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Graduates of the Interventional Fellowship will have performed at least 250 interventional procedures as the primary operator. This is the minimum number set forth by the American College of Cardiology to be eligible for the certifying board examination in Interventional Cardiology.
Graduates are expected to pass the subspecialty board examination in Interventional Cardiology of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Additionally, graduates must design and complete a research project during their fellowship program which, at a minimum, must be submitted for publication. The graduating fellow must demonstrate a commitment to continuing education through ongoing study.

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CLEARWATER, Fla., (July 18, 2012) -- One of the first patients to receive a transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure (TAVR) performed by Morton Plant Hospital's Valve Clinic team says he is feeling healthy today, happy to be driving again and going to lunches with his family and network groups he belongs to, since having the TAVR procedure five months ago.
88-year-old Austin Carroll, of Dunedin, had severe aortic stenosis, a disease that affects the aortic valve to open and close properly, causing the heart to work harder to push blood through the calcified aortic valve and eventually weakening his heart's muscles and increased his risk of heart failure. Carroll says before the procedure, he was not at his best health and had to limit physical activity. Today, he is able to enjoy again playing with his grand and great-grandchildren.
Morton Plant Hospital's TAVR team is the first in the Tampa Bay area to perform TAVR and have already performed the procedure on more than 25 patients since the first procedure done on February 2.
"TAVR is a new treatment option for patients considered inoperable, including Carroll, to have this minimally invasive procedure by implanting a replacement valve through the femoral artery," said Douglas Spriggs, MD, interventional cardiologist and member of the Morton Plant Hospital Valve Clinic team. "The valve is inserted into the femoral artery through a small incision in the groin and then guided into the heart instead of experiencing a large incision in the chest as with traditional open heart surgery."
"I know it was a relatively new breakthrough procedure when he brought it to me as an option," said Carroll. "But I am happy I made the decision and recommend it to others because you can expect a simple recovery and since all the physicians involved work as a team, I felt I was in good hands."
For the TAVR and other specialized heart procedures, Morton Plant constructed a new hybrid operative suite, along with opening a Valve Clinic for the treatment of complex heart valve disorders such as aortic stenosis. Patients receive their surgery and recover in Morton Plant's Morgan Heart Hospital.
Morton Plant Hospital is one of a select number of hospitals across the country designated to perform the new TAVR procedure. For more information about the Morton Plant Hospital's Valve Clinic, call (855) 448-2583 or log onto the Morton Plant Mease Valve Clinic.
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Established in 1916, Morton Plant Hospital is a 687-bed facility that has built a national reputation for heart care. Morton Plant is the only hospital in the United States to have been awarded Top 100 Hospital designations by the Thomson Reuters Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success for a consecutive 13 years. For three years, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has awarded Morton Plant Hospital's heart surgery program its prestigious overall three-star rating, the highest designation given to hospitals by STS. Morton Plant is one of only approximately 13 percent of more than 1,000 hospitals with a cardiac surgery program to receive a three-star rating. Morton Plant Hospital is located at 300 Pinellas Street, Clearwater, Fla.
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Comparison - Nokia Lumia 800 vs iPhone 4S
By Jonathan Cheah
29 October 2011 – The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Apple iPhone 4S were both announced in October 2011.
In what is reminiscent of those days when Microsoft and Apple went head-to-head, the Nokia Lumia 800 uses a 1.4 GHz single-core Snapdragon processor to drive Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). The Apple iPhone 4S uses a dual-core 1 GHz A5 processor to drive iOS 5.
Both the Apple iPhone 4S and the Nokia Lumia 800 are quad-band devices. The Apple iPhone 4S supports both CDMA and GSM systems in one device. The Nokia Lumia 800 weighs 142g and the Apple iPhone 4S weighs 140g – a negligible difference.
The Nokia Lumia 800 displays 480 x 800 pixels onto a 3.7-inch screen (slightly smaller than the Nokia N9 to accommodate the physical buttons) and the Apple iPhone 4S displays 640 x 960 pixels onto a 3.5-inch screen. Although still on one of smallest screens in this age of touchscreen phones, the Apple iPhone 4S appears to have the better resolution from these specifications.
The Apple iPhone 4S and the Nokia Lumia 800 both have an 8-megapixel main camera with flash. The Apple iPhone 4S records video at a maximum of 1920x1080 (1080p HD) and the Nokia Lumia 800 records video at a maximum of 1280x720 (720p HD).
The Apple iPhone 4S comes in 16, 32 and 64 GB versions and the Nokia Lumia 800 comes in only the 16 GB version.
If we compare the price for the 16 GB versions of both phones, the Nokia Lumia 800 retails at about RM 1800 and the 16 GB version of the Apple iPhone 4S retails at about RM 2300 (Announced price for the 16 GB Apple iPhone 4 at its launch). That is a difference of around 25% more for the iPhone.
