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Tech Starts Distance Ed Engineering Alliance in Northern Iraq, Oct. 31, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
Right: New Mexico Tech petroleum engineering professor Dr. Robert Bretz (left) and Rob Hepler, distance education technology manager at Tech, pose in one of the university's studios.
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 31, 2008 – New Mexico Tech is forming a new alliance with a Kurdish university based in the northern Iraq city of Erbel.
Khosrow Bazrafshan, a 1989 Tech graduate and a native Kurd, returned to Socorro last summer looking for faculty to help launch the University of Kurdistan-Hawler.
He found two willing takers – petroleum engineering professor Dr. Bob Bretz and distance education technology manager Rob Hepler.
The two-man Tech contingent departed Saturday, Nov. 1, for a week-long trip to the Middle East, to help set up a distance education program for petroleum engineering in Erbel, a city known by the Kurds as Hawler.
Bretz will offer one class to Kurdish students beginning in January, while Hepler will help implement the technology needed to conduct distance education. Hepler, who is also a videographer, aims to create a documentary about their trip to northern Iraq.
"Khosrow came to New Mexico Tech this summer looking for people to teach courses … right now," Bretz said.
Bazrafshan earned a doctorate in geochemistry at Tech. He is in charge of the Hawler university's petroleum technology master's program, but he wants to convert the program to petroleum engineering.
"The main idea behind my efforts is to help the government and the petroleum industry educate people from the region and to facilitate the development of our vast petroleum resources," Bazrafshan said via e-mail.
He returned to his homeland a year ago and quickly realized that the region urgently needs trained professionals and technicians to help the country develop its natural resources. The country has plenty of qualified students lining up for a college education, but limited expertise.
"They have no faculty," Bretz said. "That's why he came to us."
Bazrafshan also gravitated toward New Mexico Tech because of his familiarity with the programs and people.
"I am a Techie and I believe New Mexico Tech could play a major role in educating scientists, professionals and researchers in petroleum fields," he said via e-mail. "Helping the University of Kurdistan-Hawler is one way that Tech could get involved in these efforts. We need all the help we can get."
Dr. Peter Gerity, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Tech, said the new relationship in the Kurdish region fulfills the university's mission to act globally.
"Anything we can do to strengthen friendships around the world is vitally important," Gerity said. "It's not just educational outreach, but also putting an emphasis on friend-making."
The first class to be offered by New Mexico Tech in Hawler will be "The Physical Properties of Petroleum Fluids," or PETR 245. The course focuses on the fundamentals of petroleum engineering. Bretz has taught the class via distance education before. In recent years, he recorded his class lectures for a class of four students that included three distance learners – in Norway, Kazakhstan and Houston.
"The class works well as a distance course," Bretz said. "Students who have taken the class since we recorded it really like it. They can replay the lectures and that helps the learning process."
A significant challenge to interactive distance learning is the limited bandwidth capabilities northern Iraq. Hepler said Tech would be able to offer more classes to students in Erbel if the region had stronger Internet capabilities. Among their top priorities while abroad is examining the bandwidth capabilities and using existing technologies to set up a distance education classroom.
"With the right software, all we would need is high-speed connectivity," Hepler said. "We'll teach them what equipment to use and how to project the video and audio."
Another top priority is developing working relationships with university leaders.
Bretz sees this new relationship as an opportunity for New Mexico Tech to add to its portfolio of international partnerships and an opportunity to attract new, qualified graduate students.
The Kurdish government is eager to develop academic and industrial relationships, including the sale of oil and gas concessions in the region. The government is paying for all of Hepler's and Bretz's expenses for their trip.
The university was formed in 2006 and offers degree-track programs predominantly in humanities and social sciences. The secular, English-language university offers free education and espouses equal opportunity to students of any ethnicity, religion or gender. With its vast petroleum reserves, the government wants to add engineering programs to encourage Kurdish young people to pursue careers in engineering.
"When he was here in Socorro, Khosrow said the region has lots of petroleum; they have petroleum seeping out of the ground," Bretz said.
He was a bit skeptical at first – but his skepticism lasted less than 24 hours. The very next day, Bretz read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the oil and gas glut in the Kurdish region.
"I saw this picture from Kurdistan of a pool of petroleum," he said. "The report said that the entire geologic formation extends from Iraq into Turkey and Syria and has 100 billion barrels of oil."
The region known unofficially as Kurdistan includes portions of Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. At 390,000 square miles, the greater Kurdistan region is larger than Texas and smaller than Alaska. The Kurdistan Autonomous Region – the only recognized autonomous federal region in the world – includes only the portion in Iraq.
The oil reserves in Iraq proper contain another 100 billion to 120 billion barrels of oil. Together, the region rivals Saudi Arabia's oil reserves of 280 billion to 300 billion barrels, Bretz said.
"That's a tremendous amount of petroleum," Bretz said. "This is a unique opportunity for New Mexico Tech."


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Amy Letourneau earn National Collegiate POW
OKLAHOMA CITY --- Northwestern pitcher/first baseman Amy Letourneau (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) went 2-0 in the circle including a no-hitter and added two home runs against Minnesota over the weekend. For her outstanding play, the sophomore has been honored with her first USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week award the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today. Letourneau went 6-for-8 from the batter's box for a .750 average. The sophomore finished the week with a 1.500 slugging percentage and an .818 on-base percentage.
"This is such an amazing honor to be chosen for this award, especially with all of the great players around the country who have earned it already this season," said Letourneau. "We had a great week of preparation leading up to last weekend and it really helped us perform and take the next step as a team."
