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" Excellent work! I have used this programmer on another site in the past, and he did excellent work for me there as well. He takes pride in his work, and is willing to put thought and effort in to get the desired results. I highly recommend him. He is generally online throughout the project and keeps in regular contact. Thanks! "
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" DO NOT USE THIS DEVELOPER!!!! HE WILL WASTE YOUR TIME AND BEG YOU FOR MORE MONEY!!!!. Liu bid $500 then after he got awarded, he said he need $1000. He said he could finish the job on time. After we released the deposit, i never heard from him. i sent messages to him for over a month and when i finally heard from him. he sent me a prototype of the app with no functionality! BEWARE OF THIS DEVELOPER!!! He constantly kept telling me he needed more money to continue. then he said he was sick or the connection was bad, he gave many excuses as to why he couldn't finish the job. A month behind schedule, he still was not able to deliver a functional build. Everything he said he could do changed when he got the deposit. BEWARE!!!!! WORST DEVELOPER ON FREELANCER!!! "
"First of all----- This employer started project without preparing agreed money.This was small project and I never imagined he does not have even 1000$.The milestones were very clear and there were total 4 milestones.I completed 3 out of 4so it is very clear that I had to receive 750$.As you can see in the job history, I received only 250$ which is 1/3 of normal amount.So I asked him to do at least funding so that he can prove he has enough money for project.What will happen when you work with this client is too clear.Do not work with this employer without 100% upfront or 100% funding.What you will get ------------------ bad review.What you will lose ------------------- hard work and much time.I hope my comments will save many honest freelancer developers."
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Lawmakers join effort to legalize cell phone unlocking
A day after the White House endorsed cell phone unlocking, several lawmakers voiced support today for legislation to legalize the process.
The Obama administration threw its support behind an Internet petition yesterday that asks the Library of Congress to change its stance on the legality of smartphone unlocking. The process became illegal earlier this year when the Library of Congress, which has the responsibility of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act every three years, opted not to renew the exemption for unlocking phones.
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Think you're a loser just because you dropped out of high school and never finished the military training you began?
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Jobs' seat on Disney board not to be filled by widow or Trust
Neither Steve Jobs' widow nor a representative of his trust will be on the ballot when Disney shareholders meet in March to vote on re-electing the company's board of directors, Reuters reports. That's despite the fact that the Jobs trust is Disney's largest shareholder.
Jobs had been a Disney board member, and the company's top shareholder, since Disney bought his Pixar studios in 2006, and he'd been helping Disney move forward into the digital era, Reuters reports.
Jobs died of pancreatic cancer last October.
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Syllabification: e·jec·taPronunciation: /iˈjektə
- Material that is forced or thrown out, especially as a result of volcanic eruption, meteoritic impact, or stellar explosion.More example sentences
- Melosh et al. proposed that wildfires were ignited by the thermal energy radiated by re-entering ejecta following the asteroid impact.
- The stellar ejecta from the explosion initially trail behind the shock wave.
- Impact ejecta deposits show a non-linear decrease in thickness with radial distance from the centre of the source crater.
late 19th century: from Latin, 'things thrown out', neuter plural of ejectus 'thrown out', from eicere (see eject).


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GAME NOTES: In need of a win to guarantee entry into the conference tournament, the Eastern Washington Eagles host the Weber State Wildcats in a Big Sky bout at Reese Court on Saturday evening.
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Can LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard Evolve Into NBA's Best 1-2 Punch?
Sam Forencich/Getty Images LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard deserve recognition as one of the best duos in the NBA.
Recap: Portland State vs. Weber State
DaShaun Wiggins netted a game-high 20 points off the bench, as the Portland State Vikings held off the Weber State Wildcats, 66-59, in a Big Sky Conference bout at the Stott Center.
Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard is out to change the world, one word at a time
January 10, 2014 - Special Olympian Travis Koski shares his experiences with bullying as Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard makes a visit to Wilsonville High School to raise awareness for his anti-bullying campaign called "Respect, Pass it On".
Men's basketball clinches share of Big Sky title in record fashion
Weber State University senior Davion Berry drives the ball in a game against Sacramento State.
GAME NOTES: The Weber State Wildcats hope to wrap up the Big Sky Conference regular-season title tonight, as they host the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks at the Dee Events Center.
