960. And from there you went to the University of Alabama? Went to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. And how did you choose that school? Because it was the state university or was there another reason? [Interposing] Well, my father and his brothers had all gone to Mississippi State. And so I had determined that I wanted to go to a state school in Alabama, and Alabama and Auburn were the two major ones, and so I ended up going to the University of Alabama. Did you go there planning to major in electrical engineering? Well, actually, I didn’t have a firm mind as to what I wanted to major in. I remember on the first day you had to fill out forms about what you were going to study, and I looked over the form, and I didn’t see anything that I really knew I wanted to do, so I checked electrical engineering because that’s what my father had done, and I said, well, I’ll try this and I’ll see if something comes along that I like better, then I’ll switch. And I never found anything I liked better, so I never switched. [Laughter] What was your electrical engineering curriculum like at Alabama? Well, the year I entered, they had a special accelerated program. They took all of the chemistry and put it into one course, the first semester, so we had three lectures a week, and two laboratories a week. And then we had normal math kinds of courses, you know, calculus, algebra, same kind of thing people have today. Yes. We did get a chance when I was a senior to take a computer programming class, which was interesting. Computer programming was done by decimal numbers. You would program operations in the computer, using the numbers 1 to 99, and then you’d move numbers around between locations, and that was kind of interesting, and so that got me interested in working with computers. I assume this was back in the punch—you were using punch cards for programming this? Oh absolutely, yes. And also the curriculum had material science. We had lots of physics courses, and, as a senior, we were able to take languages. I did two semesters of Russian. There was quite a bit of flexibility. Sometimes I think more flexibility, or as much as we have today in our curricula. And then, if I’m correct, upon graduation you proceeded directly to a master’s program? Yes. I stayed at the University of Alabama and continued on. The department head called me in, and asked me if I would like to apply for a NASA fellowship, and to go to graduate school, and well, I thought that was a pretty good idea, so I applied, and was lucky enough to get the fellowship. I continued on for another three semesters, and got the master’s degree there in University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. At what point did you decide to continue past that and go for a PhD? Well, during the master’s program, I was working with a PhD student there, Dr. Chester Carroll, and he was helping me find a thesis topic, and I was also working with a professor there, Erwin Reinhard, as the chairman of my master’s committee. But in the process of working on that project I got to know this PhD student very well, Dr. Chester Carroll. When he graduated, he went to Auburn and invited me to come over and be one of his first graduate students. So I said, okay, well, I could do that. And at that time the Vietnam War was getting started, and so I decided I’ll continue on in graduate school and we’ll see how the military options avail themselves. I was in the ROTC at the University of Alabama. And so I was going to go into military service, but I first went for the PhD at Auburn, and then went into military service. Right. So going for a PhD you deferred the commitment from your ROTC— [Interposing] Deferred the starting date, yes. —‘til after you finished your doctorate. Backing up a little, did you join IEEE or one of its predecessors while you were a student? Yes, I did. I joined the IRE in 1962, I believe the date was. And we had a student group there at the University of Alabama, so I participated in that, and then, if you were continuing on as a student, you could continue your IEEE membership in some sort of student status until you got your PhD. And then there was a five-year graduated dues increase, to get you started, and at that time the obvious thing to do was to keep being a member. I do remember that once I had the PhD, and once I was a full member of IEEE, the insurance program was better than almost any other life insurance kind of program you could have, so that cemented the relationship for me for many years. So, IEEE term life insurance at that time was really a terrific deal. So that was an added benefit to the professional benefits? Were you active in the student chapter in Alabama? I don’t remember the student chapter being really active—a few meetings. I ended up, as a senior, being president of the engineering student body, and so my activities were more school-wide than just in the IRE student branch. But I don’t remember any specific activities that were undertaken. There was also Theta Tau, which is an engineering fraternity, and that group was quite active. So for engineering students at the University of Alabama, there were a lot of activities to consume your free time. [Laughter] When you were working on your PhD at Auburn, was there a student chapter there? And if so, were you involved at all? Yes, there was a student chapter, but I didn’t have a lot of involvement. As a PhD student, I was pretty focused. I wanted to finish in two-and-a-half years to get the PhD completed, and then get my military active duty out of the way and get on with my career. What was your dissertation? The dissertation was on using sampled data techniques and digital controllers for control systems. So then you finished your doctorate, and then joined the army. Then I completed two years of active duty in the Ordnance Corps. And what did you do while you were at active duty? Well, the first year or so I was assigned to Huntsville, Alabama, to the Army Missile Command in an R and D unit. And then the Vietnam War was very hot at that time. And we were approaching the peak number of troops, and I got orders to go to Vietnam, and so then they sent me to Fort Benning, Georgia, to train me to be an ammo dump – an ammunition depot – lieutenant. And so I took that course. Then I went to Vietnam. There was an electrical systems office that was down near Saigon. There was a Ben-Wah Airbase, and nearby there was a large Army base, Long Binh, that needed an electrical engineer. They had an electrical systems office, and the colonel running that unit had a personnel request for somebody with expertise in electrical engineering. The personnel office sent me to interview with him. So I ended up going there and serving my term there in an office doing electrical power systems for the various American army bases in Vietnam. So then you finished your active duty commitment. Finished the active duty commitment and I came back to Auburn University as an assistant professor. How did you—or maybe it—or was it simple? Or how did you manage to go from being a doctoral student at Auburn to being a member of the faculty? Well my PhD mentor had essentially done the transition from a student to a faculty member, and so I had him as a model, and most of the professors there were well known to me, I’d had most of them in classes, and so they were almost like colleagues. It was a very easy transition. As a faculty member at Auburn, to what extent were you involved in IEEE activities, either in the Alabama section, or in societies, conferences? Well, the Alabama section had a Computer Society chapter. So I was involved in that, and an officer in that. And at that time in the early seventies, I started working with the Industrial Electronics Society. The Society was doing conferences, and I got involved in a conference committee, and submitting some of the work we were doing to the Industrial Electronics annual conference. And what was this work? This was digital signal processing, digital controllers and, digital control systems. In societies and in all of IEEE, you do a volunteer job, and if the entity likes what you’re doing, then you get offered another one, and then another one, and it just keeps going. Was this in the Industrial Electronics Society? Yes. At that time it was called Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation. And the latter makes the connection to your work even— [Interposing] Yes. —more evident, I guess. So I believe you eventually became president of the society? Yes. By 1981 I had worked with the conference for a number of years, and became a co-general chair of the conference that was held in San Francisco. And then after that I became the vice president for conferences, and then I guess in about 1984 or so I was president of that society, and served in the Technical Activities Board for a couple of years. Was this was this the society you were most active in during your years at Auburn? You also mentioned the Computer Society. Yes, I was also active in the Computer Society. And having served on the Technical Activities Board for a couple of years, and the Computer Society at that time had two division directors. And so, one of my friends convinced me to serve as the area activities vice president of the Computer Society. Roy— [Interposing] What does that mean? Roy Russo. Well, that was their geographical activities equivalent. It was like the member activities these days. Okay. And what did that involve? Well, it involved trying to find ways to link the Computer Society to the various regions around the world, trying to have activities associated with regional events. It was a new position, so I was trying to do something new in various areas around the world. One thing we did was an effort to have tutorials at the Hanover Fair. So we developed a program of Hanover Fair tutorials which was a real eye-opening experience. Although we had great plans that the Computer Society and IEEE would have a lot of people interested in learning our technologies, it turned out there were some that were interested, but there were, perhaps, 100,000 people coming to this fair, and most of them were there to look at equipment. That’s the reason they went there. So that was a real eye-opening experience, and we needed to do a better job at figuring out what our customers needed before we planned more of those kinds of activities. So then with the Computer Society I became a candidate for one of the division director positions, and was lucky enough to be elected. So that got me onto the IEEE Board of Directors for a couple years. Can we back up a little bit to the Industrial Electronics Society? So you became president. And as a result you—and as part of being president you were on TAB? Now, was TAB your first exposure to overall IEEE activities, as opposed to societies? Yes. National and international activities. What was what did you find TAB like in the early to mid eighties? Well, at that time the TAB operated differently than today. It had society presidents, but it also had ten division directors, as it does today, I’m sure, but the major decisions were made by the TAB OpCom (Operations Committee), which was the division directors, so that the TAB itself would recommend actions and the TAB OpCom, the ten division directors, would actually make the final decision. And so there was always a bit of an adversarial relationship between the presidents of the societies, where the presidents of societies felt they were really the heart and soul – engine – of the IEEE, and the division directors, many of those had actually been society presidents at one time. There was always this perception, “you directors are taking control, and we need more input.” And so in later years we actually changed the way TAB operated and let the TAB itself make the decisions. The division directors, led by Ted Hissey and Wallace Behnke, gave up some of their authority. They serve on the board of directors and actually control the Institute at that level, so… So at this point the division directors were no longer part of TAB. No, they were part of TAB. [Interposing] Oh they were still part of TAB. [Interposing] They were still part of TAB, it’s just that the division directors of the Opcom didn’t overrule what the society presidents had done, or could do. I see. What, if any, were the issues that TAB was dealing with while you were there as the society president? Yes, at that time there was the book broker program where conference proceedings were sold to libraries. It generated quite a nice reserve. There was something like a two-and-a-half or $3 million reserve that was sitting there, not being used very effectively. So there were several of us that just proposed to the society presidents that TAB should be taking some initiative and should be investing some of those reserves to create new services. And so over two or three years, that actually came to pass. I think one of the important things that resulted from that, those new initiatives, was in 1988 the TAB funded the first scanning electronically of the IEEE journals, and putting those into an electronic database. So you’ll see now if you start doing searches many of the journals go back to 1988 and stop there. Later, some have actually been scanned back to their beginnings. [Interposing] We’ve been working with the pubs people to get more and more of the old things scanned. One thing I notice, if we can switch back a minute to your professional career, as you were advancing at Auburn I know you also went and got an MD. [Laughter] Yes. What led you to decide to do this, and how did you manage to do it while being a professor? Well as a PhD student I’d worked on a project funded by NASA. I’d done and seen a number of projects where you did a lot of work, you studied something, you published a report, it went into a library or bookshelf, and maybe you publish a paper or two, and then you were done and moving on to the next study. So I thought it might be better to work in something that had more practical impact on our everyday lives—medical electronics, medical devices. And in order to do that there was a two-year MD program for people with PhDs in science and math, so I applied to that program and took a leave of absence from the university. I was lucky enough to be accepted into that program, 36 people out of 300 or so that were applying. People always ask me, “how did you get in over others?” I’ve always thought, well, okay, you get 300 people, they’ve all got really good reputations, and really good applications, but one of the questions was how are you going to finance it. And I said, well, I’m going to sell a house and use the equity. And most of the students coming in were borrowing and taking loans, and I believe to this day that the University of Miami, where this program was located, considered the fact that I did not need financial support to help get my application from the big pile of applicants over to the small pile of accepted students. [Laughter] So I essentially closed out my graduate students – got them all out the door – and had a two-year change of context. I went down to Miami for two years, and then came back. And then that led to your gradual move into biomedical engineering, I assume. Yes. After coming back to Auburn for a couple years – they have a veterinary school – but there wasn’t much opportunity for me to do research there, and Auburn is130 miles from Birmingham, where there’s a medical center. It’s 110 miles to Atlanta, where there are medical centers. So I explored moving up to North Carolina, to Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, where there are two large medical centers, and three universities and so forth. So I moved up there, and turned out to be a nice move for me. So you moved up to the engineering school at North Carolina State. Yes. First I went for six months at Chapel Hill, to their biomedical engineering program, as a visiting scientist. And then while I was up there I decided to try to stay, and applied for a faculty position at NC State in electrical engineering. So I started there in August of 1984. And then after a few years you also had a research professorship in one of the med schools? Well, my initial appointment in January of ’84 was at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the medical school. So when I moved up, I continued my relationship there, and I guess I had a formal research appointment in 1986 or something like that. That then started a clock which runs until today, actually. [Laughter] We’ll get back to it. If I can get back now to your Computer Society activities. So you became active in the Computer Society. To the point of, in the latter part of the eighties, you became one of the division directors in the Computer Society. Yes. It was, let’s see, ’87, ’88, something like that. Yes. How did you obtain that position? Was that an elected position or an appointed position? No, that was a normal election. I had been the vice president for area activities. And then they – the Computer Society – always put up two or three candidates for each of the division director slots. I was one of the people put forward. At that time there were about 100,000 members of the Computer Society So you were nominated by the Computer Society board? By the Computer Society. Yes, Board of Directors. To stand for election. Did you have to actively campaign in any way? Well, at that time there wasn’t much campaigning that you could do. You had to do a good job presenting your credentials and showing your IEEE activities, and showing your academic and professional background, so people looked at your position statement, and looked at your IEEE activities and cast their ballot. And you won the election. Yes. And during the early eighties I was also working with the EMB Society, and I had offered my name to be a Region 3 candidate for a position on the administrative committee, AdCom of the EMB, and so I was elected and I served a two-year term there. What did you do on the EMB committee? Well, I attended the AdCom, the administrative committee meetings, and gave my input, that’s just like any member. The administrative committee actually is the governing body, and sets the direction for society. And the executive director was a staff position, Susan Blanchard, who actually lived in Durham, North Carolina, near where I live, and so that’s how I got to know about the EMB society. Were there any particular issues facing the AdCom while you were on it? Well, it was globalization, for Engineering in Medicine and Biology as well as for Industrial Electronics. The Industrial Electronics Society has always been very global, even from the time when I was president. The administrative committee has always had a very large fraction of the members from outside the U.S. The EMB at that time was struggling to become more global, and that was one of the efforts that was going on. And of course we’ve already talked about, since you were in geographic activities in the Computer Society, that it too was dealing with these same globalization issues. Yes. Yes. Okay. So you’re elected to be a division director from the Computer Society, so now you’re on the IEEE board. What were the major issues facing the IEEE Board, and the IEEE as a whole, in the late 1980s when you were there? Well, let’s think—I can’t remember anything beyond the improvement of the infrastructure at the operations center. I mean, there was a great problem with the computer systems, and keeping the records, and we were trying to upgrade the computer system. We were trying to do it in house, and at some point, then, it wasn’t working. And so we actually had to go to outside firms. And then that didn’t work too well either, and then we had to have yet another outside firm. Over about a five or six-year period, we spent a lot of money to upgrade the computer system. So that was the major issue. If you can’t collect the dues and collect the income from the journal sales and keep everything accounted for properly, then you can’t make any progress. You can’t run your business. So that was an overwhelming activity over a number of years before it finally was solved, after a very large investment. Were you also on the executive committee at this time? No, during my last year of the division director, I became a candidate for the vice president for technical activities. And so in ’89 and ’90, I believe, I was elected to be the vice president for technical activities, and during that time I was then a member of the executive committee. Now how did you come to stand for that election? Well, at that time, the vice presidents were elected by the IEEE Assembly. There was a nominations and appointments committee of the IEEE who collects the nominations, and I was nominated by the board of directors. The nomination appointment committee collects lists, and then provides them to the board of directors. The board of directors then selected names, and I was one of two candidates in 1989, - - . But, at this time, the election is from the Assembly. From the Assembly. So the board proposes two candidates to the Assembly? That’s the way I remember it, and then you could have petition candidates as well. But that year there were only two of us. So did you go directly from being a division director to being the vice president for technical activities? So you had two terms on TAB then? The first time when you were representing the Industrial Electronics— [Interposing] Well I, in a sense, I was. The timing was good for me, because I had two years on TAB as president of the Industrial Electronics Society. Then the next two years were as the division director of the Computer Society, and then the next two years as the chairman of TAB, as the vice president of technical activities, so I had— Ah, so you had six consecutive years So I had a lot of years in TAB. I imagine that many consecutive years on TAB must be not common. I would think not, yeah. Ah. Did the issues facing TAB change at all over your six years as a member of TAB? Well, the book broker surplus was characterized and allocated for new initiatives, and that money was available to do things, over that six-year period. During that time we changed the decision structure in TAB so that the TAB as a whole [made the decisions]. The TAB OpCom didn’t overturn or have to endorse every decision made by TAB. I think those were the two major things. And then we, of course, we started the scanning and archiving of the electronic database for the journals. So you have this four-year period, now, on the board, first as a division director, and then the vice president of TAB. We talked about the infrastructure issues. Were there other issues? Was the board as a whole dealing, say, with globalization? Well, yes, and another issue that comes around frequently in the Institute was a big effort was to look at industrial relations – how to link more to industry, how to get more applications-oriented. So we had an industry relations study group, an industry relations committee. The executive committee would have its meetings around the world, and meet with industry each time. Almost every meeting of the executive committee was held in a location where there was industry involved. Local industry people would participate and we’d constantly seek new ways and better ways to link IEEE to industry. Did you find any? Well, if it were an easy job, it would be solved. I’m sure it’s still a difficult one— If you look at IEEE’s membership, I think even today half the people are from industry, but only very few industry leaders are actually holding volunteer positions in IEEE. And that may be a status quo that the Institute just has to live with. Do you have any idea why that’s so? Well, in a company, they’re very focused on business aspects, keeping the company going, making a profit for the stockholders. The professional development of their employees is important, but it’s not nearly as important as these other things. Whereas at universities—most universities aren’t going to go out of business in a recession, and the professional development is very important, and what better way to achieve professional development than to have volunteer positions in an organization like the IEEE. In IEEE, members learn management skills, they learn financial skills, they learn how to get people to do things for free! It can be pretty hard to get somebody to do something that you really need done, and you aren’t going to pay them anything. Maybe as a reward they’ll get a trip somewhere to a meeting. Some people will do a lot for that, and some people won’t. Was North Carolina State supportive of your commitment to IEEE and the time that it took? Absolutely. Yes, always. And every university volunteer who’s spending time with the IEEE has to have the support of his or her employer or it just won’t happen. What in general were the board meetings like, in this era? Well a typical TAB board meeting is a huge square table with about 60 or 70 people sitting around, and you had to very carefully use Robert’s Rules of Order to keep things moving, and so forth. A typical Board of Directors meeting was maybe 35 or so people sitting around a table, pretty much the same kind of thing. Formal agenda items had to be vetted before they could get on the agenda, and of course the chairman of the TAB, which I was for a couple years, set the agenda, and for the Board of Directors, the president set the agenda. Once you became the vice president for TAB, you were now on the executive committee. And similarly, what did the executive committee do, and how often did it meet? Well, the executive committee would meet at every board meeting, but then it would have several, two or three other meetings between board meetings, and the executive committee acted for the board, between the meetings. So if something important came up that needed board action, the executive committee would take the action, and then ask for board approval or endorsement at the board’s next meeting, which always was granted. Do you recall any significant issues that the executive committee needed to deal with in that way, between board meetings? No, just normal things. If you have an operations center, and offices around the world, various things have to be approved and so forth. Examples are insurance, employee retirement funds, and other various things; actions have to be taken all the time, and so the executive committee would do those kinds of things. What led you to be interested in becoming president of IEEE? Well I don’t know. IEEE always, to me, from the beginning, was very complex, almost like a puzzle. How does it work, and how can you make it better? So almost at every position, or every level, I was always looking at it in that way. How does this work, how could it be simplified, how could it be improved? So I always tried to focus, and still do focus, on things that I could do to make it work better, and to have a somewhat more lasting effect. And then as far as being the president, you had a lot better chance to make some lasting improvement than in any other position in the Institute. When did you first run for the position of president-elect? I was nominated by the Board of Directors immediately after my term as the vice president for technical activities, I was nominated with Martha Sloan, and I think there were maybe two or three of us running. Martha was the first woman candidate for president, and she ran an excellent campaign, getting out, and so she won by a landslide. How did you campaign for the office of president? Well, the next year I was nominated again by the board. And basically, I had various IEEE activities that I was attending, and of course there I would talk to my friends and tell them about what I wanted to do, what I would want to do if I were elected. There were the debates, of course, and you present your position there. And in my case, the second time the Region 3 director was very supportive. I was in Region 3, he was very supportive, and he actually did a lot of campaigning for me in Region 3. Who was that? David Connor. And so when the election came, the next time around there were just two of us candidates that time. Edward Bertnolli was the other. He was the regional vice president, and I was a technical vice president, so there were two of us, regions versus technical activities. And so it was a very, very close race, something like 468 votes out of 50,000. Very, very close. [Interposing] That’s very close. And I won Region 3, and he won the other five U.S. regions, and I won the non-US regions 7, 8, 9, and 10. And because my Region 3 director did a good job, I won my home region by a large margin, and I needed every vote that he was able to get for me. What were the elements of your platform? That is, what was the substance in what you were running on? Well, I was running on the globalization of the IEEE, and promotion of technical activities. And the other candidate started his position statement saying U.S. engineers are the best in the world. So he just right from the beginning gave me regions 7, 8, 9, and 10, just from the first few sentences in his position statement. So it was really U.S. versus globalization. I mean, he was trying to focus the U.S., and IEEE-USA. I can’t remember the exact nature of his position, but mine was more international and globalization, and his was more U.S.-centric. Mm-hmm. What did you hope to accomplish as president of IEEE? I’ll give you one example. I wanted us to be able to assess member needs, and to deliver locally to sections and to chapters, certain kinds of products that IEEE should be able to generate. So we developed a kit for running focus groups. We had professional help to develop this kit, and we had videotapes that told local people how to organize one, and how to run it. And then we shipped them out; the idea was to try to develop a culture of local focus groups feeding information back to the service center to try to direct the way new products would be developed. And that was an interesting idea, but it never quite caught on. It didn’t have a staff infrastructure to actually keep it running, and that’s the kind of thing that volunteers can’t do. Volunteers turn over – pass through the organization – running focus groups, and so forth, and maybe someone would do one once, and send the data back, and it just didn’t get institutionalized. How closely and in what ways did you work with the staff? The board created, at my request, a $200,000 president’s project fund. This focus group was one example project, but there were 10 or 12 small projects like that, where we were testing the water. And so we spent most of that funding, 10 or 20k at a time, on small trial projects like that. And each one of those had staff help, and staff input for all the things we were trying to do. To what extent, or how do you as president, oversee the operations and functioning of an organization as large and complex as IEEE? Well, at that time, the president didn’t operate the way the president does today. I think today it’s the president and CEO. Back then it was just the president, and the staff. The executive director of the staff was the principal person operating the Institute. And the feeling was that in general, among volunteers, we would give direction, but we would not interfere in staff operations. We would set policies and general directions, but the details and execution of things were left to the executive director, the chief staff person. And that if we were too restrictive on what we allowed staff to do, then we couldn’t hold them responsible for the results. And so that was the typical mode of operation. And then, during the year I was the president, we had some difficulty getting the computer system to work properly. And the staff, the executive director, John Powers, was just not able to make it happen, and so he resigned in mid-year. Then that put a big effort on the volunteers. We appointed Ted Hissey as the executive director, and the president-elect, Tom Cain and I spent a majority of our time recruiting a new staff director for the Institute and get the Institute moving again. So that consumed the last half of my year as president, which was not the way I had intended to spend it. [Laughter] Anything else you can tell me about John Powers? I know he was executive director for just a couple of years. Well, John was a very innovative guy. I remember for every meeting he would attend, he had a notebook and he’d take notes, and he had lists of great ideas, and he would follow up on them. He was a good leader for setting future strategic directions. However, he could not [get] the computer system updated. He’d lost the confidence of the board after a series of computer system failures. He was greatly loyal to his staff, and the staff at that time just didn’t have the background or the ability to implement the system. I spent some time up in Piscataway myself, being somewhat of a computer expert, trying to figure out what was happening. Every morning, John and this staff leadership team would meet – it was like a red team, putting out fires. They’d meet early in the morning, and decide each morning what they were going to do that day. And this happened every morning. You can’t run a computer system hardware/software overhaul, a big project, putting out fires every day. And John Powers was not able to it done under the financial constraints given him. The Board felt that we had to replace people and replace contractors. We had to do something. John decided to step aside and let the Board get a fresh start – this is my personal opinion. Of course. All along the way, John just kept hoping that everything was going to turn out all right, and that they were going to find the magic solution, one more day, one more week. And it just didn’t happen. So he actually resigned. He wasn’t forced out. He could just see the handwriting on the wall, this wasn’t going very well, and he decided to go pursue other things. So he resigned in the middle of your term? At one of the board meetings, actually. So did his resignation require more involvement on your part than—? Yes, on all the top volunteer leadership’s part. We all had to spend a lot of extra time, and we had to do some recruiting, and keep the business running, and find some contractors who could fix the computer system. Yeah. Were you able to eventually fix the computer system? Oh yes, I’m sure the people now will tell you the computer system is great. It’s probably been fixed several times since. [Laughter] Just asking about the— [Interposing] [Laughter] Upgraded. Yes. —the problems in the computer system, in ’94 when you were president. Yes we hired a project management firm that was good at this kind of thing and could come in and salvage projects; they had done this several times before for other organizations. So it cost us more money, but we ended up getting the problem solved. I think it took maybe one more year. Besides the computer problems, what other issues were facing the board while you were president? During that time period, we were always thinking of selling the engineering center there in New York, and downsizing, and we were moving people. There were always questions whether Spectrum should move from New York over to New Jersey, and you know, all of these kinds of things were being looked at regularly. I can’t think of, at the moment, of any other highly pressing issues beyond the computer system failing, and the executive director resigning. Those were the two main issues of 1994. Did you travel much as president of IEEE? The President of IEEE always travels, travels a lot. I tried to minimize the travel. I made a list once, the year I was president. I attended 50-some-odd meetings. But if you look at travel reimbursements for the president, I know before and after me they were a lot higher than in my year. I think I had approximately half the travel expenses of the Martha Sloan and Tom Cain. A lot of the travel for the president is to go around the world to award functions, and to present awards, to negotiate and sign agreements with national societies, history milestones, there are many events around the world each year that request the presence of the president. And what I tried to do for many of those is to send some of the vice presidents. As for the difference, the total travel cost of the IEEE was about the same, it’s just some of the vice presidents were traveling, and less for me, and I was trying to spend more time on solving the infrastructure problems. How closely did you work with Martha Sloan and with Tom Cain? Oh, we worked very closely together. The three Ps. As a group, yes. We would have our sessions, just the three of us. And as president-elect you start developing your plans. Then you hope, as president and as past president you’ll be able to implement them. And so you really are depending on the president—if you’re president-elect, the president letting you do the things you want, and not being assigned a lot of extra things. And then as the past president, you hope that the president that year will let your projects continue on to a conclusion, so you have to work closely as a group. How did the board go about picking a successor to John Powers? Well, the board met in executive session and discussed the options, and we had an executive director, the executive director position at that time, then we just separated that from the general manager, and we decided to appoint a retired volunteer who had industry administrative experience, Ted Hissey. So he was elected to that position. Which position? The executive director. And then he assumed an operating role while we then opened a search for a new staff general manager. And that took some time. So Ted was operating the rest of that year, as I recall, the rest of my year as president. And then was someone else—was he also acting general manager? Were there other people in that role, or do you recall? I’m not sure. I can’t recall exactly. I think the chief financial officer acted as the general manager for staff for a while. And then, I guess, while you were past president, Dan Senese was selected as the general manager. That’s as I recall, I can’t remember exactly the date. And at that point Ted Hissey—did he leave at that point? He probably continued on a while. I’m not sure if the executive director position was ever combined back with the general manager. Let me raise a few other topics; these are issues that tend to appear periodically. Yes. They have a way of coming back, don’t they? They do. We’ve talked about globalization at several different periods in your career. You talked about how [it] was part of your platform in your election. So were there any, specific things that you did as president, or that the board did, dealing with globalization while you were at the top? Well, we had an effort to develop some agreements with national societies around the world, so we went to Hungary, for example, and had an agreement with several of their national societies. We were working with some groups in Asia and Japan. I’m trying to remember. We made a trip through Northern Europe, and visited some of those national societies, and we went to Latin America, down to South America, and visited some of those national societies. So then the question always within IEEE is how can you cooperate with a national society—at that time we were having 300 to 400 conferences and technical meetings around the world. I think it’s probably up to 900 or 1,000 now. And so all of these chances to work with national societies, yet from their standpoint we’re coming in into their turf, and having these meetings, and many times we don’t even speak to them at all about our plans. So yes, there’s opportunities there. And it’s a constant problem, because our leadership turns over, not only the volunteers, but also the staff. And at the national societies, their volunteers and staff turnover, so it’s almost a never-ending job keeping those relationships active and having a relationship in which both sides actually feel they’re getting a benefit from it. It’s very hard. Were there any financial issues facing the board at this period? The finances of the Institute have always been very good, with nice reserves. There’s always the question about the reserves of societies, and how can those be used from time to time to meet the emergencies of the rest of the Institute, whose reserves aren’t so good. That’s one of the things that comes up, I’m sure, occasionally. While I was the president, the system was that the technical activities would invest their reserves into a pseudo-IEEE bank, and they could have long term or short term agreements. And the long term did something like 6 to 7%, and the short term did something like 3 to 4%. And then the IEEE bank invested everything long term, and took the extra 3% generated on the short term, and used it to fund general operations. We did that, but my opinion at the time, stated to my friends, was we can do this, and it won’t work many years because the societies will figure out what’s going on, and they’ll just put it all in long term, and— I’m sure there’s a completely different system now. Any issues facing publications that you recall during this period? We talked about some of the issues a bit earlier. Well, one problem that came up frequently was that some of the technical publications, some of the Transactions, would take large conference proceedings and simply make those an issue of the Transactions. So they’d have a few thin issues, and then suddenly a big issue that’s an inch-and-a-half, 2 inches thick. And then the distribution of the income from the all Transactions package would then be weighted towards sending more money to those guys. So that was a key issue for debate, and it was discouraged for them, for the conferences, for societies to publish conference proceedings in the Transactions. But we could never find an ironclad rule to do that. So I don’t know if that’s still a problem or not. That was one that comes to mind. You talk about publication problems that we were looking at, debating. There was a great debate on it. Diversity: the Women in Engineering group was formed. And there was always a discussion about how could we get more minorities and under-represented groups involved, or how could we get people from around the world, mostly from developing countries, and find ways to give them access. So we had special membership rates for them, and that was more of a topic for the regional activities than the technical. In the technical activities we were always struggling to get more people from outside the U.S. into the administrative structure. And we were focusing more on geographic location than gender or minorities. You got to change things one step at a time, and until you actually get globalized you can’t really do these other things as well as you should. Considering the demands on your time as IEEE president, to what extent were you able to maintain your activities as a professor? To what extent did you have to do so? Well, I was quite lucky. At my university, the chancellor, Larry Monteith, had been an ECE department head, and dean of engineering, so he greatly appreciated the advantage to the university, to North Carolina State University, to have our faculty members in leadership positions of the IEEE. So when I was asked by the nominations and appointments committee if I would be a candidate, then I went with my department head up to the chancellor’s office and asked if he would endorse or support my being a candidate, and he says, yes, we will do that. And what he said he would do is provide $30,000 per year for three years to the department so they could hire adjunct faculty and teaching assistants to help cover the activities that I would normally do. And so that allowed me to become a candidate. And when I was elected, then he provided that funding, which was very good for my department. So you finish up as president, you finish up as past president, now after many years you’re no longer on the IEEE board. That’s right. I haven’t been on the IEEE board since 1995, so it’s almost 14 years. In what ways have you maintained activity in IEEE since completing your term as one of the national leaders? One of the areas that past presidents get involved in with the Institute is the awards system, so I was vice chairman of the awards board, then chairman of the awards board, for a while. And then more recently I’ve been working with the IEEE Sensors Council. That was formed around 2000, so I was the editor in chief of the Sensors journal for six years, and more recently I’m working with the Sensors Council in the conferences arena, trying to set a course for the IEEE SENSORS conference to make it grow from around 500 people up to around 1,000 over the next three years. Thinking back over your many years of involvement with IEEE, in what ways has IEEE evolved or changed over the years going back into the sixties when you first joined as a student? Back in the early days, IEEE, from my perspective as a student, was a publisher of really good technical information. And it provided, as an early member, really good insurance, and a way for me as a young faculty member to publish and to get volunteer experience. In a sense, you take a job with the IEEE, if you do a good job, then you’re rewarded. If somehow you do a bad job, you get your hand slapped, and you just don’t get asked to do that again. You don’t actually lose your paycheck and get thrown out the door. So it’s a way for people to actually experience and learn new skills dealing with people in a very forgiving environment. IEEE today has a lot more electronic web access to all of the journals and so forth, so now it’s much harder for us to convince people, especially students and faculty from universities, to be members when they can get access through their libraries to the information that they need. So it’s going to be very challenging for our member activities groups to keep activities that will be attractive for the young people, to get them in and keep them as members, so they’ll be volunteers. It’s extremely challenging. Well, as you can see, my—as I promised, my cards are now all face down, so at this point is there anything you would like to add, anything that I should’ve asked you about that I didn’t know to ask you? Well, you had a lot of really comprehensive questions. I would just say that IEEE has been a very good platform for me for professional development, and a way for me to not only learn new skills for dealing with people, but it’s also been a way for me to improve the profession and to offer my energy and ideas, and bring some of them into practice, and to help guide the IEEE, in some ways, to go where it is today. One effort that we had when I was president-elect and president was we developed a strategic plan. The IEEE does this, has a long-term planning or a strategic planning every three to five years, and that was a very interesting exercise. It involved a lot of people across the IEEE and a lot of the ideas that were injected that helped guide the IEEE for the next half-dozen years. So that, all that experience has been very good for me, and I highly recommend IEEE to the potential new members. If you get involved you will benefit! Well, thank you very much for your time. Thank you. It has been a pleasure.

