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A subject of perennial debate among our audience, I recommend couples merge bank accounts after marriage. If desired, you can then have separate accounts and/or credit cards that you use for small discretionary purchases or gifts for your … [Read more...]
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Owner given another extension
Henderson leaders again took a long look at the issues involved with ordering the demolition of four homes against the owner's request not to, deciding on Monday to again approve a 90-day delay.
The Henderson City Council also mulled details of a plan to expand the David Street Park, including unrelated demolitions of blighted homes in that area near Main Street.
It is the third delay for 301, 309 and 315 Charles St., and 318 Rowland Ave., owned by Luis Medina, who lives out of state, with the hope that alternatives could be tried to save the homes.
Code Compliance Director Corey Williams reported to the council that Medina, late in the process, submitted a signed agreement with city leaders on proceeding with improvements.
Williams entered into record a forwarded a statement by Medina in which he said that his realty agent, Terry Garrison, also a County Commissioner, was authorized to drop the price on the homes to "improve our odds" on getting them to sell.
"From what Mr. Garrison has informed me, this is a tough market at this time," Medina stated, adding that a contractor would look after details of landscaping, exterior painting, household repairs and securing the removal of unwanted debris.
Williams said the homes are unlivable and unsanitary.
Garrison, in comments to the council, said he had hopes for the homes because they are sturdy and well built.
"The houses are structurally sound," Garrison said. "I have just reduced the prices to appeal as an investment opportunity."
Councilwoman Sara Coffey pressed on the issues of fairness in a situation where there is interest by a homeowner, money is on the table and work is being done, compared to many other blight situations that have no such effort.
"I would be interested in knowing how much he has spent. I am sure the work is not being done for free," Coffey said. "I have a real uneasy feeling about this. His homes are targeted while other homes are more dilapidated than these and are not on the list. Are we handling these differently?"
Councilman Michael Rainey said he could sympathize with the cause to refurbish and sell.
"It seems to me that they are doing just enough to make the houses presentable and sellable, to satisfy our requirements," Rainey said.
Williams said the process on Medina's homes has been going on for several years, and so far, the homes are about 20 percent of the way to code compliance according to his estimations.
A crucial point among council members was the fact the city demolitions list remains long, without additional budget funding to move on demolitions already on the table to be done.
The council approved the motion by Coffey to extend the delay on Medina's agreement another 90 days, until a review at the July 8 city council meeting.
The council heard from Henderson-Vance Recreation and Parks Department Director Alan Gill on work prospects for the David Street Park if five properties are taken off the city and county's for sale list and added to the park.
Gill reiterated his department request to expand the David Street Park by adding the lots on the other side of the block from David Street that front Lamb Street to the corner with Main Street.
"We looked at this with our recreation commission advisory board," Gill said, adding that the full commission gave their unanimous recommendation on March 14.
Mayor Pete O'Geary said he also endorses the idea of using the properties to expand the park.
"It would be a great addition to the park, let me tell you," O'Geary said.
Gill said there is currently an area with play equipment for younger children, and the expansion would bring an opportunity to consider development of equipment for older children.
It was community development block grant funding that in 2007 built the David Street Park out of three lots cleared of blighted homes.
The added lots would be used for green space at first, then as future play space pending available funding for development, according to Gill.
The matter will be added to a future business meeting of the council for an official vote.
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How to Put the Top Back up on a Jeep TJ
The top can be affected by many things. For instance, if you are somewhere that is cold or had a cold snap go through, or if the top is fairly new, you will find that it is slightly smaller than what it should be and can be a pain to put back up.
1Understand that there many parts to a soft top. Two important parts are the back flaps that you place in the rear corners of the jeep and the front that connect to the windshield (probably the part you are having problems with.)Ad
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YIELD: Makes 4 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 1 hr
TOTAL TIME: 2 1/4 hr
Soak porcini in hot water (1 1/2 cups) in a small bowl until well softened, 20 to 30 minutes. Lift porcini out, squeezing liquid into bowl, then rinse porcini (to remove any grit) and coarsely chop. Strain soaking liquid through a sieve lined with a damp paper towel into a small saucepan and reserve.
Preheat oven to 425°F with rack in middle.
Cook shallots in 2 tablespoons oil with 1/4 teaspoon salt in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 7 minutes. Add porcini, chopped thyme, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes. Add 3 tablespoons Marsala and boil until most of liquid has evaporated, then remove from heat.
Add honey to soaking liquid in saucepan with thyme sprigs, remaining 2 tablespoons Marsala, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Boil until syrupy and reduced to about 3 tablespoons, 15 to 20 minutes. Discard thyme sprigs.
Meanwhile, remove excess fat from chicken and pat dry. Season inside and out with a rounded teaspoon salt and 3/4 teaspoon pepper. Stuff cavity with mushroom mixture and tie legs with string.
Put chicken in a small (13-by 9-inch) roasting pan. Roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted into fleshy part of a thigh (do not touch bone) registers 170°F, about 1 hour. About 5 minutes before chicken is done, brush with all of honey glaze. If glaze begins to get too dark before chicken is cooked through, loosely cover with foil.
While chicken roasts, peel potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch pieces. In cleaned nonstick skillet, heat remaining 3 1/3 tablespoons oil over medium heat, then add potatoes, stirring to coat. Stir in remaining 1/4 cup water and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat to medium-high. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid has evaporated and potatoes are golden brown all over, about 20 minutes more. Transfer to a baking sheet (do not cover).
Transfer chicken to a cutting board to rest 15 minutes. Turn off oven and put potatoes in oven to keep warm.
Meanwhile, straddle roasting pan across 2 burners and add flour. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring, 1 minute. Add broth and vinegar, stirring and scraping up brown bits. Boil mixture until reduced by about a third, about 4 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a gravy boat.
Discard kitchen string from chicken. Scoop out mushroom mixture into a bowl, stir in potatoes, and serve with chicken.
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Shallots and porcinis can be sautéed and honey glaze can be made 1 day ahead and chilled. Bring to room temperature before using.
Cooked potatoes can be kept on baking sheet at room temperature up to 2 hours before reheating and serving.


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Senate due to vote on RRW
The Senate is scheduled to vote on the Reliable Replacement Weapon during the week of June 25.
The House Appropriations Committee has already voted to zero out funding for the RRW. The Committee said that, almost two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States does not have a plausible nuclear strategy and essentially put a freeze on long-term spending until we develop one.
Their report states: ³The Committee believes it is premature to proceed with further development of the RRW or a significant nuclear complex modernization plan, until a three-part planning sequence is completed, including: (1) a comprehensive nuclear defense strategy, based on current and projected global threats; (2) clearly defined military requirements for the size and composition of the nuclear stockpile derived from a comprehensive nuclear defense strategy; and (3) alignment of these military requirements to the existing and estimated future needs and capabilities of NNSA¹s [National Nuclear Security Agency] weapons complex.² Email or call your senators and tell them:
The RRW will not be significantly more reliable than current warheads.
Current warheads are at worst 98% reliable and will continue in this state for the next 30-40 years. The warheads sit atop missiles that are reckoned to be about 90% or so reliable, which swamps the unreliability of the warheads themselves.
The RRW is not a ³replacement.² Current plans call for using the RRW along with, not instead of, the current W-76. · The RRW will not save money, especially because existing warhead types are not going to be retired but retained for decades.
· The real objective of the RRW is to maintain a nuclear weapons manufacturing base, forever. The Department of Energy, no matter how far into the future it looks, cannot envision an America without thousands of nuclear weapons (The US nuclear stockpile is currently 10,000 warheads).
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Quast quoted in Wall Street Journal article on why leaders need to recognize their flaws
Lou Quast, Ph.D., associate chair in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, "What's in Your Blind Spot? Managers who fail to recognize their flaws jeopardize their chances for advancement." Quast is also the Hellervik/PDI Endowed Chair in Leadership and Adult Career Development. PDI Ninth House is a global leadership solutions company with distinctive expertise in accelerating leadership effectiveness to maximize organizational results.
Many executives risk getting demoted or dismissed because they rate their leadership skills higher than their boss or co-workers do, several recent studies have found. In a 2011 study of 29,231 U.S. managers by PDI Ninth House, such so-called "self promoters" were six times more likely to derail.
"They are cruising for a bruising," warns Louis N. Quast, the study's lead author.
Even those considered high performers by their bosses risk losing promotions or their jobs if they fail to recognize -- and address--their faults, adds Dr. Quast, a University of Minnesota professor of organizational leadership and vice president of PDI Ninth House.


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Variations Software
IMPORTANT: The current version of Variations in use at the Univeristy of Miami is version 6.0. Only the downloads found in the links below will work for your course's audio reserves.