It is a situation that Microsoft is unused too. For once, the shoe is on the other foot and the Windows product finds itself up against a dominant iOS in what is a reversal of the earlier rivalry between both these companies in the field of the personal computer.
I can't really see the Nokia Lumia 800 outselling the Apple iPhone 4, at least not at these prices. It will take some time to build up an application store to rival the App Store and until that happens - the smart money is that consumers will continue to go for the iPhone.
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Nokia Lumia 800 (420 Euros, approximately RM 1800)
3.5G 14.4Mbps HSDPA + WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, 3.7-inch Touchscreen Candybar, 8.0 MP camera + 16GB internal memory, Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
Touted as Nokia's "first real Windows Phone", the Nokia Lumia 800 is the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) flagship by Nokia. It shares the same exterior design with the Nokia N9, but with an additional camera shutter button on the bottom right of the phone. It has a smaller display than the N9 to make space for the three touch buttons (Back, Start and Search) on Windows Phone platform.
It includes some exclusive goodies such as free 25GB SkyDrive cloud storage, Nokia Drive turn-by-turn voice navigation free app and Nokia Music with Mix Radio. Spec-wise, the Lumia 800 has a 3.7-inch WVGA (480 x 800) AMOLED display with ClearBlack technology, a 1.4GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 16GB internal storage, 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and supports HSDPA 14.4Mbps, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1.
The Mango smartphone's expected retail price is 420 Euros (estimated RM 1850) and will be available from November onwards, with gradual release across the globe
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Its exterior is similar to the iPhone 4, but the phone gets the A5 dual-core processor, which Apple claims will be able to run graphics seven times faster than its predecessor. Last year's antenna issue is also addressed, the iPhone's steel band is able to 'intelligently' switch between antenna's for improve call quality.
Other iPhone 4S exclusives, is the Siri voice recognition system, for example you ask Siri a question example "Do I need a raincoat today?" Siri will try and make sense of it and responds "It sure looks like rain today." Other examples include "What is the time in Kuala Lumpur?" Siri will then show you the world clock. Yes it comes with iOS 5, but only 4S users will be able to enjoy it.
There is also an upgraded 8-megapixel camera, the sensor gets an upgrade too with something called backlight illumination, and an image signal processor that enables face detection and 26 percent improved white balance. And it will take 1.1 seconds to take the first shot, and half a second for the next. 1080p video recording is supported too.
The battery is still able to handle the dual-core processor with 8 hours of talk time, 14 hours of 2g talk time, 6 hours of 3g browsing, 9 hours of WiFi browsing. The 4S will have 14.4 HSPA + downlink, an improvement over the iPhone 4's 7.2 Mpbs.
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Around the Table
I love my new job. And I loved my old job.
For 24 years, I was a pastor, and it was good (except the times it wasn't). This past 7 months, I've been a professor. And it is very good, and so far I haven't found the underside. Do I love professoring (my coinage) more than pastoring? It's hard to say. They're hard to compare. All I know for sure is that my heart sings now in a way it had stopped singing.
There are probably many reasons for that. One, I think, is simply practical: I am home most evenings. In the pastorate, most my evenings were taken up with some church-related duty or another. After too many seasons of that, something eroded in me. Some deep weariness took hold of me.
But now I have most evenings free. The first few months, I gorged myself on that. I went nowhere. I saw no one. I sat home and read, or watched movies, or puttered around the basement. I drank a lot of tea.
It was life-giving.
And then it got boring.
So Cheryl and I started inviting people over to our house, and readily accepted invitations to go to other peoples' houses. In fact, in the 7 months we've live here, we've hosted more meals in our home and eaten more meals in other people's homes than we did in our last 5 years in the pastorate.
I'm beginning to realize why Jesus placed such a priority on sitting down to a meal with someone. Something happens around a table that doesn't, or only rarely, happens elsewhere. It's some magic that can't be conjured, manufactured, or faked. Stories are told. Histories are remembered. Dreams are evoked. Laughter breaks out, and sometimes tears. A depth of honesty emerges. A sense of shared humanity weaves hearts together.
It's ironic, maybe tragic: I spent so much time as a pastor I trying to create this, and so little experiencing it.
I don't know if I'll ever pastor again. I just know, from here on out I don't want to miss the simple, beautiful, subversive power of meeting another human being around the table.
How to Have a Beautiful Soul (or Avoid an Ugly One)
I was rereading parts of Feodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground this past week. Dostoevsky – a 19th Century Russian writer – is among the pantheon of Great Authors whose works, though rooted deeply in time and place, transcend them. His massive sprawling novel The Brothers Karamazov stands as one of the uncontested masterpieces of world literature. It is in my top five favorite novels.