The California native started the weekend by etching her name in the Northwestern softball record books when she became the 45th pitcher in school history to record a no-hitter. Letourneau struck out 11 batters in the game on her way to the 6-2 win. She was also productive from the plate going 2-for-4 with a run scored. On Saturday, the sophomore went 3-for-3 with four RBI and a home run. Letourneau returned to the circle on Sunday to toss another complete-game victory in a 4-2 NU win. The pitcher hammered her second home run of the weekend in the first inning, this one a two-run shot.
"Amy has had great poise in big moments this season," said Northwestern Head Coach Kate Drohan. "When we have to get an out in the circle or need that two-out RBI base hit, Amy is getting it done. She is really locked in right now."
This is the first USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week honor for Amy. The last Northwestern player to receive the award was Tammy Williams in Week Six of the 2009 season.
2013 USA Softball National Collegiate Players of the Week
Week 1 (Feb. 7-10): Keilani Ricketts - Oklahoma - Senior - Pitcher– San Jose, Calif.
Week 2 (Feb. 11-17): BB Bates – UCLA – Senior – Outfield – Victorville, Calif.
Week 3 (Feb. 18-24): Mel Dumezich – Texas A&M – Senior – Pitcher – Whiting, Ind.
Week 4 (Feb. 25- March 3): Katie Keller – Louisville – Junior – Second Base – Livermore, Calif.
Week 5 (March 4-10): Ivy Renfroe – Tennessee – Senior – Pitcher – Jackson, Tenn.
Week 6 (March 11-17): Kaia Parnaby – Hawai'i – Senior – Pitcher – Bilgola Plateau, NSW, Australia
Week 7 (March 18-24): Raven Chavanne – Tennessee – Senior – Utility – Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Week 8 (March 25-31): Amy Letourneau – Northwestern – Sophomore – Pitcher/1B – Laguna Niguel, Calif.


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When Choosing an OB...
…do you choose a male or female? Why?
This was a recent Navelgazing Midwife Facebook question. The answers were, as expected, all over the place. I'll comment at the end.
RR: When I chose an OB (I have a midwife this time), I chose a woman. I don't understand having a doctor that specializes in female body parts but lacks them himself.
JB: I prefer a midwife. And female. No more MEDwives either.
(The MEDwives discussion comes in a later post.)
MGD: A woman. No matter how many books a male OB will read, he will never know what a menstrual cramp or a contraction will feel like!
PNB: I use to believe that having a woman would be best because she could sympathize with what I was going through and possibly relate to some of the issues of pregnancy, but after my first pregnancy and birth I know that isn't always true, even when the Dr. you are seeing is pregnant, which she was. So, after that, I didn't have a preference.
HFT: I choose a midwife as well, but actually have been under the care of a male OB for the past year or so. Of the available OBs in this area, his practice allies with my philosophy more closely - so I guess my answer is whoever I can find that most closely provides what I'm looking for. I do prefer a female though. I'm not terribly keen on the idea of some strange man poking around my lady bits, medical degree or not.
JW: Neither has preference. I have met enough women physicians that see pregnancy as a pathology and enough men that respect female autonomy. I have had a female OB, a male OB and a midwife attend my births. The male OB was far more respectful of my birth plan than the female OB. The midwife was the best - but I was much more cautious and thorough when I interviewed her.
TS-K: A woman. And they have to have had children themselves.
JD: I would always choose a midwife first. If I needed a surgeon, I would choose whoever I felt most comfortable with, gender wouldn't matter. For some reason I do prefer female Dr. for my kids though.
CES: I don't think gender matters. What matters is having a health care provider that listens to you and respects your decisions, even if you do not agree. I love my OB. He is kind and very compassionate (to me, I don't know about his experiences with others, but have not heard negative about him. I have never worked with him as a doula. However, I have a few choice words about his colleagues.)
SGM: Instinctively, I would say woman. I prefer midwives, but since becoming a doula I would say that the male OBs seem a lot gentler than the women OBs. Males doing OB-GYN work still makes me think... why? Do they love women, or hate them? Money or perversion? I don't know. I over analyze things for sure.
KBH: Jennifer took the words out of my mouth! Of all the OBs I've seen, I've probably gotten more patronizing, ignorant, and condescending remarks from the female physicians though, personally.
It really comes down to the person, male or female, the practice, and their philosophies to me.
JA: I always thought a woman until I was pregnant with my first and saw a male OB who respected my birth wishes and who I felt most comfortable with... and cared for my husband as part of the birth team as well.
AS-K: MIDWIFE. Period. I have seen female OB who loves to cut women so for an OB it doesn't matter which one but they'll never have the same respect for women as midwives do.
LMS: After being betrayed by a trusted male OB, I am fairly certain I will be seeing female docs from here forward. Sadly, recent events have risked me out of future midwifery care.
JRBB: Woman. There's just some things that men will never understand. The last male OB I went to drove me screaming for my current midwife. I have been treated by her partner/backup OB, a woman who is by far one of the sweetest people I have ever met. If I needed a surgeon, she's it, no questions.
SS: Haven't had the opportunity to choose, honestly. I go where my insurance brings me and try to avoid the heavier intervention nitwits where possible. But I always end up in a mixed practice with no control over anything. (Mixed by gender, mixed by approach to birth, mixed by everything really.)
What's below the waist or if someone has facial hair doesn't matter to me. What I would care about is a person's attitude. But I haven't had the opportunity to choose that either. Nor do I think I will with any other births that I have in the future.
I think that I also would want to choose someone who would not have assumptions about my experience based on their own experiences or lack of experiences. Honestly, I would want someone with the same approach as Alex (my partner) during my last birth: I know what I need. He had no preconceptions, or at least did not have any preconceptions that caused him to respond on my behalf other than in ways that I had asked him to.
