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Two former Orlando Magic players were waived by their respective teams Tuesday via the amnesty provision in the collective bargaining agreement.
The Miami Heat waived swingman Mike Miller, while the Milwaukee Bucks waived power forward Drew Gooden. The players will be paid the remaining salaries on their current contracts, but their salaries no longer will count toward the Heat's and the Bucks' salary-cap and luxury-tax figures.
Miller, 33, was disappointed with the news. He won NBA titles in each of the past two seasons with Miami, and now the Heat will go for a threepeat without him.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:57 pm
Post subject: Caviar..
I am hosting an engagement for my best friend (the bride) who has expensive taste. She wants
Sturgeon caviar
and sushi at the party, but I'm on a budget. first of all, how do I prepare caviar? And where do I get it? Is there a decent brand that is affordable? I need some help! any input would be fantastic!
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Good caviar should be eaten as it comes from the container with a bone or shell spoon.
It is quite expensive - especially if you are catering to a lot of people.
Maybe you could prepare canapes garnished with a little roe instead? Things like blinis or baby potatoes with creme fraisch and salmon, trout or other fish roe on top would be nice. Also thick slices of cucumber with a dab of creme fraisch and a piece of smoked salmon topped with a wafer thin piece of lemon and a garnish of roe.
If your friend wants the good stuff, then maybe she should be paying for it herself....
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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If she is indeed your best friend, she should not ask for caviar knowing that you are on a budget. Expensive taste does not mean good taste. Does she even know how much caviar costs?
Asking for sushi AND caviar, - that's snobbishness.
Sorry for being so blunt. I entirely back Debbie with her reasonable and delicious suggestions.
Have a nice party,
No more war, maybe then caviar will be more affordable ( especially as caviar comes mainly from Iran and Russia)
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I agree with simona and Debbie. I'm sure she is going to be a lovely bride but the occasion seems to have made her lose sense of proportion!
Caviar, the real stuff, is horrendously expensive, there is no such thing as "cheap" caviar.
But there is nothing wrong with decent fish roes, and an attractive presentation can be made using red, golden and black fish roes. Now even these don't necessarily come cheaply but following Debbie's suggestions the little containers can be stretched and made extremely attractive--and the lovely salty fishy sea-burst will still cause thrills.
For an interesting selection of caviars and roes this mail order house seems to have everything one could imagine!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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I am hosting an engagement for my best friend (the bride) who has expensive taste. She wants Sturgeon caviar and sushi at the party, but I'm on a budget.
Jenna, I'm a little confused. She has expensive tastes and wants caviar and sushi. That I get. But why do you have to provide it?
Are you doing the catering? If so, I suggest honesty. We're in a recession so tell her you are on a budget and can't do the caviar and sushi much tho' you'd like to. However, you'll give her a glorious feast nonetheless.
Then get all the bride/groom's friends together and ask them to cook up something special for the wedding. You may have to sort out who will do savouries and who will do the desserts, but the result will be a feast and one made from love for both bride and groom. That alone will be more special for the wedding because it comes from the heart not merely the wallet.
I hope the wedding is fabulous and that the bride comes to see how much she means to all these people who love her. A wedding, like a christening and even a funeral wake is an adventure. And an adventure cannot be entirely planned for, but must be enjoyed to be respected. Have fun!
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(Related: See a rare photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being arrested)
We were all devastated by what happened, and the assassination was at the forefront of my father's mind for a long time. He retired at age 53 and moved back to New Zealand in 1975. He shipped all his slides with him, the Kodachromes riding across the Pacific Ocean on a large container ship. In 2005, my father passed away. As we were going through his possessions, I didn't want all his old slides at first, because I worried it might be some giant burden and I'd never look at them again. But I took them, anyway.
Recently, I began to sort through them, and came across a long, red box labeled "November/December 1963 Kennedy." I found these pictures right away. The images have never been published, but my dad would be happy to see them in TIME Magazine, his favorite news publication. Now, fifty years later, his photographs of the Kennedys finally see the light of day.
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Virginia is moving toward forcing public schools to let home schoolers on their sports teams. You may know that legislative move as a Tim Tebow bill, because Tebow was a home-schooler who got to play football at his local high school thanks to a law Florida passed in 1996, pre-Tebow-as-athletic-hero -- at least 14 other states have passed similar measures.
The Tebow bills come from the mindset that because you pay taxes to schools, your children should be able to play sports there, even though they don't attend classes. It's like how I pay taxes to the Air Force, so even though I'm not in the service, I should get to fly a fighter jet.
To get around the fact that the Virginia High School League, which oversees most prep sports in the state, is not a government entity, the bill would prevent any public school from joining a membership organization that bars homeschoolers from participating. The league's Policy Manual, section 28-1-4 (1), says, "A 'regular' student is considered a full-time student who is in regular attendance and is carrying a schedule of subjects which, if successfully completed, will render him/her scholastically eligible for League participation the ensuing semester.'" The educational institution they are attending regularly, under league rules, is Mom's Kitchen High, or wherever they are, not the public school.
The Tebow bill in Virginia, which has been introduced every year since 2005, looks like it's got a chance, even though it's only passed a House committee so far. The Republicans who control the legislative are generally supportive, and Gov. Bob McDonnell says he'll sign a Tebow bill, though he hasn't mentioned whether he would, in fact, Tebow after signing it.
The homeschool advocates make it sound like the justest and fairest thing in the world to let homeschoolers play sports at the local public school. Beyond the I-pay-taxes argument, a Tebow bill would allow Virginia homeschoolers to get greater opportunities athletically, and get the benefits of a team environment. "They just want to try out," the bill's sponsor, Delegate Robert B. Bell (R-Charlottesville) told the Washington Post, which notes his younger siblings were home-schooled. "They just want a chance to participate with their friends, their neighbors, their community members."
They represent such pining youths as Patrick Foss, a homeschooler from South Riding who dreams of playing soccer at his local high school. "Every Friday night I see the lights come on at my local high school and I wonder what it must be like to play in front of a hometown crowd," the 17-year-old said during testimony to a Virginia House committee, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Excuse me if I don't rail at the injustice of at all.
First, homeschool families, you pay taxes, but beyond my smart-aleck argument about not getting to fly a fighter jet, you don't pay . As this editorial in the Franklin News-Post points out, the homeschoolers don't count toward the formula Virginia has for doling out state money to schools -- so the athletic homeschool families would be costing taxpayers money by their presence.