Notes from Underground is something else entirely. It's the jumbled confession of a jaded twisted man, immersed in his own torment and misery. It amounts to one of the bleakest portraits ever rendered of man alone, man without friend, without God, without hope. "I am a sick man," the confession begins. "I am a spiteful man." Thus launches a misanthropic tirade of burning resentment, choking self-pity, and vicious self-loathing.
The book proved prophetic. Increasingly, the nameless anti-hero of the Notes resembles us, or we him: a people longing for the admiration of others without the burden of them, wanting applause without having to earn it, bearing grudges for the slightest slights. A people who throw off God, thinking it's liberation, and who only end up impoverished and enslaved, captive to our own dark selves.
Dostoevsky was a Christ-follower – a troubled one, to be sure, but with a deep grasp of God's extravagant grace. His later works – The Idiot, Crime & Punishment, The Brothers K – are breath-taking testaments to the transforming and liberating power of the Christ who meets even the least of us in the most unlikely places.
The relationship in The Brothers K between the simple saintly Alyosha and the brilliant embittered – and rabidly atheistic – Ivan is alone worth the price of that book and the effort of reading it. Ivan's logic is hard to refute, but Alyosha's life is hard to resist. We find the atheist semi convincing, but the saint entirely compelling. Alyosha's soul draws us with its beauty. Ivan's soul repels us with its ugliness.
It strikes me, leafing through the Notes, that Dostoevsky was sketching all this out, and with it issuing a warning: that among the many horrors of rejecting Christ, not least is a soul that grows ugly.
Thus I begin my confession: I am a forgiven man. I am a thankful man.
Difficult People
Bunk Mates in Heaven
A pastor friend of mine quipped the other day: "There are some people I couldn't warm up to even if I was cremated with them."
I laughed, and then didn't.
I know exactly what he means. There are people who, no matter how hard I try, I just don't like. They grate on me. They get under my skin. Their laugh, their voice, their manner, their habits, their prevailing attitude or tone or bent – something about them irks or irritates me, and just their showing up forces me to practice Lamaze breathing.
I know this confession outs me for the spiritual pygmy I am. But there it is.
Jesus commanded us, in no uncertain terms, to love each other. But then gets meddlesome, and goes on to define the scope of "each other": friends, enemies, the least of these, the worst of these, the brother who sins against us again and again and again. It's a big list. He virtually leaves no one out.
Fine and well. Alright, I'll do it. I love them. There. You happy?
But you never said I had to like 'em, right?
Ah, but I'm a pastor. I have, on top of the general command to obey everything Jesus says, one large extra burden: I will be judged more severely if I get it wrong. I cannot become an accuser of the brethren. I cannot choose which sheep I feed or protect, and which I leave in the gulch or to the wolves. I don't have the luxury of contempt or neglect.
So over the nearly quarter century I've been a pastor, I've learned and practiced, failed at and started over with, several disciplines that help me love – and even like – those I'd rather avoid. Here are four (of many):
- Remember the state I was in before Christ found me. Jesus wasn't drawn to me because of my winsome ways or attractive personality. I was a wretch. I was a starving ragged stinking prodigal, still dripping with piggish muck, when he ran to kiss me. It was my desperate condition that awakened his compassion. He welcomed me and rescued me, not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He calls us to love like that.
- Tap the power that is in me through the risen Christ. Paul says (in 2 Corinthians 5) that Christ's loves compels us, because we are convinced his death and resurrection are for everyone. And so, he says, we no longer look at anyone from a worldly point of view. Christ not only gives us a heart transplant: he gives us an eye transplant. The more we steep in his love and grace, the more we see people – everyone – from a "heavenly point of view." Christ gives us his very own eyes to see people with. Use them.
- Value others above myself. Paul commands this in Philippians 2. It's one of the most convicting verses in Scripture, because it's not limited only to people we like. Paul is talking, for instance, to Euodia and Syntyche, two women who want to rip each other's faces off (see Phil. 4). It is a sobering and humbling exercise to actually, tangibly do this for someone you don't like – to value them above yourself, and then act on that value. Try it.
- Remember where this all ends. I have a theory: the person we least like on earth will be assigned our bunk mate in heaven. I don't think God will do this as a prank, though. I think he'll do it so we can laugh with that person for a few thousand years about how petty and small-minded and self-centered we were, and rejoice with them for all eternity at how great is the love of God that he lavishes on us, that we should be called his children, and made one another's brothers and sisters.
There may be people you couldn't warm up to if you were cremated with them. But could you if you knew you were to spend eternity with them?
When I practice these things, and more besides, God changes me, slow but sure. My LQ – Love Quotient, Like Quotient – goes up.
How's that going for you?
Celebrating 27 years
We're on a night train to Paris – a marathon journey that starts in Venice, the City of Bridges, stops at a handful of Italian centers – Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Brescia, Milan – before heading into the Alps and ending, almost 14 hours later, in the heart of Paris, the City of Lights.
