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For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network (DIV-Net) over the past week:
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Weekend Reading Links - August 16, 2009
For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network (DIV-Net) over the past week:
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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Dividend Stock Analysis - Linked here is a detailed quantitative analysis of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis: C...3 days ago
My 5-year Plan to Freedom Update - At first I didn't want to post the entire plan to my freedom because I was afraid. The numbers in the plan look so ridiculous that I was afraid that after ...4 days ago
Dividend Increases: May 13-17, 2019 - Companies that regularly increase dividends show confidence in future earnings growth potential. I monitor dividend increases for stocks on my watch list o...5 days ago
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm during the mission's 15th Martian day since landing (June 9, 2008) to test a "sprinkle" method for delivering small samples of soil to instruments on the lander deck.
This sequence of four images from the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager covers a period of 20 minutes from beginning to end of the activity.
In the single delivery of a soil sample to a Phoenix instrument prior to this test, the arm brought the scooped up soil over the instrument's opened door and turned over the scoop to release the soil. The sprinkle technique, by contrast, holds the scoop at a steady angle and vibrates the scoop by running the motorized rasp located beneath the scoop. This gently jostles some material out of the scoop to the target below.
For this test, the target was near the upper end the cover of the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer instrument suite, or MECA. The cover is 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) across. The scoop is about 8.5 centimeters (3.3 inches) across.
Based on the test's success in delivering a small quantity and fine-size particles, the Phoenix team plans to use the sprinkle method for delivering samples to MECA and to the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. The next planned delivery is to MECA's Optical Microscope, via the port in the MECA cover visible at the bottom of these images.
The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
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The Master of Business Administration program prepared me to follow my dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. Classes such as Ethical and Legal Environment of Business and Strategic Organizational Leadership have equipped me to be a good businesswoman—and a testimony for Christ in the business world. In addition to classes, my job in the Campus Store gave me a hint of what running a small business will be like. Now that I have the tools I need and the practical application, I can pursue my dream." —Teresa ('12 M.B.A. grad)
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When I take my Senegal out of the cage, chances are she ends up on my finger, and gradually climbs up my arm to my Shoulder. . . . . I've never been comfortable with having a Parrot on my shoulder.
I just don't really like having a Parrot bite my earlobes, or climb up my eyeglasses. No, Thank You!
So, even though I have a "Percher" my Senegal will stay on it for about 60-seconds before she attempts to Fly off .....and ends up on the floor. It's a real dilemma.
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The Department for Transport with its Agencies holds personal data on the majority of the UK adult population. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency holds records on 42 million drivers and 36 million vehicle keepers. The Driving Standards Agency holds details of 3.7 million tests conducted each year. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency holds 103,000 records on goods and passenger vehicle operators. And the Maritime and Coastguard Agency holds records on seafarers. It is very likely that at least one part of our Department will hold personal information about you (a full list of our Agencies, and who to contact is shown below).
We know how important it is to protect your privacy and to comply with the Data Protection Act. If we ask for your personal information we will:
- let you know why we need it
- only ask for what we need, and not collect excessive or irrelevant information
- make sure nobody has access to it who shouldn't
- let you know if we share it with other organisations to give you better public services, and whether you can say no
- only keep it for as long as we need to
- not make it available for commercial use (such as marketing) without your permission
In return, to help us keep your information reliable and up to date, we ask you to:
- Give us accurate information
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How to find out what personal information we hold about you
You can find out if we hold any personal information about you by making a "subject access request" under the Data Protection Act 1998. If we do hold information about you we will:
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To help us give you the information you want, we need you to tell us which part of our Department you have been dealing with and why you believe we hold that information. If you think the information is held by one of our agencies, you should send your request direct to that agency.
Under the Data Protection Act we are allowed to charge a fee for responding to a subject access request. It is not currently the policy of the central Department to charge for subject access requests.
To find out how to make a subject access request to central DfT, please see how to make a request to central DfT.
Each of our Agencies has, according to its business needs, determined its own policy on charging, and if you want to make a subject access request to a particular Agency you should check that Agency's website for details.
When we share information
We are committed to providing the best and most efficient service to our customers. We may share personal information within our organisation or with other bodies where it would be compatible with the purpose for which we collected it, and/or where we are required or permitted to do so by law.
There are some cases where we can pass on your information without telling you, for example to prevent and detect crime or to produce anonymised statistics. In all cases - whether data is shared internally or externally - DfT will act in accordance with the DPA and other relevant legislation.
To find out more about who we share information with, please see the Who we share information with and why webpage.
The training and guidance we give to our staff
Staff working in parts of the Department that handle large volumes of data about the public, such as DVLA, receive in depth training. From autumn 2008 we will be providing renewed general awareness training to all our staff, and those in positions with formal responsibility for information handling will receive additional specific training.
You can see the guidance we give to our staff on data protection. This explains the importance of checking that the information we hold is accurate and up to date. To see the guidance provided to staff in the central Department and in the Agencies, please use the links below to go to the separate Information Charters.
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If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your personal information and wish to make a complaint, please write to the Data Protection Officer at the relevant Agency or the central Department. We will acknowledge your complaint within 5 working days and let you have a full response within 20 working days. If it is not possible to respond fully within this timescale, we will write and let you know why and say when you should receive a full response.
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We have several proposals of which every single one has advantages and disadvantages; supporters and opponents. I think arguments like "but company xy has something similar" do not count.
I think that
We have had our discussions and should focus on finding something :)
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Empower KDE: could be used as empower.kde.org for a subdomain. Is it ok to tell people to "go to Empower KDE"? I think it gives regular users the idea that it's not for them (they just use KDE), and it gives the developers/isvs/etc. the pleasant feeling of contributing. I thought of 'power users' at first, but it didn't sound appropriate. --Exit3219 19:56, 20 January 2007 (CET)
KDE Workshop or KDE Workbench or KDE Garage or KDE Lab - fresh ideas that came by night: --jstaniek 01:52, 24 January 2007 (CET)
KDE TechNet: (technet.kde.org) I like the name "technology network" in short "technet" because it covers a wide (unlimited) range of technical informations on this or other sites. Additional for me it sounds better than techbase or techzone. --rhabacker 10:19, 24 January 2007 (CET)
Gears: Because they make things tick. Users don't usually see them, they just see the clock face (or desktop wallpaper, as the case may be ;-)). And it is related to the KDE logo. May not be clear enough, though?


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Two Shadows Film About Cambodian-American Experience Returns To Long Beach
LONG BEACH — After a successful, award-winning May screening in Long Beach at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and subsequent national tour, director Greg Cahill is bringing his film "Two Shadows" back to the Art Theatre for a one-day screening.
Starring Long Beach resident Sophea Pel, the film won the audience award at the festival and has since been screened in a number of cities with large and active Cambodian-American populations, such as Lowell, Mass., Seattle, San Francisco and Stockton.
The film, which tells the story of an acculturated Cambodian-American woman searching for family and a sense of her own identity in her homeland, was well-received in its Long Beach debut, encouraging Cahill to bring it back for a second go-round.
The movie has also been selected for the third Asian Americans in Media Film Festival and is being considered for the Cambodian International Film Festival in Phnom Penh.
"The reception has been really good," Cahill said of the movie, which was the first feature film not only for him but Pel and several other actors, including former Long Beach resident Jonathan Nhean, who plays the father of Pel's character.
While the best-known depictions of Cambodia have been set in the Killing Fields era of the 1970s, when upwards of 2 million Cambodians died during the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge, "Two Shadows" is an attempt to tell the narrative of the subsequent generation.