Note: If accessing from your own computer on-campus over Wireless 'Canes, your computer must be registered for Wireless 'Canes access. See Known Problems for more information.
Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista and Windows7)
To uninstall previous versions: Start > All Programs > Variations > Uninstall Variations
Note: The university does not support Windows 8 at this time. You can install Variations on your Windows 8 computer, but be aware that it may or may not work.
Apple OS X
To uninstall previous versions: Drag the Variations folder and/or application to the Trash.
Audio Timeliner Tool
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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is elected from among the Members of the Corporation. It meets at least twice per year to ensure that the Institute is fulfilling its mandate for research, mathematics education and collaboration with external bodies. Board members can access the Board of Directors Information Page.
John Gardner, Chair, is a corporate
director, currently serving on the boards of RGA Canada and Angoss
Software. A graduate of the University of Toronto (1959) with a
bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and the recipient of
the Governor General's medal, he studied as one of the first Commonwealth
Scholars philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford,
where he was granted bachelor's (1961) and master's (1965) degrees.
Returning to Canada he joined Sun Life of Canada and pursued actuarial
studies, earning his fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and
the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (1965). From 1967 to 1973 he
taught theory of interest and life contingencies at McGill University.
He concluded a thirty-five year career at Sun Life in 1996, having
served for ten years as President of the company, directing its
world-wide operations. During that period he was a member for nine
years of the University of Toronto's Governing Council. Since 1996
he has served on various corporate boards including those of the
Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of Ontario, Avista Real Estate
Investment Trust and Concordia Life. Always interested in the community,
he has been President of Boy Scouts of Canada for the Greater Toronto
Area, and served on the boards of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
Sunnybrook Hospital, and the Salvation Army. This year will be his
twentieth on the Fields Board.
Ms. Mason joined the Ontario public service in 1981. Before joining
the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing in 1992, Janet was
Director of Policy for the Ministry of Skills Development. Ms. Mason
was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Innovation
Trust in July 2005.She was also 2008-2009 Visiting Fellow in Residence
(Ontario Public Service). Janet holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree
and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Carleton University.
The coming year will be her fifth on the Fields Board.
Craig , Director, began serving as Director of the Fields
Institute July 1, 2013. He is a Professor of Mathematics and the
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Mathematical Analysis and its
Applications at McMaster University. His doctorate is from the Courant
Institute (1981), and he has held faculty positions at Caltech,
Stanford University and Brown University, where he was department
chair, before moving with his wife to McMaster in the year 2000.
He is a prominent mathematical analyst, whose interests include
partial differential equations, Hamiltonian dynamical systems, and
their applications to the physical sciences. His contributions have
been to theoretical aspects of these fields, as well as their applications
to fundamental problems in physics; these include small divisor
problems in Hamiltonian partial differential equations, microlocal
propagation of singularities for the Schrodinger equation, advances
in the mathematical theory of water waves and their modeling, and
progress on the important issue of regularity for solutions of the
Navier - Stokes equations. He has authored more than 100 research
articles. He has organized several thematic programs at the Fields
Institute, and has been a regular visiting member since his move
to Canada. He served on the Fields Institute Scientific Advisory
Panel (2000-2005), the Scientific Nominating Committee (2001-2005)
and the Board of Directors (2009-2012). He has been awarded a Bantrell,
a Sloan and a Killam Research Fellowships, and was elected as a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the AAAS and AMS, as well
as a Fields Institute Fellow. This year is his second on the Fields
Grasselli, Deputy Director, earned an undergraduate
degree in Physics from the University of Sao Paulo in 1997, and
a Ph.D. in Mathematics from King's College London in 2002, for his
thesis on Quantum and Classical Information Geometry under the supervision
of Raymond Streater. After a postdoctoral fellowship, he was appointed
Sharcnet Chair in Financial Mathematics at McMaster University in
2003, where he is currently an Associate Professor and co-director
of PhiMac, the Financial Mathematics Laboratory. He has published
research papers on information geometry, statistical physics, and
numerous aspects of quantitative finance, including interest rate
theory, optimal portfolio, real options and executive compensation,
as well as an undergraduate textbook on numerical methods. His consulting
activities include projects with CIBC, Petrobras, EDF, and Bovespa.
He is a regular speaker in both academic and industrial conferences
around the world, and was the lead organizer of the Thematic Program
on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications, at the Fields
Institute in 2010. Starting in 2011, he began serving as the first
managing editor for the newly created book series Springer Briefs
on Quantitative Finance. The coming year will be his third on the
Fields Board.
A. Accum is Executive Vice-President & Chief Risk Officer
for Sun Life Financial. In this role, Mr. Accum is accountable for
Sun Lifes risk management function, in addition to his executive
responsibilities for the Companys actuarial and asset/liability
management functions.
Ainsworth was a past Managing Director of Altamira Investments
Limited and past Senior VP of Mackenzie Investments and is currently
an independent investor. He holds a BA ( Economics), MBA ( Finance)
from Dalhousie University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
This year will be his eleventh on the Fields Board.
Bierstone is a Professor at the University of Toronto's
Department of Mathematics. He served as the Director of Fields from
2009 to 2013. Ed earned his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto
and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He has held visiting positions
at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), l'Institut des
Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette) and IMPA (Rio de
Janeiro). Ed's honours include Fellowship in the Royal Society of
Canada (1992), an invited address at the American Mathematical Society
Annual Meeting (1997), the Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian
Mathematical Society (2005), and the Excellence in Teaching Award
of the CMS (2008). Ed has made groundbreaking contributions in the
areas of algebraic geometry and singularities of differentiable
functions. His work on resolution of singularities (in collaboration
with Pierre Milman) has played a major part in a revival of activity
in the area; the constructive techniques involved have led to applications
in fields as diverse as logic and analysis. This is his sixth year
on the Fields Board.
James Cooper has successfully built Maplesoft into the world's
premier advanced mathematics, modeling and simulation software provider.
He is responsible for the company's financial performance, and oversees
all aspects of the company's operations including strategic business
planning, product direction as well as sales and marketing.
Sheila Embleton is the President of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Prior to this appointment, she was the Vice-President Academic of York University in Toronto, from 2000 to 2009. Previously, she served as Associate Dean of York's Faculty of Arts. She is a currently a Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts.
Born in Ottawa, Dr. Embleton graduated from Lisgar Collegiate Institute, then attended the University of Toronto, where she earned her BSc (Mathematics & Linguistics, 1975), MSc (Mathematics & Statistics, 1976), and PhD (Linguistics, 1981). Her areas of scholarly interest are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical/statistical methods in linguistics, onomastica, Peircean semiotics, and women and language. She has published in all of these areas. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Germanic, French, Romance, Slavic, and Finno-Ugric. Her current research is mostly on dialectometry (statistical methods applied to dialect study), with particular application to British, Finnish and Romanian dialects.
In her capacity as Vice-President Academic, Dr. Embleton served
as Chair of the Ontario Council of Academic Vice-Presidents (OCAV)
from 2004-2008. She has been on OCAV's Executive since 2001, chairs
OCAV's standing committee on international issues, and represents
OCAV on several Council of Ontario Universities committees and task
forces, as well as on the Board of the Ontario Universities Application
Centre. In 2006-2007, she was Chair of NATVAC, the National Vice-Presidents
Academic Council. This is her third on the Fields Board.
Fefferman is an American mathematician at Princeton University.
His primary field of research is mathematical analysis.
Halliwell is currently working at JEH Associates Inc., specializing
in Public policy, S&T and PSE policy and is the former Executive
Vice-President at SSHRC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada. She has chaired the Nova Scotia Council on High
Education, and is a recipient of the Walter Hitschfeld Prize for
university research administration. This year will be her twenty
fourth on the Fields Board.
Marks is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer,
at Fiera Quantum L.P.. Prior to it, he was a Vice Chair at TD Securities
and a Senior Vice President at TD Bank. Over his 11 years at TD
Securities, Mr. Marks was responsible for various businesses including:
international proprietary trading, equity derivatives, interest
rate derivatives, energy trading and structured products. In addition
to his various sales and trading responsibilities, Mr. Marks was
a Senior Vice President of TD Bank. In that capacity he held two
senior risk management roles. In 1998, he served as the Head of
Market Risk Management for TD Bank then in 2003, as the Chief Credit
Policy Officer responsible for overseeing Credit Risk at TD Bank.
Prior to being employed at TD Bank Mr. Marks was a Vice President
at Citibank Canada. In that capacity he was responsible for a number
of derivative and structured product businesses. Mr. Marks has a
M.B.A. from Harvard University (1989) and a B.E.Sc. from the University
of Western Ontario (1986). The coming year will be his fifth on
the Fields Board.
McAuley is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queen's
University where she serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies.
