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A team at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) research center used twin silicon wafers to bend a stream of gamma rays, something that had been thought to be impossible. The team posits, in an article in the Physical Review Letters, that by building more advanced silicon lenses, using gold and other highly refractive substances, gamma rays could be focused for the first time in a way similar to standard optics.
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This has been a popular strategy so far this year – flows into fixed income ETFs year-to-date have been primarily into shorter duration ETFs as investors look to cut interest rate risk in their portfolios. Through April 10th, $10.2 billion has been allocated to short duration ETFs while $2.8 billion has been redeemed from longer duration ETFs. Clearly investors are voting with their dollars.
This strategy can be accomplished by selling longer duration investments in favor of shorter duration ones, or by just adding shorter duration investments to bring down average portfolio duration. As longer duration investments generally offer more yield, such a move will generally result in a lower yielding portfolio. Investors who position in this way believe that the yield they give up will be more than made up for by avoiding the price loss that a longer duration portfolio would experience in a rising interest rate environment.
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An additional challenge with trying to position for rising interest rates is that all rates do not move in tandem, short term interest rates can move independently from intermediate and longer term interest rates. Strategies that appear to reduce interest rate risk could actually underperform in a rising interest rate environment. How you go about reducing interest rate risk, and which interest rates you protect yourself against, will ultimately determine the success of your strategy. I will talk more about this in a later post and discuss how to think about positioning in different rising rate scenarios.
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In 1856, Mrs. Kelly, a young widow who is unable to provide for her children, makes the ultimate sacrifice: She sends Frances Mary, Mike, Megan, Danny, Peg, and Petey to the West on the Orphan Train, hoping that they will be adopted by families who can give them what she cannot.
Twelve-year-old Michael tries to adjust to life with the German farm family in Missouri that has adopted him. But he has reason to believe that Mr. Friedrich may have committed a serious crime, an Mike vows to uncover the truth.
Joan Lowery Nixon is the author of more than 90 books for young readers. The only four-time recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Best Juvenile Mystery, Nixon knows what interests readers and delivers it to them without fail. A native Californian and a transplanted Texan, Nixon lives in Houston, where she is hard at work writing more books for her legions of fans.
Pre-Reading Activity
The Orphan Train Adventures are set in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Display a map of the United States and trace the route of the Orphan Train.
The Kelly children come from New York. What attitudes toward slavery might we expect from them? In the books, the children are sent to Missouri. What attitudes might they encounter that are different from their own?
Thematic Connections
The Orphan Train Heritage Society was established to assist the thousands of men and women who came West on the Orphan Train in locating members of their families. Ask a representative of the Orphan Train Heritage Society to speak to the class. Before the visit, have students brainstorm questions to ask the speaker.
Throughout all the novels in The Orphan Train Adventures series the Kelly children experience struggles. Some struggles are unique to the historical period in which the books are set while others are struggles that children of today also face. Discuss which struggles cross time and which are bound to the Civil War era.
Letters among the main characters play an essential role in each novel. Though the reader never sees the actual contents of these letters, the contents are conveyed through the main character. Have students write a letter which could have been sent by one of the Kelly children to another.
Have students locate passages in the books that summarize a character's convictions. Let them debate whether the characters stand firm or waiver in their convictions. Here are some examples of such statements readers might find:
"Every man has a past. ...What counts is his future." (Caught in the Act p. 31)
"Part of being a woman is making decisions and accepting responsibility for them, whether they're right or wrong." (Keeping Secrets p. 156)
Throughout the series, students meet characters who are either victims of discrimination, the discriminators themselves, or against discrimination. For example, there are characters who are made to feel they are outcasts because they come from another country and characters who treat people differently because of the amount of money they have. There are characters who support slavery and those who work to stop it. Discuss these characters and situations in a themed unit on discrimination.Family and Relationships -- The children in The Orphan Train Adventures are siblings who work hard to stay close, even as they are sent far from each other. As they are placed in new families--some good, others bad--each child learns that what makes one a member of a family is not sharing the same last name but rather caring for one another. The importance of family makes this series a must read for a unit on family relationships.
Making Choices
Have students discuss the difficult decisions the Kelly children make. In A Family Apart, Mike steals in order to provide food for his family. Is he right to do so? Who else in this story knowingly breaks a law? Is one person more guilty than another? Mike knowingly steals again in A Dangerous Promise. Are these acts crimes? In another book, Mary Frances had the opportunity to work directly against slavery as she assisted runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad route. Was she breaking the law? Let students debate whether or not these people should have been punished. Is it ever right to break a law? If so, then what good are laws?
The Orphan Train Adventures are as full of mystery as they are of adventure. For example, in Caught in the Act, Mike believes his foster parents, the Friedrichs, are hiding something, and he must uncover what it is. In In the Face of Danger, Megan must discover the real meaning behind the gypsy's curse. In Keeping Secrets, Peg must find out if her new friend Violet is a Confederate spy. The mystery in each of these books makes this series a natural tie-in for any unit that has students thinking about mysteries.
The concept of "sacrifice" is developed throughout The Orphan Train Adventures. Let students look for specific places in A Family Apart where the word is used and find events where sacrifices are made. What do students learn about sacrifices from these books? Have students discuss how the willingness to make sacrifices is a part of accepting responsibility.
Interdisciplinary Connections
The train trip West was a harrowing one for the Kelly children, who had never before been out of their New York City neighborhood. Have students construct a three-dimensional relief map of the train's route across the United States. Discuss the geographical changes the Kelly children encountered as they made their way West.
Several historical figures appear within the pages of these novels. Some of the most important historical figures are Abraham Lincoln, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Quantrill. Have the students use a reference source to find out more information about each person. Ask them to discuss why the author included them in the novel.
These books take place during the Civil War. Have students create a time line of the major events preceding, during, and immediately following the Civil War.
Some people say history repeats itself. Others say history doesn't repeat itself, people do. Have students identify events in these books that have occurred at other times in history. Discuss whether they are also occurring now, and predict if they will occur in the future. Discuss wars from the past, as well as present wars, and hypothesize if war will occur in the future. Have students discuss mail-order brides and how men found wives at other times in history. These novels are chock full of events to consider, including slavery, secession, abolition, underground railroads, and orphan trains.
Science (Health)
Let students review the books looking for passages that discuss illnesses and the treatments for them, noticing how different the treatments were then compared to now. Generally, the treatments were based on home remedies that used herbs and other plants. Research what scientists and doctors of today have to say about those kinds of cures. Do any cultures today still depend on home remedies?
Vocabulary/Use of Language
Joan Lowery Nixon uses words and phrases in The Orphan Train Adventures that were common in the 1800s but are less common today. As students read the books, have them note those words and phrases, and share their examples in small groups. They should decide what the words/phrases mean, discover how (or if) they are used today, and--for fun--hypothesize what the words or phrases might mean in the future. Here are some: In In the Face of Danger, Emma offers to get mustard seed to make a "poultice" (p. 78) and Megan checks to see if there are plenty of "cow chips" and if the "crock" is filled before she begins cooking (p. 118). In Caught in the Act, Mike angrily refers to Gunter as "a stinking barrel of tallow" (p. 33). In A Place to Belong, Danny holds on to his "hard-earned coppers" (p. 3). In Keeping Secrets, Peg remembers seeing "painted ladies" (p. 126).