"People are excited to see (a modern) perspective," Cahill said of his movie. "It's similar to the experience a lot of families have had since leaving Cambodia."
The plot revolves around Americanized hipster Sovanna, who learns she may have a long-lost brother and sister still alive in Cambodia.
Sovanna travels back to her birthplace and becomes "ensnared into an increasingly dangerous situation, pitting her in a tug-of-war between her own personal safety, and her compassion for a stranger," according to film literature.
For Pel, a recent Cal State Long Beach graduate, and Nhean, the story of their characters struck close to home. Both Pel and Nhean are refugees born in Cambodia who had to dodge minefields to flee to Thai refugee camps before emigrating to the United States. And, as in the movie, both were separated from siblings.
Pel was separated from a brother in Cambodia for more than 20 years and Nhean lost a brother who was later discovered alive in a refugee camp.
The film screening will be followed by a question-and- answer session with Cahill, Pel, Nhean and producer Christen Marquez.
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Each year, eWEEK Labs evaluates hundreds of enterprise-class products on test beds that mimic real-world environments. To maintain the systems that comprise these environments, and to properly put products through their paces, the analysts rely on a c
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Audacity
Whether were combining audio streams, editing long recorded meetings or producing the weekly TestRun podcast, the open-source Audacity provides a simple-to-learn interface that hasn?t required th
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Azureus Bittorrent client
Giant file downloads are a big part of reviewing applications and operating systems. Where popular downloads are concerned, FTP mirrors can slow to a crawl. Enter Bittorrent, for which download popularity means fetching files as fast as your Internet down
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Bart\s Boot Disk
When dealing with an eclectic variety of systems, sometimes all you want to do is boot to DoOS and have system and network access. The free Barts Boot Disk has been a lifesaver in this respect, allowi
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Dreamweaver
Whether were working on HTML, JSP, PHP, ASP or any other Web development script, Dreamweaver has essentially become synonymous with building for the Web.
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Filezilla
The well-designed and easy-to-use Filezilla FTP client makes file transfers a snap. With support for SFTP, Filezilla also makes transfers secure.
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Gaim
For serious IM users, the open-source Gaim supports the Big Three public networks and ICQ (I Seek You) and IRC (Internet Relay Chat), as well as corporate instant messaging protocols such as XMPP, IBM
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Ghost
When you work in a lab with many different systems and you constantly need to have clean systems running a variety of operating systems and configurations, Norton Ghost is the ul
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Gimp
Photoshop partisans may disagree, but The Gimp has served us awfully well in our screen-shot grabbing and prepping operations. Whats more, this free, cross-platform-friendly image-editing application can bui
eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools - Iometer
One benchmarking tool we rely on is Intels Iometer, which tests file-transfer performance.
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The National Laboratory for Applied Network Researchs iPerf is invaluable for performing quick network performance tests of wired and wireless networks alike. Although not as fully featured
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Whether you need to identify possible rogue or interfering wireless access points, or simply find an open WLAN for a little free Internet, NetStumbler (on Windows) or Kismet (on Linux) provide great in
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All you need is a system and a CD drive, and you can have a capable Linux distribution up and running in seconds--no hard drive required. In any testing environment, Knoppix can be a r
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A free remote-control application delivered as a service, LogMeIn is useful for working with vendors to troubleshoot a problem because it provides good session control and security. Premium services are als
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When it comes time to gauge the effectiveness of security systems, one of the only ways to really test something is to act like a bad guy. The Metasploit Project makes it possible to do exhaustive penet
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The core on which many commercial vulnerability scanners rely, Nessus is essentially synonymous with vulnerability scanning.
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How to: Monitor Bandwidth with Tomato Firmware
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Looking to track your bandwidth to scope out malware, conform to metering policies from your ISP, better utilize limited resources--or just because you're curious? Our Wi-Fi Guru walks you through Tomato's sophisticated bandwidth monitoring tools.
In the early days of the Internet, dial-up users were charged based on how many hours per month they spent online. Many of us have become spoiled in the broadband era, with "unlimited" access the normmeasured both in time and bandwidth usage. But with so many subscribers now using so much network capacity, the pendulum may be swinging back toward metered services. In the U.S., major providers Time Warner and Comcast have both introduced efforts to "cap" network use. In the UK, over a million subscribers experience broadband caps, and five out of nine ISP's offering "unlimited" service impose caps.
Regardless of the merits or lack thereof of metered bandwidth, the reality is that more of us are likely to have to keep track of our online usage. A nifty way to do this is by using a supported wireless router loaded with a firmware, such as Tomato, which includes sophisticated bandwidth monitoring. Auditing bandwidth usage can be useful for any network with limited resources, or even to help spot and diagnose errant activity (such as malware) that may be unwittingly filling up the pipes.
Assuming you have already prepared a wireless router with Tomato, keep in mind that it can only count traffic that flows through it. In most scenarios, your wireless router connects to both your WAN (broadband) and LAN, and so this is the best configuration for accurately monitoring bandwidth. If your Tomato router serves only a subset of your network, though, remember that is the only portion of traffic it will see.
Initial configuration
When you log into the Tomato administration interface, click Administration/Bandwidth Monitoring.
First, you'll want to be sure that "Enable" is checked. By default, the log used to calculate bandwidth usage is saved to the router's RAMbut most routers have limited free memory, which means your log will not be saved for very long.
To archive statistics for the long term, you will want to save to a filesystem. The drop-down menu offers two kinds of filesystemsJFFS2 and CIFS. A JFFS2 filesystem can be created using Administration/JFFS2, but it also occupies flash memory, and most routers will not be able to hold very much.
Your best option is to create a CIFS connection through Administration/CIFS Client, which lets you mount a Windows (or Samba) share hosted on an external server. Set the CIFS client that you create in the "Save History Location" and you can store usage logs well beyond the limitations of the router's internal memory.
Logs can be rotated from every hour to every week, with many intervals in between. "Save On Shutdown" will ensure that the current traffic log is saved in case the router resets in between save intervals. "Create New File/Reset Data" will force a new log to begin when you save this configuration.
"First Day Of The Month" is used by Tomato to calculate monthly usage statisticsthe default, 1, seems like a good choice.
As we'll see in a moment, the bandwidth monitor tracks several interfaces through the routerfor example, wired and wireless connections. You can list the names of interfaces that you do not want tracked under "Excluded Interfaces." But as you'll see when we look at the monitor itself, this feature may be of limited usefulness in some situations.
Finally, you can backup or restore traffic log files to or from your local PC using the respective forms.
24 hours in the life of your bandwidth
Open the bandwidth monitor itself by clicking Bandwidth in Tomato's left-hand column. This will actually default to the 24-hour bandwidth view (below).
Across the top of the bandwidth view are the interfaces that Tomato is monitoring. You can click each tab to view the graph for that interface. Of course, it isn't exactly clear what these interfaces actually mean.
WAN (vlan1)traffic coming into and going out of the WAN port to your broadband provider. This measures traffic between your router and the outside world, but not traffic flowing within your LAN.
WL (eth1)wireless traffic, which in most scenarios means wireless traffic inside your LAN. This would include wireless clients sending and receiving data to the Internet plus sharing with one another.
br0the bridge between WL(eth1) and the router's hardwired LAN ports (vlan0). Consequently, br0 shows traffic combined from both your wireless and hardwired connections to the router, both to the Internet and within the LAN.
eth0all of the router's hardwired ports, shows traffic flowing through both the LAN via Ethernet plus the Internet via the WAN port.
vlan0the router's hardwired LAN ports, shows traffic to the Internet and within the LAN.