Second, by definition a homeschooler is already in a school -- a school with an enrollment of one (presuming no siblings). Private school students, under this bill, don't get the option of playing for their public school, even though their families pay just as much in taxes. So why leave them out?
Third, Patrick Foss was so hamstrung by his inability to play high school sports, he only ended up playing on club teams, becoming the 16th-ranked boys high school soccer player by ESPN, and suffered the indignity of getting a soccer scholarship to the University of Virginia. Note to homeschool advocates -- this doesn't help your cause. Patrick Foss seems to demonstrate why a family would homeschool -- so it can select the best, private courses of education and development, far away from those cesspoolian public schools.
Fourth, I just find it so rich that homeschool advocates are more than happy to run down public schools and explain why they're just not good enough for their little budding geniuses, yet they're begging to lean on and cherry-pick the public school for things they can't provide. Hey, no one forced you to homeschool. If you want to keep your kid away from the educational system, don't come running back whining about I-pay-my-taxes when you child discover the lure of school stadium lights.
Plenty of parents have figured out how to find alternatives such as club and recreational sports, and forming homeschool leagues with teams made up of homeschooled students. (Virginia has such an organization.) You're in a rural area, and you're worried that you have to drive a long way to get your kid in some sport? Then drive. Your taxes paid for the roads, and if you have a driver's license, there's no law preventing you from taking advantage of using them. Unless you're going to protest that you don't need a driver's license, but you need a law otherwise allowing you to use the roads for a very specific purpose.


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The future of web development is being shaped by three technologies: Ajax, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and Browsers. Studying the evolution of these technologies is critical to understanding the future of developing for the web, and close examination reveals the emerging trends that will define next generation web applications. How these technologies relate, how they compete, and how their evolution impacts web development is essential for developers planning any online application development.
The Impact of Ajax and Standards
When we talk about Ajax as a web technology, we're really talking about "standards-based" web development. Ajax is, after all, nothing more than a collection of familiar web standards -- JavaScript, the XmlHttpRequest (XHR) object, and structured data, like JSON and XML -- famously combined in to a simple pseudo-acronym by Jesse James Garrett in early 2005. For the last five years, Ajax has fuelled the "Web 2.0" explosion of interactive and rich Internet applications.
During this period, developers focused heavily on delivering "desktop-like" experiences through the browser in way that did not require users to install any additional software. Combined with an alphabet soup of standards, such as CSS, XHTML and RESTful web services, developers flooded the Web with interactive applications like Google Maps, Digg, and Zillow, and proved the standards-based Internet is a powerful platform for delivering applications.
The significance of standards is important. By choosing to use universally defined technology protocols, developers evolved a web that almost any Internet connected device with a browser can plug-in to. No proprietary software is required to run standards-based applications. You simply point your browser at an Ajax application and it works.
This simplicity is one of the biggest appeals of standards-based development. Unlike RIAs, it more or less guarantees users will be able to access your application.
- Standard <video> and <audio> tags that make including rich media in a web page as easy as including an image.
- Offline application APIs that enable developers to create offline accessible versions of their apps, and store and access data using client-side SQL.
- Rich <canvas> APIs that make it possible to dynamically render 2D shapes and graphics directly in the browser.
According to the W3C, the consortium responsible for defining web standards, HTML5 aims to deliver solutions for many of the rich scenarios that plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight address today, but in an "open, vendor neutral languagewithout the risk of vendor lock-in."
If HTML5 is solving so many of today's standards "limits" and offering an experience on par with RIAs, why aren't Microsoft and Adobe fearful of this new standard? Doesn't HTML5 represent the death knell for Silverlight and Flash?
The downside of standards and the reason RIAs aren't fearful of HTML5 is that they evolve very slowly. The official "final draft" of the HTML5 standard is not scheduled for delivery until 2022! Assuming we're still writing applications for "web browsers" in that distant future, the pace of HTML5's evolution underscores the problem with standards. With no "horse in the race," the web standards groups have no motivation to move faster. They move slowly and deliberately, and at the end of the day, all they produce is guidance -- it's still up to browser manufacturers to interpret and implement the standards.
Fortunately, a "candidate recommendation" of the HTML5 spec will be released in 2012, and that's when many industry watchers expect to see widespread adoption of HTML5's features in the major browsers. But 2012 is three years out, and with major players like Apple and Nokia already balking at supporting a "universal" video codec, it's possible that some of HTML5's biggest features may be unusable in a true "cross-browser," standards-based way.
Standards-based Ajax development is evolving, albeit slowly, towards a richer future. Faster technology evolution requires looking at RIAs.