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WakeWorld ( ) - Non-Wakeboarding Discussion ( ) - - Sad - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot ( ) john211 01-08-2011 12:11 PM Sad - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot pesos 01-08-2011 10:39 PM scumbag killed a 9 yr old girl when he started spraying bullets bendow 01-09-2011 7:59 AM I guy got killed shielding his wife from the bullets. lizzyb 01-09-2011 11:04 AM This is so sad and horrifying to hear. I don't care what this woman's politics are... the senseless murdering of innocent people is certainly not the answer. What a scary world we live in. :( pesos 01-09-2011 11:37 AM She was one of the reps that Sarah Palin targeted with her gun crosshairs map deltahoosier 01-09-2011 12:26 PM yep. Typical liberal crap trying to spin this as Sara Palin's fault. I have been reading their (liberal) crap all day feeding off each other. See you fall for it too. democrats and republicans alike always say they are targeting certain people in elections every election cycle. Just stop this nonsense of trying to blame her. Makes you look like a mindless troll. deltahoosier 01-09-2011 12:28 PM And by the way. Go tell your idiot liberal friends that those like cross hair circle things that you guys are trying to spin, look nothing like a real gun crosshair. wake77 01-09-2011 1:40 PM Delta, you never seem to amaze me. I love how if someone disagrees with the Tea Party or Palin's agenda, they are a mindless troll. You would have to be mentally challenged to even listed to Palin's agenda. It's a stupid poster, but it is clearly supposed to be a gun sight. Your drivel makes you look like a douche. barry 01-09-2011 1:58 PM Shooter- White male with republican head band and a rush limbaugh t-shirt. He screamed "FOXNEWS ACKBAR" which means Fox News is great! deltahoosier 01-09-2011 3:01 PM Jeremy, your read comprehension is deplorable at best. Get off your mothers nipple and come to the real world instead of that sheltered echo chamber you live in. I will even take my time out of my day to explain it to you. This has nothing to do with a rational discussion on the merits of the Tea Party or Sara Palin. The post that Wes made is basically what the leftist have been trying to paint since the shooting happened. That is, that Sara Palin is responsible for the shooting and they have all been saving that poster from websites and circulating it around with the message that Palin, the Tea Party and Foxnews are responsible for the violence (which I find quite funny considering it is always leftists who take to the streets and destroy crap). You see, if you ever read, you would know what is happening with the people who think like you and realize how dangerous you are. Always repeating and always trying to stir crap. This is a shooting by a crazy person. No more, no less. To try and paint it as anything more is stupid and trollish. Then to bring that crap to this website and try and paint the tea party and Sara Palin as the reason for this makes it mindless troll material, period. The cross hairs on the poster are just that. They are crosshairs on a poster. They are not gun crosshairs. If they would have put targets on it, you would say they are targets for guns. You people are trying to interject politics into a senseless act. Oddly enough (and I find it kind of funny you don't realize this), she is actually a blue dog democrat and the judge that was killed was actually a Bush appointee. You see, leftists such as yourself tend to actually despise blue dog democrats. Again, this is where your lack of life experience or lack of reading hurts you. Both sides actively say they are targeting people for defeat in elections. Does that mean both side actually want people out killing the other side? Again, try brushing up on your reading comprehension and try reading up on what your people are saying and doing in your name before posting your mindless emotional drivel to attack me. wake77 01-09-2011 4:22 PM Dude, take it easy. A; I don't care what political affiliation a person is, what happened is an absolute tragedy. You act as if I would be celebrating if it was a GOP member that was shot. B; you paint anyone that doesn't agree with you and your close-mindedness as "leftist" or "liberal crap". Maybe I don't agree with either side. I don't watch Fox News, but I don't watch MSNBC or CNN either. Say there are only two sport teams, Team A and Team B, in a city, state, etc. If I say I don't like Team A, does that automatically mean that I love, or even like Team B? People have different political views than you, GET OVER IT, it will be like that long after you have vacated your throne of high, almightiness. C; there are people that follow certain ideas, and that does not exclude followers of "Conservative values", "tea baggers", or the supporters of the hockey mom from Alaska, and they get carried away. Am I implying that it is wrong for the aforementioned groups to have their agenda? NO. But like the pro-lifers that take it upon themselves to blow away a physician that performs abortions, there is a chance of some loon resorting to violence to convey the message of the group. The message of the poster is clear. WE, as in the supporters of Palin, have the lawmakers that voted for the health care bill "in our sights". You can play dumb all you want, maybe you aren't playing. Am I saying that the poster was made to encourage supporters to pick up a gun and start shooting, NO. deltahoosier 01-09-2011 4:35 PM The point is Jeremy. I am not advocating any political point in regard to this senseless act but the post Wes made is being used to try and put a political spin to this and that spin is that Palin, the Tea Party and Fox News caused this. It is a purposeful political attack and they are using that poor woman and the victims as a tool to do so. That is the only message of my reply to that post. The motives are sick and dangerous and it is trollish. Of course the message is we have the lawmakers in their sights. How else do you convey that certain lawmakers are targeted by a group to defeat? There are only so many words in the language that can convey such a thought. The point is, the left is purposely trying to use a senseless act and a twist of words to convince to the useful idiots that Palin, Tea Party and Fox News are trying to get people to kill them. You may not think that they literally wanting people to go kill these people but the leftist are trying to convince people that these people are trying to get people to kill them. Try reading up on the way these people work. They will let no tragedy go unused and that crap is showing up on here. brettw 01-09-2011 4:57 PM Here's what the Congresswoman had to say about it beforhand: ! I never heard of before this, but she seems like a pretty decent person. deltahoosier 01-09-2011 5:09 PM Interesting enough to the spin that is trying to be put on the fore mentioned parties. The Shooting is turning out to be a registered Democrat who was pissed off about (among other things) that the congress woman turned away from Pelosi and Reid. Turns out the congress woman is a long time Republican who switched to Democrat to get elected. Turns out the shooter was also some member of a racist hate group. I guess the shooter has all sorts of youtube rants. wake77 01-09-2011 5:17 PM Good luck with your agenda delta. But when your affiliated with a group with members that dress up like colonists and wear hats with little teabags hanging from them, don't be surprised when nonmembers of said group mistaken you for being a bit cuckoo. wake77 01-09-2011 5:18 PM So now you are trying to spin it in an opposite direction? deltahoosier 01-09-2011 5:51 PM I am putting out the facts that are present at the moment. His favorite youtube video is one of a person stomping on the American Flag. He favorite reading list appears to be on the typical leftist reading lists. I have seen one report that he is/ was a registered democrat and he is reported to be a member of a racist organization. Do the facts not seem to be stacking up with the agenda of those on the left trying to paint this as a tea party member gone nuts? Seems to me the guy is plain ol nuts. His youtube rants are reportedly all over the place. Many people are starting to think this guy was a anarchist trying to stir crap. Hardly seems like a guy that would be influenced by Sara Palin or Fox news. What is my agenda Jeremy. Opposing people who make stupid posts and comments? Being a pro common sense loves America first guy? Yes, to a internationalist, that would seem to be considered an agenda. I would like to know when it was that I am a member of the Tea Party or have dressed up in anything. I don't even like to dress for halloween and I certainly am not much of a joiner and I am not too thrilled with the Tea Party in the fact they may try and split the conservatives in the county the way Ross Perot did for Bill Clinton's first election. I love the spin the opposite direction question btw. Putting out facts in a matter not long after someone puts up a post that is trying to use it to incite people to think Sara Palin is out getting people killed is hilarious. People must really be scared of her. If they are willing to go this low the day after a many people were murdered to try and use it to attack a politician is quite extraordinary and frankly down right scary. I guess leftist are only for women if they only spout the usual leftist lines. If they go off the farm, then they are just crazy dangerous women huh? deltahoosier 01-09-2011 5:56 PM also, another little tidbit. She was also one of the only 19 members of the democratic congress that opposed nancy pelosi's election as house leader. trace 01-09-2011 6:55 PM Former classmate tweets that he was a leftist loner pothead... brettw 01-09-2011 7:47 PM The shooter was nothing but a psycho. He wasn't a lib or con or whatever name some ppl need to label him to feel better like he was on the 'other' side. He was just a pyscho. jeff359 01-09-2011 8:22 PM "Dude, take it easy." You called him a Douce and don't expect a response? wakeboardern1 01-09-2011 10:38 PM Wes's post was a straight up troll post, no way to look at it any other way. He put it up there to incite anger on the board and to create an argument. The fact that you defended him Jeremy is a little astounding, and I can see why delta would attack you after that. Delta, when you shout about how those damn libs are doing everything bad in the country, it makes you sound just as crazy as you see them. Tone it down broski. Wes, that was not cool to post that, for two reasons A) because it was so close to the date of the shooting (a little time before we start making something like this tragedy political would be awesome, even if the media can't wait), and B) because it turns out that that little poster had nothing to do with the shooting, so it just made you look like an ass. wake77 01-09-2011 11:03 PM "You called him a Douce and don't expect a response?" I would never call a fellow man a "Douce". stephan 01-10-2011 9:00 AM One could argue that Wes' post was trollish, or it could be looked at as simply pointing out the imagery that is available. Don't we all agree that is what the poster looked like? Isn't it trollish to assume that Wes has an agenda, when all he did was post someone else's handiwork? While it is clear that this nutter had nothing to do with Sarah Palin and blaming her for this is out of line. Doesn't this stand out as an example of how a politician can really stick their foot in their mouth? The fact that Palin uses violent imagery and inciting language such as "don't retreat, reload", belies her innocent claims. My point is this; while not Sarah Palin's fault, this tragedy needs to wake people up. Sarah Palin's poster is an example of what has become common in our society to the point that its prevalent in this very thread. We have allowed ourselves to be so full of hatred towards our fellow Americans, that implied violence is a way to make a point? We are calling each other names and immediately discrediting contradictory ideas for no other reason than "someone is a leftist/righty". Instead of all the chest thumping, can't we all sit down and have dialogue? Everyone here complains about politicians for being lazy, mis-guided, wrong, wasteful etc etc, and then you go and act just like them. Real progress is made by working together, and when you must work with people that disagree, you must find common ground and make concessions to keep productive. We all want a successful country and the only way to make it such is to appreciate our opponents differences and move forward amicably. trace 01-10-2011 9:10 AM IMO that poster alone may have ended Palin's (already remote) chance at the White House. Stephan makes great points. +1 fly135 01-10-2011 9:14 AM Anyone denying that the poster crosshairs are representative of gun sights is not in touch with reality. Although it does appear that the killer was not inspired by the "don't retreat, reload" rhetoric. 01-10-2011 9:19 AM WTF is wrong with you people? At least wait until after the funerals! IDIOTS and MORONS!! 01-10-2011 9:27 AM Christina Taylor Green 9 Years Old Anima eius et animae omnium fidelium defunctorum per Dei misericordiam requiescant in pace. trace 01-10-2011 9:28 AM Who is the troll again? pesos 01-11-2011 8:59 AM Thanks Stephan and Trace for spelling it out. Sadly it looks like the crazy westboro christian aholes are planning to picket the 9yr old girls funeral. Ugh. diamonddad 01-11-2011 6:33 PM The shooter was into "Zeitgeist" (a near perfect idiot nut job identifier). wake77 01-12-2011 2:43 PM I find it weird as I listen to people defend Palin and people sticking up for her poster and placing all of the blame on the shooter, I wonder to myself if these were the same people (during the Columbine tragedy) that were sticking up for the shooters and placing the majority of the blame on Marilyn Manson and his music. pesos 01-15-2011 12:37 AM diamonddad 01-15-2011 1:54 AM I found it interesting watching 20-20 on miracles tonight. They presented a couple of random cases where people inexplicably got better. Its a wonderful concept and very satisfying. Yet, I find it hard to believe that every cache of miracles was not emptied to save Christina Taylor Green. All times are GMT -7. The time now is 3:12 AM .