Teaching Ideas prepared by Teri Lesene, Ph.D., and G. Kylene Beers, Ph.D. Lesene teaches at Sam Houston State University. Beers teaches at several Houston area universities.
Review Highlights for The Orphan Train Adventures
A Family Apart
"As close to perfect a book....The plot is rational and well-paced; the characters are real and believable; the time setting is important in U.S. history; and the values all that anyone can ask for."
In the Face of Danger
"This exciting and touching novel projects an aura of historical reality."
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A Dangerous Promise
"Her characters are finely drawn and multifaceted, the plot is lively, and the details are well chosen. This is history come to life."
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Keeping Secrets
"The tension and danger are palpable. . .readers won't be able to put this one down, as the suspense builds steadily to a dramatic but startling conclusion that may require a hanky or two."


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The natural health products industry is anywhere from highly regulated to loosely controlled, depending on the country.
The good news is that Canada, the United States and Europe are world leaders in supplement regulation because national governments have stepped in to ensure reasonable claims are made and only safe products make it to market, says Peter Jones, director of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba,
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Johnson & Johnson has announced yet another Tylenol recall due to a musty moldy odor linked to a trace chemical. The company's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit is recalling more than 60,000 bottles of Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets made in February 2009 and distributed in the U.S. The chemical, known as TBA, is a byproduct of a chemical preservative sometimes used on shipping pallets. Besides causing an unpleasant odor, TBA has been associated with temporary and non-serious gastrointestinal symptoms. Since September 2009, New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson has had about two dozen recalls of prescription and nonprescription medicines, replacement hips, contact lenses and diabetes test strips, including tens of millions of bottles of children's and adult Tylenol and Motrin.


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So maybe I'm disclosing more about myself than anyone really wants to know, but I've never understood our society's pre-occupation with sex. I think of sex in much the same terms as I think of a game of pickup beach volleyball – a lot of fun if you have the opportunity, but if it doesn't happen I'll find something else to do with my time. My casual attitude about the whole venture stands, at least to my eye, in sharp contrast with piously intoned truisms that come from all corners of society – that sex is a deep and profound part of the human experience, that expressing your sexuality is a fundamental human right, that a person's sexual identity is an intrinsic part of who they are. Maybe it's a facet of hetero/cis privilege, but I just can't get that fired up about the subject.
That being said, there are fewer people who obsess over sex more than religious folks. To be sure, most religious people are just as laissez fucke about other people's sex lives as I am, but if you want to find people with a level of obsession that borders on the psychotic, you need look no further than religious hardliners. The scriptures are replete with proscriptions about where, when, how, how often, with whom, and exactly how terrible you should feel about yourself afterward. Some folks think that this is an issue of population control – that by controlling this oh-so-crucial component of human life, religious authority can tighten their grip on every aspect of human life. As you might conclude from my first paragraph, I am less than convinced.
That being said, the religious preoccupation with sex, particularly the contemporary evangelical Protestant one, holds that sex has a specific purpose – the
whelping of spawn creation of precious life. Much of the counterargument to arguments about abortion boils down to the phrase "well if you didn't want a baby, you shouldn't have had sex" (I am being intentionally generous – usually this sentiment is expressed in terms that are much less polite). After all, the argument goes, YahwAlladdha gave us the gift of sexuality for the purpose of populating the Earth with tiny soldiers for Christ. Birth control and abortion interfere with the divine telos of our genitalia.
Of course, this is all nonsense, but if one grants this assertion legitimacy for the purpose of argument, there is a fun contradiction hidden within the folds of this line of 'reasoning'. Exploring the outer lips of the statements about the intended purpose of sex, we arrive at the nub of the problem – sex feels good. Sex feels really good. Really fucking good, in fact. It's also a super fun way to burn through a half hour or so – if you can't sleep, if there's nothing good on TV, if the lineup at the bank is taking too long (I now manage all of my finances online – by order of the judge).
Why is this a problem? Well, aside from the obvious "if it feels good do it" response (which is more or less good enough for me), the idea of sexual pleasure flies directly in the face of the telos argument. Especially if one holds to the idea of the direct intervention of YahwAlladdha in the design of human beings. If human beings were created special by the gods, endowed as we are with the power of reason, we would not need any other encouragement to fuck. If the production of children were the only purpose, procreating would be something that is done by choice, not by accident. We would choose to join our various bits and pieces when we decided (mutually, one would hope) that another child was desirable. It would be like cleaning the gutters or re-caulking* the bathroom tiles – not something we enjoy doing, but a necessary periodic chore.
Holding all other things constant – length of gestation, difficulty with birth, the fragility of newborns – the simple fact that the clitoris exists and orgasms are just s'darn nifty blows the whole "sex are for babbys" argument right out of the water. It would be a piece of piss for a truly intelligent designer to reduce both the sexual drive and the pleasure derived from copulation. We wouldn't have any problem propagating the species, it just wouldn't happen by accident so often. Indeed, removing the fun from intercourse would make compliance with all the ridiculous edicts about who/when/why/how much simpler. It would become a total non-issue, and the people protesting abortion clinics could find something useful to do with their time.
Of course those of us who accept scientific fact know that humans enjoy sex for pretty much the same reasons that other animals do – those individuals with the strongest sex drive out-competed others, and evolution did its inelegant but ultimately powerful work. Human beings had a number of other evolutionary pressures which combined to give us our somewhat-idiosyncratic sexual patterns, but the detritus of the evolutionary process still exists, for good or ill. Of course, this fact stands in sharp contrast to the idea that humans were intentional creations of a divine being who simultaneously wished us to pork for solely reproductive purposes.
Of course the capacity to hold contradicting ideas as both equally true is the hallmark of faith-based belief, so the existence of a simple contradiction like this will not perturb the most hardened minds; however, it is an interesting thing to throw back in the face of someone talking about the "purpose" of sex. Sex has no "purpose", just outcomes. If we wish to experience some of those outcomes and not others, that is easily accomplished. The more we obsess over how all-encompassingly important the act is, the more control we cede to those who would presume to tell us about their ideas why we should or shouldn't. For my part, I put as much emphasis on sex as I do on playing squash – I don't spend my days hell-bent on it, but if I am presented with a skilled and willing partner, then let's smack around some balls.
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Film companies have been awarded $44 million in Massachusetts tax credits for projects shot in 2011, with nearly two-thirds of new spending generated by the productions going to out-of-state people and businesses, including many earning more than $1 million.
That's a jump from the $18 million in film tax credits awarded in 2010.
The Department of Revenue report released Wednesday credited the increase on the return of multiple major feature films being made in Massachusetts.
In 2010, nine feature films generated nearly $7 million in credits compared with 2011, when 13 feature films generated about $40 million in credits. In all, tax credits were generated by 77 productions in 2011, including movies, television shows, commercials and documentaries.
Among the movies shot in Massachusetts in 2011 were "Ted," starring Boston native Mark Wahlberg; the Sarah Jessica Parker flick "I Don't Know How She Does It;" and "R.I.P.D." a story about a slain police officer joining a team of living officers to solve his own murder.
Of the nearly $175 million in new spending attributable to the tax incentives in 2011, 35 percent was paid to residents or businesses located in Massachusetts, while 65 percent was paid to residents or businesses located outside of Massachusetts.
