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New Mexico Tech Contracts with Italian Firm to Design Custom Telescope Domes, Dec. 10, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., Dec. 10, 2008 –The milestones are happening regularly for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory at New Mexico Tech. The university on Tuesday, Dec. 2, signed a contract for nearly $1 million with an Italian firm to design and oversee the construction of the first dome.
Right: Artist's conception of MRO domes in their closest formation, called "closed pack array." Graphic courtesy of European Industrial Engineering.
European Industrial Engineering, based in Venice, won a competitive bid to design a 7.5-meter wide enclosure to house the first of 10 telescopes at the Observatory's state-of-the-art interferometer.
The contract-signing Tuesday culminated a six-month process, including two weeks of negotiations with EIE. Two company representatives spent two days in New Mexico – one day touring the facilities and the Magdalena Ridge and one day of intensive negotiations.
The second day ended with Gianpetro Marchiori and Tech Vice President of Finance Lonnie Marquez signing an agreement for $928,000.
"This is a very significant milestone because we ordered the first telescope earlier this year," Program Manager Dr. Eric Bakker said. "But we can't put it on the Ridge without an enclosure."
Program Director Chuck Cormier said the contract with EIE represents the last major design component for an installation that will be the first of its kind – a true world class astronomical instrument.
Project scientist Dr. Dave Westpfahl has been the MRO's champion for more than 13 years.
"All that we can do is more forward one day at a time," he said. "That's what we're doing and that, in itself, is success. I started on this project in 1995 and I worked on it for four years with no funding. So my feeling today is that contracting for the enclosures is a wonderful achievement."
Left: Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman explains the finer details of the telescopes being constructed for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory's interferometer, while Dr. Eric Bakker looks on.
Interferometer project scientist Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman said the contract with EIE represents the last major milestone before first light in 2010.
"We still need to build and assemble all the internal pieces," she said. "As far as contracts, this is very exciting. I'm thrilled. This puts us one step closer to first light, which will be our first major scientific milestone."
At maximum distance, the telescopes will be spread out over three arms of 58 meters feet, thus simulating a 340-meter wide telescope. Each of the three arms will have nine different piers or foundations for telescopes.
"When this interferometer comes to fruition, we'll be able to make the best images of astronomical targets at very high angular resolution," Cormier said.
Cormier said. "The entire system is very sensitive to atmospheric changes, temperature changes and other things that might seem trivial. Those are all challenges in making a scientific instrument perform well."
The main science missions for the interferometer include star and planet formation, stellar accretion and mass loss and active galactic nuclei.
Cormier said the company presented an innovative design that will require minimal maintenance and is cost-effective.
"This company is very well regarded," Cormier said. "They are a mechanical engineering shop, but the vast majority of their projects are in the astronomy world. They're familiar with the technical challenges that are driving our performance."
EIE is also working with the NRAO to design 25 radioastronomy telescopes for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile.
The construction of the interferometer is a truly international endeavor. The University of Cambridge in England is providing technical expertise. Optical Surface Technologies of Albuquerque is making the mirrors. A Belgian company is building the telescope mounts. Now, an Italian firm will design the telescope enclosures.
"All of these contracts must come together to produce world-class science," Cormier said. "We are responsible to bring it all together to ultimately create these astronomical images. We'll be looking for young stellar objects and galaxies."
"This project truly has an international flavor," Creech-Eakman said. "We have about 20 people actively involved at Tech. Cambridge has another eight. When you consider all the external groups, like EIE, we have more than 100 people around the world working to make this project the best optical interferometer in the world."
Astronomers using the MRO interferometer are looking forward to having the ability to view black holes in the centers of external galaxies.
European Industrial Engineering won the bid over three other bidders, including an American, an Australian and another European company.
The design process will take about a year, followed by a few months of fabrication. Bakker said the fabrication will not be as difficult as the design process and will probably done in New Mexico. The first telescope and mount – along with the 1.4 meter optics and fast-tip tilt system – is scheduled for installation by March 2010. Bakker said EIE presented a unique design with the motor and other moving parts separate from the dome portion of the enclosure.
"The base is fixed and does not rotate, but the dome portion needs to be able to open and close and rotate," he said. "EIE presented the best design and had the best price."
Cormier said the enclosures serve several functions and needs: to protect the telescopes from the elements; dissipate the heat fluctuations generated by the electronics; minimize vibrations; and, perhaps the most important aspect, be the right size.
"That's really driving the design," Cormier said. "We need the ability to take the telescopes 340 meters apart, but we also want to be able to pack them in tightly. The closer we can get them, the more effective we can be in performing science."
Each enclosure must contain the telescope and its mount, a dizzying array of electronics and optics and enough room for technicians to adjust and maintain the instrumentations, Cormier said.
Lead technical engineer Rob Selina said each enclosure has to be less than 7.5 meters around because the scientists will require the telescopes to be within that distance of each other in the "closed pack array."
"The space allocations are critical to us," Selina said. "As well as the relocation feature. Those are the two aspects that make this challenging."
Selina said the telescopes and enclosures must be configurable. Facility managers ultimately must be able to lift the whole apparatus and move it along the array, he said.
The custom-made mirrors will be 1.4 meters – 4½ feet – across and more than 6 inches thick. These glass-ceramic mirrors will need to be kept near the same temperature as the night-time atmosphere, Cormier said.
Meanwhile, several teams at New Mexico Tech are working on the custom hardware and proprietary software for the delay lines, beam-combiner and fringe tracker. These elements will combine the light from multiple telescopes and produce images of astronomical phenomena never seen before – not even by Hubble Space Telescope.
Once completed, the Magdalena Ridge Observatory's interferometer will produce exceptional images for several reasons. First, no other optical interferometer will have 10 telescopes. Second, most other interferometers have up to 25 or 30 secondary mirrors that transfer light to a beam-combining instrument. With each reflection, light is lost and the wavefront is distorted. While other interferometers "see" only 1 to 3 percent of the original light they collect, Tech's interferometer will retain about 18 percent of the original light to combine for making images.


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With a goal of advancing the development of more effective domestic policies, MacArthur's program in policy research supports special policy projects, incubates new ideas, and provides unrestricted operating support to a small portfolio of effective policy organizations. In 2015, several time-limited projects, including the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society and the Improving the Nation's Fiscal Future initiative are ending as planned. Two other time-limited projects, the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance and the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative to change how states budget for effectiveness and long-term benefits, will complete their planned activities over the next three to four years.
Supporting U.S. Programs as a whole, the Policy Research area advances the development of more effective domestic policies by working to increase the policy impact of all domestic grantmaking strategies, carrying out special policy projects, incubating new policy ideas, and supporting cross-cutting work.
Government policy has profound effects on society. It establishes systems and institutions, determines spending priorities, and affects private enterprise, civil society, and citizens' lives. For these reasons, we focus on how we should best think about policy, how policy change occurs, and how best to communicate promising policy innovations.
This policy focus is part of an approach across the domestic program that integrates research, practice, and policy in addressing social problems. It includes:
- Supporting grantee organizations that inform the policy process through research, policy analysis, and educational campaigns
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Our theory of change is that sound empirical research produces evidence that is persuasive to policymakers and shapes policies that are more likely to work in practice. In most cases, our work seeks to inform and advise government (local or federal), which has the authority and resources to effect systemic change. We select fields we consider important, and fund leading researchers, scientists, and policy experts to conduct research and develop policy proposals in those fields. The goal is to have a comprehensive understanding of an issue and produce policy proposals that will have real impact.
