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I've said many times over the past two years that Louisville fans need to develop tough skin in regards to Charlie Strong's name being mentioned for available coaching positions. Each year that Strong has been here at Louisville, he's been mentioned as a potential candidate for many jobs. In fact, last year Texas A&M asked to speak with Strong about their open position. To my knowledge, the two sides never actually made contact, but regardless, schools are going to keep Strong's name at the top of their list. It's tough for Louisville fans to not panic, considering many coaches have used this job as a spring board. But at this point, we have no choice, but to trust Coach Strong and take him for his word. As long as he's doing what he is doing at Louisville, he is going to be mentioned as a potential candidate for nearly every high level job that becomes available. Unfortunately for Louisville fans, with all of the SEC jobs now available and the Big East conference continuing to ...
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Volunteer Opportunities
Retirees may wish to continue serving the University campus by volunteering their time. Your institutional knowledge, expertise, and energy can continue to serve the university in meaningful ways. Some volunteer opportunities are for one-time or annual events and some opportunities are available on an ongoing basis. Check out these opportunities to volunteer!
Ongoing Opportunities
The Writing Center
The Writing Center welcomes retirees to become part of their team of tutors. The commitment is for a full semester. Contact Kelly Webster, Director, at 406.243.2470 or email email@example.com
University Search Committees
Retirees can volunteer to participate on search committees for recruitments. In addition to or in lieu of informing your former department, you may contact Carey Davis in Human Resource Services Recruitment at firstname.lastname@example.com and provide your name, a current email address and what title(s) you held and/or which departments you worked on campus.
The Missoula International Friendship Program
The Missoula International Friendship Program (MIFP) is looking for volunteers to be buddies to international students. Complete and online application/questionnaire at www.mifp.org. The program is a great way to help an international student receive a warm welcome to UM and get to know people on campus and in the community. For more information, you may contact MIFP at firstname.lastname@example.com or the UM Foreign Student and Scholar Services at 406.243.2226.
The Adopt-a-Family Program
The UM Office for Civic Engagement coordinates the annual Adopt-A-Family program at Christmas in which campus faculty and staff get holiday gifts and food items for families through Salvation Army or Veterans through the Poverello. If a group of retirees wanted to adopt a family or veteran, the Office for Civic Engagement can coordinate that effort for you. For more information, you may contact Colleen Kane at 406.243.5128 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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UM Employee Recognition Day celebrates our Griz family and the wonderful people who serve our university. The event, held each year in April, includes live entertainment, hors d'oeuvres, UM Faculty and Staff Awards, length of service pins, and prize winners (all current UM employees are eligible). If you are interested in serving on one of the four subcommittees planning this event, please contact Sheila Wright in Human Resource Services at 406.243.4225.

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Ulead VideoStudio 8
4 out of 5
Excellent literature and manuals, better audio treatment, newest popular video formats added, demo available
(Some might say inevitable) underestimated system requirements depending on project
Ulead is slightly better known in the UK for its PhotoImpact! Range of software and also Cool3D as bundled with early All-In-Wonder Radeon range. VideoStudio is the company's flagship title though, now here in its eighth version.
Recognising the digital demands of the modern market, a new Movie Wizard is the guided and automated way to import, process and output your footage from presumably digital tape to either disc or tape again once reassembled. If you're an old hand from the previous seven versions you won't bother with this but for newcomers it may be one of the main selling points.
MPEG-4 recognition including the famed DivX video codec is another milestone, given that it's rare to see game movie trailers and other streaming footage that fail to use this format for its space efficiency and more than acceptable quality. CD is a much more established benchmark for audio quality so in addition to the existing sampling ability, you can use Quicktrack Libraries to assemble your own soundtracks, mixing four tracks together (after you change their volumes independently).
To maximise the benefits of improved text handling - or promote another package- when you outgrow the text capabilities of VS 8 that's when you can install Cool3DSE to go even further with animated titling and other effects.
When you're working though, trying to use the trademark preview window at full size for every single effect on trial will severely stress out the test machine unless you go over the true 2GHz mark and have at least 1GB of fast RAM rather than the 512Mb that is claimed as satisfactory. However videocapture is one of the last of the great resource-sappers so your machine will be pushed to its limits, even if that's the sole task of the PC at the time. 4Gb is required for samples but we'd make that 20Gb minimum and if you could dedicate a hard disk to videocapture, that would ease the resource demand- slightly.
There are also different filters to apply to the video and while Sepia tones are represented (called Duotone instead) it's easy to see some are useful while others may be tested and discarded, never to be used again. However this resembles the free mode-changers in the hardware of any camcorder you ever bought. Picture in picture may receive more attention than most however, so you can't write off all of the effects before seeing them all.
Distribution is high on Ulead's priorities, so if you want lots of people to view your movies, Neptune have partnered up with Ulead for a free time-limited introduction to the MediaShare service. Then you just direct people to your space to download the movie. That time limit's a week before they require just under £30 a year to allow you to carry on hosting but you can add still pictures to the site as well.
The program is strongly documented; no PDF mass printouts here. Instead sit down and read the 200-page manual to the program itself before digesting the 50 pages of professional hints on DV filmmaking by Douglas Spotted Eagle.
What you have here is a slick refinement of a venerable program, backed up with killer documentation (even if it is slightly sad to be praising the kind of manual that all complex software should be bundled with) and so to beginners, this is the first step to take. This is assuming that your preferred videocapture method is already installed in the machine and won't cause a knock-on cost.


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The Boating Industry Association (BIA) of NSW is constantly striving to offer sustainable advantages to its members and during the Sydney International Boat Show reached agreement with Australia's largest bank to join its Alliance Partner Program.
Darren Vaux, President of the BIA of NSW and Elizabeth Bennett, Executive Manager, Commonwealth Bank Alliance Program jointly sign the agreement on behalf of members.
Specifically developed for trade associations, the Alliance Partner Program involves the banking giant providing a range of financial services to BIA members.
The BIA and the bank have signed a three year agreement to the program.
Financial members of the Association can now take advantage of a score of benefits arranged by the Association, ranging from industry-specific stationery, the NSW Marine Directory, car rental programs, various industry seminars, business travel and accommodation deals and foreign exchange services.
Aaron McKenna, the association's Membership Support and Development Officer, said the agreement with the Commonwealth Bank continued the BIA's on-going selections for membership benefits.
'We believe this agreement with the Commonwealth Bank will be an absolute win for our members,' he said.
'Essentially, it gives all our members access to financial services and specialist advice from Australia's largest banking organisation, you can't get any better than that,' he added.
In its drive for members, the BIA sadly has often encountered the feeling from small businesses that membership of the BIA is only advantageous for big companies, those employing 50 or even a 100-plus staff.
'Nothing could be further from the truth,' Aaron declared.
'Whether a company is a genuine industry heavyweight or a one-person operation, membership of the Boating Industry Association of NSW can prove both valuable and beneficial.