Of the $114 million spent on wages, about 47 percent went to individuals earning more than $1 million, while about 53 percent went to those earning less.
While overall new spending generated by the films was nearly $175 million in 2011, the amount of net new spending in Massachusetts was just under $39 million, after taking into account payments to out-of-state residents and businesses, as well as state spending reductions required to fund the tax credits in order to maintain a balanced budget.
During the calendar years 2006 through 2011, the program has resulted in nearly $186 million in net new spending in the Massachusetts economy, the report added.
Supporters of the tax credits say they lure movies and television shows that would otherwise be shot elsewhere. Those productions bring with them money and jobs.
Don Packer, President of the Massachusetts Production Coalition, said the tax credits have helped boost work at his post-production facility in Boston that now employs 18 people.
"The production incentive is not only creating jobs, it's creating an industry," Packer said in a statement.
Critics, however, portray the credits as a giveaway to a deep-pocketed industry at a time when the state is cutting back spending and Gov. Deval Patrick is pushing for tax increases to pay for improvements in transportation and education.
Patrick wants to cap the tax credits at $40 million a year.
An additional 61 projects were in pre-production, production, or postproduction and were expected to have been completed before 2012's end.
Spending from projects in calendar year 2012 is estimated to be $313 million, resulting in lost tax revenue from tax credit claims of over $78 million, according to the report.
The report didn't estimate any potential economic bump the state might have received as a result of increased tourism in Massachusetts because of the movies.
The Department of Revenue said the agency didn't know of any reliable economic model to calculate that effect.
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Bruleed Pineapple Tart Recipe
This is basically an awesome, tropical crème brûlée that's reminiscent of a pina colada, in tart form.
Note: The instructions may look long and daunting when all written out, but it becomes manageable when you think about it in terms of the components: coconut pâte sucrée, pastry cream, roasted fruit. Be sure to read the recipe fully before you plan to make this tart to plan ahead and be sure that you have enough time. Assemble it immediately before serving for the perfect contrast of textures, and temperature from the brulee torch.
To avoid singeing the sides of the tart shell (as I've done in my photo), be sure to spread a fine layer of sugar around the perimeter before torching.
- Yield:serves 8
- Active time: 1 1/2 hours
- Total time:4 hours
- For Coconut Pâte Sucrée (makes enough for two tarts - use one now and freeze one for later)
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 6 ounces granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 ounces fine, unsweetened coconut flakes
- 16 ounces (about 3 1/4 cups) all purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1.2 ounces (about 2 1/2 tablespoons) heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- For Roasted Pineapple
- 1 pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2 inch rounds
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 ounce granulated sugar
- For Pastry Cream
- 4.5 ounces granulated sugar, divided
- 1 ounce corn starch
- 1 egg
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 pint (16 ounces) whole milk
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Additional granulated sugar for the brulee
Make the dough: Sift flour and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy, stopping regularly to scrape down the sides, bottom and paddle, about 8 minutes. Add the egg and yolk one at a time, and beat well between additions. Scrape one more time, then give it a good final mix on high speed. Add the coconut, mix one last time on high speed. Stop the mixer. Add the flour, salt, cream and vanilla. Mix on low until the dough comes together, about 30 seconds. Finish mixing by hand with a large rubber spatula. Divide the dough into two flat, round disks about 4-inches across. Double wrap tightly in plastic wrap and chill for at least two hours.
For the pastry cream: Dampen the surface of a sheet tray and line the bottom and sides with plastic wrap. Keep the roll of plastic wrap handy, and set aside. In a medium sized bowl, combine the starch and half the sugar and whisk together until incorporated. Add the eggs and yolks and whisk until pale yellow, about 2 minutes without stopping. Set aside. In a medium saucepan, combine half the sugar, milk, and salt and stir. Set over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Temper the egg mixture by adding the hot milk a quarter cup at a time, whisking thoroughly between additions. Pour the liquid back into the pot and whisk over low heat. Continue to whisk as the mixture thickens. Whisk through the lumps until the pastry cream becomes smooth. When it begins to bubble, whisk for two additional minutes, then remove from heat. Whisk in the butter and vanilla extract until they melt and fully incorporate. Scrape the pastry cream onto the prepared sheet and press another layer of plastic over the surface. Allow it to cool to room temperature. Transfer to the fridge to chill for at least two hours.
Shape the shell: 1 hour before baking, roll out the dough on a heavily floured surface, until it is just shy of 1/4-inch thick. Roll the dough back onto the rolling pin, then gently roll it out over the tart pan. Press the dough into the pan to shape it, then cut off the excess, leaving 1/4-inch of overhang. Chill for one hour.
Roast the pineapple: Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat the oven to 300°F. Line a sheet tray with a silicone baking mat. Brush the pineapple pieces with butter on both sides, and sprinkle them with sugar. Roast in the oven for approximately 40 minutes, turning them frequently, until they caramelize slightly on the edges. Remove from the oven, loosen gently with a spatula to ensure that they won't stick, then allow them to cool.
Bake the shell: Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat the oven to 350°F. Remove the tart shell from the fridge, trim the overhang off of the edge of the tart, patch any thin parts or cracks with excess dough. Line the tart shell with foil and fill with weights or beans. Place the tart in the center of the bottom rack of the preheated oven. Bake for 20 minutes, rotating halfway through. Remove the weights and foil, and continue to bake until the bottom is golden brown, about 15-20 additional minutes. Cool the shell completely before removing from the pan or filling.
Assemble the tart: When you're ready to serve, beat the pastry cream with the paddle attachment of a stand mixer on high speed until it is smooth and creamy. Select the 4 nicest looking pineapple rounds and set aside. Chop the rest of the pineapple rounds into 1/2 inch pieces. Line the bottom of the cooled tart shell with the pieces. Spread the whipped pastry cream over the top, so it leaves a few centimeters of room for the pineapple rounds. Press the rounds into the surface of the tart, so the pastry cream and pineapple are flat across the surface. Sprinkle with sugar all over, brulee the top so the sugar burns and caramelizes. Serve immediately.
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You've got employees to hire, a list of clients clamoring for attention and a serious problem with the ladies room on the second floor. You'd love to go back to school to enrich yourself and your business, but frankly, it'd be easier to find an extra million dollars than to find extra time in your day.
We at Entrepreneur understand your needs--you want to keep learning, but in the most efficient manner possible. So we sent our writers into virtual classrooms to find out whether online business classes are worth your time and money. What we found is that, though these classes are far less time-consuming than your typical brick-and-mortar university term, they are often valuable. To find out what subjects we tackled and who got detention in homeroom, read on.
International Etiquette
Class: Around the World in 80 Cultures
Where:www.headlight.com(Click on "Business," then "International Etiquette.")
Cost: $99.95
Duration: two to four hours
We technology writers aren't known for our stunning social skills. I'm more likely to write HTML than practice my business etiquette. That's why a virtual class sounds great: I take it on the Internet . . . any time I want to. My virtual class went into (literally) foreign territory for me: "Around the World in 80 Cultures." Business etiquette. Worldwide. Time for a tech hermit to learn some social graces.
Headlight.com was the home of this country-hopping excursion. Headlight acts a lot like a library, collecting business courses created by other providers and organizing them into categories. It also offers features for managers and business owners. You can build and keep team profiles for your employees and check their course progress and transcripts.