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Malta Circular: Autumn 2018
The Autumn 2018 Practical Exams will be held from 15 October till 1 November 2018. The examiner for this session is Mr Christopher Gumbley. Diplomas and prize winners Spring 2018 LRSM:
Desirée Quintano - Cello DipABRSM:
Daniel Zak Borg - Piano
Jean-Marc Fabri - Piano
Adrienne Borg - Piano
Elena Maria Muscat - Viola Grade 8
Demetria Bugeja - Oboe Grade 6 (ABRSM Prize)
James Borg - Piano Grade 6
Andre Belli - Piano Grade 5
John Cutajar - Trumpet Grade 5
Manuel Cassar - Clarinet Grade 4
Simon Rapa - Flügelhorn Grade 4
Kellyann Spiteri - Piano Grade 4
Sebastian Portelli - Alto Sax, Grade 3
Karen Chen - Piano Grade 2
Phoebe Christie - Singing Grade 2
Ann Mifsud Depasquale - Harp Grade 2
Benjamin Farrugia - Piano Grade 1
Raisa Vella - Violin Grade 1
- High Scorers' Concerts on 7th November 2018/Prize Day
The High Scorers' Concert for the Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018 sessions will be held on: Wednesday 7th November 2018 at 17.30 h at the usual venue, the Sixth Form Assembly Hall of St Aloysius' College, Birkirkara. Teachers of candidates who obtained distinction in the practical exams of these two sessions and who would like to play in the concert should send me the usual details (session, instrument, grade and title, composer and duration of piece - no list pieces, please) by not later than 25th October 2018. Later entries will not be accepted. It is important that you observe the maximum time allowed (Gr. 1&2: 1 min, Gr. 3-5: 2 min, Gr. 6&7: 3 min, Gr. 8 and diplomas: 4 min.) and submit all the details requested. In accordance with the branding in our other international centres and in order to cover some of the costs for these concerts there is a small non-refundable token attendance fee of €5 for every participating performer which is payable when teachers register for the concert. Tickets will be sent to the teachers. No tickets are required for any family or guests attending. Performers should appear smartly dressed. Examination results are no longer published in the newspaper but appear on the Board's website (www.abrsm.org). Teachers are expected to check and notify prize winners amongst their students themselves. Prizes will be awarded after the concert only to prize-winners taking part in the concert. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance and a badge. Entries for Spring 2019 examinations Please collect entry forms and syllabi from the Chalet of the University Residence in Lija during examination time. You can also find/download these from the Board's website, or send me a note and a self-addressed envelope so that I can mail them to you. When you download an entry form from the internet you only need to send 1 copy of page 2 & 3. Dates and Fees are no longer being printed and can be found on the website only. Always quote your teacher's number on application forms and in all correspondence (unless you are a new teacher). Please read the instructions on filling the entry form carefully and send both top sheet and duplicate of your entry forms by mail, early enough and correctly filled and signed. The payment system for next session will once again be via bank transfer . Please send the filled in form without any payment - you will then receive a code by email , which is to be inserted in the box called " payment details " when effecting the transfer . Please be sure to write the code FIRST in the box when effecting the transfer !!! This is very important as only a limited amount of characters goes through in the transfer and unless the code is written first it often gets excluded , making it very complicated to trace your payments. As an example you may write something like: MTT30, MTP35 Maria Conrad You do not need to write any other information. Do not forget to include a photocopy of a Theory Grade 5 pass (or equivalent) for practical exams Grades 6 – 8. This must be presented together with the entry form, not later. Late entries will not be accepted. Please note that requests for specific (late) examination dates/times (except AM or PM) cannot be considered. Thank you for your co-operation.


text: Turing Goes Galactic Once one starts to look, there seems to be no end to Turing patterns: their forms can be seen in weather systems, the distribution of vegetation across landscapes and even the constellations of galaxies. Image: Galaxy N51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. (European Space Agency)How Turing Patterns Work At the heart of any Turing pattern is a so-called reaction-diffusion system. It consists of an "activator," a chemical that can make more of itself; an "inhibitor," that slows production of the activator; and a mechanism for diffusing the chemicals. Many combinations of chemicals can fit this system: What matters isn't their individual identity, but how they interact, with concentrations oscillating between high and low and spreading across an area. These simple units then suffice to produce very complex patterns. "In principle, the behavior is generic. The trick is that you have to have the right rates for the chemical reactions, the right diffusion rates of reacting species," said Irving Epstein, a Brandeis University chemist who studies pattern formation. Image: A schematic comparison of the reaction-diffusion model to what's known as the morphogen-gradient model, which is essentially a reaction-diffusion system with two non-interacting chemicals. (S. Miyazama/Science)Proving Their Existence Even though what appeared to be Turing patterns were immediately evident in nature, it wasn't easy to be sure they were produced by reaction-diffusion systems, rather than some other mechanism. "It may occur all the time in living systems, but it's hard to definitively show," said Esptein. "You have to identify the activator and the inhibitor, and then to establish certain relationships among the reactions they undergo. In biological systems, it turns out to be quite difficult to unambiguously follow the concentrations." The breakthrough came during the 1980s, when chemists were able to produce Turing patterns in the laboratory, on thin slabs of gel. In these controlled systems, the reactions could be closely followed, simulated on computers and unambiguously demonstrated as true Turing patterns. Image: Patterns in gel, circa 1992. (Dennis Vigil & Harry Swinney/University of Texas, Austin)Turing Patterns in Seashells With the patterns definitively demonstrated with bench-top chemistry, researchers could turn their attention to nature. At left in each photograph is a real seashell. At right is a computer-generated image of a pattern produced by a Turing pattern simulation. Image: Seashells from Bishougai-HP; simulations from Deborah Fowler and H. Meinhardt/Science.Turing Patterns in Fish At left in each photograph is the eye of a popper fish. At right is a computer-generated image of a pattern generated by a Turing pattern simulation. Like the seashells, this doesn't prove that the natural markings are Turing patterns of pigments. They could theoretically be produced by some other type of chemical reaction, and just happen to look like Turing patterns. To be more certain, scientists needed to work with the patterns in living animals — the biological equivalents of chemistry sets. Image: Fish by Massimo Boyer; simulations from A.R. Sanderson et al.Turing Patterns in a Model Organism A basic model organism is the zebra fish. By raising them in captivity, tweaking genes or growth conditions, and then seeing what happens, researchers use zebra fish to study how animals develop and function. Fortunately for researchers studying pattern formation, the markings on zebra fish — which develop from a few juvenile spots, to intricate adult motifs — appeared to fit the Turing model. In 2008, biologists Akiko Nakamasu and Shigeru Kondo of Japan's Nagoya University used lasers to scar the spots of juveniles in different ways, then watched how their markings developed. These living patterns evolved precisely as computer simulations predicted they would, proving their Turing pattern nature. Image: In the leftmost two columns are photographs of juvenile and adult zebra fish markings. In the other columns are Turing pattern simulations, developing over time. (Kondo and Nakamasu/Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)How the Leopard Got His Spots Spots on the coats of jaguars and leopards are thought to be Turing patterns -- but given the near-impossibility of working with these animals in controlled conditions, this hypothesis will probably remain extremely likely but not conclusively tested. Image: Tambako the Jaguar/FlickrTuring Patterns in 3-D That markings on animals are produced by Turing systems of pigments is now generally accepted, but the origin of what appear to be Turing patterns in more complex settings — such as limb and tooth and lung development — is still debated. A basic step towards proving the existence of these three-dimensional Turing patterns is demonstrating a three-dimensional pattern in the lab. In a paper published Feb. 11 in Science, researchers led by Brandeis University chemist Irving Epstein do precisely this. The researchers set off a chemical reaction that creates Turing patterns in laboratory flasks, then used tomography — a form of imaging used to reconstruct three-dimensional images from thousands of two-dimensional snapshots — to picture them. "It's an intellectual coup," said Epstein. Image: ScienceTuring Patterns in Cells Turing patterns can involve not just chemicals, but large, complex systems in which each unit — for example, a cell — is distributed like molecules of pigment. Pictured is a Turing pattern of cells in Dictyostelium, or a slime mold. Image: National Institutes of HealthAlan Turing's Biology Paper Near the end of his life, the great mathematician Alan Turing wrote his first and last paper on biology and chemistry, about how a certain type of chemical reaction ought to produce many patterns seen in nature. Called "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis," it was an entirely theoretical work. But in following decades, long after Turing tragically took his own life in 1954, scientists found his speculations to be reality. First found in chemicals in dishes, then in the stripes and spirals and whorls of animals, so-called Turing patterns abounded. Some think that Turing patterns may actually extend to ecosystems, even to galaxies. That's still speculation — but a proof published Feb. 11 in Science of Turing patterns in a controlled three-dimensional chemical system are even more suggestion of just how complex the patterns can be. On the following pages, Wired.com takes you on a Turing pattern tour. Images: Left: Alan Turing. (Ohio State University) Right: Patterns generated by a computer simulation of the Turing model. each is made by the same basic equation, with its parameters slightly tweaked. (Shigeru Kondo & Takashi Miura/Science)See Also:Searching for Network Laws in SlimeHidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math ProblemEarth's Most Stunning Natural Fractal PatternsVideo: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing Muscle FibersBaffling Patterns Form in Scientific Sandbox


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Over the last couple of days Mr Monkey has been having another look at the expenses claims of Laurel and Hardy, the comedy duo who represent the Cleadon and East Boldon Ward, councillors Potts and Milburn.