'We run numerous programs solely aimed at assisting our members, whether it involves floor-plans, education and training, assistance with advertising or favourable insurance rates through BIA Marine Insurance.
'Additionally, members have access to the seven in-house divisions which concentrate solely on issues and matters related to specific industry groups,' he added.
For detailed information concerning membership, contact Mr McKenna at BIA headquarters, Crows Nest, NSW, telephone (02)9438-2077.


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Bikers park at the shark
New rack is received swimmingly
Bicyclists at Jefferson Elementary now have their own version of a shark tank.
It's a large metal bicycle rack shaped like a shark that sits near the front door at Jefferson.
It's big — 6 feet tall at its dorsal fin — and able to hold about 30 bikes.
It sits on a large concrete slab, which was part of the appeal to Jefferson Principal Pat Page when he took the WFISD's Maintenance Department up on an offer to build it.
It would clean up a muddy area, allowing students to park their bikes without tracking in a lot of mud into the school building.
Besides, the 30-year-old bike racks just needed to go.
"Over the years, kids told me their wheels got messed up from the old rack. It was mainly to upgrade and get something new."
The idea for the shark bike rack originated with Dan Shelton, Wichita Falls Independent School District's Maintenance Director.
He saw the blue shark rack on the Internet selling for more than $4,000. It looked like the perfect project for one of his crew members, a talented metal fabricator named Cody Ruddy.
"He just does so many different things. He builds ladders, fixes anything that's metal that's rotted or deteriorated inside or outside our buildings. He's worth his weight in gold," Shelton said.
Ruddy could make a similar bike rack for about $500, Shelton said.
Shelton emailed WFISD principals, sending a picture of the shark bike rack and said, "If any of you want one, it'll be $500 and will come with a concrete pad."
Within seconds, he received an email from Jefferson Principal Pat Page. "We'll take it," he wrote.
Page paid for it with
campus activity money gleaned from fund raisers.
The finished product — painted blue to stand out from Jefferson's red brick building — was more massive that Page had envisioned from the picture.
"It's a little bit different than what I had imagined. I really like it now," Page said.
About 20 Jefferson students periodically ride their bikes to school.
Now they fit their handlebars inside the triangles affixed to the shark's body.
"The students love it," Page said.
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The mean duration and accuracy of performance on the mCST before and after rTMS in patients (A and C) or a break (equivalent to the time taken to administer rTMS in patients) in healthy volunteers (B and D) on block 1 (days 1–10) and block 2 (days 11–20) of the experiment.
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Plays with good pop and is able to get position at the point of attack. Shows ability to redirect the defender. Has nice knee bend and is able to get leverage and play with base. Shows quick hands and does a nice job initiating contact to redirect pass rusher. Shows ability to pull and does a nice job hitting his assignments. Can adjust in space to hit a mobile target. Does a good job finishing his blocks and flashes mean streak.
Can struggle at times against speed. Will get overextended and does too much waist bending at times. Loses his balance when he gets overextend and spends a bit too much time on the ground. Needs to be more consistent with his hand placement and isn't a guy that is going to get a lot of push at the point of attack. Doesn't have great lateral footwork both in pass protection and as a run blocker.
Huey was a player that really impressed in their game vs. Nebraska where he went toe to toe against Jared Crick and contained him fairly well. Wound up starting 8 games this past year at left guard. Tore his meniscus and MCL in his knee. Started 9 games as a junior at right guard, and 3 games on the left side as an injury fill-in as a sophomore.
Huey has talent, and showed it against Nebraska. He's not the biggest guy, but has good strength and is effective in a short area because of it. He can get position and probably projects best as a guard or center in a zone-blocking scheme. He has little experience at the pivot, but with his quick hands and ability to be effective in a short area, he could probably work there and develop. He's not the biggest or stronger guy, and isn't a guy that is going to be an impact blocker. But he's the type of guy that can fill a reserve role and work his way into a starting role down the road with development. He needs more polish and probably should try and get bigger. He's a player that I think will be a backup his first two or three years, and then a guy ahead of him goes down. He then comes in and fills in ably. He may not be a guy that sticks long-term as a starter on most teams, but can be an effective journeyman role player that can add depth on most teams, particularly
Huey can add depth here in Atlanta, particularly if he can develop as a center. There he can work as a swing player inside able to backup at all three positions. He's not going to be a great option in the Falcons man-heavy blocking scheme because of his ability to get push. But he's a nice position player that could develop into a capable spot starter. But unless the Falcons really like him as a potential center prospect, they can find better guards and it'll be hard for him to stick long-term as a reserve at guard.
Huey is a nice late round pick. For a zone-blocking team they might take him in the fifth or sixth round. A man-blocking scheme probably should stay away in the draft because of his lack of ideal upside.
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Strength: 3.0
Pass Blocking: 2.5
Run Blocking: 2.5
Footwork: 2.5
Technique: 3.0
Mobility: 3.0
Mean Streak: 3.5
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Russ Smith made a pretty phenomenal improvement from freshman to sophomore season. Seven games into the 2012-13 season, it's hard to argue that Russ hasn't made an ever bigger improvement from sophomore to junior year. In seven games this year, Russ is averaging 19.9 points and 3 steals per game. His overall improvement hasn't gone unnoticed as he is now being mentioned as a potential first round pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. Jonathan Giovany runs DraftExpress.com, which is one of the few accurate and respectable NBA Draft websites. Giovany published his updated 2013 mock draft last night and has Russ Smith projected as 28th pick in the first round. DraftExpress.com 2013 1st Round Mock Draft First Round 1 Shabazz Muhammad SG 19 years old; 6'6″; 223 lbs. UCLA, Freshman 2 Nerlens Noel C 18 years old; 6'11″; 216 lbs. Kentucky, Freshman 3 Cody Zeller C 20 years old; 7'0″; 240 lbs. Indiana, Sophomore 4 Rudy Gobert PF/C 20 years old; 7'1″; 235 lbs. Cho
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Battle on the Bay showcases top bodybuilders this weekend
CORPUS CHRISTI - Fred Saunders is an insurance agent by day, but a bodybuilder by night.
Saunders is one of several athletes that will compete in Battle on the Bay, a National Physique Committee regional qualifying show, on Saturday at the American Bank Center Selena Auditorium.
An average day for a bodybuilder in training is not an easy schedule. Saunders gets up at 4 a.m. to exercise before work and has a second workout session at the gym.
"You want to try to get your cardio up and lift as much as possible in different muscles groups," he said.
Saunders, who is known by his friends as "Fredzilla," has been doing that routine for about four months. He's been training since January in preparation for the Battle on the Bay.
Bodybuilding isn't just about having the biggest muscles out there. It's also about how you present yourself, he said.
"You want to have a stage presence, you want to show off your personality and you also want to show off your hard work," Saunders said.