Weber State downs Sacramento State 79-67
Davion Berry scored 20 points and dished out 11 assists while grabbing 6 rebounds and Weber State clinched a top spot in the Big Sky Conference by downing Sacramento State 79-67 on Thursday night.
Men's basketball has built home-court advantage
Weber State University sophomore Joel Bolomboy dunks in a game against the University of Northern Colorado.
GAME NOTES: The Weber State Wildcats try to increase their odds of capturing the Big Sky Conference regular season title as they host the Sacramento State Hornets at the Dee Events Center on Thursday night.
Men's basketball ends road trip with win
Weber State University senior Kyle Tresnak dunks in Saturday's game against Montana State University.
Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard to opt out of Adidas deal, report says
Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard will opt out of his Adidas shoe deal to negotiate a new one or sign with another shoe company, a published report says.
Weber beats Montana State, holds onto Big Sky lead
After building up a three-game conference lead going into a three-game road trip, Weber State appeared to have a strong grip on the Big Sky Conference, with the prize of hosting the conference tournament going to the winner.
State colleges: Utah Valley loses to Kansas City, falls into tie atop WAC
Kansas City, Mo. a Martez Harrison scored 24 points and UMKC stunned Utah Valley 74-56 on Saturday night, dropping the Wolverines out of sole possession of first place in the Western Athletic Conference.
GAME NOTES: The road has not been very kind to Weber State this season, but the Wildcats are hoping for more favorable results tonight as they meet up with the Montana State Bobcats in Big Sky Conference play at Worthington Arena.
Jazz notes: Utah's Trey Burke looks up to Blazers' Damian Lillard
Portland, Ore. a On their way to winning the All-Star Weekend's Skills Challenge, Portland point guard Damian Lillard took the first leg and Jazz rookie Trey Burke took the second.
Recap: Montana vs. Weber State
Kareem Jamar dropped in a game-high 25 points to lead the Montana Grizzlies to a 68-57 win over the Weber State Wildcats in Big Sky Conference action at Dahlberg Arena.
Men's basketball falls in overtime to ISU
Idaho State University senior Andre Hatchett shoots in Monday's game against Weber State University.
Portland's Damian Lillard Holds NBA Record for Three-Pointers Through 2 Seasons
After breaking a rookie record with 185 treys last season, he's added another 149 through 53 games in 2013-14, bringing his two-year total to 334 heading into Wednesday's matchup against the San Antonio Spurs.
Men's basketball takes care of business against SUU
Weber State University senior Davion Berry drives the ball in Thursday's game against Southern Utah University.
Adam Himmelsbach's Take 5 | It's stunning to see Louisville at No. 5 in the coaches poll
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Bokmål ([ˈbuːkmɔːl], literally "book tongue") is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is the preferred written standard of Norwegian for 85–90%[1] of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language.
Bokmål is regulated by the governmental Norwegian Language Council. A more conservative orthographic standard, commonly known as Riksmål, is regulated by the non-governmental Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.
The first Bokmål orthography was officially adopted in 1907 under the name Riksmål after being under development since 1879.[2] The architects behind the reform were Marius Nygaard and Jonathan Aars (no).[3] It was an adaptation of written Danish, which was commonly used since the past union with Denmark, to the Dano-Norwegian koiné spoken by the Norwegian urban elite, especially in the capital. When the large conservative newspaper Aftenposten adopted the 1907 orthography in 1923, Danish writing was practically out of use in Norway. The name Bokmål was officially adopted in 1929 after a proposition to call the written language Dano-Norwegian lost by a single vote in the Lagting (a chamber in the Norwegian parliament).[2]
The government does not regulate spoken Bokmål and recommends that normalised pronunciation should follow the phonology of the speaker's local dialect.[4] Nevertheless, there is a spoken variety of Norwegian that is commonly seen as the de facto standard for spoken Bokmål. In The Phonology of Norwegian, Gjert Kristoffersen writes that
"Bokmål [...] is in its most common variety looked upon as reflecting formal middle-class urban speech, especially that found in the eastern part of Southern Norway, with the capital Oslo as the obvious centre. One can therefore say that Bokmål has a spoken realisation that one might call an unofficial standard spoken Norwegian. It is in fact often referred to as Standard Østnorsk ('Standard East Norwegian')."[5]
Standard Østnorsk (Standard East Norwegian) is the pronunciation most commonly given in dictionaries and taught to foreigners in Norwegian language classes.