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New Covid-19 Variant Concerning Local Pediatricians A new Covid-19 variant is concerning local pediatricians. The Delta variant is infecting adults and children in India and the U.K., and is already in the U.S. “It’s more infectious, it transmits easily,” said Dr. Constanza Fox of Fox Pediatrics in Mt. Pleasant. Right now, the Covid-19 Delta variant is accounting for 10% of the Covid-19 cases in the U.S. “At the rate at which it’s doubling, we believe that within probably a month or two, it might be the most dominant strain,” said Dr. Rumana Barodawalla of Children’s Health Care in Mt. Pleasant. While 53% of the population in the U.S. is vaccinated, pediatricians are worried about the population that isn’t vaccinated. “We have our most vulnerable population not vaccinated yet since the vaccine is just approved for 12 plus,” said Dr. Barodawalla. “Most schools are going to be in person in the fall, and if we are not careful, I think we will definitely see our kids paying the price.” Pediatricians say this variant is more severe than other variants of the Covid virus. “Apparently it gives more nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, also it gives hearing loss,” said Dr. Fox. “It’s something that parents and caregivers should take note of because no one wants a child to suffer for life.” They say the only way to combat it is vaccinate the adults in children’s lives. “We just need adults to get vaccinated with two doses,” said Dr. Fox. “Apparently this variant escapes the first dose.”

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If Obama had been elected by Germans he had scored a 'socialist'-like 95% result. This is because he is a socialist, of course. And because his opponent was one of the most ridiculous candidates I can even imagine. Even his own party is very happy right now that they can finally stop pretending to like him (let alone pretending to know what he actually wanted to do with his presidency). Of course, the US are doomed now. Soon the government will not only have the right to put you into prison because you might be a terrorist, but they will now take your money, too! As for MMOs, I might be forced into WoW again. As a level 20 warrior who does quests (at least I'm human!). She thinks it's boring, but still wants to play it (even after I've shown her the South Park episode). Obviously, Blizzard did something right .. I just don't know what !? PS: If you want to read a strong German opinion on the state of the US, have fun: "Divided States of America - Notes on the Decline of a Great Nation". I think it's similar to all the US articles on the decline of Europe ;). Nils, nice to see you back on the blogosphere bud. The truth is, Romney wasn't such a bad guy. He pulled too far right during the primaries and could never recover enough moderates to win the election. However, if he hadn't, he may have lost the primary and it would have been "Obama Vs. some loony". As for the state of the US. Its been bad at other times as well. However, our failure to focus on infrastucture becomes very apparent when you visit europe. In terms of the overall strength of the economy, I would argue that compared to Europe, the US is actually sitting pretty right about now. I think we are poised in a much stronger position than Europe is as a whole. Leadership is our biggest problem right now, if we can fix that problem, nothing can stop us. Obviously, USA system is doomed either way! The question is mostly will it happen slowly like Japanese "Lost Decade", or it will be triggered by some kind of catastrophic collapse - either financial or WW3. A few years ago when California elected the Democratic governor instead of the Republican, I read more than one place say how the state was DOOOOOOOMED because there would be no fiscal responsibility. Here we are a few years later and the governor has looked long and hard at the problems facing the state and has come up with a plan. This most recent election had one element: an increase on taxes that was passed by a popular vote. If this had not passed, there would have been some mandatory cuts to the state budget. California still exists and will continue on. The U.S. will continue to exist for years to come. Perhaps we won't be the world's police/bully/whatever you want, but we'll survive and move on. I am glad Obama won. Not because I had a specific preference for one or the other, but simply because it seems that presidents do better in their second term. They have no elections to worry about, and can simply deal with being president for the next four years. And they have learned some already from the first four years. To be honest, by our standards here Obama is still pretty much 'middle' ;) certainly not a socialist or 'left' the way we understand it. he is still conservative on lots of things and would be waaaaay 'right' compared to our socialist politicians. which makes it all the more humorous to read socialism outcries in the US. I wonder what these people would do if they lived in one of the northern European countries lol.

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Finance & General Purposes Minutes – 30th April 2015 At a meeting of the Finance & General Purposes Committee meeting held on Thursday 30th April 2015 in the Council Chamber, the Town Hall at 7.30 pm, the following members were present: – Cllr. M. Tysoe, Chairman Cllr. R. Benfield Cllr. C. Butterworth Cllr. D. Davidson Cllr. Mrs. A. Roy-Barker Officer: The Town Clerk Added on July 16th 2015

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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by TnAndy, Feb 13, 2008. "Yeah.....we're screwing all of ya'll, and there is nothing you're gonna do about it, is there ?" Yup, the political joining of our two royal families. Eeewwww... I should have had breakfast before I clicked to see this thread! Good one, misty! Separate names with a comma.

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Isley Brothers frontman Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley has been sentenced to three years and a month in prison for tax evasion.Isley, who was facing up to 26-years in prison, was convicted last year on five counts of tax evasion in Nov. of 2005. The 65-year-old singer was paid millions of dollars in performance fees between 1997 and 2002 without paying taxes. The R&B legend, labeled a "serial tax avoider," also cashed royalty checks belonging to his brother O’Kelly Isley, and put a yacht and homes in his wife’s name to avoid paying taxes. In addition to the prison time, Isley, who has been paying down his debt to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was also ordered to pay $3.1 million dollars to the government. Defense attorney’s for Isley unsuccessfully argued that the death of two of the singer’s accountants prevented him from paying taxes during the five-year period in question. Isley is expected to serve his time in a prison hospital, due to complications from a 2004 stroke he suffered in London and his battle with kidney cancer.Ron Isley, along with the Isley Brothers launched their careers in the mid-50’s and have been releasing albums almost every year since.As Mr. Biggs, Isley collaborated with various rappers, including Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Kim.In May 2006, The Isley Brothers released their latest album, Baby Makin’ Music.

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Take a moment to: - Update your LastPass account email address, - Update your LastPass account security email address, - Use the "Test" links to verify you receive notifications, and - Use LastPass to search for accounts still using an old email address. With centralized access to your accounts, LastPass should help make your digital move much easier! Best, The LastPass Team

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<pre>>l.<br>I have seen other references to /dev/usb/hiddev0, but my system (FC4) does not have /dev/usb, or /dev/hiddev*<br><br><br>Any tips on how to identify what the devices shows up as?<br></pre> <br> from dmesg after I connected the USB:<br> <br> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3> usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3<br> dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and disconnected.<br> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4-usb: recv bulk message failed: -110<br> DVB: registering frontend 1 (Zarlink MT> <br> Before I plugged the card into usb I had these devices /dev/us*<br> usbdev1.1 usbdev2.1 usbdev3.1 usbdev3.2 usbdev4.1 <br> <br> After I plugged the card in I had these /dev/us*<br> usbdev1.1 usbdev1.4 usbdev2.1 usbdev3.1 usbdev3.2 usbdev4.1 <br> <br> I looked for /class/input/input2 and came up with this:<br> <br> [root@localhost input2]# pwd<br> /sys/class/input/input2<br> [root@localhost input2]# ls<br> capabilities event2 id name phys uevent uniq<br> [root@localhost input2]# cat name<br> IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver<br> [root@localhost input2]# cat phys<br> /ir0<br> <br> I don't have /ir0, it looks like it has not been detected/linked correctly...<br> <br> [root@localhost input1]# pwd<br> /sys/class/input/input1<br> [root@localhost input1]# cat name<br> Logitech Optical USB Mouse<br> [root@localhost input1]# cat phys<br> usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0<br> <br> Any other ideas?<br> <br> Thanks<br> <br> Craig Cook<br> <p>                 <hr size=1>Relax. Yahoo! Mail <a href="*">virus scanning</a> helps detect nasty viruses!

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Pareklisia, Limassol €1,450,000 Guide Price , Limassol, Lemesos, CY Property Features - Sought-after village of Pareklisia - Sublime mountain and valley views - Close to a wide range of local amenities - Easy access to the coast and Limassol town centre - Title deeds available - Private gated swimming pool - Mature landscaped gardens - High-end fixtures and finishing throughout - Additional land available by separate negotiation - Large private plot of 3,200 square metres Property Summary Five-bedroom luxury villa in Pareklisia, Limassol This private five-bedroom luxury villa with its own swimming pool is based in the sought-after village of Pareklisia near Limassol. With easy access to local amenities and the city, this villa would make a perfect permanent residence or even second home. The Location Pareklisia is a traditional village is located near Agios Tychonas towards the eastern side of the Limassol district of Cyprus. It is an up-market area with a wealth of local amenities including cafes, tavernas and even a winery. The area is steeped in history and culture and is situated near a Neolithic area, called Shillourokambos. The Byzantine Timios Stavros church is over a thousand years’ old and is a focus point of the village with a large picturesque courtyard and square to the front. The village is now an exclusive area that has become popular in recent years due to its local amenities, proximity to the coast and ease of access to central Limassol. Within fifteen minutes you can be in the heart of the city. Limassol is the fashionable international airports at Larnaca (40 minutes) and Paphos (50 minutes) are both within easy reach. The Property This luxury detached villa has been designed for those seeking an upscale contemporary lifestyle with peace and privacy assured. Breath-taking unobstructed mountain and valley views add to the tranquility and serenity of the location. The entrance to the villa is through a private driveway where you can immediately appreciate the beautiful manicured gardens and grand entrance. There is also a 200-year-old olive tree. As you enter the property, you will be relaxed and enthralled by the feeling of space and calm. The main ground floor open-plan kitchen, dining and living rooms provide a modern area for family and friends to enjoy. Glass patio doors are located from the kitchen going down to the play room (initially built as the main living room), offering access to the gardens and pool area. A feature of the ground floor is an ultra-modern fully-equipped kitchen designed by the current owner who is a very well-regarded chef. Two separate staircases are located on each side of the entrance that adds to the grandeur of the main living area. One stairway takes you to three bedrooms including the master bedroom, consisting of a huge walk in dressing area and en-suite, along with a patio door to the garden. The second large bedroom again has en-suite facilities and with access to the garden. The thirds bedroom also offers its own en-suite. From the second staircase, two more bedrooms are located with a joint balcony offering amazing views. A family bathroom is also located on this level. The property provides for plenty of wardrobes and storage areas which are located all around the house. At the front of the villa is also a double garage and a gated driveway that could park up to 20 vehicles. At the back of the villa is a perfect area where relaxation and entertainment can take place. A paved patio area surrounds the (eight metres by four metres) swimming pool featuring walk-in steps. The swimming pool is gated for child protection and is surrounded by large mature landscaped gardens. At the end of the pool is a shaded bar area providing a perfect setting for al-fresco Mediterranean living. The property has a total cover area of 358 square metres within a very generous plot of 3,200 square metres. There is also a neighbouring plot of land of a further 3,200 square metres which is available by separate negotiation.!

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Data archiving is the sort of paperwork jargon that many employees will be confronted with within the workplace. Archiving is a vital records management process that businesses and their employees should be familiar with. The consequences of not understanding your business archiving processes could pose serious problems in the future. A given company’s archives may include documents such as legal documents, tax records, titles, deeds, heritage documents, as well as other records. Some organizations or companies may also have photographs, letters, reports given or received, or more. Archives can also refer to the physical location where archival documents are kept and stored. You have likely come across an archive at your local library, city hall, museum, or other public space. Though archives often refer specifically to historical documents, almost every individual and business has archival documents and should know how to safely store these records, documents, and data. If your industry is concerned about security, privacy, and completion of any workplace information, then data archiving may be for you! Industries that Use Archiving Services - Healthcare - Education - Accounting - Legal - Energy - Insurance - Public Sector - Non – Profits organization and the accessibility of information; we are dedicated to facilitating the changes that will allow you to perform that duty.

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Don’t impose your values, desires on others In response to Loretta Scott’s Jan. 8 letter asking us to keep self-service gas banned in Oregon because she doesn’t want to pump her own gas, her comments embody all that is wrong with Americans in this century. It’s selfish and narcissistic to proclaim that because you don’t want to do something, everybody else should be banned from doing it. America became great because of millions of independent people who did what they thought was right for them and their families, and not bothering to meddle in others’ affairs. Let’s get back to that ideal. Do what’s right for our families and let others do the same, not impose our values and desires on others. Michael Robinson Salem