With more than six months of preparation behind him, Saunders said he's looking to forward to Battle on the Bay, which will be his first show.
"Right now, I feel excited and a little anxious to get there and to see what everything is like," he said.
The crowd will be able to see how far these competitors have come and might even be inspired to start their own fitness journey, Saunders said.
"There are a lot of people competing in shows that didn't look like that when they started," Saunders said. "So when you go up there, you can look at people and go 'hey, that's something I could do.'"
Saunders has more shows lined up after this year's Battle on the Bay, but not before he takes some much needed rest and relaxation.
"After the show, I'm probably just going to take a week or two off from training just to recover a little bit, and eat some good food too," Saunders said with a laugh.
This year's Battle on the Bay will include guest posers Trish and Warren Branch. Winners will go on to compete in a national NPC show.
Tickets are available at the American Bank Center and all Ticketmaster outlets.
What: 2014 NPC Battle on the Bay
Where: American Bank Center Selena Auditorium, 1901 N Shoreline Blvd.
When: 6 p.m. Saturday
Cost: Prices vary
Information: www.npcbattleonthebay.com, ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000
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One photo shows a beer can that Emery said was taken out of a trash can in Clemens' New York apartment in 2001. Emery said the beer can contained needles used to inject Clemens. That picture also shows what Emery said was gauze used to wipe blood off Clemens after a shot.
The other photo shows vials of what Emery said were testosterone and unused needles, items the attorney said Clemens gave to McNamee.
While Clemens' camp called it "manufactured" evidence, Emery said the items were "just a collection of stuff" thrown in a box and "kept in a basement for seven years."
Emery said McNamee kept the items because he "had this inkling and gut feeling that he couldn't trust Roger and better keep something to protect himself in the future."
Clemens met Thursday with committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis for about 20 minutes, then signed an autograph for a bystander upon exiting. That was one of many times Clemens was asked to stop to affix his name to something or pose for a snapshot.
Clemens' deposition Tuesday was the first time he addressed McNamee's allegations under oath, and therefore the first time he put himself at legal risk if he were to make false statements.
Thursday's bizarre events served as something of a dress rehearsal for Wednesday's session, which will be held in the same wood-paneled hearing room that housed the committee's 2005 hearing with Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro.
That hearing was part of Congress' push to get baseball to toughen its drug program, increasing tests and penalties. It also led to former Senate majority leader George Mitchell's report on doping in baseball.
The 45-year-old Clemens, who pitched for the Yankees last season, requested Thursday's meetings with the committee members. He carried a white three-ring binder as he headed from one House office building to another, going through a garage and taking a freight elevator at one point.
"Because the perception out there was so strong originally that he did it and was lying, he's going to extra steps to try and persuade and make people comfortable with the fact that he didn't do it. He's having to take extraordinary measures because the allegations are extraordinary," Hardin said.
Hardin said Clemens was meeting with individual representatives "to assure them privately the same thing he's saying publicly -- that he didn't take steroids, and he didn't take human growth hormone, and he's here to talk to anybody about it who wants to." Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Characteristics of the mitochondria in U937 cells after the freezing - thawing cycle (1.5 hours). (A). Scattered diagram of single cells' mean FI (X axis) vs. FI SD (Y axis) for individual cells stained with TMRM in the i3C (1.5 hours after the freezing - thawing cycle) and unfrozen control. Each dot represents an individual cell. (B) Distribution histograms of FI values in individual U937 cells that underwent the freezing - thawing cycle in the i3C, standard cryo-vials and the unfrozen control.
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Manhattan Infidel finds something sorta not-so-celebratory about tonight's New Year's celebration.
To fight the scourge of man-made global warming, several countries have announced that New Year's celebrations will have low carbon footprint, environmentally friendly themes.
Nowhere is this more evident that in perhaps the most famous of New Year's Eve locations, Times Square in New York City. Normally a sea of artificial light this year all power in Times Square will be turned off at 11:50 PM and the intersection will be plunged into total darkness.
"We feel that doing this will symbolize New York's commitment to saving the planet. Also, the total darnkess thing might make it easier for me to cop a feel" said an organizer.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday its first quarter earnings shrank to less than one tenth of the year-earlier quarter as its TV business languished, masking a recovery in mobile phone sales.
LG Electronics' profit plunges on slow TV sales
It forecast higher profit for the current quarter as new smartphone models and a revamped lineup of TVs hit shelves in global markets. But it expected worldwide demand for TVs to remain muted due to the slow economic recovery in developed countries.
The South Korean company's January-March net profit fell to 22.1 billion won ($19.7 million) from 247.5 billion won a year earlier.
Sales rose 7 percent to 14.1 trillion won. Operating profit slipped 13 percent to 349.5 billion won.
LG blamed the poor result on lower profit from its TV sales, which offset an improvement in its mobile phone business.
Profit from its flagship Home Entertainment division sank more than 80 percent as it had to sell televisions at lower prices and had higher marketing costs due to heightened competition. LG competes with Samsung Electronics Co., Toshiba Corp., Sharp Corp. and Sony Corp. in the TV market worldwide.
"Since the third quarter of last year, market demand for TVs slowed, intensifying competition and driving down prices as a result," LG's Chief Financial Officer Jung Do-hyun told investors. "We expect that profitability will recover in the second quarter as new models help recover prices."
LG's profit from its handset business more than quadrupled from a year earlier, showing the success of efforts to revive its mobile communications business after two years of massive losses.
In the first quarter, its smartphone sales more than doubled to a record high, putting the company on track to meet its annual sales target. The company's CFO said LG now expects to sell 45 million smartphones by the end of this year, higher than its 40 million forecast given two months earlier.
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Health and physical education is a very important part of the Ontario curriculum. Regular physical activity is not only essential for healthy growth and development — it can actually boost students' academic achievement. Younger students can burn off some of their energy, increasing their ability to settle in and focus on their academic work. In adolescents, regular physical activity not only helps to maintain a healthy body weight, but has also been shown to lower levels of anxiety and depression.
Starfish Karachi has taken an initiative to start Starfish Martial Arts for the school students. Nisar Alam is my own teacher who had trained me in 1992-96.
55 students in first badge enrolled themselves. We hope more boys and girls comes in.
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Annual Christmas Program was arrange in holy shepherd school.
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Leaders feeling the heat at UT
Administration scrutinized amid plans for cuts, potential layoffs
The University of Tennessee administration is coming under increasing scrutiny as the state grapples with growing estimates of this year's budget shortfall and the UT system prepares for potential layoffs and program cuts.
"I think it's unfair that we start laying people off when we have administrators who have incredibly lucrative expense accounts," state Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, said Thursday in an interview. "If they start laying off custodians and teachers and we don't see a reduction in administration, I will be very unhappy."