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A motivating premise of this project is that effective social policies that invest in individuals who are in need or at-risk not only improve individual life chances, but, in many instances, also benefit the larger society and generate public returns long after assistance has ended. However, evidence to support this premise is not always readily available. The Power of Measuring Social Benefits initiative is focused on addressing this lack of evidence, and the grant strategy is focused on the use of benefit-cost analysis as a tool to inform policymakers. Grants support high-quality benefit-cost analyses across multiple policy domains; strengthen the field by improving methods and standards; and stimulate the demand for social benefit-cost analysis from policymakers. Signature initiatives include the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative and the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Now drawing to a close, this project seeks to inform the debate about the country's fiscal situation and the long-term implications that demographic, social and economic trends have for the nation's fiscal future. The Foundation supported the convening of an expert committee under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration that produced Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future, which identified multiple different paths to federal fiscal stability that reflect the diversity of values and preferences of the American public. Beyond the federal government, states and local governments are also facing fiscal pressures. The strategy is supporting qualitative, quantitative, and comparative research, as well as policy analysis and development, to help policymakers understand better the drivers of state and local fiscal conditions. The strategy also has a particular emphasis on fiscal conditions in the state of Illinois.
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Combining empirical research with real-world experiments, the Research Network will study what happens when governments and institutions open themselves to diverse participation, pursue collaborative problem-solving, and seek input and expertise from a range of people. Network members include twelve experts in computer science, political science, policy informatics, social psychology and philosophy, law, and communications. This core group is complemented by an advisory network of academics, technologists, and current and former government officials. Together, they will assess existing innovations in governing and experiment with new practices and how institutions make decisions at the local, national, and international levels.
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The Network is concluding its formal operations in 2015. The spring issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, features research of Research Network members. The Network has explored the social, institutional and policy implications of an aging society, characterized by a significant increase in disability-free life expectancy and the arrival at retirement age of the 76-million-member "baby boom" generation. These two factors will affect virtually all institutions and relationships in American life, from the family, neighborhood, businesses and civic life to government policies, economic productivity and global competitiveness. A key contribution of the Network is new U.S. population and mortality projections that take account of advances in bio-gerontology with its life-extending potential and the effects of unhealthy life conditions, which will have major implications for social, economic, and health policy.
The institutional support portfolio is currently focused on tax and budget issues. Foundation staff periodically review the institutional support portfolio as a whole to determine whether the focus remains timely and relevant to contemporary policy debates. Individual organizations are assessed for their fit within the portfolio and their role in informing policy discussions.
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Ballester-Molina pistol, left side
Ballester-Molina pistol, right side
A Ballester-Molina pistol, training variant, .22 LR
The Ballester-Molina pistol, originally known as Ballester-Rigaud (so marked during first years of manufacture, circa 1938 to 1940), were made in Argentine by Hispano Argentina de Automotives SA (HAFDASA) company. Manufacture started in 1938 (ceased in 1953) in attempt to provide Argentinean police and military with less expensive alternative to the Colt modelo 1927 pistol, domestically made licensed copy of the American Colt M1911A1 pistol. Production of the Ballester-Molina ceased in the early 1950s. While Ballester-Molina pistol is externally very similar to Colt, it has significant differences, especially in the safety and trigger unit arrangements. Actually, the only parts exchangeable between Ballester-Molina and M1911A1 are the barrel with link and the magazine. The trigger and safety arrangements were more or less copied from the Spanish Star pistols, with the pivoting trigger, single trigger to sear link, and no grip safety. Ballester-Molina pistols were used by Argentinean military and police, as well as supplied to the Britain during Second World war. Britain issued these pistols to their Special Operations Executives agents, which usually operated behind enemy lines.
The Ballester-Molina pistol is a short recoil operated, locked breech pistol. the locking system is similar to that of Colt M1911A1, with the swinging link used to unlock the barrel from the slide. The single action trigger is pivoted on the axis, the frame-mounted manual safety locks the slide and the hammer.
In addition to the standard .45 caliber service pistol, from 1940 to 1953 HAFDASA also produced smaller numbers of .22 Long Rifle Ballester-Molinas. Identical in size and appearance to the .45 caliber weapon, these used a blowback bolt to accommodate the lower recoil of the rimfire cartridge. These guns were issued for training to Argentine military and police agencies. Compared to the .45 caliber service pistol, .22s are rare today due to limited production.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature:
A Video Library, Grades 6-8
Individual Clip Descriptions
1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom
2. Building a Literary Community
3. Asking Questions
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Seminar Discussion
6. Dramatic Tableaux
7. Readers as Individuals
8. The Teachers Role in a Literary Community
9. Whole Group Discussions
in the Promised Land" by Kristin Hunter
"Passing" by Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes examines how one character deals with racism
by blending into Euro-American culture. In contrast, the short
story "Guests in the Promised Land" by Kristin Hunter, presents
a protagonist who fights back against his situation of oppression
with anger and force. As background knowledge for this classroom
lesson's seminar discussion, students read "Guests in the
Promised Land." This text pairing affords students with an
opportunity to see how two different individuals might have
dealt with being African American during the early 1930s.
Use the companion text, To
Be a Slave, by Julius Lester, to expand students'
background knowledge. To Be a Slave is a nonfiction
account drawn from actual slave narratives.
You can access additional resources related to these texts in the Additional Resources section.
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Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant broke the index finger on his left hand early in December but elected to play through it with the Cowboys still in the playoff hunt.
He had surgery on the finger after the season but knew that delaying the procedure with cause permanent damage to his finger. However, Bryant doesn't believe it will ever be an issue for him.
According to Carlos Mendez of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bryant believes he's actually more effective catching the ball than before he injured his finger.
"It's never going to be normal, but I promise you, it's never going to be an issue," Bryant said. "I'm ready to go and catch some footballs. I actually feel like I've been catching better with the finger problem."
It didn't seem to be too big a hindrance at the end of last season. Bryant caught nine passes for 224 yards and two touchdowns against the New Orleans Saints two weeks after breaking the finger. Bryant has high expectations for himself this season. It appears he doesn't want the finger to be used as an excuse if he doesn't live up to his own standards.
"It's no more games, no more wondering," he said. "I know what I'm doing, so I've got to come in and do what I did at the end of last year and hope to build on it."


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The World's Greatest Grape Pie Contest, an annual contest at the Naples Grape Festival, is seeking contestants.
The contest is Saturday, Sept, 28, during the festival that runs Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and 29 in the village.
Joseph's Wayside Market sponsors the event, in which contestants enter a freshly-baked pie anonymously in the contest to be judged on Saturday afternoon by a festival panel.
The winning pie is determined based on taste, texture, appearance and flavor. Winners are named in various categories and age groups from teenagers to grandparents.
Applications may be picked up at Joseph's Wayside Market, 201 South Main St., Naples, or by visiting.
You may also fill out your application on the Saturday of the judging when you drop off your pie at the festival in an unmarked disposable container anytime between 9 a.m. and noon.
The contest will take place at the Memorial Town Hall on south side of the gazebo across from Naples Central School on Main Street. Pull up to Monier or Main street for a short-term drop off of your pie.
Judging begins at noon and winners will be announced at end of the judging and score compilation. Trophies and checks for the winners will be presented at the contest. Pies must be 100 percent grape pies homemade by the person whose name appears on the entry form.