A woman's experience with cramps or contractions? Honestly, I would prefer someone who simply understood that if I say "it hurts more when you do xyz during a contraction" without applying their own experiences to it. As long as my expressed feelings and wishes are listened to, I don't care.
I could easily and happily give birth alone in Times Square surrounded by strangers. I don't care who is there. I care about the reasons I am being touched against my will, and how the touching takes place.
I do not want to be touched BY ANYONE during labor. Touch is a violation. If I touch you, or ask for touch, yes. But any other contact, words uttered, etc. is a violation.
I would, if I could, choose someone who understood that about me, that believed me when I said that, and that would truly balance that with the safety of my baby taking priority, of course.
I was told on a hospital tour that being "open" to the experience would make it more likely that I would be happy with the birth. I found the opposite to be true. Allowing myself anger and skepticism and not blindly trusting those that did things that raised questions... that is what made my experience a positive one, although had anyone been at both births they would likely have said my first birth (which I found violating) was the "positive" one because I was passive and asked few questions.
(I got angry when my reasonable requests were ignored like the tightening of a contraction monitor during a contraction, and when questions were ignored. I was sort of "meh" about the touching without asking for permission because I expected it and can make excuses for it.)
EVU: Does not matter to me as long as they have a great reputation.
SP: The OB who encouraged my VBAC was a man. The family practitioner who encouraged my home births and came afterwards and examined me and the baby-and didn't charge for it, was a man. I don't think openness of mind and spirit is sex selective.
MG: I would not get to choose an OB, if I saw one it would be in a transport from a midwife-attended homebirth, and I would get whomever was on call. Outside of birth... I don't call Dr's I see for Gyn care, OB's, I call them GYN's, because although I understand why the two specialties are conflated into one, I think there's an important distinction between maternity care and gynecology. If I needed to seek care with a GYN, I would have 2 main criteria - who gave me information about my health and my choices and then let me choose, and who was capable of comfortable paps, and while I'd probably rank a woman who provided such care above a man who did, I'd put those two criteria far above the anatomy of my care provider.
I like that you distinguished between OB and GYN. I should have said that in the original question; thanks for bringing it into the discussion.
NY: I generally don't use OBs at all, but during my homebirth transfer with my 4th, I called all of the hospitals to see who was on-call and I chose to go to the hospital that had a VBAC friendly woman- not because I was VBAC-ing but because I felt that if she supported VBAC then she would be more open to letting me do my thang. And she did- she never told me what to do, when to push or anything. She actually didn't even touch me until my son's shoulder's got stuck and his heart tones were dropping.
The prospect of a male Dr. was terrifying for me and I felt that a male would not be empathetic enough for me to feel comfortable birthing with him. Had I been transporting to get a c-section it wouldn't have really mattered. I figure they all do it enough I'm sure they get great practice.
NKW: I also would rather have a midwife....however, (if an OB,) man. Women OBs seem to have a "oh honey....you'll be fine....we've all done this" attitude and it frustrates me. But, that's just my personal experience.
LH: I prefer female OBs, which also happen to be the majority of OBs in my area. With my first pregnancy I saw a male OB and he said some terribly hurtful things to me so that put me off male OBs pretty quickly.
My current OB and the backup that I've seen are both really nice and seem to be really supportive of more natural birthing.
Then again I'm in a country in which the midwifery model of care is the norm and the only reason I'm seeing an OB is because I'm high risk. Go figure.
NM: No preference of gender. Want a care provider who listens and considers me a part of the health care team.
Not always easy to find.
KP: Midwife!! Both my midwives have had male back-ups (one OB, one FP), and I've not gone to an OB/GYN other than those single visits during each pregnancy. I'm not anti "male OB" but would prefer a female, I think, if I had to choose between two equally supportive OBs of the opposite sex. Now, if I had to choose between a wonderful male OB and a horrible female OB, I'd definitely choose the latter!
CSM: Because of a history of abuse, I do best with a female or a male who isn't Caucasian.
ND: I would have thought that it would be that women would be more sympathetic to other women... so I thought, in the past, it would be a female. But, from experience, I have found more good male OBs than female. Although, that said, I have found horrendous male OBs and phenomenal female OBs... so, more than anything, one that is good and mother/baby-friendly. I couldn't care less about gender. But, as others have said, this is why I choose a MW.
KP (again): In the vein of "a woman understands in a way that a man cannot possibly know" (about childbirth, contractions, or menstrual cramps), I was reminded of something a female friend once told me after she had joined the Army or Navy -- male drill sergeants were in general "better" than females, because they would soften up if the female private claimed PMS or cramps, whereas the females would basically say, "Suck it up, wimp; I had to march whether I had cramps or not, and you will too!" So, I can see that male OBs might have the same response -- because they don't have the female equipment, they may just listen to the woman's complaints, whereas a female (depending on whether she's brusque or not) may assume her own mild cramps are everybody else's bad cramps, and brush off real pain as inconsequential.
JM: I have always preferred a woman, I think women know the needs of another woman, but I have been proved wrong lately.
KM: I went with a woman when I was pregnant with my son because I thought she'd know about what I was going through. That she would understand my fears and my beliefs. Nope. Turned out that she didn't care and was "c-section" happy. Now that I'm with my midwives, I'm happier, they understand me, they talk to us like family and I love that they know what we are going through.
NgM: I used to hire only female docs, mainly because of a history of abuse, but it didn't take long before I realized that, far too often, female docs have had the femininity beaten out of them in medical school. It is common knowledge that the minorities in a given culture must perform above and beyond, far above, the majority. It's that way with females in med school (although the numbers are pretty evenly split now, med school is still distinctly patriarchal).