The statewide UT system has announced it may need to trim as much as $75 million from its $1.6 billion budget and has restricted the filling of vacant positions, required administrators to prepare layoff plans and established a process for evaluating programs.
A committee set up by the board of trustees in September to find savings is looking at the system administration as well as indicators and measures by which to gauge efficiency, said trustee Doug Horne, a Knoxville businessman and the chairman of the Committee on Effectiveness and Efficiency for the Future.
"We're looking at all areas that could be reorganized, consolidated or compacted," said Horne, who initially raised a question about the number of UT vice presidents at a committee meeting in October, before the scope of state budget woes grew to the 20 percent, $1 billion shortfall described Wednesday by Gov. Phil Bredesen.
A summary of UT President John Petersen's administration provided by the university shows that Petersen has 24 administrators reporting directly to him, including 15 vice presidents. All have six-figure salaries, generally ranging from $160,000 to $313,065, and most have university-provided Chevrolet Impalas and expense allowances ranging from $2,000 to $25,000.
"UT has a tremendously expensive administrative structure at the system level that so far has taken no hits, while people on the ground who are providing services are being cut drastically," UT-Knoxville Faculty Senate President John Nolt said Thursday.
A UT spokeswoman disputed that notion.
"The UT system is addressing the same 15 percent reductions as are all other units," spokeswoman Gina Stafford said in a statement. "The system is under the same mandates regarding hiring, programs, equipment and travel that everyone else within the university is facing. Every element is under review and administrative cuts will definitely come before academic ones, but now is too soon in the process to know what those might be."
Petersen makes $431,765 plus a $25,000 expense allowance, a university-provided home and a car — a Chrysler 300. His predecessor, John Shumaker, had a compensation package of about $750,000.
UT Men's and Women's Athletic Directors Mike Hamilton and Joan Cronan each have $25,000 expense allowances — other administrators top out at $10,000 — and both have two vehicles apiece.
Those cars are part of a program in which automobile dealers can donate a car for use by senior-level administrators and coaches. In return for what's considered a "gift-in-kind," dealers can get a credit that helps them get better seating for athletic games, said UT Athletic Department spokeswoman Tiffany Carpenter.
Hamilton and Cronan pay for gas and insurance, and the university reimburses business mileage at 46 cents per mile.
"I would be looking very closely at these types of expenditures before we start firing university employees who make the university run," Burchett said.
Nolt said faculty members are concerned about administrative overhead.
"The latest appointment with (ex-football coach Phillip) Fulmer followed by a university-wide hiring freeze is appalling," Nolt said. Petersen hired Fulmer to a three-month, $12,500-a-month post funded by private donations.
Nolt said administrators at other universities have voluntarily taken salary cuts, and while the Faculty Senate has made no formal request, Nolt thinks UT administrators should consider similar cuts at this point.
One administrator's salary could pay for 800 to 1,000 student seats, he said, since four to five $36,000-a-year lecturers can teach 200 students per year.
Burchett said he thought voluntary reductions in salary would be a "great idea, but I don't think it will happen."
Said Nolt: "We're looking at an additional 20 percent reduction (in this year's state budget). … This is a crisis. The mission of the university is in jeopardy."
Since he became president in 2004, Petersen has replaced five vice presidents in existing positions, Stafford said — public and government relations, research and economic development, development and alumni affairs, the Institute of Agriculture and academic affairs.
UT added a chief financial officer in 2005 after trustees changed the bylaws to add the post, and the vice president for science and technology is a new position created to oversee UT's involvement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The vice presidents for human resources and information technology are new positions added to provide needed leadership to "strategically important areas" in a "large, complex, geographically dispersed organization," Stafford said.
Each position has a role in efficient management of UT, Stafford said.
"Like all elements of the university, these will be included in the ongoing budgetary review. At this time, any discussion of what, if any, changes might be made in these or any other aspect of operations would be premature and speculative."
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Meeting up with a great horned owl
CORPUS CHRISTI - My neighbor mockingbird greets me with an October solo each morning as I open the back door. "Beautiful, it's beautiful!" he seems to say.
My daughter, Madalyn Yochem, had an interesting bird visitor this week, a great horned owl. Her little terrier, Robbie, alerted her to the bird's presence in the large, old ash tree in her backyard. The dog smelled the bird's castings.
Birds of prey regurgitate these masses of undigested parts of food. They make an interesting smell, consisting as they do of fur, feathers, bones, claws and teeth of smaller mammals and birds.
The owl was settling in for a day long nap as is the habit with these nocturnal birds. Searching up among the branches, trying to see what was there, Madalyn saw the big bird, leaning its head over, peering down at her.
This owl stands about 2 feet tall. It is one of my favorites and, when one is reported here, I try to see it. It is listed on our local bird list as a resident, fairly common. The horns on its head are not true horns but are feathered ear tufts.
Its color is mottled brown above, heavily barred whitish below. The large head has black rimmed, tawny facial disks surrounding large yellow eyes. The bill is black.
This is not the first time an owl has visited Madalyn's yard. A hole half way down the tree is attractive to squirrels. Golden-fronted woodpeckers find it interesting too.
The great horned owl is highly adaptable as to climate and habitat. It is found almost all over this country at all altitudes in all seasons. It will catch and eat almost any living creature of its size or smaller. Its flight is powerful and silent on a wingspread of 4 ½ feet.
Its deep, bass call consists of five or six tremulous hoots, unchanging in pitch: hoo, hoohoo, hoo, hoo! Great horned owls hoot all year but are thought to be most vocal on clear nights in spring and winter. This bird has not spoken. The horned owl, unlike others of its species, can see in daylight, although it prefers to hunt at night.
Kathy Griffith and I could not resist a late afternoon trip to the Gulf beach beyond Packery Channel Park and north of Bob Hall Pier on a beautiful day of good weather and birds. The light wind chased the mosquitoes away.
We saw gulls changing from summer into winter plumage with black heads almost entirely white. There were sanderlings, of course, chasing the waves. We were lucky to see, also, two red knots, no longer red but lively in the edge of the surf. There were willets and semipalmated plover, and fading ruddy turnstones.
Just as we were about to turn back to the main road, the best bird of the day, an American oystercatcher, appeared. This bird was still very scarlet of feet, legs and bill. We looked for, but did not find, a mate.
Phyllis Yochem, a Corpus Christi resident, has studied birds in Texas since 1960.
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Time for this month's thread. I know we expect to meet Ashley's little girl this month and hopefully see a lot more BFP!
Pregnant after EP-December
Rainbow Baby Girl 2/2013
Baby # 2 October 2014?
And here is what I wrote at the end of last month's
Jess: I hope the move goes well. My next appointment is the same day as yours. I hope you get good news from the long glucose test. Sorry you had to go trough that. Hopefully it won't be GD. But if it is I hear it's pretty manageable with proper diet.
Wicksheart: I hope you get good results with the beta. The pregnancy tests look promising :) Good luck.