Armed only with a diary, a calculator and a list of council committee meetings, Mr Monkey has come to the conclusion that Laurel and Hardy have been having a very fine time at the behest of the public purse. Readers will remember that Mr Monkey revealed Dumb and Dumber's excessive expense claims in a previous post CLICK HERE
The King of Sleaze David Potts accumulated £3116.81 whilst attending the Local Government Association's "Environment Board", travelling up and down to London (with the odd overnight stop) via first class rail travel. Over £800 was pocketed claimed largely without the production of any receipts.
Likewise, councillor Milburn the Cleadon Plonky managed to rack up £3129.85, this time via the Local Government Associations "Strategy and Finance Board". Not to miss out on any free money, £300 was paid out with no proof that it had actually been spent.
Those of you who frequent this site on a regular basis will not be surprised by these figures – councillor Potts has always been top of the class when it comes to sponging a publicly funded jaunt to London, a free bed for the night and a slap up meal to boot. Clearly, he has also created Milburn in his own image, indeed they both love nothing more than a good feed at the pig's trough at the public's expense of course.
Whilst their greed may be galling, it's surpassed by their total disregard for the people who elected them. Over a period of 6 consecutive LGA Environment Board meetings, cpunillor Potts never missed one of them. When it comes to 6 Community Area Forum meetings (the life blood of the councillor/electorate structure) all held within a couple of days of Potts' trips to London, he managed to attend a grand total of ……0, zero, nil, zilch, none.
Councillor Milburn's record is equally contemptible. 4 of his LGA Strategy and Finance Board meetings fell on the same day as his local CAF's – Milburn chose to go to London on all four occasions, spending £1381 instead of representing those who elected him. Over the Council committee period 2008/2009, the 3 stooges – Conservative councillors for Cleadon and East Boldon (lets not forget the Donald Wood) – never managed to attend a CAF meeting as a trio. Pudgy Face Potts didn't even manage to get his rather ample backside to one meeting, such is his laziness and contempt for the electorate.
So there you have it. When it comes to representing their communities, councillors David Potts and Jeffrey Milburn could not care less and would rather have a free couple of days in London, all paid for from the public purse.
Mr Monkey has this message for all you doubters out there … when you're sitting in The Cottage or The Red Lion listening to the whines emanating from the mouths of Potts and Milburn as to how their reputations have been besmirched by The Monkey, remind them that all this information has been gleaned from the Councils own internet site. It's free to use and free to see – the devil is in the detail, however, the devil is never in The Gazette!


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Smoking is a problem, bringing signifi cant social and economic costs to Russiansociety. However, ratifi cation of the World health organization Framework conventionon tobacco control makes it possible to improve Russian legislation accordingto the international standards. So, I describe some measures that should be taken bythe Russian authorities in the nearest future, and I examine their effi ciency. By studyingthe international evidence I analyze the impact of the smoke-free areas, advertisementand sponsorship bans, tax increases, etc. on the prevalence of smoking, cigaretteconsumption and some other indicators. I also investigate the obstacles confrontingthe Russian authorities when they introduce new policy measures and the public attitudetowards these measures. I conclude that there is a number of easy-to-implementanti-smoking activities that need no fi nancial resources but only a political will.
One of the most important indicators of company's success is the increase of its value. The article investigates traditional methods of company's value assessment and the evidence that the application of these methods is incorrect in the new stage of economy. So it is necessary to create a new method of valuation based on the new main sources of company's success that is its intellectual capital.
The article is devoted to the study of the authoritarianism prevalent in the mass consciousness of Russians. The article describes a new approach to the consideration of the authoritarian syndrome as the effects of the cultural trauma as a result of political and socio-cultural transformation of society. The article shows the dynamics of the symptoms of the authoritarianism, which appear in the mass consciousness of Russians from 1993 to 2011. This paper proposes a package of measures aimed at reducing the level of the authoritarianism in Russian society.
This work looks at a model of spatial election competition with two candidates who can spend effort in order to increase their popularity through advertisement. It is shown that under certain condition the political programs of the candidates will be different. The work derives the comparative statics of equilibrium policy platform and campaign spending with respect the distribution of voter policy preferences and the proportionality of the electoral system. In particular, it is whown that the equilibrium does not exist if the policy preferences are distributed over too narrow an interval.
The article examines "regulatory requirements" as a subject of state control over business in Russia. The author deliberately does not use the term "the rule of law". The article states that a set of requirements for business is wider than the legislative regulation.
First, the article analyzes the regulatory nature of the requirements, especially in the technical field. The requirements are considered in relation to the rule of law. The article explores approaches to the definition of regulatory requirements in Russian legal science. The author analyzes legislation definitions for a set of requirements for business. The author concludes that regulatory requirements are not always identical to the rule of law. Regulatory requirements are a set of obligatory requirements for entrepreneurs' economic activity. Validation failure leads to negative consequences.