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. Abbreviations: DAP, days after planting SPAR, SoilPlantAtmosphere Research Depending on population growth and energy use scenarios, atmospheric CO2 concentration is expected to rise from about 370 µmol mol-1 currently to about 485 to 1000 µmol mol-1 by 2100 (Prentice et al., 2001). Furthermore, enhanced greenhouse effects of CO2, CH4, and other greenhouse gases are predicted to cause an average global warming of 1.4 to 5.8°C by 2100 (Cubasch et al., 2001; Schneider, 2001). Elevated CO2 typically increases plant photosynthesis and biomass production, whereas increasing temperatures might either decrease or increase photosynthesis and production (Baker and Allen, 1993). Human activity accounts for about 70% of the total CH4 emissions (535 Tg yr-1) (Shine et al., 1995). Rice cultivation is the largest anthropogenic source (Hogan et al., 1991). Studies have shown wide differences (about 1 to 60 mg m-2 h-1) in CH4 efflux densities from rice cultivation throughout the world (Cicerone and Shetter, 1981; Cicerone et al., 1983; Seiler et al., 1984; Holzapfel-Pschorn and Seiler, 1986; Sass et al., 1990; Yagi and Minami, 1990; Bouwman, 1991; Khalil et al., 1991). Methane emissions from Chinese rice fields have been reported to be 4 to 10 times higher than from European and American fields (Khalil et al., 1991). Factors such as temperature, fertilization, irrigation, readily decomposable soil organic matter, and season can alter CH4 emission rates from rice cultivation (Lindau et al., 1990, 1991; Yagi and Minami, 1990; Khalil and Rasmussen, 1990). Whiting and Chanton (1993) showed that CH4 efflux densities of wetland systems were linearly related to photosynthetic CO2 uptake rates, which were generally higher in fertile, warm wetland systems [such as cattail (Typha spp.) and rice]. Therefore, we speculated that elevated CO2 would enhance CH4 emissions via the consequences of enhanced photosynthetic rates (Baker et al., 1990; Baker and Allen, 1993; Allen et al., 1995). Greater photosynthesis would provide larger amounts of available nonstructural carbohydrates (Rowland-Bamford et al., 1990, 1996). Larger amounts of carbohydrates could increase translocation of photoassimilates to roots and increase root exudation as a substrate for methanogenesis (Minoda and Kimura, 1994; Minoda et al., 1996; Watanabe and Kimura, 1998). In other words, increased CO2 increased photosynthesis increased nonstructural carbohydrates increased translocation to roots increased root exudates increased substrate for methanogenesis increased CH4 emissions. We measured directly the first response (photosynthetic CO2 uptake rate) and the last step (CH4 efflux) in this process in paddy culture rice under precisely controlled CO2 concentrations and air temperatures. Our hypothesis was that increased photosynthetic CO2 uptake (due primarily to elevated CO2 concentration) would cause an increase of CH4 emissions. Furthermore, elevated temperature might modify the CO2 uptake and emissions response. Preplant fertilizer (80 kg ha-1 for both P and K) was applied on 8 July 1992. Rice seeds imbibed water in a shallow tray for 4 d and then they were planted on 20 July in 50 hills spaced 0.2 x 0.2 m. Nitrogen was applied as urea on 27 July (7 DAP) at 112.5 kg ha-1 of N, on 20 August (31 DAP) at 56.25 kg ha-1 of N, and on 21 September (63 DAP) at 56.25 kg ha-1 of N. On 28 July (8 DAP), seedlings were thinned to four plants per hill (100 plants m-2) and a 0.05-m height of flooded water above the soil was established. Each of the three PVC pots, spaced to contain a four-plant hill of rice, received the same fertilizer rates and water levels as the rest of the lysimeter. Air flowed continuously from top to bottom within each chamber, driven by fans located in external recirculating air-handling ductwork. The air-handling system contained cold- and hot-water heat exchangers and an electrical resistive-heat coil used to control dewpoint and dry bulb air temperatures. In the air-handling ductwork, air first passed over the cold-water (48°C) heat exchanger using a proportional controller to regulate a valve that controlled the water flow rate, thereby controlling chamber dewpoint temperature. Dewpoint temperature was measured in the air stream before it reentered the chambers with a dewpoint hygrometer (Model Dew-10; General Eastern Instruments, Watertown, MA). Condensate from the drip-pan of the cold water heat exchanger flowed through a tipping-bucket rain gauge for measuring transpiration rates. Next, circulated air passed over the hot-water (4550°C) heat exchanger, with water flow regulated to raise air temperature to slightly below the setpoint dry bulb air temperature. Air temperature was next fully restored to setpoint with electrical resistive heat using a proportional controller. Chamber dry bulb air temperature was measured with an aspirated, radiation-shielded thermocouple suspended 0.3 m above the plant canopy. The CO2 concentration of each chamber was measured with a dedicated infrared gas monitor (Valtronics, Concord, CA). The output from each monitor was checked periodically, and corrected if necessary, by an infrared gas analyzer (Model 865; Beckman Instruments, Fullerton, CA). Calibration of this infrared gas analyzer was checked periodically using gases traceable to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards. The setpoint CO2 concentrations were maintained by supplying pure CO2 from a compressed gas cylinder for injection by mass flow controllers. Dewpoint temperature, dry bulb air temperature, and CO2 concentration were measured every 2 s for environmental control by a controllerdatalogger microprocessor at each chamber (Model CR-10T; Campbell Scientific, Logan, UT) and averaged and recorded every 5 min. Specific methods for controlling environmental set points (hardware, control algorithms) as well as the quality of those controls are given by Pickering et al. (1994). Daytime CO2 concentration was maintained at 330 (four chambers) or 660 (four chambers) µmol mol-1. Dry bulb air temperature was controlled to follow a sinusoidal-type pattern between daily maxima and minima of 32/23, 35/26, and 38/29°C in each CO2 treatment (Baker et al., 1994). The CO2 treatments were duplicated at 38/29°C. Dewpoints were controlled to 18, 21, and 24°C for the respective air temperatures. The microprocessors also computed and recorded plant photosynthetic carbon dioxide exchange rate (CER) and evaporation rate responses at 5-min intervals (Pickering et al., 1994; Allen et al., 1995). All microprocessor data were downloaded daily to files in a PC host processor. Daytime photosynthetic CER data were later summed for each chamber for each day to obtain daytime total CO2 uptake. Periods of time when the SPAR chambers were open for other measurements were identified and these values were not included in the daytime CER summations. These daily daytime CER data were then summed across the growing season for each treatment. The seasonal summation covered the period from 32 through 129 DAP. The data before 32 DAP were not used because extensive data were missing from one of the chambers; furthermore, leaf area index was low during this period of seedling establishment and initial growth. Leakage corrections were applied to the whole-season data based on CER measurements after all the aboveground biomass was removed. This leakage correction was essentially nil for the 330 µmol mol-1 treatments, and typically decreased the 660 µmol mol-1 treatment raw data values less than 3%. Flood-water pH and soil redox potentials at 0.05-, 0.20-, and 0.40-m depths in the soil were measured manually two to three times a week using platinum wire electrodes in the soil and a saturated calomel reference electrode in the flood water. Potentials were measured with a millivolt meter (Model 407; Thermo Orion, Beverly, MA). On 29 September (71 DAP), water samples from a high- and low-CO2 treatment chamber were extracted at 0.10-m depths for determination of the concentration of dissolved acetate, a precursor in one of the main pathways of methanogenesis (Reddy et al., 1986). Shoot growth stages, number of tillers, leaf area index, and shoot biomass samples were taken at 29, 46, 70, 86, and 120 to 126 DAP as described by Baker et al. (1994) and Allen et al. (1995). All remaining plants (120 per chamber) were removed on 134 DAP. Water was sampled for CH4 content at the flooded soilwater interface and soil water was extracted at a soil depth of 0.17 m at four to six locations in each chamber on 11 December (143 DAP), stored in airtight bottles, and analyzed by a headspace technique adapted from Kampbell et al. (1989). Methane emissions were measured two ways: on a whole-chamber basis and on an individual-hill basis using cuvettes described later. The first method used an automated sampling system that pumped air sequentially from each of the eight SPAR chambers, and then from the outdoor atmosphere, in a 27-min cycle to a gas chromatograph (GC; Varian [Palo Alto, CA] Aerograph Model 2400) with a flame ionization detector (FID). A multiport automatic sampling valve (Valco, Houston, TX) was used to control the air selection and injection process. The chromatographic output was calibrated periodically using known mixtures of methane-in-air traceable to NIST standards. The GC output was sampled at 0.1-s intervals by a Campbell CR-10T microprocessor and CH4 concentration associated with each peak computed by algorithm. Data were saved daily to the PC host processor files. Methane emission from each chamber was determined each day from 14 DAP onward using the slope of linear regressions of CH4 concentrations of air samples taken every 27 min across a 4-h period after the chambers were automatically flushed with outside air, and then resealed at 0800 h. Since the chambers remained sealed for the daylight period to obtain photosynthetic CO2 uptake rate data, only one measurement of emission rate was obtained each day. On 77, 98, and 119 DAP, diurnal CH4 emissions were obtained by venting and resealing each chamber every 4 h, starting at 0800 h. At 136 DAP, diurnal CH4 efflux densities were measured from the stubble that remained after all the plant shoots had been removed by clipping at 0.05 m above the floodwater level. At 53, 63, and 100 DAP, the second method of measuring CH4 efflux densities within each chamber was used. Cuvettes (PVC cylinders with sealed top-caps, inside diameter of 0.15 m, inside length of 0.95 m) were placed both over individual hills of plants and over flooded bare soil between hills of plants. Also, these same cuvettes were used on 134 DAP to measure emissions from both intact individual hills of plants and from rice stubble immediately after cutting. The SPAR chambers were opened temporarily for installing the cuvettes and for sampling gas from the cuvettes. Syringe gas samples were drawn through a serum stopper installed in the wall of each PVC cuvette. Syringe gas samples were then manually injected into the GC and output from the FID detector recorded on a strip chart. Methane emissions were determined from the slopes of linear regressions of CH4 concentrations vs. time of four or five sequential samples taken every 10 min. All the cuvette measurements were made during 1000 to 1600 h. Root samples were obtained by removing one pot from each chamber at 29, 70, and 120 to 126 DAP, the latter dates being at the final sampling. Shoots were cut for sampling and the pots containing the soil and roots were frozen immediately. Later, the PVC pots containing the frozen soil and roots were cut into 5-cm depth segments. Roots were then washed out and frozen again until later when root length density was determined. Lengths of subsampled roots were measured by the methods of Newman (1966) and Tennant (1975). Root length density was calculated by dividing root length by the soil volume that contained the roots. After measuring root length, roots were dried and weighed for biomass. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted on the daily CH4 efflux density measurements, which included effects of temperature, [CO2], DAP, temperature x [CO2], DAP x temperature, DAP x [CO2], and DAP x temperature x [CO2]. Also, an ANOVA was conducted on CH4 contents of the soil water sampled after final harvest and on root biomass and root length densities. After soil flooding was established at 8 DAP, redox potentials at the 0.20-m depth of each lysimeter dropped rapidly from about +500 mV to below 0 mv during the next two days (Fig. 1) . Redox potentials for the 0.05-m depth decreased less rapidly but came to similar values eventually (data not shown). Likewise, redox potentials at the 0.40-m depth were similar to those at 0.20 m (data not shown). Apparently, there was little nitrate in the soil that could be reduced and thus slow the rapid decrease of redox potential. Redox potentials generally continued to decrease until about 40 DAP presumably due to reduction of Mn4+, Fe3+, and SO2-4. These data indicate that redox potentials decreased to the point that this factor would not be limiting for methanogenesis (Reddy et al., 1986; Yu et al., 2001). The pH of the surface flood water was close to 7 in all chambers throughout the experiment. Table 3 shows CH4 emissions obtained by placing PVC cuvettes over individual hills of intact plants and over rice stubble after clipping. Emissions from the stubble plants were measured about one hour after clipping the plant canopy with about 0.05 m of stem protruding above the floodwater level. In most cases, CH4 emissions from the stubble were very similar to emissions from the intact plant canopy. The results from Table 3 also show the highest CO2 treatment to have the highest CH4 efflux density. The CH4 efflux density was also higher in the elevated temperature treatments. Elevated CO2 increased root biomass at 70 DAP (P < 0.05) and at final harvest (P < 0.10), but not at 31 DAP (Table 4). The midseason and final harvest data are consistent with other experiments which show that higher CO2 concentration stimulates total dry matter production (Baker and Allen, 1993). The effects of CO2 on root length density was significant only at 70 DAP (P < 0.05). The effect of temperature was not significant on root biomass or on root length density, except root length density decreased with increasing temperature at 70 DAP (P < 0.10). More than 50% of the root biomass was concentrated within 5 cm of the soil surface (Fig. 7 , 70 DAP). Root length density (Y) was linearly related to root biomass (X) across the whole sampling period. In the 0.00- to 0.5-m depth, Y = 0.26 + 4.32X, r2 = 0.99, n = 23, and in the 0.05- to 0.10-m depth, Y = 0.07 + 39.6X, r2 = 0.98, n = 23. Other studies have shown variations in emissions throughout the life cycle of rice, but not always the same pattern. Schütz et al. (1989) and Sass et al. (1990) reported maximum CH4 emissions to occur immediately prior to panicle differentiation and just before heading. In a Texas rice field, Sass et al. (1990) reported a second peak during grain filling and maturation. In an Italian rice paddy, Holzapfel-Pschorn and Seiler (1986) found seasonal variation with maximum emission rates between tillering and flowering. In a California rice field, greatest CH4 emission rates were reported in the last two to three weeks before harvest (Cicerone et al., 1983). In this study, low emissions early in the season followed by a general increase of emissions is likely due to the lack of initial decomposable organic matter in the soil (despite a total soil organic matter concentration of 43 g kg-1), followed by an increasing availability of root sloughing or exudates with time, dependent on both CO2 and temperature treatments. Schütz et al. (1989), Yagi and Minami (1990), Kimura and Minami (1995), and Redeker et al. (2000) showed that rice emissions of CH4 were much greater when rice straw (fresh organic matter) was incorporated in the soil than when mineral fertilizer alone was used (Table 5). Furthermore, early season emissions were much lower without fresh organic matter. Carbon Dioxide and Substrate Effects Mayer and Conrad (1990) concluded that CH4 production was not limited in paddy soils by the number of methanogenic bacteria but by the establishment of a low soil redox potential and the availability of dissolved organic matter. In this study, by 40 DAP all platinum electrodes positioned at 0.20 m below the soil surface registered a low soil redox potential (less than -300 mV with respect to a standard calomel electrode). Some studies have shown CH4 efflux density to be linearly related to plant biomass (Sass et al., 1990; Whiting et al., 1991; Sass and Fisher, 1995). Whiting et al. (1991) indicated that the photosynthetic carbon fixation rate may be an important variable controlling CH4 emissions from vegetated wetlands. The temporal and spatial distribution of CH4 production was found to be related to root biomass (Sass et al., 1990) and above ground biomass (Huang et al., 1997), determined in part by the type of cultivar. Peak CH4 emissions during the growing season may be associated with high activity by the rice plants that supplies soil bacteria with fresh organic matter via root exudates or root sloughing (Holzapfel-Pschorn and Seiler, 1986; Schütz et al., 1989; and Yagi and Minami, 1990; Schütz et al., 1991). Root biomass in this experiment was increased about 60% by doubled CO2 (Table 4), but it was not increased by higher temperature. On average, total above-ground biomass at the final harvest was 18% greater at elevated CO2 (Baker et al., 1994). In the Philippines, Ziska et al. (1998) also found an 18% increase in total biomass response to 300 µmol mol-1 CO2 enrichment above ambient during the dry season of 1996 but a larger 38% increase during the wet season of 1996. However, since grain yields were decreased substantially (6580%) at the highest temperature in our study as reported by (Baker et al., 1994), more photoassimilate might have been available as root exudates since it was not being used in seed production during the later stages of plant development. Subsequent research by Snyder (2000) documented considerable nonstructural carbohydrates and nitrogen (i.e., protein) in rice culms under elevated temperatures (40/30°C) that limited flower fertility and grain yield to nearly zero. These carbohydrates have no sink but roots after shoot expansion ceases. Baker and Allen (1993) and Allen et al. (1995) reviewed a series of studies of rice responses to atmospheric CO2 and temperature. Carbon dioxide enrichment to 660 µmol mol-1 increased rice photosynthesis by 32%. Total above ground biomass, root biomass, tillering, and final grain yield were all increased with CO2. Since root exudates can represent more than 1.7% of the total photosynthate (Feldman, 1988), the increase in CH4 efflux densities observed in this study was probably due to higher soil substrate levels obtained directly under the high CO2 treatment and indirectly under the highest temperature treatment. Not all studies of elevated CO2 in rice have shown increased CH4 emissions. Schrope et al. (1999) found lower CH4 emissions in rice exposed to CO2 concentrations 350 µmol mol-1 above ambient levels despite the fact that shoot and especially root biomass was greater under elevated CO2 treatments. They suggest that greater root density in the rice containers may have allowed greater O2 transport to the soil and thus decreased CH4 emissions. Temperature Effects Schütz et al. (1990) and Khalil and Rasmussen (1990) found CH4 efflux density to be influenced by soil temperature. Our study showed that CH4 emissions were increased significantly in elevated air temperature treatments (Table 2). However, Schrope et al. (1999) generally observed a decrease of emissions with increasing temperature. Flood-water temperatures tracked the controlled air temperatures closely during the early season when there was little shading of the water surface by rice vegetation (Baker et al., 1994). However, by 57 DAP after complete vegetative cover had developed (Baker et al., 1994), the midday maximum water temperatures decreased almost 10°C below maximum air temperatures (attributable to shading and evaporative cooling of the water). Therefore, the temperature effect on CH4 emissions might have been more related to temperature effects on the above-ground components of rice than on the soil bacteria via the following mechanism. Total seasonal daytime CO2 uptake was increased by increasing temperature at both levels of CO2 exposure; however, grain yield was decreased considerably by increasing temperature as reported by Baker et al. (1994), while nonstructural carbohydrates and N in culms remained high or increased concurrently with similar high temperatures (Snyder, 2000). Therefore, more photoassimilates were available for translocation to roots and potentially provide more root exudation to support CH4 production (Watanabe and Kimura, 1998). Alternatively, aerenchyma might have been modified such that it supported more rapid gaseous diffusion and emissions of CH4. Means of Methane Escape Various studies have convincingly demonstrated that the principal means of CH4 transport from the rice paddy to the atmosphere is by diffusion through stems of the plants (Cicerone and Shetter, 1981; Holzapfel-Pschorn and Seiler, 1986). Sass et al. (1990) recorded low CH4 emission from bare soil throughout a 75-d growing period. Mariko et al. (1991) stated that CH4 transport capacity of rice plants depends mainly on plant size. They reported greater emissions from a plant with nine tillers compared to a plant with three. In the present study, the number of viable tillers per plant did not change with CO2 or temperature treatments, but ranged from 12 at 40 DAP to 6 at final harvest (Baker et al., 1994). Nouchi et al. (1990) provided strong evidence that CH4 release to the atmosphere from rice occurs through micropores discovered in the leaf sheath and not through stomatal pores in the leaf blade. They also demonstrated that bubbles formed on the rice leaf sheath occur with CH4 emissions. In a 5-h light switching (onoff) study of a rice plant in the laboratory, Nouchi et al. (1990) also found no correlation between transpiration rates (which requires open stomata on the leaf blades) and CH4 emission rates. Since there is no aerenchyma in leaf blades of rice (only intercellular air spaces) there is little reason to expect CH4 emissions to be governed by stomatal conductance, which certainly governs transpiration rates and is directly related to leaf photosynthetic rates. Nouchi et al. (1990) suggested that CH4 dissolved in the soil water surrounding the root diffuses into the cell-wall water of the root cells and then gasifies in aerenchyma channels of the root cortex, and they diagramed the aerenchyma channel system that would allow CH4 to diffuse from roots into the leaf sheaths. The emissions of CH4 presumably occur by molecular diffusion since pressurized convective throughflow that exists in wetland plants such as Typha spp. and Phragmites spp. has not been reported for rice (e.g., review by Allen, 1997). Chanton et al. (1997) found that CH4 emission through rice was dominated by molecular diffusion and not convective through-flow. Our results on CH4 efflux densities of the intact plant canopy versus stubble (Fig. 5 and 6) confirm the fact that neither top biomass nor transpiration rates control CH4 emissions directly. On the other hand, the number of tillers, photosynthetic rates, and root biomass seem more likely to exert a significant role in governing CH4 emissions. Comparisons with Other Studies Table 5 summarizes some of the measurements of CH4 efflux densities from other studies. The report of Kahlil et al. (1991) from Chinese rice fields showed the highest average CH4 efflux densities of 58 mg m-2 h-1. Yagi and Minami (1990) and Schütz et al. (1989) demonstrated the importance of presence and type of soil organic matter on CH4 emissions. Incorporation of compost increased CH4 emissions slightly, but incorporation of uncomposted rice straw raised CH4 emissions considerably (Table 5), presumably by adding readily decomposable organic matter with a high C to N ratio to the flooded soil. Elevated CO2 has also been found to raise CH4 emissions from a brackish marsh (Dacey et al., 1994) in Maryland (factor of 1.8), a mire (Hutchin et al., 1995) in Wales (>2.0) and in flooded rice (Ziska et al., 1998) in the Philippines (1.93.1) (Table 6). In this present study, the ratio of CH4 emissions in elevated compared with ambient CO2 increased from 1.4 to 2.3 across the range of 32/28 to 38/29°C temperature treatments. The elevated CO2 effect and the elevated temperature effect (660 µmol mol-1 at 38/29°C vs. 330 µmol mol-1 at 32/23°C) jointly increased the CH4 emission ratio to 4.0, a quadrupled effect (Table 7). Not all studies have reported an increase of CH4 emissions with increasing CO2 concentrations. Schrope et al. (1999) found lower CH4 emissions in rice grown under elevated CO2. They attributed the lower emissions to greater rooting density, which would have allowed greater oxygen penetration to the soil through the aerenchyma of the plants and roots, and thereby provided opportunity for methanotrophic bacteria to consume CH4 before it could be emitted. In 3.8-L pot studies of bulltongue arrowhead (Sagittaria lancifolia L.), Schipper and Reddy (1996) found that CH4 emissions from plants were inversely related to newly accumulated plant biomass. Furthermore, CH4 production from soil sampled immediately after the plant measurements decreased with increasing plant biomass. They also observed that when the larger plants were removed from the containers that the root system appeared to be pot bound. This observation supports the concept that a dense root system can supply sufficient O2 to the rhizosphere to oxidize CH4 and/or limit methanogenesis. Greater biomass productivity under elevated CO2 could also lead to increased yield of rice straw. If the additional rice straw were incorporated into the soil, this could potentially increase CH4 emissions earlier after flooding and increase CH4 emissions throughout the crop life cycle. The greater CH4 emissions of rice grown at elevated temperatures (at either CO2 concentration) than at lower temperatures imply a greater amount of root exudation or a greater rate of root sloughing, since root biomass was not greater in high-temperature treatments at any of the sampling dates. Because root length density of cv. IR72 was tightly related to root biomass across all treatments and DAP, the pattern for O2 permeation into the flooded soil was likely to be very similar. Since much of the CH4 that is produced in wetland soils may actually be oxidized by methanotrophic bacteria before it escapes through the plant (Epp and Chanton, 1993; Schipper and Reddy, 1996), overall CH4 emissions should be a balance between substrates available for methanogenesis and O2 available for methanotrophy (i.e., substrate availability to O2 transport ratio). Natural wetlands could behave like flooded rice culture in terms of CH4 emission responses to elevated CO2 and temperature. With the combination of doubled CO2 and predicted temperature changes, natural wetland emissions might become two to four times greater, which could mean that CH4 could rival CO2 as a greenhouse effect gas. The currently estimated emissions by natural wetlands might increase from current estimates of 120 Tg yr-1 up to 240 to 480 Tg yr-1. Unless other unidentified feedback factors exist, the combination of both rising CO2 and anticipated global warming would thus appear to enhance CH4 emissions and tend to stimulate further global warming. If CH4 emissions from wetland systems are enhanced by this combination, the global warming potential of CH4 could become more important, rather than less, as currently predicted (Lelieveld et al., 1998). Related articles in JEQ:

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Sky Dragon in the forms of Clouds Susan came into my life years ago. She is the one who introduced me to the Nagas. It was in India that she first learned about Naga offerings. She learned from the village women who would bring milk and honey to the Naga Temples outside of the village. These offerings would help ensure the villagers to have safety from the cobras. We would sit around Susan’s kitchen table and she would tell us stories about the Nagas. One of the stories she related was about a man who lived in Arizona. He had been diagnosed with cancer and was given a short time to live. He decided to see a Tibetan doctor. The doctor read his pulse looked into his eyes and then asked him if he had been moving any big stones lately. The man said yes and went on to explain that he had moved a large stone for a landscaping project with his tractor. The doctor informed him that this stone was over a Naga’s home and he needed to move it back immediately. The man moved the stone and made an apology to the Nagas. A few weeks later the man’s cancer totally disappeared. A few years ago a Lama came to Mt. Shasta to give a healing empowerment to the community. He related the story behind this empowerment. The store takes place in China. The emperor called upon a lama to help him because his family members one by one were getting leprosy. The lama came to his newly built summer palace and spent the night. When he woke up in the morning he recalled dreaming that the palace was built upon Naga territory. The Naga King gave the lama a mantra to cure the disease that was created by the emperor’s trespassing. The royal family practiced the mantra and made their apologies to the Nagas. The leprosy was cured. Naga diseases are related to the element of water. Illnesses such as cancer, aids, leprosy and some others are related to the water element being out of balance in the body. The pollution that we have created in our waterways is a good example of how some of these diseases can be created. We cannot drink polluted water or eat toxic food without some sort of repercussion. Susan told me another story about one of the teaching Lama’s incarnations. The Lama was asked by the emperor of China to come and give his court dharma teachings. The Lama and one attendant made the long mountain journey from Tibet with one yak to carry their supplies. At the end of the teachings the emperor and his attendants brought treasure boxes of gold, silk and priceless Ming vases. The emperor knew fully that the Lama could never travel with such wealth with one yak up a winding mountain trail. The Lama was very polite and said thank you. He then requested that all his gifts be brought to the lake next to the palace. The emperor agreed to his request. The Chinese attendants carried all the gifts to the edge of the lake. The Lama then said a few mantras and the Naga King appeared and carried all the treasure back to Tibet. The emperor did not know what to say. The Lama, his companion and the yak made their way back home to Tibet. The treasure was waiting for them when they arrived. Susan always had some very good stories to share about the Nagas, saints and sages. A few weeks ago I decided to take a trip to Portland and visit her. We stayed up all night, talking about each other’s lives. I shared pictures of the dragons of Mt. Shasta and my adventures. The morning came and Susan brought me a gift of Kuan Yin tea that was packaged in a Chinese tin with a picture of a waterfall on the front. We were going to have a day’s outing and visit the waterfalls at Columbia Gorge outside of Portland. We walked out of the door and her entry way had a silver statue of Kuan Yin on the dragon’s back. But this statue was a little different: Kuan Yin was pouring the sweet nectar from her vase into the dragon’s mouth. Behind the statue was a picture of the most beautiful waterfall. Susan herself had never been to the local waterfalls so this was a new adventure for both of us. We arrived at the first waterfall area, which was quite crowded with tourists even in the light misty rain of the Northwest. We walked up the trail to the most magnificent waterfall and stood at a lookout point. I began to use my earth eyes to search out if there were dragons in the stone. Indeed, there was the naga dragon. This dragon shape stretched itself across a ridge of stone at the top of the falls. The waterfalls literally were falling across the dragon’s body.. Susan and I decided to travel up the road to look for a waterfall called Horsetail Falls. I saw a very small sign that said Horsetail and we pulled over and parked the car. We started on the trail that passed by smaller waterfalls. There were rocks, covered in thick moss and gushing waters from the new rains. This trail was less traveled. We began to chant a beautiful Japanese mantra to Kannon. At one point another girlfriend Christy shared a simple dance to Kannon which blesses the earth but also can heal anything you visualize as you perform the movement. Susan taught me the mantra that went with the dance. Kwan zeon bowsa Kwan zeon bowsa Kwan zeon bowsa Kwan zeon boooow We went along the trail, making the simple movements to the mantras. We walked along the winding trail, singing. Every step became a prayer. I had brought a gift to Susan when I arrived, a special incense made in Nepal. This incense was made with precious herbs and resins, used for offerings for the nagas and dragons. I magically found this incense the night before at a small video store in Ashland in Oregon and I knew it was the perfect gift for my friend. The container was beautifully made with the painting of a dragon. Susan was carrying it in her backpack like some ancient naga priestess climbing the mountain. She brought out two incense sticks and we lit them in spite of the wet conditions. We traveled up the road with incense wafting behind us as an offering to the beings in nature and we kept singing along the way. Then my inner eyes began to open and I saw a vision of Suzuki Roshi standing on the top of my head as I repeated the mantra. Even though I had never had physical contact with Suzuki Roshi, repeating this mantra caused his presence to become tangible to me. I felt we truly were being blessed. We saw several waterfalls along the way and stopped and made prayers. We had walked about three miles when we turned the corner and suddenly were face to face with a beautiful waterfall cascading down the ridge. In the back of this waterfall was a rock cave. You could walk right behind the waterfall and enjoy the back view. We approached the falls and there was another dragon head! The head of the dragon was the beginning of the cave and his tail was the other side of the cave. The cave itself was the belly of the dragon. We walked right into it! We stood behind the waterfall and our mantra changed to a Waterfall Kuan Yin mantra. This mantra is from a 7th century text out of China. Both in China and Japan, meditating with waterfalls is used as a spiritual practice. Another Guanyin mantra helps the chi flow within the physical body. It also can bring a down pouring of spiritual energy upon the practitioner. The mantra is Namo Long Jyen Gwan Yin. We repeated this over and over as we stood in the belly of the dragon. And then it happened: with my spiritual eyes I saw the waterfall turning into the body of White Robed Kuan Yin. We just kept singing, knowing that this waterfall and dragon was being dedicated to Kuan Yin. Susan and I walked out of the belly of the dragon and in that instant thunder rolled right above us. The prayers were accepted. We walked back in pouring rain, soaked to the bone. We did not care. Kuan Yin was there.. Kanzeon hail Buddha We are one with the Buddha Bound to the Awakened One And to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, We are always joyful and pure, In the morning thinking of Kanzeon In the evening thinking of Kanzeo Continous thoughts rise from the heart These thoughts never leave our hearts. Verse from Kannon Sutra 1 comment ›

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EAST BOOTHBAY — Bigelow Laboratory is opening two new centers that will focus on seafood security and the opening of the Arctic Ocean. The new centers are part of the laboratory’s Centers for Venture Research initiative. The centers are designed to use business techniques used by investors. Lab Executive Director Graham Shimmield says the centers will translate scientific research so it can be used to develop products and inform policy decisions. The lab says the Arctic Ocean center will have the ability to document and forecast environmental changes. It will also help develop science-based solutions for problems in the Arctic. Bigelow also says the seafood security center will be able to assess ecological impacts of wild-caught and aquaculture-based seafood. It will also analyze the safety of seafood for human consumption..