Kelsa: I'm so glad you pushed for it and finally got the follow up you need. I remember when I first called my obgyn office, the nurse mostly cared about me having the insurance meeting. I had to push and explain what happened for her to understand that she needed to speak to the ob and then they started the beta and u/s.
Bibstar: Haven't heard from MIL in a while. His little sister is back in touch but not his youngest brother. Oh well, one thing at a time. I'm pretty thrilled about the baby shower, although it means I really need to get around to registering. I feel like I've been procrastinating a lot...
I have colustrum leaks too. It's kind of weird, I guess it might be time for us soon to pull out some nursing pads or something. Glad to hear you are doing well though even with braxton hicks. Are they painful at all? You look all cute and pregant on the shot. And great for the weight gain it sound like it's not too much but enough to be going well.
Cokiki: I don't know what to tell you. I had the hardest time staying calm until the IUP was confirmed. To me that's one of the downside of the EP. It took away a lot of the joy of finding out we were pregnant again. The one thing that reassured me was my chiropractor, she also feels energies I guess can could tell I ovulated on my right side. The only other things that kept me sane were my husband and running. Just find something to focus on and keep your mind off things,
Ashley: So glad you're still hanging around. Just a few more days and you'll be full term. Don't forget that ultrasounds only show so much. I heard that between the u/s, the mom and the practitioner, well Mom usually has the closest "guess" on the side, followed by the practitioner and then the u/s. Any update from this afternoon?
Kimberlee: Yeah on the IUP
Arbitrary: There isn't much of a need for the stirrups in the beggining thankfully :) Only at the end.
Bananacat: Glad to hear everything is going well. It's nice to be out of the first 12 weeks isn't it? Cute little bump. Give it a few weeks and it will start being very obvious.
Ty's Wifey: Sorry to hear about the sleeping issue. I've been pretty lucky so far, although I wake up with pretty sore ribs. When I go to yoga we set up a bolster (thick harder pillow) with two blocks. It allows you to rest your back in a reclined position. You can do that at home by putting one pillow under yours and laying on iyours across the long way. Maybe you can try that in bed so you're still with your Hubby. The nice thing is that you're not pressing on the vein that way. Either that or invest in pregnancy body pillow.
AFM: I passed my glucose test. Yeah! They left me a message saying that my bloodwork was looking good. Next appointment monday and then every 2 weeks as I am now officially in the third trimester. Baby is doing good, kicking like crazy in there. As I mentionned above the only thing that bothers me a little is that I wake up with my ribs feeling really sore. It takes a few hours to go away. We think it's because I keep on ending up on my back, plus just the weight of being on my side. I always lightly wake up after a while when I'm on my back and turn to my side but I guess I'm a back sleeper... Ok that and the colustrum leaks.
Here's my babybump from Thanksgiving
Rainbow Baby Girl 2/2013
Baby # 2 October 2014?
I hope to be able to set up shop here until Aug. 4 weeks yesterday. Impatiently waiting on my beta.
Cassandra, married my soulmate, Ryan ~ 2/4/10
Ari (6/07), AJ (7/10), Aidan our miracle IVF Rainbow ~ 8/2/13
^Houdini^ 9/15/11 & ^Hope^ 7/13/12 *EPs
Thanks for my own little shout out. Ha-ha. Can't wait for Jaley to arrive thia month!!!!!!!
Thanks everyone for the tips/comfort (:
Ashely can't wait to see pics of your princess! So exciting (:
OMG I am starting to get nervous lol. It feels like my baby girl will be here so soon only 2-3 more months ahhh!! This morning I was in the middle of eating breakfast and felt like I got stabbed in the gut by a contraction. Bad timing :P
ep12/29/11 we miss you Altair
Cautiously expecting our RAINBOW
Thanks to all that offered encouragement about getting through the scary days before the first ultrasound. I'm hanging in there...4 more days.
Congratulations on your bfp Wicks, so exciting!
Ashley, how did your ultrasound go the other night? I can't believe they made you wait that long.
Frenchy, your bump is adorable!
Baby Boy G born 12/11/13
Cassandra, married my soulmate, Ryan ~ 2/4/10
Ari (6/07), AJ (7/10), Aidan our miracle IVF Rainbow ~ 8/2/13
^Houdini^ 9/15/11 & ^Hope^ 7/13/12 *EPs
Ty: ugh those random strong bh contractions are annoying!
So I think my ultrasound went good. Still waiting on results. I did fond out that baby is in the 14th% weighing about 5lbs 8oz. Still a peanut. I should know more tomorrow :)
Kati (26) DH (30) + 2 Furbaby's + 3 angels: EP 3/11 MMC 7/11 CP 9/11
BG Twins Peyton & Tate 12/27/12
So exciting for December and all the new BFPs. In about 3 months DH and I are going to meet with our little princess. I think I still need to process that some more because it is still hard to believe it :).
Me (37) DH (37) DS Alex (11), Raibow Girl Adria 2/26/2013, Rainbow Girl Angie 5/20/2015
Update on ultrasound: fluid level is great. Baby is smaller then they would like to see but nothing that warrants an induction.
On the monitor now having some small contractions. Maybe today will be the day :)


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Mozilla Weave Stores Personal Settings on the Web
Mozilla developers looking to shift individual browser settings to the Web with a new project dubbed Weave.
Normally, bookmarks, history, settings or preferences are stored locally; thanks to Mozilla Weave these features will be available worldwide via the Internet in future. In contrast to other providers such as Google Browser Sync or the Mac services by Apple, Mozilla Weave will "ensure that it is easy for people to set up their own services with freely available open standards-based tools, provide users with the ability to fully control and customize their online experience" say the developers. The developers compare the open project with the extensible Firefox architecture – programming interfaces and tools will be available free of charge to give third parties the ability to develop applications. As an example of an application, the developers mention collaborative planning of trips.
The project emphasizes that it will honor the privacy of personal data on the Internet: Mozilla Weave will let users specify "whether and how their data should be shared with their family, their friends, and third-parties". The central servers can synchronize this data with the local browser, or synchronize multiple different browsers at the same time. One of their major goals, say the developers, is to " respect individual privacy (e.g. client-side encryption by default with the ability to delegate access rights)".
Weave 0.1 was release December 21 as a prototype with some basic functionality for Linux, Windows and Mac OS, although it only works with the latest beta 2 version of Firefox 3 right now. In early 2008, Weave will enter phase two of its development where the first APIs for developers will be released.
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NoScript Flaw
Mozilla's script blocker add-on could be putting malware sites on the whitelist.
RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
Mate 1.1 Arrives
Popular desktop environment continues the Gnome 2 legacy – with new support for the Gnome 3 toolkit.
US Government Requires HTTPS
The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
Mozilla Signs Firefox Add-Ons
New program will dial up security for the Firefox browser.
Fedora 22 Arrives
Red Hat's community distro embraces the cloud.