Second, the article analyzes the problems of the regulatory requirements in practice. Lack of information about the requirements, their irrelevance and inconsistency are problems of the regulatory requirements in Russia.
Many requirements regulating economic activity are not compatible with the current development level of science and technology. The problems are analyzed on the basis of the Russian judicial practice and annual monitoring reports by Higher School of Economics.
Finally, the author provides an approach to the possible solution of the regulatory requirements' problem. The author proposes to create a nationwide Internet portal about regulatory requirements. The portal should contain full information about all regulatory requirements. The author recommends extending moratorium on the use of the requirements adopted by the bodies and organizations of the former USSR government.


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The practice of broker-dealers keeping securities for which a client has paid in full separate from securities the client has purchased on margin as well as from securities used as collateral on a margin account. Rule 15c3-3 requires segregation of these securities.
The safekeeping of a customer's securities in a separate location when the securities have been paid for in full. Segregated securities may not be commingled with the securities of the broker-dealer and they may not be used by the broker-dealer to collateralize loans. See also Rule 15c3-3.


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Yesterday was a pie revelation to me. I find out that Heather Fraelick makes pies out of roots. Rhubarb is a root, right?
And I discovered the key to making a pecan pie just the right sweetness at Author Jane Ward's Food and Fiction Blog check here for her recipe
It's all about the pies baby!
These two FOBs (friends of the blog) have inspired the first annual Pie Poll.
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Feel free to add in a pie that I may have missed on our poll and comment in the comment section of this post as to who makes or where you get your favorite pies.


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The Call Center Corp. has introduced AnswerClick powered by Coginov, a call center technology that combines the simplicity of a knowledgebase with the power of a semantics database and inference engine. Built on top of the CoginovAPI, the solution allows clients and end-users to ask questions in natural language to a virtual call center agent directly on a company's Web site and receive pre-determined, guided answers from the knowledgebase.
AnswerClick brings in the initial implementation of natural language processing to the call center market. Natural language processing and the CoginovAPI engine can immediately bring reduction to chat handle times and can even reduce the amount of staff members that need to man even a very active Web site, the companies claim.
The AnswerClick APIs can also be integrated to work with centers' current platforms that help centers manage their multichannel communications. Chat, email, social media or SMS can be integrated to AnswerClick. The engine can even help to detect and route these channels based on the sentiment analysis engine.
"Call centers have long been managing structured data, but they have yet to have been able to apply knowledge to the information that feeds back through the center in unstructured formats. Sure, some companies can categorize and send emails or chats based upon certain keywords to the right group of agents, but I have yet to see any product that can take notes, email bodies or even social media, and read it, then deliver an actionable response," said, Steve Bederman, CEO of the Call Center Corp., in a statement. "What call center does not want to figure out how to reduce manpower while increasing accuracy for agent responses? This is not just your usual keyword search. This is natural language processing for the multimedia generation."


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In this article, we present our experience with over a decade of strict simplicity orientation in the development and evolution of plug-ins. The point of our approach is to enable our graphical modeling framework jABC to capture plug-in development in a domain-specific setting. The typically quite tedious and technical plug-in development is shifted this way from a programming task to the modeling level, where it can be mastered also by application experts without programming expertise. We show how the classical plug-in development profits from a systematic domain-specific API design and how the level of abstraction achieved this way can be further enhanced by defining adequate building blocks for high-level plug-in modeling. As the resulting plug-in models can be compiled and deployed automatically, our approach decomposes plug-in development into three phases where only the realization phase requires plug-in-specific effort. By using our modeling framework jABC, this effort boils down to graphical, tool-supported process modeling. Furthermore, we support the automatic completion of process sketches for executability. All this will be illustrated along the most recent plug-in-based evolution of the jABC framework, which witnessed quite some bootstrapping effects.


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Couple with matching shirts, Crater Lake National Park, Ore., 1980.
Photographer Roger Minick has been photographing American tourists off and on for more than 30 years, first in the American West and then across the country.
Minick self-published a book of the images, which he calls "Sightseer."
Credit: Roger Minick
Couple with matching T-Shirts on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, 2000
Minick says he started the project while teaching a landscape photography class at Yosemite National Park's Glacier Point.
"I became aware of something else going on at the overlook: waves of tourists were continually arriving at the overlook's parking lot in cars, buses and motor homes, thrusting their way through this gauntlet of photographers not only for a clear view of the famous vista but also for the obligatory snapshot of themselves proving they were there.
"After witnessing this recurring bit of theater over several days, I found myself becoming increasingly fascinated with these visitors, recognizing what a striking cross section of humanity they were. I began to see the visitors as having a specific humanity, their own classification, a genus––Sightseer Americanus, if you will."
Woman with scarf at Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park, Calif., 1980
Couple at Niagara Falls, Canada, 1998
"I was hoping to keep my approach with the second go-around consistent with the 1980s images––using the same camera, finding a film as similar to the earlier Kodacolor, same camera-mounted flash, and similar juxtapositioning for scale and, hopefully, for irony," Minick said.
Boy with feathered headdress at Lower Falls Overlook, Yellowstone National Park, 1980
Girl at the Lincoln Monument, Washington, D.C., 1999
Girls in matching pink at Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, 1980
Young couple at Cadillac Ranch, Tex., 1998
Minick: "Kodak stopped making Kodacolor 400 so I was forced to use Kodak Portra HC 400, which was pretty close in palette."
Man with dog at Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, 1980
Minick: "Though I was pleased with what I did in the East, I still think there is something more epic about the American West as backdrop."
Birder at Peaks of Otter, Blue Ridge Parkway, Va., 1999
Couple at Canyonlands National Park, Utah, 1980
Kissing couple atop the Empire State Building, New York City, 2000
Woman with binoculars at South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz., 1980
Minick: "I've always admired Diane Arbus and August Sander's work, though, of the two, only Arbus used flash."