Over the years, I've had and seen some ghastly female docs and some phenomenal male docs. But, make no mistake, there are just as many of the opposite out there.
Two female OBs stand out more than all the other crappy/mean/evil doctors. One was Sarah's doc when she had her son. She was in a damn hurry and Sarah didn't even push for five minutes… telling her to hurry because she had another delivery to do so she was going to cut an episiotomy. Sarah sat up and yelled at her not to and the doctor said, "I hope you tear," while taking the baby's head and pressing upwards on it, causing her to tear into her urethra and right to her clitoris. I know it's mean to think so, but we gloated when we heard she'd had three days of an induction before a cesarean herself when she had her baby.
The other bitch (and I mean that in the nastiest of ways) was a doctor who Pit'd to Distress a client of mine. Made me sick to my stomach.
I've also known a couple of male CNMs, one of whom I liked a lot. I've never met a male midwife that wasn't a CNM, though… and the prospect feels weird. I'm sure that's what doctors said about females entering the medical field a hundred years ago.
I wanted to say one more thing about the "Why would a male doctor become an OB/GYN… he must have issues." I've actually heard (read) that as a lesbian, that I must be some lecherous homosexual to want to be a midwife. Well, at least for me, that isn't true at all. While I totally agree there are a plethora of misogynistic (and even abusive) doctors, I also hope there's a place for believing that not all male OB/GYNs are perverts wanting to get into women's genitals as a career.
Thank you, all of you, for sharing your thoughts. Really, really great dialogue!
Dr. Dale Lapp, San Diego, CA. (VBAC-friendly doctor)


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YES Network threw a party in New York on Sunday to unveil its 3D telecast of the New York Yankees vs. Seattle Mariners game. After a two-inning fiber optic glitch in the production truck outside Safeco Field in Seattle, which had viewers wondering what all the fuss about 3D was, the technology finally kicked in and got party guests nodding their heads and saying that's more like it.
But the test run by YES and its partners DirecTV, Panasonic and Fox Sports Northwest was done exactly for that reason — to televise a live baseball game in 3D and work out all the glitches.
YES on Saturday night had televised the first Major League Baseball game in 3D when the Mariners hosted the Yankees — a game that was carried on DirecTV along with seven of YES Network's cable affiliates. YES gathered a group of reporters and other invited guests on Sunday for a repeat performance at the Helen Mills Theater, where it had several Panasonic 3D sets and gave out 3D glasses to all those in attendance.
One YES executive told TheWrap that if a couple thousand people saw the games in the New York and Seattle markets, the only places they were televised, it would be a lot. But, that individual added, the production experience gleaned from the telecast will be invaluable to eventually making 3D baseball a staple much like high definition has become.
John Filippelli, president of programming and production for YES, confirmed that thinking.
Filippelli told TheWrap the two telecasts were "an overwhelming success for what is a nascent technology. This was always deemed to be an experiment. Right now we are shooting a 3D game like we do a regular baseball game with the same basic camera positions. We have to find ways as we go along to accentuate the benefits of 3D in shooting baseball. These telecasts will allow us to start finding the best camera angles, determine how many cameras we need, things like that. To learn the nuances of shooting a game in 3D."
Filippelli said the best 3D camera shot is one level with the players from behind home plate, but in most stadiums that camera position has been eliminated with the addition of high-priced luxury seats. He said with overhead 3D cameras behind home plate, the shots are more flat and less dimensional. In Seattle, the production crew got permission to put in a special temporary 3D camera area in the seats behind home plate.
"These are things that have to be worked out," he said.
As clear a picture as high definition offers, there can still be a greater crispness in certain closeups with 3D cameras, Filippelli said. "The little shots that don't resonate on regular TV or HD really pop in 3D."
Then, of course, there are the 3D commercials, which pop out of the screen. The special telecast only had a few and they were basically DirecTV promotions for programming from their 3D offerings.
One fun part of the game was when the grounds crew watering the field before the game aimed their hoses at toward the camera, making it seem that water was spraying out into the audience, just like in the movies.
But 3D sports telecasts aren't like 3D movies. There generally aren't many things popping out of the screen, although from that level-behind-home-plate shot, it does look like the green grass field is flowing out of the screen.
This weekend test by YES and its three collaborators was not cheap. Filippelli told TheWrap the cost of 3D production of one baseball game is between six and eight times as much as the production of a high-definition game.
Ray Hopkins, YES' chief operating officer, told TheWrap that ultimately the cost for paying for regular 3D baseball telecasts will be covered by ad revenue and affiliate fees. But that is several years away.
Before that can happen, the price of 3D sets has to come down, more people have to buy the 3D sets, and more 3D content must be developed outside of live sports.
Much like when high definition began, people would not start buying sets until there was enough content. And advertisers wouldn't spend the money to make separate commercials until there were enough viewers watching.
It took high definition about 10 years from the time the first content started to appear to today, when high-definition sets, once priced at $5,000 or more, came down under to $1,000. Hopkins and Filippelli both don't believe it is going to take 3D technology as long to catch on in television. "It will be an evolutionary process over the next several years," Hopkins said.
"3D sports is definitely the future, and it will not take as long as it did for HD to catch on," Filippelli told TheWrap. "It is imminent. Maybe in another two or three years."
Until then, Hopkins is hoping that all those who have a stake in the future of 3D, particularly the TV set manufacturers, will continue to partner with YES in additional game telecasts.
"If it makes sense for our subscribers and from a financial standpoint, we're all ears," Hopkins said.