Our 12 days in Italy have been amazing – from the spectacular coastline of southern Italy, to the lush vineyards of Tuscany, to the magic of Venice's canals and gondoliers.
Best of all, Cheryl and I celebrated 27 years of marriage today. We began with breakfast on the Grand Canal of Venice and finished in a dining car somewhere between Padua and Milan. In between, we threaded through a maze of Venetian streets and wandered in and out of shops of handcrafted glassworks and Italian leather and silk.
I'm a blessed man, to walk with Cheryl by my side these past three decades – it's been that long if you count our courtship. Every year gets better – we get more playful, more thoughtful, less reactive. We value the other more deeply. I think we are more hopeful. We've been through a lot – glories and messes, breakthroughs and let downs, tragedies and windfalls. Such things either season you or shrivel you. Mostly, I'd say, it's seasoned us.
It's not that we don't have our episodes – crankiness, testiness, wondering when this person will finally fully get with the program. But those moments get further apart and shorter in duration. And what more and more rises to the surface is deep abiding thankfulness, to God and for each other.
I'm on a night train to Paris, and think I'm the luckiest man alive.
To the lady of my life, all my love, always.
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Archive - May 2012
May 17th
Supercharging the like Button
The Portuguese beer brand Super Bock launched a new Facebook advertising campaign aiming to convince Mark Zuckerberg to change the "like" button to "Good", "Great" or "Super" buttons. In a clever but perhaps risky strategy, the brand made a video ad with typography and animations typical of online social services and app ads. It only reveals itself as a sponsor of this initiative at the very end of the video with a discreet logo.
Why it matters
If brands could customise the like button, there would be an endless amount of adjectives storming the platform. This would be rather chaotic and Facebook would probably not let it happen. Nevertheless, what is interesting with this campaign is the fact that the focus has been put on the button movement rather than the brand, thus almost creating the sense of a spontaneous viral initiative, making it more likeable and less "corporate". How can other industries create branded viral activity that feels legitimate in their quest to garner mass support and bring change – even if it's just for the 'like' button?
Cartoon food for thought
A new Portuguese cartoon animation project aimed at giving healthy eating habits to children all over the world will hit the TV screens. The series' heroes gain superpowers from eating vegetables and other healthy foods. It will launch alongside other merchandising such as a trading card game in Portugal, Brazil, Hungary, Poland and Israel. Its creators have established partnerships with the World Health Organization, the Portuguese Education and Health Ministries, and nutritionist associations in several countries.
Why it matters
With negotiations to show it in the UK, Italy and Mexico and an interest form Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" team, this project is a perfect example of pre-launch planning, clever use of business contacts and platforms for entertainment products. But most importantly, one of its USPs is its healthy eating mission which makes it an obvious parent pleaser. In fact, its website also has a section just for the them. If parents are the ones who spend money on children's entertainment products, how can these be also aimed at them while providing a useful tool?
The world's most expensive doggy bag
In Germany, nearly 11 tons of food is thrown away every year. A restaurant in Hamburg has decided to tackle this problem in their very own way by putting a sign on tables informing visitors that they will pay a fine for their unfinished meal (€1 per 50 grams).
Why it matters
In times where a considerable proportion of the global population suffers from hunger or malnutrition, is this is a good way of reminding people of their actions? Is imposing a fine enough to make us more conscious of our disposable and wasteful ways?


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Lucille Kennedy
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Lucille Kennedy, 92, Phillipsburg, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, at Phillips County Retirement Center, Phillipsburg.
She was born Dec. 29, 1919, in Phillips County to Arthur and Maud (Cook) Gipe.
She was a dietary aide at the nursing home.
Survivors include two sons, George A. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Utah, and Clarence D. Kennnedy, Phillipsburg; a daughter, Darlene Nonhof, Phillipsburg; eight grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg; burial in Deaver Cemetery, Stamford, Neb.
Visitation will be until 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to Hospice Services Inc. or Phillips County Retirement Center.
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August 8, 2012
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08 August 2012 – Maxis has introduced a new TalkMore 48 postpaid plan.
For RM 48 per month, you are entitled to enjoy 400 minutes of calls and 200 SMS to all networks. Further calls will be charged at 10 sen per minute to Maxis line and 15 sen per minute to other networks. Subsequent SMS will be charged at 10 sen per message within Maxis network and 15 sen per message to other networks.
If your monthly usage has exceeded RM 110, Maxis will charge you at a discount rate of 5 sen per minute for calls and 5 sen per SMS. The discounted rate only applies to Maxis-to-Maxis.