Up until about 1300, the written language of Norway, Old Norwegian, was essentially the same as the other Old Norse dialects. The speech, however, was gradually differentiated into local and regional dialects. As long as Norway remained an independent kingdom, the written language remained essentially constant.[6]
In 1380,[citation needed] Norway entered into a personal union with Denmark. By the early 16th century, Norway had lost its separate political institutions, and together with Denmark formed the political unit known as Denmark–Norway until 1814, progressively becoming the weaker member of the union. During this period written Norwegian was displaced by Danish, which was used for virtually all administrative documents.[6][7]
Norwegians used Danish primarily in writing, but it gradually came to be spoken by the urban elite on formal or official occasions. Although Danish never became the spoken language of the vast majority of the population, by the time Norway's ties with Denmark were severed in 1814, a Dano-Norwegian vernacular often called the "educated daily speech" had become the mother tongue of parts of the urban elite. This new Dano-Norwegian koiné could be described as Danish with East Norwegian pronunciation, some Norwegian vocabulary, and a simplified grammar.[8] Or as Kristoffersen puts it:
"Standard Østnorsk can be considered a sociolect that has developed as a result of tension between Danish as the official written, and in some contexts spoken, language used by the upper class before 1814, and the variety of Norwegian used by the lower social classes in the towns of Eastern Norway."[5]
In 1814, when Norway was ceded from Denmark to Sweden, Norway defied Sweden and her allies, declared independence and adopted a democratic constitution. Although compelled to submit to a dynastic union with Sweden, this spark of independence continued to burn, influencing the evolution of language in Norway. Old language traditions were revived by the patriotic poet Henrik Wergeland (1808–1845), who championed an independent non-Danish written language.[7] Haugen indicates that:
"Within the first generation of liberty, two solutions emerged and won adherents, one based on the speech of the upper class and one on that of the common people. The former called for Norwegianisation of the Danish writing, the latter for a brand new start."[6]
The more conservative of the two language transitions was advanced by the work of writers like Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, schoolmaster and agitator for language reform Knud Knudsen, and Knudsen's famous disciple, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, as well as a more cautious Norwegianisation by Henrik Ibsen.[6][9] In particular, Knudsen's work on language reform in the mid-19th century was important for the 1907 orthography and a subsequent reform in 1917, so much so that he is now often called the "father of Bokmål".
Riksmål vs. Bokmål[edit]
The term Riksmål, meaning National Language, was first proposed by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1899 as a name for the Norwegian variety of written Danish as well as spoken Dano-Norwegian. It was borrowed from Denmark where it denoted standard written and spoken Danish. The same year the Riksmål movement became organised under his leadership in order to fight against the growing influence of Nynorsk, eventually leading to the foundation of the non-governmental organisation Riksmålsforbundet in 1907. Bjørnson became Riksmålsforbundet's first leader until his death in 1910.
The 1917 reform introduced some elements from Norwegian dialects and Nynorsk as optional alternatives to traditional Dano-Norwegian forms. This was part of an official policy to bring the two Norwegian languages more closely together, intending eventually to merge them into one. These changes met resistance from the Riksmål movement, and the Riksmålsvernet (Society for the Protection of Riksmål) was founded in 1919.
The 1938 reform in Bokmål introduced more elements from dialects and Nynorsk, and more importantly, many traditional Dano-Norwegian forms were excluded. This so-called radical Bokmål or Samnorsk (Common Norwegian) met even stiffer resistance from the Riksmål movement, culminating in the 1950s under the leadership of Arnulf Øverland. The Riksmålsforbundet organised a parents' campaign against Samnorsk in 1951, and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was founded in 1953. Because of this resistance, the 1959 reform was relatively modest, and the radical reforms were partially reverted in 1981 and 2005.
Currently, Riksmål denotes the moderate, chiefly[citation needed] pre-1938, unofficial variant of Bokmål, which is still in use and is regulated by the Norwegian Academy and promoted by the Riksmålsforbundet. Riksmål has gone through some spelling reforms, but none as profound as the ones that shaped Bokmål. A Riksmål dictionary was published in four volumes in the period 1937 to 1957 by Riksmålsvernet, and two supplementary volumes were published in 1995 by the Norwegian Academy. After the latest Bokmål reforms, the difference between Bokmål and Riksmål have diminished and they are now comparable to American and British English differences, but the Norwegian Academy still upholds its own standard.