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Day 1: The Watchman At Your Thought-Closet Door - Living out false assumptions is like waking from a bad dream and believing it to be true. - We must take control of what we say to our souls - make our inner speech truth driven rather than feeling driven. - We have two choices concerning our thought closet content: Act according to truty or react to our emotions. - Feelings are valid, but they must concur with truth to be worthy of our life's wardrobe! We need to understand the basic nature of our feelings so we can give emotions their proper placement. - Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? - If you think with your feelings, you can fall into all manner of false conclusions. Feelings are supposed to serve and strengthen us. Left to themselves, however, they enslave and deplete us. - Through the gift of wisdom God protects us against the self-deceit and enslavement that come from thinking with our feelings. So, before we grab a bin of wisdom and throw it into our thought closets, we must determine what kind we need. - A surplus of emotion usually precedes acting without wisdom. - When we operate out of human wisdom or don't realize we lack God's wisdom, we think and act according to our feelings. - Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Saint Francis of Assisi - Wisdom is more relable than feelings. - Think of the story of Sarah, who was concerned that she wouldn't have children. She gave her servant, Hagar, to Abraham in order to have children through her (she had Ishmael). Muslims consider themselves children of Ishmael, so the conflict continues today! - Without wisdom we act emotionally, think with our feelings, and don't recognize truth - with catastrophic results. - ASK for wisdom! Day 2: More Ways To Fill Your Thought Closet With Wisdom - Pr. 9:10 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. - To fear the Lord means we revere Him and show deference and respect. - We are keenly aware of God's high position and the honor of approaching Him! To fear God means we esteem His truth more highly than our feelings or perceptions of truth. To fear the Lord means holding His knowledge and truth in higher regard than our own. - Hebrew scribes meticulously copied the text of the Old Testament to preserve Scripture for future generations. Before a scribe would write the name of God, he would first wash himself and then use a new pen. This was to show respect for the name of God and to carefully keep from breaking the Third Commandment. - A Jew never uttered the name of God when reading Scripture aloud out of fear of the Lord. - Until you revere God most highly in your life, you will never find true wisdom. - So the second way to gain wisdom is to fear God. - The third way to receive wisdom is to receive counsel. - The Book of Proverbs advises us that "wisdom is with those who receive counsel," and "a wise man is he who listens to counsel." - When we walk with wisdom, it will wear off on us. Think about the people we hang around with and the TV shows that we watch. Can you tell a difference when you spend time with wise people? What about when you watch TV that is educational as opposed to filthy??? - Often we need to take time to listen to others, learn from their mistakes and experiences, and recognize they struggle too. - The study suggests that we each have a "wise guide" - someone (a female if you're female, male if you're male) that we can peek into the closet of. Who is yours? I've made a conscious effort lately to read blogs of women who I respect and admire for their Christian beliefs and the way they live it out in their lives. There are SEVERAL that I love to read each day! - You will become well-acquainted with wisdom when you simply request it, revere God, and receive wise counsel. - Three Rs to wisdom: Request it, Revere God, and Receive counsel. Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Week Three: Days 1 and 2

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- Try… Hey there, Your site is now bookmarked as compulsory reading! This is the kind of story that excites me. We need to maintain independent bookshops. Will you promise to give regular updates on how you get on? I am interested to know how you go about things, as I have often dreamed of doing the same thing. I wrote a piece this morning on my blog about the pleasure of getting books through the post. Sorry, but I haven't yet turned my back. What gets me into a bookshop is the choice and selection, the enthusiasm (about books) of the staff, a cosy atmosphere (why not coffee, a couch?), a warm effort to link with the writing community (noticeboards, discussion groups, sigings, launches). I also like a bookshop that does some digging for me: recommending new writers; putting on special displays about writers from different countries; resurrecting lost favoutites and forgotten award winners. I could go on and on, but I will save it for another time. I will watch this space with interest. Thanks Shameless - we were well-chuffed by your comments, thank you! Apart from shamelessly stealing your ideas (which seemed to me to be a top-ten list of bookselling success) we definitely promise to keep you informed of progress, with regular updates. How about offering something no one else offers eg a large print book section? You'd then need to publicise it - maybe a poster in the local optician's or anywhere else people go on a regular basis, as well as local paper etc. Chains generally don't have either a romance section or a historical novel section, so how about having both in your shop? If you wanted to join the Romantic Novelists' Association as an associate member you would have a chance to meet local authors at RNA events, and perhaps arrange book signings, talks etc which would generate publicity for your shop and provide added interest for customers. You could also publicise events at the shop through the RNA's elist. And if you wanted to join the Historical Novel Society you would meet a lot of people who love historical novels, and who would be the kind of people who would become loyal customers. They might even welcome an article about setting up an independent book shop, which would publicise your shop. If you left the HNS magazines in your coffee area, it would be an added attraction, particularly as they produce a review magazine 4 times a year. And how about a historical romance section? Try contacting those lovely ladies at Historical Romance UK :) It's an interesting point that bookstores don't generally have a special section for romantic fiction. I wonder why this is? Obviously it works well for crime and science fiction. It will certainly be fun experimenting with how to present titles to see what works best. Current interesting things our research has shown is that people prefer to browse tables than shelves and that 30% of sales will come from the books put in the first few feet of space, so first impressions are really important. Thanks also for the tip about the RNA being a good way to meet authors happy to do book signings. I have just stumbled across your blog and thought you might like to know what annoys me most about my local indie then you can do the opposite and have 'em pouring in the doors. 1)They take your money whilst talking on the phone or worse eating a pastie (this is a biggish clue as to where in the country this might be!)and then heaven forfend leave big greasy pawprints all over your lovely book. 2)I try to buy in there but why should I have to pay for a book to be ordered even if it is from a smallish publisher when I can go home and buy if half the price anyway from you-know-who? 3)They do nothing community based. Suggestions about reading groups met with derision and claims of "far too difficult, people would argue" 4)They gossip loudly behind the counter, I have heard some very derisory things about people I know.Very embarrassing. 5)I have been going in there for years but they still don't know my name or try to engage me in conversation at the till. 6)They haven't read the books! Good luck with your shop and when I know where it is we'll sell up and move there. http:dovegreyreader.blogsource.com

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like to take a moment, to pause and to say this: even in those years where you cannot list things out beautifully and perfectly, you have not wasted your time or your efforts. There is no such thing as a waste. There are no wasted words. There are no wasted years. Perhaps you wrote eighty thousand words and had to delete sixty five thousand of them. Perhaps you barely got four thousand words drafted this year. Perhaps you wrote your book, but it didn’t sell. Perhaps you switched tacks, switched genres, changed agents, lost your editor. I don’t know, I’m not you. But we all have these moments. Where the setbacks feel larger than life. Where they feel insurmountable. Where we want to potentially give up. Where everyone around is us on another list, on another track, living a better creative life. I’m here to tell you that these years, these moments of unclarity (I know that’s not a word, but go with me), these phases where everything feels like a haze are just as important as the obvious accomplishments. These years and these times are not wastes of your life. They are not wastes of your talents. I’ve thought a lot about this. I started the first part of my working life thinking I wanted to work in museums and the arts. I graduated in the worst recession since the Great Depression. There weren’t a lot of jobs in the arts available. And even when I snagged one, the work wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. Then I thought I would go to graduate school and be a professor. I loved the work and I hated the living environment of academia. I’ve worked in retail, I’ve worked in galleries. In curatorial departments. At teaching. I did not end up in any of the longterm places you get to with those jobs, but working them and learning the ropes was not a waste. Writing academically, even though I now write fiction, was not a waste. Understanding how art becomes a commercial endeavor was not a waste. Learning to deal with customers and clients was not a waste. I learned to research efficiently and to be rigorous with my reading from graduate school. Retail taught me to understand when I was showing up for work, when I was “on” and had to really be able to be professional while dealing with strangers (aka customers). Teaching taught me how to break down any kind of lesson, so that everything was in digestible pieces. Taught me how to get out of my way of understanding the world and be able to communicate what I see to someone who understands the world entirely differently. None of that was a waste. All of that is applicable to my work now. Not always directly. But I carried the lessons I learned from these spans of time of my life that— for years— I believed was a waste. The business end of writing will always be important. I am not going to lie to you and say that I don’t understand the value in selling a book. Being mindful of your work and the audience of your work doesn’t go away as a professional artist. But remember that your art is allowed to exist outside of the business side as well. That sometimes you must write a book that does not sell, that does not perform as you wish, in order to write the next thing that maybe does. So as you take stock of your year, think about everything you’ve accomplished, not just as it fits on a neat list. Think of what you’ve lived through, what you’ve come out the other side of. Think about what you’ve learned from what didn’t work out. Think about the ways that those false starts taught you about yourself, about your art, about the ways in which you create. And most of all, remember you’re more than any list. More than any one book. You always bring your whole life and whole self to the page, no matter what you’re writing. Happy New Year, and I’ll catch y’all on the flip side. This was great. Thank you 😘 Thank you for reading! I’m so glad you enjoyed 💜💜💜 I appreciate this today. Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your incredible year! thank you so much for reading, Tracy! And anytime, it’s been nice to have a year with clear accomplishments but I wouldn’t have been here without all of those other years that came before it. You’ve got this and Happy Early 2019 💜💜💜 Thanks for this piece. I needed it. Thank you so much for taking the time to read 💜🙏🏽And I’ve been there, too, so I thought I’d give out the advice I needed when it felt like things weren’t going my way. The path only looks like a straight line in hindsight 💓 This was definitely something I needed to hear 😉 Thank you for reading 💜🙏🏽 And I’m so happy to hear it helped 💓 Loved this! Thank you for reminding us that it’s okay to have “failures” they aren’t failures at all, just stepping stones to success! So, thank you! Thank you, Mary 💜🙏🏽 And yes! it’s that old adage– failure isn’t the opposite of success, it’s part of it. I think we often view failure as a permanent state, rather than a normal one everyone has to pass through as they learn and grow I loved this article! Congrats on a great year! Thank you so much, Cambria! I hope you have a wonderful 2019!

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When Charles Causley turned 65, such was the regard for him that a group of leading poets – including Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and DM Thomas – contributed to a tribute book of verse. "He was a marvellously resourceful, original poet," said Hughes. It will be 10 years in November since Causley died, at the age of 86. But he is not forgotten. Singer and pianist Jim Causley, a distant relative whose kin hail from the poet's original family village of Trusham in the Teign Valley, has recorded a lovely folk album, setting 12 of Causley's poems to music. Causley spent most of his life in Launceston, Cornwall, where he became a teacher, and one of the highlights of the album is the joyful love poem My Young Man's a Cornishman, which includes the lines: And I shall give him scalded cream, And starry-gazey pie, And make him a saffron cake for tea. The whole album evokes the graceful charm and character of a true English gentleman from a bygone age. And Starry-gazey pie (left), incidentally, is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards. Causley was occasionally described as "the children's poet" and although he did write poetry for children, some of the finest in English, this label is unfair. He also wrote plays, short stories and opera librettos and was a prolific editor of collections of poetry. Yet even in his poetry for and about children, he did not patronise or sentimentalise them. He wasn't a primary schoolteacher for three decades for nothing, remarking once: "Children . . . you walk among them at your peril." Setting the poem Timothy Winters to music has been done before, yet Jim Causley and his fellow folk musicians bring it to life with real zest, his deep baritone voice soaring as he sings: Timothy Winters comes to school, With eyes as wide as a football pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters, A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters. You can also hear the droll English humour that must have attracted the praise of Larkin in the lines:. Cyprus Well was recorded in the house which gives the album its name, on the poet's own piano, which had not been played since the poet touched the keys a decade ago. The piano doesn't sound wonderfully in tune but has a village hall quality that seems fitting. The album was recorded live and the musicians all bring deft touches to the work. On All Soul’s Day, for example, accompaniment is provided by Ceri Owen Jones’s harp, and Causley's voice blends well with that of Jones and Julie Murphy. Neil Davey (Bouzouki, fiddle), Pete Berryman (guitar), Bob Holland (piano), Keith Marshall (percussion), Carl Allerfeldt (fiddle) and Hilary Coleman (clarinet) all pitch in. On two tracks, Rattler Morgan and Sibard’s Well, the poems are recited rather than sung. A Song of Truth, which is a poignant re-telling of the Christmas story, is a gentle treat but my favourite was the harmony version of the beautiful poem Who? a moving ode about memory, identity and childhood. Causley was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature, a rare honour, and the singer Jim says: "I did sense an approving presence when we were recording". Well, there's a lot to be approving about with this tribute, which is also helping the Charles Causley Trust in their mission to preserve the poet's Launceston home as a writer's retreat. Jim Causley: Cyprus Well (Folk Police Recordings)

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This web presentation contains the slides of a lecture given at the Fields Institute on June 26, 2003 as part of the Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School on Harmonic Analysis, The Trace Formula and Shimura Varieties. You may browse the slides in the presentation (a browser capable of displaying PNG graphics is required). Shown: slide 20. Previous Slide | Next Slide

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It was a celebration 100 years in the making and a toast to 100 more at the Ritz Theater on Broadway’s east end Monday night. The lobby walls of the historic structure echoed with the sound of champagne glasses clinking and Mike Pacer’s orchestra of one set the mood with some classic Americana arrangements reminiscent of Sinatra. A string of photos across the wall told the story of a lost era while airing on the subject of history in the making. The Ritz aims to become a state-of-the-art 825 seat theater in 2016. In the long term the revival project aims to create administrative and operational positions on-site and strengthen community partnerships like the one they are currently enjoying with Newburgh’s mainstay college campus – SUNY Orange. In the short term it hopes to become a safe-haven for Newburgh’s aspirational theater arts and performance groups. Edward Gibbons-Brown the creative director and founding partner of a new local nonprofit theater company called Hatmaker’s Attic Productions was hob-nobbing with his spatial partners at the Ritz and Safe Harbors of the Hudson. Hatmaker’s Attic theatrical programming has been integrated into Safe Harbor’s 2013 calendar year beginning with a May production of the beloved contemporary musical THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE*, peaking with a summer camp theater program. The celebration doubled as the kick-off for the capital campaign which aspires to raise 100k in this the Ritz’s 100th year. *Auditions for the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will be held in The Ritz on February 9th, from 12:00PM to 4:00PM. Article and photos by Stefanie Pearl – Publisher at HappyHudsonValley.com

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Nice free tool Pros: It is short and concise. Free most of all. You may be able to add your own conversions. There is a category file and a conversion file. The category file lists the category and on which line it begins. The conversion file contains the units of measurement. Most commonly used conversions are included. Cons: No installer included. File has to be unzipped to a folder and a shortcut created. Posted: 08-Aug-2008 10:40:13 AM

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Regarded as one of the best interior designers of our generation, the British creator Kelly Hoppen has quite a unique design approach that seizes to amaze everyone, everytime one looks at one of her remarkable projects. Her versatile style is underpinned by her combination of clean lines and neutral tones that show warmth and lavishness. Today, Luxury Bathrooms will show you a series of iconic bathroom designs from either residences or hotels that were actually designed by Kelly Hoppen, so take a look. “For me, the bathroom is the most private of spaces within the house, it is not only a room for cleansing but also one for de-stressing. This is a room where you should create a sanctuary where you can leave your worries at the door and come out feeling rejuvenated and revived.” – Kelly Hoppen The designer combines her natural balance and timeless style to conceive the perfect sanctuary that features all of the client’s traits, tailor making every interior space to their needs and the following bathroom set reflect just that! You May Also Be Interested In Reading These Articles: - Stunning Bathroom Ideas by Kelly Hoppen You Will Covet -: Kelly Hoppen Interiors

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“I owns me.” McBride forced her to give him all the money she made. He was her slave. Over the months that McBride controlled his victim, “He became violent. Increasingly violent over the time period that he was essentially pimping this particular victim,” says Brooke Kernan, assistant state attorney of the 17 Judicial Circuit. One night, when his victim did not return, McBride found her, beat her with his gun, and left her to die. She was eventually able to make her way to the busy Tamiami Trail where a bystander found her and called 911. She found a way out of his grasp. This survivor was incredibly brave to reach out for help. This step led to his arrest and sentence. “Ronald McBride received 50 years today and that sentence is a very long time for him to sit and think about what he’s done,” Armstrong said. “Every day we fight against human trafficking in our community and we will continue to do so.” Tuesday’s sentence was the first conviction for human trafficking in Sarasota County, Florida. We commend the efforts of the Sarasota Police Department and the State Attorney’s Office in this matter and are grateful for our friends at Selah Freedom whose care for the victim enabled her to find healing and the courage to stand up to her trafficker in court. She is very brave and is blessed to have such a wonderful community supporting her. This conviction is a wonderful step in the right direction to show that our state will not tolerate modern-day slavery. Pictures Courtesy WWSB MySuncoast News

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Craft Brewing Business is going from Ground to Glass at Rogue Farms We're taking Craft Brewing Business from Ground to Glass this week. Sep 7.

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The Truth behind One of the 1400 Cases of Death January 26, 2000 My mother was called Ma Jin-xiu. She lived in Guang-an-men, Shang-yi East #4-041, Xuang-wu District of Beijing. She was counted by the Chinese government as one of the “1,400 cases of death attributed to Falun Gong”. Her death “due to Falun Gong” has been publicized on TV controlled by the Chinese government. Now I will tell the true story about her death. In 1981 when I went to middle school, my mother got diabetes. She got four ‘+’s in every medical checkup. She often had heart plpitations. Believing that she might die very soon, she entrusted me to Aunt Hua, asking her to take care of my brother, my sister and especially me as I would be so young after she died. For more than ten years, she was plagued by her diseases. Although she took more than 30 pescribed pills daily, her health got worse and worse. In 1994 and 1995, she suffered apoplexy twice each year, which brought hemiplegia to her face. Her eyebrows were extremely uneven. Her eyes did not shine and her face looked dark. Her mouth corners were skewed too. The second time she suffered apoplexy, the doctor said that it was very hard for her face to recover and if she suffered apoplexy one more time, she might lose her life. My mother was on the verge of death. My mother’s health showed no improvement until she learned Falun Dafa in 1996. After she watched Master Li’s videotapes, she thought that Falun Dafa was so good that she would like to practice cultivation of Falun Dafa. Shortly, my mother’s health improved miraculously. She stopped taking medicine. She kept practicing the Falun Dafa exercises, studying the books and improving her Xin-xing (heart quality, mind nature, moral values etc.) Her face recovered quickly. In only two to three months, her eyebrows became almost even. Her eyes became bright for the first time in many years. Her skewed mouth corners also became straight. Her face became white. She could walk much faster than before. She had felt tired after a tiny bit of work before. After she practiced Falun Dafa, she felt at ease even after working for half a day. My mother told everyone she met, “Falun Dafa is so good. You see that my health now is so much better than in the past. I feel very healthy. I got rid of the diabetes.” Many of our relatives and friends, and even our neighbors, were very impressed with her. Because my mother was old and she had been unhealthy for years before learning Falun Dafa, she was concerned whether she could finish her cultivation in her limited lifetime. But she vowed that she would continue to practice cultivation in her next life if she could not achieve perfection in this lifetime. She also told her vow to me. My mother had not had any negative symptoms until the middle of 1997. My sister and I lived next door. My mother looked very well when she stayed in my room. A minute later, she went to my sister’s room, and my sister started to cry that my mother’s arms could not move. We took her to the hospital very quickly. When she was in the hospital, the hospital issued a notice that my mother might die shortly. My mother stayed at the hospital for treatment for a few months before she died. For the 17 years after my mother got diabetes, many diabetes patients that my mother knew died. Therefore, my mother said to me several times, “so-and-so and so-and-so all died although they got diabetes later than I. Only I live so long. I am really lucky to be able to learn Falun Dafa.” Although my mother had a heart for practicing cultivation of Falun Dafa, she could not give up many of her attachments. Her understanding of Falun Dafa was only based on the change of her health and how she felt, so she improved very slowly in her cultivation process and therefore was not able to prolong her life even further. After she learned Falun Dafa, she could take money lightly to some extent, and she no longer argued with others in the free market. But I still remembered that during the period of her hospitalization, she checked her money while sitting in the wheelchair in order to find money for the return trip of her son. She fell down many times in order to find the money. I also remember that she could bear the humiliation from others on the bus. But while in the hospital, when my father scolded her in front of others, she threw the food onto the floor. Then, immediately, her arms and legs could not move, although she had been recovering very well before that. Falun Dafa practices the characteristics of the universe, “Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance.” Master Li said, “Qigong is cultivation practice and something supernormal, as opposed to everyday people’s physical exercises. One must focus on Xinxing (mind nature, heart quality, moral value standard) in order to cure illness or increase cultivation energy.” [Excerpt from Zhuan Falun, Lecture One] Master Li also said, “There are still some practitioners who have a wrong understanding. They feel that practicing Falun Dafa is like buying insurance so that their physical bodies will never die. Our cultivation system aims at cultivating both nature and life. A cultivator can prolong his life as he cultivates himself. However, some practitioners have not made enough effort when they cultivate within the In-Triple-World-Law (Shi-jian-fa) and always linger in a level. When they have raised a level with great effort, they will linger in that level again. Cultivation is a serious matter, so it is very difficult to guarantee that one’s life will not come to an end at one’s predestined time.” [Except from “An Explicit Direction” in Falun Buddha Law (Essentials for Further Advances) ] Let us think, if my mother had not practiced Falun Dafa, how long would she have survived after 17 years of diabetes, got four “+”s in every medical examination, and suffered two apoplexies twice in such a short time period? She was sent to the hospital soon after she felt uncomfortable, without delay, and hence received adequate medical treatment. She took medicine. She was given injections. There does not exist the problem of refusing medical treatment. What about the outcome? She still died. We all know that the hospital could treat one’s illnesses but could not save one’s life if one is to die. If a patient dies in the hospital, can we attribute one’s death to the hospital? Then, how could we attribute a Falun Dafa practitioner’s death to Falun Dafa if he/she dies? If nobody will die after practicing Falun Dafa, then all the people in the world will practice Falun Dafa in order to avoid death. How many patents die in China everyday? As the family member of one of the 1400 cases, I welcome the opportunity to tell the truth to everyone.