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The indigenous languages of Cameroon's Lower Fungom region are in danger of vanishing, and Jeff Good, an assistant professor of linguistics, has made it his work to document them before they do.
With a team of graduate students, Good is undertaking a project that includes describing the grammar and lexicon of Lower Fungom languages, as well as creating audio recordings of native speakers.
The researchers also are investigating the historical and sociolinguistic forces that have enabled so many varieties of speech to flourish in Lower Fungom, one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world.
The work in Africa, which aligns with the UB 2020 strategic strength in Cultures and Texts, is particularly important in an era of mass extinction.
Some experts predict that half of the world's languages will disappear within a century, with urbanization and cultures of monolinguism diminishing smaller languages' chance of survival.


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It's the first Academy Awards for many of this year's nominees, and as the saying goes, you never forget your first. From newcomers like 12 Years A Slave's Lupita Nyong'o, to veterans like Nebraska's June Squibb, the red carpet is going to be packed with performers trotting out their first Oscar gown or tux. That's a lot of pressure. Years from now, when those Oscar freshmen have become veterans, we'll look back at these first steps they took. What were they wearing? What were they thinking? Who were they dating? How nervous did they look? Sarah Jessica Parker recently spoke to us about her first, DIY red carpet Oscar experience and fondly recalled her date back in 1989.
I found a local dressmaker [in Pittsburgh] to make me a dress for the Oscars. And I guarantee you I wore a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes. And I did my own hair and makeup. [...] I went with a young man named Robert Downey Jr., because we were courting at the time, and I'm sure I have the dress. It was a simple, black velvet dress. [...] If only it was that simple today.
Actress Ellen Burstyn (who has been nominated for an Oscar six times and won in 1975 for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), explains that the red carpet pressure is a little more intense these days.
Oh, well, those fans outside of the red carpet have just gotten to be so big. I mean, when I first started attending, it wasn't like that. It reminds me a little bit of the Christians and the lions, in the arena, cheering. It's got an incredible energy to it. It's bigger than it used to be, much bigger.
For a little perspective, and some fun fashion flashbacks, we took a look at what this year's crop of returning nominees looked like the first time they walked the Oscar red carpet. Some were so young, some were so nervous, and some just hadn't figured out their hair yet. Take a look at these ten nominees, then and now.


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As regulators push banks to adopt stronger measures to prevent fraudsters from breaching their customers' online bank accounts, there are indications that designers of malware have turned their sights to softer targets, such as corporate payroll systems.
"They're finding the weaker links," says Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner. "Banks are spending a lot of money on preventive measures, and regulators have forced them to institute improvements. That's not true for payroll providers."
Trusteer, a provider of software protecting browsers from malware, reported last week that it had discovered a configuration of Zeus—one of the more ubiquitous strains of malware—that was designed to capture a screenshot of a payroll services page from Ceridian Corp., which provides human resources services to companies. Minneapolis-based Ceridian released a statement saying that no breach had occurred.
Yishay Yovel, vice president of marketing at Boston-based Trusteer, notes that Zeus is configured in a number of different ways to enable it to breach different systems and instruct them on how to perpetrate the fraud. Trusteer's investigative unit found a configuration designed specifically to capture a screenshot of the Web page Ceridian's clients would use to access its payroll service.
A Ceridian spokesperson says the company has limited opportunity to directly affect its customers' computer systems, which are targeted by the malware. The company does, however, "offer security guidance in addition to application and infrastructure level controls," the spokesperson says.
Fraudsters essentially take a shotgun approach, aiming to infect as many computers as possible in the hope one will be used by an key corporate executive such as a payroll administrator, allowing Zeus to steal his or her user ID, password, company number and the icon selected by the user for the image-based authentication system. The fraudsters can then open up fake accounts and have large sums transferred to them.
Last July, an employee with access to the online payroll accounts of the Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority in Omaha, Neb., opened a malware-infected e-mail that stole the employee's passwords and other key information and transferred $217,000 to "mule" accounts. The nonprofit had reportedly declined security measures offered by its bank, First National Bank of Omaha.
Litan says Zeus's "man-in-the-browser" resides on an infected computer's browser until the opportunity arises to record passwords and other key information. The malware, she adds, can already breach what are viewed as advanced encryption techniques, such as one-time passwords.
"Most [payroll companies] have security measures they think are strong, but Zeus figured out how to breach them long ago," Litan says. "We're starting to see early evidence of cloud service attacks, which I think are more common than disclosed."
Trusteer notes several reasons why malware attacks against payroll and other cloud-service providers are likely to continue, including fraudsters' ability to siphon larger sums of money than they would get from individual consumers, the traditional target for malware, and users' ability to access cloud services from laptops, home PCs and other devices that are less likely to be secured.
This article was first posted on www.treasuryandrisk.com, a sister publication to Credit Union Times.


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"COIL-WINDERS" SCHOLARSHIPS. ..Three New Mexico Tech students recently were presented with national scholarships awarded by the Electrical Manufacturing and Coil Winding Association (EMCWA). Pictured (from left to right) are Tech students Michael Berg, a senior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science; Steve Wasson, a senior majoring in electrical engineering; and Shannon Gady, a junior majoring in materials engineering. Also pictured (far right) is Robert O. Sanchez, a magnetic component design engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who also is an active member of the EMCWA. Sanchez presented the merit-based scholarships on behalf of the national organization. In addition to receiving a scholarship, Wasson also was invited to present a student research paper at the upcoming 25th annual conference of the EMCWA in Cincinnati.


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"Luck can only get you so far, Harry..." - Hermione
We're not fighting off evil witches and wizards in our spare time, but every once in a while, we could use a dash of luck. Maybe the commute home is fast and uneventful, or the pizza place accidentally throws in free cheesy bread, or our cat doesn't puke on the bed. It's the little things, really.
