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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Four traders have won a case for wrongful dismissal against Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), which had accused them of violating company policy by inappropriately communicating with other traders at the bank over the setting of interbank lending rates.
The four were responsible for setting Euribor and Libor interbank rates and their dismissal in February came amid a broader inquest into interbank rates. Three banks have been fined for manipulating Libor, a larger counterpart to Euribor, and investigations are continuing into the matter.
Rates such as Euribor and Libor are hugely important in financial markets, not just as key gauges of how much banks pay to borrow from their peers but also to set prices for financial products from mortgages to complex derivatives.
Announcing her ruling relating to the ex-Deutsche Bank traders on Wednesday, presiding judge Annika Gey told a Frankfurt labor court: "The termination was out of proportion".
She ordered Deutsche to reinstate the traders and pay them their salaries for the period since they were fired in February. The traders' lawyer said they did not wish to be named.
Deutsche Bank said in a statement: "We regret the court's decision and believe our action in this matter was justifiable .. . We wait for the written judgement and will then decide whether we will appeal the decision."
The bank had fired five Frankfurt-based traders suspected of inappropriate conduct following an internal investigation into possible manipulation of the Europe Interbank Offered Rate or Euribor. One had already reached a settlement with Deutsche Bank.
Deutsche had told the Frankfurt Labor court it had fired the five after discovering some staff appeared to have shown a willingness to consider the bank's own trading positions when they submitted their estimates for the Euribor and Libor rates.
But the traders said they were not aware of a ban prohibiting them from talking to other trading desks about interbank lending matters.
Deutsche's own trading positions at other desks within the bank could increase or decrease in value depending on what kind of interbank lending rate was determined by the money markets team.
Deutsche's lawyers told the court it was forbidden to discuss Euribor and Libor submissions with derivative dealers and said the traders should have submitted estimates for interbank lending rates in a manner which was totally objective.
German financial regulator BaFin and other regulators are investigating Deutsche Bank over allegations it helped manipulate benchmark interest rates such as Libor and Euribor. As part of its probe, BaFin had been focusing on organizational issues. It has said that a key question was whether banks reacted quickly enough once the Libor problems became known, and whether they reached the right conclusions.
The traders said they believed Deutsche had appeared to condone collaboration between different parts of the trading desk when it imported to Frankfurt a "short-term interest-rate trading" seating arrangement used in Asia, whereby money-market traders, swaps traders and derivative traders sat in close proximity.
The traders, speaking through their lawyer, said their discussions did not amount to collusion or manipulation so much as "an exchange of opinion about the state of the market."
One of the traders said it was impossible to be completely objective about submitting an inter-bank lending rate if you were also aware the bank held a trading position that could be influenced by a change in the direction of the benchmark rate.
"You cannot take this position out of your head. It is extremely important to know what the demand is like in the market," he said in court.
The judge said Deutsche had failed stop these interactions with specific guidelines or sanctions or make sufficiently clear that this was inappropriate behavior.
"At the time these contested communications occurred, Deutsche Bank had not implemented clear rules or controls to ensure a strict separation between submitters and derivatives traders," the judge said.
Furthermore, the court said Deutsche had operated a system with substantial conflicts of interest, since one trader who made a submission for interbank lending rates was also a derivatives trader.
The traders, speaking through their lawyer, told the court that both money market traders and derivatives traders were included on common e-mail exchanges which had up to 70 recipients. Traders from both groups were on common conference and video calls, they said.
On discovering signs of what it viewed as misconduct, Deutsche Bank had also failed to issue a formal warning to the traders and therefore to fire them at a later point was too severe, the judge said.
The traders, who appeared in court wearing dark blue and charcoal colored suits, said Deutsche had begun analyzing messages between traders in 2011 but had only fired the Frankfurt team in 2013.
The traders' lawyer said he was satisfied with the ruling.
Deutsche was among more than 40 banks contributing to setting Euribor. Deutsche Bank changed its rules about Libor submissions in March 2012, and its rules on Euribor in July 2012, the bank told the court.
Editing by David Holmes and Alexander Smith


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Corolla has been a favorite of Canadian drivers for decades, and that history is destined to repeat with the 2018 Corolla. It features a stylish front end and a premium interior that blends high tech with high style. The 2018 Corolla offers a standard cutting edge safety innovations, dynamic handling, and remarkable fuel efficiency to ensure that every ride is as memorable as the last. The 2018 Corolla – driving never felt so right.
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HOLLAND - Seventy Hope College seniors have been awarded monogrammed blankets for their participation in athletics at Hope.
The orange and blue "H" blankets are presented to seniors who earned at least three varsity letters while at Hope. One of the varsity letters must have been earned during the student's senior year.
The students will be honored during a reception on campus on Monday, April 30.