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The English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) belongs to the toy dog group. Black and Tan smooth coated terriers have existed in England during the 16th century. These dogs were the forebears of the modern day English Toy Terrier. The Manchester Terrier was developed from the smooth coated Black and Tan Terriers. Owning small dogs became a fad during the Victorian era so that the smaller specimens of the Manchester Terrier were bred to develop a smaller breed of dog. These dogs that measure about 10 to 12 inches at the withers and weighs from 6 to 8 pounds was later on given the name English Toy Terrier (Black and White) and recognized as a separate breed in 1938. This breed was recognized by the Kennel Club in 1962. During the early existence of these dogs, English Toy Terriers have been the partners of Fox Hounds in hunting rabbits and other small game. These small dogs were usually carried by hunters in their pockets or in specially designed pouches and utilized to flush out the quarry hiding in thick underbrush. The small size is an import asset that allows these dogs to follow the quarry to their dens. These dogs though are highly valued for their ratting abilities. Throughout the history of the English Toy Terriers, the dogs were utilized to hunt vermin and to rid homes, barns, warehouses and even ships of rats. Because of their excellent ratting reputation, an English Toy Terrier is a common sight in rat pits and being betted on by rat baiting enthusiasts. An English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) is a sleek and cleanly built dog. The smooth glossy coat of well defined black and tan coloring gives the dog an elegant appearance. This is an affectionate breed that forms a strong devotion to its family. Appearance As the name suggests the only permitted coat color for an English Toy Terrier is black and tan. This elegant dog has a thick and glossy coat that is predominantly ebony black with well defined tan coloring that is likened to a rich chestnut. The tan and black coloring does not blend into each other but form marked and distinct color divisions. Tan hairs cover the front of the forelegs extending up to the knees. The center of each pastern has a black thumb mark and a thin black line known as penciling marks each toe. Front of hind legs are well tanned as well. The muzzle of this breed is distinctly tanned. These dogs have a tan spot above each eye. The under jaw, the throat, the inside of the ears and each side of the chest are tan as well. The distinct coat colors as well as the cleanly built and well balanced conformation gives the English Toy Terrier a compact and elegant appearance. This breed has a long narrow head, a flat wedge-shaped skull and a slight stop. Compressed lips hold the upper and the lower jaws tightly together. Level and strong teeth meet in a complete scissor bite. Dark to black small almond shaped eyes are obliquely set. Nose is black. Candle flame shaped ears with slightly pointed tips are carried erect. This breed has a long and slightly arched graceful neck. The back is slightly curving up into a rounded rump. The narrow and deep chest has well sprung ribs. Loins are well cut up and the buttocks are gently rounded. Straight forelegs are fine boned. Set low, the tail that is thick at the root and tapers to a point does not reach below the level of the hocks. Neat small feet have well arched toes. An English Toy Terriers gait is described to be similar to the extended trot of a horse. Personality The English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) is a sweet dog that enjoys giving love to the members of the family but the dog is noted to give its loyalty and adoration to its favorite person. This dog is categorized as a toy breed but an English Toy Terrier is no ornamental lap dog. Effervescent, vibrant, courageous, alert, friendly these typical terrier temperaments are possessed by the English Toy Terrier. This dog makes an admirable watchdog as aside from being alert, the dog has a keen sense of hearing and the friendly attitude is not extended to strangers. The owners will be warned of any unusual sounds and movements in his territory. Because of the playful nature, the dog would be a suitable companion and playmate of the children. However, being small and delicate, the children must be cautioned to be careful in handling the dog. In any case, this dog will not tolerate being handled clumsily. An English Toy Terrier will tolerate other dogs if properly socialized at an early age or if the dogs were raised in the same household however, this dog will need a well fenced yard as it will be very dangerous to smaller pets because of its well developed ratting instinct. This breed will be comfortable in apartments, in a home in the country, in a farm or in a home in the city. Care An English Toy Terrier (Black and White) is a clean breed. The dog sheds but because the cost is short it would need very little maintenance. A grooming mitt or a chamois cloth will remove dead hair and maintain the high gloss of the coat. The dog can be bathed occasionally using a mild animal soap and shampoo. Because of the short coat, the dog would need a coat if the weather is extremely cold. This is a small breed but moderate amount of exercise will still be necessary not only to keep the dog fit and healthy but also to ensure that the dog is mentally occupied to keep boredom at bay. This bred is not a fussy eater and does not have special dietary requirements. The English Toy Terrier suffered from a number of health concerns when the breed was introduced over a hundred years ago but breeders have been successful in breeding out these health concerns. An English Toy Terrier is expected to live between 9 to 15 years. History Terriers have existed as early as 16th century in England. Smooth and rough coated dogs with a predominant black and tan color were depicted in works of art during that era. These dogs were hunted with Fox Hounds. Mounted hunters carry these small dogs in specially designed pouches. Because of the small size, terriers were tasked to flush out the fox from the dense underbrush and from burrows. Terriers though were specifically developed to be ratting machines. These dogs have been utilized to rid houses, warehouses, barns, coal mines and ships of vermin. Terriers are commonly kept by horse owners as these dogs eliminate rats from tack rooms. Terriers though are highly valued for their performance in rat pits. Rat baiting is a popular sport in Victorian England where the dog and a number of rats were placed in a circular pit. Bets were placed on a dog that can kill the most number of rats in the allotted time. Tiny, a 5 pound black and tan terrier set a legendary record of killing 300 rats in less than an hour in 1848. During the early 1800s, these small dogs were interchangeably known as Black and Tan Terrier, Old English Terrier or simply as English Terrier. When rat baiting was outlawed, fanciers of the breed have introduced breeds of small hounds to refine the breed. Aside from the white and the black and tan coloring, dogs are also seen with blue and tan or brindle and white coats. This was attributed to the Italian Greyhounds and or Whippet that were introduced to the English Terrier. Due to the improved appearance, the ratters have effortlessly moved from rat pits to conformation show ring. At first the dogs were classified by color being black and tan or white. Later on the English Terriers were classified by weight. The dogs were divided into the larger Manchester Terrier and the smaller Black and Tan Terrier. The banning of the blood sports has greatly affected the breed. Breed population declined especially when the breed has evolved into a fancy dog because breeders have given more importance to developing the appearance of the breed. Developing a dog with the ability to do the original functions has taken a back seat. Breed enthusiasts have changed breed name from Miniature Black and Tan Terriers to English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) in 1962 with the hope of stopping the decreasing numbers of the breed. However, this did not stabilize breed population. The English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) is considered to be one of the rare breeds of dogs in England. This breed is even rarer in other countries. Due to extinction concerns, the UK Kennel Club has allowed Toy Manchester Terriers in North America to be re-registered as English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) as long as the dog is certified to be a toy variety.

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7th Regiment 7th Regiment is selling blankets with the corps' logo on it as a fundraiser. Orders can be made online with delivery available before Christmas. 7thRegiment.org The Academy The Academy posted its roster of brass staff members for the corps' 2014 season. The group will be led by caption head Michael Larkin. ArizonaAcademy.org Blue Devils The Blue Devils will gather to celebrate the end of 2013 at its annual awards banquet on Saturday, Nov. 30 at the Concord, Calif. Hilton. BlueDevils.org Blue Devils B Blue Devils B will host its own season-ending awards banquet in Concord, Calif. with a lunch and program on Sunday, Nov. 17. BlueDevils.org Bluecoats The Bluecoats organization will host its annual business meeting and board of directors election on Sunday, Dec. 8 in North Canton, Ohio. Bluecoats.com Boston Crusaders The Boston Crusaders will have representatives at the Bands of America regional competition this weekend in Atlanta to meet with fans and prospective members about the corps' 2014 summer season. Facebook.com The Cadets The Cadets have a number of groups setup on Facebook for prospective members to learn more about and ask questions about auditioning for the 2014 corps. YEA.org Carolina Crown Carolina Crown asks you to download, print and post any of several posters the corps has made available to help spread the word about the corps upcoming audition camps. CarolinaCrown.org The Cavaliers The Cavaliers will host auditions for its Green Thunder winter percussion ensemble Nov. 23 and 24 in River Grove, Ill. Cavaliers.org City Sound City Sound is reaching out to all of its alumni brass players in preparation for some big performances the corps is gearing up for in the next two months. Facebook.com Coastal Surge Those interested in auditioning for Coastal Surge can join the corps' prospective member group on Facebook. Facebook.com Colts The Colts have made it to the final round of the Make My Non-Profit Run Better contest presented by RK Dixon/Premier. A second round of voting will take place from Nov. 1 to 8, during which you can help the corps come closer to winning a $15,000 technology makeover. Colts.org Crossmen DCI Hall of Fame member Frank Williams and Dennis Laorenza are two of the newest additions to the Crossmen brass staff. "We are extremely excited and privileged to have these two guys in our corner for the 2014 season," Caption Head Anthony Cruddas said. Crossmen.org Genesis Genesis has plans to launch a new indoor percussion ensemble called Teatro. Facebook.com Jersey Surf Jersey Surf announced this week that the corps will embark on its longest summer tour to date in 2014 including a number of early-season Midwestern events and its first-ever stop at the Drum Corps International regional event in Minneapolis. "It will be unusual for us to not have many performances on the East Coast until the end of the summer," Executive Director Bob Jacobs said. "The change of scenery will be a great thing for the organization and will make our return even more special for our members and alumni when the tour brings us back to our regular stomping grounds late in the season when we're at our very best." JerseySurf.org Legends Auditions for the Legends indoor percussion ensemble will take place Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 in the Kalamazoo, Mich. area. LegendsPAA.org Madison Scouts With 75 days left in the year, this week the Madison Scouts launched an end-of-year fundraising campaign that the organization is dubbing, Madison Corps 75. "One of our goals for the year was to reconnect with our alumni at a whole new level," Executive Director Chris Komnick said. "Coming off of the 75th anniversary celebration in September, we want to capitalize on that momentum and build unprecedented support for the organization from the roots up." The campaign will have a board match of up to $10,000 and other incentives for donors. MadisonScouts.org Music City Music city announced its new and returning staff members who will serve as caption heads during the corps' 2014 season. Facebook.com Oregon Crusaders Oregon Crusaders announced additions to its instructional staff including Ian Flint as visual caption supervisor and Dr. Christopher Whyte as front ensemble arranger and caption supervisor. OregonCrusaders.org Pacific Crest Pacific Crest announced new and returning members of its brass instructional staff. The 2014 Pacific Crest Brass program includes an amazing group of music educators," Caption Head Seth Murphy said. "Each of the members of the staff brings a wealth of drum corps experience, music education knowledge and a motivation to be one of the best brass programs in the country." Pacific-Crest.org Pioneer In an act of corps helping corps, this week the Madison Scouts donated the corps' old kitchen semi-trailer to the Pioneer organization. "Our head cook, Mrs. Margo Bauer, is so excited about this that she has come down from Port Huron, Mich. and has already been putting many hours of cleaning, planning and preparing for the use of this food trailer for our 2014 season!" Director Roman Blenski wrote in a thank you letter posted to the corps' website. Pioneer-Corps.org Racine Scouts Racine Scouts asks you to help the spread the word about joining the corps for the organization's 2014 summer season. Facebook.com Santa Clara Vanguard Santa Clara Vanguard announced the addition of Al Yeh and Charles Frost to the organization's full-time administrative staff. "We're excited to have Al and Charles join our office staff, as their talents and skills will boost the efforts of the rest of our team, as we work to elevate the experience of every member, volunteer and staff member in each of our programs," CEO Jeff Fiedler said. SCVanguard.org Thunder The Thunder family is mourning the loss of corps alum Rebecca Harvey who was killed in a car accident in Washington this week. Harvey is the daughter of former Thunder corps director Rich Harvey. Facebook.com

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News SPL Preview - Team Rival vs Burrito Esports Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s SPL preview! Today we will be looking at Team Rival vs Burrito Esports, giving an insight into the potential picks, playstyle, and possible results for tomorrow's game. Let’s get into it! So far Burrito has had a pretty consistent playstyle. They like to have a long game, taking advantage of gods that perform best in the mid to late game. A lot of the games they have won this split has been at least 30 minutes, reflecting their playstyle. The gods we frequently see them play are quite unconventional in comparison to other teams. They seem to like gods which have a lot of burst potential such as Zeus, Jing Wei, Ao Kuang and Ratatoskr. All of these gods haven’t been picked up very frequently (if at all) from other teams. This isn’t to say that they don’t work, it’s just there are other picks which are held in higher regards such as Hou Yi, Raijin, and Serqet. What does this mean for their match against Team Rival then? It should be completely expected that they won't deviate from their playstyle now. They’ve been consistent with it up until now, and it would make the least sense to try and change it on the last week of the SPL. This especially relevant since they have managed to take wins off Super Regional contenders such as NRG eSports through their dedication. However, that doesn’t mean it’ll be enough for their match versus Team Rival. While they have managed to pull out a couple wins through the split, they just aren’t playing at a high level consistently to make them a reliable bet on most games. The set should go to Team Rival in a simple 2-0 fashion, with little possibility for a slip up. Don't forget to watch the game live Tomorrow on and we will see you later this week for another SPL preview! Your Comments Please register or login to post comments

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Hi. My husband was dx in Nov 2015 with grade IV glioblastoma. He had a biopsy but never a resection. (The tumor was in the thalamus region.) He began chemo and 6 weeks of radiation. He finished chemo in August. As of Sept 6th, the tumor has grown somewhat (encompassing the hippocampus) and the neuro-oncologist wants the resection done. His neurosurgeon thinks he has time however and should consider maybe more radiation. My question is this: why does my husband have to wait a year from the time his radiation ended to have another round of radiation done? And is it true that resection can cause the tumor to grow even faster? (The thalamic tumor cannot be removed.) Thank you for reading this. Hi Marty, I moved your message to this discussion where members are talking about glioblastoma stage 4, including @cure @sandydominy1 @cbrice @user_che69bc66 @dfelix @IndianaScott @barbkaser @js119 @ljsandlin and @dawn_giacabazi. Marty, how is your wife doing? How are you doing? Liked by Scott, Volunteer Mentor, taterjoy Hello @martyc2016 My wife did. Willing to answer any questions you might have.REPLY I’d get radiation/chemo. My hubby did and he was on maintenance chemo for 12 months. No demonstrable side effects. If doing chemo, it was recommended to us to take the nausea pill 30 minutes BEFORE chemo. No nausea. He’s got a great quality of life (going on European river cruise in October). Doing nothing was never an option for us. HI Marty! My friend has the same diagnosis, and is receiving excellent oncology consultation/care on the East Coast (closer to her home) at Duke Cancer Center. She is going on four years as a survivor! If you read the post that started this discussion, and the many comments, you will see my earlier post which summarizes my friends treatment and lifestyle protocols. She just had an MRI Scan at Duke two weeks ago and the results were “no tumor growth” which is what we always want to hear. She is doing well. Her very dedicated husband is her amazing caregiver. I hope that you (or your loved one) is getting excellent care and support. And to Scott: It’s so nice to meet you on this site, and to hear that your wife was a 14 year survivor. That is so inspiring! My heart goes out to any patient who is dealing with GBM, and to their families, friends, and care teams. Hi @njtomato and welcome to Connect. You’ll notice that I moved your message to an existing discussion about glioblastoma where you can meet other Connect members talking about their experiences, like @cure @sandydominy1 @cbrice @user_che69bc66 and others. I encourage you to read through the past messages and ask questions. Here is another discussion from @tealover102 that may interest you: – GBM patient caregiver While we wait for others to join the conversation, can you tell us a bit more about your situation? What treatment options have been suggested for your husband? Hello, this is Jo. I am sorry about your husband. It helps to actively be involved in the treatment process. My husband also has a GBM 4. I am happy to answer anything about our journey. Every case is different. His beast was 78% resected by Dr. Q., followed by 6 week of inpatient rehab at Brooks in Jacksonville, Fl. He then did 30 rounds of radiation while doing outpatient OT and PT. He was in a wheelchair for about 2 months due to weakness on the left side. He could not move his left arm for 2 months and is still therapy for that. He now does chemo and is monitored monthly with MRIs. Tell me more about your situation? You can call me Jo. Liked by Colleen Young, Connect Director My glioblastoma tumor was cut out the end of September & I had 6 weeks of radiation & temozolomide. I will have my MRI tomorrow to see if anybody new is trying to setup a new house in my head. I know they say you have to wait a bit between radiation treatments because it is so hard on the person. Hang in there. Did your doctor offer the new Optune device? @martyc2016 Glioblastoma stage 4: Does anyone else have the same diagnoses?

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Never miss a great news story!Get instant notifications from Economic TimesAllowNot now Indian IT has gone through various phases. Now we need to step back and see what... The actor has filed a civil defamation suit.. 03:59 PM | 15 Oct SENSEX 34,865131.52 NIFTY 50 10,51240.00 GOLD (MCX) (Rs/10g.) 32,199353.00 USD/INR 73.860.29 b.

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Xiaomi, otherwise known as the Apple of China, has made it official that it will be entering the ever-growing mobile payments industry with a new service in its home country of China. According to the OEM, it will be working together with the country’s national bank card association that goes by the name of UnionPay. The deal will see the former put up a mobile payment service that will work with the company’s set of mobile devices. This is basically the same thing that is happening with the likes of Apple, Samsung and LG, although the latter has yet to make its services official. Apple has Apple Pay and it became available in China this year February. Samsung Pay, a mobile payment service offered by Samsung, reached the country the following month of March, however, just like Apple’s service, these two have remained exclusive to their platforms, something that Xiaomi wants to emulate. Samsung Pay is strictly available for Samsung devices, more so, it is only available in the latest models. Apple Pay is also exclusive to Apple devices. On the other hand, there is Android Pay by Google, which works on all Android devices with NFC and are powered by the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow. This means that Android Pay can be used on all of these platforms. Xiaomi’s mobile payment service to be called Quick Pass Xiaomi will call its mobile payment system Quick Pass. With the service, users of Xiaomi handsets in China will be able to make mobile payments at any NFC-supported point of sale terminal. This will mean that users must, first of all, link their cards to the said Quick Pass account. The introduction of Quick Pass means that the Chinese market now has three services dealing with mobile payments. This is as a result of the huge number of mobile phone users in the country. One question that begs answers is whether Xiaomi will succeed in the same market where top players such Apple and Samsung also have their services – only time can tell whether or not this will happen. There is no official date of when this new Quick Pass service will be availed to the public. Article View Count: (134)