Man with tattoos at Cadillac Ranch, Texas, 1998
Family at Grand Tetons National Park, Wyo., 1980
Family at Mt. Rushmore, S.D., 1998
Man at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1980
Man at The Alamo, Tex., 1999
Photographing Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., 1980
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa., 1999
Couple with Boy and Dog, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., 1980
Family at Very Large Array Telescopes, N.M., 2000
Twins with matching outfits at Lower Falls Overlook, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., 1980
Couple at Jackson Square, New Orleans, La., 2000
Uncle and nephew at Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, 1981
Three women at overlook, Great Smokey Mountains National Park, N.C., 1999
Woman photographing at Many Glaciers Hotel, Glacier National Park, Mont., 1981
Mennonites at Overlook, Niagara Falls State Park, N.Y., 1999
Couple at Monument Valley, Utah, 1980
"The Awakening," Haynes Point, Washington, D.C., 1999
Woman with Hawaiian shirt at Monument Valley, Utah, 1980
Family at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., 2000
Mother and Son at Minerva's Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., 1980
Man at New York City skyline, Legoland, Carlsbad, Calif., 2000
Minick has self-published the work as a book and can also be seen on his website dedicated to the project.


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Coping with Systemic Risk
Editor: Sheri Markose, University of Essex
Retaining the objectives of the 2011 Global Economic Symposium Panel on Coping with Systemic Risk, the Special Issue invites contributions that are prepared to 'think outside the box' in terms of providing solutions to monitoring and managing systemic risk. On taking a distinct view that systemic risk from excessive leverage is a negative externality analogous to environmental pollution, long term regulatory and institutional solutions are those that mitigate the misalignment between incentives at the individual level and system-wide stability. Financial or macro-economic instability come from excessive supply of private and/or public debt with both of them having a monetary counterpart. Without natural constraints on IOUs, except the willingness of counterparties to hold them, history is replete with attempts to place external constraints on money supply and debt. We are relearning that systemic risk in monetary and financial systems is inherent to a fractional monetary system, in which innovation-driven private credit creation is one for which tax payer is liable and central banks remain responsible.
In the Special Issue, we invite papers that address both foundational and operationally relevant aspects relating to the following topics:
- How to measure the systemic risk in a financial system?
- Upgrades to macro-financial models to include financial instability.
- New holistic visualization financial network tools to identify and measure systemic risk for financial institutions and markets.
- How to combine micro- and macro-prudential regulation efficiently?
- Design of a financial stability fund based on a capital surcharge or tax on financial intermediaries for their systemic risk contributions.
- Can a 'cap and trade' system for leverage work better?
- Can a generic capital surcharge for being SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Intermediary) work to curtail moral hazard?
- How can regulation avoid perverse incentives that lead to systemic risk?
- Rethinking fractional monetary system.
- A digital registry of assets and liabilities, containing on and off balance-sheet data.


text: Alumni of Hamline Mentorship Program Pursue a College Education Jessany Williams was 12-years-old when she first heard of Hamline University. As a 7th grader, she became involved with the McVay Youth Partnership, a program in which Hamline students provide mentorship to urban middle-school students across the Twin Cities. Today, as a recipient of a scholarship specifically for McVay alumni, she is fully-enrolled as an undergraduate Piper. "I'm not sure if my mentors know how big of an impact they made in my life," Williams said. The McVay program began in 2005 and has grown since then to four sites across the metro area, serving over 100 young students per year. Hamline students spend time three afternoons per week, providing homework help, facilitating service-learning, and building community with the youth they serve."They're wonderful role models," Jane Krentz, director of the McVay Youth Partnership, said. "They make such an incredible difference in the lives of these young people." Williams agrees, saying that her McVay leaders inspired her to achieve and pursue a college education. She also went on to a year-long exchange program in Japan through the Rotary Youth Organization. "Living on my own in a foreign country was challenging," Williams said. "But the communications and problem-solving skills I learned in McVay definitely helped me."Williams is not the first to make the full circle from McVay to Hamline; in 2010, sisters Dayliar and Zin Zin Htoo became the first recipients of the McVay scholarship as undergraduate students. They, along with Williams, are once again involved with the McVay program, only this time serving in the same mentorship roles that made such a big different for them. "I'm on the other side now," Williams said. "I want to make that same impact in other young people's lives."


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My name is Izai Amorim. I'm Brazilian from Salvador, a beautiful coastal city threatened by climate change. I use my branding skills to help the cause of climate change, sustainability, and environment protection.
What the press is saying about me and my company.
To the press coverage
I can help you spread the message of sustainability. I am passionate about the cause, open, direct, and funny. I can reach people's hearts and inspire them to do the right thing.
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I want to go beyond offsetting products and events. I want to use products and events as tools to elevate sustainable behaviour and environmental and climate protection to a coolness status.
The Low Carbon Diet enables business clients to start a meaningful conversation with clients, employees, or stakeholders about sustainability and climate and environment protection.
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Administrative Services
Document and Publication Services
DPS Mail functions as a center for the receipt of campus mail and the receipt, dispatch, and control of U.S. stamped mail.
DPS Mail performs the following tasks:
- Receives and sorts incoming U.S. mail and delivers it to University departments
- Processes outgoing U.S. mail generated by University departments
- Sorts and delivers campus mail
- Maintains inventory of perforated "I" U.S. postage stamps for sale to University departments
- Bills University departments for postage costs associated with outgoing mail
DPS Mail's drivers pick up and deliver both U.S. stamped mail and campus mail. This service is conducted under policies and procedures designed to best serve the entire University community. To assist in expediting the different types of mail service, the following policies are outlined.
Mail sent to DPS Mail for processing should be sorted and banded into the following groups:
- Campus Mail (letters)
- Campus Mail (flats)
- Outgoing Mail to Be Metered (letters)
- Outgoing Mail to Be Metered (flats)
- Stamped Mail
- Special Service Mail
- Forwarded Mail
- International Mail
Campus, forwarded, and stamped mail do not need a Postage Charge Slip, but the other categories should have a separate Postage Charge Slip attached to each group.
Mail delivery service is provided to all primary department offices on a twice-per-day basis, using a pouch exchange system. When mail is delivered to a department office, a return pouch is picked up and returned to DPS Mail. Two mail delivery routes are utilized to provide the most efficient delivery system possible.
Campus Mail
The University mailing system is to be used for University business only.
Non-business, personal mail cannot be passed between campus offices. This includes non-business newspapers, magazines, direct sales items, personal items from outside companies, articles of clothing, etc. If it is not directly related to Western business, it should not be sent through campus mail.