The recipients are:
Kendall A. Aliber, Birmingham, soccer
Carlie Annessa, Mandevilla, La, Swimming
Holly R. Beckerman, Carmel, Ind., cross country, track & field
Rebecca E. Bosserd, Sparta, basketball
Kimberly A. Brandes, Hillsdale, volleyball
Andre G. Bravo, Chelsea, swimming
Jacob J. Cook, Wyoming, swimming
Derek R. Cooper, Hudsonville, football
Stephen T. Cramer, Unionville, basketball (captain)
Erin E. Dargis, Geneva, Ill., soccer
Kurtis J. DeHorn, Allendale, baseball
Sarah Y. Diekevers, Jenison, swimming (captain)
Matthew J. Erb, Middleville, football (captain)
Sanders A. Frye IV, Harbor Springs, cross country, track & field
Abram R. Glas, Kalamazoo, swimming
Nathaniel T. Golomb, Schoolcraft, golf (captain)
Jordan S. Goorhouse, Caledonia, soccer
Kim K. Harrison, Mason, golf
Cayla B. Henn, Dousman, Wis., cross country, track & field
Karl W. Hoesch, Zeeland, swimming (captain)
Amber J. Hoezee, Jenison, volleyball (captain)
Jeffrey W. Holtman, Rochester Hills, swimming (captain)
Jacob P. Holton, Chelsea, swimming (captain)
Amanda G. Huck, Fowlerville, cross country (captain)
Zachary J. Huizing, Grand Rapids, football
Brett R. Jager, Kalamazoo, basketball (captain)
Sarah E. Jurik, Cadillac, basketball (captain)
Aaron W. Kenemer, Zeeland, cross country (captain), track & field (captain)
Denay M. Kippley, Holland, cross country, track & field
Leah B. Koopmans, Holland, cross country, track & field
Elizabeth J. Kreuze, Kalamazoo, track & field
Scott E. Langille, Glen Ellyn, Ill., track & field
Jeffrey D. Layman, Holland, cross country, track & field
Ashley K. Leary, Naperville, Ill., tennis (captain)
Ronald J. Lindow, Allen Park, swimming
William J. Lutke, West Olive, baseball (captain)
Patrick M. McMahon, Grand Rapids, soccer (captain)
Ashleigh A. McNeil, Lansing, soccer
Alison G. Mejeur, Saint Joseph, cross country (captain)
Holly N. Nestle, Belmont, soccer (captain)
Jack G. Nummerdor III, Muskegon, football
Sara E. Omanson, Naperville, Ill., cross country, track & field (captain)
Nicholas A. Oostveen, Grandville, football (captain)
Joseph R. Orr, Sterling Heights, soccer
Ashley N. O'Shaughnessey, Elk Rapids, cross country
Anthony M. Pastrick, Saint Joseph, baseball
Stephanie L. Poll, Hamilton, volleyball
Scott C. Richardson, Flint, basketball (captain)
Katie L. Robinson, Shelby Township, cross country, swimming
Michael F. Rodgers, Saline, baseball (captain)
Craig R. Root, Holland, soccer (captain)
Kevin J. Roschek, Holland, football
Bain K. Rumohr, Mason, soccer
Rachael M. Sauerman, Naperville, Ill., soccer (captain)
Barbara J. Schornstein, Shoreview, Minn., cross country, track & field
Steven A. Serrano, Holland, football
Kyle A. Smith, Ada, track & field
Lisa C. Smith, Dearborn, swimming (captain)
Holly A. Sneller, Holland, golf (captain)
Reneé N. Sommers, Zeeland, swimming
Leslie D. Tableman, Grand Rapids, cross country (captain), track & field (captain)
Ryan P. TerLouw, Pella, Iowa, cross country (captain), track & field (captain)
Deena M. Van Assen, Jenison, volleyball (captain)
Matthew S. VanBeek, Hudsonville, baseball (captain)
Jennifer A. Vander Meer, Holland, track & field (captain)
Michael J. VanderVelde, Grandville, baseball (captain)
Kyle E. Waterstone, Holland, swimming (captain), soccer
Ellen S. Wood, Naperville, Ill., basketball (captain)
Patrick J. Woolpert, Jenison, basketball
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Lions coach Jim Schwartz told us Monday that wide receiver Titus Young wouldn't be playing for the Lions again this season.
They made that official on Tuesday, but not in the manner you might assume. Young has been placed on injured reserve, according to Tim Twentyman of the Lions' website. There's no indication of what injury Young might have suffered, although he did have a knee issue earlier in the season. Even though he hasn't used that knee in weeks, we can be sure that there's absolutely no designation to return.
It's an odd move because the Lions told Young to stay away from the team two weeks ago after he allegedly lined up in the wrong place on purpose during a November 18th loss to the Packers. Young, who was given the boot from the team during the offseason after a fight with safety Louis Delmas at the team facility, rejoined the team briefly last week, but was inactive on Sunday and exiled again by Monday.
A suspension seemed more probable than injured reserve, but the end result looks like it works for everyone. They get rid of Young for the season and he gets paid without any fight about the suspension.
As previously reported, the Lions activated Kris Durham from the practice squad to add depth at wide receiver with Young and Ryan Broyles out. The team also made a change at safety, signing veteran Tyrell Johnson and releasing Erik Coleman.
Johnson, a former Vikings second rounder, was cut by the Dolphins in August. Coleman had an interception and 47 tackles in 12 games for the Lions, including seven starts.


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Michael Ward, a noted British scholar on C. S. Lewis, will present "C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and the Seven Heavens" on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 4 p.m. in room 135 of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication at Hope College.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The lecture will be based on Ward's important new book "Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis," published in December by Oxford University Press. In the book, Ward argues that medieval cosmology, a subject which fascinated Lewis throughout his life, provides the imaginative key to the seven Chronicles of Narnia.
The book affirms that the seven Narnia stories were designed to express the characteristics of the seven medieval planets--the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn--planets which Lewis described as "spiritual symbols of permanent value." Using these seven symbols, Lewis constructed the Chronicles so that the story-line and details in each book communicate its respective planetary personality.
Ward has lectured on C. S. Lewis in South Korea and Sweden as well as in Britain and numerous places in the United States. He debated Christian fiction with the atheist writer, Philip Pullman, before an audience of 800 people in Oxford in 2002. He is co-editor of two books: "Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why it Matters What Christians Believe" (2007) and the forthcoming "Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis."
Ward studied English at Oxford University and theology at Cambridge University. He received his doctorate in divinity from the University of St Andrews. He was ordained in the Anglican Church in 2004 and since then has been the Chaplain of Peterhouse, the oldest of the Cambridge colleges.
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FC&S recently received a question from a subscriber asking about liability coverage for injuries a restaurant employee suffered while on a lunch break from work. The details were a little sketchy (we don't know the state or exactly how she was injured), but the gist of the situation was that the claimant had taken a meal break from waiting tables. She paid for the meal with rewards points. During the break she was "also watching her tables" and "would get up as needed," apparently to serve them. Somehow she was injured during this time period.
The Workers' Comp carrier denied coverage on the basis that the injury did not arise out of the course and scope of the claimant's employment. The agent asked whether we thought the restaurant's Businessowners' policy should pay under the liability section.
Hey, wait a second: Are we sure Workers' Comp wouldn't apply for an injury that occurred during a meal break when the employee still was "watching her tables"?