Because of the way the interfaces are designed inside the router, it is not possible to monitor traffic for a specific clientunless you can isolate that client to one of the above interfaces. For example, if you have only one wireless client associated with the router, you know that WL(eth1) traffic represents only this client.
Tomato renders the graph display using SVG (scalable vector graphics), an image format with built-in support using Firefox or Safari; Internet Explorer users can download a plug-in (or else you will see an empty space where the graph is).
The graph displays both incoming (RX) and outgoing (TX) data, rendered in color pairs, which are configurable by clicking the "Color" link in the options on the right. Moving your mouse pointer over the graph will display details for the specific data point you hover over in the upper right.
Other options along the lower right let you modify the timescale of the graph (from 4 to 24 hours), how broadly to average out the data, how to scale the maximum height of the graph, and how to render the visuals (shape and color).
For most of us, the "Total" bandwidth reading for the measured time period will be the most useful piece of information. But you may also find it helpful to look for spikes in usage, particularly those that may be occurring at unexpected timesfor example, late at night. In some cases, these could represent malware or other unwanted network activity.
In our sample image, the heavy usage at the left edge of the graph represents BitTorrent traffic. You can see that outgoing traffic exceeds incoming traffic during this period, which is atypical for most types of network activity, but not unsurprising for P2P activity.
Bandwidth live
Click on the Bandwidth/Real-Time link and you'll see a graph display just like the 24-hour versionbut updated live. Technically, it is updated every two seconds, and the entire graph represents a window of the last ten minutes.
Using the real-time bandwidth monitor can be a helpful way to troubleshoot network problems. For example, if there is unexplained network activity and you are not sure which client is its origin, you could disable and enable clients in sequence while monitoring the real-time monitor.
The bottom line
Clicking on Daily, Weekly, or Monthly bandwidth views trades the graph for much simpler data. Here, you see just the total traffic count broken down by selected time period. You can display the totals in Kilobytes, Megabytes, or Gigabytesmost users will care about GB, especially if the goal is to avoid an ISP usage cap.
Hopefully, a future version of Tomato will be able to track usage by client IP or MAC address. Until then, though, the current monitor is a handy tool both for network diagnostics and avoiding wrist-slaps, nasty letters, or potential overage charges from the increasing number of broadband providers clamping down on bandwidth hogser, I mean, reasonable users.
[Editor's note: Comcast is finally scheduled to release a bandwidth metering tool this week.]
For definitions of unfamiliar terms, visit our Glossary.
For more on Tomato read, "Introduction to Tomato Firmware" and "Sauce Up Your Router with Tomato."
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The Chopin Theatre is set up with long tables and chairs for "Ploughed Under: An American Songbook," a gutsy project at the House Theatre of Chicago that, demonstably, is very much the brainchild of Kevin O'Donnell, the composer and percussionist whose music has been the basis for many of the past shows at a company that devices almost all its own work. On each table sits a bound book of lyrics for the 17 numbers that make up this show. You will need them. It is very difficult to otherwise hear, understand and feel the lyrics.
Part of the problem here is that the 10 actor-singer-musicians standing on Collette Pollard's resonantly designed stage (think Civil War rustic) are wearing head microphones that feed into a sound system — adequate, perhaps, for a traditional book musical but not for what's basically a theatricalized concert, a songsuite of O'Donnell compositions that honor a variety of unsung American heroes from a while ago: the likes of Molly Pitcher (a legendary figure said to have fought in the Battle of Monmouth in 1778), Joaquin Murrieta (a figure of the California Gold Rush) and Virginia Dare (born in 1587, the first American child of English parents).
Since the whole conceit here is to draw attention to the overlooked heroes of American history (although it might be a stretch to call Casey Jones overlooked), and since the spoken text is minimal, that means that O'Donnell has to pack his lyrics with narrative information: lines like "Joaquin Murrieta is the name of a man / Raised in Mexico, but still Ame-ri-can." In most of these songs, performed as a mix of solos, small group numbers and rousing company singalongs, there is so much biographical information that it starts to come at the expense of the feeling of the characters. And in these circumstances — a big crew of singer-musicians (better musicians than singers, on balance) falling somewhere between singing these songs concert-style and acting them out — it becomes difficult to tell where O'Donnell is going, beyond a very honorable history lesson about the contributions of remarkable, overlooked Americans.
I've long had enormous respect for O'Donnell's music, which has one foot in experimental composition and another in the Americana and parlor music tradition of the 19th century, ascendedent here. He also is a remarkable percussionist. But this is a heavy assignment (O'Donnell directed the show, composed the score and leads the band), and he could have used an outside eye that might have found more light and shade to cut the pervasive tone of period earnestness. That tone tends to wash over a laudably ambitious piece that now needs more contrast, clarity and heart.
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'Ploughed Under' -- 2 stars
Through June 9 at Chopin Theatre Upstairs, 1543 W. Division St.; 2 hours; $25 at 773-769-3832 or thehousetheatre.com


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Bureau to Host Decision-Makers Field Conference, May 3, 2005
SOCORRO, N.M. -- On May 17-19, 2005 the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources will conduct its fourth Decision-Makers Field Conference, in cooperation with New Mexico's Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department and a number of other groups who provided technical, financial, and logistic support. This year's conference will focus on Mining in New Mexico: The Environment, Water, Economics, and Sustainable Development, specifically in the Taos region.
First conducted in 2001, these field-oriented conferences are designed to address a wide range of geologic, hydrologic, natural resource, and environmental issues affecting the future of New Mexico and its citizens. Specifically targeted for a mix of national, state, and local political leaders, agency heads, industry leaders, environmental leaders, and other decision makers, the conferences provide an opportunity to learn first-hand about natural resource problems, opportunities, and potential solutions from some of the top experts in the field. The conferences offer a chance to visit many of the sites involved in legislative concerns and to hear balanced opinions regarding current scientific knowledge on these matters. The trips stimulate onsite debates about public policy matters, strategies for growth, and methods for solving problems. Finally, there is an opportunity for state agencies and disparate groups to demonstrate to decision makers their ability to work cooperatively and deal constructively with real-world issues. The conferences generally draw 40-45 decision makers, by invitation only. Previous conferences have addressed diverse topics including Water, Watersheds, and Land Use in the Santa Fe Region, New Mexico's Energy, Present and Future, and Water Resources of the Lower Pecos Region.
This year's conference will include stops along the Red River, Molycorp's molybdenum mine near Questa, and aggregate and industrial mineral sites from Taos to Velarde. Specific topics that will be addressed include watershed protection and restoration, mineral and aggregate resources of New Mexico, environmental and community issues associated with mining, abandoned mine lands issues, and sustainable development. The printed guidebook developed to accompany the conference provides a broad overview of these topics in 30 non-technical papers and will be available to the general public following the conference, through the publication sales office at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, in Socorro (505-835-5490).
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources is a non-regulatory research and service division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. The bureau has served as the geological survey for the state of New Mexico since 1927.
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This Game Changing App Gets Business Owners Organized
Every small business owner knows that staying organized leads to improved productivity. And as you've probably noticed, there's an endless sea of productivity apps for small business owners from which to choose. Unfortunately, in this sea of apps they all sit on their own little islands, which leaves business owners hopping from app to app and re-entering data into each one.
LifeTopix for iPhone and iPad is different. It comes equipped with 12 topics including Tasks + Projects, Shopping + Gifts, Events + Appointments, Travel + Places, People + Services, Health + Goals, Finances, Home + Assets, Education, Notes + Files, Lists, Media and Bookmarks. All of these topics are naturally connected, which saves the business owner's precious time.