Kim earned her B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and her Ph.D.
from McMaster University. With her graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows, she develops mathematical models for a wide range of chemical
production biochemical processes. These models are used to predict
product quality, production rates and the effectiveness of operating
and control systems. Her group has developed novel statistical methods
for determining appropriate values for kinetic, thermodynamic and
mass-transfer parameters that appear in model equations. These methods
are used for selecting and tuning model parameters so that model
predictions match the behaviour of industrial processes. Kim McAuley
has developed models for leading international companies including
Abbott Point of Care, DSM, DuPont, Exxon, INEOS, NOVA Chemicals,
Praxair and Shell. She was Associate Editor for Chemical Engineering
Journal and serves on the International Advisory Boards for Macromolecular
Theory & Simulations and Macromolecular Reaction Engineering.
Dr. McAuley received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
for her modeling research.This coming year will be her first on
the Fields Board.
A. Milevsky is an Associate Professor of Finance at the
Schulich School of Business and a member of the graduate faculty
of Mathematics and Statistics at York University in Toronto, Canada.
He is the Executive Director of The (non-profit) IFID Centre and
a Board Member of CANNEX Financial Exchanges Ltd. He has published
10 books and over 60 peer-reviewed articles. He is on the editorial
board of Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Pension Economics
and Finance, Risk Management and Insurance Review and the Journal
of Retirement. In addition to scholarly research he has written
popular articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail
and the National Post, where he received two National Magazine (Canada)
awards in 2003, as well as the Retirement Income Industry Association
(RIIA) lifetime achievement award for applied research in 2008 and
a Graham & Dodd scroll award from the CFA Institute in 2006.
Professor Milevsky has served as an expert witness and consultant
to corporations and governments for over 20 years and has delivered
over 1,000 lectures to audiences around the world. This coming year
will be his second on the Fields Board.
Roberts is the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Leadership,
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer
at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is also Director
of the Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Center and retains
an Adjunct Professorship of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, Texas. He has been recognized as an important leader
in the research and practice of cardiology worldwide, in addition
to being named the Most Highly Cited Researcher in 2002. Dr. Roberts
received his MD from Dalhousie University in Halifax and completed
his Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Cardiology
at the University of Toronto. He has held several leadership roles
with the National Institutes of Health. The coming year will be
his fourth on the Fields Board.
Philip Siller received his Ph.D. in
mathematics (model theory) in 1973 from the University of Minnesota
under the direction of Prof. Erwin Engeler, now at the ETH in Zurich.
He later earned an LL.B. from the University of Toronto and practiced
corporate and commercial law in Toronto. From 1982-92, he was an
executive with Olympia & York Developments Limited, a diversified
real-estate development company with interests in natural resources
and other sectors. Since 1992, Mr. Siller has been the president
of his own venture-management firm, Hexagram & Co.. From 2006-09,
he served as co-CEO of Eastport Capital Corp., a unit of Goldman
Sachs & Co. in New York. Currently, he is Co-CEO of BroadRiver
Asset Management, L.P., an manager of non-correlated alternative
fixed-income investments for institutional investors. At the University
of Toronto, he has taught seminars at the Faculty of Law and the
Department of Political Science and served on the Advisory Board
of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies and the Steering
Committee of the Harrowston Program in Conflict Management and Negotiation.
Mr. Siller is married and has four children. This year will be his
twenty-first on the Fields Board.
Swift is Founding President of Young Inventors International
and Co-Founder of Solar Tomorrow Inc. Young Inventors has grown
to support over 2,000 student university innovators from around
the world. She has conducted research on innovation and entrepreneurship
for the Innovation Systems Research Network at the University of
Toronto and the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change
Program at Carnegie Mellon University, and holds certificates in
the management of intellectual capital from the World Intellectual
Property Organization. Anne was also principal at Anne Swift Enterprises
Inc. and Innovators Hub Inc., as well as an "As Prime Minister,
I Would..." Scholarship intern at Magna International. She
completed her B.A. in Economics and Political Science with Highest
Distinction at the University of Toronto. The coming year will be
her fourth on the Fields Board.


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John's Tips: Don't Leave the Leaves
Monday, Oct 4, 2010
It is October, and that means leaves. At first they are beautiful, then they are work. Raking leaves is hard work, and can easily lead to injuries. Here are some tips to help prevent injuries.
Pick up any debris like branches before starting to rake. Use a rake suitable for your height. Ideally, use an ergonomic rake, with a bent handle, which is easier on your back. Very your motions and switch sides frequently. Bend at the knees, not at the waist. Don't overfill bags, and avoid twisting when you move the full bags. Wear gloves and nonskid shoes. Rake frequently instead of at the end of the season, so leaves don't pile up and are too heavy.
If you follow these tips and rake leaves on a beautiful fall day, the experience can be pleasureable and healthy exercise. If you are feeling youthful, jump in a big pile with or without your children.


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Simone de Beauvoir's novel, The Mandarins (1956/1960) first gave me the idea to pursue a career in psychology. One of the main characters, a psychiatrist was working with survivors of the Second World War. At the time I was a new immigrant to Canada and was involved in setting up an import company, but was not energized or excited by the work. I wanted to do something more meaningful, but had not yet found a focus, though I had been searching for a while. The work of analysis as described by de Beauvoir resonated with me and I began to explore my options. I looked into social work and then psychology. I remembered the advice of a guidance counsellor that one way to find your career was to look at the activities that you pursue naturally and independently. In other words how did I spend my free time? At sixteen, her words had perplexed me. There seemed no easy way to translate my interests into a career. However, when I began to consider psychotherapy as an option, it suddenly dawned on me that that much of my free time as a child and teenager had been listening to my mother's stories about growing up in Scotland and later her discontent and unhappiness with her life in South Africa with my father.
Intent on pursuing a graduate degree in psychology, I went back to York University to do a make-up year of psychology undergraduate courses, as my first degree had been in English and political studies. It was during this period that I met Laura Rice. Laura taught a course in client-centered therapy that seemed to fit with the way I viewed counseling. It made sense and corresponded with my understanding of the change process. I remember the first time I was introduced to Systematic Evocative Unfolding as a technique. It was so exciting, I felt so alive, like a detective searching out the clue that would shed light on a mysterious event. Again, it seemed to fit and flow for me. After completing the courses, I was accepted to the graduate program in psychology at York to work with Laura as my research and clinical supervisor.
With Laura's teaching I learned to listen, to probe, and to seek an understanding of each client's unique perspective, resources and life course. I learned to walk with them as they searched for the answers to their problems, I learned to shine a spotlight in places that they may have overlooked, but I never allowed myself to think I had the answers to resolve their own special set of life problems.
I had learned early that advising people in specific courses of action was pointless. As a young adolescent, I recall listening raptly as my mother shared her memories and current discontents. I remember earnestly trying to help her find solutions, urging her to particular courses of action, none of which she ever followed. In retrospect, I saw that my solutions addressed the tip of the iceberg. But I was too young and naive to realize the extent of her problems at the time. She did not have the psychological or material resources to implement my suggestions. Later on, reflecting on what I had done I came to realize that helping others did not mean giving them advice. Perhaps the best gift of all was my rapt attention. The possibility of being blind to what others really need and feel was driven home once again during my first internship. A young client was experiencing considerable distress in her relationship with her boyfriend. She complained bitterly about him, saying that he had disappointed her and was quite unsuitable. I was certain that she would choose to end the relationship. Yet after returning from a brief vacation, she informed me that she was going to marry him. Once again I had only glimpsed of part of the picture. Her positive feelings had been submerged by the weight of the negative.
After reading Carl Rogers and learning with Laura, I became a firm adherent to a client-centered philosophy. However, I did tentatively experiment with other approaches. One of my internships was with a psychodynamic practitioner. I was nervous, uncertain about how to interpret or deal with transference issues. I was sure that my approach would be criticized as unsophisticated. However, to my surprise, I learned that empathic conjectures were good interpretations. I did not have to alter my style after all. I remained committed to a client-centered approach through graduate school, with some additional training in family therapy, specifically systemic and strategic approaches. While in practice I was very client-centered, theoretically my essentially humanistic approach was influenced by a number of different psychodynamic writers, including Horney, Sullivan and Bowlby, as well as experiential writings on the family (Whitaker, Satir). These approaches would continue to inform my thinking and formulations of clients' difficulties.