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Workers' Comp statutes vary state by state, but many of them take the stance that injuries sustained during unpaid meal breaks are not compensable, nor are meal breaks taken away from the work premises. But most don't stop there. New York, for example, appears to be fairly strict in not paying for injuries that occur off premises (or going to/coming from the work premises) or those that occur during unpaid meal times. As the New York supreme court's appellate division stated, "lunch-time injuries are generally deemed to occur outside the scope of employment, except under limited circumstances where the employer continues to exercise authority over the employees during the lunch break." (The case is Grant v. New York City Transit Authority.) Exercising authority equaled Workers' Comp coverage in the case.
In Grant the court determined an employee who was held up at gunpoint at a deli while on her lunch break, suffering psychiatric injuries, could not be compensated under Workers' Comp. The court, in declining to allow such coverage, said there was no evidence that the employer retained authority or control over the injured employee during that time or "benefited from her going to the deli."
Keep those words in mind.
In Illinois, a night-shift supermarket employee who was injured while playing ball in the supermarket's parking lot was covered by Workers' Comp for a broken ankle. In Eagle Discount Supermarket v. The Industrial Commission, the court called upon the doctrine of personal comfort, which has been cited in cases involving meal-time injuries. Under this doctrine, the course of employment is not considered broken by certain acts related to the employee's personal comfort. Even activities not involving eating could invoke the personal-comfort doctrine, the court said.
Eagle night-shift employees had to ask to have doors unlocked so they could exit the store during lunch breaks. In this case, not only did the supervisor unlock the doors, he also turned on the parking-lot lights so the employees could play ball over the lunch break. As the court noted, Eagle knew, acquiesced and possibly participated in the employees' routine games, so Workers' Comp did apply.
The Georgia appeals court, in Miles v. Brown Transport Corp., said that the claimant could only recover for injuries sustained during a lunch break under Workers' Comp because her lunch break was not strictly scheduled and "she often subjected herself to the performance of job-related duties during her lunch break." Miles was injured as she was on her way to a hospital to visit a child. As she was exiting her workplace, a door was blown back, she fell and was injured.
At the time of her injury she was not doing anything involving work, but she often did perform job-related duties during other lunch breaks, so Workers' Comp payments were her sole remedy.
It may not matter if the employee in our subscriber's question was on a paid or unpaid lunch break. It may not matter whether she just "watched her tables" because she was asked to by her employer or not. The fact is that she was on the restaurant premises, was on a break but continued to perform some employment-related duties.
The restaurant employer would seem to benefit from a waiter attending her tables, even if only peripherally, during a meal break. The employer could have stopped her from doing so but didn't.
It seems like Workers' Comp to me.


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The Champion: Frederik Van Lierde
The Belgian's journey to the top of the Kona podium is the result of years of hard work, dedication and patience.
by Kevin Mackinnon
While he might share the same last name as the only other Belgian to win the GoPro IRONMAN World Championship, Frederik Van Lierde's win came through a vastly different path than that of his coach, 1996 and 1999 IRONMAN world champion Luc Van Lierde.
"Luc is the pure talent and I'm the worker," Frederik says of his coach. "It took me a long time to put this together, but he came here the first time and he won it."
Frederik (the current champ) has been competing in the sport for 17 years. Unlike his coach, he hardly burst onto the triathlon scene—his has been a gradual progression. First there was a runner-up finish to Cameron Brown in New Zealand. The first IRONMAN title came by beating Marcel Zamora at IRONMAN France. The 35-year-old would take two more titles in France, along with two huge wins over some of the sport's best at the prestigious Abu Dhabi International triathlon.
Those wins were important, but when it came to Kona, he wasn't as successful. He started out with a DNF in 2008. The next year he managed to get across the line in 42nd. The next year he was 14, and then, in 2011, there was another DNF. It wasn't until he finished third in Hawaii last year that he gained the confidence he could win the sport's most prestigious race.
Since Luc's big win in 1996, a top finish the year before has been a precursor for almost every male champion in Hawaii. (exceptions: Tim DeBoom's win in 2001, along with Normann Stadler's title in 2006 and Chris McCormack's win in 2010 when both withdrew the previous year with bike issues.) Armed with newfound confidence, things fell into place right from the start for Frederik.
"In the swim, normally I'm in the leading group, but I was swimming in fourth or fifth and I felt really comfortable," he said after the race.
Once on dry land Van Lierde gave back a bit of time to his competitors when he put on compression socks. He found himself riding at the back of the large group of riders who rode through the first third of the bike together. But once again, his experience and patience paid off.
"In the first 30 or 40 km everybody is riding fast, so I knew from the other years to just take it easy and wait," he said. "Once we got through 60 k I decided to go to the front a little bit more. When Sebastian (Kienle) went to the front I was the one who reacted, and I was with him up to Hawi."
Van Lierde lost time again at the special needs station when he stopped to get three water bottles, watching as the men around him grabbed a bag with one bottle and kept riding. He found himself riding with three of the best riders in the sport—Tyler Butterfield, Dirk Bockel and Faris Al-Sultan—and eventually dropped them over the last 50 k of the ride as he chased race leaders Andy Starykowicz and Luke McKenzie.
Van Lierde steadily gained on McKenzie through the marathon, catching the Australian heading into the famed Energy Lab and never looking back. Coach Luc's experience and direction from a few days earlier proved helpful over those closing miles, too. On the Monday before the race, Frederik followed his coach's tradition of running the last 10 miles of the course. Six days later he was simply too strong for the rest of his competition through those closing miles, taking the men's title.
The win still hadn't sunk in for Van Lierde at the press conference three hours after he crossed the line, but he had spoken with his wife Sofie and sons Aaron and Simon and realized just how important the win was for them.
"It was a big reward for my family," he said. "We're not in a position where they can travel with me, so there have been a lot of sacrifices."
Frederik Van Lierde's journey to the top of the podium at the GoPro IRONMAN World Championship has been a long time coming. All that hard work paid off, though, with the biggest win of his career.


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Reads data from the data source. This method reads the specified number of bytes into the application buffer from the data source, starting at the specified position in the data source.
Not all source plug-ins require that the data source be opened before it can be read. However, to ensure that an application will work with any current or future source plug-ins, call the openSource(byte[ ], byte[ ] [ ]) method before calling this method.
The source plug-in context information. See Oracle interMedia Reference for more information.