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WHAT TO DO WITH LEFT OVER TOILET PAPER ROLLS? JUNIOR JACQUET of France has an answer that works for him. He recycles and reuses these cardboard rolls into a legion of odd characters with contorted faces. His process is simple: Jacquet paints—then pushes and pulls the cardboard roll, slowly revealing his next character.
Learn more about the artist at Village of Joy.
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Sensor Bot
Anngelique Canty, Jamal Davis, Chris Farquer, Priyanka Patel
The project is designed to teach children pre-programming and to expose them to the engineering sciences based around robotic technologies. It will be used to promote education and enhance the community and is being sponsored by the SA Children's Museum to be used as an exhibit. The project will contain a robot prototype that will use various types of sensors to navigate a predesigned obstacle course. Young children will learn the basic concepts of programming by choosing from pre-written commands.
Power Systems Distribution
Rajeh Alyami, Ross McGee, Angel Carter, Garrett Hoover
A software program designed for O'Connell Robertson's Architecture and Design Company that will be capable of calculating load summaries for buildings, facilities, and plants etc., while accurately sizing a transformer, generator, and solar array to provide precise cost analysis for their customers. The program will utilize NEC and industry standard power calculations and algorithms and display summarized results for the client's customers.
Wildlife deterrent and monitoring system
Alim Kuychiyev, Andre Rice, Andres Valdez, John Vargas
A system designed to protect or take care of a garden by utilizing sensors to protect the garden by either a spray of water, a loud sound of a native predatory, or green laser lights. The gardener will not only be able to choose the mode of deterrent but will also be able to set the nutrient level and moisture level of the soil.
Robert Onufrei, Sean Dudycha, Marissa Amaya
The Sinkulator is a kitchen sink that has the ability to re-circulate water rather than drawing it continuously from a structure's water supply. There are many instances in which using the water supply is wasteful. For instance, according to a study done by Siemens the average amount of water used to wash dishes by hand is approximately 20 gallons. The purpose of the Sinkulator is to re-circulate, filter, and heat a smaller amount of water, 3 to 5 gallons.
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is hosting the Seventh Annual Architecture, Business, Engineering and Science Student Conference, designed to showcase student accomplishment, promote research excellence at UTSA, and highlight science, engineering, business, and architecture education in San Antonio. This year's conference theme is "Cloud Computing Technology and Its Applications in Engineering, Science and Biology—San Antonio's Next Advance." It reflects expectations for UTSA to emerge at the forefront of research and development excellence at both state and national levels.
The ABES Conference consists of multiple student paper presentation as well as keynote lectures by three distinguished guest.
In addition to the student presentation and keynote speakers, ABES will also be hosting a Hack-A-Thon where groups of three or less compete to create the best solution for a software design problem.
Artemis Care developed an indoor tracking system called Apollo's Eye that safeguards special need individuals while respecting their freedom and privacy. Student members include Jose Alanis, Amy Garcia, Hector Green, Robert Morris, Chris Reyes, Manuel Serrata and Edgar Villansenor.
Circa-Invention created the Frisballer, a machine that launches Frisbees and tennis balls with a touch of a button. Student members include Scott Deslauriers, Chris Lee,Noe Linan, Barry Pryce, Nick Speer, Reginald Thompson and Monica Urrutia.
ELD Energy Loss Detection Software detects energy leaks in a building and determines the fiscal losses caused by these leaks. It will also cost out the building improvements necessary to get rid of these problems. Student members include Marcelo Andres, Juan C. Jose Mendez and Luis F. Nunez.
Jack N' Slide is a wheelchair accessory that aids patients in wheelchair to bed transfers. Their product replaces the canvas seat of a wheelchair with a mechanical lift seat that easily bolts to the frame of a standard wheelchair. Student members include Gerald Balanon, Danna Lopez, Crystal Ngumezi, Jaehyun Park, Nicholas Sohocki, Adi Ray-Tahtinen and David Willis.
Leto Solutions's Aquilonix provides a thermoelectric cooling system that adds comfort and improves hygiene for prostheses users to create a cooled environment in the socket portion of a prosthesis, while dissipating heat from the area. Student members include Austin Darius, Nam Do, Eric Michael Garza, Enrique Medrano, Jake Montez, David Schultz, Justin Stultz and Gary Walters
Mommy Pad and Car seat is a vibrating pad built into a car seat to comfort a child while in a car. Student members include Neel Desai, Cindy Elizarraras, Rico Jaeger, Michael King, Bader Al Kooheji, Jorge Molin, Karen Vega and Michael Wiiki.
PLaCR I.T. provides a fast , accurate and easily-repeated method of centering a gamma radiation source for small-batch Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and inspection of pipe welds in the 36"–60" diameter range. Student members include Raisha Leal, Roby Myles, Luis Preciado and Christina Thomas.
Reddo Communication System created a portable device for translating sign language into voice. Student members include J. Aaron Kapp, Samantha Massoud and Jennifer Peter.