My purist approach to individual therapy was challenged when I became involved in the depression project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health at York University with Laura Rice and Les Greenberg. I was skeptical of Gestalt approaches. I viewed them as too challenging, too confrontational with clients. A Gestalt approach seemed to lack the respect, the gentleness that I so prized about the client-centered way. However, I was aware that Leslie Greenberg had worked to integrate a client-centered relationship philosophy with more emotionally-focused Gestalt techniques. I observed how he and Laura had developed a marker-guided approach to therapy and started training their students. Having learned to use Systematic Evocative Unfolding effectively, I began to see the potential of the other techniques to facilitate clients' access to their emotional experience during the session. As long as I remained empathically attuned to the client, I felt I could use these techniques to enhance my therapeutic approach. Initially I struggled. I was fearful of taking over a session, of losing my listening ear. It was not easy to deliberately take charge in the session. I knew how to focus a client with reflections, but to ask them to change chairs and engage in activities that they did not initiate, was very foreign at first. Gradually, it became easier, once I developed the roadmap and was no longer concerned about what to do at every little curve in the road.
Today I easily blend client-centered and experiential techniques; a more recent change has been a greater use of myself in the session, especially humor. I am also much more attentive to the working alliance and especially sensitive to ruptures or times when my clients seem resistant. I still always try to follow their lead. There are times when my clients are reluctant to do experiential tasks. Some feel that the tasks interfere with their own processing style. At these times I work with them using empathic responding and focusing techniques, following Beutler et al.'s (1991) suggestion of supportive approaches for resistant clients. However, I remain alert for times when experiential markers are highly salient and will suggest an experiential task to my clients when these appear. If clients are open to working with experiential tasks, and these can be seamlessly woven into the fabric of the therapy, and we have a good working alliance, then we do.


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State Laws
The following is a list of state pool laws and pool ordinances (in alphabetical order) requiring
911 swimming pool emergency phone. If your state is not listed it does not mean you are exempt. Please check with your local Health Department for guidance
for pool 911 phones.
Pool phone laws for ConnecticutDepartment of Public HealthPublic Health Code 2000(16) Emergency Telephone. There shall be a telephone or other suitable device for emergency communication readily available in the immediate vicinity of each pool. This telephone or device shall be on the premises where the pool is located.
Pool phone laws for GeorgiaChapter 290-5-57 Swimming Pools, Spas and Recreational Water Parks(c) A telephone which is hard wired and affixed with posted names and phone numbers of the nearest available police, fire, ambulance service and/or rescue unit, and/or 911, if available.
1. Sanitary
facilities must be provided in proportion to the anticipated bathing
load. These must include: Toilet and hand washing facilities and
dressing rooms clearly marked for each sex; a safe and approved
water supply; and drinking fountains, soap, and toilet tissue.
2. Conveniently located rubbish containers must be provided. These
containers must be emptied whenever necessary and be kept in a
sanitary condition.
3. Where night bathing is permitted, adequate lighting must be
provided for the bathhouses and bathing area. 4. There must be
telephone connections and transportation facilities available for
emergency use.
[Bd. Of Health,
Public Bathing Places Reg. Art. 46 §§ 46.4-46.6 & 46.11, eff.
444.268 Posting information on artificial respiration and emergency
NRS 439.20044.070 Diagrammatic illustrations of artificial
respiration procedures must be posted at all public bathing or
swimming facilities where they are clearly visible from the nearby
deck and protected from the elements. Except as otherwise provided
in this section, the location and telephone number of the nearest
ambulance, hospital, fire or police rescue service, physician and
facility operator must be kept similarly posted together with
instructions that, in case of need, manual or mouth-to-mouth
artificial respiration should be started immediately and continued
until a physician arrives or mechanical resuscitators are applied. A
telephone must be located in the vicinity of the pool enclosure, but
outside of the enclosure. In lieu of the emergency telephone numbers
described in this section, the number for the emergency 911 service
may be posted if that emergency service is available in the
geographical area of the public bathing or swimming facility.
[Bd. Of Health,
Public Bathing Places Reg. Art. 38 §§ 38.8.6, eff. 5-21-74] – (NAC A
11-1-88; 1-16-96)
Notices which must be posted. (NRS 439.200, 444.070)
1. Placards
directing behavior of bathers must be prominently posted in locker
rooms, offices, showers, toilets or elsewhere about the spa
2. A sign must be posted in the immediate vicinity of the spa,
stating the location of the nearest telephone with the information
that emergency telephone numbers are posted on or near the
3. Emergency telephone numbers must be posted on or near the
telephone and must include:
The name and
telephone number of the police , fire and rescue unit responsible
for serving the spa.
The name and telephone number of the nearest available physician.
The name and telephone number of the nearest ambulance service.
The name and telephone number of the nearest available hospital.
In lieu of the
telephone numbers listed in paragraphs (a) to (d), inclusive, the
number for the emergency 911 service if that emergency service is
available in the geographical area of the spa.
[Bd. of Health,
Public Spa Reg. Art. 3 §§ 3.1.4 + Art. 28 §§ 28.5-28.5.4, eff.
4. There must be telephone connections and transportation facilities available for emergency use.
Pool phone laws for
New Jersey 8:26-5.3 Emergency equipment for swimming pools(a) Swimming pools shall be provided with the following readily accessible emergency equipment:6. A telephone, radio, signaling device, or other health authority approved means of communication shall be located near the lifeguard station for emergency use. Commercial pay telephones shall be permitted for this purpose provided that coin deposit is not needed to access emergency assistance. Emergency numbers of the nearest rescue squad, physician, ambulance, police department, hospital, clinic, or other appropriate entity shall be posted in a weather-resistant display, adjacent to the telephone.
Pool phone laws for
North Carolina NC Department of Environment and Natural ResourcesT15A: 18A.2500.2530 Safety Provisions(e) Effective April 1, 2000 a telephone capable of directly dialing 911 or other emergency notification system shall be provided and accessible to all pool users within 300 feet of the pool.
Pool phone laws for
Ohio (I) A telephone shall be available within five hundred feet of each public swimming pool, public spa, and special use pool with a posted list of emergency numbers. The licensee shall ensure that the telephone is available at all times the pool or spa is open for use.
Pool phone laws for
Oklahoma 310:320-3-1(h) telephone. A telephone to reach emergency assistance without the use of coinage shall be accessible to the pool during all house of operation.310:320-3-4 Safety provisions(b) Emergency telephone numbers. Every bathing place shall provide, immediately adjacent to its telephone a selected list of current telephone numbers for available doctors, ambulance services, hospitals, and police or fire department rescue squads.
Pool phone laws for
South Carolina (f) A toll free telephone or other device to notify emergency personnel must be available in the pool area (within 200 feet and no greater than 3 floors) with a list of emergency telephone numbers, to include ambulance. The location must be specified on the pool rules sign.
Pool phone laws for
Texas Excerpts from Title 25. Health Services Part 1. Texas Department of Health Chapter 265. General Sanitation Subchapter L. Standards for Public Pools and Spas. A copy of the complete standard may be found at http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/beh/gs/poolrules.docEffective Date September 1, 2004 (the 1965 and 1999 laws have been repealed and there is NO grandfathering of exemptions to emergency telephone requirements and emergency phones must be monitored by an emergency service provider and may not be answered by an on-site office)(j) Telephones at post-10/01/99 and pre-10/01/99 pools and spas. Post-10/01/99 and pre-10/01/99 pools and spas shall have a telephone that is capable of immediately summoning emergency service and that is readily accessible within 200 feet from the pool or spa water. Any other electronic means of summoning emergency service will qualify as a telephone if clear instructions for its use are provided by signage. A telephone that is answered by an on-site office does not meet the requirements of this subsection. The following shall apply to telephones for post-10/01/99 and pre-10/01/99 pools and spas:(1) The telephone may be located inside or outside of the pool yard or spa yard if the enclosure entry gates and doors of the pool yard or spa yard are never locked in any manner, or the gate or fence is not more than 4 feet 4 inches tall.(2) The telephone shall be located inside or outside of the pool yard if the pool is a Class A or B pool.(3) The telephone must be located outside of all other pool yards or spa yards if all of the following occur:(A) The entry gate(s) or door(s) are locked on either side of the gate or door.(B) The enclosure entry gates and doors and the enclosure fences and walls are all higher than 4 feet 4 inches.(C) The pool or spa is operated in conjunction with: (i) lodging such as hotels, motels, apartments, condominiums, or mobile homes parks;(ii) a property owners association, private organization, orclub;(iii) a school, college, or university while being operated for academic or continuing education classes, or(iv) practice event (excluding competition events in accordance with subparagraph (A) of this paragraph).(4) Each entry gate and door of a pool yard or spa yard that is locked must have a sign on the exterior of the gate or door or on the exterior of the enclosure fence or wall immediately adjacent to the gate or door, stating the location of the telephone outside of the enclosure and complying with the content and letter size of paragraph (5) of this subsection if:(A) the telephone is located outside the pool yard of a Class A or B pool; or(B) the telephone is required to be located outside the pool yard or spa yard under paragraph (3) of this subsection.(5) Regardless of where the telephone is located or whether the gate(s) or door(s) are locked, a sign must be installed inside the pool yard or spa yard in plain view of the pool or spa and state in letters at least 1 inch high: "In case of emergency, call 911." If the telephone is not readily visible from the pool or spa, the sign inside the pool yard or spa yard shall include a concise description of the location of the telephone.