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- Dimensions: 5" tall (inside display), 2.5" tall (potion only)
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Just Too Cool! Voyager fires its thrusters for the first time in 37 years.
Recently I re-watched the movie The Martian, which is also a novel. [US HERE – UK HERE I understand that the author has a new book out.] I find it inspiring. We encounter challenges. We work the problems. We face … Continue reading
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25 years ago, from 4 billion miles away… a glimpse of your planet
From APOD comes this marvelous image: Explanation: On another Valentine's Day 25 years ago, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make this first ever Solar System family portrait. The … Continue reading
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Voyager I finally reaches interstellar space!
Voyager I was launched in 1977. It has finally let your solar system and entered interstellar space. Click HERE for youtube videos of the songs on the "Golden Record". Very cool.
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Happy Birthday VOYAGER!
From NASA (and remember that Pres. Obama has killed the manned space program… just another reason to vote against him): August 20, 2012 Thirty-five years ago today, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a … Continue reading
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Inspired by the English Renaissance buildings of the 16th and early 17th Centuries, the Tudor architectural style rose in popularity in American suburbs during the 1920s and then spread throughoutNorth America―sometimes incorporating brick exteriors in cooler climates.
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Traditional tudor color schemes often feature whites, creams and browns to complement the rich colors in the brick, roof and trim. Take cues from these elements for your palette. Often, light stucco colors are mixed with dark trim to accentuate the style's unique architectural details. For a modern twist, paint the trim a lighter color than the rest of the house.
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How to know when the price is right
The last time you were on an airplane, you were likely sitting near someone who paid twice as much as you did for a ticket. You were probably just as close to someone who paid only half your fare. Airlines have complicated algorithms for pricing their seats: Business travelers are willing to pay more on short notice, while leisure travelers plan ahead and deal with travel restrictions to pay much less.
Small business owners don't have the luxury of complicated pricing algorithms to determine how much to charge for their goods and services. Accounting for such factors as competition, costs and customers can prove tricky when running a small business.
While pricing below the competition might seem like a great way to drive sales, it may actually create the opposite effect. Cutting prices decreases your profit margin. Invariably, your competition will slash their price to catch up, effectively trapping you with your lower margins. This can be especially difficult if you are up against a larger chain store or businesses that are more diversified than yours. Instead, consider offering (and marketing) low-cost ancillary benefits that might allow you to price above the competition: better service, exclusive branding, or a personal touch.
Of course, costs need to be accounted for when setting prices. Be sure not to exclude overhead, labor, and the cost of goods in your calculations. You wouldn't want to lose money for selling an item.
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Isn't this an interesting turn of events that Robert Hawkins is all over the news after killing eight people and wounding five others, is being talked about as if he was such a tortured soul and worthy of our sympathy. Yet what sympathy was shown for Kiehl Coppin who also had mental problems yet was shot by police in a hail of twenty bullets after seeing what they thought was a gun which in reality was only a hairbrush. What do we know of his background except the fact that the police claim he said over and over that he "wanted" to die.
As I watch the news this morning every station is doing stories on Robert Hawkins background, the fact that he broke up with his girlfriend, lost his job and overall felt like a burden to those around him. Now tell me again what was the problem with Kiehl Coppin? What was his dilemma that caused him to act out on that faithful day the cops decided he needed twenty bullets as the cure. How many people did Kiehl kill that made him so detested by the news who could only point the finger at him and say that he "was" the problem. He as well as Robert couldn't get healthcare for their mental dilemmas yet only one of them is seen as a case for why mental health needs closer scrutiny.
One news caster actually stated "how sad this young life ended feeling so tortured that he actually had to pick up a gun and do something so heinous to feel he mattered." He was even described as "introverted, a troubled young man who was like a lost pound puppy that nobody wanted." Exactly how tortured was poor Kiehl who was in his own home feeling poorly and in desperate need of mental care or maybe he was a lost puppy that it seems his mother wanted. In fact the only things that news casters reported about Kiehl was he had a history of violence, mental illness and arrests.
This is the second day that we are seeing around the clock coverage talking about Robert Hawkins and his tortured background and we saw all of about a few hours of coverage for a murder by cop victim who had a similar background just the wrong skin color. I am always fascinated as to what makes one person a media darling and the other a media pariah. Maybe if Kiehl had gotten a gun climbed the clock tower and taken out the town he would have gotten a little more sympathy from the news, media and people in general.
As I read the Blogs about both situations it became increasingly clear that this was a case of racial differences. I read more than a few comments for Kiehl that said "So a mentally deficient nigger is shot dead for not following directions. I can't find the tears for this, LIBS." And "His own mother called the cops saying he was threatening her life. People making a big deal about this are probably a bunch of criminal rats themselves." These were taken from halfricanrevolution. Yet the comments heard for Robert are ones of sorrow even linking what he did to the fact that he was taking anti depressants and that was the reason for his outburst. Even his old school principal where he dropped out of school said he was a good kid and never ever showed any violence towards neither students nor teachers.
How many of Kiehl's family, friends, teachers or principals did the press or anyone else talk with in order to find out what a tortured soul he was? Did they even care or was the whole point of coverage meant to show how the cops did what was necessary to stop what they felt was a dangerous and violent person who may have had a gun. When are we going to stop having this black equals guilty, bad or just plain doesn't matter attitude when it comes to victims and perpetrators. If we are going to look at the fact that one mentally deranged person is becoming the martyr that he wanted while another deranged person is just gunned down without anyone's pity, let's just take out all the discrepancies and report the crime and be done with it all.