Smart Steer is a steering wheel cover that manages the infotainment system of the vehicle without requiring the driver to look away from traffic – hence decreasing distractions and unexpected accidents. Student members include Ricardo Angola, Jason Conner, Cory Farek, Leonardo Mejia , Luis Miguel Saucedo, Michael Starkweather and Rodrigo Tafoya.
Spyder Cycling Cyclosa invented a belt-driven bicycle that is lighter, quieter, stronger, more efficient and requires less maintenance. Student members include Lauren Anzaldua, Randall Garcia and Brandon Villarreal.
Ten UTSA teams comprised of business and engineering students will compete for $100,000 in cash and business-related services at the $100,000 Student Technology Venture Competition, hosted by the UTSA Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE). Competitors will be scored on the viability of their proprietary new technologies and the business plans they developed to market those technologies.
Held semi-annually, the $100,000 tech competition at UTSA offers the largest award of all undergraduate business planning competitions in the nation. The competitors will offer new technologies poised to enhance health care, fitness and energy conservation.
The teams will be judged by local academic, business and entrepreneurial experts on their technology, business plan and presentation. At the close of the daylong competition, the winning teams will have the opportunity to pitch their companies to potential investors. In addition to a cash prize, the winning teams will receive consulting services, marketing services, office space and other benefits to support them in getting their projects off the ground.
UTSA established the competition in 2007 when it observed that its engineering students were developing new technologies and its business students were writing business plans, but neither group of students continued their efforts beyond turning in their projects for a grade. With the competition in place, UTSA's students are now developing marketable technologies and forming viable new companies based on those technologies.
UTSA's $100,000 Student Technology Venture Competition founding sponsor is the Texas Research & Technology Foundation. Additional sponsors are Cox | Smith, the San Antonio Technology Center, Startech, Rackspace, the UTSA Colleges of Business and Engineering, and the UTSA Vice President for Research.
CITE, an interdisciplinary center in the Colleges of Business and Engineering, was established in 2006 to create a pipeline for UTSA faculty, students and surrounding business community to develop new technology ventures. Through a process of education, experiences, resources and support, CITE is focused on fostering the growth of new technology-based ventures. Through hands-on activities, projects, internships and competitions, experiences are created that help unlock the inner entrepreneur in students, faculty and the public. CITE also coordinates resources for supporting early venture execution within the university or in collaboration with companies and provides linkages to IP protection, incubation and funding that support the successful launch of new technology ventures.


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WASHINGTON, DC – The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association for the U.S. solar energy industry, and the BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, today announced a new partnership to help support their mutual goal -- building a robust clean energy economy to power America.
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PUC OKs more solar capacity for Xcel
The solar industry applauded a decision by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission that allows Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE: XEL) to acquire as much as 33.6 megawatts as part of the company's Solar Rewards program.
Lifesaving Solar Power for Army Firefly Sniper Detection System
The Department of Defense has been aggressively pursuing alternative energy both as the key to future national security and as a means of reducing troop casualties in the field, and a new Army solar project provides a perfect illustration of the two entwined goals.
After Sandy, AT&T Builds Solar Phone Charging Stations Across NYC
In the days following Superstorm Sandy, Starbucks and other restaurants in the New York City region had lines out the door. The customers were not in line to get coffee or food, but instead to use the electric outlets to charge their dead cell phones.
SEIA and COSEIA Applaud Colorado Public Utilities Commission Decision Expanding Solar*Rewards Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (COSEIA) today applauded a decision by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to increase the 2013 capacity of Xcel Energy's popular Solar*Rewards program for small-sized solar installations throughout the state. In April, SEIA, the COSEIA, and Xcel Energy jointly proposed this capacity increase in order to avoid possible disruption to the successful program.
Xcel must retain solar subsidy
Minnesota regulators on Monday ordered Xcel Energy to retain a popular program that subsidizes the small-scale solar-power projects of its customers.
Solar energy: Smart power play
IT'S HEARTENING that Georgia Power wants to more than triple its solar capacity with panels at solar farms and on the roofs of ratepayers' homes and businesses.
Solarize Madison helps two dozen homeowners install solar panels
When Morrisville State College automotive professor Steve Law bought his 13-acre property near campus 20 years ago, he asked students in the college's structures classes to design a south-facing pole barn where he could one day install a solar energy system.
8,300 Solar Panels to Reduce Energy Costs
Two major local employers will install a total of more than 8,300 solar panels, making them the latest participants in the growing solar panel industry.
Made in Michigan: Solar Street Lights USA
HOLLAND, Mich. (WZZM) - A lakeshore company is helping bring brighter days to the state's economy. Holland-based Solar Street Lights USA makes a product that can't be found anywhere else in the state and the company says its even saving people's lives.