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After spending 10 days in Cuba this is our basic guide to this wonderful and interesting country. We just wished we could have stayed longer! Visas and entry requirements You will need to have a tourist card¹ to enter Cuba. These cost about $25USD each (at time of writing) and can either be obtained in advance or bought at some airports, we brought ours at Cancun International Airport just before we checked in. It was easy! Cash and Credit Cards Whatever you do don’t bring US dollars as the exchange rate will incur a 10% charge! The general advice is to bring Canadian Dollar, Euros or Pounds to exchange once you arrive in the Country. You can change money at the airport on arrival or at banks in most towns. We had no issue using ATM’s in Cuba but note that US cards will not work². If you are a US citizen bring all the money you will need for the trip in the currencies highlighted above. It is also worth noting that Mastercard is not accepted anywhere! Visa enabled cards are accepted in some places and will work in ATM’s. Cuba has two currencies! which can be confusing! Cuba has a national peso and a convertible peso (or CUC). One convertible peso is worth about 25 national peso’s. One CUC is equal to the equivalent of one USD. As a tourist most things you will come across are priced in CUC and generally you will have little need for national pesos. We also found that places are reluctant to provide us with national pesos with one bank even refusing too. The main use of having the national peso is to use local buses in Havana or to buy food from the side of the street as locals do. We found little use for it and generally got by using CUC. Arrival and getting to downtown Havana Most people arrive into José Martí International Airport Havana, then head into downtown Havana. Most international flights arrive into Terminal 3 which is modern-ish and easy to navigate. We did have to wait a bit for our bags (45 mins) but apart from that we had no issues. Getting from the airport into downtown Havana is not cheap, a taxi will charge you 25 CUC, don’t pay more. If you can find other travellers to share it is a great way to split the cost. The long baggage wait will help with this! If you are up for more of a challenge and can speak a bit of Spanish you could attempt to catch a public bus. The public bus is cheap but does not run from the airport directly. It departs from a nearby suburb which is about 1 to 2kms away. You could attempt to walk or catch the connections bus which links the airport terminals. The connections bus will pass the bus stop for the local bus to the city. Expect this to take over an hour in total. As we did not try this option we can’t be sure how easy it is to do. They are many articles online from people who have tried it though so check them out. Getting around Getting around Havana is easy, most places you will want to visit are within walking distance. The city had plenty of cheap taxis (some more legal than others) as well as a very cheap bus system. With a general lack of internet access trying to arrange transport to go beyond Havana and see more of Cuba can seem difficult. Here is a brief outline of the main options available; Long Distance Coach: The Cuban Government operates a long distance bus network (Viazul) designed more for tourists than locals. The Viazul bus terminal is a little out of the way in Havana so you will likely need to take a taxi too it, expect this to cost between $5 -$7 CUC from downtown. The Viazul bus network links most places that you will want to visit and is generally not too expensive. If possible try to buy tickets in advance to ensure you get on the bus you want. Be warned that taxi drives will try and tell you that either all tickets have been sold of the bus you want (how do they know!) or that the last bus has departed for the day. This is a scam to try and get your business. Just say you will try your luck anyway. Collective Taxi: We are not 100% sure how legal some of the collective taxi are but they are a good alternative to the bus. We found that going to the Viazul bus terminal in Havana is a good place to be offered a collective taxi service. If you have 3 or 4 people in your group the collective taxi can work out the same or cheaper than the bus. Come ready to haggle to get the best price! Railway: Cuban has a rail network which we did not use but we heard that it can be unreliable with some trains only running only 1 or 2 days a week. Journey times can be slow but if you have time and don’t mind getting delayed it might be a fun way to travel. Accommodation Budget accommodation is plentiful in Cuba and costs $10 to $30 USD/CUC per night per room. Budget accommodation is basically staying in a locals spare room – these are called Casa Particulars. Just about every house in Cuba will offer this so it’s easy to find somewhere to spend the night. Legal and registered Casa Particular’s will have a symbol that looks like an upside down anchor on the outside so try these places first. We also found that most rooms have more than one bed, so to save money as a solo backpacker we recommend room sharing with a fellow traveller. Once you stay in your first Casa Particular you will have no problem finding accommodation anywhere else in Cuba. Everyone knows someone who has accommodation for your next destination and can help arrange a place for you to stay. Depending on the Casa Particular some will include breakfast but others will charge you $3-$5 CUC or you can also negotiate breakfast to be included in your room rate. The hosts will also happily provide you with dinner for about $5-7 CUC. We would highly recommend having at least one home cooked meal. We loved the ones we had and you end up with more food than you could possibly want! It is very meaty though so vegetarians beware. Internet The only way to access the internet in Cuba is via public wifi which can be accessed from hotels and public squares. Sadly it is not free and costs from $3-5 CUC for 1 hours access depending on were you get the card. The cheapest options is to buy a card from the not so ‘official’ looking guys who hang around the squares. The Hustle With a general lack of information available to tourists you need to be on the watch for the hustle when you first arrive. Everyone is looks at you as if you are a walking wallet so be prepared for the locals trying to bombard you with services – taxis, restaurants, bars, cigars, tours etc. They all want to ‘help you‘ but for a price. If someone takes you to a restaurant be prepared for a large service charge. The national day of…. One of the main scams which someone tried on us was the national day of ‘something’ tactic. Someone will approach you and ask “when did you arrive” and once you say they will tell you what a great day to arrive as it is the national day of “classic cars”, “salsa” and/or “cigars”. Once they have you interested they will then try and take you somewhere that sells specific items and you will most likely get ripped off. Basic costs - Beer: $2-2.50 CUC - Bottle of Havana Club rum (1 litre): $3 CUC - Mojito: $2-$4 CUC - Restaurant meal: $5-$10 CUC (although can be more) - Sandwich: $2.50-$4 CUC - Coffee: $1-$1.50 - Water: $1-$2 CUC - Accommodation: $10-$30 CUC per night - Taxi from airport to Havana: $25 CUC - Return bus Havana to near by beaches: $5 CUC - Long distance bus to Vinales: $12 CUC - Internet (1 hour): $3-$5 CUC - Sunscreen: $15 CUC for 125mls (pack your own!) - Cigars: $1-$10 CUC per cigar depending on quality The best thing about Cuba is that rum is the same price as water… Summary Don’t let the challenges and potential scams put you off visiting Cuba, we had an awesome time and would love to go back someday. Just ensure you have sufficient time for all you want to do and take everything you might need and most home comforts and products are almost impossible to come by. We would highly recommend Cuba to any traveller! So go to Cuba now and enjoy! Where to next? How about Cancun? –How to survive Cancun as a backpacker ¹US Passport holders need to provide additional information before allowing to fly to Cuba. Check with your airline. ²This might change as the US Government allows its citizens to visit. Connect with us: Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // [email protected] 1 Comment

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IACP Presents Milestone Award to the First Lady Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of Chefs Move Initiative ATLANTA (June 6, 2011) - The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) honored First Lady Michelle Obama with its Milestone Award at the 2011 IACP Awards Gala on Thursday, June 2 at the Paramount Theatre during IACP’s 33rd IACP Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. The award recognizes her Let’s Move initiative to improve the health of America’s children, and in particular, the Chefs Move initiative that invited the culinary professional community to play a central role in improving how children eat. The award was presented by Karin Endy, Chair of The Culinary Trust, the IACP’s charitable foundation, who noted that nearly 100 culinary professionals from IACP joined chefs from around the country on the White House lawn for the launch of Chefs Move in June 2010. White House Executive Pastry Chef William Yosses accepted the award on Mrs. Obama’s behalf, with recent White House guest, Chef Jacques Pépin, by his side.

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A few days back, the Michael W Travels family attended New York City’s biggest pizza party. The charity event, Slice Out Hunger took place in SoHo where $50,000 was raised for The Sylvia Center and City Harvest. Just like the other three years we attended the event, we had a great time (and ate a lot of pizza)! Continue reading An Awesome Night of Pizza in NYC at Slice Out Hunger

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Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazak of Kwara state has appointed Dr Lola Sawyerr, Georgia-based policy analyst and a member of several diaspora bodies, including the Kwara State Association of Nigeria (North America), as his focal person on diaspora matters. This was disclosed in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye Wednesday, and made available to NPOreports. “Dr. Sawyerr, who holds a Bachelor of Arts Economics and Masters of Economics, both from Clark Atlanta University, and a doctoral degree in curriculum, instruction and assessments from Walden University, has worked at various places as a teacher, tax analyst, statistician, and policy analyst — all in the United States of America. She was also a Deputy Manager at the Equity Bank of Nigeria. She is currently an educator in the Georgia State School system,” the statement said. Ajakaye said, Her appointment, a first in the state, underscored the desire of the administration to harvest the inputs and expertise of diaspora Kwarans in the development of the north central state. She was until her appointment the public relations officer of KSANG (Georgia Chapter), a position she assumed in 2014; national treasurer of KSANG National between 2018 and 2020; and a member of the African Community Centre Indianapolis between 2001 and 2005. A statement announcing her appointment said it was based on the excellent report of the nominee’s pedigrees and loyalty, steadfastness and favourable disposition to the cause of the administration, added that the Governor urged her to bring her wealth of experience and sterling qualities to bear on the state assignment.

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The UMC Market offers a quick option for hot and cold on-the-go items, sandwiches, snacks and beverages. Located on the first floor of the UMC, next to the InkSpot in the West Dining Area. Accepts Campus Cash, Munch Money, credit cards and cash. Re-opening August 17 Fall/Spring Semester Hours Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday – Sunday: Closed

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Earmarxists Win a Round The Earmarxists Win a Round at Republican Retreat? Democrats’ Want to Erase the Dots, Not Connect Them As I wrote last week the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act fixes enacted in August expire this Friday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv) is still demanding another short-term extension of the August legislation in order to deal better with his fractured majority. President Bush has threatened to veto any short term extension. Each side accuses the other of playing politics with FISA. But it’s clear — especially in light of Reid’s inability to get support from his own members in last week’s floor action — that the Dems aren’t serious about FISA. Reid has two problems. First he can’t get the Democrats to agree on the bipartisan bill passed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in October. The huge gap between that bill and the amendments Democrats (and RINOs such as Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania) are offering is great enough that intelligence community believes the amendments will fatally hobble electronic intelligence-gathering. Second, Reid knows the President will not agree to the House version. The House bill would hobble — perhaps fatally — all electronic intelligence gathering, even battlefield intelligence (which, in these days of satellite communication depends as much on NSA electronic eavesdropping as it does on in-theater methods). The 9-11 Commission criticized the intelligence community for failing to “connect the dots” — sharing information and combining intelligence data to get a better product that might have enabled us to prevent the 9-11 attacks. House Democrats — with Reid and many of the Senate Dems in sympathy with them — seem more eager to erase the dots than enable our intelligence agencies to better connect them. A Senate cloture vote is scheduled for 4:30 pm today. Even if it fails, the Senate will remain on the bill unless Reid pulls it off the floor.

http://humanevents.com/2008/01/28/earmarxists-win-a-round/

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nmdating powered by vbulletin - Dating usa asian one night Min says it often comes off as fetishising, which “can sometimes be a negative thing because people come in with an idea or stereotype of you. Camsexindonesia com - Dating usa asian one night What terms and conditions have I involuntarily signed up to? What kind of separate eco-system do I participate in? Between the usual fuzziness of Lana Del Ray music and judgements of people’s clothing, an ever-hungry thought — “Am I single because I’m Asian? Does being a gay Asian, or “Gaysian” for those who like combining words, affect your dating experiences because of the way people perceive you romantically? I set out to try and find what common stories were shared among gay Asian-Australians, and what to expect from just being born into this body. Min affirms these experiences are definitely linked to racism. He also believes Asian gay men collectively experience exclusion and negative exchanges in the wider gay community. “When I was young I felt that I wasn’t worthy,” he recalls. “I was being rejected by a lot of people and I didn’t know why.” However, most of it changed for him when he went to live in the US. “I’ve had people tell me that because Simon’s type is tall and Asian, that he’d just trade up to someone younger and hotter when I age in a few years — or even a hot white guy,” Joe says. “For me, that’s a huge insult given it completely throws out anything else I have to offer in a relationship: watering me down to just my physical features.” When I asked him about his experiences on sexual racism, he quoted the obvious “no Asians” on hookup apps or people not replying after a sent face pic. ” asks Min Fuh, the project lead of A-men magazine and a community health officer at ACON.Tags: Adult Dating, affair dating, sex dating

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World's first safe radar system solution for protection zone monitoring ) World's first safe radar system solution for protection zone monitoring - Safe even in the most rugged environments! New to the Pilz portfolio is the world's first safe complete solution for protection zone monitoring, based on radar technology.. The safe radar system solution expands the Pilz portfolio in the safe sensor technology range PSEN. Versatile and flexible system solution The safe radar system solution comprises up to six radar sensors and one control unit, depending on the application; in addition, the PNOZmulti 2 compact configurable safe controller is responsible for safety in the system. protection zone of each individual sensor is flexible and varies depending on installation height and inclination of the sensor. Each protection zone can be set up as wide - 110° horizontal/30° vertical – or narrow - 50° horizontal/15° vertical - with maximum depth of 4 m. The layout of the total protection zone and system is flexible and can be configured up to a maximum 15 m x 4 m using 6 sensors in series to create a linear barrier. Safety and productivity even in rugged environments. For further information about the new Safe Radar System, please follow this link, email [email protected] or call Pilz on +44 1536 460766.

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Argosy University, Twin Cities continues its partnership with the Minnesota Herpetological Society through with monthly visits to examine and care for the society’s reptiles. Students in the school’s Associate of Applied Science in Veterinary Technology program assist in helping reptiles that have entered the society’s adoption program. This partnership provides hands-on learning for the students while they perform a community service. See for program duration, tuition, fees, and other costs, median debt, salary data, alumni success, and other important info.

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GIANT-SIZE X-POSITION: Duggan Brings Deadpool & Cable Together in "Uncanny Avengers" Comic Books Showing results 1-40 of 56 Jack accidentally awakens a dangerous spirit in BOOM!'s "Big Trouble in Little China" #16 by Fred Van Lente and Joe Eisma, on sale September 16.. With a surprising face back from the dead, writer Nick Spencer explains the next steps for the newly united student body of "Morning Glories." Nick Spencer & Joe Eisma go deeper down the "Morning Glories" rabbit hole in the latest issue of their hit Image comics series... Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Morning Glories" #25 by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma. The double-sized Season One finale goes on sale March 27. As the Season One finale of "Morning Glories" kicks off, writer Nick Spencer explains the secrets of double vision, payoffs and patricide as Ike confronts his father Abraham. Jennifer Cheng gives "Morning Glories" #24 4.5 stars, calling the double-sized issue by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma with a heavy focus on Ike "near-perfect in plotting and execution." Courtesy of Image, CBR presents exclusive previews for two of this week's new releases: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' "Fatale" #12 and Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma's "Morning Glories" #24! Jennifer Cheng gives "Morning Glories" #23 4.5 stars, calling the revelatory issue by writer Nick Spencer and artist Joe Eisma "a subtle heart-wrencher" and "shocking, with an unexpected twist.".. Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma and Rodin Esquejo's hit Image series enters a new phase with some new, deadly students as Image Comics reveals the academy kids who will drive the book into its first season finale. Courtesy of Image, CBR presents exclusive previews for this week's "Invincible" #93 and "Morning Glories" #20. Both issues go on sale July 4. "Morning Glories" writer Nick Spencer returns to discuss the shot heard round the Academy as the surprising finale of the book's "P.E." arc leads to more mysteries for Hunter but also more revelations as the fourth arc approaches. Before today's "P. E." finale, catch up with Nick Spencer's thoughts on the deadly "Morning Glories" arc from what terrors can make Ike a believer to the tricky nature of Jun's new romance and more. Image Comics has provided CBR with exclusive previews for two of this week's new releases: Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley's "Invincible" #91 and Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma's "Morning Glories" #18 This month, Nick Spencer takes readers of his Image series "Morning Glories" on a twisting time travel path as issue #16 sees Casey confront her dead father and Ms. Hodge play God in some unexpected ways.. Nick Spencer is back on CBR to explore the cast of his hit Image series "Morning Glories," as murdering party boy Ike takes the spotlight ahead of this week's new issue #12. In one of the strangest, most shocking issues of the hit Image series yet, writer Nick Spencer takes CBR's Morning Glory Days inside the topsy turvy dream world of Jade from hangings to apocalyptic landscapes in "Morning Glories" #10. As the mystery of the twins known as Jun and Hisao unfold in Image's "Morning Glories" #9, Nick Spencer gives CBR the scoop on their secret history, the inner workings of the Academy and how next issue will be the most controversial yet. Nick Spencer returns for the latest behind-the-scenes look at his Image hit "Morning Glories" with a special look at the influences on issue #8, the mix of romance, murder and a sci-fi mystery involving everyman Hunter.." In this month's installment, we spoke with writer Nick Spencer and artist Joe Eisma about their work on "Morning Glories" #6, an issue filled with new characters, new stories and at least one game-changing revelation.! Archives: All | Comic Books | TV/Film | Video Games | Web Comics

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- Dismiss Notice Missed the live Ask the Expert event? Not to worry. Check out the archived thread of the Q&A with Ken Hutcheson, President of U.S. Lawns, and the LawnSite community in the Franchising forum . WTF happened a little help on Marketing Discussion in 'Lawn Mowing' started by griddeath, May 22, 2002. Page 1 of 2 Page 1 of 2

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Sung Dam was in the SoundK studio for You Who Came From the Stars with DJ Ashley. Sung Dam (성담) debuted in 2018 under Million Market. Tidbits:: – Sung Dam debuted with an OST track. – She started seriously pursuing singing last year. – A producer contacted her via SNS after seeing some of her YouTube videos. She thought it was a scam, however it turned out to be legit. – Sung Dam is fluent in English. – Her family always tells her she has a lot of facial expressions, so she thought she’d be good at acting. She found her limit when filming the music video for 비온다 (Rain). – Sung Dam would like to be on the variety show Radio Star. – Mariah Carey is her favorite idol from her childhood. – She thinks her biggest charm is that she’s a very bright and energetic person. – Good Night 굿밤 is a lullaby. – She went to college in Australia to study English in college. Q & A:: Q: What kind of song is 계절? A: She wrote the song comparing love to the seasons. Telling the story from the start of love to the end of love. Q: What kind of song is 비온다 (Rain)? A: It’s a song about love with the belief that if rain comes you hold your special someone close under the same umbrella. She was concerned she wouldn’t be able to pull it off, because it’s not her style. Live Performance:: 비온다 (Rain)

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Airdog X5 Home Air Purifier Review Pros - Speeds can be adjusted automatically - An indicator shows the air quality - Reusable collecting plates - Collecting plates are washable - Can be controlled remotely via Wi-Fi Cons - A thorough clean is required once every six months or so - Initial costs can be very expensive How the Airdog X5 Works The Airdog X5 has a fantastic filtration system that tackles dust, odors, viruses, smoke, and even bacteria. The purifier has an inlet and outlet. When the air flows into the purifier, it is taken to a pre-filter screen and the dangerous particles are zapped by an emitter. An anionic field eliminates them and clean air is allowed to pass through the filter. It is a smart solution and makes the process more effective. The X5 Features One of the more impressive features of the Airdog X5 is that ozone emissions are kept extremely low. That’s crucial for those with health problems, such as asthma; it feels reassuring and that’s important for peace of mind. The X5 has also been certified by CARB and is EPA-compliant so again that puts your mind at ease. Speed settings include: - Turbo - Medium - Low - High - Auto Having the options over wind speed can be important and with the auto mode, the machine adjusts the speed automatically. This depends on the quality of air in the room so if it detects a change, it’ll adjust accordingly. That’s an impressive feature and really puts a unique spin on the purifier as well. There is also a sleep mode for night time use. You can continue to run the machine while you’re in bed as the sleep mode switches off the display lights. The Airdog also keeps noise down by running on the lowest setting. This is very useful if you want to continue to use the machine at night but don’t want to be disturbed by it. The X5 is a fairly quiet machine but the higher the setting the more noise you’ll hear. The X5 sports safety in the form of a child lock feature and that’s essential for most households. This feature ensures a child isn’t able to switch the X5 off by pressing the buttons on the machine. However, if you want to do so, you’d have to use the remote or app. It’s a nice feature and proves that safety is important. What is the Performance Like? One of the biggest drawbacks is that the X5 doesn’t include nitrogen dioxide levels when producing accurate air quality levels. That’s a bit disappointing but still, it’s a fairly good machine. And the performance is impressive. If you switch the auto mode on, you let the machine change the speed as and when the air quality changes. This helps to ensure you get the right setting and there is a handy remote and app to control the purifier too. The Design and Setup of the Airdog X5 While the Airdog X5 is slightly on the heavy side, there are handles so you can easily move it from one room to the next. It’s bulky but easy-on-the-eye so that’s useful. In all, the design of the air purifier is smart and simplistic. It’s an air purifier that doesn’t pretend to be anything more than what it is and that’s great. Once you power up the machine and choose a speed, you’re good to go. It’s very easy to use. The X5 comes with a handy cleaning brush to remove any grime on the collecting plates. And, you can connect to the app which only takes a few minutes to set up. Fortunately, there is also a remote if you’d prefer to control the air purifier with that. Is The X5 Worth Trying? If you have trouble with dust particles, mold, or suffer from allergies, an air purifier might be useful. And, the X5 looks to be a very smart machine. It has a handy indicator light to show the air quality and can be adjusted automatically for your convenience. Final Thoughts Air purifiers should be simple but effective so that smoke, dust, and mold can be removed from the home. The Airdog X5 helps to remove those things and more. It offers a simple filtration system to remove the everyday pollutants found in the home and makes the process effective. There are washable collecting plates which help to keep maintenance costs low. Of course, initial costs are high but if it helps your home, that’s a bonus. The Airdog X5 home air purifier is a reliable and smart machine.

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Northern California Schools Insurance Group Northern California Schools Insurance Group (NCSIG) is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) authorized under the laws of the state of California, originally formed in 1982 for the purpose of providing both liability and property coverage protection for public schools. NCSIG membership of 128 members includes K–12 School Districts, County Offices of Education, Independent Charter Schools, and Regional Occupational Programs, encompassing more than 525 sites in 13 northern counties. The JPA has been consistently “Accredited with Excellence” by the California Association of Joint Powers Authorities (CAJPA). Members may access full site content by logging into the Member Portal.

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I love flying. For me, the allure of plane travel has never waned. Airports themselves still fascinate me. The bustle of people. The palpable emotions. The excitement of either returning home or discovering somewhere new. I still get a thrill when the plane leaves the tarmac. So, when an opportunity came up to fly to Melbourne and back for the day, sans family, I was as excited about the plane flights as I was the event itself. Read more Motherhood & Creativity: A Book Review Rachel Power’s book, Motherhood & Creativity, struck a real chord with me. The book is a compilation of interviews with successful artists on how being a mother affects their creative practice. These women are all leaders in their various fields, well known and incredibly talented. Yet, I could identify with every chapter. The experience of motherhood is both unique and universal. Some truths stretch wide. Read more Periscope and Slippery Slopes When. Read more Interview with Nikky of LaBelle Designs The healing power of creativity Yesterday marked three years since I last held my middle son, Xavier. He died when he was very young, only two weeks old. Three years. An impossible distance between my son and myself. There are rituals around this time of year. Things that I do to remember him, things to mark the hardest days of the year. His birthday. His anniversary. The memory days in between. Most of them revolve around crafting things for him. I firmly believe in the healing power of creativity and it’s ability to connect us to memory and loved ones lost. The art of saying No. I. Read more

http://themummyandtheminx.com/2015/07/page/2/

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Abstract The known inaccuracies in visual angiographic interpretation1 have led to the development of many quantitative methods for determining absolute coronary arterial dimensions. The use of automated edge detection reduces the bias inherent in visual interpretation and improves precision and accuracy. The comparability of measurements obtained with automated versus eye-hand edge-detection techniques and different processing algorithms is not known. Accordingly, we compared the 2 most widely used methods: manual (eyehand) edge detection versus the automated edge-detection method.