Six Important Things that Business Owners Manage
Business owners are busy and are always looking for better ways to manage their everyday tasks. A common thread among these business owners is they manage the types of things that we discuss in the following sections. Typically, they need better ways to manage contacts, schedules, things to do, information, finances, assets and services. Below, we illustrate how the LifeTopix app manages these items all in one mobile app.
1. Contacts: Clients, Vendors, Partners and Others
If you're a business owner, you most likely have a variety of contacts saved in your mobile device, spreadsheet or Rolodex. The People + Services topic of LifeTopix gives you powerful CRM features for keeping track of many aspects of your prospects and clients, while mobile.
With LifeTopix, you can organize contacts into groups; read their Tweets and Facebook posts directly from their contact record; add custom fields to contacts (in-app purchase); use GTD® context tags; and associate appointments, tasks, reminders, files and more with contacts (in-app purchase). In addition, you can communicate via email or text to an entire group of contacts or connect with individuals via phone, text, email or social media directly through their contact record.
On top of that, managing contacts is made easy with the tabular view that LifeTopix provides. For example, if you create custom fields (such as Sale Price as shown below) you can easily view and edit this information for each contact you manage in the LifeTopix app.
2. Schedules: Agenda and Calendars
Many of us know that the calendar app that comes with the iPhone or iPad is somewhat basic and that there are other alternatives for managing busy schedules. LifeTopix comes equipped with a variety of calendar views beyond what's found in the stock calendar app. It includes a daily agenda that shows what's coming up today, tomorrow and the next seven days. It also provides daily, monthly, weekly and yearly calendar views. Unlike the stock calendar app, all commitments are displayed in the monthly view at once, as shown below.
3. Things To Do: Email, Projects and Tasks
Keeping on top of things to do, email messages, projects and tasks is a hassle for many business owners. The Tasks + Projects topic of LifeTopix lets you organize, prioritize, and track even the most complex tasks and projects in a streamlined, natural and easy-to-understand way. And if you're a user of Google, Toodledo® or Asana tasks, you can sync your tasks from those online services or sync LightArrow tasks to those online services.
The power of the Tasks + Projects topic is the association of related information you have already entered into other topics of the app — such as contacts, notes, appointments, etc. You don't have to re-enter this information in multiple places in separate applications like you would have to with other products. Even better, you can create tasks and projects directly from within the context of those other topics. It is a better way to manage all your activities and a more efficient way to organize them.
LifeTopix also makes managing tasks and information that originates from email easier. With Inboxes, you can easily convert email messages to tasks, products, projects, appointments, events, notes, trips, visitors or inbox items, as shown below.
4. Information: Notes, Checklists, Bookmarks, Passwords and Social Media
Managing various types of information is essential for business owners to stay organized. With LifeTopix, you can create reusable checklists, save bookmarks for websites you frequently visit, record usernames, passwords and other private information, and manage social media. Keep in mind that LifeTopix secret data is secure with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is one of the most commonly used and secure encryption algorithms available today.
LifeTopix also includes powerful features for managing notes and files. You can type notes, but you can also add audio and video, add photos, and hand-write and draw. Printing is also available for notes and drawings.
Context tags, date tags, and Search and Recent Items views help you quickly find your important business notes. Integration with Evernote® or Toodledo® is also available. In addition, you can access online files from Dropbox™, Box™, Google Drive™ and OneDrive™ in the Notes + Files topic.
5. Finances: Payments and Expenses
The Finances topic enables business owners to quickly and easily manage financial information, such as accounts, bill payments, expenses, charitable donations, investments, assets and financial documents. In the Finances topic, you can set up bank accounts with balances, and manage expenses and payments which debit and credit those bank accounts (Note: they are not linked to actual bank accounts online). Repeat schedules are available for recurring payments. Automatic reminders are available through integration with your device's calendar to ensure you never miss a payment, expense, donation, or other financial item that's due.
6. Small Business Assets and Services
The Home + Assets topic enables business owners to manage information about their business assets. You can track information such as acquisition date and price, vendor, serial number or vehicle identification number, manufacturer, model number and SKU. This topic also has a touchpoint into People + Services so you can maintain warranty and insurance information for your business assets.
LifeTopix is available at the Apple App Store
Marilyn Rogers
Marilyn is the Marketing Director at LightArrow, Inc., the makers of LifeTopix, a complete productivity app and organizer available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. She is a regular contributor to the Life Blog from LightArrow, which is a blog dedicated to sharing tips and tricks about LightArrow products, personal productivity, time management, organization, and getting things done.
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How about a sales promotion? It's been a long time since the last one.
I would buy the app and spend some money in IAP.
Think about it, please!
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That's...extremely repetitive.
I only seriously got into II in 2000, but I had enough nostalgia for 80s-ish stuff that it hit me there anyway.
Eugh...Atomos in HD. That would be utterly horrifying.
How about an HD remake of the Playstation version of Tales of Phantasia in English. The GBA port (aka only English release) was not very good.
If someone did a collection of the old SSI games like Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds etc., I'd be pretty happy.


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21 and Over
You should know exactly what you're getting when you walk into 21 and Over because the title explains it all. It's another teen comedy that romanticizes the 21st birthday threshold and treats alcohol like it's an all healing elixir. This isn't a movie for those old enough to have actually experienced the night though. This is for those who dream about the day they can pop out their driver's license and strut into a bar legally for the first time ever. Those people will find 21 and Over amusing, while in the process building up their dream birthday night even further, but the older crowd will walk out of this unimpressed, finding the shenanigans the characters get themselves into to be outlandish, despite some inevitable reminiscing on some of their own crazy nights. But what kills this movie from the same writers of The Hangover isn't that it's absurd (so was The Hangover); it's that it's not funny. At all.
Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) is a pre-med student, pressured into becoming a doctor by his pushy father (Francois Chau). In the morning, he has a very important medical school interview, so he needs to stay in and get some sleep, but it's his 21st birthday and his best friends, Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Skylar Astin), have surprised him with a visit and have other plans. Although they promise to have him home at a reasonable time, they end up getting him completely wasted. Soon, Jeff can't even speak and they don't know where he lives. Miller and Casey quickly find themselves in a race against time, doing their best to get Jeff hope and prepped so he doesn't miss the most important interview of his life.
Writing a comedy must be hard. Comedy screenwriters typically aren't consistent, at least not in the way a dramatic writer like Aaron Sorkin is. No, they can produce a hit, one that manages to keep the laughs coming at a consistent pace, but that in no way guarantees they'll be anything more than a one hit wonder. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writers of 21 and Over can attest to that. A quick glance at their filmography shows writing credits for Four Christmases, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The Change-Up, The Hangover and The Hangover Part II. Precisely one of those movies was funny enough to be good. If their last couple movies are any indication, what they're doing now is no secret. They're trying to capture the magic that was The Hangover, but comedy requires surprise. It requires fresh ideas, not rehashes. They basically remade The Hangover with The Hangover Part II and now they've done it again with 21 and Over.
As with The Hangover movies, the story here revolves around a mystery: where exactly does Jeff live? They're give clues of course, but they're so blatantly obvious, it's insulting. When the characters finally figure it out 45 minutes to an hour after you already have, it means nothing. The story exists solely as a means for the characters to get in wacky situations and force as much alcohol down their throats as possible. This gives way to slow motion puking and the eating of a tampon, which, I suppose if you're really that drunk, could look like a candy bar.