Signing up was quick and painless. SkillSoft Corp. (www.skillsoft.com), a developer of technology-based educational products, created the class, but everything is handled through Headlight. Included in the sign-up fee is access to the course for one year. Assigning courses to a team? You'll have to buy the course for each person.
After hitting the "Start" button, I got a course overview. The SkillSoft Course Player interface acts a lot like a regular Web page. You can also take mastery pretests that allow for an accelerated course that skips what you know. This is handy for busy business owners, but I went in for the full experience.
The course spans four sections: "Cultural Roots," "Cultural Mindsets," "Louder Than Words" and "Intercultural Business Protocols." The best parts of the class dealt with real-world situations. Did you know the Zulus have 39 words for green? That you shouldn't send yellow flowers to a European business-woman? (Yellow suggests she's been unfaithful.) That gifts given to Asians should be wrapped in red, not white? (White means bad luck.)
The majority of "Around the World in 80 Cultures" deals with Asian, Arab and Eastern European customs. There were a lot of textbook-style terms, such as "Linear-Active" culture versus "Multi-Active" culture, and short pop quizzes at the end of each section. Dialogues between imaginary businesspeople and a role-playing section livened things up a bit, one advantage a virtual class has over a textbook. As predicted, I spent one hour per day over three days--probably the shortest class I've ever taken.
"Around the World in 80 Cultures" isn't a comprehensive guide to international business protocol, but it's a solid primer. If you're taking a trip abroad or expecting to receive foreign business-people, the information on face-to-face encounters and decision-making styles will come in handy. It didn't turn me into a social business butterfly, but I'll know not to blow my nose in public if I ever go to Japan.
-Amanda C. Kooser
Time Management
Class: It's About Time!: Managing Your Time Effectively
Where: www.smartplanet.com (in the "Career & Business" section)
Cost: $19.95, but you get one complimentary class when you sign up for free membership at SmartPlanet.
Duration: about 40 minutes
It's panic time, right? "I'm late on this contract proposal, I have a million things to do, the phone won't stop ringing, and I'm going to pull my hair out." If this is you, SmartPlanet.com's time-management course might help.
As a card-carrying procrastinator, I was the poster child for misusing time. I would get bogged down in the tiny details of my daily duties and postpone the big, important ones--precisely because they were really big and important and therefore seemed insurmountable. In short, I was the perfect test case for a class like this: If it could modify my habits, it could help anyone.
Because books, college extension courses and seminars overflow with time-management advice, I didn't know whether SmartPlanet would offer anything new: It does. The class is broken up into 13 sections, each designed to tackle the causes and effects of time waste. The final section even has nifty printable organization lists (to-do list, master list, task-tracking sheet, etc.)
The course begins with a self-assessment quiz to determine how well you manage time (I rated a whopping 30 out of a possible 100). Learning my problem areas was good, as was discovering the causes. For example, I realized I suffered from a lack of planning. Most likely cause? I'd been successful without planning, so I subconsciously decided to launch projects without adequate preparation. The course showed me how to change that.
Other workshops might advise, "Make a calendar," but this course shows how to prioritize tasks, break big projects into smaller ones and plot them on a calendar. It even advised how to choose the right calendar: Is it big enough? Can I carry it around? I found this helpful as a writer who faces deadlines daily.
Because the course is relatively short, it was manageable and easy to fit into an already-packed schedule. At points, however, it felt more like a good PowerPoint presentation than a class. But the format seemed to fit the subject matter--after all, I was studying time management, not quantum physics. And I found the exercises particularly helpful--they forced me to take a specific problem I was facing and break it down using steps I'd been taught. In this area, you'll get out of it as much as you put in.
Dealing with distractions was one area of the class I found lacking. It advised "closing your door" to keep voices, co-workers and fax-machine noise at bay. This won't help cubicle dwellers or those who share a single, tight space.
Still, the class will be valuable to inveterate procrastinators and people who overextend themselves (like me) who stare at the clock at the end of the day wondering where the time went. One of my favorite sections tells you how to say no to more work: "Guilt is not fatal," it reads, "and you'll become more comfortable saying no with practice."
Overall, this class is a good value; its length isn't intimidating, and the cost won't break the bank.
-Nichole L. Torres
Marketing Skills
Class: Marketing Fundamentals
Where: www.online.nu.edu
Cost: $825 plus $60 application fee
Duration: eight weeks
Breaking ranks with my fellow writers, I decided to take a longer, eight-week class called Marketing Fundamentals. A theory course, it not only defines the different marketing types but also explains how marketing works within society and your business. The class is offered through National University, a San Diego-based, private, nonprofit, accredited university, and is facilitated by eCollege, which provides virtual-education technology to institutions.
Registration is somewhat involved and should be completed at least one month prior to your start. Enrollees are billed two weeks before the first day, and tuition must be paid before your first "meeting," or you'll pay a late fee.
Once enrolled, you need to purchase the textbook for the class. Just check the syllabus, then e-mail or call the school to order. It will be shipped to you.
Unlike other virtual classes that allow you to go at your own pace, Marketing Fundamentals is structured with set start and end dates, and it's no cakewalk: A syllabus, homework, a final exam and grades are all administered by an instructor. To successfully complete a longer course like this one, don't try to do the work during business hours. Carve out at least one hour each day of uninterrupted time to devote to it.
While you're more than welcome to read ahead in the textbook and online, the assignments for this class are only available sequentially at regular intervals. The course content is a combination of online reading and discussion, and offline textbook work and research.
What I liked best about the course were the threaded discussions: The instructor posted assignments, and students responded to them and to each other. Students sometimes even worked in virtual teams to complete assignments.
Each week, a different topic was covered, ranging from marketing's role in the global economy and various market segmentation opportunities to new-product development. Even pricing--a perennial head-scratcher for many--was discussed. That section explained things like product/service value that go into determining what to charge. While the online discussion didn't provide how-to instructions, it did give a framework to help you set pricing structures.
Obviously, this is no get-it-and-run course. It takes time, commitment and concentration to complete and is best suited to those who care about the why of marketing as well as the how-to.
-Cynthia E. Griffin
A look at the biggest names in virtual business courses
By Amanda C. Kooser
- Blackboard: Blackboard.com contains thousands of courses in categories ranging from "Higher Education" to "Corporate Training." Instructors use Blackboard to put their own courses online.
- CyberCampus: CyberCampus is provided through Golden Gate University (www.ggu.edu) and offers degrees and professional certificates. Online interaction with instructors and other students gives CyberCampus some of the aspects of a more traditional university environment.
- Headlight: Headlight specializes in business and technology courses and allows an employer to create a team profile and monitor employees' course progress. Some courses are free.
- Learn.com: Learn.com features a broad range of course topics, including Arabic, journalism and the Internet. Like Headlight, some courses are offered free of charge.
- SmartPlanet: SmartPlanet offers over 700 courses covering a variety of subjects. Some are taken on demand, while others are scheduled, instructor-led classes. Learning Advisers can help you select courses.


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Scott – What does the European Council do? How do the nations overcome their language and cultural barriers?
This is what we learned today at the European Council. The Council is not far from our hotel, but we still took the metro. It was a good time, and we were able to sit in the actual rooms where policy decisions are made daily in the European Union. I sat in Italy's chair, as they are my "country of interest" so far through this course.