Pool phone laws for
TennesseePublic Swimming PoolsChapter 1200-23-5(Rule 1200-23-5-.02)(r) Telephone for Emergency. All pools shall have telephone service on the premises which can be accessed without the use of coins. A list of clearly visible emergency phone numbers to include the nearest emergency and medical services shall be posted next to the telephone.
Pool phone laws for
Washington (23) Owners shall provide first aid facilities in every RWCF including:( c) A telephone with a prominently displayed list of emergency medical service response numbers.
Pool phone laws for
West Virginia § 64-16-11 Safety Requirements.11.4. Telephone service shall be available at the pool or bathing beach and emergency phone numbers for rescue agencies shall be posted.
Pool phone laws for
Wisconsin HFS 172.05(4)(h) Telephone. For outdoor pools a working telephone shall be available in the pool area. For indoor pools a working telephone shall be available within the enclosed area around a pool. The department may approve under s. HFS 172.02 (2) an alternative location for a telephone or another system of communication. A current list of emergency numbers shall be attached to or posted near the telephone.
Pool phone laws for
Wyoming(viii) A telephone shall be available on the premises and an emergency rescue phone number shall be posted in view of the telephone.
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Star and Cloud Mirror
Study of the cosmos was popular in early China, especially during the Western Han dynasty, and artisans used many symbols to represent the universe, as seen on the back of this bronze mirror. The raised designs on the outer rim represent mountain ranges that reach to the sky. The central field contains rising and setting stars and planets, while the central knob represents the polar star. In ancient Chinese texts, raised circular star motifs are given various names, including "Star-and-Cloud" (Xing yun), "Strung Pearls" (Lian zhu), or "Hundred Nipples" (Bai ru).
- Medium: Bronze
- Place Made: China
- Dates: 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.
- Dynasty: Western Han Dynasty
- Dimensions: 7/8 x 6 1/16 in. (2.2 x 15.4 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Asian Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 1992.82
- Credit Line: Gift of the Asian Art Council
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Star and Cloud Mirror, 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E. Bronze, 7/8 x 6 1/16 in. (2.2 x 15.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Asian Art Council, 1992.82. Creative Commons-BY
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Who really won the War of 1812?
The Great War of 1812 Debate between David Frum ...
... and Roy MacGregor
David Frum, the Toronto native and former White House speechwriter, says to answer that question, you have to answer another question: at the end of the war, who gained what they wanted?
By that yardstick, he says the Americans won. The British recognized American citizenship, and ceased "impressing" (essentially, kidnapping) American sailors on the high seas, and forcing them to serve in His Majesty's navy.
"Canada was the battlefield," Frum said at a debate staged by the Niagara 1812 Bicentennial Legacy Council earlier this month in Fort Erie. "But its understanding of its rights on the high seas had to be abandoned."
Roy MacGregor, the author and Globe and Mail columnist, had a different take.
"I don't see any commercials on U.S. television of them winning the war," he countered. "The idiot who ran things, General William Hull, messed up time and again. He wanted a three-pronged attack instead of an attack on Montreal," which if successful, could have won the war for the Americans. "The British took over the Great Lakes. The U.S. had no presence on the lakes."
MacGregor also points out only 3 per cent of Americans think their identity was forged by the War of 1812.
"That's because the Civil War forged America's identity," Frum countered. "And Canada's nationhood was really forged by World War I."
Furthermore, Frum says, "1812 may have been a tactical disaster for the Americans, but the Battle of New Orleans was humiliating for the British," he added, referring to a battle that took place in 1815, technically after the treaty ending the war had been signed, but word hadn't yet got back to the New World. "This war was about a colonial power not yet reconciled to its defeat," Frum said. "They refused to recognize American citizenship."
Frum adds, it's ultimately lucky that Great Britain won most of the battles, because "if the U.S. had conquered Canada, the U.K. would have lost interest in North America entirely. Their continued interest allowed the Americans to grow and develop, which ultimately secured the western world including Canada."
MacGregor reminded the audience that America's population at the time was eight million, versus Canada's 300,000. "But the British learned how to cooperate with the French-Canadians and the Aboriginal-Canadians," MacGregor said. "You may prefer to think of that as the axis of evil, David,"
Canada also got its share of heroes out of the war, such as Isaac Brock, Laura Secord, and Tecumseh, MacGregor added. "And Canada grew out of these myths."
Frum concluded the evening by reminding the audience that "The best way to win wars is by never fighting them. The best way to end them is making the enemy your friend."
Two hundred years of time passed suggests that maxim has been fulfilled.


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Rice withdraws
- By Blake Hounshell
Blake Hounshell is managing editor at Foreign Policy, having formerly been Web editor. Hounshell oversees ForeignPolicy.com and has commissioned and edited numerous cover stories for the print magazine, including National Magazine Award finalist "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy. He also edits The Cable, FP's first foray into daily original reporting, and was editor of Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay, which in 2011 won a National Magazine award for best reporting in a digital format.
Blake joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Blake was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Awards prize for young journalists for his reporting on the Arab uprisings, and his Twitter feed was named one of Time magazine's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011." Under his leadership, in 2008, Passport, FP's flagship blog, won Media Industry Newsletter's "Best of the Web" award in the blog category. Along with Elizabeth Dickinson, he edited Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future, the memoirs of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
A graduate of Yale University, Blake speaks mangled Arabic and French, is an avid runner, and lives in Washington with his wife, musician Sandy Choi, and their toddler, David. Follow him on Twitter @blakehounshell.
NBC News is reporting that Susan Rice has asked President Obama to withdraw her name for consideration as his next secretary of state. The network's Tracy Connor writes:
"If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities," Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, saying she's saddened by the partisan politics surrounding her prospects.
"That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country…Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time," she wrote in the letter obtained by NBC News. […]
"The position of secretary of state should never be politicized," she wrote, adding, "I'm saddened that we have reached this point, even before you have decided whom to nominate. We cannot afford such an irresponsible distraction from the most pressing issues facing the American people."
FP has obtained a PDF of the full letter, which you can read here. Rice's withdrawal would seem to clear the field for Sen. John Kerry, who is widely thought to be high on President Obama's now slightly shorter shortlist for Foggy Bottom. Coming along with Bloomberg's story today claiming the former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is likely to be nominated for the Pentagon, it looks like the president's second-term national security team is taking shape. Now we just need to figure out if Tom Donilon will remain the national security advisor, and who will fill David Petraeus's shoes at the CIA.
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Rice bows out of secretary of state raceColum Lynch
Colum Lynch is Foreign Policy's award-winning U.N.-based senior diplomatic reporter. Lynch previously wrote Foreign Policy's Turtle Bay blog, for which he was awarded the 2011 National Magazine Award for best reporting in digital media. He is also a recipient of the 2013 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Silver Prize for his coverage of the United Nations.
Before moving to Foreign Policy, Lynch reported on diplomacy and national security for the Washington Post for more than a decade. As the Washington Post's United Nations reporter, Lynch had been involved in the paper's diplomatic coverage of crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, and Somalia, as well as the nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea. He also played a key part in the Post's diplomatic reporting on the Iraq war, the International Criminal Court, the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. counterterrorism strategy. Lynch's enterprise reporting has explored the underside of international diplomacy. His investigations have uncovered a U.S. spying operation in Iraq, Dick Cheney's former company's financial links to Saddam Hussein, and documented numerous sexual misconduct and corruption scandals.
Lynch has appeared frequently on the Lehrer News Hour, MSNBC, NPR radio, and the BBC. He has also moderated public discussions on foreign policy, including interviews with Susan E. Rice, the U.S. national security advisor, Gerard Araud, France's U.N. ambassador, and other senior diplomatic leaders.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Lynch received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985 and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1987. He previously worked for the Boston Globe.| Turtle Bay |
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Uri Friedman is deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy. Before joining FP, he reported for the Christian Science Monitor, worked on corporate strategy for Atlantic Media, helped launch the Atlantic Wire, and covered international affairs for the site. A proud native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he studied European history at the University of Pennsylvania and has lived in Barcelona, Spain and Geneva, Switzerland.| The List |
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Clapper changed the talking points, but Rice still on the hot seatJosh Rogin
Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.