Campus mail is sorted and dispatched as quickly as possible each workday. In order to be accepted for processing, campus mail must be enclosed in envelopes unless other arrangements have been made with DPS Mail. Campus mail should utilize the brown, printed, campus envelopes available for purchase from the Office Supplies Store's Office Supply Catalog (Item #1220, $24.00, for letter size; and #P20M97233, $21.50, for 10" x 13" size). Do not use plain white envelopes because they can easily be confused with outgoing, metered mail. If your department has accumulated an overstock of used envelopes, or if it is in need of campus envelopes, call DPS Mail at 298-1509. DPS Mail accepts and recycles envelopes to other departments.
The envelope address must show the full official University department name, and it should also include the intended recipient's name. Abbreviated department names are not acceptable. Computer-generated address labels must also show the full official University department name. Envelopes addressed by hand should be printed or typed, and must be legible. Campus mail that does not include the University department's correct name, uses an abbreviated name, or does not include a department name at all will be returned to the sending department for correction and clarification.
Mailings of five or more pieces addressed to a specific department or residence hall must be bundled by department or residence hall. Mailings of five or more pieces to individual recipients within a specific department or residence hall must be similarly bundled.
Acceptable Campus Mail
If the above guidelines are met, recognized University organizations may utilize DPS Mail for campus deliveries without affixing U.S. mail postage.
Incoming Mail
U.S. mail is dropped off from the Macomb Post Office at 9:00 am and picked up by the Macomb Post Office at 4:00 pm each operating day. DPS Mail receives First Class mail, small-sized Parcel Post mail, and mail requiring special services (i.e., Certified, Express, Insured, Registered, and Return Receipts). Registered, Express, Certified, and Insured mail are recorded with number, department, and date, and then delivered to the designated department. A signature is required, and the information is entered into the DPS Mail accounting system.
To be processed without delay, incoming mail must use the following format on the return address:
Individual's Full Name
Full Department Name
Western Illinois University
1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455-1390
Personal items and packages received in DPS Mail from an off-campus address will be held for pickup by the intended recipient.
Department Name Change
Please notify DPS Mail promptly of all changes in your official department name or building location. DPS Mail should also be notified when your offices will be closed during regular delivery periods such as during semester or vacation breaks.
Forwarding Mail
Mail delivered to a department that is addressed to a staff member who has left the department should be forwarded to that staff member's new department, if known.
- First Class mail is forwarded free of charge for one year. When forwarding such mail, draw a line through the incorrect address, insert the correct new address, band separately, and return to DPS Mail.
- If a forwarding address for the staff member is not available, mark on the face of the envelope "Return to Sender," and return it to DPS Mail.
- Periodical mail (magazines, newspapers, etc.) is forwarded for 60 days free of charge.
- Standard mail may not be forwarded; however, if an ancillary endorsement (i.e. Address, Forwarding, Return, or Change Service Requested) is written on the item, you should return the item to DPS Mail.
- A staff member or a student cannot leave an official change-of-address form at the Macomb Post Office or at DPS Mail for the purpose of redirecting mail. A form can be left with DPS Mail for reference purposes only.
Insufficiently Addressed Mail
First Class mail with an insufficient return address that is returned to Western from the U.S. Postal Service is held in Directory Search Service to determine, if possible, the sender's name and the department that sent the item.
First Class mail sent to the University that is addressed only to "Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL" will be held and opened to determine to whom that mail should be delivered. When identification of the intended recipient is not possible from the inspection of the contents, the mail is returned to the sender, if possible.
First Class mail that still cannot be identified is handled as follows:
- If the piece has a return address, it is stamped "Insufficient Address" and returned to the sender.
- If the piece has no return address, it will be returned to the Macomb Post Office for disposition.
The handling of insufficient addresses on incoming Periodical, Standard, and Parcel Post mail is differentiated by DPS Mail based upon the following factors:
- Mail indicating Address, Forwarding, Return, or Change Service Requested on the face of the envelope is returned to the Macomb Post Office for disposition.
- Mail not indicating any of the services listed above is disposed of by DPS Mail unopened.
COD (Cash on delivery)
COD service is not available.
Outgoing Mail
Preprinted Envelopes
Official University preprinted envelopes with the appropriate University logo must be used for all regular outgoing mail (see the DPS website for more information: www.wiu.edu/dps).
Postage Charge Slips
Postage Charge Slips are generated and distributed to mailers at no cost by DPS Mail. Postage Charge Slips are required on outgoing mail for accounting purposes. Departments are responsible for the separation of mail by account number. Only one Postage Charge Slip is necessary for each account number. When multiple accounts are used by one department, indicate which account number is to be charged on each mail bundle. If DPS Mail receives mail without a Postage Charge Slip, or bundles of mail that do not indicate the account number to be charged, the mail will be returned to the sender. Postage Charge Slips for new accounts can be ordered by calling DPS Mail at 298-1509.
Postage Rates and Fees
For information on postal rates for various classes of mail or current fees for special services and handling, contact DPS Mail at 298-1509.
Mail Transport Containers
DPS Mail stores and supplies users with postal mail tubs and trays. Mail can only be accepted in containers approved by DPS Mail.
Mail Class Definitions
All mail must be marked with the required class to ensure that it will be posted accordingly. If mail is not marked appropriately, it will be sent First Class at the appropriate postage rate. Unmarked parcels will be sent at the most economical rate.
- Priority mail is a First Class mail service offered by the U.S. Postal Service that generally allows the delivery of an item in two or three days. First Class mail that weighs 13 oz. or more is automatically considered Priority mail. First Class mail under 13 oz. can be mailed as Priority mail, but there is a minimum rate for this service, which is more than the standard First Class rate.
- First Class mail generally offers delivery within three days to most domestic destinations. Postcards, Business Reply Mail, and Permit Imprint #489 are included in this group.
- Periodical mail is newspapers and magazines issued at least four times a year by a publisher who mails at the periodical rate on the basis of a periodical permit purchased through the U.S. Postal Service.
- Standard Bulk mail is a low priority mailing class for mail sent at a lower rate. To use this service, contact DPS Mail at 298-1509.
Package Services mail has four subcategories that might save postage. This class of mail does not receive expedited service, but it is usually delivered in three to seven days:
- Parcel Post must not exceed 70 pounds and 130 inches in length and girth combined. All oversized pieces, regardless of actual weight, will be charged at an "oversized" rate.
- Media mail is a book rate with the same dimensions as above.
- Library mail is mailed between schools and cultural institutions with the same dimensions as above.