The start position in the data source.
The number of bytes to be read from the data source.
A byte array of the form [1][n], where n is greater than or equal to numbytes.
Return Value
This method returns the number of bytes read, as an integer.
This exception is thrown if an error occurs executing the corresponding readFromSource( ) method in the database.


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Lady Gaga Breaks 10 Million Twitter Followers [PHOTOS]
Lady Gaga achieved a major milestone over the weekend, passing the 10 million follower count on Twitter. Gaga is the first to reach the 10 million mark on the social networking site.
Mashable reported that the pop star was also the first person to reach 10 million fans on Facebook. Gaga now has more than 34 million fans on Facebook.
Gaga's achievement sent us out in search of the most popular tweeters, and you may be surprised by who ranks high in the list.
The top 10 celebrities with Twitter thumbs are: Lady Gaga: 10 million, Justin Bieber: 9.7 million, Barack Obama: 8 million, Britney Spears: 7.8 million, Kim Kardashian: 7.5 million, Katy Perry: 7.3 million, Ashton Kutcher: 6.7 million, Ellen DeGeneres: 6.6 million, Taylor Swift: 6.4 million and Shakira: 6 million.


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MBUX - New infotainment system of Mercedes-Benz explained
Published on Jan 9, 2018
We sat together with Mercedes-Benz at CES 2018 and they fully introduced us their new infotainment system MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience). This will be the new system for all upcoming Mercedes-Benz cars and they will start this year with the Mercedes-Benz A-Class (W177).
Hey Mercedes, do we need another voice assistant? MBUX 2018 first look
Published on Jan 26, 2018
MBUX 2018 Mercedes Benz User Experience Hands On http://www.mobilegeeks.com MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience), will feature three-dimensional digital displays, a touchscreen, voice control, and over-the-air updates.
A big change from Mercedes' older infotainment system is the ability to touch, swipe and pinch-to-zoom on the screen itself. Previous iterations relied either on the voice commands, touch controls on the steering wheel, or a touchpad between the seats. Mercedes deleted the wheel, but kept all of the other ways to control inputs.
MBUX will arrive first on the all-new A-Class when it arrives later this year, but it will also roll out to other new Mercedes vehicles after that. They are starting with the A-Class since it's the aimed at a younger more connectivity focused demographic, a generation that expects their in-car experience to match what they have on their other mobile device, the smartphone.
The new Mercedes-Benz A-Class 2018: MBUX | I made it (Part 1)
Published on Feb 8, 2018
For the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class (2018), Marco Santi has helped to design the completely new infotainment system MBUX. As user experience engineer and voluntary firefighter, Marco is one of the masterminds behind the interface of the future, creating an emotional connection between the vehicle, driver and passengers.
It looks great and progressive but I would sign up for serious auto insurance package with it in my car. It seems extremely distracting. And given all the glitches it twice as distractive as it requires for additional precautions.
Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX): predict, react & evolve
Published on Mar 19, 2018
Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX), first introduced in the new A-Class (2018), will make your everyday life easier with a high-resolution Widescreen Cockpit with touch screen operation, augmented reality technology and intelligent voice control with natural speech recognition, activated by the keyword "Hey Mercedes".
This revolution in the cockpit is developed by inhouse R&D Engineers and Designers in Germany and Silicon Valley. Learn more about our Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America team in Sunnyvale, California.
Mercedes-Benz A-Class 2018: MBUX | I made it (Part 2)
Published on Mar 23, 2018
For the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class (2018), Simone Kurek helped to design the completely new MBUX multimedia system. As an interaction designer and cognitive scientist, Simone helped to build the foundation of this interface of the future – an interface designed to create an emotional connection between vehicle, driver and passengers.
Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX): Next-generation voice assistant | me Future Talks | MWC 2018
Published on Apr 9, 2018
Introducing the Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) as the next-generation voice assistant at the Mobile World Congress 2018. Georges Massing, Director User Interaction & Software at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, Daimler AG, and Arnd Weil, Senior Vice President & General Manager Nuance Automotive talked about the future of Speech Control in the upcoming A-Class and its Next-Generation Voice Assistant by Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz A-Class 2018: Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX)
Published on May 12, 2018
The interface of the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class (2018)* is called Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) and is completely touch-optimized. Learn more about the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class (2018): https://mercedes-benz.com/a-class
The Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) can be accessed via the touch-control buttons on the steering wheel, the touchpad and the touchscreen. Everything happens smartly and intuitively, as modern as with a smartphone.


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During the journey West, the travelers would have to stop a whole day in order to wash their clothes. They would have to have a day of good weather and find decent water and a supply of fuel to do so. Eliza McAuley, and Martha Read both mention having to thus halt. Washing a group's clothes meant adding hot water and soft soap to a kettle and starting it to boil. The clothes were then added and stirred 'round with a paddle. They could then be removed and rubbed or pounded before being rinsed again and again then spread on bushes, fences, or the like to dry. Fabrics faded quickly and with no bleach, a piece of blue calico could be added to the wash to "blue" white clothes" (Dick, 238).
Soap was a chore for the homemaker, not a commodity to be acquired from the local store. To make soap, ashes were saved up and soaked with water. The liquid which drained through had to be thick enough to hold up an egg. This material was combined with accumulated meat scraps and drippings in a kettle and boiled for several hours. This was soft soap. Hard soap could be made by adding salt and boiling more, then molding (Dick, 239).
Hard water was a force to be reckoned with in frontier America. It had the effects of roughening the skin, and was particularly harsh to clothing fibers. Better water was to be had by catching rain -- thus, the appearance of the rain barrel as an icon of the West.
Men's dress trousers could thriftily be made from feed sacks, but their work trousers were made of duck or denim. A homespun suit would last a man a year. Women wore the frontier constant -- calico. At 5-8 cents a yard they could afford to clothe themselves adequately with two dresses (a woman's wardrobe for one year) and if they had some extra money they stitched themselves more stylish creations with full, ruffled skirts. Bodices were high-necked and long-sleeved. Hats, for women, at least, were rare. The sunbonnet was most common.