This type of humor is of the lowest form. It grosses out to gain laughs, it tries to convince that the mere sight of a naked man is somehow funny and it overvalues the otherwise normal day that is someone's 21st birthday by devaluing things that actually matter like friendship and happiness. 21 and Over is the most wrongheaded party movie since last year's Project X, which shared a similar skewed view of the world, one that would be easy to dismiss were it not so sad. I don't want to over exaggerate; this is not a cinematic travesty—it contains at least a few legitimate laughs—but it's repulsive, immature and poorly written. It's a retread of Lucas and Moore's previous work, so why waste your time with it when the same, but superior film exists elsewhere?
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Erik Heard and Brittany Korell are engaged to be married. They are planning a July 29, 2011 wedding in Cedar Falls.
Brittany works at Peregrine Charities in Cedar Falls and Erik is a 2011 University of Northern Iowa graduate who will be student teaching in the fall.
Brittany is the daughter of Jordon and Barbara Korell of West Des Moines.
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Union Lunch Menu
Thursday, Oct. 27 - Breakfast: Scrambled egg and sausage, toast, juice. Lunch: Burrito or hamburger on bun, corn, pineapple.
Friday, Oct. 28 - Breakfast: Yogurt, toast, juice. Lunch: Deli turkey, ham and cheese on bun with lettuce and tomato slice, Tuscan turkey bean soup, peaches.
Monday, Oct. 31 - Breakfast: Sausage gravy and biscuit, toast, juice. Lunch: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and gravy, rosy applesauce, tea roll.
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I am insured by Anthem Blue Cross and I went in to a Kaiser Permanente hospital for an emergency because it was close by. Am I going to have to pay for the whole cost?
Brushed with Death
Dear Brushed with Death,
No, you will not have to pay the whole cost. The Affordable Care Act requires plans to charge you the same co-pay or deductible for emergency care at "in-network" and "out-of-network" hospitals. Plans also cannot make you do more paperwork or administrative hassle for emergency care at an out-of-network hospital.
The only thing that might trip you up is whether the plan considers it to be an emergency. Most plans have wording that requires the emergency to be a situation where a prudent person would seek care. Some plans make you pay more if you went in for a sore throat, for example.


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Rihanna Shares Steamy Photos From 'Pour It Up' Video Shoot [PHOTOS]
Rihanna rocked a platinum wig with finger waves, in a modern Josephine Baker style, on the shoot for her 'Pour It Up' video. She shared lots of photos from the set. As you can guess, RiRi showed some skin and wasn't shy about anything.
Ri's sexy, in a itty bitty lavender teddy and a statement necklace, which you can see here.
Here she is, having a bevvie!
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. But check out the pink brows, while you're viewing.
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On a glorious day several weekends ago, my wife and I hiked up Panther Mountain in the Catskills. On the way, we passed by Giant Ledge, a rock outcrop that overlooks the Woodland Valley and the Slide Mountain Range.
This is one of my favorite views in the Catskills, because almost no human structures or roads are visible — only forest and mountain and sky.
It has the feel of one of the large wilderness areas in the Adirondacks, yet requires only a short drive and hike to get there from Poughkeepsie.
My first thought on seeing this view was how lucky we are to have this wilderness available to us. But luck is really not the right word: the creation of the New York Forest Preserve, which includes the publicly owned land within the Catskill and Adirondack parks, required considerable hard work by visionaries at the turn of 20th century, and it requires much vigilance on the part of the Department of Environmental Conservation to maintain.
Despite the gorgeous view on this day, with the fall foliage still in full color, as a forest ecologist I know there are many threats to this forest. The establishment of the forest preserve eliminated the most serious threat of that era, rapacious logging, and has also held back the tide of land development in recent years. Those threats are local, and providing strong land-use regulations is effective in keeping them at bay. In contrast, many of today's threats are regional or global, and are not solved by setting land aside in preserves.
For instance, on our way to the trailhead, we drove by the upper reaches of the Neversink River, which has been severely impacted by acid rain. Acid rain is caused by pollution from fossil fuel use by vehicles, industries and power plants. It is a pervasive problem throughout the eastern United States and many other developed areas of the world.
In the Neversink valley, trout can no longer survive in the headwater streams because of the acidity, and the sugar maple trees that dominate this forest are growing more slowly and producing fewer seedlings because of soil acidification.
A second threat is pests and diseases introduced from around the world by global trade. On the way up to Giant Ledge, we hiked through a stand of majestic hemlocks — all of which will probably die in the next decade because of an Asian insect pest called the hemlock woolly adelgid. Likewise, along the trail we passed a stand of large ash trees, which will also die soon from the invasion of the emerald ash borer, another Asian pest.
Similar pests and diseases are afflicting or threatening beech, oak and maple. These pests were not introduced in the Catskills; they are a problem throughout the eastern United States and symptomatic of a larger global problem. We are suffering the consequences of burgeoning global trade and lax regulation of plant imports and wood-packing material.
A third threat is climate change. Caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels, climate change is already happening in the Catskills and will surely get much worse in the coming decades. .
As the climate warms, the hardwood trees that cover lower elevations will grow higher on Slide Mountain and other Catskill peaks, eventually erasing the spruce-fir forest from the Catskill range. With it, we will lose the animals that call these forests home.
To be sure, the existence of the forest preserve helps nature deal with these threats. Having large areas of land protected from logging and other disturbances makes it more likely that somewhere in the forest there will be a cooler valley, a less acid-sensitive stream, or an insect-resistant tree that can withstand these stresses.
But the real solution to these threats is national action, including strong climate change legislation, effective acid rain controls and more stringent regulations on the importation of pests and diseases.
These days, effective conservation requires more than drawing boundaries on a map: it involves convincing our representatives in Washington that the forest we hold dear is in danger unless they act forcefully to protect it.


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Samsung's Super Bowl spot has leaked before today's big game. The ad stars funny guys Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen and was produced by advertising agency, 72andSunny.
The two hilariously highlight features of Samsung's Galaxy line of phones.
Watch it below, but try to act surprised when you see it later today.
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If you think modern-day psychedelic rock is all about paisley-bedecked revivalists stomping on fuzzboxes with their carefully maintained Beatle boots, forging facsimiles of every riff contained on the Nuggets box"not that there's anything wrong with that"you've got a pleasant surprise in store. Not only is there a current crop of bands bringing a psychedelic spirit to the forefront while firing up a sound that eschews hidebound hippie fetishism, a bunch of them also happen to have ear-catching new albums on offer. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter's Marble Son has been out in Europe for a few months, but will be unveiled on American shores on August 2. The White Hills album H-p1 was just released on June 21 and Wooden Shjips will be unleashing West in September. For all you intrepid psychedelic explorers, we got the inside info on each of these aural excursions, straight from the source(s).
Seattle siren Sykes and her band have been around for nigh on a decade, and their 2007 album, the memorably titled Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul, was one of the finer releases of that year. Sykes sings in eerily ageless tones that could be triangulated somewhere between Marianne Faithfull, Nico and Karen Dalton, while Phil Wandscher's guitar work evokes the expansive sounds that came coruscating out of the Bay Area from the axes of Jerry Garcia, John Cippolina and Jorma Kaukonen in psychedelia's golden age, without seeming overtly imitative. The follow-up to their ˜07 outing adds an extra quotient of crunch on some tracks, and Sykes explains that the emotional and aural gravitas of Marble Son was hard-earned. It took longer than usual to make, she says, but a lot was going on"Phil and I broke up after being a couple for ten years, and I needed some time to triage and convalesce a bit, then see if we could carry on together musically [They have]. Also in that window, babies were born, people died and I got engaged to my new love.