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The Tea Party vs. the Pot Party
The only similarity Tea Party rallies and the Occupy Wall Street protests share is that both involve humans gathered in public spaces. Other than that they have about as much in common as a Rolling Stones concert does with a public stoning.
The UK Daily Mail featured a story on the unsavory conditions at the OWS protestors' home base in Manhattan, Zuccotti Park, including photos of one flannel-clad agitator squatting and defecating against a police car. Hmm, I think the last time that happened at a Tea Party rally was… never.
Having destroyed the park over the past three weeks by filling it with patchouli ashes and feces, the protestors traipsed north on Saturday to turn another great New York gathering space, Washington Square Park, into a public urinal.
The glaring differences between OWS and the Tea Party rallies are obvious to anyone with a functioning pair of eyes (and nostrils).
The Tea Party movement, which began around the start of Barack Obama's presidency and built momentum during the year-long national healthcare debate, was a grassroots uprising. Across the country, people who had never been active in politics networked and gathered with concerned, like-minded citizens to demand a curb on the intrusion of federal government into our lives.
In contrast, OWS, which is a fraction of the size of the Tea Party, was instigated by an anti-consumerist Canadian magazine called Adbusters, and has seen its numbers swell via conspicuous throngs of bused-in union members, bored trust fund brats cruising for easy sex, disheveled homeless people looking for free food, and savvy criminals on the lam who understand that a crowd of ragtag bums is the perfect hiding spot for them.
Despite their heated rhetoric, Tea Party rallies have been amazingly peaceful, with hardly any arrests and not a single incidence of violence—except for those committed by union members against the ralliers—across hundreds of cities and thousands of events attended by millions of people over the past two-and-a-half years.
In contrast, OWS has rudely disrupted its host cities, with over 700 arrests in just one day in one city (New York) and tens of millions of dollars in policing costs only a few weeks into the movement. Commuters and municipal officials have complained about the invaders' lack of respect for residents just trying to go about their business.
Tea Party rallies have been antiseptically clean, to such a degree that public works employees have gushed about how attendees leave the protest areas cleaner than when they arrived.
In contrast, the OWS occupation has been sickeningly unsanitary, with widespread public urination and defecation, hordes of unwashed louts mating in filthy sleeping bags, mounting piles of rotting trash, and an omnipresent odor of raw sewage.
The Tea Party has been well-organized and influential, having achieved earth-shattering electoral results in special and off-year gubernatorial and senatorial elections, and a historic landslide in the Congressional midterms.
In contrast, OWS has been ineffectual and impotent, with no one—including the protestors—having any idea what they want, let alone how they hope to achieve it by playing hacky sack and painting their bodies like tribesmen.
Most Tea Partiers took time out of their busy days to attend the rallies, which were almost always held in the evenings, after work, or on weekends.
In contrast, most OWS protestors appear to have no jobs, homes, or responsibilities to attend to, and seem to be looking to the rallies to provide them with shelter, food, and a purpose in life.
And those are just the superficial differences!
On a deeper level, the Tea Partiers want government to leave them alone and allow them to be productive citizens and decide how to spend their money. In contrast, OWS protestors wish to tear down the capitalist system while forcing society to give them free college, universal healthcare, and guaranteed home ownership.
The Tea Party's heroes have included our nation's Founding Fathers, and 20th-century political and philosophical leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Friedrich Hayek, and Ayn Rand. In contrast, OWS has thrown its support to the likes of cop-killer Troy Davis and al-Qaeda conspirator Tarek Mehanna.
Tea Partiers have been reading and debating the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. OWS leaders have been teaching protestors how to pick open handcuffs with hairpins.
Tea Party organizers have been handing out miniature flags; OWS leaders have been distributing condoms.
As anyone who's been watching knows, the Tea Party increased its influence the larger it grew and the more it pervaded our culture. Given the public revulsion over the Wall Street protests, the longer these embarrassing displays continue, the bigger the anti-Democratic tsunami will be in 2012.
Related articles
- Don't Compare The Protesters To The Tea Party Movement Around Someone On Wall Street (businessinsider.com)
- Occupy Wall Street is nothing like the TEA Party (trommetter.com)
- Why I believe in the Tea party by Rob Rosasco (Allen West, Marco Rubio, Pam Bondi and more) (allenwestrepublic.wordpress.com)
- Reliable Sources Panel Analyzes The Difference Between Tea Party And Occupy Wall Street Media Coverage (mediaite.com)
- Trashing America: Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street (rogueoperator.wordpress.com)


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We are pleased to welcome visitors to booth #2100 to get a preview of our new and innovative products. We will be showcasing DuraTech Canada among our other product lines such as DuraFlex, DuraTech, DVL/DuraBlack, DuraPlus HTC, DirectVent Pro, Ventinox, DuraLiner, and PelletVent Pro.