A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C.| The Cable |


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Breast Augmentation Questions
Serving Chattanooga, Tennessee
Every woman is endowed differently. Time, weight loss, pregnancy and nursing may decrease the volume, shape and symmetry of the breasts. Some women are dissatisfied with breasts they consider too small. Other women are bothered by an imbalance in their overall appearance, either because their hips are larger than their bustline or one breast is smaller than the other.
Many women find that making the breasts larger - technically known as augmentation mammoplasty - can help create a more comfortable, more flattering, more balanced look. For more information on breast enlargement, contact our Chattanooga breast surgeons at The Plastic Surgery Group, P.C. in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We will be happy to schedule a confidential consultation to discuss your questions and concerns regarding breast augmentation surgery.
1. How big can I be with breast augmentation surgery?
The overall shape, body habitus, and skin available for breast augmentation will be important in determining the size of the breasts. The patient's expectations are important in this decision. If you have little or no breast tissue, very tight skin or are young, you typically can expect to increase your size from an A cup to approximately a C cup; however, stretching the muscle and skin too tightly can be detrimental. Patients that want to be very large can do so if there is available skin for coverage; otherwise, this may require more than one procedure.
Breast augmentation patients who have lost breast volume as a result of childbearing, breast feeding or weight loss typically have sufficient skin to restore their breasts to their original size or larger; and patients with moderate breast size usually can increase the size of their breasts easily.
2. How long do the breast implants last?
The breast implants used today are the latest in a long line of technically advanced materials used over the years. Most women receive saline-filled breast implants with silicone rubber shells that are filled with saltwater. They are guaranteed for a lifetime; that is to say that manufacturers will replace the implants if they deflate. In addition, the implant manufacturers provide financial assistance towards covering operating room expenses, anesthesia and/or surgical fees should a deflate occur. Each manufacturer has a slightly different time limit for this coverage, ranging from 5-10 years. If the saline implant leaks, the saltwater is harmlessly absorbed by the body. If the implant does not show deflation, it can potentially be left in for a lifetime. A deflated implant is not a serious event or an emergency. Replacement can be performed at a convenient time for the patient.
3. What is the difference in round and anatomical breast implants?
The implants used today are basically round or teardrop shaped. The teardrop shaped implants were designed to achieve a more natural, mature appearance; however, if they become displaced and turn within the breast pocket, this could cause distortion in breast shape. Round implants in a submuscular position can achieve the same result without the possibility of breast distortion.
4. What is the difference between saline and silicone breast implants?
As described above, a saline implant has a silicone rubber shell filled with sterile saltwater. A silicone implant has the same shell filled with a silicone gel. Saline implants are used for the vast majority of augmentation patients. Silicone implants are available at present for selected breast augmentation patients and for reconstruction patients. Some surgeons feel that silicone breast implants are somewhat superior, as they tend to be somewhat lighter than saline and more natural feeling. It is very difficult to detect evidence of a silicone implant after breast augmentation; however some patients with saline implants report they feel the sensation of implants sloshing in their chest. Saline breast implants are somewhat heavier and will pull more on the breast tissue over time and may result in earlier drooping or a mature breast sooner than would be hoped for. Good bra support over the years is important in preventing this appearance. A saline breast implant with a flaw will deflate slowly over several days or weeks and be easily noticeable; however, a flawed silicone implant will leak into the capsule surrounding the breast implant and may not be detectable by the patient, physician or even a mammogram. There is no urgency for exchanging silicone implants once this has happened unless the breast appears misshapen.
Studies have reported an increased incidence of capsular contracture in silicone implants. In the previous generation silicone implants the contracture rate was up to 30‰, comparing unfavorably with the roughly 7‰ rate with saline breast implants.
5. Am I a candidate for silicone breast implants?
Silicone breast implants have been utilized in breast augmentation and reconstructive surgery since the early years and have been a valuable aid in achieving a very natural result. However, the FDA took silicone breast implants for use in augmentation off the market in the early 1990s. They have been continuously used in breast reconstruction where a patient usually has limited soft tissue available to hide the implants as a result of mastectomy surgery. All reconstruction patients are candidates for silicone breast implants, as are patients who currently have silicone implants and have certain pre-existing conditions. Previous augmentation patients who have developed local complications such as significant capsular contracture (tightening of natural scar tissue around the implant causing breast firmness) are also candidates. Some patients who require a breast lift (mastopexy) in addition to breast augmentation are candidates, as are patients who have shown severe wrinkling of an existing saline implant over time. Studies have shown no correlation between systemic illnesses and the use of silicone for breast augmentation. For this reason, sometime in the future, silicone breast implants may once again be widely distributed for all breast surgery.
6. Can I breast feed after breast augmentation surgery?
Breast feeding after breast augmentation isn't any more challenging than it would be otherwise. There is no danger of breast implant material, saline or silicone, being passed into the breast milk and affecting your child in any way.
7. How will I know if I have a problem with my breast implants?
Breast implant surgery, like all surgery, carries risks. Your plastic surgeon will provide you with comprehensive patient education materials, show you a film about breast augmentation and ask you to read and sign an informed consent. The immediate concerns after surgery relate to healing and bleeding.
Bleeding occurs with any surgical incision and rarely is a problem; however, on occasion a hematoma (collection of blood) will cause one breast to be significantly larger. If this should occur, your surgeon will address the situation immediately by removing the blood. Capsular contracture (tightening of natural scar tissue around the implant causing breast firmness) is unpredictable but may require corrective surgery if severe. A capsulectomy or capsulotomy would be performed to alleviate the problem. As mentioned above, deflation can occur and is generally harmless but will require another surgical procedure to replace the implant. Infection associated with breast implantation is rare due to the use of a closed filling system to fill the implant with saline at the time of surgery. If infection does occur and healing problems result, you will be treated with antibiotics in an effort to avoid further surgery. Ultimately, it may be necessary to remove the implant until the infection is resolved. The breast implant can then be reinserted.
8. When can I return to normal activities after breast implant surgery?
Within a day or two after surgery, you will be up and about and any discomfort can be controlled with prescribed pain medication. You will be able to shower almost immediately and you will return to the office for follow up and for stitch removal (unless dissolvable suture was used) within a week. You can resume sexual relations although breasts must be treated gently.
Patients usually return to work within a week. Work activities requiring significant lifting, pushing or arm stretching may be uncomfortable at this time and the work may need to be modified accordingly. Implants in the submuscular position (which are the majority) take longer to be pain free. Returning to exercise is a personal decision. After the first two weeks few exercises would injure the incision or breast implant placement; however, strenuous activity that stresses the pectoralis muscle - bench presses or push - ups should be avoided. Most patients wait a month or so before a full return to their vigorous workout schedules.
9. Will I have a dressing on after breast augmentation surgery or a bra and when can I wear an underwire?
Usually, steri-strips are applied over the small incision and a bra with minimal dressings is worn. Your chest will feel very tight. Some bras used following surgery will put pressure on the upper edge of the breast or implant to hold it in a lower position as the implants initially tend to sit somewhat high. This high position is due to the fact that the fold under the breast must stretch into the new relaxed shape to accommodate the larger implant. This process may take several weeks or even several months. Usually this surgical bra is worn for a week or more. Some surgeons may advise you not to wear a bra depending on the placement of your breast implants.
Once the breast implants are in good position, a bra of your choosing is advisable. A bra is recommended when exercising or even for normal activity if you have a very large breast augmentation. You may also wear an underwire bra after the implant has settled into the desired position. Your surgeon will advise you when that has happened.
10. When can I get in the tanning bed after breast augmentation surgery?
The tanning bed should not be used for approximately two weeks after breast augmentation surgery. Tanning rays should not be allowed to tan the incision site for 2–3 months. Sun on the incision will cause the scar to be dark and less likely to fade with time. The darkness may be permanent. Protect the incision with sunscreen.
For more information on breast augmentation surgery, contact our breast augmentation surgeons at The Plastic Surgery Group, P.C. in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We will be happy to schedule a confidential consultation to discuss your questions and concerns regarding breast augmentation.


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How to Fly a Helicopter in GTA Vice City & San Andreas, PC
A short guide on how to fly a helicopter in Grand Theft Auto Vice City and San Andreas on PC.
This guide will tell you how to fly a helicopter in Grand Theft Auto Vice City and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. There may be a lot of ways that may work better for you, but I find this way easier. I will be referring to key names in the guide, so I will tell you what I have assigned for each key.
- W = Rise
- S = Lower
- A = Barrel roll left
- D = Barrel roll right
- Q = Turn left
- E = Turn Right
- NUM9 = Lean Forward
- NUM6 = Lean Backward
- NUM0 = Fire primary
- Left CTRL = Fire secondary
First find a helicopter. Anyone will do. Press W to rise. Once in the air, hold down NUM9 to lean the helicopter forward. The helicopter will start to go low, so make sure you are high enough. Hold for around 4 seconds. When you let go, the helicopter should straighten up, and go straight faster. Keep on tapping NUM9 to keep it going. Remember to stop tapping when it goes too low, or you will crash.