The darker side of that period's experiences comes out in the music, as Sykes explains, ˜Birds of Passerine' was written for Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. We toured with him in 2007, and his death affected me greatly. She reveals that Come To Mary was written for a friend that was suffering a terrible darkness and had gone into the woods up in Alaska, built a throne out of snow and drank himself to sleep. He was hoping to not wake up, but he did, thank God. Sykes says the open, organic feel of Marble Son was very much intentional. We knew we wanted to make a record that was mostly live and reflected the dire energy we seemed to be generating at the time, she recalls, so a good portion of these songs were recorded live in the studio. And in an age of disposable songs that float aimlessly around a virtual universe, Sykes admits that she takes pride in Marble Son feeling like an album. It's long and might require a certain commitment from the listener, she muses, and will probably appeal to people that are willing to be taken somewhere.
New York City's White Hills are no strangers to the darker side of psych either, as borne out by the bracing sounds of H-p1. Their music is more influenced by the surging, visceral drive of early-˜70s space rock a la Hawkwind, and the minimalist, motorik krautrock grooves of Neu!, but their blend of heavily processed guitars, swirling, burbling electronics and pummeling rhythms offers just as much incentive to take a heady trip to inner vistas as Sykes and company.
White Hills guitarist/frontman Dave W. tells us that one of the main inspirations for H-p1 was in fact the abstract expressionist art movement. This movement was about raw and impulsive art, he explains. What mattered most was the act of painting itself. I applied this philosophy to the making of this album. The making of the music in its moment matters most. I wanted to create an album that evokes emotion and creates a story through sound rather than words, in the same way that an abstract painting does. While names from the beard-rock era justifiably abound in descriptions of White Hills (as above), the band's ambitious axeman surprisingly informs us of a major post-punk inspiration. Musically, the Virgin Prunes album Over The Rainbow was a huge influence, he says. This collection of rarities shows the often-brutal yet beautiful side of this underrated band. Their music is a mental workout. Similarly, H-p1 is a mental workout"sometimes ethereal, often intense. It's not passive music. Communicating some kind of story with no words is difficult. You need to command the attention of the listener, draw them into the sound, so the music will stimulate their imagination.
There's a feeling of uneasiness running throughout H-p1, which Dave explains thusly, This record has a concept or theme to it¦a reaction to the greed that we are plagued with today¦how the people in power see fit to tell lies in order to promote what they see as the greater good for us all. But is the end result really what is good or right for us all? Might it just be good for the rich to keep themselves wealthy? With a zealous humanism that is itself more evocative of the Age of Aquarius than anything in the White Hills discography, he continues, We are not in balance with the earth. No amount of money will save anyone when the earth is [un]inhabitable. All of the wars that are waged, religion, and political doctrines are meaningless in the end. This ties in with the album's inscrutable title as well, says Dave, I wanted the title to sound clinical and somewhat sci-fi. In the same way that scientists name viruses, I see this greed as a virus that plagues our time. H-p1 is the name I have given to this disease of greed.
Speaking of fuzz-baked guitars, pummeling grooves and a dark, somewhat sinister sound, Wooden Shjips' upcoming album, West, would make an excellent sonic segue from H-p1for your next stoner-rock soiree. The band hails from psychedelia's spiritual home, where they cut their latest batch of mind-bending tracks. Keyboardist Nash Whalen says, We recorded West at Lucky Cat Studios in San Francisco. The building, shaped like a wedge, fills in some space along the railroad tracks… space likely created at a time when the Southern Pacific railyards dominated the area. Now, across the tracks, framed by the freeway high overhead, are all these new buildings, cutting-edge biotech research facilities and fancy apartments. Transforming the landscape, migrating to the next big thing, trying to tap into the new gold rush… those progressions are always happening here in the West, and in part, our album explores that evolution and the desires driving it.
With guitar riffs distorted to weapons-grade level, and Nash laying down a seemingly endlessly supply of hypnotic, snake-charmer organ riffs, the Shjips' sound on West ultimately falls somewhere in the sweet, shaded spot between The Black Angels and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Nash reports that the recording sessions went by quickly and painlessly. I think the vibe from feeling relaxed and comfortable comes through on the album, he offers, adding in classic rock & roll fashion that our biggest hassle was walking up the hill to get beer.


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It's back to Italy with Professor Bill Cook for the Wabash Alumni/Friends Travel Program. The very popular and educational trip will include Rome for the 2014 program.
The Italy trip is tentatively scheduled to depart around June 16 and will run 10-11 days. Full details will be made available very soon.
The trip will be organized by Professor Cook and the travel program's coordinator Howard Hewitt. Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Tom Runge '71 announced Hewitt, Director of Digital Media, will be the College's new point person for the Alumni and Friends Travel Program.
Runge said offering alumni the opportunity to travel and participate in learning opportunities fits the Wabash liberal arts approach to life. "Alumni and their friends enjoy traveling in the company of members of the Wabash community," Runge said. "These travel opportunities mirror the Wabash student experience – up close and personal."
The College has organized two previous trips to Italy, led by Cook '66, and a 2013 trip to France with Professor of History Michelle Rhoades and Hewitt as group leaders.
Hewitt will work with Alumni and Parent Relations and the College's Travel Coordinator's office in planning and organizing the trips.
"I was a part of the 2012 trip to Italy with Bill Cook and learned a lot about what makes for a good travel itinerary," Hewitt said. "We want to plan trips that appeal to a broad range of Wabash men and their spouses/partners. The goal is to find that diversity and still include popular trips like Cook's Italy journey and the 2013 France trip."
Hewitt emphasized the advantage of Wabash travel is the camaraderie of the Wabash community and a trip planned and led by College leaders.
"Howard knows the importance of media and telling the story, he's a talented photographer, and he also served as the subject expert and trip coordinator on the recent France trip," Runge said. "That trip was the best we've had, from a logistics standpoint, thus far."
Runge said trips will continue to call upon the expertise of the College's faculty and staff to create a vacation experience different than most could find on their own.
"It's very special to see the great art of Italy with Bill Cook, or explore Paris with Michelle Rhoades," Hewitt said. "I tapped into my three personal wine-related trips to France in 2012 to put together the Southern France portion of the 2013 trip."
Hewitt will work closely with Runge in creating trips to appeal not just to alums but also parents and other friends of the College. The Italian trip is back on the schedule for this year, but Hewitt said a Montana fly fishing trip is being discussed for 2015. A repeat of the France trip, and a possible journey to Greece are potential future destinations.


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Grapes may be an antidote to high blood pressure caused by too much dietary salt. University of Michigan scientists put rats on high-sodium diets and gave some of them blood pressure- lowering medication, and others powder made from whole grapes.
Both groups developed high blood pressure, but the systolic pressure remained lower than in rats that were on a high-salt diet with no medication or grape powder. Those on grape powder, however, showed less heart damage (distortions of size, weight, and function) than those on medication or in the control group. The grape-fed rats also had the lowest levels of markers of inflammation and oxidative damage.
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Preliminary Inventory of the Corinne Lathrop Gilb papers
Preliminary Inventory of the Corinne Lathrop Gilb papersHoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Hoover Institution Archives Staff
- Date Completed:
- 2008
- Encoded by:
- Elizabeth Konzak
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection Contents
Biographical Information.