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Point guard Nate Wolters, who was on the Clippers' summer league roster in Orlando, sustained a middle finger fracture on his left hand in Monday's 80-63 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Wolters will miss the rest of summer league play because of the injury.
The 24-year-old averaged 14 points, 3.3 assists and 2.3 steals over three games for the Clippers this summer.
The Clippers, who are 1-2 in summer league play, will play the Miami Heat on Wednesday at 2 p.m. PDT.


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Generations Picnic
The goal of the Preservation Trust is to introduce the next generation of Island families to the work of the Preservation Trust. Your ticket purchase entitles you to a 1-year membership and enables this organization to keep our Island's living institutions vital and open for the enjoyment of all. Please help reach across the generations. Bring your family for an afternoon of music, food and activities for all ages. Look forward to seeing you there.
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Vineyard Trust
Vineyard Trust
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Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust
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May 30, 2009
Greensboro, N.C. - As the NCAA East Regional Track and Field Championship opened on Friday at North Carolina A&T State University, sophomore Kate Grace (Los Angeles, Calif.) blazed through the competition to end the day with the fastest preliminary time in the 800-meter run. She easily qualified for the finals in the event, which will be held on Saturday.
Four heats were held for the preliminary round of the 800-meter run. The top finisher in each heat advanced to the finals, as did the four runners with the next-fastest times. Grace ran in the last heat.
Grace won her heat in 2:06.69. Until Friday, her fastest time of the season had been 2:06.75, which she ran in the preliminary heat of the ECAC Championships two weeks ago. This race in Greensboro was a close one; Grace's heat was the fastest of the day by far. The top three women all qualified for Saturday's finals.
A senior from Charlotte was right on Grace's heels with a 2:06.97 finish (only .28 seconds behind).
"It was neck and neck," Grace said. "I was on the outside of her the whole time; we were both running in lane one around the 100-meter mark. Around the 120-meter mark, where people normally start kicking I started and she didn't necessarily go. The other heats were very slow, and if she knew the approximate times then she knew that she didn't have to win it; she wasn't trying for the best possible time. But it was good for my confidence for me to win today."
Penn's Anna Aagenes, who has been consistently right behind Grace at the finish line this season, finished third in their heat in a time of 2:07.40 (.71 seconds behind Grace).
"I'm always in her heat," Grace laughed. "I've run the past four races with her - and Heps, of course - and we're kind of friends. She's a really nice girl and we're always running together."
Other contenders in the finals include Florida State junior Pilar McShine, who won her heat in 2:06.88 - a mere .11 seconds slower than Grace's time.
During Saturday's finals Grace will strive to keep her time as close as possible to her preliminary one, or at least to finish in the top five. The first five finishers are awarded automatic berths to the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. June 10-13. She will have some tough competition; with preliminary times so close together, no one can know how the finals will turn out. She'll have to keep running just as well as she has been. At this point, though, finishing in the top five does not seem like too difficult of a task; Grace remains the one to beat.
Her feelings about the finals? "Excited," she stated confidently. Not nervous. "Coach Young says we can be `cautiously optimistic.' I have been slower on the second day of competitions in the past, but I've really been working hard this season: training longer and holding off tapering, so I'm a lot stronger."
Grace will compete in the 800-meter run finals at 6:25 p.m. on Saturday on North Carolina A&T's Irwin Belk Track. She will run in lane four. Live results will be posted here immediately following the event, and coverage will be posted on YaleBulldogs.com later in the evening.
More information on the NCAA East Regional Chapionship can be found here.
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Shania Twain's Time in Las Vegas Is Coming to an End
After two years, Shania Twain will finally bid farewell to Sin City. The singer's residency in Last Vegas will draw to a close on Dec. 13, 2014.
Twain began her series of shows at the famous Caesars Palace in November of 2012. Her just-announced final 16 Shania: Still the One shows will run from October through December.
"I can't thank Las Vegas enough," Twain says in a statement that shows her affection for the city. In the same statement, the Canadian singer calls Vegas "home" -- and rightfully so. While there, Twain made a few important contributions, including launching an after-school program in an underprivileged school.
"I started the first international Shania Kids Can clubhouse in Las Vegas because I love this city, and my time here has given me more than anyone can ever know," she says.
Twain's shows in Nevada have been nothing short of spectacular. She has a live band, trained horses and a flying motorcycle. Her first grand entrance onto the historic stage was so grand that traffic on the Strip was stopped so her horses -- which she rode in -- could come in with her.
By the end of the year, she'll have performed more than a hundred shows in Sin City.
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In 1976, Tom Ferguson—then a fourth-year medical student at Yale—launched a magazine called Medical Self-Care... which he hoped would serve as "a Whole Earth Catalog of the best medical books, tools, and resources."
Tom spoke of his plans for the publication and of his conviction that self-care could raise the general level of health in this country and lower our inflated levels of medical spending in a MOTHER EARTH NEWS interview in 1978 . . . and left no doubt that he would work toward making those "dreams" come true.
Well, Tom Ferguson is Doctor Ferguson now, and the medical self-care "movement"—as well as Tom's magazine—has flourished. People are beginning to assume more responsibility for their own well-being and are eager for information that will help them take better care of their bodies.
So in an effort to provide just such very necessary data, MOTHER EARTH NEWS offers as a regular feature a piece by Tom Ferguson, M.D., entitled (what else?) "Medical Self-Care."
Hold a Community Health Fair
A local health fair (which blends the spirit of an open classroom, an old-fashioned barn raising, and a science exhibit) can provide your neighborhood or town with information on a mixture of traditional and alternative healing philosophies. In fact, one of the main reasons for holding such an event is to create a local network of individuals interested in health and self-care . . . and to offer those folks the opportunity to get to know one another personally and professionally by working together while serving the community.
In addition, such neighborhood gatherings dramatically reflect the medical consumer's new interest in and attitude toward health and self-care. (Besides, they're a lot of fun!)
Get Organized
Most of the experienced "experts" who we've talked to recommend that prospective organizers put in from two to ten months' advanced planning before an actual fair is held. (Just remember that every facet of the event's coordination will take much longer than you'd think possible.)
First, take stock of your immediate community resources: nurses, physicians, health educators, pharmacists, counselors, dentists, public health experts, paramedics, midwives, masseurs and masseuses, meditation instructors, yoga practitioners, and such organized groups as the American Red Cross . . . the American Cancer Society . . . the heart, lung, and diabetes associations . . . your local mental health center . . . Alcoholics Anonymous . . . your neighborhood library ... and—definitely—your local fire department (its members are trained to explain emergency medical procedures).
Also, consider asking other community groups to cosponsor the fair. The PTA, local schools, wholistic health centers, churches, and service organizations (such as the Lions, Rotary, or Kiwanis clubs) are all good bets. (Be sure to utilize every group that even hints at wanting to contribute . . . in order to make the event a true community endeavor.)
Make Contacts
It would be a good idea to get in touch as far in advance of the fair's starting date as possible with the National Health Screening Council. The organization has provided materials, phone consulting, screening protocols, equipment, and laboratory support facilities for over 800 community health fairs in the past year alone.