When you are flying too low and about to crash into a building or wall, hit NUM6. It will cause the helicopter to lean backwards, stopping it from going forward. Holding it too long will cause the helicopter to start going backwards and eventually flip. Just hold down NUM6 until you see the helicopter stop, and gain altitude again to start flying.
Turning shouldn't be used much when flying the helicopter, unless you need to change direction while hovering. To make turns in the air, press A or D. The helicopter will tilt in that direction. Keep in mind, when you are turning, the helicopter goes down slowly, even if you are holding W. A tip would be to tap NUM6 while turning, it causes the nose of the helicopter to go up, therefore causing the helicopter to rise a little.
Shooting in a helicopter isn't really necessary, and can't be done unless your helicopter has a gun. The Sea Sparrow or Hunter are helicopters with weapons. When flying the Sea Sparrow or Hunter, hold left CTRL to shoot. There is unlimited ammo. When in the hunter, there are missiles. Press NUM0 to shoot them.
Landing isn't very hard. Just press S. If you find yourself crashing, try to stop the helicopter before descending. If you think you are stationary, you may not be, and might be moving forward while landing, you could hit buildings or other obstacles.
Happy Flying.
You there are usually helicopters at the top of some police stations. For some others, you will need to complete a certain percentage of the game. If you don't want to complete it yourself, you might be able to find a 100% save game on the internet.
I will tell you how to find the police maverick even in the starting of the game! See, First turn on the cheat SEAWAYS. Which allows cars to hover on water. Then go to Downtown where the Police Department is located. Go to the back side of the building and go up the stairs to the rooftop. The helicopter would be there 100% sure. Sit in the helicopter, fly back to ocean view and land it at a safe place and save the game.
aww man….i have a laptop which hasnt got those num keys….dam
Man,I tried using num 9 and 6,but they just don't work!Please help!!!!!!!!!!!
you know that there is a helicopter in the downtown when you take the police maverick just go little side and you will get a vcn helicopter and land it in your safe house
hi shreyas vinod ;
You are 95% right.because i got police helicopter but how to fire on police helicopter.
thank you
one helicopter was found in diaz mansion
how to get a hunter helicopter ; first you dress up like police
now get to the army land you will find a hunter that will be fire
Here are the Helicopters Found in the Game : Maverick : One on the top of Diaz's mansion , one in the Hyman Condo in Downtown if you buy it , A police Maverick On the top of the police station in Downton it's green , Then The Hunter you will find it once you've completed 63% of the game and there's also Sparrows around vice city .
I have tried num9 and num 6 the can't help me to move foward what to do please help me this cheat OHDUDE is very good ever seen before


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I don't know about you, but I do my best thinking in the shower. And it was in the shower that I realized that the greatest invention of all time is, in fact, indoor plumbing. It's difficult to imagine a world without it, nor would I want to. Sure, modern manufacturing and transportation would not have been made possible without the invention of the steam engine, and, sure, smart phones are amazing, but without indoor plumbing, proper hygiene is nearly impossible. It's a quality of life issue, really.
I understand my selecting indoor plumbing as the greatest invention of all time is highly debatable, so I quickly put a poll together so you, dear reader, can weigh in. What do you think is the greatest invention of all time? Vote below, then continue reading.
Why do I ask? Because on February 19, I'll be producing a discussion about innovation.
The idea for the program came before Christmas when economist Armine Yalnizyan passed along an article from the Financial Times: "The robot economy and the new rentier class." (Unfortunately, you'll need to have -- or create -- a Financial Times account to read the piece.) It covers a few issues, but the one that stuck out for me was the way companies are doggedly protecting their patents and thus, the article argues, stifling innovation.
Then, in mid-January, The Economist came out with a very interesting feature article: "Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down?" It outlines the history of invention and innovation and gives both sides of the argument: that mankind's most inventive days are behind us, versus the belief that our most inventive days are yet to come.
Personally, I'm hopeful our best days are ahead of us. But even if they aren't, at least we have indoor plumbing, and that's something to celebrate.


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Russian carrot pie (or carrot quiche)
By Tali Simon | November 4, 2011
It should come as no surprise that I love quiche: making it, eating it, sharing it. But I have to say that I'd never thought about making a carrot quiche (excuse me, Russian carrot pie) until I came across it in The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest.
Broccoli, spinach, mushroom, or a combination of the three — classic quiche fillings. But carrots? I was intrigued. (Especially since we had two big bags of carrots in the fridge, and I had to do something with them. We'd already been through carrot & rice soup and carrot spice muffins, of course.)
I used my standard pie crust recipe, which, when you use a food processor takes maybe five minutes. The carrot filling was easy to throw together and did not disappoint. It was a delicious dish, a twist on some old favorites, and I'd definitely make it again.
But I have to be honest.
Broccoli and mushroom are still my favorites.
(Tweaked from The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest)
Part One: The Crust
- 6 Tbsp cold butter, cut into small pieces
- 1.5 cups flour (can use up to 1/4 cup whole wheat)
- 4 Tbsp cold water, milk, or buttermilk
- extra flour for rolling dough
1. Use a food processor to cut the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse cornmeal (should take just a few quick pulses).
2. Add the liquid, one tablespoon at a time, until the dough starts to hold together. Local humidity will affect the amount needed (I have always needed all four).
3. At this point, you can wrap the dough and chill it to roll out later or use immediately. When ready, roll it out and gently place in a pie plate, or simply press the dough into the plate with your fingers. (The plate does not need greasing because of all the butter already in the dough.) If not filling and baking soon, transfer to fridge until use.
Part Two: The Filling
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 1 large onion, finely minced
- 1 lb. slender carrots, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice (but the world won't end if you use bottled)
- 1 Tbsp unbleached white flour
- 1.5 cups cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 3 Tbsp bread crumbs
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1.5 Tbsp dried dill (or 3 Tbsp fresh)
- paprika, to garnish
1. Preheat oven to 375 F/190 C.
2. Melt the butter in a large non-stick skillet and add the onion, cooking until soft. Put the crust in the oven to begin baking.
3. Add the carrots, garlic, and lemon juice to the skillet. Cook until carrots are tender but not mushy, about 8 minutes. Sprinkle in the flour and cook another 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
4. Beat cottage cheese and egg in a large bowl. Stir in bread crumbs, black pepper, and dill. Add the carrot mixture and mix well. Remove crust from oven, spread filling inside, and dust the top with paprika.
5. Bake for 15 minutes at 375/190, then turn down to 350 F/180 C and bake another 30 minutes. Let cool at least 5 minutes before slicing. Serve hot, warm, or room temperature.


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This post is part of a series called One Year in Sound by sound designer Carlo Ascrizzi.
Here we are with the Game Audio final project. It's time to put all that bunch of stuff you learnt along this year in practice! Woahh!! This is where you truly test your creative and technical capabilities as Game Audio Designer…
It is scheduled in Term 5, because the last term will be mostly spent working on the school final post-production project… and you have already planned long nightssss for that… 😉
As final project, this is a self-directed assignment, in which you have total control in setting objectives, step-deadlines, asset lists, rules within your small team (you will choose your teammates), and whatever else you may need. Also this means you have the freedom to point in your direction, choosing between some project-style options.
You can decide to re-design the sound for a game trailer and then implement the stems in Wwise, or maybe you may prefer to work on an interactive music implementation, or a dynamic dialogues implementation. Other options include to get inspiration from some game collaboration project ideas or to develop a new one on your own, providing and implementing the sound assets you need for the game story.
So pick your choice and write a proposal for your vision. When it will be, hopefully, green-lit, arrange your workload: so depending on your project, book studios, contact voice actors, create your asset list, edit, process, implement, whatever… but do it on time!!
You will have roughly 3 weeks to complete your project, beside, as you already know, other hard assignments… be strong, drink coffee!!
Your submission includes spreadsheet lists or scripts, all your recorded source materials, all your editing/processing sessions, the Wwise project, your stems, video files and a write-up document describing your work, technics, goals, challenges, and so on…
So after effort, suffering and a lot of fun, working on the game trailer option, here we are with the result… check it out this craaazy trailer!!
Electronic Musician, Composer, Live Electronic Performer and Sound Designer freelance. Carlo Ascrizzi was admitted at the Sound Design for Visual Media program at VFS in Canada, from which is publishing the story of his experience for learning and living the Sound.