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Please consider signing an online petition to save the historic modern Phillis Wheatley Elementary School which is threatened with demolition. This petition was started by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc. Montana-Leblanc spoke passionately at Friday's hearing before the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission in defense of her alma mater, "If you tear down my school, a part of me dies with it."
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For Valerie Blackburn, President Barack Obama's Wednesday visit to an auto parts plant couldn't have come at a better time for her family.
ARDEN � For Valerie Blackburn, President Barack Obama's Wednesday visit to an auto parts plant couldn't have come at a better time for her family.
After years of struggling financially, her husband, Doug Blackburn, 48, was hired by Linamar Corp. in November.
"This job has been a blessing,� said Valerie, 48, of Dana.
Her husband nodded. �This was like a saving grace,� he said softly.
One day after his State of the Union address, the president toured the Linamar factory before speaking to workers like Blackburn who lined the factory floor.
The Linamar plant has become a symbol of local economic resurgence. The Canadian-based supplier of engine, transmission and driveline components for cars and trucks moved into a shuttered Asheville-area factory two years ago, pledging to hire hundreds of workers.
Strengthening the economy and creating jobs were a key concern for Obama in his first State of the Union address since his re-election. Although the U.S. economy is much healthier than it was four years ago, growth remains agonizingly slow and unemployment high.
Obama told Linamar workers that there are still too many Americans looking for work. But he called Linamar a success story.
He said local and state officials reached out to attract the company.
�While they could have gone anyplace in the world, they saw this incredible potential in Asheville. They chose to invest in Asheville, in North Carolina, in the United States of America,� Obama said.
�Today Linamar has hired 160 workers, 200 by the end of the year and it's just going to keep on going after that. They came to Asheville to grow their business. The good news is what's happening here is happening all over the country,� he said.
The Linamar plant provided the perfect backdrop for the president, said Ben Teague, executive director of the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County.
He said that manufacturing in the area has �tremendous momentum behind it.�
�We've actually seen growth in the last few years, which is great,� he said.
Arden is about 15 miles south of Asheville, a picturesque city in the western North Carolina mountains.
The western part of the state was once home to thriving textile and furniture companies. But over the past 20 years, many of those plants have been shuttered as companies moved production overseas because of cheaper costs.
The area is beginning to see a turnaround, Teague said. In the last three years, manufacturers have invested nearly $520 million and created nearly 1,900 good-paying jobs in the Asheville area.
Linamar is clearly a catalyst. It moved into a factory that had been home to a Volvo plant, which closed in 2010, idling 220 workers.
When Linamar announced plans to open in Arden, it said it would invest $75 million and hire 260 people. But then the company said it would eventually expand the operation to 650 jobs and boost the total capital investment to $200 million.
Linamar workers make about $40,000 a year.
The job has been a godsend, Blackburn said. A former brick mason, Blackburn owned his own business, but had to walk away when the economy began faltering in 2007.
He was hired as a temporary worker at Meritor, a company that makes truck parts, including drivetrains. Meritor sent Blackburn for machine training at a local community college. Then Blackburn heard about Linamar.
He said the training helped him land the job.
His wife, who works for the U.S. Postal Service, said the family has faced hard times in the last few years. Two of their daughters died and they have struggled to make ends meet.
But they remain optimistic, especially about the economy.
�We've been blessed by God,� said Valerie, 47. �With everything we've gone through we never thought we would be here so close to the president.�
Local officials say one of the keys to the area's manufacturing success is the partnership between manufacturers and colleges. That's something that helped MacArthur Logan, 48, of Asheville.
He worked in a textile mill for 18 years before the company shuttered the plant in 2007 and moved production to Honduras.
At the time, Logan was making $21 an hour plus benefits. Losing the job was hard, he said. The divorced father of two decided he had to go back to school for training.
While he was receiving unemployment, Logan attended Asheville Buncombe Technical College and received a two-year degree in machine technology. He landed a job with a defense contractor before he heard that Linamar was opening a factory.
�I've been fortunate,� he said. He knows other people in the community haven't been as lucky.
He grew up in Forest City, N.C. at a time when people could go straight from high school to a factory job. It's not like that anymore, he said.
�I tell my kids that they need more than a high school education. Even with a degree that might not be enough. You might have to go back and get another degree to get a good job,� he said


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The man who established Somaliland's 'yellow cab' service
By Sean Williams, for CNN • Published 20th March 2014
It's a typically buttoned-up, breezy night in Hargeisa when a child is born in one of Abdikarim Salah Mohamud's minivan cabs.
The cab's driver stands at the side of a dusty backstreet.
It's 3 a.m.
In the back of the minivan lies a young woman and her newborn son, his impromptu arrival relayed anxiously via phone to the
Hargeisa Taxi
Mohamud's assistant, a soft-spoken beanpole called Ahmed, coaches his charge calmly throughout as the baby makes his unscripted world debut.
"No one even woke me!" Mohamud says.
Ahmed sits next to him and smiles, presumably at his own professionalism: "The roads probably did it for her."
Hargeisa is the capital city of Somaliland, a breakaway state that clamors for independence from its terror-torn neighbor -- Somalia.
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Shattered by decades of civil war, dictatorship and terror, the city is racing toward a better future: bright new office blocks poke out from the desert and markets, once empty, throng daily.
But there's still only one well-paved street in Hargeisa.
Every other one is a chalky, rock-strewn dirt track, bullying cars into early retirement.
It's a tough place to found a
service; tougher still if, like Mohamud, you're intent on giving Somaliland a cab service fit for a Western city.