- Bound Printed Matter must be permanently bound and must not exceed 15 pounds.
Special Service Definitions
Accountable mail includes Certified, Express, Insured, Registered, and mail with a Return Receipt or Delivery Confirmation. Call DPS Mail at 298-1509 for the appropriate forms.
- Certified mail provides you with a receipt at the time of mailing; records of delivery are maintained by the U.S. Postal Service. Only mailable matter on which postage is paid at a First Class rate (including Priority mail) may be accepted as Certified mail. Certified mail is a good choice for proof that you mailed something and that it was received.
- Express mail is a service offered by the U.S. Postal Service that guarantees next day delivery to most destinations within the U.S. (Note: Deliveries to some locations in the U.S. and all locations overseas do take longer than one day.) Insurance up to $100 is included at no extra cost. Mail using this service must be in DPS Mail no later than 3:30 pm daily. There is no guarantee that mail received after 3:30 pm will arrive at the destination by the next business day.
- Insured mail provides protection by obtaining payment for loss of mail, rifling of mail, or damage to mail. Up to $5,000 of insurance can be purchased for Package Services mail. It is also available for merchandise mailed at the Priority or First Class rates.
- Registered mail is a highly secure form of delivery that is documented each step of the way. Registered mail is the best choice for sending documents or items of value when security is important. This mail is kept under lock and key during its journey. As a result of the added security, delivery may be delayed by 24 to 48 hours.
- Return Receipts are your proof of mailing and delivery. The addressee signs a green card, which is returned to the mailer as proof of delivery. It is available for domestic Express, Registered, Certified, and Insured mail shipments. The Return Receipt identifies the article number, the person who signed for it, and the date it was delivered. Another option is to use the Return Receipt titled Restricted Delivery. This service permits a mailer to direct delivery only to the addressee.
- Delivery Confirmation provides the mailer with information about the date and time an article was delivered or the date and time delivery was attempted but not successful. This service is available for Priority mail and Package Services (Parcel Post, Media, Library mail, and Bound Printed Matter) only.
Meter Mail
Outgoing meter mail (mail which must have postage affixed by DPS Mail) must reach DPS Mail before 3:30 pm to ensure dispatch to the Macomb Post Office the same day. Metered mail is the most cost-effective way to send outgoing mail. All meter mail must be for University business only, must be addressed in all capital letters, and must be in an official University preprinted envelope with the appropriate university logo and complete return address. Arrange unsealed envelopes with the flaps down. All meter mail must be accompanied by a preprinted, bar-coded Postage Charge Slip, which shows the name and account number of the sending department, the date sent, and an authorized department signature. If special services are required for mailing, such as Registered, Insured, Certified, etc., instructions should be clearly marked on the Postage Charge Slip and on the envelope or package to be mailed. Postage Charge Slips for new accounts can be ordered by calling DPS Mail at 298-1509.
International Mail
The bottom line of an international address must show only the country name written in full (no abbreviations) and in capital letters. For example:
Mr. Thomas Clark
117 Russell Drive
London WIP 6HQ
International letters, letter packages, or printed matter that weigh less than 16 ounces do not require U.S. Customs forms. All other international mail requires a Customs Form PS 2976 or 2976-A to be filled out by the mailer. Check with DPS Mail for the mailing regulations and restrictions of individual countries.
Stamped Mail
Although DPS Mail staff will accept and deposit outgoing stamped mail, staff are encouraged to deposit personal stamped mail, such as holiday greetings, monthly bills, and other personal correspondence in U.S. Postal Service drop boxes. For your convenience, there are two USPS drop boxes on the Macomb campus. They are located at 3-101 Lamoine Village and near the northwest corner of the University Union.
Illinois State Law mandates that all postage stamps used for official University business must be state issued. State-issued stamps are identified by a perforated "I" on each stamp and are available to University departments through DPS Mail by using the Postage Charge Slip to authorize charges to your University postage account. State-issued stamps cannot be used for personal business. To order stamps, fill out the preprinted Postage Charge Slip with the name and account number of your department, the date sent, an authorized department signature, and the quantities and denominations of the type of postage your department needs. Postage requests will be delivered to your department as soon as possible. A signature acknowledging receipt will be requested upon delivery. The University stocks perforated postage stamps of limited denominations, secured through the Department of Central Management Services in Springfield, Illinois. Departments are encouraged to order supplies as early as possible to allow ample time for the items to be ordered from Springfield, if necessary. This is especially important when large quantities are needed. DPS Mail does not sell postage stamps to individuals for personal use and does not accept cash or personal checks under any circumstances.
Non-Acceptable Mail
Any mail received at DPS Mail that does not have postage affixed and/or has no accompanying Postage Charge Slip will be returned to the sender. If such mail does not have a return address, it will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, as postal regulations prohibit sending this type of mail postage due.
The following types of mail are unacceptable for processing by DPS Mail:
- Any material that would be prohibited by federal regulations
- Personal unstamped mail involving non-University business (i.e., notices of garage sales, homes for sale, personal gatherings, meeting notices for organizations not affiliated with Western, fraternity or sorority social functions, etc.)
- Personal greetings in bulk, including holiday greeting cards
- Literature, circulars, or notices originated by non-University organizations
- Personal books
- Petitions, money solicitations, membership recruitment, or election or campaign literature of a partisan natureCurrency or coin
- Scandalous or libelous material
- Controversial material of any kind
- Unstamped commercial solicitations
- Unstamped advertisement
Automated Mail
Because mailers pay less for automated mail than for non-automated mail, all University mailings of 500 or more first-class pieces or of 200 or more standard mail pieces must be addressed by DPS and sent as automated mail according to strict USPS regulations. USPS automated mail regulations require National Change of Address (NCOA) verification, require particular address information and specially formatted address blocks, prohibit the use of labels, and so on.
For information about automated mailing, contact DPS.
Business Reply Envelopes
Business Reply Envelopes are obtained by filling out a Letterhead/Envelope Order Form at www.wiu.edu/dps. The Business Reply Envelope return cost is charged to the department's account.


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Our Rancilio S26 has developed a problem... The water heater no longer heats the water. Yesterday the heating indicator lamp started flickering & today the machine is cold. It still has power - pump operates when turned on etc.
My assumption is that the thermostat is faulty but don't really know for sure.
1) How do I tell if this is indeed the problem?
2) If it is the problem, then where do get a new thermostat in the UK?