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A Big Story In A Few Strokes
Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday November 24, 2007
The difference between two abstract impressionists might be that one lost the radical edge and freedom of his youth.Frozen Gestures: The Art Of Peter UpwardPenrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. Until December 2John R. Walker: Working In The LandscapeUtopia Art. Closes todayFOR an artist who valued the spontaneous expression of emotion, there is a melancholy feeling about Peter Upward's retrospective, Frozen Gestures. This long-awaited show at the Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest traces Upward's career through a series of stages that start out with promise and energy but never fulfill their potential. This process ends in Upward's premature death in 1983, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 51.Whenever an artist dies in his prime, there is an outpouring of nostalgia and speculation about what might have been. Those enthusiasts who have carried a torch for Upward have not been disappointed with this exhibition. They see it as a triumph and a reinvigoration of his faded reputation. Foremost among these would be his sister Penelope, who has written an unpublished monograph on his work; the artist Julie Harris, to whom he was married for the last three years of his life; and the exhibition's curator, Christopher Dean.In the catalogue, Dean writes: "If Peter Upward had been making and exhibiting art in Europe or the United States during the early 1960s, he might now be acknowledged as one of the leading international figures of the second half of the 20th century." This is a big call and, as much as I'd like to agree, it seems a fanciful idea. One could make a similar case for Stan Rapotec, Royston Harpur, Eva Kubbos or Henry Salkauskas - all local exponents of abstract expressionism. If Upward has an edge, it is through the sheer simplicity and dynamism of his early work.By the early 1960s abstract expressionism had become an orthodoxy in the US, with similar movements blossoming in Europe and across the world. Upward had as good a grasp of the style as anyone, drawing his influences from modern jazz, beat generation literature and Zen Buddhist philosophy. He was ruthlessly contemporary by Australian standards, although his American counterparts had already moved on to colour-field and hard-edged styles.Where Upward was especially daring was in the minimal nature of his approach. A typical painting might be nothing more than one or two swipes of a heavily loaded brush. The biggest and best of these is June Celebration (1960), from the National Gallery of Australia, a few spontaneous twirls of black paint on a white background that convey a powerful sense of joie de vivre. In his titles Upward would typically refer to time or states of mind, avoiding any hint of figuration. One is obliged to think about how the painting was made, not what it represents. By concentrating on the artist's gesture, one attains an understanding of the feeling he wants to convey. The ideal viewer for these paintings is like a Zen novice, meditating on a koan (riddle) set by the master, in the hope of achieving enlightenment.These Zen-style paintings are still viewed as Upward's most notable contribution to Australian art. One can feel the curator's exasperation as he recounts how Upward departed for England in 1962, abandoning a style and a potential market for his work. In England, Upward became increasingly enmeshed in the counter-culture. He took too many drugs and participated in therapy sessions with the guru psychiatrist R. D. Laing. He read books by the mystic Aleister Crowley and the eccentric psychologist, Wilhelm Reich. His paintings featured simple iconic shapes daubed in concrete-like polyvinyl acetate (PVA), on flat, monochrome backgrounds. These Horoscope or Zodiac paintings all referred to individuals and came equipped with the subject's astrological chart on the back. Subjects ranged from William Blake, Shakespeare and Nostradamus to his friend and patron, Pamela Hicks. Later paintings featured no more than an elegant splash of coloured PVA on a flat surface.When he returned to Australia in 1971, Upward had little to show from these years of hippie self-indulgence and experimentation. He began working at the National Art School, where he was a popular and charismatic teacher. Many of his paintings of the next decade were discs or tondi (to use the Renaissance term) where solid globs of polyester resin would intrude from the edges in precise, fluid movements. These are attractive works with a decorative bent, no matter what thinking lay behind them. Upward described his motivation in one word: freedom.It is miserable to read that shortly before his death Upward told Julie Harris: "Just give me a few more years, I now know how it all works." Of such quotes are legends made. He had found the key and the triumphant culmination of a life's work was at hand but we'll never know what it was. Instead, we are left with a few hardy fragments shored up against the ruins of a life. There is simply not enough to make a persuasive case for Upward's importance, although it is easier to appreciate the qualities of his work when we leave any great expectations at the door.John R. Walker (b. 1957) is another painter who has always showed flashes of brilliance but an overall pattern of inconsistency. Yet since moving to Braidwood at the end of 2002, Walker has been getting his act together, producing landscape paintings of ever-greater strength and complexity. His exhibition Working In The Landscape, which finishes today at Utopia Art, is a huge step forward for this erratic but talented artist. Walker's progress was obvious in the painting Dry Land Gully (2006), which was one of the highlights of this year's Wynne Prize for landscape at the Art Gallery of NSW and also features in this show.It is a ragged, episodic view in pinks, creams and ochres, which concentrates on a pale muddy ditch punctuated by thin strands of vegetation and barbed wire. It is neither classical nor romantic but a marvellous piece of observation that captures something essential about the landscape around Braidwood, scarred as it is by generations of human habitation. Equally impressive is the ad hoc triptych Quartermary Gully (2004), which adopts a closer perspective, showing trees and clumps of grass sprouting and twisting upwards from the bleached soil. Because Walker paints in a serial fashion, it was only afterwards that he began to see these three pictures as an ensemble but it works extremely well, with each panel adding force to its neighbour.A more sombre painting, Dawn, Tantulean Creek (2006) etches in the outlines of trees and paddocks in a kind of frantic shorthand, as though the artist has worked desperately to capture a particular effect of the light before it disappears. He has smudged and scratched away at the surface, before adding thin, grimy washes of paint that act like shadows falling across sloping banks of earth.Throughout this exhibition it is Walker's ability to suggest many different moods in the landscape that sets him apart from so many painters who find a congenial key and settle down to complete a series. Walker's pictures are anything but comfortable: they are informal, ungainly performances, where features seem to settle into place almost at random. Perhaps nothing could be more appropriate in depicting the Australian bush - a restless organism that resists all attempts to turn it into a pleasing composition.Walker has not set out to please. In fact, he gives the impression he doesn't give a damn what anybody thinks about these paintings. He has rushed in where his eyes and instincts have led him, and worked with the spontaneity of any abstract expressionist. It leaves one wondering what an artist such as Peter Upward gained from dutifully avoiding references to the landscape. Walker is also a painter of time, dividing up his canvases in such a way that one may view the same scene at different times of day. In every instance he responds in rapid, continuous fashion to what he sees in front of him.The result is a set of paintings with the same conspicuous energy as Upward's early Zen-inspired pictures of the 1960s. While the "freedom" of Upward's later work was really the freedom to pursue a visual idea, not to create in a loose unfettered manner, Walker is motivated by a different sense of freedom. He displays a willingness to take risks, to paint in such a way that he recognises no dividing line between abstraction and figuration. This method has occasionally led him astray but at the moment he is painting better than ever. By contrast, one realises how truly disciplined Peter Upward's "radical" gestures were, and ultimately how cautious.
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Sharing the Right Chemistry
Utah State University's Chemistry & Biochemistry Club is venturing beyond the confines of the laboratory to share the excitement of science with the local community. Along the way, the students are boosting campus and community efforts to create a greener, more sustainable world.
A student affiliate chapter of the American Chemical Society, USU's club was among 40 student chapters nationwide selected by the society for an Outstanding Chapter Award for the 2007-08 academic year.
The USU group was chosen from more than 330 student chapters. The Aggies will be recognized in an awards ceremony during the society's annual national meeting in spring 2009 in Salt Lake City.
"Formation of an officially recognized ACS chapter is an achievement in and of itself," says Steve Scheiner, head of USU's Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. "To receive an Outstanding Chapter Award is a wonderful testament to efforts and commitment of these students and their faculty mentors, Scott Ensign and Lisa Berreau."
The ACS lauded the USU chapter's community service outreach efforts.
Referring to the club's coordination of the university-wide "Going Green Extravaganza" Earth Day celebration held during spring 2008 on the USU Quad, selection committee members wrote, "(coordinating) a 4,500-person extravaganza was an awesome achievement. Great job."
In addition, the committee applauded the chapter's outreach programs to youngsters. During the 2007-08 academic year, the club presented chemistry demonstrations at elementary schools throughout Cache Valley and beyond, as well as to preschool and scout groups. The club also presented at USU celebrations, including Aggie Family Day and the Community Children's Halloween Carnival.
Club members served as judges for a science fair held at InTech Collegiate High School, a charter school emphasizing math and science on USU's Innovation Campus. The members have also mentored high school students during on-campus lab field trips and during a summer high school internship program hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
"Our student chapter is raising the level of understanding of chemistry throughout our community," Scheiner says.
The national organization praised the Aggie group as a model for other campuses.
"USU is setting a fine example for other chapters and preparing the next generation of chemical professionals," says Bruce Bursten, ACS president.
Contact: Lisa Berreau, 435-797-3509
Writer: Mary-Ann Muffoletto, 435-797-3517
October 2008