You should also contact the National Self-Help Clearinghouse for information on any self-help groups that might be willing to tie in with your fair. The Health Systems Agency is yet another valuable source of information. If you can't locate this group, write Aetna Life and Casualty for the address of the office nearest you. Blue Cross and Blue Shield can also aid you . . . by referring you to a local Blue Cross or Blue Shield Plan that can supply a quantity of self-care booklets (for free or at a nominal charge, depending on the number of pamphlets required).
When and Where
Spring seems to be the best season for a health fair. The promise of warm weather usually brings everyone's energy level up, and there's a feeling of wanting to participate . . . of wanting to learn and teach. If held in the fall, your event would likely have to compete with many other kinds of happenings (and, at that time of year, Christmas always seems to be just around the corner). Then, in summer, many potential fairgoers will be vacationing. You can't have a fair without people, of course, so it's usually best to plan a spring event.
A weekend is the obvious "right" time for a fair, and Saturday is the best day by far. Remember that you'll need a number of hours to set up the exhibits and an equal amount of time to disassemble them, so try to limit your actual fair hours . . . from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. is about right. And be sure to allot specific shifts (generally two or three hours) to the people who do the exhibits, screening, or whatever . . . so nobody gets overworked. Also, if you've announced beforehand that folks should fast before undergoing specific screening exams, you should certainly plan on a big crowd for such "tests" the first thing in the morning!
You'll require an exhibit hall large enough for people to wander around in, as well as smaller designated areas or rooms in which to hold individual workshops. Outdoor fairs are nice, but the weather does have a way of changing when you least expect it to. A gym is an ideal location . . . or a large church basement or a shopping center's mall would also do fine. Just be sure to hold your event in a place that everyone can easily find.
Publicize It
A fair won't be much of a success if you don't get the word out, so try to include an experienced publicity person on your initial planning committee.
First, make a list of all the media in your community: radio and television stations, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, etc. Then compile a roster of the central communication networks (such as churches, schools, unions, businesses, community organizations) where you can place posters promoting the event. Finally, if you plan to mail flyers announcing your fair, get hold of all the mailing lists you can use: church memberships, garden clubs, seniors' organizations, service clubs, and so on.
Put as much attention as possible into posters and fliers. (Your local printer might be willing to contribute this material if he can put "donated by . . ." at the bottom of each sheet.) Also, be sure to ask the local schools to send notices home with their students.
Then, a couple of days before the fair, prepare an advance mock-up of one or more of the proposed activities . . . and invite the local crews from your TV stations and newspapers to come and film and take pictures. Remember, these media will need advance visual material if their coverage is going to increase the number of people attending the fair.
Additional Ideas
Other than workshops by individuals and exhibits by the various groups, you might try to set up actual screening stations that offer, for example, the following: A self-administered health history, a height/weight, blood pressure check, anemia check (hematocrit), blood tests (probably involving a fee), oral screening by a dentist, hearing/vision check, or foot exams by a podiatrist (probably in conjunction with a foot massage).
The list of "attractions" your fair can offer will depend, of course, upon resources in your community. However, whether the event is small or large, everyone who attends should have a good time and learn something . . . not only about his or her health, but about the health resources of the town as well!


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By: Ryan Jaroncyk, THL Contributor
Former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, made the case for spending more money on national security in front of a crowd of 400 at the World Affairs Council. He made a number of comments worthy of a more detailed analysis.
The war tab for Afghanistan and Iraq now sits at over $1 trillion and counting. And according to a 2007 study sponsored by the Independent Institute, America's foreign policy actually costs about $1 trillion per year.
Therefore, one could argue that national security spending is already at dizzying levels, especially considering that we're running $1.4 trillion budget deficits and approaching $12 trillion in national debt.
During the Bush administration and a largely Republican Congress, domestic spending exploded in areas such as education and prescription drugs, at the same time the defense budget grew by leaps and bounds.
After all, these highly advanced, affluent nations possess the technological and fiscal capability to easily provide their own defense. One could argue that tens of thousands of US troops stationed in Germany is a clear cut case of welfare, considering that Germany is an economic giant in the EU.
One could argue that providing a nation like Egypt with billions of dollars in foreign aid is highly questionable due to its dismal human rights record. These are only a few examples.
However, I would argue that national security spending should reflect quality, not quantity. Defense spending should target efficiency, effectiveness, and fiscal discipline, just like any other aspect of the federal budget.
However, in practice, Gingrich's support of further escalation in Afghanistan may in fact lead to a much longer, open-ended war. In fact, we've already been at war for eight long years with no end in sight.
Without a doubt, America can deter terrorist attacks without spending trillions of dollars and losing thousands of lives in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
In addition, the record suicide rates and spiking PTSD figures plaguing our military will only worsen as repeated, overseas deployments continue unabated.
Wireless connectivity is an admirable goal, but realistically, Afghanistan is hundreds of years behind in technological innovation. A huge increase in the Afghanistan police force is a valid goal to attain self-sufficiency, but consider this.
Afghanistan already possesses 94,000 troops and 90,000 police forces. Despite an increasing number of security forces, Afghan security has actually destabilized. Again, quality trumps quantity.
And regarding a crackdown on corruption, it's no secret that America is propping up a highly corrupt leader in Hamid Karzai, as witnessed in the recent, fraudulent elections. If anything, our long-term presence has fostered a corrupt, ineffective government in Kabul.
In addition, Washington staged multiple, tactical withdrawals (think New York and Philadelphia) in order to win the greater, strategic War. I'm not personally advocating a full-scale withdrawal from Afghanistan, but some would argue that a partial or full-scale withdrawal may be tactically necessary to win the greater War on Terror.
Even Stephen Biddle, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and member of General Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team, stated on CNN's Lou Dobbs, that a withdrawal should at least be considered as a viable option, though he did not personally favor that option.
This strategy would closely monitor, disrupt, and dismantle Al-Qaeda & other Islamic terror groups around the world, without committing to long term, open-ended ventures that lead to thousands of troop deaths, tens of thousands of maimings, record suicide rates and a PTSD epidemic in the military, more debt, and a devalued Dollar.
The real data has largely contradicted these initial predictions. Therefore, the time has come for developing a new, more effective security model.


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Scotty McCreery to Attend North Carolina State University in Fall
Being a bona fide country music star isn't going to interrupt Scotty McCreery's plans to continue his schooling. The 18-year-old 'American Idol' champion and Academy of Country Music's Best New Artist winner will be furthering his education at North Carolina State University, starting this fall.
"I have decided to head down to Raleigh where my dad went to college at North Carolina State for at least for two years and maybe transfer to Nashville then," McCreery said in a chat with CMT Live Radio. "I'm excited."
Don't worry, McCreery won't be abandoning his music career, which has already produced hits like 'I Love You This Big' and 'The Trouble With Girls.' In an interview with PEOPLE, he explained, "We're gonna work classes around [and] head out on the weekends on the road or something. We're gonna work it out."
What will Scotty study? "I think marketing would be a cool way of learning how to stay out there and stay current," he revealed. So he's continuing his music career on the weekends, while taking marketing courses that will directly benefit him as a performer. Now that is one smart guy!
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Fox's Johnson Promotes Disenfranchising Voter I.D. Laws While Exaggerating Fraud Claims
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On Fox & Friends, Fox Legal Analyst Peter Johnson Jr., promoted regulations requiring voters to provide I.D. when voting and suggested that "people who are not allowed to vote" or who "vote twice" has been a problem in election years. However, a photo I.D. requirement would effectively disenfranchise some Americans and voter fraud is not a significant problem.