Code.org and College Board Team Reach Out for Talented High School Coders
New partnership will bring more and better CS training to US schools
A Peek Inside TeslaCrypt Ransomware
Criminals offer online help over Tor network
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Have a look at this post on my website, and the comments which have been posted there:
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EDIT: To those who have received this particluar comment spam, you will see there is a link to Gudlyf's AuthImage plugin. I wouldn't be so quick to assume it was him though (I believe he's innocent).
Indeed the comments on my site have multiple IP addressess which resolve to many different places, so he is either spoofing or possibly using a legion of zombified windows machines (computers infected with trojans) to co-ordinate attacks on blogs at predifined times, very much like the DoS attacks seen elsewhere.


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Starbucks expanding beer and wine sales at its locations
Jeff Maher (ABC) Sacramento, CA....
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Starbucks plans to turn more of its cafes into a destination for get beer and wine in the evenings. The coffee company says it is looking to expand alcohol sales to
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Starbucks is trialling a new coffee recipe that some people think tastes like beer. Photo: AP All Starbucks coffee shops sell coffee. Some sell beer. But only a precious...Canberra Times 2014-09-23
12:28 PM ET i i In some parts of the U.S., Starbucks is testing a latte flavored with roasted-stout notes along with its seasonal autumn drinks such as the Pumpkin Spice...National Public Radio 2014-09-23
(CNN) — You've probably heard this one before: Little guy gets too close to a trademark held by a big company. Big company threatens legal action. Little guy backs off. But...MSNBC 2013-12-31
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A Missouri brewer says he has sent Starbucks a whole $6 for sales of his Frappicino stout. Starbucks sent Jeff Britton a cease and desist letter saying the beer's name was too close to the trademarked name Frappucino. The coffee company discovered the brew's name on the beer-rating website Untappd. Britton...Toronto Sun 2013-12-31
View gallery. Facebook/ Exit 6 Pub and Brewery Starbucks is known for aggressively going after small businesses that appear to infringe on its trademark rights. So it was no surprise that a tiny brewpub in Missouri got a cease-and-desist letter from the coffee chain after it started selling a beer called "Frappicino." But unlike other businesses that have quietly caved to the...Yahoo Daily News 2014-01-01
In general, getting a cease-and-desist letter from a big corporation isn't the mark of a good day. But after a brewery owner got a letter from a law firm representing Starbucks, he saw a chance to draw distinctions between the businesses — and to be funny. The coffee company's bone of contention, Missouri brewer Jeff Britton was told in a Dec. 9 letter from a law firm that...National Public Radio 2013-12-30
It appears is continuing its effort to add beer and wine to some of its Sacramento region stores, with at least four possible locations set to get boozy in the future. Last month, the Business Journal reported that an application to sell beer and wine is at 4000 Foothills Blvd. Now, a similar application is on the window of a Starbucks store at 424 S. Auburn St. in Colfax. And...The Business Journals 2015-06-02
First there was coffee. Then juices. Energy drinks. Tea. Booze. What beverage is left to sell at Starbucks? Soda, apparently. The Seattle-based beverage giant is testing "handcrafted" sodas at stores in Atlanta and Austin, Texas, according to Brand Eating. "The kicker here is that Starbucks is using a machine to add carbonation to the drinks so that you can ask them to adjust...CNBC 2013-08-19
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Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is an international coffee company and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 19,555 stores in 58 countries, including 12,811 in the United States, 1,248 in Canada, 965 in Japan, 766 in Great Britain, 580 in China and 420 in South Korea.
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From Starbucks' founding in later forms in Seattle as a local coffee bean roaster and retailer, the company has expanded rapidly. In the 1990s, Starbucks was opening a new store every workday, a pace that continued into the 2000s. The first store outside the United States or Canada opened in the mid-1990s, and overseas stores now constitute almost one third of Starbucks' stores. The company planned to open a net of 900 new stores outside of the United States in 2009, but has announced 300 store closures in the United States since 2008.


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Breakingviews: What Would Jamie Dimon Do?
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By Rob Cox
NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters Breakingviews) – What Would Jamie
Dimon Do? That's a question investors need to answer before
voting to split the chairman and chief executive roles at
JPMorgan's (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) annual meeting next week. The risk is that
shareholders score a corporate governance point but lose Dimon.
As a general rule, cutting off your nose to spite your face is a
bad investment strategy.
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Another day, another pressure point for JPMorgan. The latest rebuke of the U.S. bank's board arrived on Tuesday from proxy adviser Glass Lewis, which like Institutional Shareholder Services helps investors make up their minds about how to vote at the annual meetings of companies. Both firms are now arguing for JPMorgan to split the roles of chairman and chief executive.
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It took about a generation before Italian immigrants to the United States adopted the ways of their new home and shook off those of the old country. Italy's premier industrial enterprise may do it in a matter of years. A spat over Fiat's plans to fully acquire Chrysler, Detroit's number three carmaker, could hasten the process.
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INDIO, Calif, – Once upon a time, there was a rock music festival held every April in the California desert whose meticulous curation of artists old and new made it the de facto tastemaker for the industry. Today, there is just Coachella. And although this three-day frolic in the sun may no longer be the most influential gathering of its kind, it has achieved something potentially even larger – an ability to sustain itself.
The three-day music marathon concluded its second weekend on Sunday, selling some 150,000 passes in total and making it the most-successful festival of its kind with gross receipts of about $50 million, according to Billboard. Almost 150 bands, musicians and performance artists made the trek to Indio, a scruffy suburb of Palm Springs, on two successive weekends to play on one of a half-dozen stages.
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Who will be the Volvo of the firearms industry? For four decades until 1999, the Swedish carmaker led the world in making safety a virtue of its products. Its efforts paid off handsomely as sales and market share climbed, Volvo charged a premium for its vehicles and the company was eventually sold for $6.5 billion. The same could be done with guns.
Volvo's timing was good. From its introduction of a little invention that became the modern seatbelt in 1958 to its sale some 40 golden years later to Ford Motor, public consciousness in automotive safety blossomed. Volvo's technological lead gave it an edge over rivals who showed less interest in protecting passengers than revving up horsepower.
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Newtown, Conn. ‑ What do you know about Chardon, Ohio? I have spent the past week putting this question to my friends and neighbors in Newtown, the place I have called home, off and on, since 1968. I asked my contacts, from the whip-smart hedge fund manager and graduate of Yale Law School to the big-hearted leader of a philanthropic foundation. Not one had heard of Chardon.
Shamefully, neither had I until two weeks ago, when I stumbled across a card sent to the Sandy Hook Elementary School. My 12-year-old son and I were combing through a dozen boxes, from among the tens of thousands of cards and letters that have arrived at our town hall. We were looking for artwork we could use to decorate the office walls of Sandy Hook Promise, the nonprofit I co-founded with fellow citizens to help our community heal and eventually find its voice on matters related to eliminating gun violence
Newtown's community struggles to understand one of its own
This column was originally published in the Wall Street Journal.
NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT – The word "community" is overused. It is even the title of a television sitcom. But in the context of Newtown – the Connecticut town of 27,000 that I've known as home since 1969 – it is authentic. Yet from within our midst came Adam Lanza, now a murderer of 20 innocent local children, six of their dedicated teachers, and his own mother.
Today the world is focused on our heretofore-bucolic slice of America. As the international media's satellite dishes sprout and their choppers descend to dissect the shooting and the shooter, Newtown is mostly presented as either an affluent suburb of New York or a picture-perfect New England hamlet with old-timey colonial houses, horse farms and a historic Main Street.
Obama to join mourning Connecticut families in search for answers
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) – President Barack Obama arrives in Connecticut on Sunday to join in the mourning for 20 children, all 6 and 7 years old, who were slaughtered by a gunman who forced his way into their school and shot them with a rifle at close range.
Obama's appearance at an interfaith vigil in the once-tranquil town of Newtown will be watched closely for clues as to what he meant when he called for "meaningful action" to prevent such tragedies in the wake of the massacre on Friday.
Children in Connecticut rampage, all six and seven, shot repeatedly
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) – Twelve girls and eight boys. One had celebrated her seventh birthday just four days before her death. They were Charlotte and Jack, Noah and Grace.
Dressed in "cute kid stuff," all 20 died when a heavily armed 20-year-old gunman forced his way into their school, Sandy Hook Elementary, and shot them and six women in an act of violence that has shattered their once-tranquil suburban town.
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Dressed in "cute kid stuff," all 20 died when a heavily armed 20-year-old gunman forced his way into their school, Sandy Hook Elementary, and shot them and six women in an act of violence that has shattered their once-tranquil suburban town.


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I incur in the risk of getting another accusation of being a troll, but I'll say that those more likely to defend the "science" in science-fiction as actually plausible or realistic are those who, while somehow familiar with the lexicon of science, lacks an understanding of its working and principles.
In fact, the more they write about it, the more implausible and unrealistic it sounds.
(Science writers intent on selling a book about the science of science-fiction excluded.
Um...I don't know if this has already been suggested earlier in this thread, but it is not the plausibility or even the possibility of the imaginary science or technology in the work of science fiction that differentiates it from most fantasy. What makes it science fiction rather than fantasy is whether,
inside the fictional world, those fictional characters
consider it a form of science.
Science and magic are NOT the same thing. Even implausible or impossible science is not the same thing as magic. For example, magic, to function, often relies on the personal skill, power, concentration, etc, of the user. Scientific experiments, however, once understood, and with a good, clear instruction manual, can be reproduced, more or less, by any shmoe off the street. Science is provable and repeatable, given all the same variables. It is knowledge that can be passed down and used by anyone who desires to. But no matter how much Frodo memorizes the right words, and states them in the right tone, he'll never be able to scream, "THOU SHALT NOT PASS!" and make crazy shit happen. Only Gandalf can do that. It's not repeatable. That's one of the reasons it's magic, and not science, and why LOTR is fantasy and not science fiction.
Warp drive may be as impossible as Gandalf's spells
in our world
, but inside the fictional world, that world conceives of warp drives as science. Anyone who studies warp drive long enough can work one. Warp engines work the same way, no matter who's controlling them, and given the same variables, they will always work the same way. So, it's impossible (or fictional, rather) science, rather than magic, or fantasy.
This difference is not, to my mind, superficial or merely set-dressing. It suggests something very different about the way that fictional world works, and the relationship between those fictional characters and their fictional environment. DO they, in fact, live in a world that is potentially understandable and controllable by the masses, given the opportunity? Or do they live in a chaotic world of magic, in which only a certain elite few will ever have control, and, in any case, nothing is predictable, provable, or repeatable anyway? Those are very different fictional worlds, and it changes everything about the story, or at least the good ones.
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The drought affecting the majority of the country has led the Agriculture Department to add 76 counties to its list of disaster areas, a decision that increased scrutiny of the legislation as lawmakers debate agriculture policy.
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G Manu Ginobili
SF Ron Artest
PF Antawn Jamison
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C Eric Dampier
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Bench: Al Harrington, Mike Miller, Caron Butler
I really needed a shot blocker (Swift) so thats the main part of the deal. Then I saw that Josh Smith blocks about 2 per game, so that will really help coming from outside of the center position, plus I think he is going to have a break out season. Miller puts up numbers about as good as Hinrich, more assists actually (not by much), but Hinrich will probably put up better numbers this year. Also, I didn't have a whole lot of room for Caron Butler to play.
I offered this trade to someone, but I haven't heard from them yet:
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Okafor makes the center positions solid, Wallace will put up good numbers this year IMO (good defense too), and I have no need for Stephen Jackson (who won't have as good number this year with Artest back). They really need someone to play guard, and they have Yao Ming and Tim Duncan for the center positions. He's actually playing Okafor at Forward, so I think it would be a good deal for both sides.
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Redemption Group Immersion™ is an intense training for aspiring Redemption Group leaders, usually lasting three or four consecutive days. Each trainee participates in a live Redemption Group as a regular participant. A typical group experience, normally spaced over ten to twelve weeks is packed into a few days, amounting to about three sessions per day.
Immersions are a necessary training and certification step for churches and ministries planning to launch their own Redemption Groups. For the rest of the process, read here.
Why Redemption Group Immersion?
Time and trial have proven that by far the most effective way to prepare Redemption Group leaders is for them to first be immersed in the experience themselves. There are some things that are caught more than taught: this is one of them. Trainees could spend months or even years in advanced classroom-like training settings and not yet be effective group leaders. But for those who are already moderately equipped with appropriate biblical knowledge, personal maturity, and some spiritual leadership experience can, in such a training experience, gain the practical know-how and sense for the Spirit's leading to make them ready for effective Redemption Group leadership.
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An additional benefit of this mode of training is that is often good for leaders in other areas of church ministry (such as lead pastors, or Community Group leaders) to cross-train in Redemption Groups for more effective personal ministry in their primary roles. It can be difficult for such leaders, already committed to their primary ministry responsibilities to also go through a quarter-long Redemption Group. For those leaders, a week long intensive is an equally beneficial alternative that fits into a single week on the calendar.
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Immersions are hosted by various churches. There tend to be two or three per year. In the future, we intend to provide more opportunities at more locations, with more advance notice to aid in your planning. For now, the best way to know when and where these opportunities happen is either for your church or ministry site to submit an application to start Redemption Groups, or to sign up on the e-mail list in the upper right of any page on this site.