The most interesting part of the Council was hearing our presenter talk about the issues in a non-official way. We have had some great presenters so far, but all have been in official positions. This was just a reporter from the Netherlands, who's favorite memory of working for the Council was when George W. Bush came to speak. His opinions and stances were genuine, and that was neat to experience from a true "European".
Today we also visited Waterloo. The students had to plan the trip, so that made it fun. But I am writing this blog soaked because apparently we aren't very good planners! It was raining the whole time, and then it started pouring. We had a five minute walk to the bus stop, and everyone got drenched. It was neat to see the Lion and the battlefield though so it was worth it.
This has been a great trip. I have learned a lot, but not just about the European Union. I have learned a new way of life, experienced another part of the world. For that I am and will be eternally grateful. In the words of Dr. Mikek: "thank you Rogge Fund"!
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American Technion Society [NEW YORK] announced it has hired Michael Waxman-Lenz as Senior Vice President, Finance. Before joining the ATS, Mr. Waxman-Lenz was most recently at Undertone, a subsidiary of Perion, based in New York and Tel Aviv, serving as CFO. Prior to Perion, Mr. Waxman-Lenz co-founded International Education Advantage. He also served at American Greetings Corporation for a decade in various executive capacities.
SugarCRM® Inc. [CUPERTINO, CA] announced that Karen Willem has joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO). Willem joins SugarCRM from LILEE Systems, where she was CFO. Prior to LILEE, Willem also served as the CFO at iPass, and Xsigo Systems. Willem has also held executive positions at Openwave Systems, Cassatt Corporation and Brio Software.
The Charles Schwab Corporation [SAN FRANCISCO] (NYSE: SCHW) announced that Peter Crawford, Schwab's executive vice president of finance and a 16-year veteran of the company, will succeed Joseph R. Martinetto as the company's chief financial officer. Mr. Crawford was appointed executive vice president of finance in July 2015. He joined Schwab in 2001 after serving at McKinsey & Company, where he was an engagement manager. He also served as chief of staff to Chairman Charles Schwab.
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida [STUART, Fla.] (NASDAQ: SBCF) announced that Charles M. (Chuck) Shaffer, executive vice president, has been appointed chief financial officer and head of strategy. Shaffer joined Seacoast in 1998 as a financial analyst, has led the Community Banking Group as executive vice president since October 2013. Previously, he served as senior vice president and controller from 2005 to October 2013.
Differential Brands Group Inc. [LOS ANGELES] (NASDAQ: DFBG) announced that Bob Ross has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, replacing Hamish Sandhu. More recently, Mr. Ross served as Chief Financial Officer of Nasty Gal, Inc. Prior to that, he held the Chief Financial Officer Position at Ideeli Inc. Previously, for more than 12 years, Mr. Ross held various financial and operational executive roles at Urban Outfitters.
OptiNose [YARDLEY, Pa.] announced the appointment of Keith A. Goldan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Goldan is an experienced CFO of private and public biopharma companies including Fibrocell, NuPathe, PuriCore (now Realm Therapeutics) and Biosyn. Goldan's experience also includes a variety of roles with ViroPharma; Century Capital Associates; and the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice of KPMG.
Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. [BRISBANE, Calif.] announced the appointment of William E. Picht, Jr. as chief financial officer. Most recently, he served as chief financial officer for Pearl Therapeutics. Previously, he held finance roles at Nektar Therapeutics, including head of R&D finance. Mr. Picht also conducted finance and market analytics at Syntex.
Lilis Energy, Inc. [DENVER] (OTCQB: LLEX) announced the appointment of Joseph C. Daches as its new Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining Lilis Energy Inc., Mr. Daches held the position of CFO at Magnum Hunter Resources and was appointed Co-CEO by the new Board of Directors.
Viceroy Hotel Group [LOS ANGELES] has chosen Jeff Smith to fill the role of Chief Financial Officer. Since May 2014, Smith has served as Senior Vice President of Finance at VHG. Prior to joining VHG, he worked for Intercontinental Hotels Group, holding roles as Director of Finance and Director of FP&A for the Americas Region.
i2i Population Health [SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA] has named Cary McNamara as chief financial officer. He joins i2i from EDO Interactive. He served in the same capacity at Agilum Healthcare Intelligence. Prior to joining Agilum, Mr. McNamara was an associate at Court Square Capital. Before joining Court Square, he was at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
American Integrity [TAMPA, Fla.] announced that Cory Brown has been selected as its Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Medmal Direct Insurance Company. Cory's experience also includes his role as CFO at Total Captive Solutions. Additionally, Cory held positions with the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance in Georgia.
Trading Technologies International, Inc. [CHICAGO] announced that Michael Kraines has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining TT, Mr. Kraines spent 25 years as an investment banker. Mr. Kraines joins TT from Sandler O'Neill + Partners, as a Managing Director since 2004. Previously Mr. Kraines was a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions group with Wasserstein Perella & Co. since 1992, and prior to that he practiced as a venture capital attorney with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Art Van Furniture [WARREN, Mich.] announced that David Ladd has joined as Vice President—Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ladd joins Art Van Furniture from an executive leadership position with Sears. He started as an auditor for K-Mart and progressed throughout the Sears organization with several divisional vice president – finance roles, including home services, automotive, supply chain and corporate. Most recently, Ladd served as the vice president—finance, retail stores.
HCP [IRVINE, Calif.] (NYSE: HCP) announced that Peter Scott will join the company as Executive Vice President and CFO. Mr. Scott succeeds Tom Herzog who was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2017. Mr. Scott joins HCP following a 15-year career in real estate investment banking. He currently serves as a Managing Director in the Real Estate Banking group at Barclays. Mr. Scott also has held investment banking positions with Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers.
Boku [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Gillian Davies as Chief Financial Officer. Ms Davies joins Boku from Banner Managed Communication, part of Adare Group, where she served as interim Finance Director. Prior to this role, Ms Davies spent 11 years as Group Finance Director of London listed 4imprint Group plc.
Amendia, Inc. [MARIETTA, GA] announced the appointment of Steven F. McAllister as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Steve began his career at Howmedica, Inc. where he served in various finance, IT, and business planning leadership roles at DePuy Spine, Biomet Spine and Bone Healing, and, most recently, InVivo Therapeutics Corporation. At InVivo Therapeutics, Steve served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, Steve spent six years at Biomet as the Vice President of Finance and Administration for the Spine and Bone Healing Technologies division.
Business First Bancshares, Inc. [BATON ROUGE, La.] announced that Gregory Robertson has been named Chief Financial Officer of Business First Bancshares and Business First Bank. Mr. Robertson has been with Business First over 5 years and brings more than 20 years of diverse experience in commercial and retail banking, serving most recently as the bank's chief banking officer.
StoneMor Partners L.P. [TREVOSE, Pa.] (NYSE: STON) announced that Sean P. McGrath resigned as Chief Financial Officer.
Black Box Corporation [PITTSBURGH] (NASDAQ: BBOX) announced that Anthony J. Massetti has informed the Company of his decision to resign as its Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.