Johnson Jr. Advocates For Restrictive I.D. Laws To Limit "People Who Are Not Allowed To Vote" Or Who "Vote Twice"
Johnson Jr.: "If You're Registered To Vote, Then There Should Be Proof Of Registration." During the December 22 broadcast of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox legal analyst, Peter Johnson Jr., promoted making people show I.D. at polling places, a measure he suggested would resolve the problem of people voting "who are not allowed to vote" and the problem of people "vot[ing] twice." From the broadcast:
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Okay. So do voter I.D. laws discriminate against minorities? According to a poll, 22 percent believe they do. 69 percent of you believe they do not.
JOHNSON: Yeah, you know, we have -- in 31 states, there is voting I.D. requirements. Fifteen or 16 of those states have a photo requirement and in 16 other states now, there is pending legislation to impose an I.D. Now, when you go to the -- people go to the bank or someplace else and you want to cash a check, do you use I.D.?
DOOCY: You can't check -- you can't do it without it.
JOHNSON: Yeah. Did -- when you entered the building today, did you use I.D.?
DOOCY: Uh, Yeah.
JOHNSON: Ok, When you get on an airplane, do you use I.D.?
DOOCY: Many, many times.
JOHNSON: How about Amtrak, do you use I.D. sometimes?
DOOCY: They do ask for I.D.
JOHNSON: Once in a while. What's the big problem?
DOOCY: We do it all the time.
JOHNSON: If you're a registered voter, then there should be proof of registration. And so to listen to this. And we hear it every election cycle, saying oh, no. The Republicans are trying to suppress your vote. They don't want you to vote. Well, it should be prosecutors, Republicans and Democrats across the country should not want people who are not allowed to vote to vote or to vote twice. That should be the law. It shouldn't be a political hot potato. It's really simple.
DOOCY: Right
JOHNSON: Say yeah, I'm Peter Johnson, I'm entitled to vote, here is my voter registration card. Here is my passport or here is driver's license or state I.D. yeah, I'd like to vote. Thank you very much. Not a big deal. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/22/11, emphasis added]
Voter I.D. Laws Have Kept Many Eligible Voters -- Including The Elderly, Racial Minorities And Nuns -- From Voting
LA Times: Indiana Voter ID Law "Ke[pt] Nuns, Students From Polls. The Los Angeles Times reported in a May 7, 2008 article: "A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court." From the LA Times article, headlined "ID law keeps nuns, students from polls":
A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ballots by a fellow sister and poll worker because the women, in their 80s and 90s, did not have valid Indiana photo ID cards.
Though state officials reported no significant problems, advocates monitoring polling places said there was occasional confusion.
"We were at one polling place for a few hours and picked up three or four different stories of people being turned away," said Gary Kalman of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington. "I don't have numbers about how widespread it is."
"It's the law, and it makes it hard," said Sister Julie McGuire, who was working at the polling place and had to explain to the nuns that they could not vote. "Some don't understand why."
Indiana requires voters who come to the polls show a photo ID issued by the state or the federal government. The law was pressed by Republicans citing voter fraud and opposed by Democrats and the ACLU, who argued that it would disenfranchise voters. [Los Angeles Times, 5/7/08]
Brennan Center For Justice Estimates "More Than Five Million Voters Could Be Affected By The New Laws." New York University's Brennan Center for Justice issued a report estimating that newly enacted restrictions on voting, including implementing photo ID laws, "could make it significantly harder for more than 5 million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012." From the Brennan Center for Justice:
1. 3.2 million voters affected by new photo ID laws. New photo ID laws for voting will be in effect for the 2012 election in five states (Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin), which have a combined citizen voting age population of just under 29 million. 3.2 million (11 percent) of those potential voters do not have state-issued photo ID. Rhode Island voters are excluded from this count, because Rhode Island's new law's requirements are significantly less onerous than those in the other states.
2. 240,000 additional citizens and potential voters affected by new proof of citizenship laws. New proof of citizenship laws will be in effect in three states (Alabama, Kansas, Tennessee), two of which will also have new photo ID laws. Assuming conservatively that those without proof of citizenship overlap substantially with those without state-issued photo ID, we excluded those two states. The citizen voting age population in the remaining state (Alabama) is 3.43 million; 240,000 (7 percent) of those potential voters do not have documentary proof of citizenship.
3. 202,000 voters registered in 2008 through voter registration drives that have now been made extremely difficult or impossible under new laws. Two states (Florida and Texas) passed laws restricting voter registration drives, causing all or most of those drives to stop. In 2008, 2.13 million voters registered in Florida and, very conservatively, at least 8.24 percent or 176,000 of them did so through drives. At least 501,000 voters registered in Texas, and at least 5.13 percent or 26,000 of them did so via drives.
4. 60,000 voters registered in 2008 through Election Day voter registration where it has now been repealed. Maine abolished Election Day registration. In 2008, 60,000 Maine citizens registered and voted on Election Day.
5. One to two million voters who voted in 2008 on days eliminated under new laws rolling back early voting. The early voting period was cut by half or more in three states (Florida, Georgia and Ohio). In 2008, nearly 8 million Americans voted early in these states. An estimated 1 to 2 million voted on days eliminated by these new laws.
6. At least 100,000 disenfranchised citizens who might have regained voting rights by 2012. Two states (Florida and Iowa) made it substantially more difficult or impossible for people with past felony convictions to get their voting rights restored. Up to one million people in Florida could have benefited from the prior practice; based on the rates of restoration in Florida under the prior policy, 100,000 citizens likely would have gotten their rights restored by 2012. Other voting restrictions passed this year that are not included in this estimate. [Voting Law Changes In 2012, Brennan Center for Justice, October 2011; Brennan Center for Justice, 10/3/11]
NY Times: In One Indiana County, 32 "Voters Had Their Ballots Thrown Out" Because Of Voter ID Laws. From a January 7, 2008, New York Times article:
After Ms. [Valerie] Williams grabbed her cane that day and walked into the polling station in the lobby of her retirement home to vote, as she has done in at least the last two elections, she was barred from doing so.
The election officials at the polling place, whom she had known for years, told her she could not cast a regular ballot. They said the forms of identification she had always used -- a telephone bill, a Social Security letter with her address on it and an expired Indiana driver's license -- were no longer valid under the voter ID law, which required a current state-issued photo identification card.
"Of course I threw a fit," said Ms. Williams, 61, who was made to cast a provisional ballot instead, which, according to voting records, was never counted. Ms. Williams -- who has difficulty walking -- said she was not able to get a ride to the voting office to prove her identity within 10 days as required under the law, and her ballot was discarded.
A brief filed with the Supreme Court by the Marion County Board of Elections, the state's largest voting jurisdiction
and a defendant in the case, said Ms. Williams -- who is a black Republican -- and 31 other voters had to cast provisional ballots because they showed up at the polls without the state-required ID, which can include a driver's license, a passport, a state-issued ID or some other government-issued photo identification. Because they also failed to appear later at county offices with the identification required to validate their identities, all of these voters had their ballots thrown out, records show. In interviews, many of these voters said they could not find transportation or could not afford the IDs.