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AHR Review
Another great show this year! While New York kicked off the show with a blizzard, attendance did not falter. AHR 2014 saw 61,210 visitors, the highest attendance ever in AHR history.
"AHR was a really great show. Everyone really liked the booth and said we were one of the most professional looking companies at the show.
Our commercial buying and sales reps were very excited to meet the expanded commercial team and are looking forward to the opportunity pressure stack promises to provide in expanding their business. We acquired three new buying and sales reps to market and sell pressure stack.
Most all of our major OEM's were also present. We had some very good one-on-one meetings with them and specifically Bosch Italy was extremely excited about the new PolyPro universal adapter we are developing.
It was also great to have customer service and engineering at the show. Many of our visitors were happy to finally put a face to a name and voice." - Tim Rothgeb, Vice President Commercial and OEM Sales.
Haven't quenched your AHR fever? AHR 2015 is only 11 months away in beautiful Chicago, IL on January 26-28. We will be there, booth# 4823.
DuraVent In The Field: AirChek Calgary
Photo shows an installation of DuraVent's FasNSeal W2 double-wall commercial venting underway at Eighth Avenue Place in Calgary, Alberta.
Product supplied by Air Chek Industries (www.airchek.net).
Eighth Avenue Place is considered to be the most luxurious office tower complex to ever grace the skies of Calgary.
This modern architectural marvel is also one of the first LEED certified "Platinum" office complexes to be built in all of Canada.
It will serve as a prominent permanent address for many of Southern Alberta's most prominent business professionals and their corporations.
Aside from first-class office space, Eighth Avenue will also boast a world-class conference centre, top-tier restaurants and retailers, and a state-of-the-art fitness centre.
Positive Outlook of the Construction Industry
For those worrying whether sustained growth will ever return to the U.S. economy, the construction industry may represent a beacon of hope. Devastated by the recession, builders have been seeing their sales rising ever since they hit the bottom of the downturn more than three years ago. Better yet, the way construction companies are investing in their businesses suggests they expect it might soon be time to party like it's 2006.
In that year - March, to be precise - the industry hit its current eight-year high of $4.7 billion in median revenue, according to a recently released Georgia Tech Financial Analysis Lab quarterly review of cash flow trends. (The review looks at 2,979 non-financial, public U.S. companies with a current market cap of at least $50 million. Of those companies, 50 were in the construction industry.)
While construction is currently far below that median sales peak, hitting $1.5 billion in September 2013, it's been climbing steadily out of its September 2010 nadir of $701 million. In other words, the construction industry has more than doubled its median sales since bottoming.
Please Welcome New Additions to the DuraVent Family
Kristina has over 10 years in Customer service experience with previous work with Blue Shield of California and Redwood Oncology of Napa. Kristina has expressed a "strong desire to grown withi the company and be part of the DuraVent family."
"Kristina has a great attitude towards work, she works well with others, and is very pleasant on the phone." - Grace Dunnett, Customer Service Manager.
Will has approximately 5 years Purchasing experience when he worked at Storeroom Solutions, Henkel Aerospace & Affymax Inc. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BS in Economics.
"His experience in purchasing, inventory control as well as SAP will definitely be an asset to our team." - Zenen Wong, Purchasing Agent.
Welcome to the DuraVent family Kristina and Will. You are both a great addition to our family and we are very happy to have you here!
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does anybody's else hip hurts from excessive hopping growing up?
I ended up having to have a hip replacement on my "good" side. everybody always asked if it was from all those years of basicily carring most of my weight on it. I guess it was, seemed to make sense to me. It got pretty bad for me, put me back in a wheelchair and I couldn't really walk at all. after the hip replacement I was back limited walking on crutches in about 2 days. I was on the fast track in rehab for that one, 3days and they booted me out, said there was nothing else they could do for me there. one of those been there, done that, things. took about 6-8 weeks to get better where I didn't have to favor the hip anymore. I was shocked how easy and well it all went. sure beats being in pain there too. jon |
It's funny that you say that because recently mine has been hurting a LOT as well as throbbing pain in my knee. I've always been warned via my doctors to not "hop" and to always use my crutches, but honestly it's 'easier' to just get up and go instead of getting up, picking up my crutches and going where ever. I know in the back of my head that I'll pay for the laziness of not wanting to use my crutches sooner rather than later in life, but silly me keeps thinking, it'll be 'fine'.... I've hopped literally my whole life. I can't imagine not hopping! :) Erin |


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My hopes aren't that high with the film, I'm just hoping for a decent action flick. I think that's the best case scenario.
I'm liking Snake Eye's new mask and armour. When I first saw it in the first couple of trailers I wasn't too sure on it, but now that we've had a better look at it I quite like the design.
Lady Luck is smiling at me. She knows something I don't.
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