In the Norwegian discourse, the term Dano-Norwegian is seldom used with reference to contemporary Bokmål and its spoken varieties. The nationality of the language has been a hotly debated topic, and its users and proponents have generally not been fond of the implied association with Danish (hence the neutral names Riksmål and Bokmål, meaning national language and book language respectively). The debate intensified with the advent of Nynorsk in the 19th century, a written language based on Modern Norwegian dialects and puristic opposition to Danish and Dano-Norwegian. Historically, many Nynorsk supporters have held that Nynorsk is the only genuinely Norwegian language, since Bokmål is a relic of the dual monarchy; therefore, the term Dano-Norwegian or simply Danish applied to Bokmål can be used to stigmatise or delegitimise the language. Many Bokmål users consider this use to be offensive and childish, and it is therefore mainly confined to the Nynorsk-supporting side of heated discussions.
Differences from Danish[edit]
The following table shows a few central differences between Bokmål and Danish.
Danish | Bokmål | |
Definite plural suffix either -ene or -erne the women the wagons |
yes kvinderne vognene |
no kvinnene vognene |
West Scandinavian diphthongs heath hay |
no hede hø |
yes hei høy |
Softening of p, t and k loss (noun) food (noun) roof (noun) |
yes tab mad tag |
no tap mat tak |
Danish vocabulary afraid (adjective) angry (adjective) boy (noun) frog (noun) |
yes bange (also ræd) vred dreng (also gut) frø |
no redd sint gutt frosk |
Differences from the traditional Oslo dialect[edit]
Most natives of Oslo today will speak a dialect that is an amalgamation of vikværsk (which is the technical term for the traditional dialects in the Oslofjord area) and written Danish; and subsequently Riksmål and Bokmål, who primarily inherited their non-Oslo elements from Danish. The present day Oslo dialect is also influenced by other Eastern Norwegian dialects.[5]
The following table shows some important cases where traditional Bokmål and Standard Østnorsk followed Danish rather than the traditional Oslo dialect as it is commonly portrayed in literature about Norwegian dialects.[5][10] In many of these cases, radical Bokmål follows the traditional Oslo dialect and Nynorsk, and these forms are also given.