Scope and Content Note
early life (creative writings from the Univ. of Washington), Radcliffe/Harvard Doctor of Philosophy in the History of American Civilization,
letters between CL Gilb and faculty advisors, original copy of CL Gilb doctoral thesis "Self-Regulating Professions and the Public Welfare: a Case Study of the California State Bar" (May 1956),
MA degree in Department of History and special studies at Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley
letters re CL Gilb articles on law and on taxes for the California Legislature
Berkeley/California politics 1950's and 60's
Berkeley-Albany 1960 Kennedy-Johnson Presidential Campaign (CL Gilb was committee chairman)
California Professors for Johnson-Humphrey 1964 (CL Gilb was "coordinator")
Berkeley Democratic Club (CL Gilb was President c.1959)
Stanley Mosk (California State Attorney General) correspondence with CL Gilb
Peter H. Odegard correspondence with CL Gilb
1960s 70s and 80s gen. politics including correspondences with Governor Edmund G. Brown, President Clark Kerr (re 1964 Berkeley), Walter Mondale, Senator Nicholas Petris, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
Adlai Stevenson letter to CL Gilb (after losing 1952 presidential campaign), CL Gilb letter to Senator Ted Kennedy (1976) and CL Gilb photo with Ted Kennedy and Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan (c. 1960)
UC Berkeley Bancroft Oral History project (CL Gilb was the first director): lists of her oral histories, papers on the process of oral history writing, letters, CLG notes on "General West Coast Labor Relations as Seen by Employers' Representatives", drafts of other materials
Scope and Content Note
W. Stull Holt correspondence
professional associations
Social Science Research Council grant
Seymour Martin Lipset article and info
Institute of Industrial Relations (associate)
Mills College (instructor)
JFK visit to Mills College (CL Gilb made all arrangements)
UC Extension course "Party Politics and Political Leadership", multiple lecturers (CL Gilb "coordinator")
Center for Study of Law and Society (associate)
Peace Corps (instructor)
1963 world tour, itinerary and pamphlets
Wenner-Gren seminars on creativity (participant over two year span)
Edward Lurie paper and correspondence w/CL Gilb
San Francisco State (instructor)
publication of CL Gilb first book Hidden Hierarchies, letters
correspondence w/ Harper and Row editors
Values in America (unpublished) correspondence w/Knopf editors
Ralph Nader letter to CL Gilb
CL Gilb testifying to US Senate
Guggenheim fellowship 1967 (for Paris and Yugoslavia 1968)
Wayne State University (professorship beginning fall 1968, retired emeritus 1994)
Bertram Gross correspondence and papers
Consciousness in Self and Society, 1975, conference
Ralph Pezda (her student) letters and papers
Detroit Planning Director (empty folder, see other Detroit boxes)
Radcliffe externship program
Marshall Gates (destitute boy she tried to help)
Handbook of Organizational Design (correspondence, CL Gilb contributed one chapter)
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilization (ISCSC): letters, papers, conference materials (CL Gilb was vice-president several terms), The Comparative Civilizations Review
papers by Matthew Melko (ISCSC)
papers by Stedman B. Noble (ISCSC)
papers by John K. Hord (ISCSC), and other members of ISCSC
Stanford/Hoover Visiting Scholar 1993
Silicon Valley Defense/Space Consortium and Silicon Valley Global Trading Center 1995 CEO breakfast speeches (CL Gilb did write-ups)
misc. correspondences re politics
United Nations: International Organization for Unification of Terminological Neologisms (NGO, CL Gilb a representative)
People to People International Citizen Ambassador Program (CL Gilb and husband Tyrell T. Gilb)
Atherton Press, Ltd. (CL Gilb founder and president): Roger Williams Wescott correspondence re Atherton Press publication of Comparing Civilizations: an Unconsensual View
Boris S. Erasov correspondence re Atherton Press publication of Holding Russia Together
Los Altos Town Crier review (9/14/05) of 2005 hardbound publication of Toward Holistic History by Corinne Lathrop Gilb.
CL Gilb handwritten travel journals (to China, Russia, Jordan, Tokyo, and Africa)
Conditions of Use
Use Copies, CL Gilb handwritten travel journals (to China, Russia, Jordan, Tokyo, and Africa)
Day books, address books, membership cards (photocopies), journals/travel notes (unbound)
Professional letters - seeking work, critiques of CL Gilb writings, requests for CL Gilb writings
Conferences and travel brochures and information
Detroit, Michigan Materials
CL Gilb's original handwritten "Diary of a Planning Director" (4 volumes) and additional handwritten notes on Detroit/planning
Conditions of Use
Use copies, Diary of a Planning Director (4 volumes) and additional handwritten notes on Detroit/planning
Papers and speeches on Detroit
Detroit news articles on CL Gilb
Notes for papers on Detroit, generally during period she was Planning Director for Detroit, 1979-1985
Wayne State University, Detroit. CL Gilb was a professor in the History Department from 1968-1994, then emeritus, as well as Co-Director of the Liberal Arts Urban Studies Program. Includes student evaluations and letters and requests for leave of absence
Detroit (1979-1985, when CL Gilb was Planning Director). Contains pamphlets, talks, reports on planning department activities, section list of Detroit Master Plan by CL Gilb, news articles; Coleman Young (including book of quotes and comics about); Joyce Garrett; letters to and from CL Gilb re planning. Note: CL Gilb sent most of her Detroit planning materials to the Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library - general list of those materials is included in this box.
Planning Department letters, press, announcements
City publications
Detroit Master Plan
Early Detroit master plans
Sector master plans
Speeches and papers
A through G
H through P
R through T, partial
T through Z
World's Earliest Cities. Printouts done by Estate from CL Gilb computer files.
Space, Time and the American Pyramid
Space, Time and Changing American Values
American Values
Personal Identity, Space, Time and the American Power Structure
Pamphlets, books and magazines in which CL Gilb contributed writings
Continuation of pamphlets, books and magazines in which CL Gilb contributed writings
Hidden Hierarchies
Early drafts
Early drafts plus a copy of Harper and Row and Greenwood Press editions of Hidden Hierarchies
Toward Holistic History. Original 2000 softbound edition and early drafts and a copy of the book
Master's thesis drafts (from UC Berkeley) and Ph.D. thesis drafts (from Radcliffe), letters
Research on writings on law; reports to California State Legislature; [CLG was a special student at Boalt Law School at UC Berkeley in the 1950's]
American Values and related titles, unpublished. Includes drafts and notes
American Values. Includes drafts and notes
American Values, and Space, Time and Rhythm. Includes unpublished related titles and drafts of different books titled with these themes
World's Earliest Cities
Prelude to Globalism
Changing Space of Power
Global Hi Tech: View from Detroit. There were many other names for this project comparing the automobile and Silicon Valley industries. In the boxes, it is listed as the "Auto book"
Incomplete printouts done by Estate from CL Gilb computer files.
Table of Contents (several versions), drafts, and technology research
Partial manuscripts (also known as A Century of American Transformations)
Loose papers, drafts, notes
Research materials and drafts
Research materials
Miscellaneous, partial manuscripts, drafts and research
CD's, tapes, floppies, discs of writings and research
Writings Conversion Project.
Scope and Content Note
Notes on the conversion project and bibliographies
Prelude to Globalism
volume one
volume two
volume three and four
Toward Holistic History essays and other written materials
Miscellaneous writings on cities, European histories, and bibliographies
Research and drafts on world history through study of history of cities
Teaching materials
Class notes
History courses
Humanities courses
Humanities courses
Cities courses
Urban studies and history
Historiography, architecture, science, fiction, symbols, etc.
Collected Materials
Books, pamphlets and handouts re women's studies/feminism, from UC Berkeley area and Wayne State University area, 1970s
Collected materials from the student uprising in Paris, May 1968
California political ephemera
Kennedy-Johnson campaign materials, 1960
Collected newspapers and publications


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Designed primarily for bi-fold doors, our simple magnetic door holders allow you to hold the swing/pass door to the adjacent panel. This creates a stable set of doors when all panels move and are stacked. Bi-fold doors which include a swing/pass door should always be opened in the sequence shown on page 2. Fitting a magnetic door holder and opening in the correct sequence will avoid the doors becoming out of plumb. Operating the doors differently will cause structural damage to the hinges, rollers, tracks and gaskets/brushes. If the damage is significant then there is a risk to users from a separating door. Structural damage will show as poor sealing, doors not closing correctly due to hinge screws working loose and being compromised. Magnetic door holders also protect users from risk of finger trapping from a loose door whilst in motion.