Mary-Jo Criswell, 71, who -- like Ms. Williams -- an Indiana voter cited in the case before the Supreme Court, had her vote thrown out in November after she was told the identification she had used in previous elections -- a bank card with a photograph, a utility bill and a phone bill -- no longer sufficed. [The New York Times, 1/7/08]
And Actual Instances Of Voter Fraud Are Few And "Scattered"
Supreme Court Plurality Actually Found Only "Scattered Instances Of In-Person Voting Fraud." The Supreme Court plurality in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board did not find widespread in-person voter fraud, the type of fraud that a requirement that voters show identification at their polling places is meant to address. Rather, it found only "scattered instances" of such fraud. From the plurality opinion in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board:
Judge Barker cited record evidence containing examples from California, Washington, Maryland, Wisconsin, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Miami, and St. Louis. The Brief of Amici Curiae Brenan Center for Justice et al. in Support of Petitioners addresses each of these examples of fraud. While the brief indicates that the record evidence of in-person fraud was overstated because much of the fraud was actually absentee ballot fraud or voter registration fraud, there remain scattered instances of in-person voter fraud. For example, after a hotly contested gubernatorial election in 2004, Washington conducted an investigation of voter fraud and uncovered 19 "ghost voters." Borders v. King Cty., No. 05-2-00027-3 (Super. Ct. Chelan Cty., Wash., June 6, 2005) (verbatim report of unpublished oral decision), 4 Election L. J. 418, 423 (2005). After a partial investigation of the ghost voting, one voter was confirmed to have committed in-person voting fraud. Le & Nicolosi, Dead Voted in Governor's Race, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 7, 2005, p. A1. [U.S. Supreme Court, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 4/28/08]
Justice Department Report Shows Very Few Prosecutions For Illegally Casting Ballots. According to a report by the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department, from October 2002 through September 2005, the Justice Department charged 95 people with "election fraud" and convicted 55. Among those, however, just 17 individuals were convicted for casting fraudulent ballots; cases against three other individuals accused of casting fraudulent votes were pending at the time of the report. In addition, the Justice Department convicted one election official of submitting fraudulent ballots and convicted five individuals of registration fraud, with cases against 12 individuals pending at the time of the report. Thirty-two individuals were convicted of other "election fraud" issues, including Republicans convicted of offenses arising from "a scheme to block the phone lines used by two Manchester [New Hampshire] organizations to arrange drives to the polls during the 2002 general election." In other words, many of these convictions were connected to voter suppression efforts, not voter fraud. Several other people listed in the report were convicted of vote-buying. [Department of Justice, accessed 6/14/11]
NYU's Brennan Center: Allegations Of Voter Fraud "Simply Do Not Pan Out" And Distract From "Real [Election] Problems That Need Real Solutions." From a 2007 report by The Brennan Center for Justice:
Perhaps because these stories are dramatic, voter fraud makes a popular scapegoat. In the aftermath of a close election, losing candidates are often quick to blame voter fraud for the results. Legislators cite voter fraud as justification for various new restrictions on the exercise of the franchise. And pundits trot out the same few anecdotes time and again as proof that a wave of fraud is imminent.
Allegations of widespread voter fraud, however, often prove greatly exaggerated. It is easy to grab headlines with a lurid claim ("Tens of thousands may be voting illegally!"); the follow-up -- when any exists -- is not usually deemed newsworthy. Yet on closer examination, many of the claims of voter fraud amount to a great deal of smoke without much fire. The allegations simply do not pan out.
These inflated claims are not harmless. Crying "wolf" when the allegations are unsubstantiated distracts attention from real problems that need real solutions. If we can move beyond the fixation on voter fraud, we will be able to focus on the real changes our elections need, from universal registration all the way down to sufficient parking at the poll site. Moreover, these claims of voter fraud are frequently used to justify policies that do not solve the alleged wrongs, but that could well disenfranchise legitimate voters. Overly restrictive identification requirements for voters at the polls -- which address a sort of voter fraud more rare than death by lightning -- is only the most prominent example. [Brennan Center for Justice, accessed 6/14/11]
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NEW YORK - Japan must raise its sales tax rate next year as scheduled to show it is serious about fixing up its tattered finances, the finance minister said on Tuesday as the government upgraded its view of the economy and said deflation was easing.
The sales tax is due to rise to 8 per cent from 5 per cent next April, and then increase to 10 per cent in October 2015. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he will decide later this year whether to go ahead with the increase, citing concerns it could weaken the economy.
Finance Minister Taro Aso said delaying the increase would go against commitments made to the G20 group of developed and developing nations that Japan would fix its finances, and said the government could take steps to mitigate any economic impact.
"We need to consider an extra budget. It's better to moderate economic fluctuations (from the tax hike)," Aso told a media conference after a cabinet meeting.
Earlier, the government upgraded its view on the economy for a third straight month, saying deflation was easing and growth was picking up due to massive monetary fiscal stimulus.
Still, plenty of work is needed to repair public finances.
Japan's public debt is the largest among major industrialized nations at more than twice the size of its 500 trillion yen (S$6.35 trillion) economy, and the sales tax hike is considered a test of the government's commitment to reform.
Abe, whose ruling bloc won a big victory in Sunday's upper house election, has vowed to push ahead with tough reforms but could face resistance from some in his party.
Some aides and lawmakers are worried the tax rise would weaken the world's third-largest economy just as it appears on the path to end 15 years on deflation. First-quarter data showed Japan was the fastest-growing major economy in the world.
Abe has indicated he would decide on the tax rise in autumn. Aso said the final decision should be based on revised April-June GDP figures released in September, rather than preliminary data due on August 12.
A government report on the long-term fiscal outlook said reforms were essential to maintain market confidence and ensure a sustainable recovery. It also noted that raising sales taxes in Europe did not necessarily damage growth.
In its economic report for July, the government upgraded its assessment of capital spending, factory output and business sentiment, and said there were signs of strength in exports and consumer spending.
"The economy is steadily picking up and it shows some movement towards a self-sustainable recovery," the Cabinet Office said. "Recent price developments indicate that deflation is easing." (S$1 = 78.8201 Japanese yen)


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Material Engineers Tackling Novel Senior Design Projects, Dec. 4, 2008
This is the third in a series of articles about the senior design classes in the engineering programs at New Mexico Tech. Previously profiled were the Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering classes. Next up: Petroleum Engineering.
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., Dec. 4, 2008 – The six seniors in the materials engineering department are faced with interesting challenges in the Senior Design Clinic.
In two groups of three, the seniors have real-world engineering tasks that will challenge their critical thinking, problem-solving, knowledge of materials and communications skills.
One team is designing and building a disposable vacuum chamber that employs a novel coating process. The other team is working on lunar pavement.
Senior design classes have been around for many years, but were only formalized as an integral part of the engineering curriculum over the past five years. ABET, the engineering accreditation organization strongly urged Tech – and all universities – to implement such classes.
"These senior design clinics – or capstone projects – are great programs," said Dr. Peter Gerity, vice president of academic affairs. "It's practical experience in a team environment. We train our students in the same mode of industry. They get the awareness they need to enter the workforce."
Professor Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld, the course instructor, said both projects seem loosely defined, which is typical situation for new engineers.
"These are real-world problems that are typical for new engineering hires," Hirschfeld said. "They learn about teamwork and they learn how to use their entire education."
Ryan Clark, Wes Horpedahl and Colin Pelletier are working with TPL Inc. of Albuquerque, a company that has sponsored Senior Design projects in the past.
A significant challenge for the vacuum chamber team is that they have to develop a design that will function with a tube that could be from 1-inch to 12-inches in diameter.