Danish | Bokmål/Standard Østnorsk | traditional Oslo dialect | Nynorsk1 | ||
traditional | radical | ||||
Differentiation between masculine and feminine a small man a small woman |
no en lille mand en lille kvinde |
no en liten mann en liten kvinne |
yes en liten mann ei lita kvinne |
yes en liten mann ei lita kvinne |
yes ein liten mann ei lita kvinne |
Differentiation between masc. and fem. definite plural the boats the wagons |
no bådene vognene |
no båtene vognene |
yes båta vognene |
yes båtane vognene |
Definite plural neuter suffix the houses |
-ene/erne husene |
-ene husene |
-a husa |
-a husa |
-a husa |
Weak past participle suffix cycled |
-et cyklet |
-et syklet |
-a sykla |
-a sykla |
-a sykla |
Weak preterite suffix cycled |
-ede cyklede |
-et syklet |
-a sykla |
-a sykla |
-a sykla |
Strong past participle suffix written |
-et skrevet |
-et skrevet |
-i skrivi |
-e skrive |
Split infinitive come lie (in bed) |
no komme ligge |
no komme ligge |
yes komma ligge |
yes komma ligge |
Splitting of masculines ending on unstressed vowel ladder round |
no stige runde |
no stige runde |
yes stega runde |
no stige runde |
West Scandinavian diphthongs leg (noun) smoke (noun) soft/wet (adjective) |
no ben røg blød |
no ben røk bløt |
yes bein røyk blaut |
yes bein røyk blaut |
yes bein røyk blaut |
West Scandinavian u for o bridge (noun) |
no bro |
no bro |
yes bru |
yes bru |
yes bru |
West Scandinavian a-umlaut floor (noun) |
no gulv |
no gulv |
yes golv |
yes gølv |
yes golv |
Stress on first syllable in loan words banana (noun) |
no /ba'naːn/ |
no officially recognised standard pronunciation |
yes /'banan/ |
no officially recognised standard pronunciation |
Retroflex flap /ɽ/ from old Norse /rð/ table, board (noun) |
no /boːr/ |
no officially recognised standard pronunciation |
yes /buːɽ/ |
no officially recognised standard pronunciation |
Retroflex flap /ɽ/ from old Norse /l/ sun (noun) |
no /soːl/ |
no officially recognised standard pronunciation |
yes /suːɽ/ |
no officially recognised standard pronunciation |
1 Closest match to the traditional Oslo dialect.
See also[edit]
Bokmål language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- Differences between Norwegian Bokmål and Standard Danish
- History of Norway
- Norwegian language
- Norwegian language struggle
- ^ Vikør, Lars. "Fakta om norsk språk". Retrieved 2014-02-09.
- ^ a b Lundeby, Einar. "Stortinget og språksaken". Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ Halvorsen, Eyvind Fjeld. "Marius Nygaard". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ^ "Råd om uttale". Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- ^ a b c d Kristoffersen, Gjert (2000). The Phonology of Norwegian. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-823765-5.
- ^ a b c d Haugen, Einar (1977). Norwegian English Dictionary. Oslo: Unifersitetsforlaget. ISBN 0-299-03874-2.
- ^ a b Gjerset, Knut (1915). History of the Norwegian People, Volumes I & II. The MacMillan Company. ISBN none.
- ^ Hoel, Oddmund Løkensgard (1996). Nasjonalisme i norsk målstrid 1848–1865. Oslo: Noregs Forskingsråd. ISBN 82-12-00695-6.
- ^ Larson, Karen (1948). A History of Norway. Princeton University Press.
- ^ Skjekkeland, Martin (1997). Dei norske dialektane. Høyskoleforlaget. ISBN 82-7634-103-9.


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Bachelor of Medicine - JMP Admission and Selection Policy
Document Number | 000871 |
Date Approved | 3 December 2008 |
Date Last Amended | 18 December 2009 |
1. Introduction
UAC COURSE CODE: 780000 Bachelor of Medicine - JMP
The Bachelor of Medicine - JMP is offered jointly by the University of Newcastle and the University of New England. Admission is managed through a common selection process.
Applicants for the BMed - JMP must lodge an application through UAC listing course code 780000. Applicants will have the opportunity to select the site (Newcastle or New England) at which they would prefer to complete the program when they lodge their direct application to the University.
2. NSW HSC Prerequisites, Recommended Studies and Assumed Knowledge
Pre-requisite: Nil
Recommended Studies: Any two units of English
3. Special Admission Procedures and Selection Criteria
3.1. Admission
ALL APPLICANTS are required to complete an on-line direct university JMP application either standard or rural (application under the Rural Remote Admission Scheme) by 5.00 pm on the closing date in the year prior to that in which admission is sought. The closing date for applications will be the on-time closing date (i.e., end September) for UAC applications. Applicants will be required to state their preferred enrolment location (University of Newcastle or University of New England) on their on-line direct university JMP application.
ALL APPLICANTS must lodge a UAC application to the Universities Admission Centre, which includes a preference for the Bachelor of Medicine - JMP (CSP 780000), by UAC's November closing date for late applications.
ALL APPLICANTS must register with the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER) UMAT Office to undertake the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) by the final closing date for UMAT applications.
If an applicant does not lodge all three of the applications outlined above by the respective closing dates, they will not be eligible for consideration.
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- have achieved an ATAR of at least 94.30 in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate (or interstate equivalent), or 91.40 (or equivalent) at a school in a designated rural or remote location. All applicants applying on the basis of secondary examination results, regardless of the year the examination was undertaken, will be considered for the Rural/Remote Bonus Scheme. Determination of eligibility for the Rural/Remote Bonus Scheme will be based on the postcode of the high school attended by the applicant at the time of completion of the examination. The postcode classification is based on the Federal Government's Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification (RRMA); or
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- All applicants who have registered with the ACER UMAT office will be invited by ACER to undertake Stage 1. Stage 1 will be offered at locations across Australia and limited overseas sites.
- To be eligible for Stage 2 of the Assessment of Personal Qualities an applicant must achieve the required score in Stage 1 as determined each year by the Joint Medical Program Committee. The required score will be based on the performance of the applicant pool in any given year. Applicants who achieve the required score will be invited to undertake Stage 2.