Whilst the Protec magnetic door holder has been designed to offer an important technical solution we realise that the presence of any door holder is not ideal for the end users from an aesthetic point of view. To minimise the visual impact we have designed the smallest size possible whilst maintaining adequate hold and necessary engineering detail. The range of standard finishes and an option for unfinished for self colour will blend in with the door colour, whilst the positioning at the top of the door is discreet and is not a hazard to users when not engaged.


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I know matty can't make him yet. But assuming they get the rights to filmation (it's only a matter of time imo), how should he be done? flocked? repainted triklops armour? What should he come with? his magic liquid and some money?
How many ppl here would want to see this guy and who wants to forget he ever existed (and why)?


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CEO Compensation
#469 John T Standley04.13.11, 06:00 PM EDT
- Total Compensation
- $1.146 mil
- 5-Year Compensation
- Education:
- College: NA
- Graduate School: NA
John T Standley's Compensation vs. Retailing Medians
|$0.90 mil
|$1.06 mil
|$2.10 mil
|$0.24 mil
|$1.56 mil
|Stock Gains
|$0.08 mil
|Total Compensation
|$1.146 mil
|$6.04 mil
John T Standley Ownership Of Rite Aid
|Industry Medians
|Stock Owned (% Of Co)
|Stock Owned
|$0.9 mil
|$0.01 mil
Rite Aid's Stock Performance
|Total Return During Tenure
|Relative to Market
Rite Aid
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- www.riteaid.com
Complete Coverage | Complete Rankings
Methodology: Compensation rank is based on total compensation for latest fiscal year. Total compensation for each chief executive includes the following: salary and bonuses; other compensation, such as vested restricted stock grants, LTIP payouts and perks; and stock gains, the value realized by exercising stock options. Efficiency rank is based on our chief executive's performance/pay score. Ranks are given only to chief executives who have a six-year tenure and six-year compensation history. The most efficient rank is 1 and least efficient is 196.
Footnotes: Compensation data is from the latest available proxy statements filed through Mar. 25, 2011. Total returns and value of stock owned (including all classes) is based on Mar. 18, 2011 stock price. Compensation percent change is based on combined salary and bonus. Annualized total return during tenure covers the tenure of the executive or from the time of the IPO or available stock history. Relative to market is the ending value of $100 invested in the stock, divided by the ending value of $1 invested in the S & P 500 (a score of 100 = the S & P 500). NA: Not available or not applicable.1Annualized. 2Four-year total. 3Three-year total. 4Less than 0.01%. 5Prior-year data. 6New chief executive; compensation may be for another executive office. 7Less than $100,000. 8Includes shares indirectly held. *Return is for less than tenure.
Sources: Company SEC filings; Interactive Data, LionShares and Thomson Reuters Fundamentals via FactSet Research Systems; Forbes.


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What is EsoReflex?EsoReflex is an environment that provides an easy and flexible way to reduce VLT/VLTI science data using the ESO pipelines. Its top-level functionalities are:
- EsoReflex allows to graphically specify the sequence in which the data reduction steps are executed, including conditional stops, loops and conditional branches.
- EsoReflex makes it easy to inspect the intermediate and final data products and to repeat selected processing steps to optimize the data reduction.
- The data organization necessary to reduce the data is built into the system and is fully automatic.
- Advanced users can plug-in their own modules and steps into the data reduction sequence.
- EsoReflex supports the development of data reduction workflows based on the ESO Common Pipeline Library.
EsoReflex is based on the concept of a scientific workflow, whereby the data reduction cascade is rendered graphically and data seamlessly flow from one processing step to the next. It is distributed with a number of complete test datasets so that users can immediately start experimenting and familiarize themselves with the system.
For further information, please, refer to the latest EsoReflex User Manual.
EsoReflex is based on the open source workflow engine Kepler.If you make use of EsoReflex or EsoReflex workflows in a scientific publication, please consider citing EsoReflex. You may reference the following paper: Automated Data Reduction Workflows for Astronomy: The ESO Reflex Environment, 2013, Freudling, W., et al., Astron.Astrophys., 559, A96 (Bibtex entry)
EsoReflex Latest Public VersionThe latest public version of EsoReflex is 2.9.1
Officially Supported PipelinesEsoReflex can be used with any CPL-based pipeline. Some pipelines provide EsoReflex-based workflows in their public releases. Please refer to this table for information about supported modes, tutorials, example data sets and user manuals.
EsoReflex System RequirementsEsoReflex is written in Java and is known to work in the following systems:
- Fedora 24 64 bits
- Fedora 25 64 bits
- Fedora 26 64 bits
- Fedora 27 64 bits
- CentOS 7
- Scientific Linux 7 64 bits
- Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits
Additionally, some EsoReflex-based workflows might have extra software requirements (most notably python modules). Check EsoReflex-based workflows release notes for more information.
Installing and running EsoReflex
PrerequisitesEsoReflex 2.9.1 requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 8. NOTE: On OS X you need to install the JDK instead, you can download it from here Workflows may have other requirements, please refer to the workflow tutorial and to the pipeline user manual. There are two installation option: the automatic and the manual one.
Package managers for Fedora and OS X (recommended)
For Fedora 24/25/26/27 64 bits, it is strongly recommended to install it with our rpm repository. This repository includes both EsoReflex and the pipelines. Refer to the instructions provided here.
For Apple Mac OS X 10.10 or newer, it is strongly recommended to install it with MacPorts. This repository includes both EsoReflex and the pipelines. Refer to the instructions provided here.
Automatic Installation with installation scriptA script is provided that takes care of all the required steps to install and run EsoReflex:
- It downloads and installs a pipeline kit, that contains the workflows associated to the pipeline.
- It downloads and installs some test data.
- It donwloads and installs EsoReflex.
- It configures EsoReflex to point to the installed pipeline.
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- Install the pipeline kit you are interested in. Only the recipes present
in the output of
esorex --recipeswill be available to EsoReflex.
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- Uncompress the package using gzip and tar.
- Execute the reflex command in the bin directory under the distribution directory.
EsoReflex User Manual
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Reflex Workflow Development Guide
Current Issue: 1.0The EsoReflex Workflow Development Guide is available for download in PDF format.
Bug ReportsIf you experience an unexpected behavior of EsoReflex, please, first refer to the troubleshooting section in the User Manual. For any other issues or requests, please, send a report to the ESO User Support Department, describing:
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- the exact sequence of actions you performed before the bug occurred
- what were precisely the symptoms and the possible error message(s)
- whether the bug is repeatable


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Do they actually ding you when grading the figure on stuff like a crooked plastic peg hook, or sticker (or even the figure bubble, for that matter)?
His assertion, with no recourse, is that AFA flipped him an inferior Vader and took his.
I completely agree with Matt, this is one of the very, very few modern figures that merits an AFA rating. The other two HTF FF would be others, Toy Fare Vader, Jorg Sacul, maybe Dagobah Vader with Secret Luke sticker and if by some miracle, you found an Ephant Mon that wasn't bent in some way. Anything else?
Heck, even on Sacul and the Dagobah Vader you'd wind up paying more than the figure's worth these days.
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