"We might not have one design," Pelletier said. "We might need multiple solutions. The force that these chambers must withstand will be different depending on the diameter."
Since the contraption must be disposable, the team also must consider end-of-life requirements. In other words, they have to be green.
"This poses a very novel problem," Clark said. "This device has practical, industrial uses – and be disposable."
The sponsors have asked the team to have a working prototype by the end of the fall semester. By the end of the second semester, the team should have accomplished the task and delivered a working model ready to be mass produced. The team will be able to test and evaluate their early prototypes using Tech facilities.
The team members are excited about their project. Horpedahl said, "We're driving and we're enthusiastic about this project, which makes it a lot easier."
Hirschfeld said TPL Inc. has been an excellent sponsor. The team members have access to company facilities in Albuquerque and a high degree of communication.
"They've agreed to treat us like employees," Horpedahl said. "Without the fringe benefits and without the pay."
The second team is working with Amalgam Industries, a Los Alamos company.
Andrew Fairbrother, Toby Sachs-Quintana and Jarret Grout are working on designing a functional pavement that will be cost-effective and practical on the Moon. Read that again: three Tech seniors are trying to develop moon pavement.
"The only unusual part of this project is that it's lunar," Hirschfeld said. "It's very common for engineers to be given a new material or a new process, even for entry level."
She said the team's two biggest obstacles will be cost-effectiveness and dealing with an engineering process in an extreme environment.
"Working in space is a bit different than working on Earth," Fairbrother said. "We'll have to work with available resources and we'll have energy limitations."
Since transporting paving materials to the moon is impractical, the Tech team must develop a paving method that uses lunar dirt and equipment that can operate on solar power.
They are working with experts from across the nation, from Kennedy Space Center to Los Alamos and points in between.
Sachs-Quintana said, "Some of this has been done before, but with limited success."
Fairbrother said, "There's a wealth of knowledge. We're hoping to build on it and go further with a different idea. We're taking a new approach and will try to get it to work."
The moon pavement team has a small supply of simulated moon dust. They will use their materials engineering skills and creativity to devise a novel method of making pavement from that moon dust.
"We're working with limited materials," Fairbrother said. "It's helpful to do a project that that is very difficult and has a lot of limitations. We will have to think critically about every step we take."
In addition to tackling advanced engineering on real-world problems, senior engineering majors at Tech learn the process.
"In previous labs, we might collaborate a little," Fairbrother said. "But now in Senior Design, we have to work together."
Horpedahl said these realistic problem-solving tasks are excellent experience prior to entering the workforce.
"We're working on someone else's schedule and dealing with someone else's money," he said. "I'm not working on my budget, so we're learning responsibility and accountability."
Through partnerships with industry and government, students get a taste of the expectations they'll face after graduation.
"If all their learning is theoretical, they will have problems in the workplace," Gerity said. "The senior design clinics are a tremendous value to our graduates. We emphasize hands-on learning so much through our four-year programs, that our graduates have an advantage that is critical to getting an edge in the job market."


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DENVER (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead's says he's concerned about increased marijuana trafficking in his state as Colorado prepares to allow the sale of recreational marijuana to the public.
Colorado released rules Monday covering licensing, tracking, packaging and advertising of recreational marijuana sales. Colorado officials have emphasized the marijuana should be consumed in-state.
But Mead, a former federal prosecutor, says Wednesday he remains concerned about drug smuggling into his state and increased impaired driving.


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Spending a warm, September Saturday afternoon in a cemetery is fun, but talking to the dead makes it special. The 2008 Cemetery Tour of the North Platte, Nebraska Cemetery, sponsored by the North Platte Public Library Foundation, was held this past Saturday. And, indeed the dead spoke!
The theme of the cemetery tour was "The Movers and Shakers of Little Chicago." North Platte had a reputation of being linked to the mobs. Maybe they just created their own gangs and hoodlums. That era in our history is always interesting.
One of the leading players in the cemetery was Annie Cook, a ruthless character who ran the poor farm and preyed upon other, even her own daughter, for her personal rewards. From the time she was a young girl she knew she had to have money to succeed in life and she would obtain the money and status any way she could. She realized that to obtain that success she would need to grease the palms of corrupt government officials and there were plenty of them in Lincoln County, Nebraska.
Her own daughter became an employee and she put her out to work in prostitute houses that Annie eventually owned. Selfish, greedy Annie is buried in the cemetery. The person portraying her did an excellent job, even jabbing at the crowd with slurs about them and others that she knew. She was definitely a part of "Little Chicago." Rocking at the foot of her grave, Annie told her story, leaving out no details or expressions of hatred.
Others included Dr. Marie Ames who benefited from treating gunshot wounds and prostitutes, and the undertaker, William Maloney, who reportedly wrote out death certificates to the advantage of those who forked over the money. Ever consider that when you are doing your research? Maybe the information was padded or totally incorrect. There were many mysterious deaths at the Lincoln County Poor Farm that were covered up by Maloney.
The best book to read about the Little Chicago era of North Platte and Lincoln County, Nebraska is Evil Obsession by Nellie Snyder Yost. It was published in 1991 by Tom Yost Publishing. Now deceased, the author anguished writing it, knowing about the corruption that prevailed in this area and how it was accepted and covered up.


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Tata Motors today showcased two SMART CITY TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS during the FAME India Eco Drive, namely the Tata IRIS Electric & a Tata Motors Hybrid bus. Shri Anant G Geete , Hon'ble Minister, HI&PE, Government of India, flagged off these vehicles at an event held in New Delhi.
Tata Iris EV is a state of the art zero emission solution in the Last Mile Public Transport space. It is a green vehicle which runs on electricity, powered by a Lithium Ion battery module of 200Ah @ 72V. The fully closed body of the Magic IRIS, with powerful, robust, low maintenance aggregates, guarantees safety, high savings and profits due to very low running cost. Boasting a powerful traction motor – 13 Kw (Peak Power) & 43 Nm (Peak Torque) which can run up to 120Kms with two battery modules, the Tata Iris EV is a healthier alternative to any other fuel operated public transportation systems. It can comfortably accommodate 4 passengers and is ideal for Smart City shared public transport. The Tata Iris EV is among the first few electric last mile public transport vehicle in the country to avail the Automobile body certification".
Tata Hybrid buses have been developed to suit Indian operating conditions and future requirements of Smart Cities. Tried and tested in Delhi and Mumbai during commonwealth games, these Hybrid CNG Electric buses can be scaled to full Electric buses. Ten similar CNG Electric hybrid buses are already running successfully in the city of Madrid, Spain and have covered more than 4 Lakh kms. The buses plying in Madrid have been designed and manufactured in India meeting all the requirements of the European Country.


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PENTATONIX are back!
Pentatonix, the four-piece who found success through NBC's The Sing-Off, have been at the forefront of the recent a capella revival. With six record-breaking albums behind them, the kings and queen of a capella head on a major WORLD tour in 2019! And in some extra exciting news, they'll be joined on tour by non other than 'Fight Song' singer Rachel Platten!
Back in 2014, we saw the group (comprised of Kirstin Maldonado, Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, and Kevin Olusola) break records with their festive album "That's Christmas to Me", which became highest-charting holiday record by a group since 1962! Since then the group has gone from strength to strength, even winning three Grammy's, including one for their huge single 'Jolene', which featured Dolly Parton herself, in 2017. With their seventh album being released in 2018, this super-group shows no signs of slowing down, don't miss out when they hit your town!