Minerals Technologies Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: MTX) announced that it has elected Matthew E. Garth Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasury, and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Garth will become an officer of the company and a member of the executive management committee. Mr. Garth joins Minerals Technologies from Arconic Inc. Over a 14-year period at Alcoa, Mr. Garth held various positions of increasing responsibility, including Chief Financial Officer. His most recent position at Arconic was Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis and Investor Relations. In 2010 and 2011, Mr. Garth served as Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer for Alcoa's North American Rolled Products business. From 2011 to 2013, he was Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer of Alcoa Global Packaging. Earlier in his career, he worked at Thomson Financial in New York.
Aurora Spine Corporation [CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA] (TSX VENTURE: ASG) announced the appointment of Sarina Mason as their Chief Financial Officer. She replaces Former CFO Eric Fronk, who has resigned from the Company. Prior to joining Aurora Spine, Ms. Mason was Director of Accounting & Finance at International Stem Cell Corp. Ms. Mason began her career with Ernst and Young.
Independence Health Group [PHILADELPHIA, PA] announced the appointment of Gregory E. Deavens as chief financial officer. Deavens succeeds Alan Krigstein who served as executive vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer for IHG. Deavens was previously employed by MassMutual Financial Group from 2006 to 2016, where he most recently served as the company's senior vice president and corporate controller. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for MassMutual's U.S. Insurance Group. His earlier experience includes financial leadership roles with New York Life Insurance Company, CIGNA, GE Capital, and PriceWaterhouse. Deavens currently serves on the board of directors for Hartford Healthcare. He is also a board member for The Executive Leadership Council and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture.
MonoSol Rx [WARREN, N.J.] announced the appointment of John T. Maxwell as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining MonoSol Rx, Mr. Maxwell served as Chief Financial Officer of WIL Research Company from 2008 until its sale to Charles River Laboratories in April 2016. From 2000-2006, he served as SVP-Finance & Administration at PanAmSat. Mr. Maxwell began his career at Ernst & Young where he spent two of his seven years in the National / New York technical accounting office.


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David B. Sachsman holds the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the rank of Professor. He came to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in August 1991 from California State University, Fullerton, where he had served as Dean and Professor of the School of Communications. Previously, he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers University.
Dr. Sachsman is the director of the annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which he and S. Kittrell Rushing founded in 1993. Dr. Sachsman is an editor of The Civil War and the Press, a book of readings drawn from the first five conferences, published by Transaction Publishers in 2000. In 2005, Dr. Sachsman, Dr. Rushing, and author and editor Roy Morris Jr. proposed a three-book series based on conference papers to Purdue University Press. The first book in the series, Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film, which was published by Purdue University Press in July 2007, was nominated for the Lincoln Prize and exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The second book in the series, Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism, was published in 2008. The third book, Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press was published in 2009. Transaction Publishers published Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting in 2013 and A Press Divided: Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War in 2014.
Dr. Sachsman also is known for his research and scholarly activities in environmental communication and environmental risk reporting and for the three editions of Media: An Introductory Analysis of American Mass Communications (which he wrote with Peter M. Sandman and David M. Rubin). A journalist by trade, Dr. Sachsman also has written about the suburban press. Three of his books and a series of articles have won statewide awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2005 Dr. Sachsman headed the team appointed to evaluate the U.S. Agency for International Development's environmental education and communication efforts in more than thirty countries across twelve years.
Dr. Sachsman has been involved – mostly as a principal investigator – in a number of large research projects sponsored by institutions such as the Hazardous Substance Management Research Center in New Jersey, the California Department of Transportation, and the California Department of Health and Human Services. These projects have received grants and contracts totaling more than $840,000. In 2000, he rejoined his former Rutgers teammates to work on the third edition of The Reporter's Environmental Handbook, which was published by Rutgers University Press in 2003. Dr. Sachsman is engaged in a research project on environmental reporters with Dr. JoAnn Valenti, now retired from Brigham Young University, and Dr. James Simon of Fairfield University. They have written five articles based on this project, and their book, Environment Reporters in the 21st Century, was published by Transaction Publishers in 2010.
Dr. Sachsman received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University. He has been teaching journalism to students and professionals since 1969. In 1974, he worked for The Home News in New Brunswick, N.J. as a copy editor and informal writing coach. In the same year, he served as an educational consultant to the Mass Communications Department at Clark College in Atlanta. From 1996 to 1998, he was a news consultant and writing coach for WRCB-TV in Chattanooga. In 1998, he received the Yale Daily News' Braestrup Fellowship and gave two presentations on journalism ethics at Yale University. In 2003, he delivered the Medart Lecture (on "Mass Media and War") at Maryville University in St. Louis. Dr. Sachsman served as a Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar in 1978-79 in Nigeria, where he helped plan for the development of one of the first mass communication graduate degrees in West Africa. He was elected president of the New Jersey Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1981 and served two terms, specializing in continuing education programs for journalists. Dr. Sachsman is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. He serves on the editorial board of SEJournal, and was co-chair of SEJ's annual meeting in 1998 and again in 2013 in Chattanooga. In 2013, Transaction Publishers named Dr. Sachsman founding editor of its new journalism series.


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Geysers of the World
Geysers of Yellowstone
Aurum Geyser
Feature Type: Geyser
Geyser/Spring Type: Cone geyser
Upper Geyser Basin
Geyser Hill
Aurum is a beautiful cone-type geyser. The height varies from 15-25 feet, the duration is about 90 seconds and the interval can be from less than 3 hours to many hours. During some periods, Aurum is very regular and predictable. At other times its intervals are erratic and often long. One theory is that Aurum is affected by the surface water in the meadow behind the geyser. Observations seem to indicate that when the meadow is wet and marshy, Aurum's intervals are fairly regular and usually short, about 2-4 hours. When the meadow is dry, the intervals are often erratic and anywhere from 4 hours to more than 12 hours. The meadow is usually wet in the Spring, early Summer and late Fall when there is plentiful rain and snow. In the late Summer and early Fall, the meadow is usually dry unless there has been a recent heavy rainstorm.
On a few rare occasions, Aurum has been observed to have a series of two eruptions. In these cases, the second eruption followed the first by 5-10 minutes and was of slightly shorter duration.
Aurum is a fun geyser to watch. It is close enough to the boardwalk that during a strong eruption, its angled plume can travel over and past the boardwalk. The water, after its flight through the air to the boardwalk, is warm but not scalding, so don't be too alarmed.
What to look for:
After an eruption, Aurum is quiet. Activity increases as the next eruption approaches. First splashing becomes visible in the vent. The splashing varies in intensity but as time progresses the overall splashing and intensity increases. As the eruption gets close, the splashing and boiling becomes almost continuous and will often have short surges to one to two feet high. A half hour or more before the eruption, two small side vents to the right of the main vent also start splashing. Then, as the geyser gets even closer to erupting, a crack in the sinter between the two side vents and the boardwalk starts to bubble and surge a little. At this point, with the main vent boiling almost constantly and surging periodically to a foot or two, with the two side vents splashing and with the small crack gurgling, one of two things can happen. If the geyser is being regular, there will probably be an eruption within the next 30 minutes. If the geyser is being irregular, this type of activity may continue for 4 or more hours. To judge what is going to happen, it is best to know what the recent intervals have been and if it has been regular. If you don't know this or even if you do, you should look at the meadow behind the geyser. If it is wet, with standing water, then the interval will likely be short and the geyser probably will erupt relatively soon. If it is dry, then be prepared for a long wait.