Emily French was a working woman who frequently did washing for other women and describes some of the process. Christiana Tillson, apparently somewhat of an Eastern fashion plate, reports on the traumatic experience of being without her Winter wardrobe as well as outfitting of her neighbors and servant girls. Eliza McAuley refers to the "bloomer costume" or "Reform dress" which was so much of the talk of the time. This outfit consisted of a standard bodice or shirtwaist and a scandalously short skirt (at the knee). Under the skirt were bloomers which were a fuller version of pantalets and intended for wear as outer garments. This dress was promoted by women's rights activists of the time because it was more freeing -- allowing the wearer to partake of activities formerly prohibited because of the inconvenience of a large, long skirt.
"Monday, July 26th. Wash day."
"Tuesday, July 27th. Ironing and baking today."
"Being few--either male or female--who wore any out-door garments, the women wore their bonnets in the house and added nothing on going out but a little shawl that came about to the bottom of the waist, said waist being a very short one. I suppose, living as they did in cabins without windows and keeping both doors open for the admittance of light--windows and out of doors was all the same to them in respect to warmth--and having come from a more southern climate, they had never learned the necessity of protection from the cold."
"her wardrobe consisted, besides shoes and stockings, of a green flannel petticoat, a calico dress, a white dress, and a checked apron, in all four pieces. When she came from St. Louis she wore her white dress over her calico, which was not in good taste; the stripes and figures of the calico showing unbecomingly though the thin texture of the white cambric; but when, about once a week, she would drop her calico to be washed, and put on her white over her green skirt, with no lining above her waist but what nature had provided, and then to see her sit down on the floor with her lap full of potatoes and turnips and peal [sic] them for cooking, with the green shading of her dress below and the pinkie development above, she presented a picture I cannot describe."
"She had on a German blue calico dress, with a handkerchief tied over her head and another hung on her arm, in which was her wardrobe."
"Ollie came in time to hang up some of the colored clothes. Sewed some on the machine for Mrs. Oaks."
"I went to Baltzells to wash. it is cold. She had the water on, so I shall be allowed to wash. Oh such work, and such a lot of dirty & old clothes not scarcely fit to wash, she not able to buy others. I got them ready for the line, the wind so hard, yet I managed to hang all out. The tub frozen full of water, I worked at 2 hours before I could get enough of it out so I could put the clothes in. I washed an Old coat, then cleaned up so to Iron."


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COLUMBIA – Sports photographer Travis Bell was awarded a top spot in the recent S.C. News Photographers Association annual Pictures of the Year Contest on Feb. 22.
Bell's image of former University of South Carolina Lady Gamecocks basketball team forward Ashley Bruner placed second in the sports action category.
Bell, a Lancaster native, owns SIDELINE CAROLINA, a sports photography service that photographs college and pro sports.
Travis Bell had one of the best seats in the house at last month's NBA All-Star Game in Houston.
No, the Lancaster native wasn't sitting in one of those pricey courtside seats. Rather, he was capturing the action with his camera for ESPN.
Bell, who runs his own photography business in Columbia, has been photographing events for the popular sports network for more than a decade. Past events include College GameDay and Monday Night Football.
Springs Memorial Hospital has a fresh look.
On Monday, March 18, staff unveiled a new logo during a special gathering on the hospital's second floor. The logo features "Springs" written in sapphire blue with "Memorial Hospital" underneath it in chartreuse green.
To the left of those words is a continual square pattern that features the two colors.
The new look replaces the green umbrella-themed logo that had been used since the mid-1990s.
Lancaster County Economic Development Corp.
Site preparation has begun on the location of the future Lancaster Air-Rail Industrial Park.
In December, Lancaster County Council and Lancaster City Council met on four separate occasions to see that a new business park be established in Lancaster County. The 101-acre park is located on S.C. 9 just east of the Chester County line.
This park is unique in that it is located across the highway from the county airport and will be served by the Lancaster and Chester Railway.
There's been a delay to the start of the 2013 tax season.
Because of new federal legislation enacted Jan. 2 in response to the "fiscal cliff," the Internal Revenue Service won't begin processing individual income tax returns until Jan. 30.
In typical years, the process starts around the middle of the month.
Tim Moseley represents the past and the future of The Patio eatery in Lancaster.
Back in 1978, Moseley worked as a car hop at the popular drive-in restaurant at 1114 Great Falls Highway, on the southern end of town. It first opened in the 1940s.
Those were the days when business was booming. But after a few changes in ownership, the restaurant closed in 2006.
From Release
Great Falls Propane, 1509 Pageland Highway, has opened its doors. The store boasts a new state-of-the-art, interactive gas appliance showroom and customer service center that includes a propane filling station (for gas grill cylinders and RV's) with drive-through service.
There's a party happening in Indian Land.
In case you wondered, that's what was going on with all those tents set up in front of the new Chick-fil-A at 10032 Charlotte Highway in front of Walmart last Wednesday
Though the store officially opened at 6 a.m. Thursday, the franchise celebrated with its famous "First 100" promotion.
The event was a 24-hour party that began Wednesday morning and ended Thursday morning with a year's worth of free Chick-fil-A meals for the first 100 people through the doors.
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I was confronted with this question when reading "Stochastic Integration and Differential Equations" by Protter. Just after the definition of a Lévy process he says the following:
If $X_t$ is a Lévy-process and we consider the function $f_t(u)=\mathbb{E}(e^{iuX_t})$ where $f_0(u)=1$ and $f_{t+s}(u)=f_t(u)f_s(u)$, and $f_t(u) \neq 0$ for every $(t,u)$. Then, using the right continuity in probability we conclude that there exists a continuous function $\psi$ with $\psi(0)=0$ such that $f_t(u)=\text{exp}(-t\psi(u))$.
How can one prove this? (Right) continuity in probability seems a rather weak notion to me for the existence of a fully continuous $\psi(u)$. It would mean that also $f_t(u)$ is continuous right? So what we need is that the Fourier transform of a Lévy process is continuous i think. Any hints on that? (Probably its a well-known fact and I am missing something obvious here)
In the same section the so-called "Bochners Theorem" is also mentioned. Could anyone share a resource for me with the details and the sketch of proof?


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LONDON (AP) -- The BBC says it has received reports that its world service English shortwave radio frequencies are being jammed in China and condemns what it called efforts to disrupt free access to news and information.