- Only those applicants who satisfy Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Assessment of Personal Qualities and satisfy the minimum academic requirement will be eligible for consideration for admission.
- Invited applicants who do not attend Stage 1 and/or Stage 2 of the Assessment of Personal Qualities will be deemed to have withdrawn their application and will be ineligible for consideration.
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- Applicants whose results in Stage 1 of the Assessment of Personal Qualities do not reach the standard determined by the Joint Medical Program Committee shall not be invited to Stage 2 and therefore would not be included in the ranked list.
- The available positions will be allocated rural and non-rural applicants at each university in the proportions determined by the Joint Medical Program Committee and approved by the relevant Faculty Board at each University based on the applicants stated enrolment location preference.
- The Assistant Academic Registrar, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle (or nominee) shall ensure that sufficient offers of admission are made each year to the first year of the degree to fill the various quotas: Rural / Non-rural, Dean's Regional List University of Newcastle only, Bonded Medical Places, Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships and Indigenous. The number shall be that agreed to with the Federal Government when determining the University Profile.
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Prospective students will be provided with a statement about recommended levels of personal health and fitness to undertake the program when they attend for interview. All commencing students will be required to confirm that they have read and understood this statement. Students will also be asked to provide an infectious disease history and immunisation record.
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5. International Applicants
Bachelor of Medicine - JMP: the international quota within the Bachelor of Medicine -JMP will be filled via agreements that the Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and the University of New England have with specific overseas institutions. A limited number of positions will also be available to students entering via the University of Newcastle Foundation Certificate Program.
Approval Authority | Academic Senate |
Date Approved | 3 December 2008 |
Date Last Amended | 18 December 2009 |
Date for Review | 3 December 2011 |
Policy Sponsor | Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) |
Policy Owner | Academic Registrar |
Policy Contact | Assistant Academic Registrar , Faculty of Health |
Amendment History | Minor amendment - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) replaced Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Global Relations) as Policy Sponsor to reflect structural changes, The Secretariat, 2 September 2013. Amended UAI to ATAR and relevant cut-offs notified Aug 2009. |


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Piezoceramic motors and actuators have fewer mechanical component parts to wear out and service, and have ability to provide more accurate positioning, attractive attributes for medical device manufacturers. Different piezo actuators and motor types are available. The most common ones are:
A) "Simple" piezo actuator—expands proportionally to voltage. Motion is proportional to drive voltage.
Sub-groups include:
- Stacked actuator is the most common type, with high force, fast response, and short travel;
- Shear actuator has fast lateral motion, and XY systems are available. They can have high force and very high frequency, though travel typically limited to 20 µm;
- Tube actuator is mostly for microdispensing applications and atomic force microscopy (AFM) scanners; and
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- Integrated multi-axis systems are available;
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Piezo motors, actuators streamline medical device performance;
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Control Engineering Machine Control Channel.
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After a work session with Delta Area Chamber of Commerce representatives, the Delta City Council has agreed to consider amending the contract for the city-owned building at 3rd & Meeker to allow the chamber to sublet a portion of the building.
The chamber has rented office space on the second floor to one of its members, MM&D Engineering, since November 2010, and considers the income essential for its continued operation in the community, executive director Kami Collins explained at the work session.
The presence of MM&D in no way diminishes the services of the chamber, Collins stressed.
City manager Justin Clifton brought the issue to the city council's attention. He said the lease agreement with the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce limits use of the premises to office and visitors' information functions. Any other use requires written consent of the city council, acting as the Delta Urban Renewal Authority, which purchased and improved the "Last Chance" building during a major downtown improvement project in the late '80s. The city council acts as the DURA board.
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The homeless are back in the news in downtown Sarasota.
And that's never good.
But this is becoming more about the so-called "advocates" of the homeless and their rights as it is about the homeless and truly helping them out of homelessness.
I just can't help but wonder if any of these groups would be so hot on this issue if they did not garner such a huge amount of publicity.
The latest pro-homeless group to register its outrage and treat the city to threats for considering the needs of hard-working residents over piddle places for the homeless is the American Civil Liberties Union.
Apparently, the Sarasota Police Department has begun issuing trespass warnings to people who are hanging out in front of businesses around the Five Points area, along First Street and Central and Lemon avenues. The police act on complaints from business owners.