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I treated myself recently. In a very BIG way. I flew all the way to the good ole' US of A for a shopping trip and to meet up with some virtual friends I had only ever ‘met' before online. That's me above about to burst with excitement and disbelief at all the fabric – a gazillion yards in every conceivable color, fiber and weave. Sigh – shopping heaven. This is Mary Jo's in Gastonia. A fabric shop that's as big as my town center here. I went to Charlotte, NC and met up with some of my online sewing friends. This is us enjoying a lunch – the coffee shop had more choices for food in one place than I think I can get on the whole island here. And did I want a free cookie with that – hell yes I did- thank you very much. Left to right – Becky from Patchwork Posse, me, Heather from the Sewing Loft, Molly from Craft Ideas Weekly I behaved like a total idiot the whole weekend, asking silly questions, being far too outspoken, shouting out “look at THAT!” at all the things they found quite ordinary. And you won't believe how long it took me to work out in my hire car that there simply isn't a place to put the ignition key – the car starts without it. Huh? I hadn't realised quite how far behind the modern times we are out here on a small island. It was like landing on a much more advanced alien world! But an alien world that had shops! But wow, was it COLD! That's me wearing the thermal underwear and 2 sweaters while the girls dance around in short sleeve t-shirts telling me how lovely and warm it is for this time of year. Er, no. It's below freezing surely…I was lucky not to catch frostbite. Sadly the customs police only allow a limited amount of shopping to be brought back into Cayman so I had to strictly limit myself. Once I'd bought my new Christmas present, there wasn't much of my allowance left for fabric, so I had to shop carefully and try to think about what I would need for upcoming projects, make sure I bought thread and zips to match and not just get carried away with all the bright colors and phenomenal choice. So I brought back my shiny new serger, a fairly modest selection of fabric for upcoming bag projects and a couple of bra making kits for use in the Craftsy Bra Making class. Learning to use my serger and making a bra that actually fits me is my challenge for the New Year. Not necessarily at the same time. A big thank you to Heather, Becky and Molly who made my trip such a lot of fun. I enjoyed reading your post, the grand time you had and how cold it was! Keep it up! I’ve been looking for a new serger and I guess I know which one I’m going to get now! lol And with the weather factor… it’s 10 C here in Toronto now… I’d be in shorts and a T shirt for 70F! lol Thanks for your posting. I’m glad you had a good time. I’m so glad you got to shop at a real fabric store but would have loved to be there to see you dancing around and giggling! That is so cute! I love the way you write about everything! But I agree with you about the 70 degrees and wearing sweaters! When we lived in Las Vegas my husband would come home from work and ask why I didn’t have the air conditioner on. He would turn it on and I would go get a sweater. He thought it was funny but my cold bones didn’t! Looks like you had so much fun. I have been to your island and loved it dearly. Such a quaint beautiful place. I even swam with the sting ray … Really!?!? So much fun. But I understand why you must have thought you had died and gone to heaven. Not much shopping there. Kind of like driving to Phoenix when you live in Flagstaff . . . But it doesn’t take as long. So cute! Thank you for posting about your “new” friends and all of your antics! I do have a fabric shop about 30 minutes from me but they don’t carry a lot of things I like. Where would we be without our Craftsy?? Enjoy your new serger. Learning about and having one is definitely on my bucket list! Deby, both Joe and I got a kick out of reading about your adventure. I look forward to seeing new projects with your Christmas gift, and particularly the bras! We both laughed that you were wearing sandals in the cold, along with your thermals!! And, I love your new skirt with pockets. That will be a purchase for me for sure! Thanks!! Honestly, until I started to pack I didn’t realise that all I had was flip flops, sandles and open toed casual shoes. Yes, I was lucky not to loose a toe to frost bite. It was terrible – barely in the 70’s! 😉 70s!!! I’d call that a nice day! No wonder the others were in short sleeves!! I’d have been sleeveless and shorts! Ha ha! I lived in Charlotte NC for ten years. I LOVED MaryJo’s. It is worth the experience. Did you know they have a website?. I noticed you said you follow some blogs. I have one to recommend : I hope you enjoy your fabric haul. 🙂 Have a great day. I am only jealous that I couldn’t meet you. 🙂 I am way in the middle (STL, MO). You are going to love a serger. I treated myself to a new model when I retired last year (8 threads). Well, I haven’t ventured past using 4 threads, but I wouldn’t sew without my serger. You are going to love it. So glad you wrote about your trip. Oh, I ordered some labels from the link on your page. Anxious to see what they look like. Omg Deby I can’t believe you were at Mary Jo’s, I live nearby! Glad you had fun! Sorry to have missed you Laura. If I ever plan another trip to the USA I’ll make sure to let people know so we can have a big sewing meetup. I love Mary Jo’s! So glad you had such a lovely trip. Looks like it was a fun shopping expedition. Looks like you had a fun and bountiful trip. Make sure to post about serging. I’ve only had mine a few months and haven’t accomplished anything other than changing out the thread and breaking a needle! Yup that’s what I am afraid of. I’m not touching it until I’ve watched my class We had such a wonderful time. Glad you were able to stand our antics and teases. 🙂 You are a great friend and I hope to see you again next year! Deby, glad you had a wonderful trip. I have heard that Mary Jo’s is an amazing fabric store. Some day I will get there, and congrats on your new serger. You will love it. That hire car is not typical of USA cars – yet, though the world may be headed that way. At present, there are still many cars that do require an ignition key, including the new 2015 Toyota Corolla LE my husband recently purchased. I am envious of your shopping trip – all that gorgeous fabric to choose from. There is not one fabric shop in my town. Merry Christmas, Deby; hope you enjoy all the wonderful purchases you made on your visit to this country. I loved reading this – you are so adorable! You were like a kid in a toy store at Christmas! Glad you enjoyed your trip. You put a smile on my face today, thank you! 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed Mary Jo’s. Wish I had known you were in town. Would have loved to meet you and other local sewers. I didn’t know where they were going to take me, and it was all a bit last minute! We should have a great big sewing meet up in Cayman one day – you are all invited. Lol! the closest store here in Iowa to me Is 26 miles away, my friends laugh at me because I have to schedule at least 2 or 3 hours just so I could drool through the whole store. If I’m that bad I can imagine you’re lucky not to have suffered a cerebral hemorrhage going through an actual fabric store:) Just do as I do and keep a hanky in your pocket. It actually made me pretty speechless to start with, then I couldn’t stop running about and giggling! Such fun. So glad you had a lovely trip here to the US! Congrats on your haul!! I have that same serger and LOVE IT!!

http://so-sew-easy.com/went-real-fabric-shop-virtual-friends/

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Gaming has had its time on the big (and small screen) with plenty of films and documentaries related to it, such as 2012’s Indie Game: The Movie. But, the team over at AREA 5 seem to have something of a larger scope in mind with their latest project, Outerlands. Formerly of video game-related online series like The 1UP Show and CO-OP, along with independently produced documentary series on video games like I Am Street Fighter and Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us, San Francisco-based video production team AREA 5 has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming documentary series, Outerlands. Taking a rather comprehensive look at the history and culture of video games (along with those who make them), the Kickstarter campaign calls for a $210,000 goal to cover all expenses of production for the project, with various rewards for those that donate at the different-leveled tiers (digital downloads, producer’s credits, etc.). The Kickstarter campaign mentions that this first iteration is Outerlands: Season One, with the first season comprising of six 42-60 minute episodes, with the potential for more episodes if the stretch goals are met. You can check out more info about AREA 5’s Outerlands documentary series here, and take a look at the trailer for the series below:

https://www.dualshockers.com/new-documentary-series-outerlands-looks-at-history-and-culture-gaming-starts-kickstarter-campaign/

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Nättraby-Alnaryd-Älmeboda Railway (NAÄJ) A densely populated rural area was connected to Karlskrona and the surrounding world TRANSPORTING MAN, BEAST AND GOODS FOR FIFTY YEARS The Nättraby line was opened in three stages between 1893 and 1910. From Nättraby harbour, 10 km west of the naval town of Karlskrona, the line followed the Nättraby stream to the village of Älmeboda, 49 km to the north. Till 1939, when passenger traffic was discontinued, the line was the principal means of transport for freight and people between the coast and the forests in the north. From Karlskrona and the “big world” came commodities to the villages, and limestone, fertilisers and raw materials for local enterprise. Gravel and timber, farming products and metalware went back to the coast. Farmers travelled into town, Karlskrona citizens into the countryside. During summer weekends, all coaches were pressed in use, and wagons had to be equipped with seats. Four steam engines provided the motive power, six coaches the passenger transport. Freight stock consisted of some fifty wagons. Construction was initiated by a county councillor, Axel E. Lindvall. He resided in Nättraby, near the railway station and also owned the steam launches that linked the line to Karlskrona harbour.

http://www.oslj.nu/en-GB/railway-history/na%C3%A4j-39017176

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New Japan Pro Wrestling held a live press conference to announce the unveiling of their very own streaming service, “New Japan World”. The service is available immediately, and is very similar to the WWE Network, in that the promotion will be airing all their major events live. Unlike WWE, where they have TV contracts that keep Raw and Smackdown on major networks, the bulk of New Japan content is offered as pay-per-view in Japan, and internet pay-per-view in the United States. What that means is instead of one major PPV on the WWE Network each month, you’re going to get upwards of four or five big live shows in a given month, including the G1 Tag League finals next weekend. New Japan World is being offered at 999 yen, which is roughly $8.42 per month, and we’ve already received emails from U.S. fans that have subscribed and are watching classic content. Their website advertises its availability on desktops, tablets and smart phones as well. *******************||Trending||******************* December 1, 2014 New Japan Pro Wrestling Unveils It’s Own Streaming Service That Will Include Live Events, Wrestle Kingdom 9 & Tons of Classic Content ~ Kayfabe by Kaliqo~ at 6:17 AM~ Kayfabe by Kaliqo~ at 6:17 AM Labels: Puroresu, Wrestling News

http://www.klqwrestling.com/2014/12/new-japan-pro-wrestling-unveils-its-own.html

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Articles CARNIVAL by Candice Carty-Williams I used to be largely terrified of Carnival. Not because of knife crime or anything like that. The media will have you believe that lurking by every soundsystem is a hooded youth holding a machete, but actually the closest thing I’ve seen to conflict at Notting Hill Carnival was a white boy complaining to a food vendor that his jerk chicken was too spicy. No, the threat of fictional crime didn’t bother me, the reason I used to be terrified of Carnival stemmed from having a pretty nasty anxiety disorder that had steadily ruined my life a few years ago. The idea of being in the corner shop terrified me, let alone being in the middle of millions of people. The thought of needing to leave but being directed towards the nearest exit that was three streets, seven turns and five side roads away was enough to leave me breathless. I’d been to carnival before, pre anxiety disorder, and it was always a stunning experience. It was part of the culture; it made up part of my own personal culture. I’d been going since I was a kid. I remember being waist height, letting go of my mum’s hand and bumping into wining waists and swaying hips before I was pulled back to safety. I remember craning my neck to stare, wide eyed, at floats that vibrated with bass, people playing mas moving around these vehicles like big beautiful butterflies. It all felt like a dream. Years later, so held by the enduring allure of Carnival, I wrote a novella about it, using the event as a backdrop to a modern day West Side Story. Anyway, fast forward to 2019. I’d decided that I wouldn’t go to Carnival. I’d convinced myself that, even though I was “better”, and that it had been years since I’d had to flee a space that contained more than thirty people, carnival would just be too much. Plus, I wasn’t prepared for it, I didn’t have anything to wear, and I didn’t drink anymore so maybe walking up and down the streets would be boring and painful without alcohol to spice the activity up a bit. But, on the day of, my friend Lemara called me while I was washing my hair (you’ll know that, as a Black woman, that is a day’s activity. It’s not light work. She’s lucky I even answered the phone). She asked if I was going, and when I opened my mouth to tell her that I wasn’t, instead, ‘what time you lot getting there?’ came out of my mouth. An hour later, I was on my way there, a load of glitter on my cheeks and a Jamaica bucket hat covering my wet hair. I was nervous. But, as I pulled up at the meeting spot that had been explained to me five hundred times over the phone and by text, that nervousness upgraded itself to excitement. A couple of hours later, we were in the thick of it. We’d ended up in the middle of hundreds of people squeezed tight together as we all moved through the streets of west London. Even though I felt like if I lifted my legs up from the ground I was so close to so many people that they’d just carry me along, I was alright. Then, I thought I lost my friends. Then, I lost focus. My anxiety started to rear its very ugly head. It told me that I wasn’t safe, that anything could happen, that I wouldn’t be able to get out. But I stopped for a second. I looked around. Everyone was catching a vibe. I looked at my friends. They were happy. I looked up. The sun shone on my face, bouncing off of the glitter on my cheeks. I was happy.

https://carnival.withspotify.com/words/candice-carty-williams

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Faculties of the University of Saint Cyril and Methodius - Faculty of Arts - Faculty of Mass Media Communication - Faculty of Natural Sciences - Faculty of Social Sciences - Institute of Physiotherapy, Balneology and Med. Rehabilitation - Institute of Civil Society Faculties are also running intensive preparatory courses in the Slovak language for applicants who would like to study in Slovak (which is free of charge). Studies in English language are also possible for moderate tuition fees. There are over 130 accredited programs at Bachelor, Master and Phd. level in Trnava. About the city of Trnava The city of Trnava is located only 50km from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. it was the first privileged royal town in Slovakia and is called also "little Rome" thanks to attractive surroundings, beautiful churches and attractive historical and religious sites. Trnava is "University City" as there are three universities full of students. Lots of coffee bars, restaurants, dance and music clubs, pubs make study living in the city very convenient and student-friendly. Trnava also hosts a wide range of cultural activities, festivals, and parties. Download full leaflet with comprehensive information about the University of Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

https://www.studyinslovakia.sk/university-cyril-methodius-trnava/

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Sevierville, TN – 11-20-2019 — Pasadena Villa is pleased to announce the opening of Autism Care & Support at Smoky Mountain Lodge, a program designed for young adult males diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Pasadena Villa is pleased to announce the opening of Autism Care & Support at Smoky Mountain Lodge, a program designed for young adult males diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Located on 25-acres in the Smoky Mountains, the program operates as a retreat-like setting that offers multi-sensory elements and experiences. Dr. Julie Eberwein, Associate CEO and Clinical Administrator shares, “The treatment process at Autism Care & Support helps individuals explore vulnerabilities that interfere with self-awareness, acceptance, and growth, ultimately creating the opportunity to develop life strategies and inner-strength necessary for sustained success.”Pasadena Villa has over 20 years of experience effectively treating clients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and the Autism Care & Support program takes that one step further. The program fills the gap as it relates to autism treatment needed when bridging into adulthood. Using the natural environment of the Smoky Mountains, clients are engaged in evidence-based strategies that help them improve social functioning, ability to interface within community and strengthen readiness for independent living. Additionally, the extensively trained staff help clients engage, problem-solve, and communicate with one another.Designed as progressive and cumulative, Autism Care & Support uses four program levels to help clients explore their unique challenges and nuances as they advance at their own pace. Collaboration with the multidisciplinary treatment team is designed to help individuals set and achieve their individual goals. “We designed our program using our expertise and understanding of research to specifically fill the treatment gap for young men on the spectrum as they transition into adulthood,” says Dr. Eberwein.Additionally, the PATH Certification (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International), allows our certified staff to work with the client in equine therapy and provide ESMHL (Equine Specialty in Mental Health and Learning). They partner with the mental health professional to provide tailored individual therapy sessions to meet the specific goals of the client. “Our staff is passionate about sharing their experience, strength and hope with others to not only survive but to give them the tools they need to become as independent as possible,” states Cathie Haviland, Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist.If you would like more information on Autism Care & Support at Smoky Mountain Lodge, contact Kristin Wolfe, National Director of Business Development at [email protected]. About the Pasadena Villa Psychiatric Treatment NetworkThe Pasadena Villa Psychiatric Treatment Network is one of America’s premier residential psychiatric treatment providers for adults with complex psychiatric conditions.. Pasadena Villa has residential care in Florida and Tennessee, and outpatient treatment in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina. All Pasadena Villa facilities are proud to be Joint Commission (JCAHO) Accredited. Media Contacts: Company Name: Pasadena Villa Full Name: Kristin Wolfe Phone: 3177717827 Website: For the original news story, please visit.

https://www.culthub.com/pr/pasadena-villa-opens-autism-care-support-at-smoky-mountain-lodge/201880

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Phase one of a planned 300-berth marina facility in Monkstown Co. Cork, aptly named 'Cork Harbour Marina', is Ireland's newest coastal marina and is offering all year round berthing facilities for pleasure craft. The new addition to the seaside village is in a sheltered location on the western bank of the River Lee in an area very popular for boating activities. The new marina at Monkstown in Cork harbour Accordng to the marina website a grant secured from SECAD (South East Area Development) assisted in the development of the marina and it is claimed the new facility will allow a wider range of people to get afloat in Cork Harbour, the second biggest natural harbour in the world. Annual and long-term lets are now being taken. Plans include promoting sailing in the area to older people, people with disabilities and for some less active men and women to get involved on the basis 'it is far easier and safer for such sailors to access their boats from a pontoon than a swinging mooring', the marina website says. The new facility can accomodate boats up to 17m and consists of an outer perimeter of floating concrete break waters with fingered berths contained internally. The 'Cork Harbour marina' web site is here.

http://afloat.ie/port-news/irish-marinas/cork-harbour-marina

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In case you missed it, last week, Twitter celebrated their 10 year anniversary. The hashtag, #TwitterLove trended and as part of the celebration, the three founders, Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey, participated in a reflective discussion about Twitter’s roots, their experiences as founders, and many stories of the Twitter-verse community. The discussion was held via Periscope, so it’s no longer available, but here are a few highlights, including my favourite story about how much their Customers love Twitter. The first tweet They discussed the first tweet sent: just setting up my twttr — Jack (@jack) March 21, 2006 Twitter and social importance They discussed how Twitter is impacting the way people can organize. One story that Biz shared told how quickly a message can spread to bring people together through 140 characters. A participant at the SXSW conference tweeted that he was going to a certain pub. By the time he arrived (about 8 minutes later), the pub was packed because people had seen and shared his tweet several times. Biz saw the potential of this, thinking of how people could organize themselves for important movements – and certainly have done so since. Tips for Entrepreneurs A lot of their tips for entrepreneurs came down to passion and loving what you are doing, and sharing the purpose of your work with everyone. While Twitter has certainly had its detractors, they stuck to what they believed in. This was demonstrated when someone tweeted that “Twitter is the Seinfeld of the internet. A site about nothing.” This tweet was posted on Twitter’s home page because Biz Stone, being so passionate about what they were building, took it as a compliment. Share your purpose The founders agreed that Biz has been great at reminding everyone of the purpose of their work, saying “Twitter is a triumph of humanity.” At tea time, they would stop working and look at what people were doing on twitter and discuss with the team. They’s share examples of someone tweeting for help and getting it, people self-organizing for charities. These stories helped to illustrate the importance of what they were building. I couldn’t agree more on this tactic – sharing passion and purpose has become one of the cornerstones of the work I do to help organizations build high performing culture. Why only 140 characters Of course, twitter started with only 140 characters in order to fit in text messages, but in recent years, this could be changed, as it has with direct messages. But as the founders said (and I agree!), Brevity is important. There is poetry in the way people get to the point. The 140 character limit makes Twitter very approachable. You don’t have to feel like you’re writing the next great American novel on Twitter, so everyone can use it, knowing that 140 characters is all they need to type. I also love the quick-fire conversations that happen. My favourite story – Customer love and Pizza Whenever a big event was happening, the founders knew Twitter might have trouble keeping up with the volume. They would be at the office around the clock, fixing problems and keeping the site up. They remembered one situation – they thought it may have been when Apple was announcing the first iPhone – and how pizzas kep showing up. People who loved Twitter were sending pizza to their office because they knew they were probably working hard. Imagine that – have your customers ever loved you enough to send pizza? The magic of Twitter for me I’ve written in the past about Twitter, and I honestly believe that my business would never have been a success without this site. As I often share in speaking events, when I started my business, I had spent 15 years, head down in my work in the corporate world, avoiding networking at all costs. I knew nobody except for those people I’d worked with. On Twitter, I found a community of people who were open to conversations, open to meeting up at events or for coffee if they were local. I learned from these people. I was inspired by their openness. I have literally met (in real life or IRL for us tweeters) thousands of people, starting with 140 character conversations. These people have become my sounding board, my collaborators, my clients and my friends. What are your favourite stories or experiences using Twitter? I’d love to hear! If you love Twitter – or if you want more info, you’ll like these posts: Don’t put down your phone – Twitter Connects! How to participate in a Twitter chat How I stopped sucking at networking

http://www.pamross.ca/do-your-customers-love-you-enough-to-send-pizza-twitterlove/

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If you're not an Aussie, you might not be familiar with Australia's Industry Skills Council (ISC). It's a consortium of 11 federally funded councils, each of which work with a certain industry sector, such as agriculture or manufacturing. The councils collect and provide the Department of Education industry intelligence on current and future skill needs and training requirements. In turn, the councils provide vocational education and training to industry workers to help keep their skills relevant to industry needs. As you might imagine, ISCs are information brokers between businesses and the government, and they need some type of system to effectively manage their training materials and educational resources. One council, the Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council (TLISC), started using Presto to handle the job. An article covering their story came out in the latest issue of Image and Data Manager. TLISC worked with our partner Maxus Australia to create the Transportation Education eLibrary using Presto. The eLibrary is a private Web site that houses the council's various training reports and documents. Hundreds of doc's, pdf's, ppt's, and links are classified in Presto through browsable taxonomies. The advanced search features are saving the organization a great deal of time finding and sharing content, and other functionalities are proving to be the "right fit" for the small non-profit. You read more details of how TLISC is using Presto and why they like it by clicking over the article. Australia's Industry Skills Council powers up with Presto Posted by Mike Cassettari at Thursday, August 20, 2009

http://inmagicinc.blogspot.com/2009/08/australias-industry-skills-council.html

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