The broadcaster said while it can't attribute the source of the jamming definitively, "the extensive and coordinated efforts are indicative of a well-resourced country such as China."
The jamming of broadcasts in China is being timed to cause "maximum disruption," the BBC's director of global news, Peter Horrocks, said in a statement Monday.
In the past, BBC Persian transmissions in Iran have been affected by jamming. Jamming frequencies was also a tactic used by communist nations to block BBC broadcasts during the Cold War.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's golf team entered the final day of action as the leader in the 2013 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships, but finished third overall after the final 18 holes of action on Sunday (April 28) in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The Bulldogs held a three-stroke lead over rival Grand Valley State after the initial 36 holes of the 54-hole league event, but could not duplicate its impressive second-round effort as the Bulldogs finished behind champion GVSU and runner-up Ashland.
Grand Valley State carded an impressive 314 score in Sunday's final round at Stone Ridge Golf Club to finish at 943 (+79) for the tournament. Ashland registered a 953 total (+89) and was only two shots ahead of FSU, which netted a 955 (+91) total over the three rounds.
The Bulldogs had carded a 321 on Friday before posting the lowest overall round of the tournament with a 305 figure on Saturday to open the final day as the leader in the tournmaent. However, FSU recorded a 329 total on Sunday in the final 18 holes of competition.
Individually, the Bulldogs' Jacqueline DeBoer finished fourth overall for the Bulldogs as she posted a 234 total on rounds of 77, 76 and 81 on Sunday. GVSU's Kelly Hartigan held on to her individual lead and came away as the individual winner with a 221 effort.
FSU's Ashley Swanson and Cooper Shawen also placed among the top 10 finishers for Ferris State. Swanson placed seventh with a 237 total on rounds of 81 Friday followed by back-to-back 78 scores over the last two days. Meanwhile, Shawen came in 10th with a 242 figure. She fired an 82 Friday before posting a 77 on Saturday and a 83 on the final day.
Next up for Ferris State was Libby Berens, who tied for 13th overall at 247 on rounds of 81, 79 and 87 on Sunday.
Finally, Emily Rohdy placed 16th overall for the Bulldogs at 248 with scores of 86, 74 and 88 over the three days, respectively.
The GLIAC Championships were hosted by Tiffin University on the par 72 course measuring 5,919 yards at Stone Ridge Golf Club. Ashland, Ferris State, Findlay, Grand Valley State, Lake Erie, Lake Superior State, Malone, Northwood, Ohio Dominican, Tiffin and Walsh also competed in the GLIAC Championships.
The Bulldogs were ranked seventh in the latest (April 25) NCAA Division II East Regional Rankings and will await the official NCAA Tournament selection announcement early this week.
Final scoring for the tournament is available at this link below:


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This ethics column ran in the News Photographer Magazine dedicated to the issues surrounding freelancing.
By John Long, Ethics Chairman, NPPA
We have become more and more a profession of freelancers.
Much of this issue of News Photographer is dedicated to the topic of freelance photojournalism so the question was posed – are there ethical issues primarily associated with freelancing? The answer is yes.
For freelancers, the basic question is, "What keeps you honest?"
For photojournalism itself, the question is, "Are style and substance the same?"
One of the great advantages of working at a newspaper for 35 years was that I always had a group with whom I could talk. I was always learning from my coworkers. We each had our strengths and specialties and we shared information. I am not a technical person so I relied on other photographers to show me how Photoshop worked or how to archive photographs, and a myriad of other details.
We also kept each other honest. When you work in a small, open photography lab, you cannot get away with much. Peer pressure sometimes is a valuable asset for a staff. One of the reasons Allan Detrich was able to create all the altered and manipulated photographs that finally brought him down at the Toledo Blade was the fact that he did most of his image processing in private.
If you are a staff of one (a freelancer) you have no one looking over your shoulder. Freelancers have to rely on their own personal sense of ethics and integrity since they do not have the peer pressure of coworkers.
If you look at some of the great falls from grace over the past years, you can see how many of the major ethical blowups came from photographers who were working in isolation, or freelancing, or both. Adnan Hajj caused Reuters great problems when he doctored images as a freelancer in Lebanon. Brian Walski was on his own in Iraq when he transmitted the doctored photograph that got him fired from the Los Angeles Times. The temptations that come with the ease and seamlessness of Photoshop can be very alluring, especially when no one is looking.
One of the major reasons that NPPA has become even more important today is that as we have become more and more a profession of freelancers, NPPA has become a home, a safe place for camaraderie, a community for learning, sharing, and building a sense of integrity. I have said that while I learned to be a photographer from my uncle (who was a good amateur photographer), I learned to be a newspaper photographer from the guys I worked with in the 1970s and I learned to be a photojournalist from NPPA. Photographers have always needed a sense of belonging. Why do you think Magnum Photos and, more recently, VII Photo Agency were started? There is safety in numbers and a commonality of purpose.
Freelancers also live in a world of mixed messages. One day you may be hired by the AP to cover a news event, and the next you are shooting a wedding. The ethics are different because your master is different. While you're shooting a wedding, your ultimate loyalty may be to the mother of the bride, but when you are working for a news agency your ultimate loyalty is to accuracy. Moving from one role to the next, the confusion for the photographer can be disconcerting. Ethics Committee member Steve Raymer asked, "Can you do both jobs and stay sane and look yourself in the mirror, if knowing that one of the biggest trends in public relations and advertising is to make images that look like photojournalism?" Style is substance. Marshall McLuhan was right – the medium is the message.
The hottest thing in wedding photography today is the "photojournalism style" coverage. There is even an association for wedding photographers who work in a photojournalistic style (WPJA, which does stress high ethical standards). It looks like photojournalism, but the ultimate purpose is not to cover the event objectively – the goal is to cover the event in a way that makes the bride look good. It is photojournalism as style, not content. Ethics take a back seat to the wishes of the client. It's the use of the techniques of photojournalism to give an air of believability to a set of wedding photographs, or a corporate report.
But there are no ethics in a world where style is the content.