Electronic Monitor Files
Aurum eruptions for 1997.txt
Aurum eruptions for 1998.txt
Aurum eruptions for 1999.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2000.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2001.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2002.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2003.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2004.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2005.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2006.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2007.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2008.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2009.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2010.txt
Aurum eruptions for 2011.txt
Some of the temperature data used to derive the eruption times and durations used in this section were collected by Ralph Taylor under a National Park Service research permit, and the remainder was collected by personnel working for the Geology Department of the Yellowstone Center for Resources (including Ralph Taylor). The loggers are a combination of loggers owned by the NPS and Ralph Taylor. Analysis of the raw temperature data to extract the eruption data was performed by Ralph Taylor. The eruption time files on this website may be used provided that Yellowstone National Park is credited for the temperature data and Ralph Taylor is credited for the eruption times.
Activity Recorded by Data Logger - by Ralph Taylor
Aurum Geyser has been monitored electronically since 1997. Data from 1997 to mid-2003 covers only the summer months, generally from late June to early October, but since the mid-2003 the record is nearly complete. It took some experimentation to locate the thermistor for Aurum to catch all of the eruptions (the wind can blow the water column in various directions) but eventually a suitable location was found. Aurum's preplay splashing can create a substantial temperature rise which makes detecting the actual eruption challenging.
Because of the relatively long sample intervals (the earlier data sets use sample intervals of 30 seconds and more recent ones use a sample interval of 1 minute) it is not feasible to determine Aurum's durations. However, all eruptions that I am aware of last from about 55 seconds to about 70 seconds.
Aurum is unusual in that it responds to changes in weather or ground water table, or possibly both. The intervals tend to be short and regular (with mean and median intervals under 4 hours in 2005 and 2006) in the winter months, and long and highly variable (mean and median intervals approaching 8 hours and maximum intervals of 18 to 24 hours) in dry summer months. In the time for which year-round data is available the eruption intervals begin rising in early spring but the shift to what has been called "summer mode" is most dramatic in June. The minimum intervals remain at the 4 hour level except in July-September but the trend is clearly to long intervals. In 2007, a year with a low snowpack, Aurum changed to "summer mode" in late April. In 2008 the switch to longer intervals occurred much later, possibly because of the heavy snowpack. The change to "summer mode" in 2008 began on 13 June, and by 17 June intervals in excess of six hours were common. By 29 June an interval of nearly 12 hours has been recorded. In 2009, the change to "summer mode" occurred in two periods; from 15 May to 1 June and then from 16 June to early October. In 2010, the change to "summer mode" occurred in mid-June (the first interval over 6h was on 14 June) and the switch to "winter mode" occurred about 11 November.
Activity in 2011
The overall eruption interval statistics for Aurum Geyser in 2011 are shown at
Aurum Geyser 2011 Statistics.
A pdf of this summary is available at
Aurum Geyser Recent Activity Summary.
The interval graph to the right shows all of the intervals for the current year. The graphs for the current year are updated about every six weeks from October to June and weekly from June to the end of September.
The yellow diamonds show the eruption start times for Little Squirt Geyser. The Little Squirt eruption times are used as a surrogate for the so-called SMax (South [Geyser Hill] water level MAXimum), which is thought to represent a cyclic change in the hydrothermal energy on Geyser Hill. This hypothesis is described in an article in GOSA Transactions Volume IV titled Cyclic Hot Spring Activity on Geyser Hill, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park—Graphical and Interpretive Descriptions of the Geyser Hill Wave, Diurnal Effects, Seasonal Disturbances, Random (Chaotic?) Events, and Earthquakes by T. Scott Bryan.
The orange triangle denotes the start of eruptions of Dome Geyser which also is related to changes in activity in some features on Geyser Hill.
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The next graph shows the intervals for the past few months at an expanded time scale. Again, the yellow diamonds represent eruptions of Little Squirt and the orange diamond represents the initial eruption of a series of Dome Geyser.
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The third graph shows the activity for the month previous to the last download.
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The next graph is a histogram of the distribution of intervals. Note that in this and the other histograms displayed here the labels shown on the X-axis represent the upper boundary of the class, not the midpoint. Geyser times are traditionally truncated. The graph at the right has class widths of 15 minutes. The bar appearing above the label "3:30," for example, contains intervals from 3h16m through 3h30m.
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The final graph is the monthly maximum, mean, median, and minimum intervals.
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Activity since 1997
Aurum's activity has been monitored only in the summer months for much of the time, so the full cycle is not shown on the graphs. The first graph shows all of the intervals recorded since 1997. The most notable change is in the maximum intervals--in 1998 and 1999 the intervals remained below 6h00m almost entirely. By 2000 the summer maximum intervals began to increase, and by 2002 intervals in excess of 9h00m were common. In 2003 there were numerous intervals over 9h00m. Since the beginning of 2004 there have been very few intervals below 3h00m.
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Once the year-round monitoring began in 2003 the pattern of summer long intervals and winter short intervals becomes more clear. The pattern shows up more clearly in the moving one-day median interval graph. In the summer of 2005 and 2006 the daily median intervals were in excess of nine hours for several weeks.
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The final graph shows the monthly minimum, mean, median, and maximum intervals for all of the data available. This gives another view of the changes over the past decade.
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Activity in 2009
Activity in 2008
Activity in 2007
Activity in 2006
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Most of us don't really have much control in the world," says Judah Nagler, lead singer of Santa Rosa foursome the Velvet Teen. "Most of the time, it's hard to tell what's even going on, although WikiLeaks is helping out."
We're speaking on the phone about the band's new four-track EP, No Star, as Nagler ruminates about the mythological figures—Apollo, Artemis, a demon, a seer—that appear in his lyrics. "In mythology," he says, "gods often refer to the people who run the world, or at least have more control over the world."
It's hard to think about powerlessness in the context of No Star. Despite its short length (just over 14 minutes), the record sweeps cinematically over burning bridges and crashing waves; forests and harvest-ready fields; guns, bones, deities and even Ivan Pavlov's infamous bells. Musically, it's a supernova blast of pounding drums, clashing cymbals, racing guitars, tempo shifts and Nagler's high voice rising at times to a near-shout. With the EP's titan-sized sound and imagery, pre-WikiLeaks fallibility is hardly the first thing one notices.
While this adrenaline shot could be overwhelming in some hands, No Star is both exhilarating and welcome, partly because it's the Velvet Teen's first release in four years. After the band recorded the experimental, distortion-heavy Cum Laude in 2006, manager Jordan Kurland—who'd put them on tour with Death Cab for Cutie—waved goodbye. Later that year, bassist Josh Staples took a hiatus to focus on his other band, the New Trust, and former drummer Logan Whitehurst, who had already left the band and been replaced by Casey Deitz, died of brain cancer. Finally, their longtime label Slowdance Records closed its doors. "We worked on some stuff then," Nagler says of the tumultuous time, "but it was hard to get stuff rolling, hard to get the momentum back."
Last year, however, Staples rejoined the band, reinvigorating it as a foursome with the earlier addition of guitarist Matthew Izen. "We wrote a few songs then," Staples says, "but we were never happy with the arrangements." When they were invited to tour Japan in October of this year, they had what he calls a "catalyst."