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An orienting Immersion is what we call it when a church wants to have some participants attend an Immersion as part of getting familiar with Redemption Groups before committing to the application process. The Immersion experience itself is identical; the only difference is their status in the process. Upon completion of the Immersion, they are not yet eligible to launch Redemption Groups until after completing the rest of application process, and possibly returning for a second qualifying Immersion.
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Net income attributable to non-controlling interests was euro 136 million, down 8.1% due to competition from clopidogrel generics in Europe (profits paid to BMS from territories managed by Sanofi were euro 125 million, down 8.8%).
Business operating income reached euro 5,972 million, a decrease of 12.7%, or 12.4% at constant exchange rates.
Net financial expenses were euro 178 million versus euro 140 million in H1 2010, despite the acquisition of Genzyme. Net financial expenses also included a capital gain of euro 47 million on the sale of the stake in Novexel booked in the first quarter 2010.
First-half effective tax rate was 27.5% compared with 28.2% in H1 2010.
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Green Bay - Now this was a completely different way for the Green Bay Packers to begin a game.
No, no, not Randall Cobb's 80-yard punt return that immediately made the whole 45-7 Monday night experience a waste of jet fuel for the Minnesota Vikings. It was special, but hardly a complete surprise for a rookie who is going to be something far from ordinary in this league if the kid can learn to hang on to the football.
The rarity, of course, was the three-and-out put up by the Green Bay defense.
You know, the defense that has been held up as Exhibit No. 1 for why the Packers should not be the NFL's only undefeated team now more than halfway into the season.
It's been my contention that the Green Bay defense doesn't have to be much more than adequate for the Packers to get back to the Super Bowl. Their insanely scary offense can cover most defensive sins against football nature. You score four times, the Packers are going to score five often enough to win enough games to be there again at the end.
Safe to say at 9-0, the Packers continue to crush NFC North myths. They don't need a great defense - or even much of a running game, for that matter - to be the best team in a weird 2011 season.
With that offense, which has now scored 24 points or more in every appearance this season, the defense can almost afford to be like Cobb. A spectacular score here, a fumble there. Sort of like the certainty that Cobb is way too talented to even think about sitting down for one kick, it's hard to beat on the defense when everything else, big picture, comes out of the spin cycle all dry and crisp.
Just when Cobb loses the football, he runs over a hapless Viking or two for a 55-yard kickoff return. Just when the defense does something really silly, enough plays are typically made to remain imperfectly perfect in this bottom-line business.
But Monday night, the defense came to play and then some against a pretty good rookie quarterback and a Minnesota offense that is fairly representative for such a bad team. The Vikings didn't even score until midway through the third quarter, when Cobb's fumble made it almost impossible for even a hopeless cause like Minnesota to not score.
Meanwhile, with Aaron Rodgers continuing to play like the best quarterback in something like 100 years and making the MVP race inconsequential with seven regular-season games to play, the defense showed just how unstoppable the Packers can be when it comes to play.
Talk about your rare sightings. On the Vikings' second possession of the evening, Clay Matthews dropped Christian Ponder for a 9-yard sack. How many times have the Lambeau faithful been treated to the Hulk pose this season?
And by the time Matthews threw down Ponder again late in the third quarter for an 11-yard loss, No. 52 didn't even bother with the posing. Why bother? By then, it was back to business as usual for a Green Bay defense that had been fairly beaten down by its critics more than it had beaten down someone in different jerseys.
The worst thing you could say about the D on Monday night was something that happened after it put the Vikings in a fourth-and-9 situation late in the third quarter. Think about that for a minute. Then, Charles Woodson dropped a throw from Ponder that hit him almost between the 2 and the 1. Big deal. It was Woodson who showed the rookie what's what a few weeks ago in the Metrodome when the defense otherwise made it a far more adventurous game than it needed to be.
Bottom line, never get too down on this defense when it hemorrhages yards and points like it has done for most of the season. Alternatively, don't get too excited when it puts a knot upside a purple head like it did Monday night. This defense doesn't have to dominate as long as Rodgers and his sick receivers and Cobb and those people are lighting it up.
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Ana had planned to attend Marquette University on a four-year, $20,000 scholarship to pursue her dream of becoming a mechanical engineer.
Brought to the United States at age 5, she attended Bay View High School, where she played sports, served in student government, made National Honor Society and graduated with a 3.8 grade-point average. With some help, she said, she applied for the scholarship using a temporary Social Security number and was awarded a four-year, $20,000 scholarship.
After she attended her first class, school officials told her that because of her illegal immigrant status, she would not be able to continue.
"My heart sank," she says. "It was the worst day of my life. My dreams were completely shattered."
Ana, now 24, agreed to be interviewed if she was not identified, because of her immigration status. Now she and others like her are hoping that the proposed Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act - commonly called the DREAM Act - introduced by U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and supported by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) will pass.
To qualify, a person would have to be here at least five years and would have had to come to the U.S. by age 16. The person would have to graduate from high school, be of good moral character and not have committed any crimes. The age limit is 30.
Such students would be eligible for federal student loan and work-study programs. They would have to be in college for two years or enlist in the military. Within six years they could be eligible for permanent residency.
The bill is scheduled for a vote today to end discussion and move it forward. If it can get 60 votes, it can move to the Senate floor for consideration, according to Durbin. The bill is designed to assist young people brought to the U.S. by their parents who can't continue their education because of their immigration status, he said during a conference call on the measure.
"This would give them a chance," he says. "You don't hold children responsible for the sins and crimes of their parents."
It's not clear how many people the bill would affect. Estimates range from 100,000 according to the Congressional Budget Office to 500,000 estimated by the Migration Policy Institute, Durbin said.
Both sides speaking out
With news that the bill may get to the Senate, advocates began pushing for support, while those on the other side of the immigration debate began marshaling their forces.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform told its members to call their senators to stop the bill. So did NumbersUSA and the Minutemen. These groups call the measure amnesty.
"At first glance, the DREAM Act might appear to be a charitable cause - a humanitarian effort to help those less fortunate," said a NumbersUSA e-mail. "However, this seemingly simple plan is - in reality - an instrument for perpetual amnesty for millions of illegal aliens."
Durbin denies the bill provides amnesty, because those covered under the provision could not sponsor anyone for at least six years - and even if they sponsored their parents who were here illegally, the parent would have to leave the country for 10 years.
Angeles Sitzes, a Spanish teacher at Pulaski High School in Milwaukee, says many of her best students in the last six years have been undocumented immigrants. "We try to encourage them to go to college, but all the doors begin to close in their faces," she says. "Many give up in their last year because they figure what's the point."
Miguel, 17, a high school senior in Racine, was brought here when he was 11. "I didn't want to leave my school and my friends. My whole life was in Mexico, but my parents decided," he says. Now he's learned English and French, loves math and chemistry. He has an overall 3.9 grade point average and thinks he would like to be a doctor. But first he has to go to college.
If the DREAM Act doesn't pass before he graduates, he said, "I'm going back to Mexico to work and go to school."