And yet, there is an even greater pressure on freelancers than a matter of style – and that is simply making a living. Many, many freelancers are just barely getting by. There just isn't the quantity of work out there that there used to be, and the numbers of photographers bidding for the smaller amount of work is growing as newspaper and magazine staffs shrink. At the same time, schools continue to graduate more and more qualified shooters into the employment pool. In this environment, it can be tempting to try to give oneself an edge by doctoring a photograph, even if just a little. The temptation is great. And if my "Philistine" art director wants me to doctor a photograph, how can I say no when it means I might never work for him or her again? Editors want it "now," and quality be damned. In this environment, a little thing such as a sense of right and wrong is meaningless.
There are a handful of freelancers at the top of the game who, through reputation and long careers working for the best magazines while making large paychecks, can resist this kind of pressure. But if you have a mortgage and a bunch of kids to feed, ethics are sometimes a luxury. Desperation is hard to argue with.


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Another GOP debate has come and gone, and there's a clear consensus on who won and who lost this round. After two fabulously bombastic debate performances, Newt Gingrich was defeated by the one man he can never seem to beat: himself.
Ultimately, Newt's problem is just being Newt. It always has been, because the real Newt bears a strong resemblance the one portrayed in his opponents attack ads.
Even before the South Carolina primary, fellow Republicans who remembered his erratic rule as Speaker started poking holes in Newt's hot air balloon. After South Carolina, Newt's surge brought even more big-name Republicans off the bench. Bob Dole, in a statement published in the National Review, said that "Gingrich had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall," and recalled Newt's spectacular fall to earth from his speakership.
Gingrich served as Speaker from 1995 to 1999 and had trouble within his own party. By 1997 a number of House Republican members wanted to throw him out as Speaker. But he hung on until after the 1998 elections when Newt could read the writing on the wall. His mounting ethics problems caused him to resign in early 1999. I know whereof I speak as I helped establish a line of credit of $150,000 to help Newt pay off the fine for his ethics violations. In the end, he paid the fine with money from other sources.
Gingrich had a new idea every minute and most of them were off the wall. He loved picking a fight with President Clinton because he knew this would get the attention of the press. This and a myriad of other specifics like shutting down the government helped to topple Gingrich in 1998.
Come to think of it, not only does Newt's latest big idea have a distinctly "off the wall" quality that suggests he couldn't have thought it through, but it may not even be his idea. Not originally, anyway.
David Frum highlights a Newt takedown from Ann Coulter.
Politico rounds up the sudden right-of-center media drop on Gingrich, including this line from Ann Coulter:
"Hotheaded arrogance is neither conservative nor attractive to voters."
When Ann Coulter is criticizing you for "hotheaded arrogance," it's like Rosie O'Donnell recommending anger management. It's pretty much over.
As David Frum notes in the post quoted above, it's pretty much true. it's been true for all these years. Like I said earlier, when it come to Newt, the truth hurts. And not just the truth about Newt. Whatever secret cache of documents Nancy Pelosi may or may not have notwithstanding, we all pretty much know the truth about Newt. Like I said earlier, what's making conservatives nervous is the truth about Newt just reveals the truth about Republicans.
When not holding forth from his favorite table at L'Auberge Chez François, nestled among the manor houses of lobbyist-thick Great Falls, Va., Dr. Newton L. Gingrich likes to lecture people about food stamps and how out-of-touch the elites are with real America.
Gingrich, as he showed in a gasping effort in Thursday night's debate in Florida, is a demagogue distilled, like a French sauce, to the purest essence of the word's meaning. He has no shame. He thinks the rules do not apply to him. And he turns questions about his odious personal behavior into mock outrage over the audacity of the questioner.
After inventing, and then perfecting, the modern politics of personal destruction, Gingrich has decided now to bank on the dark fears of the worst element of the Republican base to seize the nomination — using skills refined over four decades.
Not all the news is necessarily bad for Newt. He's garnered support from Republicans share some of his troublesome traits. Former Rep. Randy Cunningham endorsed Newt from prison, where he's serving a 100-month sentence after being convicted in one of the largest congressional corruption cases ever. Unfortunately, Cunningham noted, the endorsement would probably do Newt more harm than good. On the upside, he added that Newt would have about 80% of the incarcerated felon vote locked down — if they could vote.
If Cunningham's endorsement isn't enough good news, fellow bomb-thrower Sarah "Blood Libel" Palin came to Newt's defense, accusing the media of attempting to "crucify" Newt.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to stand up for Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Thursday, saying that the recent character assault launched by conservatives against him was a case of the establishment trying to "crucify" the former House speaker.
"Look at Newt Gingrich, what's going on with him via the establishment's attacks. They're trying to crucify this man and rewrite history and rewrite what it is that he has stood for all these years," Palin told Fox Business Network's John Stossel after weighing on Ron Paul's candidacy. "So it's not just Ron Paul. I believe it's also Newt Gingrich, that the establishment, that the liberal media, certainly that the progressives and the Democrats don't like."
It sounds like the former governor is as blind to reality as the former speaker. It's not the "liberal media" or "establishment," that's worried about Newt getting the Republican nomination. In fact, some progressives are almost giddy about the possibility of President Obama running against Newt. (Robert Reich makes a good case for why no responsible progressive or Democrat should wish for Gingrich to top the GOP ticket.)
It's Republicans who are scared to death about that possibility. They know Newt very well, that's why they can attack him wielding only the truth. They know that nobody has to destroy Newt, because given enough time Newt will self-destruct. They just don't want him to take the party down with him, when he implodes. If Republicans sought to speed up that implosion, to get it out of the way, it's starting to look like they're succeeding.


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The First Leaked Photos from Tom Ford's Spring 2011 Womenswear Relaunch Preview
The First Photo Leaks from Tom Ford's Spring 2011 Womenswear Preview
>> Photos may have been verboten at Tom Ford's womenswear preview yesterday — with the exception of those taken by <nobrand>Terry Richardson</nobrand> — but a few have popped up, all headshots. Even Cathy Horyn posted a few.