"We'd been to Japan about four times before this last trip," Staples says. "Something about the cinematic quality of our music really appealed to Japanese audiences before, but our music has changed a lot since we first made an album that appealed to Japanese kids." They quickly recorded No Star to sell in Japan on CD, released it digitally in November and will have vinyl copies at this week's release show Jan. 7 at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco.
Though No Star may sound like a war cry on first listen, it is, at least in part, a collection about defeat. In "Fofor," bass riffs and cymbal crashes clang like a battle march, but Nagler subverts the winner-loser paradigm with his final lines. "If there ever was a time to stand up rather than fall in line," he sings, "it is forever, forever will we find this mutiny at home." Ode-to-conditioning "Pavlovian Bell" slyly states, "Kill your neighbor, lock you away for bad behavior - Kill a million meet heads of state." Though some parts may resemble a declaration of war, there's really no tangible enemy in No Star—or perhaps too many to count.
"I do feel powerless in most situations, in a lot of ways," Nagler says. "I was watching No Country For Old Men and this one line really struck me. It's when the dude is waiting in the bedroom for the main character's wife, and he tosses a coin and tells her to call it, and she's like, 'No, I'm not going to call it, I'm not going to choose,' and he says something like 'The coin and myself came here the same way.' That would probably sum it up."
Nagler furthers this idea in our interview. "I think people with power function with the same rules as us," he says. "We think they're born into it, born into better situations and better control over circumstances, but really they're subject to the mechanisms that are in place all over the globe as a society generations deep into the industrial age."
It's hardly a new idea from a band that has skewered the politics of everything from school budgets to the Sundance Film Festival. Their earlier work echoes throughout the new EP in other ways as well; "No Star," the most whimsical and upbeat of the collection, sounds like a distant cousin of "Caspian Can Wait." Throughout the tracks, the group adds electronic flourishes to the ethereal, hook-based melodies prevalent on their first two albums, Out of the Fierce Parade and Elysium. "A lot of the EP reminds me of an even combination of the electronic craziness [of Cum Laude] but definitely with some more simple pop arrangements," says Staples.
Both Staples and Nagler, however, can't exactly say what makes No Star the way it is. "I don't really think it was conscious," Staples admits, of any stylistic and lyrical changes and continuities. "It's always just kind of based around what Judah's writing." Nagler, meanwhile, is just as enigmatic. "I always try to be intentionally kind of vague," he says toward the end of our interview. "I try to put in as much as I leave out."
The Velvet Teen play a record-release show for 'No Star' on Friday, Jan. 7, at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. 1233 17th St., San Francisco. 10pm. $10&–$12. 415.626.4455.


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Tompkins Cortland offers courses in the spring, fall, and summer of each calendar year. The College offers traditional full-semester courses in the fall and spring, as well as three iterations of five-week courses and two iterations of 7½-week courses in the fall and spring. The summer session offers two five-week sessions, one eight-week evening session, and a 10-week session. NOTE: Summer session offerings often overlap. In addition to important session dates, the Academic Calendar also lists official College breaks and significant ceremonies.


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As expected Roger Huerta (21-4-1 MMA, 1-1 BFC) has replaced injured Pat Curran (12-3 MMA, 3-0 BFC) and meets Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez (20-2 MMA, 4-0 BFC) in a non-title fight at Bellator 33.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) first reported the bout, and Bellator executives made it official during Thursday's season-three-opening Bellator 24 broadcast.
Although Bellator previously announced the event would take place at the Kansas City Power & Light District in Missouri, officials are now considering a move to a venue near Alvarez's Philadelphia home.
Bellator 33 takes place Oct. 21, and the fight – arguably the most marketable in the organization's history – is expected to serve as the headliner.
Curran, who won a second-season tourney to meet season-one winner and champ Alvarez, was forced out of the season-three title fight due to a shoulder injury. However, Curran, who upset Huerta in the semis, is likely to get his title shot in early 2011.
Huerta, one of the sport's biggest stars and the first-ever MMA fighter featured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated," now has lost three of his past four fights since opening his career with a stellar 20-1-1 mark. In addition to Curran, the losses came to notables Kenny Florian (unanimous decision) and Gray Maynard (close split decision). The lone victory in that span came over then-undefeated Chad Hinton in their Bellator tourney-opening bout.
Recently, he was something of an Internet sensation when a video of Huerta showed him knocking out a man (believed to be a former University of Texas football player) who had struck a woman outside an Austin bar. Despite MMA's effort to curb outside-the-cage violence among pro fighters, Huerta largely was praised for his actions, though a representative from the Austin Police Department told MMAjunkie.com the matter is under investigation.
Alvarez, meanwhile, enters the bout with a five-fight win streak and 10 victories in his past 11 fights. Eight of the 10 wins came via stoppage, including submission wins over Greg Loughran, Eric Reynolds and Toby Imada in the season-one tourney and Josh Neer in a season-two non-title fight. The tourney run and Alvarez's accomplishments in the Japanese-based DREAM organization have given him solid footing in the world's top-10 lightweight rankings.
For more on Bellator 33, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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December 24, 2010 - 10:46pm
Seasons Greatings
I just wanted to wish Seasons Blessings to everyone on the board.
I love Christmas, it somehow brings out the best in people.
Here are wishes for a fabulous holiday and a fantastic New Year.
I hope you are surrounded by family and friends, that there is plenty of food and drink and love.


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Frank Yallop, Chicago Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer
On how he felt entering the match
"Confident, you know, we have not lost in two matches and I always look at the positive if I can, and you know we haven't lost in three, that's the way I look at it. We haven't won a game yet this season but again, it's not easy to win games, especially away from home in this league so we are looking forward to playing at home next weekend and hopefully we can get that in."
Sean Johnson, Chicago Fire Goalkeeper
On the team's defensive effort:
"I thought it was good, to be fair. I thought it was just a bit unfortunate. The second goal there was a bit of pinball action around. They got good forcing and I thought we had some similar situations where we had the ball in their box and things didn't really fall our way, but that's just the way it goes, that's soccer for you. I think we've done well and at the end of the day we've got to look at it. We got a point. We came in and I think we deserved three. We played well enough to get three, but it is just up to us to really push over that hump and turn the ties into wins."
On the tough field conditions:
"It's alright, I mean it's part of the game. We train in Chicago – it's been snowy, it's been rainy, it's been cold, so the conditions we are used to. You know, so it's nothing we don't see on a regular basis. The conditions were tough, but at the end of the day, we are professionals, it's what we signed up for and we deal with it."
Quincy Amarikwa, Chicago Fire Forward
On having three consecutive draws
"It's the third straight game we got points, I mean that's how you got to look at it. Not dropping points, especially on the road, is huge in this league. If you look at teams that make the playoffs on a regular basis, they don't lose, they at least get a draw or a win and you know that's how it goes. And if we can come away with points every single time on the road, I will take them."
On the difficult conditions
"You know, whenever it is raining like that it can get a little slick and hard to control the ball at times. You saw that last play; Pat played a good ball in behind that took a touch, on a regular field that holds up, for me today, it skips away. Just the elements you've got to deal with, and hopefully it starts clearing up everywhere across the league because everywhere we've been, the elements haven't been too kind to us."
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Frank Yallop, Chicago Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer


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