It's pretty understandable. Consider if you are operating a restaurant with outdoor seating and homeless people settle down next to your customers' tables, plopping down whatever belongings they have with them, raising a disturbing cloud of body odor. They will drive away customers. It happens, and merchants working hard to make a living during season have had enough.
For past attempts to get the homeless out of downtown, the city was named the "meanest city" in America by some publicity-hunting goofball homeless organization in D.C. The city has since vanished from the list, but others, including Bradenton, have popped up.
The ACLU claims that some of the sidewalks are publicly owned, and therefore the homeless have a constitutionally protected freedom of speech right to plop down in front of merchants and sleep, reek, urinate, panhandle, etc. Freedom of speech! Yeah, pretty sure that's what Thomas Jefferson had in mind. The ACLU would be comical if it were not so well funded.
Of course, it makes the front page of the newspaper because it fits the formula. But the plight of merchants — who have gone under during the recession like Jimmy Hoffa in the Detroit River — is not the story. It's the homeless' right to offend everyone in their vicinity.
City Attorney Bob Fournier is looking into the public-private status of the sidewalks. But clarifications by Fournier do not get to the root. That is a simple legality.
Groups such as the ACLU and too many "homeless advocates" — who appear indeed to advocate keeping people homeless — offer no solutions to the underlying problems with homelessness.
It's not like there are no places for the homeless. There are. The Salvation Army is a great one. But it comes with strings — no drunkenness, no drug use and responsible efforts to find work. That won't do for too many homeless, and with their protectorate of "advocates," it does not have to.
Homelessness falls into two broad camps: People with mental and emotional conditions who are generally unable to function in our society; and people with drug/alcohol/work ethic problems who will not seek help and stay helped. A smaller group are those who have truly fallen on a stretch of bad luck, but those are usually in shelters or with friends or family — not panhandling, sleeping and urinating on downtown streets.
People who are not able to function in society should be placed in facilities to help care for them. It is no act of love to leave a mentally dysfunctional adult to the streets and call it free speech. In fact, it is an act of rotteness.
And the rest of the homeless need a big dose of tough love, which would mean tougher laws and requirements placed on them. And that, we know, would raise the ire of the "advocates" whose actions help maintain homeless peoples' status as homeless.
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- Linda Gaines,
The homeless people in downtown are the same homeless people I've been seeing in Sarasota for years. They are not children and they're not families.
If we're going to have a debate about the problem of homeless let's have a reality based debate and no one of full of talking points from special interest groups.
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- I don't know whether you are a very naïve person or you are simply misinformed and have not done any research on the subject of being homeless. 40% of the homeless are families and that percentage is growing. In Manatee County there are over 1700 documented school age children who are homeless. That does not count younger children or young adults 16 and over who are not in the school system. By denying help to the homeless now we will have an even larger bill to pay in the future. Yes 15% of the homeless have drug problems and yes another small % are mentally ill. Why not find out the percentage of these people who are homeless and are now in our jails because our jails have become our sanitariums and hospitals for these people. You cannot just think that we can ignore these people and families and we will not have to pay a cost in the end because they are not going away. Being ignorant of the real facts does not justify making statements without delving into the causes of homelessness and what can be done to deal with it . Wishing it to go away or go somewhere else will not work either.
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- Often, I whole-heartedly disagree with you...this time, not so much! The old Publix building at Ringling Shopping Center is vacant and in the shadow of the new police department. Perhaps the ACLU and Publix can get together - the ACLU's money and man-power and Publix's support, with corporate dollars as a tax deduction and philanthropic advertising as a win-win.
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- They missed their chance with the old police station. Next big building that goes vacant gets to be the undeserving poor's flophouse. The ACLU can serve the meals and clean the toilets.
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- After businesses abandon Main St. due to the town's antagonistic policies, it will become the refuge of the ner-do well homeless. Then the ACLU will revel in a dead zone of their making. Hot damn! What a civil accomplishment. As I've said before, if I owned a business on Main St. or its environs, I would terminate my lease and move to a friendly place like Southgate Mall.
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- Once again, a great piece. You've hit all the nails on the head that I've been preaching for years. Keep up the good work.
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More nudity, more raunch, more sex scenes fill new "Uncut" version of VU's risqué college adventure.
Leisure Suit Larry banned in Australia
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Leisure Suit Larry gropes gold
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