Ford is notorious for image control, but it's rumored that the image embargo wasn't for that reason alone: Richardson's photos are reportedly an exclusive for an all Tom Ford edited issue of Vogue Paris (likely the December/January 2011 issue, the issue that the magazine annually has a guest editor for). It makes sense, considering how close Ford and Carine Roitfeld have worked together in the past (and Roitfeld reportedly skipped shows yesterday because she was preparing for Ford's).
But Ford told the New York Times that he didn't allow pictures because fashion has become overexposed in recent years, in part because of the Internet: "I want fashion to be fun again, like it was in the '60s. You couldn't wait to get the clothes and put them on, and I think we've lost that." He added that photos will be available on his web site in December, along with a short film of the show.
The clothes, which he began working on late last spring, will be in his stores in late January or February 2011. He expects them to be very expensive: $3,500 to $5,000 for a suit, around $4,500 for a tuxedo, and a gown could be $20,000.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osamu Corp is recalling up to 1,800 cases of frozen ground tuna because of histamine that has sickened three people who ate tainted sushi, the Gardena, California, company said.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found decomposition in several samples of the product as well as high levels of histamine in samples at one retail location, the company said in a statement dated October 12 and circulated by the FDA on Friday.
Decomposition can promote formation of histamine, which can cause tingling or burning sensation in the mouth, facial swelling, rash, hives and itchy skin, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
The frozen ground tuna was shipped from August 18 to September 8 to distributors AFC Corp, Red Shell Foods and Pacific Fresh Fish Co.
"The distributors have removed the product from the marketplace and are destroying any remaining product," the statement said.
Three illnesses due to elevated histamine levels have been reported, all involving sushi purchased at a single location, the statement said.
Red Shell has sushi franchises in grocery stores in California. AFC has grocery store sushi franchises in nearly every state.
Pacific Fresh Fish is a cash and carry establishment.
Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Jerry Norton


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Igillmore necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 112 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Gear Energy Ltd.
I am the brand new president and CEO of Gear Energy Inc. and I run our little office in here Calgary, Alberta. I am a professional engineer, but also have a bachelor of fine arts in sculpture. 20 years in the industry and for all of them i have been riding my bike to work (even through the frigid winters). Our little company has the dream of growing into something great. We currently have 4 producing oil and gas wells from Alberta to the far north of British Columbia. All the guys here are relatively young and decently fashionable and interesting. (IMHO). We are all very technical and probably leaning a little on the nerdy side of cool. We will spend almost all our capital drilling oil and gas wells and bringing the products to market. We will also be trying to buy other small oil and gas companies. It all about growing.
We ultimately want to become a public company and will compete with a long list of other oil and gas producers in Canada. We will be marketing to primarily retail and institutional investors. They will be looking for us to inspire confidence that their money will be safe, and will grow under our succesfull development. They will not want us to be flashy or promotional. they will be very focused on real tangible results. Production growth and value creation. They will all want to make money. And lots of it.
Our first logo is pretty lame, I have attached it. I spent the weekend trying to come up with some alternatives, but none of them are inspiring me, or my team. We need to include the company name, and I think it would be nice to have a memorable recognizable visual element. I would like it to be interesting, slightly funky and cool, but very professional. Simple is probably better as we don't want to have to explain it to anyone. I like the image of Cogs and gears, maybe some way to imply that we desire significant growth... although that could be a challenge. We will use the logo on all our business cards as well as corporate correspondence and ultimately our website. I have also attached the initial ideas that we came up with. None of them really fit the bill, but should give you an idea of where our heads are at. I hope this is enough information to kick this off.
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Smith Records First Career Double-Double in Rams Win
Farmingdale State - 70, Yeshiva - 35
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Freshman forward Tiara Smith (Amityville, N.Y./Copiague) recorded her first career double-double with 12 points and 15 rebounds in a 70-35 victory over conference opponent Yeshiva. The Rams improved to 17-6 overall, 14-2 in the Skyline, while the Maccabees fell to 3-20, 0-16.
Farmingdale's leading scorer for the night was freshman guard Shemique Hooks (Westbury, N.Y./Westbury) with 21 points, six rebounds and eight steals. Junior guard Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) posted 10 points and five steals in 12 minutes played.
Yeshiva was led by sophomore guard Shir Fuchs (Herzeliya, Israel/Hayovel) with nine points, while senior guard Tova Laufer (New York, N.Y./Ramaz) finished with eight points, five steals and two blocks.
The Rams will host Purchase on Wednesday, February 18th at 6:00 p.m. (women's) and 8:00 p.m. (men's). It will be "Senior Night" for Shaquasha Llopiz, Joe Cammarata, Davon Jackson, Damien Santana and Erastus Shannon.


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Finance executives have doubled-down on digitizing the finance function. They see the potential for digital to make Finance more agile, future-focused and insight-driven—mission control of value creation for the business.
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Color Images of Quasar 1208+101Split by Gravitational Lenses
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) color views of the distant quasar 1208+101 indicate that its image has been split in two by a gravitational lens. The quasar was first observed with HST's Wide Field/Planetary Camera in July 1991 as part of the Snapshot Survey for gravitational lenses. The Snapshot Survey consists of short (about four minute) exposures of several hundred very bright, very distant quasars with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera. Current theories of gravitational lensing suggest that several of these quasars should be seen as multiple images with separations smaller than can be seen in ground-based observations.
Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon by which the pull of a massive object, such as a galaxy, can bend light from another, more distant, object as the light passes near or through it, focusing the light in multiple identical images. The high spatial resolution capability of HST allows searches for multiple images at separations of only 0.2 arc seconds; this is about five times smaller than can be done with ground-based instrumentation.
The July 1991 image showed strong evidence of the existence of two sources separated by less than 0.5 arc seconds at the position of 1208+101, a quasar located nearly 10 billion light years from the Earth. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity should affect all colors of light in precisely the same way. The new images reveal that the relative brightness of the two components is, in fact, the same in a number of different color filters as predicted by Einstein's theory. This is strong evidence that the image shows a gravitational lens system and not the chance alignment of a star in our own galaxy with the distant quasar. HST spectroscopy will be required to definitively answer the question of the nature of the fainter image.
Investigators: Professor John Bahcall, Dr. Donald Schneider, Dr. Dan Mayoz, all of the Institute for Advanced Study
Credit: J. Bahcall/NASA