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The Development of the London Hospital System runs from 1823 to the present day, 2015. It covers the roots of the hospitals, poor law, voluntary and fever, and how they came to be part of a system. It deals with the steps leading to the creation of the NHS better than the history of the NHS that starts in 1948 and takes the existence of the NHS as a given.
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An unbelievable routine using tissue paper rolled into balls! The routine is basically Leo Leslie's "Technicolor Cups and Balls" published many years ago by Supreme Magic Co.
It is a very colorful routine, easy to do, easy to follow and with a logical finale. We added a finish that is both funny and baffling.
You show three cups and three pieces of tissue paper, say one red, one yellow and one green. You roll the paper into small balls and these balls penetrate through the cups, first one, then two and then all three. Finally the balls disappear and reappear under the cups! One ball is placed under the stack of cups. The other two are vanished. The cups are lifted and only one ball is there.... but wait!
This ball is unwrapped and the second ball appears, and inside this second ball there is the third one! Virtually no moves! Use any set of cups (even plastic ones) and ordinary tissue paper.
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Upload a file to create direct debits
The direct debits file upload tool in ANZ Internet Banking allows you to import an aba file, which consists of multiple payment details created using your accounting software.
- Once the aba file is imported, the payments will be populated so you can easily create direct debits from them.
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- Step 1 - Create your .aba file
- Step 2 - Locate and upload your .aba file
- Step 3 - View the user ID list
- Step 4 - Select the relevant user ID
- Step 5 - Check the direct debit details
- Step 6 - Enter the transfer date
- Step 7 - Fill in your business name
- Step 8 - Add more payments (if applicable)
- Step 9 - Save as a template (if applicable)
- Step 10 - Click "Continue"
- Step 11 - Review your information
- Step 12 - Confirm your payment
- Step 13 - View your lodgement receipt
- Important notes
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ANZ Internet Banking for Business customers can import a payment file to create direct debits. To upload a file for direct debits:
- Go to the "Set up business Direct debits" menu.
- Click on the "Import file" link and follow the steps below.
|Step 1 - Create your .aba file
ABA stands for Australian Banking Association.
|Step 2 - Locate and upload your .aba file
Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure you have uploaded the correct file.
|Step 3 - View the user ID list
The "Direct debit" page will display each user ID along with the following details:
|Step 4 - Select the relevant user ID
Ensure the correct user ID is selected, using the radio buttons under the "Select" column.
This will again display a summary of the direct debit user ID information.
Please note that the multiple direct debit payments will all be processed as one credit to your selected account. You cannot select multiple accounts.
|Step 5 - Check the direct debit details
The direct debit details are displayed including the user ID, credit account and direct debit client details from the imported file.
|Step 6 - Enter the transfer date
|Step 7 - Fill in your business name
|Step 8 - Add more payments (if applicable)
The payment details from your .aba file will populate the payments list.
|Step 9 - Save as a template (if applicable)
You can save payment lists as a template to make future direct debits quicker.
|Step 10 - Click "Continue"
|Step 11 - Review your information
Review all your information to ensure it is correct. If information is incorrect it may result in an unsuccessful transfer or the wrong payee receiving funds.
|Step 12 - Confirm your payment
ANZ Internet Banking for Business Operators can click "Request authorisation" to submit the transfer to the relevant Authoriser or Administrator for approval.
|Step 13 - View your lodgement receipt
|Important notes
When you are making direct debits it is your responsibility to ensure the details you provide are correct.
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You can help protect your ANZ Internet Banking by ensuring you keep your security software up to date:
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Use our faqs to find out more about uploading direct debit files.
|What is the direct debits facility?
Direct debit is a facility that allows you to draw funds electronically from debtors. It's a fast and efficient way to manage your cash flow and finances.
|Do I need to apply for direct debit facility?
Yes. Even if you have registered for an ANZ Internet Banking for Business you must apply for the direct debits facility.
|How do I set up a direct debit facility within ANZ Internet Banking for Business?
A direct debit facility can be activated within ANZ Internet Banking for Business if you are a relationship managed/business banking managed customer with a dedicated ANZ Relationship Manager or ANZ Business Banking Manager to look after your account.
|Are there any fees associated with direct debit facility?
Yes. There is a once-off direct debit user ID establishment fee of $200+GST.
|Is the direct debit limit inclusive of the Pay Anyone limit?
No. The direct debit limit is independent of the daily Pay Anyone limit.
|What is the minimum limit for direct debit facility?
The minimum limit for a direct debit facility is $5,000.
|Do I need to reapply for this facility each month?
No. Once set up the direct debit facility is valid until the specified expiry date; however a direct debit limit is renewed every cycle.
|My limit is $10,000. What happens if I exceed my limit?
If you exceed your direct debit limit for your pre-determined cycle, ANZ Internet Banking for Business will reject the payment.
|Can I see returned items associated with the direct debit payments?
Yes. You can view the returned items associated with the direct debit payments done and the reason the item was returned (e.g. incorrect account or BSB, insufficient funds, etc) on the "Set up business Direct debit" menu.
|What are the direct debit return codes and corresponding reasons?
Use the table below to check return codes and reasons.
|Can I make changes to an ABA file I have imported, before requesting authorisation?
Yes. You can make changes to the uploaded payment file before authorising the transaction.
|What is the cut-off time for processing direct debit payments?
The standard cut-off time for processing direct debit payments is 6.00pm Melbourne time on a bank business day.
|If I send the direct debit batch on a Monday when do I get the funds in my account?
With the direct debit facility you will receive the credit as soon as the direct debits are processed.
|Can I set up recurring direct debit transactions?
No. Direct debits cannot be set up as recurring transactions.
|How do I stop a future direct debit transaction?
You can stop future dated direct debit transaction via the "Manage future payments/transfers" section under the "Payments" menu.
To delete future dated payments/transactions, the request must be lodged with ANZ Internet Banking prior to 11.59pm Melbourne time on the day prior to the payment/transfer date.
|Can an Operator upload direct debit payment files?
Yes. Operators are permitted to perform file uploads from accounting software packages.
|What type of files can be imported in ANZ Internet Banking for Business?
The payment file needs to be in the aba file format, which can be recognised by the file extension .aba.
|What extra information is required by an accounting package for an .aba file?
You will need the following information before you upload a payment file from any accounting software:
|What does the ABA file consist of?
The ABA File consist of the payment details with client's account details, reference number, amount to be debited, your account details, etc. The ABA files must consist of the following three sections:
Please note that the aba file is a fixed width format therefore any unused character positions must be filled with spaces.
|Can the direct debit client's lists and templates be restricted from some users?
Payee/employees/clients lists and payment templates are available to all Administrators and Authorisers in ANZ Internet Banking for Business as this information is held at the business level.
Need more help?
For further assistance please call the ANZ Internet Banking team on 13 33 50 (International callers: +61 3 9683 8833) 24 hours a day, seven days a week.


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Mitchell Corn Palace Getting an Upgrade
The Corn Palace in Mitchell is getting a makeover! Construction has begun on a $7.2 million upgrade to the popular tourist attraction. The upgrade to the Corn Palace will include new domes and lighting, larger murals and a walk-out balcony above the marquee.
The building's main entrance will be closed but the box office will be moved to a temporary entrance.


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