"Every second week we have to change the cars' tires because of the roads," Mohamud tells me at his villa on the edge of town, air thick with the smell of sweet Somali tea.
Hargeisa Taxi wants to bring a little "yellow cab" color to Somaliland.
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He's a small, rawboned man, sharply dressed with a shaven head and a deep, booming voice.
"Maintenance here is tough," he says. "The shock absorbers take a big hit."
Hargeisa's roads may have put many a dent in Mohamud's cars.
But they haven't broken a dream, made in Melbourne where he drove a cab for more than two decades, to make taxis accessible to all Hargeisans rather than to simply a small elite.
Hargeisa Taxi recently celebrated a year in business.
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Before then traveling across town was different.
"When we started out, Hargeisa had a few unmarked cabs," he says. "If you didn't speak Somali you wouldn't know which one was a taxi and which was a private car. We wanted to change that.
"The price of a cab from Hargeisa city center to where we are now cost about 100,000 Somaliland shillings," says Mohamud. "That's the equivalent of $15, a lot even for Melbourne. But that was the deal: you paid $15 or you walked.
"There were only five taxi stands in the city, so you had to get to one first," he adds. "Even without the fare being the issue, how are you going to get a cab?
"The world has moved on. We are in 2014."
Hargeisa Taxi knocked 80 percent off the fare, a feat advertised across the back of every one of its car: ANYWHERE ANYTIME $3.
Cabs are ordered by cell phone, one of few modern technologies ubiquitous in Somaliland.
Even nomadic farmers make deals on their handsets these days -- a sign of progress in a state that's suffered more than most the past century.
Long road to business ownership
From British rule to united Somalia in 1960, Somaliland has clambered toward quasi-independence past the brutal dictatorship of Mohamed Siad Barre, which ended more than two decades ago, and numerous failed insurgencies by Al Qaeda affiliate group Al Shabaab.
It remains, officially, a region of Somalia.
But while Mogadishu's fragile government lays besieged by deadly terror attacks, Somaliland hasn't suffered an attack in four years.
Mohamud left Hargeisa in 1988 at age 17 to study communications in Melbourne, becoming one of the million or so members of the Somali diaspora.
To make money he drove cabs -- a job he'd continue part time for the next 23 years.
When he returned home in May 2011 to work on a project for a local TV station, the draw of a safer Somaliland was strong.
"'This is home,' I said to my wife. 'I have to come back.'"
Six months later Mohamud resigned from his media job in Melbourne and seven months after that, using money he'd saved in Australia, Hargeisa Taxi was up and running.
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There's only one well-paved street in Hargeisa.
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Starting a company in a country that doesn't exist, unsurprisingly, is no smooth ride.
"Here business is about who you know," Mohamud says. "Money is not the issue. It takes time."
Employment problems
Unemployment is a big worry across Somaliland.
Some fear it could drag Hargeisa's young men toward Al Shabaab's deadly campaigns, which currently bubble just beyond the border with Somaliland's partially autonomous eastern neighbor, Puntland.
Returning diaspora members such as Mohamud, however, are driving Somaliland away from its turbulent past, pushing its economy into the black and providing low-level employment.
This feels especially vital in a religiously conservative region where families often reach double figures.
"The youngest of our drivers is 24 and he has two kids," Mohamud says as his own little girl, the youngest of five children, clambers all over him.
"The oldest guy has eleven. There are a total of 122 kids served by the company. Hargeisa Taxi feeds them, puts them in school uniforms, gives them books, everything. I'm very happy."
Security in Hargeisa has also changed.
Not long ago violence and crime were rife and all foreigners were mandated to travel with an SPU, or Special Police Unit -- often little more than a vigilante with a rusty AK-47.
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Now it's rare to see anyone other than military personnel wielding a firearm.
Mohamud believes his cabs are helping the shift toward peace.
"Before, if the driver took your bag or your money, you didn't know who he was," he says. "Today, every driver has an ID card and a police check to ensure he's never been a criminal."
Taxis first, infrastructure later
Hargeisa is still well off the beaten track.
A new airport and the discovery of mineral resources may change that.
The city itself is a dusty oasis crammed full of roadside cafes and markets selling handmade goods.
A few miles outside Hargeisa is Laas Geel, a series of ancient hand-painted caves.
Road signs are few.
Thankfully, Hargeisa Taxi has an answer.
"Every Hargeisa Taxi on the road has a GPS signal," Mohamud says, tapping his laptop. "We know every minute where they are. If they try taking a bad route we can switch the car off."
He's referring to a device that enables the disabling of any of the cars at the push of a button.
"My daughter could ride in Hargeisa alone now without me worrying about her."
Hargeisa Taxi takes measures to ensure a safe ride.
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Since Hargeisa Taxi began operating, three other taxi companies have popped up: Dalhis Taxi, Maroodi Jeh and Raaxo.
The latter, with its fleet of tiny Kias and Toyotas, has given Mohamud a run for his money.
But Hargeisa Taxi's 35 sedans and minivans offer greater luxury and accessibility for the elderly and disabled.
And there's no mistaking their bright, jonquil color.
"It's similar to New York or Melbourne," says Mohamud. "The idea was that people who come here -- whether they speak Somali, English, Arabic or even Chinese -- would have seen at least one movie with yellow taxis in it. We may not have the infrastructure of those cities. But we can have the taxis.
"Hargeisa is a good place. We made it worse, but it's getting better. One day we will be like London or New York -- you will come to visit us!"
Mohamud's family join him in the room, asking questions and drinking tea.
A car revs up outside.
I ask if he misses anything about Australia.
"Maybe if you ask me that question in two or three years my answer might be different," he says. "But now I have family around me. What else can you ask for?"
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